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The Fabiola Project at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel: The Same Artwork 514 Times (But Not Really)
Steve Jansen
Installation view of the 2009 solo exhibition Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London. (The Byzantine Fresco Chapel installation was taking place at the time of writing.)
National Portrait Gallery, London. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Steve Jansen | May 11, 2016 | 8:00am
Francis Alys has taken the "one man's trash is another man's treasure" adage to a whole other insane level.
Nearly 20 years ago, the Belgium-born, Mexico City-based artist started collecting amateur portraits of Saint Fabiola, a fourth-century Roman saint who's often cited as a precursor to Mother Teresa. French academic Jean-Jacques Henner painted the original portrait, a side headshot perspective of the nurse who spent her life caring for the poor and sick, in 1885.
The original has since been lost. In its place: copies that are all variations of "good" (depending on how you define "good").
Alys, who has shown the collection all over the world, including London's National Portrait Gallery and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, continues to raid thrift shops and flea markets in search of the reproductions. When the salon-style exhibition is installed at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel "like votive images in a church," says Toby Kamps, curator of modern and contemporary art at The Menil Collection, Alys's Fabiola count will be a crazy 514 copies.
"The images vary widely in size, skill of execution and fidelity to the original image. They are a testament to the power of the deep-seated human urge to reproduce something — to have an image pass through your mind and hand," says Kamps. "The act of painting a portrait of St. Fabiola for someone to hang in their home is an act of devotion, and the power of this act will be visible when viewers see all 514 Fabiolas on view."
It's not only paintings. Alys has also unearthed bas-relief wood carvings, Fabiola needlepoint and jewelry, and a mosaic constructed from rice and beans.
"We thought it would be perfect for the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, a former Greek Orthodox chapel and a favorite place in Houston for quiet contemplation," says Kamps. "We hope visitors might come and spend some real time in the space thinking about some of the things The Fabiola Project calls to mind — subjects like faith, devotion, originality. We hope they'll come several times."
Francis Alys: The Fabiola Project opens on Saturday, May 21, at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, 4011 Yupon Street, with a chat between Alÿs and curator Lynne Cooke from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Menil foyer. The exhibition remains on display through January 28, 2018. Admission is free. For more information, call 713-525-9400 or go to menil.org.
Steve Jansen is a contributing writer for the Houston Press.


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After preseason finale, dozens of Chargers wait for final cuts
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Kasen Williams (18) makes a catch as Los Angeles Chargers cornerback Michael Davis defends during the first half of an NFL preseason football game Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, in Carson, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
By Jack Wang | jwang@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: September 2, 2017 at 12:33 a.m. | UPDATED: September 18, 2017 at 4:09 p.m.
Kyle Coleman never started that run.
Less than three weeks ago, the linebacker was at home in Dallas, getting ready to jog around the block. Days earlier, the Seahawks had released him for the second time in less than 12 months. With his professional future in doubt, he stepped out the door to clear his head — his bags from Seattle still packed.
And then, his phone buzzed.
"My agent called me: 'Hey, they want to bring you in. How fast can you get ready?'" Coleman recalled. "I said, 'Just give me two hours.' It was crazy."
"They" being the Chargers, whose starting middle linebacker Denzel Perryman had just undergone ankle surgery. The team needed to supplement a thin depth chart in the middle of its defense, and after a workout, decided that the 6-foot-1, 255-pound Coleman was at least a capable training-camp fill-in.
By 1 p.m. Saturday, he'll find out if he's anything more.
Coleman is one of the dozens of Chargers sweating out the deadline, which this year has been compressed into a single 90-to-53 cutdown. But even those who survive this hurdle might not be safe: After shedding a few dozen of their own players, the Chargers will then pore over the waiver wire — picking out the cast-offs they might be able to claim and polish.
Thursday's preseason finale at Levi's Stadium — a 23-13 loss to the 49ers — was Coleman's last shot to make his case. He did so with an exclamation mark, returning an interception 30 yards for the Chargers' only touchdown of the day.
Whether or not it makes a difference is unclear. A latecomer to training camp, the Arkansas-Pine Bluff product had not been an August standout before this week. He had played 35 snaps in his two prior preseason appearances, registering one tackle.
And Thursday? Well, it was only one piece in the evaluation puzzle.
"It confirms what you've seen," Chargers general manager Tom Telesco said. "But certain guys played their way on, and certain guys played their way off."
Coleman might have a better shot at making the practice squad, where the Chargers can stash up to 10 players — assuming no one else in the league makes a waiver claim. That risk makes cutting someone like, say, cornerback Michael Davis a much more difficult decision.
An undrafted rookie out of BYU, Davis opened the preseason in brutal fashion, giving up five deep passes to the Seahawks. But he has steadied himself in the weeks since, the result of a sit-down meeting with defensive backs coach Ron Milus to refresh his fundamentals: what to do at the line of scrimmage, how to track the ball once it's in the air.
The final vacancy on the cornerback depth chart likely comes down to Davis and Craig Mager, a former third-round pick. Mager is more of a known quantity, having started 10 games over the last two seasons. But Davis, despite his ups and downs, is four inches taller at 6-foot-3. That trait alone may be tantalizing enough for another team to thwart any attempt by the Chargers to stash him on the practice squad.
Asked if the preseason finale moved the needle at all in his favor, Davis was optimistic.
"I feel like it did a little bit," he said, "especially in regard to my press against the receivers. I feel like I held my ground for sure in this game. So hopefully, coaches see that, and make the decision based on that."
Plenty of other decisions could come down to the wire. Do the Chargers hang on to Brett Boyko — who has played both guard and tackle on the Chargers' second-string offensive line — or sixth-round pick Sam Tevi? Do they make a surprise cut of a veteran like Dwight Lowery, who was thrown into the fourth preseason game despite entering the offseason as the starting free safety?
Or do they decide to roll the dice on someone like Coleman, making a last-minute push behind undrafted rookies James Onwualu and Nigel Harris?
"I left it all out on the field," Coleman said. "That's all I can control."
Giving to Houston
The Chargers and owner Dean Spanos have pledged to donate $500,000 to relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the storm which has devastated Houston and other parts of South Texas. The money will be spread to different organizations, including the Houston Food Bank, American Red Cross and Houston SPCA.
The franchise will also host a food and supply drive on Wednesday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., at a Vons grocery store in Los Angeles (4520 Sunset Blvd., near the Los Feliz neighborhood). Shelf-stable food and water, cleaning supplies and personal hygiene items will be accepted and delivered to the Houston Food Bank.
"Watching the images coming out of Houston this week has been heartbreaking," Spanos said in a statement. "Having lived through the devastation of the wildfires in San Diego County, we felt it was important to do something — in addition to a monetary donation — that would provide tangible help in real time to assist those who now suddenly find themselves without a home."
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Jack Wang covers the Chargers, the latest NFL team to relocate to Los Angeles. He previously covered the Rams, and also spent four years on the UCLA beat, a strange period in which the Bruins' football program often outpaced their basketball team. He is a proud graduate of UC Berkeley, where he spent most of his time in The Daily Californian offices in Eshleman Hall — a building that did not become earthquake-safe until after his time on campus.
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'A way to connect to your roots': What J&K domicile certificates mean to migrant Kashmiri Pandits
Few say they will return to Kashmir.
Vijayta Lalwani
In this photo from 2019, Vivek Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit in Delhi, shows pictures his family brought with them from Srinagar | Money Sharma/ AFP
Last year, businessman Amit Raina got a document certifying him as a domicile of Jammu and Kashmir. "It is a way to connect to your roots," said 45-year-old Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit who runs a business in Ghaziabad.
Like many Kashmiri Pandits, Raina's family had fled the Valley in the 1990s as militancy spread. He recalls that his house in downtown Srinagar was burnt to the ground in 1992. But while he applied for a domicile certificate, he was not planning to return to Kashmir. "Why should I vote where I have no property and no say?" asked Raina.
New rules defining domiciles were framed last year, months after the Centre split the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, abolished autonomy guaranteed to the state under Article 370, and scrapped Article 35A. The latter empowered state governments of Jammu and Kashmir to define "permanent residents" or state subjects and reserve for them certain rights and privileges, including the right to own land and hold government jobs in the state.
The new rules replace "permanent resident" with "domicile" – anyone who has lived in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for 15 years or studied there for seven years or written Class 10 or 12 board examinations in a school there. Exemptions were also made for certain Central government and public sector employees. Those registered as migrants by the relief and rehabilitation commissioner were also to get domicile rights.
Many such migrants are Sikhs and Kashmiri Pandits, as well as some Kashmiri Muslims, who fled the Valley in the 1990s. There are also thousands of families who left Jammu and Kashmir earlier. Many of them are missing from the records.
Jammu and Kashmir's relief and rehabilitation department issued an order on May 16, 2020, noting that a number of migrants and displaced persons had not been registered. The order detailed how such individuals could register themselves with the relief and rehabilitation commissioner so that they could be eligible to apply for domicile status. Registrations were open for a year. In June this year, the department extended the window for registration to May 2022.
As of September 6, the department had issued more than one lakh domicile certificates to Kashmiri migrants and displaced persons, according to its website. However, according to a report in The Indian Express, till mid-September, few unregistered migrant families had taken up the offer to get themselves registered. In Delhi and Jammu, special camps had been organised to accept applications and hand out certificates. But out of 25,000 unregistered Kashmiri Pandit families in Delhi, the report said, only 3,000 had turned up at the camps.
Kashmiri Pandits who spoke to Scroll.in said they wanted to apply for domicile status. But getting a domicile certificate did not mean they would return to Kashmir.
"Frankly, I may never look at this certificate ever again in my life," said a 49-year-old Kashmiri Pandit who lives in Delhi.
'Why do we have to beg?'
To register as migrants and apply for a domicile certificate, those eligible had to submit any one of a range of documents – electoral rolls from 1951 or 1988 showing the name of the applicant or their ancestors, permanent resident certificates, proof of land ownership in Jammu and Kashmir on or before May 14, 1944, among others. Several applicants complained of a slow, erratic website.
"The website is pathetic but the process is simple," said Amit Raina, who had applied online and was still waiting for domicile certificates for his wife and daughter.
But it was not the process that stopped many from applying for domicile status. An old bitterness has surfaced again. "Why do we have to beg for a domicile after 30 years?" asked Anand Zutshi, a Kashmiri Pandit based in Delhi. "The Kashmiri Muslim who took up a gun, he does not have to apply for a domicile, but a nationalist Pandit has to apply?"
According to Zutshi, those who were already registered as state subjects under the pre-2019 framework should not have had to apply afresh for domicile status. Most Kashmiri Pandits in the national capital were also registered as migrants with the Delhi government, he added. Nevertheless, he got a domicile certificate this April.
Restrictions in Srinagar.
'Only marketing'
When autonomy and special status under Article 370 were revoked on August 5, 2019, many Kashmiri Pandits who had fled their homes in the Valley decades ago rejoiced. At the time, they had called it a "positive move" to integrate the region with the rest of the country. But few felt their community's fortunes would change or they would be able to return. The domicile certificate did not change anything either, many said.
Who would guarantee their security if they returned, they asked. Some pointed to the killing of a 70-year old Punjabi jeweller in Srinagar, allegedly shot by militants this January, weeks after he got his domicile certificate.
"It is the same situation as it was seven to eight years back," said Rahul Mahnoori, a 48-year-old Kashmiri Pandit who lives in Delhi. "The [Centre] is not doing anything different." There was no question of moving back "until and unless there is a confirmation that people will not get displaced again", he said.
For others, returning was a complicated personal choice layered with the politics of the turbulent region. Amal Magazine, an entrepreneur based in Faridabad, was born in Srinagar and lived there till his family left in 1990. His house was burnt down at the time, although his family still owns the plot of land it stood on. But he no longer feels that he belongs there.
"When I go to Kashmir, I go as a tourist and not as a resident," said Magazine. "There are a lot of steps that need to be taken but [the scrapping of special status under] Article 370 was the first step to integration."
On September 17, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for transit camps to accommodate 336 Kashmiri Pandits in Baramulla district. But members of the community were critical of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre's efforts to rehabilitate them. Much of the rehabilitation effort had been started under the Congress government, before the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014, they pointed out.
"I am a BJP voter but it was [former Prime Minister] Manmohan Singh who set up the transit camps and the last relief amount we get as registered migrants was done by Congress so what has the BJP done?" demanded Zutshi. "I got my certificate, so now what? BJP only does marketing but they have practically done nothing."
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Five Songs That Remind Me Of Azula and Why
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Set up like the last two, here's an artikel about five songs I think relate to Azula and why. Songs aren't in any particular order.
1. Dysfunctional Family sejak Cinema Bizarre: I'm a threat to myself I'm a get Armageddon I'm a freak I'm a liar I'm a flirt I deny that I'm no good then I mess It up This song basically reminds me of post-comet Azula. After a certain point she did become a threat to herself; I mean she'd do things like jumping off of Appa from a large height that very well could have killed her if Aang didn't intercept. And the liar thing is pretty self-evident. I mean it was quoted in the tunjuk that "Azula always lies". I don't think she always lies per-say but she's done it a fair amount of times for this to hold true. I get lebih and lebih strange I'm going insane I'm building it up just to break it down anda get what anda see the product of a dysfunctional family. This set of lyrics definitely reminds me the most of Azula. Her descent into madness was very clearly a rather gradual process--that is to say as the episodes wore on she in essence got "more and lebih strange." The going insane part speaks for itself. And of course a good lot of it has to do with the fact that Azula is from such a torn apart family. I'm my own worst rival train wreck, white trash, freak, maniac, I'm psycho I'm a trouble making rebel made a deal with the devil I'm way past ever coming back/
2. Obey Me sejak Rabia Sorda. This one is going to be a bit different and rather shorter because I actually cannot seem to find the lyrics to this song anywhere so I'll be listing some to the best of my ability. To summarize the song as a whole; it's a political song. It's about a person who was put in power--presumably lying about what he/she was going to accomplish atau simply sejak people who didn't pay attention to who was being put in power. After this person was telah diberi power he/she started demanding obedience. One of the first lyrics I can pick out is I am the monster anda feed. Of course any Avatar peminat has probably noticed that Azula believes that her mother thinks she's a monster. And various other characters seem to think of her in that way as well. And yet many of the people around her still seem to give her power hence the "I'm the monster anda feed". The song then speaks of a bunch of evil deeds and goes into the chorus, believe me I'll save anda just obey me. In essence this reminds me of Azula's ability to manipulate. She gets people to think that she's on their side/they want what she wants. And from there she just wants power and obedience. She wants control. Those are the lyrics I could really pick up with 100% certainty. But it's still enough to remind me of Azula.
3. Rx sejak MXMS. First and foremost, I adore this song so much. It's just so beautiful. And of all the songs I think this one reminds me most of Azula. I don't sleep, and I won't get me down low, keep me down low
get me down low, keep me down low a demon sigh, she opens wide. The first line reminds me of Azula's paranoia and how she was having sleeping trouble in the comet hence "I don't sleep an I won't." Furthermore she seems to be at a point in her life where she is down low and people seem intent on keeping her that way. The a demon sigh part kind of just loosely reminds me of when Azula just started breathing api, kebakaran at the end of Sozin's Comet. I tunjuk teeth, my anak patung won't play with me get me down low, keep me down low get me down low, keep me down low a girl in a cage, if I miss a pill, she says--kill, kill. I've always interpreted the "dolls" part as a metaphor for loneliness. The anak patung would be friends/real people. That is to say real people won't talk to her. This reminds me of how Mai and Tylee betrayed Azula and how she really had no one sejak the end of the show. As for the "girl in a cage" bit; it reminds me of Azula in two ways. The first way is in that she is kind of caged within Ozai's expectations. The saat way is after she got put in the asylum that would very clearly be a cage. Following that line of thought the part about missing a pill makes me think of a modern hari AU. The final lyric that reminds me of Azula in this song is; Keep me down low, doctor berkata so there's things in the past that I never let go but I'm just a girl and I wanna go home
(Go home). Of all the things in the song, I think that this is the part that reminds me the most of Azula. For instance the thing in the past she can't let go of is that she thinks her mom sees her as a monster. atau those things her father taught her to be. But at the end of the hari she's only 14 years old, she probably just wants to go home/regain a sense of safety and stability.
4. Gasoline sejak porselin And The Tramps. On a less sad, lebih badass note, I totally see this song describing Azula. Don't get in my face don't invade my angkasa I'll put anda in your place I'll only tell anda once
I'll never tell anda twice and this is me being nice. Right off the bat this song is fiery and explosive like Azula. She's definitely the head jalang, perempuan jalang in charge lol. No one gets in Azula's face atau invades her space. I mean look what happened when Sokka tried that during the hari of black sun. Her giving a person one warning is her being nice. Most of the time she just throws fire. 'Cause I'm highly flammable a caged up animal I will go off on anda anda better take it back I'm about to snap I will go off on you. Naturally any mention of flames, fire, and flammability reminds me of the princess. And where's the lie, Azula is lebih than highly flammable. She's that person whose buttons anda don't want to push because if anda do you're gonna get burned. When it's your turn you'll get your lesson learned you'll be blister burnt feed my adrenaline it's going to do anda in I'm seeing red again. This verse reminds me of her fighting as well. Like how many people has she taken down? A lot of people LOL and when she gets going, for the most part she's unstoppable. The last lyrics before the chorus repeats itself is; You menyeberang, cross me once and you'll see it's like a match in gasoline, gasoline. These lines, again, remind me of how badass and dangerous she is. Like no one wants to menyeberang, cross Azula even once.
5. Crazy sejak Gnarls Barkley. I suppose this one is sort of a given. I remember when, I remember, I remember when I Lost my mind there was something so pleasant about that place even your emotions had an echo in so much space. This is the opening verse. This definitely just reminds me of that initial snap during the comet. How up until the end she seemed almost happy, granted she wasn't. And when you're out there without care, yeah, I was out of touch but it wasn't because I didn't know enough I just knew too much. Of all the verses in the song, this is the one that reminds me of Azula the most. I think most of her break came from the very fact that she knew and had seen lebih than a girl her age should have. All of the political pressure that was put on her caused her to snap. She didn't go crazy for lack of knowledge, but because of it. One can also interpret this as a lebih paranoid frame of thought--the knowing too much was Azula thinking that she knew someone was out to kill her. Does that make me Crazy? Probably. And I hope that anda are having the time of your life but think twice, that's my only advice. The above would be a part of the chorus. I'm rather certain that after a while Azula probably started to wonder if she was crazy. And at some point likely concluded that the answer is yes. I base this assumption on a few lines in one of the Avatar buku I read a while back. And for that the chorus reminds me of her. Following the chorus is the part about thinking twice; this part also reminds me of that kind of psudo-happy state she was in while battling Zuko. Hence "I hope you're having the time of your life but think twice." Who do you, who do you, who do you, who do anda think anda are, ha ha ha bless your soul anda really think you're in control. Much like the other line this one reminds me of Azula in that she's so used to having control that for a while she probably thought she still had it. But the that was far from the truth. The seterusnya verse reminds me of her the saat most; My Heroes had the hati, tengah-tengah to lose their lives out on a limb and all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun and it's no coincidence I've come and I can die when I'm done. So who were her heroes? People like Ozai and Sozin. Ozai in particular had a pretty wild defeat; in a way he Lost his life. Of course that's a metaphor--what's dead is his ability to bend and all of his work. And ever since Azula was a child she looked up to them--it looked like fun to be like them. And so she did become like them. And because of that it's no coincidence that she Lost it.
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TheGoldenCoast No way, how is "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" not on this list? "Show me how to lie. You're getting better all the time. And turning all against the one is an art that's hard to teach. Another clever word sets off an unsuspecting herd. And as you step back into line, a mob jumps to their feet". Those going in nearly perfect tune on Azula's manipulative nature (and The Chase showed us that she was quite talented in the art of tricking groups of people at once). "With a thousand lies and a good disguise, hit 'em right between the eyes. Hit 'em right between the eyes. When you walk away, nothing more to say. See the lightning in your eyes. See 'em running for their lives". Again, The Chase gives a pretty example for this, with Azula claiming to surrender but ended up unexpectedly by everyone else attacking Iroh. The lightning part speaks for itself (cough *Crossroads Of Destiny* cough). "Take him out today. Nice work you did, you're gonna go far, kid." She was pretty cunning and relentless as a child, so it was very obvious that she going to go far in life (ehm, conquering Ba Sing Se in her early teen years). I know this song makes an antagonist out Azula, especially compared to the others you chose, but it fits Azula, at least IMO.
zanhar1 It's not on there because I've never heard the song. I've heard of it but I've never actually listened to it lol. But it does seem like a very good song for her.
emerald_32 one song that really, really reminds me of azula is control by halsey. i think it the song really focuses on her insanity, how she was raised, and how she was used by ozai.
zanhar1 Gasoline (I think it's that one) is the song by Hasley that reminds me of Azula.
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A lot of people just see Azula as some heartless, evil, well, anda know. But I don't necessarily think that's the case. I feel as though Azula just needed help and Cinta lebih than anything else.
Let's start with her childhood.Take a look at her father, he was...is a man who burned his own son's face and tried to take over the universe. Like most children Azula just wanted to earn her father's love, affection, and approval. The berkata part is she probably only earned the third. Zuko and Azula are complete opposites in regards to how each parent treated them. Zuko had Ursa on his side, leaving Azula...
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An oligopoly model with best response and imitation rules
Imitation-based behaviors are considered in economics with significant contributions in reference to homogeneous populations where players are characterized by the same decisional processes (see for example [42,48]). However, the presence of imitation behaviors is detected in experimental oligopolies coexisting with rational-like rules. This motivates us to consider an heterogeneous population where best responders and imitators coexist and compete in a deterministic oligopoly framework. The model we formulate is characterized by two stationary states, specifically the Cournot–Nash equilibrium and a further production level at which best responders are inactive and imitators produce at the marked clearing price. The heterogeneities among players give to the model a nonlinear structure, influence the stability properties of the Cournot–Nash equilibrium and give rise to complex dynamic scenarios. We found that the imitators' relative fraction have an ambiguous role in determining the stability properties of the Cournot–Nash equilibrium and, provided intermediate values of the population size, its variations may cause the occurrence of both flip and Neimark–Sacker bifurcations. Chaotic dynamics and coexistent attractors, characterized by not connected basins, may also be observed. We finally note that certain dynamic regimes, described by the model, are provided by analogous features as those characterizing experimental outcomes and several experiments can be reproduced with different parameters' sets.
Titolo: An oligopoly model with best response and imitation rules
CERBONI BAIARDI, Lorenzo (Corresponding)
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"All these words stir up a whirlpool of emotions and other words. Excitement, Sadness. Joy. Fear. And worst of all, they usually hit us all at once.
A week from today I am moving nearly 5,000 miles away from the place I have called home my whole life, Central Florida, and relocating to Hawaii. Leaving my best friends that I have grown up for the last 10 years. Changing the job that I loved for the last 5 years to something new that I don't have that much experience in.
It would be a lie to say that I am not excited for the new adventures ahead. But if I am honest, I'm mostly afraid. Afraid of not fitting in. Afraid of feeling alone. Afraid of my friends back home forgetting about me. Afraid of not being good enough for the people out there. I know most of these fears are foolish might seem foolish, but that is what the unknown can do. It can make fears look like the only future.
It becomes less about the glass being half full or empty and more about doubting what is in the glass and wondering if it's even worth drinking.
Yet then I'm reminded of the journey I'm on. And, most importantly, who is with me. I am about to leave my job that I love, my friends that I love and my family whom I love. But I am not leaving the God who loves me. And He is not going anywhere.
The only reason it is hard to leave is because God has blessed me with people and a place worth missing.
David does not fear the fight. Instead, he remembers God's faithfulness.
When fear grabs hold of your future, remember, the bears and the lions God has delivered you from.
Let God's past faithfulness light your future fears on fire.
I couldn't find this to be truer now in my life.
Leave the right things behind.
Move ahead knowing that God already is.
Change all that you can to draw closer to our unchangeable God."


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Murray State University to host 2011 FLW College Fishing National Championship
MINNEAPOLIS - FLW Outdoors announced that the 2011 National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship will be hosted by Murray State University in Murray, Ky., April 7-9, on legendary Kentucky Lake.
"We are extremely excited to have Murray State University host the 2011 National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship," said Kathy Fennel, President of FLW Outdoors Operations Division. "The facilities at Murray State are some of the finest we've encountered while producing fishing tournaments around the country. Add to that a region passionate about fishing, an enthusiastic student body and Kentucky Lake, and you have an incredible event in the making."
"We wanted to be the site of the FLW College Fishing National Championship from the very first day we learned about the championship," said Jim Carter, vice president for institutional advancement. "Murray State is the perfect spot because we're close to the lake and close to FLW Outdoors' headquarters.
"We were excited when we learned we would host a 2009 regional championship," Carter added. "Needless to say two years later we are honored and excited to host an event of this magnitude that puts the world spotlight on MSU. It's a dream come true."
The University of Florida team of Matthew Wercinski of Gainesville, Fla., and Jake Gipson of Niceville, Fla., won the first National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship on Fort Loudoun Lake in Knoxville, Tenn., in 2009. The national championship, featuring a $100,000 first-place award, was a three-day nationally televised event hosting the top 25 teams in the country.
Each regular-season College Fishing event boasts a top cash award of $10,000 to be split evenly between the university and the university's bass-fishing club. Regional events tout a top award of a Ranger 177TR with a 90-horsepower engine wrapped in school colors for their school's bass club and $25,000 for the school they represent. The national championship awards the top team with $25,000 cash, a Ranger 177TR with a 90-horsepower engine wrapped in school colors for their school's bass club and $50,000 for the school they represent. The Forrest Wood Cup, the world championship of bass fishing, offers anglers the chance to compete for $500,000.
For more information about the 2011 National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship, visit CollegeFishing.com.
About FLW Outdoors
FLW Outdoors, named after Forrest L. Wood, the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, is the largest fishing tournament organization in the world offering anglers worldwide the opportunity to compete for millions over the course of 189 tournaments in 2010. FLW Outdoors has also taken fishing mainstream with FLW Fantasy Fishing awarding the largest prizes in the history of fantasy sports. FLW Outdoors memberships are available featuring numerous benefits including Player's Advantage. For more information about FLW Outdoors and its tournaments, call (270) 252-1000. For more information about FLW Fantasy Fishing, visit FantasyFishing.com.
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Q: ksoap2 - request parameters are always missing I've got a ASP.Net webservice that is functioning perfectly called from iPhone SOAP code or another .Net client.  However, when I try to use Ksoap2 the parameters passed to the service are not set. In service the parameter "AuthenticationID" must not be coming in because the first thing the WebMethod does is to check if the string is null or empty and returns an "AuthenticationFailure" response.  I do get that response so I know the SOAP stuff is just fine, just the parameter is not being passed.
public SoapObject soap(String METHOD_NAME, String SOAP_ACTION, String NAMESPACE, String URL) throws IOException, XmlPullParserException {
      SoapObject request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME);
      request.addProperty("AuthenticationID", "5");
      SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
      envelope.dotNet = true;
      envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
      HttpTransportSE httpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(URL);
      httpTransport.debug = true;
      httpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);
      SoapObject result=(SoapObject)envelope.getResponse();
      return result;
  }

And the WSDL looks as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
      <soap:Body>
        <LookupStores xmlns="http://blah.com/Services/">
          <AuthenticationID>string</AuthenticationID>
          <NameMatch>string</NameMatch>
        </LookupStores>
      </soap:Body>
    </soap:Envelope>

Please give me some things to try this is just a simple service and I thought it would be easy to consume using KSoap2.
Thanks!

A: I had a similar problem and managed to pass my parameter by using a PropertyInfo. Try the code below, no garanty it will work but worth giving a go.
public SoapObject soap(String METHOD_NAME, String SOAP_ACTION, String NAMESPACE, String URL) throws IOException, XmlPullParserException
{
    SoapObject request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME);
    PropertyInfo pi = new PropertyInfo();
    pi.setName("int"); //change to appropriate type e.g. String
    pi.setValue(5); // if sString add the speech marks e.g. "5"
    pi.setType("AuthenticationID".getClass());
    request.addProperty(pi);

    SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
    envelope.dotNet = true;
    envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
    HttpTransportSE httpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(URL);
    httpTransport.debug = true;
    httpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);
    SoapObject result=(SoapObject)envelope.getResponse();
    return result;
}

Hope this helps.

A: The first thing you need to check is that the namespace string in the WebService and in your Android App are exactly the same

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Arnold Hans Weiss (July 25, 1924 – December 7, 2010) was a German-born refugee from Nazi Germany who emigrated to the United States where he became an intelligence officer working for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and played a key role in the discovery of the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler, dictated during the last days of the war in Europe and laying out the succession of leadership following his impending suicide as the Red Army overtook Berlin and encircled the Führerbunker.

Early life
Born in Nuremberg as Hans Arnold Wangersheim on July 25, 1924, he grew up in an orphanage after being placed there as a child following the divorce of his parents. A Jewish organization arranged for him to be sent to a family in Janesville, Wisconsin when he was 13 years old. Both of his parents escaped from Germany on their own, his father to Brazil while his mother also emigrated to the U.S. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and changed his surname to match that of Howard Weiss, a star football player for the school's football team.

Military career
Weiss served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, but his training as a tail gunner ended when the plane he was in crashed and severely injured his legs. His ability to speak the German language led to his being recruited by the O.S.S. for service in Germany. Serving with the Counterintelligence Corps in the months following the fall of Nazi Germany, Weiss questioned many members of the Nazi hierarchy in advance of their trials. Weiss's unit was given the responsibility of confirming Adolf Hitler's death, and together with Hugh Trevor-Roper located Wilhelm Zander, who had been Martin Bormann's adjutant, using information that had been obtained by contacting members of his family. While being questioned, Zander described the circumstances in Hitler's Berlin bunker in the last days before he committed suicide. Under interrogation, Zander disclosed that he had been sent out of the bunker in order to transport a series of documents, which included an attestation to Hitler's marriage to Eva Braun. Also among the documents that were recovered was Hitler's last will and testament, which named Bormann as his executor and was later introduced as evidence during the Nuremberg Trials. Weiss was awarded the Commendation Medal for his role in "apprehending a personality high in the annals of the Nazi system". Another soldier, Herman Rothman, made a claim in a 2009 book that Hitler's will had been located months earlier than the date based on Weiss's account and a book by Hugh Trevor-Roper made no mention of Weiss or of his role in uncovering Hitler's will.

Military awards

Later life
After returning to the United States after completing his military service, Weiss earned a degree in law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and worked for the United States Department of the Treasury, where he participated in the establishment of the Inter-American Development Bank.

A resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland, Weiss died at the age of 86 due to pneumonia in Rockville, Maryland on December 7, 2010.

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Similar numbers of Canadians and Americans say they approve of 'political correctness'
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There has been no shortage of controversies related to "political correctness" over the past few years, some of them gravitating around the costume choices of future politicians in Ottawa and Virginia. Television series such as "The Simpsons" have retired characters that over time became too problematic and awkward.
In August 2015, United States presidential contender Donald Trump offered this explanation about "political correctness": "You can't say anything. Anything you say today, they'll find a reason why it's not good." Those who have worked for bullies know that Trump was protecting a feature of corporate life that still exists in North America: the ability of some people to demean others because of where they came from or what they looked like.
Regardless of how we feel about Trump and other executives who behave like him, "political correctness" remains a feature of our daily lives. Research Co. and Glacier Media recently asked Canadians and Americans about their views, who should observe this practice and whether it is time to apply the same filters that we have developed in the 21st Century to works that were created decades ago.
For starters, similar proportions of Canadians and Americans (50% and 53%, respectively) say they support the use of "political correctness" in their country. Younger residents, who grew up in a world that is decidedly more watchful of the possible effect of words and descriptions, are more likely to endorse this practice.
Our own personal behaviour outlines a public that can act out of principle or fear. We found that 32% of Canadians and 36% of Americans always act "politically correct" because it's the right thing to do, including 43% of Liberal Party voters in Canada and 45% of Democrats in the United States.
As well, 11% of Canadians and 15% of Americans say they do not act "politically correct" because they say it's the wrong thing to do – a proportion that rises to 17% among Canadian Conservatives and 22% among American Republicans.
This leaves a significantly large number of Canadians and Americans (40% and 37%, respectively) who say they sometimes act "politically correct" because it's the safe thing to do. This means that for every resident of the two countries who decides to use different language to minimize harm to others, there is another resident who does it because they want to minimize harm to themselves.
Canadians and Americans establish a clear difference on who should be "politically correct" depending on their role in society. Sizeable majorities of residents in the two countries want teachers, politicians and journalists to act in a "politically correct" manner "always" or "most of the time." Fewer than two in five believe the same rules should apply to comedians.
If comedians get a bit of a free pass on having to consistently abide by "political correctness," Canadians and Americans are also keenly aware of the difficulties presented by works of art created in the past.
A few weeks ago, I tried to watch the 1953 film "Peter Pan" on Disney +. Before the feature presentation began, a message warned me about "outdated cultural depictions." It was right—some scenes were difficult to watch and one song was particularly painful to listen to.
Our survey shows that large majorities of Canadians (65%) and Americans (62%) agree with adding a disclaimer to explain that programs or movies are presented "as originally created" and "may contain outdated cultural depictions."
The idea of altering existing works of art to remove offending words is not popular. We found that 62% of Canadians and 57% of Americans disagree with re-dubbing movies to remove words that may be deemed offensive to a specific race or ethnicity. Similar proportions (61% in Canada and 59% in the United States) reject the notion of printing new editions of books that remove words that may be deemed offensive to a specific race or ethnicity.
The perceptions on "political correctness" are similar across North America, with subtle fluctuations based on gender, age and ideology. At this point, there is little support for "sanitizing" books or movies created in the past. The inclusion of a disclaimer before movies is appreciated by most Canadians and Americans. Still, it is remarkable to see that just as many adults in the two countries are interested in abiding by "political correctness" because they believe in it and because they fear reprisals.
Results are based on online studies conducted from December 3 to December 5, 2020, 2020, among representative samples of 1,000 adults in Canada and 1,200 adults in the United States. The data has been statistically weighted according to Canadian and U.S. census figures for age, gender and region in each country. The margin of error—which measures sample variability—is +/- 3.1 percentage points for Canada and +/- 2.8 percentage points for the United States.
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The wines are bright and focussed, with great fruit aromatics, balanced acidity and pretty minimal oak. The Chard, from Washington's Columbia Valley, is fresh and crisp with minimal butter. The Pinot, sourced from Oregon's Willamette Valley, is bright and fruit-driven, with good acidity, and absolutely NOT over-extracted. Both are great values and great pleasures to drink- uncomplicated, and just… fun!
LoveSong Wines is a project created by four friends- a composer, a photographer, a wine importer and a creative director, all lifelong friends. Born out of a desire to combine two of their collectively favorite things - music and wine. Wine importer Bryce McNamee has felt the love for music since his childhood years of listening to Neil Young and Bob Dylan with his mother. Scott and Bethany Fritz have been married for 19 years, have written hundreds of songs together, and performed all over the globe. Scott is a frequent collaborator with fellow musician and entrepreneur Jeremy Bircher. Scott and Jeremy have produced scores of songs together, including co-writing "Taste The Feeling", the global Coca-Cola anthem. Now moving into their other mutual love, wine, the team spends late nights together singing karaoke and enjoying their latest creations - Lip Sync Superstar Pinot Noir and Karaoke Warrior Chardonnay.


A stress-free Thanksgiving dinner? Is that what you keep hoping for?
Why do people always get stressed at the holidays? Is it the rush to get everything done? Is it wanting everything to be "perfect"? Is it having to deal with family members that know how to push our buttons? Do we want to make it special but worry about the cost? Most likely it is a little of each.
I admit I was one of those who aimed for perfection, each year bigger and better than the year before. After all, my mom did it effortlessly. Or so it seemed.
Then after breast cancer and chemo laid me low and took away my energy, we decided to make our holiday meals the simple way. We simply had to make it a stress-free Thanksgiving dinner - there wasn't an option.
My daughter and I would (and still do many years later) pre-plan the entire menu. Who shops for what, who makes what, who brings what. We have our holiday meals orchestrated perfectly. Admittedly we have almost the same menu each year – we have our favorites – but that's by choice. Enjoying time together has become much more important than having one person stuck in the kitchen so we have learned to make choices. There's still the last minute (hour) pressure to get everything timed just perfectly but each year we are thankful that we are more relaxed at meal time.
So how do we have a stress free Thanksgiving dinner? Here are a few simple tips that might help you to have a more enjoyable Thanksgiving dinner.
1. Plan ahead - While planning the Thanksgiving meal, do you plan who is going to help? You don't have to do it all yourself. Recruit your family to help. Children are good at setting the table. One person could be in charge of making a salad. One gets the serving dishes out. Not only will the work go faster, it's more fun working together.
Make a list of what needs done before everyone arrives. Give everyone something to do and assign things that are age appropriate to the children. Before you know it, the leftovers will be wrapped in foil and everyone will have had a great time.
2. Covered dish meal - If you are having a large group get together for Thanksgiving, divide the menu among all those attending. The host family can provide the main dish (turkey or ham) and the drinks. Each family brings a favorite side dish and dessert. If you want to make sure there is a variety, provide a menu and mark things off as people chose what they want to fix.
3. Simplify - One huge step in creating a stress-free Thanksgiving dinner is to simplify. Instead of having a huge feast, prepare a smaller meal. We all tend to overeat at Thanksgiving, so make an effort to make fewer dishes. Not only will the preparation be smaller, so will our waistlines.
Another option is to prepare as much ahead of time as you can. Slow cookers can be used to make all kinds of foods, even desserts. Many things can also be made as "freezer meals" and stored for weeks before re-heating them. The less actual cooking you need to do on Thanksgiving, the lower your stress levels will be.
4. Family harmony - While you can't make everyone happy, there are ways to promote a peaceful, relaxing dinner. Use place cards to bring order to who sits where. Children together or children separated. Both plans can work. Seat the kids to avoid disruptions during the meal. This will help alleviate some of the tensions.
Sometimes we've prepared little activity packs for the children – or even quizzes for the adults. The children's activities worked like a wonder at one meal with all pre-teens. They were seated at the table while the last minute serving was done but no moans and groans as they each had a little bag at their place settings. Just small games or toys (nothing expensive at all); just enough to keep them busy until the adults sat down and during any lulls in the meals when they got a bit squirmy. Coloring, word search and make-a-word puzzles, like how many words can you make for the word, THANKSGIVING, grab their attention and it's fun for teens and adults, too.
Our wish for you is that you will have a Stress-Free Thanksgiving Dinner and reap a Plentiful Harvest in all the good things you do.
5. Feel Thankfulness - Simply taking the time to be thankful for all your blessings can reduce your stress level. Before everyone arrives, take the time to list all that you're thankful for over the last year. Have everyone share their blessings before dinner. Having a better attitude will help everyone enjoy the day more.
(I know this tip should say Be Thankful. That's what most people would say. But sometimes it's hard to be really be thankful when we are struggling, so to me there's a tinge of "guilting" involved in telling someone to be thankful. Instead I want you to feel some thankfulness. It is your feelings that will help to reduce the stress, your feelings inside that will help you to be able to set new guidelines for how your holidays will be played out. My guess is if you are reading this, then you are the one most imposed upon, you are the one struggling to not carry all the burden of the family feast on your shoulders. You just may be the one who would like it to be a holiday you get to enjoy, too.
So what I want you to do is to feel thankfulness. Just take a break for all you are doing and allow yourself to feel thankfulness. This isn't a pressure to be thankful.
Here's one way to do it: Lie down where you can be comfortable and free from disturbance, let your body relax, and think about the feeling of thankfulness, what it looks like, what it might sound or look like, is it a color. If you can imagine someone who is a thankful person, then picture what they look like. I like to take that image and imagine it as a "cloud" above my head. So you try that, too. Pretend there is a cloud of thankfulness above your head. Then after you have finished filling the cloud with feelings and images, when you have, in this case, created "thankfulness as a feeling" let it flow down over your body, slowly, very slowly, enjoying the relaxation and comfort as you absorb it into your mind and heart.
If you, like so many of us, struggle to handle stressful occasions well, then make this the year you become motivated to learn how to manage your stress. When you become comfortable asking for help, for one thing, suddenly you will find yourself feeling not so overwhelmed.
One of the best things you can do to have a stress-free Thanksgiving dinner is take a 10 minute Power Nap before all your guests arrive or an hour or two before dinner will be served.
Stress doesn't have to ruin the holidays. It really is possible to have a stress-free Thanksgiving dinner! If you stop to smell the turkey, plan ahead, allow others to share the work load and give yourself a chance to feel thankfulness, you can have a wonderful stress-free Thanksgiving dinner. Planning and organization, while not great fun, can help you enjoy things later once all the guests arrive.
I feel thankfulness for you.


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Q: GitHub actions: Dynamic outputs for job with strategy.matrix I have a package that is a core dependency of multiple other packages within my organization. My goal is to write an action to automate/ facilitate testing of these reverse dependencies. Roughly, the action should:

*

*Trigger on a comment in a PR.

*Run the unit tests of a set of reverse-dependencies with the code in that PR.

*Reply to the PR with a comment about which tests failed (if any).

Steps 1 and 3 I got to work, but I'm running into issues with step 2. My current solution is to hardcode all job outputs to pass the results from step 2 to step 3, but I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid hardcoding this.
This following example workflow illustrates my problem:
name: Test
on: push

jobs:
  unit-tests:
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    continue-on-error: true

    name: ${{ matrix.os }} (${{ matrix.pkg }})

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        # there will be more pkgs and OSes
        os: [ubuntu-latest]
        pkg: [pkgA, pkgB]

    # how to avoid hardcoding these?
    outputs:
      ubuntu-latest-pkgA: ${{ steps.update-output.outputs.ubuntu-latest-pkgA }}
      ubuntu-latest-pkgB: ${{ steps.update-output.outputs.ubuntu-latest-pkgB }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: fake unit tests
        run: |
          exit 1 # fail all tests for now
        shell: bash

      - name: set error if tests fail
        id: update-output
        if: ${{ failure() }}
        run: echo "::set-output name=${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.pkg }}::error"
        shell: bash

  aggregate-results:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: unit-tests
    steps:
      - name: Aggregate results
        env:
          NEEDS: ${{ toJSON(needs) }}
        run: echo "$NEEDS"

The job aggregate-results (inspired by this post) works nicely and prints:
{
  "unit-tests": {
    "result": "success",
    "outputs": {
      "ubuntu-latest-pkgA": "error",
      "ubuntu-latest-pkgB": "error"
    }
  }
}

which I can use to create an informative comment. However, the job unit-tests requires me to hardcode the outputs for all combinations of os and pkg. Is there a way to do this dynamically?

A: I'm looking for this solution as well.
The only way to accomplish this approach is switch to re-usable workflows which allow to access one specific job context
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/contexts#jobs-context


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See and hear the new single from Sacred Oath "Twelve Bells" – delivered as an official lyric video, at 9:00 a.m. (EST) on Wednesday April 26th on Bravewords.com.
Angel Thorne Music released the video this week in anticipation of pre-order sales beginning April 28th on iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon, and right here on official website www.sacredoath.net.
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According to Prof. Peter Karungu of Wits University, South Africa should be focussing on "Blue Collar" jobs. Trades that would be required in the future economic development plans for South Africa, such as Infrastructure and Housing. Training is one of the fundamentals in preparing these learners and artisans to not only be employed, but to establish them as 'Entrepreneurs' and 'Job Creators'.


Lencioni's' book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , is where I think it all starts. Here they are in summarized version.
The lack of CLARITY or BUY-IN prevents team members from making decisions to which they will stick.
The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort prevents team members from holding one another ACCOUNTABLE for their behavior and performance.


During the expert review, researchers from the University of Surrey identified a crucial link between metabolism and osteoarthritis. Metabolic changes, caused by a poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle, trigger's the genetic reprogramming of cells in the body and joints.
Such metabolic changes impact upon the cells ability to produce energy, forcing it to generate alternative sources to function. The stress this places on cells leads to the overproduction of glucose, which when not used for energy transforms into lactic acid, which is difficult for the body to flush out. Abnormal levels of this acid in the body leads to the inflammation of the joint's cartilage which impedes on movement and causes pain.
By identifying metabolic changes in cells, it is potentially possible to control or significantly slow down the symptoms of osteoarthritis, alleviating the suffering of millions of people.
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis in the United Kingdom with 8.75million people seeking medical advice for the condition. This debilitating condition disproportionately affects post-menopausal women who are more pre-disposed to the condition because of biology, genetics and hormones. Currently there is no effective treatment for this painful ailment, with only painkillers available to treat symptoms and no known cure.
"For too long osteoarthritis has been known as the 'wear and tear disease' and it has been assumed that it is part and parcel of getting older. However, this is not the case and what we have learnt is that we can control and prevent the onset of this painful condition.


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Video shows FSU quarterback punching woman at a bar
Posted 9:51 pm, July 6, 2015, by CNN Wires
Florida State University quarterback De'Andre Johnson.
(CNN) -- The moment captured on camera escalates quickly.
In one frame, Florida State University quarterback De'Andre Johnson, 19, is seen arguing with a woman at a crowded bar.
In the next frame, she raises a fist.
He grabs her arm. She attempts to hit him. He punches her in the face.
Although the surveillance video was released Monday, the incident took place June 24, inside Yianni's nightclub in Tallahassee, Florida.
On June 25, the head football coach at FSU, Jimbo Fisher, announced Johnson's indefinite suspension for a violation of athletic department policy.
The former freshman quarterback is also being charged with battery.
The woman in the video suffered bruising under her left eye, swelling to the left cheek and upper lip, and a small cut near the bridge of her nose, according to court documents.
The documents say the victim raised her arm to defend herself, and tried to strike Johnson to release his grip. She remained at the bar while Johnson left with others.
"While it is clear from the video that De'Andre Johnson was not the initial aggressor, his family wants to take the lead in helping him learn and grow from this experience. He is currently participating in community service, and faith-based programs focused on battered women, substance abuse, and the empowerment of children," said his attorney, Jose Baez.
"De'Andre is extremely embarrassed by this situation and would like to express his heartfelt apologies to everyone, including those who were directly affected, coach Fisher and his teammates, the entire Florida State University community, as well as his family and friends."
Johnson is not the first FSU quarterback to be the subject of headlines for alleged behavior off the field.
Jameis Winston, the former Florida State University quarterback-turned-top NFL draft pick, was accused of rape, stemming from an incident in 2012.
He said the sex was consensual.
Winston was not charged, and has since filed a counterclaim against his accuser.
CNN's Kevin Dotson contributed to this report.
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Kansas reports COVID-19 death surge amid 1st vaccine shots
By JOHN HANNADecember 17, 2020 GMT
Nason Lui, a general surgeon at Stormont Vail Health, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, 2020, at Stormont Vail Events Center in Topeka, Kan. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — COVID-19 deaths have surged in Kansas in the past week and nearly every part of the state has lost people to the disease caused by the coronavirus, health statistics show.
Kansas averaged a record 45 new reported COVID-19 deaths per day for the seven days that ended Wednesday, according to state Department of Health and Environment data. The department reported 144 new deaths since Monday, pushing the state's pandemic death toll to 2,253.
Like other states, Kansas received its first shipment of a vaccine made by Pfizer on Monday and began getting it to health care workers, prison workers and nursing home staff and residents.
State officials hope Kansas will receive is first shipment of a vaccine made by Moderna next week, if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizes its emergency use this week, as expected. But Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that the vaccine won't be available to all adults for months, until the end of next spring.
People have died in at least 103 of the state's 105 counties, according to a COVID-19 dashboard operated by Reno County in southern Kansas.
"We must not become numb to rising cases and deaths, not forget that each statistic represents a real person— a friend, a neighbor, a loved one," Kelly said during a Statehouse news conference.
Despite the growing number of deaths and cases — and a doubling of deaths locally in less than a month — the all-Republican Reno County Commission was expected to repeal a local mask mandate.
A health order including a mask mandate and a 10-person limit on gatherings is due to expire Friday. Commissioner Ron Hirst indicated Tuesday that he wants to drop the mask mandate and he likely has the support of interim Commissioner Mark Steffen, though Steffen would like to go further and rescind the health order, The Hutchinson News reported.
Interim Reno County Health Officer Karen Hammersmith told the commission Tuesday that she plans to issue a new order Friday that would remain in place for another month. But Steffen attacked the county's mitigation efforts as "not moving the needle."
Reno County reported 81 COVID-19 deaths as of Wednesday, up from 40 on Nov. 20. The state health department said it had 6,377 confirmed and probable cases, up 20% over two weeks, to one case for every 10 residents.
"Your health order doesn't do nothing," Steffen said. "It's an imposition on free will and individual rights. We don't need it and it's not changing a thing. It would make a lot of people happy to not have it."
But Kelly responded: "The research dictates very clearly that masks work. Other mitigation efforts add to that, so, you know, we just need to look at the facts."
The state health department on Wednesday added 4,551 confirmed and probable coronavirus cases to the state's pandemic tally since Monday, increasing it by 2.4% to 194,569, or one case for every 15 Kansas residents. The state averaged 2,109 new cases per day for the seven days that ended Wednesday.
Kelly, a Democrat, told The Associated Press after her news conference that the Republican-controlled Legislature should "think very carefully" about convening in-person at the Statehouse in January for its annual, 90-day session, as opposed to meeting remotely. GOP lawmakers have regularly not worn masks at meetings this summer and fall.
"There's no way in this building (the Statehouse) to have those meetings without close proximity to each other," Kelly said. "We really need to look at a different way of doing this."
At least six legislators have had the virus since March, including incoming Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican. Spokesman Mike Pirner said Wednesday that Masterson had a mild symptoms in mid-October, self-quarantined for 14 days and didn't return to his normal activities until he'd had two consecutive negative tests. He was at the Statehouse for a Nov. 9 meeting but practiced social distancing, Pirner said.
Legislative leaders last month approved $3 million in upgrades to technology for livestreaming video and audio from meetings.
But Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican, issued a legal opinion last week saying the state constitution requires the Legislature to meet in Topeka and for a majority of each chamber's members to be "present together in the same room" to pass bills.
Asked about Schmidt's opinion, Kelly said: "There are times when you just suspend the rules because of circumstances."
Masterson said in an emailed statement that legislative leaders are looking at ways to conduct business safely but added, "We must respect the Kansas Constitution, even in times of crisis."
Meanwhile, the state has stopped housing inmates in a privately run prison in Arizona after delaying their planned end-of-June return for nearly six months because of the pandemic.
The Kansas Department of Corrections said 118 inmates returned Tuesday from the Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona. They're in quarantine for three weeks at a newly built prison in Lansing in the Kansas City area.
Kansas reported 85 coronavirus cases among its inmates housed in Arizona. However, the department said Monday that none of those cases were active.
Kansas moved inmates to Arizona last year to prevent crowding in its state prisons, but those prisons were at 81% of their capacities last week, in part because the pandemic has delayed criminal trials and court commitments of offenders.
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In Imperialism, your goal is to become the preeminent imperial power in this fictional or historical recreation of a 19th Century world, but unlike previous games of this type, you don't necessarily go about achieving this goal through military conquest; while that is certainly an option, diplomacy and economics play important roles in your quest, and the application of power in these realms (along with military) can lead to your being declared victor in the Council of Governors. Gameplay is perhaps best described as a mixture of Civilization and Colonial Conquest.
Your first goal is to build up your economic infrastructure, something quite beyond the usual resource gathering of this sort of game but much simpler than the economics of an actual business sim. The centralized nature of your economy may not be entirely "realistic," but it speeds up gameplay and involves less busywork than specifically managing all your cities' output. Developing your transportation network – the key to your economic power – is an activity you must balance with your other endeavors.
Perhaps the most innovative part of the game comes in its portrayal of diplomacy. While you can use military might to conquer surrounding nations, you can also use diplomatic muscle to sway nations and even to bring "minor nations" into your empire. Set up embassies, establish trade subsidies or boycotts, and give foreign aid. Aside from establishing influence over other nations, diplomacy effects your trade relationships which in turn affect the materials and goods offered to you on the international market; when you start the game you can almost bet your lands don't supply everything, so trade is vital to expansion.
Military power is still a prime part of Imperialism, especially in the mid- and end-game when most of the minor powers have been absorbed. As with other factors, you have to balance the growth of your ground and naval forces with that of your civilian and diplomatic empire – a fine pickle of a problem when you're in dire straits in both areas (the time when Imperialism is at its best).
While the game is in general loads of fun, there are a few weaknesses. The graphics, while pleasant, tend to be somewhat bland. The AI is fine but the computer is not terribly aggressive – you can often leave your land undefended. The biggest flaw in terms of gameplay is that taking a nation's capital knocks it out of the game; a few sneak attacks against the computer can cut the game short very fast. But these are really just irritants and not fun stoppers. And despite the repetitive nature of your actions, starting another game in Imperialism reactivates the same addiction.


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The State of the Unions
November 8, 2007 david (b) hayes 1 Comment
Believe it or not, there was a time and when the rich and greedy — let's make them monocled as well — captains of industry had something grave to fear in these United States beyond the possibility that their indefensible tactics would be caught and stopped by government oversight. There was a time when the people, yes the people, could stand up to their employers and demand better working conditions, better pay, or better practices.
Before I go too far into a mythical and unrealistic vision of the unionized past, three key facts should be made explicit. First, this country was never well-unionized beyond a few enclaves–primarily the public sector and heavy industries. Second, to the extent that unions were ever powerful, they never reached high up the job ladder. And finally, unions never secured unlimited government support, tacit or explicit. Since the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, no doubt the most supportive of all American presidents, laws have been making it ever more difficult to organize.
Overarching those facts is the most salient of all: ever fewer people belong to labor unions. Unions are small and getting smaller. The fracturing of that labor market, the departure of most heavy industry, and stricter organizing rules make the future look bleak.
The most powerful unions in this country are probably those least in need of organizing. The Writers Guild of America went on strike on Monday–but television and film writers are hardly the ideal of blue-collar workers that unions are usually associated with. Writers may not be the best paid workers in Hollywood, but they're hardly scraping by month-to-month.
For blue-collar workers, the last time the once-powerful United Auto Worker's struck, during negotiations with Chrysler, the strike lasted less than six hours. This isn't because the privately-owned car company feared the losses that would come from a prolonged strike, but because it was absurd for them to have a strike while workers were asking for so little.
The causes of the weakness of organized labor in this country are both long-standing and new, international and extremely local. Perhaps most saliently in our history, unions struggle as "communistic" and thus immediately distasteful. They're also no match for the growing and compartmentalized white-collar job market that seems to be this country's future.
Further, few of the emerging industrial powerhouse–Brazil and China, but India, and perhaps Mexico as well–have well-organized labor movements. This allows costs there to be not only low for "first world" standards, but also low in comparison to what the workers would feel they deserve. The low cost of manufacturing elsewhere means that manufacturing unions, like the UAW, can't ask for much because the workers they represent could be easily and cheaply replaced if they demand much.
All of this bodes poorly for labor unions in this country. And whether you fête or mourn the passing of organized labor, it's hard to deny that it's passing diminishes the say of average people in the economy. The primary way for people to make sure that a company doesn't misbehave is increasingly being reduce to reliance on concerned "whistle-blowers"–who aren't faring too well either–and government oversight. I, for one, am none too happy about that.
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How does this hook remover work?
Was given this hook remover by a friend. Checking up on it it looks like it gets pretty good reviews so I'll give it a go. The thing is I am not quite sure how to use it. It has a "handle" you squeeze and it closes down that little hook on the end. Do you just reach in and set this hook around the fish hook at some point and squeeze as hard as you can and not let go to keep hold of the fish hook? Seems like with both items being metal it could real easily slide and not hold when you are trying to manipulate the hook. Anyone have any experience with this model?
That's the one I have used for years, it works very well. You want to grab the hook as close to the bend a possible.
Depending on the location of your hook I still carry needle nose pliers.
Does it hold well? It just seems to me if I grab a hook that's shank is round with this thing that it wouldn't grip or hold. It's a crude example but the only thing I can think of is taking a pair of metal handcuffs (the hook remover in this example) and fitting it around a metal pole and it just kin did sliding up and down the pole because they are both metal and round an it never really grips or holds. I'll have to try it out but I'm skeptical.
Almost every salt water fisherman I know or fished with uses one.
How does two flat surfaces of needle nose pliers hold on a round hook shank?
The harder you squeeze the tighter they hold, same applies here.
This is all I use because I debarb my hooks and they slip right out with this tool. No single hook barbs for 15 years now. No, I do not lose fish.
Does this style of hook remover do much with treble hooks or only with traditional single book baits?
I use mine on every hook but as mentioned above I still keep a pair of needle nose pliers around.
I got the field and stream version of this hook remover this week.
This thing flat out works! Where has it been all my life!
Caught 3 Trout today and wasn't planning on keeping any. 2 of the Trout were hooked deep so I used this device. Slide The devices hook down the line until you get to your hook. Squeeze the device until the hook shank is in the recessed area, give a twist and hook comes right out. Both Trout released safely.
With LMB you can get away with using your finger to push down on the single hook bend away from the hook barb. This hook remover works the same way.
DOES IT WORK ON GUT HOOKED FISH?
This diagram is the best I could find to show the method.
before turning your hand make make sure to squeeze and hold the device so your hook shank is in the upside down "U" shaped recessed area.
Like Tom mentioned this remover is great for fish with smaller mouths than a LMB. I can get those out by hand or pliers.


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In the early days of stock car racing, the automobiles were essentially just as they came from the automobile sales floor, or stock. Drivers often raced the family car on Saturday night or Sunday afternoon. The Strictly Stock Division sanctioned by NASCAR in 1949 required all parts in cars to be available to anyone from the manufacturer. The cars had to be full-sized passenger cars, and fans quickly identified with the machines that closely resembled those in their own garages. Today, the stock car is stock in name and general outer appearance only. Substantial modifications are made to enhance speed and for safety reasons. For instance, the racing stock car has no headlights (decals are pasted on for a stock appearance), door handles, or side window glass. The engine, tires, and most other parts of the car are especially constructed for racing, and the driver sits in a secure roll cage for safety.
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The Missouri General Assembly wrapped up its final week of the 2018 legislative session on May 18. During the successful and productive session, we worked to ensure students have the skills they need to succeed, provided that public labor organizations are accountable to their members, enacted policies to make the state more economically competitive, lowered taxes for hardworking Missourians, and protected patients from unfair and costly insurance company practices.
I am happy to report my Senate Bill 603, the Missouri 21st Century Course Access Program, was passed by the General Assembly on May 17. This bill allows any eligible student to enroll in online courses of his or her choice as long as the student's school approves the program and the provider meets certain requirements. By expanding the options for online and virtual courses, students will have the option to take the courses they need to be college- and career-ready, even if those courses are not available through their local school. This is a win for students and their schools. Students' educational opportunities will no longer limited by their zip code. There is also the possibility of saving school districts money by relieving them of the cost of hiring additional teachers to teach specialty classes. Through 21st century technology, we are giving students the tools they need to succeed in today's world.
In the final week of session, the Missouri General Assembly passed an important labor reform proposal. House Bill 1413, a bill I handled in the Missouri Senate, is meant to provide transparency and accountability in public sector collective. Government union members now exceed those in the private sector; however, government unions are not held to the standards of transparency and accountability as their counterparts in the private sector. One provision of HB 1413 requires annual authorization before dues or other fees can be collected out of an employee's paycheck. This authorization also ensures employees have the ability to opt in or out of political activity. Additionally, HB 1413 allows public sector union members to vote on their representation every three years. This gives members the ability to choose representation by the same union, a different union, or no union. This provision will allow members to hold their leadership accountable. The legislation also provides for increased financial transparency similar to that required of private sector unions under federal law.
The Missouri General Assembly also brought much-needed tax relief to hardworking Missourians and Missouri businesses. By passing House Bill 2540, Missourians will be keeping more of their paychecks as the state's top income bracket is lowered from5.9 percent to 5.5 percent beginning in January of 2019. This .4 percent decrease may also be accompanied by further tax rate reductions if the state meets certain revenue thresholds. Businesses will also be keeping more of their earnings as the corporate tax rate drops from 6.25 percent to 4 percent due to the passage of Senate Bill 884. The money these corporations save once the tax cut takes effect in 2020 can be used to invest in their businesses and hire more workers. Small businesses and corporations are the backbone of the economy, and I believe we should reduce the financial burden that hinders them from succeeding. I also believe Missourians know how to spend their money better than the government does, so I was glad to support these bills and provide tax relief to hundreds of thousands of Missourians.
Additionally, the Missouri General Assembly worked to protect patients from some unconscionable insurance practices. Last year, one of the country's largest insurance providers made changes as to how the company managed emergency room claims. Ignoring the potentially life-threatening symptoms that sent a patient to the ER, the insurance company only looked at the resulting diagnosis to determine coverage. For example, if a patient went to the emergency room with chest pain, thinking he was having a heart attack, and after evaluation the final diagnosis was indigestion, the claim was rejected and the patient was left with a costly emergency room bill.
This policy change conflicted with the traditional prudent layperson standard, which states that if a reasonable person believes they need emergency medical attention, the claim was covered by insurance. This is why I worked with my colleagues to pass Senate Bill 982, which reinforces this reasonable standard of coverage and prevents insurance companies from engaging in unreasonable practices to deny emergency room coverage. I was glad to work with the sponsor of the bill and other stakeholders to ensure the legislation protects patients for years to come.
It is a tremendous honor to represent you in the Missouri Senate. As always, thank you for your interest in our work at the State Capitol and I look forward to sharing further updates with you through upcoming newsletters.