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PREMIERE: Dublin newcomer Peter Richardson shares gentle third single 'The Coast'
Alexandra Anderson
The single is Peter Richardson's third release ahead of his upcoming EP, which will be unveiled later this year.
Gentle, soaring and full of nostalgic comfort, Peter Richardson's new single 'The Coast' will transport you.
The up-and-coming Dublin singer-songwriter will be unveiling the track officially this Friday, February 18, The single is taken from his debut EP, which is set to be released later this year.
Influenced by the likes of Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Ben Howard; Richardson infuses soft vocals and repeating guitar with swelling cello, barely-there piano and gorgeous background harmonies that track the crests and falls of his voice. It's serene, yet imbued with a sense of gentle urgency; evoking the feeling of borrowed time. Deeply personal, the peaceful instrumentation within 'The Coast' is a salve for nostalgic lyricism.
"Meet me at the coast when all this is over/ out across the rocks, down by the water... Let's move out of here / Far from this place we call home," he croons.
This marks the singer's third release, after his debut single 'The End of The World,' and sophomore track, 'Please Don't Believe Me' - unveiled the following year. He began writing when he was just 15, having grown up surrounded by music. Peter started recording his written work and honing his craft at his home during the summer of 2020.
For him, 'The Coast' is an encapsulation of a feeling, more than a physical place. The soft awe that follows the breaking of the clouds; the bliss of leaving the past behind and stepping towards the future.
"Much of the imagery in the song is built around the importance of nature in folk music," said Richardson. "How the experience of nature's beautiful serenity can bring with it peace, and how its use in music can capture feelings of joy and content."
So far, we've seen a range from the 22-year-old Dublin native. With 'The End of the World' veering into the realm of dramatic indie-folk and 'Please Don't Believe Me,' acting as a folk-pop ballad of love and loss; 'The Coast' is firmly in the acoustic world.
Now working with producer Cian Sweeney (AKA 1000 Beasts) on his upcoming EP, it'll be monumentally exciting to see where Peter Richardson goes next.
Check out Peter Richardson's new track, 'The Coast' below.
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The 'Art' Of Chess
November 15, 2013 February 22, 2018 / aainanagar
Ranjeet Hegde
Ranjith Hegde plays the Violin, focusing on western classical and jazz traditions. Also teaches music. Playing chess in many tournaments, most recently AIEMA tournament and FIDE rating tournament.
The game of Chess, with its 200+ years of documented professional history, is often considered a battle of wits. In popular culture, it is primarily known as an intellectual game relying solely on the player's ability to calculate moves and variations. It is often romanticized as the ultimate test of intellect, proof of true intelligence, war of the mind etc. Now, one can always question the credibility of such remarks as it is usually understood that all forms of intelligence tests are subjective. However, what is seldom told or acknowledged is that Chess is a form of art in the same way any sport with a certain individual freedom in stylistic or artistic choice is. Although, the existence of such artistic freedom in any sport might not be a commonplace knowledge to those not interested in sports but players or athletes of their respective sport are bound to have interesting arguments in its favor.
It is more apparent to me, being an artist myself, to see art in a game of Chess. That is why it would be my pleasure to put forward my perspective of the game, which may help you explore and enjoy the artistry of the game further more. I would try to do so by providing various interesting concepts, ideas and examples from history and comments on the stylistic choices of important players. One does not need to be a proficient chess player to enjoy the games as art, nor does he/she need to have deep knowledge or training in different elements of the game to see the reflection of the player's personality in every choice of moves he makes, on or off the board. There is a school of writing dedicated to Chess, developed in Soviet Union and now employed in all the chess media resources such as magazines, newspaper articles, blogs etc and I would like to bring it to the Indian mass. To achieve the above goal, we need to examine the sociopolitical and cultural factors that influenced Chess. Specially during its development. So lets trace the history of chess, its origins and its various stages of development as it travelled through different regions of Asia and Europe.
Chaturanga (Indian Subcontinent):
The story of origin differs from source to source but what all these sources agree upon is the place of its origin. India! [Ex: Some sources say (if you happen to believe in the true occurrences of the events from our epics) it was invented during the time-period of Ramayana. Certain historians believe the board games discovered at Mohanjo-daro could have evolved to Chess. Some sources also trace its origins in the Arthashastra by Chanakya.]
The most popular belief based on historical facts is that it originated in Sixth Century, AD in the Kingdom of the Guptas. A subordinate Rajah at the time, King Balhait, believed that war was the most effective way to learn the values of valor, decision-making, endurance, circumspection and bravery. Hence, it is no mystery that war was chosen as the model to develop a game. It is believed that the frustration mounting in the King's head towards post war depression such as gambling and the growing public interest to destroy themselves in the games involving pure luck, led him to order the wise men to create a game which would require the use of mental qualities such as intellect, endurance, decision-making, judgement and analytical reasoning ability. The course of the story may be pure fantasy but what it led to was the creation of the board Ashtapada (eight steps) i.e 8×8=64 squares. The pieces represented army units namely Infantry, Cavalry, Elephantry and Chariotry (which would evolve into the modern Pawns, Knight, Bishop and Rook respectively) and it was called Chaturanga (Four divisions of the military). It was originally a game for four people, and the outcome of the game determined by the fate of one principal piece, The King. It is no surprise that its origins could also be traced to the Arthashastra which is the oldest known treatise written about politics. Chanakya, the author of the book described the game as game of strategy.
Indians, at the time allegedly had supremacy in the field of intellect due to their command of mathematics, study of astrology and their vast bank of rich texts such as the Arthashastra, The Vedas, Upanishads, etc. So it is only fitting that the game originated here in India in that period.
The spirit of this game was as mentioned above, strategy. It would consist of four players, one on each side of the board. Each would have four pawns, a rook, a bishop, a knight and a King. Players sitting opposite to each other were allies, on both sides. The concept of one almighty ruler was not established yet. The allies could "counsel" for their strategies and win in a team effort. It is only later, when the game travelled away from India, was the two allied sides combined into one, and one of the two Kings would be the King and the other a subordinate and advisor (Queen in modern play).
Since its purpose was to eradicate gambling, the rules of the game were kept fairly simple. The moves of each pieces was much simpler than today and anyone with the idea of how the pieces move, could play and win. It was to be a household replacement to the dice games. But, soon enough, much like the social conditions of the lower strata of the hierarchy, the game was preserved among the intellectuals and the nobles, often dubbed as the Royal game, though the idea of its conception was instructional and social. The game would soon unlock various areas of study of war strategy. It was used for amusement among the nobles and a venue to prove their wit to their King among the court advisers. One of the earliest and the most important chess historians, Sir William Jones writes about Chaturanga, "I can only exhibit a description of a very ancient game of the same kind (same as modern chess) but more complex, and in my opinion, more modern than the simple classical Chess."
This complexity of Chaturanga was spoken of by many other historians, which I believe, may have caused the decline of Chaturanga among the nobles and the public alike. Soon, the game of Chaturanga could only be found in stories and history books as it was nearly forgotten in India. Nonetheless, it made its way to different countries, Persia being one of the first, to be developed to a form which is equivalent to the current form of Chess. The new form would be called Shatranj, a name more common in the modern-day culture, specially in India and other parts of central Asia.
Shatranj (Persia and central Asia):
The earliest and the best account of Shatranj, or the medieval Chess, to which access has been attained to, is given by the poet Firdausi who existed in the later half of the tenth century. I would not be much concerned about how it got from India to Persia. Trade relations, gift, souvenir, war exploit, you take your pick. How it happened to be called Shatranj is yet again argued by many historians. Sir William says, "By a natural corruption of the pure Sanskrit word, it was changed by the old Persians into Chaturang, or more commonly Chatrang. But the Arabs, who soon after took the possession of their country, had neither the initial nor final letters of that word in their alphabet, and consequently they altered it further into Shatranj."
What Firdausi says is in his poem 'Shahnameh' is that Chaduranga was brought to Shah Naushirawan (around the seventh century) from India and the messenger claimed that should his court master the art of the game, they would be proclaimed to be of superior intellect, else they had to accept the Hind's (India) superiority and forgo all rights to extract tribute. Thus was the game chosen as a battlefield for the pride of wits between two nations, echoed so many times in history and most recently during the cold war when Bobby Fischer challenged the mighty soviet school of chess for the world title.
Persians (and later, Arabs) are credited with developing Shatranj equivalent to modern-day standards but I would like to dig deeper into their stylistic contribution. Persia, and later Arabia, was known for its wealth and "exotic" craft. They saw Shatranj in similar way. According to Firdausi, in the Shah's court, it was treated similar to how it was treated in India. The wise men were given puzzles to solve, and they would take up the challenge to solve it overnight to please the Shah. They were rewarded aptly if they did. This culture of chess puzzles later became an important part of chess development and studies. Their art, specially literature, as rich as it was claimed to be, was stylized by poetic elegance (different from the English noble elegance). They employed this style in Shatranj. The moves they did were primarily governed by their elegance. (A strong work containing this is Satyajit Ray's 'Shatranj ke khilari' where the aristocrats muse themselves and exaggerate their own elegant lifestyle in their choices of moves on the board). We shall examine what that exactly means in the future, as we study much modern players and how they adopted this style. Though this style prevailed in Asia and India for years to come, it was considerably lost in the West (due to the lack of a system to record games) and was revived only after the Romantic Era of Chess (18th and the early 19th Century) by Chess elites such as Jose Raul Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine.
Now that I have put forward a brief history of the origin of Chess, I would like to get down to talking about Chess as art in the following articles. I am a musician, not a professional Chess player. But while I was reading the books "My Great Predecessors" and "How life imitates Chess" by the former World Chess Champion and Russian Presidential candidate Garry Kasparov, many similarities between the art I practice and the art involved in Chess became more apparent to me and I started exploring. The following articles will be concerning that aspect.
(For further information on the origins of Chaturanga, 'The History of Chess' by Duncan Forbes can be recommended. He quotes direct Sanskrit texts from Mahabharata, and Bhavishya Purana among others with translation to establish its origins and purposes)
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A very topical post, Natascha! I must admits that, despite coming from a family of avid Leicester City supporters, I have absolutely zero interest in football. However it is surprising how few football-themed picture books there are given the game's huge popularity with children. A friend of mine with a football-mad son recently lamented how often he'd had to read the same meagre selection of football-themed picture books to his son, over and over again.
As you said in the post "football reaches more youth than any other recreational activity in the world" and according to research by the PE and School Sport Club Links Scheme (PESSCL), it is THE most popular activity with UK school children. The second most popular is dance. Given it's greater popularity, one might expect it to be easier to find football-themed picture books than dance-themed picture books, but that's not the case. A young ballet enthusiast is far more likely to find a picture book that reflects their enthusiasm than a young football enthusiast.
Let's hope the picture book market responds to this 'open goal' soon – I'm sure we'd have more football-mad kids reading if it did!
Thanks, Jonathan! Interesting that football comes before dance in popularity. Alongside the 'pink and girly' dance books, we could see some more sports-themed picture books that appeal to BOTH genders?
You've got me thinking, Natascha, that there is a bit of a marketing gap in terms of football and football teams. For example, why isn't there a Manchester United picture book for football playing toddlers - people talk about babies kicking in the womb and how they'll be football players, but nobody then presents the parent with a football baby book on the birth of their child!
Football baby/toddler books - what a great idea!
I once write a football-themed picture book for M & S - It came with a medal. I'd forgotten all about it until I read your post! It sold pretty well at the time, so I think there is definitely a market. Love the picture of the boy making his own football, too.
Thanks, Moira! Interesting - maybe there's scope for bespoke books with 'add-ons' with certain retailers as you say. Plus a host of smaller publishers are popping up with new opportunities.
Great scope for books about how to stop biting behaviour in toddlers. . .
Maybe football mad kids are more into non fiction than stories? Sticker books, football star annuals etc etc.
Also, don't forget comics! Roy of The Rovers from Tiger comic, then his very own comic, and Shoot! from the seventies and eighties. Not sure what's around now though but there must be some equivalents. I think pic books are perhaps the wrong medium for the demographic, dunno. . .
Not sure Brazil are going to win this time. France or Holland for me, but it's very open I think. .
I'm not a footie fan either, but you've really got me thinking Natascha, all kinds of angles to explore, not only the team aspect... blimey, you're persuading me to try writing again!
Peter Rabbit playing football though .... nooooo! please no!
It is true that football is a universal theme, a game for all ages, for both boys and girls, that helps to foster cultural awareness, resourcefulness, inventiveness, teamwork, fitness and positive self-esteem -- all those things that we aim to encourage in the development of pre-school children. Plus it's FUN! Thanks.


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"Noises Off": a play within a play
SARDINES SARDINES! The cast of "Noises Off" performs "Nothing On."
By Rianna Gallardo and Hannah Tong
From Nov. 9 to Nov. 12, the PHHS Drama Department presented the school with their fall play "Noises Off."
"Noises Off is one of the most complicated farces ever written," informs drama teacher Anna Woods. "It's a play within a play. The actors aren't just playing one role; they're playing two."
Students act as the characters in a play titled "Nothing On." Throughout the storyline, problems occur everywhere, beginning from wardrobe malfunctions to relationship issues. Written as a farce, the comedic play puts actors in improbable situations and portrays the ongoing dread of pursuing perfect performance.
"There's a lot of action going on. We have characters falling down stairs and getting bloody noses," laughs sophomore and actress Rachel Nguyen.
The drama cast hopes to bring laughter to everyone with this lighthearted piece.
"We're just trying to crack a smile," expresses actor and senior Rahul Negi.
Because student actors played as actors themselves, preparation for this show was much different than that of past plays. This is also the first time the drama department introduced a two-story set, which spun in a counterclockwise circle, and displayed the backstage scene of "Nothing On."
"The set was probably one of the best sets the drama department has ever built," claims Stage Manager Anthea Nyako.
The show was double casted, each show alternating between two different groups of actors. The two casts were labeled "Oxfam" and "Sardines."
"I love the rush of performing and the reaction of the crowd," admits Rachel, who was a part of the Oxfam cast.
"It's a very rewarding experience," claims junior and actor Jaydin Geer. "You'll learn to appreciate theater for what it truly is."
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ὃ functions as a conceptual (it references the topic to be discussed, the big picture) antecedent or "postcedent," as here. Indeed, it could be cogently argued that it refers to περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς.
Surely the relative pronoun is not the antecedent or postcedent. The antecedent or postcedent is the noun or substantive which the relative pronoun refers to, is it not?
Actually, in the grammars (Smyth, Robertson) they say 'antecedent' whether it comes before or after. Is that because it is logically prior, or somesuch?
Smyth 2509 says the demostrative pronoun is often omitted when the relative clause precedes the main clause. If τοῦτο is accepted as the grammatical antecedent, then I think it would be confusing to introduce a new idea of a 'conceptual antecedent', which might be something else. Clearly, when one reaches περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς, one finds out more about what this τοῦτο is about - it's like a descriptor of the antecedent. We're building up a picture: this was a) from the beginning b) something we heard e) something we touched..
But then again, one could see each of the relative pronouns with their implied demonstrative as having a different referent: ὃ ἀκηκόαμεν for example is the sum total to the audial messages received, to put it very prosaically - and then περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς could be telling us what the messages were about. Of course, they all naturally amalgamate themselves into something which seems to me to be primarily their witness of the word of life. This we announce to you..
John Brainard wrote: Would the referent be τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς or would it be something else?
Relative pronouns without an apparent antecedent can be understood to suppress a demonstrative. Think of it these ὅ as equivalent to τοῦτο ὅ, "that which."
Pronouns sometimes do not have an antecedent, in English or in Greek. "Headless relative clauses" are relative clauses without an explicit antecedent. And in fact, the whole point of this sentence structure is to withhold the subject while building up a series of statements about it, there is a sense of suspense and mystery to it.
A pronoun does not "demand a referent".


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The California Court Commissioners Association ("CCCA") was established in 1982 for the "purpose of supporting and promoting the fair and efficient administration of justice and the interest of its members in attaining these goals."
The first elected officers were John Harris as president and Bob Axel as vice-president, both of whom were court commissioners from Los Angeles County Municipal Courts. The original founding members adopted a constitution and by-laws. CCCA membership includes all subordinate judicial officers (SJO) appointed throughout California's 58 county courts.
CCCA has divided California into four Districts. It is from these districts that 15 SJOs are elected to serve on the Board of Directors. The phrase subordinate judicial officer includes court commissioners, juvenile and traffic referees and family support commissioners all of whom are appointed as judicial bench officers to hear a variety of cases throughout California's courts of original jurisdiction.
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Copyright reform and digital deposit
I noted yesterday that publication of the Copyright and Related Rights (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016 has come a few steps closer. From the perspective of education, the Bill will implement the Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate access to published works for persons who are print disabled, facilitate distance learning and access to education over the internet, extend copyright exceptions to promote non-commercial research, and affirm that libraries, archives and educational institutions may make copies of works in theirs collection for preservation and exhibition purposes. The Bill will also extend "the existing copyright deposit provisions relating to books to facilitate the creation of a Digital Deposit on a voluntary basis". Other countries (such as the UK and most other EU countries, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) have extended legal copyright deposit to digital and online publications, but no-one is systematically capturing Ireland's .ie web domain, and it is on that issue that I want to focus in this post.
The first question is: what is legal copyright deposit? It is the ubiquitous statutory obligation (in Ireland, pursuant to section 198 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (also here) on publishers and distributors to deposit at least one copy of every print publication, free of charge, in designated (pdf) legal copyright deposit libraries. As UNESCO explains (pdf):
Legal deposit legislation serves a clear national public policy interest by ensuring the acquisition, the recording, the preservation and the availability of a nation's published heritage. Such a national collection is undoubtedly one of the major components of a country's cultural policy and should also be considered as the foundation of a national policy of freedom of expression and access to information. The role of a legal deposit system is to ensure the development of a national collection of published material in various formats. It should also support the compilation and the publication of a national bibliography in order to ensure bibliographic control over a comprehensive deposit collection. Finally, effective legal deposit legislation guarantees, to citizens and researchers within the country and abroad, access to a research collection of the country's published material.
The second question is: why extend legal copyright deposit to digital works? Ireland is a digital economy, reflected in the commitment to innovation underpinning the most recent Action Plan for Jobs (January 2016 (pdf)). The Programme for a Partnership Government (May 2016 (pdf)) pledges to "combine all our different talents to build a strong economy". And the Taoiseach has recently celebrated "unexpected innovation" and "great leaps forward in science, the arts, or in politics" (Inspirefest, June 2016). As the Copyright Review Committee pointed out, economic innovation is fostered by creativity, ingenuity, renewal and transformation in all of their forms – artistic, cultural, educational and social, as well as economic. Digital deposit facilitates all of these initiatives and developments, and its absence from current Irish copyright law therefore places the Irish economy at a considerable competitive disadvantage by comparison with all of the other countries which have introduced legislation on this point. Hence, the proposal to extend legal copyright deposit to digital content can only be welcome.
Indeed, it is necessary. Digital data is increasingly fugacious. Within a year of publication, 40%-60% of web resources are gone or unrecognizable, and the median lifespan of web pages is less than 10 years. If something is not done, there will be a digital black hole of content lost forever from the live web, and government publications, online newspapers and current heritage will be lost to us and to future researchers. As the balance between print works and digital material continues to shift away from the former in favour of the latter, this scale of the problem will increase and multiply; and the role of copyright deposit institutions will diminish and decline. It is imperative, therefore, to extend existing legal copyright deposit obligations to digital content.
The third question is: how to achieve this extension? Among the recommendations made by the Copyright Review Committee in the Modernising Copyright Report was a new section (section 198A) in the 2000 Act to extend the existing copyright deposit regime for print publication in section 198 to digital works. In my view, those proposals struck a fair and appropriate balance between the various competing interests on this issue, permitting a thorough collection and preservation of our digital heritage, whilst also encouraging cultural and economic innovation and preventing a competitive disadvantage with other similar countries (although, as I was chair of that Committee, I would say that, wouldn't I?). It is not clear to what extent the Bill recently proposed by the Minister is likely is reflect these proposals. I am certain that they can be improved, but I remain convinced that they are an excellent starting point for achieving a feasible digital copyright deposit regime in Ireland.
Moreover, it is not clear exactly what is meant by the reference in the DJEI's press release to facilitating "the creation of a Digital Deposit on a voluntary basis" (emphasis added). The Modernising Copyright Report proposed that the copyright deposit institutions could decide which digital publications and internet resources they wish to claim and how they wish to claim them. If the "voluntary basis" mentioned in the press release reflects this proposal, that would permit those institutions to claim or collect the digital publications which they see as important. However, if the "voluntary basis" means that compliance on the part of publishers or websites is optional, this would not reflect international best practice. Worse, if publishers do not comply with digital deposit requests, then that would entirely undercut the very reasons for digital deposit in the first place. Non-compliance would render the whole process pointless, the digital deposit provisions would become a legislative dead letter, and we would end up on the wrong side of history.
In the end, therefore, to enable us to meet the needs of consumers, innovation, and heritage in the digital age, legal copyright deposit institutions should be able to collect not only our print history but also our digital history. The sooner that our legislations is amended to achieve this end, the better.
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The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee published its Tenth Report of Session 2016–17, Lessons still to be learned from the Chilcot Inquiry, as HC 656 on 16 March 2017. The Government's response was received on 19 December 2017 and is appended to this report. The Committee is disappointed with the Government's response given the clear evidence of the need for improvements to public inquiries and Government decision making that the Committee received. It is particularly concerned about the Government's failure to accept the case for stronger safeguards to ensure proper collective consideration by the Cabinet on decisions of national importance.
The report of the Iraq Inquiry published on July 6th 2016 identified lessons to be learned from the UK's approach to and involvement in Iraq from 2001 to 2009. As the then Prime Minister noted during his statement to Parliament on the date of publication, the Government recognises that although many lessons from interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan had already been learned and embedded by government, the report identified "lessons that we do need to learn and…keep on learning".
At the most strategic level, the Government accepted that taking the country to war should always be a last resort and should only be done if all credible alternatives have been exhausted.
It also acknowledged Sir John Chilcot's finding that formal machinery of government structures to support collective decision-making are vital. The National Security Council was established in 2010 in part learning lessons from Iraq to ensure proper co-ordinated decision making across the whole of Government, including those responsible for domestic security. This Council has the right breadth of expertise in the room with Ministers from the relevant departments, the Attorney General, and advisors and officials including the Chief of the Defence Staff, the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, the heads of the intelligence services, and relevant senior officials.
The position of national security adviser was established in 2010 with a properly constituted team in the Cabinet Office to ensure that all the key parts of our national security apparatus are joined up. The national security machinery also taps the experience and knowledge of experts from outside Government. This helps us to constantly challenge conventional wisdom within the system and avoid, hopefully, group-think. It is inconceivable today that we could take a premeditated decision to commit combat troops without a full and challenging discussion in the National Security Council, on the basis of full papers, including written legal advice, prepared and stress-tested by all relevant departments, with decisions formally minuted.
The then Prime Minister accepted Sir John's finding that the culture established by Prime Ministers matters too. It is crucial to good decision making that a Prime Minister establishes a climate in which it is safe for officials and other experts to challenge existing policy and question the views of Ministers, and the Prime Minister, without fear or favour. Everyone who sits around the NSC table is free to speak their mind and expected to do so.
The Government also recognised that in taking the difficult decisions to intervene in other countries, proper planning for what follows is vital. The task of rebuilding effective governance is enormous. That is why we created a conflict, stability and stabilisation fund, and beefed up the cross-Government stabilisation unit, so that experts are able to deploy in post-conflict situations anywhere in the world at short notice. The 2010 decision to commit 0.7% of our gross national income on overseas aid which the Government has reiterated has made this possible. Much of that money is spent on conflict-affected and fragile states, not only assisting with post-conflict planning but also trying to prevent conflicts in the first place.
The Government accepted that it must ensure that our armed forces are always properly equipped and resourced. That is why we now conduct a regular strategic defence and security review to ensure that the resources we have meet the ambitions of the national security strategy and why we meet our NATO commitment to spend 2% of our GDP on defence. The Government has also enshrined the armed forces covenant in law to ensure that our armed forces and their families receive the treatment and respect they deserve in ways consistent with the findings of the Iraq Inquiry.
The then Prime Minister committed the Government to learning additional lessons from Chilcot beyond those already embedded. The then National Security Adviser, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, conducted this process across the national security community, considering further improvements. A summary of the learning from this process is included as an Annex to this response. The Government fully recognises that ensuring lessons are embedded and properly learned will be a long term and ongoing process, which will also be considered in the ongoing work as part of the National Security Capability Review. To ensure that lessons are implemented, departments are sharing learning and knowledge across the community. Several NSC departments have also developed specific departmental Chilcot lessons learning processes and programmes.
The Iraq Inquiry Report provided a unique window on a decade of decision- making and implementation on a national endeavour. Sir John and his team were able to look at what happened in a way that was not possible for those working on Iraq within Government at the time. The report brings witness testimony and documentary evidence together, enabling the Inquiry team to review it objectively outside the daily practice of Government. The report is a forensic assessment not just of what happened and why, but of the cultures and behaviours that underpinned the process of national Government during this period. Some of these lessons are of wider relevance than the national security community and are being shared with the wider civil service community, through briefings to leadership teams across Government and in the form of an immersive case study through the new Civil Service Leadership Academy.
The Government notes the views of the Committee. It will be rare that an Inquiry will have the scope and scale of the Iraq Inquiry. The time it took to report was in large part due to the complexity and scope of the issues it was examining. Sir John Chilcot acknowledged this in his evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of 4 February 2015 when he identified the unprecedented scope of the inquiry as one of the key factors in the time it had taken the Inquiry Committee to complete its work.
More generally, the Cabinet Office is developing tools to provide guidance for those establishing, running and supporting future inquiries. A cross-Government expert group has been established to share best practice and offer advice to those establishing, running and supporting inquiries. This group will inform and develop a guidance paper for sponsor departments and Inquiry Chairs, Secretaries and their teams. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of officials with experience of inquiries across Government, the guidance will build on the draft internal guidance already in use by departments, and provide a standard for best practice for all inquiries (both statutory and non-statutory) commissioned by the Government.
The Government does not accept this recommendation.
The Government recognises the important role of parliament in the administration of public inquiries, and where possible will ensure a full debate takes place on the scope of an inquiry at the outset. For those inquiries set up under the Inquiries Act 2005, the Prime Minister is required to inform Parliament about who will chair the inquiry and its terms of reference. At the conclusion of the inquiry, the Chair will provide his report to the Prime Minister, who will then lay it before Parliament immediately on receipt.
However public inquiries take many forms depending on the circumstances. They will often need to be established quickly to respond to issues of urgent public concern. The Government believes that the current approach to establishing inquiries provides the appropriate balance of responsiveness and flexibility. The creation and operation of select committees is a matter for the House, but the Government's view is that it will not always be possible or appropriate to follow the proposed format. Select Committees can of course call for evidence from Inquiry Chairs/Panel members/Secretariat which provides opportunity for scrutiny and ensures accountability.
The summary of the then National Security Adviser's Lessons Learned process is appended to this response. It covered not just machinery of Government lessons, but also knowledge management and behaviours and cultures. As the summary makes clear, the Government intends to update Parliament on its implementation of the lessons and recommendations identified in the Summary in its Annual Report on the implementation of the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
The Government does not accept the Committee's finding that the NSC lacks the capability for strategic assessment and analysis. Firstly, the Joint Intelligence Committee process provides a formal all source strategic assessment process in support of National Security Council decisions. This process involves Whitehall departments and diplomatic posts but also draws on external sources of information and insight depending on the topic. Every NSC meeting begins with an assessment from the Joint Intelligence Committee Chair. In addition, the NSC draws on strategic analysis from professional bodies within Government, including Foreign Office Research Analysts, the Government Economic profession and specialist analytical centres such as the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and the Stabilisation Unit. Of course there is always more that government can do to make use of external expertise. The National Security Adviser is developing a more systematic approach to national security community engagement with experts outside Government designed to cover the full spectrum of issues.
While decisions on national security issues are taken at National Security Council meetings, the process of supporting that decision-making is a much more iterative policy process using the whole of the Whitehall system. Increasingly, cross-Whitehall country, region and thematic strategies help cohere different parts of Government to work to common purpose on an agreed set of priorities and outcomes. The role of the National Security Secretariat is to ensure that the whole government system supports that work, asking the right questions, developing a broad set of options underpinned by a wide set of evidence and recognising the risks involved. While the Government does not accept that the National Security Council, a Cabinet Committee, should be subject to independent review, it has recently reviewed the National Security Secretariat to ensure that it remains as agile, collaborative and responsive organisation providing the best strategic advice possible to support National Security Council decisions.
The Government notes that having the right machinery of government, proper processes, culture and planning comprehensive strategic advice on all the key issues and learning lessons from previous interventions does not guarantee success in military interventions. This is not a failure of strategic capability. The challenges of intervention are formidable. We are realistic that we can have the best prepared plans but in the real world things can go wrong. In volatile, dynamic and evolving situations, it is not always possible to work out in advance exactly how others will respond or events unfold. Intervention is hard. War fighting is not always the most difficult part. We are fully aware that the stabilisation and reconciliation processes that follow are a much more complex challenge. However, just because intervention is difficult, it does not mean that there are not times when it is right and necessary. The Government remains committed to taking difficult decisions to protect its people and meet its responsibilities to global peace and security as a Permanent Member of the United Nations Security council.
The Government does not agree with the Committee's finding that there is an absence of safeguards on decision-making within Government. It is very clear in the Cabinet Manual that the Cabinet Secretary's role is to ensure that Cabinet Committees provide effective collective Government and are not bypassed, and that sub-committees are set up to deal with issues that require a more intensive focus. As the Cabinet Secretary told the Committee in his evidence on 14 September 2016, the Cabinet Secretary has responsibility for making sure that Cabinet Government is working properly, that Cabinet Committees meet with the right people in them to take the key decisions, and that issues are dealt with in a proper way. Cabinet Secretaries and National Security Advisers take their responsibilities very seriously in enforcing this. This is backed up by practice. Neither the Cabinet nor the National Security Council has been bypassed in the decision-making process since the establishment of the NSC in 2010. In particular, when decisions on military intervention have been taken, the NSC and its sub-committees and officials groups have prepared decisions fully and there has been a full discussion of the issue in Cabinet before decisions were taken.
As part of the then National Security Adviser's lessons learning process the Government considered the Better Government Initiative's idea for a formal Ministerial direction to be given, if Ministers decided to go ahead with a policy against the advice of officials. In the case of Ministerial direction for financial decisions, Permanent Secretaries (as Accounting Officers for their departments) have a clear personal responsibility for the propriety and value for money of the public finances for which they are responsible. In this role, they are directly accountable to the Public Accounts Committee. The Ministerial notification and direction process is activated if a Minister is considering a transaction which the Accounting Officer believes would breach the requirements of propriety, regularity or value for money, and if the Minister decides to proceed against the written objections of the Accounting Officer. This process enables the Public Accounts Committee to see that the Accounting Officer does not bear personal responsibility for this action. It is not an instrument which is engaged purely because a Minister decides to act against the advice of an official, but when a Minister decides to spend public money in a way that contravenes the role of the Accounting Officer.
servants, as well as to other considerations and advice in reaching policy decisions. As the then NSA's summary of lessons learned makes clear, we continue to make improvements to ensure that Ministers receive the widest range of policy advice and evidence possible and that officials at all levels are empowered or supported to challenge effectively in pursuit of the best policy outcomes. Disagreement between Ministers and officials over the best course to pursue in uncertain or volatile international circumstances is part of the policy- making process. It should not be confused with a contravention of processes and procedures.
The policy-making process is being strengthened at all levels. The FCO is embedding the Chilcot checklist by including it in the induction of all new entrants and new joiners, and embedding Chilcot lessons through the Diplomatic Academy, including in specific modules on Challenge and Strategy. The MoD continues to deliver a range of reforms including on diversity and challenge. The virtual National Security Academy Senior Faculty course on strategy at the RCDS also includes lessons from Chilcot. Participants on talent schemes have also received briefings on the lessons from Chilcot and, through the new Civil Service Leadership Academy, a 24-hour immersive Chilcot case study for senior leaders across Government will explore issues of accountability and help participants identify risks in the policy-making process.
The Government accepts that it is important that Cabinet and its Committees including the NSC has access to proper legal advice as part of its decision- making process. The Ministerial code now includes a section making clear that the Law Officers must be consulted in good time before the Government is committed to critical decisions involving legal considerations. The Code also makes clear that when written advice from the Law Officers is included in correspondence between Ministers, or in papers for the Cabinet or Ministerial Committees, the conclusions may if necessary be summarised but, if this is done, the complete text of the advice should be attached.
As the then NSA's Lessons Learned Summary makes clear, we have also strengthened mechanisms to ensure that legal advice relating to NSC matters is prepared with the fullest understanding of the context.
A regular senior legal officials meeting has been established to reinforce and systematise legal work across Government in support of the National Security Council, particularly the Attorney-General's contribution as a full member of NSC, by providing strategic oversight of the legal advice being developed, informing NSS and NSC(O) about legal issues, commissioning work and receiving commissions as needed. Following the completion of a pilot period it is now a formal part of the NSC architecture providing assurance to NSS that relevant legal issues are being identified promptly and addressed coherently; improving the breadth and depth of the briefing available to the Attorney- General; and adding significant recognisable value to the work of its participants, particularly by providing a close, contextualising connection to the work of NSC.
As the then NSA's Lessons Learned Summary explains, the NSC (O) committed to exploring more diverse approaches and mitigating the cognitive biases and heuristics that all groups of experts possess as part of its lessons from Chilcot. It has set up a diversity and inclusion network which has been working with the NSC (O) to look at more effective meetings. This has resulted in changes to the ways that the NSC (O) runs meetings. As part of the commitment in the Strategic Defence and Security Review to improve diversity and inclusion across national security, the NSA has requested greater challenge of the papers that are presented to it, including using the Chilcot checklist for policy makers (see Annex A of the NSA's Lessons Learned Summary appended to this response) and establishing a Shadow Board, which is a group of junior officials that meet regularly to discuss subjects that are presented to NSC (O). The NSA is introducing additional reforms to the NSC process to ensure there is sufficient time to effectively debate the priority issues.
Synthesised briefing and analysis has always been an important component of NSC meetings and related mechanisms and the Government is committed to ensuring the best quality briefing and advice supports NSC decision-making.
The Intelligence and Security Committee already has substantial powers to access and scrutinise sensitive information. The Justice and Security Act 2013 reformed the ISC, making it a committee of Parliament, providing greater powers and increasing its remit including oversight of operational activity and the wider intelligence and security activities of Government. In addition to oversight of the three intelligence and security agencies, the ISC examines the intelligence related work of the Cabinet Office. This includes intelligence related work produced by the Joint Intelligence Committee, the Assessments Staff working in the Joint Intelligence Organisation and the National Security Secretariat. The Committee also provides oversight of Defence intelligence in the Ministry of Defence and the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office. In addition, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy increasingly has access to closed briefings on sensitive national security issues to ensure that Parliament.
The Government recognised the need for the Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee to be above and beyond influence in response to the 2004 Butler Review into Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. The Government response to the Butler Review, published in March 2005, noted that 'The Prime Minister made clear to the House on 20 July 2004 that the Cabinet Office would set about making a permanent appointment to the Chairmanship of the JIC…and that this would be done in accordance with Lord Butler's criteria. Every JIC Chair since the appointment of Sir Richard Mottram in November 2005 has been at Permanent Secretary level.
The Government notes the Committee's conclusion.
12.Dr Glen Rangwala's report makes a case, drawing from evidence presented in the Chilcot report, that the former Prime Minister, Rt Hon Tony Blair deliberately misled the House of Commons in advance of the decision to go to war in Iraq. We acknowledge the seriousness of Dr Rangwala's conclusions and recognise that his report supports the view held by many members of the House. We note, however, that Sir John Chilcot believes that there was no personal and demonstrable decision by the then Prime Minister to deceive Parliament or the public. This Committee is not in a position to take up and investigate further Dr Rangwala's conclusions. Should further evidence, beyond the Chilcot report, come to light that supports Dr Rangwala's arguments, the House may wish to refer this matter to the Privileges Committee to take further. (Paragraph 81).
The Joint International Counter-Terrorism Unit (JICTU), hosted by the Home Office, was launched in April 2016, bringing together expertise from the FCO, Home Office and other departments. The new unit is leading our counter-terrorism agenda internationally, and oversees expanded funds for support and capacity building work abroad.
In 2016, we also established a North Africa Joint Unit, hosted in FCO, bringing together expertise principally from DFID and FCO.
We remain committed to exploring the establishment of further joint units where there is a good case to do so.
The Government also welcomes the Committee's endorsement of the approach it has taken on Exiting the European Union.


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Opium smokers claim that unlike injection or ingestion, smoking does not produce tolerance. I do not believe them, but this is what Jean Cocteau who was an addict and spent a large part of his life in clinics trying to kick the habit, had to say.
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The lung is a sack of globules. Each globule is divided into alveoli which lead direct to the bronchi. One globule imitates the entire lung of a frog. The smooth internal surface is tapestried with a network of blood capillaries. In this way, if the lung were spread out, and ironed over, it would cover 200 square yards. You have read aright.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas Wins Monday at 8pm in Viewers, Key Women and Kids 2-11
ABC spins the numbers for the week of December 8-14.
Primetime Ratings Report For the week of December 8, 2008 (Based on National Live + Same Day Program Ratings)
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" Wins Monday at 8pm in Viewers, Key Women and Kids 2-11, Ranking as the No. 1 TV Program of the Evening in the Key Kids Demo
Monday's 2-Hour Series Finale of "Boston Legal" Hits a Season High, Growing Its Audience from Start to Finish and Drawing its Largest Audience in 8 Months
Jumping from its Lead-in, "Private Practice" Takes Second in its Wednesday 9pm Slot In Viewers and Adults 18-49 and Stands as the Night's No. 1 Show in Women 18-34
ABC's Replay of "Surviving Christmas" on Saturday Beats its NBC Movie Competition On the Night in Adults 18-49 and Increases Year to Year in Viewers and Young Adults
ABC's Sunday Rebroadcast of Disney's "The Santa Clause 2" is Up Over its Year-Ago Telecast in Viewers, Adults 18-34, and Kids 2-11
WEEK No. 12:
During the second week of December (w/o 12/8/08), ABC outdrew its non-sports competition, Fox, by 5% in Total Viewers (6.3 million vs. 6.0 million). NBC and CBS each enjoyed big boosts to their weekly averages from NFL coverage � CBS with a huge NFL overrun on Sunday going well into the first hour of prime and NBC with one of the season's biggest primetime NFL games on "Sunday Night Football" (NY Giants-Dallas Cowboys). Also of note during the pre-holiday week, ABC's top shows were either in repeat ("Grey's Anatomy" and "Desperate Housewives") or pre-empted ("Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "Brothers & Sisters").
A note about increasing DVR penetration and year-to-year rating comparisons: Year-to-year rating comparisons based on the Live + Same Day data stream are distorted by the level of DVR penetration in the Nielsen sample, which has jumped up to 29% currently, from 21% at the same point in 2007. More viewers are watching shows on their own timetables, which may not be reflected in the overnight next day numbers. The only truly valid year-to-year comparison would be one based on the Live + 7 Day metric, once those stats are released by Nielsen.
ABC's Monday results were up over the previous week by 1.7 million viewers (10.3 million vs. 8.6 million) and 8% in Adults 18-49 (2.8/7 vs. 2.6/7).
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
ABC's annual broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" stood as the most-watched program (11.0 million) in the 8 o'clock hour, while taking second among Adults 18-49 (3.7/10). In addition, the animated classic led its time period among Women 18-49 (4.7/12), Women 25-54 (5.2/12) and Kids 2-11 (5.4/16). In fact "A Charlie Brown Christmas" stood as Monday night's No. 1 TV program among Kids 2-11.
"Boston Legal" (9:00-11:00 p.m.)
The 2-hour series finale of "Boston Legal" hit a season-high in Total Viewers (9.9 million), while posting a best-since-premiere performance among Adults 18-49 (2.3/6). In fact, the legal drama saw its largest audience in nearly 8 months � since 4/22/08. The final episode of the series saw its audience grow from its first hour to its second hour by 6% in Total Viewers (9.6 million to 10.2 million) and by 14% in Adults 18-49 (2.2/5 to 2.5/6).
"Private Practice" (9:00-10:01 p.m.)
Jumping over its lead-in, ABC's "Private Practice" attracted 6.9 million viewers and a 2.4 rating, 6 share in Adults 18-49, taking second in its hour in both Nielsen measures. The ABC sophomore drama won its time period for the second week in a row and stood as the No. 1 program on Wednesday night among Women 18-34 (3.0/8).
"ABC Saturday Movie of the Week: Surviving Christmas" (9:00-11:00 p.m.)
The "ABC Saturday Movie of the Week: Surviving Christmas" drew 4.8 million viewers and a 1.4 rating 4 share in Adults 18-49, outperforming the NBC Movie Special, "It's a Wonderful Life" (1.3/4), in the key young adult demo.
�	ABC's "Saturday Movie of the Week: Surviving Christmas" was up over its performance the previous year in both viewers and young adults (4.7 million and a 1.2/4 on 12/15/07).
"ABC Sunday Movie of the Week: The Santa Clause 2" (8:00-10:00 p.m.)
Despite airing one hour earlier than 2007, an encore of ABC's "The Santa Clause 2" drew 8.8 million viewers and a 2.7 rating, 6 share in Adults 18-49, growing in viewers and retaining 100% of its year-ago Adult 18-49 performance (8.7 million & 2.7/8 on 12/23/07). "The Santa Clause 2" saw year-to-year increases among Adults 18-34 (2.0/6 vs. 2.0/7), Men 18-49 (2.2/5 vs. 2.1/6) and Kids 2-11 (2.9/10 vs. 2.2/8).
�	ABC's "The Santa Clause 2" led in its 2-hour time period and stood as the night's No. 1 program among the broadcast networks in Kids 2-11. In addition, the theatrical delivered the Net's highest Kids 2-11 performance in the time-slot in 9 months - since 3/2/08.
Source: Nielsen Media Research (National Live+Same Day Program Ratings), week of 12/8/08, unless stated otherwise.
· BOSTON LEGAL (ABC)
· GREY'S ANATOMY (ABC)
· PRIVATE PRACTICE (ABC)


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Evert A. and George L. Duyckinck, eds. Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1855), vol. 2, p. 484.
MARGARET M. DAVIDSON (1823 – 1838)
Margaret M. Davidson was a younger child of the notoriously frail Davidson clan, a family in which seven of the nine children died before their mother (also named Margaret Davidson), who herself experienced recurring periods of invalidism. Her older sister Lucretia died when Margaret was a toddler, and was posthumously declared a poetic prodigy. Margaret's mother encouraged her younger daughter to write poetry as well, claiming that Lucretia's "poetic mantle" descended "like a robe of light, on her infant," and the young Margaret agreed to "fill [Lucretia's] place."
Educated and raised under her mother's protective watch, Margaret Davidson composed poems that aped the work of the better-known romantics as well as that of her sister. During her short, sickly life, she cared for her frequently ill mother, studied languages, philosophy, and history, and of course, wrote poetry. She befriended one of her sister's admirers who had come to visit Lucretia's shrine, and he took her to New York City for an evening at the theater in what was surely one of the most memorable episodes of her short life. Like her sister, she died of "consumption" (today called tuberculosis) in her teens.
Margaret Davidson's death added to the romantic mystique which already surrounded Lucretia's short life and sentimental writings. Through their consumptive deaths, the sisters evoked the romantic ideal of feminine fragility and poetic sensibility, for "consumption" was thought to carry with it the mark of artistic genius. Washington Irving memorialized Margaret in the Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson (1841).


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Channel 3's David Carroll remembers Judge Bob Moon.
(WRCB) -- Just hours after hearing the shocking news of Judge Bob Moon's sudden death, those of us who knew him are finding it hard to believe that we can no longer make a phone call to get the Judge's take on a crime-related news topic. I'm still trying to digest the fact I will no longer receive an e-mail from him, often with a poem he wrote about a passionate interest. I can no longer tell a friend to visit his courtroom to get an idea of what's happening "in the real world."
Judge Moon would look you in the eye. He had strong beliefs, instilled by a loving family. He would shake his head in disbelief when hearing of children abandoned by parents, left to seek approval from gang members. He was tough on truancy offenders. "You can't teach an empty desk," he'd say. "We're going to find these parents who don't care enough to send their children to school, and there will be consequences."
He could be compassionate with multiple offenders like "Goldfinger," Paul Vandiver, who was a regular in Judge Moon's court. The nickname came from Vandiver's penchant for huffing spray paint, preferably gold. With a court appearance tote board well into the dozens, Vandiver was a familiar face. Judge Moon would smile and compare the situation to a well-known fictitious character from Mayberry. "Mr. Vandiver, I might as well give you a key to the jail like the one Sheriff Andy gave Otis. You could just let yourself in and out."
Judge Moon certainly believed in punishment, and could dish it out in large doses, but he always tried compassion first. He understood the value of a second chance. If you took him up on that second chance, life could be good. Third chances were not viewed so favorably. Pass that drug screen, get that GED, and Judge Moon felt his job was done. Repeat offenders, or those who failed to take advantage of his second-chance opportunities might as well prepare for a stay behind bars.
Throughout his 30-plus year tenure on the bench, especially since being appointed to Hamilton County Sessions Court in 1996, he was a strong believer in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga. They had helped him as a youth from the streets of East Lake, and he saw their continued value in the gang-riddled world of today. He was their most vocal cheerleader, not with words, but with action. He created "Tie Day," linking inner city youths with local business leaders for lunch, and the gift of a new neck tie (along with a lesson in tying the knot).
He organized field trips for kids who were exposed to little outdoor activity outside of their often violent surroundings. He told me, "When some of the inner city kids were camping for their very first time at the Boys Club's Camp Kiwanis one year, we had to take several of them back home when it became dark and the bullfrogs and katydids begin croaking and singing. They had never heard those sounds before and were terrified. They would have slept through sirens and gunshots."
It was that kind of world from which Judge Bob Moon helped many escape. Who will be their champion now? The Judge with the strong opinions, the steely glare and the stern court presence might be remembered as a strict jurist by some. But I will remember him as someone who cared about kids, and left his hometown a better place than he found it, just sixty years ago.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday at the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home and 1:30-3 p.m. on Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, 554 McCallie Avenue. Services will be held at the church at 3 p.m. Saturday.


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For the past seven years, the foundation has awarded $300,000 in college scholarships.
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# Description
This command manages connections to DC/OS clusters.

# Usage

```bash
dcos cluster
```

# Options

| Name, shorthand | Default | Description |
|---------|-------------|-------------|
| `--help, h`   |             |  Print usage. |
| `--info`   |             |  Print a short description of this subcommand. |
| `--version, v`   |             | Print version information. |

# Child commands

| Command | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [dcos cluster attach](/docs/1.11/cli/command-reference/dcos-cluster/dcos-cluster-attach/)   |  Attach the CLI to a connected DC/OS cluster. |
| [dcos cluster list](/docs/1.11/cli/command-reference/dcos-cluster/dcos-cluster-list/)       |  List the clusters that are connected to the DC/OS CLI.  |
| [dcos cluster remove](/docs/1.11/cli/command-reference/dcos-cluster/dcos-cluster-remove/)   |  Remove a cluster from the DC/OS CLI configuration.   |
| [dcos cluster rename](/docs/1.11/cli/command-reference/dcos-cluster/dcos-cluster-rename/)   |  Rename a cluster in the DC/OS CLI configuration.  |
| [dcos cluster setup](/docs/1.11/cli/command-reference/dcos-cluster/dcos-cluster-setup/)     |  Connects, authenticates, and attaches the DC/OS CLI to a DC/OS cluster. Combines `dcos config set core.dcos_url`, `dcos auth login`, and `docs cluster attach`. |


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Body in bin prompts Vic cold case inquiry
5:57pm Jul 13, 2018
Investigators will revisit missing persons records and cold-case suspected murders in a bid to identify a body stashed in a bin in Melbourne for at least 15 years.
The decomposed human remains were found on Friday amid dirt and straw in a bin bound by Occy straps at an Oakleigh South storage facility being cleaned out by its new owners.
The decomposition suggested the person had been dead for at least 15 years, Detective Senior Sergeant Pixie Fuhmeister told reporters at the scene.
"That container has not been accessed for a number of years," she said.
"We are determining the matter as suspicious at the moment and it is very early days and what we are looking at is long-term decomposition of the body."
Workers first saw a black boot in the bin, which led to the discovery of the remains.
Police will investigate cold cases and missing persons registers to identify the remains, with Sgt Fuhmeister unable to confirm the gender of the body or whether it is intact.
Vic carjack attempt allegedly false report
Homes flooded as water main bursts, putting Melbourne street one metre underwater
A worker at the site earlier described how the discovery was made at the back of a warehouse.
"That's when they found a wheelie bin inside there which was tied up with Occy straps and then they opened that up and found a boot in there and the boot was attached to a body," the worker told ABC TV.
Police expect to remain at the scene into Saturday and will start searching lease records of storage containers, admitting a number of them have been abandoned for years.
"It was paid initially but it hasn't been paid for a number of years ... it's just been sitting there abandoned," Sgt Fuhmeister said of the allotment linked to the remains.
The Milgate Street property remains cordoned off and bags of evidence have been removed from the scene.
© AAP 2020


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For starters, this episode is for both men and women! 🙂 Back in the 1990s, St John Paul II wrote a Letter To Women, breaking open the beauty of femininity and completely busting the myth that women are less than men. On this episode, I'm joined by Liv Harrison to discuss a critical topic that St JPII discussed in that letter: the feminine genius. Both men and women need to understand the dignity and worth of the feminine heart in order to discern marriage well, and we hope this episode helps bring some clarity and springboards good discussions about femininity in this broken world.
On The Discerning Marriage Podcast, we accompany you on the journey to discover if marriage is God's will for you, and if you already know that you're called to marriage, we want to help you bring glory to God in your vocation.
This podcast is hosted by the Theology of the Body Instiute. Learn more about the Institute here.
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Liv Harrison is known for being a professional speaker and emcee with a gift for humor, storytelling, and wisdom. People are her passion. She connects with everyone from junior high students to seasoned adults. Liv was the 2018 Host/Emcee to hundreds of Catholic youth at the Austin music festival, Godstock. Her work in marriage ministry keeps her connected with couples around Texas. Not only has Liv spoken all over Texas, but she has also spoken across the nation. She is presently serving the Junior League of The Woodlands as an active leader who often speaks to the 500 members. In May 2019 Liv successfully wrote, launched, and emceed the Genius Catholic Women's Conference outside of Austin, TX. In December, of 2019 the Talitha Koum Initiative, LLC was formed to produce the Genius Catholic Women's Conference. In March 2020 the unique Genius Catholic Women's Conference launched in Dallas. Liv serves as President on the Executive Board of The Genius Collective; a non-profit that is in its final stages of development. Liv is currently a co-host on the Forte Catholic Podcast and the Discerning Marriage Podcast. On June 1, 2020 Liv launched her own interview/storytelling podcast titled Talk to Me with Liv Harrison: The Stories Behind Their Success. Lastly, she has been a frequent voice on Sirius XM and various other podcast programs both as a guest and as a co-host. She is married to her high school sweetheart and the mother of two.
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Q: Using code from a dependency in setup.py I have a little web framework, let's call it Bread, which is used to
build applications like Jam, Marmalade, PeanutButter, and other
toppings. Bread both builds and serves these applications.
I'm trying to figure out how to make the applications' setup.pys
work, given the following requirements:

*

*The apps depend upon Bread, via
setuptool's install_requires

*To build an application at development time, Bread reads some config
and then emits assets (HTML, JS, CSS, images, etc) to the
application's output directory. In other words, bread devserver
reads Jam/bread.yaml and assembles assets in Jam/output, then
serves the application (via Flask, but that's not otherwise pertinent).

*In order to build a deployable Jam application, I want to invoke
Bread during python setup.py install of Jam, to build
Jam/output. In production, Jam should not need to build anything.

*I've defined a custom bdist_egg setup command where
initialize_options imports Bread, invokes the builder, then sets
self.distribution.data_files with the appropriate tuples, before
calling the base class. (And that was no fun to figure out.)

*Right now, the bdist_egg is defined in Jam's setup.py. I want to
move this and other boilerplate code into bread.setup, so that I
can reuse it in Marmalade, PeanutButter, etc.

*Potentially, this means that I'm now importing Bread code before
Bread has been installed. This will surely arise in a clean install,
such as a fresh virtualenv on a build machine.

Can this be done with Distutils / setuptools /  Distribute?

A: I also asked this question in Distutils-SIG.
A mention there of setup_requires led me to
https://stackoverflow.com/a/12061891/6364, which gave me the hint
I needed: create a separate Distribution object before calling setup
which defines the setup_requires entries.
Jam's setup.py now looks like:
from setuptools import setup, dist

dist.Distribution(dict(setup_requires='Bread'))

from bread.setup_topping import *

setup(
    name='Jam',
    version='0.2',
    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
    **topping_setup_options
)

# Remove *.egg left by bootstrapping Bread
cleanup_bread_bootstrap()

EDIT: a better explanation of what's happening in Jam's setup.py is needed:

*

*The initial Distribution(setup_requires='Bread') is using easy_install
to install Bread and its dependencies in the current directory.

*The call to setup() triggers the bdist_egg below, which uses Bread
to build Jam's output. Bread is found in the current directory.

*setup() later installs Jam, Bread, and all the dependencies,
in the correct location.

*The call to cleanup_bread_bootstrap() removes all the Eggs that were
laid in the current directory by the initial Distribution.

And bread/setup_topping.py looks like:
from setuptools.command.bdist_egg import bdist_egg as _bdist_egg
import os, fnmatch, glob, shutil

def recursive_data_files(treeroot, pattern):
    results = []
    for base, dirs, files in os.walk(treeroot):
        goodfiles = fnmatch.filter(files, pattern)
        if goodfiles:
            results.append((base, [os.path.join(base, f) for f in goodfiles]))
    return results

def make_data_files(output='output'):
    return (
        [('', ['bread.yaml'])]
        + recursive_data_files(output, '*')
    )

class bdist_egg(_bdist_egg):
    def initialize_options(self):
        bake_bread()    # build files to './output'
        self.distribution.data_files = make_data_files()
        _bdist_egg.initialize_options(self)

topping_setup_options = dict(
    cmdclass={
        'bdist_egg': bdist_egg,
    },
    install_requires=[
        'Bread',
    ],
    zip_safe=False,
)

def cleanup_bread_bootstrap(root='.'):
    for f in glob.glob(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(root), '*.egg')):
        if os.path.isdir(f):
            shutil.rmtree(f)  # Egg directory
        else:
            os.remove(f)      # Zipped Egg


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Emmys 2015 Spotlight: Taraji P. Henson's Best Red Carpet Looks Ever
Aug 30, 2015 @ 11:45 am
Taraji P. Henson is no stranger to drama on screen, especially in her role as Cookie Lyons on Empire Henson really gets to vamp it up both in character and in wardrobe. (She's an ex-drug dealer and wife of a hip-hop mogul, who struts about in a collection of big furs, loud jewelry, and head-to-toe skintight animal prints.) And for that role, the actress is up for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (her second nomination after her first nod for her role in the 2011 TV movie Taken From Me).
Henson's #IRL red carpet style, though, exudes a more subdued glamour. She may be a fan of sequins, but the real shining quality of her ensembles are her silhouettes. Form-fitting column dresses (like a black and white Balenciaga one worn at the 2015 Met Gala above, right), flowing mermaid trains (including the ruffled strapless Roberto Cavalli number from the 2009 Oscars, left), gowns with revealing cuts, and jumpsuits are all among included in her impressive sartorial repertoire.
See proof of her head-turning style with her best red carpet looks, ahead.
PHOTOS: Taraji P. Henson's Best Red Carpet Looks Ever


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Come enjoy 4 days of FUN! There will be rockin' bands, a beer garden, inflatable slides and obstacle courses for children and many arts and craft vendors to enjoy. Fun for everyone! See the Special Events page under the Department drop down menu for 2018 Craft and Food Vendor Registration forms.


Guardian Angel in Rochester, Michigan, reflects Mt. Elliott's growing commitment to the greater Detroit community. The Association's trademark landscaping and dignified entryway welcome visitors to its park-like setting. Just beyond the entry is a monumental bronze sculpture of the namesake guardian angel. It's interesting to note that the artist's model for this imposing sculpture was blessed by Pope John Paul II in 2004. Guardian Angel's expansive grounds are enhanced with flowers and trees throughout.
For those who prefer an alternative to ground burial, Guardian Angel Cemetery offers one of the finest indoor, climate-controlled mausoleums that can be found anywhere. Angel of Peace Mausoleum balances a contemporary feel with a timeless architecture style. The building's interior creates a majestic sense of space, enhanced by rich marble finishes and a colossal bronze sculpture. Natural light streams through a skylight that runs continuously over the main corridor on the second level.
Other special sections at Guardian Angel include the Cremation and Mediation Garden, which includes the ability to select or customize a cremation memorial, and the Orthodox Section, which honors and traditions of those individuals and families of Orthodox faith, such as all graves facing east.
Guardian Angel Cemetery hosts numerous community events throughout the year. These include Memorial Day, Cinema in the Cemetery benefiting Raising Rochester, Christmas events, Wreaths Across America, a Children's Remembrance event, preplanning seminars and other educational programs.
We believe that offering these programs are important responsibilities and reflect our unwavering commitment to the families we serve… to honor the memory of your loved ones, to protect family heritage and to help you bring closure in a place that will be forever beautiful.
Contact us at (248) 601-2900 or email guardianangelinfo@mtelliott.com for more information.


Rob Shepherd and his entire team was fantastic throughout the loan process. The whole process was quick, organized, less stressful and closing went smoothly with no problems.
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Rob Shepherd was very easy to work with. He explained various options in a clear, straightforward manner. Closing was performed at our house which was very convenient for us.
Everyone was very helpful and went out of their way to help us.
Rob Shepherd was great to deal with. Rob and his team were in constant contact the entire time from pre-qualification to settlement.
I have been in the mortgage business for over 18 years. I got into the business, because I liked the dynamic atmosphere that the industry provided and it also allowed me to help people achieve something that, in many cases, they don't think they can achieve. Buying a home is one of the most important financial decisions anyone can make and I enjoy being able to help people navigate the process.
I graduated from Lynchburg College in Virginia with a bachelor's degree in Economics. I played varsity lacrosse for 4 years and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. My education and experience helps me to evaluate global and local economic trends and their impact on interest rates, so that I can advise my clients on when it is the best time to lock in their rate for their home purchase or refinance.
I currently live in Severna Park, MD with my wife Erin and our son Ashby. We also have a loving Bassett Hound, Hank. In my free time I like to travel, play golf, fish, coach lacrosse and football, and spend time with my family and friends.
I work with my clients to figure out what their payment and equity objectives are. I help them to figure out how much they want to put into the transaction and how much they want to spend each month. I can then turn those numbers into a sales price, pre-approve them, and refer them to a great realtor to find their new home. I also make sure that they are connected with the best professionals regarding insurance, legal, accounting, etc. to insure that they are making great financial decisions.
First time home buyers should talk with a mortgage professional first, so that they understand the costs associated with purchasing a home and the cost associated with paying for the home going forward. In most cases buying a home is less expensive than renting.
The mortgage industry has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. Most customers find all of the paperwork to be frustrating. I try to set their expectations upfront and gather as much documentation as possible in the beginning to make the rest of the process as smooth as possible.
Helping people purchase a new home or save money through a refinance on their current home is very rewarding. Helping someone achieve home ownership for the first time is probably the most rewarding though.
People that know me personally are very surprised at how much I actually know about the mortgage business. I don't talk about it all of the time with my friends, but when they allow me to help me with their mortgage, I usually get many other friends calling me. My outside of work personality is a lot more laid back than when I am helping someone purchase or refinance their home.


Will Sonic boom by challenging CarMax, used-car market giant?
General Motors new-vehicle sales have suffered little from the automaker's recent recalls of nearly 30 million cars, SUVs and trucks, according to industry analysts. But a study by iSeeCars.com suggests GM used vehicles are taking the hit, especially recalled models….