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The Walking Dead returns and advances towards the conclusion of the saga "All Out War". That means the end of the dispute between Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his archenemy Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), and maybe that's a good thing. In general, the big bet of the series in Negan has been a little false, with grades that reached minimum staggered last year, and Negan largely absent from the first half of the eighth season of the series.
But a climax that ends the season is an opportunity to put all the threads together. I will be analyzing the final episode of the season through his presentation of Negan: how he acts, how he presents his jokes and threats, and most importantly, how his character develops in contrast to our supposedly virtuous heroes. We'll see all the traits a villain is supposed to excel at, including those we detest, and we'll reduce it to a single grade in what we call the Negan-o-meter ™. A score of 10 means that he is the most complex villain we have ever seen in his life; a score of 0 means that it is more or less the same as Negan has always been. With luck, in these final episodes, The Walking Dead can turn Negan into the great evil that the public has always wanted.
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Finally, The Walking Dead has come to the conclusion of the Negan saga. In recent weeks, the program has shown a level of unpredictability that seemed impossible at the premiere of season 7. It was then that Glenn was killed and the program began to feel chained by the source material of his comic. Now, almost two seasons later, the deaths of cheap characters and sudden suspense have disappeared, as the most important constructions in the world, narrative closure and explorations of characters have occupied a central place. It is perhaps not surprising that the program's ratings have responded accordingly.
But the end of the previous season's season, "Wrath", is not based on that creative impulse. The episode may be, ultimately, a satisfying episode of television, but apart from a few curved balls, it makes things safe, and takes almost all its clues from the comic book story of writer Robert Kirkman. In that sense, the television program version of the Negan saga ends in the same way it began: resigning to mediocrity by focusing on telling someone else's story.
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Setting the stage for the battle
After the last minute surprise last week, in which Dwight's blackmail tactics came to light and Negan planned an ambush against Rick, it seemed that viewers could come to a radically different conclusion from the story of "All the war "than that of the comic delivered. But "Wrath" throws all of Dwight's secondary plot overboard in the first 15 minutes of the episode, squandering the immense emotional investment that the program has encouraged viewers to do in his character.
While Rick and the others felt they were going to be able to hit Negan, they quickly discovered that they were being armed when they pulled out a group of rescuers who simply carried a map of Negan's real location. Thinking that they have retained the advantage, they arm themselves and go out to shoot him down. But first, the program takes a breather with an emotional moment. Rick finally asks Siddiq to tell him how Carl got infected.
Meanwhile, the program cuts to the Saviors, where a conversation between Negan and Gabriel reveals that the map that Rick has just found is also false, a decoy lure just in case the original plan to use Dwight to spread the misinformation was not correct . He completely leaves Dwight aside for what seems to be a completely unnecessary (and complicated) reason, just when the program had the opportunity to do something unique and original. Instead, it pivots directly to comics.
The redemption of Eugene
Rick, Maggie, Daryl and almost all the high-level characters in the show walk into a giant field, thinking they are about to turn the tables on the Saviors when they suddenly hear Negan's voice on a loudspeaker. Thanks to Eugene's bullet-making operation, the Saviors are ready to erase each of them. Negan holds Gabriel hostage and announces his intentions, echoing the moment when Negan first introduced himself and beat Glenn to death.
But this time, things go a little differently. When the Saviors fire, each and every one of their weapons are counterproductive, throwing themselves out of their hands or seriously injuring every member of Negan's army. It is clear that the bullets fired are at fault, and in one fell swoop, Eugene has apparently come to the rescue of all. Rick and the others take the opportunity to charge. Gabriel and Dwight, who were dead men who walked a few minutes before, try to knock Negan down, but he escapes with Lucille and Rick behind.
After all the going and coming, the turn of events seems too easy, especially with the saviors hurt, but not dead, from the trick, letting Eugene claim the moral advantage. I suppose it's good that his role is worth a lot, unlike what happened to Dwight. But Eugene has become so unpleasant in the course of the story that it became irritating every time he appeared on the screen. It is about punishing the audience, all at the service of a cheap trick.
The fundamental choice of Rick
The final confrontation between Rick and Negan begins in a place we've seen before: the tree with strange glass arrangements hanging from its branches, which first appeared in a mysterious flash-forward at the premiere of season 8. Rick receives a shot, shattering a hole in the glass, but he simply misses Negan's head. Then, despite having a gun in operation, Rick enters a melee with Negan, and almost immediately disarms when Negan pushes him to the ground.
This is where Rick evokes Carl's words to try to reason with his nemesis. Rick asks 10 seconds before receiving a death blow from Lucille in the head, and uses that precious time to psychologically hit Negan, where he knows it hurts. He explains that Carl wanted to find a peaceful way forward and that things do not need to end in violence. Negan almost seems convinced, tears sprout in his eyes. But Rick, it turns out he has the upper hand – psychologically and physically. He cuts Negan's throat with a piece of broken glass from the floor.
The defeat of Rick de Negan is almost identical in the comics
While contemplating killing Negan, Rick turns to see that the rest of his forces come out victorious, and the saviors surrender. He has won, and struggles against the urge to celebrate with Negan's life, despite Maggie's strong protest, who shouts that they have to kill Negan to end the war. Rick refuses and tells the Saviors that any of them can join their community whenever they denounce Negan's worldview and subscribe to a philosophy of peace and equity. Rick then instructs his people to bandage Negan.
It should be noted that this is exactly what happens in comics, and although he probably would have been asking too much for the program to kill Negan or Rick, the end result is still painfully predictable. The theme of mercy and forgiveness has been the genuine emotional thread that the program has devoted to development this season, and it makes perfect sense to end up with Rick respecting Negan's life. But, at least, the writers of the program could have put their own stamp on it. Instead, the ending refers to Kirkman with an almost religious allegiance, and as a result, the episode feels rancid when it should be exciting.
Closing, but at a cost
The fourth final of "Wrath" configures the future by explaining the whereabouts of all the many characters in the series. Morgan, still an emotional disaster, is going on his own. (It will become a regular series on Fear the Walking Dead, which had its premiere of season 4 last night.) But before that, he makes a pit stop to see Jadis, who reveals to him that his real name is Anna. He informs her that she can join Hilltop if she so wishes, but it is not clear what plans the program has for her, or if the inexplicable amount of helicopters will influence the new season.
Dwight tries to make peace with Daryl by apologizing for killing Tara's mate, and for all the damage he has caused since then. Daryl lets Dwight live, but makes it clear that he has not forgiven the man. Dwight is effectively banished, but seeing Negan fall, his bow is clean. They showed him a new letter that his ex-wife Sherry wrote to him before he fled the Sanctuary, which opened the possibility of going to look for her.
It almost feels like a series finale, except for a last-minute turn
Negan, meanwhile, will spend the rest of his life in a jail cell. He will act as a witness to the greatness that everyone will achieve with him out of the picture, says Rick. And as Carl would have wanted, Rick will use the fact that they forgave Negan as an objective lesson, an example of the kind of civility and justice they are trying to re-establish.
It almost feels like a series finale, except for a last-minute turn. Inside the Hilltop mansion, Maggie plot with two others to secretly kill Negan to avenge Glenn, and possibly overthrow Rick if necessary. Then it is revealed that his co-conspirators are not other than Jesus and Daryl, which frankly does not make much sense. Jesus spent most of his time on the show trying to convince others that nonviolence is the answer, but the audience is now supposed to believe that personal loyalty to Maggie triumphs over that worldview.
The revelation is shocking, and certainly creates a complicated dynamic for incoming executive Angela Kang, but it also seems that The Walking Dead is just looking for motivations to give to its growing cast of characters, many of whom have survived their ability to grow and adapt to changing stories.
It could also be a way to prepare a reduced role or a quick exit for actress Lauren Cohen, who is now ready to star in the ABC dramatic drama pilot, Whiskey Cavalier. Cohen has also been involved in an ongoing contract dispute with AMC, and currently has no agreement to return to the ninth season of The Walking Dead, so there are many reasons why the program might have decided to release this thread from the history in particular. But dragging Daryl to him, especially after he seemed to respect Rick's new worldview, does not feel like winning. Theoretically it could lead to a complex representation of the more nuanced character, but given how underdeveloped it has been in recent seasons at the time, it simply appears when the writers of the program choose the most convenient characters to group in a shocking scene.
Evaluate the villain:
Cunning: Negan had the upper hand in "Cholera", there is no doubt about it. He was able to outsmart Rick and the others twice, lead them directly to an ambush, and was in a position to erase his enemies once and for all. What he could not explain, of course, was Eugene's betrayal. But Negan played an incredibly strong hand until then.
Perseverance: Negan never seems to give up, even when it is clear that the tides have turned against him, as was clear at the end of the previous night. Even when facing an imminent death, as he did when fleeing Rick, he always seems to be ready for a fight, especially if he has Lucille by his side.
Brutality: Negan's decision to eliminate Rick and Hilltop with a mass firing squad was probably one of the most vicious moves he has traced in his two seasons on the show. (The death of Glenn and Abraham and his favorite exercise of burning faces come out just ahead.) It did not go as planned, but that does not take away the fact that Negan is always willing to go beyond almost any of his enemies.
Negan Classification:
After the slow and steady evolution of Negan's character, and the significant time that the show put in to humanize him, it turns out that his big downfall was trusting other people to stay loyal. While it still felt like Negan was a puppet of his comic book history for too many of the past two seasons, it felt quite appropriate that his ego was what finally made him enter, even when it was clear that there were many people in it. . his own ranks that wanted him dead. Negan did not even contemplate what it might mean to lose, falling in line with his huge saving complex.
Negan still feels like a missed opportunity
But it still seems that Negan was a missed opportunity. The comic version of the character was a true enigma, someone as sociopathic as capable, empathetic and pleasant. On the other hand, Negan, actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, almost always felt disconnected. He was on the verge of achieving the combination of qualities in flashes of his counterpart, but never had enough opportunity to truly become a great admirer of himself. Now, presumably it will become one of the pillars of the cast of the series, and the effectiveness with which it can be integrated into the plot lines to advance will determine how relevant it will be.
Maybe The Walking Dead would have been better if the whole series had ended up with Negan in a hospital bed, resigned to living his days in prison, and knowing that his way of life wavered before the future Carl wanted. That would have been a much more appropriate ending for the most nefarious villain of the series, whose biggest victim seems to be actually the show itself. Instead, The Walking Dead will continue to shuffle along with its diminished ratings. Undoubtedly there will be a shortage of conflicts next season, and the show will do what it does best: make new villains from nothing when the series comes to light in its endless series of recycled stories.
But ending Negan's defeat could have sent a message that there is hope in this world and that Carl's vision was something that should not only be aspired and hoped for, but could actually be created by people with sufficient will. Instead, The Walking Dead will continue to be a zombie in itself, advancing slowly as long as the ratings allow it, without death, but without many purposes, either.
Negan-o-meter ™ in general: 6 out of 10


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Allen Frances MD is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and former Chair at Duke University
My Summary of a Great Conference: 'Preventing Overdiagnosis' 2015
09/08/2015 10:10 am ET Updated Sep 08, 2016
Two years ago, I wrote that the first "Preventing Overdiagnosis" conference was easily the most important meeting I had ever attended.
Last week's third "Preventing Overdiagnosis" conference, held at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. was even better. The conference was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute in collaboration with Oxford University, the British Medical Journal, Consumer Reports, and Bond and Dartmouth Universities. Hundreds of presentations covered the causes, consequences, and cures of overdiagnosis from every conceivable angle and laid out an agenda for future action. The international audience of 350 was as bright a group as I have ever encountered in almost 50 years of attending medical meetings.
The topic is the highest priority public heath problem we face in the U.S. and increasingly around the world. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. -- and are often occasioned by excessive testing and treatment delivered in an uncoordinated way by doctors who know lab tests, but don't know their patients.
Clearly, too much medicine can be very bad for your health. And it is also a disaster for the health of our economy. The U.S. spends $3 trillion a year on heath care -- more than the GDP's of all but four countries in the world. Because one-third of this enormous investment is sheer waste, it is no surprise that we get lousy outcomes compared to countries that spend much less, but spend much more wisely.
The biggest culprit in overtreatment is over testing. We have developed sophisticated technology that discovers incidental "diseases" that would have little or no impact on our lives and then treats them with disproportionately blunderbuss interventions that often cause more harm than good. Rates of breast, prostate, and thyroid cancer increased dramatically not because people are sicker, but because disease definition has been broadened to inflate diagnosis. Much of what is now called "cancer" is not really cancer at all, or so slow growing that it is not really health or life threatening.
Aggressive treatments that are delivered for non-aggressive "diseases" cause more problems than they solve. Our current excess of therapeutic zeal follows a long historical tradition of well intended, but overly exuberant, doctors harming their patients with really terrible treatments. Not so long ago, doctors routinely bled their patients, gave them emetics and cathartics, and poisoned them with heavy metals. Future observers of our current practice will find some of what we are doing now equally wrong headed and harmful.
Diagnostic inflation has also resulted in overtreatment of diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, attention deficit disorder, most problems that lead to orthopedic surgery, and lots more of what constitutes everyday medical practice.
Overtreatment is driven by many powerful and interacting forces and will be difficult to tame.
Most destructive has been the commercialization of medicine as a big business -- healing art transformed into profitable cash cow. Perverse financial incentives encourage disease mongering, false advertising, over testing, quick diagnosis, and unnecessarily aggressive treatment.
Often the best medical decision is to cautiously watch and wait, but this is discouraged by reimbursement mechanisms that favor quickly jumping in with potentially harmful, very expensive, and often unnecessary treatments. The powerful medical-industrial complex will exert all its considerable financial and political might to protect its profits, even if this means compromising patient welfare and eating up the economy. The obvious solution here is to substitute capitation for crazy fee-for-service incentives that reward the health system for doing more.
Too much medicine has also been driven by a medical research enterprise that systematically rewards scientists, journals, and the media for hyping often-false positive findings. Negative findings that would encourage the public to have a healthy skepticism about exaggerated claims are buried.
The result: patients accept, and even clamor for, testing and treatment that is more likely to harm than help. People fear the risks of illness too much and fear risks of treatment far too little. A great deal of conference time was thus productively devoted to the communication tools necessary to help right this imbalance. Patients must become informed consumers to balance the benefits of treatment with its risks and protect themselves from a system pushing them to always want more than may be good for them.
Regulators of medical excess no longer regulate. Seven years ago, the Food and Drug Administration, approved only one third of drug applications. This year, it has approved 96 percent. And drug companies are increasingly winning the right to mislead both the public and physicians, with false advertising and pushing off-label prescription.
Quality Assurance programs also play an unwitting role. Historically, QA has focused on identifying the things that should have been done during the course of treatment, but were left out. As a result, nine tenths of QA measures tap errors of omission, only one-tenth errors of commission. Unless this imbalance is redressed, QA will continue to drive doctors to do too much, even in situations where less would be more.
Unless applied cautiously, 'Personalized' or 'Precision' medicine may make things worse, becoming the next slick advertising gimmick to justify the use of treatments that have failed to prove their effectiveness in large groups. A more precise medicine would offer much less, not more, treatment.
The battle to tame medical excess is classic David vs. Goliath. But, fortunately, David has some potentially effective pebbles and might sometimes does come from being in the right. Thirty years ago, Big Tobacco seemed as impregnable as the medical-industrial complex, but it was toppled by its obvious outrageousness, dedicated opposition, public and media awakening, and lawsuits. The same combination, along with the inevitable need for cost containment, will eventually tame the medical beast- the question is how long will this take and how much harm will be done to patients and the economy before we get back to patient-driven, rather than profit driven medicine.
The conference wasn't perfect. There was a preaching to the choir feeling. Future conferences should invite debate with leaders from the forces promoting overtreatment -- e.g., the insurance industry, Pharma, hospital associations, physician specialty groups, and consumer advocacy. Government and employers wind up footing the lion's share of medical costs and need to hear how much of their expenditure is not only wasteful financially, but also bad for the people they are trying to help.
The conference was attended by about a dozen science writers interested in the topic, but it did not itself become the big media story it can and should be. More intense public relations could lead to numerous stories alerting the public about which specific tests and treatments are most overdone and most risky.
And there could have been more discussion about how best to unite the various groups fighting against medical excess and hype. 'Choosing Wisely'; the Lown Foundation's 'RightCare' initiatitive; the HeathNews Review; the British Medical Journal; Consumer's Reports; and the many researchers and educators engaged in the field are all individually wonderful, but might collectively be more effective if their efforts were better coordinated.
Bottom line: Medical marvels are oversold and overbought. Doctors need to be more humble and safety-conscious. We can't overstep our knowlege base without putting our patients at risk. Patients and doctors need to accept the uncertainty and limits of medicine. False certainty leads to terrible decisions.
We must not ignore the most important ethic in medicine laid out 2500 years ago by Hippocrates: First Do No Harm.
Allen Frances is a professor emeritus at Duke University and was the chairman of the DSM-IV task force.
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Francisca Feekes (Batavia, 28 juni 1936 − Groningen, 31 december 2016) was een Nederlands biologe en publiciste.

Biografie
Feekes was een dochter van bioloog dr. Franciscus Henri Feekes (1901-1994) en Christina Elisabeth Carrière (1903-1991). Ze werd geboren in Nederlands-Indië en bracht de oorlogsjaren in jappenkampen door. Ze studeerde, na het behalen van het Gymnasium B-diploma te Baarn, cum laude af in de biologie aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; in 1971 promoveerde zij daar op "Irrelevant" ground pecking in agonistic situations in Burmese Red Junglefowl. Vervolgens deed ze onderzoek in Suriname in opdracht van de Stichting voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek in de Tropen. Daarna was ze verbonden aan Diergaarde Blijdorp en het Noorder Dierenpark waar zij onder andere meewerkte aan exposities. Later gaf ze les aan de Volkuniversiteit Groningen en begeleidde als biologe georganiseerde reizen.

In 2012 publiceerde Feekes haar herinneringen aan haar Indische jeugd, haar kampjaren en de tijden van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheidsstrijd, die ook als luisterboek werden uitgebracht.

Dr. F. Feekes overleed op de laatste dag van 2016 op 80-jarige leeftijd.

Bibliografie
"Irrelevant" ground pecking in agonistic situations in Burmese Red Junglefowl (gallus gallus spadiceus). [Z.p.], 1971 (proefschrift).
Banabikies en ponpons. Verslag van een onderzoek naar de sociale organisatie en het gedrag van enkele soorten "wevervogels" in Suriname. [Z.p.], 1975.
[Bewerking] Maasai. Emmen, 1982 (Uitgave ter gelegenheid vand de gelijknamige tentoonstelling, Museum van Volkenkunde in het Noorder Dierenpark, geopend 20 februari 1982).
Song mimesis within colonies of Cacicus c. cela (Icteridae, Aves). A colonial password?. Berlin, 1982.
De evolutie betrapt... De cichliden uit het Tangajikameer. Emmen, 1984.
Het ruisen van de tjemara's. [Groningen], 2012.

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Kala Bagh Dam issue could only be solved through national consensus: Nawaz Sharif
Mardan: PMLN chief Mian Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that Kala Bagh Dam issue could only be resolved if national consensus is developed on it, otherwise it would be very difficult to undertake this project.
"A complete agreement among the nation is needed to go ahead with Kala Bagh Dam project," he said addressing a press conference here.
Commenting on the situation prevailing in the country, Nawaz Sharif claimed he had left a strong Pakistan when he went in exile but now it is on the path of destruction. "Pakistan was far ahead of India as far as development is concerned but now the situation is reverse," he added.
Referring to two tenures of his government, PMLN chief said, "We were allowed to be in power only for two years each time. Had we ruled for a full tenure of five years, we would have changed the destiny of country.
"Motorway was not part of our manifesto but when we came into power, we undertook that project of prime importance. We would have connected Tashkent to Karachi and run a train that would have operated in eight hours from Peshawar to Karachi," he claimed.
"My government provided huge job opportunities to the people, established industries, the country had very strong economy, there was no load shedding of electricity, no shortage of gas and the prices of essential commodities were under control. In today's Pakistan the prices are skyrocketing, the electricity is unavailable and there are long queues of vehicles for gas at the CNG stations," he said.
Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan was far from achieving its destination even after 65 years. "It is ranked 7th as among corrupt countries of the world and the people from around the world avoid coming here. Their countries are issuing travel advisories when they intend to visit Pakistan while others who are here are leaving for home.
Praying Allah's mercy for the country, PMLN chief said the situation is deteriorating day by day. "Mass killings could be seen in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, FATA, Balochistan, Karachi and other parts of country. There was no bloodshed during my tenure.
Showing his concern on Balochistan situation, Nawaz Sharif said the rulers assassinated Nawab Akbar Bugti who had voted in favour of Pakistan. "Akhtar Mengal was the best Chief Minister of Balochistan but they were also pushed back.
"All this should now come to an end. There should be no bloodshed. Peace must be restored everywhere," Nawaz Sharif urged.
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I like to do content-based lessons because I think the students enjoy it. It's language that is meaningful to them. They like knowing that they can talk about something that's real in the classroom.
Stephanie Appel is a traveling teacher in New Jersey's Fair Lawn School District. She teaches grades 1-4 French at several elementary schools each year, including Radburn Elementary. The Radburn community is made up primarily of professionals, with a number of foreign-born families, mostly from Russia and Israel. Many students hear a language other than English at home, so they are familiar with different language structures. Radburn Elementary offers on alternating years either French or Spanish to first-graders. The school's 400 students continue with the same language they started in first grade, all the way through fifth grade.
Fair Lawn School District's elementary foreign language teachers -- all of whom are traveling teachers -- designed the district's elementary curriculum to address the needs of novice learners. The curriculum uses the Standards and the New Jersey World Languages Curriculum Framework as guidelines (see Resources), particularly the Framework's cumulative progress indicators, which mandate what students should know and be able to do at specific benchmark grades. The team meets weekly to share activity ideas and make sure they are providing a comparable experience for all elementary school students in the district.
to recycle previously taught materials in the new unit.
In the videotaped lesson, students practiced vocabulary for the continents and oceans. In addition to knowing this vocabulary from a previous French lesson, the students were familiar with the geography content from their general classroom curriculum. To reinforce learning, Ms. Appel tries to introduce topics at the same time that they are being covered in the regular classroom, although sometimes she teaches topics before or after they occur in the general curriculum. She often requests copies of materials used in the classroom that she can translate into French at a simplified level. Students are excited to recognize information that they already know, and enjoy putting it into another language. But even if the information is brand new, says Ms. Appel, "there's an equal excitement about it because they don't know so much, and there's a curiosity." Classroom teachers also benefit when a topic is introduced in French class because once students know the content, less regular class time has to be devoted to it.


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ABOUT ALEXANDRA
Born and raised in San Diego, CA, Alexandra now resides in New York City. She's a recent Summa Cum Laude graduate from Texas Christian University (2021) with her BFA in Theatre emphasis in Musical Theatre.
Small but mighty, Alexandra is your sincere and bubbly comedic girl next door, your typical "dumb blonde" who's much smarter than she'll ever lead on, and that mysterious new girl at school with a secret she'll never tell, all in one
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SENIOR SHOWCASE
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Alexandra recently appeared as a lead in Bernice directed by Michael Bennett. This will be premiering at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. She also recently finished filming In Loving Memory with director Brandan McLeod and Begin Again with director Lauren Truong. Additionally, Alexandra just finished performances of Children of Eden with TCU as Lead Storyteller. Contact Alexandra for reel footage!
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import logging.handlers
import os
from oslo_config import cfg

from paste import deploy

from qonos.openstack.common._i18n import _

paste_deploy_opts = [
    cfg.StrOpt('flavor'),
    cfg.StrOpt('config_file'),
]

common_opts = [
    cfg.StrOpt('db_api', default='qonos.db.simple.api',
               help=_('Python module path of database access API')),
    cfg.IntOpt('limit_param_default', default=100,
               help=_('Default value for the number of items returned by a '
                      'request if not specified explicitly in the request')),
    cfg.IntOpt('api_limit_max', default=1000,
               help=_('Maximum permissible number of items that could be '
                      'returned by a request')),
]

CONF = cfg.CONF

CONF.register_opts(paste_deploy_opts, group='paste_deploy')
CONF.register_opts(common_opts)

def parse_args(args=None, usage=None, default_config_files=None):
    return CONF(args=args,
                project='qonos',
                usage=usage,
                default_config_files=default_config_files)

def _get_deployment_flavor():
    """
    Retrieve the paste_deploy.flavor config item, formatted appropriately
    for appending to the application name.
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    flavor = CONF.paste_deploy.flavor
    return '' if not flavor else ('-' + flavor)

def _get_paste_config_path():
    paste_suffix = '-paste.ini'
    conf_suffix = '.conf'
    if CONF.config_file:
        # Assume paste config is in a paste.ini file corresponding
        # to the last config file
        path = CONF.config_file[-1].replace(conf_suffix, paste_suffix)
    else:
        path = CONF.prog + '-paste.ini'
    return CONF.find_file(os.path.basename(path))

def _get_deployment_config_file():
    """
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                version=version.deferred_version_string(prefix="%prog "),
                usage=usage,
                default_config_files=default_config_files)
    """
    path = CONF.paste_deploy.config_file
    if not path:
        path = _get_paste_config_path()
    if not path:
        msg = "Unable to locate paste config file for %s." % CONF.prog
        raise RuntimeError(msg)
    return os.path.abspath(path)

def load_paste_app(app_name=None):
    """
    Builds and returns a WSGI app from a paste config file.

    We assume the last config file specified in the supplied ConfigOpts
    object is the paste config file.

    :param app_name: name of the application to load

    :raises RuntimeError when config file cannot be located or application
            cannot be loaded from config file
    """
    if app_name is None:
        app_name = CONF.prog

    # append the deployment flavor to the application name,
    # in order to identify the appropriate paste pipeline
    app_name += _get_deployment_flavor()

    conf_file = _get_deployment_config_file()

    try:
        logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
        logger.debug(_("Loading %(app_name)s from %(conf_file)s"),
                     {'conf_file': conf_file, 'app_name': app_name})

        app = deploy.loadapp("config:%s" % conf_file, name=app_name)

        # Log the options used when starting if we're in debug mode...
        if CONF.debug:
            CONF.log_opt_values(logger, logging.DEBUG)

        return app
    except (LookupError, ImportError), e:
        raise RuntimeError("Unable to load %(app_name)s from "
                           "configuration file %(conf_file)s."
                           "\nGot: %(e)r" % locals())

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This is the final teaching in the series by Ray Vander Laan. After this I will get back on the topic of how best to bring change to the Church with regards to its Hebraic heritage. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my son-in-law John for helping me bring a new look and layout to this blog. I will endeavor to bring additional enhancements as time allows. By the way, I welcome your comments. Please click on comments at the bottom and tell me what you think about the blog or these posts.
These and other sessions are available on DVD and accompanying teaching guides at Zondervan.com and Focus on the Family. The titles are Let My People Go; Heard Their Cry; Fire on the Mountain; With All Your Heart.
In Egypt, God turned good water bad; in the desert, He turned bad water good.
In Egypt, God rained hail and destroyed grain; in the desert, he rained bread.
In Egypt, locusts covered the land and ate the food; in the desert, quails covered the land as food.
In Egypt, Moses' staff hit the water and made it undrinkable; in the desert, Moses' staff struck the rock so that drinkable water came gushing out.
After 3 days they came to a place where the water was bitter, so it was called Mara. But Mara means more than bitter; it also means defiantly disobedient. Think of Naomi in the book of Ruth. Her troubled life caused her to give herself the moniker Mara. She left Bethlehem because of a famine. She did not go to Egypt because God had said do not go there again. Ray mentioned the oddity that Jesus went there. He said, as he did on several occasions, that maybe he'd cover that next year (Ray is scheduled to repeat this series next spring at Central). Anyway, 3 days later, the crowd lost heart and courage. Even Elijah, after having a magnificent victory atop Mount Carmel, ran for his life from Jezebel 2 days later. Ray has taken thousands of people on trips to the Holy Land and he's seen plenty of complaining after they've been in the desert for just a few hours.
This is why the rabbis developed the habit of reading from the Torah every 3 days in the synagogue (Monday and Thursday).
After turning the bitter water good by throwing a tree into it, the people then complained about food. God provided manna and quail, but they continued to complain. Ray pointed out that they still had their flocks, so they were not completely without food - but what they craved was the food of Egypt. There, within sight of Sinai at Rephidim, the people were asking, is God among us or not?
Testing God is a way of saying, "If you do such and such for me, I'll do such and such for you." This is a dangerous thing to do with God. We often point to Gideon's fleece test as justification, but Ray felt that it was not a good thing; that God loved Gideon in spite of the test.
How do we test God? Before his heart operation, Ray prayed that God would bless his health even though he ate fast food all the time. I've thought the same thing. God has given us many wise commands for eating, yet we (Gentile Christians) have come up with the craziest circumlocutions that enable us (in our minds) to ignore those words of wisdom and eat whatever we want. And then we pray for healing when the body doesn't get the benefit of good nutrition.
In Exodus 17: 5-7, Moses leaves the assembly of people at Rephidim and takes a few elders to the foot of Mount Sinai. At God's command, Moses strikes the base of the mountain with his rod and water comes gushing out. It then flows as a temporary river to where the people are. The Hebrew word for the rock that he hit is Tzur. It is as if God is saying hit me instead of the people. While at Rephidim, Israel was attacked by the Amalekites. As I mentioned in my Purim post several weeks ago, God had a particularly strong hatred for the conduct of the Amalekites. Ray said that they were cruel, barbaric slave traders. It's as if God is saying, "so, you want to go back to Egypt where you were slaves - well, that can be arranged..." The Amalekites took advantage of the defenseless position of the tribes. The 12 tribes of Israel traveled in a certain order within the large assembly. The tribe of Dan was in the rear, so the defense of that perimeter fell to them; but they failed in their duty. The weak, poor, and needy were picked off first. Dan would continue this failure throughout Israel's history. Their dereliction of duty resulted in them being left out of the list of tribes in the book of Revelation.
Back at Rephidim, Joshua chose men who would fight for their families and nation and organized a defense. This is the famous story where Moses stands on a hill and raises his staff. As long as it is raised, the battle goes in their favor. When he grows tired other men help him hold it up. The Lord heard their cry of ze'ekah and delivered them yet again.
2. Esther was born for "such a time as this". She also was from the tribe of Benjamin, and confronts the remnant of Agag's seed: Haman.
Exodus 19:6 "And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These [are] the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
1. put God on display. He made God known to those who are were in chaos.
3. ministered to people's needs. Many of the needs around us could be met by the church. Notwithstanding Jesus' comment that the poor will always be around us, there are many opportunities for ministry.
4. was set apart for God. Holy/Kodesh. A people following idolatry give a distorted picture of the Biblical God. Holiness is everything.
The Jews may have at times gone too far in observing this separation from unclean things, but their reasoning for strict observance was good. It is likely that we are on the other extreme. In the present age, individual believers are the Kingdom of Priests; and Jesus is our High Priest.


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A couple of weeks ago, a LitHub article discussed the pros and cons of "Why It's Ok to Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle Fiction." The article specifically focused on Sadia Shepard's recently published short story "Foreign-Returned," which plucks clear elements from Mavis Gallant's 1963 short story "The Ice Wagon Going down the Street." In an interview, Shepard said she owed a "great debt" to Gallant's story, and that while Gallant's story is about a family formerly from Geneva currently living in Canada who face financial struggles, she thought it felt "so Pakistani." This was a clear inspiration for Shepard's retelling of Gallant's story.
"Inspiration" is describing it loosely. As author Francine Prose pointed out on Facebook, several character attributes, plot points, and in a few cases, actual quotes in "Foreign-Returned", are seemingly directly lifted from "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street," though nestled in a new modern era and an altered cultural context. Other people have chimed in to the debate, with different sides claiming Shephard is in the right or wrong for reimagining Gallant's work this way. The crux of the problem seems to be determining whether Shepard, who has openly admitted to being inspired by Gallant's story, has plagiarized her work or not.
Here's something to consider: no fiction exists in a vacuum. Nothing you or anyone else will ever write is wholly untouched by another's work or thoughts. We've grown up surrounded by others and their own creativity, and occasionally we create things that share minor resemblances to an aspect of someone else's work. That's okay.
This is not to say Shepard has written something that "minorly" resembles another's work. "Foreign-Returned" very blatantly mimics "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street" in many cases. However, Shepard has been upfront about drawing from Gallant's story. While the basis of the two stories is the same, the major difference in Shepard's work is that her protagonist is a man named Hassan from Karachi, Pakistan, who, among other things, deals with his and his wife's desire to climb the social ladder; traditional and religious versus contemporary values; and anti-Muslim sentiment his co-worker experiences. While the similar events appear in Gallant's version of the story, the reader's understanding of these scenes is different.
Cultural identity is a large part of Shepard's story, and we can only say these two works are identical if we strip Shephard's characters of that. Similar words and situations take on new meanings and results depending on the context for them. Plagiarism does exist, and it is a real worry when one work closely resembles another. However, while we can say Shephard possibly should have included an "inspired by" credit near the top of her story, she's been open about Gallant's influence on her work. Once you've changed the cultural context for a work like this—making the 2016 election the backdrop of events and creating a protagonist who lives in the U.S. on a work visa, dealing with identity and racism on top of daily struggles for a life in a new tax bracket—the moral and theme of the story becomes inherently changed.


i love the relationship they are developing with each other. togetherness is something to strive towards and maintain. what a blessing!
Heather, this is awesome. Remember a few years back when you were just yearning for that baby #2? Isn't God so good? I'm grateful.


intense in a loving kinda way.
defined as what family do.
Count. from The Weddington Adventures. on Vimeo.
Reggies...$5.00 from the local thrift spot.
someone needs 2 upgrade for sure.
So what's in store for next year?
my mind from time 2 time.
but never the city outta the man.
"wherever you go there you are"
Rockcity.** from The Weddington Adventures. on Vimeo.
& remaining loyal 2 those Bulls.
2 meet some of the most interesting people.
Mynd. from The Weddington Adventures. on Vimeo.
of higher learning ever could.
we do take these things 2 heart..
Anyhow... what's on your Mynd?
Had a thought & felt the need 2 bring up the old with the new.
made themselves something much bigger than just a local act.
Living only 30 minutes from Gary, I can recall driving through just 2 see the old house they once lived in.
Big Boy, released on Steeltown Records was a pretty decent indication what was to come.
it being such a rare find.
Play/Record button locked & loaded.
After the Jackson 5 were recommended to Gordy by another Motown act - Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers - they were signed to the label in 1969 and left the midwest for the glitz of Hollywood to be pampered and polished as a coming major act.
on the charts & sold over a million copies.
J5. from The Weddington Adventures. on Vimeo.
& do some long awaiting storytelling.
One thing for sure, I'm no fan of the cold.
So who's down for some video?
In this dire time where human rights are jeopardized & lives seem not 2 matter, I find it appropriate 2 reintroduce a period where people actually fought for what they believed in. The Black Panther Party's bold approach to gun rights & police brutality has absolute relevance 50 years later! Have things actually chanced since then? Depends on who you ask.
-Denzil Dowell is shot and killed by sheriff's deputies on April 1. Black Panthers respond in protecting the Dowell family.
-First newspaper is published on April 25 with headlines "Why was Dennzil Dowell Killed?"
- 30 armed Black Panther Activist go to California State Capitol, on May 2 to protest the Mulford Act which was a bill banning the display of loaded weapons.
Pantha. from The Weddington Adventures. on Vimeo.
- On February 8, Black Panther activists in south carolina at South Carolina State were shot by local police and National Guard 33 were shot, 3 were killed.
- On February 17, "Free Huey" rally was held at the Oakland Auditorium on his birthday. Over 5,000 people attended.
- In April New York Black Panther Party chapter is organized.
-On May 6, Bobby Hutton is killed during a shoot out with the police.
-In March Arthur Morris, was shot and killed by the U.S. government. He was the first member of the Black Panther Party to be killed.
- 6,000 protestors came out and supported Huey Newton on the steps of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland.
- On December 21, Denver police raid Panther office searching for weapons, but none is found. Officers burn food and clothing were to be given to poor during the holidays.
-In January the Free Breakfast for Children Program (FBCP) is established at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland.
-On March 19, Panthers Bobby Seale and Masai Hewitt visted the Scandinavian countries. Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
- On May 4, the "Free Huey" rallies were being held in 20 major cities at U.S. federal district courts.
-Bobby Seale is kidnapped after leaving the Masai Hewitt and Shirley Neely wedding.
-In Chicago BPP open a free medical health clinic. Another one of the major survival program on September 4.
From my experience in this life history has the tendency 2 repeat itself while learning from previous mistakes & making necessary adjustments. So where do we go from here?


"It's simple for us and it's simple for clients" cried Željko Prša, our frontend developer over a year ago in our first Ask a developer episode. Our clients know that we use Basecamp as our collaboration tools because of its simplicity and the fact that clients get familiar with it in a short time. However, we really miss some of the simple features that would improve usability a lot.
When the project is created and there are few introduction message, it all looks fine. However, even on medium sizes ones where there are few people from clients side and few team members on yours, you end up having many open topics quite quickly. You can see the latest activity on your Overview screen, but that one can also get populated in a day or two. Such communication on many different topics makes Basecamp difficult to use as finding a topic where something was discussed can be quite hard. Simple feature to sort the message by latest added comment would be invaluable. It is common feature in every forum and similar app and it would surely be nice to see it here.
Those damn topic topic list can get crowded in no time. Some topics just stand there because client opened it to ask a question. Soon enough you realize that most of them stand in the way of important ones. I would really welcome the possibility to Archive a topic in a similar fashion you can Archive a Google email. You remove it from the main list and you an still access it from some "Archived topics" link later.
This is a feature I would also steal from Google Mail. All the topics in Basecamp look the same and staring some would make few of choice easily spottable. Each user should be able to star the topics of preference.
Basecamp is a great tool that works like charm on a smaller projects. On a larger ones it requires a lot of discipline both from yours and clients side in order to avoid chaos and mess. With this in mind, project manager should carefully set the milestones, todo lists and todos in order to pull the maximum from Basecamp. All the people involved in communication should spend 2-3 extra seconds to think where some question, query, idea or statement should be written before opening new topic in Messages tab.
What communication tool do you use? If Basecamp, do you have some suggestions for improvements?
I hope the 37signals team will read this and contribute to the discussion.
We have used basecamp earlier for projct management but after we started facing some of the similar glitches, we decided to switch to another tool. Now we are using Proofhub for our projects since the past few months. Its a really good tool, which covers nearly all the important features we have been looking for ever since we felt the need for a project management tool. Also, we were able to import all our projects from basecamp to proofhub quite easily. So far using proofhub has been a great experience and it has made things much easier.
We develop Apollo, http://www.apollohq.com Apollo does project management _and_ CRM handling cases&deals, timers, a powerful calendar, etc.
3) Nope, but it would be a good feature. I'll create a ticket!
Does anyone know about Asana or Podio? These are 2 new tools I've heard about that I'm curious to learn more of.
Thank you for admitting you are working for them. In my opinion, LiquidPlanner is good. It lacks the simplicity of Basecamp, but I agree it is better for larger projects.
These are some of the same issues I have with Basecamp. Once the project grows, the messages become unwieldy and hard to keep organized. One of the (many) things I love about LiquidPlanner is that it makes it very easy and simple to keep messages organized by task, project subfolder or main project folder. So, you'll always be able to find the message you're looking for because it will be organized properly.
Thanks for the note. But you should know they are a readers of our blog. We were featured on their blog 2 times. First time for Basecamp and the second for Highrise.
We also started out with Basecamp, but five months ago we switch to ActiveCollab (http://www.activecollab.com/) extended with planning and report modules (http://www.appsmagnet.com/activecollab-main/) to manage our (Magento) projects. Part of the reason to switch were the points you mention in your post.


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Crysis 2 Release Date set for March 2011.
Aug 14, 2010 17:16 EDT
EA has officially announced a new release date for Crysis 2 which was earlier set for release in Holiday's this year but has now been pushed to March 2011. The Date is 22 March 2011 for North America Release will European regions will get it 2 days later on 25th March.
The delay maybe due to polishing work and tweaking being done on the game which if so will be a great thing. The first Crysis was truly a God when we talk about visuals and detailing and we can expect the same from its Sequel. The game will be set in New York City in 2023 following an Alien Invasion.
There's also a chance of multiplayer mode to be introduced in the game as seen in this new screenshot:
The new game is coming out on the consoles which include Xbox 360, PS3 along with the PC. You can check out the trailer and gameplay video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwsRdwuZ6P0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQmNFM9gbY
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මම කලින් දාපු පෝස්ට් වල තියන SQL ස්ටේට්මන්ට් රන් කරලා පුරුදු වෙලා බලන්න විදිහක් මට පෝස්ට් කරන්න බැරි වුනා. ඇත්තටම සරල SQL ස්ටේට්මන්ට්ස් හැම එකක්ම වගේ ඕනම ඩේටාබේස් මැනෙජ්මන්ට් සිස්ටම් එකක රන් කරලා බලන්න පුලුවන් (Oracle DB, SQL Server, Access, MySQL). එත් මම පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ SQL Server ඉතින් මම හිතුවා SQL Server ඉගෙන ගන්න කැමති අයට ඒකට අවශ්‍ය දේවල් ඩව්න්ලෝඩ් කරගන්න තැන් පෝස්ට් කරන්න.
ඉහත දීලා තියන ලින්ක් එකෙන් ගිහින් ENU\x64\SQLEXPRWT_x64_ENU.exe හරි ENU\x86\SQLEXPRWT_x86_ENU.exe ඩව්න්ලෝඩ් කරගෙන ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කරගන්න. ඇත්තටම ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කරන එක එච්චර අමාරු නෑ. ඒවගේමයි මේ එඩිෂන් එක ඉගෙන ගන්න අයටම වෙන් කරපු එකක් ඒක හන්දා ලයිසන් ප්‍රශ්නයකුත් නෑ. තමුන්ගේ මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියට ගැලපෙන විදිහට 64බිට් හරි 32 බිට් හරි ඩව්න්ලෝඩ් කරගෙන ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කරගන්න. මේකේ ඇත්තටම වැදගත්ම දේ SQL Server Management Studio Express එක SSMS එකෙන් ලේසියෙන්ම අවශ්‍ය Queries ලියන්න පුලුවන්.
ඊට පස්සේ SQL Server ඉගෙන ගන්නවානම් ගොඩක් වැදගත් වන දෙයක් තමා සාම්පල් ඩේටාබේස් එක. ඇත්තටම AdventureWorks කියලා ගොඩක් ප්‍රසිද්ද සාම්පල් ඩේටාබේස් එකක් තියනවා. ඒක හැමෝම පාවිච්චි කරනවා. ඉතින් ඒකත් ඩව්න්ලෝඩ් කරගෙන SQL Server එකට ඇටැජ් කරගත්ත නම් SQL Server ඉගෙන ගන්න ගොඩක් ලේසි.
In SQL Server we use varchar, varbinary to save disk space in our tables. But its not saving data always as it sounds. When the data stores it takes few extra bytes to describe the data length. Because of that there is no gain using varchar(2). If you use varchar(2) it will take 4 or 3 bytes to store data. varchar(8000) or below should have 2Byte offset to store the variability of character count. If you are using varchar(max) is different. It should have 4 Bytes offset. But I'm still looking for that to confirm it takes 4 Bytes. And it is stored in Variable Column Offset Array.


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Q: Control argument names in reactivePlot in R Shiny Drawing from the question select a variable from drop-down and pass it as an argument in reactivePlot in R Shiny
and @Jdbaba answer, I was wondering if it was possible to control the name of variables we want to display.
In @Jdbaba example, he uses
dataset <- diamonds
...
selectInput('x','X',names(dataset))

I would like to know if I could pass my own variable names
like this for example
newnames = paste('abc', 1:10)
....
selectInput('x','X', list( newnames = names(dataset)) )

Any thoughts ?
server.R
library(shiny)
library(ggplot2)

newnames = paste('abc', 1:10)

## Define UI for miles per gallon application

dataset <- diamonds

title <- "Diamonds
data Analysis"

## Define UI for application that plots random distributions

shinyUI(pageWithSidebar(

  headerPanel(title),

  sidebarPanel (

sliderInput('sampleSize','Sample Size', min=1, max=nrow(dataset),
            value=min(1000,nrow(dataset)),
            step=500,
            round=0),
#################
# Question here
#################
selectInput('x','X', list( newnames = names(dataset)) ),
selectInput('y','Y', names(dataset), names(dataset)[[2]]),

selectInput('color','Color',c('None',names(dataset))),

selectInput('shape','Shape',c('None',names(dataset))),

checkboxInput('jitter','Jitter'),
checkboxInput('smooth','Smooth'),

selectInput('facet_col','Facet Column',
            c(None='.',names(dataset))),

selectInput('facet_row','Facet Row',
            c(None='.',names(dataset)))

  ),

  ## Show a plot of the generated distribution

  mainPanel(plotOutput('plot',height="700px"))

  )
)

ui.R
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dataset <- reactive(function(){
  diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds),input$sampleSize),]
})

  output$plot <- renderPlot(function(){

p <- ggplot(dataset(),aes_string(x=input$x, y=input$y))+geom_point()

if(input$color != 'None')
  p <- p + aes_string(color=input$color)

if (input$shape != 'None')
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facets <- paste(input$facet_row, '~', input$facet_col)

if (facets != '. ~ .')
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if (input$jitter)
  p <- p + geom_jitter()

if (input$smooth)
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print(p)

  })

})

A: You can pass a named list to selectInput, the names rather than the values will then be displayed (see ?selectInput)
In your case you could do, to create the named list:
newnames = paste('abc', 1:10)
axis_choices <- names(dataset)
names(axis_choices) <- newnames

and to pass it to the first selectInput:
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Trump deemed guilty but not convicted
On February 14, 2021 February 14, 2021 By aronsbarronIn Uncategorized
The most bipartisan impeachment in our nation's history ended up ten brave enough Republicans short of conviction. So we finished in a place that seemed certain from the outset. Still, a majority of the U.S. Senate voted to convict former President Donald J. Trump of inciting insurrection against our seat of government, the symbol of our democracy, and of neglecting his duty to halt the bloodshed. Seven Republicans did have the backbone to put country over party, but sadly that fell ten votes short of the two thirds necessary to find Trump guilty.
After the roll call, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a blistering denunciation of Trump, declaring him "practically and morally responsible for the events of the day." McConnell made it clear that, from the former President's perpetuation of the Big Lie about the election's having been stolen, to his weeks-long incendiary language spurring the rioters to storm the Capitol, to his failure to provide backup to the beleaguered Capitol Police, to his continuing to feed the crowd's rage against Vice President Mike Pence even while knowing that Pence was physically endangered, all of this constituted violation of his oath of office. McConnell further asserted that Trump is still vulnerable to prosecution in civil and criminal courts as a private citizen.
But McConnell, ever the self-proclaimed institutionalist, disregarded the Senate's affirming the legitimacy of the impeachment trial just days before. Instead, he hung his vote not to convict on a synthetic technicality, the slim reed of perceived unconstitutionality, which his hallowed institution had already decided. Even more outrageously, he brazenly and hypocritically asserted that, because Trump had already left office, the impeachment vote to convict was not valid. But it was McConnell who, when the House had voted to impeach, refused on January 15th to accept the impeachment document from House managers or bring the Senate back into session until after the January 20th inauguration. His audacity ranks with that of the murderer who killed both his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the Court because he was an orphan!
I would like not to feel deflated. The House managers presented a brilliant case, cogently laying out the facts of how Trump knowingly instigated the insurrection, laying the groundwork even before the election, lying about the outcome, spurring thugs to attack the halls of government and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. The evidence was in the public domain for all to see and recoil from. The record will be there for all of history. It also provides a roadmap for additional criminal and civil litigation against now-private-citizen Trump.
This trial was about more than Donald Trump however. It was about more even than the future of the Republican Party, of which he remains the face and driving force. It's about whether future Presidents believe they can do anything they want after losing an election and do so with impunity. It's also about whether the Senate has given the green light to future domestic terrorists. This is a source of deep apprehension, which may only be partly allayed if other authorities prosecute the former President, begin to hold him accountable, and make domestic terrorism a national security priority.
Equally troubling is the weakened threat of impeachment against any sitting President, at any point in his or her term, regardless of the high crime or misdemeanor. The 43 Senators who voted Trump not guilty have effectively ceded the Senate's Constitutionally-required oversight to the Executive branch. If Trump's behavior here is deemed not worthy of conviction, then what behavior could ever lead to conviction as long as one third of the Senate, tribally attached to the President, holds firm? If so, dealing with Trump, who boastfully wrote yesterday, "Our movement… has just begun," is the easy part.
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Three O'Clock Bears: A bear and a bunny later today!
A bear and a bunny later today!
Wow what a week....I have a love/hate relationship with bank holidays ..all my best laid plans go up the spout when the family comes round. So the two friends I had planned to finish Sunday went over till Monday, then Tuesday...then it was my birthday yesterday and a stream of visitors came round.
But anyway...its Thursday and I am on course to post a bear and a bunny later...I think it will be about 7.30 but knowing my life lately it could be any time!


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How Storage Helped California Reduce the Blackouts – And How It Can Help Avoid Them in the Future
Ted Ko, Stem VP of Policy and Regulatory Affairs
Anyone wondering how climate change affects our daily lives need only skim the headlines. Last weekend, drought-fueled wildfires in California and two other western states prompted evacuation alerts for tens of thousands of residents. Death Valley hit 130 degrees, among the highest global temperatures ever recorded. And with its electricity grid strained by extreme heat, California experienced its first rolling blackouts since 2001.
In places impacted by COVID-19, where access to electricity is a life-or-death matter for greater numbers of people, power outages represent far more than an inconvenience – especially amid extreme heat, which kills more Americans than all other natural disasters combined.
California's latest blackouts began when the grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), declared a Stage 3 Electrical Emergency in the early evening of Friday, August 14, initiating rotating blackouts across the state. The issue: counted-on electricity supplies weren't available precisely when heat-stricken customers were demanding more power from the grid.
Stem's California fleet responded quickly, with 300-plus energy storage systems providing more than 50 megawatts (MW) of capacity to our customers and removing an equivalent load from the grid. (To put that in perspective, it's roughly equivalent to 20,000 homes shutting off all their electricity, all at once.)
Our response to the crisis evolved in parallel with the needs of CAISO, utilities, and our customers. On Saturday, we answered utilities' calls for load reduction under their Base Interruptible Programs (BIPs), an exceedingly rare request driven by severe curtailment needs that typically occurs about once every three years. On Sunday, we accommodated CAISO's request to delay charging by reconfiguring our batteries – well over 600 installations across California – with a single software command. And on Monday, we coordinated with customers and utilities to turn on customers' backup generators along with Stem battery systems, and to make those resources available for a full 6 hours encompassing a 4-hour peak event.
Stem's customers – hundreds of schools, grocery stores, retailers, real estate companies, manufacturers and other businesses, sprawled across Northern and Southern California – were essential partners in this effort. By trusting us to save them money and optimize their energy assets, they made themselves a resource for California's electricity grid and all who depend on it. And none faced business interruptions – even BIP-enrolled customers, whose batteries operated in the background to meet site energy needs while avoiding costly penalties.
While we're proud of Stem's performance so far, we're also struck by how much more we could have done. Dozens of megawatts of Stem's battery capacity sat idle during the blackouts, prohibited from discharging energy into the grid when it was most needed.
This needs to change. Energy storage is exactly what California's grid needs to avoid similar blackouts, and policy makers should be encouraging as much deployment as possible, in all parts of the grid – especially given the state's aggressive climate policies and the unwanted greenhouse gas emissions from backup diesel generators.
Gov. Newsom has ordered an investigation into the blackouts "to ensure it simply never happens again," but achieving that goal won't happen unless policy makers put in place the necessary solutions. Knowing that energy storage has an important role to play, here's what policy makers can do to appropriately leverage it:
Allow storage to export energy to the grid during emergencies. Currently, most behind the meter (BTM) energy storage systems are only allowed to serve the specific customers they're attached to. Consequently, CAISO only uses BTM storage as a demand response tool to shed load from the grid. But it's capable of much more – namely, supplying energy to the grid when and where it's most valuable – and has been for years. Experience has also shown that storage can be counted on in emergencies. Allowing BTM storage to export energy to the grid during emergencies is the easiest, fastest, and best near-term solution the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and CAISO can put into place. Communicating this intent and establishing relevant requirements and incentives will allow storage providers to reconfigure systems to operate in this manner.
Allow storage to export energy to the grid, period. California's recent blackouts weren't triggered by public safety concerns but rather by a resource shortage that was years in the making. While fully addressing that issue will also likely take years (see next bullet), making better use of all resources currently available on the system, including customer-sited solar and storage, would be a good start. The gains here could be considerable: recent analysis commissioned by Stem and solar developer Sunrun found that customer-sited solar and storage could provide roughly 9 GW of capacity – about one-fifth of CAISO's current peak load – to help California maintain electric system reliability.
Accelerate statewide efforts to triple battery storage. California has made great strides in installing solar but hasn't fully kept pace on installing the resources, like storage, that can meet peak energy needs when solar isn't available. Mindful of this, the CPUC has already proposed tripling battery storage in the state by 2030. If leaders are serious about avoiding blackouts, that investment should be expedited as quickly as possible. This can be done in two ways: by allowing BTM storage to provide its full suite of potential grid services and compensating it appropriately in wholesale markets, which would both realize more value from existing projects and stimulate new ones; and by accelerating the incorporation of front of meter (FTM) storage in planning, procurement and market design for an ultra-high renewables grid.
Investments in energy infrastructure – whether by consumers, independent energy service providers like Stem, or electric utilities – are fundamentally about realizing our shared objectives. California was among the first states to identify resilience as a priority and to invest in grid resilience as a hedge against the economic and human costs of future power outages in a world increasingly impacted by climate change and extreme weather.
That leadership has gotten us where we are today, with battery storage and other flexible assets successfully integrated into the grid and performing as expected. But as recent events show, California still has a ways to go to realize the resilient, sustainable electricity grid its leaders demand – and its citizens deserve.
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About "ON THE EDGE"
Alexander Mindadze
Writer, director, producer
ALEXANDER MINDADZE was born in Moscow and is considered as one of the most acclaimed scriptwriters and directors in Russia. More than 20 of his screenplays have been filmed since 1975.He is a winner of numerous awards such as golden medal of Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear of the Berlin Film Festival. He is a laureate of the USSR State Prize
In 2007 his feature film debut as director, SOAR, was premiered at Venice IFF. This film received two awards, including the film critics award for best debut film in Russia. Second feature film written and directed by Alexander Mindadze INNOCENT SATURDAY was premiered at Berlin IFF in 2011. Mindadze is the unique Russian scriptwriter who was awarded with prestigious ENNIO FLAIANO PRIZE and the SILVER PEGASUS from the Italian Academy of Culture for "Literature's contribution to the cinema."
Selected Filmography
Scriptwriter, director, producer
2015 – "My Good Hans"
2011 – "Innocent Saturday"
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Alexander Robak
Alexander Robak is a Russian actor and producer. Born in December 28, 1973 in Zlatoust in the family of Rem Aleksandrovich Robak, a metallurgical engineer and his wife Raisa, a technical school teacher. Graduated from Yaroslavl Theater Institute, course of Vladimir Vorontsov. Started his acting career in 1998. His feature film debut was in "Day of the Full Moon" by Keren Shahknazarov. He has played more than 140 roles in such films as «Alive» and «Geographer drank his globe away» (dir. Aleksandr Veledinsky), «Kiss them all» (dir. Zhora Kryzhovnikov), Yolki (dir. Bekmambetov), «Monogamous» (dir. Aleko Tsabadze , «Children» (dir. Alyona Zvantsova), «Storm» (dir. Boris Khlebnikov) and others. He is also a producer of several television and film projects. He is one of the creators of the cinema company "Cinemafor." Winner of the People's Prize "Bright Past" of the Oleg Mityaev Foundation.
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Sakhalin local historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, historian, traveler. He is a former head of the department of history of the Sakhalin Regional Local History Museum. Currently works as an Advisor to the Agency for Culture of the Sakhalin Region
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The producer of the films by Adilkhan Yerzhanov: "Black, Black Man", "Fight of Atbay", "Gentle Indifference of the World", "Night God", "Plague at the aul Karatas", "The Owners", "Builders", "Realtors".
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Master of Arts – Art History/ Film Critics.
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Jialing Zhang is an independent Chinese filmmaker based in Massachusetts. She directed and produced feature documentaries Complicit (Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London, 2017) and One Child Nation (Sundance 2019, Grand Jury Prize Winner). She has won numerous awards including Tim Hetherington Award from Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival and Grand Jury Prize from Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She holds a master's degree from New York University.
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Super Bowl 50: How to make the party fun for kids, too
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The revelers at Jason and Kristen Roberts' family Super Bowl party missed the infamous "Nipplegate" incident at the 2004 Super Bowl because they were enjoying other festivities: Daughter Avery, 4,...
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Chico >> David Kroessig breathed a huge sigh of relief on Dec. 11. It's the day Chico Rescue Mission was finished with serious debt that meant an uncertain future for...
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After install WP is consuming to much memory and load time, and sometimes there is no page displayed at all.
I already changed the options on the WP-CONFIG to allow 64MB and also on the PHP.INI file.
I have hosted the website in GoDaddy.
You can indeed search the forums and find that in most folks opinion Go Daddy is the worst possible hosting environment for WordPress due to there server configurations and separate/remote database server which slow things down considerably due to the round trip time to the remote database server and back.
In addition, are you really getting the memory you made in the setting?
It is further my professional opinion that you want at least 128MB of php memory unless you are running a stripped down WordPress installation.
Please advise as to what the memory tests reveal from the plugin mentioned above.
Look forward to hearing from you in any event.
Thank you very much for your answer Joe.
I've recently tried to setup a new server on the Amazon Cloud, without GoDaddy hosting. So the database is on the same server now.
But when I moved the website to the other server, the speed is the same (very very slow).
Thank you for the additional input and it appears that it is possible some kind of conflict is going on there and also the maximum execution time is a bit low depending on the application.
Do you have a lot of events or have you just started this portion of the development?
What is the URL to the site?
Lets see if we can narrow it down by going into full blown trouble shooting mode because it appears there may be some conflict there and one way to find out conclusively.


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S10, E5
What It Always Is
Supplies go missing from Hilltop, Negan is idolized by an Alexandrian, and Ezekiel holds a secret.
Original Air Date: November 3, 2019
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Lines We Cross
We pick back up with the group in Oceanside continuing to train in case The Whisperers return. Tensions are high as our heroes struggle to hold onto their concept of civilization.
We Are The End Of The World
A flashback reveals the origins of Alpha and Beta. Alpha attempts to toughen up Lydia as they prepare to walk with the dead. Meanwhile, the Whisperers create their herds.
The threat of the Whisperers return leads to paranoia sweeping over Alexandria. In the meantime, Carol battles with the need for revenge.
Silence The Whisperers
Still paranoid Alexandrians get riled up over the Whisperers and take their fear out on Negan. Back at Hilltop, the group deals with an unexpected safety issue.
Carol and Daryl go on a mission together while Siddiq struggles to solve a mystery.
Carol pushes boundaries that make Daryl uncomfortable. Alpha and Beta have reservations about someone.
The World Before
In the mid-season finale, a fight causes tensions in Oceanside while the Alexandrians set out on a high-stakes mission.
In the mid-season premiere, our group must figure out how to get out of a precarious situation.
S10, E10
Our group must defend Alexandria from a threatening, outside force.
The Whisperers are coming for Hilltop. After Daryl and Lydia's encounter with Alpha, the communities must decide whether to run or fight. Meanwhile, Eugene's communication with Stephanie gets complicated.
Alpha and the Whisperers attack Hilltop, with Negan's help.
Michonne takes Virgil back to his mysterious island to reunite with his family. In exchange, Virgil promises weapons that could change the tide of the Whisperer War.
Look At The Flowers
Heroes and villains reckon with the aftermath of the Hilltop fire. Meanwhile, Eugene takes a group on a journey to meet Stephanie, with the hopes of befriending another civilization.
The communities prepare for the final battle of the Whisperer War. Meanwhile, Eugene's group encounters Princess.
A Certain Doom
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IMPERIAL WANDERERS STADIUM: 30 NOT OUT of POST ISOLATION INTERNATIONAL CRICKET
The year 2022 will kick off with a bang as Imperial Wanderers Stadium hosts SA vs India from 3 – 7 January 2022. It's a match and a year that seeks to celebrate 30-years of post ICC isolation.
Johannesburg – Monday 3 January 2022, 10h00 is when the first ball will be bowled between hosts The Protea's against India. Ironically, the first home post isolation Test Match was played at the same stadium, against the same opponents, 30 years earlier.
Test number 1201, took place from 26 – 30 November 1992 at the Wanderers Stadium when the Indian cricket team toured SA for four Tests and seven ODI's from 29 October 1992 – 6 January 1993. Captained by Kepler Wessels, South Africa won the 4-match series 1-0, with the player of the series named as Allan Donald.
Founded on the 22nd of September 1956, the 66-year-old stadium hosted its first international Test match in 1956 when England won by 131 runs. The stadium continued to host several international matches including the famous Australian tour where Graeme Pollock scored 274 in 1966/67. The penultimate Test before the ban from international cricket was in 1970 when SA won by 307 runs against Australia.
Post the ICC unbanning, the stadium has hosted multiple iconic events including the over 10-hour batting display by Mike Atherton to save the Test in 1995 against England. It also played host to the 2003 World Cup Final where Australia was crowned champions. Then there was the 2006 greatest One Day International Match against Australia. Another epic match the 2009 IPL2 final were the Deccan Chargers defeated the Royal Challengers by 6 runs with Anil Kumble winning man of the match and the stadium hosting a record-breaking fan attendance of 30,123. Then there was the 2015 SA vs West Indies match with AB de Villiers scoring the fastest 100 runs in only 31 balls. There have been countless moments of entertainment, excitement and exhilaration.
On the non-cricket front, the stadium has welcomed multiple Kings, Queens, Statesman, World Leaders, Captains of Industries, Mega Music Stars and fans; and have hosted multiple sporting events such as the Davis Cup and FIFA 2010 Goodwill Cup to mention a few.
On the back of the successful 2021 Lions Cricket brand relaunch #ThePrideOfJozi, the Head of Marketing, Commercial and Communications Wanele Mngomezulu says; "2022 will be a continuation of the Union's long term strategic intent to create passion for the game of cricket, grow its fan base, fully commercialise all its assets whilst seeking to position the Lions Cricket brand as a change agent in society."
Part of the 30-year anniversary includes the celebration and recognition of the most iconic moments and individuals in the 30-year history of the stadium.
In terms of celebrating iconic players and individuals, the stadium will unveil the top 100-players Hall of Fame (domestic, foreign, women and men) who have graced the iconic wicket post the ICC unbanning.
Celebrate and recognise iconic off-the-field legends that have contributed significantly to the development of the stadium and cricket in the province.
Unveil the Walk of Fame – these are the Kings, Queens, Dignitaries and iconic entertainment legends.
Celebrate and recognise iconic moments – 2003 Cricket World Cup, 2009 IPL, FIFA 2010 Goodwill match, 2015 Greatest ODI ever and more.
Launch an integrated campaign that seeks to welcome all walks of life into the stadium including a socio-economic development programme.
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BEWARE OF THE SPOILER! The BBC's touching drama series began in britain in the new, eight-production season. British, Jennifer Worth's memoirs of the founder
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British, Jennifer Worth's memoirs of the founder of the applicant to the midwife -series has been a success also in Finland. The series tells the Nonnatus house midwives tough everyday life and deprived of the community life in 1960s East London. In the centre are families with children stories as well as midwives everyday life
Yle has presented a series of seven production season, but the new, eighth season episodes of the Finnish tv-the show has so far not been informed.
in the Uk series of the new season has started in February. There's a total of eight new episodes, as well as the traditional christmas special episode.
in the Series for the new season continue to Jenny Agutter (sister Julienne), Linda Bassett (nurse Crane), Judy Parfitt (sister Monica Joan), Helen George (Trixie), Laura Main (Shelagh Turner), Victoria Yeates (sister Winifred), the Jennifer Kirby (Valerie), Leonie Elliott (Lucille), Stephen McGann (dr Turner), Cliff Parisi (Fred), Annabelle Apsiin (Violet), Max Macmillan (Timothy), Trevor Cooper (police Woolf) and Daniel Laurie (Reggie).
as New show series start Miriam Margolyes (sister Mildred), Fenella Woolgar (sister of the Lattice) and Ella Bruccoleri (sister of Francis).
the Events continue from where you last see the christmas special period ended. Disease weary dead Barbara and widowed clergy spouses is not for the new season to see.
the series live in now in 1964. Nonnatus house leadership positions sister Juliennen space for envisaged new employees, but the new season it turns out that Juliennea not be sent to other tasks. Doctor Turner and his wife took kasvatatteva to the orphan children and the new season will be monitored in their family life. Love stories is also in store, as nurse Crane and nurse Lucille contemplating the move on romance patterns. Alcohol problem his struggle with nurse Trixie is now focusing on serious work.
patient stories are again diverse. In the first episode of talk to the young women of illegal abortion. In the uk abortion conclusion became legal in 1967.
the Second section explore a ghana family, who suffers from hereditary sickle cell anemia. The disease causes the blood oxygen carrying red blood cells become deformed, sirppimäisiä. In 1964, the disease had not yet made extensive studies.
sickle cell family on the plot of the pattern received a series of viewers mobilized in Britain. Hello magazine reports that the episode of the tv after the presentation of the blood donor registered in the number of people increased by 46 percent between the preceding day's figures.
– Even if the tv series takes place in the 1960s, is sickle cell anemia diagnosis of further devastating news. In the uk live thousands of diagnosis experienced. Blood donations can help, as viewers are done, the series executive producer Pippa Harris commented.