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package es.tid.test;

import static es.tid.rocksaw.net.RawSocket.PF_INET;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.Inet4Address;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import es.tid.rocksaw.net.RawSocket;
//import tid.util.Utils;

import es.tid.ospf.ospfv2.OSPFPacketTypes;
import es.tid.ospf.ospfv2.OSPFv2HelloPacket;
import es.tid.ospf.ospfv2.OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket;
import es.tid.ospf.ospfv2.OSPFv2Packet;
import es.tid.pce.server.TopologyUpdaterThread;
import es.tid.tedb.DomainTEDB;
import es.tid.tedb.SimpleTEDB;

public class TestRawSocket {
	  // Timeout para el socket
	private static final int TIMEOUT = 0;

	private static Logger log=LoggerFactory.getLogger("OSPFParser");;
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		//LSA LSA_msg
		String mCast;
		String ipLocal;
		String ipLocal2;
		String bindAddr;

//		FileHandler fh=null;
//		try {
//			fh=new FileHandler("OSPFParser.log");
//		} catch (SecurityException e2) {
//			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
//			e2.printStackTrace();
//		} catch (IOException e2) {
//			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
//			e2.printStackTrace();
//		}
//		log.addHandler(fh);
//		log.setLevel(Level.ALL);
		if (args.length >=4 ){
			bindAddr=args[0];
			mCast=args[1];
			ipLocal=args[2];
			ipLocal2=args[3];
			log.info("Fijamos bind a "+bindAddr+" mCast "+mCast+" y ipLocal1 "+ipLocal+" y ipLocal2 "+ipLocal2);
		}else {
			ipLocal="193.145.240.8";
			//ipLocal="172.16.1.1";
			ipLocal2="10.95.73.65";
			mCast="224.0.0.5";
			bindAddr="0.0.0.0";
			log.info("Asumimos bind a "+bindAddr+" mCast "+mCast+" y ipLocal "+ipLocal);
		}
		DomainTEDB ted=new SimpleTEDB();
		LinkedBlockingQueue<OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket> ospfv2PacketQueue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket>();
		TopologyUpdaterThread tut = new TopologyUpdaterThread(ospfv2PacketQueue, ted,0,32);
		tut.start();

		int tipo = 1;
		RawSocket socket = new RawSocket();
		Inet4Address dirPCE=null;
		try{
			socket.open(PF_INET, 89);
			socket.setUseSelectTimeout(true);
			socket.setSendTimeout(TIMEOUT);
			socket.setReceiveTimeout(TIMEOUT);
			socket.setIPHeaderInclude(false);
			//socket.bind(InetAddress.getByName("172.16.1.1"));
			//socket.bindDevice("eth1");
		//	socket.bind(InetAddress.getByName(bindAddr));
			socket.joinGroup(InetAddress.getByName(mCast), InetAddress.getByName(ipLocal));

			//socket.joinGroup(InetAddress.getByName(mCast), InetAddress.getByName(ipLocal2));
			//socket.bind(InetAddress.getByName(bindAddr));
			//socket.bindDevice("eth1");
			//dirPCE= (Inet4Address)Inet4Address.getByName("172.16.1.2");

		}catch(IOException e){

		}

		log.info("OSPF RAW Socket opened");

//		try {
//			log.info("Creating OSPF Packet");
//			OSPFTEv2LSA LSA_msg=new OSPFTEv2LSA();
//			LinkTLV linkTLV= new LinkTLV();
//			LSA_msg.setLinkTLV(linkTLV);
//			OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket ospf_packet= new OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket();
//			(ospf_packet.getLSAlist()).add(LSA_msg);
//			ospf_packet.encode();
////			byte[] test=new  byte[4];
////			test[0]=3;
////			test[1]=5;
////			test[2]=7;
////			test[3]=9;
//			byte[] test2=ospf_packet.getBytes();
////			log.info(" tam "+test2.length);
////			log.info(" byte[0] "+test2[0]);
//			socket.write(dirPCE,test2);
//			log.info(" OSPF Packet sent!!");
//
//		} catch (IOException e) {
//			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
//			e.printStackTrace();
//			return;
//		}
//
		int i=0;
		while(i<50000) {
			i++;
			try {

				OSPFv2Packet ospfv2Packet =readOSPFv2Packet(socket);

				log.info("PACKET READ");
				if (ospfv2Packet != null){
					log.info("OSPFv2 PACKET READ");
					if (ospfv2Packet.getType() == OSPFPacketTypes.OSPFv2_LINK_STATE_UPDATE){
						log.info("OSPFv2_LINK_STATE_UPDATE READ");
						log.info("--------------------------------");
						//Imprimo el paquete:
						log.info(ospfv2Packet.toString());
						ospfv2PacketQueue.add((OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket)ospfv2Packet);

					}
				}

			} catch (Exception e1) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				e1.printStackTrace();
				log.info("OSPF Socket ends");
				return;
			}//Read a new message
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Read PCE message from TCP stream
	 * @param in InputStream
	 */
	protected static OSPFv2Packet  readOSPFv2Packet(RawSocket socket) throws IOException{
		byte[] hdr = new byte[20];
		byte[] temp = null;
		boolean endHdr = false;

		int r = 0;
		int length = 0;
		boolean endMsg = false;
		int offset = 0;

		OSPFv2Packet ospfv2Packet= null ;
		length = 1500;//Max MTU size?
		temp=new byte[length];
		try {

		r = socket.read (temp, 0, length);
		//log.info("Hemos leido "+r+" bytes: "+Utils.toHexString(temp));
		//FuncionesUtiles.printByte(temp, "Hemos leido "+r+" bytes: ");
		}catch (IOException e){
			log.info("Salgo por excepcion");
			//log.warn("Error reading data: "+ e.getMessage());
			throw e;

		}catch (Exception e) {
			throw new IOException();
		}
		offset=20;//bytes of IP header
		int type = OSPFv2Packet.getLStype(temp, offset);
		ospfv2Packet = createOSPFPacket(type,offset,temp);

//		while (!endMsg) {
//
//			try {
//
//				if (endHdr) {
//
//					r = socket.read (temp, 0, length);
//					log.info("Hemos leido "+r+" bytes: "+Utils.toHexString(temp));
////					printByte(temp, "temp");
//					//log.info("Final de la cabecera:"+ r+ " "+ temp[offset]);
//					endMsg=true;
//				}
//				else {
//
//					log.info("Waiting a leer cabecera.");
//					r = socket.read(hdr, offset, 20);
//					log.info("leido "+r+" bytes: "+Utils.toHexString(hdr));
//					//printByte(hdr, "hdr");
//
//					//endHdr=true;
//				}
//			}catch (IOException e){
//				log.info("Salgo por excepcion");
//				//log.warn("Error reading data: "+ e.getMessage());
//				throw e;
//
//			}catch (Exception e) {
//				throw new IOException();
//			}
//			if (endHdr==false){
//				if (r > 0) {
//					length = ((int)hdr[2]&0xFF) << 8;
//					length = length | (((int)hdr[3]&0xFF));
//					log.info("Longitud de la cabecera parece ser "+length);
//					temp = new byte[length];
//					endHdr=true;
//					offset=20;
//				}
//
//
//			}else {
//				if (r > 0) {
//					offset++;
//				}
//			}
//			if (r > 0) {
////				log.info("r>0: "+r+" offset: "+offset);
////			//	log.info("hdr "+ (hdr[offset]&0xFF));
////				if (offset == 2) {
////
////					length = ((int)hdr[offset]&0xFF) << 8;
////
////				}
////
////				if (offset == 3) {
////
////					length = length | (((int)hdr[offset]&0xFF));
////					temp = new byte[length];
////					//endHdr = true;
////					//System.arraycopy(hdr, 0, temp, 0, 20);
////
////				}
////				log.info("Lenght: "+length);
////				if ((length > 0) && (offset == length - 1)) {
////					log.info("Final del mensaje: Longitud -1: "+ (length-1) +"offset: "+ offset );
////					endMsg = true;
////
////				}
////				if (offset == 19) {
////					endHdr = true;
////					System.arraycopy(hdr, 0, temp, 0, 20);
////
////				}
////
////				offset++;
////
////			}
////			else if (r==-1){
////				log.info("r=-1");
////				//log.warn("End of stream has been reached");
////				throw new IOException();
////
////			}
//
//		}
//		if (length > 0) {
//			//log.info("lenght >0 ");
//			offset=20;
//
//			//while (offset < length){
//				//Recorrer el mensaje creando las lsas.
//				int type = OSPFv2Packet.getLStype(temp, offset);
//
//				 ospfv2Packet = createOSPFPacket(type,offset,temp);
//
//				//offset = offset +length_ospf_packet;
//				//lsas.addAll(((OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket)ospfv2Packet).getLSAlist());
//			//}
//			//printByte(ret, "ret");
//		}
////		printByte(ret, "ret");
		return ospfv2Packet;
	}

	public static OSPFv2Packet createOSPFPacket(int type,int offset, byte[] bytes){
		OSPFv2Packet ospfv2Packet = null;
		if (type == OSPFPacketTypes.OSPFv2_HELLO_PACKET){
			OSPFv2HelloPacket hello= new OSPFv2HelloPacket(bytes, offset);
		}
		if (type ==  OSPFPacketTypes.OSPFv2_DATABASE_DESCRIPTION){

		}
		if (type == OSPFPacketTypes.OSPFv2_LINK_STATE_REQUEST){

		}
		if (type == OSPFPacketTypes.OSPFv2_LINK_STATE_UPDATE){
			log.info(" LINK_STATE_UPDATE PACKET READ");
			ospfv2Packet = new OSPFv2LinkStateUpdatePacket(bytes,offset);

		}
		if (type==OSPFPacketTypes.OSPFv2_LINK_STATE_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT){

		}
		return ospfv2Packet;

	}
}

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Kate Miller-Heidke
Pop, Pop folk, Operatic pop
Overview Updates 18 Discussion 85 Pledgers 2936 Store 17
This project is closed. Be sure to follow Kate Miller-Heidke to be the first to know next time a project is launched!
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Warmer In The Winter: Deluxe Edition
Lindsey Stirling's first Christmas Album, now available with 5 bonus tracks!
Pre-order the new album: CD out 5th October, LP out 2nd November
Join me as I make and release my very first independent album, 'O Vertigo!'
World Wildlife Fund For Nature
Welcome everyone, and thank you very much for visiting me here.
After releasing 3 studio albums, a live album and a side-project album through a major label, I am now a fully independent artist.
I'm about to head into the studio for album #4, and I'd love your help and involvement as I set out on the next part of this journey.
I can't wait for you to hear all of these new songs. This album is more about the voice than anything I've made before. (Not the TV show, the human voice.) Amazing things are happening right now in pre-production.
All pledgers, no matter what amount you pledge and which exclusive you choose, will receive a download of the album when it's finished. You'll also receive a digital album of new live recordings, 'Heavenly Sounds Live', instantly, as a free bonus. 11 tracks, a mix of brand new songs from the album, old favourites and cover versions – delivered to you as soon as you pledge.
You also get access to the pledger-only part of this site, where there will be updates and blogs, giving you an inside look into the recording process.
As you can see, on the right-hand side of this page """ there's a bunch more exclusive offers, including one-offs and things that have never been available before. There are also tickets for my album launch tour on sale.
So, why not hop on board? Help me make some kick-arse ear lollies!
With lots of love and gratitude
P.S. Is there something I've forgotten? Make me an offer. Write to kmh@onelouder.com.au with your suggestion and I'll try to make it happen.
*barring any indecent proposals :)
Q. What are you using the money for, exactly?
A. Making and promoting an album is a big project with lots of costs involved. The money will go towards studio costs, musicians, mixing, mastering, artwork, and a video for the first single. Also 5% of everything raised is going to the WWF to support their work to save the Great Barrier Reef.
Q. I want you to play acoustically in my house but I live a long long way away.
A. If you live in an Australian capital city, we can perform a concert at your house while we're there on tour. If you live further afield (Keir and I will travel anywhere!) or want to have a concert at a time of your choosing, you'll just need to pay for our accommodation and travel for Keir and I from Melbourne, Australia. (Please contact kmh@onelouder.com.au if you'd like to discuss further.)
Q. How much is shipping?
Shipping is included in the price displayed (except for the piano!). The page should display the correct amount based on your location. What will they think of next?
Q. When will my credit card be charged? When do I get the goodies?
If you pay by credit card, it will only be charged once I've reached my target. If you use Paypal it works a little differently. Your Pledge is taken, but if I do not reach my target, your Pledge is refunded.
After I reach my target (fingers crossed!), I'll be getting everything sent out as soon as I can! The album is due out 14 March 2014.
Q. I'm buying a VIP gig ticket. When and where are the shows?
Tour dates are below. Apart from the Perth show, these will not be announced or go on sale to the general public for a month or two yet, so keep it to yourself, would you?
12 March – The Seymour Centre, Sydney
14 March – The Spiegeltent, Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide
18 March – The Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
21 March – The Quarry, Perth
5 April – The Tivoli, Brisbane
Q. What's on the instant exclusive album 'Heavenly Sounds Live'?
'Heavenly Sounds Live' was recorded on my last tour of churches, cathedrals and theatres around the country in May-June 2013. It features Keir Nuttall on guitar and John Rodgers on piano & violin. Recorded and mixed by Adrian Donadei. Here's the track listing:
01. O Vertigo!
02. Hornets
03. Love Is A Stranger
04. God's Gift To Women
05. Yours Was The Body
06. The Devil Wears A Suit
07. Humiliation
08. Bliss
09. Sarah
10. Can't Shake It
11. In The Dark
It's yours as soon as you pledge any amount.
Q. I've pledged, but I can't find my copy of 'Heavenly Sounds Live'. Where is it? Are you holding out on me, Miller-Heidke?
Once you've pledged, head here: http://goo.gl/8qTwPo. It will be in the first update (you can see the updates tab below the player in the upper left of this page), and is available to all Pledgers. There will also be a link to the Updates section in the email receipt sent to you when you pledged.
5% of funds
5% of all money raised will go to World Wildlife Fund For Nature.
O Vertigo! (Live)
All Items Downloads CDs Vinyl Poster or Artwork Your name in Credits Concert Tickets Artist Experience
AccessPass™: O Vertigo!
AU$10
Download of the new album "O Vertigo!' delivered on release day, plus an instant download of the exclusive 11-track album 'Heavenly Sounds Live'.
'O Vertigo!' on CD
The new album, 'O Vertigo!' on CD, plus a digital copy on release day!
Signed 'O Vertigo!' CD
The new CD, signed by me, made out to you personally and delivered as soon as it's ready, plus a download copy on release day.
'O Vertigo' Songbook
Lyrics and sheet music for my new album 'O Vertigo!', delivered within 2-4 weeks of album release, plus an album download delivered to you on release day.
Signed 'O Vertigo!' Vinyl
The new album, 'O Vertigo!', on vinyl, signed by me and made out to you personally, delivered within 2-4 weeks of album release, plus a download copy delivered to you on release day.
Your Name In The Liner Notes + Signed CD
You'll be a part of the new album, literally! With your name appearing in a special "thank you" section of the album's liner notes. PLUS a signed CD, and an album download on release day.
VIP Gig Ticket + Meet Kate
AU$95+
I'm touring Australia in March 2014. Get a limited edition VIP laminate that lets you come to a show, sit in a reserved VIP area, attend a meet & greet with me before the show, and gets you first in line to my merch signing after the show, where I will sign anything and everything (excluding some body parts). Includes an album download. (Available for shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, & Perth.)
Happy Birthday phone call
AU$100
I'll call up anyone you like (yourself, your best friend, your best enemy), on the date of your choosing. I'll introduce myself and sing Happy Birthday. It doesn't even have to be their real birthday.
Associate Producer Credit
You will be immortalised in the album artwork, credited as "Associate Producer" , receive a signed CD and an album download on release day.
SONG REQUEST + DEDICATION
If you are coming to one of my upcoming O Vertigo! tour dates, you can request a song, and have it dedicated to you – or a certain special someone – on-stage, and the set list signed to you. Includes a signed CD plus an album download delivered to you on release day. (Song subject to Kate's approval – please request a KMH song or usual cover only.)
Album First Listen Party
Come to the studio in Melbourne with a friend, let me pour you a glass of champagne, and be among the first to hear 'O Vertigo!' in its entirety.
Platinum VIP concert tickets
2 x VIP gig tickets (includes 2 x VIP laminates that let you come back stage before the show and jump the merch signing queue), plus a song request, dedicated to you (or a certain special someone) on-stage, and the set list signed to you, plus an album download delivered to you on release day.
You name the song, and I will perform a cover version, and send you a video of it.
You will be immortalised in the album artwork, credited as "Executive Producer", and receive an invitation for you and a friend to the album First Listen Party, a signed CD, and an album download.
Reverse Auction: Wurlitzer Piano
A reverse auction for my Wurlitzer Piano (with stool), signed by me. The piano will go down in price each week until someone grabs it. (Please note delivery is not included, it needs to be collected from Brisbane.)
Acoustic House Gig
Myself and Keir (guitar) will come and play an acoustic show in your living room for you and all your friends! (Some conditions do apply – see the FAQs, and for more information prior to purchase please contact kmh@onelouder.com.au)
Guestlist For Life
Any show, anywhere and anytime, you +1 are on the guestlist. If I'm playing, you can be there! (Some conditions do apply – for more information prior to purchase please contact kmh@onelouder.com.au)

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Eaton blood donor Clark saluted as 'one of Ohio's finest citizens'
Community, Top Stories
Wendell Clark received a commendation from the Ohio Senate "Honoring Wendell Clark for Tremendous Generosity" in recognition of his milestone 700th lifetime donation on Sept. 9. CBC presented him with the commendation earlier this month.
DAYTON — Community Blood Center's top donor, Wendell Clark, has another honor to celebrate. He received a commendation from the Ohio Senate "Honoring Wendell Clark for Tremendous Generosity" in recognition of his milestone 700th lifetime donation on Sept. 9.
CBC presented the commendation to Wendell Oct. 21, as he made his 703rd lifetime donation. It is signed by Ohio Senate President Obhof and Sen. Steve Huffman, who represents the 5th District which includes Preble County and Wendell's hometown of Eaton.
"By volunteering to donate blood at the Community Blood Center, you have helped to save the lives of many victims of accidents and disease for whom blood transfusion are essential," wrote the senators.
"A prostate cancer survivor, you have not let life's obstacles deter you from assisting others, and you have certainly distinguished yourself as a concerned and responsible citizen. We applaud you for your selfless contribution to those who need it most."
Wendell has been CBC's all-time top donor since 2013. He was forced to stop donating in 2014 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He underwent successful surgery and was deferred from donating for two years. Exactly two years later, he was back donating.
"Your generous donations reflect a sincere dedication to ensuring the welfare other others, as well as the unwavering commitment to humanitarianism," wrote the senators. "The spirit of charity and strength of character you have displayed have earned you the gratitude and respect of all who know you, and you are deserving of the highest praise… we commend you as a truly remarkable individual and salute you as one of Ohio's finest citizens."
Wendell plans to display the commendation in his home with other memorabilia from his unmatched "Donor for Life" accomplishments, including a similar commendation from the Ohio General Assembly after his milestone 600th lifetime donation in 2013. He was inducted into the Fresenius Kabi National Donation Hall of Fame in 2017.
"I have the picture from when I threw out the first pitch at the Dayton Dragons game and everybody from Community Blood Center signed the matting," he said.
Wendell retired after more than 31 years with Neaton Auto Products Manufacturing in Eaton. He continues to work part-time, making sure to be free every other Monday afternoon to visit CBC for his regular appointment to donate.
https://www.registerherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2019/11/web1_Wendell-Clark-OH-Senate-Honor.jpgWendell Clark received a commendation from the Ohio Senate "Honoring Wendell Clark for Tremendous Generosity" in recognition of his milestone 700th lifetime donation on Sept. 9. CBC presented him with the commendation earlier this month.
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Charlie Baker as NCAA President starting in March?
Just heard this on the local Boston news.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
Looks that way.
The NCAA has selected Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker as its next president, succeeding Mark Emmert.
Baker, a Republican who has been governor since January 2015 but will conclude his second term in January, will begin his new post March 1. He played power forward for Harvard's basketball team during the 1977-78 season, but has no previous collegiate administrative experience. He has spent most of his career in Massachusetts state government but spent a decade in health care administration. Baker, 66, holds degrees from both Harvard and Northwestern.
NCAA names MA Gov. Baker as next president
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has been selected to succeed Mark Emmert as the next president of the NCAA. Baker will begin his new role in March of 2023.
Given the string of truly heroically bad public communicators that have occupied that position in recent years, hiring a rare bipartisan-ly popular politician makes a certain amount of sense.
Not sure what he can do to prevent himself being the last NCAA President, though.


If anyone wants a different size just tell me. Also the other ad is coming as soon as I put it together.
Thank you, Trinity! That's a real treat, and it's very nice of you to share with us!
Its a shame these ads don't really fit desktop sizes... maybe if I put a border around it, the whole pic will fit.


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Pakistan rejects listing as violator of religious freedom by US
By IANS | Bharat Defence Kavach | Publish Date: 12/12/2018 12:14:55 PM
Islamabad: As Washington announced that Pakistan had been added to a list of violators of religious freedoms, Islamabad on Wednesday rejected the "unilateral and politically motivated pronouncement"."Pakistan rejects the State Department's unilateral and politically motivated pronouncement... Besides the clear biases reflected from these designations, there are serious questions over the credentials and impartiality of the self-proclaimed jury involved in this unwarranted exercise," Dawn news quoted a Foreign Office (FO) statement as saying.
The FO explained measures that the government had taken to safeguard the rights of its citizens, including legal and administrative mechanisms."Pakistan does not need counsel by any individual country how to protect the rights of its minorities," the statement said.
The FO suggested that honest introspection on Washington's part would have been a timely move in order to ascertain the causes behind the exponential rise in Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the US."Sadly, the proponents of human rights worldwide close their eyes to the systematic persecution of minorities subjected to alien domination and foreign occupation...," the statement added.
Washington,introspection,minorities,politically,impartiality


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Archives For Nun
Jews Following Jesus
Jewish poetry is breathtaking. The Psalms have nourished people of faith, as well as secularists, for millennia. C.S. Lewis wrote this about the providence of God in using the Jewish people as his conduit for blessing the world.
My enjoyment of the Psalms has been greatly increased lately. The point has been made before, but let me make it again: what an admirable thing it is in the divine economy that the sacred literature of the world should have been entrusted to a people whose poetry, depending largely on parallelism, should remain poetry in any language you translate it into.
He alluded to this in a letter to Sister Penelope, an Anglican nun and writer. In 1941 she sent him a copy of her new book, Windows on Jerusalem: A Study in the Mystery of Redemption. Lewis responded with gratitude. (Contemporary authors will find the detail of Lewis' informal critique of her book illustrative of what he brought to the meetings of the Inklings.)
Thank you very much for the book. It has given me real help. What I particularly enjoy in all your work, specially this, is the avoidance of that curious drabness which characterises so many 'little books on religion.' Partly it is due to your Hebraic background which I envy you: partly, no doubt, to deeper causes.
Things that particularly pleased me were the true meanings of Beloved (p. 8) and Son (p. 9), the whole account of the Transfiguration (pp. 16 et seq), the passage on Sacrifice (p. 32), the passage 'This was a shock' (on p. 35), on our inability to understand sin (41 and 47), the very important bit about Hebrew & Roman ideas of ransom (52, 53): the really splendid account of how God can't help deceiving the devil (56) and the allegorical close. There are, in fact, a good many Gifford Lectures and other such weighty tomes out of which I've got less meat (and indeed less efficient cookery!).
Judaism & Christianity
Jews and Christians have a complex relationship. This is even more true for Jewish people who come to accept Jesus as the promised Messiah. For most Jews, this automatically results in their expulsion from the Jewish community. However, for a growing number, there is a more gracious attitude developing.
A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center revealed some interesting statistics. Note the percentage of United States Jews considering the following to be essential:
Remembering the Holocaust – 73%
Leading an Ethical & Moral Life – 69%
Caring about Israel – 43%
Having a Good Sense of Humor – 42%
Observing Jewish Law – 19%
Here is the most surprising part of the survey. Thirty-four percent of American Jews consider believing Jesus is the Messiah, is compatible with being Jewish.
Let me repeat that . . . 34% of Jews in the United States (35% of the ultra-Orthodox Jews) believe that "Messianic Jews" remain Jewish.
I find that amazing. I also find it encouraging, since it's consistent with the understanding of the Jews in first century Judea who worshipped beside the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem until its fall.
Some years ago I heard a lecture by a prominent Jewish theologian who described how historical Judaism rarely rejected those who considered any particular rabbi to be the Messiah. Apparently this remains true today, as some modern Jews, for example, consider Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) to be the Messiah.
Returning to the case of Jesus of Nazareth, the improving attitude is encouraging to see. In part, because most Messianic Jews say accepting Jesus as the Messiah has made them more Jewish. By that, most mean that they now practice the traditions of their Jewish heritage more faithfully than they previously did.
Following his conversion, C.S. Lewis grew in his positive consideration of the Jewish faith and people. In 1933, as Hitler's hatred for Judaism became more evident, he wrote in a letter:
I might agree that the Allies are partly to blame, but nothing can fully excuse the iniquity of Hitler's persecution of the Jews, or the absurdity of his theoretical position. Did you see that he said "The Jews have made no contribution to human culture and in crushing them I am doing the will of the Lord."
Now as the whole idea of the "Will of the Lord" is precisely what the world owes to the Jews, the blaspheming tyrant has just fixed his absurdity for all to see in a single sentence, and shown that he is as contemptible for his stupidity as he is detestable for his cruelty. For the German people as a whole we ought to have charity: but for dictators, "Nordic" tyrants and so on . . .
All of the civilized people of the world share Lewis' revulsion with Hitler and his agenda. In that we definitely agree with the vast majority of Jews who regard "Remembering the Holocaust" as something essential.
As positive a sign as the 34% support of Messianic Jews remaining Jewish is, the survey includes a more sobering corollary. Exactly twice that number, 68%, agreed that you can remain Jewish even if you don't believe in the existence of God. Shocking. But that's a subject for another day.
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Louisiana Highway 433 (LA 433) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves St. Tammany Parish.   It spans  in a west to east direction.  It is known at various points as Thompson Road, Bayou Liberty Road, Pontchartrain Drive, Old Spanish Trail, and Rigolets Road.

Route description
From the west, LA 433 begins at a junction with U.S. Route 190 (US 190) near the North Shore Square mall and heads south.  At this point, the roadway is also known as Thompson Road.  After about , the road crosses Bayou Liberty and turns eastward, becoming Bayou Liberty Road.  As the road nears downtown Slidell, it crosses Bayou Bonfouca via a drawbridge and becomes a four-lane divided highway.  Shortly thereafter, the road joins US 11 and heads southward for about a quarter of a mile before departing eastward along the Old Spanish Trail. LA 433 then intersects Interstate 10 via a diamond interchange (exit 263).  Afterward it narrows to two lanes and winds through the swamps of southeast St. Tammany Parish.  Heading southeastward, the highway is duly known as Rigolets Road and the Old Spanish Trail at this point.  LA 433 ends at a junction with US 90 just north of the Rigolets.

LA 433 is an undivided, two-lane highway from US 190 to US 11. The route then widens to an undivided, five-lane roadway (with a middle turning lane) while concurrent with US 11.  LA 433 narrows slightly to a divided, four-lane road from US 11 to just east of I-10. From just east of I-10 to its terminus at US 90, LA 433 is an undivided, two-lane highway.

Major junctions

External links

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LADOTD Official Control Section Map - District 62
Eastern St. Tammany Parish Highway Map
Louisiana State Highway Log

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Transportation in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Slidell, Louisiana

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The Haynes Owner's Workshop Manuals (commonly known as Haynes Manuals) are a series of practical manuals from the British publisher Haynes Publishing Group. The series primarily focuses upon the maintenance and repair of automotive vehicles, covering a wide range of makes and models (300 models of car and 130 models of motorcycle); the manuals are aimed mainly at DIY enthusiasts rather than professional garage mechanics, as they lack the depth of coverage on particular vehicles or problems. The series includes a range of 'practical lifestyle' manuals in the same style for a range of topics, including domestic appliances and personal computers, digital photography, model railways, sport, animal care, men,
babies,
sex, and women. They also now publish the Bluffer's Guides collection.

Additionally, Haynes have released manuals based on popular fictional series including Star Trek and Thomas and Friends.

History
The Haynes manuals are named after John Harold Haynes (1938–2019) OBE. In 1956, when he was at school, he wrote and published a book on building a 'special' based on the Austin 7, and wrote two further books while performing national service in the Royal Air Force. J. H. Haynes & Co. Limited was founded on 18 May 1960 and the first manual actually entitled "Haynes Owners Workshop Manual", for the Austin-Healey Sprite, was published in 1965. Haynes was made an Officer of Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 1995 for services to publishing.  He died on 8 February 2019, aged 80.

Many Haynes Manuals bear a cover illustration of a cutaway view technical drawing of the vehicle, hand-drawn by Terry Davey, and they bear his signature. Haynes also publishes a range of Chilton manuals under license from Cengage.

In 2013, Haynes acquired Clymer repair manuals from Penton Media. In 2020, Haynes was acquired by Infopro Digital, a technical data company owned by TowerBrook Capital Partners, for  million.

End of new repair manual production
It was announced in December 2020 that Haynes would not produce any new repair manuals in the traditional style. All new repair content would be online only. Pre-existing titles remain available.

Stripdown and rebuild
The automotive vehicle manuals are based upon taking apart and putting together a vehicle. The cover of each manual states: "based on a complete strip-down and rebuild". Each section has step-by-step instructions with diagrams and photographs of an actual strip-down or rebuild.

For professionals
Manuals for garage professionals include books such as the Automotive Diesel Engine Service Guide, the Automotive Air Conditioning TechBook, Citroën and Peugeot Engine Management Systems, and two Engine Management and Fuel Injection Systems Pin Tables and Wiring Diagrams TechBook volumes.

Distribution
Haynes manuals are published in 15 languages: English (including British, American and Australian variants), French, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Czech, Finnish, Polish, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Greek, Danish, Spanish (including American Spanish versions), and Russian.

Location
The company is based in Sparkford, a village near Yeovil in Somerset, England. The Haynes International Motor Museum, is also in Sparkford and it is home to a large collection of both classic and modern cars, and many rarities.

Authorship
Haynes manuals are written by a pair of authors, a process which takes between 20 and 30 weeks.  The car or motorcycle is bought at the beginning of the project and sold at the end.

Although the workshop phase of the project usually lasts for roughly four weeks, the vehicle is usually retained for a couple of months to ensure it is functioning correctly.

Manufacturers
Haynes generally has the co-operation of the manufacturers to provide technical information such as mechanical tolerances and wiring diagrams. Haynes claims this provides customers with information that lets them fix their vehicle, to their ability, or at least diagnose the fault before taking it to a garage.

Over the lifetime of a vehicle, the aftermarket is worth perhaps as much as the new cost price of the vehicle, so the manufacturer still gets a significant revenue from the spare parts, so the longer a vehicle lasts, the more spare parts and servicing can be sold to the owner.

Fictional vehicles
Haynes also publishes manuals for fictional vehicles, such as the  from Star Trek and the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters.

See also
Chilton Company
Clymer repair manual
How-to
G. T. Foulis

References

External links
Haynes web site
Haynes US web site
Haynes Australia web site

Procedural knowledge
Technical communication
Automotive handbooks and manuals


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VW says worker efficiency deal saved €1.9 billion
By Nathan Allen
Published: Nov 17, 2017 4:49 a.m. ET
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Volkswagen AG (VOW.XE) on Friday said that its Volkswagen brand has saved 1.9 billion euros ($2.24 billion) through efficiency gains since signing an agreement with workers a year ago.
Volkswagen's management board and general works council said the savings correspond to 96% of the targets set for 2017, while the brand has also reached 94% of its planned early-retirement targets for 2020.
The agreement--known as the pact for the future--is expected to increase the brand's earnings by EUR3.7 billion a year from 2020 through sweeping operational changes, including the reduction of 23,000 existing jobs in Germany and the creation of 9,000 new jobs.
"We have made considerable progress with the pact for the future but we still have a demanding route ahead of us," said Volkswagen brand Chief Executive Herbert Diess.


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Collins Chabane - Inaugural Media Freedom Lecture and Colloquia
Programme Director, Chairperson of the Board of the National Library of South Africa, Professor Nkondo
Managing Director of wRite Associates, MS Seakhoa
Press Ombudsman, Mr Tlholwe
Distinguished guests
I am deeply honoured by the invitation extended by the wRite associates to participate in this inaugural Media Freedom Lecture and Colloquia.
It is my understanding that today's event is the first in a series of National Days Lectures and Colloquia/Dialogues on key issues or historical events in our nation's development, discussions designed to highlight critical issues and to stimulate our thinking on how we can move our dynamic society and economy forward.
The initiative and commitment to facilitate robust but also visionary and inspiring reflection and debate has been demonstrated by the composition and contribution of this evening's eminent panel to this first discussion.
Engagement of this kind is vital to our democracy, as it forms part of the on-going effort to focus the entire nation on issues that are of concern to all of us.
These are issues where we often have to be careful as we navigate the distinction between being diverse in outlook and approach, and being divided along historical or newly invented lines.
Social cohesion, national unity and national interest are not experiences or attributes that are bestowed on a society such as ours. Instead, their attainment is the product of continuous dialogue with its consequences of conflict and concession.
We may have achieved a particular, overarching political settlement in the early Nineties, but discussions continue in different modes and forums on a daily basis on a range of national issues around our key priorities of safety, health, education, employment and rural development. This is the crucible of Working Together.
Media, the subject of this evening's discussion, are a key witness and player in this national dialogue, as is to be expected in a vibrant democracy such as ours.
Media plays a role entrenched by our Constitution because the architects of our democratic Constitution, most of whom came from progressive movements, insisted on media freedom as a fundamental feature of our new society.
It is therefore appropriate that we participate in this inaugural event, in the month in which we marked National Press Freedom Day.
National Press Freedom Day is a liberated incarnation of Black Wednesday on the 19 of October 1977, when the apartheid regime declared illegal, 19 Black Consciousness organisations, banned two newspapers and detained scores of activists.
We are also gathering here just two days after government's annual strategic interaction with the national editors led by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, which followed another interaction between President Jacob Zuma and media owners.
In this context, we are inclined to assert without fear of contradiction that media in our country are free and that this freedom is a direct product of the struggle our people waged over centuries and decades against colonialism and apartheid.
Media practitioners and members of the intelligentsia, who sought to mobilise South Africans around the cause for freedom, and raise awareness internationally of the suppression and brutality that confronted us on home soil, shaped this struggle.
On the other hand, this struggle shaped many such practitioners and thinkers and the thought leadership they developed over time inside the country and elsewhere.
South Africa's liberation struggles, as led and contributed to by thinkers, writers, journalists and other media workers and organisations, date back centuries, as evidenced by contributions by the ruling party's founding and early leaders such as Charlotte Maxeke, Sol Plaatje, Pixley ka Isaka Seme and John Dube, to name but a few.
South Africa's turbulent history and the passage from apartheid to democracy has made its people remarkably news hungry, fed by a robust, free and flourishing press.
This is made possible by more than 20 daily and 13 weekly newspapers, most in English.
Some 14.5 million South Africans buy the urban dailies, while community newspapers have a circulation of 5.5 million.
There is also a range of general and specialised news websites which, in terms of the speed and breadth of their coverage, are on a par with the best in the world.
The proliferation of media reflects government's acceptance of the role that media play in our society in ways that cannot be taken for granted in other parts of our continent or the world at large.
The news mix ranges from profound commentary to an overhang of presentation that appears more entertaining than informative.
Political news often focuses on personality rather than policy, with calls to cynicism rather than calls to action often infused into coverage.
Our constitutional dispensation delivers the facility for the electorate to choose a leadership and set of policies that they believe will take the society forward.
This dispensation places government alongside a range of institutions of oversight created to ensure that all of us live up to the constitutional vision and that government is held to account.
Additionally, a free media is specifically cited as an integral part of our democracy.
All of this suggests that government and the media play crucial roles in upholding and protecting a democratic society. It would be fair to say that in a democratic society the one cannot exist without the other.
Against the background of the historical developments and progress in the country, and bearing in mind international approaches and best practice, further discussion and debate could focus on whether the respective roles are adequately described and delineated.
In practice, the right to freedom of speech is not absolute in any country and the right is commonly subject to limitations, such as on slander, obscenity and incitement to commit a crime.
The right to freedom of speech and expression, is closely related to other rights and may be limited when conflicting with other rights.
In South Africa the right to freedom of expression is expressly limited when it comes to propaganda for war; incitement of imminent violence; or advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion, and that constitutes incitement to cause harm.
The overall legal framework guarantees the right of all South Africans to freedom of expression. However, balancing the different rights in the Constitution against freedom of expression, divergent views as expressed in various court judgments have arisen.
Over the last decade the right to freedom of speech has been rigorously upheld by the courts.
However, several high courts have set major precedents by endorsing the principle of freedom of expression in defamation cases by public figures in the cause of it being in the "in the public interest".
A major responsibility facing the country is to deal with its dark history in terms of constructing a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society.
This is not just the responsibility of government; media are called upon, in the spirit of the Constitution, to use its influence and resources in helping the country to achieve this important goal.
This government sees freedom of the media as essential to build an open and inclusive information society, and to peace and development in general.
South Africa depends on a free press to be forthright and steadfast in rooting out injustice, campaign for morality and truth, uphold ideals of honesty and transparency in public life and above all, provide the platform for citizens to be informed of events that are inimical to their everyday existence.
This administration is responsive not only to the needs of our people, but also to how we are perceived by the nation, or how our country is perceived by our international counterparts.
Our next general election is just three years away as an important milestone along the road of our democratic development.
This election will coincide with our celebration of 20 Years of Democracy, with a sizeable proportion of the electorate in 2014 being new voters in a democratic dispensation.
In the year after our fifth general elections, we will have the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals, which will be another source of reflection on how we would have fared in two decades of democracy.
Right now, the National Planning Commission is developing Vision 2030, a blueprint for our development over the next 20 years. The plan of which will be released on the 11 of November.
I list these milestones – alongside our growing importance in the international system, to ask to what extent media are guiding South Africans towards these key developments and challenges.
Mobilising the nation in support of our developmental objectives and building faith in public institutions rather than creating a crisis of confidence. This is a challenge to which media could rise with the possible outcome of a vigilant yet motivated and high-achieving society.
Indeed, a motivated, high-performance, united, non-sexist, prosperous South Africa is one that will enable more South Africans to realise their rights under the Constitution than is the case today.
This is the common good; the national interest.
These are issues around which we need to build national morale and confidence, in order to inspire people to become active participants in taking this country further forward from the remarkable progress we have engineered since 1994.
Since 1994, media itself has undergone transformation, but one could ask if more couldn't be done to enhance the composition of newsrooms and ownership alike to represent the full diversity of South African society.
It is also crucial that media examine and improve the representation of women at all levels within the media industry.
One could also question whether the interplay between international media reporting and by local media is adequately interrogated, and whether the increasingly important role of social and new media in transcending boundaries is sufficiently considered.
We raise these questions in the interest of wishing to assist in the development of our media sector in the same way that we are helping other sectors of our economy and society to develop.
We also raise these questions as the country and the journalism profession in particular is discussing the industry conduct. The recent review of the Press Code of Conduct and the establishment of the Press Council are noted, we await the results of their work with bated breath.
We believe the efficiency of the country's media sector should reflect our overall development as a country and should establish this sector as a centre of excellence within our economy and our extensive programme of international relations.
We cannot place the nation before the choice of going with the elected government of the day, or with a vigilant media sector.
Our democracy needs both, alongside one another. Robust but respectful! Fearless, but dignified! Always working together!
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ROSEMONT, Ill. – Over the course of three days, international and national companies, accreditation organizations, scientists and various stakeholders invested in the halal industry gathered near Chicago to discuss the changing industry. The conference was hosted by the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA®).
The sessions covered a range of topics and featured a variety of speakers. Attendees heard about the benefits of working toward understanding commonalities in halal standards while also learning about the different halal standards for countries such as Pakistan, Algeria, the UAE, Indonesia, and Korea.
Speakers took a deep dive into the specifics of halal compliance and the role testing has in halal certification. Speakers covered managing the differences in standards required to meet the needs of different countries, specifically when addressing meat processing and the use of alcohol in flavors.
"Rather than one harmonized standard, what would work better is to have multiple standards with consensus across the regions," said Mark Overland, Global Halal/Kosher Manager for Cargill Inc., a multinational ingredient manufacturer.
Speakers agreed that to successfully reach collaboration on halal standards, there needs to be a more level playing field for certification with maximum transparency about processes and standards.
Per the Pew Research Center, the number of Muslims worldwide is expected to increase from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.8 billion in 2050. With the growing Muslim population comes the growth of the halal market and halal certified products. Revenue from halal certified food and beverage products is estimated to be $415 billion (2015).
Speakers encouraged participants and fellow panelists to more effectively leverage the industry's voice to bringing all the key stakeholders to the table and make halal a well regulated industry.


Sec. 2. The initiation fee shall be $10.00. One-half of the initiation fee shall accompany the application but it shall be refunded if the applicant is rejected.
Sec. 3. Each member shall pay annual dues, the same to be payable quarterly in advance at the first regular meetings in January, April, July, and October. The annual dues of members shall be $20.00, (excepting insured members under 26 years of age whose dues shall be one-half of that sum); honorary members who shall pay $6.00 and honorary life members who shall pay nothing. (With the exception of dues to be so paid by insurance members under 26), the dues of associate and insurance members shall be the same.
Sec. 4. The officers shall receive annual compensation, payable in quarterly installments at the end of each quarter, as follows: Chaplain (and Assistant Chaplains), an amount equal to their annual dues; Financial Secretary: From the council an amount equal to eight per cent of the moneys collected on account of dues from both insurance and associate members, payable in quarterly installments at the end of each quarter. From the Supreme Council, Payable annually at the end of each calendar year, thirty cents for each life insurance certificate registered through the council and in good standing at the end of the calendar year.
Section 1. The annual election of officers shall take place at a regular meeting held between May 15 to June 15.
Sec. 2. The election of officers shall be by ballot. A majority of all the votes cast shall be necessary to elect, except that where several of equal degree are to be chosen, a majority shall not be necessary, but all shall be voted for on one ballot and no ballot containing names of more or less candidates than there are such offices to be voted for shall be counted, and those receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected in the order of the number of votes received.
Sec. 4. Each officer elected must qualify and fill the office to which he is chosen, with or without installation, at the first regular meeting in the month of July succeeding his election, unless excused by vote of the Council, and must present himself for installation at the time specified in the notice issued by or through the state Deputy or District Deputy, unless excused by such officer. Otherwise such office shall be considered vacant.
Sec. 5. Vacancies in elective offices shall be filled after notice to the members, by election at the regular business meeting next succeeding the regular meeting at which the vacancy was created.
Section 1. Only members who are in good standing and who have been initiated in the first three Degrees of the Order shall be eligible to hold office in this Council. No members shall hold more than one office at the same time.
Sec. 2. The elective officers shall be as follows: Grand Knight, Deputy Grand Knight, Chancellor, Recorder, Treasurer, Advocate, Warden, Inside Guard, Outside Guard (two Outside Guards may bee elected) and Board of Trustees.
Sec. 3. The appointive officers shall be as follows: Financial Secretary, Lecturer, Chaplin, and Organist.
The Chaplain shall be selected by the Grand Knight, Deputy Grand Knight, and Board of Trustees in accordance with any rules established by the Bishop of the Diocese. The Grand Knight shall select the Lecturer and Organist.
Sec. 4. At the last regular business meeting in June of each year the Council shall determine the amount of the bond (if any) to be given by the Treasurer and the Financial Secretary in addition to the bond furnished by the Supreme Council, and the Treasurer and Financial Secretary shall not take office or be installed or receive any money or property of the Council until they have furnished such a bond and the same has been approved by the Board of Trustees. The premium on said bond shall be paid by the Council.
Sec. 5. The Council Officers shall perform the duties required of them by the Laws and Rules of the Order and by these By-Laws and such other duties as the Council may direct.
Sec. 6. Except when notice of applications shall be published as provided by section 110 of the laws and Rules, it shall be the duty of the Grand Knight, as early as practicable before each regular meeting, to file with the Recorder a list of candidates to be balloted upon at such meeting and the Recorder shall incorporate such information in the notice of said meeting to be sent to the members.
Sec. 7. At the end of each semiannual period the Board of Trustees shall meet and audit the several books of this Council and shall, at the first regular Business meeting of each semiannual period, make a full report of their findings, including the receipts and disbursements of the monies of this Council for the previous semiannual period, the balance on hand to the credit of each of the various funds at the end of each semiannual period, and the assets and liabilities of this Council. The Grand Knight shall issue the call for such meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Sec. 8. Where a member ipso facto forfeits his membership The Grand Knight and Financial Secretary shall immediately notify the Supreme Secretary of such forfeiture and shall immediately send notice in writing to the member, including the date and reason therefore. In those cases relating to ipso facto forfeiture for failure to pay Council dues, such notice shall not be sent to the Supreme Secretary or to the member until an officer or a member of the Conservation Committee shall contact the member and endeavor to have him retain his membership.
Section 1. Regular meetings of the Council shall be held every Wednesday each month. The first Wednesday each month shall be a regular business meeting. All meetings shall commence at 8:00 P.M. sharp. Six members shall constitute a quorum at business meetings.
Sec. 3. The following shall form part of the order of business and procedure at regular business meetings of this Council.
2. Warden�s Report on Membership Card.
4. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag or some suitable patriotic display of loyalty.
8. * Reading of Bills and Communications.
9. * Reading by Grand Knight of Receipts of Treasurer to Financial Secretary and Treasurers Voucher of Deposits.
10. * Reports of Committees.
11. Reading of applications after referral to Admission Committee.
13. Reading of Notices of applications in other Councils.
16. * Reports of Auditors or Trustees.
20. * Good of the Order.
21. Secretary�s Report of Receipts of Meeting.
*Parts of the order of business marked with an asterisk may be omitted at regular meetings other than regular business meetings. At regular business meetings, minutes of all meetings to and include the last regular business meeting shall be read.
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of all officers�s to attend each meeting of the Council. In case of inability of any officer to attend a meeting, due notice shall be given to the Grand Knight and arrangements made to have all necessary books and papers in the possession of such officer at the meeting, If a Chair Officer is absent from a meeting, the presiding officer shall designate a member to act for him.
Sec. 7. In the absence or inability of the Grand Knight the Deputy Grand Knight shall preside and he shall execute all of the duties of the Grand Knight. In the absence of the Grand Knight and the Deputy Grand Knight the duty of presiding shall devolve on the other officers of the Council in the order in which they are named in section 126 of the Laws of the Order.
Sec. 8. If any meeting shall fall on a legal holiday said meeting shall be held the following day unless the Council, by vote at a previous business meeting, annul such meeting or fix a different date for such meeting within the month for which it is scheduled.
Section 1. The Grand Knight and Deputy Grand Knight shall privately inspect the ballot box, both before and after the ballot, and the former shall announce the result. Balloting of candidates shall be in charge of the Warden who shall distribute ballots to all members present. He shall place the ballot box on the salutation table and take his place six feet there-from. He shall then request that all officers vote and after they have voted, he shall request the members to vote. They shall advance in single file and deposit their ballots, but no member shall pass the warden until the member preceding him has voted. After all who desire to do so have voted, the Warden shall exhibit the ballot box to the Grand Knight and Deputy Grand Knight and they shall count the votes. If the number of negative ballots cast does not exceed one-half of the number present, the applicant shall be declared elected, otherwise rejected. The exact number of negative ballots shall not be stated. If more than one candidate is to be balloted for at a meeting, the Grand Knight may announce that the first ballot shall be a general one upon all the candidates, and that if not more than one-half of those present shall cast negative ballots upon such general ballot, no other ballots shall be taken. If such announcement is made, and not more than one-half negative ballots are cast upon said general ballot, all candidates so balloted for shall be declared elected. If more than one-half negative ballots are cast upon said general ballot, then an individual ballot shall be taken on each candidate.
(e) Director of Council Activities who will be concerned with the promotion of brotherhood through athletic, cultural, and social programs. Additionally, he will be responsible for the development of public relations in the council.
(f) Director of Youth Activities to provide the youth of the community with the means and the opportunity to become personally committed and involved in meeting the challenges of our times. He will also be responsible for the promotion of the Order�s junior organization, the Columbian Squires.
(g) Such other Committees as may be required by these by-laws.
Sec. 2. The Treasurer shall deposit all moneys received from the Financial Secretary in a bank to the credit of the council. Disbursements from this fund shall be made only by check signed by the Grand Knight, Financial Secretary, and Treasurer. The depository bank shall be furnished with a copy of this section.
Sec. 3. No money in excess of $50.00 shall be paid or transferred from the treasury of this Council (except such moneys as the Council is called upon to regularly pay for its current expenses and as provided by the Laws of the Order, or for purposes approved by the Supreme Council or Board of Directors) unless by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at a regular business meeting at which notice in writing of a resolution of intention to pay or transfer such money and the purpose and amount to be paid or transferred shall have been given and regularly read.
Sec. 5. The sum of $50.00 annually shall be paid from the General Fund to the Financial Secretary and shall be known as the Relief Fund. The Grand Knight, Financial Secretary and Treasurer shall constitute a Relief Committee. They shall investigate the case of any brother who is reported to be in distress or in need of relief and if in their judgment the case is deserving of assistance, they shall have power to draw from this relief fund such reasonable sum of money to afford assistance as the circumstances of the case may require, provided that in no single case shall more than$25.00 be paid out without reference to approval by the Council.
Sec. 6. As required, funds may be designated to provide and maintain a suitable meeting place for this Council provided that such funds be approved by at least two thirds vote of the members present at a regular business meeting.
ARTICLE VIII � Funerals, Etc.
Section 1. On the death of a regular member in good standing the Memorial Committee shall give notice to the members, and if time permits, shall request them to assemble and pay their respects to the memory of the deceased at a time and place to be indicated in such notice.
Sec. 3. The Memorial Committee shall arrange for the celebration during the month of November of each year of a Requiem Mass for the repose of the souls of the deceased members and shall cause five days� notice to be given to the members of the time and place of such Mass. The Mass shall be celebrated by the Chaplain unless he is indisposed.
Sec. 4. The Council shall receive Holy Communion in a body during the Easter period, at a time and place to be determined by vote of the Council.
These By-Laws adopted by vote of the Council, October 5, 1977.


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Red Dead Redemption 2 Review
Parvinder Singh
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a Western-themed open-world action adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is available for preorder now, and is scheduled to be released on October 26th, 2018.
In the original Red Dead Redemption, players followed John Marston on his quest to hunt down members of his former gang in order to protect his own family from their wrath. This time around, Red Dead Redemption 2 follows Arthur Morgan as he rises through the ranks of the Van der Linde gang while they try to survive in a changing world.
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Red Dead Redemption 2's story is an excellent continuation of the first game's narrative. The plot focuses on Arthur as he struggles with a life of crime and works to improve himself. In the process, he learns about himself and comes to recognize those who have truly become his friends.
These people make him realize that there are other ways to live besides being a wanted outlaw. You do not need to play the first Red Dead Redemption to understand what is happening in this game, but fans will appreciate seeing how events from that game have affected some of the returning characters as well as seeing how their past actions continue to affect them in this one.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a powerhouse. A big, heavy, gorgeous, violent game that will push your hardware to its limits. But if you can run it (and I mean if you can run it), do yourself a favor: buy the thing. It's hard for me to find the words that are rare in game reviews: this game is worth your time.
The production values are through the roof, with incredible graphics and sound design that make the world feel more real and alive than it has any right to be. The writing is top-notch, with realistic characters that are deeply flawed in a way that makes them more human than any other game I've played (I'm looking at you, Bioware).
The gameplay is varied and contains tons of little systems that have been well-polished to work together seamlessly—a great example of this is how easy it is to track or hunt animals just by pressing the "Y" button.
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The first Red Dead Redemption was a monumental achievement in video game storytelling. Bringing the Wild West to life like never before, the game had an emotional depth that I wasn't prepared for. It earned its place as one of my favorite games ever.
RDR2 improves on that formula in every way possible. The story is more nuanced, the characters are richer, and the world is more immersive. While there's a lot to talk about in this review—the opening of the game, for instance, is a masterpiece—I want to start with what I think is RDR2's crowning achievement: its cast of characters.
Red Dead Redemption 2 starts with Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang at the peak of their power—they're riding high after a successful heist, but they know that their time is quickly running out. At the center of this story is Arthur Morgan himself: a man who has lived by his own code his entire life and now finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dutch van der Linde and his desire to escape the gang forever and settle down with his love, Abigail.
I don't want to get into spoilers here, but I can say that the story does not disappoint.
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If you haven't heard about Red Dead Redemption 2 yet, it's a western game set in 1899 that follows the outlaw Arthur Morgan and his gang as they are driven further and further into hiding by the changing world around them. While Red Dead Redemption 2 is a direct sequel to the first game, set 12 years after the original, you don't need to play RDR1 to enjoy this one. The story follows a completely different group of people, although there are some characters from the original game who might show up from time to time.
The story is incredible. It's not just a long string of missions that get boring after awhile—this is a huge open world with dozens of towns, outposts, and campsites where you can encounter all sorts of people, get involved in their stories, or just ride off into the sunset on your own. There are plenty of races and mini-games like poker and dominoes if you want a break from the main storyline.
Be warned: Red Dead Redemption 2 is incredibly violent. There are heists, shootouts, and more gunfights than I ever expected in a video game.
The Van der Linde gang has been around for about 20 years at this point, but it's about to experience some major changes. When we first meet up with them, they're hanging out high in the mountain range by Strawberry. As we progress through the game, we'll get to see how this gang functions while hiding out in several other locations across America, and we'll also meet members of the gang who aren't with us when we first meet them. This is useful since some characters only join your gang after you've completed a specific mission or task.
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When I first got my hands on Red Dead Redemption 2, it was a dream come true. The opening cinematic of the game is pure wordless beauty, drawing you in with the gorgeous vistas and their accompanying music to set the tone of the game. It relies on powerful imagery to tell its story. Like any great work of art, it is meant to be appreciated on multiple levels: the visuals are stunningly gorgeous and the accompanying music is moody and atmospheric.
But there is also an inherent message that speaks to the sort of story Rockstar Games wanted to tell in this game: a story about how we slowly lose touch with nature and our connection with it as we become less aware of how it affects us. It's a message that resonated with me deeply as someone who has lived in cities for most of his life but has always enjoyed venturing into nature for camping trips and similar adventures.
The game certainly doesn't rely solely on its opening cinematic to hook players – it also does a great job at introducing you to all its mechanics as well as giving you your first taste of gameplay. It accomplishes this by putting you into a sort of bubble during your time in camp; nothing pulls you out of the experience.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game in which you can do almost anything and go anywhere, but one of the clever tricks developer Rockstar Games uses to get you invested in its world is to start by keeping you stuck in a single location. The first hours of this Western epic are tightly focused on a group of outlaws and their camp, which makes that small area feel immense.
After some slick cinematics that introduce the main characters and the setting, your character is given the freedom to roam around the camp. You're at first limited to just a few paths, but soon you're able to go wherever you want within the perimeter of the camp. This helps establish an idea of how big the place is without overwhelming you with too much information all at once.
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Red Dead Redemption 2's opening few hours are its strongest. The only thing you really have to focus on is the gang that Dutch has pulled you into, and that's a good thing, because it's a stellar cast of characters. When I was first dropped into the middle of the camp with the gang, I felt like I was back in high school, sitting around a campfire with my best friends.
The conversations are witty and playful, but they also feel grounded by the fact that you're all in this together. Your character may be an outlaw, but he seems to genuinely care about Dutch and his gang members—not out of any real loyalty, but because they're people he's getting to know and his best chance at survival right now.
I knew the world of the Wild West was enormous and that Red Dead Redemption 2's map would be massive. But I didn't realize how much time I would spend just staring at the thing until I saw it in action.
Despite the fact that it's a self-contained fictional world, RDR2's map still feels like an actual space. Like a physical depiction of a continent. It's a beautiful piece of art with so much personality packed into every inch of it.
When you first open the map, you're given a few options: You can fast travel to any place on the map, or you can start from your current location to explore what's immediately available to you. Either way, there is plenty of space for you to get lost in and plenty of reasons to do so. You could spend hours just traveling from one side to another without encountering anything more than your next target destination and simply enjoying the sights along the way. The world is alive with wildlife, from rabbits to deer to bears and moose—and sometimes even wolves and cougars—all scurrying about their own business, unaware (or seemingly uncaring) about your presence in their home territory.
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Changing the perception's of Aids forever, Bordowitz describes how it feels to survive certain death
Gregg Bordowitz's Fast Trip, Long Drop
Changing perceptions of Aids forever, Bordowitz describes how it feels to survive certain death
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Taken from the August issue of Dazed & Confused:
Gregg Bordowitz's Fast Trip, Long Drop changed the world's perception of Aids forever. Karen Orton talks to the filmmaker about how it feels to survive certain death "Fuck you," spits Gregg Bordowitz in a mocked-up TV studio in his acclaimed autobiographical 1993 documentary Fast Trip, Long Drop. "I don't want to be yours or anyone else's fucking model. I'm not a hero. I'm not a revolutionary body, I'm not an angel... I'm just try to reconcile the fact that I'm going to die with the daily monotony of my life." With the raw, starkly honest film, shot on grainy video, the then 29-year-old activist/filmmaker revealed the most intimate aspects of his life, from how he discovered he is HIV-positive to coming out to his parents and confronting his sex life, his past, his fantasies and his fears for a future that seemed non-existent. Produced at a time when the Aids crisis in New York City was at its height, it made him an underground poster-boy for a generation of young, HIV-positive gay men facing down their own mortality.
"I thought Fast Trip would be my last film," Bordowitz says today. "It was a militant, angry, corrosive film. I thought I was dying; I felt I could say anything. I wanted to represent what people with Aids in my immediate circles were experiencing, which was death, contemplations of suicide, mourning and defeat. I wanted to break all the taboos and open the discussion."
It's early in New York City, but he has already been up writing for hours as per his daily routine. Now 48, he looks weary. His mother has cancer and the interview has been fit around her needs. His 29-year-old self probably didn't think he would see the end of the year, never mind live long enough to experience the pain of losing a parent.
A working-class Jewish kid from Long Island with a fiery political consciousness (he declared himself a socialist at 14), Bordowitz moved to Manhattan in the early 80s to study painting and lived in the East Village with his girlfriend. Like many of his downtown peers, he had relationships and slept with both men and women. As he searched for a way to merge his art and his activism, Bordowitz grew interested in documentary filmmaking. "Video was the anti-painting of the time," he says, "and for me it was interesting because it was largely in the hands of women."
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Soon he was out on the streets with his camera, documenting the gay-rights protests that grew out of the landmark 1986 Bowers vs Hardwick ruling, in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of an anti-sodomy law in the state of Georgia. Identity politics were taking centre stage, and Bordowitz increasingly identified with the gay community and the fledgling Aids-activism movement. "The Aids crisis began to take more of a political shape," he remembers. "The Reagan administration ignored what was clearly a health crisis in the gay community. It was very scary because no one knew what the cause was."
The gay community began to self-educate through such works as How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach (1982), but education would need to be coupled with militancy. "The Reagan administration was advocating for internment camps for people with HIV," Bordowitz recalls, his voice rising. "Jerry Falwell, the leader of Christian right group Moral Majority, declared that Aids was God's punishment to homosexuals. William F Buckley, a famous right-wing pundit, said homosexuals should be tattooed on their ass and drug users on their arms, to shame the sick and make it easy to identify high-risk groups. We got the feeling that the right wing and the Republican Party were willing to let us die because they hated us."
It was in this febrile atmosphere that direct-action advocacy group Act Up (Aids Coalition To Unleash Power) was born, when Aids activist and playwright Larry Kramer declared at a New York lecture in March 1987 that it was time to get angry and fight back. Later that month, Bordowitz went to Act Up's first protest, which took place on Wall Street. Stockbrokers on their way to work stared incredulously at the young activists loudly chanting, "You could get it too." Kramer remembers Bordowitz in those days: "He was young and full of energy and ideas and incredibly handsome – startling so." New York City at the time was oppressive. Bordowitz describes it as "horrible. If you were gay and your lover died and your name wasn't on the apartment lease, you would be kicked out. And lots of people were being kicked out of their apartments, just out of fear." The healthcare system wasn't any better: nurses would leave food in the hallway outside the rooms of Aids patients for fear of touching them. "The public was horrified and no one really understood what Aids was. There were a lot of myths."
Although Bordowitz hadn't yet been tested, he knew Aids could easily become more to him than something he was fighting on the behalf of others. That fear informed his decision to leave behind his academic career to focus on activism and video work. "I didn't think I needed school because of the kind of sex I was having, the risks I had taken," he says, thinking back. "I hadn't tested positive yet, but I thought I wasn't going to live to see the benefits of academic credentials." He co-founded film collective Testing the Limits, which documented Act Up's early protests in its first film, one of the first records of Aids activism. "Our early demonstrations were not covered by the dominant media. We had to make our own media for legitimation, self-representation and our own historical record."
I thought I was dying; I felt I could say anything
Within a year, Act Up began challenging government healthcare policy, demanding faster access to and more investment in new drugs. On October 11, 1988, over 1,000 activists surrounded the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Maryland and tried to take over the building, achieving unprecedented media exposure. "It wasn't the first act of civil disobedience, but it was the sheer scale, the boldness of it," Bordowitz remembers. "The FDA was doing a terrible job of testing and releasing medications." Mark Harrington, co-founder of Aids-activist organisation Treatment and Action Group, worked with Bordowitz on the FDA protest. "Gregg was one of the instigators of the FDA action," he remembers. "He was handsome, dark, charismatic and articulate."
Earlier that year, Bordowitz's life had changed forever. "I went to this anonymous testing site with my friend, tested positive and was told that 'statistically' I had a year to live, and that I needed to get things in order," he remembers. "I mean, I don't know exactly what a 24-year-old working-class kid has to get in order. I had nothing to will except a pile of used Marxist books and a futon – though I think I was more afraid of dying then." What he did next was characteristic – he walked out of the clinic and into that night's weekly Act Up meeting, where he announced his status to a stunned room that included a number of his sexual partners. It was taboo then to come out as having Aids in Act Up, and he felt it important to end the secrecy. "It was unusual at the time," Harrington says, "and I remember his bravery."
Act Up's weekly meetings were intense: people debated, organised, taught and consoled each other. "People were dying daily – every meeting started with a list of people who had died that week," Bordowitz remembers. "We were aware that many of the people in the room were infected, or their lovers, their fathers, their best friends. It was a terrible time, yet Act Up was a truly exciting place, a sexy place. The meetings became one of the hot gay nights to go to, but also a place for people to bring their anger and grief." Meanwhile, he and filmmaker Jean Carlomusto produced cable TV show Living with Aids (1988–94). "In the media, people with Aids were not shown," Bordowitz says. "They were masked, placed in a shadow or had their voice changed. The only images we saw of ourselves were of people dying." Living with Aids set out to change that. "We only interviewed people with HIV who were surviving and thriving – people fighting for their lives, taking care of themselves, taking drugs on the underground, fighting for expanded drug access and trials and changing the ways that drugs were manufactured and distributed in the US."
Carlomusto remembers those years well: "Gregg and I were always on the move, acquiring footage from Act Up actions. Our relationship was like brother and sister. We had many brothers and sisters. This level of caring made it difficult when the numbers of sick and dying mounted hideously in the 90s. Gregg was increasingly aware that he might well die soon, and many of the men in Act Up shared this fear. The tensions in the group rose along with levels of burnout and grief. It took its toll."
As things got increasingly bleak, Bordowitz found that the "surviving and thriving" narrative was wearing thin. His time was being spent in hospital rooms as a primary caregiver for his friends. "The early 90s were the worst. My best friend, Ray Navarro, died in '91. So many others died then. The mood was very sombre and we were burnt out. Act Up felt like it was falling apart." People tried anything to self-medicate themselves, from buying alternative drug treatments underground to making them at home. "Shiitake mushrooms, lipid drinks – people were desperate."
In 1991 his health worsened. He left the show and started work on Fast Trip, Long Drop. "Surviving and thriving felt like a lie. With Fast Trip, I felt we had to break the mould of Aids media. If it was to continue and be valuable, it had to be honest."
On the advent of Bill Clinton's election at the end of 1992, activists hoped that official policy might become more proactive, but it was years until the first truly effective medications were available. Seriously ill, Bordowitz was unable to attend Fast Trip's New York premiere. But he pulled through, and in 1996 his system was stabilised by powerful new medications called protease inhibitors. His films A Cloud in the Trousers (1995) and The Suicide (1996) appropriated the work of Soviet artists, reflecting an ongoing struggle to balance activism and art, and, in the latter, to come to terms with a new lease on life. Filmmaker and close friend Liza Johnson (Return, 2011), who interned on The Suicide, says: "There's been an ongoing shift in Gregg's work as the nature of the Aids crisis changed. He's constantly rethinking what constitutes political representation."
He returned to academia in 1995 and has remained there ever since. He is currently a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his classes are hugely popular. Bordowitz remains haunted by the inequality within the global Aids epidemic, however, and made it the subject of Habit (2001), a follow-up to Fast Trip, Long Drop that examined the history of Aids in South Africa and the US. More recently, he staged Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality as an opera at the Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, in 2010, and gave a performance/lecture based on Foucault at the Tate Modern in 2011. He has also given poetry readings at MoCA in Los Angeles and received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, among others.
The glorious footage captured by Bordowitz and friends in the early days of Aids activism formed the basis of award-winning 2012 documentaries How to Survive a Plague and United in Anger. Today that footage, along with Fast Trip, Long Drop, is the people's archive of an era defined by impassioned struggle and huge losses. "Gregg captured the anger and desperation of that time," Carlomusto says. "He also included the growing sadness that now attached itself to all the activist footage. At first that footage symbolised empowerment, but by 93-94, many of those in that footage were dead or dying. With Fast Trip, Long Drop, he crafted a compelling autobiographical work that was both a search for paternity in a time of abandonment and a loving portrait of our people."
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Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem
Sinclair, A.R.E and Norton-Griffiths, M (Editors)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Chicago
Our classification: Natural history
Found: *
Book ID 244
Rinderpest
Sinclair, A.R.E and Norton-Griffiths, M (Editors) Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem, 1979
Extract Date: 1880's
A viral disease which affects ruminants
A viral disease which affects ruminants. It occurs naturally in Asia, and was introduced to Africa in the 1880s. Immunity can be acquired, provided the animal survives a year.
Extract ID: 865
Extract Date: 1890-2
Rinderpest struck East Africa in 1890
Rinderpest struck East Africa in 1890, and in two years 95 percent of the buffalo and wildebeest there had died. So began a series of events of such profound ecological importance that the repercussions are still being felt today. [see also under Maasai for the efects on them]
Extract Date: 1917-18
further outbreaks of Rinderpest
Extract Date: 1923
milder strain of rinderpest appears
milder strain of Rinderpest appears, and animals begin to acquire immunity
further outbreaks of Rinderpest. In each case the disease spread from northern Tanzania southward.
no outbreaks detected in wild species
reappeared with heavy mortality
Last year that rinderpest was detected in wildebeest
Last year that Rinderpest was detected in wildebeest of the Serengeti, Mara, and Ngorongoro, and 1963 was the last year for buffalo.
Serengeti Research Institute
At the present time all monitoring has ceased
At the present time all monitoring has ceased because of lack of funding.
Dr. Tumaina Mcharo
Directorship of the Serengeti Research Institute
..continued it [Directorship of the Serengeti Research Institute] until 1976.
Eruptions have been recorded in 1917, 1921, 1940 etc
Eruptions have been recorded in 1917, 1921, 1940 and 1966.
was built with a major grant from the Fritz Thyssen
was built with a major grant from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and additional buildings were provided by the Caesar Kleburg Foundation [of Texas A & M University]. Operating costs were provided by the Ford Foundation, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and Tanzania National Parks.
Dr. Michael Norton-Griffiths
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Sixth Circuit Establishes New Precedent Sustaining Class-Action Claims Against Timeliness
Recognizing its precedential significance, the Sixth Circuit on May 24, 2013, ordered the publication of its previously unpublished April 16, 2013, opinion rejecting contentions that a telemarketing-fraud case was time barred. Victims of the telemarketing scheme argued that under the Supreme Court's 1974 American Pipe decision, the filing of a prior class action complaint tolled the limitations period on their federal claims, and that a federal statute, 28 U.S.C. §1367(d), tolled the limitations period on their state-law claims – permitting them to file follow-on class actions when the initial case terminated without obtaining class-wide relief. The defendants urged that a Sixth Circuit decision interpreting American Pipe permitted the filing of individual claims but barred further litigation on behalf of a class. Defendants also argued that the court should hold, as a matter of first impression, that §1367(d) applies only to named parties' claims and does not toll the time for claims of a class to be asserted. The Sixth Circuit flatly rejected both contentions in an opinion holding that American Pipe permits a follow-on class action if class certification was never definitively in the initial action, and that §1367(d) protects class members as well as named plaintiffs. See In re Vertrue Inc. Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, No. 10-3928 (6th Cir., decided April 16, 2013; published May 24, 2013).


First, I apologize for not remembering to take a picture before I ate last night, I was just so excited to try it!!! This is a different way to cook up pork chops and it is delicious!!
1-I used agave but maple syrup lovers could substitute that instead. The original recipe title (this is not that recipe) listed maple syrup and balsamic with pork tenderloin. So I thought, why not agave instead with balsamic and pork chops.
2-The recipe I used for the corn bread is adapted from another blog. So, in order to give credit where credit is due, if you would like that recipe you can find it HERE.
-Place pork chops in a marinating dish all day, or at least 1 hour before cooking.
-Cover the chops with the agave and balsamic.
-Preheat oven at 425 degrees. If you are using a cast iron skillet or stoneware, spray with non-stick spray and place in the oven as it preheats.
-In a medium mixing bowl mix together all the ingredients, except the corn, until evenly mixed. Then fold in the corn, until even mixed.
-Pour cornbread mixture into pan and bake for 20-25.
-place chops on a pan to broil, baste 1/3 cup of the marinade on the chops as they go into the broiler.
-Broil about 4 minutes then flip the chops and baste with the remaining marinade.
-Broil for another 4 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees.


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8 new shows to watch this summer
By Sandra Gonzalez (CNN)
(CNN) — It may be summer, but if you're not the sun and sand type, you're in luck: Your best friend television is here to keep you company.
In addition to the impending return of some existing favorites -- "Luke Cage" (June 22), "GLOW" (June 29), and "Power" (July 1) -- summer will bring with it a few new television shows that could be worth checking out.
Here are eight of our picks:
"Pose" (June 3, FX)
This Ryan Murphy-created dance musical, which has the largest-ever cast of transgender actors in series regular roles, explores various walks of life and society in 1980s New York, from the underground ball culture to the lavish lifestyles of high-rise executives. It's a heart-tugger, filled with up-and-coming talent, and a reminder that even New York City has some beautiful, under-told stories left in it.
"Dietland" (June 4, AMC)
Based on the book by Sarai Walker, this dark comedy follows the story of Plum Kettle, an aspiring writer whose stalled personal and professional life gets an injection of intrigue when she ends up on the radar of a female empowerment group that focuses more on effective action than affirmations. Joy Nash ("The Mindy Project," "Twin Peaks") stars as the main character and Julianna Margulies plays her boss, a high-powered fashion magazine editor.
"Condor" (June 6, DIRECTV)
This conspiracy thriller is about a young CIA analyst (Max Irons) whose brilliant mind turns out to be both a great asset and a great detriment. When his entire office ends up dead, Joe is suspect number one and must try to stay alive while getting to the bottom of a far-reaching conspiracy and stop them from completing their deadly objective that threatens the lives of millions. So, you know, just another day at the office .
"American Woman" (June 7, Paramount Network)
Inspired by the childhood of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kyle Richards, this 1970s-set sitcom-with-an-edge features Alicia Silverstone playing a mom and housewife who redefines her life path after her cheating husband takes a hike.
"Yellowstone" (June 30, Paramount Network)
Oscar-winner Kevin Costner and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan ("Hell or High Water") team up for this drama about how not simple ranch life can be. Costner stars as John Dutton, the patriarch of the family who owns the largest ranch in the United States, and the show follows a world where shifting alliances, family drama and a battle for respect keep the landowners in constant battles with those it borders.
"Sharp Objects" (July 8, HBO)
Marti Noxon, who is also behind "Dietland," continues her summer of domination with this psychological thriller based on the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name. The miniseries stars Amy Adams as Camille Preaker, a reporter recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital who goes back to her hometown to cover the murders of two young girls.
"Castle Rock" (July 25, Hulu)
From Stephen King and J.J. Abrams, this 10-episode horror anthology series has an all-star cast that include Terry O'Quinn, André Holland and Sissy Spacek. It's set in the Stephen King multiverse and, according to Hulu, "combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland." In other words, just put it on your watchlist and then see if it's your cup of tea because descriptions won't be helpful.
"Jack Ryan" (August 31, Amazon)
John Krasinski takes another large step away from his Jim Halpert persona in this Amazon action series based on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels. The series is said to be "a reinvention with a modern sensibility of the unexpected Tom Clancy hero." All signs point to Amazon having confidence in the first batch of eight one-hour episodes -- the show has already been renewed for a second season.


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Kelley Shinn
The Wounds That Bind Us
The Wounds That Bind Us is the improbable true story of Kelley Shinn, an orphan at birth who loses her legs at the age of sixteen to a rare bacterial pathogen. She becomes an avid off-road racer and, as a single mother, attempts to drive around the globe in a Land Rover with her three-year-old daughter in tow to bring light to the plight of land mine survivors. With unflinching honesty, exceptional lyricism, and biting humor, Shinn ("that's two Ns and no shins") takes readers on a wild journey—literal and emotional—filled with striking characters and landscapes, heartbreaks, and hard-won insights, ultimately arriving at a place of profound redemption.
Told with the energy and intensity of the adventure story it is, this terrifically rich and nuanced examination of a life is also a careful meditation on renewal—a remapping of the world. Guided by the narrator's keen introspection and her ability to look resolutely at harrowing sorrows and still find hope, joy, and meaning, The Wounds That Bind Us will resonate deeply, long after the last page.
Kelley Shinn lives on Ocracoke, North Carolina, a remote island twenty-six miles from the coast. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Fourth Genre, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and elsewhere.
"It is impossible to put down this book. The story of Kelley Shinn's often dangerous but always thrilling and adventurous life will leave you breathless and awed. The courage, compassion, and joy with which Shinn lives her life is inspiring. She is the person every parent would want to see their child grow to be, the mother every kid wishes they had."
Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane
"This memoir of single motherhood, disability, and an unlikely off-road adventure around the world delivers just what I'm looking for in my reading these days: courage. That, and fine writing, unforgettable characters, suspense, humor, tenderness, and a profound yet humble sense of moral purpose. Kelley Shinn is a marvel, and her book, despite its pain, makes a better world feel possible."
Belle Boggs, author of The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
"The Wounds That Bind Us offers perennial relevance in a fresh literary manner. Kelley Shinn invites the reader, the voyeur, the accidental tourist into a world that is a brilliant jewel box of precise, complex, and beautiful turns, with language that bites and soothes the wound in the same stroke. These personal narratives, written with a deliberate genius of craft, usher an arresting memoir that lifts heavy veils and becomes bountiful succor for the parched truths we share."
Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate
"A beautiful book about how the things we love are torn away from us and about the ways we hold on. Shinn is an anatomist of velocity. Thrilling."
Thomas Beller, author of J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist


I had the privilege of shooting my friend and coworker's beautiful space a few weeks back. I spent about half the time asking her where she bought everything, and even ended up commandeering a lamp and a plant! The space was so lovely, and so thoughtful, not to mention that patio?!
Thank you Amy and Henry for opening up your beautiful home!


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Recently, solving fuzzy versions of linear system of equations has been attracted many interests. As we know, unfortunately any practical method for finding a general solution of these systems is not at hand. In this paper, we concentrate on solving fully fuzzy linear system of equations and propose Huang method for computing a nonnegative solution of the fully fuzzy linear system of equations.