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You are in: Entertainment: Music
Wednesday, 25 April, 2001, 12:54 GMT 13:54 UK
Neil Finn, reluctant hero
Neil Finn: Looking for new horizons
Former Crowded House vocalist Neil Finn will be touring the UK in May following the release of his new solo album One Nil.
He spoke to the BBC's Brendan Cole about the new album and his upcoming tour.
When Neil Finn split up Crowded House on the cusp of stadium-rock success, many thought he had temporarily taken leave of his senses.
Fellow band member Paul Hester said when the band had ended, they were only two albums away from becoming the biggest in the world.
In the end good songwriting wins out and that is what I try to do
Neil Finn
Indeed their finale in Sydney in 1996 was attended by 120,000 people, the world's biggest gig that year.
But Finn has always been non-plussed about that kind of status and more interested in getting back to what he loves doing - writing songs.
His view is that the time was right for the band to part ways.
Finn's career blossomed with Crowded House
"We released four really strong albums with Crowded House and we can be proud of that.
"But I am always looking for the next valley and the next hill.
"I have always tried to move in different directions with each album because it is more interesting to expand your horizons."
And despite going solo, it's not as if he can't rock with a band now and again.
Earlier this month in Auckland, New Zealand, he played a three-hour set and was joined on stage by a Premiership line-up of talent which included Johnny Marr of the Smiths, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Ed O'Brien of Radiohead.
"It was an amazing experience, we had a joyous time and had a lot of fun rehearsing for 13 days.
"We all admire each other and I wanted to put on an event people could remember.
"It was just rollicking good fun, " he said.
The feel on One Nil, a pun on the way his fellow Kiwis pronounce Neil, is tender and astoundingly personal, with one song almost a direct ode to his wife.
It is a bit of a surprise coming from a man who guarded his privacy so much so that very few fans even knew he was married.
"It's always been challenging trying to continue having a family life and working in this industry because they are different worlds.
"But I'm lucky in that I have always been able to have my family tour with me.
"It's important to get the right balance."
Finn is an unlikely star, more comfortable hanging out in his beach house in Kare Kare, Auckland (where the film The Piano was shot) than schmoozing with celebrities.
He has websites dedicated to following his every move including one which even details his hair style changes over the years.
Feted
"I like the fact the people listen to my music everywhere in the world.
"But I don't want to be feted and lauded everywhere I go, I lead a pretty normal life, I just want to blend in.
"Songwriting never gets any easier no matter how long you have been doing it.
"You never really perfect a song, but I know it works when you feel something inside you.
"And I find if I take a break, it's always easy to come back to it."
Finn's doesn't mind having to compete with the gloss of "manufactured" bands.
"I think that is the state of the charts everywhere.
Good songwriting
"People have learned to manipulate a package.
"But in the end good songwriting wins out and that is what I try to do."
His UK audiences in May will have plenty of past and present material to look forward to.
"I think people will get something old and something new.
"They will have a good time and we may throw in a few suprise songs as well.
"I am really looking forward to touring the new album.
"I feel very blessed to be doing what I'm doing and to have people enjoying my music."
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The 49ers Path to Contending in 2019
David Lehr
While going from the bottom of the league to the top in a single season is a very difficult road, and one which requires many things going right, it's far from unheard of. In 2000, the Patriots, with Bill Belichick, went 5-11; a season later, they were 11-5 and Super Bowl champions. Only a few years earlier, Kurt Warner and the Rams went from 4-12 in 1998 to 13-3 in 1999, winning a Super Bowl. It is noteworthy to mention both those teams had a different starting Quarterback the season previous from their success, just as the 49ers will have Garopollo healthy next year, ready for his first full season. Although it didn't end in a Super Bowl, we saw the Rams go from the absolute worst team in the league in 2016 to a true contender in 2017, and here we are in 2018 with the Rams atop the league (with a star studded roster nonetheless) halfway through the season. The point is this: while it will not be easy, the 49ers have a great opportunity to turn the franchises' direction around and become a competitive, legitimate contender.
Although their record and recent play may not show it, the 49ers are very close to where they want to be. The secondary, outside of Richard Sherman, has struggled all year, in part due to a weak pass rush. The beautiful thing about defense in the NFL is how much of an impact one or two players can have on the entire unit. Richard Sherman, when healthy, has been absolutely stellar this season, and has shown little to no regression following his knee surgery in the offseason. I believe all it would take is one more player in the secondary, whether it be a corner or safety, to give the team a big boost in coverage. On top of that, it is likely the 49ers will have a top 3 or 5 pick in the draft, and there are many elite level pass rushers currently in college (6 of the top 7 prospects are either DT's or DE's) who are declaring for the NFL draft after this season. For example, if the 49ers draft Nick Bosa, and can add a star through free agency like Giants standout safety Landon Collins or someone like CB Ronald Darby, and pair them with Rueben Foster, Fred Warner and DeForest Buckner, that would immediately catapult them to a top ten defense in the league. John Lynch has also proven he is not opposed to making trades, and has big balls when attempting to do so, as evidenced by his inquiring if Tom Brady was available during last season. He needs to at least pick up the phone and ask about Patrick Peterson, who is a top tier Although there would still be some weak areas, they would be a lot easier to hide with that level of talent around them.
Will the 49ers be able to land a top tier free agent like Landon Collins?
On the offensive side of the ball, they will be dramatically improved from time alone. Once next September rolls around, Jimmy Garopollo and Jerick McKinnon should both be back healthy, and young guys like Dante Pettis and Trent Taylor (who has been completely nonexistent after a surprisingly good rookie stint) will have another year to learn Shanahan's system. The 49ers could also look towards free agency to improve their receiving core, and target someone like Golden Tate, who is a reliable, possession receiver with big play ability. Also, George Kittle has been one of the best tight ends in the league this year, even with his case of the dropsies, and should improve with another year in Shanahan's system. Historically Shanahan has not been one to heavily utilize tight ends, but Kittle is proving that he deserves the targets and opportunities, so Kyle will have a chance in the offseason to add to his playbook and utilize his star tight end.
Yes, this season has been what most would consider a complete failure. But there are blue skies on the horizon, and if the team can stay healthy, many good things are to come in 2019.
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Fatal police encounters
"He said they pulled him over because he had air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror," said Ms. Wright whose son, Daunte Wright was killed by the police.
Ten miles away prosecutors completed the questioning of their witnesses in the trial of Mr. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd." - NYT
How many times have people died recently in police encounters? How many of them were black? How old were they? What happened? Where and when did it happen? Who are the responsible law makers? How can they be contacted to demand police reform?
This map highlights the scourge of deaths at the hands of law enforcement officials paid to serve and protect the public, and the politicians blocking reforms that could save lives. The map includes 2,567 deaths from January 2020 to March 2021. DemLabs with help from Roy Miller III at esri, created the map with ArcGIS Online using data freely available from Fatal Encounters.
People killed in police interactions
Fatal Encounters
"The nation's leading law enforcement agency [FBI] collects vast amounts of information on crime nationwide, but missing from this clearinghouse are statistics on where, how often, and under what circumstances police use deadly force. In fact, no one anywhere comprehensively tracks the most significant act police can do in the line of duty: take a life." - Las Vegas Review.
Fatal Encounters is a non-profit founded by D. Brian Burghart upon the premise that Americans should have the ability to track that act. It provides a national database of people killed during interactions with police which was used to create this map.
"I've created this resource because I believe in a democracy, citizens should be able to figure out how many people are killed during interactions with law enforcement, why they were killed, and whether training and policies can be modified to decrease the number of officer-involved deaths", said Brian.
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ArcGIS Online maps allow for bookmarks. These shortcuts to let users to zoom in and go directly to an incident and get all the details of an incident including:
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Enough 'Thoughts & prayers'
Police reforms that could save lives and improve are being blocked by politicians who offer 'thoughts and prayers' after every incident. This map overlays incident details with the congressional district, its representative and the senators responsible for representing its residents. There are links to contact the congressperson and senators.
"Thoughts and prayers" are hypocritical––and blasphemous––in the mouths of the political gun nuts who would rather see thousands die than threaten the obscene profits of weapons manufacturers. - HuffPo
Judge, jury and executioners
"In the three weeks of Chauvin's trial, the former officer's defenders have noted that there was fentanyl in Floyd's blood, and suggested he expired not because of the knee on his neck but because he abused opioids. After Wright's death, those defending the police officer who shot him argued that Wright had brought the deadly outcome on himself by resisting arrest. But here's the thing: Mr. Floyd and Mr. Wright are not on trial. Whether they abused drugs, or passed bad bills, or did something that warranted arrest, or did all of those things or none of them simply does not matter. They are not on trial.
What is on trial is the fundamental American principle of equality before the law. Our law enforcement officers are supposed to use the force of the state to deliver suspected lawbreakers to our criminal justice system. And yet, in both of these cases—and so many others in which a Black person has died at the hands of police—the officers apparently killed suspected offenders instead of delivering them to the legal system guaranteed under our Constitution. Individual police officers appear to have taken the law into their own hands and become judge, jury, and executioner." - Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American
Racist policing policies
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- Majorities of both black and white Americans say black people are treated less fairly than whites in dealing with the police and by the criminal justice system as a whole.
- Black adults are about five times as likely as whites to say they've been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity.
- Nearly two-thirds of black adults (65%) say they've been in situations where people acted as if they were suspicious of them because of their race or ethnicity, while only a quarter of white adults say that's happened to them.
- 60% of the public called such incidents signs of broader problems between police and black people.
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Sharing Mayo Clinic: Finding a less invasive treatment for esophageal cancer
Mike DiGennaro knew he needed surgery. But he thought he would have a procedure to correct an umbilical hernia, and that would be the end of it. After the surgery and recovery, however, Mike's surgeon revisited Mike's medical history and suggested some additional procedures.
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Q: How to have a background which exactly fits the text height/depth? I tried with a background starting from text anchor or from base anchor, and with a colorbox without sep, but the top of the "S" and the bottom of the "p" are a little bit above of the background borders.
Is it possible to set them exactly without manually adjusting? Did I do something wrong?
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A: TeX does know the glyph bounding boxes as they are reported by the font. Usually, these bounding boxes are not exact:
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*Side bearings are added (left and right space).
*Curvy elements tend to stick a little outside.
*Sometimes the glyph is outside the bounding box by design, example: \not.
The example of the question uses font cmr17.pfb. A font editor like fontforge reveals the real dimensions of the glyphs:
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*Left side bearing of S: 46
*Height of S: 699
*Depth of p: -195
*Right side bearing of p: 33
The font uses 1000 units for 1 em. However, 1em by TeX is a little smaller. The right value is the nominal value 24.88pt of the font: OT1/cmr/m/n/24.88 (result of \the\font).
Combined:
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
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width 0pt
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A: TeX has no information about the exact content of each glyph. TeX knows only the bounding boxes provided by the font (via the .tfm file).
As David Carlisle says in his comment, if the font designer chooses to make the character stray out of that area than there is no way to tell.
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Facebook individuals commonly wonder, "How To See Who Searched For You On Facebook?" This sort of interest is common, and it's easy to understand why such functionality could be popular. Facebook, nevertheless, sees it differently.
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Q: Find equation of tangent line, higher order function I'm quite confused about this, I know for example how to find an equation of the tangent line to $y= x^2 + 1$ at $x = 1$, by applying the wel known formula $$m_{tan} = \lim_{h \to 0} \frac{f(a + h) - f(a)}{h}$$.
I see how the theory arrives at this by drawing secant lines from P to some point Q, ever closer to P. And eventually making the difference come very close to 0.
So, basically I differentiate $y$ to get the slope. But I don't see how this applies to say: $f(x) = x^5 - 3x^2 + 3$ at $a = -1$. When I differentiate this function I end up with: $f'(x) = 5x^4 - 6x$, now what does this tell me about the slope? Somehow I'm not making the conceptual leap here and it's really bugging me out.
Plugging the whole shembang in got me nowhere (and seems way too tedious for this)
$$m_{tan} = \lim_{h \to 0} \frac{(-1 + h)^5 - 3(-1 + h)^2 + 3}{h}$$, expanding this, et cetera....
So how should I approach this?
A: That's very simple: there's a formula for the tangent $(x_0,f(x_0))$: it's the polynomial part of Taylor's formula at order $1$:
$$y=f(x_0)+f'(x_0)(x-x_0)$$
So here, for $f'x)=x^5-3x^2+3$ and $x_0=1$, you get $f'(-1)=11$, $f(-1)=-1$, so the tangent has equation:
$$y=-1+11(x+1)=11x+10.$$
A: I think I understand your confusion. You said you found
$$f'(x)=5x^4-6x$$
Obviously, this is a function of the variable x. So what does this have to do with slope? Well, when you take the derivative, what you get is a formula for computing the slope at any point x. To find the slope at a particular point, say at $-1$, you need to plug in $x=-1$ in your formula above. Then you'd find
$$f'(-1)=5(-1)^4-6(-1)=11$$
and so the tangent line at this point has a slope of eleven.
As a side note, you could also figure this out by expanding the limit directly, as you attempted to do. The only problem with your attempt is that what you wrote down above is
$$\lim\frac{f(x+h)}{h}$$ and not $$\lim\frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h}$$
A: The derivative continues to give you information about the slope of the function $f$ in point $x_0$, but you should look at it "near" the point $x_0$ ignoring what happens around.
In your case: $f(x) = x^5-3x^2+3$ implies $f'(x) = 5x^4-6x$. This tells you that the slope of $f(x)$ in point $x$ is $f'(x)$ if you look at it close enough to ignore what happens in surrounding. In particular for $x_0=-1$ holds $f'(x_0) = -1$ and that is the slope in point $x_0$ and "near".
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People and Departments Organization Listing Theology
Professor Marc D. Guerra, Ph.D., Department Chair, Theology
[email protected]
Tsotsis Family Academic Center - Room 248
"Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth." -Pope Saint John Paul II
Theology is the intellectual exercise of faith seeking understanding. As a scientific discipline, theology seeks to understand God as well as God's relation to human beings and the created world they inhabit. Informed by an understanding of theology that traces its roots back to St. Augustine, the Department of Theology invites students and faculty to engage in a dialectical investigation of the Catholic theological tradition and to reflect on this tradition's ongoing engagement with other theological traditions and other disciplines' distinctive claims to human knowledge.
As part of its defining mission, the Department of Theology at Assumption University is deeply committed to bringing contemporary theological reflections into genuine dialogue with the various intellectual, political, and spiritual currents of thought that have shaped, and continue to shape our modern world.
Features & Benefits of Studying Theology at Assumption
Think critically both in writing and in class discussion
Understand the inner logic of Christian doctrine
Understand theology's relationship to other academic disciplines
Understand the differences among theological perspectives
Department Mission Statement
Theology is the intellectual exercise of faith seeking understanding. As an academic discipline, theology seeks to understand God and God's relation to human beings and the world human beings inhabit. Informed by an understanding of theology that traces its roots back to St. Augustine, the Department of Theology invites students and faculty to engage in a dialectical investigation of the Catholic theological tradition and to reflect on this tradition's ongoing engagement with other theological traditions and other disciplines' distinctive claims to human knowledge. As part of its mission, the Department of Theology is deeply committed to bringing contemporary theological reflections into genuine dialogue with the various intellectual, political, and spiritual currents of thought that have shaped, and continue to shape, our modern world.
Core Texts & Enduring Questions
Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Department of Theology Faculty
Marc D. Guerra, Ph.D. Department Chair, Faculty Professor of Theology Director, Core Texts & Enduring Questions Program
Matthew Briel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Rachel M. Coleman
Assistant Professor of Theology
Fr. Roger R. Corriveau A.A., Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology
David Dawson Vasquez
Thomas Medford Elbourn III
Kathleen M. Fisher, Ph.D Associate Professor of Theology
Christopher P. Klofft, Ph.D Associate Professor of Theology
Marc A. LePain, Ph.D Adjunct Faculty
Ty Monroe, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Theology
Nicholas Ogle
Department of Theology Staff
Jeffrey Barker
Feb 15 Wed
Hoops and Hounds
Prospective students and families are invited to join the Admissions Staff for a Hoops and Hounds event on the Assumption University campus. We will be offering campus tours, a pre-game reception, and a seat at the Assumption University women's and men's basketball games. Food and refreshments will ... Read more
Assumption University Campus
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Greyhound for a Day
Spend the day as a student at Assumption University! Prospective students will attend class with current Greyhounds and other prospective Greyhounds. Meet our professors, dine in Taylor Dining Hall, and take a personalized tour of campus. For accepted students only - space is limited daily.
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McDonald Refrigeration Inc. McDonald Refrigeration, Inc.
Welcome to the official website of McDonald Refrigeration Inc. We provide Sales, Service, and Installation for Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment. We have been serving the Monterey County & Central Coast for over 70 years. Our skilled technicians are EPA certified and ready to serve you. We are based out of Sand City and provide 24hr service at your needs.
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Q: Code layout in the datetime picker does not appear Why when dealing with DateTime picker
Does not move to layout found by DateTime picker
This is the class where the existing Aldata Time On Baker :
public class Popactivity extends DialogFragment implements View.OnClickListener {
View view;
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.pop, container, false);
return view;
}
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
}
public void show(FragmentTransaction manager, Object o) {}
}
This is the class MainActivity
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction manager =getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
Popactivity ppp=new Popactivity();
ppp.show(manager,null);
A: This method does not need to exist.
public void show(FragmentTransaction manager, Object o) {}
At least, you shouldn't need to override / overload the existing show(FragmentTransaction transaction, String tag) method.
If you delete it, there should be no errors.
This code, for example, compiles fine.
public class MainActivity extends android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity {
public static class PopUpFragment extends android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment {
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.pop, container, false);
return rootView;
}
}
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle b) {
super.onCreate(b);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
PopUpFragment pop = new PopUpFragment();
pop.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), null);
}
}
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Woman in hijab says 'I am not racist'
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The hijab is a symbol of Muslim identity and has long been a source of controversy for many.
But it is a controversial dress for many Muslim women, and it's been criticized by some as wearing a veil, which is forbidden in Islam.
The hijab, a head covering worn by many Muslims, is often worn by women from other cultures, including South Asian communities.
The veil is usually worn with a loose headscarf, but it's also worn with long, loose hair that's long enough to cover most of the face and neck.
Here's what we know about the hijab and its impact on Muslim women.
What is the hijab?
The hijab or hijab is the traditional head covering of Muslims and it covers the whole face.
It covers the hair on the forehead, back, neck, and the face.
The most common versions of the hijab are: The hijab worn in Iran, which has a strict interpretation of Islam, and in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic state where many of the world's Muslims live.
In some parts of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, it's worn only by Muslim women and girls.
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My radio show called INSPIRE is broadcast LIVE on Thursday evenings between 8-10 pm (London time) on the community Christian radio station covering Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, in the UK. Tune-in to 90.1 FM in these areas.
You can also listen to Hope FM via radio apps such as TuneIn, either directly on the internet, or via apps such as TuneIn on your Smart TV. This page provides advice on how to do this.
Community radio stations like Hope FM have a regulatory limit on broadcasting power because they are only intended to cover their local area. If they were more powerful they would interfere with similar stations in nearby regions. For this reason their broadcast signal is considerably lower than that of more powerful commercial radio stations which cover much larger areas. For this reason it can sometimes be tricky to tune-in to community radio stations if you are near the borders of their cover or conditions are bad. This note will help you to overcome these problems.
This probably requires a radio with a proper roof aerial (as opposed to a portable radio). You need to do this manually as opposed to auto-scan (because auto-scan will ignore lower-power signals, assuming they are outside your area). Once you have locked-on to 90.1 FM then preset the station so you can find it easily in the future.
If you cannot find the station, the best solutions is to change the direction in which your roof aerial is pointing. The Hope FM transmitting aerial is on top of a building in the main Bournemouth University campus, so aim the aerial for that, then try tuning-in again. (That worked for me in a poor signal area in Southbourne. You can use an ordnance survey map to check the correct bearing to the university.) Changing the direction of your aerial is highly unlikely to prevent it picking up the strong signals from more powerful radio stations like the BBC. Another solution is an aerial-booster.
Most good car radios can pick-up the 90.1 Hope FM signal in its area of coverage. You need to manually tune-in rather than rely on auto-scan, as explained above. Once the station is found, set-up a preset. Car radios that preset with a button usually just require you to hold that button in for a few seconds in order to achieve that. I can pickup Hope FM throughout the target region of Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, and beyond: in many areas of the New Forest, Ferndown, Wimborne, Highcliffe, Ringwood, etc.
If your are not in the Hope FM's local area you can still get this radio station via most Smart TVs, or the internet, using the TuneIn App and searching for '90.1 Hope FM'. Once found, set-up as a bookmark on your browser or a favorite on your Smart TV app.
Want to listen right now? Just click the button below! The station plays a very wide and eclectic mix of music depending upon time of day - as you will discover. All tastes are covered!
'This one is only for those who are 'computer savvy'. It is a way of recording just about any radio show that is available on the internet. The only snag is that the app is a bit tricky to get to grips with, does not have a very helpful user guide, and because a typical 2-hour show from Hope FM takes a whopping 114,000 KB of your memory. To put this into context, a typical image takes under 1,000 KB. So a 2-hour sound recording uses as much memory as over 100 pictures. But, so long as you DO NOT try to use it on your phone or tablet, and have a decent amount of memory on you laptop or PC, storing recordings like this is no problem. Just be aware of what you are doing.
I use streamWriter to record shows - and very good it is too! You may think it looks a bit suspicious and 'foreign' when you go through the download procedure, but I have never had any problems with it (technical or financial), and I have been using it since 2017.
There is a Help section available from the menu, but this is not very extensive, so here are a few tips for use after you have downloaded this app. With the 'Streams' tab in the left-hand division, use the 'Browser' tab in the right-hand division and search for '90.1 hope fm' (or any other station). Select it from the search list, make sure that for Hope FM it is showing our logo (there are OTHER Hope FMs in the world), and it then becomes listed in the left-hand 'Streams' section - ready for use.
One a station is listed on the 'Streams' tab you can play it live using the upper control buttons, or right-click the station name to set-up a scheduled recording (either on a specific date or a regular basis). To record, of course, you have to have streamWriter actually open on your device at the relevant time. You can subsequently find the recorded show using the left-hand 'Saved Songs' tab.
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International human rights advocacy and the abolition of irreducible life imprisonment in Zimbabwe
Posted: 13 September, 2016 | Author: AfricLaw | Filed under: Andrew Novak | Tags: Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, Death Penalty Project, domestic law, European Court of Human Rights, foreign jurisprudence, global jurisprudenc, human rights, international death penalty litigation, international human rights norms, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, Justice Bharat Patel, law reform, life without parole, Makoni v. Commissioner of Prisons, parole, Prisons Act, rehabilitative criminal sentences, South African Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Namibia, Tendai Biti, transnational human rights, transnational human rights advocates, Veritas Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe | Leave a comment
Author: Andrew Novak
Adjunct Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at George Mason University
On July 13, 2016, the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe (ConCourt) found that life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was unconstitutional as it violated the rights to equal protection and human dignity and the prohibition on cruel and degrading punishment. The decision, Makoni v. Commissioner of Prisons, is undoubtedly a victory for human rights, due to the dismal state of prison conditions in Zimbabwe and the emotional and psychological harm caused by indeterminate sentences. In its decision, the ConCourt cited a wide range of jurisprudence from foreign and international courts, including the European Court of Human Rights, South African Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Namibia, and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London to discern a global trend toward rehabilitative criminal sentences. Many of these foreign and international legal sources were brought to the ConCourt's attention by transnational human rights lawyers themselves in their Heads of Argument, underscoring the important role that advocates play in the diffusion of international human rights norms.
The Death Penalty and the Right to Life in the Draft Constitutions of Zambia and Zimbabwe
Posted: 18 April, 2013 | Author: AfricLaw | Filed under: Andrew Novak | Tags: burden of proof, constitution, death penalty, extenuating circumstances, India, right to life, South Africa, United States of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe | Leave a comment
Adjunct Professor of African Law, American University Washington College of Law and incoming Adjunct Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, George Mason University
On 16 March 2013, Zimbabwean voters overwhelmingly ratified a new constitution, which contains a right to life provision that dramatically scaled back the scope of the death penalty. The new constitution restricts the death penalty only to aggravated homicide and requires a judge to consider all mitigating factors in order to dispense a death sentence. The death penalty is a prohibited sentence for women and persons under the age 21 or over the age 70. The new constitution also establishes a constitutional right for prisoners to seek commutation or pardon from the executive. The death penalty was abolished for non-homicide offences, including treason, a notoriously politicised charge in recent years. Newspaper reports indicated that the Cabinet would review the cases of each of the current 72 death row inmates, even though a new hangman was hired in February 2013 after a twelve-year long search. The two women on death row would have their sentences automatically commuted.
Nine Judicial Executions in The Gambia Undermine the Rule of Law
Posted: 30 August, 2012 | Author: AfricLaw | Filed under: Andrew Novak | Tags: Amnesty International, constitution, coup, death penalty, death row, executions, rule of law, The Gambia, treason | 6 Comments
Adjunct Professor of African Law, American University Washington College of Law
Late at night on 23 August2012 the President of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, ordered the executions of nine death row inmates despite international condemnation and even division in his own cabinet. At least three of the death sentences were for the crime of treason; the remaining cases involved murder. Two of the nine were Senegalese nationals, and at least one had been on death row since before the current death penalty law entered into force. These cases are constitutionally troubling and may erode the rule of law in The Gambia, Sub-Saharan Africa's smallest mainland country with a population of 1,3-million.
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Dozens injured by car bomb in east Turkey
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities have accused Kurdish militants of detonating a car bomb that wounded 48 people Monday in the eastern city of Van.
The state-run Anadolu news agency quoted a statement by the governor's office alleging that members affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party were responsible for Monday's blast at a police point in front of the ruling party municipal headquarters.
The statement added that 46 of the wounded were civilians, and the two others were police officers.
The governor's office said security forces were engaged in operations to apprehend the perpetrators.
Van Police Chief Suat Ekici earlier told Anadolu two of the wounded were in critical condition but did not say whether they were police officers or civilians.
The explosion occurred Monday around 10:50 a.m. local time on the first day of Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday.
Development Minister Lutfi Elvan condemned the attack, the perpetrators had no respect for the holiday.
"Of course the necessary response is being given to these traitors, and will continue being given," Anadolu quoted Elvan as saying. "Our nation and our state are strong. we are easily overcoming them and God willing we will root out this divisive terrorist organization as well as Daesh. We don't want even a single person remaining."
Daesh is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.
Turkey's broadcasting authority RTUK imposed a temporary ban on coverage of the attack.
Turkey has suffered a string of attacks in recent months from both Kurdish militants linked as well as from the Islamic State group, resulting in dozens of casualties.
The attack came a day after Ankara replaced 28 elected mayors with appointees, mostly in the Kurdish dominated east of the country, a move which has been criticized by Turkey's pro-Kurdish party, its main opposition party and by the United States.
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I just love having repeat clients! It really is a compliment to know that they loved their photographs so much that they choose to come back again! I had the opportunity to photograph the "S" family last summer after they welcomed their 3rd child into the family and now, one year later, they are back to update the frames on their walls. I had a great time photographing this sweet family once again and am excited about the beautiful images that resulted. Thank you S&J for choosing me once again to capture these memories of your family a second time. I hope they make you smile!
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Q: getting python script to print to terminal without returning as part of stdout I'm trying to write a python script that returns a value which I can then pass in to a bash script. Thing is that I want a singe value returned in bash, but I want a few things printed to the terminal along the way.
Here is an example script. Let's call it return5.py:
#! /usr/bin/env python
print "hi"
sys.stdout.write(str(5))
what I want is to have this perform this way when I run it from the command line:
~:five=`./return5.py`
hi
~:echo $five
5
but what I get is:
~:five=`./return5.py`
~:echo $five
hi 5
In other words I don't know how to have a python script print and clear the stdout, then assign it to the specific value I want.
A: from my comment..
#!/usr/bin/env python
#foo.py
import sys
print "hi"
sys.exit(5)
then the output
[~] ./foo.py
hi
[~] FIVE=$?
[~] echo $FIVE
5
A: Not sure why @yorodm suggests not to use stderr. That's the best option I can think of in this case.
Notice that print will add a newline automatically, but when you use sys.stderr.write, you need to include one yourself with a "\n".
#! /usr/bin/env python
import sys
sys.stderr.write("This is an important message,")
sys.stderr.write(" but I dont want it to be considered")
sys.stderr.write(" part of the output. \n")
sys.stderr.write("It will be printed to the screen.\n")
# The following will be output.
print 5
Using this script looks like this:
bash$ five=`./return5.py`
This is an important message, but I dont want it to be considered part of the output.
It will be printed to the screen.
bash$ echo $five
5
This works because the terminal is really showing you three streams of information : stdout, stdin and stderr. The `cmd` syntax says "capture the stdout from this process", but it doesn't affect what happens to stderr. This was designed exactly for the purpose you're using it for -- communicating information about errors, warnings or what's going on inside the process.
You may not have realized that stdin is also displayed in the terminal, because it's just what shows up when you type. But it wouldn't have to be that way. You could imagine typing into the terminal and having nothing show up. In fact, this is exactly what happens when you type in a password. You're still sending data to stdin, but the terminal is not displaying it.
A: You can use stdout to output your messages and stderr to capture the values in bash. Unfortunately this is some weird behaviour as stderr is intended for programs to communicate error messages so I strongly advice you against it.
OTOH you can always process your script output in bash
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Wongwat Jaroentaveesuk (, * 2. Februar 2004) ist ein thailändischer Fußballspieler.
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Wongwat Jaroentaveesuk steht seit 2021 beim Raj-Pracha FC unter Vertrag. Der Verein aus der Hauptstadt Bangkok spielt in der zweiten thailändischen Liga, der Thai League 2. Sein Zweitligadebüt gab Wongwat Jaroentaveesuk am 21. November 2021 (16. Spieltag) im Auswärtsspiel gegen den Ranong United FC. Hier wurde er in der 90. Minute für Thammayut Rakbun eingewechselt. Das Spiel endete 1:1.
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Einzelnachweise
Fußballspieler (Raj-Pracha FC)
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Our Motivation.
Why we do it.
When gay, bi and trans make the decision to start the incredible journey to fatherhood, we do what everyone else would do - consult the internet, social media and books for help. But the more we search, the more we realize there's not much out there that's relevant to the experience of gay, bi and trans men and our specific paths to fatherhood.
Whether you're already a dad or exploring your options, you'll come up against challenges every day. Essentials you need for your family are labeled 'mommy approved', guidance is catered to expecting mothers and it's rare you hear about the success of a queer family.
That's why GWK was born - the world's only destination and social network dedicated exclusively to serving the interests and needs of every queer dad, dad-to-be and our families. You can find everything you'd ever need to make fatherhood as a gay, bi or trans man possible. Together, we will conquer any challenges that come our way with confidence and pride.
My goal with GWK has always been, and will always be, to make sure every gay, bi and trans dad feels welcome and represented — regardless of his path to fatherhood or where he lives.
Brian Rosenberg
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Share honest and accurate portrayals of how gay, bi and trans men are creating their families, and what life is like raising them.
Educate prospective queer dads on available paths to fatherhood with comprehensive online courses.
Connect prospective dads with trusted, proven providers.
Inspire with positive and accurate portrayals of gay families.
Advocate for LGBTQ+ family rights.
Belong to a community and provide support for gay parents and gay parents to be.
Meet the Team Behind GWK
Brian Rosenberg (right) & Ferd van Gameren - GWK Founders
Brian has over more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience working in automotive and not-for-profit, but his real passion has been the creation of GWK, the one-stop destination for gay, bi and trans dads. With his own family created through a combination of adoption and surrogacy, his path to parenthood identified a huge gap in the market.
Brian and his husband Ferd created their family through adoption and surrogacy. With nothing tailored to the unique challenges they faced and an abundance of baby products marketed at moms, Brian wanted to create an inclusive resource that would help other gay men experiencing the same thing. Thus, GWK was created.
Together since 1993, the secret to this couple's longevity is Ferd's prowess in the kitchen and Brian's great appreciation for anything his husband cooks!
David Dodge - Executive Editor
David Dodge is a writer, researcher and LGBTQ advocate with a special interest in parenting, politics and travel. He's written extensively for The New York Times, HuffPost Queer Voices, The Advocate, Travel & Leisure and elsewhere. He is best known for chronicling his own journey to fatherhood in Sperm Donor Diary, a series of personal essays for The New York Times. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from New York University and a Masters of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. For more, follow him on Instagram and Twitter.
Rosalind Lonsdale - Social Media and Community & Operations Manager
Before joining our team, Rosalind gained extensive teaching and childcare experience in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada. Since our launch, she put her organizational skills and passion for learning to great use creating and cultivating our social media channels that are recognized today as the largest and most engaging gay dad channels world-wide.
She has a B.A. majoring in History, minoring in Archaeology and a Diploma Graduate Endorsed in Art History from the University of Otago in New Zealand. She also holds a Graduate Diploma from the New Zealand Graduate School of Teaching.
Joshua Zitting - eCommerce & Marketing Manager
Joshua has eight years experience and background in SEO, social media marketing, eCommerce and brand strategy. He created his agency in 2012 working with local businesses for lead generation and grew his agency over the years to work with larger companies like SMUD Energy of Sacramento and Red Rain Buddha Yoga Apparel which he helped build store revenues to over seven figures.
He also has a passion for teaching and has created multiple online courses in the marketing and eCommerce space, teaching over 6,500 students online. He's an active member of the LGBTQ+ community and in his free time he's a fitness junkie, YouTuber, traveler, snowboarder and cook.
Greg Zola - Chief Marketing Officer
Greg's early career in finance at Morgan Bank led to his real passion - advertising and marketing. His McCann Erickson (now just "McCann") ad agency work included banking and beverage companies that rolled into marketing roles at Reebok. Southern California and a San Diego web analytics startup, WebSideStory, drew Greg into the world of big data. Through successful IPO and subsequent acquisitions, WebsiteStory became part of what is now Adobe Analytics, used by many Fortune 500 companies.
Following several roles at Sony Electronics, he founded a digital marketing agency in 2009 serving US medical devices and medical practices. Greg is a renewable energy enthusiast, cosmos and climate science junkie, Elon Musk fan, travel bug and a thankful dad to his two boys conceived via surrogacy and egg donation.
Mark Leondires - Medical Director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut (RMACT) and GWK Medical Advisor
Dr. Mark Leondires is the founder and Medical Director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut (RMACT), the founder of Gay Parents To Be, a family building resource for the LGBTQ+ community and a founder here at Gays With Kids®. He is board-certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Leondires set up his practice with one main focus in mind – to help each and every patient succeed in building the family they desire. He has been recognized nationally for his work in reproductive endocrinology, including being named amongst the Best Doctors in America, and Castle Connolly's Top Doctors for several consecutive years.
In addition to serving as Chair of American Society for Reproductive Medicine's LGBTQ Special Interest Group, Dr. Leondires is currently a member of Resolve's Physician Council, and is a tireless advocate for inclusive reproductive services for everyone! Dr. Leondires and his husband are proud parents of two children conceived through egg donation and surrogacy.
Sam Hyde - President of Circle Surrogacy and GWK Surrogacy Advisor
Circle is the most experienced surrogacy and egg donation agency in the world. Sam is committed to the cause after experiencing his own fertility challenges when starting his family.
Sam and his wife have two thriving girls with the help of IVF so it's something he continues to be passionate about.
Molly Rampe Thomas, MSW, LISW-S - Founder and CEO of Choice Network and GWK Adoption / Foster Care Advisor
Choice Network is a nationally recognized LGBTQ and pro-choice adoption agency. Molly has built and sustained her agency out of love for her daughter's first mom, calling her and her daughter the spark that started it all. Molly also proudly sits on the Abortion Care Network board of directors. Molly has received numerous awards for her work, including Abortion Care Network's Person of the Year Award, Columbus Ohio's 40 Under 40, Sunny 95's Outstanding Woman of the Year, Columbus CEO Top 5, and the National Association of Social Worker's Lifetime Achievement Award. When she isn't working for families, she is loving on her own- including her husband Garrick, and three kids Gia, Louie and Penelope.
The GWK Timeline
Brian and his husband Ferd launch Gays With Kids, a revolutionary website devoted exclusively to sharing the experience of gay, bi and trans dads as they create and raise their families.
Gays With Kids becomes the world's largest online library of accurate and positive portrayals of fatherhood, all through a lens that's relatable for gay, bi and trans dads.
Our online community hits 100K followers. Gays WIth Kids continues to build traction in the parenting space and gain sponsorships and connections to pioneer our mission.
Our social media following skyrockets to 250,000 and we publish our 1,000th article.
In recognition of a new generation of queer kids, Gays With Kids rebrands as GWK and launches a new site - with an unrivaled collection of resources, an inclusive online platform and exciting new opportunities to connect with other queer dads across the world.
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Free book: Lord of the Garden
By Adrian Pelzer
Lord of the Garden Kindle Edition
'This is a humorous short story compilation (Volume 1 in a series called The Bible for Aliens) that looks to transport the context of familiar Bible stories into our current culture. It also imagines the context of Bible stories in relation to well-known movies and books, such as Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Life of Pi, and Crime and Punishment. Readers will be delighted, amused, and provoked in their thinking.
Adam's alarm clock went off and he turned over in his sleep, mumbling something about a rabbit and a hippo--he'd had a late night naming the animals and was trying to catch up on sleep. So, he turned on his bed as a door turns on its hinges when he realized with a start that one of his ribs was conspicuously absent and that someone was conspicuously present--a being like himself but distinctly lacking in body hair and bulging muscles. He touched her gently and she awoke with a start, her eyes turning directly on him. Adam looked into the face of another human being for the first time and their eyes fixed on each other; he moved his face closer to hers, noticing her exquisite features and her hair blowing lightly in the warm breeze. The following words are recorded as the first romantic poetry ever spoken by a man to a woman:
"This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man."
So Adam and his new wife fell deeply in love with each other and were inseparable wherever they went. The animals, who had previously had all of Adam's attention, were perhaps a bit jealous but understood full well, since all of them had their own mates; back then, animals understood more than they do now, though they could still not be said to understand the way people do. Adam and Eve--as she was later named (and for the sake of clarity, we will refer to her as Eve in this account)--moved into Adam's place, which happened to be the lush, tropical Garden of Eden. The trees were a roof over their heads, the animals their pets, the fruit on the trees their fridge. They had peace with each other, all the animals, and God. They were tree huggers, animal lovers, and vegetarians; they had killer green curry and tofu stir fry in coconut sauce; they also had delectable black bean sauce as well as mango chutney. The fruit and vegetables were the original superfoods, high in protein and better tasting than tenderloin filet. Adam spent his work days farming, a job which gave him energy--the harder he worked, the more energy he had to work more. Eve helped out with the farming and also took care of the trees and tended the flowers. Life was perfect.
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Chaos Dreams 4
by Candy Ray Four tales of occult fantasy. A doll whose life is all work and no play has her life changed by two ghosts, an eccent......
Chaotic Dreams
by Candy Ray Five short stories of surreal and slightly dark fantasy. Retellings of an ancient legend affect the gods who are in i......
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Emergency Medicine > Emergency Medicine
Comorbidities Common in Older 'Frequent Fliers' in the ED
— Diabetes topped the list; pain-related diagnosis and injury were other factors
by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today January 28, 2019
Frequency of emergency department (ED) visits for older adults was strongly predicted by their number of comorbidities, researchers said.
In an analysis of a geriatric population (ages ≥65), the presence of three or more clinical conditions was tied to an over seven times higher odds of being a "frequent" ED user (OR 7.2, 95% CI 7.0-7.5), reported Edward M. Castillo, PhD, MPH, of University of California San Diego, and colleagues.
Older adults who visited the ED from six to 20 times in 1 year were considered to be frequent users, compared with less frequent users who clocked in less than six visits a year, the group explained in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Among 17 different clinical conditions included in the analysis, diabetes without complications was the most common comorbidity among frequent geriatric patients in the ED:
Diabetes: 25.8% of frequent users
Chronic pulmonary disease: 21.5%
Renal disease: 19.1%
Congestive heart failure: 16%
Peripheral vascular disease: 15.1%
These were the most common comorbidities seen for geriatric patients, regardless if they were frequent visitors of the ED or not, according to the authors.
In order to reduce diabetes-related complications in older adults, the American Diabetes Association 2019 clinical guidelines recommends individualized glycemic targets for patients ages >65, with an upper target of 7.5% for those with few comorbidities and a looser upper target of 8.0%-8.5% for those with poorer health. The guidelines also place high importance on treatment of comorbidities to reduce risk of hospitalization, particularly in regards to hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors, as well as screening for functional impairment.
In addition to having relatively many comorbidities, pain-related diagnoses (OR 5.5, 95% CI 5.4-5.6) and injury-related visit (OR 3.8, 95% CI 3.8-3.9) were two other factors strongly associated with being a frequent ED visitor as a patient.
Other factors linked to more frequent ED visits were a substance abuse problem (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.82-1.90) and a psychiatric diagnosis (OR 2.69, 95% CI 2.62-2.73). Patients who frequented the ED more often were also more likely to be admitted or transferred to the hospital compared with less frequent users (85.5% vs 44.6%), and were also more likely to discontinue care (7.8% vs 1.7%).
"Efforts to improve care for vulnerable older Americans should focus on enhancing delivery and decreasing utilization," Castillo said in a statement. "Older patients are more likely to have multiple chronic conditions which makes emergency care increasingly complex. A better understanding of older patients opens the door for interventions in and beyond the emergency department."
"This study shows that there are opportunities for both cost savings and more targeted interventions to help improve outcomes for seniors in the emergency department, where they often experience the health care system," added co-author Kelly Ko, PhD, of the West Health Institute in San Diego, in the statement.
The California-based analysis of 326 acute care hospitals included data on nearly 1.3 million geriatric patients who visited an ED in 2014, totalling nearly 2.8 million visits. Less frequent ED users represented 79% of all geriatric patient visits. However, one-fifth of these visits were by frequent users, who accounted for less than 6% of geriatric patient population. "Super users" -- those who visited the ED >20 times in a year -- were 0.1% of geriatric ED users and accounted for 1.3% of all ED visits.
Study limitations included lack of information on care the patients received beyond the ED, such as primary and prevention care.
For future research, the authors suggested studies should aim to "further define the population of geriatric frequent ED users and their specific health issues to better understand their healthcare needs to better serve this vulnerable and complex population."
The study was funded by the West Health Institute.
Castillo and co-authors disclosed no relevant relationships with industry.
Source Reference: Castillo E, et al "Factors Associated With Geriatric Frequent Users of Emergency Departments" Ann Emerg Med 2019; DOI:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.12.013.
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Investec Group, the South Africa-based banking and securities firm which owns London stockbrokers Henderson Crosthwaite and Carr Sheppards, has reported annual net profits to March up 27% to £100m.
Total income rose 34% to £426m after the first full year's ownership of Henderson and Carr, as well as US investments.
Managing director Bernard Kantor said they had capitalised on the boom in technology, media and telecommunications. Assets under management jumped from £34.5bn to £45.6bn.
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Our man in Europe
Sometimes when the world seems bleak and senseless, governed by a class whose arrogance is matched only by their incompetence, and operating against all common sense and decency, it does you good to laugh.
So a weary 'thank you' to those sections of the British press and the more sensitive Brexiteers who, having spent decades comparing the EU to Hitler's Germany, spreading lies and disinformation, and recently maintaining the bold negotiating stance of "I'm British! I want!", are currently throwing hysterics over Donald Tusk being rude about them.
For what it's worth, he wasn't even particularly rude. There should be a special place in hell for those who lied, who dragged the UK into Brexit with nary a care for the effect it would have on ordinary people without offshore accounts and powerful friends. Why are there apparently no consequences for these self-interested meddlers who we know broke the law in selling Brexit, and who now – as the exit looms – are busily selling the lie that it's the EU's fault there's no viable plan? Should the medicine run out and the shop shelves be bare of food, I'm sure they'll still be bleating about the time the nasty EU man didn't treat them like the precious snowflakes they are. Diddums.
Incidentally, Donald Tusk's full press statement is worth a read, not just the punchline. As I and other MEPs have been saying for months, doors in Brussels are closing.
consilium.europa.eu/...
Have a good weekend, folks, and keep the heid.
Yours aye,
Alyn
Make no mistake, Donald Tusk – backed by the EU – was sending a strong message to Brexit Island ahead of Theresa May's renegotiation visit.
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Corbyn is meeting with Mrs May not to find ways to stop Brexit but to find a way to make it happen so that as little of the mess when it hits attaches to him. I've written about this in my latest National column, available to read here:
alynsmith.eu/...
Brexiteer Tory MP in lying lies shocker. The UK got more funding from the Marshall Plan than any other country.
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Heartbreaking news as Nissan abandons plans to build a new factory in Sunderland. Brexit is proving a deterrent for investment in the UK car industry, sadly.
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This is despite the UK Government quietly offering state aid to Nissan, contrary to public assertions from Downing Street that "there was no special deal for Nissan".
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On that note, here's an interesting piece about four friends taking on Brexiteers' lies, one billboard at a time.
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Very proud to see my former policy advisor Schams El Ghoneimi in the Guardian, using his personal experiences to formulate a plan to fight the far-right.
A politely scathing piece here from Chris York on no-deal – what we were told was 'Project Fear' versus what's happening.
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So it begins. US firms seek changes to UK standards on beef and drugs.
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Norway's government is advising students not to study in the UK due to Brexit.
Companies are delaying projects and holding off on placing orders, meaning sterling has dropped again.
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"The Government's presumption it can negotiate a special deal to prevent UK-based banks being frozen out from lucrative business within the EU after Brexit is highly likely to be proven wrong in time".
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The UK Government has found £800,000 to set aside for legal advice in a "highly likely" lawsuit from Eurotunnel.
The Institute of Economic Affairs, a right-wing libertarian think tank lobbying for a hard Brexit, has been issued with a formal legal warning over breaches of charity law.
gov.uk/...
'Brexit rejected, amended, deferred: what options remain in London (and Brussels)?' asks Le Monde.
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Behold, a roadmap with indicative probabilities regarding Brexit. '12 Paths to no-deal'
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UK citizens abroad are finding themselves is a vicious cycle of bureaucracy, as most alternative residency options are out of bounds for Brits with EU citizenship until the UK leaves the EU.
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The Irish Times has put together a not entirely tongue-in-cheek 'Idiot's Guide to Brexit'
Three graphs from Le Monde here, all showing how dependent the UK is on European imports for food supplies.
Brexit threatens to make Irish citizens in Northern Ireland 'second-class citizens'.
Finally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it's not too late to avoid a no-deal Brexit. But is the UK Government listening?
Alyn Smith
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BusinessSeptember 8, 2017
A perfect fit: How iwi investment in social enterprise could be good for all of us
By Nick Wells
As iwi organisations grow, Chapman Tripp's Nick Wells argues they should be establishing themselves as social enterprises to unlock their wealth for the greater good.
The Māori economy is a significant part of New Zealand's past, present and future. While I'm not Māori, my children are, so every time I work with iwi, and their iwi in particular, I think of them. Together, we are working towards iwi developing a better future not only for Māori but all Aotearoa – and all our children.
When we first started our Māori legal practice, Te Waka Ture, we were predominantly advising government, including the Office of Treaty Settlements. In 2009, we changed our focus to concentrate on iwi, and we now believe our team makes the biggest contribution to te ao Māori of any large New Zealand law firm.
We are seeing iwi move towards greater economic autonomy, as the Māori economy pushes over $50bn. This growth is a result of the creation of large, asset-rich Māori corporates from Treaty of Waitangi settlements, and the development of partnerships and joint ventures with Māori and non-Māori partners.
The growth in the Māori asset base will, over time, lead to better outcomes in the health, education and housing sectors, as well as a culturally-richer economy. It would also see te reo and tikanga continue to increase in the daily life of all New Zealanders – businesses included.
Te Waka Ture's key driver is assisting iwi to unlock value in investments and prosper financially. A significant focus at the moment is how we can assist iwi in making financial gains at a whanau-level. It's about translating overall economic growth into making a real difference for people at an individual level.
One of the best things about iwi investment is that it does not centre on purely profit-driven decisions. Our clients don't just invest for return – most have cultural, sustainability and social objectives as well. These include principles of kaitiakitanga (guardianship, stewardship), manaakitanga (supporting people) and taonga tuku iho mō ngā uri whakatipu (guardianship of resources for future generations).
Social enterprise is naturally where we see iwi investment heading. While Māori businesses demonstrate many of the values of social enterprise, we are yet to see investment in businesses that are solely created for a public or environmental good. But, we expect to see it pretty soon.
Currently, iwi are faced with balancing the real tension between the long-term growth of assets for future whakapapa, or paying dividends for the current generation. That also presents a decision between how much money is spent on cultural revival and wellbeing, versus how much is reinvested for financial growth. For example, Post Settlement Governance Entities (PSGE) have to balance their commercial arm – which includes management and administration of assets and commercial activities of subsidiaries – with the needs of their people or their community arm, which might include charitable purposes, tikanga, reo, kawa and korero, and community facilities. Other factors that are taken into account include appetite for risk and expectations of –and accountability to – iwi and hapu members.
As established PSGEs have grown their asset bases, they are increasingly focused on how they can provide social and affordable housing in a heated market, how they can make the best use of underutilised and/or landlocked Māori land, whether or not to make cash distributions, and – if so – how to structure them. I anticipate seeing iwi investment venture into investing in social enterprises in the very near future. I also expect iwi to start looking at how they can marry financial and cultural objectives into a single business idea.
I've watched first hand as Kiwi companies have used their social values to inspire investors and expand the reach of their mission.
Many of our staff have volunteered at the well known social enterprise Eat My Lunch. We also advise the Aera Foundation (one of our corporate social responsibility partners and an investor in Eat My Lunch) on the issuing of what's called a "lunch bond", which provides both financial and social returns to lenders. This helped inspire Eat My Lunch to launch PledgeMe's first crowdfunding debt campaign, which smashed its initial threshold of $500,000 to raise more than $815,000 within a month. The funds have helped the for-profit company with social goals expand to Wellington.
When investing in the bonds, investors could choose between two combinations of interest rates and giving; lending their money at 6% interest, with a lunch given to a Kiwi kid each month for every $1,000 loaned, or forgoing interest payments altogether, to give to monthly lunches to kids.
Earlier this year, I met Nobel Laureate and the trailblazer of social enterprise, Professor Muhammad Yunus, at Waipapa Marae. Yunus pioneered micro financing of his country's poorest and most vulnerable citizens, especially women. He found by fertilising their entrepreneurial desire, marginalised communities were empowered and generational cycles of poverty could be broken.
Muhammad Yunus and Nick Wells talk social enterprise with iwi at Waipapa marae in April. (Photo: Aera Foundation)
Iwi leaders from all around New Zealand came to watch the Bangladeshi social entrepreneur discuss the concept of holistic business, and they heard similar tones to the goals of Iwi investment and business.
Most economies seek to drive economic development from the top down, starting at a governmental or tribal level, but the success of initiatives working from the bottom up is truly impressive.
Personally I believe there is increasing space and need for more New Zealand businesses establish themselves as social enterprises. This is particularly true for Māori-owned business, where business dedicated to solving social problems at the same time as investing in the success of iwi, aligns so perfectly with their cultural mandate.
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Q: Hierarchical Data Structure Design (Nested Sets) I'm working on a design for a hierarchical database structure which models a catalogue containing products (this is similar to this question). The database platform is SQL Server 2005 and the catalogue is quite large (750,000 products, 8,500 catalogue sections over 4 levels) but is relatively static (reloaded once a day) and so we are only concerned about READ performance.
The general structure of the catalogue hierarchy is:-
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*Level 1 Section
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*Level 2 Section
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*Level 3 Section
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*Level 4 Section (products are linked to here)
We are using the Nested Sets pattern for storing the hierarchy levels and storing the products which exist at that level in a separate linked table. So the simplified database structure would be
CREATE TABLE CatalogueSection
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SectionID INTEGER,
ParentID INTEGER,
LeftExtent INTEGER,
RightExtent INTEGER
)
CREATE TABLE CatalogueProduct
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ProductID INTEGER,
SectionID INTEGER
)
We do have an added complication in that we have about 1000 separate customer groups which may or may not see all products in the catalogue. Because of this we need to maintain a separate "copy" of the catalogue hierarchy for each customer group so that when they browse the catalogue, they only see their products and they also don't see any sections which are empty.
To facilitate this we maintain a table of the number of products at each level of the hierarchy "rolled up" from the section below. So, even though products are only directly linked to the lowest level of the hierarchy, they are counted all the way up the tree. The structure of this table is
CREATE TABLE CatalogueSectionCount
(
SectionID INTEGER,
CustomerGroupID INTEGER,
SubSectionCount INTEGER,
ProductCount INTEGER
)
So, onto the problem
Performance is very poor at the top levels of the hierarchy. The general query to show the "top 10" products in the selected catalogue section (and all child sections) is taking somewhere in the region of 1 minute to complete. At lower sections in the hierarchy it is faster but still not good enough.
I've put indexes (including covering indexes where applicable) on all key tables, run it through the query analyzer, index tuning wizard etc but still cannot get it to perform fast enough.
I'm wondering whether the design is fundamentally flawed or whether it's because we have such a large dataset? We have a reasonable development server (3.8GHZ Xeon, 4GB RAM) but it's just not working :)
Thanks for any help
James
A: Use a closure table. If your basic structure is a parent-child with the fields ID and ParentID, then the structure for a closure table is ID and DescendantID. In other words, a closure table is an ancestor-descendant table, where each possible ancestor is associated with all descendants. You may include a LevelsBetween field if you need. Closure table implementations usually include self-referencing records, i.e. ID 1 is an ancestor of descendant ID 1 with LevelsBetween of zero.
Example:
Parent/Child
ParentID - ID
1 - 2
1 - 3
3 - 4
3 - 5
4 - 6
Ancestor/Descendant
ID - DescendantID - LevelsBetween
1 - 1 - 0
1 - 2 - 1
1 - 3 - 1
1 - 4 - 2
1 - 6 - 3
2 - 2 - 0
3 - 3 - 0
3 - 4 - 1
3 - 5 - 1
3 - 6 - 2
4 - 4 - 0
4 - 6 - 1
5 - 5 - 0
The table is intended to eliminate recursive joins. You push the load of the recursive join into an ETL cycle that you do when you load the data once a day. That shifts it away from the query.
Also, it allows variable-level hierarchies. You won't be stuck at 4.
Finally, it allows you to slot products in non-leaf nodes. A lot of catalogs create "Miscellaneous" buckets at higher levels of the hierarchy to create a leaf-node to attach products to. You don't need to do that since intermediate nodes are included in the closure.
As far as indexing goes, I would do a clustered index on ID/DescendantID.
Now for your query performance. This takes a chunk out but not all. You mentioned a "Top 10". This implies ranking over a set of facts that you haven't mentioned. We need details to help tune those. Plus, this gets only gets the leaf-level sections, not the products. At the very least, you should have an index on your CatalogueProduct that orders by SectionID/ProductID. I would force Section to Product joins to be loop joins based on the cardinality you provided. A report on a catalog section would go to the closure table to get descendants (using a clustered index seek). That list of descendants would then be used to get products from CatalogueProduct using the index by looped index seeks. Then, with those products, you would get the facts necessary to do the ranking.
A: you might be able to solve the customer groups problem with roles and treeId's but you'll have to provide us with the query.
A: Might it be possible to calculate the ProductCount and SubSectionCount after the load each day?
If the data is changing only once a day surely it's worthwhile to calculate these figures then, even if some denormalization is required.
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1. Heat oven to 325 degrees . In a small bowl, stir together graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar and salt. Spoon 3 tbsp crumb mixture into each jar. Press mixture with a small spice jar to flatten into bottom.
3. Heat peanut butter in microwave for 30 seconds. Spoon 1/2 tbsp peanut butter into each jar. Top with a little of the remaining graham cracker mixture and 1/3 cup miniature marshmallows. Increase oven heat to broil. Broil s'mores 4 inches from heat for 30 seconds to 1 minute, until lightly browned. Cool slightly before serving.
Servings Per Recipe: 8; Amount Per Serving: cal. (kcal): 677, Fat, total (g): 29, chol. (mg): 38, sat. fat (g): 8, carb. (g): 102, fiber (g): 3, pro. (g): 6, sodium (mg): 471, Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Are you meant for management? Fated for the fiscal? Destined for deal-making? If so, you're probably considering a career in Business Management and Administration. But before you can show off your financial savvy, you're going to have to earn your Business degree. Unfortunately, many students feel that the cost of pursuing higher education is a bit high. Don't worry, we understand, and we've got good news. There are many organizations that want to help you by awarding you with scholarships. So, if you're feeling overwhelmed by the cost of tuition, room and board, books, meal plans, and everything else that comes with pursuing higher education, never fear! Cappex is here, and we can help.
The key to winning a lot of scholarships is to "know thyself." Apply to those Business scholarships that cater to students with your unique qualities. Use your hobbies, interests, goals and quirks to pay for your education. If you're reading this page, you're probably an aspiring Business major, but think about what else sets you apart. Are you left-handed? Do you love to write? Are you going to use your Business degree to pursue a health-related profession? Keep all these qualities in mind, and you'll find that there are Business scholarships out there that were designed specifically for you. Based on our review of the available Business scholarships, we've placed most of them into three basic categories.
The NAFOA Scholarship is a Business scholarship for students of American Indian or Native Alaskan origin. Awards range from $1,000 to $1,500.
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Have you ever made a huge decision such as moving to a completely different city or attending a particular college without doing research first and finding out if it was the right fit for you? Your answer is probably no because these types of things are complete lifestyle changes that require you to think before doing. Another lifestyle change that requires some education is purchasing your first home. This week's show was focused on the importance of research, education, and timeliness for home buyers.
Ed Nelson from the Minnesota Home Ownership Center gave some great insight into the first-time home buyer experience. Ed discussed how many people feel some sort of urgency when purchasing their first home due to rates and prices. People think they have to buy "right now" in order to get the best deal. This is a huge mistake. Yes, the market changes constantly, but when you are looking to purchase something that is a life investment, there should never be a rush. Educate yourself with reliable sources whether it be a family member that recommends a certain real estate company or checking out websites loaded with information on home buying such as hocmn.org.
A great question that was asked by a listener is what are some key characteristics to look for in a realtor. Jennifer Dierkhising was also in studio from Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and gave a wonderful answer to this question. Jennifer advises her customers to interview at least 3 realtors before signing on with anyone. You want to compare personalities, see how they communicate, experience levels and are they listening to your situation. Making sure a realtor is the right fit for your needs is one of the first big steps in the home buying process.
Now let's weigh in on the renting versus buying topic that has sparked most of these conversations. Renting may be good for those that are unsure of events happening in their near future such as getting married and moving in with your significant other or getting a job promotion that requires you to relocate. For those people that do not foresee any big change in their future, don't let fear or financial issues scare you away from purchasing a new home. After all is said and done, more and more apartments are being built each year, but rent is also increasing about 5% along with these new developments.
Andy Prasky brought up the fact that although housing prices may increase in the current market, the owner of a house will lock in on a rate and it will never go up. Renters have the uncertainty of whether their rent will increase and then may not have the means for that change. With the locked in rates that are guaranteed for a home owner, you are not only prepared financially for your payments but are also putting money towards an investment that is beneficial to yourself, not your landlord. You may be exhausted after reading this article because there really is a lot of work that goes into purchasing a home, but when you work with the right people and the right companies, this process becomes much easier and is a great investment into your future.
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Get 2 extra long iPhone charging cables for $20 with this deal
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Published Aug 10, 2016 Updated May 26, 2021, 7:07 am CDT
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Engage your five senses and experience the authentic essence of Al-Ula. Explore the traditional souk and watch with wonder as local handicrafts are created. Enjoy traditional cuisine made from locally grown produce. Discover a range of art installations on the Sculpture Trail and find out more about the natural wonders that have inspired them.
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Avian influenza, or better known as H5N1 or bird flu, is a type A flu virus that is highly contagious among birds. This virus does not usually infect humans, but certain cases have been reported. Nearly all the cases reported have resulted in people who had direct or close contact with H5N1 infected poultry or H5N1 contaminated surfaces. Bird flu is not considered to be a pandemic, but the threat of an H5N1 epidemic is possible. More than 500 cases of human infection have been reported since 2003 in countries in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Europe and the Near East. Indonesia, Vietnam and Egypt have the highest number of H5N1 bird flu cases to date.
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I have always loved Chai Tea.
Since I can remember my mom has made it, and when I got married, my husbands mom made it, so it's always been a staple in our house.
BUT, making from scratch isn't easy. It's possible, but not easy.
With DaVinci Chai Tea Classis Syrup, all we have to do is add equal parts syrup and milk and heat, and it's perfect and delicious. I love that we can make it as weak or as strong as we like too.
With my husband being a diabetic, it was great that they have a sugar free option as well.
The second item I am going to talk about is the DaVinci Flavored Syrups.
My favorite flavor has to be the chocolate. I love to have a mocha at home, but adding hershey's syrup isn't quite right. With DaVinci, the syrup is just the right thickness for a coffee drink, and has perfect flavor.
It also comes in a sugar free variety.
They come in great flavors like Honey Melon, Asian Citrus and Mandarain Orange.
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At the foot of the High Street stood the old Tolbooth. We have no account of its appearance, or when it was erected. In the records of Our Lady College it is mentioned as the "Pretorium burgi de Glasgu jacens in via S. Teneu ex parte boreali ejusdem." And in the ancient charters it is repeatedly mentioned as the place of meeting of the burgh courts – "the heid court of the burcht and citie of Glasgow halden in the Tolbuithe thairof." From an entry in the council records in 1574 it appears that there were "buythis vnder the tolbuyth," the rents of which were appointed to be applied "in mendyng and reparyng of the tolbuyth and to na vther vse." This old building having become dilapidated was taken down, and a new tolbooth erected in 1626. This, as will be seen from the cut, was a fine picturesque structure. A traveller in the time of the Commonwealth describes it as "a very sumptuous, regulated, uniform fabric, large and lofty, most industriously and artificially carved from the very foundation to the superstructure, to the great admiration of strangers, and is without exception the paragon of beauty in the west."1 This building served as a prison and as the place for the council meetings till early in the present century, when it was removed and the present building erected on its site.
When the old jail was taken down the magistrates had the good taste to preserve and repair the beautiful tower attached to it, now known as the Cross steeple. But it nearly experienced at the hands of their less worthy successors the fate which, somewhat later, befel the western tower of the Cathedral. The demolition of the steeple was actually under the consideration of the town council for several weeks, and it was only saved by the vote of a majority. This was in 1814!
They must have witnessed some curious incidents, those old tolbooths, and like all the other prisons in Scotland, till a comparatively recent period, they must have been the scene of much suffering. Prisoners of all sorts were crowded together without classification; men and women often confined in the same apartment; and young offenders, imprisoned for trifling matters, locked up with hardened criminals, even murderers. Ill clothed most of them, cold and hungry, and in filth, imprisonment was then a real punishment. Those who could afford to bribe the jailer might fare better, for that functionary exercised a very despotic power, and had the means of subjecting his prisoners to painful suffering. Even so late as 1818, when Mr. Gurney visited the prisons in Scotland, his account of what he observed is almost incredible.
Our burgh records contain but few notices of the prison discipline in the old tolbooths of Glasgow; but one curious incident may be quoted which illustrates the relations subsisting between the jailers and their prisoners. In the year 1666 an individual called "Johne Rowat merchand," held the office of jailer of the Tolbooth at the Cross, and one of his prisoners – committed for what cause is not stated – was "the Laird of Branshoyle." John had some dispute with his prisoner, which he ended by putting him in irons. Possibly the laird deserved it, but he had friends who brought the matter before the magistrates, and the jailer lost his place. He applied to be reponed, and his supplication and apology is recorded in the council minutes. After stating his appointment to the office of "keiper to their Lordships tolbuith quhilk he hes attendit theis divers yeares bygane," it proceeds thus: "And laitlie ane of the prisoners therein, the Laird of Branshoyle, haveing far exceeded the bounds of ane prisoner towards the supplicant, his keiper, trew it is that in ane passioune the supplicant did exceid his power and commissioune, in laying him in the irones, for the quhilk he is very sore grieved from the bottom of his heart, albeit he was heighlie provocked therto: And trewlie he dar say that he hes dearlie payit for it, for with the anger he took at that time he hes never sensyne bein quyt of ane most cruell collick and gravell, quhairby he was very lyklie to have lost his lyfe and is not ʒit fullie quyt of it." He then acknowledges the justice of his dismissal, and craves the council to pitie him at this tyme seing their Lordships know he hes lived honestlie heirtofoir, and come of honest and ancient parents within this burgh, besyde that he is awand fyfe thowsand marks and hes the burdone of four motherles childerin; and that your Lordships wald be pleased to readmitt the supplicant againe to his charge, and be the grace of God the lyk should never be sein in him againe."2 He was reponed, but he lost his place again soon afterwards for allowing a prisoner to escape.
The jailers in those days received no salary. They appear to have been remunerated by fees derived from the fines imposed upon prisoners of the class who could afford to pay, and in earlier times there were doubtless many such; but when only those of the baser sort, or those in absolute poverty, came under their care, their emoluments must have been very small. A keeper of the Glasgow jail who had suffered from this cause applied to the town council in 1661, and there is a minute by which the treasurer is ordained "to pay to Charles McCleane Jylor twentie punds for his extraordinarie paines in attending the tolbuith this long tyme bygane haveing got no profeit therby, having only thiefes and lounes his prisoners." Witches being an exceptional class a special allowance was made for them. On one occasion the jailer gets "four score two pounds fourteen shillings four pennies Scots money, depensed be him for the maintenance of the witches who are prisoners here in the tolbuith be order of the Commissioners, from the 22d of May last to this day."3 And on a subsequent occasion "Alexander Cunningham servitor to the jayler" is allowed sixty-six pounds eight shillings Scots as "expenses in maintaining witches and warlocks in the Tolbuith imprisoned by order of the Commissioners of Justiciarie at Paisley."4
Our prisons now are in a very different state from what they were in the old times, and prisoners are treated after a different fashion; but it is questionable whether we have not gone too far in the opposite direction. A recent report presented to parliament on the subject of prisons tells us that now "the prisoner appears to feel that the prayer for daily bread is rendered unnecessary by the solicitude of his custodians; that nestling comfortably in his hammock he lives less rapidly than before, and that he finds, in many instances, a peace and repose to which as a law-abiding citizen he was perchance a stranger." We may quite accept the conclusion of the commissioners, that they have "abundant reason to think that, as a rule, imprisonment, as now conducted, inflicts no injury, and that in a large proportion of cases its punitive character is but little felt."5
Besides the old Tolbooth at the Cross there was a prison in the upper part of the town, which appears to have become necessary in consequence of the insecure condition into which the building at the foot of the High Street had fallen. This upper prison is mentioned in the burgh records in 1574 as "the heicht tolbuyth," and it was probably a very wretched and uncomfortable place. In the year 1605 there occurs an entry regarding a debtor imprisoned there, whose brother had procured ("purchest") his removal "out of ward of the heich hows to the laiche tolbuithe," but the brother – probably in consequence of the insecurity of the lower prison – was obliged first to find caution that the debtor "sall remaine in waird in the laiche tolbuithe" until he has satisfied the debt for which he was incarcerated. After the Reformation the magistrates acquired the building on the south side of the Drygate, which had been occupied as a manse by the prebendary of Cambuslang, and fitted it up as a house of correction for vagrants and women of dissolute character. This building having also become unfit for the purpose, the magistrates, in 1792, obtained a lease from the College of a part of their property adjoining the old meal market in the High Street, and used it as a bridewell, but this was discontinued on the erection of the prison in Duke Street.6
At the foot of the High Street stood the city cross – the one erected after the ancient cross at the head of the street was superseded. Of what form it was there is no authentic record. At the beginning of the seventeenth century – perhaps earlier – the guard-house was built against or round it, and when the guard-house was in 1659 removed farther west – having been found an obstruction to the street – the cross was found to have been so defaced that it was thought necessary to remove it also. The minute of council which records this is interesting: "The same day [1st October, 1659] the Magistrats and Counsall having receavit warrand and ordours for downe taking of the guard house was buildit about and wpon the Croce, and in regard the samyn Mercat croce throw the building of the said guard house thairupon, was altogether defaced, it is therefore now concludid to remove the samyn with all convenient diligence and mak it equall with the ground."
In each of the four streets that branched from the cross there were arcades or piazzas. Defoe, referring to these, says: "The lower stories for the most part stand on vast square doric columns with arches which open into the shops adding to the strength as well as the beauty of the building." But it was probably more true of them what Pennant said, that they were "too narrow to be of much service to walkers."7
The beautiful street which now stretches westward from the Cross was in old times a country road leading to two chapels – one dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury and the other to St. Tanew or Thenew, the mother of Kentigern, who, according to the Aberdeen Breviary, was buried there. In a deed in 1498 mention is made of "the chapel where the bones of the beloved Thenew mother of the blessed confessor Kentigern rest now in the city of Glasgow." It was surrounded by a burial-ground, now the site of St. Enoch's Square. When McUre wrote his history in 1736 the remains of this old chapel were still to be seen – a solitary spot in the country, surrounded by cornfields. There appear to have been property in the High Street held in connection with this chapel, as in a charter in 1419 a tenement in that street is described as lying between the tenement of Stephanus de Pollok "et terram Sancte Tanew."8 The name became subsequently corrupted to St. Enoch.
Not far from the present church, and near where the old chapel had stood, there was a sacred well dedicated to St. Tanew, which, before the Reformation, was much resorted to for cures. In 1586 James VI. addressed a letter to Mr. Andro Hay, commissioner for the west country, in which, among other things, he condemned the practice of people making pilgrimages to such chapels and wells; but I have little doubt that for some time after that St. Tanew's well was resorted to. It was shaded by an old tree which drooped over the well, and which remained till the end of the last century. On this tree the devotees who frequented the well were accustomed to nail, as thank-offerings, small bits of tin-iron – probably manufactured for that purpose by a craftsman in the neighbourhood – representing the parts of the body supposed to have been cured by the virtues of the sacred spring – such as eyes, hands, feet, ears, and others – a practice still common in Roman Catholic countries. The late Mr. Robert Hart told me that he had been informed by an old man, a Mr. Thomson, who had resided in the neighbourhood, that, at the end of the last century or the beginning of the present, he recollected this well being cleaned out, and of seeing picked out from among the débris at the bottom several of these old votive offerings, which had dropped into from the tree, the stump of which was at that time still standing.
The road or street leading to St. Tanew's chapel and well is in a charter of 1426 called the "magnis vicus extendens a cruce fore versus Capellas Sancte Thomæ marteris et sacte Tanew."9 In a later charter (1487) it is called "vicus Sancte Thanew,"10 and in a still later deed (1548) it is called "the gait passing fra the west port to sanct Tenewis chappil."11 By the year 1520 this road or street had come to be spanned, at a point not quite half-way between the Cross and St. Thenew's Chapel, by the gate walled the West Port.12 The privilege of having "a free Tron" in the city and barony of Glasgow had been granted to the bishops by James IV. in 1489, and the portion of the street lying within the port acquired the name of "the Troyngate," from the place of weighing being there. The outer portion, west of the port, obtained, about two centuries later, the name first of West Street and then of Argyll Street.
For a long time there must have been few houses in the Trongate, and most of these had gardens and fields behind them. In the charter of 1426 just referred to, the granter, Malcolm Lytstare, burgess of Glasgow, sells to John Stewart, sub-dean of Glasgow, a tenement on the north side of this street or road, with the garden adjacent on the north. In 1505 there is a deed in which mention is made of "a garden with pertinents" in commune via sancti Tenew,13 and there are many other deeds of still later date in which mention is made of houses in the Trongate with gardens and orchards attached to them.
On the south side of the Trongate, on the site now occupied by the Tron Church, stood the collegiate "Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Ann" – called in some of the old writs "our Lady College," and afterwards the Church of St. Mary. Mr. Robertson says that the erection and endowment were completed in 1549. The endowment may not have been completed till then, but the church must have been erected before 1528, as in a charter of that year of lands adjoining, mention is made, "nove ecclesiæ beatarum Marie virginis et Anne matris ejus."14 There could have been no houses near it then, as it was surrounded by a large burying-ground. After the Reformation the market for grass and straw was, by a minute of the town council in 1577, appointed to be held in this burying-ground – called in the minute "the New Kirk yarde." It was required that one of the prebendaries of this church of St. Mary should be expert in playing the organ, and that he should perform on it daily according to the use and wont of the metropolitan church. He was also required to keep a school for the instruction of youth "in plain song and descant." This school stood in the Trongate, on the west side of the Collegiate Church, and is mentioned in the burgh records as "the scuile sumtyme callit the sang scuile." In 1575 there is an entry in the burgh accounts of a payment "to Thomas Craige of the New Kirk scule for straye to the mending thairof and for onputyng of the samyn xxij s." (1s. 10d.), from which it appears that, like most of the other buildings in the city, it was thatched. Neither the "sang scule" nor the churchyard, nor any other portion of the collegiate property, ever belonged to the corporation. They held it in trust only for the benefit and endowment of the Tron Church, but they disposed of it nevertheless in 1588, along with some properties belonging to the corporation, at a time when they were greatly pressed for funds.15
Behind the Collegiate Church, within an open area, and on the site of what is now the presbytery house, stood the old manse of St. Mary's. It fronted the south, with its back to the church. It was a narrow two-storey building, rough-cast, with a steep roof and crow steps on the gables. It had five windows in front, three in the upper flat, and one on each side of the door, which was above the level of the ground, and was approached by two or three steps. Around the house was a garden inclosed by a hedge. This old manse remained till the middle of the present century.
"Our Lady College" was founded by James Houston, sub-dean of Glasgow, in the early part of the sixteenth century. The provision made for the services embraced a provost, eight canons or prebendaries, and three chaunters. The number of the prebendaries was increased by subsequent benefactors. All the prebends were endowed, partly from lands and houses within or near Glasgow, and partly from the fruits of the parish churches of Dalry and Maybole. After the Reformation the revenues within the city were appropriated by the magistrates, but the prebendaries were allowed to draw their stipends until they died out. Even subsequent to the Reformation, however, the church received (in 1650) an endowment of some value by a deed granted by the magistrates, with consent of the Stewarts of Minto, "for the use and profeit of their two ministers serving the cure at the New Kirk [the Tron] as part of their stipend." What has come of this endowment I do not know, but certainly it cannot be said of this church, whatever may be the case as to the others in the city, that the support of its ministers has come exclusively from "the common good."
The Trongate has undergone many changes. The above view is from a drawing made in 1845.
Early in the fourteenth century the formation of the Gallowgate must have been commenced, as in the charter of 1325 already referred to mention is made of a tenement "in vico qui dicitur le Galogate." In other charters it is variously called via furcarum; vicus furcarum juxta torrentem Malyndoner; and via furcarum tendens a cruce forali ad orientem portam.
On the site now occupied by the old Saracen's-Head Inn, and just outside the City Port, stood the chapel called Little St. Mungo's, surrounded by a burying-ground. It was founded some time before 1500 by David Cunningham, archdeacon of Argyll. In a deed granted by him in that year, endowing the chapel, he describes it as "unam capellianam cum capellano extra muros civitatis Glasguensis in communi via furcarum extra torrentem de Malindoner et prope arbores vocatas Sancti Kentigerni."16 By extra muros the granter meant beyond the city gate. The churchyard was surrounded by trees. After the Reformation it became the property of Donald Cunningham of Aikenbar and Marion Lyon, his wife, from whom it was purchased by the magistrates in 1593 at the price of 200 merks – £13, 6s. 8d. according to the value of Scots money at that time – on the condition that the "chapell, hous, and ʒaird" were to be maintained as an hospital for the poor. The magistrates did convert it into an hospital for lepers, and for some time maintained it as such; but, in breach of their trust, they conveyed it about the middle of the last century to Robert Tennent, for the purpose of his building on it a first-rate hotel, which he did. This was the Saracen's Head.
Even so late as 1736, when McUre wrote his history, the Gallowgate extended no farther than the East Port. Beyond that was only a narrow country road, chiefly between hedges, leading to the old village of Camlachie. Between that port and the Cross, and not far from the old chapel, the street was crossed by the Molendinar Burn. Like St. Enoch's Burn, it crossed on the surface, and there was a considerable descent to it on each side, with stepping-stones in the stream for foot passengers. When it was swollen by rains people had to cross in carts or on horseback. The burn was a favourite place for watering horses and cattle, and Dr. Buchanan, writing in 1856, says he had conversed with old people who remembered it in that state.17 Now a foul underground sewer, it was then a clear limpid stream. In the Glasgow Courant for 1755 there is an advertisement of a piece of ground at the Spoutmouth to be let, and one of the inducements held out to a tenant is its vicinity to the Molendinar as suitable for bleaching.
Beside the "trees of St. Kentigern" mentioned in the foundation charter of Little St. Mungo's Church, there was near the same place a well, called St. Mungo's Well. – Fons Kentigerni. Like many of the old saints Kentigern is said to have had his bed, his bath, and his chair. The bed, Jocelin tells us, was hollowed out of the rock. He bathed in the Molendinar, and his seat, according to an ancient tradition, was super lapidem in supercilio montis vocabulo Gwleth. Gwleth, forming in combination Wleth, signifies dew, and hence, it has been said, the hill was called the Dew Hill, corrupted afterwards into the present name of Dow Hill. In a charter in 1581 it is called "Dowhill alias Gersumland."18
The Gallowgate ended in a common called the Gallowmuir. The place of execution was there, and till near the end of last century the gallows – which gave their names to the street and the muir – was still standing. It was on the north-west end of the common, near the upper corner of what is now Barrack Street.
A continuation of the High Street, leading to the South Port or "Nether Barras yett," was inhabited chiefly by fullers and dyers, and from them it was called the "Walcargate" – in the old charters via Fullonum – a name which about the middle of the sixteenth century was superseded by that of Saltmarket.
1 Franck's Northern Memoirs.
2 Burgh Records, 2d October, 1666.
3 4th September, 1697.
4 12th March, 1698.
5 Report by Mr. Briscoe, Inspector of Prisons, and other Commissioners, presented to Parliament, Session 1878.
6 Cleland's Statistical Tables, 3d edit. p. 97.
7 Tour in Scotland, 1771, p. 200.
8 Lib. Coll. N. D., p. 240.
10 Munimenta Universitatis Glasg., vol. i. p. 35.
13 Lib. Coll. N. D., p. 258.
14 Lib. Coll. N. D., p. 90.
15 Burgh Records, 24th Dec. 1588.
16 Regist. Episc. Glasg., p. 501.
17 Desultory Sketches, p. 664.
18 Reg. Epis. Glasg., p. 588.
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It is so different, and yer there's just enough that's the same to recognise where is being described. Fascinating.
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'Snatched' has a killer comic duo in Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer – and that's about it, according to Peter Travers. Read our review.
There have been complaints in early reviews about Snatched being disposable junk. Huh? Let's back up a minute. The comedy stars Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer as mom and daughter – those words alone should mean something for film enthusiasts, and not just because Mother's Day weekend. Schumer, the baby-faced bad girl of 2.0 comedy, is teaming up with Hawn, a laugh-inducing golden girl since she won an Oscar for her breakthrough role in 1969's Cactus Flower. So, yes, we'll allow that this female raunch-com is built on a script by Katie Dippold (The Heat, Ghostbusters) that would have to go a long way to qualify as flimsy. And that director Jonathan Levine (50/50) is too often flying blind. But watching this dynamic comic duo mix it up on screen – that is not be sniffed at.
The caper plot, such as it is, evaporates while you're watching it. Schumer plays Emily, a bachelorette who's just lost her retail job and been dumped by her musician boyfriend (Randall Park). What to do now that she's stuck with two non-refundable vacation tickets to Ecuador? Call mom, of course. Linda (Hawn), divorced and living with cats and her agoraphobic son (Ike Barinholtz), is talked into it. Soon the two are poolside arguing about sunblock. She frets when Emily hooks up with a Brit hottie (Tom Bateman), who catches Emily doing an impromptu douche. The real panic ensues when mom and daughter are kidnapped by – cue the racial stereotypes – a nefarious gangster (Oscar Jaenada) and his thugs, leading to an escape run through the jungles of the Amazon.
So no, it's not exactly one for the ages. Schumer, as star and screenwriter, made such an impact mining her own life for edgy fun and feeling in 2015's Trainwreck, with the estimable Judd Apatow directing, that we got pretty damned spoiled. Snatched never reaches those fizzy heights. The pleasures here come almost exclusively from Schumer and Hawn playing off each other like the rock stars of comedy they are. Hawn hasn't made a film since 2002's The Banger Sisters, but the timing she showed in such hits as Private Benjamin, Shampoo, Overboard, Death Becomes Her and The First Wives Club, hasn't dimmed with the years. Best of all, Schumer's love and respect for her costar shines through every frame. Even in the reduced circumstances of this less-than-stellar comedy, that's a sight to see.
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Anything is possible if you believe. Anything!
It is actually a "Royale With Cheese" from the movie, Pulp Fiction! I was thinking about California today, actually I was thinking about Hollywood, which gave me the idea to add the line from John Travolta. During Obama's State of the Union speech last night, they mentioned the Patriarch from Duck Dynasty, Willie Robertson, being in attendance amongst a few other stars from television. I have to be honest, I have never actually seen the show, but I know it is popular. I have read or seen the news about Willie's recent removal and return from the show and about his strong Christian Faith. So I began thinking.
Yes, some of his remarks or comments upset quite a few people. And they were just as bad as those from Chick-fil-A's founder, Mr. S. Truett Cathy. I don't agree with anything they said, it was insensitive. It wasn't my belief, or my faith. But I think that is the greatest thing about life, we are all given the freedom to believe what we want to believe and follow whichever faith we choose. Christian. Islam. Buddhism. You name it. That is their right.
There is so much controversy consuming our world regarding religion, politics, education, whatever, I can only imagine how great of a place it would be if everyone would simply focus on the one thing that unites us all: love. I was also thinking about "The Beebs" and how it appears he has been causing a lot of trouble. Justin Bieber is 19, right? He's immature. He a little wild. It's never right to assault anyone, but regardless of the fact that younger kids look up to him, he is pretty much just a child himself. Cut him a little slack! He'll eventually shape up (I hope!). We were all immature once, we all have made mistakes in the past, we have all moved forward.
So whether it's making duck calls, eating delicious chicken sandwiches, or acting like a fool, we all have the opportunity to make the world a better place. Instead of hating anyone, try loving everyone. Instead of arguing, try listening. Instead of condemning, try accepting! I recently heard someone say that our time on this earth is limited, why waste your time doing things that a) you don't enjoy, and b) living someone else's life. Just live for the greater good! Thanks for Believing!
Garth. 5873 Days. 23: I Love You, Too.
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Excursions Into Science, Mathematics, And The Future.
Posted on December 3, 2019 December 3, 2019 by stormbear
Obituary Of Andrija Puharich
On January 4, 1995, the following death-notice appeared in the Winston Salem Journal
ELDERLY SCIENTIST ORDERED EVICTED FROM REYNOLDS ESTATE DIES IN FALL
One of the three scientists ordered to leave the Surry County estate of Richard Joshua Reynolds died last night after suffering a heart attack and falling down a flight of steps.
Dr. Andrija Puharich, aged 76, fell about 7:15 p.m. Puharich was extremely frail and his health had been failing, said Susan Mandell, who took care of Puharich. Mandell said earlier that Puharich would not fight the magistrate's eviction order, and that he was waiting for his social security check because he couldn't afford to move.
The other scientists, Elizabeth Rauscher and William Van Bise, are fighting the eviction order, and said that Puharich had changed his mind and had filed to fight the eviction order.
The executor of the estate said that he had recently talked to Surry County Social Services to get Puharich involuntarily committed so he would get some medical help. "I knew he could not continue in that environment without first class medical attention."
To the people who had known Andrija Puharich, the news of his death came as a shock. Many knew that his health had been failing, but few were aware that, in spite of his frail condition, he was fighting an eviction order. It had all started in June 1994 when Richard Joshua Reynolds died.
In 1980, Josh, as his friends called him, had invited Andrija to the estate to study the effects of electromagnetic field on brain waves.
However, when he died, he had not provided for Andrija in his will. The executor handling the sale of the estate had no alternative than to ask Andrija to vacate the premises. The date was set for September 15, 1994. Andrija was resolved to leave, sadly, but nevertheless with all intent. However, in July 1994, he collapsed and was hospitaised. Examination showed severe diabetes; kidney failure, related to the diabetes; anemia, secondary to the kidney function; high blood pressure; progressive dementia, due to the anemia and lack of blood supply to the brain.
He had sudden violent outbursts, pulled out IV's and pulled off the telemetry patches. He also had a rash on his leg, a possible onset of gangrene.
The doctors advised Andrija to look for placement in a rest home, but he refused to even consider it. It was then decided to return him to the care of Susan Mandell, but to keep placement in a rest home in mind. On the day of his discharge Andrija was stable, talkative and in good spirits, but on the way home he suddenly developed generaised weakness and was re-hospitaised. A few days later he insisted again on leaving, and Susan signed him out.
If only he had not been so bull-headed he might still be alive.
Andrija Puharich was my former husband, and father of my two children, Yvonne and Andy. We knew that he was seriously ill, and that he had to leave the estate. We had therefore come from Holland – where we have lived since 1965 – for a possible last visit, and to help with the packing and moving. This had been four months ago, in September 1994.
Unfortunately at the last minute Andrija refused to go with Andy to upstate New York, where Andy had rented and furnished a small apartment for his father and Susan, not too far from Maritza, Andrija's daughter.
It was a sad ending of a difficult, but also wonderful visit. It was a time of lovingness. Danica, also a daughter from Andrija's first marriage had joined us, and in the evening we would all sit on the porch, enjoying the sound of the rushing stream some yards out in front, and the racket of the crickets. Andrija was like a child, loving every minute of our company. With a happy smile on his face he would look at each of us and say over and over again that we should do this more often. He thought it was Christmas, and he thanked me for getting the whole gang together. "You were always such a great organizer," he said.
It was wonderful to see how, because of this happiness, his periods of lucidity became longer each day. We acted like the lovebirds we once were, holding hands and chatting away, to the delight of the children. They had never seen their parents that way.
And now, only four months later we are back in North Carolina for the interment.
We sit together quietly as we drive through the rugged countryside in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains towards 'Devotion', the Reynold's estate.
Glancing over my shoulder, I see Yvonne's hand on the black plastic box that contains her father's ashes. Her face is pale, her eyes large and dark. The same beautiful blue as her father's used to be. What is she thinking?
So much has happened since we left the Netherlands three days ago. After the call that Andrija had fallen down the stairs and died, we had taken the next possible flight from Amsterdam to North Carolina. Because none of the other children could come we had taken it upon us to fulfill Andrija's wish to be cremated.
I shudder as I remember the conversation with the gentleman from the funeral home. To perform an inexpensive cremation – there was no insurance, and no money – he would pick up Andrija's body at Mt. Airy hospital in Dobson, bring it to Greensboro – the only crematorium for Surry County – and execute the cremation as soon as possible. Thinking of the way it is done in the Netherlands. I had asked if we could be anywhere close by to sit in prayer, and if we could see the body.
"I'm sorry," he answered, "that's not customary. Besides, we might do the cremation at night."
"With nobody present, nobody to say goodbye to him?" I asked.
"I thought you wanted it as inexpensive as possible. If you want another kind of cremation…"
"No, but it sounds so cold and heartless. How will you bring Dr. Puharich to Greensboro?"
"In a body-bag, ma'am."
I couldn't believe what I heard.
Andy had handed me a tissue and put his arm around me, "papa taught us that the body is only a place where the soul lives temporarily", he said, "it is not him in that bag, mama."
I could tell by his voice that he too was shocked and in the eyes of Yvonne I saw the same.
"He also told us that the body is a temple for the soul. Even in the poorest part of India, they cremate their dead with respect," I had whispered.
Seeing our distress, the gentleman promised to deliver Andrija's ashes to the motel, so we could have a private ceremony.
Next to me, handsome in his dark suit, my son looks solemn. I know that he is thinking of how to conduct the ceremony, what to say. I would like to voice my feelings also, but I know that I won't be able to. Instead I'll read a last farewell that Phyllis Schlemmer, a long-time friend of Andrija, has given me. It is from Judith Skutch, another friend, and supporter of his work. Unable to come herself, she had faxed the message to Phyllis:
"Beloved teacher… it is with tremendous gratitude that I celebrate your life today. You will never know how profoundly you influenced my life. There must be thousands of others who can say the same thing. Go in peace and watch over us. With love. "
Judith' words reflect my own feelings. Andrija had been my teacher also, and he certainly influenced my life profoundly. Although we were together for only seven years, we had known each other for nearly forty.
I had just turned 26 when I met Andrija. I was a happy girl, very much in love with a wonderful boy, with whom I was to go to Holland to visit my parents, and afterwards to India. How differently everything had turned out.
Meeting him after he had just taken his mentally ill wife to a hospital, Andrija -then Dr. Puharich, to me – begged me to take care 'temporarily' of his three daughters. When we were "young and foolish" and fell in love, my life changed drastically. Instead of going with my friend to Holland, I became a full-time mother of three little girls, and later of a daughter and son of my own.
After we had signed the papers necessary for the release of Andrija's body from the hospital the next day, we were surprised when asked if we wanted to see the deceased. Andy and I had said yes. but Yvonne did not feel up to it. The room we were taken to was nothing more than a storage room, a large closet where they, kept mops. pails, and other cleaning paraphernalia. The nursing supervisor, a nice lady, with a kind face and a soft compassionate voice, warned us that the body had not had any cosmetic treatment and was still as it was at the time of death. We nodded our understanding; glad that at least we were able to say goodbye. After she had put on surgical gloves, the supervisor opened a metal door in the corner of the room and pulled back the plastic shield that covered the body. Yvonne was right not to have come with us.
I wonder if I'll ever be able to erase this last memory of Andrija. His forehead was bruised from the fall down the stairs and under the hairline a wound was visible. His lower denture was gone, receding his lower jar grotesquely. Yet he had a peaceful expression as if he were merely asleep. I kissed his forehead, whispered my thanks for the love we had shared and the children he gave me, and wished him God speed. We were numb with grieve.
Crossing the last of six wooden bridges that span the Mitchell River, we are on the driveway that leads to the big old house. Such sadness, the whole place.
Inside the same filth and stench as in September, with zillion cats scurrying away. I can still hear Andrija's slippered feet shuffling towards the stairs. We had wondered how he still managed to get up and down, unaided and we had been afraid that one day he would slip.
Quickly I go outside to the porch where he used to sit by the hour, enjoying the sound of the rushing stream. I watch the people assembled talking to the reporter from The Charlotte Observer.
Phyllis, and Henry Belk, a businessman from North Carolina, are the only people I know. Israel Carmel is there too. He is a healer and Phyllis' husband. Another medium, like Phyllis, is Mary Myer. She has brought a portable cassette player and a bouquet of red roses. Joseph, her husband is an engineer and a psychical researcher. Also Elizabeth Rauscher, the other scientist who faces eviction, is present. We are waiting for Susan.
Off to the side I spot Kenneth, the caretaker of the estate. He is a big, burly, bearded man with the kindest eyes I have ever seen. When I had first met him in September, he wore a cowboy hat and, what looked like a shark-tooth necklace on his hairy chest. He carried a knife and a gun, "to protect me from snakes," he said. He was at the time with his little daughter, and his tenderness towards her, belied his stern exterior. He and his wife had come to love and respect Andrija.
I touch the small gold wedding band on my right hand ring finger. Not wanting it any longer, I had given it to Yvonne many years ago. "Maybe you want to wear it today," my thoughtful daughter had said.
When Susan appears, Andy asks us to follow him to the bridge for the scattering of the ashes ceremony. He is hugging a white porcelain urn close to his heart.
"I welcome you all on this sad day to say goodbye to a man who has meant a great deal to each and everyone of us at one point or other during his life on planet Earth. I thank you for coming. Some of my dad's friends couldn't be here today, but they have faxed their good-byes. May I ask you to read them, and your own farewells, out loud, please."
While in the background the music softly plays, I listen to the words of love, admiration, and gratitude for Andrija's "pioneering spirit; his courage to tread new paths and open new doors through which he guided others with kindness, generosity and humor."
Although my voice quivers and tears make my vision blurry, I manage to read Judith' message, adding a few words of love of my own.
When all the good-byes are spoken, we stand in a circle and hold hands. Only the sound of flowing water overruns the silence. My daughter's hand feels icy, as must mine feel in hers, and we tighten our grip.
After Andy has given us a chance to touch the urn, or the ashes, as most of us do, he tips the urn over the railing of the bridge. "Goodbye daddy," he whispers, "have a save journey to the other side."
One by one we drop a red rose into the churning water of the Mitchell River and watch them float away. When everybody leaves, we remain behind for a last farewell of our own. A white patch in the river marks the end of an era," as Elizabeth Rauscher had poignantly stated.
Back at the motel the topic of conversation is of course Andrija.
"Such a remarkable man."' I hear Phyllis say. "It was a joy working with him. I have just rewritten my, book The Only Planet Of Choice. I feel that Andrija as the founder of the original group that worked with the Council of Nine should be in it too."
Many years ago I had beard about "The Nine" from Andy, who or what they were I had no idea.
With mischievous eyes and his typical southern drawl, Henry Belk remembers the "fun" he had with Andrija. "All those wonderful things we did together forty years ago. Do you remember Peter Hurkos?" he asks me. 'I brought him to the United States to be studied by André."
"Sure, I remember!' " I wonder if he ever knew how angry I used to be with him when Andrija, on more than one occasion had stayed away most of the night giving demonstrations with the psychic Hurkos in order to get financial support for his research from Henry's friends.
Listening to the people talk about Andrija, I reaise that I hardly know anything about the work he did for the past twenty years. For a long time after I had left I maintained an interest in his work, but in 1974, I got fed up with him. This was undoubtedly also the reason why his three daughters were not present today. Asked about this by the reporter, who had read somewhere that Dr. Puharich had six children, I had excused their absence as being due to out of state residence, work and family commitments. Besides, I told her, they knew that their father was seriously ill and said goodbye when they visited him in July and September of 1994.
All, except one, I reflect, and I wonder how old Athena now is. Is she fifteen or sixteen? She is Andrija's youngest daughter from his fourth marriage. Maybe she doesn't even know that her father died. I hope that one day she'll believe that he did love her very much, as he did all his children.
Although I too had felt unloved often enough, I always tried to convince them that they were wrong. Socrates, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, and many other great minds weren't the best of husbands and fathers either. Were they incapable of love?
I remember Andrija telling somebody that the happiest time of his life with me had been when we were together in his study, both reading and studying while his three little girls were safe and snug in their beds. Another time, we had five children by then, he said that when he was away he missed us achingly, but while at home he took us for granted. Many years later he asked me why I had always been so angry with him and why I had left him? He really didn't know.
To my surprise I hear somebody say: "Andrija was such a spiritual man.
"He must be kidding! Andrija was fascinating and exciting. "Never a dull moment with Puharich," as a friend of us used to say, but spiritual? To me a spiritual person has overcome the desire for worldly goods or acclaim. The Andrija I knew certainly did not fit that bill. He must have spirituaised later.
"Are you all right, Bep? You're so quiet"
"I'm sorry, Phyllis. I was thinking of the past."
"The death of a loved one usually brings that on. I hope you'll also remember the good things you shared. Andrija was not an easy person to live with. Especially for the women in his life he was difficult. How are his daughters taking the death of their father?"
"I don't know, I haven't spoken to them about it."
'When are you flying back home?"
"On the twenty-second of January. I'll spend some time with Maritza and my grandchildren first. Andy, Yvonne and I are driving to New York tomorrow."
"Please say hello to Maritza."
"I will."
'Well, I'm afraid we have to leave. It was wonderful of you and your beautiful children to have come."
"Nice seeing you again, Phyllis. Thank you for contacting Andrija's old friends."
"You're welcome, dear. It was the least I could do."
Later that evening I asked Andy to enlighten me on the "Council of Nine."
"It's a long story," he answered, "but to put it in a nutshell, it's a circle of universal beings living outside time and space."
"Oh!" And Phyllis is the medium through which these beings speak` "Don't sound so skeptical, mama. Phyllis has convinced many scientists that she is a genuine medium."
"I'm sure she is, but I'm a bit confused. I didn't reaise that the Nine also have to do with outer-space stuff. Uri Geller was also a medium, wasn't he?"
"Yes, sort of. An extra-terrestrial, called Hoova spoke through him. They all work towards the same goal."
'What goal?"
"To warn us that the earth is in deep shit and about to destroy itself. Have you ever read Uri?"
"I tried to, but it was too much hocus pocus for me. Maybe I'll try again."
"You should. By the way, you still have 'Briefing For the Landing on Planet Earth' I lent you. Read that too. It's a very good book, written by an objective observer of the channeling sessions."
"The sessions when Phyllis is in trance."
"There's so much I don't know! Are you familiar with the Nine, Yvon?"
"Not really, but I hope to be soon. Phyllis has asked me to translate her book. Apparently a Dutch publisher has shown an interest."
"How wonderful! Just the thing you said you'd like to do, being involved with daddy's work. Maybe…"
"Hey you guys!" Andy interrupted, "I don't know about you, but I'm ready for a beer, and some television."
"One more question and then I'll leave you two. When you were fourteen, Andy, you told me that you were a space-kid. What did you mean by that?"
"That any minute now my eyes will turn green. Next my antenna will pop out of my head, and I'll beam you to your room. I'll tell you another time, mama. Goodnight!"
That night I lay awake long. Could it be true that Andrija had been in contact with space intelligence? Who was this "Maverick," as he used to call himself?
Was he, to quote Aldous Huxley: "One of the most brilliant minds in parapsychology"? Or had he been a man who was easily misguided by so-called psychics, a man who told tales, or had he been crazy? During my short marriage to him I had often accused him of being too gullible, too naive. I had admired his brilliant mind, and begged him to use it for research that would benefit mankind. For a while he did, when he and a friend worked on a hearing aid that would give sound a new route to the brain – through the teeth and facial nerves. The device, for which a patent was granted, would eventually consist of a miniature microphone and transmitter, to be worn on the wrist, or carried in a pocket, and a miniature receiver to be installed in a hollow false tooth. Through contact with nerve ends in a live tooth next to the false one, electric signals would be transmitted via the dental and facial nerves to the brain. How proud I had been when Andrija told me jubilantly that they had made a deaf person hear. All they had to do from there on was to bring the complex equipment down to portable size.
He had stumbled upon the possibility of nerve conduction as a means of helping the deaf, by accident. When he and his friend Joe Lawrence were both captains at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Md., (Andrija in the Medical Corps and Joe in the Dental Corps) Andrija treated a boy who suffered from hearing voices in his head. When he learned that the boy was a cutter, and that he worked with carborundum stones, he had Joe replace the fillings in his teeth.
His assumption, that if carborundum dust came into contact with amalgam fillings the tooth would operate as a radio receiver, had been correct. The voices in the boy's head stopped.
Too bad Andrija had not pursued the research. It may have given him the recognition he later on in life felt was withheld from him.
After we had returned to the Netherlands, we received the obituary that a friend of Andrija's had sent to the N.Y. Times Newspaper and Time Magazine.
She had also faxed it to newspapers in London. Reykjavik. Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago and Los Angels: DIED, ANDRIJA PUHARICH, M.D. LLD. 76 – internationally acclaimed American scientist, inventor, researcher, physicist, theorist, and author – of heart failure, in North Carolina. Editor of "THE ICELAND PAPERS" (Select Papers on Experimental and Theoretical Research on the Physics of Consciousness) 1979.
Dr. Puharich was a leader in the field of psychical research, merging quantum mechanics and relativity into a new scientific world-view to examine the way in which brain/mind function gives rise to a focused consciousness.
Member of many scientific societies and recipient of numerous awards and honors, Dr. Puharich's many friends and colleagues knew him as a true Renaissance Man. Six children and three grandchildren survive him.
To write an obituary about Andrija must have been difficult. What to put in? He had done so many things. In addition to The Iceland Papers and Uri he wrote The Sacred Mushroom, 1959,and Beyond Telepathy, 1962, both published by Double day & Company, and both reissued in 1974 by Doubleday in paperback editions. He also collaborated on a book by John G. Fuller, Arigo, Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, and published over fifty papers and articles in scientific and professional journals.
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Last month, the Technical Committee on Customs Valuation (TCCV) at the World Customs Organization (WCO) approved a new advisory opinion directly impacting importers of licensed products. Advisory Opinion 4.15 is the result of an eight-year review concerning the appropriate treatment of trademark royalties when imported products which incorporate a trademark are purchased from an unrelated party and no reference to the royalty is made in the contract of sale.
By way of background, the WCO Valuation Agreement provides that royalties paid by an importer to someone other than the seller of the importer merchandise must be added to the price paid for the product when determining transaction value if the royalty is: (1) related to the imported product, and (2) must be paid as a condition of sale to the importer.
In the recent Advisory Opinion, the WCO determined that if a royalty is a part of the terms of sale between the importer and licensor and is related to the imported product, then the royalty must be directly added to the customs value of imported goods, pursuant to Article 8.1(c) of the GATT. Importers must apply the royalty fee even if the sales contract between the importer and the licensor contains no language of the additional fee. Pursuant to Advisory Opinion 4.15, since the licensor determines the royalty for the licensed good, that royalty then applies to all aspects of the production process including the customs value of the imported good. Therefore, the WCO has identified in Advisory Opinion 4.15 a specific type of control which results in a dutiable royalty.
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Schloss Ermreuth is a manor house (Rittergut) in the Upper Franconian village of Ermreuth in the municipality of Neunkirchen am Brand. The three-storey hipped roof building was owned by various Franconian noble families in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. From 1926 the estate was used as a meeting point and training establishment for leading Nazis and, since 1980, has been the residence of right-wing extremist, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann.
History
14th to 19th centuries
Predecessor buildings on the site of the manor are recorded even before 1358. In 1525 rebellious peasants burnt down the castle. The locksmith, Stefan Muffel, from the Nuremberg patrician family Muffel suppressed the insurrection and rebuilt the house. In 1573 and 1579-1622, the estate belonged to the Stiebars, who built today's palace building with its staircase tower around 1600. After ten years of ownership by the House of Wildenstein, the castle was sold to the Künsbergs in 1632, who, in the eighteenth century, added the upper floor, raised the staircase and built a roof terrace with a parapet. According to an old legend, a black mare also lives here, who waits for people to go past the house in the darkness, sits on their back and oppresses them. In 1858 the Künsbergs sold the manor to the owner of the hammer mill, Andreas Schäff, From Erlangen.
20th and 21st centuries
After the First World War, the castle was used by the organization Der Stahlhelm as a meeting centre. In honour of General Ludendorff, who visited here as a guest, the Nazi hiking club, Ermreuth e.V., set up a Ludendorff home from 1926 onwards. In the Nazi era, a NSDAP Gauführer school was established here in 1935, whose members were probably involved in the desecration of the Jewish Cemetery in Ermreuth which had been opened in 1711. At that time, the editor of the Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher, was frequently a guest at the manor.
Immediately after the Second World War, refugees and expellees were placed in the castle from the German eastern territories. After their departure, it became temporarily a home for the Heimkehrer and then, until the end of the 1970s, it was old people's home run by the Bavarian Red Cross.
In 1978, Schloss Ermreuth became the headquarters of the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann, a Neonazi terrorist group founded in 1973, and the residence of Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, founder of the Wehrsportgruppe after his partner, Franziska Birkmann, had bought it. As a result of the ban on the Wehrsportgruppe in January 1980, a house search was conducted in the manor, and propaganda material and weapons were confiscated. Uwe Behrendt, deputy chairman of Hoffmanns Wehrsportgruppe and murderer of Shlomo Levin, former chairman of the Israeli religious community in Nuremberg and his life companion Frieda Poeschke, also lived here and escaped to Lebanon after the double killing in December 1980. After Die Wende, Hoffmann worked for several years as an investor in Thuringian Kahla and returned to Ermreuth around 2000. The present owner of the manor is not known.
On the Day of the Tag des offenen Denkmals in 2016, the manor was struck off the programme at the direction of the intelligence services.
Despite that, there were guided tours by Hoffmann with very positive feedback according to a newspaper report on Franconia Day.
References
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S. Michael Westerholz, in: Hagalil, 5 September 2010
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Can Team Liquid compete with Invictus in MSI semis?
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The group stage of 2019 Mid-Season Invitational is behind us, which leaves us with the top four teams that will advance into the knockout stage. While it was G2 who got paired with SKT T1, Team Liquid will have to prove their worth against Invictus Gaming in Bo5 semi-finals match.
The makeup of the top four did not look so obvious heading into the fifth and final day of the group stage. We knew IG and SKT would end up at the top, but the remaining two spots were wide open for Team Liquid, G2 and Flash Wolves to grab.
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Q: I can't understand this strange JS Flow syntax I'm trying to remove some JS Flow typing syntax from an application, but I can't seem to refactor this certain line accurately. It's part of a class declaration:
declare class Error {
static (message?:string): Error;
static call(x: any): void;
static captureStackTrace(x: any, x: any): void;
name: string;
message: string;
stack: string;
}
The problematic line is static (message?:string): Error;.
What is this line doing, and how can I rewrite it without Flow?
It looks like a method but has no name.... Any help would be appreciated!
A: It's a declaration of a factory function, just merged with class declaration.
So you can type check this: const error = Error(message).
To be less confusing, it can be rewritten as constructor (message?: string): Error.
Then you'll need to use new: const error = new Error(message).
Here is the example of both ways - try flow
So, without flow, you just need to write a function that returns Error object, and maybe check its first argument to be a string if not undefined.
A: I am not a pro in flow, but i'll try to answer your questions.
What is this line doing
The method accepts an optional string variable named message and it returns an Error object.
how can I rewrite it without Flow?
I think you can use typeof to check the type of the variable. You can find more information here
A: For my understanding, this definition is to check the input type of primitive Error Object.
This kind of Flow semantic is called library definition which is used to define type check for 3rd party library. You could see the definition below.
Flow defintion
So what you need to do is create a customized Error function say myError and check the first argument type as string. Then return Error Object.
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: India's Hitaashee Bakshi of junior talent from DLF Golf Academy Nurturing Excellence Program bagged 1st place during The Hong Kong Junior Golf Championship under 13-14 years age category. Kartik Sharma and Sunhit Bishnoi too from the DLF Golf Academy did India proud by standing 2nd & 3rd respectively in the 15-17 years age category in the tournament. The championship was held at Discovery Bay Golf Club in Hong Kong where approximately 60 juniors from 8 countries had participated. 6 juniors from DLF Golf Academy Nurturing Excellence Programme participated in this year's championship.
Earlier this year in March 2018, Kartik Sharma had attained the no. 1 amateur ranking in the country and Sunhit Bishnoi is currently the no.1 Junior Golfer in the country. Both of them are trained at the DLF Golf Excellence Program which is supported by DLF Foundation. The program envisages providing potential players a nurturing ecosystem with necessary resources, training and facilities to excel at the international level. The Program provides all facilities for golf training, fitness and nutrition; playing and their practice facilities and also arranges for their travel.
"The tournament has been a great experience for all us and I am thankful to our coaches and staff at DLF Golf academy who have guided us through the competition and helped us improve our game. It wouldn't have been possible without their support; I wish to learn and work on my skills and hopefully repeat such performances in the future", said Hitaashee Bakshi, winner 13-14 years age category.
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Every day, attorney Tam Nguyen gets hundreds of complaints from of Chinese and Vietnamese families that all want his help.
They are accusing Chinese-American Mutual Assistance Association, or CMAA, of losing their money -- thousands they set aside for their own funerals. The non-profit holds money for member's burial expenses.
"For the past three or four months, 80-100 members have died and each member should have received $15,000 as funeral benefits, but they have not," said Tam.
Phuoc Nguyen's father was one of them. He died October 24, 2009 and for 15 years, the late Nguyen gave CMAA $60 a month for funeral costs. However, when it came time to pay, Phuoc says CMAA did not.
"The problem is I don't have money. I tried to borrow money to bury my father, but I didn't even have enough money to buy my father a coffin," said Phuoc.
At CMAA's headquarters on Flanigan Drive, no cars are in the parking lot and the front gate is locked.
"I see it always empty," said Tony Gabucan, a nearby office worker.
The association's president sent a letter to Phuoc's attorney saying "Since CMAA is in communication with the Attorney General's office and the District Attorney's office, I have been advised not to comment."
"There's a big question, a big mystery as to why they lose money," said Tam.
Suu Trong withdrew his membership CMAA years ago, but he still has dozens of friends who stayed with the association.
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Tam is filing his first of 24 civil suits against CMAA on Wednesday. His clients are suing for breach of contract and want $15,000 each.
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Nello Corp. Inc., a designer and manufacturer of galvanized steel towers and poles, plans to move its Fort Worth, Texas, operations to Indiana, creating as many as 639 jobs by 2023, the state announced Thursday morning.
Nello plans two new facilities in its headquarters city of South Bend to accommodate the relocation. A 250,000-square-foot plant should be built by early next year, it said. Another 250,000-square-foot facility should follow in the next five years.
Nello said it anticipates additional expansion of its corporate headquarters in downtown South Bend. The relocation should take place over the 18 months.
The company, which already has about 75 employees in Indiana, expects to begin hiring next year for positions in manufacturing, information technology, engineering and administration.
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PRRC Rater Training and Evaluation Dataset
Dataset Description
This dataset contains the full training and evaluation data for the PRRC rater models described in Meta-rater: A Multi-dimensional Data Selection Method for Pre-training Language Models. It is designed for training and benchmarking models that score text along four key quality dimensions: Professionalism, Readability, Reasoning, and Cleanliness.
- Source: Subset of SlimPajama-627B, annotated for PRRC dimensions
- Purpose: Supervised training and evaluation of PRRC raters (ModernBERT models)
- Annotation: Each sample is labeled by Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and/or human annotators, then used to fine-tune and benchmark PRRC raters
Dataset Statistics
- Total samples: ~1M (split into train/dev/test)
- Quality metrics: 4 PRRC dimensions (Professionalism, Readability, Reasoning, Cleanliness)
- Domains: Diverse (CommonCrawl, C4, GitHub, Books, ArXiv, Wikipedia, StackExchange)
- Annotation coverage: 100% of included samples
PRRC Quality Dimensions
- Professionalism: Degree of expertise and prerequisite knowledge required
- Readability: Clarity, coherence, and ease of understanding
- Reasoning: Complexity of logical reasoning and analytical thinking
- Cleanliness: Formatting, completeness, and absence of noise/irrelevant content
Each dimension is rated on a 0–5 scale, with detailed prompt criteria provided in the prompts/ directory of the GitHub repo.
Dataset Structure
Each example in the dataset has the following structure:
{
"id": "unique_document_id",
"content": "Main text content of the document",
"source": "domain_name", # e.g., "arxiv", "github", "wikipedia", etc.
"professionalism": int, # 0-5
"readability": int, # 0-5
"reasoning": int, # 0-5
"cleanliness": int # 0-5
}
Usage
Loading the Dataset
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load the full PRRC rater dataset
dataset = load_dataset("opendatalab/Meta-rater-PRRC-Rater-dataset")
# Access splits
train = dataset["train"]
dev = dataset["validation"]
test = dataset["test"]
Applications
- Supervised training of PRRC rater models (e.g., ModernBERT)
- Benchmarking and evaluation of text quality raters
- Prompt engineering and ablation studies for quality annotation
- Data-centric LLM research: Understanding the impact of different quality dimensions
Annotation Process
- Initial annotation: Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct (and/or human) rates each sample for all four PRRC dimensions using detailed prompts
- Quality control: Manual review and cleaning
- Splitting: Data is split into train/dev/test for robust evaluation
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:
@article{zhuang2025meta,
title={Meta-rater: A Multi-dimensional Data Selection Method for Pre-training Language Models},
author={Zhuang, Xinlin and Peng, Jiahui and Ma, Ren and Wang, Yinfan and Bai, Tianyi and Wei, Xingjian and Qiu, Jiantao and Zhang, Chi and Qian, Ying and He, Conghui},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.14194},
year={2025}
}
License
This dataset is released under the same license as the original SlimPajama dataset. Please refer to the original SlimPajama repository for licensing details.
Contact
- Project Lead: Ren Ma ([email protected])
- Corresponding Author: Conghui He ([email protected])
- Issues: GitHub Issues
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