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Ohio lawmakers approve lethal-injection secrecy law
Ohio legislators have approved a bill that would shield the identities of pharmacies and pharmacists that compound lethal injection drugs used in executions.
Ohio legislators have approved a bill that would shield the identities of pharmacies and pharmacists that compound lethal injection drugs used in executions. The bill has been sent to Republican Gov. John Kasich, who is expected to sign it.
The law would prevent, for 20 years, the disclosure of the names of pharmacies that compound drugs used in lethal injections. It also shields the identities of members of the execution team and physicians.
To the compounder of the Oklahoma execution drug: Come out of the shadows
Several states, including Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania, have passed laws to conceal the source of drugs and the people involved in executions. The laws are designed to protect those involved in executions from harassment and threats.
Because large pharmaceutical companies will no longer sell drugs for the purpose of lethal injections, prison officials throughout the country say they can only obtain the drugs if the identities of compounders are shielded.
In Oklahoma, earlier this year, death penalty opponents from Missouri held a vigil at a Tulsa pharmacy that had been identified as a drug supplier for Missouri's executions.
The executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions, Kevin Werner, said there is no evidence that pharmacists or pharmacies involved in compounding drugs for lethal injections have been threatened or harassed. "The allegations of harassment by anti-death-penalty advocates toward pharmacists and others involved in the execution process are not true," he told the Columbus Dispatch. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 0 |
PBCom Tower
The building in 2019
Record height
Tallest in the Philippines from 2000 to 2017[I]
Petron Megaplaza
Surpassed by
Grand Hyatt Manila
6795 Ayala Avenue corner V.A. Rufino Street, Salcedo Village, Makati, Philippines
14°33′29.90″N 121°1′9.51″E / 14.5583056°N 121.0193083°E / 14.5583056; 121.0193083Coordinates: 14°33′29.90″N 121°1′9.51″E / 14.5583056°N 121.0193083°E / 14.5583056; 121.0193083
Construction started
US$74 million[1]
Philippine Bank of Communications
Antenna spire
259 m (849.7 ft)
Floor count
52 aboveground, 7 belowground
119,905 m2 (1,291,000 sq ft) [1][2]
Lifts/elevators
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP; GF & Partners Architects [3]
Filinvest Development Corporation
Aromin & Sy + Associates, Inc.[4]
Samsung Construction Company Philippines, Inc.[5]
The Philippine Bank of Communications Tower, more commonly known as PBCom Tower,[8] is an office skyscraper ranked officially as the second tallest building in the Philippines. It was previously the tallest building in the Philippines, a title it held starting year 2000 until the completion of Federal Land Tower in early 2017. It has a total ground to architectural top height of 259 metres (850 ft), with 52 storeys [9] including an 8-level radio tower. It is a joint development of Filinvest Asia Corporation (FAC) and the Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCom). The building is the home of PBCom, one of the oldest Philippine banks. The bank occupies the building's first ten floors, with a food court on the seventh floor.
The building is located at Ayala Avenue corner V.A. Rufino Street in Makati, right inside the Makati Central Business District. The stretch of Ayala Avenue where PBCom Tower is located also has the main branches of Bank of the Philippine Islands, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, and Security Bank. The building houses international call centers such as Convergys, HSBC HDPP, and ICT.
The building in July 2005
PBCom Tower was designed by local architectural firm GF & Partners Architects, in cooperation with international architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP;[3] and structural design was provided by local engineering company Aromin & Sy + Associates.[4] Project and construction management services was provided by I.A. Campbell & Associates, a Philippine-based project management company,[1] while construction works was done by Samsung Engineering & Construction's local branch Samsung Construction Company Philippines, Inc. Samsung is known as the builder of the world's tallest buildings, including the Petronas Twin Towers, Taipei 101, and the Burj Khalifa.[10]
Besides these companies, other members of the design team include Edgett Williams Consulting Group (Elevator Design), Golder Associates, Inc. (Seismic Study); Fisher, Marantz, Rentro, Stone (Lighting consultant); Shel Milson & Wilke (Acoustic Analysis); CDC Limited (Curtain Wall design); Control Risks, Inc. (Security System design); N.B.F. Water & Wastewater Services (Sanitary System design); DCCD Engineering Corp. (Electrical Systems design); R.J. Calpo & Partners (Mechanical Systems design); and Radian Technology, Inc. (Fire Protection System design).[11]
Its exterior double-glazed, unitized curtain walls in aluminum frames, together with a monumental lighting effect, create a facade that reflects a fusion of art and function. Its interiors are an elegant interplay of glass, natural stone and metal. A landscaped garden in stepped podium also adds to the natural effect of the building's design. The building also utilizes tinted insulated vision glass in full height for the curtain walls to seal off heat and noise [11]
The offices spaces feature high ceiling headroom to enhance cosy working atmosphere; perimeter columns to provide flexibility in interior space planning; provision for raised access floor or underslab ducts; and having continuous wide panels in full height glazing allow magnificent views while providing ample natural light into the offices.[11]
The building also has banking facilities for efficient business transactions; food court with outdoor garden cafe; a business centre to complement corporate operations; and a roofdeck helipad for alternate transport access and emergency evacuation.[11]
Other amenities include a 100% standby generators, lightning protection and grounding systems, structured cabling system for high-speed transmission of data, video and voice communications, provision for fibre optic telecommunications system, advanced building management system, CCTV monitoring at strategic locations controlled at the central command station on a 24-hour basis, fire alarm and automatic fire sprinkler systems, dual water supply with water treatment facility, underground and overhead water reservoir, 2 individually controlled Air Handling Units per floor with allotted air condition load for after-office use, a communications tower, voice and smoke evacuation systems and a gondola system for building exterior maintenance.[11]
The building is equipped with 17 high-speed tower lifts in 3 zones lift-group to ensure minimum waiting time, 4 shuttle lifts for parking and amenity floors and 1 service elevator for all floors.[11]
The building's parking facilities have a secure and integrated multi-level design with paging system and a drivers' lounge.[11]
The PBCom Tower has been designated by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) as one of only two certified Information Technology (IT) buildings in the country. IT companies occupying the PBCom Tower will enjoy special tax incentives and other privileges from the government.[12]
List of tallest buildings in the Philippines
^ a b c I.A. Campbell & Associates, Inc.Projects - PBCom Tower Archived 2007-09-19 at the Wayback Machine
^ a b Skyscraperpage.com "PBCom Tower" page
^ a b GF & Partners Architects. The construction of PBCom Tower was started in November 1995 and was completed on April 26, 2000, and its opening on June 21, 2000. Our Projects - Completed Office Buildings Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ a b Aromin & Sy + Associates Our Projects Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
^ Filinvest Group Official Website "Operating Highlights - Property Development" page Archived 2001-03-12 at archive.today
^ Emporis.com PBCom Tower
^ HLURB website List of Makati Projects Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ Savills, K. M. C. "PBCom Tower". kmcmaggroup.com. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
^ Filinvest Official Website PBCom Tower page Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Samsung C&T Website Products & Services - Super Highrise
^ a b c d e f g Filinvest Group website PBCom Tower Design Team
^ Philippine Economic Zone Authority List of Economic Zones - NCR Makati - PBCom Tower
PBCom Tower website
PBCom Tower at Emporis
PBCom Tower Leasing Information
Location Map of PBCom Tower at Ayala Maps website
Makati Central Business District
Alveo Financial Tower
Ayala Tower One
Exportbank Plaza
G.T. International Tower
Lepanto Building
LKG Tower
L. V. Locsin Building
Makati Sky Plaza
Philamlife Tower
RCBC Plaza
Robinsons Summit Center
Rufino Pacific Tower
Smart Tower
The Enterprise Center Tower 1
The World Centre
Tower 6789
V Corporate Center
Zuellig Building
Discovery Primea
Grand Soho Makati
Makati Tuscany
One Roxas Triangle
Salcedo Park Twin Towers
Shang Salcedo Place
The Beacon – Amorsolo Tower
The Beacon – Arnaiz Tower
The Beacon – Roces Tower
The Residences at Greenbelt
Laguna Tower
Manila Tower
San Lorenzo Tower
The Shang Grand Tower
Ayala Center
Ayala Museum
Glorietta
InterContinental Manila
Makati Shangri-La, Manila
Ayala Triangle Gardens
Legazpi Active Park
Makati Medical Center
Mandarin Oriental Manila
Nielson Field Tower
Salcedo Park
The Peninsula Manila
Washington SyCip Park
Asian Institute for Distance Education
Asian Institute of Management
CAP College Foundation
Centro Escolar University Makati
Far Eastern University Makati
iAcademy
Mapúa University Makati
Amorsolo Street
Arnaiz Avenue
Chino Roces Avenue
Gil Puyat Avenue
Makati Avenue
Paseo de Roxas
Ayala station
Buendia station (MRT)
Dela Rosa railway station
Pasay Road railway station
De La Rosa Elevated Walkway
Pedestrian underpasses
Italics denote buildings under construction or planned.
Skyscrapers and towers in Metro Manila
Over 300 m
Metrobank Center (318 m, 2017)
PBCom Tower (259 m, 2000)
Trump Tower Manila (251 m, 2017)
The Gramercy Residences (250 m, 2013)
Discovery Primea (250 m, 2013)
Grand Riviera Suites (230 m, 2014)
Shangri-La at the Fort, Manila (229 m, 2016)
One Shangri-La Place Towers (227 m, 2014)
BSA Twin Towers (221 m, 2000)
G.T. International Tower (217 m, 2001)
Alphaland Makati Place (215 m, 2016)
The St. Francis Shangri-La Place Towers (213 m, 2009)
BDO Corporate Center (210 m, 2015)
One Rockwell West Tower (210 m, 2010)
Petron Megaplaza (210 m, 1998)
The Knightsbridge Residences (210 m, 2013)
UnionBank Plaza (206 m, 2004)
Greenbelt San Lorenzo Tower (205 m, 2009)
Edades Tower (205 m, 2014)
Net Park (205 m, 2015)
Golden Empire Tower (203 m, 2002)
One Corporate Centre (202 m, 2009)
Milano Residences (200 m, 2016)
Philamlife Tower (200 m, 2000)
Summit One Tower (200 m, 1998)
One Central Makati (195 m, 2013)
8 Forbestown Road (194 m, 2013)
Anchor Skysuites (193 m, 2013)
RCBC Plaza Towers (192 m, 2001)
The Infinity Fort Bonifacio (190 m, 2011)
Tower 6789 (185 m, 2013)
One San Miguel Avenue (183 m, 2001)
LKG Tower (180 m, 2000)
Marco Polo Ortigas Manila (180 m, 2014)
The Shang Grand Tower (180 m, 2005)
Pacific Plaza Towers (179 m, 2001)
Atlanta Centre (179 m, 1998)
Birch Tower (178 m, 2012)
Aspire Tower (175 m, 2012)
Robinsons Equitable Tower (175 m, 1997)
One Roxas Triangle (174 m, 2000)
Robinsons Summit Center (174 m, 2001)
Paragon Plaza (174 m, 1998)
The Enterprise Center Tower 1 (172 m, 1999)
Greenbelt Laguna Tower (171 m, 2008)
Greenbelt Manila Tower (171 m, 2010)
The Beaufort (170 m, 2013)
The Beacon Arnaiz Tower (170 m, 2012)
Pearl of the Orient Tower (168 m, 2004)
Discovery Suites (167 m, 1999)
GA Towers (165 m, 2005)
One Rockwell East Tower (165 m, 2011)
Rufino Pacific Tower (161 m, 1994)
Ayala Tower One (160 m, 1996)
The Orient Square (160 m, 1999)
Zuellig Building (160 m, 2012)
Lancaster Suites One (158 m, 2007)
Bellagio Golfview (156 m, 2010)
Exportbank Plaza (155 m, 1998)
Rizal Tower (155 m, 2000)
Wharton Parksuites (154 m, 2012)
BSA Grand Tower (154 m, 1998)
Belton Place (153 m, 2012)
The World Centre (152 m, 1996)
Salcedo Park Twin Towers (151 m, 1996)
Pacific Plaza Condominium (150 m, 1992)
One Legazpi Park (150 m, 2006)
Joy-Nostalg Center (150 m, 2009)
Forbes Tower West (150 m, 2011)
One McKinley Place (150 m, 2004)
The Columns (150 m, 2009)
The Stratford Residences (312 m, 2017)
The Estate Makati (276.8 m, 2018)
Century Spire (245 m, 2018)
The Skysuites Tower (220 m, 2018)
UNTV Broadcast Center (200 m, 2017)
Ayala Triangle Gardens North – Tower 2 (194.6 m, 2020)
Torre de Manila (165 m, 2018)
Alveo Financial Tower (185.9 m, 2020)
One Galleon Place (400 m)
Skycity (335 m)
Lopez Center (320 m)
Icone Tower (275 m)
Unbuilt
Centennial Tower (390 m)
PAGCOR Tower (665 m)
Philippine Diamond Tower (612 m)
Skyscrapers in Makati
Skyscraper office buildings in Metro Manila
Bank headquarters in the Philippines
Office buildings completed in 2000
PEZA Special Economic Zones
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Q: Rcpp with embedded R code, show no output of R code I have a cpp file that defines c++ and R functions, which are sourced into R using Rcpp::sourceCpp().
When I source the file, the R code is (partially) printed as well, even when I specify showOutput = FALSE (I guess it only applies to cpp code?!).
The question now is: how can I suppress the partial R output without using capture.output() or similar tricks.
MWE
in tester.cpp
#include <Rcpp.h>
// [[Rcpp::export]]
Rcpp::NumericVector timesTwo(Rcpp::NumericVector x) {
return x * 2;
}
/*** R
foo <- function(x) timesTwo(x)
*/
When sourcing the file, I see the following:
Rcpp::sourceCpp("tester.cpp", showOutput = FALSE)
#> foo <- function(x) timesTwo(x)
Even shorter MWE
Rcpp::sourceCpp(code='
#include <Rcpp.h>
// [[Rcpp::export]]
Rcpp::NumericVector timesTwo(Rcpp::NumericVector x) {
return x * 2;
}
/*** R
foo <- function(x) timesTwo(x)
*/
')
A: Could this question be rooted in a misunderstanding of what showOutput is for?
Looking at help(sourceCpp) we see
showOutput: 'TRUE' to print 'R CMD SHLIB' output to the console.
that it affects the actual compilation step and has nothing to do with any R code added as optional bit to also run if present.
The following example should make this clear (and reveal a few of CXX and other settings):
> cppFunction("int doubleMe(int i) { return i+i; }", showOutput=TRUE)
/usr/lib/R/bin/R CMD SHLIB -o 'sourceCpp_10.so' 'file99f11710553a7.cpp'
ccache g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -I"/tmp/RtmpC7dZ23/sourceCpp-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-1.0.5.4" -fpic -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -c file99f11710553a7.cpp -o file99f11710553a7.o
ccache g++ -Wl,-S -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o sourceCpp_10.so file99f11710553a7.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
>
> cppFunction("int trippleMe(int i) { return i+i+i; }", showOutput=FALSE)
>
Now, suppressing output of R code is a different topic and orthogonal to whether such code contains element made via Rcpp or not.
And lastly @MrFlick is spot on that if you don't want R code sourced as part of a sourceCpp() call ... then just don't include such code! Or just break the regexp /*** R.
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Canada|Calling Poutine 'Canadian' Gives Some in Quebec Indigestion
Montreal Journal
Calling Poutine 'Canadian' Gives Some in Quebec Indigestion
Canadians are divided over a nagging question: Is poutine Quebecois or Canadian?CreditCreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
By Dan Bilefsky
Lire en français
MONTREAL — The friends from Quebec went to London's Brick Lane food market, searching for a taste of home. But as they devoured their poutine — that gloppy, trouser-bursting dish of French fries, cheddar cheese curds and gravy — something felt horribly wrong.
The dish tasted just right — so authentic that the cheese curds emitted a faint "squeak, squeak" when bitten into — the telltale sign of a proper poutine.
But the jovial chef serving them had an Ontario accent. Even more disconcerting: He was wearing the hat of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, the archrivals of the Montreal Canadiens.
"Poutine is Quebecois; it is not Canadian," said Zak Rosentzveig, 25, a poutine-obsessed economist from Montreal, recently describing his visit to the food stall and adding his voice to a simmering debate over poutine's true identity.
"Calling poutine 'Canadian' makes me feel very uncomfortable because Quebec has a distinct culture and history from the rest of Canada, and poutine is a strong symbol of that."
"Now that poutine has become an international superstar," Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet said, "Canadians want to say it is theirs, but it is not."CreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
When President Barack Obama served smoked duck poutine canapés to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House last year, he unintentionally fanned a cultural skirmish over who deserves credit for the unapologetically caloric dish.
Now, a group of patriots from the province that gave the world poutine is trying to reclaim it as its own. They insist that poutine — long mocked by Anglophone Canadians as a low-grade hangover cure — is being unfairly usurped by the rest of the country.
Identity politics are no small matter in Quebec, where concerns about the encroachment of outside forces on French Canadian culture remain deeply ingrained in the province's psyche. Even Quebec's license plates, which say "Je me souviens" ("I remember"), have for decades been interpreted by some, fairly or not, as a reference to the British conquest of Quebec in 1759.
Only this month, the Quebec legislature passed a resolution calling for merchants in the French-majority province to stop greeting customers with "Bonjour hi" — a hybrid expression popular in bilingual Montreal — and to say just "Bonjour" instead.
Leading the movement to rebrand the beloved and starchy snack is Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet, 28, a self-described "poutinologist" from Montreal who rocked the Canadian culinary world this summer after presenting an academic paper arguing that Canada had culturally appropriated a dish so quintessentially Quebecois that it amounted to a theft.
In some ways, his argument is a light echo of conversations across Canada about cultural appropriation. The treachery, he observed, was akin to Britain claiming credit for haggis or Israel extolling falafel, widely enjoyed in the Arab world, as its "national snack."
Poutine at Chez Gaston, Quebec City. Lesley Chesterman, the food critic for The Montreal Gazette, said that, more often than not, poutine outside of Quebec was not really poutine.CreditRenaud Philippe for The New York Times
Six months later, Mr. Fabien-Ouellet has become something of a folk hero in his native Quebec, feted in dozens of newspapers and radio shows, even as he has been derided by Canadian federalists on social media as a poutine nationalist. He is now writing a book on poutine culture.
"Like Céline Dion, poutine was once mocked and underappreciated in Quebec," he mused this week at La Banquise, a popular ice cream shop-turned-poutine restaurant in Montreal's Plateau neighborhood as the pungent smell of fried oil wafted through the air.
Dozens of 20-somethings sat hunched over heaping plates like poutine la reggae — ground beef, guacamole, diced tomatoes and hot peppers. He continued, "Now that poutine has become an international superstar, Canadians want to say it is theirs, but it is not."
The bookish and rail-thin poutinologist, who appears not to pig out on his subject, stressed that the exaltation of poutine as one of the top 10 Canadian inventions of all time — up there with insulin and the Wonderbra — belied the fact that it was once ridiculed by Canadian elites to "tarnish Quebec culture and undermine its legitimacy of self-determination as a nation."
After first appearing in the 1950s in rural Quebec, poutine came to be sneered at by some gastro-snobs as a late-night nosh whose name dare not be spoken in a province that has long fetishized French cuisine. Its greasy simplicity was served up at hockey arena snack bars and seen as reflecting a working-class Quebec more inclined to cheese fries than foie gras.
Later, some health officials sought to ban poutine on school cafeteria menus.
Poutine's rags-to-riches transformation was cemented when Martin Picard, a maverick of Canadian, or shall we say Quebecois cuisine, helped raise it to an art form in 2001 when he made poutine with foie gras the signature dish at his now-celebrated Montreal restaurant Au Pied de Cochon.
Poutine preparation in the kitchen at La Banquise.CreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
The dish further went global when Chuck Hughes won an Iron Chef America contest in 2011, trouncing his rival with a plate of lobster poutine.
Today, there are poutine restaurants from Thailand and Bermuda to Liverpool, and concoctions like chicken tikka poutine and cheese cake poutine with the gravy replaced by caramel.
Still, the nagging question remains: Is poutine Quebecois or Canadian?
Lesley Chesterman, the food critic at The Montreal Gazette, said it was a sacrilege to call poutine "Canadian," insisting that, more often than not, poutine outside of Quebec was quite simply not poutine.
"In Vancouver they will get it all wrong — they will use mozzarella," she said. "People say you can now get cheese curds in Saskatchewan, but it won't be real poutine. When it crosses the border, it loses its authenticity."
She added, "Cheese cake poutine is just plain wrong!"
Other leading poutine proponents, including Mr. Picard, countered that the Canadian embrace of poutine could be construed as a healthy sign of a country increasingly at peace with both its English- and French-speaking parts.
"It is a sign that Canada's provinces are getting along better. It can be seen as a cultural affirmation," he said.
A classic poutine from La Banquise.CreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
Jamie Kennedy, an influential Canadian chef who brought gourmet poutine to Toronto, said accusations that Canada was pilfering poutine from Quebec gave him indigestion, given that there was no such thing as a "Canadian national dish" in multicultural Canada.
"Do we need to endlessly give credit to the Quebecois for inventing it?" he asked.
Whatever its cultural provenance, its origins have more claims than there are curds in a plate of poutine.
One widespread theory is that poutine traces its roots to 1957, to a restaurant formerly known as Le Lutin Qui Rit, or The Laughing Elf, in Warwick, a small town northeast of Montreal, when a customer asked the owner Fernand Lachance to add cheese curds to his fries. Mr. Lachance is said to have proclaimed that it would be a "maudite poutine," or "a hell of a mess."
A history of poutine on the website of La Banquise notes that other dishes made of potatoes are also called "poutines," and it could also be derived from the English word "pudding."
Whatever the truth, some chefs, including Mr. Hughes, the creator of the lobster poutine, said politicizing poutine gave the fatty treat far too much importance.
"Poutine," he said, "is a bad decision at 4 in the morning."
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Culture War Over Beloved Dish Grips Quebec. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
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Man! Twain helps 'Idol' singers sound like stars
Published Apr 27, 2010 at 8:06 PM | Updated at 8:15 PM PDT on Apr 27, 2010
Each of the finalists got more praise than criticism from the judges, which was kind of a miracle considering the mentor was Shania Twain and each finalist sang from her catalog.
This is the week "American Idol" viewers are going to find out which of the six remaining finalists are truly the favorites, and which are living on borrowed time.
That's because each of the finalists got more praise than criticism from the judges, which was kind of a miracle considering the mentor was Shania Twain and each finalist sang from her catalog. If you haven't spent the whole season thinking, "Man, I wish I could see what Lee Dewyze and Michael Lynchecould do with a Shania Twain cover," well, you wouldn't be alone.
It's hard to imagine that the four guys remaining were enthusiastic about picking their songs, and not surprisingly none chose to go with "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" Although man, I wish they had! But fortunately for them, the judges were more than kind.
Lynche was compared to Luther Vandross by both Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell, which indicates that both judges need to dust off their old CDs and give them a fresh listen before ever doing that again. He did fine on "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing," but a Vandross-esque performance it was not.
And if you thought that praise was over the top, the judges really, really, really talked about Casey James' version of "Don't," as if the singer's fate on the show were entirely in their hands. And it may well be, given that James was the second-lowest vote-getter a week ago. He did much better this week and the genre suited his vocal skills, but it wasn't the masterpiece that Simon and company painted it to be. Maybe they really think Kara DioGuardi does have a crush on him, and just want to keep her happy.
Dewyze opened the show by singing "You're Still the One," which did not sound very good when he was practicing it for Shania, but which turned out much better onstage. Downsides for Dewyze are that he opened the show and that the song isn't the peppiest in the Twain canon. Upside is that he's Lee Dewyze, he seems to have a sizable fan base and he sang it tolerably well.
As for Aaron Kelly … the judges just can't keep from being patronizing toward the 17-year-old. Whether they love him or hate him, they talk to him like he's a 3-year-old or a puppy. I fully expect that when he gets voted off the show, they'll have Ryan Seacrest present him with a blue participation ribbon for a job well done.
Kelly sang "You've Got a Way," and he later told the judges that he was singing it for his mother, which was a lot more information than I needed to know. The quartet felt it was his best effort yet, which might not mean much considering it's not the highest standard ever and that everyone else was strong as well.
As for the women, we'll soon find out if Crystal Bowersox owes her success to single males with a crush on her, or family values folks who assumed that the fact that she's a mother must also mean she's married. If either is the case, she's in big trouble.
Her boyfriend was on display for the first time, sitting in the studio audience wearing a T-shirt reading, "Did you know that America prefers Crystal Bowersox one BAJILLION times more than other contestants?" If that T-shirt is correct, it shouldn't matter that Simon didn't like her performance of "No One Needs to Know" and that the rest of the judges weren't overwhelmed.
Certainly, Bowersox herself didn't seem affected. "It's not as big as the other performances, but bigger isn't always better," she said, silencing Kara's feedback.
Simon also wasn't impressed with the song itself, which means he shouldn't expect to have Twain serve as a guest judge on his next reality TV project.
Siobhan Magnus closed the show with "Any Man of Mine," and was as polarizing as always. The detractors will say that she gave a karaoke performance, while her supporters will note that she and Bowersox were the only ones who looked like they were having fun onstage, and that she closed the show with a performance that had the crowd on its feet throughout.
But everyone should agree on two points: It was probably the most showmanship from her all season, and she deserves credit for once again working the scream in there. Sure, Simon may not like it, but it's her trademark, like Bowersox's dreadlocks and guitar; James' long, blonde curly hair; and Dewyze's nervous smile. He can't take that away from her.
Well, unless she's the lowest vote-getter this week (the only way anyone will be able to silence the scream). On a night where everyone did enough to earn fan support, she's definitely a candidate for elimination. But except for Bowersox, so is everyone else.
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InkFreeNews.com Aug 03, 2016 Nick Goralczyk Updated: Aug 3, 2016 @ 11:14 AM
Madison Beaman
SYRACUSE — Wawasee's Madison Beaman has steadily climbed the ladder as a member of Wawasee's golf team.
An outsider looking in during her freshman campaign led to a supporting role as a sophomore, which gave way to a breakout season as a junior. Now, Beaman enters her senior campaign as a leader and an ideal role model for a young team.
"I've been trying my best to pass along past experiences to our younger players," Beaman stated. "What they should do, and what they can do in certain situations. I try to share my stories with them, in practice and they play with us, in hopes that they just keep getting better."
Beaman and Aubrey Schmeltz are the only two seniors and returning players with varsity experience on a Wawasee team that won the sectional in 2015. They are also the only two remaining players from Wawasee's run to the state finals in 2014. While Wawasee's team success has been well documented in recent seasons, Beaman's story has flown under the radar.
Her contributing efforts gave her a window during the trip to state during her sophomore year and her potential could definitely be seen. But Beaman was not looking to settle on simply showing potential.
"I played a lot of tournaments the past two years in the summer with Aubrey," Beaman shared, "that really helped to gain good experience out on the course."
That extra work paid off. After starting last season as the No. 5, Beaman quickly turned heads as she maintained the team's best average through most of the first half of the season. The rest of the team caught up to Beaman's efforts, helping to lift the tam to a sectional title.
Then a junior, Beaman was a huge part of her team's sectional title as she shot an 84. Schmeltz also shot an 84 on that memorable day for Wawasee, and now both have embraced taking the reigns this season for a team that has plenty of new faces.
Junior Kabrea Rosotchak has excelled in other sports and is giving golf a go for the first in her athletic career to add a degree of depth to the roster while sophomores Lesley Tayagua and Zoe White hope to bring the success they had on JV to the varsity roster. Freshmen Jadison Rostochak and Valerie Haessig are unproven but provide plenty of optimism.
"We've got a lot of unproven players right now," stated Wawasee head coach Steve Coverstone. "Kabrea just started playing but I think she'll be good for us in the long run. Lesley and Zoe have to get more reps in, but they showed potential for us during their freshman seasons. Then we have Jadison and Valerie. I really think they will be good golfers for us. They have plenty of work to do but I like the team we have, we're just awfully young right now. But the work our seniors are doing has been a big help so far."
The challenge of playing with such a young team has led to most people overlooking Wawasee entering the season, but that's put a chip on Beaman's shoulder and she's never been one to back down from a challenge.
"I think this is a big challenge for Aubrey and I as the seniors of this team," Beaman stated. "We've been there before and now it's our job to get this team prepared for the challenges that the season will have and I think it's going to be a good ride. We're not the team that everyone is looking out for this year, but I'm excited for this season and the opportunity we have."
Wawasee has its first home match on August 13 with the Wawasee Invitational.
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Being able to understand and use our times table knowledge within school is essential for the children to be successful in other areas of maths. To ensure that the children are confident in using and applying their times table knowledge, we will be focusing on learning our times tables each week within homework. This will help the children to become quicker and more confident in recalling and applying their times table knowledge.
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Over the next couple of weeks we shall be introducing record cards for the children to be able to keep track of how well they are doing with knowing their times tables – keep an eye on the blog to find out more!
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Fr Timothy Shanley (1781–1835) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest notable for his opposition to British Crown authority, and to the Protestant Ascendancy, in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was active in the United Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Early life
Shanley was born in Lisdessin near the village of Drumraney, County Westmeath in 1781. He was one of eighteen children.
He was educated at a seminary in Maynooth after taking part in an ambush near Tyrrellspass during the 1798 Rebellion. Shanley was the only student in the class who did not sign the required Oath of Allegiance due to his belief in the Irish cause. Due to his beliefs, he was often targeted by British soldiers.
Priesthood
Fr Shanley was curate in Milltownpass and Meedin parish, he was then transferred to Slane, County Meath for ten years, before being transferred back to Meedin. He remained there till his death in 1835.
He is buried in Carrick, near Dalystown in County Westmeath. An annual mass is held at his gravesite on Good Friday.
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Behind the Flyers' plan to score more off the rush
Dave Isaac
VOORHEES — In the first couple weeks of the season, once the unpredictability of exhibition play had died down, it appeared the Flyers wanted their identity to be speed. To a man, everyone seemed to be more fleet afoot coming out of training camp.
It wasn't just skating fast. Their whole game was fast.
As general manager Ron Hextall has said several times, "Nobody moves faster than the puck."
That can lead to more scoring off the rush. At least that's the Flyers' plan.
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"Last year we still had the freedom to be creative, to have offense," second-year winger Travis Konecny said. "I just think this year we're trusting ourselves a little bit more and being a little more confident with it."
So far, it's shown. Both of Konecny's goals this season have come off the rush. He notched a breakaway tally against the Nashville Predators and beat Ottawa goalie Craig Anderson with no one in front of him too.
These days he's on a line with Valtteri Filppula, another player who can create on the rush as opposed to a sustained offensive-zone cycle, and Wayne Simmonds.
"I think personally I have to bear down a lot more," Konecny said. "I probably have some of the most 2-on-1's just on scoring chances and I need to bear down a little bit more and capitalize on them."
Part of Konecny's frustration comes because breaking out of the defensive zone and trying to create offense off the rush is featured in every practice. Of course, sometimes that can be a 5-on-0 rush where there's no one defending.
In games is when it matters and the Flyers hope they'll continue to improve.
"On the rush game, I think our D create a lot more than they created last year," Simmonds said. "It's easier when you have the puck on the wall and you have defensemen rushing up the ice and forwards rushing up the ice. You've got three, four, five options sometimes. I think that opens up the ice a lot more for the guys carrying the pucks. It makes it a little easier on the rush."
"It's the players making plays," coach Dave Hakstol said. "I think we've really tried to empower the guys, once they have some time and space to enter the zone, to add a little creativity. There's a little more East-West to our game once we're in the zone than there was last year. That allows some of the late plays, the delay plays to happen. That's all the players making good decisions, making responsible decisions because there are times where you have to live for the next play and just get the puck deep."
If the defensemen have made a big difference, a lot of that has to do with turnover on the roster. Gone are Mark Streit, Michael Del Zotto and Nick Schultz.
Robert Hagg and Travis Sanheim have proved they can move the puck up the ice, either with passing or skating it quickly through the neutral zone. Helping the cause is a healthy Shayne Gostisbehere and a year of experience under Ivan Provorov's belt.
"I think we're playing a faster game, which allows us to join the rush," Provorov said. "We know the forwards have our backs if someone moves up to join. If we play fast and tenacious on the puck we'll be able to recover if we turn over the puck or anything like that happens. You've still got to use your head about when to join the rush and when not to. Yeah, I think as a D corps we're joining the rush more."
Gudas returns to practice
After missing Monday's on-ice session, Radko Gudas returned to the ice after the head injury he suffered last Wednesday in Chicago. Based on his ability to take contact in practice, it would appear he's on track to return to the lineup Thursday in the rematch against the Blackhawks.
"I hate watching hockey, especially when my team is playing," Gudas said. "That's the toughest for me every time because I'm not able to jump in there. Anything I can do to make it faster, I'm trying to do as much as I can."
Gudas isn't the only one to have dealt with a blow to the head. Gostisbehere didn't travel on the Chicago-St. Louis road trip after he was sent head-first into the boards by Toronto's Leo Komarov.
Nolan Patrick skated by himself, before Tuesday's practice, but he hasn't played since Oct. 24 when a shoulder-to-shoulder hit from Anaheim's Chris Wagner included a whiplash effect that saw his head bounce off the boards.
"I think it's really unlucky," Gudas said of all the head injuries. "Hopefully we get it out of the way early in the season and it's not going to bite us later in the season. If we get it out of the way now, it's a good thing too. Just looking forward to getting healthy and having the whole team together."
Dave Isaac; @davegisaac; 856-486-2479; disaac@gannett.com
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ThinkFast: July 9, 2008
ThinkProgress Jul 9, 2008, 1:00 pm
Brave New Films and other activists will deliver a petition today with 43,000 signatures demanding that "Lieberman Must Go." The petition, which asks that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) be stripped of his committee chairmanship, will be delivered to the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee at 11 a.m.
Tomorrow, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) plans to introduce a single article of impeachment against President Bush "for taking our nation and our troops to war based on lies." Last month, Kucinich presented 35 impeachment articles against Bush, which have been sent to the Judiciary Committee.
A federal judge overseeing Guantánamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to ensure that detainees have their day in court. "The time has come to move these forward," Judge Thomas F. Hogan said yesterday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully.
Iranian state-run media reported today that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had "test-fired nine missiles, including one which Tehran claims has the range to reach Israel." The test comes one day after Iran threatened to strike Tel Aviv and American interests if attacked by Israel or the U.S.
On the trail today: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) holds campaign events in South Park, PA and Portsmouth, Ohio. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will be in Washington, DC as the Senate votes on FISA reform, and then, he will head to New York for some fundraisers.
Steve Schmidt, aide to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), defended his lobbying firm's hiring of Tim Griffin, a former prosecutor involved in the U.S. attorney scandal. The U.S. attorney scandal was "mostly a combination of nonsense and politics and provides us no concern at all," he said. Griffin was "a great addition to the firm," he added.
A new report by Inspectors General from the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs finds that many veterans "disabled in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan pay more for health care than other retirees." They suggest "waiving for life the Medicare Part B premiums for service members who have been medically retired and are unlikely to get another job."
Faced with mounting pressure from voters to respond to record gasoline prices, Sens. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) "opened the door to a compromise with Republicans that would open more land on and offshore to oil and gas exploration and production." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also "called on the Bush administration to draw down 'a small portion' of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shi'ite leader in Iraq, has "rejected any security agreement with US, stressing such deal will affect the country's sovereignty." Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie said his government was "impatiently waiting" for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops.
And finally: Yesterday, two-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson spoke at the National Press Club. The event became "politically dicey" when the moderator asked him whether there is "anything inappropriate about a sport based on fuel consumption." Johnson initially punted the question saying he wasn't "fit to comment," but then admitted that they should look at "alternative fuel sources." Johnson also said he drives at hybrid, "even though it may sound crazy coming from a race car driver."
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There are 1,759 content items related to poverty on the Land Portal.
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STAARS Fellowship Program: 2021 Call for Research Proposals
agricultural land management
land investments
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The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program, a multi-institution collaboration managed by Cornell University with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), announces its annual call for research proposals.
INSIGHT-Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia
rural population
At least 1.76 million jobs in the nation of about 16 million people are at risk due to COVID-19, while the poverty rate could double, to about one-in-four people, the World Bank said in May. Cambodian human rights groups have this year called for a freeze on loan repayments due to the virus and for lenders to return more than one million land titles held as collateral.
Use COVID-19 to build back better, cities told
The United Nations urged civic leaders to build more liveable urban centres better for public health, society and the environment
Could youth land rights hold the key to transforming agriculture and stimulating economic development in Africa?
Tizai Mauto
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
customary land rights
customary tenure
Over 60 percent of Africans are under the age of 35 – a well-documented "youth bulge" representing both an enormous challenge and a tantalizing opportunity for the continent.
Three reasons to invest in land tenure security
Harold Liversage
Ms. Giulia Barbanente
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For rural people, especially low-income rural people, land and livelihood are one and the same. Access to land means the opportunity to earn a decent income and achieve food and nutrition security, and it can also pave the way for access to social benefits such as health care and education. A lack of secure land access, on the other hand, can disempower rural people and expose them to the combined threats of poverty, hunger and conflict.
Nicaragua: The Autonomous Regions facing Covid 19
Dolene Miller
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Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor
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LANDac Annual Summer School
6 July 2020 to 17 July 2020
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Land Governance for Development - Special Online Edition!
Every summer, LANDac organises the 'Land Governance for Development' Summer School in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Webinar: The Distribution of Urban Land in the Global South
land distribution
Date: Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EST
Join us for a webinar co-hosted by the the Land Portal Foundation, Habitat for Humanity International, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, UN Habitat and Tata Trusts on the distribution of urban land in the global south.
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ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the last decade it has become widely accepted that insecurity of land tenure has a unique impact on women, particularly in the global South where, more often than not, women are the primary caregivers in a household.
Housing, Land and Property rights for Somalia's urban displaced women
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The Analyzing Development Issues Centre (ADIC) was registered with Cambodia's Ministry of the Interior on 4 April 2011. ADIC began from the Cooperation Committee of Cambodia (CCC)'s Analyzing Development Issues (ADI) Project in 1999 and transformed as an NGO in 2011. ADIC's initial goal was to increase the critical thinking skills of NGO staff and their capacity to analyze development issues through development research that contributes to beneficial social change in local communities.
Association for Land Reform and Rural Development (ALRD)
ALRD envisions a Bangladesh where upholding the rights of the citizen is the cornerstone of the State and where the State is pro-actively pursuing the promotion and strengthening of the rights of poor and the marginalized, including the most vulnerable of the society; landless peasants, indigenous peoples, women and religious and other minority communities. ALRD further aspires for a Bangladesh that adopts secularism as key guiding principle and gender equity and social justice are considered as key objectives of all its undertakings.
Bank Information Center (BIC)
The Bank Information Center (BIC) partners with civil society in developing and transition countries to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions (IFIs) to promote social and economic justice and ecological sustainability. BIC is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection of rights, participation, transparency, and public accountability in the governance and operations of the World Bank Group and regional development banks.
Biovision Foundation
Biovision was founded in 1998 by Swiss World Food Prize recipient Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren, with the aim of sustainably improving life for people in Africa while conserving the environment as the basis for all life.
In the 1980s, the world renowned entomologist Hans Rudolf Herren saved millions of people in Africa from starving to death by devising organic control methods for a devastating cassava pest. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 1995 for his work – he is the first, and so far only, Swiss person to have received it.
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Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (BASIS)
The Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) carries out and disseminates collaborative, policy-oriented research that addresses rural poverty by making markets work for all. The website hosts research reports, working papers, briefs and trip reports.
Caritas Cambodia
Caritas Cambodia is an official social development arm of the Catholic Church in Cambodia. It has been built on the values of Love, Concern, Justice, Peace Unity, Sharing and brotherhood. It draws inspiration from the Gospel and aims at integral development of people irrespective of race and creed. Hence the objectives of Caritas Cambodia specifically include the following:
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Caritas Ghana is a Charity Organization of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) and member of the global Caritas Confederation.
Caritas Internationalis is confederation of 165 Catholic humanitarian and development national member organisations who are working at the grassroots in almost every country of the world. When a crisis hits, Caritas is already on the ground. The diverse members give us our strength – from small groups of volunteers to some of the biggest global charities. Inspired by Catholic faith, Caritas is the helping hand of the Church – reaching out to the poor, vulnerable and excluded, regardless of race, religion or sex, to build a world based on justice and fraternal love.
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The Republic of Mozambique is located in South East Africa, and Caritas Mozambique is an entity of the Catholic Church in the country, which defines itself as "a driving force of charity, based in the community, which seeks to promote the integral development of all men and women." It consists of 13 dioceses across the country.
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import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
import org.fujion.ancillary.IEnumWithValue;
import org.fujion.common.Assert;
/**
* Value type of array elements.
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/**
* Signed byte (8 bits).
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BYTE(5120),
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* Signed integer (32 bits).
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INT(5124),
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SHORT(5122),
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* Floating point (32 bit).
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FLOAT(5126),
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* Floating point (16 bit).
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HALF_FLOAT(5131),
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* Unsigned byte (8 bits).
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UNSIGNED_BYTE(5121),
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* Unsigned short (16 bits).
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UNSIGNED_INT(5125);
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*/
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Assert.isTrue(ArrayUtils.contains(allowedValues, value),
() -> "Value type must be one of " + ArrayUtils.toString(allowedValues));
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ValueType(int value) {
this.value = value;
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Surprise! Chicago suburb is home to a major Guadalupe shrine
Dec 12, 2019 - 03:01 am .- Marian devotion is intense among the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe each year on her feast day.
Chicago Tribune op-ed: Public schools can learn from Catholics in handling sex abuse
Jul 2, 2019 - 04:43 pm .- After an investigative series by the Chicago Tribune uncovered numerous cases of sexual abuse and cover-up in the city's public schools, a local commentator is looking to the Archdiocese of Chicago as an example of putting safeguards for children into practice.
From a dumpster to the head of a procession: The story of 'Broken Mary'
Jun 7, 2019 - 03:08 am .- On Friday, May 31, four lanes of traffic on a major thoroughfare in the city of Chicago shut down for an hour and a half, while 3,200 people marched past.
Cupich denounces pastor's decision to host Nation of Islam leader
May 11, 2019 - 02:20 pm .- Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago is distancing himself from the decision of a pastor who invited controversial preacher Louis Farrakhan to speak at his parish, saying that he was not consulted before Farrakhan's talk.
Chicago priest removed 'temporarily' following rainbow flag burning
Sep 25, 2018 - 07:15 am .- According to the archdiocese, Fr. Paul Kalchik has "left willingly" from his Chicago parish "to receive pastoral care."
Chicago priest leads protest against gun-violence, shutting down expressway
Jul 9, 2018 - 02:12 pm .- Thousands of marchers joined Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger to protest gun violence on Saturday, shutting down more than a mile of the city's busiest highway.
Chicago discipleship building group coming to three new cities
Apr 27, 2018 - 12:39 am .- Originally created as an organization to form disciples in the Chicago area, L'Alto Catholic Institute is now expanding to three new cities, with local teams working to instill a culture of discipleship at a local level.
How Catholic Charities is helping the homeless during the 'bomb cyclone'
Jan 5, 2018 - 06:45 pm .- Record-breaking cold temperatures and snowfall in the eastern United States this week have delayed flights, cancelled school, and closed workplaces.
Pope Francis to Chicago: Let peace heal your city
Apr 5, 2017 - 12:12 am .- As violence continues to plague the city of Chicago, Pope Francis has sent words of encouragement, solidarity and hope to the people who live there.
Cardinal George admitted to hospital for tests, evaluation
Mar 4, 2015 - 01:11 pm .- After being dropped from a cancer drug trial over a month ago, Cardinal Francis George, retired archbishop of Chicago, has been admitted to the hospital for testing and further evaluation of his health.
Retiring Cardinal George opens up on faith, freedom and death
Nov 18, 2014 - 11:58 am .- As he enters retirement, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago noted the importance of living faith in the truth, reflecting on his time as archbishop, the approach of death, and advice for his successor, Archbishop-designate Blase Cupich.
Retired bishop who served Chicago's Polish community dies
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OMSI presents Science Pub Portland: Earthquakes in Oregon on Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at the Empirical Theater at OMSI (1945 SE Water Ave.).
In the Pacific Northwest of the United States, the Juan de Fuca plate is being subducted under the North American Plate at the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The lecture will discuss the hazards of and the preparedness for ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides and tsunamis along the subduction zone. What are the differences of recurrence intervals for large earthquakes on the northern and southern margins?
Much of the region was not thought to be an earthquake region so earthquake building standards are fairly recent. How does the chance of crustal, plate and subduction quakes affect building codes, emergency preparedness, siting of critical facilities, building of bridges, and transportation corridors in the region? What have we learned from recent subduction quakes around the world that can be applied to the Pacific Northwest? What can the region expect after a large quake?
Presenter Scott Burns, PhD is a professor Emeritus of geology at Portland State University.
The Portland Science Pub takes place monthly at the Empirical Theater at OMSI. Check in at the theater entrance (doors open at 5 PM) – there's a $5 suggested admission. OMSI's restaurant Theory, and the Empirical Cafe are open and you can take food and drinks into the theater with you.
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Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Mars Retrograde
by Lynn Koiner, PMAFA
This article was written many years ago but it is very relevant. The examples are older but I have tried to add some updates.
DEFINITION OF MARS RETROGRADE:
All of the planets, except for the Sun and Moon, which are not actual planets, have a period of retrogradation when they "appear" to move backward in the sky. Mercury turns retrograde when it is about 14 degrees ahead of the Sun and it is retrograde for 3 weeks 3 times each year. The other planets turn retrograde when they are on the opposite side of the zodiac from the Sun. Often, a planet forming a trine to the Sun will also be retrograde. Mars is retrograde for slightly less than 2 2 months every 2 years. When a planet is retrograde, it does not work in its normal manner. One frequently needs to make changes or to work on an inner, psychological level before the planet can express itself outwardly.
From OCTOBER 30 2022 through JANUARY 12 2023, the planet Mars will be in retrograde motion. This period is inappropriate for activities requiring the normal flow of Mars initiative. Using the constructive aspects of this transit, it is an excellent time to reinforce some aspect of our lives. This will be shown by the House position of the transit.
In the 1st House, it is a time to work on one's self-image with courses or activities that bestow confidence and courage.
In the 2nd House, it is a time to make corrections or repairs in your financial situation. It should be a time of paying off debts and not a time for spending.
In the 3rd House, it is a good time to end those subscriptions for magazines that you do not read. It is a good time for catching up on reading and studies— like those astrology books that you bought two years ago but never read. This house rules transportation so it might be a good time to have those squeaky brakes fixed on your car… or, at least, have an annual tune-up.
In the 4th House, it is a good time to make repairs around the house and to reinforce its safety by replacing your smoke detector batteries. Activities may go on in your personal environment of which you are not readily aware.
In the 5th House, it is a good time to be a spectator— take the kids to an amusement park (vent their pent up energy), give yourself some relaxation time at the movies or with some home videos, watch someone else get killed on the football field.
In the 6th House, reinforce your diet. Add nutrients that benefit the kidney-adrenal (adrenal supplement or Chinese energy herbs) and the iron content of the blood.
In the 7th House, work on repressed anger and resentment issues in your relationships. Do not get into a fight— talk it out!
In the 8th House, reinforce 8th House issues. If your house is insured for its 1970 value, bring it up-to-date. Pay off those credit cards. Curb any tendencies toward obsessive-compulsive behavior or action. It will only get you into trouble1. I had surgery during the 1988 Mars retrograde in which my foot was RE-ATTACHED. The doctor felt it was the best surgery of his career!
In the 9th House, it is a good time to study comparative philosophies. This would include history— studying the past to understand the present.
In the 10th House, this is a good time to find out why activities in your business are not working and then reinforce the structures. If and where you are losing business, assess the problem. I traveled to Eastern Europe to visit astrologers.
In the 11th House, it might be a better time to do things alone and not drain yourself through the energy of groups. Psychologically, it is a good time to assess if your current goals are really contributing to your happiness index!
In the 12th House, solitude is beneficial. Meditation puts you in touch with your inner self.
HOW TO HANDLE MARS RETROGRADE:
When Mars is retrograde, it depletes the vitality so that it is never a time to initiate. Whoever initiates loses— a new project, a great love, an argument, a lawsuit, or an international war. With a new project, it will fizzle out and never really go anywhere. With a hot romance, it too fizzles and it rarely gets to the altar. With an argument, the hostility will come back to haunt you later. In legal matters, stoke your opponent into initiating the lawsuit first. It will be etched in granite that they will lose. In an international war, whoever fires first will automatically lose or ultimately withdraw.
Matters commenced while Mars is retrograde will be frustrated and plagued with disruptions until they finally fizzle out. At this time, people become irritated when activities do not run smoothly. The anger may disrupt indirectly and inappropriately— like getting a traffic ticket when you feel annoyed with your job.
During this cycle, never buy anything mechanical unless it is heavily insured! Office machinery and computers easily break down. A friend who owned a word processing service found this period to be a disaster. During one retrograde cycle, the printer, the back-up printer and the rented printer all failed to work. When they finally got one that worked, the mailing labels printed— but there was no ink! I often notice that the world needs a brake job when Mars is retrograde. In 1995, I discovered a water leak in my new car. Fortunately, this was covered by the warranty. Anything mechanical that is hanging on by a thread will likely break down during this cycle. Get those unstable devices repaired in advance— don't wait until you have a breakdown disaster! My mother even ordered a small treadmill for exercise. We realized as soon as she got it out of the box that she would never be able to use it. Since we could not get it back in the box, we just trashed it.
Those who have Aries or Scorpio strong in their horoscopes are dramatically affected by this shift in direction of their ruler. For Arians, they find themselves being less aggressive, less pushy and less impatient to have THEIR WAY in a situation. For Scorpios, they find that they are less concerned about being in control, controlling an immediate situation and, of course, running matters THEIR WAY. Both Mars-ruled types find themselves more inclined to sit back and review matters in a more detached or impersonal way. They feel more patient to wait on circumstances to unfold before they take action. These individuals, however, may not recognize the anger they feel inside. They may express an unusual passiveness while under fire because they need too much processing time before they can retaliate. Only when Mars turns direct can they move the Mars energy forward.
For those who are NOT ruled by Mars, it may feel quite differently. They may feel more impatient to force matters to a conclusion, to get a project going or to take immediate action. This would be an unwise course of action! Look to the House-position of your natal Mars to see where you might become impatient and act pre-maturely. Remember, initiating or impulsively taking action will not work to your favor.
In GOOD DAYS ACTION PLANNING GUIDE, Mary Shea describes an ideal way to handle Mars retrograde. She states that, "there is a tendency to be more reserved (when Mars is retrograde). Your hesitation causes you to review your behavior in the past and look for new way of responding in the future." She feels that this is the way we learn to perfect our responses. "You go back over situations (either in your mind or in reality), doing things again and again while making corrections in the way you handle events. While Mars is retrograde, you will be reviewing the way you handle anger, self-defense, self-motivation and sexual relationships, outward anger or conflicts may not be appropriate."
She rightfully feels that using passive-aggressive techniques, manipulation, arbitration or subtle power plays may be more appropriate at this time. "If you are normally non-assertive, you have be forced to defend yourself. Whatever your tactics, you must give thought to what you are doing. If your tactics do not work or they are inappropriate to the situation, your anger will continue to build while Mars is retrograde. You can expect the anger to manifest full-blown by the time Mars turns direct. If you have seriously wronged or angered another with…acts of aggression, you can expect the backlash as Mars turns direct."
When writing on Mars in 1995, my first observation was its effect upon men in general. There masculinity seemed more easily threatened, manifesting mood displays and they often needed reassurance. I personally felt "organizationally impaired." As hard as I tried to organize my work, the more disorganized I became. I was overwhelmed by all of the data that has been submitted for the political articles and I seemed to be doing a lot of wheel spinning. This is unusual and it began when Mars turned retrograde. This seemed worse while Mars was in Virgo— for the male ego and my disorganization. I felt some improvement when Mars retrograded back into Leo, at least for my disorganization. As the 1997 Retrograde got underway (Libra/Virgo), I noticed that non-aggressive types seemed to be intolerant of lazy people who waste their time. They were not willing to take action and eliminate the non-essential personnel. It seemed to be the reverse of the 1995 influence.
Delphine Jay, in CROSSROADS IN DELINEATION, states that, when Mars retrogrades through a House, something there needs a renewed effort, a renewal of activity, to be revitalized or, at least, strengthened through reinforcement. It is a time to direct your efforts toward reinforcing matters or a relationship in order to keep it vital or active. It is a time to lend strength to something or someone that you believe in.
Work activities supported when Mars is retrograde are those associated with trouble-shooting, re-evaluating previously commenced projects and shoring up the weak areas, making hard-nosed cuts with the ineffective B eliminating parts of the projects with little cost-benefit, personnel cut-backs and possibly re-hiring individuals who may know how to make the project succeed. Never start anything new! Work with what has been previously commenced and make necessary improvements. Mars Retrograde is similar to Mercury Retrograde in many respects but Mars is associated with action, projects and the energy required to make something succeed. Mars is back-door politics rather than direct confrontations.
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES with MARS RETROGRADE: Renovations on my home began while Mars was retrograde in early 1993. This work proceeded so slowly and it was so stressful. The work stopped after only the kitchen and bathroom were completed. It was not until September of 1994 that the work was finally finished!
In 1997, there was a lot of craziness going on trying to organize my spring trip to Europe. A friend and I wanted to travel to Ireland but I was invited to lecture in Prague in May. It was all so expensive and, when Mars turned direct, I finally made the decision to cancel the Ireland trip. I cannot tell you how stressful this decision-making was for me. I paid $40 on my Upton's bill and they recorded 40 cents. It took 3 months to straighten it out with both my bank and the store. My mother found a young cat, insisted that I keep it (along with its medical expenses) and, within a year, it died of an auto-immune disease.
At tax time, I had a software crisis. It was horrible!! Then, my copier broke, I had it fixed and I broke it again! It was worse than Mercury retrograde. On February 14, there was a transiting Mars-Saturn opposition in Libra-Aries. I agreed to give mini-readings for a St. Valentine's Day dance— 2 hours for $200. However, when I got there, the owner wanted me to give mini-readings for over 50 people. With Mars retrograde, people were rude, obnoxious and demanding, even when I lost my voice and could not continue. I was furious at how badly I was treated!
The best Mars Retrograde story concerned a friend who met Mr. Wonderful… who could not get it up (ED). I learned from this story that, if a man is a Perfect Gentleman for too long, there is a big problem. Men often mask these physical disabilities by taking the moral high road in relationships. There was a lot of passive-aggressive behavior in that relationship. It was painful but she cut him loose!
Another friend found a long-running work crisis abated during the Mars retrograde period. With Mars in Virgo, it was suddenly decided that a long-term backlog of work (a backlog that had gone on for 10 years) had to be brought up-to-date. It was arbitrarily decided that there would be mandatory overtime, including weekends, and no vacations until this was done…and this decision occurred one month before Christmas! She found herself fighting against this arbitrary crisis and the arbitrary rules in order to get her after-Christmas vacation and March vacation to London. By the time that Mars retrograded back into Virgo, the work was caught up, the backlog grew again, she took off for London and the crisis disappeared.
In 2001, with Mars in Sagittarius, it was intercepted in my 4th House. There was much going on in my personal life of which I was totally unaware. It exploded to the surface after Mars turned directed and opposed my natal Uranus. I also put energy into a movement that totally fizzled out when Mars turned direct. I got new eyeglasses— the worst that I have ever had and it started out with the prescription being reversed. On the positive side, I talked myself out of 3 traffic tickets.
2009: After living through many Retrograde Cycles, I have learned not to put my life on hold. Mars Retrograde is generally not as disruptive as Mercury retrograde. During the 2007-08 Mars Retrograde period, it was transiting the sign of Gemini. For the Sign Influences, see Mars Signs on this website. The sign that Mars transits is always very important, especially for medical influences.
From November 2007 through early 2008, Mars was in Gemini while Retrograde. Despite the Retrograde motion, it was a highly stimulating period and I did re-connect with many old friends in Europe. I did experience many health issues ruled by Gemini— Allergies, Bronchitis and Swollen Glands, all connected with inflammation and the lymphatic system (ruled by Mutable signs). Even my Gemini aunt contracted pneumonia, a condition which later took her life (she was 93 years old). I had a mammogram scare but the condition was observed as a tiny cyst with small ducts.
In December 2007, during a very bad wind storm, a huge branch of our Tulip Poplar tree fell on the top of my father's beloved red truck. To be honest, my dad really wanted a new truck and I think he mentally attracted this accident. He gave it to his mechanic, Mike Beahm, who completely repaired it and now used it on his farm in upstate Maryland. I was very lucky because, on that day, I parked my car in a different location and the branches of the tree completely missed my car.
And, speaking of automobile crises, years ago a client needed to purchase a truck while Mars was retrograde. It was something that just had to be done for his plumbing business. I told him to buy when the aspects were favorable (I have him a date) but to insure it heavily for one year. After the year, he could drop the expensive insurance, if nothing happened. Before the year was over, his truck caught on fire but it cost him nothing since the truck had maximum insurance.
Another friend asked astrologer, Gil Navarro, to pick a good day for her to purchase a car so that she would not be affected by Mars Retrograde. Her old car died and she just had to purchase a new one. The time that he recommended insured that, if anything happened to her car, it would not cost her anything. While her car was in the garage for minor repairs, the garage was vandalized and her car was damaged. Because it was in the garage, the mechanic's insurance company paid for all of the repairs. She had this car for many years afterwards.
I had terrible problems with a tooth that was not treated corrected by 2 new dentists. Eventually, I found a great dentist, Bill DeLong in Ellicott City MD
Friend dealt with a highly irrational client. This behavior was unusual for this person but she just went "crazy" about a reading.
2 friends had successful surgeries but they were NOT elective surgeries. I feel that non-elective surgeries are successful with Mars R but I would never elect to have surgery at this time. If you HAVE to have surgery at this time, DO IT!
A friend, fearing astrological predictions by financial astrologers, sold stocks — and then had to pay over $20,000 in taxes! This was a decision that she regretted.
A very Neptunian young person lost connection with reality and had a breakdown.
The Twilight series movie, NEW MOON, came out, glamorizing depression and dysfunctional relationships.
A friend tried to hours to get a router to work. When Mars turned Direct, he discovered that it was just a bad router!
I lectured at the Cambridge NCGR conference. Because I chose a perfect time to start the trip, all went well
A friend and I were looking forward to a workshop in Virginia Beach, which we signed up for while Mars was R — then the big snow hit the east coast and all was canceled.
HISTORICALLY, MARS RETROGRADE: Probably more than you ever wanted to know!
The election of 1988: Michael Dukakis, a Scorpio, was unable to defend himself against the verbal assaults of Vice President Bush as soon as Mars turned retrograde. It was not until Mars turned direct on October 28— 4 days before the election— that he began to assert himself. His meek approach was confusing to both his staff of advisors and campaign commentators— but not to astrologers who knew that Mars was transiting retrograde.
Mars Retrograde Administration: The 1993 presidency commenced under a Mars retrograde influence. Many local astrologers predicted that this would not be a constructive administration. Mars retrograde in the 2nd House of the U.S. Gemini rising chart focused upon financial and economic issues. With Mars retrograde, nothing was accomplished! Clinton commanded changes in the attitude of homosexuals in the military. Such direct action was not appropriate for Mars retrograde and the matter met success only through the indirect approach of the Sam Nunn compromise. Yet, nothing really changed with the military. It was actually worse. And, don't forget the sex scandals and cover-ups!
NOTE: I use 3 charts for the United States. The Gemini rising chart influences Americans as a people, national issues and relations with Canada and Mexico. The Sagittarius rising chart is always active with crises and actions involving other countries. The Articles of Confederation chart affects the government itself and it is always active with government scandals (spy scandals show up in this chart).
When Mars is Retrograde, Whoever Fires First Loses: It is common to see battles igniting during the retrograde period but whoever fires the first shot loses. Little Argentina never really had a chance against Great Britain but, when they fired the first shot in the Falklands, they were condemned to lose in a big way. The Russians fired the first shot in Afghanistan and, after spending billions, they were ultimately forced to withdraw. The Israeli wars have always occurred when Mars was retrograde so, in that country, there is always a fear of war and dire predictions of such by that country's astrologers when Mars turns retrograde.
Physical Energy Impaired: The 1980 Winter Olympics occurred when Mars was retrograde in Virgo. Mishaps plagued this event, especially for the United States. If using the Gemini rising chart, Mars was retrograde in the 5th House ruling sporting activities and competitive games!
WORLD EVENTS DURING THE 1997 MARS RETROGRADE IN VIRGO–LIBRA:
Around the first 10 days of February 1997, Mars was station in Libra. The station period, when a planet appears to stand still and change direction, is a very potent time when the planet's energies are intensified. At the Station,
A civil jury found OJ Simpson liable, in the amount of $8.5 million for wrongful death in the 1994 slaying (February 4).
The Army's top enlisted man was accused of sexual harassment. Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, on February 3, was forced to resign from the committee to investigate sexual harassment in the military.
On February 3, the U.S., Britain and France agreed to freeze distribution of $68 million in gold bars that had been looted by Nazi Germany in World War II.
During the period from February through April 1997 when Mars was retrograde, there were many recorded dismissals, failed votes, blocked plans, revisions, acquittals, dropped changes, failed amendments and expulsions. A list of some of the major events of that Mars Retrograde period are:
The Ecuador Congress ousts its president and an interim leader is named.
Ken Star announces on February 17, that he will resign as independent counsel in order to take an academic post at Pepperdine University. On February 21, he changes his mind!
In Britain, the House of Commons defeated a motion to censure the government for its handling of the Amad cow@ disease crisis, giving a Avote of confidence@ to Agriculture Minister, Douglas Hogg.
Furor over the Democratic Party fund-raising intensified with disclosures of the Clinton memo, endorsing plans to reward big contributors with White House visits.
On February 19, an Internet pornography scam was uncovered.
On February 23, scientists clone an adult sheep, sparking a cloning controversy. In 1938, Hans Spemann of Germany first theorized this possibility. Incredibly, in 1938 and 1997, Mars was in Virgo-Libra, Jupiter was in Aquarius and Saturn was in Aries!
On March 14, while very likely drinking with golf pro Greg Norman (who is a known heavy drinker), President Clinton fell and seriously injured his knee. When this occurred, the transiting Mars Retrograde in Virgo was opposing the transiting Mercury. This lined up exactly on his progressed 5th-11th House axis and the transiting Uranus in Aquarius was exactly in opposition to his natal Mercury at 7 Leo and the progressed Saturn at 7 Leo! Saturn was opposing the progressed Neptune; Jupiter was opposing the progressed Pluto.
On February 26, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved development of a large Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem despite Palestinian warnings that such construction in the traditionally Arab sector of the city would seriously affect the peace process. The Mars retrograde period was colored by terrorism and boycotts. Later, Netanyahu was caught in a scandal surrounding the appointment of an attorney general but, by April 20, there was insufficient evidence and the matter was dropped.
Near the second station, on April 16, a financial crisis began in the Czech Republic. Czech Premier, Vaclav Klaus, announced a new budget of austerity measures aimed at restoring the country's economic health. Several cases of security fraud were uncovered, the country's economy went into crisis and Klaus was forced to resign.
On March 26, 39 members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicide.
WORLD EVENTS DURING THE 1999 MARS RETROGRADE IN SCORPIO–LIBRA:
During the station period, when Mars was sitting at 12º,
The Serbian army began preparing for a major offensive and, while the Ethnic Albanians signed a peace accord to end the year-old conflict, the Serbian delegation rejected this agreement because it would allow 28,000 NATO troops to police Kosovo. On the evening of March 24, NATO launched its air attack.
The entire EU Commission resigned amid corruption allegations
The Medicare Reform Panel hit a deadlock and disbanded
On March 18, when Mars changed direction and the Moon changed latitude, a train crash in Illinois killed 11 people
On the last day at 12º and when Mercury changed latitudes, a deadly fire broke out in a vehicular tunnel that connects France with Italy, killing 40 people, and a train derailment in Kenya killed 32 people.
During the Scorpio phase
The Dow surpassed the 10,000 mark (March 29)
The Paraguayan President resigned after violent street protests
Libya delivered the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing suspects for trial
A New Jersey man was arrested for the Melissa computer virus
A Nazi War Criminal was arrived in England
Susan McDougal was acquitted
The coalition government in India failed
Both India and Pakistan test a nuclear capable missile
Harris and Klebold kill 13 students in Colorado high school
A deadly tornado struck 5 US states
The Chernobyl computer virus unleashed.
During the Libra phase
In Belgrade, the US "accidentally" bombed the Chinese Embassy— this was no accident
The US jobless rate dipped lower in May
Barak unseats Netanyahu, beginning his ineffective term
British spies were listed on an internet site
A 15-year old opens fire in a Georgia high school
American Airlines accused of violating anti-trust laws with price fixing
After a 3 month recess, the Microsoft anti-trust case was resumed
India launched an air strike at Islamic militants in Kashmir
Pakistan shot down 2 Indian jet fighters.
WORLD EVENTS DURING THE 2001 MARS RETROGRADE STATION IN SAGITTARIUS:
At this writing, as Mars turns retrograde, the late breaking news is:
The FBI discovers 3000 pages of documents not given to McVeigh's defense team, postponing his execution until June 11. Incompetent and controversial FBI director, Louis Freeh, finally resigns
A wall collapses in western China killing 12 people
US spy satellites detect evidence that China is preparing for an underground nuclear weapon test
Israel fires missiles at car of Palestinian intelligence officer
Most significant, Senator James Jeffords quit the GOP, shifting the power in the Senate to the Democrats.
2003 & MARS IN PISCES:
In 2003, Mars retrograde: At Station, there was an unsuccessful coup in the Philippines. There were many terrorist bombings, including the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. There were several oustings, referendums and resignations of political leaders during this cycle.
2010 & MARS IN LEO HISTORICALLY: In December 1915/January 1916, Einstein developed a new theory of relativity, an extension of his Special Theory of Relativity developed in 1905, which altered the view of gravity proposed by Sir Isaac Newton. It would not be until after World War II that scientists would be able to test this theory.
In the war in Europe (WWI), England and France were retreating after great losses and the Serbians were driven to the Adriatic by the German, Austrian and Bulgarian armies. It was not until the Sun-Mars conjunction in 1917 that the Americans voted to enter the war in Europe. During the 1994-95 alignment, Russia attacked secessionist Republic of Chechnya and, in May 1996, when Mars moved behind the Sun, the Chechnya Peace Treaty was signed. There is an obvious pattern of aggressive action with Mars Retrograde will be corrected when Mars moves behind the Sun. The Republicans also took control of the Congress and they did nothing, never keeping their Promise to America.
In 2010, Mars Retrograde in Leo can be very frustrating for our Leo president, especially beginning at the end of January 2010. Mars Retrograde brings discoveries and breakthroughs in technology. This will be helped by the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in 2010.
MARS IN GEMINI & HEALTH ISSUES:
From AUGUST 20 2022 THROUGH MARCH 25 2023, Mars will transit the sign of Gemini. The sign that Mars transits during a 6-week period describes what makes us angry and how we respond to aggravating situations. The personal energies are regulated by mental stimulation and physical restlessness. Its energies are quite scattered. Gemini thrives upon new ideas, visual stimulation and social interaction with others. This sign can become quite depressed when there is nothing going on to keep the mind perked and energized. For those with many Fire and Air signs in their horoscopes, it becomes difficult to sit still under this transit. For these people, inactivity or confinement can make them extremely despondent and melancholic. Those with many Earth and Water signs can also be stirred into activity but it can cause some stress due to the disruption of normal routines.
Gemini likes change and lots of it! However, it is important to remember that Gemini likes activity, not necessarily accomplishment. Mars in Gemini can cause mental stress, reckless decisions, relationship setbacks and frustrating circumstances when it forms stressful aspects to the outer planets:
As I examined my journals, I found this to be a period of either restlessness and despondency when nothing was happening or excessive activity and over-stimulation. In 1990, I began receiving letters from Eastern Europe and I concretized my plans for my first trip to meet with astrologers in these countries. I was featured on several television programs. I took several short trips just to get out of the house. Under the stress of too much activity, I was very susceptible to allergies. I noticed many references in my journal to running around all day. There were several crises such as losing my credit card two days before leaving for Europe! There was much social interaction with others — in person, by telephone and with the fax machine. During the Gulf War, a Media War with Mars in Gemini, I was faxing data on a daily basis to Prague. I even went back to college for the first time in 25 years.
During another Mars in Gemini cycle, a friend from Sweden visited. This was a cycle for stimulating conversation and the exchange of new ideas on astrology. Relationships seem to be a theme for this Mars transit. People provide lots of gossip and energizing conversation. I explored new ways of meeting people and, of course, I met lots of people. While there were several mentally stressful periods that upset my nerves – something typical of Mars in Gemini – the stress passed quickly.
During the most recent Mars in Gemini transit in 2006, life was very active! I went to lectures, conferences, expos; I took a lot of short, stimulating trips; I got to talk with a lot of new people; an article that I wrote on UFOs and the Septile aspect received a great deal of recognition. It appeared on many unusual, non-astrological websites. Even now, with Mars in Gemini, the US Capitol Historical Society is starting their brown bag lunch lectures and I will attend their lecture series. Obviously, the restless energy of Mars in Gemini motivates us to get out and interact with others, seek a change of scenery and learn something new. Life should become a smorgasbord now.
During the transit in 2009, my friend from Austria visited and I always do and see a lot when she comes. I say that she is a good Wagon Master, planning and directing trips. Her husband visited and he did a lot of the driving for me. We traveled all along the ocean area of Maryland and Delaware and we shopped at the outlets. Another article was published about my dad and I in a local magazine. In both 2009 and 2011, The Greatest Astrological Picnic in the Known Universe occurs. There is always a lot of social and mental interaction.
In 2015, my Progressed Venus was squaring Saturn so there were crises occurring around this Mars transit. I traveled to Boston to give a long astrology lecture. I had to drive to Boston after a train crash had closed all train transportation to Boston. Actually, I enjoyed the drive, despite it being 10 hours long. I traveled to Universal Studios to visit Harry Potter World. My roommate was in a very bad mood and this was very stressful for me.
In 2017, it was a fun period — buying plants for the garden, traveling to nurseries and attending lectures and events in Washington DC.
In 2019, I returned to Boston once again but this time the trains were running fine. I stayed with a wonderful family and we talked about herbs and medical topics the entire time. I attended a lot of lectures, as usual, and I did a radio show which went really well. There were other difficult aspects as my dad had recently died and, without him, someone working in his garden began bullying me. Finally, the Department of Agriculture intervened and the bullying stopped.
When the restless energies of Mars in Gemini are blocked, frustrated or seem to generate stress through over-stimulation, there can be an imbalance in the homeopathic cell salt, Kali Muriaticum, potassium chloride. Kali Mur is found throughout the body. Deficiency results in a coating of the tongue, glandular swelling, scaling of the skin, and excess mucous discharge. Deficiency symptoms include colds, congestion of the bronchial tubes, sinus inflammation, arthritis inflammation, a lack of energy and interest. All congestion and swelling need Kali Mur. If there in an inflammation, the may be a need for Ferrum Phosphate — the inflammation usually arises from the lack of oxygen due to iron deficiency.
CRITICAL DATES:
OCTOBER 10-15; NOVEMBER 14-18 2022 Retrograde; MARCH 12-14 2023 Direct: Mars in Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces – plans and projects may fizzle out. There may be details about which you are unaware so wait until this aspect passes.
NOTE: If you were born with Mars in Sagittarius, this will be a low energy cycle that last a LONG time. Take it easy. Do not push yourself. Allow your body to recharge. I have an article on Mars Cycles on this website. Check it out for more information.
A TECHNICAL VIEW OF MARS RETROGRADE…from a message to Astrological Conference on Techniques (ACT) mailing list dated January 9 2000
When Mars is transiting retrograde, it will be closer to the Earth than at any other time. Planetary distances, according to Juan Revilla (astrologer from Costa Rica and author of the freeware calculation program, Riyal), from the Sun (perihelion/aphelion) or the Earth (perigee/apogee) are a rarely-considered dimension in astrology. A…although we gave some attention to the perihelion of Pluto in 1989 because the differences are very large with respect to Pluto's distance when farthest (aphelion) from the Sun. In the case of very eccentric orbits, such as Pluto and the Centaurs, the differences between aphelion and perihelion are more significant, more dramatic, more telling…The main difference with Mars is caused, not by its eccentricity, but whether it is in front of the Sun or behind the Sun. This is the same with the inner planets B Venus at superior (direct) conjunction is behind the Sun and farthest from the Earth (about 1.7 AU) whereas, at inferior (retrograde) conjunction it is nearly 7 times closer to the Earth (0.25 AU).@
Juan quoted an excellent example from WWII by Jane Axtell. When Mars was behind the Sun during the summer of 1941, Hitler was pushing his way through Europe without much resistance. When Mars was on the Earth's side, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the action was fast and furious.@
Juan continues in his explanation: Checking Mars= geocentric distances from 1900 to 2005, one finds the maximum distance about 2.7 astronomical units with a minimum about 0.37AU, during the time of opposition, 7.3 times as much…or less. The average distance at opposition with the Sun, when closest to earth, is 0.52, and the cycle of closest approaches (nearing the minimum of 0.37AU) is 15 or 17 years, as follows: 1909, 1924, 1939, 1956, 1971, 1986, 2001 and 2003.
MAXIMUM CLOSENESS TO EARTH:
While Mars has a 15 to 17 cycle in which it is both close to the Sun and close to the Earth (perihelion and perigee), the apparition (appearance in the sky) is not always the same. There are rare occurrences when the Earth and Mars are within 35 million miles of each other. The last time that this occurred was September 1988, earlier in August 1924, and it will happen again in August 2003!
This event occurs when the Earth lined up between Mars and the Sun, reaching its closeness to the Sun and to the Earth at the same time with Mars appearing at its maximum brightness! For those with a scientific and historical interest, the most remote of the Mars perihelion occurred in 1969 and in 1937. In 2001, Mars will reach its opposition to the Sun on June 13, make its closest approach to the Earth on June 21, and reach its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on October 12. For excellent graphics and descriptions, the Sky Over Berlin website is a good resource: www.surveyor.in-berlin.de/himmel/indexe.html
The June 2001 perigee was the second closest in this current decade (0.45 AU), the maximum closeness occurred in August 2003 (0.372 AU— in Pisces) and the next closest will be in July 2018 (0.385 AU— in Aquarius-Capricorn).
Historically, these specific dates do not figure prominently in world events— but the year itself is highly significant. In 1909, when Mars was Retrograde in Pisces-Aries, the pioneering spirit of Aries brought the discovery of the North Pole but, with Mars Retrograde, there was a great controversy: Who reached it first, Cook or Perry? In summer, a French aviator was the first to fly across the English Channel. With the idealistic zeal of Pisces, the ladies were protesting as suffragettes and prohibitionists. Steel strikes in Pittsburgh become violent and trigger deaths. A new introspective thought in America was fueled as Freud went on tour explaining "psychoanalysis."
In 1924, Lenin died and Stalin took control of the USSR, King Tut's coffin opened after 3300 years, the Teapot Dome Scandal, Greece became a republic, Hitler spends this Mars Retrograde in prison for the Beer Hall Putsch, the Leopold and Loeb Athrill murder@ trial…but none occurred in August. The year 1988 was significant for terrorist activities. I find, however, the sign of Leo and alignments with fixed stars to be more significant.
When a planet aligns with or occults a fixed star, it has a very special influence in world events. With regard to Mars' retrograde cycles, there is a 79-year cycle of the retrograde/direct loops of Mars in the vicinity of the fixed star, Regulus. This occurred in December 1915, January 1916 (Direct, May 1916) and in December 1994-January 1995 (Direct, May 1995). These Leo cycles are far more dramatic than any of the other Mars apparitions. The Leo Fixed Stars can be found at www.astrologycom.com/fixedstars.html#Leo
Missi says:
Thank you for all your insights.
I am going to have to travel by plane from USA to UK sometime between September 3 and November 3. I will be there for a few months. As it is the Mars retrograde, and also Mercury retro, can you recommend a good day to fly?
Also, prior to flying I will have to buy a new laptop. Again, is there a good date to buy this to avoid the issues you detailed in your article?
Ria McGee says:
This is just what I've been looking for. Mars retro in Gemini in house 12. Sometimes it's hard to define what represents going over already established things and initiating something new. We are travelling to Jersey in the Channel Islands for Christmas as a family to stay with my eldest son and his family. They live there. I was tasked with searching for flights. After quite a successful peruse I contacted everyone with the very economical possibilities. One family member had to change dates for her work so the process had to begin againMy younger son managed to sort flights but as it was nearer to the holiday period prices had rocketed and we had to get one stop flights. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 20 |
The AZURA Pilot Prep LC 250 LPG system is a complete low pressure gradient (LPG) HPLC system for the purification of samples in the laboratory scale. The AZURA Preparative HPLC system is designed and optimized for the purification of milligram to gram samples. The system proposal consists of a preparative HPLC pump with ternary LPG valve block and an Assistent ASM 2.1L.
Large sample volumes can be introduced via the third LPG channel. For smal volume size the sample can be injected with a manuel injection valve.
The AZURA P 2.1L pump covers a wide flow rate range and pressure capabilities. In the current setup, it supports max. pressures up to 225 bar at flow rates up to 100 ml/min (200 bar from 100 - 220 ml/min). The integrated automatic recognition of the pump head with RFID technology allows fast adaptions of the pump for various applications. The LPG valve block enables the accurate formation of binary or ternary gradients with a maximum flow rate of 220 ml/min.
The system is completed by an AZURA assistant ASM 2.1L for preparative HPLC. This assistant includes the detector UVD 2.1S, an injection valve and a 12 port multipositions valve for fractionation.
The AZURA HPLC system comes with an eluent tray for safe storage of eluent bottles and an integrated leak management system with sensors. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 21 |
July 19, 2011 by LindaJoy Rose . Posted in " Recipes, Salads, Videos " . Tags " ehow, salad, strawberries " .
Dr. LJ's ambrosia salad isn't like the one that grandma used to make because this one is very good for you: it's high in fiber, it's low in sugar, and it has no saturated fats!
In "Miscellaneous, Petit Plats, Recipes, Salads, Sides"
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Spoorlijn 267 was een Belgische industrielijn in Charleroi. De lijn liep van de aftakking Martinet aan spoorlijn 112 naar Fosse 3 en was 1,3 km lang.
Aansluitingen
In de volgende plaats was er een aansluiting op de volgende spoorlijn:
Y Martinet
Spoorlijn 112 tussen Marchienne-au-Pont en La Louvière-Centrum
Zie ook
Lijst van spoorlijnen in België
Lijst van goederenspoorlijnen in België
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A majority of mergers fails despite lots of experts convinced that the merger will be a great success.
Mergers & Acquisitions aim at generating multiples. Every significant investment is worthwhile as long as the target has been well selected and the process is completed successfully. Investments in banks and consultants are significant. However, the success of an M&A process relies on getting a few more things right as well. McKinsey lists the top 10 areas to consider and recommends the application of powerful tools.
The reason for the failures are obvious and quickly identified: complexity, uncertainty and weak risk management throughout the entire process including the Post-Merger-Intergation (PMI) phase. McKinsey has listed 10 "must haves" for M&As.
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Just as it's not possible to drive a car by observing only the rear mirror, leaders can't manage a company based exclusively on experience from the past (e.g. financial data).
To "stay on the road" or even "win the race" leaders need to adjust the path by using the steering wheel – to do so they need to have an idea of the overall roadmap.
Budget values are often based on assumptions about the future that are derived from discussions with e.g. representatives from the sales department.
These assumptions (e.g. about growth rates and sales performance) can change over time due to new insights and findings. The calculated quantitative impact needs to be integrated into the qualitative decision making process. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 25 |
The nature of Alexander's Feast is perhaps better summed up by its other title, The Power of Music. It is in fact a celebratory ode for St Cecilia's Day, written by Dryden in 1697 for the City of London's traditional celebration of the patron saint of music, and set in suitably celebratory style by Handel in 1736. At its first performance that year, he incorporated two delightful concertos, one for harp and the other for organ, and these are included in this recording. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 26 |
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Update (November 2017): Unfortunately, Facebook has deprecated Comment Mirroring and it is no longer possible to use this feature: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2017/11/07/changes-developer-offerings/.
We recently migrated a client to Facebook comments and enabled Comment Mirroring. Though the process is simple, it's poorly documented and a little finicky. Here's a rundown!
In the left-hand sidebar, click "About"
Beside the "Category" text, click "Edit"
Remove the existing category tags and add "App Page"
In the left-hand sidebar, click "Settings"
A new option called "Advanced" will appear under the "Settings" button you just clicked. Click on it.
Scroll down to "App Page" and select your Facebook Page from the drop-down list.
You can now go back to your Facebook Page and change the category tags to whatever you want.
Scrape the specified og:url and create a new URL object based on the contents of that page. If og:url is already associated with a URL object, use that object's cached data instead.
The cached data for any URL object is publicly visible via the Graph API: https://graph.facebook.com/<URL>.
Associate the comments on this page with the specified fb:app_id so they inherit the correct Comment Mirroring and comment moderation options.
These options can be configured at: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments/<APPID>.
Create a new Facebook comment box and display all of the comments associated with the URL object located at data-href.
Your comment may also appear on Mugo Web's Facebook Page.
This comment will also be posted to mugo.ca.
The Facebook scraper parses every URL into an internal og_object. For instance, https://graph.facebook.com/https://www.mugo.ca reveals that "https://www.mugo.ca" is represented by the og_object id 678293832262175. This link between the URL and an internal Facebook object is a permanent one.
The very first time a comment box is rendered for an og_object, the Facebook SDK checks to see if all the conditions of Comment Mirroring have been met. If they have, Comment Mirroring is permanently enabled for that og_object. Otherwise, Comment Mirroring is permanently disabled. There is no way to change this setting once it has been set. This process happens in a black box and is entirely undocumented.
Post the page to your Facebook Page.
The steps detailed in the "Embedding Facebook comments on your web page" section bypass some of these limitations by manipulating the Facebook parser's behaviour. By appending "?fbpage=mugoweb" to the URL, and setting the resulting address as the page's og:url and the comment box's data-href tag, we've avoided a permanent link between our base URL and a black-boxed Facebook comment box instance. This means that if we decide we'd like to mirror our page to a different Facebook page, or to disable mirroring altogether, we can do so simply by changing the appended query parameter to the og:url and data-href, which would result in the creation of a new og_object.
If you're already using Facebook comment boxes and have an active Facebook presence, Comment Mirroring is a worthy addition. But even if you prefer your existing commenting platform, don't miss the opportunity to creatively link your engagement channels. For instance, instead of the generic Facebook Page Plugin that indiscriminately displays recent posts, you could opt for the Facebook Embedded Post Plugin, which displays the engagement metrics (likes, comments, and reshares) of a single post. By showing readers how many people liked or commented when you shared an article on your social media channel, you create a natural cross-channel bridge that is likely to be compelling to your audience.
Though this post was focused on Facebook, social engagement occurs across many platforms, each of which comes with a unique set of tools and considerations. At Mugo, we're in the business of providing highly catered solutions that target the specific needs of our clients. Do you run a content-driven website? Have you maximized your engagement potential? Contact us for a free assessment! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 28 |
Posted on August 10, 2016 by Johannetta in research, teachers.
In June, we already informed you about the ongoing research on teacher mobility in the Caribbean Netherlands. We would like to give you a short update about this research.
From June 6th until June 24th, all teaching staff from the pe en se/sve schools had the opportunity to participate in the online survey. The survey response is very satisfying; 41% off all the teaching staff participated. The percentages are evenly distributed among the three islands (Bonaire 40%, Saba 40%, St Eustatius 44%) and between pe versus se/sve.
The research team is quite satisfied with the survey response and want to thank all the participants. By filling in the survey, all participants had the chance to win an Ipad Air 2. After closing the questionnaire, one winner was randomly selected by the Research Centre for Education and Labour Market (ROA) of Maastricht University. The winner is Elly den Holder from the Pelikaanschool Bonaire. Elly (see picture) has already received her Ipad.
The research team is currently finalizing the report of the findings. These will be distributed to the participating schools in the autumn of 2016. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 29 |
Q: HorizontalScrollView with very wide bitmaps suppose that I have just one ImageView inside a HorizontalScrollView. The problem I'm facing is I have to create a very wide Bitmap to place it inside my ImageView and, obviously, use the scroll from HSV to see all my image there. I'm getting a lot of OutOfMemoryException so, is there any technique to get this task done without getting a ton of OutOfMemoryExceptions?
A: You are getting OutOfMemoeryException because your bitmap is too large to load the entire bitmap into memory (a loading issue not a rendering issue).
Instead you need a custom image view that downsamples and/or only loads sections of the image at a time depending upon what part of the image should be currently visible.
This may not fit your use case but it is an example of this problem being solved by downsampling
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How much does Alice know about Radical-6?
Who is the man in the recording, and the the people on Mars?
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Why was Radical-6 at the simulated launch site?
What is the picture Tenmyouji was carrying?
Who killed Alice in this timeline, and what was their motive?
There were nine men and women in the simulated Mars launch.
Sigma and Phi vote "Ally" and Tenmyouji votes "Betray", leaving Sigma and Phi at 1 BP.
Quark becomes infected with Radical-6 and attempts suicide, but is stopped by the others.
Sigma, Tenmyouji and Alice enter the PEC and find a blue memory card in the safe.
Quark is cured of Radical-6 through a vial of Axelavir found in the laboratory.
Examining the blue card reveals an audio file from 2028, hinting at the origins of the Radical-6 pandemic. Tenmyouji reveals that he was part of a simulated mission to Mars, where the outbreak apparently began. A woman on the recording was apparently responsible for this, as well as the deaths of six other test subjects.
Sigma votes Ally in round two, and so does Tenmyouji, leaving Sigma with 3 points and Tenmyouji and Clover with 8.
Tenmyouji is seen viewing a photo of some sort, but we don't get any description of what it is.
Alice is found dead in the crew quarters, stabbed with a scalpel.
Clover demands proof that Alice wasn't murdered. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 31 |
U.S. v. Maslenjak, 821 F.3d 675 (6th Cir. 2015): Can an Individual be Denaturalized for Immaterial False Statement?
Facts and Procedural History of Maslenjak
Question before the Supreme Court of the United States in U.S. v. Maslenjak
Key Statutes and Issues in Maslenjak
Reasoning and Decision in Maslenjak
Overview of Divergent Decision in Puerta
June 25, 2017 Update: The Supreme Court issued its decision in Maslenjak v. United States, 582 U.S. __ (2017). The Supreme Court reversed the Sixth Circuit decision discussed in this article. The Supreme Court held that materiality is an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). Please see our full article on the Supreme Court decision to learn more [see article].
On April 7, 2016, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a published decision in U.S. v. , 821 F.3d 675 (6th Cir. 2015) [PDF version]. The decision, authored by Judge S. Thomas Anderson, allowed a naturalized citizen to be denaturalized under section 340(e) of the INA based on her conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) for making a false statement that was immaterial to her naturalization. Subsequent to the decision, the Sixth Circuit denied rehearing en banc on May 27, 2016. The Supreme Court of the United States granted a petition for certiorari on January 13, 2017, and heard oral arguments on April 26, 2017. In this article, we will examine the facts of the case and the Sixth Circuit decision in brief. We will also examine the earlier decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in U.S. v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297 (9th Cir. 1992) [PDF version], which reached a contrary result to the Sixth Circuit decision in Maslenjak.
Please see our companion article on the oral arguments in the case before the Supreme Court for more recent happenings in the case [see article].
The case concerned a naturalized citizen appellant who had been convicted of having knowingly procured naturalization contrary to the law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) and of misuse of evidence of citizenship or naturalization under 18 U.S.C. 1423.
The appellant, Divna Maslenjak, was a native of what is today Bosnia. In 1998, she and her family met with a then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officer to seek refugee status based on fear of persecution in Bosnia. The record of the Maslenjak's trial showed that she acted as the primary applicant on her family's application for refugee status. She stated under oath to the INS officer that her family feared persecution because her husband did not serve in the military during the Bosnian Civil War, instead living in Serbia to avoid conscription. She further stated that she had remained in Bosnia and lived apart from her husband from 1992 to 1997. The INS opted to grant the Maslenjak and her family refugee status. They immigrated to the United States in 2000 and became lawful permanent residents in 2004.
In 2006, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) interviewed Maslenjak's husband as part of an investigation as to whether he had failed to disclose his military service in Serbia in his immigration application. Maslenjak was present during the interview. Her husband was charged with two counts of making a false statement under 18 U.S.C. 1546(a), specifically for having failed to disclose his service in the Bratunac Brigade of the Army of the Republic Srpska (VRS), "a unit that participated in the genocide of 7,000 to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in 1995." There was no evidence that Maslenjak's husband himself participated in the genocide, although there was evidence that he had been in the VRS at the time it occurred. He was arrested on the charges filed under 18 U.S.C. 1546(a).
One week after her husband was arrested, Maslenjak filed the Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, on December 20, 2006. One of the questions on the Form N-400 inquired as to whether she had ever "knowingly given false or misleading information to any U.S. government official while applying for any immigration benefit or to avoid deportation, exclusion, or removal." Another asked whether she had ever "lied to a U.S. government official to gain entry or admission into the United States." Maslenjak answered "no" to both of those questions. Furthermore, during her subsequent naturalization interview, she declined to make any changes to her answers on the Form N-400 when presented with the opportunity to do so. Maslenjak was naturalized as a United States citizen on August 3, 2007.
On October 7, 2007, Maslenjak's husband was found guilty in federal court of making false statements under 18 U.S.C. 1546(a). The conviction rendered him subject to removal. As a defense from removal, Maslenjak's husband applied for asylum. Maslenjak filed a Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative on his behalf and testified for him at his asylum hearing. During her testimony, Maslenjak stated that her husband had served in the VRS and that they had lived together in Bosnia after 1992. She also admitted that she had lied to the INS about her husband's military service and living circumstances in seeking refugee status in her interview in 1998.
"On March 5, 2013, a federal grand jury indicted Maslenjak with one count of knowingly procuring naturalization contrary to the law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a)." Specifically, the indictment alleged that she had "made material false statements" on her Form N-400. She was also charged with one count of misusing her unlawfully procured certificate of naturalization to file a Form I-130 petition on behalf of her husband in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1423. On April 17, 2014, Maslenjak was found guilty by a jury of both charges. She was sentenced to two years' probation. The district court granted the government's motion to have Maslenjak's naturalization revoked under the denaturalization provision found in section 340(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (due to the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a)). Maslenjak appealed the adverse decision to the Sixth Circuit.
Before analyzing the Sixth Circuit decision in Maslenjak and the divergent Ninth Circuit opinion in Puerta, we should understand the issue from Maslenjak that is currently pending before the Supreme Court on appeal.
The Supreme Court is considering "[w]hether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding … that a naturalized American citizen can be stripped of her citizenship in a criminal proceeding based on an immaterial false statement" [PDF version]. We will analyze the Maslenjak and Puerta decisions in light of the question before the Supreme Court.
Maslenjak was convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). An individual violates this statute if he or she:
knowingly procures or attempts to procure, contrary to law, the naturalization of any person, or documentary or other evidence of naturalization or citizenship.
A conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) may lead to fines and/or a term of imprisonment. However, the issue in Maslenjak is that an individual convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) is subject to automatic denaturalization under section 340(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (codified at 8 U.S.C. 1451(e)), which provides:
When a person shall be convicted under section 1425 of Title 18 of knowingly procuring naturalization in violation of the law, the court in which such conviction is had shall thereupon revoke, set aside, and declare void the final order admitting such person to citizenship, and shall declare the certificate of naturalization of such person to be cancelled.
Critical to the issue before the Supreme Court are two points that we must understand. First, 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) is a criminal statute. That means an individual charged with violating 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) will face criminal proceedings rather than civil immigration proceedings. This is distinguishable from the naturalization provision found in section 340(a) of the INA which provides for a civil denaturalization procedure for a naturalized citizen who "illegally procured or [] procured by concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation" a certificate of naturalization (however, note that the certificate of naturalization must then still be revoked by a federal district judge). The second point to understand is that courts do not have the discretion to choose not to revoke the naturalization of an individual convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). This is because the language of section 340(e) of the INA is mandatory, stating that the court "shall thereupon revoke, set aside, and declare void" the final order admitting the individual as a citizen of the United States. The use of the word "shall" makes clear that denaturalization is an absolute and necessary consequence of a conviction in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425.
The pertinent question that the Sixth Circuit examined — and the Supreme Court will examine — is whether an individual may be denaturalized under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) and section 340(e) of the INA for a false statement that was not material to the individual's application for naturalization being approved. "Material" can be understood as something affecting the adjudicator's decision to grant or deny a naturalization application (the standard for section 340(a) civil denaturalization is whether the false statement had a natural tendency to influence the decision). In providing instructions to the jury, the District Court judge presiding over Maslenjak's trial made clear that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) did not require proof of materiality. This means that regardless of whether Maslenjak's false statements were material to her asylum petition, the jury did not have to come to a decision regarding the materiality because it was instructed that materiality was not an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425.1 In short, an "element" is something that must be proven (or admitted to in a plea) in order to sustain a conviction.
The government in Maslenjak's case alleged that she had committed two predicate offenses relating to violations of the laws concerning naturalization that led to her having violated 18 U.S.C. 1425. The first of these is 18 U.S.C. 1015(a), which criminalizes:
knowingly mak[ing] any false statement under oath, in any case, proceeding, or matter relating to, or under, or by virtue of any law of the United States relating to naturalization, citizenship, or registry of aliens…
Additionally, the government alleged that Maslenjak's false statements meant that she was not a person of good moral character (as defined in section 101(f)(6) of the INA) at the time she was naturalized as required for naturalization under section 316(a)(3) of the INA.
Please note that Maslenjak's conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1423 necessarily relied upon her conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425, and it is, therefore, not an issue that will be discussed in any of the articles pertaining to this litigation.
In the next section, we will examine why the Sixth Circuit agreed with the District Court decision and found ultimately that materiality is not an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425 and that Maslenjak's denaturalization was not in error. In the subsequent section, we will briefly example the 1992 Ninth Circuit decision in Puerta which held contrarily that materiality is an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425.
The opinion of the court in Maslenjak was authored by United States District Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson, who was sitting on the Sixth Circuit by designation for the case.
The decision first addressed whether materiality is an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425. The opinion stated that "[a] plain reading of the statute suggests that materiality is not an element of the offense" 821 F.3d at 682 (2017). Maslenjak conceded that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) does not explicitly require materiality. However, she argued that materiality was nevertheless necessarily implied in the text of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a).
First, she noted that the civil denaturalization statute found in section 340(a) of the INA requires that a "misrepresentation" in procuring citizenship have been material. The Sixth Circuit, however, disagreed and found that reading the civil materiality requirement into the criminal provision to be unwarranted.
The Sixth Circuit read "contrary to the law" in 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) as requiring proof that Maslenjak's conduct had "violated at least one other law applicable to naturalization." 821 F.3d at 683 (2017). The Sixth Circuit reasoned that neither of the predicate offenses that the government alleged that Maslenjak had committed — 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) or procuring naturalization while not being a person of good moral character as required by section 316(a)(3) of the INA — require that a false statement have been material. The Sixth Circuit took the position that Congress had established a "two-track system for denaturalization[,]" one civil and one criminal. It found that there was "little justification" for reading the civil proceeding materiality requirement into the criminal statute.
The Sixth Circuit noted that — in accord with the plain text of section 340(a) of the INA — the Supreme Court had found that materiality was an element of the civil denaturalization statute in Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759 (1988) [PDF version]. It explained that the Supreme Court made clear that the burden of proof shifts in civil denaturalization proceedings, which inherently affords less protection to the naturalized citizen than he or she has in criminal proceedings. In Johannessen v. United States, 225 U.S. 227, 242 (1912) [PDF version], the Supreme Court held that civil denaturalization does not impose a punishment on an alien who procured naturalization by fraud or other illegal conduct, but instead "deprives him of ill-gotten privileges."
Conversely, the Sixth Circuit explained that in criminal proceedings brought under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), "the government has the burden to establish the elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt, and the accused has the right to all the constitutional due process he would not otherwise receive as part of a civil denaturalization proceeding under [section 340(a) of the INA]" 821 F.3d 685.
The Sixth Circuit stated that Maslenjak restricted her materiality argument to 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), and did not attest that the statute under which she was denaturalized — section 340(e) of the INA — contained a materiality requirement. The Sixth Circuit quoted from the Supreme Court decision in Bates v. United States, 522 U.S. 23, 29-30 (1997) [PDF version], "[w]here Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same Act, it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion or exclusion." In referencing Bates, it is important to note that the Sixth Circuit is referring to the differing language in sections 340(a) (civil denaturalization provision) and section 340(e) (automatic denaturalization for conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a)), and not the text of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a).
The Sixth Circuit explained that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) was intended to sweep more broadly than section 340(a) of the INA. For example, a person may be convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) for procuring "documentary or other proof of naturalization or citizenship" in addition to naturalization. Furthermore, a person may be convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) for doing so for "any person," meaning a naturalized citizen could be convicted for "improperly obtaining a forged naturalization certificate for a family member" 821 F.3d 686.
Based on its reading of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), the Sixth Circuit found that the government had to establish the following in order to secure a conviction:
1. Maslenjak procured her naturalization;
2. She procured it in some manner contrary to law; and
3. That she did so knowingly (id.).
The critical dispute between Maslenjak and the government was the meaning of "contrary to the law." The District Court had instructed the jury that contrary to the law encompassed any false statement made in an immigration hearing, regardless of materiality. The Sixth Circuit found that this instruction was correct because it applies to "all laws applicable to naturalization" 821 F.3d 687. Pertinently, this meant 18 U.S.C. 1015(a), one of the alleged predicate offenses, which lacks an explicit materiality requirement. To this effect, the Sixth Circuit cited to the Supreme Court decision in Fedorenko v. United States, 449 U.S. 490 (1981) [PDF version], wherein the Court quoted from United States v. Ginsberg, 243 U.S. 472, 474-475 (1917) [PDF version], in making clear that "[n]o alien has the slightest right to naturalization unless all statutory requirements are complied with…" The Sixth Circuit also noted that it and other circuits have upheld convictions under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) where the predicate offense was another criminal offense (see e.g., United States v. Damrah, 412 F.3d 618, 622-23 (6th Cir. 2003) [PDF version]; United States v. Alameh, 341 F.3d 167, 171-72 (2d Cir. 2003) [PDF version]). Accordingly, the Sixth Circuit saw fit to diverge from United States v. Puerta, wherein the Ninth Circuit interpreted "contrary to the law" to mean "contrary to the INA."
The Sixth Circuit then assessed the alleged predicate offenses committed by Maslenjak.
In an unpublished decision, the Sixth Circuit had held that 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) has no materiality element. In precedent decisions, the Ninth Circuit in United States v. Youssef, 547 F.3d 1090, 1094 (9th Cir. 2008) [PDF version], and Fourth Circuit in United States v. Abuagla, 336 F.3d 277, 278 (4th Cir. 2003) [PDF version], held similarly. The Sixth Circuit reasoned that 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) lacked a materiality requirement. Accordingly, the District Court had been correct in instructing the jury that no such requirement existed.
The Sixth Circuit took the position in its opinion that 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) was a predicate offense for 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) because it satisfied the "contrary to law" element of 18 U.S.C. 1425. It further stated that requiring materiality as an element for 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) alone "would lead to incongruous legal outcomes" (821 F.3d at 689). In short, the Sixth Circuit's rationale meant that reading materiality into 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) would render the phrase "contrary to the law" as meaning merely "contrary to some laws," an outcome that it did not find was justified by the text of the provisions in question.
The Sixth Circuit criticized the Puerta decision insofar as it read materiality into 18 U.S.C. 1425 regarding false statements while failing to acknowledge that 18 U.S.C. 1425 encompasses conduct beyond false statements. We will examine the Puerta decision in more detail in the next section.
Maslenjak also argued that because of the severity of denaturalization, the same materiality standard that applies to civil denaturalization proceedings should apply to the criminal statute. However, the Sixth Circuit found that "the argument invites us to overlook the plain text of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) and disregard the overall statutory scheme Congress has enacted for denaturalization under the INA" 821 F.3d at 691.
The Sixth Circuit explained that the discrepancy between the civil denaturalization statute and the criminal provision "is actually consistent with a two-track statutory scheme for denaturalization" 821 F.3d at 693. To this effect, the decision referenced the lesser burden carried by the government in civil proceedings than in criminal proceedings, and the extra protections afforded to a criminal defendant that are not provided to an individual facing civil charges.
Next, the Sixth Circuit addressed Maslenjak's arguments that the district court was in error in instructing the jury that it could convict her under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) if it found that her false statements established that she was not a person of good moral character at the time of naturalization. Section 101(f)(6) of the INA states that an individual cannot establish good moral character if, within the period a showing of good moral character is required, he or she gives "false testimony for the purpose of obtaining any benefit" under the INA. Maslenjak made two constitutional arguments against convicting her for lack of good moral character. For reasons we will examine, the Sixth Circuit found her arguments unavailing.
First, the Sixth Circuit addressed Maslenjak's claim that her conviction "amounts to an unconstitutional criminal punishment based on her status" as a person lacking good moral character. 821 F.3d at 693. The Sixth Circuit rejected this argument because 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) criminalizes conduct rather than status, that is, her knowingly procuring naturalization in a manner contrary to the laws governing naturalization. Accordingly, the Sixth Circuit explained that she was not punished for having been a person lacking good moral character, but rather for procuring naturalization with the knowledge that she was ineligible. The Sixth Circuit also rejected Maslenjak's reliance on Puerta, wherein the Ninth Circuit stated that "simply being a person who cannot establish [good moral character] in court is not a crime" 982 F.2d at 1302. The Sixth Circuit reiterated that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) — in its view — does not solely refer to violations of the INA, but rather violations of all statutes pertaining to naturalization. Accordingly, it found that Maslenjak was not punished for having the status of lacking good moral character.
Secondly, the SIxth Circuit addressed Maslenjak's argument that the good moral character provision was unconstitutionally vague as applied to her case. To this effect, she cited to the good moral character "catch-all provision" in section 101(f)(9) of the INA. However, the Sixth Circuit noted that the district judge had only instructed the jury regarding section 101(f)(6), which covers the specific conduct engaged in by Maslenjak (giving false testimony to procure an immigration benefit). Because the conviction was based upon a finding of of specific conduct, the statute was not void for vagueness as applied to her case.
Finally, the Sixth Circuit addessed Maslenjak's claim that the District Court's instructions regarding section 101(f)(6) of the INA were insufficient, in that the judge did not explain that the false "testimony" must be oral and must be given with the specific intent to obtain a benefit under the INA in order to sustain a conviction. In Kungys, the Supreme Court had made clear that, for purpose of section 101(f)(6), the false testimony need not be material but must be oral. Kungys, 485 U.S. at 780. The Sixth Circuit found that, taken as a whole, the jury instructions given by the District Court "accurately reflected the law." 821 F.3d at 696. The judge instructed the jury that "[g]iving false testimony for the purpose of obtaining any immigration benefit precludes someone from being regarded as having good moral character." Although the Sixth Circuit did note that the judge did not define "testimony" as being limited to oral statements nor did it advise the jury as to which of Maslenjak's statements constituted "testimony," the instructions were not "confusing, misleading, or prejudicial" when viewed as a whole and given the plain meaning of the word "testimony." Furthermore, the opinion found that,in light of the evidence heard by the jury that the testimony had, in fact, been oral, any lack of specificity in the jury instruction constituted "harmless error."
Judge Julia Smith Gibbons authored a concurring opinion. Interestingly, she noted that she was initially inclined to follow Puerta but was persuaded to join the opinion authored by Judge Thompson because of its analysis of the statutes. However, she expressed reservations with the perceived absence of a materiality element from 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), and she stated that she did not "locate[] any analogous context in which the elements of a crime are less onerous than the elements of the related civil penalty proceeding." Although she found the result "troublesome," she nevertheless joined the opinion because it was "guided by what the law requires."
In Puerta, the Ninth Circuit held that false statements must be "material" in order to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). Interestingly, in that case, the government actually took the position that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) "implies a materiality requirement similar to the one used in the [civil] denaturalization context." 982 F.2d at 1302. Both the opinion of the Sixth Circuit and the concurring opinion noted the government has taken inconsistent positions on this question in different cases. This finding led the Ninth Circuit to conclude that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) cannot apply to having lacked good moral character because that is a status and not a crime. Significantly, Ninth Circuit precedent makes clear that a false statement must be material in order to lead to a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a).
Please continue to our article on the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Maslenjak to read about how the case has progressed [see article].
This is worth noting in light of the fact — which was also noted by multiple justices of the Supreme Court — that Maslenjak's false statements were quite possibly material to her application. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 32 |
New App Enhancing Helicopter Trip Planning
Helipaddy is a new app developed for both iOS and Android platforms that is going to enhance helicopter trip planning.
The app, which is free to download, enables pilots and their passengers to save their favourite sites and share sites with their friends. It can be used to store VRP's, too. An optional yearly membership of £29.99 will then give access to a fully moderated database of 1000's of places to land to eat, to stay or even just to walk the dog throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
Helipaddy incorporates live GPS tracking on all the latest smartphones and shows basic airspace, thus enabling users to navigate efficiently to a landing site. Helipaddy supports the GPX file format and landing sites can be easily opened in Skydemon as waypoints. The Helipaddy pin accurately marks the exact landing site where possible and, in the majority of cases, there are photographs of the establishment.
Helipaddy is also great for airfields and farm landing strips with essential information on refuelling and, especially useful in the case of French airfields, whether you can use a standard credit card. Whilst the app is new, we are providing all the airfield information for free.
When flying click the 'Safari mode' button and the map tracks you in the air, automatically popping up sites within a 2nm radius. You can then satisfy your curiosity as to the exact location of the Great Train Robbery, Camelot or the history of a particular ruined castle. There are automatic 1, 2 and 5 minute markers to help time arrival and the ability to send a landing request to a particular establishment with one click.
There is an Events page so airfields and other places can publish their upcoming fixtures and a system to leave a comment for other users on any pad. Paid-up members can log into a members area to see events online.
We know that Helipaddy is unique and will enable pilots to discover new places to land and new landscapes to explore. We are excited about version 2 which is already in the pipeline with a bunch of new features and extending our range further into Spain, Italy and the USA and including a friends-location feature. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 33 |
It's 12:15am on Friday morning and I can't sleep.
1. The Griffith-Hammond basket-brawl. I'm pissed because it happened. I announce a lot of basketball and no doubt in the past couple of years the game in NWIndiana has gotten more physical, mean-spirited, undisciplined and dangerous. With the blatant animosity that players show for each other and refs, and that coaches and fans show for refs, players and each other – this was bound to happen. It did. So I can't sleep.
2. The decision by the IHSAA to cancel the basketball seasons of Griffith and Hammond. There is much sadness and anger, but I agree with the decision.
3. Arbitrary and capricious. What I wonder about, however, is how that decision was made and what it means for athletic programs in the future. Listen to the podcasts of the two interviews that I did with IHSAA commissioner in the 18 hours following the decision. Basically, Bobby watched the video, talked to the coaches and administrators, and canceled their seasons. Case closed. "Swift and decisive action," I think I called it on Tuesday.
,,,But something's been nagging at me. There have been many fights at Indiana high school games in past years, and none of those programs involved have been canceled for the season. I brought up to Bobby the bench-clearing brawl at the Fort Wayne South-Indianapolis Arsenal Tech football game. Watch that video, it's just as frightening as the Griffith-Hammond brawl.
But in the Fort Wayne situation, Bobby handed out suspensions. Both teams got to compete in the post-season. What gives?
I've been thinking about this… so I can't sleep. And what keeps coming back to me is a simple phrase – "arbitrary and capricious." That's what the late Judge Calvin Peete said in two well-known court cases a few years ago about the way that the IHSAA makes its decisions.
I covered both of those trials. And quite frankly, I didn't then understand what judge Peete meant by "arbitrary and capricious." I just remember that Kenny and Angel got to play and that Angel helped ECCentral win a state championship.
So back to my conversations with commissioner Cox this week. Several times Bobby said that he had met with member institutions and that they're sick of the bad stuff at games, that if we don't watch out we'll be going to a funeral instead of a game. He also pointed to a commission that he set up that basically reiterated that everyone's sick of the BS (bad stuff) at games.
I asked him then – is this a policy shift for the IHSAA? When in the past it was suspensions, now it's cancellations?
"Our membership has spoken," Bobby said.
Sounds like a shift in policy, or as my lawyer wife would say, the making of case law. As I see it, Bobby Cox is decreeing that if 1. your players get in a fight, 2. fans come on the floor or playing field, and 3. benches clear – your season is over.
If those are the rules, I'm good with that. As long as Bobby Cox writes them down.
Bobby needs to spell out exactly what will end a team's season. Because if nothing's written down, then it's just one guy choosing who continues on after a fight and who doesn't, without any written rules to go by. That's the definition of Judge Peete's "arbitrary and capricious." Lawyers will have a field day, and when that happens we all suffer. Also, if you write down the rules and coaches read those specific rules to players, parents, fans, the media, you get a huge deterrent effect. Less fights, more sports. - Here's the rules. If we violate them, then our season's over.
4. Race hatred. In the wake of the IHSAA decision to ban the all- or mostly- black Griffith and Hammond teams for the rest of the season, and the simultaneous stripping of the all-black Jackie Robinson West Little League team of its US championship, I got some disturbing calls on the radio. Caller Joe said that white people – me included – secretly want to see black kids suffer. And to top that – "White police officers are just KKK members in blue uniforms." The next caller - Will from the southeast side – echoed that. Couple that with white guys pointing at blacks as the problem, and sometimes it's just too much to take. Listen to the podcasts and tell me how well you sleep.
5. Sportsmanship Dinner guys missing an opportunity.
As you know, 61 years ago there was a rumble at the Hammond sectional, so some Hammond businessmen got all the teams together and held a dinner so that it wouldn't happen again. It's been going and growing ever since, bringing around 30 teams, some 900 people in all, to a hall in Schererville the Monday before sectionals week. It's one of the coolest enduring institutions around.
Here's the moment that the healing begins. You invite Hammond High and Griffith to the dinner, and you give their players a couple minutes at the microphone. That's when the healing begins. . Honor the spirit of healing that the Sportsmanship Dinner started with in the first place, guys. Seize the opportunity.
---- It's not 12:15am anymore. It's 1:47am, and in three hours and 43 minutes life starts playing out on the radio again. Hope you'll be rested for it. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 34 |
in: Locations, 1980s, 1990s,
Fictional nightclubs
Fictional restaurants
Fictional waitstaff
Images of Anna Devane
Images of Duke Lavery
Images of Robert Scorpio
Images of Sean Donely
Duke's
Delafield's redirects here.
Duke's Club
Duke and Anna tango at Duke's Club (1988)
Duke Lavery
(original owner)
Terry O'Connor
(former owner)
Katherine Delafield
1067 Bricksley Road
Duke's was a restaurant/night club in the city of Port Charles, New York.
Run by Duke Lavery and Felicia Jones, this club was a popular hangout for Port Charles residents in the late 1980's. Frisco Jones and Terri O'Connor regularly performed. Duke also opened a sister club on April 22, 1988 in New York City, called Club Duke as a front for the Jerome mob, it closed on January 24, 1989.
On June 10, 1988 vandals trash Duke's and spray paint graffiti on the walls. It closes that night, until its cleaned up. Olivia Jerome later assisted Duke with the remodeling. The club reopens on July 5, 1988, and it floods the same night.
After Duke's presumed death in 1989, Anna decides to sell the club to Terri O'Connor. It reopens in July 1989. Frisco Jones performs at it's reopening.
Katherine, Anna, Robert, and Sean at Delafield's (1990)
After Duke's presumed death, the club was purchased in 1990 by classical pianist Katherine Delafield and reopened under the name Delafield's on June 1 of the same year. She left on a world tour at the end of November in 1990, leaving Angel and Mary Finnegan in charge.
Port Charles was struck by an Earthquake in April 1991 and the building was condemned. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 35 |
Thidrin has just released its new album Rhenniwhich will be available in the market very soon. This new album is composed of twelve hits that deal with different topics ranging from love, freedom, politics and others.
The album title is inspired from henna "Rhenni". Historically, henna was used for cosmetic purposes in north Africa by the Amazigh women when celebrating traditions such as marriage. The weeding party used to be an occasion where the girls of the village meet to sing dance and tell Izran (poetry), which is an oral tradition characterized by improvisation. Thidrin is one of the unique bands that tries always to open the Amazigh traditional music on other international styles to promote it to the world stage. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 36 |
Q: Searching on Multiple Fields using BST Suppose we need to create an address book that can provide search functionality on multiple fields, with a large number of records. The structure is very simple – name, phone number and city name.
I can type "begin with Ron..." or "begin with 202..." or "begin with Arling..."
Then it will give me the expected results.
First solution come up to my mind is, create three BST, one based on phone number, one based on name, the third one based on city.
NOW I AM THINKING, is there a way to create one BST (or any other methods), but still make the search work, without sort it every time?
Thanks in advance.
A: You could do it with a single BST. The BST node would be:
class BSTNode
{
string Key;
byte KeyType; // 0=Name, 1=City, 2=Phone
AddressRec Record;
}
And the AddressRec is of course a reference to the actual address record.
You end up having three entries in the BST for each record. So given an address record:
rec0 = { Name = "Jim", City = "Austin", Phone="512-555-1212" }
You would add the records:
BST.Add(rec0.Name, 0, rec0);
BST.Add(rec0.City, 1, rec0);
BST.Add(rec0.Phone, 2, rec0);
And your search would take the record type as a parameter.
This is easier to manage in that you only have one BST, but searching is going to be a little slower, but by a constant factor. Search in a BST is O(log n), and your combined BST is going to have three times as many nodes as the three special-purpose trees. Still, it's not linearly slower. That is, if you have 1,024 address entries then each of your special-purpose trees will have 1024 nodes. log2(1024) is 10. Your single tree will have 3,072 nodes. log2(3,072) is 11.58. So individual searches will be slightly slower.
Note, though, that it's slightly slower by a constant factor. Consider this table:
n log2(n) log2(3n)
16 4 5.58
128 7 8.58
1024 10 11.58
2^20 20 21.58
On average the single tree will require approximately two extra probes per search, regardless of how many items are in the BST.
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Bluff Manufacturing was founded in 1968 near Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, manufacturing primarily yard ramps. They quickly established themselves as a dock equipment company, expanding into the southwest, and then eventually the entire U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Bluff is now a leading manufacturer of dock levelers, primarily edge-of-dock levelers, with standard height and low dock options. In addition to their levelers, they offer dock plates and dock boards that function as a low cost solution in a low volume loading and unloading application. These are to be used with hand trucks and pallet jacks, and should not be used with forklifts or other power equipment. Similar to dock boards, Bluff's rail boards are an effective solution for loading and unloading railroad freight cars. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 38 |
With its palm lined boulevards and beautifully appointed homes, Trasacco Valley is the most exclusive residential estate in Ghana and a truly secure enclave. This five-bedroom mansion, is built on a 2,779m2 walled and gated plot.
Recessed down lights to all rooms. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 39 |
Q: Return adjacent duplicates in Erlang I'm trying to learn recursion in Erlang and I am working through a book.
But I'm hitting a wall when faced with the problem of taking a list and returning only the duplicate elements.
I tried writing a function which returns only the unique elements and then removing them from the original list.
adjacent_dups(L) -> L -- uniques(L).
uniques([]) -> [];
uniques([H|T]) -> [H | [X || X <- uniques(T), X /= H]].
This will however not give the correct result when the list is not well structured.
L = [7,3,4,3]
My code will return
adjacent_dups([7,3,4,3]) -> 3
How can I get
adjacent_dups([7,3,4,3]) -> []
A: Use pattern matching in the function head to find adjacent identical values:
adjacent_dups(L) ->
adjacent_dups(L, #{}).
adjacent_dups([], Acc) ->
maps:keys(Acc);
adjacent_dups([H,H|T], Acc) ->
adjacent_dups(T,maps:put(H,H,Acc));
adjacent_dups([_|T], Acc) ->
adjacent_dups(T, Acc).
The first function adjacent_dups/1 is meant to be exported. The rest, adjacent_dups/2, are helper functions.
The adjacent_dups/1 function creates an empty map to pass to adjacent_dups/2 as the initial value of an accumulator. Recursive functions often use accumulators.
The first clause of adjacent_dups/2 handles the case where the incoming list has been exhausted or was empty to start with. In that case, we retrieve the keys of the accumulator map; these are our adjacent values.
The second clause of adjacent_dups/2 handles the case of adjacent values using pattern matching. In this case, we add the value as a key and value to the accumulator map, and call ourselves recursively with the tail of the list. Using a map eliminates duplicates from the final result.
The final clause of adjacent_dups/2 handles the case where a value does not have an adjacent value; it simply makes a recursive call with the tail of the list and an unmodified accumulator.
A: If you only want adjacent duplicates you can try pattern matching them out pairwise from your list. Here is a naive solution to get you started. It assumes that duplicates are only found in pairs (never three in a row, for example):
adjacent_dups([]) -> [];
adjacent_dups([A,A|Tail]) -> [A|adjacent_dups(Tail)];
adjacent_dups([_Head|Tail]) -> adjacent_dups(Tail).
If we think a little bit more about it we might realize that we can handle triplets in the same way. And by making that case only consume the first value and put the other two back we can actually make it generic enough to work even if there are more than two in a row. Watch the magic:
adjacent_dups([]) -> [];
adjacent_dups([A,A,A|Tail]) -> adjacent_dups([A,A|Tail]);
adjacent_dups([A,A|Tail]) -> [A|adjacent_dups(Tail)];
adjacent_dups([_Head|Tail]) -> adjacent_dups(Tail).
Here is the output:
adjacent_dups([1,1,1,1,2,3,4,55,55,6,7,8,8,8,1]).
[1,55,8]
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Окръг Критъндън () е окръг в щата Кентъки, Съединени американски щати. Площта му е 961 km², а населението - 9384 души (2000). Административен център е град Мариън.
Окръзи в Кентъки | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaWikipedia'} | 41 |
I chatted with Nicholas Cain this morning, Managing Director of Cain Medical.
development. Cain Medical is the third vendor in a group including HEI (and their LinkIt) and Capsule Technologie.
data, providing acknowledgement and re sends of data when required.
the IEEE 1073 MIB and DICOM.
will tell how solutions like Sensitron or devices with their own connectivity (like smart pumps or telemetry) fit into solutions like Cain Medical's.
This is definitely a company to keep an eye on. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 42 |
White Gate is a luxury Alamo real estate home development located at the end of Stone Valley Rd. White Gate was built by Harold Smith Builders between 1982 and 1993, and features a gorgeous setting nestled in the oak-studded hills of East Alamo. Ranging from 2000 sq ft up to 4000 sq ft or more, White Gate homes for sale in Alamo CA are on lots typically in the 1/3 to 1/2 acre range, with some up to 1 acre. White Gate Houses in Alamo are very close to Monte Vista, Los Cerros & Green Valley Schools. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 43 |
There is a serious epidemic spreading across the country, and I think that it's about time to shed some much needed light on what can only be described as a tragic issue that is homegrown, and in dire need of correction. As many of you are aware the wars we have waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other smaller countries in the middle east have lasted 8 1/2 years. In effect, the longest armed conflict in American history.
The 'war on terror' was a very unique war in so far as it was fought by a 100% volunteer armed services contingent. What this means is that over 99% of the American public had no visceral ties to the conflict. In addition, unlike say World War 1, and World War 2, we as a nation did not have to make any serious sacrifices and/or rationing requirements. The result of all of this is that we have a public that is disconnected from the soldiers that have fought for it's existence.
Here is the real issue...Everyday in these United States of America, Twenty-two (22) Iraq/Afghanistan veterans commit suicide. I'lll repeat. Every 24 hours, 22 war veterans commit suicide. That's about one suicide every hour (65 Minutes to be exact). That's basically a 'Newtown' massacre amount of death (26) everyday. In the years between 2004 and 2009 the rates of suicide doubled.
To put it yet another way, that's thirty (30) suicides per every 100,000 people in this country. This is an epidemic. Something needs to be done, this issue requires much more attention than it's been getting. Our soldiers deserve much better. This past Wednesday afternoon one of these veterans 34 year old SPC. Ivan Lopez not only killed himself, but he decided to take an additional three (3) lives with him at Fort Hood, Texas. The second mass shooting at that facility in 5 years. A recent study/survey performed by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Washington Post, found that 55% of Iraq war veterans felt 'disconnected' from civilian society. 43% of those are suffering from some form of physical health problems. 30% are suffering from serious mental health issues. 51% of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans either know someone who has committed suicide, or someone who has thought about it.
We are talking about young people from their late teens to their mid thirties. Our soldiers have made the ultimate commitment to us as a nation, therefore it should go without saying that we owe them our full respect and commitment to look out for their collective welfare upon their return to civilian life. The backlog in terms of Veterans healthcare is abysmal. Soldiers are waiting upwards of a year or more to have their claims attended to, and health issues addressed. This situation cannot stand. As an Army veteran myself, I find this situation appalling. In many ways this is a slap in the face to people who in no way deserve it. Regardless of how you may personally feel about the legitimacy, or necessity of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts, you cannot turn a blind eye to the pain and suffering of our veterans.
I think that it's important to not only express our gratitude to our veterans, but to also demand action from our elected officials. Specifically in Congress. The issue of the welfare of our veterans should be every bit an election issue in 2014 & 2016 as any other. The United States is the greatest democracy in the world because of the risk and sacrifice of our veterans. It's our turn to give back. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 44 |
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