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The Only Jarred Tomato Sauce You Need
If this sauce isn't already a staple in your pantry, it really should be.
I'm not ashamed to say I love a good shortcut. Whether it be on the road or in the kitchen, I'll almost always take the faster route.
My mother is of the opinion that good things take time—she's disappointed when a recipe calls for fewer than 10 ingredients or if a meal's prep time is shorter than 20 minutes.
Despite my upbringing, I wholeheartedly disagree. Sometimes the quickest way is not only more convenient, but better.
Bearing that in mind, I'm about to let you in on surprisingly well-kept secret that will change your life for the better: Sockarooni Sauce. If this $2 Newman's Own classic isn't a staple in your pantry, it really should be.
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I discovered my love for the sauce in college. I was desperate for pizza, but too lazy to go out and buy the ingredients for an entirely from-scratch pie and too broke to order delivery. So, I used what I had on hand: a piece of pita bread, shredded mozzarella cheese and Sockarooni Sauce. I'm not sure why I had it in the first place. I probably just hurriedly threw a random tomato sauce in my grocery cart.
What I expected to be a wholly forgettable late-night snack turned into one of my favorite quick and easy dinners of all time—and that's 100 percent thanks to the Sockarooni.
This sauce is the perfect blend of tomatoes, peppers and spices. It tastes better than homemade. Well, anything I'd make at home, at least.
Since that fateful night in college, I haven't bought any other tomato sauce. Call me crazy, but I even use it when a recipe calls for marinara. I'd never dream of using jarred pizza sauce again.
Based on the way I rave about it, you may think I have some sort of vested interest in Newman's Own products or the tomato sauce industry in general. I really don't. I'm not being paid by the company and I'm not being blackmailed by Paul Newman's relatives.
This stuff is just too good not to share.
Sorry, mom.


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Light sensors may be used in burglar alarms or inside garage door openers. Light shines between sensors, and if the something interrupts the light, the device knows an object's there. In addition, they are also used in street lights to determine when it's dark enough for the light to switch on
In the case of a burglar alarm, the light sensor constantly senses a beam of light from another part of the alarm. If a person or object gets in the way of the beam, the sensor knows senses the change in light and immediately sound the alarm. Garage door devices need a similar set up in order to make sure they don't close on top of an object. If the light bouncing back from the ground is interrupted, then the garage door doesn't close to prevent damage.
Bar code scanners also use light sensor technology. The light in the scanner reflects on bar code, and then a sophisticated light sensor inside picks up on the patterns of light to translate the code into numbers and other data. Motion-sensing devices often have light sensors in them as well. Human beings give off infrared light, and many businesses use infrared sensors to automatically open their doors when someone approaches. A number of motion-sensing lights also use this approach.

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I just read two papers about the plight of farmers in India and nutrition. The first is in the magazine Down to Earth, called "Why Marathwada is becoming a graveyard for farmers". The second is not open access, but published in the journal Public Health. Its title is "Modern agriculture and food and nutrition insecurity: paradox in India". The second is scholarly, the first gives it a human face, starting by describing an indebted farmer who uses pesticide to commit suicide.
There are many interacting, interlocking factors, underlying India's poverty; some of them agricultural, some of them social. For example, the farmer who consumed the pesticide: "In 2011, he had borrowed Rs 60,000 from a government-owned bank and Rs 150,000 from a private moneylender. " The interest rate from the moneylender is likely to be usurious - even from microcredit schemes in India etc it is often very high .. so I think part of the problem is that the farmer was vulnerable - information asymmetry. The article would be strengthened by listing the interest rates.
It seems likely that this part of Maharashtra (which appears to rely mostly on rain) never has a particularly reliable rainfall ("Marathwada has been traditionally prone to droughts") - so another factor is population pressure, which forces people on to less agriculturally certain areas. Yet another factor is identified in the article: "They cannot take the humiliation of not being able to pay the debt or meet social obligations" - social pressure is important .. this is a cultural cause, not an agricultural cause.
Population pressure and a failure to protect the commons is also shown by the failure sufficient water. The dam water goes preferentially to industry. Water in upstream dams are not released - this is a significant failure of governance, and a good example of the "Matthew effect" ("he who has gets"). It's a good but sad analysis - and with another El Nino declared it looks like it will get worse, at least in the next year.
Problems with the Green Revolution
The second paper is a more formal documentation of the limited evidence in the first, from a poor part of Maharashtra. It shows how the "Green Revolution" (modern agricultural practices with high yielding seeds, intensive fertiliser and irrigation) has failed to deliver nutrition and other forms of security to the poor and vulnerable in India. The Green Revolution transformed India from a land of famines (including after it obtained freedom from British colonisation) to a net food exporter within 25 years, despite continued high population growth. However, the paradox is that a considerable proportion of the Indian population, especially in the North, remain undernourished: surveys conducted in 2005-06 found 38% of children less than five were stunted -- with consequent cognitive impairment.
The paper in fact argues that Indian inequality has increased. Though no convincing statistical evidence of this is provided it is a reasonable assertion; in any case poverty and undernutrition (which the authors correctly attribute in part to poor health services and poor hygiene) remain at levels that should be unacceptable in a society that is more or less well governed. India (at least in its north) clearly is still not well-governed.
The paper also argues that uncritical government advocacy favoured three major cereals (rice, wheat, maize), but neglected traditional and nutritionally valuable crops including sorghum, millets, and pulses. The reduction in pulse consumption places the poor at risk of critical amino acid scarcity.
Furthermore, the reduction in (nitrogen-fixing) legume crops (especially in rotation with the main grains) has increased the demand for nitrogenous fertiliser. A combination of factors has led to aquifer depletion and soil deterioration including salinity. To this must be added high population growth (especially in the north). These are exemplify the concept that what Hardin termed as a "tragedy of the commons". (For example, if the groundwater is dropping and I fear my neighbour is taking more than his or her share, and if there is no over-lying sanction or custom to reduce my own use of the groundwater then it seems in my interest to act the same as my neighbour.) What lies ahead for India?
The authors conclude that it is vital for the new agricultural paradigm to be made truly more pro-people, including by addressing issues of poverty, gender, livelihood and environment. This cannot happen automatically without supportive government policies.
I would add that it also requires policies and a mindset far broader than most people conceive as "agriculture" - such as rural education and greater fairness in the application of laws and rules, with less discrimination against minorities and the poor.
The World Scientist's Warning to Humanity
I leave the last word to Norman Borlaug, awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize for his role in the delivering the Green Revolution. Unlike many agricultural economists, including those who framed various world hunger targets, Borlaug and many other Nobel Laureates (including over half of those then alive) who signed the World Scientist's Warning to Humanity. The text of this warning, one of whose signatories was Norman Borlaug, expresses far less optimism about the future than cornucopians would like to believe.
By the way, if any readers want to support our development, pro-poor work in India, you can donate via PayPal - here is a link to the first page.
Above: Will Steffen
I just watched an excellent lecture by Prof Will Steffen on the Anthropocene.
But – despite his claim that the Earth system community now includes humans in it, I think the social science community can and should go much further to collaborate. He speaks of the War on Science. He also speaks strongly about rising inequality, including praising Picketty's book, Capital in the 21st Century. (See this excellent review by Paul Krugman.)
I would go further: rising human inequality is a response (and a cause) of the changing Earth System – albeit dysfunctional. It is a response because, as resources per person diminish, those with the greatest economic power claim more, in order to preserve their lifestyle. It is also a driver because elites fear that a more sustainable economy will harm their own lifestyle. Thus, elites maintain there are no "limits to growth", there is no planetary emergency, and act to undermine sustainable and equitable policies.
Disclosure: I have known Will for about ten years. He wrote the first chapter of my edited book Climate Change and Global Health; his chapter is called "Planet Under Pressure". I greatly admire him.
Apologies for no recent update - I have been very busy, including with travel. In March I was a keynote at a conference in Spain called the Impact of Environmental Changes on Infectious Diseases. My talk was called Poverty, demography and infectious disease: three warnings. The slides are here, the abstract here.
Essentially I argued that a bias to market-forces focussed economics has harmed health systems, in both rich and poor countries. I originally wanted to present three case studies, though in the end I mainly discussed Ebola and a bit on sanitation in India. A version of some of my ideas about Ebola (eg how deforestation is likely to have contributed to its emergence) has just been submitted to the website Croakey (co-written with Dr Rosalie Schultz).
In April I spoke at a conference in Delhi, organised by the Australian India Council, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the NGO Pradan and the Ambedkar University of Delhi. That talk was called "Development, inequality and co-operation: reflections, including on climate change". I am converting my long abstract to a short paper, hopefully to become a book chapter. The slides are here, and the early (short) draft of the text is here.
I greatly enjoyed both meetings, and the invitation to speak in India was especially appreciated.
Other than that, I have been nominated as a co-ordinating lead author on health and the environment for the forthcoming (2017) Global Environmental Outlook Report 6 by the UN Environmental Programme. The title is "Healthy Planet Healthy People". My paper "Revised target makes the MDG hunger reduction goal within reach" should appear in the journal Global Food Security within a week. Unfortunately not open access. Also just in press: Climate change, food systems and population health risks in their eco-social context (Public Health).
We are preparing for the BODHI Australia AGM, to be held Sunday June 21, at the Australian National University. Quite a few people are stepping forward to help keep BODHI alive, both in the US and Australia - but we still greatly miss Susan, BODHI's co-founder. It was her birthday yesterday - a day after the full moon in May.
Colin David Butler
June 2017


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On Friday, Cisco Systems announced it was purchasing TV set-top box manufacturer Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion.
The companies say they will initially focus on solutions for cable operators who are planning upgrades best facilitated with cutting-edge set-top boxes, as well as telcos that want to enter the market. Just a bit further down the line, these boxes and accompanying Cisco hardware could let viewers do cool stuff like watch sporting events from different angles as well as participate in online chats with fellow viewers ("he looks like the logical murder suspect, but we're only 20 minutes into the show," defense was expecting a pass, so the quarterback should have called a draw play,"etc.)
But these companies are not going to the market for the express goal of enabling their customers to show cool stuff. What it is all about for Cisco-Scientific Atlanta's cable operator and phone customers is even more enhanced service bundling, with more tiers than you can imagine.
Bundling? Sure. TV, Internet access, phone, cell (either direct or via alliances) and um, VoIP.
With Sci-Atl's set-top box expertise in house, the cable operators, especially, not only will be able to offer VoIP quadruple play but offer the type of enhanced television features I just mentioned. Maybe for another $9.99 a month.
So if I am a Vonage, or Packet 8 or VoiceGlo, I get real nervous right 'bout now. My cable competitors, especially, are coming after me with even more bundled services and cool extras than before, and will be able to market these at attractive bundled prices that when parsed, are lower than I can afford and still more than cover my subscriber acquisition costs.
At the same time, I might be just a bit wary that some of these same Internet access-providing cable operators might, want in their heart of hearts, to charge me carriage rights if I want my VoIP to be ported across their broadband networks. And are prepared to lobby to make it so.
And as I am pecked at from above by the full-service suite telecommunications giants, that generation of IM softphone providers is rapidly building PC to PSTN capability, and - as personified by today's debut of Skype in 3,000 Radio Shack stores - threatening me as well.
OK, now as a pure-play VoIP provider, maybe I am thinking, "do I need this?" Do I continue to go my own way, do I find smaller providers of related services I can partner with, or do I sell out?"


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February 5, 2014
For The Love of Yoga Giveaway!
This giveaway is the bee's knees, folks. Last week, I was chatting with my friends at Ekam Yoga about why I made the decision to start practicing yoga. For me, after a year of anxiety, health issues, and generally living in a head full of…Read More


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The Rockford Housing Authority has an Administrative Plan for its Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8). It explains the policies through which the agency administers the program. The plan has been approved by the Board of Commissioners.
Administrative Plan – (HCV/Sec 8)
The RHA Board of Commissioners approved the current Administrative Plan (see below) on March 21, 2019.


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One of the first questions that must be answered when starting any design is "How much time do I want to devote to this project?" Time limits many design options. If you want something to give tomorrow, there's no way a large elaborate design will work. If you want beautiful lettering, an intricate image, subtle shading, you're not going to get it in a bookmark you can complete in an afternoon.
I want to stress here that bigger, time-consuming designs aren't always better. It can be hard to sustain the effort needed to make it to completion. It is dispiriting to start with high hopes for a project and end up with it sitting half-finished in the closet. It's best to pick something you can encompass.
Also, you need to consider how the person you are making it for will use it. A big framed piece may not work for everybody. Cat wrote:
I would like something small she can keep in her room, or in a memory box as she matures.
Small size means we need to look at trade-offs between length of verse, simplicity of lettering, and size of stitches. If you're willing to work very small stitches intricate words are possible, but will take time.
Cat, I had an idea which I'm not sure if you would like. How about stitching a book? Maybe a book cover that would hold photo pages. Or maybe a book that you could add to over time, and maybe even other people would stitch pages for her? She might even add to it herself in time. It could be bound with ribbons, and the edges whip stitched.
So, what we need to figure out is how elaborate a project do you want? I can do embroidery bookmarks that will take a couple of hours:
Insp Unfailing BM, a photo by Carmen CS on Flickr.
I can do 5″x7″ 10 point designs which might take a weekend:
Rheba Flamingoes, a photo by Carmen CS on Flickr.
And it goes up from there…


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Award-Winning Essentials
This product is currently sold out.
(Value $206.20)
LIMITED TIME the Award-Winning Essentials Collection, includes the NONI GLOW SLEEPING MASK 100mL for a $238.20 Value
- Noni Glow Face Oil 30mL / 1.01 fl oz e
- Noni Bright Vitamin C Serum 30mL / 1.01 fl oz e
- Turmeric Brightening & Exfoliating Mask 30mL / 1.01 fl oz e
- Noni Glow Sleeping Mask 30mL / 1.01 fl oz e
- Balancing Rose Mist 30mL / 1.01 fl oz e
- Rose Quartz Luminizer 6g / 0.21 oz e
Miranda is proud to share her award-winning skincare favorites in this new Award-Winning Essentials collection. Each product delivers powerful results thanks to beautiful blends of certified organic, and highly-active ingredients that all under go strict testing while the formulas are being developed.
Miranda always keeps her favorite go-to product near, the Noni Glow Face Oil, as she uses it morning and night (and during the day for an extra hydration & antioxidant boost). To apply, she gently presses it into her cheeks, forehead and chin, as the warmth of her palms allows the allow to melt into her skin.
Daily she revitalizes her skin with the Turmeric Brightening & Exfoliating Mask (for sensitive skin use 1-3 a week), along with the the Noni Bright Vitamin C Serum each morning.
Miranda loves to spritz the Balancing Rose Mist after cleansing her face, as it hydrates and balances the skin, along with preparing the skin to allow products to penetrate and work at a deeper level. For aromatherapy benefits, she is known to keep it near in her handbag to spritz throughout the day for misty hydration kisses.
All KORA products are also filtered through Rose Quartz Crystals during the manufacturing process to infuse the vibration of self-love into the products & on to you—to add a bit of magic to your day. A beautiful way to give yourself an extra luminous glow and a self-love reminder is to lightly tap your your cheekbone, browbone and bow of lips with the Rose Quartz Luminizer— containing actual finely crushed Rose Quartz crystal.
On nights when Miranda needs an extra hydration boost or has extra time, she'll use the Noni Glow Sleeping Mask as a "flash mask" for 15 minutes while she does a nighttime meditation. Yet, on those nights when she's short on time and cannot do the "flash mask", she loves to add on the Noni Glow Sleeping Mask on top of the Noni Glow Face Oil to really lock in the moisture as she drifts off to dreamland.
All KORA products are also toxin-free and cruelty-free, and are certified organic and natural in accordance with COSMOS, a global certifying agency that follows strict organic guidelines and regulations around ingredients and the manufacturing process. The final results are these award-winning powerhouses leaving your skin healthy, glowing and radiant.
"I'm so proud of these award-winning products, they deliver such powerful results. I'm thrilled that they have been recognized as some of the best in the business." - Miranda
Balancing Rose Mist 30mL
Noni Bright Vitamin C Serum 30mL
Turmeric Brightening & Exfoliating Mask 30mL
Noni Glow Sleeping Mask 30mL
Rose Quartz Luminizer 6g
Apply 1 to 2 pumps of Noni Bright Vitamin C Serum daily onto clean skin in the morning before moisturizer.
Massage the Turmeric Brightening & Exfoliating Mask into damp skin while avoiding eye area. Leave on for 5-15 minutes to let the enzymes work their magic. Remove with water in circular motions to exfoliate. For added exfoliation, remove with damp cloth. Use 2-3 times weekly for optimum results. You may notice a little bit of redness after use due to the increased circulation and detoxification process. No need to worry, redness should subside after 15-20 minutes. Note: The color of this product may change over time due to the organic nature of the active ingredients—you will still receive all of the same powerful benefits 😊
Apply the Noni Glow Sleeping Mask generously onto a clean face, neck and décolleté. Avoid contact with eyes. After product is absorbed completely, leave treatment on overnight and rinse off thoroughly with warm water in the morning. To use as a wash off mask, simply rinse off after 15 minutes. Use nightly for optimum results. You may notice a little bit of redness after use due to the gentle fruit acids in this Sleeping Mask Gel. No need to worry, redness should subside after 15-20 minutes.
Apply the Rose Quartz Luminizer with a light touch to your cheekbones, inner corner of eyes, bridge of nose, browbone and bow of lips for an added natural glow. Layer for additional coverage. Use daily or as needed.
Warning: For cosmetic use only. If irritation occurs discontinue use. Store below 30°C / 86°F. Special care: External use only. Keep out of reach of children. Avoid contact with eyes. Patch test on the inside of the wrist to ensure skin compatibility. Important: refer to koraorganics.com for further information on the use of essential oils. NO Sulfates, Parabens, Synthetic fragrance, Synthetic colors, T.E.A., D.E.A., Glycols, Silicones, PEGS. Ethoxylate and Formaldehyde free.


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I don't want to get you guys all excited but… According to many official sources, Britney will in fact release some new material this year.
She's reportedly working on a brand new album at the very moment. Actually, it makes sense to me since Britney confirmed herself this new CD earlier this year.
Here comes another rumored tracklisting:
01. Baby Tell Me (feat. Kevin Federline)
02. **** Fun
03. Sacred
04. Original Doll
05. Mona Lisa
06. Get Out (Of My Life)
Credit – UBritney.Com


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This page describes package Lisp:whitespace.el, by ViniciusJoseLatorre.
See also: ShowWhiteSpace.
The screenshots below show when WhiteSpace is turned on using the default setting.
This package is a minor mode to visualize blanks (TAB, (HARD) SPACE and NEWLINE).
WhiteSpace uses two ways to visualize blanks: Faces and display table.
?\xB6), at SPACEs (
?\xB7) and at TABs (
'whitespace-style' variable selects which way blanks are visualized.
Note that when WhiteSpace is turned on, WhiteSpace saves the font-lock state, that is, if font-lock is on or off. And WhiteSpace restores the font-lock state when it is turned off. So, if WhiteSpace is turned on and font-lock is off, WhiteSpace also turns on the font-lock to highlight blanks, but the font-lock will be turned off when WhiteSpace is turned off. Thus, turn on font-lock before WhiteSpace is on, if you want that font-lock continues on after WhiteSpace is turned off.
When WhiteSpace is on, it takes care of highlighting some special characters over the default mechanism of
'nobreak-char-display' (which see) and
'show-trailing-whitespace' (which see).
The trailing spaces are not highlighted while point is at end of line. Also the spaces at beginning of buffer are not highlighted while point is at beginning of buffer; and the spaces at end of buffer are not highlighted while point is at end of buffer.
There are two ways of using WhiteSpace: local and global.
'whitespace-global-modes' variable controls which major-mode will be automagically turned on.
You can mix the local and global usage without any conflict. But local WhiteSpace has priority over global WhiteSpace. WhiteSpace is active in a buffer if you have enabled it in that buffer or if you have enabled it globally.
When global and local WhiteSpace are on:
To use WhiteSpace, insert in your
(require 'whitespace)
Or autoload at least one of the commands
'global-whitespace-mode' or
'global-whitespace-toggle-options'. For example:
(autoload 'whitespace-mode "whitespace" "Toggle whitespace visualization." t) (autoload 'whitespace-toggle-options "whitespace" "Toggle local `whitespace-mode' options." t)
WhiteSpace was inspired by:
whitespace.el – Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <firstname.lastname@example.com>
whitespace.el which was replaced by
blank-mode.el (BlankMode). And later
blank-mode.el was renamed to
show-whitespace-mode.el – Aurélien Tisné <firstname.lastname@example.com>
whitespace-mode.el – LawrenceMitchell
visws.el – MilesBader
For good performance, be sure to byte-compile WhiteSpace, e.g.
M-x byte-compile-file <give the path to whitespace.el when prompted>
This will generate whitespace.elc, which will be loaded instead of Lisp:whitespace.el.
WhiteSpace was tested with GNU Emacs 22 and 23.
There is no problem if you mix local and global minor mode usage.
LOCAL WhiteSpace:
M-x whitespace-toggle-options RET
C-u 1 M-x whitespace-mode RET
C-u 0 M-x whitespace-mode RET
M-x whitespace-mode RET
GLOBAL WhiteSpace:
M-x global-whitespace-toggle-options RET
C-u 1 M-x global-whitespace-mode RET
C-u 0 M-x global-whitespace-mode RET
M-x global-whitespace-mode RET
You can also bind
'whitespace-toggle-options' and
'global-whitespace-toggle-options' to some key, like:
(global-set-key "\C-c_w" 'whitespace-mode) (global-set-key "\C-c_t" 'whitespace-toggle-options) (global-set-key "\C-c=w" 'global-whitespace-mode) (global-set-key "\C-c=t" 'global-whitespace-toggle-options)
There are also the following useful commands:
"nl" on modeline).
"NL" on modeline).
The problems, which are cleaned up, are:
'whitespace-style' includes the value
'empty', remove all empty lines at beginning and/or end of buffer.
'whitespace-style' includes the value
'indentation': replace 8 or more SPACEs at beginning of line by TABs, if
'indent-tabs-mode' is non-nil; otherwise, replace TABs by SPACEs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value `indentation::tab', replace 8 or more SPACEs at beginning of line by TABs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value `indentation::space', replace TABs by SPACEs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value
'space-before-tab': replace SPACEs by TABs, if
'indent-tabs-mode' is non-nil; otherwise, replace TABs by SPACEs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value `space-before-tab::tab', replace SPACEs by TABs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value `space-before-tab::space', replace TABs by SPACEs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value
'trailing', remove all SPACEs or TABs at end of line."
'whitespace-style' includes the value
'space-after-tab': replace SPACEs by TABs, if
'indent-tabs-mode' is non-nil; otherwise, replace TABs by SPACEs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value `space-after-tab::tab', replace SPACEs by TABs.
'whitespace-style' includes the value `space-after-tab::space', replace TABs by SPACEs.
WhiteSpace has the following hook variables:
Below it's shown a brief description of WhiteSpace options, please, see the options declaration in the code for a long documentation.
To set the above options you may:
a. insert the code in your
~/.emacs, like:
(setq whitespace-space 'underline)
This way always keep your default settings when you enter a new Emacs session.
b. or use
'set-variable' in your Emacs session, like:
M-x set-variable RET whitespace-space RET underline RET
This way keep your settings only during the current Emacs session.
c. or use customization, for example:
In Emacs 21 or lower:
Help option,
Browse Customization Groups,
Data group,
Whitespace group
In Emacs 22 or higher:
Options option,
Customize Emacs,
Browse Customization Groups,
Data group,
Whitespace group
Through this way, you may choose if the settings are kept or not when you leave out the current Emacs session.
d. or see the option value:
C-h v whitespace-space RET
and click the
customize hypertext button.
Through this way, you may choose if the settings are kept or not when you leave out the current Emacs session.
Thanks to DavidReitter for suggesting a
'whitespace-newline' initialization with low contrast relative to the background color.
Thanks to Stephen Deasey <email@example.com> for the
'indent-tabs-mode' usage suggestion.
Thanks to Eric Cooper <firstname.lastname@example.com> for the suggestion to have hook actions when buffer is written as the original whitespace package had.
Thanks to nschum for the idea about highlight "long" lines tail. See EightyColumnRule.
Thanks to JuriLinkov for suggesting:
'global-whitespace-*' name for global commands.
Thanks to Robert J. Chassell <email@example.com> for doc fix and testing.
Thanks to DrewAdams for toggle commands suggestion.
Thanks to Antti Kaihola <firstname.lastname@example.com> for helping to fix
'find-file-hooks' reference.
Thanks to Andreas Roehler <firstname.lastname@example.com> for indicating defface byte-compilation warnings.
Thanks to TimOCallaghan for the idea about highlight "long" lines. See EightyColumnRule.
Thanks to Yanghui Bian <email@example.com> for indicating a new NEWLINE character mapping.
Thanks to Pete Forman <firstname.lastname@example.com> for indicating
whitespace-mode.el on XEmacs.
Thanks to:
show-whitespace-mode.el (ShowWhitespaceMode)
whitespace-mode.el (WhitespaceMode)
visws.el (Emacs 21)
And to all people who contributed with them.
'whitespace-style' variable specifies which way blanks are visualized.
It's a list containing some or all of the following values:
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'whitespace-line-column' are highlighted via faces.
'lines-tail' (see below).
'face' (see above) is present in
'whitespace-line-column' are highlighted via faces.
'whitespace-line-column' column.
'lines' (see above) is not present in
'whitespace-style' and if
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'indent-tabs-mode' (which see) is non-nil; otherwise, TABs at beginning of line are visualized via faces.
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'indent-tabs-mode' (which see) is non-nil; otherwise, the TABs are visualized via faces.
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'face' (see above) is present in
'indent-tabs-mode' (which see) is non-nil; otherwise, the TABs are visualized via faces.
'face' (see above) is present in
Any other value is ignored.
nil, don't visualize TABs, (HARD) SPACEs and NEWLINEs.
There is an evaluation order for some values, if some values are included in
'whitespace-style' list. For example, if indentation,
indentation::tab and/or
indentation::space are included in
'whitespace-style' list. The evaluation order for these values is:
So, for example, if
indentation and
indentation::space are included in
'whitespace-style' list, the
indentation value is evaluated instead of
indentation::space value.
One reason for not visualize spaces via faces (if
'face' is not included in
'whitespace-style') is to use exclusively for cleanning up a buffer.
The variable
'whitespace-action' specifies which action is taken when a buffer is visited or written.
It's a list containing some or all of the following values:
'whitespace-cleanup' and
'whitespace-cleanup' and
'cleanup' or
'auto-cleanup' is included in
'whitespace-action' and the buffer is read-only.
Any other value is treated as
When WhiteSpace is on and a TAB occupies exactly one column, it will display the character
?\xBB at that column followed by a TAB which goes to the next TAB column. This is due the way the Emacs display engine works.
The situation above is illustrated by the following images:
There are the following possibilities to deal with the situation above:
~/.emacs file:
(setq whitespace-display-mappings '((space-mark ?\ [?\xB7] [?.]) ; space (space-mark ?\xA0 [?\xA4] [?_]) ; hard space (newline-mark ?\n [?\xB6 ?\n] [?$ ?\n]) ; end-of-line ))
whitespace.el file:
(defcustom whitespace-display-mappings '((space-mark ?\ [?\xB7] [?.]) ; space (space-mark ?\xA0 [?\xA4] [?_]) ; hard space (newline-mark ?\n [?\xB6 ?\n] [?$ ?\n]) ; end-of-line ;; WARNING: the mapping below has a problem. ;; When a TAB occupies exactly one column, it will display the character ;; ?\xBB at that column followed by a TAB which goes to the next TAB ;; column. ;; If this is a problem for you, please, comment the line below. ;;(tab-mark ?\t [?\xBB ?\t] [?\\ ?\t]) ; tab ) ......
tab-mark value from
whitespace-style variable, that is, don't use TAB display table mapping.
Please, put here your comments, suggestions, doubts, improvements, etc.
indentation::space - bug or am I a newbie?
I have indentation::space in my whitespace-style, and expected it would cause leading TAB characters to be highlighted, but it seems to highlight 8 or more leading spaces. I thought that would only be done by indentation::tabs ??? Other style settings seem to work as I expected from the documentation.
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whitespace doesn't work with emacs-22.1.90, the pretest version, because the c function characterp is only part of the cvs trunk.
Martin -- parozusa at web dot de
Hi. I really like this new and improved Blankmode. But there are a couple things to clarify: 1) How do I completely disable the use of tab characters, and use 4 spaces instead? 2) How do I turn off a single option? For example, how can I disable the 'newline' representation only?
Finally, as well as asking questions, I have one suggestion for the 80-column rule. Try drawing a box around the chars on a line > 79 chars in length. IMHO, that makes the problem more obvious than highlighting the whole line. Example:
(setq my-long-line-face (make-face 'my-long-line-face)) (set-face-foreground 'my-long-line-face "red") (set-face-background 'my-long-line-face "grey3") (set-face-attribute 'my-long-line-face nil :box"green")
then for usage:
(defun c-mode-add-keywords (mode) (font-lock-add-keywords mode '(("\t+" (0 'my-tab-face append)) ("^.\\{79\\}\\(.+\\)$" (1 'my-long-line-face append))))) Thanks, -Tennis
tab-width variable should be set to
whitespace-style variable. For example, to disable newline visualization, just eliminate the
newline symbol from
whitespace-style, or call
lines-tail symbol. Please, see
whitespace-style documentation.
'indent-tabs-mode' and
'tab-width' settings from user are honored.
Hello, whitespace fail to show newlines on ubuntu with :"GNU Emacs 184.108.40.206 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2008-03-07 on iridium, modified by Debian". All the content of my files is diplayed on one line until i turn off newline with the "n" option. It work fine on my other machine (gentoo) with same files and emacs 184.108.40.206 also. Some thing is missing (not in whitespace) but i can't figure what. Any idea ? Thank you.
I have been successfully using (fromerly blank-mode.el and now) whitespace.el for a while now on Windows-based GNU Emacs, including 22.3. I appreciate it very much. Thank you!
I just tried using whitespace.el on x86-64 Fedora 9-based GNU Emacs 22.3 & 22.2. All space and tab characters are displayed as a rectangle, which is apparently one tab-width without regard to where the next tab-stop would naturally occur. The perimeter of each rectangle is the foreground color, surrounding the core of the rectangle/tab-width which is the background color. AFAIK, I have it installed and configured and loaded-via-.emacs the same way as I have successfully used on my Windows-based GNU Emacs 22.3. The main installation act that I use is brute force: I replace the entirety of the Rajesh Vaidheeswarran whitespace.el in /usr/local/share/emacs/22.3/lisp that was provided with GNU Emacs with yours and byte-compile to whitespace.elc. (I am having a different problem with blank-mode.el that I have described over on that wikipage.) – Dan'l Miller
~/.emacs file for Fedora environment:
(setq whitespace-display-mappings '((space-mark ?\ [?.]) (newline-mark ?\n [?$ ?\n]) (tab-mark ?\t [?\\ ?\t])))
'.' and TAB as
Hello, I am trying to use whitespace-mode under Mac OS X 10.5.6. I am getting the following horrible display while using Carbon Emacs(22.3.1) or Aquamacs(22.3.1):
However, it works well under Emacs.app (23). Therefore, the modification to make it works under Emacs 21 and 22 seem to have some problem which I don't know how to solve. Regards. – Gustavo Delfino
I'm having the same display issue with whitespace-mode under Mac OS X 10.5.6 using Carbon Emacs. Anyone know how to fix it? – Eddie
Display of centered dot, etc. did not work on my Unicode terminal until I replaced all glyphs in whitespace-display-mappings with their Unicode equivalents: e.g. [?\xB7] becomes [?\u00B7]. Otherwise it tried to send a literal #\xB7 to the terminal, which resulted in a rectangle. – JimUrsetto
(setq whitespace-display-mappings '((space-mark ?\ [?\u00B7]) (newline-mark ?\n [?$ ?\n]) (tab-mark ?\t [?\u00BB ?\t])))
Hi Vinicius,
I tested these settings no Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.6 and they seem ok.
I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 and I have the following setting for whitespace-mode.
;; Whitespace mode. (require 'whitespace) (setq whitespace-style '(empty lines-tail tabs tab-mark trailing))
I have issues with the 'empty' marker. When am I writing a new source code, whitespace mode marks the 'empty' line with yellow background face as I press have an empty line after the last line. That is fine. However, when I start typing the first non-empty line after the prvious empty line, I expect the mark to go away. But, it doesn't and it stays forever until I go to the beginning of the buffer and edit something. This is a big distraction for me. I am not sure if this is a whitespace mode issue, or I am doing something wrong. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
I am making Whitespace mode honor the setting for fill-column with:
(add-hook 'whitespace-mode-hook
(lambda () (set (make-local-variable 'whitespace-line-column)
I don't think there is a solution to this on a local, per-buffer basis with
'whitespace-line-column' documentation.
In GNU Emacs 23.2.1, cursor movement in c++-mode with whitespace-mode is sloppy. When I keep pressing the arrow keys, or C-f/C-b; C-p/C-n, the cursor doesn't move smoothly. It just jumps discretely. However, when I turn off the whitespace-mode, the cursor movement is smooth again. Does anyone else face this issue?
I also experience the problem that cursor movement becomes very unresponsive in cc-mode or LaTeX-mode (auctex) in combination with whitespace-mode. This is so serious that it prevents me from turning whitespace-mode on permanently. After changing to fundamental-mode the cursor becomes responsive again in the same buffer, even though whitespace-mode is still active. I experience this problem with whitespace.el 12.1 in both emacs 23.1 and 23.2. Any ideas?
– Christoph
The slowdown in 12.1 seems to come from the new whitespace-post-command-hook function, which looks like it triggers refontification when moving around in a buffer. I've temporarily overriden the hook by throwing
(defun whitespace-post-command-hook() nil)
into my .emacs.
– Jeremy
I'm using global-whitespace-mode on emacs 23.2.1 but it seems to only work when I open files. If I create a new buffer, or manually change my highlighting mode, whitespace mode no longer has any effect. I need to disable it and re-enable it for it to work. I'm also using LineNumbers, and whitespace mode affects the spaces next to the numbers. Is there a way I could disable that?
whitespace-global-modes variable. For example, if a C++ buffer is opened (
C-x C-f test.cpp RET) the global WhiteSpace highlighting works. NOTE: the buffer
test.cpp in the previous example does not have a file associated.
emacs -Q?
linum.el file). One possible solution for the blank visualization next to the numbers could be to use one of the following settings:
(setq linum-format (format "%%05d%c" ?\x200B))
(setq linum-format (format "%%d%c" ?\x200B))
?\x200B is a zero width space which is not highlighted by WhiteSpace.
(add-hook 'linum-before-numbering-hook (lambda () (let ((w (length (number-to-string (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)))))) (setq linum-format `(lambda (line) (propertize (concat (truncate-string-to-width "" (- ,w (length (number-to-string line))) nil ?\x2007) (number-to-string line)) 'face 'linum))))))
I have a file containing zero width space characters (unicode code point U+200B). Any idea how I can get a visual feedback where they are? I tried to customize whitespace-display-mappings of whitespace.el like this:
(defcustom whitespace-display-mappings '( (space-mark ?\x200B [?\xB7] [?.]) …
But I still don't see it. Normal spaces are displayed as intented by whitespace.el.
– Flo
whitespace.el source file. So, you should terminate the current Emacs session (
C-x C-c), start a new Emacs session, open the modified
whitespace.el source file, evaluate the buffer (
M-x eval-buffer RET), open the file which contains
?\x200B characters or insert these characters in a file, and, finally, turn on WhiteSpace (
M-x whitespace-mode RET). The
?\x200B characters should be marked.
setq instead of
defcustom, reevaluate the region containing
setq (
M-x eval-region RET), go to the file containing
?\x200B characters, turn off WhiteSpace (because it is using the old
whitespace-display-mappings value), and turn on WhiteSpace (now use the new
whitespace-display-mappings value).
Hi! I have what I think is a bug with whitespace-newline-mode in Emacs 24. When I start it with -Q and then do M-x whitespace-newline-mode twice, it does not get disabled. I discovered this because I tried to duplicate the source of whitespace-newline-mode to make a whitespace-longline-mode mode, and originally thought it was my own bug. It appears it isn't. – Sarah
Yup, looks like a bug. Please file a report:
'M-x report-emacs-bug'. – DrewAdams
If you also use Desktop.el to save and restore your sessions, then a word of warning about using global-whitespace-mode: Because the enabled modes for each buffer are saved in the desktop file and those modes are re-enabled at restore time, global-whitespace-mode is evaluated for each buffer which is restored; and because running global-whitespace-mode is an expensive operation which processes every current buffer, this becomes an o(n^2) operation over the course of the desktop restore, and absolutely kills the performance for large sessions.
whitespace.el should probably provide some custom support for the desktop library. See the help for the desktop-minor-mode-handlers variable, and the commentary in desktop.el.
One option would be to enable whitespace-mode for each buffer instead of global-whitespace-mode. Another would be to just register that global-whitespace-mode was enabled, and use desktop-after-read-hook to enable it once only. I would think the latter is probably the preferable approach.


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Despite NEVER having won a single Emmy or Golden Globe ("What the f**k did I do?"), it's fair to say that The Wire is now considered one of the greatest TV dramas ever made. And it's already been eight years since we said goodbye to the many worlds inside Baltimore.
There may have been a particular hierarchy in The Wire that could see the smallest street urchin have a knock-on effect on the Mayor or Police Chief, but how have the show's actors fared since its finale in 2008?
Yes, we know what you're thinking - there are FAR too many regular actors in The Wire to include them all, so we've narrowed it down to the Top 20 most successful to date:
20. Lawrence Gilliard Jr (D'Angelo)
He played one of the show's most interesting characters in the first two seasons of the show before being bumped off in prison, and after a few years of minor appearances on TV and film, he made a comeback as Bob Stookey in The Walking Dead for seasons four and five.
19. Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris)
Since playing terrifying bodyguard Chris, Gbenga has had recurring roles in The Good Wife and Damages, had a lead role in 24: Live Another Day and most recently featured in Independence Day: Resurgence.
18. Wendell Pierce (Bunk)
Ask anyone for their favourite Wire character and McNulty's trustworthy boozing partner Bunk would be up there. Since then, Wendell has had many TV roles, in particular as trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme, and currently Teddy in the CBS sitcom The Odd Couple with Matthew Perry.
17. Michael Potts (Brother Mouzone)
He may have only appeared in a few episodes, but he stole the show as dapper hired killer Brother Mouzone. Since then, Michael starred in the first Broadway production of The Book of Mormon and was one of the detectives in the present day scenes in True Detective's first season.
16. Clarke Peters (Freamon)
Clarke has stayed active in a number of TV shows in both the US and UK, including The Wire creator David Simon's Treme, crime drama Person of Interest, legal drama The Divide and even an episode of Midsomer Murders, among many others. He also brought back his 1990 musical Five Guys Named Moe to London in 2010.
15. Andre Royo (Bubbles)
Since playing everyone's favourite tragic addict Bubbles, Andre is best known for his roles in Fringe, Party Down, How to Make It in America and the 2013 movie The Spectacular Now. He currently stars as shifty lawyer Thirsty in Fox's Empire.
14. Tristan Wilds (Michael)
Immediately after playing soft-spoken middle schooler-turned stick-up-man Michael, Tristan landed the role of Dixon in teen drama 90210, appearing in over 100 episodes. He was also the guy in Adele's 'Hello' music video. He released his debut album in late 2013, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.
13. Michael K Williams (Omar)
Actor and dancer Michael earned a legion of fans as suave killer Omar and his trademark whistle. Since then, he has played Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire and Jack Gee in the HBO movie Bessie. He has also had roles in the movies 12 Years a Slave, Ghostbusters and Robocop, and will appear in the upcoming Assassin's Creed film.
12. Chad Coleman (Cutty)
Best known for playing reformed Cutty Wise in The Wire, Chad has gone on to voice Coach in Left 4 Dead 2 and he played axe-wielding Tyreese for several seasons of The Walking Dead. He currently stars in the Syfy series The Expanse and appeared in the History Channel's re-imagining of Roots.
11. John Doman (Rawls)
Perhaps still best known for playing McNulty's gruff boss Rawls, John has since landed several memorable recurring roles in top shows including Borgia, Gotham, Person of Interest, House of Cards and The Affair.
10. Lance Reddick (Daniels)
After playing by-the-book Deputy Commissioner Cedric Daniels, Lance has popped up all over the place, including as the mysterious Matthew Abaddon in Lost, and Phillip Broyles in Fringe. He has also featured in smaller roles in the movies White House Down and John Wick among others.
9. Pablo Schreiber (Nick)
Before he was best known for playing dirty guard 'Pornstache' in Orange Is the New Black (for which he got an Emmy nod), he was Nick Sobotka in season two of The Wire. He also starred in the HBO series The Brink, had a leading part in Michael Bay's 13 Hours movie and had a regular role in Law & Order: SVU. He will soon appear in Bryan Fuller's anticipated series American Gods.
8. Chris Bauer (Frank)
The other Sobotka has also gone on to score big TV successes, most notably as bumbling Sheriff Andy Bellefleur in True Blood in all seven seasons. He most recently featured as Detective Tom Lange in The People vs OJ Simpson and will next appear alongside James Franco in The Deuce.
7. Seth Gilliam (Carver)
After a number of one-off TV episodes, Seth eventually landed the recurring role of Dr Deaton in Teen Wolf in 2011. Even better than that, he joined the cast of The Walking Dead as Father Gabriel Stokes in 2014, and will return for another season later this year.
6. Reg E Cathey (Norman Wilson)
Veteran character actor Reg has had a huge resurgence in recent years, largely thanks to his acclaimed role as Frank Underwood's former favourite rib shack owner Freddy in House of Cards, for which he received two Emmy nominations. He has since also appeared in the Fantastic Four reboot, and currently stars in the horror TV show Outcast.
5. Aidan Gillen (Carcetti)
Already a familiar face in the UK thanks to Queer as Folk, Aidan's career has gone from strength to strength since his Wire days. On TV, he has featured in Irish drama Love/Hate and BBC thriller Mayday, and of course he has played scheming Littlefinger in Game of Thrones since it began. On film, he has also had roles in Calvary, The Dark Knight Rises and the Maze Runner movies.
4. Amy Ryan (Beadie)
While still appearing as McNulty's on-off partner in The Wire, Amy was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Helene McCready in Gone Baby Gone. She has since had roles in the movies Changeling, Win Win, Goosebumps, Bridge of Spies and Birdman. She also had a regular role as Michael Scott's dorky girlfriend Holly Flax in The Office.
3. Dominic West (McNulty)
He was almost Bond at one point, and was a big-ish name in the UK before landing the role of McNulty in The Wire. Since then, Dominic has continued to land impressive and acclaimed roles in TV and film, including winning a BAFTA for playing Fred West in Appropriate Adult. Other projects have included The Hour, Burton & Taylor, Finding Dory and The Awakening. He currently stars as Noah Solloway in the critical hit The Affair.
2. Michael B Jordan (Wallace)
Tragic Wallace didn't hang around long, but even then you could see a spark in actor Michael B Jordan. His later TV roles included quarterback Vince Howard in Friday Night Lights, Reggie in All My Children and Alex in Parenthood. He eventually made the leap to Hollywood, playing shooting victim Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, the Human Torch in Fantastic Four and Adonis Creed in Creed. Other roles have included Red Tails, Chronicle and That Awkward Moment, and he will soon appear in a second remake of The Thomas Crown Affair and Marvel's Black Panther.
1. Idris Elba (Stringer)
You may have had no idea that suave drug baron Stringer Bell was actually played by a Londoner at the time, but we all know it now. Big Dris has truly become the breakout star of the whole show, most notably for playing Detective John Luther in the BBC's Luther. He has also portrayed Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom, and appeared in the movies American Gangster, Thor, Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Zootopia, Finding Dory and The Jungle Book among others. He has been tipped by many to become the first black James Bond, and also does a spot of DJ-ing every now and then. This year, he was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World.


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Tiger Woods' doctor, suspected of providing athletes with performance enhancing drugs, is under FBI investigation
A Canadian doctor who has treated many N.F.L. players as well as Olympic medalists like Donovan Bailey and the world's top golfer, Tiger Woods, is under criminal investigation in the United States.
He is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to several people who have been briefed on the investigation.
The F.B.I. investigation of Dr. Anthony Galea, a sports medicine specialist who has treated hundreds of professional athletes across many sports, follows his arrest on Oct. 15 in Toronto by the Canadian police. Human growth hormone and Actovegin, a drug extracted from calf's blood, were found in his medical bag at the United States-Canada border in late September. Using, selling or importing Actovegin is illegal in the United States.


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KORN bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu has joined forces with members of METALLICA, SLIPKNOT, MACHINE HEAD, DISTURBED, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and HATEBREED to record an instrumental song to benefit DEFTONES bassist Chi Cheng.
As some of you may know, Cheng is currently in a semi-conscious state following an automobile accident in Santa Clara, California on November 4, 2008. Chi is slowly making progress but he needs your help.
Cheng's brother wrote in an online post that Chi's insurance company had stopped paying for his treatment in mid-January. His mother posted that Cheng's house was returned to the bank and his dog was given away.
You can support Chi and his family by heading over to the A Song For Chi site where you can download your free copy of the song, watch the music video and — most importantly — make a donation. 100% of the donations will go to Chi and his family to help cover his ongoing medical expenses.
The following musicians make an appearance on the recording:
Jim Root (SLIPKNOT)
Sid Wilson (SLIPKNOT)
Ray Luzier (KORN)
Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu (KORN)
Dave McClain (MACHINE HEAD)
Robert Trujillo (METALLICA)
Clint Lowery (SEVENDUST)
Morgan Rose (SEVENDUST)
Brian "Head" Welch (ex-KORN)
James "Munky" Shaffer (KORN)
Wayne Lozinak (HATEBREED)
Wuv (P.O.D.)
Mike Wengren (DISTURBED)
Adam Dutkiewicz (KILLSWITCH ENGAGE)
The track was produced by Fieldy and Q (STILLWELL) and was engineered by Q and Ralph Patlan. It was mixed by Jim "Bud" Monti.
The video clip below was directed by Sébastien Paquet.
For more information, visit the A Song For Chi site.
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BRENDAN Rodgers last night admitted Celtic lacked "courage and belief" in Russia as they crashed out of the Europa League at the hands of Zenit St Petersburg.
The Scottish champions were a shadow of the team which won the first leg and nobody could complain about the 3-0 defeat on a night when the home side were in total control after taking a seventh-minute lead to level the tie.
Rodgers did not attempt to dress up yet another away game in which his team did not show the same attributes as they did in Glasgow and if he did not know it already, his squad are short of where he would want them to be well into his second season as manager.
Read more: Celtic keeper Dorus de Vries insists he was not to blame for Zenit's 'nightmare' second goal
"Defensively we lacked aggression, particularly in the first half," said a dejected Rodgers.
"We didn't close the space quickly enough. "The corner is one that can happen, we were blocked off, they worked it well and found the space. Branislav [Ivanovic] is outstanding in the air. The second goal, we didn't engage quick enough from the throw-in. We're too deep and have to press the guy who was shooting. But at 2-0, we still have an opportunity in the game. Everything was too sideways and backwards. That's about bravery and having that courage to play.
"With so many young players in the team, you see the contrast from last week. We started the second half okay but, again, we concede possession too cheaply and they work the ball round for a cross. We should never concede that type of goal.
Read more: Zenit 3, Celtic 0: Scots crash out of Europa as same old mistakes blight European campaign
"We were much better than them in the first leg. If we played with a little bit more courage and belief tonight, we could maybe have got a result."
Celtic have now gone 12 away games in the Europa League without keeping a clean sheet, and this defeat was the heaviest n the competition since the 1991 5-1 loss to Neuchatel Xamax in Switzerland.
The night belonged to Zenit and their delighted manager, Roberto Mancini.
He said: "Celtic are a strong team but we played a beautiful game. We played very well, scored goals and made chances. For 75 minutes we did not give Celtic any chances."


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Shelton High graduate wins Hull Road Race on Thanksgiving Day
A 2009 Shelton High School graduate won the Commodore Hull Thanksgiving Day 5k Road Race on Thursday morning.
Bobby Giuliani, who now lives in West Hartford, crossed the finish line a few seconds before Tim Milenkevich of Ansonia, who had won the race last year.
"I feel happy," Giuliani said after the race. This was his sixth year running the course. "Tim beat me the past three years," he said. "It's been a real good rivalry."
Giuliani's finishing time was 15:05. He is now is studying to become a physical therapist at the University of Hartford.
The top female finisher was Lauren Flament of Shelton. Her time was 19:17.
This was the 13th year for the Commodore Hull Race. The five-kilometer course was altered slightly this year due to the storm on Wednesday, with runners staying mostly on Canal Street in Shelton and the Derby Greenway, rather than traversing streets in the two downtowns.
About 750 runners participated in the race, which raises money for the Boys & Girls Club of Lower Naugatuck Valley. The course began and ended at the Riverwalk in Shelton.
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By Pension and Benefits Editorial Staff
A nursing home employee who exhausted 12 weeks of FMLA leave during the last few months of 2016 for medical conditions related to an ultimately unsuccessful pregnancy, and was then fired 11 days after she requested additional leave to recover from a hysterectomy, sufficiently alleged violations of the FMLA and pregnancy discrimination under Title VII. A federal court in Pennsylvania found it plausible that the employer utilized a calendar-year method for calculating FMLA leave, thereby entitling the employee to 12 more weeks of FMLA-protected leave. Moreover, the close temporal proximity, combined with the fact that the employer had responded to her original request for intermittent pregnancy-related leave by requiring her to take full-time leave, allowed a reasonable inference of discrimination based on her pregnancy-related medical condition. The employer's motion to dismiss was denied.
Required to take full-time leave. On August 1, 2016, the employee requested intermittent FMLA leave in order attend medical appointments related to her pregnancy. On August 31, the employer informed her that she would be required to take a full-time leave of absence until she delivered the baby, which was due in March 2017.
Ordered to return. She unfortunately lost her child due to medical complications, and in mid-October requested to remain out of work until December 5 in order to deal with her medical issues. At the end of November, she asked to extend that leave until December 28. Sometime later, she asked for another leave extension until January 16, 2017. The employer denied this latest request and told her that she had to return to work on December 30.
Terminated following hysterectomy. On December 23, the employee notified the employer that she had undergone a hysterectomy on December 14 and indicated that she was unable to return to work immediately. The employer subsequently terminated her on January 3, 2017. She then filed this lawsuit asserting that her termination violated the ADA, the FMLA, and Title VII. At issue was the employer's motion to dismiss her FMLA and Title VII claims.
FMLA interference. Declining to dismiss the employee's FMLA interference claim, the court rejected the nursing home's contention that her FMLA interference claim failed as a matter of law since the FMLA guarantees only 12 workweeks of leave and the period during which the employee was on unpaid leave (between August 31 and January 3) exceeded that amount. Therefore, the employer unsuccessfully argued, the employee was not deprived of any rights to which she was entitled under the FMLA.
While the employee was clearly away from work for more than 12 weeks, the court could infer that the nursing home was utilizing a calendar-year method of calculating FMLA leave and that therefore she was entitled to 12 more weeks of FMLA leave in 2017, despite exhausting her 2016 benefits. Therefore, she plausibly alleged that the nursing home interfered with her right to take that leave.
FMLA retaliation. The court also rejected the nursing home's contention that the employee's FMLA retaliation claim failed as a matter of law because she failed to allege a causal link between her invocation of her FMLA rights and her termination. As with her FMLA interference claim, the court must construe the employee's December 23 communication to the employer, in part, as a request for 2017 FMLA leave. If the timing of her termination 11 days later was not "unduly suggestive" on its own, a reasonable jury could consider other alleged circumstances to infer retaliation, including the employee's extensive medical leave in 2016.
Pregnancy bias. She also plausibly alleged a causal link in support of her pregnancy discrimination claim. On December 23, she notified the employer that she was unable to return to work because of a recent hysterectomy, which was required because of medical complications arising from her unsuccessful pregnancy. Eleven days later, she was fired. That close temporal proximity—combined with the fact that the nursing home responded to the employee's request for intermittent pregnancy-related medical leave by requiring her to take full-time leave—could allow a reasonable jury to find that the nursing home discriminated against her on the basis of her pregnancy-related medical condition.
SOURCE: Stahl v. Susque View Home Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (M.D. Pa.), No. 4:19-cv-0003MWB, June 21, 2019.
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We're glad that you will be joining us for the Southern Regional Meeting of Health Councils on April 1 in Las Cruces, held in conjunction with the NM Public Health Association's Conference, April 1-3.
Location: New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum
4100 Dripping Springs Rd, Las Cruces, NM 88011
Draft Agenda
12:30pm Check in
1:00pm Welcome and Introductions
1:15 -2:15pm Presentation 1 – Asset Mapping Your Community Resources
2:15-2:30pm Break and snacks
2:15 – 3:00pm Peer to Peer Presentations
3:00 – 3:45pm Charting Our Futures
3:45 – 4:00pm Wrap Up, Evaluations, and Adjourn
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Travel Reimbursement: For health council members who are traveling from at least 175 miles outside of Las Cruces, we will reimburse hotel and travel costs up to $100 for one person from each health council.
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Archive for April 2019
Ring that bell!
In the blog post announcing the generous gift from Dr. Ruth Alison, I wrote that here in the Crieff Hills office we needed a bell to ring when happy news arrives. Well, the sound of bell ringing has begun, thanks to a thoughtful friend of Crieff Hills. When Gord walked into our office carrying a…Read More


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WILMINGTON – In the first few months of 2017, the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Brandywine Hundred received several threats, disrupting its services and causing a sense of unrest. Father James Kirk, pastor of the Catholic parish closest to the JCC, St. Mary Magdalen, thought it would be educational to invite a local rabbi to the school for a wide-ranging discussion.
So on April 4, Rabbi Michael Beals of Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington joined Bishop Malooly as they talked about the relationship between Judaism and Catholicism, and they answered several questions from students at St. Mary Magdalen School.
"We've had some craziness in our community," Father Kirk said. "The rabbi is a good friend and a neighbor."
Rabbi Beals grew up in California and has been a rabbi for 20 years. He moved to Delaware in 2004 to lead Congregation Beth Shalom, which is located near Brandywine Park. He and his wife and their two children live close to St. Mary Magdalen.
He explained that Jews and Catholics both believe in one God, and Bishop Malooly added that a lot of what students at St. Mary Magdalen and other Catholic schools are taught in theology is from the Old Testament and the Jewish tradition.
"There are a lot of clear connections between our brothers and sisters who are Jewish," he said.
With that, the floor was turned over to the students, who came prepared. The first questioner wanted to know the difference between the titles "rabbi" and "bishop."
"'Rabbi' simply means 'teacher,'" Rabbi Beals said. "I look at Jesus as a teacher, so I see Jesus as a colleague and a friend.
"I'm no closer to God. I'm not any holier than you."
What that title means, he continued, is that he is qualified to pass on knowledge of Judaism.
"Bishop" comes from the Greek and means "overseer," more of a centralized leader.
Both Rabbi Beals and Bishop Malooly said faith remains important in the world. The rabbi said he sees people cutting faith out of their lives, and it worries him.
"Our job is to make faith as accessible as possible. I think it is a very lonely life that doesn't have faith involved," he said.
Bishop Malooly said one of the reasons he is so supportive of Catholic education is the faith component. Children need that foundation, he said.
Rabbi Beals was asked why Jewish boys are considered adults at age 13, when most go through their bar mitzvah. He called it "a brilliant question," saying theoretically that is when a boy could become a parent, although he strongly suggested that they don't. At that age, he explained, boys should be responsible for keeping Jewish laws and traditions.
Another student wanted to know what the Jewish synagogue experience was like.
The rabbi said Jews pray three times a day, and in a previous time Jews made sacrifices three times a day. The Sabbath is a big day for them, with services that can last several hours.
"You'd better get comfortable," he joked.
Their services include readings from the Torah and secondary texts. The only qualification to conduct a service is knowledge, so his daughter will do as much of her own bat mitzvah as possible.
Each of the religious leaders was asked about his inspiration to devote his life to his faith. Bishop Malooly spoke about his days as an altar boy in Baltimore and how much he admired one of the priests of his childhood.
"I became a priest because I felt God called me," he said.
The rabbi told a story about his mother, who grew up in the Bronx, N.Y., in an area filled with Jews and Italian Catholics. She saw how many Jewish people were marrying outside the faith and worried about Judaism's future; worldwide, there are only about 13 million Jews. That stuck with Rabbi Beals, who was 29 and working in Los Angeles at the time. He added that there is a selfish reason for becoming a rabbi.
"I get to meet really super-neat people," he said, "and I am never bored."
Before the session ended, Father Kirk asked the bishop and the rabbi what can be done to end situations that lead to threats like those against the JCC.
Rabbi Beals said get-togethers such as St. Mary Magdalen's are very helpful. He suggested the students "go out of your comfort zone" to get to know people not like themselves and to put their religious teachings into action.
"You can't be innocent bystanders when people are being treated badly."
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Bino and Fino is an African educational & entertainment brand for children between the ages of 3 and 6. The cartoon already has a growing band of loyal fans from all over the world. It is produced by premier Nigerian animation studio, EVCL.
Currently most Nigerian and African broadcasters import over 95% of their children's cartoon programs. This means our children are watching an unhealthy balance of foreign shows. This is resulting in a loss of local culture, language and heritage amongst younger generations. The Bino and Fino cartoon project has been created to help counteract this dire situation.
The main Bino and Fino project goal is to entertain, educate children globally whilst exposing them to important and positive aspects of Nigerian/African culture. That is why the project is important.
Bino and Fino is being produced in Abuja, Nigeria by EVCL. We are one of the country's leading animation production studios and are proven specialists in this field of media production. We are focused on leading and developing the young animation production sector in Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa. One only has to look at the success and influence of the Disney corporation to understand the massive potential of this sector.
We are the first Nigerian company to wholly create, develop and produce an indigenous Nigerian children's cartoon and sell it in U.S., U.K. and European markets. That is the Bino and Fino cartoon. In the future we intend to create a suite of innovative Nigerian media products for the entertainment of young children, teenagers and young adults. '
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A unique Italian Flag Fan! A multi-colored brocade with an Elizabethan design, edged with gold lace, makes up the 6 x 8 inches flag portion. The wooden handle is painted with metallic gold enamel and measures approx. 18" in length from ball at top of flag to bottom ball. One of a Kind! Each fan's lace and fabric will vary slightly from the picture since that particular one has been sold.
Made to Order - Please allow 4 - 6 weeks for delivery. Once its turn comes up on the production schedule it takes a week to actually make the fan. When it is finished and has another 24 hours to dry, it will be shipped via USPS Priority Mail - Insured for safety and so that you will receive your package in 2-3 days once it is posted, plus you can track your package on-line.
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HISTORY NOTE: The Italian Flag Fan (also called "key fan" and "weathercock fan") was very popular in Italy during the Renaissance, especially in Venice. Called the "ventarola" in Italy, these fans were constructed of fabric (either painted or embroidered), plaited straw and parchment. They had handles of wood, metal and ivory. The more ornate ones were carried by older married women or matrons, while the newly married or betrothed ladies carried cream, ivory or white ones.
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Only fire departments that are members of HFSC's free Built For Life Fire Department Program can apply for the stipend. (If your department isn't one, sign up today.) More than 2,500 departments have already committed to making home fire sprinklers a focus of their community outreach.
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