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GOP Senator Wants Donald Trump to Veto COVID-19 Aid Bill Without Additional Stimulus Payments
BY Brandon Gage	December 7, 2020
Lawmakers on both sides of the political fray are expressing their opposition to another COVID-19 financial relief bill that does not include an additional round of $1,200 stimulus payments.
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Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that "it is unacceptable that the proposal does not even do what the CARES Act did and provide, at the very least, a $1,200 direct payment to working-class Americans and $500 for their kids. Tens of millions of Americans living in desperation today would receive absolutely no financial help from this proposal. That is not acceptable."
Faiz Shakir, Sanders' former presidential campaign manager, said that "getting the $1,200 direct payments to workers during this unprecedented crisis should be a slam dunk. Sen. Hawley seems to understand that, and Sen. Sanders will talk to anyone to get this done."
Similarly, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted on Friday that "COVID relief needs to directly help everyday people. People need stimulus checks & UI."
COVID relief needs to directly help everyday people.
People need stimulus checks & UI.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 4, 2020
"Canada did $2,000/monthly," AOC tweeted shortly thereafter. "The US is the richest nation on earth and a 2nd stimulus check is getting blocked bc GOP want corporate bailouts & austerity in 'exchange' for it. Maybe if everyone in the US incorporated as an LLC, Mitch McConnell would actually do something for them."
Canada did $2,000/monthly. The US is the richest nation on earth and a 2nd stimulus check is getting blocked bc GOP want corporate bailouts & austerity in "exchange" for it.
Maybe if everyone in the US incorporated as an LLC, Mitch McConnell would actually do something for them.
That sentiment crossed over into Republican ranks on Monday.
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has encouraged President Donald Trump to veto any proposal that does not include direct payments to cash-strapped American families, Politico reported on Monday.
"I said, 'I think it's vital that any relief include direct payments, and I'm not gonna vote for it if it doesn't.' And I also urged him to veto any bill that did not have direct payments in it," Hawley recalled in an interview.
"We had a good conversation about it. And, you know, a pretty thorough conversation. He asked a number of questions about the state of play of the different proposals. And I think it's fair to say that he was surprised at the direction that some of these were headed," said Hawley, who added that helping individuals should be prioritized over corporate entities.
"Working families and individuals ought to be first for COVID relief, and then we'll talk about everything else. I see some of these comments about 'well, we just don't have any money left over,'" Hawley said. "We don't have money left over for people? We can give it to state governments, to businesses, but we don't have any money for people? I just think that's crazy."
Meanwhile, the White House stated that Trump is fully cognizent of the immediate importance of getting money into the pockets of struggling Americans.
"President Trump understands that Americans are hurting and need relief, which is why the White House continues to engage with those in congressional leadership who are serious about moving quickly to approve billions in aid," Judd Deere, a spokesman for the Trump Administration, told Politico.
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Posted by Jo in Photos, The so-called "Good Life".	Tagged: bailey, brini, chicken, cooking, eggs, fergie, grow your own, kune kune, perky, pig, scrumpy, tia, vegetables.	Comments Off on What a day!
It started well enough, a bit chilly, but not enough to make me want to put a jumper on. Why would you, when the sun was shining bright in the sky for the first time in, well, ages?!
I started feeding the pigs, but only made it as far as Perky, Fergie, Scrumpy and Brini when I discovered that Brini was lame. Her appetite wasn't diminished: in fact, I spotted her limping when she had finished her food and was making her way over to steal Perky's!
Using the offer of a belly rub as bribery, I persuaded her to lie down and examined her off fore leg (front right), suspecting a thorn. The thick mud obscured things somewhat, so I tentatively cleaned it off, all the while keeping up the belly rubs with my other hand, wishing (not for the first time) that I had an extra set of hands. However, it came as a shock to discover the true cause of her lameness. Not a thorn, but a deep cut where she (or one of the others) had obviously trod on her foot in the night.
Unfortunately, the only mud-free (ish) patch of land was Tia and Bailey's enclosure, to the east of the field, where they were helpfully grazing down the long grass before winter. What's more, there was a large area to the west of their enclosure, which could be incorporated into the pen by adjusting the electric netting. This would be perfect for Brini, as the long grass was still wet with the morning dew, which would do a great job of cleaning the cut out naturally, making my job that much easier.
Oh well, the electric fence is on, the battery has been recently charged, and they'll just have to put up with the mud for another week. *Gulp*!
Moving the six pigs and adjusting two hundred metres of electric netting took me over two hours so it was late in the morning by the time I had the opportunity to re-examine Brini's foot. As I'd hoped, the long wet grass did a wonderful job of cleaning the cut and it was virtually mud free, and that meant I was able to see that there was no blood and that the cut was the porcine equivalent of cutting the skin around your nail. Painful, but not as bad as cutting anywhere else on the finger.
Even better, the heat and swelling had both gone down considerably (so much so that I had to double check I had the right foot) and watching her walk, it was evident that the she was feeling much better, as she wasn't limping nearly as much as she had been.
I (finally) headed back to the feed shed, checked the chickens, who were most indignant at being ignored for so long, popped to the loo (note to self: always, always go before feeding the pigs!), grabbed my wonderful Purple Spray, and walked back to the pigs, intending to settle Brini down and spray her foot to (hopefully) kill off any infection that may be lurking.
As plans go, that one sucked. Scrumpy wanted belly rubs, Fergie wanted belly rubs, Perky wanted belly rubs … Brini told me to go to hell. And continued to do so for the rest of the day. I know because I went back every hour or so and the pattern was the same. Every other pig was thrilled with the idea of belly rubs in the afternoon sun. Not Brini. In fact, she was so determined that she never did get her belly rub and I never did get to inspect and spray her foot!
Having said that, not only did she make a break for Perky's food again that evening, but she actually ran after me when she got a whiff of the contents of the their veggie bucket and realised that bananas were on the menu.
I'm hoping that yesterday's recovery continues and that her foot heals itself without any further problems – or infection. I'll obviously try again today, hoping that it's not a case of bolting the stable door after the fact, and will keep all fingers crossed for a speedy and trouble-free recovery.
And the rest of the day? Well, having lost the whole morning, in the afternoon I culled and plucked the three bantam cockerels, checked Brini, cleaned out the chicken houses, moved the Pekins and Silkies out of the horrible old wooden ark and back into the Eglu, which had been acting as a temporary broiler ark for the boys, collected the eggs (four today, bringing the total for 2009 to an astonishing 1003!), checked Brini, cut the grass around the chickens' electric netting, had a very late lunch, checked Brini, walked the dogs, dug up a row of potatoes, checked Brini, cut up the pigs' fruit and veg, fed the chickens, fed the pigs, checking Brini one last time as a I did so, then headed for home, knowing that I still had the three chickens to draw and one to cook, putting the other two in the freezer.
I decided to try poached chicken, intending to make a chicken and vegetable broth. B's away at her parents, so although I know the broth was missing something, I don't know what that something was (B's a skilled cook, I just cook…). It was still tasty though, and there's plenty in the freezer, not to mention some extra stock!
I eventually fell into bed with a well-deserved bowl of chicken broth at about ten o'clock.
Ok, so maybe the sun didn't shine yesterday, but boy, was it hot on Sunday!
Brini and Scrumpy enjoy their fresh grass. I moved the pair (and Fergie and Perky!) onto new ground on Sunday afternoon.
Molly the Pekin bantam has started laying her eggs in the grass outside. Thing is, she's laying in the grass in the big chickens' run, not her own!
Wow, as of New Year's Day, my hens have laid 600 eggs!
Peggy Sue, the Pekin x Silkie who hatched in November, is yet to even think about laying, but her "sister", Molly the pure Pekin bantam, has been laying for a couple of weeks now – they are very weeny eggs, but perfectly formed nonetheless. It's good to know that I've got a pure Pekin daughter of John and Dolly, in addition to Peggy Sue, and it looks as though one of the other pure Pekin chicks from the April lot is also female. Fingers crossed!
B and I had a bit of a piggy-surprise when we arrived at the farm yesterday, but I'll blog about that later.
When B went to check feed the chickens and collect any eggs, she came back with a puzzled expression on her face and one by one produced the eggs she'd found. A double-yolker, two standard sized eggs and a teeny weeny egg, about the size of a quail's egg!
By the end of the day, all six laying hens had popped one out, the two exceptions being Mama Silkie, who has got chicks, and Dolly, who is broody.
Left to right: a double-yolker by either Speckle or Dawn, Irene's egg, Dawn or Speckle's egg, Buffy or Willow's egg, Silly Silkie's egg, the mini-egg by either Willow or Buffy.
The mini-egg didn't have a yolk, just the white, but we used the four big eggs (including the double yolker, yum yum) to make scrambled eggs, which we had with Sosage de Harold (hmm, another blog post I need to write). A delicious, home grown meal!
Judging by the colour, the mini was definitely laid by either Willow or Buffy, but thanks to the piggy events of the morning, we never got a chance to egg-watch to find out once and for all who is laying which eggs. Typical, really, as all five bigger chooks laid. Ah well, better luck next time!
For a while now, at least one of the hens has been laying very soft-shelled eggs, not that many, maybe once a week. Sometimes, the shell is missing altogether, so the egg is just in its membrane. Whoever lays these eggs rarely does so in the nest box, preferring the roosting bars in the Cube!
Last week, I decided to take action and removed the chickens' corn feeder, leaving them with just layers' pellets, as well as some grit. The pellets and the grit contain all the minerals and vitamins the hens need to keep them healthy and happy, as well as providing the necessary calcium to keep the egg shells nice and hard.
I thought this had done the trick, as the week went by with not a soft shell in sight, leading me to think that whoever had been laying the soft shells had just been lazy, stuffing themselves on corn, which tastes nice but doesn't do much for them, leaving no room for the pellets.
I didn't clean the Eglu and Cube out on Thursday but when I did it yesterday, I found not one but two soft shelled eggs! One was wobbling like jelly in its membrane on the roosting bars but the other one was cracked open in the tray, presumably laid the day before as the yolk was practically glued to the poop tray!
So I've given them back their corn, which the others were thrilled about, and am now scratching my head as to what to do next. Trouble is, I'm not sure who the culprit is. If it's one of the two young hens, it's not a problem as new layers take a while to get to grips with laying and things like soft shells and double yolk eggs are common problems. Not that I view double yolkers as a problem, but you get what I mean!
However, I don't think the pullets are the problem when it comes to soft shells, especially as the double yolkers are becoming increasingly rare. And it's not Irene. Which means it's either Willow or Buffy. My money has always been on Buffy but I'm not so sure now. Buffy's been an extremely sporadic layer recently, but yesterday afternoon, after I'd discovered the broken eggs, I caught her in the nest box, looking as though she wanted to lay. She hadn't and although I've just realised that I forgot to check when I shut them up, I don't think she laid anything at all. Which means that Willow is the most likely suspect. Which is not good, as she's been looking a bit ropey recently, but since she was laying nice eggs without any problems, I thought she was ok. But if she's laying the soft eggs, then maybe there's a problem after all.
In other chookin news, Dolly Parton, our Pekin bantam hen, has gone broody and nothing seems to be putting her off, even dunking her bum in a bucket of cold water! I've given up and just make sure I turf her off her nest two or three times a day so she gets some food, water and a chance to scratch around. She's got a long, long wait for any eggs to hatch: (a) Mama Silkie and her three chicks are in the broody ark so Dolly's got nowhere to go; (b) I don't want any more bantam chicks; and (c) I haven't got a cockerel to fertilise the big chicken eggs. Well, there's Flint the other Pekin bantam cockerel, but I think he's a bit weeny to do the job!
EU egg labelling law under threat!
As you're munching your way through your Easter eggs this weekend, take a moment to consider the needs of battery hens.
The EU Commission is discussing the possibility of scrapping compulsory labelling of egg packs in favour of a voluntary scheme. Compulsory labelling by method of production has been an important contributing factor in the decline in demand for battery eggs, meaning that fewer hens in the EU endure a life of confinement.
Read more here and then please, please take a moment to send an email to Mariann Fischer Boel at the EU's Commissioner for Agriculture.
And remember to base your email on the template or write your own completely. If you use the template as-is, it lessens the impact.
I've been trying to work out which hen lays which egg but never seemed to be in the right place at the right time. But I got lucky yesterday and found Speckle, the Warren x Buff Orpington who hatched last July, in the nest box. She hadn't laid yet but I kept popping back and eventually struck a yolky gold! Irene (Dorking x Light Sussex) was leaving the nest box when I arrived the second time but I already know what her eggs look like – and hers was sitting next to what had to be Speckle's. I popped back a while later, just on the off chance, and caught both Dawn (Buff x ?) and Willow (one of our two older Buff Orpington hens) in the nest box. I kept an eye on the girls and Dawn left first so I put my hand under an indignant Willow and removed my prize. A huffy Will popped hers out a short while later and I know now which eggs are laid by the bigger hens! Buffy didn't lay yesterday but as she's also a Buff Orpington, hers shouldn't look any different to Willow's, though she is laying very big at the moment.
This is great news as I can now keep Speckle, who was sired (is that the right term for chickens?) by Fat Boy, our resident Buff Orpington cockerel, without worrying that I'll put one of her eggs, fertilised by Fat Boy, under a broody hen. Hurrah!


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A Graphic Biography
By: Vincent Delmas, Francois Kersaudy
Foreword by: Andrew. Roberts
Illustrated by: Alessio Cammardella, Christophe Regnalt
'A full and wholly fair representation of the most adventurous life in the history of British politics..there is not a word I would have changed in the text of this excellent graphical account' - Andrew Roberts
'A wholly original and fresh approach to historical biography. Churchill would have been delighted to be a comic book hero!' - Phil Reed, Emeritus Director, Churchill War Rooms
'A novel and riveting re-telling of the Churchill legend' - Professor Gary Sheffield
Sir Winston Churchill is considered one of the most important figures of the 20th Century.
This innovative graphic biography tells his extraordinary story, from his upbringing, through his military exploits and experience of the First World War, to his pivotal role in the Second World War. It explores the details of Churchill's life within its historical and political context and brings the story to vivid life with precision, clarity and stunning visuals.
With a foreword by leading Churchill historian Andrew Roberts, the biography is followed by a series of information pages on Churchill and the War, providing further background to the story and the opportunity to explore some of the ideas in the book in more detail.
Beautifully drawn, bursting with facts and highly accessible, this graphic biography will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Churchill's incredible career and important legacy.
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Tomorrow marks the kick off of Nanowrimo! I'm filled with nerves and anxiety about it. I'm not anywhere near as prepared as I ought to be and I'm already looking at the goal of 50,000 words with some serious side eye.
But I'm ready to take the leap and go for it. I enjoy the challenge and, after almost 6 months with basically no productivity on the creative front, I'm excited to have the chance to get some work done. I know that I am not going to end November with a ready-to-be-published novel, but with something kind of a mess and needing a lot of help. But that's part of the writing process.
First drafts are almost always a messy affair that requires a whole lot of work to turn into the polished shiny novel that eager readers scoop up. Nanowrimo is the chance to turn off that inner critic and just sprint the novel race. Some days you might limp along, barely walking, and some days you may run a 7 minute mile of words, the thing is you keep moving and writing. I know a lot of people who don't participate in Nanowrimo because they think anything they produce during the sprint of November isn't going to be worth anything. But, for me at least, the point of Nanowrimo isn't just to create, it's to build the habit of writing. It's to commit to and finish a goal.
I'm nervous as hell about this year's attempt. Every year I've committed to the 50,000 word dash, I've made it, and last year I wrote almost 90,000 words in November. But this year has been a slow slog through the muck of some serious depression and a lack of motivation. I've struggled to finish much of anything and I'm scared I won't make it to the finish line this year. But I know I'm not doing this race alone, there's a whole group of people here with me to help cheer me on. We're a team and that's an incredible soothing thought.
Writing can be a very solitary endeavor, and it;'s one of the things that I struggle with the most. Nanowrimo is the chance to build your tribe of writers to support you through the good and the bad. Everyone starts the race with the same blank page in front of them and rather than competing to finish the race first, the goal is to help everyone cross the finish line with you. It's one of the reasons I keep coming back to Nanowrimo year after year, the friendships formed as we all write our hearts out for the same goal.
So, do whatever you need to do to get ready for the race of the year. I've prepped some meals, figured out the times (I hope) I'll be able to write with minimal interruptions and I'm working on deciding what I'll get as a reward for reaching my goal. I'm totally not above using briberry to get myself writing.
So, whether you doubt you can meet the goal or if you're an old pro positive that this will be a piece of cake, don't be afraid to take the dive and get involved in Nanowrimo, it's not too late to sign up and join in on the adventure. And even if you aren't in the race, take the chance to encourage everyone who might be. Sometimes all someone needs is a hopeful voice shouting louder than all their own doubts.
So, my fellow Nanowrimo-ers, come hell or high water, we are here and we are ready to write.


HOUSTON -- World Kidney Day is today and it's also Kidney Awareness Month.
With nearly 115,000 Americans on the National Transplant Waiting List and 22 Americans dying every day while waiting for a transplant, the need for organs is vastly greater than the number of organs available through deceased donors.
Living organ donations help bridge this gap, serving as the fastest option with the best results to save a life now! The Living Bank works to educate the public on the benefits of living organ donation to ensure that more Americans become heroes and give the gift of life. Because 82% of these 1115,000+ people, alone, are waiting on a kidney, much of the Living Bank's focus specifically surrounds living kidney donations.
Kathleen Wood and her son William know about the excruciating wait. Fortunately, Kathleen was able to donate her kidney to William, when he was only 6-yrs-old. They joined CW39's Maggie Flecknoe to talk more about their special bond and why The Living Bank is truly life saving.
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©2007 Publications International, Ltd. The Rooster quilt block depicts a classic country image.
Fuse rooster body to background square. Fuse beak, comb, wattle, wing, and feet to rooster. By hand or machine, appliqué all fused pieces using narrow blanket stitch.
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Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias (died 193) was the mistress (182–193) and one of the assassins of Roman Emperor Commodus. Marcia was likely to have been the daughter of Marcus Aurelius Sabinianus Euhodius, a freedman of the co-emperor Lucius Verus.

Commodus' favourite mistress
Before Marcia was Commodus' mistress, she was the lover and mistress of one of his cousins, Senator Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus, and subsequently a wife of his servant Eclectus.  In AD 182, Lucilla, the sister of Commodus, convinced Marcia to join in a plot with Quadratus to kill Commodus. The plot was discovered and both Lucilla and Quadratus were executed. Marcia managed to escape charges, and after Commodus' wife Bruttia Crispina was exiled and murdered due to adultery, Commodus chose not to marry again and took Marcia as his concubine.

Marcia had Christian sympathies and persuaded Commodus to adopt a policy in favor of Christians, and kept close relations with Pope Victor I.  After Victor gave her a list she had asked for including all of the Christians sentenced to mine works in Sardinia, she convinced Commodus to allow them to return to Rome. Despite the fact that Marcia was not Commodus' legal wife, he treated her like one and was thus greatly influenced by her. The inscription found in Anagnia testifies that the local city council decided to build a monument, commemorating particularly the restoration of baths on her account.

Assassination of Commodus
To celebrate the Roman New Year in AD 192, Commodus decided he wanted to make an appearance before the Roman people not from the palace in traditional purple robes, but from the gladiator's barracks, escorted by the rest of the gladiators. After telling his plan to Marcia the night before, she begged him not to behave so carelessly and bring disgrace to the Roman Empire.  Commodus, upset by Marcia's reaction, then told his plan to Aemilius Laetus, the Praetorian prefect, and Eclectus, his servant.  After they, too, tried to dissuade him, he became furious and put their three names on a proscribed list of people to be executed the next morning, along with prominent senators.

While Commodus was taking a bath, his favorite servant boy Philocommodus (whose name is a symbol of Commodus' fondness for the boy) found the tablet on which the list was written and ran into Marcia while holding the tablet.  Marcia took it from him, thinking she was protecting a document from potentially being ruined, and in horror saw her name at the top of the list. According to Herodian, she cried out, "Well done, indeed, Commodus. This is fine return for the kindness and affection I have lavished on you and for the drunken insults which I have endured from you all these years. A fuddled drunkard is not going to get the better of a sober woman".

She met with Laetus and Eclectus, and the three of them decided they had to kill Commodus in order to save their own lives. Usually Marcia would give the emperor his first drink after his bath so he could have the pleasure of drinking from his lover's hand. It was easy, then, for her to mix poison into the wine. After drinking the wine, he became so ill that his vomiting would not cease. The three conspirators were afraid he would vomit up all the poison, so they ordered Narcissus, a young athlete, to strangle Commodus for a large reward.

After Commodus was murdered, Marcia and Eclectus married, but she was soon killed by Didius Julianus in AD 193.

See also
 Claudia Acte
 Antonia Caenis
 Galeria Lysistrate

References

Primary sources
Cassius Dio, Roman history, The Loeb classical library; 454–455. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1961/69, p. 73f., 6–7. .
Herodian, The Loeb classical library; 454–455. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, [1969/70, 16.2-3 to 17.9-11. .

Secondary sources

Champlin, Edward (Summer 1979).  Notes on the Heirs of Commodus.  The American Journal of Philology 100: 288–306.
Gage, J.  Revue des etudes latines.  Paris, France: Societe d'edition "Les belles lettres", 1923.

Lightman, Marjorie and Benjamin Lightman.  Biographical dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman women: notable women from Sappho to Helena.  New York:  Facts On File, 2000.  Page 157.
Roos, A.G. (1915).  Herodian's Method of Composition.  The Journal of Roman Studies 5: 191–202.
Salisbury, Joyce E.  Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world.  Santa Barbara, California: Abc-Clio, 2001.  Pages 205–207.

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"Signs" is a song by Canadian rapper Drake. It was released as a single on June 23, 2017. It was launched in tandem with Louis Vuitton's SS18 collection for Paris Fashion Week

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 40 – production, songwriting, recording
 Supa Dups – additional production, songwriting
 Drake – songwriting, vocals
 Young Thug – songwriting
 Ashante Reid  – songwriting
 Noel Campbell – mixing

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Israeli Ministers Unanimously Approve Bill to Legalize West Bank Outposts
The vote on the so-called 'Formalization Bill' took place against the backdrop of an earlier confrontation between Netanyahu and Bennett.
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A boy sits near an Israeli flag atop the roof of a vehicle at the entrance to the settler outpost of Amona in the West Bank, October 20, 2016.Credit: Ronen Zvulun, Reuters
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation unanimously approved on Sunday a bill that would retroactively legalize outposts in the West Bank, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's objection and Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit's position on the issue.
AG: Court Will Refuse to Delay Amona Evacuation if Outpost Bill Approved
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Mendelblit told committee members that the bill contradicts international law and that he would be unable to defend it in the High Court of Justice. The bill would have to pass several readings in the Knesset to become law.
The vote took place against the backdrop of a confrontation between Netanyahu and Habayit Hayehudi chairman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett. Bennett demanded that the vote take place on Sunday, while Netanyahu objected to this and called the move "childish and irresponsible."
"They're trying to gain a moment, while we're trying to obtain a postponement by the court," Netanyahu said.
The controversial bill to retroactively legalize outposts built on private Palestinian land, also known as the "Regulation Bill," would see the state expropriate the right to use private Palestinian land rather than take ownership of it. The law would only apply to settlements in which the government was involved in their establishment. This process will allow the settlers living there to use the argument of having acted in good faith. Palestinians who prove their ownership over such land will receive financial compensation.
Following the vote, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman also criticized the timing.
"Anyone who fears for the future of the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria understands that at this moment the most important thing is to coordinate positions with the new American administration," he said, referring to the West Bank.
"This is the first time there's a right-wing government in Israel, a Republican president and a Republican majority in the Senate and Congress, so facts on the ground must not be created and the incoming administration must not be embarrassed," Lieberman said.
Earlier on Sunday, during a coalition heads meeting to discuss the bill, Lieberman told Bennett that he is "endangering the future of the settlement enterprise on an electoral whim." Following arguments, Bennett and fellow Habayit Hayehudi lawmaker Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked left the meeting without reaching an agreement.
At a meeting of Likud ministers that took place earlier in the day, Netanyahu said that he would like to delay the vote on the bill and wait least until the High Court of Justice rules on the state's request to delay the evacuation of the illegal outpost of Amona, currently slated for December 25.
The Justice Ministry responded to the vote's approval.
"The attorney general presented tonight to the prime minister and to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation his legal opinion regarding the formalization bill, according to which the bill allows the expropriation of private property contrary to Israeli law and in a way that is inconsistent with the State of Israel's obligations under international law.
"Furthermore, the attorney general presented to the prime minister and the committee members that the bill is inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the rule of law, in that it contradicts the duty of state authorities to respect the rulings of the judiciary in individual cases," according to the ministry.
After the bill was approved, Bennett said that "the State of Israel began today a historic move to regulate the settlement in Judea and Samaria. I congratulate the prime minister and his party's ministers, who bore the responsibility required of a right-wing government and voted in favor of realizing the national vision. With determination and governance, we will continue to fulfill the objectives we were elected for."
Meretz chairwoman Zehava Galon also responded to the bill's approval in the committee.
"The government gave in to the extreme right, and is enacting a law bypassing the High Court that is meant to legitimize a theft that has already taken place, the robbery of land belonging to Palestinians. The formalization bill isn't meant only to regulate Amona, if it passes – illegal construction of more houses built on private Palestinian land will be legitimized in the same way. The Israeli government's ministers don't give a damn, not only for the High Court, but also for the prime minister, only to carry favor with a group of law-breaking settlers," she said.
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Last year at an Ecology Project International fundraiser, I was the lucky winner of an auction for a seven-day cruise for two to the Galapagos. The Galapagos! Islands of exotic animals! Swimming with sea turtles!
I asked my partner in crime, Emily, if she'd like to go with me. She was ecstatic. She had lived in Ecuador as a student, but at the time couldn't afford to go to the Galapagos. We looked at our calendars and picked a few dates in May that we wanted to book.
I called the boat tour company in January and asked for our first choice of dates. Nope, they were booked. I asked for our second choice. Booked then, too. Before I could ask for a third choice of dates, the tour operator told me the first available tours were in August. August?!?! Eight months away? I guess other people like to plan in advance. We booked a tour for late August.
Emily and I talked about booking plane tickets to Ecuador, but never really got around to it. We were planning to get together this weekend and I said, "Come over! Let's book our plane tickets!" We figured out how many days we wanted to spend in Quito before going to the islands and what days we wanted to travel. We booked our flights from San Francisco to Quito and return. From Quito, however, we needed to get to the Galapagos Islands. There are a few airlines that fly that route: TAME, Avianca, and Lan Ecuador. We chose Avianca since it's part of Star Alliance. Unfortunately, you can't book Avianca domestic flights online. Emily called the airline, and I listened as they conversed in Spanish, "…talk, talk, talk, numbers, numbers, dates…" Silence. "Solomente? En Augusto?" She turned to me. "There's just one flight left with seats available, at 6:30 am." "Really? For August?" She nodded. "Book it!" She talked some more, arranging the internal domestic flights. When she hung up, again, I was somewhat flustered. Who plans this far in advance?
We decided since we were in a planning mode, we would book our accommodation for our three nights in Quito. We perused several residences on Airbnb, finally settling on one that was centrally located and decorated with brightly colored rugs. We sent a message to the host, checking availability for August. This morning, she replied that she doesn't make reservations more than two months in advance.
Finally! My type of gal!


Spent three days (36 hours) cleaning up and preparing the Daniel Benoit family tree for import. The tree had 35 people that I had, but adds a great deal of detail and breadth to the section. More time should be spent gathering more information not imported. About 1000 people were added.


P-ing down, and peas up!
With the weather breaking over the last couple of days and a couple of decent downpours, the garden is looking a little bit greener – and the peas plants are making an appearance. The spinach too is beginning to come through, and the onions and potatoes continue to make excellent progress. Still nothing to show for the carrots or parsnips in the raised beds though.


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Cool-jams Inc. launched in 2007 with its specialty sleepwear during a time of economic decline and when many across the nation were suffering from sleepless nights. Since its launch, Cool-jams has doubled sales and profits every year, and at its current growth rate expects to surpass $1 million in sales this year.
Anita Mahaffey, CEO, recognized a niche in the $2.7 billion U.S. sleepwear market, primarily targeting baby boomers, both men and women with a collection of quick-drying, anti-bacterial travel pajamas as well as pajamas for people who become overheated at night due to a variety of causes including menopause, warm climates, chemotherapy, cancer, anxiety, certain medications, obesity, thyroid problems, pregnancy, nursing and basic problems with body-temperature regulation.
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In this work I am going to outline a research approach for investigating concepts on legged locomotion with the help of bio-inspired hardware systems such as legged robots and prosthesis. I will explain why hardware models of biomechanical gait concepts are not just a nice feature but do also provide a scientific tool to demonstrate and prove the value of the conceptual insights. Hardware models share properties of conceptual models (being simplified and human-made) and of the biological system (being realistic). Thus they provide a valuable column of the bridge connecting real biological locomotion from conceptual computer simulation models and theories on legged locomotion. With assistive devices this approach can be taken one step further, namely by applying the constructed concepts to the human body and by investigating the interactions between human movement and constructed concept of this very same human motion.


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Q: Showing that an equation of a curve in the plane defines a surface in $R^3$. A generalized cylinder is a ruled surface for which teh rulings are all Euclidean parallel. Thus there is always a parametrization of the form
$$\mathbf{x}(u,v)=\beta (u)+v\mathbf{q} \;  (\mathbf{q}\in \mathbb{R^3}).$$
Prove: If $C:f(x,y)=a$ is a Curve in the plane, show that in $\mathbb{R^3}$ the same equation defines a surface $\mathfrak{C}$. If $t\to (x(t),y(t))$ is a parametrization of $C$, find a parametrization of $\mathfrak{C}$ that shows it is a generalized cylinder.
I'm having difficulty proving this statement. Since the equation only contains two variables, I don't know how to extend this to $R^3$ space. I would greatly appreciate some help.

A: The curve $C$ is defined by a level-set function $f(x,y)$ as
$$
C := \big\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2\, \big|\ \  f(x,y) = a \big\}.
$$

Note that the function $f:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ is defined on a two-dimensional domain; therefore you cannot use this function for describing anything in $\mathbb{R}^3\!$. However, you were asked to define a surface using the same equation. So, technically what you do is you define an extension of $f$ in $\mathbb{R}^3\!$. Very often people abuse notations and use the same symbol for the  extension and for original function. For the sake of clarity, let us avoid this common practice here.

Define the extension  $F: \mathbb{R}^3 \to \mathbb{R}$ of $f$ into $\mathbb{R}^3$. This extension can be defined as $ F(x,y,z) : = f(x,y)$. Then, define generalized cylinder as the following set:
$$
\mathfrak{C} := \big\{(x,y,z)\in \mathbb{R}^3\, \big|\ \  F(x,y,z) = a \big\}.
$$
Using definition of $F$, we can write
$$
\mathfrak{C} := \big\{(x,y,z)\in \mathbb{R}^3\, \big|\ \  f(x,y) = a \big\} .
$$
But then
$$
\mathfrak{C} = \big\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2\, \big|\ \  f(x,y) = a \big\}
\times  \big\{z\in \mathbb{R} \big\} = C \times P,\tag{*}\label{0}
$$
where $P := \{z\in \mathbb{R} \} $ and $\times$ stands for Cartesian product.
Observe that

*

*$C\in\mathbb{R}^2 $ is a plane curve, i.e. a $1$-dimentional smooth manifold embedded into $\mathbb{R}^2\!$,

*$P \sim \mathbb{R}$ is a straight line, which is also a $1$-dimentional smooth manifold, we have

*$C \not\subseteq P$ and $C \not\supseteq P$  because $P$ is orthogonal to the plane of $C$.

In this way, our cylinder $\mathfrak{C}$ is defined as a Cartesian product of smooth manifolds of dimensionality $1$. Therefore $\mathfrak{C}$ is itself a smooth manifold of dimension $2$ embedded into $\mathbb{R}^3\!$!
Now we only have to derive parametrization of $\mathfrak{C}$.
First, recall that any  plane curve $\gamma$ can parametrized in $\mathbb{R}^2$ by a smooth map
$$
\gamma : I \to \mathbb{R}^2,
$$
where $I\in\mathbb{R}$ is some interval ( a non-empty connected subset of $\mathbb{R}$) and $\gamma(t) =  \big[\,x(t),\, y(t)\, \big]'$.
Since we need the parametrization in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we can use extension of $\gamma$ and define a new parametrization
$$
\beta(t) =
\begin{bmatrix}
x(t)\\ y(t) \\ 0
\end{bmatrix}
: I \to \mathbb{R}^3, \qquad \text{ where } \quad
\gamma(t) =
\begin{bmatrix}
x(t)\\ y(t)
\end{bmatrix}\tag{1}\label{1}
$$
Second, denote $\vec{n} = [0,0,1]$ — the unit normal vector for domain plane of $C$.
Then $P$ can be parametrized in $\mathbb{R}^3$ by the map $\mathbf{v}: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^3$
$$\tag{2}\label{2}
\alpha(s) = s\,\vec{\mathbf{n}} =
\begin{bmatrix}
0 \\ 0 \\  s
\end{bmatrix},
\quad s \in \mathbb{R}
$$
Finally, combining parameterizations $\eqref{1}$ and $\eqref{2}$ in the Cartesian product expression $\eqref{0}$ for $\mathfrak{C}$, we get the following parametrization for generalized cylinders:
$$
\mathbf{r}(t,s) = \beta(t) + \alpha(s) = \beta(t) + s\,\vec{\mathbf{n}},
$$
where $t\in I\subset\mathbb{R}$, $s\in\mathbb{R}$, $\beta(t)= \big[\,x(t),\, y(t),\, 0\,\big]'$, and $\vec{\mathbf{n}} = [0,0,1]'$

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Written by: Christian Cameron
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Series: The Long War, Book 5
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rage of Ares
The Long War, Book 6
Arimnestos of Plataea was one of the heroes of the Battle of Marathon, in which the heroic Greeks halted the invading Persians in their tracks, and fought in the equally celebrated naval battle at Salamis. But even these stunning victories only served to buy the Greeks time, as the Persians gathered a new army, returning with overwhelming force to strike the final killing blow. For the Greeks, divided and outnumbered, there was only one possible strategy: attack. And so, in the blazing summer of 479 BC, Arimnestos took up his spear one final time at the Battle of Plataea.
Poseidon's Spear
Arimnestos of Plataea is a man who has seen and done things that most men only dream about. Sold into slavery as a boy, he fought his way to freedom - and then to everlasting fame: standing alongside the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon where the Greeks crushed the invading Persians. Sometimes, however, a man's greatest triumph is followed by his greatest sorrow. Returning to his farm, Arimnestos finds that his wife, Euphoria, has died in childbirth, and in an instant his laurels turn to dust. But the gods are not finished with Arimnestos yet.
Arimnestos of Plataea grew up wanting to be a bronzesmith, like his father. Then, in the chaos of war, he was taken to a city in the Persian empire and sold as a slave. To win his freedom he had to show that he could fight and kill. Now, to preserve that freedom, he must kill again. For the Persians are coming. A vast army sent by King Darius to put down the rebellious Greeks and burn the city of Athens to the ground. Standing against them on the plain of Marathon is a much smaller force of Athenians, alongside their Plataean allies. To defeat such overwhelming force seems impossible.
The Great King
The heroic story of Arimnestos of Plataea continues - a thrilling historical adventure set amid the epic struggle between Greece and Persia - perfect for fans of the blockbusting film 300. Slave, pirate, husband and lover: Arimnestos of Plataea has been many things in the course of his life. But men remember him best as one of the heroes of the Battle of Marathon, the epic victory that prevented all of Greece from falling under the Persian yoke. But now there is a new Great King on the throne, determined to succeed where his father failed.
Killer of Men
Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the property of a rich citizen.
The New Achilles
Narrated by: John Telfer
Meet the greatest Greek general you've never heard of: Philopoemen. In his day, a leader as skilled and as dangerous as Hannibal: a ferocious fighter, a superb general, and credited as the inventor of modern 'special operations'. More importantly, he was a brilliant political leader. He commanded Greek forces at the turn of the third century BC, when mighty Rome, fresh from the destruction of Carthage, and Imperial Macedon, the greatest power of the day, chose Greece as their battlefield.
A very enjoyable read
By Aurora Simmons on 2019-08-27
Arimnestos of Plataea has already lived through several lifetimes' worth of adventure, from being a rich man's slave in Ephesus to winning glory at the battle of Marathon against the might of the Persian Empire. But the gods - and the Persians - aren't finished with him yet.
As an experienced sea captain - his enemies might say pirate - he has a part to play in the final epic confrontation of the Long War between the Greeks and Persians, the Battle of Salamis. It is a battle where many debts of blood will be repaid, ancient grudges settled, fame won and treachery exposed, where the Greeks must finally bury their differences and fight as one - for against them Xerxes, the Great King, has assembled the greatest fleet the world has ever known, his sworn purpose to brutally extinguish the flame of freedom and make every Greek his slave.
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I didn't like the story because it portrayed itself as a story about Greece but then it turned out to be a story less about Greece or the Greek world and more about love. In Greek stories you have a tragic ending of most of the heroes and their love such as the story about Troy, Oedipus and Jason and the Argonauts. This story was built around more of a fantasy where the hero always gets the girl, along with everything else. In the end that ruined it for me.


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Michal spends his time making films for women... Can he explain himself?
I'm not crazy. I don't make films that are just for women. Like all my art, my movies represent the idea that women should be accepted as equal partners in society worthy of equal respect and consideration. For that to happen, we need to learn how to listen.
I'm learning how to listen to women - even when they're talking complete nonsense. I want to afford everyone the same opportunity to grow that I've been given.
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On the second to last weekend of June, 2011, I had joined my fellow naturists at a gathering of the Naturist Society in rural Pennsylvania. The next day I left on a flight for Europe. By the end of the week I had unexpectedly met another naturist, a woman, who was destined to accompany me on a tour of Europe's great naturist resorts.
Call it an accident. Call it divine will. I was never supposed to meet Margo...if not for one man's random criminal act...another abuse piled upon humanity by a fellow human. A robbery. A purse-snatching of a purse that happened to contain a passport. An assault on the human body. One of society's bad habits that I had come to fight as an artist working for body acceptance.
As an American, I was full of optimism and confidence bordering on recklessness. I was ready to run the wheels off the car I had just bought and eventually I would. As a European, she was cautious and mistrustful. She needed to make sure the air conditioner worked. Which it did. If you knew how to turn the broken knob in just the right way.
I've never been married. I've never been divorced. I've never had kids. I've never lost my kids. That doesn't mean I can't try to understand somebody who has. By listening to Margo during our trip across Europe I started to consider her needs as if they were my own. I may not have been in a position to satisfy all of those needs, but I was able to shut up and put my own needs aside if I had to for at least 6,000 miles. We all need to be listened to and it is the one need that we all have a duty to satisfy. When somebody prays to another human, as a human you have a duty to listen. Humanity needs to start teaching itself that skill.
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One of my poor friends had broken the window, but I had said good evening: I shared in the guilty pleasure of indiscriminate violence. I had said good evening! How rude I must have seemed! How thrilling it was to hear that boom-crack of shattering glass! How freely we ran! How liberated from restraints of conscience!
"I am not a hangman," I said. "I will not be carrying out my own sentence. I am not a judge. I am a servant of the highest court, the one in which the Nation, not the State, must bring the charge, and He who sits in judgment has made me His bailiff. His writ of summons will be delivered and executed only if I can do so with a clear conscience, otherwise it is not meant to be, cousin. Do you understand? I am not on my own side. I am on God's side."
"Was it God who commanded you to tempt Panzer-Tank?"
– Verses 1116-1117 from the chapter called Security
Sometimes I felt I was the only person he was really mocking. As long as he neglected me, of course he was not mine; he was unwilling to amuse me alone and this was the seed of my jealousy. When his stories would offer a sober judgment, breaking the spell of amusement, I would not distinguish his honesty, the proof that he was never simply pandering to taste, that he was perfectly aware of the things he was doing, the effect he had, the minds he swayed.
– Title 1, Regarding Peaches and Bananas, Part 2, Section 5, Falling in Love, Paragraph 5, Clauses 1-3
There are no best things, no best people and no best friends either. Oh my dear brother: those who judge themselves or others according to hierarchies of quality may do so, and with great authority, but only if they acknowledge the arbitrariness of ranking. You know, brother: things I once thought so precious have now paled; people I once felt so strongly, so physically without even touching: they are now like chipmunks or squirrels in the backyard - tall grass itching at one's leg - arousing very little in the way of interest.
– Title 1, Regarding Peaches and Bananas, Part 1, Section 1, Introduction, Paragraph 1, Clauses 1-3
Of course, I thought myself capable of their magic. I believed if I had only had the chance to sit in degustation from a tender age, I would have developed a similar ability. But as we were not privileged with such a Dionysian patrimony, for many years I thought we had been rescued from that dizzying duty of having to taste so many wines (I did not know that one spits).
– Title 1, Regarding Peaches and Bananas, Part 1, Section 1, Introduction, Paragraph 1, Clauses 14-16
Exhibitionists: I was not surprised to learn that they were friends. Anyway, Macy was describing an experience he had with Lynnhaven during a trip to Virginia - "Vas eez thees, lynnhaven?" our cousin had to interrupt.
– Title 1, Regarding Peaches and Bananas, Part 2, Section 4, Meeting a Man in Austria, Paragraph 4, Clauses 4-6
Mary for evening Mass. And so, with a 'Hey, ho!' and 'How resourceful!' off we went skipping across the square. My energy did not last however, and began to fail me sometime around the profession of faith, which I have enough trouble stumbling through without the lightness of head, or the German language for that matter. As you can imagine, when I wasn't sitting I was swaying, and by the prayers of the faithful my mind, still being rather airy, was having trouble reconciling the heaviness of my skull; my neck too had trouble coping, so that for every prayer I was, quite appropriately, hanging my head, but had to muster all my strength for the action of lifting it, which would send it catapulting back, not straight above my shoulders but quite behind them, at which point I would begin mouthing what I believed was the proper response, which, having gratefully ended, would promptly send my head bouncing back to its original position of blissful rest.
The Body Acceptance Calendar
A really good idea for a monthly calendar
If a 45-year-old businesswoman and hard working mother of three kids is going to pose nude for a calendar, it's gonna have to be a good one. Margo didn't start a coffee shop called the Vagina Cafe to win her favors from the establishment. Even as she dishes out prizes to the 20 women who placed last in the twentienth anniversary run of her town's biggest road race, her business, unlike everyone else, doesn't get mentioned. She was an official sponsor for Christ's sake! But the announcer just couldn't swallow his patriarchy and get the words "Vagina Cafe" out of his mouth. That's not something a proper gentleman would say in front of a crowd of humble God-fearing "ladies" who cherish their modesty! And a Body Acceptance Calendar is certainly not what a humble God-fearing book-seller like a Barnes and Noble would put on their shelves! So how do I expect to sell this in the mainstream? Maybe if you download the free versions a thousand billion times it might help. Start downloading.
Despite the commercial shortcomings of a dictionary full of obscure words, the Oxford University Press relied on the research started by the Philological Society for their flagship dictionary for a hundred years. It wasn't until 1998 that the Oxford University Press finally released a major dictionary for native speakers built on current usage.
Wordnik has social features, such as the ability to make comments and themed lists and a record of favorites, but the thing that really distinguishes it from other online lexicographical sites is the fact that it offers you a lot of example sentences.
Since it's first use by the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Sketch Engine has been used daily by the likes of Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Sketch Engine has been brought to us by Lexical Computing Ltd since 2003 and is a great way to study collocation, or the pattern of one word occurring in close proximity to another.
First brought online in 2002, Wiktionary is the language-specific spinoff of the larger Wikipedia project. The online dictionary is notable for relying on both users to submit and edit entries as well as automated computer programs, a result of which is the fact that Wiktionary, unlike most traditional dictionaries, features separate entries for grammatical inflections of a given keyword.
The attempts of volunteer editors to reach consensus over issues such as article deletion would indicate that an encyclopedia, rather than being a comprehensive summation of human knowledge should more appropriately be understood as a cultural dictionary that is subject to the same often contradictory cultural purposes that Webster and other creators of linguistic dictionaries were incapable of avoiding.
The Urban Dictionary is a good example of how digital technology can increase the ability of a dictionary to record language usage while at the same time decreasing its ability to systematically influence the use of a common language through education. Unlike Webster's Dictionary, which sought to simplify language in order to make a common tongue more accessible, the Urban Dictionary encourages language-users to increase the complexity of a language for aesthetic purposes, necessarily decreasing its utilitarian value.
When I last checked, OneLook had 19 and a half million words indexed in over a thousand dictionaries, most of them being specialist dictionaries of no use to folks who aren't looking for a Gaelic homonym for casserole.
The democratic nature of its compilation and features such as vulgarity voting would probably please Webster if he were around to see it, although he might be worried that the very idea of a slang dictionary is leading people astray from the self-improvement and common "federal tongue" he worked so hard to foster.
Its most recent edition contains around 240,000 entries and is used by the United Nations as a spelling authority for international English-language documents.
In response to a major dictionary compiled by Joseph Worcester, Webster's former assistant, Merriam had Webster's work expanded to 114,000 entries and published in 1864 as an Unabridged edition. This edition became so famous internationally that the next edition published by Merriam in 1890 was called Webster's International.
Noah Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut and went on to become a pioneering writer and reformer. He is considered by many to be the founding father of American scholarship and education. His name became synonymous with the idea of a dictionary, but that was long after he was dead. In the beginning, times were rough.
In 1721 a guy named Nathan Bailey came out with a dictionary that contained about 40,000 entries. Johnson's work, with its roughly 43,000 words wasn't that much more comprehensive. What Johnson did do was incorporate a huge amount of quotations to show usage. He was also the first to infuse his work with a little dose of humor.
Explore a free digital scan of Johnson's work at the Internet Archive.
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import com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.LineMarkerInfo;
import com.intellij.codeInsight.daemon.impl.LineMarkersPass;
import com.intellij.openapi.application.ApplicationManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.editor.colors.EditorColorsManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Ref;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import com.intellij.psi.util.PsiTreeUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

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  private PyLineSeparatorUtil() {
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  public interface Provider {
    boolean isSeparatorAllowed(@Nullable PsiElement element);
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        return;
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      final PsiElement parent = element.getParent();
      if (parent == null) {
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        return;
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      info.set(createLineSeparatorByElement(element));
    });
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    PsiElement anchor = PsiTreeUtil.getDeepestFirst(element);
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GLASTENBURY — Game wardens shot and killed an adult male bear Friday on the Long Trail after receiving multiple complaints in one day about a bear that had no fear of humans.
Officials had received multiple complaints in the last two to three weeks from hikers, of a bear who had taken backpacks and come into the Goddard Shelter, a lean-to on the trail, while it was occupied, said Lt. Dennis Amsden, a game warden in the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.
On Thursday, the issue "hit a crescendo," with multiple calls. People reported the bear was taking backpacks, and one caller told said the bear had apparently "charged somebody," Amsden said.
"We were encouraging people to [scare] the bear as much as possible," Amsden said. "But unfortunately, its behavior — it became more brazen."
Cell phone reception in the area was poor, so with the calls Thursday, officials didn't know if the bear had injured anybody. Wardens went directly to the area to see if the bear would come back, but it didn't.
On Friday, wardens returned to the area, and when the bear appeared, it was shot and killed.
"The bear was showing no fear of humans at this point," said Amsden, who was not one of the responding wardens Friday. "Human safety was now at risk, so we felt it was necessary to put the bear down," he said. "The remoteness of the area obviously had some challenges for dealing with it."
In the judgement of the game wardens, the bear had become so "conditioned" — that is, so accustomed to food access — that it wasn't going to stop coming back.
"Once a bear is conditioned at that point, it's probably not a bear that is going to change that behavior," Amsden said. "Over the course of a couple weeks, we saw the bear become more and more of a threat."
Officials will collect biological information from the bear that was killed, pulling a tooth for a biologist to tell the bear's age. This data is important to biologists in tracking populations, Amsden said. They'll also do a "very close" examination of the bear, to see if anything is unusual.
With the warm weather and remoteness of the area, it will be difficult, but game wardens will attempt to salvage meat from the bear, Amsden said.
"We have every interest in trying to salvage the bear and use it as much as we can," he said.
The U.S. Forest Service has had numerous reports of bear sightings throughout June and July, and reports of human encounters with black bears continue to increase across the Green Mountain National Forest, according to a media release from the Forest Service.
Game wardens in Vermont kill "a handful" of bears a year at most, Amsden said. More commonly, they deal with complaints of damage by bear and investigate private citizens' shooting of bears, to make sure it was done legally.
The state has stricter laws for shooting bears than it used to, Amsden said. Members of the public can kill a bear only in certain circumstances, such as in self-defense, or to protect property from being damaged. People who have things that lure bears, like garbage or bird feeders, are prohibited from killing them under the property damage justification. "[That's because] the bear would be there only simply because of the actions of the people," Amsden said.
Usually, Amsden said, game wardens have ways around killing these animals.
"We try our best not to kill a bear," he said. "Almost 100 percent of the time, the reason the bear is there is due to a food source. They're completely driven by their appetite. By removing the food source, usually the problem will go away."
"But occasionally, if the bear has had access to food for long enough — say, from a Dumpster — it might become conditioned.
"The biggest message we like to get across is: don't feed the bears," he said.
It is unsafe for both humans and bears, he said. It is also illegal in the state of Vermont.
"This usually occurs due to conditioning which is caused by humans," Amsden said of situations in which bears are killed. That is, people have been deliberately or inadvertently feeding them.
Officials encourage people to remove food from where bears could get it, including keeping a clean camp — not leaving any food, including condiments, out.
It's also important to store food in bear-resistant containers when out in the wilderness, ideally vehicles, and hang food in a bag at least 10 feet from the ground and 5 feet from tree limbs that could support a bear, Amsden said.
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Protecting from bears while in the wilderness:*
- Always keep a clean camp.
- Don't leave any food (including condiments) out when not in use.
- Store food in bear-resistant units, hard-shelled vehicles or car trunks
- Keep sleeping areas, tents and sleeping bags free of food and odor (like toothpaste and deodorant).
- Don't sleep in clothes you cooked or handled fish or game in.
- If camping the backcountry, hang your food bag at least 10 feet off the ground and 5 feet out from a tree limb that could support a bear, or better yet, pack and use bear-resistant containers.
- If possible in backcountry areas, place sleeping tents at least 100 yards from food storage and cooking areas.
- If hiking with dogs, leave them on a leash.
Protecting homes and property from bears:*
- Feed birds from December to March only.
- Never feed bears.
- Feed pets indoors.
- Store trash in a secure place — shed, garage or basement.
-Do not put trash cans at the curb until pickup day.
- Double-bag odorous garbage and regularly clean trash cans with deodorizer.
- Keep chickens and honeybees secure within an electric fence or other bear-proof enclosure.
If you encounter a bear in the woods:
- If your presence causes the bear to change its behavior — it stops feeding, changes direction or watches you — you're too close. Back away while maintaining eye contact.
- Do not run away, as this may trigger the bear to chase you.
- Never intentionally approach a bear.
If you encounter a bear in your yard:
- Do not approach the bear or attempt to chase it away.
- Make loud noise, such as banging together pots and pans.
- Once the bear has left, determine what attracted it and remove the attractant.
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Rockland Community Church has deep roots in the Rockland community. Rockland, once a distinct community made up primarily of farmers and the land they farmed, is now also home to several world class golf courses and an increasing number of homes. A number of the people who now form Rockland Community Church are related to the original families who farmed the land around us. Many others have moved into the area more recently, attracted by the golf courses, the high quality of life, and the possibility of commuting to jobs in the great Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
In 1948, there were two churches that called the Rockland area home; Rockland Methodist Church and Rockland Baptist Curch. Believing the same basic Christian doctrines and desiring to strenghten the Christian community, the members of both churches joined together to form an interdenominational community church. Anyone who believed Jesus Christ was the Savior was welcomed as members regardless of their denominational background. Today, our church is composed of people from a wide variety of denominations (Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Moravian, Roman Catholic, Non-Denominational, and others) making Rockland Community Church truly representative of the broader Christian community.
Over the years, our church has continued to be active with a choir, youth fellowship groups, Sunday night Bible studies, support of local and foreign missions, prayer groups, and fellowship groups for our men and women. Next door to the church is the Rockland Arts and Crafts Shop which now occupies the small, one room schoolhouse where many of the community children went to school until the 1950s. The old church building (what was once the Methodist church) has been used as an activities center for the church. We also enjoy using our picnic shelter and sports field (we have a hill that we use for our giant slip-n-slide!) Our Easter Sunday Sunrise service is held at the shelter, which makes for an deeply inspirational and very beautiful morning service. The Rockland Cemetery, no longer affiliated with the church, sits just a couple hundred yards from our church. We participate in an annual Memorial Day Sunday service at the cemetery.
Rockland Community Church currently reaches out to the community by supporting many local agencies and programs within the Warren County/Front Royal area. We also support a missionary family and provide for the needs of children through Compassion International.
37 Now when they heard this, They were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" 38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself." 40 And with many words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, say, "Be saved from this perverse generation!" 41 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. 42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
The above passage in Acts gives us some insights into what the Early Church looked like and some of the 'whys' of the rapid spread and receptivity of the Gospel. "Back to the future!" was a very popular motion picture of years past but the title is quite revealing for Rockland Community Church. We are a Church of Christian unity proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ. As we devote ourselves to the teaching and preaching of the Word of God (apostles' teaching), and to real fellowship, and to Communion with Him and one another, and to prayer, God will add to our number. As we concentrate on the priorities noted in this passage, there will be a sense of 'holy awe.' There will be praisng of God, having favor with all people and God will add to our community of faith lives transformed by the power of the Gospel!!


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Wednesday marked "Shine the Light on Domestic Violence Day" in New York State. In Buffalo, local domestic violence service providers gathered on the steps of City Hall to recognize the work against domestic violence.
Robyn Wiktorski-Reynolds is coordinator at Crisis Services. She noted an 11-percent increase in domestic violence cases this year and believes there are more unreported cases.
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Robyn Wiktorski-Reynolds is coordinator at Crisis Services
"We stand here, in solidarity, as domestic violence service providers, urging those who may be watching or listening today who do not feel safe in their relationships, who may be experience physical, verbal or emotional abuse in their relationships, you are not alone," said Wiktowrkski-Reynolds.
Chief Scott Joslyn is with the Erie County Sheriff's Department. Joslyn said last year they responded to more than 1,600 calls related to a domestic dispute.
"Of those calls we responded to, a total of 755 domestic incident reports were filed," said Joslyn.
The Erie County Coalition Against Family Violence, County Sheriff's Department, Erie County Social Services and Haven House also provide assistance to local domestic violence victims.
Crystal Rodriguez leads the City's Commission on Citizens' Rights. Rodriguez said domestic violence does not discriminate.
"I don't care what color you are, but it is not a poor/rich issue. It is not a black/white issue. It is an issue that affects all of us," said Rodriguez.
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LAWRIE WILLIAMS: GLD Rising. Is this the move we've been waiting for?
In a post here a few weeks ago we suggested monitoring inflows or outflows of gold into or out of the big SPDR Gold Shares gold ETF (GLD) as a way of judging big money sentiment on gold (See: Watch GLD for gold price guidance) and for a corresponding gold price direction. And, after a series of consistent gold withdrawals from the ETF, this does seem as if it may have turned around sharply last week at almost exactly the same time as the big fall in the equities markets commenced. Last Tuesday, for example,8.82 tonnes of gold were added into GLD – the first increase since July - and after a couple of days of zero movement in the ETF, another 5.65 tonnes of gold were added into it on Thursday.
These are not insignificant amounts. 14.47 tonnes of gold is equivalent to the annual production of Sudan – the world's 35th largest gold producer last year – and this amount was added only over a 4-day period. This week's GLD figures will thus be particularly worth watching to see if the build-up continues – and if it does watch out!
Many observers have suggested that for a sustained increase in the gold price this would be accompanied by a significant downwards correction in the general equities markets which are seen by many as overbought, with such a correction perhaps overdue and inevitable. But beware of a really big downward move in equities should this happen, as some commentators suggest. Such an occurrence could bring precious metals down in price too as happened in 2008. The prospect of this may have lightened somewhat in comparison with the last big downturn as many institutions are out of any substantial precious metal holdings given they have been somewhat out of favour as an investable asset in the past several months. And even if they do drop in price alongside equities they will likely recover far faster – as in 2008/2009.
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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.contrib.gis.geos import (
    GeometryCollection, LineString, MultiLineString, MultiPoint, MultiPolygon,
    Point, Polygon,
)
from django.db import connection
from django.test.utils import skipUnless
from django.utils.module_loading import import_string
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

from mutant.models import BaseDefinition
from mutant.test.testcases import FieldDefinitionTestMixin

from .utils import BaseModelDefinitionTestCase

class GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin(FieldDefinitionTestMixin):
    field_definition_category = _('Geometry')

    @classmethod
    def setUpTestData(cls):
        cls.field_definition_cls = import_string("mutant.contrib.geo.models.%s" % cls.field_definition_cls_name)
        super(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin, cls).setUpTestData()
        from mutant.contrib.geo.models import GeoModel
        BaseDefinition.objects.create(model_def_id=cls.model_def_pk, base=GeoModel)

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class GeometryFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                                  BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'GeometryFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (
        LineString((1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8), (9, 10)),
        Polygon(
            ((0.0, 0.0), (18, 50.0), (47.0, 55.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
        )
    )

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class PointFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                               BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'PointFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (Point(5, 23), Point(13, 37))

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class LineStringFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                                    BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'LineStringFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (
        LineString((0, 0), (0, 50), (50, 50), (50, 0), (0, 0)),
        LineString((1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8), (9, 10))
    )

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class PolygonFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                                 BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'PolygonFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (
        Polygon(
            ((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 50.0), (50.0, 50.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
        ),
        Polygon(
            ((0.0, 0.0), (18, 50.0), (47.0, 55.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
        ),
    )

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class MultiLineStringFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                                         BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'MultiLineStringFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (
        MultiLineString(
            LineString((0, 0), (0, 50), (50, 50), (50, 0), (0, 0)),
            LineString((1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8), (9, 10)),
        ),
        MultiLineString(
            LineString((13, 7), (18, 50), (50, 50), (50, 27), (110, 0)),
            LineString((1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8), (9, 10)),
            LineString((0, 0), (0, 50), (50, 50), (50, 0), (0, 0)),
        ),
    )

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class MultiPointFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                                    BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'MultiPointFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (
        MultiPoint(Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1)),
        MultiPoint(Point(5, 23), Point(13, 37), Point(13, 58)),
    )

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class MultiPolygonFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                                      BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'MultiPolygonFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (
        MultiPolygon(
            Polygon(
                ((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 50.0), (50.0, 50.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
            ),
            Polygon(
                ((0.0, 0.0), (18, 50.0), (47.0, 55.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
            ),
        ),
        MultiPolygon(
            Polygon(
                ((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 50.0), (50.0, 50.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
            ),
            Polygon(
                ((0.0, 0.0), (18, 50.0), (47.0, 55.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
            ),
            Polygon(
                ((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 50.0), (50.0, 51.0), (50.0, 45), (0.0, 0.0))
            ),
        ),
    )

@skipUnless(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE'] == 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis', 'Requires GIS backend.')
class GeometryCollectionFieldDefinitionTest(GeometryFieldDefinitionTestMixin,
                                            BaseModelDefinitionTestCase):
    field_definition_cls_name = 'GeometryCollectionFieldDefinition'
    field_values = (
        GeometryCollection(
            Point(0, 0),
            Polygon(
                ((0.0, 0.0), (18, 50.0), (47.0, 55.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
            ),
        ),
        GeometryCollection(
            LineString((1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8), (9, 10)),
            Polygon(
                ((0.0, 0.0), (18, 50.0), (47.0, 55.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0))
            ),
            Point(5, 23),
            Point(13, 37),
        ),
    )