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Trying to understand the attachments rest api.
I am currently using the rest api to create instances from one Cherwell instance to another.I want to include the attachments.
I am testing the following using swagger and have questions.
On my cherwell instance I am gathering the attachment information using: Get attachments by Business Object name and record ID
I am doing this with one attachment to get it to work but later I guess I will need to use a collection?
Testing this I see the Request URL. Using a one step I will create this Link?csmweb2t.isd.lacounty.gov/.../Imported
Getting this Response Body... I was thinking that I only need the "Get File" from the Response Body and I would use that to build my request. For example the "Get File" will be the "url": "string"?
The Response:{ "attachments": [ { "attachedBusObId": "", "attachedBusObRecId": "", "attachmentFileId": "94510b89f88fdb243f5dd34dcba4d87a037873cfcf", "attachmentFileName": "C:\\Users\\e406702\\Desktop\\test2.txt", "attachmentFileType": "txt", "attachmentId": "94510b89f346a7b9fd3c4c40f697ced4e361df75ee", "attachmentType": 0, "busObId": "9437f7ea070b26bebb78c74d1cb34b16dd3ea58995", "busObRecId": "94510b843b2071c278a22042858cd6da41a01da50c", "comment": "", "created": "2019-08-15T10:30:51", "displayText": "test2.txt", "links": [ { "name": "Remove", "url": "http://csmweb2t.isd.lacounty.gov/CherwellAPI/api/V1/removebusinessobjectattachment/attachmentid/94510b89f346a7b9fd3c4c40f697ced4e361df75ee/busobid/9437f7ea070b26bebb78c74d1cb34b16dd3ea58995/busobrecid/94510b843b2071c278a22042858cd6da41a01da50c" }, { "name": "Get File", "url": "http://csmweb2t.isd.lacounty.gov/CherwellAPI/api/V1/getbusinessobjectattachment/attachmentid/94510b89f346a7b9fd3c4c40f697ced4e361df75ee/busobid/9437f7ea070b26bebb78c74d1cb34b16dd3ea58995/busobrecid/94510b843b2071c278a22042858cd6da41a01da50c" } ], "owner": "", "scope": 8, "scopeOwner": "", "type": 1 } ], "errorCode": null, "errorMessage": null, "hasError": false}
To create the attachment on the other system I am thinking that I will use this... I am going to test it..PUT /api/V1/savebusinessobjectattachmenturl Attach a URL path
{ "busObId": "6dd53665c0c24cab86870a21cf6434ae", "busObName": "incident", "busObPublicId": "1697644", "busObRecId": "94510bf5f3236c1cdce0d94c6e9362047fce1c9f68", "comment": "string", "displayText": "string", "includeLinks": true, "url": "dcsmweb2t.isd.lacounty.gov/.../94510b843b2071c278a22042858cd6da41a01da50c"}
I tested it and it created something.
What it loaded is the link that I sent it. So my question is how do I actually get the document?
The Get attachments by Business Object name and record ID gave me a "Get File" that's not my file?
I appreciate your help. I think I got some information about my attachment but not the actual attachment.
I appreciate any help.
You have to call GetBusinessObjectAttachment to get the attachment content.
I did.
I called..
That's how I got this response.
{"attachments": [{"attachedBusObId": "","attachedBusObRecId": "","attachmentFileId": "94510b89f88fdb243f5dd34dcba4d87a037873cfcf","attachmentFileName": "C:\\Users\\e406702\\Desktop\\test2.txt","attachmentFileType": "txt","attachmentId": "94510b89f346a7b9fd3c4c40f697ced4e361df75ee","attachmentType": 0,"busObId": "9437f7ea070b26bebb78c74d1cb34b16dd3ea58995","busObRecId": "94510b843b2071c278a22042858cd6da41a01da50c","comment": "","created": "2019-08-15T10:30:51","displayText": "test2.txt","links": [{"name": "Remove","url": "http://csmweb2t.isd.lacounty.gov/CherwellAPI/api/V1/removebusinessobjectattachment/attachmentid/94510b89f346a7b9fd3c4c40f697ced4e361df75ee/busobid/9437f7ea070b26bebb78c74d1cb34b16dd3ea58995/busobrecid/94510b843b2071c278a22042858cd6da41a01da50c"},{"name": "Get File","url": "http://csmweb2t.isd.lacounty.gov/CherwellAPI/api/V1/getbusinessobjectattachment/attachmentid/94510b89f346a7b9fd3c4c40f697ced4e361df75ee/busobid/9437f7ea070b26bebb78c74d1cb34b16dd3ea58995/busobrecid/94510b843b2071c278a22042858cd6da41a01da50c"}],"owner": "","scope": 8,"scopeOwner": "","type": 1}],"errorCode": null,"errorMessage": null,"hasError": false}
No "s" on the end ("GetBusinessObjectAttachment" not "GetBusinessObjectAttachments") - it's a different method. It loads from a different table.
Note the attachmentid parameter, which is from your previous call that returned the list of attachments
I think what you are showing is SOAP? I am using the Rest Api.
Using swagger I tried: Get an imported Business Object attachment
GET /api/V1/getbusinessobjectattachment/attachmentid/{attachmentid}/busobid/{busobid}/busobrecid/{busobrecid}
I am guessing that I am suppose to take something from this to send in my response?
The response received is TEST2 thats the name of the file.
I see the Response Content Type is : application/octet-stream So does this allow me to stream the content to through the save request?I am lost now.
the content is in the result. This is a REST API call, not SOAP.
REST methods config...
from my one-step...
In one of my cases, I am retrieving a .csv attachment...
In my one-step, I convert the content in the result into xml then step through it as I need to get elements out of each row and update customer records. In your case, it sounds like you just want to send the entire content, so you don't need any of that.
In my example attResult holds the file contents as base64 encoded data. The entire file is in the variable.
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The appointment of Mr. Muse, a leading operations technology executive, signals a renewed focus on strategic growth and expansion for the premier providers of global fleet safety, efficiency and compliance solutions.
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Why Is My Scope Out Of Adjustment?
So you've mounted a scope on your brand new rifle and can't get it zeroed because it's run out of adjustment. What do you do next? The BullShooters provide an answer.
The Problem
You mount a scope on your brand new rifle and can't get it zeroed because it's run out of adjustment.
The Background
About once a month I'll run into a question posted by a user on one of the Internet's hunting and shooting forums with just such a problem. Problems with rifles can very often be traced back to malfunctioning scopes or faulty mounts but, in this case, the usual suspects are innocent.
The Expert Deferral
I've struggled to get some test guns shooting on paper, but my exposure has been minimal. I also lack the test equipment to determine the culprit when a situation like this strikes. My friend D'Arcy Echols, one of the nation's preeminent rifle builders, has seen this situation countless times. He weighed-in on this topic when I was in his shop last fall and again recently on a popular outdoor message board.
"It is not to uncommon to find the receiver threads machined out of line with the centerline of the bore and pointing off into deep space. On the few left handed Model 70 actions I have assembled this situation should be considered a given. If the amount of run-out is minimal and you install a scope with maximum amount of windage and elevation correction available or install iron sights only on the barrel you will likely never perceive this as a problem."
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FOUR years of living dangerously hadn't shaken P.V. Narasimha Rao's imperturbable demeanour. But as the scale of the Congress (I)'s defeat in last fortnight's assembly elections in three states sank in, the prime minister quickly lost his campaign smile. And he may stand to lose a lot more. Rao would willingly put the maximum possible distance between himself and the losses in Sikkim, Karnataka and particularly his home state, Andhra Pradesh. But he cannot.
He sealed off all escape routes when he made the mistake of linking his personal prestige with these elections. The result: he was trapped when it became clear that he had been thrown out of his own backyard. He alone was responsible for the electorate rejecting him in the south. And it was a particularly painful blow for India's first prime minister from the south, for he owes his position to the support from southern Congress(I) MPs, who constitute an overwhelming majority in the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
THE LACK OF ANY ESCAPE ROUTE OR any possibility of sharing the blame for the defeat is not to do merely with Rao's rash campaign statements suggesting that the result would be a referendum on his leadership. It goes beyond that. Rao was essentially a consensus choice for the party leadership after Rajiv Gandhi's assassination midway through the 1991 general elections. He was expected to share power with the party's other heavyweights both at the Centre and in the states and involve them in crucial decision-making processes.
But such expectations were soon belied as Rao concentrated all power in his hands. He is the first party president to dispense with the Congress (I) parliamentary board, which decides the party's poll candidates. This has given him unlimited powers not only to select candidates for elections but even to nominate the Pradesh Congress (I) Committee (pcc-i) chiefs.
In the Government, Rao has, for over two years, kept several portfolios with himself, including the key defence and industry ministries. In an era of liberalisation, all major investment proposals from abroad are cleared by his principal secretary, A.N. Verma who heads the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in the Prime Minister's Office (pmo). Says one minister: "Rao's pmo wields more power than even Indira Gandhi's."
Such concentration of power can be fatal, as Rao is undoubtedly learning; having himself devised the entire poll strategy for Andhra Pradesh, right from distributing tickets to running a personalised campaign. Candidates were picked from an advance list prepared by his media adviser, P.V.R.K. Prasad and Security Secretary Theriyan. Both officers from the Andhra cadre, they used their old connections to gather information about prospective candidates and coordinated with former chief minister Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy in making the choices.
To compound matters, Rao hiked the stakes and made the elections a virtual referendum on his Government. In an effort to evoke Telugu pride to win votes in Andhra Pradesh, he marketed himself as the Telugu bidda (son). "The whole world is watching these elections. Your bidda's pride is at stake'', was his appeal during his first campaign tour of the state.
That Rao was assiduously digging his own electoral grave was apparent to his critics, for they had anticipated what he evidently hadn't: that the south, from where he drew his strength, could also be his nemesis. Arjun Singh, the challenger who has lost two bouts, in fact, laid a trap for him. At an ad hoc meeting to select candidates for Andhra Pradesh, he requested that the decision be left to Rao, saying "it is the Congress(I) tradition to leave the leader's home state to him". Rao evidently did not anticipate Singh's motives and now the human resources development minister and the growing band of dissidents may well be sharpening their knives.
AT THE AICC (I) SESSIONS IN Tirupati and Surajkund, Rao was able to snuff out the dissidents' challenge, thanks to the overwhelming backing of Congress(I) MPs, a vast chunk of whom come from the south. But now, with two crucial states lost, Rao is aware that these MPs are not likely to be swayed any more by regional sentiments.
There is no doubt that the stunning defeat in Andhra Pradesh and the drubbing in Karnataka will prompt rethinking by MPs from these two states. Together they provide 94 of the 266 Congress (I) MPs in the Lok Sabha and with Rao's election strategy proving to be a disaster, they cannot be faulted for harbouring doubts about their chances of being re-elected under his leadership.
It was, therefore, a gross understatement when a shaken Rao muttered, "it is indeed a storm", to Vilas Muttemwar, a party MP from Maharashtra, as the results trickled in on December 9. The seasoned politician that he is, he also knows that his leadership is going to be buffeted as never before.
That the storm was gathering with devastating ferocity became clear the day after the results were declared, when a meeting of the cpp executive witnessed two unusual events. When Home Minister S.B. Chavan, who chaired the meeting, read out the resolution reiterating faith in Rao and compared the debacle in the south to the one the party suffered in 1977 under Indira Gandhi, a Rajya Sabha MP from Ma-dhya Pradesh, Suresh Pachauri, protested: "Nobody can compare himself to Indiraji." Sensing the belligerence of some members, Rao's confidant and Minister of State in the pmo Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi agreed to delete the reference to 1977.
At the same meeting, 10 Janpath loyalist S.S. Ahluwalia took to task Parliamentary Affairs Minister V.C. Shukla for briefing opposition leaders on the progress of the Bofors case and confirming that Ottavio Quattrocchi, a close friend of Sonia Gandhi, was one of the appellants before the Swiss court. In the sheer timing of this move, Gandhi family loyalists saw a pre-emptive effort by Rao to ward off possible moves by them after the elections. At the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (cwc) the same day, when the leadership was about to go through the motions of expressing faith in Rao, Arjun Singh questioned the very need for the resolution. "Why do we need to do this every time?" asked Singh, drawing full support from N.D. Tiwari and Rajesh Pilot, among others.
IT WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT Rao had been the target of attack from within. But rarely, if ever, had the party president been singled out at a high-level party forum. Even in the wake of the Babri Masjid demolition, the cwc had not criticised him. Faced with what seemed like the first signs of a revolt, the Rao camp was nervous.
The debacle has understandably put a question mark over his stewardship. In his zeal to show that, like Indira and Rajiv, he too is a vote-catcher, Rao had taken upon himself the task of leading the party to victory. But his electoral forays have been a string of failures, starting with the north last December when party candidates did not even want his posters. With the party battered on his home turf, his authority- both as Congress(I) president and prime minister-has been considerably eroded. And Congressmen are already dreading the prospect of a defeated Rao leading them into electoral battle-in Maharashtra, Orissa, Bihar, Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh-in just three months' time.
The defeat also prompts a debate over the fate of his Government's economic reforms programme. It had become an issue in the elections since the subsidised rice scheme was Telugu Desam Party (tdp) supremo N.T. Rama Rao's main election plank. The Congress(I) reacted late and failed miserably to counter tdp propaganda. Perhaps where Rao erred was that he did not effectively emphasise the 'human face' of the reforms package. In other words, that the trickle-down effect would bring benefits to the villages in the long run. Said Arjun Singh: "I am not opposed to reforms. We should have emphasised the human side of reforms.
Such sentiments are likely to be increasingly heard in party forums as the Congress(I) gears up to face the electorate, first in the five states early next year and then in the Lok Sabha polls a year hence. NTR's landslide victory is proof that nothing attracts votes like populism, something that a party committed to reforms cannot indulge in unchecked. Rao has already stated that he is not for competitive populism. "I can promise rice at Rs 1.50 per kg to win votes. But it will push the economy into bankruptcy once again," he told the cwc on December 10.
The prime minister can draw comfort from the fact that his reforms package has its supporters. But at the same time, he cannot ignore the apprehensions of his MPs who are calling for a slow-down and demanding subsidy hikes in the next budget. A tough balancing act that demands that Rao should go ahead with reforms to send the 'right' signals to the people and yet should slow down their pace.
ALL this means that Rao will have to ease his stranglehold on both the party and the Government, share power and grant more freedom to regional leaders and authority to pcc(i) chiefs. But he shows no sign of having read the writing on the wall. His managers are already talking about cabinet reshuffles and major shake-ups in the party, tactics that have been resorted to before and have not worked. As such, promises like these are hardly likely to satisfy anyone. The prime minister's detractors point out that such concessions will not hurt Rao's ego much since even Indira Gandhi, the most powerful party chief in recent times, had resorted to this in the wake of the Congress (I) rout in the 1967 elections.
But there is more than Rao's ego that is a matter of worry. For the first time in his tenure, there are serious doubts about his health. The pmo was quick to scotch a newspaper report which quoted an unidentified source as saying that Rao is suffering from a serious heart ailment. The report followed an incident during the election campaign when the prime minister fainted owing to sheer exhaustion. But the firm denial notwithstanding, his detractors are bound to use such reports to question his capacity to continue in office. When they do so is open to speculation. Not, perhaps, right now. But certainly if Rao leads the Congress (I) to another electoral Waterloo early next year.


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dragster down again?
Re: dragster down again?
I agree with you about using your name, sometimes it is difficult, the group of people involved in Australia is small and everybody knows everybody and many people have major differences in opinion and some peolpe get offended or worse.
Re: dragster down again?
Thanks Brian, and others that may have this idea of censorship. Actuallty we don't. You can express what you want in the racer's lounge.. unedited ( and that is more than anyone else offers!!) Just in the public forum, to save face of the sport ( i.e for others trying to prove that we may be apes!) we have requested that you abide by our rules. We do NOT want to become what other sites have, but the choice is yours? For those that want to post in "the lounge" just do this http://dragnews.com.au/index.php?option … ;Itemid=54
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It would be a shame if Dragster.com folds. No disrespect to DNA. Nor is any critisism intended.
I've been logging onto dragster for over 7yrs and also DNA since it started. There still seems to be more posts etc on dragster, although it is down from what it was yrs ago. Also I think dragster gets a lot more hits on the for sale section.
In saying this(while I don't have facts & figures) there seems to just be a general decline from what it was years ago and also since DNA has started.
I have often wondered whether it has anything to do with the general feeling toward drag racing? Declines in crowd numbers, politics within the sport, etc.
When I first started looking at dragster, some 7 yrs ago, you could jump on there a few time a day, and there were new posts, parts for sale etc. Now I usually have a look once a day, but often there's not much new.Is it a reflection on whats going on and general feeling in the drag racing community?
Is there enough interested people to have 2 sites?
Have the many people that rarelyor never post anymore, just sick of all the whinging and arguements from keyboard warriors? While it is one thing to have open discussions, there seems to be some people that want to ram their point home and abuse others that don't agree. Rarely in any club, sport, politics etc is there 100% agreement, but discussion is good and shouldn't deteriorate into a shit slinging match.
Both sites have their good points.
While dragster is essentially a no frills site, it's easy to have a quick browse and see anything new.
Where-as DNA has a lot more sections, news, pics etc. But takes a bit longer to look around.
I like to keep up to date with whats happening around the country, as I've been a fan and racer for nearly 40yrs. And hopefully be back racing again soon. But living in remote area(as many others in the same position) and not getting to the main tracks regularly, it's good to be able to find out all the news, rumours, stories, etc etc, by just logging onto a site. Plus it's a good outlet/supply of parts that we would often miss out on in the bush.
But then on the other hand, if dragster.com did finish and DNA was the only site, it might get much better, and most people would be back on one site.
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Dragster must be fried for good, as its been down a long time. who ever sent those pesty bugs really fried it. There might be an investigation as to where or who is infecting there site and gear. ha ha that might be interesting.
Re: dragster down again?
I am pretty sure the message that the site is displaying relates to a database error of sometype. It is usually the same error that has occurred with the site for many years. I am sure the owner will eventually realise what has happened and fix it.
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i had been trying to sign up to dragster.com for near on 3 mths . dont get the activation message . i gave up and found this site . and now have 3 other old timers sign up
I live life in the fast lane but my hair just couldn't keep up!!
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Yeah well it took a week to fix a problem that used to be fixed in a day. I think the owners dont even monitor the site anymore and that includes registering new members. I am a moderator over there and have had a heap of emails in the past 3 months as it seems I am the only one who answers them. This place just needs to generate some interest and sort out their classifieds and the majority will come over
Have a look and like my face book page 'Top Fuel Promotions'.
A bit slow now but once the season starts it will be the place on fb to catch up with what is going on in the 3 nitro classes. All positive, I promise!
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Re: dragster down again?
We are trying to provide a more user friendly for sale options on this site, either via the classifieds module or via sections on this forum, and we have virtually no down time.
Categorised items forum
Can upload own photos
Real names to help prevent tyre kickers and time wasters.
Just spread the word...
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Re: dragster down again?
Ok So is Dragster dead and buried ? I for one will miss it, was the only way to keep in touch with Australian dragracing whilst I was living in England and its become part of my way of life allways the first site I would check out when I went on line.
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There are a lot of happenings behind the scenes with this site at the moment and the main aim is to retain the credibility Dragster.com.au lost, with the forum side of things on this on this site it is up to the readers to post and utilise the service and we will guarantee it will be a lot bigger and better than anything before it.
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Grant its the Forum layout that I cant get use to, I much prefered the dragster layout. Mind you this is a 59 year old who is having trouble with comming to terms with windows 7? after years with XP I'm not against change I just take time to adjust lol
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On fastest lap times which determine race one's grid order, Dorlin was almost a quarter of a second clear of anyone else in this morning's qualifying session with a best lap of one minute, 33.600 seconds.
On second best times which decide race two's starting positions, Westbourne Motorsport driver Dorlin was 0.204s up on the rest.
On the grid for race one – round seven of the 2018 season being held at 16:00 today – he will be joined on the front row by one of his main title rivals, WDE Motorsport's triple champion Paul Rivett.
Third and fourth will be WDE's Dan Zelos and Team Pyro's Max Coates. Westbourne's James Colburn and WDE's Lee Pattison will line up fifth and sixth.
Race two – round eight of the 18-round season – takes place at 13:30 tomorrow and will receive live coverage on ITV4. Alongside Dorlin on the front row for that one will be Coates – currently second in the points table to Dorlin – while completing the top six are Rivett, Zelos, Colburn and Team Pyro's Bradley Burns. Notably the gap from second fastest Coates to Colburn in fifth was a mere 16 1000ths of a second...
Dorlin commented: "I like the way that session's gone, obviously! The key will be getting it off the line and maintaining first place through the first corner – it's difficult to pass around here so if we can get away well and hold the lead then I believe we've got good pace for the races."
Rivett, third in the standings just eight points adrift of Dorlin, said: "Second and third on the two grids isn't too shabby and, as you know, I always race better than I qualify. What's also encouraging is that WDE have three cars right up there which is important for us against Pyro in the Entrants Trophy."
Coates's fourth and second place qualifying performances came courtesy of a late dash after a set-up change to his car mid-way through the session took longer than anticipated.
"It was really only left with time for one lap at the end of the session so I had to make it stick," he explained. "Luckily I improved which helped both my race one grid position and made what had been my best time up until that point my second best time which got me on the front row for race two. It's important we keep the heat on Dorlin."
Meanwhile the session proved frustrating for Pyro pair Daniel Rowbottom and Jack McCarthy who are currently equal fourth in the championship. McCarthy, who had lap times disallowed for exceeding track limits, will line up ninth on both grids with Rowbottom twice starting from 11th after a mechanical glitch with his car during qualifying.
Leading grid positions, Round 7, Oulton Park
1. James Dorlin (Westbourne Motorsport), 1m33.600s (avg. 85.61mph)
2. Paul Rivett (WDE Motorsport), +0.240s
3. Dan Zelos (WDE Motorsport), +0.367s
4. Max Coates (Team Pyro), +0.391s
5. James Colburn (Westbourne Motorsport), +0.457s
6. Lee Pattison (WDE Motorsport), +0.481s
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Leading grid positions, Round 8, Oulton Park
1. James Dorlin (Westbourne Motorsport), 1m33.864s
2. Max Coates (Team Pyro), +0.204s
3. Paul Rivett (WDE Motorsport), +0.209s
4. Dan Zelos (WDE Motorsport), +0.219s
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A simulated BH lightcurve during a galaxy merger
This plot shows an example for a BH lightcurve (red line) from the high-resolution box of the Magneticum Simulations (68Mpc/uhr). The gray shaded region shows the time interval during which a merger with a mass ratio of 1:7 has been identified. The black line shows the Eddington limit, which is the maximum possible luminosity in our simulation depending on the BH mass. This example is particularly interesting since the average AGN luminosity clearly increases during the merger.


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DONNA, Texas—More arrests continue to plague a Texas border school district. A police commander and a school principal getting arrested on separate charges are two of the most recent scandals to hit this Texas border school that has become synonymous with collusion, conspiracy, and corruption.
Commander Francisco "Frank" Limon, the second highest ranking police officer at Donna Independent School District (ISD) has been charged with disorderly conduct following his arrest over the weekend after a fight at a soccer game in McAllen, records from the municipal court revealed. The district has since suspended Limon.
Limon's arrest comes less than three weeks after Pedro Salinas, the assistant principal at Donna North High School ended up behind bars after allegedly getting caught stealing two perfumes at a JC Penney store in the border city of Weslaco, The Monitor reported.
As Breitbart Texas previously reported, Donna ISD is a school district with 15,000 students in one of the nation's poorest areas. However, the faction that currently controls the school board has been busy handing out lucrative contracts and raises to its political allies and targeting its rivals.
The board fired its previous law firm and instead hired Robert J. Salinas, a convicted felon who spent time in a federal prison for money laundering, Breitbart Texas reported. The felonious attorney currently charges a $300,000 retainer and bills the district $250 per hour for work.
In May, Salinas charged the district more than $33,000 in services alone, an invoice obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed.
Suspiciously, the two individuals who have tried to stop the antics of the school board superintendent, Jesus Rene Reyna and board member Ernest Lugo, have also been the target of retaliation. Earlier this month a grand jury cleared both Reyna and Lugo on a series of charges that had been trumped up by Donna ISD Police Chief Roy Padilla.
Padilla, who was hired by the faction that controls the board, is the brother of Jose Padilla a former commander with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office who is now in prison for having taken money from a Mexican drug lord.
Padilla's son Daniel, a school district employee, was also arrested earlier this year when sheriff's deputies found drugs in his vehicle.
The board of this small Texas border school also spent taxpayer's money to send the board members to go see Hillary Clinton speak at a conference in Las Vegas, as reported by Breitbart Texas one of the school board members even got married during the trip.
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Computer has a rather straightforward etymology, although its usage may be a bit surprising. The word was originally applied to people, not machines.Read the rest of the article...
The Guardian on Language Decline
David Shariatmadari has a nice piece on the myth of the decline of the English language in The Guardian.
He writes:
There is no such thing as linguistic decline, so far as the expressive capacity of the spoken or written word is concerned. We need not fear a breakdown in communication. Our language will always be as flexible and sophisticated as it has been up to now. Those who warn about the deterioration of English haven't learned about the history of the language, and don't understand the nature of their own complaints – which are simply statements of preference for the way of doing things they have become used to.
There's nothing new here for those that have studied the myth, but it's a concise debunking and useful for reference.
Voynich MS
Lisa Fagin Davis, an actual expert on the manuscript, has an excellent article in the Washington Post on the Voynich manuscript and how people keep proposing crackpot ideas about it. She gives no solutions or answers to the as-yet-undeciphered work, but she provides some excellent commentary on the misuses of medieval history.
go yard
To go yard is baseball slang for hitting a home run. The yard is a reference to the ballyard, or ballfield.
The phrase first appears in 1988. Ben Zimmer turned up the earliest known use of the phrase in an 8 September article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The article was syndicated and appeared in a number of newspapers.
A batter with power can hit a ball out of the ballyard, yes. More likely, though, he can go back, go massive or go yard.
Like most such slang terms, determining the precise origin is impossible. The best we can get is a general idea of when the term arose.
Discussions of the origins of the phrase often associate it with Orioles Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, but that ballpark wasn't built until four years after the phrase appears, so Camden Yards did not inspire the phrase's origin.
Dickson, Paul. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, 3rd edition, W. W. Norton, 2009, 379.
Zimmer, Benjamin. "Go yard (1988)," ADS-L, 15 Oct 2005.
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club sandwich
The club sandwich, or club house sandwich, as it is usually prepared today, consists of three slices of bread, between which is layered turkey or chicken, ham or bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise. It is typically served quartered and held together by cocktail sticks.
But why club? How did it get its name? The answer is an unsatisfactory "we don't know." The sandwich originated in one or another social club or perhaps on the club cars of trains. The exact origin has been lost in the mists of time, but we do know that it originated in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.
stiff upper lip
Having a stiff upper lip is considered the quintessential British quality of resolution in the face of adversity. But surprisingly, the phrase itself is an American import to Britain.
The phrase first appears in the pages of the newspaper the Massachusetts Spy on 14 June 1815:
I kept a stiff upper lip, and bought [a] license to sell my goods.
Nova Scotian writer and politician Thomas C. Haliburton uses it in his 1837 novel The Clockmaker:
Its a proper pity sich a clever woman should carry such a stiff upper lip.
And it appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin:
"Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip," said George.
The earliest British citation in the Oxford English Dictionary isn't until 1887, when it appears in the newspaper The Spectator.
Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989, s. v. stiff, adj., n., and adv.
bootstrap / boot up
A self-made person is one who lifts or pulls oneself up by one's bootstraps. The phrase is used unironically nowadays, despite the fact that the laws of physics make it impossible for one actually lift oneself by one's bootstraps. The phrase was originally ironic, recognizing that such a feat is impossible, but as the myth of the self-made man grew (and it is a myth; no one succeeds in life without help), the phrase became unironic in its application.Read the rest of the article...
Most of us know a tabby cat is either a female house cat or one with a striped or brindled coat regardless of its sex. But where does the word tabby come from? It has an unusual etymology, coming ultimately from Arabic and the history of Islam, and over the years it has been applied to things other than house cats, such as being used to refer to older, unmarried women.Read the rest of the article...
neither confirm nor deny / Glomar response
When a US government official neither confirms nor denies the existence of a classified program it is called a Glomar response or a Glomar denial. This label has its origins in one of the most fascinating incidents of the Cold War between the US and the USSR, but the wording neither confirm nor deny is much, much older, dating to at least 1840.Read the rest of the article...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The Oath of the Prophet Mohammed to the Followers of the Nazarene.
"This is a letter which was issued by Mohammed, Ibn Abdullah, the Messenger, the Prophet, the Faithful, who is sent to all the people as a trust on the part of God to all His creatures, that they may have no plea against God hereafter. Verily God is the Mighty, the Wise. This letter is directed to the embracers of Islam, as a covenant given to the followers of Nazarene in the East and West, the far and near, the Arabs and foreigners, the known and the unknown.
This letter contains the oath given unto them, and he who disobeys that which is therein will be considered a disobeyer and a transgressor to that whereunto he is commanded. He will be regarded as one who has corrupted the oath of God, disbelieved His Testament, rejected His Authority, despised His Religion, and made himself deserving of His Curse, whether he is a Sultan or any other believer of Islam.
Whenever monks, devotees and pilgrims gather together, whether in a mountain or valley, or den, or frequented place, or plain, or church, or in houses of worship, verily we are [at the] back of them and shall protect them, and their properties and their morals, by Myself, by My Friends and by My Assistants, for they are of My Subjects and under My Protection.
I shall exempt them from that which may disturb them; of the burdens which are paid by others as an oath of allegiance. They must not give anything of their income but that which pleases them—they must not be offended, or disturbed, or coerced or compelled. Their judges should not be changed or prevented from accomplishing their offices, nor the monks disturbed in exercising their religious order, or the people of seclusion be stopped from dwelling in their cells.
No one is allowed to plunder the pilgrims, or destroy or spoil any of their churches, or houses of worship, or take any of the things contained within these houses and bring it to the houses of Islam. And he who takes away anything therefrom, will be one who has corrupted the oath of God, and, in truth, disobeyed His Messenger.
Poll-taxes should not be put upon their judges, monks, and those whose occupation is the worship of God; nor is any other thing to be taken from them, whether it be a fine, a tax or any unjust right. Verily I shall keep their compact, wherever they may be, in the sea or on the land, in the East or West, in the North or South, for they are under My Protection and the testament of My Safety, against all things which they abhor.
No taxes or tithes should be received from those who devote themselves to the worship of God in the mountains, or from those who cultivate the Holy Lands. No one has the right to interfere with their affairs, or bring any action against them. Verily this is for aught else and not for them; rather, in the seasons of crops, they should be given a Kadah for each Ardab of wheat (about five bushels and a half) as provision for them, and no one has the right to say to them this is too much, or ask them to pay any tax.
As to those who possess properties, the wealthy and merchants, the poll-tax to be taken from them must not exceed twelve drachmas a head per year (i.e. about 200 modern day US dollars).
They shall not be imposed upon by anyone to undertake a journey, or to be forced to go to wars or to carry arms; for the Islams have to fight for them. Do no dispute or argue with them, but deal according to the verse recorded in the Koran, to wit: 'Do not dispute or argue with the People of the Book but in that which is best' [29:46]. Thus they will live favored and protected from everything which may offend them by the Callers to religion (Islam), wherever they may be and in any place they may dwell.
Should any Christian woman be married to a Muslim man, such marriage must not take place except after her consent, and she must not be prevented from going to her church for prayer. Their churches must be honored and they must not be withheld from building churches or repairing convents.
They must not be forced to carry arms or stones; but the Islams must protect them and defend them against others. It is positively incumbent upon every one of the Islam nation not to contradict or disobey this oath until the Day of Resurrection and the end of the world.
Some have argued that the Ashtiname is a resource for building bridges between Muslims and Christians. For example in 2009, in the pages of The Washington Post, Muqtedar Khan translated the document in full, arguing that:
Those who seek to foster discord among Muslims and Christians focus on issues that divide and emphasize areas of conflict. But when resources such as Muhammad's promise to Christians is invoked and highlighted it builds bridges. It inspires Muslims to rise above communal intolerance and engenders good will in Christians who might be nursing fear of Islam or Muslims.
The Ashtiname is the inspiration for The Covenants Initiative which urges all Muslims to abide by the treaties and covenants that were concluded by the Prophet Muhammad with the Christian communities of his time.
According to the monks' tradition, Muhammad frequented the monastery and had great relationships and discussions with the Sinai fathers. The document claims that the Prophet (570–632) had personally granted by charter in the second year of the Hegira, corresponding to AD 626, the rights and privileges to all Christians "far and near". It consists of several clauses on such topics as the protection of Christians living under Islamic rule as well as pilgrims on their way to monasteries, freedom of worship and movement, freedom to appoint their own judges and to own and maintain their property, exemption from military service and taxes, and the right to protection in war
[Haddad, Anton F., trans. The Oath of the Prophet Mohammed to the Followers of the Nazarene. New York: Board of Counsel, 1902; H-Vahabi: Lansing, MI: 2004]
For other translations of the Ashtiname, including the lists of witnesses, refer to The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World (Angelico Press / Sophia Perennis, 2013) by Dr. John Andrew Morrow.
*English Translation of the Ashtiname by Anton F. Haddad
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I seriously can't believe that it's almost Halloween! I've been waiting for autumn for what felt like forever (the muggy, buggy, sticky summers of Central Ohio do not really get along with me…) and now that it's finally here, it seems to be zipping by like nothing. I mean, here it is Halloween weekend, and I still haven't published my Halloween wishlist post – so, uh, let's do something about that, yeah?
So, I've selected 10 items (or… groups of items, in some cases, because I'm indecisive lol) and ranked them in a somewhat ordered fashion. If you're curious to know what I've been lusting after this Halloween season, please read on to see my 2016 Halloween wishlist!
10. Halloween Snacks from Candysan
This year, Candysan has a whole bunch of cute Halloween items – from pumpkin mochi to skeleton-shaped cheetos to this weird, creepy-colored spicy "zomramen" to this adorable pumpkin onigiri set. I want it all, but given that I've already indulged quite a bit with Halloween sweets this year (and I've recently become obsessed with the Samyang Spicy Roasted Chicken ramen to the point that I bought multiple 5-packs so I probably don't need to buy any more ramen right now lolol), I'm going to force myself to pass this year.
However, if you decide to order from Candysan, please use my affiliate code if you'd like – it will net you a 5% coupon code upon registration. Not huge, but hey, 5% is 5%, right?
9. Bat-Winged Flats from ThinkGeek
When it comes to Halloween, I have three aesthetics that I love the most: pumpkins (I'm still mourning these cheapo pumpkin slippers that I got from Target years back – they were only $1, thus the short lifespan, but they were the most perfect shade of pastel pumpkin orange with a jack-o-lantern smile on the fronts), black cats (this will come up later in the list), and bats!
I think bats are some of the most adorable creatures in the world (look at this happy face omg omg omggggg) already – when you add into the fun "vampire bat" Halloween twist (see: Kudlak, aka one of my favorite mythological/SMT dudes), it's no wonder that I go a little bonkers for bat-themed stuffs around Halloween.
These Bat Wing flats are pretty cute, and would work well with either an entirely bat-themed costume, or just as a cheeky, Halloween-spirit nod when going out, running around town, or at a dressy-ish-but-not-dress-UP Halloween event. Especially if you pair them with…
…this pretty, silver bat-wing headband from mylavaliere. Are you getting the picture? The aforementioned batwing flats, a cute black mini dress, maybe some stockings (omg… imagine if they had little batwings at the top!) and silver jewelry, all topped off with this headband. How cute!
All while having glowing, moisturized skin thanks to…
7. Ladykin's Vanpir Dark Repair Skincare Line
The "Vanpir" skincare line from Ladykin! I first stumbled upon these products via Memebox (and I actually ended up ordering the repair cream from them, as they seem to have the best price for it that I've found so far) and instantly fell in love with the cute-but-simple packaging and vampire theme.
As best I can see, there are three products in the Vanpir range: the Vanpir Dark Repairing Water Mask, the Vanpir Dark Repair Cream, and the Vanpir Dark Repair Youth Activator. They all hinge upon the inclusion of Dragon's Blood (a flowering plant with red resin, thus the name) and are supposed to be extremely hydrating and anti-aging – of course, since vampires are forever young!
I've actually ordered both the Dark Repair Cream and the Dark Repairing Water Mask already – the sleeping mask arrived last week, and I'm just waiting for my next product testing rotation to add it (I'm currently recovering from a bad reaction to a cleanser ?). The cream is in my Memebox order – along with #2 on this list – and I'm still waiting not-so-patiently for it (seriously, what is up with Memebox lately? ??) to arrive!
I've found some glowing reviews of the Vanpir products, so I am really excited to try them out!
6. Epically Epic Soaps Halloween Products
I've mentioned my fondness for Etsy seller Epically Epic Soaps before, and I'm still just as hyped over her products. The 2016 Halloween products all look and sound amazing, so I've been putting in effort to finish up my current sugar scrub so I can have an excuse to purchase the EES Witch's Brew Sugar Scrub – blood orange, smoky blackberries, black cherry, musk, and red wine sounds like a delicious fall scent!
As for the lip balms, well… the Epically Epic lip balms are still my favorite indie lip balms out there, so of COURSE I want, like, all of the limited edition flavours. Haunted Espresso is the one most calling my name (coffee and cinnamon rolls, omg), but Eye of Newt sounds just intriguing enough that I'm not sure I can resist it: lemon-lime, white grape, pear, and golden delicious apples. Sounds… fizzy!
Not in the Halloween collection, but still very autumnal and worthy of mention: the Luminaria Solid Lotion (melting candle wax, smoke, myrrh, and frankincense) and the Pumpkin Spiced Latte and Apple Cider Ice Cream lip balms. Yum!
5. Blade & Soul Creepurr Familiar Costume and Spellcaster Outfit
Well, spoilers: I already have to Creepurr outfit, as it was cheapo set available in the Hongmoon store. Now my black cat familiar really looks purrfect~ But seriously, how cute is that? It's a little bat-cat with…creepy, huge skeleton hands. Okay, so maybe that last part isn't strictly cute, but the overall appearance is adorbs as fuck. My summoner has been sort of neglected by virtue of my decided to main a different ranged class – Warlock – but the cuteness of this set is motivating me to at least get her to level cap so I can farm Tower of Infinity and 1v1 with her!
The second outfit, Spellcaster, is a set that I really want for my aforementioned female Jin Warlock. I got lucky and received the hat already from transmuting a chilling chest on the first day of the event, but I'm only about halfway to having enough pumpkins to trade for the dress. I'm on a mission, though – as soon as I finish writing this post, in fact, I have a date with my friend to go do our daily pumpkin spice candy farm!
I mentioned earlier that black cats for Halloween fashion is a definite thing for me, and I find these Chococat Tights by Sanrio to be right up my alley! Cat-ear stockings and tights are not new by any means, but something about Chococat's wide-eyed stare and cute ears really make this pair my favorite variation that I've seen yet.
Once again, I'm imagining these paired with a cute black minidress or short black skirt – maybe with an oversized sweater. So cute!
3. Halloween Highlighters from BrokenArrowBeauty and ClionadhCosmetics
Seriously, how adorable are these Halloween-themed highlighters? The candy corn "Confection Highlighter" is from ClionadhCosmetics and is seriously threatening my wallet due to my insatiable love for mellocreme corn and pumpkins. The same shop actually has an entire Harvest Moon Highlighter Set – including the Confection, it also adds a "Eclipse" shade for that moonlit glow, a cream-and-caramel "Allspice" swirl, and your choice of light or dark "Cornucopia" color blend.
The "Pumpkin Spice Latte" highlighter is from BrokenArrowBeauty and appears to be a lovely, toasty pink-and-gold shimmer. I might actually need this… pink and gold shimmer is kind of my weak point for eyeshadows, nail colors, lippies…lol. You get me, right? She also has a silver-and-grey "Superstition" highlighter with a cute kitty imprinted into the pan if your desired Halloween look is a bit more luminescent!
I just have to say, I am so loving the trend of awesome and creative Etsy highlighters. People come up with the cutest ideas!
2. The Halloween 2016 Memebox, full of Spooky Sheet Masks ?
Like almost everyone else who laid eyes on it, I was instantly enamoured with this year's Halloween Memebox and ordered it as soon as I could! It's basically a sheet mask extravaganza, with the main draw (for me, at least) being the spooky Halloween character sheet masks. I'm particularly looking forward to becoming a jiangshi:
(If you're not familiar with jiangshi, my YouTube crush Mikey Chen has a fun video explaining their mythology on his Beyond Science channel!)
Other highlights include:
Niveola Fantastic Night Glow Mask – Ready for some scary selfies? These Halloween-ready sheet masks feature costume-like designs that glow in the dark! Plus, each cellulose mask is infused with a special patented blend of plant extracts that'll nourish skin back to life.
Cellpium Vampire Cleansing Mask – Vamp up your skincare routine with this 3-in-1 mask! This single sheet mask enriched with 10 kinds of berries removes makeup, foam cleanses, and moisturizes skin.
Bat – If your skin's feeling sucked dry, this moisturizing mask can be your hero. Flowing with Collagen and Adenosine, it'll leave your skin feeling chok chok in no time.
The 2016 Halloween Memebox is now sold out, but if you're pining for some 3spoopy5me sheet masks, they've still a got a few single/set purchase sheet masks that fit the bill:
- The Bat Eye Mask – surprising no one, I ordered this one too! ?
- Black Eye Anti-Wrinkle Masks – not strictly Halloween-ish, but the zorro/superhero/bandit mask is pretty costume-y, right?
- Baby Magic Anti-Wrinkle Pug Mask – It kinda just looks like a wrinkly white blob, so maybe… maybe… an elderly ghost?
1. A shitload of games from the Halloween Steam Sale
Steam is having a massive sale on all of their kinda sorta even remotely spooky titles, and as it happens – this happens to coincide with, like, half of my wishlist. I know that I am absolutely grabbing Kentucky Route Zero (I've been waiting for it to go on sale), Firewatch, and Yomawari: Night Alone, but I'm also considering The Last Door, Darkwood, and The Final Station… among many others.
Steam sales are always such bittersweet events – you can't really justify getting EVERYTHING that's on sale that you want, unless you're made of money and time, but the sprawling choice is amazing.
For what it's worth, if you haven't played Sunless Sea yet and are even a little bit intrigued by its premise, I wholeheartedly recommend it – I finally started playing it in August and mainlined it for about a month. So good!
So, there you have it, my better-late-than-never 2016 Halloween wishlist! What have you been craving this October? Is there anything out there that I've missed but you think would appeal to me? Have you tried any of these products? Let me know the answers to all of those questions in the comments, and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! ???


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Friday, July 12: Festival opens at 4:00pm till 12:00am.Craft Show 4-9pm. Music & Dancing 4:00pm-12:00pm by the Motor City's own Polish Muslims,Hamtramck, MI alternating with The Knewz, from Buffalo, NY
Saturday, July 13: Festival hours 11:00am – 12:00am Craft Show 11am-9pm. Music & Dancing 11am-5:00pm The Knewz and 5:00-12:00am ans , The Polka Country Musicians, from Ct. alternating with New Brass Express
Sunday, July 14: Festival hours 11:00pm – 8:00pm Polish Mass @ 12:00pm, The Polka Country Musicians, from Ct 12:00- 5pm, 5:00- 8:00pm, The Brass Express and Special Guest appearance from American Polish Century Club All Star Band
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Having sold his instruments to fund a nomadic 1970s lifestyle, eccentric Irish experimentalist Michael O'Shea was forced to create his own handmade answer to the sitars and zelochords he'd become accustomed to playing on his travels around the globe.Using an old door, 17 strings, chopsticks and combining them with phasers, echo units and amplification, the new device was to become his signature sound, mixing Irish folk influences with Asian and North African sounds in a mesmerising and soulful new way that brought him to the attention of the leading improvisers of his day - Alice Coltrane, Ravi Shankar, Don Cherry and more.
A logical follow up to AllChival's recent reissue of Stano's debut LP, Michael O'Shea's self titled LP was originally released on Wire's Dome Imprint in 1982. The background to the album is as interesting and inspiring as the artist who created it - born in Northern Ireland but raised in the Republic, O'Shea was keen to travel and escape the troubles of his home. Wandering throughout Europe and the Middle East, O'Shea found himself living and working as a relief aid in Bangladesh in the mid Seventies where he learned to play sitar while recovering from a bout of hepatitis.
A later period spent busking in France accompanied on zelochord by Algerian musician Kris Hosylan Harp led to O'Shea's idea of combining both instruments as a homebuilt instrument - Mo Chara [Irish for "My Friend"]. He later described the process on the back of the LP himself saying: "Having sold my sitar in Germany and being desperate for money to travel to Turkey, I conceived of the idea of combining both sitar and zelochord. The first Mo Chara was born, taken from the middle of a door, which was rescued from a skip in Munchen". A combination of dulcimer, zelochord and sitar, O'Shea would play it with a pair of chopsticks, striking the strings softly using Irish folk rhythms mixed with the rich, nostalgic sounds of of the many Asian artists he'd encountered on his travels.
It was a pan cultural sound standing at an unusual crossroads of folk, traditional, rock, progressive, jazz, electronic and post-punk worlds without hesitation. Perfecting the instrument on the streets, there were further spells spent busking in the underground stations and cafes of London's West End and Covent Garden during the heady days of the 1970s when they were full of eccentric street entertainers, jazz improvisers and musical pioneers.
His work with Rick Wakeman never saw the light of day but O'Shea's contact with the world of post-punk London ensured his name would live on. Introduced to Wire's Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis via cartoonist Tom Johnston, O'Shea eventually acquiesced to an open invite to record at their studio. Turning up unannounced in the summer of 1981 the LP was recorded in a day in the legendary Blackwing Studios and released on Dome the year after. The first side features the fifteen minute masterpiece "No Journeys End" with the B side featuring more input from Wire in processing the Mo Chara sound. Lewis himself said years later of the forgotten masterpiece: "I always said it was the best job we ever did."
After an aborted LP with The The's Matt Johnson the following year, O'Shea quietly disappeared from the formal recording world and his brief but unique contribution to the music world came to a sad end in 1991 when O'Shea was struck by a post van and died a few days later in hospital in London. This repress on All City's AllChival imprint has been remastered and reissued with the approval of both Dome and his surviving siblings.
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text: As I reflect on this very special Valentines, I will be forever grateful to Barbie for the guidance that she has given me and continues to give. When I lost my mother I quickly realized that I now had two angels, one in heaven and one on earth named Barbie. She stood my side and was waiting for me to call. I was a lost soul and felt completely trapped and without hope. Her response was I knew you'd call. That was in 2009. She has not only been an advisor but so much more. She has helped fill a void that I couldn't imagine being filled. When I lost my mother I was in the worst of marriages with a raging alcoholic that was capable of anything. She gave be the strength to walk away and helped me time it so that it would seem as if it was his idea! She gave me sound business advice and continues to do so. She gave me the courage to stand up for the love she knew I'd find. And when I was at a crossroads, helped me answer my own questions. My son and I will be forever grateful for the love, peace, and happiness that Barbie helped us find in our new family. I encourage anyone that is in a difficult marriage to seek counsel from her. Don't settle . Your children deserve a happy childhood and you the joy of knowing that you gave them that happy home! Happy Valentines Day to all! And mostly you…. Barbie! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!


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A very Warm Thank You!
The European Society of Pathology would like to thank you for attending the 30th European Congress of Pathology from 8 to 12 September 2018 in Bilbao, Spain.
More than 3,400 delegates from 87 countries gathered at the Euskalduna Conference Centre celebrating the 30th anniversary of the European Congress of Pathology.
Approximately 150 scientific sessions took place and the poster exhibition included 616 posters and 637 e-posters covering 26 topics. We are grateful for your participation which certainly contributed to the success of ECP 2018.
The preparations for the 31st European Congress of Pathology are already underway and we are looking forward to seeing you all in Nice, France, 7-11 September 2019.
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Between the 20th and 23rd of July BASMATI evaluated applications on DAS FEST 2017. Therefore, YellowMap integrated GPS tracking into the official DAS FEST app on iOS and Android. So app users were initially requested to provide their anonymized tracks to BASMATI. The backend solution for the data collection was hosted…


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With the popularity of Electric Mountain Bikes, in recent years, Electric Mountain Bike supporting industry - charging stations are gradually rising, and now often found in the road side of its existence, and Electric Mountain Bike users do not have to worry about the lack of electricity.
The use of charging stations to Electric Mountain Bike charging can achieve the effect of fast charging, a 10 minutes 10 minutes, you can continue to 5 to 6 km. But many people enjoy the convenience of it at the same time, there will be worry, worry about whether it will affect the battery life. After research found that the use of this fast charger charging will exceed the Electric Mountain Bike battery design load, to a certain extent, will damage the internal structure of the battery. Therefore, even the new Electric Mountain Bike if the regular use of fast charging station for charging, the battery life may also be greatly reduced.
Through the above description can be seen with the charging station to Electric Mountain Bike charging, Electric Mountain Bike batteries will have some damage, but this is not to say that can not be used, when the emergency situation, the charging station is necessary, And even can alleviate our urgent needs.
With the Electric Mountain Bike market continues to expand, Electric Mountain Bike industry has entered a stage of rapid development, which for Shandong Electric Mountain Bike manufacturers is both an opportunity and a challenge, in order to stand out in the fierce competition, Electric Mountain Bike manufacturers must To find a new way out, intelligent is the Electric Mountain Bike industry in recent years the new development.
In China, the development of any emerging industry is closely related to the huge population, Electric Mountain Bike industry is no exception. The current incremental market has peaked, that only to accelerate the stock market demand replacement. We have seen that these years, Electric Mountain Bike companies have been in the stock market efforts, all kinds of tricks for all over the country in the bustling performances, in addition, no bottom line price war, dazzling Star endorsements, signings, square activities, "mountain climbing", "long run" and so on, as the major brands of conventional skills.
However, after the excitement, the industry downturn is still not the slightest change, the existing stock market has been unable to feed so many enterprises, in order to get out of the predicament, you can not continue to die in the stock market, and to find new increments market. Where is the incremental market? Electric Mountain Bike is the best embodiment of industrial innovation, the continuous development of information technology will promote the Electric Mountain Bike industry to further transformation and upgrading. Electric Mountain Bike must be out of functional homogeneity of competition, towards intelligent.
This is only into the Electric Mountain Bike industry guidelines for new ways, and Electric Mountain Bike manufacturers have to seize the opportunity to avoid the fierce competition in the eliminated.
We have already introduced some of the methods for extending the life of Electric Mountain Bikes. In addition to those methods, we have four more attention. We would like to follow the instructions below for better use of Electric Mountain Bikes.
1, test the brake device is effective and reliable, and test after the brake, the power is cut off, the motor has stopped working.
2, should be riding in the slow lane, do not ride in the fast lane. When the traffic is crowded to turn off the door, man riding. Turn slow down the speed, avoid high-speed driving, a small angle sharp turn.
3, should not bring people, because the electric bicycle with the battery capacity is not large, the motor power is not high, so the general electric bicycle carrying capacity of about 80 kg, if the people riding, is bound to increase the motor load, speed up the battery Wear, thereby reducing the battery life of the battery.
4, uphill, on the bridge, against the wind when riding, should be used simultaneously with electricity and manpower to reduce the battery, the motor load. Start the riding method: General electric bicycles have zero start function, that is, when the static open the door, turn the speed switch car can start driving. But this time the starting current is two to three times the normal driving, the impact on the motor and the battery is very large, especially the battery. So in order to extend the duration of a charge of the battery and the battery life, start the foot should start, when the foot three or four laps have a certain speed, and then connected to the circuit, which is particularly busy in traffic, traffic lights Many lots are particularly important. Frequent zero start, must shorten the battery life.
These are some of the areas we should pay attention to when using Electric Mountain Bikes, and only when these problems are noticed in order to make the use of Electric Mountain Bikes longer.


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On Being
[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett
Isabel Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of "The New York Times" and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2016. Her book "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Isabel Wilkerson — The Heart Is The Last Frontier." Find more at onbeing.org.


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Rep. Tim Moffitt Caught Plagiarizing Content on Shady Lawmaker Blogs
Over 75 Examples of Plagiarism Found on Blog Network Used By 30+ GOP Lawmakers
Rep. Tim Moffitt's controversial media company, InTouchNC, is busy scrubbing over 75 examples of plagiarism from the lawmaker's network of right-wing blogs portrayed as official legislative newsletters in more than 30 districts.
The attached spreadsheet outlines dozens of cases in which Moffitt's website lifts whole sentences or even multiple paragraphs from third-party sources. some cases, Moffitt's blog plagiarizes from special-interest talking points such as the oil and gas industry. Some of these blog posts were included in Moffitt's "Raleigh Digest" insert in the Citizen-Times last November.
After being called out in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Thursday, Moffitt's camp dismissed the issue as a simple lack of "proper attribution."
"Any first-year journalism student could tell you that copying entire paragraphs and passing it off as your own writing is clear-cut plagiarism that would get you expelled from most colleges," said Gerrick Brenner, executive director of Progress North Carolina Action. "More troubling is that Moffitt's blog has posed as the work of an independent public servant. Instead, Moffitt has clearly acted as a propaganda mouthpiece for special interests like the oil and gas industry."
Nearly half of the examples of plagiarism discovered by Progress North Carolina were found in a single post, "Fracking Awesome." Many of the plagiarized passages were lifted from sources such as Cabot Oil & Gas, the company involved in fracking-related water contamination in Pennsylvania, and the American Exploration & Production Council, a fracking lobbyist.
Moffitt's network of nearly-identical websites is made to look like official newsletters (complete with a modified state seal at the top) from each lawmaker who pays for one. If a constituent didn't already know about InTouchNC, they'd have no way of knowing those blog posts weren't written by their own lawmaker.
"It's startling to learn that Moffitt is acting as a mouthpiece for special interests like the oil and gas industry by plagiarizing their word for word talking points on his website," added Brenner. "What's worse is that his copy-and-paste plagiarism racket is used by state lawmakers across North Carolina. Maybe those politicians are fine with parroting propaganda from special interest groups like Big Oil. Maybe they are not. These politicians should explain. Hopefully, they won't look to Moffitt for talking points on that explanation."
Mike SingletonImproper or lack of attribution of someone else's work is a part of the lie. Pants on Fire! Maybe someone should check these guys academic works.
Patricia LavinsCorry "Fraudster" Westbrook attempted to be the first legal resident of Washington, D. C. to obtain a Florida Voter Registration Card. Buzzfeed.com reported on her plagarism.
RobJoyI never saw the guy as all that smart anyway. Where else would he get read-worthy content than to plagarize.
RobJoyI never saw the guy as all that smart anyway. Where else would he get read-worthy content than to plagiarize.
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Newspapers Don't Need Anti-Trust Immunity
The $2.7 billion fine the European Union imposed on Google for violating European antitrust law led the Washington Post editorial board to observe that "Brussels vs. Google…seems to be a case of punishment without crime." Nevertheless, the Post, part of the News Media Alliance, seems to have conducted its own investigation of Google, Facebook, and other platforms and concluded that Congress should exempt newspapers from antitrust enforcement. The rationale for this exemption is to allow newspapers to bargain collectively with "dominant online platforms."
The newspaper industry is, indeed, struggling. But allowing competitors to collude is not the answer.
Newspapers have asked for special antitrust treatment before. The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 provided a partial exemption to antitrust laws, ostensibly for the purpose of maintaining competing newspapers in local markets. The Act has had mixed reviews to say the least. But it did have the plausible defense of allowing newspapers to improve productivity by sharing printing and distribution expenses.
The new newspaper proposal, by contrast, would permit the newspaper industry to form a cartel. Antitrust economists and lawyers often disagree about aspects of antitrust enforcement, but they agree almost unanimously that cartels are bad for consumers and the economy. It is, therefore, unsurprising that a bipartisan Antitrust Modernization Commission in 2007 described antitrust exemptions as "harmful," "pernicious," and "likely to harm both U.S. consumers and the U.S. economy."
The News Media Alliance argues that an antitrust exemption is necessary because "antitrust enforcers have declined to address Google and Facebook's growing dominance, enabling the digital giants to roll up the information economy." The Alliance notes that these two companies together account for more than 70 percent of the $73 billion spent on digital advertising. Setting aside the fact that this statistic distorts the extent of competition by ignoring entry into the market by major players such as Amazon and News Corp, it is wholly irrelevant to the real problems newspapers face.
The newspaper industry has been disrupted. But it was disrupted by the internet, not by Google or Facebook. Print advertising began to collapse in 2006 as newspapers lost out to classified advertising websites like Craigslist. Additionally, newspapers currently receive about 70 percent of the ad revenue collected through Google's and Facebook's networks. In 2014 that plus other digital ad revenue totaled about $3.5 billion. Collecting the remaining 30 percent would yield a net increase to newspapers of over $1 billion. That's not going to do much to make up for the $30 billion in print advertising revenues they lost since 2006.
Yet, even the News Media Alliance CEO acknowledges that despite the newspaper industry's loss in revenue, "never in history have so many people consumed so much news." The internet makes it possible for consumers to access publications from virtually anywhere. However, internet distribution of news has also meant the erosion of whatever local market power newspapers once had in local news gathering and reporting, distribution, and advertising. Somewhat ironically, as consumers have access to more news sources, the number of such sources may well decline.
Given the real problems facing local news — declining revenues, the large amount of resources necessary to conduct investigative journalism and cover global stories, and the growing importance of the large platforms to the news ecosystem — it would not be appropriate to let companies like Google and Facebook off the hook entirely. There is an inherent tension between these platforms, which want to maximize the amount of information freely available to their users, and newspaper publishers, many of whom want to preserve the subscription-based model.
Resolving this tension is a tough challenge. But shielding the newspaper industry from competition is not the way to do it. Ultimately, the newspaper industry will have to come up with the answer itself. Newspapers have long been criticized for being behind the curve when it comes to developing new business models appropriate for the internet age. The time to turn that around is now; perhaps The Washington Post will lead the way.
Thomas M. Lenard is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute.


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Catherine Opie: American Photographer
of an Exhibition
Published on January 08, 2009, Modified on January 31, 2009
Museum: Guggenheim Museum
Visit Date: January, 2009
Website(s): http://www.guggenheim.org
While each individual photographic series on view in "Catherine Opie: American Photographer" at New York's Guggenheim Museum is compelling on its own, together they comprise a unique and powerful exploration of community and identity. From her intimate documentation of queer subcultures to her clinical examination of urban mini-malls and freeways, Opie's work in this sprawling mid-career retrospective looks at both the fringes and essence of American culture and the ties that bind us.
As a result of the Guggenheim's architecture, the show occupies rooms on four different floors of the Museum. Each room is introduced by a text panel with general information about the exhibition and the specific projects on display, enabling visitors to view the works in any order. I began at the top and worked my way down, starting with Opie's most recent project, "In and Around Home". Intimate domestic portraits of the queer artist's own family are interspersed with images revealing the character of the predominantly African-American southern California neighborhood they inhabit. The series is punctuated by polaroid snapshots that freeze views of the evening news and popular media, rooting the family and the community in a larger society and moment in time.
Passing back into a much smaller back room, the tone changes dramatically. Enormous, tonally dark, quietly macabre photographic prints dominate the space. A text panel on the wall explains that these are life-size polaroid portraits of Opie's friend, Ron Athey, a queer performance artist who had been diagnosed with HIV. The images recreate aspects of Athey's performances, providing a window into the controlled violence and sexuality of the sadomasochistic subculture. The room has the feeling of a tomb, and suggests the hidden nature of these communities within our larger society. A curtain has been drawn back, and what we see is both beautiful and chilling.
After descending a couple levels, I encountered the next installment of Opie's exhibition: "Icehouses" and "Surfers", both of which occupied a single long, rectangular room. On one wall, huge prints show brightly colored ice-fishing houses popping out of icy white backgrounds. They are hung just inches apart, and a continuous horizon line runs through them all. On the opposite wall, large, nearly monochrome blue-gray photographs show tiny surfers floating in the vast Pacific ocean, waiting for waves that never seem to come. The same horizon line is faintly visible as sea meets sky in a hazy blur. I found this room to be the most aesthetically powerful in the show. The simplicity and symmetry of the presentation imbues a powerful sense of the vastness of nature, and once again we are privileged to glimpse communities formed on the edge of society. Considering the environmental stresses these people endure, we are invited to reflect on how we each find and create community on the basis of shared passions. I noticed that visitors quickly fell silent or spoke in hushed tones as they entered the room.
Descending again, I came to the most extensive portion of the exhibition, in which Opie's famously colorful and dignified portraits of members of the queer, transgendered, and sadomasochistic communities shared the walls with her provocative self-portraits. The classic studio portraits celebrate the identities of their subjects without reducing them to stereotypes. She photographs her subjects against brightly colored backdrops in an aristocratic style, and viewed together the images form jumbled rainbows. Opie's self-portraits confront societal stereotypes about gender and sexuality head on. In one particularly powerful image, she appears with the word "pervert" delicately carved into her bare, bleeding chest. In another nearby image, she breast feeds her son, and the word pervert has faded to a faint but visible scar. Throughout this exhibition, I felt a sense of the passage of time— wounds heal, friends pass away, babies are born, the waves roll in. Our communities and perceptions are transformed. Moving into the other rooms on this floor, domestic portraits of lesbian couples and families from all over the country, as well as cold, closed landscapes of wealthy California homes expanded Opie's exploration of this community beyond her immediate surroundings.
On the lowest level, I found a series of black and white urban landscapes of city streets, architecture, and mini-malls. While I felt that these works lacked the vibrant intimacy of her later images, the artist's versatility was refreshing. Her eye manages to remain consistent, despite a near complete departure in terms of subject matter and presentation. On one wall painted a warm robin's egg blue, tiny platinum prints of Los Angeles freeways shot in a monumental and decontextualized style were striking. By capturing the structures without people, cars, or any signs of life visible, these cultural arteries are depicted as iconic relics of human society. Moving from highly personal photographs of Opie's own family to dehumanized landscapes, the exhibition showcases Opie's range and singular vision while inviting viewers to question their own definition of community.