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The title is really for me.
This past weekend, after spending weeks, months actually, on a project (still not done) and studying color theory from the late 19th and early 20th century, I needed to get out and paint from a live model. It did not go well.
Not to make too many excuses but…. I got there late so I was in the very back row and I couldn't see the model very well. The linen, which had a clear primer on it, had a strange and slippery feel. And because I couldn't see well, I couldn't measure well so my drawing was beyond off. I was testing a new limited palette of colors (suggested by Carlos Duran, teacher of John Singer Sargent) and thankfully that was going well. So I painted and scraped. Then I experimented and scraped. This painting/experimenting/scraping continued for the full 3 hours. All the while I could see other painters look behind them as they repeatedly heard the palette knife taking off layers of wet paint. (It has happened to them too. I truly believe I could feel their empathetic, "I feel your pain".) At the end of the session I gave the linen to a friend of mine so she could try it. Painting is hard work. Some days are very good. Others, not so much. This session was brutal.
Today, as I hiked the mountain with my dogs, I thought about what happened and why. And then I recalled….you know how certain things just come back to haunt you?….that an early teacher had suggested I stick to what I do best and not try to do it all. I completely reject that kind of pigeonholing. But there are things we are better at and more suited to do. Portraits are hit and miss with me. I do better with still life. They are more controllable and I have time to develop and correct. It's quiet. It's my space. No one is watching me. And even Rubens would parse out sections of his paintings to those who were more capable. That says something!
So I will continue to paint and draw portraits, but I do know that my stronger suit is the still life and (animals portraits). It's good to know what one is better at. It allows more room for mistakes, learning, and growth.
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OXFORD COLLAPSE:: Bits (Album Review)
After graduating from Strokes-y newbies on "Some Wilderness" to Feelies-influenced art-rockers on "A Good Ground," Brooklyn's Oxford Collapse jumped to Sub Pop for 2006's immensely likable "Remember the Night Parties."
Album 4 finds them shelving that trademark tangle of guitar for noisier yet sharper anthem-making. Some songs rocket forward like vintage Buzzcocks or Superchunk, while others, such as the cello-kissed "A Wedding," are quieter and prettier. But the trio still traffics in grabby, half-shouted refrains — mostly coming from guitarist Michael Pace — starting with the memorable opener, "Electric Arc": "I can't remember things / I just don't know what to do."
Oxford Collapse reportedly wrote 30 songs for this record, keeping most of them short and not finishing the lyrics on many until right before they were put to tape. That would explain the more straightforward feel of "BITS," and why the band can't quite match the heady, smart-acre highs of "Remember the Night Parties." With that said, by this point Pace has an incredibly tight musical bond with bassist Adam Rizer and drummer Dan Fetherston — each of whom contribute to the songwriting — and it's hard not to smile at lyrics about a guy who "got jacked up playing leapfrog."

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1. What is clinical neuropsychology?
Clinical neuropsychology is a health care specialty that focuses on evaluating cognitive and behavioral changes related to medical illness or psychiatric disorders.
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Chesapeake Neuropsychology offers comprehensive outpatient neuropsychological assessment, meaning that we specialize in evaluating and documenting cognitive and behavioral functioning relating to many different conditions (see below). Both clinical and forensic services are available. We also offer "baseline" cognitive evaluations and intelligence testing for healthy adults.
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Fellow Toastmasters,
Just a reminder that our club is now in Area A10 and that our Area's Humorous and Evaluations contest is this Saturday, October 14th, from 8am to 12pm. This is a combination contest with Area A11, so there will be approximately 12 contestants (6 per contest per Area). It should make for a fun event.
The location:
DeVry University, 2300 SW 145th Ave, Miramar, FL 33027
For most of us in Plantation Toastmasters, I-75 south to Pines Blvd east then 145th Ave south will be the quickest route to get there (it's basically due south of Pembroke Gardens), to give you an idea of the contest location.
Refreshments provided. No charge, no RSVP.
Let's have a strong Plantation Toastmasters showing to support Jim Barber, our club's humorous speech contestant, and Eric Jacobson, our club's evaluation contestant! I have our club banner to display during this event.
If you are interested, this is an all day event, with Areas A12 and A13's contest from 1pm to 5pm.
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Last night I gave a talk about my Minnesota hometown to about 40 interested people, mostly older, white haired people. I had 99 slides to get through in 30 minutes. I only got to about the 70th one and then time was up and I asked for questions and comments. I had a few comments during my presentation where I had to cut short an older gentleman who was going on and on (without a microphone). He understood when I talked to him later. He was a older grandpa himself but his grandfather was one of the movers and shakers of my hometown. That would have been 120 years ago.
People can make a difference in the lives of others, be they good or bad. There are very good people in the world and there are evil ones. My brother in the big city of Minneapolis was rear ended in his nice new pickup by someone who is evil. There was no police report filed but now this guy claims that my brother cut in in front of him. He is calling on a lawyer to support what he is lying about. There are slimy people in the world. Knowing my brother who is smart and can take care of himself, well this guy should not have purposely "bumped" into this hockey player brother of mine.
We just had Halloween and it was simultaneous to a full moon so the weirdos were out in full force. A high school friend of mine said she was in the front room of their house with her daughter and small granddaughters. There was the ring of the doorbell and the littlest granddaughter thought it was yet another trick or treater. They had about 35 treaters instead of the usual 75 kids coming for candy. Instead this little 5 year old girl saw a man in his 20s, who was dressed in camo and had a "Jason" mask on. He also carried a REAL chainsaw and he ripped it on and revved it up. Scared everyone in the house and my friend's husband watched to see where he went next, he just walked across their front lawn and on down the street.
Of course the girls were wild with fear, there are crazies out there…everywhere. There are evil and strange people in the U.S. and in Kazakhstan. Maybe that is why I feel safe to go back in the archives and look up old newspaper articles in the 1870s and 1880s because those people have long passed on. Some have died and were considered good people, others were shrewd, a few made lots of money, while others may have made lots of enemies. But we mostly find out about the GOOD in people from what is documented.
Someone who owns an antique store in my hometown said that I could look at what he found of the police records of those men from the 1880s and 1890s who had some kind of run in with the law. I'm eager to do that. As I told my captive audience last night, I will be writing a book about our hometown history and trying to figure out who was friends with whom. There were many good men who started up our town at the turn of the 20th century. That's why it was a privilege to meet the grandson of the man who was one of the founders of our community.
Yes, I hope to write a book about my town with about 200 photos. I look forward to working with Arcadia Publishing in South Carolina because they have about 8,000 titles of small towns printed already. Small town America is vastly diminishing but I think there should be a renewing of these towns because big city life gets complicated especially looking at what is happening in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
So, why do I also keep writing about human trafficking issues, especially in Kazakhstan? I care about the people who are trapped in a country I love. The Kazakh people I have worked with, yes, there are some evil people who are caught up in the corrupt system in Kazakhstan, they can't help themselves. That is why my Master told His followers, "Be wise as serpents and gentle as doves." I know I live in two world systems simultaneously, there is nothing I can do about it. But I can help free or help those who have come out of trafficked situations. I am an American with freedom and independence on my mind, for everyone including the unborn baby as well as the trafficked victim. The vulnerable and defenseless need outside help.
As an educator I try to help by making people aware of the evil that is out in the world. Also, as an educator I want people from my hometown to know about a history that has both good and evil but mostly good. I come from solid roots where I am able to travel half way around the world to help teach English in Kazakhstan. If more people from my hometown know about the power of their ancestors and the energy it took to DO good, then they will take heart to know that whatever evil comes to them…this too shall pass.
I know I'm rambling right now, I should be getting ready to pack for my trip to Kazakhstan. What will I witness in changes from when I was there 1 1/2 years ago? Astana is on a fast track to become an important country to reckon with among the developed nations. The Kazakhs are in earnest to be recognized as key players on the world scene. Maybe I have a sense of that spirit being from a small town that used to have a glorious past but is waning in strength and numbers. I can identify, the Kazakhs have an AMAZING history!!! Okay, enough for now. I hope to have photos soon of what I see in Kazakhstan, that is, if I get my passport with visa in time. It was held up in New York due to Hurricane Sandy.
I pray for the victims in New York and New Jersey as they pull themselves up to pick up the pieces and try to rebuild. So I have three scenarios playing out here, my hometown that has little energy, Kazakhstan as a country that has much ambition and potential and they are working hard and the East Coast that will try to rebuild from the destruction. Hurricane Sandy was an evil force of weather, the good will hopefully prevail. Okay, I need to go pack now…


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Mulberry's spring ads are the stuff of Tumblr dreams, Lindsey Wixson, Frida Gustavsson and a giant melting ice cream cone by Tim Walker? The sugar level is off the charts, but who can resist such a sweet treat?! Shot on location in Brighton with set design by Andy Hillman and styling by Edward Enninful, the girlish ads are joyful and creative. Those cream colored Bayswater satchels and bright high heeled wedges are almost as tempting as the massive hard candies.
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No More Throwaway Carpets Because You're Keeping Them
The only throwaways you really will have in the future are those you throw over your couches and big, easy chairs in the living room. They look like decorative, sometimes even exotic or oriental blankets but so as not to damage the impression it creates, and not to wear them out or soil them, these are not blankets that will be worn or draped over the torso. They are just there for decoration. Carpet repairs West Palm Beach make sure that there will be no more throwaways on that side either.
There is nothing worse than a ruined carpet. What a pity it would be to have to throw it away. It is even more tragic when this is a carpet or rug that has been in the family for years. And usually, when this is the case, that mat's been in good condition and of high quality all of the time. But so it goes that even decent things get ruined and are in need of a wash. You know yourself how difficult it is to clean a Persian rug.
Better to just not go there. And rather let the carpet shop people do the cleaning. Your usual wall to wall carpets can also be fixed. These days, and in actual fact it's been going on for years, this is an old trick, folks, those old carpets are fitted with thick-set felt to help protect it from the roughness of the floor. Materials are also discreetly fitted to free rugs to help prevent them from slipping and sliding all over the show.
Maybe you have experienced this before. It is really quite inconvenient and somewhat awkward. Could even be quite dangerous too. Get your carpets cleaned and fixed today.Read More →


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7.1 The Number 7 Cross Island Highway
|A Poppy Field in Daxi
One interesting thing I've discovered is that the meaning of certain words is different in Taiwanese English than it is in English-English. Huh? What does that mean? Take the word Highway, for instance. We've driven the #7 Cross-Island Highway from Daxi Township all the way to Yilan. It starts out
as a beautiful highway. It's wide with double yellow lines down the middle
and moves along easily at 60 km/h (38 mph). In essence it lives up to the
name highway.
One minute we're zipping along in beautiful mountain scenery. We
passed a huge field of orange poppies: Then the immaculately manicured
Chiang Kai Shek mausoleum. Then something happened to the road. The
highway was like a road with dual personalities…and suddenly the evil
personality showed up.
The complexion of the road changed. It narrowed a little, then a little
more. Then it began to snake through the forest and up the side of the
mountain; twisting and turning; even the switchbacks had switchbacks. Until
the Cross-Island Highway looked more like the Cross Island Goat track: And
then I'm sure I saw a goat refusing to get on the road.
|A remote temple in the mountains
At times it felt like I was driving the car in the cartoons where the tires
on one side of the car stayed on the road and the others hung out over a
yawning abyss. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating here, but not much. Then the
road got really narrow and the sun began to set.
Then it got darker and darker. The conversation turned darker as well. It
was like driving through a horror movie. It got so dark that we couldn't see to
the trees on the side of the road. And then it got really dark. I thought it would
never end.
|A waterfall near the road before it went all Twilight Zone/Zombie Apocalypse on us.
We had decided to drive over to Yilan. People have been telling me what
a wonderful place it was, so we thought we'd make it a day and drive the 7.
Because I hadn't been there before, I was watching the mileage signs; just
before dark we saw a sign that said 28 kilometers to Yilan. So we drove in the
same direction for at least 10 kilometers then we saw the next sign. Yilan 32
kilometers…wait…we were traveling in the right direction how did it get
farther away. Then I'm sure I saw him…In fact, I'm positive I saw Rod
Serling hitchhiking with a sign that said "The Twilight Zone." Then it got
really, really dark; it got so dark that the boogieman had a night-light.
Eventually about an eon later we came out of the mountains and into a good-sized city.
We stopped for gas and a man gave us a road map so that we could find
an alternate route home. One of our friends had commented to us that we
shouldn't stop for anyone walking on the road. He said that many people had
reported seeing ghosts on the side of the highway waving to people. I just
passed it off as a legend. You know where I grew up we lived with the legend of
the "White Witch of Nortonville."
This woman was apparently a nurse in the 1800s during an epidemic of
small pox in Northern California. Legend has it that she overturned her wagon
while trying to reach some sick child in a remote cabin in the hills near the
Somersville mines in Nortonville. Now she supposedly wanders the roads
around the cemetery she's buried in. We would go out and visit Nortonville
looking for her but didn't really expect to find her.
Then, I saw a guy, standing there, I couldn't help but stare he was
completely pale, like he hadn't been outside in years. He had dark circles
around his eyes and walked with a shuffling gate, sort of dragging one leg
along. He had a double-bitted axe in one hand and chainsaw in the other. He
was headed for the mountains… on the road we just came down.
When he heard we'd just come out of the mountains he looked a little
peeved. He just muttered something that sounded like, "I knew I was late." Iwonder what he meant by that…


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Captain Comet's Rehab Squad
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While the Daily Planet's Jimmy Olsen tries to track down a story about a long-forgotten hero, his quest takes him into an entirely different direction when he witnesses the kidnapping of Dolphin! As Captain Comet and the Rehab Squad get involved in a case that takes them all the way to Atlantis, will Dolphin finally learn her true origins? Guest starring Angel and the Ape and Dan the Dynamite!
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Battery not charging while laptop is powered on
Recently my macbook won't charge unless it is powered off.
I have tried resetting the SMC and the issue persists. At first resetting the machine's PRAM would allow it to charge normally but recently this has stopped working.
If I shut down the laptop and allow it to charge for ~20 mins then power the laptop on it will charge normally.
If I remove the charger before the laptop fully charges and plug it back in the laptop will stop charging and the battery will slowly begin to drain while showing the message below:
If the battery is at 100% and I remove the charger then plug it back in it will stay at 100% no matter what I do however if I allow it do drop by a single percent then plug it back in the battery will slowly drain to 0% at which point the laptop powers off.
The MagSafe LED behaves normally, it is orange when the battery is <100% and green once it reaches 100%.
I have tried replacing the DC-In board but that made no difference.
Here is the hardware information menu:
I have scoured the internet and have not been able to find a single case of this happening to anyone else. I have similar cases and most them involve liquid damage which I am certain is not the case with my laptop, it has never had any liquid damage and I cannot see any signs of it after looking at the (bottom side of) the logic board.
Here are pictures of the bottom side of the motherboard and the battery's logic board:
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Give this little gem of an app a try: coconutBattery. Post a screenshot of the main screen and click on the 'Battery Details' button so we can it as well. It should help us understand whats happening here.
after looking at 3 rd pic i can see that you dont have too many cycles, and you getting good voltage, but i can see the amperage at -387 which is not good ... this mean the battery is not charging. like it says in your 2nd pic. i would change the battery.
@dan the when I first started the app it said 89.5%, when I plugged in the charger it said 92.5% when I rebooted my laptop it said 91.8%
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The battery lasts just as long as it did before it stopped charging correctly and charges perfectly as long as the system is off for a while when I start charging
In addition to my previous comment I just reset the pram and it's charging again here are the screenshots from coconutbattery(with battery details) and the hardware information:


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Transcript OpenCALEA - Internet2
"OpenCALEA" Pragmatic Cost Effective CALEA Compliance Manish Karir, Merit - Research and Development Experimentation Goals 1. Develop an experimental reference architecture as a model for CALEA compliance 2. Determine what level of compliance is possible at a reasonable price point 3. Experiment with simple hardware/software in order to determine suitability for compliance 4. How well will this solution scale (10G cards, multiple sites) compared to price/performance of commercial solutions 5. Gain a technical understanding of what is required to be CALEA compliant 6. Build open source tools that others can use/contribute towards Approach 1. Build and deploy a packet capture platform – Experimental Architecture 1 -- Dell Precision GX260 Workstation, 2 GIGE interfaces for management and sampling, Pentium 4 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Linux – Experimental Architecture 2 -- Dell PowerEdge860 1U server, Dual Pentium 2.8GHz, 1 GIGE interface(mgmt), 1myricom 10GIGE adapter, 1GB RAM, Linux – Tcpdump/tethereal for packet capture -- both depend on pcap library, custom utilities to format packets appropriately for LEA – Iperf as the traffic generator 2. Test ability to capture a single data stream in the presence of varying amounts of live background network traffic 3. Metrics: packet loss, cost Experiment 1 Architecture Experiment 1 Methodology 1. Background traffic for the duration of the test: ~ 190-225Mbps (Sunday evening load) 2. Repeat for higher traffic load ~400Mbps (Monday afternoon) 3. Test – Send data from source to sink using iperf – Attempt to capture traffic stream at capture device (full packet captures not just headers) – Measure actual number of packets transmitted at the source and compare with number of full packets captured – Measure for Small/Medium/Large UDP flow Experiment 1 Results Experiment Network Load Avg Packet Loss % 10 sec UDP390kbps 5 min UDP 390kbps 30 min UDP 390kbps 5 min UDP 390kbps 200Mbps < 1.0 200Mbps < 1.0 200Mbps < 1.0 400Mbps < 1.0 Experiment 2 Architecture Experiment 2 Methodology 1. Scale up experiment 1 architecture to links that carry over 2Gbps of traffic – – Use of better hardware platform: Dell 1U server 10GiGE Myricom Ethernet Adapter 2. Test ability to deliver the captured packets to LEA – Simple custom software which operates similar to tcpdump but additionally can transmit packets to LEA 3. Test ability to operate in the presence of complications. (Such as VLANS ~40vlans mirrored on single interface) 4. Measure ability to capture higher bitrate streams in presence of higher background traffic Experiment 2 Results UDP stream with average background network load of 2.3-2.4 Gbps Experiment Stream Bitrate Avg Packet Loss % 5min UDP 25K packets 5 min UDP 127K packets 5 min UDP 255K packets 5 min UDP 636K packets 1Mbps ~0.0 5 Mbps ~0.0 10Mbps < 1.0 25 Mbps < 1.0 Experiment 2 Results UDP stream with average background network load of > 2.5Gbps Experiment 5min UDP 100kbps 5min UDP 200kbps 5min UDP 400kbps 5 min UDP 1Mbps Packet Loss Packet Loss at Tap at LEA < 1% < 1% < 1% < 1% < 1% < 1% < 1% < 1% Experiment Conclusions 1. Return Path Characteristics are Important otherwise there can be packet loss on path to LEA. 2. Check for MTU -- Encapsulation can lead to packet size > 1,500Bytes. (MTU should be able to support jumbo frames on the path to LEA). 3. Packet capture at > 2Gbps network load appears to be feasible. 4. Hardware/software cost: ~ $2,500 (server $1300 + 10Gige I/F card, $1200) 5. Need to Verify: Is there any data impairment during the capture/transfer/writing process? OpenCALEA Software Toolset Tap Tool: 1. Tap: Perform packet capture – Receive packets via libpcap interface – Create new UDP packet in appropriate format – Encapsulate captured packet into new packet – Timestamp information to UDP packet – Send to LEA collection IP address – Send the packet header information on separate UDP port 2. Example Usage: ./tap -d 192.168.1.1 -i any -c -f "host 192.168.1.2 and port 5001" OpenCALEA Software Toolset LEA Receiver Tool (Consistent with standard): 3. Example of LEA collection function implementation: lea_collect – Receive UDP packets sent by tap – Remove encapsulation – Create standard libpcap packet based on timestamps and encapsulated packet – Write packet to file – Write packet header information sent by tap 4. Example Usage: ./lea_collect -f capture-file.pcap OpenCALEA Software Toolset User Front End (in development): 5. calea_controller: Responsible for initiating a tap on remote tap devices but issuing the appropriate command 6. calea_collector: Responsible for listening for commands from calea_controller and initiating the tap with the appropriate filters Conclusions 1. A cost-effective CALEA solution was developed and tested 2. The solution has performed well in initial testing 3. The solution appears to be - Consistent with technical requirements Cost effective Practical 4. Soon! www.opencalea.org


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Even the right can't deny job market's hot streak
We talked earlier about the new job numbers, which showed 2015 ending on a very strong note. But let's also take a moment to add some context to the data.
Overall, the U.S. economy added 2.65 million jobs in 2015 last year, 2.55 million jobs in the private sector alone. Was the year as strong as 2014? Not quite, but it was close – and the back-to-back performance matters.
Even looking at 2015 in isolation, the year saw better job growth than in any year of the Bush/Cheney era – or the Bush/Quayle era, for that matter. But when 2015 is combined with 2014, we see a job market on a two-year hot streak unmatched since 1998 and 1999.
Not too shabby.
Of course, there's a political angle to this that's worth broader consideration. Congressional Republicans and GOP presidential candidates believe with absolute certainty that many of President Obama's domestic policy accomplishments – the Affordable Care Act, higher taxes on the wealthy, Wall Street regulations, et al – are crushing the economy and stifling the American job market.
Indeed, voters are hearing from a large field of far-right White House hopefuls who insist, literally every day, that the only way to create jobs in this country is to do the exact opposite of what President Obama has done.
And yet, here we are, with over 3 million jobs created in 2014, 2.65 million jobs in 2015, and an unemployment rate that's been cut from 10% to 5% in fairly short order.
Why Americans would feel an urgent need to dramatically change economic direction is entirely unclear.
I created the above chart showing job growth by year for the four most recent presidential administrations – the blue columns point to the two Democratic administrations (darker blue for overall job growth, lighter blue for private-sector-only growth), and the red columns point to the two Republican administrations (darker red for overall job growth, lighter red for private-sector-only growth).
Postscript: I should note that today's job totals for December are preliminary and will be revised in the coming weeks. That said, these revisions are nearly always fairly modest – indeed, lately the revisions tend to point to increased, not decreased, totals – and will have little effect on the broader point.


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Coolpad Cool Play 6 has gone for sale in India at Amazon India for the price of ₹14,999/-. It comes in gold and black colors, though Amazon only lists the gold color. The biggest highlight of the smartphone is the 6GB RAM despite the affordable price tag. Let's check out its features:
Display and Processor
Coolpad Cool Play 6 flaunts a 5.5-inch full-HD 1080p display. It features a full metal body with metallic rims around the device. Under the hood, it is powered by octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 SoC teamed with 64GB of storage capacity. It comes with huge RAM of 6GB and houses Adreno 510 GPU. It runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system.
Camera and Battery
In terms of optics, Coolpad Cool Play 6 features a dual camera setup with two 13MP sensors. The rear camera comes with features like PDAF, dual tone LED flash, f/2.0 aperture, HDR and 4K video recording. At the front, it has an 8MP selfie camera with f/2.2 aperture. The smartphone is backed by big 4000mAh battery that can offer up to 300 hours of standby time.
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The connectivity options of Coolpad Cool Play 6 include Bluetooth 4.1, 4G VoLTE, USB Type-C port, and Wi-Fi. The sensors on board include proximity sensor, accelerometer and ambient light sensor. It also includes fingerprint scanner.
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REGINA - Advocates who say Saskatchewan has cast too wide a net in applying dangerous offender designations will have to wait to see if the province's highest court will weigh in.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal was to hear arguments Thursday on whether it should overturn the designation given to Andy Peekeekoot.
Instead, court heard Peekeekoot tried to submit more material on Monday that his lawyer, Bob Hrycan, needs time to investigate. Court heard that could lead to Hrycan withdrawing from the case or an appeal of the assault conviction that prompted the dangerous offender application in the first place.
Chief Justice Robert Richards called it "an unusual situation" and reluctantly adjourned the case for two weeks.
"We're aware of the number of times that counsel have been changed in the proceedings here," said Richards. "I simply repeat my concern, the court's concern, that these kinds of matters have to come to a head, have to come to a resolution. The interest of justice at large demands that."
In 2007, Peekeekoot was convicted on two counts of assault while threatening to use a weapon — he brandished a knife in a bar fight in Shell Lake in 2005. Peekeekoot was declared a dangerous offender in 2010.
He has more than 20 convictions, including for assaults on corrections workers, on his record.
The dangerous offender label means the 34-year-old can be kept behind bars indefinitely.
The sentencing judge in 2010 noted that some of Peekeekoot's violent behaviour happened when he was already in jail. Expert testimony called Peekeekoot a very high risk to reoffend and provincial court Judge Lloyd Deshaye wrote that "there is little or no realistic prospect that he will ever change."
Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, which has intervener status in the Appeal Court, said the case raises important issues about dangerous offenders, specifically when they are aboriginal.
"What (is) the responsibility of a judge ... when someone is unrepresented for an important part of their dangerous offender hearing, which essentially is our understanding of what happened here," Jonathan Rudin with Aboriginal Legal Services said outside the courthouse Thursday.
Peekeekoot had five different lawyers after the bar fight charges were laid, but fired several of them.
The Saskatchewan Coalition Against Racism has said Peekeekoot was not able to present evidence or do a final summation at his dangerous offender hearing.
Rudin said there are also concerns as to whether the judge who sentenced Peekeekoot took notice of the broad systemic and background factors affecting aboriginal people.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled judges should take an aboriginal offender's background into account for sentencing.
There are 465 people serving time under the dangerous offender designation in Canada. Forty-five of those are in Saskatchewan, according to the latest Corrections and Conditional Release Statistical Overview.
The 2012 report also says aboriginal offenders account for 26.7 per cent of dangerous offenders.
Craig Benjamin with Amnesty International Canada said the designation should be for the worst criminals, such as murderers and sexual predators.
"The potential that somebody who has committed, yes, serious crimes, but crimes which would not result in a life sentence could ... end up being behind bars much, much longer than somebody convicted of the worst crime ... is something that deserves careful scrutiny," Benjamin said in a phone interview from Ottawa.
Rudin suggested recent amendments to the Criminal Code are going to make it easier to have people declared a dangerous offender.
"It's fairly clear that we can expect to see a continued rise in the dangerous offender population," he said.
"And the other thing that concerns us is that aboriginal people are significantly over-represented ... even more so than they're over-represented among the penitentiary population."


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Swedish apple pie is one of our favourite desserts. Not only is it delicious (especially with ice cream – soy, of course) but it is simple to make. The recipe was given to me about ten years ago by a co-worker. She had no idea why it was called *Swedish* apple pie since there is nothing particularly Swedish about it, but the name has stuck. This recipe is a vegan variation – the kind of sugar and flour you use is up to you.
Fill a pie dish 3/4 full (about 6 apples, peeled and sliced)
Sprinkle with 1 tsp cinnamon mixed with 1 tbsp sugar
Now make the batter:
Melt 3/4 cup butter (Earth Balance butter sticks are easy to measure)
Add: 1 cup sugar, 1 flax egg, and 1 cup flour (To make the flax egg stir together 1 tbsp flax seed and 3 tbsp water. It is best to make the flax egg before you start making the pie as it needs time to thicken.)
Pour the hot batter over the apples and bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
While this dessert is lovely by itself, it's also nice with vanilla ice cream and/or berries.


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'The Superhero Aunty' Series
Rehal Kulwinder aka Kully Rehal is an Instagram sensation who is intrigued by culture. She is fascinated by the stories of South-Asian elderly folks who were first timers in foreign lands. She spends time at local community groups listening to their journey, realizing with a deep heart that they are in fact isolated in life, led on foreign soils. This fascination with their story is operated by the aspect that she herself was born to Indian parents in the UK, trying to find an identity midway between the East and the West. Spurred by their stories and wanting to idolize their bravery, courage and commitment made her create 'The Superhero Aunty Series' that caught instant recognition.
Rehal Kulwinder is a visual artist who used to get caught in school for doodling 'outrageous and offensive' drawings of teachers on her textbooks. Born in the UK, she says she has always been curious about how the South-Asian culture influenced the generation of youth born to immigrant parents. This search for self became the soul of her work - exploring the concept of self-identity.
She remembers with fascination, her father making her mother sit and pose for hours so that he could paint her as his muse. Intrigued, she would watch him study every curve, line, and stroke, that she found herself doing that later on.
After graduating in BA Print Textiles, she was more interested in understanding the struggles of the older generation of women who left everything behind and came as immigrants. Using this as her canvas she lets her inner child overpower her and create drawings that portray characters, through the medium of humour.
"As grown-ups, we've lost this childlike sense of life. And that's actually a sad thing. It's not just about happiness and innocence either — being more childlike also helps me to be more creative, more imaginative, more innovative and open to worlds of possibilities.
The child inside of me is naturally imaginative, curious, able to play without a worry in my mind and that's how I like to work." informs her.
Illustrating whimsical characters in acrylic, borrowed from South-Asian culture, her art represents everyday life and finds a balance between lifestyles. The use of colours is bold like its subjects, vibrant and lively. Quirky and witty, they represent a carefree attitude and relief.
"It is always a pleasure and an honour to utilize my creative skills for a positive change."
Addressing her compassionate heart, she works in special need schools, with children diagnosed with Autism and Attention-deficiency/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Her idea is to create a special language for these kids to communicate through the arts.
Realising one her dream of sharing and interacting was Appa Arts festival in Pune, 2017, where she was invited as a British Asian artist which helped her interact with senior most artists around the world.
Being a nature lover, she was part of 'Jungle in the City' event that took place in Aarey Jungle, Mumbai. The main aim was to raise awareness about the upcoming metro rail project planned to go right through the Aarey forest area leading to the displacement of local tribals and the destruction of a countless number of trees, in addition to which she ran some Warli painting workshops with the locals. She also initiated a programme with a charity called 'Saher', which is an isolated part of the Mumbai basti's so that the young youths can set up self-sustainable work, where they can create an earning from the comfort of their home.
"All these experiences and many more have helped carve me into the artist I am."
Having gone through some rather 'colourful' experiences in life, her work has transitioned and journeyed through different obstacles, from looking into the subjects of domestic violence, female empowerment to tongue in cheek humour.
Talking about what the future holds for her, she hopes it's on a "path of self-discovery, travel, and painting."
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Pick an identity.
Vietnam War soldier.
Undercover police detective.
Brick City politician.
Senator Ronald Rice (D-28) has managed to shoulder all those occupations on his wiry frame at one time or another, spending the most time in the third iteration of self, assuming his senate seat back in 1986 and letting the sideburns go gun metal blue with time and the repeated stare down of ornery opposition.
Heading into 2017 he may be facing his toughest, and most thorny, political test.
Having staved off the Essex County Democratic Organization's most motivated attempt to get rid of him in 2007 as part of its eradication of the Sharpe James epoch in Newark, Rice subsequently avoided having to repeatedly run with the bulls by making an uneasy peace with the organization. That peace went along basically without incident for awhile until 2016, when Rice backed Ras Baraka for mayor, bucking a statewide Democratic effort helmed by Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo and South Jersey life force George Norcross III.
Now Baraka appears in position to back Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop for governor nextyear against the organization line, if need be – and it looks like it will need be, as the powerful DiVincenzo and Norcross continue to dismiss Fulop's candidacy as the premature perambulations of a Jersey City green horn.
No problem for the Baraka-loving, Norcross-detesting Rice, right?
The trouble is Rice does not like Fulop, and won't support his gubernatorial candidacy.
"I support Ras 100%," Newark's senior senator told PolitickerNJ. "I've got his back, and I would hope he has my back. But I would never support Fulop. If I supported him I would welcome the opposition of Gerry Balmir, Charles Mainor, and Sandy Cunningham, and I won't do that. I don't think Fulop's ready, and I think he would be bad for New Jersey. I think he lies and I think his money is questionable; how he hides stuff. And he doesn't understand the African-American community."
Baraka doesn't agree. Newark's mayor has repeatedly made known his avid and enthusiastic support for the Jersey City mayor, and on Friday he sat down with his North Jersey ally to chart a way forward in Essex in the likely event that Fulop runs off the line.
Rice's slate mate, Assemblywoman Cleo Tucker (D-28), has strong ties to Baraka. Her son was one of the political minders present last Friday at Fulop's close-quarters political pow wow with the Newark mayor.
The other third of the LD28 equation?
While not committing to any one gubernatorial candidate, Assemblyman Ralph Caputo (D-28) told PolitickerNJ that he's certain Rice, Tucker and himself will run together next year.
Like Rice and Tucker and Fulop, Caputo was an early Baraka backer in 2014.
Will the ties hold or inevitably pull apart?
For his part, Rice undoubtedly appears best positioned to support former Goldman Sachs Executive and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Phil Murphy, a hard-charging retail politician and staunch ally of former Governor (and 27th District Senator) Dick Codey. But the West Newark senator won't put that on the record yet when asked, noting the presence of other likely gubernatorial contestants, including state Senator Ray Lesniak (D-20), Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-19), and Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter (D-35).
It should be noted that Murphy is aligned politically locally in Newark with none other than Sharpe James. Moreover, the vitriol of his past duels with Norcross suggest that Rice's support for Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3) would lag behind the fresher faced Murphy, who's running as an outsider, an easy tag for Rice to call his own.
But he's not going there – yet.
"I'll deal with that when the time comes," he said of the 2017 Democratic Primary. "I'm still constituency-based. We need to get back to the presidential elections. That's what I'm focused on right now. I just don't support Fulop, but I stand by the mayor. I hope we can continue to move Newark forward under his leadership. I just worry about some of the people around the mayor, and Fulop is one of those people."
Facing such a tough test, tugged westward by Codey and Murphy and pulled southward and toward the gold dome of city hall by Baraka, and yet utterly resistant to Fulop, a civil warpaint-wearing Rice may find himself in position – as at no other time – to enact all three versions of himself simultaneously in order to survive politically.


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Biometric installation behind schedule at Olympic Park
04 February, 2009
category: Biometrics, Corporate
Installation plans for biometric security at London's Olympic Park for the 2012 games is behind schedule and will likely not be completed until the summer, according to a Contract Journal article. The planners had been hoping to have the systems in place prior to the increase in construction crew members for building the recently started construction of the "ring of steel" fence that will surround the park.
The contracts for face recognition and palm scanning have yet to be awarded to any company but are expected to be finished by the spring. The lack of high-tech security at the park, however, has planners worried as the large construction force is only being checked in manually and the site is being monitored by a crew of security guards.
Other security contracts such as those for the checking of employee credentials and vehicles as well as closed-circuit television and perimeter intruder detection have yet to be awarded but are also expected to be by this spring. Since construction began on the site, 136 illegal workers have been arrested at the Olympic Park.
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With Fieldoo, thousands of players found new clubs and opportunities and vice versa; clubs also found great players with our help. We take pride in each story we create, organise, help in or facilitate. Next is the story of David, our premium member and a very talented young man who got a chance of a life-time with Fieldoo.com.
David Brekalo, a Slovenian under 19 national team player and Fieldoo user, was scouted via Fieldoo and invited for a trial with English Championship contenders Brentford. David got and exclusive opportunity to impress a second division English club and potentially sign a contract with one of the most innovative clubs in the football industry.
David comes from Slovenia and has nurtured his skills at the academy that produced some of Slovenia's finest international talents – NK Bravo. He is only 18 years old and plays as a central defender.
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Maggie Taylor's brand of photomontage is a fascinating mix of old and new forms of photography that results in even more fascinating images.
Since 1996, the Florida artist has been working with Photoshop, taking advantage of its imaging magic to create pictures that are truly surreal, strange and, yes, magical.
She starts with 19th century tin-types, photographs, and other images she's acquired from flea markets, antique stores, eBay or other artists. She scans and then manipulates them in Photoshop, colorizing and layering the originals with her own photographs and other images she's come across. In what takes only seconds to describe, Taylor will spend weeks, often months manipulating a single piece, adding upwards of 60 layers or more.
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Thirty of these resulting images are on display at Catherine Couturier Gallery, timed to the publication of a new book of Taylor's works titled No Ordinary Days.
Indeed, these pieces are anything but ordinary. Taylor's work is often described using the word "dreamscapes," but it's difficult to tell whether it's born of dreams or nightmares. In her alternate, unsettling realities, bees can magically coordinate to form a dress, a swimmer walks a cloud, a child tears her head in two as if it's a piece of paper, pigs fly, animals, flowers and leaves explode out of the back of a man's head, and landscapes are paradoxically lit like in Magritte's Empire of Light, the sky light as day while the land is in the shadows of darkness.
They're at turns delightful, others bizarre, but they're oddly compelling in their strangeness. They seem like illustrations to fairy tales or children's stories, full of whimsy, beauty and originality. And like any good tale, they leave you questioning your own sense of what's possible.
"Maggie Taylor: No Ordinary Days" at Catherine Couturier Gallery, 2635 Colquitt Street, runs now through February 9. For more information, call 713-524-5070 or visit http://www.catherinecouturier.com.


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Flyers Take the Stealers
Oxford Stealers 55 – 61 Flyers
Player Coach Knode sent the Flyers to Oxford with the simple instruction – WIN- and that they did in a game which the Flyers never relinquished the lead.
A foot injury picked up a couple of games previously was actually a fracture which will stop Knode from taking to the court for the remainder of the season. Knodes absence left a hole in the shooting resources of the squad , the squad as a whole stepped up and filled the gap.
From the tip Devon James sunk a couple of baskets grabbing the initial lead and whilst the Stealers replied with an early three pointer for the first quarter the Stealers were restricted in the scoring by the intensive and effective Flyers defence.
Big Man Jack Price got into his comfort zone and made the area under the basket his territory, controlling the defensive rebounds and grasping offensive chances to sink baskets
Flyers established a 19-9 lead by the first break , which the Stealers narrowed to a three point lead for the Flyers at the half.BY the last break the Flyers extended their lead to 9points 44-35. In the final quarter the Stealers closed to 6 points with 2 minutes to go. In a significant play the Flyers solid defence caused the Stealers to turn over the ball with a 24 second shot clock violation with a minute to go. A turnover by Dan Marshall and unsportsmanlike foul sent the Stealers to the free throw line to sink 2 shots and close the lead to 4. Dan Marshall then stole the ball sunk a two pointer on a fast break with 15 seconds to go,` followed by Devon James making 2 three throws and the game was the Flyers.
Coach Bayliss was ecstatic with the squads performance, all of whom had contributed. Bench players Rhys Johnson came off the bench and sank two 3 pointers, Craig Mathema gave some massive hustle and commitment, Tom Peters contributed with 5 points. The starting five all provided a solid base to the game
MVP for the game was Devon James with 21 points and 12 rebounds closely followed by Jack Price with 10 points and 18 rebounds. Next high scorer was point guard Dan Marshall with 8 points 4 rebounds 3 assists and 5 steals.
With two home games left in the season ,hosting Southampton University and Bristol Storm, the Flyers are looking for a final pair of victories for claim their position in the top half of the table.
Squad - A Bayliss (player coach)(7pts, 3rbds),D Marshall(capt) (8pts, 4rbds) , J Price(10pts, 18rbds), R Johnson(6pts, 4rbds), T Peters(4pts, 1rbds), D James(21pts, 12rbds), C Mathema(1pts, 2rbds), J Nanton Hamel(1rbds), R Green(2pts, 4rbds)


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Cross-Post: The Canadian Dollar's Rapid Devaluation Presents An Inflation Predicament for the Bank of CanadaPosted: January 23, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
(This is a cross-post from my blog One-Twenty Two)
A year ago, the Bank of Canada (BOC) delivered the first of two rate cut surprises for the year. So with oil still cratering ever lower, I can understand why the market seemed braced for yet another rate cut last week. Instead, the BOC not only stood still on rates, but also it expressed an implied reluctance to reduce rates any further unless absolutely necessary. The result was an immediate jump in the Canadian dollar (FXC) featuring a drop in USD/CAD. USD/CAD continued to sell off right into the week's close.
Source: Oanda's CFTC's Commitments of Traders
Source: FreeStockCharts.com
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), Canada / U.S. Foreign Exchange Rate [DEXCAUS], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, January 23, 2016.
Here is the key quote from Governor Stephen S. Poloz's opening statement:
"It is fair to say, therefore, that our deliberations began with a bias toward further monetary easing."
The on-going collapse in oil and all its destructive consequences for the Canadian economy still justify further easing. BUT…
"First, the Canadian dollar has declined significantly since October, which means that the non-resource sectors of our economy are receiving considerably more stimulus than we projected then. Let's remember that it typically takes up to two years for the full effect of a lower dollar to be felt.
Second, past exchange rate depreciation is already adding around 1 percentage point to our inflation rate. This is a temporary effect, and is currently being offset by lower fuel prices—another temporary effect. However, we must be mindful of the risk that a further rapid depreciation could push overall inflation higher relatively quickly. Even if this is temporary, it might influence inflation expectations."
In other words, financial markets have pounded the Canadian dollar so thoroughly that most of the BOC's goals for easing have been accomplished already. The potential 2-year lag in impact means that the BOC must proceed with extreme caution when deciding to add more kindling to the raging fire of currency devaluation.
Moreover, this devaluation is now exerting inflationary pressures on the Canadian economy – to the tune of an incremental 1 percentage point. While current inflation may still be within tolerance, the pace of the increase could be strong enough to send future inflation expectations soaring past the BOC's comfort zone. Given the lagging impact of the devaluation, the BOC could find itself fighting stubbornly high inflation expectations for an uncomfortably long time. During the press conference, Poloz clarified that the BOC does not think this process is underway. The Bank is simply keeping an eye on this potential – which is clearly enough to give them caution about doing anything that further drives down the value of the Canadian dollar.
Given these cautionary caveats, the BOC decided to leave rates just where they are. From the press release:
"The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent…
…All things considered, therefore, the risks to the profile for inflation are roughly balanced. Meanwhile, financial vulnerabilities continue to edge higher, as expected. The Bank's Governing Council judges that the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate, and the target for the overnight rate remains at 1/2 per cent."
As usual, the BOC is cautiously optimistic about economic prospects. Despite a disappointing 2015, the BOC still expects the global economy to resume "gradual strengthening" in 2016. Expectations incorporate an assumed transition to a 6% annual GDP growth rate for China, and continued "solid" performance from the U.S. Even with weak exports to the U.S. in the fourth quarter, the BOC expects export activity to turn right around in 2016. While downgrading its forecast for Canada's GDP growth in 2016 to 1.4%, the BOC emphasized that year-over-year, growth should be 1.9% for the fourth quarter of this year.
Even though the BOC did not cut rates in this last meeting, make no mistake about its bias. The BOC thinks it could take up to three years for the Canadian economy to fully adjust to the complex structural changes wrought by the collapse of the oil complex. The Canadian economy may not absorb excess capacity in the economy until late 2017. The BOC also acknowledged the growing magnitude of the shock from this collapse. The BOC called this reality a "significant setback compared with our October projection." During the press conference, Poloz also admitted that the odds of a recession are higher than they have been in a very long time. All these realities imply a notable bias toward weakness for the Canadian dollar for quite some time.
When I wrote about the Canadian dollar's fresh milestone of weakness, I described a small counter-trend bet that USD/CAD would return to 1.40. As the chart above shows, the USD/CAD just continued to spring higher after the 1.40 breakout. The Bank of Canada's stasis on rates combined with the forex response was my signal to finally add to that bet. Without a promise to cut rates again, I fully expect USD/CAD to reverse most if not all of recent gains assuming oil does not resume its rapid plunge in the interim.
I will continue to try holding out for that return to 1.40, but I am perfectly fine bailing on the position if renewed strength shows up ahead of this week's Federal Reserve's meeting. On a technical basis, the counter-trend momentum in USD/CAD looks like it could easily retest the uptrending 50-day moving average (DMA). At the current pace, this would happen around 1.39. After I close out this short position, I will be quite eager to get back to trading with the trend.
During the press conference, Poloz would not commit to a specific level past which weakness in the Canadian dollar will no longer help the Canadian economy. He would only say that the assessment depends on the nature of the decline. If the currency is declining "on its own," then there is a problem. An adjustment from economic realities makes sense – the current decline is mostly about the collapse in the oil complex. However, trends beget trends, and I can see several scenarios of overall financial turmoil and volatility that could send USD/CAD hurtling ever higher even independent of a fresh plunge in oil prices.
So, the Canadian dollar presents a precarious predicament for the Bank of Canada. Its devaluation is a necessary part of the Canadian economy's adjustment to lower oil prices. The potential inflationary impact of this rapid decline could constrain the Bank's ability to provide more assistance to a wobbly economy. Yet, without this assistance, the weakness of the economy could drive even more weakness in the currency. Currency traders will easily seize upon the trend above all else.
In coming weeks I will be reviewing the Monetary Policy Report (MPR) and a soon-to-be-released BOC paper on the complex impact of the oil shock to find any additional (tradeable) insights.
Be careful out there!
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Gen. McChrystal: Americans should redefine 'service member'
Americans have narrowly defined the meaning of "service member" because of the belief that paying taxes and voting completes the responsibilities of a citizen, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said on Thursday.
"I think it's unfortunate. I think we've allowed it to become very narrowly associated with people in uniform, when in fact, when you think about serving, it's doing something for a cause or people bigger than yourself," McChrystal said.
The retired four-star general discussed his involvement with ServiceNation, a national campaign to promote service among young Americans and returning veterans, during an exclusive msnbc interview. This week marked the 4-year anniversary of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that reauthorizes and expands service programs.
The country needs to build a cultural expectation of service measured at a high level.
"I think the big thing about service is less about what you accomplish serving than what it does for the individual and what it does for the generation," McChrystal said.
McChrystal served as the former commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command. In 2009 he became the top commander in Afghanistan, but resigned the following year.
The country needs to give the young generation an opportunity and encouragement to serve in programs such as AmeriCorps, McChrystal said.
AmeriCorps has the potential for 140,000 positions, but there are less than 80,000 available because of Congressional cuts and a lack of energy to expand the program, said Zach Maurin, co-founder and executive director of ServeNext.org and graduate of AmeriCorps. Last year, more Americans applied for national service than ever before, but 85% of the applicants were denied acceptance into the program.
Leaders in Washington have not fulfilled their promise from four years ago to grow AmeriCorps each year to 250,000 members, Maurin said.
"The things that you contribute to, you value more. So if you contribute more to your nation, I think you have a greater sense of responsibility to it forever," the general said.
In a separate interview on Morning Joe McChrystal expanded on the importance to urge young Americans to spend a year giving back to the nation.
"I think we've got a young generation with an extraordinary appetite and energy to do this," he said on the show. "What we need to do is give them an opportunity…to tie them to the nation."
Citizens can contribute their services to other sectors with needs, such as education and healthcare.
"If we give the young generation opportunity to serve, they'll get to know each other better, they'll have a different sense of responsibility," he said. "What we really want is people to feel like they have some expectation to contribute."
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It's also oriented on Errai Framework integration - a great framework for GWT which offers Java EE like solutions client-side (yes, in the browser!).
The aim of this article is to collect basic steps how to generate a new application stub and get started.
In fact setting up GMD Errai application is very easy and I could finish this article now, since there are only two simple steps:
- to call mvn archetype:generate command properly,
- and then mvn gwt:run.
But I would like to demonstrate also that it works great and what is the expected output step by step.
So it will look a bit different than Getting Started section you will find here.
- Creating a stub project.You will have to answer simple questions, further the application stub will be generated.
- Test how it works
Enter to the folder gmd-errai-sandbox and run the app by typing: mvn gwt:run.After a while…You should see hello world screen which looks like this:
- Test Super Developement Mode Go to ./gmd-errai-sandbox/src/main/java/com/domain/sandbox/client/local/page/HomePage.java and modify the label text by changing the method below: Click browser's Refresh button. You will see compiling message… ...and after few seconds you will see the modified text. It works! :)
- How about the errors?
How about the errors while implementing your app? It simply can be visible in the browser. For instance in Chrome browser you are able to see it using stadard Developer Tools and its "Console" tab (F12 or ctr+shift+I or cmd+opt+I).
TODO: to be updated... some demonstration
- The next steps
Ok, it works. Nothing impressing, right? ;-) What's now?
The next article will show how to extend your layout...
Please also see this great demo of GMD: gwtmaterialdesign.github.io/gwt-material-demo-errai/ .
And also note that you have a full source code here.
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US ups pressure on Iraq PM to quell Qaeda surge
FALLUJAH - A United Nations envoy has warned of a dire humanitarian situation in western Iraq, as Washington piled pressure on the Iraqi premier to quell an Al-Qaeda surge in the violence-plagued country.
More than 13,000 families have fled the militant-held city of Fallujah, the Iraqi Red Crescent said Wednesday, as masked gunmen held the city which is locked in a days-long standoff with the army.
And though traffic police returned to its streets, some shops reopened and more cars could be seen, Fallujah was still rocked by clashes and shelling, after an Al-Qaeda-linked group urged Sunnis to keep fighting the Shiite-led government.
Fallujah and parts of nearby Ramadi, both in the western province of Anbar, have been outside government hands for days -- the first time militants have exercised such open control in major cities since the insurgency that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.
The Iraqi Red Crescent said it had provided humanitarian assistance to more than 8,000 families across Anbar but that upwards of 13,000 had fled and were living with relatives, or in schools or other public buildings.
"There is a critical humanitarian situation in Anbar province which is likely to worsen as operations continue," Nickolay Mladenov, the UN special envoy to Iraq, said in a statement.
"The situation in Fallujah is particularly concerning as existing stocks of food, water and life-saving medicines begin to run out."
US Vice President Joe Biden called Nuri al-Maliki for the second time this week, mounting pressure on the Iraqi premier over the Al-Qaeda surge.
Biden urged Maliki to "continue the Iraqi government's outreach to local, tribal, and national leaders," following the loss of Fallujah to Islamist insurgents, the White House said in a statement.
Spokesman Jay Carney said Washington was pressing Maliki, a Shiite, to focus on political reconciliation as well as take military action to expel Al-Qaeda-inspired groups from Fallujah and Ramadi, both Sunni bastions in Anbar province, once liberated from extremists by US troops.
US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed home a similar message in a call with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the State Department said.
The calls came amid discussion in Washington foreign policy circles about who should take the blame for the resurgence of Al-Qaeda.
Critics of the White House blame President Barack Obama for failing to agree a deal with Maliki's government to leave a residual US force behind after withdrawing all American troops from Iraq at the end of 2011.
On the ground a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle in Ramadi on Wednesday, killing two Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen and wounding four others, while another bombing damaged a bridge in the city.
And two areas of Fallujah saw brief clashes and shelling, witnesses said, but it was not immediately clear who was involved in the fighting.
More than 250 killed
The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been active in Fallujah, but so have anti-government tribes.
The security forces have meanwhile recruited their own tribal allies in the fighting that has raged in Anbar for more than a week and killed more than 250 people.
Near the provincial capital Ramadi, soldiers backed by helicopters battled gunmen in the Khaldiyah area, a police captain said.
On Tuesday, ISIL spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani urged Iraqi Sunnis to continue battling government forces.
"Do not lay the weapon down, because if you put it down this time, the (Shiites) will enslave you and you will not rise again," Adnani said in a recording.
A military spokesman has said an assault on Fallujah was on hold for fear of civilian casualties.
Attacking the Sunni-majority city would be a significant test for Iraqi security forces, who have yet to undertake such a major operation without the backing of US troops, who withdrew in December 2011.
It would also be extremely sensitive politically, as it would inflame already high tensions between the Sunni Arab minority and the government.
Both Ramadi and Fallujah were insurgent strongholds in the years after 2003, and Fallujah was the target of two major assaults in which US forces saw some of their heaviest fighting since the Vietnam War.
They eventually wrested back control of Anbar with the support of Sunni tribesmen who formed the Sahwa (Awakening) militias, which allied with US troops against Al-Qaeda from late 2006.
But Sunni militants have regained strength, bolstered by the war in neighbouring Syria and widespread Sunni Arab anger with the federal government.
Fighting erupted near Ramadi on December 30, when security forces cleared a year-old Sunni protest camp.
The violence spread to Fallujah, and militants moved in and seized the city and parts of Ramadi after security forces withdrew.
Unrest elsewhere in Iraq on Wednesday killed 22 people, including 12 soldiers and six police, officials said.


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"I like the architecture of Plum Pudding, but the interior of Apple Blossom."
Before you think I have a Stawberry Shortcake fetish, I should probably explain; the sentence relates to dollhouses.
My girlfriend wants a dollhouse so bad she can taste it, so it's probably appropriate that she is looking at dollhouses with cute food names. She pointed me to a website, and told me the Apple Blossom was her favorite. You can see where it went from there, I'm sure, and taken out of context, I think the result is a pretty funny statement.
Context — or lack thereof — is a big part of humor for me. Though I usually don't have a hard time maintaining a thread of conversation, there's always a separate thread in my brain processing the conversations, looking for little chinks in context that I can pry open with a pun. As a result, I do spend a lot of CPU time out of context; that's probably why so many of my jokes fall flat. Recipients (or victims, if you prefer) of my puns are usually not as far out of context as I am, so my humor comes across as frustrating to them.
Does that mean I need to change my style of humor? Mmmm … no, I don't think so. I much prefer out-of-context puns to humor that takes advantage of others' misfortune, as most modern humor seems to do. I'm not perfect; I occasionally say things I think are funny and later realize that I've yielded to the temptation of humor at someone else's expense, but I try to keep an eye on myself.
No, I don't think I'll change my humor style. I'll just continue to fish for groans and avoid the sharp objects people throw at me.


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S6 is able to record the aircraft direction when it takes off, when you start course lock mode, no matter where is the physical direction of the aircraft nose, users can control aircraft according to the aircraft direction when it takes off.
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