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Week 25 of the Nerdy 30+1: Hall Passes and Better-Angelo
March 30, 2018 ·	by dcsportsdork ·	in Hockey, Numbers	· Leave a comment
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Another week in and we're just getting closer to the postseason. All I can say is I am glad that not every team has played the next milestone of games to eliminate a team from postseason contention because the races for the final spots in each conference is really close. Especially in the Western Conference, it feels like a different team that could be going home every week. Along with that, it feels like there are playoff matchups going on every night. These are some fun times in the NHL and the answers to many questions are starting to hit the surface. Let's take a look at a few of them on the latest Nerdy 30+1.
31. Buffalo (82-game standings points pace: 64 points, Last Week: 31)
30. Ottawa (Pace: 69 pts, LW: 30)
29. Arizona (Pace: 68 pts, LW: 29)
28. Detroit (Pace: 73 pts, LW: 27)
27. Vancouver (Pace: 70 pts, LW: 28)
26. New York Islanders (Pace: 79 pts, LW: 26)
25. Montreal (Pace: 72 pts, LW: 25)
24. New York Rangers (Pace: 80 pts, LW: 24)
23. Edmonton (Pace: 78 pts, LW: 22)
22. Chicago (Pace: 78 pts, LW: 23)
21. Calgary (Pace: 84 pts, LW: 21)
20. Carolina (Pace: 84 pts, LW: 20)
19. Dallas (Pace: 90 pts, LW: 19)
18. Washington (Pace: 104 pts, LW: 18)
17. Florida (Pace: 93 pts, LW: 17)
We start these rankings by looking at a Florida team that may or may not be losing steam. After going 8-2-1 from February 27th through March 17th, the Panthers have "only" gone 4-1-2 since then. That is still highly respectable, but it just goes to show the hole they have started in before making this push towards the postseason.
Consider that just before the All-Star break, the Panthers had only a 3.4% chance of making the playoffs. Now those odds have ballooned to just less than 30% after peaking at 78% back in March. Plenty of this goes to show how weak the bottom half of the playoff picture the Eastern Conference has been, but plenty of that has to do with this Panthers team taking advantage of it too. Sadly, the rest of their schedule is going to be absolutely miserable. They'll have to go through the proverbial Hades three times that is the Boston Bruins, with Carolina, Nashville and Buffalo added to that misery. Meanwhile, the New Jersey Devils have to play the New York Islanders, Montreal, and the New York Rangers before finishing the season with Toronto and Washington. By the time we finish off next week, New Jersey might clinch the final spot.
I do feel for the players on this team because Aleksander Barkov, Jonathan Huberdeau, Vincent Trochek, Evgeni Dadonov and Roberto Luongo have all had tremendous seasons. That's a strong foundation to build upon, but I genuinely worry the higher echelons of Florida's front office don't have what it takes to make the correct moves for the future. I would like to see the Panthers get better in defense and they seriously need to get much better than James Reimer as a backup goaltender. But otherwise, things are looking bright for this team no matter how this season finishes for them.
16. Anaheim (Pace: 97 pts, LW: 16)
15. Colorado (Pace: 96 pts, LW: 15)
14. New Jersey (Pace: 95 pts, LW: 14)
13. Columbus (Pace: 98 pts, LW: 13)
12. Philadelphia (Pace: 97 pts, LW: 12)
So the New Jersey Devils have a shot at making the playoffs for the first time since those infamous months where Ilya Kovalchuk leaving the team unceremoniously and Zach Parise leaving for Minnesota. However, this team genuinely might still not be very good. In both defense and attack, the Devils sit in the bottom ten in the NHL based off of even strength shot attempts. However, unlike in seasons past, they might actually be good when it comes to putting pucks in the back of the net. With an even strength shooting percentage of 8.1%, New Jersey sits tenth in the league in that category and that is why their 14th best goal total of 232 looks much rosier than what it should be.
Taylor Hall is having a brilliant season with 86 points, while Will Butcher, Nico Hirschier, and Jesper Blatt have given a youth infusion that has been needed for years. On the downside, this team is still quite terrible in defense and their goaltending has been surprisingly worse. In fact, it actually looks like Keith Kincaid has taken the reigns from supposed world beater Corey Schneider for the starting netminding job. Since solidifying that role, Kincaid has guided the Devils to a 15-6-1 record while he's been between the pipes and has saved 91.9% of his total shots faced. The underlying numbers still don't totally wow you, but if anything, the 28-year old has provided some stability for an organization that's been demanding it on the whole roster for some time.
On the backend, it's quite strange to see Butcher, owner of 40 points this season (granted, 20 of it has come off the power play), playing third pairing minutes with Ben Lovejoy. While it's understandable to shelter such a young player playing his first season in the NHL, eventually, you have to give such a talent more challenging roles. Meanwhile, John Moore and the ageless Andy Greene are playing well over 17 minutes of even strength ice time every night for some reason. Poor Sami Vatanen.
Speaking of feeling sympathy, poor Marcus Johansson! With so much promise being given to New Jersey's forward corps, the former Capital still hasn't played since being concussed by Brad Marchand on January 23rd. He is returning to practice with hopes of making it to the postseason as he will surely be a welcome addition to the Devils' offense and their power play. With him playing, the Devils could get better, but I don't know if that will be enough for them to make it past the first round. Either the Devils will play Washington or your choice of Tampa or Boston and it is quite obvious who they would prefer to play. Sadly, it just feels like this team has a shelf life that could only go so far. However, there is at least a future with this team and it has been quite a while since something like that has been said about them.
11. Los Angeles (Pace: 98 pts, LW: 11)
10. St. Louis (Pace: 98 pts, LW: 10)
9. Pittsburgh (Pace: 99 pts, LW: 9)
8. Toronto (Pace: 105 pts, LW: 6)
It wasn't that long ago that the St. Louis Blues were on the brink of being eliminated from these power rankings. From the beginning of February up until March 8th, this team went 1-5-2, were outscored 35-14 during that span, were shut out three times in said eight games and decided it were only better than Buffalo in even strength shot generation (53.3 attempts per hour) during that span. Oh, and let's not forget they traded one of their better players in Paul Stastny in the process. Oh, and Scotty Upshall, Carl Gunnarsson, and Jay Bouwmeester joined Robby Fabbri in either the season-ending or long-term injury list. So yes, this team was an absolute mess. Did I forget to mention Mike Yeo is coaching this team?
Welp, fast forward more than three weeks later and St. Louis is back to normal. I guess. This team is still among the most underachieving when it comes to generating offense, but their defense has righted the ship back into a top ten unit during the team's winning run of form. Consider that from March 10th onwards, the Blues have won eight of their last nine games and have outscored opponents 32-17. Plenty of that also has to do with the fact that Jake Allen, who has had a pretty poor season most of the year, is bouncing back thanks to a 91.9% save percentage and going six for nine in quality starts. The rest might end up being the start of a condescending conversation. What if I were to tell you that it's a good thing that Bouwmeester and Carl Gunnarsson are done for the season with injury?
The problem with making such a statement is wishing bad things upon people I don't know at all, and that is definitely something I'm not intending here. In fact, I'm sure Bouwmeester and Gunnarsson are very nice people once I get to know them. But the problem is they are two of St. Louis' worst defenseman from a puck possession standpoint. In fact, Yeo and his never-ending wisdom thought it was a good idea to pair up Gunnarsson with Alex Pietrangelo on the team's top unit, while Bouwmeester was either part of the dragging down process with Pietrangelo or partnering with the much more mobile Colton Parayko.
With them out of the lineup, it has forced Yeo to go ahead and partner Pietrangelo with Joel Edmondson on the top unit and has started to give the 21-year old Vince Dunn some tougher assignments on the team's second pair with Parayko. The results have been fantastic with the Pietrangelo-Edmondson pair generating 54.3% puck possession and only 45.9 shot attempts against per hour. Meanwhile, the Dunn-Parayko pair has absolutely shredded everyone in sight, thanks to a 59.9% puck possession ratio and only giving up 45.2 shot attempts per hour at even strength while the two are on the ice. Finding these advantages and sticking to them will guide the Blues to bigger and better things. As long as Yeo doesn't get in the way of things, this could end up becoming not only a dangerous team that is peaking at the right time, but they will be a difficult team to face come playoff time.
7. San Jose (Pace: 103 pts, LW: 7)
6. Minnesota (Pace: 102 pts, LW: 7)
5. Winnipeg (Pace: 111 pts, LW: 5)
4. Nashville (Pace: 118 pts, LW: 3)
3. Vegas (Pace: 110 pts, LW: 4)
2. Boston (Pace: 113 pts, LW: 2)
1. Tampa Bay (Pace: 115 pts, LW: 1)
Throughout the past month, San Jose has gone on to become the hottest team in not just the Pacific Division, but also the hottest team in the entire NHL that isn't named Columbus. But the question, as always, when it comes to such streaks is whether or not it is legitimate. Since February 27th, the Sharks have gone 14-3-1 and have outscored teams 59-38 in the process. So it looks like they've done a great job playing in all phases of the game, but it actually doesn't look like the case when you look at it through a microscopic lens.
For starts, Martin Jones has been fine during his team's rich vein of form, but the 28-year old has only saved 91.8% of his total shots during that time and has had five games where he has saved less than 90% of his shots. As a result, the team's PDO at even strength is still strong at 1024 during this hot streak, but plenty of that is tied to the Sharks' white-hot shooting more so than their goaltending.
All year, San Jose has become a much better team offensively even if Joe Thornton has missed all but 47 games this season due to a torn MCL. After only being able to convert 16.7% of their power play opportunities last year, this season's Sharks team has been able to perform much more towards the league average at 20.4%. Previously, head coach Peter DeBoer almost had no choice but to rely on the top unit which usually averaged over three minutes a night, while no one else was able to sniff two minutes per contest. Nowadays, the likes of newly acquired Evander Kane, Kevin Labanc, a much healthier Tomas Hertl and a more resurgent Joonas Donskoi and Mikkel Boedker are coming in and providing the necessary depth required for a strong power play unit to work with. As a result, there is more diversity to San Jose's shooting on the man-advantage and has provided much more arsenal than they ever experienced last season.
Speaking of the always controversial Kane, the former Sabre has come in and lead the team in ice time and put up 14 points in 15 games while replacing Thornton to being Joe Pavelski's sidekick. That being said, San Jose's wins have come against Edmonton, Chicago and Calgary twice, an unsure St. Louis side, Detroit, Calgary, Vancouver, New Jersey and a weaker Vegas side once. Their four losses have all come against fellow hot streak teams in Columbus, Washington, a much better St. Louis team and Nashville. Will that all mean that the Sharks are phony? They are still in the bottom half of the league in even-strength shot prevention, so will that come to roost when they have to play against a Los Angeles, Vegas or Anaheim in the postseason? Or how about any of the elite Central division sides? Either way, we'll find out more about them once the playoffs begin.
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Microstructural and Mechanical Behavior in the Al2024 Alloy Modified With Addition of CeO2
J. D. Franco-Madrid, C.G. Garay-Reyes, I. Estrada-Guel, C. G. Nava-Dino, M. C. Maldonado-Orozco, R. Martínez-Sánchez
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 23 / Issue S1 / July 2017
Print publication: July 2017
Modification of the Optical and Electrical Properties CdS Films by Annealing in Neutral and Reducing Atmospheres
J. Pantoja Enriquez, G. Pérez Hernandez, X. Mathew, G. Ibáñez Duharte, J. Moreira, J. A. Reyes Nava, J. J. Barrionuevo, L. A. Hernandez, R. Castillo, P. J. Sebastian
Journal: MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 1538 / 2013
Cadmium sulfide (CdS) films were deposited onto glass substrates by chemical bath deposition (CBD) from a bath containing cadmium acetate, ammonium acetate, thiourea, and ammonium hydroxide. The CdS thin films were annealed in argon (neutral atmosphere) or hydrogen (reducing atmosphere) for 1 h at various temperatures (300, 350, 400, 450 and 500 °C). The changes in optical and electrical properties of annealed treated CdS thin films were analyzed. The results showed that, the band-gap and resistivity depend on the post-deposition annealing atmosphere and temperatures. Thus, it was found that these properties of the films, were found to be affected by various processes with opposite effects, some beneficial and others unfavorable. The energy gap and resistivity for different annealing atmospheres was seen to oscillate by thermal annealing. Recrystallization, oxidation, surface passivation, sublimation and materials evaporation were found the main factors of the heat-treatment process responsible for this oscillating behavior. Annealing over 400 °C was seen to degrade the optical and electrical properties of the film.
Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Fe(C) and Fe(O) Nanoparticles
Xiang-Cheng Sun, N. Nava, J. Reyes-Gasga
Journal: MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 704 / 2001
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2011, W9.5.1
Two types of iron (Fe) nanoparticles, carbon-coated Fe nanoparticles (Fe(C)) and pure α-Fe nanoparticles that coated with oxide layers (Fe(O)), have been successfully synthesized using modified graphite arc-discharge method. X-ray diffraction (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HREM) and electron diffraction (SAED) analysis have been used to characterize these distinct structural morphologies. It is indicated that those two Fe nanoparticles have an average grain size of 15-20nm. The presence of carbon encapsulated α-Fe, γ-Fe and Fe3C phases are clearly identified by X-ray diffraction and SAED patterns in those Fe(C) particles. However, the evidence of pure α-Fe nanocrystal coated with oxide layer is also revealed by HR-TEM images and SAED patterns in these Fe(O) particles.
Mössbauer spectra and hyperfine magnetic fields at room temperature for the assemblies of Fe(C) and Fe(O) nanoparticles further confirm their distinct nanophases that detected by XRD analysis and HRTEM observation. Specially, the assemblies of Fe(O) nanoparticles exhibit ferromagnetic properties at room temperature due to the stronger interparticle interaction and bigger magnetocrystalline anisotropy effects among these Fe(O) nanoparticles. Moreover, modified superparamagnetic relaxation is observed in the assemblies of Fe(C) nanoparticles, which is attributed to the nanocrystalline nature of the carbon-coated nanoparticles.

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As organizations pursue Continuous Delivery, many teams still believe shell scripting is the answer in 2018.
Over the past year, I've talked Continuous Delivery with hundreds of teams around the world. I've also observed 50+ different deployment processes when customers have been kind enough to show me their current methodology and tooling.
Now comes my controversial bombshell: deployment scripting isn't automation.
And remember, Wikipedia is NEVER wrong.
Deployment scripting generally works with simple, small, and static applications.
Back in 2005, it was a relatively trivial exercise to model, map, and manage all the different components and dependencies of your apps/services using shell scripts. You could hardcode those hostnames, environment variables, and package dependencies and life was generally good…../startWeblogic.sh.
In 2018, things are a little different. Cloud-native apps are not static, small, and simple. You have multiple technology stacks, hundreds of service dependencies, and immutable infrastructure. Change is constant, which means your automated deployment scripts require more attention than a 2-year-old toddler.
Bottom line: There is nothing automated about writing or maintaining deployment scripts in 2018.
Customer #1 – 23 deployment scripts maintained by 15 different engineers over many years. Some engineers are no longer at the company, while some scripts contain zero comments or docs. A typical deployment required 10 people split across DevOps, deployment, dev team leads, and engineers. When deployments failed (and they frequently did), it would take 2 hours to rollback and 2-3 days to debug and understand what happened. As a result, deployments happened once every six weeks.
Customer #2 – A DevOps team of 4 dedicated engineers maintained deployment scripts and plugins on top of their existing CI platform (Jenkins). Development teams scripted their own deployment pipelines to orchestrate the library of available deployment scripts/plugins. When one deployment script or plugin fails, it has an impact across all dev team pipelines. Health checks and rollbacks were manual and took 30 mins to 1 hour, and up to 5 engineers to troubleshoot.
Customer #3 – A centralized deployment team maintained 10+ deployment scripts, which were executed in a serial manually. Many of them required manual inputs like the major and minor build versions of various service artifacts, environment parameters, and flags. 3-4 engineers watched every deployment by tailing logs and context switching between production consoles. Health checks were often "gut feel" and rollback was a last resort that took several hours to complete and validate.
The three above examples don't exactly paint a picture of automation — more like chaos and carnage.
It's not just the deployment process itself; it's the constant tweaking, tinkering, and maintenance of the underlying deployment scripts. The majority of these scripts are not dynamic or change tolerant to what is happening within the application code or infrastructure in 2018.
It's true you can build anything with shell scripts in the same way you can build anything with wood, nails, and a hammer.
If the goal of your business is to compete and reduce its time-to-market, then deployment scripting may not be the answer.
Not everyone can deploy. If your scripts fail, then you need the author(s) to debug what happened.
Deployments are orchestrated manually and have manual inputs, which increases deployment time and reduces frequency.
Your deployments are often ad-hoc across apps/services and unpredictable as those entities evolve and change, which leads to failure.
You spend almost as much time updating deployment scripts as your apps/services themselves.
I got off a call last week with a major cloud storage vendor that had 4 full-time engineers dedicated to deployment scripting. They now have an active project to automate this team entirely to fully embrace Continuous Delivery.
Fortunately, today's APIs across clouds, technology stacks, and tooling are relatively mature. It's possible to parameterize the inputs (e.g. artifacts) of your deployment pipelines and make the actual deployment, verification, and rollback tasks fully automated and dynamic. Dynamic meaning deployment adapts to the underlying changes of your apps and infrastructure.
At Harness we call this "Smart Automation" — you can sign up for your free trial here.
Scripting is automation and it is subject to the basics of software engineering. If you do it poorly it can be brittle and result in failures.


At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the state of Tennessee. This observation tower offers stunning panoramic views of the mountains covered in autumn foliage. We recommend visiting Clingmans Dome in early October, because the leaves start to change towards the beginning of the season in the highest elevations of the Smokies.
The Ober Gatlinburg Aerial Tramway takes guests from The Strip all the way up to the Ober Gatlinburg Amusement Park. In addition to providing a convenient way to get to Ober, this cable car offers breathtaking views of the fall colors in the mountains. From mid-September throughout the month of October, the amusement park hosts a fun OktOBERfest celebration, so a visit to Ober should definitely be on your to-do list this autumn.
When you're driving along the Gatlinburg Bypass, be sure to pull over and stop at the Gatlinburg Scenic Overlook. From this vantage point you will be able to see the fall leaves in both downtown Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The contrast in elevation between the city and Mt. LeConte makes this view totally unique.
Cades Cove is one of the most popular places in the national park to visit year round, but in the fall, it is simply spectacular. This incredibly scenic valley offers excellent views of fall leaves on the trees and in the mountains. As you make your way around the 11 mile loop road, you will also have the chance to see historic buildings and some of the area's most beloved animals, such as deer, turkey, and black bears.
Anakeesta is a magical outdoor adventure for everyone in the family to enjoy. It provides spectacular views all year long, but is even more beautiful in the fall. You will love trying the Dual Zipline Adventure, which allows you to soar through the trees beside the person of your choice, and the Tree Canopy Walk, which will put you right in the middle of all the gorgeous colors of fall.
Located in the heart of the city, the Gatlinburg Space Needle is a 407 foot tall observation tower that provides 360 degree views of the downtown area and the mountains. Whether you use the free view finders or just your naked eye, you will enjoy stunning vistas of the fall foliage.
This fun chairlift ride leaves from downtown Gatlinburg and takes guests up 1,800 feet to the top of Crockett Mountain. The mountain's summit has a great observation tower with binoculars where you can admire the fall colors and enjoy snacks and drinks from the Gatlinburg Sky Lift gift shop.
A cabin rental is a fantastic place to enjoy the fall colors in Gatlinburg. Whether you lean back in a rocking chair or soak in the hot tub, you will find tremendous views of the foliage from your cabin's deck. To start planning your autumn getaway, check out our selection of Gatlinburg cabins!


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St. Thomas of Villanova Church is a Catholic church on the campus of Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. Completed in 1887, it had long been the center of Augustinian activity in the United States, and still plays an important role within the order's local province. Today, the church functions as a parish church as well as the university chapel. The church's dual Gothic revival spires have long been symbolic of the university.

History
The land on which the church and school sit was purchased from the Rudolph family by the Augustinians on October 13, 1841. The intent was to create a center of Augustinian life; an organized program of education for the priesthood, which became Villanova University; and an academy for Catholic boys, which now exists as Malvern Preparatory School. In 1843, Villanova College opened its doors for its first few classes, becoming the center of Augustinian life in the United States, a position it would retain for over 70 years.

Ground was broken for the church on March 29, 1883. The cornerstone was laid on June 3, 1883, and blessed by Jeremiah F. Shanahan, Bishop of Harrisburg. The building project was begun under the leadership of the Augustinian provincial, Fr. Christopher McEvoy, O.S.A. along with the pastor, prior, and president of Villanova College, Fr. Joseph A. Coleman, O.S.A. The church was completed in 1887 under Reverend James J. Blake, O.S.A.

The architect of the Gothic Revival church, Edwin F. Durang of the Philadelphia architectural firm of John E. Carver, based the  twin spires of the church on the south spire of the 13th century French cathedral at Chartres. With no known claim to the contrary, it is assumed that, at the time of its construction, the church's spires were the tallest man-made structure between the Delaware River and Lancaster.

Fr. Thomas Middleton, an Augustinian historian, states in his 1893 account of the building of the church that Durang designed the building "façade with two towers, each 18 square feet and 63 feet high, surmounted by eight-sided spires.... Durang created a European-like interior, measuring 60 feet in breadth and 143 ½ feet in length, exclusive of the sacristy, [which includes a] prolongation of the sanctuary, terminating in a large deep apsidal choir for the use of the religious.... The interior woodwork is all of oak including the pews and the stalls in the choir for the fraternity. The choir is divided by six clustered columns supporting groined arches. The side aisles of the nave are divided into six bays, each 15 square feet, also with groined ceiling."

The original church contained seven altars: four for the congregation, one in the side chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and the other two in the retro choir. Standing in the center of the sacristy, the main altar was made of Italian polished marble with Indiana stone filigree screen. The altar had two tables and double tabernacles, one facing the congregation, and the other choir. It was not unusual for two masses to be said simultaneously. However, as the number of congregants increased, the filigree screen was removed to enable all to see the service.

The church's interior was originally very ornate, in keeping with the taste of the times, including faux marble, gilded columns and walls, and large oil painted murals of "The Assumption of St. Joseph" and "Our Mother of Good Counsel". The seven-sectioned dome in the apse contained life-sized paintings in distemper of St. Thomas of Villanova, St. Augustine and St. Patrick, and oval medallions containing busts of the Four Evangelists. Deterioration caused these dome paintings to be replaced in the 1940s.

First Renovation
In preparation for the 1943 centennial of Villanova University, a major renovation of the church was authorized by Augustinian Provincial, Reverend Fr. Sheehan, O.S.A. The décor of the church was changed and simplified, being repainted in tones of ecru and taupe.

In the 1960s, novel liturgical fads posed a significant challenge to churches such as Villanova, as its cruciform design was not easily modified. Fr. Henry Greenlee, O.S.A. oversaw the first significant modifications based on the trends en vogue among liturgists at that time, as he commissioned the installation of a temporary wooden altar which faced the congregation. Later, a permanent, smaller marble altar was installed on a single tier with the marble altar railings removed.

Second Renovation
While many emergency repairs had been made to the church throughout its existence, none addressed the larger problems of structural reinforcement, electrical updating, climate control, and adequate sound systems. Under the direction of Fr. Anthony Genovese, the parish and university communities commissioned a major renovation in 1992.

Today the church is nearly entirely whitewashed on the interior, and lit by blue stained glass windows. Much of the original decoration has been preserved, although moved to different locations in the parish and campus. The windows enclosing the nave depict the life of St. Augustine.

Today
The church today is the center of religious life of Villanova University and the parish of St. Thomas of Villanova. With Rosemont Chapel in nearby Rosemont, Pennsylvania, the parish hosts four weekend masses for the parishioners and three Sunday night masses for the students at the university, as well as daily masses at Corr Chapel on the university's campus.

The Sunday night student-oriented masses are strengthened by the participation of Villanova University's Pastoral Musicians. The largest music group on campus, Pastoral Musicians boasts over 60 singers in the SATB choir, as well as over a dozen instrumentalists

The church is also a popular site for student weddings, as well as for funerals for prominent members of the university.

References

External links
Territorial map of St. Thomas of Villanova and nearby parishes

19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
Roman Catholic churches in Pennsylvania
University and college chapels in the United States
Villanova University
Churches in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Roman Catholic chapels in the United States

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Home/Bitcoin/How the Bitcoin Doomsayers Got it So Wrong
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On 19 June 2011, $500 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen from Mt. Gox.
A security breach in the most popular exchange site at that time caused crash in the price of bitcoin.
Then came the arrest of Charlie Shrem, the bitcoin prodigy who was living the life of a Bitcoin millionaire.
With successive shutdowns of Silk Road and Utopia, bitcoin was at the verge of a total collapse.
Then Flexcoin, a Bitcoin-bank announced that all of its users' accounts has simply vanished.
One after another, what seemed like isolated incidents stirred up a huge damning breach of trust.
Bitcoin is the most secure financial network on the planet. But its centralized peripheral companies are among the most insecure. pic.twitter.com/0rxLtXscNJ
— Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4) June 18, 2017
The media was already pronouncing Bitcoin dead.
Many believed that bitcoin would never ever recover from these pratfalls.
It only made the true believers stronger.
While the mass media and big news sites were labeling it as a hype bubble that would eventually burst; the true believers who remained only grew more convinced. (Bitcoin was as high as $700 in 2014)
They weren't just in for the hype and speculation of the price of Bitcoin.
They believed that holding a Bitcoin would somehow make them an active participant of a bold new future.
One that has some sort of real-world potential to disrupt the financial institutions of the world.
Tech enthusiasts who stayed loyal despite all the upending setbacks weren't in it just for the money.
And that is why bitcoin has survived and thrived until today.
2017 became the year of the wall street for bitcoin.
People who couldn't wrap their head around the revolution happening before their eyes are likely to just treat it like a passing fad.
While bitcoin started as a virtual currency intended to revolutionize modern finance and displace "fiat" currency;
Now it has evolved into a completely brand-new asset class that is different from stocks, bonds and other traditional currencies.
First bitcoin atm in Hong Kong
For the masses who are just in right now for the profit and money making are likely to panic buy, as they are likely to panic sell when negative rumors start swirling in.
When they were calling it a bubble at $100, they were also calling it a bubble at $1000, $5000, $10,000, $12,000 and at $15,000.
When will they ever start labeling it otherwise?
Most of them assumed that the future of Bitcoin depended on its everyday use.
Of course in the early days, people would envision using it to pay rent, buy coffee and make other day-to-day transactions.
Bitcoin ATMs sprung up in major cities, facilitating easy transactions and encouraging local markets and restaurants to adopt and accept Bitcoin payments.
Today, almost no one is using their Bitcoin.
Why would they when the price is rising 20% each week.
At this rate, Bitcoin could reach $1 million by 2020.
People don't care if Bitcoin isn't replacing cash. Click To Tweet
Plenty of investors are demanding an investable security, similar to gold and silver.
They are treating Bitcoin like the new form of digital gold.
Bitcoin has several qualities that exude just that.
Its Pre-programmed scarcity. Capped at 21 million bitcoins.
Its difficult to counterfeit. Well, the network effect of bitcoin makes it almost impossible as more and more transactions take place.
Rapid Transfer of funds.
You can send hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin in about 10 minutes.
When you compare that to a traditional wire transfer.
The fastest I've seen a wire happen is in 24 hours. The cost to send a domestic wire can vary from $35 to $70.
International wires can eat up 1%-15% of the total amount of money sent.
As far as sending gold, it takes weeks and is very expensive to hire specific transportation and security, not to mention insurance.
So, being able to send bitcoin anywhere in the world is a very valuable utility that only cryptocurrencies possess. Added to that the rapid price appreciation makes it even more valuable and rare just to keep.
Even millennials are saying that they'd rather own $1000 worth of bitcoin than $1000 worth of stocks or government bonds.
When banks are saying that the blockchain technology itself would eclipse Bitcoin, and that bitcoin would ultimately fade away, they made another huge error in judgement.
When the enormous hype over blockchain created thousands of fintech companies and ICOs, the investor bullishness for bitcoin got even stronger.
Bitcoin became a revolutionary on-ramp for many non-techies to learn about blockchain itself.
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As many pointed out that regulators and the government would sooner or later crack down on Bitcoin. It didn't happen.
Even after sending the owner of Silk-road to life imprisonment,
Even after large exchange sites were hacked and millions of dollars of bitcoin lost forever,
It was easy to think that they would.
Right now, the US government can no longer stop the influx of investors coming into bitcoin. Just too many people are involved.
They may also be fond with the idea of using cryptocurrency to transfer huge funds abroad undetected.
Progressive countries like Japan, Switzerland and Australia are already implementing cryptos in a huge way.
If they were to put a complete stop to it, they would be moving backward instead of embracing the future.
Make no mistake, cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
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Allergy Symptoms in Minnesota (It's probably not allergies)
Laura Bradshaw
Laura Bradshaw Updated: July 31, 2021
It seems like the worst allergy season this year. People dealing with watery eyes and a scratchy throat. People have been blaming the pollen in the area, but actually pollen levels have been fairly low this season.
The culprit for these allergy type symptoms has actually been from the wildfires to the North of us in Canada. The air quality in Minnesota has been poor for the last few weeks. Depending on the wind direction, the air quality can even be considered as unhealthy. This mostly will affect people with breathing issues such as asthma, elderly individuals and kids. Most everyone will notice some watering of the eyes and feel like you have a scratchy throat.
It's not to say that you might be experiencing some allergy issues, but it's most likely the air quality. The best thing to do is not to reach for the allergy meds, but instead, just stay inside.
Speaking with CBS, an allergist, Gary Berman says that the best way to find out if it's allergies or just poor air quality is to take an allergy scratch test.
"For the general population, it's probably mostly an irritant, but for our patients with asthma or COPD or cardiovascular problems, when they have breathing problems, this can make things much worse,"
This kind of poor air quality is something fairly new to Minnesotans. It's something that people on the West coast deal with almost every summer because of the wild fires. This is also probably the most likely reason that the first thought is allergies and not poor air quality. It's not top of mind in Minnesota.
Hopefully these fires will be contained and put out soon. It's been devastating.
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California to wait until June 15 to ditch COVID-19 mask requirement
by City News Service • May 17, 2021
California will wait until June 15 to align with federal guidance that no longer requires people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to wear face coverings, officials said Monday.
The June date is when state officials are expected to lift most virus-related restrictions if current positive trends continue.
"On June 15, California plans to implement the CDC's guidelines around masking to allow fully vaccinated Californians to go without a mask in most indoor settings. This four-week period will give Californians time to prepare for this change while we continue our relentless focus on delivering vaccines, particularly in underserved communities," said Dr. Mark Ghaly, California's Health and Human Services secretary.
"We urge all Californians to get vaccinated to ensure that infection and hospitalization rates remain low across the state and that we can all return to the activities we love," he added.
Face coverings are not required outdoors except at crowded events, and — for unvaccinated people — when physical distancing cannot be maintained. In indoor settings outside the home including public transportation and schools, face coverings continue to be required regardless of vaccination status.
Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidance, saying that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can largely stop wearing a mask in most indoor and outdoor situations.
That announcement, however, did not immediately reverse existing mask-wearing requirements in Los Angeles County or in California as a whole. L.A. County requirements allow fully vaccinated residents to shed masks while indoors with other fully vaccinated people. But mask mandates remain in place for everyone working at or patronizing businesses — such as grocery stores or retail shops.
The revised CDC guidance was announced in response to repeated studies showing the effectiveness of the vaccines, offering people who have been inoculated a great deal of protection against infection or severe illness if they are infected.
"Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
The new CDC guidance does not completely drop mask recommendations for vaccinated people. Face coverings are still recommended in some settings — such as aboard planes and buses or in crowded settings such as hospitals.
Supermarket chains including Trader Joe's, Costco and Walmart have dropped the mask requirement for fully vaccinated customers, though store officials said they will not be asking for proof of vaccination.
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Sudden increase in Muslim migrant population, hundreds of madarsas, mosques popped up in last 2 years: Demographic shift haunting Uttarakhand
URL: https://www.opindia.com/2021/10/uttarakhand-muslim-migrant-influx-nepal-border-pakistan-isi-locals-exodus-encroachment-demography-change/
Security agencies claim that Pakistan's ISI is active in India through Nepal. According to reports, madarsas or Islamic religious schools are being established primarily in locations that are crucial in terms of war policy.
The demographic imbalance in Uttarakhand has become a cause of concern for the government and the administration of the state. Security agencies are concerned over the fact that there has been an unprecedented increase in the Muslim population in specific areas of the state bordering Nepal, which is seen as problematic.
Seeing a specific conspiracy behind the sudden surge in the Muslim population in several districts of Uttarakhand, the security agencies had alerted the state Home Ministry.
In light of these circumstances, the security agencies had submitted a report to the Home Ministry earlier this year, with information on such vulnerable areas.
In the study, 'vulnerable areas' were specified. Surprisingly, the demographic shift in the districts was presented using the 2011 census rather than the present situation, and it was shocking to see that a decade ago, the number of illegal immigrants who had settled in these places had increased 2.5-fold.
A report submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs by the security agency had marked three areas of Kumaon as sensitive. These areas are Udham Singh Nagar, Champawat and Pithoragarh. Amongst these areas, two towns of Pithoragarh, Dharchula and Jauljeevi have been tagged in the 'extremely sensitive' category.
Over 400 madarsas and mosques have mushroomed in districts along Nepal border
Apart from the border areas of Uttarakhand, an alert was issued for many areas in Uttar Pradesh as well. Reason being, that within the last 2 years, almost 400 new Madarsas, mosques and religious institutions have mushroomed in areas like Bahraich that has an international border with Nepal on the Northern part and also along the Indo-Nepal border that falls under the Gorakhpur-Basti division.
The report had also mentioned that, due to the sudden increase of specific 'non-local' groups, an exodus of the local population cannot be ruled out.
Apprehending communal disturbance, a warning has been issued asking authorities to take precautionary measures, said DIG Dr Nilesh Anand Bharane. According to intelligence agencies inputs, a conspiracy to divide India based on demographic imbalance is also believed to have been devised.
Therefore, as per the Uttarakhand Government directives, the intelligence agencies are scrutinising every detail and keeping a strict vigil on the border areas. The reason for this sudden excessive population growth will be only identified after further inquiry.
Possibility of building a corridor to connect Pakistan?
According to a Dainik Jagran report, security agencies have revealed that these illegal settlers are attempting to build a premeditated corridor connecting Uttarakhand, Bangladesh, Bihar, Nepal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab. The possibility of connecting Pakistan with this corridor has also been stated. In fact, according to the reports, in the last 10 years, a large number of Muslims have been driven to infiltrate through this corridor under the guise of being refugees.
Security agencies claim that Pakistan's ISI is active in India through Nepal. According to reports, madarsas or Islamic religious schools are being established primarily in locations that are crucial in terms of war policy. This list includes the Uttarakhand districts of Pithoragarh, Udham Singh Nagar, and Champawat, as well as the Uttar Pradesh divisions of Gorakhpur and Basti.
Uttarakhand being a border state, the police and the district administrators have been ordered to ensure regular meetings of the proposed district-level peace committees and "identify areas where antisocial elements are reported".
Notably, Nanital, the Himalayan resort town in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand has been one of the worst affected as there has been a considerable change in the demography. The concern is that the kutcha houses which were initially built in the upper hill, Barapathar, and other sensitive and restricted locations behind the CRST school in Nanital, have overnight been converted to pucca illegal structures. In addition, a number of reports of illegal encroachment of land have been received in various locations. Locals say that almost all inhabitants are 'migrant' Muslims.
Speaking on the changing demography in the state, Gajraj Singh Bisht, former state general secretary of the BJP in Uttarakhand stated that "initially, these Muslims would come to hold your feet. They will then beg you with folded hands. But, when their count grows from one to ten, they will not even let you access their streets.
According to the 2011 census, Uttarakhand, which was carved out of Uttar Pradesh 21 years ago, has an 83 per cent Hindu population. Muslims, the second-largest group after Hindus, make up 14 per cent of the population of the state. Sikhs, Jains, Christians, and Buddhists make up the remaining 3 per cent of the population.


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Last Date With My Mom!
After 15 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, "I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you."
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my mother, who had been a widow for 10 years, but the demands of my work and my 2 children had made it possible to visit her only occasionally.
That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie. "What's wrong, are you well?" she asked.
My mother is the type of woman who suspects that late nights call or surprise invitation is a sign of bad news. "I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you," I responded. "Just the two of us." She thought about it for a moment, and then said, "I would like that very much."
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited in the door with her coat on.
She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary.
She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an Angel's. "I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed," she said, as she got into the car. "They can't wait to hear about our meeting."
We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady. After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print.
Half way through the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me.
A nostalgic smile was on her lips. "It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small," she said. "Then it's time that you relax and let me return the favor," I responded.
Senior woman communicating with her adult son. Focus is on senior woman.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation – nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other's life.
We talked so much that we missed the movie. As we arrived at her house later, she said, "I'll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you." I agreed.
"How was your dinner date?" Asked my wife when I got home. "Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined," I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn't have a chance to do anything for her.
Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place where mother and I had dined.
An attached note said: "I paid this bill in advance. I wasn't sure that I could be there; but nevertheless I paid for two plates – one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me."
"I love you, son."
At that moment, I understood the importance of sayıng ın tıme: "I love you," and to gıve our loved ones the time that they deserve.
Nothıng ın lıfe ıs more important than your family. Give them the time they deserve, because these thıngs cannot be put off till "some other time".
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Das Estadio Municipal de La Pintana ist ein Multifunktionsstadion in der chilenischen Hauptstadt Santiago de Chile, das für 6000 Zuschauer Platz bietet. Zurzeit wird es hauptsächlich als Fußballstadion genutzt.

Der Fußballverein und langjährige Erstligist CD Santiago Morning trägt hier seine Heimspiele aus. Zudem ist  der Rugbyverein Trapiales Rugby Club im Stadion beheimatet. Es war zudem Austragungsort verschiedener internationaler Rugby-Wettkämpfe und früher Heimspielstätte des CDyC La Pintana Unida, der von 2009 bis 2017 überwiegend im Amateurfußball spielte. Von 2014 bis 2017 spielte der Klub in der Segunda División, der dritten Profiliga Chiles, ehe der Verein aufgelöst wurde.

Neben dem Rasenplatz gibt es auf dem Gelände noch einen weiteren Kunstrasenplatz, zwei Tennisplätze und andere Einrichtungen für weitere Sportarten.

Weblinks

 Estadio Municipal de La Pintana auf europlan-online.de

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Summer Mercato 2019 - Printable Version
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RE: Summer Mercato 2019 - mazen111 - 07-10-2019
Ceballos would prefer to join a club playing CL football next year, but the proposal of a concrete project with him at the centre of it, as well as the presence of Maldini and Boban could convince him otherwise. The next 10 days are decisive. [Gazzetta]
Plizzari's agent is meeting with the sporting director of Livorno in Milano. Livorno wants Plizzari on loan from Milan.
[via @NicoSchira]
Bennacer: it'll be foolish not to take the chance and play for Milan.
RE: Summer Mercato 2019 - hwmook - 07-10-2019
(07-10-2019, 05:09 PM)mazen111 Wrote: Ceballos would prefer to join a club playing CL football next year, but the proposal of a concrete project with him at the centre of it, as well as the presence of Maldini and Boban could convince him otherwise. The next 10 days are decisive. [Gazzetta]
Ceballos + Bennacer would give us a very strong midfield which can create chances that was lacking previously.
(07-10-2019, 08:18 PM)hwmook Wrote: Ceballos + Bennacer would give us a very strong midfield which can create chances that was lacking previously.
yes they will do so. the problem if ceballos goes somewhere else, we'll be lacking in midfield creativity. i would go to deulofeu and play him as ACM/ LM/ and SS when needed
Still keen on 27-year old Italian midfielder Daniele Baselli, AC Milan management, according to Tu t*to, brought to Torino's table a 3-fold bargaining chip: 28-year old all-rounder Fabio Borini, 26-year old left-back Diego Laxalt, 24-year old winger Samu Castillejo. Besides, Rossoneri are still interested in Granata returning centre-back Kevin Bonifazi.
RE: Summer Mercato 2019 - AC_Troy - 07-10-2019
#Ceballos to #Tottenham is at the last stages as the two Clubs are working on the final details. Total agreement between the player and the Club.
We only want to include Biglia in Veretout deal and Bennacer wants more money
Milan's move for Empoli midfielder Ismael Bennacer has suddenly hit serious problems, with reports Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund are back in the race.
RE: Summer Mercato 2019 - Arildonardo - 07-10-2019
Regarding Bennacer. Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund offering better wages than Milan. I guess we were too slow again.
Nicolò Schira @NicoSchira · 3m3 minutes ago
#Milan irritated with Ismael #Bennacer and his Entourage: Rossoneri not currently intending to raise offer from 1.5 mln net plus premiums until 2024. The Algerian's demands are considered high and #Maldini ready to veer on other objectives. #calciomercato


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LANY goes Super Far into American music scene
By Bridget Martinez
El Rancho students are loving LANY's catchy songs "Super Far," and "ILYSB." The band's unique music has caught the attention of several music lovers.
LANY (pronounced lay-nee) is an indie pop three- piece band from Los Angeles. This past summer, the band released their first debut album, LANY, which showcases their unique style of turning every- day ideas into something more.
Paul Klein, the lead singer, formed LANY with his friends Jake Goss, drummer, and Les Priest, guitar. LANY is an acronym for Los Angeles New York.
"We knew we wanted a four-letter word because of de- sign and aesthetic purposes, but as you can imagine, all the four- letter words in the entire world are taken," said Klein. "We moved to acronyms, and for a while, we thought we would be TTYL, but then we decided we didn't want to be 13 for the rest of our lives."
"I eventually thought of the span across the country from L.A. to New York, and at first I was thinking it would be L-A-N-Y, but people kept getting confused on how to pronounce it when I told them, saying things like 'L- A-and-Y?' So then we're like for- get it—let's call ourselves LANY, pronounced Lay-Nee." said Klein.
Like several artists, LANY posted on SoundCloud so they could have their work published somewhere. Their rise to success was a shock to them after they received over thousands of streams on their online published songs.
LANY first came out with four EP's titled Acronyms, I Loved You, Make Out, and Kinda. Acronyms had three tracks. I Loved You had five. Make Out and Kinda had six.
"We are a very summery band," says Klein. "I didn't want to miss the opportunity to soundtrack to people's summers." "We decided we would put out Kinda and give something to the people to live their lives to. I think singles aren't enough anymore," said Klein.
The song "ILYSB" (a.k.a "I Love You So Bad") is LA- NY's most well-known song, having more than seventy-four million plays on Spotify alone. "ILYSB - STRIPPED" has over twenty-four million plays as well.
LANY's first album has sixteen songs which mainly deal with love, teenage emotion, and lyricism. Their first album also went platinum in the Philippines.
The trio's song titles and sentiments reflect from text-message lingo and dating apps, replete with acronyms and all-caps. They signed to Polydor in 2015 and used their recording budget to rent "the first ever house built in Malibu," to continue creating music.
LANY has toured with several well-known artists such as Halsey, Troye Sivan, and Ellie Goulding.
Whether it was the mystery that comes with the band's name or their incredible mixture of dream-pop and electro beats, LANY is a star on the rise worth looking out for.


Abstract : The Guadalhorce Basin is located in Andalusia (South of Spain). Its floods have historically represented a major hazard for the city of Málaga. In 2008 it has been decided to implement a pilot operational flood warning system (GFWS) with the aim of analyzing the capability to minimize the risk to people, and economic activity, as well as for guiding water resources management. The system is oriented to provide distributed warnings based on rainfall accumulations and discharge forecasts. Rainfall accumulation maps are generated according to the interpolation of rain gauge measurements and weather radar rainfall maps whereas discharge forecasts are computed using a distributed rainfall-runoff model. Due to the lack of flow measurements, the model was calibrated a priori in most of the basin area. The performance of the system has been tested on two recent rainfall events which caused many inundations. First results show how the GFWS performed well and was able to forecast the location and timing of flooding. It demonstrates that a simple model and a rough calibration could be enough to issue valuable warnings. Moreover, the European Flood Alert System (EFAS) forecasts have been used to prevent from the flood several days in advance. With low resolution and long anticipation, EFAS appears as a good complement tool to improve flood forecasting and compensate for the short lead times of the GFWS.


Making space communications more efficient for both near-Earth and deep-space missions is a priority for NASA, and photonics may provide the solution. Laser communications could significantly improve data rates in all space regions, from low-Earth orbit to interplanetary.
After more than 50 years of relying solely on radio frequency (RF) to send and receive data, several centers across NASA are experimenting with laser communications, which has the potential to provide data rates at least 10 to 100 times better than RF. These higher speeds would support increasingly sophisticated instruments and the transmission of live video from anywhere in the solar system. They would also increase the bandwidth for communications from human exploration missions in deep space, such as those associated with Journey to Mars.
Artist concept of satellite relaying data from Mars to Earth via laser. Courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA began using lasers for satellite laser ranging, a technique to measure distances, in 1964. The laser ranging system at Goddard Space Flight Center uses laser stations worldwide to bounce short pulses of light off reflectors installed on satellites and on the moon during the Apollo and Soviet rover programs. By timing the bounce of the pulses, engineers can measure distances and orbits with an accuracy of within a few millimeters.
The first laser communications pathfinder mission, the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD), was launched by Goddard in 2013. LLCD demonstrated that a space-based laser communications system was viable and could survive both launch and the space environment. The Goddard team is now planning a follow-on mission called the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) to prove the proposed system's longevity and provide engineers with the opportunity to learn how to best operate the system for near-Earth missions.
Scheduled to launch in 2019, LCRD will simulate real communications support, practicing for two years with a test payload on the International Space Station and two dedicated ground stations in California and Hawaii. This mission could be the last hurdle to implementing a constellation of laser communications relay satellites similar to the Space Network's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites.
"We have been using RF since the beginning, 50 to 60 years, so we've learned a lot about how it works in different weather conditions and all the little things to allow us to make the most out of the technology, but we don't have that experience with laser comm," said Dave Israel, exploration and space communications architect at Goddard and principal investigator on LCRD. "LCRD will allow us to test the performance over all different weather conditions and times of day and learn how to make the most of laser comm."
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Glenn Research Center are also building on LLCD's success to discover how laser communications could be implemented in deep-space missions.
The team at Glenn is developing Integrated Radio and Optical Communications (iROC), an idea for putting a laser communications relay satellite in orbit around Mars that could receive data from distant spacecraft and relay the signal back to Earth. The iROC system would use both RF and laser communications and promote interoperability among all of NASA's assets in space. By integrating both RF and laser communications systems, iROC could provide services both for new spacecraft using laser communications systems and older spacecraft like Voyager 1 that use RF.
The data-rate benefits of laser communications for deep-space missions are clear; less recognized is that laser communications can also save mass, space and/or power requirements on missions. That could be monumental on missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, which is so large that, even folded, it will barely fit in the largest rocket currently available. Although Webb is an extreme example, many missions today face size constraints as they become more complex. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission carried both types of communications systems, and the laser system was half the mass, required 25 percent less power and transferred data at six times the rate of the RF system.
Laser communications could also benefit a class of missions called CubeSats, miniature satellites about the size of a shoebox. These missions are becoming more popular and require miniaturized communications and power systems.
Power requirements can become a major challenge on missions to the outer solar system. As spacecraft move away from the sun, solar power becomes less viable, so the less power a payload requires, the better. A small spacecraft battery saves space and is easier to recharge.
From communications to altimetry and navigation, photonics' importance to NASA missions cannot be understated. As the technology continues to evolve, NASA will continue to invest in novel ways to use photonics to provide solutions to some of its most pressing challenges in future spaceflight.
The original article appeared on the nasa.gov website.
NASA is using photonics to solve some of the most pressing upcoming challenges in spaceflight, such as better data communications from space to Earth. Courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Amber Jacobson, producer.


You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus.
"There is much beauty in the superficial complexity of nature. But there is a deeper beauty in the simplicity of underlying processes that account for the external complexity. There is beauty in the intricacy of human thinking when an intelligent person is confronted with a difficult problem. But there is a deeper beauty in the basic information processes and their organization into simple schemes of heuristic search that make that intricate human thinking possible. It is a sense of this latter beauty—the beauty of simplicity—that we have tried to convey to you."


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Donald (Pup) Stockford makes parole
The Toronto Star is reporting that "Former Hells Angel Donald (Pup) Stockford of Ancaster has been granted statutory release from a Quebec prison after serving 10 years for conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking and gangsterism.
In June 2004, Stadnick, 56, and Stockford, 47, both of Hamilton, Ont., were convicted of five charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, drug trafficking and gangsterism. They were each sentenced to 20 years in prison for their role in Quebec's bloody biker war. OK so I'm not a brain surgeon but statutory release is after two thirds of your sentence is complete not half. 10 years isn't two thirds of a 20 year sentence.
Stockford was a founding member of the Nomads along with Mom Boucher. In an October, 2000 news report he was described as the Vice-President of the chapter in charge of the Rockers who sold drugs for the Hells Angels. He was part of a group that would negotiate the price of cocaine with the Italian Mafia. Both Stockford and Stadnick were the only Anglophones in Quebec. They were instrumental in the Hells Angels coming to Ontario. Stockford needed a Hells Angels prospect to translate for him so he could explain how to cut down the pcp he had sold them. Tell me again how the Hells Angels are not a criminal organization and that their primary business isn't drug trafficking. The case law is making that impossible to believe.
The Quebec Hells Angels also managed to infiltrate Quebec's auto insurance system, where at least one office worker searched addresses and licence plates, for $200 apiece. One of those they obtained was for journalist Michel Auger, who was shot eight times but not killed. "The reason why Stockford had the binder of photos at his residence, was because he was a participant in the conspiracy to murder them," Zigman said as he pronounced the men guilty.
Court also heard that Stadnick and Stockford helped run a sophisticated banking system to launder drug trafficking proceeds. Police estimated its drug sales between March 1999 and December 2000 totalled $111,503,361. "The Angels warred for control of Montreal's downtown drug trade, from the ritzy restaurants of Old Montreal to the east-end gay district."
Jerry Langton's book Fallen Angel: The Unlikely rise of Walter Stadnick states that Stadnick and Stockford were friends who grew up in Hamilton with no French skills and a pronounced size disadvantage somehow managed to join the Quebec Nomads. Stadnick was 5' 4" tall.
Hells Angels have long manipulated ICBC!
In conversation with ex RCMP, it is a well known Fact to all Judiciary and BC Government as well!
Light Judiciary judgements, are cause of and directly effectual!
e.a.f. September 23, 2014 at 1:08 AM
If they were found guilty and sentenced to prison, and the rules stipulate you serve 2/3 of your sentence prior to being paroled, you do ask a very good question. Why are these men out of jail now and not later? Will some one be asking the politicians that question, i.e. the M.P. Will any one be asking the parole board this question?
Perhaps their sentences did have a qualifier, which enabled them to ask for early parole, who knows. it is always entertaining to see how men such as these are treated yet Robert Latimer had to fight to be granted parole and then even the parole board would not permit him to travel freely. He actually had to go to court and have that decision over turned. You do wonder how much is politically motivated.
Personally I'm not in favour of longer sentences and do think, if there is little risk of someone getting back into the business, that parole after 2/3 of the sentence is o.k. It gives the justice system an opportunity to see how the "offender" does. Unfortunately there frequently is little follow up. Perhaps those who subscribe to the Fraser Institute's philosophy consider that a waste of tax dollars.
bigbob705@gmail.com October 9, 2014 at 1:04 AM
Jerry Langton's book Showdown contained many errors and the author used pure fiction to fill in parts of the story that he couldn't glean from his sources. I would not put too much stock in anything he has written.
Dennis Watson October 9, 2014 at 3:29 AM
I haven't read that book but every time someone writes a book exposing the Hells Angels criminal activity supporters always say the author is not credible and the book is full of lies. Jerry Langton was a former editor of a large New York paper. That's credible in my mind.
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A teenager has gone missing in Virginia's Rappahannock River in Stafford County.
The Free Lance-Star reports that the 15-year-old disappeared on Monday afternoon in the area of the Historic Port of Falmouth.
A search was called off after darkness set in Monday night and was scheduled to resume on Tuesday.
Stafford Sheriff's Maj. Shawn Kimmitz said that the teenager entered the river, briefly surfaced in the water, then went under.
Photos from a Facebook post by the Stafford County Sheriff's Office on Sept. 8.
The incident is the third emergency on the river in eight days. The Rappahannock is always considered to be dangerous. But significant rainfall has swollen the river with swift currents and debris.
On Saturday, Stafford divers had located a body in the Rappahannock at Muddy Creek near the King George County line. The identity of that person is still unknown.
Last week, search teams recovered the body of 40-year-old Brandon Childs. He had gone missing while kayaking Aug. 30 near the Fredericksburg City Dock.
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The day I started using a color card, my production life changed. Good bye time consuming color corrections. Good bye not so flattering color tones. Hello quick, methodical camera routine. Hello easy, eye catching images in post.
Any shooter can start with the color card of their choosing, I use the Datacolor SyderCHECKR 24. Your results may vary depending on which card you choose, but the process remains mostly the same. I'll outline how I use the card and show the results of using Davinci Resolve to calibrate the footage.
Whether your using natural or additional lighting, get your exposure and composition where you want it. In other words, make sure that the lighting environment of your shot will not change once you've introduced the color card.
Do this by eye if you like, but color cards have a neutral grey patch or the SpyderCHECKR 24 has an exposure card on the rear with a middle grey tile. Lock and load your camera's custom white balance with this feature.
Place the color card in the frame. If you're shooting an interview, hold it roughly in front of your subject's face (to calibrate to the light source being directed there). If you're shooting products, place the card where the object is or will be.
Hit record. If you've got a grey side to the card, flip it and record that too. Then carry on with your shooting.
Step #4: Repeat as necessary.
Each time you change a lighting set up or environment, you're best bet is to repeat the process of recording the color card.
If you use Davinci Resolve, you're on easy street with the built in color matrix calibration tool. Ingest your footage and look for the matrix tool in the color grading tab. Pull up a video frame of the color card and use the matrix tool to line up the grid with the card in the frame. Be sure to select the type of card you are using from the drop down menu, as well as the white balance and type of gamma profile you shot with (or are converting to).
Once you've lined up the tiles, click Match and the program calibrates the image's color and gamma with impressive precision.
Now all you do is copy the color adjustment to other clips with the same lighting set up. Repeat this step for each series of shots where you used the color card.
There are other ways to use a color card to calibrate an image in post, but none that I know of are as precise or quick as Davinci Resolve's method I described above. Why not keep it simple? If you're like me, a visual artist and a creative storyteller, you want the technology to empower you, not distract you from the moment you have to capture.
My hope is that this article was informative and gets you eager to put this technique to work on your next shoot.


My group's research in the recent years has focused on various aspects of mobile and wireless systems. Our approach has been to (i) understand the wireless environment better and designing better tools to improve our understanding of the network; (ii) design techniques to improve wireless-based data delivery, and (iii) create new infrastructure-based services to combine lessons learnt above. Here are some examples.
Understanding interference in a wireless environment is a challenging problem. Our work in this domain started with asking a basic question in WiFi environments --- can we tell apart the reason for a packet loss, e.g., is it due to a weak signal or is it due to a collision? We defined a post-mortem approach to diagnosing the cause for a packet's loss, called COLLIE, which was the first experimental attempt to distinguish the root cause of packet losses. Since then, we have looked at a range of problems that try to infer in real-time which other WiFi as well as non-WiFi sources are causing interference to users in a WLAN environment. The following papers capture some of the main results until date.
Airshark + WiFiNet: How can we detect the existence of non-WiFi transmitters in the unlicensed spectrum, using only off-the-shelf WiFi cards? Examples of non-WiFi transmitters are Bluetooth gadgets, ZigBee units, various game controllers (PS2, Xbox, etc.), analog phones, frequency hopping phones, and even microwave ovens. Past work and various commercial products do this but often use more sophisticated spectrum sensing chips or specialized embedded hardware (e.g., WiSpy). If we do this without using any such additional hardware, then every WiFi Access Point (AP) and client can do this in software we can build great interference awareness in WiFi APs and clients. We designed a technique, called Airshark, for doing this using Atheros 9280 WiFi chipsets, all in software.
Many wireless devices occupy spectrum.
Our continued work in this domain, called WiFiNet, provides even deeper analysis of non-WiFi transmitters in two ways still using off-the-shelf WiFi cards: (i) it can now quantify the impact each individual non-WiFi interferer has on WiFi traffic, including when there are multiple devices of the same or different type For example, there may be two Bluetooth headsets in operation and one analog phone, WiFiNet tries to separate the contribution of each such device on how much it impacts specific WiFi users (maybe 10%, 12%, and 25% respectively); (ii) it can localize the position of this non-WiFi interferer. The core challenge we have solved in both these cases is how to meet both these goals using only WiFi cards, and hence with the constraint that our system cannot decode the transmissions from these non-WiFi devices in the air.
Paper and video coming soon.
Locate Non-WiFi devices in space.
PIE (Passive Interference Estimator): This work demonstrates an online system which captures all WiFi to WiFi interference in an enterprise WLAN as and when it happens. We recognize that interference changes with various communication parameters, e.g., transmit power, PHY rate, packet size, etc., and PIE is able to detect occurence of interference based on current operational choices made by the system. PIE reacts well to mobility --- as users move through the enterprise, the interference patterns change, and PIE picks it up immediately.
FLUID: This work shows efficient ways to assign flexible channels (channels with arbitrary center frequencies and widths) in a multi-link scenario. We show that even in a simple two link scenario, and with two width choices (say, 20 MHz and 40 MHz) and a single center frequency, the best width assignment varies significantly based on the scenario. This is because altering channel widths alter interference significantly. Some links become hidden terminals and others can be exposed terminals simply due to change in a channel width. The work proposes a systematic model for that can be used to efficiently reason how different flexible channels can be assigned to multiple WiFi transmitters in range, and how such choices impact interference.
This paper was a best paper nominee at MobiCom 2011, and was one of three papers fast-tracked to the Transactions of Mobile Computing.
COLLIE (Collision Interferencing Engine): This work defines a technique which can tell apart whether a (WiFi) frame was lost due to a weak signal or due to collision from another wireless transmission. The key constraint in this work was to use off-the-shelf WiFi cards only (as was available at the time) and no additional software capability. Hence, we were able to examine bit error patterns to achieve this. The work does a fast post-portem of erroneous receptions. A number of subsequent work has since increased the toolkit to tell apart these two common causes of packet losses, although most assume additional support from the PHY layer.
A large number of clients can collaboratively provide a unique view of performance across space and time for wide-area wireless (cellular) networks. The naive approach would require a measurement server requesting each client to collect a lot of measurements. Clearly, this is inefficient and resource intensive. The WiScape system maps out the wireless landscape of a cellular network by figuring out what is a small amount of measurement needed to get a good, coarse-grained understanding of the network's overall user experience. We partition required measurements into time and space and collect a small number of measurements to gain some statistical insights about multiple large wide-area cellular networks, covering 60 sq. miles in and around Madison, WI, and along more than 120 miles of highways between Madison and Chicago.
Snapshot of one cellular network's performance in Madison.
WiRover provides high bandwidth connectivity to moving vehicles. Our targeted applications are to provide Internet connectivity to passengers of public transit buses, trains, limousines, taxis, as well as emergency services including ambulances, police, and fire vehicles. We have provided this as an experimental service since April 2010 to upto 12 vehicles in the Madison area, including multiple Madison Metro Transit buses (the local public transit operator) and Van Galder buses (a long-distance bus operator). The WiRover system aggregates data striping across multiple wireless cellular (3G or 4G) and WiFi networks simultaneously. Core innovations in WiRover lie purely in algorithms that efficiently handles transient failures of each network and provides significant improved performance, reliability, and overall user experience.
We are always interested in trialing the WiRover system with various vehicle operators (or in other non-vehicular scenarios). If you have a fleet of vehicles (taxis, buses, trains, or other rental cars) that you want to provide Internet connectivity too, we can make WiRover available to you for use. Similarly, if you have a non-vehicular application that requires high-bandwidth connectivity (e.g., high-bandwidth video) in any arbitrary location, you can use WiRover for that as well. Please email Prof. Suman Banerjee.
This work is also the grand prize winner of the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition 2011.
WiRover exploits wireless diversity for improved performance.
In many media delivery systems are bits are not created equal. Some bits are created to be more important (at the time when the media is encoded). The simplest example is found in MPEG streams where the relative importance of I, P, B-frames vary to the receiver. Apex (which stands for APproximate Communication for media EXchange) is a proposed wireless communication model in which we observe received symbols, when in error are typically a good approximation of the transmitted symbols. We exploit this property to provide the abstraction that more important bits (such as I-frames) can be better protected by the wireless channel natively than the less important bits. This design allows for an improved media experience. The system was implemented using the WARP software radio platform.
[Sigcomm 2010 paper] Approximate communication exploits the fact that symbol errors are typically localized around the transmitted symbol.


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Prominent football figures still in game named by players alleging sexual abuse
• Lawyer for abuse victims says some 'still work in senior echelons of football'
• New claims that a number of clubs, not just Chelsea, paid hush money
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Mon 5 Dec 2016 17.30 EST Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 05.05 EST
The former footballers, left to right, Mark Williams, Andy Woodward, Steve Walters, Jason Dunford and Matt Monaghan at the launch of The Offside Trust, set up to support players and their families who have suffered sexual abuse. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
Prominent figures from the football world, including a former manager described as still working "in the senior echelons" of the sport, have repeatedly been named by some of the players alleging sexual abuse in the escalating crisis that has also led to new claims about a number of clubs, not just Chelsea, paying off victims with hush money.
Lawyers representing a new independent body, the Offside Trust, that has been set up to help the victims and their families described it as "extremely worrying" that, only three days after its formation, there had already been numerous first-hand accounts from former and current professional footballers directly implicating people who were still involved in the game and "need further investigation".
Football League warned all its clubs about Bob Higgins in 1989
Other victims have informed the trust they were offered large sums of money as long as they signed confidentiality agreements to prevent the clubs suffering damaging publicity, in the same way that Chelsea paid £50,000 to their former player Gary Johnson in an attempt to stifle the allegations against Eddie Heath, a scout for the London club in the 1970s.
Chelsea issued an apology over the weekend but Ed Smethurst, representing Andy Woodward and Steve Walters, the two players whose interviews in the Guardian opened what the Football Association chairman, Greg Clarke, has described as the biggest crisis he has ever known within the sport, said there was already clear information that other clubs had been part of similar cover-ups. Asked how many clubs he was referring to, he said it was "less than five" but also reiterated that the trust had been operating only since Friday. "It is unfurling as we speak," he said.
Smethurst went on to say there were grave misgivings about the FA's independent inquiry, pointing out that "a lot of people have come forward who have said they don't have trust the establishment", but his most alarming revelation was that some of the people identified as offenders were still working within the sport.
"There are certain names who do come up repeatedly," he said. "I'm not going to divulge specifics but there are absolutely people in the game today who victims have spoken to me about. There are specific allegations against specific individuals, many of whom have been rumoured to be involved for a very long period of time, some of whom still work in the senior echelons of football, and it's extremely worrying."
Smethurst described it as a "tidal wave" of calls since Woodward spoke to this newspaper and was asked about the fact that some of the coaches who had previously been under suspicion were still working in football. "Is it a surprise? No. There are other individuals in the game, past and present, where further action could, and should, have been taken," he said.
The latest police figures, issued last Thursday, stated that around 350 alleged victims had made official complaints. Those involved 55 clubs, at professional and amateur level, but the players who have driven the campaign are aware of many others with similar stories who do not want to go public.
Football is listening on child abuse but took far too long to do so | Daniel Taylor
"I've had about 50 different ex-players who have contacted me to say things have happened to them," Walters said. "Andy has had a similar number of calls. Some have told me they've been groomed, others had a certain level of abuse, some are horrific stories. It's never-ending. I had one call on the way here today. There are so many more. I'm getting phone calls every day. You wont believe how many are still to come out."
Walters, sitting next to Woodward at an emotional press conference to launch the trust, added: "Fair play to Chelsea – it's too little, too late, but they have put their apology out there in a sincere manner. Other clubs, though, have got their heads in the sand. These children trusted them and the clubs have let everyone down."
Two individuals who previously worked together at the same club have repeatedly been named – one no longer in employment – and Smethurst said some of the players making complaints felt unable to waive their anonymity. "Unless you've been a victim of something like this I think it's very difficult for an outsider to understand. Some want to talk about it, but don't necessarily want the furore. They might not want their parents or children to know, or they might think that there is nothing they can do about it, or that it might be swept under the carpet."
The FA has appointed a QC, Kate Gallafent, to oversee its investigation but some of the victims have questioned whether it can truly be considered an independent inquiry if the governing body is paying the person investigating its own role.
Smethurst, working on a pro bono basis for the trust as managing director of the Manchester firm Prosperity Law, made the same point and encouraged other players to come forward even if they had agreed payments from clubs to remain silent.
"Certainly, allegations have been made by victims that confidentiality clauses have been used in relation to other clubs," he said. "It does happen. I can't speak about what Chelsea's lawyers advised them but, from a campaigning perspective, we think some things are so important – the protection of children for one – that clubs should not hush these things up and tie victims up in confidentiality.
"There is a wider perspective here about the protection of the victim and stopping these things from reoccurring. It's often the case if there is an abuser that there are other people who know, or who have turned a blind eye, so I would say even if the person is dead I would not encourage the use of confidentiality."


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Benedykt Paweł Boym (ur. 1629 we Lwowie, zm. 28 lutego 1670 w Wilnie) – polski duchowny katolicki, jezuita, autor prac teologicznych.

Był synem Pawła Jerzego Boyma, lekarza i rajcy lwowskiego, a młodszym bratem misjonarza w Chinach Michała. Innemu ze starszych braci przekazał swoje dziedzictwo po zmarłym w 1641 ojcu, by wejść w szeregi jezuitów; do nowicjatu w Wilnie wstąpił 31 lipca 1646. Po dwuletnim nowicjacie kontynuował naukę w Wilnie, gdzie do 1649 kształcił się w dziedzinie retoryki, potem odbył kurs filozoficzny w Połocku (1649–1652). Przez pewien czas był nauczycielem w szkołach jezuickich w Nowogródku i Nieświeżu. W okresie wojen szwedzkich i rosyjskich wyjechał na studia zagraniczne i zgłębiał filozofię w belgijskim Lowanium. Zetknął się tamże z bollandystami, m.in. Danielem Papenbrochem, i nawiązał współpracę z dziełem hagiograficznym Acta sanctorum.

Zamierzał śladami brata pracować na misji jezuickiej w Chinach, nie uzyskał jednak zgody władz zakonnych. Zajął się wówczas duszpasterstwem ludu oraz publicystyką polemiczną ze schizmatykami; w pracach swoich odnosił się do schizmatyków z wielkim szacunkiem, pisząc o nich braciszkowie nasi kochani. Od około 1661 był nauczycielem poetyki w domu zakonnym w Pułtusku, potem działał jako kaznodzieja przy kościele św. Kazimierza w Wilnie. Zmarł w tamtejszym domu profesów 28 lutego 1670.

Dla Acta sanctorum przetłumaczył życiorys świętego Jana Kantego autorstwa Adama Opatowiusza (Żywot i cuda wielebnego Jana Kantego, tom 57). Jako polemista opracował popularne dziełko teologiczne Stara wiara abo jasne pokazanie, iż ci co w dizuniej trwają starej wiary nie mają (Wilno 1668), w którym na podstawie prac Ojców Kościoła wykazywał prymat papieża oraz pochodzenia Ducha Świętego od Ojca i Syna. Kilka edycji miała praca Boyma Wóz do nieba na duchową przejażdżkę, pierwszy raz wydana jako dodatek do dzieła Theologia chrześcijańska albo nauka o tajemnicach wiary chrześcijańskiej Malinesa (Wilno 1670).

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Bibliografia
 Stanisław Bednarski, Benedykt Paweł Boym, w: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, tom II (redaktor główny Władysław Konopczyński), nakładem Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności, Kraków 1936, s. 380
 Ludwik Grzebień, Benedykt Paweł Boym, w: Słownik polskich teologów katolickich, tom I: do 1918, A-G (pod redakcją Hieronima Eugeniusza Wyczawskiego), Akademia Teologii Katolickiej, Warszawa 1981, s. 206-207

Linki zewnętrzne
 Benedykt Boym: Stara wiara : albo Jasne pokazanie, iż ci, co w dizuniey trwaią, starey wiary nie mają (1668) w bibliotece Polona

Absolwenci i studenci Uniwersytetu w Lowanium
Duchowni katoliccy I Rzeczypospolitej
Ludzie związani z Nieświeżem (I Rzeczpospolita)
Ludzie związani z Nowogródkiem (I Rzeczpospolita)
Ludzie związani z Wilnem (I Rzeczpospolita)
Pedagodzy I Rzeczypospolitej
Polscy jezuici (I Rzeczpospolita)
Polscy pisarze nowołacińscy XVII wieku
Polscy pisarze religijni XVII wieku
Teolodzy katoliccy I Rzeczypospolitej
Urodzeni w 1629
Zmarli w 1670


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