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Ben Carson's campaign comes to an end
March 7, 2016 in history | Tags: 2015, 2016, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, election, history, politics, Republican Party, Ted Cruz, United States | 11 comments
It was disappointing that Dr Ben Carson, 64, had to drop out of the Republican (GOP) presidential race at the weekend.
(Photo credit: Blue Nation Review)
Carson's campaign
In October, despite his being a Seventh Day Adventist (sect), I was hopeful for his campaign. Polls showed that only he had a chance of beating Hillary Clinton: early in December, he was ahead by one point and early in February 2016, she was ahead by just 1.3 points.
However, the endless focus on race in the West, particularly in the United States, makes it difficult for a black to declare himself (or herself) as a conservative. An offended Left — including the MSM — would have to take Carson down.
Before that happened, however, Carson revealed vulnerability in the GOP (Grand Old Party) debates, particularly on foreign policy.
Another thing people remember from his participation in the debates was his statement that the pyramids were grain silos. Before I go into that, however, leftists commenting online seized on it and called him all sorts of names, including 'stupid', 'idiot' and 'fool'. They were frothing at the mouth. These comments continued until Carson dropped out of the race.
Early in November, Politico tried to make Carson out to be a liar. Mollie Hemingway, writing for The Federalist, explains the story and subsequent retraction. In short, Politico's Kyle Cheney accused Carson of fabricating receiving a West Point scholarship. Cheney had to retract this shortly afterwards.
Hemingway says:
Ben Carson's campaign did not "admit" that a central point in his story "was fabricated." Quite the opposite. The central point of the story is falsely described by Cheney/Politico as being that he applied and was accepted at West Point. Carson, in fact, has repeatedly claimed not to have applied. So any claim regarding the absence of West Point records of such an application would not debunk Carson's point. And, again, Carson's campaign never "conceded" the story was false at least in part because the story, as characterized by Politico, is not one he told. Further, Cheney is unable to substantiate his claim that Carson told this story. Nowhere in the article does he even explain, with facts, where he came up with the idea that Carson has ever made this claim.
What happened was that, in 1969, as a 17-year-old, Carson had the exceptional opportunity to meet General William Westmoreland, recently retired from service in Vietnam, for dinner. Westmoreland offered him a full scholarship to West Point, but Carson politely declined. Politico said there was no record of Carson's application to West Point. Again, he never applied.
Politico changed the headline of their story to:
Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point 'scholarship' but never applied
Hardly an improvement.
Carson had been in the cadets in high school in Detroit. Furthermore, as one would expect of a future brain surgeon, his academic performance was excellent. It's no wonder the general asked him to apply to West Point, offering a full scholarship.
By December 19, GOP polls had changed. Fox News reported:
Donald Trump, a candidate even Republicans once considered a side show, increases his lead yet again in the nomination race, according to the latest Fox News national poll.
The poll also finds Ted Cruz ticking up, Marco Rubio slipping, and Ben Carson dropping.
At that point, he was in fourth place on
9 percent. He was at 18 percent last month and had a high of 23 percent support earlier this fall.
Yet, he still had more approval points than Jeb Bush, who had 3%!
On December 26, Real Clear Politics had a go at Carson about his paid speaking engagements and book tour during his candidacy. This 'concern' piece wondered if there was enough separation between his revenue generating interests and his campaign. Carson's campaign spokesman Doug Watts said:
We segregate as much as feasible.
The Atlantic had similar 'concerns'.
Most of this would have gone under the radar of Republican voters. However, as with the grain silos, Carson's book tour became a running theme of online leftists. That also continued until he dropped out at the weekend.
Rafael 'Ted' Cruz's cheating at the Iowa caucus — saying Carson had dropped out of the race — cost the good doctor dearly. Donald Trump still talks about it, and rightly so, because Cruz's team's intimidation of Carson voters created a win for the Christian constitutional expert from Texas, pushing Trump into second place — and leaving Carson in fourth with 9% of the vote.
Cruz and his team seized their opportunity when Carson said that he was going home to Florida the weekend before the Iowa caucus for a change of clothes. Cruz's people said they got the information from CNN.
I feel badly for Carson. He assumed Cruz was a nice guy and that the media would play fair ball. At a press conference held after the Iowa caucus, Carson rightly took issue with both.
However, I wonder why Carson didn't just say that he was going home to regroup before going to Washington DC for the annual National Prayer Breakfast, after which he would go on to campaign in New Hampshire. Donald Trump is always clear about where he is going next, probably to avoid similar speculation.
So, as much as the Left wanted Carson to fail because, in their eyes, blacks have no business being conservatives, the true kisses of death came from two of his fellow candidates — avowed Christians, let's remember — and their people. In addition to Cruz's was Marco Rubio's team. The Politistick has the full story about a tweet from a Rubio supporter, since deleted, which said that Rubio's campaign was spreading the narrative that Carson was dropping out of the race.
Whilst there were also internal issues in Carson's campaign, such as spending, the Iowa rumours dogged him in New Hampshire. His party after the primary there was a damp squib, sadly.
In mid-February, he said he would be open to discussing running with Trump as the Vice Presidential nominee and would stay on through the South Carolina primary to help the billionaire. Having a lot of primary candidates is good; they help split the vote, thereby preventing an immediate overall dominant front-runner.
Super Tuesday — March 1 — was the decider. The next day, Fox News reported that it was 'game over' for Cruz, Rubio, Kasich — and Carson. (Since then Cruz is proving to be Trump's main rival.)
He suspended his campaign on March 4, which also made the news in France.
How Carson's campaign came about
The Washington Post (WaPo) report was the only one I saw that actually explained how Carson came to run for president in the first place.
In 2013, he addressed the National Prayer Breakfast where:
he spoke about the dangers of political correctness, put forward the idea of a flat tax and criticized President Obama's health-care law. What stood out was that he did so right beside a steely-faced Obama.
The Wall St Journal thought so, too, and they carried an editorial to that effect days later, entitled:
"Ben Carson for President." By August of that year, there was a "National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee." Before he launched his presidential bid last May, the group had raised close to $16 million, gotten a half-million signatures encouraging Carson to run and had 30,000 active volunteers across the country, according to organizers.
WaPo's article goes on to say that, at age 33, Carson was the youngest major division director in the history of Johns Hopkins Hospital and:
he was the first pediatric neurosurgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head. He wrote a best-selling book, "Gifted Hands," about his life, which later became a television movie.
He got a lot of flak for his blunt opposition to Obamacare, his comparison of the United States to Nazi Germany and his denunciation of same-sex marriage.
It was hard for him to not speak about morality in uncertain terms and, paradoxically, be more assertive against other GOP candidates, such as Trump. If he knew something to be immoral, he would say so. Yet, he did not want to be seen to go on the attack against a candidate just for a show of strength.
Of politics, WaPo quotes him as saying:
"Many people told me that this business is corrupt, that it's evil, that it's how it'll always be," Carson said in a phone interview Monday. "But I don't believe that we have to accept that. We should rail against that, fight against it, and get something that's decent and inspirational."
I couldn't agree more. This is one of the reasons I read a lot about politics. I continue to look for the 'decent and inspirational'. Hmm. Like digging for gold.
One thing Dr Ben Carson can be proud of in his campaign: he outlasted Jeb!
Tomorrow: Ben Carson and the grain silo theory


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The battle for the Lege is gonna be lit
by Charles Kuffner.
Fasten your seat belts.
While the Texas Senate appears safe for Republicans, Clinton's comments underscored the emphasis that some Democrats — both in Texas and outside it — are already putting on the fight for the majority in the state House, where their party is nine seats away from control of the chamber. Views vary on just how within reach the majority is for Democrats, but few disagree that 2020 will be a frenzied cycle for House races as Democrats work to protect — and potentially build on — their recent gains. Republicans, meanwhile, are pushing to take back seats and head off the worst-case scenario: a Democratic-led House heading into the 2021 redistricting process.
The early contours of the fight are taking shape in the wake of a legislative session that saw Republicans largely eschew divisive social issues for a bread-and-butter agenda following a humbling election cycle in which they lost a dozen seats in the lower chamber. There is also a new speaker, Angleton Republican Dennis Bonnen, who appears intent on keeping the GOP in power by minimizing the kind of internecine conflict that has previously bedeviled the party.
"Everything is focused on redistricting," state Sen. Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills, said at a recent tea party meeting as he fielded questions about the demise of some controversial legislation this session. "There is nothing more important — not only to Texas, but literally the nation — than to make sure that we maintain the Texas House … going into redistricting because if you look at the nation — we lose Texas, we lose the nation. And there's no other place to go."
As Republicans have sought to get their own in order for 2020, state and national Democrats have been drawing up preliminary battle plans to take the House. Their path runs through a group of 18 districts — 17 where Republicans won by single digits last year as well as House District 32. That's where Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, ran unopposed while U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, won by just 5 points.
Of course, Democrats have to simultaneously defend the 12 seats they picked up last year, some of which have already drawn serious GOP opposition.
The path is "tough but possible to flip the chamber," said Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the group chaired by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. "We feel like there are enough potential targets out there that nine is doable, but it is gonna take a lot of work and resources."
The NDRC spent $560,000 in Texas last cycle, and Rodenbush called Texas "one of our top priorities for 2020." It recently hired an Austin-based Democratic consultant, Genevieve Van Cleve, to oversee its advocacy and political efforts here as Texas state director.
Other national groups are zeroing in on Texas this cycle as a state House battleground. They include the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and Forward Majority, a super PAC that injected $2.2 million into Texas House races in the closing days of the 2018 election.
The state Democratic Party is expanding its campaign and candidate services as part of what will ultimately be a seven-figure effort in House races. Over the past weekend in Austin, the party held a training for 55 people to become campaign managers in state House races.
Abbott's political operation plans to go after Democratic freshmen, as do well-funded organizations such as the Associated Republicans of Texas.
"ART is focused on candidate recruitment earlier than ever this cycle," ART's president, Jamie McWright, said in a statement. "We are identifying qualified, knowledgeable candidates who are willing to tackle the state's biggest issues in order to win back the seats Republicans lost in 2018."
Republicans are particularly focused on the seven seats they lost last cycle that Abbott carried.
You can see the potential targets here. There's really only one competitive seat in the Senate this cycle, and that's SD19, which Dems ought to be able to win back. On the House side, the top GOP targets based on the given criteria are going to be HDs 45, 47, 52, 65, 114, 132, and 135. I'll be surprised if they don't expand their list beyond that, but those are the seats I'd go after first if I were them. On the Dem side, there are the nine seats Beto carried but that Republicans won, plus however many others where he came close. It's very likely that a seat no one is worried too much about becomes more competitive than expected, thanks to changing conditions and candidate quality and other unforeseen factors. So far, no one other than Mayor-elect Eric Johnson has announced a departure, which is unusual; normally at this point in time we've had a couple of people say they're not running again. Open seats are more likely to be a problem for Republicans than they will be for Democrats, but Dems don't want to have to play defense when there are gains to be made.
At this point, the name of the game is one part candidate recruitment and one part raising money, which will be the job of the various PACs until the candidates get settled. In Harris County, we have two good candidates each for the main targets: Akilah Bacy and Josh Wallenstein (who ran for HCDE in 2018 and was the runnerup in the primary to Richard Cantu) in HD138, and Ann Johnson and Ruby Powers in HD134. In Fort Bend, Sarah DeMerchant appears to be running again in HD26, while Eliz Markowitz (candidate for SBOE7 in 2018) is aiming for HD28. We still need (or I need to do a better job searching for) candidates in HDs 29, 85, and 126, for starters. If you're in one of those competitive Republican-held State Rep districts, find out who is or may be running for the Dems. If you're in one of those targeted-by-the-GOP districts, be sure to help out your incumbent. Kelly Hancock is absolutely right: This is super-duper important.
Precinct analysis: 2018 State House
Initial thoughts: The Lege
A slightly less rosy view of Democratic prospects
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← What if we didn't expand I-45? See ya, Stickland →
Stickland's seat is open. Via DMN (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2019/06/24/north-texas-tea-party-republican-jonathan-stickland-not-seeking-re-election):
Stickland eked out a win when he was last reelected in 2018, besting Democrat Steve Riddell by 2.39 percentage points. Demographics in his House District 92, which encompasses Hurst, Bedford and Euless, are evolving as North Texas' urban areas become more diverse and shift to the left.
I doubt that helps Democrats much since Stickland is pretty unliked.
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I know the GOP is trying to recruit the female version of Jason Villalba which is smart, but John Turner in hd114 had a good session and is getting bi partisan praise. Lake Highlands is no longer Ruby red and neither is Preston Hollow. If Clinton won the district by 10 points Biden/Warren/Harris will win it by at least 13. Beto won hd114 by 15 points over Cruz. Turner will also be helped whether it's West or Hegar taking on Corny at the top of the ticket.
GOP will lose hd112 and hd108. There will be a democratic state representative from Collin for the 2021 session for the first time in 40 years.


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Happy Bill of Rights Day 2021
Every year the White House issues a proclamation declaring December 15 "Bill of Rights Day," and sure enough, the Biden administration has followed that tradition .
Here's an excerpt from that proclamation:
On December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the existing State legislatures ratified the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution — the Bill of Rights. These Amendments protect some of the most indispensable rights and liberties that define us as Americans. Though we have often struggled to live up to the promises they contain, 230 years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms remains at the center of our democracy.
We should all be grateful to the nation's founding fathers for giving the people the rights we hold precious. But there are constant attacks on it. The Constitution is the law of the land, but it's only as good as the people entrusted with upholding it. There's a school of thought that the Constitution should be a living document subject to change with the whims of the day.
The most recent efforts to attack our rights include the movement to pack the Supreme Court. A commission formed to address that has recently issued its report. See Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. The commission was divided, and the report contained expressions from both sides. And one particularly poignant passage address how court packing is a weapon for autocrats. Here's an excerpt from page 81:
For opponents, the United States' fidelity to this norm has particular significance in light of developments in other parts of the world where manipulation of the composition of the judiciary has been a worrying sign of democratic backsliding.121 After his election in 1989, for example, Argentinian president Carlos Menem worked to draw greater power into the executive branch, and in 1990 he successfully added four new members to a formerly five-member supreme court.122 In 2004, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela reined in judicial independence by expanding the size of the constitutional court from twenty to thirty-two.123 In 2010, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's populist party consolidated control over the Turkish constitutional court by expanding its membership from ten to seventeen and altering the process by which judges were selected.124 In 2010, the populist Fidesz Party won a narrow majority in the Hungarian Parliament and quickly went about consolidating power, including through the addition of several new seats to the constitutional court.125 In 2018, a package of judicial reforms in Poland forced sitting judges off the bench and dramatically expanded the size of the supreme court.126 By contrast, these critics argue, stable democracies since the mid-twentieth century have retained a strong commitment to judicial independence and have not tended to make such moves.127For these opponents of expansion, it is important that the United States remain firmly in the ranks of democracies standing behind this commitment.
So while we celebrate Bill of Rights Day, we also should hope that those who wish it away will be unsuccessful.
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Cisco Prime ™ Collaboration Provisioning is a reliable and scalable web – based provisioning solution to manage a company's critical next – generation communications services. The Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning course teaches students how to effectively use the provisioning application. The focus of this course is to have you configure and use this product to learn how to provision Cisco ® Unified Communications initial deployments, as well as to provide ongoing operational provisioning and activation services for individual endpoint changes.
You learn how to configure Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning to meet your Unified Communications requirements using business abstractions such as domains, service areas, user roles, and policies. After the design is complete, you use the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning application to manage users, order products and services for users, provision the Cisco Unified Communications infrastructure devices, track phone and directory numbers in an inventory, implement business abstractions for workflow processes that might require approving orders for delegation, and configure provisioning attributes that are applied to the services on an order during activation. You reinforce what is discussed in the lecture using hands – on lab exercises.
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1. Place Sirloin Roast in Crockpot and add in green peppers, onions, beef broth, soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.
2. Cook on low for about 8 hours or high for about 4 to 5 hours.
3. Remove the roast from crockpot, and use a food processor to chop it up. You will have to cut the roast up to fit it into the food processor.
4. Once the roast has been chopped in the food processor return it to the juices in the crockpot and stir.
5. Scoop meat onto hoagie rolls, trying to remove as much of the juice as possible. Put a slice of Provolone cheese on top of the meat.
6. Toast sandwich in oven for 3 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Well, we survived the first week of school and my first week back to work pretty well. We only missed a couple of items on last week's menu, which is good for us even on a normal week.
My kids love salmon croquettes, although they are called salmon patties around our house. I don't mind making them either because they are easy to make. We don't eat them a lot but when we do they are always received with a warm welcome.
1. Prepare your bread crumbs. I use a food processor and about 4-5 slices of bread to make 2 cups.
2. After opening the cans of salmon, drain the juice and remove the black skin (or as much of it as you can). Mix it with the 3 eggs and bread crumbs. If mixture is too soggy or too dry you can add in more eggs or bread crumbs.
3. Make patties out of the salmon mixture.
4. Heat about 3 inches of canola oil in a skillet. Once oil is heated, fry salmon patties until they are golden brown on each side.
My husband loves these with white gravy over them but they are also good just the way they are.
We have had an overwhelming abundance of green peppers in our garden this summer, and one of my favorite ways to use them up is to make stuffed green peppers.
1. Remove tops and seeds from washed green peppers.
2. Use a paring knife to cut 3 small slits in the bottom of each pepper. I do this to allow the grease from the hamburger to drain.
3. In a large bowl mix together hamburger, worshestershire sauce, chili powder and onion.
4. Stuff each pepper with hamburger mixture and place in a casserole dish.
I am extremely sad, the freedom and tranquility of summer is drawing to a close for us. In just one week my little ones will be heading back off to school. Instead of enjoying this last week of freedom we will be busy, busy, busy, with school orientation, doctors appointments, dentist appointments, back to school shopping, the list goes on and on. Needless, to say, there won't be much cooking going on here.


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Description: DNETC@Home is a wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.
What it amounts to is that DNETC is running a BOINC Application under which they can choose a project to run from the Distributed.Net environment. The best of both worlds really. At the time of this Article they have Work Units for GPU's only.
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Can Cannabis Really Relieve Pain?
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Pain is one of the most important uses for medicinal cannabis and most users seem satisfied with the results. How the effect comes about is not exactly known, however, and the experiments on the analgesic effect are by no means clear, as a current meta-analysis shows.
Cbd gummies for pain, which include tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and a number of other natural and chemically synthesized substances, reach the central nervous system (CNS) via the bloodstream after oral or inhalation ingestion. There they bind to cannabinoid receptors (type 1 or type 2, with type 2 mainly occurring outside the CNS in the immune system).
The exact effects are not known. Research is made difficult by the fact that cannabinoid receptors are widespread in the brain. They are present on many neurons, but also on glial cells. The effect appears to be primarily inhibitory. Overall, cannabis has a slowing effect on the brain. This makes cannabis users feel relaxed and euphoric.
This "good feeling" also means that the patient no longer perceives pain as a nuisance. However, people do not become pain-free after they have consumed cannabis. Cannabinoids only slightly raise the pain threshold, and pain tolerance hardly changes either.
This may be the reason why cannabinoids are popular with patients with chronic pain. Especially in the case of neuropathic pain that does not respond to analgesics, many patients are satisfied with the effects of cannabinoids. The fact that the remedies do not really make them pain-free should be of secondary importance for the patients and for more information you can visit the link.
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Springfield Local Schools features six educational buildings (slightly below 600,000 square feet under roof), an administration/ transportation complex, two maintenance/storage facilities, Springfield Community Stadium (football/soccer), Blue Devils Fields (baseball/softball complex), a track and the Jack Wallington Tennis Complex, and Springfield High School's George E Tombaugh Auditorium - all on 110 acres of land located in the Holland/Springfield community. The district appreciates the community's ongoing investment and support of district property and works tirelessly to maintain and efficiently operate all buildings.
Springfield Local School invites community members to enjoy the use of our facilities for programs, events, and activities. While the use of many facilities may occur without cost, the Board of Education has established appropriate fees as needed. All organizations using a Springfield facility to host tournaments or any event where revenue or an entrance fee is collected will be required to cover at least the material and labor costs associated with facility usage. These costs may include field monitor salary and benefits, custodial salary and benefits, general maintenance and repair, and supplies or materials. Springfield High School Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman athletic teams are exempt from the associated costs. Springfield Middle School recognized sports teams are also exempt from the associated costs. Board of Education recognized student clubs and organizations are likewise exempt from the related costs.


Lysosomal Storage Diseases-> How are LSDs diagnosed?
The treating doctor has to suspect the diagnosis in order to test for it. This is where the real problem lies. LSDs are a relatively rare group of conditions and the doctors don't always consider the diagnosis.
Often, they will explore other more common conditions, before narrowing the diagnosis to a LSD.
The diagnosis test for a LSD is to check the enzyme levels in the blood for that enzyme suspected to be deficient. Doctors may also sometimes do a muscle biopsy to take a urine sample. The cost per blood test for enzyme levels is R250 or R300. Results take anywhere from 10 to 15 days to become available. In some LSDs genetic tests are available to make the diagnosis.
Its is advised that 2 different types of testing be done to confirm a suspected diagnosis, for example, a blood test and a muscle biopsy.


The Greater Lincolnshire Growth Fund has been created to support the private sector businesses operating in one of the LEP's priority sectors and to add value to other existing funding streams.
Value added activity that will create new commercial opportunities and additional sustainable employment in Greater Lincolnshire. A successful applicant will need to create significant sustainable new jobs as well as provide further evidence of business growth measured in turnover, gross profits and net profits.
The business must have an annual turnover not exceeding 50 million euro, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding 43 million euro.
SMEs will be supported under the De Minimis State Aid Exemption.
De minimis aid can provide up to €200,000 of funding over a 3 year fiscal period to businesses which meet the definition of an SME (A firm that is part of larger group may need to include staff headcount/turnover/balance sheet data from that group too). Further information can be found here.
Article 14 – Focus on commencement of a new economic activity into the area, including movement of an activity from one area to another, for example the development of a Centre of Excellence.
Article 25 – Research and Development Aid. Though focused on research and development, can also cover materials, consumables and personnel costs relating to research and delivery of a scheme.
Applicants will, at full application stage, be expected to provide independent professional advice as to how their application will meet the State Aid eligibility criteria and under which exemption.
Applications will be appraised by the LEP Investment Board on a case by case basis. Applications are welcome from businesses who can deliver transformational projects which align with the wider ambitions of the GLLEP Strategic Economic Plan by increasing productivity and create new wealth and significant jobs.
The applicant will not incur any costs at Expression of Interest stage. The applicant will only incur a cost once they have been invited to full application. The applicant will need to seek independent State Aid advice and submit this confirmation along with their full application. There is a variable fee associated with this independent service, which will depend on the service provider.
This fund is managed and delivered through the Business Lincolnshire website.
Contact: Michelle Davis - mdavis@greenborough.com or 01522 837269.


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Q: Can't configure Nginx on Ubuntu 13.10 to work with Subdomains and main domain name I am new to Nginx,
switched 2 days ago from Apache.
With Apache my website had 1 main url (www.example.com & example.com) and 2 subdomains (s1.example.com & s2.example.com).
I succeeded to configure Nginx to work with PHP but I have 1 major problem:
In the config file, inside a server block I've set
server_name example.com www.example.com

Underneath it, in another server block, I've set (With a different root)
server_name s1.example.com s2.example.com

Also, I have all example.com, www.example.com, s1.example.com and s2.example.com pointed to localhost IP in /etc/hosts file (and the domain CNAMEs for www, s1 & s2 are all set to example.com).
The problem is that every url I access to giving me the same as example.com.
All the URLs mentioned gives me the same page (index.html in example.com).
Are there a something wrong in my config file?

A: Not sure how you have setup your Virual Hosts because you should have provided more of your config file.
However something like this should work :
server {
   listen  80;
   index   index.html index.htm;
}

server {
   server_name example.com www.example.com;
   root /var/www/domain1;
}

server {
   server_name s1.example.com s2.example.com;
   root /var/www/domain2;
}

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World Cup 2022 Daily Preview: Is it moving day for World Cup favorites?
Powerhouses Brazil and Portugal can separate themselves from the pack in Groups G and H
By Joe Patrick@japatrick200 Nov 28, 2022, 5:05am EST
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Another Day of World Cup action brings us the two high-profile Portuguese-speaking nations in Brazil and Portugal itself. Both can separate from the pack Monday with wins. Let's look at the matchups:
Serbia vs. Cameroon — 5 a.m.
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The Matchup
Simply a must not lose for both teams, most of all for Cameroon who still must play Brazil in the last round of group play. Serbia is the more seasoned class of players with top experience in Europe. Cameroon will hope its goalkeeper, arguably the best player for either team in Andre Onana, can be the difference maker and keep a clean sheet. If Cameroon can nick a lead, it's very possible.
Player to Watch: Dusan Tadic
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Tadic is an absolute legend for fans of a certain era. The former Southampton player and current Ajax star has scored a remarkable 184 goals in his senior career. He has a silky touch and can make things happen as a playmaker as well. He's due for a performance to show the world what he means to the game.
South Korea vs. Ghana — 8 a.m.
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We know that you have probably already picked a team to root for in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. It's probably for some silly reason, the nation of your citizenship, your home, or a place you've lived and remember fondly. But who does *science say you should root for?
SB Nation has formulated an algorithm that will align you with a team competing this year that aligns with your true preferences offered in this brief fun quiz. So who should you root for?
*No science was used in the creation of this quiz.
Ghana showed signs that they can find the back of the net as they did twice in a chaotic second half versus Portugal. That's opposed to theirSouth Korean opponents, who did the exact opposite in a cagey game against Uruguay that finished scoreless. Can Heung-Min Son carry his nation past an opponent they need to beat?
Player to Watch: Kim?
South Korea's defense is lead by Min-Jae Kim at center back, who is surrounded by other Kims that compose the team's defense who ply their trade in the country's domestic league. If this group can keep Ghana's attack in check, there are proven goalscorers in the forward line.
Brazil vs. Switzerland — 11 a.m.
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It's a classic top-of-the-group match as the two teams on three points playing against each other offers distinct outcomes. Either one team takes a commanding lead in the group, or it remains deadlocked and open to the other two teams with a draw. Brazil is the heavy favorite for obvious reasons that don't need explaining. But breaking down the Swiss is certain to be a formidable task.
Player to Watch: Richarlison
The Tottenham forward bagged the best goal of the tournament — dare I say legendary in terms of it's sheer quality. He can pull out a moment of magic anytime he touches the ball.
Portugal vs. Uruguay — 2 p.m.
Portugal and Uruguay presents a fascinating matchup and contrast of styles. Portugal have one of the most technical and potent teams in the tournament as evidenced by their three-goal output against Ghana. But Uruguay is traditionally tough (to the point of cheating and cannibalism) but has proven quality to punish the Portuguese.
Player to Watch: Rafael Leao
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Leao may not start for Portugal as he didn't last game, but he will certainly see the field win or lose, and he's an absolute terror for an opposing defense on tired legs. He also seems very cool and I had him on a Football Manager save once.


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Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata op. 28 for Violoncello solo
Christian Bellisario (Editor, Fingering)
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Ysaÿe's Cello Sonata, unlike its companion piece for violin solo, has remained relatively unknown. All the same, it merits special attention as it was written at the same time as the Violin Sonatas and has the same superior qualities of musicianship. Our edition draws on a previously disregarded autograph manuscript from a private collection that provides interesting insights not found in the original print.To accompany the publication of Ysaÿe's violin sonatas (HN 776) we are now offering the Cello Sonata in an urtext edition prepared by Christian Bellisario with detailed editorial comments. A brilliant addition to the repertoire for unaccompanied string instruments.
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Eugène ène Ysaÿe (1858 (1858–1931) was one of the leading violinists of the fin-de-siècle and the early twentieth century. He was a professor of violin at Brussels Conservatory, a celebrated soloist, a performer of chamber music with many outstanding musicians, a composer, and in his later years increasingly a conductor. It was this latter period that saw the birth of his … 続き
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A Belgian violinist, conductor, and composer, whose virtuosic playing, rich in tone color, significantly influences generations of violinists. His late-Romantic compositions, of which only a few survive, comprise instrumental and chamber music works.
1858 Born in Liège on July 16. He receives his first violin lessons from his father.
1865–69 At the Brussels Conservatory he studies violin with Désiré Heynberg.
from 1869 Concert tours with his father take him through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and France, where he performs as a prodigy.
1872 He continues his studies with Rodolphe Massatt.
from 1874 In Brussels he is a pupil of Henri Vieuxtemps and Henryk Wieniawski.
1876–79 He follows Vieuxtemps to Paris, where among others he meets César Franck, Anton Rubinstein, and Raoul Pugno.
1879–82 He is concertmaster of the Bilse Orchestra in Berlin. He meets Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim.
1882 Together with Rubinstein he sets out on a concert tour through Russia and Scandinavia.
from 1883 In Paris he rises to becomes a well-regarded interpreter and frequent dedicatee of all of France's great composers, including Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Chausson, and Camille Saint-Saëns.
1886–97 He teaches at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels and gives concerts regularly, including with Enrique Granados, Ferruccio Busoni, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
1912 Appointed court music director and Grand Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold.
1917–22 He emigrates to the United States, leads the Cincinnati Orchestra, and teaches at the conservatory in that city.
1922–30 Back in Belgium, he undertakes a few more concert tours.
1931 Dies in Brussels on May 12.
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12 Capricci op. 25 for Violoncello solo
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Fabrisonic Moves to New 30,000-Square-Foot Facility
Business growth has driven the need for additional space to expand and make room for more people, machines and expanded parts production.
David Mantey
Fabrisonic
Fabrisonic, a manufacturer that specializes in 3D metal Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) and 3D printing applications, announced a move to a larger, state-of-the-art facility in Lewis Center, Ohio. Fabrisonic has been incubated by EWI at its facility in Columbus, on the campus of Ohio State University since 2011.
The company is growing and now requires additional space to make room for more people, machines and expanded parts production.
According to Mark Norfolk, Fabrisonic president and CEO, electrification has been a growing market for the company — UAM can bond together thin foils of aluminum, copper and nickel, which are all critical materials. Additionally, 3D printing allows for creating complex shapes for cooling as well as embedding sensors for device health monitoring.
The new 30,000-square-foot facility is located at 7719 Graphics Way, Suite A, Lewis Center, OH 43035. The company plans to add both a SonicLayer 4000 and a SonicLayer 1600, which will create more capacity for part production, customer development and new capability development. The SonicLayer machines use a patented 9kW UAM welding head to additivity manufacturer solid metal parts. The weld head is fed with 1-inch wide metal foils through an automated feed system that places foils in 3D space to create the part.
Watch: Made in America: Fabrisonic
The company will add two new positions out of the gate and is currently looking for a senior engineer and a senior technician.
"The across-town move does not adversely impact Fabrisonic employees, allowing the company to maintain access to its current talent pool and attract new employees to accommodate growth," says Norfolk. "Although it's time for us to spread our wings and move out of mom and dad's basement, we're staying close to our Buckeye engineering roots." Fabrisonic also upgraded its entire IT infrastructure to a higher security platform that meets government sensitive data requirements.
According to Norfolk, Fabrisonic has been receiving more government contracts, which has spurred the need for higher security. He says numerous government clients and Department of Defense OEM's are requesting higher security requirements.


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3: HJPEV and the Shadows of Death
Chapter 46: Humanism, Pt 4
by Eliezer Yudkowsky 13 min read14th Mar 2015No comments
The last tip of the Sun was sinking below the horizon, the red light fading from the treetops, only the blue sky illuminating the six people standing upon the winter-dried and snow-spotted grass, near a vacant cage on whose floor lay an empty, tattered cloak.
Harry felt... well, normal again. Sane-ish. The spell hadn't undone the day and its damage, hadn't made the injuries as if they had never been, but his hurts had been... bandaged, meliorated? It was hard to describe.
Dumbledore was also looking healthier, though not fully restored. The old wizard's head turned for a moment, locked eyes with Professor Quirrell, then looked back to Harry. "Harry," Dumbledore said, "are you about to collapse in exhaustion and possibly die?"
"No, strangely enough," Harry said. "That took something out of me, but a lot less than I thought it would." Or maybe it gave something back, as well as taking... "Honestly, I expected my body to be hitting the ground with a thud about now."
There was a distinct body-hitting-the-ground-with-a-thuddish sort of sound.
"Thank you for taking care of that, Quirinus," said Dumbledore to Professor Quirrell, who was now standing above and behind the unconscious forms of the three Aurors. "I confess I am still feeling a bit peaky. Though I shall handle the Memory Charms myself."
Professor Quirrell inclined his head, and then looked at Harry. "I will omit a good deal of useless incredulity," said Professor Quirrell, "remarks to the effect that Merlin himself failed to do that, et cetera. Let us go straight to asking the important question. What the sweet slithering snakes was that?"
"The Patronus Charm," Harry said. "Version 2.0."
"I rejoice to see that you are your usual self again," said Dumbledore. "But you are not going anywhere, young Ravenclaw, until you tell me what exactly was that warm and happy thought."
"Hm..." said Harry. He tapped a contemplative finger on his cheek. "I wonder if I should?"
Professor Quirrell suddenly grinned.
"Please?" said the Headmaster. "Pretty please with sugar on top?"
Harry felt an impulse and decided to go with it. It was dangerous, but there might not ever be a better opportunity until the end of time.
"Three sodas," Harry said to his pouch, then looked up at the Defense Professor and the Headmaster of Hogwarts. "Gentlemen," Harry said, "I bought these sodas on my first visit to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, on the day I entered into Hogwarts. I have been saving them for special occasions; there is a minor enchantment on them to ensure they are drunk at the right time. This is the last of my supply, but I do not think there will ever come a finer occasion. Shall we?"
Dumbledore took a soda can from Harry, and Harry tossed another to Professor Quirrell. The two older men each muttered identical charms over the can and frowned briefly at the result. Harry, for his part, simply popped the top and drank.
The Defense Professor and the Headmaster of Hogwarts politely followed suit.
Harry said, "I thought of my absolute rejection of death as the natural order."
It might not be the right kind of warm feeling you needed to cast a Patronus Charm, but it was going into Harry's Top 10 nonetheless.
The looks he got from the Defense Professor and the Headmaster briefly made Harry nervous, as the spilled Comed-Tea faded out of existence; but then the two of them each glanced at the other and both apparently decided that they couldn't get away with doing anything really awful to Harry in the other's presence.
"Mr. Potter," said Professor Quirrell, "even I know that is not how things are supposed to work."
"Indeed," said Dumbledore. "Explain."
Harry opened his mouth, and then, as realization hit him, rapidly snapped his mouth shut again. Godric hadn't told anyone, nor had Rowena if she'd known; there might have been any number of wizards who'd figured it out and kept their mouths shut. You couldn't forget if you knew that was what you were trying to do; once you realized how it worked, the animal form of the Patronus Charm would never work for you again - and most wizards didn't have the right upbringing to turn on Dementors and destroy them -
"Erm, sorry about this," said Harry. "But I've just this instant realized that explaining would be an incredibly bad idea until you work some things out on your own."
"Is that the truth, Harry?" Dumbledore said slowly. "Or are you just pretending to be wise -"
"Headmaster!" said Professor Quirrell, sounding genuinely shocked. "Mr. Potter has told you that this spell is not spoken of with those who cannot cast it! You do not press a wizard on such matters!"
"If I told you -" Harry began.
"No," Professor Quirrell said, sounding rather severe. "You don't tell us why, Mr. Potter, you simply tell us that we are not to know. If you wish to devise a hint, you do so carefully, at leisure, not in the midst of conversation."
Harry nodded.
"But," said the Headmaster. "But, but what am I to tell the Ministry? You can't just lose a Dementor!"
"Tell them I ate it," said Professor Quirrell, causing Harry to choke on the soda he had unthinkingly raised to his lips. "I don't mind. Shall we head on back, Mr. Potter?"
The two of them began to walk the dirt path back to Hogwarts, leaving behind Albus Dumbledore staring forlornly at the empty cage and the three sleeping Aurors awaiting their Memory Charms.
Aftermath, Harry Potter and Professor Quirrell:
They walked for a while before Professor Quirrell spoke, and all background noise dropped into silence when he did.
"You are exceptionally good at killing things, my student," said Professor Quirrell.
"Thank you," Harry said sincerely.
"I am not prying," said Professor Quirrell, "but on the off-chance that it was only the Headmaster who you did not trust with the secret...?"
Harry considered this. Professor Quirrell already couldn't cast the animal Patronus Charm.
But you couldn't untell a secret, and Harry was a fast enough learner to realize that he ought to at least think for a while before unleashing this one upon the world.
Harry shook his head, and Professor Quirrell nodded acceptance.
"Out of curiosity, Professor Quirrell," said Harry, "if your bringing the Dementor to Hogwarts had been part of an evil plot, what would have been its goal?"
"Assassinate Dumbledore while he was weakened," Professor Quirrell said without even hesitating. "Hm. The Headmaster told you he was suspicious of me?"
Harry said nothing for a second while he tried to think of a reply, and then gave up when he realized he'd already answered.
"Interesting..." Professor Quirrell said. "Mr. Potter, it is not out of the question that there was a plot at work today. Your wand ending up that close to the Dementor's cage could have been an accident. Or one of the Aurors could have been Imperiused, Confunded, or Legilimized to exert an influence. Flitwick and myself should not be excluded as suspects, in your calculation. One notes that Professor Snape canceled all his classes today, and I suspect he is powerful enough to Disillusion himself; the Aurors cast detection charms early on, but they did not repeat them immediately before your turn. But most easily of all, Mr. Potter, the deed could have been plotted by Dumbledore himself; and if he did, why, he might also take steps in advance to cast your suspicion elsewhere."
They walked on for a few steps.
"But why would he?" Harry said.
The Defense Professor stayed quiet a moment, and then said, "Mr. Potter, what steps have you taken to investigate the Headmaster's character?"
"Not many," said Harry. He'd only recently realized... "Not nearly enough."
"Then I will observe," said Professor Quirrell, "that you do not find out all there is to know about a man by asking only his friends."
Now it was Harry's turn to walk a few steps in silence on the slightly beaten dirt path that led back to Hogwarts. He'd really been supposed to know better than that already. Confirmation bias was the technical term; it meant, among other things, that when you chose your information sources, there was a notable tendency to choose information sources that agreed with your current opinions.
"Thank you," Harry said. "Actually... I didn't say it earlier, did I? Thank you for everything. If another Dementor ever threatens you, or for that matter, slightly annoys you, just let me know and I'll introduce it to Mister Glowy Person. I don't like it when Dementors slightly annoy my friends."
That got him an indecipherable glance from Professor Quirrell. "You destroyed the Dementor because it threatened me?"
"Erm," Harry said, "I'd sort of decided on it before then, but yes, that would have been sufficient reason by itself."
"I see," said Professor Quirrell. "And what would you have done about the threat to me if your spell hadn't worked for destroying the Dementor?"
"Plan B," said Harry. "Encase the Dementor in dense metal with a high melting point, probably tungsten, drop it into an active volcano, and hope it ends up inside Earth's mantle. Ah, the whole planet is filled with molten lava under its surface -"
"Yes," said Professor Quirrell. "I know." The Defense Professor was wearing a very odd smile. "I really should have thought of that myself, all things considered. Tell me, Mr. Potter, if you wanted to lose something where no one would ever find it again, where would you put it?"
Harry considered this question. "I suppose I shouldn't ask what you've found that needs losing -"
"Quite," said Professor Quirrell, as Harry had expected; and then, "Perhaps you will be told when you are older," which Harry hadn't.
"Well," said Harry, "besides trying to get it into the molten core of the planet, you could bury it in solid rock a kilometer underground in a randomly selected location - maybe teleport it in, if there's some way to do that blindly, or drill a hole and repair the hole afterward; the important thing would be not to leave any traces leading there, so it's just an anonymous cubic meter somewhere in the Earth's crust. You could drop it into the Mariana Trench, that's the deepest depth of ocean on the planet - or just pick some random other ocean trench, to make it less obvious. If you could make it buoyant and invisible, then you could throw it into the stratosphere. Or ideally you would launch it into space, with a cloak against detection, and a randomly fluctuating acceleration factor that would take it out of the Solar System. And afterward, of course, you'd Obliviate yourself, so even you didn't know exactly where it was."
The Defense Professor was laughing, and it sounded even odder than his smile.
"Professor Quirrell?" Harry said.
"All excellent suggestions," said Professor Quirrell. "But tell me, Mr. Potter, why those exact five?"
"Huh?" said Harry. "They just seemed like the obvious sorts of ideas."
"Oh?" said Professor Quirrell. "But there is an interesting pattern to them, you see. One might say it sounds like something of a riddle. I must admit, Mr. Potter, that although it has had its ups and downs, on the whole, this has been a surprisingly good day."
And they continued walking down the path that led to the gates of Hogwarts, quite some distance apart; as Harry, without even thinking about it, automatically stayed far enough away from the Defense Professor not to trigger that sense of doom, which for some reason seemed unusually strong right now.
Aftermath, Daphne Greengrass:
Hermione had refused to answer any questions, and as soon as they'd passed the split leading to the Slytherin dungeons, Daphne and Tracey had peeled off at once, walking as quickly as they could. Rumor traveled fast in Hogwarts, so they'd have to go to the dungeons right away if they wanted to be the first to tell everyone the story.
"Now remember," said Daphne, "don't just blurt out about the kiss as soon as we walk in, okay? It works better if we tell the whole story in order."
Tracey nodded excitedly.
And as soon as they burst into the Slytherin common room, Tracey Davis took a deep breath and shouted, "Everyone! Harry Potter couldn't cast the Patronus Charm and the Dementor almost ate him and Professor Quirrell saved him but then Potter was all evil until Granger brought him back with a kiss! It's true love for sure!"
It was ordered storytelling of a sort, Daphne supposed.
The news failed to produce the expected reaction. Most of the girls glanced over and then stayed in their couches, or the boys simply kept reading in their chairs.
"Yes," said Pansy sourly, from where she was sitting with Gregory's feet in her lap, leaning back and reading what seemed to be a coloring book, "Millicent already told us."
How -
"Why didn't you kiss him first, Tracey?" said Flora and Hestia Carrow from their own chairs. "Now Potter's going to marry a mudblood girl! You could've been his true love and gotten into a rich Noble House and everything if you'd just kissed him first!"
Tracey's face was a picture in stunned realization.
"What?" shrieked Daphne. "Love does not work like that!"
"Of course it does," stated Millicent from where she was practicing some sort of Charm while looking out a window at the swirling waters of the Hogwarts Lake. "First kiss gets the prince."
"It wasn't their first kiss!" shouted Daphne. "Hermione was already his true love! That's why she could bring him back!" Then Daphne realized what she'd just said and winced internally, but as the saying went, you had to fit the tongue to the ear.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, what?" said Gregory, swinging his feet off Pansy's lap. "What's this? Miss Bulstrode didn't tell that part."
Everyone else was also looking at Daphne, now.
"Oh, yeah," said Daphne, "Harry shoved her away and shouted, 'I told you, no kissing!' Then Harry screamed like he was dying and Fawkes started singing to him - I'm not sure which one of those happened first, actually -"
"That doesn't sound like true love to me," said the Carrow twins. "That sounds like the wrong person kissed him."
"It was supposed to be me," whispered Tracey. Her face was still stunned. "I was supposed to be his true love. Harry Potter was my general. I should've, I should've fought Granger for him -"
Daphne spun on Tracey, incensed. "You? Take Harry away from Hermione?"
"Yeah!" said Tracey. "Me!"
"You're nuts," Daphne stated with conviction. "Even if you had kissed him first, you know what that would make you? The sad little lovestruck girl who dies at the end of Act Two."
"You take that back!" shouted Tracey.
Meanwhile, Gregory had crossed the room to where Vincent was doing his homework. "Mr. Crabbe," Gregory said in a low voice, "I think Mr. Malfoy needs to know about this."
Aftermath, Hermione Granger:
Hermione stared at the wax-sealed paper, on the surface of which was inscribed simply the number 42.
I figured out why we couldn't cast the Patronus Charm, Hermione, it doesn't have anything to do with us not being happy enough. But I can't tell you. I couldn't even tell the Headmaster. It needs to be even more secret than partial Transfiguration, for now, anyway. But if you ever need to fight Dementors, the secret is written here, cryptically, so that if someone doesn't know it's about Dementors and the Patronus Charm, they won't know what it means...
She'd told Harry about seeing him dying, her parents dying, all her friends dying, everyone dying. She hadn't told him about her terror of dying alone, somehow that was still too painful.
Harry had told her about remembering his parents dying, and that he'd thought it was funny.
There's no light in the place the Dementor takes you, Hermione. No warmth. No caring. It's somewhere that you can't even understand happiness. There's pain, and fear, and those can still drive you. You can hate, and take pleasure in destroying what you hate. You can laugh, when you see other people hurting. But you can't ever be happy, you can't even remember what it is that isn't there anymore... I don't think there's any way I can ever explain just what you saved me from. I'm usually ashamed to put people to trouble, I usually can't stand it when people make sacrifices for me, but this one time I'll say that no matter what it ends up costing you to have kissed me, don't ever doubt for a second that it was the right thing to do.
Hermione hadn't realized how little the Dementor had touched her, how small and shallow had been the darkness into which it had taken her.
She'd seen everyone dying, and that had still been able to hurt.
Hermione put the paper back into her pouch, like a good girl ought to.
She'd really wanted to read it, though.
She was frightened of Dementors.
Aftermath, Minerva McGonagall:
She felt frozen; she shouldn't have been so shocked, she shouldn't have found Harry so hard to face, but after what he'd been through... She had searched the young boy in front of her for any signs of Dementation, and failed to find them. But something about the calm with which he had asked such a foreboding question seemed deeply worrying. "Mr. Potter, I can't possibly speak of such matters without the Headmaster's permission!"
The boy in her office took this in without changing expression. "I would prefer not to disturb the Headmaster over this matter," Harry Potter said calmly. "I insist on not disturbing him, in fact, and you did promise that our conversation would be kept private. So let me put it this way. I know that there was, in fact, a prophecy. I know that you are the one who originally heard it from Professor Trelawney. I know that the prophecy identified the child of James and Lily as someone dangerous to the Dark Lord. And I know who I am, indeed everyone now knows who I am, so you are revealing nothing new or dangerous, if you tell me only this: What was the exact wording which identified me, the child of James and Lily?"
Trelawney's hollow voice echoed in her mind -
BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM,
BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES...
"Harry," said Professor McGonagall, "I can't possibly tell you that!" It chilled her to the bone that Harry knew so much already, she couldn't imagine how Harry had learned -
The boy looked at her with strange, sorrowful eyes. "Can you not sneeze without the Headmaster's permission, Professor McGonagall? For I do promise to you that I have good reason to ask, and good reason to keep the question private."
"Please don't, Harry," she whispered.
"All right," Harry said. "One simple question. Please. Was the Potter family mentioned by name? Does the prophecy literally say 'Potter'?"
She stared at Harry for a while. She couldn't have said why or where she got the sense that this was a critical point, that she could not lightly refuse the request, nor lightly accede to it -
"No," she finally said. "Please, Harry, don't ask any more."
The boy smiled, a little sadly it seemed, and said, "Thank you, Minerva. You are a good woman and true."
And while her mouth was still open in utter shock, Harry Potter got up and left the office; and only then did she realize that Harry had taken her refusal as an answer, and the true answer at that -
Harry closed the door behind himself.
The logic had presented itself with a strange diamondlike clarity. Harry couldn't have said if it had come to him during Fawkes's singing, or maybe even before.
Lord Voldemort had killed James Potter. He had preferred to spare Lily Potter's life. He had continued his attack, therefore, with the sole purpose of killing their infant child.
Dark Lords were not usually scared of infant children.
So there was a prophecy about Harry Potter being dangerous to Lord Voldemort, and Lord Voldemort had known that prophecy.
"I give you this rare chance to flee. But I will not trouble myself to subdue you, and your death here will not save your child. Step aside, foolish woman, if you have any sense in you at all!"
Had it been a whim, to give her that chance? But then Lord Voldemort would not have tried to persuade her. Had the prophecy warned Lord Voldemort against killing Lily Potter? Then Lord Voldemort would have troubled himself to subdue her. Lord Voldemort had been mildly inclined not to kill Lily Potter. The preference had been stronger than a whim, but not as strong as a warning.
So suppose that someone whom Lord Voldemort considered a lesser ally or servant, useful but not indispensable, had begged the Dark Lord to spare Lily's life. Lily's, but not James's.
This person had known that Lord Voldemort would attack the house of the Potters. Had known both the prophecy, and the fact that the Dark Lord knew it. Otherwise he would not have begged Lily's life.
According to Professor McGonagall, besides herself, the other two who knew of the prophecy were Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape.
Severus Snape, who had loved Lily before she was Lily Potter, and hated James.
Severus, then, had learned of the prophecy, and told it to the Dark Lord. Which he had done because the prophecy had not described the Potters by name. It had been a riddle, and Severus had solved that riddle only too late.
But if Severus had been the first to hear the prophecy, and disposed to tell it to the Dark Lord, then why would he also have told Dumbledore or Professor McGonagall?
Therefore Dumbledore or Professor McGonagall had heard it first.
The Headmaster of Hogwarts had no obvious reason to tell the Transfiguration Professor about an extremely sensitive and crucial prophecy. But the Transfiguration Professor had every reason to tell the Headmaster.
It seemed likely, then, that Professor McGonagall had been the first to hear it.
The prior probabilities said that it had been Professor Trelawney, Hogwarts's resident seer. Seers were rare, so if you counted up most of the seconds Professor McGonagall had spent in the presence of a seer over the course of her lifetime, most of those seer-seconds would be Trelawney-seconds.
Professor McGonagall had told Dumbledore, and would have told no one else about the prophecy without permission.
Therefore, it was Albus Dumbledore who had arranged for Severus Snape to somehow learn of the prophecy. And Dumbledore himself had solved the riddle successfully, or he would not have selected Severus, who had once loved Lily, as the intermediary.
Dumbledore had deliberately arranged for Lord Voldemort to hear about the prophecy, in hopes of luring him to his death. Perhaps Dumbledore had arranged for Severus to learn only some of the prophecy, or there were other prophecies of which Severus had remained innocent... somehow Dumbledore had known that an immediate attack on the Potters would still lead to Lord Voldemort's immediate defeat, although Lord Voldemort himself had not believed this. Or maybe that had just been a lucky stroke of Dumbledore's insanity, his taste for bizarre plots...
Severus had ended up serving Dumbledore afterward; perhaps the Death Eaters would not look kindly on Severus if Dumbledore revealed his role in their defeat.
Dumbledore had tried to arrange for Harry's mother to be spared. But that part of his plot had failed. And he had knowingly condemned James Potter to his death.
Dumbledore was responsible for the deaths of Harry's parents. If the whole chain of logic was correct. Harry could not, in justice, say that successfully ending the Wizarding War did not count as extenuating circumstances. But somehow this still... bothered him a great deal.
And it was time and past time to ask Draco Malfoy what the other side of that war had to say about the character of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
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A few months ago a friend of mine asked which hotel I'd recommend for her to stay at while in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Given this is the city of my childhood and a place that still somehow keeps pulling me back every couple of years, I was an obvious person to ask. And yet I didn't really have a good answer. In a city of seven million people that's overflowing with fancy 5-star properties and at pretty great prices too, how do you pick?
Then when my wife and I decided to honeymoon in Malaysia in October, I finally did a bit of research to see if there were any historic hotels that might be suitably honeymoon-tastic. I'd recently returned from India and having had a couple of nights at a brilliantly done, colonial-era recalling hotel in Fort Kochi called Brunton Boatyard, I thought I'd do some Googling to establish if there might be something similar in KL.
Typing in "luxury historic hotel Kuala Lumpur", it wasn't long before I stumbled on the Majestic Hotel. Built in 1932, this was the most opulent hotel in the city during the final years of British colonial rule in Malaya (as the country was then known). After a period of being hijacked by the Japanese in World War Two to be a transit camp for their government, the building subsequently returned to its initial use as a hotel.
But by the the 1980s, the rapid explosion of the Malaysian economy had seen competition from new hotels force a closure with the Majestic becoming an art gallery. When the gallery shut its doors in 1998, the property lay dormant for many years, before blessedly re-emerging, this time under the YTL chain of hotels.
What they did should be studied by Hotel & Tourism students the world over because not only did YTL refurbish the original wing back to it's pre WW2 glory, but they somehow constructed a new (and connected) 15-storey tower that could easily fool casual observers into thinking it had always been there.
I was sold by about the second photo on the website. The Majestic looked like everything a luxury, historic hotel should be: beautiful, proudly evocative of a bygone era, full of stories and subtly modern. We booked for three nights of our honeymoon (check out the photos to see the welcome they gave us in the suite being we were newlyweds) there and ended up adding a fourth because we loved it so much.
How come? I guess beyond my wife thinking it was just about the coolest hotel she'd ever stayed at, it's because I adore hotels that transport me somewhere. Even though we were in a Junior Suite on the 15th floor of the new wing, we felt like we were stepping back in time to the 1930s. Those modern subtleties were there in the form of swipe cards, high-speed lifts, flat screen bathroom TVs and multi-adaptor plug sockets, but even the 21st Century lifts looked appropriately old-world.
What is now the hotel's main lobby – with its marble floors, oversized chandelier and Roman-style columns – fooled me. I thought it must've been a part of the original wing, but no. As for the view from our suite, it had almost everything to remind me of why I love this city so much. There was dense jungle, architectural marvels both new and old (including the former palace, now a museum), skyscrapers and even a heritage church. KL has always been a mash of different cultures, religions, styles and even environments and here it all was, as seen from the Majestic's 15th floor.
From the window by the lifts we could also see the National Mosque, the famed domes of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building and one of the finest mid-level skyscrapers of the 80s, the Dayabumi. With Merdeka Square just a 10-15 minute walk away and some of old KL's most intriguing architecture (including the KL Railway Station) along the way, the Majestic Hotel really is in the perfect location for anyone who wants a taste of what high society in Kuala Lumpur used to be like.
The feeling of time traveling is completed by experiences like high tea in a room filled with orchids, dinner in the main restaurant with a jazz band and drinks and cigars in the basement bar with complimentary smoking jackets. There's even a mini cinema. The hotel really is too much fun, especially when you add the uniforms of the doormen with their pleated shorts, helmets and knee-high socks.
So if you're ever heading to Kuala Lumpur and you're after more than just another very nice 5-star hotel, look no further than the place that once used to define luxury in this most cosmopolitan of Southeast Asian capitals. Because guess what? It still does.
Enjoy my photos and please visit majestickl.com for booking details.


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Q: Writing to SQLite tables with variable names (Python) I'm trying to write five variables to tables in a database using SQLite and Python. Below is my code and the error I'm getting:
CODE:
        cur.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " + table_name + " (Date real, Morning_5AM_9AM real, Day_9AM_6PM real, Evening_6PM_10PM real, Night_10PM_5AM real)")   # this works
        export_row= p_transpose.iloc[ii]                 # Note: p_transpose is the transpose of a DataFrame I read in from Excel
        date_object= p_transpose.iloc[ii,0]              # date_object is a string here
        date_object= date_object.replace('_','')
        export_date= int(date_object)                    # to insert into database table as int instead of string
        export_morning= p_transpose.iloc[ii,1]
        export_day= p_transpose.iloc[ii,2]
        export_eve= p_transpose.iloc[ii,3]
        export_night= p_transpose.iloc[ii,4]
        cur.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table'")
        available_tables=[item[0] for item in cur.fetchall()]         # assigns a list of all table names in database
        for iii in range (0, row_count):
            if (re.match('\w*'+df_feeder, available_tables[iii])):
                relevant_table= available_tables[iii]
                cur.execute("INSERT INTO " + relevant_table + "VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)" (export_date, export_morning, export_day, export_eve, export_night))

ERROR on the last line:

TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

I've made sure that none of the export_... variables contain strings, so the string must be relevant_table. However, creating a table using a string variable (see code above again) worked fine so I don't understand why it's giving this error now.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if any additional information would be useful.
EDIT:
Here is my traceback, gotten using traceback.format_exc():
'Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/run.py", line 112, in main\n seq, request = rpc.request_queue.get(block=True, timeout=0.05)\n File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/Queue.py", line 176, in get\n raise Empty\nEmpty\n'

FINAL EDIT, RESOLVED:
For information, thanks to scytale, this now works, using:
cur.execute("INSERT INTO " + relevant_table + " VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)", (export_date, export_morning, export_day, export_eve, export_night))

I thought I had tried changing the punctuation and spacing  in all ways possible, but this finally did the trick.

A: you're missing a comma in your last line after the SQL string - it should be
cur.execute("INSERT INTO " + relevant_table + "VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)",
            (export_date, export_morning, export_day, export_eve, export_night))

A: Really, for clarity and future maintenance you should be specific as to what and where you are inserting. So your statement should read something like this, for example:
    try:
        result = self.db.execute("insert into Recent (Filename,TimeStamp,Icon) values (?,?,?)",(filename,time_stamp,itype))
    except sqlite3.Error as e:
        wx.MessageBox('Insert Recent file list error'+str(e), 'Error', wx.OK | wx.ICON_INFORMATION)

This makes it clear, not only what the data items are but where you are putting them.
A good reason for declaring what you are inserting explicitly, is that should you add columns to the table at a later date, then the code will still work as expected.
As a side note, has everyone forgotten the power of the print statement when it comes to debugging?
Got a problem? PRINT the damned stuff out and look at it!! 9 times out of ten it's obvious.


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1st April 2016 by Aspect County
Articulate – April 2016
She turned to the sunlight and shook her yellow head and whispered to her neighbour "winter is dead"
A.A. Milne – When we were very young
April is upon us and as you will see from the pages of this edition, art is bursting forth far and wide. Exciting new exhibitions are opening both locally and nationally.
The work of John Piper can be seen throughout the Spring and early Summer at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings and Pallant House Gallery in Chichester; see the exhibition review feature for further details on this inspirational new show. WING Gallery in Wadhurst also has a major new exhibition opening on 23rd April. Themed around the power of 3 and featuring 3 male artists; Chris Price, Tom Nicholson Smith and Gavin Roweth, 'Stone, Ink and Wood' looks set to be an exceptional show.
WING GALLERY
Wadhurst artist Focus:
Ink: Chris Price
Chris Price is an art director, turned photographer, turned artist, who retains a bond between each discipline, often overlapping his skill sets to create his illustrative artwork.
His highly detailed work reflects his passion for the natural environment and the objects we use to interact with it, along with the visual and hidden narratives these items have to divulge.
Stone: Gavin Roweth
Gavin has been carving full time for the last decade, creating many commissioned pieces such as headstones, memorial plaques and unique garden sculptures. He also exhibits widely, where his sculptures are guided more by the essence of the material he uses, principally Portland Limestone.
Carving directly into the stone, Gavin creates simple yet complex abstract forms designed around the intrinsic nature of the material. The marks where life on the planet has left fossils embedded in the stone often become essential parts of the finished piece. He looks to create a harmony between stone and sculptor where texture and form lead to the finished piece. His latest sculptures (the 'Solar' series) are designed to work in harmony with the sun, using it to cast shadows across the stone and surrounding area, time, motion, change.
Gavin is also owner of the WING gallery in Wadhurst, which he opened in 2012 to promote the talents of local artists.
Wood: Tom Nicholson Smith
Tom's art began with his grandmother who was a potter. She instilled in him the absolute joy derived from making; from that moment on he was a maker.
Tom's determination to pursue the life of a maker led him to enrol in a landscape design and construction course at Merrist Wood agricultural college. This was followed by a period as a woodsman, designing furniture and garden structures and ultimately the opportunity, facilitated by the Princes Trust, to start his own business "Natural Gardens", utilising traditional woodland crafts in garden design.
As a consequence of Natural Gardens Tom met renowned garden designer Anthony Paul who was linked to the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden. This connection reignited his passion for the three dimensional sculptural form, which led Tom full circle back to his original dream of being a maker. He started to make sculptural forms inspired by nature and his imagination. Since then he has created many sculptural benches located in the surrey hills around Guildford, this has been followed by a number of public and private commissions.
Golden Pollen is Tom's most recent public work. Commissioned by Surrey County Council, it sits alongside the River Wey, creating a discourse between the historic and contemporary.
www.wingartgallery.com | 01892 783665
www.princes-trust.org.uk | Inspiring Young Lives
In London you still have time to catch the fabulous "Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. This blockbuster runs until 20 April. Using the work of Monet as a starting point, this landmark exhibition examines the role gardens played in the evolution of art from the early 1860s through to the 1920s.
With more than 120 works on show, including paintings by some of the most important impressionist, post-impressionist and avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, including Renoir, Cezanne, Pissarro, Manet, Sargent, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Matisse, Klimt and Klee, this exceptionally beautiful exhibition really should be a priority for garden lovers and art lovers alike.
Make sure you look out for Monet's exquisitely beautiful Agapanthus Triptych (1916−19) which, in the words of Jonathan Jones of the Guardian: "reaches out to embrace the viewer in a shimmering world where soft reflections move on a bank less pond; a vast mirrored universe with lilies like supernovae".
If Gardens are not your thing, but, you have a taste for the classical, "Botticelli Reimagined", is a must see at the V&A. Open until 3 July, this exhibition will explore the enduring impact of the Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445−1510) from the pre-Raphaelites to today. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the early renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine school, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici. At the height of his fame, draughtsman Botticelli was one of the most esteemed artists in Italy. His graceful pictures of the Madonna and Child, his altarpieces and his life-size mythological paintings, such as 'Birth of Venus', were immensely popular in his lifetime. After his death however, his name all but disappeared, until the late 19th century, when a developing appreciation for Florentine arts and culture brought about a renewed interest in his work.
Botticelli: Birth of Venus
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