When spring is in the air, it makes me feel like shopping!! Fashion has always been a passion of mine. I remember as a little girl laying out all of my outfits the night before school. I would lay them out on the floor as if I was creating my own little person. Matching earrings, bracelets & hair accessories for every outfit. I bet some of you did that too! Now I love putting outfits together for my kids and accessorizing them. I was so exited to attend Ralph Lauren's spring event and preview their virtual storybook for the RL Gang. Move over Dr. Seuss, the RL Gang's storybooks are really something!
Ralph Lauren teamed up with Nicole Feliciano, founder of MomTrends for a special evening with the RL Gang. It was such a pleasure to meet Nicole and my kids loved hanging out with the RL Gang!
The RL Gang is a group of 8 adorable and talented kids. They have a special character they act out in the story book that represents their Ralph Lauren style.
We made our own virtual story book with Flipping Fun Books!
The kids were entertained by a talented balloon artist.
This is Zoe and she was the rock star in the story! Gwen loved her. Her romper was seriously the cutest little oufit. Navy, polka dots and lace! Love it!
This is the romper from the spring collection that I ended up getting! Ralph Lauren had personal shoppers and styling tips for everyone! I'm excited to see little miss Gwen in it!
We watched the RL Gang's virtual storybook.
They had coloring stations for the kids all set up. They munched on cupcakes while they colored.
It was the perfect combination of fashion and inspiration for young kids. Ralph Lauren's spring line is based on each of the Rl Gang's characters. My kids were entertained and it was fun for me to mingle and get to know other moms here in NYC!
Thanks Momtrends for inviting us! We had such a fun time!


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Two years of hosting an online event is enough for Canada's National Ukrainian Festival board of directors.
Organizers announced last week planning work is underway to return to a live festival, July 29 to 31, 2022.
"We're very excited. It feels like it's almost the first festival again that we're gonna do," CNUF president Kayla Gillis said, adding the online version of the festival the past two years served the organization well.
"It really did. We had over 10,000 viewers, so if we could get 10,000 people to come to the festival now that would be even better."
Gillis indicated ticket pricing details will be made available prior to them going on sale in early January, during the Ukrainian Christmas season.
"We will once again be offering weekend passes and camping passes. Early bird pricing will also be available, we will offer the most affordable option for all those wanting to attend the 2022 festival," Gillis said.
The plan is to hold the festival at Selo Ukraina, although Gillis said there is still some details to be worked out with the facility board regarding the lease agreement.
"We're still in the process of working through that and trying to figure that out. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks that will all be sorted out," she said. "And if not, we already have a plan B."
Organizers are working closely with Public Health officials to ensure that all those in attendance not only have a wonderful cultural experience, but are safe while at the site.
"On a regular year we would get 5,000 to 6,000 people, so that's just a little bit less than half capacity of the site. So I think that would still be comfortable for us," Gillis said. "But we will cap it at half capacity for sure though, just for health reasons. We want to make sure everybody's safe."
A lot of effort is currently going into setting the program for the three-day festival and Gillis hopes to have the performer list available when tickets go on sale.
"You know, it's been it's been two years, come out and see us. We have some new and exciting things that we want to share with everybody and some stuff we've never done before at the festival," she said. "So even if you've been come check it out again please. Please make sure because there are new attractions that will be there."
All the effort being put into bringing the festival back live, Gillis said, is being expended with CNUF's supporters in mind.
"All the patrons and supporters, just everybody, sponsors, over the past 57 years. Without them we wouldn't be carrying on a 57-year plus festival," she said. "We encourage our many supporters to stay connected to CNUF for ongoing updates through our website, our social media, our media partners and by phone."
Gillis is also appreciative of all those who have continued to support the festival throughout the pandemic through its fund-raising initiatives, such as the kuba dog barbecue, spirits raffle and the zabava street dance.
"Throughout the month of December, we are selling cash calendars with daily cash prizes to be awarded for the month of January," she said. "You can support this fund-raiser by purchasing calendars from the festival office in Dauphin, also by calling 204-622-4600. These would make great stocking stuffers."
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When I first saw the #DiscoverWP topic for this week I wondered what I was going to come up with given that I couldn't really put my finger on any actual connections from blogging itself. I've been a web designer on and off for more than 20 years and have made plenty of connections via the internet, including the most important one of all, the connection I made with my wife. But from blogging itself the connections are few. I've had several goes at blogging over the years, several incarnations not all using the current name, and while I've had a few likes and a few followers the only real connection I've had is invisible to all but one.
Then this afternoon while I was on a mission to do something nice for the above mentioned wife I realised I was on that mission because of a connection to WordPress. Suddenly I realised that with a bit of word padding, a bit of time and a bit of effort I would have my weekly #DiscoverWP story, and here it is.
Earlier in the day I was browsing through my reader, I'd already scanned it once for my 'first-read' posts/bloggers and was going back for a second scan when I saw Homer Simpson. Like so many other people in this world when I see Homer I often feel compelled to investigate, sometimes the investigation leads to let down other times amusement. Today was neither because for some reason the post didn't even tweak in my mind despite the image of Homer and the words ice cream.
It wasn't until mid morning when my wife mentioned something completely different that for some reason my mind reverted back to the picture of Homer and ice cream and decided I needed to look at the post in more depth. Off I went to the WP reader and looked for Homer's head, it was a fair way down the list but I eventually found it and read it properly, then I read it to my wife.
The post I am referring to is Happy National Ice Cream Sandwich Day!!! by belikewaterproduction. I wont go into the details of the post you can read it yourself from the link but the gist if it is celebrating the 116th anniversary of the Ice Cream Sandwich.
Now I don't think I lived a sheltered life, in fact it was very unsheltered in many ways, but it wasn't until sometime after I met my wife that I found out what an Ice Cream Sandwich was. To my wife a connoisseur of all things ice cream, who grew up in Perth Western Australia the Ice Cream Sandwich was called a Giant Sandwich, but it was not something I'd heard of in the Eastern states.
When I was a kid we had a thing called a ChocBurger which at the time was worth $1 while most of the other ice creams at the Milkbar were only forty and fifty cents. Now these chocolate covered chunks which had a round biscuit top and bottom and a slab of vanilla ice cream in between were not named Ice Cream Sandwiches they were ChocBugers and they were a rare treat because of the price of them.
The day my wife found Giant Sandwiches in one of our local stores she could not get the freezer door open quick enough. Several boxes were bought and relocated to our home freezer. I was under no illusions had I not been in the house I wouldn't have gotten a sniff of that ice creamy goodness because my wife would have happily demolished all of them having been without them since moving to the east years before.
As much as they weren't ChocBurgers (which had long since been discontinued) I had to admit they were pretty good and over the years there has been many bought for our house. Sometime in the last few years our local supermarkets have gone from the original Giant Sandwich to their own re-branded versions. They are a bit cheaper and they don't taste exactly the same but since the stores removed the original product they are the only alternative.
So there I am today reading the above post to my wife and from the other end of our dining room table I could see her eyes glaze over as she thought about a Giant Sandwich.
"You could always go via Aldi when you do the school run and get some to celebrate the anniversary." She said.
While she wasn't demanding, or even ordering me to go shopping I could tell she was serious, so I said nothing and let the topic drop.
Three hours later having not brought up the topic again and being careful to leave for the school run a few minutes early, but not early enough to raise suspicion I was on my way to Aldi. Driving to the store I kept looking at the clock hoping that in trying to keep my movements a surprise I'd left enough time to get in and out and back to the school.
Typical of Aldi when you want to get in and out of the store quickly there is problems and today's problem was that they only had to check outs running and the queues were both ten people deep. More than once I looked at the couple of boxes in my hand and wondered if what I was doing was worth it. Given that I hadn't told my wife what I was doing there would be no let down if I just gave up and left the store empty handed but I just didn't want to do that.
Fifteen minutes later with my secret booty in the car I was on my way to school. Fifteen minutes after that I was on the way home with our eldest daughter in the back seat asking why there was a shopping bag in the front seat of the car. Five minutes after that I presented my wife with several boxes of our local Giant Sandwich substitute to celebrate (albeit a day late) the anniversary of the Ice Cream Sandwich.
Although the first reaction may not have been what I expected (and I didn't expect a standing ovation) the first box of Ice Cream Sandwiches was demolished by the family after dinner.
So in nearly twenty four hours I've gone from thinking that I had no real connection from blogging to realising that there is not only a connection but it's a yummy one.


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Review by Brian Eggert August 20, 2016
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Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Sam Trammell, Tracy Letts, Pawel Szajda, Devin Druid, Chris Sullivan, Nestor Carbonell, Burn Gorman, Asif Khan
In Imperium, Daniel Radcliffe portrays an undercover FBI agent who infiltrates a white supremacist community to ferret out a terrorist plot. How exactly director Daniel Ragussis intended to use the former Harry Potter star isn't immediately clear, though it becomes apparent early on that Radcliffe stands out in a number of ways. Perhaps he was chosen for stunt casting in hopes of drawing an unlikely audience to see their favorite wizard take on more challenging material. Maybe Ragussis needed a well-known performer to finance the project, and Radcliffe happened to be interested. Or maybe Radcliffe wanted to try something different and pursued the role, hoping to shake-off his former persona, and he impressed the filmmakers with his ability to channel the multiple dimensions needed.
Whatever the explanation, Radcliffe's presence doesn't quite work and feels gimmicky from the outset. Place his slender, rather diminutive stature up against the towering skinheads depicted in the film, and you begin to wonder how they could ever be convinced he's genuine. Indeed, since this is an undercover agent story, inevitably there are scenes where the criminals suspect one of them is not who he appears to be. Looking around at their skinhead ranks, their gaze would eventually fall on Radcliffe's character, a short, wiry introvert who knows about things like classical music, and claims to be a former Marine. Cue the Sesame Street song, "One of These Things (is Not Like The Others)". Radcliffe plays Nate Foster, who may have helped foil a terrorist attack in Washington D.C. in the first scene, but he remains a joke to his FBI colleagues, enduring their inter-office torment—especially after he's accused of entrapment.
Despite being the kind of guy who enjoys dinner alone with a fine glass of wine and a few pages from Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, Nate catches the eye of Angela Zamparo (Toni Collette), a tough and experienced fellow agent with a history of undercover ops. She sees his ability to empathize with people and understand how they think, and she considers his weaknesses (an unhappy childhood, a small physique, a history of being bullied) to be strengths. When six canisters of cesium, which can be used to construct a dirty bomb, go missing, the rest of the FBI investigates a Muslim threat, while Angela convinces Nate that the white power movement is a more likely aggressor. He agrees to go undercover and investigate the Washington D.C. white supremacist network—specifically Dallas Wolf (Tracy Letts), author of books like "Genocide: The Murder of White America" and ultra-right-wing radio host.
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TRIPOLI (Agencies) - Libyan rebels have taken over Col Muammar Gaddafis compound here, one of the final areas under the Libyan leaders control. Heavily armed fighters had earlier streamed into the capital in dozens of pick-up trucks to attack the compound. TV footage showed smoke rising from buildings across the city, and the sound of shelling could be heard. On Tuesday morning, rebel commanders said they would concentrate all of their efforts on attacking the the heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound. Later reports said hundreds fighters had breached one of the gates of the compound, and that gangs were inside the compound firing guns into the air to celebrate. Col Gaddafis son Saif al-Islam appeared in Tripoli overnight, hours after rebels said he had been captured. A rebel leader said his appearance was embarrassing, but would not stop their advance. Saif al-Islam, who spoke to journalists at the Rixos Hotel early on Tuesday, insisted the government had broken the backbone of the rebel offensive and that his fathers supporters were winning the battle. A brief appearance at the dead of night doesnt indicate to me somebody who is in control of a country, or capital, or of anything much at all really, said Nato spokeswoman Oana Lungescu. The Pentagon said on Tuesday that Libyan rebels appeared to be in control of most of Tripoli. However, it said Gaddafi had not left the country. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said although the command capabilities of Gaddafis forces had been diminished, they remained dangerous. He also said the United States was monitoring Libyas chemical weapons sites, amid concern in Congress that those weapons could fall into the wrong hands. Two key figures from the Libyan army and a close relative of Gaddafi defected from the regime on Tuesday, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in an interview with SkyTG24 television. Today there were two important defections of important army representatives and a close relative of Gaddafi, who abandoned him this morning, Frattini said, refusing to give any further details. The Russian head of world chess on Tuesday said Gaddafi told him in a telephone call that he was in Tripoli and did not intend to leave the country despite an onslaught by rebels. I am alive and healthy, I am in Tripoli and do not intend to leave Libya. Do not believe the lying reports by Western television companies, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov quoted Gaddafi as saying in the conversation, the Interfax news agency reported. Ilyumzhinov had met Gaddafi in Tripoli in June. US President Barack Obama called for an inclusive transition in Libya, demanding that Gaddafi explicitly give up power and cautioned the rebels that their struggles were not over yet. French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet, who on Monday had declared The regime has fallen, the turnaround is total, said on France Inter radio Tuesday: In Libya the situation is not totally at an end, far from it. Meanwhile, members of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) in Benghazi said they planned to fly to the capital on Wednesday to start work on forming a new government. NTC chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil also said all Gaddafi aides would face justice and fair criminal trials. I will stand trial for years I served as a minister in the Gaddafi government, he told a news conference in Benghazi. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said a boat it sent to Tripoli to evacuate migrant workers was unable to dock because of the security situation.
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Home » Software Development Tools for Microchip MCUs » MPLAB® Xpress » DC Motor with Lock Anti-Phase Drive
DC Motor with Lock Anti-Phase Drive
It's possible to drive a Direct Current (DC) motor, via an H-bridge, in a bi-directional way using a single Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal. That single PWM signal can control both the speed and direction of the motor through a method of motor control called Lock Anti-Phase Drive. Normally, some additional circuitry may be necessary, but the Complementary Wave Generator (CWG) peripheral included in many of the latest 8-Bit Microchip PIC® Microcontrollers eliminates the need for this circuitry by creating a complementary waveform to the input PWM signal. This project will show a brief step by step view of how to set this up using the MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC) plugin for MPLAB Xpress.
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The Project Uses:
MTP50N06V N-Channel MOSFET (x2)
NTD2955 P-Channel MOSFET (x2)
IN4001 Diode (x4)
10 kΩ Resistor (x8)
Useful Pre-Knowledge:
Understanding of P-channel and N-channel MOSFETs
Introduction to CWG Module
Introduction to Comparator Module
DC Motor Basics
DC Single Direction Control
DC Bi-directional Control
Lock Anti-Phase Drive uses one complementary PWM signal (two pins) to drive an H-bridge. The duty cycle (PWM signal high time) of the PWM controls the speed and direction of the motor. When the duty cycle is at 50% (50% high time), the motor is stationary. As the PWM duty cycle starts to move away from 50%, the motor starts to spin. The closer the duty cycle is to 0 or 100%, the faster the motor spins. A duty cycle from 0 to 49 will spin the motor in one direction, and a duty cycle from 51% to 100% will spin it in the opposite direction.
Using two pins to drive a complementary PWM signal ensures that both pins will never be high at the same time.
If you would like more information on the theory behind this method, visit the Modular Circuits "Lock Anti-Phase Drive" blog article.
In the MPLAB Xpress IDE, click the MCC button to open MCC. Under Device Resources select the CWG Module to configure the CWG.
In the CWG module, use the drop down window to change the Output Mode to Half bridge mode.
In the CWG Events pane, use the drop down window to change the Rising Counts and Falling Counts to 30 to 31.
The rising and falling counts determine how much dead-band time is applied to the complementary PWM signal.
If the two MOSFETs on one side of the H-bridge open at the same time, a phenomenon known as "shoot through" can occur. This results in a high current path through both MOSFETs on one side of the H-bridge. This can quickly destroy MOSFETs and other associated circuit components. One way to help prevent this from happening is to implement a dead-band delay. The CWG module has a built-in option for a dead-band delay. The dead-band creates a delay between the activating edges on the signals of the top and bottom MOSFETs to prevent them from being ON at the same time. The exact amount of time between the activating edges is controlled by a combination of the CWG clock source and the rising/falling counts.
In the Device Resources module select the PWM6 module.
The default settings for the module will work for this application.
The PWM module needs a timer, and therefore Timer2 will be used for this application. Chose Device Resources > Timer > TMR2:
This will open the TMR2 configuration window. Change the Timer Period to 100 ms, and change the Clock Source to FOSC/4. To change the period, the Prescaler is set to 1:128. Check your settings with the completed window below:
The circuitry requires two pins from the microcontroller instead of four that a standard H-bridge drive may use. However, because we are using P-channel MOSFETs on the top of the bridge and N-channel on the bottom, the CWGxA and CWGxB signals will need to be routed accordingly. Remember, P-channel MOSFETs turn on with their gate at zero while N-channel MOSFETs turn on with a one. To run the motor in one direction, one of the P-channel MOSFETs needs to be driven LOW while the corresponding N-channel receives a HIGH. In order to accomplish this, connect the CWGxA signal to both MOSFETs on the left side of the bridge and connect the CWGxB signal to both MOSFETs on the right side of the bridge. Because they are opposite type MOSFETs, the signal will always be opening one at the same rate as it's closing the other, which is what this set-up requires.
The circuit will be controlled by a potentiometer input similar to the project, LED Control Using a Potentiometer. The potentiometer is built into the Xpress board that is used to control the H-Bridge. The input for the potentiometer is an Analog-to-Digital Convertor with Computation (ADCC) pin. The MCC can also setup the ADCC. The ADCC setup window is shown below:
For the purposes of this application, there are a few things to change in the ADCC block. Update the Clock Source to FRC and update the Result Alignment to right justification so that the ADC is reading the correct end of the updated ADC data array. Once the changes are complete click on the Generate button to have the MCC create the driver code.
To change the motor speed and direction based on the potentiometer position, we will need to use the output of the ADCC to control the PWM duty cycle. This is done in the main.c file of the project. The code looks as follows:
// initialize the device
SYSTEM_Initialize();
adc_result_t PotVal = ADCC_GetSingleConversion(Pot);    \\ Get a value from the ADCC
PWM6_LoadDutyValue(PotVal);                \\ Load the value to the PWM duty cycle
Once you have completed all these steps, choose Make and Program Device.
After the code appears in the downloads, drag the program to the Xpress as shown below:
The motor will now rotate in opposite directions at the fastest speed when the potentiometer is moved to the maximum left or right position. Any position in between will spin the motor at a slower speed. The closer the potentiometer gets to the middle of the wiper, the slower the motor will move. At the mid-point of the potentiometer position, the motor will reach an idle state and stop spinning.
This method just described for driving a motor with Lock Anti-Phase Drive of a motor in an H-bridge is just one option for controlling a motor. DC motor bi-directional drive is another option for controlling motors. This is a simpler method to consider that requires four separate inputs to the H-bridge but still uses the CWG to reduce hardware requirements. A simple single direction drive can also be achieved through a low side switch.


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Krzywcza – wieś (dawniej miasto) w Polsce, położona w województwie podkarpackim, w powiecie przemyskim, w gminie Krzywcza. Miejscowość jest siedzibą gminy Krzywcza, Pogórze Dynowskie. Miejscowość leży na lewym brzegu Sanu przy drodze wojewódzkiej nr 884 Przemyśl – Domaradz w odległości 20 km na zachód od Przemyśla.

Krzywcza uzyskała lokację miejską w 1444 roku, zdegradowana w 1888 roku.

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Od 1340 do 1772 miejscowość wchodziła w skład ziemi przemyskiej, która od 1434 znajdowała się w województwie ruskim. Do 1914 powiat przemyski, powiat podatkowy w Przemyślu, austriacka Prowincja Galicja. Do 1939 roku województwo lwowskie.

Pierwsze pisane wzmianki o Krzywczy pochodzą z 1353 roku, kiedy to przy podziale wsi Hnatkowice wymieniany jest jako świadek Kdewko Krywecki. Kilkakrotnie wzmiankowana jest Krzywcza w różnych dokumentach w 1397 roku. W 1398 roku miejscowość posiadała już prawa miejskie. Pierwsza osada istniała na terenie obecnej szkoły podstawowej. Teren ten w przeszłości znajdował się między dwoma odnogami Sanu i tworzył wyspę, na której znajdowała się wieś zwana Błodźce. W późniejszym czasie teren był otoczony bagniskiem i stawami. Stąd przypuszczalnie wywodzi się nazwa miejscowości, która prawdopodobnie wywodzi się od starosłowiańskiego słowa "kri", co znaczy "podmokły". Inną etymologię pochodzenia nazwy "Krzywcza" podaje Rymut, wywodząc ją od nazwy osobowej Krzywiec, względnie Krzywek, co zdaniem archeologów potwierdza dokument z 1397 roku, w którym użyto nazwy Crzywca. W XIV w. miejscowość została podniesiona na wyższe i suchsze miejsce. Być może wiązało to się z lokacją miasta na prawie niemieckim. Jego właścicielami byli bracia Jan i Szymon, synowie Dziersława z Brześcia.

W 1446 roku Krzywcza należała do braci Rafała i Habra (Chabra). Istniał już tu wtedy kościół, dwór obronny i młyn. W 1486 roku Rafał z Krzywczy powiększył uposażenie parafii. Z tego okresu pochodzi najprawdopodobniej herb Krzywczy - Leliwa - na błękitnym polu złota sześciopromienna gwiazda pomiędzy rogami złotego księżyca. W tym okresie znajdowało się tu dużo stawów rybnych, dziś nieistniejących. Rozwinięta była również produkcja zboża. Wiele też było pól, na których uprawiano hreczkę. W tym czasie w Krzywczy istniały też liczne barcie.

W XVI wieku po zamążpójściu Małgorzaty Krzywieckiej za Aleksandra Orzechowskiego, miasteczko przeszło w ręce rodziny Orzechowskich herbu Oksza. Przez wiele lat miejscowość była pod ich rządami. W 1518 roku nastąpił podział dóbr Krzywcza między Stanisławem - pisarzem przemyskim - a Janem i Aleksandrem Orzechowskim.

W 1620 roku ziemia krzywiecka przechodzi w ręce Ostrowskich (również herbu Leliwa). W 1624 roku odnotowano pożar miejscowości spowodowany najazdem Tatarów. Spłonął wtedy drewniany kościół. Po pożarze, zapewne za niską cenę, miasteczko kupił Marcin Krasicki z Siecina, wojewoda podolski. Zniszczenia musiały być bardzo duże, ponieważ Krzywczę ponownie lokowano na prawie magdeburskim. Odpowiedni przywilej wydał dopiero król Zygmunt III Waza w sobotę po uroczystości św. Marcina biskupa w roku 1624 roku. Dla umocnienia obronności nowy dziedzic zbudował zameczek wyposażony w działa, śmigowice i moździerze. Ufundował również murowany kościół, który oprócz funkcji sakralnej wchodził w system obronny miejscowości. Wspierał również finansowo i obdarowywał przywilejami parafie greckokatolickie istniejące w jego włościach. Marcin Krasicki - wojewoda podolski - zmarł bezpotomnie w 1631 roku. Swoje dobra zapisał swojemu bratankowi Marcinowi Konstantemu Krasickiemu — podczaszemu i kasztelanowi ziemi przemyskiej. W wyniku podziału dóbr po Marcinie Konstantym w 1672 roku starszy jego syn Jerzy, stolnik przemyski, otrzymał Krzywczę, Wolę Krzywiecką i Średnią. Młodszy syn, Aleksander, wszedł w posiadanie Kupnej i Chyrzynki. Następnie po Jerzym Krzywcza, Wola Krzywiecka i Średnia wróciły do Orzechowskich.

Na mocy dekretu trybunalskiego w 1723 roku względem spadku po Aleksandrze Krasickim, Kupnę i Chyrzynę otrzymali Woronowiczowie. W 1717 roku w środę przed uroczystością św. Franciszka Wyznawcy, Krzywcza otrzymała przywilej od króla Augusta II organizowania 8 jarmarków rocznie. W 1722 miasto było pod władaniem Hieronima Orzechowskiego. Krzywcza była otoczona parkanem, a zamek i kościół stanowiły główne punkty obrony. Następnie Krzywczę, Wolę Krzywiecką, Średnię i Chyrzynę nabył Joachim Boznański.

W roku 1814 roku Krzywcza należała do Józefa Benedykta Pawlikowskiego. Potem miejscowość weszła we władanie Adama Starzeńskiego. W 1872 roku dobra krzywieckie kupił Bolesław Jocz herbu Godziemba. W XIX wieku w Krzywczy czynna była gorzelnia, później aż do początku wieku XX - browar (spłonął ok. 1911 roku). We wszystkich wsiach również istniały karczmy. W 1889 roku władze austriackie odebrały im prawo wyszynku.

XX wiek

Prom na Sanie łączący Krzywczę z Chyrzyną, funkcjonował już przed rokiem 1914. W 1913 roku Krzywcza należała do Emanuela Bocheńskiego, ówczesnego starosty przemyskiego. Ostatnim "niedoszłym" właścicielem miał być Stefan Stroński. W wyniku reformy administracyjnej niektóre gminy utraciły prawo miejskie, należała do nich m.in. Krzywcza. W wyniku obu wojen światowych Krzywcza była bardzo podniszczona. Z dawnej zabudowy pozostało tylko kilka domów. Na rynku dnia 7 października 1984 roku odsłonięto pomnik ku czci poległych. W dworze krzywieckim rezydentem był pod koniec swojego życia Jan Zachariasiewicz, znany dziennikarz, poeta i powieściopisarz. We wsi zachował się dwór zbudowany w 1928 roku z wykorzystaniem murów znacznie starszego, zniszczonego na początku I wojny światowej. Obecnie mieści się w nim ośrodek zdrowia. W sąsiedztwie dworu zachowały się relikty obwałowań zwane przez miejscową ludność "Basztą". Zachowała się również stajnia dworska oraz park, w którym najcenniejszym drzewem jest miłorząb japoński o charakterystycznych wachlarzykowatych liściach, rosnący obok obecnego budynku ośrodka zdrowia. Przetrwała również aleja grabowa licząca ponad 100 lat, składająca się obecnie ze 150 drzew.

Decyzją z 5 maja 1936 rady gminy Krzywcza tytułem honorowego obywatela Krzywczy został wyróżniony starosta przemyski Adam Remiszewski

W latach 1945-1947 zmniejszyła się znacznie liczba mieszkańców Krzywczy i parafii. Było to wynikiem wysiedlania ludności ukraińskiej na Ukrainę Radziecką i na ziemie odzyskane. Zaraz po zakończeniu wojny zaczęła funkcjonować 7-klasowa szkoła podstawowa. W 1950 roku oddano do użytku gminną bibliotekę publiczną. W 1954 roku uruchomiono w budynku dworskim ośrodek zdrowia. W wyniku ustawy o podziale administracyjnym gminę Krzywcza podzielono na dwie gromady: Krzywcza i Babice. Gromada Krzywcza składała się z sołectw: Krzywcza, Chyrzyna, Kupna, Reczpol, Ruszelczyce, Średnia i Wola Krzywiecka. W roku szkolnym 1968/1969 utworzono w Krzywczy Zasadniczą Szkołę Rolniczą, którą umiejscowiono w budynku podworskim. W 1958 roku przekształcono ją w Szkołę Przysposobienia Rolniczego (SPR). W 1973 roku, w wyniku następnej reformy utworzono gminę Krzywcza, która składała się z połączonych gromad Babice i Krzywcza. Pierwszym mianowanym naczelnikiem gminy został Ryszard Jancyszyn. W 1991 roku w pierwszych po wojnie wolnych wyborach samorządu terytorialnego wójtem gminy Krzywcza została wybrana Zofia Lekka, następnie rządy sprawował Zbigniew Korytko. W listopadzie 2002 roku na stanowisko wójta ponownie została wybrana Zofia Lekka.

Demografia
 początek XVIII wieku, około 460 mieszkańców
 1921 - 174 domy i 928 mieszkańców: 402 rzymskich katolików, 323 grekokatolików i 203 żydów
 1939 - 1050 mieszkańców: 470 Polaków, 350 Ukraińców, 230 Żydów

Wyznania

Wyznawcy judaizmu

Kahał w Krzywczy powstał około 1777 roku. W 1741 roku na terenie parafii Krzywcza zamieszkiwało 400 żydów. W 1870 roku do gminy żydowskiej należała synagoga oraz 625 osób, gmina posiadała również cmentarz oraz szkołę religijną. Rabinem w Krzywczy był wówczas Mosze Elezier Galler, żonaty z córką cadyka dynowskiego Cwi Elimelecha. W 1900 roku do gminy wyznaniowej żydowskiej w Krzywczy należało 935 osób, po tym roku gminę włączono do gminy przemyskiej. Do dziś zachowała się dom rabina Uriego, który sprawował swoją posługę do 1939 r. Obecnie znajduje się w nim apteka. W okresie okupacji większość żydowskich mieszkańców została wywieziona do getta w Przemyślu. Do chwili obecnej na terenie wsi zachował się cmentarz żydowski, na którym stoi 10 nagrobków.

Zabytki
 cerkiew Narodzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Krzywczy
 barokowy Kościół Narodzenia NMP
 zespół dworski.
 zamek

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Piotr Haszczyn - Zarys dziejów parafii w Krzywczy 1398-1998, Krzywcza 1998,

 Krzywcza - Trzy Kultury. Rabini krzywieccy

Linki zewnętrzne

 www.krzywcza.eu

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Author:Комарова Ольга
On 21 November 2018, at the 87th session of the General Assembly of INTERPOL, a new INTERPOL president will be elected. According to the report of reputable mass media, the representative of the Russian Federation, Major General of Police, Vice-President of INTERPOL Oleksandr Prokopchuk has the greatest chances to be elected for this post.
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In accordance with the INTERPOL Constitution, the President of the organisation must:
a) chair the meetings of the Assembly and the Executive Committee and manage the discussions;
(b) ensure that the activities of the Organisation are carried out in line with the decisions of the General Assembly and the Executive Committee;
(c) maintain, to the greatest possible extent, direct and permanent contacts with the General Secretary of the Organisation.
Thus, the General Secretariat of INTERPOL and other bodies will only be required to implement strategic decisions taken under the leadership of the President of the Organisation. The strategy of the organisation's work will be formed and determined by the representative of the aggressor country, whose authorities:
– violate international agreements, brutally violate international law, have occupied the Crimea and conducted open military actions on the territory of other INTERPOL member countries, namely: Ukraine and Syria;
– through propaganda and with the use of intelligence services, interfere with the internal policies of democratic states;
– is disclosed in the use of chemical weapons in the territory of the United Kingdom, according to British officials, as well as the promotion of the use of chemical weapons in Syria;
– is guilty of crimes against humanity in relation to the Chechen people and is currently carrying out systematic crimes against the Crimean Tatar people;
– violate the basic principles of human rights and fundamental freedoms, persecute people for their convictions, fabricate numerous criminal cases against political opponents, opposition leaders, journalists, human rights defenders, and ordinary businessmen for the purpose of expropriating their property for the benefit of the oligarchic clans close to the authorities of Russia;
– actively provide financial and other support to the dictatorial authoritarian regimes of North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Iran;
– in violation of all international treaties and conventions, purposefully and methodically declare the possibility of a nuclear war and are actively preparing for it.
Currently, Russia and its allies, namely: Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, as well as Venezuela and Iran, are leaders in misusing INTERPOL mechanisms, including Red Notice and Diffusion requests for the purpose of politically motivated prosecution and national, religious, social and gender-related persecution. Thus, in spite of an active work aimed at preventing such misuse, it can be asserted with confidence that the database of the organisation includes several thousand people that follow authoritarian regimes, including the Russian Federation, in violation of Art. 3 of the INTERPOL Constitution. These are residents of the occupied Crimea and other regions of Ukraine, natives of Chechnya and other republics of the North Caucasus, human rights activists, opposition politicians and businessmen.
In addition, the INTERPOL list contains the names of many people who have been granted refugee status in relation to the state that is pursuing them. Frequently, these individuals remain on the INTERPOL list even after a refusal to extradite them has been issued. Due to this fact, they cannot cross the border or get a job. For over five years, human rights organisations, representatives of PACE, the European Parliament, the European Commission have been working on this problem. Due to the efforts of the international community, in November 2016, INTERPOL began the reform process. In particular, the Organisation has begun to apply (for the time being, inconsistently) the policy of protecting persons with refugee status. The procedures applied by the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL's Files have become more transparent.
Over the past two years, INTERPOL has taken important steps to combat misuse of its mechanisms, and it is important to continue these reforms, improving the legislation of the Organisation. However, the Organisation is now facing the curtailing of previous positive initiatives. Instead of imposing restrictions on violating states (provided for by the INTERPOL legislation), now INTERPOL can be headed by a representative of Russia – one of the most principled violators of the Organisation's rules.
If a representative of the Russian Federation is elected to the leading position in the organisation, the number of politically motivated prosecutions with the use of the INTERPOL mechanisms will only increase, as it is highly likely that the authorities of the Russian Federation would apply methods of blocking complaints regarding unlawful registration of the criminal record of prosecuted persons whose names have been included in the database of the organisation.
Even today, it can be argued that INTERPOL actually supports of the crimes against humanity in relation to the Chechen people exercised by the Russian authorities; it is due to the fact that the number of representatives of a small Chechen ethnic group in the organisation's database is significantly greater than representatives of any other nations. Moreover, for this ethnic group, the organisation's website provides special labels that indicate the ethnic origin of the prosecuted person.
The possibility that Russia would reissue requests for the pursuit of individuals who had been previously removed from the INTERPOL database due to violation of the organisation's Constitution cannot be ignored. Thus, these individuals may be subjected to unlawful prosecution again.
In addition to the fact that INTERPOL can turn into an organisation that deals with the persecution of dissenters under the orders of dictatorial, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, there is a direct threat that the organisation would be criminalised and its mechanisms could be used by international criminal structures. Thus, today, it is a well known fact that the leaders of the majority of Russian organised criminal groups (the so-called "Orekhovsky", "Podolsky", "Solntsevsky", etc.) have become state figures, have been awarded state awards and granted the status of advisers or consultants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Authorities of a number of countries, including the United States and Spain, accuse Russian politicians and businessmen, close to the authorities, including members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, of involvement in the international organised crime. It cannot be ruled out that, under the leadership of the representative of the Russian Federation, INTERPOL could shift accents and close their eyes to Russian criminal groups due to their affiliation with the authorities. Also, it cannot be ruled out that, with the consent and approval of the organisation's leadership, representatives of the criminal world could be able to become part of the very organisation and begin to exercise control over its activities.
It is yet to be known by who, how and for what purpose, the database of the organisation would be used. However, it is already a well-known fact that the security system of the database is provided by the infamous Kaspersky Lab – a Russian IT company controlled by the Russian FSB. If a representative of the Russian Federation is elected to the leading position in the organisation, it can be argued that the database of the organisation could be used in the interests of the regime of Putin and his satellites.
We must not forget that three SS generals: Reinhard Heydrich (1940-1942), Arthur Nebe (1942-1943), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1943-1945) were appointed consecutively to the post of the President of INTERPOL. We remember very well how the story ended.
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Q: how to custom restart strategy after 5 second in Erlang/Elixir? In Erlang/Elixir, it could restart child when the child crashed.
I have a gen_server which hold database connection.
I want crash the process if the connection can't achieved and restart it after 5 seconds(or more complex regular, such as first restart is 100ms, second time is 500ms, third is 1s ...).
How to config the supervisor to handle the restart time?
As default, The gen_server will be attempt to restart endlessly.

A: You will need to handle that logic (called 'exponential backoff') in your own code because Supervisor is simply just handling monitoring and restarts of children.
There are some packages that help facilitate this you can find on https://hex.pm (search for exponential backoff)
But also check your database client/library, most of them handle this out of the box - at least anything that uses the db_connection library like most ecto clients, mongodb, etc.
So, you should be able to simply adjust your config for your database client and things should just work.

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Newsletter #384 Preview: On the Meaning of the Phrase:
"Indistinguishable From the Original Recording"
When Apple first debuted the iTunes Music Store — which dropped the "Music" label when movies were added — they made a very direct claim about the quality of the 128K AAC files they offered. They approached the quality of a CD, but that's a claim that was quickly disputed by critical listeners everywhere.
In turn, Apple eventually settled on a less-exaggerated phrase, "high quality."
To be fair, it may be true that, on a portable music player with inexpensive earphones, a car radio or a low-cost home audio system, you probably wouldn't be able to detect much of an audible difference between the standard iTunes fare and a CD. That's particularly true with today's highly-compressed and noisy popular music, where audio quality plays the role of poor handmaiden to "talk power," so it stands out on the radio.
But if you take acoustic instruments, such as a piano or harpsichord, where the subtle nuances are difficult to reproduce even in uncompressed music, the audible differences may be painfully obvious. This is why so-called "golden ears" began to demand that Apple deliver something better.
At the same time, the music industry wanted a two-tier pricing system for singles. You'd pay the regular 99 cents for older product, and a higher price for hits. Apple and EMI devised a smart solution that addressed several of the demands of both listeners and the music industry.
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These large "foaming" silicone bra pads are made of air-infused lightweight silicone for a comfy cleavage boost. And we added an ingenious ventilated cross-hatch pattern on the inside of the pad to encourage air flow between the silicone and the skin. We also added an extra bump to the bottom of the pad for added push and perkiness.
Appropriate for both bra and swim tops to add natural looking curves and cleavage. Comfortable, soft and made from high-quality silicone.


If Secretary of State John Kerry's attempts to revive talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority fail because of Israel's continuing construction of illegal settlements, the Israeli government will likely face an international boycott "on steroids," as Mr. Kerry warned last August.
These days, Israel seems as terrified by the "exponential" growth of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (or BDS.) movement as it is by Iran's rising clout in the region. Last June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, effectively declared BDS. a strategic threat. Calling it the "delegitimization" movement, he assigned the overall responsibility for fighting it to his ministry of strategic affairs. But BDS doesn't pose an existential threat to Israel; it poses a serious challenge to Israel's system of oppression of the Palestinian people, which is the root cause of its growing worldwide isolation.
Launched in 2005 by the largest trade union federations and organizations in Palestinian society, BDS calls for ending Israel's 1967 occupation, "recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab- Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality," and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands from which they were forcibly displaced and dispossessed in 1948.
Why should Israel, a nuclear power with a strong economy, feel so vulnerable to a nonviolent human rights movement?
Israel is deeply apprehensive about the increasing number of American Jews who vocally oppose its policies – especially those who are joining or leading BDS campaigns. It also perceives as a profound threat the rising dissent among prominent Jewish figures who reject its tendency to speak on their behalf, challenge its claim to be the "national home" of all Jews, or raise the inherent conflict between its ethno-religious self-definition and its claim to democracy. What I. F. Stone prophetically wrote about Israel back in 1967, that it is "creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world Jewry" because of its "racial and exclusionist" ideal, is no longer beyond the pale.
The landslide vote by the American Studies Association in December to endorse an academic boycott of Israel, coming on the heels of a similar decision by the Association for Asian-American Studies, among others, as well as divestment votes by several university student councils, proves that BDS is no longer a taboo in the United States.
The BDS movement's economic impact is also becoming evident. The recent decision by the $200 billion Dutch pension fund, PGGM, to divest from the five largest Israeli banks due to their involvement in occupied Palestinian territory has sent shock waves through the Israeli establishment.
To underscore the "existential" danger that BDS poses, Israel and its lobby groups often invoke the smear of anti-Semitism, despite the unequivocal, consistent position of the movement against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism. This unfounded allegation is intended to intimidate into silence those who criticize Israel and to conflate such criticism with anti-Jewish racism.
Arguing that boycotting Israel is intrinsically anti-Semitic is not only false, it also presumes that Israel and "the Jews" are one and the same. This is as absurd and bigoted as claiming that a boycott of a self-defined Islamic state like Saudi Arabia, say, because of its horrific human rights record, would of necessity be Islamophobic.
The BDS movement's call for full equality in law and policies for the Palestinian citizens of Israel is particularly troubling for Israel because it raises questions about its self-definition as an exclusionary Jewish state. Israel considers any challenge to what even the Department of State has criticized as its system of "institutional, legal, and societal discrimination" against its Palestinian citizens as an "existential threat," partially because of the apartheid image that this challenge evokes.
Tellingly, a recent attempt by Israeli liberals to have their civic national identity as "Israelis" recognized by the state was squarely rejected by Israel's Supreme Court on the grounds that it posed a serious threat to Israel's founding principle: to be a Jewish state for the Jewish people.
Israel remains the only country on earth that does not recognize its own nationality, as that would theoretically avail equal rights to all its citizens, undermining its ''ethnocratic'' identity. The claim that BDS, a nonviolent movement anchored in universal principles of human rights, aims to 'destroy' Israel must be understood in this context.
Would justice and equal rights for all really destroy Israel? Did equality destroy the American South? Or South Africa? Certainly, it destroyed the discriminatory racial order that prevailed in both places, but it did not destroy the people or the country.
Likewise, only Israel's unjust order is threatened by boycotts, divestment and sanctions.
How would Arafat and Habash React to Events in Yarmouk?
I suppose David would be fully convinced that his comment "You are so wrong" nullifies all that Omar Barghouti has said in his excellent article.
The article is long on wishful thinking, and short on facts. Israeli worldwide trade has boomed during the past 10 years. Israel's trade with the pro-Arab EU has increased steadily. The balance of trade favors the EU, and they will pay for a boycott, not Israel. Even Abbas has called on the world not to boycott, since Israel is the PA's largest trading partner and can impose a crushing counter boycott. Thousands of PA Arabs have good jobs in Israel. Also, Israel now has trillions of feet of natural gas, and Europe is notoriously cold in winter. Actually, the boycott movement is a gigantic bluff. Israel, and the EU knows this. Only Omar doesn't.


Cigar rolling is a skilled vocation in which you individually hand roll cigars, by wrapping tobacco leaves around bunches. There are different sizes of cigars, therefore a cigar roller has to be meticulous about measuring and cutting each one to perfection.
Carefully selects, shapes and cuts tobacco leaf wrapper into specific shapes with a knife and template.
Packs filler evenly into tobacco leaves by rolling them together, for the cigar to have a smooth burn.
Secures the end of the tobacco wrapper with glue, and trims any irregularities in the cigar to specified length, using a rounded knife (chaveta) and cigar cutter.
Assesses finished cigars for consistent measurements such as weight, size, draw, diameter and other imperfections.
Cigar rollers have a busy schedule on a day-to-day basis. Every roller starts the day with instructions on how much leaf to press into each cigar they are making. Based on the factory, you would make a cigar from start to finish – making up to 100 or 150 cigars per day. You might also be teamed up with two 'bunchers' (i.e. workers creating filler/binder) would would place the wrapper on the cigar in order to maximise production.
At each step, you will meticulously check the tobacco bunch that is placed with your hands, for uniformity and any hard or loose parts. If a cigar is not consistent, it is your job to reject it from the final stage. Once you are almost done, you place a cap on the head or smoking side of the cigar. This cap would be a piece of tobacco from the wrapper leaf before rolling. After you finish a cigar, you would place it on the top of your rolling desk for inspection from the supervisor. Typically, bunches of 50 cigars are weighed together and if there is any variation, all units are returned to the cigar roller for redoing.
Your work schedule can vary depending on the type of company or business you are working for. Typically, cigar rollers work 6 days a week and have 1 full month off per year for vacation time. Hours are flexible and workers often have assigned shifts. There are certain cigar rolling boutiques that require cigar rollers to travel for work to events at different locations.
There are promising opportunities as a cigar roller today, with renewed interest in collecting authentic and well-rolled cigars. While some aspects of the work have become automated due to advanced technology, a cigar that is rolled by hand is the best possible quality. There are also many positions in niche areas such as cigar rolling companies that provide personal or corporate event services, and workshops on the specifics of hand rolling cigars.
Typical employers typically include cigar manufacturing companies and private businesses that offer cigar rolling services. There has been a recent boom in high-end companies (i.e. Cigar Aficionado) entering the market for cigar rolling expertise. Specialised and creative businesses are also on the rise, such as Cigar Dolls is a cigar rolling service that hires only women and covers different kinds of events for entertainment purposes.
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How do Cigar Roller salaries stack up to other jobs across the country? Based on the latest jobs data nationwide, Cigar Roller's can make an average annual salary of $31,690, or $15 per hour. This makes it an Above Average Salary. On the lower end, they can make $23,610 or $11 per hour, perhaps when just starting out or based on the state you live in.
Learning how to become a cigar roller is tough, as there are very few formal institutions that offer such training. Most people in the business, have learned from their family members over generations or trained as an apprentice with a more experienced professional. You can hold a minimum of a high school diploma to enter this profession.
Choosing where to learn should be based on the level of skill you want to attain. If you are looking to enter the profession full-time, go for intensive courses such as those offered by Bobalu Cigar Company or Ybor City's International Bazaar. Courses can last upto 12 weeks. Training should cover the types of tobacco available in the market, the different flavours produced, how to use them to develop unique blends that stand out and box presentation.
Approaching a master hand roller for one-on-one tutorials is also an alternative way to gain the expertise you are looking for. Employers value exposure to cigar rolling and a few years of experience. Experience regarding different cigar rolling equipment such as cigar molds, cutting boards, chavetas (cigar cutting "knife"), glue, cigar presses, and all other related equipment, will also give you a competitive edge.
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How does Cigar Roller job growth stack up to other jobs across the country? By 2024, there will be a change of -2,500 jobs for a total of 38,900 people employed in the career nationwide. This is a -6% change in growth over the next ten years, giving the career a growth rate nationwide of Below Average.


Today I created some scripts to automatically setup a test environment from a web site backup. In the past this was a tedious process that required quite a bit of hands-on effort.
With fresh data in the test environment, I can now turn my attention to fixing the "unread posts" bug and making other improvements in the development queue.


This is App Hack Monday, a show about building apps.
Every Monday, Martin Beeby, Microsoft Technical Evangelist will spend ten minutes chatting with colleagues and friends on what's new and interesting in the apps world. The next twenty minutes you can join Martin on a tech session so roll your sleeves up, crank open your laptops, explore some new techniques and write some apps.
Each show will explore something new in HTML, C#, Objective C, Java: anything goes as long as it's about app development and is focused on learning, simplicity and agility. Shows are posted here every Monday.
To join in the conversation and receive hands-on support and guidance from UK Tech Evangelists, use #apphackmonday on Twitter.
This week Martin Beeby catches up with Mike Taulty about building Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps using the Universal Project template.


The coffee chain has swapped plastic straws for more earth-friendly alternatives in all its Malta stores.
Costa Coffee has stopped using plastic drinking straws in all of its 12 stores across Malta, in a bid to cut down on single-use plastic and help conserve the environment.
The popular coffee house has instead introduced straws made of an eco-friendly 'green' material known as BIO-PLAST, which is fully eco-certified, completely biodegradable, and even compostable.
Straws are now only available with certain drinks or by request, as opposed to being added to all customer condiment units as standard.
"Here at Costa we love the world we live in and we know you do too. So we want to do everything we can to make sure it's in good shape, not just for today, but for all our tomorrows," says Christina Galea, Costa Coffee Malta's general manager.
The coffee company's commitment to helping to save the environment is part of the bigger picture of the work of its charity, The Costa Foundation.
Profit before deducting provision amounted to €146.2 million, a 5.8 per cent increase over the annualised result for 2017.
This important achievement follows the Institute's first two years of operation during which it provided over 140 courses to almost 1,800 students.
"Bank of Valletta believes in diversity and also works closely with women-led businesses to offer them tailor-made financial products to help them achieve their potential," said BOV Chief Financial Officer Elvia George.


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Paul Davis On Crime
News and commentary on organized crime, street crime, white collar crime, cyber crime, sex crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, espionage and terrorism.
Kansas Man Sentenced 30 Years In Plot To Explode Car Bomb At Fort Riley
The U.S. Justice Department released the below information:
John T. Booker Jr., 22, of Topeka, Kan., was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for attempting to detonate a vehicle bomb on the Fort Riley military base in Manhattan, Kan. On Feb. 3, 2016, Booker pleaded guilty to one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of attempted destruction of government property by fire or explosion.
Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District of Kansas and Special Agent in Charge Darrin E. Jones of the FBI's sKansas City Division made the announcement.
"With this sentence, John Booker is being held accountable for his plan to kill U.S. military personnel on American soil in the name of ISIS," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Boente. "The National Security Division's highest priority is countering terrorist threats and protecting American lives by bringing to justice those who plot to attack us. I want to thank the many agents, analysts, and prosecutors who made this result possible."
"Violent extremism is a threat to America and all its people," Acting U.S. Attorney Beall said. "Our goal is to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from inspiring, financing or carrying out acts of violence."
"The investigation leading to today's sentencing illustrates the FBI's commitment to disrupting acts of terrorism," said Special Agent in Charge Jones. "If Mr. Booker had been successful in detonating a car bomb, the results could have been dozens, if not hundreds, of casualties. The FBI and our law enforcement partners remain committed to protecting the citizens of the United States and thwarting acts of terrorism."
In his guilty plea, Booker admitted he intended to kill American soldiers and to assist ISIS's (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) fight against the U.S. His plan called for constructing a bomb containing 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate. Booker intended to trigger the bomb himself and die in the process, and filmed a video he intended Americans to see after his death.
"You sit in your homes and think this war is just over in Iraq," Booker said in the video. "Today we will bring the Islamic State straight to your doorstep."
Unbeknownst to Booker, the bomb that he constructed was made with inert materials, and the two men working with him were undercover informants for the FBI.
The FBI began investigating Booker in March 2014 after he posted on his Facebook page that he wanted to commit jihad. Booker admitted that he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army in order to commit an insider attack against American soldiers like the one at Fort Hood in Texas, but his deadly plans were thwarted when he was denied entry into the Army. In October 2014, Booker began communicating with an undercover FBI informant. He told the undercover FBI informant that he dreamed of being a fighter in the Middle East, and proposed capturing and killing an American soldier.
In March 2015, Booker was introduced to another FBI informant who he believed would help him plan an attack. Booker said he wanted to detonate a suicide bomb because he couldn't be captured, all the evidence would be destroyed, and he would be guaranteed to hit his target. On March 10, 2015, Booker made a video filmed at Freedom Park near Marshall Army Airfield at Fort Riley in which he pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. That month, he rented a storage unit in Topeka where the bomb would be assembled.
On April 10, 2015, Booker and the informants drove to an area near Fort Riley that Booker believed to be a little-used utility gate where they could enter Fort Riley undetected. He was arrested when he made the final connections on the device that he believed would arm the bomb.
Mr. Boente and Mr. Beall commended the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force for their investigation of this case. They also thanked Assistant Trial Attorneys Josh Parecki and Rebecca Magnone of the National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tony Mattivi of the District of Kansas, who prosecuted this case.
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Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cyber crime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, espionage and terrorism. His 'On Crime' column appears weekly in the Washington Times and his 'Crime Beat' column appears in Philadelphia Weekly. He is also a regular contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online "Threatcon" column. His work has also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and other publications. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police chiefs, FBI, DEA and other federal agents, prosecutors, public officials, Navy SEALs and other military special operators, Israeli commandos, British Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was an aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to do security work as a Defense Department civilian while working part-time as a freelance writer. He became a full-time writer in 2007. You can read his crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo. And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com
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(JTA) — A New Jersey township is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate haredi Orthodox community leaders for alleged "blockbusting," or trying to pressure large numbers of longtime homeowners into selling their property to Orthodox Jews.
The incident is the latest example of tensions between a large and growing haredi Orthodox community in the Lakewood area and its non-Orthodox and non-Jewish neighbors.
For months, numerous residents in communities near Lakewood, in southern New Jersey, have accused real estate agents representing haredi Orthodox clients of aggressively pressing non-Orthodox homeowners to put their property on the market. Members of the Orthodox community have denied the claim.
On Tuesday, the Jackson Township Council said it was alarmed by videos circulating in which Orthodox leaders at the haredi Agudath Israel of America's November convention encouraged Orthodox Jews to buy property in communities near Lakewood, the Asbury Park Press reported.
"Those videos very strongly indicated what I think many of us had feared or have attempted to prove, and that is there seems to be a cohesive attempt to blockbust our neighborhoods, to look at Jackson as a place to be taken over," Rob Nixon, the council president, told the newspaper.
However, Orthodox leaders disputed the council's claims and said that they were based on misinterpretations of Yiddish phrases.
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"Someone who takes it upon themselves … they could turn it around," he said, according to the Press.
In one controversial segment of the video, Lefkowitz called on members of the Orthodox community to become "schtickle pioneers" willing to settle in outlying areas that don't currently have the Orthodox amenities of established Orthodox communities.
"It's the most ridiculous thing in the world that they would construe it to mean something negative," he told the Press.


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Q: Figure up how to implement dynamic JSON manipulation My issue is this:
I am trying to send a JSON that represent an Order to a API.
This is the structure of the problem that i am facing
and those are some examples of the orders:

*

*multiply shipment and items, orders

*one shipment and multiply items, orders

*one shipment and one item, order
-> i am hoping that i covered all the cases
This JSON is built from an XML, that is built dynamically each time the customer wants to order something.

*

*he can order, multiply shipment, and multiply items - the function needs to take care of it.

I am having trouble to struct a function that will handle all the case
and write the correct ID's.
For now this is what i wrote(i am writing the values to the XML and then i am
serialize it to JSON with the help of newtonsoft - this is working fine)
public void SendOrder(string renderedOutput, string orderID)
{
    var xml = XElement.Parse(renderedOutput);
    var elmOrderData = xml.Element("orderData").Descendants();
    var shipmentsIds = GetShipmentsIds(orderID);

    int shipmentId = 0;
    int shipmentId_index = 0;

    foreach (var el in elmOrderData)
    {// the correct order according to the xml template
        if (el.Name == "shipmentIndex" && el.Attribute("Name").Value == "items")
        {// items -> shipmentIndex
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Published Dec 6, 2011 by New Riders. Part of the Voices That Matter series.
Following up on the great success of The Moment It Clicks and The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes, legendary magazine photographer Joe McNally takes us on another memorable ride with Sketching Light, another trip into the land of light--but this time running the gamut from small flash to big flash, and everywhere in between.
Of course, Joe includes coverage of Nikon Speedlights, but he also covers big flash, as well as "in-between" lights as the Elinchrom Quadra. The exploration of new technology, as well as the explanation of older technology. No matter what equipment Joe uses and discusses, the most important element of Joe's instruction is that it is straightforward, complete, and honest. No secrets are held back, and the principles he talks about apply generally to the shaping and quality of light, not just to an individual model or brand of flash.
He tells readers what works and what doesn't via his let's-see-what-happens approach, he shows how he sets up his shots with plentiful sketches and behind-the-scenes production shots, and he does it all with the intelligence, clarity, and wisdom that can only come from shooting in the field for 30 years for the likes of National Geographic, Time, Life, and Sports Illustrated--not to mention the wit and humor of a clearly warped (if gifted) mind.
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