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Q: ASP.NET 5 EntityFramework.Core 7.0.0-rc1-final issue - Compiler wants 7.0.0.0 to be referenced which is not found I am having the same issue. I have added the following dependencies in my project.json file:

"dependencies": {
    "EntityFramework": "7.0.0-beta4",
    "EntityFramework.Core": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.SqlServer": "7.0.0-beta8",
    "EntityFramework.Commands": "7.0.0-rc1-final"
  },
  "commands": {
    "web": "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel",
    "ef": "EntityFramework.Commands"
  },
...

I used dnu install EntityFramework and dnu install EntityFramework.SqlServer to install the packages. "EntityFramework": "7.0.0-beta4", was written under dependencies node automatically by the installer itself.
Issue / Question 1: To my surprise when I was pulling in the intellisence for EntityFramework the available version I am presenting with is only 6.1.3!
Issue 2: When I am compiling my application using dnu build (I ran dnu restore command after adding EntityFramework assemblies (.Core and .Commands) manually under dependencies node I am getting a bunch of compilation errors:

The type 'DbContextOptionsBuilder' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'EntityFramework.Core, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(12,41): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS0308: The non-generic method 'IServiceProvider.GetService(Type)' cannot be used with type arguments
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(13,32): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS0308: The non-generic method 'IServiceProvider.GetService(Type)' cannot be used with type arguments
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(14,29): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'Books' and no extension method 'Books' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(15,42): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'Authors' and no extension method 'Authors' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(17,43): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'Authors' and no extension method 'Authors' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(19,45): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'Authors' and no extension method 'Authors' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(22,29): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'Books' and no extension method 'Books' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\Models\SampleData.cs(61,29): DNXCore,Version=v5.0 error CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'SaveChanges' and no extension method 'SaveChanges' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

If I remove .Core and .Commands assembly references the project build fine.
Then I changed the version for EntityFramework.Core to 7.0.0.0 as mentioned in the error:

The type 'DbContextOptionsBuilder' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'EntityFramework.Core, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

But dnu restore now gave me the following:

Unable to locate Dependency EntityFramework.Core >= 7.0.0
Writing lock file D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\project.lock.json
Restore complete, 6675ms elapsed

Errors in D:\Projects\aspnet\apiservice\project.json
    Unable to locate Dependency EntityFramework.Core >= 7.0.0

I am a newbie in asp.net 5 Visual Studio code platform. And I cannot use Visual Studio 2015 as other members of the dev team are using OSX.
This is a learning project for me. Requirement is pretty straight forward. Connect a SQL Server database, pull master-child relational data using Entity Framework.
Screwed up! Help!!
Thanks in advance
UPDATE

*

*I can see the major changes in project.json for all packages with version 7.0.0-rc1-final. I used Yeoman generator tool to create the project but looks like you corrected the package through Visual Studio. So, do I have to update the package version manually and restore them?

*When the project was created/generated by Yeoman, there was no global.json file added by default. Can I add this manually and put the code inside by hand? Will this work?

*I can also see some additional package references are added to project.json file which were not added by default by Yeoman generator - like Microsoft.AspNet.Tooling.Razor, Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console, Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug, Microsoft.Extensions.Logging etc. Are they all being used effectively in the project? Because the generator did not add them automatically, again, can I add them manually and restore using dnu restore? Will this have any impact on the project if I add them manually?

A: You should remove "EntityFramework" from dependencies (remove the line "EntityFramework": "7.0.0-beta4") and use
"EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
"EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer.Design": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
"EntityFramework.Commands": "7.0.0-rc1-final"

only. You don't need to add "EntityFramework.Core": "7.0.0-rc1-final" explicitly if you added "EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer": "7.0.0-rc1-final" because of the following dependencies:
"EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer": "7.0.0-rc1-final":
    "EntityFramework.Relational": "7.0.0-rc1-final":
        "EntityFramework.Core": "7.0.0-rc1-final"

I mean that EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer requires EntityFramework.Relational, which requires EntityFramework.Core.
You should verify additionally that global.json contains "sdk": { "version": "1.0.0-rc1-update1" }.
UPDATED: I examined the test project which you uploaded. It had many small problems. I modified it. You can download the modified project here. Don't forget to fix the ConnectionString used in appsettings.json, it contains the Server which I used at me.
The most important changes are the usage of more simple BookContext.cs:
using Microsoft.Data.Entity;

namespace apiservice.Models {
    public class BookContext : DbContext {
        public DbSet<Author> Authors { get; set; }
        public DbSet<Book> Books { get; set; }
    }
}

the usage of the following SampleData.cs
using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Data.Entity;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

namespace apiservice.Models
{
    public static class SampleData
    {
        public static void Initialize(IServiceProvider serviceProvider) {
            var context=serviceProvider.GetService<BookContext>();
            context.Database.Migrate();
            if (!context.Books.Any()) {
                var austen = context.Authors.Add(
                    new Author { LastName = "Austen", FirstName = "Jane" }).Entity;
                var dickens = context.Authors.Add(
                    new Author { LastName = "Dickens", FirstName = "Charles" }).Entity;
                var cervantes = context.Authors.Add(
                    new Author { LastName = "Cervantes", FirstName = "Miguel" }).Entity;

                context.Books.AddRange(
                    new Book {
                        Title = "Pride and Prejudice",
                        Year = 1813,
                        Author = austen,
                        Price = 9.99M,
                        Genre = "Comedy of manners"
                    },
                    new Book {
                        Title = "Northanger Abbey",
                        Year = 1817,
                        Author = austen,
                        Price = 12.95M,
                        Genre = "Gothic parody"
                    },
                    new Book {
                        Title = "David Copperfield",
                        Year = 1850,
                        Author = dickens,
                        Price = 15,
                        Genre = "Bildungsroman"
                    },
                    new Book {
                        Title = "Don Quixote",
                        Year = 1617,
                        Author = cervantes,
                        Price = 8.95M,
                        Genre = "Picaresque"
                    }
                );

                context.SaveChanges();
            }
        }
    }
}

the usage of project.json with the following dependencies part:
{
  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Diagnostics": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.IISPlatformHandler": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Tooling.Razor": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileProviderExtensions": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.CodeGenerators.Mvc": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.BrowserLink.Loader": "14.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer.Design": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.Commands": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "System.Net.Http": "4.0.1-beta-23516",
    "Microsoft.Net.Http": "2.2.29",
    "Newtonsoft.Json": "8.0.1"
  },
  "commands": {
    "web": "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel",
    "ef": "EntityFramework.Commands"
  },
  "frameworks": {
    "dnx451": { },
    "dnxcore50": { }
  }
}

fixing of appsettings.json from
{
  "Logging": {
    "IncludeScopes": false,
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Verbose",
      "System": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Information"
    },
    "Data": {
        "DefaultConnection":{
            "ConnectionString": "Server=localhost;Database=BookStore;User Id=sa; Password=******;Trusted_Connection=true;"
        }
    }
  }
}

to
{
  "Logging": {
    "IncludeScopes": false,
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Verbose",
      "System": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Information"
    }
  },
  "Data": {
    "DefaultConnection": {
      "ConnectionString": "Server=localhost;Database=BookStore;User Id=sa; Password=******;Trusted_Connection=true;"
    }
  }
}

(Data should not be under Logging)
and the usage of the following Startup.cs
using apiservice.Models;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Builder;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Microsoft.Data.Entity;

namespace apiservice
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public static IConfigurationRoot Configuration {get; set;}

        public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
        {
            // Set up configuration sources.
            var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
                .AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.json", optional: true)
                .AddEnvironmentVariables();
            Configuration = builder.Build();
        }

        // This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            // Add framework services.
            services.AddEntityFramework()
                .AddSqlServer()
                .AddDbContext<BookContext>(options =>
                    options.UseSqlServer(Configuration["Data:DefaultConnection:ConnectionString"])
                );

            services.AddMvc();
        }

        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
        {
            loggerFactory.AddConsole(Configuration.GetSection("Logging"));
            loggerFactory.AddDebug();

            // we need to execute the following two commands before

            //    dnu restore
            //    dnx ef migrations add Initial
            //    dnx ef database update

            // For more details on creating database during deployment see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=615859
            try
            {
                using (var serviceScope = app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<IServiceScopeFactory>()
                    .CreateScope())
                {
                    serviceScope.ServiceProvider.GetService<BookContext>()
                         .Database.Migrate();
                }
            }
            catch { }

            app.UseIISPlatformHandler();

            app.UseStaticFiles();

            app.UseMvc(routes =>
            {
                routes.MapRoute(
                    name: "default",
                    template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
            });

            SampleData.Initialize(app.ApplicationServices);
        }

        // Entry point for the application.
        public static void Main(string[] args) => WebApplication.Run<Startup>(args);
    }
}

I wrote in the comment inside of Configure method that one should execute the commands
dnx ef migrations add Initial
dnx ef database update

after all packages are restored. dnx ef migrations add Initial will create additional Migrations folder in the project with the files like 20160101205609_Initial.cs and BookContextModelSnapshot.cs. The database defined in appsettings.json will be created by dnx ef database update and it will be filled with test data from SampleData.cs during forking with the program.
By the way I moved package.json inside of the package folder (on the same level as project.json). You use the packages not, but the movement makes the npm packages visible and management in Visual Studio.


Acclaimed food editor and author Elettra Wiedemann launched cookbook, Impatient Foodie, in June. Yet, here I am, still a fan four months later! But here's the thing: Wiedemann has never been the type to slave for hours in the kitchen, no matter how extravagant the dinner party. After all, she built her name on the promise of fast and appetizing food in a time-starved world. So how did she approach her dinner party menu? I scoured her book to find out!
In a small pan, toast the hazelnuts over medium-high heat for about 3 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board, chop coarsely, and set aside.
In a food processor, combine the radishes, cream cheese, lemon zest, lemon juice, and 2 generous pinches of salt and process until smooth.
Transfer to a bowl and add the hazelnuts and blue cheese. Stir to combine and garnish with parsley, if desired. Serve with crudités.
Peel beets, and grate on the large teardrops of a box grater. If you don't want to stain your hands, hold the beets in a piece of paper towel as you grate them.
In a large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil over medium heat. Add the grated beets and a generous pinch of salt, and cook for about 4 minutes, stirring frequently until the beets have softened. Add 1/2 cup boiling water from the pot and continue to cook until the beets are very tender and the water has evaporated, about 5 minutes.
Transfer the cooked beets to a food processor with the remaining 1/4 cup olive oil, and purée until smooth. Add the ricotta and 1 heaping teaspoon of salt. Pulse to combine. Set aside.
Add the spaghetti to the pot of boiling water and cook according to package directions.
Reserving 1 cup of the pasta cooking water, drain the spaghetti and return to the pot. Quickly add the beet-ricotta mixture, and stir to combine. If the sauce is too thick, add some of the reserved hot pasta water.
Top with the basil, Parmigiano, and a pinch of lemon zest and serve immediately.
"Watermelon is not often served in savory dishes, but this salad really works and is perfect on a hot summer's day," says Wiedemann.
Meanwhile, in a large salad bowl, whisk together the olive oil, lime juice, and salt and pepper to taste.
When the farro is done cooking and slightly cooled, add it to the salad bowl and gently toss with the vinaigrette.
Add the red onion, cucumber, and arugula and toss gently to combine with the farro.
Top with the watermelon and feta. Drizzle with balsamic glaze and serve.
"If you've always thought of ice cream cakes as the territory of professionals with lots of patience, this brownie ice cream cake will change your mind," says Wiedemann.
Preheat the oven according to the brownie package directions. Line the bottom of a 12-by-17-inch rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Butter the parchment paper and the sides of the pan.
Make the brownie batter according to the package directions. Spread the batter onto the baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, remove the ice cream from the freezer and place in the fridge to soften.
Cool the brownies to room temperature. Cut the brownies into three 9-by-5-inch rectangles (use the bottom of the loaf pan as a guide).
Line all sides of a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with plastic wrap, ensuring that there is excess wrap hanging over the sides. This will be used to layer the cake.
Layer the cake in the prepared pan in the following order: a layer of brownie, a layer of strawberry ice cream using half the ice cream, a thin layer of strawberry jam, a layer of vanilla ice cream using all the ice cream, a layer of strawberry jam, the last brownie, and a layer of the remaining strawberry ice cream. Wrap the ends of the plastic wrap over the top of the plastic wrap over the top of the loaf pan and gently push down on the cake to pack the layers tightly. Freeze for a minimum of 3 hours, or overnight.
To serve, place a plate upside down on top of the loaf pan and flip over to remove the cake, gently pulling on the plastic wrap to help.
Coat the entire cake in a thick layer of Cool Whip, spreading evenly with a spatula. Decorate with fresh raspberries and blueberries and enjoy!
Looking for more recipes for a time-starved world? Flip through Elettra Wiedemann's cookbook, Impatient Foodie! All photos courtesy of Wiedemann's website.


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On November 1, 2018, at Randburg Magistrate's Court, an inquest begins in South Africa. The suspects are of course not available — they are Kagame killing squads that have murdered exiled Rwandans in foreign countries since the 1990s. The mentioning of the case will take place at the Randburg Magistrate's Court, followed by scheduling and postponement possibly to January 2019. This postponement is to enable other interested parties get access to the files. In January 2019, the court will listen to witnesses and if all goes as expected, indictments would soon follow. Kagame will certainly be up in arms seeking to contain the damage. Try as he will, however, he will not succeed in intimidating South Africa's judicial process. Justice will be rendered.


But the large ruins of Lesnes Abbey are in Abbey Wood, South-East London, which has almost nothing else to offer, nor really all that much around it either, so unless you are minded to make a special pilgrimage, this site of religious history goes unvisited.
It should get a lot more attention, as its less than 25 minutes from London Bridge station, and when the Elizabeth Line opens it'll be just 12 minutes from Canary Wharf.
The site is largely managed parkland which has been recently cleaned up, with the ruins and a few small display boards around the area.
A few children were ignoring the signs not to climb on the walls, which is forbidden mostly to stop heads splitting open when they fall off than for any historic preservation reasons.
Founded in 1178 by Richard de Luci, possibly in penance for his involvement in the death of Thomas Becket. The abbey managed via the Diocese of Rochester, was large, but never financially successful.
As Abbey's across the country grew in power and wealth, Lesnes Abbey was stuck with the costs of draining the local marshes and maintaining the river embankments.
Unable to support many Monks, it was one of the victims of Cardinal Wolsey's decision to close any Abbeys with fewer than 7 inmates in 1525. In 1534 most of the buildings were pulled down during Henry VIII's dissolution of the Monasteries and the land sold for farming.
In fact, it was still farm land until fairly recently, and only excavated in 1910, and late restored to its current state and opened to the public as part of the local park and woodlands.
More recently, a small visitor centre opened, with a "hatch in the wall" coffee shop and school room to rent. A refurbished "monks garden" sits on the site of the former farm.
Today it's a surprisingly quiet site. It really needs more display signs to show what is where and add more context to the history, as that alone might make it more likely to be recommended for a visit.
At the moment, it is a bit of a "lots of stone walls and umm, that's it", which is a pity as a ruined Abbey this large should be better known, and more often visited. Even if you are only casually curious, the size of the ruins are worth a visit in their own right.
The site is also home to a striking mulberry tree reputed to have been commissioned to be planted by King James I who wanted to set up his own English silk industry. However, silk moth caterpillars feed on the white mulberry whilst the King was sold black mulberry trees – so no silks for him.
The Abbey grounds are open all the time, while the cafe is open daily 10am-4pm/5pm depending on time of year. The site is about 5 minutes walk from Abbey Wood station.
Spring is a particularly good time to visit, for the woods are filled with bluebells.
I live very close to the Abbey and recommend the many woodland walks in the adjacent woods . Also,a wonderful display of daffodils precedes the bluebells in early Spring .
It looks fab. I too live not far away and will go. Thanks for the info!
I'm not one who lives close to the ruins and in fact I had never even heard of them until last night when I read this blog post. I decided to go there today and so my children and I took the train from Richmond to Abbey Wood. The ruins are a great sight and I was really pleased that we went!! Even my children (7 and 6 years old) were interested in its history and not only in running around. Walking in the woods afterwards was also great and we even took a bus to Elith nearby to admire the Thames, which at this point is very different (and larger) than what we're used to see in Richmond or even central London. Thank you for this post and the many others that help me to shape my family days out and I totally recommend visiting the ruins, I honestly never thought I'd see something like that within the Oyster boundaries!
There is also a fossil pit which children can dig and if they're lucky find a fossilised sharks tooth! The woods are also home to bats if you are about in the evening near the ponds and there are the occasional bat walks. Worth looking at the Lesnes Abbey Faceboook page to see if there's anything going on.
It does look fabulous at bluebell time! Haven't been for a few years but will make an effort in 2018!
And plenty of books as well.


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Home / Election 2012 / Election 2012 News / New voting rules could make it harder than ever to get Latinos to the polls
New voting rules could make it harder than ever to get Latinos to the polls
By: Lindsey Ruta and Annelise Russell, News21	August 27, 2012
Plácido Salazar was born in Edcouch, Texas, and joined the Air Force after high school, serving in the Vietnam War. He retired from Randolph Air Force Base after 20 years and now advocates for civil rights for veterans, highlighting issues such as Agent Orange and the Texas Voter ID Bill. (News21 photo by Lizzie Chen)
Every month for the next two decades, 50,000 Latinos will turn 18 years old. With that many new eligible voters, and dramatic population growth expected, Latinos could dominate voting in the Southwest, particularly Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
But while the more than 600,000 new eligible voters a year could make them a potent voting force, Latinos have a historically low turnout at the polls: Only around 30 percent of eligible Latinos vote, according to the non-profit, Washington, D.C.-based Pew Hispanic Center. Advocacy groups see the national push toward more stringent voter identification laws as a way to suppress an already apathetic Latino vote.
Of the nation's 21.3 million eligible Latino voters, only 6.6 million voted in the 2010 elections, according to Pew. White and black voters had higher turnout – 48.6 percent and 44 percent, respectively, compared to 30.9 percent for Latinos.
"We haven't been able to engage the community to really participate in the democratic process," said Carlos Duarte of the Phoenix-based non-partisan voter education organization, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund. "To be focusing our energy on trying to generate another obstacle for the people to participate, I think is completely misguided."
Duarte, Texas director of Mi Familia Vota, which also has branches in Arizona, Colorado and Nevada, said legislators should instead encourage Latinos to vote.
Despite the low turnout of recent elections, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials predicts record voting by Latinos in November – more than 12.2 million voters. That would be a 26 percent increase in turnout from the 2008 election.
Evan Bacalao is senior director of civic engagement for the Los Angeles-basedNALEO, which represents more than 6,000 elected and appointed Latino officials. He said the group's projections are typically conservative. NALEO uses the Census and Latino voter turnout in previous elections to forecast November turnout.
NALEO still is concerned about confusion over new ID legislation, Bacalao said. It is focusing on voter education so that Latinos are not discouraged from voting because they are misinformed about what documents they need, he said.
'Solution in search of a problem'
Of the eight states with the largest Latino populations, four – Texas, Florida, Arizona and Colorado – have some form of voter ID law, according to the NationalConference of State Legislatures. The Texas photo ID law is awaiting a U.S. District Court decision.
Florida voters must show a photo ID that includes their signature, a student ID card for example. Arizona voters may show a photo ID or two non-photo forms of identification. Colorado voters must show ID, but that could include a bank statement, utility bill, paycheck or some similar form.
The other four states with large Latino populations do not require ID but three, New York, Illinois and New Jersey, have ID bills pending in their legislatures. California has no ID requirement and no bill pending.
With the exception of Rhode Island, voter ID legislation has passed by a party-line vote – Republicans for, Democrats against, said Richard Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Supporters say photo ID laws will reduce voter fraud, but Texas Democratic Rep. Trey Martinez Fisher calls the legislation "a solution in search of a problem."
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott cited 50 voter fraud convictions since 2002 as justification for the strict photo ID law that passed in March 2011. Texas has more than 13 million registered voters. The majority of its voter fraud cases involved mail-in ballots, according to state records reviewed by News21. Only one case resulted in a guilty plea to in-person voter impersonation, the type of alleged fraud a photo ID is supposed to prevent.
Other Southwestern states report little to no voter fraud.
New Mexico, which does not require photo ID, has never convicted a voter of fraud, said Lyn Payne, records custodian for the state attorney general's office.
Arizona, which has a strict, non-photo ID requirement to vote , has had seven voter fraud convictions since 2000 but none for voter impersonation at the polls, according to state records reviewed by News21.
Colorado, which has a less strict, non-photo voter ID requirement, has had 21 convictions for voter fraud since 2000. Three were for voter impersonation, according to state records reviewed by News21. It is not clear whether the voter impersonation was by mail or in person.
Most Southwestern states opt out
Despite increasing legislative action on photo ID bills nationally, the majority of Southwestern states do not have such laws.
Photo ID laws have been proposed in the Colorado Legislature in each of the last eight years. The New Mexico Legislature has considered such laws for the last four years.
Latinos make up 13 percent of eligible Colorado voters. In April, Democratic legislators defeated in committee a bill that would have let Colorado voters decide on a photo ID law at referendum in November. The Denver Post reported that the bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Shawn Mitchell, has said he may ask citizens to petition the issue to a future ballot.
New Mexico legislators struck down three photo ID proposals this year alone. The state has the highest concentration of Latino residents in the country and 38 percent of eligible voters are Latino, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
A significant turnout by Latinos in Colorado and New Mexico could affect the electoral vote in November. President Barack Obama in 2008 won Colorado, a state that had voted Republican in eight of the last nine presidential elections. New Mexico has leaned Democratic in recent years.
Latino voters accounted for 31.6 percent of the 2010 election turnout in New Mexico. In Colorado, 7.9 percent of the 2010 vote was Latino.
Arizona requires voters to show proof of citizenship when registering with a state form. A federal court struck down the portion of Arizona law that required citizenship proof when registering with a federal form. The Arizona secretary of state's office website directs voters to prove citizenship, but does not inform them that they can register by using federal forms.
Arizona Solicitor General David Cole said the state plans to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tammy Patrick, a federal compliance officer at the Maricopa County Recorder's office, said if a voter tries to register without proof of citizenship, an election officer is not obligated to tell them of the federal form option. However, if a voter asks specifically for that form, the officer is required to provide it.
An unnecessary action
Civil rights groups cite the handful of fraud convictions as evidence that ID laws are unnecessary and could disenfranchise eligible voters.
"These measures are usually reported to be justified by fraud but in fact voter fraud – it has been demonstrated time and time again – is frankly minuscule in proportion to the number of folks that vote," said Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
MALDEF, a national Latino civil rights organization headquartered in Los Angeles, has strongly opposed ID laws and has filed legal challenges to voting rights laws in Arizona, Colorado, California, and New Mexico – most recently against the Texas photo ID law, which was argued before a three-judge U.S. District Court panel in Washington, D.C., in July.
Saenz said voter fraud pales in comparison to the number of voters who would be disenfranchised by ID laws. Estimates of the number of voters who lack ID under the new Texas law has ranged from the state's 167,724 to the U.S. Department of Justice's 1.5 million.
Despite opponents' claims that voter fraud is rare, supporters of ID laws maintain that it threatens fair elections.
"It's something that we hold very dear as a fundamental right in our country and in our state – the sanctity of our elections, that we have full and open, honest access elections to protect that right," said Chris Elam, communications director and deputy executive director for the Texas Republican Party. "And we as Republicans feel that it needs to be protected and to make sure that we can do so."
Potential Latino political muscle
The push for ID laws comes at a time of dramatic growth in the Latino population.
There are about 50.5 million Latino U.S. citizens – native-born and naturalized – and the Census projects that number will more than double to 132.8 million by July 2050.
Latino political muscle first drew attention in the 2008 presidential election when 9.7 million Latinos voted – 2 million more than in 2004, according to the Census. And their potential is even greater.
Voting rights activists are focused on Texas, where Latinos accounted for 63.1 percent of all population growth between 2000 and 2009, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based, non-partisan progressive think tank.
One in five registered Texas voters is Latino, according to the 2010 Census. The Center for American Progress estimates that nearly 2.15 million eligible Texas Latinos are not registered to vote. An additional 880,000 Texas legal residents are eligible to naturalize, and therefore vote, according to Department of Homeland Security estimates.
That exceeds the 950,695 votes by which Sen. John McCain beat Barack Obama in Texas in the 2008 presidential elections. Despite population growth and increased participation in 2008, Latinos did not make themselves a force at the polls.
Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a non-partisan Latino voter participation organization based in San Antonio, said the Southwest is not a voting culture. There are fewer independent organizations – unions, for example – to engage and educate the electorate, compared to other parts of the nation, Gonzalez said.
"It's sad enough that Latinos don't vote, now you're gonna cut that group in half," said Austin, Texas, resident Rachael Torres of the state's new strict photo ID law. "There's no reason for that." If people have legally registered, that should be enough, said Torres, a registered voter herself.
Latino voters don't think their votes count so they don't see the vote as a right they must exercise, Torres said. She encourages other Latinos to vote, calling the ID law another "scare tactic" to discourage them.
Costly and time-consuming
Photo ID laws deter voters for several reasons, Saenz said. Some people do not have documents that prove their identity – they were born before it was common to issue birth certificates or they were born in rural areas where they might never have received the documents. Others might be deterred by the time and resources required to get the documents, Saenz said.
The Texas voter ID bill, SB-14, is one of the strictest photo ID laws. The Justice Department denied approval on the grounds that Texas violated Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act because of the disproportionate impact the law would have on minorities and the poor.
Democratic state legislators and civil rights groups such as MALDEF question the intent of the ID law, citing the lack of state studies to determine the potential impact on minorities, and the racially motivated rhetoric behind the bill in a state with the nation's second-largest Latino population.
At the federal court hearings in July, several state lawmakers testified about reasons Republicans gave for the ID law – hotly debated in the Texas Legislature since 2005. Democratic state Rep. Martinez Fischer described the debate as "goal posts that kept moving" – justification ranged from stopping illegal immigrants from voting to preventing voter fraud and maintaining election integrity, he said of the floor debate.
Despite allegations of discriminatory intent, Republican lawmakers and supporters of the bill maintain it was designed to strengthen Texans' confidence in the voting process.
Defending the law, protecting the vote
"The purpose of SB-14 was to prevent in-person voter fraud," said state Sen. Tommy Williams, one of several Republican legislators called by Texas to testify.
Williams said he supported the bill because he thinks that voter impersonation occurs more than the numbers indicate. He testified that someone voted under his grandfather's name until 1994 – 60 years after he died.
Republican state Sen. Jose Aliseda echoed Williams' assertion that the bill was not intended to disenfranchise minorities.
"The public expected us to pass the legislation," said Aliseda, who testified that his constituents supported an ID law. Whether or not it curbs voter fraud, he said, what was most important was that Texans wanted it.
Del Valle, Texas, resident Juan Rosa said the ID law is a valuable safeguard. Rosa, who is from El Salvador, became a citizen in 2002 and has voted since then, he said. Latinos will have an impact in politics, he said, but first they need to vote. "We can't actually raise up our voice if we don't vote," Rosa said.
But the Texas Democratic Party has called the ID law an attempt to disenfranchise a community that has the potential to change politics in a state in Republican hands for 30 years. Sixty-five percent of Latino voters said they would back Democrats in the 2010 election, according to the Pew Hispanic Center; 22 percent said they would vote Republican.
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, which opposes strict photo-ID laws, reported that 6.3 percent of Latino voters in Texas lack the correct form of ID, compared to 4.3 percent of non-Latinos.
Until the photo ID law passed in 2011, Texans could vote by showing a variety of IDs, ranging from their voter registration card to a utility bill showing their name and address.
Under SB-14, voters would be required to show photo ID such as a U.S. passport, a driver's license, military ID, a citizenship certificate with photo, an election identification certificate or a license to carry a concealed handgun.
Opponents also cite the burden placed on Texas residents to obtain the documents to acquire a government-issued photo ID.
Under the new law, the Texas Department of Public Safety would offer free photo IDs to registered voters who lack a valid ID. Individuals still would be required to present a birth certificate, citizenship papers, or additional documentation to obtain a state ID – documents many do not have, said Denise Lieberman, a civil rights lawyer with theAdvancement Project, a Washington, D.C.-based policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice.
Unnecessary burden of 'fact of life'?
Lieberman and other opponents argue that low-income, Latino residents do not have the money to pay for documents such as a birth certificate, which costs $22 in Texas, and more if it is mailed to voters. Supporters disagree.
Williams, the Republican state senator, testified in the federal hearing that a birth certificate is a "fact of life" because it is necessary for so many things. So requiring someone to buy one to get an ID is not an undue financial burden, he said.
Voter ID legislation also has forced states to consider the efficiency and accessibility of offices that issue photo IDs.
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis and state Rep. Rafael Anchia, both Democrats, said their constituents – many of whom work hourly wage jobs and rely on public transportation – also would be affected by the cost and time-consuming process of obtaining ID.
Eighty-one of the 254 counties in Texas do not have a Department of Motor Vehicles office, meaning some living in West Texas' Fort Hancock would have to travel 50 miles west to El Paso or 66 miles east to Van Horn, Texas, where the office is only open Thursdays.
Despite his support for the voter ID law, Aliseda, the Republican state representative, acknowledged it would be a burden on his constituents, who mostly are rural farmers, to have to take a day off and drive 60 miles round trip to get an ID. Paying for the documents needed to obtain a free election ID card would also be a financial burden, he said.
Anchia opposes SB-14, but he does not oppose a future photo ID law as long as it balances access to voting with ballot-box security. He said the current Texas law does not strike that balance.
– News21 reporters Ana Lastra, Lizzie Chen, Khara Persad and Jack Fitzpatrick contributed to this article.
This is part of the News21 series on Voting Rights in America.
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I seldom read newspapers, much less their columnists. I read more a few blogs that I follow everyday, especially science blogs pertaining to climate science, then the facebook updates of my friends, including the news articles that they recommend. Then I read some of those articles or opinions.
The renewable energy (RE) racket "to save the planet" is still on-going. Mind you, they plan to steal from us around P9 billion (roughly US$ 207 million at current P43.3/$ exchange rate) every year for the next 20 years. It's not a new tax that will go to the government. Rather, it's an add-on cost that we energy consumers in the Philippines will have to pay extra to the already high electricity prices, to subsidize those expensive solar and wind farms.
Luckily, there are a few local newspaper columnists who have written about the RE racket. Like FEF Fellows Romy Bernardo of BusinessWorld, and Boo Chanco of the Philippine Star.
So why subsidize these fashionable RE technologies now? Why can't we just wait for the more technologically advanced and financially capable developed countries to shepherd these technologies along until no subsidy will be required? Ironically, these developed countries are cutting back on their RE subsidies lately, notably in Europe.
Today, Boo wrote again on the RE subsidy racket.
… Indeed, solar is still a technology undergoing development. Eventually, it should be commercially viable or competitive with conventional energy. Right now, the only way to make it viable is to subsidize it. It is the same thing with wind. They call that subsidy feed-in-tariff (FiT), a fancy term for the amount they want to add to our electricity bills supposedly to encourage more use of this type of renewable energy.
Some local economists have raised an alarm about going overboard on this FiT in our mindless haste to be seen as fashionably earth loving. The manufacturers of solar and wind energy equipment have successfully lobbied Congress into passing a law that mandates the granting of this subsidy. It also mandates the inclusion of RE into our electricity mix. Because our legislators were only after PR mileage to be seen as being ecologically correct, the law gave no regard to cost implications for our consumers and our industries.
Bernardo is correct. Even the RE developers acknowledge that today's RE prices are expected to come down. One executive working on the solar initiatives of a local conglomerate told their stockholders meeting just this week that it will take three to five years to reach grid parity based on global studies.
The solar industry is growing so fast, he said, and economies of scale are kicking in. "In the Philippines, projection is by 2015 to 2017, we should reach grid parity." So why not wait? And why give them subsidy for 20 years when the technology is at grid parity in five? The initial price setting should only be made applicable for the next three or five years. After that, we should review again.
Even if we end up with less RE because we have been too cautious, it would be worse to err on the side of paying too much, locking in the mistake for 20 long years. We already have, in any case, at 34 percent, more RE capacity installed as a percentage of total electricity generated than the US and most European countries. We can afford to wait for the technologies to mature and come down in price.
The Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF), a public advocacy group espousing market-oriented reform for good governance, has taken the position that "Renewable Energy subsidies must be transparent, limited and technology neutral." The FEF believes the Feed-in-Tariffs to be issued by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) must provide for an absolute peso cap on the total amount of subsidies that the public will be made to bear, capped both on an annual basis and for the life of the project.
The FEF also wants to make sure that the amount of public subsidy for RE projects should be explicitly disclosed and shown to be commensurate to the social benefit that the public is expected to derive from this program. The outlay should be transparently evaluated based on "value for money" to the public.
The FEF economists also think we should buy the cheapest RE available before we buy the more expensive technology. They point out that based on the numbers of the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), it appears that we can subsidize 11 kwh of hydro for the same amount needed to subsidize 1 kwh of solar. The subsidy equivalent for biomass is 6 kwh for 1 kwh of solar.
This is not to say that technologies such as Solar Photo Voltaic have no place in our energy mix at this time. The FEF paper admits solar may be the best, or the only substitute, in some areas, for expensive diesel-fired plants serving off-grid customers.
When solar or wind are used to augment off-grid diesel installations, the avoided costs (or the cost of diesel fuel that would have been used) and the avoided emissions are higher, so the required incremental subsidy is less. And no additional reserves or transmission facilities that add to our power costs are needed. In fact, solar technology is already used in a significant number of rural electrification projects all over the country….


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The city of San Juan Capistrano is located in the center of Southern California, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego and all of Southern California's major attractions. Situated in the lush Capistrano Valley and minutes from the Pacific Ocean, San Juan Capistrano was created around Mission San Juan Capistrano. It is home to the widest variety of homes in Orange County, with upscale and gated communities, working ranches in its foothills, and homes built prior to 1900 in its central district, including adobes from the 18th century. A fully developed city of approximately 36,078 residents, San Juan Capistrano features a variety of land uses providing recreation, housing, jobs, shopping and services. Nearly 40% of the city is open space and parkland, and the city prides itself on effectively maintaining its naturally spacious setting by acquiring land to preserve its defining ridgelines, hillsides and trails. This rural farming and ranching community has been a cultural center, filled with historic sites, and is home to the Swallows of Capistrano. One of the oldest residential streets in California, with it's adobe's and European structures, is Los Rios Street, a favorite spot for locals and visitors lined with shops, galleries and restaurants, which help maintain its small town charm and preserve the city's rich history. San Juan Capistrano Real Estate.
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On Dec. 19, President Trump made a surprise announcement that ISIS had been defeated and that U.S. troops would return home from Syria "as soon as possible." The fallout from the announcement was far-reaching – it led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis and intense political drama. However, the inflammatory nature of the remarks and the continuing controversy surrounding the Trump administration threatens to obscure the complex geopolitical consequences of our withdrawal. Without American troops to shield them from potential Turkish aggression, the fate of our allies in the fragile Kurdish state hangs in the balance. It is our duty to protect those who have fought and sacrificed alongside us, and if Trump's administration continues with the withdrawal plan, it must recognize this.
The history of the Kurds is one of oppression, marginalization and struggle. The largest ethnic group in the world without their own state, the Kurds are native to the central Middle East and form minorities in countries like Syria, Iraq and Turkey. The Kurds are unique in a region seemingly packed with Islamist warlords and brutal dictators for their commitment to democracy and secularism. The Kurdish state, called Rojava, formed out of the Syrian civil war. Independent in all but name, Rojava is a decentralized democratic entity governed according to a form of libertarian socialism that guarantees gender equality and pluralism. This is all the more reason for the United States to protect the Kurds.
The crux of the conflict threatening to engulf Rojava, should the US military teams embedded in the Kurdish militias return home, stems from the threat of Turkey. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has unfounded concerns that the Kurdish People's Protection Groups (YPG) of Rojava will launch attacks against Turkey in support of their fellow Kurds across the border. Turkey's posturing masks their true fear; that a Kurdish state in Syria will motivate the long-oppressed Turkish Kurds to agitate for greater autonomy, or worse, an independent country of their own. Erdogan sees the very existence of Rojava to be a threat to Turkey's territorial integrity.
The fact remains that Turkey is the belligerent in this situation by waging a decades-long war and imposing what is tantamount to cultural genocide on its Kurdish citizens. It wouldn't be a leap to assume that the Kurds would be angered by Erdogan's increasingly autocratic government. President Erdogan has already announced that the Turkish military, which has been making small incursions to strike at Kurds in Syria for years, would begin a large-scale operation against the Rojava militias in Northeast Syria. A phone call with President Trump led him to delay the operation for "a few months." There is no doubt that Turkey will use the departure of the U.S. military as an opportunity to attack our Kurdish allies and crush their nascent democracy.
It is, therefore, imperative that President Trump and our partners in Syria take steps to prevent Turkish aggression and protect the Kurds of Rojava from the same fate as their brethren in Turkey, who have been subjected to generations of oppression and state-sponsored terrorism. It is as much a pragmatic as it is an ideological necessity. In Syria, the Kurds are one of the few groups that has consistently fought and defeated ISIS and other Islamist militants without succumbing to extremism themselves. Trump should make it clear to our Turkish "allies" that attacks against the Kurds in Syria will not be tolerated, on penalty of economic sanctions against key Turkish officials and corporations, or by applying diplomatic pressure in the United Nations.
Though it is unlikely with President Trump's newly isolationist policy towards the Syrian conflict, keeping US Special Forces embedded in Kurdish militias would also serve as an effective deterrent. Encouraging talks between the Kurds and the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad for mutual protection and assistance might be another path moving forward.
As the United States puts in more concrete plans to withdraw from Syria, it is important we continue to protect our local partners and those who have fought with us. We cannot simply desert the Kurds because our priorities have shifted. America has a long history of hanging regional allies out to dry once their assistance is no longer necessary. If we persist in this trend in Syria, we abandon the Kurds of Rojava to instability, war and death.
Timothy Kyle, FCRH '21, is a political science major from West Hartford, Connecticut.


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use ReflectionProperty;
use Go\Aop\Intercept\FieldAccess;
use Go\Aop\Intercept\FieldInterceptor;

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        self::WRITE => 'set'
    );

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    protected $reflectionProperty = null;

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    protected $newValue = null;

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     * @param string $fieldName Field name
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     * @param mixed $newValue New value to set
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Use the single click button (Figure 1 and Figure 2) to avoid multiple postbacks to the server. This feature is useful in scenarios where the developer wants to prevent the user from submitting identical content multiple times to the server (e.g., when editing a database or sending an e-mail).
Figure 1: RadImageButton with SingleClick functionality before click.
Figure 2: RadImageButton with SingleClick functionality after click.
SingleClick - determines whether the RadImageButton control will be immediately disabled after the user clicks it. Set it to true to enable the single click functionality.
SingleClickText - determines the text displayed in the RadImageButton control after the user has clicked the button and it is disabled while the server request executes. The original text will be retrieved after the server request execution. The property takes a plain text string.
Example 1: The code that enables the SingleClick functionality in RadImageButton from Figure 1 and Figure 2.
<telerik:RadImageButton ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" Text="Submit" OnClick="btnSubmit_Click"
The submitted text in processed on the server. Note that this example uses the System.Threading.Thread.Sleep method so that the disabled button can be examined after clicking it.


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Unter Hamburger Kapitänsmusiken versteht man Werke, die im Jahre 1719 und ab 1722 zum jährlich stattfindenden Hamburger Fest der Bürgerwache im 18. Jahrhundert aufgeführt wurden, bei dem die Bürgerkapitäne der Stadt geehrt werden. Die Musiken wurde unter anderem von Georg Philipp Telemann geschrieben. Viele dieser Werke sind verloren gegangen oder nur zum Teil erhalten.

Historischer Hintergrund
Als Teilstaat des Heiligen Römischen Reiches deutscher Nation geriet Hamburg in der Zeit der Türkenkriege in schwere Bedrängnis. Dichter und Musiker schrieben und komponierten darüber. Doch hauptsächlich sprach sich in den Dichtungen für die Kapitänsmusiken die Hoffnung auf baldigen Frieden aus. Der Hansestadt Hamburg als internationalem Handelsplatz war sehr an einer stabilen Welt und Wirtschaft gelegen.
Wenn ein Krieg ausbrach, wurde normalerweise auf die Bürgerwache zurückgegriffen, die von den so genannten Kapitänen angeführt wurde. Diesen oblagen nicht nur militärische Aufgaben, sondern auch kommunale Verpflichtungen wie z. B. die Aufsicht über alle Fremden, die in die Stadt kamen.

Inhalt und Aufbau

Die Kapitänsmusiken sind in ein geistliches Oratorio und eine weltliche Serenata eingeteilt. Das Oratorio wurde vor dem ausgedehnten Festmahl gespielt. Während des Essens und zum Übergang in die Abendstunden wurde die Serenata aufgeführt. Dabei wirkten nicht nur Berufsmusiker mit, sondern in den Ensembles musizierten auch einfache Bürger.

Das Oratorio und die Serenata beginnen jeweils mit einem Chor oder einem Choral, darauf folgen im Wechsel Rezitative und Arien. Das Ende wird von einem Schlusschoral oder Chor gebildet.
Der Inhalt der Kapitänsmusiktexte war von gewissen Grundgedanken geprägt. Zu diesen gehörten Themen wie die wehrhafte Stadt und die Herstellung des Friedens. Sonst wurde den Komponisten jedoch Freiraum für die Komposition gelassen. Oft wurden aktuelle Ereignisse behandelt wie z. B. die Türkenkriege.
Der Inhalt des Oratorio war geistlich geprägt. Gott wurde gelobt und das friedliche Zusammenleben der Bevölkerung geistlich untermauert.

Der Inhalt der Serenata war weltlich gehalten. Dazu zählten Themen wie die Elbe oder Krieg und Frieden, die oft in fiktiven musikalischen Dialogen von einem Kriegs- und einem Friedensgeist dargestellt wurden.
Die inhaltlichen Aspekte waren also trotz der prägenden Grundgedanken oft sehr unterschiedlich. Der formale äußerliche Aufbau war jedoch sehr ähnlich.

Die Kapitänsmusiken wurden im sogenannten Drillhaus, welches normalerweise für Exerzierübungen der Bürgerwache fungierte, am Holzdamm an der Binnenalster aufgeführt.

Komponisten
Die erste Kapitänsmusik wurde anlässlich des sogenannten Jubel-Mahles zum 100-jährigen Bestehen der Hamburger Bürgerwache im Jahre 1719 aufgeführt. Der Komponist war Matthias Christoph Wiedeburg nach Texten von Michael Richey.

Telemann komponierte ab 1722 44 Kapitänsmusiken, von denen noch 9 vollständig und 3 in Teilen erhalten sind.

Während das Fest unter Telemann noch nahezu jährlich begangen wurde, fielen in die Amtszeit
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs lediglich fünf Zusammenkünfte, wobei nur 1780 und 1783 traditionelle Kapitänsmusiken aufgeführt wurden; 1772, 1775 und 1788 erklang lediglich Instrumentalmusik.

Quellen
 Willi Maertens: Georg Philipp Telemanns sogenannte Hamburgische Kapitänsmusiken (1723–1765). (= Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte, Bd. 21), Florian Noetzel, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1988, ISBN 3-7959-0520-6.
 Bert Siegmund: Georg Philipp Telemann, Kapitänsmusik von 1724. Booklet zur CD cpo 777 176-2.
 Eckart Kleßmann: Zu Telemanns Kapitänsmusik von 1738. Booklet zur CD cpo 777 386-2.
 Veronika Greuel: Telemann, ein Multitalent in Hamburg. Booklet zur CD cpo 777 390-2.
 Willi Maertens: Georg Philipp Telemann, Oratorio und Serenata der Kapitänsmusik 1755. Booklet zur CD cpo 999 211-2.

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Who Knew Caterpillars (& Other Little Beasties) Were Such Stunners!
Whatever you may think of PETA, this is a genius move IMHO. By honoring Naruto, the crested black macaque with a famously goofy grin, as "Person of the Year" the organisation is emphasising that "he is someone, not something". And what a person he is! I only wish he were able to revel in this accolade – though as long as he is safe and happy…. Go Naruto!
The 2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards finalists have been announced, and this year's crop doesn't disappoint in the humor department with hilarious expressions, amusing antics and even a little fun with perspective.
While you may laugh out loud (or at least crack a grin), keep in mind the contest has a serious goal: highlighting wildlife conservation efforts.
This year, more than 3,500 entries from 86 countries were submitted to the contest, which was started by photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam.
From 40 finalists, the category and overall winners will be announced Dec. 14. The overall winner gets a week-long, all-expense-paid, photographer-led safari in Kenya.
Joynson-Hicks and Sullam recently released a new book of some of the funniest photos (the "best of the best," they say) to come through the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Some of the proceeds go to the Born Free Foundation, a wildlife conservation charity.
Take a look at more of our favorite finalists, including the fed-up mother owl above who has had it with her little ones.
He needed to get a better view — or maybe he really likes crowd-surfing.
Redditors would have a field day with this elephant seal photo as a meme.
It looks like this giraffe is peering into the plane as it comes in for a landing. Maybe this airport employs wildlife as part of the security team.
These two monkeys in Indonesia are making a getaway on a borrowed motorcycle.
This sea otter is living his best life and loving it. We should all be so lucky.
How in heaven's name did that wildebeest get up there – insane!


The Pittsburgh Panthers and Steelers both caught a bad case of the penalty bug over the weekend, with the former racking up 14 penalties for 116 yards in a blowout 51-6 loss to Penn State on Saturday and the latter getting flagged 12 times for 116 yards in an ugly 21-21 tie with the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
Coincidentally enough, such a game has happened before in NFL history — and the last time was just down the street at former Forbes Field on Nov. 10, 1940. Like Saturday's "Keystone Clash," this affair featured two in-state rivals duking it out in rainy conditions.
More than 70 years have gone by since the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Philadelphia Eagles 7-3 in the league's last flagless game.
These two Pennsylvania teams entered the contest as two of the worst in the young NFL. Philadelphia sat winless at the bottom of the five-team Eastern Division standings, with Pittsburgh perched just above at a record of 1-6-2. The Eagles set a still-standing NFL record that year for the fewest rushing yards in a season, finishing with just 298.
Only 9,556 fans — including 3,000 children who were admitted for free — watched from the stands as these two bottom-of-the-barrel foes waged a battle of attrition in the Forbes Field sludge. The Eagles scored first, on a play that represents just how far the NFL today has come from the game back then, when left tackle and placekicker George Somers converted a 36-yard field goal attempt.
Maybe the 2018 Steelers would have garnered the same success sending left tackle Alejandro Villanueva to kick the game-winning field goal attempt versus the Browns on Sunday, instead of kicker Chris Boswell.
But back to 1940 — the two teams sloshed around and accomplished essentially nothing for the next two quarters, until the journeyman McDonough and the Steelers' offense finally put together a third-quarter scoring drive best-phrased by former Post-Gazette sportswriter Jack Sell.
"Like gridiron heroes in the movies, McDonough suddenly shed his obscurity as a lowly third-stringer and crashed the headlines as he featured a brilliant 55-yard parade to the winning touchdown," Sell wrote.
Aside from head referee William Halloran's reluctance to throw a single flag, this 1940 contest would have been quite unremarkable. There was nothing significant at stake, except perhaps a chance to clinch second to last place in the division. The Steelers attempted five passes and competed only one, while the Eagles rushed for an abysmal 70 yards.
Maybe Halloran realized early on that this would be his one chance to achieve fame and notoriety. It's possible — he officiated one of the only three other no-penalty NFL games in 1936, but a different reffing crew accomplished the feat again in 1938, so the pressure was on to one-up them and become the last to do it.
It's also possible that Halloran suffered some injury that prohibited him from moving his arm in a throwing motion to issue the flags — or maybe the two teams truly put on the most recent display of pure, clean football, played within the confines of the rulebook. We'll never know for sure, but as the years go on and new penalties are concocted, the legacy of this Forbes Field phenomenon will only continue to grow.
Just the day before, and appearing on the same 1940 page of the Post-Gazette, the Pitt Panthers took on Carnegie Tech. Although the 6-0 Panther victory was similarly ugly and low-scoring, it fell on the complete opposite end of the penalty spectrum.
"The number of penalties in the game … must be close to a local record, and there were field generals in the press box who thought that another series or so was overlooked by the officials who probably failed to see them out of sheer exhaustion," the Post-Gazette wrote.
The Panthers were flagged 12 times, so apparently not all referees back then were as negligent as Halloran. This also goes to show that penalty issues are nothing new for Pitt football, and the football team at Carnegie Tech — now known as Carnegie Mellon — might not be as big of a pushover as some believe.


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DM i ishockey for kvinder 2017-18 var turneringen om det 28. DM i ishockey for kvinder. Turneringen havde deltagelse af seks hold, der først spillede en indledende runde i to regionalt opdelte puljer, hvorfra alle seks hold gik videre til DM-kvalifikationen, hvor der blev spillet om de to pladser i DM-finalen, der afgjordes som en serie bedst af tre kampe.

Mesterskabet blev vundet af Hvidovre Ishockey Klub, som i finalen besejrede Herlev Hornets med 2-0 i kampe, og som dermed vandt DM-titlen for fjerde sæson i træk og sjette gang i alt. Bronzemedaljerne gik til Silkeborg Skøjteløberforening af 1896, der vandt DM-medaljer for kvinder for første gang nogensinde.

Stillinger og resultater

Indledende runde

Øst

Klubberne øst for Storebælt spillede om to pladser i DM-kvalifikationen. Turneringen havde deltagelse af to hold, der spillede en firedobbelt-turnering alle-mod-alle, hvilket gav fire kampe til hvert hold.

Vest

Klubberne vest for Storebælt spillede om fire pladser i DM-kvalifikationen. Turneringen havde deltagelse af fire hold, der spillede en firedobbelt-turnering alle-mod-alle, hvilket gav 12 kampe til hvert hold.

DM-kvalifikation

DM-kvalifikationen havde deltagelse af de to bedste hold fra øst- og de fire bedste hold fra vest-gruppen. De seks hold spillede en enkeltturnering alle-mod-alle, og kampene blev afviklet i perioden 2. - 4. marts 2017 i Frihedens Idrætscenter i Hvidovre. De to bedste hold, Hvidovre IK og Herlev Hornets, gik videre til DM-finalerne, mens nr. 3, Silkeborg SF, vandt DM-bronzemedaljer.

Finale

De to bedst placerede hold i DM-kvalifikationen, Hvidovre IK og Herlev Hornets, spillede DM-finaler om fordelingen af guld- og sølvmedaljer i bedst af tre kampe.

Kilder / eksterne henvisninger
DIU Stats - Øst kvinder 2017-18
DIU Stats - Kvinder vest 2017-18
DIU Stats - DM-kval. kvinder 2017-18
DIU Stats - Kvindernes DM-finaler 2017-18

Noter

2017-18
Ishockey i 2017
Ishockey i 2018


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Doug Wolaver is a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer who has won the World Grand Championship in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration three times. His winning horses were Mack K's Handshaker in 1960, Triple Threat in 1965, and Go Boy's Sundust in 1967.

Life and career
Wolaver was born in 1947/48 to Myron and Jean Clark Wolaver. He grew up on his family's farm near Cornersville, Tennessee and was exposed to horses and mules from a young age, as the family farmed with mules. His first exposure to horse shows came as a child, when he showed ponies owned by other people. Wolaver later began training the ponies himself, and his father Myron "Pap" Wolaver ultimately gave him a young Tennessee Walking Horse filly named Miss Merry Allen. Wolaver and Miss Merry Allen competed in the 1956 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and won the Two-Year-Old Filly World Championship, starting Wolaver's career.
Wolaver and the horse Mack K's Handshaker won the World Grand Championship in the 1960 Celebration. Mack K's Handshaker, a black stallion, was owned by Wolaver and his father at the time of his win. Wolaver was also one of the youngest trainers to win the World Grand Championship at the time, being twenty-two years old. Wolaver won his second World Grand Championship in 1965 on Triple Threat, who was owned by Joe Wright at the time of the win.
The stake that year lasted almost a full hour and included 11 entries. Two years later Wolaver and Go Boy's Sundust won another World Grand Championship.

Wolaver and his wife Brenda live in Diana, Tennessee.

References

1940s births
Living people
People from Marshall County, Tennessee
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People from Pulaski, Tennessee


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Days of Revelation or Creation?
by Charles V. Taylor
Besides the 'day-age' and 'gap' theories, there's a theory held by some, that the six days of Genesis 1 were 'days' in which God revealed creation to the human race.
All three beliefs assume that something like evolution took place over billions of years. The 'day-age' theory sees a parallelism with Genesis 1, but ignores the time-frame (see Q&A: Creation Compromises—Progressive Creationism). The 'gap' theory accepts the time-frame but inserts either evolution or a reconstruction of the earth before or after Genesis 1:1 (see Q&A: Creation Compromises—Gap Theory). The 'revelation' theory accepts the time-frame but applies it to God's telling the story to Moses, and so allows evolution to occur independently of the narrative in Genesis.
I mention the other two views to bring to our notice that (a) all three views have developed since evolutionary gradualism became popular, and (b) the 'revelation' view is closer to the 'gap' theory than it is to the 'day-age' theory. It's also the most recent in development.
Like the 'gap' theory, it accepts standard Hebrew scholarship in insisting that Hebrew yom in this context can only mean an ordinary day—see Q&A: Genesis—How long were the days mentioned in the Biblical creation account? If long periods had been intended, a different word would have been used (and each day would not have had 'an evening and a morning') — see How long were the days of Genesis 1? What did God intend us to understand from the words He used?
The best-known exponent of the 'revelation' theory is Air-Commodore (and Assyriologist) P.J. Wiseman, as set out in his book Creation Revealed in Six Days.1 Bernard Ramm, however, said he believes in three theories: 'pictorial-day', moderate concordism, and progressive creationism, and express all this as 'pictorial-revelatory'.2 It's similar to Wiseman's theory, but he appears to hold to progressive creationism so as to retain creative acts at points along an otherwise evolutionary past (see Some questions for theistic evolutionists (and 'progressive creationists')).
Ramm also traces the pictorial aspect to J.H. Kurtz, some time before 1857.3 Kurtz called it a vision theory, though Wiseman objects to this label.4 Thus there are differences among the 'revelators', but the general idea is to shift the six days from the creation time-slot to that of telling the story.
Is there any Scriptural basis for believing that God was only revealing, not creating, on those six days? A natural reading surely excludes such a conclusion.
However, we must look at Wiseman's claim that Hebrew 'asah ('make') here means 'show' (though Ramm denies this5). Wiseman tries to apply this reading to the Hebrew in Genesis 2:2–3 and Exodus 20:1. He translates Hebrew mela'khto ('his work') in Genesis 2:2–3 as 'his business', suggesting it could apply to the telling of the story of creation, not to creation itself.6 This translation is very strained. Furthermore, nothing in Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon supports the interpretation of 'asah as 'show'.7
What seems to have happened is that Wiseman was unaware of idioms in King James English (which might be called Early Modern English). He claims correctly that 'asah is rendered 'show' in certain places. But we have to notice that (a) it is translated 'make' 653 times as against 43 for 'shew', and (b) all the 'shew' examples are archaic English uses with abstract nouns, translated into other languages as 'do' or 'make'.
Here's a summary of the nouns that go with 'shew' in King James English
KJV word with 'shew'
Number of occurrences
kindness 22
mercy 10
goodness, might, signs 2 each
faithfulness, love, salvation, terror, token, wonders 1 each
The least abstract of these are: signs, token, wonders. But all of these are translated elsewhere as 'do signs', etc.
The point is that 'asah does not mean 'reveal', though it can mean 'produce'. When used with a concrete noun like 'heavens' or 'earth' or 'man' it most definitely can only convey making, not telling or any verb of speaking.8
Thus the whole linguistic foundation of Wiseman's theory is untenable. No reputable scholar can be found to support it . Perhaps Wiseman was affected by the tendency to regard Genesis 1 as poetic. If this was so, let it be noted that the Hebrew scholar C.D. Ginsberg stated:
'there is in this chapter none of the peculiarities of Hebrew poetry.'9
S.R. Driver wrote:
'The narrative contains no indication of its being the revelation of a vision … it purports to describe not appearances but facts.'10
For a more detailed analysis, see Should Genesis be taken literally?
Perhaps it is appropriate to end with a statement from Wiseman himself:
'Although the writer of these pages has no doubt that the greater and more convincing revelation of God to man was made through Jesus Christ our Saviour and Lord, he has noticed that philosophers as well as thoughtful students in our universities are apt to go back, not only to Christ, but right back to the first page of the Bible in order to secure a sure foundation for their thinking and faith.'11
Wiseman apparently overlooked the need to honour the text of Scripture as highly in Genesis 1 as he did in the miraculous parts of the New Testament revelation of the life, death and resurrection of Christ. And Wiseman's denial of the historicity of Genesis actually undermines the basis of Jesus' death and resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:21–22).
Charles V. Taylor, MA., Ph.D., PGCE, LRAM, FIL., Cert. Th.
Dr Taylor has qualifications in languages, music and theology. He was for many years co-ordinator of applied linguistics courses at the University of Sydney, Australia.
P.J. Wiseman, Creation Revealed in Six Days, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, London, 1948, p. 144. Return to text.
B. Ramm, The Christian View of Science and Scripture, Paternoster Press, London, 1955, pp. 149–152. Return to text.
J.H. Kurtz, Bible and Astronomy, 3rd German edition, 1857. Return to text.
Ref. 1, pp. 27-28. Return to text.
Ref. 2, p. 153, citing F.F. Bruce's review of Wiseman in The Evangelical Quarterly, 20:302, October, 1948. Return to text.
Ref. 1, p. 123. Return to text.
See Gesenius, Hebrew and English Lexicon, 'asah. Return to text.
'Heavens' in creation narrative refers to sky, space or even universe, not God's dwelling-place (which isn't abstract anyway!). Return to text.
C.D. Ginsberg, a Christian Jew, lived from 1831 to 1914. He is quoted in Wiseman, Ref. 1, p. 28. Return to text.
S.R. Driver, Genesis, Vol. 1, 1893, p. 23. Return to text.
Ref. 1, p. 9. Return to text.


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Consumers spend an extra £1.4bn on grocery in March
By Iain Hoey on	 April 9, 2020 Business, News
An extra £1.4 billion was spent on food and drink in the four weeks to 22 March 2020, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest numbers from Kantar.
Households spend an average of £62.62 more on shopping over the four weeks. The uplift is the equivalent of an extra £21.08 spend per person, a rise of almost 22%.
Consumer spend was driven by several key categories, including red meat, which outperformed the total grocery market, strong growth in cheese and spreads, and fresh and frozen potato volumes up by 27% and 30% respectively.
The four days covering Monday 16 to Thursday 19 of March, the week in which social distancing was initially advised by the Government and ended with the closure of all pubs, restaurants and cafes, saw the sharpest uplift, with households making an extra 42 million shopping trips. The research from Kantar estimates suggest that the rise in grocery spend is to make up for the 503 million meals per week which occur out of home now taking place at home.
A three-week lockdown came into force on 23 March, the day after this data period, 4 weeks to March 22, ended. This immediately resulted in reduced footfall to stores but the extent to which this has impacted MFP sales will be seen in next month's data.
Meat, fish and poultry (MFP) grew ahead of the market, with spend up nearly 24%. The main uplift came during the final week of the data period (16-22 March) when social distancing came into force.
During the four weeks to 22 March, fresh meat made up the bulk of shoppers' MFP purchases, accounting for 77% of volume. Sales of fresh meat rose 20% in volume terms. Frozen and canned meat products grew by 31% and 73% respectively, indicating shoppers are stockpiling items with a longer shelf life.
For the beef category, shoppers bought more mince, with volumes up 45% over the four week period. All primary beef cuts experienced signficant increases in volume, with roasting up 51% and steaks up 20%. Burgers were also up 38%.
In contrast, steak shares have pared back as they are more often eaten out of home, which could have a negative long term effects in balancing the carcase.
Bacon and sausage volumes were up 22% and 33% respectively during the 4-week period. Sliced cooked meat volumes grew 10%. Primary pork volumes were also up 10%. Leg and shoulder joints actually experienced a loss of volume, however loin roasting and chops grew 52% and 36% respectively.
Lamb volumes were up 12% during the month, although this was the smallest uplift in sales out of the key proteins. Leg steaks, the most expensive cut on average, declined by 18% in volume. Mince volumes, the most affordable cut, rose 28% and roasting joints were also in strong growth, especially shoulder, which was up 19% in volume.
An additional £131m was spent on dairy products in March 2020 compared to March 2019. This is an increase of 17%, with increases seen across all major dairy categories.
Milk, which typically accounts for 32% of spend on dairy, saw a growth of 11% in spend and 9.2% in volume.
Cheese and spreads saw the greatest increase in sales, with cheese volumes up 25% and spreads up 30%. Yogurt saw the smallest increase, growing by 9% in volume.
Fresh potato sales in the latest 4 week period have exceeded even the usual peak seen at Christmas. In total, 130,321 tonnes were sold in the four weeks to 22 March, an increase of 26.6% compared to the same period last year, adding £17.9 million in spend. The majority of growth came from maincrop potatoes where volumes were up by a third on last year.
Sales of chilled potato products grew by almost a fifth compared to March last year, while volumes of frozen potato products sold increased by over 30%. With freezer space now at a premium, this peak is unlikely to be sustained.
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New Glasgow man sentenced to 18-months for sexual assault
SaltWire Network | Posted: May 9, 2014, midnight | Updated: Sept. 29, 2017, 11:58 p.m. | 2 Min Read
AMHERST – A 61-year-old New Glasgow man has been given an 18-month conditional sentence for a 2004 sexual assault in Amherst.
The names of the accused and the victim are protected by a publication ban. She was 21-years-old at the time of the assault and related to the accused.
The man will serve the first 12 months of his sentence under house arrest and is only allowed to leave his home for work or to attend medical appointments or counseling services as directed by his probation officer.
He will also be on probation for two years after his conditional sentence and will be placed on the sexual offender registry and must provide a DNA sample. He is prohibited from owning or possessing firearms for 10 years and cannot consume or possess alcoholic beverages during his conditional sentence and probation.
He must also completed 50 hours of community service work and pay a victim surcharge.
The man was found guilty during a recent jury trial in Amherst.
In rendering his sentencing decision, Justice Albert LeBlanc said the man and the victim were both at an Amherst residence for a weekend in October 2004.
The accused, who maintained his innocence throughout the trial, went into the bedroom where the victim was sleeping and touched her in a sexual manner.
The victim woke up, pushed him away and screamed for him to stop at which time the accused left the room.
While the Crown attorney pushed for a period of seven months in jail, the defence countered that he could lose his job and medical insurance coverage he uses to cover both his and his wife's expenses.
The defence also asked that his name not be included in the sexual offender registry, but LeBlanc said he has no discretion on the matter.
LeBlanc said he does not believe the accused is at risk to reoffend and presents no danger to the community.
However, he said, he is not taking what the accused did lightly.
"There's no doubt in my mind that what you did was crude. It leaves no marks or breaks, but leaves lasting damage and it takes a strong person to overcome that," LeBlanc said.
At the beginning of the sentencing phase, the victim read her victim impact statement saying the accused took away her freedom and violated her body to the point that she was disgusted with her own body.
She said she suffered panic and anxiety attacks and was afraid to be alone when her husband left home for work. It also affected how she parented her children.
However, thanks to her husband and supportive family and friends she has overcome what happened to her and told the court she will not let her attacker keep her down.


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The fool may be known by his deeds. Likewise, the wise one may be known by his deeds. Wisdom is manifested by one's deeds.
If we looked way from The Dharma, who is The Buddha apart from it? If we looked at both the same then who is The Buddha within the three jewels?
On the first sutra, I'd agree that the character of a man may more truly be known by his deeds than by his words.
On the second sutra, the teachings of the Buddha are the truest impression we have of his mind. It's not about a physical seeing. That's why it can be said that those who know the dharma also know the Buddha. And why a Buddha without the dharma would be an empty symbol of meditation.
The Buddha says "one who sees the Dhamma sees me and one who sees me sees the Dhamma," but I'd say this doesn't mean a buddha and the Dhamma are the same. Instead, a buddha embodies the Dhamma. There could be no buddha apart from the Dhamma, but there is always the Dhamma whether or not anyone embodies it.
The Blessed One is worthy and rightly self-awakened, consummate in clear knowing and conduct, well-gone, an expert with regard to the cosmos, unexcelled trainer of tamable people, teacher of beings human and divine, awakened, blessed.
The Dhamma is well expounded by the Blessed One, directly visible, immediate, inviting one to come and see, worthy of application, to be personally experienced by the wise.
To me the Buddha within the three jewels is the one who awakens to the Dhamma, realizes and embodies it, then guides others to realize and embody it themselves, the Sanga.


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Q: Are all pseudovectors in 3D cross products of vectors? I have been taught that all cross-products of two vectors in 3D are pseudovectors because they don't change direction under a parity transformation. But, are must all pseudovectors be cross products of vectors or can do pseudovectors that can't be written as cross products exist?

A: I hope this naïve handwaving could give an insight. Suppose we have a non-zero pseudovector $\mathbf p$ (else, $\mathbf0 = \mathbf0\times\mathbf0$, and $\mathbf0$ is both a vector and a pseudovector). Find a non-zero vector $\mathbf q$ orthogonal to it, and a non-zero vector $\mathbf r$ othogonal to both of them—it should be possible as the space is three-dimensional. Then $\mathbf q\times\mathbf r$ is a nonzero pseudovector orthogonal to both $\mathbf q,\mathbf r$, and it should lie on a line $\mathbf p$ spans. So there should exist a scalar $s$ such that $\mathbf p = s(\mathbf q\times\mathbf r)$, so then $s\mathbf q$ and $\mathbf r$ (or $\mathbf q$ and $s\mathbf r$ etc.) are desired vectors.
Note that possible sign changes don't affect orthogonality and value of $s$.

A: "can [do] pseudovectors that can't be written as cross products exist" needs clear definition.  If I have a pseudovector $\vec a$ I can complete an orthogonal triad with $\vec b$ and $\vec c$, then choose the lengths of $\vec b$ and $\vec c$ so $b \times \vec c=\vec a$.  I don't think that answers your question.  Another way to get a pseudovector is to multiply a vector by a pseudoscalar, but that just pushes the issue down the line.  Where do we get a pseudoscalar?  One way is by the triple product of three vectors, but that involves a cross product.  I can certainly define an object $\vec A$ to be a pseudovector and have certain components in a particular reference system.  Can that be written as a cross product by the process I described?

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