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Corzine (D) has apparently retaken the lead in the only new poll released in the last week; the poll is of questionable origins however:
2009 New Jersey Governor Neighborhood Research (R) 8/21/2009 37 35 28
I found the associated polling report at PolitickerNJ.com along with the relevant description excerpted below. I've admitted the likely voter result into our database, as outlined within our methodology.
Republican Christopher Christie leads Gov. Jon Corzine 39%-36% among definite voters, according to a poll conducted by Neighborhood Research, a survey firm run by conservative strategist Rick Shaftan. Independent Christopher Daggett is at 6%.
Among likely voters, Corzine leads Christie 37%-35%, with 6% for Daggett. [Emphasis added]
"If Corzine gets his liberal/urban/Democratic base together he's going to open up a significant lead, forcing Christie to work the right," Shaftan wrote in his analysis.
The poll was conducted between August 12-21 with a sample size of 319 and a margin of error of +/- 5.49%. The party breakout among respondents was 43% Democrat, 34% Republican, 23% unaffiliated.
Source: PolitickerNJ.com
There are some concerns about the sample size and the error that raise questions about the accuracy of this poll. For example, I highly doubt Christie has an approval rating of 20 favorable and 27 unfavorable; a very high rejection rate of over 50%. The most recent Quinnipiac University poll of New Jersey gave Christie a favorability of 42 and an unfavorable result of 26; a more reasonable rejection ratio of about 30%. The results of this Neighborhood Research (R) poll may in fact be accurate, but the noted anomalies are too numerous to warrant serious consideration.
Our projection remains unchanged due to the partisan affiliation of this newly inducted poll:
If this poll were to be included into our projection, both candidates would converge around 38% with a very slight advantage to Christie.
Virginia remained unchanged, polling wise. More in a week.


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Domingo Valdivieso y Henarejos (30 August 1830 – 22 November 1872) was a Spanish painter and engraver in the Academic style.

Biography
Valdivieso was born in Mazarrón, where his father was an officer in the Spanish Army. He began his education in his home town, but later moved to Murcia to pursue his secondary studies. While there, he displayed a notable talent for drawing, so his counselors advised him to pursue artistic studies as well. His first teacher was a local artist named Juan Albacete.  At eighteen, he moved to Madrid to work for the government, but also attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in his spare time.

By 1853, he had firmly decided on a career as a painter and quit his position. He also began to do lithography, providing illustrations for General Staff of the Spanish Army by  and History of the Royal Spanish Navy by José Ferrer de Couto and . In 1861, he received a grant from the Diputación de Murcia to complete his studies in Paris and Rome, where he came under the influence of Eduardo Rosales and the Nazarene movement.

From there, he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, winning medals in 1862, 1864 and 1866, the year he became a Professor of anatomical painting at the San Fernando Academy. In 1871, he was awarded another medal at the Exhibition.

His best-known works deal with religious subjects, although he also created historical scenes, portraits, mythological scenes and costumbrista works; depicting Italy and Murcia. The largest collection of his paintings is at the  (MUBAM).

He died in Madrid, aged only forty-two, from a cerebral inflammation.

References

Further reading
Juan Antonio López Delgado, Domingo Valdivieso, pintor, Author-editor, 2009

External links

 More works by Valdivieso @ the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.

1830 births
1872 deaths
19th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
Religious artists
Spanish engravers
Spanish illustrators
People from Mazarrón
19th-century Spanish male artists

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Last night's webinar was a lot of fun. For about an hour we talked about Pro Tools and some of the reasons I use it. I've got a replay for those of you who weren't able to make it.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro Price Philippines, Specs, Quick Review!
Just a Philippine price update for one of the smallest smartphones to don both a high-definition video camera and a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard.
Currently priced at only Php 11,700 in malls, Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro is easily one of the most sulit (offers great value for money) Android phones that you can get these days. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with its 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM and comes replete with a 3-inch LED back-lit screen, a 5 MegaPixel autofocus camera, 720p HD video recorder, Wifi-Bluetooth-3G connectivity options, and a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard making it an ideal phone for both left-brained 'touchers' and right-brained 'typers'.
1. It's easily one of the most solid phones I've held. One would imagine that having a slide mechanism would make the phone feel clunky, but it's not. On the contrary, it has a very durable feel to it.
2. The keyboard is a joy to use. There's generous space between the island-style keys making it borderline impossible to accidentally press two keys at the same time while typing.
3. Sony Ericsson's Four-Corners skin for Android makes the OS easier to navigate.
4. I think it's nice that SE bothered to put Bravia Engine on a midrange handset like Xperia Mini Pro. Bravia Engine is a display technology that automatically enhances the quality of photos and videos as we view them.
5. Xperia Mini Pro may be small don't make the mistake of underestimating what it's capable of delivering. This phone runs on a 1 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon chip and 512 MB of RAM! That's almost the same as what powers its more expensive brother, Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo.
6. One downside is the short battery life. Then again, that's a common problem with a number of Android phones out in the market.
7. Xperia Mini Pro may have the look of a business phone but it also has multimedia features that will have you drooling. Small as it is, it flaunts a 5 MegaPixel autofocus camera with LED flash and a high-definition 720p video recorder!
8. Sony Ericsson's TimeScape, which you can also find in the a lot more expensive Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, could very well be the sleekest social hub for the Android platform currently. It's something you have to experience to appreciate.


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2nd Junio 2010
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Jac sm Kee is the Women's Rights Programme Manager with the Association for Progressive Communications, and works on issues of sexuality, women's rights, violence against women and internet rights and freedoms.
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Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe is a professor for "Digital Media in Education" at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bremen. Her special field of research and teaching is application of Digital Media in schools as well as in university teaching, Computers and Society and Gender Questions in Computing Sciences. Interaction and interactivity are main concepts in her research and teaching, plus the constant efforts to create interesting and provocative gender aware knowledge environments. She initiated the virtual ifu (vifu) or the Virtual International Community of Women's Scholars project, which looked at the connections between the processes of content and technology production from a gendered perspective. Jac sm Kee speaks with this seminal thinker, educator and technologist about gendered dimensions of software, robots and creating transformative pedagogic environments.
Jac: To start with, could you tell me a little about your capacity, your areas of interest, and what you are working on right now?
Heidi: I finished a teacher's, as well as a computer science study program and did my PhD in computer science. I am a Professor of Digital Media in Education at the Computer Science Department at the University of Bremen, and head of a research group of about 15 people doing all research and teaching in the field. We are an interdisciplinary team: pedagogists, designers, sociologists and computer scientists. Our fields of research are developing software for educational contexts (children, university teaching, women especially, arranging learning environments and evaluation.
Jac: That sounds like a great team! How did you get interested in digital media and computer science in the first place? Is it a common area of study in your context?
Heidi: Yes, it is a common area. I teach classes of computer science students and digital media students in how design software for educational contexts (part of "application") and also teacher students in a basic understanding of digital media.
Jac: How is the educational environment there? Especially in terms of girls and women in the field of ICTs?
Heidi: In the programme called "digital media", we have one third of women. In computer science, about 18 percent. This is a rather high percentage for Germany. We achieve this level of participation because we have a couple of special programmes like "Girl's Day" and "Informatica Feminale" that attract girls. Also, maybe our high valuing of "application" and social responsibility inside the curriculum plays a role in attracting more women.
Jac: That's wonderful! I want to talk to you more about that later, in terms of creating a gender-aware pedagogic environment. But first, can you tell me what are the reasons for having these special programmes? What are the needs that it is trying to address?
Heidi: The special programmes are needed because often women and girls don't feel attracted to a technological culture. They feel that it is boring to sit in front of computers, and they don't feel welcome at technical faculties. So with the special programs, we want to give them the feeling that it is an interesting topic, and that they can feel welcome.
Jac: I see. In your opinion, especially since the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), has there been a growing emphasis by the State to connect ICTs with education?
Heidi: No. We had a high emphasis on information technologies for education during the last years. Now this is sometimes questioned, and some members of the public and also in the government think that one should turn more attention to traditional fields of education. WSIS didn't have any influence on the German discussion, I feel.
Jac: So what do you think? Is it an over-emphasis on the role of technology in society when it comes to education? Or more like a question of discourse around technology? In Malaysia, where I am from, there is a lot of talk about 'knowledge societies', 'e-societies' etc., but no real understanding on the social or human dimension of technology.
Heidi: The over-emphasis has been on matters of skills and on learning how to use technology in my opinion. Less attention has been given to the fact that the world, the conditions for growing up, the culture and all the communication structures have changed through and together with information technologies. We have to put more attention to that, also in the field of education.
Jac: Why is that?
Heidi: That's all the same in Germany! Education really means to understand it's own being in the world and to get an understanding of the changes and to find one's own place in it and to become empowered and able to participate in designing the own and the world's future. That's the crucial role also in understanding technology and its potentials
Jac: But you tend to find that now education is all about skills instead?
Heidi: Yes, too much! Skills are best gained when you have urgent needs and you really want to do something with technology or/and when you know that technology will open new possibilities for you to develop, to communicate, to understand. In our context we ask students to bring their own imagination, ideas and projects with them. Then we support them to find suitable technologies to realise their projects and we help them to gain the necessary skills.
Jac: I agree to your point about urgent needs. I find that that is usually one of the alienating factors for women or girls to be interested in technology, because there seem to be little relevance in the lives, perhaps related to gendered expectations. Tell me a little about some of the work you are involved with. Especially the Roberta project, it sounds very interesting!
Heidi: Yes, I also liked that project. It has been so encouraging for girls and they could gain a lot of knowledge out of it in order to regard themselves as technology designers. The Roberta project involved more than 1000 girls were involved in workshops all over Germany, building and programming robots with Lego Mindstorms. This project was conducted by the Fraunhofer Gesellshcaft and we did the scientific evaluation. The workshops took place in schools, museums, libraries... even after short time workshops we found out that the girls could imagine themselves much more then before as becoming a "computer expert". At the Roberta project, we also discovered another crucial point: the materials themselves are often "gendered". That makes an important point for ourselves as computer scientists: we have to become more aware of what we are doing. Software is by no means neutral.
Jac: In what way did you find that the software was "gendered"? What were the implications?
Heidi: The instruction papers of Lego Mindstorms, which is aimed for children, provide directions on how to build cars. So that was really a matter where mostly boys were interested in. We worked with the teachers on a didactical concept that oriented more on building creatures, like animals... Not only the girls, but also boys (we observed this in some of the mixed groups) liked this even more then building cars, and the gender behaviour became much less obvious. This effect comes not only in the hardware, but also the programming environment that is implemented to foster programming of car movements. At the moment, we are working on a new programming environment for children that includes more communication and exchange of programming concepts.
Jac: In this sense, it does seems like both the hardware and the logic that accompanies it have an implication on gender expectations and the accessibility of the material or progress for those involved.
Heidi: Yes, indeed. By the way, Roberta goes to Europe now. The concept is now spread to Europe via a European Union funded project.
Jac: That is wonderful! You mentioned earlier about creating a gender-aware pedagogic environment. Can you tell me a little more about that? What it means, how do you try to shape that kind of context in your work?
Heidi: In my research group work, there are more women than men. We observe that women students are especially attracted to work with us, to visit our courses, to write their diploma theses with us. To see female researchers in the field of computer science is an important issue for students. Another point is that in our projects, we always work with users (children, secretaries etc.) from the first step on. We involve them in our software design from the first day in a participatory development process. That is also a point that women like to see – and is also a very important matter in designing good software – that you deal with people, not only with machines, when you become a computer scientist
Jac: Why is it an important issue to see female researchers in the field of computer science?
Heidi: Female computer scientists are role models. We can show that technology is not (only) a thing for 'unattractive' boys, but that you can be a women at the same time as being a dedicated technologist.
Jac: :) And what do you think about the idea recently implemented where women techies pose in sexualised classic movie posters to break that similar perception? It's quite a funny idea. http://www.itgoddess.info/
Heidi: Aha, interesting.
Jac: :) Anyway, that was a little off the point. What kind of state support do you feel is available for the kind of work that you do? In terms of research funding, module development, project implementation, infrastructure etc?
Heidi: There is some state support in matters of research funding and their is also a group of government people concerned about the question of winning more women for technology.
Jac: Is it adequate?
Heidi: Sure, we could need more support!
Jac: :) Is there good gender awareness on the government on issues of gender and technology in education? For example, can they appreciate your work on highlighting and working with the gendered dimensions of software?
Heidi: As I mentioned earlier, by some people yes, others no. We got some funding for this question. But the question should become more public, indeed! Most people think that technology is some kind of neutral thing.
Jac: Yes... Why do you think it is important to think about ICTs and education from a gender perspective? Especially in terms of achieving gender equality at large?
Heidi: There are two main reasons: 1) it is a question to be part of those who have the power to having a say on how our future will look like; 2) it is a matter of losing the one half of the world's creativity for ICT design!
Jac: A very good reason. So you mean ICTs has a large role to play in our future?
Heidi: Yes!!! Information technologies shape workplaces, culture, communication, every day life, the subjects and its self awareness.
Jac: Even in places where there is low connectivity or access to technology?
Heidi: Even there, and often in the bad way: they become excluded.
Jac: That is true, and then excluded subjects are named and defined without their participation or perspectives or voice or presence. There is a complaint by some parties about the over-emphasis on 'new' ICTs, and ignoring the development of more 'traditional' ones like radio and print media.
Heidi: In modern media, 'traditional' media become part of information technologies as 'digital media'. The digital medium encompasses all the other media more and more, and changes their forms. Cellular phones are wide spread in a lot of regions. They have the capacity to be two-way media that can give all people a voice.
Jac: And as such, maybe it is simply a matter of differentiating definitions that is in effect, not really relevant anymore.
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CANNIBAL PLATEAU
A Mystery Novel
"On a spring day in 1874, a reporter for Harper's Weekly traveling with a surveying party on a wilderness road through a remote mountain valley in Colorado's San Juan mountains, wandered onto an abandoned campsite where he found the mutilated and rotting bodies of five men. Immediately a search began for Alfred Hammit, a hapless drifter and the sole survivor of the ill-fated prospecting expedition, suspected of murdering the five men and living off their bodies during the severe winter that had trapped them. Fascinated by the compelling details of this 120-year-old case, David Walton and his friend Jack Fuller team up to reinvestigate the mysterious events surrounding the prospectors' deaths and the two trials that led to Hammit's conviction. Before the end of what at first seems like an academic exercise, Walton and Fuller find themselves digging up graves, trailing a suspected drug dealer through the mountains and dealing with the murder of a local mine operator. Cannibal Plateau is one of those gripping novels so easy to pick up and so difficult to put down."
—Reviewer's Bookwatch
"Normally this column does not review fiction set after the end of World War I. This novel is set in 1994. However, it is about what was, for years, one of the most controversial incidents in Colorado history. The fact that the main plot of the novel is concerned not with the modern day but with the historical event brings it within the purview of The Tombstone Epitaph's Book Bag.
"On February 9, 1874, a party of five men whose names were Bell, Humphreys, Miller, Noon, and Swan, led by a man named Alferd—that's right, Alferd, not Alfred—Packer, left a Ute winter camp at the junction of Uncompahgre and Gunnison Rivers in Colorado, headed east for the mining area near Breckenridge. They carried provisions for 10 days. Sixty-five days later Packer, alone, arrived at the Los Piños Indian Agency, 75 miles from the starting point. He claimed his companions had died of cold and exposure, except for Bell, who had attacked him with an ax and whom he had been forced to shoot in self-defense. In September of 1874, the bodies of Packer's five companions were found under circumstances that indicated they had been murdered and their flesh eaten—by Packer.
"Packer was tried and convicted—twice—of the murders, the judge in his first trial allegedly saying from the bench, 'There wasn't but seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you et five of 'em.'
"To say that Packer's trials were a mockery of the judicial process is to understate the matter by a considerable stretch. Until very recently, Packer's innocence or guilt was a matter of heated debate in Colorado—and across much of the West—among historians and history buffs. Mock trials were held, using modern judicial processes, and Alferd Packer was found not guilty several times.
"Then somebody went out and dug up the bones and turned them over to forensic anthropologists for examination. Examination revealed that all five men had been brutally murdered by blows to the head with a sharp-edged instrument, either an axe or a heavy knife, that there was damage to their arm-bones consistent with trying to ward off the blows, and that the long bones of their bodies had been systematically stripped of flesh in a manner consistent with the removal of meat by a butcher. Somebody killed Packer's five companions and cut the meat off their bones, and Alferd Packer was the only survivor of the party.
"This short novel rehashes the Packer story, changing the name of Alferd Packer to Alfred Hammit, but otherwise changing no part of the tale. Even the names of the original victims are kept. It also includes, as a sub-plot, an entirely unnecessary modern murder, which it is this reviewer's opinion was included in the story to make it come up to short-novel length—it's about 50,000 words—thereby making it long enough to justify publishing it as a book. The story is very well written, though Wise indulges the passive voice in the early chapters to the extent that my old high-school creative writing teacher, Eloise Roach, would have had his scalp on a pole. There's also a treatise on trout fishing with dry flies early in the book which brought to mind Field & Stream's tongue-in-cheek review of the unexpurgated version of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover when it was finally published in the US. The reviewer stated that there was a great deal in the book about English gamekeeping practices which could possibly be of interest to Field & Stream readers, but the reviewer was forced to wade through much extraneous material in order to find it. All in all, there's nothing particularly new about the Packer case in the book, but that doesn't keep it from being a good evening's read."
—C.F. Eckhardt, "The Book Bag," The Tombstone Epitaph


What do you do when the wind threatens to bring the windows in, the trees are bending and the clouds are shooting past like bullets? Well, if you're a half-wit like me, embark on a hilly route that takes in a seafront. Obviously. If they say tough runs are character building, then my character must be a giant.
It took me while to drum up the courage, but managed to make it out just before 10am. The saving grace was that it wasn't raining and it was relatively warm. I headed to Balloch along the loch and on to the cycle track to Helensburgh. A pimped-up car full of neds passed and one of shell-suit clan lobbed a McDonalds hot chocolate at me. Thankfully he had a terrible aim and the carton exploded in a ball of hot steam in front of me. If I wasn't so shocked I might have had the sense to get their registration plate. Can you imagine if that had hit me? I would have completely ruined my top ;-) Davie - I think hot chocolate beats Trebor mints, don't you?
It's all up hill until you hit the outskirts of Helensburgh and then it's about 1.5m (against the headwind) downhill to the seafront. When I turned the corner towards Cardross, I was practically thown off my feet. I thought the rain had started but it was the spray from the waves bashing the promenade. It was a mental and physical battle for the next five miles over to Cardross. All was not lost, as I was using the time to work on relaxing my limps and speeding up my cadence. I tend to get quite affected by external factors that are completely outwith my control. I've had many a mental tantrum when faced with challenging weather. Now I'm trying to be more positive and concentrate on running form - and block out external nasties. By staying relaxed, I felt mentally tougher, more positive and wasn't wasting energy by tensing up and fighting my way along the road.
A group of Sunday cyclists passed en route to Cardross and they weren't going much faster then me. There was a few sighs and rolling eyes exchanged. There's only one thing worse than running against a headwind, and that's cycling against a headwind. Another group of cyclists passed going in the opposite direction. I couldn't help but smirk when I thought of their return trip.
I met Marco in Cardross. The dafty had run the tour de Vale with Lindsey and then ran over to Cardross to meet me. He said that he was worried about me, but really I think he got lost. It was over and up Carmen hill. It's a stonker of a hill. One that Marco was doing for the second tim - with 18miles in his legs. He didn't moan at all. No siree. There was no mention of him being at home playing his x-box ;-) It was pretty chilly at the top of the hill. And I was distraught to discover the wind was STILL in my face. It's a super-fast finish with a super-knee buckling descent. Quick tour round Christie Park and I'd clocked 18-miles.
Finished in 2:43:44 (last time was 2:43:11) with average pace of 9:06. Looking at the mile splits, the seafront drama really slowed my pace down by approx one minute per mile. I'm looking forward to trying the route without the wind...but I don't know if that day will ever come. It seems to have been windy FOREVER.
Well done Debbie. A good tough run. I think these tough runs are soooo important as a good part of the whw race is mental and to know you stuck at it on training runs like this will give you the determination to keep going when it's hard on the race.


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Margartet Nachtigall to be honored at 2015 Stock Show Pioneer Awards Cowboy Breakfast
A former AI business owner, Margaret Nachtigall is being recognized at the Pioneer breakfast at the Black Hills Stock Show. Courtesy photo
Margaret Coates was born in Fall River County, South Dakota. She is the daughter of George Leslie and Edna Andersen Coates.
She spent mots of her life in South Dakota, aside from a few years in her early marriage to Stanley Englebert. The young family spent some time in Nebraska and Colorado but soon returned home to Hot Springs.
Maragaret is the mother of three wonderful children, Rosie Elmore, Cissie Englebert and Everett Eglebert and the grandmother of eight. Sadly Rosie passed away June 2014.
Margaret was a 4-H member for all the years she could be, then helped younger 4-H members.
She competed in High School rodeos and went to national competition in breakaway roping as a high school senior.
The genuine cattle woman operated an Artificial Insemination business for 30 years.
She served as the Executive Director for the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association for four years and as a director on the board for many years before that.
She is a member of Elm Springs Church and serves on a number of committees and within organizations, including Dakota Rural Action, Western Junior Livestock Show and the Black Hills Stock Show Foundation.
Although still active in Wasta and Owanka community groups and cattle industry organizations, Margaret has now retired from her business and from the cattle business but she will never completely retire.
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Only three French horsemen got within the stakes, and those were instantly despatched. All this time the dense French army, being in armour, were sinking knee-deep into the mire; while the light English archers, half- naked, were as fresh and active as if they were fighting on a marble floor.
But now, the second division of the French coming to the relief of the first, closed up in a firm mass; the English, headed by the King, attacked them; and the deadliest part of the battle began. The King's brother, the Duke of Clarence, was struck down, and numbers of the French surrounded him; but, King Henry, standing over the body, fought like a lion until they were beaten off.
Presently, came up a band of eighteen French knights, bearing the banner of a certain French lord, who had sworn to kill or take the English King. One of them struck him such a blow with a battle-axe that he reeled and fell upon his knees; but, his faithful men, immediately closing round him, killed every one of those eighteen knights, and so that French lord never kept his oath.
The French Duke of Alen�on, seeing this, made a desperate charge, and cut his way close up to the Royal Standard of England. He beat down the Duke of York, who was standing near it; and, when the King came to his rescue, struck off a piece of the crown he wore. But, he never struck another blow in this world; for, even as he was in the act of saying who he was, and that he surrendered to the King; and even as the King stretched out his hand to give him a safe and honourable acceptance of the offer; he fell dead, pierced by innumerable wounds.
The death of this nobleman decided the battle. The third division of the French army, which had never struck a blow yet, and which was, in itself, more than double the whole English power, broke and fled. At this time of the fight, the English, who as yet had made no prisoners, began to take them in immense numbers, and were still occupied in doing so, or in killing those who would not surrender, when a great noise arose in the rear of the French - their flying banners were seen to stop - and King Henry, supposing a great reinforcement to have arrived, gave orders that all the prisoners should be put to death. As soon, however, as it was found that the noise was only occasioned by a body of plundering peasants, the terrible massacre was stopped.
Then King Henry called to him the French herald, and asked him to whom the victory belonged.
The herald replied, 'To the King of England.'
'WE have not made this havoc and slaughter,' said the King. 'It is the wrath of Heaven on the sins of France. What is the name of that castle yonder?'
The herald answered him, 'My lord, it is the castle of Azincourt.' Said the King, 'From henceforth this battle shall be known to posterity, by the name of the battle of Azincourt.'
Our English historians have made it Agincourt; but, under that name, it will ever be famous in English annals.
The loss upon the French side was enormous. Three Dukes were killed, two more were taken prisoners, seven Counts were killed, three more were taken prisoners, and ten thousand knights and gentlemen were slain upon the field. The English loss amounted to sixteen hundred men, among whom were the Duke of York and the Earl of Suffolk.
War is a dreadful thing; and it is appalling to know how the English were obliged, next morning, to kill those prisoners mortally wounded, who yet writhed in agony upon the ground; how the dead upon the French side were stripped by their own countrymen and countrywomen, and afterwards buried in great pits; how the dead upon the English side were piled up in a great barn, and how their bodies and the barn were all burned together. It is in such things, and in many more much too horrible to relate, that the real desolation and wickedness of war consist. Nothing can make war otherwise than horrible. But the dark side of it was little thought of and soon forgotten; and it cast no shade of trouble on the English people, except on those who had lost friends or relations in the fight.


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Николай Андреевич Бокий (22 ноября 1918 — 9 сентября 1995) — советский лётчик-ас истребительной авиации ВВС ВМФ в годы Великой Отечественной войны, Герой Советского Союза (24.07.1943). Полковник (18.02.1958).

Биография
Родился 22 ноября 1918 года в станице Уманская (ныне Ленинградская Краснодарского края), в то время входящую в состав территории, охваченной боевыми действиями гражданской войны и фактически контролируемой властями Кубанской народной республики, в семье крестьянина.

Окончил неполную среднюю школу. Работал слесарем-сантехником в городе Ростове-на-Дону.

Служил в Военно-Морском Флоте с ноября 1939 года. В июле 1941 года окончил Военно-морское авиационное училище имени Сталина в Ейске. Направлен на Северный флот.

Участвовал в Великой Отечественной войне с сентября 1941 года, когда был зачислен младшим лётчиком в состав 72-го истребительного авиационного полка. В октябре 1941 года его перевели в 78-й истребительный авиационный полк ВВС ВМФ. В марте 1942 года его вернули во 2-й гвардейский смешанный авиационный полк ВВС Северного флота (бывший 72-й сап ВВС СФ, которому в январе 1942 года было присвоено гвардейское звание), а в октябре 1942 года полк преобразован во 2-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный полк ВВС Северного флота. В этом полку Николай Бокий сражался до конца войны на должностях последовательно пилота, командира звена, заместителя командира эскадрильи. Николай Бокий был одним из учеников прославленного лётчика-североморца дважды Героя Советского Союза Б. Ф. Сафонова. Летал на ленд-лизовских истребителях Харрикейн, Киттихаук и Аэрокобра. Член ВКП(б) с 1942 года.

Участник обороны Заполярья, много боевых вылетов совершил на отражение немецких воздушных налётов на Мурманск. Первую воздушную победу одержал в бою 4 января 1942 года, сбив немецкий Ме-109.

К началу мая 1943 года командир звена 2-го гвардейского истребительного авиационного полка (6-я истребительная авиационная бригада, ВВС Северного флота) гвардии младший лейтенант Н. А. Бокий совершил 385 боевых вылетов (в том числе 15 ночью), в 30 воздушных боях сбил лично 9 самолётов противника и 1 в группе. Как указано в наградном листе, ещё 3 победы одержал предположительно.

Николай Бокий — участник воздушного боя 19 апреля 1943 года, в котором он вместе с командиром полка Героем Советского Союза П. Г. Сгибневым, лётчиками полка В. А. Горишным, А. М. Титовым, З. А. Сорокиным сбил знаменитого немецкого заполярного аса фельдфебеля Мюллера (91 победа).

В воздушном бою 7 мая 1943 года в районе города Полярный Николай Бокий сбил Ме-109 ещё одного немецкого аса обер-фельдфебеля Альберта Бруннера (53 победы), который в этом бою погиб.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении звания Героя Советского Союза начальствующему и рядовому составу Военно-Морского флота» от 24 июля 1943 года за «образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования на фронте борьбы с немецкими захватчиками и проявленными при этом отвагу и геройство» гвардии младшему лейтенанту Бокию Николаю Андреевичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда».

Чуть ранее он был удостоен одной из наград Великобритании — медали «За лётные боевые заслуги». Николай Бокий продолжал и в звании Героя успешно сражаться в рядах своего полка, за 1944-й год сбив лично и в группе ещё 5 немецких самолётов. Участвовал в Петсамо-Киркенесской наступательной операции. Был дважды ранен.

За годы Великой Отечественной войны капитан Н. А. Бокий выполнил 425 боевых вылетов, провёл 41 воздушный бой, сбил 17 самолётов лично и 1 в группе. Иногда авторы указывают и иной его окончательный боевой счёт — 14 личных и 3 групповые победы (но неясно, учтены ли у них указанные в наградном листе предположительные победы).

В марте 1945 года, когда боевые действия в Заполярье практически завершились, Н. Бокий был отозван с фронта и направлен на учёбу, в июле 1945 года окончил Высшие офицерские курсы ВВС ВМФ в Моздоке.

После войны продолжил службу в ВВС ВМФ. С сентября 1945 года служил в должностях заместителя командира и командира эскадрильи 11-го гвардейского истребительного авиационного полка ВВС Черноморского флота. С июля 1948 года по сентябрь 1950 года — командир эскадрильи 241-го истребительного авиационного полка на том же флоте.

В 1954 году окончил Военно-воздушную академию. Далее служил в ВВС Тихоокеанского флота: заместитель командира по лётной подготовке и командир 31-го истребительного авиационного полка, с декабря 1955 года — командир 47-го истребительного авиационного полка. В январе 1957 года полк был передан из ВВС ТОФ в состав Войск ПВО страны. В них продолжилась дальнейшая служба полковника Н. А. Бокия. С декабря 1959 года по апрель 1961 года — начальник штаба истребительной авиации Приморского корпуса ПВО. С апреля 1961 года гвардии полковник Бокий Н. А. — в запасе.

С 1965 года жил в городе Ростове-на-Дону и работал в Северо-Кавказском управлении гражданской авиации: диспетчер, с 1970 года — начальник отдела движения.

Умер 9 сентября 1995 года, похоронен на Северном кладбище в Ростове-на-Дону.

Память
 Скульптурный портрет Героя Советского Союза военно-морского лётчика Н. А. Бокия (1943) работы народного художника СССР Л. Е. Кербеля хранится в Государственной Третьяковской галерее, авторские копии этого портрета выставлены в экспозициях Смоленской художественной галереи и Музея военно-воздушных сил Северного флота.
 Бюст Н. А. Бокия, в числе 53-х лётчиков-североморцев, удостоенных звания Героя Советского Союза, установлен в пос. Сафоново на Аллее Героев около музея ВВС СФ.
 Имя Героя Советского Союза Николая Андреевича Бокия присвоено самолёту МиГ-31 174-го Гвардейского Краснознамённого Печенгского истребительного авиационного полка им. Б. Ф. Сафонова.
 На доме в Ростове-на-Дону, в котором жил Н. А. Бокий (проспект Семашко, дом № 50) установлена мемориальная доска (1980).

Награды
 Медаль «Золотая Звезда» Героя Советского Союза (24 июля 1943 года)
 Орден Ленина (24 июля 1943 года)
 Три ордена Красного Знамени (24 апреля 1942 года, 13 мая 1943 года, 3 октября 1944 года)
 Орден Отечественной войны I степени (11 марта 1985 года)
 Орден Красной Звезды (5 ноября 1954 года)
 Орден Дружбы народов
 Медаль «За боевые заслуги» (15.11.1950)
 Медаль «За оборону Советского Заполярья»
 Другие советские медали
 Медаль «За лётные боевые заслуги» (Великобритания, 1943 год)

См. также
 Герои Советского Союза Ростовской области

Примечания

Литература

 Бойко В. С. Крылья Северного флота. — Мурманск: Мурманское книжное издательство, 1976. — 317 с.
 Герасименко Д. Я., Колкер И. И., Нехорошков Ф. А. Славен героями Северный флот. 30-летию разгрома гитлеровских захватчиков в Заполярье посвящается. — Мурманск: Мурманское книжное издательство, 1974. — 208 с. — С. 144–145.
 Доpогие наши Геpои. — Ростов н/Д.: Литера-Д, 1995. — С. 27—32.
 Кубани славные сыны: Очерки о героях Советского Союза – кубанцах. Кн. 1-я. — Краснодар, 1985.
 Они прославили Родину: очерки о героях Советского Союза. — Ростов н/Д.: Книжное издательство, 1975. — Кн. 2. — С. 185—188.
 Сорокажердьев В. В. Они сражались в Заполярье: Герои Советского Союза, 1939—1945: боевые биографии. — Мурманск: Книжное издательство, 2007. — ISBN 978-5-85510-305-2. — С. 43—44.

Ссылки

 Бокий Hиколай Андpеевич // Герои Дона : биобиблиографический справочник / Донская государственная публичная библиотека ; сост. Н. Н. Зайцева. Ростов-на-Дону, 2017 – .
 Музей ВВС СФ — Фотоальбом об истории музея ВВС СФ
 Козлов И. А., Шломин В. С. Краснознаменный Северный флот
 Солдаты России
 Н. А. Бокий, сайт 174-го Гвардейского Краснознамённого Печенгского истребительного авиационного полка имени Б. Ф. Сафонова

Выпускники Ейского высшего военного авиационного училища лётчиков
Выпускники Военно-воздушной академии имени Ю. А. Гагарина
Лётчики морской авиации Великой Отечественной войны
Командиры звеньев в Великой Отечественной войне
Члены КПСС
Похороненные на Северном кладбище (Ростов-на-Дону)


Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi keeps a fleet of personal nurses sometimes referred to as his "harem." As his country comes under attack from dissenting protesters and allied forces including the United States, Gaddafi has lost a few of his closest allies, namely the medical ones, with Oksana Balinskaya, the Libyan leader's caretaker for three years (since she was 21-years-old), leaving in early February for the Ukraine. This week, Balinskaya told a brief version of her tale to Newsweek, who published the account as "My Years As Gaddafi's Nurse." In it, she admits that while her and her fellow nurses — "only attractive Ukranian women" — were hired "most probably for our looks" and nicknamed the dictator "Papik," for "little father," they were never sexual with Gaddafi. "The truth is that Papik was much more discreet than his friend, the womanizer Silvio Berlusconi," she claims.
Still, the odds details she provides, somewhat sexual and icky in nature, include that Gaddafi picked her from "a line of candidates" just by shaking her hand and looking her in the eye, which makes her sound like cattle. She compares him to "a rock star from the 1980s" because of his outfit changes, and because he threw money out of his car window.
Balinskaya says she ran because she was four months pregnant, not because she was working for an abusive dictator with a huge running list of human rights violations and insane personal wealth, all while his people suffer in poverty and plot an uprising.


PORTLAND, OR. - The Vikings of Loudoun Valley are national champions once again. Saturday, out at NXN, they became the first program in NXN history to win a second team title. They also were the first to ever win back-to-back titles and broke their previous record score in the process. They scored 77 points to break their previous record by over 10 points with Great Oak (CA) second and Littleton (OH) third.
Stepping up onto the podium the Valley guys looked nervous. They knew they ran well but both second, third, and fourth for that matter also ran superb also. Not to mention that Valley sat in second at the Mile mark and third at two miles based on raw scoring. Once you take out the non-scorers though you can see how Valley dominated the entire race.
That final stretch though was where the race was won with Valley picking off runner after runner. Just like how they ran all season, this race was about finishing the right way and that is exactly what they did.
Carlos Shultz was Valley's first finisher finishing in 30th place. Sam Affolder was 31st and Jacob Hunter was 39th. Kellen Hasle finished 52nd, Connor Wells finished 63rd, Jacob Windle was 151st, and Mateo Barreto was 187th.
Shultz, Hasle, and Barreto are all juniors. They will try and be back next year with teammates Taylor Ney and Kevin Carlson. Though they do lose a lot of their speed, it should be noted that all five of these returners have run 15:56 or faster already.


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Rescuing education for all: How reform of the Fast Track Initiative should lead to a Global Fund for Education
Malouf, K.
Remarkable progress has been made in the last ten years toward achieving the education-related Millennium Development Goals . Many more girls are in school and enrolment rates are on the rise, due to higher-quality aid and to political commitment in developing countries. However, these achievements could be derailed by the global economic crisis, newly falling aid levels, and educational challenges. With 72 million children still out of school, the world's poorest countries urgently need a global financing initiative that can deliver the resources to scale up to Education For All. Based on a new research report by Oxfam, this briefing note examines the EFA-Fast Track Initiative (FTI) – both its positive contributions and its current limitations. It argues for the reform of the FTI into a more ambitious, effective Global Fund for Education. This redesigned initiative must feature autonomous management and inclusive governance; greater country ownership through better quality aid; improved accountability structures; and more flexibility to respond to the needs of children in conflict-affected and fragile states. Donors must prioritise such a transformation in 2010. Key recommendations
Donors should launch a Global Fund for Education at the 2010 G8/G20 meeting in Canada, in close partnership with Southern governments and civil society organisations. This initiative should be the result of a comprehensive reform of the Fast Track Initiative.
The FTI Board of Directors should name an inclusive Transition Working Group to design broad reforms to the initiative, responding to the recommendations of the external evaluation of the FTI.
All donors must urgently increase their aid to basic education and improve the quality of their aid to ensure that it is transparent and predictable, that it builds capacity in recipient countries, and that it is aligned with country priorities and strategies.
The World Bank should scale up its assistance for basic education in the poorest countries. It should give up control of the FTI, while strengthening its participation in the reformed initiative as a key donor partner.
Developing country governments should continue to prioritise basic education by increasing the proportion of national resources spent on education and by improving the quality of their educational programmes.
21st century aid: Recognising success and tackling failure (Summary)
Burnley, J.
Aid plays a role in saving millions of lives, and yet despite its achievements poverty continues to cast a shadow over the lives of some 1 .4 billion people worldwide. This has opened up questions over the effectiveness of aid and lately, unleashed a barrage of criticism, with critics using individual examples of failed aid to argue that all aid is bad and should be reduced or phased out altogether. This is both incorrect and irresponsible. Aid that does not work to alleviate poverty and inequality - aid that is driven by geopolitical interests, which is too often squandered on expensive consultants or which spawns parallel government structures accountable to donors and not citizens - is unlikely to succeed. This report examines the evidence, and finds that whilst there is much room for improvement, good quality 21st century aid not only saves lives, but is indispensable in unlocking poor countries' and people's ability to work their own way out of poverty. Aid alone - even 21st century aid - is not enough to ensure that all people living in poverty can lead full and decent lives. But together with the right systemic reforms, aid can and will extricate millions of people from poverty and deprivation. Key recommendations
Ensure aid is channelled to help support active citizens, build effective states as a pathway to reducing poverty and inequality, and support diverse forms of financing to contribute to development.
Deliver aid through a mix of models, including increasing budget support wherever possible, and ensure that a percentage of aid flows are channelled to civil society organisations, to enable people to better hold their governments to account.
Dramatically improve the predictability of aid, by increasing the proportion of aid that is general budget support where possible and by sector support where general budget support is not an option, and limit conditions attached to aid to mutually agreed poverty indicators.
Give at least 0.7 per cent of their national income in aid, and set out how this target will be reached, with legally binding timetables.
Reject a culture of corruption, uphold human rights standards, and act in ways which are transparent and open to scrutiny.
Provide legal environments in which civil society organisations monitoring government activities can flourish and respect the independence of non-government bodies like audit offices and the judiciary.
Think big. Go small. Adapting business models to incorporate smallholders into supply chains
Bright, D.; Seville, D.; Borkenhagen, L.
Food and beverage companies are facing a rapidly changing world . Global demand is rising as the world's population grows. Yet the planet's ability to meet this demand is threatened by factors such as droughts and other expected consequences of climate change, together with land degradation and biofuel production. At the same time consumers everywhere are growing more knowledgeable and concerned about the ethics of where and how their food and drink are produced. A number of innovative companies have begun integrating smallholders into their supply chains. There is evidence that this strategy can attract customers and manage supply risks. The investment by a company can be relatively modest if the company collaborates with farmers' organisations, government, and other non-commercial actors. This approach to investment can have broader impacts on the rural sector, ensuring that trade benefits men and women farmers who are normally marginalised from wealth creation. Ensuring a smallholder sourcing programme can deliver both commercially viable products and value to the smallholder, requires a number of structural challenges to be overcome. An increasing number of new business models are emerging of global and domestic companies that have adapted to overcome these challenges. Key principles Five principles to underpin sustainable trading relationships that ensure both corporate and smallholder value:
Chain-wide collaboration and innovation
Market linkages
Fair and transparent governance
Equitable sharing of costs and risks
Equitable access to services
This briefing builds on the Sustainable Food Lab work on 'New Business Models for Sustainable Tarding relationships' and Oxfam agricultral market programmes. Initial findings were shared at the Oxfam GB event in May 2009, 'Business Models for a Better World', with the briefing launched at the 2010 art of farming conference
Quick impact, quick collapse: The dangers of militarized aid in Afghanistan (Dari)
As eight non-governmental organisations, working in Afghanistan for up to fifty years and currently serving over 5 million Afghans across the country, they is deep concern about the harmful effects of this increasingly militarised aid strategy . As leaders from 70 nations gather in London to debate the future of Afghanistan, Oxfam is urging them to revaluate this approach to development and reconstruction. The militarised aid approach is not working for Afghans, and more of the same is unlikely to yield different results. The overemphasis on military issues at the expense of efforts to promote genuine development and good government matters not only because of the resulting human cost, but also because poverty, unemployment and weak, corrupt government are important drivers of conflict. Ultimately, these factors must be effectively addressed if there is to be any sustainable improvement in security and a lasting peace for Afghans. Key recommendations In order to address the problems of militarised aid and focus on solutions that work for Afghans, Oxfam urges world leaders meeting in London to:
Provide stronger support for successful programming like Community-Based Education. Ensure that these programmes remain separate from the work of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and are not recipients of military funding.
Establish and implement a plan to gradually phase out PRT-provided and other militarised forms of aid. At the same the time, the capacity of and funding for national and international civilian organisations should be increased.
Increase the ability of local organisations to design and implement development projects.
Ensure that aid is equitably delivered throughout the country based on development and humanitarian needs, and in line with national development plans.
Improve the capacity, responsiveness and transparency of local government. Afghans overwhelmingly want a government capable of delivering basic services and the rule of law, yet these systems remain weak and largely ineffective at the local level.
Support the UN to take on a greater role in delivering and coordinating aid, particularly in under-resourced provinces and districts. The UN must also be more forceful in coordinating aid efforts, preserving their independence and improving their effectiveness, accountability and transparency.
Quick impact, quick collapse: The dangers of militarized aid in Afghanistan
Climate watchlist: Key issues for Cancun Negotiations
We must mitigate and adapt to climate change . On this, the international community is agreed. But exactly how to do that is still up for debate. There were high hopes that last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen would deliver a legally binding agreement for action on climate change. But the outcome — the Copenhagen Accord — was instead a political 'statement of intent' that fell significantly short of expectations. Now, after a year of interim meetings and several negotiating texts, parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are gathering in Cancun, Mexico, to try again. Their success will largely depend on settling disputes — particularly between the developed and developing world — about six key issues: shared vision; adaptation; climate finance; technology transfer; reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation; and post-2012 emissions reduction targets
The human face of climate change
Read about CARE International's strategic response to climate change, including their focus on: global policy engagement, adaptation, making carbon finance work for poor and marginalised people, and organisational change . They emphasise social justice, gender equality and empowerment in everything they do
Climate finance post-Copenhagen: The $100bn questions
Gore, T.
Climate change is the single greatest threat to development - making the battle to overcome poverty ever harder and more expensive . Finance is urgently needed to help vulnerable communities adapt to a changing climate. At Copenhagen, there was progress on finance, if limited. The Copenhagen Accord proposed the establishment of a 'Copenhagen Green Climate Fund' and included a loose pledge from rich countries to 'mobilise' $100bn a year by 2020. The UN Secretary General has convened a High Level Advisory Group on Climate Financing (AGF) to recommend - ahead of the UN climate meeting in Mexico in December 2010 - how the money can be raised. Their interim report will be discussed at June's UNFCCC meeting in Bonn - the first round of substantive negotiations since Copenhagen. In this note, Oxfam raises the key questions that the AGF needs to tackle to ensure sufficient and sustainable sources of finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Key recommendations Leading up to UN climate meeting in Mexico in December 2010, world governments have the opportunity to turn ambiguity into action by agreeing:
A UN Green Fund that is transparent, accessible and direct;
To bring a package of predictable and sustainable climate finance sources on-stream by 2013, worth at least $100bn a year to help poor people cope with climate change.
To rebuild trust between rich and poor nations and put the negotiations back on track towards a comprehensive deal, these issues must be formally agreed under the UNFCCC at COP-16 in Mexico in December 2010
Sustainable development in western China: Managing people, livestock and grasslands in pastoral areas
Bain, I.
China has the world's 3rd largest area of grassland, covering 42% of its territory and representing its largest terrestial ecosystem . These grasslands are mainly concentrated in border and ethnic minority areas of Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and western Sichuan, all of which fall within the pruview of a national programme to "develop the West."
Population growth, environment and food security: What does the future hold?
Collodi, J.; Cormack, F. M.
Is population growth the elephant in the (development) room? Some commentators assert it is the most pertinent development issue the world faces, but one which policy makers – for fear of impinging 'human rights' – are unwilling to address . What is certain, however, is that unchecked population growth places an 'ever-increasing' strain on finite global resources.
So what would be the future implications of such growth? What impact would population expansion have for the environment and, in turn, for food security? Furthermore how would pertinent climatic factors – climate change and changing weather patterns – mitigate or impact 'future' scenarios?
This pilot 'horizon-scanning' issue considers the future implications of population growth on the environment, and on food security, and details the critical issues confronting development and practice.
Issues covered include:
Population growth: urbanisation; changing demographics; international migration;
Environment: water; energy; biodiversity; climate change;
Food security: growing 'consumption', falling production; depletion of arable land; the need for agricultural innovation.
The brief also offers a number of policy recommendations, including:
Set up a global system for identifying, assessing and managing possible risks and consequences, linked to national and regionally-integrated information systems;
Donor agencies need to promote family planning, and increase access to family planning commodities - the UN estimates that at least 350 million women worldwide lack access to relatively cheap family planning procedures;
Levy environmental taxes on international travel, carbon and urban congestion, and introduce selective water pricing;
Regulate the prices of commodities and larger cereal stocks and provide food 'safety nets' – direct and indirect transfers, such as micro-finance, to boost small-scale farming activities;
Minimise the loss of food energy during harvest, processing and consumption, and through recycling: recycling waste and using fish discards instead of cereal in animal feed could free up food energy for over 3 billion people.


CBTS and Cincinnati Bell employees recently attended the YWCA Career Women of Achievement Luncheon in Cincinnati. The event was established in 1980 to increase community awareness and appreciation of the diverse contributions of women. The luncheon serves as a fundraiser for the YWCA, and the proceeds raised benefit the organization's mission to eliminate racism and empower women within the community.
Ashley Judd served as the keynote speaker for the event. Ms. Judd's passion as a feminist and social justice activist, combined with her notoriety as an accomplished actor, gives her a powerful platform to raise awareness for humanitarian crises such as poverty and gender inequality. Ms. Judd's speech outlined her personal stories of championing racial and gender equity.
Christi Cornette, Chief Culture Officer of Cincinnati Bell Inc., spoke as co-chair of the event. Cincinnati Bell served proudly as a Leadership sponsor.
Cincinnati Bell and CBTS are committed to amplifying the voices of the communities they serve and are proud to support vibrant and empowering organizations like the YWCA.


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Q: Pyppeteer code freezes after launching chrome This is a web scraper on Python using pyppeteer
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  print(4)
  #Some code

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Military discipline is the obedience to a code of conduct while in military service.

According to the U.S. Army Field Manual 7-21.13 4-4:
Discipline in the Army is one of the most basic elements of warfighting. Its purpose is to train you so you can execute orders quickly and intelligently under the most difficult conditions. Insistence on performing tasks properly enhances military discipline. For example, it means ensuring you wear your uniform properly, march well or repeating tasks until you perform them correctly. (...) Discipline in routine conduct such as saluting, police call, and physical training, can make discipline much easier to achieve when responding to more difficult conduct such as advancing under fire, refusing an illegal order, or moving a wounded Soldier to safety.

See also
Code of Service Discipline
Conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline
Conduct unbecoming
Disloyal statements
Diligence
Discipline
Military justice
Military order (instruction)
Military tradition
Military discharge
Military education and training
Uniform Code of Military Justice

References

Further reading

Military


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Tag Archives: Mike Krushelnyski
August 13, 2019 Boston Bruins, Boston Bruins Heroes, Boston Bruins prospects, Charles McAvoy, David Pastrnak, Dougie Hamilton, Jake DeBrusk, Joe Thornton, John Beecher, Malcolm Subban, NHL Entry Draft, Ray Bourque, Terry O'Reilly, Zachary Senyshyn	Al Pedersen, Al Secord, Andre Savard, Andrew Raycroft, Barry Gibbs, Barry Pederson, Bill Ranford, Bob Joyce, Bob Sweeney, Brad Marchand, Brad McCrimmon, Brad Park, Brandon Carlo, Brian Curran, Bryan Smolinski, Charles McAvoy, Craig Janney, Craig MacTavish, Curt Ridley, Dan Bouchard, Dave Pasin, Dave Reid, David Krejci, David Pastrnak, Don Sweeney, Dougie Hamilton, Evgeni Ryabchikov, Glen Murray, Glen Wesley, Gord Kluzak, Greg Hawgood, Hal Gill, Hannu Toivonen, Ivan Boldirev, Jake DeBrusk, Jakub Zboril, Joe Juneau, Joe Thornton, John Beecher, Johnathan Aitken, Jordan Caron, Keith Crowder, Ken Dryden, Kevyn Adams, Kyle McLaren, Lars Jonsson, Lyndon Byers, Malcolm Subban, Mariusz Czerkawski, Mark Howe, Martin Samuelsson, Matt Grzelcyk, Matt Lashoff, Mike Krushelnyski, Milan Lucic', Nevin Markwart, Nick Boynton, Patrice Bergeron, Phil Kessel, Randy Burridge, Ray Bourque, Reggie Leach, Rick MacLeish, Rick Smith, Ryan Donato, Sergei Samsonov, Shaone Morrisonn, Shayne Stevenson, Stan Jonathan, Stephane Quintal, Steve Heinze, Steve Kasper, Ted Donato, Terry O'Reilly, Tom Fergus, Trent Frederic, Tyler Seguin, Zach Hamill, Zach Senyshyn 5 Comments
I recently posted this to the Bruins sub-Reddit- and thought it deserved a place on my blog.
Took a swing at the Boston Bruins historical draft choices, analyzing the team's selections since the NHL implemented a rudimentary draft system 56 years ago. Bear in mind that in the pre-1969 years, the draft was different- starting in 1963 thru 1978 it was called the amateur draft before changing to the NHL Entry Draft in 1979 when the teams were allowed to draft 18-year-olds. With fewer teams in the 60's, 70's & 80's, selections outside of 10-20 were 2nd round or later, but for purpose of exercise, I'm going to look at picks 1-30 and call it like I see it.
I'm bucking convention by starting out with 1st overall and work up to 30- in a lot of cases, the early selections for the B's have not been kind, but in full context- most of the time the team was picking 3-7, it came in the days before the current draft system. And because the B's had made the playoffs from 1968-97, unless they owned bad teams' 1st rounders, they rarely got a chance to pick inside the top-10 during that time frame.
1- Best: Joe Thornton, 1997: 1st ballot HHOFer- nuf ced; Trading him opened the door for Zdeno Chara and Marc Savard to join the B's in 2006, but he's been everything Jumbo Joe was projected to be as a teen titan with the Soo Greyhounds in 1997. He just turned 40 in July, which, given the shaggy, golden-locked kid who showed up in Boston 22 years ago at not quite 18, seems impossible to square with the grizzled graybeard who has been with the San Jose Sharks for nearly a decade and a half.
Worst: Barry Gibbs, 1966: Journeyman defenseman. He at least played in the NHL to the tune of 796 career games, most of them not with the Bruins. However, Gibbs leads the No. 1 overall bust hit parade not because of what he did, but because of the player who was selected right behind him at No. 2 in '66 by the NY Rangers. Wait for it…Brad Park. Can you imagine Bobby Orr and Brad Park together on the Boston blue line? It actually happened for a handful of games right before Orr left for the Windy City, but had they been able to play together in their primes, we're talking at least 2 more Stanley Cups in that era. Yikes. (H/T to Reddit user Timeless_Watch for pointing this out- I moved Kluzak down to HM)
HM: Gord Kluzak, 1982: Oh what could have been? What if…B's had drafted Brian Bellows or Scott Stevens there instead of Kluzak? Kluzak had knee injuries in junior hockey days and then got blown up in his 2nd NHL season- without the technology to repair knees that we have today, it doomed him to being day-to-day for the rest of his career and an early retirement. He should have been a long-tenured NHL defenseman, but it didn't happen for him, and unfortunately, he's more of a footnote in Bruins lore, which is unfortunate.
August 9, 2018 NHL Heroes, Uncategorized	Adam Graves, Auston Matthews, Bruce McNall, Charlie Simmer, Dave Taylor, Glenn Anderson, Grant Fuhr, Ian McCoshen, Jack Hughes, Jason Zucker, Jimmy Carson, Joe Murphy, Josh Groll, Kevan Miller, Kevin Lowe, Kyle Keyser, Luc Robitaille, Marcel Dionne, Mark Messier, Martin Gelinas, Matthew Nieto, Mike Krushelnyski, Paul Coffey, Quinn Hughes, Robbie Ftorek, Thatcher Demko, Wayne Gretzky Leave a comment
Thoughts on "the Trade"- 30 years ago today Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles helped to transform hockey in the USA
https://www.tsn.ca/the-trade-30-years-later-1.1155314
(Video posted to YouTube by CBC)
I was 16 and in Florida visiting my grandparents with about a month left before my junior year in high school. I walked into the house that afternoon after a visit down to New Smyrna Beach, and my grandfather, a big baseball and football fan but who didn't know (or give) a whit about hockey, greeted me with the last news I ever expected to hear.
"Hey, Kirk- did you hear that Wayne Gadsby just got traded?"
I must've stared at him blankly, because he followed up with: "You know? That hockey player from Canada?"
I didn't have the heart to tell him that the largest percentage of hockey players in the NHL were from Canada, but my brain was beginning to process what he'd just said.
"Wayne Gretzky got traded?" I said.
"Yes! Gretzky…that's the one! They've been talking about it a lot on the TV and radio…"
He started to tell me what he knew about the deal…Los Angeles Kings…cash and young players…but his words were like the teacher in Charlie Brown (Wah-WAH-Wah-Wah-Wah.) My mind was racing: Gretzky, the Edmonton Oilers' four-time Stanley Cup captain and face of hockey, the only player in the history of the game to score more than 200 points in a season not once, not twice, not three times but FOUR times…had been dealt in the prime of his life at 27 years old. My goodness, I thought as the realization hit me- if my grandfather Merlin in Florida is talking about this trade- how enormous of an impact is Gretzky to Tinseltown going to have on the NHL and hockey?
The truth is…in my teenage mind, I couldn't even begin to comprehend it.
August 1, 2018 Boston Bruins Heroes, Rick Middleton	Barry Pederson, Billy Smith, Brad Park, Bryan Trottier, Cam Neely, Denis Potvin, Harry Sinden, Jean Ratelle, Jozef Stumpel, Kaspars Daugavins, Ken Belanger, Ken Hodge, Marco Sturm, Mario Lemieux, Mike Bossy, Mike Krushelnyski, Phil Esposito, Randy Robitaille, Ray Bourque, Rick Middleton, Steve Penney, Wayne Gretzky 4 Comments
On Rick Middleton's No. 16 going to the rafters
The Boston Bruins announced Tuesday that Richard D. Middleton aka Rick Middleton aka 'Nifty' the right wing who starred for the team from 1976-88, will have his number 16 retired in a game later this November (29th- vs the NY Islanders). The longtime New Hampshire resident and Bruins Alumni fixture is deeply touched by the gesture, which comes three decades after he skated off into the sunset (more on that later).
The former Oshawa Generals star broke into the NHL with the NY Rangers, who selected him in the 1st round, 14th overall, in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft. Middleton was also picked by the Minnesota Fighting Saints of the rival WHA that same year, going in the second round, 21st overall.
The trade is right up there with Cam Neely as one of former Bruins GM Harry Sinden's best heists, sending the over-the-hill Ken Hodge to Broadway for the 22-year-old, who put up 90 points in two seasons with the Rangers. The catalyst for the deal was believed to be Phil Esposito, who was dealt to the Rangers the season before in a blockbuster, which sent Brad Park and Jean Ratelle to the B's. Espo wanted his old (no pun intended) reliable right wing back, and Middleton was rumored to be a bit of a wild card off the ice…his -38 in 1975-76 certainly didn't help.
So, Middleton headed off the Boston and after a couple of solid, if unspectacular years (by the standards of the 1970's), he took off, posting 38, 40, 44, and 51-goal seasons from 1978-82. He peaked in 1984 with a 47-goal, 105-point year (finishing second to Barry Pederson's 116 points) but the Boston offensive juggernaut was silenced in the opening round of the playoffs by the Montreal Canadiens and Steve Penney, who sent them out with a whimper in 3 games (no points for Nifty). The year before, Middleton had posted a playoff season for the ages (33 points in 17 games), leading the Bruins past two rounds of the playoffs including the memorable 7-game affair against Buffalo where he registered a team-record (for one series) 19 points. Unfortunately, the B's ran into the NY Islanders dynasty in the spring of 1983. Denis Potvin, Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Billy Smith & Company dispatched them from the Wales Conference final in a series that never seemed that close, en route to a fourth consecutive Stanley Cup, leaving so many B's fans to wonder…what if?
Middleton's production steadily declined after that career 105-point campaign, due in part to age and injury, but he did preside over the historic defeat of the Montreal Canadiens in 1988, a first for any Bruins team since 1943. Middleton's breakaway game-winner in Game 3 (2-0), to put the B's up 2-1 in the series after splitting the games in Montreal was a fitting coda for a man who had been a part of so many heart-breaking losses to the Bleu, Blanc et Rouge during his entire Bruins tenure. He split the captaincy with Ray Bourque that year, wearing the 'C' for home games, until his retirement after the B's were swept by Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers (their 4th NHL title since 1984) giving way to Bourque's sole leadership from 1988 until his trade to Colorado in the spring of 2000.
As a child of the 70's and 80's, Nifty was an ubiquitous presence in my budding love of hockey and the Bruins. Although not a pure burner, his golden locks (later shiny pate as his hair thinned and ultimately gave way to a Jofa helmet late in his career) looked like they were on fire as he would bob and weave through the neutral and offensive zones, often putting on a display of stickhandling prowess at impossible angles and contortions, ending with pucks in the back of the net or sublime back-door feeds for gift-wrapped tap-ins for his lucky linemates. The Mike Krushelnyski-Pederson-Middleton line racked up 111 goals in 1983-84…a number that seems awe-inspiring some 35 years later.
Although Middleton's scoring numbers paled in comparison to Gretzky's (The Great One scored 100 more points than Middleton's 105 in 83-84 just for perspective), or Mario Lemieux or Bossy to name a few, he was a veritable King Midas for the B's, creating magic from the mundane and turning pucks into goals. But don't take my word for it- Channel 38 once paid tribute to him with a highlight reel video now on YouTube to America's "You Can Do Magic" and I had it recorded on VHS and must've watched it 1000 times…
Ignored by the Hockey Hall of Fame, 30 years after he retired, taking his number out of circulation is a welcome move for those who watched him (and maybe a good percentage of fans who didn't, but who appreciate history). Sure- there are some who may be opposed to the honor (it is the 11th so number retired by the B's) but that's just a curmudgeonly nature of New Englanders at work- deep down, even the grumblers get it. After all- we've seen Peter Douris, Jozef Stumpel, Randy Robitaille, Ken Belanger, Marco Sturm and most recently, Kaspars Daugavins (in 2012-13), wear the digits in the intervening years. None hold the distinction and cachet Middleton did, and in the end- it's just a number. It's time to admit that he wore it well…better than anyone in the Black and Gold. As his 402 goals as a Bruin can attest, he could finish plays off just as easily as he set the table, and was the heir to Espo as the next pure scoring forward to put on the spoked B.
If the Bruins can take the time to honor for a player who grew up and matured in Boston as a model of consistency and was the face of the franchise at least up front for the better part of a decade, then why not?


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Q: GCM push notifications are cleared automatically after few second's in xamarin android I am trying get push notifications when application is not working on background also. I have tried many solutions but not get notifications properly. I am tried fallowing solution for getting push notification's when application is not running on background. It receive the push notifications in lower android devices and that to it show's only few seconds in notification bar. Then after it automatically cleared. What the problem of getting notification when application is not running on the background. what the cause of clearing notifications automatically. Please suggest any idea.
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Europe has the most amazing railway network in the world.It gets you anywhere, anytime, and it's much more fun and interesting to travel by train than by air.1 / 2 High speed rail is marketed as a sustainable alternative to air traffic.According to the International Union of Railways, the high speed train "plays a key role in a stage of sustainable development and combating climate change".
Earlier efforts to organize speedy international rail services in Europe accompanied affordable prices and different ways to increase the speed and comfort of a rail trip.
As a regular long-distance train traveller in Europe, I have to say that the opposite is true.
High speed rail is destroying the most valuable alternative to the airplane; the "low speed" rail network that has been in service for decades.


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Dangle and drop earrings displaying an oval-shaped stone together with sparkly CZ encrusted drop. Approximate earrings length is 2".


In 2007, historian Phillada Ballard was commissioned to research and write a history of the Highbury landscape, with an eye toward a restoration bid. Her research came up with several important findings, such as the uniquely intact connection between house and parkland; the remains of an even older garden estate at the Henburys, and an appreciation of the earlier agricultural landscape preserved accidentally by both Chamberlain and Cadbury.
Highbury Park includes the land of two estates of historic significance in Birmingham. The first, The Henburys, established by the early 18th century is a rare survival of an estate from this period, of which there were once numerous examples in the hinterland of Birmingham but which do not survive having been built over.
The fame of Highbury was due to the fact that within seventy acres there were many different features and these contributed to the feel of being in the country on a large estate, rather than in the suburbs of a major city. They display the quintessence of high Victorian taste in gardening and, moreover, the taste of one man, having been created on an undeveloped site, and having remained intact and substantially unaltered since Joseph Chamberlain's death in 1914.
We have a digital copy of the Highbury Historic Landscape Appraisal, where the entire document can be downloaded in one 35 Mb PDF. Or, if you are interested in browsing it a page at a time, the entire set can be viewed in our page browser.
For anyone wanting to look at a paper version, there should be a colour copy in the Central Library and the Kings Heath Library. Moseley CDT library have a copy, and we keep one as well, that we take to events.
We plan to take excerpts from the survey and publish them along with comments or other material. For example, we might try to do some sort of overlay showing the ways estate and park boundaries changed over time, using the maps Phillada provides. Or we might look for the exact position that an old photograph was taken, and compare it side by side with a current view.
There will also be posts about park features that could be the focus of restoration projects. The survey is very much intended to provide historical background for such projects, so we hope to use it to reveal information and prompt discussions.
I spent most of my formative years growing up in Highbury park, unfortunity I have spent the past 20 years watching it decline and fall in to ruin. The most I've seen happen in a quarter of a century is them re-build the Henbury Wall. All the time…effort and money seemed to be spent up the hill at the manicured Kings Heath Park.
The report makes interesting reading, from the hidden ornamental walls etc overgrown and ruined buildings (even hundreds of used cartridge cases and spent ammunition found in our teens) are all explained.
The local authority really ought to be ashamed of themselves….get Time Team out is my advice!!
Great! I hope that means we'll see you this Friday at her talk about the Henburys.
Have just spent some time looking at Phillida Ballard's fascinating Highbury Historic Landscape Appraisal which has so much detail and is of great interest to us as we have lived round here for a long time! Certainly worth dipping into.


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La sua carriera ebbe inizio negli anni 20, quando suonava musica country-blues per intrattenere il pubblico afro-americano. Tra gli anni '30 e '40, traghettò il suo stile verso un blues più urbano, divenendo difatti, il precursore dello urban blues e quindi di artisti come Muddy Waters e Willie Dixon. Negli anni '50, tornò al tradizionale stile folk-blues, divenendo una delle figure leader del movimento emergente, dell'American Folk Music Revival. Il successo ottenuto, in questo periodo, fece di lui una star internazionale.

Con la sua lunga e varia carriera, è considerato una delle figure chiave del blues del ventesimo secolo, e in genere è ricordato, come uno tra i bluesman più grandi di sempre, facendo da anello di congiunzione tra il blues rurale delle origini e il blues urbano delle grandi città.

Nel 1980, fu tra i primi musicisti ad essere inseriti nella Blues Hall of Fame.

Una delle sue canzoni più celebri e ricordate, resta Key to the Highway, che venne reinterpretata dai Derek and the Dominos, nell'album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.

Fu un notevole chitarrista acustico, e fece da ispirazione ad altri artisti come Muddy Waters e Memphis Slim.

Durante la sua vita registrò oltre 350 canzoni.

Biografia
"Big Bill" nacque a Scott County nel 1893 o nel 1898 (l'anno esatto di nascita non si conosce). Benché lo stesso Broonzy affermasse di essere nato nel 1893, pare che egli avesse una sorella gemella di nome Lannie Broonzy che affermava di essere nata il 26 giugno 1898. In quel periodo era normale per la popolazione nera (soprattutto per gli uomini) aggiungere anni alla loro reale età per riuscire a trovare un lavoro o per entrare a far parte dell'esercito, ed è probabile che anche Broonzy abbia fatto lo stesso.

Broonzy lasciò il Mississippi nel 1924 per trasferirsi a Chicago, dove incontrò Papa Charlie Jackson, che gli insegnò l'uso della chitarra. Le prime registrazioni le effettuò tra il 1927 ed il 1928, come chitarrista e cantante. Nel 1936 diventa uno dei primi cantanti blues ad utilizzare un piccolo gruppo strumentale, che includeva strumenti come il pianoforte, vari strumenti a fiato o l'armonica. Questi dischi vennero pubblicati sotto il nome di Big Bill and his Chicago Five. Nello stesso periodo, Broonzy stava registrando per la American Record Corporation, precisamente per alcune delle etichette appartenenti alla American Record (tra le quali la Melotone, la Perfect Records, ed altre ancora). Nel 1939, la ARC fu acquisita dalla CBS, e Broonzy allora passò alla Vocalion (successivamente Okeh) e dopo il 1945 passò alla Columbia Records. Una delle sue canzoni più note fu scritta proprio in quel periodo, Key To the Highway.

Broonzy suonava nei club del South Side di Chicago, e suonò anche con Memphis Minnie negli anni trenta. Quando il secondo sciopero della American Federation of Musicians finì nel 1948, Broonzy venne messo sotto contratto dalla Mercury Records, per la quale registrò molto materiale fino al 1951. Dopo il 1951 Broonzy ritornò alle sue radici folk-blues come solista, e viaggiò (e registrò anche) in Europa nei primi mesi del 1956.
Venne definito uno dei pionieri del Chicago Blues e fu uno dei primi ad utilizzare strumenti elettrici già dal 1942, anche se spesso il suo pubblico voleva sentire le sue prime composizioni accompagnate solo dalla chitarra folk, perché queste versioni erano considerate più "autentiche". Broonzy ritornò a Chicago nel 1956 e continuò ad esibirsi, nonostante stesse iniziando ad avere problemi di salute. Morì infatti di cancro alla gola nel 1958, e fu sepolto al Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois.

Durante il suo periodo folk-blues, registrò con Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, e Leadbelly. Una buona parte delle sue registrazioni effettuate su etichetta ARC/CBS sono state ristampate come antologie da collezione dalla CBS-Sony. Inoltre, altre registrazioni degli inizi della sua carriera sono state ristampate da etichette blues, inserendole in diverse compilation, come anche le sue ultime registrazioni effettuate negli anni cinquanta in Europa ed a Chicago.

Discografia
Album in studio
1930 - Good Time Tonight
1946 - Blues in the Mississippi Night
1953 - Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam
1954 - Folk Blues
1955 - Big Bill Broonzy Sings
1956 - Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs
1957 - Country Blues
1958 - Blues by Broonzy
1961 - Last Session, Pt.2
1961 - Last Session, Pt.3
Raccolte
1964 - Remembering Big Bill Broonzy
1967 - Big Bill Broonzy
1973 - Feelin' Low Down
1986 - Lonesome Road Blues
1989 - Big Bill's Blues
1992 - Unissued Test Pressings
1994 - Baby Please Don't Go
1995 - Black, Brown and White
1995 - I Feel So Good
1995 - Just a Dream
1996 - St. Louis Blues
1996 - Treat Me Right
1998 - Warm, Witty & Wise
1999 - Chicago Calling

Live
1951 - In Concert
1956 - In Paris
1957 - Historic Concert Recordings
1969 - Blues Concert

Voci correlate
 Peter La Farge
Blues
Chicago Blues

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Chitarristi blues


Imagine explaining the techno scene to your mom and dad for the first time and realising they just don't get it. This is how Hollywood star Claire Danes (the female lead in Homeland, Romeo & Juliet) was commenting on her new hobby in Berlin to talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres. Gladly, while showing what good and bad techno means, she took Berlin's clubbing haven Berghain as a reference to all that is good about it.
Apparently the star was, who "got in through a guy who knows the owner", introduces to the way people party in the techno scene. And even despite her clumsy "Girl-Next-Door" dance moves, Claire called it a blast.
Danes said she had "acute anxiety" and didn't know what to expect, but described Berghain as "the best place on earth". Later, when Ellen hands her a bag to Claire to carry her son Cyrus, the video becomes basically unwatchable for its awkwardness.