To mieszkanie Lizbona jest idealnym miejscem na rodzinne wakacje lub po prostu wyjście z przyjaciółmi.
Z 2 sypialni, pozwala na łatwe pomieścić do 5 osób i posiada wszelkie udogodnienia, takie jak: Internet bezprzewodowy, klimatyzacja, pralka i kuchnia z pełnym wyposażeniem.
Przyjdzie dzień zwiedzania miasta lub spędzić dzień na relaks, docenią Kuchenka mikrofalowa, suszarka do włosów, telewizję kablową lub żelazo żelazo.
Inne ważne obiekty, aby Państwa pobyt był jak najbardziej przyjemny to: balkony, DVD Blu-ray, ekspresem do kawy i tosterem.
pokochasz swój pobyt w tym lokalu w małym budynku z XVIII wieku, pełna światła i oddycha Lizbonę.
We throughly enjoyed our week+ time we spent at Brigita's apartment in Lisbon. The owner was there to great us and tell us everything we needed to know about the year and the apartment. She was available on a daily basis as she lives in the same building two floors above our apartment. The apartment was comfortable and clean. Closet space for our clothing was good between the two bedrooms. Our only issue was the hot water for the shower. At times it would quickly go from hot to cold. The location of the apartment is great. I believe it is the best location that you can stay in when visiting Lisbon.
Petit appartement très bien conçu.
Petit appartement très bien conçu. Tout y est au top. Juste dommage que les gens dans la rue n'aient pas l'idee de ne pas hurler la nuit.
Wir hatten einen angenhemen Aufenthalt in dem Appartment. Es liegt direkt im Zentrum, nicht weit vom Rossio-Platz entfernt. Vieles ist gut zu Fuss zu erreichen. Auch die Metrostationen Rossio oder Baixa-Chiado sind nicht weit.
Für bis zu vier Personen ist die Wohnung optimal, bei fünf Personen wird es etwas eng, zumal das Sofa, das zum Schlafsofa umfunktioniert wird, nicht sehr bequem ist. Wir als Familie (2 Erw,3 Kinder) haben unseren kurzen Aufenthalt dennoch genossen.
Lovely apartment. Very clean. Perfect for the two of us. Location was fantastic. We were able to walk or take transit easily. Brigida is a great host. Excellent communication. Very helpful. The restaurant downstairs is very good.
Our family of 5 enjoyed our stay in Lisbon. Apartment is as advertised, clean, comfortable and within walking distance to the city center. Brigida is a great host and was very helpful with city suggestions and ordering a taxi for the airport. Great experience overall.
- 100 metrów znajduje się Centralny dworzec kolejowy, aby przejść do linii Sintra.
- Przystanek taksówek jest mniejsza niż 50 m, a dolna metr / Chiado 100 metrów.


With simple point and click movement throughout most of the game play. There is no real combat, unlike most RPG's. And you play as one of two characters, both being doctors. Your goal is to replace a dying man's memories – his last wish.
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Q: Ruby on rails and mysql 2 on mac I work in macosx v10.6.8 and i have :
- ruby v 1.9.3p385
- rails v 3.2.12
- gem 1.8.25
- mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.10, for osx10.6 (i386) using  EditLine wrapper
Whene in try gem builde install, i see this message error :
/Users/admin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p385/bin/gem:4: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/mysql/bin in PATH, mode 040777
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    Unknown command builde
I tape chmod -R 777 but same error.
And when i try gem install mysql2, i see this message error :
/Users/admin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p385/bin/gem:4: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/mysql/bin in PATH, mode 040777
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES)
    Permission denied - /Users/admin/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p385/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/.gitignore
I clean that whith chmod -R 777 but again same error !!!
I need a help, tnx every body

A: Well the error is telling you that the 777 permission is a problem, it shouldn't be world writeable. I assume you're using this exclusively for local testing, try it with a 755 or 775 permission.

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Antal Doráti and the Magic of Scuola di ballo
Written by Richard Freed
Category: Richard Freed's Keepers
Music for ballets has been composed by some of the greatest composers since music as we know it today began, and a good deal of it has found its way into the concert repertory, either in whole or in suites prepared by the respective composers, or simply in the form of excerpts. At the same time, innumerable concert works have been used as is or adapted for service in ballets, only to come back to the concert hall in new form. One ballet score in particular, which straddles these categories, has been inexplicably absent from the concert hall and mysteriously neglected by the recording companies, despite its unarguable attractiveness: Scuola di ballo -- "School of Dancing" -- whose brilliant, vivacious score was fashioned by the aptly named French composer Jean Françaix from movements of Luigi Boccherini's astonishingly numerous and substantial string quintets. Its nearest parallels in substance may be Stravinsky's Pulcinella, based on music attributed (mostly in error) to Pergolesi, and the contemporaneous Good Humoured Ladies, which the otherwise forgotten Vincenzo Tommasini spun out of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas -- but Scuola di ballo clearly has the best tunes. And Françaix's witty treatment suits them down to the ground.
Like his earlier compatriot Scarlatti, Boccherini spent some of his most productive years in Spain and died in Madrid. He made use of Spanish forms and some actual Spanish tunes in more than a few of his works -- particularly in his several quintets for guitar and strings, one of which is an impression of the night watch in Madrid, and another includes a celebrated Fandango. Not all of his compositions betray a Spanish influence, but every one of them is filled with good tunes. So rich was his source of them that even Mozart based a movement in his own D major Violin Concerto, K.218, on one of Boccherini's slow movements. He was an admired cellist as well as a prolific composer, and enriched that noble instrument's repertory with sonatas, concertos, and dozens of string quintets in which the fifth instrument is a second cello. The minuet from one of them was notoriously popular on its own for years, as was a cello concerto the 19th-century virtuoso Friedrich Grützmacher cobbled together from parts of two different Boccherini concertos.
Today, of course, Boccherini's numerous concertos, symphonies, sinfonie concertanti, and his chamber music are well represented in "authentic" recordings, and they are endlessly refreshing, but in 1933 it was a matter of excavating the virtually unknown when the young Jean Françaix, with obvious enthusiasm and genuine affection, undertook his treatment of Boccherini's music to create the score for Scuola di ballo. The ballet, devised by Léonide Massine and based on a frivolous but engaging comedy by Goldoni, had apparently come into being as early as 1924, but was far more successful after being reintroduced with the perfect match in sound created by Françaix.
Françaix (1912-1997) was a master pianist as well as a fine composer, and he formed a duo with the superb cellist Maurice Gendron, who was himself a Boccherini enthusiast. They made several memorable recordings together (their account of Beethoven's A major Sonata, Op.69, rivals the legendary one by Emanuel Feuermann and Myra Hess), and Gendron undertook to reestablish Boccherini's reputation as a composer of concertos by editing, performing and recording some of them in authentic versions. In his valuable recording of the one on which the Grützmacher conflation was largely based, his conductor was the legendary cellist Pablo Casals.
In respect to recorded Boccherini, anyone who may have the Angel LPs, or the subsequent Testament CD reissues, of the extended series of Boccherini quintets performed by the Italian ensemble named for them (the Quintetto Boccherini), may enjoy going through them to spot the specific movements Françaix chose for his ballet score. One of them, the remaining fragment of an otherwise lost work, is called "Il ballo tedesco" ("The German Ball"), and turns up under the French equivalent "Danse allemande" as the eighth of the ten sections of Scuola di ballo recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Antal Doráti in July 1939.
That recording, a well chosen 17 minutes of music issued in the UK by English Columbia, and in the US by its eponymous American affiliate, turned out to be an outstanding example of the sort of thing on which our "Keepers" series is based: an ideal coming together of repertory and interpreter, in a sonic frame especially well suited to this particular performance of this particular work -- and in this instance the only recording of this material for well over 60 years. Perhaps its very perfection discouraged others from having a go at this music. In any event, this wonderful recording brought to an end an important early phase in the remarkable career of one of the most respected conductors of the 20th century -- and, among the many who have cherished it, subsequently raised the question of why Doráti never got back to this piece.
Doráti (1906-1988) began his career, at age 18, where all European conductors did for ages: in the opera house -- first in his native Budapest and then in successively higher posts in Dresden and Münster. In 1933 he took a position with the Ballets Russes, the company that had inherited the legacy of the legendary impresario Serge de Diaghilev. He shared conducting responsibilities with Efrem Kurtz until 1938, when the company split into two rival factions: Kurtz went with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with Massine as artistic director, and Doráti went with Colonel W. de Basil's Covent Garden Ballet Russe. The latter company, which had Michel Fokine as artistic director, and performed at Covent Garden with Beecham's splendid London Philharmonic in the pit, toured throughout Europe, in the Americas, and in Australia and New Zealand, as the Original Ballet Russe; on those tours Doráti attracted a great deal of attention for his mastery of the dance scores, and also for his increasingly frequent orchestral concerts.
He made his first recordings for EMI between 1936 (at age 30) and 1939. Some were issued on the HMV label, some on English Columbia, but all were with the LPO and all were directly related to his ballet repertory. Among the titles were Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade (at that time a staple of the dance repertory in Fokine's treatment, which Diaghilev had introduced in 1911, the same year as Petrushka); Tchaikovsky's Overture to Hamlet (the composer's shortened form of his overture-fantasy, for use with his incidental music for the drama); a generous set of excerpts from Swan Lake, taking up four 78rpm discs); Baron d'Erlanger's ballet The Hundred Kisses; the Chabrier-derived score for Cotillon; dances from Dargomizhsky's opera Rusalka; some excerpts from Stravinsky's Baiser de la fée; Roger Desormière's arrangement of Johann Strauss pieces for the ballet Le Beau Danube -- and Scuola di ballo. One might have expected Kurtz to record this work, since it was he who had presided over the ballet's premiere in 1933 and he was also active on both the HMV and Columbia labels at that time, but the assignment fell to Doráti, and it seemed the score was tailor-made for him.
Like his colleague Desormière, Doráti was a composer as well as a conductor, and he himself created a wildly successful ballet score built on the music of the Waltz King and his family: the famous Graduation Ball, which he recorded three times, with different orchestras. He also adapted music of Offenbach for two ballets: Helen of Troy and Bluebeard. When the war brought touring to a standstill, Doráti found himself in New York, where he became music director of the newly formed American Ballet Theatre; he made his first American recording -- Falla's music for El Amor brujo -- with the ABT orchestra, for American Decca. He then began appearing more frequently as a guest conductor with major American orchestras, and in 1945 he began his remarkable career as an "orchestra builder," as music director of the reorganized Dallas SO.
In Dallas Doráti continued recording ballet music -- his first (and in many respects the most stunningly performed) Graduation Ball, Copland's Billy the Kid suite, and a knockout account of Glazunov's marvelous score for The Seasons, with only two small cuts -- but he was no longer limited to the ballet repertoire: he also recorded piano concertos of Liszt (No.1, with Arthur Rubinstein) and Prokofiev (No.3, with William Kapell). After four years in Dallas, Doráti moved on to the Minneapolis SO (today's Minnesota Orchestra). For RCA Victor, which then had a contract with the orchestra, he recorded only a handful of works, but when the orchestra moved to Mercury his recording activity went into high gear. With the Chicago SO's having moved back to RCA Victor when Fritz Reiner succeeded Rafael Kubelík in 1953, Doráti stepped in to complete that orchestra's commitment to Mercury by recording two LPs in Chicago (Bartók, Kodály, Schubert, Tchaikovsky), and his own Minneapolitans became the flagship orchestra for Mercury's "Living Presence" series as it sailed into the stereophonic era, with landmark recordings of works ranging from Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss to Bartók, Respighi, Ravel, Stravinsky and Copland. Ballet music was by no means abandoned, but from his base in Minneapolis Doráti established himself as a major conductor in the broadest range of the symphonic repertory, and he began expanding his base in Europe.
Doráti's recordings for Mercury -- with his Minneapolis orchestra, with the London SO (with which he had a long, close and exceptionally productive relationship, without holding a title), with the refugee orchestra called the Philharmonia Hungarica, and still others -- became the stuff of legend. In his subsequent tenures as music director of the National SO in Washington and the Detroit SO, as well as his titled positions or close relationships with the Stockholm Philharmonic, the BBC SO, the London SO and the Royal Philharmonic, the exceptional breadth of his repertory was constantly expanded, and this was reflected in his recordings -- for Mercury, Decca, Philips, Vox/Turnabout, BIS and other labels in such locales as London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bamberg and Stockholm. His teachers Bartók and Kodály loom large in his huge discography, as do Beethoven, Stravinsky, Copland, Tchaikovsky, and Joseph Haydn. With the Philharmonia Hungarica, on Decca, he recorded all of Haydn's symphonies; for Philips, he recorded nine Haydn operas, with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and hand-picked casts; with his wife, the pianist Ilse von Alpenheim, as soloist, he recorded all of Haydn's keyboard concertos in Bamberg for Vox. (While all of these have been reissued on CD, Ilse von Alpenheim's recordings of all the Haydn sonatas, also for Vox, have not; one hopes those master tapes, wherever they are, are being carefully preserved and will yet reappear.)
With all this, Doráti never lost his genuine enthusiasm for music for the dance. Earlier it was expected that he would capitalize on his early ballet experience, but even after demonstrating his mastery in the regular symphonic fare, that experience, and the genuine enthusiasm it instilled in him, were too valuable to be ignored. It was not only apparent in his few recordings in Dallas, but in his many from Minneapolis; one of his earliest recordings there, for RCA Victor, was his own score for Helen of Troy, and among his earliest Minneapolis recordings for Mercury were his history-making monophonic sets of Tchaikovsky's three ballets in their complete form. He subsequently remade The Nutcracker with the LSO, again for Mercury, and in Amsterdam he remade both that work and The Sleeping Beauty for Philips. Among his last recordings were such large-scale works as Beethoven's Missa solemnis and his own symphonies, on BIS, and, for Decca, a handsome collection of Strauss waltzes with the LPO (Doráti was one of the very few conductors who included the extended introduction to Wine, Woman and Song) and his only recording with the Vienna Philharmonic: his final account of his own Graduation Ball, absolutely uncut. (Both of these Decca items are available now in Universal's Australian Eloquence series.)
Since Doráti remade more than a few of the titles in his discography as new techniques in sound recording and new formats for playback came into being, we have to wonder why he never returned to Scuola di ballo, in the nearly 50 years in which he might have remade this title, and why he never performed the piece it in concerts. The 1939 recording, from his last pre-war sessions in London, was so much in demand at the time the war ended that American Columbia reissued it with newly designed cover art, and in the early 1950s brought it out again on a low-priced "Entré" LP (RL-3043, with Sir Malcolm Sargent's postwar recording of Sir Hamilton Harty's engaging John Field Suite on side B). As perhaps the most heavily recorded conductor of his time, Doráti must have had the power to record what he wanted to record, and surely his admiration for his lifelong friend Jean Françaix was never in question: as late as 1965, in London, he recorded Françaix's sparkling Concertino for piano and orchestra, with the composer's daughter Claude as soloist. (It may be heard on Mercury CD 434 335-2.)
It might be noted, however, that Kurtz, who conducted the premiere of Scuola di ballo, did not record it or include it in concert programs. Among the recordings he made with the LPO in the same period as Doráti was the very first of any part of the brand-new (1938) Gaîté Parisienne: a clutch of effervescent excerpts from the Offenbach/Rosenthal score which, like Scuola di ballo, filled four 78rpm sides and was issued by Columbia. After the war, American Columbia, which had enjoyed terrific sales of that recording, had Kurtz remake his Gaîté Parisienne sequence with a hand-picked orchestra in New York. The remake was excellent in every respect, but not quite a match for Kurtz's own earlier recording, and perhaps this example was a deterrent to the idea of having Doráti remake Scuola di ballo.
In any event, nobody recorded Scuola di ballo again until 2001, when Hyperion included the entire ballet score (about eight minutes more than the 17 recorded by Doráti) in a collection of Françaix's works performed by the Ulster Orchestra under Thierry Fischer (issued the following year on CDA67323). Alas, it is not an adequate substitute, let alone a replacement. Despite the enthusiastic reviews cited on the tray card, it strikes me as a dreary, inelegant and rather lifeless affair, which only makes the old Doráti recording the more treasurable, despite its unavoidably dated sound -- which in a broader context might be said to add to its vivid authenticity as representing the era in which it was made.
Actually, the sound is not as dated as might have been expected. The image of the chamber-orchestra forces is a realistic one, the full character of the individual instruments is clearly intact, and the overall balance is quite good as heard on CD transfers from two British labels. Both discs are filled out with more of Doráti's pre-war LPO material. On Pearl GEM 0036, issued in 1998, the additional titles are Le Beau Danube, The Hundred Kisses, and Cotillon. Dutton CDBP 9757, issued in 2005, offers the same line-up except that Le Beau Danube is replaced by the Dargomizhsky and Stravinsky pieces mentioned earlier in this essay.
On both CDs, Scuola di ballo is given pride of place, at the end of the program. The Dutton disc, in fact, is given the collective title Scuola di ballo, and its booklet cover is a reproduction of the artwork for the American Columbia 78rpm album. Both CDs do well by the piece, but a choice between them might be based on more than the difference in content noted above. The Pearl CD provides annotation which provides some interesting background on what became of Diaghilev's fabulous organization, and each of the ten sections of Scuola di ballo is instantly accessible on a track of its own. Dutton offers no annotation at all, and lays this work out on just four tracks, corresponding to the four sides of the original 78s -- but these are trivial concerns, while the measurably superior sound quality on Dutton may be a decisive one. It happens also that the Dutton CD is offered at a "super-budget" price, and will be easier to find, as it is distributed by Harmonia Mundi USA (as is the less-than-competitive Hyperion CD of the complete score), though the Pearl appears to be available from Amazon.com, HB Direct, and other retailers importing it on their own.
Those interested in this Doráti recording and/or others from the various stages of his long career may wish to acquaint themselves with the work of the British-based Antal Doráti Centenary Society, which has published a biographical overview by its co-founder Richard Chlupaty, illuminated with articles and commentaries from various sources as well as a chronological list of concert and ballet performances, and is preparing reissues of rare Doráti recordings going back to the conductor's Dallas years.
. . . Richard Freed
richardf@soundstagenetwork.com

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Q: Make a python script work on IIS 8 I added this to the handler module on IIS for my website
Request Path: *.py
Executable: "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\python.exe"
Name: Python

I gave permissions for the IIS user to this path C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\
I then made this test.py file to test my configuration
print("Content-Type: text/html")
print("")
print("""\

Hello World!

""")

But then I got this Bad Gateway error when I try to load it by http://localhost/test.py
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:""

Any ideas what I am missing?

A: As shown in Microsoft's manual (described in more detail in the link):

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*Make sure that the Web site containing the Python scripts has an application set up

*Verify that application mapping for .py files is set up

*Verify that the file and directory permissions are set correctly in the computer's access control list (ACL).

And the test response (python 2, conversion should be easy enough):
print
print 'Status: 200 OK'
print 'Content-type: text/html'
print

print '<TITLE>Python Sample CGI</TITLE>'
print ''
print '
This is a header
'

print '
' #this is a comment
print 'See this is just like most other HTML'
print '
'
print ''

Seems like the Content-Length header is added for you and you should add a Status header.


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(1943- ) UK-born author of children's fiction, in Australia from the age of six; of his numerous titles, almost all of which are non-fantastic adventures, most of them for younger children, two of his Young Adult tales are of sf interest. In Megan's Star (1988), a Telepathic link between an impoverished girl and a boy who has escaped an institution leads to contact with Aliens; in Magician (2002), which is set in a primitive Far Future, the eponymous magician reveals to the young protagonists that a mysterious Tower is there for a purpose: to guide a starship back home, and to begin the recovery of Earth. [JC]
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Star Navigator (Australia: ABC Books, 1997) [pb/Wayne Harris]
Foggy (Melbourne, Victoria: Penguin Books, 2001) [pb/John Fairbridge]
Imp (Melbourne, Victoria: Penguin Books, 2001) [pb/Caroline Magerl]
Magician (Melbourne, Victoria: Viking, 2002) [hb/Mark Sofilas]
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Vatican Intrigue
August 2, 2011 Hunter Wallace Christianity, Conservation 20
Pope Benedict XVI: Luther wasn't a heretic
In line with our theory that the Universal Church of Political Correctness is poised to be swept out of power in the West by its own version of the Reformation, the Vatican has caught the scent of the death of liberalism and has started to position itself for dealing with the aftermath.
The Catholic Church hasn't survived for almost two thousand years by being stupid. It is enjoying the impression being formed in the minds of millions of Americans that Washington is the Whore of Babylon:
Pope Benedict XVI is to rehabilitate Martin Luther, arguing that he did not intend to split Christianity but only to purge the Church of corrupt practices.
Pope Benedict will issue his findings on Luther (1483-1546) in September after discussing him at his annual seminar of 40 fellow theologians — known as the Ratzinger Schülerkreis — at Castelgandolfo, the papal summer residence. According to Vatican insiders the Pope will argue that Luther, who was excommunicated and condemned for heresy, was not a heretic. . . .
Cardinal Kasper said: "We have much to learn from Luther, beginning with the importance he attached to the word of God." It was time for a "more positive" view of Luther, whose reforms had aroused papal ire at the time but could now be seen as having "anticipated aspects of reform which the Church has adopted over time".
Why is now the time for a more positive view of Luther?
Because the same conditions which created Luther and Calvin are about to be unleashed on Cultural Marxism. Their downfall works to the advantage of the Roman Catholic Church. For hundreds of years, the Vatican has dreamed of the downfall of liberalism, and the rehabilitation of its own image in the countries lost to Rome.
In 2011, the SPLC, the ACLU, and the ADL are the Inquisition. The priests of political correctness write for the Washington Post and the New York Times. It is the pious liberal establishment in the West, not the Vatican, that terrorizes ordinary people for heresies against its stupid and wildly unpopular fantasy ideology.
The Vatican knows that it is only a matter of time before the secular humanist eunuchs are swept out of power in the Protestant countries. The people are determined to separate from the rotten liberal establishment which has set the West on a course to spiritual, cultural, and economic oblivion.
As always, Rome stands ready to take advantage of the situation, having been forced to adapt to liberalism against its own better instincts. You will be amazed at how quickly it will change its tune once the eunuchs fall from power.
Rome saying that Luther wasn't a heretic. The Vatican building a statue of Galileo. Well played.
Note: Unlike Washington, Rome has a long memory and is flexible enough to admit its own mistakes. It will bring its own heretics back into the fold and give them a special place of honor.
If Martin Luther were alive today, he would have Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube, and smart phones at his disposal to "witness" the unprecedented corruption of the liberal establishment. He could unleash a similar hurricane with one small viral wave by touching that same raw nerve.
In the best tradition of "Occidental Dissent," let's give the liberal establishment another history lesson:
The Black Flag
Super Confederacy
It just seems to me to be another politically correct move. First the Jews, now Luther, what next, they'll rehabilitate Satan?
Hunter Wallace
The Vatican is a practical and self interested institution. It sails the seas of history. Its position at any given moment is a reflection of the constellation of secular power. Once you understand that, you can understand and predict its behavior.
In the 1940s, the Vatican avoided conflict with Hitler. It is the ultimate self interested chameleon.
Earlmundo Armand Pitts III
The Roman Catholic leadership in Congress, Boehner-Pelosi, just gave us a meaningless debt deal with no real cuts in spending, and set up a committee which is being called the "Council of 13" to deal with the real issues of importance to Roman Catholics and their Jew allies.
Boehner and Pelosi are both bold faced Roman Catholic lairs of the worst sort.
Ther their is Roman catholic Biden who is calling the Protestant opposition terrorists.
You could make a good case that the "Council of 13" is a Roman Catholic & Jew version of the old Soviet Politburo.
"Then there is Roman Catholic Biden who is calling the Protestant opposition terrorists."
Everyday it becomes clearer that the Roman Catholics in Congress are as much or more of a problem than the Jews.
Btw, that bleach blonde Polish Catholic shank on Morning Joe is that dumb ass Pollock Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski Polish born daughter.
HAHAHA!!!! Well done, Rome!
TabuLa Raza
Did they order that stake well done?
The Roman Catholics don't get it—we Protestants could care less what the Pope, any priest, or any Roman Catholic thinks about Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, Zwingli, Knox, Phillips, Wesley or any other leader of the Protestant Reformation.
I am not and have never been a Catholic, but I recall what Joseph Sobran said, more or less: You have to respect an institution that is, not twenty or a hundred years behind the times, but a millennium. They have an institutional memory second only to the Jews'.
If HW is right, then we don't have to worry about an African Pope.
Earlmundo – "Pelosi" is an Argentinian Jewish name.. I think she's a Crypto. Shew RAVES over Jews, and Jewry, and blathers about how FABULOUS and marvelous her Jew neighbors, in SF are, and how she would do ANYTHING for them, ad infinitum…
Hark! The smell of gefelte fish is stong….
Biden is a sad old tired played out whore. He has taken his 30 shekels ages ago. Remeber when he was n Israel, some time ago, and the Hebes gangsters gave him some sort of framed document – and the glass was broken?
Biden knows how high to jump, when told to jump. Most Catholics aren't Catholics anymore. If you find Tridentine Catholics – you've found a treasure worth more than all the gold and gems on Earth. But most are corrupted Vatican II heretics. The tide is obviously turning, though..
Nope – the "catholics" rehabilitated Satan already. During Vatican II.
Earlmundo I care about what Catholics think. A care a lot. And I'm not Catholic.
@ Earlmundo: do you take credit for Nelson Aldrich and Robert Owen, just two of the several English-American luminaries who gave us the Fed and the federal income tax? Or were they Catholics too? And how about Lincoln, the originator of the imperial presidency and federal government, was he also Catholic? If you were honest you might admit that the catholics "leaders" are putting the frosting on a cake gladly baked by their English-American protestant predecessors, making us all debt slaves to foreign financial interests.
Svigor
I see no reason for Protestants to eschew a system of alliances with the Catholic Church. The strengths of both approaches to religion can be used to cover the weaknesses.
Svigor -the Church is the Christ. Not the denominatoons. When are we all going to finally learn to be WHITE?
As the Catholic in the commbox, I point out that this rapprochement is not that new. Remember, the Catholic and Lutheran churches were able to agree on the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification 14 years ago; it hardly looked like a European revolt was imminent in 1997.
I am not a Luther expert, but from what I have read find it hard to believe Church doctrine would not find him heretical, and the other way around. But the declaration itself certainly looks orthodox, so if Catholics and many Protestants now agree, I am glad.
I'm glad you give the Galileo statue thing a good spin too, but I just see it as the same type of reparation for guilt liberal Southerners often make.
The Catholic church is like most (all?) other Christian institutions these days–completely infested with liberalism. This is a result of the auto-destruction of the church resulting from Vatican II–the capitulation of the church to the forces of liberalism and modernism within.
The leadership of the church in this respect is no different from the leadership of the Anglican church, the United Methodist church, the government of Norway, the government of the US, etc… they are all busy with progressive "social justice" utopian treachery.
As a result, the majority of Catholics (traditionalist Catholics excepted) like the majority of Jews and mainline Protestants are mislead and support the destruction of Western civilization. Liberalism and modernism are known heresies within the church, which the great popes of the nineteenth and early twentienth century repeatedly warned against.
Most people mistake the liberal version of Jesus for the real one, who threw the moneychangers out of the temple. The corrosive results are before our eyes now.
I think you jumped the shark on this one. Luther has been excommunicated and his teachings condemned as heresy. Similar heresy by the way of the eunuchs, DWLs and Marxists. It will be the proverbial cold day in hell.
It is sad though that the Church has failed to excommunicate similar heretics like Pelosi and Kennedy.
"Federale says:
Wait. That's coming. Not tomorrow – but it's coming…
Americans have a hard enough time telling you who is on the Supreme Court. How many of them do you think understand Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation?
Smart move by Rome.
Hey Earlmundo,you forgot THIS leader of The Reformation,but as you're a religious bigot this ones for you.
You may talk of your Protestant Minister
And his creed without meaning or Faith
For the foundations stones of his temple
Were the bollocks of Henry the Eighth.
Grow up arsehole.


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Q: Only summary data in grafana for blackbox_exporter, not hosts separately blackbox problem
I added blackbox_exporter in my docker-compose.yml:
blackbox_exporter:
  container_name: blackbox_exporter
  image: prom/blackbox-exporter
  restart: always
  ports:
    - "9115:3115"
  networks:
    - monitor-net
  labels:
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I added job into prometheus.yml:
- job_name: 'blackbox'
  metrics_path: /probe
  params:
    module: [http_2xx]  # Look for a HTTP 200 response.
  static_configs:
    - targets: ['google.com','amazon.com']   # Target to probe with https.
  relabel_configs:
    - source_labels: [__address__]
      target_label: __param_target
    - source_labels: [__param_target]
      target_label: instance
    - target_label: __address__
      replacement: blackbox_exporter:9115  # The blackbox exporter's real hostname:port.

I added this dashboard in grafana: https://grafana.com/dashboards/5345 because screenshot on this page was exactly what I need.
Alas, I have only summary graphics without legend, without site-specific chapters.
You can see  screenshot here:

Where my actions were wrong? What can I do with it?

A: In the config you posted, you relabel the blackbox exporter label from __param_target to instance but the dashboard uses target for all the filters and also for the templating variable.
Either change your config to
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or adjust the queries and settings in the dashboard to use instance.


NEW DELHI: In an all-out attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has urged the voters not to elect a Class 12 pass person for the country's top job in the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2019. Kejriwal said this while addressing a mega Opposition rally at the historic Jantar Mantar rally.
Along with this during his speech, Kejriwal said people made a Class 12-pass the prime minister of the country but they should not repeat the mistake in 2019. The Aam Aadmi Party supremo also charged PM Modi with being involved in corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal. Addressing the "Tanashahi Hatao, Loktantra Bachao" rally in presence of opposition leaders including Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar and Chandrababu Naidu, Kejriwal asserted their protest-rally will uproot the Narendra Modi government.
The AAP chief said, referring to questions raised on Modi's educational qualification "Last time you made a Class 12-pass the prime minister of the country. Do not commit the mistake this time and find someone who is educated because a Class 12 pass (person) has not the understanding where he is putting his signs,".
Kejriwal also lauded Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Baneree for the way she tackled the recent issue of CBI officials bid to question Kolkata Police Commissioner in an under-investigation case, saying it was an attack by Modi on the elected government in West Bengal.
However the Delhi CM hit out at the Prime Minister, accusing him of "tearing apart" Dr Ambedkar's Constitution that provides federal structure in the country. Stating that the BJP would observe February 13, marking the fourth anniversary of the AAP government in Delhi, as "Black Day", Tiwari alleged that the national capital was "ruined" under Kejriwal's rule.


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Fjordman: The Breivik Trial Begins
Fjordman's latest essay has been published at Europe News. Some excerpts are below:
The trial against the confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has started in Oslo and will last until June 22, with a verdict expected at some point in July.
Professor Ole Gjems-Onstad is concerned that the mass murderer, who craves personal attention above else, has become a money machine and formed a symbiosis of sorts with newspapers, lawyers, publishing houses and others who make good money from his atrocities while turning him into the mega-celebrity he always wanted to be, instead of ridiculing him as the pathetic creature he is. He thinks the extensive list of ideological witnesses should have been cut, and that "The attempt to turn evil into politics is a diversion."
Hans Rustad of Document.no was present in court as a journalist, along with his friend Christian Skaug. On the first day of the trial, he noted that Breivik seemed unmoved when his murders were mentioned. He clearly enjoys the spotlight, but otherwise seems strangely detached and cut off from reality, leaving "an impression of charade." Rustad figured that his defense lawyers would have a hard time convincing the court that their client is perfectly sane, and did not quite seem convinced of this themselves. With his strange and enigmatic smile, like an evil version of Mona Lisa, Breivik left the impression of being a loose cannon on deck.
During the first day of the trial, the main person took to tears. The columnist Andreas Wiese and I don't always see eye to eye, but in this case we do: Breivik's world ends at the tip of his own surgically altered nose. He has so far shown no empathy whatsoever towards his victims, even when their parents or siblings sit a few meters from him and have to listen to how he killed their loved ones in cold blood.
When he cried as his propaganda video was shown in court, this was because he felt sorry for himself, not for others. That's why it's so ridiculous to hear the same mass media pretend that this has anything to do with ideology. It should be painfully obvious by now that Breivik does not care for anything greater than himself.
Read the rest at Europe News.
For a complete archive of Fjordman's writings, see the multi-index listing in the Fjordman Files.
Paardestaart said...
The list of witnesses is not "designed to get ABB publicity" - it is designed to demonize the witnesses and their ideas
It would be far wiser if Fjordman did not report on the case, and keep silent instead. It has nothing to do with him, of with any of us.
The weight of privileged guilt and remorse in the court room almost made Anders Behring Breivik look like a spectator.
Fjordman evil was turned into politics in Europe long before Breivik's exercise in self-indulgence. The risk is that the contempt for Breivik's actions is manipulated as a political tool to absolve that evil and plunge Europe into silence and darkness.
Cry for the nations.
Jolie Rouge
In the programme shown on BBC2 last night, his defence lawyer said that he was terribly concerned about a scratch on his finger, which he got while perpetrating his crimes. Narcissism bordering on solipsism - a sociopath.
dov said...
I read on a Russian site that "Sound from the courtroom is fed to the 'live' website only in part. Time and again, it is being cut off by censors – as was announced earlier (e.g. they read the witness list, but not the evidence). And Breivik's own speech in which he narrates his motives will not be broadcast either."
Is this more or less the case?
Vortac said...
It's very likely he will be sentenced for life. However, it's very unlikely he will stay there for so long. In 1917. (after the October Revolution), many hardened murderers were promptly released from prisons to join NKVD and the newly founded Red Army, where their skills were very much sought for during the extremely bloody civil war which followed. Stalin himself, a well-known bank robber and murderer at that time, escaped from Tsarist prison in 1917. to join the Revolution. Other imprisoned comrades were not so lucky when the Whites reached them first. Who will come to Breivik first, one day in the future when the welfare state collapses?
"I am Norwegian"
Norwegian beggar on a Norwegian street in competition with East Europeans and others in the country of oil and honey attracting all sorts of asylum seekers of all kinds
Diversity site - in the same country - says this sign makes his begging more lucrative, indicating "racism".
I dont know if its been brought to the Baron and Nym's attention yet, but the Guardian mentioned your blog (but did not link).
Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally as Breivik trial opens
@OT,
The owners of GoV know about that article. Btw did you notice how a certain Ms. Geller was described as someone holding hands between Yanks & Brits? The guy obviously has put his story first & the facts second. Oh Roberta Moore, where are you now...? Nowhere to be seen. Funny that, eh...
""Sound from the courtroom is fed to the 'live' website only in part. Time and again, it is being cut off by censors – as was announced earlier (e.g. they read the witness list, but not the evidence). And Breivik's own speech in which he narrates his motives will not be broadcast either.""
Dov, you're right in pointing this out!
The broadcasting question had even been taken to the Supreme Court, Høyesterett which decided not to broadcast all of Breivik's speech and explanations.
gonzomocha said...
'surgically altered nose'...
do we know that for sure...
interested to see what was there before the tranformation...
kinda makes you think he was readying himself for a career in tv....albeit a short one
Robert in Arabia said...
The Daily Telegraph has closed comments on the trial because of the strong support of pro-Breivik comments. The Daily Mail comments that support Breivik are receiving enormous suppport at this hour.
Fjordman's nose remark was infantile and tacky.
I have a big nose myself, like ABB...
He probably had to take away som bone structure
to get a better air passage...
Nothing more nothing less...
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"Whoa!" Garth said as he stumbled. Inias' grip on his arm was the only thing that kept him upright. "How did we get here? I was in Florida! My car is in Florida!"
"I will retrieve your vehicle for you Garth Fitzgerald." Inias said taking a moment to be sure the young hunter was steady on his feet before disappearing.
"I should warn you," Dean said with a grin. "Flying angel airways tends to make you constipated. Especially the first time."
"Dean stop, before I send Ajax over they to play with you. He still wants to give Uncle Dean puppy kisses don't you boy?" Sam said nuzzling the pup. "It just makes Dean constipated. How are things? Everybody ready to go?"
"Sam! What a cute puppy." Garth said as he approached the younger Winchester arms outstretched to give him a hug. Ajax began growling menacingly.
"That might not be a good idea." Sam said. "Ajax is pretty protective of us. Well me, Kevin, and Jody at least. Uncle Dean doesn't want to play with Ajax, so you might be able to get away with hugging him."
"Come on Sam, he's just a puppy." Garth said carefully holding his out for the wary pup to sniff.
"Actually he's a hell pup. Lucifer just disguised him as a German shepherd so everyone would be comfortable around him." Sam explained.
"It's okay, he'll warm up to me." Garth said before turning in Dean's direction and grabbing the hunter up into a hug. "Dean!"
Dean awkwardly returned the hug, "Garth." And shot Sam a look that promised retribution later. After a few uncomfortable moments he managed to extricate himself from the embrace. "So Garth, you remember Kevin, and this is Sheriff Jody Mills." Dean introduced.
"I've heard a lot about you from Bobby." Garth said before he grabbed Jody and gave her a big hug he then turned to Kevin who also got a big hug while Ajax looked on deciding this new human meant no harm. "So that angel just showed up and dragged me here. He said something about Michael wanting me to sit in on a meeting?"
"Yep! You are going to be privileged to meet all four archangels in a few minutes kiddo!" Gabriel said as he suddenly appeared sitting on the counter with a sucking on a Sugar Daddy. "Don't even think about it. I'll snap you into a time loop." Gabriel warned as the hunter started to approach him with arms out stretched to hug him. Archangels are exempt from hunter hugs, we get enough unwanted hugs from the dad forsaken Cupids!"
Spicy enjoyed the position she held. She was well aware that she was in no way on the level of a Crowley, so being Lucifer's new bestie was a major power jump. That didn't mean that it was smooth sailing when dealing with other demons. She was once again dealing with the annoying asinine nature of demons.
"Look, this isn't me telling you that the Winchesters are off limits, this comes directly from Lucifer." Spicy told the demons who had stormed into the throne room full of complaints about the fact that the Winchesters were directly involved with the battle against Abaddon.
"You would dangle the Winchesters in front of us on the battlefield and expect us to accept the insult?" the most vocal demon snarled. "The Winchesters are the enemies of every demon that exists. They exist only to kill us and they have succeeded with many of our most powerful. You expect us to stand there and wait for them to turn on us when Abaddon has been destroyed?"
"Look," Spicy started reasonably. "Sam Winchester is and always has been the rightful boy king of hell. He has even lived up to his obligation by accepting our dark lord, that Lucifer chooses to spare him is understandable."
"Sam Winchester freed our lord yes, then turned around and confined him right back in it!" The demon argued.
Spicy sighed as she pushed a button under the desk. It was one of the improvements she had put in place when Lucifer gave her the go ahead to begin her renovations of hell. This was the first step in dragging the infernal realm into the 21st century, a panic button.
"I am trying to be reasonable here, Lucifer has issued an order." Spicy said. "He is the Dark Lord, The King, The Leader of the Celestial Rebellion. It is not necessary that agree with his choice, only that we obey."
"Is he our king? Or does his concern now lay with heaven. We have heard the rumors that the Morningstar has been forgiven and placed once again among the Archangels." The demon turned to the others who were with him. "What guarantee do we have of his loyalty to us."
"He has not removed you from existence." Said another voice from behind the group. "Yet you are here repaying his generosity with what sounds suspiciously like treason."
"Who are you?" The demon who had now been clearly revealed as the ringleader.
"Me? No one important. I'm just Alistair's replacement. You can call me…Jack." Jack the Ripper introduced himself then indicated the wendigo at his side, "And this is my associate Jedediah. Miss Tabasco is Lucifer's representative and it would appear to me that your actions here are far from those of a gentleman. A gentleman always treats a lady with respect. You have failed to do so."
"Lady? Lady?!" the demon spat. "That is a man in a dress!"
"She is a demon. Whatever shell she occupied during life means nothing here. She presents herself as a lady and dresses as a female. That makes her a lady." Jack said. "and as a gentleman it is my duty to come to the aid of any lady treated in a less than genteel manner. But more importantly it is my duty to defend my King in his absence."
Jed must have been waiting for some signal because he attacked the demon burying an axe between its shoulder blades. Several other demons now entered the room taking hold of the downed ringleader.
"Strap the traitor to the rack." Jack said. "Jed, feel free to help yourself to an extremity. He won't be needing them when I'm done after all."
The wendigo grinned. "I was considering what to have for lunch. I'm thinking roast of thigh with fava beans and a nice Chianti."
"Jed, why do I have a feeling you have been enjoying those modern conveniences you were so put out over just a few days ago?" Spicy smiled.
"Jed has spent the last day watching Silence of the Lambs repeatedly." Jack said.
"I can tell." Spicy laughed. "I believe that must be the most well known quote from the movie next to 'It puts the lotion on its skin.' Thank you so much for your assistance gentlemen."
"You are quite welcome." Jack said tipping his hat, then turned to the remaining demons. "I trust that the rest of you lot will be on your most gentlemanly behavior when dealing with Miss Tabasco in the future?"
"Of course," One of the remaining demons said. "Please accept our apologies."
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When Canon finally announced the 5D Mk. IV with 4K video, we were all hoping that this would be the start of something. But according to Google Trends, it looks like the public thought it was too little too late. And not only that, but the entire 5D line has been trending downward since 2010. Which could explain why the company may be going all in on mirrorless later this year. But not only that, but DSLRs in general are so 2005.
If you look at the graph on the right, provided by EOSHD, search interest in the Canon 5D line peaked with the 5D Mk. III, but nearly as quickly, the interest in Canon 5D's began to plummet. To date, search activity of the 5D Mk. IV has dropped by 75% over the Mk. III, and overall search queries for Canon DSLRs, have dropped 50% since 2010.
What is the main issue here? Though Nikon was responsible for bringing HD video to the DSLR platform, it was the Canon 5D Mk. II which really started the digital filmmaking trend. But while the 5D Mk. II certainly blazed the trail, and the Mk. III represented a solid follow up, it took a lot longer for Canon to release the next generation Mk. IV, and by then, both Smartphones and Mirrorless cameras had improved to the point that DSLR's weren't the only game in town.
It really all comes down to timing. While Canon zoomed past Nikon with the 5D Mk. II, it really still treated HD video on the camera as more of an afterthought. I think that Canon was unprepared by the incredible demand brought on by the success of DSLR video. But since Panasonic's Mirrorless technology still hadn't hit it's stride, and Sony's full frame camera had yet to be announced, the company seemed to take a conservative, leisurely approach to upgrading. The 5D Mk. III arrived, and by then, there was a crowded field with the Sony Alpha series and the Panasonic GH3 had also hit the market. Suddenly, a lot of shooters were selling their DSLRs and going micro four thirds.
Consequently, the GH4 upgraded with 4K video, and the low light capable Sony A7 arrived. By then, the handwriting was on the wall, and Canon still hadn't announced the Mk. IV. They did, however, announced yet another 1080p centric camera with the dual modeled Canon 5D S/R and people simply didn't know what to make of it. Where was the 5D Mk. IV? Panasonic had had 4K video for nearly three years and Canon users were getting impatient.
So when then 5D4 finally did arrive, people had simply moved on to mirrorless, chiefly with the Panasonic GH5. Sales and rental records for 2017 back all this up, as mirrorless cameras surpassed DSLRs for the first time. Moreover, mobile filmmaking took off thanks to the iPhone 5, and now, people don't seem to be interested in DSLRs anymore.
And that's probably why all the hype is over Nikon and Canon's full frame mirrorless cameras, and why Canon executives are talking about making a major move into mirrorless. It's a pity, because the DSLR has been the backbone of still and video for prosumers for over a decade. But times change, and at least to it's credit, Canon has decided to make the move.
But it's also why we may not see a 5D Mk. V. And that would be sad.


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End of ISIS: a Tremendous Axis of Resistance Victory is Unfolding
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When General Qassem Soleimani presented the victory letter to his leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, announcing the end of DAESH rule in the region, it was not simply a message from an Iranian General to his Commander in Chief.
For four long years, Syria bravely held off internationalized terrorist hordes, ideological clones of al-Saud, with their only direct help from Hezbollah, plus logistic support from Russia and Iran. However, it took more direct engagement by Russia and Iran to turn the tide of that defensive war and convincingly defeat the proxy armies of Washington, Tel Aviv and Riyadh.
This was the message of a regional resistance leader, a key strategist, who had fought the enemy from Saddam Hussein's assaults on Iran, through defense of south Lebanon from Israel's incursions, to defeats of al-Nusra in the towns of the Qalamoun, to the liberations of Aleppo and Tikrit, and the series of victories over DAESH (ISIS), culminating in those at Deir Ezzor and al-Bukamal.
General Soleimani's personal supervision of operations across four allied countries shows why the Islamic Republic of Iran is so feared by both Tel Aviv and Washington. Yet breaking the destructive influence of Israel and the US in the region necessarily means a greater responsibility for Iran. Without a cohesive alliance, the region will again come under attack, to be once again divided and pillaged. Strong regional leadership is essential; and only Iran is capable of providing it.
The IRGC Quds Force leader wrote:
"Six years ago a dangerous plot … covered the Islamic world like a devastating storm … [but] the resistance of the Iraqi and Syrian governments and the perseverance of the armies and young men of these two countries … played an important role in overturning this dangerous event … [I can announce] the termination of the rule of this vicious cursed entity, following the liberation operation of Abu Kamal, as the last fort of ISIS, bringing down the flag of this US-Zionist made terrorist group and raising the flag of Syria."
Credit for this tremendous achievement lies in the bravery and sacrifice of the soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army and its allies, the Russian pilots, sappers and special forces, the Hezbollah-led Lebanese resistance and Iraq's army and its popular mobilization forces: Hashd al Shaabi. All victories were paid for in the blood of the many, mostly young people who defended their nations.
But it was the coordination and combined power of this alliance that imposed itself on the region. When, in his humble way, General Soleimani told Iran's leader that DAESH had been defeated, he was also telling the world that the Axis of Resistance had prevailed. It was not that all terrorism had been eliminated, but rather that all the major bases of the enemy had been taken by the Regional Resistance.
And where would the region be without that Resistance? Lebanon, a state set up to fail, would have disintegrated many years ago. The invited intervention of Syria in the 1970s prevented that disintegration, followed by the rise of an indigenous resistance movement. That movement, led by Hezbollah and aided by Iran, saved Lebanon, while holding off the Zionist colonizers.
In Iraq – where DAESH was created more than a decade ago, precisely to weaken Baghdad and prevent its constructive relationship with Tehran – the American 'liberators' once against betrayed the country. In 2014, Washington withheld the F-16 fighter planes purchased by Prime Minister al Maliki, just as DAESH overwhelmed Mosul. It took another indigenous resistance movement, Hashd al Shaabi, to rise and vindicate Iraq as a nation.
Now the enemy smears both Hezbollah and Hashd al Shaabi, with lies that they are extreme sectarians who do not care about their own people. Coming from the sponsors of al Qaeda, al Nusra and DAESH, that is hard to stomach.
It is true that important resistance initiatives have come from the Shi'a communities of Lebanon and Iraq. There are historical reasons for this, to do with histories of oppression, martyrdom and resistance. However, those same histories, of an alliance of the downtrodden (the mustadafin) have helped engage those communities with their neighbors. Mature leadership in both resistance communities has succeeded in building wider alliances.
The sectarian accusation, particularly from western and Zionist sources, has much to do with the frustration of their 'divide and rule' strategies, as also their dismay in seeing a revival of political will amongst their opponents. Nevertheless, sectarian accusations can never explain Iranian support for pluralist Syria and Sunni Muslim Palestine; nor the Hezbollah-Christian alliance in Lebanon; nor the powerful Shia-Sunni alliance within Hashd al Shaabi.
The fact is that a tremendous Axis of Resistance victory is unfolding, one that confounds the colonial powers. Despite the investment in huge, sectarian mercenary armies, the prosecution of a crippling economic war and a seemingly endless propaganda war, Washington's plan to dismember and cripple the region is failing.
The article was written by Professor Tim Anderson. He is a distinguished author and senior lecturer of political economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. Author of the 'The Dirty War on Syria', he has been largely published on various issues particularly the Syrian crisis.
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Andhra Pradesh Becomes Third COVID-19 Hit State In India
Andhra Pradesh with 30,000 cases in the last three days, became the third worst Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 hit State in India.
Andhra Pradesh with a total of 1,40,933 cases, took over Delhi.
On the 31st of July, Andhra Pradesh recorded 10,376 cases of the Novel Coronavirus, highest single day spike till date.
The State recorded nearly 10,000 COVID-19 cases for three days in a row.
On the 30th of July, Andhra Pradesh recorded 10,167 cases and on the 29th of July, there were 10,093 new cases.
Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, meanwhile, remain the two worst-hit states with 4,22,118 and 2,45,858 cases, respectively.
Delhi is on the 4th position with 1,35,598 and Karnataka rounds off the list of the top five worst-hit states, with a tally of 1,24,115.
These are the only five states in the country to have breached the one lakh case-mark thus far.
Meanwhile, India recorded a total of 16,95,988 cases till date.
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Q: Cordova Windows 10 "content src=" not working Visual Studio 2015
Tool for Apache Cordova Project.  Created using:-
cordova create hello com.somedomain.blah HelloWorld
cordova platform add windows

config.xml
Common: Start Page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Common: Domain Access: *

When run, either on a device (Windows 10 Mobile) or emulator, the project does not load the start page.  No error output is given, it just doesn't do anything.
It works when loading index.html from the www folder.
What am I missing?
The sequence I used to create the project is:-

*

*File > New Project

*JavaScript -> Apache Cordova Apps -> Blank App (Apache Cordova)

*Edit config.xml

*Common -> Start Page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/

*Common -> Domain Access: *

*Platforms -> Cordova CLI: 5.4.1

*Windows -> Windows target version: 10

*Debug -> Windows Phone (Universal) -> Device (or Mobile Emulator 10)

After building and launching it does not load the specified start page, instead just showing a square and X splash screen.
Project Files: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43876768/BlankCordovaApp1.zip


("The Disappearance of Mary Rosemary" plays at The Phoenix Theatre from October 4 through October 26, 2013).
James Barrie is best remembered for "Peter Pan". He wrote other plays that were very successful in his time, but they are mostly forgotten, with the curious exception of "Mary Rose".
Barrie, whose brother died when he was just a boy and whose mid life was haunted by the devastating losses of World War I, was fascinated with the themes of the loss of children and childhood itself, the existence of another world, and the dream of living outside of time.
Long after the creation of Wendy and Peter, the boy who lived eternally on the island of Never Never and would not grow up, Barrie explored similar themes with the mysterious Mary Rose and The Island That Likes To Be Visited.
In "Mary Rose", a young soldier visits a mysterious old house, long abandoned. Left alone by the house agent in the old parlor, he has a vision of the former inhabitants who unfold a peculiar story. A young couple and their daughter once lived here. When their daughter was a young teenager, they went on a fishing vacation. One day, the father left the little girl alone on a tiny island for the afternoon. Returning that evening, he found she had disappeared into thin air. Many days later, she reappeared without explanation, not knowing that time had passed, and seemingly unchanged. Years later, as a young bride and mother, she returns with her husband to the same island. This time she disappears for good. Or does she?
The story of "Mary Rose's" mysterious passage into and return from another world powerfully evokes thoughts of loss and grief, afterlife and the existence of the soul, providing delicious thrills in its persuasive encounter with mystery.
Ian Walker updates the tale from the era of World War I to our contemporary war in Afghanistan, and relocates the peculiarly seductive island from the superstitious highlands of Scotland to the superstitious bayous of Louisiana. The island makes the transition successfully, with magic intact.
Walker does triple duty as playwright, director and sound designer and succeeds threefold. His efforts are well supported by Fred Sharkey's haunting set design, Scarlett Kellum's excellent costumes and Rob Siemens' lights.
The highly skilled cast does a beautiful job of telling the story with clarity and depth. Juanita Wyles stands out as a no-nonsense house agent. Brian Martin, as Mary Rosemary's husband Simon, does a fine job of showing the character's development over many years.
"The Disappearance of Mary Rosemary" , adapted by Ian Walker from J. M. Barrie's "Mary Rose", produced by Second Wind Productions. Director: Ian Walker. Set Designer: Fred Sharkey. Costume Designer: Scarlett Kellum. Sound Designer: Ian Walker. Light Designer: Rob Siemens.
Margaret: Gigi Benson. Mary Rose: Caroline Elizabeth Doyle. Simon: Brian Martin. Gabe: Ryan Martin. Compton: Stephan McGrue. Eugene: Davie Sikula. Ms. Iris: Juanita Wyles.
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MagnaChip EEPROM cell consists of three transistors: one as a floating-gate in the centre and two as select gates at the side walls. The select gates are self-aligned to either side of the floating gate and act as control gates. Because the control gates surround the floating gate on all four sides, they exhibit strong capacitive coupling with the floating gate. Programming and erasure use Fowler–Nordheim (F-N) tunneling, which enables low-power programming/erasure and allows the cell to withstand up to half a million cycles. The MagnaChip EEPROM cell provides outstanding programming and erasure with superior reliability and data retention.
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Every Wednesday, Sprouts has overlapping ads. Today these are all available!
Randalls and Sprouts, the biggest loss-leaders in town, are having weekend sales. I didn't get my weekly post out, but you've still got today to hit up some pretty great deals. This is a quick-n-dirty sum up, and anything else I think is a good deal I'll try to add on.
Remember: If they are out of something you showed up to purchase at a certain price, all you have to do is ask for a raincheck. They will give you a little slip of paper saying you get to purchase X at price Y until date Z (usually about a month off). This is not a big deal and cashiers are totally used to people like me doing this all the time.
Berries and mangos both freeze well. Bacon keeps a long time, and dried fruit is basically the epitome of 'storage food'. All of these are stock-up items at stock-up prices.
A few things seem missing this summer. Of course, I've missed two weeks of posts, so that's one thing missing. Corn seems like it should still be on sale. Berries should be cheaper, especially blueberries which don't seem to have hit a sale price all season. Watermelons had a briefer heyday than usual. It's possible this is me just having a cranky old lady moment, but I feel like these are accurate observations.
In good news, cheap meat! Less grackle HEBs have top sirloin, Prime 1, $5.99/lb at HEB. Prime 1, while not being a USDA grade, is in fact prime grade meat, so if you're splurging, this is a great option. Weirdly, Central Market prime top sirloin for $9.99/lb at Central Market. The CM flyer mentions aging for 14 days, so maybe that's the difference. Meat science can be baffling. Don't get me started on things I've seen labeled 'London Broil'.
Mangos are also having a nomenclature problem this week. Three different ads have mangos that are 3/$1. One is Ataulfo mangos, one is yellow honey mangos, and the other is Ataulfo honey mangos. I tried to research, but found this site saying they're the same. My only comment beyond that is that all the other mangos have guy names, which makes me want to invent a mango and call it the Jen-go.
I will stop rambling. There is food on sale: blackberries, oats, chicken and eggs are all cheep this week. Happy Shopping!
No way! ALL of these are vegan? Zowzers.


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Native Oyster Making a Comeback
Education & academia Sustainability Environment
12 June 2014, at 1:00am
AUSTRALIA - The revival of the native oyster (Ostrea angasi) in South Australian waters is adding a delicious aquaculture product to the States premium seafood selection.
Local oyster producers have this month snapped up the latest batch of more than one million native oyster spat produced by the State Government's research provider, the South Australian Research and Development Insititute (SARDI) in response to the rising demand for the large, tasty delicacy from niche markets, such as high-end restaurants.
SARDI's Aquaculture Science Program Leader, Professor Xiaoxu Li, said the spat was the result of the research team refining hatchery techniques for native oyster spat production over the past three years.
"The reintroduction of the native oyster to local oyster leases would boost the viability of the State's A$40 million (2011-12 Econsearch report) oyster aquaculture sector," Professor Li said.
"This appetite for South Australian seafood paves the way for the return of the local native oyster to our plates, and SARDI's innovation has made this possible.
"It is also a smart step forward for oyster growers who want to diversify and expand their business."
As part of the World Aquaculture Adelaide 2014 conference delegates have been given a taste test of the native oyster with the research to be showcased during a post tour of the South Australian Aquatic Sciences Centre at West Beach on Thursday (12 June).
More than three million native oyster spat have been produced at the SARDI hatchery over the past three years to help growers build the new industry with growers on Kangaroo Island and the Eyre Peninsula using the spat to assess the best farming methods to grow the oysters and to explore market potential.
Native oysters are sold at a size similar to Pacific oysters, but can fetch twice the price of the popular and introduced Pacific oyster. The native oyster fishery was the State's first dating back to the 1860s, but the industry collapsed in the early 1900s as a result of overfishing.
Professor Li said producing native oyster spat under hatchery conditions was more difficult than for Pacific oysters because there was not a robust technique to control their spawning and to culture newly fertilised eggs.
"Unlike Pacific oyster eggs which are spawned into the environment directly, newly fertilised native oyster eggs rely on their broodstock to look after them in their first eight to ten days before they are released into the environment," Professor Li said.
"Also, we cannot tell visually which broodstock are pregnant and on average a broodstock normally produces about 1 million early-shelled larvae at each spawning, which is at least five times less than what will be spawned by the Pacific oyster of the similar size.
"So we have to collect or condition many more broodstock than we will be able to use as a larvae source."
SARDI researchers have been collecting the progenies of different ages, from a few hours to a week old, from the females directly, and then rearing them in 2000 litre round tanks. They are fed a mixture of four microalgae species produced in SARDI's algal culture system.
With a 70 per cent survival rate, SARDI is now investigating reproductive strategies and further optimising spat production techniques to enable the native oyster sector to expand, while containing and where possible reducing input costs.
SARDI's native oyster work has been supported by Marine Innovation Southern Australia (MISA), along with the SA Oyster Research Council, SA Oyster Growers Association and Pristine Oyster Farm, Eyre Peninsula.
MISA is a partnership of the Government of SA, SARDI, Flinders University, University of Adelaide, South Australian Museum and the seafood industry.
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Q: Why does this MCMC algorithm to estimate parameters of a linear equation not converge to the posterior distribution? As a kind of proof of principle I'm trying to estimate the parameters of a linear equation (before moving on to ODEs) using Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. The post that I am following can be found at this link https://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/mcmc-and-fitting-models-to-data/
Essentially what I am doing is not working and I'm wondering if anybody can spot the reason why?
The model
$$y=mx+c$$
evaluated at $m=2$ and $c=4$ as a simple linear model:
The Algorithm

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*Initialize $m0$ and $c0$ to be random values (I arbitrarily chose 25 for both) and evaluate a function that measures the descrepancy between the experimental and simulated data (where of course in this case the experpimental data is also simulated with the correct parameters). I use the sum of squares $SSR$:

$$ SSR=\frac{(SimulatedData-ExperimentalData)^2}{2*sigma^2}$$
Because there is no experimental error in this model, sigma was arbitrarily chosen to be 0.0001 in all cases.

*I then begin a loop and sample from prior $π_m$ and $π_c$, producing $m_prop$ and $c_prop$ respectively, which are both uniformly distributed between 0 and 100.

*Calculate the $SSR$ with the sampled parameters

*Calculate the likelihood ratio $LR$:
$$ LR=exp[\frac{(-ln(SSR proposed)+ln(SSR current)}{2*sigma^2}]$$

*Randomly accept the new parameters by sampling again from the uniform distribution between 0 and 1 (call this $r$). If $LR>r$ the new parameters are accepted and $m_prop$ becomes $m0$ and $c_prop$ becomes $c0$

As a side question, why do some people say the acceptance probability is $min(1,LR)$ whereas the post that I'm following uses random acceptance?

*Iterate until convergence

Results

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Courtesy of Joriki's answer, I have removed the $2*sigma^2$ term from the likelihood function such that step 4 now reads:

*Calculate the likelihood ratio $LR$:
$$ LR=exp[(-ln(SSR proposed)+ln(SSR current)]$$

This has considerably improved the results:

Matlab Code
For completeness and to give the details of the algorithm, here is the code I'm using to generate the plots:
interval=1:100;
y=mx_plus_c((2),interval,(4));
n=1e5; %iterations
results=zeros(n,8);
m0=25;
c0=25;
y_sim=mx_plus_c(m0,interval,c0);
SSR_cur=SSR(y,y_sim,0.0001);
mlb=log(1);   %lb lower bound, ub upper bound respoectively
mub=log(100);
clb=log(1);
cub=log(100);
for i=1:n,
    m_prop   =   (mlb+(mub-mlb).*rand(1,1)   )   ;
    c_prop   =    (clb+(cub-clb).*rand(1,1)   )  ;
    SSR_prop=SSR(y,mx_plus_c(m_prop,interval,c_prop),0.0001);
    likelihood_ratio=exp((-log(SSR_prop)+log(SSR_cur)));
    r   =    ( (0+(1-0).*rand(1,1)   )  );
    if likelihood_ratio>r,
        m0=m_prop;
        c0=c_prop;
        SSR_cur=SSR_prop;
    end
    results(i,1)=m0;
    results(i,2)=c0;
    results(i,3)=SSR_cur;
    results(i,4)=m_prop;
    results(i,5)=c_prop;
    results(i,6)=SSR_prop;
    results(i,7)=likelihood_ratio;
    results(i,8)=r;

end
% results
figure(2)
hist(results(:,1),1000)
title('Distribution of m parameters','fontsize',16)
xlabel('Parameter Values','fontsize',16)
ylabel('Frequency','fontsize',16)

figure(3)
hist(results(:,2),1000)
title('Distribution of c parameters','fontsize',16)
xlabel('Parameter Values','fontsize',16)
ylabel('Frequency','fontsize',16)

Where: mx_plus_c is a Matlab function:
function y=mx_plus_c(m,x,c)
y=m*[x]+c;
end

And SSR is also a Matlab function
function chi2 = SSR(sim,exp,sigma)
chi2 =sum(  (  ([sim]-[exp]).^2)./ ( 2*sigma^2) ) ;

A: There are several problems – without seeing the details of the simulation, it's hard to tell which, if any, of them are causing the failure.

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*You're choosing the parameters anew every time – you're not making use of the previous progress in improving the parameters. The idea is to propose new parameters in the vicinity of the present parameters, not sample them from the same distribution every time. (What exactly the "vicinity" is depends on the specific application, and you can change it over time to take big steps at first and then increasingly small steps.)

*I don't think you should be taking the logarithm and dividing by $2\sigma^2$ again in computing the likelyhood ratio – you should just be exponentiating the difference between the squared errors. Since your $\sigma$ is tiny, this may be causing problems.

*You don't say how you determine convergence. With that tiny value of $\sigma$ and that broad prior that you never change, if you terminate after a certain number of failed attempts to change the parameters, this may just be leaving you in some random place because you're unlikely to make progress in each step.

Generally, to debug this sort of thing, you should look at the values as they evolve and try to check at each stage whether what is happening corresponds to what you expected to happen, instead of just making one big plot in the end that doesn't show what went wrong.
As to your side question, "why do some people say the acceptance probability is $\min(1,LR)$ whereas the post that I'm following uses random acceptance?", I don't understand the question – using an acceptance probability of $\min(1,LR)$ is random acceptance (namely with a certain probability), and it's exactly what you're doing: If $LR\gt1$, you always accept, and otherwise you accept with probability $LR$.


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Visualize your ideas and requirements by showing examples or put into a draft sketch. This will help your interior designer to understand your requirements better.
Budgeting and be financially ready before starting the project. You may consider renovation loan if necessary, it is available in major consumer banks in Singapore with a rather low interest rate.
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Plumbing and electrical wiring are advise to change to whole brand new sets. For old plumbing, it tends to leak or have strange sound after it has been used for long. For electrical wiring, it is advised to change to a new set for safety concern as the insulator used will be harden and easier to break after long. As most of the time repairing of this needs some hacking, hence it is advise to change to whole new set during complete home renovation.
If the property of renovation is an stay-in property, you might need to find an alternative accommodation during this period, rent a house is an option to consider. Need to factor in this into your budget.


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Lib Dems Leader Vows to Stop Brexit
Like most European parties that have "Democrat" in their names, the Lib Dems are anything but democratic.
Britain's Liberal Democrat party elected a new leader Monday, with the successful candidate using her first messages to party members to promise that she would be doing everything in her power to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the European Union.
Jo Swinson became the first female leader of the Liberal Democrats Monday, when she took 62 per cent of 76,429 members' votes cast in the leadership ballot against Sir Ed Davey.
She lost absolutely no time making clear what her leadership would be about, using her acceptance speech to set herself strongly against the democratically expressed will of the British people in 2016 that the United Kingdom should leave the European Union. Swinson told her audience: "In the face of nationalism, populism, the catastrophe of Brexit, the two old parties have failed.
"We believe the UK's best future is as members of the EU, and that's why as your leader, I will do whatever it takes to stop Brexit."
Writing to party members shortly afterwards, Swinson hit a very similar if slightly coarser note when she told paid-up Liberal Democrats: "When I say Bollocks to Brexit I mean it. This isn't a normal political issue – this is about the fundamental direction of our country for generations to Brexit, in any form, is a disaster for our country and we'll do everything in our power to stop it."
While most UK political parties publicly accepted that while they may not have wanted Britain to leave the EU it was clear that the British people wanted to, the Liberal Democrats spotted a gap in the market for an avowedly anti-Brexit political force. Seeing off Europhilic competition from the chaotic and gaffe-prone Independent Group, the Liberal Democrats now campaign predominantly on two new slogans — "Stop Brexit" and "Bollocks to Brexit", depending on the intended audience — and have grown their vote share.
This strategy paid off in the recent European Union parliament elections when they came second to Nigel Farage's Brexit party. With 19 per cent of the vote, the Liberal Democrats gained 15 seats, behind Brexit's 29 seats — catapulting the newly formed Eurosceptic party into the position of being the single largest political party in the European Union.
The Liberal Democrats were once a powerful force in British politics, being one of the two main parties through Georgian and Victorian eras alongside the Conservatives before they were displaced by the Labour Party in the early 20th century. Although they only hold 12 of the 650 seats in the British House of Commons, they did enjoy a brief period of importance during the 2010-2015 parliament when their party entered into a coalition with the centrist Conservatives under David Cameron.
The goods news is she will destroy the festering entrails of what remains of this undemocratic, illiberal party.


Thousands of elderly women could be spared from painful hip fractures if Britain introduced a national osteoporosis screening programme, research suggests.
More than a quarter of hip fractures were prevented in a five-year trial of GP screening.
If rolled out nationally, it could save 8,000 women from suffering devastating bone breaks every year.
In the study, led by the University of East Anglia and the University of Sheffield, researchers questioned women in their 70s and 80s about lifestyle and medical history to determine whether they were at risk.
Those at the highest risk were then invited to have their bone density scanned. If they were found to have weak, brittle bones, they were offered osteoporosis drugs. The results, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed that over five years those women who were screened suffered 28 per cent fewer hip fractures.