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Japan: The Hadaka Matsuri or Naked Man Festival!
The price of prosperity.
Naked, Violent, Frozen, Blessed and Happy!
Shivering in their loincloth, thousands of men took part this weekend in Japan at the perilous Hadaka matsuri, festival of the naked man, to try to seize wooden lucky charms thrown into the crowd by Buddhist monks.
The test, which takes place every February in Okayama (west), begins on a Saturday, at dusk, with an icy bath. This year, some 10,000 courageous souls have plunged into a pool of cold water to cleanse their bodies and prepare for a tough battle.
"There is the idea of facing the sacred heart bare, as we are," said Kazuhiko Nishigami, auto mechanic.
Faithful crowd inside Saidaiji temple, fists and elbows to find the best place. An impressive human melee of torsos and bare legs, arms raised to the sky to catch the precious "shingi" wooden sticks 4 cm in diameter and 20 cm long.
The wait can last for an hour, putting a suffocating crowd to death, wincing in pain, seeming to implore forgiveness.
Overhanging, the monks pour on them holy water, then the black is done and the sticks rain, seen at the only glow of the flashes of cameras and cameras.
Shintoist ritual mysterious ancestral!
Those who manage to seize a talisman must then fight fiercely so that it does not fall into the hands of rivals eager for its protective powers and sometimes intoxicated by alcohol.
"The stick fell in the middle of our group, I quickly hid it in my" mawashi (loincloth) "and I left as if nothing had happened," said Kosuke Yasuhara, 38, a firefighter by profession. Once left the sacred enclosure, the trophy is out of danger.
But not everyone is so lucky.
This mysterious ritual, which has been going on for 500 years and is also available as a "children" version, has killed people in the past, even if the organizers want to be reassuring."We want to remember that this is a religious festival, so we have become much stricter about alcohol and violent behavior," said one of the monks, Tsuboi Zenko. It is also "forbidden to wear soles". As a precaution, however, each participant must write his blood type on a document, then placed in the loincloth in case of serious injury.
But the reward is up. "Those who seize the amulet are promised prosperity," says the monk. Mr. Yasuhara, soon a father, leaves with a big smile. "This amulet is a gift from the gods, which will bring us in April a baby in full health", he assures.
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Kasaï, the new "Congolese Holy Land"?
The promised land in R.D.C., change of course?
During the Mobutu Sese Seko Regime (1965-1997), the natives of the Equator Region, especially the Ngbandi, had all the rights and benefits: free scholarships, prestigious positions, missions handsomely remunerated, non-refundable credits and especially impunity legally guaranteed ... They even obtained compliant diplomas or used false documents, because the professors and all the academic authorities were at the orders of politics! And as the supreme political and academic authority was Mobutu ..! Corruption guaranteed rapid enrichment, a meteoric rise and absolute impunity. Speaking of Zaire, Litho Moboti, Uncle and dignitary of Mobutu often boasted: "The Affair belongs to us!" Today the "elect" of yesterday have become the "Damned" of the Earth and live unhappy in the ruins of the palaces and megalomaniac projects of the "enlightened Guide", Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga. Today in a politically indefinite diaspora, they consider themselves the only true "Congolese", the others being only invaders who destroy the country they had built (?). They still do not understand that power has abandoned them, forever. And that Mobutu is definitely dead !!
During a Mass on the occasion of the second anniversary of the death of the historical opponent Etienne Tshisekedi on February 1, 2019, Bishop Gérard Mulumba (brother of the deceased) compared him to Moses of the Bible and his son , the new Congolese president, to Joshua. Kasai would be the new "Holy Land".
Poor of me, my plane was mistaken airport landing!
With my state diploma obtained in Jomba, North Kivu, I could not register at the University! Impossible, because this year 1973, a diktat of Mobutu forbade the Universities to recruit new students without experience of at least two years of "Civic Service". With all my finalist comrades, we had to give classes for two years at the elementary school before thinking of continuing our studies at the University. In fact, Mobutu was suspicious of university students who had just turned the military bondage upside down during their compulsory enrollment. Clever, a friend had advised me to go through Kananga Pre-University to circumvent this unjustifiable "Diktat", because Zaire badly needed University!
For my first plane trip, an Air Zaire DC4, the Zairean crew made a mistake at landing airport and the plane was over Luanda, the Angolan capital. At that time, aviation was still elementary. As Zaire was on bad terms with the Angolan colonists, it was ordered to turn back. It is fortunate that we returned to Kananga thanks to the fuel tank of this old DC4 in which several passengers were vomiting because of the violent jolts. The Luanda-Kananga route, however short, was not very pleasant.
Kananga, a breeding ground for the Public Force and the Congolese army!
Ironically, without knowing it, the Zairian dictator had just sent me to the army pool, where most of the officers of the Zairean Armed Forces were trained, including himself. Kananga, capital of Western Kasai, had just definitively erased its name of Luluabourg, that is to say the city of Baluba Lulua or Malandji-wa-Nshinga. Destined to be the new capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the project built before independence was abandoned by the newly decolonized Congolese who had other problems more urgent to solve! But in 1973, the city had a modern, clean face and the inhabitants then behaved as model citizens (civility, cleanliness, respect and welcome from abroad, etc.).
The unique history of the Province has made it the heart of the Congolese Nation!
Between 1897 and 1898, the first anti-colonial revolt started from Luluabourg! Part of a rebellion within the Force Publique, it quickly turned into an insurrectional movement against the authority of the independent state of the Congo. It was organized by the Kasaïens soldiers, of Tetela origin, who revolted against their Belgian officers because of the unjust execution of some of their native chiefs. After the Second World War, there was a lot of excitement within the Force Publique (colonial army) on the part of the natives, that is to say Congolese soldiers. Indeed, they had fought on behalf of Belgium to the Middle East.
From this experience was born a certain maturity and a spirit of demand. This revolt ended in a repetition pitiless rift on the part of the colonizer. The garrison most concerned by these events was Luluabourg. But these facts were among the elements that made Belgians understand that the Congolese in this region will not let themselves go long. Why then, thought the Colonizer, do not make it the capital of the Congo, especially since it is at its center? Consult the natives yes but why in "The Colony of Silence"? The ultimate five-year colonial plan in which this project was inscribed was definitely buried with independence in 1960.
And yet it was in Luluabourg that the word "Independence" was first mentioned in 1956.
Founding member of the ABAKO and co-editor of his "Manifesto" in 1956, Ngalula Joseph, a son of Kasaï, would have formulated the word "independence" in Luluabourg which is included in this manifesto. This word will now haunt the Belgians for many months until its accession on June 30, 1960. It is with this in mind that I landed at Kananga airport one evening in September 1973. Life was then pleasant and on this nice plateau, the studies were nice but, it was not really the University despite the quality of the courses and teachers! And with Mobutu, attached to his province of Ecuador and to his Authenticity, Kananga like the other provinces had become suburban cities. Only the "Djalelo Mulopwe Mobutu" which punctuated the animation sessions of the "Local Folk Group", nothing else seemed to augur any development of Kananga whose infrastructure was deteriorating inexorably.
"Kapia", the flame of the Zairian Revolution, title of the single Duck in the center of the city.
The cunning director of the newspaper "Kapia, flame in Tshiluba" had taken advantage of its editorial headquarters in the middle of the City to draw the front of the wall, the torch of the Zairian flag, title of Kapia. It was impossible to miss it when you enter Kananga City. If he had known that the arm that held the torch was not human, perhaps he would have been less proud of the pretentious look of the guide visiting Kananga? Regardless of the MPR and its enthusiasm, Kananga remained the spearhead of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The merit of this nascent democratization inevitably comes from Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, a native of Kananga.
A letter to Mobutu, dearly paid by its signatories?
In 1980, Deputy Speaker Gabriel Biringanine Mugaruka declared to anyone who would listen that he did not want to sign "Open Letter from the Thirteen Parliamentarians to President Mobutu", but that he was pushed there! In addition, he did not have his medical glasses while signing. Indeed the closure of his hotel closed in Bukavu earned him a huge shortfall! As for Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, one of the thirteen leading editors of the famous letter demanding democracy in Zaire, his business and his life were going to experience serious disruption. It was during this summer that I was going to meet him in Matadi during my mission in the Department of Planning. Responsible for the American Program PL480, at the Counterparty Fund Secretariat, I was in Matadi to supervise the unloading of the American Rice, granted to Zaire under the said program. In the rest of the city of Matadi, a minute away from the Hotel Métropole where I was eating, I sit at the table next to Mr. Etienne Tshisekedi, a Kino shopkeeper who came to control the unloading of his American rice. I had in my binder the copy of the contract of attribution concluded with my department. Since I did not have the right to contact U.S Aid distributors to avoid any attempt at official corruption, I gave him a nod, to which he replied kindly.
If he had known what was waiting for him, Etienne Tshisekedi would have taken me falsely for a hypocrite!
An elegant man in a beige safari, that was distinguished from the commercial and sufficient flattering that I had often deal. I realized that he was not an ordinary trader when I received a phone from my Direction asking me to cancel his contract for sedition. He was a parliamentarian who was about to be banished by the Legislative Council for having dared to demand from Marshal Mobutu to authorize democracy in Zaire. His crime of Lèse-majesté was aggravated by the creation on February 15, 1982, of a party other than the MPR, party-state, which he dared call "Democratic Union for Social Progress (UDPS)" as if the MPR did not not social! «What pretension? I'm going to break you » had shouted Mobutu to the Voice of Zaire, the only national television in the country. A threat immediately put into execution: Ruining the 13 parliamentarians, the ruin of their immunity, torture to humiliate them and make them lose their reason and relegate them to their respective villages, far from the comfort of the capital, any means of communication and access to medical care. His son, Felix Tshisekedi Tshilombo, the new president of the D.R.C., then as a teenager, can best talk about it because he accompanied his country in his exile to Kabeya Kamwanga in the vicinity of Kananga.
Thanks to a U.S. mission of the African-American Lobbyists in Kinshasa brutalized by the gorillas of C.N.D. !
Venus attend the forbidden lecture of the U.D.P.S. at the international hotel, some of the Congressmen were caught in a brawl provoked by the « Gorillas » of the A.N.R., the Mobutu's securiy service. Were the first propagandists of the U.D.P.S. in the U.S.A.. The sequel was the epic decade of the cat and the mouse in which Mobutu excelled. On April 24, 1990, ten years after the creation of the U.D.P.S. by Etienne Tsisekedi and Marcel Antoine Lihau and after having plunged Zaire into the last circle of Dante, haunted the fear of the humiliating public execution of his Romanian friends Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, the ultimate victims of "Perestroika", Mobutu, the tear to the eye, accepted in spite of himself, multiparty. This April 24, 1990 will remain forever that of a shared emotion between a dictator strapped in his last "Abacost" and a Zairian people suddenly became libertarian not knowing what political freedom looks like.
President François Mitterrand had to deliver a speech at La Baule, prepared by the French Academic writer Erik Orsenna on June 20, 1990, so that French-speaking African dictatorships collapsed one after the other. The conferences which followed were real "Exutoires" for the oppositions long muzzled. But Mobutu had not written the epilogue, for he himself had prepared the chaos that would sweep everything after his reign. A war, coupled with a disease, was necessary for the one who wanted to sell expensive, his leopard skin, the animal in which he had incarnated.The Sovereign National Conference, a real popular outlet, a lightning war, poorly cared prostate cancer that had to take Mobutu and his Zaire to hell in 1997.
Difficult to inherit the racketeering secret of "Rackham the Red" without being a pirate yourself or the descendant of his famous enemy François Haddock?
Thus Laurent-Désiré Kabila, whose life had been adventurous became the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was not democratic. He was an imitator of Mobutu, but he was certainly not his heir. The evidence, four years later, he was killed by his entourage because of his excessive authoritarianism. Was not his death, still unclear, filled by the access to power of his adopted son? And if he was Brutus who had succeeded? If so why during 18 years of power, has the latter attracted the hatred of a large part of the post-Mobutu generation? Has Kananga once again become the original core of Congolese democracy with the election of Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo?
Many Congolese who dream of Democracy hope to be part of generations weaned from the Mobutist curse?
The "African Arrangement" that brought Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo to power on January 24, 2019, according to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, is he not a mea culpa of Joseph Kabila Kabange to the father of Congolese democracy? Under international pressure, would he have felt unable to steal the son's electoral victory after the father's spoilage in 2011? In any case, the very first peaceful alternation of power in the Republic gradually erases the pessimistic forecasts of the « Va-t-en guerre » and pseudo-Mobutist Resistance. Only the future will prove to us that it is not a truce or a revolt! Because when the remains of Mobutu and his most formidable political opponent Etienne Tshisekedi will rest in his homeland and the reconciliation of the people will be effective Congolese (despite a system of alternating perfectible), the "Resistance" and other "Opponents" in the diaspora will all lose their horse of battle and will gradually disappear one after the other.
The demons of Felix Tshisekedi's regime are intrinsic to its origins.
During my few days of study at the Pre University, I noticed the pretentious and tribalist mentality of Baluba and Lulua. While chatting with my classmates, word returned regularly in the conversation "Mwanetu, that is to say My dear brother" to make sure of the agreement of his partner. At the University of Lubumbashi, I noticed the same "Vantard" mentality among Kasai students. Returning to Kananga a few years later as a Plan official, I realized that the city was in real decay, but the local youth had not lost its free pretense. In the capital Kinshasa, a successful Muluba automatically becomes proud with "upstart behavior".
A population that disdains agriculture and livestock?
While visiting the Kananga market, I was struck by the diversity of insects and various beetles and edible birds, alongside the crocodile meat and pieces of python that I had never seen in a Kivu market. There were few local fresh agricultural products (beans, small weights, vegetables, fruits, goat meat and cow, etc.). I concluded by observing the beautiful green plateaus around Kananga, that its inhabitants favored hunting and gathering for agriculture and livestock. The only agricultural product sold in the city was the "Tumbele, that is to say peanuts" which was sold at all corners of the streets, alongside the donuts. The rest of the vagrants and walkers indulged in the "Bento" and the scam. Was manual labor repulsive? This is perhaps the Baluba's specificity: working as little as possible to gain as much as possible.
Many pretentious Kasai, liars, rogues and counterfeiters.
Whence perhaps this complex of false superiority which makes of eternal "Counterfeiters and Rogue". This is the internal disease of the "Union for Democracy and Social Progress", the party of Felix Tshisekedi Felix Antoine in power in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The last big but most disturbing defect of the U.D.P.S. is the lack of business sense. If Etienne Tshisekedi had waited a few months before spreading "The letter to Mobutu of 52 pages" in 1980, signed by 13 parliamentarians, he cashed the profits on the sale price of the quota of the U.S. Rice allocated to him by the « Secretariat of Counterpart Funds » in the framework of the PL480 Program. His idealism made him miss millions of dollars, that would probably have paid for the university studies of Félix, who was then 17 years old.
If I made a somewhat harsh judgment about my friends and compatriots, it's because I really like my native country and my age is between the main founder of the U.D.P.S., the late Etienne and his heir, Félix-Antoine. Indeed, I was born in 1953, that is to say 12 years after the birth of the first (1941) and 10 years before that of his son (1963). And if there is a region and a Congolese population that I know well, it is the former Kasai Occidental after my native region North Kivu. And the day young Congolese do not listen to the advice of the elders, the Democratic Republic of Congo will cease to exist! And those of the U.D.P.S. must stop bringing the party back to a Luba affair, because it is the incubator of all the Congolese Opposers to the dictatorships, that have succeeded to power since Mobutu. Armed with my ten years of experience in the Ministry of Planning and private business in Switzerland since 1991, I speak especially to the people in power: I am willing to give them uninterested practical advice on how to rethink economic development the country and mobilize the maximum capital and especially their use, without going through international aid and waste (apart from any political demagoguery*).
* Kanyarwunga I.N. Jean, Les Générations condamnées (The condemned generations. Dismissal of a pre-capitalist society), Publibook, Paris, 2006.
French Polynesia: Former President Gaston Flosse convicted of hijacking Verroterie!
Share the wild pig and yam in a shell!
The tourist image of Polynesia is to dress in straw and share in a huge shell, a dish of wild pig and yam, stewed on heated stones under the ground. Then dance naked belly with vahines, topped with flowers, dressed in woven loincloths of straw, with straw necklaces around.
Who does not dream before visiting Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia? But unfortunately this image of Epinal does not please an old French dreamer of Limoges crockery and crystal glasses!
Gaston Flosse, the cacique of Polynesian Politics out of his plate!
The former president of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse was sentenced Tuesday to 16,700 euros fine for embezzlement of public property and concealment, in a case of dishes.
Justice accuses him of having appropriated some of this tableware belonging to the Presidency of French Polynesia. He and his companion will pay 8.300 Euros in damages.
All of this luxury service, consisting of Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal glasses, was estimated by the public prosecutor at 50,000 euros.
Part of the service had been found at his home, and another in a dining room of the assembly used by Mr. Flosse. He had lost all his mandates a few weeks earlier, in September 2014, after being convicted in a fictitious job case.
A lenient sentence, but beware of the recurrence!
The public prosecutor's office had demanded one year in prison in August and three years ineligibility against Gaston Flosse. The sentence was therefore deemed "lenient" by his lawyer, who does not intend to appeal.
President several times of French Polynesia, but also deputy then senator, close to Jacques Chirac has been condemned several times. At 85, Gaston Flosse is serving a three-year term of ineligibility, but has already announced his intention to be a candidate in the territorial elections of 2018. Will he ever share the pig and the yam in a shell?
Israel: a vulture alleged spy recovered in Lebanon thanks to the UN.
U.N. peacekeepers have fulfilled a good offices mission between two countries still in a state of war by helping the return of a vulture captured in Lebanon on suspicion of espionage for Israel, Israeli authorities said Friday.
"During a discreet operation with the Lebanese and with the assistance of UN forces (...), the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority managed to recover the vulture that had been captured there. a few days ago by villagers from Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, "the Authority said in a statement.
The United Nations mediated between the Lebanese and the Gamla Reserve where the vulture lived before crossing the border, the Authority said.
"The efforts were successful and the vulture was returned last night to a satisfactory state of health at the border at Rosh Hanikra," a kibbutz in northern Israel, she added. The raptor, taken care of, is "weak and has minor injuries," the Authority said.
A photo posted on social networks show soldiers in blue beret surrender the animal.
Israel's environmental authorities had expressed concern for the first time on Tuesday when social media footage showed the raptor, carrying an Israeli identification ring and a transmitter, in the hands of Bint Jbeil residents.
One could see "the vulture tied with a rope by inhabitants" who suspected him of spying for Israel, they had reported.
The vulture had moved about four kilometers into Lebanese territory, they said.
France/Zaïre/RDC: Mobutu's farewell letter to his ultimate friend Jacques Chirac and to power!
To His Excellency Jacques Chirac,
President of the French Republic,
Kinshasa, May 11, 1997.
Mister President,
First of all, I would like to extend my sincere greetings. To you, as well as to your wife. In the name of the very long friendship that binds us for more than a decade.
Today, the situation is painful for me. Given the gravity of the moment. First, at the level of my power where I lost the efficiency on the population. Then, at the military level, it is impossible for me to stop the rebels' advance towards Kinshasa, which they can reach at any moment.
As for Kinshasa, I can not promote a useless bloodbath. Because, in any case the rebels will reach it well. Everything is a matter of time.
Should I remind you that I am facing an unjust war? Today, the United States and Great Britain through South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda and Angola use the band leader Laurent Désiré Kabila to stab me in the back enjoying of my illness.
Formerly, the United States were my allies, remember the Angolan episode. I reserve the right to publish my memoirs in the coming days. Then the whole world will finally know unsuspected truths so far.
My friend, you know as well as I that the band leader Laurent Désiré Kabila is a dubious, genocidal and inappropriate personality to lead Zaire as head of state. I tried everything to prevent that. But its Western masters, the United States in this case support it and encourage it in this way.
Faced with the American obstinacy and the continuous deterioration of my state of health, I am obliged to announce to you my intention to transfer the power to Kabila during our next meeting on Utenika on May 14th.
May God help Zaire!
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Waza Banga
President of the Republic
The Marshal of Zaire was expelled from power on May 17, 1997. Before this fateful date, many initiatives were attempted with the obvious aim of sparing the dictator a humiliating fall, evoking the pretext of avoiding bathing. of blood in Kinshasa and that of safeguarding national unity. In the letter dated May 11, 1997 to Chirac, Mobutu knows he can not do anything and does not even dare to call the French president for help. All he does is complain in particular accusing Great Britain, the United States and some African countries of stabbing him in the back.
Algeria: The mysteries around the death of Houari Boumediene
"Health and Power, memories of a Kremlin doctor! "
The revelations of Yevgeny Tchazov, the chief medical officer who headed the "Department 4" in charge of the health of communist leaders in the Kremlin, put back to date the still unresolved conditions of the death of President Houari Boumediène. He pleaded the thesis of poisoning. What justifies the reopening of an investigation ...
Professor Tchazov's interview with the Arabic-language replica of the Russian international channel focused on his testimony about the care provided by the Soviet doctors to the Egyptian and Algerian Presidents, Nasser and Boumediene. A testimony recorded in his book recently published "Health and Power, memories of a doctor of the Kremlin", where he concluded, in essence, that "there is someone who would have helped President Boumediène to join the beyond.".
Why was the Algerian leader poisoned and by whom?
Recall the context. It was just after the signing of Middle East Peace Agreements negotiated between Egypt and Israel at Camp David in the United States. President Boumediene had gone to U.S.S.S. for care on his return from a tour that had taken him to ten capitals in the Middle East and ended with a summit of the "Firm Front" (Syria, Libya, Democratic Yemen, PLO and Algeria), held in Damascus in September 1978.
President Boumediène then undertook to rally the "wait-and-see". Advocating principled intransigence in order to keep the Palestinians desperate after Egypt's defection, the Algerian president relied heavily on a reconciliation between Syria and Iraq, which is critical to the credibility of a northern front against Israel.
The first suspect was unsuspected: Sddam Hussein!
However, the Iraq of Saddam Hussein who fought against the Maghreb claim of leadership in the Front of Firmness, had flip-flopped and boycotted the summit at the last minute, putting Boumediene, who had invested some of his authority, in embarrassment .
The Damascus summit had, in any case, ended in the reconciliation of Palestinians and Jordanians. And while the United States waved the threat of military intervention to ensure peace, the participants had decided to resort to the US. The geopolitical tension that followed had nearly caused another war in the region.
Secret and fear of lynching Russian doctors
In short, Prof. Evgueni Tchazov remembered, at the height of his 84 years, the conditions under which he had received President Houari Boumediene (1932-1978), the secrecy to which the doctors entrusted to the U.S.S.R. had been subjected, and also the anguish took because of a rumor kept in the hospital where he was in Algiers. "We were afraid to be lynched if he died. The cream of the Soviet doctors was there to take the President Boumediène in charge. I had to call President Iouri Andropov (1914-1984) to tell him of my concerns if something happened to him. At the death of President Boumediène, a manager had brought us through the basement to get us out through a back door, " he said.
And the flight of French doctors
Regarding the diagnosis and even though he maintained, without asserting, that the symptoms presented by the late Houari Boumediène resembled "poisoning", Pr Tchazov confessed, 35 years later, that the medical team is at his bedside. was revealed, at the time, "unable to diagnose his state of health." According to him, the late president told him that "he started to feel bad after eating on the plane". If he did not specify where the plane was when these signs of fatigue appeared on him, Pr. Tchazov did not fail to draw a parallel with the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) as to the inadequacy of the diagnostic. "We had noticed the dysfunction of many of his vital organs and also a change in the chemical equation of his blood. We were in a critical state that was getting worse. We had accompanied him to Algiers. Other doctors had been brought from France but, "we could not understand his case," he said.
Boumediene died a little over a month after his tour in the East. Will one day know the bottom of his death? Will his body be exhumed for reconsideration? It is the only solution, to tell the truth, to be able to specify the diagnosis and to elucidate the conditions of his death.
*Lyas Hallas - Alger (Le Soir)
vendredi 4 mai 2018
Ethiopia/ Ancient Greece: Aesop, the Father of the Fables was an African.
But who was Aesop?
Born in Nubia between VII and VI century B.C., he is taken to Phrygia where he is sold as a slave. In other words, Aesop was an African. According to Plutarch, Aesop is a former stave slave with a particularly ungrateful physical. After having dreamed that Fortune loosened his tongue, he awakened one day, cured of his stuttering. Purchased by a slave trader, he arrived in the home of a philosopher of the island of Samos named Xanthius, with whom his vivacity of mind and his ability to solve the enigmas would have allowed him to regain his freedom. He would have taken advantage of his new freedom by traveling, from Egypt to Babylon (present-day Iraq), before returning to Asia Minor at the court of Croesus, Sardis, then capital of Lydia, also frequented by the man of Athenian state Solon, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, with whom he would have spoken. He puts his talent at the service of the king of Babylon who rejoices in his enigmas. Charged by Croesus, to bring offerings to the temple of Delphi, he reveals the frauds committed by the priests of Apollo. They avenge themselves by accusing him of stealing a gold cup dedicated to God. He is judged and condemned to be precipitated from the Hyampean rock, the year 564 BC. J.-C .. After his death, the misfortune, it is said, falls on Delphi and its inhabitants. This is what the Chevalier Lestrange tells us about him: "We must believe Planude, Camerarius, and a few others, Aesop was born at Ammorius, a town in Great Phrygia. There are some who do Thracin, others Samian. He was a slave and the most deformed of all men. He had a pointed head, a flat nose, and fat lips; he was hunchbacked in front and behind". He had a prodigious belly, turtled legs, and the tanned complexion that gave rise to his name, because Aesop and Ethiopian are the same thing. The term Ethiopian means in Greek "face burned by the sun", it is thus that the Greeks named in antiquity all the people having the skin "black". The collection, which today is called Aesop, is a compilation, consisting of prose paraphrases of the fables of Babrius, which was established in the eleventh century. His writings were to strongly influence the literature of the West; they inspired Jean de la Fontaine, Phaedrus, Avianus, and many others. The 358 fables of Aesop, collected by Demetrius of Phaleron, are part of the culture of the Indo-European peoples and undoubtedly represent the collection of fables most read literature. Jean De La Fontaine acknowledges it: "I sing the heroes of which Aesop is the father, Troupe of whom the story, although false, Contains truths which serve as lessons". Yet from the African origin of Aesop, it does not speak much: it is an information that is not mentioned in the courses of French and Literature; information that even teachers do not know ... In his book Austere's Country, Condition, Figure, and Spirits, Maxime Planude, grammarian and philologist of the 13th century, wrote about Aesop: "Many great men have endeavored to examine the nature of human things, and the causes of revolutions, to instruct posterity. It seems, when one considers the wisdom and good sense that shines in the works of Aesop, that he was divinely inspired, to give to men so many precepts of morality, so beautiful and so useful, and which surpass infinitely all those whom the greatest philosophers had hitherto given".
-Weiss Charles, Biographie universelle (Universal Biography), 1841.
-Litchfild West Martin, La Fable : huit exposés suivis de discussions (The Fable: eight presentations followed by discussions), Hardt Foundation, Geneva, 1984.
-Carl Karl and Vandendorpe, La fable : Vade-mecum du professeur de français (The Fable: Vademecum of the French teacher), Didier Hatier, Brussels-Paris, 1993.
-Jouano Corinne, Vie d'Ésope : livre du philosophe Xanthos et de son esclave Ésope : du mode de vie d'Ésope (Life of Aesop: book of the philosopher Xanthos and his slave Aesop: of the way of life of Aesop, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2006.
-Chambery Emile, Esope : Fables (Aesop: Fables), Les Belles lettres, Paris, 2006.
-Thuram Lilian, Mes étoiles noires : de Lucy à Barack Obama (My black stars: from Lucy to Barack Obama, Philippe Rey, Paris, 2010.
-Esope, Fables, Flammarion, Paris, 2014.
-Lacarrière Jacques, Les fables d'Esope : Suivies d'un essai sur le symbolisme des fables (Aesop's Fables: Followed by an essay on the symbolism of fables), Albin Michel, Paris, 2016.
Filmography:
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Q: What is the appropriate javafx 8 panel? I have a tabpane and in of the tabs i need to have a layout where i have four sub-windows (panes ?) which should have the controls to maximize and minimize.
Maximize (may be twice of its original size), it should not take the entire window size, it should be relative to the tab it is part of. which panel would be the most appropriate for  this use case ?

A: Here's one suggestion, using a GridPane and maximizing the content from one "cell" by manipulating the row and column index and row and column span.
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.function.IntFunction;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.binding.Bindings;
import javafx.geometry.Insets;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.Tab;
import javafx.scene.control.TabPane;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.control.ToggleButton;
import javafx.scene.control.ToggleGroup;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.ColumnConstraints;
import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.Pane;
import javafx.scene.layout.Priority;
import javafx.scene.layout.RowConstraints;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class ExpandingPanes extends Application {

    private final Random rng = new Random();

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        TabPane tabs = new TabPane();
        for (int i = 1 ; i <= 4 ; i++) {
            final String tabText = "Tab "+ i ;
            tabs.getTabs().add(new Tab(tabText, createGridPane(x -> tabText+" : Pane "+x, 2, 2)));
        }
        BorderPane root = new BorderPane(tabs);
        root.setBottom(new TextField());
        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 800, 800);
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    private GridPane createGridPane(IntFunction<String> labelText, int numRows, int numCols) {
        GridPane grid = new GridPane();
        for (int row = 0 ; row < numRows; row++) {
            RowConstraints rc = new RowConstraints();
            rc.setFillHeight(true);
            rc.setVgrow(Priority.ALWAYS);
            rc.setPercentHeight(100.0 / numRows);
            grid.getRowConstraints().add(rc);
        }
        for (int col = 0 ; col < numCols; col++) {
            ColumnConstraints cc = new ColumnConstraints();
            cc.setFillWidth(true);
            cc.setHgrow(Priority.ALWAYS);
            cc.setPercentWidth(100.0 / numCols);
            grid.getColumnConstraints().add(cc);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < numRows * numCols; i++) {
            int row = i / numRows ;
            int col = i % numCols ;
            Pane tile = createPane(col, row, numCols, numRows, labelText.apply(i));
            grid.add(tile, col, row);
        }

        return grid ;
    }

    private Pane createPane(int col, int row, int numCols, int numRows, String text) {
        BorderPane content = new BorderPane();
        content.setCenter(new Label(text));
        ToggleButton maximize = new ToggleButton();
        maximize.textProperty().bind(Bindings.when(maximize.selectedProperty()).then("Restore").otherwise("Maximize"));
        maximize.selectedProperty().addListener((obs, wasMax, isNowMax) -> {
           if (isNowMax) {
               GridPane.setColumnIndex(content, 0);
               GridPane.setRowIndex(content, 0);
               GridPane.setColumnSpan(content, numCols);
               GridPane.setRowSpan(content, numRows);
               content.toFront();
           } else {
               GridPane.setColumnIndex(content, col);
               GridPane.setRowIndex(content, row);
               GridPane.setColumnSpan(content, 1);
               GridPane.setRowSpan(content, 1);
           }
        });
        BorderPane.setMargin(maximize, new Insets(5));
        BorderPane.setAlignment(maximize, Pos.CENTER_RIGHT);
        content.setTop(maximize);

        content.setStyle(randomColor());

        return content ;
    }

    private String randomColor() {
        return String.format("-fx-background-color: -fx-background; -fx-background: rgb(%d, %d, %d);",
                rng.nextInt(256), rng.nextInt(256), rng.nextInt(256));
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }
}

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Epidemiologists with responsibility for designing, attracting funding for, supervising and analysing epidemiological studies funded by major funding bodies will usually have completed a PhD in preparation for conducting epidemiological research. Epidemiologists working in applied areas such as 'shoe leather' communicable disease control or analysis of routine data to support policy development, etc, are undertaken by those who take either pathway.
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Brothers Blow Up House Celebrating Lottery Win In Kansas: Cops
Two Kansas brothers were lucky -- then, not so lucky -- and then fortunate again, after they both survived an explosion that destroyed their house.
The Wichita Eagle reports that two brothers were partying together to celebrate a $75,000 winning lottery ticket, when they accidentally blew up their Wichita home. Neither of the brother's names has been reported.
From the Wichita Eagle:
One of the brothers went to the kitchen to refuel the butane torches they planned to use to light their bongs. He emptied a couple of large cans of butane lighter fluid, leaking butane into the air.
"The butane vapor reached the pilot light in the furnace, and as you might expect, ka-boom," Wichita Police Sgt. Bruce Watts said at a press conference.
KFDL reports that the injured brother's girlfriend drove him to the hospital and then "sped off and has not been found."
The man was treated for second-degree burns and is in stable condition.
The other brother was arrested on drug charges after telling police he had meth and marijuana in the home.
KAKE reported that there were also children in the home though there were no reports that they were injured.
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Powell is accused of running naked around a Florida apartment complex in February, 2012. A police report on Powell's arrest notes that, ""Statements from the defendant were not possible as he would only state he loved cocaine and needed more cocaine."
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Q: how to use FormData for put request in angular? I was trying to upload files on server using angular reactive form.When i try to edit form that generate an error internal server error but when i use postman it updates file successfully
i don`t know what i am missing in my FormData put request? post request works successfully
addteacher.component.html
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { FormBuilder, Validators ,FormGroup,FormArray,FormControl} from '@angular/forms'
import { TeacherServiceService } from '../shared/teacher/teacher-service.service';
import {ActivatedRoute,Router} from '@angular/router';
import {Teacher} from '../shared/teacher/teacher';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-addteacher',
  templateUrl: './addteacher.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./addteacher.component.css']
})
export class AddteacherComponent implements OnInit {
  teacherform:FormGroup;
  teacher: Teacher;
  FormTitle:String;

  constructor(private fb: FormBuilder,
    private teacherService: TeacherServiceService,
    private route : ActivatedRoute,
    private router : Router

    ) { }

  ngOnInit() {

    this.teacherform = this.fb.group({
      t_p_img: [''],
      t_id: [''],
      t_name: [''],
      t_desig: [''],
      t_dob: [''],
      t_pswd: [''],
      t_email: ['',[Validators.required]],
      t_gender: [''],
      t_phone: [''],
      t_quali: [''],
      t_address: ['']
       });

//Getting Teacher id
    this.route.paramMap.subscribe(params=>{
      const techId = params.get('id');
      if(techId){
        this.FormTitle = "Update Teacher Form";

       this.getTeacherr(techId);
      }
      else{
        this.FormTitle = "Teacher Registration Form";
        this.teacher = {
          t_id:null,
          t_name:'',
          t_desig: '',
          t_dob:null,
          t_email:'',
          t_pswd:'',
          t_gender:'',
          t_phone:null,
          t_quali:'',
          t_p_img:'',
          t_address:'',
          _id:null,
          courses:[]
        }
      }
    });

  }//
  selectedFile(event) {
    if (event.target.files.length > 0) {
      const file = event.target.files[0];
      this.teacherform.get('t_p_img').setValue(file);
    }
  }

  saveRecord():void {
    var formData:any = new FormData();
    var t_p_image = this.teacherform.value.t_p_img;
    var t_email = this.teacherform.value.t_email;
    var t_id = this.teacherform.value.t_id;
    var t_name = this.teacherform.value.t_name;
    var t_desig = this.teacherform.value.t_desig;
    var t_dob = this.teacherform.value.t_dob;
    var t_pswd = this.teacherform.value.t_pswd;
    var t_gender = this.teacherform.value.t_gender;
    var t_phone = this.teacherform.value.t_phone;
    var  t_quali = this.teacherform.value.t_quali;
    var  t_address= this.teacherform.value.t_address
    formData.append('file',t_p_image) ;
    formData.append('t_id',t_id) ;
    formData.append('t_name',t_name);
    formData.append('t_desig',t_desig);
    formData.append('t_dob',t_dob);
    formData.append('t_pswd',t_pswd);
    formData.append('t_email',t_email);
    formData.append('t_gender',t_gender);
    formData.append('t_phone',t_phone);
    formData.append('t_quali',t_quali);
    formData.append('t_address',t_address);

    // console.log(formData)

    //  this.MapFormValuesToTeacherModel();

    if(this.teacher._id){

    this.teacherService.updateTeacher(this.teacher._id,formData).subscribe(
      ()=>this.router.navigate(['teacher']),
      (err:any)=>console.log(err)

    );
  }else{

    this.teacherService.createTeacher(formData).subscribe(
      ()=>this.router.navigate(['teacher']),
      (err:any)=>console.log(err)

    );}
     }

  getTeacherr(techId:any){
    this.teacherService.getTeacher(techId).subscribe(
      (teacher:Teacher)=>{
        this.editTeacher(teacher);
        this.teacher = teacher
       } ,
      (err:any)=>{
        console.log(err);
      }

    )

  }

editTeacher(teacher:Teacher){
 this.teacherform.patchValue({
    t_p_img:teacher.t_p_img,
     t_id: teacher.t_id,
    t_name: teacher.t_name,
    t_desig: teacher.t_desig,
    t_dob: teacher.t_dob,
    t_pswd: teacher.t_pswd,
    t_email: teacher.t_email,
    t_gender: teacher.t_gender,
    t_phone: teacher.t_phone,
    t_quali: teacher.t_quali,
    t_address: teacher.t_address
    });
}

}

This is TeacherServiceService
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import {Teacher} from './teacher';
import {HttpClient,HttpHeaders} from '@angular/common/http';
import {Observable,throwError, from} from 'rxjs';
import {retry,catchError} from'rxjs/operators';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class TeacherServiceService {

  // Headers
  httpOptions={
    headers: new HttpHeaders({
      'content-type':'application/json'
    })
  }
  //Api Address
  apiUrl = 'http://localhost:3000';

  constructor(private http:HttpClient) { }
  // Requests

  createTeacher(teacher:any) {

    return this.http.post(this.apiUrl+'/teacher',teacher)
     .pipe(
       retry(2),
       catchError(this.handleError)
     )};
   //Getting All the teacher
   showTeachers(): Observable <Teacher[]> {

    return this.http.get<Teacher[]>(this.apiUrl+'/teacher',)
     .pipe(
       retry(2),
       catchError(this.handleError)
     )

   };
  // get a Single Teacher
  getTeacher(id:any): Observable <Teacher>{
    return this.http.get<Teacher>(this.apiUrl + '/teacher/'+id, this.httpOptions)
    .pipe(
      retry(1),
      catchError(this.handleError)
    )};

    // Updating Teacher
    updateTeacher(id,formData:any) {
      return this.http.put(this.apiUrl + '/teacher/'+id, formData)
      .pipe(catchError(this.handleError));
      };

working with Postman Put request

Not working with formData Put request

A: You are trying to set value property with file which is not correct and It'll throw error ,
this.teacherform.get('t_p_img').setValue(file);

Check this solution
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59361203/7122286

A: ok you can do it like this
First:
slectedFile: File;
//imgUrl for showing it in html tag
imgUrl = '../assets/img/profilepic.png';

Second:
form: FormGroup = this.fb.group({
   //........
   file: [null]
});

Third:
onFileSelect(file) {
    if (file.target.files[0]) {
      this.slectedFile = file.target.files[0] as File;
      const reader = new FileReader();
      reader.readAsDataURL(this.slectedFile);
      reader.onload = (event: any) => {
        this.imgUrl = event.target.result;
      };
   }
}

And Last:

which I assume your main problem is here

  const data= new FormData();
  if (this.slectedFile) {
    data.append('file', this.slectedFile, this.slectedFile.name);
  }

and I should mention that personally use this package for input
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ngx-material-file-input
and in the html side you just say :
<mat-form-field class="col-md-12 ml-10 ngxmatfileinput">
    <ngx-mat-file-input
    (change)="onFileSelect($event)"
    formControlName="file"
    accept="image/*">
    </ngx-mat-file-input>
    <img [src]="imgUrl" class="float-left icon-fileupload" />
</mat-form-field>


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Photos from my morning run are online. Of course, I'm just joking about the crowd of people waving golf clubs at me. It was a very nice golf course, and made for really nice running during the half hour before the course opened at 8:00 AM.
I'm going to shower, dress, eat, and then we need to get on the road to reach the ferry on time.


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The educational television show Tech Garage is returning for season 5 beginning Jan. 5, 2019, on Motor Trend network, formerly Velocity.
Tech Garage is also going primetime automotive TV watching time and moving to Saturday mornings at 9:30 EST. This business/industry/educational partnership with rockauto.com and their thousands of vendors demonstrates the need for automotive education.
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Q: Put specific text at the end of file in unix I have a html file retrieved using wget. I want to put all links, i.e., all  , at the end of file. Is it possible?
For example, consider the following file:

    Line1
2013.05.23
    Line2

link

Line3

I'd like to change the text into this:

    Line1
2013.05.23
    Line2

Line3

link

A: For the simple anchor tag in the example data, this Perl script suffices:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @urls = ();

while (<>)
{
    chomp;
    if (m/\s*(]+>.*<\/a>)\s*/)
    {
        push @urls, $1;
        s///;
    }
    print "$_\n";
}

foreach my $url (@urls)
{
    print "$url\n";
}

Example output:

    Line1
2013.05.23
    Line2

Line3

link

Note that if there were several anchor tags on a single line in the input, it will include the material between the outer tags at the bottom of the script, too.  If an anchor tag is broken across lines, it will be ignored.  I have little doubt that there are HTML notations that can break this script (but I'm not sure what they are).
This is a minor step up from the simple script:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @urls = ();

while (<>)
{
    chomp;
    while (m/\s*(]+>.*?<\/a>)\s*/)
    {
        push @urls, $1;
        s// /;
    }
    print "$_\n";
}

foreach my $url (@urls)
{
    print "$url\n";
}

The while loop in place of the if iterates over matches in a line.  The non-greedy .*? quantifier means it does not gobble intermediate anchor tags.  The substitute replaces the removed material with a blank, thus keeping words separating the anchor tags separate.
Example data:

    Line1
2013.05.23
    Line2

link

Line3

    Line1
2013.05.23
    Line2

 link extraneous material link other notes link

Line3

Example output:

    Line1
2013.05.23
    Line2

Line3

    Line1
2013.05.23
    Line2

 extraneous material other notes

Line3

link
link
link
link

You get to judge whether this is sufficient for your purposes.  At least it gives you something to work on.

A: If you just want to copy (and not moving) the links to the end of the file you can do a simple grep (maybe doesn't work for special cases of course):
grep -o -P '(<a href=.*?)' test.html > tmp.html && cat tmp.html >> test.html


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West London News
London Tier 2: 'Tier 2 is no cause for celebration despite Christmas'
Hounslow's health boss Kelly O'Neill says Tier 2 rules should be the upper limit of what we allow ourselves to do
Anahita Hossein-Pour
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Tier 2 restrictions being placed on Hounslow is "not a license to be irresponsible" as infection rates "are not on the decline", the borough's public health boss has warned.
Kelly O'Neill has urged residents to stick to the Tier 2 limits unveiled by the Government on Thursday, November 26, at a time when the NHS will also be facing winter pressures.
London has been placed under the second tier, meaning as of December 2 entertainment venues such as cinemas, theatres, shops can reopen.
It's vital Londoners give a 'helping hand' to their local businesses during Tier 2 says central London MP
Professional dog walkers will get £80 fines if they break new rules on Hampstead Heath
Up to six people from different households can meet up outside, and pubs can reopen as long as they serve alcohol with a substantial meal.
Weddings of up to 15 people and funerals of up to 30 people have also got the go-ahead.
But in a message to residents, Ms O'Neill reminded "this is no cause for celebration or complacency".
"It is evident that the Government still has worries about our infection levels and will soon review London's status. If we are going to avoid Tier 3 restrictions, the challenge to Hounslow residents is clear - we must follow the Tier 2 rules," she said.
The council's health lead on fighting the pandemic explained that while there are variations in rates across the capital, the shared communities, travel and environments makes the borough vulnerable to "significant increases" of coronavirus cases if the rules are not followed.
And she said that Tier 2 restrictions should serve as the "upper limit" of what is allowed, rather than an opportunity to "push the boundaries further".
Latest figures revealed as the Tier system was announced shows London's weekly rate of 177.1 per 100,000 in the seven days leading up to November 21.
Meanwhile Hounslow recorded an infection rate of 201.1 per 100,000.
Neighbouring Ealing reports similar levels at 205.1 per 100,000, while Hillingdon's rate stands at 195.5 per 100,000.
Hillingdon Council leader Sir Ray Puddifoot has also urged residents to be vigilant and remember "the virus is still present".
He added: "We want residents to enjoy Christmas but we urge them to do it safely. This means following the guidance announced by the government earlier this week, and playing your part to minimise the risk to loved ones, particularly the most vulnerable."
Have your say on this story by commenting here
And Ms O'Neill said: "Being in Tier 2 rather than Tier 3 is positive for our economy and supports the social wellbeing of our communities, however in terms of our public health this comes with the need to be vigilant; rates of infection are not on the decline, and if we see increased rates of infection, especially amongst our older residents and those with chronic illnesses this will lead to more people needing hospital care on top of non-Covid illness that we get every year during the winter which puts the NHS under sustained pressure.
"This will increase the number of people who will die."
To find out more information on the rules click here.
If you have a story for us, please email anahita.hossein-pour@reachplc.com
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Everything showing in the chart. And this is just a potential trend Idea. By far DXY still have 0 intention on a hard retrace, if it wants to go down, it should be done many times before. I still have more bullish bias for DXY, wish to see it goes higher.
Stay neutral at this moment. For some reason, the price action is jumping up n downs with bounces off my EMA, so if it stays like this, I'd short on USDJPY based on the latest bounce. Wait for more confirmation since the candle still shows bullish power.
This is a short term expectation, expecting price heading back to 1.1280ish Overall big picture still bear.
Entry: 159.107 TP: 158.80 SL: 159.22 RR ratio: 1:3, worth a try.
UJ Massive sell off on Friday, but mini term AB=CD has finished and had a bounce in lower timeframe. Expecting price to hit previous resistant around 110.30.
With dovish FOMC tone being announced, EU spiked up to 1.145ish, which is about 50% fib level. Overall the tone is still bearish for euro, and we are expecting a mid-term trade to close the gap at 1.08 level. Still, weekly shows a bullish divergence on RSI, but the long term trend is still bearish.
what a dovish tone it had from BoC, UC was rallying hard for the past 4 days. I'm expecting a retrace from here to 50% fib level(1.337ish), which is also a support from previous price action. TP and SL are marked on the chart, good luck.


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Shemeni Atzeret means to hold back, tarry or linger if you will. As we again have passed through the High Holy Days an Sukkot, and our own Thanksgiving and enter Hanukkah, God would have us linger to stay with Him a little longer.
There are set times for the feast and festivals, and they are celebrated for days. Just one more, a little longer is the cry of God's heart for His beloved, His children. I know that is so true.
Have you ever had the feeling in your prayer time that Jesus wants you to stay, like we used to say as children, just five more minutes? He loves us so much. He knows we have things to, families to take care and He understands. He will guide you and be a strong family presence.
Actually, Jesus should be the head of the house. Husbands are to follow that lead. truly, if they did, wives and families would be much happier. I know not one of us perfect all the time, but He is, and His perfection is in a plan He has for you to follow.
Can you give Him, first place, whisper a prayer in the morning? Can you listen for the still small voice that Samuel heard call his name and drown out the crowd of the the day. You may not ever if you heed the call to be on the go all the time. Running through life does not please God. He wants to be your peace. He wants your heart at peace. He wants your body to rest.
Many believers are not even familiar with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year or Yom Kippor, the Day of Atonement. While we are not required to keep the feast days now, we are to understand the things of God and one day in the future, eternity, we will celebrate with Him again.
And I heard a loud voice from heaven, saying, "Look! The tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them. They shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.


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The news broke ahead of the Hungarian GP weekend that Force India have placed into administration, news which sent ripples through the F1 world and caused no small amount of confusion among many.
It's no secret that Sauber is my favourite F1 team, closely followed by Scuderia Toro Rosso – both hold a special place in my affection. But when it comes to teams for which I hold a genuine respect and admiration, Force India stand clear above all others on the grid today.
The little team that could – and very much still can, has not been short of sponsors of late. Boasting one of the best-covered machines in the field and one of an ever-shrinking group that can boast a genuine title sponsor – combined with recent performances in the constructor's championship there'd been a quiet assumption on the part of many that the team was turning a corner. Perhaps ready in the near future for works backing, which really remains the next logical step for a team still in an ascendancy after a shaky start to the season – it had been assumed (not unreasonably) that the days of surviving on advance payments from the FIA and living month to month were about to be behind them – if they weren't already.
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As more information came to light – it seemed that Sergio Perez was among the leaders of the petition to put the team into administration (alongside title sponsor BWT and Mercedes-Benz, who appear to have refused to accept reduced payment for their power units in order to secure the administration order) which was perhaps the biggest surprise of all.
Force India is Checo's home – the team at which I believe he has done his best work. The team which always had a place in the garage for him. The team that seems to genuinely value his contributions. While the move to call in administrators lacked explanation, it seemed this move was something to scorn – a shameful and greedy betrayal of a team and a workforce that has stood by him in all circumstances, but as with everything else in this tale all was not as it appears.
Now, I will refrain from commenting further on the curious question of how a team which seems to be taking a lot of money in has found itself owing sums in the millions – owing about 4 million to Sergio Perez alone – suffice it to say that something about this odd state of affairs is the driving force behind this move.
Force India's loyal son has not deserted his family, he is fighting to save it.
The move, seemingly, pre-empted a far more serious winding-up petition from another creditor who seemingly lacked faith in ever being repaid, even though funds recovered by administrators and was poised to have the team liquidated. Perez's move has, for the moment at least, halted this move.
"There was a winding-up petition from another customer which would have closed down the team completely. Therefore I was asked to basically save the team, to pull the trigger and put the team into administration.
The move also serves another purpose, believed to be overcoming some shareholder resistance to a sale of the team to one of the five confirmed interested parties. UK energy drink company, Rich Energy – have long staked a claim to be the most serious buyer while seemingly being entirely unknown. Publishing to their official Twitter a photograph of a supposed sponsorship agreement, it seems Rich Energy had tabled a 30 million cash injection – it is unclear if the proposal included an exchange of equity in the team.
The Rich Energy deal still fell short of their claimed takeover bid and the whole debacle has drawn skepticism and ire from many a long time F1 fan who have heard it all before. Such a buyout would ultimately have doomed the team to slow collapse and I do find myself wondering if this is also a factor behind Perez's move.
Of the five parties in the race to take on the team as a going concern – under the right conditions and price, of course – it is, for me, Lance Stroll's father, Lawrence Stroll who represents the most likely and most credible buyer.
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Q: MasterPage objects returning as null I've got an ASP.net application that is used to display information queried from our ERP system onto various web pages. The main object is called an EpicorUser, and it basically encapsulates all current information about an employee.
This object is used to fill in a bunch of various fields on the master page such as Full Name, current activity, clock in/out times, etc.
I am trying to pass this object from the MasterPage into the content pages to avoid needlessly querying the WebService that serves this information. The problem is, when I access the object from a ContentPage, it is always null. I know it has been populated because my MasterPage content is all filled in correctly.
I am trying to access the MasterPage 'CurrentUser' object from my ContentPage like this:
**MasterPage Codebehind:**
public EpicorUser CurrentUser; //This object is populated once user has authenticated

///This is in my ContentPage ASPX file so I  can reference the MasterPage from codebehind
<%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/Pages/MasterPage/ShopConnect.Master" %>

**ContentPage CodeBehind:**
string FullName = Master.CurrentUser.UserFileData.FullName; //CurrentUser is null(but it shouldn't be)

Strange thing is, I had another content page where this system worked fine. It has also stopped working, and I don't think I have changed anything on the masterpage that could cause this. I had set the CurrentUser as a public property so I could access
I went as far a creating a method to re-populate the object from the master page, and calling it from the code-behind on the contentpage:
**ContentPage code-behind:**
EpicorUser CurrentUser = Master.GetCurrentUserObject();

**MasterPage Method being invoked:**
public EpicorUser GetCurrentUserObject()
{
    using (PrincipalContext context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "OFFICE"))
    {
        UserPrincipal principal = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name);
        EpicorUser CurrentEmployee = RetrieveUserInfoByWindowsID(principal.SamAccountName);
        return CurrentUser; //Object is NOT null before the return
    }
}

**ContentPage code-behind return:**
EpicorUser CurrentUser = Master.GetCurrentUserObject(); //But object is now null once we return

Stepping through the code shows me that the CurrentUser object is populated correctly in the MasterPage code behind, but once it is returned to the ContentPage code behind, it is now null!
Anyone know where the disconnect is?

A: Content Page is loaded first and then Master page will be loaded. So, your property could be blank when it is accessed in the content page. You can try creating a public method(to return UserObject) on the master page and then call the method from content page.
Another option is
creating a base page class(inherit all content pages) and create a property to return the user object. So, all pages can access the value
EDIT:
public class BasePageClass : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    public List<string> LookupValues
    {
        get
        {
            if (ViewState["LookupValues"] == null)
            {
                /*
                    * create default instance here or retrieve values from Database for one time purpose
                    */
                ViewState["LookupValues"] = new List<string>();
            }
            return ViewState["LookupValues"] as List<string>;
        }
    }
}
public partial class WebForm6 : BasePageClass
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    }
    protected void MyButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //access lookup properties
        List<string> myValues = LookupValues;
    }
}