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Blog Tour (Excerpt & #Giveaway): Black Scorpion by Jon Land #BlackScorpionBlogTour @JonDLand @torbooks
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Title: Black Scorpion: The Tyrant Reborn (Michael Tiranno The Tyrant #2)
Author: Jon Land
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Publisher: Forge (Macmillan)
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The next adventure of The Seven Sins' Michael "The Tyrant" Tiranno, Jon Land's Black Scorpion is a pulse pounding action-thriller as he takes on a worldwide human trafficking cabal.
Five years have passed since Michael Tiranno saved the city of Las Vegas from a terrorist attack. And now a new enemy has surfaced in Eastern Europe in the form of an all-powerful organization called Black Scorpion. Once a victim of human trafficking himself, the shadowy group's crazed leader, Vladimir Dracu, has become the mastermind behind the scourge's infestation on a global scale. And now he's set his sights on Michael Tiranno for reasons birthed in a painful secret past that have scarred both men.
Already facing a myriad of problems, Michael once more must rise to the challenge of confronting an all-powerful enemy who is exploiting and ravaging innocents all across the globe and has set nothing less than all of America as its new victim. Black Scorpion has also taken the woman Michael loves hostage: Scarlett Swan, a beautiful archaeologist who was following the dangerous trail of the origins of the ancient relic that both defines and empowers Michael, a discovery that could change history and the perception of mankind's very origins.
With the deck and the odds stacked against him, Michael must come to learn and embrace his true destiny in becoming the Tyrant reborn as a dark knight to triumph over ultimate evil and stop the sting of Black Scorpion from undermining all of the United States and plunging Las Vegas into chaos and anarchy.
A major production for a feature film is in active development in Hollywood based on the franchised character of Michael Tiranno, the Tyrant. The film will be based on the blended adaptation of Black Scorpion and its predecessor, The Seven Sins, which both have also been licensed to DC Comics for comic books and graphic novels publications worldwide.
Northern Israel, 950 BC
"They come, oh great King."
Solomon, weary and weak from going so long without rest, leaned heavily on the shoulder of his son as he emerged from inside his goat- hair tent. Already he and his private guard had fought off two ambushes. Bandits appeared to be to blame, but Solomon suspected otherwise given their weaponry, skill, and the fact that they hadn't fled when confronted.
Now his heart pounded with anticipation, but also with fear, in the night's heat. He was so close now, so close to fulfilling the destiny shaped by his father, the great King David. And that reality filled him with the awesome scope of the responsibility before him, along with the price of failure.
He could not fail. The fate of his kingdom was at stake.
Solomon cast his gaze down the road to see a single wagon kicking up a dust cloud in its wake. Traveling under cover of darkness greatly lessened the threat of a raid by bandits and, in any event, at first sight the wagon seemed to be carrying nothing more than a farmer's crops being taken to the open market in Jerusalem.
Solomon peeled back his beggar's hood to reveal long locks of shiny brown hair and finely etched features that looked chiseled onto his face. He'd just nodded off, dreaming of Jerusalem, imagining the lanterns lighting the city twinkling in the night, when the captain of his private guard alerted him to the wagon's coming.
Solomon eased his hand from the shoulder of his fifteen-year-old son Rehoboam as the wagon drew closer, so the boy wouldn't feel him stiffen. "Keep a keen eye, my son, for our enemies are everywhere."
"Father?" the boy said, sliding a hand to the knife Solomon had presented him on the occasion of his bar mitzvah. He was small for his age and a bit frail. But, as heir to the kingdom of Israel, he needed to be part of such a vital mission, no matter how perilous.
"They would seek to destroy this symbol of our people and the foundation of our future. With our temple complete, we have safe refuge for it at last."
The Temple of Solomon had taken nearly eight years to build, requiring men and materials the likes of which had never been seen before in the known world. A staggering two hundred thousand workers had ultimately played a part in its construction, milled from vast quantities of local stone and imported cedar wood. It was a sprawling, palatial structure, perhaps the greatest ever erected— and with good reason, since it would be housing the vast stores of priceless treasures amassed by the Jewish people through time. What Solomon had kept secret from all but his most trusted cadre was the construction of a special chamber within the temple called Kodesh Hakodashim, or Holy of Holies. This would house the ark of the covenant, containing the remains of the stone tablets that held the actual Ten Commandments, along with the contents carried in the rear of the simple farmer's wagon approaching now.
It drew close enough to reveal the snorting of the horses and pounding of their hooves atop the roadbed that was dry and cracking from the long drought Solomon took for God's impatience. And, as if to reinforce that belief, he felt the first trickle of raindrops and took this as a good omen, until thunder rumbled in the distance and it became something much different.
A warning.
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Jon Land is the bestselling author over 25 novels. He graduated from Brown University in 1979 Phi Beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude and continues his association with Brown as an alumni advisor.
Jon often bases his novels and scripts on extensive travel and research as well as a twenty-five year career in martial arts. He is an associate member of the US Special Forces and frequently volunteers in schools to help young people learn to enjoy the process of writing.
Jon is the Vice-President of marketing of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) and is often asked to speak on topics regarding writing and research.
In addition to writing suspense/thrillers John is also a screenwriter with his first film credit coming in 2005.
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hoakley May 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting
Mother and baby in paintings 1
Virginie Demont-Breton (1859–1935), First Steps (1881-2), oil on canvas, 90.1 x 60.3 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.
Last weekend, we attended so many weddings we had to keep going right the way through Monday too. This weekend I'm going to follow the happy couple through the birth of their first child, recognising that may well be rather later in real time.
Central to our basic biological drive to reproduce our species, birth and its success means very different things to the mother and father, and there have been great changes over the relatively recent history of mankind. Until well into the twentieth century, maternal and infant mortality rates were so high that for many mothers successful delivery was deliverance from probable death. For the infant also to survive longer than hours or days was something of a miracle, although at least they were unsuspecting of their poor prospects.
Fathers risked little, though: however deep their emotional involvement with their wife, it wasn't their life on the line. When it came to ceremonies such as christenings, mothers attended with a profound sense of relief that, with the grace of God, they had survived another pregnancy of the many they would be expected to endure.
Children weren't just to prolong the species or inherit whatever worldly wealth a couple might possess, but they, and their children, would be relied on to care for the (grand)parents if they were fortunate enough to live into their later years.
In today's article and tomorrow's I look at a small selection of paintings showing mothers and the infants in those first few days and months, whether attending that christening, feeding, or just being together. You'll not be surprised that many of these were painted by women, and may see some interesting differences from those by men.
Virginie Demont-Breton (1859–1935), Alma Mater (date not known), oil on canvas, 92.5 x 66 cm, location not known. Wikimedia Commons.
The archetype of almost all these European paintings is the immensely popular motif of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. That in itself has changed considerably over the years, from early icons to the Renaissance, the development of Raphael's lifelike and intimate Madonnas, and again into the late nineteenth century with Virginie Demont-Breton's contemporary reinterpretation in her undated Alma Mater. She looks very young, and there is no sign of Joseph, just her obviously holy infant lying swaddled on her lap. Around her are the weeds of waste and derelict sites. Is she yet another homeless single mother?
Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), Saint Francis of Paola Blessing the Son of Louisa of Savoy (1590), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Wikimedia Commons.
Early paintings of the blessing or christening of infants seem quite uncommon, but Lavinia Fontana's of Saint Francis of Paola Blessing the Son of Louisa of Savoy (1590) also gives an unusual insight into the history of France and the Catholic Church. Louise of Savoy (1476-1531) was the Regent of France for three periods from 1515, and the mother of King Francis I of France. Fontana shows her bringing her second child, born in September 1494, to be blessed by Saint Francis of Paola (1416-1507), a mendicant friar who founded the Order of Minims, an early vegan group who considered themselves to be the "least of all the faithful". This would have happened in the royal residence at Château de Plessis-lez-Tours, in the Loire Valley of France. Louise's son, being blessed here, was to become King Francis I of France.
Harriet Backer (1845–1932), Barnedåp i Tanum Kirke (Christening in Tanum Church) (1892), oil on canvas, 109 x 142 cm, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo. Wikimedia Commons.
One of the finest paintings of any church ceremony is Harriet Becker's Christening in Tanum Church from 1892, which deservedly brought her fame when it was shown the following year at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Backer places the viewer inside the church, looking both outward and inward. The left of the canvas takes the eye deep, through the heavy church door to the outside world, where the mother is bringing her child in for their baptism. The rich green light of that outside world colours the door and its wood panelling, and the floorboards and perspective projection draw the baptismal party in.
At the right, two women are sat in an enclosed stall waiting for the arrival of the party. One has turned and partly opened the door to their stall in her effort to look out and see them enter church. Backer controls the level of detail and looseness to brilliant effect, ensuring that we always see just what she wants us to, enough to bring the image to life, but never so much that the eye is lost in the irrelevant. From the new grandmother accompanying her daughter and grandchild, past the elderly man standing just inside the doorway, to the two women sat in the pew, and the wonderful rich colours of the church interior – it's perfect, her masterwork.
Giorgione (1477–1510), The Tempest (c 1504-8), oil on canvas, 83 × 73 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. Wikimedia Commons.
One of the earliest naturalistic paintings of a mother and her infant is Giorgione's revolutionary landscape The Tempest from just after 1500. Is there some narrative involving the mother nursing her infant at the breast and the rather fashionable young soldier stood on the opposite bank of the stream, or are they just elaborate staffage?
François Clouet (1510–1572), A Lady in Her Bath (c 1571), oil on oak, 92.3 x 81.2 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Wikimedia Commons.
François Clouet's rather risqué Lady in Her Bath from about 1571 gives us insight into how the other half lived. Next to the rather demure woman in her bath is a wet nurse feeding the second child of this affluent family – a sadly not uncommon practice.
Benjamin West (1738–1820), The Artist and His Family (c 1772), oil on canvas, 52.1 x 66.7 cm, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, CT. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art.
Benjamin West's group portrait of The Artist and His Family from about 1772 gives insight into his peculiar circumstances. It shows, from the left, the Wests' older son, Benjamin West's wife Betsy, cradling their newborn second son in her lap, Benjamin West's brother Thomas, and father John (who had been born in England), and standing in his lavender gown, holding palette and maulstick, is the artist himself.
Often compared with a traditional Nativity scene, it was described at the time as a "neat little scene of domestic happiness". But looking at the directions of gaze, and the extraordinary detachment of Thomas and John West, who are staring into the distance, domestic happiness seems even further away.
Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893), Take your Son, Sir! (1851-52), oil on canvas, 70.5 x 38.1 cm, The Tate Gallery (Presented by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Ormond in memory of their brother, John S. Sargent), London. © The Tate Gallery and Photographic Rights © Tate (2016), CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported), https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/brown-take-your-son-sir-n04429
One of the few male artists who reveals much insight into the ordeal of birth is Ford Madox Brown, in his incomplete painting Take your Son, Sir! It's thought that Brown started work on this in 1851, although it clearly shows his second wife Emma with their newborn son. Their first son, Oliver, wasn't born until 1855, and their second, Arthur, in September 1856, which would suggest that Brown didn't start this until at least 1855. It's generally held that this shows not Oliver, who lived until 1874, but Arthur, who died aged ten months in July 1857, at which time Brown abandoned the painting.
It's also interesting for the detail seen reflected in the mirror, which shows a contemporary living room and a man, presumably a self-portrait. This is reminiscent of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Wedding (1434). The artist's wife appears to be pale and flushed, as if the labour wasn't free of incident either.
Louis Janmot (1814–1892), The Angel and the Mother (Poem of the Soul 3) (1854), oil on panel, dimensions not known, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France. Courtesy of Musée des Beaux-Arts, via Wikimedia Commons.
The third painting in Louis Janmot's epic series Poem of the Soul is curiously titled The Angel and the Mother without reference to its real subject, the baby. This is set by the Lake of Moras, where the mother sits with the newborn soul on her lap. Its guardian angel is kneeling in prayer for the mother and the soul of her new child. This painting combines the images of the annunciation to the Virgin Mary, and the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus, in a unique way.
With the rise of social realism in the middle of the nineteenth century, the mothers and infants of the rural poor became popular themes.
Jules Breton (1827–1906), Mother Feeding her Baby (1863), oil on canvas, 55.2 x 45.1 cm, Private collection. Wikimedia Commons.
Jules Breton's Mother Feeding her Baby (1863) is one of the most gentle and touching of his portraits of country people, showing a mother, wearing clogs and clothing which has seen better days, feeding a very young baby in front of a frugal fire.
Giuseppe Sciuti (1834–1911), The Joys of the Good Mother (1877), further details not known. Wikimedia Commons.
Giuseppe Sciuti's marvellous depiction of The Joys of the Good Mother, also known as The Geography Lesson, from 1877, deserves to be better known. Three children from a close-knit family are seen feeding at mother's breast, learning to read with her, and (with the assistance of a nurse in traditional dress) learning about their country. This mother clearly had precious little time to devote to her youngest.
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), With a Babe in the Woods (c 1879-80), oil on canvas mounted on panel, 31.1 × 22.9 cm, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY. Wikimedia Commons.
Themes of homelessness entered literature and other arts. Among Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema's generally genteel, indoor scenes is an exceptional view of the outdoors: With a Babe in the Woods (c 1879-80), which explores the popular Victorian theme of the young, homeless unmarried mother.
In her early career, Virginie Demont-Breton (daughter of Jules Breton) specialised in painting mothers with their young children. Her First Steps (1881-2) was exhibited at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles in 1881, although dated 1882, and again in the Salon in 1882.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925), The Harvesters' Pay (1882), oil on canvas, 215 x 272 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Wikimedia Commons.
Mothers and their young infants are also featured in larger groups in Naturalist paintings, including Léon Lhermitte's famous The Harvesters' Pay (1882). In the centre of the painting one of the workers is counting out his pay in front of his wife, who is feeding a young infant at her breast.
Fernand Pelez (1848-1913), Homeless (1883), oil on canvas, 77.5 x 136 cm, location not known. Image by Bastenbas, via Wikimedia Commons.
It was Fernand Pelez who was most devoted to documenting the destitute families of the day, here in his Homeless, from 1883. Ironically, those who flocked to view it at the Paris Salon that year would have passed by similar destitute people without noticing them.
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lfpessemier	 on May 3, 2020 at 8:28 am
especially like the Harriet Backer (unknown to me) and the Ford Madox Brown. This is such a nice article!
hoakley	 on May 3, 2020 at 11:11 am
Howard.
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Q: Makefile to compile files that begin with a pattern My makefile has this line:
OBJS = Test.o Test1.o Test2.o Test3.o ...
Is there a way to make this automatic by matching patterns?

A: If you are using gmake - you can use the shell command to ls the source files, then patsubst command to convert the list of source files to the list of object files.
SRC=$(shell ls *.cc)
OBJS=$(patsubst %.cc,%.o, $(SRC))

all:
     @echo $(OBJS)

A: I doubt that what you're asking for is what you really want, but here goes:
NUMS := 1 2 3 4 5

OBJS := Test.o $(patsubst %,Test%.o,$(NUMS))

(There is a way to generate a sequence like 1 2 3 4 5 without spelling it out, but it's really ugly and not worth the effort.)

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Q: Filter array based on start and end date using javascript I have an array of data with start and end date which is being displayed in angular calendar. I would like to filter the array based on the start and end date.
0: {id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-06T09:00:13Z", end_date: "2019-11-11T14:00:13Z"}
1: {id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-04T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-07T07:12:09Z"}
2: {id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-04T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-07T07:03:21Z"}
3: {id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-26T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-27T07:03:21Z"}
4: {id: 66, start_date: "2019-11-04T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-07T07:12:09Z"}
5: {id: 66, start_date: "2019-11-05T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-12T07:03:21Z"}

If I am on day 2019-11-07 (I couldn't get the date from here for filter)
I want to build an array like this from above without using the 2019-11-07
0: {id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-06T09:00:13Z", end_date: "2019-11-11T14:00:13Z"}
1: {id: 66, start_date: "2019-11-04T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-07T07:12:09Z"}

The following is the filter i have written
data.forEach((item, index) => {
if (index !== data['results'].findIndex(i => i.id === item.id &&
new Date(i.start_date).toDateString() === new Date(item.start_date).toDateString() &&
new Date(i.end_date).toDateString() === new Date(item.end_date).toDateString())) {
data.splice(index, 1);
}
});
console.log(data);

If I am on 2019-11-07, i am not able to remove this item
0: {id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-06T09:00:13Z", end_date: "2019-11-11T14:00:13Z"}

Can anyone help me?

A: Use filter instead of forEach:
const filterDate = {
  start_date: "2019-11-07T09:00:13Z",
  end_date: "2019-11-07T09:00:13Z",
};

const filteredItems = data.filter((item, index) => item.start_date >= filterDate.start_date && item.end_date <= filterDate.end_date);

I'm not sure whether you really want to include only the specific date or all the items contained in the selected interval. This example assumes the latter.
Also you might not always have the filterDate object so you want to add specific logic to check that.

A: Here what you need to is as per filter date selection:
filterStartDate time should 00:00:00 and filterEndDate time should be 23:59:59...
secondly use below code...
let data = [
{id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-06T09:00:13Z", end_date: "2019-11-11T14:00:13Z"}
,{id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-04T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-07T07:12:09Z"}
,{id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-04T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-07T07:03:21Z"}
,{id: 86, start_date: "2019-11-26T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-27T07:03:21Z"}
,{id: 66, start_date: "2019-11-04T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-07T07:12:09Z"}
,{id: 66, start_date: "2019-11-05T18:30:00Z", end_date: "2019-11-12T07:03:21Z"}
]

const filterDate = {
  start_date: "2019-11-04T00:00:00Z",
  end_date: "2019-11-07T23:59:59Z",
};

const filteredItems = data.filter((item, index) => (new Date(item.start_date).getTime() >= new Date(filterDate.start_date).getTime() && new Date(item.end_date).getTime() <= new Date(filterDate.end_date).getTime()));

const personCount = filteredItems.length;

console.log(`Person count >>>>>>> ${personCount}`);


As mentioned above, there are 5 major areas in the examination which comprises 200 objective questions in a sprint marathon lasting 120 minutes! Currently, there is a negative marking on 0.25 for every wrong answer and 1 mark for every correct answer marked. The paper is completely online now. The tie break system is firstly on the basis of who has scored higher marks in the legal aptitude section of the paper in case of equal marks, then on the basis of higher marks in the board exams. Interestingly enough, the final tie break in case there is a tie in overall marks and legal aptitude marks and board marks is actually on the basis of whoever is a younger candidate.
Once you have a clear idea of the pattern of the examination and the areas from which the questions are asked, you should finalise a clear game plan. Unlike so many other competitive exams, the CLAT is not about cramming up as much stuff as you can but rather about polishing skills are honing them to the point that they are simply a part of your life.
A lot of you are also perhaps taking a first look at the CLAT paper and thinking "This is easy! Thoda Padh Loonga to ho jayega". Let me clear it up for you – it is certainly not an easy examination. Approximately 50,000 people gave the exam and if you wanted to go to a top 10 law school in the general category you have to finish in the top 2% which is around rank 1000. If beating 98% people seems easy, well then this exam is easy!
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Health is important (remember it clearly) – Above all else, ensure that you stay healthy through the preparation process. Listening to mom and dad regarding food can sometimes go a long long way! Be calm in the examination and ensure that you don't have any nervousness problems in the middle of all of it!
Thinking that the CLAT is too easy – A lot of people come to the CLAT with a few misplaced assumptions. One of the most popular among the myths is that the CLAT is an easy examination to crack compared to some of the other more popular exams like the engineering or the medicine exam. As mentioned above, please remember that this is a highly competitive exam which requires a lot of focus and consistent preparation like any other major exam.
I can ignore maths because it is only 20 marks – Please understand that the exam may not be focused around the maths section but it does account for 10% of the question paper. Even more importantly, the maths section is quite elementary and basic 10th level maths. This means that a lot of people are going to score heavily in the maths section if they like maths or even fall in the more popular category of people who "don't hate maths". The scores of the students in most years are very close to each other and the difference between getting the law school of one's own choice as a matter of guarantee and not getting it at all can be 0.25 marks. Getting over the fear of the maths section and unleashing one's highest potential therefore is an essential feature of the preparation process.
I can speak good English; so I don't need to prep too much for English – The English section in the CLAT is not purely conversational. It includes a little bit of the same kind of reasoning that you have in the reading comprehension sections of your board exams. What it really means is that you have to be in the habit of consistent reading. Being used to English language is of course step one to cracking the English section, but the last step ends with you being really used to the language with rigorous preparation and sincerity.
Don't get too cocky or have too much swag if you just gave one mock – From experience, it is a mistake that is essential to be pointed out. A lot of smart people who prepare for the exam start off with a lot of sincerity and end up giving only a few mocks. It is very possible that you did well because you had prepared quite well. But an exaggerated conclusion should not be derived from the same to the point that you get lazy and lax about the sincerity required for the overall preparation.
It is not about quantity but the quality of preparation – The CLAT is of course an exam which requires a lot of information since there are a lot of information based questions. However, it is very important to remember at the same time that the CLAT is also laden with a lot of reasoning based questions. The kind of preparation required for that is not just a marathon session. It is about developing the basic skills required for the same. Which means that the skill development exercise must be undertaken with a lot of consistency.


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Arts News: KC Chorale Brings Gravitas and Grace to New CD
by Calvin Wilson
Articles , Performing
courtesy of Kansas City Chorale
Under conductor and artistic director Charles Bruffy, the Kansas City Chorale has established itself as an ensemble of international importance. "Artifacts: The Music of Michael McGlynn," offers another example of its musical adventurousness.
At close to seven minutes, "Jerusalem," the seventh track on "Artifacts," is the longest. The song, infused with Irish melody, casts a transportive spell, with lyrics in accordance with that mission:
Jerusalem our happy home
When shall we come to thee.
When shall our sorrow have an end?
Thy joy, when shall we see?
Arguably, it's the most beautiful selection on an album that takes listeners about as far away from the realm of ephemeral and market-driven pop music as they can possibly get. The track also conveys the feel of a live performance — which, in the liner notes, Bruffy states as one of his goals.
Bruffy notes that "Jerusalem" is "always performed by the women of the Chorale moving around the room in a continuous circle, and (that) placing microphones and achieving the perfect balance was quite a task." But the recording engineers met the challenge.
Indeed, simply as a sonic experience, "Artifacts" is a joy to listen to — the kind of album that provides a welcome escape from the noise of modern life. The Chorale's mellifluous voices are captured to glorious advantage on 20 songs, most of them composed or arranged by McGlynn, founder of the Ireland-based choral ensemble Anuna. The program flows with a blend of gravitas and grace.
Three of the selections feature both words and music by McGlynn: "Song of the Wind/Amhran na Gaoithe," "The Wild Song" and "One Last Song."
"Song/Amhran," inspired by fragments of melody heard by fishermen and their families, is a perfect vehicle for the Chorale: haunting and ethereal, with a simple beauty that the listener can't help but find enchanting.
"The Wild Song" highlights the voices of soprano Sarah Tannehill Anderson, mezzo-sopranos Paula Brekken and Jennifer Weiman and tenor David Adams. McGlynn's lyrics evoke the windswept majesty of the Irish landscape:
There the dawn is wide with the scent of spring
With a red sun burning on the tide.
In the hazel forest the blackbird sings
Of a secret place I keep inside.
Some of the pieces are sung in Gaelic languages, but that shouldn't be a deterrent. The skill and feeling that the Chorale brings to these works is as much about their sound as their sense. And the sensibility of the performances is grounded as much in contemporary as in traditional sensibilities.
The album concludes with the ballad "Danny Boy," a warhorse whose inclusion in the program might prompt questions or even disappointment. But in McGlynn's arrangement, the track is very much in the spirit of all that has come before. It's hard to imagine a song more closely associated with the Irish people, and the Chorale approaches it with all the awe and reverence that it deserves.
About The Author: Calvin Wilson
Calvin Wilson is an arts writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is also host and creator of the jazz program, "Somethin' Else," on 107.3 FM and 96.3 HD2 in St. Louis.
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De Commanderij Aschaffenburg was de laatste commanderij die toegevoegd werd aan de balije Biesen van de Duitse Orde en die onderhorig was aan de landcommanderie Alden Biesen.

Situering
De commanderij Aschaffenburg werd door de Biesense landcommandeur Damien Hugo von Schönborn gesticht. Hij kocht reeds in 1716 het Dalberger Hof in Aschaffenburg in Beieren. De commanderij werd echter pas in 1749 aan een commandeur toegewezen. Financiële onregelmatigheden, begaan door de tweede commandeur deden het bestaan ervan wankelen.

Commandeurs
 Johann Franz von Lamberg (1749-1751)
 Franz Heinrich von Hoensbroek (1751-1793)

Bibliografie
 Clemens Guido De Dijn, Grundriß und Außenansicht der (späteren) Kommende Aschaffenburg. in: Ritter und Priester. Acht Jahrhunderte Deutscher Orden in Nordwesteuropa, Alden Biesen, 1992.

Aschaffenburg
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City makes its claim to be university headquarters
by Dylan Short November 2, 2018 November 8, 2018
Aurora College's campus in Yellowknife, located in Northern United Place. NNSL file photo
The City of Yellowknife has issued its response to the GNWT's findings of the Aurora College Foundational Review issued last month.
Aurora College's campus in Yellowknife, located in Northern United Place. NNSL file photo
"Yellowknife is an optimal headquarters location, in part given the size of the city's population, our amenities, housing, part-time employment and recreational opportunities," stated a news release issued by the city last week.
During the legislative assembly's October sitting, Education Minister Caroline Cochrane stated that Aurora College would be turned into a polytechnic university. She made the comments in response to a foundational review of the college conducted by a Calgary consulting firm that made 66 different recommendations including moving the post-secondary institution's headquarters to the capital. Cochrane did not announce where the new university's headquarters would be located.
"While the GNWT's response doesn't declare a location for a new university headquarters, the City has a clear vision to support NWT students to a new level of academic achievement here at home," stated councillor Julian Morse through a news release.
The city submitted their vision to the GNWT's Standing Committee on Social Development on Oct. 25. In their submission, the city makes a number of recommendations including amending legislation to distance the proposed university from the Department of Education, Culture and Employment as well planning for related infrastructure such as student housing and social supports.
"The city is prepared to proactively work with developers and other partners to create affordable housing as student population increases, as well as with the community to identify and establish student supports," states the city's report.
The city's report states its support for keeping community campuses in Fort Smith and Inuvik for 'specialized programming'.
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After winning Gatorade state player-of-the-year honors in basketball and baseball as a senior in high school, Scooter Bynum of Fairbanks had his choice of what sport to play in college.
He picked baseball and never looked back.
Bynum was drafted in the MLB in 2014 but instead went to school, where he has enjoyed historic success by becoming the just the third Alaskan since 2001 to collect 200 career base hits at the college level.
He joined an exclusive club that already included a pair of hitters from Juneau in Lance Ibesate, who collected his 200th hit with Jamestown in 2014, and Rob Conway, who did it with Iowa State in 2001.
"I always thought basketball was my thing and what would help me pay for college. When I chose baseball, I didn't realize how hard the game was mentally not only physically," Bynum told me.
Bynum, of Fairbanks Legion Post 30 fame, has banged out 75 hits in 72 games at Northern Illinois, a NCAA D1 school in the Mid-American Conference. Before that he had 125 hits in 105 games at Arizona Western.
The outfielder is hitting .313 in 177 career games.
Conway reached the 200-hit milestone at Mendocino College and Iowa State. Afterwards he played three seasons of independent pro ball.
Bynum hopes to go pro after college as well.
"I'm not done yet," he said. "I'm just trying to elongate my career as long as possible. I've always just wanted to be the best player I can be. I'm just happy I've had good people in my life that support me.


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Georges-Augustin Bidault (* 5. Oktober 1899 in Moulins, Auvergne; † 27. Januar 1983 in Cambo-les-Bains) war ein französischer Politiker. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg war er aktives Mitglied der Résistance, später christdemokratischer Ministerpräsident und Anfang der 1960er Jahre Mitglied der terroristischen Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS), die die Unabhängigkeit Algeriens ablehnte und bekämpfte.

Leben
Bidault, Sohn eines Versicherungsdirektors, nahm noch am Ersten Weltkrieg teil und studierte an der Sorbonne. Er wurde Geschichtslehrer. 1925 bis 1926 war er in Valenciennes, 1926 bis 1931 in Reims, ab 1931 am Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris als Geschichtslehrer tätig. 1932 half er bei der Gründung der französischen katholischen Jugendorganisation und ab 1934 war er Herausgeber der christdemokratisch-antifaschistischen Zeitung l'Aube. Er hatte darin eine Kolumne und protestierte in ihr unter anderem gegen das Münchener Abkommen von 1938, gegen Antisemitismus und Faschismus. Bidault war Führer der christdemokratischen Parti démocrate populaire (PDP).

1939 trat er der französischen Armee bei und geriet im Zuge der Niederlage Frankreichs im Juni 1940 in deutsche Kriegsgefangenschaft. Nach seiner Freilassung im Juli 1941 konnte er in Paris als Journalist wegen seiner politischen Auffassungen nicht mehr arbeiten und wechselte im Oktober 1941 in die unbesetzte Südzone. Dort trat er der Résistancegruppe Liberté bei, die sich später mit der Gruppe Combat von Henri Frenay vereinigte. Jean Moulin rekrutierte ihn, um eine Untergrundpresse zu organisieren und mit Albert Camus das Untergrundblatt Combat zu gründen.

Bidault nahm an der Gründung des Widerstandsparlaments Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR) als Vertreter des PDP in Paris teil, weshalb er von Lyon nach Paris zurückkehrte und dort im Untergrund lebte. Nachdem die Gestapo Moulin gefangen genommen hatte, wurde er Vorsitzender des CNR. 1944 veröffentlichte er eine Charte de la Résistance, die ein weitreichendes Reformprogramm für die Nachkriegszeit empfahl. In diesem Programm wurde die Wiedereinsetzung der Menschenrechte gefordert.

Politik
Nach der Befreiung von Paris im Juli/August 1944 nahm er für die Résistance an der Siegesparade teil. Charles de Gaulle berief ihn am 25. August 1944 zum Außenminister der Provisorischen Regierung. Er wurde Gründer des Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP), einer christdemokratischen Mitte-rechts-Partei.

Von 1945 bis 1956 und erneut ab 1958 gehörte Bidault als Abgeordneter des Wahlkreises Loire der Nationalversammlung an. Nach dem Krieg arbeitete er im Kabinett Félix Gouin der Provisorischen Regierung als Außenminister 1946, bis ihn am 19. Juni 1946 die konstituierende Nationalversammlung zum Präsidenten der Provisorischen Regierung (de facto Ministerpräsident) wählte. Sein Kabinett bestand aus Sozialisten, Kommunisten und Bidaults eigener MRP, und er übernahm erneut das Außenministerium. Am 29. November wurden Wahlen zur Nationalversammlung angesetzt, nach denen Bidault zurücktrat. Der Sozialist Léon Blum wurde sein Nachfolger.

Bidault arbeitete in verschiedenen französischen Nachkriegskabinetten der Vierten Republik, zunächst als Außenminister in den Kabinetten von Paul Ramadier und Robert Schuman. 1949 wurde er Ministerpräsident, aber sein Kabinett überstand nur acht Monate. Im Kabinett von Henri Queuille von 1950 bis 1951 erhielt er die Position des Vizeministerpräsidenten und den Kabinetten von René Pleven und Edgar Faure gehörte er als Verteidigungsminister an.

1952 wurde er Ehrenpräsident des MRP. Am 1. Juni 1953 gab ihm Präsident Vincent Auriol einen Auftrag zur Kabinettsbildung, aber die Nationalversammlung verweigerte ihm am 10. Juni das Mandat. 1953 war Bidault Präsidentschaftskandidat, zog sich jedoch im zweiten Wahlgang zurück.

Während des Indochinakriegs gehörte Bidault zu den Befürwortern des Erhalts des Kolonialstatus in Indochina.
Am Vorabend der Indochinakonferenz in Genf nahm John Foster Dulles bei einer Besprechung im Quai d'Orsay seinen französischen Amtskollegen zur Seite und fragte ihn unter 4 Augen : Was wäre wenn wir euch 2 Atombomben geben ?

Er versprach sich von der Konferenz die Spaltung der kommunistischen Mächte. Ebenso versuchte er US-Unterstützung durch Luftangriffe zu erreichen, dies wurde jedoch vom Kongress und der Regierung Eisenhower abgelehnt. Durch den Verlauf der Schlacht um Điện Biên Phủ wurde der Krieg jedoch innenpolitisch nicht mehr haltbar und Bidault wurde durch Pierre Mendès France als Verhandlungsführer durch einen Regierungswechsel abgelöst. Seine Partei wollte nach der Niederlage in Indochina ebenso seine Position gegen eine Dekolonisation Nordafrikas nicht mehr mittragen.

Im April 1958 wurde Bidault wieder Ministerpräsident, konnte aber kein Kabinett bilden und war an der Gründung des konservativen Mouvement Chrétien Démocratique (MCD) beteiligt. Er unterstützte die Präsidentschaft von de Gaulle auf dem Höhepunkt des Algerienkrieges 1958. Allerdings wurde Bidault 1961 Präsident des "Exekutivausschusses für den Marsch für ein französisches Algerien", der die von de Gaulle akzeptierte Unabhängigkeit Algeriens scharf ablehnte. Bidault gründete einen Nationalen Widerstandsrat innerhalb der Terrororganisation OAS. Im Juni 1962 wurde er beschuldigt, sich als Chef der OAS gegen den Staat verschworen zu haben. So verlor er seine parlamentarische Immunität. Er flüchtete 1963 nach Brasilien ins Exil. 1967 zog er nach Belgien und kehrte nach einer Amnestie 1968 nach Frankreich zurück.

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Kandidat für das Präsidentenamt (Frankreich)
Mitglied der Ehrenlegion (Großkreuz)
Träger des Ordre de la Libération
Träger des Ordens Legion of Merit (Kommandeur)
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Résistancekämpfer
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Just Joined. Returning from first trip in MH.
Hi all, from Cornwall !
1st stealth camp under our belt.
I can smell the fresh air already!
Tried the rest now joined the best!
Newbie Self builder saying hi!
Bongo owner, teacher and book writer!
This looks like a brilliant sight to find out lots of info. Can't wait to start.
Another motorhome after 6 years without!
Off to Ireland and Scotland!
My wife finally folded to us hiring a campervan!
My own van at last!


A palliative care assistant helps to provide specialist end of life care and support to patients who have terminal illnesses such as cancer or other life-limiting conditions. As a palliative care assistant, you will support families in hospitals, hospices or patients' homes while working alongside nurses and other healthcare professionals.
To get into this field, you will need to have some work experience in healthcare. Most employers will also want to know that you have specific understanding of what it means to work in end of life care.
Palliative care assistant are dedicated to providing healthcare support to patients who are in the last months or days of their lives and ensuring they are as comfortable as possible. They also provide emotional support to the patients' families.
The main duties and responsibilities of a palliative care assistant include applying simple wound dressings, administering medication using syringes or inhalers, giving oral medicines, changing medical equipment such as catheters when required and ensuring that all the equipment that is used on the patient is cleaned and stored correctly.
Working hours for palliative care assistant differ wildly, depending on the employer.
Most employers do not require you to have any formal qualifications to start work as a palliative care assistant. However, they will expect you to have some previous experience in a healthcare role, either paid or voluntary. All employers will also expect you to have a good understanding of end of life care, or palliative care.
Although it is not a mandatory requirement with all employers, GCSEs grades (A-C) in English and maths may be useful in helping you to find a job.
Respect for the confidentiality and individuality of each client.
Palliative care assistant who work with the NHS earn an average annual salary of about £14,294 to £17,425. Private and or temporary contracts pay hourly salaries in the range of £7.60 to £12.00 an hour depending on experience.
Is Palliative Medicine the right specialty for you?


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Q: CheckBox in BaseAdapter auto check I have a ListView with each row consisting of a textview and a checkbox.
The user is allowed to click on each TextView, and once he does a DialogBox is presented to him where he is expected to either choose Yes or No.
When he chooses No, the CheckBox next to the TextView the user clicked needs to be ticked automatically.
The problem that I am facing is that no matter which TextBox the user chooses, the last CheckBox of the list gets ticked all the time, and not the one next to the chosen TextView.
After debugging I noticed that this is happening because the getView() method of the adapter class stops on the last row, thus the last row always gets selected.  I tried setting up tags for each row so that I can than tick the checkbox accordingly but then neither Checkboxes get ticked.
I would appreciate any help on this matter.
....

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
    .....
    holder.text.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onClick(final View v)
        {
            final AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(mContext);
            builder.setTitle("Materials");
            builder.setMessage("Did you require any materials to fix this error?");
            builder.setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
            {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
                {
                    String clickedError;
                    clickedError = holder.text.getText().toString();

                    Intent intent = new Intent(mContext, Material.class);
                    intent.putStringArrayListExtra("materialList", materialList);
                    intent.putExtra("clickedError", clickedError);
                    intent.putExtra("repairID", repairID);
                    ((Activity)mContext).startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
                }
            });
            builder.setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
            {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
                {
                    //holder.chk.setChecked(true); // This ticks the last checkbox of the list.

                    if(holder.chk.getTag() == v.getTag())
                    {
                        holder.chk.setChecked(true);
                    }
                }
            });
            builder.show();

        }
    });

A: Try passing the checkbox for the row into your on click listener:
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
.....
holder.text.setOnClickListener(new MyClickListener(holder.chk);
}
private class MyClickListener implements OnClickListener
{
    Checkbox checkbox = null;
    public MyClickListener(final Checkbox checkbox)
    {
         this.checkbox = checkbox;
    }
    @Override
    public void onClick(final View v)
    {
        final AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(mContext);
        builder.setTitle("Materials");
        builder.setMessage("Did you require any materials to fix this error?");
        builder.setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
            {
                String clickedError;
                clickedError = holder.text.getText().toString();

                Intent intent = new Intent(mContext, Material.class);
                intent.putStringArrayListExtra("materialList", materialList);
                intent.putExtra("clickedError", clickedError);
                intent.putExtra("repairID", repairID);
                ((Activity)mContext).startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
            }
        });
        builder.setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
            {
                //checkbox.setChecked(true); // This ticks the last checkbox of the list.

                if(checkbox.getTag() == v.getTag())
                {
                    checkbox.setChecked(true);
                }
            }
        });
        builder.show();

    }
});

A: CheckBox extends TextView. Use CheckBox.setText(CharSequence | int) to set text into CheckBox and remove the TextView (that will not solve your check problem, of course). Regarding your problem - it's because most AdapterView's re-use Views. Store the checked item information somewhere and in getView call setChecked(checkedItems.get(pos)).
    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
    {
        .....

        holder.chk.setChecked(checkedItems.get(position))

        .....

        builder.setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
            {
                //holder.chk.setChecked(true); // This ticks the last checkbox of the list.

                if(holder.chk.getTag() == v.getTag())
                {
                    holder.chk.setChecked(true);
                    checkedItems.put(position, true);
                }
            }
        });
    }

Where checkedItems is a SparseBooleanArray


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25 Best Places to Visit in Europe
Within the previous days, Individuals use to take a few years to make the Grand Tour of Europe. They'd the fitting thought. You want a number of time to completely expertise all that Europe has to supply. Since most of us at this time have only some weeks vacation annually, we have to choose and select what we'll see.
With so many high locations to go to in Europe, we will slender the checklist down by geographic area or particular curiosity. Because it takes solely hours to get to Europe lately, in comparison with the weeks it took our ancestors, to get to Europe, we will all the time return to go to new sights.
Vienna is essentially the most magical metropolis in Austria. It's a metropolis that conjures up photos of superbly gowned girls dancing to Strauss waltzes. It's a metropolis the place lovely white Lippizaners dance with precision round a hoop. It's a spot the place you'll toss your food regimen apart for a bit of chocolaty sachertore.
Don't overlook to wander the picturesque Previous City, go to the opulent Baroque Schonbrunn Palace, the medieval St. Stephen's Cathedral, the imperial Holburg Palace or perhaps even a efficiency by the famed Vienna Boys Choir.
You must marvel on the willpower of prehistoric man while you have a look at Stonehenge. Development began about 3000 BC on what was initially burial grounds. Enormous monoliths, weighing 25 tons, had been dragged 240 km (150 miles) to the location a couple of hundred years later.
It's not recognized precisely what number of humungous rocks had been moved to a subject close to Amesbury however there are 13 standing at this time. It's additionally not recognized why Stonehenge was constructed, however many imagine this nice UK landmark is related to early astrology.
Egypt could have its pyramids, however Italy and Switzerland have a nature-made pyramid of their very own: the Matterhorn. At 4,478 meters (14,692 ft) excessive, this well-known mountain is likely one of the highest in Europe. The mountain has 4 faces, every equally rugged.
This legendary mountain has been standard with climbers for the reason that first ascent in 1865; in the course of the summer time 150 individuals a day attempt to climb it. Sofa potatoes could also be simply as pleased to remain beneath and gaze in awe on the summit taking part in cover and search with the clouds.
The Plitvice Lakes are so fairly, officers turned them right into a nationwide park. Situated in central Croatia, Plitvice Lakes consists of 16 lakes that appeal to greater than one million guests a yr. The lakes are surrounded by lush forests and linked by waterfalls cascading down from one lake to a different.
The lakes are divided into two sections, decrease and higher, due to the distinction in elevation. One of the simplest ways to see the lakes is strolling; on the route you would possibly even see some wildlife.
Budapest was already a longtime metropolis when the Hungarians took over within the ninth century. At the moment, Budapest is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. In between these two occasions, Budapest was dominated by the Mongols and Ottomans, amongst others.
Thought-about one of the vital lovely cities in Europe, Budapest is dwelling to the Museum of Fantastic Arts with its assortment of greater than 100,000 works. You should definitely go to the centrally situated Previous City with its many museums, church buildings, palaces and Parliament constructing.
The Portuguese capital of Lisbon lies on the Tagus River alongside the Atlantic coast. It's this location that inspired explorers to sail far and vast world wide within the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
One of many belongings you'll need to see is Belem Tower, a sixteenth century fortress on the Tagus' north financial institution. Should you're searching for good views of previous Lisbon, head to Sao Jorge Fortress that was constructed on a hilltop by the Moors.
You most likely don't know too too many individuals who've been to Iceland. However it might be value a visit there to go to the spectacular Gullfoss waterfalls. Situated in southern Iceland, Gullfoss is one in all Iceland's high vacationer sights.
At instances it nearly seems glacier-like, acceptable, maybe, since it's fed by a glacier. The waterfalls begins simply after the Ölfusá River makes a perpendicular flip after which cascades down a three-step staircase right into a canyon that's 35 meters (115 ft) deep.
Athens, a metropolis that's been inhabited for the reason that fifth century BC, gave the world the idea of democracy. Since this metropolis is each the capital of Greece and of historic Europe.
Lots of the metropolis's main landmarks may be discovered within the previous city, significantly across the Acropolis. The checklist contains the temple of Zeus; the Theatre of Dionysus the place Sophocles works had been carried out; Hadrian's Arch, the symbolic entrance to the town, and the Parthenon, which sits atop the Acropolis.
If you're hungry for breathtaking surroundings, feast your eyes on Kotor Bay in southwestern Montenegro. This bay off the Adriatic is simply downright picturesque: hemmed in by mountains, with quaint villages sandwiched between the cliffs and the beautiful blue water.
A number of well-preserved medieval cities ring the bay. Individuals make pilgrimages right here, not solely to soak up the surroundings but additionally to go to the 200 Orthodox and 100 Christian church buildings and chapels unfold among the many villages.
Moscow, for almost 900 years the capital of Russia, is the guts of Russia and Japanese Europe. As such, this previous metropolis has loads to supply guests. Let's begin with the fifteenth century Crimson Sq. since lots of the metropolis's key sights encompass it.
A high landmark is the Kremlin, a former fortress that homes museums and the president of the Russian federation. Lenin's Tomb sits in the midst of the sq., whereas the enduring onion-domed St. Basil's Cathedral, now a museum, is on one aspect.
Venice is for romantics who love gliding via the Grand Canal with a gondolier singing Italian love songs. That is, in spite of everything, the town that despatched Marco Polo off on his journey to China.
Begin your exploration of Venice at San Marco Sq., the town's most well-known sq.. Right here you'll discover the Doge's Palace, the seat of Venetian authorities, and St. Mark's Basilica, the primary church in Venice with beautiful views from the tower. Venice additionally is legendary for its bridges (Rialto and Sighs) throughout the canals.
Should you're into glitz and glamour, look no additional than Monte Carlo, the key metropolis within the tiny principality of Monaco. Monaco has all the time been recognized for these qualities which reached new heights when its prince made Grace Kelly his princess.
Sitting on the shores of the Mediterranean, Monte Carlo is thought for quick automotive races and its elite on line casino. Take a stroll alongside the harbor to see yachts (some as huge as ships) that belong to the wealthy and well-known.
The Alhambra is likely one of the nice wonders of Spain. It's a stunning palace-fortress advanced that may be present in Granada in southern Spain's Andalusia province. This imposing advanced began out as a small fortress within the late ninth century, although it was constructed on the ruins of a former Roman fortress.
Taken over by Christian rulers, it's the website the place Columbus obtained the go-ahead to find the New World. The mixing of architectural types over the centuries is beautiful. You'll discover nice artwork and grand gardens all through.
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Juhani Silvola – Post-biological wildlife
by 5:4 July 8, 2019 • 17:23
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We might call it "conjectural anthropology". What i'm referring to here is music (or any art, for that matter) that seeks to fabricate and/or otherwise be inspired by fictitious notions of organic life and activity. We find examples of this in, among other places, the strange electronic languages being uttered in the two volumes of Rashad Becker's Traditional Music of Notional Species, in the wildly theatrical simulated-ethnographic rituals and dances of Paul Dolden's Histoires d'histoire, and in the dual attempt to question and (re)invent an ancient magic in Gabriel Dharmoo's Futile Spells. While none of these works seeks to effect real plausibility – focusing instead on the inherent joy arising from playing fast and loose with conceits of pseudo-reality – it's surprising how effective and authentic they can feel, and as a consequence, how much we want them to be real. Similar feelings arise when listening to Post-biological wildlife, the latest album from Norwegian composer Juhani Silvola.
Rather than conceptualising a long-distant past, Silvola's outlook is staunchly forward, looking ahead to a futuristic vision that may or may not involve people. Or, at least, 'people' as we currently understand the term: the "post-biology" at play here is evidently a convoluted amalgam of human, animal and machine elements. Opening track 'Ritualrytmikk' (itself a lexicological amalgam) brings together an assortment of percussive taps and beats amidst electronic blips and bleeps such that the distinction between them, though always evident, seems irrelevant. Occasionally surrounded by deep gongs and high chimes, the ritual aspect of the music is articulated with ice-cold simplicity and clarity, forming a nice counterpoint to the capricious irregularity of its rhythmic patterns. More relaxed but connected in parallel, '20th Century Meditation' turns metric regularity into a steady state textural foundation over which gentle plinky-plonky melodic fragments meander. As such, it evokes the progenitors of ambient music (hinted at in both parts of its title, "20th Century" and "Meditation") while sounding unequivocally new. The title track is equally committed to just a single idea, setting up a habitat within which ersatz bird- and insect-sounds proliferate, joined later by gusts generated by an artificial storm.
Aside from this track, the rest of the album, despite its overall name, generally resists such direct invocations of organic life in favour of soundscapes indicative or descriptive of how such life might be enacted, or the nature of the environment they inhabit. Two tracks, 'Speculative Phonography, pt. 1' and 'Vaster Than Empires', do this from opposite directions. The former is something akin to a counterfeit field recording, not simply because of the nature of its sound elements – including wind, rain and water, alongside less identifiable scratchings and clatter – but in the strikingly hands-off way the piece unfolds. One of the longest tracks on the album, its development is sufficiently slow that at times it's as if one had been transported into Silvola's imaginary world and were simply listening to events playing out naturally. It is a construct, though, a fact made most abundantly clear in a culminating sequence of pounding metric thuds, heard in bursts interspersed with some uncanny-valley renditions of birdsong. 'Vaster Than Empires', by contrast, rather than being a seeming by-product of this imaginary world instead steps outside it, acting like a kind of non-diegetic slice of soundtrack. It breaks away from the timbral ambiguity heard elsewhere, obviously drawing on the sounds of a Hardanger fiddle (performed by Silvola's wife, Sarah-Jane Summers) as the basis for its music. While that makes it the most immediate of these six tracks, it's also the most volatile, moving violently back-and-forth between low episodes of friction and violent explosions, soft creaks and juddering soundmasses.
Most direct of all in its biotech allusions is 'Machines of Loving Grace' (the title of which evokes both the optimism of Richard Brautigan's original poem and the pessimism of Adam Curtis' documentary series), where alternately growling and shrill pitches suggest a dial being wildly rotated on dated electronic equipment, in the process becoming caked in distortion. This is to an extent balanced by gentle drones and light tickling sounds – suggesting diverse forms of abstract organisms – though these are something of an interlude within glowering walls of throbbing noise, creating an interplay between regularity and uncertainty, redolent of the collision – or should that be melding? – between machine-like and organic sonic forces.
Post-biological wildlife is a beautifully strange and evocative album, often so vivid that its soundworld becomes all-immersive, like strapping on a virtual reality headset. Despite the dour presentation of the album's artwork – draped in near-black, adorned only with a night photo looking towards thin trees – there's little about it that seems overtly dystopian. Juhani Silvola's futuristic vision is full of clunk and crunch, squawk and squall, but ultimately conveys a mix of equally frail analogue tech and organic entities existing in an intimate symbiosis.
Released earlier this year on Silvola's own Eighth Nerve Audio label, Post-biological wildlife is available on CD and download.
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Every family has Christmas traditions, but with the news of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement, traditions are already changing in the royal household.
Meghan will break the long-standing royal tradition by being the first royal fiancée to spend Christmas Day with the royal family.
"Now they are engaged it was unthinkable that they would be apart for Christmas," a friend of Prince Harry's said, according to The Times. "The royal family have fully welcomed Meghan into the fold."
The reason for the change of rules was Prince Harry asking the Queen to make an exception for his new American bride-to-be.
Previous royalty-to-be, Princess Diana and Kate Middleton, had separate Christmas celebrations away from their princes while they were in the engagement stage.
Back in 2010, Prince William and Kate Middleton spent time apart during the festive season. While Will was having a black-tie dinner at the palace, Kate was with her family in Berkshire.
While Meghan's appearance at Christmas dinner will be a new change for the royal family, it's likely she will struggle with the royal family's Boxing Day tradition.
Harry's family typically use December 26th to shoot pheasants on their 20,000 acre royal grounds, but as she's opposed to blood sports, she may wish to skip that tradition out.


All my games Dump to 7.05 GB?
Discussion in 'Xbox 360 Support Archive' started by lxjoshxl, Jul 2, 2009 with 6 replies and 554 views.
Where are my nand dumps?
My nand dumps dont work?
Because that is the size of the original dvd.
Hmm. Ok well do they check out fine in abgx and xbc?
Mine are always either 7.05 or 7.29 it just depends on what the game is and how new it is. The 7.05 for godfather is fine.
All of my games are 7.29gb.


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These Years Gone By…is a love story told through my grandparents letters from World War II. From these letters, artifacts and old family photos, I have woven together a narrative that tells the story of this critical time in world history and challenging time in their personal history.
The photobook created from the project has been selected for several exhibitions including: PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris awards annual and exhibition opening in July 2019, the Photo Book Exhibition at the Month of Photography in Los Angeles (MOPLA) by the Lucie Foundation in April 2019 and the Click! Photobook Exhibition in October 2018 at Horse and Buggy Press in Durham, North Carolina. Images from the project have also been 'chosen' for the American Photography 35 annual online archive in 2019.
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These Years Gone By…is a love story told through my grandparents letters from World War II. My grandfather Kenneth Shaft was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army in World War II and on May 8, 1945 ("Victory in Europe" day) his company was 68 miles outside Berlin.
Shortly after my grandmother's death in 2008, my mother discovered about 300 letters that my grandparents had written to each other during World War II. They had been kept by my grandmother for over 60 years and inherited by my mother. These letters provided a new insight for my family into the lives of my grandparents during this critical time in world history. From these letters, artifacts and old family photos, I have woven together a narrative that tells the story of this challenging time in their personal history.
At the heart of the project are my grandfathers letters that encompass the simple things: being young, insecure and in love, trying to maintain a relationship from a great distance, and being away from those that you love. These letters also contain the observations of a young man during a difficult time in our nations history. There is a confidence in my grandfather's writing voice that he was helping rid the world of evil forces. But there are times when he was unsure if what he was doing was the right thing, though he was certain that he was fighting for the right thing.
While reading the letters that remain and looking back into the depth of family history, I started to have a different view of that history and these people became real. These letters inform my interpretation of the world and the events that shaped so many young people of my grandfather's generation. For me, it's a journey through family history, a way to clarify my experience and understand my existence.
As you age you learn that time and memory are not tangible, but elusive elements. As time passes, I look for something to hold on to. Family history and the artifacts left behind provide me with something tangible.
As a Phoenix photographer, I explore narrative storytelling through photographs and multi-media, usually consisting of constructed realties that cross over into implied fiction. My personal work has been an American Photography (AP28 and AP35) and Photo District News (PDN) annual award winner. My independently published photo books have been included in exhibitions around the country at museums and galleries that include: The Griffin Museum of Photography, Phoenix Art Museum. and Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA).


There's something very homey and comforting about shepherd's pie. I remember it from when I was a child; my mother made it, and the school sometimes served it up, too, back in the day when lunch wasn't pizza and fries! Now, of course, I don't eat the animal, but shepherd's pie (sometimes called shepherdess' pie) is still on the menu.
I tend to think of green/brown lentils as being a bit too austeire and vegan for my brood to enjoy, but as has happened in the past, I was wrong, and the dish has gone down a storm. Daughter #2 had seconds while declaring that it really needed cashew gravy to go with it as she didn't fancy chutney. Well, I'll figure something wet to serve it up with next time.
Last time I made shepherd's pie, I made it with a meetoo filling (picture at the bottom of page), which was also good, but quite honestly, any of the thick stews that don't rely on potatoes would work well topped with mashed potato.
In the meantime, cook the onions and carrots/cauliflower florets in a frying pan with about 2 tbsp of wine to keep them from sticking. (You can use water, if you'd rather not use wine.) Add splashes of wine from time to time if the vegetables appear to be starting to stick.
When the onions have softened (~10 minutes), add the garlic and spices to warm through for a minute, then add the tomatoes, cilantro, and salt and pepper.
Once the lentils are soft, drain them. Stir the mixtures together, and allow to simmer gently, uncovered, for a few minutes to allow the flavors to combine, and the sauce to thicken.
Peel and cut the potatoes into 1″ dice.
Put the potatoes in a saucepan with lightly salted water to cover, bring to a boil, and simmer until soft (~10 – 15 minutes). Once soft, drain the potatoes, and mash by hand with with margarine and dairy free milk until soft enough to spread with a fork. Don't use a food processor; the potatoes take on a glue-like consistency that isn't appealing.
Spoon the lentil mixture into a medium sized oven proof dish (e.g. medium lasagna pan).
Drop fork-loads of the mashed potatoes onto the lentil mixture, then spread evenly with the tines of a fork. Place under a hot broiler/grill to allow the ridges to brown slightly. Serve hot with veggie side dishes and gravy or chutney.
In the days before I was concerned about egg and dairy consumption, I loved quiche, but wouldn't make it due to the calorie count. This recipe solves both problems in one hit, providing you don't make the crust. If you do want to make a crust, check out my recipe for the potato / almond pastry; there's no need to apologize to your glutenous friends for this adaptation.
The only non vegan ingredient in this dish is the egg in the potato pastry. If you use vegan pastry or make a crustless quiche, the whole thing will be vegan. My husband likes the filling to have a large proportion of chunky vegetables; the kids don't care, they like it any way it comes. Don't be fooled by the ingredient list; the tofu custard is rich even though the calorie count is diet-worthy (providing you leave out the crust and don't eat the whole thing in one sitting)!
Soak the cashews in water for at least 1/2 hour.
In a large cast iron pan, bring to the boil 1/4 inch of water, 1/2 tsp regular salt, the garlic, and the broccoli. Cover with a lid and steam until the broccoli is nearly cooked, then remove the lid and let the water evaporate. Add 1/2 the margarine and allow the broccoli to brown slightly.
In a large cast iron pan, fry the onion in the rest of the margarine over a medium heat until browned.
Line an 8" or 9" cake tin with baking parchment.
If you're making a crust, crumble the pastry dough into the lined pan such that it is evenly spread, and then use your knuckles to press it into place and compact it.
Drain the cashews and process in a food processor for 30 seconds. Make sure they're pretty smooth before adding the tofu, and pulse again along with 1/2 of the broccoli, the onion, and the other ingredients until mixture is smoothish. Don't over process or the tofu will be too creamy, and have too little bulk.
Stir in the remainder of the broccoli, check for seasoning, and spoon it into the pie pan. Smooth the top, and bake for 40 minutes at 350F.


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Longenesis gets €1 million to accelerate the digitization of biomedical research
Longenesis, a Riga-based startup, has raised €1 million in a late seed round led by Rustam Gilfanov.
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Longenesis, a Riga-based firm, has raised €1 million in a late seed round led by Rustam Gilfanov. Ilya Suharenko, a private investor and one of LongeVC's Managing Partners, also participated in the round, providing 17 years of experience in traditional banking. Insilico Medicine and other top-tier biotech companies co-founded the firm.
It was founded in 2017 with the goal of enabling global biomedical research. What is its primary goal? To assist in identifying and unlocking the hidden value of biological data in order to speed the discovery of novel drugs and treatments and provide better assistance to people in need.
Medical data is sensitive and private, posing challenges for researchers who require huge, thorough datasets. It will help to cut recruitment costs and accelerate biomedical research by introducing digitalization and consent-enabled exhibiting of biomedical assets. It will be able to expand in its main markets and scale the deployment of its three core products: Curator, Themis, and Engage, using the money raised in this late seed phase.
Medtronic, a €140 billion ($167 billion) medical device company, recently established a cooperation with the corporation. The Medtronic-Longenesis collaboration, which also includes diabetic patient organizations, will serve as a testbed for incorporating digital patient interaction into research and advocacy efforts.
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"Advocacy is an important component of the patient organization's mission, but it has also been a big challenge up until now. We need to involve patients in a continuous discussion to ensure that their needs and wants are taken seriously and that their best interests are prioritized. Many things obstruct this process, including their different capacities and the skepticism that comes with any chronic illness. As a result, we're thrilled to be working with Longenesis.
We feel that their patient engagement and data curation solutions will provide us with essential access to diabetes patients as well as research partners who may be able to assist them. The current study, we hope, is just the beginning," said Indra Stelmane, Ph.D., endocrinologist, and president of the Latvian Diabetes Federation.
LongeVC is a driving force behind Longenesis. It is a service and investment fund that focuses on industrial development, fundraising, and startup development for biotech firms. LongeVC's major focus is on finding startups in cutting-edge technology areas of the longevity market.
"Compliant access to clinical data and patient cohorts will remain the basic success criterion for any biotech or longevity-focused venture," said Garri Zmudze, Managing Partner. In the next few years, we believe Longenesis has everything it takes to become a backbone of compliant biomedical data utilisation."
How will the fund be used?
"Biotechnology is advancing rapidly today, moving towards digitalizing and formerly entirely human-dependent and unduly manual processes," said Rustam Gilfanov, a business angel and a venture partner of the LongeVC investment firm, who led the financing round. Recent AI-driven drug discovery achievements are a terrific example of this, and there will be many more in the future.
For such breakthroughs to be repeatable and scalable, they require digitalization, transparency, and compliance in biological data asset access. The fund aims to help such businesses grow. This is the way things will be in the future."
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In celebration of Liger, the juicy pale ale collaboration of Tin Roof and Gnarly Barley Brewing, the 'Big Cats & Hazy Beer' event runs 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday at Tin Roof Brewing, 1624 Wyoming St. There will be live music and food by Rock Paper Taco and Barbosa's BBQ.
At long last, football is back. After an eight-month drought, the pigskins are once again flying, which means tailgate season is here, too. And since tailgates mean beer, a couple of local breweries have released beers to mark the occasion.
Baton Rouge's Tin Roof Brewing and Hammond's Gnarly Barley Brewing are two among a handful of Louisiana breweries that brew officially licensed collegiate beers for their respective hometown universities. Tin Roof has tweaked the recipe for its Bayou Bengal pale lager, which was recently released just in time for football season. This year's version is lighter, more drinkable and slightly easier on the wallet.
Similarly, Gnarly Barley released this year's Lion Up, a collaboration with Southeastern Louisiana University, in mid-August. This American wheat ale is refreshing and features floral and citrus notes from the use of Amarillo hops. An easy drinker at 4.5-percent alcohol by volume (ABV), Lion Up is available at the brewery's taproom and around Hammond.
Since LSU is hosting Southeastern in its football home opener on Saturday, Sept. 8, the two breweries naturally decided to create a collaborative beer. Since big cats are the mascots at both schools, the obvious name of the beer was a combination of the two — Liger. This juicy pale ale weighs in at 5.5-percent ABV and was brewed with Galaxy, Mosaic and Citra hops. Liger was brewed at Tin Roof and will be released on Friday, Sept. 7, in the taproom, with another party planned for gameday Saturday.
Friday's festivities get underway at 4 p.m. with music from Kirk Holder and Chuck Pierce, as well as food from Barbosa's Barbecue and Rock Paper Taco. It's also Family Friday, with inflatable bounce houses and face painting to occupy the kids. The taproom will open at 10 a.m. on Saturday with music from Delta Revelry beginning at 2 p.m. The football game will be shown on a projector on the patio, as well as on the televisions inside the taproom.
Huntsville, Alabama's Straight to Ale brews are now available in south Louisiana. Founded in 2009, Straight to Ale has become one of the largest breweries in the state of Alabama.
Among the beers available here are Monkeynaut IPA, Brother Joseph's Belgian Style Dubbel Ale and He Ain't Heffe, a German-style Hefeweizen.
Look for Straight to Ale beers in cans at your favorite specialty grocer and bottle shops around town.