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What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax
by James Hannam
Why we should not be taxing referendum donors
29 December, 2017 by James Hannam
Over Christmas, there has been some controversy over the taxation of donations that were made to the Leave and Remain campaigns. Since most of the reporting has been written by people with very little idea of what is being taxed and why, I thought I'd note the basis of the taxation and why, in the interests of justice, the law should be amended to prevent it.
The UK has an inheritance tax which taxes a deceased person's estate at a rate of 40%. There is a large nil rate band of £325,000, doubled to £650,000 for a married couple. There are also reliefs for business assets, some family homes and various other things. Inheritance tax is very unpopular but personally I have always thought it is one of our fairer taxes. The main asset it taxes is residential property, which is usually subject to an exemption from capital gains tax for our main residences. Also, an large inheritance is not something we do anything to deserve and it seems fair that the exchequer should get a cut.
Obviously, you should not be able to avoid inheritance tax by giving your money away just before you die. There are rules to prevent this from happening. Also, some people set up trusts for the benefit of their children to avoid some of the tax (although this is much less effective than it used to be). The Chargeable Lifetime Transfer regime is one of the ways that the tax code tries to prevent people avoiding inheritance tax by putting money into a trust. Basically, if you put £100 into certain trusts or other kinds of entity, you have to pay £25 in inheritance tax at the same time. To be clear – this tax charge is a way to prevent people from avoiding inheritance tax. It is not intended to tax gifts and donations to unrelated bodies and there are explicit exemptions for most such donations, including to charities, sports clubs and political parties.
HMRC is demanding that the donors to the Leave and Remain campaigns pay the 25% tax on their donations because it is treating them as Chargeable Lifetime Transfers. In other words, it is saying that the donors should be taxed as if they were trying to avoid inheritance tax (which, obviously, is not what they were trying to do). HMRC is correct that the amounts are due on a strict reading of the law. However, it is now a settled principle of tax law that the literal meaning of legislation is not determinative. What counts is the intention of Parliament. It is clear that when Parliament enacted the rules on donations to the Leave and Remain campaign, it did not intend that some of these donations should be subject to a 25% surtax. The only reason for the tax demands is that no one at the time realised that there was a problem. Admittedly, to put the matter beyond doubt, there should have been an explicit exemption in the European Union Referendum Act 2015. Unfortunately, there wasn't because the parliamentary draftsman was careless and didn't put one in.
HMRC has discretion not to pursue tax demands that are inappropriate. However, because of unwarranted criticism about 'sweetheart deals' and such like, it has become very cagey about using its discretion. In any case, it's lawyers may well have decided that without anything explicit to exempt the donations, it should tax them anyway. I don't think this is about the 'revenge of the establishment' (as one of the donors has complained), although the crowing from opponents of Brexit over the issue has certainly not helped put such fears to rest.
Luckily, there is a quick and easy solution to this manifold injustice. An amendment should be made to the Finance Bill currently wending its way through Parliament to put right the omission to the European Union Referendum Act 2015.
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In praise of the Remain campaign: Europhiles should accept they gave it their best shot
22 October, 2016 27 October, 2016 by James Hannam
Originally published at Brexit Central.
In the aftermath of the referendum, two myths have quickly taken root: that David Cameron made a reckless gamble when he called a vote on the EU and that Britain Stronger in Europe was a disunited rabble that fought a dreadful campaign.
These myths are dangerous because they fuel the calls for a second referendum. Europhiles tell themselves that if the vote was a gamble, another throw of the dice might produce a different result. And they imagine that a more focused and positive campaign for Remain could win the day.
Let me address these two myths in turn.
In his Bloomberg speech of January 2013, Mr Cameron promised a renegotiation with Brussels followed by an In/Out referendum. Commentators rushed to tell us that the speech was a reaction to the rise of UKIP and a way to plaster over the cracks in Tory unity. This confused the symptoms of Euroscepticism with the cause.
UKIP's success reflected widespread anxiety in the country about the EU, while Conservative divisions had been opened by the refusal of successive British Governments to seek consent for the transfers of sovereignty to the EU by the treaties of Maastricht, Nice and Lisbon. Mr Cameron himself had reneged on his 'cast iron guarantee' of a referendum on Lisbon.
It's also been suggested that he intended to drop the referendum pledge in any coalition negotiations with the Liberal Democrats after the 2015 general election. However, an analysis of Mr Cameron's statements in the run up to the election shows that this is not true. The referendum was a red line for any coalition agreement. In any case, if he'd tried to ditch it, half the Conservative Party would have spontaneously combusted, including myself.
Far from being a short-term fix for his European troubles, Mr Cameron was thinking strategically. He realised that there had to be a reckoning to settle the question of Britain's EU membership. And it would be far better for Europhiles if this reckoning took place at a time of his choosing and on his terms. The alternative was a referendum down the line under a Brexiteer Conservative leader using all the advantages of Government to ensure a vote for Leave.
Although the Cameron plan was a sound one for Europhiles, events got in the way. The Prime Minister assumed the EU would need a treaty to solve the Euro-crisis rather than kick the can down the road and condemn tens of millions to unemployment. He hoped Britain's veto would strengthen his negotiating position. He also underestimated the pig-headedness of his fellow heads of Government in February 2016 when they scuppered his efforts to get a deal he could sell to the British people.
But I would argue that the failure of the renegotiation was a mistake by the EU rather than Mr Cameron, whose only error was to misjudge the EU's capacity for self-harm.
The second myth concerns the referendum campaign itself. Brussels had dealt Europhiles a very weak hand, but I believe they played it as effectively as they could. For all the criticism of Project Fear, Remain had no choice but to ramp up the scare tactics. Europhiles like former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan might wistfully write that they should have fought a more positive campaign.
But, honestly, what was the optimistic message about the EU supposed to be? Lauding the alleged benefits of immigration was never going to work and Remain knew it was essential to keep the European Commission's ambitions for more integration under wraps. When the EU took credit for peace in Europe or increasing prosperity, the British just chuckled at its lack of self-awareness.
So Project Fear was Remain's only viable strategy, and if it was to work, it had to be full-on. One advantage for Remain was that it didn't need to make any predictions about what would happen if it won. Unlike a political party promising the earth at an election, Remain's warnings would only be tested if they lost, so they could really push the boat out on the doom-mongering. Of course, Leave won and all those predictions are coming home to roost for the likes of the OECD and HM Treasury. However, I doubt either Mr Cameron or even George Osborne are very bothered about that.
That is not to say Matthew Elliott's fantastic Vote Leave didn't matter. The point of a political campaign is not really to win the argument. Rather, it must identify its supporters and motivate them to get to the polling station on the big day. Vote Leave did that brilliantly.
The important point is that the referendum was not won because of narrow tactical concerns, mistakes made by Mr Cameron or Britain Stronger in Europe, or even because Leave voters were just protesting and didn't mean to win. All these erroneous excuses have been made by Europhiles since 23rd June.
Leave triumphed because it is the settled will of the British people that they do not wish their country to be part of the European Union. Given that fact, Remain did as well as they could have done by pushing us so close. David Cameron deserves credit from Europhiles for giving Remain the best possible chance.
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The cause of recessions
6 August, 2016 24 July, 2016 by James Hannam
There's been a lot of talk about whether or not Brexit will cause a recession. Most commentators seem to imagine that recessions can be avoided if we do the right think. The former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown even turned this delusion into a political slogan: "No more boom and bust". Of course, particular recessions have particular proximate causes. The subprime crisis was the catalyst that kicked off the great recession of 2008 that we still have not quite got behind us. But that was not why it happened. After all, the sovereign defaults and the LTCM collapse in 1998 didn't cause a recession. Nor did the dotcom crash of the early noughties. So you need to look a bit deeper to understand why recessions happen and why they cannot be avoided.
Here's one theory (which I very much doubt has the merit of originality). I call it the theory of crud. Actually, I don't. But the word I use instead of 'crud' isn't appropriate for a family blog.
When economies are growing, we can get away with quite a lot. If you have an underperforming employee, then firing him or her is probably more trouble than it is worth if your business is still making lots of money. Innovation is risky and there is little point in it if you can make money doing what you've always done. This is human nature.
Economic growth will also resist measures that might be expected to stifle it. Government regulation and taxation, as well as high debt levels, are cases in point. A growing economy allows us to feel we can take on more debt than is prudent. It encourages governments to increase public spending so as to look after their clients and stay in power. So they raise taxes, removing money from productive uses in the private sector to unproductive ones in the public sector. Governments also get themselves into debt more than they can afford. Growing economies let them (and us) get away with mortgaging the future.
Over-regulation is even worse. It is essentially a form of taxation whereby money is moved from productive sources into the hands of compliance officers and inspectors who are often, but not always, in the public sector. But regulation is also less obvious that straightforward taxation and can be disguised as a good thing when it purports to improve health and safety, or the environment, or whatever. This makes getting rid of red tape an enormous challenge. When an economy is growing, no one can be bothered. Protectionist policies have similar advantages. Free trade is a hard sell.
And it gets worse. A growing economy lets people make colossal and stupid mistakes without being punished. Utterly insane ideas, like joining Europe's disparate economies into a single currency, can appear to be working when the damage they do is hidden under economic growth.
Crud is what I call all this taxation, petty rules, overhanging credit and stupidity. It jams the works of the economy like sand in a machine, wearing down the gears and gradually making the whole mechanism less efficient. But when the wheels are turning, they can overcome this resistance. The crud continues to build up, week by week, but while the machine turns, it is worth nobody's while to do the hard work of clearing it out. Things are obviously much less efficient than they should be, but they still work enough for people to pretend everything is fine.
But eventually, the crud has built up to such a level that it causes serious damage. Important works clog up. Gearwheels crack under the strain of turning through the rubbish around them. The machine judders to a halt. A recession begins. Exactly where and when this happens is essentially random. But a time comes when an economy is simply not functioning well enough to overcome a shock. Only then does the clear-up begin.
That's what makes recessions so painful. All those decisions that were put off when times were good can no longer be avoided. The shirking employees have to go; the debt must be repaid. Idiocies like the Euro show their true colours. The engine of the economy has to be steam-cleaned at vast expense and discomfort. By the way, the recession we have just had was so deep and prolonged not because of wicked bankers. It was just that long boom from 1990 to 2008 gave us so many opportunities to accumulate crud. Getting things going again with so much junk in the system is extra-hard.
And there is an added danger. A recession can lead people to demand even more regulation and red tape in the ignorant belief that this prevents rather than causes economic reverses. Keynesians cry that we have to shovel even more crud into the system to restart it. Roosevelt's famous New Deal is now known to have made the depression of the 1930s even worse than it needed to be. And here's why: the New Deal just showered crud over everyone. Sadly, the only way to get the economy moving again is paying down the debt, tearing up the regulations, slimming down the workforce and keeping markets open for business.
So, in summary, we get recessions because capitalism works. Capitalism generates economic growth. When things are good, human beings have a natural tendency to avert their eyes from future problems. But eventually we just have to roll up our sleeves up and carry out the necessary spring cleaning.
Will Brexit cause a recession? It might turn out to be a catalyst but it won't be the cause.
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Brexit: What on Earth Happened?
24 July, 2016 24 July, 2016 by James Hannam
People around the world may have heard some surprising tidings from the United Kingdom over the last few weeks. As some international news reporting has painted events here as either a revolt by xenophobic peasants or just complete chaos, I thought it was worth setting down what has really happened and the reasons behind it.
First, some history: back in 1975, the British overwhelmingly endorsed their membership of the European Economic Community or EEC, the predecessor organisation of the European Union (EU). On balance, the British decided that membership of a huge market on their doorstep was worth sacrificing some of their self-rule for. Besides, back in the 1970s, the UK was in a bad way, with widespread labour disputes, high inflation and shaky Government finances.
In 1992, the EEC was turned into the EU by the Maastricht Treaty, which was intended to be the first step towards a federal United States of Europe. The British Prime Minister at the time, John Major, declined to obtain a democratic mandate for this. The previous Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, had been deposed a couple of years before when she had effectively threatened to veto the plans for a federal Europe. In the same year, on 16 September 1992, 'black Wednesday', the German central bank provoked the markets to devalue the British pound against the will of the British Government, causing it to fall out of the exchange rate mechanism. The combination of Maastricht and black Wednesday turned the majority of the Conservative Party against the EU. These events also destroyed the credibility of Mr Major and his Government, which lost the 1997 election by a landslide.
From 1997 to 2010, Tony Blair's Labour Party was in government and was determined that the UK would play a full part in the EU. In 2005, in an effort to increase the democratic legitimacy of the EU, a series of countries held referendums on its new constitutional treaty, which was a further step towards a federal Europe. However, when the EU lost the votes in France and the Netherlands, the results were ignored and the constitutional treaty was pushed through anyway with a different name. Both Mr Blair and the new Conservative leader, David Cameron, also promised a referendum on the constitutional treaty but both reneged when it became politically inconvenient to give the people a say. The grand plan to provide the EU with democratic legitimacy ended up destroying its credibility because the people declined to give the answer they were required to.
In 2013, now in government, Mr Cameron again promised a referendum. He said he would renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU before the referendum and then ask the people if they wanted to Leave or Remain, based on the new terms. He hinted that, if the negotiation didn't go his way, he might campaign to Leave. But when his negotiations duly failed to achieve anything of substance in February 2016, he announced he would, after all, campaign to Remain. His credibility as honest broker was instantly destroyed and British voters stopped listening to a word he said. They also got sick of every international bigwig, from President Obama downwards, telling the UK was doomed if it voted to Leave.
On 23 June, we voted 17 million to 15 million to Leave the EU. Everything about the vote was a surprise. No one thought Leave would win. Even after the polls closed, the betting markets implied a 90% chance of a Remain vote. Turnout was 73%, the highest in a national vote for 25 years. In short, more of the British voted to Leave the EU than have ever voted for anything else in our history.
So what happened and what happens next? The Leave vote was a coalition of three disparate groups. The campaign was led by a relatively small group of internationalist libertarians, including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Daniel Hannan. They saw the EU as an anti-democratic and corporatist racket that was immune to reform, as the failure of Mr Cameron's renegotiation had shown. The shock troops for Leave were supporters of Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party: mainly paleo-conservatives who objected to uncontrolled immigration (the UK must accept unlimited numbers of immigrants from the EU).
The third element of the coalition for Leave was one whose participation nobody could predict in advance. This final group consisted of working class people who nominally supported the Labour Party, but in practice rarely voted at all. Sick and tired of being ignored, and not seeing the benefits of globalisation, they came out to vote on 23 June and delivered the verdict of Brexit.
Now the UK embarks on an exciting journey. We want to continue to trade freely with the EU, but also sign free trade deals with the rest of the world as fast as we can. We'll still welcome many new immigrants to the UK, but they won't all have an automatic right to reside here. And the democratic control of farm subsidies, fisheries and taxation (the UK currently can't even abolish the tax on sanitary towels) will return to Westminster. Of course, plenty of people have valid concerns about the effects of Brexit. And it is to be expected that many individuals will have invested in the status quo of EU membership, especially if the status quo has lasted for over 40 years. That does not make it a good thing. Indeed, institutional inertia and the fear of short-term consequences over long-term benefits are among the most damaging of political motivations.
As for the rest of the EU, it needs to reform quickly to gain democratic legitimacy while also, somehow, undoing the immense damage done by the single currency. Is that possible? Either way, we British wish the EU well. With Brexit, we cease to be a truculent tenant and become a friendly neighbour.
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Гли́нсько — лісове заповідне урочище місцевого значення в Україні. Розташоване в межах  Дубенського району Рівненської області, на території колишньої Крупецької сільської ради.

Площа 1,3 га. Заснований рішенням обласної ради № 33 від 28.02.1995 року. Перебуває у віданні ДП «Дубенський лісгосп» (Радивилівське л-во, кв. 81, вид. 12).

Статус надано для збереження насаджень дуба. Урочище є мальовничою ділянкою одноярусного сосново-дубового лісу природного походження. Основною панівною породою є дуб звичайний, віком понад 150 років. Ґрунти супіщані, підзолистого типу. Рослинний покрив утворюють орляк звичайний, суниці лісові, перлівка поникла. Із фауни трапляються кабан, заєць сірий, їжак білочеревий, вивірка звичайна, сойка, повзик, зяблик, веретільниця ламка.

 Урочище назване так тому, що жителі с. Баранне в довоєнний час видобували в ньому глину і створили своєрідний кар'єр.

Посилання
 «Глинсько». Стор. 35
 Радивилівський район. «Глинсько»

Природно-заповідний фонд Радивилівського району
Заповідні урочища Рівненської області
Природоохоронні об'єкти, засновані 1995

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Q: How do I To do the upload multiple files using Zend\InputFilter\Factory? I'm using Zend Framework 2.2.5 at work.
I'm having problems certain problem occurs.
prepare for the following controllers.
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The following warning appears.
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The problem is to solve If you switch the comments, but I'd like to use the Zend\InputFilter\Factory.
How can i solve this issue? Why this Warning occurred?

A: I solved the problem in the following manner.
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One thing we learned from St. Patrick's Day this year is that Rappahannock County per capita has more Irish-heritage residents — almost 1 in 5 — than any other county in Virginia.
From Rappahannock to Rockbridge, Lee County to Louisa, Virginia is home to about 790,000 people with Irish heritage, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is about 9.5 percent of the state's total population.
The percentage of residents with Irish ancestry ranges from 2.6 percent in Petersburg to an impressive 16.5 percent here in Rappahannock County.
How about Scots? "Scots-Irish" isn't a thing, the Scots and the Irish came at different times in different ways for different reasons, and have assimilated differently. As a Scot, I prefer that you not confuse the two.


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When did gotham start
Last Updated: February 22, 2022 | Author: Diana Compton
When did Gotham start and end?
The series originally aired on Fox from September 22, 2014, to April 25, 2019, over five seasons, comprising a total of 100 episodes. It features an ensemble cast that includes Ben McKenzie as James Gordon, Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock, and David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne.
How old is Bruce Wayne at the start of Gotham?
Gotham begins with the murder of Bruce's parents, the defining moment of young Bruce's life. In the comics, this event happens when Bruce is anywhere from 7 to 12 (depending on who is writing the comic and which continuity it is in), but in Gotham, Bruce is 12 when the first season begins.
Is Gotham set in the 80s?
Gotham is set in the late nineties to the late aughties, as evidenced by flip phones, the mode of dress, the computers, and the retro sets.
Is Gotham the start of Batman?
Gotham portrays Bruce's teenage years and transition into adapting his Batman personality in later years.
Bruce Wayne (Gotham)
Bruce Wayne The Dark Knight
First appearance "Pilot" September 22, 2014
Last appearance "The Beginning…" April 25, 2019
Based on Batman by Bob Kane Bill Finger
What age is Selina Kyle in Gotham?
Selina Kyle is introduced as a 13-year-old street orphan and skilled thief.
Is Bruce Wayne Irish?
The majority of it most likely being Scotch-Irish.
Is Gotham suitable for 12 year olds?
Parents need to know that Gotham is a dark, intense drama that creates a backstory for many of the characters prominent in the Batman comics and movies. … That said, this show's excellent storytelling and complex characters make it a solid pick for sturdy teens and adults.
Was Gotham Cancelled?
Sadly, yes, Gotham will not have a 6th season, and that's final. It's over, and all the producers of the series have also confirmed this news. The series managed to finish five seasons in five years, but if you compare it to the fourth season, there was a big drop in viewership.
What year is Gotham set in?
What time period does "Gotham" take place in? According to actor Robin Lord Taylor, producers are not establishing the series' time period. It is, however, visually influenced by the late '70s and early '80s in New York, although, the use of cellphones indicates a time period of late 90's or early 00's.
Can a 10 year old watch Gotham?
We should advise the show is rated for 14+ but Rory was given permission by her parents. The episode starts with a girl jumping from a roof.
Is Gotham a horror show?
While Gotham is only listed as being Action, Crime, and Drama on IMDb, I have no issue calling it Horror. In fact, I would very much argue that there are more elements of horror in Gotham than any other genre.
Why is the 100 TV 14?
According to IMDb, the sci-fi show is rated TV-14. … However, IMDb users note that The 100 contains a moderate amount of violence and gore, including, "decapitation, dismemberment, an eye gouging, gory heart surgery, beatings and wrist slitting." There are also torture scenes. Additionally, underage relationship is implied.
Why is Arrow rated TV 14?
A fair amount of blood, and some scenes of kidnapping and torture. Both "good" and "bad" guys use violence as a means to push their agenda. … Parents may have concerns about Legends of Tomorrow in particular, as this show is more violent than Arrow.
What age is Daredevil suitable for?
All 5 of these programs were rated by Common Sense Media to be suitable for only audiences 15 years old and up, with several being rated at even higher ages. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage were the highest, rated for audiences 17 and up. The Defenders was rated 16+, and The Iron Fist and Daredevil were the lowest at 15+.
Does Netflix have Gotham?
How Many Seasons of Gotham Are There: Gotham ran for five seasons on Fox. Best Way to Watch Gotham: Netflix has all five seasons of Gotham.
What is the age rating for Batwoman?
The Series, Batwoman Age Rating is TV-14.
How old is green arrow?
If you go by publication date, Batman was first published in 1939, while Green Arrow saw the light of day in 1941. That makes Batman around 86 years old and the Green Arrow a youthful 76 years old.
Can my 12 year old watch Riverdale?
Parent reviewers on Common Sense Media agree that the show is ideal for kids aged 13 and up, and there's a decent chance that you'll become as addicted to the series as your teenager! … Riverdale touches on mental health topics in a way that you may want to explore in more depth with your child.
What is 13 reasons why age rating?
This series is rated 15 for strong violence, injury detail, relationship, sexual violence, language, medicine misuse.
Is Riverdale a horror?
It took six seasons, but Riverdale has finally gone full supernatural horror. … Only two episodes in, Rivervale has already seen Pagan rituals, ghostly hauntings, and a few shocking character deaths. Additionally, the event is rife with references to horror movies and shows, including The Twilight Zone and Midsommar.
Why is elite rated R?
The MPA rated Killer Elite R for strong violence, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Why is stranger things TV-14?
Stranger Things is rated TV-14 on Netflix, so it's intended for an audience consisting of teens and adults. Being that the show is a sci-fi horror drama, viewers can expect intense scenes involving topics of experimentation, grotesque looking creatures, murder, death, and violence.
Is Friends Rated PG 13?
According to Common Sense Media, Friends is rated 14+. I watched it all when I was 13 or 14. It is appropriate enough that there are dirty jokes that can fly above the heads of younger people. It's rated PG-13.

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Lambert Joost van Hambroick, heer van Wolfskuhlen, Bulinck, de Arendshorst, de Luttenberg en Weleveld (Bocholt, 25 april 1670 - Aalten], 13 februari 1748) was een generaal in Statendienst.

Biografie
Van Hambroick was een lid van de familie Van Hambroick en een zoon van ritmeester Herman Goossen van Hambroick (1637-1688) en Maria Judith van Welvelde (1642-1714). In 1692 trad hij als officier bij de cavalerie in Statendienst waar hij zijn carrière beëindigde als generaal, hetgeen hij tot zijn overlijden in 1748 bleef. Hij was vanaf 1724 commandeur van 's-Hertogenbosch, in 1736 van Namen en van 1736 tot aan zijn overlijden van Stevensweert.

Vanaf 1699 had Van Hambroick zitting in de ridderschap van Overijssel en compareerde in 1704 op de landdag van Meurs.

In 1703 was Van Hambroick getrouwd met Mechteld Anna Bentinck, vrouwe van de Luttenberg (1683-1741), lid van de familie Bentinck; zij waren de ouders van Robert Henric van Hambroick (1708-1789) en de grootouders van jhr. Willem Hendrik van Hambroick (1744-1822).

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AP reports that 14 died and 7 were wounded in an American airstrike on an Al-Tawhid facility in Fallujah that was supporting a trench line for radical Sunni fighters. Al-Tawhid has vowed to assassinate Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and has put a bounty on his head, and Allawi pointedly announced that he had authorized the airstrike. Local Fallujans maintained that those killed were civilians working in support of the Fallujah Brigade, the force that supplies security to the city. Meanwhile, Allawi left for Amman, Jordan, for his first consultations as PM outside Iraq with foreign leaders friendly to his regime.
In Tikrit, guerrillas detonated two car bombs in an attack on a police checkpoint. They killed two policemen and wounded five others.
Az-Zaman: Kurdish and Arab security officials in Kirkuk appear to be engaged in a dangerous game of kidnapping each other's children or allies. The son of the deputy commander of the National Guards in Kirkuk, Gen. Jasim Khalil, who is an Arab, was kidnapped. Then the son of Abdul Karim Barzinji, the Kurdish labor leader, was kidnapped. Another Kurdish man, who is involved in guarding the oil pipes in southern Kirkuk, was also kidnapped. This happened just before Hassan al-Ubaydi, an Arab former employee of the Iraqi secret police, was taken hostage. Ethnic tensions remain high in the oil city of Kirkuk, with its potential vast wealth and nearly 1 million inhabitants, divided among Turkmen, Arabs and Kurds.


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The best way to use a bellows camera was, and still is, the one pictured here. A matte screen was installed in place of the plate holder, and using the focusing goggles model #808, the photographer could set up the camera for the exact desired composition, adjust focus, judge depth of field, and so on. When ready, he would pull the aid off the camera, remove the matte screen, install the plate holder, and trigger the shutter.
The mustache was of course a basic feature of every self-respecting gentleman of the time!
The Ica catalog has several pages devoted to tripods. They came in all sizes and qualities, and were made of ordinary woods, exotic woods, brass or steel. Telescoping legs had up to seven sections. Some tripods could be disguised as walking sticks, others as umbrellas. Some were extra-solid, others extra large, still others were resistant to tropical climates. But the tripod I liked most, by far, is this one, designed to enable a photographer to make bird-view shots!
Considering the weight of 1913-style cameras, I can understand that photographers preferred to invite their clients into the studio for a portrait, rather than taking the camera out. But a flat wall is unsuitable as a background for a quality photograph of Uncle Robustus! So Ica offered oil-painted backgrounds for the studio. They came on folded canvas, and the customer had to moisten them and nail them onto a wooden frame. While drying, all the wrinkles flattened nicely.
These backgrounds were offered in two versions: In gray tones, suitable only as backgrounds; or in full color, which was more expensive but allowed to use them as decoration too! Both versions were carefully shaded.
But painted backgrounds alone were not enough: For 75 Reichsmark, Ica could sell you a set of objects to be used around your victims during portraiture work! This set of two pillars on sockets, one balustrade with socket, one bench, a two-part wall and one fence was made of wood and cork, painted in the color of stone and carefully shaded. It could be set up in any required way, in front of a painted background.
When you watch photos of your ancestors sitting among such utensils in a gorgeous landscape, keep in mind that both the utensils and the landscape could be ordered straight from a catalog, and that only the ancestors were real!
There are many pages in the Ica catalog containing plates, paper, and everything else one could need in the darkroom. The most common material to load your camera were plates. They came in many brands, qualities, thicknesses, speeds, and sizes. A typical sensitivity was the equivalent of modern ISO 260, but the equivalents of ISO 25 to 400 were available. For most material there was a choice between orthochromatic and panchromatic sensitization. Common plate sizes, in cm, were 4.5x6, 4.5x10.7, 6x9, 6x13, 9x9, 9x12, 9x18, 10x15, 12x16.5, 13x18, 18x24, 24x30, 30x40, 40x50, and 50x60, but a fair number of other formats were available too. Typical prices for normal plates in 9x12 size was about 1.5 Reichsmark per dozen. As a marketing strategy, Ica offered 1-Reichsmark packages of many products, in which the amount of plates was inversely proportional to quality and size. Ica produced most of this material in-house, but they also sold products of other companies such as Agfa, Schleussner, and Lumière.
Film was not nearly as common as plates. Only one page was devoted to film! It could be bought in packs or blocks, with one individual sheet for each exposure, much like plates. It came in the same sizes too, up to 13x18cm. The price was more than twice that for similarly sized plates.
Roll film was available in widths of 64, 66, 71, 88, 93, 100, 118, 130, and 182mm. So much about standardization! The cost was about the same per picture as that of flat film, so it was over twice as expensive as using glass plates.
With photographic papers a similar situation happened as with glass plates, but paper cost only about a quarter as much as plates. It was available in glossy and satin versions. Most papers were thin, and required framing or at least being glued against some backing, but some strong papers were available too. There were special papers that allowed pulling off the coating. Most pictures in that time were gold-toned, and for this purpose some self-toning paper was sold that didn't require the toning bath.
A special paper for gas light processing came in 13 versions. These were combinations of matte, satin and glossy finishes, hard, medium and soft gradation, rough or smooth surface, and thin or thick backing. Of course, a lot more combination were possible and could be specially ordered in suitable quantities! Silver bromide paper was available too, in 11 different versions.
The above considers only the papers made by Ica. But they also distributed papers made by Schwerter, Kurz, Kraft&Steudel, Lenta, Rembrandt, and others. All taken together, you could order roughly 90 different kinds of paper from stock, and each in at least 8 different sizes!
Darkroom chemistry was available as individual chemicals; also as ready mixed developers, fixers, intensifiers, softeners, toners, bleachers, stoppers; and as complete kits for specific purposes. Ica made many of them, but they also sold third-party products.
This is a kit for making color slides. It contained two dozen glass plates with paper-type emulsion on them, on which the user would make contact copies of glass negatives; the special developer and fixer; 20 thin cover plates that would be used to protect the emulsion on the developed slides (they assumed you would loose at least 4 of the positives); 100 adhesive-coated black paper strips to join each photo plate to its cover plate (the excess probably accounted for glue strips that came off); 100 masks with a selection of shapes, so you could chose the ones you wanted; and the best: A palette, three paintbrushes and 7 jars of glossy paint for doing the coloring work!
An "Instruction manual for the production of lantern images based on your own photographs" was also included.
And this is quite different: This is real color photography, in 1913 style! The Lumière Autochrome process was simple enough to be used even during a voyage, and directly produced positive transparencies on glass plates, in reasonably natural colors! The process involved only two baths! A yellow filter was required during exposure. The shelf life of this material wasn't long, so Ica stocked only the most common formats, backordering the less common ones from the French manufacturer, on customer's requests.
The cost for color photography in 1913 was stiff: About 6 to 7 times as much as for black&white negatives! Despite this, it was attractive and widely used. The well known National Geographic Society equipped its photographers of the time with Autochrome outfits, and sometimes they look through their archives and publish an old Autochrome picture or two in their modern magazine! Certainly, Fuji Provia 100F is better, but the old Autochromes were impressively good, considering the time they were made, and how much they must have faded before we get to see them!
Welcome to 1913-style flash photography! To make a flash exposure, you first set up the camera and your victims. Then you hung up such a paper bag from this support, which could be placed on the floor or on a table. You filled the bag with the right amount of flash powder, depending on how much light you expected to need. Then you put out all lights, asked the people to stand still, and opened the camera shutter. Then you lit a match and set fire to the bag's tail, or used the special igniting paper strips for the same purpose. Then you ran.
A second later, the powder exploded. If the load was right, the support would fall over, but not be damaged. Too large a load could make the camera fall over too, or blow out a window. In any case, you had to run back to the camera through the smoke-filled room, and close the shutter before your shocked victims lit the room lights!
The flashes came packaged in a can like this. The kit included the flash powder separated into two parts, so it was safe to ship; some paper flash bags, ignition strips and instructions.
I guess that the flash powder was simply gunpowder with an aluminum or magnesium load, but I would like to hear of people who know the true recipe.
Instead of using paper bags, the powder could also be burned on a special flash lamp, which had the shape of a sardine tin (and probably was one!). But an uneven powder load could transform it into a cannon ball, or too large a load could make it behave like a grenade, so I understand why the more safety-conscious photographers preferred the paper bags!
So much for the Ica 1913 catalog. It has 250 pages, so I could spend a month scanning it, and another one writing my comments. I will stop it here, hoping that you enjoyed this glimpse into the past glory of photography!
Back to the Ica catalog index page.


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According to report in a Indian newspaper, three guests at the Hyatt Regency on Bridge Street, Birmingham have been warned to strictly adhere to the expected protocols in terms of behaviour, for 'shouting and turning aggressive in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency', where the Indian team is staying.
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According to report in a Indian newspaper, three guests at the Hyatt Regency on Bridge Street, Birmingham have been warned to strictly adhere to the expected protocols in terms of behaviour, for 'shouting and turning aggressive in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency', where the Indian team is staying.
As per The Telegraph, at about 4.45 pm (BST) on Friday, the reporter saw a senior member of the Hyatt Regency's management speak to the three guests in one section of the lobby. Also present were security personnel.
It has also been reported that a member of India's support staff asked the hotel staff to declare the three guests 'persona non grata', as they had violated the players' privacy by pestering for photographs. Even going to the extent of clicking family members.
"Unacceptable behaviour continued near the three functioning elevators, compelling security personnel to stop the three guests from getting into any of them," the reported stated.
It further went on to add , "Around 4.30 pm on Friday, the three guests, all seeming inebriated, were seen shouting and turning aggressive in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency, which has been Team India's address here for years."
The Indian team will be taking on England at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Sunday with the hopes of claiming the second semi-final spot in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. England, on the other hand, are under fire after losing two back to back games and face a tough prospect of qualifying for the semis with two matches remaining for them in against India and New Zealand.
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Hear Frank Felberbaum On Memory Development And Brain-Power Performance
[UPDATE] Yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Frank Felberbaum, the memory expert and author of "The Business of Memory: How to Maximize Your Brain Power and Fast Track Your Career," with Rachel Kranz.
Frank Felberbaum is president of Memory Training Systems, a division of The Felberbaum Consulting Group, Inc., a global company specializing in memory development and brain-power performance strategies. Formerly founder and director of The Memory Training Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, he has implemented his unique memory systems at more than 175 major corporations.
In 1995, Frank Felberbaum represented the United States at the World Memory Olympics in London and was awarded a special medal. From 1997 to the present, he has trained and coached many of the mental athletes who compete at the U.S. Memory Championship held in New York City.
Now, you can listen to his interview and learn how to tap your full memory potential and put your career on the fast track to success.
Most of us forget 85 percent of what we learn within 72 hours. Frank Felberbaum has taught thousands of business people throughout the world, including employees and executives at dozens of Fortune 500® companies how to become more efficient, effective, and powerful on the job by mastering the three basic mental functions behind memory:
• Paying attention: How to be a better observer and stay focused in the era of multitasking.
• Visualizing: How to create mental movies that help retain information by telling stories.
• Associating: How to link newly acquired information to familiar experiences, which are easily recalled.
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A couple of weeks ago, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh hosted the Association of Children's Museums conference. This prestigious event brought together more than 1,000 international museum professionals for three days of presentations, workshops and events. It was a blast meeting people from around the world. It was incredibly inspiration to share ideas, tell stories and hear about other museums. I lost
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Photographer Bartosz Wojczyński took the photographs at Teide Observeratory, which is located on Tenerife, one of Spain's Canary Islands. The observatory's prime location (close to the equator) and clear, dark night skies offer stargazers and astrophotographers full views of the northern hemisphere. Here, Wojczyński was able to position Polaris, the North Star, at the center of his star trail rings.
He used a Nikon D5100 camera with a Samyang AE 10mm lens at f/4.8 and ISO 1600 on a Baader Astro & Nature tripod.


I had the most wonderful 12 days at Gaia Sagrada and it was one of the best experiences of my life.
I have done ayahuasca before but was naturally quite nervous as I didn't know what to expect for the duration. My brother did the 12 day retreat 6 months before and said it was the best decision he had made and I totally agree! Some people did 7 days during my stay therefore they did not do the last Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies which were my (and a lot of other people's) favourite and everyone had become so close by then.
Seeing as you're flying to the other side of the world, you may as well make the most of it and learn as much as you can about yourself if it is feasible.
All of the ceremonies were very intense for me; physically and mentally extremely draining, it was like having a full on workout. On the other hand, some people just lay there calm and still with no visuals, everyone had such different experiences. The setting in the Moloka was wonderful each time with everyone positioned in a circle around the fire and it was very comfortable and warm with the blankets keeping you cosy.
I met the most amazing people including the staff, work exchangers and Shamans too. There are too many people to name but Jerry, Christine and the shaman Salvador were incredible, thank you for looking after us.
The experience has given me a different outlook on life and has enabled me to appreciate the things that matter, even though you may not necessarily know what path to take. Food and water is so precious and you will DEFINITELY find this out when you are there.
The food was so delicious! A massive shout out to Francesco and the rest of the kitchen team for being so creative with every meal! You will not go hungry here, well, apart from when you need to fast before ceremonies, hence why you will massively appreciate eating afterwards!
I can't recommend Gaia Sagrada enough and don't have anything negative to say. I will always remember the good times here, as well as the intense ones and also how we laughed so, so much! Things are still processing in my head and it's up to me now to make the changes in my life that I want to address.


1. The Indians will be waiting for some time to make their first pick in the amateur draft, which begins Monday. The Indians do not pick until the 64th overall pick after they forfeited their natural first-rounder to sign free agent Edwin Encarnacion. But it is the improvement in the draft that fueled the Indians' American League pennant run last season and has improved their overall quality and depth of talent.
The Indians have made only four postseason trips this millennium in part because the Indians have been one of the poorest drafting organizations of the 21st century. Of the past 17 drafts, the Indians rank 28th in Wins Above Replacement produced by draftees, which includes major league production of draft picks with other clubs, too.
The Athletic looked at all players drafted by the Indians who did sign with the club. Since 2000, the Indians have produced 143.4 WAR. But nearly half of that total has come from scouting director Brad Grant's first four drafts — 2008-11 — when the Indians accumulated 67 WAR. The club's eight drafts from 2000-07 drafts produced 76.4 WAR. Overall, Grant's drafts have produced 69.5 WAR for the club, but it is unfair to judge recent drafts since it often takes several years for draft picks to establish themselves at the major league level. And Grant's drafts will almost certainly continue to grow in value as players like Francisco Lindor, Jason Kipnis and Cody Allen are likely to continue to tally significant production totals.


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Fashion Cloud e-platform teams up with CIFF, Modefabriek trade shows
Online B2B platform Fashion Cloud and the CIFF and Modefabriek trade shows are joining forces this summer, aiming to stage the leading digital trade show in Europe.
B2B e-platform Fashion Cloud is teaming up with trade shows CIFF and Modefabriek - DFW
Digital Fashion Week Europe will kick off the commercial season from June 29 to July 1, followed by the Modefabriek show in Amsterdam on July 11-12, and by CIFF in Copenhagen on August 11-13.
Exhibitors will be able to choose from different commercial packages to take part in Digital Fashion Week Europe, booking a stand for Fashion Cloud and for the physical sessions of Modefabriek and CIFF.
According to the organisers, this will enable visitors to find out more about the exhibitors online, before meeting them in person at the shows.
"For labels and retailers it is more practical to meet at one international digital event than to take part in several local digital ones," said René Schnellen, one of the co-founders of Fashion Cloud.
Digital Fashion Week Europe is supported by several partners, among them Euretco, EK/servicegroup, BTE, Unitex and Katag.
"With this Europe-wide initiative, we are combining the expertise and in-depth knowledge of a number of professionals active in [fashion] itself, and in the event organising and digital innovation fields. We are convinced that the way forward is through an association of different online and offline service providers, targeting an audience that is both global and local," said Caroline Krouwels, CEO of Modefabriek.
"Our initiative offers a highly interesting service for labels, giving them the opportunity to take part in Digital Fashion Week Europe as well as in the physical sessions of Modefabriek and CIFF," said Christina Neustrup, CEO of CIFF.
In January 2021, the event recorded 10,000 subscribers from over 100 countries - DFW
In January 2021, the event recorded 10,000 subscribers from over 100 countries, as opposed to 5,000 visitors for the previous edition. "Immediately after the event, we began to receive requests from exhibitors wanting to book their stand for the next edition. Now that we have teamed up with CIFF and Modefabriek, demand for the summer edition should be even higher," said Schnellen.
Fashion brands can apply for places on www.fashion.cloud/digital-fashion-week, while retailers can sign up for free.
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It's that time of year again when we celebrate St. Valentine's Day. Most won't even think of the saint himself, not even in passing, though he enjoys a storied, if distant and rather unclear, history. A few faded details abide. A high-profile religious figure in third-century Rome, Valentine had an active faith and a fervent desire to share it with others. Imprisoned, possibly for performing Christian marriages, he was in 269 martyred for that faith during the harsh reign of the incompetent (though rugged and neatly kempt) emperor Claudius Gothicus, with whom he may have had prior personal interaction—the accounts are rather fanciful about this interaction, so I leave them aside here.
In any case, when in prison, Valentine would seem to have prayed over and brought about the healing of the jailor's blind child. The saint was laid to rest very near the Milvian Bridge, a bridge that just a few years later would become very important in the history of Christianity. Since when I am in Rome I regularly jog over the Milvian Bridge, undoubtedly I have jogged quite unawares near the spot where the good saint was first buried. His reliquary today is further down the Tiber, nearer to its true mouth, in the Forum Boarium's often-visited church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
St. Valentine's reliquary in Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
But all that is history interspersed with legend. And I haven't even mentioned the ancient Roman pagan religious festival of the Lupercalia, nor shall I, for the practical reality of St. Valentine's Day in America is that it is a day to reflect upon that significant other person in your life, if you're lucky enough to have one, or perhaps to entertain the idea of one, possibly even to entertain a particular person with a proper dinner and a glass of good wine, with a view to moving "idea" a bit closer to reality, as a friend of mine named Charlie recently did—bravo, Charlie! And thus, this blog, which has begun with a bit of story, moves on to reality.
I wish to address the fine points of whomever one might peculiarly love in this blog, considering virtues as stimuli of affection and true love. My thesis is simply this: the love I refer to here, both that which the person whom I shall describe gives and that which that person receives, derives from those very virtues.
I would begin with the capacity to be long-suffering. Imagine if, instead of the presentation of champagne, chocolate and roses one might think of true love as the gift of a long-suffering, gentle and gracious soul. I should distinguish here between tolerance and long-suffering grace. Tolerance really means the capacity to put up with someone. That is not quite virtue. To my mind mere tolerance suggests a temporal limit. Even a dastardly person can put up with someone pro tempore. I might tolerate swinging a kettlebell for an extended period because I know that period of swinging and the pain that it is uncomfortably engendering in my shoulders will soon end. But long-suffering grace, that's another matter. That implies an interminable period of patience that ends with charity, forgiveness and favor. And this virtue is endearing, in and of itself. If you're lucky enough to have someone in your life with this virtue—one that outstrips even the positive thoughts about the connection of generosity, tolerance and creativity that one might find bedecking a disposable coffee cup—then you know what I mean, and you have someone whom you can love just for being them, for being the gentle and kind soul who they are.
I would add two more such virtues. The second is metonymous with the first, but distinct from it. It is the capacity to forgive. It is connected to the word grace, mentioned above. Grace is a flexible word, derived from the Latin word gratia, with a deeper (if less obvious) Indo-European Greek root (*gwreto-) that also gives birth to the English (via Greek) charisma, and encompasses the notion not only of elegance and proper balance, such as a ballet dancer's grace, but also, of course, of thanks, liberal thanks (cf. the liberality of the word "gratis"). If you have a person of grace in your life, particularly the lavish kind of grace, not merely the non-clumsy kind of grace, then you know what I mean. And you are lucky.
Aaron Smyth in Don Quixote.
Ah, but what about the final virtue? This is a strange one, for it doesn't have just one word to qualify it, but several words. Steadfastness is one, but another is faithfulness, and yet another confidence. If you happen to have someone who is a combination of these notions in your life, then you are experiencing something rather unique in today's world. I'm not speaking merely of romantically faithful—though that is obviously important, especially if you're thinking of the traditional image of St. Valentine's Day. Rather, when I speak here of faithfulness, I am referring to the kind that is closely akin to steadfastness, the unique capacity to stay with that person in your life through thick and thin, not to lose confidence in them when the chips are down—especially when a bad decision or two by that other person has caused the chips to go down, if not the ship to go down, as well. That steadfastness is grounded in confidence, divinely inspired confidence in the other person. When you have someone in your life who won't lose confidence in you, no matter what, that is true faithfulness. That is the steadfastness, the confidence of which I speak. If you have such a person in your life, then you know what I mean. And you are lucky.
In closing, dear reader, I wish you as much this St. Valentine's Day. If you don't yet have such a person in your life, may you find one. And if you do have such a person, I hope you have time to celebrate him or her and, if you have a moment to reflect on what I've written here, to try to be such a person. I can say that a few years back I married such a person. And if you know what I mean, then you will say that I am lucky, lucky and blessed.
Happy St. Valentine's Day, Sweetheart. You are the long-suffering, gracious, forgiving, steadfast and faithful light of my life. I love you for your virtues, I love you precisely for who you are.


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The Dispute.
Facts & Truth.
Dispute Theory.
→ Narratives in Dispute.
Speeches & Truth.
Transforming Disputes into Cases: Demosthenes 55, Against Kallikles
Steven Johnstone, edition of March 22, 2003
· Narratives in Dispute ·
There is much I could say about how the transformation of a dispute into a legal case affected the parties involved in Athens, but for now I want to concentrate on the particular resources available to the parties involved. Because Athenian litigation depended upon the speeches of the prosecutor and defendant, the primary resources of litigation were rhetorical resources. And because much of what litigants had to say was to tell about the dispute, many of these rhetorical resources were narratological, that is, they were about the kinds of stories litigants told. (There were other rhetorical resources as well—for example, the means by which litigants made arguments about the meaning of a law—but I will concentrate on narrative.)
Prosecutors' stories exhibited several characteristics. 1. In conjunction with the institutional setting of the courts, they dichotomized the dispute. They made one party the perpetrator, one the victim, and reduced all others to secondary status. 2. Because only men spoke in court, and usually only citizen men, prosecutors tended to tell stories in which the conflict happened between two male citizens. 3. Prosecutors singled out a specific action as a focus of their stories; loosely we might call this the "crime." (I would put this word in quotation marks because our notion of a crime involves a violation of criminal, but not civil, law. Since Athenians had no such division of law, I use the word to denote any action which could be claimed as the basis of litigation.) 4. Prosecutors evaluated this action in light of laws; the ethical categories they invoked were legal.
These characteristics were essential to a prosecutor's story, but they were minimal. Because no judge prevented a speaker from going beyond such legal narratives, they could add more. In addition to legality, they might judge the defendant's action in light of its good for the polis, or beyond the "crime" they might tell of other bad actions by the defendant (e.g., Ariston in Demosthenes 54, "Against Konon"). Although some prosecutors did not limit themselves to these features, all of them usually included at least this much.
You should also note that this form of story was contingent and contestable. There could be other ways of narrating a dispute which changed the parties involved, the acts in question, or the proper field of judgment. As I noted before, part of a dispute may be a struggle over the form the dispute takes. And, in fact, defendants frequently resisted the prosecutor's assertion that the dispute should be understood as a legal case.
Antiphon (Antiph. 5).
Defendants had many rhetorical resources at their disposal: they could deny the narrative coherence of the prosecutor's story (e.g., Antiphon 5, "On the Murder of Herodes") or offer an opposing story of their own; they could ask for the jury's pity; and they could contest the appropriateness of the prosecutor's legal narrative—to resist, that is, the prosecutor's decision to transform the dispute into a legal case. It is precisely here that I will remind you of the need to refrain from judging what the proper form of a dispute should be. To evaluate an Athenian defendant's speech only in terms of the law, however, is to already endorse—to judge appropriate and right—the prosecutor's decision to transform the dispute into a legal case. You should forebear from such a judgment.
In light of these considerations, then, I would give a rather different lecture about speeches and truth; it might go something like this….
Steven Johnstone, "Transforming Disputes into Cases: Demosthenes 55, Against Kallikles," in Adriaan Lanni, ed., "Athenian Law in its Democratic Context" (Center for Hellenic Studies On-line Discussion Series). Republished in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dē mos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of March 22, 2003. Contact: cwb@stoa.org.
© March 22, 2003, Steven Johnstone. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.


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Boston mob boss "Whitey" Bulger killed in prison
Bulger's 2011 mugshot. Photo: Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images
James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious Boston Irish mob boss, was killed at age 89 at the United States Penitentiary-Hazelton in West Virginia on Tuesday, per the Boston Globe.
The big picture: Bulger was captured in Santa Monica, Calif. in 2011 by federal authorities after being on the run for 16 years. The Globe reports that Bulger, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2013 for his participation in 11 murders, was killed by another mafia-affiliated inmate shortly after being transferred to the West Virginia prison. Bulger's killing is being investigated as a homicide, the Associated Press reports.


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De Petrakerk in de Gelderse plaats Ede is een kerkgebouw van de Gereformeerde Gemeenten.

Geschiedenis
Reeds in 2007 was er sprake van de bouw van een nieuw kerkgebouw door de Gereformeerde Gemeente van Ede, niet ver van de huidige locatie. Door vertragingen in de aanwerving van percelen door de gemeente Ede in verband met uitbreidingen van de wijk Kernhem, kwam het bouwproces in 2008 stil te liggen. Er werd vervolgens gekeken of er gebruik kon worden gemaakt van bestaande kerkgebouwen in Ede, waaronder de Nieuwe Kerk en de Goede Herderkerk. Deze zoektocht liep om uiteenlopende redenen ook op niets uit. Uiteindelijk kwam het kerkgenootschap met de gemeente Ede een nieuwbouwlocatie van 8118 m² overeen op de hoek van de Lunterseweg en de Krommesteeg. Aangezien het bestemmingsplan agrarisch gebied was, moest dit worden aangepast. Het duurde nog tot 3 februari 2011 voordat de Edese gemeenteraad hiermee instemde. In maart 2012 werd begonnen met de bouw van de kerk. De eerste dienst in de kerk werd gehouden op Hemelvaartsdag, 9 mei 2013. De officiële opening vond plaats op 5 juni van dat jaar.

Ontwerp
De nabijgelegen wijk Kernhem is gebouwd in de stijl van een jaren 30 wijk. Het exterieur van de kerk is hierop afgestemd. De kerkzaal telt ca. 1.000 zitplaatsen en ligt boven het maaiveld. De ruimte is symmetrisch en gericht op het liturgisch centrum voor in de kerk. De kansel, waarboven het kerkorgel is geplaatst, vormt het centrale deel van het liturgisch centrum. Onder de kerkzaal zijn een aantal zalen gesitueerd. Deze liggen verdiept onder het maaiveld.

Orgel
Het orgel is oorspronkelijk afkomstig uit de rooms-katholieke Pauluskerk in Den Haag en werd in 2010 aangekocht. Het werd gebouwd door orgelbouwer B. Pels & Zn te Alkmaar, maar was al geruime tijd in onderhoud bij Adema's kerkorgelbouw. Gebruikmakend van het pijpwerk en de windladen van dit orgel werd in Ede een nieuw orgel opgebouwd met de volgende dispositie:

Speelhulpen:
Extra voettreden: Sequencer voorwaarts, Sequencer achterwaarts, Tongwerken af

Externe links
Website van de kerk
Informatiegids met betrekking tot de bouw van de kerk

Kerkgebouw in Ede
Kerkgebouw van de Gereformeerde Gemeenten


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This video tutorial shows how anyone can use LiveCycle ES Workbench to build a simple process with watched folders as endpoints to encrypt PDF documents. The watched folder configuration was done as it was suggested on the Google Livecycle Developers list.
If you want to seriously geek out on this and try it, you can download LiveCycle ES from http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/.
Build a Livecycle Encryption Process using Watched Folders from Technoracle on Vimeo.
AIR has worked with PDF since version 1.0. When Adobe AIR first launched, there was a great amount of focus on the PDF inclusion within the runtime and it was given equal billing with both Flash and HTML. For some reason, much of the focus on AIR development trends has been on working with ActionScript and MXML rather than PDF. Nevertheless, there is a steady and growing community of developers who find themselves facing the task of making AIR and PDF work together. This tutorial will help you understand the basic architecture and structure of an application.
Architecturally, the runtime engine for HTML within Adobe AIR is WebKit (http://www.webkit.org/), an open source implementation that supports many HTML 5 features. The exact version of the WebKit library varies based on the AIR version you are using. To display PDF content, the AIR runtime uses a PDF plug-in to the AIR WebKit library. For developers, you communicate to the PDF document object through the HTML DOM and by using a scripting bridge within the PDF document itself.
To build the overall project, you need four main components – a main.mxml application, an HTML file that contains a reference to the PDF, the AIR application descriptor file, and a PDF document.
The HTML file is only tasked with loading up the PDF as an object. The file is very simplistic.
The PDF document is basically a 4 page long document containing a bunch of random Latin words. The following script has been added to the PDF document.
This script simply listens for an incoming message. There are four handled messages: ZoomIn, ZoomOut, PageUp and PageDn. The switch-case statement shown above maps these messages to specific instructions known natively to the plug-in that match the basic semantics of the message.
On line 11, the function init() simply enables the four buttons as the HTML DOM is loaded. This is triggered via the initialize event of the application.
Line 23 contains the key function sendMessage(), which sends one of four messages to the HTML DOM. This function accepts one parameter, which is the String message sent to it based on which button is clicked. As you try to type line number 27, you will notice that the code complete does not work in Flash Builder. This is because these are dynamic objects. Line 27 creates a new Object variable called pdfObj by referencing the pdfhtml (a variable name given to the HTML component on line 28) htmlLoader.window.document object and calls the method getElementByID(). The parameter name "PDFObj" matches the name of the Object within the HTML page. Line 28 simply sends the message that corresponds to the button pushed, which then gets picked up by the script in the PDF document.
Below is a screenshot of the AIR application with the buttons that can navigate forwards and backwards, and zoom in or out.
That is pretty much a basic starter for controlling PDFs from AIR. To get more advanced functionality, you will need to study up on the scripting functions available within the PDF runtime environment and then add the script bridge necessary to control those functions. Good luck!.
This video is Duane's World episode 32, the season 2 finale. It focuses on mobile development including some dives into architectural best practices.


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import React, { Component } from 'react'
import QuizNotifications from './QuizNotifications'
import QuizQuestion from './Modal/QuizQuestion'
import ButtonsList from './Buttons/ButtonsList'
import Settings from './Settings'
import Requests from '../Services/Requests'

export default class QuizBox extends Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      questionsButtons: [],
      quizNotification: {
        message: '',
        show: false,
        type: 'is-off'
      },
      isQuestionActive: false,
      questionModal: {}
    };

    this.getQuestionsButtons  = this.getQuestionsButtons.bind(this);
    this.setQuestionsButtons  = this.setQuestionsButtons.bind(this);
    this.setQuizNotification  = this.setQuizNotification.bind(this);
    this.handleQuestionButton = this.handleQuestionButton.bind(this);
    this.updateButtonState    = this.updateButtonState.bind(this);
    this.changeModalStatus    = this.changeModalStatus.bind(this);
    this.submitAnswer         = this.submitAnswer.bind(this);
    this.setQuestion          = this.setQuestion.bind(this);
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.getQuestionsButtons();
  }

  getQuestionsButtons() {
    Requests.getQuestions(['answered'])
      .then((res) => {
        this.setQuestionsButtons(res.data);
      })
      .catch((res) => {
        this.setQuizNotification(res.toString());
      });
  }

  setQuestionsButtons(data) {
    this.setState({ questionsButtons: data });
  }

  setQuizNotification(notification, type = 'danger', show = true) {
    this.setState({
      quizNotification: {
        message: notification,
        type: type,
        show: show
      }
    });
  }

  handleQuestionButton(question) {
    Requests.getQuestionById(question.id)
      .then((res) => {
        res.data["number"] = question.number;
        res.data["isAnswering"] = false;
        this.setQuestion(res.data);
        this.changeModalStatus(true);
      })
      .catch((res) => {
        this.setQuizNotification(res.toString());
      });
  }

  setQuestion(question) {
    this.setState({ questionModal: question });
  }

  updateButtonState(question, status = true) {
    let buttons = this.state.questionsButtons.map(obj => {
      if (obj._id == question) {
        obj.answered = status;
      }
      return obj;
    });

    this.setState({ questionsButtons: buttons });
  }

  submitAnswer(e, question) {
    e.preventDefault();
    try {
      let answer = e.target.answer.value || NaN;

      if (isNaN(answer)) {
        throw {
          message: "You must to respond the questions...",
          type: 'warning'
        };
      } else if (!question) {
        throw new Error("Submission error.");
      }

      if (answer == question.answer) {
        question.answered = true;
        question.isAnswering = { correct: true };
      } else {
        question.answered = true;
        question.isAnswering = { correct: false };
      }

      this.setQuestion(question);
      this.updateButtonState(question._id);

      Requests.setAnswered(question._id)
        .catch((res) => {
          this.setQuizNotification(`${res.toString()} :: Fail to update database`);
        });

      this.changeModalStatus(true);

    } catch (e) {
      this.changeModalStatus(false);
      this.setQuizNotification(e.message, (e.type ? e.type : 'danger'));
      return;
    }
  }

  changeModalStatus(status = false) {
    if (!!!status) {
      this.setState({ questionModal: {} });
    }
    this.setState({ isQuestionActive: !!status });
  }

  render() {
    return (

English Quiz

        { this.state.quizNotification.show &&
          <QuizNotifications
            notification={ this.state.quizNotification.message }
            close={ () => { this.setQuizNotification('', '', false); } }
            type={ this.state.quizNotification.type }
            />
        }
        <ButtonsList questions={ this.state.questionsButtons } handle={ this.handleQuestionButton } />

        { this.state.isQuestionActive &&
          <QuizQuestion
            question={ this.state.questionModal }
            closeModal={ this.changeModalStatus }
            submitAnswer={ this.submitAnswer }
            />
        }

        <Settings updateButton={ this.updateButtonState } />

    )
  }

}

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Pune: India's pioneering film archivist and film scholar P.K. Nair, who won the epithet 'celluloid man' for his impeccable body of work as the founder and former director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), breathed his last on Friday morning. He was 82.
Filmmaker and film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, whose 2012 documentary film "Celluloid Man" explored the life and work of Nair, shared the news with IANS.
He said the veteran was in critical condition since the last 10 days, and passed away at 11 a.m. at a hospital here due to cardiac arrest.
"Tomorrow (Saturday) his body will be kept from 8 a.m. in the morning at NFAI and the cremation will take place after that," Dungarpur, also the founder director of Film Heritage Foundation, added.
Born in 1933 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Nair's interest in films began with 1940s Tamil mythological dramas such as "Ananthasayanam" and "Bhakta Prahlada".
His stint with the NFAI started in 1965 as assistant curator. And 17 years later, in 1982, he became its director.
When he retired in April 1991, he had collected over 12,000 films, of which 8,000 were Indian. These include the works of legendary filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, V. Shantaram, Raj Kapoor and Guru Dutt.
Nair also archived films of international stalwarts like Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Andrzej Wajda, Miklos Jancso, Krzysztof Zanussi, Vittorio De Sica, and Federico Fellini.


Asama Shrine is located a short distance from Old Honsaka Tunnel near Toyohashi, Aichi. In conjunction to spiritual properties of healing, the shrine is notorious for an urban legend about decapitated heads being found displayed along the walking trails. Furthermore, there are a number of cautionary tales for visitors about where to step, counting members, and not taking anything which belongs to the shrine.
The shrine is a Shinto sect associated with the Asama / Fuji Faith which values and worships the significance of Mount Fuji in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Famous for healing ailments, Asama Shrine is sectioned into three levels which are separated by a nature trail and stairs. The base of the shrine is known for healing issues involving feet; the middle shrine is for stomach or torso illnesses; and the top-most part of the shrine is for issues of the head / mind.
Urban legend states the shrine was once inhabited by aggressive bandits, who would attack and decapitate anyone who wandered into their territory. Either as a warning to others or as a means to display pride, the severed heads were propped along the walking trails. Because of this, the shrine is also known as '首狩り神社' (くびがりじんじゃ/ neck-hunting shrine).
It is said groups who visit the shrine at night must keep count of all members, lest the last person to ascend the steps be hunted and kidnapped by the spirits of the bandits.
At the base of the shrine, there are over two hundred steep steps visitors must climb. There has been speculation of the fourth step from the starting point bringing about a terrible curse of illness if stepped on (sources vary on the step number, but the majority agree it is the third or fourth step). In particular, recurring headaches seem to be a common trend for those who stand on the cursed step.
Perhaps as a means of preventing visitors from stealing objects from the shrine, there is an urban legend of thievery being rewarded with spiritual possession and death.
While Asama Shrine is open at all hours to visitors, it is advised not to go at night due to the uneven walkways and steep steps.
If you enjoyed reading about Asama Shrine, check out these similar posts on Hiding from Japanese Ghosts.
Haunted by a leering face, a demon is said to bless or curse those who venture near.
Also known as the island of the dead, Oshima is avoided by locals for being cursed.


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I may have just driven to Waupaca County for the last time. Mom sold the ancestral manse and bought a condo in Arkansas where she hopes to live the rest of her days all cozy and snug and never again hear the words "snow-covered and slippery" used to describe roads during the winter. While she was getting ready to move out of her house, boxing up the things she wanted to keep and giving away the things she didn't, she offered me a few pieces of furniture that I happily took off her hands, and so this morning I made the drive north one last time.
I grew up in a small town in – I almost said "rural Waupaca County," but the whole county is rural from one end to the other. When people ask me, "What's the nearest big city?" I shrug and tell them, "Waupaca," and wait a couple beats for the customary blank expression before trying the only other "big city," New London. Another blank look usually follows. Manawa is an hour from Green Bay, an hour from Appleton, an hour and a half from Stevens Point and two hours from Madison. It's as close to the middle of nowhere as you can get without being in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
Even so, Manawa wasn't a bad place to grow up. It had everything we needed: three grocery stores, three hardware stores, a clothing store, a shoe store, two five-and-dimes, a bakery, a barber shop and several hair salons. There was even a jeweler's. And back then, there was The Manawa Advocate, the newspaper my Dad owned and operated with the help of my Mom, two or three other full-time employees and, after a few years, me and my brother.
None of that's left now. There's just one grocery store in town, the only remaining hardware store is closing up shop soon, and there's a parking lot where the Advocate building once stood. They do have a pretty nice cafe, though, that serves the most enormous omelet I've ever seen. Seriously. It's at least twice the size of any omelet I've ever been able to finish in one sitting. Stop in at the Sun Dawg and ask for the breakfast omelet. Bring a big appetite.
The ancestral manse of the O-Folk was a twelve-hundred foot cinderblock ranch house with an attached garage. The back door was always unlocked, and stopping by for a visit always felt like coming home. T-Dawg went with me to help move the heavy stuff, and when we got there he just opened the door and walked in. Mom was waiting in the kitchen to welcome us.
When I drove away, the van was packed tightly with furniture, almost as if it was made to haul away exactly what Mom needed to get rid of. She gave us a proper Wisconsin send-off, hugging us good-bye in the kitchen, seeing us out the door, then standing in the driveway to wave as we pulled away.
And that's the end of that. I think I might cry.
Cool furniture, though. Fits perfectly in the Monona-based O-home.


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