Spring is my favorite season. It's when you first start to notice the leaves on trees growing back and the sounds of birds in the morning. The air seems cleaner, the days get longer and the world just looks a lot brighter. Winter is great too, but Spring means we can finally enjoy eating outdoors, working out in parks or just simply being outside in the sun. Here are a few pictures of my Sring inspired floral arrangements.


Did you pray today? Check out Sacred Space, the site of the Irish Jesuits. It could provide some nice inspiration!
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THE Southeast Asia circuit — Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand — is thick with travelers encountering familiar faces at the next required stop. (If it's Tuesday, it must be Ho Chi Minh's Tomb.) The crowds are beginning to head to Laos as well — with both Vientiane and Luang Prabang emerging as the next potential hot spots for globe-trotting tourists. But the beguiling ancient capital of Luang Prabang, nestled between the Mekong and Nam Khan Rivers, is still a place that feels as if it is on the cusp of discovery. It is a town where one minute you are checking your e-mail messages at an Internet cafe next to giggling novices and the next you are walking on a bridge across the Nam Khan with views of farmers silently working in the lettuce fields with nary a tourist bus in sight.
Mount Phousi — visible from most of Luang Prabang — provides an easy orientation to this compact city of roughly 30,000 people. Hike up the snaking, steep 328 steps — or 355, but who's counting? — to reach Wat Chomsi (and an abandoned Russian antiaircraft gun). As the blazing sun mellows, a softer light reflects on the gold-leafed roofs of the town's more than 30 wats, or monasteries. The setting is transporting, almost meditative, especially if Buddhist novices are taking turns pounding on the ritual drum. It is situated on the town's main artery, Sisavangvong, across from the National Museum.
The sprawling night market, next to the National Museum, is beautifully art-directed. A red canvas canopy covers each vendor, an lamps glow over Laos silk scarves and Hmong embroidery. Unlike Vietnam, which has a surplus of propaganda souvenir shops, Laos has yet to reach that stage of irony, so only a few hammer-and-sickle T-shirts are on sale. A small lane nearby is packed with food stalls serving marinated, banana-leaf wrapped fish or roasted flattened pig face. (I'm sure it was delicious.) A United Nations-worthy group of diners share picnic tables and bottles of Beer Lao. Open from 5 to 10 p.m.
Giving alms to the streaming line of monks as dawn breaks is one of Luang Prabang's main draws. Busloads of tourists stake out prime real estate with carpets and footstools, and the photo-mad among them stalk monks. Ask anyone in town where the best lookout spot is, and you'll get a different answer every time. But options abound: near the Villa Santi (Sakkarine Road, near Ban Wat Sene), visitors may preorder a package of sticky rice and chocolate biscuits large enough to feed 300 monks (175,000 kip, about $20 at 8,773 kips to the dollar; dollars are readily accepted). A roadside entrepreneur on Chao Fa Ngum Road sells a basket of sticky rice for $1. The scene can feel a bit contrived — until you spot a scene like this on a recent visit: a young Korean student solemnly and gently placed a piece of fruit in a bowl as the silent procession of the monks weaved through the side streets, where locals knelt beside elaborate homemade offerings.
Stroll down Sisavangvong, past the cafes and outdoor adventure tour outfitters, dipping in and out of shops, and keep going as the street name changes to Sakkarine Road. (As will soon become apparent to anyone trying to navigate the streets of Laos, street names and spellings change almost without warning. This one is also known as Sakline or Sakkaline.) Caruso Lao Home Craft is as much gallery as store (60 Sakkarine Road, 856-71-254-574; www.carusolao.com). The owner, Sandra Yuck, seeks the finest works from carvers, turners, silversmiths and weavers. Be warned: no bargaining on prices. (A small black-and-white turned ebony bowl was $60. Handwoven silk textiles, derived from traditional Lao patterns and reinterpreted with contemporary colors are $50 to $600). Fibre2Fabric Gallery (71 Ounkham Road; 856-71-254-761; www.fibre2fabric.org) is a nonprofit exhibition space with curators on hand to explain displays of textiles from the minority groups of Laos. It is financed, in part, by Ock Pop Tok Gallery, which is next door and which sells textiles. Monument Books (2 Thou Gnai Thao Road; 856-71-254-954) sells trendy Luxe city guides and classics like "Travels in Siam, Cambodia, and Laos, and Annam," by Henri Mouhot, the explorer best known for rediscovering the ruins of Angkor Wat for Westerners and who is buried near Luang Prabang.
Landlocked Laos does not have the culinary reputation of Thailand or Vietnam, yet Tamarind Restaurant makes the case for a national cuisine (Kounxoa Road, generally lunch only, except for special banquets; 856-71-770-484; www.tamarindlaos.com). It serves grilled fresh fish, local greens and vegetables, plenty of fresh herbs, and the ever-present padaek, or fish sauce. The windows and doors are open to a view of Wat Nong, and, in the late afternoon, chanting monks provide the soundtrack.
Travel down the Mekong River on any variety of boats to the Pak Ou caves, which shelter hundreds of images of Buddha. It's not just the destination; it's the journey. Glide past limestone cliffs and terrace farms, fishermen wading with nets and boats streaming from China laden with motorcycles. Boats can also stop at a weaving village or the Lao Whiskey Village (a mini-distillery that can be touristy or interesting, perhaps depending on the rice whiskey shots consumed). A group boat from town costs from $5 to $20. Walk along the street by the Mekong to find transport. (The street is known in various sections as Souvanbanlang and toward the end of the peninsula as Souvannakhamphong.) Two hours upriver, one down.
Be sure to reserve if you want a table at 3 Nagas because this popular restaurant is often fully booked (Sakkarine Road; 856-71-253-750; www.3Nagas.com). The menu at 3 Nagas is based on what's local and fresh that day, from buffalo meat to Mekong River fish. Salads are made from lettuce and mushrooms grown across the river and with actual flavor. Luang Prabang is not a late-night town. The basic options are to stop at a cafe or the Hive Bar (on the road tracking the Nam Khan River at the junction of Phousi Road and Chao Siphouphan Road), which has a D.J. and a lounge vibe.
Grab a quick breakfast of fresh French baked goods and strong roasted Laotian coffee at JoMa Bakery (Chao Fa Ngum Road; 856-71-252-292) then wander to the nearby National Museum (also known as the Royal Palace Museum, Sisavangvong Road; 856-71-212-122; 8 to 11 a.m. and 1:30 to 4 p.m.). The palace, built in the French era (1904), was the Laotian royal family residence until its members were forced into exile in 1975. The private rooms have Art Deco furniture, feeling reminiscent of Bertolucci's "Last Emperor," plus stunning Buddha statues, royal costumes and hauntingly old copies of Paris Match.
Avoid the tendency to get on the wat conveyer belt. Yes, Wat Xieng Thong with its elaborate paintings and carvings is an eye-saturating feast, and yes, Wat Wisunarat (or Wat Visoun) is the oldest continuously functioning wat. Wat Mai once housed the golden Pra Bang (or large Buddha image that gives the town its name). The checklist can be overwhelming. Spend time in the courtyards talking to novices eager to practice their English, enjoy the fluttering of freshly laundered orange robes hanging on the line to dry or meditate in an empty sim, or temple. At Wat Pa Phai (or Phapai) on (Sisavangvatthana Road near Sakkarine Road), enter a gateway covered in bougainvillea, framing a novice who is stroking a cat on his lap, with one hand while chanting from a book held in his other. Try practicing being in the moment, and refrain from whipping out the iPhone for a photo.
A visa is required for Laos and may be obtained at the airport upon arrival ($35, plus two passport-size photos). Sitting at the front of your plane is advisable, and so is running directly to the visa counter because lines are long and time-consuming. November to March has the best weather, drier and less hot than the rest of the year.
There are no direct flights from New York to Laos. One efficient route is flying direct from Kennedy Airport to Bangkok on Thai Airways (www.thaiair.com); on which economy fares are approximately $1,500 for a round trip in June, and connect via Bangkok Airways (www.bangkokair.com) to Luang Prabang, approximately $300 one way.
La Résidence Phou Vao, a little more than a mile outside town, has lotus-filled ponds, decadent spa huts and views of golden stupas, or shrines, in the far-off mountains (Phou Vao Road; 856-71-212-194; www.residencephouvao.com). Rooms are large and luxe, with private balconies, and with local dark woods contrasting with cotton bedding. Rates are $274 (off season) to $574 (for a suite during the season).
A good option in town is the intimate Maison Souvannaphoum Hotel (Chao Fa Ngum Road; 856-71-254-609; www.coloursofangsana.com/souvannaphoum). The painstakingly restored hotel is the former residence of Prince Souvanna Phouma, former prime minister in the Royal Lao Government. The hotel has four guest rooms in the royal residence, with 20 more in the garden wing. Rates range from , $160 to $280.


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Times Square 1960 by Mark Pritchard
Posted on February 1, 2014 by Vending Machine Press in Short Stories
I haven't been to a joint like this in years, but this is where Feldman is appearing.
The faded lobby is strangely over-lit, with the ghost of a popcorn stand. Like most strip joints, this used to be a movie theatre, and before that, maybe, vaudeville. Now it's vaudeville again, in a way.
A blonde girl is on stage doing her best imitation of a strip-tease dancer. Maybe they have the less experienced talent early in the evening, I think, for she bears about the same resemblance to a professional stripper as a semipro ballplayer does to Mickey Mantle. She's got the equipment, but it's not at all clear she knows how to use it.
Theatre seats fill up the back half of the house; closer to the stage, there are tables and chairs. About twenty guys sit around, most of them in the seats; three Shriners slump at one of the tables, drinking watered-down booze. Paint's peeling off the walls, but you can't see it much because there's almost no lighting in the house. A sleepy kid sits on a stool and runs a big pink spotlight with one hand, glancing down from time to time to a paperback he's holding in the other. To top it all off, there's no band, just a record that sounds like they recorded the Nelson Riddle Orchestra while dragging them behind a high-speed train.
A cocktail waitress comes up to me and asks me, in a thick Brooklyn accent, if I'd like to be seated and have a drink. "I'm here to meet a friend," I say, looking her over. She's a redhead, wearing a black leotard. I don't know what that's supposed to suggest, ballet dancer? Beatnik? She wouldn't look half bad in a nice outfit.
The first girl finishes her dance and we give her a hand, a few of us do. Immediately, another record starts and another girl emerges, no better than the first. During her act, a troop of young men come in, evidently a bachelor party, crowding around a table near me. This livens things up considerably. The blonde girl who was dancing when I came in appears in a waitress outfit and comes to take their orders, and they spend several minutes, while strippers come and go on the stage, in a bawdy palaver. It quickly becomes clear that the girl's real strength is as a waitress, because she gets them to order a collection of complicated, expensive drinks it would take an advanced degree from bartending school to prepare.
As they complete this negotiation, the dancer on stage finishes up to a burst of mad recorded trumpets. Enter Feldman. He's wearing a tuxedo so worn it appears fragile and soft, like Abraham Lincoln's coat in a historical exhibit. The spotlight operator appears in front of the stage and hoists a microphone stand onto it just as Feldman hits his mark, already carrying the microphone itself in his hand, its black cord trailing off into the wings.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, that was Kitty LaFarce. I think I got that right. Right, Kitty? Oh, it's Latrice. A thousand apologies. Let's give her a big hand, ladies and gentleman. You'll notice I say ladies and gentlemen even though there are no ladies out there. Wait a minute, I better check. The last time I said that the pitcher from a ladies baseball team clocked me with an ice cube." He shields his eyes from the spotlight, which has graciously turned from pink to white. "Just as I thought, no ladies. Except you, miss," he says to the waitress taking care of the Shriners. "Please excuse me if I don't include you as part of the audience. She's heard my jokes so many times, she fills in for me when I'm sick. Puts on the tuxedo, the whole bit. When I come back, I have to serve drinks for a night to make it even. Yeah, I put on her outfit. It's only fair. No one minds. Hey, we got a group here tonight. Welcome to the club, gentlemen. Where you boys from?"
"Jersey," a couple of them blurt.
"Mississippi?" he says, cupping his ear.
"Jersey!" they all shout.
"Mississippi, a wonderful state. It's wonderful of you to come all the way up here. We freed the slaves here a few years back, boys, so it may be a little strange for you. If you see a Negro driving a car, don't chase him. He's not an escaped slave. He's a free man."
By now Feldman has me dying. "See, this guy gets it," he says, motioning to me.
"You're killing me," I laugh.
"Isn't this a terrific audience?" he says. "You can all learn from this man. Actually he's a friend of mine. Ladies and gentlemen, just back from the coast, where he shot a new movie with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin: Bobby Blaine. Stand up and take a bow, Bobby. Now sit down, this is my show. Where was I?
"Dean Martin, you know, he's a lovely fella. He used to live in the neighborhood. As a young man he'd come in to help around the house. Hey, you don't believe me, I can't help it. We'd have him clean the tropical fish tank — we had a fish tank the size of a car. In fact, it was a car. When the old Mercury stopped running, we tore out the seats, locked the doors, pumped her full o' water, and there you are. Dean would put on a snorkel and get in there and clean the butts out of the ashtrays. And while he'd clean it, he'd say, 'That's an angel fish, that's a catfish, that's a goldfish… that's a moray.' And the rest is history. Well, where do you think he got the idea?
"Frank Sinatra. A lovely man. He travels with a whole entourage, you know. He's got a bodyguard and a guy drives his car. He's got a couple of other guys just to keep him company, laugh at his jokes. It's good to have a little backup, you know? Because Mr. Sinatra, he's his own man, and sometimes people take things the wrong way, and an argument starts. And like I said, those other guys, they're there strictly for backup. They let him take a few shots before they fight back. Oh, you thought they were there to protect him? No, they're there for him to fight with. I don't want to say he's argumentative, but for a while he was getting in so many fights that the legal bills were killing him. So now he brings along his own combatants. It makes everybody much more comfortable. And finally there's a guy with a checkbook in case they do any damage. You can't be too careful.
"Where was I? We've got the most beautiful girls in the world here, fellas. Here in New York, I mean. They just don't necessarily work here. But they do stop in for drinks once in a while. A few weeks ago a couple dames came in during one of the dance numbers. They sat back a while and watched and one said to the other, 'It's a shame they way they expose their bodies.' And the other said, 'Yes, and the songs are so short!'
"So…ahhhhhhh," he lets out a breath in a ragged sigh as the joke dies. "Back on stage after her recent retirement during the Pleistocene Era, it's the one, the only, let's have a big hand for… What? Whattaya mean she's not ready yet? I'm dying out here. Oh crimeny. Where was I?"
Feldman strokes his chin for a moment. The bags under his eyes are big enough to take on a week-long trip. He sighs. "You know, the Russians don't have it so bad. They got Khrushchev. He's not such a bad guy. One Russian's talking to another and says, 'Comrade, I know you've been a police informant for the last twenty years. You've reported on your boss, your co-workers, and your family. And you've been paid by the government. But now I hear you're informing on me. Aren't we best friends? How could you do such a thing?' And his friend says, 'But your wife pays better.'
"I mentioned Khrushchev. He's a lot better than Stalin. With Stalin the only people who could get real coffee were the highest party members. Now anybody who's a party member can get coffee. You just have to sign up to go pick it in Cuba. Sure, they grow it there. There and in Columbia. That's Columbia in South America, not the District of Columbia. Not Columbia University. Not Columbia, South Carolina. Is she ready yet?
"All right, without further ado, the one, the only, Miss Pussy Willow!"
Mark Pritchard is the author of two books of short stories, 'How I Adore You' and 'Too Beautiful and Other Stories,' both from San Francisco's Cleis Press. His story 'Instrument' recently appeared in New Lit Salon Press's 'Southern Gothic' anthology, and his story 'Woebegone' in Crony. He has lived in San Francisco since 1979.
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Your aim in this french online game is to guide the little piggy to safety (exit point) by dodging security cameras. Be sure to collect all the coins to earn maximum points. Use YOUR MOUSE and click LEFT MOUSE BUTTON click on the location on game screen and the pig will walk there automatically. Plan your movement carefully as the moving cameras will spot you if you walk from starting position directly towards the exit point. Good luck!
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Q: Output of syslog, sent to stdout, grepped, is getting truncated mid-line So I'm logging some debug information, sending it to stdout whereupon I grep it for a string. At a certain point, logging is done and the application is waiting for stuff, but grep's output is truncated mid-line. So it matched a line, but didn't output all of that line.
Is there a way to force grep to flush?
Thanks.
UPDATE:
It appears that --line-buffered will help.

A: I think you solved your problem with grep by using the --line-buffered flag.  Also make sure that your application is flushing your stdout after each line.  If your stdout is a terminal, line buffering is the default but when you pipe it into another program the default is to use full buffering.
If you are piping data into a program that doesn't have the --line-buffered flag (like uniq for example), take a look at the stdbuf program (http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/stdbuf-man.html) which allows you to modify the buffering options of any program.
See http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ for a good overview of the issue and some common solutions.

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Short and sustained, this route is only 20 feet long, but it is .11a - b the whole way up. This is the route just around the corner to the right of War Paint (5.9).
There is no crux. The whole route is tough. 3 bolts of crimpy to pinchy to nonexistant holds on overhung to vertical rock. Excellent.
3 bolts to the shared top anchor, which is shared with the unknown 5.10a, and the top rope Early Bird (.12a).


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MEDIEVAL-RELIGION September 2016
FEAST - A Saint for the Day (September 21): St. Matthew, apostle and evangelist
Matthew, also known as Levi (compare Mt 9:9 with Mk 2:14 and Lk 5:27), occurs in all four of the New Testament lists of the Twelve Apostles.  Traditionally the author of the First Gospel, he is reported by Eusebius to have preached to the Hebrews.  A legend popular in the West in the central and later Middle Ages and enshrined in the _Legenda aurea_ gives him various exploits in Ethiopia.  Among the places where Matthew is said to have died are Ethiopia, Persia, and Pontus.  Here's an English-language translation of his Vita in the _Legenda aurea_:
http://tinyurl.com/3o8bcn
Matthew's later tenth-century Translatio (versions: BHL 5693 and 5694, 5693b and 5694b; seemingly written by a monk of Salerno who had some knowledge of Brittany and who ascribed part of his composite work to an imagined Paulinus, bishop of Legio [now Saint-Pol-de-Léon]) tells us that Breton sailors brought the apostle's body to Armorica in the time of Valentinian III (r. 425-455) during the reign there of a king Solomon (seemingly inspired by the ninth-century duke/king of this name).  Solomon was murdered, whereupon Valentinian sent a mighty fleet to destroy the Breton kingdom.  Having achieved its ends, the Roman invasion force returned with Matthew's remains.
Still according to the Translatio, those remains were then stolen and wound up in Lucania, where they were given a pious burial in a newly constructed church; over time the latter became ruinous.  In 954 the same remains were discovered still reposing therein near Paestum in what was then the newly established principality of Salerno.  Housed briefly in the cathedral of today's Capaccio (SA), Matthew's relics were soon moved to Salerno itself on the order of its prince (Gisulf I), and were re-interred in that city's then cathedral.  Thus far the Translatio.  As all in Campania know, Matthew has been in Salerno ever since.
In 1076 the principality was conquered by Robert Guiscard and in the years that followed Salerno became in effect the capital of his now enlarged duchy of Apulia.  Amatus of Montecassino, writing at some point after 1080, tells a story in which Matthew appears in a vision to archbishop John III (d. 1057), then sleeping at the saint's tomb in the hopes of being cured of a painful illness, and declares to that pontiff both that he will be healed and that, after the death of the pope (St. Leo IX) who was then vainly opposing them, Normans would rule the land as God had ordained.  In 1085, under the auspices of archbishop Alfanus I and with Guiscard's active assistance, Salerno got a new cathedral (its present one), dedicated to Matthew and consecrated by the exiled pope St. Gregory VII.  Matthew (who could believe otherwise?) reposes there; so do Gregory and Alfanus.
In Latin-rite churches and in others whose sanctoral calendars have been influenced by those of the Roman Rite, 21. September is the feast day of St. Matthew, apostle and evangelist.  In Byzantine-Rite churches his principal feast day falls on 16. November.
Herewith some period-pertinent images of St. Matthew, apostle and evangelist (the "angel" shown with him in many of these images is his winged tetramorphic symbol; for an instance of the symbol without wings see item o, below):
a) as depicted in the very late fifth- or early sixth-century mosaics of the Cappella Arcivescovile (a.k.a. Cappella di Sant'Andrea) in Ravenna:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/5779778138
b) as depicted (second from top at right; above him, St. Andrew; below him, St. Paul) among the roundels of apostles framing the Theotokos and Christ Child in a sixth-century tapestry icon from Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland (OH):
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.144#
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/ph59gr6
c) as depicted in a late sixth-century mosaic formerly in the apse of the church of the Panagia Kanakaria at Lythrankomi in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and now in the Byzantine Museum in that part of Nicosia under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cyprus:
http://tinyurl.com/6pwqfgm
d) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the earlier eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels (ca. 715-720; London, BL, MS Cotton Nero D IV, fol. 25v):
http://tinyurl.com/2wg5xct
e) as depicted in the mid-eighth-century Stockholm Codex Aureus (a.k.a. Codex Aureus of Canterbury; Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, MS A. 135, fol. 9v):
http://tinyurl.com/pmt8g5x
f) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the late eighth-century Godescalc Gospels (betw. 781 and 783; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 1203, fol. 1):
http://tinyurl.com/ntcp6zo
g) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the late eighth-or early ninth-century Coronation Gospels from Aachen (ca. 795-810; Vienna; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Weltliche Schatzkammer, Inv. Nr. XIII 18, fol. 15r):
http://tinyurl.com/pz8jqnz
http://tinyurl.com/q5pt9zp
h) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the earlier ninth-century Ebbo Gospels (ca. 816-841; Épernay, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1, fol. 18v):
https://krizpots.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ebbo.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/jnyt4xv
i) as depicted in the late ninth- or early tenth-century Athelstan Gospels (London, BL, MS Cotton Tiberius A II, fol. 24r):
http://tinyurl.com/zq5ea8q
j) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a late ninth- or early tenth-century Gospels from Landévennec (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2. 16, fol.28v):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/ms.auct.d.2.16/28v.jpg
k) as depicted in the very late ninth- or very early tenth-century illuminations (ca. 900) in the later ninth-century Egmond Gospels (Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 1, fol. 17r):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f1%3Ans_017r
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f1%3A017r_min
l) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a later tenth- or earlier eleventh-century Codex Theodosianus (a Gospels lectionary from Constantinople) belonging to the Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai (ca. 976-1025; St. Catherine [So. Sinai], Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai, cod. gr. 204, fol. 8r):
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=2464
m) as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the narthex of the church of the Theotokos in the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/pgmsg2s
n) as depicted in a full-page illumination in an earlier eleventh-century Gospels from Constantinople (Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 64, fol. 9v):
http://tinyurl.com/25h3ats
o) as depicted in a full-page illumination in an eleventh-century copy of Beatus of Liébana's _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_ from the abbey of Saint-Sever (betw. 1028 and 1072; Paris, BnF, ms. Lat. 8878, fol. 1v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52505441p/f6.item.zoom
p) as depicted in the mid-eleventh-century mosaics in the katholikon of the Nea Moni on Chios:
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/nea_moni/10.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/nsl72z6
q) as portrayed in relief on a later eleventh-century ivory plaque of Rhenish origin in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/92zpsjw
The plaque as a whole:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129592/plaque-unknown/
r) as depicted in a twelfth-century copy of the Gospel of Matthew with gloss (Châlons-en-Champagne, Bibliothèques de Châlons, Bibliothèque Pompidou, ms. 78 [86], fol. 1r):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_108122-p.jpg
s) as depicted in a full-page illumination an earlier twelfth-century Gospels from Agen or from the abbey of Moissac (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 254, fol. 10r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426051s/f23.item.zoom
t) as depicted in an earlier twelfth-century legendary from the abbey of Cîteaux (betw. 1101-1133; Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 641, fol. 57r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_094812-p.jpg
u) as twice depicted in full-page illuminations by the Kokkinobaphos Master in earlier to mid-twelfth-century Gospel manuscripts from Constantinople:
1) ca. 1126-1150; detached from Mt. Athos, Monastery of the Great Lavra, MS A44 and now in the Walters Art Gallery and Museum, Baltimore (fol. W.530.Er):
http://tinyurl.com/qyang7m
2) ca. 1126-1150; London, BL, Burney MS 19, fol. 1v:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=burney_ms_19_f001v
v) as depicted (at left; at right, St. John the Theologian) in the mid-twelfth-century apse mosaic in the left aisle of Trieste's basilica cattedrale di San Giusto martire:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3889/15164998215_ce7b0fd9d3_b.jpg
w) as depicted (at center; at left, St. Mark; at right, St. Peter) in the mid-twelfth-century apse mosaics (completed in 1148) of the basilica cattedrale della Trasfigurazione in Cefalù:
http://tinyurl.com/gl9d2gu
x) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a later twelfth-century Gospels of possible Mosan origin (ca. 1151-1200; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 E 17, fol. 11v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76e17%3A011v_min
y) as portrayed (at right; at left, St. Thomas the apostle) on a later twelfth-century gilt and enameled copper plaque of Mosan origin (ca. 1160) in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (OH):
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.462.2
z) as portrayed (at right, healing the daughter of the Ethiopian king Eglippus) on a later twelfth-century capital (early 1170s) found at Nazareth in 1908 and now (except when traveling) in the Terra Sancta Museum in the Basilica of the Annunciation there:
http://www.minervamagazine.co.uk/images/content/main_feature/MF_27-5_15.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/hgx6add
aa) as portrayed in relief (at far right in this view, drinking from a cup) by Anselmo da Campione in his Last Supper panel on the later twelfth-century parapet (_pontile_; ca. 1170-1180) in the cattedrale di San Geminiano in Modena:
http://tinyurl.com/nqu8lef
bb) as depicted in the later twelfth-century Last Judgment fresco (betw. 1176 and 1200) in the church of St. George in Staraya Ladoga:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=11&id=1447
cc) as portrayed in relief (at left; at center, St. Thomas the apostle; at right, St. Peter) on the late twelfth-century enameled copper reliquary châsse (Limousin origin) of Sts. Calminus and Namadia in the église abbatiale St.-Pierre et St.-Caprais in Mozac (Puy-de-Dôme):
http://tinyurl.com/p5j4e4q
dd) as portrayed (at center; at right, St. John the Evangelist) in a late twelfth-century jamb statue on the Galluspforte (the north portal; ca. 1180-1190) of the Münster in Basel:
http://tinyurl.com/36pve69
ee) as depicted (martyrdom) in one of four panels of a full-page illumination in the late twelfth-century so-called Bible of Saint Bertin (ca. 1190-1200; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 5, fol. 26v, sc. 2B):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A026v_min_b2
ff) as portrayed in relief on an earlier thirteenth-century enameled plaque (ca. 1220-1230) from the main altar of the then priory church of St. Michael at Grandmont (Haute-Vienne) and now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris:
http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/pub/fr/image/63519_95-001705.jpg
gg) as portrayed in a statue on the earlier thirteenth-century Angel Pillar (ca. 1230) in the cathédrale Notre-Dame in Strasbourg:
http://tinyurl.com/ozz5yzl
hh) as depicted in a later thirteenth-century fresco (betw. 1260 and 1263) in the nave of the church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate  of Peć at Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/2clkpom
http://tinyurl.com/2e687k5
ii) as portrayed (second from left) in a silver gilt statuette on the later thirteenth-century copper gilt châsse of St. Remaclus (completed betw. 1263 and 1268) in the église Saint-Sébastien in Stavelot:
http://tinyurl.com/o2u8rsz
Detail view (zoomable image):
http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=KM003923&objnr=10074187&lang=en-GB
jj) as depicted by Cimabue in a later thirteenth-century fresco (ca. 1277-1280) in the upper church of the basilica di San Francesco in Assisi (in a vault field that collapsed as a result of the earthquake of 1997; restoration completed, 2007):
http://tinyurl.com/39fafcu
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/cimabue/assisi/vault4.jpg
kk) as portrayed in a later thirteenth-century statue (ca. 1280) on a pillar in the inner choir of Köln's Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus und Maria:
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/gothic/4/03g_1350.jpg
ll) as depicted (at left, being called by Christ) in the late thirteenth-century Livre d'images de Madame Marie (ca. 1285-1290; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 69v):
http://tinyurl.com/zro5u9q
mm) as depicted (at far left) by Duccio di Buoninsegna in his early fourteenth-century Maestà altarpiece (betw. 1308 and 1311) in the Museo del Opera del Duomo in Siena:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/maesta/0main/maest_08.jpg
nn) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1310-1320), often attributed to Giotto di Bondone, in the lower church of the basilica di San Francesco in Assisi:
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/francis/ABI-matteo-l.jpg
oo) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/gwzjces
http://tinyurl.com/27f59vb
pp) as depicted (martyrdom) in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language legendary of Parisian origin with illuminations attributed to the Fauvel Master (ca. 1327; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 49r):
http://tinyurl.com/2fumpvy
qq) as depicted (at left) by Bernardo Daddi in an earlier fourteenth-century triptych of the BVM with saints (1328) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/daddi/mad_chil.jpg
rr) as depicted in a November calendar portrait in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the narthex in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/obejyr9
ss) as depicted in a later fourteenth-century panel painting (betw. 1357 and 1367) by Theodoric of Prague and workshop in the Holy Cross Chapel of Karlštejn Castle near Prague:
http://tinyurl.com/nk5zzot
tt) as depicted in the later fourteenth-century frescoes (1360s and 1370s; restored in 1968-1970) in the church of St. Demetrius in Marko's Monastery at Markova Sušica:
http://tinyurl.com/qxrl38k
uu) as depicted by Andrea Orcagna (Matthew as evangelist and as missionary in Ethiopia) in a later fourteenth-century triptych (ca. 1367; completed by Jacopo di Cione) in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence:
http://www.wga.hu/art/o/orcagna/matthew.jpg
vv) as depicted by the Troyes Master in the late fourteenth-century Hours of Prigent de Coëtivy (ca. 1380-1400; Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, ms. 1511, fol. 204v):
http://tinyurl.com/jhkobzu
ww) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389; restored in the early 1970s) in the monastery church of St. Andrew at Matka in Skopje's municipality of Karpoš:
http://tinyurl.com/zp75unv
http://tinyurl.com/nlu7pzt
xx) as depicted by Spinello Aretino in a late fourteenth-century triptych of the BVM and saints (1391) in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/oe8jjxl
yy) as portrayed in relief (third from left) on the late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century tomb of St. Wendelin in his basilica in Sankt Wendel:
http://tinyurl.com/qhvtart
zz) as depicted (bottom register, at far right) by Lorenzo Monaco in an early fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1407-1409; from his dismembered San Benedetto altarpiece) in the National Gallery in London (image greatly expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/obhzaxp
aaa) as depicted (driving off two dragons in Ethiopia) in the early fifteenth-century Châteauroux Breviary (ca. 1414; Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 337v):
bbb) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the earlier fifteenth-century Radoslav Gospel from Serbia (1428-1429; Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, ms. РНБ. F.I.591, fol. 1r):
ccc) as portrayed in relief by Donatello in an earlier fifteenth-century terracotta roundel (betw. 1428 and 1445) in the old sacristy of Florence's basilica di San Lorenzo:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/sacristy/1sacri09.jpg
ddd) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Francis of Assisi) by Giovanni di Paolo in an early fifteenth-century predella panel (ca. 1435), from a dismembered altarpiece, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436515
eee) as depicted (martyrdom) in the mid-fifteenth-century Prayer Book for Barbara von Cilly (1448; Vienna, ÖNB, cod. 1767, fol. 269v):
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7007413.JPG
fff) as depicted in grisaille by Jean le Tavernier in the Gospel readings in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Philip of Burgundy (ca. 1451-1460; Use of Paris; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 2, fol. 213r):
ggg) as portrayed in a polychromed and gilt later fifteenth-century wooden statue from Brabant (ca. 1470) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:
http://metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/461166
hhh) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Simon the Zealot) by Miguel Ximénez and workshop in a panel of his and Martín Bernad's late fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Holy Cross (completed, 1487) for the parish church of Blesa (Teruel) and now, after dismemberment, mostly in the Museo de Zaragoza:
http://tinyurl.com/pxnyady
iii) as depicted in a late fifteenth-century breviary for the Use of Besançon (before 1498; Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 69, p. 772):


TEHRAN, Mar. 17 (MNA) – The Spiritual Muslim Board of the Asiatic Part of Russia signed an MoU with Mustafa (pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation to help the foundation.
TEHRAN, Mar. 14 (MNA) – Iranian researcher Mohammad Ebrahim Khamseh has won the 9th Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences award.
TEHRAN, Feb. 03 (MNA) – A number of international scientific societies have presented prestigious awards to an Iranian scientist, Mohsen Esmaily, for cutting-edge research in the field of materials science.
TEHRAN, Jan. 09 (MNA) – Iran's Deputy Health Minister Dr. Reza Malekzadeh has received a medal of honor from the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
TEHRAN, Jan. 01 (MNA) – Iranian scientist Alireza Mashaghi Tabari who is a principal investigator and assistant professor at Leiden University and Harvard University has been nominated for the 2017 Discoverer of the Year Award.
TEHRAN, Jan. 30 (MNA) – The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences has awarded a prize to an Iranian researcher, Mohsen Esmaily, for having made a breakthrough in his research on Magnesium alloys.


text:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using IF.Lastfm.Core.Api.Commands.Tag;
using IF.Lastfm.Core.Api.Enums;
using IF.Lastfm.Core.Tests.Resources;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace IF.Lastfm.Core.Tests.Api.Commands.Tag
{
    public class GetTopAlbumsCommandTests: CommandTestsBase
    {
        [Test]
        public async Task HandleSingleResultResponse()
        {
            //Arrange
            GetTopAlbumsCommand command = new GetTopAlbumsCommand(MAuth.Object, "disco");

            //Act
            var response = CreateResponseMessage(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(TagApiResponses.GetTopAlbumsSingle));
            var parsed = await command.HandleResponse(response);

            //Assert
            Assert.IsTrue(parsed.Success);
            Assert.IsNotNull(parsed.Content);
        }

        [Test]
        public async Task HandleSuccessResponse()
        {
            //Arrange
            GetTopAlbumsCommand command = new GetTopAlbumsCommand(MAuth.Object, "disco");

            //Act
            var response = CreateResponseMessage(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(TagApiResponses.GetTopAlbumsSuccess));
            var parsed = await command.HandleResponse(response);

            //Assert
            Assert.IsTrue(parsed.Success);
            Assert.IsNotNull(parsed.Content);
        }

        [Test]
        public async Task HandleErrorResponse()
        {
            var command = new GetTopAlbumsCommand(MAuth.Object, "errorTag");

            var response = CreateResponseMessage(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(TagApiResponses.GetTopAlbumsError));

            var parsed = await command.HandleResponse(response);

            Assert.IsFalse(parsed.Success);
            Assert.IsTrue(parsed.Status == LastResponseStatus.MissingParameters);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Ah, to be young and virtual!
This website is dedicated to the young at heart and the electronic by persuasion. Despite some of the more unsavory potential connotations of the phrase "cyber jeune", we run a clean site here. Safe for children of all age, and maybe the odd profanity when it is really, really deserved.
But what does it really mean to be 'safe for children'?
Are we really concerned that the little ones will be traumatized by a word or two, or is it just that we're too lazy and stupid to explain to them why some words can be used in certain situations and others cannot?
Is it simply because we're afraid that children might have trouble seeing the need for such a situation, whereas we've become so familiar with the various double-standards? Are we that uncomfortable with the possibility that it may be not only unnecessary but also potentially damaging to our freedom of expression and to our ability to decide appropriate behavior for ourselves?
Even if they expressed an interest (which itself is hard to believe), I doubt that children would get much out of this website. And I would never suggest that we should allow children to freely surf the internet and even a social media website, no matter how safe and secure they may be. I'm not sure why, however…is it only because there's crazy things going on, and we're told all of our lives that which is Bad?
A child would definitely be interested in something bright and exciting like online games, for many of the same reasons that an adult may be stimulated by the potential for ….(fill in your own word.). Of course, adults may have the extra urge to win money, and the somewhat illicit excitement of doing something not-entirely-wholesome. Let's face it. The world on online casinos for US players has expanded enormously over the last ten years. And gambling seems to have lost most of its unsavory reputation. Many online casinos offer games that can not only be played for money stakes, but also are free. I have sat in many airports waiting for a flight and observed people around me playing free online slots games. What would have been crazy twenty years ago, is common place today. And just as there are dozens of online gambling casinos available where there is an internet connection, so too are there countless number of free online games for kids. With Facebook offering games such as CandyCrush and all its variations, as well as Words with Friends, it seems like we never will be bored.
Youth in Revolt or Revolting Youth?


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This wonderful print from Matthew Rose, Anglais, has been lovingly reproduced as a giclée print from an original collage.
The original collage will be on display at Matthew's latest solo exhibition. Click here for more information on the Scared But Fresh show.


We knew it was a possibility, but now UTG can confirm pop star Katy Perry will release her first film this Summer.
Confirmed tonight via her twitter, Katy Perry: Part Of Me is the 3D concert event movie no one said they wanted, or knew they hated, until now. Few details are available, but Paramount is releasing and an article from THR rumors Project Runway and Top Chef creators Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz may be producing.
Let's forget UTG's hatred of Perry's recent singles for a second and look at this film for what it is: A shameless ploy for cash from consumers unable to afford or attend actual Katy Perry concerts. You can say it's "for the fans" all you want, but the presence of 3D alone should be enough to let you know the last thing on anyone's mind behind this film is the people in the audience. This is about money, and while I'm sure some of you will neglect this post altogether, it's the truth.
Go back, rework the film to be a 2D release, and THEN try and pitch it to your audience as something that must be seen. All gimmicks aside, would there be anything left?


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There is a small sign on the first floor of the Veteran's Hospital in Brooklyn, NY that expresses this sentiment.
It is small enough that I missed it the first week my Dad, a Vietnam Veteran was in the ICU for what they initially suspected to be liver failure.
But I noticed it last week. Dad died on December 4th after a short, yet powerful battle with pancreatic cancer.
The Price of Freedom, of our freedom, the basic ones that we are all guilty of taking for granted at some point – is visible at that VA Hospital. It is visible on the faces of the soldiers as they trek the halls, their journeys each through the battlefields of their own personal wars.
I have been away from my blog for a long time, and as I sit to write in the middle of the night, I can feel the tension finally beginning to lift from my neck. Writing is my therapy and its cheaper and easier than the wait and the copay at any doctor's office.
Dad didn't have Cowden's Syndrome. Or at least we don't think he did. As a matter of fact, prior to his death, with the exception of one procedure – he was never really sick a day in his life. When we would go to his appointments together, nurses would repeat in disbelief, "You don't take ANY medicine?" And he didn't. Not even a Tylenol.
Which is one of the things that has been bothering me so much.
I have held in my thoughts on this out of respect for Dad and his privacy – but since he encouraged my writing I am fairly sure he wouldn't mind if I shared just a bit.
Dad saw active combat in the USMC during the late 1960s in Vietnam. And besides the typical tortures of war, Dad was exposed to Agent Orange.
Now his body was seemingly unaffected from the toxins, but we theorized on more than one occasion that perhaps that toxic exposure triggered my own gene mutation into Cowden's Syndrome. Of course no one will ever know. And even as I wonder if his cancer was a result of his own toxic exposure, I know I will never be quite sure. His Dad, my Grandpa, died of pancreatic cancer in 1993.
But pancreatic cancer IS a genetic disease. And even though in 90% of the cases, the genes spontaneously mutate, there are 10% where the genes are passed within families. I don't know the exact genes responsible, although I will in the coming months, as the genetic counselor where Dad was diagnosed will be contacting my siblings and I for testing.
More genetic testing? It's a thought too overwhelming to process right now. That will come with time I guess.
I can't help but wonder when there is too much knowledge. I know that sounds foolish, coming from someone whose life was saved by the early warnings afforded to me after my Cowden's diagnosis. However, there is a point, a fine line, where you start to wonder when too much knowledge becomes a bad thing.
Tonight my thoughts are all over the map. Tonight I prepare mentally for the wake and funeral over the next few days. Tonight, I think about my Dad – the man.
Dad enlisted in the United States Marine Corps right out of high school. He saw 13 months of active combat before returning to marry his high school sweetheart, my mom. But, as young relationships so often go, this one ended a few years later.
Dad spent years trying to get settled in his heart after the trauma he experienced in the war. He married again, and had a son, my brother. But that marriage was not to be either.
Dad seemed to have a need to move like the wind for a lot of years, and our relationship through college was pretty distant. Then in 1999, a year before my wedding, we began to reconnect, and our relationship had become closer each passing year.
Dad was not a saint. But he was a good man with a good heart. He was strong in mind, body and spirit. Dad did the best he could with what he had where he was – always.
I spent lots of time working to understand the trauma that follows Veterans home. Because of that I will always respect my father and the ways he tried his best.
But if I am honest, I am angry. Really angry. Not at my Dad, but at the cancer that snatched him from me just as we were coming closer and closer together. The damned cancer that cut short a relationship just starting to bloom. We had plans. We were going to see the cherry blossoms in DC in the spring. We still had things to do.
Instead I am left with another ribbon to add to the collection. One none of us ever wanted to own.
Dad often spoke about life being a puzzle, and each of us having a piece to contribute. From our perspective its hard to see where we fit, and how our piece changes the landscape. But, when our job is finished, our piece is placed into the puzzle – the greater puzzle – the one with no definitive number of pieces. While this happens, our surrounding pieces are created. The puzzle grows, visible in its entirety only to our the Creator.
My father's inner strength defies description, as he journeyed through his last days focused on a few key things he was compelled to accomplish. Almost impossible to eat comfortably, Dad carefully conserved his energy and skillfully kept his body functional until he was able to receive his definitive diagnosis. A diagnosis I am certain he fought for so that his children would have the ability for advance screening.
Dad was admitted to the VA Hospital on Thanksgiving Day, and lived for a week, as a parade of family and friends got to spent time by his side.
I walked the halls of that hospital quite a bit last week, reading prints of the NYC Vietnam Memorial such as these, as my already deep respect for our country's veterans grew.
We laughed, and cried, and told stories, and played music. We held Dad's hands in the moments before he went to meet the angels. We were gifted with time to say goodbye.
My tears are not for my father. He is finally free. He paid the price for our freedom for all of his adult life. Now he is at peace.
My tears are because I want more time. My tears are selfish. But I guess I good sign that you really love someone is when you can't seem to bring yourself to say goodbye.
There will be time for thinking and reflecting on Dad, his life, his death, genetics, and long-term ramifications.
But for now, I have to get some rest. Three days ahead to celebrate the life of my favorite Marine.
Semper Fi, Daddy. I love you.
I am very sorry for your loss. Thank you for your father's service to us all!
So sorry to hear about your loss. Hugs to you. Cheers to your father for his service.
Lori, You honor your father, your family and yourself with this beautiful reflection. I'm very sorry for this loss in your life, but I am glad you have the gifts that allow you to share the experience. I'm glad I once had the opportunity to have dinner with Lisa and your dad, so I have a real sense of his presence. Loving thoughts to you all.
Know you are in our thoughts and prayers. Sorry to learn of your loss. Treasure those wonderful memories!
Loved your card. Life seems to keep me from getting to too much, but I think of you often.
So so sorry for your loss. You and your family are in my prayers.


Messrs. Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, Ill., and William L. Patton, of Springfield, Ill., for petitioner.
The cause was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, a jury being waived.
Plaintiff in error's 'Yard' at Bloomington, Illinois, is seven and three-fourths miles long. During April, 1915, it maintained therein three switch shanties located upon its double track main line, one five hundred feet, another eleven hundred feet and the third a mile north or its passenger station. Trains operated over this portion of the line are under control of the yardmaster and subject to a rule which provides: 'All trains will reduce speed on passing through yard limits and proceed only after the way is seen or known to be clear.' Each of these shanties was continuously operated night and day by two men, alternately on duty therein for twelve hours during every twenty-four.
The purpose of the statute is to promote safety in operating trains by preventing the excessive mental and physical strain which usually results from remaining too long at an exacting task. B. & O. R. R. Co. v.* [247 U.S. 197, 200] Interstate Commerce Commission, 221 U.S. 612, 619 , 31 S. Sup. Ct. 621. It must be construed and applied in view of that purpose and well- known circumstances attending the practical operation of trains.
The individuals within the ambit of the proviso's pertinent provisions are marked by the nature of service performed-an 'operator, train dispatcher, or other employe who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches, reports, transmits, receives, or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements.' And the railroad is forbidden to permit one performing such service in 'towers, offices, places and stations continuously operated night and day' to remain on duty therein longer than nine hours in twenty-four. Both the post of duty and character of work are essential elements. If, in due course of his work, an employe while in any of the locations specified uses the telegraph or telephone for sending or receiving messages concerning train movements he may not lawfully remain on duty therein exceeding nine hours during any twenty- four hour period, except in case of emergency.
Here, the facts disclose the switch tender on duty for twelve consecutive hours in a shanty continuously operated night and day where, by the use of the telephone, he received and delivered orders pertaining to train movements-not mere switching movements within the yard; and in such service mental and physical alertness are of great importance. By permitting this, the railroad violated both language and purpose of the act.


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1) Visit the YES Bank Home Branch along with the self attested copy of your Proof of Address like Aadhaar Card, Passport etc. and the originals.
2) Meet the Accounts Executive and ask for KYC Details Change form or Mobile Number Change Request form.
3) Fill up KYC Details Change Form completely and do remember to put your new Mobile Number wherever asked . Don't forget to put your Signature wherever asked for.
4) Finally, Submit the duly filled up form with your Proof of Address (if needed) to the Accounts Executive.
Accounts Executive will validate your form and details and upon complete validation your YES Bank registered Mobile Number will be changed in the bank records. Before you leave the YES Bank branch do confirm from the Accounts Executive that your new mobile number has been updated or not.
Did you know ? If you do not use your YES Bank Account for a long time it gets inactive or dormant. Check out the complete procedure to reactivate dormant account in YES Bank. Also, if you haven't linked your Aadhaar Card with Bank Account, don't forget to check out the process to link Aadhaar Card to YES Bank Account.
You might have seen that the process to change registered mobile number in YES Bank is quite an easy one. It doesn't take more than 10 minutes to complete this process once you visit the YES Bank Branch. Do remember that this will not change your mobile number in YES Bank for OTP i.e., this process will only change number for SMS alerts. In order to change your Mobile Number for OTP, you need to fill up a separate form for updating your Mobile Number for YES Bank Internet Banking.
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Nikolai Pawlowitsch Dilezki (, ; Mikolaj Dilecki, Mikołaj Pawłowicz Dilecki, Nikolay Diletsky; * um 1630 in Kiew; † 1681 in Moskau) war ein ukrainisch-russischer Musiktheoretiker und Komponist.

Dilezki studierte 1651 bis 1658 in Warschau und danach in Vilnius. Seit 1678 lebte er als Chorleiter und Musiklehrer in Moskau. Sein Kompositionslehrbuch Musikalische Grammatik (Grammatika musikiyskago peniya) bildete eine entscheidende Grundlage für die Reform des russischen Kirchengesanges durch den Patriarchen Nikon. Er komponierte geistliche Konzerte, die seine Kenntnis der westeuropäischen Musikkultur zeigen.

Werke
 Grammatika musikijskogo penija (Грамматика мусикийского пения, "Die Grammatik einer Melodie", Smolensk, 1677)
 Ideja grammatikii musikijskoi (Идея грамматикии мусикийской, "Die Idee einer musikalischen Grammatik", Moskau, 1679)
 Grammatika penija musikijskogo (Грамматика пения мусикийского, Moskau, 1681)

Literatur

 Юрий Бочаров: Мастера старинной музыки. Гелеос, Москва 2005, ISBN 5-8189-0522-5, S. 132–133, (russisch).
 Claudia R. Jensen: A Theoretical Work of Late Seventeenth-Century Muscovy: Nikolai Diletskii's "Grammatika" and the Earliest Circle of Fifths. In: Journal of the American Musicological Society. Bd. 45, Nr. 2, 1992, , S. 305–331, .

Komponist (Russland)
Komponist (Ukraine)
Komponist (Kirchenmusik)
Russe
Ukrainer
Geboren im 17. Jahrhundert
Gestorben 1681
Mann

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Research for Molly Bowes took me in all kinds of unexpected directions. I set out to tell the story of nineteenth-century Gibside and the Bowes Museum through the adventures of one of the children born to Stoney Bowes in debtors' prison. But it grew like Topsy, taking Molly from the Peterloo Massacre to Crowley's Crew, Joseph Cowen and Tyneside radicalism, to Garibaldi and European political plots! Much of the story draws on the amazing and fascinating international connections of the area where I live.
Read the The Land of Oak & Iron page to learn more about the project.
Click here to go to the project's local history portal.
Molly's Progress: Below is a series of links and references to books I used in the research. The order in which they appear is dictated by Molly's story. To see pictures of the real people on whom characters are based, click here. For places, posters and artworks mentioned in the novel, click here.
Stoney Bowes in Prison - an account by Jesse Foot. Click here for a short summary.
Williams, Kate. England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton. Arrow Books. 2006.
'With Bewick on my knee, then I was happy.' Jane Eyre and Molly both love Bewick!
Reid, Robert. The Peterloo Massacre.
Location of St Peter's Fields.
Sansbury, Ruth. Beyond the Blew Stone: 300 Years of Quakers in Newcastle. 1998.
Forbes, Ian. Images of Industry.
Booklet: Shotley Bridge History by the Shotley Bridge Village Trust, 2016. £3.
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 2006.
Parish, Charles. The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne: The Building and development of its Library 1793-1986. 1987.
Watson, Robert Spence. The History of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (1793-1896) Walter Scott Ltd. 1897.
Laing Art Gallery. Pre-Raphaelite Painters and Patrons in the North East. Tyne & Wear Museums Service. 1989.
Trevelyan, Raleigh. A Pre-Raphaelite Circle. Chatto & Windus. 1878.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books. 1985.
Thomas Sword Good Bowes, Edwin. In A Strong Light.
Winlaton and District Local History Society. A History of Blaydon. Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. 1975.
A British Revolution in C19th?
Allen, Joan. Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside 1829-1900 Merlin Press. 2007.
Todd, Nigel. The Militant Democracy: Joseph Cowen and Victorian Radicalism. Bewick Press. 1991.
Cadogan, Peter. Early Radical Tyneside. Sagittarius Press of Consett. 1975.
The History of the Dickie Bird Society A column in Joseph Cowen's Illustrated Chronicle to encourage children to be kind.
Mackenzie, E. & Ross, M. An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham. (Newcastle, 1834) I, 195.