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Queen -The show must go on ( Acapella version) Empty spaces - what are we living for? Abandoned places - I guess we know the score.. On and on!
Иванова Юлия. «The show must go on» Queen.
Seann Miley Moore Singing "The Show Must Go On" By Queen The X Factor UK 2015 Season 12 Audition.
A wonderful performance. Taken from DVD "The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert".


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Medieval History Seminar
School of History event Wednesday 25 October 2017
Date: Wednesday 25 October 2017, 17:15 – 19:15
Location: Michael Sadler Building
Delivered by Dr Thomas Smith (University of Leeds), 'Use of the Bible in Papal Letters: Theology and Authority in the Arengae of Honorius III'.
Biblical quotations and references course through medieval papal letters, especially the opening preambles, known as arengae, which popes used to promulgate their authority and expound their theological understanding of the crusading movement. The value of these preambles was traditionally underestimated as mere rhetoric, and they remain untapped sources that offer unparalleled insights into papal thinking, the self-fashioning of papal identities, and can also be used to reconstruct the content of crusade preaching in the localities. Pursuing the first systematic study of high medieval papal arengae, this paper uses the pontificate of Honorius III (1216-27) as a case study to reveal how arengae can be read and their potential for the study of the papacy and the crusading movement.
Dr Thomas Smith is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. Previously he was Lecturer in Medieval History at Trinity College, Dublin. His research focuses on the high medieval papacy and the crusading movement, especially their documentary and manuscript sources and the reception and transmission of crusade texts. His first monograph, Curia and Crusade: Pope Honorius III and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1216-1227, is currently in press with Brepols.
Michael Sadler Building (Grant Room 3.11)
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The Buffer Festival is an annual event that recognizes and showcases the best creative work from established and emerging YouTube creators. The festival will leverage the most accomplished YouTubers to help emerging talent and brands connect to a relevant audience. Buffer Festival is based on three main components: the curation and celebration of YouTube content and its creators, the film challenge, and the award show which will also be streamed online.
From the fall 2012 until spring 2013, the Buffer Festival was one of seven teams to participate in the CFC Media Lab's digital entertainment accelerator, ideaBOOST. The program employs the best practices from tech's lean startup movement and other disciplines. The program's goal is to help companies navigate the entertainment and technology startup market, sharpen their product vision, and refine their strategies to target audiences and generate sustainable revenues. As part of this program, the teams were exposed to a number of participatory design techniques. Each team made use of several techniques in order to further the development of their projects.
In order to test their concept of a film festival for YouTube creator, the Buffer Festival team decided to Prototype the look, feel and flow of it. This method was used to support the team conceptualize and design the festival.
Participants in the Prototype session included YouTube video creators, their fans, including fans of the videos created by individual members of the ApprenticeA team.
As the Buffer Festival was conceived as a live event that centred around the screenings of YouTube videos and an award show, the team needed to determine whether YouTube fans would be interested in the communal experience of a live event. They also needed to gauge whether fans would pay to attend such as event, even though they could see the videos online at no cost and on their own schedules.
The Buffer Festival team created an outline for the one-night live event, including a list of videos to be screened, an interview with a popular YouTube video creator. Several days before the event, the team announced on YouTube that they were holding a live event for a limited number of people. Those interested in attending the event were directed to buy tickets via Eventbrite. A limited number of tickets was available for $10 each.
While the event didn't take place at a movie theatre, the team had access to a large meeting space, where they set up a large TV screen and rows of seating. Once attendees had arrived and been seated, two members of the team kicked off the event by explaining the genesis and goals of the festival. This was followed by the screening of a selection of videos by popular YouTubers. Following the screening, a Buffer Festival team member interviewed one the YouTube creators who had been profiled in the screening. To conclude the event, the team invited the audience to a post-screening reception, which enabled the team to gather first hand feedback on the experience from audience members.
ApprenticeA produced a short video profiling the Buffer Festival Preview evening.
Registration for the event filled up quickly and was sold out by the evening of the event. The audience responded strongly to the ApprenticeA team and their introduction to the event. The videos screening and question and answer sessions with the YouTube creator were also met with enthusiastic support.
The event confirmed that audiences of online video were indeed interested in attending a live event to celebrate excellence in online video. Feedback from audience members also confirmed that fans were interested in seeing YouTubers live and in person. The fact that tickets sold out before the event demonstrated that at the $10 price point was not a barrier for fans of online video.


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Als Somitomere werden in der Embryologie lose Zellansammlungen des paraxialen Mesoderms bezeichnet, die elektronenmikroskopisch unterscheidbar als metamere Segmentationen während der embryonalen Entwicklung von Wirbeltieren aufgefasst werden, im Kopfbereich auch ohne die für Somiten typischen Absetzungen im Oberflächenepithel.

Sie treten etwa Mitte der dritten Entwicklungswoche als paarige Mesenchymsegmente beidseits längs des Neuralrohres auf, von kranial nach kaudal speziesabhängig bis zu 50 Segmente. Während beim Menschen die ersten sieben Somitomerenpaare – die keine Somiten bilden – unter anderem Mesoblasten der Schlundbögen stellen und zu äußeren Augenmuskeln, Gesichts- und Kaumuskulatur beitragen, entstehen aus den weiteren zunächst 42–44 Somitenpaare, ab dem 25. Tag etwa 3–4 täglich. Beim Menschen werden anschließend mehrere kaudale wieder zurückgebildet, sodass schließlich 35–37 verbleiben.

Zur Existenz, Entstehung und Bedeutung der Somitomere bzw. ihrer Abgrenzung gegenüber Somiten gibt es noch kontroverse wissenschaftliche Diskussionen.

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Quellen
 A. G. Jacobson: Somitomeres: mesodermal segments of vertebrate embryos. In: Development. 104 Suppl. 1988, S. 209–220.
 A. G. Jacobson: Somitomeres: mesodermal segments of the head and trunk. In: J. Hanken, B. K. Hall (Hrsg.): The skull. Vol. 1, Chicago Press, Chicago (IL) 1993, ISBN 0-226-31567-3, S. 42–76.

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Lionel Scaloni May Not Be Ready to Revisit Sergio Aguero Chapter Again
Argentina interim manager Lionel Scaloni claims that he has not been in touch with Sergio Aguero regarding the possibility of coming back to the national team after having had a spectacular start to his season with Manchester City. Aguero is the second top scorer for Argentina after grabbing five goals already in the Premier League. Even though he was part of the Argentina squad that played at the World Cup 2018, he has not been featuring in the recent friendly matches – a victory over Guatemala and a draw with Colombia.Scaloni has once again not pick the player for the upcoming clashes against Iraq and Brazil. Both games will be played in Saudi Arabia.
Scaloni has largely gone with young players for the recent squads and this has resulted in the departure of veterans like Ever Banega and Angel di Maria from the squad. After numerous disappointments at previous major tournaments, Argentina are undergoing a major shakeup in terms of the squad. Despite possessing some of the best players in the world like Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero, they have been unable to get success. The closest Argentina have come close to success in recent decades is the World Cup final appearance in 2014.
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Andrea Pirlo urges Paulo Dybala to train with Cristiano Ronaldo's desire
Juventus legend Andrea Pirlo has urged Paulo Dybala to train with the same desire as Cristiano Ronaldo in order to secure a regular starting role with the Bianconeri. The Argentina international has witnessed a tough introduction to the new Serie A season and he has managed just 100 minutes of action from the first three matches.
As such, there has been plenty of speculation regarding the Argentine's future in Turin but Pirlo has advised the Bianconero to impress the manager with the intensity in training, he said: "Accepting that you're not a starter at this stage of the season isn't easy for anyone. Paulo will do everything to play as much as possible: if he trains with Ronaldo's desire then it will be difficult to leave him out. When you don't play, it means you have to do even more. You must do your bit: Dybala's qualities aren't in question. To become a crucial player for Juventus, he must find something from inside. First and foremost, he must do it for himself."
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Heung-min Son delighted after penning fresh Tottenham contract
South Korea international Heung-min Son has revealed his delight after penning a fresh three-year extension with the north London club. The 26-year-old attackerhas been with the Capital outfit for the past three seasons and the latest contract is expected to keep him at the club until the summer of 2023.
Speaking to reporters, Son admitted that he was disappointed with how the first season paved for him with Spurs but he is content to have since made a mark under Mauricio Pochettino, he said: "My first season was not so great – I was disappointed for myself. But I believed in myself that I could play in the Premier League and I have really enjoyed every moment, every single day with my guys, my team-mates at Tottenham. I am really thankful to Tottenham because they gave me this new contract. It didn't take too many things to sign this new contract because they make my dream come true. I played in Germany and they made me an offer to join the Premier League."
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Manchester United plan to offload Marcos Rojo before the transfer deadline
Argentina international Marcos Rojo has been tipped to leave Manchester United this summer with the club leaning towards signing a new central defender. The 28-year-old has been a credible performer for United over the past four seasons but the club are now pondering over his sale as they seek to recoup funds for the new centre-back.
According to The Sun, United are prepared to accept bids of around £30m for the Argentine defender with Jose Mourinho keen on pursuing a new centre-back before the transfer deadline. It is added that Leicester City's Harry Maguire remains the prime candidate to replace Rojo, though the Foxes are expected to play hardball over the negotiations.
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FIFA president praises Lionel Messi after World Cup showing
FIFA presidentGianni Infantino has said that Lionel Messi had been amazing for Argentina during their recent World Cup campaign and fancies the South American nation to come strong at the next edition of the global tournament. Argentina had to fight hard to progress from the group stage of the World Cup but they thereafter lasted just one game after being beaten 4-3 by France in the round of 16.
Speaking in a news conference, Infantino admitted that much was expected of Argentina during the tournament but Messi was amazing as always, he said: "Of course, Argentina expected a lot from the Argentinian national team, the whole world was looking forward to seeing Argentina, and in the end they lost during a very intense, interesting match against France, and France is now in the final... I am convinced that at the next World Cup we will see a very strong Argentinian team again. Messi was amazing, as always. He scored an amazing goal."
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Diego Maradona offers to coach Argentina for free
Argentine legend Diego Maradona has expressed his desire to coach the national team for free after their dismal display at the ongoing World Cup in Russia. Argentina struggled to make the most of their star-studded attack from the start of the tournament and they eventually bowed out to France during the round of 16 stage.
Since then, there has been question marks regarding the future of Jorge Sampaoli and during a recent interview, Maradona has admitted that he would prefer a second chance of managing the squad for free, he said: "Yes and I would do it for free, I would not ask for anything in return. They think I'm happy but my heart hurts. I wish God gave me the strength to return to the field. The years and life go on for everyone and I get to 57 years of age watching my team beaten by a team that I do not think is one of the best at the World Cup. "It makes me feel bad - everything we built with much effort was destroyed very easily."
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Javier Zanetti: Lionel Messi has a lot of pressure to deliver for Argentina
Argentina legend Javier Zanetti believes Lionel Messi is under more pressure to deliver for the national side after witnessing them lose in the finals of the previous three major tournaments. The Barcelona star has won everything within reach at club level but he has yet to taste any form of glory with the Albiceleste.
Speaking to Mediaset, Zanetti admitted that Messi will once more be the focus of Argentina's World Cup campaign and feels the burden will only increase on him, should the nation reach the final stages of the tournament, he said: "There is a lot of pressure on him, but not only in this competition but also in the past.
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Lionel Messi wishes Argentina were more like Germany
Argentina international Lionel Messi has wished that his nation were more like Germany as they head into the summer World Cup in Russia. Joachim Loew's side have undergone a tremendous transition from the World Cup triumph in 2014 and Messi is particularly impressed with the simplicity with which the Germans have regrouped.
He told TyC Sports: "I wish we were more like Germany and worked like them. They keep working on a long-term plan and rejuvenate the team at the right time.They're already preparing for the next World Cup,they have a different way of preparing, letting people work, and judging them on what they do."
Germany have included plenty of younger players in their squad for the upcoming global tournament and they seem to have already planned for the 2022 World Cup where they could still be under the guidance of Loew. The 58-year-old has witnessed the progress of the national team over the past 12 years and his achievements have seen recently seen him rewarded with a fresh four-year extension.
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Argentine Legend Urges Jorge Sampaoli To Pick Team On Merit And Not Reputation
Argentine legend Gabriel Batistuta has urged coach Jorge Sampaoli to find the right mix of players ahead of this summer's World Cup in Russia. Argentina only progressed to the World Cup after Lionel Messi scored a match-winning hat-trick in the final qualifying game and they have since not enjoyed the best of times.
In the most recent international break, Argentina managed to secure a 2-0 friendly win over Italy but this was followed up by a 6-1 thrashing against Spain which has got the alarm bells ringing. Central defensive duo Nicolas Otamendi and Marcos Rojo were thoroughly outclassed by La Roja during the friendly and Batistuta has now urged Sampaoli to rethink his selection criteria.
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Diego Simeone: Lionel Messi 'Decisive Factor' In La Liga Pursuit
Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has played down his side's prospects of making a late challenge for the La Liga title. The Capital outfit currently trail Barcelona by nine points in the standings but Simeone has already admitted defeat after another Lionel Messi master class at Sevilla last weekend.
Barcelona were on course to suffer their first league defeat of the season after trailing Sevilla 2-0 during the second period, but they somehow managed to turn their fortunes around. The Catalan giants scored two late goals in the space of just 53 seconds, and the latter came from the feet of Argentina superstar Messi, who shocked the Andalusian faithful.
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The final school bell has rung, the pencils and notebooks are packed away and the kids are ready for some summer fun! Children love the hot summer months, because they provide the perfect opportunity to spend lots of time outside. Whether it's swimming in the pool, hiking through the woods, taking long walks, or going for a bike ride, there is something for everyone, no matter how young or old.
We hope that everyone enjoys this special time of year, but we want to also remind parents that there are potential dangers during the summer months, and it's important to be aware of what they are. The more information one learns about how to prevent illnesses and injuries, the less likely they will occur.
There are many areas to cover when it comes to summer safety, and we'll review just a few here. Please keep in mind that this is a brief list of tips. For more information check out the web sites recommended at the end of this article.The final school bell has rung, the pencils and notebooks are packed away and the kids are ready for some summer fun! Children love the hot summer months, because they provide the perfect opportunity to spend lots of time outside. Whether it's swimming in the pool, hiking through the woods, taking long walks, or going for a bike ride, there is something for everyone, no matter how young or old.
There are many areas to cover when it comes to summer safety, and we'll review just a few here. Please keep in mind that this is a brief list of tips. For more information check out the web sites recommended at the end of this article.
An appropriate helmet must be worn whenever a child is "on wheels." This means bicycles, scooters, skates, rollerblades, skateboards and more!
The helmet must fit properly.
Helmets can be life saving and can protect a child from serious injury.
Be sure the right type of helmet is being used. For example, a bike helmet needs to be used for biking.
Moms and dads should wear helmets as well.
Teach children to walk, not run, across the street.
Children should cross only with an adult or an older, responsible child.
Whenever crossing the street, try to make eye contact with any drivers nearby, to be sure they see you.
Teach children to avoid running out from between parked cars.
Always hold your child's hand near any moving or parked vehicles.
Adults always need to set a good example!
Adult supervision is of paramount importance. Parents need to focus on their children 100% of the time. No distractions!
Practice "touch supervision" (a term used by the American Academy of Pediatrics). This means that at all times, the supervising adult is within an arm's length of the child being watched, when near or in the water.
Keep in mind that children can drown in many different water sources including: bathtubs, toilets, buckets, baby pools, backyard swimming pools, community pools, streams, creeks, lakes, rivers, oceans and other places.
BE SAFE AND HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!


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I received notice of Coca Cola's free opportunity for education credits, required to maintain my state license and professional credentials, from a few colleagues. We got into quite a lively discussion in the office about the mix of industry and health information but most of all the hot button topic at hand, sugar.
Sugar has certainly been demonized in the media lately and many of my patients are actively working to drastically limit their intake and report feeling fearful of consuming any at all. But sweetness from sugar or honey has been in existence in the human diet for thousands years. So why all the fuss now?
Research shows that high intakes of added sugars commonly found in packaged, processed foods and beverages are attributed to a wide variety of health problems including diabetes, cancer and obesity. Added sugars act differently in the body from sugars found naturally in unprocessed fruits, vegetables and whole grains. For example, one study looking at sugar intake and cancer risk found that consuming fresh fruit and applesauce did not contribute to the observed increased risk in the study participants.
On the other hand, excessive consumption of sweetened beverages tops most scientists, medical professionals and even government officials lists as the #1 offender for obesity and other major health problems, especially in children. New York City just instituted a law banning the sale of any soda over 16 oz (500 mL) including energy drinks and iced teas. Commercial juices, diet sodas, dairy drinks and alcoholic beverages are not included in this ban. Larger sized drinks can be still be purchased in grocery and convenience stores.
Is it all or nothing? The prevalence of sweet taste from sugars and artificial sweeteners in our day to day diet is at an all time high. The amount of sugar added to many beverages and foods is also greater then in the past. This combination of expecting sweet flavors in just about all of our foods and fluids plus needing large amounts of substances that are often highly processed, to get the desired taste, could be the biggest concern in the sugar debate. There's still room to have a sweet treat once in a while, but being smart about what it's made from and what you eat it with might make all the difference.
Can we learn about credible, evidence-based science from a company that sells the products in question? The Coca Cola Beverage Institute uses well credentialed experts to lead their seminars and present a wide variety of health and wellness topics including exercise and mindful eating. There are also many others out there like the Gatorade Sports Science Institute that publish and host evidence-based articles and online opportunities for continuing education credits. But it's easy to see how learning about the benefits of sugar from one of the largest sellers of sugar containing products brings up a big red flag. I won't be signing up for this free webinar! And luckily, my younger sister and I weren't tempted to start smoking after visiting Phillip Morris either.


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Value-oriented Design in an Object-oriented System - Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente - CppCon 2021
https://cppcon.org/ https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2020 --- In this talk, we will present a new open-source library of cursors. Cursors are inspired by functional lenses and reactive streams to provide composable and modular facades to "single atom" value storages. We will see how this can be used to navigate the tension between object-oriented and value-oriented design, and build an example interactive application using Qt and QML against a value-based data-model.
Value-oriented design reconciles functional and procedural programming by focusing on value semantics. Like functional programming, it promotes local reasoning and composition — it is, however, pragmatic and can be implemented in idiomatic C++. In previous talks, the speaker has discussed how immutable data-structures help use value semantics at scale, and how the Unidirectional Data-flow Architecture (Redux, Elm) provide a solid foundation for designing interactive software based on values and functions.
However, we rarely have the luxury of starting from scratch. We are often embedded in legacy codebases with Frankensteinian designs crystalized over decades of multi-paradigm evolution. Also, it's hard to build serious interactive software without frameworks like Qt or Juce that, with all its power, also impose a Javaish object-oriented approach at the boundaries of our system. In this talk we will learn how novel abstractions and design methodologies can help modernize real world code-bases, incrementally migrating them to a value-oriented design.
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Q: How to convert 24 hr format time in to 12 hr Format? In my application i want to convert the given CDT formatted 24 hr string in to CDT formatted 12 hr string, How to convert a given 24 hr format string in to 12 hr format string??

A: Here is the code to convert 24-Hour time to 12-Hour with AM and PM.
Note:- If you don't want AM/PM then just replace hh:mm a with hh:mm.
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main {
   public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception {
       try {
           String _24HourTime = "22:15";
           SimpleDateFormat _24HourSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
           SimpleDateFormat _12HourSDF = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");
           Date _24HourDt = _24HourSDF.parse(_24HourTime);
           System.out.println(_24HourDt);
           System.out.println(_12HourSDF.format(_24HourDt));
       } catch (Exception e) {
           e.printStackTrace();
       }
   }
}

//OUTPUT WOULD BE
//Thu Jan 01 22:15:00 IST 1970
//10:15 PM

Another Solution:
System.out.println(hr%12 + ":" + min + " " + ((hr>=12) ? "PM" : "AM"));

A: you can try using a SimpleDateFormat object to convert the time formats.
final String time = "23:15";

try {
    final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("H:mm");
    final Date dateObj = sdf.parse(time);
    System.out.println(dateObj);
    System.out.println(new SimpleDateFormat("K:mm").format(dateObj));
} catch (final ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

here is the javadoc link for SimpleDateFromat.

A: For someone with lower api version,
work well with 12:00 AM or PM and min < 10
  String time =  ((hourOfDay > 12) ? hourOfDay % 12 : hourOfDay) + ":" + (minute < 10 ? ("0" + minute) : minute) + " " + ((hourOfDay >= 12) ? "PM" : "AM")

output eg. 0:0 AM 12:00 PM 9:09 AM
thanks to @Lalit Jawale answer above

A: In case you are curious about the difference between K, k and H, h:
H   Hour in day (0-23)      Number  0   1+
k   Hour in day (1-24)      Number  24  1+
K   Hour in am/pm (0-11)    Number  0   1+
h   Hour in am/pm (1-12)    Number  12  1+

A: // time is your string value i.e., 24 hour time

    try {
    final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
                final Date dateObj = sdf.parse(time);
                time = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm aa").format(dateObj);
            } catch (final ParseException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

SimpleDateFormat with (K:mm) works fine, but won't work properly with time 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM
You can use the above code to convert 12 hour format from 24 hour format along with AM/PM... It works

A: I don't like using classes like SimpleDateFormat if it's not necessary. You just have to check three conditions. Here are some alternatives:
Simple:
if(hour>11) {
    suffix = "PM";
    if(hour>12)
        hour -= 12;
} else {
    suffix = "AM";
    if(hour==0)
        hour = 12;
}

Short:
suffix = (hour>11) ? "PM" : "AM";
hour = (hour>12) ? hour-=12 : ((hour==0) ? 12 : hour);

Result:
00:00 = 12:00 AM, 01:00 = 01:00 AM, 02:00 = 02:00 AM, 03:00 = 03:00 AM, 04:00 = 04:00 AM, 05:00 = 05:00 AM, 06:00 = 06:00 AM, 07:00 = 07:00 AM, 08:00 = 08:00 AM, 09:00 = 09:00 AM, 10:00 = 10:00 AM, 11:00 = 11:00 AM, 12:00 = 12:00 PM, 13:00 = 01:00 PM, 14:00 = 02:00 PM, 15:00 = 03:00 PM, 16:00 = 04:00 PM, 17:00 = 05:00 PM, 18:00 = 06:00 PM, 19:00 = 07:00 PM, 20:00 = 08:00 PM, 21:00 = 09:00 PM, 22:00 = 10:00 PM, 23:00 = 11:00 PM

A: in a clean way you can do this:
fun convertTo12Hours(militaryTime: String): String{
        //in => "14:00:00"
        //out => "02:00 PM"
        val inputFormat = SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss", Locale.getDefault())
        val outputFormat = SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm aa", Locale.getDefault())
        val date = inputFormat.parse(militaryTime)
        return outputFormat.format(date)
    }

A: In Java 8 it could be done in one line using class java.time.LocalTime.
Code example:
String result = LocalTime.parse(time, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("HH:mm")).format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("hh:mm a"));

For earlier Android, use the ThreeTen-Backport project, adapted for Android in the ThreeTenABP project. See How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project.

A: int n=2;
int result= n-12;

if (result>o) {
    system.out.println(result+"pm");
} else {
    system.out.prinln(result+"am");
}

You can use Scanner if you want take input from user Hope this is simple
12 for time :)

A: Follow below code:
Make common method and call from where you need:
COMMON METHOD TO CHANGE TIME:
  public static String parseTime(String date, String inFormat, String outFormat) {
        try {
            Date date1 = new SimpleDateFormat(inFormat, Locale.getDefault()).parse(date);
            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(outFormat, Locale.getDefault());
            return dateFormat.format(date1);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

CONSTANT METHOD:
public static final String SERVER_TIME_RESOURCES_FORMAT = "HH:mm:ss";
    public static final String SERVER_TIME_FORMAT = "HH:mm:ss.SSS";

CALL FROM WHER U NEED:
CommonMethods.parseTime(//your date, Constants.SERVER_TIME_RESOURCES_FORMAT, Constants.LOCAL_TIME_FORMAT);

A: Here I use simple maths.
12Hours = 1 + currentHours(24Hours)-13.
For AM & PM use simple ifelse condition, like if currentHours(24Hours) is <= 12 then set 'AM' or set 'PM'
Here AMPM & Time is String varriable.
CurHour is int.
LocalDateTime LDT = LocalDateTime.now();
        CurHour = LDT.getHour();
        if(CurHour <=12) {
            AMPM = "AM";
        }else {
            AMPM = "PM";
        }
        Hours = 1+CurHour-13;
        Time = Hours+":"+LDT.getMinute()+":"+LDT.getSecond()+" "+AMPM;

A: Here's my solution:
/*
* hour in 24Format -> AM/PM Format
*/
public String format(int hour, int minutes ){

   String meridiem = hour > 11 ? "PM" : "AM";

   // trim "0-23 hour" to "0-11 hour", then replace "0" with "12"
   hour = (hour %= 12) == 0 ? 12 : hour;

   // Apply desired format "HH:MM AM/PM"
   return String.format("%02d:%02d %s", hour, minutes, meridiem );
}

A: public static void convert24HourTimeInto12Hour() {
try {
    String[] dateTime = getCurrentDateAndTime("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").split(" ");
    System.out.println("datePart::: "+dateTime[0]);
    System.out.println("timePart::: "+dateTime[1]);

    SimpleDateFormat 24HoursFormat = new SimpleDateFormat
    SimpleDateFormat 12HoursFormat = new SimpleDateFormat
    Date 24Hours = 24HoursFormat.parse(dateTime[1]);
    System.out.println(24Hours);
    System.out.println(12HoursFormat.format(24Hours));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

A: For converting any Date date to 12 hour format with AM and PM you can use
new SimpleDateFormat("dd MMM yyyy KK:mm:ss a").format(date)

Here KK signifies 00-12 and a signifies AM and PM

A: This is what I have used, it converts 00:10 am to 12:00 am and the remaining also works fine.
int hourOfDay=Integer.parseInt(form24hrs);//parsing 24 hours format string value of hour to int

int minute=Integer.parseInt(form24min);//parsing 24 hours format string value of minute to int

String time =  ((hourOfDay > 12) ? hourOfDay % 12 : ((hourOfDay==0)?"12":hourOfDay)) + ":" + (minute < 10 ? ("0" + minute) : minute) + " " + ((hourOfDay >= 12) ? "pm" : "am");

A: Kotlin version of @xianwei 's answer
  val hourOfDay = timePicker.hour
  val minute = timePicker.minute
  val finalHour = (if (hourOfDay > 12) hourOfDay % 12 else hourOfDay).toString()
  val finalMinute = if (minute < 10) "0$minute" else minute.toString()
  val finalMeridian = if (hourOfDay > 12) "PM" else "AM"
  val time = "$finalHour:$finalMinute $finalMeridian"

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3% Say Ivy League Produces Better Workers
79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. 18% are undecided.
James Joyner · Monday, March 14, 2011 · 9 comments
Rasmussen has released one of the dumbest polls ever.
Ronald Reagan was the last president we had who didn't graduate from an Ivy League school like Harvard or Yale, and the highest levels of government for much of the nation's history have been filled with Ivy League grads. But that doesn't seem to influence the thinking of most American Adults.
In fact, only three percent (3%) say individuals who go to Ivy League schools are better workers than those who go to other schools.
Isn't this a non sequitur? What does getting elected president have to do with being a good worker?
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Adults across nearly every demographic agree that an Ivy League education does not necessarily make someone a better worker.
Does the Ivy League purport to make someone a better worker? What does that even mean? And what percentage of Americans have any basis for making the assessment, anyway? The vast majority of people, I'd wager, have never worked with someone with an Ivy League degree.
But only 28% of Americans believe that people who work harder generally make more money than others anyway. Most adults (58%) disagree, while 14% are undecided.
Men are twice as likely as women to think hard workers get paid more, and men under the age of 40 believe it more than their elders. But most Americans across all demographic categories say those who work harder do not generally get paid more than others.
Hard work is generally necessary to make a good living but it's hardly the only factor–or even the most important. But the age and gender disparities on the question are interesting.
Most American Adults think how much money an individual is paid should depend more on what they get done on the job rather than their educational background or how long they've worked for a company.
Aside from schoolteachers and unionized labor, few people get paid based on education or seniority. Credentials are important in getting hired and promoted but they have little bearing one on the job.
In March of last year, an overwhelming majority of Americans (81%) said that people learn more practical skills through life experiences and work after college rather than in college.
I've got a PhD and could have told you that before starting grad school. College is only tangentially about teaching practical skills; it's about preparing the mind for a life of learning.
In December, just 30% of Americans said it is possible for anyone in America to work hard and get rich.
Most people lack the talent and desire required to earn massive amounts of money. And it's very, very difficult indeed to get truly rich working for someone else.
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Dave Schuler says:
I had no idea that 3% of the population had attended Ivy League schools.
matt b says:
Not to be snarky, but explain to me why the general population is qualified to speak on whether an Ivy League educated person is a harder worker…
Besides, everyone knows that the real hard workers graduate from the University of Chicago.
(btw… based on the students I've observed at Ivy Leagues and non-Ivy schools, there isn't that much of a different… well, with the exception of the U of C).
You forgot government workers, well federal workers, a lot of their pay is based on the pieces of paper they hold. If the job requires a degree, the Bachelors starts as on level of GS, a Masters at a higher one. Sadly for the Ph.Ds, a doctorate on matters some of the time in the formal announcement.
And it's very, very difficult indeed to get truly rich working for someone else.
So true but the bureaucrats in general but when back by Democrats in particular make it as hard as possible for someone to open and run their own operation. Plus, if you start making real money the Progressives figure it belongs to them and try to take it.
The worst part is that by working for yourself, you are unlikely to become a union member being you're the boss. But never fear a few years ago, the GAO did a report on collective bargaining rights finding 76 % of workers had them. Those still left out include, Independent Contractors, undocumented alien workers (not denied per se but cannot sue for back pay) and supervisors and managers.
You forgot government workers, well federal workers, a lot of their pay is based on the pieces of paper they hold.
Not to recycle Steven's thread, but instead of Government works you should have written bureaucratic workers. Having worked 8 years in a corporate bureaucracy and spent the last eigth years or so in various academic bureaucracies, the same rules held there as well.
So for example, while at a major US corporation (at least it was then) my forward progress was going to be severely limited by the lack of an MBA (as were a number of rather brilliant lifers). Beyond degrees needed for specialized jobs (try getting a research gig without a terminal degree), once you passed a certain level, then it wasn't just an MBA, but one from one of subset of programs.
One of the reasons I didn't choose an MBA path was that the entire MBA racket is largely set up so you need to take the best paying job possible (regardless of your interest in the company) to help you start paying off a costly degree.
And the same, of course, is true in higher ed. Even administrators are expected to have their papers (hence the rise of BS degrees like "Higher Ed Administration").
So what you are suggesting really isn't in any way restricted to the government.
The worst part is that by working for yourself, you are unlikely to become a union member being you're the boss.
BTW, this makes absolutely no sense…
How Important is a College Education Today? « The Greenroom says:
[…] institutions? Rasmussen has released some interesting results of what James Joyner called "one of the dumbest polls ever." Ronald Reagan was the last president we had who didn't graduate from an Ivy League school […]
@JKB
"But never fear a few years ago, the GAO did a report on collective bargaining rights finding 76 % of workers had them. "
Got a cite for that?
In 2010, the union membership rate–the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union–was 11.9 percent, down from 12.3 percent a year earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions declined by 612,000 to 14.7 million. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent, and there were 17.7 million union workers. [Bureau of Labor Statistics, Union Members Summary]
I said, had collective bargaining rights not that they were unionized.
We estimate that about three-quarters of the civilian workforce—or about
103 million of the approximate 135 million people in the labor force as of
February 2001—had some form of collective bargaining rights from
federal, state, or local statutes. Among the 115 million private sector
workers, about 78 percent had bargaining rights, mostly from coverage
under the NLRA.
In general, coverage in the private sector was higher than that in the public
sector, where about 66 percent of 20 million government workers had
some form of collective bargaining rights, most often under state or local
statutes. GAO report
That report is from 2001, but, passing this over, I think we would be misreading it if we understand "have collective bargaining rights" to mean "exercises collective bargaining rights." My reading of that document is that the three-quarters of the civilian workforce mentioned are covered by various federal, state, and local laws that grants them CBRs. However, having a right does not mean exercising a right.
Perhaps any misunderstanding is mine. Did you mean to say that those folks having collective bargaining rights have the right to form a union and exercise those rights (as my first comment implied) — or that they, in fact, exercise those rights absent a union?
Actually, I just found it amusing that there was concern that Independent Contractors didn't have the right to form a union. Same with illegal workers. Same with the Supervisory and Management types.
Some how to me, collective bargaining flies in the face of being independent.
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At the beginning of December, Jewish Telegraphic Agency journalist Sam Sokol traded WhatsApp messages with President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, about one of the ex-mayor's favorite targets—the Jewish billionaire George Soros. Sokol's subsequent piece about this back-and-forth messaging reprises many of Giuliani's previous charges against Soros. However, in bringing together a number of Giuliani's accusations against Soros, the story reveals how certain language about Jews and Judaism has become dangerously mainstream over the last four years.
Giuliani seems fixated on Soros's religion, questioning his Judaism as he has done on other occasions and stating that Soros is "[h]ardly a Jew." He has asked whether, as a self-professed atheist, Soros could be considered Jewish. And earlier in 2020, Giuliani claimed, "I probably know more about—he doesn't go to church, he doesn't go to religion—synagogue." It's stunning that after eight years as mayor of a city with the largest Jewish population in the world, Giuliani has such a limited understanding of how Jews identify as Jewish both from a rabbinic and cultural/ethnic perspective.
More disturbing is the mayor's proclivity to cast Soros as the embodiment of a host of evils and describe him as the Antichrist. The idea that the Antichrist would be a Jew is an anti-Semitic trope that dates back to early Christian history.
According to Sokol, Giuliani also alludes to the thoroughly discredited charge that, as a 13-year-old boy, Soros collaborated with the Nazis. It is ironic that Giuliani, who considers himself a great supporter of Israel, appears to suggest a Nazi connection to the Jewish Soros because, in recent years, Israel's most intractable enemies similarly attack the Jewish state for its alleged Nazi-like policies.
In Giuliani's worldview, all manners of conspiracies lead back to the puppet master Soros pulling the strings that cause harm to humanity. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the puppet masters of conspiracies were members of the prominent Jewish Rothschild family. Today Giuliani accuses Soros of masterminding the election of eight "anarchist" district attorneys in the United States. In the lead-up to President Trump's impeachment, he charged that Soros controlled the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, as well as other U.S. Ambassadors and FBI agents. This charge was leveled as part of a theory that it was Soros, acting to help Hillary Clinton, not Russia, who meddled in the 2016 election.
The President's personal attorney also sees a wide-ranging plot to steal the 2020 election from President Trump. According to Giuliani, the election technology company Smartmatic is central to the conspiracy to deny the President re-election, and behind Smartmatic is George Soros. Needless to say, these charges have been thoroughly debunked.
There is absolutely no reason to believe that Rudy Giuliani hates Jews or the Jewish people. Yet having Jewish friends and defending the Israeli government does not give anyone license to spin false and reckless conspiracy theories about a well-known Jewish billionaire. These are the exact same kind of charges that budding autocrats such as Orban of Hungary and Erdogan of Turkey have used against Soros in an attempt to take advantage of anti-Semitic sentiments among their domestic constituencies. These are also the sort of conspiracy theories that have motivated the killers of Jews in Poway and Pittsburgh—the same type of conspiracy theories that have plagued Jews for millennia.
Wittingly or unwittingly, Giuliani's attacks on Soros play into dangerous narratives about Jews. The increasing use by political leaders of tropes about prominent Jews is one of the more disturbing developments associated with today's era of rising anti-Semitism.
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"Don't Call Me Refugee!" – The Role of Social Identity in the Adoption of Refugee-Specific Mobile Applications
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In 2015, about 890,000 refugees arrived in Germany and an increasing number of mobile applications have been specifically developed to socially include newcomers by informing them about bureaucracy, customs, and language of the host country. Though such applications may be functional in terms of the potential value they deliver to refugees, they may also contribute to unexpected and overlooked forms of further exclusion because the very label "refugee" is associated with an excluded and disempowered population. In this paper, we draw on social identity theory to provide indications that applications specifically developed for refugees can trigger an identity threat and may lead to associations with stereotypical and undesirable aspects of one's identity. We propose a research design to compare the intention to use of two versions of a mobile language-learning application, a refugee-specific version in the identity threat condition and a neutral version in the control condition.


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In the Roman Liturgy of today Lauds designates an office composed of psalms and canticles, usually recited after Matins.
The term lauds and the hour of the office
The word Lauds (i.e. praises) explains the particular character of this office, the end of which is to praise God. All the Canonical Hours have, of course, the same object, but Lauds may be said to have this characteristic par excellence. The name is certainly derived from the three last psalms in the office (148, 149, 150), in all of which the word laudate is repeated frequently, and to such an extent that originally the word Lauds designated not, as it does nowadays, the whole office, but only the end, that is to say, these three psalms with the conclusion. The title Ainoi (praises) has been retained in Greek. St. Benedict also employs this term to designate the last three psalms; post haec [viz, the canticle] sequantur Laudes (Regula, cap. xiii). In the fifth and sixth centuries the Office of the Lauds was called Matutinum, which has now become the special name of another office, the Night Office or Vigils, a term no longer used (see MATINS). Little by little the title Lauds was applied to the whole office, and supplanted the name of Matins. In the ancient authors, however, from the fourth to the sixth or seventh century, the names Matutinum, Laudes matutinae, or Matutini hymni, are used to designate the office of daybreak or dawn, the Office of Matins retaining its name of Vigils. The reason of this confusion of names is, perhaps, that originally Matins and Lauds formed but a single office, the Night Office terminating only at dawn.
In the liturgy, the word Lauds has two other meanings: It sometimes signifies the alleluia of the Mass; thus a Council of Toledo (IV Council, c. xii) formally pronounced: "Lauds are sung after the Epistle and before the Gospel" (for this interpretation compare Mabillon, "De Liturgia gall.", I, iv). St. Isidore says: "Laudes, hoc est, Alleluia, canere" (De div. offic., xiii). The word Lauds also designates the public acclamations which were sung or shouted at the accession of princes, a custom which was for a long time observed in the Christian Church on certain occasions.
The office in various liturgies
In the actual Roman Liturgy, Lauds are composed of four psalms with antiphons (in reality there are usually seven, but, following the ordinary rules, psalms without the Gloria and antiphon are not counted separately), a Canticle, Capitulum, Hymn, Versicle, the Benedictus with Antiphon, Oratio, or Collect, and, on certain days, the Preces, or Prayers and Versicles. The psalms, unlike those of Matins and Vespers, are not taken in the order of the Psalter, but are chosen in accordance with special rules without reference to their position in the Psalter. Thus the psalm "Miserere mei Deus" (Psalm 51) is said every day on which a feast does not occur. The psalms "Deus, Deus meus" (Ps. lxii) and "Deus misereatur nostri et benedicat nobis" (Ps. lxii) and "Deus misereatur nostri et benedicat nobis" (Ps. lxvi), and finally the last three psalms, "Laudate Dominum de coelis", "Cantate Domino canticum novum", and "Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus" (Pss. cxlviii-cl), are recited every day without exception. As we have remarked, it is from these last that this office derives its name. It will be noticed that, in general, the other psalms used at Lauds have also been chosen for special reasons, because one or other of their verses contains an allusion either to the break of day, or to the Resurrection of Christ, or to the prayer of the morning which, as we shall presently point out, are the raison d'être of this office. Such are the verses; "Deus Deus meus ad te de luce vigilo"; "Deus misereatur nostri. . .illuminet vultum suum super nos"; "mane astabo tibi et videbo"; "Emitte lucem tuum et veritatem tuam"; "Exitus matutinum et vespere delectabis"; "Mane sicut herba transeat, mane floreat et transeat"; "Ad annuntiandum mane misericordiam tuam", etc. Another characteristic of this office are the canticles which take place between the psalms lxii-lxvi and the last three psalms. This collection of seven canticles from the Old Testament (Canticle "Benedicite", Canticle of Isaias, Canticle of Ezechias, Canticle of Anne, the two Canticles of Moses, the Canticle of Habacuc) is celebrated, and is almost in agreement with that of the Eastern Church. St. Benedict borrowed it from the Roman Church and, having designed the plan of the Office of Lauds in accordance with that of the Church of Rome, prescribed a special canticle for each day: "Canticum unumquodque die suo ex prophetis, sicut psallit Ecclesia Romana, dicatur" (Reg., xiii).
To these canticles the Roman Liturgy adds, as the finale to this office, that of Zachary, "Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel", which is recited every day and which is also a canticle to the Light, viz. Christ: "Illuminare his qui in tenebris et in umbra mortis sedent". The hymns of Lauds, which in the Roman Church were only added later, also form an interesting collection; they generally celebrate the break of day, the Resurrection of Christ, and the spiritual light which He has made to shine on earth. They are very ancient compositions, and are probably anterior to Saint Benedict. In the Ambrosian Office, and also in the Mozarabic, Lauds retain a few of the principal elements of the Roman Lauds — the Benedictus, canticles from the Old Testament, and the psalms cxlviii, cxlix, cl, arranged, however, in a different order (cf. Dom G. Morin, op. cit. in bibliography). In the Benedictine Liturgy, the Office of Lauds resembles the Roman Lauds very closely, not only in its use of the canticles which St. Benedict admits, as we have already remarked, but also in its general construction. The Greek office corresponding to that of Lauds is the orthos, which also signifies "morning"; its composition is different, but it nevertheless retains a few elements of the Western Lauds — notably the canticles and the three psalms, cxlviii-cl, which in the Greek Liturgy bear the name Ainoi or Praises, corresponding to the Latin word Laudes (cf. "Dict. d'archeol. chret. et de lit.", s.v. Ainoi; "Horologion", Rome, 1876, p. 55).
Lauds in the early Christian ages and their origin
Lauds, or, to speak more precisely, the Morning Office or Office of Aurora corresponding to Lauds, is incontestably one of the most ancient offices and can be traced back to Apostolic times. In the sixth century St. Benedict gives us a very detailed description of them in his Rule (chap. xii and xiii): the psalms (almost identical with those of the Roman Liturgy), the canticle, the last three psalms, the capitulum, hymn, versicle, the canticle Benedictus, and the concluding part. St. Columbanus and the Irish documents give us only very vague information on the Office of Lauds (cf. "Regula S. Columbani", c. vii, "De cursu psalmorum" in P.L., LXXX, 212). An effort has been made to reconstruct it in accordance with the Antiphonary of Bangor, but this document, in our opinion, gives us but an extract, and not the complete office (cf. Cabrol in "Dict. d'archéol. et de lit.", s.v. Bangor, Antiphonaire de). St. Gregory of Tours also makes several allusions to this office, which he calls Matutini hymni; he give us, as its constitutive parts, psalm 1, the Benedicite, the three psalms, cxlviii-cl, and the versicles ("Hist. Francorum", II, vii, in P.L., LXXI, 201, 256, 1034 etc. Cf. Bäumer-Biron, "Hist. du brev. Rom.", I, 229-30). At an earlier period than that of the fifth and fourth centuries, we find various descriptions of the Morning Office in Cassian, in Melania the Younger, in the "Peregrinatio Ætheriae", St. John Chrysostom, St. Hilary, Eusebius (Bäumer-Biron, op. cit., I, 81, 114, 134, 140, 150-68, 208, 210).
Naturally, in proportion as we advance, greater varieties of the form of the Office are found in the different Christian provinces. The general features, however, remain the same; it is the office of the dawn (Aurora), the office of sunrise, the morning office, the morning praises, the office of cock-crow (Gallicinium, ad galli cantus), the office of the Resurrection of Christ. Nowhere better than at Jerusalem, in the "Peregrinatio Ætheriae", does this office, celebrated at the very tomb of Christ, preserve its local colour. The author calls it hymni matutinales; it is considered the principal office of the day. There the liturgy displays all its pomps; the bishop used to be present with all his clergy, the office being celebrated around the Grotto of the Holy Sepulchre itself; after the psalms and canticles had been sung, the litanies were chanted, and the bishop then blessed the people. (Cf. Dom Cabrol, "Etude sur la Peregrinatio Silviae, les Eglises de Jerusalem, la discipline et la liturgie au IVX siecle", Paris, 1895, pp. 39, 40. For the East cf. "De Virginitate", xx, in P G., XXVIII, 275.) Lastly, we again find the first traces of Lauds in the third, and even in the second, century in the Canons of Hippolytus, in St. Cyprian, and even in the Apostolic Fathers, so much so that Bäumer does not hesitate to assert that Lauds together with Vespers are the most ancient office, and owe their origin to the Apostles (Bäumer-Biron, op. cit., I, 58; cf. 56, 57, 64, 72 etc.).
Symbolism and reason of this office
It is easy to conclude from the preceding what were the motives which gave rise to this office, and what its signification is. For a Christian the first thought which should present itself to the mind in the morning, is the thought of God; the first act of his day should be a prayer. The first gleam of dawn recalls to our minds that Christ is the true Light, that He comes to dispel spiritual darkness, and to reign over the world. It was at dawn that Christ rose from the tomb, Conqueror of Death and of the Night. It is this thought of His Resurrection which gives to this office its whole signification. Lastly, this tranquil hour, before day has commenced, and man has again plunged into the torrent of cares, is the most favourable to contemplation and prayer. Liturgically, the elements of Lauds have been most harmoniously combined, and it has preserved its significance better than other Hours.
BONA, De Divinia Psalmodia, v. in Opp. Omnia (Antwerp, 1677), pp. 705 sqq.; Commentarius historicus in Romanum Breviarium (Venice, 1724), 102; PROBST, Brevier u. Breviergebet (Tübingen, 1868), p. 146, 173, 184, 188; IDEM, Lehre u. Gebet in den drei ersten Jahrh. (Tübingen, 1871); BAUMER, Hist. du breviaire, French tr. BIRON, I (Paris, 1905), 58, 164, etc.; BATIFROL, Hist. du brev. Romain (Paris, 1893), 22 sqq.; DUCHESNE, Christian Worship (London, 1904), 448-9; HOTHAM in Dict. Christ. Antiq., s.v. Office, The Divine; SCUDAMORE, ibid., s.v. Hours of Prayer; MORIN, Les Laudes du dimanche du IVX au VIIX siecle, in Revue Benedictine (1889), 301-4; BINGHAM, Works (Oxford, 1855), IV, 342, 548, etc. See Also BREVIARY; HOURS, CANONICAL; VIGILS, MATINS.
APA citation. Cabrol, F. (1910). Lauds. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09038a.htm
MLA citation. Cabrol, Fernand. "Lauds." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09038a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Thomas M. Barrett. Dedicatd to the monks of Mt. Angel (Oregon) abbey.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.


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