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2018 NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR AWARDS RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
2018 NSW Australian of the Year – Professor Michelle Yvonne Simmons
2018 NSW Senior Australian of the Year – Dr Catherine Hamlin AC
2018 NSW Young Australian of the Year – Macinley Butson
2018 NSW Local Hero – Eddie Woo
The 2018 New South Wales Australian of the Year Award recipients have been announced and presented with trophies this evening at a ceremony at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
The NSW Award recipients will join a cohort of 32 State and Territory recipients from around the country. These recipients will represent their state at the national Awards on 25 January 2018 in Canberra, where the four Australians of the Year will be announced.
The 2018 NSW Australian of the Year is quantum physics Professor Michelle Yvonne Simmons.
One of the world's top scientists, Professor Michelle Simmons has pioneered research that could lead to a quantum leap in computing. Since arriving in Australia from Britain 18 years ago, Michelle has transformed the University of NSW Quantum Physics Department into a world leader in advanced computer systems. In 2012, Michelle and her team created the world's first transistor made from a single atom, along with the world's thinnest wire. At the forefront of what she calls the "space race of the computing era", Michelle aims to build a quantum computer able to solve problems in minutes that would otherwise take thousands of years. Such a discovery has the potential to revolutionise drug design, weather forecasting, self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence and more. An evangelist for Australian scientific research and a role model to young scientists everywhere, Michelle actively encourages all students – girls and boys – to dream big, challenge themselves and to achieve ambitious goals in science.
The 2018 NSW Senior Australian of the Year is 93 year old pioneering surgeon Dr Catherine Hamlin AC. For more than 50 years, obstetrician Dr Catherine Hamlin has devoted herself to giving women in Africa a second chance at life. A surgical pioneer, Catherine and her late husband Dr Reginald Hamlin founded a network of six hospitals and a midwifery college in Ethiopia. The hospitals provide free fistula repair surgery to poor women suffering from horrendous and preventable childbirth injuries. The midwifery college trains midwives to prevent the injuries. When Catherine arrived in Ethiopia in 1959, there were almost no resources for expectant mothers. Since then she has treated more than 50,000 women, restoring their health and dignity. Catherine's organisation is a global centre of expertise in fistula repair and she trains surgeons from around the world. Through her foundation, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia, Catherine is tackling a new fistula frontier, Uganda. Now 93, Catherine remains active in her day-to-day work at the hospital, healing women through surgery, rehabilitation and counselling, so they can be whole again.
The 2018 NSW Young Australian of the Year is 17 year old scientist and inventor Macinley Butson.
A rising star in the male-dominated world of science, Macinley Butson made history in 2017 when she became the first Australian to win the top prize in the category of medicine at the prestigious INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair. Each year, more than seven million high school students develop original research projects for the world's largest international science competition. Macinley's world-beating idea, 'Smart Armour', is a shield that can be used by breast cancer patients to protect their non-treated breast while undergoing radiotherapy treatment. A prolific inventor, 17-year-old Macinley has also taken home science awards for other exceptional ideas, such as a system that simultaneously collects solar power and filters water, a spoon that accurately measures and delivers oral medicine to children, and a device that deters garden snails without the use of poison. While empowering young people to embrace science, Macinley also demonstrates the power of giving back to the community as a national youth ambassador for environmental organisation, Green Cross Australia.
The 2018 NSW Local Hero is mathematics teacher Eddie Woo. Arguably Australia's most famous mathematics teacher, Eddie Woo makes maths fun. The head mathematics teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School, the largest secondary school in New South Wales, Eddie started posting videos online in 2012 for a student who was sick with cancer and missing a lot of school. Before long, he was sharing the videos across the country and beyond. Wootube now boasts more than 80,000 subscribers and has attracted more than six million views worldwide and counting. With infectious enthusiasm, the father-of-three's unique and caring approach to teaching destigmatises mathematics as an inaccessible and difficult subject. Outside his high school classroom, Eddie is a volunteer facilitator with the University of Sydney's Widening Participation and Outreach program and has motivated more than 1,400 students from disadvantaged backgrounds. A brilliant student, Eddie could have chosen any field, but in defiance of social convention and his parents opted for teaching. Today, he is using his vocation to "pay it forward" and make education equitable for all.
NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, said the Australian of the Year Awards celebrate the selfless contributions and wonderful achievements of Australians.
"The NSW Australians of the Year contribute so much to our community. Their dedication to the issues that affect our State and our nation ignites discussion, raises awareness and improves our lives," said Ms Berejiklian.
"Leading by example, they inspire all of us to make a difference in our communities. On behalf of the people of NSW I thank them for their contribution to NSW and wish everyone the very best of luck for the national announcement."
National Australia Day Council CEO, Ms Jenny Barbour, said the NSW Award recipients are examples of how individuals can have big impacts.
"The Australian of the Year Awards allow us to recognise and celebrate the achievements of outstanding Australians – people making extraordinary contributions to our society," said Ms Barbour.
"The stories of the NSW Award recipients show us the power of an individual and how one person can make a big difference – from education to medicine to scientific breakthroughs, they are all making an impact."
Commonwealth Bank has proudly sponsored the Australian of the Year Awards for over 30 years. Chief Executive Officer, Ian Narev, said it was an honour to acknowledge the NSW Award recipients.
"We would like to congratulate Professor Michelle Simmons, Dr Catherine Hamlin, Macinely Butson and Eddie Woo on becoming State and Territory recipients in the Australian of the Year Awards," said Mr Narev.
"All recipients should feel extremely proud of their achievements. We wish them all the very best in the national Awards on 25 January."
For more information on the 2018 Australian of the Year Awards recipients visit the Honour Roll.
More information on State and Territory selection panel members can be found here.
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Q: Curl in c++ on mac OSX with https causing segmentation fault via valgrind I try to send via curl request from c++ on my macOS (for example on linux works everything fine). But when I run the program via valgrind and then try to send request over curl then the program fails with a segmentation fault. Even on code from here https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/https.html and I also try the curl command from terminal with valgrind and even then it failed but it must be https. I tried the curl with openssl and darwinssl but without success.
My os is macOS high sierra.
The output from valgrind:
valgrind ./demo

==78893== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==78893== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==78893== Using Valgrind-3.14.0.GIT and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==78893== Command: ./demo
==78893==
--78893-- run: /usr/bin/dsymutil "./demo" warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64)
--78893-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option
--78893-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 2 times)
--78893-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 4 times)
--78893-- UNKNOWN mach_msg unhandled MACH_SEND_TRAILER option (repeated 8 times)
==78893== Thread 2:
==78893== Invalid read of size 4
==78893==    at 0x100AB45BA: _pthread_body (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib)
==78893==    by 0x100AB450C: _pthread_start (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib)
==78893==    by 0x100AB3BF8: thread_start (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib)
==78893==  Address 0x18 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==78893==
==78893==
==78893== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
==78893==  Access not within mapped region at address 0x18
==78893==    at 0x100AB45BA: _pthread_body (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib)
==78893==    by 0x100AB450C: _pthread_start (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib)
==78893==    by 0x100AB3BF8: thread_start (in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib)
==78893==  If you believe this happened as a result of a stack
==78893==  overflow in your program's main thread (unlikely but
==78893==  possible), you can try to increase the size of the
==78893==  main thread stack using the --main-stacksize= flag.
==78893==  The main thread stack size used in this run was 8388608.
==78893==
==78893== HEAP SUMMARY:
==78893==     in use at exit: 840,095 bytes in 3,760 blocks
==78893==   total heap usage: 4,784 allocs, 1,024 frees, 1,520,703 bytes allocated
==78893==
==78893== LEAK SUMMARY:
==78893==    definitely lost: 5,792 bytes in 78 blocks
==78893==    indirectly lost: 416 bytes in 12 blocks
==78893==      possibly lost: 4,648 bytes in 111 blocks
==78893==    still reachable: 208,644 bytes in 3,290 blocks
==78893==         suppressed: 620,595 bytes in 269 blocks
==78893== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==78893==
==78893== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==78893== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 25 from 4) Segmentation fault: 11

Also you can try write to command line: "valgrind curl https://example.com"
It causing same exception.

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Sultan of the Seljuq Empire
Shahanshah
Miniature from the Majma al-Tawarikh by Hafiz Abru; which depicts accession to the throne by Alp Arslan
Sultan of the Great Seljuk Empire
4 September 1063 - 15 December 1072
Tughril
Malik-Shah I
15 December 1072(1072-12-15) (aged 42)
Barzam Fortress, near Amu Darya, Khwarezm
Aka, daughter of Yusuf Qadir-Khan
Safariyya Khatun
Muizz ad-Din Malik-Shah I
Taj ad-Dawlah Tutush I
Izz ad-Din Arslan-Argun
Bori-Bars
Toghrul
Toghan-Shah
Arslan-Shah
Tekish
Aisha Khatun
Zuleikha Khatun
House of Seljuk
Chaghri Beg
Alp Arslan (honorific in Turkish meaning "Heroic Lion"; in Persian: ; full name: Diy? ad-Duny? wa ad-D?n Adud ad-Dawlah Abu Shuj?' Muhammad ?lp ?rslan ibn Daw?d ? ? ? ? ?; 20 January 1029 - 15 December 1072), real name Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri, was the second Sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty. As Sultan, Alp Arslan greatly expanded Seljuk territory and consolidated power, defeating rivals to his south and northwest. His victory over the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 ushered in the Turkoman settlement of Anatolia.[1] For his military prowess and fighting skills he obtained the name Alp Arslan, which means "Heroic Lion" in Turkish.
Alp Arslan was the son of Chaghri and nephew of Tughril, the founding sultans of the Seljuk empire. His grandfather was Mikail, who in turn was the son of the warlord Seljuk. He was the father of numerous children, including Malik-Shah I and Tutush I.[2] It is unclear who the mother or mothers of his children were. Arslan was known to be married at least twice. His wives included the widow of his uncle Tughril, a Kara-Khanid princess known as Aka Khatun, and the daughter or niece of Bagrat IV of Georgia (who would later marry his vizier Nizam al-Mulk).[3] One of Seljuk's other son's was the Turkic chieftain Arslan Isma'il, whose son Kutalmish contested his nephew's succession to the sultanate. Alp Arslan's younger brothers Suleiman ibn Chaghri and Qavurt were his rivals for the sultanate. Suleiman ibn Kutalmish would later become Seljuk sultan of Rûm. The son of Suleiman was his successor Kilij Arslan, a major opponent of the Franks during the First Crusade and the Crusade of 1101.[4]
Coin minted in the name of Alp Arslan with the title Shahanshah.
A miniature depicting Alp Arslan, located in Topkap? Palace Museum (TSMK).
Alp Arslan accompanied his uncle Tughril on campaigns in the south against the Fatimids while his father Chaghri remained in Khorasan. Upon Alp Arslan's return to Khorasan, he began his work in administration at his father's suggestion. While there, his father introduced him to Nizam al-Mulk, one of the most eminent statesmen in early Muslim history and Alp Arslan's future vizier.[5]
After the death of his father, Alp Arslan succeeded him as governor of Khorasan in 1059. His uncle Tughril died in 1063 and had designated his successor as Suleiman, Arslan's infant brother. Arslan and his uncle Kutalmish both contested this succession which was resolved at the battle of Damghan in 1063. Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the throne and succeeded on 27 April 1064 as sultan of the Seljuk Empire, thus becoming sole monarch of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.
In consolidating his empire and subduing contending factions, Arslan was ably assisted by Nizam al-Mulk, and the two are credited with helping to stabilize the empire after the death of Tughril. With peace and security established in his dominions, Arslan convoked an assembly of the states and in 1066, he declared his son Malik Shah I his heir and successor.[6] With the hope of capturing Caesarea Mazaca, the capital of Cappadocia, he placed himself at the head of the Turkoman"[7] cavalry, crossed the Euphrates, and entered and invaded the city. Along with Nizam al-Mulk, he then marched into Armenia and Georgia, which he conquered in 1064.[8] After a siege of 25 days, the Seljuks captured Ani, the capital city of Armenia.[9] An account of the sack and massacres in Ani is given by the historian Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, who quotes an eyewitness saying:
Putting the Persian sword to work, they spared no one... One could see there the grief and calamity of every age of human kind. For children were ravished from the embraces of their mothers and mercilessly hurled against rocks, while the mothers drenched them with tears and blood... The city became filled from one end to the other with bodies of the slain and [the bodies of the slain] became a road. [...] The army entered the city, massacred its inhabitants, pillaged and burned it, leaving it in ruins and taking prisoner all those who remained alive...The dead bodies were so many that they blocked the streets; one could not go anywhere without stepping over them. And the number of prisoners was not less than 50,000 souls. I was determined to enter city and see the destruction with my own eyes. I tried to find a street in which I would not have to walk over the corpses; but that was impossible.[10]
Byzantine struggle
A diorama of aftermath of the Battle of Manzikert (Istanbul Military Museum).
En route to fight the Fatimids in Syria in 1068, Alp Arslan invaded the Byzantine Empire. The Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes, assuming command in person, met the invaders in Cilicia. In three arduous campaigns, the Turks were defeated in detail and driven across the Euphrates in 1070. The first two campaigns were conducted by the emperor himself, while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenos, great-uncle of Emperor Manuel Comnenos. During this time, Arslan gained the allegiance of Rashid al-Dawla Mahmud, the Mirdasid emir of Aleppo.
In 1071 Romanos again took the field and advanced into Armenia with possibly 30,000 men, including a contingent of Cuman Turks as well as contingents of Franks and Normans, under Ursel de Baieul. Alp Arslan, who had moved his troops south to fight the Fatimids, quickly reversed to meet the Byzantines. At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, the two forces waged the Battle of Manzikert. The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkic side. Seeing this, "the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle."[11] To be exact, Romanos was betrayed by general Andronikos Doukas, son of the Caesar (Romanos's stepson), who pronounced him dead and rode off with a large part of the Byzantine forces at a critical moment.[12] The Byzantines were totally routed.
Byzantine territory (purple), Byzantine campaigns (red) and Seljuk campaigns (green)
Emperor Romanos IV was himself taken prisoner and conducted into the presence of Alp Arslan. After a ritual humiliation, Arslan treated him with generosity. After peace terms were agreed to, Arslan dismissed the Emperor, loaded with presents and respectfully attended by a military guard. The following conversation is said to have taken place after Romanos was brought as a prisoner before the Sultan:[13]
Alp Arslan humiliating Emperor Romanos IV after the Battle of Manzikert. From a 15th-century illustrated French translation of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium.
Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?"
Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit you in the streets of Constantinople."
Alp Arslan: "My punishment is far heavier. I forgive you, and set you free."
Alp Arslan's victories changed the balance in near Asia completely in favour of the Seljuq Turks and Sunni Muslims. While the Byzantine Empire was to continue for nearly four more centuries, and the Crusades would contest the issue for some time, the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkmen[1] ascendancy in Anatolia. The battle of, especially the victory at Manzikert became so popular among the Turks that later every noble family in Anatolia claimed to have had an ancestor who had fought on that day.[14]
Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.
State organization
Alp Arslan's strength lay in the military realm. Domestic affairs were handled by his able vizier, Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of the administrative organization that characterized and strengthened the sultanate during the reigns of Alp Arslan and his son, Malik Shah. Military fiefs, governed by Seljuq princes, were established to provide support for the soldiery and to accommodate the nomadic Turks to the established Anatolian agricultural scene. This type of military fiefdom enabled the nomadic Turks to draw on the resources of the sedentary Persians, Turks, and other established cultures within the Seljuq realm, and allowed Alp Arslan to field a huge standing army without depending on tribute from conquest to pay his soldiers. He not only had enough food from his subjects to maintain his military, but the taxes collected from traders and merchants added to his coffers sufficiently to fund his continuous wars.
According to the poet Saadi Shirazi:[15]
Qazal Arsln possessed a fort, which raised its head to the height of Alwand. Secure from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.
From a learned traveler Qazal once inquired: "Didst thou ever, in thy wanderings, see a fort as strong as this?"
"Splendid it is," was the reply, "but methinks not it confers much strength. Before thee, did not other kings possess it for a while, then pass away? After thee, will not other kings assume control, and eat the fruits of the tree of thy hope?"
In the estimation of the wise, the world is a false gem that passes each moment from one hand to another.
Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing the invasion of Anatolia. An explanation for this choice can only be conjectured from Ibn al-Athir's account of the battle between Alp-Arslan and Kutalmish, in which he writes that Alp-Arslan wept for the latter's death and greatly mourned the loss of his kinsman.
After Manzikert, the dominion of Alp Arslan extended over much of western Asia. He soon prepared to march for the conquest of Turkestan, the original seat of his ancestors. With a powerful army he advanced to the banks of the Oxus. Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf al-Kharezmi, a Khwarezmian. He was obliged to surrender, however, and was carried as a prisoner before the sultan, who condemned him to death. Yussuf drew his dagger and rushed upon the sultan. Alp Arslan, who took great pride in his reputation as an archer, motioned to his guards not to interfere. He drew his bow, but his foot slipped, the arrow glanced aside, and he received the assassin's dagger in his chest. Alp Arslan died from this wound four days later, on 25 November 1072, in his 42nd year, and he was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father, Chaghri Beg.
Alp Arslan is widely regarded as having begun Anatolianism, although unintentionally. His victory at Manzikert is often cited as the beginning of the end of Byzantine power in Anatolia, and the beginning of Turkic identity there.
Alp Arslan's conquest of Anatolia from the Byzantines is also seen as one of the pivotal precursors to the launch of the crusades.
From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.
The 2nd Training Motorized Rifle Division of the Turkmen Ground Forces is named in his honour.
^ a b Cahen, Claude. "Alp-Arslan". Encyclopedia Britannica. "But the Battle of Manzikert opened Asia Minor to Turkmen conquest"
^ K. A. Luther, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume I, Fascicle 8, pgs. 895-898. "ALP ARSLAN". CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Bosworth, C. E., Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 6, pp. 642-643. "A?MAD B. NEM-AL-MOLK". CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Peacock, A.C,S., Great Seljuk Empire, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, pgs. 179, 183
^ Magill, Frank Northen (1998). Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages, Volume 2. Routledge. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-57958-041-4.
^ Cauhen, Claude. "Alp-Arslan". Encyclopedia Britannica. "On the other hand, he was aware of the necessity of keeping his influence over the O?uz Turkic tribes (sometimes called Turkmens), which was essential to his military strength."
^ Bosworth 1968, p. 62-65.
^ "Anni" , Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. II, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878, p. 72 .
^ Quoted in Norwich, John Julius (1991). Byzantium: The Apogee. New York: Viking. pp. 342-343. ISBN 978-0-394-53779-5.
^ Runciman, Steve (1992). The First Crusade. Cambridge University Press.
^ Norwich, John Julius (1993). Byzantium The Apogee. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-011448-3.
^ R. Scott Peoples (2007). Crusade of Kings. Wildside Press LLC. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8095-7221-2.
^ Cahen, Claude. "Alp-Arslan". Encyclopedia Britannica. "Later, every princely family in Asia Minor was to claim an ancestor who had fought on that prestigious day."
^ "Story of Qazal Arsaln and the Fort". Wisdom of the East: The Bustn of Sadi. Translated by Edwards, A. Hart. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1911. p. 32.
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House of Seljuq
Born: 20 January 1029 Died: 15 December 1072
Regnal titles
Toghrul-Beg Sultan of the Seljuq Empire
4 September 1063- 15 December 1072 Succeeded by
Alp Arslan - Kadinim
Alp Arslan - Hasret
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Curly hair can be an annoyance, and straightening it takes a lot of time and patience and ruins your hair. Here are some easy ways to tame the frizz and style it.
Comb your hair, making sure all the knots are out. (Use a wide-tooth comb or your fingers.) Then take a shower. When you shampoo your hair put in the shampoo as if you're brushing it through your hair.. This will minimize the tangles that scrubbing too hard can cause. When you condition, apply it the same way. Rinse out the conditioner with warm water, then put a quarter sized amount into your hands. Evenly distribute this throughout your hair, then rinse with *cold water* this makes your hair a bit shinier and can help reduce frizz.
The flat iron is not your best friend. Be proud of your hair! Curly hair is amazing! When you're out of the shower, towel dry slightly, so that it's not dripping, and comb *with your fingers.* Let your hair air dry. If it's late, and you need to sleep, but your hair is still wet. Put it into a high ponytail (a loose so you can actually sleep) and wrap the remaining hair around it, and secure that with another elastic. Making a bun. If your hair is dry, put it into a ponytail or a braid while you sleep to reduce knots and frizz.
When you wake up, take out the bun, or ponytail, or braid. and brush it lightly with your fingers. If its frizzy, wet your hands and rub them together, then brush your hair with your fingers again. If you don't have time to let this dry, (even though it only takes like, five minutes,) spray some light hold hairspray onto your hands, and run your fingers though your hair again. Repeat if needed. If this doesn't work, mist you hair (VERY lightly) with the hair spray, then brush with your fingers.
Part your hair to the side not down the middle. A low side pony near your ear, or a loose side braid also looks good with curly hair. Or leave it down. Be proud of your luscious locks! Or brush your hair straight back (with your fingers of course!) then secure it with a clip. If you have a big forehead.... this style might not be best for you.
If you have thick, uncooperative hair, a ponytail comes in handy on those bad hair days. or get a headband with the little teeth and wear that. I know my headband really saves me some times!
For an on the go quick fix, get a small spray bottle, and fill it 3/4ths of the way full, then put a few small squirts of gel in it. And this may sound odd, but put some sea salt in there too then shake it really well. Shake it good when you need a quick fix, then mist over your hair and brush with your fingers, (or smooth your hair down with your palms) to reduce frizz.
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Our small crew was joined by interns from Friends of the Forest Preserves, an organization that does tremendous work in advancing restoration in Cook County, and by troops of Scouts who held their annual camping weekend at Pioneer.
The Scouts pitch their tents throughout the picnic grove, then pitch in cutting and dragging brush. The first group came around 11:00, when two of our three brush piles were already burning, and they continued to come throughout the day.
Special thanks to Steve Krupa and Dorothy Nawara, who worked this day AND the two workdays earlier in the week, at McClaughry Springs Monday and Pioneer Tuesday.
Below: five volunteers ensuring a fallen tree remains on the ground.


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Eagle Archives, Nov. 4, 1949: Genius of Gordon McKay, Pittsfield native, adds $8,000,000 to endowment at Harvard
From the Nov. 4, 1949, Eagle
Jeannie Maschino
Community News Editor / Librarian
The inventive genius of a Pittsfield native has paid off for Harvard University in the form of an $8,626,506.88 gift to that school. The Cambridge institution last night announced the receipt of the money from the trustees of the estate of the late Gordon McKay, former Pittsfield inventor and financier.
McKay, a non-college man himself, began his illustrious career in Pittsfield where he was born May 4, 1821, and eventually ended up in control of profitable patents on shoe repair machinery which netted him millions.
The McKay gift becomes part of the Gordon McKay endowment to promote applied science at Harvard which was established in 1909. Income from this endowment has been used in the past to support the Gordon McKay professorships, Gordon McKay fellowships and classroom, shop and laboratory work.
As a resident of Pittsfield, McKay exerted his genius in many forms. His father, a cotton manufacturer, died when Gordon was 12 years old. Young McKay immediately began the study of civil engineering and before he was 21 he had built a machine shop in Pittsfield and was employing 100 men.
A survey of Pittsfield today reflects the farsightedness with which McKay was gifted. Monuments to his diversified inventive genius still stand in the city. He was a member of the committee to build the First Congregational Church.
The Ashley Lake Reservoir in the town of Washington, still an integral part of Pittsfield's water supply system, came into being under McKay's leadership. He hadn't reached his 30th birthday when he saw the need for a public water supply in the city. Most of the inhabitants at that time depended upon wells and cisterns for water. The young inventor interested several other businessmen in the project and advised them that Ashley Lake in Washington should be acquired. In 1855 he saw the project completed. In 1850 and 1851, McKay served as chief of the Pittsfield Fire Department. He was also a member of the committee that built the Berkshire Medical College on South Street.
The iron picket fence which now encloses the grounds of the Pittsfield General Hospital is McKay's last known important gift to a Pittsfield institution. The site of his first machine shop is now occupied by the E.D. Jones & Sons plant which is located on McKay Street, named in the inventor's honor.
This Story in History is selected from the archives by Jeannie Maschino, The Berkshire Eagle.
Jeannie Maschino is community news editor and librarian for The Berkshire Eagle. She has worked for the newspaper in various capacities since 1982 and joined the newsroom in 1989.


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Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
By Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
As sweet as a macaron from Laduree, with writing as crisp as a freshly baked baguette, this romantic novel set in Paris about an American ballerina and a charming French boy is parfait for fans of American Royals and Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
Mia Jenrow has always known she's destined to be a professional ballerina. In fact, it's in her blood—according to family legend, her too-many-greats-to-count-grandmother once danced for the Paris Opera and was painted by Degas himself! Her parents say it's just a fantasy, but to Mia it's so much more than that. It's her fate.
Mia is planning to spend a magical summer in France pursuing her dream, but as she pirou-ettes into Paris, she soon realizes it may be a bit more complicated than she hoped. For starters, there's her rival, Audrey, who will stop at nothing to show her up. There's her ballet instructor, whose impossibly high standards push her to the breaking point. And then . . . there's Louis. Devastatingly, distractingly charming Louis. He's eager to show Mia his city—and Mia is more than happy to hop on his Vespa and wrap her arms around him as they pass the gleaming lights of the Eiffel Tower.
Mia's summer was supposed to be about ballet—but there's a reason Paris is called the City of Love. . . .
French author Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau's books have been translated into seven languages. This is her English-language debut. She lives in New York City with her Australian husband. Visit her online at www.asjouhanneau.com.
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Part 6: ILL-FATED KINGSHIP FENG SHUI OF SAIGON INDEPENDENCE FALACE
Adverse Feng Shui of Saigon Independence Palace which doomed French and Saigon governments!
Prof. Dr.Ong Hean-Tatt 28th September 2016
An excellent field case study of how landform Feng Shui reigns supreme to affect the duration of leaders and governments!
Kingdoms rise and fall, empires wax and wane. Who has the Feng Shui to be a lasting king?
Quest for Kingship Feng Shui
In ancient times, rulers were careful to site their capitals, for they knew that the landform Feng Shui would affect the durations of their thrones and governments. This is a warning to modern leaders not to neglect the Feng Shui of their seat of governance. We have previously written on this subject of kingship Feng Shui:
Part 1: There is a Kingship Component. Ong, H.T. January 2010.
Part 2: Imperial Meng Xiang for Recognising Face of an Emperor. Ong, H.T. January 2010.
Part 3: Kingship Riddle of Ziang Ziya, God of Fishermen. Ong, H.T. January 2010.
Part 4: Unveiling Kingship Secrets of Tian Yu Jing, Heaven Jade Classic. Ong, H.T. January 2010.
Part 5. Kingship Luan Tuo Feng Shui of Thailand. Ong, H.T. January 2011.
The above and below research represent the most analytical investigation of the kingship Feng Shui of sites and kingdoms. It is only possible through good understanding of history and the ancient texts.
Recently, we returned from a tour of Ho Chi Minh city, alias Saigon, in South Vietnam. A special visit was made to the Independence Palace which was the seat of the governments of the French and then the Saigon governments. The French and eventually the Saigon leaders took beatings from the forces of North Vietnam, which finally conquered South Vietnam.
The visit reveals several Feng Shui features of the Saigon Independence Palace. Some of them were specially considered in the initial construction of the palace. All these throw interesting light on the question of how landform Feng Shui controls the duration of rulers and their dynasties.
Ancient capitals were carefully sited trying to use Feng Shui to enhance the throne and the dynasty. Modern capitals ignore the ancient guidelines to their perils.
Historical Background to the Saigon Palace
Independence Palace (Dinh Doc Lap), also known as Reunification Palace (Dinh Thong Nhat), built on the site of the former Norodom Palace, is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The complex covered an area of 12 hectares, including a palace with an 80-meter-wide façade, a guest-chamber capable of accommodating 800 people, with spacious gardens covered by green trees and a lawn. Most of the building materials were imported from France. Owing to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, construction fell behind schedule and was not completed until 1873.
It was originally an old wooden palace built in 1863.
In 1858, France launched an attack on Danang, starting its invasion of Vietnam. In 1867, France completed its conquest of southern Vietnam (Cochinchina), comprising the provinces of Biên Hòa, Gia Ðinh, Ðinh Tung, Vinh Long, An Giang, and Hà Tiên. To consolidate the newly established colony, on 23 February 1868, Lagrandière, Governor of Cochinchina, held a ceremony to lay the foundation stone of a new palace to replace the old wooden palace built in 1863.
The new palace was designed by Charles Hermite. The first cubic stone, measuring 50 cm along each edge, with indentations containing French gold and silver coins bearing Napoleon III's effigy, came from Biên Hòa. The palace was named Norodom Palace after the then king of Cambodia, Norodom (1834–1904). The avenue in front of the palace bore the same name. From 1871 to 1887, the palace was used by the French Governor of Cochinchina (Gouverneur de la Cochinchine); therefore, it was referred to as the Governor's Palace. From 1887 to 1945, all Governors-General of French Indochina used the palace as their residence and office. The office of the Cochinchinese Governors was relocated to a nearby villa.
On May 7, 1954, France surrendered to the Viet Minh after its defeat at the Battle of Dien Biên Phu. France agreed to sign the Geneva Accords and withdrew its troops from Vietnam. According to the accords, Vietnam would be divided pending general elections. The 17th Parallel would act as the temporary border until a vote based on universal suffrage was held to establish a unified Vietnamese government. North Vietnam was under the control of the Viet Minh communists, while South Vietnam was under the anti-Communist State of Vietnam. On 7 September 1954, Norodom Palace was handed over to the prime minister of the State of Vietnam, Ngô Ðình Diem by a representative of the French presence in Vietnam, General Paul Ély.
In 1955, Diem defeated former Emperor Bao Dai, the chief of state of the State of Vietnam, in a referendum. Ngô Ðình Diem declared himself president of the newly proclaimed Republic of Vietnam and renamed the building the Independence Palace.
The palace had been the official residence of the former presidents of South Vietnam, vis Ngo Dinh Diem and the last Saigon president Nugyen Van Thieu. It was also the site of the cabinet meetings of the South Vietnam government and official reception site. The presidential family stayed in the third floor, which is below the top and fourth floor. The basement was the chief military command center.
Many palaces have bad Feng Shui features, causing perpetual problems and eventual disasters for the residing rulers.
Continual Bad Luck for Occupants of Independence Palace
On 27 February 1962, two pilots of Diem's Vietnam Air Force, Nguyen Van Cu and Pham Phú Quoc, rebelled and flew two A-1 Skyraider (A-1D/AD-6 variant) aircraft towards the palace and bombed it, instead of going on a raid against the Viet Cong. As a result, almost the entire left wing was destroyed. However, Diem and his family escaped the assassination attempt. As it was almost impossible to restore the palace, Diem ordered it demolished and commissioned a new building in its place. The new palace was constructed according to a design by Ngô Viet Thu, a Vietnamese architect who won the First Grand Prize of Rome (Grand Prix de Rome) in 1955, the highest recognition of the Beaux-Arts school in Paris. He was also a laureate of the Rome Architecture Award.
The construction of the new Independence Palace started on 1 July 1962. Meanwhile, Diem and his ruling family moved to Gia Long Palace (today the Ho Chi Minh City Museum). However, Diem did not see the completed hall as he and his brother and chief adviser Ngô Ðình Nhu were assassinated after a coup d'état led by General Duong Van Minh in November 1963.
The completed hall was inaugurated on 31 October 1966 [28 October 1966 was a lunar eclipse] by the chairman of the National Leadership Committee, General Nguyen Van Thieu, who was then the head of a military junta. The Independence Hall served as Thieu's home and office from October 1967 to 21 April 1975, when he fled the country as communist North Vietnamese forces swept southwards in the decisive Ho Chi Minh Campaign.
The continual bad luck of government after government which fell is an indication something was wrong with the Saigon Independence Palace.
The designers of the Independence Palace tried to use symbolic features like "Ji" for "fortune" to produce good Feng Shui. But, these symbolic features were helpless against the bad physical landform Feng Shui.
The top is the palace frontage along the North. The bottom square is the banquet hall. The cabinet hall lies on one side of the long perpendicular line to the central axis.
Preliminary Evaluations of Feng Shui
Let us look first for auspicious Feng Shui features. The palace is a large spacious imposing multi-storey modern concrete building nested in the center of a wooded ground. It is basically a modern Westernised building.
It has a wide frontage which is auspicious.
Tall trees surrounded the main building. There is a water fountain in front ground of the site.
There are attempts to incorporate auspicious symbols into the layout of the palace. For example, the palace grounds were divided to have eight petals of a flower, with the main building in the center. This was an attempt to incorporate the auspicious Bagua and Lou Shu nine-squares designs.
The ground floor plan of the palace was designed by architect Ngo Viet Tu after the auspicious Chinese character "ji" for "good fortune". In the word "ji", the rear subcharacter is "kou" for mouth and covers the area of the banquet hall. The word "shih" (character for 10) is frontal (i.e. facing the front or Northeast) and its arms form the cabinet hall to the West and the dining hall to the East.
There are also attempts to incorporate other auspicious symbolism in the palace layout, vis:
On its front, balconies on the 2nd & 3rd floors combine with the main entrance porch & two wood-paneled columns to create the character "Xing" meaning prosperity.
According to Fengshui belief, this palace is located in a dragon's head therefore it was also referred to as Dragon's Head Palace. The intricate designs of the dragon can be seen on the exterior part of the building along with other carved out features.
If you examine the terrain of Vietnam you will find many rivers flowing East from the mountains at the West into the floodplains. The floodplains are quite flat and the rivers meander along, forming many ox-bow curves. Like some of the other cities in Vietnam, Saigon is located in near to Saigon river, between two tributaries flowing into Saigon river. This should be the auspicious "land sandwiched between two rivers".
All these should have been auspicious. It should be noted that this location within the "land sandwiched between two rivers" will not give advantage to Saigon over communist Hanoi. This is because Hanoi is also located in the "land between two rivers."
Windy cionditions are warning signals of bad Feng Shui
The tradition that Independence Palace is sited over the "Dragon Head" is warning of an ill-comprehended underlying faultline or water vein danger.
Ominuous Feng Shui Signs
However, ominous is that the facing of the palace is to the Northeast, an inauspicious facing. This facing is not good, especially as it is evident that site is windy, another ominous inauspicious feature.
The arrangement of the cabinet hall as a side feature to the main axis of the palace is inauspicious. In ancient palaces, the ruler would sit at the rear of the axial hall facing South. That is, the leader is seated at the rear of the axial axis, not at the side. The ruler must sit facing South.
That is, the facings of the palace and the leader in the Saigon Presidential Palace have inauspicious landform Luan Tuo Feng Shui features.
Basically, the design of the ancient Chinese palaces tend to be patterned after the Chinese character "Wang" for "king". In such a pattern the cabinet hall will be at the rear and the leader will sit facing South to receive visitors coming from the South.
"Wang" for "King" will be more appropriate to rulership and government than "Ji" for "good fortune" as in the case of the Saigon Presidential Palace.
But, whether it is "Wang" or "Ji", there is one thing about the ancient buildings. Seldom is the ancient buildings more than one level. This ancient design will never have any other floor above the throne hall. If there is anything inauspicious going on at the upper floor the auspiciousness will filtered down to the lower floor.
This is what happened in the Saigon Presidential Palace. The cabinet hall, the officials dining hall and the banquet hall are all topped by other rooms along the upper floors. These upper rooms include the Presidential bedrooms.
What should have been done is that those rooms connected with leadership should be separated and not overshadowed by other upper rooms. The leadership rooms should be prominent, and easily and directly accessed from the frontage. Other rooms should be placed at the rear or sides.
President Nguyen Van Thieu decided to build Turtle Lake in 1967. It seems that a Feng Shui master told President Nguyen Van Thieu that there was a dragon underground of Saigon. The dragon's head was under Independence Palace and its tail was at the location of Turtle Lake today northwest of Independence Palace. The Feng Shui master advised that to maintain the peace for this country and the greater development of President Thieu, there must be a huge turtle to hold the dragon's tail.
The main pillar there looks like a sword that has been pitched into the lake to hold the dragon's tail for a long time. The shape of this lake was designed follow the Bagua structure, which can be easy to recognize when you see it from the high places. Some other said that the whole Turtle Lake looks like a huge turtle and it will hold the dragon's tail forever.
Well, it was the wrong Feng Shui measures, as it did not prevent the fall of President Thieu. One thing was that the location for the Turtle Lake was at the wrong place.
In comparison to the Saigon Independence Palace, Hanoi Presidential Palace lies within a large loop of Red River. The palace has a Southeast frontage (in contrast to the Northeast frontage of Saigon Palace). It can be accesed at the Southeast, but is more usually accessed through a road from the South (P Ong Ich Kiem). Tall trees form a wall behind the palace. Ho Chi Minh at first lived in the servants' quarters behind the palace.
Then, in 1975, a stilted two storey wooden house was built on the grounds south-west of the Presidential Palace and served as his new residence and office. One proceeds south from the Presidential Palace through an area with a carp pond to the stilted home of Ho Chi Minh. Both the Presidential Palace and the stilt house have a combined entrance at the south at P Ong Ich Kiem. So, Ho Chi Minh home also has a south frontage and there is a carp pond which all make very good Feng Shui. Of Positive Ions Clouds and Ill-Fated Military Command Centers
There is no doubt that the fundamental Feng Shui or geomancy approach was wrongly applied in the case of the Saigon Presidential Palace.
What is that saying? That, "When troubles come they come in battalions". The Feng Shui features so far evaluated are fundamental features. They also hide many other features which cause further inauspiciousness in the palace.
Let us consider the command centers. The cabinet is one command center whose Feng Shui status was inauspicious. Other command centers include the presidential office, the military command center n the palace. The presidential office is located on the West wing at the 2nd floor. This may not be so critical, as the Chinese emperors also used to have small rooms at the sides of the main palace complex.
What probably are of concern is the meditation hall at the very top or 4h floor of the palace and the military command center which is located at the basement floor.
Geomancy experts, especially Western telluric geomancy experts, will recognise at once that the basement as the military center is highly inauspicious for the military command. Feng Shui has always regarded the basement as inauspicious. Modern scientific studies show that the basement is a major collector of positive ions which are harmful to human health and mental capacity. The military leaders were all the time bathed in harmful positive ions, which impair their health and mess up their mental capacities. It is not surprising that the Saigon military strategies were most of the time screwed up.
Even more dangerous was the meditation hall. Positive ions climb heights and will be highest at this top floor of the presidential palace. In haunting, the most haunted areas include the basements, the top floors and the staircases. They reflect presence of disturbing electromagnetic radiation.
The meditation hall has 3 Benker lines running from West to East, including one through the center of the hall. If the president had sat along the central axis he could have a scenic look out into the courtyard adjoining East of the meditation hall. Thisway he would be meditating over a Benker line and this would be very inauspicious.
Actually, the rivers in Vietnam tend to flow from West to East. This major underground water veins are likely to run from West to East.
Hence, both the leader and his military strategists were all adversely affected by the high levels of positive ions in the basement and the top meditation hall. When Nugyen Van Theiu became president he converted the meditation hall into an extra entertainment area. But the military command center remained at the basement.
What we are seeing is a whole chain of command centers, from the cabinet room to the military command and the presidential meditation hall, located in inauspicious areas. It is no wonder that Saigon had to fall.
Positive ions permeated everywhere throughout the Saigon Presidential Palace. In fact, as we walked throughout the palace we could feel electromagnetic vibrations. One can easily feel this when one walked up and down the stairs.
The presidential bedrooms and living quarters are all located along the 3d floor. This is below the 4th floor which has only one hall, vis that of the ill-fated meditation center.
However, the 3rd floor along with the 4h floor will tend to have high levels of positive ions. Usually, as discovered in some of our scientific field Feng Shui audits, the top floor and the floor immediately below tend to be haunted, owing to the presence of positive ions.
Hence, the Saigon Presidential Palace will have similar high levels of positive ions at the 3rd and 4th floors which are the private quarters of the Saigon president and his family.
The emperors reserved for themselves certain secrets without which the common people would be using deviated forms of Feng Shui and astrology. Do modern practitioners really know what is the real imperial Feng Shui? The Wind Never Reads
Ho Chi Minh city (previously known as Saigon) is located in the flood plain of the Saigon river, which flows from West to East into the Indo-China or South China sea. Further South of Ho Chi Minh city, the great Mekong river flows, also from West to East into the Indo-China Sea or South China Sea.
Vietnam is essentially a country formed by the floodplains to the Western mountain ridge. In this southeast part of Vietnam the rivers meander along the flat flood plains. The many curves and ox-bow formations along the rivers should make good auspicious sites for settlements.
There is only one major danger, which is that flat flood plains are exposed to winds, especially from the NorthEast. Actually the whole of Vietnam tend to be affected by the winds coming from the NorthEast. These winds will meet and smash against the Western mountain ridges.
The Feng Shui of the flood plain is described by the Tang dynasty Feng Shui master Yang Yun-Sung in his Han Lung Jing (Arousing Dragon Classics) as that of the ninth mountain or "ninth Dragon". Yang Yun Sung warned that in this last "ninth Dragon" landform the great danger is winds. A site must be protected from the winds, by some landform features like the small "Yu Pih" mountain.
The "Yu Pih" hill is a small hillock small and low mountain. It is a hillock which looks like a turtle shell. It can block the winds to some extent in a small area south of the hill. Hence, the auspicious site would be to the south of the hill.
The Saigon Presidential Palace faces Northeast. There is even the wide avenue running from Northeast to Southwest which creates a wind funnel path towards the palace. Due to the winds, there are both positive ions blown towards the palace as well as the vortex creating electromagnetic fluctuations at the palace. All these are very inauspicious for the palace.
The Saigon Presidential Palace should have faced the South, towards the river. Its north rear should have large trees planted to ward off the wind. Saigon is destroyed by the failure to recognise the Feng Shui danger of the winds from the NorthEast
The counter to this dangerous landform Feng Shui is the Yu Pih or "9th Dragon" of Yang Yun Sung's Han Lung Jing!
Those who built Independence Palace did not know enough of Feng Shui to prevent the fall of Saigon. The Saigon Independence Palace is a good illustration of the lethal danger of the "Demon Gate" formation, which most practitioners do not understand.
A parting advice. Even the Americans Freemasons worked auspicious physical geomancy features for the White House in Washington. The river formation is especially auspicious. They also augment the effect by astrologically timing the important dates of the presidential activities. No seat of government can do without the physical landform Feng Shui!
Read startling findings on Zi Wei Dou Shu, including how the emperor faked current Zi Wei Dou Shu! Some faked aspects also affect the Ba Zi Eight Characters, Qi Men Dun Jia, Liu Ren, Tai Yi, which are actually inferior astrology systems extracted from a small part of Zi Wei Dou Shu.
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Story By: CURTIS BERLEUE / PATRIOT SPRINT TOUR – SODUS, NY – In a season that has been plagued by rain and bad weather, the A-Verdi Storage Containers Patriot Sprint Tour will get the opportunity to win one back at Outlaw Speedway on Friday August 24.
The originally scheduled event for Friday August 3rd was slated to be the annual NASCAR night at Outlaw Speedway with the Patriot Sprint Tour sharing the headline with some of the sports biggest stars. While the NASCAR stars won't be able to make it back for the rescheduled event, a strong field of 360 sprints are expected to be on hand.
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Q: Does it matter whether I code top-to-bottom or use if __name__ == "__main__" conventions? Most of my Python scripts (mostly written for web-scraping/data science apps) follow this kind of format:
# import whatever packages
import x, y, z

# do some web-scraping and data manipulation

# write some niche function I need

# make some plots and basically end the script

This is all done via an interactive editor/console (like Eclipse). I basically write the code above, and then copy-paste the code below for testing.
Is there a more "standard" way to go about this? I know C has functions defined above the main function, and I see packages in Python with if __name__ == "__main__" conventions; is this the "appropriate" way to go about development? I suppose the core question is whether you want to be able to use the functions you write in other projects, as well.

A: The main reason to use if __name__ == "__main__" is so that code under it doesn't run if the file is imported from another file. When a file is imported in python, it simply run through the interpreter as if it had been pasted in at that point, but usually you just want the functions defined in the file, and not to run any code in the file.
For example, if you want to test the functions in your file, or use them in another file, you'd put the code that actually runs the functions under the if __name__ == "__main__".
Since you're writing code for your own consumption, it's totally up to you whether you want to put your code under if __name__ == "__main__", but it's recommended if you want to write your code in a reusable way.
There is no official, universally followed standard in Python with regards to how to organize your code. In relation to your specific question, for readability, and to follow common style patterns, I would recommend you put your functions at the top, and group your web scraping, data manipulation, and plots at the bottom.

A: I've seen Python packages with if __name__ == "__main__" written in different places within the file before, and a main() defined elsewhere in the same file. I believe, however, that it should go at the bottom of the file you intend to have as your main.
For example, it could look something like this:
import everything

define class1
    define function1

define class2
    define function2
    define function3

define main()
    call function3
    call function4
    do_things

define function4
define function5

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_main()

The sample above is a very generic version of something I've actually got running at work. When executed, it makes calls to a few other files, and works beautifully. It even has a check in the if __name__ == "__main__": block to check for a minimum version of Python.
Hope this helps.


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United States Media Begins Preparing
The Public For Mass Slaughter In Iraq
by Bill Vann, September 28, 2002
In the midst of the Bush administration's drumbeat for an invasion of Iraq, the government and the media have begun to prepare public opinion for a massive slaughter of innocent Iraqi civilians, as well as substantial American military casualties.
For the most part, both the Bush administration and the media have portrayed an invasion as a simple matter of taking out "Saddam Hussein and "liberating" a grateful Iraqi people. Such a feat, they maintain, will be accomplished with satellite-guided precision bombs destroying a few presidential palaces and bunkers, while leaving the general population largely unscathed.
A few retired senior military officers -- undoubtedly expressing deep misgivings within the Pentagon's uniformed command -- have attempted to throw cold water on this scenario, warning that the war could prove protracted and bloody. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee September 23, Gen. Joseph Hoar, who was the senior US commander in the Middle East after the 1991 Persian Gulf War, cautioned that US invaders could confront 100,000 Iraqi troops with thousands of artillery pieces defending Baghdad.
Affirming that US forces would ultimately conquer the city, Hoar continued: "But at what cost? And at what cost as the rest of the world watches while we bomb and have artillery rounds exploded in densely populated neighborhoods?"
In house-to-house fighting, he warned, "you could run through battalions a day at a time ... because of casualties," adding that such combat would resemble "the last 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan."
Articles appearing in three of the most influential national US newspapers Friday took up the question of a "nightmare scenario" of urban warfare in Iraq. With the Bush administration preparing to launch the most powerful military machine on the face of the earth against a backward and relatively defenseless country, all three papers sounded a remarkably similar theme: if slaughter does take place, the blame will rest with the Iraqis.
A USA Today article based on sources in the Pentagon cited plans for a "lightening" war against Iraq involving massive air power, air-dropped troops seizing key facilities, and the wholesale surrender of the Iraqi military.
The article cautions, however: "It's possible that the Iraqi leadership would try to create the conditions for ... street-by-street gun battles."
The Washington Post similarly warns in its article: "Iraq's military likely would respond to a US invasion by attempting to lure American forces close to Baghdad and other large population centers, where Iraqi commanders believe their soldiers would be less vulnerable to air strikes and civilians would be more willing to fight for the government, according to senior government officials and diplomats here."
The idea that the Iraqi military is setting out "to create the conditions" for street fighting or "to lure American forces close to Baghdad" is curious, to say the least. The Bush administration is loudly demanding UN and congressional approval for an unprovoked "preemptive" invasion of Iraq for the purpose of overthrowing its government and assassinating its president. Clearly, such goals cannot be achieved without storming, occupying and subduing Baghdad and other major cities.
The Post claims that the danger of urban warfare arises from a new "strategy" that the Iraqi military devised based upon the experience of the 1991 Gulf War. "During that war, US ground forces were able to easily overrun Iraqi troops, whose trenches and bunkers provided little cover from American artillery and bombs," the article states. "Now Iraqi officials have indicated that they would fight a very different war by shielding their soldiers in cities and trying to draw US forces into high-risk urban warfare."
Iraq's generals would be criminally irresponsible if they placed their forces in the open desert so that they could be slaughtered from the air. But the principal change in strategy from the first Gulf war stems from Washington's military objectives. In 1991, the US war was conducted for the ostensible purpose of expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The war now being prepared is aimed at conquering Iraq and establishing a US protectorate to rule that country and administer its oil wealth. Such a "regime change" is virtually inconceivable without urban warfare.
The story goes on to quote an unnamed diplomat as saying that the Iraqi army preferred to stay in the cities so that it "can mix with the civilian population." The diplomat added: "If soldiers start sniping from apartment buildings filled with people, what can the Americans do? They can't very well blow them up."
The obvious implication is that Iraq's military is prepared to use the population of Baghdad as "human shields," taking advantage of the Pentagon's supposed principled aversion to inflicting casualties on civilians.
Similar assertions were made in a column by Nicholas Kristof entitled "Fighting Street to Street" published in the New York Times on the same day. "American restraint is Iraq's ace going into the war," Kristof writes. "Iraq knows that the United States cannot bomb schools, mosques and residential neighborhoods, and so it has plenty of places to hide its army. In the last gulf war, we were able to destroy an enemy that was out in the open desert, but this time Iraq seems intent on a different approach."
The same theme was featured on that evening's NBC news report, with a former general warning that Saddam Hussein planned to deploy 15,000 crack Republican Guard troops for urban fighting in Baghdad, and a reporter predicting that such combat would unavoidably result in thousands of Iraqi deaths, military and civilian alike, as well as heavy US losses.
This is war propaganda, pure and simple. Those who write such lines know that they are turning reality inside out to further the predatory aims of the US government.
Who says that the US "cannot bomb schools, mosques and residential neighborhoods," or that if American units are fired upon from Baghdad apartment buildings, they won't just "blow them up"? Avoiding the slaughter of civilians at all costs is not part of the Pentagon's military doctrine; avoiding casualties among your own forces is.
Every major intervention by the US military has involved deliberate attacks on defenseless civilian populations. From the carpet-bombing of Hanoi to the My Lai massacre, the US waged a war in Vietnam that claimed the lives of two million people, most of them unarmed civilians.
In the 1989 invasion of Panama -- improbably cited by US officials as a model for the "regime change" they hope to accomplish in Iraq -- as many as 4,000 civilians were killed when the US bombed a crowded working class neighborhood.
In the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, thousands of civilians were killed and wounded. Targets included passenger trains, farming villages and non-military factories.
The last gulf war saw the targeting of a bomb shelter in the Baghdad district of Al-Amariya, killing 288 civilians, most of them women and children. And, the more recent invasion of Afghanistan has seen repeated war crimes against the civilian population.
There is little doubt that in the first days of an assault on Baghdad --the best efforts of military censors notwithstanding -- images will be broadcast of distraught people digging for their loved ones through the rubble of apartment buildings demolished by US bombs or cannon fire.
The stories appearing in the press today are aimed at preparing for the horror and revulsion that will be felt in the US and around the world over the inevitable carnage that will accompany an invasion of Iraq. The press is seeking to convince people in advance that they should not believe what they will see with their own eyes -- the mass murder of Iraqi civilians by the US military.
When these killings take place, the coordinated line from the White House, the Pentagon and the media will be that it is Saddam Hussein's fault, not that of the US invaders. The civilians were killed because they were used as "human shields." Or, it was not US bombs at all, but a misfired Scud missile or Iraqi anti-aircraft shells that caused the devastation. Everyone knows that "American restraint" would not permit such atrocities, but "the Iraqis do not place the same value on human life as we do." These are the shop-worn and racist lies used in every war of aggression.
The media is deliberately misleading the public on every issue, from the real aims that are being pursued in the war buildup against Iraq -- oil, not "weapons of mass destruction" -- to the criminal methods that will be used to accomplish them. This campaign of lies and misinformation is the surest indication that the war that the Bush administration wants is aimed at benefiting only the ruling corporate elite at the expense of the vast majority of working people in America and all over the globe.
Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/iraq-s28.shtml
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from django.template.loader import render_to_string
from django.test import TestCase
from django.views.generic import View

from adminplus.sites import AdminSitePlus

class AdminPlusTests(TestCase):
    def test_decorator(self):
        """register_view works as a decorator."""
        site = AdminSitePlus()

        @site.register_view(r'foo/bar')
        def foo_bar(request):
            return 'foo-bar'

        @site.register_view(r'foobar')
        class FooBar(View):
            def get(self, request):
                return 'foo-bar'

        urls = site.get_urls()
        assert any(u.resolve('foo/bar') for u in urls)
        assert any(u.resolve('foobar') for u in urls)

    def test_function(self):
        """register_view works as a function."""
        site = AdminSitePlus()

        def foo(request):
            return 'foo'
        site.register_view('foo', view=foo)

        class Foo(View):
            def get(self, request):
                return 'foo'
        site.register_view('bar', view=Foo)

        urls = site.get_urls()
        assert any(u.resolve('foo') for u in urls)
        assert any(u.resolve('bar') for u in urls)

    def test_path(self):
        """Setting the path works correctly."""
        site = AdminSitePlus()

        def foo(request):
            return 'foo'
        site.register_view('foo', view=foo)
        site.register_view('bar/baz', view=foo)
        site.register_view('baz-qux', view=foo)

        urls = site.get_urls()

        foo_urls = [u for u in urls if u.resolve('foo')]
        self.assertEqual(1, len(foo_urls))
        bar_urls = [u for u in urls if u.resolve('bar/baz')]
        self.assertEqual(1, len(bar_urls))
        qux_urls = [u for u in urls if u.resolve('baz-qux')]
        self.assertEqual(1, len(qux_urls))

    def test_urlname(self):
        """Set URL pattern names correctly."""
        site = AdminSitePlus()

        @site.register_view('foo', urlname='foo')
        def foo(request):
            return 'foo'

        @site.register_view('bar')
        def bar(request):
            return 'bar'

        urls = site.get_urls()
        foo_urls = [u for u in urls if u.resolve('foo')]
        self.assertEqual(1, len(foo_urls))
        self.assertEqual('foo', foo_urls[0].name)

        bar_urls = [u for u in urls if u.resolve('bar')]
        self.assertEqual(1, len(bar_urls))
        assert bar_urls[0].name is None

    def test_base_template(self):
        """Make sure extending the base template works everywhere."""
        result = render_to_string('adminplus/test/index.html')
        assert 'Ohai' in result

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The title page from Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830).
19th century geologist and lawyer Charles Lyell (1797–1875) is renowned for popularizing the idea that the world's geology reflected an old age of the earth (i.e. much older than the Bible's 6,000-year timeframe of history), thus paving the way and providing some traction for Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas.
But was Charles Lyell truly viewing the rocks from a scientifically objective perspective?
I am sure you may get into Q.R. [Quarterly Review] what will free the science from Moses, for if treated seriously, the [church] party are quite prepared for it. A bishop, Buckland ascertained (we suppose [Bishop] Sumner), gave Ure a dressing in the British Critic and Theological Review. They see at last the mischief and scandal brought on them by Mosaic systems … . Probably there was a beginning—it is a metaphysical question, worthy of a theologian—probably there will be an end. Species, as you say, have begun and ended—but the analogy is faint and distant. Perhaps it is an analogy, but all I say is, there are, as Hutton said, 'no signs of a beginning, no prospect of an end' … . All I ask is, that at any given period of the past, don't stop inquiry when puzzled by refuge to a 'beginning,' which is all one with 'another state of nature,' as it appears to me. But there is no harm in your attacking me, provided you point out that it is the proof I deny, not the probability of a beginning … . I was afraid to point the moral, as much as you can do in the Q.R. about Moses. Perhaps I should have been tenderer about the Koran. Don't meddle much with that, if at all.
From Mortenson, T., The Great Turning Point: The Church's Catastrophic Mistake on Geology—Before Darwin, Master Books, Inc., P.O. Box 726, Green Forest, AR 72638, USA, 2004, pp. 225–226, citing Brooke, J., "The Natural Theology of the Geologists: Some Theological Strata", in Jordanova, L. and Porter, R., Images of the Earth (British Society for the History of Science, Monograph 1, 1979), p. 45. Return to text.
Bailey, E., British men of science: Charles Lyell, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, London, Great Britain, 1962 p. 75. Return to text.
Ref. 2, pp. 77–78. Bailey adds re Lyell: "In this matter, he thinks, 'Prévost has done a little but is a diluvialist, a rare thing in France'." Diluvium was the term used for the surface sediments attributed at the time to Noah's Flood but later recognized as being formed by glaciers during the Ice Age. Return to text.
From Mortenson, T., The Great Turning Point: The Church's Catastrophic Mistake on Geology—Before Darwin, Master Books, Inc., P.O. Box 726, Green Forest, AR 72638, USA, 2004, pp. 226–227, citing Lyell, Katherine (Lyell's sister-in-law), Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (London: Murray, 1881), I:p. 268–271. Return to text.
Lyell further promulgated his uniformitarian views in a lecture at King's College, London, on 4 May 1832, when he said "the physical part of Geological inquiry ought to be conducted as if the Scriptures were not in existence". Lecture II at King's College London on 4 May 1832—quoted in Rudwick, Martin J.S., Charles Lyell Speaks in the Lecture Theatre, The British Journal for the History of Science 9(2):147–155, 1976, DOI:10.1017/S0007087400014734. Such a view might be reasonable if the Bible did not describe any events relating to the formation of rocks on earth. But the Bible does speak of such events, i.e. Creation Week and the Flood. Thus Lyell's approach is like trying to write a history of British settlement in Australia in the 1700s by merely studying surviving buildings and other remnant artifacts around Sydney but intentionally ignoring written eyewitness testimony from that time. Or like writing about the life of Jesus on earth without reference to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Return to text.
Allmon, W.D. Post Gradualism, Science 262:122–123, October 1, 1993. Warren Allmon, Director of the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, was reviewing Ager, D., The New Catastrophism: The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1993. Return to text.


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The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set
Elena Ferrante (Author) Ann Goldstein (Translator)
FORMAT
Paperback$64.98$59.78(English)

The complete four-volume boxed set of the New York Times-bestselling epic about hardship and female friendship in postwar Naples that has sold over five million copies.
Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante follow Elena and Lila, from their rough-edged upbringing in Naples, Italy, not long after WWII, through the many stages of their lives--and along paths that diverge wildly. Sometimes they are separated by jealousy or hostility or physical distance, but the bond between them is unbreakable, for better or for worse.
This volume includes all four novels: My Brilliant Friend; The Story of a New Name; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; and The Story of the Lost Child.
"Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you'll have some idea of how explosive these works are." --The Australian
"Nothing you read about Elena Ferrante's work prepares you for the ferocity of it." --The New York Times
"An enduring masterpiece." --The Atlantic
Europa Editions
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Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the Neapolitan Quartet (Europa 2012-2015). She is also the author of a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night.
Ann Goldstein has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante's books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Story of the Lost Child, which was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.
Praise for The Neapolitan Novels
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Douglas Eugene Facemire (born August 22, 1961) is an American who served as a member of the West Virginia Senate representing District 12 from 2008 until 2020.

Education
Facemire graduated from Braxton County High School.

Career
Facemire is the previous owner of the grocery store Glenville Foodland. In 2008, he defeated incumbent state senator Doug Stalnaker in the Democratic primary. The race was the most expensive of the cycle, with Facemire reporting $130,400 in expenses, $98,401 of which being a personal loan from Facemire himself. In the general election, he was unopposed.

In 2012, Facemire was unopposed in both the primary and general election. He was unopposed in the 2016 primary, and won the general election only 107 votes ahead of Republican Franklin D. Cornette, II.

He left office on November 30, 2020 after losing the general election.

References

External links
Official page at the West Virginia Legislature

Douglas Facemire at Ballotpedia
Douglas Eugene Facemire at the National Institute on Money in State Politics

1961 births
Living people
People from Gassaway, West Virginia
Democratic Party West Virginia state senators
21st-century American politicians
People from Sutton, West Virginia

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Leone Maciel Fonseca ist ein brasilianischer Politiker.

Fonseca war zunächst Vizepräfekt der Stadt Sete Lagoas (Minas Gerais). Nach dem Rücktritt von Präfekt Ronaldo Canabrava übernahm er 2006 dessen Amt. Er blieb bis 2008 in dieser Funktion.

Einzelnachweise

Präfekt (Sete Lagoas)
Brasilianer
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
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