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package org.apache.lucene.analysis.ko.utils;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.ko.morph.MorphException;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

public class KoreanEnv {

  public static final String FILE_SYLLABLE_FEATURE = "syllable.dic";

  public static final String FILE_DICTIONARY = "dictionary.dic";

  public static final String FILE_JOSA = "josa.dic";

  public static final String FILE_EOMI = "eomi.dic";

  public static final String FILE_EXTENSION = "extension.dic";

  public static final String FILE_PREFIX = "prefix.dic";

  public static final String FILE_SUFFIX = "suffix.dic";

  public static final String FILE_COMPOUNDS = "compounds.dic";

  public static final String FILE_UNCOMPOUNDS = "uncompounds.dic";

  public static final String FILE_ABBREV = "abbreviation.dic";

  public static final String FILE_CJ = "cj.dic";

  public static final String FILE_KOREAN_PROPERTY = "org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/korean.properties";

  private Properties defaults = null;

  /**
   * The props member gets its values from the configuration in the property file.
   */
  private Properties props = null;

  private static KoreanEnv instance = null;

  /**
   * The constructor loads property values from the property file.
   */
  private KoreanEnv() throws MorphException {
    try {
      initDefaultProperties();
      props = loadProperties(defaults);
    } catch (MorphException e) {
      throw new MorphException ("Failure while initializing property values:\n"+e.getMessage());
    }
  }

  public static KoreanEnv getInstance() throws MorphException {
    if(instance==null)
      instance = new KoreanEnv();

    return instance;
  }

  /**
   * Initialize the default property values.
   */
  private void initDefaultProperties() {
    defaults = new Properties();

    defaults.setProperty(FILE_SYLLABLE_FEATURE,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/syllable.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_DICTIONARY,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/dictionary.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_EXTENSION,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/extension.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_JOSA,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/josa.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_EOMI,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/eomi.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_PREFIX,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/prefix.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_SUFFIX,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/suffix.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_COMPOUNDS,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/compounds.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_UNCOMPOUNDS,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/uncompounds.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_ABBREV,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/abbreviation.dic");
    defaults.setProperty(FILE_CJ,"org/apache/lucene/analysis/ko/dic/cj.dic");
  }

  /**
   * Given a property file name, load the property file and return an object
   * representing the property values.
   *
   * @param def Default property values, or null if there are no defaults.
   * @return The loaded SortedProperties object.
   */
  private Properties loadProperties(Properties def) throws MorphException {
    Properties properties = new Properties();

    if (def != null) {
      properties = new Properties(def);
    }

    File file = null;
    try {
      file = FileUtil.getClassLoaderFile(FILE_KOREAN_PROPERTY);

      if (file != null) {
        properties.load(new FileInputStream(file));
        return properties;
      }

      byte[] in = FileUtil.readByteFromCurrentJar(FILE_KOREAN_PROPERTY);
      properties.load(new ByteArrayInputStream(in));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new MorphException("Failure while trying to load properties file " + file.getPath(), e);
    }
    return properties;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the value of a property.
   *
   * @param name The name of the property whose value is to be retrieved.
   * @return The value of the property.
   */
  public String getValue(String name) {
    return props.getProperty(name);
  }
}


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Kent Vernon Rominger (Del Norte, 7 de agosto de 1956) é um ex-astronauta e ex-capitão da Marinha dos Estados Unidos, veterano de cinco missões espaciais.

Nascido no Colorado, formou-se em engenharia civil e fez mestrado em engenharia aeronáutica em 1987. Aviador naval desde 1981, Vernon pilotou caças F-14 Tomcat, baseado em porta-aviões, entre 1981 e 1985, tornando-se um 'Topgun' no período, ao cursar a United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, onde esta unidade de elite de pilotos da marinha faz seu curso e é baseada. Serviu a bordo do USS Nimitz durante a operação Tempestade no Deserto, entre 1990 e 1991. Sua carreira como piloto militar se encerrou com 5000 horas acumuladas de voo em 35 aeronaves diferentes e 685 pousos em porta-aviões.

NASA
Em março de 1992 ele foi selecionado para o curso de astronautas da NASA e cumpriu um ano de treinamento no Centro Espacial Lyndon B. Johnson, em Houston, Texas, qualificando-se como piloto para futuras missões do ônibus espacial. Suas funções iniciais foram técnicas, em terra, na seção de desenvolvimento de operações do escritório de astronautas. Durante sua carreira na NASA, ele viria a ser chefe seção de operações do ônibus espacial no escritório, vice-diretor de operações de tripulação de voo e chefe do escritório de astronautas, a mais elevada posição de uma astronauta na agência, principal cargo entre os astronautas e principal conselheiro da direção da NASA no tocante ao treinamento e operações dos astronautas.

Rominger foi ao espaço pela primeira vez em 20 de outubro de 1995, como piloto da missão STS-73 Columbia, que realizou diversas experiências em microgravidade no Spacelab. Seguiu-se a ela, em novembro de 1996, a STS-80, que colocou em órbita dois satélites de dados e comunicações e a STS-85 Discovery, em agosto de 1997.

Após três missões como piloto, Rominger recebeu seu primeiro comando em 1999, na missão STS-96 da Discovery, sua primeira viagem à ISS e a primeira a se acoplar com a estação espacial. Sua quinta e última ida ao espaço foi em 19 de abril de 2001, no comando da STS-100 da Endeavour, uma missão de doze dias onde a tripulação instalou o braço robótico canadense Canadarm2 e o módulo-logístico italiano Rafaello na estrutura da estação.

A partir dai e até 2006, ele trabalhou em terra, na chefia do escritório de astronautas.

Ver também
 Lista geral de astronautas

Astronautas dos Estados Unidos

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Anıl Kadir Eranıl
Ministry of National Education Karacaşar Primary School
Mehmet Özcan
Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University
Home > Vol 27, No 3 (2019) >	Eranıl
Investigation of Social Relation Components of High School Students
Anıl Kadir Eranıl, Mehmet Özcan
This research aims to determine the social relation components of high school students, and to examine whether these components differ significantly according to the gender, school success, level of communication with family and friends, attempting to violence at school, exposure to violence at home, and exposure to violence in general variables. The study group of this research consisted of 387 students receiving education in high school in Nevşehir. The scale of social intelligence components was used in the research. Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test were used to analyze the data. Eta-square statistics (η2) and Jonckheere-Terpstra formulae (for the calculation of effect size) were used to calculate effect sizes. For confirmatory factor analysis, goodness of fit index (X2/sd, SRMR, NNFI, CFI, GFI and AGFI) were analyzed and RMSEA value (Root Mean Square Error of Approximation) in the path analysis was examined. Students' scores of social relations components were found 4.00 out of 5. Mean score of social relations components of high school students was statistically significant in favor of female students according to the gender variable. There was a significant difference according to the school success, in attempting to violence at the school, exposure to violence at home and exposure to violence in general in favor of groups who were not exposed to violence and level of communication with friend and family.
high school students, social relations, social relation components
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Theresa May has explicitly rejected membership of the single market in what has been the most important speech of her premiership thus far.
In her address, the British Prime Minister expressed that the referendum vote on 23rd June 2016 gives Britain the opportunity to become a "global trading nation".
A "phased approach" rather than a lengthy transition agreement.
One point made clear in the speech was that the government wants to guarantee the rights of EU nationals currently residing in the UK as soon as possible. She also expects the same guarantees to be given regarding British nationals residing in the bloc.
The Prime Minister will no doubt be hoping that this statement may dampen fears that EU nationals, many of whom have lived in the UK for decades, will be used as bargaining chips during negotiations between London and Brussels.
"I can (unwillingly) live with most of May's #BrexitSpeech. But refusal to grant residency to EU nationals currently in UK is sickening".
One predictable outcome of the speech was Theresa May's dedication to the principle of controlling EU migration into Britain.
In leaving the single market, Britain will no longer have to abide by the principle of freedom of movement.
No one will be surprised by this stance. When her predecessor, David Cameron tried to implement plans to bring migration down the range of tens of thousands, he once commented that the only person who seemed to take him seriously was his then Home Secretary, Theresa May.
However, some have observed that Mrs May's obsession with controlling immigration may prove her undoing. Former Business Secretary, Vince Cable, told the Guardian in 2016 that a key sticking point in the years of failed negotiations between India and the EU was Mrs May's refusal to compromise on immigration whilst she was Home Secretary. Once we leave the single market, successfully being able to negotiate trade deals with emerging markets such as India, China and Brazil will be key in ensuring the country's economic success. India has already indicated it will not consider a trade deal with the UK if Westminster continues with its current policy of restricting post-study stay.
The Prime Minister may be forced to soften her stance with non-EU migrants to achieve her long-term trade deal objectives.
Despite her foreseeable commitment to controlling Britain's borders, the Prime Minister did her best to reassure UK businesses they would not be cut adrift from the EU labour market entirely. She clarified that Britain will continue welcoming the brightest talent from the bloc. Her comments seemed to support those made by Chancellor Philip Hammond and other ministers who have sought to reassure employers they will still be able to hire workers from the EU after Brexit. The technology and financial sector in particular have stated that any restrictions on their ability to recruit skilled workers from the EU would severely harm their ability to commit to remaining in Britain.
There is no doubt today's speech will be exhaustively analysed over the next few days, weeks and months to come. One thing we can be sure of is Theresa May meant what she said, "Brexit means Brexit".
Now, more than ever, it is imperative that EU nationals living in the UK apply for EU Permanent Residence Cards and, following on from that, British Citizenship.
Because this is really happening.
And we all need to ensure we are prepared for the uncertainty such unchartered territory may bring.
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Ievgueni Ievguenevitch Vorobiov est un joueur d'échecs russe né le  à Moscou.

Au , il est le  joueur russe avec un classement Elo de .

Biographie et carrière
Vorobiov obtint le titre de grand maître international en 2000.

Il remporta le championnat de Moscou en 1999 et 2009.

En 2010, Vorobiov marqua 7,5 points sur 11 lors du championnat d'Europe d'échecs individuel (- ex æquo) et se qualifia pour la Coupe du monde d'échecs 2011 à Khanty-Mansiïsk où il fut éliminé au premier tour par Emil Sutovsky après départage en parties rapides.

En 2011, il remporta l'open de Dresde avec 7 points sur 9. En 2012, il gagna l'open de Sitges en Espagne.

Notes et références

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Naissance en décembre 1976
Joueur russe d'échecs
Grand maître international


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The History Detective
Houses Through Time
Sir Rowland Cotton (1581 – 1634)
John Lightfoot (1602 – 1675)
Reverend Frederick Silver (1821 – 1884)
Bellaport Hall
Brand Hall
The Hinds Head
Norton in Hales Railway 1870 – 1956
Norton-in-Hales School
St Chad's Church
Soldiers of WWI and WWII
Extracts from the records
"For King and country. The following men of this parish have joined his majesties forces since the declaration of war. Colonel Sir Lovelace Stammer. John Radford-Norcop. Percy Jones, Royal engineers. Arthur Glassey, James Morrey, Henry Morrey, Joseph Morrey. Herman Fisher. Joseph Mottram, Oliver Chidlow, John Malkin, Edward Ratcliffe, Sam Swire, Alfred Boughey."
Men from Norton-in-Hales in A section, Motor Machine-guns R.F.A.
George Bloore, Edgar William Silvester, Robert Holding, and Joseph Bloor.
(Sitting): J. Buckham, J. Moffat and Arthur Thomas Silvester.
An interesting Letter from a Norton in Hales Solider – The following is an extract taken from a letter written in the trenches on 2nd May 1915 and received by Mary Ann Smith, formerly Glassey living at 42 Forge in Norton in Hales. The writer, Private Thomas Glassey belongs to the 2nd Cheshire's, son of Mr William Glassey of Norton in Hales. "Just a line in answer to your most welcome letter just received. Dick and I hope you are all well as it leaves us both very well at present. I have written and told you I received your parcel all right. I suppose you have received it by now. Dear Sister I suppose you will be surprised to hear that I have heard from brother Will. He is in the Shropshire Light Infantry and out here at the front; he is on the right of me in the 21st division, so he is not far off me, but I can't get to see him. He never told me anything about his wife or his family affairs; I suppose he was fed up with civil life, but he is a brave man leaving his wife to fight for his King and country and a home for himself. Father will be proud having four sons fighting for the country. I am sure our family are doing their share in his great war; but what puzzles me is why those fellows at home keep going on strike for more wages: I wish I could see them I would tell them a little bit. Let them come out here and try this work: they would be glad to go home and will make ammunition and x it cut to us and we will do the rest. Nobody knows what the war means to England only them who have a share in it – it's either win or die. Germany must be crushed and we are the boys to do it; so cheer up, we are all right. I suppose you would like to know where I am writing this letter. Well, I am in the trenches, about 30 yards from the Germans. They don't give us much rest, but we are not afraid of them. You must thank Mrs Meadows for the socks she sent; they were a blessing to me; in fact, I could do with some more. I haven't had a chance for nine days, so I hope you will send some more. Tell C I have received the cigarettes she sent me. I was pleased when I got them. I hadn't had a smoke for five days, so you can tell they were acceptable. We have been in the trenches for ten days now and they boys quite enjoy it, they don't mind as long as they get a smoke and plenty to eat. You can show this letter to Mr Meadows if you like I suppose he would like to see how the boys from his rifle club are going on. Well I must close this short letter, because it is going dark and we are just going to 'stand to' for the night. You know there is no sleeping at night the 'allemands' will not let us sleep; they might creep up and take our trench, so we have to be on the alert.
Private William Glassey (16203), 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Born 1878. William enlisted in December 1914 at Shrewsbury. He was one of 10 soldiers killed in action on 8th May 1915 at Frezenburg Ridge, 3 miles north east of Ypres, during an enemy artillery attack.He is remembered on Panel 47 and 49 at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. He left behind a widow, Elizabeth Glassey formerly Lloyd and his children; James, Lawrence William, Winifred Jessie, Agnes Phoebe and Robert Charles.
Private Thomas Glassey (9201), 2nd Cheshire Regiment. Born 29th April 1888. Thomas enlisted in 1909. In 1911 he was serving with the military at The Ridge, Jubbulpore, India. Thomas was taken prisoner at Ypres; records show him detained in the Giessen Prisoner of War camp in July 1915. The War Office reported him as 'Missing' on the 14 April 1916 Casualty List. Thomas died in 1967 in Sturminster, Dorset, aged 79.
Corporal Richard Glassey (9202), 2nd Cheshire Regiment. Born 11th June 1889. Richard enlisted 16th April 1909 at Chester. In 1911 he was serving with the military at The Ridge, Jubbulpore, India. He contracted malaria in 1915 and was hospitalised. Was in France Jan 1915 to October 1915, Egypt from October 1915 to November 1915 and Salonika November 1915 until the end of the war. Richard died in 1961 in Whitchurch, aged 71.
Lance Corporal Harry Thomas (12503), 9th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.) Born 1st November 1891, Bellaport Gardens, Norton in Hales. 1891 at Bellaport, Norton in Hales, son of Benjamin and Hannah Thomas; Benjamin Thomas was a local gardener. He was employed at Osmaston Manor gardens before enlisting in Derby. Lance Corporal Thomas died on 21st August 1915 (Gallipoli). Aged 20 years. He is remembered on Panel 150 to 152 at Helles Memorial, Turkey.
Private John Benjamin Thomas (14659), Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Dorset Regiment. Born 1890 at Bellaport, Norton in Hales, the older brother of Harry Thomas and son of Benjamin and Hannah Thomas of Bellaport Gardens. In 1911 was a boarder 22 Blechynden Terrace, Southampton, his occupation is listed as a steward on the SS Adriatic. Private John Thomas died 20th November 1915 . He is remembered at Carnoy Military Cemetary.
Wilfred Thomas (131689), Royal Air Force. Born 1900 at Bellaport, Norton in Hales. Wilfred was the son of Benjamin and Hannah Thomas and the younger brother of John and Harry Thomas. In 1911 he was living at 81 Bellaport Gardens, Norton In Hales, Market Drayton. He served in 1918.
Captain Henry George Coulson Colville, 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Attached to. H.Q. 16th Infantry Brigade. Born 1886. Henry Colville was the son of Hugh Colville and Agnes Colville, formerly Davenport, of Bellaport Hall, Norton in Hales. Henry enlisted in 1906. On 27th August 1914, Henry aged 28 married Marjorie Eleanor Nantes at North Cerney, Gloucester. Henry was killed in action during the France-Flanders campaign on 22nd September 1915 Aged 29 years. Captain Colville was one of six officers who died during intense hand-to-hand fighting at the Battle of Hooge. He is buried at La Brique Cemetery at Plot 1, Row 1, Grave 21. "
Temporary Second Lieutenant Charles Emerson Clouting, 1st Battalion, The Buffs v East Kent Regiment. For conspicuous gallantry on the night of the 21st September 1915, near Forward Cottage, when on patrol duty with Captain Colville. 1st Shropshire Light Infantry. Captain Colville was shot within 15 yards of the German sap which they were reconnoitering, and, although Second Lieutenant Clouting endeavored to drag him back, he was unable to do so. It was uncertain whether Captain Colville was still alive, and, after the return of the patrol, a rescue party was led back by Second Lieutenant Clouting. He found Captain Colville dead, and, recognising that numbers would be a source of danger, he sent all his party back except Sergeant Baker. These two crawled back under heavy fire, dragging the body with them. There was a bright moonlight at the time."
Captain Henry George Coulson Colville
Private John Edward Malkin (10624), 5th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Born 1892 at Norton in Hales, John was the son of John Malkin (Villiage Clerk) and Ellen Malkin, of 51 Norton-in-Hales. John was killed in action on 25th September 1915 The Battle of Loos), during an enemy bombardment of trenches at "Railway Wood" near Ypres. Aged 24 years. He is remembered at Panel 47-49 at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Guardsman Herbert Morrey (21395), 3rd Battalion The Grenadier Guards. Born 1890, Herbert was the son of George and Ann Morrey, at Bellaport, Norton-in-Hales. In 1911 Herbert was living at Folly Lodge, Oakley Park, with his mother and grandmother, his occupation is listed as gardener. Guardsman Herbert Morrey was killed in action aged 25 on 17th October 1915 (The Battle of Loos) about which time the 3rd Battalion was being shelled as it occupied trenches on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. Heavy casualties were suffered, totaling 19 Officers and 500 Non Commissioned Officers and men, including all four Company Sergeant Majors. He is remembered on Panels 5-7 at Loos Memorial.
Guardsman William Forrester (20182), 4th Battalion The Grenadier Guards. Born 1895, son of George Forrester, Stockman, of 66 Brand Common, Norton in Hales. Forrester died of wounds at Bethune aged 20 years on 17th October 1915, about which time the 4th Battalion occupied complex communicating trenches alongside the Hulluch-Vermelles Road. He is buried at Choques Military Cemetery at Plot 1, Row G, Grave 69.
Corporal William Woodcock,14th Battalion The Hampshire Regiment. Born 1888, William was the son of John and Mary Woodcock then of Brown Hills, Market Drayton, and the husband of Faith Bickley of 7, Old Farm, Lilleshall, Newport. He died of wounds during the France-Flanders campaign on 1st February 1917. Aged 29 years. Corporal Woodcock is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery at Plot X, Row D, Grave 46.
Corporal John Morrey (23608), 17th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers. Born 1895, John was the son of Frederick Morrey and Annie Morrey, formerly Martin. In 1911 the family resided at 17 Main Street, Norton-in-Hales and John was working as a farm labourer and was boarding with the Owen family at 60 Brand Cottages. He was killed in action during the France-Flanders campaign on 5th May 1917. Aged 22 years. Corporal Morrey is buried at Vadencourt Cemetery at Plot 1, Row B, Grave 18.
Private William Morrey (24886), 6th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. Born 1882 at Norton in Hales to Elizabeth Phoebe Morrey. In 1911 William married Florence Alice Jones. Private William Morrey was killed in action on 3rd March 1917 in France and Flanders.
Corporal Albert Edward Pruce (17362), 6th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. Albert was the husband of Alice Annie Pruce, of 45 Norton-in-Hales. He was killed in action during the France-Flanders campaign on 16th August 1917 Aged 29 years. Corporal Pruce was one of 42 of his unit killed at the Battle of Lanquemark, 5 miles north of Ypres. He is remembered on Panel 112 to 113 at the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Albert Edward Pruce
Private George William Bloor (201989), "H" Battalion Tank Corps. Born in Norton in Hales. Born 1892, George was the son of George and Annie Bloor. In 1911 the family were living at Charn Cottage, Norton in Hales. Private Bloor was killed in action during the France–Flanders campaign on 23rd November 1917. Age 25. He is remembered on Panel 13 at Cambrai Memorial, Louerval – Pte George Bloor was born in Norton in Hales in Shropshire. He originally served with the Royal Field Artillery and deployed to France in Nov 1915. he transferred to the Tanks in early 1917 and was killed in action on 23 Nov 1917.
Lieutenant Joseph Henry Bloor (1228), Gordon Highlanders. Born 1897. Joseph was the younger brother of George William Bloor. When Joseph enlisted on 17th May 1915 at Stoke on Trent, his address was Brook House, Norton in Hales, his occupation listed as farm labourer. On 13th November 1916, Joseph was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in leading his men in the attack on Beaumont Hamel, when a German general was among the prisoners captured. on the 21st November 1917 where upon he won the Military Cross whilst serving with the 1st/8th Sherwood Forester's.
Joseph Bloor
Private Cecil Harry Rudd (22007), 2nd Battalion The Grenadier Guards. Born 1894, Cecil was the son of Arthur and Emma Rudd of 76 Bellaport, Norton in Hales. Harry enlisted at the of January 1915 and was killed in action on 1st December 1917 about which date the 2nd Battalion was in action near Gonnelieu. He is remembered on Panel 2 at Cambrai Memorial, Louerval.
Sapper Reginald Kent Bishop Jones (1248, 486485), Royal Engineers. Born 1893, Reginald was the son of John Bishop Jones. In 1911, the family were running the Hinds Head Inn, John's occupation is listed as motor mechanic. In 1917 Reginald married Doris Lucy Thompkinson. Sapper Jones died at the Regimental Command Depot, Thetford of influenza on 4th November 1918. Aged 25 years. He is buried at Brighton (Bear Road) Cemetery at Grave ZGV. On 13th July 1919 his son Reginald Henry Bishop Jones was born.
Arthur George Jones (K36635), Born 15th February 1890 the older brother of Reginald Kent Bishop Jones. He joined the Navy in 1916 and served on HMS Victory II and HMS Barham.
Gunner Arthur Thomas Silvester (1340), Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry and Motors). Born 1889, Arthur was the son of George and Jane Silvester, formerly Hall. In 1911 Arthur Thomas, a butcher was boarding with the Rathbone family at 20, Norton in Hales. On 3rd August 1914 Arthur married Sarah Reynolds Stephens (a Cook at the Rectory) at St Chad's Church, Norton in Hales. Arthur Thomas Silvester died in 1981 aged 92.
Gunner Edgar William Silvester (1344), Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry and Motors). Born 1892, Edgar was the son of George and Jane Silvester and the younger brother of Arthur Thomas Silvester. In 1911, Edgar a Wheelwright, was living at 55 Main Street with his widowed father and siblings, Percy, Lily, Archie and Nellie. On 23rd January 1927 George married Edith Annie Peake at St Chad's Church, Norton in Hales. Edgar Silvester died in 1960 aged 68.
Gunner Robert Holding (1274), Machine Gun Corps, Motor Machine Gun Service Royal Artillery. Born 20th July 1888, Robert was the son of John and Mary Holding. In 1911, Robert a groom was living with his parents at Oakley Forge, Robert Holding died in 1977 aged 89.
Captain John Radford-Norcop Esq (23608), 8th Foot Staffordshire Yeomanry. Born 1877 at Etwall, the only son of Arthur Radford, of Smalley, Derbyshire. On 22nd May 1910, John married Phyllis Thornton the daughter of Colonel Walker Thornton, at St Chad's Church, Norton in Hales. At the time of his marriage he is discribed as a late Lieutenant of the King's Regiment. In 1911, John was living at Brand Hall with his wife Phyllis Radford-Norcop and their servants. During WW1 he served in Egypt.
Alfred Boughey (3670, 3357), Life Guards, Guards Machine Gun Regiment. Born 1897, he was the son of Alfred and Mary Boughey. When Alfred enlisted in 1919, his address was given as Brand Common.
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Lovelace Stamer, Baronet. Born 4th April 1859. Lovelace was educated at Harrow and Trinity College Cambridge. He joined the 16th Lancers in 1881 and served in India, retiring as major in 1899. During the Boer War he served with the Reserve of Officers and in WW1 with the Imperial Yeomanry. Lovelace was jutice of the peace for Staffordshire. In 1911, living at Betton House with his wife Eva Mary Stamer, daughter Isabel Eva Stamer and their servants, his occupation is given as late major 16th Lancers. Lovelace Stamer died in 1941.
George William John Southerton (8362), Air Mechanic Royal Flying Corp. Born 1896, he was the son of George and Sarah Southerton. In 1911 he occupation is listed as apprentice joiner and was living with this widowed mother, uncle and nephew at 35 Main Street, Norton in Hales. He was discharged on 13th March 1917. On 13th January 1931, at 39 Main Street, Norton in Hales George died.
Private Samuel Cottrell Swire (3127, 300426), Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment), Corps of Hussars. Born 1896 at Norton in Hales to Thomas Humble Swire and Mary Ann Swire. On 16th September 1926 at St Chad's Church Norton in Hales Sam married Margret Lillian Craddock. In 1939 Sam Swire and his wife Margaret Swire were living at Poultry Farm, 80 Bellaport Road.
Second Lieutenant Philip Colin Rawson, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regiment Born 1897 at Norton in Hales, to Philip Heathcote and Lillie Campbell Rawson. In 1901, Philip and his family were living at Brand Hall, Norton in Hales. Second Lieutenant Philip Rawson was reported missed and later assumed killed in action on 25th September 2015, he was aged 19 years. He is remembered at Loos Memorial, CWGC Cemetery/Memorial Pas de Calais, France, Panel 93 to 95.
Philip Colin Rawson
WWI War Memorial in St Chad's Church, Norton in Hales
Norton in Hales – Proposed War Memorial. At a public meeting of parishioners held on the 20th November 1918, it was unanimously decided that a memorial of the British Victory in the Great War and a Tribute to those from the Parish who have fought for that Victory should be erected in Norton in Hales Village, and that every effort should be made to build a Parish Hall, as a worthy and lasting Memorial that will be an Ornament to the Village and of Social and Educational benefit to present and future Parishioners. It is realized that the cost will be great, at least £1,000, but the committee feel sure that every Parishioner will give freely in accordance with his means as a thank-offering for deliverance from the horrors of War in this country and in many cases as an acknowledgment of the increased riches that have been vouchsafed to him. The following committee was elected at the above meeting and any member will be glad to receive at an early date the promise of your Subscription. Payment should be deferred until a later date and may be made in two or more installments at your convenience. Mr F. Bourne, Mrs Chadwick, Mr F. Crewe, Captain Heathcore, Mr A. W. Jones, Mr W. H. Keay, Mrs Meadows, Mrs A. Morrey, Captain J. Radford-Norcop, Mrs J. Radford-Norcop, Mr M. Palmer, Reverend D. Roberts, Mr T. H. Swire, Mr J. Meadows (Hon Tres) and Mr C. Chadwick (Hon Sec).
3rd Shropshire Home Guard 1940-1945
George Powell. Fred Powell. Jack Woodcock. Steve Healy
Tom Swire. Alf B. Harold Wrench. Joe Davis. Bert Davis. John Bloor.
Wilf Eardley. George Simon. Fred Rochel. Sam Swire. Les J. Bert Rathbone. George Hudson.
Samuel Cottrell Swire A.R.P Warden
Flying Officer Ralph Kenyon Crompton, 611 Squadron Royal Air Force. Born 14th March 1916, Ralph was the son of Ralph and Josephine Crompton of Betton Hall, near Norton in Hales, and was one of two brothers who died whilst serving as RAF Pilots. He was married to Ellen Mawdsley Crompton, of Tarporley, Cheshire. Flying Officer Crompton was the pilot of Spitfire N3064 that was on patrol over Dunkirk on 2nd June 1940. He was attacked and shot down by an enemy ME 109 fighter. Flying Officer Crompton was 24 years old. He is buried at Etaples Cemetery, France at Plot 46, Row C, Grave 17.
Ralph Kenyon Compton
Squadron Leader John Anthony Crompton (74668). Born 1919 John was the son of Ralph and Josephine Crompton, of Betton Hall, near Norton in Hales, and was one of two brothers who died whilst serving as RAF Pilots. Squadron Leader Crompton was the pilot of "Beaufighter" JL 625 which took off from its base in Lybia on 23rd August 1943 for a sortie over enemy occupied territory. It was later reported that his aircraft had been shot down by anti-aircraft fire and had crashed into the sea near Ionian island of Zante killing both pilot and navigator, Sgt Henry George Griffiths. Both crew members were buried on the island but were later transferred to Phaleron War Cemetery. Squadron Leader Crompton was 24 years old. He is buried at Phaleron War Cemetry, Athens, Greece at Plot 5, Row D, Grave 14.
Flight Lieutenant John E. Wilkins. The Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror, Monday, November 22nd 1948 – Mrs Wilkins, wife of Flight Lieutenant J. E. Wilkins, sole survivor of the British airlift Dakota crash in the Soviet boarder last night to visit her husband in Schoeneberg Hospital. At the frontier they were met by a Soviet Officer who took the British officers place. Soviet authorities waived all travel formalities. A British doctor from Luebeck had been in Schoeneberg Hospital since Saturday after this injured officer was reported to have a good chance to pull through, although still dangerously ill. Bodies of the three men killed in the crash were brought to Luebeck yesterday and arrangements to salvage the aircraft were begun. Mrs Wilkins lives at Norton in Hales, near Market Drayton Shropshire. An official announcement said that she was expected to remain in the Soviet zone for two days. John Wilkins died on 26th of November 1948.
Flight Lieutenant John Wilkins


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200 Virginia St, Beckley, WV 25801
READING CAMP
Reading Camp is a literacy program aimed at children 7-11 who think they may not like reading or just aren't good at it to help open them up to the joy of reading and to make reading a fun and positive experience. Reading Camp is held for one week during the summer as done jointly with our ministry partner, St Luke Lutheran Church. To learn more go to our Reading Camp website.
DAUGHTERS OF THE KING
The Daughters of the King (DoK) is our adult women's group whose mission is the extension of God's kingdom through prayer, service and evangelism. The DoK maintains and prays our parish prayer list and help one another on their individual faith journeys. The DoK meets in the evening on the 3rd Wednesday at 5pm.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH WOMEN
The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) is a national organization that is involved in a number of missional areas, including literacy, education, health and the United Thank Offering. The St Stephen's chapter hosts several fundraisers each year for charitable uses and supports the work of the parish. The ECW meets on the first Thursday of each month for lunch at Pasquale's at 11:30.
Our Community Giving ministry incorporates our support of outside community service groups who seek to make a better world for their fellow humans as well as individuals in need. Some of the groups supported include national and international organizations such as Episcopal Relief and Development, United Thank Offering, and Turning Pointe. Locally, we support organizations such as the Highland Education Project, Mountaineer Food Bank, and the Raleigh County Humane Society. We also are able to help individuals in need with small grants to address immediate needs.
MEMORIAL GARDEN & COLUMBARIUM
For over 30 years St Stephen's has offered a final resting place to anyone who wishes to be interred in the precincts of a Christian community. All interments are done in the auspices of a worship service and our garden space is tenderly cared for by our Gardening Group.
GARDEN GROUP
Our Garden group meets regularly throughout the year to maintain the beauty of our landscaping.
St Stephen's has an active music program and welcomes your gifts and enthusiasm. Our choir sings most Sundays September through May at our 9:30 service. In addition, we welcome musicians to play in the context of our worship.
WORSHIP SERVERS
We are blessed to be able to draw on the dedicated service of so many that make our worship a beautiful, meaningful and inspiring experience. They include Eucharistic Ministers, Acolytes, Lectors, Ushers and Tellers. We are always welcoming of anyone who feels they would like to assist in worship.
The Altar Guild is a dedicated group of men and women who work behind the scenes to prepare for Communion and make the church ready for worship.
8:00 a.m. – Rite I Holy Eucharist:
A spoken contemplative worship in traditional language
9:30am – Rite II Holy Eucharist:
A traditional liturgy in modern language with music
200 Virginia St. Beckley, WV 25801
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Since 1987 Whipple Superchargers ™ have been the pioneers and leaders of twin-screw supercharging. With over 26 years of twin-screw supercharging experience, Whipple's team have now engineered the most powerful intercooled twin-screw SC systems available today for your Dodge V8 engines (in 2.9L and 4.0L configurations). With all the latest technology, the Whipple system makes tons of power, giving you tire-frying, neck-whipping power that will give you a grin from ear to ear. The 2.9L Whipple system is 100% complete and is designed for stock engines but has enough capability to work with heavily modified engines.
The system features Whipple's massive oversized air-to-water intercooler for unmatched cooling capacity, a unique front feed W175ax (a whopping 2.9 liters) integrated Whipple twin-screw supercharger that reaches 99% volumetric efficiency and industry leading power potential. The unique intercooled bypass system offers better acceleration and less than 1 HP of consumption during cruising for excellent fuel economy. While others claim, Whipple Superchargers simply deliver more power per pound of boost than any other supercharger on the market today.
*Manufacturer claims no internal engine modifications required, however Arrington always recommends forged upgrades on any engine running more than 6 psi of supercharged boost, and in any turbo-charged HEMI application.


One team consists of 2 players. The game starts with a small safe zone and there will be airdrops every minute. Eliminate other teams to become the final winner!
2. The Bunny series of Looks and Packs will be removed from the Supply Shop and a new destructor skin, Chopper will be available.
(1) An all-new trap #GBunny Box#l is available to make in the workshop. The Bunny Box can be placed on unobstructed floors. It looks very similar to chests and deals tons of damage to nearby enemies once triggered.
(2) Enlarged the trigger and damage range of Electrified Land Mine and increased its damage.
(3) Traps and gadgets have a chance to drop in the Classic Mode now.
(1) The discount event for creating a guild will end after the maintenance of October 11. Seize the opportunity to create a guild while the discount is still available!
(2) Players' tier can now be displayed on the guild member list.
(3) Players can now invite other players to team up from the guild member list and guild chat channel.
(4) Added a guidance effect to the icon of the guild benefits chest when the opening requirements are met.
(1) Pass Exp will be 50% off in the Pass Shop till the end of this season.
(2) Added a sound effect when claiming Exp from the Season Pass Missions.
6. Player Season Level and Partner Info will be displayed on the Profile interface.
(1) Added an entrance to the benefit events, can now tap to directly enter the Pass Purchase and Weekly Sale interface.
(2) Optimized the display effect of the Supply Shop entrance.
(1) Added a Free Input function. Players can now freely input messages only visible to teammates on the Quick Term interface.
(2) Additional messages will be added according to the player's current situation when sending a quick term. For example, the name of nearby supplies will be added when sending the quick term "Supplies here!".
9. Added an animation and special effect when warmobiles are destroyed.
10. Added #GLive#l on the PC version: Players can now enter the Live interface via the Live button on the top of the main interface.
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As mission critical applications become more commonplace, so will the need for high-availability computing.
Industrial computer applications and specifications have evolved significantly over the last 30 years. The first industrial computers provided human-machine interface (HMI) support and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) for automated machinery within factories. Today, machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and big data analytics have created a need for rugged computing in outdoor and harsh environments. Industrial computing applications now range from solar farm monitoring to parking lot kiosks.
The first industrial computers were more robust than their commercial-grade counterparts, but were not purposely designed for mission critical applications. Today, features such as ingress protection rating, vibration testing, and temperature ratings help qualify a computer as industrial, but there's little industry standardization on how to measure and report reliability, availability, and serviceability.
In 1984, IBM released the first personal computer marketed for industrial applications. The IBM 5534 was a beefed-up, dark-brown-colored version of the traditional light-beige IBM XT computer. Features like the double-fan cooling, hardened metal casing, high-output power supply, thermal sensor, and lockable drive door cover made the 5534 more suitable for factory floor applications.
By the 1990s, industrial computers flourished, running mostly SCADA and HMI software applications. There was a growing movement to replace programmable logic controller (PLC)-based control systems with PC control software. By 2000, most industries abandoned the notion of PC-based control due to operating system instability and version changes. Today, we find that PLC and distributed control system hardware have remained the control platforms of choice, while the industrial computer is the preferred platform for SCADA and HMI applications. Use cases for industrial computers include security appliances and remote authentication servers. However, there is uncertainty about whether the industrial PC is an appropriate choice for mission critical process applications.
Linux distributions, such as Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu, have addressed operating system stability and lifecycle concerns. However, there are fewer commercial off-the-shelf industrial applications for Linux systems than forMicrosoft Windows-based operating systems. Virtualization hypervisors, such as VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Stratus Technologies everRun software, provide fault tolerance between the application and the hardware. Designing a fault-tolerant system exclusively with applications software, operating systems, or hypervisors adds complexity, while redundant elements intended to increase reliability can lead to more points of failure.
A simplified approach to designing a highly dependable industrial computing system starts with the hardware. Power supplies, fans, memory, and disk storage cause most computer failures, especially when exposed to excessive heat, dust, and electrostatic discharge (see Figure 1). To mitigate these failure modes, mission critical system designers should consider three key measures: reliability, serviceability, and availability.
Reliability is the probability that a device will perform its required function under stated conditions for a specific period of time and is quantified as the mean time between failures (MTBF). Manufacturers typically determine this number from product testing, product modeling (e.g., MIL-HDBK-217 or Telcordia), or measuring product failures.
While testing and modeling prior to product launch provide useful estimates, these approximations do not correlate well with field performance experienced by end users. Field failure data provide greater MTBF accuracy, assuming the manufacturer accounts for all field failures.
For example, a 100-year MTBF implies that for every 100 products in service for one year, one hardware failure will occur. The larger the sample size, the more accurate the MTBF.
Eliminating the top causes of hardware failures significantly increases MTBF. Top causes of hardware failures include fans, physical media drives, error-correcting code (ECC) memory, and conformal coating.
Fans: Microprocessors typically rely on fan cooling for fast clock rates and wide bus architectures. Fans wear out, frequently fail, and pull dust and debris into the computer chassis. Internal dust creates a thermal blanket over printed circuit boards, resulting in trapped heat that causes premature component failures. Industrial computers are typically exposed to higher ambient temperatures than their commercial counterparts, so a cooling method is still required. Passive cooling techniques, such as finned convection heat sinks and conduction heat pipes, eliminate fans and their associated failures (see Figure 2).
Physical media drives: In general terms, solid-state drives (SSDs) have three times the MTBF of magnetic, spinning hard-disk drives (HDDs). Because SSDs contain no moving parts, there is no chance of a mechanical failure. SSDs also outperform HDDs in locations with vibration and elevated temperatures. When selecting an SSD, it is important to consider the difference between single-level cell (SLC) and multilevel cell (MLC) technologies. SLC SSDs offer 30 times more writes and increased data retention over lower-priced MLC SSDs.
Error-correcting code (ECC) memory: Electromagnetic interference inside a computer can cause a single bit of dynamic random access memory to flip to its opposite state. This phenomenon may cause an unnoticeable pixel change on a screen or a devastating system crash. ECC memory employs a parity checksum algorithm to check and correct for these errors.
Conformal coating: The protective coating or polymer film that conforms to the circuit board topology is called "conformal coating." It protects electronic circuits from harsh environments that contain moisture or corrosion-causing chemical contaminants.
Serviceability measures how quickly a computer can return to operation after a system fault and is measured by the mean time to repair (MTTR). This is a more challenging value to calculate than MTBF because MTTR depends on the time to obtain a spare, how the site is manned, and how the computer is configured. Depending on user conditions, the MTTR can range from seconds to weeks.
Strategies designed to reduce MTTR include redundant power supplies, redundant drives, and out-of-band management (OOBM).
Redundant power supplies: While some industrial computers have extremely reliable power supplies, many do not, necessitating a redundant supply. For computers with high power supply reliability, the benefit comes from the power input diversity. Powering each supply from a different external source, such as an ac wall outlet and a dc uninterruptible power supply (UPS), ensures that the computer will never lose power if one source fails. Further, maintenance personnel can eliminate the MTTR altogether by hot-swapping power supplies without a disruption to the system.
Redundant drives: A redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is a data storage virtualization technology that enables multiple drives to mirror data to each other, but act as one logical drive. RAID can offer significant reduction of the MTTR because either drive can continue functioning in the event of a single drive failure.
OOBM: This strategy involves a group of technologies that allows the owner of remote computer assets to perform many maintenance and recovery tasks, such as restoring an operating system or performing a system reboot, over the network. Without OOBM, system specialists have to travel to the remote computer. By eliminating the need to travel to a remote site, OOBM significantly reduces the MTTR.
Maximizing availability requires increasing the MTBF and decreasing the MTTR. A common way to express availability is in terms of "nines," or downtime. A five-nines availability of 99.999% may sound like a good design goal; however, five minutes of downtime may be catastrophic to a process or enterprise (see Table 1).
A paradox appears when adding redundant components, such as power supplies and drives, to increase availability leads to a decreased MTBF because of the potential for added component failures. This is why it is critical to keep redundant designs simple and comprehensive.
Although classifying computers as "industrial" is still highly subjective, there are objective metrics to consider when choosing the level of availability required by an application. As mission critical applications become more commonplace, so will the need for high-availability computing. By optimizing MTBF and MTTR, computing systems can meet or exceed the availability requirement.
Tim Munro is market manager, Computing Systems at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL Inc.). He has worked in the industrial automation industry for 25 years and has expertise in motion control, PLCs, SCADA systems, and networks. He has degrees in electrical engineering technology and control systems engineering technology.


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Selective effects of DNA damaging agents on HIV long terminal repeat activation and virus replication in vitro.

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Much attention has recently focused on the observation that UV light can activate the long terminal repeat (LTR) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although the mechanism of LTR activation remains obscure, several lines of investigation have suggested that it is a result of activation of the NF-kappa B transcription factor (s) following signaling events related to generalized DNA damage. In this report, we present data demonstrating that HIV LTR activation is not a general consequence of cellular DNA damage, but rather a process unique to specific genotoxic stimuli, and that it does not necessarily depend on activation of NF-kappa B. Furthermore, we demonstrate that several of these agents can significantly increase HIV replication and accelerate CD4 -positive lymphocyte cytotoxicity in vitro. These findings, therefore, could have clinical significance to AIDS patients with malignancies who are undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

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Why does the Catholic Church get a "pass" after conspiring with the Nazis against the Jews?
What evidence do you have to support your assertion? The historical record, as I read it, only supports the idea that the Catholic Church was complacent in the face of Nazi atrocities.
The problem is that almost the whole world, all the Allied powers included, were complacent when faced with the facts. That the concentration camps were liberated was a byproduct of the war and not an aim in and of itself.
The current pope (Pope Ratzinger) was a member of the Hitler Youth, a notorious anti-Semitic organization. The catholic church has a long history of murdering Jews, so I can understand your reluctance open your mind to historical facts.
I hope you're held responsible for the involuntary things you did as an fourteen-year-old when you're 81. Enrollment in Hitler Youth was mandatory and EVERY German citizen of his age that lived through that time would have been required to enroll. It doesn't necessarily point towards his views, where his half-century of work as a friend of Judiasm. So much work, in fact, that the World Jewish Congress welcomed his election to the papal seat as a friend of Jews worldwide.
As for the evidence link above – yes, the German Catholic Church has admitted using Jewish labor during the war period, as did the Protestant church and a number of other organizations (which the article notes). It's part of the tragic history of how ordinary Germans were complicit in the crimes of the Nazi regime. But this occurred within Germany, and doesn't constitute "conspiring," nor does it suggests that the global, worldwide Catholic Church was involved.
I won't defend the long-standing hypocrisy within the Catholic Church, nor will I try to apologize for their constant inability to maintain the level of morality that they preach, but if you want to make inflammatory remarks in this forum, I suggest you back it up with real data and not conjecture and circumstance.
Although you make no attempt to actually answer my question, at least you have learned One Fact between your first and second response, and it didn't take long at all. Just think what might happen if you spent a little time enlightening yourself before answering!
Although your comment, 'I hope you're held responsible . . ." is irrelevant, it illuminates the weakness of your response.
You can put your head back in (the sand?) now.
@PopeJohnPaulJr This "question" appears to have been merely a platform for you to exercise your own clearly inflexible views not to engage in discussion or acquire knowledge. That and attacks on people honestly trying to respond are not in the spirit of Fluther and not appreciated.
You are completely incorrect. My question is indisputably historically accurate, and doubtlessly more socially relevant than the questions "What's your favorite this and favorite that". But thanks for responding . . .
Indisputably historically accurate? Historians are absolutely split on how culpable non-governmental institutions were in the Holocaust. It was the topic of my honors thesis in college.
You still haven't established any historical basis for your opinion, nor have you established sources that would point to fact. Once you do that, we can start answering your question.
geez guys, can't we all just get along?
OK, I will take you at your word and give you a response.
They do not get a pass. That is a faulty premise.
The Vatican has a more troubling history when it comes to the Holocaust. As with Italy in general, it was often left to the actions of lower level Church officials and individuals to 'do the right thing.' Whether the Pope himself did enough is still debated today.
Prior to the war the Vatican seemed to start out on the right foot. In 1938, Pope Pius XI spoke out against Germany's racial dogma and the Italian government's willingness to follow in Hitler's footsteps. He was a forceful critic of Fascism and asserted one could not be both Catholic and Fascist. Pius XI died in 1939, six months before the beginning of WWII. Eugenio Pacelli, a close associate, succeeded him as Pius XII.
However, as soundedfury rightly pointed out, the complicity and complacency of the Catholic Church was one and the same with that of other religions and other institutions including governments at the time.
Further, it was not universal within the church.
"Irene Sendler, the courageous Polish Catholic nurse who saved Jewish children from death at the hands of the Nazis, died at the age of 98 in a hospital in Warsaw.
Sendler became known as the angel of the Warsaw ghetto for having saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death.
During that time she worked for the Warsaw department of social wellbeing which administered the community soup kitchens throughout the city. She worked tirelessly helping Jews and Catholics.
After the creation of the Warsaw ghetto, Sendler was able to take in the children of many families in order to keep them from being deported to the concentration camps. She transported the children in ambulances as if they were sick with typhus, she hid them in trash cans, tool boxes, supply chests or coffins and later in convents and Catholic homes.
"It is true that the Vatican sheltered about 470 Jews behind its walls following the German occupation, while another 4200 were protected in Roman monasteries and convents. After the war, the chief Rabbi in Rome as well as Italian Jewish communities heaped praise upon Pius XII for his support.
The most notable example of individual action by Church officials to save Jews occurred in Assisi. Shortly after the Germans began rounding up Italian Jews, Padre Ruffino Niccacci of the Damiano monastery was asked by his bishop to find homes and hiding places for more than 300 Jews just arrived from Trieste.
Well done. We agree on some measure of complicity. However, I see no mention of the Reichskonkordat, which is valid in Germany today.
Historically, the catholic church's attitude toward the Jews has been that they are guilty of killing Christ. Yes, there were very many catholics who came to the aid of the Jews, but there were just as many who enthusiastically supported and aided the Nazis in the roundup and murder of the Jews. The catholic church has tried (unsuccessfully) to conceal this fact. This practice continues today, and we see it revealed in how the church has responded to their sexual predatory priests. Denial, defense, attacking the accuser, and moving the priest to a new parish, where they continued to molest their flock. This was not atypical, this was S.O.P., from the highest level of the Vatican. I don't mean to digress, I mention this to exemplify the churches willingness to sacrifice morality for the sake of dogma.
Why does the church get a pass?
What do you mean by "getting a pass"?
Is this a racist term?
How about an example in which the society is not following you with care (the example is inside)?
Should criminals be kept with criminals of their own sort?
Why do many people who consider themselves Christians believe in capital punishment?


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Soap and a toothbrush, a welcome relief in Nepal
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By Naresh Newar
For now, the simple necessities provided by UNICEF hygiene kits are a happy sight for families in Nepal's remote mountain villages who lost everything to the devastating April earthquake, but the needs remain great.
GORKHA DISTRICT, Nepal/ HONG KONG, 21 May 2015 – A packet of clean toothbrushes, a tube of toothpaste, water purifier and a few bars of soap might sound like a token disaster relief package for a devastated family that has lost their home and their farm in Nepal's recent earthquake. But for 46-year-old Balbahadur Ghale and his family, a hygiene kit is a lifesaver.
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Elina Gurung washes her face using soap that was included in a UNICEF-provided hygiene kit in Baluwa village, in Nepal's Gorkha district, while another young girl brushes her teeth nearby.
"This is the first time someone gave us such things, which we have been trying hard to find for a long time," says Mr. Ghale as he checks out the contents of the blue bag.
"Everyone comes here with rice and tents but not soap, mosquito nets and all these things inside this bag," he says, explaining that there is a huge shortage of soap in the market for the villagers, especially now when they need it the most.
Timely support
Nearly 200 km west of Kathmandu, Baluwa and its small marketplace are a centre point connecting several remote village wards, including Simjung Village Development Committee (VDC), where Mr. Ghale lives, and neighbouring VDCs like Sworpani, Manbu and Barpak, which have all been hit especially hard.
More than 44,000 houses have been destroyed in Gorkha district, and with the roads heavily damaged, Baluwa is the last village accessible by road.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, walk for hours to Baluwa to get relief supplies.
"While food relief is very crucial, my concern is sanitation and hygiene, as there are not enough hygiene materials, and UNICEF's support has been very timely," says local community leader Prem Gurung.
As a social volunteer, Mr. Gurung is helping to coordinate the distribution of the UNICEF-provided hygiene kits, which each contain hand soap, laundry soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, a nail cutter, sanitary pads, towels, undergarments, water purifier, a comb, a clothesline and a bucket. Families are also provided mosquito nets.
Mr. Gurung is one of those who lost his home in Baluwa, where nearly all of its 99 buildings, housing nearly 5,000 people, were completely destroyed in the 25 April earthquake.
"They couldn't save anything, not even a toothbrush," he says.
A man walks amid the rubble of destroyed houses in Baluwa village.
Brushing after weeks
"I haven't brushed for many weeks now," says 12-year-old Til Kumari Gurung, lying down because of her injured leg. While she looks unhappy about losing her school books and her favorite things, she is relieved to get her own soap and a toothbrush.
The start of the pre-monsoon rains has many families worried, especially about the hygiene situation, given that they are surrounded by the debris and rubble of demolished buildings, along with waste, gravel, garbage and food scraps.
Sophiya Gurung, 3, looks out from under a mosquito net included in a UNICEF-provided hygiene kit in Baluwa village.
"I'm worried about my grandchildren, but I feel a little relieved to have these hygiene materials, as these will help them from falling sick," says 60-year-old Kalu Ghale, who usually takes care of the grandchildren each day while their parents try to find food.
"My daughters are now brushing twice a day and cleaning their hands many times, and my wife is happy to get her sanitary pad," says Lal Bahadur Gurung, who had to travel all the way to Abu Khaireni, the nearest town, nearly 40 kilometres downhill, to buy soap, lucky to find any at all.
It is a necessity most families cannot even afford. And while the hygiene kits are a help, they will need more supplies soon, Mr. Gurung says, as his village is already running out of stock.
There are just too many families to take care of, he says.
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"Levy's work is both ramified and momentous, addressing environments of many kinds, and filled with stories in which human behavior has played a decisive role."
— Noam Gal, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Between 2008 and 2014 Dana Levy produced four single-channel video works that depict her physical intervention in museum displays in Israel, France, and the U.S. She fuses life and death, and confronts the natural world within museum exhibits that reflect man's concern with ordering and categorizing knowledge – a human pursuit that involves sterilization and death. Levy exposes historic and natural history museum displays to new ways of thinking relevant in current socio-cultural contexts, reminding us that a collection is a living thing and a museum is not a graveyard:
Flying birds spin around the museum ceiling fan in Silent Among Us as their taxidermy counterparts stand in silence.
The stillness of the museum is transformed into unpredictable chaos in The Wake, where Monarch butterflies escape their glass displays one-by-one, as if reawakening from an eternal slumber.
In Dead World Order, the curator of Maison de l'Armateur in Le Havre, France, walks around and rearranges the display in the museum, cramped with artifacts of French colonialism.
Impermanent Display is a collection of paintings and sculptures from the 1920s to the 1970s of the Petah Tikva in Israel, that are hung outdoors on a three thousand year-old Roman mausoleum.
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Silent Among Us
Shot in a local Natural History Museum in northern Israel. 100 white doves fly around cabinets of stuffed birds and other animals. This is a symbol of a culture which is unwilling to let the past go, and lives so naturally with the dead. They...
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Tags: animals, blu-ray, death and dying, jewish, middle east
The Wake was filmed at the Invertebrate Zoology department of the Carnegie Natural History Museum in Pittsburgh. In this department there are old cabinets full of categorized butterfly specimens, neatly ordered in drawers. I released into this...
Tags: animals, blu-ray, death and dying, religion/spirituality
Dead World Order
The house in the film is Maison de l'Armateur, "the ship owner's house", one of the few houses in Le Havre, France that remained in tact after the city was completely destroyed in the allied bombings of D-Day, 1944. The work deals with the desire...
Impermanent Display
Museum collections of various kinds are the object of artist Dana Levy's ongoing, consistent study in the past decade.
Tags: art collectors, art history, installation, jewish, landscape, middle east, visual art


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Quebec's northern Inuit region looks for solution to suicide crisis
31 October 2018 Elias Abboud, CBC News	0 Comments indigenous, Inuit, Kuujjuaq, mental health, Nunavik, quebec, Suicide, youth
About 200 mourners gathered Tuesday at the Anglican church in Kuujjuaq, the administrative centre of Quebec's Inuit territory of Nunavik, for the funerals of two young people believed to have committed suicide last week. Their deaths come just as Nunavik's leaders meet for two days to look for ways to end a suicide crisis in northern Quebec. (Elias Abboud/CBC)
As people in Kuujjuaq prepared to bury two young people Tuesday — the latest victims of apparent suicides — the town's mayor called for hope.
Some 60 people from across Quebec's Inuit territory of Nunavik gathered in the Kuujjuaq Forum, a community gymnasium, for the first of two days of meetings to address a recent spike in suicides in the region, and to try to find a solution.
"I am proud to say Inuit are the only people to survive in this harsh country before we had modern conveniences like electricity and vehicles," Mayor Tunu Napartuk told the meeting.
"We have forgotten where we come from."
A message of hope amid the pain
In his message of finding hope and pride, Napartuk speaks from experience.
He says as a teenager growing up in Kuujjuaq, he contemplated ending his life.
"I've been very fortunate to have people around me such as my mother and my father who were understanding enough to make me know that 'yes, this pain and suffering that you're feeling right now is going to come to pass. It will finish. It will end,'" said Napartuk.
"I'm 46 years old right now, and that sense of hopelessness — oh wow, I'm just so happy I had someone around me who cared about me."
Napartuk says it is now his responsibility to be attentive to his six children and pass on to them his sense of hopefulness.
"It sounds very simple, and I may not be the best to give that to my children at times because of my own issues, but I'm doing the best I can with what I have."
Kuujjuaq Mayor Tunu Napartuk said he grappled with his own suicidal impulses as a teenager and credits his parents for helping him find hope and pride. He says that's what needs to be instilled in Inuit young people across Nunavik. (Elias Abboud/CBC)
'It's like our heart turned to rock'
No sooner had it begun that the meeting to address suicides was suspended for two hours Tuesday afternoon, so that many gathered there could attend the funeral for those who died last week.
About 200 mourners filled the pews of the brand-new Anglican church, singing a hymn in Inuktitut as a musician played guitar.
Napartuk, himself the son of an Anglican minister, read a passage from the Book of Psalms, standing not far from the two caskets laid out, end to end, at the front of the church.
One of them held the remains of Gaétan David's nephew Jimmy.
David, a southerner who has lived in Kuujjuaq for 23 years, is married to an Inuk woman and has children growing up in the village of 2,800. Jimmy, he says, is the sixth or seventh member of his extended family to commit suicide.
"My nephew was a fine young man. He had lots to live for. He had a three-year-old daughter," said David. "It's kind of hard on the family, and we wish things like that would not happen, you know?"
David says the number of suicides that his family has had to deal with have a lasting impact.
"It's like our heart turned to a rock," said David. "Yes, we cry. We get hurt. Without talking to each other, the family all said the same thing: 'too much is too much.'"
His own 14-year-old son is left confused and worried by Jimmy's death, David said.
Gaétan David has lived in Kuujjuaq for 23 years and is married to an Inuk. He says he's lost half a dozen members of his extended family to suicide, including his nephew Jimmy, whose funeral was one of two held Tuesday. (Elias Abboud/CBC)
Hope for a solution
The participants at the meeting spent the day in workshops, answering questions about what they can do as individuals to help their communities and how they can make a positive change.
Today they will work toward presenting solutions to stop the wave of suicides. The Kativik Regional Board of Health and Social Services will also present the work of its regional suicide-prevention committee.
Napartuk says leaders in Nunavik have had meetings to deal with one suicide crisis after another for many years.
He says there's a lot riding on this one.
"We've gone to these meetings representing different organizations and different groups, and it's been hard to get away from that responsibility and the limitations that each of the organizations may have in terms of funding, regulations, programs," said Napartuk.
"I may be the mayor of Kuujjuaq, but I have to [work for a solution] as a father, as a husband, and as an individual."
Asked about Tuesday's funerals for the two young people, and the emotional toll the deaths have on people in Nunavik, Napartuk paused for a moment to compose himself.
"You have to keep going," he said.
"I have a responsibility as a local leader. I have a responsibility as a father and as a husband. You have to take a moment to pay respects to those affected. But you have to keep going."
Related stories from around the North:
Canada: Quebec Inuit leaders plead for mental health support in wake of youth suicides, CBC News
Finland: Canada's Inuit hope Finland carries Indigenous suicide prevention torch further, Radio Canada International
Russia: Why high suicide rates in Arctic Russia?, Deutsche Welle's Iceblogger
Sweden: Gender stereotypes behind high suicide rate, Radio Sweden
United States: Indigenous Alaskans find strength in community and tradition, Alaska Public Media
← NATO wants to keep tensions low in the High North, says Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Russia to test-launch rockets near Norway's Arctic coast in last days of Trident Juncture →
Elias Abboud, CBC News
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The Boston T's Park Street station in a photo taken last month. Photo by Dylan Pech, via Flickr creative commons.
For many of the day's commuters, the sight of Boston police officers, SWAT teams, National Guardsmen, and police dogs at MBTA stations around the city — and especially downtown and the Back Bay — brought a small measure of relief to a region trying to go about the business of downtown life the day after a tragedy.
At stations around the city, law enforcement officers paced up and down train platforms, rifles in hand. At Arlington Station, National Guardsmen asked commuters heading into the station to open their duffels and purses for a security check. "No guns, no bombs?" asked one as he pulled back the zipper of a backpack.
Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel were conducting random baggage checks throughout the subway system.
"Customers have been very cooperative, and we greatly appreciate their patience and understanding," Pesaturo said this morning.
So when I look at yesterday's tragedy and say that there's a peaceful way Angelenos can fight back against whoever plotted and executed that attack and, it's not something I say lightly. Think about it for a second. Terrorism is using force in some form to scare people and keep them apart. Keep people in their houses and behind closed doors. Keep people from meeting and understanding their neighbors. Keep people angry.
The idea of Livable Streets is the exact opposite.
Livable Streets is about breaking down barriers our society has accidentally (and not accidentally) created that keep people apart now. There's no greater example of the power of Livable Streets than our own CicLAvia.
This Sunday, somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 of your neighbors will take to the streets in Downtown and Mid-town Los Angeles and West Los Angeles. Tree Hugger might think that nobody in L.A. rides a bicycle, but we know better.
You won't know many of the participants. But one of the many great things about CicLAvia, is you'll probably know more of them by the end of the day. And that gives all of us a chance to make Sunday about more than a car-free trip to the beach.
Dana Gabbard posts a Metro staff PowerPoint given to the agency's Citizen Advisory Committee last month on different fare scenarios. As Dana points out, Metro Board Vice Chair Diane DuBois has requested a staff report on fare structures — and that will be given as an oral report at the Metro Board's full meeting on April 25. Just to emphasize: this report, written in February, looks at some different and obvious fare structures, including distance-based fares, time-based fares and fares based on type of payment.
I do want to emphasize that the report doesn't propose any imminent changes to the current fare system, nor is there anything on the table at this time. Changing Metro's fares is a long process that involves public hearings and ultimately a vote by the Metro Board of Directors.
Let's not COMPLICATE any proposed fare structure. I favor the flat rate at all times with savings based on Day, Weekly, Monthly passes.
Sheesh. It's like Metro makes up more excuses not to get things done.
Here's a good compromise solution: Why don't we use a mix of both distance fares and passes?
You charge a TAP card, you Tap-in, you Tap out as you make your way through the system. It deducts the proper fare based on distance traveled.
When it reaches the current day pass rate ($5) it caps off there and it deducts no further for that day. When it reaches the monthly pass rate of ($75), it caps off there and it deducts no further for that entire month.
This way, it brings the best of both worlds. People who travel less, only pay what they need. The people who travel more, will do the same but it caps off at the maximum day or monthly rate.
I can come up with this idea. Why can't Metro?
TAP-off isn't hard. It takes less than a second to do. Millions of people do this everyday in London, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore. Americans who visit there adapt to it very easily. If reminding people that TAP off is needed, just use what you already have: TransitTV to remind them that they need to TAP-off. And gates for subway and light rail stations shouldn't turn or open if TAP-out isn't done anyway. No brainer here.
Turnstiles and fare gates that do not turn or open unless TAP-in or TAP-out. See above.
Not necessarily. All you need is to introduce a price cap like stated above. London does this. When you reach a certain point, it caps off and deducts no further.
i like ktown commuters idea. that would cover all bases.
The problem is that flat rate fares is unsustainable and that inevitably, fare hikes are bound to happen. There's no denying that it's going to happen. How long do you think $1.50 single ride fares, $5 day passes and $75 monthly passes is going to stay that way? You can't stick your head in the sand that this is going to remain that way forever.
Fare hikes are bound to happen. And when that happens THE POOR ARE THE ONES THAT GET HURT THE MOST because they now have to PAY MORE for SHORTER TRIPS under a flat rate structure.
The poor are more likely to have jobs nearby. They are the ones who live in the apartments within the inner city and have jobs at minimum wage earning jobs nearby. Are you saying you're fine with making them PAY MORE for SHORTER RIDES? You said it yourself, the poor pays by boarding. If fares go up to $2.00, maybe $3.00, you're fine the poor to be subjected to that?
The most equitable way to go is make people pay by the distance. The poor who have to get to work to McDonalds a few blocks away will pay much less because they only need to pay for that few blocks of transit. That's way better than subjecting them to be the most vulnerable with a flat rate across-the-board fare hike that affects them the most.
I say we go with distance based fares. It seems to work perfectly fine in all the cities in Europe and Asia I've backpacked through and I had no problems with them.
But looking at the presentation it seems Metro isn't enthusiastic about the idea if not, with the lamest excuses they can think of.
If the best excuse Metro has is "oh noes it adds complexity because people will have to TAP-out waaaah, run away, run away!!" like a bad Monty Python sketch, it's not a convincing one.
I've seen grade school kids in Singapore do this with no confusion at all. Does Metro think we're dumber than Singaporean grade school kids? Many Americans visits and even live as expats in places where distance based or zone based transit systems are the norm. They adapt to it rather easily too.
Even I, a local from LA figured out London's zonal system and distance fares used in Delhi and Bangkok in a day, if not on the first try. You fill up your card with money, you tap-in, you tap-out. When it runs out, you fill it up again. Simple as that. It's just like filling up a tank of gas. You fill up, you use it, near empty, you fill it up again. Does Metro think we're too stupid to figure that out?
If the extent of their worries about moving to distance based fares is making transit riders become accustomed to TAP-out, it clearly illustrates what a tax waste Metro is because they're too lazy to come up with solutions for them. How about big stickers on Metro Bus exit doors reminding people to TAP out? Is that going to cost bazillions of dollars to do? Use Transit TV? What do we have those gates installed for? HELLO?
Regular people in LA could do a better job in figuring these solutions than Metro employees. And Metro employees get paid how much with our tax dollars? C'mon, gimme a break.
The architecture of the TAP card as designed is problematic at best. Metro staff are trying to make the best of a less than optimal situation that they inherited.
I appreciate Mr. Hymon's reassuring comment. Fares are in my observation the most difficult issue for governing boards to grapple with. And equity is in the eyes of the beholder.
Can you explain what "the architecture of the TAP card as designed is problematic at best. Metro staff are trying to make the best of a less than optimal situation that they inherited" is?
TAP was introduced in 2008. What problems does TAP have that other cities don't?
The whole TAP thing was a waste of tax dollars. They should've just waited a few years and wait until banks started issuing their own contactless cards.
London is starting to use them for their buses and later this year, to their Underground. The London Underground uses a zonal system so it's perfectly possible to do with bank cards.
UTA is moving toward that too.
So is Philadelphia and Chicago.
More cities are thinking that dealing with proprietary contactless cards isn't worth the hassle. Why is Metro always so late in figuring these things out? It's like they purposely do a wait-and-see approach and by that time they realize that they messed everything up and wasted millions in tax dollars.
Yeah, that's what Jim Crow Laws said about separate but equal.
Equal, in Metro's view of the world is to make everyone pay the same price, see ain't that fair? And we'll make everyone pay the same price as we make more fare hikes! Mwahahahaha.
Separate is accomplished by Metro by forcing the poor to get the worse deal than the rich white folks who live farther away. Go back to the car or pay up because we don't need you folks.
It's "equal" in Metro eyes only. It's not "equal" the way the public views it.
Man, look at all these world class cities that the guy above me posted.
Why can't L.A. be PROACTIVE in MOVING AHEAD with NEW INNOVATING IDEAS like these?!!
Because L.A. Metro is yet-another-bureaucratic-government-agency. Things move S-L-OOOOOOO-W as hell in the government world because everything has to be done with the budget they are given and no one invests money into them.
In contrast, things move faster in the corporate world because investors pump money into them by buying shares of their company, allowing them to use the capital gains earned from stock sales to making things more efficient. In turn, shareholders that bought the stocks earn a lot of money because as profits rise, their prices of their shares rise and they may even get to earn dividends too.
For example, when you compare Google to Metro, it's a huge difference between night and day.
What has Metro done in 15 years? Fare evasion was rampant for years and no one took action. And even then when finally they decide to stop it, it takes them eons to lock up the gates. And they can't even get the basics of TAP right, total waste of tax dollars. They had their first wash of the subway in god knows how long. The stations are riddled with filth and urine. Criminal activity plagues the system with illegal vendors harassing people. The Blue Line is always having maintenance problems.
And what does Metro think are important priorities? Naming stations after politicians like Wilshire/Western/Alfred-something-some-obscure-politician's-name-no-cares-about Station. Installing "artwork" at stations which earns no additional money when they could be spending the money to add retail spaces to earn additional revenue into the system and making the stations are safer, livelier place and helping out our local economy.
Metro needs to get their act together. They need to get their priorities straight.
Look at Delhi, which is where I'm from. In the past, it was the same as Metro – a dumb government organization filled with so many red-tape that took forever to get even the simplest of things done. Now, it's a government owned corporation, run for profit, called the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Things changed dramatically once they became a for-profit even though it's still in government hands.
See, look at how London does their system! So futuristic and way way more logical. Metro, get in with the times!!! You're too slow to do anything!!


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Ready December! Candler Floor Plan! 2 story home w/ 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Enjoy an open concept plan featuring a spacious family room, gourmet island kitchen and breakfast area, perfect for entertaining or relaxing. An oversized Owner's Suite with trey ceiling and His & Hers vanities. New Homes in the top rated Buford City School District. Walking distance to the post office and the library and directly next to the Buford Community Center.Stock Photos Used!