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Sony Interactive will skip E3 again this year – TechCrunch
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At CES, companies slowly start to realize that privacy matters – TechCrunch
Cherry goes downmarket with its new Viola mechanical keyboard switches – TechCrunch
How Ring is rethinking privacy and security – TechCrunch
OrCam announces new AI-enabled device for hearing impairment – TechCrunch
August Home ditches the bridge and Yale launches a smart lock in Europe – TechCrunch
At CES, Schneider Electric unveils its own upgrade to the traditional fusebox – TechCrunch
American Airlines starts trialing Google Nest Hubs as translators in its lounges – TechCrunch
Razer shows off Sila, the first 5G router built for gaming – TechCrunch
Intel and Google plot out closer collaboration around Chromebooks and the future of computing – TechCrunch
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Netatmo enters the smart door lock space with programmable NFC keys – TechCrunch
SAP spinout Sapphire Ventures raises $1.4B for new investments – TechCrunch
Sapphire Ventures, the former corporate venture arm of SAP, has raised $1.4 billion for growth investments, including a $150 million opportunity fund to support larger deals.
The firm, which focuses primarily on enterprise tech companies in the U.S., Europe and Israel, writes checks to Series B through pre-IPO businesses. Its portfolio includes 23andMe, Sumo Logic and TransferWise.
The new funds brings Sapphire Ventures, which became independent from the German software company SAP in 2011, assets under management to north of $4 billion. Sapphire will write checks sized between $5 million and $100 million with the new funds, allowing the team "to do any financing we need to or want to," chief executive officer and managing director Nino Marakovic tells TechCrunch. Sapphire's fourth growth fund is the firm's largest to date at more than double the size of Sapphire Ventures $700 million Fund III.
"Wee need this fund because companies are staying private much longer because they want to get to a $200 million revenue run rate before they go public," Sapphire Ventures president and co-founder Jai Das (pictured) tells TechCrunch. "We want to have the capital to support these companies as they keep growing."
News of the fund comes nearly one year after Sapphire Ventures lassoed $115 million from new limited partners to invest at the intersection of tech, sports, media and entertainment. Sapphire Sport has ties to the sports industry, from City Football Group, which owns English Premier League team Manchester City, to Adidas, the owners of the Indiana Pacers, New York Jets, San Jose Sharks and Tampa Bay Lightning, among others.
Before that, the firm closed on $1 billion for its third flagship venture fund.
With seven check writers and another seven investment professionals focused on growth-stage investments, Sapphire has had a number of recent wins, counting a total of 21 initial public offerings and 55 exits since the firm's inception.
"We're excited to have no reached critical mass with $4 billion under management," Marakovic said. "We are the right size to take advantage of our target area of early and later-stage enterprise software companies. We are innovating on the model by adding value-add LPs and trying to align our whole model of services to the target companies to serve them as best as possible."
Oscar Health now has 400,000 members and expects to bring in $2 billion by the end of 2020 – TechCrunch
ToursByLocals snaps up its first funding, C$33M, to link sightseers with guides globally – TechCrunch
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itbusinessedge > Blogs > IT Unmasked > Violin Memory Extends Effort to Drive Flash Storage Adoptions sans SSDs
Violin Memory Extends Effort to Drive Flash Storage Adoptions sans SSDs
By Mike Vizard, Posted December 1, 2015
Expanding its campaign to eliminate the need for solid-state disks (SSDs) in primary storage environments, Violin Memory unveils extensions to its all-Flash storage platform.
Five Innovations in the Data Storage Landscape
Expanding its campaign to eliminate the need for solid-state disks (SSDs) in primary storage environments, Violin Memory today unveiled extensions to its all-Flash storage platform.
Sudhir Prasad, senior director of product management for Violin Memory, says the latest additions to the company's Flash Storage Platform (FSP) 7000 series push the entry-level cost of the arrays below the $100,000 mark, while at the same time making available a version of the array that can be configured with up to 1.4 petabytes of raw capacity.
Instead of applying the mechanics of disk architectures to primary storage, Prasad says Violin Memory took advantage of its controller technology to create arrays that enable applications to transparently make use of Flash memory directly. The end result is an all-Flash array that provides access to shared storage at rates of up to 2.2 million IOPs.
Initially launched earlier this year, Prasad says the FSP System Hardware Architecture eliminates the need to rely on a legacy disk construct to take advantage of Flash memory for primary storage. In its place are Flash storage modules that are managed via a Concerto operating system developed by Violin Memory that manages everything from garbage collections across the Flash storage environment to providing enterprise-class snapshots for data protection.
In general, Prasad says one of the factors that has limited the adoption of Flash memory is that it's only just now that price points for Flash storage are roughly equal to traditional magnetic disks in high-performance computing environments. Prasad also notes that Flash storage capacity is now reaching a point where it can be used in most application scenarios. The result, notes Prasad, is less time spent optimizing throughput using magnetic storage devices inside a data center that is much smaller in the absence of traditional storage arrays based on magnetic disks.
It may take a while longer for most IT organizations to cycle through existing magnetic storage investments. But as IT budgets begin to open up in the coming year, chances are high that the amount of disk technology of any kind inside the data center is going to be a whole lot less.

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The Critical Role Schools Play in Responding to Refugees
Janie T. Carnock
Amaya Garcia
On September 10, in response to a European refugee crisis, President Obama announced his decision to significantly increase the number of Syrian refugees admitted into the U.S. He committed to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next fiscal year, compared to the 1,293 the country accepted the year before. But last week, in light of the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, 25 U.S. Republicans governors vowed to block the entry of Syrian refugees into their states over supposed security concerns. On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House passed a bill to prevent Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the country. The fate of both measures is unclear: governors likely lack the authority to impose these bans, and the House's bill faces procedural hurdles in the Senate and a presidential veto. But, the question of how to respond to refugees has led to a splintering of public opinion that transcends usual party lines. Evangelical Christian groups, a core of the GOP electoral base, are breaking with Republicans in their advocacy to embrace refugees. The majority of Democrats in Congress support President Obama's commitment, although some House Democrats have broken with the President.
It's easy to get swept away by divisive rhetoric and political grandstanding. But real people's lives hang in the balance, and it's likely that more Syrian refugees will be coming to America where many will enter American schools. For these newcomer children, school provides a unique stepping stone for integration into American life. It can help restore stability in these individuals' lives. So, while it won't drive the next 24-hour news cycle like provocative demagoguery, policymakers and educators should carefully consider how to design intentional supports for refugee students' socioemotional, linguistic and academic needs.
These needs are frequently different from other students. Many refugee children have experienced trauma and frequent interruptions to their education. According to a recent Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report, "Refugee children in developing countries are some of the most educationally marginalized in the world. More than half of the 57 million children who remain out of school globally live in conflict-affected settings." Of that 57 million, an estimated 2.7 are Syrian; more than half of all children in Syria did not attend school last year. In a different MPI report, authors Selcuk R. Sirin and Lauren Rogers-Sirin examined the educational needs of Syrian refugee children and used data from a field-based study of Syrian refugee children living in Turkish refugee camps to examine their mental health risks.
The authors present a stark reality. First, the school enrollment of Syrian children who have managed to leave the country is very uneven. For instance, only one in five of Syrian refugee children now living in Lebanon attend school and growing resentment means that many children face "verbal and physical abuse in schools." In some places, the children also face language barriers, which can have an impact on whether they enroll in school at all. For example, Turkey requires "demonstrated proficiency" in Turkish before allowing a child to enroll in one of its public schools. Syrian girls have particularly low rates of school enrollment and are vulnerable to sexual exploitation and early marriage.
Second, Syrian refugee children report having been exposed to high levels of violence. In a survey of over 311 children, "79 percent of the children had experienced someone in their family dying...about 60 percent...saw someone get kicked, shot at, or physically hurt...nearly half (45 percent)...experienced PTSD symptoms." These experiences translated into depression and various health problems. Sirin and Rogers-Sirin conclude that education and mental health services are essential to ensuring that Syrian children are able to break from the cycle of violence and trauma.
What might these experiences mean for refugees who make it to U.S. schools? In addition to mental health concerns, refugee children in the U.S. — including those from Syria — often face significant academic and linguistic challenges. Disruptions in education lead to gaps in knowledge and skills due to missed school time. Moreover, as a recent MPI report noted, even if refugees have attended school in first asylum countries (the first country a refugee goes to after leaving their home country), the instructional quality is highly variable. Refugee children are often exposed to multiple languages of instruction as they migrate from countries of first asylum to final resettlement in the United States. This can lead to confused, disorganized educational experiences.
What's more, U.S. refugees are a diverse group. Over 60,000 refugee children were resettled in the U.S. between 2011 and 2013 from many different countries, including Iraq, Burma, Bhutan and Somalia. Several districts have devised specialized programs to help better support these students. The Internationals Network for Public Schools, based out of New York City, serve newcomer immigrant secondary students using a model that builds on students' existing strengths, integrates English instruction within academic content and emphasizes deeper learning. Graduation rates of English language learners (ELLs) enrolled in New York's International High Schools far exceed the state average and in recent years, the success of the internationals model has spurred expansions in California, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Similarly, schools like LEAP High School in St. Paul, Minnesota educate newcomer and refugee students in small environments that dampen some of the usual social pressures and demands of traditional public high schools. LEAP enrolls students between the ages of 14 and 21 and provides them with intensive support for learning English, growing their academic skills and content knowledge, and adjusting to life in the U.S. The school is home to a growing number of Karen students who have been displaced from their home country of Burma due to civil war (St. Paul is home to the largest population of Karen in the United States). And over 60 percent of their students are 18 or older, which means they only have three years to earn the necessary credits to graduate high school.
LEAP was founded in 1994 by a group of teachers and community members who recognized that older students were not getting the services and support in traditional public high school necessary to be successful. Since the school is classified by St. Paul Public Schools as an alternative learning site, administrators and educators have flexibility to use different curricula and instructional strategies. Students are grouped into classes based on their level of English language proficiency, which allows for greater differentiation of instruction based on each student's unique content/skill needs.
We visited the school in October. Its most striking feature was the level of student engagement. We ventured into content area courses, an art class, and English language courses; in each, students were engaged, participating and eager to learn. According to writing teacher Amy Hewett-Olatunde (who was also 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year), discipline issues are almost non-existent at LEAP: students are "very appreciative of their education." Moreover, the school is extremely respectful of students' cultural practices and beliefs. Many of the Karen students wore light yellow paint on their faces, which is used as makeup or a blemish cover-up, and the school hosts culture parties to celebrate the cultures and foods of students' home countries. This linguistic, academic and socio-emotional responsiveness has produced impressive results: 85 percent of their graduates go onto a post-secondary education.
Other mainstream schools, while not intentionally designed like LEAP to support international and refugee students, respond to students' needs using existing resources and programming. This is the case at East Baltimore's Patterson High School, recently highlighted in the Baltimore Sun's "Unsettled Journeys" series. At Patterson, newcomers comprise one-third of the population and speak 24 different languages. These students rely on English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, social workers and the dedication of individual educators. Many teachers go above and beyond their professional duties, becoming "[parents]-in-spirit" and tapping into their own informal network of mental health professionals, lawyers, and other advocates on behalf of students. They have called for more training, counselors and ESL curricular materials. In addition to school staff, mental health workers from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center are available to any Patterson student through a citywide partnership.
As schools explore ways to respond to refugees, the federal government has also provided some guidance. Last November, President Obama created the interagency White House Task Force on New Americans to identify and support state and local efforts to welcome and integrate newcomers into communities. The Task Force released a strategic action plan in April that prioritized expanding educational opportunities for immigrants and refugees. The Department of Education has since led a series of webinars to share key research and best practices for integration of these students into schools. The sessions have focused on ideas for creating welcoming school environments, engaging families, supporting dual-language learning, ensuring early learning opportunities, and more. These efforts are modest, but steps in the right direction.
It's easy for politicians to debate on high. Meanwhile, on the ground level, schools carry out the hard work of integrating newcomers into communities. We have examples of schools creatively and compassionately welcoming and serving newcomers. Critically, they call recognize the unique needs of refugees and frame these students as assets, not unwelcomed intruders or drains on the system.
This post is part of New America's Dual Language Learners National Work Group. Click here for more information on this team's work. To subscribe to the biweekly newsletter, click here, enter your contact information, and select "Education Policy.""


This is for all Veterans, not just Legion members.
Sep. 21, 2011 8:00 a.m.
Could I appeal to you for a little space in your paper so that I may have a say on the Oyama Royal Canadian Legion's Veterans supper on September 23 at the Oyama Community Hall.
The doors open at 5:00 for those who may want a drink and supper is at 6:00. Entertainment is at 7:00 featuring Sally Evans and Molly Boyd with Songs of the War Years and a sing along.
All Veterans get in free with their spouse. All others pay $12.00.
Going back to 1946 when we worked on starting a Legion in Oyama, we had to have so many members to get a Charter, which we obtained by getting enough Veterans from Oyama, Winfield, Okanagan Centre and Carr's Landing. In the old days we were open from 1:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Today we're open 3:00 to 6:00 or 11:00 depending on how many dart or pool players are around. Every Saturday is a meat-a-thon day and if any members would like to see other leagues start please come down.


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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Bind 1
redigeret af Charles Kitchell Gardner
after what we have just said, we shall not be expected to submit our own opinion to that judgment, yet we owe it so much of deference at least, as not to differ from it essentially, without assigning our reasons. Mr. Payne tells us, that he has had no hesitation in adopting the conceptions and language of his predecessors, whereever they seemed likely to strengthen the plan which he had prescribed to himself.' We have no right to dictate to authors; they may, like Mr. Payne, adopt whole scenes from their predecessors; we certainly have a right to a little more honesty and explicitness in their acknowledgments : and while we agree with him, that no assistance can be available without an effort almost if not altogether as laborious as original composition,' we would yet observe that the labour of adaptation is different in kind from that of composition, and entitled to a different degree of praise. One of the predecessors to whom Mr. Payne is under great and unacknowledged obligations, Nathaniel Lee, in the dedication of his Brutus, speaks thus: "There are some subjects that require but half the strength of a great poet : but when Greece or old Rome come in play, the nature, wit, and vigour of foremost Shakspeare, the judgment and force of Johnson, with all his borrowed mastery from the ancients, will scarce suffice for so terrible a grapple." That there is a difficulty in rendering interesting to an English audience subjects taken from the Greek or Roman history, the experience of all our dramatists who have attempted them, sufficiently demonstrates—"even Shakspeare's Brutus," says Lee, s with much ado beat himself into the heads of a blockish age, 5 and Jonson's Catiline met no better fate." It is not, however, we conceive, in any excessive loftiness of the subjects, or peculiar blockishness' of the audience that this difficulty consists; for after all, the loftiness of a subject in reference to the reader or spectator depends mainly on the author who treats it. Shakspeare is certainly not less raised above his audience in Macbeth or Hamlet, than in Coriolanus, or Julius Cæsar, and they who have been delighted with the two former, may be well supposed, so far as intelligence is concerned, to be capable of receiving pleasure from the two latter. The truth seems to be, that the subjects which have been most commonly selected from classic history have in themselves two defects, which render them impracticable in almost any hands for the English stage; they are too familiar to us in all their details as historical facts, and they are chiefly of a political nature. The interest of the drama must in the main be personal, though it may borrow indirect aid from the national feelings of the audience; it is unfortunate, therefore, that the Roman history has been more resorted to for subjects, than the far more romantic annals of Greece : for of all histories, the Roman is that in which
personal character and individual interest are the most swallowed up by what is public and political.
The judgment of Shakspeare, in this respect, is altogether astonishing of his three great Roman plays, two, Coriolanus and Mark Antony, are rare instances of direct violation or forgetfulness of that national spirit which we have been describing; the in
terest in them is almost wholly personal; and, in the third, (Julius in Cæsar) he has dexterously contrived to rivet our attention rather
on the qualities, the friendships, the quarrels, and the misfortunes
of individuals, than on the public cause for which they are conHitom tending. In his English historic plays this is still more remarkHable; he has indeed appealed to our feelings as Englishmen, in the L. wars of France and England, but when the scene is laid at home,
he makes the interest entirely personal ; it is not on public revoluLlen tions, a discontented people, or rival factions, that he suffers us to dwell
, these are lost in such characters as the tragic and moralizing Richard, the impetuous Hotspur, the chivalrous Harry, shaking of his profligate companions, the ambitious and diabolical Gloucester, the stern and sublime Wolsey.
It is not easy to say how Shakspeare would have obviated the difficulties of Brutus, if he had chosen such a subject ; for in spite of the opinion of Voltaire, who calls it " the subject, perbaps, of all others, the most fitted for the English stage," it certainly seems to us objectionable in an eminent degree, and for many reasons. The fall of Tarquin, and the conspiracy to restore him, are events which, whether true or not, we know familiarly as historic factsany alteration or addition is a palpable contradiction of our received faith ; at the same time the facts themselves are too meagre and too strictly political to suffice for the interest of a regular tragedy. Accordingly, the naked history has been departed from, more or less, by all who have written on the subject.—Love has been universally one grand ingredient for filling up what Voltaire calls" le vide de la tragédie,' and he has professedly made it le næud nécessaire de la pièce.' Lee has introduced a . Teraminta,' natural daughter of Tarquin, and Mr. Payne has his Tarquinia. This alone makes a material change in the character of the conspiracy; but Mr. Payne has wandered still farther from the history; he has given Tarquin a faithful army, and strong camp at Ardea, sunk all mention of his intriguing ambassadors, bestowed on Brntus but a single son, and though he has made that son perish for an attempt to fly with Tarquinia to her father, yet we are by no means assured from any thing that appears in the play, that there Was any regular conspiracy for the restoration of the monarch ; or if there was, that the unhappy Titus was ever acquainted with it. This last refinement is a striking proof of deficiency of judgment : it was necessary that Titus should be an object of interest,
Lee and Voltaire have therefore made him an unwilling and repentant partner in the treason; but it was necessary also that his death should be strictly equitable, for the justification of Brutus, they have therefore made him consenting to the treacherous design of opening the gates which he was intrusted to guard. Mr. Payne had no way of making us feel for him, but by so diminishing his guilt, that we become dissatisfied with what seems a mere strained and severe punctilio in Brutus.
These, however, are faults of conception ; let us see whether Mr. Payne has been more fortunate in the execution of his plot. He has commenced at so early a period of the story, that it was necessary for him to represent the simulated madness of Brutus, and he attempts an imitation of the shrewd and biting simplicity of the clowns and fools of the older drama. This, in any case, must have been a difficult character to write; it demanded the most original humour ; but the difficulty is doubled when the folly was to be assumed only for a time, by one, who was soon to throw it from him indignantly, and become the hero of the piece. this, Mr. Payne has wholly failed; his Brutus is neither a madman, a fool, a wit, nor what he ought to have been, a compound of all three. With none of the wildness of the first, the simpleness of the second, or the mercurial lightness of the third, he is in a perpetual and unsuccessful attempt to say bitter things covertly; and with all the aid of an unmeaning stare, and monotonous voice, the only wonder in the minds of the audience must have been, that so bad an actor was allowed to play his part undiscovered so long. -But if the mad Brutus is a complete failure, the sober Brutus is not less so—and the failure is the more unpardonable because the difficulties are not so great. It required a particular vein in the author to conceive and write well the former part of the character, which a man might have been without, and yet have given an adequate representation of the latter. But he who fails in this latter, should renounce the wooing of the tragic muse maturè sanus ;
for Brutus sober, is by no means a difficult character or one out of the common walks of tragedy. From the moment that he lays aside his masque of folly, he becomes pre-eminently simple and single minded; he has no conflicting passions in his heart, or double pur, poses in his conduct, and he is exhibited not under a variety of trials, but exposed to one only, and under circumstances which, though they aggravate the severity of the test, yet leave no room for uncertainty, or wavering conduct. With none of those difficulties in which Mr. Payne might have failed without disgrace, Brutus is yet in many respects a highly tragic character, and in many places might have given scope to the most solemn strains of moral declamation, or the finest bursts of eloquentand pathetic poetry;
so that without writing a good tragedy, the author might have been in some measure redeemed, by showing himself a true poet.
We should, in any case, be sorry to speak with unnecessary severity; and if Brutus were likely to be the last production of its author, we should gladly have let it sink unobserved into the oblivious tomb which is gaping for it; but the applanse with which it has been received on the stage, may prompt Mr. Payne to another effort, and we are therefore bound to express our opinion promptly and decidedly. We declare, then, that he appears to us to have no one quality which we should require in a tragic poet; he has neither comprehended nor arranged his subject properly, he has not surmounted its difficulties, nor profited by its advantages :-we will not dwell upon his faults, the foolish and presumptuous imitation of one of the most beautiful speeches in Shakspeare, the absurd mummeries, and pantomimic tricks, too long tolerated with patience by an audience, which might have commanded for their delight and instruction, the noblest productions of human nature,-it is enough to say conscientiously, that we cannot find in the whole play, a single character finely conceived, or rightly sustained, a single incident well managed, a single speech, nay, a single sentence of good poetry.
(We have not had the opportunity, in this his native country, to see Mr. Payne's tragedy. It appears to have received favour from British audiences, and the Editor of the National Gazette observes, that—though not entitled to high favour, as a dramatic poem "it certainly fares the worse with the English critic, for the author's being an American-a circumstance, which, taken in connexion with his youth and situation, would, where national animosity had not stifled every generous feeling, have procured for his performance, an exhibition of its brightest parts and a more lenient sentence on the exceptionable. He may yet, and we trust that he will, in spite of the ruthless judgments of British prejudice and rancour, become a more praiseworthy dramatic poet, than some of his contemporaries whose muse has received the profound homage of the Quarterly
Review.")
[From the Quarterly Review.--Lond. Sept. 1819.] Art. XIII.-1. Laon and Cythna, or the Revolution of the Golden
City. A Vision of the Nineteenth century, in the Stanza of Spenser. By PERCY B. Shelley. London. 1818. 2. The Revolt of Islam. A Poem, in Twelve Cantos. By Perce
B. SHELLEY. London. 1818. This is one of that industrious knot of authors, the tendency of whose works we have in our late Numbers exposed to the caution of our readers-novel, poem, romance, letters, tours, critique, lecture and essay follow one another, framed to the same measure, and in subjection to the same key-note, while the sweet undersong of the weekly journal, filling up all pauses, strengthening all weaknesses, smoothing all abruptnesses, harmonizes the whole strain. Of all his brethren, Mr. Shelley carries to the greatest length the doctrines of the sect. He is, for this and other reasons, by far the least pernicious of them; indeed there is a naiveté and openness in his manner of laying down the most extravagant positions, which in some measure deprives them of their venom; and when he enlarges on what certainly are but necessary results of opinions more guardedly delivered by others, he might almost be mistaken for some aritul advocate of civil order and religious institutions. This benefit indeed may be drawn from his book, for there is scarcely any more persuasive argument for truth than to carry out to all their legitimate consequences, the doctrines of error. But this is not Mr. Shelley's intention; he is, we are sorry to say, in sober earnest :—with perfect deliberation and the steadiest perseverance he perverts all the gifts of his nature, and does all the injury, both public and private, which his faculties enable him to perpetrate.
Laon and Cythna is the same poem with the Revolt of Islamunder the first name it exhibited some features which made the
experiment on the temper of the public mind,' as the author calls it, somewhat too bold and hazardous. This knight-errant in the cause of a liberal and comprehensive morality' had already sustained some 'perilous handling in his encounters with Prejudice and Error, and acquired in consequence of it a small portion of the better part of valour. Accordingly Laon and Cythna withdrew from circulation; and happy had it been for Mr. Shelley if he had been contented with his failure, and closed his experiments. But with minds of a certain class, notoriety, infamy, any thing is better than obscurity; baffled in a thousand attempts after fame, they will still make one more at whatever risk,—and they end commonly like an awkward chemist who perseveres in tampering with his ingredients, till, in an unlucky moment, they take fire, and he blown up by the explosion. Laon and Cythna has accordingly re-appeared with a new name, and a few slight alterations. If we could trace in these any sigus of an altered spirit, we should have hailed with the sincerest pleasure the return of one whom nature intended for better things, to the ranks of virtue and religion. But Mr. Shelley is no penitent; he has reproduced the same poison, a little, and but a little, more cautiously disguised, and as it is thus intended only to do the more mischief at less personal risk to the author, our duty requires us to use his own evidence against himselt, to juterpret him where he is obscure now, by himself where he was plain before, and to exhibit the fearful consequences' to which
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The aim of the study 'Community Management Plan for pastures and wetlands of the Pilpichaca community in the Huancavelica region' (CMP Pilpichaca) was to generate a scientifically validated management tool intended to serve as a guidance instrument for engagement between the Pilpichaca Community and its public authorities; engagement that would help in the formulation of new projects in relation to landscape characteristics. The study would work with key actors, including government institutions and the community, and the tool would be based on an integral assessment (environmental, socio-cultural and economic) and on the guidelines of the national document titled Guía para el cumplimiento de la Meta 3 del Plan de Desarrollo Local Concertado del Centro Nacional de Planeamiento Estratégico-CEPLAN 2016 (Guide for compliance of Goal 3 from the Local and Concentrated Development Plan of the National Center of Strategic Planning 2016).
To develop this participatory tool, the Agua-Andes research team conducted seven workshops with the Pilpichaca Community from May-October 2017, as well as field trips to collect information about rural families, the hydrology, and the state of pastures and wetlands. The field work was complemented with analysis of satellite images to generate maps about "potential occurrence zones of overgrazing", that includes local farms and the number of animals. The workshops helped us validate the characterization of the rural families: their alpaca breeding, social organization, and agreements regarding the use of the land. This is very important because it helps to create a community vision and identify common goals, as well as the strategic actions required for their fulfillment in a given period of time (Year 2021: Bicentennial of Peru). Identifying the key responsible and supportive actors to achieve these goals is helpful because it will allow them to continue monitoring and updating their progress during community meetings (usually one weekend, every other month), as well as in meetings with public authorities, private organizations and universities.
The official presentation and unanimous approval of the CMP Pilpichaca Technical Report and its respective Summary Report to the Pilpichaca Community was delivered on 4 April 2018, during a meeting with representatives of the District Municipality of Pilpichaca, the Regional Government of Huancavelica, CONDESAN and the Water-Andes Program. Finally, the work culminated with an agreement to make a Municipal Ordinance that approves and promotes the implementation of CMP Pilpichaca and its incorporation into the budget.
About the study: "Community Management Plan for pastures and wetlands of Pilpichaca community in Huancavelica region" (CMP Pilpichaca) has been developed by the research team of the Water-Andes Program of the Centro de Competencias del Agua (CCA) and the company Aqua-Andes Innovation, both institutions led by Dr. Bram Willems and which counted on the support of the International Water Security Network (financed by Lloyd's Register Foundation) and "Agua-Andes: Ecological infrastructure strategies for enhancing water sustainability in the semi-arid Andes" (financed by USAID).
This study forms part of a bigger framework; namely, the EcoAndes Project, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and executed by the Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN). CONDESAN has been carrying out projects for the conservation of mountain ecosystems and development of rural communities in Ecuador and Peru where it has maintained a relationship with the Regional Government of Huancavelica and the District Municipality of Pilpichaca; along with CMP Pilpichaca technical study.
About the author of this note: Ana Luisa Calvo is from Peru. She is a Geographic Engineer from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and has a Master's in Biotrade and Sustainable Development. Currently, she is researcher for the Water-Andes Program at the Centro de Competencias del Agua (CCA) and the International Water Security Network.
This information and pictures are taken from original document: Willems, B., Calvo, A.L., Taboada, R., Espinoza, R., García, J., 2018. Plan de Manejo Comunitario para la gestión de pastizales y bofedales de la comunidad de Pilpichaca, Huancavelica. CONDESAN-Proyecto EcoAndes/Aqua-Andes Innovations. Lima.


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Q: core text displayed text is drawn without spacing I'm trying to display text using coretext. Now it's on a delphi form, but I have code which seems to work fine getting the context for drawing shapes on (it just gets the FContext field from the form).
The text appears like this (it's upside down), it's suppose to be 'at'

Now here's the code, just put it in a formpaint
 var
  cgcontext : CGContextRef;
  path : CGMutablePathRef;
  framesetter : CTFramesetterRef;
  frame : CTFrameRef;
  attrString: CFAttributedStringRef;

  function GetCGContextFromCanvas(ACanvas: TCanvas): CGContextRef;
  var
    Context: TRttiContext;
    Field: TRttiField;
  begin
    Field := Context.GetType(ACanvas.ClassType).GetField('FContext');
    Assert(Field <> nil);
    Result := PPointer(Field.GetValue(ACanvas).GetReferenceToRawData)^;
  end;
begin
  cgcontext := GetCGContextFromCanvas(Canvas);
  path := CGPathCreateMutable(); //1
  CGPathAddRect(path, nil, CGRectMake(0,0,600,200));
  attrString := CFAttributedStringCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, CFSTR('at'), nil);
  framesetter := CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(attrString); //3
  frame := CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, CFRangeMake(0, 2), path, nil);

  CTFrameDraw(frame, cgcontext); //4
end;

Any suggestions on why the spacing is wrong? Shouldn't it use the default spacing?

A: ..it's because the textmatrix is set somewhere, but because it's not restored when you do CGContextSaveGState/CGContextRestoreGState the textmatrix is wrong. So just add a  CGContextSetTextMatrix(cgcontext, CGAffineTransformIdentity);

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Q: How to enable tracing for MySQL jdbc driver I'm trying to debug my custom JDBC driver that connects to a proprietary DB.  I'm unable to read the schema of that database.     I'd like to enable tracing to my local MySQL database as a way to compare.   How can I enable tracing of the MySQL jdbc connection from Eclipse?
I have enabled general logging which has not helped.   I'd like to see which jdbc methods are called by Eclipse to get the schema.


Kristina's voice has been classically trained since age seven. Since then, this Seattle native has performed in eight countries and on both coasts of the United States. In her travels, she took home several prestigious awards. However singing was not her only passion. Her songwriting began several years ago and she quickly partnered with veteran film composer and drummer, Stephen Cavit. With great tunes under their belt, Kristina and Stephen captured the attention of Bad Animals Studio Owner, Tom McGurk, who then became a part of the team.
Their new EP entitled "Touch the Sky" has just been completed. Kristina's lyrics speak to the heart and the original music style, similar to Jewel, Dave Matthews and Sarah McLaughlin, appeal to wide demographics. This group of experienced performers will continue to play acoustic sets in local venues to bring the music to the people of the Pacific Northwest.
New material will also be recorded this fall and the group will continue to play in local venues. Having strong television and film contacts, the music is now being marketed to several film and television producers.


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Mintable wants to be the world's largest NFT market by cataloging all Ethereum-based NFTs
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Mintable — a Singapore-based, Mark Cuban-backed non-fungible token (NFT) platform — is striving to become the world's largest NFT marketplace by cataloging all NFTs ever minted on Ethereum as part of a major platform upgrade .
Users will have access to the largest — and now, most organized — inventory of NFTs that are ERC-721 tokens in the metaverse, from NFTs created in the past on Ethereum as well as new NFTs once they are minted on-chain, according to Mintable.
The platform upgrade — now live — also introduces a "rarity meter" powered by a proprietary algorithm that assesses NFTs for their rarity and uniqueness when such data is available. NFTs are rated common, uncommon, rare, ultra-rare, insanely rare and "holy grail" according to their attributes, allowing traders and collectors to better ascertain the value of an NFT before they buy. Users now are also able to see an NFT's transaction history and seller reviews.
Rarity meter based on NFT attributes (Source: Mintable)
The slew of new features also includes allowing NFT buyers and sellers to message directly with each other on the platform. What was once a mosh pit of 10 million NFTs is now organized into more than 400 subcategories — from collectible avatars to pop art to punk music — to help users browse and find NFTs according to their interest.
Zach Burks, Mintable founder and CEO, told Forkast.News in an interview that Mintable's goal was to bring NFTs to more creators and collectors. "We want to make sure that we are pushing the NFT space forward with these progressive features that we think are a requirement for the NFT space," Burks said.
The new features are intended to make it easy for experienced NFT traders and new users alike to find information on NFTS so that they do not need to spend hours doing research. "We are presenting more information because you need to be empowered when you're on the page so that you can make an informed decision," Burks said. "In some cases, you're spending more money than it costs to buy a car… And so we want to provide every bit of information we can because you're doing a 20, 50, 100 thousand dollar purchase. You need to know everything."
The NFT industry, up to now, has been dominated by OpenSea , which has a market share of over 90%. Burks expects that Mintable's move to bring all NFTs on Ethereum, including the popular CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club collectibles , onto its platform will drive more users to Mintable. NFT sellers will want to have an account on Mintable and OpenSea as they will have a higher chance of someone buying it, and Mintable's new searching algorithm would also likely see a high conversion rate for sales, Burks said. "We will be number two in volume by the end of December — that's our goal."
Mintables hopes that its platform upgrade — which has been months in the making — will be a game-changer for the company in terms of growth in users and trading volumes. "A lot of people are taking their very first crypto steps and their first steps into blockchain through NFTs. In fact, on Mintable, about 20 to 30 percent of our users are brand new to crypto," Burks said.
Mintable currently has 300,000 users, with about six to 10 million unique visitors to the site in a month, according to company data. In July, Mintable closed a US$13 million series-A funding round with Hong Kong-based blockchain gaming and NFT company Animoca Brands and blockchain payments company Ripple Labs among the investors.
See related article: Mintable closes $13M series-A, set to integrate Ripple XRP Ledger
NFTs have seen massive growth this year. The NFT space generated US$10.67 billion in trading volume in the third quarter of 2021, an increase of 704% from the previous quarter, according to DappRadar data . Ethereum-based NFTs accounted for 78% of the volume.
Burks says profile NFTs — or avatars — are the most popular NFTs currently, and he does not expect the NFT market to cool anytime soon. "Over the next year, we're going to continue to see the same kind of growth that we've seen this year, which is absolutely insane," Burks added.
Institutions are also buying into the idea of NFTs and signaling their economic value. Facebook, now renamed Meta, is planning to incorporate NFTs into its future metaverse . Recently, payments giant Visa paid US$150,000 to have its own CryptoPunk NFT .
"I don't see [NFTs] being a bubble," Burks said. "I see that as a new shift in society."
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Don't Believe the Lies: 10 Tech Urban Legends
Just because you read it on the Internet doesn't mean it's true. In fact, it's probably not.
By Chandra Steele
https://www.pcmag.com/news/dont-believe-the-lies-10-tech-urban-legends
Urban legends. We've all heard one. From Walt Disney's cryogenically frozen head to alligators in the sewers, these improbable but intriguing stories have made the rounds for decades. And while the Internet has helped debunk them, the Web can also be a nice breeding ground for tall tales.
Many urban legends have made the rounds via chain letters, which emerged as physical notes you dutifully mailed off to friends and have evolved into email forwards and now, Facebook posts. Share this story or risk years of bad luck, they warn! In reality, there's enough to be paranoid about out there - from NSA spying to Internet tracking.
Is there a way to stop the proliferation of untruths out there? Not really. China tried banning Internet-based rumors, and that worked out real well, huh? We shouldn't have to resort to restricting freedom of speech to smarten it up. Luckily, we're here to help. Check out the slideshow for a few tech-related urban legends you shouldn't be repeating.
1. Children Are Not Being Chipped
It feels a lot like living in a dystopia lately, but so far no one has been required to have RFID chips implanted in them. Word that Wyoming schools are requiring children to be scannable is decidedly false. It was satire fueled by political panic. The closest this rumor gets to truth is that a junior high school girl in Texas was suspended for refusing to wear an RFID badge that monitored attendance. The school later reinstated her and dropped the program.
2. You Can't Take Back Your Rights With a Facebook Post
From unauthorized use of your likeness for ads to conducting psychological research on users, Facebook has done some creepy and shady things. So of course you'd want to protect yourself and your rights as much as possible. And Facebook does own all the content you post unless you delete your account. But copying and pasting a post laying claim to the copyright on your photos isn't going to do it. You're better off telling Facebook directly what you think.
3. Bill Gates Is Not Sending You Money
The world's richest man surely has a few dollars to give away. But Bill Gates's billions aren't coming to you. If you've gotten an email or seen a Facebook post with a smiling Gates holding a sign that says he will send you $5,000, don't start spending. Variations of this prank have been going around since 1997.
4. Google Earth Did Not Save a Stranded Woman
Eyes everywhere can be an unsettling thought—unless you're stranded. While it's a reassuring story to hear, Google Earth did not save Gemma Sheridan from seven years on a deserted island after a shipwreck. The story is fabricated and the image is from an Amnesty International report about Kyrgyzstan.
5. Samsung Pays Apple in Nickels
The (since reduced) $1 billion that a jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple two years ago in a patent-infringement case was a stunning amount. Samsung, however, did not actually react like a 5-year-old and pay the amount in nickels.
6. Your Phone Won't Fry Your Brain or an Egg
Admit it, you've had concerns about the possible effects of radiation from your phone, inconclusive findings notwithstanding. But one thing we can reassure you of: it does not produce enough heat to cook an egg.
7. Amazing Video Footage?! Not So Fast
Who knows what joy pranksters derive from creating a message that promises a video clip that's "the coolest thing" you've ever seen will appear after you've annoyed your entire contact list. We just hope that what goes around comes around.
8. Woman Did Not Kill for Xbox
No, a woman heeding the call of duty to purchase an Xbox did not stab three fellow Wal-Mart shoppers to death. As sadly believable as that story can be, it's satire from The Daily Currant.
9. Your Phone Can't Unlock Your Car (Unless)
Yes, your phone can do amazing things that computers could barely do 20 years ago. But it cannot unlock your car by sending a signal over a phone. If you want to unlock your car with your phone, you'd better have a car and an app designed to do so.
10. Netflix Did Not Cancel Orange is the New Black
You just watched all of the second season of Orange is the New Black and you're dreaming of season 3 when you hear the clink behind you: OITNB has been canceled?! Not true. Just a joke from Empire News, a satirical news site.
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Chandra Steele is a senior features writer which lets her write about absolutely anything if it connects to technology. Fortunately that's everything. She also writes fiction, essays, and some other things. You can find her on Twitter at @ChanSteele.
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Gold Nugget's $460,000 Winning Bid Placed by Spectrum Numismatics International
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The $460,000 winning bid for a headline-making, 100-ounce gold nugget was made by Spectrum Numismatics International of Irvine, California, a division of Spectrum Group International, at a public auction in Sacramento, California on March 16, 2011.
Nicknamed the "Washington Nugget" because it was discovered last year near Washington, California, it is believed to be the largest, verifiable California gold nugget still in existence. The auction on the eve of the [...]
Bowers and Merena to Merge with Stack's, Create Stack's-Bowers Numismatics
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Spectrum Group International, Inc. (SPGZ.PK) announced today that its subsidiary Bowers and Merena Auctions, one of the world's pre-eminent auctioneers of rare coins and currency, has entered into an agreement with Stack's, the oldest rare coin retail and auction company in the U.S., to combine their operations.
The new company, which will be known as Stack's-Bowers Numismatics, with a world coin division to be known as Stack's-Bowers and Ponterio, will be owned 51% by Bowers and Merena Auctions and 49% by Stack's [...]
Spectrum Numismatics Missing Coin Alert
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Spectrum Numismatics had an 1882 $5 NGC PR63CAM cert #1519802005 go missing in a shipment. There were only 48 coins minted. Please contact...
Matthew Westfall Joins Spectrum Numismatics International
IRVINE, Calif. -- Spectrum Numismatics International, Inc., one of the world's largest rare coin, currency and wine dealers, announced today that Matthew Westfall has...
Spectrum Numismatics International, Inc. Names New Senior Numismatist
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IRVINE, Calif. – Spectrum Numismatics International, Inc., one of the world's largest rare coin and currency dealers, announced today that it has hired Richard...
Spectrum Numismatics International, Inc. Names New President
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IRVINE, Calif. – Spectrum Numismatics International, Inc., one of the world's largest rare coin and currency dealers, announced today that it...
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Spectrum Launches World Currency Division
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(Irvine, California) -- Spectrum Numismatics International of Irvine, California again is expanding its operations with the opening of a World Currency Division. ...
Vegas Casino Sells Historic Coins and Tokens to Spectrum
(Irvine, California) -- Hundreds of silver and gold coins, silver bars and specially-made gold $1 and $5 denomination gaming tokens that were...
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A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately as stand-alone pieces, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession. A movement is a section, "a major structural unit perceived as the result of the coincidence of relatively large numbers of structural phenomena".

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Gilbert Elliot, 2:e earl av Minto, 2:e viscount Melgund, 2:e Baron Minto, 5:e Baronet, född 16 november 1782 i Glasgow, död 31 juli 1859 i Potsdam i Tyskland, var en brittisk politiker, son till Gilbert Elliot, 1:e earl av Minto.

Minto var 1835-1841 sjöminister (förste amiralitetslord) i lord Melbournes ministär och 1846-1852 under lord John Russell lordsigillbevarare, men utmärkte sig varken som politisk talare eller administratör.

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Beginnings: John Adams – In Word and Action
In Spring 2017, the SAGU History department hosted the seminar "Beginnings: Life, Culture and Politics in Early America." Topics included the birth of the American Navy, Breaking the Glass Ceiling, The Electoral College, America's Military Bands and many more. Gary McElhany, Ph.D. discusses the events that lead to the infamous Boston Massacre and how it shaped John Adams.
On October 24, 1770, Captain Thomas Preston entered the new courthouse on Queen Street. He, with William Wemms, James Hartigan, William McCauley, Hugh White, Matthew Kilroy, William Warren, John Carrol and Hugh Montgomery, had been charged with the murder of several Boston residents and if found guilty would hang. The men, all part of England's 29th regiment had arrived in Boston to maintain the peace and form tax collection under the Townsend acts and protect the crowns revenue at the customs house. Over 4,000 soldiers were housed in close proximity to Boston's 20,000 residents. Conflict between the soldiers and the Bostonians was common. Military rules of the day require that the soldiers pay for their own uniforms and the food beyond their normal rations. The poorly paid soldiers often took jobs in the city to earn extra pay, putting them in competition with local workers for the same jobs. But how did the accused find themselves in a court room? There are mixed and conflicting accounts of the event known as the Boston Massacre, but the basic facts are these: On March 5, 1770 at approximately 9 p.m., sentry Hugh White stood guard outside the customs house. A group of townsmen led by Edward Garrick started insulting Private White. Some of the boys in the crowd began to throw snowballs, chunks of ice and oyster shells. Those passing by stopped to see what would happen next. As tensions rose, someone entered a nearby church and rang the bell. In a time before fire departments, the bell was the signal that fire had broken out in the city and help was needed to put out the flames. Still, more people poured out into the streets in response to the bell. As additional soldiers arrived to reinforce the sentry, Captain Preston attempted to control the crowd but violence followed. Armed with sticks or clubs, a group of men came up from the docks, joined the conflict, and some began to strike the soldiers with their weapons. Fearing for their lives, the soldiers attempted to defend themselves as best they could. Someone in the crowd taunted them, daring the troops to open fire on the crowd. One of the attackers threw a club at Private Montgomery, knocking him off his feet. Montgomery fired a shot into the air and then received the second blow from the club as he tried to stand. In the confusion that followed, additional shots were fired leaving Boston residents Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks and Patrick Carr dead or dying. John Adams wrote of his own experience on that night:
"The Year 1770 was memorable enough, in these little Annals of my Pilgrimage. The evening of the fifth of March, I spent at Mr. Henderson Inches's House at the South End of Boston, in Company with a Clubb, with whom I had been associated for several Years. About nine O' Clock We were allarmed with the ringing of Bells, and supposing it to be the Signal of fire, We snatched our Hats and Cloaks, broke up the Clubb, and went out to assist in quenching the fire or aiding our friends who might be in danger. In the Street We were informed that the British Soldiers had fired on the Inhabitants, killed some and wounded others near the Town house. A Croud of People was flowing down the Street, to the Scene of Action. When We arrived We saw nothing but some field Pieces placed before the south door of the Town house and some Engineers and Grenadiers drawn up to protect them." Concerned for his wife Abigail, Adams made his way home but found the crowded street difficult to maneuver. In the solitude of his home he found time to consider the events. He wrote in his diary, "For months uncertain busy characters had to work to spark quarrels between the lower classes and the soldiers. I suspected that this was the explosion which has been intentionally wrought by the designing men. They knew what they were aiming at better than the instrument employed. If these poor tools should be prosecuted for any of their illegal conduct, they must be punished. If the soldiers in self-defense should kill any of them, they must be tried. And if truth was respected in the law prevailed must be acquitted." To Adams, a verdict rendered on a motion rather than the law would disgrace the country. "Paul Revere and others seize the moment to stir anti-British sentiment" is now famous print of the massacre that hit the street within weeks. No effort was made by Revere to ensure accuracy. It was after all a propaganda piece designed to enflame passions. The event took place after 9 in the evening. Snow covered the ground and the deaths were the result of chaotic mingling of soldiers and civilians. Yet the prints suggest that innocent civilians were gunned down in full light of day by an organized military under the command of a determined officer. The trial was postponed to allow hostility to die down but the soldiers found it nearly impossible to find legal counsel in Boston. Only John Adams would take the case and that after a time of personal struggle. Adams was in the early stages of building a law practice in Boston. He had some success and was building important contacts and a growing client base. His young family was dependent on his continued success. He knew well the political climate of Boston and what was at risk should he take the case; that he stood to lose clients and friends seemed clear. Placing his family in physical danger was also a very real possibility. Finding strength in a treatise by Sassari Beccaria, an opponent of capital punishment, Adams copied these words. "If, by supporting the rights of mankind, and of invincible truth, I shall contribute to save from the agonies of death one unfortunate victim of tyranny or ignorance, equally fatal, his blessings and years of transport will be sufficient consolation to me for the contempt of mankind." In the end it came down to his bedrock belief that all men deserve a fair trial with capable representation. If no one else would defend the soldiers, then he must. Assisted by Josiah Quincy, Adams first defended Preston, arguing that it was impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Preston had given the order to fire. In fact, Preston had been standing in front of his men when he allegedly gave the order to fire – hardly the logical actions of an able commander. The jury acquitted Preston on the grounds of reasonable doubt. In December, a second trial was held to determine the guilt of the soldiers. In his closing, Adams called on the jury to lay aside emotion and decide the case only on the evidence. "I will enlarge no more on the evidence, but submit it to you. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, are inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence. Nor is the law less stable than the fact. If an assault was made to endanger their lives the law is clear. They had a right to kill in their own defense. If it was not so severe as to endanger their lives, yet if they were assaulted at all, struck and abused by blows of any sort, by snowballs, oyster shells, cinders, clubs or sticks of any kind, this was provocation – for which the law reduces the offense of killing down to manslaughter. In consideration of those passions in our nature which cannot be eradicated, to you candor, and justice, I submit the prisoners in their cause." Of the six defendants, four were acquitted and the other two soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter. Those two were branded on the thumbs and sent home to England. Meanwhile, England had repealed the detested Townsend acts, and at least for a while life settle down to its normal rhythm. Although facing immediate criticism and the loss of clients, Adams' principled stand and able defense actually seemed to advance his young attorneys' standing in the community. He was elected to several offices and played a significant role in the birth of the nation. With revolution likely in the spring of 1776, John Adams pinned his thoughts on government. At the Second Continental Congress he urged the independent states to adopt constitutions, creating self-government. The Declaration of Independence in July of 1776 made this step critical. In Massachusetts, the state legislature attempted to create a constitution on its own but it met with resistance. A constitutional convention was then called in 1779 and John Adams was elected to represent Braintree. The convention selected John and Samuel Adams, and James Bowdoin to draft the constitution and they deferred the task to John. Seated at his desk in Braintree, he worked through the fall completing the draft in October of 1779. The Massachusetts Constitution was ratified the following June. Adams also served as the first vice president of the United States under George Washington. After years of active participation in decision-making, he found the office a disappointment. In a letter to his beloved Abigail, he complained, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention a man contrived or his imagination conceived." The nation honored Adams for his service, electing him president in 1796. In 1800, he participated in the first contested presidential election, when he a Federalist was challenged by the Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson. The campaign was marked by personal attacks on both sides, producing years of animosity between these former friends. Only at the end of their lives was the relationship restored. Looking back at the sum of his life, Adams wrote that above all honors bestowed upon him, the part he took in defense of Captain Preston and the soldiers procured be anxiety and obloquy enough. "It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my Country. Judgment of death against those soldiers would've been a foul stain upon this country as the executions of Quakers or witches anciently." As the evidence was, the verdict of the jury was exactly right. Holding to his core belief that all deserved a fair trial with able defense, John Adams took greatest pride in this trial and that he had responded with actions beyond mere words.
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Pulford ist ein Dorf und ein civil parish in der Unitary Authority Cheshire West and Chester in der zeremoniellen Grafschaft Cheshire, England. Es liegt an der Straße B5445, südwestlich von Chester und an der Grenze zu Wales. Der Name des Dorfes ist vermutlich abgeleitet von den walisischen Worten Pwll ("Marsch") und Ffordd ("Übergang"). Nach den Angaben des 2001er Zensus hatte die Gemeinde 395 Einwohner, 2011 war die Einwohnerzahl auf 580 gestiegen.

Im Parish gibt es mehrere nennenswerte Bauwerke, darunter ein Schloss, eine Kirche und ein Hotel.

Pulford Castle – das Bauwerk ist nicht mehr erhalten, nur die Erdwälle der Burg sind noch erhalten und befinden sich hinter der Kirche von St Mary – war eine kleine normannische Verteidigungsanlage mit Motte und Burghof am Rande des Dorfes. Die Burg wurde an strategisch günstiger Stelle erbaut, um eine Straße und einen Flussübergang zu schützen und wurde um das Jahr 1000 gebaut. Hier befand sich während der Revolte von Owain Glyndŵr im Jahr 1403 eine Garnison.

Die Pulford Parish Church ist eine Marienkirche, die 1844 umgebaut wurde. Der Entwurf stammt von John Douglas, gestiftet wurde der Bau von Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1. Duke of Westminster. Die erste Erwähnung einer Kirche an dieser Stelle stammt aus dem 12. Jahrhundert, und der erste Gemeindepfarrer ist in alten Dokumenten als Hugo genannt. Die Kirchturmspitze hat eine Höhe von rund 40 Metern. In den 1980er Jahren zerstörte ein Feuer das Dach des Kirchturms, der später restauriert wurde.

Im Ort befindet sich ein großes Hotel, das Grosvenor Pulford Hotel. Grosvenor ist der Familienname des Duke of Westminster, dessen Sitz sich im nahegelegenen Eaton Hall befindet.

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Lawyer Opiyo receives German Africa Prize
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Uganda's human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo was on Thursday evening awarded the German Africa Prize 2017.
A human rights championship, Opiyo received the award at a ceremony in Berlin for his tireless work in defending civil rights in Uganda.
The German Africa Foundation gives the prize to honour outstanding individuals for their long-standing endeavours to foster democracy, peace, and human rights.
"I will today receive the German Africa Prize 2017 from the German Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier here in Berlin. There will be a special performance by Geoffrey Oryema. I thank the staff/Board of @chapter4uganda our partners, supporters & friends. I owe lots to you all," Opiyo had earlier in the day tweeted.
Opiyo is a leading human rights lawyer and founder of the human rights organization "Chapter Four Uganda."
Since 2005, he has worked tirelessly to promote civil liberties in Uganda, often on pro bono.
I will today receive the German Africa Prize 2017 from the German Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier here in Berlin. There will be a special performance by Geoffrey Oryema. I thank the staff/Board of @chapter4uganda our partners, supporters & friends. I owe lots to you all pic.twitter.com/FOdKxgRT4g
— Nicholas Opiyo (@nickopiyo) November 23, 2017
For this reason, he has been rewarded with the German Africa Prize for which he was selected by an expert jury.
"I'm delighted to be the recipient of the award 2017. This award is very prestigious and I follow after extremely eminent Africans including the former South African public protector [Thulisile Mandosela]. It's really humbling to me that this award was bestowed upon me," Opiyo told DW.
Since 1993, the German Africa Foundation has awarded the German Africa Prize to honor "outstanding individuals for their long-standing endeavors to foster democracy, peace, human rights, art, culture, the social market economy and social concerns."
Opiyo, 37, grew up on the outskirts of Gulu, Northern Uganda. The region was a center of fighting between Museveni's government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that is notorious for using child soldiers and terror under the leadership of Joseph Kony.
Opiyo had to walk long distances in order to avoid abduction by the LRA. His sister was kidnapped and spent several years with the rebels before escaping.
Many young Ugandans, especially in the north, were abducted to serve as soldiers, labourers or sex slaves to the rebel group. According to a US-based rights group, Human Rights Watch, Opiyo channelled his difficult childhood experience into a passion for defending human rights for all.
Feeling honored to be meeting Ugandan #humanrights lawyer @nickopiyo tonight when he will be awarded the 2017 German Africa Prize at the @Allianz Forum in Berlin. He is a relentless defender of civil rights, democracy and political freedom in Uganda #DeutscherAfrikaPreis2017
— Bettina Sattler (@SattlerBettina) November 23, 2017
Critical role in political freedoms
He is a known lawyer, who fearlessly, handles the most sensitive topics that many of his colleagues are afraid of.
Under the organization "Chapter Four Uganda", he developed into an outspoken leader of the civil society in his country.
"It has been a difficult journey in a country which you have a leader in power for the last 30 years and has no intention of leaving," Opiyo noted.
Rights activists say, President Yoweri Museveni has successfully transformed himself into an autocratic and despotic supreme leader.
As a lawyer, Opiyo successfully pushed that parliamentarians should also lose their parliamentary seats after their political parties lose elections.
As an applicant against the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2013, a law which provided life imprisonment for certain cases, he succeeded in August 2014 by convincing the Ugandan constitutional court to declare the law null and void.
He is also representing Stella Nyanzi, a Ugandan academic who has been charged with "cyber-harassment" and "offensive communication" for comments she made concerning President Yoweri Museveni in a recent Facebook post.
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