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Q: Cannot sign blackberry 10 app I'm trying to sign a bb 10 app that is hidden from the home screen (ie there is no icon on the home screen to launch the app).
I get the following error when I try to sign.
Error: Code signing request failed because [hidden] in Entry-Point-System-Actions is not allowed.
Are there some sort of special permissions needed to make you app hidden?

A: Hidden apps are not permitted on BlackBerry 10. There will be the ability to run an app in the background, while the app is not open in the next few months, but there are no plans to allow apps which don't have any presence on the users home screen.
http://crackberry.com/going-headless-background-app-support-coming-soon-blackberry-10


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This morning I noticed multiple colonies on the shady side of the plant and removed those branches entirely. I have noticed a few spots on the Amnesia Haze that I just sprayed with Neem on the 15th and which I hoped would last till harvest in approx. 1 month.
Anyway I removed any fan leaves with spots throughout the garden and discovered mites on one of the other Gods Poison. I was already leery of drying it in my place for that very reason.
What is the next step you would take OJ if it continues to spread?
For the PM take 11/2 cups of milk in a gallon container and fill with warm water and spray on your plants, make sure to spray the undersides also. Remove any brown leaves or severely yellow leaves. Try not to spray directly on bud if possible if no signs of mold on them. When removing leaves or anything with mold put directly in a bag. You can also put some mulch or grass trimmings if you have any around the base of the plant or on all shady area. You can also spray shaded area before applying mulch. The milk mixture will at least slow down the spreading of the PM if not stop or kill it. The mulch stops any mold that may be growing on the shady side of the plant from sending spores out.
For the spider mites spray a mix of dish soap 2-3 tablespoons to a gallon of water and spray. If you have leftover milk mixture after spraying the other plant just drop some soap in it and spray the spider mites as well.
1% or homo? Is evening best for this or morning?
Regular milk,not anything else. You can spray early morning or evening, just not in the hot sunny part of the day. Repeat spraying every 3-5 days or so or if you see any spreading. We are just trying to get you to harvest using the most non-toxic methods for the job.
What happens if it gets on the bud?
Nothing overly drastic, but it will slow down formation of the bud to a minor degree due to a film over them. Plus as a rule I try not to spray anything on my buds because of taste and light magnification from water droplets.
There has been a lot of reports of PM coming in from area growers this month. I think the Neem oil spared me from the worst of it. I wouldn't describe anything as having come back. The black mold was taken care of just fine.
I checked the two I sprayed with milk this morning and found no new mildew on those. I did see some on the untreated plants so I tried the Natria and immediately smelled Apple Cider Vinegar which is in it along with isoproyl alcohol and some type of competing fungus that likes mildew and they say it can be used once per week up to day of harvest. Whatever works.


The Lin's house is neighboring to Big City, the busy shopping mall in Hsinchu. It is transformed from the commercial office into the retirement house combining leisure and recreation.Located on the high floor and knocking through two houses, it has the fine innate conditions.For the interior design, through the color uses and the concrete and fictitious materials, the glimpses of the interior view or the exterior scenes have upgraded the atmosphere of humanities and Zen in the space to another level.
The overall design of the Lin's house is the open space. The floor is all paved with the ink-color rock slices.The living room and the open kitchen are knocked through to create the broad space sense.The design of the living room intentionally lowers the original pillars and extends the bright white ceiling. The two sides are painted black to keep the original mottled pattern for the illusion of the elevated ceiling onboth sides and create the layers.
The ceiling extends downward to the quiet and elegant architectural concrete TV wall, which also extends to the storage wall on the left side.The accompanied mirror with the anti-peeping function is for storage and beauty at the same time.The proper match with the low-chroma soft furnishing design in the living room achieves the effect of mutual support.
The design of the sliding door makes use of the characteristic of the grid to make the separation for the left audio-visual room and the right study room and display the broadness and grandness of the space design.When the wood grid sliding door is closed, the individual privacy is also kept. It is the bridge between the public and the private fields.
The design of the audio-visual room features the all black hollow brick wall.The outdoor light is lavishly cast in through the French window and slowly shed down along the marble wall.The choice of the simple and clear-cut furniture enables the owner to have a personal space here.
The design of the study room extends the atmosphere of humanities and Zen in the overall space, not only introducing the outward architectural concrete wall into the room but also forming the spaceconnection by making the hollow brick wall of the audio-visual room the back wall of the book shelf.The couch with the storage function and the desk in the wooden color as the decoration add more temperature to the overall space.
In the open kitchen, the large French window serves as the bridge.The consistently succinct kitchen utensils are adopted, and the frying area and light meal area are separated.The dining table in the walnut color placed on the center becomes the highlight of the space.
The ingenious arrangement of the frying area on the balcony not only benefits the ventilation but also blocks the cooking smells from entering indoors.
The choice of the low-chroma colors and materials not only endows the overall space with the outstanding texture but also leaves the space for the family to fill the retirement house with colors as they get along with their beloved cat.


After a string of setbacks in India in recent years, the genetically modified (GM) seed industry is now targeting Pakistan as its next frontier, say activists.
"They want to recoup the market loss that they would suffer through the ban on GM food field trials in India," Dr Azra Sayeed, an environmentalist and food security expert, told IPS. She termed it a "fresh onslaught of imperialist corporations" and their "unquenchable thirst for profits".
On 23 July a technical expert committee set up by India's Supreme Court recommended an indefinite moratorium on field trials of genetically modified crops until the government tabled suitable mechanisms for regulation and safety.
A parliamentary standing committee on agriculture had also asked, in an August 2012 report, for a ban on GM food crops in the country, and in March 2012, five Indian states — Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Uttarakhand and Karnataka — took a decision to prohibit environmental release of all GM seeds.
Sayeed, who represents Heading Roots for Equity, a Karachi-based non-governmental organization that advocates the right to food for poor communities, is alarmed that three multinational companies — Monsanto, Pioneer and Syngenta — have recently approached Pakistan's Ministry of National Food Security and Research with a request to launch GM maize and cotton.
The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency has also been asked for an environmental impact assessment.
Sayeed said the US-based agrochemical giant Monsanto had long been trying to get approval for transgenic corn based on field tests carried out by the corporation itself.
Hailing the indefinite moratorium on GM foods and crops in India as "a very progressive pro-people position", she said the reasons behind the moratorium were equally valid for Pakistan.
The alternative would "be a crushing blow, not only in the erosion of indigenous food crops, but would also have further devastating impacts on small and landless farmers," Sayeed said.
A spate of farmer suicides across India, and especially in areas where GM cotton seeds were introduced over a decade ago, attracted attention to the potential impact of GM crops on poor farmers' incomes.
Prince Charles's comment on a possible connection between farmers' suicides and GM crops in an address to a Delhi conference in 2008 gave a fillip to activists campaigning against the Indian government's caving in to the mainly US-based GM food industry.
So why is GM such a dirty word and why does it leave such a bitter taste in everyone's mouth?
Pervaiz Amir, an economist who is a member of the prime minister's Commission on Climate Change, said that, to many, GM meant "uncontrollable mutations that create monsters. It is seen as playing god by genetically modifying the makeup of a species or variety," he told IPS.
But those advocating GM products say they can lead to higher gains in productivity. Yet there are other experts who argue that GM technology is not the only way to break the yield barrier and reach food security.
"Pakistan has the potential to double its present production of all crops just by higher input use and better water management, and by removing some institutional constraints," Amir said. At the same time, he said, the role of markets is crucial in determining a country's food security.
Amir compared GM seeds to drone strikes: "Loss of control is loss of almost everything including sovereignty," he said.
"It conflicts with the Punjab Tenancy Act of 1929 which does not allow non-agriculture interests to own agricultural land," said Yusuf Agha, a Karachi-based activist who is preparing to file a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court challenging the land lease Corporate Farming Ordinance of 2000.
He said that if multinationals succeed in finding their way into Pakistan's agriculture and lure farmers to buy GM seeds, farmers will be deprived of their natural seed bank which they have been cultivating over centuries.
In July this year, over 500 organic farmers in India's Gujarat state announced that they would develop individual seed banks to resist the onslaught of genetically modified seeds.
"All GM seeds should be banned, and natural renewable resources belonging to all humanity must be left unpatentable and unmonopolized," argued environmentalist Najma Sadeque, who has been studying agricultural trends in Pakistan for two decades.
Her book, The Great Agricultural Hoax, is a storehouse of information on the "poisonous consequences" of making crops and people dependent on GM.
Zofeen Ebrahim is a Karachi-based journalist who has been working independently since 2001, contributing to English dailies, including Dawn and The News, and current affairs monthly magazines, including Herald and Newsline, as well as the online paper Dawn.com. In between, Zofeen consults for various NGOs and INGOs. Prior to working as a freelance journalist, Zofeen worked for Pakistan's widely circulated English daily, Dawn, as a feature writer. In all, Zofeen's journalism career spans over 24 years and she has been commended nationwide and internationally for her work.


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Review: Cold Pursuit sees Mr Plow out for revenge in a temperate thriller
Director Hans Petter Moland
Written By Frank Baldwin, Kim Fupz Aakeson
Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Tom Bateman, Emmy Rossum, Domenick Lombardozzi, William Forsythe
Release 22 FEB (UK) Certificate 15
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Over the past decade, Liam Neeson has had an interesting evolution from Serious Actor to Tough Action Dad, exclusively playing single-minded individuals dispensing their own brand of vigilante justice. Since Taken, he's developed his particular set of skills to work within the same template over and over again, becoming a one man wrecking crew in the likes of Run All Night, Non-Stop and then Non-Stop-But-On-A-Train, The Commuter. He's even punched a wolf in the face. All batshit crazy, yet enjoyable nonetheless. But in a recent controversial interview, Neeson revealed he was once almost in his own version of American History X, contemplating taking a cosh to any "black bastard" who crossed his path to quench his own insatiable thirst for revenge. His telling of this story was probably intended to highlight how revenge never helps anyone, but instead highlighted that this is a reality for black men and people of colour, and attempts to rationalise these thoughts could be seen, at best, as attempts to normalise racism. And to think, my main concern before seeing the film was how many snow puns and Simpsons' gags I could shoehorn into this review.
Thankfully, Neeson's Racist Rampage never came to fruition, but whether you hail Neeson for his candour or question his racial bias, seeing his single-minded anti-heroes stomp, stab and shoot their way in the name of vengeance certainly now casts his on-screen presence in a different light. His character, Nels Coxman is a likeable everyman, a humble snowplow driver who sets out for bloody payback after his innocent son is caught up in a drug turf war. He's surprisingly adept at dispatching the bad guys in increasingly wild and disproportionate ways having learned the odd tip from crime novels.
Director Hans Petter Moland (remaking his own film, In Order of Disappearance) isn't overly concerned with the morality and ethics of revenge, but instead focuses on how one act can have spiralling consequences. As Coxman works his way up the chain that led to the murder of his son, more bodies are tossed on the heap as a result of him unwittingly inflaming the tension between the rival drug lords.
It's this opposing dynamic which could have diluted the narrative and taken the attention away from Coxman's story, but manages to put Cold Pursuit into a different category of revenge thriller, slowing down the pacing without sacrificing the tension. Peter Bateman's Viking is at the top of the chain, a smarmy and sleazy sharp-suited health nut who refuses to let his own son eat sugar, but will happily behead his own henchmen and is more than casually racist towards his Native American counterpart, White Bull (Tom Jackman). Bateman assumes it's White Bull offing his dealers and calls off an already uneasy truce by killing White Bull's son. In retaliation, White Bull goes for Viking's progeny and a three-way dad duel ensues.
"Now choose your weapon: TV remote or BBQ tongs?"
The resulting deaths, while not overly inventive, are adroitly violent and evenly spaced out, with a neat running gag with each deceased minion given a black memorial screen with a graphic denoting their religious leaning. Cold Pursuit is full of laughs, although more often than not err on that uncomfortable type of giggling rather than straight up LOLs as Frank Baldwin's script is peppered with one-liners and surprising set-pieces. An emotional moment in a morgue is undone by a particularly slow and squeaky crank to elevate the body, and slap bang in the middle is an unexpected and touching love story, which is then immediately torn apart. One of White Bull's henchmen threatens a hotel receptionist with the most bluntest of weapons: a bad review on Yelp.
Baldwin attempts to give every character a backstory, but this is a story largely about men and never-ending cycles of violence, meaning the female characters are pushed to the sidelines. Laura Dern is criminally underused as Coxman's wife, who leaves him a Dear John note after finding out her son's non-existent double life involved having a Facebook account she didn't know about. Emmy Rossum's Colorado cop is given slightly more to do, but never really digs deep into her investigation that leads to her brushing up against Coxman without any real sense of jeopardy.
Neeson takes aim, probably at someone he shouldn't.
Alongside this there are also undoubtedly some questionable stereotypes: Moland's attempts to sympathise with the plight of an indigenous culture are handled clumsily, although Moland isn't afraid to push pause on the action to focus on quieter character moments, which could possibly make a bloodthirsty crowd feel slightly cheated. Coxland's sister-in-law is also basically reduced to a walking stereotype, but these obtuse angles feel like a deliberate choice in order to provoke a reaction by just not giving a damn.
Neeson's deadpan performance is undeniably entertaining, but given his recent admissions make it less palatable. Cold Pursuit has all the makings of a dumb cult classic with its handling of violence and dark humour, but now given what we know it makes it all seem just a little less funny and a little more serious.
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Scrumy is a product for handling sprint backlogs and like most others they have a free version and a pro version. And like most others they difference their versions with functionality. But not always the way you think: the free version has something the paid for version lacks: sometimes the free version shows Fresh Prince of Bel air. Since I could never stand the annoying guy when the show first aired, I would gladly pay to not have to see him. It's a wonderful idea. And their commercial is lovely! I hope their product is nice!


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Q: Which logic should be followed using custom partitioner in map reduce to solve this If in a file key distribution is like 99% of the words start with 'A' and 1% start with 'B' to 'Z' and you have to count the number of words starting with each letter, how would you distribute your keys efficiently?

A: SOLUTION 1: I think the way to go is a combiner, rather than a partitioner. A combiner will aggregate the local sums of words starting with letter 'A' and then emit the partial sum (rather than number 1 always) to the reducers.
SOLUTION 2: However, if you insist on using a custom partitioner for this, you can simply handle words starting with letter 'A' in a separate reducer than all other words, i.e., dedicate a reducer only for words starting with letter 'A'.
SOLUTION 3: Moreover, if you don't mind "cheating" a little bit, you can define a counter for words starting with letter 'A' and increment it in the map phase. Then, just ignore those words (there is no need to send them through the network) and use the default partitioner for the other words. When the job finishes, retrieve the value of the counter.
SOLUTION 4: If you don't mind "cheating" even more, define 26 counters, one for each letter, and just increment them in the map phase, according to the first letter of the current word. You can use no reducers (set the number of reducers to 0). This will save all the sorting and shuffling. When the job finishes, retrieve the value of all the counters.

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Days: Thursday. Event Types: Author Signings. Sectors: Illustrator. Subjects: Children's and Middle Grade.
Lorna Schultz Nicholson, illustrator of Amazing Hockey Stories: Hayley Wickenheiser, will be signing in the Scholastic Canada booth #211 on Thursday at 3:00 PM.


"The Bank of Canada is sticking with its trendsetting interest rate of 0.5 per cent, saying uncertainties continue to overshadow the economy's stronger-than-expected start to the year.
The bank's scheduled rate announcement comes after it raised its 2017 growth projection last month following a surprisingly healthy start to the year in areas such as employment, consumer spending and the housing markets. In Wednesday's statement, the bank added better business investment numbers to the list.
"Recent economic data have been encouraging,'' the bank said.
The bank's statement, however, also predicted that the ``very strong growth'' over the first three months of the year will be followed by some moderation in the second quarter, even though at the same time it expects the U.S. economy to rebound.
"The uncertainties outlined in the April (monetary policy report) continue to cloud the global and Canadian outlooks,'' said the bank, without making any specific mentions this time about the potential policy path of Canada's largest trading partner.
With no monetary policy report released Wednesday, observers will scrutinize the commentary in the bank's one-page statement for clues about its thinking on the trajectory of the economy.
The bank's statement also said while recent government policy measures on real estate have contributed to more sustainable outlooks for household debt, the rules have yet to have a substantial cooling effect on hot housing markets.


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Q: Problems after enabling Windows Defender Firewall Problems after enabling Windows Defender Firewall.
Hello everyone!
After an update, the Windows Defender Firewall of my MS Server 2019 activated, since I can no longer access my server remotely, it will be over RDP as well as Remote Desktop.
Would anyone have any idea how to go about solving this problem?
Thank you!

A: Slight nitpick: RDP is the Remote Desktop Protocol.
To solve the issue at hand I guess you would need console access to the server or VM. The simplest way of opening for RDP through the firewall is probably to turn off then re-enable the function in the server manager or computer properties. Doing that usually ensures all necessary settings are put in place in one go.
It's also possible to manually enable the relevant remote desktop rules in the firewall directly.
To avoid having it happen again, I recommend never turning the firewall off in the first place: It's good practice to know enough about what's running on your servers to be able to selectively allow only wanted traffic through their firewalls; preferably with a limited range of allowed sources for anything but truly public traffic.


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«Забинтованная» () — хоррор-мелодрама 2009 года режиссёра Марии Битти.

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Люсиль живёт в уединённом поместье вместе с отцом и бабушкой. Скоро ей должно исполниться 18 лет, она хочет учиться поэзии. Но строгий отец, талантливый врач, считает, что ей нужно заниматься наукой, а стихи она может писать и дома. Понимая, что отец не позволит ей поступить по-своему, Люсиль пытается убить себя, воспользовавшись серной кислотой из отцовской лаборатории. Она выживает, но её лицо изуродовано. Отец не желает отвозить её в больницу и хочет сам восстановить повреждённую кожу. Для ухода за дочерью он нанимает медсестру Джоану, итальянку родом из Калабрии. Джоана проводит с Люсиль круглые сутки, обеспечивая ей необходимый уход. Близкий телесный контакт развивается в глубокую чувственную связь, ограниченную как физической беспомощностью Люсиль, так и необходимостью держать эту связь в тайне от отца. Отец оперирует дочь, используя специально приготовленную кожу для пересадки. Но несчастный случай сводит результаты операции на нет. Во время второй операции он использует кожу с бедра Джоаны, чтобы восстановить лицо дочери. Но связь между Люсиль и Джоан открывается, и отец высылает медсестру из поместья. Люсиль больше не желает сидеть в «клетке» и в этот же вечер сбегает из дома.

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Beer Department: Ever Heard of a Golden Stout?
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Until a year or so ago, I hadn't either. Like you might be doing right now, I too spent some time scratching my head as the gears between my ears slowly turned. Initially, the mere knowledge that such a seemingly contradictory style could exist begged more questions than it answered. "Is it actually a stout?" "Does it taste good?" "What voodoo are these brewers trying to pull off here?" "Is this a gimmick?" Since the concept of golden stouts seems to have gained some traction and won't be consigned to the dustbin of history in the immediate future, I thought it high time I shed some light on this enigma.
Golden Stouts, as intuition may suggest, are beers that pour a golden color and yet have all the traditional aromas and flavors associated with stouts, those trusty workhorses of the beer world that span the color spectrum from ruby to brown to cola to pitch black. Typical stout flavors include chocolate and coffee with lesser contributions of caramel and nuttiness as well as hints of toffee and fruit. In regular stouts, be they Dry Stouts like Guinness, Imperial Stouts like North Coast Old Rasputin, or somewhere in between, the chocolate and coffee flavors are owed to the dark malts that are used. Heavily roasted malts impart all the coffee and chocolate we could ever want. Malts also impart color to the beer. Thus, a style like stout whose characteristics are inextricably linked to these dark malts will, by definition, be dark in color, right? Well, Golden Stouts would argue otherwise.
In this sense, it is useful to think of Golden Stouts as a thought experiment born into reality. Some intrepid brewers wanted to challenge themselves to see if they could create a beer that was golden yet tasted like the darker beers we've come to know and love. It's a fairly simple process, really. Brewers making a golden stout simply omit the darker malts in the grain bill. They can still include lighter malts that will offer flavors of toffee, caramel, and nuttiness. To replicate the chocolate and coffee flavors missing from the now-omitted dark malts, brewers add actual chocolate and coffee. These actual adjunct additions will provide flavor and aroma without affecting the color. Golden Stouts are a brewery sleight-of-hand, so to speak. They're a great way to create some cognitive dissonance in yourself or others. Our brains are programmed to expect a certain range of flavors when we see golden beers and golden stouts mess with these neural pathways. You may very well have to drink a few before your brain comes around to it.
Some folks love these new, niche beers, while some couldn't be bothered. Still others, like yours truly, have yet to come down on one side of the fence or the other. Do they taste good? Sure they do, and they're a fun exercise in the creativity of modern brewing techniques. But will they ever supplant their darker brethren? I doubt it. In my experience, while delicious in their own right, golden stouts lack some of the depth of malt complexity that I yearn for in a stout (this makes sense, given that their malt bills are, by definition, simpler). You could even think of golden stouts as a coffee blonde ale with chocolate and maybe some lactose added. Luckily, as I said earlier, I think golden stouts are here to stay and there are some great examples that are worth exploring, including Rhinegeist Penguin and Darkness Brewing Company's Mayan Sacrifice. So the next time you feel like taking a walk on the wild side with a mind-bending beer, try a golden stout! Cheers!


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Оружие самообороны — совокупность видов оружия и иных технических средств, которые на законном основании могут быть использованы лицом для защиты жизни и здоровья лиц, чья жизнь или здоровье подвергаются угрозе в результате преступного посягательства или иных обстоятельств (необходимая оборона).

Порядок приобретения, хранения и использования оружия и иных технических средств в качестве оружия самообороны в ряде стран, в том числе в России, установлен законодательно.

История регулирования оборота гражданского оружия в России
Изначально в России существовали лишь запреты на незаконную стрельбу из огнестрельного оружия и на его ношение в некоторых случаях, но не на его хранение. При этом запрещалось ношение определенных видов холодного оружия — указ от 8 июля 1793 г. «О неношении тростей с потаенными кинжалами», предписывал: «…тростей со вделанными в них потаёнными кинжалами, клинками и с другими орудиями никому не носить».

До 1845 года практически любой человек в Российской империи, вне зависимости от сословия, мог свободно приобрести любое огнестрельное оружие. Но затем в ряде регионов, обычно приграничных, огнестрельное оружие перестало быть одинаково доступным всем сословиям. Например, в 1845 году «по Высочайшему Его Императорского Величества повелению, последовавшему 27 апреля текущего года, на всеподданнейший доклад его Министра Финансов об оружии пограничных с Пруссиею жителей, входил он по сему предмету с представлением в Комитет Министров. По положению о сем Комитете Министров Государь Император 5 сего июля Высочайше повелеть соизволил: для отвращения на будущее время беспорядков, близ границы происходивших, и охранения спокойствия, в подтверждение и дополнение существующих уже по сему предмету постановлений, сделать следующие распоряжения: 1. По границе нашей с Пруссиею, на 50-вёрстном от неё пространстве, входящем в состав управления Виленского, Ковенского, Минского и Гродненского Генерал-губернатора, воспретить жителям всех сословий, за исключением лишь помещиков, иметь ружья, пистолеты и всякое холодное оружие, кроме охотничьих ружей для стреляния хищных зверей и птиц, полагая таковых... по одному на десять крестьянских дворов; 2. Помещикам, в помянутой пограничной полосе живущим, дозволить иметь оружие для собственного лишь употребления, кроме солдатского, для войск предназначенного». С конца XIX века было также запрещено всем сословиям иметь оружие, используемое в армии, и оружие под армейские боеприпасы.

В XIX веке общие ограничения на хранение и ношение огнестрельного оружия распространялись лишь на «мятежные губернии»: например, во время польского восстания 1830—1831 годов практиковалась конфискация огнестрельного оружия даже у населения, не принимавшего участия в восстании. Отдел IХ третьей главы «Уложения о наказаниях уголовных и исправительных», оговаривал условия изготовления, хранения, ношения, пользования оружием и содержал меры административной и уголовной ответственности за их нарушения.

В начале XX века в России произошло ужесточение оружейного законодательства:
 10 июня 1900 г. императором было утверждено мнение Государственного Совета «О запрещении изготовления и привоза из-за границы огнестрельного оружия образцов, употребляемых в войсках».
 Постановление от 29 мая 1903 года запретило хранение нарезных скорострельных (магазинных и т. п.) ружей и патронов к ним «без особого на то свидетельства губернатора» и впервые обязало всех торговцев оружием «вести особые книги, в которые вносятся всё имеющееся у них на складе или в магазине оружие, отмечать, когда и кому проданы». Эти книги должны были по первому требованию предоставляться полицейским или другим чиновникам.
 В ноябре 1905 года Николай II утвердил положение Совета министров «О порядке хранения и продажи огнестрельного оружия». Этот документ давал губернаторам право «при наличии чрезвычайных обстоятельств, угрожающих общественному порядку и спокойствию», издавать временные постановления, регламентирующие оборот оружия. Заметно ужесточались и правила ввоза оружия из-за рубежа.

Помимо официально опубликованных законодательных актов Российской империи существовали и секретные циркуляры, предназначенные губернаторам и генерал-губернаторам и содержавшие ограничения и запреты на владение и ношение оружия различными группами населения.

После Октябрьской социалистической революции 1917 года правительство Ленина ввело запрет на владение огнестрельным оружием для частных лиц и организаций, кроме тех, кому такое разрешение было выдано специально:
 10 декабря 1918 г. был издан декрет Совета народных комиссаров РСФСР «О сдаче оружия», в соответствии с которым население и гражданские учреждения были обязаны сдать имеющиеся у них винтовки, пулемёты, револьверы всех систем (независимо, исправны они или нет), а также патроны и шашки. Разрешения на хранение оружия, выданные до издания декрета, считались недействительными. Разрешение на владение огнестрельным оружием сохранялось для членов РКП(б), но не более одной винтовки и одного револьвера на человека.
 12 июля 1920 года был принят декрет Совета Народных Комиссаров РСФСР «О выдаче и хранении огнестрельного оружия и обращении с ним», который регламентировал основания хранения и использования оружия: его могли хранить и носить лишь лица, которым оно выдано в связи с выполнением служебных обязанностей (военнослужащие, сотрудники милиции), а также лица, получившие на это право в соответствии с декретом Совета Народных Комиссаров РСФСР от 10 декабря 1918 г. «О сдаче оружия». Кроме того, чрезвычайные комиссии в случае необходимости могли разрешить выдачу оружия другим категориям лиц. Декрет устанавливал ответственность за незаконное хранение огнестрельного оружия.
 20 июля 1920 года Совет Народных Комиссаров РСФСР принял декрет «Об охоте», определивший, что право на охоту имели все достигшие совершеннолетия граждане РСФСР и устанавливавший порядок приобретения охотничьего огнестрельного оружия;
 декретом ЦИК РСФСР от 17 ноября 1921 года «О порядке реквизиции и конфискации имущества частных лиц и обществ» было установлено, что оружие, взрывчатые вещества, воинское снаряжение при отсутствии надлежащего разрешения на хранение подлежали обязательной безвозмездной сдаче государству, в случае обнаружения данных предметов они конфисковывались с привлечением владельцев к уголовной ответственности

Виды

Согласно ст. 3 Закона об оружии РФ к оружию самообороны относится:

 огнестрельное гладкоствольное длинноствольное оружие, в том числе с патронами травматического действия, соответствующими нормам Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации;

 огнестрельное бесствольное оружие отечественного производства с патронами травматического, газового и светозвукового действия, соответствующими нормам Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации;

 газовое оружие: газовые пистолеты и револьверы, механические распылители, аэрозольные и другие устройства, снаряженные слезоточивыми или раздражающими веществами, разрешенными к применению Министерством здравоохранения Российской Федерации;

 электрошоковые устройства и искровые разрядники отечественного производства, имеющие выходные параметры, соответствующие требованиям государственных стандартов Российской Федерации и нормам Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации.

Приобретение оружия самообороны
Согласно ст. 13 право на приобретение оружия самообороны имеют граждане Российской Федерации, достигшие 18-летнего возраста (21-летнего для ОООП), после получения лицензии на приобретение конкретного вида оружия в органах внутренних дел по месту жительства.

Граждане Российской Федерации, приобретающие газовые пистолеты или револьверы, огнестрельное бесствольное оружие самообороны отечественного производства, сигнальное оружие либо приобретающие огнестрельное гладкоствольное длинноствольное оружие в целях самообороны, для получения лицензий и разрешений на их приобретение должны представить по месту жительства в орган внутренних дел:
 заявление по установленной форме;
 ксерокопию паспорта гражданина Российской Федерации или иного документа, удостоверяющего личность и гражданство Российской Федерации;
 две фотографии размером 3х4 см;
 медицинское заключение об отсутствии у заявителя противопоказаний для владения оружием (медицинская справка по форме № 046-1).

Приобретенное оружие подлежит регистрации в двухнедельный срок в органах внутренних дел по месту жительства. В лицензии на оружие самообороны допускается регистрация не более пяти единиц перечисленных выше типов оружия (кроме огнестрельного гладкоствольного длинноствольного). Данная лицензия одновременно является лицензией на приобретение, хранение и ношение оружия самообороны. Срок действия лицензии составляет пять лет. При регистрации огнестрельного гладкоствольного длинноствольного оружия самообороны, приобретенного на основании полученной лицензии, гражданину Российской Федерации органом внутренних дел по месту жительства выдается разрешение на его хранение сроком на пять лет. Продление срока действия лицензий и разрешений осуществляется в порядке, предусмотренном действующим законодательством.

Механические распылители, аэрозольные и другие устройства, снаряженные слезоточивыми или раздражающими веществами, электрошоковые устройства и искровые разрядники отечественного производства регистрации не подлежат, и граждане Российской Федерации имеют право приобретать их без получения лицензии.

Проверка знаний по правилам безопасного обращения с оружием
Люди, впервые приобретающие огнестрельное гладкоствольное длинноствольное оружие самообороны, огнестрельное бесствольное оружие самообороны, газовые пистолеты и револьверы, сигнальное оружие, за исключением лиц, имеющих разрешения на хранение или хранение и ношение оружия, согласно ст. 13 обязаны по месту жительства пройти проверку знания правил безопасного обращения с оружием по программе, которую определяет Министерство внутренних дел Российской Федерации.

Программа проверки правил безопасного обращения с оружием определена в п. 88 и включает проверку знания:
 частей (абзацев) 2 и 5 статьи 17, статей 22 и 24 закона «Об оружии»;
 статей 37-39, 222 и 224 Уголовного кодекса РФ;
 статей 20.8, 20.11-20.13 Кодекса РФ об административных правонарушениях;
 Правил оборота гражданского и служебного оружия и патронов к нему на территории Российской Федерации и вышеуказанной Инструкции в части обеспечения сохранности и безопасности хранения оружия самообороны (то есть пункты глав XI Правил оборота и XII Инструкции, касающиеся физических лиц);
 правил безопасного обращения с огнестрельным оружием самообороны (приложение 53 к Инструкции) и действий, связанных с оказанием доврачебной медицинской помощи пострадавшим от применения огнестрельного и газового оружия.

Основания для отказа в выдаче лицензии
Согласно ст. 13 Федерального закона «Об оружии» лицензия на приобретение оружия не выдается гражданам Российской Федерации:
 не достигшим возраста, установленного настоящим Федеральным законом;
 не представившим медицинское заключение об отсутствии противопоказаний к владению оружием;
 имеющим неснятую или непогашенную судимость за преступление, совершенное умышленно;
когда - либо привлекавшимся к уголовной ответственности за тяжкое или особо тяжкое преступление, совершенное с применением оружия (даже если судимость снята или погашена);
 отбывающим наказание за совершенное преступление;
 совершившим повторно в течение года административное правонарушение, посягающее на общественный порядок или установленный порядок управления;
 не имеющим постоянного места жительства;
 не представившим в органы внутренних дел документы, подтверждающие прохождение проверки знания правил безопасного обращения с оружием, и другие документы, указанные в настоящем Федеральном законе.

Перечень заболеваний, при наличии которых противопоказано владение оружием, определяется Правительством Российской Федерации.

См. также
 Травматическое оружие
 Электрошоковое оружие
 Газовый баллончик
 Оружейное законодательство России
 «Право на оружие» — общероссийская правозащитная организация, объединяющая владельцев гражданского оружия и лиц, заинтересованных в совершенствовании нормативного регулирования оружия и самообороны.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Каталог травматического оружия доступного в России: пистолеты, револьверы, бесствольное

Оружие самообороны
Индивидуальная самооборона
Оружейное законодательство России


Undoubtedly most of us know or at least have heard all or portions of I Corinthians 13, known as the "Love Chapter" by many Christians. As an ordained minister I have certainly quoted parts of this chapter during wedding ceremonies. Sometimes we overlook the most obvious, simple things in life, and so it was when the words believed to be penned by Paul, previously known as Saul, came to mind during a moment of meditation.
Love is the foundation, the basis of everything in the created universe. Divine Source Energy, or God if you will, is love energy in its purest form. We are created from Divine Love Energy as there was nothing else from which to create. We are the embodiment and the extension of Divine Love Energy on the earth.
The church would have us believe this chapter is exclusively theirs but is it? To whom do the descriptions refer if not scientists, psychics, the spiritually in-tune, martyrs, and all manner of humanity? The chapter includes all people regardless of the path chosen for life's journey with or without God. The point is if we cannot, will not, do not act from the essence of our being, our higher self, our God-self, nothing else matters. We can discover the cure for cancer, be a modern-day Nostradamus, deliver effective sermons or live our lives in meditation on a mountaintop, and all will be for naught without love. One day all we have worked toward will pass away, will be gone in the blink of an eye like a dandelion in the wind.
When we were born or incarnated on the earth, however one chooses to believe, we were born having forgotten we originated from Divine Love Energy. While we breathe our purpose is to rediscover who we are, rediscover our origins and once rediscovered, to live the love from which we came. That's easier said than done, right? Not everyone we encounter on a day to day basis is loveable, nor are many of our family members. Each of these unloveable and difficult-to-love people is in our lives for a purpose; to bring out the love we are to live.
For the spiritually minded who believe in reincarnation, the theory is prior to reincarnating we chose to enter into a contract with those who will be in our lives. Some will be adversarial in nature whose purpose is to bring forth, hone, and shape the love within us. Armed with this theory it doesn't make living with people who have an adversarial bent any easier, however. It is to the practice of love, not the knowledge I Corinthians 13 refers. Knowing is the easy part, putting the knowledge into practice presents much more challenge; the point Paul is making.
Love is much more than a feeling. And, it is certainly one of the more overused words in our society. So overused is the word 'love' it has lost its meaning and morphed into the stuff of Valentine cards and words that fly off the tongue far too easily. Love is an action, and we have heard this preached on many fronts, as well, but the question is, do we believe and practice love?
The primary love relationship we must refine is love for self, and I am not referring to an egotistical relationship with self. When unable to acknowledge that we are enough, we are loved and therefore loveable, we cannot love others since the source of the love we extend toward others begins within. True self-love is an acceptance of ourselves as an extension of Divine Love Energy. Throwing around the word 'love' without the benefit of first loving and accepting self results in what Paul describes as "blaring brass and clanging cymbals"; in other words, noise. Noise can be irritating, and eventually, we learn to tune it out. And, that's what happens when we speak words of love from a spirit devoid of the knowledge that we are extensions of Divine Love Energy.
Words of love spoken from spirits who have acknowledged they are extensions of Divine Love Energy are transmitting that love to others at a vibrational frequency others receive, or pick up, and the receivers actually feel the energy of Divine Love. Many have had the experience of being told by another they are loved and actually experienced the depth of that love. Conversely, many more of us have experienced empty words of love from others, and on some level, we are aware the words are just noise, but so eager are we to be loved we accept the empty words. The difference is subtle, yet we are aware and usually have little idea how to articulate the difference. Some have described the feeling from transmitters of Divine Love Energy as a person "who gets me" or "sees into my soul"; as accurate a description as we are afforded with our language limitations to describe things of the Spirit.
So much is wrapped up in this teaching from scripture we pull out for wedding ceremonies, then neatly tuck away until the next appropriate occasion. Acknowledging, then embracing we are extensions of Divine Love Energy is the core, the foundation, the essence of the Law of Attraction and creating our realities. It is from this core we are able to manifest goodness in our lives; the goodness most of us craves and have no idea how to get. Living life from the core knowledge that we are loved and extensions of Divine Love Energy colors everything in our world differently. We become what love is: patient, kind, not boastful selfish, or jealous, slow to anger and quick to forgive, not proud or rude, delighting in truth, bearing up through the power of love, always trusting, hoping and enduring to the extent it is possible while living as fallible humans in an imperfect world. God is the fullness of all of these things and to this fullness will we return. Until then, we have the opportunity to live love to the best of our ability from the core knowledge that we are loved and are extensions of the Divine Love Energy; in other words, we know in part and see through the glass darkly, but one day we will return to the fullness of who we are. We are extensions of Divine Love Energy…..


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Measuring Success: How Effective Is Your Corporate Archive?
April 11, 2018 • Zenobia Kozak
How can an archive contribute to a corporation's bottom line? And how do you measure this contribution? We know that we can measure a corporation's success through changes in revenue, inventory, stock price and a variety of other indices. We can look at their asset and brand values, and measure how these have increased year on year. But measuring the success of a corporate archive is different. It's more challenging, but it may reveal that a huge gold mine is available.
Measuring the profitability of a corporate archive is difficult but not impossible. Rather than viewing the archive as a sideline interest, think of it as an untapped resource. Corporate archives are not where documents go to die. Corporate archives are the starting point—a service mechanism for ingesting and producing high-performing authentic content. A successful archive is one that facilitates the organization's ability to capture, use and promote reuse of archival content. These materials can be used to:
Authenticate and ensure consistency of brand voice and messaging
Accelerate innovation
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Drive change/change management
Increase productivity/value of work
Reduced costs for duplicate efforts due to lost materials
Preserve the culture/experience
Strengthen employee alignment and engagement
Provide content for milestone anniversaries and other heritage content needs
Many of these applications are readily measurable: A corporation can measure reductions in product development cycle time or calculate the savings associated with reducing duplicate efforts. Other uses are not as easily measured, but the value they add is real and significant. For example, authenticity is only acquired through legitimate means; it affords corporations an exclusive resource to draw on to help drive growth through culture, messaging and engagement. In a highly competitive global market, Levi Strauss has focused on its authenticity and brand heritage to differentiate itself.
More than just ensuring compliance, safety, and security of physical and digital content, an archive program must measure its success in terms of the satisfaction of its creators, producers, and consumers. This means that archival systems and processes must efficiently and effectively meet the needs of the stakeholders.
If it is not quickly and easily accessible, then it's not efficient. Scanning through an archive should be as swift and effortless as browsing for information using Google. Meeting this expectation requires some work upfront—which includes cataloging and digitizing the content. This investment will ultimately reduce the long-term costs associated with searching through an unprocessed archive. For example, one of our clients hadn't digitized its newsletters, but its staff members found themselves needing the content for future marketing and internal communication uses. The amount of research time spent manually searching through newsletters for ad hoc requests was over three times more than the cost of initially cataloging and digitizing the newsletters for storage in an archive.
Where do you start? What can you do today to make your archive more effective? Though it may seem counterintuitive, focus on your corporation's future needs and work back. Building an archive takes time, and you don't want to find yourself behind the times before you've even started. The work doesn't end there. Archives programs should be subject to annual reviews to ensure that they are aligned with critical business objectives, which change and evolve. Get in touch and we can help you get started today.
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Towards the end of the 1800s, Japanese entrepreneur Kokichi Mikimoto engaged in a project unique for his time: pearls culture. In 1893, Mikimoto was already obtaining the world's first semi-spherical pearl and two years later, was patenting his invention.
In 1917, spherical pearls were already produced on a commercial level, but Mikimoto had to endure severe scrutiny from the public, who maintained that his pearls were mere imitations of real ones, in spite of the scientific reports proving otherwise. This was about to change in 1927, when Mikimoto met his idol, American inventor Thomas Edison.
"This isn't a cultured pearl, it's a real pearl." , Edison said to his. "There are two things which couldn't be made at my laboratory—diamonds and pearls. It is one of the wonders of the world that you were able to culture pearls. It is something which is supposed to be biologically impossible." The meeting between the two was documented in the New York Times, providing the Japanese entrepreneur with a welcome influx of notoriety. The following conversations between Mikimoto and Edison, held in written letters, are now on display at the Mikimoto Pearls Island Museum, the place in which he cultured his first pearl in 1893.
Currently, Mikimoto is now only known as a pioneer of the culture pearl industry, but also as its leader. His name-sake stores can be found in all corners of the world, from New York to Paris and London.
To mark the 120th anniversary of the creation of the first cultured pearl, the company is celebrating Kokichi Mikimoto's prestigious heritage with a special collection, in which pearls are metaphorically returned into water.
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Top five global food and drink innovators
29-Mar-2019 By Rod Addy
Nestlé, Barilla, Mondelēz International, Danone and PepsiCo have emerged as the top five global food and drink innovators, according to research by Nielsen.
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An inquiry into plastic packaging for food and drink is being launched by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee, aiming to track progress on developing eco-friendly alternatives and how they perform.
Chocolate manufacturer secures £3.5m investment
29-Mar-2019 By James Ridler
Birmingham-based chocolate manufacturer Walkers Chocolates has secured £3.5m of funding to help boost its manufacturing capacity over the next year.
Kepak Cornwall site at risk of closure
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A north-east spreadable cheesemaker showed the nation how it makes 3,000t of product a year when it appeared on TV series Inside the Factory earlier this week (26 March).


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Mashrafe Mortaza full of praise for record-breaking Shakib as Bangladesh bow out of the World Cup
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Shakib Al Hasan was a class above for Bangladesh this ICC Men's Cricket World Cup – and captain Mashrafe Mortaza couldn't help but feel sorry
Shaheen Afridi's six-fer seals Pakistan's 94-run win over Bangladesh
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The 19-year-old Afridi returned career-best figures of six for 35 and became youngest player to take a five-wicket haul in World Cup.
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Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza refused to write off his side's chances of qualifying for the World Cup semi-finals.
Whatever the ground or wicket, we have to back our own strength: Mashrafe Mortaza
CricketCountry StaffJune 17, 2019 11:51 AM IST
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza is quite confident of his team making the difference despite 'ups and downs' in the ongoing World Cup.
Cricket World Cup 2019: Bangladesh, West Indies seek return to winning ways in Taunton
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Having won their respective first games, both the teams then lost two games while one game was a washout.
Video: England beat Bangladesh to return to winning ways
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Jason Roy hit the highest individual score of the World Cup so far as England got their campaign back on track with a 106-run win over Bangladesh in Cardiff on Saturday.
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Mashrafe Mortaza hails Bangladesh spirit but admits batsman fell short
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CT 2017: BAN's Mortaza Pre-Match press conference, Semi-Final 2
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MASHRAFE MORTAZA: Yeah, we played one practice match here against Pakistan. We lost, but we've played so far well.
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A passionate polemicist and radical Romantic, William Hazlitt was the most brilliant essayist of his day. But since his death 170 years ago, he has been largely forgotten. Now, as a monument to Hazlitt is unveiled in Soho, Tom Paulin welcomes a revival of interest in a timeless critic of pomp and power.
"He was the fearless, the eloquent, and disinterested advocate of the rights and liberties of Man, in every cause and in every clime." - the Reverend John Johns in his memorial sermon for William Hazlitt in October 1830.
In the summer of 1830, William Hazlitt lay dying in a small upstairs bedroom at the back of a cheap Soho lodging-house. His first wife Sarah Stoddart, his son William, Charles Lamb and various friends visited him there, as stomach cancer slowly tortured him. Like Wilde in his Paris pension, he was dying as he had lived, beyond his means to pay for his last lodging on earth he wrote at least two essays during that tormented summer. One is called "The Sick Chamber", and in it we can glimpse the "tumbled pillows", the medicine bottles, the juleps in the "unwholesome dungeon" where he lies.
More than 12 years before, in a little-known letter, Keats's friend, John Hamilton Reynolds, described Hazlitt as "full of eloquence, - warm, lofty, & communicative on everything imaginative & intelligent, - breathing out with us the peculiar & favourite beauties of our best bards, -passing from grand & commanding argument to the gaities & graces of wit and humour, - and the elegant and higher beauties of poetry. He is indeed great company."
Keats, who attended Hazlitt's lectures, looked up to him and admired the surging, dolphin-like strength of his passionate prose, also testified to the inspiring greatness of his company. John Clare, too, met and admired him, calling him in a shocked letter written immediately after his death "a man of origional [sic] Genius," who died in the character of genius "neglected & forgotten".
For many years, the lodging-house where Hazlitt died - his landlady, eager to let his room, hid his body under the bed while she showed it to would-be tenants - has been known as Hazlitt 's Hotel. It is a favourite meeting place for writers, and I remember staying there with Seamus Deane and Seamus Heaney one winter's night in the closing years of the past century. Both Deane and Heaney had studied Hazlitt at school in Derry in the 1950s - he'd been replaced by Orwell when I took the same A-level course in the 60s, and the diminution of his reputation has been fairly steady until recently.
Most of Hazlitt's work is out of print, or unavailable in paperback. He is not studied in most university English courses and those who want to read him at any length need to scour secondhand shops for old Everyman editions of his essays (gloomily each year I contemplate the tiny number of readers who buy the selection of his essays I did for Penguin a few years ago). I often recall reading through his collected works which stand on the open shelves of the Upper Reading Room of the Bodleian library, only to find that Hazlitt's three-volume Life of Napoleon had remained there for more than 60 years with its pages uncut. During the years I spent beside those volumes I think two students came to consult them, while there were queues to read Coleridge's lavishly edited, often unreadable prose - prose that has begotten untold acres of equally unreadable academic writing. It was like being trapped inside Gissing's New Grub Street - I felt that Hazlitt's reputation was now so dimmed, so beleaguered on the margins of the cultural memory, that it would never again be celebrated.
The appeal, co-ordinated by the Guardian, for a restored monument on his grave in St Anne's Church in Soho represents one of the most heartening and ambitious attempts to put Hazlitt back where he centrally belongs, among the great Romantic writers such as his friends Keats and Shelley, and his friends, till they deserted the radical cause, Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth. A master of English prose style, a beautifully modulated general essayist, the first great theatre critic in English, the first great art critic, a magnificent political journalist and polemicist like William Cobbett, whom he met and whom he describes affectionately in The Spirit of the Age, his greatest book, Hazlitt is both a philosopher and one of the supreme literary critics in the language. He is the critic as artist, to use Wilde's phrase, because he makes critical prose into imaginative action, so that the critic is redeemed from being simply the servant of the poet, the novelist, the playwright. The readers who admire him come from all political spectrums - they include Michael Foot, Lord (that is, Kenneth) Baker, and Paul Johnson, who has been labouring for years on a long TLS review of Duncan Wu's epic, nine-volume edition of Hazlitt 's works (the 20-volume collected works, edited by PP Howe, were published on the centenary of his death in 1930).
But how and where do we place this little-studied, scantly celebrated critic and journalist?
Hazlitt was born in Maidstone on April 10 1778. His mother, Grace Loftus, was the daughter of an English Unitarian ironmonger from Suffolk, his father, William, was from a family of northern Irish Presbyterians, who had moved to the south of Ireland, near Tipperary town. Hazlitt is the issue of the English, the Scottish and - yes, I'm saying it - the Ulster Enlightenment. His father was influenced by the important, though at the moment little discussed, Ulster-Scots philosopher Francis Hutcheson through his studies at Glasgow University, and through Unitarianism, which he chose in rejection of the Calvinist presbyterianism of his parents. It is from Hutcheson's aesthetic philosophy that the sensuous intellect Hazlitt embodies is derived. Unitarianism or Rational Dissent - that intellectual aristocracy in the ranks of Dissent, as historians often characterise it - is central to Hazlitt 's writings, even though he was not a religious believer.
It is particularly appropriate that the Guardian should honour Hazlitt, as they belong to the same Unitarian family (the Manchester Guardian was founded in 1821 in a Unitarian chapel in Cross Street). Unitarianism or Rational Dissent is one of the roots of modern English Culture - for Hazlitt 's generation its three exemplars and heroes were Milton, Locke and Newton, all of whom doubted the divinity of Christ, the central Unitarian non serviam. From this puritan or presbyterian, essentially middle-class, dissenting culture flowed innovations in science, economics, political theory, publishing and education.
Hazlitt began as a philosopher, and his first book, An Essay on the Principles of Human Action, is an original work which has been neglected until recently, and which he described, unfairly, as a dry "chokepear". It contains this beautiful sentence:
"If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable."
This is like a moment from Wordsworth - Hazlitt continued to proclaim his admiration for his poetry long after they quarrelled about politics - and as we read Hazlitt we find a whole series of complex images like this which express philosophical ideas in the same way that Wordsworth's spots of time passages in The Prelude do. If we read this passage with the ear, as Hazlitt insists we do, and not simply with the eye, we can perceive that he is running with a series of "ih" sounds which begin with "If" and end with "inseparable" - a word which also sums up the repeated uses of "in" within the sentence - a sentence which has what Hazlitt calls "keeping" -that is, structure, texture, developing form. It is this firm and sensitive ear for the texture of an English sentence that makes him one of the greatest prose stylists, but in an age of often rebarbative critical prose, or of yuppie lifestyle journalism, this insistence on writing well - and on having the ability to analyse a piece of prose - has virtually disappeared.
Hazlitt 's philosophical study was published in 1805 by Joseph Johnson, Mary Wollstonecraft's publisher and friend, a seminal figure who is known as the founder of the English book trade and who was a pillar of radical Dissenting culture. It was the year of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar and Napoleon's at Austerlitz. It is that latter victory which Hazlitt memorialises in a famous essay, "On the Pleasure of Painting", where he describes painting his beloved father's portrait in the Unitarian chapel in Wem, in Shropshire (the house they lived in still stands, and has a memorial plaque on it, but the chapel is now a storage shed in the back yard of a small hotel).
Hazlitt remembers finishing his father's portrait on the same day as the news arrived of Napoleon's victory:
"I walked out in the afternoon, and, as I returned, saw the evening star set over a poor man's cottage with other thoughts and feelings than I shall ever have again. Oh, for the revolution of the great Platonic year, that those times might come again! I could sleep out the three hundred and sixty-five thousand intervening years very contentedly! - the picture is left: the table, the chair, the window where I learned to construe Livy, the chapel where my father preached, remain where they were but he himself is gone to rest, full of years, of faith, of hope, and charity!"
Fortunately, Hazlitt 's portrait of his father still survives - some years ago I examined it in the vaults of the Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery. It was cracked, dusty, dark, but to gaze at the craggy, doubly pocked face of the Reverend William Hazlitt is to see a benevolent Irish radical, who never compromised and who brought his children up to be fearless and outspoken critics of tyrannical governments. "Be Not Conformed to the World" is the text of one of his sermons. The museum also contains and displays Hazlitt 's self-portrait (his portrait of Charles Lamb is in the National Portrait Gallery, where there is to be an exhibition devoted to Hazlitt in May).
In a series of polemical articles protesting at the treatment of American prisoners of war in Ireland during the American revolution, Hazlitt 's father signed himself "an unchanging whig", and it is from this bold, turbulent, risk-taking, decisively intelligent and passionate radical culture that Hazlitt draws his inspiration. His parents were closely associated with the Irish republican movement, and they looked after a niece of Robert Emmet, the Irish orator and patriot, during the last five years of her life.
We can see Hazlitt at his most passionate and assertive in Political Essays, which was published in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre, and the year of a famous poem by his friend Keats - "To Autumn" - which is a subtly coded elegy for the Manchester dead. In this angry volume, Hazlitt surveys the rottenness of Britain, after his hero Napoleon's defeat, and he lambasts hated figures such as the reactionary foreign secretary Lord Castlereagh, whose "tortured apprehensions" and languid style of speaking he savages. Hazlitt is always a critic of oratory and prose style, and he is particularly brilliant on William Pitt's mechanical and evasive manner of addressing the House of Commons.
Hazlitt was fascinated by oratory, and by the difference between speaking and writing. In an essay "On the Present State of Parliamentary Eloquence", he discusses the limitations of the Whig politician Henry Brougham, who has neither "warmth, nor sacred vehemence, nor nerve or impetuosity to carry the House before him. He is not a good hater." For Hazlitt, the ability to hate the enemy is the central energy in oratory and prose, and he often quotes Milton's phrase "sacred vehemence" to illustrate an energy which for him is vital to all writing and speaking - Yeats called it "passionate intensity". With this goes Hazlitt's sense of the power of the English popular will. In a contemporary Whig politician Samuel Whitbread he finds a representative of "the spontaneous, unsophisticated sense, of the English people: he spoke point-blank what he thought, and his heart was in his broad, honest, English face".
Though Hazlitt can be severely critical of English failings in philosophy, politics and aesthetics, he is centrally a patriot like Blake who affirms English liberty as forcefully as Cobbett does. He represents the master's values and spontaneity in the figure of the English yeoman in one of his most brilliant essays "The Fight", a study in what we now term "popular culture" (Hazlitt 's essays on Indian jugglers, English games and pastimes, and on an Irish racket-player he admired are similar studies). The yeoman in "The Fight" is part of the crowd staying at an inn in Berkshire before the big match: "He was a fine fellow, with sense, wit, and spirit, a hearty body and a joyous mind, free-spoken, frank, convivial - one of that English breed that went with Harry the fifth to the siege of Harfleur."
The yeoman talks as well as Cobbett writes, Hazlitt tells him, for here and throughout the essay he represents the spirit of English liberty and independence battling with a reactionary political culture, and also making fun of a drunken farmer with a blazing red nose who is staying at the inn. It's like a moment out of Hazlitt's beloved Hogarth, as well as being an anticipation of Dickens, who was to become friendly with Hazlitt 's son William, and who was influenced by his essays, as were Thackeray and Robert Louis Stevenson. The yeoman's robust, witty, unrelenting manner of talking is a central value, because Hazlitt loves and celebrates passionate, popular English speech, which he sees as the fountain of liberty in the culture. It shapes radical journalism and glories in giving as good as it gets.
In "On the Connection between Toad-Eaters and Tyrants", one of the most powerful polemics in Political Essays , Hazlitt asserts: "Man is a toad-eating animal," and then shows how the admiration of power turns many writers into intellectual pimps, hirelings of the press, defenders of the restored Bourbon Louis XVIII, worshippers of idols, lovers of kings. Again and again, he hits out like a pugilist at "grovelling servility" and "petulant egotism". One of his persistent themes is that reason is a "slow, inert, speculative, imperfect faculty", and his aim is always to wrest imagination from the reactionaries such as Edmund Burke - whose prose style he admired hugely - in order to create a political discourse which is not abstract, academic, uninflected, foggy. Abstract reason, unassisted by passion, "is no match for power and prejudice, armed with force and cunning".
This is the source of one of the few passages in Hazlitt regularly quoted by literary critics. It is in his essay on Coriolanus, where he observes that the imagination is an "aristocratical faculty". Poetry, he observes, is "right-royal. It puts the individual before the species, the one above the many, might before right." Poetry is a very "anti-levelling principle", unlike the understanding, which is "republican", but which is a dividing, measuring, rational, unexciting, prosy principle. There is a desperation in this essay, which Hazlitt wrote in the tormented aftermath of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
Here, as so often, Hazlitt is trying to point radicals away from the stagnant, costive prose of Bentham and the philosophical radicals who followed him. Bentham he profiles in The Spirit of the Age, remarking "they say he has been translated into French: he ought to be translated into English". Hazlitt wants the left to trust in and to employ an intensely passionate imagination in argument. He wants images, anger, risk-taking, eloquence, the elastic stretch of combative and confident prose - prose which is wild, lunging, rich in imagery and unfair like Burke's.
For what he terms "the friend of liberty", the love of truth is a "passion in his mind", and the love of liberty is the love of others, while "the love of power is the love of ourselves". Here, we see the principle of disinterested benevolence Hazlitt im-bibed from Unitarianism and from Hutcheson's philosophy and aesthetics. It informs everything he wrote, and in particular The Spirit of the Age, which he published anonymously in 1825, a collection of the most sophisticated newspaper profiles ever written. Hazlitt 's model is the painter he admired above all others - Titian - and he offers a series of contemporary portraits - Wordsworth, Godwin, Coleridge, Southey, Wilberforce and others, some of whom, such as the preacher the Rev. Edward Irving, are deservedly forgotten, though Irving becomes a comic turn in Hazlitt 's prose, like Ian Paisley or Billy Graham let loose with Jonathan Aitken in a Kensington church.
For Hazlitt, disinterestedness is the central Dissenting and English virtue, and he based a vast anthology of parliamentary speeches, The Eloquence of the British Senate, one of his earliest books, on this principle. Though he admired Hobbes as a philosopher and prose stylist, he disagreed vehemently with his view in Leviathan that human beings are entirely motivated by self-interest. What fascinates him are those figures who write journalism in the heat of the moment out of love for others, civic duty and a passionate identification with the liberties of the people, and a hatred of corrupt power. (Hazlitt 's Irish background shows in the subject and title of his essay "On the Pleasure of Hating"). He is drawn to orators, who are prompted by what he terms "the suddenness of the emergency," and must mould the convictions and purposes of their hearers while they are under the influence of "passion and circumstances - as the glass-blower moulds the vitreous fluid with his breath".
In another lovely image he says of Cobbett "wherever power is, there is he against it: he naturally butts at all obstacles, as unicorns are attracted to oak-trees".
As Hazlitt lay dying in Frith Street, close to the churchyard he was to be buried in, he recalled his old battles, and particularly arguments with his former friends, those then committed republicans, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. He wrote to his friend, Francis Jeffrey, the editor of the Edinburgh Review, asking him for pounds 10 (Jeffrey sent pounds 50, which arrived after Hazlitt's death). He also wrote an essay "The Letter-Bell" which wasn't published until the year after his death.
The "Letter-Bell" is like a warmly confident apologia for his life, as Hazlitt remembers the beginning of his journey and, like a figure in a Jack Yeats painting, prepares for his final pilgrimage, as he takes us into the theatre of his imagination.
He begins by meditating on complaints of the vanity and shortness of human life, moves to trifling objects that assume in the eye of memory "the vividness, the deli-cacy, and importance of insects seen through a magnifying glass". Then he mentions that as he writes "the Letter-Bell passes" a lively, pleasant sound not only fills the street but "rings clear through the length of many half-forgotten years". The jingling bell "strikes upon the ear, it vibrates to the brain, it wakes me from the dream of time, it flings me back upon my first entrance into life, the period of my first coming up to town".
He then recounts how he first set out on his journey through life by taking the road from Wem to Shrewsbury: the long blue line of Welsh hills, the golden sunset, the red leaves of the dwarf-oaks rustle in the breeze. It's like a moment, he suggests, out of Pilgrim's Progress, except the light of the French Revolution "circled my head like a glory, though dabbled with drops of crimson gore".
Here, he's representing what we might term the guilt of a fellow-traveller, a guilt which he was able to live with, unlike Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, who became apologists for monarchy and reaction. Wordsworth he then quotes admiringly, but also in sadness, Southey he mocks, Coleridge he dismisses as "the sleep-walker, the dreamer, the sophist, the word-hunter, the craver after sympathy".
But he also knows that it was along the road to Shrewsbury he walked early one dark January morning in 1798 to hear Coleridge deliver an unforgettable sermon in the Unitarian Chapel there - the same chapel that the young Darwin attended with his family in the next century. This sermon and his first meeting with Coleridge and Wordsworth are celebrated in the classic essay, "On My First Acquaintance with Poets", which is Tolstoyan in its youthful clarity and vigour.
Now he recalls the "unbroken integrity" of early opinions and longs for "one burst of indignation against tyrants and sycophants". These are the hated figures who subject other countries to slavery by force and prepare their own for it "by servile sophistry, as we see the huge serpent lick over its trembling, helpless victim with its slime and poison, before it devours it!"
He rejoices then in the July Revolution which overthrew the Bourbons, and says they are no longer round Coleridge's neck like the albatross (an astute interpretation of the central meaning of Coleridge's symbol). Hazlitt then rejoices in his own obstinate refusal to change his opinions or to duck and weave: "I have never given the lie to my own soul." He cannot recollect having ever repented giving a letter to the postman, "or wishing to retrieve it after he had once deposited it in his bag".
As he remarks in his essay "On the Pleasure of Hating", he quarrelled with all of his friends at some point. Charles Lamb, though, remained true to the end, and Lamb, like Sarah Stoddart, visited him in his last weeks. So did his devoted son, William, who was to publish and republish his writings during the decades that followed. Hazlitt was in great pain, and in "The Sick Chamber", which was published unsigned the month before he died, he describes enduring suffocating heat, grasping the pillow in agony, walking up and down the room with hasty or feeble steps, then returning back to life "with half-strung nerves and shattered strength". Typically, in his closing paragraph he mentions Lamb.
Their friendship survived political change, and the furore that followed the publication of Liber Amoris , Hazlitt 's fictional account of his obsessive love - if love it can be called - for Sarah Taylor, the daughter of a couple he rented a room from in Southampton Row. Hazlitt was savaged by the Tory press, and is one of those writers who court disaster. The willed chaos of his personal life can be glimpsed in the sudden moments of autobiography that texture his essays. Short of money, lonely, seeking out prostitutes and unable - as he admitted - to love any woman, he walks a dangerous edge in his writings. He is fascinated by criminality, so that at times we glimpse a figure who speaks with the voice of the man from underground, except he is a leftwing critic of progress and the enlightened values he cared so much for. Partly, this is because he spent his life writing to deadlines, writing to the moment, writing under pressure, so that he was out there in the firing line, exposed to the spirit of the age, lacerated by it. And because he knows that what is also out there is a dark malign force, which what he terms "mitigated, enlightened belief" will never tame, he knows that the irrational and the prejudiced cannot be simply dismissed. So far as I can tell he believes in evil.
Dying in Frith Street, Hazlitt said, "Well, I've had a happy life." A friend - probably his first wife Sarah Stoddart - raised the memorial stone over his grave in the nearby churchyard. The monument was subsequently removed but thanks to hundreds of Guardian readers and other Hazlitt enthusiasts, it has now been restored.
Here rests
Born April 10, 1778, Died 18 September, 1830
He lived to see his deepest wishes gratified
as he has expressed them in his Essay,
'on the Fear of Death'.
Viz.:
'To see the downfall of the Bourbons.
And some prospect of good to mankind':
(Charles X was driven from France 29th July, 1830).
'To leave some sterling work to the world':
(He lived to complete his 'Life of Napoleon').
His desire
That some friendly hand should consign
Him to the grave was accomplished to a
Limited but profound extent on
These conditions he was ready to depart,
And to have inscribed on his tomb,
'Grateful and Contented'.
He was
The first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the age.
A despiser of the merely Rich And Great:
A lover of the People, poor or oppressed:
A hater of the Pride and Power of the Few,
As opposed to the happiness of the Many
A man of true moral courage,
Who sacrificed Profit and present Fame
To Principle,
And a yearning for the good of Human Nature.
Who was a burning wound to an Aristocracy,
That could not answer him before men,
And who may confront him before their maker.
He lived and died
The unconquered champion
Truth, Liberty, and Humanity,
'Dubitantes opera legite'.
This stone
Is raised by one whose heart is
With him, in his grave.
The Guardian, Saturday Review, 5th April 2003.


I observed this Marine Blue (Leptotes marina) butterfly on a Scarlet Monkeyflower (Mimulus cardinalis) in July of 2005 in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona.
Of all of the butterflies, Blues (Subfamily: Polyommatinae) are some of the most frustrating to photograph. These lovely little butterflies usually have beautiful powdery metallic blue dorsal wing surfaces which can be seen gleaming in the sunlight when they are flying, but these butterflies close their wings upon landing, showing only their often duller and browner ventral wing surfaces.
Fortunately, identification of these butterflies is easiest by observing their drab, but usually more distinctively patterned ventral wing surfaces. This butterfly can be identified as a Marine Blue by the narrow cream and broader brown bands on its ventral wing surfaces and the two small eye-spots on the hindwings. The upper (dorsal) wing surfaces differ on the males and females. Female Marine Blues have small areas of light blue near the body on their mostly brownish dorsal wing surfaces, while the much more colorful males have blue-violet dorsal wing surfaces.
Marine Blue butterfly larvae feed on Doctorbush (Plumbago scandens) and plants in the Pea Family (Fabaceae).