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The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
August 25, 2021 Scott Parker-Anderson read One comment
Eighty-two years ago today, the film The Wizard of Oz premiered nation-wide. Throughout the month of August 1939, there were sneak peaks, test viewings, and regional previews, but today is the day it went into wide release. It is a classic. You need to see this movie again.
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Produced by: Mervyn LeRoy
Screenplay by: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf
Based on: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin
Music by: Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart
Cinematography: Harold Rosson
Edited by: Blanche Sewell
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by: Loew's, Inc
Budget: $2.8 million
Box office: $26.1 million
Academy Award Best Music, Original Song "Over the Rainbow"Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Academy Award Academy Juvenile Award Judy Garland
Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on a Kansas farm belonging to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. One day, Toto bites neighbor Miss Almira Gulch on the leg, leading her to obtain an order from the sheriff to euthanize him. In spite of Dorothy's pleas and Aunt Em's resistance, Miss Gulch takes Toto away in a basket, but Toto escapes and returns to Dorothy; she decides to run away in order to ensure that Toto won't be euthanized. Not far from the farm, she meets Professor Marvel, a fortune teller who uses his crystal ball to make Dorothy believe that Aunt Em may be dying of a broken heart. Horrified, Dorothy rushes home as a storm approaches; a tornado forms, and Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and the farmhands take shelter in the storm cellar as Dorothy arrives home. Unable to be heard begging for entry, Dorothy seeks shelter in her bedroom. The window is blown in from its frame and hits Dorothy on the head, knocking her unconscious. The house is sent spinning into the air, and she awakens to see various figures fly by, including Miss Gulch on her bicycle, who transforms into a witch on a broomstick.
The house lands in the colorful Munchkinland in the Land of Oz. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as a heroine, as the falling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West, arrives to claim her ruby slippers, but Glinda transfers them onto Dorothy's feet first. Enraged, the Wicked Witch of the West swears revenge on Dorothy and vanishes. Glinda tells Dorothy to keep the slippers on and follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, where she can ask the Wizard of Oz to help her return home. On her journey, Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, who wants a brain, the Tin Woodman, who desires a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who needs courage. Dorothy invites them to accompany her to Emerald City, where they can also ask the Wizard for help. Despite the Witch's attempts to stop them, they reach the Emerald City and are eventually allowed to see the Wizard, who appears as a ghostly head surrounded by fire and smoke. He agrees to grant their wishes if they prove their worth by bringing him the Witch's broomstick.
As the four of them and Toto make their way to the Witch's castle, the Witch captures Dorothy and plots to kill her and retrieve the slippers. Toto escapes and leads her three friends to the castle. They ambush three guards, don their uniforms and free Dorothy. The Witch and the guards chase and surround them. The Witch sets fire to the Scarecrow, causing Dorothy to toss a bucket of water, inadvertently splashing the Witch, who melts away. The guards rejoice and give Dorothy her broomstick.
Upon their return to the Emerald City, the Wizard stalls in fulfilling his promises until Toto pulls back a curtain and exposes the "Wizard" as a middle-aged man operating machinery and speaking into a microphone. Admitting to being a humbug, he insists that he is "a good man but a bad wizard." The Wizard then gives the Scarecrow a diploma, the Lion a medal and the Tin Man a ticking heart-shaped clock, helping them see that the traits they wanted were already within them. He then offers to take Dorothy and Toto home in his hot air balloon, revealing that he is also from Kansas and was originally a carnival worker before a tornado brought him to the Emerald City, whereupon he accepted the job as Wizard due to hard times.
As Dorothy and the Wizard prepare to depart, the Wizard places the Scarecrow in charge of Emerald City, with the Tin Man and the Lion as his aides. Toto becomes distracted by a cat and leaps from Dorothy's arms. As Dorothy pursues Toto, the balloon disembarks with the Wizard, unable to return, leaving her behind. Glinda appears and tells Dorothy that the ruby slippers have the power to return her to Kansas. After sharing a tearful farewell with Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, Dorothy follows Glinda's instructions: she must close her eyes, tap her heels together three times, and state repeatedly, "There's no place like home." The film ends with Dorothy complies and she wakes up in her bedroom surrounded by her family and friends, including Toto. Everyone dismisses her adventure as it turned out it was a dream, but Dorothy insists it was real and says she will never run away from home again before declaring, "There's no place like home!"
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10 Star Wars characters who should appear in live-action
Thu Apr 15, 2021 at 3:48pm ET
By Michael Weyer
Mara Jade in Star Wars Pic credit: Lucasfilm
Modern Star Wars fans don't realize there was once a "dark ages" when there was almost no fresh material coming out after the original movies.
That changed in 1991 when Timothy Zahn's novels created the Expanded Universe. This led to scores of books, comics, and video games, which fleshed out the post-movies era. It was added on by the Clone Wars animated series.
When the new trilogy began in 2015, the EU was transformed into the non-canon "Legends." However, several of its characters have made the jump into live-action.
The Mandalorian's second season featured Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) and Clone Wars star Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson), who name-dropped the famous Imperial commander Grand Admiral Thrawn.
While fans are hoping to see Thrawn in a live-action project, the Star Wars universe is packed with characters who would be terrific in a live-action format. Several could logically fit into any of the planned TV shows, and a few even better for movies as a reminder of how vast this galaxy far, far away is.
Hondo at Star Wars Rise of the Resistance ride Pic credit: Disney
For all his talk on being a "simple businessman," Hondo Ohnaka is actually a pirate and thief of the highest order who keeps getting involved in galactic affairs.
Debuting in the Clone Wars series, Hondo constantly double-crosses the Jedi and tries to steal what he can but also possesses a fun charm and holds to a code of honor to help the good guys in the end.
The character returned in the Rebels series, still the self-serving crook, but that funny side endearing him to fans.
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The Disney Parks Rise of the Resistance ride utilizes a robotic Hondo, showing he's still around in the sequel era. It would be fun to see him popping into some live-action show, still up to his old tricks but stealing fan hearts along with whatever riches are around.
Cad Bane
Cad Bane in Star Wars the Clone Wars Pic credit: Lucasfilm
One of the most popular Clone Wars cartoon characters, Cad Bane is a slick bounty hunter whose reputation can put Boba Fett to shame.
His awesome look, resembling an old-fashioned gunslinger, is backed by his skills while also very smart and often able to outwit the Jedi.
Bane clashed with Anakin and Obi-Wan several times while also mentoring a young Boba. Cool under fire, he can pull off anything from a master theft to instigating civil war and prides himself on never failing a job.
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Bane's fate has never been revealed, which makes it possible he's still alive in the post-ROTJ era. He could also pop up in a prequel-era project as this awesome crook would be great in live-action, especially reviving his old rivalry with Boba.
Asajj Ventress in the Clone Wars Pic credit: Lucasfilm
Created for the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon, Asajj Ventress is a Nightsister of Dathomir who utilizes the Dark Side. Once a Jedi, she fell under Count Dooku's influence to become his apprentice.
Using dual sabers, Asajj clashed several times with Anakin giving him that nasty facial scar while establishing herself as a ferocious fighter.
When Dooku betrayed her, Ventress moved into becoming an anti-hero, not trusting the Jedi but willing to aid them to strike at Dooku.
Ventress supposedly met her end in a novel set during the Clone Wars. Yet that can be made non-canon as she's a terrific character and might fit well into the Obi-Wan series for another conflict with the Jedi Master.
Rex of Star Wars the Clone Wars Pic credit: Lucasfilm
While clone troopers were supposed to be interchangeable, many took on unique personalities.
Rex (designation number CT-7567) was the commander of the 501st, a top unit for the Republic in the Clone Wars. He soon proved his amazing courage and won Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka's admiration as a terrific soldier.
In the final episodes of The Clone Wars, Rex was able to resist Order 66 and went on the run from the Empire with other clones. He returned in Rebels, now a grizzled veteran but still possessing his skills to aid the Republic.
Rex would be a natural to appear in the Obi-Wan series, aiding his old commander one more time and proving old soldiers never truly fade away.
Ezra Bridger
Ezra Bridger of Star Wars Rebels Pic credit: Lucasfilm
Recently, Mena Massoud hinted he might be playing a live-action version of the Rebels show's main character, which many fans would love.
Born on the very day the Republic became the Empire, Ezra's parents were dissidents executed by the Empire. Ezra made his living as a thief until he ran into the Rebel crew of the Ghost ship.
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Leader Kanan (a former Jedi) realized Ezra could use the Force and began training him. Over the course of the series, Ezra grew both in power and courage to help fight the Empire.
The youth held his own against both Darths Maul and Vader and was even able to outwit Grand Admiral Thrawn.
The Rebels series ended with Ezra headed into deep space, and Massoud would be terrific showing how much Ezra has grown as a fighter.
Cal Kestis
Cameron Monaghan as Cal in Star Wars Fallen Order Pic credit: EA Games
Fallen Order has been hailed as one of the best Star Wars games in years, and its main character would be terrific in live-action.
Cal Kestis was a young padawan when his Jedi master was cut down during Order 66. Hiding out on a distant planet as a simple worker, Cal cut himself off from the Force to escape detection.
When the Empire hunted him, Cal went on a quest to find a Holocron holding a database of possible Force users and keep them safe from the Empire.
While a sequel to the game would be great, it might be fun to see Cameron Monaghan actually acting out the role in real life. Cal would still be fighting in the Rebellion's early days and fit nicely into a pre-Episode IV storyline to continue his story.
Sabine Wren
Sabine Wren with the Darksaber Star Wars Rebels Pic credit: Lucasfilm
Fans were overjoyed to see Katee Sackhoff bringing her Bo-Katan character into live-action. Now another Mandalorian warrior should follow suit.
Appearing in the Rebels animated series, Sabine Wren had once worked for the Empire before realizing how bad they were. She started as a bounty hunter before joining the Rebellion.
An ace pilot, Sabine is also a tough Mandalorian fighter while possessing an excellent artistic side. She once held the Darksaber, the blade that could unite the Mandalorian people, and was used in the Mandalorian TV show.
The Rebels series ended with Sabine searching for a missing Ezra. Her connections to Mandalore and the Darksaber would make her logical for a Bo-Katan show and close out her great story.
Doctor Aphra of Star Wars Pic credit: Marvel Comics
She describes herself as a "criminal xenoarchaeologist." In reality, Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra is a thief, con artist, smuggler, rogue, and super-genius.
Aphra will take any job that nets her money, not just for the riches but for the thrill of it. Her wits, smart mouth, and skills allow her not only to succeed at the job but get away scot-free.
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The woman has outwitted the Empire, the Rebellion, the Hutts, Lando Calrissian, various criminals, and even Darth Vader himself.
While selfish, she has her unique morals and her sparkling personality winning (and breaking) a few hearts along the way.
Seeing this intergalactic Lara Croft in live-action would be tremendous, with fans rooting for her to pull off whatever criminal scheme is before her.
HK-47 of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Pic credit: Lucasarts
Imagine C-3PO programmed with the personality of Deadpool, and you've got HK-47.
Hands down the most popular character of the iconic Knights of the Old Republic video game, this assassination droid assumes the best solution to any problem is to blast it to pieces.
The character is loved for his biting one-liners, delivered in an electronic voice that expertly mocks anyone within reach but also surprising depth (his definition of "love" is truly brilliant).
Half the fun of KOTOR is just having HK-47 around for some witty observations.
While KOTOR is set four thousand years before the movies, it's possible someone created a new model of HK-47 for modern times and allows the droid to win over a modern audience.
Star Wars star Mara Jade Pic credit: Lucasfilm
If Thrawn can make the jump into live-action, then so can Timothy Zahn's other EU creation.
A feisty redheaded adventurer, Mara Jade was recruited by the Emperor to become his personal agent. When the Emperor was killed, his final mental command was for Mara to hunt down Luke Skywalker.
Years later, Mara did, but Luke convinced her that following a dead man's words wasn't a good idea. Instead, Mara became a great aide to the Rebellion and a Jedi. She and Luke also fell in love and were married.
Tragically, Mara came to a rough end, but her memory would stay with both Luke and scores of fans. While the new canon seemingly erases her, the spirited lady deserves another chance, and having her in some live-action format during the years between the original and sequel trilogies would be fantastic.
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Q: SQL Server: IsMSShipped = 0 but system SPs still returned SELECT DISTINCT
OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME (sc.object_id) as "schema", OBJECT_NAME(sc.object_id) as "name", sc.*
-- FROM syscomments sc
FROM sys.sql_modules sc
WHERE "Definition" LIKE '%raiserror%'
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OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, 'IsMSShipped') = 0
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OBJECT_NAME(sc.object_id) like '%diagram%'

Why is this query returning these SPs? Aren't they from Microsoft?
sp_helpdiagramdefinition
sp_creatediagram
sp_renamediagram
sp_alterdiagram
sp_dropdiagram

A: IsMSShipped is set to 1 for any object that was created during SQL Server's installation.  The Diagram objects are optional and are only added to a database after the initial installation.
In other words, although they are from MS, they are not Shipped from MS (at least not as MS is defining "Shipped").
Yes I know, it's dumb, everyone gets tripped up by this at least once.  They should have called it something like IsMSInstalled instead.  Just goes to show the importance of picking good names.
The SOP way to handle this is to also filter on the schema ("sys" is always schema_id 4).

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Consider this: Big Data is not Data Warehousing
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Hold this thought: To paraphrase the great Bob Hoffman, just when you think that if the Big Data babblers were to generate one more ounce of bull**** the entire f****** solar system would explode, what do they do? Exceed expectations.
I am a mild mannered person, but if there is one thing that irks me, it is when I hear variations on the theme of "Data Warehousing is Big Data", "Big Data is in many ways an evolution of data warehousing" and "with Big Data you no longer need a Data Warehouse".
Big Data is not Data Warehousing, it is not the evolution of Data Warehousing and it is not a sensible and coherent alternative to Data Warehousing. No matter what certain vendors will put in their marketing brochures or stick up their noses.
In spite of all of the high-visibility screw-ups that have carried the name of Data Warehousing, even when they were not Data Warehouse projects at all, the definition, strategy, benefits and success stories of data warehousing are known, they are in the public domain and they are tangible.
Data Warehousing is a practical, rational and coherent way of providing information needed for strategic and tactical option-formulation and decision-making.
Data Warehousing is a strategy driven, business oriented and technology based business process.
We stock Data Warehouses with data that, in one way or another, comes from internal and optional external sources, and from structured and optional unstructured data. The process of getting data from a data source to the target Data Warehouse, involves extraction, scrubbing, transformation and loading, ETL for short.
Data Warehousing's defining characteristics are:
Subject Oriented: Operational databases, such as order processing and payroll databases and ERP databases, are organized around business processes or functional areas. These databases grew out of the applications they served. Thus, the data was relative to the order processing application or the payroll application. Data on a particular subject, such as products or employees, was maintained separately (and usually inconsistently) in a number of different databases. In contrast, a data warehouse is organized around subjects. This subject orientation presents the data in a much easier-to-understand format for end users and non-IT business analysts.
Integrated: Integration of data within a warehouse is accomplished by making the data consistent in format, naming and other aspects. Operational databases, for historic reasons, often have major inconsistencies in data representation. For example, a set of operational databases may represent "male" and "female" by using codes such as "m" and "f", by "1" and "2", or by "b" and "g". Often, the inconsistencies are more complex and subtle. In a Data Warehouse, on the other hand, data is always maintained in a consistent fashion.
Time Variant: Data warehouses are time variant in the sense that they maintain both historical and (nearly) current data. Operational databases, in contrast, contain only the most current, up-to-date data values. Furthermore, they generally maintain this information for no more than a year (and often much less). In contrast, data warehouses contain data that is generally loaded from the operational databases daily, weekly, or monthly, which is then typically maintained for a period of 3 to 10 years. This is a major difference between the two types of environments.
Historical information is of high importance to decision makers, who often want to understand trends and relationships between data. For example, the product manager for a Liquefied Natural Gas soda drink may want to see the relationship between coupon promotions and sales. This is information that is almost impossible – and certainly in most cases not cost effective – to determine with an operational database.
Non-Volatile: Non-volatility means that after the data warehouse is loaded there are no changes, inserts, or deletes performed against the informational database. The Data Warehouse is, of course, first loaded with cleaned, integrated and transformed data that originated in the operational databases.
We build Data Warehouses iteratively, a piece or two at a time, and each iteration is primarily a result of business requirements, and not technological considerations.
Each iteration of a Data Warehouse is well bound and understood – small enough to be deliverable in a short iteration, and large enough to be significant.
Conversely, Big Data is characterised as being about:
Massive volumes: so great are they that mainstream relational products and technologies such as Oracle, DB2 and Teradata just can't hack it, and
High variety: not only structured data, but also the whole range of digital data, and
High velocity: the speed at which data is generated, transmitted and received.
These are known as the three Vs of Big Data, and they are subject to significant and debilitating contradictions, even amongst the gurus of Big Data (as I have commented elsewhere: Contradictions of Big Data).
From time to time, Big Data pundits slam Data Warehousing for not being able to cope with the Big Data type hacking that they are apparently used to carrying out, but this is a mistake of those who fail to recognise a false Data Warehouse when they see one.
So let's call these false flag Data Warehouse projects something else, such as Data Doghouses.
"Data Doghouse, meet Pig Data."
Failed or failing Data Doghouses fail for the same reasons that Big Data projects will frequently fail. Both will almost invariably fail to deliver artefacts on time and to expectations; there will be failures to deliver value or even simply to return a break even in costs versus benefits; and of course, there will be failures to deliver any recognisable insight.
Failure happens in Data Doghousing (and quite possibly in Big Data as well) because there is a lack of coherent and cohesive arguments for embarking on such endeavours in the first place; a lack of real business drivers; and, a lack of sense and sensibility.
There is also a willing tendency to ignore the advice of people who warn against joining in the Big Data hubris. Why do some many ignore the ulterior motives of interested parties who are solely engaged in riding on the faddish Big Data bandwagon to maximise the revenue they can milk off punters? Why do we entertain pundits and charlatans who 'big up' Big Data whilst simultaneously cultivating an ignorance of data architecture, data management and business realities?
Some people say that the main difference between Big Data and Data Warehousing is that Big Data is technology, and Data Warehousing is architecture.
Now, whilst I totally respect the views of the father of Data Warehousing himself, I also think that he was being far too kind to the Big Data technology camp. However, of course, that is Bill's choice.
Let me put it this way, if Oracle gave me the code for Oracle 3, I could add 256 bit support, parallel processing and give it an interface makeover, and it would be 1000 times better than any Big Data technology currently in the market (and that version of Oracle is from about 1983).
Therefore, Data Warehousing has no serious competing paragon. Data Warehousing is a real architecture, it has real process methodologies, it is tried and proven, it has success stories that are no secrets, and these stories include details of data, applications and the names of the companies and people involved, and we can point at tangible benefits realised. It's clear, it's simple and it's transparent.
Just like Big Data, right?
See what I mean?
Therefore, the next time someone says to you that Big Data will replace Data Warehousing or that Data Warehousing is Big Data, or any variations on that sort of 'stupidity' theme, you can now tell them to take a hike, in the confidence that you are on the side of reason.
Many thanks for reading.
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'Hope in our hearts': Syrian antiquities chief says experts to assess damage in Palmyra within days
A general view taken on March 27, 2016 shows part of the ancient city of Palmyra, after government troops recaptured the UNESCO world heritage site from the Islamic State (IS) group. © Maher Al Mounes © AFP
Experts are eager to start restoration work in the ancient city of Palmyra, which has just been liberated from Islamic State militants, Syria's antiquities chief told RT. He will lead a team to evaluate the damage in the coming days.
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Syria's Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums (DGAM), Maamun Abdelkarim, told RT that on Monday or Tuesday a group of experts will start evaluating the damage in order to report on how to "rebuild" the monuments at the renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site. He added that this information will be shared with UNESCO.
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"The landscape in Palmyra is good, it's not destroyed. There is [much] hope in our hearts," he said.
The iconic Arch of Triumph is among the many historical and cultural monuments that will be possible to reconstruct, according to the Syrian official. He said that the restoration of the Arch of Triumph will not be a difficult task because images from the site show that it has remained in a rather good condition.
He also confirmed that Palmyra's famous statue of a lion outside the museum is "not destroyed completely," saying "It's excellent news coming from Palmyra."
"Palmyra is not just [a heritage of] the Syrian people, its [a heritage of] humanity," he added.
"Now, it's the end of this tragedy…after 10 months of nightmare in this city," he said, praising the Syrian army's liberation of the city on Sunday.
He called on the international community to unite to decide on how to preserve cultural heritage not only in Syria, but also in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
Specialists from Russia's esteemed State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg are ready to take active part in the restoration of Palmyra's monuments, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the museum's director, said on Sunday.
"Naturally, we will take an active part. We will share our experience, the experience of restoration of Leningrad, St Petersburg, our monuments and the city's environs," he said in an interview with Rossiya-24 TV channel.
Piotrovsky said that the restoration of Palmyra can be accomplished, but warned against taking hasty steps.
"It is quite accomplishable, but we should not seek to restore what has never been there. It is necessary to examine everything that used to be standing there, but is now in ruins. And it is possible to gradually restore it," he said.
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UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova said earlier on Sunday that she hopes for close cooperation with Russia's State Hermitage.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone call with Bokova on Sunday, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He said that Putin told Bokova that "representatives of the Russian contingent will participate in the demining of the ancient city." Putin and Bokova agreed that UNESCO, Russia, and Syria will take the steps necessary to evaluate the damage to the historic site.
Putin also had a phone conversation with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who expressed hope that the international community will help with the restoration of the world heritage site, according to Kremlin's press service.


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Giustizia è un affresco (diametro 180 cm) di Raffaello Sanzio, databile al 1508 e facente parte della decorazione della volta della Stanza della Segnatura nei Musei Vaticani.

Storia
I quattro tondi della volta vengono di solito datati appena dopo i quattro riquadri. La Stanza della segnatura fu la prima ad essere decorata da Raffaello negli appartamenti vaticani.

Descrizione e stile
L'opera è contraddistinta da toni caldi, ugualmente l'incarnato è di colore tendente ad ocra.
Su uno sfondo a finto mosaico dorato è rappresentata la personificazione della Giustizia, seduta su un trono di nubi. Essa veste un abito ampio, di colore viola, stretto sotto il seno, e ha gli avambracci scoperti. Sulle gambe è disposto un mantello di colore scuro. Tra i capelli ha una corona cui è intrecciato un tessuto a comporre l'acconciatura. Il braccio destro è sollevato per brandire la spada, mentre con l'altro tiene sospesa con la mano il tipico attributo della bilancia, simbolo di equità secondo la tradizione iconografica.
Accanto a lei stanno due coppie di putti: dei due seduti quello a sinistra (che ha sulla spalla un manto rosso) mostra la schiena agli spettatori mentre l'altro è di fianco ma col volto frontale a fissare la Giustizia; i due in piedi (che a differenza degli altri due hanno le ali) sono in secondo piano e tengono in mano pesanti tabelle biansate con iscrizioni, in cui si legge, divisa a metà dopo le prime due parole, una citazione da Giustiniano: IUS SUUM UNICUIQUE TRIBUIT.

La cornice tonda che racchiude la raffigurazione della Giustizia è un particolare dell'affresco  dedicato alle tre virtù del giudice, infatti nel complesso di rispondenze tra il soffitto e le lunette laterali la Giustizia si inserisce nell'asse della parete sud, con Giudizio di Salomone e le Virtù e la Legge. Essa completa dunque le tre Virtù cardinali della lunetta sottostante e la sua preminenza è legata alla dottrina platonica, ripresa anche da sant'Agostino.

Bibliografia
 Pierluigi De Vecchi, Raffaello, Rizzoli, Milano 1975.

Stanze di Raffaello
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Kenya's Finance Ministry to Introduce Regulative Framework for Digital Lenders
The success of mobile lending apps is, admittedly, attributed to the foundation laid by M-PESA services. It is, perhaps, the primary factor that such apps test their trade in Kenya, among other African-based markets before deployment to additional countries outside the continent. For instance, Silicon Valley-backed Tala, which is arguably the largest lender, and Branch (also with ties to the U.S.-based tech hub) have a strong local presence. Also, they started their operations in Kenya before exporting their business to other nations.
For the past couple of months, we have seen several companies jump into this lucrative segment. Some of the lenders have ordinary banking systems, but the bureaucracy and paperwork involved in traditional lending has affected their profit margins since people prefer the ease at which mobile-based loan apps verify eligibility (via algorithms that study user data, including their messages, social media activity, and general online habits, among other AI-based analyses).
The success story of these apps, which is based on financial inclusion and efforts to eradicate poverty among Kenyans is hard to ignore but has come at a cost: high-interest rates and a bad rapport at the state's credit reference bureaux for people who fail to pay what they owe. In particular, it has been determined that more than 2.7 million Kenyans have been listed. Out of that list, about 400,000 of them are faulted for not paying less than KES 200.
Digital lenders continue to ride on a subjectively unregulated space, which is why the Ministry of Finance has drafted a bill to check their operations and ensure that customers are not subjected to exploitative measures. The black and white version of the bill is that some lenders' terms and conditions are predatory, hence necessitating the existence of a legal framework to curtail such actions.
Astronomical Interest Rates
All mobile lenders have different interest rates for funds disbursed.
M-Shwari, which spurred the growth of similar products, has been around since 2012. It slaps a facilitation fee (that is a vague reference if you ask us) of 7.5 percent. The fees are not time-oriented, meaning they remains the same. If interest rates are calculated per annum as traditional banks do, it means customers are liable for a 90% fee.
On the other hand, Tala and Branch's interest rates are not the same as each lender disburses monies based on various repayment periods and plans. Branch, for example, allows weekly (cheaper) or monthly (pricier) repayments. Their monthly rate is 15 percent.
Opera's Okash and Barclays Bank's Timiza have restricted payback to a fortnight and 30 days respectively.
These differences have fuelled the suggestions made by the draft bill, which may set new and uniform interest rate caps for all lenders. The bill, however, does not specify how digital lenders will be treated owing to their mode of operation that is riskier than traditional lending.
The outcome of the bill, should it go through in the coming days, remains undetermined.
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SpeechTechie- Technology, Apps and Lessons for SLPs and Teachers who like Words: Guest Post on Social Thinking®!
accost, I mean, converse with Michelle Garcia Winner, creator of the Social Thinking® Methodology for teaching students with Asperger's, High-Functioning Autism, and various quirky characteristics. We chatted for a few minutes at her booth in the exhibit hall about all the great web tools that are available to help students visualize and apply some of the concepts and vocabulary in her programs and books.
-I do think xtranormal is worth paying for in order to make a core group of movies you can use and reuse with students-- the same way you might buy a DVD that you would use with groups, but much more customizable!
-You can create dialogues with students and run them in preview mode without cost.
-xtranormal will be opening up some features to educators by request and at no cost.
-I have made a diigo list for xtranormal videos people have created about social interactions, so please email me if you made one you'd like to share.
Please click on over and see the post- I am really excited to have contributed something to the work going on at Social Thinking®--they have helped my work immeasurably!
Thank you for the great post again! What a great idea to use this for social skills training.
I actually ran across your post while looking up MGW conferences today! Congrats, it was a great post and I look forward to using xtranormal.com with my prags group!
Thank you!! I did get a response from xtranormal about my teacher account request- they gave me a pretty generous amount of xtranormal points!


Lúdvík is the Director of United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme (UNU-GTP) in Iceland, and also a BoD member of the International Geothermal Association (IGA) since 2013, and head of its Education committee.
execution of the 6-month geothermal training in Iceland, and training and courses given by the UNU-GTP in developing countries in recent years. Through his numerous geothermal site visits to nations around the world and participation in conferences and workshops he has a thorough knowledge on their status and needs in capacity building and support for geothermal development.


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package models

// This file was generated by the swagger tool.
// Editing this file might prove futile when you re-run the swagger generate command

import (
	"github.com/go-openapi/errors"
	"github.com/go-openapi/strfmt"
	"github.com/go-openapi/swag"
	"github.com/go-openapi/validate"
)

// NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes no range thing with composite attributes
//
// swagger:model NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes
type NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes struct {

	// branch
	// Required: true
	Branch *string `json:"branch"`

	// date
	// Required: true
	// Format: date-time
	Date *strfmt.DateTime `json:"date"`

	// name
	// Required: true
	Name *string `json:"name"`

	// version
	Version int64 `json:"version,omitempty"`
}

// Validate validates this no range thing with composite attributes
func (m *NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes) Validate(formats strfmt.Registry) error {
	var res []error

	if err := m.validateBranch(formats); err != nil {
		res = append(res, err)
	}

	if err := m.validateDate(formats); err != nil {
		res = append(res, err)
	}

	if err := m.validateName(formats); err != nil {
		res = append(res, err)
	}

	if len(res) > 0 {
		return errors.CompositeValidationError(res...)
	}
	return nil
}

func (m *NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes) validateBranch(formats strfmt.Registry) error {

	if err := validate.Required("branch", "body", m.Branch); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

func (m *NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes) validateDate(formats strfmt.Registry) error {

	if err := validate.Required("date", "body", m.Date); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := validate.FormatOf("date", "body", "date-time", m.Date.String(), formats); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

func (m *NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes) validateName(formats strfmt.Registry) error {

	if err := validate.Required("name", "body", m.Name); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

// MarshalBinary interface implementation
func (m *NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes) MarshalBinary() ([]byte, error) {
	if m == nil {
		return nil, nil
	}
	return swag.WriteJSON(m)
}

// UnmarshalBinary interface implementation
func (m *NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes) UnmarshalBinary(b []byte) error {
	var res NoRangeThingWithCompositeAttributes
	if err := swag.ReadJSON(b, &res); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	*m = res
	return nil
}

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Built in 1963 at the instigation of the Rhône Poulenc laboratory, the Gien site was acquired by Pierre Fabre in 1993. Since then, it has continued to evolve and has doubled its production capacity. Today, it is the group's most important pharmaceutical production site. It manufactures and packages dry (hard capsules, tablets, sachets), paste and liquid forms under pharmaceutical, dermo-cosmetic, and medical device status. It makes its expertise available to third-party laboratories and offers processing activities for the following pharmaceutical forms: dry forms, liquids and pastes.
The site is approved by health authorities in various regions: ANSM (France), EMA (Europe) and ANVISA (Brazil), among others.


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from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
from django import forms
from django.conf import settings
from django.template import loader, RequestContext
from rest_framework.renderers import BrowsableAPIRenderer, HTMLFormRenderer
import collections

class APIRenderer(BrowsableAPIRenderer):
    """BrowsableAPIRenderer subclass that adds the settings.VERSION
    to the context, if it's present.
    """
    def render(self, data, media_type, renderer_context):
        renderer_context['version'] = getattr(settings, 'VERSION', '')
        return super(APIRenderer, self).render(data, media_type,
                                               renderer_context)


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Q: Entity Framework Cannot Create Controller I am building an ASP.Net MVC 3 web application using Entity Framework 4.1 with the Database First Approach.
I have just setup my solution with separate projects for the following:

*

*UI - MVC app

*Model - Class Library

*POCOs - Class Library

*Repositories - Class Library

*Services - Class Library

I have set this up a few times before without any trouble, but now when I try to create a controller in my MVC app, I get the following error:
Unable to retrieve metadata for 'Entityname'. An item with the same key has already been added.

This happens when I try to add any controller with an Entity for its Model class. I am stumped with this. I tried re-creating the model from the db and regenerated my POCO classes, but still this problem exists.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks.

A: I solved it. When Entity Framework created my entity data model, some of the names it gave to the navigation properties were a bit meaningless. I therefore edited a couple of these properties, however, I ended up naming two different navigation properties, with the same type of association, the same name. Needless to say EF didn't like this. I renamed the offending navigation property. It was a tough one to fix as there were no compile errors from the model.


The end of the year is always a busy time for folks in the investment advisory business. There are charitable gifts to make, IRA distributions to send out, tax-loss harvesting for portfolios, and last-minute retirement plan contributions.
This year is even more complicated, because the rules of the game are changing.
Earlier this week, Trump's tax reform bill was approved by the Senate. It will go back to the House for further review before going to the President for his signature within the next month.
1) Corporate tax rates drop from 35% to 20%.
2) The number of individual tax brackets may or may not be reduced from 7 to 4.
3) The rates of the remaining tax brackets may be modestly lower (0.5% to 1%).
4) State and local income tax deductions will go away entirely. This is a big deal for residents of high-tax states (NY, NJ, CA).
5) The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) may or may not go away.
6) The individual exemption for estate taxes may double from $5 million to $11 million per person.
7) The $4,050 personal income tax exemption goes away. Child tax credits increase slightly.
A) The home mortgage deduction gets capped for mortgages in excess of either $500,000 or $1,000,000.
B) The property tax deduction would be capped at $10,000.
C) State and local income tax deductions will go away entirely. A big deal for residents of high-tax states (NY, NJ, CA).
10) Meanwhile, the standard deduction for married couples goes wayyyy up, from $12,000 to $24,000.
While there have not been any definitive changes yet to the tax code, it is a clear shift away from itemized deductions.
Taxpayers can still choose between the greater of their combined "itemized" deductions or their "standard" deduction." Currently, 30% of Americans file itemized deductions. Under the new plans, it is estimated that only 5% will. It is not that itemized deductions will completely go away -- they just won't be as relevant any more.
On one hand, this will simplify a lot of tax returns. On the other, there may no longer be a tax incentive for many Americans currently making charitable donations - the itemized deduction that normal taxpayers have the most control over.
So give often, and maybe give a little early.
Strategic Foresight Investments LLC (StratFI) is a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) registered in the State of Delaware.


We buy and sell homes in the Kerrville area and the greater Texas Hill Country. Not farms. Not ranches. Not manufacturing plants. And we don't part-time the job. We work all day, every day to understand the market, and get buyers and sellers together. It results from years of experience in the Texas Hill Country home sales and real estate market. We know it well.
We have witnessed the revolution in customer service and client control that technology has made available. We exert every effort to bring those technologies into play to keep our clients informed and expedite the happy ending we are all seeking.
You'll find that because our focus is selling and buying homes—not other types of real estate—we are real experts on the Hill Country neighborhoods we serve. We know who the utility providers are, where the school district lines fall, and which low water crossings to avoid in a heavy rain. We think you'll like doing business with us, and we're working hard to earn your loyalty.
Arden Hills Realty. At home with friends.
With more than 30 years experience in successfully marketing brands and businesses, Pam Boynton has joined Arden Hills Realty in Kerrville to apply her experience to the growth of this innovative new real estate company.
Prior to her 7 years in real estate sales in the area with RE/MAX and Guilott Realty, Pam provided marketing leadership for national companies, such as Tyson Foods and Mrs. Smith's, where she becawme president of the retail division. Her involvement with local powerhouse HEB as strategic leader for their Own Brands resulted in a highly-successful multi-billion dollar program. Her love for teaching marketing and helping others through marketing is also evidenced in her role as adjunct marketing professor at Schreiner University.
Throughout her professional career, Pam also followed her passion for real estate by buying, selling and managing dozens of properties for personal investment. Pam is now combining her marketing experience and passion for real estate to help launch and grow Arden Hills Realty. She would love to help you market your properties more professionally, search for your next perfect home, or teach you how to invest for the future.


GM Tips is our series to help Storytellers and Game Masters improve their craft and create memorable roleplaying experiences. Last article we talked about really twisting the knife in dead PCs, and this week we tackle how to pick up a dead campaign after a few months.
Scheduling your weekly tabletop night is like walking into a den of vipers juiced on caffeine. Nobody's schedule ever lines up, and on the rare days that games happen; a player is often short. This can start a snowball effect where a game doesn't get played for a month or two. Another hazard is the fate of the GM, without them the game doesn't happen at all. Life gets in the way and emergencies can take precedence over any form of imagination. Games can (and will) be delayed for a time until the proverbial band can be put back together again.
Once back together, everyone sits at the table and completely forgets what-the-heck is going on. Like a goldfish, we all forget how the hell our bloody powers work, and woe be it to the spellcaster in the group who will spend a week refreshing their entire spell list. If there were complicated plotlines, or you were neck-deep in the middle of a political NPC debacle, it gets even worse. No wonder that most games don't ever restart the old campaign and instead trash it and launch something new. I believe there is merit in finishing your old campaigns and as I'm currently picking up an 8-month hiatus campaign, have some tips that are working rather well.
For starters, let's not pick up your game in the middle of the last fight, or even knee deep in the Temple of Evil Cannibalistic Halflings. Players need time to get acquainted with their characters' personality, their powers, and the world setting. If it's been a while since the table has gotten together, even realigning your schedules and settling back into a routine takes a few sessions. Picking up any adventure in the middle of the last will throw wrenches into gears that you just don't need. Ending your last storyline with a nice narrative fiction that ties up each character is a fantastic transition.
If you were at a critical plot point and you're determined to finish that storyline; that's okay! Ending the current mission with narration and resetting the group from the start is still better than keeping them in the middle. Have a cave-in collapse and force them to retreat back to camp, or a poisoning ends the very important dinner—anything to reset the mission from the start. Doing this will get the players back into the plotline and allow them to rediscover (or remember) important bits along the way and the NPC's they've dealt with.
Speaking of NPCs, your world probably has tons of them (hell, you might not even remember half of them). Players will want to return to a favorite shopkeeper or pick up some quest that was important to them even if it was a minor footnote to you. If it's been a particularly long delay, then everyone may forget why they've even been adventuring in the first place. All of these are really good reasons to head back to the village you began your game in. Nostalgia is a powerful motivator and it will warm everyone's hearts to embark on a simple and straightforward mission.
Not only will nostalgia ground everyone back to their first mission, but it also gives the storyteller a chance to advance time. Out-of-game, time has moved on and perhaps there are new players at the table, or it been years since they've hit the same town they began at level 1 at. Relaunching your game is the best chance you have to showcase growth in the campaign world. NPCs have children, other ones die off, villains captured may now be farmers, and more ideas will have a profound impact towards getting everyone back in the mood.
This is not the time for a meat grinder total party kill. Everyone is getting settled back into their characters and so the characters should take priority. Toss out the encounter charts and high difficulty missions for a few game sessions and let everyone get back to basics. If you push too hard, players may resist the challenge in ways you didn't expect—by just quitting. Relaunching an old campaign is the time when you play softball as a GM until everyone's feet are wet again.
The best way to do this is by going through the character sheets once again, and tearing through their old backgrounds they turned in. Find an uplifting sidequest that is personal to the party, or several if they come from different backgrounds. Revisiting old foes that have returned (and much easier to beat) the second time around is a chance to showcase character growth and get a few laughs about past adventures. Every story you tell for the first few weeks should both jog memories and re-immerse everyone to the world.
Have you ever picked up a long-dormant campaign? Let us know what worked for you in the comments below!


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Once pregnancy has occurred, Medicaid will cover care before and after childbirth.
Learn more about the cost of IVF treatment and special financing available for patients.


On Friday, a lawsuit was brought by the Twohy Brothers Company in the Circuit Court of Multnomah County, against the Ochoco Irrigation District, Clark, Kendall & Company, and the American Surety Company of New York. In their complaint, which is a document of 17 typed pages and which has a list of seven "Exhibits" all of considerable volume, the contractors allege that they have been damaged by alteration of plans. After the complaint was filed on Friday, the contractor continued to work on the project until Saturday evening of last week, when all workmen were removed from the dam.
At three o'clock yesterday, the huge pumps were started and sluicing operations were resumed on the Ochoco Project dam, after having been shut down since Saturday, when the work was abandoned by Twohy Bros. Co., the work has been contracted to the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company of Seattle. At the time the contract was given to the Twohy concern, a bond of $400,000 was executed with the American Surety Company of New York and the board of directors for the district proposes to complete the work and recoup any losses that may occur from the bond because of the failure of Twohy Bros. to carry out their contract.
The new board of directors for the Ochoco Irrigation Project took office on Tuesday. M.R. Biggs was chosen president of the board. The drawing of lots for the three terms resulted in the selection of F.F. Hoelscher for the three-year term, M.R. Biggs for two years and W.I. Dishman for the one-year term. No change is announced in the working force of the district.
Damages of $761 were awarded by a jury in circuit court here this afternoon in the case of John Cornett vs. the Paul B. Kelly Lumber Company. The case resulted from an accident on the Ochoco Highway east of Prineville last summer in which a number of sheep owned by Mr. Cornett were run down and killed by a Kelly Lumber Company truck.
Arrangements under which the Prineville City Council will cooperate with the Crook County Court in completing the unfinished hangar at the Prineville Airport were approved by the city council at its regular February meeting Tuesday night. The council went on record without a dissenting vote as authorizing expenditure of not to exceed $2,300 of city funds on the project in cooperation with the county court.
A plan to construct a new road from Prineville through Combs Flat to the timbered areas near Cadle Butte and Pilot Butte was proposed at this week's session of the Crook County Court by John Heriza, woods foreman of the Ochoco Lumber Company.
Broadway is coming to Prineville! The music department of Crook County High School is currently involved in intensive rehearsals on the Broadway musical "Brigadoon," written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe. The play will be presented on Monday and Tuesday evening. March 3-4, on stage at Ochoco Grade School. More than 100 students are involved in the production of actors, chorus, dancers, and orchestra.
A meeting of the Teacher Consultation Committee and the School Board was held in the library of the Prineville Junior High Tuesday evening. Chairman of the Consultation Committee Norma Richards informed the group that the teachers group rejected the board proposal of $6,400 base for the first step of the BA degree, with the present increments of $240, and $5 per month per employee insurance participation. Miss Richards said the vote was 113 No to 4 Yes. She asked for further consideration of the request of $260 and insurance participation.
Firefighters arrived at a house Saturday morning and set it afire, not once, but several times, before letting the structure burn to the ground. It was a Burn to Learn exercise, an occasional event where a donated structure is given to the fire department for training. The Prineville Fire Department has about 50 volunteers. Most of them never have had much of a chance to get into the action during real fires.
Troopers with the Fish and Wildlife division of the Oregon State Police made three more arrests Wednesday in connection with recent elk and deer poachings in the Grizzly game unit. An investigation into the numerous elk and deer kills turned up information which led to the issuance of a search warrant and the subsequent arrest of three suspects. The arrests reflect a killing spree the suspects allegedly embarked on between mid-October and late-November of 1993. Several other individuals have been identified in the investigation and further arrests are forthcoming according to OSP.