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Q: s3:GetBucketLocation IAM permission for data transfer API on GCP I want to use data transfer API by GCP to grab data from s3 to my GCS bucket. The S3 bucket is controlled by our client and we have zero control on it.
We learned to use this API the AWS IAM has to have these permissions:

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*s3:ListBucket

*s3:GetObject

*s3:GetBucketLocation

https://cloud.google.com/st... (edited)
When I asked them, they said the permission are given in prefix level and not bucket level since the bucket has data for many clients and not just us. They do not want to give any permission which might give us access to the whole bucket data and we should be limited to our prefix level.
I want to know if asking for this permission (s3:GetBucketLocation) in the prefix level will give us access to the ALL data present in the bucket? or it is just allowing the transfer API to locate the data?
I did check the AWS documentation and the closest answer was about GetBucketLocation API which stated:
" Returns the Region the bucket resides in. You set the bucket's Region using the LocationConstraint request parameter in a CreateBucket request. For more information, see CreateBucket."
So it does seem it only returns the region of the bucket BUT there is no documentation to be found specific to the permission itself.
In google documentation it does say that this API is only need the region, however we need to make sure it does not open a way for us to read all the data in the bucket if that makes sense.
Please let me know if you have any knowledge on this.

A: Firstly, I don't think you need to get the bucket's region programatically. If you're interested in a specific bucket, perhaps the client could tell you the region of it?
The action-level detail is in the SAR for S3 which just says:

Grants permission to return the Region that an Amazon S3 bucket resides in

So there's nothing about object-level (i.e. data) access granted by it.

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Mr. Minnch Performs Solo String Concert
As part of a series by the Performers Club, Grier Chamber Orchestra Director Mr. Mark Minnich gave a solo performance in the Auditorium on the afternoon of Thursday, March 11th. Mr. Minnich played five pieces, including two medleys, which showcased his expertise as well as the versatility of the instruments.
Mr. Minnich opened the concert by performing the Traditional Irish ballad Southwind. He followed that with what he called "the most overplayed song of the 15th century" Flow, My Tears by John Dowland for lute. The most technically difficult piece he played was an excerpt of Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D Minor. Mr. Minnch played a medley of two very special songs he composed himself for his son, titled Will's Waltz/Nocturne. For the finale, Mr. Minnich brought us a transcendent medley of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and the Led Zeppelin classic Stairway to Heaven.
Mr. Minnich performed impressively, switching between the violin, a specially-strung viola, and the guitar for his pieces. While playing the stringed instruments, he operated tech equipment with his foot to alter the audio of his amplified instruments and start and stop pre-recorded accompaniment tracks. The result was a richly layered, full sound that filled the auditorium to the delight of those in attendance.
The concert was also broadcast live by GrierTV, and a link to the recording is now available.

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Constitutional Court to Review NGO Foreign Agent Law
Russia's Constitutional Court is to review a controversial law requiring civil society groups to register as "foreign agents" if they receive funding from abroad.
The court will sit on March 6 to consider applications filed by the Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin and various non-governmental organizations challenging the law as unconstitutional.
Representatives of one claimant, the Kostroma Center for Civic Initiatives Support, filed an official complaint with the court's chairman, Valery Zorkin, earlier this week, protesting the length of time taken to review the case.
Attorneys with the Agora association, which represents the NGO, also made an application to the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday.
The Kostroma Center appealed to the Constitutional Court after it was fined 300,000 rubles (about $9,000) last May for breaching the "foreign agents" law. Its executive director, Alexander Zamaryanov, was also personally fined 100,000 rubles.
Prosecutors claimed that the NGO received foreign funding and was engaged in political activity, but had failed to register as a foreign agent. They accused the organization of holding a round table panel in February that was attended by an American diplomat.
The NGO lost an appeal against the verdict. Its application to the Constitutional Court argues that the law lacks a clear definition of political activity, which leads to abuses of citizens' constitutional rights.
The law passed in November 2012 obliges all NGOs that are engaged in political activity and receive any funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents" and include the label on all of their publications.
Fines of up to 500,000 rubles can be imposed on those who refuse. Some 2,000 rights groups and NGOs have been subjected to raids by prosecutors and other officials since March as the Justice Ministry sought to enforce the law.
Civil society groups have fiercely criticized the law, saying that the phrase "foreign agent" revives a Soviet-era term used to label critics of the authorities as traitors and spies.
Eleven NGOs, including the Moscow Helsinki Group, lodged a complaint with the European Court last February.


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Les Occitans constituent pour certains chercheurs une ethnie d'Europe occidentale installée sur un aire dite Occitanie. L'existence de cette ethnie couvre des territoires ethno-culturels bien divers par leurs histoires, leurs dialectes et leurs sentiments d'appartenances.

Ethnonymie

Le mot occitan est apparu vers le , à partir de la particule affirmative hoc et du mot Aquitan(us).

Individuation et dénomination des Occitans

Différents mots ont été utilisés à travers l'histoire pour désigner les populations de langue romane au sud du domaine de langue d'oïl, notamment par opposition aux Français qui peuplaient l'autre moitié du Royaume de France.

À l'époque des croisades, les Provinciales (Provençaux, de la Provincia Romana) sont opposés aux Francigenae. Cette distinction est reprise par Dante Alighieri, qui introduit aussi le terme "langue d'oc" (sur un seul critère, généralisé) pour nommer le roman transalpin, et notamment la langue des troubadours. On emploie aussi le mot limousin pour des raisons de prestige littéraire. Le sentiment populaire n'est guère invoqué dans ces usages de lettrés. Le mot français Provençaux y fait suite.

À la même époque un troubadour alpin, Albertet, utilise Catalans par opposition à Français pour désigner les Languedociens voisins.

Entre le  et le , Occitans fait son apparition, mais le démonyme Gascons est parfois employé pour tout ce qui n'a pas l'accent oïlitain : c'est le cas par exemple chez Pey de Garros, Louis de Montgommery ou chez l'abbé de Sauvages. C'est une conséquence du prestige de la Gascogne sous le roi Henri IV, décroissant après son assassinat. Là non plus, cela ne s'appuie pas sur un sentiment populaire occitan.

En parallèle apparaît la notion de Midi (par rapport au centre et au nord du Royaume), et de Méridionaux, moins précise (Basques, Catalans et Corses y sont inclus, parfois aussi des populations plus au nord). Les Méridionaux sont la cible, à la fin du  et au début , d'attaques ethnodépréciatives de la part d'une partie des intellectuels français (l'un des reproches majeurs étant leur rôle croissant dans la vie politicienne, qui se menait cependant exclusivement en français). Ces attaques préparent les esprits à l'affaire du 15e corps, où des Méridionaux occitans, accusés à tort d'avoir plié face aux Allemands, sont fusillés pour l'exemple (mais pas en tant que tels).

La renaissance félibréenne remet en avant le mot Provençaux, mais au  puis au  le mot occitan devient le plus utilisé Jean Ferniot attribue indûment cette phrase à Valéry Giscard d'Estaing dont les attaches familiales se trouvent dans le Puy-de-Dôme. Ce même président Pompidou qui déclara dans son discours de Sarre-Union en 1972 : "Il n'y a pas de place pour les langues régionales dans une France destinée à marquer l'Europe de son sceau".

Le Statut d'autonomie de la Catalogne, modifié en 2006, reconnaît dans le Val d'Aran « une réalité occitane dotée d'une identité culturelle, historique, géographique et linguistique». En fait, il s'agit d'une identité gasconne.

Sous-groupes occitans

Sous-groupes actuels:
 Auvergnats
 Dauphinois
 Gascons (ne se reconnaissent pas tous comme occitans)
 Languedociens
 Aveyronnais
 Limousins
 Périgourdins
 Provençaux (langue : sud-occitan, mais faible degré d'adhésion à l'identité occitane).
 Camarguais

Sous-groupes historiques:
Catalans (ne se considèrent pas comme occitans, malgré la proximité linguistique)
 Roussillonnais
 [N. B. : les Poitevins (nom général) sont un groupe linguistique (dont la langue d'oïl partage quelques traits avec le nord-occitan)  qui déborde sur le nord de la Marche. Ils ne se considèrent pas comme occitans.
 Poitevins
 Saintongeais
 Vendéens]

Le concept d'ethnie appliqué aux Occitans
L'application du concept d'ethnie aux Occitans ne fait pas l'unanimité. La langue occitane est au centre des discussions.

En 1979, en introduction de l'ouvrage Histoire d'Occitanie, les occitanistes André Armengaud et Robert Lafont définissent l'Occitanie comme une ethnie . Plus tard, le linguiste Pierre Swiggers, voit dans l'occitan une langue ethnique. La définition de A. Armengaud et R. Lafont ne convainc pas Patrick Cabanel pour qui les conflits en ex-Yougoslavie contredisent une telle vision (mais la situation des peuples de Yougoslavie n'a rien à voir avec celle desdits Occitans). Pour Aurélie Joubert, ce débat illustre les difficultés d'analyse et d'interprétation des rapports entre les individus et leur propre langue. Comme le fit remarquer Gérard Vaysse, le concept d'ethnie occitane n'a jamais connu de fondements scientifiques de même qu'il n'existe pas à ses yeux d'ethnie française (globale, puisque les Français étaient initialement une part des Oïlitains). Il reconnaît en revanche dans l'Occitanie une identité linguistico-culturelle bien qu'il n'existe pas de conscience identitaire largement partagée.

Aurélie Joubert postule que . Sans doute serait-il plus juste de dire que la part héritée et objectivement descriptible de l'identité ethnique a été éradiquée progressivement par l'action d'un Etat qui en a fait un mot d'ordre sur tout son territoire.

Anthroponymie

L'anthroponymie occitane suit le modèle général roman : un ou plusieurs prénoms, suivis d'un nom patronymique issu d'un surnom apparu au Moyen Âge lorsque la croissance démographique et l'appauvrissement du nombre de prénoms usités ont nécessité cette précision. La formation insolite de noms gascons totémiques a commencé à disparaître au  pour suivre le modèle général roman, il en reste quelques traces.

Dans une partie de l'espace occitan (Pyrénées, mais aussi Albigeois), le nom de famille a été en concurrence avec le nom de maison : en cas d'héritage féminin, le gendre adoptait le nom de maison de l'héritière. Un exemple célèbre est l'adoption du nom Bernadotte de son épouse par l'ancêtre de Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, roi de Suède.

Traditionnellement, les noms de famille occitans sont variables en genre et en nombre. Cette variation, visible notamment dans les actes notariés de l'ancien régime français, a été oblitérée par la "traduction" des anthroponymes dans les langues dominantes.

Les noms de famille occitans sont en général traduits ou adaptés dans les langues dominantes dans les Etats correspondants. En Catalogne, la loi de normalisation linguistique a cependant permis le rétablissement des anthroponymes aranais dans leur version occitane. La même possibilité est offerte aux Occitans d'Italie si leur nom a été italianisé avant l'adoption de la loi sur les minorités linguistiques historiques ou si on leur a refusé le nom de baptême en occitan. Ce nom est transmissible aux descendants.

Anthropologie

Structures familiales

Anciennement, les structures familiales occitanes étaient d'une autre nature que celles rencontrées dans la partie Nord de la France, comme l'ont exposé Emmanuel Todd et Hervé Le Bras, par exemple dans Le Mystère Français.

Ethnotypes et stéréotypes

Pour de nombreux critiques, un phénomène de folklorisation des Méridionaux dans le cinéma français équivaut à un colonialisme intérieur, ce qui entre en contradiction avec l'importance des "gens du Midi" dans la vie politique et économique française. Les personnes qui sont originaires de cette région, intériorisent et sont même parfois complices de cette vision distanciée d'eux-mêmes mais destinée au reste du pays et du monde. En fait, c'est une vision largement parisienne qui s'est imposée par le cinéma dès les années 1930.

En français le terme péjoratif de hâbleur est synonyme de plusieurs termes désignant des Occitans: Bordelais, Gascon, Marseillais, Méridional.

L'on sait qu'il existe en France une image, d'abord littéraire, du méridional, exubérant et vantard, ridicule ou fanfaron, hâbleur et inconséquent.

Histoire et répartition géographique

Les mouvements de population des Occitans à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur de l'Occitanie ont fait l'objet de nombreuses études. Charles Higounet, dans un article de 1953, s'appuie sur la toponymie, l'anthroponymie et les « provençalismes » (emprunts à l'ancien occitan) pour étudier le repeuplement de la vallée de Garonne au  ou la présence continue d'Occitans dans la péninsule Ibérique.

En Occitanie

L'absence de prise en compte de l'ethnicité (ou du moins des langues pratiquées) dans les statistiques officielles françaises, italiennes et monégasques ne permet pas d'établir avec précision la proportion d'Occitans dans la population de l'Occitanie et hors d'Occitanie de ces pays. En revanche en Espagne, il existe des statistiques ethniques incluant les Occitans. Essentiellement situé dans le sud-ouest de l'Europe, en  (partie française), le foyer des Occitans inclut aussi des aires adjacentes de l'Italie du nord-ouest, Monaco et une vallée au nord de l'Espagne. Dans l'édition 2002 de son Encyclopédie des Nations sans État, James Minahan estime que les Occitans représentent 74 % des habitants du territoire dit Occitanie, les Français y constituant 14 %, les Nord-africains 10 %, les Espagnols 1 % et les autres origines 4 %. Les mouvements de population qui se produisent en France depuis le milieu du XXe siècle aboutissent à une désethnisation des territoires.

Diaspora occitane

La présence d'Occitans devient visible à l'apparition des surnoms qui deviendront noms de famille, lorsqu'ils représentent le lieu d'origine. Il est important de souligner que les historiens français et espagnols ont souvent réduit au nom des États contemporains la « nationalité » des immigrants. Une étude plus poussée des noms de personnes permet cependant de démontrer que la quasi-totalité des « Français » immigrés en Espagne et dans les Pays Catalans tout au long de l'histoire provenaient du Sud de la Loire.

Annexions par le Royaume de France
Sur décision du roi Louis XI, le Languedoc a été contraint de fournir des colons pour repeupler Arras, capitale du comté d'Artois fidèle à l'État bourguignon et annexé en 1477.

Reconquista
La présence occitane est attestée en Aragon, en Navarre, en Castille, dans les Asturies et jusqu'en Estrémadure léonaise avec de nombreux noms d'origine occitane à Salamanque, par exemple. Ces mouvements sont parfois liés aux expéditions de croisade de la Reconquista. Higounet mentionne celle menée par Gaston de Béarn en 1118, celui-ci se voit attribuer des fiefs.

Certains historiens et linguistes comme Manuel Alvar ont parlé du rôle des Occitans au sens large (et abusif) dans la repopulation de l'Aragon, en particulier des Gascons et des Languedociens. À Jaca, il y avait un quartier occitan (bourg neuf). Les populations gasconnes étaient aussi notables à Huesca et à Saragosse. Dans le Système Ibérique une repopulation importante par des Occitans eut lieu dans le bassin de la rivière Jiloca. L'Aragon a reçu une immigration occitane constante, particulièrement à l'époque des guerres de Religion en France. De nombreux noms de famille sont d'origine occitane : Guallar (déformation de Guallart), Morlans, Albiac, Cirac, Benaque (hispanisation de Benac comme beaucoup de noms aragonais qui finissent en "-aque"), Les, Morlana, Samatán, Tolosa, etc.

Dès le , l'Occitanie (au sens large) est devenu le cœur des chemins de Compostelle permettant d'effectuer l'un des plus grands pèlerinages de la chrétienté médiévale. Les implantations occitanes le long du chemin se sont renforcées notamment à Jaca et à Pampelune.

Les Occitans (au sens large) participèrent aussi considérablement à la repopulation de la Navarre par une immigration continue. Higounet mentionne la tradition de repeuplement de Pampelune par des Rouergats. Un dialecte occitan du sud des Pyrénées est parlé jusqu'au  à Estella-Lizarra tout comme dans des quartiers de Pampelune. Les Occitans y disposant de franchises bourgeoises étaient en conflit avec les habitants indigènes du quartier basque de Navarrería. Ces heurts constituent l'une des origines de la .

Enfin, une région de la Beira Baixa autour de Proença-a-Nova (Portugal) abonde en toponymes qui permettent, ainsi que le parler local de supposer une origine occitane des populations venues créer ces villages pendant la reconquête chrétienne de la région.

Croisades levantines
En 1102, Raymond IV de Toulouse fonda, lors des croisades, le comté de Tripoli au nord de Jérusalem. Ce n'était pas une colonie au sens moderne du terme, mais les historiens s'accordent pour reconnaître que les élites et les troupes étaient d'origine occitane.

Liens étroits avec les Pays Catalans

Sur la façade méditerranéenne, les relations sont anciennes en raison des suzerainetés croisées (résultant d'alliances matrimoniales : comtes de Barcelone suzerains de Provence et Gévaudan, rois de Majorque seigneurs de Montpellier, intérêts des souverains de Foix et de Béarn en Catalogne, en Aragon et en Andorre), mais aussi du commerce maritime et d'événements politiques :
 Le retrait de la couronne d'Aragon du Languedoc à la suite de la bataille de Muret et l'installation de l'Inquisition contre les derniers cathares ont entraîné un mouvement d'exil ;
 la conquête des Baléares s'est accompagnée d'un peuplement des îles avec des Catalans et des Occitans ;
 la conquête du Royaume de Valence s'est également traduite par une colonisation de peuplement en partie d'origine occitane ;
L'immigration occitane dans les Pays Catalans est un phénomène de longue durée qui a été étudié par de nombreux chercheurs catalans.

L'Aquitaine anglaise

Les relations commerciales dans les territoires de la couronne anglo-normande ont favorisé au Moyen Âge les mouvements entre l'ouest des pays gascons, le Poitou, le Limousin et les Îles Britanniques.

Persécutions contre les Vaudois

Les persécutions contre les Vaudois poussèrent une partie d'entre eux à l'exil, en Suisse puis en Allemagne. Des colonies vaudoises, en Hesse et Wurtemberg, ont conservé la langue jusqu'au milieu du XXe siècle.
D'autres Vaudois s'installent en Calabre vers 1350. Malgré les massacres du , une population occitane s'est maintenue sur place, et la langue reste parlée à Guardia Piemontese.

Guerres de Religion en France

Les persécutions religieuses contre les Vaudois, après leur adhésion au protestantisme, et les calvinistes, après la révocation de l'édit de Nantes, provoquent une émigration des Alpes et d'autres points vers la moyenne vallée du Rhin. Les colonies vaudoises et huguenotes d'Allemagne ont perdu l'usage de la langue occitane dans la première moitié du . Des descendants de huguenots occitans ont aussi participé au peuplement de l'Afrique du Sud (patronymes comme , toponymes comme L'Ormarin...)

L'expansion coloniale européenne

Les Occitans (au sens d'origine, pas de "nationalité") ont participé à l'expansion coloniale de l'Europe hors du continent. Leur présence est attestée par la toponymie et l'anthroponymie, notamment en Amérique et en Afrique du Sud.

Émigrations récentes

Les vallées occitanes en Italie sont particulièrement sujettes à de mouvements d'émigration, certaines communautés, comme les Brigasques, vont jusqu'à suivre les succès électoraux locaux de leurs originaires. Les Occitans se retrouvent dans des grands centres urbains de régions voisines de l'Occitanie : Lyon, Turin, Barcelone... ainsi qu'en région parisienne et dans les grandes villes du nord de l'Italie.

Culture

Langue

Les Occitans parlent traditionnellement une langue romane, connu sous plusieurs appellations dont l'occitan, la langue d'Oc, le roman et le provençal, à travers cinq dialectes : le languedocien, le provençal, le vivaro-alpin, l'auvergnat, le limousin auxquels on ajoute parfois le gascon, langue aquitano-romane. Toutefois, la majorité des Occitans sont aujourd'hui francophones. et se tiennent pour français. L'italien est également parlé dans les Vallées occitanes et historiquement dans le Pays niçois, ainsi que le castillan et le catalan dans le Val d'Aran.
On note dans certaines régions à forte identité des tentatives inabouties de sécessionnisme linguistique qui représentent, en fait, une incapacité d'inverser la diglossie et la substitution linguistique que subit l'occitan.

Religion

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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  Hervé Le Bras et Emmanuel Todd, Le mystère français, Paris, Le Seuil, coll. « La République des idées », mars 2013  .
  Hervé Le Bras et Emmanuel Todd, L'Invention de la France, Paris, Éditions Pluriel-Hachettes, 1981
  Emmanuel Todd, L'Origine des systèmes familiaux : Tome 1 L'Eurasie, Gallimard, col. « NRF Essais », 2011 , 768 pages
  Hervé Le Bras, Les trois France, Éditions Odile Jacob, 1986, , 266 pages
  Adrián Blázquez, L'émigration basco-béarnaise aux Amériques au : regards interdisciplinaires : actes du  colloque international sur l'émigration basco-béarnaise aux Amériques, Pau, 29 mai- juin 2000, Universitaria, Éditions Gascogne, Orthez, 2005,
  Jean Andreu, Claude Bataillon, Bartolomé Bennassar, Les aveyronnais dans la Pampa: fondation, développement et vie de la colonie aveyronnaise de Pigüé, Argentine, 1884-1992, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1977,
  Theo Kiefner, Die Waldenser auf ihrem Weg aus dem Val Cluson durch die Schweiz nach Deutschland 1532-1755: Die Ortssippenbucher der deutschen Waldenserkolonien (11v.), Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2003, Extrait de la conférence sur l'Émigration Vaudoise du 19/02/2000 à Paris par  Théo Kiefner traduite par M. Hans-Joachim Schmitt, docteur ès lettres: L'émigration des Vaudois des vallées piémontaises en Suisse, en Allemagne et en France
  Ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Louis-Edouard Roulet et Georges-André Chevallaz, Le refuge huguenot en Suisse, Lausanne, ed. du Tricorne, 1985, 321 p.
  Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: L-R, Volume 3 de Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World, James Minahan, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ,  (Occitans :  à 1443)

Liens externes

 + Diaspòra occitana La diaspora occitane dans le monde.

Groupe ethnique en Espagne
Groupe ethnique en France
Groupe ethnique en Italie
Démographie à Monaco

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P. P. Group provides materials profiling, processing, fabrication and welding services across a vast range of industries in the UK. The company selected Street to supply and install ten overhead cranes as part of its new 110,000 sq ft "Profiles Point" manufacturing facility, located in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
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ISAP builds farmer capacities for adoption of productive, remunerative, eco-friendly and self-sustaining integrated farming systems.


The price of new and existing housing went up by 13.6% and 10.6% year on year respectively in Kazakhstan in June. New housing cost KZT252,700 per square metre and existing housing was worth KZT191,400 per square metre. The difference in prices on the primary and secondary property markets (25%) did not practically change in the past year (22-23% now).
The most expensive new housing was in the capital in June (KZT343,700 per square metre, 36% more the national average). Atyrau Region came second with KZT322,600 (28% more the national average). The third was Almaty where the price of new housing reached KZT319,400 per square metre (26% above the average price of new housing in Kazakhstan).
Compared to April 2015 the highest growth rates of new housing prices were recorded in Pavlodar Region (+31.7%) and Mangistau Region (20.5%) while the prices of new housing did not change in Zhambyl, Kyzylorda and Almaty Regions and even fell in North Kazakhstan Region, East Kazakhstan Region, West Kazakhstan Region and Aktobe Region.
The number of purchase deals of flats in blocks of flats increased by 30% year on year to 10,384 in May. Sales of detached houses also increased by 17% year on year to 5,315 in May. Traditionally, the number of flats sold is twice as high as the number of detached houses sold.


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THE INSIDE TRACK: DERBY
Our guide to the Rams
NORWICH City travel to Derby County on Saturday (3pm) in the Sky Bet Championship.
Here we take a look at what City come up against in this weekend's fixture at the iPro Stadium.
A return to Steve McClaren's preferred 4-4-3 formation has proven a wise move since the 55-year-old took the reigns at Derby County once again last month.
Previously struggling for league form, Derby are now displaying similarities in approach to the one which brought relative success during McClaren's first spell in charge from 2013 to 2015.
That period saw County twice fall short of promotion to the Premier League despite positive signs for much of both seasons, prompting the ex-England boss to move to Newcastle.
A tough first few months on Tyneside saw McClaren depart St James' Park in March of this year, ultimately freeing him to replace Nigel Pearson at the helm of the Rams six weeks ago.
Guiding Middlesbrough to the 2006 UEFA Cup Final and later managing the national side, McClaren also boasts experience on the continent having spent time in charge of both FC Twente and Wolfsburg.
Defender Chris Baird wants Derby County to build on their recent run of results when they host Norwich City this weekend in the Sky Bet Championship.
His side have had an upturn in fortunes since Steve McClaren returned as to the iPro dugout in mid-October, registering a 3-0 victory over Rotherham United in their last outing.
That extended their winning run to three games, and the now retired Northern Ireland international told Rams TV: "
The manager has come in and has given us a lot of confidence to bounce back from the bad start that we had.
"We want to continue that because our confidence is growing with every passing game. O
ur next game against Norwich is going to be a different challenge altogether.
They are a good team, but I just want to play football. I still enjoy it and I want to play every minute.
"I know that isn't going to happen, but we will see what happens and hopefully I have put a marker down and can stay in the team."
Few players across the English leagues will have enjoyed a more eventful matchday than Tom Ince did last weekend when Derby County met Rotherham United.
The attacking midfielder saw his 15th minute penalty saved by Lee Camp, but tapped home the rebound before scoring again after Darren Bent had extended the advantage.
Given a chance to secure his hat-trick after winning another spot-kick, Ince was once again denied by Camp as his personal tally for the afternoon remained at two.
That marked the second match in succession in which the 24-year-old had notched a brace, having previously netted a double during the Rams' 3-2 success at Wolves.
A product of Liverpool's Academy, Ince established himself at Blackpool August 2011 and 2014, spending time on loan to Crystal Palace towards the end of his time in Lancashire.
An unsuccessful spell at Hull followed before he got his career back on track with a loan spell at Derby; the move becoming permanent in the summer of 2015.
IN THE SQUAD
Goalkeepers: Scott Carson, Chris Weale, Jonathan Mitchell.
Defenders: Cyrus Christie, Craig Forsyth, Jason Shackell, Richard Keogh, Chris Baird, Alex Pearce, Max Lowe, Jamie Hanson, Marcus Olsson, Farrend Rawson.
Midfielders: Craig Bryson, Ikechi Anya, Tom Ince, Bradley Johnson, Jacob Butterfield, Will Hughes, Timi Elsnik, George Thorne.
Forwards: Johnny Russell, Darren Bent, James Wilson, Abdoul Camara, Nick Blackman, Matej Vydra, Andreas Weimann.


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BETTER THAN PEOPLE
Making That Connection BETTER THAN PEOPLE–A Review
Hi there! Today I'm sharing a review for a contemporary M/M romance from Roan Parrish. BETTER THAN PEOPLE features a temporary invalid with a pack of rescue animals and the deeply introverted man whose assistance with cat feeding and dog walking melts his icy heart. Previous books I've enjoyed from this author include RIVEN and REND and RAZE, all rock romances, so they were very different to this sweet and tender story.
It's not long before their pet-centric arrangement sparks a person-centric desire…
Simon Burke has always preferred animals to people. When the countdown to adopting his own dog is unexpectedly put on hold, Simon turns to the PetShare app to find the fluffy TLC he's been missing. Meeting a grumpy children's book illustrator who needs a dog walker isn't easy for the man whose persistent anxiety has colored his whole life, but Jack Matheson's menagerie is just what Simon needs.
Four dogs, three cats and counting. Jack's pack of rescue pets is the only company he needs. But when a bad fall leaves him with a broken leg, Jack is forced to admit he needs help. That the help comes in the form of the most beautiful man he's ever seen is a complicated, glorious surprise.
Being with Jack—talking, walking, making out—is a game changer for Simon. And Simon's company certainly eases the pain of recovery for Jack. But making a real relationship work once Jack's cast comes off will mean compromise, understanding, and lots of love.
Jack Matheson is an introverted illustrator of children's books. He lives alone with his pack of rescued animals–dogs and cats alike, near his older brother Charlie in rural Wyoming. Jack met a man in college, a Davis, who became a friend. Knowing Jack was a good artist, Davis asked him to illustrate a school project, then a story to celebrate his sister's baby. And, that developed into a partnership after college. Unfortunately, Davis took Jack's idea for a story and shopped it as his own, and Jack's been in a depression- and rage-fueled block that has robbed him of his lifelong passion of art for almost the past year.
One night Jack's out walking his dog pack when skittish shenanigans leave Jack in the bottom of a ditch with a badly broken leg. He can't manage his animals' care while in a cast on crutches, so Jack seeks help via an app called PetShare, and that's when Jack's life starts to turn around.
Simon Burke is beautiful. Like an angel almost in Jack's opinion. But Simon has troubles with his intense shyness. A single man, he lives as a companion to his recently widowed grandma, and owns his own graphic design business. When he agrees to assist Jack in the care of his cats and dogs, Simon is almost unable to even knock at Jack's door he's so scared. But the animals love Simon. And Simon finds that he is able to talk to them as surrogates for people. Simon finds Jack to be utterly sexy, not that he's able to say so. Yet, the needs of the animals put Jack and Simon into close proximity twice daily, and with exposure comes bravery, on Simon's part—and Jack seems to find him a muse worth sketching. Their conversation is a battle, almost, to see if they can find common ground enough to confess their attraction, and Jack makes a key choice to have Simon text him when he's too overwhelmed to speak, even if they are sitting side by side on Jack's couch.
The close they become, the more intense Simon's shyness—because Jack's healing and he soon won't need Simon around. And why would such a sexy man want a shy, recluse of a partner anyway?
This really is a special story with two men who've been emotionally wounded by some of the people who should have most cared for them. Jack's relationship with Charlie is so key, He really loves his elder brother who became his guardian when their parents died. And as close as they are, it takes this big setback for Jack to challenge himself to get to know Charlie, who has become a rather solitary man. Was that because of his duties to his brother? And how can Jack show Simon how much he loves him, if Simon wants to shut him out to protect his fragile heart.
They are some very yummy sexy times, as Jack teaches Simon all he can about pleasing a partner. I really loved both Jack and Simon, and all their crazy fur-babies. They had such cute personalities, especially Pirate the cat who thinks she's the leader of the dogs. I think she may have inspired sweet Simon to stretch himself into social situations he was barely able to manage. I loved how both Simon and Jack grew in this story. Jack learned to trust both himself and others again, and he also stretched himself both personally and professionally in very new ways. And, Simon gets way more than his first kiss from Jack, who truly loves him properly. It's delightful and endearing. Highly recommend!
Interested? You can find BETTER THAN PEOPLE on Goodreads, Carina Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books and Kobo. I read a review copy via NetGalley.
Roan Parrish lives in Philadelphia, where she is gradually attempting to write love stories in every genre.
When not writing, she can usually be found cutting her friends' hair, meandering through whatever city she's in while listening to torch songs and melodic death metal, or cooking overly elaborate meals. She loves bonfires, winter beaches, minor chord harmonies, and self-tattooing. One time she may or may not have baked a six-layer chocolate cake and then thrown it out the window in a fit of pique. She is represented by Courtney Miller-Callihan of Handspun Literary Agency.
You can find Roan online on her website, Facebook and twitter.
August 28, 2020 Veronica Rundell adult contemporary, BETTER THAN PEOPLE, Gay romance, M/M Romance, Roan Parrish 1 Comment


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Pairing: Jack Manfred/James Bond, Jack Manfred/Bella.
Feedback: Good lines, typos, etc.
Disclaimer: Neither of these worlds are my original creations.
Notes: Crossover between Croupier and Casino Royale, post both films.
Summary: Jack's learned his lesson and told his tale. But he still has his nights out.
Jack had changed casinos. He'd grown accustomed to the Golden Lion, that was why. But he didn't make the mistake of fancying it up—no, he let his money ride in its Swiss bank account, safe as houses. He just told Giles he had to move up north, family issues, and Giles put him in contact with either a cousin or somebody that owed money who ran a place there. The gamblers might be all out for only themselves, but the industry wrapped its people in thick cotton, cradle to grave.
Bella didn't mind much. All her family was in London and she was happy for the move since it got her away from them. She'd gotten blackballed from casinos but she was still all right for betting counters, taking money from people who liked losing with the smell of horse manure around them. And maybe she agreed with Jake's sense of humor, but she still got up in the middle of the night to wash off her thighs and sock her savings away in the tin box behind the extra blankets. Neither Jake nor Jack minded that; on the contrary, it kept her respectable.
The new place was about the same level as the last one, a little bit of peeling gilt the only frills, but the owner here had some connections higher up. That was, he owed a few people and they tended not to be the type who'd collect in money. At first Jack wasn't sure if pulling an extra shift running private games in posh settings would be safe, but he soon realized that the extra trappings were just that: trappings. It didn't take him any longer to tune out there than it did in the casino.
"Stepping up in the world?" Bella asked as he was leaving to go to one. A cigarette dangled from the corner of her mouth and she had two runs in her left stocking. She could've bought new ones, no problem; she in fact always made sure to wear new ones to work, but at home she didn't care.
Of course Jack didn't, either. "Just to get the paper."
"Some dog peed there this morning," she said. And turned to take the kettle off the stove for her tea.
Jack went out the door and up the steps, straightening his bowtie as he went. A light rain was falling, so he took his umbrella out from beneath his arm and put it up, not wanting to soil his uniform. He took pride in coming home in the same state he'd left it.
The motives might be a bit more inflated at this level, but the punters were still the same. Desperate gleam in their eyes, sweating beneath tight silk and linen and perfumed powders and, fingers trembling with the sheer closeness of the cards, the fortunes they saw written in the numbers. But it was always the croupier who dealt, the croupier who collected. The croupier who nestled the deck in his hands.
Jack noticed him right away. He went to the bar—well, a lot of gamblers did that, though he looked too relaxed for it to be out of a need to stiffen himself up against the night. Then he sat there and flirted with the passing women, all of whom didn't particularly mind; he wasn't a prettyboy, but he had that kind of pull. So Jack pegged him for one of the watchers, those immune to the lure of chance but who couldn't pull themselves away from the stench of fearful hope that surrounded bettors.
Didn't really surprise Jake when the man lit up a cigarette and draped himself over his barstool so he could take in the whole room at a glance.
There were twenty minutes left in Jack's shift and he had a nervous one to his far left, so he returned his attention to the game. Deal, count, deal. He whiled away the time listening to nothing at all, and when the tap on the shoulder came, he had nodded and gone two steps away before he really realized it had come at all.
The air in the place was dry, so he went up to get himself a glass of water from the bar. Then he meant to go into the back and have his smoke, his piss, and stretch out his legs a bit, but there was a second tap on his arm. This was unexpected. Once the dealer stepped away from the table, they became a nobody, a nothing, a ghost in a suit or cocktail dress. Like everyone else, it was the cards that made them.
It was the man from earlier, the cool blond one. Now with cool blue eyes added to the description, Jack noted. He didn't have his cigarette anymore.
"Pardon," he said. Rich-boy's accent, university and all that. But there was something wrong with it, though Jack hadn't been in England quite long enough to have a bone-deep understanding of exactly what. Jake suggested it was the particular kind of rich-boy under discussion. This one didn't sound soft. "That man over there, the one with the gold cravat. Is he with the stunning redhead in the ivory dress?"
"I don't know." Jack revised his earlier assessment. This one wasn't a watcher—he was a looker. Ten times worse, and trouble all around. "Excuse me."
He went to push by, but the man caught his elbow: the crisp feeling of a folded bill cut through the heavy cloth of his jacket. The woman behind the bar and Jack exchanged weary looks, and then Jack half-turned back so as not to cause a scene.
"Sorry." The man made an attempt at a charming smile. All its parts were right, but the whole was strangely unconvincing. "Can you tell me if the men's toilet is over there?"
He jerked his chin at a door on the other side of the room that'd been painted the same color as the wall. "That isn't it. Sir, I'm on duty," Jack said.
The man finally let go of his arm, taking the money with him, and as Jack turned to go, the man turned towards the gold cravat. The line of his suit didn't sit perfectly against him and he had a fine white scar behind one ear, and another following his jawline so only perfectly angled light would detect it.
By the time Jack's cigarette had burned down to the filter, he'd ruled out the usual possibilities. No bodyguard would speak with an upper-crust accent that good. No gangster would be that quiet. A hitman might be, but it would make more sense for them to carry a gun and not a…well, Jack wasn't quite sure what that outline had been, though Jake wanted to say it was a knife.
Something was going to happen tonight, and there were enough dumb fish swelling this pool so that somebody would call the police. Odds were that Jack would be late getting home, and it was a long drive.
Besides, Jake added, it wasn't his life on the line.
When Jack came back out, the looker had moved to play at the same roulette table as his target. He glanced up once, expressionlessly and without recognition, when Jack exchanged places with the dealer. Coincidence? Jack could almost hear the chips falling into place. But that wasn't the point, so he ignored it.
Some peroxide blonde with a bad face-lift and on a losing streak shivered and complained about the temperature. One of the security people was passing by, so Jack stopped them and inquired if the heating could be adjusted, nodding towards the door the looker had pointed out earlier. The looker was in the middle of placing a sizable bet on thirteen black, his target was scathingly telling off the redhead in the ivory silk, and the security man said no. Content, Jack finished out the shift.
It was his last one. He walked calmly back and splashed his face with a little water. Undid his bow-tie and took out the shiny cuff-links the place had insisted on. He hadn't brought anything else with him. He had taken the bus here and then walked up to the front door with plastic bags tied over his dress shoes.
Jack took the bags with them and stopped on the porch to tie them on again. Then he pretended to have forgotten his lighter and went back in; nobody noticed him, but he glimpsed the redhead sitting disconsolately at the bar. The heating room was crowded with boilers and wouldn't be the best place; if he'd been trying to pick somewhere, he would have gone for the liquor-room.
He walked in just as the gold cravat, now blood-soaked, slapped limply to the ground. The looker jerked his head up, but kept his hands put and stayed crouched down where he was. His eyes weren't so calm now; staring into them was like staring down a whirlwind.
Unaccountably, Jack thought about the dust in South Africa, how it stuck to one and sucked out the moisture instead of soaking one like in England.
"If you stick him behind the barrel on the left," Jack said, "They won't find him till tomorrow morning. It's empty and they don't take another inventory till then."
After a long look, the man shrugged and got up. He nudged the barrel out with his foot—his eyebrow went up at its lightness—and then he did something with his hands near his pockets. A schnick sound accompanied a flash of silver. "Thanks. He didn't tip you well, I take it?"
Jack leaned against the doorway and lit up, keeping one eye on the looker, who returned the favor as he hid the body. "We aren't allowed to accept gratuities in England." He saw another croupier wandering back with a girl in tow and waved the man off into the next hall. "He had his girlfriend placing late bets while they argued."
"Oh, I did see that." After shoving the barrel back, the looker came out. He cocked his head, listening to the other croupier moving away, as he wiped the blood off his hands with his balled-up coat. "Why didn't you call him on it?"
"We're under orders to accommodate him," Jack said. He shrugged. "But I hate cheats."
The looker laughed, under his breath and almost noiselessly. "How did you know to come back here?"
"I used to be a writer." Jake thought the looker's eyes flickered when he reached up to pull at the stiff starched wings of his collar, rubbing where the bowtie had forced them into his flesh. "I've got a long trip home and I wanted to make sure the police didn't hold me up. My shift's over and I left before this happened."
The looker laughed again. This time he clearly moved his gaze over Jack. "So did I. Bond—James Bond. Want a lift?"
"No," Jack said.
"All right," James easily replied, still looking at Jack. He stuffed his coat under his arm. He had something clipped to the back of his belt, but it was sheathed in leather so Jack still couldn't make out what it was. James caught him looking, and laughed again, low in his throat. "All right."
Jake thought it might be dangerous, but liked it, liked wondering where those hands move next after pressing against his chest, his sides, his thighs. But Jack knew he wasn't going to be killed. It wasn't this one's style. The redhead at the bar, still pouring her heart out to the bartender while her man got stuffed in a backroom.
James, or whoever he was, was a looker. The second time Jack had got it right.
He looked while they were shoving each other's hands into their trousers. He kissed with his eyes open, short and curt, more of a formality than anything else. Once he realized Jack wasn't expecting it, his mouth didn't touch Jack again. His hands did the work, their fingers blunt and rough: no magician's hands here, but they pulled the heat up between them to beat back the chilly night air, they stroked lust into Jack's flesh well enough. He watched Jack gasp and moan, and then he turned Jack around to slam him up against the wall, but Jack knew he was still being watched.
It ruined Jack's suit, wrecked it so he was glad he'd brought an overcoat with him. He felt the brick scratch him up, and then the grit making its way into his mouth began to taste like blood, too. He remembered Marion hadn't had a scratch on her, what they'd shown him of her, pure even to the last, and didn't feel any of it.
"You're not going to see me again," James snapped somewhere near the end, voice thick and angry. He was looking, but he wasn't seeing Jack.
Jake shrugged and figured everyone was one kind of punter or the other. Only thing that mattered for them was the gamble, whether it was cards and clay discs or something else.
"I didn't see you in the first place. You're a figment of my imagination," Jake told the other man.
For a moment, in the dark, the shadowy planes of James' face closed sharply. But then he wiped his hand on his trousers and shook his head. "That must be nice. Easier…are you sure you don't need a lift? It's cold out."
"I don't mind." And Jack really didn't.
"You sodding prick," Bella drowsily murmured, already pushing her fists against Jack's shoulders. Her knees parted and she hit his chest hard as he glided into place, knowing her so well he didn't even need the light. "I can smell the sex on you. Didn't even have the--fuck--courtesy to shower…"
"No." Jack bent down and fit his head against her neck, rolling his shoulders as her fist started to uncurl over them.
She snorted, the sound more heartfelt than James' look over his shoulder as they'd gone their separate ways. "The fuck did you come back for?"
"To screw you," Jack said. He rubbed his face against her cheek, feeling her start to smile. He was grinning himself when their mouths met, her arm coming up to sling over his neck. She said something back to him, but he didn't hear what it was. He was already gone.
He'd lost a suit, after all of it. But hold tightly, let go lightly. He was all right with that.


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Our Fröbelhof is a place where you can enjoy with all senses and forget time. All sorts of delightful corners and angles as well as our idyllic "milk garden for good humor" invite you to relax.
Commited to Friedrich Fröbel's spirit, the little ones will find an environment where they have peace, but nevertheless also sufficient active play facilities in the countryside are available, and parents and grandparents can enjoy the time together and relax at the same time. Whether young or old, you can make yourself familiar with the original Fröbel toys, develop a child's creativity and imagination in our games, drawing and crafting, and do horseback riding on the stables right around the corner. The close to nature location of Fröbelhof invites to picnics, walks, observation of nature, and plenty of recreational fun can be found in and around Bad Liebenstein, as well as artistic and musical programs are held regularly with us. With a warm and friendly service we want to offer our guests, whether young or old, small or large, from near or far, a lifetime that you simply must see, feel and experience.
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News · Crime & Safety
Sheriff Tony: A Commitment to Accountability
July 1, 2020 by Guest Contributer	No Comments
Sheriff Gregory Tony took a moment to kneel in solidarity with Lori Bloomfield and a group of peaceful protesters expressing their desire for change and social justice. Photo courtesy BSO.
The appalling murder of George Floyd reopened deep and painful wounds in our country. For too long, many people of color have suffered through a separate and unequal system of justice and have been unjust victims of police brutality.
Incidents like this cut particularly deep with me. Before I was Broward's first black sheriff, I was a black kid from the inner city thrown to the ground by a police officer with a knee pinned to the back of my neck. I understand the distrust some black and brown Americans feel toward law enforcement. We've let them down for far too long and have done too little to root out systemic racism from our ranks.
BUT I SAY THIS TO YOU: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
I know we must work hard to rebuild trust with our communities, but changes are being made. Since I became sheriff, I have worked to build public trust by bringing accountability and transparency to this agency and to this community.
Our deputies are held accountable for their actions. On four different occasions, I've terminated deputies for use of excessive force. I've appointed new members to the Professional Standards Committee, which includes minority members from the community, to review internal disciplinary matters. In addition, I am establishing a Use of Force Review Board, the first-ever in BSO's history. Egregious use of force will not be tolerated under my leadership.
We continue to ensure we are hiring the right people, including more minorities and women, and are providing them with the appropriate training. We are reintegrating a comprehensive Early Warning System to detect potential behaviors that may cause harm to the public. In addition, every deputy in our department continues to be trained in de-escalation techniques along with safe arrest methods. I am also allocating approximately $1 million to implement racial equity and implicit bias training programs. All Department of Law Enforcement deputies have body-worn cameras and are required to activate them prior to any interaction with civilians.
I also know one negative incident can erode years of trust. At BSO, community policing is not merely a buzzword. We are working side by side with our communities, listening to your concerns, and identifying problems and solutions for BSO involvement in the neighborhoods we serve. This is why our deputies now get out of their patrol cars and walk the neighborhoods they protect, interacting with residents, as part of our Park, Walk and Talk program.
At BSO, we're making significant changes, and we are one of the most accountable and transparent public safety agencies in the nation. Yet I know there is still work to be done. I challenge our communities not to let incidents like what happened in Minneapolis divide us. I pledge as sheriff to continue to work with our communities and hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and accountability. While I am I'm deeply saddened by the death of George Floyd and others killed unjustly, know this: their deaths will not be forgotten. May their legacies live through our progress.
Certain Broward cities like Coconut Creek, Hallandale Beach, Pembroke Pines, Sunrise, Plantation, Davie, Margate, Miramar, Lauderhill, Lighthouse Point, and Coral Springs maintain their police departments; however, BSO does provide communications and dispatch services to the following cities: Central Broward, Cooper City, Dania Beach, Deerfield Beach, Ft Lauderdale-Hollywood Int'l Airport, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Lauderdale Lakes, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Parkland, Pembroke Park, West Park, Pompano Beach, Port Everglades, Tamarac, Weston and unincorporated West Broward.


HOUSTON, United States — Janet Gurwitch may well be the only beauty brand founder with a World Series ring. The Houston Astros board member and investor (the baseball team's only female investor, she noted) started her career in retail. As executive vice president of Neiman Marcus in 1993, her goal was to be the company's first female chief executive. "And I was one step away, but then I met Bobbi Brown who was doing such a great job at our store," said Gurwitch.
The beauty business, Gurwitch realised, was reaching a new inflection point.
"I gave up my chance to be the first woman CEO of Neiman Marcus — which Karen Katz became — and started my own company," she said. "I knew nothing, really, about the beauty industry." Because she didn't think her name "had any ring to it," she started interviewing makeup artists: accomplished pros who were known within the magazine and celebrity worlds, but not necessarily to the outside.
I gave up my chance to be the first woman CEO of Neiman Marcus and started my own company.
With French editorial star Laura Mercier on board and a licensing agreement in hand, she went to a lab, hired a chemist "and within a year and a half, the three of us built a brand." The focus — spot on for late-90s minimalist glamour — was the idea of the flawless face. The brand launched with a blockbuster quartet — a primer ("Laura was using one professionally as an artist but they weren't available to the average person"), foundation, "Secret Camouflage" concealer and translucent powder — which remain top-sellers two decades later.
In her fourth year in business, Gurwitch accepted investment from Neiman Marcus. "I needed more money. Today there's all this private equity — but not in 1999, interested in beauty. And I lived in Houston, where everyone was looking for oil." When Neiman Marcus sold to Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus in 2005, Mercier was forced to sell as well (originally acquired by Alticor, the brand would be sold once more in 2016 to Shisiedo).
These days, Gurwitch is focused on supporting other founders, bringing her brand building experience and keen market intuition to the world of private equity.
In addition to her Houston Astros, Gurwitch has privately invested in Sugarfina — the luxury candy company known for Dom Pérignon-laced gummy bears — but her best bet, thus far, has certainly been Dollar Shave Club.
We had gone from zero to $100 million by the time we sold … I'm so proud.
Gurwitch and partner Steve Berg have looked at between 50 and 60 brands over the last ten years, pulling the trigger on four. They bought Urban Decay for around $40 million from the Falic Group in 2009, and sold it to L'Oréal for approximately $350 million three years later. They made significant minority investments in First Aid Beauty — which sold to P&G for an estimated $250 million this past July — as well as Drybar and Tatcha.
Gurwitch credits much of the Urban Decay success to the team of founder Wende Zomnir and chief executive Tim Warner (now at Drunk Elephant) that was already in place. "Often times, you have a great product, but you need the underpinnings of finance and logistics," she explained. During its incubation with Castanea, the brand saw major lift from the Naked palette, created by Zomnir as a special edition for holiday and eventually developed as a franchise itself.
All female founders … It's not a pre-requisite, but it has been so exciting for me. I learn from each one.
For Drybar, Gurwitch encouraged founder Alli Webb to expand into a product line — separate from the salon business — which is now generating upwards of $60 million for the company. Under the new leadership of LVMH and Shiseido veteran Jean-Marc Plisson, Japanese-inspired Tatcha — currently available stateside at just Sephora, QVC and via the band's website — is prepping for a big push into Asia.
Another misstep: underestimating the power of packaging. "The way we started Laura Mercier was with my own money, about $3.5 million, and it was all I had. I put everything into the product quality — we really wanted the best product. I undervalued how important a good logo and packaging would be. Originally, I used Laura's signature, which was pretty, but was not who we were. We were clean, we were modern and we needed to have an identity that matched," recalled Gurwitch.


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Q: Implementing Google Location Services API inside a service I have implemented Google Location Services inside a service, so that I can get location updates in the background (so that updates don't stop when user locks screen, switches fragment, etc.). But I am getting a strange error message that is stopping me from implementing it.
On the line:
"LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(googleApiClient, locationRequest, this);"
It is telling me that 2rd parameter 'this' is not allowed and should be cast to (com.google.android.gms.location.LocationListener). But in every example I've seen this is not the case. When I do cast it, it does not work
Below is my code, trouble is in the onConnected method
public class LocationTrackingService extends Service implements LocationListener, ConnectionCallbacks, OnConnectionFailedListener {
    GoogleApiClient googleApiClient = null;
    LocationRequest locationRequest;

    Location currentLocation;

    static final int INTERVAL = 2000;
    static final int FASTEST_INTERVAL = 500;
    static final int PRIORITY = LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY;

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        setupGoogleApiClient();
        createLocationRequest(INTERVAL, FASTEST_INTERVAL, PRIORITY);
        googleApiClient.connect();
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        if (!googleApiClient.isConnected()) {
            googleApiClient.connect();
        }

        return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        //TODO maybe dont need this
        googleApiClient.disconnect();

        super.onDestroy();
    }

    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        //updating current location
        currentLocation = location;

        //TODO will be writing directly to database here
        //broadcasting intent
        Intent publishLocationUpdate = new Intent("location_update");
        publishLocationUpdate.putExtra("current_location", currentLocation);
        sendBroadcast(publishLocationUpdate);
    }

    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String s, int i, Bundle bundle) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderEnabled(String s) {

    }

    //if location tracking is not enabled
    @Override
    public void onProviderDisabled(String s) {
        Intent toSettings = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS);
        toSettings.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        startActivity(toSettings);
    }

    @Override
    public void onConnected(@Nullable Bundle bundle) {
        //sets location to last known location
        if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            // TODO: Consider calling
            //    ActivityCompat#requestPermissions
            // here to request the missing permissions, and then overriding
            //   public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String[] permissions,
            //                                          int[] grantResults)
            // to handle the case where the user grants the permission. See the documentation
            // for ActivityCompat#requestPermissions for more details.
            return;
        }

        currentLocation = FusedLocationApi.getLastLocation(googleApiClient);

        //request updates
        LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(googleApiClient, locationRequest, this);

    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionSuspended(int i) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionFailed(@NonNull ConnectionResult connectionResult) {

    }

    // Create an instance of GoogleAPIClient which we call to recieve location information
    void setupGoogleApiClient(){
        if (googleApiClient == null) {
            googleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
                    .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
                    .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
                    .addApi(LocationServices.API)
                    .build();
        }
    }

    //set request settings, interval: how soon until new request is made, priority affects batterylife (using GPS, netowork, data...)
    void createLocationRequest(int interval, int fastestInterval, int priority) {
        locationRequest = new LocationRequest();
        locationRequest.setInterval(interval);
        locationRequest.setFastestInterval(fastestInterval);
        locationRequest.setPriority(priority);
        //can also use PRIORITY_LOW_POWER, PRIORITY_BALANACED_POWER_ACCURACY, PRIORITY_NO_POWER
    }
}

I check the intent in onResume in my fragment, code below:
if(broadcastReceiver == null){
            broadcastReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
                @Override
                public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
                    Location currentLocation;
                    currentLocation = (Location) intent.getExtras().get("current_location");

                    currentAltitudeTextView.setText(String.valueOf(currentLocation.getLatitude()));
                    currentSpeedTextView.setText(String.valueOf(currentLocation.getLongitude()));
                }
            };
        }

        context.registerReceiver(broadcastReceiver, new IntentFilter("location_update"));


The ABPA Emerging Leaders Program took members of the community to the Exelon regional corporate headquarters in Warrenville, IL on Thursday April 5th, 2018. Iba Ello, a Senior Chemist with Exelon and a 2017 Emerging Leader recipient, gave guests an inside look into the world of Nuclear Energy. It was highly interesting, interactive and informative event. A special thank you to Iba and the outstanding Exelon staff for hosting ABPA and members of our community!


lives of our community fuller and richer through performing arts.
Board meetings are held the second week of every month.
Metropolitan Performing Arts in Vancouver, WA is seeking interested persons who are willing to serve in a governance capacity on their board of directors. Established in 2010, Metropolitan Performing Arts, a 501(c)3 non-profit serves the SW Washington community by providing quality arts education and performance opportunities. MPA is seeking members of the community or family members currently connected who are interested in helping take MPA to the next level. Directors are volunteers and a crucial leadership position to the organization.
Board members must be 18 years and able to fulfill the minimum board service commitment of 3 years.
Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact MPA Executive Director, Barbara Richardson at 360-975-1585 or exec.director@metropolitanperformingarts.org.


We've won two Taste of the West awards for 2016. We received a gold for the farm shop, and a silver for the coffee shop.
We're thrilled and just want to say well done and thank you to all our staff; their hard work is what makes The Udder Farm Shop a wonderful destination for our customers.


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A Consistent Signature of Histone Deacetylation in Huntington's Disease?
Luis Valor — March 16, 2016
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that affects 5 to 10 people per 100,000 inhabitants. Despite the identification of the primary cause of the disease 20 years ago (an aberrant expansion of trinucleotide CAG repeats in the exon 1 of the huntingtin gene), there is still no effective therapy.
A promising venue was conceived in the early 2000s after the observation of deficiencies in histone acetylation levels in several HD models, supported by the beneficial effects of HDAC inhibitors (HDACi) treatments presumably by restoring this pathological hypoacetylation. Acetylation of histone tails is thought to relax the chromatin and to facilitate the access of transcription factors, cofactors and the basal transcriptional machinery to DNA for transcription activation. Therefore, the deficits in this posttranscriptional modification have been postulated as a possible cause for the prominent transcriptional dysregulation observed in HD, an early event with potential high relevance in the pathology. However, the finding of a global reduction in histone acetylation levels in these early reports has been controversial: while some studies have confirmed the observation of changes in bulk chromatin, others have been unable to detect such perturbations.
In this study, we concluded that reduced bulk histone acetylation is not a common and prominent feature associated with HD pathology after an exhaustive analysis in diverse animal and cellular models of HD. Instead, we found that the examination of histone H3 acetylation profiles at the transcription start sites (TSSs) of specific genes were more informative for the identification of important candidate genes in both disease and therapy. Indeed, our work provided good examples of specific alterations in potentially relevant genes for neuronal malfunctioning, such as Rin1 and Plk5, and pinpointed the existence of hot spots for epigenetic dysregulation in HD in which different forms of epigenetic deregulation, such as histone H3 deacetylation and demethylation at lysine 4, concur. Furthermore, in an attempt to link histone deacetylation patterns with a transcriptional signature conserved across HD models, we identified a group of genes that show defective acetylation of TSS-associated histones but were only transcriptionally altered in specific brain areas, mouse models or stage of the disease, indicating that epigenetic dysregulation must converge with additional but still unknown factors to produce effective transcriptional alterations.
Recent genome-wide studies indicate that the relationship between epigenetic and transcriptional dysregulation in neuropathology is more complex than first anticipated. In this context, our study provides further insight into the nature and extent of epigenetic dysregulation in HD that will help to define the molecular mechanisms and genuine targets of epigenetic-based ameliorative strategies.
Guiretti D, Sempere A, Lopez-Atalaya JP, Ferrer-Montiel A, Barco A, & Valor LM (2016). Specific promoter deacetylation of histone H3 is conserved across mouse models of Huntington's disease in the absence of bulk changes. Neurobiology of disease, 89, 190-201 PMID: 26851501
Tags:Epigenetics,Histone Deacetylation,Histone modifications,Huntington's disease,therapy
A Mechanism of Cancer Heterogeneity Originated from Epigenetics and Microevironments
The Expanding RNA Alphabet - Hydroxymethylation in RNA
Luis Valor
Chromatin StructureDevelopmental Biology & Stem CellsDNA Methylation and HydroxymethylationHistone Modifications
Aging, Environment, & DiseaseDNA Methylation and Hydroxymethylation
Accurately Predicting Double-Strand Breaks Using Public Genetic Databases
Epigenetics, Aging, and Neurodegeneration
Epigenetics in Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation: Implications for Neurodegeneration Therapy


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require 'spec_helper'

module Smalrubot
  describe Smalrubot::Board do
    def io_mock(methods = {})
      @io ||= double(:io, {write: nil, flush_read: nil, handshake: "14"}.merge(methods))
    end

    subject { Board.new(io_mock) }

    describe '#initialize' do
      it 'should take an io class' do
        expect {
          Board.new(io_mock)
        }.to_not raise_exception
      end

      it 'should initiate the handshake' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:handshake)
        subject
      end
    end

    describe '#write' do
      it 'should return true if the write succeeds' do
        @io = nil
        board = Board.new(io_mock(write: true))
        expect(board.write('message')).to eq(true)
      end

      it 'should wrap the message in a ! and a . by default' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('!hello.')
        subject.write('hello')
      end

      it 'should not wrap the message if no_wrap is set to true' do
        board = Board.new(io_mock)
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('hello')
        board.write('hello', no_wrap: true)
      end
    end

    describe '#digital_write' do
      it 'should append a append a write to the pin and value' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('!0101003.')
        subject.digital_write(01, 003)
      end
    end

    describe '#digital_read' do
      it 'should tell the board to read once from the given pin' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('!0213000.')
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:read).with(1).and_return(['13', Smalrubot::Board::HIGH.to_s])
        expect(subject.digital_read(13)).to eq(Smalrubot::Board::HIGH)
      end
    end

    describe '#analog_write' do
      it 'should append a append a write to the pin and value' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('!0301003.')
        subject.analog_write(01, 003)
      end
    end

    describe '#analog_read' do
      it 'should tell the board to read once from the given pin' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('!0413000.')
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:read).with(1).once.and_return(['13', '256'])
        expect(subject.analog_read(13)).to eq(256)
      end
    end

    describe '#set_pin_mode' do
      it 'should send a value of 0 if the pin mode is set to out' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('!0013000.')
        subject.set_pin_mode(13, :out)
      end

      it 'should send a value of 1 if the pin mode is set to in' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:write).with('!0013001.')
        subject.set_pin_mode(13, :in)
      end
    end

    describe '#handshake' do
      it 'should tell the board to reset to defaults' do
        expect(io_mock).to receive(:handshake)
        subject.handshake
      end
    end

    describe '#normalize_pin' do
      it 'should normalize numbers so they are two digits' do
        expect(subject.normalize_pin(1)).to eq('01')
      end

      it 'should not normalize numbers that are already two digits' do
        expect(subject.normalize_pin(10)).to eq('10')
      end

      it 'should raise if a number larger than two digits are given' do
        expect { subject.normalize_pin(1000) }.to raise_exception 'pin number must be in 0-99'
      end
    end

    describe '#normalize_value' do
      it 'should normalize numbers so they are three digits' do
        expect(subject.normalize_value(1)).to eq('001')
      end

      it 'should not normalize numbers that are already three digits' do
        expect(subject.normalize_value(10)).to eq('010')
      end

      it 'should raise if a number larger than three digits are given' do
        expect { subject.normalize_value(1000) }.to raise_exception 'values are limited to three digits'
      end
    end
  end
end

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terry Bradley (born 1965, Belfast) is an artist from Northern Ireland. His early life was spent growing up just off the notorious Shankill Road where his mother tried to keep him inside and away from the "Troubles" outside their front door.
Bradley created his first painting when he was 14 years old and is a self-taught artist. He and his two brothers later set up and ran a factory manufacturing and exporting full lead mouth blown crystal. The company had to close its doors after four years.
Bradley then turned to his interest in art and fashion. He opened his own clothes shop in the trendy university area of the city. Called "Retro" the shop was soon a leader in fashion for the clothes conscious of Belfast. Terry's was the first shop to stock Red or Dead shoes and he had a regular Saturday DJ playing in the tiny outlet. He sold hand painted jeans and one-off shirts and jackets that he imported from all over the world. A few years later he moved to Dublin in 1989. Bradley initially started modelling clothes for friends to make ends meet. During this time however, he was busy painting and drawing in his spare time. A chance conversation with John Reynolds, the owner of the famous POD club in Dublin, lead to Bradley's first solo art exhibition. The night was a huge success and Terry started to make some money.


Guild Wars 2 Launches today, 24th August! Join us on teamspeak for launch server destination details!
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Q: How to match numbers in an array in PHP I am working on the routing or uri's in my PHP app.  Currently I have an array with a regex => url map like this...
<?php
$uri_routes = array(
    //users/account like http://mysite.com/users/324 (any digit)
    'users/friends/page-(\d+)' => 'modules/users/friends/page-$1',
    'users/friends/' => 'modules/users/friends/',
    'users/online' => 'modules/users/online/' ,
    'users/online/page-(\d+)' => 'modules/users/online/page-$1',
    'users/create' => 'modules/users/create',
    'users/settings' => 'modules/users/settings',
    'users/logout(\d+)' => 'modules/users/logout',
    'users/login' => 'modules/users/login',
    'users/home' => 'modules/users/home',

    //forums
    'forums/' => 'modules/forums/index',
    'forums/viewthread/(\d+)' => 'modules/forums/viewthread/$1',
    'forums/viewforum/(\d+)' => 'modules/forums/viewforum/$1',
    'forums/viewthread/(\d+)/page-(\d+)' => 'modules/forums/viewthread/$1/page-$2',
    'forums/viewforum/(\d+)/page-(\d+)' => 'modules/forums/viewforum/$1/page-$2'

    //blog routes coming soon
    //mail message routes coming soon
    //various other routes coming soon
);

?>

I can then cycle through my $uri_routes map array and match a uri with preg_match() like this...
<?php

//get url from URL
$uri = isset($_GET['uri']) ? $_GET['uri'] : null;

//runs our function and returns an array
// $uri['module'] this will be the class/module/section
// $uri['method'] this will be the page in that section or method in that class
// $uri['urifragments'] this will either page a user ID, or an item ID or a page number for paging
$uri = get_route($_GET['uri'],$uri_routes);

function get_route($uri,$uri_routes)
{
    foreach($uri_routes as $rUri => $rRoute)
    {

        if(preg_match("#^{$rUri}$#Ui",$uri))
        {
            $uri = preg_replace("#^{$rUri}$#Ui",$rRoute,$uri);
            break;
        }
    }

    $uri = explode('/',$uri);

    $return['module'] = $uri['1'];

    $return['method'] = $uri['2'];

    $return['urifragments'] = $uri['3'];
    $return['urifragments2'] = $uri['4'];

    return $return;
}

I am open to an suggestion to improve this in any way.  Right now I am stuck as there is 4 possible array key/values returned.  If array key 3 or key 4 contains the word "page-" followed by a number, I would like to assign it to a $page variable.  But if key 3 or key 4 contains just a number with no "page-" word, then I can assume it is a user ID, blog ID, forum ID, etc and assign it to an $id variable.
If you know a good approach to this, please help.
UPDATE
to simplify things, in addition to having "page-" in front of page numbers, I could have "id-" in front of id numbers

A: Instead of using $1 and $2 to match our routes try using named captures.

5.2.2     Named subpatterns now accept the syntax (?) and (?'name') as
  well as (?P). Previous versions
  accepted only (?P).
  Source : preg_match

Also when you are doing a preg_replace you use \[0-99] where \0 is the whole string and \1 through \99 are the matches.
But if you are going to be using named captures you can assign an array to the $replacement parameter with the name capture (e.g.  if you capture ?P<page> then you would pass an array('page'=>"new value of page")).
Hope that helps.


Admin Left menu > Jobs > Job Alert.
This is job alert listing page. It has all the job alerts that are subscribed.
This portion is filter for job alert listing, admin can filter job alerts on the basis of name, email and category.
When admin uses filter then only job alerts that fulfill his provided criteria  will be shown in the listing.
Reset button will disable filter criteria and show all job alerts.
Name is name of the user who subscribed.
Contact email is the email address on which job alert email will be sent.
Job category is the category of which the job alerts will be sent.
Status of job alert (pending, approved, rejected).
Created is the subscription date of job alert.
Click on unsubscribe icon will unsubscribe job alert.
Click on name will take to form job alert with details of the job alert filled (edit case).


Upscale French menswear retailer Loding opens its first North American store today in Toronto's Yorkville area. It features men's shoes, shirts, ties, belts and other accessories, as well as shoe care. It replaces an art gallery in a 1,100 square foot space located at 133 Avenue Road (just south of Davenport Road) in an area surrounded by luxury residences.
The store is unique in how it prices its products: the company doesn't participate in promotions or sales/discounts, so prices in the store will be the same year-round. The company also practices the idea of 'one price by typer of article'. For example, in Canada all men's dress shoes cost $315 while all shirts are $95 and socks are $20. The full price list for the store is provided below.
According to Loding's website: "Our original concept is based on giving our customers the highest quality at the most competitive price." It was founded in 1998 in Paris and has grown to over 70 stores worldwide.


Barring stray violence in some parts, polling in Nagaland was smooth with about 60 to 70 per cent voters turning out to vote.
Activists of rival parties clashed at Changtongia town of Nagaland's Mokokchung district, home to chief Minister S C Jamir, leaving one person dead. Suspected militants also fired in the air to scare away voters in the same town.
An NSCN-IM activist was shot dead and two others were arrested by security forces and police in Agri colony area of Kohima town during a search operation in the morning, police soures said.
Unidentified persons damaged EVMs at a number of polling stations in Mokokchung, Wokha and Tuensang districts of the state. Repolling is likely in at least five polling stations.
Polling in rest of Nagaland was smooth and peaceful with an estimated turnout of 70 per cent of the over one million electorate.
Though there are seven national and three regional political parties in fray, the main battle for the 60-member Assembly is confined between ruling Congress and newly formed Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) with Nagaland People's Front (NPF) and BJP being two of its major constituents.
Ten polling station in Twensang district registered cent per cent turnout while urban areas reported an average of 50 per cent.
An NSCN-IM activist was shot dead and two others were arrested by security forces in agri colony area during a search operation at possible hideouts of militants in Kohima town in the morning, police soures said.
Technical problem in EVMs, being used for the first time in the state, also delayed start of election by an hour in certain polling stations, sources in different district administrations told PTI over phone.
Chief Minister SC Jamir cast his vote in his native place Mokokchung in the morning.
In sensitive Dimapur an Zunheboto districts, polling began peacefully with good turn out of voters.


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April / General / Ghana
Richard Ofori Biography (Wa All Stars)
Last Updated on September 8, 2018 by mybiohub
Richard Ofori (Wa All Stars)
Richard Ofori was born on 24th April 1993 in Accra, Ghana. He is a professional footballer from Ghana who plays for S.C. Covilhã as a Defender and Ghana National team as goal keeper.
Club career
Ofori started his career with youth team for Mighty Jets F.C., signing a one-year loan contract with Charleroi in 2011. Ofori played his first competitive game for Charleroi against Tubize on 29 Abril 2012 in the Belgian Pro League. Ofori penned a six months loan contract with Lierse on 21 January 2013. He played his first game in a 2-0 defeat to Zulte Waregem on 26 January 2013.
On 2 September 2013, Ofori was signed by Académica and was immediately sent on loan to Beira-Mar.
In 2017, he was called up to the Ghana national team by Head coach Avram Grant.
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The 20th Annual Julia's Run Road Race will be held April 14 at Yale University's Cross Campus.
The 20th Annual Julia's Run Road Race to honor a Yale senior who died in 1999, and to benefit LEAP, will be held April 14 at Yale University's Cross Campus.
"Julia's Run is a New Haven tradition that celebrates the memory of Julia Rusinek, a rising senior at Yale University at the time of her death in July 1999. The event combines Julia's passion for running with her commitment to making a difference in the lives of children," according to a release.
Proceeds benefit LEAP, a leadership development organization for New Haven children and youth.
The 0.7-mile Fun Run for children younger than age 12 starts at 9:30 a.m. and the main 4-mile race starts at 10 a.m. Runners of all skill levels are welcome, and sponsorship of runners is encouraged, the release said. The races begin at beginning at College and Wall streets.
Registration is $22 for adults, $17 for students, and $9 for children in the Fun Run. Registration information and events details can be found at www.juliarun.org, or people can register the day of the race from 8 to 9:45 a.m. at Woolsey Hall, Cross-Campus (day of registration prices vary).
"The Julia Rusinek Memorial Fund celebrates the life of Julia Rusinek and to honor the ideals for which she lived. Julia was a gifted writer, an athlete, and, above all, a selfless humanitarian. She devoted herself to improving the lives of those in need. As a college student at Yale University, she dedicated her summers and her free time to working with or on behalf of underprivileged children," according to the juliarun.org site.


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Грязнушка — река в России, протекает по Переволоцкому району Оренбургской области. Устье реки находится в 577 км по правому берегу реки Самары. Длина реки составляет 13 км. Площадь водосборного бассейна — 60,7 км².

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России, река относится к Нижневолжскому бассейновому округу. Водохозяйственный участок реки — Самара от истока до Сорочинского гидроузла. Речной бассейн Грязнушки — Волга от верховий Куйбышевского водохранилища до впадения в Каспий.

Код объекта в государственном водном реестре — 11010000912112100006178.

Примечания

Реки Переволоцкого района


From the minimi inn, just have to walk across the road a little, there's actually a bus which will head to the Gao Hsiung's HSR but will take nearly 3hrs?
So, a driver approached us if we wanna catch his ride which will take only about 1n half hr?
If i'm not wrong, it costs about NT300 per pax or lesser?
So this time round, we DIE DIE must EAT the BENTO LUNCH in their HSR!
Regardless of the soupy and snack... we managed to finished up the 2 bento lunch!
Cos its yummy yummy yummy!!!
We have also engaged a driver for 2 1/2 days for taichung trip.
1 day tour is NT3000.
The last half day, he'll drive us up to taipei and cost only NT2000.
So in all, the 2 1/2 days cost NT8000, which is about SGD 350, per pax about sgd 87.5, for all travelling all for the travelling neh..
The security guard there was pretty friendly and insist on helping us to take a grp pic while our driver went to park his vehicle.
But seriously.... its so so so freaking hot like MAD!!!
Who is this Lao Ye ye~!
And so, in my blog... i'll feedback on the various places that i've been to, so that probably when u are planning your itinerary, you might wanna skip it or add them into it.
They have a monster logo on it.... Soooo Cuteee~!!!
Let's send our letter to the Monster world.
pretty cool.... taste so so.... just like some glutinous rice... not very tasty though..
Can forget about buying this... hah..
Face painting... isnt it cool???
Overall for Monster village, i'll rate a 7.5/10.
You can do some souveneirs shopping for your friends. You can take some cute pics over there.
There's some cafes and restaurent too.
They actually have a famous bread shop there, but the queue was pretty long, so we have decided not to buy any then.
My hubby's Beef noodle soup..
After dinner, we went to nearby supermarket to get some snack and drinks incase we might be hungry at night!!!
So we were teasing him... becos of me... you get to know this place!!!
- breakfast included... but it was in the fridge!!! its cold bread with some jams and butter... there's little toaster there for you to use too.
So, the next day, i'm all prepared already, so I decided to go out for a short walk and take some pics.... while waiting for all the slow pokeyss..
FRESH AIR... is all i need for now!!!
ok, they are finally all ready to move off to our next destination!
CingJing farm to see MEH MEH MEH MEH~!!!!
It's NT200 during holidays and weekends, NT160 for weekdays.
If you are a student, bring your student cards!!! It cost only NT120.
Actually you could buy from your hotel place too, they'll sell at a cheaper rate, maybe NT180?
Make your cingjing stay during fri or sat.
Some locals have some kinda of mini books, and they stamped in the books as a record that they have visited these places... pretty cool! Nice.
I wanna go New zealand next!!!!
oki... hungry hungry liao.... let's grab some FOOOODDDD~!!!
Next stop: 18Degree chocolate room..
nothing much... just go buy royce chocolate can liao..
First stop to eat Tea leaf eggs... which cost only 10NT, about sgd40cent?
Taking the ferry, you wont be able to tell the lake looks like a SUN or a MOON?
Basically, sun moon lake is just a place to eat.... and take pic with tt STONE "sunmoonlake"
So of cos must take this since we are here la!
2 big bites and its gone!
Did not realised until my hubby mentioned it.
See how dirty minded he is!
Not what i have expected.
You'll have to pay entrance fee of NT200 per pax, and you'll receive NT100 voucher to be spent in there..
to spend our NT100 here..
do you like present? kisses? of flowers?
Look who's hiding there again~~!!!
Not long after, it rained HEAVILY again~~!!!!
So our hotel night stay in Taichung should be as shown below.
However, becos the booking couldnt be made for 4 ppl, so i actually made 2 bookings under my name.
One right after another. And so, the boss thought it was a duplicate and did not email me to check. And that night they only left with one room.
So in the end, the boss quickly went to his other outlet to check if there's room available..
Which is supposed to be slightly more ex... i guessed cos its more convenient?
Someone busy washing and drying his clothes~!!!
dont disturb me pls.... i'm enjoying my food.
or maybe i look more like the dwarf.... lol..
I'm a oyster lover too.
And i really didnt spent more on shopping in my taiwan trip..
Check out Taiwan Trip Part 3!


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Bitwa pod Omdurmanem – starcie zbrojne, które miało miejsce 2 września 1898 roku pomiędzy brytyjskimi i egipskimi wojskami dowodzonymi przez generała Sir Horatia Herberta Kitchenera a powstańcami sudańskimi dowodzonymi przez kalifa Abdullaha ibn Muhammada, następcę Mahdiego.

Liczące 26 tys. żołnierzy wojska brytyjsko-egipskie dowodzone przez Lorda Kitchenera posuwały się wzdłuż Nilu w kierunku Chartumu. Marsz doskonale uzbrojonej i wyposażonej armii ubezpieczały posuwające się równolegle rzeką kanonierki, a aprowizację zapewniała równolegle budowana od Wadi Halfa na potrzeby tej kampanii linia kolejowa.

Przed bitwą
Kilka kilometrów na północ od Omdurmanu, leżącego na lewym brzegu Nilu naprzeciw Chartumu, drogę zastąpiły im siły sudańskich mahdystów, liczące około 60 tysięcy ludzi. "Sprawiało to wrażenie, że całe zbocze wzgórza maszeruje w naszą stronę. Na tyłach tej hordy galopowali nieustannie jeźdźcy; przed nią rozsypywały się po pustyni patrole; nad nią powiewały setki chorągwi, a tysiące mieniących się w słońcu grotów nieprzyjacielskich włóczni wyglądały jak iskrząca się chmura".

Kitchener otoczył swój obóz zeribą (osłona ze ściętych kolczastych krzaków), ale pozostawił poza nią kawalerię. Tył obozu przylegał do Nilu, zacumowały tam silnie uzbrojone brytyjskie kanonierki, statki zaopatrzeniowe, transportowe i szpitalne. Brytyjczycy, choć mniej liczni, mieli olbrzymią przewagę ogniową (zwłaszcza dzięki artylerii i właśnie wprowadzanym na uzbrojenie karabinom maszynowym Maxima) z czego mahdyści nie zdawali sobie sprawy, byli też bez porównania lepiej wyszkoleni i karniejsi od Sudańczyków.

Decydujące starcie
Dzień przed właściwym starciem (1 września) Sudańczycy odepchnęli znajdującą się przed zeribą kawalerię brytyjską na północ. O godzinie 6:45 następnego dnia rozpoczęli frontalny atak na pozycje brytyjskiej piechoty. Brytyjczycy odpowiedzieli krzyżowym ogniem karabinów maszynowych i artylerii strzelającej przede wszystkim szrapnelami. Ani jeden Sudańczyk nie zdołał dotrzeć do zeriby – brytyjska zapora ogniowa była niemożliwa do przejścia. Śmierć poniosło ponad 5 tysięcy Sudańczyków. Jak napisał brytyjski korespondent wojenny, "Żadne białe wojsko nawet przez pięć minut nie wytrzymałoby takiej nawałnicy śmierci. To była egzekucja, a nie bitwa".

Następnie wojska brytyjskie wyszły zza zeriby i zaatakowały mahdystów. Zaciekłe kontrataki Sudańczyków spełzały na niczym. Teraz Kitchener postanowił przypieczętować zwycięstwo przy pomocy widowiskowej szarży 21 Regimentu Lansjerów. Brał w niej udział późniejszy premier Winston Churchill. Jednak kawalerzyści nieoczekiwanie natknęli się na przeważające siły sudańskie. Starcie było krótkie, lecz krwawe. Kawalerzyści przebili się przez masy mahdystów, ale ponieśli znaczne straty: 71 zabitych i rannych, podczas gdy mahdyści stracili prawdopodobnie około 60 zabitych i stu rannych.

O godzinie 9:50 rozpoczęła się druga faza bitwy. Kalif postanowił obejść pozycje brytyjskie i zaatakować Egipcjan, ale w ogniu egipskich karabinów i maximów atak załamał się. Zginęło blisko 3500 mahdystów, a reszta atakującej formacji uległa rozproszeniu. Załamał się także trzeci i ostatni atak przeprowadzony około godziny 11. Armia sudańska została rozbita, a Kitchener wkroczył do niebronionego Chartumu.

Umm Duwajkirat
Pościg za uchodzącym kalifem i innymi dostojnikami mahdystów trwał ponad rok i zakończył się 24 listopada 1899 roku starciem w okolicach miasta Kaka w Kordofanie (wioska Umm Duwajkirat). 8-tysięczny korpus brytyjski pod dowództwem gen. Wingate'a starł się z resztkami mahdystów (około 10 tysięcy) rozbijając ich doszczętnie. Kalif Abdullah poległ. Ten epizod położył kres rewolcie mahdystów.

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