Anonymous, "On An Essay on Pope's Odyssey" Weekly Miscellany (7 April 1733).
Shine forth alike in Addison and Thee.
To snarl in Want; and grumble o'er their Prey.
Vext to be charm'd; and pleas'd against their Will.
But every Poison of the Field devours.
The Critick kindles, when the Bard's on fire.
And plays and tickles, while it cures the Wound.
Discern'd the Spots and Splendors of the Sun.
Be still yourself; The World can ask no more.


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Kazakh president instructed the government to "decide" on the statistics of the coronavirus
Nazerke Syundyukova 17 July, 2020 hours 18:03
The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on the evening of July 16 on Twitter that the government had been tasked to determine the statistics of the coronavirus pandemic against the background of an increase in the number of hospitalizations with pneumonia and deaths from it.
"In addition to the coronavirus, pneumonia causes great damage to the health and lives of citizens", - Tokayev said. He added: "All data on the situation with the pandemic, no matter how sad they may be, should be said publicly".
According to official data, 66.8 thousand cases of COVID-19 infection have been registered in Kazakhstan, more than 40 thousand patients are considered recovered. According to the data cited by the head of the Ministry of Health Aleksey Tsoi on July 14, the number of deaths reached 396. The website that publishes statistics on the course of the coronavirus epidemic in Kazakhstan has not updated information on mortality since the beginning of the week and shows a figure of 375 deaths.
The country is also experiencing an outbreak of pneumonia and an increase in deaths from it. The number of cases is estimated at tens of thousands, deaths in hundreds. In the official statistics of COVID-19, despite the arguments of doctors that this epidemic is also a consequence of the coronavirus, these data are not included.
Vice Minister of Health Ludmila Burabekova said earlier this week that the Ministry of Health is "working on the data'". "We made a request, we will receive a response from the World Health Organization and through negotiations we will come to the data that must be taken into account", - said Burabekova.
"Each country has its own path in statistics and accounting, we want to bring it into uniformity and move with all countries", the local media quoted of the Vice Minister of Health of Kazakhstan as saying.
The number of hospitalizations and deaths from pneumonia, in which a test for COVID-19 is negative, has risen sharply since the beginning of summer. According to the Ministry of Health, 628 people died of pneumonia in Kazakhstan in June, almost a third of the 1,772 who died from this disease in the first six months. At a government meeting on July 10, Health Minister Alexey Tsoi said that 39,702 cases of pneumonia were registered in the country from July 1 to July 8, which has a similar course to coronavirus infection.
The World Health Organization believes that pneumonia of unclear etiology in Kazakhstan is most likely a form of coronavirus infection that was misdiagnosed.
Kazakhstanis express doubts about the reliability of official statistics and information on coronavirus infection.
COVID-19: More than a thousand Kazakhs infected in one day, but the statistics are incomplete
SCIENTISTS OF THE KAZNU ARE INVESTIGATING THE PROBLEM OF SURVIVAL OF MICROORGANISMS IN EXTREME CONDITIONS
Faculty of Journalism of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University held an annual scientific and practical conference «Bekhozhinov readings»
Kazakhstan signed an agreement with Russia on the allocation of vaccine against coronavirus
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The President approved the Latin alphabet without apostrophe
The next SCO summit to hold in Kyrgyzstan
Russia warned the US and Central Asian countries
Almazbek Atambaev described the situation between the Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan border as a 'blockade'
The Union of Scientists wrote an open letter to Nazarbayev conserning the Latin alphabet
The Foreign Ministries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan talked about the Supreme Council member detained in Almaty
Tokayev sent a message to Trump
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Mindy, I love the poem thanks for sharing and I especially love the photo of you and Jennifer together.
You are such a shining star. I am so grateful that our paths crossed in Oregon and that our friendship has continued to grow and bloom. I love watching you spread your wings and fly. You are such inspiration to me and what you create with your hands comes directly from your heart. I am so proud of you. What a gift it is to have you in my life.
i love seeing your friendship in action. xoxo.
p.s. my word verification is "welite".


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Q: react-multi-carousel displays with gap on the right side Here is how it displays:

I added the Carousel with next parameters:
      <Carousel
        additionalTransfrom={0}
        autoPlaySpeed={3000}
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        className=""
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        draggable
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        infinite
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        keyBoardControl
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        partialVisible
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            items: 3,
            partialVisibilityGutter: 40,
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            items: 1,
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SliderItemWrapper is the simple div.
I guess the problem might be in the totalItems property inside carouselState, because it calculates children items count randomly.
I have tried different configurations, but faced the same issues with all of them.

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Petitioner seeks death benefits from Respondent, contending that her husband died from asbestos-related disease and that his last injurious exposure to Libby asbestos occurred in the course of his 9-year employment at Respondent's lumbermill, which was located approximately 2 miles outside of Libby.
Does the insurance company have to pay for a surgery that was not billed within 60 months due to a clerical error?
Did the DLI have jurisdiction to order Petitioner to attend the § 39-71-605, MCA, examination?
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Portlandia gives an over-the-top portrayal of Portland residents.
Ever since comedians Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein created a show that parodied the lives of Portlanders, viewers and PDX residents alike have cringed and delighted in the show's portrayal of Portland life. Portlandia has garnered quite a following through its hilarious sketches that feature the incredibly hip, alternative and quirky Pacific Northwestern city, and the antics that ensue in Armisen and Brownstein's character portrayals beg the question: Is Portland really like that?
Some locals can find humor in the show's over the top portrayal of PDX residents. Feminist bookshop owner Amber Rowland told the New York Times, "I'm part of what it's making fun of as well. There's a kernel of truth in it, and it's O.K. to roll with it," she said, explaining that for some, it's best to embrace Portlandia's hilarious scenes rather than to criticize the creators' intent. However, other Portlanders aren't so sure.
Artist Kirk Crippens recently decided to challenge Portlandia's portrayal of the city and its locals, by embarking on a portrait project. To this end, he captured intimate photographs of "real" Portland residents in order to prove that the city is more than a "crunchy" indie paradise, according to the Huffington Post. Ironically, with many of the photographs featuring images of tattoo-clad, costume wearing, bearded, and pierced folks, Crippens' project also serves to prove that some of Portlandia may be a spot-on portrayal of Portland's residents.
The photographer's project is entitled "Portraitlandia," an obvious play off of Armisen and Brownstein's hilarious, somewhat accurate version of Portland, Oregon. It features beautiful photographs of a diverse and alternative-looking collection of people, of which there is a clown, a nun, a roller-derby player, an elephant, and even the mayor of Portland, Sam Adams–among many others. Take a look at Crippens' "Portraitlandia" gallery to decide for yourself whether or not the portraits of Portland's quirky residents fall in line with Portlandia's version of the city.
Many thanks to photographer Kirk Crippens for granting permission to use "Harajuke Girl" in this article.


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Amanda Kessel returns to the NWHL, re-signs with the Riveters
Kessel is the first member of Team USA's gold medal winning team to sign an NWHL contract this offseason.
By Mike Murphy@DigDeepBSB Jun 4, 2018, 9:34am EDT
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Team USA forward Amanda Kessel keeps the puck in the zone during the gold medal game of Worlds 2017.
On Feb. 22, 2018 Amanda Kessel, widely considered one of the best players in the world, scored a clutch goal in the shootout of the gold medal game at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Now, five months after having a gold medal placed around her neck, Kessel is ready to step back onto NWHL ice. She has re-signed with the Metropolitan Riveters, the team she played for in the 2016-17 season.
"Really, this developed within the last week," Kessel told The Ice Garden. "I've been thinking a lot about where I want to be, and because I went to school in Minnesota I thought about [the Whitecaps] too, but New York just has this pull on me. I wanted to come back here."
In her first NWHL season Kessel thrilled Riveters fans with 18 points in just eight games. She missed much of that season due to injury, but the Olympian returned in time to be one of the NWHL's two captains for the 2017 All-Star Weekend in Pittsburgh. Her return is huge news for the Riveters and the NWHL itself. At the close of the NWHL's second season, Kessel led all the league's athletes in jersey and shirsey sales. She's a bonafide superstar.
Kessel will be joining a Riveters team that won the 2018 Isobel Cup, which means that she has a chance to help the Riveters become the first NWHL franchise to win the Isobel Cup twice. But her decision to re-sign with the Riveters had more to do with people than it did hardware.
"I think that would be awesome," Kessel shared. "For me that wasn't a deciding factor, but knowing how many great players are on the team, and how many good people are on the team is something that helped make my decision an easy one."
Two years ago Kessel formed lasting friendships with core players on the Riveters, including a few alumnae of the University of Wisconsin -- the eternal rival of her alma mater, the University of Minnesota. "Some people that were rivals are now best friends," Kessel explained. "Having the opportunity to play with them is something that I thought about as well."
As one might expect, the former Golden Gophers star is also excited about a road trip to Minnesota, the state where she played both her high school and college hockey. Kessel is also excited to experience the benefits of the strategic alliance -- which is often called a partnership -- between the New Jersey Devils and the Metropolitan Riveters. She also believes that collaboration between the NHL and NWHL is something that we need to see more of.
"I think ultimately that will be the deciding factor for the future success of the league," Kessel told The Ice Garden. "You need help and need somewhere to start. The platform that [the NHL] has is obviously huge, and it can only help us. It's awesome to see where it's going.
"The Devils partnership, which happened while I was away from the team last year, is great for us and I was super happy to see that," Kessel continued. "Sometimes you just need help starting. They have the opportunity to really help the women's side of the game, which I ultimately think helps the entire game of hockey grow."
Kessel is the first member of Team USA's PyeongChang gold medal roster to sign an NWHL contract this summer. She told The Ice Garden that she definitely expects a "handful" of her fellow gold medalists to return to the league. If that proves to be true, then the NWHL is certainly on track to have its biggest and best season yet.


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It's not been the most straightforward of weekends, but what a fantastic result for the team, everyone's worked so hard for this. Coming here we didn't know exactly where we would stand with Ferrari, as they'd been so quick in Bahrain. Valtteri has been quick all weekend and did a great job today. To have a 1-2 together is really special for the 1,000th Grand Prix. The start was where I made the difference and after that it's history. The strategy has really been on point over these first three races so we need to keep that up. Team LH China have been incredible all weekend, a big thank you to them. They welcomed me from the moment I arrived at the airport, at the hotel every morning and night every single day, and then at the track too. A big thank you to everyone who's supported me. You can still see it's very close between us all. I really have no idea how the next races will turn out but I'm super excited for them.
For us as a team it's really been a perfect start to the season; we could not have imagined to get three 1-2s in a row, so a big thank you to everyone for their hard work. We managed to maximise on every single opportunity which is great to see. For me personally today has been a bit disappointing as I was on pole, but then lost the race at the start. There's a white line just outside the starting box and I had some wheelspin when I went over it and lost the position to Lewis. It's all about details in this sport, so unfortunately that detail decided the rest of the race. On the positive side, we did have a strong race pace here in Shanghai, much better than in Bahrain. I think that we're in a good position, but we need to keep pushing. This track is very unique in its layout and Baku will hold very different challenges so it's going to be interesting again in two weeks.
To win the 1,000th race in such a controlled way is amazing. It's a very special win and you can tell that everyone in the team is very happy with the outcome. Based on our long run simulations we didn't think it would be so straightforward and our advantage to Ferrari came as a bit of a surprise. They still look very quick on the straights; I'm not sure it's just the power, our car is maybe a bit draggier than theirs, but we have to keep working on our straight-line performance. Stacking the cars for a double pit stop was a risky moment because you have everything to lose when you're leading the race. But we thought we would lose positions if we had stopped one of the earlier. Our plan worked out perfectly; it was a well-choreographed pit stop and the team did a brilliant job. Lewis had the clutch paddle under control today and had a strong start and controlled the race from then on. Valtteri for sure won't be happy as he had pole and the speed to win today, but the start was the deciding factor. Baku is a different ball-game, there's a very long straight and we need to get the power and drag level there right. I think we'll be up for the fight and I'm looking forward to it.
Andrew Shovlin
Obviously a great result, it was luck and solid reliability that got us the 1-2 finish in Bahrain so our goal was to come here and win the race by being fastest. Both drivers did a great job. Valtteri was unlucky to lose the lead into the first corner having put together such a strong weekend. Lewis drove a commanding race from the front, managing the car and tyres well. We knew that the race would be tight between a two and a one stop and were hoping to be able to build a gap to the others so that we could shadow their strategy rather than get forced onto a defensive race plan. It's been very satisfying to see how well the team and the car have worked here. Everyone in Brackley and Brixworth is working very hard to help us optimise for each track and to bring developments to the car, so it's fantastic that all that hard work has been rewarded with such a strong start to the season.
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The worship of the Roman goddess of chastity, the hearth and home was done by the six Vestal Virgins in the Roman forum. They guarded the sacred flame of Vesta which they were entitled to keep alive all day and night as its well-being were regarded as fundamental to the continuance and security of Rome. The women chosen for this job were selected as young girls and swore to be chaste and were granted special rights and privileges unavailable to any other women in Europe.
According to Roman authors, this cult was founded by Numa Pompilius, a semi-mythical Roman king who ruled around 715 to 673 B.C. He started this tradition and this worship continued on until 394CE when a Christian emperor made a decree against pagan rituals and the flame of Vestae went out.
Becoming a Vestal Virgin was mostly to do with luck. The process by which young girls were selected to become priestesses, Captio, means capture in Latin. Showing that the young girls had no choice to become a Vestal Virgin if they were chosen to be one. The following selection process was quite simple. Girls aged between 6 to 10, with patrician parents and without any mental or physical defects were chosen by the Pontifex Maximus, Rome's supreme religious authority. Then the shortlisted girls were chosen by the public.
Then the chosen girls were taken in training for the first decade of their service where they learned simple chores such as collecting water to cleanse the temple of Vesta. The next decade was dedicated to serving the goddess and keeping the flame alive. These ten years were indisputably the most important section of the priestesses' worship. The final decade of the Vestal virgin was spent on teaching the younger girls and mentoring them on how to become a faithful and pure Vestal Virgin.
Out of the numerous Vestal Virgins in Rome's history, Tarpeia was one of the most famous ones, known for her betrayal of the city of Rome. Daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, Tarpeia was a mythological Vestal of Rome who opened the city gates to allow the Sabines to attack Rome in exchange for their gold.
Even though this story has little historical evidence, many believe Tarpeia's story was told to young Vestal Virgins as an example of how not behave.
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Named after the current owners, the Wilsons. The Wilson Suite is located on the backside of "The Ledgestone Mansion" with a view of the courtyard. This room has a queen size bed, a sitting area, writing desk, and a large flat screen Smart TV.


India has 35 World Heritage Sites, the sixth highest in the world, behind only Italy, China, Spain, France and Germany ! The latest inclusion of Nalanda – the first residential international university in the world prompted me to research and write about the Buddhist circuit around this ancient Indian University town. This one is dedicated to Nalanda, so stay tuned for more in this series.
Being from the state – it definitely makes it to the top of my must visit places and it makes me proud to be part of it , even in an infinitesimal way.
The ancient Nalanda University, established during the Gupta dynasty, was a large Buddhist monastery that also doubled up as a centre of learning from the 5th to 12th century. It was the first residential international university in the world with 1500 teachers and 10,000 students living on campus. During its time, the university attracted scholars and students from as far away as Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, and Persia and was known to have very strict admission norms, with typically 3 out of 10 applicants being selected. This ancient university offered courses in Medicine, Astronomy, Philosophy, Mathematics etc.
Excavations, since 1915, have revealed eleven monasteries and six major brick temples in an ordered layout. Meticulously planned, the red brick buildings are divided by a central walk way.
The monasteries that housed the resident students are east of this central path and the temple to the west. The university consisted of 8 monastic buildings and over 300 apartments (viharas) – serving as single or shared rooms for students.
Each monastic building had its own temple, community kitchen and dining area, as indicated by this well.
There is proof of personal locker system, effective drainage system and granary.
A walk through the ruins show evidence of impressive lecture halls. The 3 layers of visible construction indicate distinct period of patrons like Ashok, Harshavardhan and Pala kings, who built temples and monasteries here.
2) Sariputra stupa (Temple number 3) – Nalanda was a prosperous temple city in the time of Buddha, which he visited more than once. Apparently, this was a mango grove prior to the construction, where Buddha stayed and gave sermons during his visit.
This is the most ornate temple built by Ashoka for one of the 2 chief disciple of Buddha, Sariputra. It is decorated with beautiful stucco terracotta images of Buddha. Surrounded by smaller stupas, a stairway leading to the top, it provides a birds eye view of the grand university of yore.
Located opposite the entrance to the ruins of the university , it has a collection of beautiful Buddhist and Hindu sculptures, coins, seals, and inscriptions that have been discovered in the ruins. One can see a number of undamaged statues of the Lord Buddha and 2 enormous terracotta jars from the first century on display, along with samples of burnt rice found among the ruins here.
Nalanda University turned to ruins when it was ransacked by Bakhtiyar Khilji, a Turk in 1193 AD. It was reported that thousands of monks were burned alive and many beheaded as part of Khilji's effort to uproot Buddhism.
What I walk away with, is a sense of pride for what Nalanda was able to achieve so so many years back.
This is a new construction, about 4.5 kms from Nalanda university ruins, built in memory of the great Chinese traveler, Hiuen Tsang, who has helped us understand the excellent education system, ambiance and structure of this unique university in great detail by his writing. Hiuen Tsang stayed here in the 7th century AD.
Wow! I have been on the lookout for a Buddhist tourism circuit for a while now. Thanks for the amazing description and pics. I would love to take a guided tour of the Nalanda museum!


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Q: WCF - Why no WSDL I have hosted a couple of services in IIS with the following web.config. I can browse to the service but I get the message "Metadata publishing for this service is currently disabled."
Can anyone spot my mistake (I can't!)?
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        <endpoint address="http://localhost/WCFTwoEndpoints/Calculate.svc"
          binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="" name="Calculator"
          contract="WCFTwoEndpoints.ICalculate" />
        <endpoint binding="mexHttpBinding" name="mex" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
      </service>
      <service name="ThrottledCalculator" behaviorConfiguration ="Throttled">
        <endpoint address="http://localhost/WCFTwoEndpoints/ThrottledCalculate.svc"
          binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="" name="ThrottledCalculator"
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A: You have not fully qualified your service name with namespace. However this should manifest as an error when you try to run the service host.


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CBS wants a new part-time casual workforce
3 janvier 2015 10 h 17
Bargaining Team, Division/Sector Executive
Letter from OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas to all CBS workers.
Dear CBS worker
The CBS is pretty clear it plans to lay off 111 full-time workers, most of whom are health professionals, and replace them with a new part-time casual, just in time worker.
Casual is a term we use to describe the nature of the conditions of work. This type of worker is usually paid less than the regular staff and no guarantee of hours or regular scheduled hours. The worker is usually expected to be on-call at all times.
It is our understanding new hires will require no set educational standard and the CBS plans to do their own training. If the CBS's past record in training is any indication of things to come, we should be concerned.
In the past two years, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) reported CBS allotted zero funds to education of staff.
An independent 2013 audit by Ernst and Young found CBS had not developed a comprehensive funding plan to facilitate support, training, information training and communications to staff as the CBS claims in its annual report.
If this is all about expediency and cost effectiveness then Mike McCarthy, a tainted blood survivor has this to say: " Once you start watering it down to look at the lowest common denominator, whoever can put the needle into somebody or a donor questionnaire in a computer is certainly in my mind taking the safety is paramount down to safety is in the way of expediency and cost effectiveness."
McCarthy continues to say, "I don't think you can have both. You are getting cost effectiveness by having the health professional there; you are providing a sentinel at the front door of integrity that screens the donor as they come in the door."
You as a CBS worker have taken a brave step to say "no" to a contract that would ultimately compromise the safety and security of Canada's blood system.
On behalf of OPSEU's 130,000 members, I thank you, and know we will be standing with you.
Warren (Smokey) Thomas,
OPSEU President


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Berlin police say that a local restaurant owner has been using radioactive Iodine-125 to mark playing cards. Radioactive card fragments were detected during routine inspection of a garbage truck at a waste treatment plant, then traced back to their point of origin.
After detector dogs triggered on mail being sent to Manawatu Prison in New Zealand, guards opened the package to find Chess pieces stuffed with cannabis.
A court in Italy has suspended three Chess players, one Grandmaster and two International Masters, for offering to throw games at the Montebelluna Chess Festival for 200€ a game. One of the suspended players, who also helped organize the tournament, had even bragged on Facebook about how easy it would be to buy a game.
In Jiangsu province, China, a Mahjong player was stabbed by his opponent after being caught using rigged tiles to cheat. The Mahjong tiles were fitted with electronic chips that sent a signal to an accomplice, who then relayed the information via small earpieces worn by the player.
Allan Simmons, a prominent British Scrabble player—former U.K. national champion and author of Scrabble books—has been banned from the game for 3 years. An investigation by the World English Language Scrabble Players Association found multiple instances of cheating confirmed by witnesses. He is said to have been looking at tiles as he drew them and returning unwanted tiles back to the bag. [In tournament settings, players are supposed to show empty hands to their opponents before reaching in to the bag, and to draw new tiles while holding the bag above eye level.]
Another Scrabble cheat was caught in Thailand. Pichai Limprasert was banned until June 2018 by the country's national association. Pichai, long a decent player, experienced rapid improvement in the first half of last year, rising suddenly to rank as Thailand's number one player. But at the Brands Kings Cup in Bangkok (July 2016), he was spotted sneaking an extra tile from the bag. Allowed to finish that tournament, he was afterward suspended for 3 months and given a warning. Then in February of this year, he entered and won a university level tournament, despite not being registered anywhere as a student. Thus the new suspension.
Police in Las Vegas arrested a man from Georgia (the country) and have charged him with 18 counts of cheating by sliding dice (instead of rolling them). The same person was previously caught using rigged dice at a Backgammon tournament in Normandy, France in 2008.
Four players were disqualified during recent high-level Magic: The Gathering tournaments: one for drawing too many cards, one for lying to a judge, one for having too many energy counters on a card, and one for looking at cards in his deck when he shouldn't have.
A potential world-record solving of the Rubik's Cube was invalidated by the World Cube Association because the cube used was not approved.
In Denver, an argument over a Chess game turned violent when one of the players shot the other twice with a .22 caliber handgun.
In Pensacola, Florida, police arrested a man for allegedly using brass knuckles on someone to whom he had just lost a game of Dominoes.
Magic: The Gathering judges in the Philippines are boycotting a local game store because at a recent tournament, the shop's owner declared a player's game forfeit for showing up late. That ruling was consistent with the judges' policy but not within the sponsor's authority.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the game of Bridge should not be considered a sport. The question came up in a case brought by the English Bridge Union, which sought to have its tournament fees exempt from VAT. Notwithstanding agreement that Bridge is played competitively and "constitutes an activity beneficial to the mental and physical health of regular participants", the court determined that the ordinary meaning of the term "sport" refers to an activity "characterised by a not negligible physical element." Still, the court allowed that European member states have the discretion to exempt such non-sport activities from VAT under allowances for "cultural services".
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A popular cosplayer of Magic: The Gathering characters announced she was quitting everything Magic after suffering repeated harassment. Shortly thereafter, WOTC announced that it was investigating, would review its Code of Conduct, and will work with organizers to be more proactive in setting expectations for events.
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Dress codes for Chess tournaments became the hot topic after the World Chess Cup in Tbilisi, Georgia, where Canadian Grandmaster Anton Kovalyov withdrew mid-event because he felt bullied for wearing shorts. Zurab Azmaiparashvili, who was not only the chief organizer but also a member of the Appeals Committee, allegedly used a cultural slur in referring to Kovalyov's mode of dress. The Chess Federation of Canada sought to have the World Chess Federation's Ethics Commission address the incident but Kovalyov would not cooperate, so the Commission dropped the case.
Selecting Saudi Arabia as host for the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) drew quick condemnation and threatened boycotts based on the kingdom's human rights record. Following up on that initial announcement, though, FIDE clarified that women will not be required to wear a hijab or abaya, supposedly the first time for any sport competition in Saudi Arabia. The question remains whether players from Iran, Israel, and Qatar will be allowed to participate. A FIDE official told Reuters that the organization is undertaking huge efforts on behalf of Israeli players. Despite that, some of Israel's top players have said they will not attend anyway.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Chess Association has established a women's section, another first for sport in the country. The group is working to establish several women-only tournaments.
Dorsa Derakhshan, the teenage Chess player who was banned earlier this year by the Iranian Chess Federation for refusing to wear a hijab, will now be playing for the United States.
Nearly 2 years after being countersued by Hasbro and Reuben Klamer, Lorraine Markham is finally getting her first day in court to argue for rights to The Game of Life. She claims that her deceased husband invented the game. Hasbro and Klamer, however, insist that Bill Markham was only paid to mock up a prototype board. Though the lawsuits were filed in Rhode Island, this initial hearing will take place in California to accommodate several witnesses of advanced age.
Irish celebrity twins Jedward have settled with Limerick businessman Patrick Joseph Noonan a court case in which the latter claimed he was owed 625,000 € for failed merchandising deals, including one for a Jedward board game.
Upper Deck and Leaf are suing each other, in California and Texas courts respectively. Upper Deck claims that by producing sports cards with pieces of player jerseys, Leaf is violating the publicity rights of the players with whom Upper Deck has exclusive contracts. [What basis that gives Upper Deck to sue is unclear.] Leaf, in its suit filed a day later, claims that Upper Deck is engaging in illegal monopolistic behavior with regard to NHL hockey cards. Leaf alleges that Upper Deck pressured retailers not to carry competing Leaf products and insisted that distributors not tell retailers why they (the distributors) didn't carry Leaf cards (thus implying they were inferior).
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Some Transformers fans figured out that symbols engraved on a recently-released action figure translate in the Cybertronian alphabet as "MAGA". Alerted to this fact, Hasbro investigated and found that the divisive political statement was added by a vendor without authorization.
Voting for the Ward 5 Council seat in the city of Cripple Creek, Colorado resulted in a tie count. So, as required by law, the election was decided by lots, in this case, the high draw from a standard deck of playing cards. Melissa Trenary won with a 10 of diamonds. Her opponent pulled a 7 of clubs.
The treasurer of the Singapore Chess Federation, whose political conflicts have appeared in this column before, is suing 39 fellow members, claiming defamation in a letter they circulated seeking his ouster.
The Executive Board of FIDE, in a non-binding vote, has asked Kirsan Ilyumzhinov not to run for President again in 2018. After Ilyumzhinov was subject to sanctions by the U.S. government during his current term, the board earlier took away from him all authority of the position. Nevertheless, several national federations have already received from Russian embassies letters nominating Ilyumzhinov for a new term.
FIDE took more definitive action on the Bulgarian Chess Federation, temporarily kicking it out of the group for financial irregularities. While the national entity is excluded, individual players from Bulgaria will be able to play in international tournaments under the FIDE flag, as long as they're able to pay their own way.
In order to put on a charitable Cribbage tournament in Maine, organizers had to get state law changed. Before passage of the new law this past summer, Cribbage was considered a game of chance and would have required expensive licensing from each of the 12 participating municipalities.
Some Irish Chess players are picketing the Limerick Chess League for blackballing another player, Gabriel Mirza. They also accuse the league of discrimination. Mirza is originally from Romania. The protesters allege that mistreatment of Mirza ties back to an incident in 2013, when he accosted a teenager in the restroom at a tournament for cheating with a smartphone.
A Muslim preacher in Malaysia said in a video distributed on YouTube that it is forbidden to play Checkers, Chess, Snakes and Ladders, Saidina (a Monopoly knock-off), or video games because they lead to gambling.
A man in Denton, Texas reported a break-in. Stolen from his home were a laptop and $8,000 of Magic: The Gathering cards.
A 23 year old man was arrested for attempting to shoplift just over $100 (retail) of Magic: The Gathering cards from a Target in College Station, Texas.
When a stolen truck was recovered by its owner in the Columbus, Ohio area, they discovered inside hundreds of Magic: The Gathering cards belonging to the thief.
Open less than a year, Alchemy, a board game cafe in Derby, England, closed permanently after being vandalized.
Board in the City, a game cafe in Southampton was broken in to overnight. Games were stolen and a table damaged.
A real-estate agent mistook a Magic: The Gathering Facebook group, the New England Real Estate Coalition (focused on land decks), for one focused on non-game properties. Mockery ensued.
In the Northern Mariana Islands, a man with a machete and supposedly drunk attacked a group of men playing Mahjong.
A man who tried to break up a fight over a dice game in Washington Square Park in New York City was stabbed in the leg by one of those arguing.
The owner of Snap Keep Games in McHenry, Illinois was indicted for paying a 15 year old customer to perform a sex act.
In Henan Province, China, a 2 year old girl drowned when she was left outside a Mahjong parlor by her grandmother. Alone, she got to playing in a three-wheeled vehicle belonging to another Mahjong patron. With the key left inside, the girl accidentally engaged the vehicle, sending it in to a nearby pond.
Shelby County (Tennessee) officials are investigating the claims of a rap artist who says that his online video of gambling on a dice game was recorded in a local high school.
Police in Singapore raided an eighth floor apartment where illegal gambling on cards and Mahjong was taking place. They arrested 15 people.
When police in Cambodia raided a village dice game, the seven people they arrested included a military official.
Prosecutors in Taipei arrested four police officers for taking bribes from illegal Mahjong parlors.
Four men in Oakland, California were injured in a drive-by shooting that targeted their street dice game. Police know of no motive to explain the incident.
Police chasing a man from an illegal dice game in Baltimore found 11 guns in his car and one on his person.
Police in Longview, Texas arrested a man for allegedly robbing a woman of $600 at gunpoint to make up for losses he had experienced shortly before at an area dice game.
A 17 year old is under arrest in Indianapolis for shooting and killing a man who walked away from their dice game before loosing all his money. One piece of evidence against the teenager is the data from a GPS anklet he was wearing because of another case.
Police in Decatur, Illinois found a man on the street beaten and shot, and evidence nearby of a hastily abandoned dice game.
A staff member at a Nebraska youth rehabilitation center was assaulted with a sock filled with dominoes.
Police interrupted a Jonesboro, Arkansas Dominoes game to conduct a parole search. They found on the subject of their search several bags of marijuana.
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Хо́лстовский сельсовет () — сельсовет, административно-территориальная единица Быховского района Могилёвской области Белоруссии.

История
В 1917 году в Быховском уезде был образован Мокровский (Мокрянский) сельский Совет с центром в д. Мокрое. 4 июня 1965 года центр перенесён в д. Холстово с переименованием сельсовета.

Названия:
 с 1917 — Мокровский (Мокрянский) сельский Совет крестьянских депутатов
 с 14.1.1918 — Мокровский (Мокрянский) сельский Совет рабочих, солдатских и крестьянских депутатов
 с 23.2.1918 — Мокровский (Мокрянский) сельский Совет рабочих, крестьянских и красноармейских депутатов
 с 5.12.1936 — Мокровский сельский Совет депутатов трудящихся
 с 4.6.1965 — Холстовский сельский Совет депутатов трудящихся
 с 7.10.1977 — Холстовский сельский Совет народных депутатов
 с 15.3.1994 — Холстовский сельский Совет депутатов.
Административная подчинённость:
 с 1917 — в Быховском уезде
 с 20.8.1924 — в Быховском районе.

23 декабря 2009 года в состав сельсовета вошли населённые пункты упразднённого Городецкого сельсовета.

После упразднения в 2013 году Борколабовского сельсовета в состав Холстовского сельсовета вошли агрогородок Борколабово и девять деревень — Барсуки, Боровка, Дальнее Лядо, Залохвенье, Косичи, Липовка, Ректа, Сорочино, Ходутичи.

Состав
Включает 29 населённых пунктов:

 Барсуки — деревня.
 Борколабово — агрогородок.
 Боровка — деревня.
 Бросовинка — деревня.
 Городец — деревня.
 Дальнее Лядо — деревня.
 Залохвенье — деревня.
 Замошье — деревня.
 Косичи — деревня.
 Лапша — посёлок.
 Липовка — деревня.
 Лубянка — деревня.
 Людков — деревня.
 Мазки — деревня.
 Мокрое — агрогородок.
 Мокрянские Хутора — деревня.
 Пенюги — деревня.
 Подкленье — деревня.
 Резки — деревня.
 Ректа — деревня.
 Сапежинка — деревня.
 Седич — деревня.
 Селиба — деревня.
 Сорочино — деревня.
 Сущев — деревня.
 Трестивец — деревня.
 Ходутичи — деревня.
 Холстово — деревня.
 Хутор — деревня.

Упразднённые населённые пункты на территории сельсовета:
 Малиновка — деревня.
 Гута — деревня.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Быховский райисполком
 Населённые пункты Республики Беларусь

Сельсоветы Быховского района

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Dissertations Bootcamp, ETD Dashboard named finalists in annual peer-reviewed awards program
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 11, 2021 – Two products from EdTech leader ProQuest are finalists in the 2021 SIIA CODiE Awards – an annual program that showcases the best products, technologies and services in software, information and business technology.
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Psychotronic Review
Interesting Films for Interesting People
Psychotronics
Robot Monster
Everybody Loves Robot Monster
In 1953, Phil Tucker made his Hollywood directorial debut with the film Robot Monster. I don't think there is a person alive with even the slightest interest in film who doesn't know this film. They may not have seen it, but they know it: it's the one where the monster is a guy in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on. That alone demands at least a half dozen of the hours of your life watching it.
Robot Monster Plot
Robot Monster is a film that really needs to be seen twice. The first time you see it, it's a pretty standard 1950s science fiction film. It's only on the second viewing that most people see it for what it is.
First Viewing
The story is standard. The evil people on the moon have sent down Ro-Man, the deep-sea diving gorilla, to destroy humanity. And he has accomplished this — almost. There are eight humans who are immune to Ro-Man's death ray. He manages to kill two of them when they flee in their rocket ship. So then Ro-Man decides he'll just kill them all the old fashioned way. The high point of the movie is when Ro-Man strangles the little girl (sadly done off screen) — something I had been looking forward to the entire film.
Later, Ro-Man finds the older daughter making out with the young hunka-hunka burning love scientist. Ro-Man strangles and then throws the man over a cliff. The man lives just long enough to run home and tell everyone that Ro-Man has absconded with the daughter. Ro-Man has fallen in love with the daughter and cannot kill her even when commanded to.
The remaining three humans hatch a plan to save the daughter. Meanwhile Ro-Man's leader (Great Guidance — just Ro-Man on a video screen) learns of Roman's love of the daught and apparently kills Ro-Man as he tries to the kill the boy (as mother and father rescue the daughter). Then there are dinosaurs and… Poof, the little boy wakes up and it was all a dream.
Or was it?! Because the film ends with Ro-Man walking out of the cave toward the audience — three times. So was it a dream or a prophecy?
Second Viewing
The second time you watch the firlm, you see that the "it was just a dream" ending is not the cheap trick. The first minute and a half of the film is made up of credits. And rightly so, as I will discuss shortly. But the next four minutes is spent with the little boy and girl playing without a care in the world. There is no indication that they live in a post-apocalyptic world. They meet two archaeologists. And then their mother and older sister arrive and the four of them have a nap. The boy wakes first, goes running, falls, and hits his head.
Cut to: dinosaurs fighting before the little boy wakes up and sees the cave filled with electronic gadgets that we will see Ro-Man using for the rest of the film. Now, the older archaeologist is his father and the younger one, Scientists #2, is now Love Interest #1. So Wyott Ordung's screenplay, while fanciful, doesn't play with the audience. If you watch the film closely, nothing should surprise you — in a bad way.
One Hell of a Movie
What makes people think that Robot Monster is a bad film is that Ro-Man is a gorilla with a diving helmet on. Otherwise, the film would be long forgotten as most films of that time are. But the great thing this aspect of the film is that the filmmakers are completely in on the joke. And really, is Ro-Man any more ridiculous than Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still — much less Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet?
Just how Ro-Man came to be was explained by Phil Tucker in an interview in the largely repellent The Fifty Worst Films of All Time:
Well, I originally envisioned the monster as a kind of robot. I talked to several people that I knew who had robot suits, but it was just out-of-the way, money wise. I thought, "Okay, I know George Barrows." George's occupation was gorilla suit man. When they needed a gorilla in a picture, they called George, because he owned his own suit and got like forty bucks a day. I thought, "I know Goerge will work for me for nothing. I'll get a diving helmet, put it on him, and it'll work!" And that's how it came to be.
That's a great story and part of what I love about these idiosyncratic low-budget films. You use what you've got. He had a friend with a gorilla suit and the rest is film history!
The Technical Side of Robot Man
From a technical perspective, the film is very good. And this is even if you don't consider their constraints. The film was shot for $16,000 — that's less than $150,000 today. And about a quarter of that budget went to them filming in 3-D. And they shot the whole thing in 4 days.
But it features a number of good actors: George Nader, Austrian legend John Mylong, pinko Selena Royle, and later television character actor Claudia Barrett. Together they appeared in over 350 films and television shows. And that doesn't even count the 132 appearances of George Barrows — not always as a gorilla. Imagine what they would have done in 4 weeks.
In addition to this, the camera work by Jack Greenhalgh is excellent. They made things easy by shooting entirely outdoors. But why not? The film hardly needs interior scenes. And the outdoor shots look good — not something easy to do in the southern California sun. The editing by Merrill G White is also top rate.
To top it all off, it has a fantastic score by Elmer Bernstein — one of his first.
Some Interesting Things
I don't think Ro-Man coming at the screen at the end indicates that the little boy's dream was a prophecy. I think they were just playing around with their 3-D. And I'd love to see it in 3-D. I'll bet it gave 1953 film-goers a nice fright at the end of the film.
All those scenes with the dinosaurs were taken from One Million, BC and Flight to Mars.
According to IMDb, Tucker's first film was Dance Hall Racket, that was written and starred in by his friend Lenny Bruce. This is because IMDb goes by when a movie was released. Racket was released four months earlier. But Robot Monster was made first. However, none of this really matters. According to Tucker, he made some two dozen "girlie" films like Tiajunana After Midnight — which is the only one that IMDb lists, perhaps because of the success of Robot Monster.
A Hit?!
That's probably the most amazing thing about Robot Monster: it was a hit. Phil Tucker claimed that while he was ripped off, the film itself was quite successful — netting over a million dollars — that's roughly $10 million today — and an over 6,000% ROI. At the time, Variety wrote, "Scripting and majority of performances rarely rise to a professional level… of the principals, the less said the better… Pill Tucker's direction… is off." I'd say, as usual, what we had was another reviewer, quick to criticize based on a single viewing without a thought to what the producers were trying to do.
I highly recommend checking out Robot Monster. And I'm not alone. In The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Michael Weldon writes, "Movies don't come any better." But even Harry Medved, usually a priggish teen throughout The Fifty Worst Films of All Time inadvertently shows a fondness for Robot Monster. When Medved (brother of one of the worst film reviewers of all time) and Weldon agree on a film, you know you need to see it.
It's only an hour long. And it is in the public domain. You can download it for free at Archive.org: Robot Monster. Or you can just watch the copy embedded above. You can also buy it on DVD, but I haven't seen it and can't speak to its quality. It doesn't seem to have any extras. I would, however, suggest that you skip the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, even if it does include an interview with Larry Blamire of The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra fame.
Information about the movie itself:
Film: 35 mm Tru-Stereo (dual-strip 3-D) Spherical Black and White
I must provide my usual disclaimer: even the smallest of films involve Obviously, so many more people are involved in the making of a film. But here are some of the most important:
Director: Phil Tucker
Producer: Phil Tucker and Al Zimbalist
Screenwriter: Wyott Ordung
Cinematographer: Jack Greenhalgh
Editor: Merrill White
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Actors: George Nader, Claudia Barrett, and George Barrows
–Frank Moraes
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Wednesday, 17 July 2019 10:29:13 pm
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The bridges on the river Dragor
There are a total of 20 bridges over the river Dragor in Bitola, one bridge on every 200 meters. That's twice the number of bridges in Budapest, Belgrade, and Zagreb.
Marjan Tanushevski, Bitola 13 March 2019 12:36
Bitola, 13 March 2019 (MIA) – There are a total of 20 bridges over the river Dragor in Bitola, one bridge on every 200 meters. That's twice the number of bridges in Budapest, Belgrade, and Zagreb.
Many historians have written about the bridges over the river Dragor. The first bridge dates back to the 19th century and it's called "Crn most" (Black Bridge). A few years ago, this bridge was declared a pedestrian crossing, so a new traffic bridge, which is now one of the most frequently used crossings in the city, was built next to it.
Some people believe that this bridge got its name because it was originally colored black, but others say that the it got its name because it served as an execution site for many political prisoners during the Second World War. Some of these prisoners were incarcerated in the nearby jail, which exists to this day.
The next bridge is "Kaj kavaci" (Poplar Bridge). It's a wooden bridge whose name comes from the Turkish word kavak, meaning a poplar tree, and poplar trees still grow in this part of the city.
All the bridges in Bitola used to be made of wood, and most of them were destroyed in the First World War. After the war, six iron bridges were built over the river Dragor, four of which are still in use, with the war reparations paid by Germany.
The bridges near the high school, the fire station and the municipality building are made of iron, though the last one got so damaged that it had to be replaced by a concrete bridge. The fourth iron bridge is called "Kaj Intifa" (Intifa Bridge), also known as the Court Bridge, as it is located near the city courthouse. This bridge had been named after the legendary tavern, Intifa, which was often frequented by food lovers, and was famous for its wine and delicious tripe stew.
Another bridge lies 50 meters away, and it's called is "Kaj Ambdi" (Ambdi Bridge). This bridge is located near the covered bazaar and was popular among historians. Many of them, including Ottoman explorer Evlija Chalabi, called this bridge many different names, including the Great Bridge, the Clock Tower Bridge, and Pekmez Bazaar Bridge.
In 1979, as part of the urban redevelopment, Intifa Bridge and Ambdi Bridge started allowing only one-way traffic and the eight bridge over the river Dragor was replaced by a concrete bridge, which was redesigned again in 2015 and repurposed as a pedestrian crossing.
Unfortunately, people don't use this bridge very much. Couples would much rather walk on the so called Lovers' Bridge, and carve out their names in the wood. Older locals say that Lovers' bridge has always been a wooden footbridge, and was previously known as Mushon Bridge.
Other bridges were also built with the war reparations, including "Lenski most" (Linen Bridge), which connected the houses on one side of the river with the linen market on the other, the bridges near the fishmonger's and the dyers' workshops, and the Sali Bridge, one of the busiest bridges in Bitola. All of these bridges were named after the businesses located in this part of the city, leading to the old bazaar.
For example, dyers would hang their goods to dry on the side of one bridge, so that bridge became known as Dyers' Bridge. Sali Bridge, on the other hand, was named so because a famous dessert shop owned by a man called Sali was located in its vicinity.
The next iron bridge is called "Kaj Baltovci" (Baltovci Bridge). This used to be wooden bridge that connected the Jeni Maale neighborhood with the fields on the riverbank. It had been completely destroyed in 1963, by a flood, and was recently rebuilt with funds provided by Vlado Nikolovski from Bitola, a supporter of the bridges' restoration initiative.
The second to last bridge over the river Dragor is called "Kaj Klanica" (Slaughterhouse Bridge) and its construction was suggested by the city's butchers.
And finally, the last bridge is called "Zheleznichki most" (Railroad Bridge) and it was built in 1936. After the construction of Zheleznichka street a second traffic bridge was built next to it.
The bridges over the river Dragor are made of iron, concrete and wood. The last bridge is located near 16th street.
In some countries bridges are paid special attention. They are well-kept and looked after, and people can read about their history on the information boards displayed nearby. For example, a plaque on the Latin Bridge over the river Miljacka commemorates the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip.
This is still not the case in Bitola, where people need to check the city's archives if they want to find out more about the history of the city's bridges. However, people in Bitola often joke that if nothing else, at least everyone knows that Dragor flows down from the mountain!
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In the Retconn offices in Final Heaven, Cave Carson is held captive by Milkman Man and on another plane, Rita Farr is trapped in a passion play not of her own making. While Cave has a very physical fight on his hands, Rita is engaged in a more spiritual war that if she loses threatens to wipe her from existence entirely as she finally begins to remember her own life while stuck in Retconn's version of The Rita Farr Story.
As Cave relates Superman's message of hope to Milkman Man, Cave's eye shows up with reinforcements- the Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Girl and the Justice League of America. Milkman Man breaks out his own back up to really rock Retconn. Of course, in the main office, the negotiations between Retconn and Magna Khan go on, as Retconn still believes it can sell Prime Earth. As the fighting gets closer the negotiations get more intense. As Retconn realizes that the JLA and Doom Patrol are a huge liability at this point, Prime Earth is offered "paid in full" if Magna Khan can do away with the teams. However, Khan's client backs out and the "no deal" forces the ultimate fail safe for Retconn – destruction of everything.
As the universe reforms without any of Retconn's copies, there is a new status quo for the Young Animal titles which will all be explored in re-launched titles in the near future.
What's really clever is that elements in this crossover manage to play off aspects of some of the themes in the Young Animal titles. Rita Farr's story echoes Shade's experience with the "Life With Honey" TV show from her own series, and Cave Carson's history with Superman proves pivotal in his fight against Milkman Man.
Also, acknowledging the Golden Age Robotman, Robert Crane as the original version of the character is a meta moment as the existence of this character hasn't even been established in the current version of the DC Universe. This ties into showing the map of the Multiverse from Multiversity. Retconn then sort of exists outside the DC Universe itself and could even be seen as the DC publishing offices. Retconn's mission to make the characters their best versions is eerily reminiscent of the plan for the "New 52." And, destroying everything to re-make it is exactly what was done in DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths and "New 52" reboot of continuity. Perhaps, Manga Khan is somehow Marvel Comics negotiating for a takeover. Who knows, but it's a wildly different type of story. Did you catch the reference to a Silver Surfer analogue?
Splitting the art chores up between Eaglesham and Derington for the main story and epilogue, provide the two artists to do what they do best and have it fit together flawlessly. Eaglsham's work represents the classic look of a super-hero comic, while Derington provides his own unique look that is emblematic of the Young Animal line. Colorists Tamra Bonvillain and Marissa Louise are a big part of maintaining a consistent look for the issue as well.
There are a few moments that get a little wacky and out there for even this incarnation of the Doom Patrol. Flex Mentallo's Inflation Intensity power is truly over the top, maybe that's the Adam West Batman in there with that idea. It just seems to have gone too far.
Changing Cliff as much as he's been changed is a bit disappointing as well. There's nothing odder than a man of metal who's no longer made of metal. This will certainly have major ramifications for the Doom Patrol.
"Milk Wars" has been a fun and offbeat story that successfully teamed the Young Animal characters with the mainstream DC Universe. While the resolution was typical Young Animal, it also was a bit too Young Animal. No reason to fret too much, though.


Saturday Nov 14 I'll be wearing (and playing) the bass guitar with Caroline Doctorow at the annual NERFA conference, held at the Hudson Valley Resort. Caroline has showcases at 2pm (this one sponsored by AcousticMusicScene.com - A Long Island Sound Showcase & Wine Tasting! ROOM 1318), a 5pm videotaped showcase, and who knows what else in between.


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Azerbaijan International Mineral Resources Operating Company, Ltd. (AIMROC) is an Azerbaijani holding company and is the second largest gold producer in Azerbaijan.

Ownership interests in the company are held by the President and First Lady of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev and Mehriban Aliyeva.
The company is located at 49/s, Tbilisi Ave, Chiraq Plaza, 5th Floor, Baku AZ1065.

Chovdar mine
According to Asia Times Online, the Azerbaijani government gave AIMROC the rights to develop the Chovdar gold field and five other sites in Azerbaijan. The government gave AIMROC a 70 percent stake in a gold field near Chovdar. The government itself owns the other 30 percent.

AIMROC sold the first bar of gold from the Chovdar mine at the end of 2012. AIMROC is predicted to be in full production in 2013.
Trend News Agency quoted Mustafa Mammadov, AIMROC's Director for Sustainable Development and Strategic Planning, as saying that the company plans to mine in Chovdar for 8 to 10 years.

Ownership
 AIMROC owns seventy-percent of the Chovdar mine. Four companies own AIMROC, Londex Resources SA, Globex International, Willy and Meyris, Fargate Mining Corporation .One of those companies is called Globex International. Globex's stake in AIMROC is worth areound $200 million U.S. dollars. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), "A fifth company -- Mitsui Mineral Development Engineering Co Ltd (MINDECO), a mining-engineering company owned by Japan's Mitsui Mining and Smelting Company -- is listed as the official project supervisor, but has no ownership."

According to Asia Times Online, Globex International is owned by three holding companies in Panama. Those three holding companies all list President Aliyev and First Lady Aliyeva's two daughters Leyla Aliyeva and Arzu Aliyeva as senior managers. Asia Times Online also reported that President Aliyev's office "refused to answer questions about his family's business interests in the gold fields" and that the president's spokesman did not return emails and calls for comment.

According to a report published by Freedom House, Azerbaijani law prohibits government officials, including the president, from owning businesses, but there are no such restrictions on family members.

The Azerbaijani Environment Ministry has estimated that the Chovdar mine contains around $2.5 billion worth of gold and silver.

Resources

Gold mining companies of Azerbaijan


We have been on the road with our tiny home for about four months and have had a very rewarding time studying marine life and hopefully influencing others to live smaller and more economically-conscious lifestyles. We began our tiny house journey to help alleviate logistical challenges and reduce costs of our whale expedition, in hopes to also lead by example and show others that they can impact the environment in a positive way.
We have stopped in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan for now, where the whales are abundant, and have been able to give tours of the tiny home and get to know the local residents. Some locals have even helped us install electrical upgrades to our traveling research hub!
Throughout our expedition this summer, we have studied thirteen unique whale and dolphin species found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the coast of Canada. Even though they live close in proximity, each species is incredibly different.
We have seen about 50 humpback whales and 50 fin whales so far. In addition, we have seen 3 humpback whale calves –one of which was so curious, that he circled around the boat several times (with his mother keeping a close eye, of course)! Among the humpback whales we have seen, many are animals we have known for several years. Splish, for example (shown below), was first photographed on an expedition in 1980. When we spotted Splish this year, she was accompanied by another whale we have known since the 80's, a female humpback named Tracks. Splish and Tracks appear to have established a long-term association, since we have seen them together frequently over the last six years.
Our next stop will most likely be in a small city located in the Estuary of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Rimouski. In Rimouski, we will get the chance to study different whale species, like the endangered blue whale.
To continue to follow our journey and learn more about the many whale and dolphin species we encounter, please check back!
In closing, we'd like to share what we believe are interesting facts about some of the species we are following. Enjoy!
Blue whales (or Balaenoptera musculus) are the largest animal to have ever lived on earth and can be recognized by their unique blue/grey pigmentation pattern.
A blue whale's tongue weighs about 2.7 tons (the weight of an elephant) and its mouth can hold up to 90 tons of food and water!
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), the second largest animal after the blue whale, is the one of the only mammals to have asymmetric body coloration – their right lower jaw is white while the left lower jaw is dark-colored.
The male humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) sings to attract females as a type of courtship display and in addition, their singing may also be used to establish dominance among males.
Just like humans, female humpback whales have been known to have long-lasting associations with other females.


This morning while cruising our internal AM forums I ran across the blog of someone (Chase - blog link below) in the Winter term journaling his Class 1 lessons. On the one hand I am really excited to see what we will be doing week to week and on the other hand I am suddenly kicking into an emergency cram session with a healthy dose of panic fueling my motivation. I didn't realize we would start with human characters so quickly. Mostly it looks like posing early on and not animating. The animation exercises relate to different situations with balls moving. I also see that each week he sketches out the animation timing which looks really useful. It seems simple now that I saw his sketches, but I was reminded of the acceleration due to gravity (check Wikipedia if you want a refresh). Timing just became a little easier for me. Ironically I worked on a 2d animation of a ball rolling down a ramp yesterday and was just guessing - this would have helped.
Back to my emergency studying.


The 5 speed FWD transit gearboxes suffer with selector cable problems. Turret issues where components seize causing difficult selection or movement across the gate , also within the turret the 10 MM bolt can shear and drop into the gearbox causing damage if its picked by the crown wheel and subsequently breaks out of case (if this happens do not drive the vehicle) you will more than likely be stuck in one gear. The gearboxes themselves commonly wear out forks , Synchro's and also suffer with wear in the diff carrier area where the support shaft can break or shear ( which supports the sun gears ) when this happens and due to centrifugal force the broken shaft will protrude from the diff carrier and mill out the case, causing substantial oil loss resulting in most cases terminal damage.


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Heinrich Siber (* 10. April 1870 in Ihleburg; † 23. Juni 1951 in Leipzig) war ein deutscher Rechtswissenschaftler.

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Der Sohn des Regierungsbaurates Carl Siber und der Mathilde Bethmann zog in jungen Jahren mit seinen Eltern nach Stralsund, wo er das Sundische Gymnasium besuchte. Danach absolvierte er ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Zürich, der Universität München, der Universität Königsberg, der Universität Berlin und der Universität Leipzig. In Leipzig absolvierte er 1892 seine erste Staatsprüfung, wurde Referendar und promovierte 1893 zum Doktor der Rechte. 1896 wurde er Assessor. 1899 habilitierte er sich als Privatdozent in Leipzig. 1901 wurde er an der Universität Erlangen außerordentlicher Professor und 1903 ordentlicher Professor. 1904 heiratete er Marie Piper, die Tochter eines Stralsunder Sanitätsrates.

1911 kehrte er als Professor für Römisches Recht und Deutsches Bürgerliches Recht an die Leipziger Juristenfakultät zurück. Heinrich Siber war von 1923 bis 1933 Sektionsvorsitzender der Sektion Leipzig des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins (DuOeAV).

Durch die nationalsozialistische Besetzungspolitik an Hochschulen wurde er 1935 emeritiert. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bot Siber der Leipziger Universität erneut seine Dienste an und lehrte hier offiziell mit der Wiedereröffnung der Leipziger Hochschule am 5. Februar 1946 in seinem alten Amt bis zu seinem Lebensende. Siber war in Leipzig 1915/16, 1921/22, 1929/30 und 1933–1935 Dekan der Juristenfakultät sowie 1926/27 Rektor der Alma Mater. Zudem war er Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig und seit 1940 korrespondierendes Mitglied der Preußischen (später: Deutschen) Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1950 erhielt er von der Universität Leipzig den Ehrendoktortitel.

Wirken
Siber war in erster Linie ein rechtswissenschaftlicher Dogmatiker. Er formte in Monographien, Aufsätzen und knappen Lehrbüchern die Dogmatik des Zivilrechtes. Seine Originalität, seine Fähigkeit, Neues zu sehen und Zusammenhänge zu überschauen, ließen ihn auf jede Methodenschablone verzichten. Seine Meisterschaft verschmähte es aber auch, das Ergebnis, das er erzielen wollte, auf dem bequemen Weg einer Treu- und Glauben-Jurisprudenz zu erzielen. So gelangte er mit dem Gesetz selbst, das er virtuos beherrschte, zu einer gerechten Lösung.

Er beschäftigte sich auch mit der Erforschung des römischen Verfassungsrechts, blieb dabei aber sehr von den Vorarbeiten Theodor Mommsens abhängig.

Werke (Auswahl)
 Compensation und Aufrechnung. 1899
 Das gesetzliche Pfandrecht des Vermieters, des Verpächters und des Gastwirts. 1900
 Der Rechtszwang im Schuldverhältnis nach deutschem Rechte. 1903
 Die Passivlegitimation bei der rei vindicatio als Beitrag zur Lehre von der Aktivlegitimation. Leipzig 1907
 Das Buchrechtsgeschäft nach Reichsgrundbuchrecht. 1909
 Die Frage der Verfügungsgeschäfte zu fremdem Recht. In Festgabe für R. Sohm., München 1915
 Die Prozeßführung des Vermögensverwalters nach dem deutschen BGB. In Festschrift der Leipziger Juristenfakultät für A. Wach, München 1917
 Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über deutsches bürgerliches Recht . Fünf Teile, Leipzig 1919–1921
 Römisches Recht in Grundzügen für die Vorlesung (römisches Privatrecht). 1928
 Auslegung und Anfechtung der Verfügungen von Todes wegen. in: Die RG-Praxis im deutschen Rechtsleben. Bd. 3,1929, S. 350 ff
 Grundrisse zu Vorlesungen über deutsches bürgerliches Recht: Erbrecht. 1928
 Grundriß des deutschen bürgerlichen Rechts: Schuldrecht. 1931
 Zur Entwicklung der römischen Prinzipatsverfassung. Leipzig 1933
 Analogie, Amtsrecht und Rückwirkung im Strafrecht des römischen Freistaates. 1936
 Haftung für Nachlaßschulden nach geltendem und künftigem Recht. Berlin 1937
 Das Führeramt des Augustus.  Leipzig 1940
 Eigentumsanspruch und schuldrechtliche Herausgabeansprüche vom Standpunkte der Rechtsordnung. Bericht an die Ausschüsse für Boden- und Fahrnisrecht der ADR. In: Unerings Jb., Bd. 89 (1941), S. 1–118;
 Römisches Verfassungsrecht in geschichtlicher Entwicklung. 1952

Literatur

 Frank Behne: Heinrich Siber und das Römische Staatsrecht von Theodor Mommsen. Ein Beitrag zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Mommsens im 20. Jahrhundert. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-487-10910-7. (Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, Bd. 12.)
 Hermann A. Ludwig Degner: Wer ist's? Unsere Zeitgenossen – Zeitgenossenlexikon. Degner, Leipzig 1906, S. 959.
 Werner Schubert: Akademie für Deutsches Recht, 1933–1945. Walter de Gruyter, 1986, ISBN 311010671X.
 Nachruf Heinrich Siber. In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Böhlau, Wien 1951.

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Anmerkungen

Rechtswissenschaftler (20. Jahrhundert)
Mitglied der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR
Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Rektor (Universität Leipzig)
Hochschullehrer (Erlangen)
Ehrendoktor der Universität Leipzig
Deutscher
Geboren 1870
Gestorben 1951
Mann
Sachliteratur
Absolvent der Universität Leipzig


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