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Dariusz Grzegorz Szewczyk – polski urzędnik, konsul generalny we Odessie (2014–2018).

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Dariusz Szewczyk ukończył nauki polityczne w Moskiewskim Państwowym Instytucie Stosunków Międzynarodowych.

Zawodowo związany z polską służbą konsularną. Przebywał między innymi na placówkach w Montrealu, Lyonie i Tunisie (w tym jako chargé d'affaires a.i. marzec–maj 2008). W Ministerstwie Spraw Zagranicznych był naczelnikiem w Departamencie Konsularnym. Od 22 września 2014 do lipca 2018 był Konsulem Generalnym RP w Odessie. Następnie pracował w Wydziale Ruchu Osobowego Departamentu Konsularnego MSZ. Od listopada 2020 do sierpnia 2022 kierownik Wydziału Konsularnego Ambasady RP w Belgradzie w stopniu radcy-ministra.

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Absolwenci Moskiewskiego Państwowego Instytutu Stosunków Międzynarodowych
Konsulowie III Rzeczypospolitej
Ludzie związani z Belgradem
Ludzie związani z Lyonem
Ludzie związani z Montrealem
Ludzie związani z Odessą
Ludzie związani z Tunisem
Urzędnicy Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych (III Rzeczpospolita)

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Kuirau Park - a minute's walk from YHA Rotorua, this park in the middle of town has steam vents, bubbling mud pools, and even hot pools to soak your feet in, all for free!
Sulphur Point - an easy walk from Government Gardens, this bird sanctuary is also a great place to observe sulphur vents right on the lake's edge.
Te Puia - home of the famous Pohutu Geyser and center for Maori cultural experiences. YHA members get 10% off entry when you book at reception.
Waimangu Volcanic Valley - walk through the valley for a variety of different geothermal features. 10% off self-guided walks for YHA members.
Wai O Tapu - A large geyser named Lady Knox lives here, as well as the well-photographed Champagne Pool.
Kerosene Creek and "Secret Spot" - each around 20 minutes drive from town, these are free natural hot water springs you can soak in. Ask our staff to point you in the right direction!
Polynesian Spa - the ultimate relaxation spot with lakeside views.
Hell's Gate - One part geothermal park, one part hot springs and mud baths. Sound good to us!
Tamaki Maori Village - Discover Maori art, traditions, rituals, and food. Book at YHA reception for a special rate!
Te Puia - Learn about Maori art, architecture, food, and culture. YHA members get 10% off entry when you book at reception.
Mitai Maori Village - complimentary beverage for YHA members when booking through reception!
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Boating - With 20 lakes to choose from, boaties, jetskiiers, biscuiters and the like can get their kicks. Trout fishing is also a popular past-time.
Paddling - Kayak and paddle board rental can help you enjoy the lakes sans motor.
Velocity Valley (formerly Agroventures) - try free-fall machines, jet-boating, bungy, swoop and more! YHA member discount available.
Off Road NZ - Karting and 4WD adventure activities. 10% off for YHA members.
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Mr. Andrew R. Swartzberg
Owner, Attorney and Counselor at Law
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Andrew Swartzberg has called Oklahoma home since 2006. He entered active duty Air Force in December of 2001 and was first stationed at Beale AFB, CA. He left Beale AFB in 2004 to Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB, AL where he would receive his commission. In 2006, he was stationed at Tinker AFB, OK where he was assigned to the 963rd AACS. He deployed in 2007 with the 963rd EAACS in support of Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM where he flew over 350 combat mission hours on the E-3 AWACS. After returning from his deployment, He began law school in 2008 while still on Active Duty and was Honorably Discharged from the Air Force in 2011 with nearly 10 years of service and nearly 1,000 flight hours. He practices many types of law including divorce, military divorce, child support, child custody, guardianship, and adoption law. He has a special fondness for those who serve our nation and even gives military veterans a 20% discount. Andrew Swartzberg graduated Cum Laude from Oklahoma City University School of Law in December of 2011, months after leaving active duty. He was an active member of the Law Review, an elected member of the Student Bar Association, and on the Dean's List for many semesters. In 2008, He earned an MBA in Human Resources Management and International Business Graduating Summa Cum Laude. Currently, he is a member of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Inns of Court. He has been in practice since 2012 and has been lead counsel and trial attorney on over 250 domestic litigation cases. He encourages you to call today for your free consultation and allow him to alleviate some of your burden in these uncertain times in your life.

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Protest War Criminal Netanyahu at the White House Nov. 9
Assemble at 9am
Rally and Direct Action
Wanted for Torture, Murder, Ethnic Cleansing, Racist Apartheid
The infamous war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has been once again invited to Washington to meet with President Obama and Congressional leaders. Netanyahu is responsible for, among other crimes against humanity, the murderous 2014 assault on Gaza, that took the lives of 2,100 people including 500 children, wounded more than 10,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Netanyahu presides over a racist apartheid system that has jailed, tortured and killed thousands of Palestinians, as Israel confiscates more and more Palestinian land every day. All of these crimes are funded by U.S. tax dollars, amounting to more than $3 billion per year!
Please show your support for the Nov. 9 demonstration
Join us to say:
Stop All U.S. Aid to Israel
Send Netanyahu to the International Criminal Court for War Crimes
Self-determination and liberation for the Palestinian people!
Initiated by the ANSWER Coalition
Supported by: CODEPINK DC, DC Veterans for Peace, DC Metro Science for the People, Palestinian American Council, Hilton Head for Peace (SC) and others.
To endorse the rally, email info@answercoalition.org.
Please make an urgently-needed donation to support the Nov. 9 demonstration. We can do this work with you but not without you.


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China: Daily Life Sept. 2011
This Big Picture post gives us a glimpse of daily life in parts of China, documented by wire photographers from the Associated Press, Reuters and Getty. The post begins with a short essay by Reuters photographer Jason Lee. Lee photographed six-year-old Wang Gengxiang, known as the "Masked Boy." Gengxiang was severely burned in an accident involving a burning pile of straw last winter. Most of the skin on the little boy's head was burned off, requiring him to wear a full surgical mask. The mask is said to prevent his scars from becoming infected. According to the local media in the village where Gengxiang was photographed, the doctors cannot continue his skin-graft surgery until his damaged trachea (or windpipe) is strong enough. The Lee essay is following by a black slide, and then more "slice of life" photography from a still somewhat mysterious China. -- Paula Nelson (50 photos total)
Wang Gengxiang on Children's Day, June 1, 2010, and after he was severely burned in an accident, at Mijiazhuang village on the outskirts of Fenyang, North China's Shanxi province, September 9, 2011. Gengxiang, age 6, known as "Masked Boy", was severely burned in an accident involving a burning pile of straw last winter. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
Wang Shouwu helps his son, Wang Gengxiang, with a mask after waking. The mask prevents his scars from growing and spreading. Gengxiang, 6, was severely burned in an accident involving a pile of burning straw last winter. Most of the skin on his head was burned off, requiring him to wear a full surgical mask to prevent the scars from becoming infected. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang adjusts his clean mask after his father changed it for him. The doctors have disclosed that they cannot continue his skin-graft surgery until his damaged trachea, or windpipe, is strong enough, according to local media reports. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang carries bowls for dinner at Mijiazhuang village where he lives on the outskirts of Fenyang, North China's Shanxi province. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang is fed by his father Wang Shouwu during breakfast in the front courtyard of their home at Mijiazhuang village. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
The head of a local kindergarten stops Wang Gengxiang from entering as she talks to his father. Gengxiang is not allowed to attend classes at the kindergarden for issues of his personal safety and concerns about how his presence might affect other children at the school, according to his father. He is only allowed into the kindergarden to play during media visits. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang plays with a classmate in a kindergarten classroom at Mijiazhuang village. Further corrective surgery for Gengxiang, 6, is on hold until his damaged trachea heals. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang plays a staring game with a girl in a kindergarten classroom. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang enjoys playing with his father, Wang Shouwu, in the front courtyard of their home. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Shouwu blows up a balloon for his son Gengxiang, known as "Masked Boy", beside a road at Mijiazhuang village on the outskirts of Fenyang. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang sits by a roadside playing by himself in Mijiazhuang village. Further corrective surgery for the boy, who sustained extensive injuries in a fire accident, is delaying until his trachea heals. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang plays in his bedroom at his home. Gengxiang, 6, was severely burned in an accident involving a pile of burning straw last winter. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang plays on his father's motorcycle in the front courtyard of his house at Mijiazhuang village. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
Wang Gengxiang plays by himself in an alley at Mijiazhuang village on the outskirts of Fenyang, North China's Shanxi province. Doctors disclosed that they cannot continue his skin-graft surgery until his damaged trachea, or windpipe, is strong enough, according to local media reports. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
A newly married couple pose for their wedding photo on a street in Shanghai, China, Sept. 19, 2011. (Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press) #
A visitor throws a kiss to a Beluga Whale, swimming inside an aquarium at the Laohutan Ocean Park in Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning province, Sept. 17, 2011. (Andy Wong/Associated Press) #
Performers take part in the opening of the 13th Beijing International Tourism Festival held in Beijing, China, Sept. 17, 2011. (Ng Han Guan/Associated Press) #
The ethnic minority dancers perform during a large party for the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 15, 2011 in Guiyang, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Visitors walk in a maze during alarge party for the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 15, 2011 in Guiyang, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Chinese girls wait to perform a dance during the large party of the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 15, 2011 in Guiyang, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Workers labor on a giant lantern shaped structure near Mao Zedong's portrait and the Chinese national flag on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, Sept. 16, 2011. Increasing numbers of Chinese are seeking to run as independent candidates in upcoming local elections and are running into daunting obstacles as the ruling Communist Party tries to tamp down any threat to its monopoly on power. (Ng Han Guan/Associated Press) #
An ethnic minority woman attends the large party for the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 15, 2011 in Guiyang, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
An ethnic minority dancer attends a large party for the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 15, 2011. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Chinese children dance during a large party for the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 15, 2011. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
A teacher covers a child with a quilt as children take an afternoon nap at a kindergarden in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, Sept. 14, 2011. (Stringer/Reuters) #
Employees work on a plastinated human body specimen at a workshop of Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Co. Ltd. in Dalian, Liaoning province, Sept. 13, 2011. Founded by Dr. Sui Hongjin in 2004, Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Co. Ltd. is known in the production, preservation, and exhibition of plastinated biotic specimens of human and animals. The specimens, including whole bodies as well as individual organs and transparent body slices, each requiring 4 employees working for 8 to 12 months, have been meticulously dissected and preserved to allow visitors to view muscular, nervous, circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems. Sept. 13, 2011. (Sheng Li/Reuters) #
The carcass of a shark is lifted by employees after being soaked in glue for about 50 days at a workshop of Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Co. Ltd. in Dalian, Liaoning province, Sept. 13, 2011. (Sheng Li/Reuters)An athlete in the single bamboo drifting competition, during the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, September 11, 2011 in Guiyang, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
An athlete in the single bamboo drifting competition, during the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, September 11, 2011 in Guiyang, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Performers pass the grandstand during the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, September 12, 2011. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
A young girl walks among horse statues built as a tribute to Genghis Khan whose unmarked tomb is believed to be nearby, in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, September 12, 2011. The city, commonly referred to as a "Ghost Town" because of its lack of current residents, is being built to house 1.5 million inhabitants and has been dubbed the "Dubai of China" by locals. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) #
A child with a wind mill toy walks in a park in Beijing, China, Sept. 12, 2011. (Ng Han Guan/Associated Press) #
A girl stands in front of giant lanterns at the Lantern Wonderland exhibition at Hong Kong's Victoria Park, Sept. 11, 2011. The exhibition was held to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival. (Tyrone Siu /Reuters) #
Dancers perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 9th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 10, 2011 in Guiyang, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #
Great Britain's Alistair Brownlee and the rest of the elite men competitors dive into the Ming Tomb reservoir during the mass start in Changping of the 2011 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Grand Final Beijing in China, Sept. 10, 2011. (Janos Schmidt/ITU/Associated Press) #
The elite women speed through the streets of Changping, Beijing, China, at the 2011 Beijing ITU Triathlon Under23 World Championships in China, Sept. 10, 2011. (Delly Carr/ITU/Associated Press) #
Students rehearse for a religious ceremony performance at an activity room of the Liuhe Catholic Church in Liuhe village on the outskirts of Qingxu county, northern China's Shanxi province, Sept. 10, 2011. Liuhe is one of the largest parishes in mainland China, where about 90% of the population follow Catholicism. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
A man waits for a mass at the Liuhe Catholic Church in Liuhe village, Sept. 10, 2011. Liuhe is one of the largest parishes in mainland China, about 6,700 or 90% of the villagers follow Catholicism. (Jason Lee/Reuters) #
A passerby walks between decorative lights prepared for the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival at a park in Hong Kong, Sept. 8, 2011. Chinese worldwide celebrate the festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Lunar calendar. The festival began as a harvest moon celebration in ancient China and also marks the overthrown of the Mongol rulers during the Yuan Dynasty. (Bobby Yip/Reuters) #
A vendor sits in front of piles of Chinese watermelons at a market in Hefei, Anhui province, Sept. 9, 2011. (Stringer/Reuters) #
A customer carries a piglet he bought to a truck at a livestock fair on the outskirts of Shenyang, Liaoning province, Sept. 9, 2011. (Stringer/Reuters) #
A Chinese vendor secures a slaughtered pig onto his motorcycle at an abattoir in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the government was looking at ways to encourage farmers to raise pigs, in a bid to stabilize the price of pork, China's meat of choice. The world's second-largest economy has been struggling to bring the spiraling prices under control and fears they could spark unrest as living expenses spike for many millions. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) #
A real estate agent walks next to empty apartments at a new residential area in Shanghai Sept. 8, 2011. Record-high, and still-rising house prices, have led many economists to warn that China is nursing a property bubble, the bursting of which could destabilize the world's second-largest economy. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) #
Workers at a residential construction site in Shanghai Sept. 8, 2011. China's campaign of tightening up on the property market cannot last because the country cannot afford to overly crimp domestic demand, according to Meng Xiaosu, an advisory chairman to the country's biggest state developer.(Carlos Barria/Reuters) #
Visitors view a group of portraits of politicians on display at the Jin Businessmen Collection exhibition in Taiyuan, in north China's Shanxin province on Sept. 7, 2011. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) #
Parents of freshmen students sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei province, Sept. 3, 2011. The university set out mats for some 600 parents accompanying freshmen students on their first day of school, local media reported. (China Daily/Reuters) #
An egg vendor waits for customers at a wholesale market in Hefei, Anhui province, Sept. 7, 2011. (Stringer/Reuters) #
A fisherman takes stock of the dead fish at a fish farm in Shuikou Reservoir in Gutian county in southeast China's Fujian province. Local authorities are investigating the mass killing of millions of fish at fish farms in the reservoir. (Associated Press) #
A worker sorts artificially cultivated freshwater pearls at a pearl production factory in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, Sept. 6, 2011. Zhuji aims to become an international production and distribution hub for artificially cultivated freshwater pearls. The city has been cultivating pearl clams since the 1970s, and now supplies 60 percent of the overall Chinese market and 30 percent of the global market with pearl products. (Lang Lang/Reuters) #
A garbage collector looks into a public trash bin in Shanghai, China, Sept. 6, 2011. (Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press) #
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Edo 2016 and Oshiomhole's friends
By Martins Okojie
From 2007 up to the re-election of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for a second term in 2012, the diminutive former icon of massive mobilisation and labour activist was a dedicated man of honour who respected the opinions of the leaders of his political party and the Benin "Leaders of Thought". To some extent, he was a team player. To a very large extent he was not. They made allusions to the fact he handpicked local government council chairmen whimsically across the state in 2013 without recourse to the will of the people. Those who knew him back in Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said he was merely pretending to survive power which he converted in all its morbid rawness.
They say Oshiomhole is an effectual dictator, lover of total power and a thorough-going autocrat, taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; absolutely domineering and self-opinionated. Such destructive influence of addictive power exercise by imperious persons who insist on complete obedience from others are recipes for institutional collapse; destabilisation and structural breakdown —- harps on ghetto politics —- the attributes of cave men. The worst thing about him, they alleged included his genius for thinking himself slighted, belittled anytime he is advised on any issues. They say it is almost impossible to mention anything to him, no matter how reasonable, no matter how gently put. 'Go, go eat air', he would shout, and retire into the tent of his wounded pride. If there are doubts whether Governor Oshiomhole lives in his own world, those doubts evaporated a few weeks ago.
Sometime ago, purported conversation between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the Oracle of Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, the Esogban of Benin Kingdom went virile on the Instant Media networks. The frenzy and fame it generated, if it is anything to go by, further mirrors Oshiomhole's inner antics and banal crave for political control, long after vacating office! Chief Edebiri was said to have reported back to the Governor Oshiomhole on the assignment to search out the mind of the Benins(The Palace) on the Godwin Obaseki Candidacy. The Esogban allegedly said that he told the Governor that the Benins are gravely against the Obaseki project. He told Comrade that he will offer his support for whoever person the Governor wants and said, as a 'father' to Comrade, he will not forsake him, so people will not read betrayal to his (Esogban) action when it happens but he should have it in mind that they both may sink together should they go on with Obaseki as APC candidate in the coming election.
The governor pointed told the Esogban that he is eternally sold to the Mr. Godwin Obaseki's project and that nothing can change his position. He has since started splashing million of naira on the supposed delegates who will elect his successor across the three senatorial districts. He blandly equate him to other godfathers in the country who are in the business of subordinating the Majesty of democracy by imposing surrogates. Such denunciation or outright imposition, should we call it sweeping autocracy from a Governor who owns his office to purported 'One Man One Vote' perfunctory and judicial democracy, open democratic process and the virtues of universal adult suffrage calls for equal deconstruction. If I may ask, how many times shall we repeat it that democracy, or democratic government, is a system of government in which all the people of a state or polity … are involved in making decisions about its affairs, typically by voting to elect representatives?
If the simple definition finds no meaning or seen as a mere rabble by those who should know then are in for backwards movement. Oshiomhole's Friends and Foes Governor Adams Oshiomhole, no doubts, has earned the qualification as the best performing Governor in recent times, after Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia and Prof Ambrose Alli, who were both governors of the old Bendel State, respectively. But he has derailed tremendously with his penchant crave for turning his back at his earliest allies, foot-soldiers and apostles. Now, he is patently sold to treating them more like conquered species; subdued folks and dispensable spent forces at the twilight of his vanishing government. He has since replaced them with the very reactionary forces that opposed, deposed and denied him his mandate at every stage of his political life, from the very beginning. With Oshiomhole's new friends, he doesn't need enemies. From the Secretary to the State Government; the Chief of Staff, Commissioners, House of Assembly members, Local Government chairmen to the least political appointees in his government are the ninety-nine percent agents darkness who maimed and killed the progressives in the State while the struggles for the restoration of his mandate lasted. As a doomed chess-player who come to feel that politics as in chess there are certain combinations that inevitably arise to defeat his opponents!
It's a somewhat sense of impounding catastrophe which has to do with recurring patterns but with the inescapability of the unforeseeable. Now, the chicken has come home to roost. From Chief Edebiri, who now vowed to sink with the governor on his unpopular decision on the candidacy of Mr. Godwin Obaseki to avoid a traitor's appellation to the Benin Leaders of Thoughts who were former ardent followers of the Governor, now stridently disavowing themselves from the Governor for allegedly assuming the role of the godfather and the all-powerful family of the Benin Monarch who were the buffers and bulwarks through which Oshiomhole anchored and prosecuted his governorship successfully in the last seven years plus are badly disappointed. In a rare show of public appearance; support and solidarity, the revered Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, on November 14th, 2012, paid a royal visit to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, at Government House, Benin City. The Oba, who is rarely seen in public, arrived Government House in the company of some senior palace chiefs and Enogies and urged the governor to keep up with his good work. "I came to congratulate you on your swearing-in. I watched it on television and it was very impressive. You have done well. Keep the flag flying". Aligning himself with prayers offered, His Royal Majesty noted: "My chief broke kola and said, may God continue to enrich the treasury with the wherewithal to do what you are doing. Please finish the projects. Thank you very much. My brother traditional rulers are waiting for you to continue work in their domains", the Royal Father said. On that occasion Governor Oshiomhole expressed deep gratitude to the Oba for his support and prayers. "I am deeply indebted to your Majesty. Your Majesty has been a father to me and to all of us in Edo State. "My own biological father would not have done better for me than what you have done."
Outlining his vision for the second term, the governor noted: "I am determined to do more than what I did in the first term. We have overcome our learning curve", he said. Oshiomhole listed the next phase of work to include aggressively reclaiming the moat and sustaining the work on the Benin Masterplan. He added that over the next two years, it would be completed: "Let me assure Your Majesty that the great Bini kingdom will receive accelerated development. I will devote huge resources to continue to address our urban renewal programme to restore the glory of this great kingdom, reclaim the moat, which I know is dear to your heart as one of the legacies, and, indeed, one of the unique features that distinguish Benin City from the rest of the cities in Nigeria; we will complete our agenda at Ovonramnwen Square as well as the Ramat Park. The Benins take me as their son and a brother. By their votes they spoke very loud and clear that without them I wouldn't have been governor of Edo State",
Oshiomhole said. Till date, Ramat Park and other historical sites which housed some of the falling heroes of Oshiomhole's electoral victory who were allegedly killed by those in his government now to prevent him from becoming the governor of the state remained dark spots that amplified his mind as a revisionist. Oshiomhole's legacy In spite of his pragmatic delivery in some aspects, Governor Oshiomhole willingness to enter the polluted waters of red mud and swim in the direction of current where some awful disaster lurk around the corner is a high way to go. Oshiomhole by now should accept the price of his administration in solitude; that of abandoning the Benin Palace; the Benin Leaders of Thoughts, Chief Esogban wise counsel and his earliest minders who bore him across the threshold and hoisted him to power.
As an addict of vision, he is also a casualty of power. In the last seven years, he has been trying to surpass the Angels. When the Angels didn't have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise, Oshiomhole did. His politics is diabolic as well as transcendent, or, rather its diabolism and its transcendence were one, so that even the feeling of ecstasy or despair are the same. It is peculiar, was it not, for Oshiomhole, a veteran of the traitor politics, who went after the poor widow trader, "Go And Die" woman. How about his neo-fascistic love of mercenaries like Tony Kabaka, No Moless, etc; brute power, dehumanization glorified? The "Go And Die" Mrs. Joy Ifijeh now advises the Governor on environmental affairs. Despair/ecstasy- Legacy! It's not easy to lose power when you have earned or false horizon. It isn't easy to go back into your box, into a narrow island, an entity of anticlimax, when you have tested undiluted power, such as Oshiomhole's. A feeble successor is needed to keep the booties intact. The succession power politics is here, and it's Oshiomhole's own to lose.
Martins Okojie writes from Ikeja, Lagos.
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"""
Add a "postStartService" method to Service/MultiService that is called after
the reactor is started. Implementations may return a Deferred, and if any
service fails to start then the process will be shut down.
"""

from twisted.application import service
from twisted.internet import defer

class Service(service.Service):

    def postStartService(self):
        pass

class MultiService(service.MultiService):

    def postStartService(self):
        l = []
        for service in self:
            if hasattr(service, 'postStartService'):
                l.append(defer.maybeDeferred(service.postStartService))
        d = defer.DeferredList(l, fireOnOneErrback=True, consumeErrors=True)

        def unwrap(reason):
            # Pull the failure out of the FirstError wrapper added by DL
            reason.trap(defer.FirstError)
            return reason.value.subFailure
        d.addErrback(unwrap)
        return d

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text:
\section{Introduction}
Robotic search presents several challenges that traditional search algorithms do not have to consider. Traditional search algorithms require the entire search space to be both bounded and mapped. In robotic search, it is often the case that at least one of these requirements cannot be met, and environmental data must be gathered through the process of exploration. Due to this limitation, robotic search necessitates that the search path be calculated in real-time. \\

While traditional search algorithms can be modified for use in real-time situations, they are inefficient due to their reliance on backtracking to ensure the shortest path is found. In a precomputed search, the process of backtracking does not add to the distance traveled, and thus the search produces the shortest path. In a real-time situation, backtracking is not free -- the robot must physically explore possible paths. Using traditional search algorithms in real-time situations would result in a path length that is greater that the sum of all considered paths due to backtracking. \\

Additionally, traditional search algorithms assume that the distance to the target is precisely known, while robotic search often is used in situations where the distance to the target is imprecise or possibly unknown if outside of a given range or line of sight. These uncertainties can be mitigated through exploration of the search space, however exploration is costly as it adds to the total distance traveled. It follows that a good real-time search algorithm would perform exploration in an intelligent manner to minimize unnecessary traversal of the space. \\

To address these challenges, we propose a real-time search algorithm that bounds the maximum search path within an error factor of $(1 +\epsilon)$ times the length of the shortest path with a probability of $(1-\delta)$. The PAC nature of this bound minimizes the amount of exploration and backtracking without producing an overly aggressive search. \\

\section{Background}
When considering the robotic search problem, it is unlikely that a direct, shortest path solution can be found given the degree of uncertainty present. Utilizing an approach with strict admissibility criteria would result in a significant amount of exploration and backtracking, making it impractical for a real-time search. \\

Better results could be had from a search that is $\epsilon$-admissible, as they avoid exploration and backtracking by favoring a promissory path, so long as the next node in the path is $\epsilon$-admissible. However, traditional $\epsilon$-admissible search algorithms are "broken" when applied to real-time situations -- the $\epsilon$ bound refers only to the final path and does not take into account the considered paths or the distance added due to backtracking. While $\epsilon$-admissible algorithms are less likely to backtrack than their stricter counterparts, they still backtrack to an unbounded degree and are therefore not ideal for robotic search.\\

\subsection{AlphA*}
AlphA* is an $\epsilon$-admissible search algorithm that has aggressive and conservative variations, both of which attempt to follow a promissory path as long as possible \cite{alpha*} Nodes in the search space are given priority as $f_\alpha=(1+w_\alpha (n))f(n)$ where the weight function is
$$
w_\alpha(n) =
\begin{cases}
\lambda, & \text{if }\alpha (n)\text{ is true} \\
\Lambda, & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases}
$$

and $\lambda$, $\Lambda$ are constants such that $-1 < \lambda \leq \Lambda$. Nodes are more likely to be expanded if their weight value is low, with the $\alpha$-perimeter $\alpha(n)$ being used to increase or decrease the likelihood of expansion.\\

AlphA* is presented with four possible $\alpha$-perimeters that represent cost and heuristic based aggressive and non-aggressive approaches to different usage situations e.g. a maze vs. small obstacles. One must be selected prior to the search and used for the entire duration.  \\

The $\alpha$-perimeters are defined as follows where $g(n)$ is the cost of a node, $h(n)$ the heuristic value, $\pi(n)$ the parent of $n$, and the most recently expanded node being $\hat{n}$. \\

Non-aggressive:
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
\alpha_g (n) \equiv g(\pi(n)) &\geq g(\hat{n})\\
\alpha_h (n) \equiv h(\pi(n)) &\leq h(\hat{n})
\end{split}
\end{equation*}

Aggressive:
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
\alpha_g (n') \equiv g(\pi(n)) &\geq \underset{n' \in \text{CLOSED}}{\max} g(n')\\
\alpha_h (n') \equiv h(\pi(n)) &\leq \underset{n' \in \text{CLOSED}}{\min} h(n')
\end{split}
\end{equation*}
To perform an efficient search with AlphA*, the correct $\alpha$-perimeter must be used. In an unknown search space, it is impossible to ensure proper pre-selection and thus ideal performance. Furthermore, in a real-time search, AlphA* is still subject to unbounded backtracking, rendering the search no longer $\epsilon$-admissible.

\subsection{PAC Learning}
Probably Approximately Correct learning is a mathematical analysis framework that uses a combinatorial bound to describe the maximum tolerable error for a the output of a function \cite{valiant}.\\

\textbf{Definition 1}: \textit{In the case of machine learning, a concept is said to be PAC learnable if training results in a model that produces errors less than or equal to $(1 + \epsilon)$ times the optimum solution with a probability of at least ($1-\delta$).} \\

We extend this concept to robotic search by using it to place a combinatorial bound on the total distance traveled, a more relevant metric to real-time search than the length of the discovered shortest path.\\

\textbf{Definition 2}: \textit{An algorithm is PAC-admissible iff it produces errors less than or equal to $(1 + \epsilon)$ times the optimum solution with a probability of at least ($1-\delta$) where $0 < \delta < 1$}.

\section{PAC-Admissible Search -- $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$}
\subsection{The need for a combinatorial bound}
We propose $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$, a PAC-admissible search algorithm that is fit for use in real-time, robotic search. The use of a combinatorial bound allows us to combine the $\alpha$-perimeters of AlphA* into a single $\alpha$-perimeter that no longer produces an unbounded amount of exploration or backtracking.
To illustrate this, first we must formally define an $\epsilon$-admissible algorithm:\\

\textbf{Definition 3:} \textit{An algorithm is said to be $\epsilon$-admissible iff its solutions are guaranteed to be no worse than $(1+\epsilon)$ times the optimal solution.}\\

From this definition, AlphA* proved that given a strictly admissible heuristic $h$, an algorithm is $\epsilon$-admissible when $1+\epsilon \geq \frac{1+\Lambda}{1+\lambda}, -1 < \lambda \leq \Lambda$. Their proof is as follows: \\

\textbf{Theorem 1.} \textit{If} $h$ \textit{is admissible, then AlphA* is $\epsilon$-admissible when}\\
$$1 + \epsilon \geq \frac{1+\Lambda}{1+\lambda},\; -1 < \lambda \leq \Lambda$$
\textit{Proof.} It must be shown that $C(t) \leq (1+\epsilon)C^*$, where $C(t)$ is the cost of the actual solution path and $C^*$ is the cost of the shortest possible path.
\begin{itemize}
\item[] $f(n) = \underset{n' \in \text{OPEN}}{\min}f(n')$
\item[] Let $n_0$ be the node in the search frontier with the lowest $f$ value.
\item[] There is a least one node, $n^*_i$, from the optimal solution path in OPEN, because the search frontier is continuous.
\item[] Let $n^*_0$ be the shallowest $n^*_i$.
\item[] We know that $f(n_0^*) \leq C^*$, because $h$ is admissible.
\item[] By definition, we have $f(n_0) \leq f(n^*_0)$
\item[] From $f_\alpha$ and $w_\alpha$ we have
    \subitem $(1+\lambda)f(t) \leq (1+\Lambda)f(n_0) \implies f(t) \leq \frac{1+\Lambda}{1+\lambda} f(n^*_0), \; -1 < \lambda \leq \Lambda$
\item[] Combined, this gives us
    \subitem $C(t) = f(t) \leq \frac{1+\Lambda}{1+\lambda} f(n_0) \leq \frac{1+\Lambda}{1+\lambda} f(n^*_0) \leq \frac{1+\Lambda}{1+\lambda} C^*(t) \leq (1+\epsilon)C^*$\qed
\end{itemize}

AlphA* reduces computational requirements by relaxing admissibility criteria, allowing promissory paths can be exploited as long as possible. Following from this notion, $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$ further relaxes admissibility criteria such that a promissory path can sometimes be continued even if the next node is not $\epsilon$-admissible, minimizing the number of possible paths considered.\\

\textbf{Definition 4}: \textit{A search is considered real-time if precomputation of the search path is not possible. Alternatively, a real-time search requires that the entire path be calculated incrementally, one node at a time.} \\

The definition of a real-time search implies that each considered node must be traversed, and that backtracking attempts must revisit nodes rather than skip over them. From this, we have $$C(t) = \sum_{i=0}^{i=\mu} \sigma(n_i)f(n_i)$$ where $\mu$ is the number of nodes considered and $\sigma(n)$ is equal to the number of times a node is visited. \\

Both strict and $\epsilon$-admissible search algorithms consider many possible paths in effort to find an optimal solution. This results in poor real-time search performance, as both the number of nodes considered ($\mu$) and $\sigma(n)$ will be high. By further relaxing node admissibility criteria, we can minimize $\mu$ and $\sigma(n)$ and thus minimize the final distance traveled $C(t)$. \\

\subsection{Overview of $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$}
When continuing upon a promissory path is no longer $\epsilon$-admissible, AlphA* will follow one of two behaviors (aggressive vs non-aggressive), that must be pre-selected prior to the search. Neither of these behaviors produce acceptable results in real-time search due to excessive backtracking or overly aggressive continuation of the promissory path, respectively. \\

To solve this, $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$ allows for both behaviors to be used within a search. The probability at which the aggressive behavior will occur upon termination of a promissory path is described by $(1 - \delta)$ where $0 < \delta < 1$. A $\delta$ value of 1 would result in a real-time search that always uses the aggressive $\alpha$-perimeter, continuing upon the promissory path regardless of the $\epsilon$-admissibility of the next node. Similarly, a value of 0 would result in the search only exploring $\epsilon$-admissible nodes and a large amount of unnecessary backtracking. In other words -- due to the uncertainty associated with a real-time search, traversing some number non-$\epsilon$-admissible nodes results in a shorter, more direct path than backtracking upon termination of the admissible path, so long as there is a bound on the number of non-$\epsilon$-admissible nodes. \\

To illustrate how both behaviors can be used to set a combinatorial bound, consider the pseudocode for AlphA* upon termination of a promissory path in a real-time search:
\begin{itemize}
\item[] \texttt{if $f(n_i) > f(n_i^*)$:}
\subitem \texttt{if non-aggressive: $\alpha(n_i) := \alpha(n_0)$ }
\subitem \texttt{if aggressive: $\alpha(n_i) := \alpha(n')$ }
\item[] \texttt{else: $\alpha(n_i) := \alpha(n')$  // $n'$ is $\epsilon$-admissible so this is not aggressive.}
\end{itemize}
\pagebreak

Then, consider pseudocode for $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$ upon termination of a promissory path in a real-time search:
\begin{itemize}
\item[] \texttt{if $f(n_i) > f(n_i^*)$:}
\subitem \texttt{if (1 - $\delta$)(100) < rand(0,100): $\alpha(n_i) := \alpha(n_0)$ }
\subitem \texttt{else: $\alpha(n_i) := \alpha(n')$ }
\item[] \texttt{else: $\alpha(n_i) := \alpha(n')$ }
\end{itemize}
The difference is subtle, yet significant. Recall that with AlphA*, only one $\alpha$-perimeter can be used per search. A similar effect could be achieved in $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$ by setting $\delta = 1$ or $\delta = 0$, hence the requirement that $0 < \delta < 1$. \\

Also, recall that by the definition of a real-time search, nodes must be revisited if backtracking occurs, and that each node considered through exploration adds to the total distance traveled. We can prove that by minimizing backtracking and exploration, $\delta \epsilon \alpha^*$ will result a shorter distance traveled than an $\epsilon$-admissible real-time search. \\

\textbf{Theorem 2.} \textit{Given a real-time search that backtracks to a limited degree and a real-time search that backtracks to an unbounded degree, the cost of the bounded search $C_b(t)$ will be less than that of the unbounded search $C_u(t)$.}\\

\textbf{Theorem 3.} \textit{Given a real-time search that explores to a limited degree and a real-time search that explores to an unbounded degree, the cost of the bounded search $C_b(t)$ will be less than that of the unbounded search $C_u(t)$.}\\

We can prove theorems 2 and 3 in a single proof.\\

\textit{Proof.} It must be shown that $C_b(t) \leq C_u(t)$, where $C_b(t)$ is the cost of the bounded search and $C_u(t)$ is the cost of the  unbounded search.
\begin{itemize}
\item[] $C(t) = \sum_{i=0}^{i=\mu} \sigma(n_i)f(n_i)$, $C_b(t) = \sum_{i=0}^{i=\mu_b} \sigma_b(n_i)f(n_i)$, $C_u(t) = \sum_{i=0}^{i=\mu_u} \sigma_u(n_i)f(n_i)$
\item[] Let $\mu_b$ be the number of nodes considered by the search with bounded exploration.
\item[] Let $\mu_u$ be the number of nodes considered by search with unbounded exploration.

\item[] Let $\sigma_b(n_i)$ be the number of times a node visited by the search with bounded backtracking.
\item[] Let $\sigma_u(n_i)$ be the number of times a node visited by the search with bounded backtracking.
\subitem By definition, $\mu_b \leq \mu_u$ and $\sigma_b(n_i) \leq \sigma_u(n_i)$.
\item[] From this, we have
\subitem $C_b(t) = \sum_{i=0}^{i=\mu_b} \sigma_b(n_i)f(n_i) \leq C_u(t) = \sum_{i=0}^{i=\mu_u} \sigma_u(n_i)f(n_i)\qed$
\end{itemize}

\section{Conclusion}
We have shown that it is possible to account for uncertainties in the a real-time robotic search environment by relaxing admissibility criteria through the use of a combinatorial bound. This method places additional weight on a promissory path while setting a probabilistic limit on the number of non-$\epsilon$-admissible nodes that are visited.

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I next found myself in some sort of a airplane, flying saucer or jetplane. I'm not sure what it was or how I got there. From the interior it may have been a car, but we were not in traffic. We were way above the traffic. And once again I was with two different unknown people. The older man told the younger boy that was driving to pull up above the Big Mac bridge.
A nearby helicopter pilot watched in amazement as we flew above the Ohio River and passed the cities below. The young boy driving swung the ship around and down towards the traffic on Fourth Street, buzzing atop the cars and frightened drivers. We were spotted by another helicopter and a few jet airplanes.
Inside the craft I watched from what I guess was the back seat at the boy in the front seat. The steering wheel he gripped reminded me of an old classic car. It was big and made of light colored polished wood. I couldn't see the dashboard. The older man was saying, "Be careful Johnny, your going to cause us to crash." But Johnny wasn't listening.
One more time we went up in the sky, up above the bridges that span the Ohio. We came down and perched on the flat portion of a hill on the side of Mount Adams, in the yard of an A-frame building. This was the same flower shop that is in Bellevue Kentucky on Donnemeyer Road. Somehow it had now transported to Mount Adams. Two women came out of the flower shop. One was somewhat older than the other. The ship opened it's hatch like a giant clam. I could now see what I had been riding in.
It was indeed some sort of space craft. It appearance was similar to one of the old three man space capsules of the 1960's. It was bronze in color. Although the capsule was enclosed in some sort of burnished metal, you could see through it's walls from the craft's interior. Behind the capsule was some sort of engine and rudder. I suppose it was an engine, however it made no noise.
As the top of the capsule slowly swung back I could see why we could all fit into this small craft. We had been shrunken down to our essence. Each of us looked like a sort of squiggly piece of chewing gum. We were red, blue, dark green, and yellow. I don't know who yellow was.
He never said anything to me while we were flying. I was blue. The older guy was green and the younger fellow was red. We all sat...uh were laid out on this big lime green vinyl cushion. It probably wasn't actually vinyl, but that's the best way I can describe it. I don't think that they still use vinyl in more advanced civilizations. The older guy and I got out and suddenly were normal sized again. We talked with the ladies.
The older one said that she was in pain. She laid prostate on the grass and her clothing disappeared. I massaged her back and back side for a long time and she said it felt good. Eventually she said that she felt much better. We told them we had to leave. The older lady stood up and her clothing reappeared. She said that she was not letting us go anywhere without taking her. You know I say she was older, but she was actually about my same age. It's just that I'm not a kid anymore. This lady looked very much like my wife, but somewhat different. As we all approached the craft we again became gum sized. Away we went, rising slowly at first and then we got up to speed and headed skyward.
Once again the older man, who was the captain was shouting, "Slow down son and take it easy!"
And once again Johnny wasn't listening. We followed the route up I-75 high above the traffic below. By now it was twilight, that time between night and day when the sky looks like it can't make up it's mind.
"Pull up Johnny! Pull up!" But it was too late. Apparently we crashed. I guess being the size of a stick of Wrigley's gum softened the blow as I didn't feel anything. We found ourselves on another hillside similar to the one we had just left.
My lady friend and I got out and walked into the small house on this hill. No one was there, but the door to the cottage was opened. The living room was small and the walls were covered in old fashioned flowered wallpaper that was huge prints of wildflowers.
The chairs were old high backs covered also in flowered print fabric. They all had doilies on the armrests and the chair backs. The wooden floor had a big woven rug. We walked into the old kitchen. It was spotless, but the fixtures were very old. The stove stood on huge legs, as did the tiny refrigerator. The floor was flowery linoleum. The sink had a wooden back board and side board and was painted with white enamel. We walked out the back door and saw a small grove of walnut trees that were planted very close together. Our ship was underneath the trees.
The hatch opened slightly and out came two sticks of gum. The captain and the young boy, Johnny. The chewing gum adventurers took on shapes more like malleable soda straws. They wiggled off the side and burrowed into the ground. The space craft also slowly sunk into the ground and vanished from sight. The grass above it immediately grew back..
All at once a thin green vine started springing from the ground and it grew rapidly. Not only did it grow in length, but in width as well. It took the form of another walnut tree, but instead of it's trunk reaching toward the sky, it grew horizontally and parallel to the ground before it's branches started to sprout upwards.
From the house we heard voices and people came out into the garden that was enclosed by the trees.
"However did you get this tree to grow like this? It's amazing. It's like having a natural backyard seat" one of the ladies said to the hostess. People gathered in the backyard under the lights that were strung from the trees and sipped wine from plastic goblets and made idle talk.
They were totally oblivious to the fact that right under their feet was a spacecraft from...who-knows-where.
Neither did they know that they were sitting on my friends who had taken the shape of a tree. Nor were they able to hear the high pitched beacon crying out from the uppermost branches and beaming a signal homeward. You see my friends figured that they would be here for sometime and thought it better to lay down and be comfortable instead of stand up for a few centuries.
As for the lady that I was with, well she looked much more like my wife when she was younger and I looked like myself only I was older. No one paid us any mind since we apparently could not be seen, although I think we were no longer looking like chewing gum. I didn't mind not being seen since I feel invisible in that sort of crowd anyway.
I looked at my friend and said, "What do you think?" She just smiled. I said, "I like it here. It's so peaceful do you mind if we stay? She just smiled.
It's Tuesday morning now. I am awake. I am making a promise never to eat a steak hoagie, a piece of pepperoni and sausage pizza and two dill pickles before going to bed ever again.


This topic describes how to set up the permissions for a manual Velostrata migration. The guidance here aims to help those who want to understand or control the permissions granted for the migration process and migrated workloads.
Note: We recommend that you create your service accounts and roles by using scripts, which is described on the Configuring GCP page.
Two service accounts are required for Velostrata migrations. For more information on each of these service accounts and their associated roles, see Configuring GCP. For more information about gcloud commands and their parameters, see the Cloud SDK documentation.
You must install the GCP SDK.
Create a GCP project to host Velostrata infrastructure on GCP. We'll call this project the infrastructure project. Use this project wherever you see [PROJECT_ID].
Enable the following APIs on your infrastructure project.
To continue, select if you are migrating to a single project or multiple projects.
This section describes how to create the service accounts required for a single, standalone project, and assign the appropriate roles to those service accounts.
Open a command prompt and run the following command. Replace the login parameter with your GCP account login information.
Download the Cloud Deployment Manager zip file.
Unzip the file to a directory you can access when creating the roles.
Create the velos-manager service account in GCP. Note: The [PROJECT_ID] is your infrastructure project.
gcloud iam service-accounts create "velos-manager" --display-name "velos-manager"
Assign the velos_manager role to the velos-manager service account.
Create the velos-cloud-extension service account in GCP. Create this account in the project where you plan to deploy the Velostrata Cloud Extension (CE).
This section describes how to create the roles required for migrations into multiple projects, and assign those roles to service accounts.
The following steps create roles for Velostrata on GCP.
Download the Velostrata_Manager zip file, which contains the YAML files needed to create these roles.
Unzip the file and save to a directory you can access when creating roles.
Create the velos-manager service account in GCP. Although you can create the velos-manager service account in any of your projects, Velostrata 4.2 by Google recommends creating this service in the host project to simplify configuration.
Note: `[PROJECT_ID]` is the infrastructure project you used when creating velos-manager service account in step 2.
Assign the velos_manager role to thevelos-manager service account.


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Manderup Due (Taube), född 5 februari 1668 på Krastrups gods i Farstrups socken i dåvarande Ålborgs amt på Jylland, död 11 mars 1710 (enligt gregorianska kalendern) efter slaget vid Helsingborg, var en dansk militär.

Biografi
Due föddes in i släkten Due, en dansk förgrening av ätten Taube von der Issen, i sin tur en gren av uradelsätten Taube, som äldsta son till kanslirådet Bernt Due och Lisbeth Gregersdatter Krabbe på familjens gods Krastrup. Han skickades som 16-åring till Köpenhamn för att erhålla sin militärutbildning och två år senare var han fänrik vid Livgarden til Fods.

Vilhelmska kriget
Han var del av den bataljon ur regementet som under hertig Ferdinand Vilhelm av Württemberg 1689 sändes som hjälptrupper till Vilhelmska kriget på Irland. Strax innan han  gav sig av gifte han sig den 19 oktober 1689 med Charlotte Amalie Gøye. Trupperna avseglade den 7 november 1689 och väl i Irland deltog regementet 1690 i slaget vid Boyne den 1 juli och första belägringen av Limerick från augusti till september. Under ett första anfall mot staden den 10 augusti sårades Due lindrigt i striderna. Efter att städerna Cork och Kinsale intagits gick styrkorna i vinterläger i Waterford i sju månader. Den allierade hären bröt slutligen upp från sina kvarter den 23 maj 1691 och i juni intogs staden Athlone. De jakobitiska trupperna tog därefter ställning vid slottet Aughrim där de två arméerna den 22 juli kom att mötas i ett avgörande slag. De danska trupperna var placerade på härens vänstra flygel, där de vilhelmitiska styrkorna satte in sitt första anfall på den svaga jakobitiska högerflygeln. Jakobiterna lyckades dock förstärka sin högerflygel och vid en tidpunkt stred Livgardets bataljon mot fyra jakobitiska bataljoner. Efter att jakobiternas överbefälhavare Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe dödats av en kanonkula, föll deras linje samman och deras trupper föll till reträtt.

Pfalziska tronföljdskriget
Efter att de jakobitiska styrkorna övergivit sig och fredsfördraget slutits i Limerick den 2 oktober 1691 förflyttades Due, som det årets befordrats till sekondlöjtnant, med de allierade trupperna till Flandern för att delta i pfalziska tronföljdskriget. Där deltog de i det blodiga slaget vid Steenkerke där Livgardets bataljon tillhörde förtruppen och lyckades erövra en fransk ställning. Därefter försvarade bataljonen ställningen i nästan en timme under häftiga anfall innan man till slut var tvungen att retirera. Under slaget förlorade Livgarden 200 av sin styrka på 600 man. Under krigets resterande fem år deltog bataljonen inte under några större slag, utan var istället del av en del belägringar och mindre fälttåg. Due utsågs 1692 till premiärlöjtnant och 1695 till reformerad kapten. Trupperna återvände till slut till Danmark 1698 där Due var en av endast 260 överlevande av 804 vid kampanjens början.

Stora nordiska kriget
Efter freden utsågs Due till verklig kapten och företog därefter en resa till Frankrike, men när det stora nordiska kriget blossade upp i Danmark år 1700 kallades han hem, men anlände inte förrän efter att Danmark hade tvingats ur kriget vid freden i Traventhal samma år. Han blev 1701 anställd som major vid det nyupprättade Grenaderkorpset. Regementet var inte en del av de trupper den danska kungen hyrde ut till spanska tronföljdskriget på den europeiska kontinenten mellan 1701 och 1714. Den 19 mars 1706 utsågs Due till överste och regementschef för lantmilisregementet Vestsjællandske nationale Regiment och den 9 juli 1708 blev han chef över Dronningens Livregiment, arméns tredje i rang efter Livgarden och Grenaderkorpset.

När Danmark åter gav sig in i stora nordiska kriget genom invasionen av Skåne 1709, var Dronningens Livregiment tillsammans med Livgarden och Grenaderkorpset de första trupperna att landstiga vid Råå den 12 november. Regementet fick till uppgift att ta ställning för att beskydda landstigningen från anfall från söder. Under större delen av fälttåget deltog regementet vid belägringen av Malmö, men efter att den svenska armén hade brutit in i Skåne avbröts belägringen och regementet anslöt till huvudarmén vid Skarhult. Danskarna drog sig tillbaka till Helsingborg där det båda arméerna den 10 mars möttes vid det avgörande slaget vid Helsingborg.

Dronningens Regiment vad under slaget placerat i främre linjen av den danska centern med Livgarden til Fods på höger sida längst ut på centerns högra flygel och Fynske Regiment till vänster. Under slaget drabbades Dues regemente särskilt hårt av artillerield i form av kartesch- och druvhagelladdningar från de svenska regementskanonerna. Efter att det danska kavalleriet på den högra flygeln hade brutit samman uppfattade några av soldaterna i regementets bakre led hur danska kavallerister flydde mot Helsingborg, jagade av svenska ryttare, och oro uppstod i leden. Medan förbandets officerare kämpade med att få soldaterna att hålla sina poster träffades Due av artillerield i både högra armen och vänstra benet och föll sårad ner från sin häst. Dues fall, tillsammans med fruktan att stängas av från Helsingborg, vände oron till panik och regementet upplöstes i full flykt. Fynske Regiment såg hur Dronningens Regiment tog till flykten och slog till reträtt. Även Jyske Regiment längre till vänster drogs med i flykten. Snart kollapsade hela den danska linjen och slaget var förlorat. Due fördes tillbaka till Helsingborg där han, trots försök att rädda hans liv genom amputering av högerarmen, avled av sina skador natten till den 11 mars.

Eftermäle
Genom hustruns försorg begravdes Due i svärfadern Marcus Gøyes praktfulla familjegrav utformad av bildhuggaren Thomas Quellinus i Herlufsholms Kirke i Herlufsholms socken, Øster Flakkebjergs härad, Sorøs amt, på Själland. Giftermålet med Charlotte Amalie Gøye var barnlöst och änkan gifte 1716 om sig med greve Christian Rantzau. Med honom fick hon sonen Otto Manderup Rantzau.

Egendomar
Efter faderns död 1699 övertog Due dennes egendomar, vilka omfattade släktgården Krastrup, samt Gunderstedgaard, Kjeldgaard, Albæk och Torstedlund. De två senare gårdarna ägde han gemensamt med sin bror, Albert Christoffer Due. I och med sitt giftermål med Charlotte Amalie Gøye blev Due efter att hustruns fader, Marcus Gøye, avlidit 1698 även ägare till släkten Gøyes egendom Brahesborg tillsammans med sin hustru. Han sålde Kjeldgaard till Herluf Jensen (adlad Stjernholm 1747) 1709. Efter Dues död övertog brodern ägandeskapet av Albæk och Torstedlund, medan hustrun ägde Krastrup, där hon fortsatte att bo, Gunderstedgaard och Braheborg.

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Avlidna 1710


DURANT, Okla. — After an outstanding performance in the GAC Preview Event at Lake Hefner Golf Course in Oklahoma City, Zach James has been named the Great American Conference Male Golfer of the Week.
It was a record-setting week as his final round 63 marked the lowest competitive round fired by a Southeastern golfer and his total of 197, or 19-under-par, set both school and conference records for the best 54-hole total.
The Whitesboro native opened his tournament with a round of 65 and followed it with a 69 before closing out the event with his record 63. Over two tournaments and six competitive rounds, James has fired four of them in the 60s and is carrying a 68.67 average round and is minus-3.33 to par on average.
He picked up his fifth career victory with the win and earns his sixth GAC Golfer of the Week honor.
Southeastern will be back on the course Sept. 24-25 at Shangri La Golf Course and Resort for the MSSU Men's Fall Invitational.


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Куева де лос Вердес ( – "Зелената пещера" или Пещерата на Зелените, в миналото обитавана от семейство Verdes – "Зелени") е тунел от лава на о. Лансароте, регион Канарски острови, Испания.

Пещерата е туристическа атракция в рамките на защитената зона Monumento Natural del Malpaís de La Corona. Простира се на 6 км над морското равнище и на други 1,5 км под морето (Tunnel de la Atlantida).

Образувана е преди около 3000 години от изригване на близкия вулкан Монте Корона, протичащ през Malpaís de la Corona до моерто. Лавата се охлажда в горната си част, развива се солидна кора, преди лавата да се изтегли от горната част на пещерата. На около 20 места таванът на пещерата е сринат, образувайки пещери, познати сред местните като "хамео" (jameo). В ранните векове жителите на Лансароте са се криели в тази пещера, предпазвайки се от пирати и поробване.

Такава пещера хамео образува входа на Cueva de los Verdes. 2 километра от пещерната система са пригодени за посещение от туристи от 1960 г., като по пещерните стени е поставено осветление с цветни светлини.

Известна е също нейната концертна зала, разположена близо до входа и изхода на пещерата. Залата има капацитет от 15-20 реда, с по 25 седалки на всеки ред, като максимално побира около 500 души.

География на Канарските острови
Пещери в Испания
Защитени територии в Испания
Вулканология


Anyone using Intel and some ARM CPU's; As this targets Intels proprietary Privilege Escalation feature, AMD is not impacted. Im not sure how ARM CPUs are vulnerable, possible they licensed this from Intel?
Violate the boundary between Ring 3 and Ring 0 to read kernel memory from user space.
Ability to execute code on target machine.
Fault is thrown but speculative execution causes the result is stored in CPU cache due to out of order execution.
Check each possible BYTE and measure time against time of returning fault. If the result is stored in the cache, eg for 'a', then when we check 'a' return should take 60ms as opposed to 200ms if we check 'b'.
If fault takes a long time to return it means that letter was not stored in the cache and thus, was not in the memory location. If the fault is returned quickly then that letter matches the cache and we can try another memory location and repeat the process, building out what that string says.


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Ted Williams : biography
30 August 1918 – 05 July 2002
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox (1939–1942 and 1946–1960). Williams was a two-time American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) winner, led the league in batting six times, and won the Triple Crown twice. A 19-time All-Star, he had a career batting average of .344 with 521 home runs, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Williams recorded a hit 34 percent of the time; he reached base an astounding 48 percent of the time.
Williams was the last player in Major League Baseball to bat over .400 in a single season (.406 in 1941). Williams holds the highest career batting average of anyone with 500 or more home runs. His best year was 1941, when he hit .406 with 37 HR, 120 RBI, and 135 runs scored. His .553 on base percentage set a record that stood for 61 years. Nicknamed "The Kid", "The Splendid Splinter", "Teddy Ballgame", "The Thumper" and, because of his hitting prowess, "The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived", Williams' career was twice interrupted by service as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter-bomber pilot. An avid sport fisherman, he hosted a television program about fishing, and he was inducted into the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame.
On May 4, 1944, Williams married Doris Soule, daughter of his hunting guide. Their daughter, Barbara Joyce ("Bobbi Jo"), was born on January 28, 1948, while Williams was fishing in Florida. Accessed January 23, 2009 They divorced in 1954. Williams married the socialite model Lee Howard on September 10, 1961, but they divorced in 1967.
Williams married Dolores Wettach, a former Miss Vermont and Vogue model, in 1968. Their son John-Henry was born August 27, 1968, followed by daughter Claudia (born October 8, 1971). They were divorced in 1972.Hitter, Ed Linn, p. 355/7
Williams lived with Louise Kaufman for twenty years until her death in 1993. In his book, Cramer called her the love of Williams' life.Hitter, p 86 After his death, her sons filed suit to recover her furniture from Williams' condominium as well as a half-interest in the condominium they claimed he gave her. Accessed January 23, 2009
Both John-Henry and Williams' brother Danny died of leukemia.
Ted Williams was born in San DiegoSeidel, p. 1 as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt,Montville, p. 19 although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers (in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor) who had been killed in World War I.Williams & Underwood, p. 31 At some point Williams changed his name on his birth certificate to Theodore. His father was a soldier, sheriff, and photographer from New York,Williams & Underwood, p. 30 while his mother, May Venzor, from El Paso, Texas, was an evangelist and lifelong soldier in the Salvation Army. Williams resented his mother's long hours working in the Salvation Army,Seidel, p. 4 and Williams and his brother didn't like it when she took them to the Army's street-corner revivals.Montville, p. 21
Williams' paternal ancestors were a mix of Welsh and Irish. The Mexican side of Williams' family was quite diverse, having Spanish (Basque), Russian, and American Indian roots.Nowlin, p. 324 Of his Mexican ancestry he said that "If I had my mother's name, there is no doubt I would have run into problems in those days, [considering] the prejudices people had in Southern California".Williams & Underwood, p. 28
Williams lived in San Diego's North Park neighborhood (4121 Utah Street).Montville, p. 20 At the age of eight, he was taught how to throw a baseball by his uncle, Saul Venzor. Saul was one of his mother's four brothers, as well as a former semi-professional baseball player who had pitched against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Gordon in an exhibition game.Nowlin & Price, p. 31Montville, p. 22 As a child, Williams' heroes were Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals and Bill Terry of the New York Giants.McCormack, p. 14 Williams graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, where he played baseball as a pitcher and was the star of the team.Montville, p. 26 Though he had offers from the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees while he was still in high school,Nowlin, p. 118 his mother thought he was too young to leave home, so he signed up with the local minor league club, the San Diego Padres.
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Sacramento Sage Sistahs spent the day affirming the beauty, wisdom, and experience we've gained through our aging journey. Old connections were renewed, new friends were made and shared experiences assured us; we are not alone. We gained new tools in financial and estate planning and how to keep our brains and body healthy. We are committed to living a fulfilling, active, healthy and financially secure life at every age.


With the good weather of late, Ian and I have been doing the rounds of the National Trust Gardens again. It has been several years since we last visited Scotney Castle, so one fine spring weekend we loaded up the car with our photography gear and off we went.
Earlier in the year we had arranged for a Canon 5D Mark II to be converted to infra-red* and I was keen to have a go and see what I could produce with it. I snapped away getting very strange, yet sometimes quite beguiling results.
If you convert your camera to IR then these problems largely go away and you can use the camera pretty much as normal. Just remember that this permanently changes the camera to an IR only body, unless you want to pay to have it reconverted again!
Focus may be slightly off (since lenses focus IR light differently to normal light). Different lenses are affected to varying degrees, so for perfect focus it is best to focus manually, using live view.
Since the image on the back of the camera (and when downloaded) comes out in shades of pink you have to use your imagination to visualise what the final image would look like. You can look online for ways to process these IR images, but the easiest and most common is to turn them into black and white.
The interesting thing is what to shoot, as IR changes appearances quite a lot! In landscape, sky and water go dark whilst foliage comes out white. People's hair goes grey (very ageing!!) and their skin takes on a waxy appearance. Stone and metal look very much as normal. Looking around I could see several scenes where an attractive image could be possible. Some sky and water, attractive foliage and of course the castle itself.
* Most people choose to convert an old camera body when they are upgrading to a new one. There are plenty of places to get your camera converted, but we used Protech Photographic, in Sussex, and are very happy to recommend them. Great service at a reasonable price, with good advice on what sensor to choose.
That seem to be a really interesting area IR photography. The pictures are great. And you are right i used a filter once and it is really difficult to become a good result. Great pictures!
What makes an image stand out?


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https://apnews.com/article/religion-education-lawsuits-2b005195ce2520b97ed11098da604fb8
Lawsuit targeting transgender student policies dismissed
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by faith-based conservative groups challenging guidelines on the treatment of transgender students in public schools, ruling that the group lacked standing.
Lynchburg Circuit Court Judge J. Frederick Watson, who dismissed the suit Tuesday, questioned whether suggested policies would actually affect the groups that filed the lawsuit, news outlets report.
At the General Assembly's direction, the Department of Education created model policies that are inclusive of transgender and nonbinary students. All school districts must adopt policies consistent with or more comprehensive than the model policies. They include allowing students to use school bathrooms and locker rooms that conform to their gender identity and allowing students to use pronouns and a name that reflects their gender identity.
Christian Action Network, a faith-based organization, and two families whose children attend Lynchburg public schools filed a motion seeking to have the guidelines postponed. The lawsuit was merged with one filed by the Family Foundation, Founding Freedoms Law Center, and a family whose children attend public schools in Hanover County. The lawsuit argued that the model policies violate parental child-rearing rights and student rights to freely exercise their religion.
In his opinion, Watson wrote "because the model policies are directed only to school boards, they cannot affect or aggrieve anyone other than the school boards."
While the dismissal limits future statewide challenges, the fight will continue at local school boards, which are currently debating how or if to implement policies before the school year starts.
"This is a win and we should celebrate it for the win that it is," said Vee Lamneck, executive director of Equality Virginia, an advocacy group focused on LGBTQ rights. "The work continues. We are still continuing to have these conversations because of the spread of misinformation that is out there."
The Founding Freedoms Law Center called the decision a "disappointing development" in a statement, but noted favorable outcomes including Watson calling the model policies guidance. The group said they'd fight "certain individual board policies" in coming weeks if they follow the state guidelines.


members endpoint now takes 'emails' or 'verified_emails' parameter as comma seperated list of emails to search on. 'emails' searches all emails regardless of verified status, verified_emails only searches on verified emails address.
GeoLat and GeoLong added to member object for both member and members endpoints.
Members will be linked based on provided partner Codes and partner IDs during registration. Note: It is up to the developer to ensure these partner IDs and codes are consistent for the member they wish to link to.


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HackCU is a student organization at the University of Colorado at Boulder who brings together people for our annual technology and design events, HackCU and Local Hack Day. We are the largest hackathon in the Rocky Mountain Region, and our mission is to foster learning, designing, and building in order to turn student's ideas into a reality!
We teach how to use technologies to create, manage and successfully develop your personal projects. Our aim is to allow you to create something by the end of each workshop.
Bridging the gap between student talent and startups. We connect motivated CU students with the startup community in Boulder.
Every spring, we bring together people of all experience levels, majors and backgrounds to CU Boulder. HackCU provides the space and the resources for you to express your creativity, ingenuity, and determination to create anything you want to.
HackCU hosts Local Hack Day every year at the CU Boulder! This is a worldwide event aimed at bringing students local to different areas together for just 12 hours of building anything you set your mind to.
A different kind of hiring event - Bridging the gap between students and local startups.
Learn about open source software development with professionals and win sweet prizes!
Our first ever 15-hour hardware hackathon - Come to learn and build with hardware!
Our annual 12 hour hack day - Bringing together the local hacker community to learn and build new things.
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How to get rid of mold in my basement?
We had some moldy cardboard boxes but removed them, what can be done to clean and sanitize the surfaces they were on. Also should something be done about the air?
Hazmat suit. Bleach. Hard bristle brush. Elbow grease.
Hard brush. Bleach. Open the windows.
If it's black mould, you'll need to pay for a remediation or you'll never get rid of the spores.
Cal some experts to clean it up.
Use diluted vinegar it does wonders and it is cheap, but make sure you wear a mask when you are cleaning it so you do not breathe in the mold!