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The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is a broad piece of legislation that supports fair and kind treatment of people whose lives are impacted by a physical disability. One of the most important aspects of rulemaking under the ADA is reasonable public access. For example, owners of stores and restaurants should follow ADA regulations when designing the layout of their businesses; this means, among other things, that there should be at least one door that is wide enough for a wheelchair, restroom signs in Braille, ramps that lead to the front of the store, etc.
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Solargiga and Motech JV adding 600MW of solar module capacity in China
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Major Taiwanese PV manufacturer Motech Industries is making an investment in a PV module manufacturing subsidiary of monocrystalline solar cell producer Solargiga Energy that will drive an additional 600MW of new capacity at the plant in China through 2016.
The PV module subsidiary of Solargiga is expected to expand PV module capacity by 400MW and enter volume production in February 2016. A second phase of expansion totalling 200MW is follow and start ramping in the third quarter of 2016.
According to Solargiga, annual production would total 1.2GW once the second phase of expansion was completed.
The company noted that the capacity expansion was needed to support customer demand and its PV project business.
Motech's China-based operations, Motech (Suzhou) Renewable Energy Co is making the investment of RMB11.4 million (US$1.78 million) and will have a 19% stake in the module manufacturing subsidiary.
A further RMB8.6 million (US$1.34 million) is to be contributed by Solargiga subsidiary, Jinzhou Jinmao which owns the PV module company.

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Often when people come to visit Japan they do so on a short time frame so they only get to see the big cities. Tokyo is one massive urban sprawl so I like to try and show our visitors what Japan is like outside of the city! Something like 80% of Japan is covered in thick forest and is really green. This is the area we were camping in, I took the pictures from the dam.
Not the best picture, but I love this tunnel! It was like being swallowed by a dragon, we thought the other end should have been decorated as a dragons bum lol. But I suppose that would be weird driving into it!
Ebi-kun's camp highlight was having a real fire. Not many of the campsites allow you light real fires but here it was encouraged, so we cooked dinner on the open fire. Nothing fancy, we skewered sausages - the best sausages Ebi-kun has EVER had apparently! I also did veg in foil, just chopped up veg then sprinkle on a cuppa soup and add a lithe water, wrap up and put in the hot embers. Yum. It did get a bit chilly at night so it was good to to have the fire. Of course we had to finish with s'mores, this time we used chocolate digestives and marshmallows, worked a lot better.
And a couple of random pictures, first is the smallest fire truck ever! It did have a hose and ladder on the back, just about Ebi-kun's size.
Plus a random t-shirt, if you know what this means, leave me a comment, I haven't a clue!
Those are lovely images, hope one day I could visit Japan!!
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Over the past few months I have been involved in many discussions on skills development in Africa, particularly 21st century skills. These discussions have been strongly focused on what skills industry and economies need from their employees in order to grow, and focus very little on the personal growth and development of the student. Whilst skills for employment are necessary, it is not the be all and end all of education, thus I wanted to reflect further on the intrinsic value of education, how crucial it is in the process of decolonisation, and to the liberation of our minds.
The argument between education being for instrumental or intrinsic value has been longstanding. Education for its intrinsic value, commonly understood as 'to know for the sake of knowing', is often seen as inconsequential. The instrumental value, loosely speaking, is the ability for it to provide enhanced functionality, which in my framing here is employability. In particular, when we speak about education in a developing country context, we talk about its need to provide skills that allow for better job opportunities. For this, emphasis has been put on STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) subjects as these are more 'practical' and have tangible outcomes. Intelligence is defined by excelling in scientific clusters. Art, philosophy, and social sciences are viewed as secondary, especially if you want to 'progress' in this world. (The reason I use inverted commas here is that when we view education in this light only, we automatically buy into the capitalistic drivers for education, i.e. a more educated nation equals more economic growth for the country.) This is especially noticeable in online learning which tends to offer shorter courses that can improve one's employability, but forget about all the other aspects of a holistic education system, that is, its combined intrinsic and instrumental value. When we look at education this way, we reduce ourselves to a cog in a well-oiled industrial-era machine that has convinced us that this is purpose for educating ourselves.
When I talk about instrumental education, I am not only alluding to just 'textbook' knowledge and formal education. On the contrary, it also includes agricultural know-how, indigenous understanding, environmental awareness and life skills. It includes a mother teaching her daughter about which ingredients cure which illnesses, or a child teaching a grandparent how to use a smartphone. These are all valid forms of knowledge and deserve to be acknowledged as such. However, these are all still forms of instrumental education as they have practical and tangible use.
Now let us go back to the intrinsic value of education that is treated as a caveat; a "nice to have but not necessary". When I speak of intrinsic education I mean the type of knowledge that is hard to measure or quantify. You can't grade it or calculate its statistical likelihood to give you a salary increase. It's psychological. I am even not talking about buzzwords such as problem solving, soft skills, and communication skills, which, whilst important, are instrumental skills for employability. The intrinsic value of education I am speaking about is the expansion of one's consciousness. It forms your idea of self-worth, your identity, your positionality, and your aspirations. It forms your idea of where you fit in the world, and how fixed you are in that placing.
It is for these reasons that one's learning environment, and learning methods, might be more important than the content itself, particularly in the conversation of decolonisation. Fanon (1961, p 159) envisioned this when he spoke of education as "opening their minds, awakening them, and allowing the birth of their intelligence". Freire (1970, p. 35) called this a "critical consciousness". For example, when we look back at Bantu education of Apartheid in South Africa, one way to look at it would be the limitation in the skills one could acquire (i.e. the instrumental limitations). However, the much greater damage was in the psychological dimensions; the "normalisation of the violence of education" (Dei & Simmons, 2010, p. 8) . A liberated mind is much more dangerous to the hegemony than an engineering degree.
When we speak of decolonising our education, we often focus on the need to rewrite knowledge from a more pluralistic point of view, to include the marginalised voices. However, when I speak about this intrinsic nature of education, what I am concerned with is what was never written down, thus it is much harder to rewrite and recontextualise. Such intrinsic effects of education involved the colonisation of the mind to make one feel inferior through the normalisation of the violence of education. For example, when parts of one's culture and identity is taught to be uncultured or uncivilised. These unwritten parts of education can lead to a loss of dignity and self-worth. This is where the intrinsic nature of education plays a big role….it is the immeasurable parts of our educational systems, and the part that needs to be decolonised the most. It is not something taught and assessed, but rather experienced and ingrained. Dei and Simmons (2010, p. 16) talk about this intrinsic nature of education when they emphasis the need to decolonise spaces in classrooms such that they deal with the "spiritual and emotional harm" that schooling can cause on the oppressed through the negation and "amputation" of parts of themselves. This intrinsic nature of education is responsible for our dreams and our imagination, and consequently the limitations of them. Fanon insisted that by not resisting and confronting the violence against oneself, it reinforces and internalises the violence, thus contributing to victimisation of oneself (Dei & Simmons, 2010).
In order to move forward, our view of the purpose of education needs to change and this needs to nurture the intrinsic value of education that serves to create that "critical consciousness". So when we fight for the right to access to education, remember that we are not fighting for our right to become a cog in the system through mere skills development, but the right to liberate our minds and souls…this is the true value of education.
Dei, G. J. S., & Simmons, M. (2010). Fanon & Education: Thinking Through Pedagogical Possibilities. Peter Lang.
Fanon, F. (1961). The wretched of the earth. London: MacGibbon & Kee.
Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.
Taskeen Adam is a Cambridge-Africa scholar pursuing doctoral research at the Centre for Development Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).
Her research interest is on educational technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the role of African Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in helping the most marginalized. Her MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development thesis focused on the Sustainable Implementation of the One Laptop per Child project in Rwanda.


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Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.
In September 2012, around 100 pupils and students from seven European countries took part in the forum "It's our Europe!", drafting recommendations which were presented in a document named the Ludwigsburg initiative.


What is Galentine's Day? Oh, it's only the best day of the year! In the words of Leslie Knope, February 13 is all about ladies celebrating ladies. So today we've teamed up with Lindt to share some ideas for a Chocolate-themed Galentine's Day bash with all your friends.
1. OVER THE TOP DECOR Find the pinkiest-pinks and the doiliest hearts and pack it all in. It's time to use the most exaggerated decor you can find. Anything red or pink is fair game. Hearts are mandatory.
2. MAKE IT FUN Adding in silly items like flamingos, straws and lip-shaped sunglasses take the serious level down a notch and make it fun!
3. CHOCOLATE IS A GIRLS BEST FRIEND Add a spread of chocolate decadent treats. Chocolate cake and lots of chocolate truffles are a great start. We made these cute chocolate rings out of LINDOR Truffles so you can swear your undying love to all your BFF's. Lindt LINDOR Truffles are our favorites (they melt in your mouth!) We especially love the Limited Edition Valentine's Day Truffle flavor – white chocolate wrapped in milk chocolate!
The packaging for Lindt LINDOR Truffles is so pretty, they almost look like gems. The rings are super easy to make yourself, or you could always DIY them together during the party. Just purchase some ring bases from a craft store and hot glue them to the Truffle packaging.
That is such a cute idea, I totally love it how we celebrate us as women, and the decorations for that are awesome!
No way. Today just did a Galentine's Day post as well. It's just the best. And Lindt chocolates are SO. GOOD. Can never have just one!
Chocolate rings?! Count me in! This looks like such a fun party to throw for your girlfriends. Love it!
Oh, I'm on the hunt for red glitter lip sunglasses like these for my bachelorette party!! Where are they from?
This is such a fun party! I love all the little details!
Great ideas! I might just throw my own Galintines party now.
What a cute party! And you can never go wrong with chocolate!
Galentines is such a cute concept! I always want to have a Galentine's party!
What a cute idea! I love "Galentines day", despite being with my boyfriend for 6 years I always spend VDay with my friends! As students we are on tight budgets but it is always nice to have a special night here and there.
Yes! Where are those sunglasses from?!?
the rings are adorable. And the decorations are just too fun! Thanks for the great ideas!!!!
The rings are adorable. And the decorations are the cutest. Thanks for sharing your great ideas!!!
OH MY GOSH THAT IS AMAZING!! HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE?!?!?!?


GRUNDY, Felix, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Berkeley County, Va., on September 11, 1777; moved with his parents to Brownsville, Pa., and in 1780 to Kentucky; instructed at home and at the Bardstown Academy, Bardstown, Ky.; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bardstown, Ky., in 1797; member of the Kentucky constitutional convention in 1799; member, State house of representatives 1800-1805; chosen judge of the supreme court of Kentucky in 1806, and, in 1807, made chief justice, which office he soon resigned; moved to Nashville, Tenn., in 1807 and resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his resignation in 1814; member, Tennessee House of Representatives 1819-1825; in 1820 helped effect an amicable adjustment of the State line between Tennessee and Kentucky; elected as a Jacksonian in 1829 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 4, 1833, caused by the resignation of John H. Eaton; reelected in 1833 as a Democrat and served from October 19, 1829, to July 4, 1838, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet position; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-first through Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Judiciary (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses); appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Martin Van Buren in July 1838; resigned in December 1839, having been elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on November 19, 1839, to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1839, caused by the resignation of Ephraim Foster; the question of his eligibility to election as Senator while holding the office of Attorney General of the United States having been raised, he resigned from the Senate on December 14, 1839, and was reelected the same day, serving from December 14, 1839, until his death in Nashville, Tenn., December 19, 1840; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-sixth Congress); interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Dictionary of American Biography; Ewing, Frances Howard. "The Senatorial Career of the Hon. Felix Grundy." Tennessee Historical Magazine 2 (October 1931): 3-27, 2 (January 1932): 111-35, 2 (April 1932): 220-24, 2 (July 1932): 270-91; Parks, Joseph. Felix Grundy: Champion of Democracy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1940.


I'm not a git master, but I have been working with it for some time now, with several different projects. In each project, I always git clone [repository] and from that point, can always git pull, so long as I don't have outstanding changes, of course.
Recently, I had to revert to a previous branch, and did so with git checkout 4f82a29. When I was again ready to pull, I found that I had to set my branch back to master. Now, I can not pull using a straight git pull but instead, have to specify git pull origin master, which is annoying, and indicates to me that I don't fully understand what is going on.
What has changed which does not allow me to do a straight git pull without specifying origin master, and how to I change it back?
I can tell git pull which branch to merge, and it works correctly, but git pull does not work as it did originally before my git checkout.
When you're on the master branch, the default remote is origin.
When using git pull on the master branch, with no remote and branch specified, use the default remote (origin) and merge in the changes from the remote master branch.
I'm not sure why this setup would've been removed from your configuration, though. You may have to follow the suggestions that other people have posted, too, but this may work (or help at least).
This will add the same info to your .git/config, but I find it easier to remember.
Git pull combines two actions -- fetching new commits from the remote repository in the tracked branches and then merging them into your current branch.
When you checked out a particular commit, you don't have a current branch, you only have HEAD pointing to the last commit you made. So git pull doesn't have all its parameters specified. That's why it didn't work.
Since it's your server that you are wanting to change, I will assume that you don't need to rewrite history to hide the buggy commit.
If the bug was introduced in a merge commit, then this procedure will not work. See How-to-revert-a-faulty-merge.
There is also a way of configuring Git so, it always pulls and pushes the equivalent remote branch to the branch currently checked out to the working copy. It's called a tracking branch which git ready recommends setting by default.
Kind of magic, IMHO but this might help in cases where the specific branch is always the current branch.
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Your immediate question of how to make it pull master, you need to do what it says. Specify the refspec to pull from in your branch config.
how to update git clone?
Why does Git not default to "origin master"?


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Q: How to log out user and How to check user verify mail I got the following problem.
When user register he will be on a page, where I show a message like check your Email account. And when user check his account and confirm his mail he automatically get to homepage. So far so good. But when user press register button an get mail and reload the page he get also inside homepage without confirm his mail.
I trie this
Future<String> signIN(String email, String password) async {

    try {

      UserCredential result =await FirebaseAuth.instance.signInWithEmailAndPassword(
        email: email.trim(),
        password: password,
      );
      User user = result.user;

      if(user.emailVerified){
        return user.uid;
      }

    } on FirebaseAuthException catch (e) {

but not working.
here's my verify email page
import 'dart:async';

import 'package:firebase_auth/firebase_auth.dart';
import 'package:flutter/cupertino.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:projectandroidstudiodenya/seitenleiste/homepage.dart';

class VerifyScreen extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _VerifyScreenState createState() => _VerifyScreenState();
}

class _VerifyScreenState extends State<VerifyScreen> {
  final auth= FirebaseAuth.instance;
  User user;
  Timer timer;

  @override
  void initState() {
    user= auth.currentUser;
    user.sendEmailVerification();
    timer= Timer.periodic(Duration(seconds: 5), (timer) {
      checkEmailverifyed();

    });
    super.initState();
  }
  @override
  void dispose() {
timer.cancel();
super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {

    return Scaffold(
      body:Center(

      )
    );
  }

  Future<void> checkEmailverifyed() async{
    user=auth.currentUser;
    await user.reload();
    if(user.emailVerified){
      timer.cancel();
      Navigator.of(context).
      pushReplacement(MaterialPageRoute(builder:(context)=> Homepage()));
    }

  }
}

Maybe anyone can help.
And also when user press logout button  nothing happened. but when user restart the app he logged out.
here's my logout pressed method:
  onPressed: ()  {
                              FirebaseAuth.instance.signOut();
                              FirebaseAuth.instance.signOut();Navigator.pushNamedAndRemoveUntil(context, LoginScreen.route, (route) => false);

Heres the error of the sign out:
D/FirebaseAuth(26776): Notifying id token listeners about a sign-out event.
D/FirebaseAuth(26776): Notifying auth state listeners about a sign-out event.
E/flutter (26776): [ERROR:flutter/lib/ui/ui_dart_state.cc(186)] Unhandled Exception: Could not find a generator for route RouteSettings("SignIn", null) in the _WidgetsAppState.
E/flutter (26776): Make sure your root app widget has provided a way to generate
E/flutter (26776): this route.
E/flutter (26776): Generators for routes are searched for in the following order:
E/flutter (26776):  1. For the "/" route, the "home" property, if non-null, is used.
E/flutter (26776):  2. Otherwise, the "routes" table is used, if it has an entry for the route.
E/flutter (26776):  3. Otherwise, onGenerateRoute is called. It should return a non-null value for any valid route not handled by "home" and "routes".
E/flutter (26776):  4. Finally if all else fails onUnknownRoute is called.
E/flutter (26776): Unfortunately, onUnknownRoute was not set.
E/flutter (26776): #0      _WidgetsAppState._onUnknownRoute.<anonymous closure> (package:flutter/src/widgets/app.dart:1219:9)
E/flutter (26776): #1      _WidgetsAppState._onUnknownRoute (package:flutter/src/widgets/app.dart:1234:6)
E/flutter (26776): #2      NavigatorState._routeNamed (package:flutter/src/widgets/navigator.dart:4148:37)
E/flutter (26776): #3      NavigatorState.pushNamedAndRemoveUntil (package:flutter/src/widgets/navigator.dart:4391:34)
E/flutter (26776): #4      Navigator.pushNamedAndRemoveUntil (package:flutter/src/widgets/navigator.dart:2042:34)
E/flutter (26776): #5      _openSignOutDrawer.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:projectandroidstudiodenya/seitenleiste/seitenleiste.dart:188:90)
E/flutter (26776): #6      _rootRunUnary (dart:async/zone.dart:1362:47)
E/flutter (26776): #7      _CustomZone.runUnary (dart:async/zone.dart:1265:19)
E/flutter (26776): <asynchronous suspension>
E/flutter (26776):

And the error of the sig in:
E/flutter (26776): [ERROR:flutter/lib/ui/ui_dart_state.cc(186)] Unhandled Exception: NoSuchMethodError: The getter 'emailVerified' was called on null.
E/flutter (26776): Receiver: null
E/flutter (26776): Tried calling: emailVerified
E/flutter (26776): #0      Object.noSuchMethod (dart:core-patch/object_patch.dart:54:5)
E/flutter (26776): #1      AuthService.signIN (package:projectandroidstudiodenya/services/auth.dart:44:44)
E/flutter (26776): #2      _LoginScreenState._buildLoginBtn.<anonymous closure> (package:projectandroidstudiodenya/authenticate/signin.dart:170:48)
E/flutter (26776): #3      _LoginScreenState._buildLoginBtn.<anonymous closure> (package:projectandroidstudiodenya/authenticate/signin.dart:168:24)
E/flutter (26776): #4      _InkResponseState._handleTap (package:flutter/src/material/ink_well.dart:994:20)
E/flutter (26776): #5      GestureRecognizer.invokeCallback (package:flutter/src/gestures/recognizer.dart:182:24)
E/flutter (26776): #6      TapGestureRecognizer.handleTapUp (package:flutter/src/gestures/tap.dart:607:11)
E/flutter (26776): #7      BaseTapGestureRecognizer._checkUp (package:flutter/src/gestures/tap.dart:296:5)
E/flutter (26776): #8      BaseTapGestureRecognizer.acceptGesture (package:flutter/src/gestures/tap.dart:267:7)
E/flutter (26776): #9      GestureArenaManager.sweep (package:flutter/src/gestures/arena.dart:157:27)
E/flutter (26776): #10     GestureBinding.handleEvent (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:443:20)
E/flutter (26776): #11     GestureBinding.dispatchEvent (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:419:22)
E/flutter (26776): #12     RendererBinding.dispatchEvent (package:flutter/src/rendering/binding.dart:288:11)
E/flutter (26776): #13     GestureBinding._handlePointerEventImmediately (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:374:7)
E/flutter (26776): #14     GestureBinding.handlePointerEvent (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:338:5)
E/flutter (26776): #15     GestureBinding._flushPointerEventQueue (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:296:7)
E/flutter (26776): #16     GestureBinding._handlePointerDataPacket (package:flutter/src/gestures/binding.dart:279:7)
E/flutter (26776): #17     _rootRunUnary (dart:async/zone.dart:1370:13)
E/flutter (26776): #18     _CustomZone.runUnary (dart:async/zone.dart:1265:19)
E/flutter (26776): #19     _CustomZone.runUnaryGuarded (dart:async/zone.dart:1170:7)
E/flutter (26776): #20     _invoke1 (dart:ui/hooks.dart:186:10)
E/flutter (26776): #21     PlatformDispatcher._dispatchPointerDataPacket (dart:ui/platform_dispatcher.dart:282:7)
E/flutter (26776): #22     _dispatchPointerDataPacket (dart:ui/hooks.dart:96:31)
E/flutter (26776):

My sig in method looks like that:
Future<String> signIN(String email, String password) async {

 try {
      if(FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser.emailVerified) {
        ( await _auth.signInWithEmailAndPassword(
          email: email.trim(), password: password,)).user;

        // User user = result.user;
      }

    } on FirebaseAuthException catch (e) {
      switch (e.code) {
        case 'invalid-email':
          {
            return 'Email is not valid';
          }
        case 'user-disabled':
          {
            return 'Account is not active';
          }
        case 'user-not-found':
          {
            return 'No user found';
          }
        case 'wrong-password':
          {
            return 'wrong password';
          }
        default:
          {
            return 'Unexpected error!';
          }
      }
    }
    return null;

  }

It looks different because I changed it like it was before that so I can check if maybe it was on the changes it do because it runs at this point.

A: You should check email verification within you're sign-in method, and if the email was verified then return instance.signInWithEmailAndPassword.
full code:
Future<String> signIN(String email, String password) async {

 try {
      if(FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser.emailVerified) {
        ( await _auth.signInWithEmailAndPassword(
          email: email.trim(), password: password,)).user;
        return "success";
        // User user = result.user;
      }

    } on FirebaseAuthException catch (e) {
      switch (e.code) {
        case 'invalid-email':
          {
            return 'Email is not valid';
          }
        case 'user-disabled':
          {
            return 'Account is not active';
          }
        case 'user-not-found':
          {
            return 'No user found';
          }
        case 'wrong-password':
          {
            return 'wrong password';
          }
        default:
          {
            return 'Unexpected error!';
          }
      }
    }
    return return "error";;

  }

so every moment when signIN calling it would check email verification and if it verified it would work if it isn't it will return "error" or other problem variants, and you can listen to response so when it gives you an error you should return a snackBar, if it returns "success" then you would navigate.
Solution of logout issue:
onPressed: ()  {
 FirebaseAuth.instance.signOut().then((){
   Navigator.pushNamedAndRemoveUntil(context, LoginScreen.route (route) => false);
});

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Energy Seminar: Michael Sivak, Has motorization in the U.S. peaked?
I will discuss two series of studies related to the possible peaking of motorization in the U.S. In the first series of studies, I examined recent changes in the number of registered light-duty vehicles, and the corresponding changes in distance driven and fuel consumed. The units of the analyses were both the absolute numbers and the rates per person, per driver, and per household.
The main finding of those studies is that all rates reached their maxima around 2004. I will argue that, because the onsets of the reductions in these rates preceded the onset of the recession (in 2008), the reductions in these rates likely reflect fundamental, noneconomic changes in society. Therefore, these maxima have a reasonable chance of being long-term peaks as well. In the second series of studies, we examined recent changes in the proportion of persons in different age groups that do not have a driver's license. The main result of these studies is that there has been a large drop in the licensure rate of persons younger than 40 years of age, and that drop shows no sign of a reversal. The combined evidence from these two sets of studies suggests that the answer to the question posed in the title is "yes." (Bonus: I will also present our monthly tracking data showing 20% less emissions per driver of a new vehicle now compared with 2007, due to both reduced distances driven and improved vehicle fuel economy.)
Monday, October 20, 2014. 04:15 PM
NVIDIA auditorium, Huang Engineering
swang24@stanford.edu
Free and open to all
General Public, Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni/Friends


A SOLITARY Tim Sills strike ensured the Terras maintained top spot in the Evo-Stik Southern Premier Division, with a hard-fought victory over Cambridge City.The former Torquay United and Aldershot man, who stated his intentions to add more goals to his Terras' tally during the second half of the season, popped up on 26 minutes to net the winner, slotting the ball into the bottom corner to seal three points for his side.
The victory ensures Jason Matthews' charges extend their run without a league defeat to 13 games, and kept their unbeaten home record in the division this season intact.
Weymouth also extended their advantage at the summit to four points after title rivals Poole Town saw their game at Biggles-wade washed out, and the floodlights at Truro City failed after 82 minutes, meaning their clash with Corby Town was abandoned.
With an unchanged starting XI from their draw against the Tigers last time out, Weymouth saw most of the possession in the early stages but failed to fashion anything clear cut.
After Ashley Wells' throw-in on the right flank, a neat pass from Adam Kelly found midfield partner George Rigg, who hit the first shot of the contest wide of a post, and Danny Kelly's tame effort was well gathered by Matthews at the other end.
Rigg looked lively early on. He broke forward and was cynically brought down by City's Duran Reynolds, which earned him a booking, but from the resulting free-kick Chris Shephard's attempt failed to cause any problems, as it ricocheted off the wall to safety.
The Lilywhites then broke on the counter and Josh Dawkin's effort sailed high and wide of the mark, and goalkeeper Matthews was then pole-axed by Chris Bacon as the pair contested a loose ball.
Stewart Yetton then sent his first effort of the afternoon out of the ground, but it was his strike partner Sills who grabbed what proved to be the winner midway through the first half.
After the Lilywhites failed to deal with a Weymouth corner, which pinballed around in the area, the ball eventually fell to the veteran marksman to record his fourth league goal of the season.
Matthews then sprawled across goal to save a header from a Lilywhites' set-piece, but the referee's whistle had already been blown for a free-kick after an infringement in the area.
Jake Wannell then had a superb opportunity to sign off in style in what was his final game for the club, as he was slid in by Kelly on the counter.
But the defender had his head in his hands as his low left-footed drive was denied by the feet of Jamie Head in the visitors' goal.
Rigg then forced Head into a save for the cameras just short of the break to keep the score at 1-0, and Kelly came close from an inventive free-kick move with Shephard.
Wannell then had another golden chance to give the home fans a leaving present on his departure moments after the restart.
A neat flick from Sills on the edge of the area found the full-back in acres of space, but he snatched at the effort and the ball crashed into the side-netting.
A disjointed second half then followed as Weymouth played into the breeze, with Alec Fiddes replacing Shephard just past the hour mark.
The young winger nearly made an instant impact as he motored down the left wing on the counter, but astonishingly, referee Iain Parsons pointed for a goal kick after he was chopped down by a covering defender, much to the amazement of the home fans behind the goal.
As expected, the visitors started to throw caution to the wind, but as much as they huffed and puffed, they never really had enough quality in the final third to force Matthews into making any troublesome saves.
And as the final whistle blew, the table-topping Terras were given a good ovation by the home fans, and the Lilywhites were read the riot act on the pitch after the contest for their troubles.


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Auction roundup: Mahugh honored; Manheim 'Touch-A-Truck'
Manheim New England's Touch-A-Truck Event. Photo courtesy of Manheim.
Thursday, Sep. 19, 2019, 02:11 PM
By Auto Remarketing Staff
CARY, N.C. -
Greg Mahugh has played an important role in many auction industry programs, and he has been "a quiet force behind the scenes" in serving the National Auto Auction Association's legislative and political action committees, said NAAA president Chad Bailey.
"And although he's retired from the McConkey Auction Group's day-to-day operations, Greg continues to serve on NAAA committees and can be found auctioneering during DAA Northwest's monthly promotional event sales," Bailey said in a news release.
Because of that and other work, NAAA has named Mahugh a Warren Young Fellow. Mahugh is retired senior vice president of operations for the McConkey group.
Bailey presented the honor to Mahugh during the Spokane, Wash., auction's 24th Annual Rock & Roll Sale in July.
Mahugh is now part of an exclusive group of 113 individuals with the lifetime distinction of being named a Fellow. He received a gold medallion and a framed commemorative certificate.
His name will be engraved on a plaque of esteemed Fellows at NAAA headquarters.
His wholesale auto auction career began in 1978 at the McConkey family's South Seattle Auto Auction. He held various positions there before becoming general manager in 1986 for the auction's new owner, GE Capital.
Mahugh served in that position under later Manheim ownership until 1992. At that time, he and his friend and former auction colleague Bob McConkey, Jr. founded an auction in Spokane that would become DAA Northwest.
Partnering again with McConkey in 2011, Mahugh was co-owner of El Paso Independent Auto Auction. They sold that auction in 2016. In the spring of 2013, they launched DAA Seattle. Those auctions, along with KCI Kansas City in Missouri, comprise the McConkey Auction Group, and Mahugh served as senior vice president of operations of that group.
He also has a musical presence in the industry. Mahugh is a member of The Cronkites, a rock band in the Pacific Northwest since 1991. The band has opened for such national acts as Chicago, Pat Benatar, The Doobie Brothers, Heart, Huey Lewis & The News, Foreigner, Lynyrd Skynyrd and additional musicians who headline DAA Northwest's two-day "Rock & Roll Sale" annual event.
NAAA represents about 350 wholesale auto auctions and more than 130 associate members. The association bestowed the award with a $2,500 donation in Mahugh's name to NAAA's nonprofit Warren Young, Sr., Scholastic Foundation. A Fellow is a donor at that level, or in whose honor or memory a contribution is made in that amount, to support the scholarship organization.
Manheim New England's truck event
In other auction news, Families from North Dighton, Mass. and surrounding communities saw fire trucks, police cars, and other public safety and construction vehicles at Manheim New England's third annual "Touch-A-Truck Event" on Saturday.
With more than 2,000 people in attendance, this year's event featured vehicles from state and local police and fire departments, and heavy equipment and antique vehicles from G. Lopes Construction. The event was educational in other ways, showing attendees how to escape from a burning building and how electrical power gets to a home. Children put out a "pretend" fire using a small fire hose.
"Touch-A-Truck has snowballed over the past three years. It's definitely a crowd pleaser in town," Manheim New England general manager Maxine Mane said in a news release. The company hosted the event at its 250-acre wholesale auto auction in North Dighton and provided employee volunteers and restroom facilities. This year, the company donated $5,000 to the Dighton Firemen's Association.
This year's Touch-A-Truck Event raised funds for two children born with congenital heart defects who are related to local firefighters. Taunton firefighter Jon Silva's 2-year-old son has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. His son has undergone two surgeries to reroute his heart function, with a third surgery planned later this year.
Also, Taunton Firefighter Roberto Gonzalez's 8-month-old nephew was diagnosed with Critical Aortic Stenosis within minutes of his birth. He has undergone two open heart surgeries and as he grows, he will require future heart valve surgeries.
Both children need a great deal of medical care requiring their families to travel to Boston Children's Hospital for treatment, according to Manheim.
"My department and I look forward to this community event every year. It's awesome to see the smiles on the kids' faces as they get to go in and out of the equipment," Dighton Fire Chief/EMD Christopher Maguy said. "We appreciate having Manheim New England collaborate with us every year. Without their support, this event would not run as smoothly as it does."
The annual "Touch-A-Truck Event" is one example of Manheim New England's 18-year partnership with North Dighton's public service agencies. Other examples:
— Hosting new fire department recruits twice a year, familiarizing them with the auction property and facilities.
— Coordinating with the fire department on annual and new building inspections.
— Providing use of the property's vehicle lot for regional police departments to conduct vehicle safety training and testing for their officers.
— Offering free parking and shuttle service to the annual Dighton Arts Festival each November.
Manheim New England also supports Make-A-Wish Foundation, St. Jude Children's Research, The American Red Cross, Homes for Our Troops and The Jimmy Fund.
Akron upgrades photo booth facility
In other auction news, Akron Auto Auction added Black Widow Imaging to its photo booth facility. Black Widow is equipped with Auto Scan technology and six high-resolution photo capture points, allowing each AAA vehicle to be completely photographed from start to finish in under 5 seconds. According to Akron Auto Auction, that improves picture quality and efficiency.
"The time-consuming process of gathering photos of over 1,000-plus vehicles a week has been an area we have been looking to improve." says registration and photo manager Kalee Robinson. "With Black Widow, we expect to not only drastically cut down the amount of man hours required for picture-taking out on the lot, but it will also enable us to take more consistent, higher quality photos each time that will greatly benefit both buyers and sellers on sale day."
In addition to exterior imaging, Black Widow will also provide AAA online buyers with a complete 360-degree interior view of every vehicle that will be running through the lanes.
Akron Auto Auction said that with the installation and integration already completed, it plans to begin its new era of vehicle imaging in late September.
Awards; auctions; outreach and philanthropy


It's hard when you have been through some harsh situations in life and it ends up really effecting you.
Its not easy when your going through it alone, now it doesn't matter how big or small your situation, your struggling, you don't feel yourself, its like inside you truly have no desire to work on yourself because the pain is to strong. I am here to help you. To help give you tips that truly has helped me but most of all STILL helps me.
There is always room for growth so I'm improving and creating new ways to build more strength and focus on myself.
No-one will love you the way you love yourself and I know thats been said quite often but to be honest it is the truth. I have had my share of relationships and I have definite had my share of heart breaks. I tell you this, the biggest lesson I've learned was to never lose ME. Never stop taking care of me. The more I take care of myself the more prepared I am for struggles. When you feel more secure in who you are and what your capable of doing there is nothing you can't accomplish, and when times get rough you can get through them.
Now feeling beautiful again is all about starting from inside-out. You can't put makeup on, get a new hair-do and still be bitter and unhappy inside. I know people who rather spend hundreds of dollars on their clothes and their appearance but inside they are still mean and unhappy.
f you don't make time for yourself, it will be difficult to aim for happiness.
I can't express how important this is. To get better, a positive mindset is so important for so many reasons. When you're thinking positive there are positive outcomes right?
It is so important to surround yourself with positive people and environment. if your trying to get yourself on a better mindset but you have a friend, family member, spouse thats negative chances are you will fall back into your bad habits. Of course you can't just get rid of them but limit your time for a little and focus on your thoughts. When they are around be open and communicate what you're going through and right now you need a positive support system through this tough time. If they aren't happy with your choices, well I think you know whats next... I cant tell you what to do but to be honest I didn't have a lot of support from the people I had around me and it really effected me. I felt more lost and confused. So I started listening to motivational speeches and sermons. Reading quotes, I even changed my Instagram and followed people that inspired me. Lisa Nichols, TONY ROBBINS, Sarah Jakes Roberts, Steven Furtick etc.... look them up on you tube.
They were a huge help for me.
Say Yes more... Right now at this very moment you deserve it all. You deserve to be happy, you deserve to be successful and you can make your dreams come true. First stop saying no and being afraid and say YES I CAN DO IT!
YES I WILL have all that I want.
Be very observant of whats around you but also stay focus on YOU. Your movements, thoughts what to stay away from and what makes you feel good. It is so important. Now what helps me stay observant is writing things down life can get hectic. Anything that smells good, helps calm me and helps me get focused. I have natural oils and it really helps me focus on my senses.
The Body Shop is amazing with scents!!
You are unbreakable, unforgettable. You can do the unimaginable but you have to be your biggest strength right now. I know it seems hard right now, I know you don't see a way out but my love there is!!!!
Now is the time to transform yourself into a new you, prepare yourself for this journey because it will be a challenging one. Your going to be aware of so much with yourself and around you, this is the test if you truly want what belongs to you. To be honest if it really is it doesn't matter the sacrifice because the desire for change, the desire for a new life filled with happiness means more to you than anything else. When the tough times come, like I tell my mom, tunnel vision. Focus on your target and nothing else matters.
Through my transformation I can tell you my days are more good, I'm healing but in the beginning it wasn't easy. Can you believe how hard it is to mourn the lost of someone alive? I have to cry for someone that is alive and ok with how we ended and is ok with living without me. When I planned my whole life with him, But as I move forward I think of how someone changes.... they can love you beyond words and then change. As I learn some people change for the better or for worse. I want to be with someone that will help me grow for the better as he does the same with me. I am huge with uplifting and encouraging my man to be the best that he can be. my reason why I do that is because I want him to see that he is the light of my life and that I will always be his biggest cheerleader. Unfortunately it didn't work out that way. Our issues got bigger than us. I started to transform myself, I had hit rock bottom and I kept thinking, I will not give him or anyone else the satisfaction to see me broken. I will take care of ME because I know I am not perfect, I am aware of my flaws and I want to keep growing. The man God has for me should get nothing but the best for me.
Right now its all about me for a change, Becoming the BEST version of JULIEVET.
Right now should be the time to transform the BEST version of YOU!!!!
Can you picture your life running and smiling through a new adventure somewhere?
GLOW from inside because you can have that life!!!
LOVE and never stop believing in LOVE.
God still LOVES us without judgment. With our brokenness, with our mistakes he continues to love us unconditionally.
Now today your going to start looking at clothes that your afraid of and your going to try them on in the dressing room. lol I started doing this and I promise you it helps. Now I am a single mom, I hardly ever have time for hair and makeup when its time go shopping, but on the days I'm going to the mall andI know I need to buy clothes for whatever crazy reason, I do my hair and makeup. Nothing crazy but a look I know like and feel confident in. It really helps you when your looking for new outfits.
Think about it when your hair is messy or you have a baseball hat which was 90% of the time me..lmao, you have no makeup you already don't feel as confident as usually are....smh But I'm telling you the next time you go shopping try it!!
I usually just do a cute ponytail and of course if I get the time I let my hair out curly or straight, when I do my makeup I just even out my skin tone, contour a little and put on a good mascara or maybe lashes. lol I'm obsessed with lashes, I just love wearing them but for you it is whatever helps YOU feel good. I promise you when you try on new outfits it truly helps. Now next time you go out shopping remember what I said and let me know how your experience was.
Look in the mirror and fall in LOVE with everything unique about you. From your beautiful eyes to the little beauty mark on you cheek.
I have a thousand freckles, I have a scar right above my eyebrow. I tell you this, it took a long time to appreciate my freckles and that scar but to me it's beautiful now. I wear it proudly and I'm not ashamed of it, It's something UNIQUE about me. I except it completely.
Look in the mirror when everyone is sleeping. and if you live alone even better. Now try this, instead of looking at what you want to fix. First look at what you see is unique and fall in love with it. Look deep into your own eyes and tell YOURSELF, your beautiful. You can look at someone else you love deep into their eyes and say beautiful things.
Well now its time to do it for YOU!
This goes hand in hand with Transformation But this is starting new things. Transformation is your personal growth, changing bad habits, starting new routines, getting outside the box with YOU.
But I don't care because I DESERVE IT. I always put others and everything else before me. and although I will never stop being that way, but I have to always think of myself and make sure I am good and happy too. I am a great woman and I deserve the things I want. SO today YOU deserve everything you want as well. LEVEL UP!!
Be who YOU are and the people that LOVE YOU will except you from head to toe.
If you're feeling alone, you feel like you need more advice or one on one help with what you're going through. Don't hesitate to contact me and ask questions or you just need someone to vent too.
I will do the best I can to help you getting back on your feet and feeling the BEST VERSION OF YOU!!!


Sunday 2/19 4PM Potluck/Discussion: Shall we build a Guild for Civil Politics?
You are invited to join us Sunday, February 19 from 4PM to 6PM at Norton Buffalo Hall for a conversation on whether and how we might establish a new Guild (within our Paradise Community Guilds) aimed at learning and teaching the skills necessary for civil discussion of the issues and politics of our day.
Come as early as 3:30PM and bring some light potluck if you'd like to eat -- I hear we'll have some split pea soup, bread and wine to share, though I'm not sure how far it will go.
Why are we doing this? Well, we've been listening to our community.
Most of us have talked about the illness of incivility afflicting the soul of American politics, and whether we can do anything about it.
In short, we're getting more and more divided on the issues, and mutual respect is displaced by frustration and disdain, guaranteeing that we stay divided. It affects families, friends and neighbors. And it's unsustainable.
As a non-partisan, non-denominational fellowship with a vision to "Be the community you want to live in," Paradise Community Guilds may be ideally positioned to promote more sustainable values in civil conversation. And we'll look for the fun in it!
Come prepared to articulate your interest and your ideas for how such a project might succeed.
• 4PM - Gather, brief introduction of the topic.
• 4:20PM - Video from TEDNYC: Jonathan Haidt: "Can a divided America heal?" This is an insightful exchange recorded in November 2016. I encourage you to check it out beforehand.
• 4:40PM - Discuss the video. Ideas?
• 5:10PM - Video from A2Ethics.org's Big Ethical Question Slam. This group in Ann Arbor, Michigan has held an innovative annual event for the last 5 years that has energized their community.
• 5:25PM - Discussion. Would we like to work toward our own Slam? How else can we have fun?
• 5:50PM Make agreements, wrap-up.
Video from A2Ethics.org's Big Ethical Question Slam - short.
YourMorals.org Much of our political conversation rests on our moral beliefs. This website is a collaboration among social psychologists who study morality and politics. Take a little time to explore your own morals at the website; not only will you learn a little more about yourself, you'll contribute to solid research.
CivilPolitics.org This may be a good theoretical resource for ideas on how we wish to proceed.
There's plenty more resource out there -- and if anyone feels like reading a book in the meantime, I highly recommend Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind - Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion.
Let's "Be the community we want to live in!" See you at 4PM this Sunday!
Thanks to KZFR's Steven and Susan Tchudi, who invited me on "Ecotopia" last night, as a member of Paradise Community Guilds, to talk about the potential of a new Guild for Civil Politics. You were gracious hosts.
The program is already archived here: http://kzfr.org/broadcasts/8032.
A bonus: The interview ends with a song I recorded with Big Wide Room's Brett Perkins and Mark Davis, "Common Ground."
Paradise Community Guild members and the community are invited to join the conversation this Sunday, Feb. 19, 4-6PM at Norton Buffalo Hall.
The community is invited to join us at Norton Buffalo Hall on Monday, Feb. 13 at 6PM for a potluck dinner.
Bring vittles to share, meet your neighbors, and settle in -- because at 6:30PM we'll have a brief presentation from Ken Donnell (Greenville) on a new California Trails Initiative -- connecting trails for pedestrians and bicyclists throughout the State.
Our regular membership business meeting is starts at 7:30PM. If you've considered joining, please introduce yourself to us at the start of the meeting, and then we'll send you home with a membership packet. You'll have the month to think it over. Be careful! If you come back we may just vote you in!
"Be the community you want to live in."
Yesterday we received a lovely 1924 Kranich & Bach baby grand piano that will now be available for future music events at Norton Buffalo Hall.
The donation was made by local entrepreneur Clay Reid and his wife Andrea.
Clay's latest project is Plugged In & Turned On In Paradise (PITOIP), a new music TV series that features an array of fascinating, road-tested musicians. One of those is Halie Loren, a top jazz vocalist who will perform for us on February 4th, and the PITOIP crew will be there to film the event. Halie is bringing her trio and asked for a real piano to play, which inspired Clay and Andrea's gift.
On behalf of Paradise Community Guilds, I wish to thank the Reid's for their generosity. I can't wait to hear our new baby sing!
Our story is simple -- we came together to "be the community we want to live in."
We live in Paradise, after all. We're lucky to be here. Let's do here.
What could be more inspiring?
Together to do the things that bring us joy, and we put out the welcome mat for anyone who shares our spirit, or could use a helping of it.
You might find us watering, double-digging, fussing and hovering over our soil and garden plants, laying out our milk thistle gardens for the migrating Monarchs, or putting up the new toolshed.
Maybe you'll hear about one of our concerts and decide to risk the modest ticket price on a chance of a good time; there you'll see us working behind the scenes to make sure you did.
Our regular T'ai Chi class could attract you to us, or some workshop or presentation you'll want to attend to learn something new right along with our members.
Look around at one of our outdoor festivals, a flea market or a rummage sale, plant sale or seed swap – we're busy making it happen, glad to say hello, and hope you'll take a treasure home with you.
The only thing that's missing is you.
Our Thursday/Friday dedication and celebration of Norton Buffalo Hall last week was a tremendous success!
• Our volunteers -- Bob Teal, Verna Myers, Bruce Murray, Dan Joseph, Lisa Flores & Bo, Linda Marzolla, Judy Fox, Patricia Light, Zeke, Mike McGrath, Nancy Eaton, Susan Dobra, John Michael Sun, Jennifer and MIke Petersen, Lori Phelps-Zink, Elizabeth Evans, Pete Samuel, and Lynn Costa.
• Our tremendous musicians -- Roy Rogers, Carlos Reyes, Janice Maxie-Reid, Leo Vigil, Randy Biaggi, Brad Peterson & Bob Littell, Lisa Flores & David Aguilar, and our dough-stretcher for Thursday night, me.
• Our sponsors -- Digital Print & Design, Sierra Nevada Brewery, KZFR, and Moon Valley Music.
• Paradise Chamber of Commerce -- Mark Thorp and the Chamber really helped with getting the word out, and we are very thankful.
And most of all, we extend our deep gratitude to the 200+ local souls who ventured to our doorstep to support and celebrate with us.
You helped us raise over $3,000 toward replacing our leaky roof!
We hope you will visit us again in the coming weeks and months as we live into our mission to "foster community by nurturing creativity, practicing stewardship of Nature, and promoting values of sustainability."
Thanks to Jay Cooke for posting this video from our celebration concert at Norton Buffalo Hall!
Our thanks to Linda Watkins-Bennett and Action News Now for drawing attention to our dedication and celebration of Norton Buffalo Hall.
Read it on Action News Now!
A belated thanks to Jaime O'Neill and Paradise Post for his heart-stirring tribute to Norton Buffalo and our dedication and celebration events at Norton Buffalo Hall.


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Q: Can't convert HttpResponseMessage with UTF8 encoding I'm struggling with the usual conversion issue, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything for my specific problem.
My app is receiving a System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage, from a php server, UTF8 encoded, containing some characters like \u00c3\u00a0 (à) and I'm not able to convert them.
string message = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
byte[] messageBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message);
string newmessage = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(messageBytes, 0, messageBytes.Length);

This is just one of my try, but nothing happens, the resultring string still has the \u00c3\u00a0 characters.
I have also read some answers like How to convert a UTF-8 string into Unicode? but this solution doesn't work for me. This is the solution code:
public static string DecodeFromUtf8(this string utf8String)
{
   // copy the string as UTF-8 bytes.
   byte[] utf8Bytes = new byte[utf8String.Length];
   for (int i=0;i<utf8String.Length;++i) {
      //Debug.Assert( 0 <= utf8String[i] && utf8String[i] <= 255, "the char must be in byte's range");
      utf8Bytes[i] = (byte)utf8String[i];
   }

   return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(utf8Bytes,0,utf8Bytes.Length);
}

DecodeFromUtf8("d\u00C3\u00A9j\u00C3\u00A0"); // déjà

I have noticed that when I try the above solution with a simple string like
string str = "Comunit\u00c3\u00a0"

the DecodeFromUtf8 method works perfectly, the problem is when I use my response message.
Any advice would be very appreciated

A: I've solved this problem by myself. I've discovered that the server response was a ISO string of a utf-8 json, so I had to remove the json escape characters and then convert the iso into a utf8
So I had to do the following:
private async Task<string> ResponseMessageAsync(HttpResponseMessage result)
{
    string message = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
    string parsedString = Regex.Unescape(message);
    byte[] isoBites = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(parsedString);
    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(isoBites, 0, isoBites.Length);
 }

A: for me works change from:
string message = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
byte[] messageBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message);
string newmessage = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(messageBytes, 0, messageBytes.Length);

to:
byte[] bytes = await result.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync();
Encoding utf8 = Encoding.UTF8;
string newmessage = utf8.GetString(bytes);


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No Way Back
Genre(s): Crime, Drama
Directed by: Frank A. Cappello
Producer: W.K. Border, Raquel Caballes Maxwell, Thomas Calabrese, Takashige Ichise, Aki Komine, Mitsuru Kurosawa, Michael Leahy, Don Phillips, Joel Soisson
Cast: Russell Crowe, Helen Slater, Etsushi Toyokawa, Michael Lerner, Kyusaku Shimada, Kristopher Logan, Kelly Hu, Andrew J Ferchland, Ian Ziering, Monty...
In Theaters: 20 December 1996 USA
Distribution: Alpha Media, Sony Pictures Releasing, Versátil Home Vídeo
When mob thugs kidnap his son, a wild-card FBI agent departs from procedure and begins his own frantic one-man investigation, incurring the rage of the Mafia, the Yakuza, and the Feds themselves.


Thread Get in. Love that.
Fantastic performance. Quaner and Judge brilliant. Bishop looking something like his old self. Solid enough at the back. Never get bored of supporting this amazing club of ours. Brilliant away support as usual, great noise. Just a short 4 hour drive home now. I just love our football club.
Thread Just about to leave for Bolton.
Fingers crossed that the game stays on. Safe journey to all travelling and I will see some of you up there.
The ones put through the letter box. Apparently some are scams and the people are selling the clothes. This has to be a new low.
Still spending money on adverts on what to do when we leave the EU, when we obviously ain't. All part of the sham I suppose.
Thread Let me tell you why I did what I did.
Think of sprusemoose and footers as the people(hard I know, but stick with it) and me as the leave campaign.
I need to convince the people that voting for me would give them what they want. I fill there heads with lies to lure them in. Lie after lie to really convince them that I really am what they want and I can be what ever they want. I have them, they are believing my lies, they are starting to trust me. I have their trust, so I continue with the lies, but wait.... they are starting to question my lies, I have no answers for their questions, what can I do? I tell them again that my lies are in fact the truth and that they can trust me. I tell them that I am ON THEIR SIDE and that they should continue to back me. Now they are confused. They do not know whether to trust me or not. I have blown their minds, they are in a state of confusion. How could somebody fill their heads with lies and then tell them that honestly I am ON THEIR SIDE? They really don't know what to do. Do they trust the leaver or do they turn their backs on him.
And that ladies and gentlemen is why we must do all that we can to stay within the EU. If we get the chance, do not believe the leavers, they are liars. The leavers cannot be trusted.
Thread It has been suggested that I am a comedy creation.
I can promise you all that this is my only account. Most, if not all of you, are doing a hard days work and I am just trying to lighten up your day. I am not very good at it but I am trying. (very trying most of the time) I know I am opening myself up for a lot of abuse by posting this, but I can take it. Thanks to people like Footers and Sprucy I am getting the hang of how things work on here. I look forward to continuing having banz with you all.
Thread Those people standing outside Westminster.
Shouting Brexit/No Brexit. Haven't they got jobs to go to. Always seem to be the same bloke shouting out.
Thread New cars being Fitted with a device to keep you in the speed limit.
Good idea for A & B roads, but for motorways? Everybody doing 70 will cause massive tailbacks.
Has anybody got one and if so, what are the top 3 things on them.


Due to some unfortunate events and shrinking congregation we have decided to close the doors on our lovely little church after 17 years. I am a volunteer for the church, so I was asked to look into a couple things as we prepare to sell the property in the future. One of the items was our 501c3 status and how it relates to the selling of the church.
The church is in a little rough shape, and if we are getting ready to sell it in the next year or two, there is some things that need to be fixed up. Fortunately, and some of our old congregation members are willing to help out and fix the place, bless their souls. However, now that we are not moving to a new building and not holding regular worship, will we still be able to keep 501c3 status, or will our city and state begin to charge taxes at the beginning of next year?
I do not have alot of knowledge of our tax laws, so any advice would be helpful. Do you recommend reaching out to my local community with these questions too?


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InducteesScott Hunter
Born: November 19, 1947 in Mobile, Alabama
Hunter broke or tied 15 University of Alabama passing records as quarterback in 1968-70. Among them, most yards gained in a game with 484, most yards gained in a season with 2,188, most yards gained in career with 4,899, most attempts and completions in a game going 30-of-55 against Auburn, most passes and completions in a season going 382-of-672. He played quarterback for Alabama in three bowl games. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1971 and was runner-up for Rookie of the Year honors in the NFC. He led the Packers to a Central Division Championship in 1972 with a 10-4 record. He later played with the Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, and Detroit Lions.


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Q: Event Handlers SP 2007 I am trying to add an event receiver for a custom list(sp 2007) using WSP Builder and VS 2008.
Are there any links which will guide me mapping the event handler to the specific list!.
I can  add event hanlder but I do not know how to map the event handler to a list in SP 2007.
Thank you

A: Checkout this post: Registering an event handler for a single list
It has several good examples of registering an event handler on a specific list.

A: There are a lot of options.
Are you creating a custom content type for some related purpose? You can specify an event receiver to operate on your custom content type while you're making the definition.
Are you creating a custom list template instance? You can give the type a custom id and bind your event receiver to lists of that id.
A feature receiver can execute code for you when you Activate or Deactivate the feature. You can pick the list (based on name, type, url, whatever) at this time. Use the web.config to hold values if necessary.
Use any of the tools mentioned in the related post pointed out by KodeKreacher which range from custom console app to available tools you can get from the web. Keep in mind all of these tools (that I can see) require the code to be run on the SharePoint server. Your admin might want a heads up on what you plan to do so s/he can appropriately try to roadblock you.


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32 Recognized For Service At Retiree Dinner
Sherman ISD recognized 32 retirees Monday night at the Retiree Dinner and gifted them a rocking chair as a part of a tradition. In total, their years of service in education added up to 893 years.
Crutchfield Elementary's Tammy Williams technically retired after 20 years at SISD and 38 years in total in December, but the call of education hasn't completely faded. She still tutors some kids in groups when needed. Williams may be retired from Texas, but Oklahoma, where she started her career and where her grandchildren are, isn't too far away.
"I'm ending one chapter of my life and starting another one," Williams said. "I've met lots of wonderful educators, children and parents. I actually had some of my students from when I started at Dillingham have children at Crutchfield this past year."
Marc McClendon stayed at Fairview Elementary for all of his 20 years at SISD before retiring with 33 years of service to education. He called the moment "bittersweet" since he has a passion for education, and retirement means he is parting ways with the job.
"I originally was a grocery store manager, and the kids would ask me questions like, how does this work, or, how does it know it's green beans when you run the can across," McClendon said. "I realized that I wanted to become a teacher, so I started teaching in Oklahoma."
After 12 years there, McClendon then came to Sherman, and the interview for the Fairview position always stuck with him. The principal at the time invited McClendon out to the campus, showed him his classroom and introduced the other staff.
"I thought I was just coming for an interview, but when you're met with such a warm reception like that, I had already decided," McClendon said. "And it's been that way."
For some retirees like Gerry Cooper, who retired after 20 years at SISD as a custodian, most recently at Wakefield Elementary, retirement hasn't really sunk in yet.
"I'm taking it day by day, hoping everything will come together," he said. "I'm looking forward to it. My wife is looking forward to it. I'm excited."
2022 Retirees
Craig Talley (Neblett): 27 years of service, 27 years at SISD
Alex Rathy (Admin / Auxiliary): 19 years of service, 10 years at SISD
Deborah Ryan (Wakefield): 34 years of service, 18 years at SISD
Angelia Marr (Crutchfield): 38 years of service, 20 years at SISD
Debra Ervin (Dillingham): 36 years of service, 21 years at SISD
Beverly Shoulders (Piner Middle): 33 years of service, 15 years at SISD
Jewell Woodson (Sory): 23 years of service, 23 years at SISD
Brenda Tonelli (Sherman Middle): 24 years of service, 24 years at SISD
Kay Waters (Washington): 25 years of service, 25 years at SISD
Elvia Council (Dillingham): 14 years of service, 4 years at SISD
Kristi Talley (Piner Middle): 30 years of service, 24 years at SISD
Geri King (Perrin ECC): 33 years of service, 31 years at SISD
Larry Malone (Jefferson): 30 years of service, 17 years at SISD
Gerry Cooper (Admin / Auxiliary): 20 years of service, 20 years at SISD
Martha Stephens (Sherman Middle): 17 years of service, 17 years at SISD
Julieta Alvarez (Admin / Auxiliary): 24 years of service, 24 years at SISD
Michael Pease (Sherman High): 18 years of service, 17 years at SISD
Kathy Cherry (Sherman Middle): 36 years of service, 22 years at SISD
Pat Schick (Crutchfield): 32 years of service, 28 years at SISD
LaVonda Brown (Admin / SPED): 37 years of service, 14 years at SISD
Priscilla Young (Sherman Middle): 37 years of service, 24 years at SISD
Lori Bloomer (Fairview): 24 years of service, 8 years at SISD
Regina O'Malley (Sory): 29 years of service, 15 years at SISD
Marc McClendon (Fairview): 33 years of service, 20 years at SISD
Steve Gentry (SHS / DAEP): 27 years of service, 27 years at SISD
Michele Powell (Washington): 31 years of service, 31 years at SISD
Susan Simmons (Crutchfield): 35 years of service, 19 years at SISD
Susan Kassees (Sherman High): 35 years of service, 5 years at SISD
Tammy Williams (Crutchfield): 38 years of service, 20 years at SISD
Sylvia Dixon (Perrin ECC): 18 years of service, 18 years at SISD
Taryn Nejtek (Dillingham / SPED): 11 years of service, 7 years at SISD
Teri Elk (Sory): 26 years of service, 9 years at SISD


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COUT IN THE ACT
Roberto Firmino 'likes' post about Philippe Coutinho begging to return to Liverpool as he appears to approve of transfer
Dave Fraser
Jun 15 2020, 4:11 ET
Updated: Jun 15 2020, 4:25 ET
ROBERTO FIRMINO has given his endorsement to Liverpool's potential move for Philippe Coutinho - by "liking" a post about his potential return on social media.
Coutinho, 28, quit Liverpool to pursue his dream of playing for Barcelona in a staggering £142million move in January 2018.
Firmino appears to be excited at the prospect of being reunited with Coutinho
But things have gone south for the "Little Magician" at the Nou Camp, with reports linking him with a move back to Anfield.
Coutinho struggled for game-time and form at Barca and was eventually shipped off on loan to Bayern Munich for the season.
The German giants have already revealed they won't be making his move permanent - with Barcelona actively looking to sell him this summer.
Chelsea and Newcastle are amongst the clubs itching to bring him back to the Premier League.
But Coutinho is said to be willing to take a hefty pay-cut to return to Anfield - where he went from relative unknown to world superstar.
And fellow Brazilian Firmino, 28, is clearly excited at the prospect of teaming up with his old pal once again after spending three years playing in front of the Kop together.
On Sunday, a Liverpool fan page posted the rumour Coutinho had sent a "personal plea" to Reds boss Jurgen Klopp to sign him.
Firmino was one of nearly 9,000 fans to like the post, suggesting he's more than happy to welcome Coutinho back to Anfield.
In January 2018, fans feared their best run of form in decades would come to a grinding halt after selling best player Coutinho to Barcelona, joining another former Reds star, Luis Suarez.
But Klopp and the Liverpool board invested the £142m wisely, including the star buys of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson.
While the Reds were always fearsome in attack, finally boosting the defensive ranks has seen them reach back-to-back Champions League finals, winning the 2019 edition.
And having racked up a staggering 97 points last season - and still missing out on the title, Liverpool are set to win it this year.
LION IN WAIT
Tariq Lamptey reveals he is willing to wait for England call-up and snub Ghana
BEEK FITNESS
Van de Beek impressing in training with 'fantastic attitude', says Van der Sar
Rashford reveals Mourinho made Man Utd 'savvier' at winning penalties
Inside Messi's '£7.25m Miami flat with car lift that he bought ahead of MLS move'
With the season restarting, Liverpool still 25 points ahead of nearest-rivals Manchester City, needing a maximum of two wins from their final nine games to secure their first top-flight title in 30 years.
Should Coutinho come back, he wouldn't be the first name on the team sheet like he once was, but he seems happy to be a part of their all-conquering squad.
And Firmino seems pretty happy about that prospect, too...
Robertson, Wijnaldum and Minamino arrive at Melwood Training Facility as blue testing tent can be seen at entrance


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High-Speed Networks
Polatis unveils port-reconfigurable all-optical switch
All-optical switch developer Polatis Ltd. has unveiled a 192-port completely reconfigurable optical switch that provides non-blocking connectivity between any pair of fiber ports with typically just 1 dB of path loss.
Pauline Rigby
Conventional all-optical switches are dual-sided, making connections between a group of committed input ports on one side and a group of output ports on the other. Customers have been asking for flexible "any-to-any port" configurations to enable better network performance and more efficient use of capacity, the vendor says.
The 192-fiber customer-configurable (192xCC) single-sided optical switch comprises fiber ports that are uncommitted to input or output groups, which allows users the flexibility to make connections between any of the 192 fibers – a unique feature in the industry, according to Polatis. Without rigidly-defined input and output ports, the same optical switch module can be used for any combination of symmetric (NxN) and asymmetric (NxM) switch configurations.
UPDATE: Internally, the switch now contains a mirror. Previously, light coming into the switch via an input fiber passed through a collimator lens that could be tilted to point the beam of light at any of the output ports. By inserting a mirror half-way along the beam path, light can be reflected back to any of the input ports – so the distinction between input and output ports disappears.
UPDATE: The downside to the added flexibility is that the total number of fiber ports is halved. Steering beams of light with high accuracy is more difficult over wider angles, and as a result it becomes more challenging to build larger switches, sources at Polatis say. The largest switch the company offers has twice as many ports: 192x192. Most applications don't require super-high port counts, however.
"The combination of software control and any-to-any port connectivity brings a new level of flexibility and choice to our customers for optimizing their fiber assets," said Gerald Wesel, CEO of Polatis. "The 192xCC reconfigurable optical switch provides full fiber connectivity without affecting system budgets, opening up new possibilities in data center and telecom networks for optical layer provisioning, protection, monitoring and test."
Research and education networks are interested in possibilities enabled by the properties of such a switch, especially in combination with software-defined networking (SDN). Earlier this year Polatis introduced support for SDN through an embedded OpenFlow agent, together with plug-in support for the OpenDaylight SDN controller, developed in collaboration with the University of Bristol (see "Polatis to demo SDN-enabled optical circuit switching at ECOC 2013").
"A 192-port single sided optical switch, with any port-to-any port connectivity, is a very versatile building block that increases the flexibility and graceful scalability of the overall metro node design in next-generation software-defined optical networks. These low-loss optical switches can be used in a multi-stage optical circuit switched layer to reduce costs and increase the scalability of future network core nodes," said Prof David Payne of Trinity College Dublin and coordinator for the European Framework 7 collaborative project DISCUS.
In other news, Polatis reports that it will provide optical switches for Aurora2, a next-generation dark fiber network that provides direct access at the optical layer to users developing new technologies and services for future applications of the Internet. The network is funded by UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), through the Joint Academic Network, Janet. Aurora 2 is managed by a consortium led by University College London (UCL) with the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Southampton. Eleven Polatis optical switches will be deployed at nodes across the 800-km Aurora2 network to enable researchers to reconfigure the infrastructure on demand.
The 192xCC is the latest addition to the Polatis series 6000 family of optical switches, which are built using Polatis DirectLight beam steering technology. This enables fully transparent, low-loss connections entirely independent of the color, direction, power level or traffic protocol on the fiber.
For more information on optical switches and suppliers, visit the Lightwave Buyer's Guide.
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Osprey Communications, LLC and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) have announced an agreement that will see Osprey build a fiber-optic network across Virginia using rights-of-way provided via VDOT's Fiber Optic Resource Sharing program.
Zayo to open Montreal to Albany fiber network route this month
The fiber-optic network link, which will be capable of supporting 100-Gbps wavelengths, will be the company's third out of Montreal.
NTT announces MIST submarine cable project
Construction of the submarine network was scheduled to begin this month. The undersea system is expected to be operational in June 2022.
Open Fiber tests 600-Gbps transmission on ZION fiber backbone network
The test was conducted using coherent transmission technology from Huawei, based on the company's optical DSP (oDSP).
CENIC links Los Angeles and Riverside via 400G superchannel
CENIC, which operates the 8000-mi California Research and Education Network (CalREN), says it upgraded nodes in Los Angeles, Tustin, Oceanside, San Diego, Escondido, Sun City, and Riverside to create the fiber network link.
Internet2 to travel over CenturyLink's low-loss fiber network
The selection of CenturyLink's infrastructure is part of an overall network upgrade program Internet2 has launched that includes the use of flex-grid open line systems from Ciena.
PON/Systems
China Mobile uses Huawei's BusinessPON for passive optical LAN installations
The Chinese service provider has used the gear to create gigabit-capable passive optical LAN private network for commercial buildings and smart campuses in Chengdu.
Coral Sea Cable System submarine network construction completed
The submarine cable project included construction of the Solomon Islands Domestic Network, which has completed as well.
LOGIX Fiber Networks touts Texas fiber-optic network reach
Fiber-optic network services provider LOGIX Fiber Networks says its fiber-optic network footprint in its home state of Texas now exceeds 265,000 fiber miles.
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The new unit offers a range of enhancements from the standard set by the previous 70S+ system, says the company. These features increase precision while reducing splice time, Fujikura asserts.
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The exercise was conducted on a metro network in Oslo, Norway, with a 50-GHz wavelength grid, alongside existing 10-Gbps channels.


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The Ann Arbor State Street District Neighborhood Association assists in planning for the future to provide a clean, safe, and vital neighborhood. The State Street District is home to the Ann Arbor Art Fair.
Free UMMA Event: Curatorial Dilemmas
November 07, 2017 / State Street District
Did you know that the University of Michigan Museum of Art puts on FREE events almost every day of the week? I didn't, but as soon as I discovered this, I had to check it out. They have a variety of events each week that not only educate you on the process behind Museum production, but also knowledge on the stories behind the exhibits. Understanding the curation in the representation of a culture, an artist, artifacts, etc. will help YOU as the Museum attendee learn the most from the experience.
The event, Curatorial Dilemmas: Representing Africa at UMMA with Pamela McClusky was the second program in a series of three comprised of different curators from Museums around the country. Pamela McClusky came from the Seattle Art Museum where she is the curator of African and Oceanic art. McClusky focused on connecting artworks and cultures while installing the African, Australian and textile galleries. Pamela states,
"It's a chance to rethink how we present [the artwork] with entirely new interpretations." Negative stereotypes are often associated with Africa, but that is not an accurate representation. She goes on to say, "So many people think of Africa as alien, but there are so many familiar elements — and look at how it interacts with the rest of the collections."
Pamela McClusky pairs a visual presentation with her lecture to depict images that help illustrate her points of discussion.
Pamela McClusky starts the presentation by telling more about her travels and interactions with the people of Africa. She has taken on the responsibility to properly educate her audience by curating African art and in doing so she must create the ideal art installation. In her lecture she discusses how she feels her job is an opportunity and an obligation to bring awareness to those who attend the Museum on the most accurate representation of the culture.
While discussing the accuracy in representing Africa, Pamela talks about Peter DiCampo, a photojournalist and humanitarian. DiCampo started the What Went Wrong Foundation in hopes to reframe the conversation on foreign aid through in-depth photojournalism, crowdsourced reports, and data visualization. DiCampo's work is relevant to Museum curators who are working to educate their audiences on the reality of the continent. At one point in the lecture Pamela discusses how difficult it can be to witness Museum guests underappreciating or not understanding the lives behind this artwork. The cultural story needs to be better represented and the artwork needs to be known in order to truly be curated.
This event is just one of many put on by UMMA and they are all FREE. Take the time to visit your local Museum and learn more about the processes behind the exhibits. You can gain important knowledge, meet interesting people, make valuable connections, and get inspired. Visit http://umma.umich.edu/events to keep up with their FREE and educational events.
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Q: Font with an ant as a symbol Do you know of some font which has an ant as a character?  (I need it in a document I'm preparing in plain tex that is to be processed by pdftex.)

A: It's not the answer about the ant font, but how to load the external image with \pdfximage, query its dimensions with \pdfrefximage and use it finally with \pdflastximage, all in a box, then unbox it (see pdftex manual for this)
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Perfectly Created Chaos!: Happy Thoughts: Note Card Set.
Today, I am sharing a set of note cards I made along with a cute gift box to store them in. I love making these kinds of sets because they are perfect to give to people as last minute gifts, or an add on gift for a birthday present. They would also be perfect for teacher gifts. For this set, I wanted to make a coordinating set using Simon Says Stamp's "Lots of Dot's" set. It was a fun and simple set to put together. The color palette I used was Harvest Gold, Simply Chartreuse and Melon Berry, Kraft and Vintage Cream from Paper Trey Ink.
After I stamped and colored in all the circles on the cards, I added some glitter with my wink of stella glitter pen and some glossy accents as well to some of the circles to make them all shine a bit. You can see the list and links to all of the products I used below and a few more pictures as well.
I hope you all have a wonderful day. If you're a crafter, I'd love to know if you have a favorite gift box for your cards? How do you give your card sets to friends?
These cards are fabulous! LOVE this idea! Awesome job! Thanks so much for sharing with us over at Craftin' Desert Divas!
Dori this is a superb project such gorgeous notelets and love that fabby box.
What a super project and so useful too.Just love the Autumnal colours.Thanks for joining us at Craft Your Passion.Hope to see you again next week.


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The Castello
The Grand Master
Welcome to the website of the Grand Commandery of the Castello in Malta. The Grand Commandery is one of two recognised jurisdictions of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem which are active in Malta.
IIn 1973, Castello Lanzun was formally opened by the then Grand Master of the Order, His Excellency Don Francisco de Borbón y Borbón, as the official Worldwide Headquarters of the Order of St Lazarus. In 2001, his son the 48th Grand Master, His Highness Don Francisco de Borbón y Escasany, Duke of Seville, took over the Commandership of the then called "Commandery of the Castello". His Highness Don Francisco was succeeded in September 2008 by the late Grand Master, His Excellency Don Carlos Gereda de Borbón, Marquis of Almazán. In October 2018, the current Grand Master His Excellency Don Francisco de Borbón Graf von Hardenberg will be installed as Grand Commander of this Jurisdiction to continue a 45-year old tradition.
Castello Lanzun not only houses the Headquarters of the Order but is also formally the home of the "Grand Commandery of the Castello". We are honoured that H.E. Don Francisco is not only the Grand Master of the Order of St Lazarus but will soon also be the Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of the Castello, Malta.
Coat of Arms of the Order
Motto of the Order:
A Message from the Commander
As the Grand Commander lives in Spain, his deputy in Malta at the Grand Commandery is the Commander, Chev Paul Warren. Here are a few words of welcome from him:
"On behalf of Council and Members of our Grand Commandery, based in Malta, welcome to our website. Our most important charitable function is raising funds which are donated to organisations working with lepers in Third World Countries. Our distinctive characteristics include the fact that our Members, although they are resident in Malta, hail from a number of countries, and come together from different Christian denominations – all with the sole purpose of helping our leper brothers and sisters. Our ecumenical and multi-national jurisdiction is expanding so if you find the information on this website useful and informative, kindly contact us."
The Spiritual Protector of the Order
Following an old tradition of the more than 900-years old Order of Knighthood, founded in Jerusalem to take care of lepers in the Hospital of St. Lazarus, His Beatitude Youssef Absi is the Spiritual Protector of the international ecumenical Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, as were his predecessors Maximos IV, Maximos V and Gregory III Laham. For a more detailed description of our Spiritual Protector, please visit the "Structure" section of the Order's International website the Order's International website.
© 2021 Grand Commandery of the Castello


Daumier, Honoré (1808-79). French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor. In his lifetime he was known chiefly as a political and social satirist, but since his death recognition of his qualities as a painter has grown.
Undated (150 Kb); Oil on wood, 11 x 14 in; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
c. 1847-50 (130 Kb); Oil on wood, 32.6 x 24.8 cm (12 7/8 x 9 3/4 in); The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
c. 1860 (190 Kb); Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 113 cm (34 1/2 x 44 1/2 in); The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
In 1830, after learning the still fairly new process of lithography, he began to contribute political cartoons to the anti-government weekly Caricature . He was an ardant Republican and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in 1832 for his attacks on Louis-Philippe, whom he represented as `Gargantua swallowing bags of gold extorted from the people'. On the suppression of political satire in 1835 he began to work for Charivari and turned to satire of social life, but at the time of the 1848 revolution he returned to political subjects. He is said to have made more than 4,000 lithographs, wishing each time that the one he had just made could be his last. In the last years of his life he was almost blind and was saved from destitution by Corot.
Daumier's paintings were probably done for the most part fairly late in his career. Although he was accepted four times by the Salon, he never exhibited his paintings otherwise and they remained practically unknown up to the time of an exhibition held at Durand-Ruel's gallery in 1878, the year of his death. The paintings are in the main a documentation of contemporary life and manners with satirical overtones, although he also did a number featuring Don Quixote as a larger-than-life hero. His technique was remarkably broad and free. As a sculptor he specialized in caricature heads and figures, and these too are in a very spontaneous style. In particular he created the memorable figure of `Ratapoil' (meaning `skinned rat'), who embodied the sinister agents of the government of Louis-Philippe. A similar political type in his graphic art was `Robert Macaire', who personified the unscrupulous profiteer and swindler.
In the directness of his vision and the lack of sentimentality with which he depicts current social life Daumier belongs to the Realist school of which Courbet was the chief representative. As a caricaturist he stands head and shoulders above all others of the 19th-century. He had the gift of expressing the whole character of a man through physiognomy, and the essence of his satire lay in his power to interpret mental folly in terms of physical absurdity. Although he never made a commercial success of his art, he was appreciated by the discriminating and numbered among his friends and admirers Delacroix, Corot, Forain, and Baudelaire. Degas was among the artists who collected his works.