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Astonishing comebacks become new norm in Champions League
By Steve Douglas and Grahan Dunbar
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Ajax's Frenkie de Jong lies on the pitch at the end of the Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match between Ajax and Tottenham Hotspur at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (Peter Dejong / AP)
Ajax's disconsolate players collapsed to the ground and pressed their faces into the turf. The night before, Barcelona's startled players looked at each other in pure disbelief, wondering what exactly had happened.
Two Champions League semifinal matches, two three-goal leads squandered.
Astonishing comebacks are becoming the new norm in Europe's top club competition.
The phenomenon truly started two years ago, when Barcelona recovered from a 4-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the last 16 by winning the return 6-1. That surpassed the previous best second-leg comeback in Champions League history from 12 years earlier, which saw Deportivo La Coruna fight back from three goals behind to eliminate AC Milan.
Barcelona has been on the receiving end the past two years, however. If blowing a 4-1 first-leg advantage by then losing 3-0 at Roma in last season's quarterfinals wasn't bad enough, Barca lost 4-0 to Liverpool on Tuesday after opening their semifinal with a 3-0 first-leg win.
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Inspired by its English rival, Tottenham fought back a day later from a 3-0 aggregate deficit against Ajax to score three second-half goals — the last coming in the sixth minute of stoppage time — to advance on away goals.
Clearly, this never-say-die spirit is becoming contagious amid a spirit of adventure and chaos swirling through the Champions League.
But where has this come from?
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ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK
Put simply, more goals are being scored in this Champions League era, increasing the likelihood of a comeback and making teams who are trailing believe all is not lost.
In last season's competition, there were 401 goals at an average of 3.2 per game — rising to 3.6 per game in the knockout stage. It was the highest total since the tournament's rebrand from the European Cup in 1992.
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This season, there have been 89 goals in 28 games in the knockout stage — 3.17 a game.
Barcelona is now a victim of a phenomenon it might have created. The fearless, attacking style in its stellar 2006-11 era of three European titles has been imitated by many teams since.
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LOST ART OF DEFENDING
Where are those warrior defenders of old, the ones who loved nothing more than backs-to-the-wall efforts?
There are exceptions, of course — Giorgio Chiellini of Juventus and Virgil van Dijk of Liverpool. But defending seems to be a lost art of soccer.
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Full backs are now largely a key outlet in a team's attack. Many center backs are cultured passers rather than obdurate stoppers — see Aymeric Laporte at Manchester City and Clement Lenglet at Barcelona.
How much time do top European teams spend practicing defending? More to the point, why would they when many of their games, domestically and in Europe, are so one-sided given the gulf in finances between soccer's rich and poor?
RULES CHANGES
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It's the law. There are just 17 sections in the Laws of the Game which govern soccer but they can be modified each year. Changes usually help attacking play.
Ankle injuries which ended the career of the great Netherlands, Ajax and AC Milan forward Marco van Basten at age 28 are cited as inspiring the move to protect creative players in the 1990s. Tackles from behind were punished more quickly and severely. Sliding tackles or with studs raised are now rarer.
Constantly adapting the offside law has helped attackers — a trend accelerated by video review, which was introduced in the Champions League round of 16 in February.
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Offside flags are raised less often, letting play develop, because a goal can be disallowed later. Officials want to avoid wrongly stopping promising attacks which means more goal-scoring chances can be created.
Video review has encouraged awarding penalties — in part because slow motion magnifies any incident — and defenders seem more hesitant in the penalty area.
It adds up to more goal-scoring chances and confidence to chase down a lead.
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PRESSING PLAY
The slow, methodical play from defense that seemed key to European success decades ago belongs in a museum.
A typically old-school team has not won the Champions League since Inter Milan in 2010.
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UEFA's technical analysis of the last season's Champions League calls the modern way of harassing defenders close to their own goal "the Guardiola effect."
Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp's "heavy metal" brand also stresses quick recovery of the ball and fast-break attacks.
Defenders make more errors in more dangerous positions, so teams know they can score at a faster rate.
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UEFA noted last season that "50% of goals were scored as a result of ball-winning in the attacking third."
Those three-goal leads look less secure.
NEVER SAY DIE
Players can believe in the art of the possible. And because comebacks happened before, they can happen again.
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It is no coincidence that English teams, including Manchester United at Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16, have completed so many comebacks.
British soccer is famed for a fighting spirit demanded by fans who often value passion over technique.
English Premier League teams, wealthier than most European rivals, now have a feared blend: imported coaches and players with global soccer smarts operating in their adopted country's fast, aggressive style.
Even Barcelona could not cope with a Liverpool team lacking key players yet roared on by an intimidating Anfield crowd. Anything seemed possible.


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Welcome to California. Vielen Dank für den wunderschönen Urlaub im Calypso. Danke vor allem an Tomas uns Panos, die die Zeit in Matala unvergesslich gemacht haben. Wir kommen auf jeden Fall wieder. See you next year.
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Q: Is there any way to write function "def" by using apply and lambda I am quite new in this. I just want to write beutiful code. Right now i am extracting string from a column (URL Column) and defining new column to add the extracted value. I am extracting the string based on dictionary. Here is my code:
Df Sample:

def conv_attribution_brand_keyword(domain, url):

    if domain in dict_brand_keywords.keys():

        for keyword in dict_brand_keywords[domain]:
            if keyword in url:
                  return(keyword)

Dictionary:
brand_dict = {'bmw': ['/1er/', '/m/', '/2er/', '/3er/', '/4er/', '/5er/', '/6er/', '/7er/', '/8er/', '/x/', '/z4/', '/bmw-i/'], 'audi': ['/a1/', '/a3/', '/a4/', '/a5/', '/a6/', '/a7/', '/a8/', '/q2/', '/q3/', '/q5/', '/q7/', '/q8/', '/tt/', '/r8/', '/tron/'], 'mercedes-benz': ['/c-class/', '/e-class/', '/s-class/', '/gle/', '/cla/', '/cls/', '/glc/', '/amg-gt/', '/a-class/', '/sl/', '/slc/', '/b-class/', '/eqc/', '/g-class/', '/gla/', '/glb/', '/gls/', '/v-class/', '/x-class/'], 'skoda-auto': ['/fabia/', '/scala/', '/kamiq/', '/octavia-neu/', '/karoq/', '/kodiaq/', '/superb/']}

Is there any way to reduce these number of lines.
I just want to redunce lines and want to get output where it extract keyword based on dictionary value.

A: You can make it a little bit shorter:
def conv_attribution_brand_keyword(domain, url):
    for keyword in dict_brand_keywords.get(domain, []):
        if keyword in url:
            return keyword

I think this is OK :)

A: You can (at least in Python 3.8), but you probably don't want to.
conv_attribution_brand_keyword = (lambda domain, url: rv
                                    if any((rv:=keyword) in url
                                           for keyword in dict_brand_keywords.get(domain, []))
                                    else None)

(Multiple lines for display purposes only; all newlines could be removed.)
(There are hacks that will do the same thing prior to Python 3.8, without the assignment expression operator :=, but they look even worse.)

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Q: Error generating source map - grunt and sass configuration I am trying to use sass with grunt. I have installed ruby, sass and grunt in my path.
The versions are,

node: 0.10.20
    npm: 1.3.11
    grunt-cli:  0.1.13
    grunt: 0.4.5
    sass: 3.4.4

my package json is,
"private": true,
"devDependencies": {
    "express": "4.x",
    "grunt": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-sass": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.4.4"
}

my grunt file is,
module.exports = function(grunt) {
    grunt.initConfig({
        pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
        sass: {
            dist: {
                files: {
                    'style/style.css' : 'sass/home.scss'
                }
            }
        },
        watch: {
            css: {
                files: '**/*.scss',
                tasks: ['sass']
            }
        }
    });
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-sass');
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
    grunt.registerTask('default',['watch']);
}

Now if i tried "grunt" command, i am getting the below error. Any help?
run: grunt or grunt watch or grunt sass
error:
Running "sass:dist" (sass) task
Error: Error generating source map: couldn't determine public URL for the source
 stylesheet.
         No filename is available so there's nothing for the source map to link
to.
        on line  of standard input
  Use --trace for backtrace.
Warning: Error: Error generating source map: couldn't determine public URL for t
he source stylesheet.
         No filename is available so there's nothing for the source map to link
to.
        on line  of standard input
  Use --trace for backtrace. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

any idea?

A: Looks like you don't have compass installed. You can run gem install compass. In your original example you had your grunt file set up to use compass which would have given you access to compass mixins and features.
Your code looks fine now and should work but seems to not be finding your files. I'll GI e it a go as well when I'm next to a computer.
In the meantime you can try the sourcemap: none option on the sass task.
Update:
Works perfectly fine for me. Could you run tree -I node_modules and post the output(unless you think there's any sensitive info) just to double check the files are in the right place?
I expect it to look something like this
.
├── Gruntfile.js
├── package.json
├── sass
│   └── style.scss
└── style
    ├── style.css
    └── style.css.map

Second update:
Your packages seem significantly older than what's in my fresh setup. Either try starting from scratch or do the following:
Install npm-check-updates
npm install npm-check-updates

And then run the following

*

*npm-check-updates will tell you which packages are outdated

*npm-check-updates -u will update those packages in your package.json

*npm update to update all your outdated packages.

A: updating node modules helped..
npm-check-updates will tell you which packages are outdated
npm-check-updates -u will update those packages in your package.json
npm update to update all your outdated packages.


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MUST READ: Anna Hazare and his fight for the Lokpal Bill1. Who is Anna Hazare?
Submitted by ashutosh@wipro on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 22:36
1. Who is Anna Hazare? An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War 2. What's so special about him? He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra 3. So what? This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills.In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village. 4. Ok,...? This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities. 5. Really, what is he fighting for? He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India. 6. How that can be possible? He is advocating for a Bil, The Lok Pal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), beurocrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.8. It's an entirely new thing right..? In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit thier theft (corruption).7. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill ! How can that be possible in such a short span of time?The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed.Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the LOK PAL BILL. 50% goverment participation and 50% public participation. Because you cant trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them.8. Fine, What will happen when this bill is passed? A LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, that has been going for last 25 years without any result.9. Is he alone? Whoelse is there in the fight with Anna Hazare? Baba Ramdev, Ex. IPS Kiran Bedi, Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and many more. Prominent personalities like Aamir Khan is supporting his cause. 10. Ok, got it. What can I do? At least we can spread the message. How? Putting status message, links, video, changing profile pics. At least we can support Anna Hazare and the cause for uprooting corruption from India. At least we can hope that his Hunger Strike does not go in vain. At least we can pray for his good health. I am sending this out to all my contacts. My humble request to all is to do the same and spread the word.
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Trump Pardons Roger Stone and Why Stone Deserved to Be Pardoned
Posted by Frank Parlato | Dec 27, 2020 | Latest News, Roger Stone News | 0
Authored by Frank Parlato via Frank Report
President Donald Trump pardoned Roger Stone today along with several others. While there will be some who will object to it and call it political, I will take a moment to explain why I think it was right for Trump to pardon Stone.
He did not get a fair trial. In fact, it was one of the worst travesties in the history of federal criminal trials.
I wrote the following just prior to Stone's pardon and thought it would be worth publishing in the event the pardon was a little slow in coming.
Even before the Gestapo-style FBI raid on his home in 2019, the Frank Report has reported in-depth about the effort by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to use essentially fabricated criminal charges against long-time Trump confidant, Roger Stone, in order to pressure Stone into testifying against Trump – which would have helped create a viable Article of Impeachment.
I am well aware that some readers don't like Stone, but we are forced to follow facts based on our own investigative reporting and are not motivated by any ideological fervor.
Most likely you missed the most recent disclosures by the U.S. Department of Justice – which exposed the fact that Stone was the victim of a malicious political prosecution by Robert Mueller and his Ivy league hitmen. The release was carefully timed to ensure that it got almost no press coverage.
Despite a multi-year multimillion-dollar intensive investigation of Stone, Mueller's gumshoes did not find the WikiLeaks connection or receipt and dissemination of emails that they kept insisting existed. At that point, rabid, former Hillary Clinton Lawyer, Arron Zelinsky, browbeat a young Trump campaign employee, in an attempt to get the man to wear a wire and seek a meeting with Stone in Miami.
As the world now knows, Stone was subjected to a Soviet-style show trial in which left-wing Obama appointee, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, prohibited Stone's lawyers from making any powerful arguments, including denying them the right to offer evidence to disprove that the Russians hacked the DNC, the underlying premise of Stone's indictment and which takes up the first 440 words of that document, written by Andrew Weissmann, Mueller's least ethical prosecutor.
Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann. He did everything to convict Stone but remember to seek justice.
Incredibly, Judge Berman Jackson also granted a motion from federal prosecutors prohibiting Stone from raising the misconduct of the Special Counsel's office, the FBI, the Department of Justice, or any Member of Congress in his defense.
It is not unreasonable to ask why the Government sought to bar evidence of misconduct on their part if there was no misconduct to hide. Berman Jackson's ruling is patently unconstitutional. Under Kyle's v Whitely, "Prosecutorial integrity is always at issue, never off the table."
Kangaroo Jury
Even more surprising – and indicative of the absence of even the faintest pretense of a fair trial – was the fact that Stone's jury forewoman, a Democrat activist and lawyer, Tomeka Hart, published both Twitter and Facebook posts attacking Stone, commenting on his case, as well as repeatedly attacking President Trump and his supporters.
Hart hid the posts behind a privacy setting during the jury selection and the trial – and deleted them immediately after the trial.
It would be hard to find a juror more biased against Roger Stone, or better able to deceptively hide it, than Tomeka Hart, the forewoman on the jury that convicted him.
The makeup of the jury included no Republicans, no Trump supporters, no military veterans, no Catholics, no Black men.
To help pack the jury with people hostile or unsympathetic to Stone, Judge Berman Jackson ruled that political activism in the Democrat Party, support or contributions to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, service in the Obama or Clinton administrations as a political appointee, or relationships with individuals in the current Justice Department in the FBI, could not be grounds for dismissing a prospective juror.
Get This Man to Prison and Die
Despite all current legal precedents, current law and the specific regulations of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons regarding non-violent convicts and the risks of COVID-19 exposure, and without regard to Stone's age, [then-67] and history of respiratory illness, Judge Jackson ordered Stone's immediate incarceration last July, and for him to report to a Coronavirus-infested prison where BOP officials insisted there were no COVID-19 cases among the prison population, but the prison guards' union exposed over 100 cases the BOP was concealing. Tucker Carlson said it was "a death sentence."
Judge Amy Berman Jackson
On July 14th, only hours after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Jackson's order to incarcerate Stone (with Bill Barr's Justice Department taking no position when Jackson ruled that Stone go to prison, but supported his immediate incarceration when Stone appealed his prison surrender date), President Donald Trump commuted Stone's sentence because Stone "did not receive a fair trial."
Now, Mueller's dirtiest cop, Andrew Weissmann, is demanding that the Biden Justice Department charge Stone, despite the fact that the Mueller Report written by Weismann has conceded that no evidence of a crime by Stone could be found. Former U.S. Solicitor of the Obama-administration, Neal Katyal, has called for Stone's prosecution for destroying evidence when there is no existing evidence that Stone destroyed anything relevant to his case.
Much has transpired since the President commuted Roger Stone's sentence. You certainly cannot rely on the news media to tell you how much we have learned about the prosecutorial misconduct and other irregularities in Stone's trial in the District of Columbia.
Who Leaked the FBI Raid on Stone's Home?
Many Americans remember the predawn raid on Roger Stone's home in which 29 heavily-armed agents stormed his house. And many people are aware that CNN showed up 14 minutes before the FBI to video Stone's arrest and the harassment of Stone's wife, Nydia Stone.
We now believe we have a powerful lead on who is responsible for this illegal leak. Stone was arrested at 7:05 A.M. One hour earlier, at 6:05 A.M., CNN correspondent, Sarah Murray emailed Stone's attorney, Grant Smith, a draft copy of Stone's indictment. The document received had no timestamp or court markings on it. However, according to at least one source, its metadata tags show the initials of Andrew Weissmann!
The indictment document wasn't sealed until 5:30 A.M. in Washington D.C. CNN's claim that they got the document from the Special Counsel's website was disproved by the fact that the Special Counsel did not post Stone's indictment until it was unsealed. Leaking the government's intention to issue an arrest or search warrant is a felony. CNN's claims that their presence at Stone's residence just prior to Stone's arrest was based on a "journalistic hunch" and "a little luck on the timing," is "bullshit."
As President Donald Trump bellowed, "Who tipped CNN?"
It's always helpful for a news outlet to find out from the DOJ about predawn raids in advance. Even though it is a felony to leak such information, since it is possible that someone could tip off the subject of the raid, the risk is offset by the importance of capturing the FBI gloriously arriving on the scene. In this case, some 29 agents are seen bravely arresting 67-year-old Roger Stone, a defendant without a criminal record who was accused of a non-violent crime. We have CNN and someone at the DOJ who leaked the info to them to thank for this wonderful spectacle of the arrest of a man known to be a friend of Donald Trump.
This serious felony – the leaking of an impending search and arrest – needs to be investigated vigorously by law enforcement. If it is Weissman, even though he may be assumed to be above the law, and quite possibly is, an arrest should be made, despite his political connections.
Why the Investigation Into Stone Had Nothing to Do With Russia
Some are more equal than others; If Rod Rosenstein lied to Congress, shouldn't he also have been prosecuted?
We also learned through Rod Rosenstein's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Mueller's investigation into Stone did not begin until September 2017, two months after Mueller concluded that there was no Russian "collusion" with the Trump campaign.
Interestingly, Rosenstein seems to have lied to the Committee under oath when he said he did not approve the investigation into Stone's affairs, as the document authorizing that investigation is signed by Rosenstein.
Strangely, Rosenstein has not been prosecuted for lying to Congress. Even though Rosenstein may be assumed to be above the law, a thorough investigation should be made to determine if he committed the same crime Stone was convicted of – lying to Congress. Then it can be explained how members of the deep state are more equal than others.
Steve Bannon was under investigation when the Stone trial was underway, but the DOJ neglected to disclose this to Stone's attorneys.
Bannon's Contradictory Testimony
When Steve Bannon's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was declassified, we learned that his sworn testimony before the House Committee specifically contradicts his sworn testimony at Stone's trial.
In fact, GW University's Professor, Jonathan Turley, told the New York Post, "There does appear a glaring and irreconcilable conflict in what Bannon stated in testimony before Congress and the court. What is striking is that this was not a peripheral point but one of the main areas of inquiry…. he has two diametrically opposite sworn statements in a high-profile controversy with dozens of attorneys in attendance."
It seems prosecutors must have actively suborned perjury. This may be easy to prove with an investigation since there is little doubt that prosecutors were familiar with Bannon's House Committee testimony. Yet, they elicited from Bannon an entirely contradictory testimony at Stone's trial. At a minimum, this is prosecutorial misconduct. It should warrant a criminal investigation.
Prosecutors Violate Roger Stone's Brady Rights
Certainly, prosecutors had a legal obligation to inform Stone's lawyers that Bannon was under federal investigation during the time he was testifying against Stone. Their failure to do so was a violation of Stone's Brady Rights. Stone's lawyers could have used this information to impeach Bannon on the stand.
Shocking – Buzzfeed Said Roger Stone Was "Vindicated"
At midnight on election day, November 3rd, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice released the last remaining unredacted sections of the Mueller report regarding Stone, admitting that the Special Counsel had no evidence whatsoever of collaboration or coordination between Stone and WikiLeaks, the Russians and the Trump Campaign.
While the Government's chief witness, former left-wing radio talk show host and comic impressionist, Randy Credico, denied on the stand that he was Roger Stone's source regarding the coming significance of the WikiLeaks disclosures regarding Hillary Clinton, Credico confirmed in an interview with this writer in 2018, that he was, indeed, the "confirming source" of what little information Stone had that wasn't already in the public domain.
Randy Credico, the chief witness against Roger Stone, admitted to this writer that he was the source for Roger Stone.
Although Stone was charged with witness tampering because it is alleged that he threatened to steal Credico's dog, this writer interviewed David Lugo, a filmmaker introduced to Stone by Credico. Lugo claims that Credico threatened in writing to "put a hole in your head" if Lugo dared contradict Credico's fabricated testimony before the Grand Jury.
It begs the question: If Stone was charged, why wasn't Credico also charged with witness tampering? Mueller's "Dirty Cops" ignored what would be Credico's more serious and life-threatening criminal behavior.
Was it because Credico was a witness against Stone?
While I personally believe both men, Stone and Credico, were merely joking – they are both given to a kind of deadpan humor and mimicking of tough guys, Stone only threatened to steal a dog, and knowing Stone's kindness to animals, he would have taken very good care of the little animals, while Credico threatened to make Lugo's brain entirely unusable.
Credico told this writer that he never once thought Stone was trying to tamper with him, or that Stone was even remotely serious about stealing his dog.
The prosecutors also concluded that even if they had found such evidence of Stone's actions, it would have been perfectly legal under the First Amendment – which means that he could not have been prosecuted for them.
However, Judge Amy Berman Jackson withheld this information from Stone's lawyers because it could destroy the legal premises for the bogus charges brought against him – while the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Wall Street Journal, and many others publicly accused Stone of collusion with WikiLeaks, which they claimed was the same as collusion with the Russians.
When the Mueller report proved that this was false, only BuzzFeed, the Washington Examiner and Zero-Hedge reported that Roger Stone had been "vindicated" as BuzzFeed reported it.
Dirty Cops
It is an article of faith among radical leftists that attorney General William Barr interfered with Roger Stone's sentencing and pressured the four highly partisan prosecutors handling Stone's case to "go easy on Trump's friend of forty years." Barr has denied this under oath before the House Judiciary Committee.
Fox accurately reported that the prosecutors in Stone's case used several novel "enhancements" to recommend a 7-9-year sentence," surprising senior officials at DOJ who had expected a sentencing recommendation more in line with federal sentencing guidelines.
Four prosecutors within the Justice Department sent a supplemental sentencing recommendation to Judge Jackson. While Barr's DOJ never withdrew the 7-9-year recommendation, they also made a case for a lesser sentence, without the questionable enhancements cobbled onto Stone's sentence by Mueller's henchmen, but pointing out that Judge Berman Jackson had full discretion to sentence Stone with any term she decided on.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who made her disdain for Stone apparent in each phase of his trial, rejected the 7-9-year sentence recommendation; sentencing Stone to 40 months in prison. Now comes proof that the claim that the original Stone prosecutors were subjected to political pressure for leniency and sentencing has been exposed as a canard.
The Washington Post reported that three senior non-political career Department of Justice officials specifically deny the false claim by ex-Stone-Prosecutor, Aaron Zelinksy, in his sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee – that he had been subjected to political pressure regarding Stone's sentence. If they are telling the truth, isn't Zelinsky guilty of "Lying to Congress?"
Why Stone Dropped His Appeal
Stone only reluctantly dropped the appeal of his conviction.
After the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to dismiss the corrupt indictment of General Michael Flynn, ruled that White House Legal Counsel Don McGahn did have to testify to Congress regarding his privileged conversations regarding the President, and ruled that Hillary Clinton did not have to testify about her illegal mail server, it became apparent to Stone that the D.C. Circuit Court had become so politicized that no Republican or Trump supporter could expect a fair decision.
Even if Stone had been able to obtain a new trial, it would have been presided over by Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who not only showed extreme bias throughout the trial but willfully withheld exculpatory evidence from the redacted Mueller Report from Stone's attorneys at trial.
A Pardon for Stone
While Stone has had no public comment regarding his prospects for a presidential pardon, he did say in his Parler feed that he was "Praying for a Pardon, so that I can put this entire horrific Witch-hunt behind me."
I believe that anyone who objectively reviews the facts regarding Roger Stone's takedown will conclude that he richly deserves the pardon he is praying for.
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I voted D for my house rep, but I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be excited about Nancy Pelosi being the speaker again. Pretty sure those that voted R are probably more excited about having that boogieman/punching bag for the next 2 years. So lets have a pole!
Since there may be some split voters (lololol) let's assume we're talking about who we voted for in the House.
Yep. She's the first person to tell him "no" in two full years, and she did a wonderful job in this standoff. Playing to his ego by cancelling his State of the Union address was one of the key reasons he dropped it, at least for now.
Played him like a fiddle. Definitely shut this naysayer up.
She is John Wicking him.
That might be a stretch. But she and Schumer knew how to play this.
The sad thing is, it still hurt people and this country a bit.
I hope they can use this win to get a good legislative win and get something functional passed on immigration.
Obviously she does good work politicking Congress. However it's hard to forget that her adversary is a petulant child. Saying the emperor has no clothes isn't a great feat in other eras. But in this alternative timeline that we live in, I'll raise my cup and salute her and Schumer. I salute them for allowing the child to boldly claim the shutdown was his and his alone. I salute them for letting the petulant child throw his tantrum with disapproving parental stares. And once the wind goes away from that tantrum's sail, they impose their parental will. A lesson for any parent who wishes to correct a misbehaving child.
And bravo to those repubs senators that finally grew a spine, albeit narrow and unstable. Good work on ending the myth of the "golden" child.
The bigger takeaway from this, besides dunking on Trump a little bit, SHOULD be that this method of governing won't work. They shut down the government for a month over a vanity project, and in the end all they did was hurt average working people AND their polling numbers, and for their troubles ended up right back where they started. Any rational administration would learn that message and leave this policy item in the rear view. I wouldn't be surprised it Trump uses the brief reopening to deliver his SOTU, slam Democrats heavily in it in another attempt to put the onus on them, then shut it down again in 3 weeks. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.
History shows that shutdowns don't really affect elections. If anything they're like that Kavanaugh shirtshow where everyone gets more entrenched and nobody wins. They're just bad all around.
Trump's approval rating is still in his normal range albeit a little low. However, I think the pressure from the corporations (airlines in this case) is what ended it, and what will prevent it from happening again.
Maybe, but he's already dying the death of a thousand cuts.
They marched his best friend out in shackles a few hours before all flights into Laguardia were canceled due to the shutdown. Bloomburg crushed him. Ann Coulter called him a bigger wimp than HW Bush. The indictment against Stone is defining and the writing is on the wall.
Only the most ignorant of the hardest right-wingers can even pretend to continue to carry his water.
The MSM is using the term "CAVED" to describe him.
There are tenis jokes and in depth analysis of his White House manipulating pictures of him to elongate his chubby sausage fingers and make him look thinner. That's getting done with our tax dollars during a time when 800,000 public servants are hearing his billionaire boy's club lament the choice of some federal workers to not grovel at the local grocer for credit rather than have a free meal on Jose Andres.
There are investigations spinning up in the House and Senate. The states are closing in on the cases against his emoluments violations and it's only a NY minute from the time his son-in-law or sons get indicted.
The little orange clown in the ill-fitting suit looked dejected today as he tried to save face.
Maybe John Wick's beatings are more dramatic, but what's happening to Trump right now is going to leave him dead or humiliated and broke.
As it relates to the SOTU.
Mrs. Pelosi would be more accurate. He knows how woefully unprepared he is to negotiate with her (Master of negotiation, my left foot). While he was making comments like "Avoiding STD's was my personal Vietnam" she was already two decades into service to the American people. His act after the Democrats slaughtered the Trump Cult in the mid-terms in the House showed how scared of her he really is. He tried to pretend like losing the House (with the oversight and subpoena power to bring him to his knees) was no big deal because he thought the Democrats were going to put someone else (with little to no experience as a majority leader of anything) into the Speaker's position because there was such uproar about all these incoming freshman wanting to oust her. She even convinced most of those Democrats to keep her in her old position because she has the strength, skins on the wall and, most importantly, bigger balls than Trump.
I voted in this poll "Voted Democrat, Yes to Pelosi" for exactly the reasons she's shown to be so effective. She's been playing this game for so long and has built so many strong connections over the past decades while being in the House that she could win an argument with Trump while taking a nap. And probably while taking a crap too.
It looks like this was Schumer's call, but why would you pick Abrams to give the State of the Union response?
Why not someone in office?
I think they're counting on non white women being the most important demographic in the next election.
Plus, Stacy Abrams is great. The more exposure she gets the better.


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Work Begins on Reinstalling York Minster's Great East Window
Nick Teed with the panel depicting God the Father
Work has begun this month on the reinstallation of the conserved tracery panels of the Great East Window of York Minster – starting, appropriately, with God the Father. The panel has been returned to the apex of the window seven years after the panels were removed for conservation.
The window, which was created in 1405–1408 under the direction of John Thornton of Coventry, is being conserved at York Glaziers Trust as part of the York Minster Revealed project, a £20 million investment over five years, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and scheduled for completion in spring 2016.
'It is a fantastic achievement by the team to have reached this milestone and to begin returning the stained glass to the window marks an important date in York Minster's history', explained Sarah Brown, Director at York Glaziers Trust. 'The Great East Window is one of the great artistic achievements of the Middle Ages, a stunning expanse of stained glass of unparalleled size and beauty in Britain. The work undertaken as part of this project will ensure this masterpiece is preserved for hundreds of years to come. In terms of returning the glass to the window, it seemed fitting to start with God the Father and work downwards, with the medieval perception of human history unfolding beneath his feet.'
God the Father in situ at the apex of the window
Conservators have almost completed the installation of the protective glazing, which is manufactured with Lamberts UV Resistant glass (Vidimus 77), and the original panels will return to the window in bronze frames (Vidimus 88) as part of the isothermal glazing system. The tracery panels will be reinstalled first, followed by the famous Apocalypse cycle panels, and finally, the Old Testament scenes. The conserved panels will be slowly revealed as the interior scaffold is lowered, but as the conservation of the Old Testament panels will commence in August, viewers must wait around two more years before the entire window is back in place!


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Q: Eclipse null check doesn't work with functions I am getting a Potential null pointer access: The variable test may be null at this location eclipse warning from the below code.
public class Runtime {

    public static void main(final String args[]) throws Exception {
        Collection<String> test = null;
        if (new Random().nextBoolean()) {
            test = new ArrayList<>();
        }

        if (!isNullOrEmpty(test)) {
            test.size();
        }
    }

    public static boolean isNullOrEmpty(final Collection<?> coll) {
        return (coll == null) || coll.isEmpty();
    }

}

The act of checking isNullOrEmpty should guarantee that test is non-null. Making the function call inline will fix the problem, proving that this is just an eclipse limitation.
I don't want to ignore the warning, because I need to know if I forget to do the check, and I don't want to inline the same check 500 times (especially the more complex cases).
Is there anyway to adjust this so that eclipse knows test is not null when I call size?
I am using Java 8.

A: It really looks like you wanted an Optional instead of a Collection. In which case, you could use one. Like,
Optional<String> optional = Optional.ofNullable(null);
if (new Random().nextBoolean()) {
    optional = Optional.of("somevalue");
}
if (optional.isPresent()) {
    System.out.println(optional.get());
}

A: Does this do what you want?
How can I annotate my helper method so Eclipse knows its argument is non null if it returns true?
Apparently (I have never use it) you can annotate the helper method with something like:
 @EnsuresNonNullIf(expression="#1", result=true)
 public static boolean isNullOrEmpty(final Collection<?> coll) { ...

It may require an add-on..


DENVER -- A Senate Republican bill aimed at ending "sanctuary" policies that protect criminal aliens passed its first hurdle Monday, on a 3 to 2 party line vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee, following three hours of testimony by more than 25 witnesses.
SB-281 moves next to the Senate floor for debate.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday also turned thumbs down on House Bill-1230, which would have made all of Colorado a "sanctuary state" by prohibiting local sheriffs and other state agencies from cooperating with federal immigration law enforcement.
and laws will be enforced.
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and cooperate with all other levels of law-enforcement.
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BioShock 2 Multiplayer: Extreme
Alec Meer
8th May 2009 / 4:50PM
As well as a lady in a Big Daddy costume, it seems the forthcoming BioShock sequel will also feature multiplayer. Crivens! But will this new mode be the Counter-Strike to BioShock's Half-Life, or as inappropriately abstract as the infamous Deus Ex multiplayer patch? Of the just-released details, two facts stand out as super-fun: 1) we'll finally get to visit pre-fall Rapture 2) this mode's being handled by Digital Extremes, co-developer of UT and UT2003/4. Oh, you're listening now, aren't you?
Sounds as though no-one gets to be the the prototype Large Father who's the protagonist of the singleplayer game, but rather everyone's a Plasmid test subject during the fall of Rapture, warring over territory and powers in the sinister sub-aquatic city.
On that theme, it seems as though 2K plan to borrow a page from Call of Duty 4's book, using the multiplayer to ensure the game stays around and in the headlines for some months, rather than simply enjoy a month of pre-release hype then suffer two years of people raging about it at great length on the internet, as with the original BioShock. Experience points earn you new plasmids, tonics and weapons, which you can combo in various arrangements to create an ostensibly unique character of your own. I'm not quite sure if this is persistent or just within the scope of a single game, but am endeavouring to find out.
And, as previously mentioned, the multiplayer is set before Rapture plunged into decay and anarchy. Well, maybe not before the anarchy, given there'll be a bunch of plasmid-enhanced crazy men fighting each other. No word on if there will be civilians or any other sort of NPC, or just deathmatch arenas, but it'll certainly be interesting to see what super-shiny Rapture looked like, given ol' Andrew Ryan's boasts about its splendour.
Digital Extremes are at the helm, which is a source of mixed feelings. On the one hand, they reportedly had much to do with why the original Unreal Tournaments were so top-notch, and some have blamed their omission from the UT3 team for its failings. On the other hand, their two singleplayer outings, Pariah and the recent Dark Sector, have been pretty darn dreary. By sticking to BS2's multiplayer though, they're very much playing to their strengths – genuine veterans of online FPS gaming, and their involvement is surely something to celebrate.
2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. announced today that it has signed a partnership with Digital Extremes to develop the multiplayer experience for BioShock 2. Under this partnership, Digital Extremes is working closely with the creative team at 2K Marin to develop a new and substantial element that enhances the lore and fiction of the BioShock universe.
"The fans asked for a multiplayer experience and we answered," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. "With Digital Extremes delivering a multiplayer experience for BioShock 2 that features all of the things that make BioShock unique, we're holding ourselves to a high standard so that we can deliver the depth and variety that fans of the BioShock universe demand."
Multiplayer in BioShock 2 provides a rich prequel experience that expands the origins of the BioShock fiction. Set during the fall of Rapture, players assume the role of a Plasmid test subject for Sinclair Solutions, a premier provider of Plasmids and Tonics in the underwater city of Rapture that was first explored in the original BioShock. Players will need to use all the elements of the BioShock toolset to survive as the full depth of the BioShock experience is refined and transformed into a unique multiplayer experience that can only be found in Rapture.
• Evolution of the genetically enhanced shooter – Earn experience points during gameplay to earn access to new Weapons, Plasmids and Tonics that can be used to create hundreds of different combinations, allowing players to develop a unique character that caters to their playing style.
• Extend the Rapture fiction – Players will step into the shoes of Rapture citizens and learn more about the fall of Rapture as they progress through the experience.
• See Rapture before the fall – Experience Rapture before it was reclaimed by the ocean and engage in combat over iconic environments in locations such as Kashmir Restaurant and Mercury Suites, all of which have been reworked from the ground up to deliver a fast-paced multiplayer experience.
• FPS veterans add their touch to the multiplayer experience – Digital Extremes brings more than 10 years of first person shooter experience including development of award-winning entries in the Unreal and Unreal Tournament franchise.
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Хака () — ритуальный танец новозеландских маори, во время которого исполнители топают ногами, бьют себя по бёдрам и груди и выкрикивают аккомпанемент. Это один из самых известных видов музыкального искусства маори, благодаря регбийной команде All Blacks с хакой знакомо большинство жителей Новой Зеландии.

Слово «хака» на языке маори означает «танец в общем», а также «песня, сопровождающая танец». Хаку нельзя отнести исключительно к «танцам» или «песням»: по выражению Алана Армстронга, хака — это композиция, в которой каждый инструмент — руки, ноги, тело, язык, глаза — исполняет собственную партию.

Характерные детали хаки — танец исполняется одновременно всеми участниками и сопровождается гримасами. Гримасы (движения глаз и языка) очень важны, и именно по ним определяется, насколько хорошо исполнен танец. Женщинам, исполняющим хаку, не обязательно высовывать языки. Невоенные хака могут содержать волнообразные движения пальцами или кистями рук. Ведущий танца (мужчина или женщина) выкрикивает одну или две строки текста, после чего остальные хором отвечают припевом.

История
Существует несколько разных легенд о происхождении хаки. Согласно одной из них, данный танец впервые исполнили женщины, искавшие некоего Каэ, который убил кита, принадлежавшего вождю племени. Женщины не знали, как он выглядит, но им было известно, что у него кривые зубы. Каэ находился среди других людей, и, чтобы определить его в толпе, женщины исполнили смешной танец с комическими движениями. Увидев хаку, Каэ рассмеялся, и его узнали.

Хака исполнялась преимущественно вечером для развлечения; существовали сугубо мужские хаки, женские, детские, а также подходящие взрослым обоих полов. Также с помощью этого танца приветствовали гостей во время пофири. Приветственные танцы обычно начинались воинственно, так как встречающим не были известны намерения прибывших. Именно таким воинственным танцем вооружённые маори встретили Джеймса Кука в 1769 году.

Христианский миссионер Генри Уильямс писал: «Необходимо запретить все старые обычаи, танцы, пение и татуировки, основные местные вакханалии. В Окленде люди любят собираться большими компаниями с целью демонстрации своих ужасающих танцев». Со временем отношение к танцам со стороны европейцев улучшилось, хаку стали регулярно исполнять при визитах королевской семьи.

В XXI веке хаку часто исполняют в Вооружённых силах Новой Зеландии. Два раза в год, начиная с 1972 года, проводится фестиваль-соревнование по хаке Те Мататини (). С конца XIX века регбийные команды исполняют этот танец перед соревнованием, в 2000-х годах эта традиция вызвала многочисленные споры и обвинения «All Blacks» в «девальвации» хаки.

Разновидности
«Перуперу» () — военный хака, также называется «пуха» (, это название использовалось на военных сборах), исполнялся непосредственно перед битвой, в перерывах и после её успешного окончания. Танцующие часто потрясают в процессе своим оружием, таращат глаза, высовывают языки и истошно кричат, а их тела конвульсивно содрогаются. Особенность перуперу — одновременные прыжки всех исполняющих её воинов, а также то, что иногда мужчины танцевали его голыми, причём эрегированные пенисы считались знаком особенной смелости.

Разновидность перуперу, тутунгараху (, также , , ) воины исполняли для того, чтобы определить, готово ли подразделение к бою. Старики нагибались к земле, а воины одновременно подпрыгивали. В случае, если хотя бы один мужчина оставался на земле, когда остальные уже были в воздухе, маори не выходили сражаться, так как это считалось дурным предзнаменованием.

Почти на каждом собрании маори исполняется хака «Тоиа маи» (реже — «Утаина»).

Слово «нгери» () может означать любую короткую песню, написанную в обычном для хаки размере, исполняемую с танцем или без него. «Тумото» () — яростный хака, исполняющийся после ранения или поражения. «Хака хорухору» () исполняется на коленях мужчинами и женщинами. «Хака коири» () включает плавные колыхательные движения. Ка-матэ — знаменитый хака маори, сочинённый рангатирой Те Раупарахой более двухсот лет назад. Другие известные композиторы хака — Тута Нихонихо («Те кири нгуту») и командующий 28-м батальоном маори Арапета Аватере.

Существуют и другие разновидности хаки.

Примечания

Литература

Ритуальные танцы
Культура маори
Народные танцы Новой Зеландии
Групповые танцы


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Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman's first book was published when he was fourteen years old, and he has since written over ninety middle grade and teen novels. The New York Times bestselling Ungifted, Supergifted, The Unteachables, Pop, Schooled, and the Masterminds series are among the most popular. Gordon lives on Long Island, New York, with his family. Go to www.gordonkorman.com to learn more about him.
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Escape (Island, Book 3), 3: The Escape
Vespers Rising (the 39 Clues, Book 11), 11
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Jibo is a countertop robot designed to handle tasks like scheduling and videoconferencing.
How many job openings does your household currently have for robots or devices with artificial intelligence?
Today, you can hire a Looj robot from Bedford-based iRobot to whack the leaves out of your gutters, or you can plunk an Amazon Echo speaker on your kitchen counter to fill you in on the Sox score or add an appointment to your online calendar.
But plenty of other players, from tech giants such as Google to small startups such as Boston-based Jibo, are developing products they hope will prove their utility and persuade you to part with a few hundred bucks. Many of them will go on sale — or be available for preorder — starting next month. It promises to be a competitive market, and not everyone will survive.
Amazon's $179 Echo (starring Siri rival Alexa) debuted last year and has established an early beachhead. Much of the speech recognition software that allows the Echo to understand what you're asking and provide an intelligent response was developed at Amazon's research and development center in Cambridge. Though the company says more than 1,000 people are assigned to the Echo project globally, spokeswoman Kinley Pearsall wouldn't be specific about how many of them toil in Kendall Square.
New software updates get delivered to Echo devices over the Internet weekly, and other companies are developing apps, or "skills," as Amazon calls them, that let you do things like speak a command to adjust the temperature of your thermostat, get the arrival time of an inbound flight, check your bank balance, or play 20 questions.
Google has been working on a rival to the Echo for months, called Google Home, and it plans to announce a price and release date in early October.
"After the Web, and mobile apps, and social media, I believe that artificial intelligence and robotics is the next wave," Jibo chief executive Steve Chambers says.
While the Google and Amazon devices feature a disembodied voice that can act a bit like a personal assistant or concierge, the product Jibo is developing will have a screen that displays an animated face and the ability to turn so that it can face different directions. Chambers says he has an Echo at home, but he's building a product "with its own personality and character," which can do some of the same things that Echo can, like look up the answer to a question on Wikipedia, but Jibo will also be able to act like a party photographer, snapping pics throughout an event, facilitating videoconferences, or reading bedtime stories to a child. "You can play a trivia game, and Jibo can turn his back on you, while showing the right answer to the person who is asking the question," Chambers says.
The company was founded in early 2013, employs 94 people, and has raised $60 million in funding. But Jibo hasn't yet delivered a product. Chambers says the company will start shipping robots to early buyers "at the end of October," but he calls that phase of shipments "an extended user feedback trial." The general public won't be able to purchase one until early next year, for about $749. And the company announced in August that, for the time being, it won't deliver robots to buyers outside the United States and Canada, citing "rapidly changing consumer privacy laws" and also challenges understanding English spoken with an accent.
Designing a product is one thing, entrepreneur Cory Kidd says, and "manufacturing a good durable product, with a business around it, is something else." After earning his doctorate at MIT, Kidd started a company called Intuitive Automata in 2007. That company produced an early countertop robot called Autom that served as a weight-loss coach — and cheerleader. "We had a little bit of success, but not enough to make it a sustainable business," he says. Now, Kidd has a startup called Catalia Health in San Francisco that is developing another stationary robot that will ask its owners questions about how they're feeling, remind them to take medications, and nudge them to exercise, with a goal of helping people with chronic conditions take better care of themselves. He expects the bot, known as Mabu, to be available early next year, and says pharmaceutical companies and health systems will pay for the device, in the hopes that it will keep people with chronic conditions out of the hospital.
Kidd says it's too early to start picking winners — will it be larger companies like Google or iRobot, or smaller ventures like his? But he thinks there will be a cavalcade of new conversational interfaces, robots, and AI software that we willingly let into our homes. "In the 1970s and 1980s, we talked a lot about microchips, and when you bought a computer, the main thing was what kind of processor it had," he says. "Today, how many chips are in the room you're sitting in? More than you can count, probably." But, he says, they'll each need to solve some problem that consumers actually have.


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Game Of Thrones Prediction: Is Sansa pregnant, who will die and who will make a comeback!
By Hector Morales -
In the last episode of Game Of Thrones season 6, we witnessed the death of one of the most hated characters i.e. Ramsay Bolton, but now the question arises, who will die in the last episode of this season and who will mark their presence.
Game Of Thrones is the most popular TV show at present, and due to the cruelties and tortures by Ramsay Bolton, he became the most hated character after Geoffrey. So much so, that everyone was speculating, how he is going to die and fans were even making fan fictions for that.
Finally, the end of Ramsay Bolton came near and he died the death everyone wished for him. He was eaten alive by the same dogs he had fed and used for torturing others.
As Sansa stood there looking into his eyes, Ramsay said "You can't kill me; I'm part of you now."", to which Sansa replied ""Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear."
Does it points to Sansa being pregnant with Ramsay's child? That takes us into thinking about what Sansa earlier said to Littlefinger "I can still feel what he did, in my body, standing here, right now" .
Does this all point to Sansa being pregnant?
And which path this storyline will go? There have been speculations of Sansa killing the baby or even marrying Littlefinger to protect the baby, but which prediction will come true, only time will tell.
There have also been speculations of Lady Stoneheart making a comeback. For those who don't know, as per the books, after the death of Catelyn Stark's corpse is brought our from river by Arya's direwolf and she is thus resurrected by Lord Beric Dondarrion, and comes to be known as Lady Stoneheart, whose only purpose of life becomes killing anyone associated with Frays, Bolton or Lannisters.
As per the books, this should have happened in Season 4, but it was skipped by the show makers. It is being expected that with the re-emergence of 'Brotherhood Without Banners' , the storyline might be back on track. All spoilers point to Lady Stark making a comeback as Lady Stoneheart. Which also means, that she will be the crucial factor in Jon Snow and Sansa's struggle for Iron Throne.
This was about comebacks and new entries, but what about the existing ones? Who is going to die in the season 10, let us explore:
As per the preview of Episode 10, the trial of Loras Tyrell is going to happen. With this trial, the conflict of Lannisters with High Sparrow will come out. It is expected that High Sparrow will be killed and so will be Lancel Lannister, who is Cersei's cousin.
But the much bigger blow will come with Maregaery killing off Tommon. After this, Cersei will go mad after the death of her last child. These are just conspiracy theories, however, we do expect a lot of deaths in this scene.
Castle Black
We can see the white raven hovering near the Castle Black, marking the advent of Winter. It means that the White Walkers are going to attack the Castle Black and considering their strength, there is very little chance of Crows surviving the battle with the dead.
Lord Frey
The question keeps coming to the fans, why is Walder Frey still alive? He betrayed the Starks and brutally killed Robb and his pregnant wife.
Well, Jaimie seems to be rejoicing with Frey to congratulate him on getting the castle from House Tully. But what seems to be happening is that Jamie may kill Walder Frey.
On the night, when he was talking with Lord Edmure of House Tully, he might have made a deal with him to kill Frey in exchange for the castle.
However, in the books, Lord Edmure is shown to have been exiled along with his wife and child. Now whether Arya or Jamie kills Walder Frey, we will have to see, but one thing we are sure of is that he doesn't have too many days to live now.
Hector Morales
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New Amsterdam, Minutes of the Orphanmasters Court, 1655 - 1664
In 1909, the Society of Colonial Dames of the State of New York compiled and authored two-volumes worth of information on the orphans and widows of New Amsterdam between 1655 and 1663.
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The Society of Colonial Dames of the State of New York - known today as The National Society of Colonial Dames - transcribed information from documents on orphans and widows during New York's Dutch colonial period and made them available in English. These two volumes discuss the "property and effects" of orphans and widows who lost their head of household and how the state "properly employed and administered" their property.
This volume is text searchable – searches entered from this page will query this volume. The images can also be browsed by clicking the links below, which will take you to the beginning of the section you are interested in reading.
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Both volumes were organized by Berthold Fernow, who was an archivist in New York. The first volume solely contains cases from Orphanmaster Court. Each case is organized chronologically. Every case begins with the date and name of the Orphanmaster. It then goes to state the name of the deceased head of household, which is then followed by the mention of the widow, their children and a potential foster parent. Finally, it states debts, the name of a notary public and property that was seized, such as cattle, clothing, utensils and many other valuable materials.
Volume 2 briefly addresses the "rules and laws, governing the actions of the Burgomasters of New Amsterdam." It also contains exhaustive accounts from cases between 1662 and 1664 that were handled by a notary public named Walewyn Van Der Veen. Here, each record consists of the name of the deceased person, their property and any of their debts that needed to be settled.
This collection can help researchers that need help searching for a Dutch ancestor. This can also serve those who need to find a Dutch ancestor in order to register to become one of the over 15,000 members of The National Society of Colonial Dames.
Researchers interested in the Dutch legacy that remained in New York long after British rule will find these two volumes useful. It is important to preserve these documents because it gives us insight on how institutions transitioned from Dutch to British rule. It also gives us a glimpse of the women and children that are usually not at the root of documents pertaining to property. These volumes can help historians researching the state and the role they played in the lives of orphans and widows and how it changed over time as they assimilated under the auspices of the British Empire.
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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, "New Amsterdam, Minutes of the Orphanmasters Court, 1655 - 1664" digital images, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, (www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org), 2019.
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Good news for the bats and some marine species because the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) has recently granted them protected status.
During the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP 12) that was held in Manila, protections for migratory bats, angelsharks, blue sharks, dusky sharks, guitarfish, white spotted wedgefish and whale sharks, among others were awarded migratory species protection.
It was the Defenders of Wildlife that supported the proposal to list 6 marine species and Peru's proposal to have 4 Lasiurus species of bats listed in Appendix II. These bats are being threatened by habitat loss, climate change, wind energy production, and other factors.
This year's CMS was participated by more than 120 Parties and delegates and observers of over 500. It was the first time that the event was held in Asia.
A side-event on the Conservation of Migratory Bats and on Green Energy was presented by the Defenders in collaboration with the Eurobats, the CMS Secretariat, and the World Wildlife Fund.
The new international adoption, collaboration, and recognition of listing proposals by all Parties will greatly benefit the four bat species – eastern red, hoary, southern yellow, and southern red bats who are facing the biggest threats.
They are greatly affected by the growing production of wind energy and the adoption will promote responsible handling of this specific threat to migratory bats.
The CMS listing adoption hopes to increase awareness, especially amongst decision-makers, of how wind energy production affects migratory bats, and to spur development and implementations of technologies that can potentially reduce fatalities.
It also hopes to bring to the fore the issue of wind energy and bats so that corporate power purchasers, particularly those who care about reputational risks, will be persuaded to see the value of bat-friendly wind energy.
Other objectives are to prompt research into species that are hardly being studied and to catalyse formalisation of other protections for threatened species.
Six marine species – whale shark, guitarfish of Mediterranean population, dusky shark, blue shark, angelshark, white spotted wedgefish, and guitarfish, have been listed for protection under the CMS.
The first two are under Appendix I, which is one of the two different levels of protection. This indicates that both species are under threat of extinction and require an individual approach to conservation and habitat restoration by certain Parties. Such species must be strictly protected.
The other four, on the other hand, are listed under Appendix II where international cooperation is required for the species to thrive.
The COP wants to bring increased concerted efforts or risk a continuous decline until each one of these species is gone.
With the protection awarded, the Defenders of Wildlife will now be working with partners and governments involved to ensure the next steps of the action necessary to protect affected bat and marine species will be implemented.
The CMS is a convention of the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) where sustainable use of migratory species and where they live and the international cooperation of conservation measures are brought to the attention of different countries.


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