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Dwayne Johnson Joins the Ruderman Family Foundation to Promote Disability Inclusion in Hollywood
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In a new, groundbreaking video Hollywood superstar Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson joins national leader in disability inclusion, the Ruderman Family Foundation, in calling for more inclusion and opportunities for people with disabilities in the entertainment industry.
Johnson, who plays amputee Will Sawyer in his new movie "Skyscraper," hopes his message can bring about change to an industry that has left out people with disabilities for far too long.
"Our industry has a responsibility to tell inclusive stories and I hope my character in Skyscraper is an example of that commitment. I certainly encourage the entire (entertainment) industry to take steps forward to audition and cast actors with disabilities to play characters with and without disabilities," Johnson said in the video. "Disability is an essential piece of diversity, and our characters and actors should definitely, 100 percent reflect this"' he insists.
"I want to thank our great partners at the Ruderman Family Foundation for their continued focus on this issue and their tireless advocacy for inclusion."
After close dialogue between the Foundation, Universal Studios and Johnson, all sides hope the call to action by Johnson can propel others in the industry to follow by casting more actors with a disability.
This video is a sizeable momentum-builder for the issue of disability inclusion in entertainment. Approximately 20% of the population has a disability; making people with disabilities the largest minority in the U.S. Actors with disabilities represent less than 2% of the roles that we see on screen, with the entertainment industry routinely denying self-representation from this minority.
"We appreciate Dwayne Johnson's leadership in joining the Ruderman Family Foundation and other advocates in calling on the entertainment industry to audition and cast more actors with disabilities," said Jay Ruderman, President of the Ruderman Family Foundation. "People with disabilities are twenty percent of the world's population and their representation in popular entertainment will help reduce the stigma they face in society."
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Trumping the Media
Scot Faulkner recounts the history of the rise of alternative media and how President Trump is fully utilizing new media outlets like Twitter to bypass the entrenched bastions of political correctness.
President-Elect Donald Trump's first news conference since the November election vividly displayed how he has turned the media world upside down. His unprecedented campaign and transition points to an administration committed to solidifying a media revolution that began decades ago.
The media, especially the 95% within the media who are liberals, are in free fall in audience and credibility. A recent Associated Press survey reported that 96% of Americans no longer trust the "mainstream media." The media elite are still in denial that their world of unaccountable privilege and bias has vanished.
How the media elite respond will determine whether anyone listens to them ever again. The latest Buzzfeed/CNN promotion of false Trump trash is further evidence that the elite are on a different planet from the real world.
The American news media was "middle of the road" and patriotic until the mid-1960s. At that time the older generation of media moguls retired or died, ushering in activist liberals. Media liberalism became radical with the Vietnam War and Watergate.

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Q: READE field key until EOF In subfile in RPGLE I'm stuck to get the full output.
Supposedly the output need to look like this
Actual Output I want
And this is my physical file
New Currency exchange physical file
I have three field in physical file which are :

*

*EXGDAT = date

*EXGCOD = exchange code

*EXGRAT = exchange rate

I try to use
          read    curexg
          dow     not %eof
   exgdat reade   curexg
          eval date = exgdat
          select
   exgcod  wheneq 'USD'
            move   exgrat   usd
   exgcod  wheneq 'GBP'
            move   exgrat   gbp
   exgcod  wheneq 'EUR'
            move   exgrat   eur
   exgcod  wheneq 'AUD'
            move   exgrat   aud
   exgcod  wheneq 'SGD'
            move   exgrat   sgd
            endsl

            read curexg
            eval rrn = rrn + 1
            write sfl01
            enddo

this is the output :
Output
After compile, I compare the value in subfile with the value in physical file, for 1 june, EUR is the wrong value. And right now, supposedly both of 31 May and 1 June records should be displayed on subfile.
Do I have to do another loop for READE? What should I do? please help me

A: First, when you compare EXGCOD to values like 'usd', the comparison is case-sensitive. The actual value in the file is 'USD', so you need to code 'USD' in your WHENEQ opcode.
But I think the main problem is that you are not doing the SELECT for every record that you get with READ or READE.
The first READ gets the record with 'USD'. Then, at the beginning of the DOW loop, you do a READE which would get the 'GBP' record. So you would do the first SELECT with the 'GBP' record, and your code would not see the 'USD" record. Then at the end of the loop, you do another READ operation which gets the 'EUR' record, but you don't process this record because the next thing that happens is the READE at the top of the loop, which gets the 'AUD' record. The READ at the end of the loop gets the 'SGD' record, and then the READE at the top of the loop attempts to get another record, but it would get end of file. But you don't check for end of file after the READE, so it would process the 'SGD' record. Finally, it would do another READ at the end of the loop, and %EOF would be *ON at the DOW so the loop would end.
At the end of the loop, you would have processed GBP, AUD, and SGD, but not USD or EUR.

A: just move this
eval rrn = rrn + 1
write sfl01

outside of your loop and you should be good

A: I would do this - we read the input file sequentially and track the change in the date until the date has changed, fill in the entry for the subfile, as soon as we see that the date has changed - we save the filled entry in the subfile and start filling in the next one
Curexg is assumed to be a logical file by exgdat key field
dcl-s lastDte char(10) inz(*blanks);

rrn = 0;

setll *loval curexg;
read curexg;

dow not %eof(curexg);
  // If it's new date
  if lastDte <> exgdat;
    // If previous date not blanks (it's not the first record in the file)
    if lastDte <> *blanks;
      // write filled record to subfile
      rrn += 1;
      write sfl01;
    endif;

    // start new date group
    date = exgdat;
    lastDte = date;
  endif;

  // fill currency rate
  select;
     when exgcod = 'USD';
       usd = exgrat;

     when exgcod = 'GBP';
       gbp = exgrat;

     when exgcod = 'EUR';
       eur = exgrat;

     when exgcod = 'AUD';
       aud = exgrat;

     when exgcod = 'SGD';
       sgd = exgrat;
  endsl;

  read curexg;
enddo;

// write last filled record to subfile
rrn += 1;
write sfl01;

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Spinfish is the adventurer's poké place thanks to a wide variety of unique, house-made, fusion-inspired sauces. Pick your fish—be it ahi tuna, salmon, albacore or Japanese yellowtail, toss with a signature sauce and eat. Not to fear though: this fresh sashimi can also be enjoyed by purist's: the traditional style sesame shoyu that originated from Hawaii is also available.
The folks at Poké really embrace the Hawaiian spirit: everyone who walks through its doors are treated like "Ohana" (family). At this low-key eatery, you'll find new school versions of sushi grade fish marinated specially atop a bowl with your choice of toppings. You also choose the level of spiciness you can handle for your sauce and we have to say: some like it hot, and so do we.
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package org.apache.camel.component.properties;

import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.ContextTestSupport;
import org.apache.camel.FailedToCreateRouteException;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * Test that placeholder DSL is working as expected.
 */
public class OptionalPropertiesDslInvalidSyntaxTest extends ContextTestSupport {

    @Test
    public void testPlaceholderDslKeyNotFoundTest() throws Exception {
        context.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() {
            @Override
            public void configure() throws Exception {
                from("direct:start")
                    .multicast().placeholder("stopOnException", "xxx")
                        .to("mock:a").throwException(new IllegalAccessException("Damn")).to("mock:b");
            }
        });
        try {
            context.start();
            fail("Should have thrown exception");
        } catch (FailedToCreateRouteException e) {
            IllegalArgumentException cause = assertIsInstanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class, e.getCause());
            assertEquals("Property with key [xxx] not found in properties from text: {{xxx}}", cause.getMessage());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testPlaceholderDslSetterNotFoundTest() throws Exception {
        context.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() {
            @Override
            public void configure() throws Exception {
                from("direct:start")
                    .multicast().placeholder("xxx", "stop")
                        .to("mock:a").throwException(new IllegalAccessException("Damn")).to("mock:b");
            }
        });
        try {
            context.start();
            fail("Should have thrown exception");
        } catch (FailedToCreateRouteException e) {
            IllegalArgumentException cause = assertIsInstanceOf(IllegalArgumentException.class, e.getCause());
            assertEquals("No setter to set property: xxx to: true on: Multicast[[To[mock:a], ThrowException[java.lang.IllegalAccessException], To[mock:b]]]", cause.getMessage());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isUseRouteBuilder() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    protected CamelContext createCamelContext() throws Exception {
        CamelContext context = super.createCamelContext();
        context.addComponent("properties", new PropertiesComponent("classpath:org/apache/camel/component/properties/myproperties.properties"));
        return context;
    }

}

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Everyone can think of a successful team: whether it be rugby, football, or cricket. But what characteristics do successful teams have to make them a winning combination?
How does good team-working translate into general practice? It is striving together for high quality and a safe service. Quality starts with safety – let us not forget the Hippocratic principle: "First, do no harm". How do you achieve this? Your practice may have fantastic individuals, but to meet these aims you must have a team safety culture.
Of course, first thoughts are to blame the plant operators – they made a mistake – but as with most disasters when things go wrong it is rarely because of a single isolated event.
Errors and incidents occur within a system and usually there is a sequence of events that occur before an accident happens.
The reactor was operated with inadequately trained personnel.
The team was not competent to do the job; they were electrical engineers rather than specialists in nuclear plants.
There was poor communication between the team and managers.
The nuclear reactor was housed in inappropriate premises.
Individuals and teams have a constant and active awareness of the potential for things to go wrong.
A culture that is open and fair and one that encourages people to speak up about mistakes – being open and fair means sharing information openly with patients and their families balanced with fair treatment for staff when an incident happens.
Both the individual and organisation are able to acknowledge mistakes, learn from them and take action to put them right.
It influences the overall vision, mission and goals of the team or organisation, as well as the day-to-day activities.
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From the time that revenues began to accrue from the royalties derived at the Temple family's oil wells at Montebello in June 1917 and from other sources for the next thirteen years, Walter P. Temple invested significantly in the education of his four surviving children: Thomas, Agnes, Walter, Jr, and Edgar.
All attended private schools for that period, locally, in Northern California and in Massachusetts, the ancestral home state of the Temple family. As the eldest and first son, however, there was more expected of Thomas than the rest.
After completing middle school at a military academy in Pasadena in 1918, Thomas was sent north to the preparatory academy of Santa Clara College (now the University of Santa Clara.) He received his high school diploma there four years later and then enrolled at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena for the fall semester of 1922. The idea was to study engineering, specifically petrochemical, so that he could assist his father in oil ventures.
The coursework proved to be rigorous, as would be expected at the vaunted CalTech, but when Thomas' mother, Laura, to whom he was exceptionally close, died at the end of the year, he decided that the shock of her passing and the uncertainty about continuing to go to school at CalTech provided an opportunity to reassess his education.
This and the following three images are portions of journal entries written on 8-9 January 1930 by Thomas W. Temple II as he was in the early stages of research that led him to a more than four decade career as a genealogist and historian of Spanish and Mexican California.
In early 1923, he withdrew from CalTech and returned to Santa Clara to pursue his college education at the safe, familiar, and not as challenging college there. Three and a half years later, he earned his bachelor's degree with a new emphasis, the law. Now, the concept was for him to help Walter, Sr. with legal advice concerning business endeavors, and the next step was to get his juris doctorate.
With the Temples being very keen to follow tradition, Thomas was enrolled at Harvard Law School, which his uncle William attended and from which he got his J.D. in 1874. Thomas completed the course in spring 1929, at the same time Agnes finished her bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael, north of San Francisco and Walter, Jr. and Edgar graduated high school at Dummer (yup, Dummer–named for a colonial governor of Massachusetts) Academy north of Boston.
Thomas then contemplated two courses. The first was to study for and take the California Bar Exam (something his uncle William did not have to contend with over fifty years before) and seek work in a law firm. His father's attorney and fellow business investor, George H. Woodruff, was a successful lawyer and offered to advise Thomas on how to get into the legal profession.
There was, however, a second option he considered. This was banking, though the reasons are not clear. Thomas appears to have had contacts in the industry in Northern California from his days at Santa Clara College. He liked the area, as well, so that was likely a factor. But, another one may have been that he was not as keen on the law as he might have thought or as his father encouraged him.
In the months after his graduation from Harvard and his return home to the Workman Homestead at Puente, moreover, Thomas became more interested in another passion: history and genealogy. So, as he mulled his career options, he began to visit or receive material historical archives, specifically at Mission San Gabriel and Mission Santa Barbara, as he made his first explorations of the genealogical history of prominent Californios.
These initial efforts, recorded in surviving journal entries from the Homestead's collection that Thomas wrote on 8 and 9 January 1930, reflect how Thomas' intense interest in the subject were developed through these early researches and which led him to over four decades as a historian and genealogist.
Today I made my seventh visit to the Mission of San Gabriel the archangel nombrada de los Temblores [named the Earthquake–because the Spanish explorers of 1769 experienced strong tremors when moving through greater Los Angeles], founded Sept. 8, 1771, in search of vital records, Baptismal, Matrimonial, burial for use in various genealogies I am compiling for my own personal interest and advantage and later perhaps to be published for public consumption.
It is interesting to note the dual cited purposes–personal and, possibly, professional, presuming that looking to publish genealogical material was something that he was going to pursue quickly.
His first task was "to write the Genealogy of the Lugo family in California," to which he had family connections through his mother. He noted that he'd written to the fathers at Mission Santa Barbara and that "Father Zephyrin Englehardt, their historian, told me that all the Lugo records were at the Jesuit church in Santa Barbara," starting from 1779. Englhardt was, in fact, the writer of several published mission histories.
He added that "I have made several visits to the Lugo Homestead at Rancho San Antonio near the present City of Bell where lives Don Pedro Lugo, son of Vicente Lugo who built the old adobe in 1850 having left his town house in 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.'" This two-story structure once stood near the corner of Gage Avenue and Garfield Avenue in Bell Gardens and, long neglected, was destroyed by fire in the early 1990s.
He noted that he was shown paintings by French artist and photographer Henri Penelon of Pedro Lugo's father and his grandfather, Antonio María Lugo, a towering figure among the Californios before his death in 1860. The two works are among thirteen now in the holdings of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Thomas continued that "Don Pedro has given me many names and stories of the old rancho. He & his brother Felipe Lugo live in the old house and are getting on in years." He went on to observe that another brother, Andrés, lived nearby and he and his wife, Erolinda Valdez, were "great friends of my mother and I used to think quite a lot of one of the girls, Clara, now married to George Pryor, descendant of Don Miguel Pryor [Michael Pryor was an early American settler in Mexican California.]" With that reference to a crush the young man once had, the entry ended.
much to my surprise and great satisfaction, I received this morning from Father Felix Rossetti, asst. Pastor of the Jesuit parish of Santa Barbara, the baptismal records of a number of the Early Lugos and also the record of birth of Maria Rafaela Benedicta Cota, born 21st day March 1812.
While concluding with the names of the witnesses of that nuptial and a bit of the genealogy of one of them, Thomas did not note that "Don Juan" (born Jonathan like this father) Temple was his own great-uncle and the second American or European to live in Los Angeles when he settled there in 1828.
Jonathan Temple became a prominent merchant (the first, in fact, in the pueblo), landowner (including the Rancho Los Cerritos, which he purchased in 1843 from his wife's Cota relatives), and political figure in Los Angeles. In summer 1841, Jonathan's half-brother, F.P.F. Temple, Thomas' grandfather, came to meet Jonathan, who'd left their hometown of Reading, Massachusetts before the younger Temple was born, and stayed permanently.
Actually, that residence changed just a few months later when the worsening financial situation of Walter P. Temple, Sr., led to the leasing of the Homestead to a military academy that moved from Redondo Beach to take possession of the 92-acre ranch. Walter, Sr. moved to Ensenada, Baja California to live more economically and hope that his finances would improve so that he could save the Homestead and return to it. Thomas moved in with his mother's sister, Luz Vigare, and her family in a historic adobe house that still stands just south of Mission San Gabriel and remained a resident of the city for most of his life.
Thomas W. Temple II at his college graduation, Santa Clara College, spring 1926.
The Great Depression, which erupted a few months before Thomas' journal entries, worsened considerably in 1932 as waves of bank failures rocked the country and, in July, the Bank of California foreclosed on a mortgage and took ownership of the ranch.
As for Thomas, his first public endeavors in history and genealogy was not through the research into the Lugo family detailed in these journal entries, but, rather, his work for the 150th anniversary of Los Angeles, which was celebrated in early September 1931. Thomas, in fact, provided articles for the quarterly publication of the Historical Society of Southern California, that stated the founding date of the city was 4 September 1781, which is still officially recognized, though others have questioned its veracity.
Until the early 1970s, Thomas continued his historical and genealogical work, especially noted for his early efforts in transcribing, translating and compiling mission records that were generally in poor condition and often difficult to read. In recent years, researchers have discovered problems with his work, including faulty translations, links made that are not clearly established, and other issues.
Still, we have often been contacted by people who have genealogical charts and tables prepared by Thomas during his long career, which included being the official historian of Mission San Gabriel and the City of San Gabriel. Upon his death in early 1972, he became the only layperson buried with the priests in the courtyard next to old stone church at San Gabriel. These journal entries are fascinating as early indicators of his budding interest in history and genealogy.
Errors? Poor connections? Sadly that is a chronic problem among genealogists. Anyone who has ever done genealogy knows how easy it is to 'simply connect' two people who SHOULD be related for the sole purpose of finishing a family line, even if there is no real evidence for it.
A professional should be more accurate, but it is so common among amateurs that anyone who has copies of the genealogical work that their grandma or some aunt did many years ago should retrace the steps themselves.
Of course Thomas was doing genealogy the 'old fashioned way' examining un-indexed hand written lists in a foreign language, so he can have some latitude. Today's digital, fully indexed restored microfilm or clear scans make things much easier.
Just as early maps drawn by pioneers are known to have flaws, early historical research can also expect to be flawed, but just as a pioneer opens up new geography for others to follow, sometimes a historical pioneer is needed to open up untrod paths of research for others to improve upon.
Thank you Thomas for the work you did.
Your article brings back memories. I lived in the area where the Lugo homes were located. One home sometimes referred to as the Gage mansion is still there. The other home was located at the corner of Gage and Garfield Avenues.This home may have been the one where Thomas W. Temple met with Pedro Lugo in 1930. The home was abandoned for many years and eventually destroyed by a fire in the early 1990's. A replica in the style of this home was built in the city of Huntington Park a few years later.
As a California history buff I enjoy your blog and look forward to reading them.
Hi Mike, thanks for the comment and the correction about the location of the Vicente Lugo Adobe, which is the one depicted in a commonly seen photo. The Gage Mansion is, as you noted, further east down Gage Avenue, so I've corrected the post.
Hi Jim, thanks for the comment and it does appear that there could be multiple reasons why Thomas' work was done in such a way as led to later questions and corrections. He deserves credit for taking on a difficult task of working with those original documents in often poor conditions. At the same time, as you noted, it is tempting for genealogists to connect the dots without clear evidence. Again, appreciate your support.


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Initial presumptive testing by immunoassay at the following testing thresholds: amphetamines, 50 ng/mL; barbiturates, 0.1 μg/mL; benzodiazepines, 20 ng/mL; cocaine metabolite, 25 ng/mL; fentanyl, 1.0 ng/mL; methadone, 25 ng/mL; meperidine, 100 ng/mL; opiates, 5 ng/mL; oxycodones, 5 ng/mL; phencyclidine (PCP), 8 ng/mL; propoxyphene, 50 ng/mL; tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), 5 ng/mL; tramadol, 50 ng/mL; presumptive positives confirmed to limit of quantitation by definitive chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS or LC/MS-MS).
Submission/transport (<3 days): Room temperature. For storage beyond three days, specimen should be refrigerated or frozen.


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Jonas Kjörling, föddes i Vårdnäs socken, Östergötlands län, död 1693 i Grebo socken, Östergötlands län, var en svensk präst i Grebo församling.

Biografi
Jonas Kjörling föddes på Kögenäs i Vårdnäs socken. Han var son till bonden Lars. Kjörling studerade i Linköping och blev 9 oktober 1664 student vid Uppsala universitet, Uppsala. Han prästvigdes 24 november 1671 i Klara kyrka, Stockholm och blev 3 december 1673 kyrkoherde i Grebo församling, Grebo pastorat, tillträde 1674. Kjörling avled 1693 i Grebo socken.

Familj
Kjörling gifte sig 1674 med Agneta Bornæus. Hon var dotter till kyrkoherden Andreas Bornæus och Hofrænius i Grebo socken. De fick tillsammans döttrarna Beata och Agneta (född 1680). Efter Kjörlings död gifte Agneta Bornæus om sig med kyrkoherden Gudmundus Chryselius i Grebo socken.

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Noter

Svenska teologer under 1600-talet
Födda okänt år
Avlidna 1693
Män
Personer från Vårdnäs socken
Svenska präster under 1600-talet

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Jun 6, 2021 - World
British PM calling on G7 to vaccinate world by end of 2022
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday that he would urge world leaders to commit to vaccinate the global population at the Group of Seven wealthy democracies' summit next week, AP reports.
Why it matters: Johnson said he expects the global population to be mostly vaccinated by the end of 2022, an act he says would be "the single greatest feat in medical history."
"The world is looking to us to rise to the greatest challenge of the postwar era: defeating COVID and leading a global recovery driven by our shared values," Johnson said in a statement to AP.
The U.S. had previously stated its plan to share 80 million doses of its surplus vaccine by the end of June.


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Q: Fixed size data structure in java I want a data structure(multi-threaded environment) in java that can hold up to a maximum of 'n' elements. If i add (n + 1)th element, then i should replace the oldest element with this new element. I know i can do it by checking for the size in each add() and doing the replace operation at full size. But, i would like to know if there is any data structure in java library for this. Please help

A: Try using a fixed size array, and add using the index modulo size. This is known as circular array, Wikipedia has decent article on the subject.
Basically, you keep track of an index where you should write the next entry, and let that index wrap around at the buffer size, then when you keep writing, you'll overwrite the entries which are oldest.
Something like this:
Object[] ring = new Object[32];
int writeIndex = 0;

public void add(Object o) {
  ring[writeIndex % ring.length] = o;
  writeIndex++;
}

A: this is a Circular Queue and there is no java native class for this. you can look at ArrayCircularQueue.

A: One way to do it, depending on your needs, is to wrap a subclass of LinkedHashMap.
import java.util.AbstractSet;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;

public class FixedSizeSet<E> extends AbstractSet<E> {
    private final LinkedHashMap<E, E> contents;

    FixedSizeSet(final int maxCapacity) {
        contents = new LinkedHashMap<E, E>(maxCapacity * 4 /3, 0.75f, false) {
            @Override
            protected boolean removeEldestEntry(java.util.Map.Entry<E, E> eldest) {
                return size() == maxCapacity;
            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    public Iterator<E> iterator() {
        return contents.keySet().iterator();
    }

    @Override
    public int size() {
        return contents.size();
    }

    public boolean add(E e) {
        boolean hadNull = false;
        if (e == null) {
            hadNull = contents.containsKey(null);
        }
        E previous = contents.put(e, e);
        return e == null ? hadNull : previous != null;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean contains(Object o) {
        return contents.containsKey(o);
    }
}


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Q: How to import all express routes defined in different files using `import` Folder structure
index.js
modules/users/users.server.routes.js

modules/users/users.server.routes.js
export default (app) => {
     app.route('/api', (req, res) => {
        res.send('User routes working');
     });
};

index.js
import express from 'express';
import mongoose from 'mongoose';

/*
* For iterating through files using a regex
* */
import glob from 'glob';

let files = glob.sync('app/**/*.routes.js');
files = files.map((file) => {
    import(file);
});

const app = express();
const config = {
    app_port: 8080
};

/*
* Test route
* */
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send('Voila!!');
});

Above code is giving an error!

'import' and 'export' may only appear at the top level

What I want to achieve is, once the server gets started, all the routes should be imported. (Live require(--route file--))
I don't want to declare all the routes in a single routes file like this.
// mount user routes at /users
router.use('/users', userRoutes);

// mount auth routes at /auth
router.use('/auth', authRoutes);

I want each route to be defined from the root of the API.
How to achieve this in ES6 way?
Thank you all!


Oh Eric, you're too sweet!!
Mitzi and Virgil really deserve this big time. Their seats at Red Rocks were way to the right and this soooooooooooooo makes up for it in the biggest way possible!! I am so excited for them!!
Thanks, Sue! I just took what the rep gave me. I had absolutely no idea where they were located, so I asked Sue. LOL!! I told her the row and seat numbers and the next thing I knew I heard this loud THUD!! LOL!!!! This is gonna be soooooooo cool!
Hello to Tyler and your faithful followers. 56 hours to my next Gregg and Friends show. I can't wait. I need some live music bad. I'll post a mini review of the show on this thread on Sunday. GO BEARS!
Mitzi, did you get a reservation for the Beacon Hotel?
Hey guys and gals. Hope you are all having good days. Mitzi, steal that damn C-3 and get it over with.LOL If anyone calls to hear Debi's midwest accent don't be surprised ir you get an old member of Scotish Royalty.
Very nice here today. I think I might take out my souped -up wheelchair for a spin. Got to watch out though, the fuzz are out hot and heavy. Their have reports of loud music in the neighborhood.
Thanks for stopping by Pat. Ya think you can not wait another 6 months to post again? You old coot. I guess that is no way to get you to post is it?
GOV'T MULE -MUSIC FOR YOUR HEAD There can't be a better feeling than a Leslie swirling behind you. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact it's cold as hell.
Indeed I did! I reserved a room months ago! LOL!! But that was before the final schedule was announced. I had to change the dates, but I had no problem. YIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Deb---thanks for reading my ramble & your kind words..........GW---i'm in @ beacon(once tix actually arrive!!!) on 3/22(with a concert buddy),3/26(with wife,older son,concert buddy),3/27(just me) & 3/31(with DEEZEE)----may add more later,gotta see how inspired i get,or how tired!!!!
Dad and DZ together?!?!?!? OH BOY!!! Watch out world! hehehehe This is gonna be awesome!
Oh good! We're all set!!
I remember that Seinfeld Tyler, it was a riot.
I've been tryin' to get on there for months. No luck.
Hence the "56" hours from the time I posted. I'm staying in Chicago Friday night, goofing around in the city Saturday, so I doubt I'll be able to post Saturday. Soooooo, I will post a mini Sunday if I can. See you Friday Sang. Is your limo pulling up to Harry Carey's in time for a few preliminary beverages?
Harvey, unless I pull it off at the last minute, I doubt I'll be in New York this year. And that's a drag. I believe Rich will be there though.
Any sign of T or do we need to use our Beacon bond money now!
NO!! I need that money! Trust me....I'm definitely gonna need it.
Mitzi,Dad,,Susea ,me,and who knows who else,all in NYC at the same time?Whoooooooooooooooooooo Hoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That list of people going from here is quite impressive for that weekend!!!
eric----4/16/72---i've heard before but enjoying now---some of Dickey's greatest playing ever & BERRY.......... thsnks for posting!
Dickey & Berry are playing some incredibly unusual stuff in the last few minutes of whipping post-WOW---thank you again eric for a nice concert!!!!!!!!


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Q: Timeline change custom int property My goal is to design a simple circular progress bar, that uses an arc and a text to represent a value. I am using the Qt Designer for this.
I managed to "animate" the arc, but I can not dynamically change the text. My idea was to add an int property to the text that gets modified by the timeline, but nothing happens. I tried this with
Text {
    id: valueText
    anchors.centerIn: parent
    text: displayValue.toString()
    font.pixelSize: 35

    property int displayValue: 0
}

and
Text {
    id: valueText
    anchors.centerIn: parent
    text: qsTr("0%")
    font.pixelSize: 35

    property int displayValue: 0

    onDisplayValueChanged {
        text: displayValue.toString()
        }
    }

but both didn't work.
Full source:
import QtQuick 2.15
import QtQuick.Controls 2.15
import QtQuick.Studio.Components 1.0
import QtQuick.Timeline 1.0

Item {
    width: 400
    height: 400
    property alias progressValue: timeline.currentFrame

    ArcItem {
        id: arc
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        fillColor: "#00000000"

        width: parent.width
        height: parent.height
        strokeColor: "#25a219"
        antialiasing: true
        smooth: true
        end: -150
        begin: -150
        strokeWidth: 15
    }

    Text {
        id: valueText
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        text: displayValue.toString()
        font.pixelSize: 35

        property int displayValue: 0
    }

    Timeline {
        id: timeline
        endFrame: 100
        startFrame: 0
        enabled: true

        KeyframeGroup {
            target: arc
            property: "end"
            Keyframe {
                value: 150
                frame: 100
            }

            Keyframe {
                value: -150
                frame: 0
            }
        }
        KeyframeGroup {
            target: valueText
            property: "displayValue"
            Keyframe {
                value: 0
                frame: 0
            }

            Keyframe {
                value: 100
                frame: 100
            }
        }
    }
}

Maybe I use the wrong type for the property, but by making it a string, it only changes between 0 and 100 at the keyframes.
Workaround found:
Using the timeline frame as an indicator for the value. This only works here, because I want a value in % and my timeline has 100 frames. I'm still interested in how this could work with the keyframes though.
Text {
    id: valueText
    anchors.centerIn: parent
    text: timeline.currentFrame + "%"
    font.pixelSize: 35
}


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US soybean exporters report sales of 132,000 t to China
São Paulo, 12 – Exporters reported sales of 132,000 tons of soybeans to China, with delivery scheduled for the 2022/23 crop, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported this Wednesday, 12th.
The grain commercial year will begin on September 1.
US exporters are required to report any sales of 100,000 tonnes or more of a commodity made in a single day or sales of 200,000 tonnes or more to the same destination by the next day.
The post US Soybean Exporters Report Sales 132,000t to China appeared first on THIS IS MONEY.
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Q: Rails submitting form via remote: true on Safari (Safari only) fails My forms are submitted via remote: true in Chrome and Firefox flawlessly. However, on Safari (desktop and mobile) the form isn't submitted at all. The network 'freezes' in processing status - http://take.ms/IdPyw
It is very similar to this issue, however it's not related to file inputs alone.
My code below:
Form:
=form_with(model: Request.new, class: 'g-form g-contact__form', id: 'form', remote: true) do |f|
      =f.file_field :attachments, class: 'g-input__field-file', multiple: true
      =f.submit 'Отправить', class: 'g-btn g-btn_submit', id: 'form_submit', data: { "disable-with": "Отправляем..." }

My controllers/requests_controller.rb:
def create
    allow_send = true

    @request = Request.new(request_params)
    if allow_send
      respond_to do |format|
        if @request.save
            format.js
          RequestMailer.notify_admin(@request).deliver_now
        else
          format.js { render partial: 'fail' }
        end
      end
    else
      @request.errors.add(:bot, "К сожалению, у нас подозрение, что вы бот. Попробуйте заполнить форму ещё раз.")
      respond_to do |format|
        format.js { render partial: 'fail' }
        format.html
      end

    end
  end

My create.js.rb:
$('#form-popup').toggle();
$('#success-popup').toggle();

If I switch towards more classic approach, meaning responding via html and redirecting to a specific page, the form works in Safari. However, I need the form to work exactly like it works now in Chrome.
My plan B approach would be to rewrite all the code, responsible for submitting the form and checking for errors in plain JS (i.e. $.ajax({type: "POST", etc...), however I would really like to stay with tools, provided by rails.
Is there a workaround for Safari?
Update:
I was able to retrieve an error message. It states: Failed to load resource: Network connection lost (screenshot - http://take.ms/yrAMI)


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Дерек Портер-Несбитт (, род. 2 ноября 1967 года, Белфаст, Великобритания) — канадский гребец, чемпион летних Олимпийских игр 1992 года в составе восьмёрки, серебряный призёр летних Олимпийских игр 1996 года в одиночках, чемпион мира 1993 года, чемпион Панамериканских игр 1999 года.

Спортивная биография
Дерек Портер родился в 1967 году в Великобритании. Заниматься академической греблей Портер начал на втором курсе Университета Виктории. Первым чемпионатом в составе сборной Канады для Дерека стал чемпионат мира 1989 года, где он стал вторым в финале В в соревнованиях двоек. С 1990 года Портер стал выступать в составе восьмёрки. На мировом первенстве 1990 года канадский экипаж смог выйти в главный финал, заняв там второе место. Спустя год Портер вновь стал серебряным призёром чемпионата мира в восьмёрках.

Летом 1992 года Портер дебютировал на летних Олимпийских играх. Канадская сборная уверенно преодолела первый раунд соревнований. В финальном заезде канадские гребцы на самом финише смогли вырвать победу у сборной Румынии, опередив их всего на 0,14 сек. После окончания Олимпийских игр Дерек Портер принял решение сосредоточиться на выступлении в одиночках. На своём первом личном чемпионате мира канадский гребец не только смог пробиться в главный финал, но и занял первое место, опередив в решающем заезде Вацлава Халупу. Портер стал первым за 75 лет канадцем кому удалось стать чемпионом мира в одиночках. На двух следующих мировых первенствах Портеру не удавалось даже пробиться в финал A.

На летних Олимпийских играх 1996 года Портер уверенно победил в первом раунде в соревнованиях одиночек, однако и в полуфинале, и в финале канадец ничего не смог противопоставить швейцарцу Ксено Мюллеру, который был намного быстрее всех своих соперников. В финале соревнований основная борьба развернулась за серебряную медаль. Помимо Портера на неё претендовали двукратный олимпийский чемпион немец Томас Ланге и действующий чемпион мира из Словении Изток Чоп. В итоге судьба медали решалась на самом финише, где Портер на 0,27 с опередил немецкого гребца и стал серебряным призёром Игр. После Игр в Атланте результаты Портера пошли на спад. В течение трёх лет Дерек не мог попасть в число призёров на крупнейших международных стартах. Свою четвёртую и последнюю награду мировых первенств Портер завоевал в 1999 году, став бронзовым призёром соревнований.

В 2000 году Портер принял участие в летних Олимпийских играх в Сиднее. В соревнованиях одиночек Портер пробился в финал, но стал там только четвёртым, уступив в борьбе за бронзу немецкому гребцу Марселю Хаккеру 0,27 с. После окончания Игр Портер принял решение завершить спортивную карьеру. В 2006 году Дерек вернулся к соревновательной практике, начав выступления в соревнованиях двоек парных вместе с Джейком Ветцелем. Канадский экипаж планировал выступить на чемпионате мира, а также на Олимпийских играх в Пекине. Однако из-за травмы спины у Ветцеля канадцы пропустили большую часть сезона. В итоге на международном уровне Портер и Ветцель совместно выступили только на одном этапе Кубка мира, где стали четвёртыми в финале B. Не сумев отобраться на Олимпийские игры Портер окончательно завершил спортивную карьеру, при этом Ветцель выступил в Пекине в составе восьмёрки.

В 1996 году Портер был введён в зал славы Университета Виктории, в 2012 году в зал славы канадского спорта, а в 2013 году в зал славы Большой Виктории.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Профиль  на сайте Олимпийского комитета Канады

Гребцы (академическая гребля) Канады
Олимпийские чемпионы по академической гребле
Олимпийские чемпионы от Канады
Чемпионы летних Олимпийских игр 1992 года
Серебряные призёры летних Олимпийских игр 1996 года
Гребцы (академическая гребля) на летних Олимпийских играх 1992 года
Гребцы (академическая гребля) на летних Олимпийских играх 1996 года
Гребцы (академическая гребля) на летних Олимпийских играх 2000 года
Чемпионы мира по академической гребле
Чемпионы Панамериканских игр по академической гребле
Члены Зала славы канадского спорта


Though they are seen as corporate honchos in the making, they are making sure they have time for troubled teens between 15 and 18 with a project called Samarthya — The Human Potential Centre.
Teenagers fearing the dreaded G-word — gyan — or preaching will be pleasantly surprised.
"It is not counselling. We don't sit with students and solve their problems. It is beyond that. We take sessions on emotions and try to help them deal with them. Each session is dedicated to one emotion and we conduct activities on it," said Smriti Khanna, a second-year HRM student and part of Samarthya.
"The teens don't want gyan. We help them to know themselves through experiential learning and discover what lies within. At times they also ask questions on how to behave in a given situation. We share a lot," said Smriti.
"It is a great initiative on the part of XLRI students to reach out to the school-going youths of the city to help them understand the purpose and meaning of a happy life," said I.S.F. Irudayaraj, a senior faculty member of the B-school who conceptualised the programme.
Principal of Motilal Nehru Public School Ashu Tiwary sounded happy with the programme. "Students gel well with these bright B-school students as the age difference isn't much, so they open up. It will help them keep negative thoughts at bay," she said.


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Conan arrives, and the crowd goes wild! (Not really)
The danger of 'misinformation, disinformation, delusions, and deceit'
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Comedian joins Houses, departments in day honoring seniors
By Jill Radsken, Juan Siliezar, Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite Harvard Staff Writers
Date May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020
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Comedian and late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien '85 addressed the Harvard College Class of '20 Thursday as part of an afternoon of virtual ceremonies that captured the joy, poignancy, and humor of the day.
Acknowledging the less-than-ideal scenario of celebrating via Zoom until an in-person Commencement is safe, O'Brien hammed it up, opening with archival footage of cheering crowds, stunt-flying fighter jets, blasting cannons, and a water-saluting tugboat celebrating his speech.
"As you sit here today, or stand, or microwave a burrito, or ride a Peloton, or recline uncomfortably in your childhood bed, or mine Bitcoin, or Google 'Who is Conan O'Brien?,' you are witnessing many firsts in today's ceremony," O'Brien said in a message recorded as he stood, attired in T-shirt, shorts, and Birkenstocks, before a podium on his sunny backyard lawn.
A history and literature concentrator and two-time president of The Lampoon, O'Brien thanked Harvard for his honorary degree in "bosonic string theory and condensed-matter physics" (as the words "No idea what he's talking about" flashed underneath) and gave a shout-out to the day's true heroes, the IT department. ("Really nice compression, guys. Beautiful, very little buffering.")
He acknowledged that the ceremonies were not typical but that all involved were doing their best to make up for it. "Trust me, we are taking steps to make today's Commencement feel as authentic as possible," he joked. "In fact, right now, Harvard is charging each of you $50 for parking in Cambridge."
Program marshals and graduating seniors Eric Cheng and Urshella Hishaam help to host the ceremony.
Other lighthearted moments came in a photo montage of the years' highlights and a Faculty Dean TikTok. Then O'Brien set aside his jokes, telling seniors: "You've been handed more than your share." Reflecting that they were born in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, he said, "You've only known a world beset by terrorist hate. You've grown up with mass shootings and school lockdowns. Horror was completely absent from my childhood. You have now witnessed two economic meltdowns of stunning proportions.
"You are remarkable examples to my children of how to be smart, brave, and yes, resilient in a scary world," he said in his concluding wishes.
Danoff Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana also spoke about how proud he was of the senior class, though he began by sharing his sorrow for all the losses, large and small, that the global pandemic had wrought for the students, their families, and the world.
"But even as we grieve for what you have lost these past few months, today is a moment to think about what lies ahead and to ask yourself: How are you going to move forward with hope into a world that looks different from the one you were preparing to enter?
"This is a hard moment, but it is your moment, and I am confident that you will rise to the occasion," he said. "Your education has prepared you for what lies ahead."
Graduates celebrated remotely throughout the day with their Houses and, in some cases, their academic departments. From the empty dining hall, Dunster House Faculty Deans Sean Kelly and Cheryl Chen and Allston Burr Resident Dean Michael Uy hosted a live Zoom ceremony to honor their students. Almost 350 participants, including House staff and tutors, students and their loved ones, gathered to watch remarks by Kelly, Chen, and Uy, and to toast one another.
Kelly, who is Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy, said the seniors were "the first class we saw through an entire cycle [as Faculty Deans]," and that they were grateful to have had the chance to share beloved traditions such as the red-tie dinner, the goat roast, and, more recently, virtual trivia nights and senior dinner.
"While your College days did not end in the way you would have liked, I hope you will still remember your time here fondly, and eventually with the passage of time, the 7½ semesters on campus will be more salient to you than the last half-semester away from it," added Chen, a senior lecturer in philosophy.
Brian Farrell and Irina Ferreras, faculty deans for Leverett House, toast the graduates.
Uy read out the names of the graduates, and students raised their hands to be spotlighted. Many were gathered with their families, wearing graduation robes and hats, waving Harvard flags, flanked by balloons, and covered with confetti (and champagne).
The Department of Statistics marked the day in several ways. In the morning, it posted a video tribute to its graduates, featuring students, faculty, a unicorn Squishy, and senior lecturer Mark Glickman performing "Happy Graduation" (to the tune of "Happy Birthday") on guitar.
Later in the day, the department held two Zoom receptions celebrating the department's newly minted graduates. At its event for Ph.D. students, department leaders gave congratulatory remarks before members of the dissertation committees spoke about the impact of each graduate's work.
Luke Weisman Miratrix, a department affiliate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, spoke about mentoring Nicole Pashley, who is starting as an assistant professor in statistics at Rutgers University next year.
"She's been one of those students who self-mentors to a large extent," Miratrix said. "The first day she arrived in my office she clearly told me some things that worked well for her and some things that didn't. For example, she told me that she liked to listen and then go off and think … What I didn't realize at the time was that when she went off to think, that meant generating pages and pages of mathematics, which I would then have to read when she came back."
Pashley, who watched the event from her apartment in Cambridge with her husband, Oliver, said she hopes to keep up that work ethic next year, and maybe even pass it on to her future students.
Washington Post's Baron sends along the Class of 2020 with message that facts, truth matter
An enduring bond
Students we interviewed in 2017, now seniors, reflect on the friendships forged with their first-year roommates
The COVID-19 evacuation wasn't Harvard's first
The University's history of upheaval in war and peace, contagions and contaminated puddings
Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron spoke from his home during the online ceremony, Honoring the Class of 2020.
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Zdzisław Mateusz Rajchel (ur. 21 września 1910 w Rymanowie, zm. wiosna 1940 w Katyniu) – urzędnik Ministerstwa Spraw Wojskowych, podporucznik rezerwy uzbrojenia Wojska Polskiego, ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej.

Życiorys
Urodził się jako syn Ignacego (kontroler urzędu pocztowego) i Marianny z domu Kilar. W 1931 zdał egzamin dojrzałości w Państwowym Gimnazjum im. Królowej Zofii w Sanoku (w jego klasie byli m.in. Juliusz Katz-Suchy, Stanisław Kawski, Zbigniew Przystasz). Działał w Polskim Towarzystwie Gimnastycznym "Sokół".

Był zatrudniony na stanowisku sekretarza w Urzędzie Miejskim w Sanoku. W mieście zamieszkiwał przy ulicy Juliusza Słowackiego 53.

Od 12 sierpnia 1931 do 30 czerwca 1932 odbył kurs Wołyńską Szkołę Podchorążych Rezerwy Artylerii (Kurs VI, wynik dostateczny, lokata 55 na 69) we Włodzimierzu Wołyńskim i otrzymał stopień kaprala podchorążego. Został przydzielony do 24 pułku artylerii lekkiej w Jarosławiu, gdzie odbywał praktykę i ćwiczenia wojskowe w 1933 i 1934. Został mianowany do stopnia podporucznika ze starszeństwem z dniem 1 stycznia 1935. W 1937 został przeniesiony z korpusu oficerów artylerii do korpusu oficerów uzbrojenia z przydziałem do Biura Personalnego Ministerstwa Spraw Wojskowych. Do czerwca 1938 odbył kurs 6-tygodniowy kurs oficerów rezerwy Szkole Uzbrojenia w Warszawie. Zdobył wówczas Państwową Odznakę Sportową.

Po wybuchu II wojny światowej, kampanii wrześniowej i agresji ZSRR na Polskę na terenach wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej został aresztowany przez Sowietów. Był przetrzymywany w obozie w Kozielsku (wraz z nim byli osadzeni m.in. dwaj inni pochodzący z Sanoka żołnierze: gimnazjalny kolega Zbigniew Przystasz, który wspominał o nim w ocalonym pamiętniku pisanym w obozie, m.in. o tym iż pod koniec stycznia 1940 nieco chorował oraz Zygmunt Bezucha, o którym Przystasz w pamiętniku zanotował, iż został odtransportowany 4 kwietnia 1940 w jednym z pierwszych transportów wywózkowych, a także Zbigniew Wyskiel). W kwietniu 1940 (najprawdopodobniej dnia 17 lub 19) został zabrany do Katynia i rozstrzelany przez funkcjonariuszy Obwodowego Zarządu NKWD w Smoleńsku oraz pracowników NKWD przybyłych z Moskwy na mocy decyzji Biura Politycznego KC WKP(b) z 5 marca 1940. Jest pochowany na Polskim Cmentarzu Wojennym w Katyniu, gdzie w 1943 jego ciało zostało zidentyfikowane w toku ekshumacji prowadzonych przez Niemców pod numerem 3751 (przy zwłokach zostały odnalezione: nieśmiertelnik-znak rozpoznawczy z odciskiem Sanok, koperta, legitymacja urzędnika państwowego, połówka legitymacji odznaki Szkoły Podchorążych Rezerwy Artylerii, wizytówki, koperta listowa).

Upamiętnienie
Podczas "Jubileuszowego Zjazdu Koleżeńskiego b. Wychowanków Gimnazjum Męskiego w Sanoku w 70-lecie pierwszej Matury" 21 czerwca 1958 jego nazwisko zostało wymienione w apelu poległych w obronie Ojczyzny w latach 1939-1945 oraz na ustanowionej w budynku gimnazjum tablicy pamiątkowej poświęconej poległym i pomordowanym absolwentom gimnazjum.

W 1962 Zdzisław Rajchel został upamiętniony wśród innych osób wymienionych na jednej z tablic Mauzoleum Ofiar II Wojny Światowej na obecnym Cmentarzu Centralnym w Sanoku.

5 października 2007 roku Minister Obrony Narodowej Aleksander Szczygło awansował go pośmiertnie do stopnia porucznika. Awans został ogłoszony 9 listopada 2007 roku, w Warszawie, w trakcie uroczystości "Katyń Pamiętamy – Uczcijmy Pamięć Bohaterów".

18 kwietnia 2009, w ramach akcji "Katyń... pamiętamy" / "Katyń... Ocalić od zapomnienia", w tzw. Alei Katyńskiej na Cmentarzu Centralnym w Sanoku zostało zasadzonych 21 Dębów Pamięci, w tym upamiętniający Zdzisława Rajchla (zasadzenia dokonał Wojciech Wydrzyński, prezes Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Sanoka i Ziemi Sanockiej). 14 kwietnia 2012 Dąb Pamięci honorujący Zdzisława Rajchla został zasadzony przy cmentarzu rzymskokatolickim parafii św. Wawrzyńca w rodzinnym Rymanowie.

Zobacz też
 jeńcy polscy w niewoli radzieckiej (od 1939 roku)

Przypisy

Bibliografia

 Biogram na tablicy przy pomniku Golgota Wschodu na Cmentarzu Centralnym w Sanoku

Absolwenci Gimnazjum im. Królowej Zofii w Sanoku
Członkowie Towarzystwa "Sokół"
Odznaczeni Państwową Odznaką Sportową
Ludzie urodzeni w Rymanowie
Oficerowie Wojska Polskiego zamordowani w Katyniu
Podporucznicy uzbrojenia II Rzeczypospolitej
Pochowani na Polskim Cmentarzu Wojennym w Katyniu
Uczestnicy kampanii wrześniowej (strona polska)
Urzędnicy związani z Sanokiem
Wojskowi związani z Sanokiem
Urodzeni w 1910
Zmarli w 1940


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Ancient Method for Calculating Cataclysms
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While they don't get much love from their academic peers, amateur history detectives believe the Maya and other ancient cultures were aware of an astronomical quirk known as the Precession of the Equinoxes. This 26,000-year cycle represents the time it takes for Earth to wobble completely around on its axis, causing the zodiac constellations to recede backwards in the night sky a full 360 degrees. According to a theory offered by two history of science professors in 1969, ancient civilizations used the cycle to predict periodic mass extinctions on Earth.
According to the hypothesis, the 12 zodiac constellations act like gears on a very slow-moving clock. (Actually, there were originally 13; the forgotten one is Ophiuchus). From our perspective on the ground, these star clusters -- named after animals or characters from myths -- follow the same path across the sky at night as the Sun traverses in the daytime. Astronomers call this route the ecliptic.
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To be more precise, it's the Earth that's moving, not the Sun or stars. It takes 26,000 years for the projected north and south poles to trace an imaginary route, as illustrated in the yellow oval above. As a consequence, the constellations we see along the ecliptic plane (i.e. the blue oval) are said to precess, or move backwards, at a rate of one degree every 72 years.
To better grasp the concept, find a top and give it a spin. As the top slows down, gravity pulls its axis downward. This makes the top wobble like a drunken sailor, but in the opposite direction of the spinning. In Earth's case, it's the gravitational pull from the Moon and Venus that causes the wobble. Luckily, the backward movement is both measurable and predictable, and slow enough so we never feel it. If you've already noticed that the stars on the ecliptic show up a little later than expected each night, this is not the same thing.
The earth's orbit around the sun also causes a yearly migration of stars, which is something much different from precession. Astrology uses this short term cycle as the basis for its monthly signs - Aries, Pisces, Leo, etc. The longer range-based Precession of the Equinoxes is responsible for astrological ages, each of which lasts about 2,160 years. In the next century, for instance, the current Age of Pisces will transition to the Age of Aquarius. At that time, when the sun rises Aquarius will be sitting in the night sky directly behind it on the vernal (i.e spring) equinox.
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One astrological age represents about 30 degrees of precession. At any rate, if you look at the sky at dawn where the Sun comes up next March 21st, you will see the constellation Pisces. This type of alignment is known as a heliacal rising.
You may recall that Jesus is often associated with the symbol of Pisces, the fish. That's because his birth more or less coincided with the beginning of that constellation's alignment on the Vernal equinox. Past ages include Taurus, the bull (4300 to 2150 BC.), when the Minoan, "bull-leaping" civilization of Crete was prominent, and Aries, the ram (2150 B.C. to AD 1). It turns out, many of the megalithic monuments built during those time periods feature in their artwork the appropriate constellation animal or character for the time period. This phenomenon underscores the universality of astrology as an anchor of human culture. (It also makes the task of dating ruins a lot easier for archaeologists.)
Ancients Ponder Consequences of Changing Rotation
So what does all this have to do with mass extinctions? While such an infinitesimal creep of the stars has no real impact on the day-to-day life of our planet, the implications may be profound when it comes to longer range calculations. At least, that's what Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend argued in an obscure, but groundbreaking book Hamlet's Mill, published in 1969.The two authors claimed that the creation/destruction myths of the world's oldest cultures contain embedded codes referring to the Precession of Equinoxes.
When the first cuneiform tablets were found in Babylonia and dated to 3000 B.C., it was evident that astrology was already an age-old practice. Many past civilizations saw time as a series of cycles connected to the orbits of heavenly bodies. According to the Emerald Tablet of alchemy, the secret of the cosmos is found in the simple dictum, "As above, so below." Although we still don't know how they did it, our forbears in antiquity managed to acquire the capacity to measure the orbits, movements and alignments of planets and stars.
Just as monthly astrological signs and ages were determined by heliacal risings, so too were many ancient religious holidays. In Egypt, for example, many temples dedicated to Isis were built with their front doors aligned to the helicacal rising of Sirius, the star associated with the goddess. On one morning of great fanfare and ritual every year, the sun at dawn would cast a beam of light down the center aisle leading up to the altar.
It's generally believed that since simple astronomical observation required too many generations to note any precessional motion, that shamanism, clairvoyance and other occult arts must have accompanied the development of astrology. Equally remarkable, many ancient cultures appear to have developed a proficiency in interpreting soundwaves, energy fields and electrical currents. Such advanced pursuits may explain in part the ancients' obsession with planetary alignments. In western civilization, it was Pythagorus who tied the planets to our musical scale, the octave, based on harmonic frequencies. Johannes Kepler would later tackle the hard science underpinning the alchemy in his book Harmonices Mundi (Harmonies of the World).
Alchemy's view of harmonics in relation to the planets is a core concept of ancient science. Click here to view a larger image.
There's likewise plenty of evidence to suggest the Egyptians, Chinese, Mesomaericans and other cultures all built what might be called "oracle centers", which are locations thought to possess beneficial magnetic fields and acoustical properties. For example, the maps of Medieval mariners, (typically based on much older maps) depict the Great Pyramids along what in those long-ago days was considered Earth's Prime Meridian. Today, we use terms like chakras, harmonics, longitudes and GPS to describe various aspects of this incredible expertise.
Most history books, however, don't give the ancients much credit for advanced intelligence. Invariably, the orientation of monuments and ruins are attributed to neolithic cultures who could not otherwise anticipate the start of a rainy season, the new year, or even the right time to stockpile provisions for winter. By constructing two columns, a stairway, an arch or a shaft in a specific place, the builders made sure the Sun would line up exactly within the prescribed parameters on an equinox or solstice.
At top, the principle Stonehenge ruins. Archaeo-astronomers speculate that the multiple outer circles around the monument may have been the site of additional henges. The distances have been measured, and appear to correspond to the relative location of the planets. The photo below shows two sun "daggers" lining up with a petroglyph on the winter solstice at Fajada Butte, Chaco Canyon.
In the American southwest, the massive Chaco Canyon ceremonial complex has marveled and confounded researchers for decades. In particular, several slabs of rock at Fajada Butte were placed over two petroglyphs to refract sunlight like a dagger. (See photo above.) If the superimposed light didn't line up correctly over the spiral glyphs, it might indicate that the axis of the planet had shifted, presaging a doomsday event in the works.
This intriguing, if not hair-raising interpretation of the daggers was discussed in a recent episode of the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. Built by the Pueblo Indians around 900 A.D., Chaco Canyon is thought to have been laid out with the Sun and the Moon in mind, as well as constellations like Orion (which is not on the ecliptic). No one really knows the reason why Native Americans picked such a desolate site to drop anchor, since Chaco Canyon has no water source. Pueblo legends suggests the culture was guided to the spot by "guardians of the sky".
The Mayans also used sunlight and shadow to keep tabs on the Earth's axis. At the pyramid of Kukulcan, in Chichen Itza Mexico, you'll find the shape of a snake undulating down the steps at dawn every spring and fall equinox.
Pyramid of Kulkulcan as seen in Chichen Itza on an equinox. Notice the carved stone head of the snake at ground level and the slithering body created by the sunlight.
On the Trail of An Assassin
The fact that disparate cultures spread around the globe engaged in detailed discussions of the cosmos in their myths and legends has always amounted to a huge headache for modern scholars. Few historians and folklorists have any astronomical training, making their interpretive efforts of the material tough sailing. But the authors of Hamlet's Mill did their due diligence, and found widespread evidence that precessional calculations were deliberately transmitted down through the generations by way of each culture's creation/destruction myths. The professors theorized that the ancients had deduced something we're not even aware of today — that the Precession of the Equinoxes is linked to a recurring geologic catastrophe on Earth, and can therefore be predicted.
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"Hamlet's Mill." Attributed to Dr. William Sullivan. From Secrets of the Incas.
"2012 Precession of The Equinox- from Darkness into Light." By Timothy Connolly. Shift of the Age 11/2/09.
"A Primer on the Evolution of Astronomical Calendars" by Bryan C. Bates
"A View of Hamlet's Midnight." By Mather Walker.
Windows to the Universe (University of Michigan)
Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger
The Thirteen Zodiac Constellations
Ancient Observatories (The Exploratorium)
Archaeoastronomy.com
Expanding Earth Knowledge Co.
The Lunar Planner
Precession of the Equinoxes video
Fingerprints of the Gods (1999) by Graham Hancock. Text available online.
Hamlet's Mill (1969) by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend. Text available online.
The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt (2003) by Jane B. Sellers.
Homer's Secret Iliad (1999) by Florence and Kenneth Wood. (Based on the research of Edna Leigh.
TV Programs and DVD's
"Closer Encounters." Episode from the Ancient Aliens series (2010) by the History Channel. YouTube
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (1999) Narrated by Robert Redford.


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by Summer Furzer | Jul 1, 1968 | | 0 comments
July 1968, Volume 14, Number 3
Rita Larkin, Editor
In January 1959, the San Diego History Center in its magazine, then known as the "San Diego History Center Quarterly," published an article entitled, "Historical Landmarks of San Diego County." The author was James R. Mills, at that time curator of Junipero Serra Museum, and now a California State Senator
The magazine has been out of print for some time and the staff of the museum has experienced an increasing demand for such an article to be made available again.
As a service both to the members of the San Diego History Center and to the public, we are reprinting the original article and are including the landmarks of San Diego County which have been registered since the original article was issued.
In essence this is a registry of the historical heritage of San Diego County as it thus far has been officially recorded.
What do we mean, though, when we speak of a registered historic landmark? Who administers such a program? What is its purpose? When did it start?
Both the State of California and the federal government have programs which seek to record historic sites. In many respects the programs are similar.
The State of California, in registering an historic site, in effect officially confirms the fact that the state regards the site as having had an overall effect on the history of the state.
Moreover, the state uses its facilities for protection and preservation of the site.
The state program is administered through the State Park Commission, which not only is responsible for providing and preserving recreational facilities for the people of the state and for its visitors, but also is charged with protecting the state's resources, whether physical, cultural, or aesthetic.
To safeguard our historical heritage, the State of California, in 1931, delegated to the State Park Commission the task of finding and marking all state historical sites. Over twenty historic parks and monuments and over eight hundred historic sites have been established.
Historic parks and monuments are areas administered by the Division of Beaches and Parks, and often are staffed by rangers, historians, and historical guides, who both maintain the areas and give information to the public.
An historic landmark is a building, a spot, or a feature that is of historic importance but is not suitable for operation as a state historic park or a monument. Often local public or private groups maintain the site and provide the staff members to serve the public.
San Diego County contains 59 registered state historic sites at present. Sites are registered by the Director of Natural Resources. There is no correlation between the registry number he gives a site and the historic importance of that site.
In addition to its registered state landmarks San Diego County also contains six registered national historic landmarks, sites which the federal government feels are important to the overall history of the United States. The federal program was begun in 1849, with the creation of the Department of the Interior and is handled through the National Park System, which is given the responsibility of conserving all the resources of the United States, including those of scenic, scientific, and historic value.
Five of the six registered national historic landmarks situated in San Diego County are included in the descriptive list of state registered landmarks. The one registered national historic site which is not state registered is described in the list of federal sites added at the end of this article.


Recently, we wrote on how a confluence of initiatives by different groups within Amazon are causing problems for sellers of Amazon bundles. There were a lot of follow-up questions from our clients and the community. Special thanks to Charlene Anderson's Wholesale Sourcing Experts group who invited me to answer questions on a recent podcast. Many of these questions are from their members.
Why is Amazon enforcing their UPC/GTIN policy with bundles?
It is part of their efforts to stamp out inauthentic products and infringing listings on the platform. Without a proper UPC code from the brand owner/manufacturer, it is difficult for Amazon to know if the products in our bundles are genuine and bought from the manufacturer or from a gray market source. They chose GS1 because it is the industry standard database of UPC codes. Their system is integrated with GS1 making much of the work automated. It is also about responsibility and liability. If you have branded your bundles, then you are the manufacturer. If anything goes wrong with the bundle, then you are on the hook for it. As the manufacturer, if you are registered with Brand Registry 2.0, you can use your own UPC codes or no codes at all in some cases. This issue with GS1 UPC codes, then, is for sellers creating bundles where they are not the manufacturer or brand owner.
If bundling items from the same company, do we need to get the vendor to provide the bundle packaging and UPC?
The answer to this depends on who the manufacturer. If you have created these bundles with your own packaging and brand, then no, you don't need the vendor UPC. If you look back at the example of the Cravebox food bundle from my previous blog, the manufacturer is Cravebox even though all the food items inside are from Frito-Lay® and other brands. However, if you are bundling items from the same manufacturer and you want to list them as the manufacturer and name them in the title of your listing, then you need their permission and UPC code. I have a client who bundles boxes of tea from a popular brand. The brand took the seller down for infringement because they didn't give permission to bundle their teas or to use their name, logo, etc. on the listing. Ideally, our client would have gotten that permission and a unique UPC code from the brand first.
Should we stop selling on existing bundle listings other sellers created as they likely may not have manufacturer/brand-provided UPCs?
Your options for this situation are: 1) create your own branded bundle with the same items and create a new listing with your UPC code; 2) get a UPC from the manufacturer and add it to the current listing or; 3) hope the brand won't enforce. If there's a UPC code on the listing, you can do a search to see if it belongs to the brand by doing a GS1 search.
What do we do about the current listings for which we have bought barcodes from eBay? Apply for GTIN exemption?
Once you have placed the UPC code on the listing, you can't remove it. All you can do is add another UPC code to the listing. If you get one from the brand, you can add it, for example. If you are the brand, then technically you can use the UPC codes from eBay if you are brand registered and claim the listings. Or you could declare that you don't use UPC codes and get an exemption. This does not work for all categories of goods. Some require a UPC regardless. It also won't work if some of your listings already have UPC codes.
The answer to this question is really about your long-term strategy. When you want to sell your business in the future, the company will be more valuable if you've set yourself up properly as a business with its own intellectual property and its own internationally recognized UPC codes. I encourage my clients to think beyond the bundle of the moment and consider the company they wish to build and one day sell or pass on. If a GS1 code is "too expensive" for your bundle, there's something wrong with your bundle either in terms of margin or the fact that you only plan to sell a few of them. A business is built on repeat sales with decent margins.
For my clients with hundreds of bundles, GS1 is a no-brainer decision.
If mixing items from two different brands, do we apply for GTIN exemption? Do we need written permission from both brands to sell that bundle?
You can apply for GTIN exemption. Just remember this only applies to certain categories. Read about those categories in Seller Central. Amazon states that "Major brands require a UPC, but exemptions may be requested for private label brands" for most categories. In Grocery & Gourmet food, they add "specialized, artisan, and select giftable products." Again, you can see where Amazon is pushing sellers to go with this one. If you are a private label seller, you can get an exemption.
While you technically do not need permission from the brands to create a bundle under your own label, you DO need permission – and invoices – from the brand to prove authenticity to Amazon's satisfaction. In other words, if you are accused of inauthentic and all you have are grocery receipts, that may not be good enough for Amazon. Also, if you are using branded products in your bundle you take a risk of an infringement takedown if you are using those brands in your title or back-end keywords. In fact, it IS a trademark violation to use their brand name in your back-end keywords. If you are buying from the brand or authorized distributor, make sure you have permission to sell that product on Amazon.
Do we need a manufacturer UPC or GTIN exemption separately for bundles that are variations?
To be clear, Amazon states that a bundle is NOT a variation in and of itself. You can't create a listing where there's a parent and then the variations are parent items plus another item. Variations are things like color or size (for clothing).
Every variation needs its own UPC, EAN, JAN or ISBN code. Obviously if this is a parent/child variation, you would have one listing with child options. Check out Amazon's inventory file templates here. For example, you are selling a gift basket and offer different ribbons for the basket like "Happy Birthday" and "Congratulations", or a party supply bundle in different colors to fit a party theme – all-white, red, black, blue, yellow, etc. Those are variations on a bundle.
When we brand the bundle with our brand name (aka private labeling), isn't this infringing IP as we are presenting this as OUR brand?
No. You are not saying the items inside the bundle are your brand. You are saying your brand is the bundle. For example, I sell candy. I have a competitor that sells the same candy I do, but they have a nice, branded gift box that they package the candy in. It is quite stylish. When you are buying from them you are buying the gift box, as well as the candy. It is the bundle they are selling and have branded. We are both selling someone else's candy. In my competitor's case, he/she is buying the candy in bulk and breaking it down into 1lb packages. I assume he/she has a food-grade facility for this. I don't. I sell my candy in bulk (5lbs, 10lbs or more) or single retail units – all stating the brand as the manufacturer. I use the brand's UPC code. My competitor has her own UPC code. My competitor kills it and sells a lot more candy than I do.
One of my clients sells millions in candy every year. They have a food grade facility and a professional bagging machine with labels, etc. When you buy their candy, it is branded, labeled and professionally sealed. Inside, however, is the same candy I'm selling. Neither one of us is infringing. Their listings don't say "Twizzlers® bundle," they say, "Red Licorice Whips." But when you look at the picture, you can see right away they are selling Twizzlers. Mine say "Twizzlers" and yet they are eating my lunch with their bundles because either the portions or the gift box is more popular than my retail offering.
To look at it from a different perspective, a client's bundle was taken down by a brand. The brand had the right to do this because the bundle was created with the brand's name as the manufacturer and in the title. They did not authorize this bundle of their products. However, if my client creates her own brand of gourmet food bundles, she will be able to create the bundle again under her brand (with her own pictures, etc.) without violating trademark. She buys her product direct from the brand's US distributor, so her product is authentic. We were not able to get her original listing back because she was technically in violation, but with her new listing we will be able to prove to Amazon that she is not violating trademark and that she is buying from an authentic source.
What is the "right" way to create bundles from a UPC/GTIN standpoint? Do we first apply for GTIN exemption or ask the Manufacturer to provide a UPC and then go create listings in Seller Central?
Either. Both. Depends on the bundle. If you can get a manufacturer's UPC code for your bundle (all items from the same brand), then that is better for you because you can use their brand in the title, etc. If your bundle includes items from different brands, then you will want to either private label it, or get a GTIN exemption.
Seller Central says including the word "bundle" in the title is "recommended," but is this now the rule?
To avoid problems, I suggest doing what Amazon recommends. I have seen them take sellers down for not setting up their listings properly. Some sellers have even lost their ability to create new listings because they were not following Amazon's guidelines. Some categories, like jewelry, are so strict that misplacing even one word will get you suspended. So far, I have not seen anyone specifically suspended because they used "Set" instead of "Bundle" or they didn't use "Bundle" at all. But, why invite trouble? They could change their minds tomorrow and decide to enforce their recommendation.
If there are two identical baby bibs being sold together, is that considered a multipack? If yes, should we apply for GTIN exemption?
This is a multipack. You need a UPC code from the brand, not an exemption. You cannot get a GTIN exemption in this case. Also, if you don't have permission from the brand to create the multi-pack, you cannot offer it for sale on Amazon. I know, I know. There are zillions of multipacks on the platform not approved by the brand. That was then, this is now. The rules have changed. Amazon says you must get the brand's permission for multi-packs now.
What if you're selling two different bibs from the same manufacturer? I'd still recommend getting a UPC code from them. You could create your own branded baby bundles with bibs, pacifiers and baby spoons if you wanted: "Sweet Dreams Baby Bundle – 4 items, two bibs, pacifier and package of baby spoons." In the picture and first bullet they would see that these are all Sesame Street® or Disney Baby®.
In the title, is it ok to use the brand name if the items are from the same company, and to use your own brand name when items are from mixed brands?
You can only use the Brand name in your bundle if you have a UPC code from that manufacturer for that bundle. Otherwise you have to say something like: "Bundle — 2 Items: Princess-themed shampoo and conditioner" for a Disney® bundle of princess shampoos and conditioners. You would say the same thing if the bundle consisted of princess items from different brands. The difference would be in the first bullet where you describe what is in the bundle, and the pictures.
What do you enter in the brand name and manufacturer fields when (a) items are from the same company (b) items are from 2 different brands?
When the items are from the same company and you have the brand's UPC code, enter the brand or manufacturer/brand. If you do not have a UPC code from the brand and this is your bundle, then YOU are the manufacturer and you must use YOUR brand as the brand.
Some of my clients have parent companies and then multiple brands underneath that parent. In that case, the parent company would be the manufacturer and the brand would be whatever brand they are using for this bundle. These clients have bundles in different categories and, thus, different brands for baby, toys, food, sports, etc.
If your items are from two or more different brands, then you MUST enter your brand. I strongly urge you to have a GS1 UPC code as well or apply for an exemption. Even though brand owners are allowed to have their own UPC codes, be aware that it can cause problems if those UPC codes are not GS1. I'm all about avoiding problems.
What if all my products in the bundle are generics?
Then this is YOUR bundle from your brand. You are the manufacturer. Your bundle is also extremely easy to replicate. If your bundle is popular, you can expect to have other sellers on your listing soon. Thus, if you find that your Easter bundles for Christian kids are a home run the first year, be sure to brand and package them for the next year's sales or everyone will be selling your bundles.
I was looking in Seller Central for the part in Amazon's bundling policy where they want us to package the bundled items in our own packaging. Can you provide a link to this policy?
Whether this is a box, shrink-wrap and a label, a special bag, a basket, etc. is up to you. You need to look closely at Amazon's requirements for brand placement on your bundle/product.
Also, while Amazon FBA will tell you that you can create a bundle with polybags, the fact is these types of bundles have the most issues with inauthentic, used sold as new, fake, counterfeit and damaged claims. The reason is that by the time the buyer gets your items in the polybag, they look like crap. The warehouse is hard on items in bags. I strongly recommend that sellers package nearly everything in a ship-ready box. We can't rely on Amazon to package our goods adequately for shipping to the buyer. If you make that box/basket/container branded, then you serve dual purpose. You protect your items and you've branded them. Think back to the "Crave Box" example.
It is also easy for other sellers to jump on your listings if you don't have a unique brand and packaging. While that may be OK while you are testing a bundle, you will eventually want your best-sellers to be better protected.
The answer is you do NOT need to be a private label to create bundles…but your life will be easier if you do. If you are a serious bundler, then you should be thinking about this. Amazon wants us to have GS1 UPC codes, branded bundles and authentic products. They aren't forcing it…yet.
Do I need retail packaging for all my bundles?
Some of my clients don't have retail packages. All their goods are packaged in branded Frustration Free Packaging (like the Kindle if you have one of those). This is nice because your packaging – once designed – is overall cheaper and will get to the buyer in good condition with less waste and is easy for the buyer to open and use. In addition, you can send large glass items if they are FFP – great for bundles with sauces, candles, soups, oils, etc., that are otherwise not allowed to be shipped FBA. I have a client that sells TV wall mounts and other accessories in a branded brown box that is ship-ready. This makes a lot of sense for a brand that sells online exclusively, and his products arrive in perfect shape every time.
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I'm in the UK. Do we have a separate Brand Registry?
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