I heard about the possibility of MAC Eyegloss at the beginning of this year and I've been obsessd with idea ever since. So, discovering that they're a reality now was a total thrill.
Medoc is a rich, rich red shade – I can't imagine a more dramatic eye than this. Slightly Tauped is the gentlest shade with soft irridescent sparkles in the mix, while Pearl Varnish is a strong white, again with irridescent shimmers. The black shade (Noticably .. something!) has red shimmer to it and it's not an exact black, more a deep blackberry shade with notes of purple in the mix.
Look at the gleam on those! Texture wise, of course, they don't feel like a texture that should go on the eye, but they're thick – thicker than a lipgloss would be so that they adere to the lids correctly. I imagine on the eye they're going to feel pretty strange but it's such a strong look, there will have to be a little pain for the ultimate gain! You're probably not going to be wearing these at all unless you're prepared to take some make-up risks.
So many have tried and failed at the concept of an eye gloss – I didn't have a chance to get it on my lids – there are hardly any of these in production at the moment; only the MAC artists have them, and even then they're in pretty short supply. I'm hoping we get to see them on some backstage looks; keep your eyes peeled!
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So I'm a little late to this game, but I recently started seeing all these wonderfully bright colored eye liners. So perfect in the summer, and even more perfect for drabby winter days.
Sunday Tittle Tattle: Naughty Pets, Apple Laces and Jess from Homeland.
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1) Mr AMR and I decided to give Homeland a go, as we'd exhausted pretty much all other TV shows on Netflix apart from the really rubbish ones. We were quickly hooked into the fast-paced story line and devoured two series in just under two weeks. Trivial fact: Jess, Nicholas Brody's wife in the series, suddenly became my number one beauty inspiration. She's just absolutely gorgeous! Those eyes! The lovely soft pouty mouth! She makes me want to have dark, short hair and…well…her face. Jessica is played by Morena Baccarin and I have been doing some subtle Google stalking: Morena and I are almost the same age! (She's about a year and a half older.) Morena and I both…no. We have nothing else in common.
*UPDATE: I'm trying to find a picture that does her justice – she looks much better in Homeland than on Google! Anyway, tell me I'm not the only one who thinks she's utterly gorgeous?
2) The Body Shop have released a new limited edition fragrance for (I'm assuming) Christmas and it reminds me of those green fizzy laces you used to be able to get from the sweet shop. I'm sure you can still get them in sweet shops, I just haven't had the urge to eat a fizzy lace in a couple of decades. I used to love fizzy sour lances and laces and we all used to have bags of them to eat on the school bus home, but they used to give me the worst sores on my tongue! Anyway, I'm sure The Body Shop's "Glazed Apple" won't give you sores on anything, least of all your tongue, so slather away and enjoy. I have the body butter and it's really quite moreish and a blessed relief from the usual orange 'n cloves kind of scent you get landed with at Christmas… The Glazed Apple range is online here.
3) Naughty pets! They are not allowed on the bed, but sometimes they sneak on up there and settle in for the night as we potter about turning off lights and locking doors. It's always a bit heartbreaking chucking them off.
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A281958 Primes p such that p^2 - 1 is not a totient number (A002202). 2
2, 173, 317, 509, 709, 773, 787, 947, 1307, 1447, 1579, 1613, 1627, 1867, 2347, 2467, 2693, 3307, 3413, 3547, 3803, 3923, 4007, 4243, 4567, 4597, 4723, 4793, 4813, 4937, 4973, 5227, 5261, 5387, 5483, 5557, 5653, 5717, 5827, 5843, 6277, 6397, 6547, 6653, 6793, 6907 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
Corresponding values of p^2 - 1 are 3, 29928, 100488, 259080, 502680, 597528, 619368, 896808, 1708248, ...
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Prime number 173 is a term because 173^2 - 1 = 29928 is not a totient number.
(PARI) is(n) = isprime(n) && !istotient(n^2-1);
Cf. A000010, A002202, A007617, A084920.
Sequence in context: A339641 A262728 A139935 * A172231 A193638 A215123
Adjacent sequences: A281955 A281956 A281957 * A281959 A281960 A281961
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"Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do." –Robert Mondavi
Historically, enterprise databases and elasticity have been mutually exclusive: you could either maintain the trust and consistency you get from a database of record, or you could have the ability to adjust your database on demand in reaction to (or anticipation of) volume spikes, but you could not have both. However, in this era of digital transformation, today's business cannot afford to make a choice. Neither is dispensable and if the data center of the future is to deliver on its potential, then somehow the CIO needs to find a way to embrace both requirements.
In what follows, I aim to provide some insight on how database systems are finally lining up with the rest of the application stack to support modern elastic data centers, and deliver the associated cost benefits.
The elastic data center
In 2006 Amazon launched an offering that they had been building in Cape Town, South Africa, naming it "EC2" (Elastic Compute Cloud). They could have called it many things, perhaps "Virtual Compute Cloud" or "Resource Sharing Cloud" or any of a hundred other names. With significant foresight, they focused on it being "elastic". And in retrospect that was an inspired vision.
Amazon had figured out that clients of cloud services would ultimately want to think about services and not servers. Individual servers don't matter to the client, and nor do numbers of servers, sizes of servers, locations of servers, or any other implementation details. What matters is the combination of the service definition (API and related semantics), the quality of service (QoS/SLA), and the billing arrangements. Everything else is not only irrelevant, but is also free to change behind the curtain from moment to moment.
Amazon thought of this kind of system as "elastic", because it does not have finite limits. An elastic cloud "stretches" to meet demand. You can keep adding services, expanding services, adding users or inserting data. Of course, you can also reduce your usage of the service at any time. The client pays by-the-drink, and the costs will increase or decrease as the services are scaled up or down.
The key to the breakthrough is that the historical concept of sizing and provisioning servers is banished: No more under-utilized servers, no more overwhelmed services, no more waiting for the operations guys to deploy a new server for you, and no more resources wasted on tedious fork-lift upgrades. You only pay for the resources you use – you only tie-up the resources that you need, and those resources are continuously adjusted on-demand.
Besides easily increasing and decreasing capacity, an elastic data center also offers a radical reduction in planned and unplanned downtime. Elastic data centers are designed so that servers can fail and be replaced, or can be taken down and upgraded with minimal disruption. The new design pattern assumes failure, with automated, rapid and inexpensive recovery. This is significantly more robust, lower risk, and less expensive than trying to build servers that never fail.
Amazon and other cloud systems have been wildly successful with the idea of elastic data centers, of course. Amazon reported nearly $10bn in AWS revenue in 2016 – not a bad achievement in 10 years.
The elastic application
Thousands of traditional applications have been moved to elastic clouds on a lift-and-shift basis, or through application modernization initiatives. And of course, cloud-native applications have been written specifically to take advantage of the new elastic infrastructure. We now assume that all applications of every description will run on a cloud sooner or later – the economics and the competitive advantages of elasticity are too compelling to ignore.
As clouds have matured, application architectures have evolved. They have become container and microservices based and managed within container ecosystems (eg Kubernetes). In many cases, applications or parts of applications have become "serverless." The further we go down this path, the greater the benefits we have seen in terms of operational costs/risks, application development velocity, and business agility. In many cases these benefits have translated directly into business opportunity, competitive advantage, and cost reduction.
As is common with elastic applications, Google's Gmail outperformed traditional competition. Gmail now has over 1.2bn active monthly users. Applications like Gmail (or Salesforce CRM, Amazon E-commerce, etc.) are elastic. They do not run on a single giant server behind the scenes. Instead they exploit elastic clouds to scale-out and scale-in.
If you start up Gmail and all the Gmail servers are busy, then a new server may be started to handle yourself and any additional users. In practice, user sessions are constantly being added and deleted, and the system is continually rebalancing connections as well as adding/deleting real and virtual nodes. How many servers does the 1.2bn user Gmail application use? Only as many as are needed at any given moment. It's elastic – that's the point!
As with elastic data centers, these applications inherit uptime benefits from their elasticity. If the server running your Gmail client went down, you would most likely not notice. Elasticity allows redundancy, quick restart, and rebalancing of load. Clients of the server that went down would simply be redirected to other (new or existing) servers.
Next-generation applications such as Netflix and Yelp are exploiting elasticity even further by adopting microservices architectures, in which applications are decomposed into independent and loosely coupled services, all of which can be scaled up and down on-demand. Elasticity at the monolithic application level is a big win, but these much more modular application designs exploit elasticity at a finer-grained level. This approach has the potential to amplify the benefits of elastic applications discussed above (operational costs/risks, application development velocity, and business agility).
The inelastic database
The last 10 years have seen the rise of the elastic data center, and more recently the elastic application. But we do not yet have a fully elastic application stack. Most applications are still stuck with a huge challenge: Extremely inelastic database systems.
The traditional relational database (RDBMS) is a single-server system. They are certainly very powerful systems, driven by a succinct and expressive high-level language (SQL), protected by strong data guarantees (ACID transactions), and proven in a very wide range of application and management contexts. In a quite direct and concrete sense, we run the world on the RDBMS – Gartner estimates that RDBMSs represent 89% of the database market. But unfortunately, traditional RDBMS was designed in the 1980s and was targeted at single server deployments. It is a system designed for scale-up, not scale-out.
The traditional RDBMS is all about dedicated servers, fork-lift upgrades, and ugly workarounds for performance and scalability challenges. It is also about highly skilled administrators constantly analyzing, tweaking and optimizing the system and its workloads to keep your business up and running effectively.
As relates to uptime and reliability, we should note that the traditional RDBMS is a system in which single-points-of-failure are central to the design. It is not fundamentally designed to minimize planned and unplanned downtime, as elastic systems are. If you lose a server, a disk a disk controller, or a data center you should expect to lose data, transactions and/or uptime. If you need to upgrade something or even change a database schema you should expect to maintenance downtime. RDBMS vendors are certainly working on ways to get around these core limitations, but they are limitations that only exist because of the systems not being elastic in the first place.
No one could deny the three-decade run of success that the RDBMS has had in the client-server era, but it was achieved in the context of proprietary data centers with an expensive dedicated server for each application and each database. The traditional RDBMS is not designed for modern data centers or modern workloads, most particularly because it is not at all elastic.
The mainframe database was dominant prior to the client-server era, and the traditional RDBMS has been dominant prior to the elastic-cloud era. But both eras have been followed by workloads, data center designs, and cost models for which the previously dominant database designs were no longer well-suited.
The elastic database
We have a world that is moving inexorably and very rapidly towards elastic cloud architectures. On the other hand, we have database technologies that are single-server systems, very poorly suited to elastic cloud architectures. Clearly something must change – we need elastic databases.
There are adjustments and improvements being made by traditional database vendors, there are new approaches that challenge assumptions about the role of the database system, and there are even newer approaches targeted at addressing the core challenge of how to deliver classical relational database services in a fully elastic fashion.
In the coming weeks, I will continue to explore this topic, and provide an overview of the landscape as the industry grapples with the impedance mismatch between two of the most strategic elements of enterprise computing: Databases and Elasticity.
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As it is Christmas I thought we would take a break from the normal format of these Bible Studies and have a look at some Christmas traditions, to see how the fit into our faith and the spiritual Christmas. Please pardon me if I miss any of the US traditions or explain traditions that we only have in the UK or Europe, either way we may all learn something if members add their traditions in the posts boxes below.
In the middle ages, Mince Pies were originally small pies that were filled with meat, normally lamb, not the dried fruit suet and spices of the ones we have today. The earliest pies were always oval in shape and supposedly meant to represent the manger or crib that the baby Jesus was laid in. The pastry on top of the pie was arranged to represent the swaddling clothes, some even had a pastry baby on top. Although these pies were the poor's equivalent to our Turkey, they were later adopted in the UK in Georgian times as a status symbol, by very rich people having pies made in different shapes ( stars, crescents, hearts, tears, & flowers) which fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle. Here the religious significance was lost as it was a display of who could employ the most expensive pastry cooks. These days they are round in shape, contain fruit and are eaten hot or cold, with a big dollop of thick cream.
Christmas, or Plumb Pugging is the traditional end to the British Christmas meal, it contains mainly fruit, with peal, carrot, and either wine or brandy, traditionally cooked in a cloth making the pudding ball shaped. That however was not how the pudding started, it originated back in the fourteenth century and was called a 'frumenty' and was made of beef and mutton, with raisins, currants, prunes, wines and spices. The pudding was used as a preparation for the fast leading up to Christmas. By 1595 the frumenty was transforming into a plumb pudding and was being thickened by adding breadcrumbs and eggs, together with beer and spirits to give it more flavour. By the middle of the sixteen-hundreds the pudding had become the quintessential Christmas desert, but in 1664 the Puritans banned it, until 1714 when King George I, brought the pudding back as a part of the Christmas feast. The pudding evolved into the Victorian times, which is what we have to day.
"Stir-up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
The first Candy Cane seems to have been from the 1837 exhibition in Massachusetts, USA as a plain white sugar stick, a few years later the red stripe was added. In 1866 came the first connection with Christmas and the name 'Candy Cane', now flavoured with mint or wintergreen. In 1920 Bob McCormack from Georgia made the canes for his friends, Bob's brother-in-law was a Catholic priest and invented a machine that turned the straight canes into ones with a hook. They formed a company which was bought our by Farley and Sathers in 2005, who continue to make them today. It is thought that a German choir master, in 1670, gave the choir children candy to keep them quiet through the long Christmas service, as a reminder he made them shaped like a 'J' to remind them of Jesus, and a hook to remind them of the shepherds, the white sugar was to remind them of the Purity of Jesus and the red to remind us of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, the pepermint flavour is to remind us of the hyssop plant that was used for purifying in the Bible.
The Christmas tree has been used to celebrate winter festivals for thousands of years, both pagan and Christian, pagans decorated their home with branches as encouragement to the green springtime to come. The Romans decorated their temples with Fir Trees during the festival of Saturnalia, and the Christians used it as a sign of everlasting life. The Christmas Tree started about a thousand years ago in Northern Europe and hung upside-down from the ceiling by chains. In other parts of Europe different trees were used by Christians, a plant or branch of cherry or hawthorn, placed in a pot with the hope that they would flower at Christmas time. The poor used pyramids of branches or logs, which were decorated to look like trees with paper angels and candles and apples, and often carried from house to house, and represented the Paradise Tree from the garden of Eden. In those days the day before Christmas D was called 'Adam and Eve's day'.
We know little about the origin except a few scattered traditions, it is likely that first real Christmas trees appeared in Tallinn in Estonia or Riga in Latvia. A regional society called the 'Brotherhood of Blackheads' ( unmarried merchants, ship owners, and foreigners), provided a tree for the village square each year, around which people danced. The tree was then set on fire, so it similar to the custom of the Yule Log, with it's associations with the god Odin. There is an old picture from Germany (1521) that shows a tree being paraded through the streets with a bishop riding a horse behind it, possibly St. Nicholas. The first person, as far as we know however, to bring a fir tree into the house, as we do today was German preacher Martin Luther, in sixteenth century. Shortly before Christmas Luther was walking through the forest and looked up to see the stars shining through the tree branches. It was so beautiful, that he went home and told his children that it reminded him of Jesus, who left the stars of heaven to come to earth at Christmas. Another story about a Devonshire (UK) preacher, St. Boniface of Crediton, who traveled to Germany and saw a group of pagans about to sacrifice a child. In anger he cut the Oak tree down and saved the boy, then a young fir tree sprang up from the roots of the oak, which he took as a sign of his Christian faith, after that his followers decorated the tree with candles so that St. Boniface could preach to the pagans at night. The first Christmas trees were imported to Britain in the 1830's by Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's German husband) had a Christmas Tree set up in Windsor Castle. In 1848, a picture of the tree appeared in the Illustrated London News. The drawing of the Victorian tree helped Christmas Trees become popular in the UK and USA.
The tradition of exchanging Christmas cards started in the UK in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole, a senior government officer in the early Post Office, who was keen to get the service used more by ordinary people. It was Sir Henry who came up with the idea with his friend John Horsley, between them designed the very first card (above left), selling them for one shilling each (about 5p or 8 cents today). The card had no Christian representation at all, and depicted people caring for the poor and a family having Christmas dinner inside. People objected because it showed a child being given wine.
Across the Christian world people give presents to each other, and the young believe in some 'gift bearer', some believe in St. Nicholas, Santa Claus or Father Christmas. In Germany they believe in the Christkind, in Spain it's the Wise Men, and in Italy it's an old woman called Befana. Presents are also left in different places, in Europe presents are left in shoes, boots or in the UK and US and Italy presents are left in stockings, sacks or pillow-cases. In many houses presents for friends and adult family members are left under the Christmas tree, opened in a communal family moment. Some in Holand, open presents on St. Nicholas Eve ot on St. Nicholas day (December 6th). In Orthodox countries they are opened on January 6th (Epiphany).
The first Carols wer e sung in Europe thousands ago but they were noy Christian, they were pagan songs, sung at the winter solstice as people danced around the stone circles. The word 'Carol' actually means 'dance or a song of praise and joy', these were sung to celebrate all four seasons, but only Christmas carols have survived. The first Christians took over solstice celebrations and substituted Christian songs; a Roman Bishop in 129 AD decreed that a song called "Angel's Hymn" should be sung at Christmas in Rome. Comas of Jerusalem wrote a song for Christmas in 760 AD for the Greek Orthodox Church, and after this many composers across Europe started to compose Christmas Carols, these were written in Latin, so were not popular, as they could not be understood by ordinary people. By the eleventh century most people had lost interest in celebrating Christmas, but was revived by St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis wrote and started Nativity Plays when songs were sung, these were often taken up by travelling minstrels, who popularised the songs. The words of the songs were changed to suit different people as the minstrels travelled, one of these songs that has survived is 'I Saw Three Ships'.
After the English Civil War Oliver Cromwell and his puritans came to power in 1647 and Christmas and singing carols was banned, but the carols survived as people met in secret and continued to sing them. The carols, however remained unsung by the general population until Victorian times when two men, William Sandys and Davis Gilbert undertook a project to collect as many of the old carols as possible from across Europe and local villages, and the Christmas Carol never looked back.
It seems that no Christmas Tree is complete without a fairy, angel or star at its summit point, the star obviously represents the star that guided the Magi to the Christ child. Sadly many of the stars are five pointed, pagan pentagrams, a pentagram is a star that can be drawn using six straight, equal lines without taking the pencil from the surface of the paper. This star is an occult symbol and is drawn on a floor as protection for the person who sits in the centre. What was this star that hovered over the place where Jesus was born? The origin of this star is unclear, to say the least, but theories abound, including comets, super novas, a conjunctions of planets or something entirely supernatural, which is not impossible with God. The only real evidence we have are the twelve Bible verses that tell us about the star and the Magi, in Matthew 2:1-12. These verses tell the story that during the time of Herod, Magi from the east visited Jerusalem looking for the 'King of the Jews, who wished to worship Him. They consulted with Herod, who consulted with his advisors as to where this 'king' was to be born. The advisors informed Herod that prophesy told them that it would be Bethlehem. Herod told the Magi to find the child and report back to him, he obtained from them the exact date that the star appeared and sent them on their way. The star then led them to Bethlehem and stopped over the place where Jesus was, and they were joyful. The Magi bowed down a worshipped Jesus and presented Him with the gifts (above) and returned to their home countries avoiding Herod. Note that verse eleven it says the Magi found the 'house', not the stable or tent or cave, which indicates that Mary Joseph and Joseph had returned to their 'house'. Also worth mentioning is that Herod obtained the date when the star had appeared, so it obviously was not the day of Jesus' birth, but some time later. Herod orders children to be killed who were less than two years old, so Jesus' birth must have been up to two years earlier [Matthew 2:16].
There are no astronomical records, other than the Gospels, of any comets or other phenomena appearing in the skies that coincide with any of the birth dates we have. It is likely to have been a local event, but even so, several countries had very advanced astronomy, China and the Moore's (Muslims) record nothing. The Magi most probably came from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia or the Yemen (then known as Persia, Arabia and Sheba), many of which had astronomers. So we can only conclude that the Bethlehem star was a supernatural event, and one that the Magi would have been looking for. They assuredly knew the prophesy of the arrival of the Messiah because in those days it was believed that the constellation of Pisces represented, or was associated with the Jewish nation, so when something unusual happened in that constellation it told the astrologers that something was about to happen in Israel. Now it happens that around that time, 7 BC, that there were three conjunctions within Pisces, all involving Saturn and Jupiter (the royal planet), which is an unusual event. A conjunction is when two or more planets or stars appear close together, mainly planets. Such an event as this happens only once in every 900 years. It may be that the May conjunction was associated with the birth of John the Baptist, and the September event with the birth of Jesus. Jupiter was the ``star'' of royalty and luck, whilst Saturn was the star of the Mesopotamian deity who protected Israel, both of which any astrologer worth his salt would have known.
Well that's about it, as I have run out of space and time, I hope you have found the above interesting and wish everyone a very blessed and peaceful holiday, when you can worship Jesus and thank God for Him in any way you are led. You know I don't do Christmas any more, but I do respect your right to believe that Christmas is a celebration of our Saviour's birth, we celebrate that in October at Sukkot. There will be no Bible Study next week but we will return after Christmas with a brand new series of studies. Have a blessed holiday in God's love, and thank you for joining us here on CLM Bible Study.


A few months ago I wrote a blog post on How to setup growl notifications for Beanstalk Deployments using boxcar and a small script to call out to the API. Since then I have found boxcar to not be to optimal solution so here is the updated way to setup growl notifications for Beanstalk. There are 3 main components to this project: PusherApp, Heroku, and MacGap. This post will walk you through each step to set this up on your own system. This also provides you with an easy way to send Growl notifications to your computer for any reason. Lets get started!
Step four: Login to your PusherApp account and click the "+ Add new App" Button, name your app and leave the 2 checkboxes unchecked, then click "Create App"
**Step ten:** Now 'cd' into the node-beanstalk-pusherapp folder and run the following commands. After you push the code Heroku should return a URL that you can access your app at. Look for something like this "http://stormy-meadow-XXXX.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku"
**Step eleven:** Visit the URL that Heroku provided in step ten. You should see "Nothing to see here, move along.", now go to http://YOUR-APP.herokuapp.com/deploy. If you followed all the instructions you should see a growl notification pop up on your screen.
Now all you have to do is add 'http://YOUR-APP.herokuapp.com/deploy' in your beanstalk deployments post-deploy hook and you will get a Growl notification when you code has been deployed to your server.
You can extend this in many ways (Fork me on github - node-beanstalk-pusherapp & BSGrowler) such as actually utilizing the posted JSON data (Read more). This SO question can point you in the right direction for how to build on to our Node.js app to accomplish this. Using the POST data you could change the message so that it told you who pushed the code, when it was pushed, which repo, and more.
I built this because at work I hated having to open up beanstalk in a new tab to check the status on the deployment. This way I just hit commit and wait for the Growl notification. I hope this helps you as well!


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By Drew Grant • 03/26/12 5:30pm
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After Belvedere Vodka caught flack for a pretty scandalous Facebook and Twitter ad posted Friday morning, the company immediately went into damage control mode. First they took down the offending photo, which didn't help much in the magical age of screenshots and timestamps. Then they posted a SYWO (Sorry You Were Offended) non-apology on Twitter.
By Saturday, enough outlets had picked up on the PR disaster–which featured a man pulling down a woman onto his lap who looked like she was screaming, under the headline 'Unlike some people, Belvedere Vodka always goes down smooth– that Belvedere recanted its faux-pology and issued two real ones, including a statement from Charles Gibb, President of Belvedere, who wrote "It should never have happened. I am currently investigating the matter to determine how this happened and to be sure it never does so again. The content is contrary to our values and we deeply regret this lapse."
But as of earlier this morning, Belvedere reps still couldn't comment on "the ongoing investigation." So who is responsible for the ad. Our money was on some unthinking intern who was fired immediately after, but all signs point to Last Exit.
Last Exit is a New York/London based digital PR firm who have been working with Belvedere on its online campaigns and social media integration. The link to the branding that Last Exit has done for Belvedere now leads to an Access Denied message. When The Observer called Last Exit in regard to this matter, we were referred back to Belvedere's PR spokesperson. We were told (again) that the matter is still under investigation. We're sure we'll be updated as soon as Belvedere discovers the culprit.
In regards to how much money Belvedere will be donating to RAINN as penance, The New York Observer was sent this message from the PR firm handling the alcohol company:
"We're not going to go into specifics—just that it's a substantial amount."
At this point we just feel bad for the company handling Belvedere's in-house public relations team, whom we have developed an almost Stockholm Syndrome sympathy for after 72 hours of constant back-and-forth phone calls.
Filed Under: Politics, News & Politics, Belvedere, Belvedere vodka, Advertising FAIL, Belvedere facebook, Last Exit, Last Exit PR
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Pop-Up Culture is part of UF's celebration of National Arts & Humanities Month and takes place at the UF Plaza of the Americas on October 13 between 10:00am and 2:00pm. Join us for an array of activities that will celebrate the arts and humanities at UF. From musical performances to poetry readings and from dancing to opportunities to paint, there's something for everyone. To learn more, visit www.arts.ufl.edu/ahmonth. Various moments of culture all aimed to increase awareness, appreciation and excitement for the arts and humanities at UF.
Do you have a dance troupe or an a cappella group? Would you like to paint for an audience or read your poetry for all to hear? Share your talent and come out and celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month by joining the "Pop-up Culture" events!
Student groups and interested classes can sign up by completing this form: http://arts.ufl.edu/forms/pop-up-culture/. If you have questions, please contact Casey Wooster at prgradassistant.ufcota@gmail.com.


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EL PASO, Texas – Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced that UTEP President Diana Natalicio is among the recipients of its prestigious 2015 Academic Leadership Award.
Four leaders of American universities are being recognized for demonstrating vision and outstanding commitment to excellence and equity in undergraduate education, in addition to fulfilling their administrative and managerial roles with dedication and creativity.
Patricia A. McGuire: President, Trinity Washington University; Washington, D.C.
Diana Natalicio became President of The University of Texas at El Paso in 1988, and since then, has transformed a small, regional university for commuters into a national public research university. In the process, she has created a model for helping Hispanic students succeed. In a city where four out of five residents are Hispanic, President Natalicio has focused on access and affordability for students, most of whom are low-income and the first in their families to attend college.
The Academic Leadership Award was established in 2005 in honor of Andrew Carnegie's commitment to education and the diffusion of knowledge as fundamental tools for building a strong society and democracy.
"The United States is blessed with thousands of universities and colleges that enrich our society and our democracy and prepare the next generation of specialists, leaders, and citizens," said Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York. "This award recognizes some exemplary leaders of those institutions, who embody the best qualities of leadership – not merely managerial skills, but institutional vision and an abiding commitment to high quality, diversity, curricular innovation, and investment in their communities.
presidents who display a commitment to the liberal arts, excellence and access, curricular innovation, the development of major interdisciplinary programs, reform of K-12 education, international engagement, and the promotion of strong links between their institutions and their local communities.
Worked to make the university better reflect the region's demographics by recruiting more Hispanic faculty members, currently about 36 percent overall, and created graduate programs that capitalize on UTEP's proximity to Mexico such as a Ph.D. in U.S-Mexico Borderlands History.
Led in the formation of a partnership with El Paso Community College, 12 local school districts, and community leaders to raise educational aspirations and attainment, revamp teacher training, and improve curriculums in subjects such as high school math and science, and as a result, successfully preparing more graduates for college-level work, and closing the achievement gap between Hispanic and white students.
Implemented a highly successful program to collect and analyze data from each department and on each student as a way to track progress and develop appropriate interventions that improve performance and retention, including direct follow up with students at risk of dropping out.


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Alistair is a graduate in Mathematics from University College London. In 1990 he joined Jacobs as a transport consultant, and in 1995 he moved to Steer Davies Gleave as a consultant, where he was involved in the early stages of rail privatisation. This was followed in 1997 with a move to Eurostar where he worked for seven years in a range of roles including finance, branding, commercial and finally as Strategy Director. In 2004 he joined Keolis UK as Project Director leading the company's UK bidding for Southeastern, London Rail and Southern. Alistair was promoted in 2010 to CEO of Keolis UK.
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Sir Mike brings vast experience to Keolis UK, having served as Managing Director at Land Rover, Chief Executive at Grand Metropolitan Foods and BAA. He was chairman of Post Office Ltd between 2003 and 2007 and a member of the Commission for Integrated Transport between 2001 and 2007. He is currently Deputy Chairman of TUI Travel Plc and a board director of Dublin Airport. Sir Mike was also on the board of Transport for London. Sir Mike was appointed chairman of Keolis UK in October 2011.


The body of a fisherman was pulled from the water north of Montauk Point late Wednesday afternoon after a surfer spotted him floating facedown just after 5 p.m.
Dalton Portella, who made the initial 911 call, was taking pictures of the surf when he noticed what at first appeared to be a dead seal in the water, about five feet offshore. When he got closer, he said, he realized it was a person and called for help. As he waited to flag down first responders by the dirt road that leads to the beach, other surfers pulled the man from the water, he said. "Lee Meirowitz was attempting CPR, but it was pointless; he was long gone."
East Hampton Town police and Marine Patrol officers responded to the scene, as did Montauk emergency medical technicians. The matter was turned over to New York State Parks police, who are investigating, "although we don't suspect any criminality," a parks police spokesman said Thursday morning. Parks police identified the man as Aaron Bruno, 29, of Islip.
Mr. Portella said fellow surfers believe they spotted Mr. Bruno walking by the base of the Lighthouse toward Turtle Cove on the south side of Montauk Point about two and a half hours earlier. He had a fishing pole and tackle box in hand, they told him.
Given the currents, Mr. Portella guessed that Mr. Bruno could have hit his head on a rock on the south side and been carried to the north side of the Point, where he was found on an incoming tide. "If there hadn't been anybody surfing there he wouldn't have been found for days."
The official cause of death is under investigation by the Suffolk County medical examiner, a parks police spokesman said Thursday morning.


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Luz Valdenebro Jiménez (Còrdova, Espanya, 1975) és una actriu espanyola. Coneguda pel seu paper de Bàrbara a Hispania, la leyenda i Sofía Alarcón a la sèrie Gran Hotel. En 2018, va interpretar a Dolores Arribas a Estoy vivo i, actualment, dona vida a Cristina Martínez a Amar es para siempre.

Filmografia

Cinema
 Balada triste de trompeta (2010) d'Álex de la Iglesia - com Mª Ángeles
 Bajo las estrellas (2007) de Félix Viscarret - com Pauli
 Mejor solo (2007) de Jorge Dantart
 Corrientes circulares (2005) de Mikel Alvariño - com treintañera
 Mirar es un pecado (2001) de Nicolás Melini.

Sèries de televisió
 Amar es para siempre (2019-2020) - com Cristina Martínez
 Servir y proteger (2019) - com Isabel Azcarate
 Estoy vivo (2018) - com Dolores Arribas "Lola"
 Seis hermanas (2015-2016) - com Aurora Alarcón
 Gran Hotel (2011-2013) - com Sofía Alarcón, germana d'Alicia Alarcón i filla de Doña Teresa
 Aída (2012) Cap. 166 - 'Pasa la Droga', com a Carmen, la mendiga
 Ángel o demonio (2011) - com a Azucena
 Hispania (2010) - com a Bárbara, germana de Viriat
 El internado (2009) - com Valentina León
 Qué follón de familia (2007) - curts
 Los simuladores (2006) - episòdic
 Hospital Central (2006) - episódico como Natalia
 Policías, en el corazón de la calle (2001) - como Merche
 Periodistas (2001) - episódico

Telefilms
 Un Cuento de Navidad (2012), per TVE i ALEA - com La Directora
 No estás sola, Sara (2009) per TVE - com Marina
 Paquirri (2009) per Telecinco - com Isabel Pantoja
 El camino de Victor (2005)
 Padre coraje (2002) per Antena 3 - com Mari Carmen

Teatre
 Don Juan Tenorio de Ron Lalá, dirigit per Yayo Cáceres (2018-2019)
 El Jurado d'Avanti Teatro, dirigit per Andrés Lima (2016)
 La Distancia de Bacantes Teatro, dirigit per Pablo Messiez (2016)
 On Golden Pond d'Ernest Thompson. (2013)
 Dos Claveles d'Álvaro Tato, per Microteatro por Dinero. (2013)
 Urtain de Juan Cavestany, per CDN i Animalario. (2008)
 El Bateo y De Madrid a París, programa doble de Zarzuela per Teatro de la Zarzuela o Animalario. (2008)
 Marat-Sade de Peter Weiss, per CDN i Animalario. (2007)
 La Lozana Andaluza CAT. (2000)

Premis
 "Premio Andalesgai a la visibilidad 2015", juntament amb Candela Serrat, pels seus papers a la sèrie Seis hermanas.

Vida privada
Actualment manté una relación sentimental con el también actor Fran Perea.

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Actors andalusos
Artistes cordovesos


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Rufus King: Popular General Whose Career Was Stigmatized by Illness
A New York native with eminent New England roots, Rufus King made Wisconsin his home before the war. He helped the territory become a state in May 1848. (Library of Congress)
By Frank Jastrzembski - December 24, 2019
Accused of drunkenness at Second Bull Run even though evidence showed he suffered multiple epileptic seizures
Rufus King's place as the renowned Iron Brigade's first commander is, unfortunately, often relegated to mere footnote mention. Rather, the Union brigadier general's once-proud name and reputation were irrevocably scarred by other Civil War events, specifically several epileptic seizures he suffered while in action and accusations that he made an unauthorized withdrawal from the field after the Battle of Brawner Farm in August 1862 and was then drunk and incapacitated during the subsequent Second Battle of Bull Run. An 1833 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy whose grandfather signed the Constitution in 1787, King had enjoyed success before the war both in the Army and in private life. But he would be haunted by those allegations of wrongdoing for the remainder of his life. Recalled King's son, Charles— a West Point graduate himself, brigadier general during the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902, and later the author of 60 books—his father "for long years…had to bear the stigma, and it ruined his health and broke his heart." None of King's antebellum acquaintances, including the likes of Robert E. Lee, William H. Seward, and Thurlow Weed, would have anticipated this fate for this esteemed descendant of a founding father.
Born on January 26, 1814, in New York City, Rufus King shared the name of his famed grandfather. He attended Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School in New York, and entered West Point as a 15-year-old in July 1829, graduating fourth in his class four years later.
Commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the U.S. Corps of Engineers, King served as an assistant to Captain Robert E. Lee and aided in the construction of Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Va. King greatly admired the Virginia officer, even after Lee chose to serve the Confederacy. "Father had a high opinion of General Lee," Charles King remembered, "regarding him as the peer of any man in either army, whether from the viewpoint of a soldier or a gentleman, but deplored his taking up arms against the union of states."
From 1855 to 1857, King served as captain of one of Wisconsin's top militia units, the elaborately attired Light Guard. (Gado Images/Alamy Stock Photo)
King demonstrated that reverence the winter of 1861-62 while stationed in Washington, D.C., near Lee's estate at Arlington, Va. "My mother, who joined him there," Charles wrote, "took it upon herself to sort out the more valuable items of clothing and other personal property belonging to the Lees and have them boxed and labeled with a view to restoring them to their at the close of the War." Charles was not sure whether the personal items were ever returned to the Lees.
By 1836, Rufus King had grown tired of an army officer's poor pay and the slow course of promotion and decided his talents were better suited for a civilian occupation. He resigned his commission and accepted an appointment as a civilian assistant engineer in the survey of the New York & Erie Rail Road. His recent marriage to Ellen Eliot in Albany might also have been a factor in his decision to resign. Tragically, Ellen died a year later, and in 1843 King married her younger sister, Susan.
King turned his energies to the publishing industry in New York, first with the Albany Daily Advertiser, a leading Whig newspaper, and then with the Albany Evening Journal as an associate editor. Political power broker Thurlow Weed owned the Albany Evening Journal and served as its senior editor. King took up the part-time study of law while working as Weed's assistant editor. Through Weed, King befriended William H. Seward, governor of New York and later a member of President Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet. In January 1839, Seward appointed King New York's adjutant-general.
Soon, King became active in New York's state militia. He commanded the Albany Burgess Corps, an organization composed of the city's young businessmen and mechanics, described as "one of the finest and most renowned volunteer militia organizations of that day." He was placed in command of New York's militia during the so-called Anti-Rent War of 1839, a revolt by tenant farmers in the upper part of the state. Due to King's "prompt and energetic measures," the ringleaders were captured and the revolt suppressed.
In 1845, King relocated to the Wisconsin Territory, settling in Milwaukee and becoming the senior editor and part-owner of the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette. (The paper's name was later changed to the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel.) He became engrossed in civic duties, playing a prominent role in the 1848 constitutional convention that led to the admission of Wisconsin to the Union. He also served as a superintendent of schools in Milwaukee, and gained a reputation in the community for his "charitable and benevolent enterprises"—said to donate often "beyond his pecuniary means" to help his fellow residents.
After moving to Milwaukee, King again made the state militia a priority. He was elected captain of the red- and gray-clad Milwaukee Light Guard, serving from 1855 to 1857. Reportedly, King was joyfully received by the company of 60 men, all humbled to have obtained the services of "so competent a military man" and a gentleman who "promised great good to the organization." They praised him for his "faithful, gentlemanly and courteous manner" while serving as their captain.
King's longtime association with militias in New York and Wisconsin would serve him well at the start of the Civil War.
Despite his formal military training and extensive experience in arms, King was, in 1846, firmly against the war with Mexico and decided not to volunteer when the conflict opened. His political allegiance was with the Whigs, who, with Henry Clay at their helm, disapproved of the war. Although King spoke out against the war, some of his West Point classmates did venture to Mexico to fight. Three of them—Jacob E. Blake, James W. Anderson, and Erastus A. Capron—were killed there.
In 1861, through the influence of Seward, now President Lincoln's secretary of state, King was appointed to serve as minister to the Papal States. After traveling to New York, King was preparing to board a steamer destined for Rome when he heard the news of the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. He had his baggage unpacked and immediately headed back to Washington to enlist. Upon meeting Lincoln, he asked to be commissioned into the Army. The president granted his wish.
On May 17, King was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and returned to Milwaukee to take command of the 5th and 6th Wisconsin Infantry. Those two regiments, plus the 2nd Wisconsin and 19th Indiana, would form the core of what became the Western Brigade and then, more famously, the Iron Brigade. (The 5th Wisconsin was eventually replaced by the 7th Wisconsin, and the 2nd Wisconsin didn't join King until August 27, 1861, after fighting in Colonel William T. Sherman's 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, at First Bull Run.) King's brigade spent the winter of 1861-62 quietly stationed in the defenses of Washington, D.C.
When Maj. Gen. James A. Garfield, the future president, first met King in December 1862, he opined: "He has a weather-beaten, powder-blackened look which reminds us [of] the rugged fighting he has done and the sturdy blows he has struck. Three deep, permanent, vertical wrinkles in the forehead where brow and nose join set off the expression and complete the picture of the man who has evidently got him a large fund of hard sense and hard work." Behind King's rough-hewn appearance was a man who came alive in front of an audience. Captain Rufus Dawes of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry recalled King's elegant speech during the celebration of George Washington's birthday on February 5, 1862: "Our brigade formed in a semi-circle in close column before the broad portico of the Arlington House, and listened to the reading of Washington's farewell address, and to an excellent oration from our Brigadier General, Rufus King."
King's informal manner and forceful personality endeared him to the brigade's rough Midwesterners. One account described him as "a plain, common man [who] will listen to the complaint of a private soldier as soon as he will to a colonel." On March 4, 1862, the appreciative soldiers of the 19th Indiana presented King an elegant jeweled sword made of gold, with "as a token of respect for him as a Soldier & a Gentleman" inscribed on its scabbard.
The pommel and grip of the gold and bejeweled presentation sword King received on assuming division command in March 1862. (Cowan's Auctions)
But as King was getting to know his men, he was given command on March 17 of the 3rd Division in the Army of the Potomac's 1st Corps, under Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell, which became the Department of the Rappahannock on April 4. King named newly promoted Brig. Gen. John Gibbon the brigade's commander on May 7. Gibbon was the one who required his men to begin wearing the black, tall-crowned Model 1858 Hardee hats in place of forage caps.
King's promotion came shortly before Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's celebrated invasion of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. On June 26, Lincoln created the Army of Virginia under Maj. Gen. John Pope, a Western Theater hero who vowed to isolate and then destroy Jackson's divisions before the arrival of Confederate reinforcements. The Department of the Rappahannock became the 3rd Corps in Pope's army.
On August 23, 1862, just days before the Federals' clash with Jackson at Brawner Farm, King suffered an epileptic seizure so severe he was incapacitated and relegated to an ambulance under the care of Peter Pineo, the 1st Division's chief medical officer. Exhaustion, severe headaches, slurred speech, and abnormal behavior are common after-effects of epileptic seizures. It is undocumented how long King had suffered from this condition, how regularly the seizures occurred, and whether at the time he was being treated for them or how, but King was certainly in no physical condition to command his division after this incident.
Gibbon recalled that on August 26 he could tell King was "still suffering" from its effects. One of McDowell's aides called King "fatigued out and very weak and sickly," and, according to Alan Gaff in his book Brave Men's Tears, King complained about his condition more than once as the division advanced toward Manassas from Warrenton. Despite the horrible timing, King retained command of the 1st Division.
On August 28, five miles from Manassas Junction, Va., the four brigades of King's division unexpectedly ran into Jackson's veterans while heading along the Warrenton Turnpike. Leading the advance was the 1st Brigade under Brig. Gen. John P. Hatch, who had first served as a cavalry commander under Pope before being reassigned to the infantry in July 1862. Following Hatch's men along the pike, in order, were Gibbon's 4th Brigade, Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday's 2nd Brigade, and Brig. Gen. Marsena R. Patrick's 3rd Brigade. As they marched, Gibbon spotted a battery of Confederate artillery in the distance, indicating that enemy troops were nearby. The Union general had no idea that he was facing the core of Jackson's army, concealed in the woods and hills of Stony Ridge waiting to spring a trap.
Major General Richard S. Ewell's and Brig. Gen. William B. Taliaferro's divisions attacked Gibbon's single brigade of 2,100 men. A great deal of the fighting between the blue and gray lines positioned across the Brawner Farm occurred at roughly 70–100 yards. Outnumbered and taking heavy casualties, Gibbon tried to reach out to King located somewhere west of the field. But King apparently was suffering from another seizure. "I looked around and was greatly astonished to see Gen. King prostrate on the ground," wrote one artilleryman. "I at first thought that he had been struck by a shell, or a bullet, but soon saw that he was in a severe epileptic fit."
After King was given command of the 3rd Division in the Army of the Potomac's 1st Corps, he named Brig. Gen. John Gibbon brigade commander. (Library of Congress)
Without its commander for the duration of the battle that evening, the Union defense lacked coordination. Patrick's green brigade had been thrown into disarray by the fire of a Confederate battery and fell back to the south. Hatch, already beyond the crossroads of Groveton a few miles up the pike, provided Gibbon no support. Doubleday was the only brigade commander to lend a hand, sending two regiments to assist Gibbon's beleaguered men. Luckily for the Federals, the brigade held steady against the onslaught and maintained its position.
Considered the first day of Second Bull Run rather than a separate engagement in some accounts, the Battle of Brawner Farm (also known as Groveton) ended in a draw, with both sides suffering heavy casualties: 1,200 for the Confederates, including both Ewell and Taliaferro, and 751 for Gibbon—33 percent of his brigade's strength. But the Federals' stubbornness and unwillingness to yield to Jackson's two divisions, which included 800 men of the Stonewall Brigade, quickly helped earn the Westerners the soon-to-be-legendary moniker "Iron Brigade."
King recovered long enough from his epileptic attack that evening to resume control of his division and assess the tactical situation. He realized that his division was outnumbered (some reports inflated Jackson's strength to 70,000 men); one of his best brigades had been badly damaged; and no supporting troops were in the vicinity. An hour after the fighting ended, he sent Captain Franklin Haven to give McDowell a message pledging that he would hold his ground against Jackson unless he received contrary orders. The 3rd Corps commander, however, had spent most of the day "lost in the woods" trying to find Pope's headquarters and could not be found.
Receiving no reply from McDowell, King relied on his own initiative. After 10 p.m., he consulted with his brigade commanders to decide whether to stay or withdraw. Insisted Hatch: "We simply cannot stay. We are utterly without supports. We have got to fall back or be overwhelmed." Gibbon, who was the most vocal during the conference, later declared that the retreat was "a necessary military measure" and was "the proper one." The commanders concluded that their current position was untenable and that it would be in their best interest to proceed to Manassas Junction so that they could reunite with the main body of Pope's army.
In a letter to King dated March 7, 1863, Gibbon offered to shoulder part of the responsibility when King was attacked for ordering the withdrawal. "[H]aving first suggested the movement and urged it on military grounds," Gibbon wrote, "I am perfectly willing to bear my full share of the responsibility, and you are at liberty to make any use of this communication you may deem proper."
The division began to pull out in the early hours of August 29. At 9:30 p.m., King sent a letter to Brig. Gen. James B. Ricketts of the 2nd Division, who had been at Thoroughfare Gap but was now falling back through Haymarket and Gainesville: "General: We have been engaged with the enemy, for some hours, but hold our own, and will stay till we hear from you. I think you had better join us here, tho' that depends, of course, on your orders." King sent another message to Ricketts about 11:15 p.m., informing him of the council with his generals and his plan to withdraw from the division's position near Groveton. At some point that night, Brig. Gen. John F. Reynolds arrived and conferred with King, promising the support of his Pennsylvania Reserves. King, however, began the march to Manassas Junction.
King had a third seizure when his men reached Manassas Junction. This time, he relinquished command to Hatch, who led the division on August 29-30 during Pope's embarrassing defeat at Second Bull Run. Major General Fitz John Porter, whose 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, fought alongside the Army of Virginia at the battle, was among those blamed by Pope for the defeat and was court-martialed in a trial that ran from November 1862 to January 1863. During the trial, Porter claimed that King "was drunk on the 29th and 30th and unable to attend to any duty"—the cause of King's absence from the battlefield.
What Porter obviously failed to appreciate was that King had suffered from multiple seizures over a period of seven days leading up to the battle. Assuming viable evidence was available that King was showing symptoms of drunkenness (which is doubtful), there is probably a more rational explanation for King appearing intoxicated. Potassium bromide, an iconic salt, was first used to treat epilepsy beginning in the late 1850s and, when digested, it acted as a sedative that caused individuals to appear sluggish and disoriented. Perhaps King had been under the influence of potassium bromide during the battle. Regardless, the general was suffering either from the after-effects of his epileptic attacks or the medication used to treat it, not from alcohol, as Porter was insinuating.
For a man in command of a division made up of thousands of Union soldiers on the eve of a major battle, King's malady made him unpredictable, maybe even a liability. He should have turned over command to Hatch after he suffered his first seizure on August 23. It is not improbable that he had other episodes before this incident. And if King had a preexisting condition, he should not have been on the front line in the first place. The stress, summer heat, fatigue, and sleep deprivation likely contributed to his seizures. But King was a proud man and, as noted earlier, the grandson of a founding father. He felt it was his duty to remain in the field alongside his men. Besides, his reputation was at stake: What would his fellow Milwaukeeans think if he had left the front on the eve of a major battle? He would have been branded a coward.
In addition to Porter's contention that he was drunk on duty, King was criticized for disobeying Pope's orders. After the debacle at Second Manassas, Pope declared in his official report: "I sent orders to McDowell supposing him to be with his command, and also direct to General King, several times during the night and once by his own staff officer, to hold his ground at all hazards, to prevent the retreat of Jackson toward Lee, and that at daylight our whole force from Centreville and Manassas would assail him from the east, and he would be crushed between us." No order is known to have reached King that night. Pope felt that the unauthorized withdrawal by McDowell from the Groveton vicinity—most notably, by King—allowed Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's divisions to unite with Jackson's force, culminating in the Federal army's defeat on August 30.
Despite his damning report, it seems Pope had no ill will toward King. On March 23, 1863, King wrote to Pope challenging his superior's claim that he hadn't followed Pope's "lost order." In a reply, a much cooler Pope apologized for singling out King. "I am sure you know how highly I esteem your services during that campaign and will readily acquit me of any sort of intention to do you an injustice," Pope conceded. "I was disappointed, of course, but did not for a moment attach any sort of blame to you. I never knew whether the aide-de-camp reached you that night or not, but I felt always perfectly satisfied that whether he did or not you had done the very best you could have done under the circumstances."
Writing to his father from Fort Riley, Kan., on April 4, 1876, Charles King recalled meeting Pope for the first time. Charles was understandably sensitive about the subject of his father's conduct during the campaign, and was surprised by what transpired. "[Pope] talked of you in the most warm hearted way for nearly one hour, and said so many handsome things of the old Division," Charles explained in the letter. "He was most kind in his inquiries about you…" Charles declared that his father should have pursued an inquiry and "had the matter threshed out," but Rufus King never did.
By August 30, the second day of the Second Battle of Bull Run, depicted in this sketch, Maj. Gen. Rufus King had relinquished command of his division to Brig. Gen. John Hatch. (Library of Congress)
Failing in health, and urged by Seward to take over the recently vacated post of minister to the Papal States in Rome, King resigned his brigadier general's commission in October 1863. He later had a hand in the arrest of an alleged Lincoln assassination conspirator, John Surratt Jr. (the son of Mary Surratt, who was one of four convicted and hanged in July 1865). Surratt had joined the Papal Zouaves under a false identity before being caught.
King continued to act as minister until the mission to the Papal States was closed in 1867. He briefly served as the deputy comptroller of customs for the Port of New York before retiring from public life in 1870. He died from pneumonia on October 13, 1876, at the age of 63.
Charles King persevered in trying to vindicate his father's reputation, even urging Pope in the early 1880s to "correct the evil done" by his ambiguous Second Bull Run report. Supposedly Pope promised Charles, "I will the first chance I get." The general, however, died unexpectedly in his sleep while visiting the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Sandusky, Ohio, in September 1892, taking any chance to exonerate Rufus King's name with him to his grave.
Frank Jastrzembski, a frequent contributor to America's Civil War and the blog "Emerging Civil War," is the author of Admiral Albert Hastings Markham: A Victorian Tale of Triumph, Tragedy and Exploration and Valentine Baker's Heroic Stand at Tashkessen, 1877. He runs "Shrouded Veterans," a nonprofit mission to identify and repair the graves of Mexican War and Civil War veterans. [For more information, see https://m.facebook.com/shroudedvetgraves/].


A top Kurdish commander has claimed that Turkey are actively supporting terrorist groups such as ISIS, arming them with weapons and munitions with its ally Saudi Arabia.
Murat Karayılan says he has documentary evidence that the AKP, headed by Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, has links to numerous terror groups including ISIS.
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has an "ideological inter-relationship" and joint interests with the radical Islamists, Karayılan said in an interview to RIA given in the Qandil Mountains, an area in Iraqi Kurdistan, next to the Iraq–Iran border.
"Along with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey has been sponsoring jihadists [in Syria] that emerged from Al-Qaeda… These states backed and armed radical Salafi groups, which base all of their actions on sharia [law]," he said.
Turkey wants to become a regional leader and that aspiration forced it to get bogged down in the Syrian crisis, the Kurdish leader said. It was the interference of Ankara and Riyadh that stripped the Syrian opposition of the remaining democratic and moderate attributes, Karayılan added.
"In this context, the Syrian Kurds and their political parties come in sharp contrast [to Turkish political forces] due to their secular attitude to lifestyle and state structure. That's the reason of the jihadists' hatred towards Syrian Kurds," Karayılan believes.
To prevent this scenario and dishearten Kurds striving to form a state of their own, Turkey's ruling AKP party would do anything within its powers, including "inciting militants of Ahrar ash-Sham and Jabhat Al-Nusra [Al-Nusra Front] to attack Syrian regions inhabited by Kurds," Karayılan said. He added that once these groups failed to defeat the Kurds, the AKP prompted Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] into attacking them, which resulted in the battle for the city of Kobani between September 2014 and March 2015.
The Kurds have "documented evidence" that the AKP, which is headed by Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, has ties with all those terrorist groups, Karayılan said.
Turkey was fostering Al-Nusra Front and Islamic State from the very beginning, Karayılan claims.
"We're 100 percent positive Turkey is maintaining contact with IS, we've seen it with our own eyes," the PKK leader said, stressing that meetings between top Turkish negotiators and IS members have been registered on multiple occasions.
"In this regard we fully agree with the statements of the Russian Defense Ministry," the Kurdish commander said. Moscow says Turkey has a mutually beneficial relationship with IS, buying oil from the areas captured by the terrorist group and acting as a supply line for arms and manpower.
The militants of Al-Nusra and IS are penetrating Rojava (in Syrian Kurdistan) from Turkish territory, Murat Karayılan stressed.
The Kurdish leader specifically noted that it was due to the "persistent interference" of Turkey and Saudi Arabia that the Kurds were not invited to Geneva for the Syria peace talks.
"Those very Kurds that have been so actively battling IS and shedding blood," the Kurdish commander said, adding that it exposed forces that actually do not want a settlement of the Syrian crisis.
The Syrian conflict is multidimensional and involves the interests of many world powers, therefore its resolution to a great extent depends on the political transformation of the whole of the Middle East, Karayılan said, estimating Russia's air campaign aimed at defeating the terrorist groups in Syria as important and positive.


We will be glad to see at the Conference all colleagues affecting in their research problems of self-care.
The concept of "the care of the self / self-care", updated in the works of Martin Heidegger, Pierre Hadot, Michel Foucault, regains the ability to become one of the basic one in social sciences. The human mind turns to self-care as an ontological category for the existence of society and personality. The conference is focused on the identifying of the opportunities for the integration of historical, theoretical and practical discourses that contribute to deepen the understanding of "self-care" - the imperative phenomenon, values, goals, and strategies.
At the conference we plan to discuss the problems of historical and contemporary conceptualization of the philosophical-pedagogical category "self-care", to identify the methodological basis of its interpretation and the specific use of different theoretical frameworks and disciplinary fields, when pedagogy and culture determine the person as a student and teacher at the same time, providing the transformation, self-development and self actualization throughout his/her life.
We plan to combine historical, theoretical and practical discourses that contribute to deepen the understanding of the specifics of institutional and extra-institutional conceptualization of the notions of "care of oneself" as a cultural phenomenon. The dates of the conference are connected to the 50th anniversary of the Russian philosopher, psychologist, and teacher Galina Ivanchenko (1965-2009),who substantiated the possibility of considering the category of "caring for yourself" as an interdisciplinary, outlined approaches to psycho-pedagogical interpretation of the texts from different cultures and eras in her last the lifetime monograph "Taking Care of the Self: History and Modernity". Studying and development of scientific heritage of G.Ivanchenko is one of the most important tasks of the proposed conference.
The creative legacy of Galina Ivanchenko's heritage: a multidisciplinary approach to the care of the self.
"Epimeleia heautou" in the history of pedagogical, psychological, social sciences and philosophy.
"Care of the Self" in historical perspective: the ideal of care in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, in the Modernity and Postmodern times.
The conceptualization of the category "epimeleia heautou", "cura sui", "self-care", "care of/for (the) self", "le souci de soi", "Selbstsorge", "die Sorge um sich (selbst)", "Selbstkultivierung","cuidado de sí", "la cura di sé", etc.
Methodological problems and prospects of research of the phenomenon of "epimeleia heautou".
Taking "care of the self" as a guideline for development of education (from preschool to lifelong learning).
Moral aspects of self-caring and caring of other.
Practices of self-care: medical, pedagogical and social aspects.
"Care of the Self" in the triangle between general, vocational, and philosophical education: "the way of life" and goal setting in training and education.
Self-education and self-actualization. The formation of the ability of the care of the self in different age cohorts.
High school as the most important stage in the education for care of oneself as the basis of autodidactic and self-education.
Lifelong education as an important aspect of care of the self. The interaction of educational and other biographical strategies.


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College Admissions on Showtime
We highly recommend Season 1, Episode 3 of Showtime's "Billions." The episode features a terrific story arc on college admission — specifically to Stanford.
If you don't watch "Billions" on Showtime, you're missing out. It's rare when a lead actor in a television series picks two hits in a row but that's precisely what happened with Damian Lewis. After he was written off "Homeland," he secured the role of billionaire Bobby Axelrod in the Showtime hit series. But why do we write about this series on our college admissions blog? Well, in one of the first few episodes of the series (hey, we were a bit behind!), the wife of an employee of Axelrod's, a man who died on 9/11, was thinking that her son would be a sure bet at Stanford.
After all, the boy's father went to Stanford and so too did his grandfather. And his father did perish in the World Trade Center. But as the admissions officer tells the mother by phone (because what admissions officers don't call the parents of students who don't get in), it was just a very competitive class this year. As a point of information, when the children of important legacies and donors don't get in, those phone calls are usually conducted with development officers of universities or deans of admission — rarely lower ranking admissions officers. After all, the schools do hope to preserve the relationship with the family, one they know is now surely in jeopardy.
Anyhow, the plot thickens on "Billions" when the 9/11 widow confronts Axelrod's wife, Lara, who was upset the widow was intending to publish a novel that didn't speak very highly of Axe. But she didn't just go to Lara empty handed. She came with a revised manuscript for the book awaiting publication, one that portrayed Axe much more favorably. Lara, already prepared for her arrival with a non-disclosure agreement, promptly informs her that a mistake was made in the admissions process, that she believed her son would soon be granted admission to Stanford.
And while this kind of story is a bit dramatic, if our readers think that, say, Melinda Gates doesn't have a list of students she wants admitted to Duke each and every year, then they're surely mistaken. These sorts of things do happen. These lists do certainly exist.
While you're here, read our recent blog on major donors and college admission.
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Q: change specific word page variable in docxtpl template (python) How I go to next word page in docxtpl? I have template called example.docx. I gave same variables to all pages. I'm going to change variables from specific page with while loop and random.
I found some examples with docx module.
document = Document()
for section in document.sections:
    print(section.start_type)

but it didn't work for docxtemplate
doc = DocxTemplate(document_path)

So anyone know how to go next page with docxtpl?