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Take a ride on our heritage railroad in a vintage trolley from the early 1900s. Explore three carhouses filled with beautiful, restored trolleys and several other precious transit artifacts around our outdoor campus. Our world-renowned collection includes vehicles from almost every major city in the United States that had streetcar systems, as well as from across the world. From the omnibus, to electric streetcars, buses, light rail vehicles, and rapid transit cars, we've got them all. (Curated content from trolleymuseum.org)
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Dutch Elm Golf Club
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Treat yourself to 18 holes of championship golf just 1.5 hours north of Boston and 30 minutes south of Portland, Maine where each hole offers distinct challenge and pleasant scenery. We invite you to explore our website and discover all the Dutch Elm has to offer. Please let us know what you think by sending us an E-Mail. Give us a try! You will find the only thing better than our golf course is the friendly manner in which our staff and members will make you feel welcome. (Curated content from dutchelmgolf.com)
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1966 in cooperation with the State of Maine to protect valuable salt marshes and estuaries for migratory birds. Located along 50 miles of coastline in York and Cumberland counties, the refuge consists of 11 divisions between Kittery and Cape Elizabeth. The proximity of the refuge to the coast and its location between the eastern deciduous forest and the boreal forest creates a composition of plants and animals not found elsewhere in Maine. (Curated content from www.fws.gov)
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Webhannet Golf Club
Webhannet is an 18-hole par 71 course that plays a surprisingly long 6100 yards from the blue tees. The front nine is a par 35 showcasing three of the toughest par-3's in Maine. Tidal-fed water hazards, strategically-situated white sand traps and bent grass greens with subtle breaks are among the design features that challenge golfers of every skill level. (Curated content from webhannetgolfclub.com)
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Chermoula is a fragrant, spicy, citrusy Moroccan marinade typically used for fish. This easy recipe yields enough for 3-4 lbs. of salmon but if you are not planning to make that much, save the remaining sauce for another day… because you'll definitely want to make this exotic dish again. Or, pour the remaining chermoula on the already cooked fish before serving, for even more concentrated flavor.
1. Combine everything but the salmon together in a food processor and blend until a thick paste results.
2. Lay out salmon on a baking pan, brush thickly with chermoula sauce, allow to marinate for 30 minutes prior to cooking.
3. Preheat oven to 400F, cook salmon for approximately 20 minutes, or until salmon flakes easily when pierced with a fork.


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Publish Date February 5, 2020
2020 Medical Advertising Hall of Fame honoree: The Voice
Agency entrepreneurs Tom Harrison and Larry Lesser headline this year's Medical Advertising Hall of Fame class alongside Service to Industry award recipient John Kamp.
John Kamp
Most MAHF inductees are celebrated for their creative or strategic bona fides. John Kamp, however, enters the Hall as the industry's Constitutional champion.
That doesn't overstate his case. For the last three decades, Kamp has ranked among the industry's fiercest, savviest advocates for free speech – the First Amendment right of medical marketers to communicate freely about therapeutic and treatment options. It's not a stretch to say that, without Kamp's thoughtful brand of advocacy today's healthcare marketers might be considerably more limited in what they can say and where they can say it.
"John helped us find a way to effectively get people in government to understand the societal value of healthcare communications," says Publicis Communications COO and former Publicis Health CEO Nick Colucci. "He helped teach us how important it was to engage with government and regulatory officials."
Though he often deemphasizes his contributions, Kamp clearly wouldn't push back against Colucci's description of him as a teacher. "I've always thought of myself as an educator and a storyteller," he says. "When you break it down, lobbying is just education of congressional staff and [federal] agency staff.
Which isn't to downplay Kamp's ability to finesse such politically fraught discussions. During his tenures at the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) and the Coalition For Healthcare Communication, Kamp confronted a landscape that was downright hostile to pharma as often as not. For years, there have been rumblings that Congress would limit or eliminate the tax-deductibility of pharma marketing expenses, while still allowing Budweiser or Apple or anyone else in any other category to maintain the write-off. Kamp pushed back against this through education, keeping his voice low and steady in an era when diatribes generated the most headlines.
"John helped us find a way to effectively get people in government to understand the societal value of healthcare communications."
Nick Colucci, Publicis Communications
Colucci, in fact, believes that Kamp's work has saved and/or created innumerable jobs. "If the tax deductions or DTC had gone away I'm sure the industry would have adapted," he says. "But it certainly wouldn't have created the work and the jobs that it did."
Kamp's career started in an unlikely place: Vietnam, where he spent a year reporting and editing. "I'd write about things like GIs who were delivering fuel along some scary highways and send the stories back to hometown newspapers," he recalls.
His job at the Federal Communications Commission required a different set of skills. During his ten years at the agency, he worked on a host of issues around deregulation and media, among them the breakup of AT&T. It was at the 4As, however, where Kamp found his true calling. "Defending the advertising industry really worked for me, because a lot of it was about the First Amendment," he says.
DTC pharma ads on television emerged while Kamp was at the 4As, giving him his first opportunity to advocate on the industry's behalf. This experience led to the birth of the Coalition For Healthcare Communication, for different reasons than one might expect.
"It started, in no small part, because a lot of the [pharma] companies were ratting on each other to the FDA," he says. "You're complaining about the other guy's marketing? To the FDA? That didn't seem productive."
When a handful of agency execs approached the 4As about creating a single organization to voice industry concerns and defend it, Kamp was enlisted as one of the Coalition's first leaders. He unified messaging and persuaded reluctant allies for nearly two decades, right up until his retirement from the group in 2018.
Not surprisingly, Kamp hopes to be remembered first and foremost as a teacher. Colucci, however, believes his longtime peer will be remembered just as much for his leadership and tactical savvy.
"I'd watch him sit in front of chiefs of staff of Congress and he'd always be two steps ahead of everybody. He was like Columbo," he says. "John used the First Amendment, but he also had a keen sense of what was right. He made everybody better."
From the February 01, 2020 Issue of MM&M - Medical Marketing and Media
Medical Advertising Hall Of Fame
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Q: Python | Pygame | Global variable change not detected In this section of code I test:
       if y <= o_y + 160:

        if x >= o_x and x <= o_x + 80 or x + 60 > o_x and x + 60 < o_x + 80:

This basically tests for a collision between two different objects (A player based object [x] and a falling object [o_x(1,2)]) if it detects a collision it will display a 'game over' picture and take the player back to the main menu, it also sets all the objects y axis to 0. Despite this when you hit GO (play) it returns you to the same situation and disregards my code that should reset the situation (moving the falling objects back to the top of the screen [global y_o, o_y = 0])
I am new to python so an explanation is greatly appreciated
def fallingObject():
global car
car = a
global car1
car1 = c
global car2
car2 = e

objectSpawn = True
while objectSpawn:
    if o_y < height:
        global o_y
        o_y += +1
        global o_y1
        o_y1 += +1
        global o_y2
        o_y2 += +1
        objectSpawn = False
        blit_screen()
    if o_y >= height:
        global o_x1
        o_x1 = random.randrange(220, 450)
        global o_y1
        o_y1 = 0
        global o_x2
        o_x2 = random.randrange(450, 680)
        global o_y2
        o_y2 = 0
        global o_x
        o_x = random.randrange(-10, 220)
        global o_y
        o_y = 0
        global car_s
        car_s = random.randrange(1,6)
        global car_s1
        car_s1 = random.randrange(1,6)
        global car_s2
        car_s2 = random.randrange(1,6)
        objectSpawn = False
        blit_screen()

    if y + 120 < o_y:
        print("y cross over")

    if y <= o_y + 160:

        if x >= o_x and x <= o_x + 80 or x + 60 > o_x and x + 60 < o_x + 80:
            screen.blit(crash, (0,0))
            pygame.display.flip()
            pygame.time.delay(3000)
            game_intro()
            global o_y
            o_y = 0
            global o_y1
            o_y1 = 0
            global o_y2
            o_y2 = 0
            blit_screen()

    if y + 120 < o_y1:
        print("y cross over")

    if y <= o_y1 + 160:

        if x >= o_x1 and x <= o_x1 + 80 or x + 60 > o_x1 and x + 60 < o_x1 + 80:
            screen.blit(crash, (0,0))
            pygame.display.flip()
            pygame.time.delay(3000)
            game_intro()
            global o_y
            o_y = 0
            global o_y1
            o_y1 = 0
            global o_y2
            o_y2 = 0
            blit_screen()

    if y + 120 < o_y2:
        print("y cross over")

    if y <= o_y2 + 160:

        if x >= o_x2 and x <= o_x2 + 80 or x + 60 > o_x2 and x + 60 < o_x2 + 80:
            screen.blit(crash, (0,0))
            pygame.display.flip()
            pygame.time.delay(3000)
            game_intro()
            global o_y
            o_y = 0
            global o_y1
            o_y1 = 0
            global o_y2
            o_y2 = 0
            blit_screen()

def blit_screen():

    if car_s == 1:
        car = a
    else:
        if car_s == 2:
            car = b
        else:
            if car_s == 3:
                car = c
            else:
                if car_s == 4:
                    car = d
                else:
                    if car_s == 5:
                        car = e
                    else:
                        print(" ")

    if car_s1 == 1:
        car1 = a
    else:
        if car_s1 == 2:
            car1 = b
        else:
            if car_s1 == 3:
                car1 = c
            else:
                if car_s1 == 4:
                    car1 = d
                else:
                    if car_s1 == 5:
                        car1 = e
                    else:
                        print(" ")

    if car_s2 == 1:
        car2 = a
    else:
        if car_s2 == 2:
            car2 = b
        else:
            if car_s2 == 3:
                car2 = c
            else:
                if car_s2 == 4:
                    car2 = d
                else:
                    if car_s2 == 5:
                        car2 = e
                    else:
                        print(" ")

    screen.fill(blue)
    screen.blit(road, (0,0))
    screen.blit(car, (o_x,o_y))
    screen.blit(car1, (o_x1,o_y1))
    screen.blit(car2, (o_x2,o_y2))
    screen.blit(carImg, (x,y))
    pygame.display.flip()

clock.tick(60)
game_intro()

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NORWALK, CA -Hundreds of devotees thronged the Radha Krishna Mandir, popularly known as Norwalk temple, for the brick laying ceremony of its new building, on June 10. The ceremony was preceded by Shila Puja held at the temple premises where a large number of devotees gathered to participate in a joint religious ceremony.
The pujan was performed by the temple priest Shastri Bharatbhi Rajgor, aided by Naliniben Rajgor and several other priests. As per Hindu scriptures, this ceremony is performed to invoke the blessings of the diety, prior to the ground breaking ceremony before the construction of a new building starts.
The function began with a warm welcome from the temple president Pravin Patel. It culminated with the blessed bricks carefully taken to the actual site next-door and laid into the foundation to mark the beginning of the construction work of the new mandir.
The event was graced by Field Deputy, Lynda Johnson from Los Angeles County Janice Hahn's office and Pro Tem Mayor of Cerritos, Naresh Solanki. Johnson, presented a certificate to the temple on behalf of Supervisor Hahn, who she said is a friend and supporter of the Indian-American community.
The names of scores of donors and contributors were announced as support for the project continued to pour in endlessly. People were excited and enthused as the day had finally dawned, for which they had been waiting for the past several years. "The Radha Krishna Mandir is the first Indian temple west of Mississippi and the third oldest in the US,'' said Deepak Jhaveri, vice president and the master of ceremony of the function.
``This event holds special importance because for this `Mother of All Temples,' this expansion project, which is a temple of their dreams, has been in the waiting for a very long time. They have had to jump through a lot of hoops and overcome a lot of challenges before they got the full blessings from the City of Norwalk to go ahead,'' he added. The construction of the temple will take place in two phases so that the temple will never be closed during construction and the doors will always be open for devotees. The new and expanded temple, will then have a separate and huge prayer hall, separate dining area, spacious kitchen, meditation rooms and many other features including solar panels. At the height of 40 feet will be the top shikhar, the peak of the dome.


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Albert Jacques François Grégorius, ou Albert Jakob Frans Gregorius, né le  à Bruges et mort dans la même ville le , est un peintre belge.

Biographie
Albert Grégorius se rend à Paris, où il est l'élève de Joseph-Benoît Suvée en 1801 et de Jacques-Louis David à partir de 1802. Après un séjour à Paris de 33 ans, il est nommé directeur à l'académie de sa ville natale en 1835. Ford Madox Brown y était un de ses élèves. Il est spécialisé dans l'art du portrait.

Salons
Albert Grégorius expose aux Salons parisiens de 1812 (n° 436), 1814 (n° 467 à 471), 1817 (n° 388 à 390), 1824 (n° 807), 1827 (n° 487), 1831 (n° 990), 1833 (n° 1136), 1834 (n° 908), et 1835 (n° 986).

Collections publiques

 En Belgique
 Bruges, Cabinet Steinmetz : dessins
 Bruges, musée Groeninge : Portrait du comte Charles Antoine Chasset, 1813
 Bruges,  : Portrait d'Amédée Visart de Bocarmé, chef de la gilde des archers de Saint Sébastien à Bruges, 1847
 Bruges, collection OCMW :
Portrait de (?) Dieryckx, tuteur de l'école des Bogaerden à Bruges, 1805
 Portrait de Joseph De Meulemeester en jeune artiste, vers 1810
 Bruxelles, musée royal de l'armée et de l'histoire militaire : Journal de Jean-Baptiste Coppieters, soixante aquarelles des uniformes militaires des années 1789 à 1794
 Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Scène antique avec bateau, vers 1810, dessin

 En France
 Bordeaux, église Saint-Nicolas-des-Graves : Annonciation, 1828, d'après Eustache Lesueur
 Boulogne-Billancourt, bibliothèque Marmottan : estampes
 Lille, palais des beaux-arts : Portrait d'Alfred de Guernoval en uniforme, 1812
 Paris, musée du Louvre : Les trois Dames de Gand (attribution), vers 1818
 Versailles, musée de l'Histoire de France :
 Maximilien-Sébastien comte Foy en uniforme de lieutenant d'artillerie (1773-1825), 1817, huile sur toile
 Portrait de Nicolas Perrenot, seigneur de Granvelle (1486-1550), 1834
 Portrait d'Antoine Perrenot, cardinal de Granvelle, 1834
 Nicolas Dahlmann, général de brigade en 1806 (1769-tué à Eylau en 1807), Salon de 1814, huile sur toile
 Au Portugal
 Lisbonne, palais national d'Ajuda : Portrait du roi Joao VI du Portugal, 1816-1826
 Au Royaume-Uni
 Londres, British Museum : estampes
 En Suisse
 Coppet, château de Coppet :
 Portrait d'Albertine de Staël, épouse de Broglie, 1815
 Portrait d'August Wilhelm von Schlegel, 1817

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Dictionnaire Bellier et Auvray
  Saur. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, tome 61, Munich-Leipzig, 2009,
 Jean-Pierre Cuzin, « Les Trois Dames de Gand : le chef-d'œuvre d'Albert Gregorius ? », in Album Amicorum. Œuvres choisies pour Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, Paris, 2012, , ill.

Liens externes

Peintre belge du XVIIIe siècle
Peintre belge du XIXe siècle
Peintre portraitiste belge
Officier de la Légion d'honneur
Naissance en octobre 1774
Naissance à Bruges
Décès en février 1853
Décès à Bruges
Décès à 78 ans

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Merva's hot hand propels Bishops past Knights
Brandon Hannahs
Zanesville Times Recorder
ZANESVILLE - Fairfield Christian was not intimidated walking into Rogge Gymnasium on Thursday.
The visiting Knights hung tough early, but Josh Merva's hot hand kept them at bay the rest of the night.
Merva drilled seven 3s, four in the first quarter, and finished with a game-high 27 points, as host Rosecrans improved to 12-1 with an 81-41 victory in Mid-State League action.
The Bishops finished 12 of 32 from behind the arc and made 29 of 56 field goals overall.
"When you're hitting 3s like that, you look pretty good, and Josh found his rhythm and made some big shots," Rosecrans coach Todd Rock said. "Our kids played hard. Coach (Roger) Hooper does a great job with his team, and we knew they'd battle."
The Knights stayed close early behind Jayden Akers, who had seven of his team-high 17 points in the first quarter.
But, Merva proved to be the difference. His first triple put the Bishops ahead for good at 11-8, but his back-to-back 3s to close the quarter gave the momentum to Rosecrans, which led 22-15 after one.
Blaine Keener opened the second quarter with a hoop to get Fairfield Christian within 22-17, but Weston Nern sparked an 11-0 run with his only 3 of the game.
Marcus Browning and Thomas Spohn also had hoops during that stretch, and Merva capped it with his fifth triple, making it 33-17.
The Knights only scored six points in the second, while Kaid Brown closed the quarter with back-to-back triples to send the Bishops into the half with a 40-21 advantage.
Rock applauded his squad's effort, as starting point guard Jack Goggin missed the game with the flu.
"Our guys played well without Jack," Rock said. "This was a big game for Thomas, and he played well. Kaid hit some shots late in the half, which is a good sign for us. We had a pretty good night, and I'm proud of the kids for how they played."
Merva put the game away with a pair of 3s early in the third, and Spohn also hit a triple to stretch the advantage to 49-23 about three minutes into the quarter, as the lead continued to expand from there.
Brown finished with 13 points, three assists and three steals, Browning chipped in 11 points and seven rebounds, Spohn scored 10 points and Nern had nine points and seven assists for the winners.
Rosecrans dished out 16 assists, committed only eight turnovers and owned a 27-21 edge on the glass with 12 offensive rebounds.
Keener and Nate Still added eight points apiece for the Knights, who were 19 of 38 from the field. They missed all seven of their three-point attempts and had 20 turnovers.
Brandon Hannahs is a reporter for the Zanesville Times Recorder and Coshocton Tribune. He can be reached at 740-450-6763, bhannahs@gannett.com and on Twitter, @brandonhannahs.


The human heart acts as a pump and pumps our liquid energy,our blood,24/7 for what, eighty or ninety years without fail. Try to build a mechanical pump to do the same.....I don't think so!
Our lungs process the air we breath into life sustaining oxygen that is vital to our well being.
Our kidneys act as a filtration plant cleansing our blood.
Our stomachs break down the foods we consume into vital energy.
Our brains process our thoughts and act as VERY complicated computer systems with memories lasting perhaps one hundred years!
Our reproductive systems produce life itself.
Our skin, which is the largest organ in the human body acts as protection for our muscle system.
Our rib cage and skeletal system protects our vital organs and supports our bodies.
The senses of sight, sound and smell also play a unique roll in our overall well being.
We are all different individuals, yet, the same. We all have these "Processing Plants" that we call the human body....how do we and how SHOULD we care for them?


Eczema is the most common skin condition, especially in children. It affects one in five infants but only around one in fifty adults. It is now thought to be due to "leakiness" of the skin barrier, which causes it to dry out and become prone to irritation and inflammation by many environmental factors.
In addition, some people with eczema have a food allergy which can make eczema symptoms worse. In about half of patients with severe atopic dermatitis, the disease is due to inheritance of a faulty gene in their skin. This gene encodes a protein called filaggrin. Unlike with urticaria (hives), the itch of eczema is not only caused by histamine, so anti-histamines may not control the symptoms. Eczema is often linked with asthma, allergic rhinitis (hay fever), and food allergy. This order of progression is called the atopic march.


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Q: spawn an entirely separate process in linux via bash I need to have a script execute (bash or perl or php, any will do) another command and then exit, while the other command still runs and exits on its own. I could schedule via at command, but was curious if there was a easier way.

A: The usual way to run a command and have it keep running when you log out is to use nohup(1). nohup prevents the given command from receiving the HUP signal when the shell exits. You also need to run in the background with the ampersand (&) command suffix.
$ nohup some_command arg1 arg2 &

A: &?

    #!/usr/bin/bash
    # command1.sh: execute command2.sh and exit
    command2.sh &

A: I'm not entirely sure if this is what you are looking for, but you can background a process executed in a shell by appending the ampersand (&) symbol as the last character of the command.
So if you have script, a.sh
and a.sh needs to spawn a seperate process, like say execute the script b.sh, you'd:
b.sh &

A: So long as you mentioned Perl:
fork || exec "ls";

...where "ls" is anything at all. Repeat for as many commands as you need to fire off.

A: #!/bin/sh

your_cmd &

echo "started your_cmd, now exiting!"

Similar constructs exists for perl and php, but in sh/bash its very easy to run another command in the background and proceed.
edit
A very good source for generic process manipulation are all the start scripts under /etc/init.d. They do all sorts of neat tricks such as keep track of pids, executing basic start/stop/restart commands etc.

A: To run a command in the background, you can append an '&' to the command.
If you need the program to last past your login session, you can use nohup.
See this similar stackoverflow discussion: how to run a command in the background ...

A: Most answers are correct in showing..
mycmd &

camh's answer goes further to keep it alive with nohup.
Going further with advanced topics...
mycmd1 &
mycmd2 &
mycmd3 &
wait

"wait" will block processing until the backgrounded tasks are all completed.  This can be useful if response times are significant such as for off-system data collection. It helps if you an be sure they will complete.
How do I subsequently foreground a process?
If it is your intent to foreground a process on a subsequent logon, look into screen or tmux.
screen -dmS MVS ./mvs

or (Minecraft example).
screen -dm java -Xmx4096M -Xms1024M -jar server.jar nogui

You can then re-attach to the terminal upon subsequent login.
screen -r

The login that launches these need not be interactive, you can use ssh remotely (plink, Ansible, etc.) to spawn these in a "drive by" manner.


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I made a goodbye message for you all to listen to. I will miss you.
Shiho points us to J@pan Penfriend, a site that promotes penpal/friendship exchanges between Japanese and non-Japanese people. Thanks for letting us know about this Shiho.
If any of you are interested in doing volunteer work in Sri Lanka over the winter break as part of the tsunami relief effort, please send me an email. I can put you in touch with a Japan-based professor looking for student volunteers.


Now in Bolzano and no shortage of yarn here. At this shop, on via Argentieri/Silbergasse (everything here has two names, one Italian, one German), I purchased some worsted weight wool from local sheep, "mountain sheep," the very patient English-speaking owner said.
I also had the good fortune to find some of the 1.5mm needles I have been looking for at Aadler, on via Portici/Lauben.
Bolzano is a good place for yarn shopping.


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Basically, you want to avoid letting your breakup spill over into your social media accounts for the same reason you don't want to become a guest on the Jerry Springer show to break up. Some stuff is just best done privately, and not in full view of the world. When emotions are running high, you or your ex can easily say something you don't actually mean, and once it's on the internet, it's forever, even if you decide to delete it.
Your best bet is to not even mention the breakup on social media, but if you do, definitely don't do it while you're still in the midst of it. Give it some time, so you can make sure you have a clear head before you say anything in a public arena like that.
It doesn't matter whether this is done by a man or a woman, this is just plain creepy. Taken too far, it can easily become illegal. Ladies, don't be one of those insane women who breaks into his house and boils a live bunny on the stove. Guys, don't be "creepy-stalker-man" and wind up with a restraining order (or worse) against you.
Breakups happen. They're not pleasant. They're not fun, but they happen, and when they do, you've got to accept it and move on. Doing anything less isn't healthy.
Look, when you get dumped, it hurts. You're going to need a day, and perhaps even two or three to just feel it. To cry, throw stuff, pig out on comfort food, and basically sit and vegetate at home. That's fine, but be sure to give yourself a hard time limit on that. It's easy to get sucked in, and before you know it, you've become a hermit and you aren't bathing. Not good. Three days, max, then get up, dust yourself off, and start putting your life back together.
This is just wrong. Don't put your friends in the middle of YOUR bad situation. Deal with it. If you can't handle the fact that your friend can be your friend while also being friends with your ex, that's your issue, not your friend's. Don't make them choose.
Acts of revenge can quickly spiral out of control, leading to all sorts of unintended consequences. Resist the urge. Be the adult. Accept what has happened, deal with your emotions about it, then put your house in order and move on. Being petty and spiteful is not only childish, it can also cause a great deal of harm to people around you who don't deserve it.
Breaking up is never pleasant, but if you can avoid the mistakes above, it will go a long way toward putting you on the fast track to recovery and reinventing yourself, post relationship!
17% of Americans feel interracial marriage is morally wrong? Why the negative focus?
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Now it seems the world is sold a withdrawal from Iraq which was not quite what it seemed, as presented by the Panetta-Obama-fest in the Baghdad, Fort Bragg speeches of just six weeks ago. At Fort Bragg: 'The war in Iraq will soon belong to history,' said the President.
Further, the near-Vatican-City-sized US Embassy in Baghdad is protected by 5,000 mercenaries and has a further staff of 11,000, a large number in a seemingly 'military advice' capacity, training Iraqi forces – a nation that, ironically, the US and Britain cited nine years ago as having a military capability which was a threat not just 'to the entire region', but to the West as well.
Little noticed is the fact that the State Department has been operating drones in Iraq since last year. Additionally, when 'Embassy' staff travel, they are escorted by helicopters, frequently with machine-gun-toting mercenaries 'tethered to the outside'. Another Nisour Square massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Baghdad_shootings waiting to happen.
The Pentagon-operated drones, it seems, went out by the front door and returned through the State Department back door.
While it is asserted that the current ones are unarmed, President Obama's response during an event hosted by Google and YouTube on 30 January seems ambiguous: 'The truth of the matter is we're not engaging in a bunch of drone attacks inside of Iraq. There's some surveillance to make sure that our Embassy compound is protected.' The US 'protecting' without decimating fire power, seems somewhat of a non-sequitur.
Moreover, bids are being sought for drone operations over Iraq for the next five years. Interestingly, 'solicitations' for 'qualified contractors' for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Support Services were released on 1 November 2011, less than two months before the US 'pullout' from Iraq.  Specifications include: disseminating threat information for use in route planning (which reads pretty well like 'attack mode'), and response to a security incident at locations remote from the core of operation (which presumably is: operator safe at console a few thousand miles away deciding who, and how many, to kill.) Suitable contracts would be signed within 30 days of tendering.
This 'worldwide' undertaking will embrace Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; US drone bases are already in Ethiopia, the Seychelles and 'a secret location in the Arabian Peninsula'.
While Iraqis are enraged and Iraqi politicians say they have not been consulted – with acting Interior Minister Adnan Al-Assadi stating adamantly: 'Our sky is our sky. Not the USA's', Iraq's lawmakers seem to have missed the fact (which the US has apparently ignored) that formal permission is needed to operate in sovereign air space.
There are also strict criteria for flyover (or flying within) rights. The grantee must be on good terms with the grantor. The grantor must approve of the use of the air space and the grantor can deny them use of the air space if there is an attempt to make war. The potential for the guest to blow nationals of the host country to pieces sounds pretty well like a 'no way'.
Further, large fees can be levied by the grantor – Russia, for example, charges Europe $400 million a year for flyover permission alone.
The deeply divisive, largely mistrusted, increasingly tyrannical US-installed puppet Prime Minister Maliki could win some much needed popularity if he took a firm stance on the matter – all the legal tools are there for him to use.
However, he looks to be between the proverbial rock and a very hard place. No breath holding.


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The Industrial Cybersecurity Center is the independent meeting point for public and private organisms and for professionals involved in Industrial Cybersecurity Technologies. It has become the Spanish-speaking reference for information and experience interchange as well as to the development of every involved industrial sector.
The Center success and achieving its objectives depends on getting the highest possible presence of the industrial sector and all its actors, such as End Users, Vendors, Engineering companies /EPC and Integrators, Consulting companies, Government and Academia.
This is another of the strengths of the Center, which is a milestone in the ICT and industrial sector, because in just a few years, the Center has managed to involve almost 1.000 members, and more than 30 sponsors, from the main international reference organizations, belonging to more than 30 countries (initially mainly Spanish representation).
The main global organizations from the Industry and Cybersecurity fields sponsor the initiative (CCI Sponsors).
The Center Ecosystem is its main asset. Its permanent growth and support to the initiative, offering both, resources and activities, endorses the impact and relevance of the initiative.
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Sponsorships, whith different levels, are associated with different benefits of positioning, marketing and knowledge.
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The group has bucked the current cost-cutting trend by significantly investing time and money to achieve accreditation to a standard that will provide clients with an even greater level of confidence in its asbestos surveying capabilities.
The recently published HSG 264 Asbestos: The Survey Guide replaces the existing MDHS100 and highly competent surveyors who have been accredited by UKAS to this new standard are now being strongly recommended by the HSE.
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One of the nice things about living in Ohio is a small-town mayor going viral on TikTok
91.7 WVXU | By Becca Costello
Leeman Kessler
@mayorlovecraft on TikTok
Leeman Kessler's TikTok videos about living in Ohio often reference mysterious objects like The Shards, The Sentinels, The Orbs, and The Vengeful Tomb.
"One of the best things about living in Ohio is knowing that the Raven Queen won't ever set foot here. Not again. Not after last time."
So says Leeman Kessler of the popular TikTok account @mayorlovecraft. Kessler just surpassed 100,000 followers on the account. That's about 50 times the population of Gambier, Ohio, the small village where Kessler went to college and where he now serves as mayor.
His account first went viral in mid-December with the Raven Queen video quoted above, which now has 2.9 million views. Since then, Kessler's vague and often ominous quips on living in Ohio are his most popular videos with view counts like 700,000, 1.2 million, and 1.4 million.
@mayorlovecraft
always has been.
♬ original sound - MayorLovecraft
"There's some folks who want to play along and be like, 'Oh, yes, we've heard all about this, my grandfather fought the great wars 100 years ago with the Raven Queen.' People like that sense of play," Kessler tells WVXU. "And then there are people who genuinely are just like, 'I've looked this up on Google, I can't find anything!' "
While the Raven Queen won't appear in any Ohio history textbooks, Kessler says he wants to inspire an interest in the actual history of his home state.
"There are real bits of Ohio lore - like the Loveland Frogman - and strange, like the Guardians in Cleveland," he said. "There's all these kinds of bizarre bits of ephemera built up over centuries of Ohio history."
Kessler's "Always Has Been" videos are somewhat menacing at first glance, but they seem to inspire a sense of hopeful solidarity among Ohioans. Here are some examples (if you know, you know):
"One of the nice things about living in Ohio is that while Hell is real here, the gates of Hell are always unlocked."
"One of the nice things about living in Ohio is that when it snows, the gentle whisper of each snowflake hitting the ground is a warning of something that will go wrong next year."
"One of the nice things about living in Ohio is that if you stand long enough on the correct side of one of our many beautiful rivers and waterways, you'll begin to hear the true secrets and lore of this land. However, I must caution you: if you stand on the wrong side, all you'll get are half-remembered dreams from those who have left Ohio. Figuring out which side you're on can be the work of a lifetime."
Kessler says memes about Ohio are often negative: there's nothing to do here; it has no unique culture; etc. (One reads: 24 astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?)
Kessler says he wants people to not take where they live for granted.
"There's just a lot of these cracks and gray areas that someone with an ear to the ground and an eye for mystery and wonderment can find strangeness that grows in those cracks," he said. "And I think that's what the 'Always Has Been' series has managed to tap into, is that desire for there to be something different and interesting and unexplainable about what it means to be an Ohioan."
The appeal seems to reach far beyond Ohio's borders.
"A lot of people have said, 'Oh, I want to go to Ohio now. Oh, I've never ever been interested in Ohio, but now I want to come see,' " Kessler said. "I'm not saying the Ohio Tourism Board owes me a check, but if they want to send me one I'm not going to say no."
Kessler says the popularity of his videos is "mind boggling and humbling" and he's excited to keep the project going.
If, that is, the state's observatories and telescopes continue to do their job, "pointed at the same patch of sky, day and night. Unwavering, unblinking – always on guard to warn us at a moment's notice of Their return."
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Becca Costello
Becca Costello grew up in Williamsburg and Batavia (in Clermont County) listening to WVXU. Before joining the WVXU newsroom, she worked in public radio & TV journalism in Bloomington, Indiana and Lincoln, Nebraska. Becca has earned numerous awards for her reporting, including from local chapters of the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists, and contributed to regional and national Murrow Award winners. Becca has a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree from Cincinnati Christian University. Becca's dog Cincy (named for the city they once again call home) is even more anxious than she is.
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Q: Read a JSON File from Resources with JsonObject I want to assign the JSONfile inside the Resources to a instance from JsonObject and parse it.
Please guide how?
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{
    "id":"1","name":"E1","num":1111,
    "My":{"id":"2","name":"E2","num":2222}
}

A: Create a model to parse your json like below:
class ResourseResponse {
    private String id;
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Then parse your json from JsonReader and create your model.
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Gson gson = new Gson();

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    reader.beginArray();
    while (reader.hasNext()) {
        ResourseResponse response = gson.fromJson(reader, ResourseResponse.class);

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A: If the JSON content is not too big, you can easily create org.json.JSONObject and iterate its keys.
String jsonStr = "{\"id\":\"1\",\"name\":\"E1\",\"num\":1111, \"My\":{\"id\":\"2\",\"name\":\"E2\",\"num\":2222} }"
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonStr);
json.keys().forEachRemaining(x -> {
    System.out.println(x.toString());
    try {
        if (json.get(x.toString()) instanceof JSONObject) {
            System.out.println(json.get(x.toString())); / here you can iterate the internal json object
        }
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
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});

Output is:
num
name
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My
{"num":2222,"name":"E2","id":"2"}


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« The downtown hotel deal: A great opportunity for KC to advance its status as a convention destination…but beware of at least one troubling provision
For Missouri House Speakers, getting just about everything they desire is a way of life »
Mike Burke defends himself and the convention hotel exclusive catering contract
May 12, 2015 by jimmycsays
I heard from a mildly pissed off Mike Burke this morning.
If you read my last post, you know that I applauded the recent announcement of a deal between the city and a Burke-led development group to build a new $300-million convention hotel at 16th and Wyandotte, cater-corner from the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
In that post, I also speculated that Burke — whom I supported to the tune of $5,000 in the 2011 mayor's race — may have known he was going to lose that race against Sly James and went out of his way to keep the campaign clean in order to leave the door open for future business opportunities with the James administration.
Burke objected to that, as well as to my criticism of part of the hotel deal that would give Hyatt — the prospective hotel operator — an exclusive, 15-year catering contract with the Kansas City Convention Center's Grand Ballroom. Currently eight caterers service the convention center.
Let's take these points in order…
On his kid-glove treatment of James in the mayor's race, Burke said he resented the implication that he went easy on James with an eye toward future business opportunities, such as the hotel deal that is in the works.
The clean-campaign pledge, Burke said, was a "pre-primary, mutual agreement" between him and James, in which both candidates agreed to stay out of the mud.
"He kept his word, and I kept mine," Burke said.
Burke also said he campaigned vigorously right through election eve and expected to win the election. He didn't have enough money for any pre-election polling, he said.
In addition, Burke said, he and James had agreed that whichever of them emerged victorious "would use the other in some productive capacity" in his administration.
It was that agreement, apparently, that led to James appointing Burke to head a city committee aimed at turning the Google Fiber network into business opportunities benefitting the Kansas City area.
On the proposed exclusive catering contract at the convention center, Burke said Ronnie Burt, president of the Kansas City convention and visitors bureau, had told him that Bartle Hall is the only major convention center he knew of that did not have an exclusive catering contract. (I've got a call in to Burt on that point.)
Granting one hotel operator an exclusive contract, Burke said, serves to significantly reduce the city's "direct-cash" subsidy of the hotel deal.
One of Kansas City's "extremely tough parameters," Burke said, was its determination to commit no General Fund money to the project. (The city wanted to avoid a situation like that with the Power & Light District, where the city has ended up with multi-million-dollar-annual payments to retire bonds issued to finance the project.)
With an exclusive caterer, then, the city saves money at the expense of higher prices at the convention center's Grand Ballroom. (The exclusive contract applies only to the Grand Ballroom, not the other convention center elements, like Bartle Hall's exhibition area.)
Here's my response to those two points…
First, I was aware all along that Burke and James had agreed to run a clean campaign and probably overstated the situation when I said in my earlier post that Burke "was careful to stay in Sly's good offices." I accept that both men complied with a "gentlemen's agreement."
I still believe, however, that Burke — a very smart man — probably was operating with the idea that, if he lost, it would behoove him down the road to not alienate James in any way during the campaign. As a development attorney, Burke had brought business before the City Council for many years, and he certainly did not want to jeopardize that.
Second, I still don't like the idea of giving Hyatt an exclusive catering contract. As I said in the earlier post, the higher food prices that will result from such a contract could cost the city some big conventions. Convention planners are smart shoppers, you know, and have very sharp pencils.
And, again, what if food provided by the Hyatt sucks? The convention center — and those attending conventions — could be stuck, at least until the situation got remedied. Burke said the contract will include "safeguards" protecting the convention center's interests, but, nevertheless, I see significant risks in the convention center's lack of options.
I still believe that if this deal gets traction with the City Council, which it should, changes could be made to the catering deal without the development group walking away. Like I said, there's way too much money on the table. The developers want to get as much out of it as they can, and the city has to be careful not to give away too much.
When the Cordish Co. came along with the P&L deal during the Kay Barnes administration, the city was desperate: Downtown was a certifiable disaster, and the city was not in a strong position to get concessions.
It's different now: Downtown is humming; the Sprint Center is one of the most successful arenas in the country; and the PAC, with its shell design and angled glass face, is a beckoning jewel.
It's a new day in Kansas City, and it's plain to see we have a lot to offer convention planners.
on May 12, 2015 at 4:24 pm gayle
Dave Helling doesn't seem as excited about this project as you and Yael.
Also, regardless of whether Burke agreed to a clean campaign (your contention) or had an understanding with James (what he admits), isn't Burke's appointment by James a little shady? Or, "just politics?"
on May 12, 2015 at 4:44 pm jimmycsays
No problem with that appointment, Gayle. The only thing unusual about it is that you don't often see the winner in a big race bestowing favors on his or her opponent. Usually, those campaigns get pretty gritty and there's no love lost between the contestants, even if they start out as friends. The Sly-Mike Burke race was a rare exception…Burke is a good guy and would not want to win at any cost, and now he's reaping the rewards.
on May 12, 2015 at 11:49 pm Larry Luper
I agree with your opinion (Fitz) about the exclusive Hyatt catering contract.
on May 13, 2015 at 8:14 am Cop E. Boi
Jimmy Boy, when they proposed building the Vista downtown, Pop was all excited. He went to the meetings and rallied The Star around the flag. He told me that at one such meeting, when he was in his idealist phase, an insider offhandedly remarked how it was a shame the place would go bankrupt and be resold in just a few years. He was shocked, because at the time, all the happy talk was bout the great benefits. The "insider" laughed at his naivete and called him a rube. "How else is anyone going to make any money?" The insider laughed. Sure enough…
on May 13, 2015 at 8:26 am jimmycsays
That hotel started out as the Allis Plaza…because it's across the street from Barney Allis Plaza.
A week or two after it opened in early1985, Patty and I spent our wedding night there. I remember the attraction: They offered a weekend special with the price of $45 a night instead of $90…The only hitch was that at the direction of a bellman, as I recall, I left the car in the hotel's circle drive, to be moved to the garage later. Next morning the car was still in the circle drive, keys still in the ignition. It was a "lucky" wedding night.
on May 13, 2015 at 10:29 am John Altevogt
The motto of the Kansas City metro area should be "If they don't build it, we can't steal from it." One thinks of Science City, the King Louie Bowling Alley fiasco in OP, the refurbishing of a Johnson County school for over a million dollars only to be sold to the client of one of the school board member's law partners, and all of the other scams. Also the bankruptcy scam that Cop E. Boi mentions that was also played out at The Legends and Sandstone, or the sale of "surplus property" in the NASCAR footprint, purchased through coercion for thousands, and sold for millions.
There is something decidely sleazy when a couple of shysters get together and decide not to launder the family's dirty laundry in public with the assurance that there will be a payday for both at the end of the yellow brick road. Nice guys my fat ass, this is just more of the same crap this community has wallowed in since the days of Pendergast.
The question I've always wondered, does there have to be a certain level of corruption involved in a project to get it done in the KC metro area? I believe Cleaver once suggested that that was the case.


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If You Haven't Heard Who Our Gala Speaker Is Yet, It's . . .
Rick Santorum!
Courage is not a word used often in modern American politics. In a nation where politicians are more driven by the protestors they see looking out the window of their offices or the latest poll numbers, few are more loyal to our founding principles than our 2012 Richmond Gala speaker, Rick Santorum. See our exciting announcement video, here.
A native of Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum is a former United States Senator and candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination for president, and has been a voice for principled conservatives whose voices have been largely ignored by establishment politicians. But he is perhaps most known for his devotion to his family — his wife of 22 years, Karen, and their children Elizabeth, John, Daniel, Sarah Maria, Peter, Patrick and Bella.
Guided by his faith in God and his belief that our nation can only survive by returning to the founding principles of the sanctity of life and marriage, constitutional government and the values of honesty and hard work, Rick Santorum was given little chance by the "experts" when he launched his campaign for president — only to shock the media and establishment politicians through his grassroots approach to campaigning and his unapologetic adherence to our shared values. We are thrilled that he will join us once again in Richmond, as he was our Gala speaker in 2003.
Speaking of Truth and Courage . . . former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum will be the featured speaker at The Family Foundation's Annual Gala.
You won't want to miss hearing Rick Santorum address the crowd at our annual Gala on Saturday evening, October 6, in Richmond. As with the last three years when former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Congressman Mike Pence and business executive Herman Cain inspired crowds of more than 1,000 people, Rick's personal story will encourage, motivate and energize you for the future.
Already, there has been a positive media buzz as this piece on the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot blog attests. Join other like-minded people from around the commonwealth at this one-of-a-kind event that has become a "must attend" for conservative Virginians and a "who's who" for politicians and elected officials.
Details including information on sponsorship packages, tickets and program advertisements will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead, but in the meantime, we hope you will reserve this date on your calendar. For additional information, visit our Gala page, here. To receive the information by mail or for questions, please call us at (804) 343-0010 or e-mail Gala@FamilyFoundation.org.


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Albania Hopes New Lottery Will Curb Tax Cheats
News 07 Oct 14
In a new effort to curb the extensive "grey" informal economy – and boost its own revenues – the Albanian government is planning to launch a new lottery based on receipts for purchases.
Besar Likmeta
An Albanian Ministry of Finance spokesperson told BIRN that a new lottery, aimed at tackling tax evasion, will be "launched officially in April 2015".
It has yet to be decided whether the new lottery will award cash or prizes. However, the core idea is that a lottery based on prizes for the submission of receipts for purchased goods will help curb the grey econony, by encouraging the public to demand receipts from shops whenever they buy items – limiting the ability of vendors to evade payment of VAT.
The grey economy is a serious matter in Albania, starving the government of cash it would dearly get hold of. Both the Finance Ministry and the IMF have estimated that the informal economy could be worth as 40 per cent more than its official counterpart.
In 2010, the former center-right government ordered the installation of new cash machines in shops and restaurants to combat tax evasion.
The deadline for the process of installing the new registers had to be extended several times, however, because of problems with the machines and because of protests by small business owners over their cost, which ranged between 460 and 600 euro.
Although most businesses have now installed the new machines, few use them regularly. The rest often print only a few receipts every day.
According to local media reports, the government has great expectations of the lottery, because Albanians like to gamble and officials hope to harness this instinct in the battle against tax cheats.
Gambling has soared in Albania in recent years. According to tax records, Albanians spend nearly 100 million euro on gambling activities every year.
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Confirming Isabella
by Judy G. Russell | Sep 17, 2017 | DNA | 6 comments
Another solid X-match
It's always comforting when the DNA evidence matches the paper trail.
Especially when you've spent as much time researching a paper trail as The Legal Genealogist has spent on her second great grandmother, Isabella (Gentry) Robertson.
Isabella is a challenge for a lot of reasons.
Start with the fact that she was married before the 1850 census1 and so was never enumerated in her father's household.
Go on to the fact that she was born well before Mississippi starting keeping birth records,2 likely married in a burned county in Mississippi,3 and died in Texas before death recordation was routine there,4 and you start to see the problems.
Oh, and family records give her any one of three (or more) possible maiden names.5
So any time a cousin DNA tests and matches exactly the way he or she should match if our conclusion about Isabella is right… we breathe a sigh of relief.
Which we did this week with cousin Wayne.
Wayne is my third cousin, descended from Isabella through the third of her 11 children, Bird Alexander Robertson. Wayne's line goes through his mother, his grandmother, then his great grandfather Bird who was Isabella's son. Mine and that of my siblings is through our mother, grandmother, and great grandfather Jasper, Isabella's youngest.
And I have a history of not matching third cousins, even when they match everybody else in my family.6
So when Wayne's DNA results showed up on Gedmatch and we were able to do a thorough comparison of the data there, it was truly comforting to see the numbers line up all the way across the board, just the way they should.
Using Blaine Bettinger's Shared cM Project data from August 20177, the expected amount of shared DNA between third cousins is 53 cM, the average 74 cM and the range 0-217. Wayne and I share 57.6 cM.
Even better is the fact that we all have a match on the X-DNA chromosome — because that leads directly to Isabella.
You see, because of the way the X chromosome is handed down, there are fewer ancestors who could possibly have contributed DNA to that chromosome. In a male, for example, only his mother's ancestors could have contributed since he only gets an X from his mother (he gets the Y that makes him male from his father).8
And when you chart out the X-DNA could match, using my brothers (because they have fewer options than I have for ancestors who gave them X-DNA), it's one of those "ding ding ding we have a winner" moments.
Here's Wayne's chart:
And here's the chart for my brothers:
Circled in red, on both charts, is Isabella.
I love DNA.
At least when it agrees with my paper trail…
Images: X-match charts, courtesy Blaine T. Bettinger, The Genetic Genealogist
1850 U.S. census, Winston County, Mississippi, population schedule, p. 373(A) (stamped), dwelling 809, family 816, Isabella "Robinson"; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 Aug 2013); citing National Archive microfilm publication M432, roll 382. ↩
See FamilySearch Research Wiki (https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/), "Mississippi Vital Records," rev. 23 Aug 2017. ↩
See "Museum Memories," Neshoba Democrat, 3 Oct 2012 (http://neshobademocrat.com/ : accessed 16 Sep 2016). ↩
See FamilySearch Research Wiki (https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/), "Texas Vital Records," rev. 6 Apr 2017. ↩
One set of family notes says she was a Pugh. One child's death certificate says Rankin. And two say Gentry. Sigh… ↩
See generally Judy G. Russell, "Another darned mismatch," The Legal Genealogist, posted 21 July 2013 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 17 Sep 2017). ↩
See Blaine T. Bettinger, "The Shared cM Project – Version 3.0 (August 2017)," The Genetic Genealogist (https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/ : accessed 16 Sep 2017). ↩
See generally Judy G. Russell, "X marks the spot," The Legal Genealogist, posted 5 Jan 2014 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 17 Sep 2017). ↩
Jan Murphy on September 18, 2017 at 4:51 pm
Nitpick of the day: when you say "married before the 1850 census1 and so was never enumerated in her father's household", did you mean 'enumerated by name'?
Of course there could be circumstances that would prevent her showing up as a tick mark in the earlier censuses, too.
Judy G. Russell on September 18, 2017 at 4:53 pm
Yep, enumerated by name.
Ellen on September 19, 2017 at 9:36 am
Being an only child whose only sibling (a brother) died in 1952 at the age of one day, aside from digging him up and maybe (???) finding his DNA, I've no hope of a match like yours. On my maternal DNA I come from a moderately long line of women who had only one or two children — another block to matches. My father's line is 100% Eastern European. Mom's side — 3 1st cousins who won't test, and Dad's side 20+ first cousins (1/2 dozen still living) and lots of known cousins in the old country. I'm open to suggestions.
Judy G. Russell on September 20, 2017 at 12:37 am
Besides getting your relatives to test and encouraging the spread of DNA testing as a genealogical tool in Europe, no suggestions here.
Ken James on September 22, 2017 at 11:26 am
I have a very convoluted family line involving two successive generations of adoptions – my dad and his mother. I had my dad's adoption records opened when he was 85 so have that piece solved. His mother was different in that she was not adopted but simply given away (I believe). I am certain I have pinpointed my grandmother's birth to a couple in Minnesota. I have strong DNA connections to both her parents, who lived in the same community as the people who raised her and who I thought were my great grandparents. I compared DNA to a direct descendant of the adopted family and it was negative. To me, the evidence is overwhelming. My problem is this: as a amateur how do I convince anyone else that my findings are valid? What does it take for the evidence to be so conclusive that it has to be accepted without question? Or is it always, "Strong evidence suggests. . .?" What is especially galling is the real parents of my grandmother have a descendant who is a professional, well-known genealogist. He won't communicate with me. I have a 158 centimorgan (Family Tree) match with his grandmother. There is much more than this but this is the gist of it. Thank you.
Judy G. Russell on September 23, 2017 at 1:35 am
Ken, there are some people you're never going to convince no matter what the evidence shows. But to be so conclusive that it must be accepted, DNA evidence needs to both rule in the one set of great grandparents and rule out other options. Not just the folks who raised your grandmother but others who might have been her parents and could explain the shared DNA.
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Bellarion by Rafael Sabatini
This was the book chosen for me in the Classics Club Spin last November. I was supposed to post my review by the 4th January, but Christmas, other books and life in general got in the way of finishing it on time. Well, better late than never!
Rafael Sabatini is best known as the author of Scaramouche, Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, but he also wrote more than thirty other books including this one, Bellarion – or Bellarion the Fortunate, to give it its original title. Bellarion was published in 1926 but, like most of Sabatini's novels, it is set much earlier – in Renaissance Italy, in fact: a world of warring city states, tyrannical dukes and beautiful princesses, of powerful condottieri and bands of mercenary soldiers, of sieges and battles, poisonings and conspiracies.
Our hero, Bellarion, is an intelligent but naïve young man who has been raised in the monastery of Cigliano and believes that there is no such thing as sin. Shocked by his heretical ideas, the abbot sends him off to university in Pavia, hoping that he will learn something about the world while he is there. Almost as soon as Bellarion leaves the abbey, he becomes the victim of a bandit pretending to be a friar. With his money and letter of introduction stolen from him, and wrongly accused of being the bandit's accomplice, Bellarion flees to the Palace of Casale in Montferrat where the Princess Valeria agrees to protect him.
Montferrat is currently under the rule of Valeria's uncle Theodore, who is acting as Regent until her brother, Gian Giacomo, is old enough to take his rightful place as Marquis. When Bellarion uncovers a plot by Theodore to destroy his nephew and keep the throne for himself, he becomes entangled in a complex web of conspiracy and intrigue that will lead him to the Duchy of Milan and the court of its cruel and brutal young duke, Gian Maria Visconti.
Under the command of the famous condottiero (mercenary leader), Facino Cane, Bellarion quickly rises to become one of the greatest military captains of his time, finding that brains and quick wit can make up for a lack of physical ability and clever strategies and trickery can often work where strength and force fail. Even as he becomes more and more deeply involved in the affairs of Milan, Bellarion never forgets that everything he does is for the benefit of Montferrat and his beloved Princess Valeria. Unfortunately, Valeria has completely misinterpreted his motives and is convinced that Bellarion is her enemy rather than her friend. It seems that all his efforts could be in vain…
I loved this book, as I expected to, having enjoyed two of Sabatini's others. Scaramouche is still my favourite, but I think I preferred this one to Captain Blood, mainly because I find stories set on land easier to read than stories set at sea! You do still need to concentrate, though, to be able to untangle the complicated political situations in Milan and Montferrat, to follow the rivalries between the two factions, the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, and to keep track of who is conspiring against whom. Also, because Bellarion is building a career for himself as a military leader, there are lots of battle scenes (large scale battles rather than the more intimate one-on-one sword fighting scenes in Scaramouche). If you're like me and are often tempted to skip long battles and discussions of military strategies, you can't do that here – you need to read them all carefully so that you can appreciate Bellarion's genius!
I did have mixed feelings about Bellarion himself. There's no doubt that he's a fascinating character; his rapid transformation from a naive, unworldly young man to a great military commander and political mastermind is great to watch. At the beginning, with his mixture of youthful enthusiasm, innocence and intelligence, he reminded me of d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers; later, after rising from nowhere to become a trusted leader and master schemer, he reminded me not just of d'Artagnan but also Nicholas de Fleury from Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series. (In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Dunnett had read this book; there's a scene with a captured supply train that made me think of The Game of Kings.)
However, there was something about Bellarion that stopped me from really warming to him as a character. I thought he was a little bit too clever and too aware of his own cleverness. You could say the same, I suppose, about Sabatini's other heroes, Andre-Louis Moreau and Peter Blood, but they also had flaws and vulnerabilities that made them feel more human and more believable. I never felt that I really needed to fear for Bellarion; whatever difficult situation he got himself into I had no doubt that he would come out of it unscathed. I didn't like Valeria much either – she annoyed me with her total misreading of Bellarion's motives and the way she always thought the worst of him. To be fair to Valeria, though, she didn't have the knowledge that we, the reader, had!
Bellarion is a fictional character, but many of the others in the novel are based on real historical figures. Characters such as Theodore of Montferrat, Facino Cane and his wife Beatrice, Gian Maria Visconti of Milan, and Bellarion's rival condottiero, the Count of Carmagnola, are all people who really existed – although as I don't know much about this particular period of history I wasn't sure how much of the story was based on fact and how much on fiction until I did some research after finishing the book!
Despite not really caring for the main characters I did enjoy this book (another Classics Spin success!) and am looking forward to reading the other Sabatini novel on my Classics Club list, The Sea Hawk.
Posted in: Classics, Historical Fiction, Reviews | Tagged: 15th century, Italy, Rafael Sabatini
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4 thoughts on "Bellarion by Rafael Sabatini"
I'm pleased to see your still enjoying Rafael Sabatini's novels, I really must try one myself soon.
I think you might like Sabatini, as I remember you liked The Three Musketeers and he is quite a similar author to Dumas.
I loved Scaramouche and Captain Blood so much so why haven't I read more Sanatini?! No idea. Hope this is on Project Gutenberg!
I've loved everything I've read by Sabatini so far, especially Scaramouche. I can't wait to read The Sea Hawk next!


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