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Misplaced Hope
Allow me to be your cicerone through this brief work of my imagination. I want to carry my reader through a myth, a would-be scenario in which postbellum America would reunite as a nation and as a people, devoid of the racial caste that existed before this war and the terror-induced one that subsisted for almost one hundred and ten years after it.
Towards the end of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln had declared victory over the Confederate States of America, reducing the pro-slavery aristocracy to a shadow of its former glory. What was to be an enduring kingdom, built, established, and idolized into the future on the economic structure of slavery came to a screeching halt at the request of international powers, national abolitionists, and a bloody five-year Civil War. And, after some 750,000 Americans laid their lives down on the battlefields of the Northern States and the Southern States, some, for the perpetuity of slavery and others for its annihilation, on April 9, 1865, Confederate generals and government officials unconditionally surrendered their forces to the reigning Union army of the North. Some three and a half million souls, previously bound to chains, whips, and the horrors of chattel slavery were now emancipated from their former restraints and imbued with a sense of freedom. Shortly after this, literally, days later, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a recalcitrant Southern stage actor named John Wilkes Booth.
It was in this atmosphere, in this era that America had the opportunity to settle its debt to the African American people they had deracinated from the western African plains to till their lands, under the threat of whip and terror, for the enrichment of the new American colony now known as the United States of America. It is here, at the end of the American Civil War where we could have experienced the pinnacle of American race relations but are then presented with the spawn of a new American empire then known as the Age of White Terror.
Former Confederate soldiers were now home from the war, their efforts turned futile, and their former slaves — their property — now roamed the streets in search of work. Not the work of yesteryear where their toils merited them nothing but the kind of work they would get paid for. The disgrace and shame of loss beamed brightly on every white Southern face. Valiant Southern men previously vested with bravado and religious fanaticism now stood and gazed at the consequence of their failures. Their formerly wealthy white communities now lay tarnished by the ubiquitous presence of colored freedmen and freedwomen and the disdained presence of federal soldiers roaming the streets, defending these free people. It was too much to bear for these former rebels. These soldiers, under the guise of night, hood, and culture, dressed with the blood of newly freed African Americans to regain their sense of pride and communal endurance, terrorized every Black American soul, to return them not to bondage but a living hell on earth for having brought so much shame to this proud and undying American South. If Black Americans would not live under the demoralizing institution of slavery they would have to live under the fiendish reality of white terror, and so it was for the next one hundred and ten years. The false zenith of race relations became the nadir of its potential, accomplishing only the resurgence of a malignant tumor on the American plains, White Supremacy.
For a short and forgotten twelve years after the American Civil War, Black Americans experienced what is now understood as the Reconstruction era where, from 1865 to 1877, they thrived in attaining freedom from bondage, freedom to become citizens, and the freedom to vote. (Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments). There was a spike in Black representation in American politics, and in one instance, America had voted into power some two thousand Black men to represent the interests of all Americans.
This period, however hopefully and revolutionary for the Americas was short-lived as the result of the aforementioned reign of terror reduced every gain Black Americans have accomplished and then pulverized every bridge of hope they had fought to build, all in the same of White Rule. Former Confederate soldiers made sure to overturn elections where Black or Reconstruction favoring candidates had won, often doing this by killing them, their voters, or anyone who dared get close enough to a voting booth to vote for them. They lynched Black Americans in broad daylight under the banner of the White League — militant former Confederate soldiers who refused to hide their faces when terrorizing Black Americans. They raided Black communities at night under the cloak of the Ku Klux Klan. And in Louisiana, they formed white supremacist secret societies to overwhelm their racially integrated opponents in every facet of government by forming and perfecting their rites and methods in groups such as the Knights of the White Camelia. Formerly known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, antebellum.
Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes won the seat of power in the mid-to-late 1870s with the help of some Southern Democrats who expected a compromise in return: the removal of federal troops from the South. Once this request was honored, Southern aristocracy was once again at the pinnacle of society, now wielding its sword of terror with impunity and the newly discovered cultural claim of "Home Rule" bestowing white Americans with unimaginable power and authority.
Reconstruction had survived a short and troubled life, succumbing to the Redemption era of the American South as whites regained every seat of power back from Radical Republicans, Reconstructionists, and Black Americans.
What was meant to become the zenith of American race relations became, instead, its nadir.
But, I ask myself, I beg the question in my head all the time: what if race relations postbellum had gone a different route? What if Southern white Americans had instead joined the Reconstruction philosophy and spawned a revolution so benevolent that America would have become the world's greatest superpower from April 9, 1865, to date?
What if the United States of America, at the end of its grotesque civil war, had then fused itself back into a country with a battlecry against racism? Mind you, most abolitionist Americans in the North, Abraham Lincoln included, wanted slavery to end but wanted nothing to do with Black Americans. As much as they disdained the nefarious institution of chattel slavery, they could muster the courage nor the compassion to see Black Americans as fellow human beings, equals, deserving of brotherly love and intermingling. Northern white Americans for a great deal of time fought conscription mandates to join the Civil War, resisting the government's demands that they participate in liberating Black Americans from the chains of slavery. In some cases, they rioted and killed Black Americans where they could find them in a show of force, elucidating the fact that whites should not be called upon to die for Blacks.
The horrors of Southern slavery were evident and most Northern whites wanted nothing more than to bring it to an end, but their distrust of newly freed Black Americans, their loathing of these newly enfranchised citizens, and their hatred of all things Black was only now coming to the limelight with a flare.
But no one declared a war on racism. Perhaps the term was unheard of, perhaps the understanding of it was somewhat blurry to them then. But everyone was aware of the caste system Americans had created to not only perpetuate slavery in the former empire and its prolonged disenfranchisement of Black Americans in the new one. For white supremacy to exist and subsist, for this parasite to thrive, it needed a host, it needed a sub-class, a lesser race to exist and they created it in people of darker skin.
So even if the terminology was ahead of its time, the philosophy was ubiquitous, so much so that perhaps they might've missed it the way we miss the rays of the sun even while we receive its heat. My attempt isn't to promote historical presentism, holding historical characters responsible for modern problems. Far from it. I want to hold them accountable for what they already knew and in that knowledge, persisted, protected, and promoted.
Again, what if Americans had declared war on racism or declared war on prejudice and discrimination the same way recent American leaders had declared their misguided war on drugs or terror, we might have avoided one hundred and some odd years of white terror and black disenfranchisement. I can almost certainly confirm that had Americans dealt with racism right after the Civil War there might never have been a war on drugs — which disproportionately targeted and still targets Black Americans — and a war on terror — which disproportionality and dishonestly targets brown people and Muslims.
You see, racism, as we understand it today, is what founded the western world. Other societies were formed on imperialism, usually subjugating the surviving masses of their conquered peoples to slavery or bonded yet limited servitude, independent of their sex or race. But western civilization capitalized on the concept of race and the meaning thereof as they conquered new and unexpectedly and unsurprisingly occupied lands to the west. And since then, since the devilish concept of "white equals good, privileged, blessed, free, and intelligent," and colored equals "rebellious, subjugate, workforce, vacuous, and lesser than," society has struggled to tackle it because those who thrived within it saw little to no benefit in confronting it, nevertheless dismantling this exploitative system. So much so that even today when Americans attempt to discuss race and its ramifications, many white Americans see the discussion as an assault on the very fabric of their mythical history, namely the history that American founders were heroes and not land-hungry despots who fought tyranny on one hand to then create a more fiendish version of it for others.
Certain people fail to see the looming and lasting effects this race-based caste system has had over American society from inception to date because to see it would mean to see themselves as the children of raiders, land-grabbers, enslavers, and mass killers. These terms, these identifiers, however horrific are easily dismissed as evils of antecedents committed in the past, therefore they have no bearing on our current circumstances. But to confront racism, well, racism is still very much with us and it is the catalyst for the many sins of their ancestors. Therefore the mention of it, the mere connotation of the ramifications of the persistence and virulence of racism is difficult to denounce considering just how ingrained it is in many of our unseen but felt traditions and realities in the 21st century.
Therefore, I ask, time and again, what if there had been a war declared on interpersonal discrimination and systemic government-inspired and protected, de jure race-based discrimination shortly after the Civil War?
What if former confederate soldiers, upon returning home to their dilapidated cities and towns, destroyed by abandonment on one hand and the war on the other, joined forces with newly freedmen and women, to rebuild their society under the banner of friendship and reconciliation? What if Southern aristocrats opted instead to lead the South out of ridicule with the help and leadership of newly freed Black Americans?
Did you know that freedmen were forced into contractual work that paid them very little and anyone caught wandering the streets without a work contract was arrested, beat, fined, and then forced into manual labor for private and state-owned jails? This is the ignoble system called the convict-leasing gulag of the United States of America.
So what if former slavers had opened their hearts, understanding the cruelty of their former way of life, and then changed from it, in the service of fellow human beings. Implanting their new neighbors in their communities, affording them homes and land, tools, animals to work the land, and privileges they were afforded by their local governments before the war. Enfranchisement for all is a step in the right direction. Thinking otherwise is the cruel and selfish neologism known as the racial zero-sum model which states that if a Black man advances in life, in the social sphere, in the battle for Civil Rights, then it must be at the expense of a white man.
It was here that Americans had the perfect opportunity to form and live out the Constitution their predecessors spoke so passionately about and fought so vehemently for in their revolutionary war against the tyrannical British empire. They had seceded from the English, in turn, to build a bastion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for white land owners only to enslave millions of souls within the same stroke of a quill. Here they had the chance to right the wrongs of previous generations, leading the nation onward to the right path, without the need or consequence of innocent blood painting their city streets. White Americans had the right opportunity to end their racial caste, rising like the beast of Babylon in 1619 and with the possibility of dying a thousand deaths in 1776. Unfortunately, this dream was inconceivable for many, save for the likes of Americans like Benjamin Bennaker who resisted and scowled with righteous invective against the hypocrisy of the United States Constitution which afford liberty for whites and perpetual slaves based on jus sanguinis (by bloodline).
Can you imagine what America would look like today had more and more racially integrated political spheres painted the American deltas, mountains, coastal towns, and capital city? What it would look like today if Black Americans had been afforded the same and equal rights to land ownership wherever they so please? If black, white, yellow, and brown children had been granted the right to study and play together without fault or fear? If they had been able to walk into the same businesses, restaurants, venues, bars, jazz clubs, and churches, seated one beside the other, hand in hand, arm in arm without posted signage condemning such innocent practices?
Granted.
We understand that none of these would have made much of a difference if white supremacy had not been challenged and destroyed, to begin with. White supremacy in a world where equal rights are afforded to all is a world that is only moments, a few skirmishes, a few election cycles, and one more civil war away from returning to its recently deceased but still very much present forefather, White Terror.
The Ku Klux Klan has since slithered into the shadows to survive modernity but in its place, we now have the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Patriot Front, MAGA's (Donald Trump loyalists), neo-confederate, white nationalist, neo-nazi, constitutional sheriffs, and other equally if not more dangerous white supremacist entities bent on restoring or rather "redeeming" white rule in America.
The more racially and culturally diverse America becomes the more violent these extremist groups become. One must wonder if terming them as "extreme" is appropriate considering just how normal white terror is throughout American history toward non-whites.
So, even if Black and white Americans had united under their Constitution after the war, avoiding the all-too problematic "separate but equal" Jim Crow culture that pervaded American life — its effect was so effective that the Nazis took note and used it in their anti-semitic Nuremberg Laws — America would still be crippled by its racial caste system.
Even if banks, land and community developers, and the Federal Housing Association had granted Black Americans the right to purchase land wherever they wanted and if the Veterans Association had provided Black American veterans their much deserved G.I Bill through which to purchase property, if racism was left unchallenged we'd all revert to the same caste system eventually.
I just want to know, I beg to know, I have a burning desire to know what would have happened if America had fought off the cause of its many woes, its many embarrassments, the devilish poison of racism at the end of the Civil War?
Where would we be today, as a people, as a nation — I speak as someone who spent eighteen years of his life in America, in the American Deep South — if we had confronted the Judas Iscariot of this nation, which sold her glory for the lives of some four to thirteen million Black souls. And I'm not even counting the losses in the Native American, Mexican American, Creole American, and Chinese American communities.
I believe I'm revising things in my head and imagining them at the same time, that had Americans challenged their racial caste system then, shortly before or shortly after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, we'd never have heard of Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Emmitt Till, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, the AME nine, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and more.
We'd never have seen pictures of men clad in white robes and hoods, handling torches, with Black bodies swinging from trees not far behind, crowds of white faces elated at the scapegoat swaying to and fro for their communal purification. We'd never have heard of federal government incentives to divest Black communities of resources, funnel drugs into them to finance American wars abroad, or its push to segregate communities with the construction of highways, barring Black Americans from moving into pristine and cushy suburbs with heinous "one drop" housing rules.
We'd never have heard of Black Lives Matter because there'd be no need for such a movement.
We'd never have heard of the reactionary Blue Lives Matter either because our police forces would have long been integrated and more willing to confront their prejudices early on, in an attempt to humanize the people they arrest, men and women worthy of due process and free from harassment and unlawful searches and seizures.
We'd never have to see section eight housing, ripe with police presence even in the face and evidence of reduced crime rates in the same areas.
There would be no section eight housing, and even if there had been, it would have been racially diverse, with people of all stripes and races, being provided for, as things should be.
What if we began to challenge racism today? We understand it for what it was and for what it is but will we pass this burden along to yet another generation? Will we permit white supremacy to live and thrive in the shadows before it rises, resurgent and boastful, under yet another banner, taking the lives of Black innocents through bombings, mass shootings, and bulldozing protestors with cars? "Klansman" sounds outdated but "president" seems fitting, these days. How long will we trouble ourselves with the blessings of the land whilst negating the horrors of the people who took it? Sure, they're all dead but their theft, its magnanimity lives on, giving to the descendants of thieves the gifts of pride, land, wealth, and influence, and giving, in equal parts, to the descendants of colored people, horror, shame, poverty, and blame.
So who will confront that which our ancestors, or rather, your ancestors (white readers) failed to confront? Black Americans have fought (not violently, until recently) to regain their humanity, their Constitutional rights, and their human rights, from the genesis of this nation but their fellow white Americans have only fought, and this is recent, for the end of a symptom of racism, not its cause.
Religionists, especially those of my persuasion, namely, Christians, white ones at that, will petition we only leave this battle of hate and disdain, to the work of Christ. This, too, is an excuse. Refrain from engaging religionists who think only of heaven whilst their fellow countrymen starve here on earth. Jesus, the God whom they claim to follow, would not approve of their methods.
But you, my reader, in this time, will you challenge the poison of racial supremacy? Had things been the other way around, and depending on how our secular culture deals with power once racial dynamics shift and colored people become the majority, should there be, then, a situation where colored people begin to dehumanize and discriminate against white people because they are white, instituting a caste system in the image of their former white countrymen to now subjugate them in reciprocity, I will — should I live long enough to see the day — condemn it to hell.
Any caste system, whether it thrives off of the exploitation of some group or another based on religion, nationality, race, sex, gender, class, income, or pizza topping, your choice, should be condemned to hell and before it reaches that fiery pit it ought to be confronted and shamed while it cowers under our combined efforts to exorcise it from our world.
But these things will exist, they will thrive, and they will fester in the shadows as long as we allow them to.
When will we finally put an end to white supremacy? A flaming dagger in its heart? It will not be when all white people cease to exist. They won't, mind you. I pray they do not. I would love for them to be around and to thrive in a world where they no longer carry the burden of false superiority. It's a burden no one ought to carry and they have done so, for hundreds of years, to their own demise.
White supremacy must die for us to live. We cannot, we will not allow another generation to go by as this evil in the psyche, the heart, and systems, to live, move, and have its being to dehumanize, desecrate, and destroy lives for yet another one hundred-odd years.
That America I keep thinking about, daydreaming about, where Black and white Americans, Americans of all stripes, thrive and live and enjoy, is still very much attainable.
"When" it comes to fruition, however, depends on us.
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Q: How do I format Nested Set Model data into an array? Let's dig in the main problem right away, I have the input like this
$category = array(
  'A' => array('left' => 1, 'right' => 8),
  'B' => array('left' => 2, 'right' => 3),
  'C' => array('left' => 4, 'right' => 7),
  'D' => array('left' => 5, 'right' => 6),
  'E' => array('left' => 9, 'right' => 10),
);

I want the output to be something like this
$tree = array(
  array('A', 'B'),
  array('A', 'C', 'D'),
  array('E'),
);

which one is the best and fast function to loop though the input array and create the output result like this ?

A: Working with a nested set is a perfect case for recursion.
Given your data:
$category = array(
    'A' => array('left' => 1, 'right' => 9),
    'B' => array('left' => 2, 'right' => 4),
    'C' => array('left' => 5, 'right' => 8),
    'D' => array('left' => 6, 'right' => 7),
    'E' => array('left' => 10, 'right' => 11),
);

The following will break your nested set data down into a properly nested array in PHP:
function createTree($category, $left = 0, $right = null) {
    $tree = array();
    foreach ($category as $cat => $range) {
        if ($range['left'] == $left + 1 && (is_null($right) || $range['right'] < $right)) {
            $tree[$cat] = createTree($category, $range['left'], $range['right']);
            $left = $range['right'];
        }
    }
    return $tree;
}

$tree = createTree($category);
print_r($tree);

Output:
Array
(
    [A] => Array
        (
            [B] => Array
                (
                )

            [C] => Array
                (
                    [D] => Array
                        (
                        )

                )

        )

    [E] => Array
        (
        )

)

Then you can flatten your proper tree into the format you want with the following:
function flattenTree($tree, $parent_tree = array()) {
    $out = array();
    foreach ($tree as $key => $children) {
        $new_tree = $parent_tree;
        $new_tree[] = $key;
        if (count($children)) {
             $child_trees = flattenTree($children, $new_tree);
            foreach ($child_trees as $tree) {
                $out[] = $tree;
            }
        } else {
            $out[] = $new_tree;
        }
    }
    return $out;
}

$tree = flattenTree($tree);
print_r($tree);

Output:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => A
            [1] => B
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => A
            [1] => C
            [2] => D
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => E
        )

)

A: Another solution, without recursion (test please)
$result = array();

    foreach($category as $key => $value) {

        /*Get current row index*/
        $i = count($result);

        if($i == 0) {
            $result[] = array($key);
        } else {

            $iParent = -1;

            /*Find parent index*/
            for($j = count($result[$i-1]) - 1; $j >= 0; $j--) {
                if($value['left'] > $category[$result[$i-1][$j]]['left']
                    && $value['right'] < $category[$result[$i-1][$j]]['right']) {
                    $iParent = $j;
                    break;
                }
            }

            if($iParent == -1) { $result[] = array($key);}

            if($iParent == count($result[$i-1]) - 1) {
                // append to last
                $result[$i-1][] = $key;
            } else {
                // make new list
                $result[$i] = array_slice($result[$i-1], 0, $iParent + 1);
                $result[$i][] = $key;
            }
        }
    }

    print_r($result);

A: There is a bug with above function. The top category of second array of the @tree is removed. This is the fix:
foreach ($category as $name => $range) {
    $line[$range['left']] = $name;
    $line[$range['right']] = $name;
}

ksort($line);
$tree = array();
$count = 0;

foreach ($line as $name) {
    if (!isset($open[$name])) {
        $open[$name] = true;
        $count++;
    }
    else {
        if ($count > 0) {
            $count = 0;
            $tree[] = array_keys($open);
        }
        unset($open[$name]);
    }
}

A: I little modified Stiven's code.
public function createTree($category, $left = 0, $right = null) {
    $tree = array();
    foreach ($category as $cat => $range) {
        if ($range['clf'] == $left + 1 && (is_null($right) || $range['crt'] < $right)) {
            $tree[$cat]= array();
            $tree[$cat]['title']=$range['title'];
            if($range['crt']-$range['clf']>1){
                $tree[$cat]['sub'] = $this->createTree($category, $range['clf'], $range['crt']);
            }
            $left = $range['crt'];
        }
    }
    return $tree;
}

A: If you dont want to use recursion:
foreach ($category as $name => $range) {
    $line[$range['left']] = $name;
    $line[$range['right']] = $name;
}

ksort($line);
$count = 0;

foreach($line as $name) {
    if ( ! isset($open[$name])) {
        $open[$name] = true;
        $result[$name] = true;
        $count++;
    } else {
        unset($open[$name]);
        if ($count > 0) {
            $count = 0;
            $tree[] = array_keys($result);
            $result = $open;
        } else {
            $result = array();
        }
    }
}

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Mother of Brittany Murphy says daughter was not poisoned as claims suggest
11/25/2013 // West Palm Beach, Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release)
Los Angeles – The mother of late actress Brittany Murphy recently responded to assertions that her daughter's death may have been linked to poisoning. As reported by TV Guide, Sharon Murphy wrote a letter, which was published in The Hollywood Reporter, insisting that the star's death was not attributed to foul play.
Sharon Murphy is quoted as stating in the letter, "I have no choice now but to come forward in the face of inexcusable efforts to smear my daughter's memory by a man who may be her biological father, but was never a real father to her in her lifetime… His claims are based on the most flimsy of evidence and are more of an insult than an insight into what really happened."
She further asserts that Brittany's father, Angelo Bertolotti's planned book and documentary as well as a foundation founded in her memory are ploys for him to make money stating, "I am sorry to be so forthright in saying this, but the time has come to bring out into the open the lies Angelo and [Julia] Davis have told now that Brittany can't defend herself from… They did it simply to promote their interests, their book, Davis' documentary and career. The time has come for their false statements to be exposed and rebuked."
This report is provided by Justice News Flash – Los Angeles Legal News
Url: http://justicenews.visionsmartnews.com/brittany-murphy_11106.html
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Carrizosa criticizes the Government's "botched decree" to postpone the elections and demands "alternatives to the resolution" of the TSJCJanuary 21, 2021 - 1:39 pm
21-01-2021 | Cs The Cs candidate asks for the resignation of Minister Solé because "a person convicted of helping in an illegal procedure cannot continue to pilot legal elections in Catalonia" ANDhe head of the opposition and candidate of Ciudadanos (Cs) for the presidency of the Generalitat, Carlos Carrizosa, he has criticized the "Botched decree" […]
The Civil Guard dismantles a network dedicated to introducing large quantities of hashish into Spain using boatsJanuary 21, 2021 - 10:47 am
The Civil Guard dismantles a network dedicated to introducing large quantities of hashish into Spain using boats 45 people have been arrested for the alleged crimes of belonging to a criminal organization, against public health, illegal possession of weapons and money laundering Criminals practiced sophisticated double bottoms in recreational vehicles and boats to transport cocaine […]
The National Police intervened 170 kilograms of hashish and three of marijuana when they were transferred from Malaga to FranceJanuary 21, 2021 - 12:00 am
The investigations began on a van parked on a street in the Malaga municipality of Estepona, which had been prepared to be used by a criminal organization that intended to transport a considerable amount of narcotic substances When he was driving near the Alicante town of Villajoyosa bound for France, the agents detected that his […]
The National Police dismantles an organization dedicated to promoting illegal immigration, labor exploitation and Social Security fraudJanuary 21, 2021 - 12:00 am
The organization, based in León and in the provinces of Palencia, Valladolid and Zamora, exploited the victims taking advantage of their situation of needTen people have been arrested for obtaining temporary residence authorizations through illegal means and for profit, and another five have been investigated Source of post
María Gámez reaffirms the Civil Guard's commitment to EuropolJanuary 20, 2021 - 4:27 pm
María Gámez reaffirms the Civil Guard's commitment to Europol The general director of the Civil Guard and the executive director of Europol have held a meeting by videoconference in which they have positively assessed the latest joint operations carried out between both organizations Gámez has highlighted the work of the 28 civil guards who work […]
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Oakridge was under the jurisdiction of the Municipal District of Rocky View until being annexed to the City of Calgary in 1956. It was subsequently established as a neighbourhood in 1968. It is represented in the Calgary City Council by Ward 11.


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NFL Week 1 Power Rankings: 49ers Land At No. 4
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ESPN has released its NFL Power Rankings for Week 1, and the San Francisco 49ers have landed the No. 4 spot.
The Niners, who open the season with a tough matchup against NFC powerhouse Green Bay Packers (ranked No. 1 in ESPN's poll), moved up one spot from last week's preseason edition of the Power Rankings. They'll open the season with three of their first four games on the road before returning to the West Coast to play five of six at home, beginning in early October with a Week 5 matchup against the Buffalo Bills.
The rest of the NFC West didn't fare so well in the Week 1 poll. The Seattle Seahawks claimed the No. 20 spot, the Arizona Cardinals sit at No. 23 and the St. Louis Rams are ranked 28th.
Sunday's game against the Packers will begin at 1:25 p.m. PDT and be televised on Fox.
NFL Power Rankings, Week 1: 49ers Ranked Relatively High
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Could you make use of an extra pair of hands during the school holidays? If your family would like a French student to help with your young children in exchange for their keep as an Aide-Maman, then register now.
playing with the children, organising activities and games indoors and outdoors, walks, supervising swimming, coaching tennis, helping with music practices.
supervising evening bath and bedtime, reading stories, tidying toys, babysitting.
helping with lightweight chores around the house.
grooming and exercising horses, helping with gardening.
teaching French to school age children.
The typical French aide-maman attends college or university, and will be studying English. The young lady (or young man if you prefer) is aged between 17 and 22, and will be selected to suit your family, interests and requirements.
After receiving your application, we shall contact you to discuss your placement in more detail and confirm the dates. A Belaf UK representative will contact you to arrange a visit. There is no charge for placement.
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As the most recent posts show, I've been bitten by the terrain bug and my hobby efforts have been directed to them.
The THM scatter terrain was finished and the Wargamma ponds started and completed. Watching cricket for 6-7 hours certainly helps in getting things done!
Yesterday I started on a Tabletop-World piece - their stone bridge. I again used the Badger to lay down the primer and the base colours. This certainly speeds up the process. I'd reckon I am about 60% finished so with two days of cricket to go in this test I should have it finished this week.
Some of my supplies for terrain projects are getting low. I love the Silfluor tufts but most of my sheets are on their last legs. There doesn't appear to be a NZ supplier so I went to my usual supplier, Irresistible Force in Australia. Unfortunately their new website seems to only cater for domestic sales (Australia is hard-wired as country) so I had to go elsewhere. Neither Element Games or Firestorm Games stock them so I've taken a punt on "Gamer's Grass" tufts from Firestorm. I'll let you know what they are like.
I also posted up the Players Pack for Runefang VIII - two one day KoW events to be held in January. Hopefully I'll get some early registrations. Towards the end of 8th it was hard to get good numbers for Wellington events. People have said they want one day events so we'll see if they put their money where their mouth is.
Maybe gaming tomorrow night - depends where cricket is.
Have a go at making your own tufts Pete.
If you google "make your own grass tufts:" and there are a few you tube lessons.
You've got your static applicator and the rest of it looks very straight forward.
You should be able to produce heaps at very low cost.
Do you make your own toilet paper as well?
I'll make you some then as teachers have plenty of time but no money.
What colour toilet paper would you like?. Single, double or triple ply? Scented?


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One short-term effect of Brexit, thanks to the steep fall in the value of sterling, is an increase in the number of orders from outside the UK, as foreign shoppers take advantage of reduced prices.
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What Are the Chances of a Republican White Knight?
The idea probably is somewhere between nutty and delusional, but given the weird ups and downs this cycle, nutty isn't impossible.
As Republican insiders of various ideological bent, from the more moderate to the uncompromisingly conservative, watch the presidential nominating process with increasing alarm, there is more than a whiff of talk about a white knight who could rescue his party from defeat by jumping into the presidential race late and riding away with the GOP nomination.
Having done this for more than three decades, I've heard talk of a deadlocked convention before but never actually seen one as an adult. I don't really ever expect to witness one, with the nominating process being what it now is.
And yet, consider this year: The winner of the Ames straw poll finished last in the Iowa caucuses; a never-elected pizza entrepreneur shot to the front of the pack and almost as quickly flamed out and exited the race; and a former Speaker who was all but eliminated — twice! — as a serious candidate has suddenly re-emerged as one of the two major contenders for the nomination.
In other words, this year has been so bizarre that anyone who suggests that a white knight or a deadlocked convention is impossible simply doesn't understand that all of the old rules have been broken and anything is possible this year.
So let's get the caveat out of the way right now. The chance of a white knight jumping into the race at this point is small. The chance of a deadlocked convention, or at least a convention that actually picks the party's nominee, is almost equally small.
But in a year when the impossible seems to happen almost weekly, it makes sense to at least take a look at the possibility of each.
First, the GOP presidential filing deadline will not yet have passed in 16 states when voters go to the polls in Florida on Tuesday. Those 16 states account for more than 800 delegates, more than a third of the total number of delegates to the convention.
Some filing deadlines approach quickly after Florida, which could set off a panic if former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) wins.
The deadline for New York (95 delegates), for example, is Feb. 9. It is Feb. 10 for Indiana (46) and Feb. 14 for Pennsylvania (72). After that, there is a break until late February for Delaware (17) and North Carolina (55).
Filing deadlines in delegate-rich states such as California (172), Ohio (66) and New Jersey (50) don't roll around until late March or early April.
Considering that 21 states have contests in March, which according to Republican National Committee rules must employ some form of proportional representation, and some candidates didn't qualify for ballot access in other states (Virginia is the obvious example), suddenly the idea of either a white knight or a truly divisive convention starts to sound plausible.
Yes, I know, candidates build up momentum, and sooner or later one candidate will emerge as the inevitable nominee. Of course. Inevitably. Usually. Maybe.
So who might the white knight be?
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has repeatedly turned down pleas to enter the race, or to at least seriously consider it. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is one of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's most outspoken supporters. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels seems to have ruled it out. Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan? Come on, be serious. Jeb Bush? Who knows? In other words, I haven't a clue.
The fact that at least three Republicans are likely in the race for the long haul increases the chances of something odd happening this year.
While Gingrich has particular appeal in the South, Romney should sell well in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, as well as in states such as Illinois, Michigan, Nevada and Utah. Texas Rep. Ron Paul will get his share of delegates, too, while some national committee members will remain uncommitted.
Of course, all of this may be moot should Romney win Florida surprisingly comfortably and then go on to win Nevada, Michigan, Arizona and some of the February caucuses. And any talk of insiders successfully implementing a "stop Gingrich" strategy should be tempered with the realization that this isn't the 1950s, when governors ran as favorite sons to make themselves power brokers or party leaders "controlled" delegations.
In the current era, the voters pick convention delegates and delegates pick presidents.
Still, almost everyone seems unhappy with the remaining GOP candidates except their immediate families.
Gingrich's ego is too big to fit in the White House and his character too flawed for many voters. Romney seems like a good husband and father but is ridiculously formal and programmed. And Paul is, well, simply in the wrong party. He is a libertarian, not a Republican, and he has little support among regular Republicans.
Defeating President Barack Obama should be there for the taking this year. The economy remains weak, and he has completely lost the confidence of the business community. As a leader, he has been disappointing, even when his party had a supermajority in the Senate and a huge majority in the House. Independents are unimpressed with him.
Politically, things are a mess. There is no other way to describe it.
A white knight? Heck, we need two of them.


Want to make Valentine's day an occasion to remember but don't know how? Then read on for five top romantic Valentine's Day ideas designed to put a big smile on your girl's face.
Send your loved one a special invitation asking them to dinner. Specify a time to meet, place and even a dress code (ie smart dress.) Get a relative or friend to watch the kids for a few hours while you set up a romantic dinner for two in your own kitchen.
Use clean table linen, put candles on the table and flowers. Get dressed up and put on some soft music. Have a go at cooking a meal.
If you can't cook stick to something simple that you know she will like. There are thousands of websites that will help you with easy recipes and ideas. If you are really stuck then get a friend to help and if all else fails have the number for a take out on standby in case of emergencies.
Tell her she is going on a mystery date and take her somewhere you know she will like. Even something as simple as a long windswept walk in the woods or along the beach can be romantic. If she loves art, why not take her to see the latest exhibition in town. If she has been talking about a new movie or concert get tickets in advance and take her to see it.
Run her a bubble bath, light some candles and be her slave for the night. Fetch and carry for her, tell her you adore her and make her feel like a princess. She will be delighted.
If you're not married, but madly in love and you have been meaning to for a while then what could be more romantic than popping the question on Valentine's Day?
These are all good ideas, made even more special because very few guys take the time to do them. You can be the guy all the women at the office are talking about on February 15.


Losing a few pounds is sometimes all it takes to help that new outfit really fit well. Diets usually take many days to achieve a large amount of weight loss, but a few pounds can easily be dropped in only three days.
The 3 day weight loss program can help you drop that little bit of weight needed to feel even better about your new outfit. Seeing that this diet is intended for short usage, do not use it for long periods or you might harm yourself. It is wise to talk to your doctor about any change of diet like this one.
Lunch: A half of a cup of canned tuna in spring water, one piece of dry toast and coffee or tea with no sugar or a sugar substitute.
Breakfast: Coffee or tea without sugar or a substitute sweetener. A boiled or poached egg, a slice of dry toast and half a banana.
Lunch: One cup of cottage cheese or tuna with eight saltine crackers. Coffee or tea with nothing or a sugar replacement. No sugar.
Breakfast: Black coffee or tea without sugar or a substitute sweetener. An apple, 5 salt crackers and an ounce of cheese.
Lunch: Black coffee or tea without sugar or a substitute sweetener. One boiled egg and slice of dry toast.
Dinner: Water to drink. One cup of tuna in spring water, a cup of carrots and a cup of cauliflower. For dessert, one cup of melon and half a cup of vanilla ice cream.
When you are following the above diet, you must drink lots of water all day. To keep the body working the way it is supposed to, one needs to bear in mind that the body is made up mostly of water and needs lots of topping up. Four glasses is the minimum amount of water that should be drunk daily. Water is perfect for cleaning out your system and removing toxins. You need to drink a lot of water in order to keep toxins from building up in your body.
It isn't a good idea to continue this diet longer than three days at a time. Follow this program for 3 days, then eat normally for 4-5 and then do the 3 day program again. The next time that this routine is followed, the same menu should be used, without making any changes. The low amount of calories that are consumed is how this diet is able to produce such great results.
The low caloric intake during this 3-day weight loss program is why this diet causes weight loss. It is great for losing a few pounds, but isn't a program for losing lots of weight.


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(Al-Raqqah) 3 people were killed, including 2 children when the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by an IED.
(Rif Damascus) 3 people were killed during shelling by the regime forces on areas in Daraa city.
(Eastern Ghouta )A man was killed by a sniper on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta, and another died due to injuries he picked up during clashes between the major factions of the Eastern Ghouta.
(Daraa) Jordanian borders guards shot dead a man near the Syrian-Jordanian border in the western countryside of Daraa.
(Al-Raqqah) A fighter from the Syria Democratic Forces, was killed in shelling and clashes against the "Islamic State" organization in the countryside of Al-Raqqah.
(Damascus) A rebel fighter was shot by a sniper on the outskirts Yarmouk camp south of Damascus.
(Hama) 7 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed in shelling and clashes against the "Islamic State" organization and after being targeted in the northern countryside of Hama. Also 9 IS idiots were killed by the Syrian Government in the same area.
Ramadan death toll now stands at 846.
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This outfit has a combination of some of my favorite things: polka dots, bows, and florals! I got to wear my thrifted oxfords for the first time. I got to break them in at home versus out in public. That's a plus, I guess. 😛 I made one of my husband's favorite meals, which is chicken stir fry. It's pretty easy and it's quite yummy! Maybe I'll dedicate a post to the recipe one day!
beautiful girl! <3 loving your outfit.I love polka dots!
Such an adorable outfit!! I love the polka dots and bow. I hope you had some fun adventures this weekend. I definitely am guilty of lounging around in my pjs, haha.


Adjusting to life in a new place can be challenging, and the shock of living away from family, often for the first time, can quickly lead to symptoms of homesickness. Here, we provide helpful guidance to combat homesickness and culture shock, as well as practical tips on how to make friends and meet new people as an international student in the UK.
Leaving the family home to live independently is an anxious time for any student, but it can be especially daunting for those travelling to university overseas. Adjusting to life in a new country can be incredibly difficult, with cultural differences, feelings of homesickness and language barriers all compounding the issue of feeling settled and comfortable in your new home.
In your first few weeks as a student in a foreign country, the culture shock alone can make it difficult to feel settled. Adapting to a new climate, different foods and a foreign language can seem impossible while trying to make friends and study, but there are things you can do to overcome uncertainty and homesickness – and make your university transition easier to cope with.
Here, we provide practical tips on settling into university life and ways to get out and meet new people.
Below, we look at some of the most effective ways to deal with homesickness and feel settled at university.
Homesickness is a cruel condition that affects many students. It's often triggered by feelings of missing out on family life and common routines, and a sense of yearning for familiar surroundings. At its worst, homesickness can impact on your studies and lead to declining mental health, so it's important that you know how to combat it.
Accept it – Homesickness is only natural and you're allowed to feel sad about missing home. Accept it, embrace it, but don't let it rule you; just keep moving forward and those feelings will gradually lessen.
Talk through it – One of the best ways to deal with homesickness is to share it with your classmates and flatmates. Getting the feelings off your chest will make things easier straight away, and chances are others will feel the same – making the problem seem less of a big deal.
Establish new routines – If you don't have a routine, you're bound to feel unsettled, and this is a precursor to homesickness. Making an effort to establish a routine early on will make your new life seem more normal and easier to accept.
Don't phone or go home too early – You may feel like calling home or booking the next available flight, but this won't help in the long-term. Try to get through at least a month in your new surroundings before disappearing off, or it will never feel like home.
Get plenty of sleep – Negative thoughts breed on tiredness, so make sure you're well rested and staying active.
One of the biggest anxieties students have about starting university is the question of whether or not they're going to make friends. For international students whose first language perhaps isn't English, meeting people can be tricky – though we can say for certain that it will be much easier than you're expecting it to be.
For students keen to go out and meet like-minded people, there are a near-limitless number of opportunities to do so – and that's not including the friends you're almost certain to meet at your accommodation and in class. Below, we outline some of the best ways to get out, meet new people and start to feel more settled in your new home.
Clubs and societies – In the first couple of weeks of term, you'll be given the opportunity to join many different clubs and societies, and these are a great opportunity to meet people who you share interests with – be it classical music or English literature.
English language courses – If you want to brush up on your English skills while meeting people in a similar position to you, look into finding free language courses offered by the university.
Social media groups – UK universities often have social media pages dedicated to helping people meet one another virtually before or during term – taking the anxiety out of the initial transition period. If you can't find a group, set one up and we guarantee you'll quickly meet like-minded people who are also interested in making new friends.


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Plants of Lanark County, Ontario--2016 Edition
by David J. White
If you are interested in which native and non-native plants grow wild in Lanark County, how common they are, and where they occur, you've come to the right site. As the map at the lower right shows, Lanark County is found in southeastern Ontario (Canada).
The 2016 revised edition of the Plants of Lanark County, Ontario is an annotated checklist which presents the 1309 taxa (species, subspecies, varieties, and hybrids) of native and non-native vascular plants known to occur in the county. Vascular plants are those which have vessels or ducts to transport fluids. Included are trees, shrubs, herbaceous flowering plants (annual and perennial), ferns, clubmosses, and horsetails, but not mosses, lichens, or algae.
The 2016 update is a relatively minor revision of the previous (2013) edition. Eight new taxa (species and hybrids) have been added: Campanula trachelium —Nettle-leaved Bellflower; Euonymus alata—Winged Burning-bush; Isoetes septentrionalis—Northern Quillwort; Isoetes ×dodgei—Dodge's Quillwort; Mentha ×gentilis—Red Mint; Potamogeton ×faxonii—Hybrid Pondweed; Spiranthes magnicamporum—Great Plains Ladies'-tresses; and Staphylea trifolia—Bladdernut.
Salix ×rubens—Hybrid Willow has been subsumed under Salix ×fragilis (following the Flora North America project) reducing the list count by one. There have been additional records of rare, sparse, and uncommon species, resulting in status designation changes for quite a few plants. Recently published volumes in the Flora North America project have necessitated a number of nomenclatural changes in Salicaceae, Brassicaceae, and Rosaceae.
A section in the checklist on Significant Areas highlights 17 areas with exceptional plant diversity and rare plant concentrations. This section is also available on the Significant Areas page of the site.
The Rare Plant Photos page shows a selection of photographs of plants that are considered rare in the county. This section is a work-in-progress and additional photos will be added during the field season.
For each species on the checklist, scientific name, common name, and status within the county are given. Brief habitat notes are given for all rare, sparse, and uncommon plants. Locations are given for all rare and sparse species.
For a non-native plant to be included on the list, it must have been found growing in the county without the aid of cultivation. Although there are a number of garden plants and agricultural crops on the list, all were found where they had spread on their own and were surviving untended.
Since the complete plant list is rather long (100 pages), I am making it available as a PDF file which you can download (at no cost) from the Download Plant List page and view and print using Adobe Reader® which most internet users have. If you do not, this software can be downloaded (for free) from the Adobe website. If you're not sure whether an "annotated checklist" might be of interest, look at a Sample Page first.
A county checklist can be a useful aid to plant identification when used along with floras and field guides that cover a larger geographical area. By highlighting significant native species (those classed as rare or sparse), the list should be a useful reference for environmental impact studies and natural area evaluations.
It is hoped that making this list available will encourage the recording of new species, the reporting of additional records of rare and sparse plants, and the refining of the status designations. Such input and feedback will contribute to the New Records page and, eventually, to an updated version of the checklist. If you think you have a new species to add, an additional record of a rare or sparse plant, or any comments at all on the project, I hope to hear from you!
Site last updated November 2018
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Prior to beginning work on this Annotated Bibliography, review the instructions for the Final Paper located in Week 5. Review the Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table; read the article Integrating Evidence-Based Practices Into Judicial Sentencing in the Wake of Realignment's Split Sentencing; and review the About Federal Courts (Links to an external site.) website to help find supplementary resources for the week.
The purpose of creating an Annotated Bibliography (Links to an external site.) is to provide a list of sources to assist you in your approach to the Final Project. The Writing Center has created this Annotated Bibliography Template Download Annotated Bibliography Templatefor use in this assignment. The listed sources should be scholarly and/or credible, and at least three of them need to meet scholarly source criteria and come from the JSTOR, Project MUSE, ProQuest, or EBSCOhost databases, which are all available through the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. The list should include the following information for each source:
Name of the source including the complete bibliographic citation in proper APA format
Summary of the source (at least one paragraph) including how this source will contribute to your paper
The Annotated Bibliography must include at least three relevant sources other than the textbook, one of which may be found in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. The required sources must be scholarly or credible.
*Note: To access theUniversity of Arizona Global Campus Library directly, click on the Writing Center and Library links in your left navigation. Watch the Database Search Tips (Links to an external site.) video for more and see the Searching the University of Arizona Global Campus Library Download Searching the University of Arizona Global Campus Libraryfor assignment-specific search tips.
The Annotated Bibliography. For the annotated bibliography, you need to research sources that correspond to the three sections included in the Final Project. The sections require you to address the following topics; Section 1. Juvenile Justice, Transfer to Adult Court and Law Enforcement the 8th Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment; Section 2. Juvenile Justice and the 5th Amendment Right Against Self-Incrimination; and Section 3. Racial Make Up of Juries. Please visit the Academic Research section on your course home page (accessible through the Student Responsibilities and Policies tab on the left navigation toolbar) to review what types of materials are not acceptable for academic, university-level research. Because the Final Project includes three sections, please find and organize your resources accordingly first by creating the Annotated Bibliography above, and then using the same APA citations in your APA references page that you will place at the end of your Final Paper in Week 5. To assist you with creating the Annotated Bibliography that will be relevant to the Final Paper, please follow these research parameters:
One Source for Section 1
Section No. 1 includes the criminal justice issue of law enforcement communication in multilingual settings. In addition, this case considers applications for criminology. Note that Week 1 includes resources that address life course theory and other criminological theories that consider how criminology could address issues in criminal justice. Accordingly, please include the following:
Summarize one source relevant to the criminal justice issue of law enforcement communication in multilingual communities.
One Source for Section No. 2
Section No. 2 evaluates Eighth Amendment issues in correctional environments with respect to cell conditions. Please include the following:
Summarize one source relevant to the criminal justice issue of cell conditions within the context of Eighth Amendment considerations.
Section 3 addresses juror exclusion by race. Note that the recommended resources for this week include two sources that address this issue. Please include the following:
Summarize one source relevant to the criminal justice issue of juror exclusion by race in a criminal case.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment. Cite your sources within the text of your bibliography. For information regarding APA, including samples and tutorials, visit the Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course.
*Note: You are encouraged to integrate any feedback from your instructor and upload the assignment to your ePortfolio (Links to an external site.).
The Annotated Bibliography for the Final Paper assignment
Must include the complete bibliographic citation in proper APA format for each source, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.), and include a summary of each source (at least one paragraph), including how this source will contribute to your paper.
Must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center's APA Style (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of Assignment
Course name and number
Instructor's name
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
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The World According to Christian Dior
An elegant collection of Christian Dior's maxims on style, women and inspiration, presented in a fashionable gift format
This book is not yet published, but will be available from February 2022.
ISBN: 9780500024140 Category: Fashion & Textiles
An elegant collection of Christian Dior's maxims on style, women and inspiration, presented in a fashionable gift format.
Credited with creating some of the most luxurious and spectacular haute couture pieces of all time, Christian Dior became a fashion icon overnight in 1947 with the launch of his 'New Look' – sumptuous hourglass silhouettes that provided a welcome tonic to the austerity of wartime. Its wild success, and the global fame that ensued, was built on the designer's subtle understanding of fashion, couture, style, elegance and women – a perspective and insight best revealed in Dior's own words, which are gathered here for the first time.
Rightly described as the 'Designer of Dreams' in the recent blockbuster exhibition on the house of Dior that attracted millions of visitors the world over, Christian Dior was an unrivalled arbiter in the world of high fashion. Dior was generous with his advice on all things, from style and how to dress ('No elegant woman follows fashion blindly', he once declared), to his insights into the creative process, invaluable for any budding designer.
Presented in a beautiful package and accessible format, The World According to Christian Dior is the perfect gift for fashion fans, publishing on the occasion of the house's 75th anniversary.
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Home City Pulse Ten die in Lagos-Ibadan expressway road crash
Ten die in Lagos-Ibadan expressway road crash
BY MAYOWA SAMUEL
No fewer than 10 persons have been confirmed dead on Saturday in an accident involving a Mack truck and a Toyota Hiace bus at Oniworo area on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
Confirming the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta, Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps in Ogun State, explained that the accident occurred at 4: 30 a.m.
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Work/life programs can be used as retention tools for organizations, but many miss out. Sometimes it seems 24 hours per day is not enough to tackle work and personal tasks. Sound familiar? Both employees and employers realize that, in the modern lifestyle, work and family matters have converged. Many firms have instituted hotlines, programs, or even software to ensure that these conflicts do not diminish the quality and productivity of employees' work.


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Q: How can I download a rpm to a local repository? I have a local repo that has some rpms in it. The repo xmls etc are up to date.
When I find an rpm I don't have, I want to be able to download it, not install it obviously, and put that rpm into the repo dir.
I see I can use zypper install --download-only <packagename> but this seems to only work when I haven't got the package installed on my box, else it says 'already' installed. It also doesn't allow me to state the version/edition/rev of the package I want.
This is no good to me.
How can I get a rpm from my active repositories and store it to a specified location? I don't mind installing a new tool if zypper aint the way to go.

A: Search the repositories and see the details (all versions and architectures, repositories) - example for python-base:
zypper search --details  python-base

Download the specified version of the RPM package without installing. Package can be already installed and it won't be changed.
zypper -v install -f --download-only 'python-base=2.6.0'

Find the downloaded RPM file:
find /var/cache/zypp/packages/ -name 'python-base*'

A: zypper -f install should do a reinstall.
Try that "-f" in your command.

A: Control where to download the rpm package and not download other recommended packages:
zypper --pkg-cache-dir /tmp install --download-only --no-recommends 'qemu=4.2.1-lp152.9.6.1'


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