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Ethnic cleansing: Pakistani Muslim mob destroys a Hindu temple, shops & school - Media is silent to avoid damaging Islam's image
Unknown September 16, 2019
Pakistan cracks down on its Hindu minority after a Hindu school principal was accused of criticizing Islam.
Dozens of Hindus were arrested have been arrested after a teenager accused Hindu headteacher of blasphemy, sparking riots.
As you can see in the video below a large Muslim mob attacked a Hindu temple, shops and the school in the town of Ghotki.
Every year the UK government gives £463 million in foreign aid to Pakistan, with as many as 235,000 Pakistani families receiving £34.50 on pre-paid cards to spend however they like.
Former US defense secretary James Mattis who was member of President Donald Trump's cabinet has said he considers Pakistan as the "most dangerous country" he dealt with it in a long career spanning decades in the military because of the level of radicalization of its society and its nuclear weapons.
In Pakistan, which is well known for its barbaric blasphemy laws, Christians & Hindus are often falsely accused of blasphemy. Christians & Hindus often walk on eggshells to avoid such charges, since once they're levied, no Christians are safe — even the families of the accused.
Western countries must impose sanctions on Pakistani terror regime until it provides protection to the non-Muslim minorities.
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Q: Calling a bash script inside another bash script using qsub I am trying to run a bash script inside another bash script using qsub (since I need to run the actual problem on a cluster).
Here is a demonstration of this problem. I have two scripts as follows:
Script 1:
#!/bin/bash -f
sh ./script2.sh

Script 2:
#!/bin/bash
echo "It works fine!"

Now if I put these two scripts in a folder and use command sh script1.sh, it will work fine. But if I use qsub command for running it qsub script1.sh it will through an error:
sh: ./script2.sh: No such file or directory
How can I fix it?

A:
To define the working directory path to be used for the job -d option
  can be used. If it is not specified, the default working directory is
  the home directory.

Check your working directory.
#!/bin/bash -f
echo "Working directory is $PWD"
sh ./script2.sh

You can use -d option to fix this.
qsub -d <working directory> script1.sh

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Sid Meier reveals the fun side of strategy games.
New simplified approach; full online multiplayer mode; it's a Sid Meier game.
Will old-school strategy lovers appreciate its oversimplified mechanics?
Developers and gamers alike have been wondering for years whether PC strategy games will ever find their way onto consoles without major compromises. Warcraft II was the perfect example of what not to do when porting strategy games from PC to other platforms, but lately a few companies have been trying to approach this matter from a different perspective. Controls are one of the main problems to solve, with complex interfaces and menus also having a big part in it. In this regard, simplification seems to be the answer that many developers have decided to follow. Even Sid Meier, the king of strategy games, is joining the army of experimenting designers with his new installment in the Civilization series, a title that may just become one of the outstanding examples in the genre.
Designed for PS3 and Xbox 360 only, Civilization Revolution features a cartoonish style with big characters alternating on-screen in funny dialogues and simplified menus in a large font. Every character has several animations that change according to the situation, offering not only a nice graphic touch but also a practical help: players can read their behavior and understand whether they are weak or strong enemies, subsequently deciding to attack them or to sign a peace treaty. The 16 available civilizations are well differentiated and for the first time in the series players can choose the Egyptians, whose distinctive traits are pyramids and their fiery queen Cleopatra.
In the demo we were shown, we tried to conquer the Egyptians, but Cleopatra was extremely confident in her powerful army, as her aggressive attitude suggested. In order to win, we had to choose a different strategy. We sent a spy to bribe her general, and then another one to destroy the city fortifications. Without these two elements, the Egyptian army was definitely weaker. Another helpful element in the game is naval support, a feature that plays a more important role than in the past. Ships can approach cities and bomb enemies in addition to normal ground vehicles and soldiers. As for vehicles themselves, Civilization Revolution seems to have fixed one of the biggest complaints in the past, the overrun feature. This time tanks and other heavy vehicles can be used to overrun troops without it costing extra turns.
Every victory unlocks a trophy that can be viewed in the trophy room, similar to the throne room in the old installments of the series. The automatic upgrades at the end of a successful battle let players pick their favorite choice between the two available. Should you choose a Medic to heal units or March to double the number of movements per turn? The Tech Planner is important too, because every technological discovery leads to a practical improvement. Researching bronze working, for example, allows players to have better weapons. Special buildings, too, are unlocked and set automatically, but each of them is only available for one civilization to use. If Mongolians build pyramids, Egyptians can't have them.
Civilization Revolution will feature both local and online multiplayer with global rankings and a Game of the Week option that lets players compete in the same scenario. Multiplayer matches will allow players a limited time to think of their next move; if they don't do it in time, they'll have to skip their turn and other players will take advantage of it. Even with this limited time option, however, matches can last a long time (sometime between two and four hours); fortunately, participants will be able to suspend them at will and resume later.
Controls should be easy to manage: the left analog stick is used to pick an action and another button (A in the case of Xbox 360, X for PS3) confirms it. Once players are in their cities, they can open the menu by pressing up on the d-pad. Simplicity and variety of gameplay should help Civilization Revolution prosper, as we were told by the Firaxis representatives who showed us the demo. They also added that they don't see Halo Wars as a direct opponent, as their game lets players choose a more varied approach, without having to be necessarily as aggressive as the Bungie title promises to be. Battles are important, but sometimes diplomacy is the better path to victory.


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Dieser Artikel behandelt das Musikjahr 1755.

Ereignisse

 William Boyce wird zum Master of the King's Musick ernannt.
 Ferdinando Bertoni wird Chorleiter des Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venedig.
 Die Sopranistin Caterina Gabrielli folgt einem Ruf an den Kaiserhof nach Wien, wo sie in einigen Uraufführungen von Gluck singt: in La danza (UA am 5. Mai 1755), L'innocenza giustificata (UA am 8. Dezember 1755), Il re pastore. Sie arbeitet auch mit Metastasio zusammen, der sie bewundert.
 Während eines Aufenthaltes in Irland trennt sich Thomas Arne von seiner Frau, der Sopranistin Cecilia Young.
 Die Handschriften des Nibelungenlieds werden durch Jacob Hermann Obereit wiederentdeckt.

Oper

 6. Januar: Die Opera seria Montezuma von Carl Heinrich Graun auf das Libretto von Friedrich dem Großen wird an der Königlichen Hofoper in Berlin uraufgeführt.
 20. Januar: Am Königlichen Hoftheater in Dresden erfolgt die Uraufführung der Oper Ezio von Johann Adolph Hasse. Es ist bereits Hasses zweite Oper dieses Namens auf das Libretto von Pietro Metastasio und ist eine der spektakulärsten und aufwändigsten Inszenierungen am Dresdner Hof und jener Zeit insgesamt.

 16. März: Ebenfalls auf das Libretto von Pietro Metastasio wird die Oper Ezio von Carl Heinrich Graun an der Königlichen Hofoper in Berlin uraufgeführt.
 31. März: Die Ópera do Tejo in Lissabon wird mit der Oper Alessandro nell'Indie von Davide Perez auf das Libretto von Pietro Metastasio eröffnet. Bereits am 1. November wird das Opernhaus durch das Erdbeben von Lissabon zerstört. Vor ihrer Zerstörung werden in dem Opernhaus noch zwei Opern von Antonio Mazzoni mit Libretti von Pietro Metastasio, La clemenza di Tito und Antigono, uraufgeführt.
 15. Juni: Die Uraufführung der Oper Il Don Chisciotte von Ignaz Holzbauer findet in Schwetzingen statt.
 30. August: Die Uraufführung der Oper Enea nel Lazio von Niccolò Jommelli erfolgt in Stuttgart.
 15. November: Die Opera buffa in drei Akten La diavolessa von Baldassare Galuppi (Musik) mit einem Libretto von Carlo Goldoni wird im Teatro San Samuele in Venedig uraufgeführt.

 Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il tempio d'amore
 Pierre Montan Berton – Deucalion et Pyrrha
 Egidio Duni – L'olimpiade

Oratorien

 Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu
 Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tod Jesu TWV 5:6

Instrumentalmusik

 Leopold Mozart – Divertimento in F-Dur Musikalische Schlittenfahrt

Geboren

Geburtsdatum gesichert
 11. Februar: Albert Christoph Dies, deutscher Maler und Schriftsteller; Verfasser von Biographische Nachrichten von Joseph Haydn († 1822)
 28. Februar:  Maria Theresia von Ahlefeldt, deutsche Komponistin und Pianistin († 1810)

 2. März: Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, belgischer Komponist († 1799)
 14. März: Ignazio Alessandro Cozio di Salabue, italienischer Violinenhändler, -sammler und -fachmann († 1840)
 5. April: Vincenc Mašek, böhmischer Komponist († 1831)

 1. Mai: Brigida Banti, italienische Opernsängerin († 1806)
 12. Mai: Giovanni Battista Viotti, italienischer Violinist und Komponist († 1824)
 18. Juni: Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, französische Mezzosopranistin, Schauspielerin und Tänzerin († 1821)

 1. August: Antonio Capuzzi, italienischer Violinist und Komponist († 1818)
 9. Oktober: Nonnosus Brand, bayerischer Komponist, Organist und Musikpädagoge († 1793)

 10. November: Franz Anton Ries, deutscher Violinist († 1846)
 21. November: Andreas Clemens Biber, deutscher Klavierbauer († 1830)

Geboren um 1755
 Antonio Nava, italienischer Gitarrist, Komponist und Musikpädagoge († 1826)

Gestorben

Todesdatum gesichert

 7. Januar: Gallus Zeiler, deutscher Benediktiner, Abt des Klosters Sankt Mang und Klosterkomponist (* 1705)

 11. Januar: Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, französischer Komponist und Cembalist (* 1703)
 15. Januar: Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaia, italienischer Komponist (* 1671)

 24. März: Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, deutscher Komponist (* 1682)
 April: Anastasia Robinson, englische Opernsängerin (* um 1692)

 10. Juni: Johann Christoph Mocker, deutscher Orgelbauer (* 1755)
 21. Juni: Giovanni Porta, italienischer Komponist (* um 1675)
 23. Juni: Johann Caspar Bachofen, Schweizer Komponist und Musiklehrer (* 1695)

 6. Juli: Pietro Paolo Bencini, italienischer Komponist und Kapellmeister (* um 1670)
 9. Juli: Johann Gottlob Harrer, deutscher Komponist und Chorleiter (* 1703)

 4. August: Johann Christoph Thielemann, deutscher Orgelbauer (* 1682)
 14. August: Jean-Baptiste Anet, französischer Komponist und Violinist (* 1676)

 30. September: Francesco Durante, italienischer Komponist (* 1684)
 27. Oktober: Johann Michael Breunig, deutscher Komponist (* 1699)
 28. Oktober: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, französischer Flötist, Cembalist und Komponist (* 1689)

 1. November: Francisco António de Almeida, portugiesischer Komponist (* 1702)

 25. November: Johann Georg Pisendel, deutscher Violinist und Komponist (* 1687)
 30. November: Johann Elias Bach, deutscher Komponist aus der Familie Bach (* 1705)

 1. Dezember: Maurice Greene, englischer Komponist und Organist (* 1696)
 8. Dezember: Jean-Baptiste Stuck, italienisch-französischer Cellist und Komponist (* 1680)
 21. Dezember: Caspar Ruetz, deutscher Kantor und Komponist (* 1708)
 21. Dezember: Manuel de Sumaya, mexikanischer Komponist (* 1680)

Genaues Todesdatum unbekannt

 Rosa Bavarese, deutsche Opernsängerin (Sopran) und bayerische kurfürstliche Kammersängerin (* um 1710)

Gestorben nach 1755

 Johann Jacob Köpler, deutscher Orgelbauer (* vor 1700)

Siehe auch

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

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Want to combat homelessness? Give social service workers a raise
By Chan Henry
Man carries a box of sandwiches while providing meals to people in need through the Coalition for the Homeless organization at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York. (John Minchillo/AP)
As someone who works in a drop-in center that has seen an increase in clients since the Subway Safety Plan was implemented, I was happy to see that Mayor Adams' budget included funding for additional Safe Haven and stabilization beds. But I was deeply troubled to learn he didn't include a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for workers like me, who are putting in long hours for very little pay to provide the much-needed services at programs that serve unhoused New Yorkers.
I work for Urban Pathways, a nonprofit that provides homeless services and supportive housing. We stayed open during the past two years through the COVID-19 pandemic, which made our already-difficult jobs much harder. As a result of the pandemic, our clients face more barriers than ever — from having to wait months to make appointments to obtain necessary paperwork while facing continuous social stigmas.
As a result, coupled with ongoing labor shortages, my colleagues and I are doing twice the work we did before to ensure our clients get what they need to gain housing.
The pandemic has also wreaked havoc on our personal finances and inflation is getting progressively worse. Every month I face difficult choices. Do I pay my ever-increasing electric bill, or do I buy groceries? I was recently forced to move out of my apartment and leave my neighborhood due to an astronomic rent increase of $1,000 a month.
I have constant stress and worry when I go home after leaving a stressful job where I worry about my clients. Many of my colleagues are in similar situations, plus they have children, parents and grandparents that depend on them financially. How can they support their families with our stagnant low salaries?
It's no surprise that about 24% of our organization's jobs are open — considerably higher than the estimated 11% average vacancy rate among human services nonprofits as of March 2021 — putting even more pressure on those of us that remain.
I love the work that I do, and I've always had a passion for giving others a lifeline. There is nothing more rewarding than reaching out to help those who have gotten off track get back to the life they want to lead. I know this work is as important as ever and that drives me to keep going. But without a pay raise to help match the increased cost of living, even those who love this work will not be able to afford to keep doing it.
Human services sector jobs are the second-lowest paid of all industries in New York City, ranking just a bit higher than restaurants when it comes to compensation. Yet there are significant disparities within our ranks. For example, I make about $20,000 less per year than public sector workers. Writ large, human services workers make about 71% of what government employees in commensurate roles are paid, and 82% of what private-sector workers earn.
Our work promotes equity, yet the system perpetuates inequities. The majority of human service workers are women (66%) and people of color (68%). This is not merely an issue of fairness; it is about gender equity and racial equity.
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My economic insecurity is the direct result of government budget decisions. It is not possible for Urban Pathways to fill in the gap with the low contract rates they receive.
We deserve better. We need better pay, comparable wage and benefits schedules to our government counterparts, and annual cost-of-living adjustments that we can depend on. We are considered essential workers, yet our own essential needs are ignored. Receiving more pay would help me and my colleagues with our financial challenges and demonstrate that the city actually values our work beyond calling us "essential" in hard times.
State lawmakers recently passed a budget giving workers who do the exact same work I do a 5.4% COLA. The city needs to at least match that, or colleagues who work for the same organization doing the same work will be bringing home different paychecks.
This disparity will make it harder to fill vacancies and hire additional workers to staff the $171 million in new programs the mayor has proposed. That includes 1,400 beds in smaller facilities that serve as an alternative to conventional homeless shelters, and also three drop-in centers where individuals can get a hot meal, take a shower, wash their clothes and meet with case managers and counselors if they so desire.
These are worthwhile investments, but who will work in the new drop-in centers and Safe Havens when city contracts do not pay enough to hire employees for the programs they already have?
I very much hope that Adams and the City Council will stand with us and begin the process of getting human services workers just pay, so we can continue doing the jobs we love and help our clients get the housing they need.
Henry is a housing specialist at Urban Pathways, which provides homeless services, supportive housing and other programs for New Yorkers in need.

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The Jazzinstitut has a large archive of visual materials about jazz, photos, posters, videos and much more. From this collection as well as in collaboration with international photographers and artists the Jazzinstitut organizes regular exhibitions in the gallery situated in the institute's site, the Kavaliershaus Bessungen.
We also offer traveling exhibitions which we put together to be shown in local jazz clubs, at festivals or other events. Our three traveling exhibitions focus on ...
"Jazz Changes" , an overview of jazz history (only available in German),
"One Tension" about life, music and impact of trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff (conceived for the 11th Darmstadt Jazzforum "Spannung | Tension. Albert Mangelsdorff", 2009);
as well as a history of German jazz from the beginnings until the 21st century, called "Deutscher Jazz / German Jazz" (conceived for a travel exhibition of Goethe-Institut).
At our gallery we regularly show photo and art exhibitions with connections to jazz.
Jazz Changes
Over 100 years of jazz: Hardly any other music has been so seamlessly documented from its origins to the present day. This is due in part to two inventions that were born at the same time as jazz: photography and the record. They document jazz as a diverse music: from its African-American roots in New Orleans around 1900 to hip-hop-influenced sounds of today - jazz has continually redefined itself as an art form, developing its own traditions in which the individual expression of individual musicians takes center stage.
The exhibition "Jazz Changes" documents the most important stages in the development of this music on 11 large-format panels, tells of styles such as Dixieland, swing, bebop, free jazz, but above all of strong personalities: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson or John Coltrane were more than celebrated stars of their time: they shaped their own styles, were identification figures of social processes. Jazz is an Afro-American music - but in the meantime it is understood and practiced worldwide and has also formed its own national traditions elsewhere.
Here two sample panels:
The exhibition is printed on 11 colored hanging foils, each measuring 100cm x 140cm, framed with rails that can be attached to most hanging systems. It can be rented for a certain period of time for a fee. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us at: haertling@jazzinstitut.de
One Tension
The exhibition "One Tension / Albert Mangelsdorff" was conceived as a cooperation between the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt and the Albert Mangelsdorff Archive of the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt/Main. "One Tension" was the name of a long-playing record that the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet recorded in 1963; "Tension" because of the musical tension; "One" because this was the first album that the American corporation CBS presented with contemporary German jazz.
The exhibition, which was conceived on the occasion of the 11th Darmstadt Jazzforum, accompanies the trombonist on 10 panels through his life and sheds light on the many encounters he had over the years with colleagues from Germany, Europe and the whole world.
The exhibition is printed on 10 colored hanging foils, each measuring 80cm x 160cm, framed with metal rails that can be attached to most hanging systems. It can be rented for a certain period of time for a fee. If you are interested in more details, please feel free to contact us at: haertling@jazzinstitut.de
One Tension: sample panel 2
Deutscher Jazz / German Jazz
"Deutscher Jazz / German Jazz" traces the development and mood of the German jazz scene on a total of 30 large-format panels. The headings of the individual panels read: "Jazz conquers Germany", "Jazz under the swastika", "Jazz flourishes...", "Jazz unleashed", "GDR: free form or formed freedom", "Clubs and cellar life", "Festivals - open-air and indoor", "Learning jazz...", "Black and silver discs", "The pope of jazz", "Jazz on the radio", "Albert Mangelsdorff", "Jazz in the Capital city today", "Europe", "Jazz in the 21st century".
The exhibition thus refers both to the history of this music and to the current scene, tells of clubs and festivals, record labels and the role of radio, introduces individual personalities and stylistic trends. Short introductory texts and more detailed explanations of the individual topics in German and English are intended to arouse interest in jazz from Germany abroad. Photos from public and private archives complement the exhibition, which is thus aimed at the curious, the interested and the connoisseur alike.
"Deutscher Jazz / German Jazz" was curated by the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt for the Goethe-Institut and toured the world from 2006 to 2012. It has been bookable with us since 2013. It can be rented for a certain period of time for a fee. If you are interested in more details, please feel free to contact us at: haertling@jazzinstitut.de.
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Carolyn Jewel
A Seduction in Winter
Revised, edited, copy-edited, first round proofing, not final so still subject to change.
He was here. Honora reread the list again to be sure she'd not conjured his name from hopes and wishes. She hadn't. The Monarch, with Lieutenant Lord Leoline Marrable on board, had arrived from Bombay one week ago today. After seven years in the Navy and three years employed with the East India Company, he was in England again. In London. Not that their paths would cross, but London!
The door behind her opened and then closed. Honora slid the paper under the collection of pages that took up most of the desk where she sat. When she was not working one of the pages or creating a new one, she kept the lot of them in a wooden box, at present set away on the top section of her desk.
"Papa." Her father removed his hat and coat. "A good morning's work?"
"Indeed yes." He unwound his scarf and draped that over the back of a chair. "I'll warrant there will be snow tomorrow."
Thanks to the increase in commissioned work and in other paintings sold over the last two years, they had better quarters at the Morin Hotel than for their previous stays in London. Two bedchambers, naturally, but a larger parlor and a dining room for meals if they brought them upstairs. They were on the fourth floor this year, a savings of two flights.
"Yes, Papa." In addition to the record keeping and accounts, she did much of the detail work for his commissioned projects. "Shall I send Gilman to fetch our luncheon, or did you eat downstairs?" The tavern attached to the hotel made an excellent roast beef and an even better duck. Both were favorites of her father's.
"I've eaten thank you." He came into the parlor where she spent most of her day when she was not at the studio with him. He wandered to the table where she'd left the newspapers she'd read front to back. She took care not to turn her face too much toward him. He picked up the morning Times she had carefully refolded earlier in the day and brought it to a chair by the fire. "I shall dine out tonight."
"Noted." She slid her secreted page from underneath the others. He kept a mistress at another hotel on Manchester Square. Papa supposed her to be unaware of this fact. "You are at home until then?"
He snapped open the paper. "Yes, I think so."
She picked up her scissors and cut the notice from the paper, to be added to her album of clippings about Lord Leoline. She'd kept track of and recorded the ships to which he'd been assigned and the actions and battles he'd seen while he was in the Navy. She'd gathered all the descriptions of engagements involving those ships she could locate and transferred the information to her project. Over the years, she had amassed a thick stack of neatly clipped articles and hand transcriptions of his naval battles, interspersed with illustrations of her own in pen and ink or watercolor. Some of her drawings were inventions of her imagination, others came to life on the page from facts gleaned of his battles and the ships he'd sailed on.
The project, born of idle hands and no particular goal, had become absurdly elaborate. She would be the first to admit that. Illustrating or decorating the pages had become a way of passing the time. She ought to put away the pages for good now that he was back in England. There was little reason for him to remember her, if he remembered her at all, but she would never forget the day he'd come to her rescue. To him, she could only be a child who had briefly intersected with his life. She'd, however, had grown attached to her private homage to his bravery.
She pasted the section containing the notice of the Monarch's arrival onto a fresh sheet of paper and beneath that wrote the words, "The Hon. Lieutenant Lord Leoline Marrable, Lord Wrathell."
She drew a border and curlicues around his name. He was a marquess by courtesy. The new Debrett's was published and contained the recent amendments to the line of succession for the dukedom of Quenhaith. She did not dare clip pages from their copy of the peerage, but she'd copied the text pertaining to the Marrables onto pages of her own, suitably decorated with the family motto and coat of arms.
Pages of the Times rattled, and she sent her father a questioning glance. He coughed once and said, "I'll need you at the studio tomorrow to finish off Mrs. Rosen."
"Of course." Some years ago, after he'd been accepted into the Royal Academy, he'd made arrangements for the use of a fellow artist's studio in other Duke Street, which arrangement had brought them to London every winter since, for the stated purpose of exhibiting his work and obtaining and finishing commissions. While they stayed in Town, he found it convenient to have his mistress across the street instead of the other side of Bury St. Edmunds.
She evened out the curlicues around Lord Leoline's name. They had been born on the same day five years apart, on December the twenty-fourth, a fact she had discovered from Debrett's. He had been born in Lincolnshire at Marrable Gate, his family's country seat, whilst her birth had occurred in Elderford, the village attached to the ducal estate.
"Papa," she said when he put down the paper. "Did you know Lord Leoline is in London?" She amended that quickly. "I mean, Lord Wrathell."
"No." He nodded with approval. Lord Leoline had always been a favorite of his.
Since he was sitting to her right, a fortuitous arrangement of the parlor, it was easy to prop her left elbow atop the desk and lean her cheek against her forearm.
"I suppose it's to be expected given the tragedy of his brother," her father said.
"Yes." She recognized his restlessness. He would stay an hour or so longer before he made an excuse that would take him to the other side of Manchester Square. She wished she'd left more work on Lord Wrathell's papers, for she would have an evening alone to do exactly as she liked.
"There's a young man who's made a good account of himself." His gaze lingered on her, and she made sure not to move. His pity made her heart ache. The disgust she sometimes saw in his face when he caught a glimpse of her face pierced her heart through. "When did he arrive, do you know? I ought to pay my respects."
"From the notice, a week ago Tuesday." Because she rarely went out except for solitary walks, she filled the hours of her day with reading, sewing, and writing letters to the editor that she tore up as soon as she had fashioned a suitably scathing reply. If she wasn't at her father's studio, she was here reading every newspaper, magazine, or book to be found. Gilman collected broadsheets and pamphlets for her enjoyment. She had an excellent collection of them. There was little she did not know about London, or politics, or much of anything to appear in the papers.
"A week, you say. Well." He fiddled with his watch. "I wish him well. I truly do." From necessity she was expert at keeping herself at angles that did not disturb him. When they dined together, she often ended those meals having eaten nearly nothing. "He's in residence in Queen Anne Street, not Marrable House."
He tapped a finger on the table beside him. "No reconciliation between him and his father?"
"Pity if not."
She shrugged one shoulder. Lord Leoline&emdash;Lord Wrathell, she must remember that&emdash;had joined the Navy against his father's wishes. Their estrangement was the stuff of legend and, in a strange twist of fate, she was likely the only person besides Wrathell himself who knew the reason for the altercation between Lord Leoline's elder brother and him that had caused the rift with his father.
"They must reconcile now he's the heir."
"I suppose they must." The duke did not know the true reason for the disagreement between the brothers. Lord Leoline would never have betrayed his brother. Nor her. He would never have mentioned her to his father.
She wondered if he was still handsome. Perhaps the beauty of his youth had not survived maturity. His elder brother had not retained his good looks. He'd gone to fat and lost a great deal of his hair. Lord Leoline had been fair to his brother's striking dark hair, though both possessed the same piercing gray eyes. Whatever Lord Leoline looked like now, she would always remember him as tall and handsome, forever eighteen years old, and the bravest man who ever lived.
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Q: Is it possible to execute a SpecFlow test run programmatically? I would like to invoke SpecFlow tests programmatically. At runtime, I would like to start SpecRunner at some point in time, and execute the tests under the same (current) AppDomain.
Is there a class under TechTalk.SpecRun that can help me?
I have tried using TestRunnerManager.GetTestRunner() but this class does not seem to actually kick off the tests.
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According to a market analysis by AAA, gasoline prices could remain low or further decline in 2016. The company predicts that gas prices could stay steady or drop by 10 cents in the coming weeks.
AAA said that gas prices in 2015 was the second lowest they have been in a decade. It is estimated that the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline would be between $2.25 and $2.45 a gallon. The average price of a gallon of gasoline was $2.40, and Americans traveled more and saved $540 on gas. It also predicts that crude oil prices will continue to drop due to excessive oil supply like last year.
Though gas prices can vary by season, AAA predicts that the average price would not go above $3 this year. Currently, the surplus of crude oil has led to drastic drop in prices — about $37 a barrel, with prices dropping about 35 percent in 2015. As experts estimate the price of oil to be low this year, even gas prices will continue to be cheaper. However, AAA has indicated the possibility of an increase in oil prices due to political events or changes in oil markets.
The drop in oil prices has not only led to savings, but Americans also flew a record number of miles last year. According to Gas Buddy, the average for a gallon of regular gas is $1.60. At $1.48, Newton has the lowest gas pricing while Kansas ranks 5th in the nation for the lowest gas prices. The most expensive gallon of regular gas was found in Hays, where drivers are paying about $2.75 a gallon. The nationwide average is $1.99 per gallon. In the current trend, gas prices are set to remain low in 2016 also.


SLS Hotel South Beach opens directly onto the sands of central SoBe but is less than a 30-minute cab ride from Miami International Airport. You'll be on Collins Avenue, lined with boutiques, cafés, and clubs, as well as the Miami Beach Boardwalk for jogging and people-watching.
Frank Gehry's New World Center, a 5-minute walk, showcases music from world-class orchestral concerts to legends of jazz, and screens free outdoor Wallcast™ performances. You'll also be within a leisurely stroll of SoBe's Art Deco District, and the beach is at your doorstep.
The hotel's Hyde Beach oceanfront club features a pool, live entertainment, cocktails, and gourmet cuisine; on weekends the party continues into the wee hours. Guests also rave about Katsuya, for Japanese fare, and The Bazaar, helmed by James Beard award-winning Chef José Andrés.
Created by superstar designer Philippe Starck, rooms are decadently luxurious, harking back to the days of Madame de Pompadour, but combined with modern must-haves like WiFi, signature beds, and 42-inch LCD TVs. Views are of the city or the ocean.
The Bazaar - This restaurant specializes in Spanish cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Katsuya by Starck - This restaurant specializes in Japanese cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Hyde Beach - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
It was very good. From the valet to the front desk, all very good.Me and my wife really enjoyed the stay.
Horribly loud - you can hear the base of the club music Friday and sat nite. Avoid if you want to get rest!
I stayed for one night in a room adjacent to the elevator shaft. The elevator was extremely loud and created a banging noise all night. I called to be relocated, but there were no rooms available and they offered me ear phones. The decor in the room was filthy - all white furniture that is dated, which showed a lot of wear and tear.


Tantrikas Julia and Tara share their experience of this year's Glastonbury Goddess Conference, healing wounds of The Mother and calling back the energy of the Goddess to the land and people of the UK.
I have been involved with the Goddess Movement for about six years. Being a part of it has helped me to create my own pick and mix of aspects of the feminine, to look at the parts of woman that I was ready to examine in myself. Each one had its challenges, some I found I already knew well, which came in like old friends.
My big avoidance had been 'Ker', The Mother. It is one of the hardest areas to look at in our lives with absolute honesty. The conference was an invitation to walk into some of those places in our memories, where the door has been shut for a very long time. The sharing of women talking about their experiences of their own mother, each one an archetype, something each person present could relate to in some way, gradually drew feelings of grief, joy, whatever came up. Being invited to examine our own experience of being mother to ourselves, our children and those we may have lost or never had, allowed for deep healing to take place.
The progressive ceremonies held over the 5 days of the conference, took us on a journey of deep ritual, where trauma and grief could all be experienced and released in safe, held environment.
Quite simply there is no other space I know of where several hundred women can create such a space and hold it in a way that allows healing, celebration and joy of what it really means to be a woman. It's a deeply personal journey, yet one as women we all share and are so rarely given the space to explore.
Ten years ago I attended my first Goddess Conference at Glastonbury. It was so amazing that I decided to train as a priestess and spent the following three years doing just that, sitting in circle with sisters, making and sharing, creating rituals and ceremony, out on the land, schooling myself in the old ways. All of this had been prompted by the Goddess stirring in my bones, whispering to me in my dreams, pulsing through my ecstatic body. In one dream she appeared as goddess of the mountain and held me in a love so fierce that it surpassed all understanding.
This year I attended my first Goddess Conference for some years. I had been very much looking forward to working as a grain priestess but sustained a painful shoulder injury just a few days before the start of conference and had to stand down. Greatly disappointed though I was, I am not one to take things lying down and so with the aid of ice packs and Sidika's miraculous scenar device I put my best goddess foot forward.
The Goddess Conference, created by author, playwright and priestess of Avalon, Kathy Jones is held annually in Glastonbury at Lammas (August 1st). It's now in its 18th year. Each year a different aspect of goddess is celebrated and this year we marked the Lammas aspect of the South West of our wheel, mother Ker of the first harvest, reflected by the golden grain ripening in our fields.
The conference is a week-long event during which the Town Hall becomes a pop-up temple, full of lavish altars, wall hangings and goddess banners. In fact, many of Glastonbury's venues host the numerous events taking place. On offer are ritual walks into the Tor labyrinth, concerts, workshops, talks, art exhibitions, installations, a craft market and much singing, dancing and celebration. Participants are invited to join one of nine directional cornucopia groups, lovingly held by grain priestesses and young people are catered for in a tenth group. These groups provide a space for sharing, deepening connection and processing. Conference officially begins on Wednesday morning with a welcome from conference priestess Kathy Jones and a few words from the mayor of Glastonbury. This year this was followed by a fascinating presentation from doula, priestess, ceremonialist and workshop leader Katinka Soetens on the mysteries of motherhood. She shared with us the potential for ecstasy in childbirth and shared her own experience of encountering Goddess through the birth of her first child.
The conference is energetically held by a ceremonial group which meets throughout the course of the year to kindle the energy of a particular direction and aspect of goddess as intuited by Kathy. The wheel we priestesses of Avalon work with is known as the wheel of Brigit Ana or Britannia. Generally, the centre of the wheel is occupied by the Lady of Avalon but this year there was a broader focus on Brigit Ana herself as mother deity of the British Isles.
Whichever aspect of Goddess is being celebrated we also always celebrate the season of Lammas, falling as the conference does in that season. This year was a double whammy – Lammas celebrated at Lammas! Participants brought grain from their countries of origin which was ritually offered to Goddess, blessed, ground, made into dough, baked and then eaten in a true partaking of the original sacrament, the rites of Ceres, goddess of the grain, from whom the word ceremony is derived.
This year the opening ceremony featured ceremonial priestesses caged, masked and hidden from view, guarded by a number of authority figures. A powerful, apocalyptic musical soundtrack was played. The scene was a clear representation of goddess energy imprisoned by patriarchy with reference to the atrocities committed over the centuries in Britannia's name. At a pivotal moment in the drama the grain priestesses, sitting outside the cage bearing their cornucopias and baskets of grain approached the agents of patriarchy singing and overcame them with the power of love….The walls came down and the goddess was revealed. Britannia, ruling the centre was reclaimed as goddess of peace. Each cornucopia group then took it in turns to approach the priestess with their grain, singing the song they had written together. This was followed by singing and dancing, performance and participation.
Highlights of Thursday for me were Kathy's presentation on reclaiming Britannia from patriarchal powers, inspirational author Michael Dane's talk on the mother mountains and goddess rivers of the British Isles as well as his informative and entertaining workshop on Horse of the Year. In lively and enthusiastic style Michael taught us about the horse as sun symbol in Welsh and Irish mythology. He actually managed to get us singing in Welsh while I played the piano, and we then went for a trot along the High Street in horse masks.
On Friday (Healing the wounds of the mother) we entered the cauldron at the heart of the mysteries with a particularly powerful tryptych of presentations from Glastonbury priestesses, Georgina, Annabel and Tegwyn. Georgina spoke first in relation to her personal journey with her mother the Ice Queen. Tough though those lessons were she is testimony to the strength we can harness through adversity. Next Annabel shared the heart rending challenges she has faced with two of her children's life threatening health conditions while Tegwyn relayed the tragic story of the death of her 6 year old daughter, killed instantly by a car over a decade ago. These were eloquent, honest, raw, deeply moving accounts in which we journeyed alongside them into the shadows as they shared with us the gifts they have found there. Each story so different, so exquisitely and sensitively related as these women bared their souls for us.
That afternoon we participated in a ceremony of dance and vocal expression to heal the wounds of our mothering. This was led by Draupadi and priestesses and offered a space for expression and let go. Feeling delicate of shoulder I stayed to the side and let it all wash over me.
That evening we entered the dreaming womb of creation at the heart of the mysteries for Goddess embodiment on a significant scale. Some 18 priestesses sat holding the circle, veiled and masked. Within the circle participants lay on sheepskins around the central grain altar. We were invited to visit the goddess as channelled by her priestesses, to receive the blessing of her love, to hear her words, to be embraced by her and then to partake of the sacrament, the sustenance she provides in the Prasad of the bread. I had witnessed the grain ceremonially presented to these same priestesses, I had watched Koko grind the grain by hand, I had helped add water and knead the dough ready for it to be baked and now I tasted the staff of life. It tasted truly sun blessed and I sensed the meaning of grace, the prayer intoned before each meal in gratitude.
What I experienced in the arms of the goddess was total acceptance, soft cradling, gentle holding, the miracle of her love which expanded out to permeate the whole hall. Goddess presence was undeniable, her love palpable, her abundance in full effect. This was baptism, this was emergence into redemption in what for me was a true Tantric space of devotion, love and acceptance.
Thus empowered from our journey into the shadows and into redemption, on Saturday we honed in on mother as sovereign with a presentation by Ava, founder of Orange County Goddess Temple. Ava teaches about the Queen archetype and its importance for women's empowerment and planetary transformation. She and Rabbit, a Goddess minister from San Francisco rocked the casbah and I signed up for her afternoon workshop, though as usual it was tough having to choose from such a tempting array of possibilities. I brought my Mum along. Sitting in circle our left hand on the belly of the sister beside us, sensing the energetic crown upon our heads we journeyed to meet our inner queen, sit upon her throne and feel the quality she wanted to bring forth right now. Ava invited us to share this aloud as follows, ' I am Queen Ava ….. and my quality is love.' It empowered my mother's sore head clean away!
Saturday evening we had fun at the Camino all getting dressed up in our outfits for the masked ball. Koko, Mother of all Melissas and abundance personified, provided a full-on pre banquet feast for all the conference Melissas and showered us all with bindis to boot. I went as Lilith the screech owl with extra bindis. To feast and dance, to scoff and stomp, to whoop and swoop.
Sunday dawned pregnant with cloud. We gathered at the Town Hall to process along the High Street and up to Chalice Hill for our customary drumming, songs, Lammas fire and shared fruit feast carrying our dolls in their various wild guises. Atop the hill the ceremonial group called in the directions. Heloise, holding Domnu, mother of Water in the South, gave such heartfelt and copious thanks that she elicited a very wet response from the heavens. Glorious!
In the afternoon we gathered for a final time in the Town Hall to share gifts, spiral dance, sing and give thanks. The Goddess is returning, turning, turning.
In Glastonbury she is celebrated in this wonderful annual event and throughout the year at the Goddess Hall in Benedict Street. For communion and meditation the Goddess temple is open most days from 10 to 4 in the Glastonbury experience, off the High Street. For further information see KathyJones's website or the Goddess Conference online.


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"The State and Civil Society in Communal Violence: Sparks and Fires" (with Joshua Gubler), in Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh, eds, Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics, New York: Routledge, 2013.
"Battles Half Won: Political Economy of India's Growth and Economic Policy Since Independence" (with Sadiq Ahmed), in Chetan Ghate, ed, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, Oxford University Press, 2012.
"Two Banks of the Same River? Social Order and Entrepreneurialism in India" in Partha Chatterjee and Ira Katznelson, eds, Anxieties of Democracy: Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Pro-Seminar in Comparative Politics – Spring 2011
Called a field seminar in many departments of the country, this is a survey course. Its purpose is to introduce the key theoretical and conceptual materials in comparative politics since the birth of the field. The course proceeds thematically. Readings cover the classics as well as major works of a more recent vintage. Each week participants discuss a subset of the relevant scholarly literature. Two further points ought to be noted.
Although this course stresses empirical political analysis, normative concerns do inform the questions to which we seek answers. For example, although we usually normatively privilege democratic participation, representation, and accountability over political order, in many parts of the world lack of personal security effectively debars well-being and expansion of choice unless order is established. We do not engage in primarily normative debates in this class, but normative concerns, wherever necessary, will be kept in mind.
Key methodological issues will be addressed in context. Careful attention to research design and method is important for ensuring that our normative predilections do not bias the answers we offer to questions. A number of methodological issues will arise throughout the course, even though research design is not a principal focus of our inquiry in this class. Appropriate research designs and theoretical and empirical methods can vary across substantive applications, and we will address these considerations, whenever required.
Politics, Economy and Society in India – Lecture – Fall 2016
Roughly 1.2 billion people live in India. In other words, every sixth person in the world is an Indian. This course will present an overview of India's politics, economics and society. The primary focus will be on modern India, though the materials will be presented in a historical as well as comparative perspective.
The stories of India's economic boom over the last decade are now commonplace in diplomatic, business and journalistic circles. But India's chronicle of achievements, economic as well as political, coexists with several unresolved problems. We will concentrate on three aspects of the "Indian experience": democracy, ethnic and religious diversity, and political economy.
First, defying democratic theory, India has continued to be democratic since 1947 (with the exception of a brief period during 1975-77). In the developing world, India's democratic record is unparalleled. It should, however, be noted that India's political freedoms exist in a land of remarkable socio-economic inequalities, raising issues about how freedoms are actually experienced by millions of people.
Second, remarkable cultural and religious diversity marks India's social landscape. Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Sikhism constitute the religious tapestry. More than 15 languages, with long histories, developed grammar and literature, are spoken in the country. The term "race" does not have a clear meaning in India. Therefore, unlike the US, racial diversity is hard to sort out. Generally speaking, caste and religious cleavages, rather than class (or racial) cleavages, have played the most significant role in politics. Of late, "tribal" cleavages have also acquired considerable political salience.
Third, Indian economy has been going through a market-oriented reform since July 1991, raising prospects of a serious economic transformation. India's corporate sector has entered a period of remarkable wealth, and a very sizeable middle class, numbering 200-300 million, has also emerged. Though millions remain poor, the signs of economic, especially corporate, dynamism are plentifully evident. That China and India will be the economic superpowers of the 21st century is now widely believed.
Since so many of India's contemporary developments cannot be fully understood without paying sufficient attention to history, the course has an inescapable historical dimension to it. To understand the debate on Hindu-Muslim relations, for example, one has to go back to a period when, centuries back, Islam arrived in the subcontinent. The British period of Indian history – roughly 1757 through 1947 – also has played a pivotal role in the evolution of contemporary politics. History lives in the present in interesting ways, sometimes constraining Indian citizens, at other times liberating them.
On India, our main questions will be as follows: Given its multireligious, multilinguistic and generally multicultural social and historical context, how has India defined its national identity? How was India transformed under British rule (1757-1947)? After independence in 1947, how has a liberal political order, defined by political equality, interacted with India's social order, defined by inequality and hierarchy? Is the former undermining the latter? What sort of economic transformation is underway?
Politics in India – Seminar – Fall 2010
This seminar will present Indian politics in a comparative and theoretical framework. It will focus on four themes: British India and Indian Nationalism; India's democratic experience: politics of ethnic and religious diversity; and political economy. The rationale for these four themes is as follows. First, British rule in India (1757-1947) is a natural beginning, if one wishes to understand modern India. A great deal of what happened in post-1947 India was linked to, if not caused by, developments in the British period. Second, India's democracy, lasting since 1947 (with the exception of 18 months), has posed new puzzles for democratic theory. According to theory, India, a poor and primarily agricultural land, should not have been democratic for so long. Third, remarkable cultural, ethnic and religious diversity exists in the country. Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and Buddhism are the five major religions. More than fifteen languages are spoken in the country. In addition, Hindu society has major caste cleavages. Democratic politics has wrestled with such diversities in a way that has historically attracted a lot of attention and enriched theories of modernity, ethnic conflict and social justice. Fourth, Indian economy has begun to boom, and growth rates have been second only to China's. The idea of China and India as economic powers of the coming decades is now commonly proposed in corporate, government and journalistic circles. The politics of the ongoing economic transformation needs to be understood to assess future trajectories
"Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife. An Interdisciplinary Perspective" (with Ravi Kanbur and Prem Rajaram), World Development, February 2011.
It is time for India to rein in its robber barons
(with Jayant Sinha)
Memo to Obama: Back India to join the UN's club
Politics and Economic Development in Asia – Seminar
It is widely accepted that development is not simply an economic phenomenon. Political processes are intimately tied up with economic development. Consider the following questions. Does the nature of the political system affect development? Does democracy slow down economic growth? What is the relationship between democracy and economic liberalism? As more and more countries have embraced both political freedoms and market-oriented economic reforms, should one expect both to succeed equally?
Consider some comparative questions now. Why have some countries industrialized faster than others? Why do some countries do better at poverty alleviation than others? Why have some countries been successful in solving the problem of food production, while others have not been? Are their different paths to agrarian and industrial development?
Since the Second World War, an enormous amount of intellectual effort has gone into understanding these issues. Asia has been at the heart of much of this literature. We will compare and contract the various Asian countries and models of development around themes identified above. The heaviest emphasis will be on China, India and South Korea.


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Fessanvilliers-Mattanvilliers – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w Regionie Centralnym, w departamencie Eure-et-Loir.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 121 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 10 osób/km² (wśród 1842 gmin Regionu Centralnego Fessanvilliers-Mattanvilliers plasuje się na 1015. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 1040.).

Bibliografia

Miejscowości w departamencie Eure-et-Loir


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Bringing masonry structures back to their original condition or repurposing them. Learn about the latest rehab tools: Cleaning, Tuckpointing, Sealing & more.
The City of Houston has two "new" historic landmarks: Masonry buildings carefully restored, renovated and repurposed to tell stories of the city's past while providing much needed community resources for today's Houstonians.
Balancing preservation with modern functionality is not an easy job for any restoration project, but when converting a 19th century prison into a 21st century, luxury hotel, the situation is unusual if not unprecedented. In 2002, a design and construction team led by Cambridge Seven Associates began a five-year process to restore the defunct Charles Street Jail in Boston.
In today's energy-conscious economy, owners of aging and historic buildings grapple with the costs of sustainability and rehabilitation versus new construction. Owners must address the financial and energy ramifications of demolition, evaluating longevity and the building lifecycle, and the social, political, or architectural significance of their buildings.


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At Fakuma 2009, Incoe International Europe, Rödermark, Germany, exhibited the AXR option for long hot runner nozzles. This permits operation with two instead of the usual three heating zones. This has been made possible by the new ultralong AXR heaters. Over the greater length of these extended heaters, the temperature profile can now be adjusted so as to render a third heating zone unnecessary. According to the manufacturer, omitting the third heating zone is appropriate for processing less technically demanding plastics such as PP, PE or PS. This reduction in complexity benefits customers, because - assuming the desired processing quality can be maintained - it allows one heating zone to be saved per nozzle, for which customers would otherwise have to provide the required controller capacity.
The AXR option also offers some other useful design features. An additional centering collar on the nozzle body protects the nozzle and cable from damage during installation and dismantling. Since the wires running along the nozzle body are countersunk or snug-fitting, it is possible to dispense with the cable groove in the mold. A circular clearance in the mold is sufficient. According to Incoe, the AXR option is of particular interest to the automobile market, in which large systems with long nozzles are used, e.g. for the production of bumpers, wheel-arch liners and interior door panels.


At Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation we're overjoyed to finally launch our membership campaign. Members at the Leadership level or above were given priority invitations to view the famous Congress Avenue Bridge bat emergence with Merlin aboard a chartered Capital Cruises boat. We all gathered at the Hyatt Hotel's lounge for drinks (and queso) and to meet and get acquainted. The first member to sign up for the cruise was Janell Cannon, the author of the classic children's book Stellaluna. Janell graciously signed copies of her book, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary!
Janell Cannon signed Stellaluna for members on the bat cruise. Ingrid Dehn, retired school teacher, had loved reading Stellaluna countless times to her students. The book is celebrating its 25th anniversary!
Bat Slide Scan Project team interns Renee Cornue and Max Gorman with supervisor Teresa Nichta (middle) enjoyed meeting participants on the cruise.
Merlin entertained with stories while we waited for the bats.
At last, four columns of thousands of bats, up to 1.5 million, began to emerge!
Our new website, AustinBats.ORG, is dedicated solely to these bats, providing America's most spectacular urban wildlife event! Many thanks to our sponsor Capital Cruises and Captain Swan for a fun cruise!


Laurie has spent many years living among the Tibetan people and the Sherpa's that guide climbers up Everest and other mountains. They have taught him much about human nature, including self-destruction connected to fear. The seven dragons ultimately emanate from fear — and fear distorts reality. Remember that one definition of FEAR Is: False Expectations (beliefs) Appearing Real. However, when you and I are aware of our fears we can address them, focus our energy and adjust our behavior accordingly.
There are both positive and negative aspects of the Seven Dragons and each side can pull us. Under "pressure" we are often more susceptible to the negative attraction and false belief of each dragon. This can lead us towards fatal behavioral flaws that consume our energy and detract us from being our best. They are usually based on lies and stories we tell ourselves to dispel fears we have about our life.
Arrogance — you are better than others.
Self-Deprecation — you are worse than others.
Impatience — there is not enough time.
Martyrdom — you are a victim.
Greed — you don't have enough.
Self-Destruction — you will not succeed.
Stubbornness — you are weaker than others.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to write about each of them, beginning with STUBBORNNESS. Why? According to Skreslet, the negative aspect of STUBBORNNESS can be a "gateway drug" to the negative aspects of all the other dragons as well. I've seen the destructiveness associated with this dragon many times in my career.
Let's put some work into recognizing, understanding and managing our dragons. This means being self aware of their positive pull as well as the destructive potential of their negative pull. If we know our dragons, we can catch them as they affect us. According to Skreslet, we then will be able to "starve them of attention before being drawn too deep into their lairs." Let's learn more about each dragon together.
One Millennial View: Good. I would like to better understand most of these "Dragons" too. In terms of fear, an old friend and former fraternity President of mine once addressed a young group of us after sharing a personal story of pretty harrowing hardship. He summed it up with: "Nothing is ever as bad as you think it's going to be." It sounds simple, but apply it to real things you've been afraid of or shied away from. I've never forgotten that, and I think it rings true.


This article gives the implementation details supported for iOS generator in order to create an Extension Library.
This section describes which nodes are supported as extensibility points.
Optional. A class name which initializes the extensibility implementation with what it needs. It must implement GXExtensionLibraryProtocol.
The value for this extensibility point is optional because it could be nothing to register (e.g. for User Controls).
Optional. Support for CocoaPods extensibility dependencies. In this node, the developer may include a relative path to a PodFile template (see the example below). In case that developer uses this feature, CocoaPods command line tool must be installed on the deployment Mac (refer to Command line tool subsection).
It is possible to include public dependencies at CocoaPods global repository, but it is also possible to include private dependencies in a local repository in the Mac. For this last alternative, GeneXus will automatically create a local repository named GXLocal in your deployment Mac computer when detects any extension library that uses CocoaPods. Also, the usage of a local repository might be useful when the Mac has Internet access restriction.
To install CocoaPods command line tool execute the following command on the deployment Mac.
The download process might fail with the following error.
In such case, retry execute the command.
Warning: If the developer tests the generated application on a Mac computer, the *.xcworkspace file must be opened instead of *.xcodeproj.
Optional. Reference to a string template which has to produce an XML with the format shown in the example. With this mechanism, it is possible to extend the generated XCode project.
Every NodeToBeExtended must match with the template placeholders in the XCode project with format <<<NodeToBeExtended>>> (e.g. <<<PBXFileReference>>> for adding a reference to the project).
Since GeneXus 16 upgrade 3 when you want to extend a node that has the format <<< PLACEHOLDER_NAME :: TARGET_NAME :: >>>, it can be extended using the Target attribute. So, it will look as follows: <PLACEHOLDER_NAME target = "TARGET_NAME" ></ PLACEHOLDER_NAME>.
Example: <<<PBXSourcesBuildPhase::WatchExtension::>>> look likes <PBXSourcesBuildPhase target='WatchExtension'>.
The easiest way to know what has to be added to a project consists on split the XCode generated project. In the duplicate project, make the desired modifications by using XCode and then make a diff with the original project. With this mechanism, the developer can see in an easy way which modifications should make if the project would be made manually.
Check the GeneXus installation Libraries folder; you will find existing libraries so you can check the configuration files to create your own extensions.
Optional. Reference to string template which must produce an XML (see the example below) with those files, directories, and templates to be copied to the generated XCode project.
The XML file must be an XSD as follows.
Optional. A string value for indicating which URLs can be handled by the application (e.g. when myapp.com.artech.myapp://vdir/resource?parameters is triggered on the device).
It is highly recommendable to use $Main.IOSBundleIdentifier$ placeholder as a suffix for identifying the application and avoiding conflicts with other apps that might use the same scheme.
Optional. Allows the developer to include bridging headers (import Objective-C modules to Swift, useful for integrating APIs).
CustomURLScheme and MainBridgingHeaderImports nodes are available as of GeneXus 15 Upgrade 7.
Extension Library implementation is supported as of GeneXus 15 Upgrade 6.


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Manwgan ap Selyf est un roi putatif du royaume de Powys du début du .

Manwgan est réputé être le fils de Selyf Sarffgadau, selon une hypothèse il monte sur le trône alors qu'il est un jeune garçon en 613 après la défaite et la mort de son père qui incite un certain Eluadd ap Glast (également nommé Eiludd Powys), l'ancien souverain de Dogfeiling à s'emparer du royaume.

Toutefois Eiludd Powys est présenté alternativement comme un frère de Selyf, comme Cyndrwyn ap Cynan qui s'établit alors dans le sud du royaume. En tout état de cause l'usurpateur aurait réussi à occuper le trône pendant une trentaine d'années avant d'être tué en combattant les Northumbriens, peut-être lors de la Bataille de Maserfield (Oswestry) en 642. La dynastie de Dogfeiling est finalement anéanti par les  Saxons vers 656, et Manwgan peut alors faire valoir ses droits légitime au trône du royaume de Powys.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
  Timothy Venning The Kings & Queens of Wales Amberley Publishing, Stroud 2013 .    « Rulers of Mid Walles (Powys) »

Monarque gallois du VIIe siècle
Roi de Powys
Date de décès incertaine (VIIIe siècle)
Personnalité du haut Moyen Âge par nom
Noblesse galloise du haut Moyen Âge


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The Pack is Back.
A new look, strategy and approach for the newly invigorated club.
After a successful 2017-18 Championship season (being crowned as record-breaking champions no less) Wolves commissioned SomeOne to create a new, distinctive personality, narrative and BrandWorld – to help them better communicate the passion and future of the club.
The brief required consideration of glories past (they were one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888), whilst reflecting the new exciting era under the leadership of the Fosun Group. The brand also needed to address many different audiences – from core fans, international fans, broadcasters, businesses and the local community.
The strategic piece of work saw us consult numerous groups, from key stakeholders through to supporter groups.
Ensuring the involvement of the fans was crucial to us, after all – it is their club. With their help and all the stakeholder's involvement, we have an outcome we are all really excited about and are ready for what promises to be a great season.
Beth BainesAccount Manager, SomeOne
Gary Holt, SomeOne Founder, and Strategic Director adds "the strategy, values, and ethos encompasses everything the club stands for – from its passion and progression to its consideration for heritage and engagement. From its heartland in the West Midlands to a global audience. It's this combination of future and past, ambition and respect that made it so compelling, and such a driving force for the BrandWorld".
A series of lovingly-crafted 3D wolf heads will form the backbone of future communications, playing a key role in growing the fanbase, home and away.
The three-dimensional nature of the head is inspired by the history of ironmongery in Wolverhampton. Using the idea of traditional forging, but recontextualised to reach a modern global audience.
It would've been easy to follow a graphic trend, add a colour, simplify it down. But that's not Wolves. We added something dynamic, with depth, something for the future, just like Nuno's men.
Rich RhodesCreative Director, SomeOne
We knew not to touch the club's iconic badge, but instead, use it as inspiration for a new 3D brand property. The depth of the 3D wolf (particularly the version with lit eyes) adds a dynamic, competitive spirit that can't be reflected in flat vector forms.
Tim GreenDesigner, SomeOne
Russell Jones, Head of Marketing at Wolverhampton Wanderers further explains "Wolves are entering a new exciting era, both on and off the pitch – all under the leadership of the Fosun Group. This dynamic, exciting future needed to be re-positioned to fans through our narrative and identity. Whilst we had an existing brand style in place, we have been working closely with the team at SomeOne to re-define our messaging and produce a set of modern assets that have refreshed our brand. The introduction of this work has already begun, through internal training, across our social media, and on signage at Molineux. To date the work has been incredibly well received both internally and externally."
The new BrandWorld assets have been supported by the existing badge and colour palette.
We also designed two bespoke typefaces – Wolves Display and Wolves Display Cut.
Taking inspiration from the iconic club badge, we designed two bespoke typefaces. We wanted to give a nod to the City's industrial heritage, so opted for a bold and condensed style. By using the geometric forms of the eyes, we began removing cuts and angles from the letterforms. Moving forward, this allows the club to speak in a distinctive and ownable voice, without relying too heavily on the badge.
Ian DawsonDesigner, SomeOne
Everyone at SomeOne would like to wish Wolves the best of luck this coming season. The pack is back.
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Q: Using FeatureCollection to mask an image in Google Earth Engine? I want to classify crop types using Sentinel-2 image in GEE. Before starting the classification, however, I want to update the mask of the image, so that water, urban areas, forest and other non-arable land is masked. For that purpose I uploaded a shape file with the arable land and imported it as a FeatureCollection.
My question is is it possible to use this FeatureCollection to update the mask of the image dataset. I know of the updateMask() function but it takes an image as its argument.

A: You could do something like:
var ic = ee.ImageCollection('...')
var fc = ee.FeatureCollection('....')
var mask = ee.Image.constant(1).clip(fc.geometry()).mask().not()

ic = ic.map(function(image){return image.updateMask(mask)})


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Redmi K30 leaked images reveals 120Hz refresh rate display
By Jeet	 On Nov 22, 2019
Xiaomi's sub-brand Redmi is all set to launch its first 5G smartphone — Redmi K30. Xiaomi founder and CEO has recently confirmed that the Redmi K30 smartphone will get launched in December this year.
Now, ahead of the phone's official launch, live images of the device have leaked online. The image seems to confirm that is being rumored as another major highlight of the smartphone — 120Hz refresh rate display.
The leaked image shows Redmi k30 smartphone having a 6.6-inch Full HD+ display with 2400 x 1080 pixels screen resolution. The image further shows a settings page with two options to choose from — 60Hz and 120Hz.
This is a major development for the company to offer 120Hz refresh rate on a smartphone that is in premium mid-range segment. It comes at a time when 90Hz refresh rate display is getting mainstream and is still limited to flagship phones.
It has already been confirmed that the Redmi K30 series will be 5G compatible and will support dual-mode 5G which includes SA and NSA modes in sub-6GHz networks. The leaked images also show Adreno 618 GPU so it could Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 or Snapdragon 730G SoC.
Rumors also indicate that the phone may come with Sony's upcoming IMX686 image sensor which is said to be a 64-megapixel sensor. The phone will also reportedly come with side-mounted fingerprint scanner and will be running MIUI 11 out-of-the-box.
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Having the Metabolic Syndrome, a condition now epidemic in the U.S., puts one at major risk for diabetes and heart disease. You probably have the Metabolic Syndrome if you have three or more of the following five risk factors: abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL good cholesterol, high blood pressure, and elevated blood sugar.
There is no one magic pill that erases the condition. Pharmaceutically, it is treated in piecemeal fashion. The far better approach, new research has found, is a healthy diet and regular exercise because they target what are often the roots of the Metabolic Syndrome: poor diet and excess body fat, especially around the belly.
And the benefits of a healthy lifestyle happen very quickly. Scientists recently found that just three weeks of diet-and-exercise therapy among men at a Health Resort + SPA "showed a phenomenal clinical response of about a 50% decrease in Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 diabetes," reported Frank Booth, PhD, of the University of Missouri-Columbia and Manu Chakravarthy, MD, of the Washington University School of Medicine in the May 2006 issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology.


Small but perfectly formed hand thrown pot with dark green glaze.
Born in Japan, Yuta Segawa is a London based ceramic artist specialising in hand crafted miniature pottery. Pushing the limits of micro craft, Yuta will individually throw each design before hand-finishing using a colour spectrum of over five hundred specially developed glazes.


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Work begins on Mosinee athletic complex
MOSINEE — Cory Tomczyk stood just beyond the fences of the Mosinee youth baseball fields and gestured toward the earth movers that were turning up the sod in an empty adjoining lot.
It's the beginning stages of a Mosinee Community Athletic Complex — a project that was first discussed seven years ago and will eventually feature the addition of nine baseball/softball fields, two soccer/football fields along with two basketball courts, a volleyball court and a park area.
"This day has been a long time coming," said Tomczyk, during a kickoff community celebration for the project Sunday afternoon. "People had asked 'Are you guys really going to be able to pull that off?' Well, equipment rolled into town this week and dirt started moving. People then got excited and started talking. That has been been my line the past few days, 'This is real.'"
The Mosinee Community Athletic Association has spearheaded the project and raised more than $300,000 for the complex so far. The first phase of the project will be highlighted by the creation of two softball fields and baseball field and potentially could be ready to be played on by next spring. The entire complex, which is situated on a 72-acre site, could be completed by 2020.
"You would like to say it's going to be the best or the prettiest. I just think its going to be a wonderful place for this community to gather together for sports," said Tomczyk, the former president of the MCAA and current Mosinee School Board president.
It will also alleviate issues for some athletic programs in Mosinee.
The varsity softball team currently plays on the city field and some nights during the spring is only allotted a few hours for practice as the field is reserved for adult leagues as well. The junior varsity team plays on a smaller than regulation little league field, and some youth league teams are playing or practicing late on weeknights due to a lack of fields overall.
Roughly 13 soldiers in the 229th Engineer Company of the Wisconsin National Guard, stationed out of Prairie Du Chien, began working on Phase 1 of the project this week and will remain through Thursday. Members of the company will return in early August for a 10-day stay as well.
The company is split right now as some soldiers are in Eau Claire for another public project — the creation of a shooting range for law enforcement in the area.
"In many situations if there were not projects like this, (the soldiers) would be over in Fort McCoy or some other military post conducting similar type of operations to train on the equipment," Brigadier General Mark E. Anderson said. "This is where it makes perfect sense where they can apply their skills and train on the equipment while providing a service to the local community."
The MACC just has to pay for the diesel fuel for the equipment that the Engineer Company uses in the project.
MACC president Paul Nievinski said the estimated cost for Phase I is $300,000, and the entire project around $1 million.
"If we went turnkey and paid someone to come out and build it, (the cost) would be closer to $2.5 million," Nievinski said. "We have the free labor and people who are donating their time saying. 'I will build the concession stand for you.' We just have to buy the lumber. That is big for this."
Tim Johnson can be reached at 715-845-0731. Find him on Twitter @timmyjo11


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MPR News Intelligence on higher education
St. Cloud State student is head honcho in small community
Alex Friedrich January 19, 2011, 12:46 PM Jan 19, 2011
St. Cloud State finance senior Kent Koch is the new mayor of Loretto (pop. 600) at the tender age of 23, the Star Tribune reports:
"I don't think that age really has anything to do with this type of position," the lifelong Loretto resident said. "I think it's more based on good communication and leadership qualities."
Koch's previous municipal experience included mowing city lawns and preparing baseball fields. He decided to run for the part-time job because he figured he was qualified. Plus, no one else was interested.
He might have been a heck of a political science major. Extra credit, anyone?
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Newer › Video: How St. Thomas gets its look
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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master's in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
St. Cloud State building rare 24-hour all-Huskies sports channel
St. Cloud State Huskies set world howling record
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Balkan Plumbing Named 2014 Angie's List Super Service Award Winner
March 2, 2015 in Press Releases by David Balkan
New York, USA (March 2, 2015) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Balkan Plumbing is named a Angie's List Super Service Award winner for 2014. When Joseph L. Balkan started his plumbing business in 1952, he did so because he believed New York City was in need of quality plumbing services that he knew he could offer. Back then, no one knew what a computer was, let alone the Internet, and instant reviews by customers were still about five decades away. Today, we at the Joseph L. Balkan Plumbing have a clear understanding of the Internet's importance.
Our clients utilize the Internet to not only find the right business to service their needs, but also to leave feedback about their experiences and relationship with those companies. We consistently receive positive feedback from our customers when it comes to the fast, courteous and quality services we provide. That is how we have maintained high marks on our website reviews, and one of the reasons we have consistently been an A+ rated accredited business with the Better Business Bureau.
Now our customers have helped us once again earn another accolade. We were recently informed that Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. is an Angie's List Super Service Award winner for 2014. It is an honor to be named a Angie's List Super Service Award winner because it is our customers who we truly believe are part of our extended family. Our customers continue to give us honest and accurate Angie's List ratings. This helps make us the undisputed leader, the largest, the most trusted, and the best sewer and water main company in New York City.
Earning such an honor is no easy task. In order to qualify, a company has to be one of the top 5-percent of all rated businesses in its category and must;
Maintain an "A" rating in overall grade (averaging all reviews ever received), an "A" rating in recent grades (average reviews over the last three years), an "A" rating in the review period grade (which averages reviews from Nov. 1 to Oct. 31) Moreover, it is required that the business is in current good standing.
We have long stood by the fact that our business provides the "Balkan Difference". We commit ourselves and our highly trained employees to always acting with honesty, integrity and professionalism while always adhering to the absolute highest standards of conduct. We believe so much in our work that we offer an exclusive 10-year guarantee, and we stand by it 100 percent.
If you have any water main or sewer needs for your home or business, from replacement to an installation or repair, please contact Balkan Plumbing to speak with one of our sewer and water main experts.
About Angie's List
Plumbers, exterminators, carpenters, electricians, dry cleaners, auto repair, doctors… Angie's List is a consumer-driven organization that collects customer satisfaction ratings on local service companies in more than 550 categories. We provide an exclusive list of these companies based on feedback from local consumers who know who to turn to when the gray clouds of disrepair loom. It's the word-of-mouth network solidified into one handy "who can I call" list. We now have over 1,500,000 members!
About Joseph L. Balkan Inc.
Balkan Plumbing is the largest sewer line replacement and water main service company in New York City. We are licensed, bonded, and insured. As a family run sewer and water main company in operation for over 50 years, our 10-year guarantee means we continue to stand by our work after the job is done.We are expertly equipped, from our 48,000 square foot facility to dozens of trucks, heavy moving equipment, backhoes and pneumatics. For all your subsurface plumbing including; water main repair and water main replacements, sewer repair and sewer replacements, catch basins, fire hydrants, manholes, and specialty excavation work, we can help. Contact Balkan Plumbing today or visit www.balkanplumbing.com.
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Informit.com has published a chapter of "Novell Open Enterprise Server Administrator's Handbook, SUSE Linux Edition". The chapter is titled "Working with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9." It is an introduction to administration in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
"This chapter will discuss essential Linux concepts, such as understanding the login process, using the command-line and graphical environments, finding your way around the filesystem, using the available help systems, and understanding text-editing tools in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 environment."


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Q: Is the SUMO 0.28.0 and SUMO(0.28.0+dfsg1+7+20) are same? i wanted to install sumo 0.29.0(latest version) on Ubuntu 16.04. but when i'm installing according to the guidance provided in
http://sumo.dlr.de/wiki/Installing
it always installed giving following executions
please some one help me to solve this
thank you

A: The ubuntu repository is not always up to date and is still at 0.28.0. If you really need the most recent version (0.30.0 as of today), you will need to build from source as described in the SUMO wiki http://sumo.dlr.de/wiki/Installing/Linux_Build.


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Newt Gingrich Is No Reagan
Peggy Noonan says there's a 'wound' in the Republican party
By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff
Posted Jan 27, 2012 8:46 AM CST
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich during the Florida Republican Presidential debate January 26, 2012 at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. (Getty Images/AFP)
Republicans are in the midst of "the most volatile and tumultuous presidential primary race of our lifetimes," and it's exposed an "age-old split between the grassroots and the perceived GOP establishment," writes Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal. "Actually, it's more a wound." The only person to ever heal that wound was Ronald Reagan, and so naturally, Reagan has become an issue, with Newt Gingrich claiming to be the Gipper's successor. He's not, Noonan assures us.
"Reagan was a constructive figure, not destructive," she writes. "If Newt is the donkey who knocked down the barn, Reagan's the guy who'd build it." Gingrich's claims that he helped Reagan beat the Soviets are just wrong—he was in Congress, but not a leader, and spoke against Reagan as often as not. He became a Reagan acolyte only after Reagan was cemented as an icon. "He is an entrepreneur; it was where the business was." Click to read her entire column. (Read more Peggy Noonan stories.)