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New York Times admission of Afghanistan fiasco provokes "human rights imperialist" backlash
An editorial published by the New York Times on February 4 titled "End the War in Afghanistan" has provoked a backlash from prominent supporters of the decades-long US "war on terrorism" and the fraud of "humanitarian intervention."
The Times editorial was a damning self-indictment by the US political establishment's newspaper of record, which has supported every US act of military aggression, from the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the US wars for regime change in Libya and Syria beginning in 2011.
The editorial presents the "war on terror" as an unmitigated fiasco, dating it from September 14, 2001, when "Congress wrote what would prove to be one of the largest blank checks in the country's history," i.e., the Authorization for Use of Military Force against Al Qaeda and its affiliates, which is still invoked to legitimize US interventions from Syria to Somalia, Yemen and, of course, Afghanistan.
On the day that this "blank check" was written, the Times published a column titled "No Middle Ground," which stated "the Bush administration today gave the nations of the world a stark choice: stand with us against terrorism, deny safe havens to terrorists or face the certain prospect of death and destruction. The marble halls of Washington resounded with talk of war."
It continued, "The nation is rallying around its young, largely untried leader—as his rising approval ratings and the proliferation of flags across the country vividly demonstrate …"
This war propaganda was sustained by the Times, which sold the invasion of Afghanistan as retribution for 9/11 and then promoted the illegal and unprovoked war against Iraq by legitimizing and embellishing the lies about "weapons of mass destruction."
With the first deployment of US ground troops in Afghanistan, the Times editorialized on October 20, 2001: "Now the nation's soldiers are going into battle in a distant and treacherous land, facing a determined and resourceful enemy. As they go, they should know that the nation supports their cause and yearns for their success."
Now the Times acknowledges: "The price tag, which includes the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and increased spending on veterans' care, will reach $5.9 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2019, according to the Costs of War project at Brown University. Since nearly all of that money has been borrowed, the total cost with interest will be substantially higher… More than 2.7 million Americans have fought in the war since 2001. Nearly 7,000 service members—and nearly 8,000 private contractors—have been killed. More than 53,700 people returned home bearing physical wounds, and numberless more carry psychological injuries. More than one million Americans who served in a theater of the war on terror receive some level of disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs."
The massive loss of life, destruction of social infrastructure and vast human suffering inflicted by these wars on civilian populations are at best an afterthought for the Times. Conservative estimates place the number killed by the US war in Afghanistan at 175,000. With the number of indirect fatalities caused by the war, the toll likely rises to a million. In Iraq, the death toll was even higher.
What does the Times conclude from this bloody record? "The failure of American leaders—civilians and generals through three administrations, from the Pentagon to the State Department to Congress and the White House—to develop and pursue a strategy to end the war ought to be studied for generations. Likewise, all Americans—the news media included—need to be prepared to examine the national credulity or passivity that's led to the longest conflict in modern American history."
What a cowardly and cynical evasion! Three administrations, those of Bush, Obama and Trump, have committed war crimes over the course of more than 17 years, including launching wars of aggression—the principal charge leveled against the Nazis at Nuremberg—the slaughter of civilians and torture. These crimes should not be "studied for generations," but punished.
As for the attempt to lump the news media together with "all Americans" as being guilty of "credulity" and "passivity," this is a slander against the American people and a deliberate cover-up of the crimes carried out by the corporate media, with the Times at their head, in disseminating outright lies and war propaganda. The Times editors should be "prepared to examine" the fact that journalistic agents of the Nazi regime who carried out a similar function in Germany were tried and punished at Nuremberg.
The Times editorial supporting a US withdrawal reflects the conclusions being drawn by increasing sections of the ruling establishment, including the Trump administration, which has opened up negotiations with the Taliban. It is bound up with the shift in strategy by US imperialism and the Pentagon toward the preparation for "great power" confrontations with nuclear-armed Russia and China.
The Times ' call for an Afghanistan withdrawal has provoked a heated rebuke by defenders of the "war on terrorism" and "humanitarian intervention," who have denounced the newspaper for defeatism. Such a withdrawal, a letter published by the Times on February 8 argued, would "accelerate and expand the war," "allow another extremist-terrorist phenomenon to emerge," and "result in the deaths and abuse of thousands of women."
The signatories of the letter include Frederick Kagan, David Sedney and Eleanor Smeal.
Kagan has a great deal invested in the Afghanistan war. He and his wife Kimberly served as civilian advisers to top generals who directed the war and elaborated the failed strategies of counterinsurgency (COIN). He has been a vociferous supporter of every US war and every escalation, arguing most recently for the US military to confront Russian- and Iranian-backed forces in Syria.
Likewise Sedney, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense responsible for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, now working at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Married to a top lobbyist for Chevron who worked extensively in Central Asia, he has his own interests in the continuation of US military operations in the region.
Smeal is the president of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMD) and a former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), who is widely described as one of "the major leaders of the modern-day American feminist movement."
A leading figure in the Democratic Party, Smeal is no Jane-come-lately to the filthy campaign to promote the war in Afghanistan as a "humanitarian" exercise in promoting the rights of women. In 2001, Smeal and her FMD circulated a petition thanking the Bush administration for its commitment to promoting the rights of women in Afghanistan. After the bombing began on October 7, she declared, "We have real momentum now in the drive to restore the rights of women." A few days later, she and representatives of other feminist organizations showed up at the White House to solidarize themselves with the US war.
Urging on the conquest of Afghanistan, she wrote, "I should hope our government doesn't retreat. We'll help rip those burqas off, I hope. This is a unique time in history. If you're going to end terrorism, you've got to end the ideology of gender apartheid."
Aside from costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of Afghan women, the US war has left women, like the entire population, under worse conditions than when it began. Two-thirds of Afghan girls do not attend school, 87 percent of Afghan women are illiterate, and 70-80 percent face forced marriage, many before the age of 16.
Recent reports suggest that the maternal death rate may be higher than it was before the war began, surpassed only by South Sudan. While USAID has poured some $280 million into its Promote program, supposedly to advance the conditions of Afghan women, it has done nothing but line the pockets of corrupt officials of the US-backed puppet regime in Kabul.
The attempt by the likes of Smeal and leading elements within the Democratic Party to cloak the bloodbath in Afghanistan as a crusade to "liberate" women and promote "democracy" is itself a criminal act.
On October 9, two days after Washington launched its now 17-year-long war on Afghanistan and amid a furor of jingoistic and militarist propaganda from the US government and the corporate media, the World Socialist Web Site editorial board posted a column titled "Why we oppose the war in Afghanistan." It rejected the claim that this was a "war for justice and the security of the American people against terrorism" and insisted that "the present action by the United States is an imperialist war" in which Washington aimed to "establish a new political framework within which it will exert hegemonic control" over not only Afghanistan, but over the broader region of Central Asia, "home to the second largest deposit of proven reserves of petroleum and natural gas in the world."
The WSWS stated at the time: "Despite a relentless media campaign to whip up chauvinism and militarism, the mood of the American people is not one of gung-ho support for the war. At most, it is a passive acceptance that war is the only means to fight terrorism, a mood that owes a great deal to the efforts of a thoroughly dishonest media which serves as an arm of the state. Beneath the reluctant endorsement of military action is a profound sense of unease and skepticism. Tens of millions sense that nothing good can come of this latest eruption of American militarism.
"The United States stands at a turning point. The government admits it has embarked on a war of indefinite scale and duration. What is taking place is the militarization of American society under conditions of a deepening social crisis.
"The war will profoundly affect the conditions of the American and international working class. Imperialism threatens mankind at the beginning of the twenty-first century with a repetition on a more horrific scale of the tragedies of the twentieth. More than ever, imperialism and its depredations raise the necessity for the international unity of the working class and the struggle for socialism."
These warnings and this perspective have been borne out entirely by the criminal and tragic events of the last 17 years, even as the likes of the New York Times find themselves compelled to admit the bankruptcy of their entire record on Afghanistan, and their erstwhile "liberal" allies struggle to salvage some shred of the filthy banner of "human rights imperialism."
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This review examines the response of pseudo-left political tendencies internationally to the major world political events of the past decade.
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The Fusion is a European vehicle created by Ford Europe between the years 2002 and 2012. There was only one generation spanning the decade with a few facelift changes along the way. The Fusion was part of the B-Segment and carried up to 5 passengers with characteristically large windows and tall head height. The Fusion shares a platform with the Ford Fiesta supermin. Marketed as an 'Urban Activity Vehicle,' the name 'Fusion' represents the combination of SUV, MPV and a small hatchback (each with traits borrowed to create the Fusion). There was no all-wheel drive variant for this vehicle.
The Fusion was first showcased at the Geneva Auto Show in 2001, and almost exactly a year later, the car went on sale after its official launch in 2002. Manufactured at the Cologne Niehl Assembly Plant, Ford exported the vehicle to 50 countries worldwide including Angola, South Africa, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan and Hong Kong.
There was a facelift in 2005 which saw changes to the front and rear lights, soft-touch interior materials, bumper fascias and door mirrors. Elsewhere, the Fusion was marketed as the crossover SUV EcoSport with revised styling and increased ground clearance. It scored 4 stars when tested by NCAP.
The later models featured power folding mirrors, automatic window wipers, Bluetooth connectivity, voice control, MP3 and in the UK, the trim levels available were Titanium, Style+ and Zetec (replacing the original 1,2,3 & +).
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A novel synthesis procedure for the production of 2-bromotetracenes was developed. From these 2-bromotetracenes, ditetracenes or oligotetracenes can be formed in the presence of organo-metal catalysts.

 The di- and oligotetracenes according to the present invention are more easily available, simpler to purify, and more convenient to process than conventional organic semiconductor materials. The field effect mobility and on-off ratio with these are comparable to pentacenes, whereby the tetracene derivatives, in contrast to pentacenes, are chemically stable.


In contrast to numeric models, granular models produce results coming in a form of some information granules. Owing to the granularity of information these constructs dwell upon, such models become highly transparent and interpretable as well as operationally effective. Given also the fact that information granules come with a clearly defined semantics, granular models are often referred to as linguistic models. The crux of the design of the linguistic models studied in this paper exhibits two important features. First, the model is constructed on a basis of information granules which are assembled in the form of a web of associations between the granules formed in the output and input spaces. Given the semantics of information granules, we envision that a blueprint of the granular model can be formed effortlessly and with a very limited computing overhead. Second, the interpretability of the model is retained as the entire construct dwells on the conceptual entities of a well-defined semantics. The granulation of available data is accomplished by a carefully designed mechanism of fuzzy clustering which takes into consideration specific problem-driven requirements expressed by the designer at the time of the conceptualization of the model. We elaborate on a so-called context – based (conditional) Fuzzy C-Means (cond-FCM, for brief) to demonstrate how the fuzzy clustering is engaged in the design process. The clusters formed in the input space become induced (implied) by the context fuzzy sets predefined in the output space. The context fuzzy sets are defined in advance by the designer of the model so this design facet provides an active way of forming the model and in this manner becomes instrumental in the determination of a perspective at which a certain phenomenon is to be captured and modeled. This stands in a sharp contrast with most modeling approaches where the development is somewhat passive by being predominantly based on the existing data. The linkages between the fuzzy clusters induced by the given context fuzzy set in the output space are combined by forming a blueprint of the overall granular model. The membership functions of the context fuzzy sets are used as granular weights (connections) of the output processing unit (linear neuron) which subsequently lead to the granular output of the model thus identifying a feasible region of possible output values for the given input. While the above design is quite generic addressing a way in which information granules are assembled in the form of the model, we discuss further refinements which include (a) optimization of the context fuzzy sets, (b) inclusion of bias in the linear neuron at the output layer.


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Afrobeats and Brunch with Sona Live and DJ Baj- Shaka Zulu, London (27th May, 2018)
Zoe Anderson June 14, 2018 Gigs
All photos owned by Afrobeats and Brunch
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2018 has been a revolutionary year for brunch. Wait, wait! Don't click away just yet. The millennial generation is often described as blowing all their money on avocado toast, bottomless prosecco and fancy decaffeinated lattes. Because lets face it; we'll never be able to put the deposit down on a house!
Yes indeed, we millennials love us a bit of a boozy brunch. And so, this year has seen a influx of events that combine a night out (in the daytime), a whole lotta drinking and maybe, just maybe a bit of food somewhere in the mix. Enter a new contender in the brunch game; Afrobeats and Brunch. The genre is having it's moment right now, with the likes of J-Hus and Ramz introducing it's uplifting sound to the UK scene. It has roots within the West African music scene of the 1970s and was originally coined by the absolutely legendary Fela Kuti around that time.
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With the bank holiday in full swing, Shaka Zulu was the venue of choice for the festivities. One of Camden Market's HUGE theme restaurants, the venue doubles as a restaurant and a club; perfect for the daytime madness that was about to ensue.
After a frenzied hour of bottomless punch, the crowd was feeling loose. Throughout the day, a three course meal was served as the host for the afternoon DJ Baj blended a combination of trap, dancehall and of course afrobeats.
If you're looking for a chilled out chat with your friends over a couple of scrambled eggs; this is not the event for you. It's much more geared towards those looking for a loud and proud daytime party with all the trimmings.
These particular trimmings came in the form of a dance troop who whirled and gyrated along to the music. And later, in the form of SONA, who combines R&B and afrobeats to create a smooth and soulful mash of genres and counties.
Afrobeats and Brunch is strictly for the party people. If it's your birthday, you can expect a cake and some sweet free drinks and if it's not, well, theres still allot of enjoy here if you're up for a bit of a session.
All photos owned by Afrobeats and Brunch.
Zoe Anderson
Hello and welcome to GIGsoup! I act as Senior Editor on the site; basically I'm a jack of all trades! I write, I manage and also work with our social media team. My main interest is in urban music genres, and I'm really excited to see where this area of music will go in the future. In my writing I try and take an analytical, almost academic perspective, which I believe makes for an interesting and in-depth read! Aside from GIGsoup, I am currently studying towards my Sound Design Bachelors degree. This mostly involved me producing sound and music for visual media, such as games, television and films. Contact me at zoe_anderson@gigsoup.co.uk
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Q: How to insert default values from one table to other in mysql I have 3 tables, one named employees, one Documents, and one Doctemplates
employees and documents have relationship, and doctemplates contain several document names.
What I need is when i add a new employee, under documents, system add the defaults documents templates form table doctemplates, so i don't have to type one by one.
Is there any way to do this, in a mysql query or php?

A: INSERT INTO documents (employeeId, col1, col2, col3)
SELECT $employeeId, c1, c2, c3 FROM doctemplates;

You can do it manually or from trigger.
More info: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/insert-select.html

A: WHAT YOU WANT IS TO INSERT DATA FROM DOCTEMPLETS TO DOCUMENTS.FOR THIS YOU HAVE TO CREATE A RELATION BETWEEN EMPLOYEE AND DOCTEMPLETS,THEN DEFINE A FOREIGN KEY IN DOCUMENTS TABLE FROM DOCTEMPLETS.
IF YOU WANT MORE ABOUT FOREIGN KEY DEFINING.PLZ ASK NEXT.
THANS

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The AZA Population Management Center (PMC), located at and hosted by the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL, is responsible for conducting the genetic and demographic analyses needed to develop and distribute population management recommendations for all Species Survival Plans® (SSP).
AZA-accredited Zoos and Aquariums, Certified Related Facilities, and Sustainability Partners work cooperatively to ensure the health of zoo and aquarium populations and the well-being of individuals within these populations. These plans help SSP species meet conservation and education objectives and guarantee that populations do not grow beyond our ability to care for them.
PMC staff, including population biologists and studbook analysts, assist each SSP program in the development of their population management plans by making sure the data are accurate, determining the current population status, predicting the future population status, identifying specific breeding recommendations, and distributing the plan to all participating institutions. In addition, the PMC contributes valuable information for AZA Animal Care Manuals and Regional Collection Plans.
AZA's nearly 500 actively managed Animal Programs are scheduled by the PMC and Adjunct Advisors. Visit the PMCTrack website to see what Programs PMC population biologists are currently planning. If you are a new Program Leader or are a Program Leader for a new SSP, contact the PMC to schedule your planning meeting.
Contact the PMC's Studbook Analyst Kelvin Limbrick.
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Inspiring talks, hands-on workshops and great networking – thank you so much for participating and making GamifyUs 2018 a success!
GamifyUs 2018 took place on December 5th at Stockholmsmässan. Thank you all for an inspiring day full of new perspectives on gamification, nudging, behavioral design & behavioral economics. We had a great program with Yu-kai Chou, Zachary Fitz-Walter, Robin Hanson and Linda Lindström among others. Black hat motivation vs. white hat motivation, what makes games so engaging and how to change behavior in order to make the world a better place were just some of the topics during the conference.
"You did an amazing event 2018. Can't think of any improvements."
"The food was excellent, really appreciated that you had vegetarian as default!"
Yu-kai Chou has been voted the worlds no 1 Keynote Speaker on Gamification and Behavioral Design several years in a row and is one of the earliest pioneers on the subject.
Beteendelabbet was a natural choice of partner, since we are taking GamifyUs to the next level this year focusing even more on the behavioral science that is the foundation of good game design.


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Q: An annotation processor threw an uncaught exception I have trouble building my project. There is no errors and i can deploy perfectly, the problem is i just cant build the project.
I am pretty sure there are no missing classes or libraries, and positively sure no compiler errors.
An annotation processor threw an uncaught exception.
Consult the following stack trace for details.
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for org.bouncycastle.cert.ocsp.BasicOCSPResp not found
    at org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.modelgen.CanonicalModelProcessor.process(CanonicalModelProcessor.java:407)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.callProcessor(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:793)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.discoverAndRunProcs(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:722)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.access$1700(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:97)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$Round.run(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1029)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.doProcessing(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1163)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1108)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:824)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:439)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:353)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:342)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:333)
    at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:76)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.Javac13.execute(Javac13.java:56)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:1153)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:930)
    at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.ant.JavacTask.execute(JavacTask.java:145)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor99.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Sequential.execute(Sequential.java:68)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor99.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.MacroInstance.execute(MacroInstance.java:398)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor99.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:392)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:413)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:283)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:541)
    at org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:153)
Caused by: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for org.bouncycastle.cert.ocsp.BasicOCSPResp not found
E:\NetBeans Projects\test\nbproject\build-impl.xml:876: The following error occurred while executing this line:
E:\NetBeans Projects\test\nbproject\build-impl.xml:309: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.
BUILD FAILED (total time: 1 second)

line 876 of build-impl is
    <webproject2:javac destdir="${build.classes.dir}" gensrcdir="${build.generated.sources.dir}"/>

line 309of build-impl is
    <javac debug="@{debug}" deprecation="${javac.deprecation}" destdir="@{destdir}" encoding="${source.encoding}" excludes="@{excludes}" fork="${javac.fork}" includeantruntime="false" includes="@{includes}" source="${javac.source}" srcdir="@{srcdir}" target="${javac.target}">

What am i missing here?
Using netbeans IDE 7.2.1 and this project is using JSF

A: Seems like as per stack trace there is compilation error (javac executed via Ant):
There is custom class not found error:
class file for org.bouncycastle.cert.ocsp.BasicOCSPResp not found

You need to make sure in build.xml for javac target/task you are setting correct classpath, looks like bouncycastle jar/classes are missing in class path for javac target.
Edit: in your Ant javac target there is no classpath defined. see http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/javac.html. You can use something like
<path id="javac.classpath">
    <pathelement location="lib/"/>
    <pathelement path="${java.class.path}/"/>
    <pathelement path="${additional.path}"/>
 </path>

<javac debug="@{debug}" deprecation="${javac.deprecation}" .. more attr ..>
    <classpath refid="javac.classpath/>
</javac>


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CashBack Automator – "Did you know most retailers give free cash rebates to online shoppers? Use CashBack Automator to find deals and save money." I haven't signed up for this site, because it's a US one (also Canada, I think) and thus wasted on me. However, an impressive roll call of "supported retailers" includes Target, Gap and Expedia.
Approved Food & Drink – this tip came from Frugal Grandma, who spotted it in the Daily Mail (naturally). It's an online retailer, selling clearance and out-of-date food and drink at rock bottom prices. They courier their wares around the country, with delivery prices similar to those of the supermarkets, and also have a cash and carry store in Worksop. All the other frugal grandmas must have spotted this one in the Daily Mail too, because Approved currently has an order backlog of nearly 12 days!
Absurdly Cool – this site is an "automated free stuff aggregator", which collates freebie offers and filters out the scams. It features offers from the US, Canada and the UK. A sister site, Oh! Big Deal! collates money off and discount offers in various US stores.


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Band To Watch: Braids
Band To Watch - Braids
Band To Watch May 5, 2010 11:41 AM By Stereogum
A couple of years ago we wrote about a young Calgary band, the Neighborhood Council. They had a single self-released EP. The band's still pretty young, but have since moved to Montreal, changed their name to Braids (no, not Braid, emo boy), and are set to release a full-length, Native Speaker. With the name change has come a shift in angle, too: Last time through we mentioned "an early Pacific Northewest sound, like what you might expect from the Softies, only on a more shoe-gaze tip with gentler dueling Excuse 17-style harmonies." This time it's Velocity Girl who keep surfacing amid the piano, guitars, extended pulsations, and ambient breaks and builds. They're still not afraid to let things flow — a couple of the album's seven tracks are above eight minutes, two are above five, and none dip below four and a half. See, for instance, opener "Lemonade." It's like a baroque "Crazy Town."
Braids – "Lemonade"
Native Speaker is tentatively out 5/25 in Canada and Fall 2010 in the U.S. There's no label just yet. For now, hear more at MySpace. Before too long they're on the road:
05/21 – Montreal, QC @ Le Savoy #
05/22 – Boston, MA @ TT The Bear's Place %
05/27 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
05/29 – Toronto, ON @ The Piston (PItter Patter)
05/30 – London, ON @ Forest City Gallery
05/31 – Guelph, ON @ Ed Video
06/01 – Sudbury, ON @ Millard's Garage
06/03 – Winnipeg, MB @ Freud's Bathhouse
06/04 – Regina, SK @ O'Hanlons Pub
06/05 – Edmonton, AB @ Castle Awesome $
06/06 – Calgary, AB @ Marquee Room $
06/08 – Medicine Hat, AB @ TBA $
06/09 – Lethbridge, AB @ TBA $
06/10 – Canmore, AB @ Canmore Hotel $
06/11 – Vancouver, BC @ Warehouse $
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PureBasic - Menu

Overview

Creating and managing menus in PureBasic is simple. You can, of course, tailor the menus to your specific needs.

To use a menu you must first start by creating one with either CreateMenu() for normal
menus, or CreatePopupMenu() for pop-up menus.

Mac OSX:

There are predefined menu events #PB_Menu_Quit, #PB_Menu_About and #PB_Menu_Preferences
to represent the entries in the application menu which is present on every OSX program. Their values are negative to not conflict with any
menu entries defined in the program. They are reported from EventMenu() as regular menu events.

Command Index

BindMenuEvent

CloseSubMenu

CreateImageMenu

CreateMenu

CreatePopupImageMenu

CreatePopupMenu

DisableMenuItem

DisplayPopupMenu

FreeMenu

GetMenuItemState

GetMenuItemText

GetMenuTitleText

HideMenu

IsMenu

MenuBar

MenuHeight

MenuID

MenuItem

MenuTitle

OpenSubMenu

SetMenuItemState

SetMenuItemText

SetMenuTitleText

UnbindMenuEvent

Example

Menu.pb

PopupMenu.pb

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clock repair, Master Clock Repair Columbus, OH Choose a Clockmaker?
Some people might ask, "What's the big deal?" Does it really matter? If you only have one clock, or perhaps an inexpensive clock, maybe it won't matter to you. However, if you have a clock you cherish, new or old, or if you have many clocks, it should matter. A quality repair is a wise investment in your valued possession.
Of all the service trades in the world, I would have to guess that clock repair has more practicing amateurs or hobbyists (someone who repairs clocks, but not as a profession) than any other. For every practicing professional there are probably 50 hobbyists. Most of these folks do not do any repair for the general public. They are only repairing the clocks in their own collection. However there are quite a few, who after doing this for themselves, will eventually open a repair shop and begin charging the unsuspecting clock owner for their less than ideal work. (See my Hall of Shame page for some sad and oftentimes humorous examples, provided it was not your clock they worked on!) Because of the abundance of hobbyists, who more than likely are not well trained repairmen and the value most people place in their clock, some guidelines may help you to find the right clockmaker for you. So for those who are interested I offer the following information for you to consider.
First of all, if possible, once you have a clock repaired you are going to be far better off returning to that same clockmaker (assuming that person is competent) if it needs repair again. This is particularly true if you have had a clock restored or overhauled. The reason being that he or she knows what they have or haven't done and this will have a bearing on all future repairs. Most good clockmakers are very concerned about their reputation and the longevity of their repairs. If this person has overhauled your clock you are likely to be given special prices for scheduled maintenance, and, if he sees something failing in a clock he has restored, even though it is beyond the warranty period, he is more likely to take care of it, either for nothing, or at least, at a reduced rate. Of course, I can't speak for all clockmakers, but this happens to be how I run my shop, and I suspect that many others who care about their reputation do so as well. If you take it to someone else, they are not likely to be so accommodating.
The reason I mention this first is that, if you are likely to be going back to this clockmaker again and again, you want to choose someone you like, someone who is not only competent but also friendly and informative.
If you are uncomfortable during your initial experience, as in your first phone conversation or when you are being given an estimate, it is time to ask yourself, "Do I want to leave my clock with this person?" Remember, if you do leave it, you will see him at least once more when you pick up the clock and you may need to call him with a question. If there is a problem after you pick it up, you might need to take it back. If you are uncomfortable the first time, why subject yourself to continued visits to this shop?
I don't know about you, but I would rather never have to spend money to get anything repaired, so when I do I am looking for as pleasant an experience as possible when I go to pay for it. A friendly clockmaker likes what he does and his enthusiasm shows. He will usually greet you with a smile and a warm hello. For the most part, you can judge the personality of a shop very quickly. First impressions are very important, whether in person or on the phone.
Once you arrive, take a look around, what do you see? If you can't see the shop, what is the waiting area like? Clock repair is meticulous work and requires attention to detail. A good clockmaker with good work habits knows this. A sloppy shop could mean a sloppy clockmaker. If he doesn't pay attention to the details you do see, perhaps he won't care about the things you don't see.
Being informative is very important. Some customers don't care why a clock needs what it needs, they just want it fixed. However, I have found that most are curious about their clocks and want to know why it doesn't work, why it failed and how it is to be repaired. Also, there are circumstances where there may be different ways of looking at how the clock might be repaired. There can be short term and long term approaches. (See the web page on My Estimating Philosophy for more information about this.) The problem you brought the clock in for may be it's most immediate need, but a good clockmaker will look ahead for potential future problems and advise you accordingly. Some repairs may be guaranteed, where others are not. If there is no guarantee, there may be a risk on your part. If there are options, does he explain them to you? When you are there to pick up your clock, will he take the time to explain to you how to set it up, wind it, set the hands and regulate it?
Will you be able to get a hold of this person again if you need to? A great deal of the "clockmakers" out there are part time hobbyists. If he is not there to answer your calls does he have a message system? If he does is he quick to return the calls? Does he keep regular hours so you will know when he is in?
Another important factor is how long the person has been in business. I would be very wary of someone who has only repaired clocks for a year or two. A recent book studied how long it takes for someone in any given profession or art to become proficient at any given skill. That skill could be painting, playing the guitar, carpentry, TV repair or repairing clocks. The book states that, on average, it takes approximately 10,000 hours of practice to become competent. 10,000 hours is the equivalent of 5 years of full time (40 hours per week) work. Given the fact that there are hundreds of clock types it usually takes even longer for most clockmakers to get really good at repairing the vast number of clock types that exist. Remember you can only become proficient on the things you actually repair. If you only get a certain type of clock a couple times a year it will take many more years to gain significant experience on that type. So then, all other things being equal, you definitely want to give the edge to someone who has been in business the longest. Also, if someone has been in business for a long time it is likely they have a good reputation and have been serving their customers well. If they were doing bad work they likely would have gotten run out of town a long time ago.
Now we come to competence. Does the clockmaker have the ability to do the job and do it well? This is the hardest part for a clock owner to judge. Short of receiving an excellent recommendation, the best thing to do is ask questions. How long have you been doing this? How did you get started? How did you learn the trade? You don't need to grill the person; you only have to sound interested. If you are concerned enough, do not be afraid to ask if any references are available. A quality repairman will willingly supply this information to you. Of course with today's modern internet, looking up reviews is very helpful.
In my opinion, the best way to learn clock repair is through an apprenticeship. During an apprenticeship a clockmaker may very well repair several thousand clocks of all kinds. You can learn a great deal from a book, you can learn a great deal from a week long course, but until you have repeated practical experience, all you have is head knowledge. Even better than just an apprenticeship, is a person who has exposed himself to more than one form of training and has a dialogue with other competent clockmakers. Otherwise, a clockmaker may never realize how much he does not know.
These are just some simple guidelines to think about. Remember there are always exceptions to every set of rules. A clockmaker may be unpleasant but it doesn't make him incompetent. A person with a sloppy shop may be "too busy" to organize. A person who is hard to get a hold of may be a very good repairman, just a lousy businessman. A person who only learned from a book may be so diligent that he does a wonderful job. An amateur may be very good at what he does but lacks the experience of a full time clockmaker.
In my opinion, nothing beats proper training (apprenticeship) as a foundation, coupled with years of experience, followed by continued education and contact with others in the trade.
In addition to all of this, if you can find someone in your area who has been certified in clock repair you are quite lucky. The American Watchmakers Clockmakers Institute offers a Certification program for watch and clockmakers. If you do not live in the Central-Ohio area and wish to find a certified clockmaker in your area try the referral section on AWCI's web site. To learn more about what AWCI Certification is and what it means to you, see my What Is Certification page.


Established in 1984 by Mr. Kamal Khandelwal (MD), Scottish Chemical Industries (SCI) is one of the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of Hexachloroethane and foundry products.
For over 35 years Scottish has been serving the foundry industries with highest quality products like Degasers, Grain Refiners, Foundry Fluxes , Fused+ Granulated Fluxes, Coatings, (Ti & Sr) Modalloys , (Mn, Cu, Fe, Cr, Ti) Adal tablets, AITi5B1 coils, Boron Hardener, Magnesium, Ingots, Fast Melting Silicon, Ceramic Foam Filters, Crucibles, Castables, etc. used in Aluminium, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Brass foundries.
SCI also deals in various equipments like flux feeding machine, mobile degassing units, temp. measuring devices, coil feeding machines, porosity meters, etc. We are also involved in sourcing and supplying various other foundry raw material including all Fluorine Chemicals, Magnesium Chloride (Anhydrous), etc.
Established in 1984 by Mr. Kamal Khandelwal (MD), Scottish Chemical Industries (SCI) is one of the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of Hexachloroethane.
SCI is also actively associated with various multinational companies as a contract manufacturer. We currently export our products to over 800 reputed customers and dealers spread across 55 countries in the world. Our customer base includes World's leading primary & secondary smelters, die casters, extrusion units, manufacturers of alloys, wheels, pistons, sheets, foils, cables, etc. Equipped with the latest technology and adequate technical staff, SCI constantly develops enhanced products to improve / modify the melt quality.
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What would Seretse say?
Christinah Motlhabane
Seretse Khama
On Wednesday (1 July) the country celebrates Sir Seretse Khama Day, with this year's national holiday marking the 99th anniversary of the great man's birth.
Botswana's first ever President and the founder of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Seretse ruled the country from independence until his death in 1980, succumbing to pancreatic cancer shortly after his 59th birthday.
It is now 40 years since Seretse's untimely passing; much has changed since then.
To mark this special day in the calendar, The Voice's CHRISTINAH MOTLHABANE dragged her tiny frame onto the streets of Francistown to find out if the people think Sir Seretse would be happy with the country Botswana has become.
KEFILWE MODISE
I do not think Sir Seretse Khama would be happy with Botswana's current situation because we are in the Corona era. He was in power in the 19th century and the world has changed rapidly since then!
But anyway, regardless of Covid-19, Sertese was not going to be pleased as his own son has left the party he founded; even worse Ian defected to form his own party!
The other thing he was not going to like is Ministers like Moswaane who are constantly attacking the ruling party along with the opposition parties.
The way things are in terms of employment, I wish children could delete that mentality of saying when I grow up I want to work for the government.
Instead be entrepreneurs; that could put Botswana somewhere!
BRIAN GRACIANO (27)
He would not be happy for Botswana at all. The way things are currently, it's as if the world is coming to an end! Even the President is not leading people the right way.
So many people are unemployed. They say there is no money whilst on the other hand chunks of Botswana money is being stolen. Corruption in our small country is rife.
Also, when you get in the government offices seeking help they don't assist with love, they are rude and lazy!
Things have really changed for the worse. Sir Seretse Khama, the way he was he would not like to see his people suffer.
If things were done well, Botswana could be a rich country because we have diamonds.
TSAMODIMO VALELA (26)
Our forefather was going to be hurt looking at the way his people are suffering. He wanted Batswana to be educated, which we are but now there is no employment.
Sir Seretse Khama, what I have read about him, he was a good person. The way government are currently doing things, giving tenders to their friends and families is really painful.
For a Motswana to be successful is when he engages a foreigner who is also going to end up cheating us anyway!
Population wise, Botswana is a very small country; deals should be transparent so everything becomes clear and there is no room for cheating and corruption.
Some countries could be benchmarking from us.
ERIC MOLEPO (69)
Khama would be thrilled to see that Batswana are educated as he wished. During our youth, the schools were few and many could not attend.
Khama tried by all means to ensure that every Motswana had access to an education. He was a down-to-earth man who loved his people.
He did not like when people fight, he wanted people to solve their problems and move on.
This is one of his legacies as no one has ever been killed in this country because of their political beliefs.
Of course Batswana do have arguments but normally end up solving their differences peacefully.
The thing that was going to annoy him is people who disseminate false information and it looks real thus inconveniencing other Batswana.
GAGOOPE PHALALO (27)
Botswana is changing into a bad country. Money goes missing and corruption is growing at an alarming rate.
All this would not please Sir Seretse Khama.
What he was going to like is that education has improved and many are educated even though there are no jobs.
I wish they could be developments for youth, not for them to go to school and get certificates only to come back and sit at home without work.
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Master System Games – Vampire: Master of Darkness
Written by thegaminggeek
Sega Master System | Video Games
I was glad that I came across Vampire: Master of Darkness. I wanted to avoid any of the mainline Castlevania games to save them for later. When I queued this up, I was surprised at how the game closely resembled the original Castlevania on the NES. Aside from having another horror title to play this month, I finally have the chance to write about a game for the Sega Master System.
Title screen for Master of Darkness on the Sega Master System.
Let's talk about the very first Master System game that I played until the end – Vampire: Master of Darkness.
Game Basics
Vampire: Master of Darkness is an action platformer that was developed by SIMS Co LTD. Sega published versions of the game for the Game Gear and Master System. I actually ran across the Game Gear version first, but when I read that the Master System version was better, I opted to play that instead. In the game, you take on the role of Dr. Ferdinand Social, a psychologist who is investigating a series of serial killings in London.
You're just playing as a normal psychologist named Ferdinand Social in this game.
It's amazing how similar this game is to the original Castlevania. The stages move mostly from left to right and consist of flat platforms. You will have to move up and down a lot of stairs too, and this game's stairs work almost exactly like they do in classic Castlevania titles. Sometimes, the stages will have verticality to them.
You've got a health meter (called a life meter) in this game. You start the game with three lives and you can get more by getting extra life power ups. The game does not have any difficulty options. And as far as I can tell, you've also got unlimited continues. The game doesn't have any options to change difficulty, nor does it have a password or save system.
Moves and Abilities
Given that Vampire: Master of Darkness is an 8-bit game, your options for moves are limited. Dr. Social can walk to the left and right, and he can also jump. He can crouch, and he can also move forward while crouching. He can attack using his primary weapon or his secondary weapon. His starting primary weapon is the knife. Every time you respawn after dying, you'll go back to having this weapon equipped. The knife is the weakest and has the shortest range out of all the primary weapons.
Your default primary weapon is the knife.
Later on, you'll be able to replace your knife with a cane, a rapier, or an axe. The latter two are the best ones. Whether you'll use the rapier or axe will depend on what is more important to you. The rapier has longer range, while the axe does more damage. Attacking with the rapier almost looks like you're using the Belmont whip!
The rapier is my preferred primary weapon.
For secondary weapons, you may find a revolver, bombs, or boomerangs. Each type has it's own inventory/ammo count. Whenever your secondary weapon gets replaced, how many you have will reset to the starting value. So it's best to stick to one type as much as possible.
Bombs are thrown upward, so they're good for attacking enemies above you.
My secondary weapon of choice are the bombs, because they are thrown upward. The revolver just shoots bullets forward, and I never had the chance to try out the boomerang because I didn't want to let go of my bombs. The only other secondary weapon that I used were the stakes. Knowing vampire lore, I had a feeling that stakes would be helpful later on (and they were).
Comparisons to Castlevania
I don't think I can avoid comparing Vampire: Master of Darkness to Castlevania because they're quite similar. So I'll do just that! To get items in this game, you'll need to destroy masks instead of candles. They'll contain items that will add to your score, primary weapons or secondary weapons. Sometimes, they'll have these red potions that will refill your life meter.
These masks will give you different items after you destroy them.
You can also find red potions in walls, just like how you can find pieces of meat in Castlevania. Now I think this gives this game an edge over Konami's franchise. I'd be more open to drinking a potion than eating meat that I found inside a brick wall.
Thank the skies for city builders who thought of hiding these red potions inside walls!
This game also has stairs, and they work in a similar way. You can't jump on these stairs. In order to move up or down stairs, you need to enter them from the top or bottom end by pressing up or down. A big improvement in Master of Darkness is that you can attack while on stairs. You can also jump off of them too. These stairs can lead you to different screens so check the floors to see if there are stairs leading down.
This area was definitely inspired by Castlevania.
Early in the game, I can see how the developers were trying to distance their game from Castlevania. But they were able to only go so far. At around the halfway point, the game will really start looking like Konami developed it. This is around the time that you start exploring castles.
Visuals, Sounds, and Presentation
While Vampire: Master of Darkness is the first Master System game that I've played up to the end, I've tried playing other titles as well. And this game is one of the many titles that really shows how powerful the Master System is compared to the NES. I love how the developers used colors in this game's stages and sprite design.
The game's stage backgrounds have a lot of detail in them.
As for the music, this game has pretty competent sound design too. The sound effects are excellent, and the stage themes are very good. I think some of the themes could have used a few more bars before looping, but that's a minor nitpick.
The intro cutscene does a good job of relaying the premise of the game.
Another thing that this game has going for it is it's presentation. You'll get a lot of text-based cutscenes in the game, and they do a good job of telling this game's storyline. Some bosses even have text dialogue before and after you beat them.
Is this Dracula? Play the game to find out!
These little things helped increase my immersion in the game. Aside from just moving from stage to stage, I actually felt that the story was progressing.
Is Vampire: Master of Darkness a Castlevania rip-off? It's hard to say no, because it is very similar to Konami's popular series. I guess the developers had a different enough product to not get into any legal issues. But is this a good game? In a lot of aspects, yes!
It might not offer the same challenge as classic Castlevania titles, but being an easier game made it more accessible to someone like me who just wants to play video games. Having a setting that's closer to reality, with a protagonist that's more relatable, made me appreciate this game more.
Now, I wonder why Sega dropped this franchise. This could have been another franchise that would have helped them in their rivalry with Nintendo. Maybe having a protagonist named Dr. Social wasn't such a good idea. I think this game deserved a sequel. One thing's for sure: playing this game opened my mind up to the Master System. I'll make sure to play a few more titles from Sega's 8-bit console.
If you love classic Castlevania games but you've already played them all, check this title out. Vampire: Master of Darkness is a well made Castlevania clone that provides an enjoyable gaming experience. Just don't expect this game to offer much of a challenge.
Check out the other Master System games that I played and wrote about here!
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Q: How to use linq with enum type In our project, we have a piece of code which look like this:
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where event and s.Type both belong to an enum type EventType.
But when running, it throws an exception with this message

Unable to cast the type 'EventType' to type 'System.Object'. LINQ to
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A: If you change your current code into this:
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It should work. When you use Equals method, Linq to entities will try to create a sql query from your expression, and when you use Equals method, it will try to convert the cast, and LINQ to Entities doest support that.


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FitzHenry Footnote
It's fitting that I'm following Jo's post about variants and deviants. I'm being a bit deviant by writing about someone who wasn't a FitzHenry. His mother-in-law, however, was a FitzHenry so I think that counts for something. :-)
Hiriam Cunningham is pictured on the right with his 1st cousin by marriage, Edwin Sawtell FitzHenry. Link to the photo here. Hiriam came into the family by marrying Enoch's granddaughter, Sarah Wilson, in April 1849. Enoch's daughter, Susanna, was Sarah's mother.
We know what happened to Edwin. What happened to Hiriam? Did he survive the Civil War? My research shows that Hiriam died in 1860. However, considering that Edwin Sawtell didn't enlist in the Calvary until August 1861 something doesn't add up. (Hiriam looks pretty good for someone that's supposed to be deceased.) I also can't find any online evidence that either man served in the Civil War. Unless the men pictured in the photograph were going to a costume party, I don't find that credible either.
I've explored the message boards and family trees on Ancestry.com and Hiriam seems to be a bit of a mystery. If anyone has information on Hiriam's fate and family, please stand up and be counted. I would like to make him more than a FitzHenry footnote.
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Labels: Hiriam Cunningham
Deviants and variants
It turns out that the transcription errors in the 1841 and 1881 censuses that I called "variants" are in fact "deviants".
A variant is a local change of surname spelling. It may start out as a spelling error when a member of the family or a clerk spells a name wrongly, but if it becomes the accepted local or family spelling, then it becomes a variant. The surname Fitzhenry started out with a hyphen after the Norman conquest, but lost it in most cases. There is a family in the US called Fitzsenry which undoubtedly started out as Fitz(-)henry, but got spelt that way during the immigration process in the 19th century and the spelling stuck.
A deviant is a mis-spelling. It's just plain wrong. Just like those census transcription errors. Speaking of which, I was emailed today by Val from Liverpool who had spent ages looking for her Fitzhenry family in the 1841 census, only to find them indexed as Fitzhenay!
And we've also been contacted by Kim, whose Fitzhenry line in the US dropped the Fitz several generations ago and are now officially just Henrys. Which does make them an extreme variant.
Labels: Fitzhenry variants
Edwin Sawtell FitzHenry: After the Civil War
After "meeting" Edwin Sawtell FitzHenry in the pages of a notebook, I wondered what happened to him after the Civil War. Luckily for this branch of the FitzHenrys, Edwin's story didn't end on the battle field.
On October 30, 1866, he said good-bye to the single life and married Sarah Jane Burns. It was a classic May to December romance with 14 years between them. In their 17 years of marriage, they had seven children. All lived past infancy, married and had children of their own. Edwin and Sarah spent most of their married life on a farm near Gibson City, Illinois.
In 1883, for unknown reasons, Edwin and his family moved to Fairbury, Nebraska. They lived in Nebraska six months until Edwin's death on January 12, 1884, at the age of 48.
After burying her husband in the Fairbury cemetery, Sarah moved back to her home in Illinois. At the age of 34, she was a widow with children ranging in age from 5 months to 15 years. Mrs. FitzHenry lived on her home place until her death from pneumonia on March 21, 1911. She was survived by 16 grandchildren, her mother and a sister. According to her obituary, a large crowd gathered at the church to pay a last tribute to the memory of the aged citizen and a long line of carriages and buggies followed the remains to their last resting place in the Gibson cemetery.
Blessed be their memories.
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More "extreme variants" from the 1841 census
On the Findmypast.com website, members of my own family are variously named Fitzberry and Fitzhoney. If I hadn't known they were there, I never would have found them. These names go right under the variant radar....
Labels: 1841 census, Fitzhenry variants
The English 1881 census - the "extreme variants" named
So here are those twelve Fitz(-)henrys that take a bit more effort to find and my thoughts about where they fit in.
Miles FITZ HENRY OR HENRY Lodger U Male 20 Bham, Warwick, England
11 Garrison Lane, 3 Ct 3 House, Aston, Warwick, England
Family History Library Film 1341722
Public Records Office Ref. RG11 Piece / Folio 3022 / 95 Page 4
This man is likely to be the son of Miles FH of Albion Street, Yardley, Worcester.
Henrietta Fitz HENRY Lodger U Female 26 Jersey, Channel Islands Schoolmistress
High St, Carisbrooke, Hampshire, England
Public Records Office Ref RG11 Piece / Folio 1176 / 104 Page 8
This is the eldest daughter of William Fitz-Henry of Winchester, Hampshire and Ashtead, Surrey. Although the county is given as Hampshire, Carisbrooke is on the Isle of Wight. Carisbrooke was a very trendy place in this era as Queen Victoria had her summer retreat there.
John FITZHEURY Patient U Male 22 Grimsby, Lincoln, England Seaman
Dreadnought Seamens Hospital Greenwich S E Kent, England
This may be the future husband of Tasmania Palfrey. Grimsby was a busy fishing port but is not a town that has "native" Fitzhenrys. On the marriage certificate of Tasmania and John FH, his father is also noted as a seaman, so this may be the reason he was born there.
William FITZHENNY Lodger U Male 34 Pimlico, Middlesex, England Music Librarian
29 Gt James Street London, Middlesex, England
Public Records Office Ref RG11 Piece / Folio 0339 / 77 Page Number 64
This man is a member of Lesley Champion's family.
John W FITZHENNY Head M male 25 Middlesex St Pancras Solicitors general clerk
Honoria J. FITZHENNY Wife M female 24 Middlesex Hoxton
Emily M. FITZHENNY Daug U female 8 mon Middlesex St Pancras
9 Warner Street, Islington Middlesex
PRO ref RG11 Piece / folio 241 / 100 Page 4
Edward FITZHEURY Head M Male 41 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Coppersmith
John R. FITZHEURY Son Male 13 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar
James FITZHEURY Son Male 9 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar
Daniel FITZHEURY Son Male 6 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Scholar
Matthew FITZHEURY Son Male 4 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
18 Back Blake St, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Public Records Office Ref RG11 Piece / Folio 3621 / 33 Page 28
Labels: Census 1881, Fitzhenny, Fitzhenry variants, Fitzheury
The English 1881 census and the "extreme variants".
A bit of a nerdy stats update.
In the English 1881 census there are officially 96 Fitzhenrys using the usual variant spellings (Fitzhenry, Fitz-Henry, Fitz Henry) which are easily picked up using the search engines in Ancestry, Findmypast and Familysearch.
Dig a bit deeper and you find another 12.
I've found two just in as Henry with Fitz as a given name.
Four Fitzhennys
And most bizarrely, six Fitzheurys in two different households.
The twelve "extreme variant" names are all entered correctly as Fitzhenry by the census enumerators (I've looked at the originals). They have just been wrongly transcribed by the genealogy companies.
So if you've lost a Fitz(-)henry, try the "extreme variants" listed above and also Fitzkenny, Fitzkenry, Fitzhenery and Fiteshenry, all of which I've found other indexes.
Labels: 1881 census, Fiteshenry, Fitzhenery, Fitzhenny, Fitzheury, Fitzkendry, Fitzkenny
A small Fitzhenry family in Chester...
I've been in Chester in Cheshire for the past few days and found the area where a Fitzhenry family lived from 1836-1851.
They lived in an area called Kaleyards, a place that used to be the kitchen garden for the ancient Chester Cathedral in the centre of the city. For a look at how this area still looks all these years later, this is a great web site.
In the 1841 census, Catharine Fitzhenry aged 5 lives with
Thomas Harrison (55, a ropemaker born in Cheshire) and
Harriet Harrison (30, a female servant also born in Cheshire).
In the 1851 census, the family is still living in Kaleyards
Thomas Harrison head, 67 years, widower, ropemaker
Harriet Fitzhenry serv, 40 years, married, housekeeper
Catharine Fitzhenry, neice, 14 years, unmarried, scholar
According to the IGI, Catharine Fitzhenry was christened on 29 July 1836 at St. Mary's Chester. She was the daughter of Henry and Harriette Fitzhenry.
I can't find any record of any of these people after the 1851 census.
I'm working on the supposition that Harriet was Thomas Harrison's younger sister (although there is 27 years between them). This makes Catharine his neice. And explains why Harriet is named Harrison in the 1841 census.
But why did Harriet call herself Harrison in 1841 if she was married to Henry Fitzhenry? Was this the enumerator's error? And why is she called a servant instead of a sister in 1851?
And what happened to Henry?
Labels: Catharine Fitzhenry, Harriet Fitzhenry, Henry Fitzhenry, Thomas Harrison
Baptism of Thomas Fitzhenry in Clare, County Mayo in 1840
I'm indebted to the EastMayo.org genealogy website for the following entry. This is a fantastic collection of Family history record transcriptions from this locality in Ireland.
Baptism April 7 1840 --Clare--
Thomas of Thomas Edmond FitzHenry and Mary Connally
sponsors -Thomas Walter Bourke, Bridget Lynsky
This family may be related to Andrew Fitzhenry the doctor "of Clare, County Mayo". Andrew had a son called Thomas born in 1811.
Labels: Ballinsmally, Ballinsmaula, Thomas Fitzhenry. Clare
When Family Meets History
Are there any American Civil War buffs out there?
Edwin Sawtell FitzHenry, son of Johnson FitzHenry and grandson of Enoch FitzHenry, was born in 1835. He enlisted in the Union Army as a farrier. During his three years of service, he was said to have been in 17 battles including Gettysburg. Over 50,000 people died at Gettysburg. Edwin survived because he was closer to the rear shoeing horses. He was wounded in the hand.
Edwin Sawtell FitzHenry and 1st Cousin by marriage, Hiram Cunningham
His discharge is as follows:
"To all to whom it may concern. Know ye, that Edwin S. FitzHenry a Garier of Captain August V. Kantos Company (B) Sixth Regiment of Cavalry Volunteers, who was enrolled on the fifth day of August 1861 to serve (3) years is hereby discharged from the Army of the U.S. in consequence of the expiration of enlistment. Said Edwin S. FitzHenry was born in Dublin in the State of Ohio, is (25) years of age, 5 feet 6 1/2 inches high, rudy complexion, gray eyes, light hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a blacksmith. Given at Light House Point, this fifth day of August 1864. J.W. Spangler, 1st Lieut. 6th U.S. Calvary, Commanding the Regiment. Character good."
Filed for record February 26, 1879, in book A, Soldier's Discharge Record, page 264 in Pontiac, Illinois.
Labels: Civil War, Edwin Sawtell FitzHenry
Will the real Dr George Fitzhenry please stand up?
Here's an interesting situation. It may be entirely coincidental that I've found two Dr George Fitzhenrys born in London at the same time in the early 1800s ... or there may be an elaborate double life going on.
June 1839. George Fitzhenry (bachelor of full age, surgeon, father "Arthur Fitzhenry of the Civilian ECS" which I believe is the East India Company Service) marries Eliza Heather (spinster, of full age) in St Giles in the Fields London.
September 1839. Eliza registers the birth (in London) of their daughter Eliza Harriett. She gives her own name as "Eliza Fitzhenry, late Parslow, formerly Heather". For the uninitiated, this implies that she has been married to a chap called Mr. Parslow before she married George FH ... although she said she was a spinster.
December 1839. George and Eliza have Eliza Harriett christened at St Mary's Church in Worthing, Sussex. It is noted that they also live in St George Hanover Square in London. George is an "assistant surgeon".
1841 census. Eliza (aged 30) and Eliza Harriett (aged 1) are living in Worthing, Sussex. Unfortunately, marital status wasn't recorded in this census. Eliza the elder's birthplace is Sussex and she is of independent means.
The only adult George FH in this census is living in the house of a Dr William Havins Pope, a surgeon in Wellingborough Northamptonshire. George is aged 25 (born about 1816), a surgeon by trade and wasn't born in Northamptonshire
1846. Eliza the elder marries again to a man called Charles Hersey in Kensington (Third quarter 1846). There have been no deaths registered for a George Fitzhenry in the England and Wales indexes in the meantime.
1851 census. Charles and Eliza Hersey are living in Hampstead, London. Eliza is aged 36 born Worthing Sussex. Eliza Harriett is named as Eliza H. F. Hersey aged 11.
I can't find George FH (but I've only got the Ancestry index to the 1851 census and they missed him in the 1841 census as well.)
1853. A George Fitzhenry, surgeon, bachelor aged 36 (father George Arthur Fitzhenry of the East India Company Service) marries Jane Thomas (spinster aged 23) in the Register Office at Abergavenny in Wales. They have no children. George continues his medical practice in this area of Wales until his death in 1893. In every census his birthplace is given as London, Middlesex.
1864 Eliza Harriett Fitzhenry marries in the third quarter 1864 in Marylebone, London. (GRO indexes)
1893. George FH dies. His obituary in the British Medical Journal says that he was 80 (born in 1813) and gained his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1844. Jane remarries the following year.
I know I'm one for a good tale, but I can't see any way around this being one and the same George Fitzhenry. Did George and Eliza in the pre-divorce era decide that they just couldn't stand the sight of each other any more, and decided to start again in opposite ends of the country?
And where does Mr Parslow (the alleged first husband of Eliza senior) fit into this tale?
Unfortunately, all the interesting activity is happening just as registration started in 1837 so there is no way to check back further to George FH's birth records to see if there was one or two of them.
There's only one thing for it - to send off for Eliza Heather's second (or even third!) marriage certificate and see what she had to say about her marital status that time ....
Amendment made 5th September: Lesley has pointed out that Eliza married Henry Hersey in 1846. Where did I get the name Charles from?
Labels: Eliza Heather. Eliza Harriett Fitzhenry., George Fitzhenry
The English 1881 census - the "extreme variants" n...
The English 1881 census and the "extreme variants"...
Baptism of Thomas Fitzhenry in Clare, County Mayo ...
Will the real Dr George Fitzhenry please stand up?...


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Importance of infant diet in establishing a healthy gut
By Ralph Turchiano on October 24, 2018 • ( 0 )
Public Release: 24-Oct-2018
A child has until the age of two-and-a-half to establish healthy gut bacteria – with little change after this point, new research has revealed.
The study also reinforced the important role breastfeeding plays in providing good gut bacteria to babies during the early stages of their life.
The team, involving Newcastle University, UK, identified that the bacterium, Bifidobacterium, was abundant in breast milk and declined rapidly after breastfeeding stopped.
The research, published today in the journal Nature, is one of the largest clinical microbiome studies in babies to date.
Key bacteria
Dr Christopher Stewart, from Newcastle University's Institute of Cellular Medicine, co-led the research, which used a cohort of patients involved in the pioneering TEDDY (The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young) study.
Bifidobacterium is regarded as beneficial and is one of the main bacteria used in probiotics, owing to its potential therapeutic properties.
It is hoped that this research will enable a greater understanding into what can be done to produce the same benefits of breastfeeding when breast milk is not available.
Dr Stewart said: "Breastfeeding has long been understood to be good for infants and epidemiological evidence shows being breastfed early in life is associated with lower risk of many later life diseases, such as allergy and obesity.
"Targeting the nutrients in breast milk that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the infant gut, or providing probiotic containing Bifidobacterium, represent important avenues for future research aimed at restoring the beneficial properties of being breastfed when breast milk is not available."
The research revealed that once infants were weaned there was a rapid turnover in the bacterial community and a loss of most of the Bifidobacterium, replaced by bacteria within the Firmicutes phyla. Firmicutes are typical of an adult microbiome and the appearance of these bacteria once breastfeeding was stopped occurred much quicker than experts expected.
Dr Stewart said: "Because a diet without breast milk delivers different nutrients to the gut, this rapid turnover in the bacterial community is likely to be in response to the new food sources promoting the growth of a different community.
"Remarkably, from this point on, the microbiome progressed quickly towards being stable, where the bacteria in the gut will potentially remain for the rest of that individual's life."
Microbiome development
Scientists used sequencing-based approaches to analyse 12,500 stool samples from 903 children in the TEDDY study, collected monthly from children aged three to 46 months old. Microbiome composition and diversity changed over time in three distinct phases: the developmental phase (3-14 months), transitional phase (15-30 months) and stable phase (31 months onwards).
Vaginal birth was associated with a temporary increase in Bacteroides bacteria. Siblings, exposure to pets, and geographical location were also factors in the differences between microbiome profiles.
Dr Joseph Petrosino, director of the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA, was group leader of the microbiome study.
He said: "We know that the first few years of life are important for microbiome establishment. You are born with very few microbes, and microbial communities assemble on and in your body through those first years of your life.
"In this study, we took a closer look at the establishment of the microbiome over the first few years of life, and the early life exposures associated with that sequence of events, in this amazing cohort."
In a sister paper in the same journal, experts from the Broad Institute analysed nearly 11,000 stool samples from 783 infants in the TEDDY study to characterise the early gut microbiome in children progressing to type 1 diabetes. They report that the microbiomes of infants without type 1 diabetes harbour more genes related to fermentation and short-chain fatty-acid synthesis that, in combination with previous evidence, are associated with a protective effect.
TEDDY study
The research was conducted as part of the multinational TEDDY study, which is comprised of three European clinical centres (Finland, Germany, Sweden) and three in the USA (Colorado, Georgia, and Washington state).
Funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the study has been collecting data for 10 years with the goal of understanding what triggers a child who is genetically at higher risk for developing type 1 diabetes (T1D) to actually develop the disease.
Temporal development of the gut microbiome in early childhood from the TEDDY study
Christopher J. Stewart, Nadim J. Ajami, et al
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'Jurassic World' Animated Series 'Camp Cretaceous' Is Coming to Netflix
Jurassic World Animated Series Camp Cretaceous Is Coming to Netflix
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Netflix has announced they will be developing an all-new animated series based on Jurassic World, and it will be produced by Dreamworks Animation. Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Colin Trevorrow, Scott Kreamer, and Lane Lueras will be executive producing. Kreamer and Lueras, who also worked on Kung Fu Panda and Pinky Malinky, will also be serving as showrunners. Called Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, the cartoon will be set during the events of Jurassic World in 2015. It will follow six teenagers who've been stranded on Isla Nublar once the dinosaurs break free and assume control of the island, and survival will require working together. The show is set to drop on Netflix sometime next year.
This juggernaut franchise first began in 1993 with the release of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name, the movie tells the story of a wildlife park built by a billionaire where scientists brought to life long-extinct dinosaurs. Groundbreaking CGI and impressive animatronics made the prehistoric beasts look absolutely incredible, and the imagery still holds up to this day. The movie topped $914 million at the box office, prompting two sequels to be made in 1997 and 2001 before the franchise went dormant.
Fast forward to 2015, and the series is reborn as Jurassic World. Like the original movie, the sequel is set on Isla Nublar where the original Jurassic Park was located. The new park has been restored and has been fully functional for several years, but things inevitably go wrong when the dinosaurs start rampaging across the island once again. The movie would become one of the highest-grossing box office blockbusters of all time, taking in over $1.6 billion in ticket sales. The 2018 sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom also did tremendously well by making over $1.3 billion. You probably won't find this as a surprise, but another Jurassic World sequel is already in the works as well, set for a 2021 release date.
While the Jurassic Park franchise hasn't yet had a fully-fledged cartoon series on the small screen, it has been given the Lego treatment. The five-part webseriesLego Jurassic World: The Indominous Escape was released on YouTube, described as a Jurassic World prequel with Lego-style animation. Multiple Lego short films would follow in the years after, and the company has also announced plans to produce a 13-episode Lego Jurassic World animated series. Toy sets will also be produced in conjunction with the series. As of now, however, it's not clear where the planned series will air or when we can expect to see it debut.
Considering the popularity of the franchise, it's a little strange there has never been an all-out animated series based on the movies until now. Given the involvement of Dreamworks and a good home on Netflix, the potential is there for the cartoon show to be awesome in its own right. Hopefully, it will deliver when it premieres on the streaming service next year. This information comes from Dreamworks Animation.
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National Defence Act
Version of section 141 from 2003-01-01 to 2022-06-19:
Marginal note:Dismissal with disgrace
141 (1) Where a service tribunal imposes a punishment of dismissal with disgrace from Her Majesty's service on an officer or non-commissioned member, the service tribunal may in addition, notwithstanding any other provision of this Division, impose a punishment of imprisonment for less than two years.
Marginal note:Effective date of dismissal
(1.1) A punishment of dismissal with disgrace from Her Majesty's service or dismissal from Her Majesty's service is deemed to be carried out as of the date on which the release of an officer or a non-commissioned member from the Canadian Forces is effected.
Marginal note:Consequences
(2) A person on whom a punishment of dismissal with disgrace from Her Majesty's service has been carried out is not, except in an emergency or unless that punishment is subsequently set aside or altered, eligible to serve Her Majesty again in any military or civil capacity.
R.S., 1985, c. N-5, s. 141
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In conversation with Vinay Sitapati
The author of 'Half Lion' highlights some little known facets of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao's life, and leadership lessons from how a man without much of a mandate brought in profound transformations
Jul 22, 2016 8:07a.m.
Vinay Sitapati argues Narasimha Rao was the most astute and consequential leader India has witnessed since Jawaharlal Nehru.
Despite his many negatives, Rao, more than anybody else, has crafted the India we live in today.
He inherited a toxic legacy—a disjointed foreign policy, an economic catastrophe and internal strife that threatened to tear the country apart. For all practical purposes, he was powerless. In spite of which, he changed the narrative of contemporary Indian history. Sitapati is unambiguous in that history will remember him as a world leader of consequence.
There are various reasons why Sitapati thinks posterity will be kind to Rao:
1. He micro-managed economic reforms. Over time, it improved absolute prosperity levels across segments. Take for instance the mobile phone revolution—the most visible impact of liberalisation. It now means over one billion Indians are connected via mobile networks.
The two biggest policy changes that enabled this was allowing private sector participation and foreign investment. Rao was able to outmanoeuvre opposition to these changes, including from his communications minister Sukh Ram. He did this by deftly co-opting his opponents.
2. His tenure saw the true start of the Indian welfare state, by increasing funding for large welfare schemes, the true outcomes of which are beginning to be visible only now.
3. He changed India's foreign policy to become more pro-US and pro-Israel without antagonizing the Arab world. This, at a time when the Soviet Union, India's best friend, was fragmenting and few Indian leaders could see or understand why. He did on the face of violent opposition.
4. Rao improved internal security. In 1991, the Lok Sabha elections could not be held in Punjab and Kashmir because of violence. Assam was still very difficult to govern. But by the time Rao ended his tenure, some degree of stability had come back to these parts of India.
So how did a man with ostensibly no power or charisma bring these changes?
He had a remarkable ability few humans possess, says Sitapati. He could look at himself dispassionately, stare his own weakness in the eye and know when to lose. That is an important trait for any leader. You ought to know what battles to fight; and what not to.
His political career—as state chief minister, and union minister before he became prime minister—gave him a deep understanding of the system. Philosophically, he could handle ambiguity. He used that as a political skill to great effect.
He chose Manmohan Singh as the face of liberalisation because he wanted to sell the story that liberalisation is not a political choice but a technocratic compulsion. They played the perfect jugalbandi, but there's no question who the lead singer was.
Do some learnings emerge from Rao's tenure in the current political discourse? Political ideologies aside, there are a some big differences between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rao:
1. While Modi's chief ministership in Gujarat gave him an understanding of how states work, he had no prior experience in Delhi when he was catapulted to power.
2. The second thing Modi ought to keep at the back of his mind is not to overestimate the strength of his mandate. The Indian system is full of veto players and you have to take everybody along. Rao led a minority government. So he lived under no illusions and had no faction or coterie. It made him an ideal consensus candidate. That is a great place to be in.
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