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of confession on Dec. 5. Photo by Lori Follett.
Erie County parishes opened their doors Wednesday for "The Light is On for You," a special night of confession aimed at encouraging people to return to the sacrament of reconciliation.
If the number of people who entered the confessionals at St. Luke Parish in Erie was any indication, the night was a success.
The Diocese of Erie and individual parishes billed the event as an invitation for all to grow closer to God during Advent, a season in which the faithful prepare for Christ's second coming at the end of time and also prepare for the anniversary of his birth. Adopted from an initiative of the same name that originated in the Archdiocese of Washington, it was held on a midweek evening to appeal to people who struggle to go to confession on weekends, when most parishes offer the sacrament.
"We have to meet the people where they are," said Father Jason Feigh, administrator of St. Francis Xavier Parish in McKean.
Father Feigh said he heard 17 confessions during the two-hour event; typically, he hears two or three each Saturday.
"Advent is a time of hope, and the greatest way we can receive hope is through Jesus' gift of mercy," Father Feigh said, adding that he'd like to see the event offered again during Lent and expanded to include all parishes within the 13-county diocese.
Father Malthaner and Father Michael Ferrick, rector of St. Peter Cathedral and dean of the Erie West Deanery, solicited feedback from pastors throughout the county.
"Anything we can do to encourage people to participate in sacrament is great," Father Ferrick added.
Lori Follett agrees. A parishioner at St. John the Baptist Parish in Erie who helped ready the parish for Wednesday's event, Follett considers herself a "seasonal" participant, going to confession during Advent and Lent. Her work schedule sometimes makes it difficult to go on weekends, but she was able to take advantage of the evening hours Wednesday.
"I love the idea" of offering more opportunities for confession, she said.


"Don't mention it," Ethan said.
He sipped his beer and rested his other hand on top of Rhett's. My chest tightened, and I pulled my gaze away from their hands.
"No, but…" Ethan shifted his weight. He turned to Rhett, eyebrows up as if to say help me out here.
"Speaking from experience," Ethan said quietly.
Staring into my beer bottle, I sighed. They were right, and I'd known for a long, long time that something was wrong. I'd just imagined us working it out, maybe seeing a counselor or whatever. Once the kids were grown and the chaos of raising them was over, we could focus on us. That was how it had played out in my head, anyway.
But then, our youngest went off to college, and suddenly we had an empty nest, and my wife decided it wasn't empty enough.
Ex-wife. It wasn't final yet, but…ex-wife.
"Fought a lot," Ethan said.
Rhett choked on his beer, clapping a hand over his mouth as he nearly spat it across the counter.
Ethan watched Rhett, grinning smugly.
Rhett turned to Ethan again, silently putting the ball back in his court.
"The tattoo artist," Rhett said.
Weeks before their twenty-fifth anniversary, Greg Douglas's wife surprises him… with a divorce. Now he's staying with his friends Ethan and Rhett while he gets back on his feet. To take his mind off things, the guys decide it's long past time for Greg to explore the other half of his bisexuality. He's never been with a man… until tonight. After repressing those desires for a quarter century, he's not waiting any longer. Especially not after he lays eyes on the gorgeous deejay at Wilde's.
Deejay and single dad Sailo Isaia isn't looking for anything serious. He's definitely not out to be a sexual teacher, never mind to a man almost a solid decade his senior. But as Greg gets the hang of having a male lover, Sailo can't help himself. They both keep coming back for more. And more. And more.
But is this just a midlife crisis and a rebound? Or is it turning into something both men never realized they were missing? And will Greg figure out the difference before Sailo decides he and his son deserve better?
Contains an older guy who's waited half his life for this, a younger guy who didn't realize how lonely he was, and some very hot visits to the upstairs VIP lounge at Wilde's. Author is not responsible for readers who can no longer look at a leather booth the same again.
This 79,000 word novel was previously published.


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Debating flat earthers
They can be better at it than you are
I've been a skeptic for most of my life. It began in serious when I was fourteen and a student in a Jesuit Roman Catholic school. That's when I started having serious doubts about religion. Later in college I became deeply interested in paranormal phenomena, mainly in testing and trying to reproduce them. It never worked — the well documented miraculous and magical things always stopped happening when I was around.
In 1976 Paul Kurtz, a secular humanist and Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, founded the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), to counter what he regarded as an uncritical acceptance of, and support for, paranormal claims by both the media and society in general. I had just begun to study the Philosophy of Science, which deals with the foundations, methods, and implications of science, at the University of Hamburg, and the philosophical position of the CSISOP, scientific skepticism, appealed to me immensely. The fact that the founding members included scientists, academics, and science writers such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, James Randi, Martin Gardner, and others of that calibre, did nothing to calm my enthusiasm. I contacted Paul Kurtz and told him about my own activities in the field — and became a fellow, in charge of the German section. After that I spent some blissful years acting in and on behalf of the CSICOP (which later changed its cumbersome name to "Committee for Skeptical Inquiry" or CSI). I got to know all the founding members named above, personally, and many other equally fascinating personalities.
But all of this material for another day. It is just preamble for today's subject, which is about arguing with people who have outlandish views.
In the early days in CSI I was involved in recruiting scientific and technical consultants, and for that reason was visiting the London School of Economics. I had some wonderful discussions with LSE lecturers, some of whom became members. One evening, at the end of a meeting, someone mentioned that there was a presentation by the "Flat Earth" society or group, or whatever, in the city. Really? We all decided to have some fun and attend.
Flat Earthers are people who have stuck to the Bronze and Iron Age belief that the Earth is a flat disk, resting on four pillars and domed by a "firmament" shaped like an inverted bowl that kept the waters beyond it out (except when it rained). It seemed totally incredible to us that this pre-scientific notion was still endorsed by people in the late twentieth century, and we wanted to discuss the matter with them. It would be an exercise in debating with fringe elements — although in this case hideously unfair, like stepping on ants.
So we went to the Flat Earth presentation, four young and super-sharp scientists, itching for a fight. The meeting had two speakers and was fairly well attended, in majority I am sure by flat earthers. Clearly they were more numerous than in Fuller's time (that refers to hilarious sketch performed by Peter Sellers and Graham Stark in the 1950s). They were clearly committed and clapped quite enthusiastically during the lectures.
Then came the audience discussion, and after the first exchanges with us we were invited onto the stage so we didn't have to argue from the darkness of the audience. We went up gleefully — this was really going to be fun.
I do not remember many details of the debate, and do not want to waste time trying to reconstruct them. You can google 'flat earth' or search for it in YouTube, and marvel. All I want to say that it was a rout. Stomping on ants was the correct metaphor. Except we were the ants — the two flat earth nutters eviscerated the four science cracks. And the audience cheered rapturously.
It was a chilling experience for me, and the others, I might add. We were absolutely confounded — how could it have happened? How could modern science and knowledge have been defeated by Bronze Age superstition?
The next day I called a meeting with my colleagues at the LSE. I had spent a sleepless night and finally understood exactly what transpired. I explained it to the others: the problem was that the Flat Earthers we had confronted were experts at debating skeptics! Consummate experts. Science, schmience, they had heard it all before, probably a hundred times. We, on the other hand, were total innocents, completely inexperienced in debating crackpots. Never done it, at least at this level, ever before. We got agitated when we realized we were losing, began to bluster and stutter, while our opponents had slick canned answers, elegantly formulated, with little touches of humour and engaging sympathy for the narrow-minded fanaticism that we were clearly displaying.
The lesson learned on that evening and that night was seminal and has stood me in good stead, whether I am debating superstitious beliefs or paranormal claims. Be well prepared, don't forget to use humour and charm, and don't ever think your opponent are so crazy that it is going to be a slam dunk. Always remember: they have been practising, you are (probably) treading alien territory. If Flat Earthers can win a debate, anyone can.
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The Bet That "Proved" the Earth is Flat
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Why the Search for Dark Matter Depends on Ancient Shipwrecks
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Synthesizer Repair Leads To LSD Trip
An unplanned LSD trip occurred during the repair of a vintage synthesizer at Cal State University East Bay. San Francisco's KPIX 5 broadcast operations manager Eliot Curtis had a nine-hour psychedelic experience while working on the instrument commissioned in the 1960s by former professors at the Bay Area school, Glenn Glasow and Robert Basart.
The vintage analog synthesizer is a Buchla Model 100, which takes its name from its creator, Don Buchla. Curtis, who last year volunteered to repair the synth, discovered crystal-like substance behind a red module on the console.
"There was like a residue … a crust or a crystalline residue on it," Curtis told KPIX 5. After spraying the substance with a cleaning agent, Curtis rubbed his finger on it and soon, "It was … felt like [he] was tripping on LSD."
KPIX 5 points to Buchla's association with 1960s counterculture icons Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters as a potential source of the LSD. The station also notes Buchla was a friend of Grateful Dead sound engineer and prominent LSD manufacturer Owsley "Bear" Stanley. Find more on the unexpected LSD experience via the link below:


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Event processing is a method of tracking and analyzing (processing) streams of information (data) about things that happen (events), and deriving a conclusion from them. Complex event processing, or CEP, consists of a set of concepts and techniques developed in the early 1990s for processing real-time events and extracting information from event streams as they arrive. The goal of complex event processing is to identify meaningful events (such as opportunities or threats) in real-time situations and respond to them as quickly as possible.

These events may be happening across the various layers of an organization as sales leads, orders or customer service calls. Or, they may be news items, text messages, social media posts, stock market feeds, traffic reports, weather reports, or other kinds of data. An event may also be defined as a "change of state," when a measurement exceeds a predefined threshold of time, temperature, or other value.

Analysts have suggested that CEP will give organizations a new way to analyze patterns in real-time and help the business side communicate better with IT and service departments. CEP has since become an enabling technology in many systems that are used to take immediate action in response to incoming streams of events. Applications are now  to be found (2018) in many sectors of business including stock market trading systems, mobile devices, internet operations, fraud detection, the transportation industry, and governmental intelligence gathering.

The vast amount of information available about events is sometimes referred to as the event cloud.

Conceptual description

Among thousands of incoming events, a monitoring system may for instance receive the following three from the same source:

 church bells ringing.
 the appearance of a man in a tuxedo with a woman in a flowing white gown.
 rice flying through the air.

From these events the monitoring system may infer a complex event: a wedding. CEP as a technique helps discover complex events by analyzing and correlating other events: the bells, the man and woman in wedding attire and the rice flying through the air.

CEP relies on a number of techniques, including:

 Event-pattern detection
 Event abstraction
 Event filtering
 Event aggregation and transformation
 Modeling event hierarchies
 Detecting relationships (such as causality, membership or timing) between events
 Abstracting event-driven processes

Commercial applications of CEP exist in variety of industries and include the detection of credit-card fraud, business activity monitoring, and security monitoring.

History
The CEP area has roots in discrete event simulation, the active database area and some programming languages. The activity in the industry was preceded by a wave of research projects in the 1990s. According to the first project that paved the way to a generic CEP language and execution model was the Rapide project in Stanford University, directed by David Luckham. In parallel there have been two other research projects: Infospheres in California Institute of Technology, directed by K. Mani Chandy, and Apama in University of Cambridge directed by John Bates. The commercial products were dependents of the concepts developed in these and some later research projects. Community efforts started  in a series of event processing symposiums organized by the Event Processing Technical Society, and later by the ACM DEBS conference series. One of the community efforts was to produce the event processing manifesto.

Related concepts

CEP is used in operational intelligence (OI) products to provide insight into business operations by running query analysis against live feeds and event data. OI collects real-time data and correlates against historical data to provide insight and analysis. Multiple sources of data can be combined to provide a common operating picture that uses current information.

In network management, systems management, application management and service management, people usually refer instead to event correlation. As CEP engines, event correlation engines (event correlators) analyze a mass of events, pinpoint the most significant ones, and trigger actions. However, most of them do not produce new inferred events. Instead, they relate high-level events with low-level events.

Inference engines, e.g., rule-based reasoning engines, typically produce inferred information in artificial intelligence. However, they do not usually produce new information in the form of complex (i.e., inferred) events.

Example
A more systemic example of CEP involves a car, some sensors and various events and reactions. Imagine that a car has several sensors—one that measures tire pressure, one that measures speed, and one that detects if someone sits on a seat or leaves a seat.

In the first situation, the car is moving and the pressure of one of the tires moves from 45 psi to 41 psi over 15 minutes. As the pressure in the tire is decreasing, a series of events containing the tire pressure is generated. In addition, a series of events containing the speed of the car is generated. The car's Event Processor may detect a situation whereby a loss of tire pressure over a relatively long period of time results in the creation of the "lossOfTirePressure" event. This new event may trigger a reaction process to note the pressure loss into the car's maintenance log, and alert the driver via the car's portal that the tire pressure has reduced.

In the second situation, the car is moving and the pressure of one of the tires drops from 45 psi to 20 psi in 5 seconds. A different situation is detected—perhaps because the loss of pressure occurred over a shorter period of time, or perhaps because the difference in values between each event were larger than a predefined limit. The different situation results in a new event "blowOutTire" being generated. This new event triggers a different reaction process to immediately alert the driver and to initiate onboard computer routines to assist the driver in bringing the car to a stop without losing control through skidding.

In addition, events that represent detected situations can also be combined with other events in order to detect more complex situations. For example, in the final situation the car is moving normally and suffers a blown tire which results in the car leaving the road and striking a tree, and the driver is thrown from the car. A series of different situations are rapidly detected. The combination of "blowOutTire", "zeroSpeed" and "driverLeftSeat" within a very short period of time results in a new situation being detected: "occupantThrownAccident". Even though there is no direct measurement that can determine conclusively that the driver was thrown, or that there was an accident, the combination of events allows the situation to be detected and a new event to be created to signify the detected situation. This is the essence of a complex (or composite) event. It is complex because one cannot directly detect the situation; one has to infer or deduce that the situation has occurred from a combination of other events.

Integration with business process management
A natural fit for CEP has been with business process management (BPM). BPM focuses on end-to-end business processes, in order to continuously optimize and align for its operational environment.

However, the optimization of a business does not rely solely upon its individual, end-to-end processes. Seemingly disparate processes can affect each other significantly. Consider this scenario:
In the aerospace industry, it is good practice to monitor breakdowns of vehicles to look for trends (determine potential weaknesses in manufacturing processes, material, etc.). Another separate process monitors current operational vehicles' life cycles and decommissions them when appropriate. One use for CEP is to link these separate processes, so that in the case of the initial process (breakdown monitoring) discovering a malfunction based on metal fatigue (a significant event), an action can be created to exploit the second process (life cycle) to issue a recall on vehicles using the same batch of metal discovered as faulty in the initial process.

The integration of CEP and BPM must exist at two levels, both at the business awareness level (users must understand the potential holistic benefits of their individual processes) and also at the technological level (there needs to be a method by which CEP can interact with BPM implementation). For a recent state of the art review on the integration of CEP with BPM, which is frequently labeled as Event-Driven Business Process Management, refer to.

Computation-oriented CEP's role can arguably be seen to overlap with Business Rule technology.

For example, customer service centers are using CEP for click-stream analysis and customer experience management. CEP software can factor real-time information about millions of events (clicks or other interactions) per second into business intelligence and other decision-support applications. These "recommendation applications" help agents provide personalized service based on each customer's experience. The CEP application may collect data about what customers on the phone are currently doing, or how they have recently interacted with the company in other various channels, including in-branch, or on the Web via self-service features, instant messaging and email. The application then analyzes the total customer experience and recommends scripts or next steps that guide the agent on the phone, and hopefully keep the customer happy.

Integration with time series databases
A time series database is a software system that is optimized for the handling of data organized by time. Time series are finite or infinite sequences of data items, where each item has an associated timestamp and the sequence of timestamps is non-decreasing. Elements of a time series are often called ticks. The timestamps are not required to be ascending (merely non-decreasing) because in practice the time resolution of some systems such as financial data sources can be quite low (milliseconds, microseconds or even nanoseconds), so consecutive events may carry equal timestamps.

Time series data provides a historical context to the analysis typically associated with complex event processing. This can apply to any vertical industry such as finance and cooperatively with other technologies such as BPM.

The ideal case for CEP analysis is to view historical time series and real-time streaming data as a single time continuum. What happened yesterday, last week or last month is simply an extension of what is occurring today and what may occur in the future. An example may involve comparing current market volumes to historic volumes, prices and volatility for trade execution logic. Or the need to act upon live market prices may involve comparisons to benchmarks that include sector and index movements, whose intra-day and historic trends gauge volatility and smooth outliers.

Internet of Things and Smart Cyber-physical systems
Complex event processing is a key enabler in Internet of Things (IoT) settings and Smart Cyber-physical systems (CPS) as well. Processing dense and heterogeneous streams from various sensors and matching patterns against those streams is a typical task in such cases. The majority of these techniques rely on the fact that representing the IoT system's state and its changes is more efficient in the form of a data stream, instead of having a static, materialized model. Reasoning over such stream-based models fundamentally differs from traditional reasoning techniques and typically require the combination of model transformations and CEP.

See also
 Event correlation
 Event-driven architecture — (EDA)  is a software architecture pattern promoting the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events.
 SEDA - Staged event-driven architecture decomposes complex, event-driven architectures into stages
 Event Processing Technical Society — (EPTS) is an event processing community of interest
 Event stream processing — (ESP) is a related technology that focuses on processing streams of related data.
 Kinetic Rule Language — (KRL) is an event-condition-action rule language with an embedded complex event expression language.
 Operational intelligence — Both CEP and ESP are technologies that underpin operational intelligence.
 Pattern matching
 Real-time business intelligence — Business Intelligence is the application of knowledge derived from CEP systems
 Real-time computing — CEP systems are typically real-time systems
 Real time enterprise

Vendors and products
 Apama by Software AG - monitors rapidly moving event streams, detects and analyzes important patterns, and takes action according to rules.
 Azure Stream Analytics
 Drools Fusion
 EVAM Streaming Analytics
 Esper Complex event processing for Java and C# (GPLv2).
 Feedzai - Pulse
 Microsoft StreamInsight Microsoft CEP Engine implementation
 openPDC — A set of applications for processing streaming time-series data in real-time.
 Oracle Event Processing - for building applications to filter, correlate, and process events in real time.
 SAP ESP - A low-latency, rapid development and deployment platform that allows processing multiple streams of data in real time
 SQLstream SQLstream's stream processing platform, s-Server, provides a relational stream computing platform for analyzing large volumes of service, sensor and machine and log file data in real-time.
  TIBCO BusinessEvents & Streambase  - CEP platform and High Performance Low Latency Event Stream Processing
 WebSphere Business Events
 Apache Flink Open-source distributed stream processing framework with a CEP API for Java and Scala.
 Apache Storm Free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm processes unbounded streams of data in realtime.

References

Information systems
Cognition
Events (computing)
Process (computing)

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Jeroen van der Lee (1977) is een Nederlandse oud-langebaanschaatser en schaatstrainer.

Van der Lee begon in 2006 als assistent-trainer van het KNSB Opleidingsteam als technisch coördinator langebaan. Hierna volgde tussen mei 2010 en juni 2012 een samenwerking met Jan van Veen bij Hofmeier.

Op 11 juli 2014 werd bekend dat Van der Lee met ingang van seizoen 2014/2015 hoofdcoach zou worden van Jong Oranje vanwege het vertrek van Erik Bouwman naar Zuid-Korea. Als gevolg hiervan zal hij het traject gaan leiden dat de KNSB heeft ingezet om Jong Oranje in het langebaanschaatsen en shorttracken te laten samensmelten en in de nabije toekomst te laten opgaan in de Regionale Talenten Centra (RTC's).

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SUPER COOL. Korea Town in LA is doing a market night which means that there will be all sort of food trucks, entertainment and other frivolities going on April 18th & 19th. Below is their press release. Who wants to go with me!?
LOS ANGELES – The highly anticipated KTOWN Night Market will be holding its inaugural festival on Friday, April 18th (4 PM – 12 AM) and Saturday, April 19th (2 PM – 12 AM) at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles' Koreatown. In partnership with the City of Los Angeles District 10, the outdoor event will be free to the public and will feature over 100 food and merchandise booths, including 40 food vendors that represent the full breadth of multi-ethnic street cuisine from Los Angeles and Orange County.
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These special encounters with strangers. A dialogue on a train, in a bar or in the streets. You share one rare moment of closeness with a stranger. Then you separate for good. Sometimes sad, sometimes relieved never to meet him again. But you'll never forget. An epiphany.
When people die in a road accident sometimes their family or friends erect a small wooden cross along the road where it took place. As a memorial for the dead and a warning for other drivers. The crosses bear the name and the dates. Most of the bemoaned died young. Sometimes there are also flowers or candles round the cross.
I take pictures of these crosses when I pass one. Media in vita in morte sumus.
"The one that took pictures here last year, for a book."
She paused, then, in a sharp voice "Why do you take a picture of this cross?"
Me, with growing impatience "Why do you want to know?"
"Because this is my son's cross."
It struck me a blow. I fell silent, ashamed of my aloofness. She said, half to herself: "He was killed by a car. The driver became aware of him when it was too late, it was dark, he cycled along this road ... I stay here every summer, just across the place where he died. Maybe that's weird, but I feel near to him by doing this ... I hoped you were this photographer. She promised me to inform me when the book is published, so I can buy it. But she never called me. I searched for the book but I never found it, no bookseller could help me."
"I'll help you to find this woman and her book."
"Really?" - full of suspicion.
After some investigation I found out that the book was never published, it was an abandoned plan. I informed her via the e-mail she had given me, but never received an answer.
To stay near the place where one's most beloved was killed.
A spell for both of them, mother and son.
Das ist das Geheimnis der Anastasis: Wir SELBST sind es, IN denen die Dinge ewig leben.
Nur das, was wir IN uns haben absterben, vergehen lassen, ist wirklich tot.
I already wanted to comment on this yesterday, but strangely, it only seemed to work when logged in to LiveJournal (which I am not).
This story was very touching. I had some of those unforgettable encounters myself. They can move lives.
And now, I am waiting for the next encounters. For some reason, I am sure that you have spellbinding stories to tell, my dear.


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The Federalist Slams the "Fact-Checkers" on Fiorina and the Planned Parenthood Videos
Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:50 pm
The Federalist, which is in my view one of the best Web sites out there today, has an excellent piece debunking some facts offered by the "fact-checkers" questioning Carly Fiorina's statement about Planned Parenthood:
As regards Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.
This is about the character of our nation, and if we will not stand up in and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on us.
I knew immediately what Fiorina was talking about because I had seen the video. In my mind, I questioned whether the description was entirely accurate, but I remembered the video she was talking about, because it makes an impression on you.
The most disturbing part of the video begins around 4:08. It features an interview with someone talking about a baby that has just been aborted. She describes how the doctor tapped the fetus, whose heart was still beating. She wasn't sure if the baby was dead. She was told to cut open the baby's face to "procure a brain" — which she did. At about 5:56, there is stock footage of a baby lying in a metal dish, moving its hands and feet. In the bottom right part of the screen, it reads "Courtesy of Grantham Collection and Center for Bioethical Reform."
The raging, factually sloppy feminist Amanda Marcotte writes at Slate:
There is nothing in the videos made by CMP, either in the edited or full-length versions, that has anything approaching images of legs kicking or hearts beating.*
Note the asterisk. She had to issue a "clarification" (which, as we will see, is wrong):
*Clarification, Sept. 18, 2015, 1:04 p.m.: Fiorina was evidently referring to a few seconds of footage of what appears to be a stillborn fetus. The provenance of the video is unknown, there is no audio on the video, and there is no indication that the fetus was aborted.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It's not stillborn, the provenance is known (footage from an abortion clinic), and the fetus was aborted. You see, the folks at the Federalist actually bothered to, you know, do journalism and ask the people who provided it. Here is what Gregg Cunningham, the executive director of The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, which provided the footage for the video, told the Federalist:
The video clip we provided to CMP depicted an intact delivery abortion. It was filmed at an abortion clinic. It was not a miscarriage. Mothers don't go to abortion clinics to miscarry. Had this case been a miscarriage, the mother would have presented at a hospital and her baby would have been rushed to an Isolette for appropriate neonatal care — not abandoned to writhe and eventually expire in a cold, stainless steel specimen vessel. As regards the organizational affiliation of the abortion facility in which this termination was performed, our access agreements forbid the disclosure of any information which might tend to identify the relevant clinics or personnel with whom we work. Preserving confidentiality is vital to future clinic access. I can, however, assure you that the footage in question is not anomalous. It is representative of the frequent outcomes of many late term intact delivery terminations performed at clinics of all organizational affiliations.
Marcotte may have gotten this the most blatantly wrong, but other "fact-checkers" like the geniuses at Politi[cized]Fact dutifully shrugged their shoulders, failed to do the requisite legwork, and offered up an opinion that, hey, for all we know, this could have been a stillborn fetus:
We don't know the circumstances behind this video: where it came from, under what conditions it was obtained, or even if this fetus was actually aborted (as opposed to a premature birth or miscarriage).
You don't know . . . because you didn't try to find out.
Similarly, know-it-all Sarah Kliff at Vox claimed to have watched all the Planned Parenthood tapes, yet initially wrote this misleading passage:
[T]he things Fiorina describes — the legs kicking, the intact "fully formed fetus," the heart beating, the remarks about having to "harvest its brain" — are pure fiction.
Uh, nope.
It took Kliff reading a piece by Mollie Hemingway to even figure out which video Fiorina was talking about, even though I'd bet large sums of money that, like me, most of you knew instantly which video she was referring to.
The Federalist piece has other examples of leftists getting it completely wrong.
So: Fiorina may have misstated things a bit, since the relationship between the footage of the kicking baby and the horrific actions described in the interview is more one of video illustration rather than video documentation of the incident itself. But this howling mob rushing to brand Fiorina's comments as "pure fiction" has collectively erred far worse than Fiorina did.
Which is about par for the course for politicized leftist "fact-checkers."
Well done by the folks at the Federalist.
No Surprise: Hillary Clinton Was Smearing Candidates Long Before Trump Entered The Picture
Filed under: General — Dana @ 6:46 pm
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At a rally yesterday, Trump took questions from the audience. A man discussed Muslims and President Obama:
"We have a problem in this country and it's called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American–" the man asked Trump.
Trump laughs: "We need this question? This first one?"
The man continued, "We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That's my question. When can we get rid of them?"
As you can imagine, Trump is being excoriated by the usual suspects for not challenging the man's comments.
Enter Hillary Clinton, who finds Trump's passivity in this "disturbing":
"Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong. Cut it out. -H"
She elaborated at a townhall today:
I was appalled, and as you may know, quickly put out a tweet expressing the — the great disappointment with that kind of rhetoric, and calling on him and anybody else who is seeking the highest office of the land to start behaving like a president, to show respect and to stand up for the truth. He knew or he should have known that what that man was asking was not only way out of bounds, it was untrue, and he should have, from the beginning, repudiated that kind of rhetoric, that level of hatefulness in a questioner in an audience that he was appearing before.
Let's find out. Let's see what he does. I think that his taking a time-out to think hard about what happened last night, what he did not call out or repudiate at the time gives him the chance to express his regret about that kind of behavior and those sorts of comments in one of his political events. I hope he does.
Contrary to Hillary's suggestion that a conscience-stricken Trump was sitting in the corner in his timeout chair, his staff said that he cancelled an appearance at the Heritage Foundation in order to close a business deal. For Hillary, though, it was a convenient opportunity to play her hand, even though it was pretty easy to see her cards:
What they're trying to do is create a mind-set among everybody, including Trump's supporters, that he's hiding. They want Trump to have to come out and respond to them. They want Trump to respond to this. That puts him on the defensive. That's what they want. They want him to apologize. They're bullying Trump. That's exactly what this is right now. This is a giant combination.
Look, Republicans and Democrats joining forces, the club, the establishment, tried to bully the guy. They want him to come out and respond to what they're saying, which they hope puts him on the defensive here. They don't think they're rattling him. What they want is for his supporters, which you claim you're now a new one, they want you thinking he's afraid to show his face today.
It's not automatic that his numbers are gonna go up. He's got to do what he's always done if the numbers are gonna go up. What has he always done? He's always doubled down. Every time one of these things happens where they expect an apology he's done the exact opposite. He has doubled down. Trump will be finished in a week if he responds to this in an apologetic way or in any way that appears, makes it look like he is behaving in a way demanded by all of these critics: Hillary, Christie, Grahamnesty, media, you name it.
You know, it's funny how Clinton can put on that mantle of righteous indignation with such ease and familiarity in spite of the putrid stench of hypocrisy wafting from her pores. But that's what comes from not having a functioning moral compass and conscience:
And, take note: a professional politician always plants a tiny seed of doubt: Eh, maybe he's not a Muslim, maybe he is, I mean, how can we really know, Steve??….
I'm not a Trump fan or supporter and I do not want him to become our next president, but in this, I wholeheartedly hope he doesn't apologize, doesn't fall in line, and that he doubles down. It's a good feeling to see the MSM, the Democrats and the Republican elites all froth at the mouth as they realize Trump is beyond their control. Frankly, I'd like to see more Republican politicians resistant to these sorts of pressures, and to make their own decisions about whether and when they should apologize or whether they should retract a statement.
(Images via Twitter)
UPDATE BY PATTERICO: I am not personally impressed by the contention that Hillary supposedly cast a lot of doubt on Obama's Christianity in that last clip. I saw Allahpundit raise the issue twice today at Hot Air, watched the clip expecting a "for all I know" inflection — insinuating maybe Obama is a Muslim. What I saw instead was a clip where she repeatedly denounces the idea of Obama as a Muslim, ending with a "for all I know" inflection after being asked the question a second time. I can't stand this woman and don't give her the benefit of any doubt, but I am underwhelmed with this argument.
Video: Candidate Mocks Looks of Female Opponent!
I had forgotten all about this, from Fiorina's Senate run against Barbara Boxer in 2010, and I was not reminded of it again until last night:
I think women heard very clearly what Carly Fiorina said. Ha.
It's a Scott-Adams-style linguistic kill shot because it's what everyone was already thinking about Boxer. (And no: I cannot bring myself to say that Barbara Boxer has a beautiful face, or hair.)
Also . . . did we just see Carly Fiorina smile?
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LGBTQ Health Services
LGBTQ HEALTH RESOURCES
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people often experience significant obstacles in obtaining health care and health coverage, and our state's healthcare system is no exception. In fact, in Tennessee, the LGBTQ community faces a range of barriers to access while also lacking critical protections against discrimination. If you are having problems with your TennCare or other public benefits programs applications or have been denied due to discrimination, call us for free assistance: 615-255-0331.
To learn more about making Tennessee healthcare more equitable, visit our Health Equity webpage here. At the bottom of that page, you can also find resources for LGBTQ health services and other health related information.
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There are many LGBTQ-friendly and LGBTQ-focused health services providers and advocacy organizations in Tennessee. Some of these organizations are lsited by region below. Click the drop down buttons to see more.
Statewide and National Organizations for LGBTQ People
GaL-AA
GaL-AA (Gays and Lesbians in AA) was established to serve and have the involvement of lesbians, gay men, and others in Alcoholics Anonymous, regardless of how they choose to identify themselves. In selecting the name, careful consideration was given to a variety of combinations. While the name only directly reflects gays and lesbians, we embrace all LGBT+ members of the AA fellowship.
Website: http://gal-aa.org/
Included Health is the first comprehensive health platform partnering with employers to connect LGBTQ+ members to culturally competent, quality providers who understand the unique needs of the community.
Website: https://www.includedhealth.com/
It Gets Better Project
The It Gets Better Project was created to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The It Gets Better Project wants to remind teenagers in the LGBT community that they are not alone — and it WILL get better.
Website: https://itgetsbetter.org/
Outcare Health
OutCare is the nation's first comprehensive resource for LGBTQ+ healthcare offering provider and healthcare resource directories, mentorship, medical education reform, and cultural competency training. OutCare's most notable endeavor, the OutList, is an online, nationwide directory of healthcare providers who identify as culturally competent in the care of the LGBTQ+ community.
Website: https://www.outcarehealth.org/
Rescuing Health
Rescuing Health financially aids individuals who do not qualify for any other type of public or private healthcare assistance in obtaining specific health treatments or surgeries.
Website: https://www.rescuinghealth.org/
Tennessee HIV Prevention and Care
The TTF is a work group comprised of transgender and gender-variant individuals representing each of the five HIV Prevention regions of Tennessee. The ultimate goals of this body are to prevent transgender individuals from acquiring HIV, increase access to care and improve health outcomes for transgender people who are living with HIV, and reduce HIV-related health disparities for transgender communities. Services offered include a Trans Resource Guide, where health-related resources at trans-affirming locations can be found across the state of Tennessee, as well as a webcast series on trans health-related topics.
Website: https://www.hivtn.net/ttf
Trans in the South
Trans in the South: A Directory of Trans-Affirming Health & Legal Service Providers is a directory of more than 400 Southern health service providers who are trans-affirming.
Website: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
Organizations for LGBTQ People in West Tennessee
CHOICES Memphis Center for Reproductive Health
CHOICES provides comprehensive, non-judgmental sexual and reproductive health services, including services for LGBTQ people.
Website: https://memphischoices.org/lgbtq-health-services/
Location: 1203 Poplar Ave, Memphis, Tennessee 38104
Friends for Life
Friends for Life strives to address the roots of need—including stigma and inequality—to improve health and wellness for everyone we serve. Their goal is to eliminate new transmissions of HIV in Memphis and the Mid-South and empower those living with HIV to become their healthiest, happiest selves.
Website: https://www.fflmemphis.org/
Location: 43 N. Cleveland Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38104
OUTMemphis
OUTMemphis provides services to support LGBTQ issues and individuals to become a part of every aspect of civic life for every demographic. They host social support groups, peer-led projects, and social activities specific to trans men and women of color, seniors, parents of queer youth, Latina and Latino individuals, men of color, and every intersection of the LGBTQ community and our allies.
Website: https://www.outmemphis.org/
Location: Community Center – 892 S Cooper St; Admin/Donation Center – 832 Virginia Run Cove; Youth Emergency Center – 2055 Southern Avenue
Positively Living Memphis
Positively Living & Choice Health Network operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving East Tennessee's most vulnerable populations: nearly 5,000 individuals and families struggling to survive the challenges created by HIV, homelessness, mental illness, substance use, and disabilities. Services provided include a medical clinic with disease testing, treatment, and prevention along with a full service pharmacy, client services which includes therapy and mental health, food, housing, and transportation support, and a harm reduction program which offers a syringe services exchange, naloxone distribution, fentanyl test strips, and resources for our neighbors who use substances.
Website: https://choicehealthnetwork.org/positively-living/
Location: 1331 Union Avenue Suite 750H, Memphis, Tennessee 38103
Organizations for LGBTQ People in Middle Tennessee
Nashville CARES, Street Works and an independent contractor providing medical services have partnered to provide a one stop shop Health & Wellness Community Center for Same Gender Loving Men of Color and Gay / Bisexual Men. Support services include a drop-in & event space with free WiFI, evening programming, HIV & STI testing, prevention education, medical care, PrEP, volunteer opportunities and other integrated activities.
Website: https://www.myhousenashville.org/
Location: 442 Metroplex Drive, Building D Nashville, TN 37211
Nashville Cares
Nashville Cares's mission is to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Middle Tennessee. They work to achieve this through education, advocacy and support for those at risk for or living with HIV.
Website: https://www.nashvillecares.org/
Location: 633 Thompson Ln., Nashville, Tennessee 37204
PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. With over 400 chapters and 200,000 members and supporters crossing multiple generations of families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas across America, PFLAG is committed to creating a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are respected, valued, and affirmed.
Crossville/Cumberland
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-crossvillecumberland-county
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-franklin
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-murfreesboro
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-nashville
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-tullahoma
Positively Living - Cookeville/Upper Cumberland
Positively Living & Choice Health Network serves nearly 5,000 individuals and families struggling to survive the challenges created by HIV, homelessness, mental illness, substance use, and disabilities. Services provided include a medical clinic with disease testing, treatment, and prevention along with a full service pharmacy, client services which includes therapy and mental health, food, housing, and transportation support, and a harm reduction program which offers a syringe services exchange, naloxone distribution, fentanyl test strips, and resources for our neighbors who use substances.
Location: 1100 England Dr., Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
Sisters United
Sisters United's goal is to create a platform for Lesbian Women of Color to gather information, voice & advocate needs, receive referral and support services, as well as to promote health education awareness.
Website: http://www.brothersunited.com/sistersunited.htm
Street Works is one of Tennessee's leading HIV service organizations, providing free, confidential HIV testing and supportive services to persons living with HIV disease in the Nashville/Middle Tennessee area since 1997. Street Works provides the following services: prevention, education, HIV and Hepatitis C testing, Medical Case Management, Housing Case Management, Nutritional Services, Emergency Financial Assistance and Early Intervention Services. Street Works Prevention Staff work the streets at night to prevent and reduce HIV disease and STIs on the inner city streets of Nashville.
Website: http://streetworks.org/
Location: 1225 9th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208
Young Brothers United
Young Brothers United's mission is to "uplift a generation of Young African-American Same Gender Loving Males in Nashville through professional & personal development while also providing HIV/AIDS prevention outreach, education and awareness to youth between the ages of 13-24."
Website: http://www.brothersunited.com/youngbu.htm
Location: 501 Brick Church Park Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37207
Organizations for LGBTQ People in East Tennessee
Appalachian OUTReach
Appalachian OUTreach seeks to empower, connect, & support the East Tennessee lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer (LGBTQ+) people through the provision of safe & healthy, inclusively welcoming & affirming programs & respect for partnerships, which promote community building, resource development, & education for all.
Website: https://appalachianoutreach.org/
Phone: 865-268-9098
Positively Living
Location: 1925 Ailor Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37921
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-athens
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-chattanooga
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-johnson-citytri-cities
Website: https://pflag.org/chapter/pflag-oak-ridge
HELPFUL HOTLINES
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://www.crisistextline.org/ Other ways to contact the hotline (US and Canada): Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor
Anti-Hunger Hotline, call: 1-866-3-HUNGRY or text 97779 to be connected to the closest food resource to you
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has an online resource containing an archive of hotlines, LGBTQ advocacy organization pages, and tips for suicide prevention and mental health mindfulness here.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides confidential suicide prevention services 24/7. Number to call: 1-800-273-8255
The Trevor Project is a confidential lifeline that provides suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth 24/7. Number to call: 1-866-488-7386
National Help Center's LGBT National Youth Talkline provides confidential and online one-to-one chat, telephone, and email support to LGBTQ youth. Number to call: 800-246-7743
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Discussion in 'Latest Updates and News' started by StoPCampinGn00b, May 28, 2018.
Congrats! Another one in, another one to go?
Congratulations Willy. Now you can give us insider info!
Gimme all your secrets sweeting!
This is awesome! Looking forward towards the WE updates!
What's gonna be the priorities in terms of world editor development?
LOL! Amongst all of great coders around here and they select him? the developer of WEX himself?! What a perfect choice!
Well for me I have to get through much longer path to get to where you are now. Anyway, congrats, @MindWorX, and be proud!
Does this mean blizzard officially supports a non-standard editor?
Because he develops WEX?.. and works for blizzard now?
No, it means that custom content will become Blizzard content and therefore added to the original editor.
I'M GETTING FIRED UP !!!
LIKE THE BROTHER OF FIRE !!!
Cool. Hope that means we can see a smoother, better running editor soon! Massive maps like LTA, LTF have been slowed down to a crawl due to engine limtations.
As "one of us", I hope you will help bring into the Editor what WarCraft modders and fans have only dreamed of few years back.
Best of luck with this exciting position!
Blizzard will soon become Hive-infested. Congratulations tho!
This is great news! And, with any luck, very very exciting news for the future of the WE.
Say 'hi' to Kam for us!


**Finally redeemed old cell phone for $5 credit. Sprint had offered larger credit for accessories, but somehow we did the *big* cell phone changeover with no need for accessories. Dh was dragging his feet because wanted to pick out an accessory. I am glad he finally settled on the $5.
**Dh has some costumes listed on Craigslist. Also 2 old carseats. If all this sells, I might be willing to buy costumes this year, but sounds like the kids have a good DIY plan. More on that later, when decisions are made!
**Received my $420 Chase reward. After I cash it I will close that card. Saving that for our Pismo Beach vacation next month.
Dinner last night was YUM!!
Cost = $1.66 per serving.
Plus, we had a salad pre-mix. I usually make our own salads, but they were on sale, and the salad was very good too.
*This* is what I missed on vacation. Cheap and yummy.
Will have to remember this recipe for future potlucks - so very easy and feeds a lot!
Tonight we have a big concert. Lumineers. Interesting find - dh has already seen them twice, but apparently they went *BIG* in the interim. Lucky to get tickets - very small venue - hoping it is not too crowded.
Oh darn ... it looks like in order to access the link to the recipe you need to be a subscriber. I was looking forward to seeing the recipe but I can't access it!
Love the Lumineers. Have fun!
OKAY - just google "taste of home sweet savory slow cooked beef" - it worked for me. The link is no longer working for me either - I hadn't even bothered to sign in to Taste of Home, so didn't think it was a restricted recipe. But I tested on another computer that I had never logged into "taste of home" with. Google will take you to it.
I'll leave the link up because it will work eventually (maybe next month). But google it for now. IT should be the first recipe to pop up - has this description: "There�s plenty of sweet and a little heat from the chipotle pepper in this family-friendly shredded beef."
& print it before it disappears!!
I have a pot roast in the crockpot right now for dinner tonight. just that time of year.
I am going to try this recipe out - thanks!
Pot roast I need to make one of them soon! Now craving it after reading yours and Lookingforward blog posts this morning!


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По́лоцк (, ) — самый древний город Белоруссии и один из древнейших городов Восточной Европы.

Первое письменное упоминание в русских источниках о Полоцке обнаружено в имеющей северо-восточное происхождение Лаврентьевской летописи XIV века — под 862 годом в Повести временных лет упомянут Полотеск:

А. А. Шахматов считал, что этот список является позднейшей вставкой в летопись.

В Никоновской летописи XVI века упомянут поход на полочан Аскольда и Дира под 865 годом: «…воеваша Асколдъ и Диръ полочанъ и много зла сътвориша».

Согласно данным археологических раскопок на территории современного Полоцка поселение возникло на 70—80 лет ранее даты первого летописного упоминания города. Первоначальным ядром Полоцка было небольшое городище размерами 75×75 м (основная площадка 40×75 м) на правом берегу реки Полоты. Вал городища, достигавший 1,5 м, был в дальнейшем подсыпан до 3 м. В предматериковом слое нагородище найдена лепная керамика VIII—Х веков. Такую же керамику нашли на селище, примыкавшем к городищу с юго-востока. Археологические раскопки на Полоцком городище, проведённые в 2007 году Д. В. Дуком, показали, что Полоцкое городище по данным радиоуглеродного анализа было заселено уже в 780 году. Были найдены фрагменты славянской керамики и кусок обожженного дерева. Историческим ядром города являлось укрепленное поселение кривичей, возникшее на месте более древнего городища банцеровской культуры на берегу реки Полоты, недалеко от впадения её в Западную Двину. Ближе к концу X века первоначальное поселение было перенесено на левую сторону Полоты. Городской характер укреплений городища датируется не ранее середины X века. Высота Полоцкого городища составляет не менее 13,5 м, площадь ок. 2 га, у подножия городища была расположена развитая система неукреплённых поселений. Суммарная площадь Полоцкого городища вместе с селищами на протяжении ІХ — конца X века составляла 8 га (Холопий городок на Волхове ІХ века и Белоозеро X века имели площадь менее 1 и 1,4 га соответственно, Ладога и Рюриково городище не превышали 8 га по площади). В ІХ—X веках Полоцкая земля развивалась самостоятельно и не испытала влияния хазар и «варяжской дани». Вещевой клад золотых изделий третьей четверти X века из Нижнего замка ставит Полоцк в один ряд с крупнейшими городами Северной Европы, такими как Дорестад. В конце X века площадь Полоцка возрастает в десятки раз, а в ХІ веке площадь Полоцка составляет ок. 180 га. На одном пряслице обнаружено граффити с нацарапанными буквами «НАМГ». Ко второй четверти ХІ века Полоцк становится крупным социально-экономическим и культурным центром Восточной Европы.

Полоцкое княжество

В середине X века возникло Полоцкое княжество. Оно занимало территорию в бассейне Западной Двины, верховьях Березины и Немана. Первым известным князем Полоцка, о котором упоминают летописные источники, является Рогволод (ум. ок. 978). В 988—1001 годах в Полоцке княжил Изяслав Владимирович, сын Рогнеды Рогволодовны и Владимира Святославича, родоначальник династии полоцких князей Изяславичей.

В 986 году викингом-миссионером Торвальдом Путешественником, «полномочным представителем Византии к русским князьям в странах Восточной Балтики», был основан первый на территории Полоцкого княжества христианский храм и монастырь св. Иоанна Крестителя «недалеко от места под горой под названием Дрофн», что послужило началом распространения христианства в Полоцком княжестве. Возможно, с деятельностью исландского миссионера Торвальда Кодранссона связано формирование общины на городище  у деревни Масковичи (Браславский район).

К 992 году относится основание Полоцкой епархии (по некоторым источникам, 1104 год).

В 1003—1044 годах в Полоцке княжил Брячислав Изяславич. Он значительно расширил территорию Полоцкого княжества, присоединив в 1021 году города Въсвячь (Усвят) и Витебск, а также земли между Западной Двиной и Дисной, где основал город Брячиславль (Браслав).

В период правления Всеслава Брячиславича (с некоторыми перерывами с 1044 по 1101 год) на левом берегу Полоты в центре Большого или Верхнего города был построен Софийский собор (между 1030—1060 годами), один из самых ранних храмов Древней Руси. Всеслав Брячиславич — единственный представитель полоцкой ветви Рюриковичей на киевском великокняжеском престоле (1068—1069). При Всеславе Брячиславиче Полоцкое княжество достигло своего наивысшего могущества.

С именем внучки Всеслава Брячиславича Преподобной Евфросинии (1110—1173), игумении Полоцкой, связано основание Полоцкого Спасо-Евфросиниевского монастыря. По её заказу в 1161 году мастер-ювелир Лазарь Богша создал напрестольный крест — шедевр ювелирного искусства.

Полоцкое княжество являлось фактически независимым от Древнерусского государства. Это провоцировало многочисленные конфликты между полоцкими и киевскими князьями. В 1129 году Мстислав Владимирович захватил Полоцк и выслал полоцких князей в Византию. Однако уже в 1132 году они возвратились из ссылки на родину.

Площадь Полоцка в XI веке составляла 180 га.

В XII веке началась борьба за главенство между Витебской, Минской и Друцкой ветвями потомков Всеслава Брячиславича. Это привело к захвату части земель Полоцкого княжества новгородцами, смоленскими и черниговскими князьями. Испытывало давление Полоцкое княжество также со стороны литовцев и крестоносцев.

В начале XIII века Полоцкое княжество вело борьбу с рыцарями Ливонского ордена, которые захватили города Герцике и Кукейнос, находившиеся в вассальной зависимости от Полоцка. В 1201 году в устье Западной Двины немецкими рыцарями-крестоносцами было основано военно-торговое поселение Рига, что значительно подрывало экономические позиции Полоцка.

В 1229 году между Смоленским, Витебским и Полоцким княжествами с одной стороны и Ригой и Готландом с другой стороны был заключён договор — Смоленская торговая правда.

В начале 1240-х годов на полоцком княжеском престоле часто оказывались литовцы, однако государство сохраняло самостоятельность. Правивший в Полоцке во второй половине XIV века Андрей Полоцкий (1342—1377, 1381—1387) является одним из самых замечательных политических деятелей в истории Полотчины. После утраты князем Андреем Полоцкого княжества его сменил Скиргайло Ольгердович (1387—1397) — последний самостоятельный полоцкий князь. С 1392 года земли бывшего Полоцкого удела в составе Великого княжества Литовского управлялись наместниками, а с 1504 года — воеводами.

В XVIII веке площадь города составляла 250 га, численность населения достигала 10 тыс. человек.

В составе Великого княжества Литовского и Речи Посполитой
На протяжении 1432—1436 годов во время гражданской войны в Великом княжестве Литовском Полоцк являлся одним из центров боровшегося за власть Свидригайло.

В 1498 году в городе было введено Магдебургское право. В 1504—1772 годах — центр Полоцкого воеводства Литовского княжества (с 1569 года — воеводства Речи Посполитой).

Первой неудачной попыткой русских войск по взятию города стала осада 1518 года. После взятия города войсками Ивана IV в 1563 году в ходе Ливонской войны Полоцк в 1563—1579 годах пребывал в составе Русского государства. В 1563 году в городе состоялось массовое убийство жителей-иудеев, около 300 человек были утоплены в Западной Двине по причине отказа перейти в христианство. На протяжении последующего времени 25 кислева по иудейскому календарю отмечалась как день поминовения невинно убиенных. Король Речи Посполитой Стефан Баторий взял город в результате осады 1579 года.

Во время русско-польской войны 1654—1667 годов Полоцк вновь оказывается под властью Российского царства.

Во время Северной войны в 1705 году когда войска Петра I находились в Полоцке, были убиты четыре униатских священника.

В составе Российской империи

В итоге первого раздела Речи Посполитой правобережная часть Полоцка  года вошла в состав Российской империи. Левобережная часть Полоцка вошла в состав Российской империи по второму разделу Речи Посполитой в 1793 году. В 1772—1776 годах город находился в Псковской губернии. С  года Полоцк — административный центр Полоцкой губернии. С  года — Полоцкого наместничества.

Двадцатилетнее нахождение Полоцка в губернском качестве способствовало значительному экономическому росту и культурному развитию города. Были приняты принципы регулярной планировки городского центра, возводились новые административные здания, выросла территория города, увеличилось население. Полоцк вернул себе статус центра местной и транзитной торговли.

С  года Полоцк — уездный город Белорусской губернии, а с 1802 года — Витебской.

В 1808 году в Полоцке действовали уездное, иезуитское, базилианское училища и еврейская школа. В городе ежегодно проводились 4 ярмарки, работали небольшие кожевенные, поташные и кирпичные предприятия. Существовали действующие иезуитский монастырь, доминиканский, бернардинский, базилианский и францисканский костелы, а также деревянная приходская Свято-Покровская православная церковь и каменная церковь в Богоявленском мужском монастыре, лютеранская кирха и старообрядческая часовня.

Накануне Отечественной войны 1812 года через город проходили санкт-петербургский, рижский, витебский и могилёвский публичные почтовые тракты, а также пять купеческих трактов: на левом берегу Двины — Виленский, Лепельский, Бешенковичский, на правом — Дисненский и Невельский. По населенности Полоцк относился к самым крупным уездным центрам Белоруссии и уступал только губернским городам.

В 1812 году под Полоцком произошли два сражения между русской и французской армиями (см. Первое сражение под Полоцком и Второе сражение под Полоцком).

12 февраля 1839 года состоялся Полоцкий церковный собор. Епископами и начальствующим духовенством греко-католической (униатской) церкви  был подписан «Соборный акт» о соединении униатской церкви с православной спустя 243 года после Брестской унии. На соборе присутствовали 3 епископа: Иосиф (Семашко), Антоний (Зубко), Василий (Лужинский) и 21 человек из состава высших духовных лиц.

В 1891 году в городе действовали 23 синагоги и еврейских молитвенных дома, 8 православных церквей, католический костел, лютеранская церковь, молельня раскольников, мужской и женский монастыри.

Развитию города способствовала прокладка Риго-Орловской (1866), а затем Николаевской железных дорог (1907).

23 мая 1910 года, в день памяти преподобной Евфросинии, состоялось возвращение мощей святой Евфросинии в Полоцк. Они были помещены в Спасо-Преображенском храме. До 1910 года мощи Евфросинии находились в Киево-Печерском монастыре.

Советский период

Во время Гражданской войны и иностранной интервенции Полоцк занимали германские (25.02.1918 — 21.11.1918) и польские (22.09.1919 — 14.05.1920) войска.

С 1924 года Полоцк в составе Белорусской ССР.

В годы Великой Отечественной войны Полоцк 16 июля 1941 года был захвачен немецкой армией (см. Оборона Полоцка 1941). Упорная оборона советской 22-й армией Полоцка на 20 дней задержала продвижение немецких войск на северном фланге центрального участка советско-германского фронта.

Евреи города были согнаны нацистами в гетто и уничтожены. За время оккупации были убиты десятки тысяч жителей города и советских военнопленных. (См. Дулаг 125; Полоцкое гетто)

Захватчики нанесли городу огромный ущерб. Была уничтожена центральная часть города, было во многом разрушено Заполотье, сожжено Задвинье. В городе не осталось ни одного промышленного предприятия: были уничтожены электростанции, железнодорожный узел, хлебокомбинат, мясокомбинат, птицекомбинат, кирпично-гончарный и лесопильный заводы, другие предприятия.

Полоцк был освобождён 4 июля 1944 года войсками Первого Прибалтийского фронта (см. Полоцкая наступательная операция).

С 20 сентября 1944 года по 8 января 1954 года Полоцк являлся административным центром Полоцкой области в составе Белорусской ССР.

В Республике Беларусь
С 1991 года — в составе независимой Республики Беларусь.

Значительным событием городской жизни стало проведение 6—8 сентября 2002 года в Полоцке Республиканского фестиваля-ярмарки тружеников села «Дожинки». Во время проведения праздника Полоцк посетило около 8 000 гостей. В ходе подготовки праздника Полоцку из национального бюджета было выделено только на ремонт дорог 3,5 млрд бел. руб. Облик городского центра значительно преобразился.

С 25 мая по 5 июня 2012 года в городе проходили праздничные мероприятия, посвящённые 1150-летию первого упоминания Полоцка в письменных источниках.

В 2016 году Полоцк затронули предпринимательские протесты.

См. также
 Полоцкая и Глубокская епархия

Примечания

Литература

  (Глава 8).

Ссылки
 Национальный Полоцкий историко-культурный музей-заповедник

История Полоцка


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Geschiedenis
De Philipstoren werd tussen 1967 en 1969 naar een ontwerp van het architectenbureau Groupe Structures. Hij werd gelijktijdig met het tegenoverliggende Muntcentrum gebouwd en diende oorspronkelijk als hoofdzetel van Philips. Vanaf de bouw was er kritiek op de toren, die in schril contrast met zijn omgeving zou staan. Ook de 10 meter hoge sokkel, de zwarte kleur en het omvangrijke volume ervan vielen niet bij iedereen in goede smaak.

In 2015 verkocht eigenaar Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank het gebouw aan DW Partners, LP en Whitewood, die het door Conix RBDM Architects grondig wilden laten renoveren. Ze planden een voetgangerspassage door het gebouw en een lichte uitbreiding van de vloeroppervlakte en de toren zou ook een witte kleur krijgen en het dak van de sokkel toegankelijk worden. Het gebouw werd in 2018 ook tot 'Multi Tower' omgedoopt. In de toren zouden ongeveer 2.000 ambtenaren van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest onderdak vinden, maar de Brusselse regering koos voor de Silver Tower. Begin 2019 werd een eerste huurder voor de Multi Tower gevonden, WeWork, een onderneming gespecialiseerd in gedeelde werkruimtes.

Sinds 2021 is het hoofdkantoor van bpost in het gebouw ondergebracht.

Kantoorgebouw in Brussel


How to handle your outgoing, somewhat rebellious, people-pleasing, peacemaking middle child.
Why does your middle child act the way she does? It could be her birth order position. Discover more about her personality.
Middle children tend to get lost in the sibling shuffle, so to get your attention, their behavior may range from one extreme (acting somewhat rebellious) to the other (being a people-pleaser). Here, how to use their birth order traits to your parenting advantage.
1. Reassure your child. To counteract the attention you lavish upon your overachiever firstborn and spotlight-hogging lastborn, the middle-born child needs to experience acceptance exactly for who he is -- mistakes included, write Cliff Isaacson and Kris Radish in The Birth Order Effect (Schwartz Books). If you child makes a mistake, you need to emphasize that his punishment is not related to his siblings, nor do they change the fact that you still care about him. Explaining the reason behind the punishment is especially crucial when dealing with a middle-born child, who's already feels lost in the mix.
2. "First the worst, second the best... third the one with the hairy chest" is how the children's playground taunt generally goes. And considering the fact that middle children can be somewhat rebellious (presumably to draw some of the attention away from their siblings), middle-children might be the ones likely to be reciting this taunt in the lunch room.
"Middle children often go to an extreme to get attention, which is why some dye their hair purple or become a fanatic about a particular singing group -- because they need an identity really bad," says Meri Wallace, a child and family therapist for over 20 years and author of Birth Order Blues (Owl Books). One way to avoid this type of behavior is to give your middle child enough attention in the first place so he doesn't feel the need to act out. By lavishing praise for his incredible easel paintings, your middle child will be less inclined to finger-paint Picassos all over the living room wall to get you to notice him.
4. Caught between a rock and a hard place. However, being the middle child may also make her more mild-mannered. Sandwiched between two siblings, the middle child may act as a peacemaker during feuds. The eldest declares herself the Queen of the Crayons and refuses to share? Middle child is there to smooth things over. "Because second-borns hate anger, they tend to use logic to solve conflict," Isaacson and Radish write. But while toting the peace-pipe may seem like a very noble thing to do, make sure your child doesn't get trampled: When fights get too heated over what to watch on TV -- "Dora the Explorer!" "No, SpongeBob!" --it's your job to play referee, not your middle child's.
5. Make special time. "Tune into the middle child," advises Wallace. "If you're having dinner, ask the middle child, 'How was your day?' Spend time alone with the middle child. Set up a date on the calendar so he knows it's coming.'" By focusing on the middle child, you are reassuring her that she is equally as important as her siblings, and keeping her from feeling lost in the shuffle.
6. Make his achievements a big deal. Chances are after going through the whole firstborn circus of achievements, it's not quite as exciting when you second-born (or third-, or fourth-, or fifth-born) gets a gold star for his book report on Babar. Reassure your child with phrases like "you are part of the family," Isaacson and Radish write, but also recognize his individual accomplishments as ones worth celebrating.
7. Encourage differences. Your eldest is the district-wide spelling bee champ? While it'd be nice for your middle-born child to follow in her footsteps, it's a breeding ground for potential feelings of animosity and inferiority. Instead, encourage your middle child to find his own niche, be it academic, athletic, or artistic endeavors. In fact, "Middle children often can become artistic because it'll give [them] a unique spot in the family, particularly if the oldest one is good in school," says Wallace.
8. Maintain open communication. In a perfect world, we'd all be mind-readers. However, it can be nearly impossible for a parent to tell an "I'm hungry" pout from an "I'm upset" pout (and if you can, please, do share!). Even if your middle child is feeling ignored, he may not say anything. To remedy this, "Talk to him about the experience of [being] the middle kid," suggests Wallace. "Say, 'It's hard because we have to take care of the baby and your older brother is looking for a high school. If you feel left out, talk to us. Tell us, 'I need attention.'"
9. No more hand-me-downs! Well, maybe just fewer. "An occasional hand-me-down is fine, but your middle child may be particularly appreciative of something new, especially a key item, like a coat or jacket," writes Dr. Kevin Leman, in The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are (Revell). In the same vein, special privileges, like choosing and watching a movie without interruption from her siblings, can help your middle child feel special.
10. Capture the memories. "Above all, be sure the family photo album has its share of pictures of your middle child," Leman writes. "Don't let him or her fall victim to the stereotyped fate of seeing thousands of pictures of the older brother or sister and only a few of him or her! And be sure you take some of your middle-born alone, not always with big brother or little sister." 'Nuff said.
Want to know more about what classically makes up the kid-in-the-middle mentality? Check out the following stories and quizzes on birth order.


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