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<project basedir="." name="apache-cassandra--resolver-tasks"
         xmlns:resolver="antlib:org.apache.maven.resolver.ant"
         xmlns:if="ant:if"
         xmlns:unless="ant:unless">

    <!-- details of what version of Resolver ANT Tasks to fetch -->
    <property name="resolver-ant-tasks.version" value="1.3.0" />
    <property name="resolver-ant-tasks.local" value="${local.repository}/org/apache/maven/resolver/maven-resolver-ant-tasks/${resolver-ant-tasks.version}/maven-resolver-ant-tasks-${resolver-ant-tasks.version}.jar"/>
    <property name="resolver-ant-tasks.url" value="https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/resolver/maven-resolver-ant-tasks" />
    <condition property="resolver-ant-tasks.jar.exists">
        <available file="${resolver-ant-tasks.local}" />
    </condition>

    <property name="artifact.python.pypi" value="https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages" />
    <property name="artifact.github.release" value="https://github.com" />

    <!-- some artifacts are fetched from github as blobs; these are all in the cassandra project, but in an older commit -->
    <property name="lib.download.sha" value="1371883db3d8bf7d7c54e0baaca89c6c2d2a5abe"/>
    <property name="lib.download.base.url" value="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/cassandra/${lib.download.sha}" />
    <property name="lib.download.url.postfix" value="" />

    <path id="resolver-ant-tasks.classpath" path="${resolver-ant-tasks.local}" />

    <!--
       Fetch Resolver Ant Tasks and Cassandra's dependencies.
    -->

    <target name="_resolver_download" unless="resolver-ant-tasks.jar.exists" description="Fetch Resolver ANT Tasks from Maven Central Repository">
        <echo>Downloading Resolver ANT Tasks...</echo>
        <mkdir dir="${local.repository}/org/apache/maven/resolver/maven-resolver-ant-tasks/${resolver-ant-tasks.version}" />

        <get src="${resolver-ant-tasks.url}/${resolver-ant-tasks.version}/maven-resolver-ant-tasks-${resolver-ant-tasks.version}-uber.jar"
             dest="${resolver-ant-tasks.local}" usetimestamp="true" quiet="true"/>
    </target>

    <target name="resolver-init" depends="init,_resolver_download" unless="resolver-ant-tasks.initialized" description="Initialize Resolver ANT Tasks">

        <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.resolver.ant" resource="org/apache/maven/resolver/ant/antlib.xml" classpathref="resolver-ant-tasks.classpath" />
        <resolver:remoterepos id="all">
            <remoterepo id="resolver-central" url="${artifact.remoteRepository.central}"/>
            <remoterepo id="resolver-apache" url="${artifact.remoteRepository.apache}"/>
        </resolver:remoterepos>

        <macrodef name="resolve">
            <!--
              maven-resolver-ant-tasks's resolve logic doesn't have retry logic and does not respect settings.xml,
              this causes issues when overriding maven central is required (such as when behind a corporate firewall);
              it is critical to always provide the 'all' remoterepos to override resolve's default hard coded logic.

              This macro simplifies this logic by centralizing retries and forcing the remoterepo 'all' to be used.
            -->
            <attribute name="failonmissingattachments" default="true"/>
            <element name="elements" implicit="yes"/>
            <sequential>
                <retry retrycount="3">
                  <resolver:resolve failonmissingattachments="@{failonmissingattachments}">
                        <resolver:remoterepos refid="all"/>
                        <elements/>
                    </resolver:resolve>
                </retry>
            </sequential>
        </macrodef>
        <macrodef name="resolvepom">
            <attribute name="file"/>
            <attribute name="id"/>
            <element name="elements" implicit="yes" optional="yes"/>
            <sequential>
                <retry retrycount="3">
                    <resolver:pom file="@{file}" id="@{id}">
                          <remoterepos refid="all"/>
                          <elements/>
                    </resolver:pom>
                </retry>
            </sequential>
        </macrodef>

        <resolve>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency groupId="com.datastax.wikitext" artifactId="wikitext-core-ant" version="1.3"/>
                <dependency groupId="org.fusesource.wikitext" artifactId="textile-core" version="1.3"/>
            </dependencies>
            <path refid="wikitext.classpath" classpath="runtime"/>
        </resolve>
        <resolve>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency groupId="org.apache.rat" artifactId="apache-rat-tasks" version="0.6" />
            </dependencies>
            <path refid="rat.classpath" classpath="runtime"/>
        </resolve>
        <resolve>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency groupId="org.jacoco" artifactId="org.jacoco.ant" version="${jacoco.version}" />
            </dependencies>
            <path refid="jacocoant.classpath" classpath="runtime"/>
        </resolve>
        <resolve>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency groupId="org.antlr" artifactId="antlr" version="3.5.2"/>
                <dependency groupId="org.antlr" artifactId="antlr-runtime" version="3.5.2"/>
                <dependency groupId="org.antlr" artifactId="ST4" version="4.0.8"/>
            </dependencies>
            <path refid="cql3-grammar.classpath" classpath="runtime"/>
        </resolve>
        <resolve>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency groupId="de.jflex" artifactId="jflex" version="${jflex.version}" />
            </dependencies>
            <path refid="jflex.classpath" classpath="runtime"/>
        </resolve>

        <macrodef name="install">
            <attribute name="pomFile"/>
            <attribute name="file"/>
            <attribute name="classifier" default=""/>
            <attribute name="packaging" default="jar"/>
            <sequential>
                <exec dir="." executable="sh">
                    <arg line="-c 'mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install-file -DpomFile=@{pomFile} -Dfile=@{file} -Dclassifier=@{classifier} -Dpackaging=@{packaging}'" />
                </exec>
            </sequential>
        </macrodef>

        <macrodef name="deploy">
            <attribute name="pomFile"/>
            <attribute name="file"/>
            <attribute name="classifier" default=""/>
            <attribute name="packaging" default="jar"/>
            <sequential>
                <exec dir="." executable="sh">
                    <arg line="-c 'mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.6:sign-and-deploy-file -DretryFailedDeploymentCount=5 -Durl=${maven-repository-url} -DrepositoryId=${maven-repository-id} -DpomFile=@{pomFile} -Dfile=@{file} -Dclassifier=@{classifier} -Dpackaging=@{packaging}'" />
                </exec>
            </sequential>
        </macrodef>

        <macrodef name="sign-dist">
            <attribute name="file"/>
            <sequential>
                <echo message="gpg signing @{file}" />
                <exec dir="." executable="sh">
                    <!-- dummy out the deploy parameters, only the signing is required here -->
                    <arg line="-c 'mvn -q org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.6:sign-and-deploy-file -Dfile=@{file} -DgroupId=org.apache.cassandra -DartifactId=cassandra-parent -Dversion=${version} -Durl=file:///tmp/ -DrepositoryId=tmp'" />
                </exec>
            </sequential>
        </macrodef>

        <property name="resolver-ant-tasks.initialized" value="true"/>
    </target>

    <target name="resolver-retrieve-build" depends="resolver-init,write-poms">
        <resolvepom file="${build.dir}/${final.name}.pom" id="all-pom" />
        <resolvepom file="${build.dir}/tmp-${final.name}-deps.pom" id="pom-deps" />

        <resolve>
            <dependencies pomRef="all-pom"/>
            <files dir="${build.dir.lib}/jars" layout="{artifactId}-{version}-{classifier}.{extension}" scopes="compile,provided,!system"/>
        </resolve>
        <resolve>
            <dependencies pomRef="pom-deps"/>
            <files dir="${test.lib}/jars" layout="{artifactId}-{version}-{classifier}.{extension}" scopes="test,!provide,!system"/>
        </resolve>

        <!-- jacoco agent jar comes wrapped in a jar -->
        <unzip src="${local.repository}/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.agent/${jacoco.version}/org.jacoco.agent-${jacoco.version}.jar" dest="${build.dir.lib}/jars">
            <patternset>
                <include name="*.jar"/>
            </patternset>
            <mapper type="flatten"/>
        </unzip>
    </target>

    <target name="resolver-dist-lib" depends="resolver-retrieve-build,write-poms">
        <resolvepom file="${build.dir}/${final.name}.pom" id="all-pom" />

        <resolve failOnMissingAttachments="true">
            <dependencies pomRef="all-pom"/>
            <files dir="${build.lib}" layout="{artifactId}-{version}-{classifier}.{extension}" scopes="compile,!provide,!system"/>
        </resolve>
        <mkdir dir="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin"/>
        <mkdir dir="${build.lib}/sigar-bin"/>

        <!-- files.pythonhosted.org -->
        <get src="${artifact.python.pypi}/59/a0/cf4cd997e1750f0c2d91c6ea5abea218251c43c3581bcc2f118b00baf5cf/futures-2.1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl" dest="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/futures-2.1.6-py2.py3-none-any.zip" usetimestamp="true" quiet="true" skipexisting="true"/>
        <get src="${artifact.python.pypi}/73/fb/00a976f728d0d1fecfe898238ce23f502a721c0ac0ecfedb80e0d88c64e9/six-1.12.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl" dest="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/six-1.12.0-py2.py3-none-any.zip" usetimestamp="true" quiet="true" skipexisting="true"/>

        <!-- apache/cassandra/lib -->
        <get src="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/geomet-0.1.0.zip" dest="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/geomet-0.1.0.zip" usetimestamp="true" quiet="true" skipexisting="true"/>
        <get dest="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/" quiet="true" usetimestamp="true" skipexisting="true">
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-amd64-freebsd-6.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-amd64-linux.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-amd64-solaris.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-ia64-hpux-11.sl"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-ia64-linux.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-pa-hpux-11.sl"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc-aix-5.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc-linux.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc64-aix-5.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc64-linux.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc64le-linux.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-s390x-linux.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-sparc-solaris.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-sparc64-solaris.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-universal-macosx.dylib"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-universal64-macosx.dylib"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-freebsd-5.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-freebsd-6.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-linux.so"/>
            <url url="${lib.download.base.url}/lib/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-solaris.so"/>
        </get>

        <copy todir="${build.lib}" quiet="true">
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/futures-2.1.6-py2.py3-none-any.zip"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/six-1.12.0-py2.py3-none-any.zip"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/geomet-0.1.0.zip"/>
        </copy>
        <copy todir="${build.lib}/sigar-bin/" quiet="true">
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-amd64-freebsd-6.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-amd64-linux.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-amd64-solaris.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-ia64-hpux-11.sl"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-ia64-linux.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-pa-hpux-11.sl"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc-aix-5.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc-linux.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc64-aix-5.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc64-linux.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-ppc64le-linux.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-s390x-linux.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-sparc-solaris.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-sparc64-solaris.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-universal-macosx.dylib"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-universal64-macosx.dylib"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-freebsd-5.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-freebsd-6.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-linux.so"/>
            <file file="${local.repository}/org/apache/cassandra/deps/sigar-bin/libsigar-x86-solaris.so"/>
        </copy>
    </target>
</project>

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Biscarrosse is een gemeente in het Franse departement Landes (regio Nouvelle-Aquitaine).  De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Mont-de-Marsan.

De economie van de gemeente is gericht op het toerisme: Biscarrosse-Plage ligt aan de Atlantische Oceaan en Biscarrosse-Lac aan het meer Lac de Biscarrosse-Cazaux-Sanguinet. Op het meer Lac de Biscarrosse-Parentis is een basis voor watervliegtuigen.

Bezienswaardigheden
Het Château de Montbron dateert uit de 14e eeuw. Hier was een Engels garnizoen gelegerd. De kerk Saint Martin werd gebouwd in de 14e en 15e eeuw en was een versterkte kerk. Er is ook een Musée de l'Hydraviation gewijd aan de geschiedenis van watervliegtuigen.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Biscarrosse bedraagt 160,48 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 87 inwoners per km² (per 1 januari 2019).

De gemeente heeft een kustlijn van vier km en telt 13.000 ha aan bossen en 3.200 ha wateroppervlak. In de gemeente liggen van noord naar zuid de volgende meren die onderling verbonden zijn met een kanaal: Lac de (Biscarrosse-)Cazaux-Sanguinet, Petit Lac en Lac de Biscarrosse-Parentis.

De onderstaande kaart toont de ligging van Biscarrosse met de belangrijkste infrastructuur en aangrenzende gemeenten.

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Geschiedenis
De plaats werd voor het eerst genoemd in de 12e eeuw. Toen was er al een klein kasteel. Dit werd later verbouwd in renaissancestijl. Tot 1900 leefden de inwoners vooral van de bosbouw, de visvangst en de veeteelt.

In 1930 opende Pierre-Georges Latécoère een basis voor watervliegtuigen op het Lac de Biscarrosse-Parentis. Hier werden de vliegtuigen die gebouwd waren in zijn fabriek in Toulouse geassembleerd en werden testvluchten uitgevoerd. Er kwamen ook post- en passagiersvluchten vanuit Biscarosse, onder andere naar New York en Rio de Janeiro. In 1962 kwam er ook een testcentrum voor raketten. Daarnaast ontwikkelde zich het toerisme.

Geboren
 Virginie Arnold (1979), boogschutter

Externe links
 Informatie over Biscarrosse

Gemeente in Landes

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"Back in 2016" is a trivia screen game that tests students' knowledge of things that happened during 2016. This game is perfect to use for a New Year's message or have fun playing it off as a game about a long time ago.
"Back in 2016" is a trivia screen game that tests students' knowledge of things that happened during 2016.


Yesterday, there was a new movie premiered in Cinema 21 chain where its trailer had been shown since few months ago. It was a computer animated film that looked fun but not from major Hollywood production. As I mentioned in my earlier post, the Indonesian cinema chains opted to show the less blockbuster movies this week since there would be a huge superhero movie Deadpool 2 to premiere next Tuesday. Nevertheless, due to no other movies that really interest me, I decided to give this one a try. More on the movie below.
Adam (Pappy Faulkner) was a teenage boy who was always being bullied in school by other students and seemed to be out of place. He lived with his single mother Shelly (Marieve Herington) as his father Dr. Harrison (Chris Parson) has passed away since he was still a baby. One day Adam found something that hinted his father might still be alive and decided to look for him by himself.
To Adam's surprise, his father was not what he expected. Apparently Dr. Harrison was actually the legendary Bigfoot who had been like urban legend as no one had proved his existence. Adam had real difficulty in believing Bigfoot as his father and struggling to accept this fact. Meanwhile, Wallance Eastman (Terrence Stone) the leader of a big company called HairCo who was tracking the whereabouts of Bigfoot to collect his DNA, was able to trace him due to Adam. With his personal army, he went to Dr. Harrison & Adam's location and try to capture Bigfoot.
So could Adam accept the fact he was the son of Bigfoot? And could they escape from the capture of HairCo? Find them all in this quite fun comedy animated movie.
This movie actually had a pretty original idea. It told us the story of Bigfoot's son and his struggle to accept that fact. To my knowledge, usually movies or TV series that told about Bigfoot would be focusing only on the creature itself. The idea of making it into an animated comedy with Bigfoot having some kind of "superpower" was also quite unique and fun to see.
As a comedy movie, it did provide us with few funny moments but none were so funny that would make us laughed real hard. In fact, I think the movie had more of a family drama sense rather than comedy. The first 15-20 minutes actually felt rather touching with the scene of baby Adam that was quite emotional and Adam's relationship with his mother which also made us feel sorry for Adam. Then the story's pace picked up a bit, giving more of adventure sense especially since the time we were shown the evil Wallace character, plus a more fun time when the animal characters were introduced to us. My personal favorites were Wilbur the bear (voiced by Michael Sorich) and Trapper the raccoon (Joe Ochman) who provided a lot of comic moments and color to the movie. The rest of the animal characters did not leave too much of impression to me.
As a animated movie, this one really did not disappoint. I saw this not in 3D and there was no 3D category in the theater as well, but I am very sure it was made for 3D as it had many scenes that would look wonderful in such effect. The animation was very fantastic. There were a lot of scenery which were very beautifully done and the characters' movement were pretty lifelike. But I think the best part would definitely be the background animations. One thing that I was not really happy were the voice characterization. Somehow it felt like they were lacking emotions and flat, resulting to a less than satisfactory feeling watching the movie as a whole.
The movie was pretty much what you would expect in such film for all ages. I think this one was quite safe for younger audience to see. Oh btw, this was not a brand new movie as it was a 2017 film which was also known as Bigfoot Junior. It was a Belgian-French production with a rather small budget and was considered a commercial hit with its box office result more than double its budget.
Overall I personally think this movie was quite OK but not spectacular. It was not bad but not spectacularly beautiful or great like movies from the more experienced & richer companies such as Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks or Illumination/Universal. However, if you want to look for something different other than Avengers: Infinity War, then this could be an option. But do not expect to be so emotionally touched by this film. The choice is yours.


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Герб Маріу́поля — офіційний символ міста Маріуполя Донецької області. Затверджений 17 травня 1989 рішенням N 158 виконкому міської ради.

Опис
Сучасний варіант герба використовує композиційні принципи й кольори герба 1811 року. Щит розділений горизонтально на дві рівні частини. Зверху поле срібного кольору, знизу — синє. Лінія поділу поля хвиляста. Синій колір і хвиляста лінія символізують море, тому що Маріуполь портове місто. Срібне поле символізує виробництво сталі. У центрі герба зображений якір — символ портового міста. Причому, сам якір складається з ковша (кільце якоря), що виливає метал по контурі, й цифра 1778 — року заснування міста.

Історія

Кальміуська паланка

Перший герб Маріуполя
Перший герб Маріуполя був прийнятий 2 серпня 1811 року. Щит розділений горизонтально на дві рівні частини. Зверху блакитне поле, знизу — чорне. У чорному полі срібний півмісяць, на якому в синім полі коштує восьмикінцевий золотий хрест. Півмісяць і хрест символізують перехід ісламських земель під владу Російської імперії і переселення християн з Криму.

Проєкт Кене

Гербове відділення при Департаменті геральдики під керівництвом Бориса Кене проводило масштабну роботу з уніфікації гербів міст. У рамках цієї роботи була створена нова версія герба Маріуполя. У вільній частині — герб Катеринославської губернії.

Герб радянських часів

У 1970 році для міста Маріуполя розроблено проєкт герба, що був затверджений постановою № 390 виконкомом Маріупольської міської ради від 2.09.1970 року: «Щит прямокутної форми перетнутий на два поля, верхнє — червоне, нижнє — блакитне. У червоному полі ківш, нижче — напівшестерня, яка спирається зрізами на хвилясту лінію моря. Знизу щит закінчується зображенням якоря.»
Автор цього варіанту герба — Є. Іванов.

Див. також
 Прапор Маріуполя
 Маріуполь

Посилання
 Герб міста Маріуполь (1811 рік)
 Українська геральдика
 Герб міста Маріуполь

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In-reply-to: Adam Di Carlo's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:53:51 -0500"
> Wait, if we have basename, why would we need prefix?
> 'dir/foo-footnotes.html' -- why not?
we already know it indicates a directory.
> and, uh, even %use-id-in-filename) to two variables, which is better.


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Best Shotguns in the UK
December 14th, 2018	by asjstaff
Some of the world's finest side-by-sides are made in England and Scotland.
The British are a nation of shotgunners, so it is no surprise that the shotgun reached its highest level of perfection there under the patronage of its wealthy aristocrats. The classic game gun is a 12-bore side-by-side double weighing between 6 and 7 pounds with a straight stock, splinter fore-end, and a whopping-big price tag that puts off the uninformed. Americans question the high price and insist that they can kill just as many birds with a cheap gun. Well, they can't kill as many birds with a cheap gun stocked for the "average man" instead of hand-fitted to you personally, and the price is justified as you are getting everything you paid for and more, as this article will show.
The big price is because these guns are not just handmade, they are made to the highest standards of human achievement by the small number of men with the skill to do this. The term "Best Quality" means just that – the best that money can buy. I have stood there and watched as a raw forging was filed to shape and fitted to tolerances of under one ten-thousandth of an inch entirely by hand. Parts are blackened with smoke then tried and the high spots marked by the smoking carefully brought into line for perfect functioning. I have watched the barrels "being struck," which means that they are not only filed round to shape instead of lathe turned but also contoured, swamped, etc. The end product is carefully hand-polished and finished to the highest standards. No machine-made gun has ever been made with this much precision, and attempts to duplicate this level of quality by machines have always failed. This is artistry of the highest form – functional art at the highest level of human skill producing items of unsurpassed grace and beauty.
You are also getting reliability and longevity. This is why the early explorers of Africa and Asia carried Best Quality guns, for there were no gunsmiths in uncharted territory. While a pump shotgun is doing exceptionally well to last 10,000 rounds and a semiauto will not even do that well, the Best Quality guns last into the millions of rounds.
Imperial Chemical Industries fired a Best Quality sidelock 1.25 million rounds testing their ammunition. At the end of this, the gun was completely disassembled and all parts measured for wear. None was found.
How many cheaper guns would you have to buy to shoot that many rounds? Regular replacement of worn-out guns becomes the norm when you shoot a lot. The so-called cheap gun suddenly costs more than the Best Quality gun. There is an old saying that the young man buys a Best Quality double for his grandchildren because they will be using it after he is gone. No other heirloom is as valued or used as much as this.
HANDLING QUALITIES OF these jewels borders on the legendary, with a lot of that stemming from the fact that the gun is hand-fitted to the user. The customer's measurements are taken with a try gun, which has a stock that can be adjusted to 1/16 inch in all directions. The gunfitter will stay at this until the shotgun unerringly points where the shooter is looking when the gun is mounted without the shooter having to adjust himself to the gun. When getting a gunfitting, do not show off how you can hit the bird no matter what. Let the gun miss until it is brought in line where you are looking. That's the whole purpose of this.
The gun must have a straight gripped stock or at most a semi-pistol-grip stock, as you cannot hit incoming grouse directly overhead consistently with a full pistol-grip stock. The fore-end should be a splinter fore-end, as a beavertail fore-end can kill the liveliness of a gun and it prevents the necessary grip. You hold the barrels with your left thumb laid alongside them. This aids in proper pointing and the simple expedient of laying the thumb alongside of the barrels is sufficient to block the left eye's view of the barrels to prevent it from fighting for master eye dominance. When the left eye succeeds, you mysteriously miss to the side. Your master eye is the one whose view of the position of a finger held at arm's length does not change when you shut the other eye. If you are one of the rare ones who are right-handed and shoot from the right shoulder but have a dominant left eye, you must shut the left eye when shooting.
An over/under shotgun can never handle as well as a side-by-side, as the grip is deeper, preventing a proper grip, and you are conscious of the increased wind resistance to its moving. The most damning feature of the over/under is that the right eye can see only the top rib, while the left eye sees the great mass of both barrels, setting off a serious bout for master eye dominance with each shot and the resultant random misses to one side when the left eye wins. The over/under came first but was discarded in favor of the better handling and pointing side-by-side. It was reintroduced by the gun trade as a ploy to sell an extra gun or two to their clients. It caught on in America because the phrase "single sighting plane" hit a note with the American practice of trying to aim a shotgun like a rifle, instead of pointing it like a shotgun should be. The desire to be fashionably in style is more important than performance to most people, so the over/under is popular today.
A lot more credit is given to balance than it is due. A Best Quality gun and a cheap double can have the same balance point and yet the Best Quality gun will feel lively in the hands while the cheap gun won't. The proper balance point varies with the individual. Generally it is around the hinge pin somewhere. For me, it is best 4 inches in front of the front trigger. The important thing is that the majority of the weight is between the hands and both hands are lifting equal amounts when mounting the gun. A gun properly balanced for an individual will feel 20 percent lighter in the hands than it actually is.
Where the weight is distributed factors in also. I remember once when too much weight was added to a gun's butt. All of a sudden, a formerly lively gun went dead in the hands. Longer barrels have leverage aside from weight, which can be used to the advantage of big men. The last 9 inches will be thinned on these guns to improve the dynamics of this. Big men like myself are best served by 30-inch barrels, while small men can benefit from barrels as short as 25 inches. Gunmaker Robert Churchill liked 25-inch barrels on his guns and promoted them for everyone, but as one of his workmen once said to me, "Robert was a little shortass." Shorter barrels' benefits have been overstated a bit. At 5-foot-2, my Betty did just fine with 27-inch barrels and had no need for anything shorter. The saying among the gun trade has always been "Big man, big gun. Little man, little gun." Just plain old common sense.
THE RESULT OF all these factors is called "liveliness" in a gun. A Best Quality gun fitted to the shooter will seem to unerringly mount and fire itself with no effort from the shooter. At the moment of firing, man and gun are one in a mystical zen-like experience that is the highest moment in shooting skill. In my opinion, no matter how good you are, you will never experience what I am talking about with any other type of gun except a fitted Best Quality side-by-side double.
The spare ammunition is carried loose in a shell bag in Scotland and England and the possibility of a smaller gauge shell finding its way into the bag can have serious consequences. In the heat of shooting fast-flying birds, a smaller shell can drop unnoticed past the chamber to lodge in the forcing cone to be followed by chambering the proper size shell. When fired, this blows up the gun. General Franco of Spain blew up a new Purdey this way. Therefore, for safety's sake, the British and Scottish gunmakers standardized the 12-gauge double and made it in three different action sizes for different loads and weights instead of making multiple gauges. This is the reason most of these guns are 12-gauge, though they will make any gauge on request.
In order to prevent excessive recoil, the rule is that a shotgun should weigh 96 times the weight of the shot charge thrown. Thus a gun shooting 1 ounce of shot should weigh 6 pounds.
It is very important not to exceed the shot charge the gun is proofed for. The gun won't blow up, but it will soon suffer damage. The action bar will spring, causing the barrels to be loose in the receiver and the barrels will suffer "riveling," wavy lines of distortion as the excessive shot charge deforms the barrels that have been thinned for liveliness. If you want to shoot heavy loads, get a waterfowl gun that is proofed for them. Personally I have never needed anything more than 1 ounce of No. 6 shot backed by 3 drams of powder for everything from grouse to turkeys. This used to be America's most popular load back when the farmer's single-barrel 5-pound shotgun was so common, but now the big ammo companies no longer load this one. I got Estate Cartridge Company to load a bunch of these for me some years back. It should be noted that a 12-gauge will throw a better pattern with a light load than a 16- or 20- or 28-gauge with the same load.
THE SCOTTISH AND English style of shooting is designed for easy, effective use, while permitting a shooting instructor to quickly spot errors and get you out of a hitting slump. Basically, the eyes are locked on the target and the gun is brought up as levelly as possible while always pointing the muzzle at the bird. There should be no rocking back and forth of the butt and the muzzles as the gun is lifted. The whole body turns like a gun turret following the bird instead of just moving the gun. When turning to the right you push off with the left foot and when turning to the left you push off with the right foot. The gun is fired as soon as it is cheeked without ever seeing the barrels or looking at anything but the bird. If your gun is stocked to fit you after a proper Scottish or British gunfitter has taken your measurements with the try gun, then your gun will be pointing exactly where you are looking and hitting is assured with proper form.
A gunfitting and a shooting lesson can be had for a very reasonable price at the West London Shooting School outside of London, the Yeaveley Estate Shooting School in Derbyshire, and the John Dickson & Son Shooting School in Edinburgh, Scotland. Once you have your measurements, you can have a new gun built to them or have a second-hand gun stock altered to them. The gunsmiths in the British Isles are extremely skilled at altering gun stocks, even bending them to shape under hot oil.
The American Army Quick Kill Instinct Shooting method also works with a fitted game gun and the fitted gun makes it even more effective.
The classic game gun comes in several action types. The London gun trade leans toward the hammerless sidelock and its elegant lock plates offer the largest surface for engraving. The hammerless sidelock is the invention of the Rogers lockmaking firm, which was a principal supplier of gun locks to the trade.
The boxlock was invented by Anson & Deeley, two Westley Richards workmen who gave it their name. It is the most common action type in the world now.
The Greener Facile Princeps action looks outwardly like a boxlock but is simpler inside and deserves to be more popular today.
The Dickson Round Action has the mechanical parts located on the trigger plate. It was widely copied in Germany, where it is known as a Blitz action. The Round Action's springs are flexed less than the other designs and are practically unbreakable, making this the one you want in sub-Arctic and Arctic regions where the cold makes steel more brittle. The Dickson Round Action also has the best weight distribution for liveliness of all the action types and the firm has always exploited this, pushing liveliness in the hands to the maximum when building their guns.
While a big maker's name ensures quality, as they must maintain their reputation, these guns are the product of skilled workmen and the best individuals may or may not be at the big name gunmakers. I remember a few years back when the workmen at the bench considered the then best living gunmaker to be a toss-up between John Wilkes, if you paid him extra, and Peter Nelson. David Perkins was also mentioned. Wilkes was a fifth-generation gunmaker with a small shop. Nelson started his own shop and had a small group of appreciative clients that kept him busy. Perkins bought the Lancaster Gun Co. name, as he was unknown and had trouble selling under his own name.
It should be noted that the most elaborate Best Quality gun of the 20th Century came from gunmaker Giles Whittome. Whittome is a former Tanganyika elephant control officer who now specializes in the highest grade of Best Quality guns. He is most famous for his mighty 2-bore rifles, the most powerful sporting guns in history. His Paragon was a nitro-proofed Damascus barrel masterpiece with every extra feature the gun trade could lavish on a gun. It was gold inlaid to the maximum amount permitted by good taste.
The finest feature to my eyes is the disappearing flush lock detaching lever. Instead of a projecting lever that can snag and loosen on brush, this one is flipped up by the thumbnail and unscrewed. Upon replacing the locks, it is flipped down again and the lock plate is flat once more.
The double triggers can be used as double triggers or as a single trigger gun, if desired. The list goes on, but space does not permit listing all.
DO NOT WORRY if your gun has Damascus barrels. It will be safe for the loads it was proofed for. In British Government Proof House tests, the best Damascus proved 3 points stronger than the best fluid steel barrels. Damascus barrels were slandered by the big American gunmakers after World War I when they could no longer get Damascus barrels in sufficient quantity due to the skilled workforce that made them having been largely shot up as cannon fodder in The Great War. Before that, they were putting them on their highest grade guns for all black powder and smokeless powder shells. The American government had abruptly canceled all wartime contracts at the end of the war, leaving those who had a factory full of war goods in desperate financial straits. The big gun companies hit on the idea that they could sell everyone in the country a new shotgun if they could convince them that their old one was unsafe, so they started buying every Damascus gun with damaged barrels but not showing the fluid steel barrels with the same damage.
A look at these barrels today often shows the cause at a glance. Bore obstructions included a barrel plugged with mud or snow; a 20-gauge shell loaded in front of a 12-gauge shell; the common problem of the day of someone loading the new Infallible powder, now known as Unique powder, bulk for bulk with black powder; barrels damaged by severe denting; or boring out pits leaving the barrel paper thin. All these things will blow up any barrel, but only Damascus barrels were shown.
The truth is that Damascus barrels routinely sail through the proof house getting new nitro proof. I have seen a Purdey muzzle loader converted to a breech loader easily pass nitro proof, as did an 1867 John Dickson breech loader. According to British and European proof house records, no Damascus barrel "in proof" (which means it's not overly pitted or bored out and still in the condition it was in when proof tested) has ever burst with the loads that it was proofed for.
This is in stark contrast to fluid steel barrels that have occasionally done so. I personally know two men who had their hands injured by fluid steel barrels bursting. Fluid steel may have a slag inclusion or even an air bubble that can become a crack during firing, resulting in a blow up. Rare, but it has happened.
In Damascus steel, an internal crack stops at the next layer and you keep on safely shooting. Even with a bursting situation, Damascus will often bulge instead of bursting outright like fluid steel.
Talk of cheap inferior grades of Damascus barrels is a brazen lie. While Damascus barrels can be found on cheaper guns, the barrels themselves are always of the highest quality. The Damascus barrel makers had a spotless reputation and they jealously guarded it.
Aside from their beauty, Damascus barrels also shoot better shot patterns. Some of the famous turn-of-the-century English shooters even had to have their new fluid steel barrel guns rebarreled in Damascus before they could get the perfect patterns they required.
Steel shot is never to be fired in any gun not specifically made for it, whether it is a cheap gun or a Best
Quality gun. Steel shot has more recoil and less power than lead shot.
It has sprung water tables on the receivers, leaving the barrels loose, ironed out chokes until the thick
metal of the choke was on the outside of the barrel instead of the inside, separated ribs, scored barrels, and generally totally wrecked guns. That's fine with the big mass-production American gun companies that always want you to have to get a new gun. Planned obsolescence is the corporate way, you know.
But if you appreciate the finer things in life and love guns and hunting, you owe it to yourself to get a classic Best Quality side-by-side game gun fitted to you. It will vastly improve your hitting and take your pleasure in hunting to the highest level. It is the ultimate game shooting experience.
Story and Photographs by Jim Dickson
Posted in Editor's Blog	Tagged with: UK Shotguns

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Marquis Hill – "Sounds Of the City"
In Jazz, you start talking about catchy tunes with plenty of hooks, it can almost insinuate a derogatory judgment. In an art form that bases itself, in part, on the technical skill of the musicians and their expertise in handling both compositions and interplay, it's almost a backhanded compliment to say that it's the kind of song one can hum along to.
But the thing of it is, part of what is best about Jazz when it's at its best is that simplicity and complexity can co-exist within the same tune, and have a common bond in the perfectly constructed melody. The same can be said about tempos that adds wrinkles to the standard rhythm patterns while still inducing the feet of listeners to tap along. The hint of simplicity during a flirtation with complexity… that's an album I like to sink my teeth into.
This is a good time to bring up Sounds Of the City, the newest release by horn man Marquis Hill.
Hill's 2011 release New Gospel was one of those albums I just never had the time to give a write-up to on this site. I got the ball rolling on Bird is the Worm in early December 2011, and tried like hell to give some synopsis overviews of the 2011 releases I liked best. There was only so much time, and several deserving albums went without mention. New Gospel was one of them. It was a solid album that embraced the spirit of the Hard Bop 1960s, when jazz infused with funk was an enhancement of a groove that didn't interfere with the swing. For a debut album, it was an impressive recording, full of life and possessing ideas of a refined focus.
Hill's sophomore release Sounds Of the City has him more comfortable as session leader. Here, he stretches out, obviously confident in his ability to display a wide array of facets to his music, as well as his ability to tie them all in together.
Your album personnel: Marquis Hill (trumpet, flugelhorn), Christopher McBride (alto sax), Joshua Mosier (piano, Fender Rhodes), Charlie Kirchen (bass), Jeremy Cunningham (drums), and guests: Greg Ward (alto sax), Bobby Broom (guitar), Justin "Justefan" Thomas (vibes), and Milton Suggs (vocals, spoken word).
The melody of opening track "Abracadabra" draws the ear right in. That simple piano riff, with horn accompaniment, it's a terrifically infectious invitation to keep listening. Hill then keeps adding textures to the track with short sections for each instrument that add both fire to the song and freedom from the melody. And when the tune restates that melody, it's love all over again. He ends with the restatement of melody, toying slightly with the tempo, giving the melody a couple unexpected inflections, a brief glance at other melodic possibilities before the end. It's and example of the kind of balancing act between simple and complex that appears throughout this album.
Some other notable moments throughout the album…
"Inner City Blues" has a lovely groove. Charlie Kirchen's walking bass lines absolutely shine, with guest Bobby Broom's guitar a star in its own right adding his own particular brand of friendly fire. (P.S. This isn't a Marvin Gaye cover)
"The Rose" with a persistent rhythmic attack partnership between piano, drums, and bass, thick and intrepid, while horn and sax play light and spry over the top.
Tracks like "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" have Milton Suggs singing velvety words to a trad jazz ballad, while others tracks are interludes of Suggs riffing some spoken word
Track "Sounds of the City" is quintessential Chicago. Starts out with a cool tempo stroll, shifts right into overdrive like rush hour traffic all around and CTA trains burrowing through the subway down below… then suddenly a peaceful piano solo like boats rocking on the waves of Lake Michigan. The rest of the group joins in, and now it's a brisk rhythm, cool languid notes, and the nightlife of the city settles in for the evening.
"The Token," which weaves a little bossa into the mix, and slips nicely into the light bounce of "Like Lee." And "North Star" is hard bop of the sixties, a track that wouldn't have sounded out of place on McCoy Tyner's The Real Mccoy. It's an uptempo piece that lets McBride offer a blistering solo.
The album ends with the one cover, Benny Golson's "Stablemates." Before that, it's "Kiss and Tell" which has a soulful groove and an R&B lightness that gives a sense of a lullaby. Those last two tracks, though seemingly a bit out of place in the scheme of the album, they do accurately portray Hill's inarguable comfort with co-existing in both the music of the past and present, and imbuing it with his own, developing, sound.
This is just a very solid album. With Sounds of the City, Hill has put out two notable albums in the last two years. I'm already looking forward to his next recording.
Released on the Skiptone Music label.
Jazz from the Chicago scene.
Available at Amazon: MP3
Currently not available at eMusic. I'll update this page if it does become available. You can keep checking back here to this review from time to time or just stay current reading my site, because this album will definitely be one of my Jazz Picks if it shows up on eMusic, so you'll know it has become available on eMusic when I make the relevant weekly announcement about my current round of Picks.
Marios Takoushis & Gabriel Karapatakis – "Forgotten April's Waltz"	Tiny Reviews: Arthur Kell, Aaron Bahr Dectet, & The Jazz Convention
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Thanks, Richard. Glad to know that I got this to work. Cheers.
Great review of a great record. Glad to see Marquis getting some much-deserved attention, despite self-releasing his music and mostly staying in his home town of Chicago.
Thanks for the kind words. And you're right, Marquis should be getting plenty of attention for both of his albums.


NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the interim budget is merely a "trailer" of what will guide India towards prosperity after the Lok Sabha polls and described it as something which will benefit all sections of the society.
He said the development initiatives of the NDA government have touched several lives which have been reflected in the budget proposals from farmer welfare to middle class, from income tax relief to infrastructure, from manufacturing to MSME, from housing to healthcare and from the increased pace of development to the New India.
He expressed happiness over more people being removed from the shackles of poverty.
He also congratulated the middle class for the relief in taxes and said he salutes it for its contribution towards the development of the nation.
About the pro-farmer initiatives in the budget, he lamented that for years, many initiatives were taken for the farming community, but a lot of farmers never came under the ambit of these schemes.
He said that PM Kisan Nidhi is a historic step for farmer welfare which will help the farmers who have under 5 acres of land. Modi added that the animal husbandry sector, fisheries have been taken care of in the budget for "new India".
Underlining the importance of safeguarding the interests of the unorganised sector, he said PM Shram Yogi Man Dhan Yojana will be of great help. This sector needed more safeguarding of their interests and the budget for new India has done so. Ayushman Bharat Yojana and social security schemes are also going to touch their lives, he added.
Modi said it is essential to ensure the benefits of development reach all sections of society. "The budget will empower the poor, give a boost to the farmer and an impetus to the economic growth," he said.
In his statement, he thanked Arun Jaitley, undergoing treatment, and Finance Minister Piyush Goyal for the budget. Till recently, Jaitley was handling the finance portfolio. Goyal now holds the additional charge of finance.


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Tales From the Borderlands Episode 1 - Zero Sum
Game Synopsis:
From Telltale Games, in collaboration with leading and award-winning developer Gearbox Software, and publisher 2K, 'Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series' is all-new story-driven episodic game series and is set to premiere digitally in 2014 on home consoles, PC/Mac, and mobile devices.
"Gearbox shares the independent spirit that Telltale was founded on, and like Telltale, they've broken the boundaries of what to expect within a gaming genre," said Dan Connors, co-founder and CEO of Telltale Games. "Our partnership is something that we are very excited about, because it will unite the incredibly rich world of Borderlands with Telltale's focus on story-telling driven by player choice, and characters that people truly care about."
'Tales from the Borderlands' will explore and expand on the stories of existing and all-new characters from the world of Pandora, as seen in the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Borderlands® 2 from Gearbox and 2K.
Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software. "Borderlands is incredibly important to us, so it is meaningful to share that with this partnership. I have great confidence and excitement for what Telltale has in store for its all-new adventures in our universe."
Developed by Gearbox Software, and published by 2K – a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. – the Borderlands franchise has sold-in more than 15 million units worldwide, won more than 55 editorial awards, and was a breakout original property that invented a new genre, the FPS/RPG hybrid known as "shooter-looter."
Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series will be published digitally by Telltale Games in partnership with Gearbox Software.


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Початок перетворень
До середини 1980-х рр. економіка СРСР виявилася в кризовій ситуації. Причиною цього було технологічне відставання від Заходу, неефективна соціалістична планова економіка, що ґрунтувалася на екстенсивному виробництві, і пріоритетний розвиток військової промисловості. Все складніше було підтримувати на належному рівні тягар гонки озброєнь. Величезних витрат вимагала розпочата в 1979 р т.зв. "Афганська війна", яка спричинила за собою ускладнення і в зовнішній політиці.
Нищівна вплив на Радянський Союз як на експортера нафти і газу зробило падіння цін на паливо на світовому ринку. У той же час СРСР все більше залежав від імпортованого зерна, яке все ж не могло задовольнити потреби внутрішнього ринку. Підсилюється нестача продуктів харчування та предметів першої необхідності (взуття, одягу і т.д.) і зростання цін сприяли зростанню невдоволення серед населення. У глухий кут зайшла і зовнішня політика СРСР c її експансіоністськими устремліннями.

Керівництво СРСР відкрито не визнавало наявності серйозної кризи системи. Тому багато хто, в т.ч. і переважна більшість естонців, покладали надії на реформаторську політику, розпочату в 1985 р новим лідером СРСР Михайлом Горбачовим. На жаль, проголошені гласність і перебудова сприймалися як щось абстрактне, що не пояснює суть змін, що відбуваються. В Протягом 1986 р становище почало змінюватися. 26 квітня 1986 року на Чорнобильській атомній електростанції (Україна) відбулася катастрофа, що стала для політики гласності пробним каменем. Спроби центральної влади замовчати або применшити трагедію, що сталася на густонаселеній території, викликали серйозне нерозуміння і обурення серед населення.

Курс Горбачова на перебудову і гласність все більш виходив з-під контролю Кремля, відкривши шлях зростання національної самосвідомості. Перші ознаки значного зміни громадської обстановки стали проявлятися в Естонії навесні 1987 р Оприлюднення плану союзних відомств щодо форсованого освоєння на північному сході Естонії фосфорних шахт викликало масштабну кампанію протесту, або т.зв. фосфорну війну. Це був своєрідний поштовх процесу відновлення незалежності Естонії, так як до проблеми захисту навколишнього середовища додалося гостре обговорення демографічних і політичних проблем.

15 серпня 1987 року була утворена Естонська група по оприлюдненню пакту Молотова-Ріббентропа. Саме з її ініціативи 23 серпня того ж року відбувся мітинг в талліннському парку Хірве, де вперше відкрито прозвучала вимога оприлюднити секретний протокол до пакту і ліквідувати його наслідки. Про розширення громадянських свобод і пом'якшення режиму говорив той факт, що протестуючих не розігнали силою, як це бувало раніше.
Паралельно з розширенням політичних свобод естонці стали вимагати економічних реформ і права самостійно приймати рішення. Восени 1987 р жваве обговорення в суспільстві викликала ідея про перехід Естонії на госпрозрахунок, яка передбачала певну економічну самостійність Естонії (введення елементів ринкової економіки, власних грошей, податкової системи тощо). Хоча формально це було всього лише пропозиція дати союзній республіці більше прав у прийнятті рішень для більш ефективного управління власною економікою, багато хто сподівався, що за допомогою цього Естонії вдасться поступово відокремитися від СРСР або принаймні отримати більшу автономію. І хоча пропозиція не була схвалена Кремлем, в масштабах Радянського Союзу фактично почалася легалізація приватного підприємництва.

Перетворення
У 1988 р значно активізувалося політичне життя суспільства. На початку квітня відбувся об'єднаний пленум творчих спілок (профспілок письменників, художників, архітекторів, діячів театру і кіно), на якому звернули увагу на положення естонської національної культури та підсилюється русифікацію, а також висловили невдоволення діяльністю керівництва Естонської РСР. В середині квітня було створено Народний фронт Естонії (Rahvarinne) на підтримку перебудови. Спочатку рух домагалося демократизації СРСР, а також політичної та економічної автономії Естонії в складі Радянського Союзу. Помірні мети Народного фронту знайшли серед естонців велику підтримку, і за короткий термін він став наймасовішим народним рухом в Естонії.

Талліннські Дні Старого міста, що проводяться в середині червня перетворилися в свого роду співочі свята, де більше 100 000 чоловік танцювали і співали патріотичні пісні під розгорнутими синьо-чорно-білими прапорами. Так починалася "співоча революція". Поряд з помірним Народним фронтом в 1988 р почало набирати сили і більш радикальне національний рух, чітко орієнтоване на відновлення незалежності. Так, ще в кінці 1987 року було створено Естонське товариство охорони пам'яток історії, а в серпні 1988 р утворилася перша опозиційна політична партія Естонії - Партія Національної Незалежності Естонії (ПННЕ), ядро якої склали члени Естонської групи оприлюднення пакту Молотова-Ріббентропа.

Під тиском громадської думки влітку 1988 р лідер СРСР М. Горбачов вирішив замінити вкрай непопулярного серед естонців консервативного главу КПЕ Карла Вайн. Однак нове керівництво Естонської РСР на чолі з Вайн Вяльясом, відчуваючи підтримку та тиск масового народного руху, в інтересах Естонії почало приймати все більш радикальні рішення та відстоювати їх у московських коридорах влади. Влітку за рішенням Верховної ради синьо-чорно-білий прапор Естонської Республіки знову став національним прапором.
16 листопада Верховний рада прийняла Декларацію про суверенітет, яка проголошувала верховенство законів Естонської РСР над законами СРСР. Висловлювалось сподівання, що основою відносин між центральною владою СРСР і союзною республікою повинен стати новий союзний договір. Москва оголосила декларацію неправомочною, але це не зупинило процес відновлення незалежності.
На противагу естонському національному масовому руху в 1988 р стали активізуватися сили, що представляють, в основному, російськомовне населення. Улітку 1988 року керівники великих заводів всесоюзного значення створили Міжнародне рух трудящих ЕССР (інтерфронти), а восени - Об'єднаний рада трудових колективів (ОСТК). Прихильники цих організацій вважали Естонію невід'ємною частиною Радянського Союзу, оцінюючи спроби естонців відновити незалежність як протизаконні. Вони протестували проти прийнятого в січні 1989 р Закону про мову, який давав естонському мові статус державної на території ЕССР, а також проти поставлення синьо-чорно-білого прапора на вежі Довгий Герман.

У тому ж році відбулася унікальна масова акція, яка увійшла в історію як Балтійська ланцюг. 23 серпня 1989 року, в 50-ту річницю підписання пакту Молотова-Ріббентропа, майже два мільйони людей простяглися живим ланцюгом від Таллінна до Вільнюса через Ригу, тим самим демонструючи світові своє прагнення до незалежності. Ця подія стала найбільш яскравою ілюстрацією єдності народів країн Балтії і викликало широкий резонанс у всьому світі.

До 1989 р в естонському русі за незалежність оформилося два напрямки. У лютому 1989 р прихильники ПННЕ і Естонського суспільства охорони пам'яток історії організували рух Комітетів громадян Естонії, основною метою якого було відновлення Естонської Республіки на підставі юридичної наступності. У 1990 р зареєстровані комітетами громадяни Естонії обрали Конгрес Естонії. 11 березня 1990 р Конгрес Естонії прийняв маніфест, в якому повідомляв про бажання естонського народу відновити Естонської Республіки на підставі юридичної наступності, виходячи з Тартуського мирного договору (1920 р). Інший напрямок представляв Народний фронт, який став найсильнішою політичною силою Естонії, змінивши розпадається і втрачала монополію влади КПЕ. У березні 1989 р Народний фронт домігся успіху на виборах (вперше - з альтернативними кандидатами) делегатів З'їзду народних депутатів СРСР, а за підсумками що відбулися в березні 1990 р виборів мав найбільшу депутатську групу у Верховній раді Естонської РСР. До цього часу Народний фронт вже відмовився від ідеї союзного договору і підтримав ідею повної незалежності Естонії, але не на підставі юридичної наступності, а на базі проголошення нового Естонської держави (т.зв. третьої республікиШлях до незалежно

Шлях до незалежності
Зближення двох напрямків сталося навесні 1990 року, коли Верховна Рада Естонської РСР визнав державну владу СРСР в Естонії незаконною. Був оголошений перехідний період, який повинен був спільними зусиллями з Конгресом Естонії закінчиться відновленням естонської державності. У травні назву Естонська РСР було скасовано і замінено на Естонську Республіку. І все ж на той час незалежність ще не була знайдена. СРСР як і раніше вважав Естонію та інші прибалтійські республіки котрі підпорядковуються Москві, і для збереження свого верховенства був готовий вдатися до крайніх силових прийомів. Що і показали криваві події, що відбулися в січні 1991 р в Вільнюсі та Ризі. В обох прибалтійських столицях радянські силові структури намагалися захопити медійні центри, які перебували під контролем національних сил, в ході чого загинули кілька десятків людей. Естонії вдалося уникнути подібного розвитку подій. У січневі події велику роль зіграла підтримка, надана з боку РРФСР: 13 січня о Таллінн прибув голова Верховної ради РРФСР Борис Єльцин, який разом з главами прибалтійських країн підписав спільну заяву, що визнає існування державний суверенітет один одного. Що значною мірою сприяло нормалізації обстановки.

Горбачов М.С. намагався утримати Прибалтику в складі СРСР і після січневої кризи. Так, на 17 березня 1991 г. Москва запланувала загальносоюзний референдум з питання збереження СРСР. В Естонії на офіційному рівні виключили участь в ньому. На організованому в тому ж місяці референдумі за відновлення незалежності Естонії проголосували 77,8% учасників.

Каталізатором відновлення незалежності Естонії де-факто стала невдала спроба державного перевороту в Москві (т.зв. серпневий путч). 20 серпня 1991 Верховна рада Естонії на підставі угоди з Комітетом Естонії прийняв рішення про незалежність, за яким юридично відновлювалася Естонська Республіка, утворена в 1918 р, окупована і анексована Радянським Союзом в 1940 р За рішенням від 20 серпня швидко пішло відновлення дипломатичних відносин або визнання Естонської Республіки багатьма державами світу. Росія і СРСР визнали Естонію як нова держава в кордонах Естонської РСР, які відрізняються від кордонів, встановлених Тартуським мирним договором. Це викликало спочатку певні розбіжності у відносинах Естонії та Росії. На даний момент територіальних претензій сторони не мають, хоча російською стороною і не ратифікований Договір про кордон.

Скориставшись провалом серпневого путчу, всі союзні республіки стали незалежними. По суті, СРСР припинив своє існування, і в кінці того ж року це було визнано офіційно. У тому ж році був розпущений Рада економічної взаємодопомоги і Організація Варшавського договору. "Холодна війна" канула у вічність».

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Car of the Month September 2006 belongs to Jonathan Newble from the United Kingdom.
First glance
It was a chilly January morning, I was working with my Dad along the sea front at Hythe in Kent removing grime and sea salt from windows whilst clinging to the top of a ladder. As I worked I stole a glance at the white 480 Turbo, that had remained stationary for the last eighteen months. I had never seen the owner. It was partially sheltered by the towering mass of town houses that sat in front of it, but that was the only protection it was afforded from the sea less than two hundred yards away.
As the work day progressed I was able to take a brief look inside the car and noticed that it had become a temporary skip for everything and anything. My dad asked me to leave a note on the car to say that we would be prepared to buy it as a donor car for his newly purchased Celebration. So I duly made one out, and thought no more of it after a few weeks passed.
In mid February though I received a phone call, the owner of the car was moving abroad and wondered if we were still interested in it. By this point however we had sourced all the parts we needed for the Celebration, so I regretfully informed him that we could only offer him �100 pounds for it. He replied that he would be happy if we just took it away and he didn't have to clean it out! Dad and I discussed our plan of attack over dinner, we would attempt to tow the car back to our house in the country through the town after work the next day, and then spend time stripping off anything of value to us and have the shell taken away by a local scrap man.
The next day was bright and cold, and with a little apprehension I helped dad push the Volvo out of the driveway with the disc brakes protesting loudly, the one and only key had been left in the ignition for us and so after taking off the steering lock we maneuvered the car into position and connected the towing hook to Dads Cavalier, and inflated the tyres to a low psi. I climbed into the drivers seat and mused over what it must have been like to pick this car up from the dealers the day it was new and considered what the car could have seen of life, having only covered eighty two thousand miles since then. Dad set off and pulled up at a junction, I endeavored to stop using the pathetic excuse for braking that was available to me. The rest of the trip could be described as jerky......it was the first time I had been towed.
Will she live?
At home after surveying the car Dad suggested trying to start the engine, and after swapping the battery for another the 480...............ran like a dream! I killed the engine to prevent any damage and we retired to consider our next steps. What we had here was a working 480 Turbo that had completely fooled us and its previous owner as to its true condition. We agreed that at the weekend we would change the oil plugs, fluids and filters and see how the car ran. I was trying to conceal it but the thought of owning my own 480 and a Turbo at that, was mouthwatering. Later that evening I went outside and washed the car thoroughly so as not to lower the tone of the neighborhood with its current shade of green algy and rust coloured streaks oozing from rust spots around the side trims and rear wheel arches. Much elbow grease later I had a moderately presentable car on my hands. So much so that a neighbor arrived home and asked if I had just got a new car, and I was so triumphant that the poor guy had to listen to the above in its entirety!
Next job was the inside of the car, donning rubber gloves I picked through the rubbish. Among the more useful items I uncovered were the previous owners bank details, a leather motorcycle jacket, fishing rod stay, 500 candle powered torch, numerous cassettes, a luminous coat, a second leather jacket, and two unused clip on boot covers. Once clear the only items that I could see missing were a floor mat for the boot and the obligatory drivers side seat belt arm. The interior although for the most part in one piece, clearly had to go, as it smelt bad, was moldy and was suffering from a bad case of cigarette burn holes.
It was at this point that I got in contact with my great friend Jez Stanley, a wizard with an airbrush and persuaded him to work on my cars exterior for free as long as I chucked in my labor and as much coffee and food as he could consume. Dad set to fettling the engine whilst Jez surveyed the extent of the work in hand, with me acting as go between. I was tasked to source all materials and spares that were required for the job and first on the list was oil, oil filters and air filter coming in at �30. Jez and I spent six days on and off after that preparing the paint work and then finishing it with a top coat of paint matched by a local shop. Hats off to Jez here, we were working in winter, outdoors in dry but frankly bitter conditions. The mixed paint, primer and filler used on the arches and side panels including the wet and dry paper came to �40. Next Dad was enlisted to service the braking system, first we bled it (�20 kit from halfords), then fitted new pads and discs front and rear (�105 Interpart). At this stage I got in contact with a very helpful lady on ebay that was breaking up a 480. She sold me a boot carpet, window wipers and also chucked in loads of spares that she thought I might need e.g. rear lights etc. for �22. The DVLA were notified by letter that my dad (wink, wink) was the new owner, and as the previous owner had washed his hands of the car, we signed the request in his name and this request for a new V5 was accepted and processed for a fee of �19, so now at least the car was in the bag! I turned again to ebay for a new driver side door pocket and seat belt holder at a total of �25 - I now know that if you order then from Volvo they are a heck of a lot cheaper, trust me! Finally a new interior was sourced from my long time favorite car salvage people, Salvogroup ltd (01159445644), they really know what they are talking about and although located in Derbyshire they got a Half leather interior delivered to me on a pallet within the week. It was in mint condition apart from the absence of the piece of trim that fits into the dash which dad kindly fabricated for me. The said father helped me install the seats and trim, total cost for the interior was �130 including delivery. One thing that remained was a tyre to replace a badly worn one on the front of the car (�40).
The day of the cars MOT loomed and I twisted the arm of my friend Luke Cahill to drive it to and from the test on his fully comprehensive insurance. Whilst the car was being tested I had to work whilst dreading a call to inform us of terminal rust somewhere in the chassis, that call never came. The car sailed through. Two months of work had paid off. Once more I'd like to thank my Dad and Jez for their help in making this dream come true, I will always be in your debt guys!
The 480 Turbo as she looks today!
Jonathan Newble, member 1954


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The 5 Most Memorable Nurses on Film
Ever since Florence Nightingale became famous as a lamp-bearing beacon of hope, nurses have been a fixture of pop culture. If you're a nurse or thinking of becoming one, you have plenty of opportunities to see your profession on the big or small screen. Nurses have been figures of romance, horror, heroism, and more in films and on television, and portrayed in ways ranging from semi-accurate to the wholly fantastic. These are five of the most memorable (but not necessarily heroic or positive) nurses from movies and TV.
1. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975)
Let's get this one out of the way first. As unpleasant as she is, if you're talking about nurses on film, you have to talk about Nurse Ratched. She's probably the most compelling nurse ever put on celluloid, though not because she's at all good at providing healthcare to her patients.
Louise Fletcher is terrifying in the role. She strikes fear into the hearts of her patients and anyone watching the film. Her performance even earned Fletcher an Oscar and Nurse Ratched the number five spot on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Heroes and Villains.
Nurse Ratched is a good example of what not to do. Don't terrify your patients, don't talk down to them, and don't foster an environment of paranoia and authoritarianism in your workplace. Nurses (and really all healthcare providers) need to exercise professionalism, interpersonal skills, and empathy on the job. It's not always easy, but it's necessary. If you think "what wouldn't Nurse Ratched do?" that's probably a good starting place.
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2. Madam Pomfrey (Gemma Jones, "Harry Potter" franchise, 2001–2011)
Wizards and witches in the Harry Potter universe have applied magic to transportation (with portkeys and floo powder), sports (with Quidditch), and healthcare. Madam Pomfrey is the strict, but caring, nurse at Hogwarts, who memorably provided Harry with Skele-Gro in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" after Professor Lockhart accidentally removed Harry's arm bones. Many healthcare workers watching that scene probably wished treatments like that were so easy.
Madam Pomfrey raises so many questions. We see her using magic, so she's obviously a witch, but does she know who Florence Nightingale is? Has she read the same books as we have, like "Notes on Nursing"? Did she pass the NCLEX? Do witch nurses even have things like professional certifications or best practices? Would she know what to do if she clocked in for a shift?
So many questions. It's probably best not to think about it and just enjoy the fantasy.
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3. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit, "M*A*S*H," 1972–1983)
Margaret Houlihan originally appeared in the 1970 Robert Altman film "M*A*S*H" where she was played by Sally Kellerman. But it was Loretta Swit's small-screen version of the character that became a cultural icon.
Initially, the TV version of Houlihan cleaved to Kellerman's portrayal in the film. She was stern, by-the-book, and often a strict foil for the other more relaxed characters. As the show progressed, though, Swit brought more complexity to the character. Viewers learned how stressed and anxious she was dealing with the Korean War and her duties as a head nurse, and that she consistently sent much of her salary home to support her mother.
A lot of us have probably worked with a Major Houlihan, the strict supervisor who's just a little too by-the-book. Many of us have probably also been her in our more brittle moments, demanding maybe just a little too much from our colleagues. But Swit's character reminds us that there's always a core of humanity in even the most hard-nosed co-worker.
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4. Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes, "A Farewell to Arms," 1932)
The 1932 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's semi-autobiographical novel melds war movies with tragic romance. Helen Hayes plays Catherine Barkley, an English nurse who falls in love with an American ambulance driver (and Hemingway stand-in) played by Gary Cooper. However, Cooper's character is drawn away from Barkley's arms toward the chaos of WWI's Italian front. Cooper eventually returns, but things go about as well for a movie set in one of the most terrifying conflicts in human history.
Catherine definitely draws upon (and is maybe even the source of) romantic notions about nurses. Like Nurse Ratched, she embodies persistent stereotypes about nurses, albeit positive ones. However, it's easy to forget that when watching Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper breathlessly gaze at each other in the 1932 film. A few other versions of "A Farewell to Arms" have popped up over the years, but this one is the best.
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5. Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett, "Star Trek" TV series and movies, 1966–1986)
Doctor McCoy might be the healthcare provider that everyone remembers from Star Trek, but he wasn't alone. The USS Enterprise had a fully-staffed sick bay, and that included Nurse Christine Chapel. During her time in the original series and subsequent movies, Chapel helped treat mysterious diseases and conditions from outer space and provided healthcare to humans, aliens, and androids.
"Star Trek" is a famously utopian vision of the future, with humans and various aliens cooperating to explore the galaxy. The show and movies might not have gotten all their predictions right, but here it hit the mark: Nurses are an integral part of society, now and in the future.
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