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Arlington Awarded $10,000 Grant for "50 Years of Love" Tour
The Arlington Convention and Visitors Service (ACVS) announced today that it has received a $10,000 grant from the Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) "50 Years of Love" grant fund. "50 Years of Love" is part of VTC's efforts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Virginia is for Lovers tourism slogan, which was created in 1969 by Richmond-based advertising agency Martin & Woltz.
This fall, ACVS will collaborate with local fitness and neighborhood organizations to fuse Virginia's "50 Years of Love" campaign with the idea that Arlington is for Fitness Lovers. Centered on the fall race season and major Arlington-based events like the Army Ten-Miler and Marine Corps Marathon, ACVS's initiative will appeal to fitness-focused leisure travelers through retro, 1969-style visuals and sports accessories, along with creative storytelling via blogs, video and national social-media influencers. In 2018, Arlington was named the fittest city in the U.S. in the American Fitness Index report.
"Virginia is for Lovers is one of the most iconic tourism slogans in the world, and we are thrilled to be celebrating "50 years of Love' with partners from around the Commonwealth in 2019," said Rita McClenny, president and CEO of Virginia Tourism Corporation. "This grant program provides an engaging opportunity for destinations across the state to showcase what makes a vacation in Virginia so special, and helps to show travelers why Virginia is for Lovers still rings true 50 years later."
The Virginia Tourism Corporation is the state agency responsible for marketing Virginia to visitors and promoting the Virginia is for Lovers brand, which is celebrating 50 years in 2019. Tourism is an instant revenue generator in Virginia. In 2017, visitors spent $25 billion, which supported 232,000 jobs and contributed $1.73 billion in state and local taxes.
About the Arlington Convention and Visitors Service
A division within Arlington Economic Development, the Arlington Convention and Visitors Service (ACVS) is Arlington County's official destination marketing organization. Funded primarily through a guest-paid, 1/4-cent tax on hotel rooms, ACVS promotes Arlington as the perfect combination of convenience, value and local flavor for travelers visiting the Washington, D.C., region. For more information on Arlington tourism, visit www.stayarlington.com.
About Virginia is for Lovers
Fifty years after its creation, Virginia is for Lovers continues to be one of the most recognizable and iconic tourism slogans of all time. It was inducted into the Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame on Sept. 21, 2009. The slogan was included in the Advertising Icon Museum alongside fellow 2009 inductees, the AOL Running Man, the Budweiser Clydesdales and State Farm's slogan, Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is There. This recognition came on the heels of Forbes.com tapping Virginia is for Lovers as one of the top 10 tourism marketing campaigns of all time. Today, a new generation is discovering love for Virginia's mountains, beaches, history, theme parks, vibrant cities, outdoor activities, sports and hospitality. Learn more about "50 Years of Love."
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Q: Need to change of all related object(in one short) when new column added to a table I have a data model change in a table: to add a new column.
but there are 4-5 procedure/pkg/views where the table's all columns are present.
We have to add that new column as a new line in proc/pkg/view.
how can we achieve this?
it should be like, I give input as a new column and the new column should get added everywhere like in all proc/pkg/view.
I tried taking line number from Dba_source table and the pkg DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL() manipulated. But The format is not coming properly. Loop is used, the new line is getting added at the end of the procedure as well which is not required.
CODE: Developed so far:

DECLARE
   PROC_v       VARCHAR2 (4000);
   l_sql        VARCHAR2 (9000 CHAR);
   V_NEW_COL    VARCHAR2 (10) := 'INST_NAME';
   v_byte       NUMBER (5);
   v_byte_st    NUMBER (5) := 1;
   v_blnk_cnt   NUMBER;
   v_line_ed    NUMBER (5);
   v_line_st    NUMBER (5);

   TYPE src_line IS TABLE OF NUMBER (5);

   l_src_line   src_line;
BEGIN
   SELECT line
     BULK COLLECT INTO l_src_line
     FROM DBA_SOURCE
    WHERE     OWNER = 'TEST'
          AND TYPE = 'PROCEDURE'
          AND NAME = 'PROCESS_EMP'
          AND (TEXT LIKE '%CURRENCY%' OR TEXT = 'END;'); --Currency is last column in the table

   v_line_st := 1;

   FOR j IN l_src_line.FIRST .. l_src_line.LAST
   LOOP
      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Line start' || v_line_st);
      v_line_ed := l_src_line (j);
      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Line End' || v_line_ed);

      SELECT COUNT (1)
        INTO v_blnk_cnt
        FROM DBA_SOURCE
       WHERE     OWNER = 'TEST'
             AND TYPE = 'PROCEDURE'
             AND NAME = 'PROCESS_EMP'
             AND text = CHR (10)
             AND LINE BETWEEN v_line_st AND v_line_ed;

      SELECT SUM (LENGTH (TEXT)) + v_blnk_cnt * 10
        INTO v_byte
        FROM DBA_SOURCE
       WHERE     OWNER = 'TEST'
             AND TYPE = 'PROCEDURE'
             AND NAME = 'PROCESS_EMP'
             AND LINE BETWEEN v_line_st AND v_line_ed;

      v_line_st := l_src_line (j) + 1;
      --dbms_output.put_line(v_line_st);
      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (v_byte);
      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (v_byte_st);

      PROC_v: =
         DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR (
            (DBMS_METADATA.get_ddl ('PROCEDURE', 'PROCESS_EMP')),
            v_byte,
            v_byte_st); -- to extract Source code and convert HUGECLOB into VARCHAR
      PROC_v := PROC_v || '                           ' || V_NEW_COL;
      /*CASE WHEN l_src_line.LAST THEN
      PROC_v:= PROC_v || CHR(10) ||'/';
      ELSE
      PROC_v:= PROC_v||'                           '|| V_NEW_COL;
      END CASE;*/ -- This part did not work
      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (PROC_v);

      v_byte_st := v_byte + v_byte_st;
   --execute immediate l_sql;
   END LOOP;
END;
/

I give input as new column and the new column should gets added everywhere like in all proc/pkg/view. I need to generalize the solution later on

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Sam Slator 25/01/23 in Property, Ideas & insights
For the past decade or so, I've been lucky enough to have almost interest-free mortgage payments. Having taken out a tracker mortgage in 2007 (when the interest rate was 5.5%), the sudden fall to emergency levels following the global financial crisis, was very kind to my wallet.
The last few months have seen something of a sharp reversal. With interest rates now at 3.5% and rising, my monthly payments have increased quite substantially – at a time when all my other bills are rising too.
Can you afford to own a house?
While rising interest rates can be an issue for homeowners, they also mean that for many, the prospect of buying your first home is even more of a challenge than it already was.
The latest data I could find at the Office of National Statistics dated back to March 2021, when the average house sold in England cost the equivalent of 8.7 times the average annual disposable household income, while in Wales it was 6 times and in Scotland 5.5 times*. With mortgage rates so much higher today, these ratios will only have increased.
The situation in the US is similar – as shown dramatically in the graph below. The estimated annual income required to afford a median-priced US home has sky-rocketed.
Along with the chart, which was put together by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, was the comment: "Long considered a key pillar of wealth creation, home ownership in the United States has shown its teeth as mortgage rates have more than doubled over the previous twelve months. In our estimate, servicing the costs of owning a home in today's market has increased by 71% from the year prior."
Rathbones recently reported a similar story, saying the recent dip in US economic data follows on from a huge and sustained fall in US home sales. "This drop in real estate activity is to be expected when the average rate on the standard 30-year mortgage has ballooned from 3.1% at the start of 2022 to 6.2% today," the company stated.
Will the housing market fall in a recession?
Now, with recession looming, you could argue that house prices will fall, offsetting some of the problem. But will they fall far enough?
Eva Sun-Wai, co-manager of the M&G Global Macro Bond fund, says that real estate downturns (defined as two consecutive quarters of falling prices) have already been triggered in a number of economies including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Nordics.
"One area where this trend is playing out most rapidly is Sweden, where house prices are falling at one of the fastest rates in the world," she said. "House prices are now down around 15% from their 2022 peak (and apartment prices by 14%), with many economists expecting a 20% peak-to-trough decline in the HOX Valueguard index (which combines apartments and houses). Some are even saying this is too conservative."
But Eva says that whilst the pace of the plunge is alarming, it is not all bleak. "Sweden does not have a buy-to-let market, for example, which reduces the volatility of house prices. A shortage of housing should also provide a cushion in many local markets," she added.
And according to Rathbones, in terms of prices, US houses have yet to recede from the huge gains of the past couple of years. "And, luckily for American homeowners, virtually all of them have long-term fixed mortgages of 10, 20 years or more, so higher interest rates only really hurt those who want to move," it stated. In fact, less than 1% of mortgage holders will experience higher interest costs in 2023 compared with last year*.
Investment opportunities in the rental sector
So, while current homeowners, by and large, may be able to cope with the interest rises, what about those still dreaming of becoming homeowners? Will more people rent rather than buy? And if they do, are there investment opportunities to be had, particularly in real estate investment trusts?
Drew Schaffer, an investment analyst at First Sentier, says that changing demographic and lifestyle preferences of people in their late 20s and early 30s, coupled with a lack of savings among people in this group and rising mortgage rates, points to an expanding renter market in the United States.
"People are getting married later – 32 on average compared to 22 years old in the 1970s. Meanwhile, this next generation of would-be homeowners are graduating college with the highest levels of student debt on record; almost half of millennials having no down payment savings at all, according to the US Census Bureau.
"These demographic shifts are set against the backdrop of higher mortgage rates and affordability ratios not seen in 20 years. This confluence of factors is likely to expand the renter market in the US, which could present an opportunity for investors."
Drew's colleague, Stephen Hayes, head of global property securities at First Sentier Investors agrees: "We are positive on the residential-for-rent sector, which includes apartments, detached housing, pre-fab homes and student housing," he said. "The risk-adjusted returns currently offered by the sector are compelling as residential assets typically deliver stable cash flows through the cycle."
Ji Zhang, manager of the Cohen & Steers Global Real Estate Securities fund, also told us recently that the team has a preference for assets with shorter lease durations and pricing power. "In particular, we see the residential sector benefiting from insufficient supply and home affordability issues in the for-sale market, leading to higher demand for rental housing, especially within single family homes," she said. The fund currently has 16.7% invested in the residential sector**.
Europe also has a strong rental culture and Marcus Phayre-Mudge, manager of the CT European Real Estate Securities fund, has been a fan of the German rental sector in particular for a number of years. "In Germany rents are regulated and they have huge safety nets," he said. The fund currently has 14.5% invested in German residential businesses, as well as a 3.7% allocation to student accommodation and 2.2% in Nordic residential opportunities**.
*Source: Office for National Statistics, House Price Affordability, Great Britain
**Source: fund factsheet, 30 November 2022
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Водя́нська сільська́ ра́да — адміністративно-територіальна одиниця та орган місцевого самоврядування у Шполянському районі Черкаської області. Адміністративний центр — село Водяне.

Загальні відомості
 Населення ради: 996 осіб (станом на 2001 рік)

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Сільській раді були підпорядковані населені пункти:
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Склад ради
Рада складалася з 14 депутатів та голови.
 Голова ради: Кирченко Наталія Петрівна
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Q: how to filter post by a field in the firestore collection document I am trying to filter out posts by 'hidingUserId', which is an array of 'userId's in the collection 'reviews'. pls, see the pic. user with the id in the 'hidingUserId' array will not see the post he/she has hidden. Later I query these posts and order them by stars, likes, and/or timestamp.

In the rules simulator I can play around with set IDs and it works fine. However, when I test the app on the phone, I get following error:
[Firestore]: Listen for Query(target=Query(reviews order by -stars, -
timestamp, -__name__);limitType=LIMIT_TO_FIRST) failed:
Status{code=PERMISSION_DENIED, description=Missing or insufficient
permissions., cause=null}

Not all posts have 'hidingUserId', as not all posts will be hidden by users. My firestore rules are:
  match /reviews/{review}{
 allow read: if request.auth != null && !(request.auth.uid in
 resource.data.hidingUserId)
 allow delete, update, create: if request.auth != null
 }

thank you for the help!

A: String myID = FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser.uid;
    var idofotheruser = await FirebaseFirestore.instance
        .collection('reviews')
        .where('hidingUserId' arrayContains: myID )
//.get or .snapshot
        .get();


Entering the 2019 campaign, Illinois coach Tyra Perry had an inkling where she might slot second-year player Bella Loya. Perry, in her fourth season with the Illini, sensed Loya had the type of demeanor usually exhibited by upperclassmen to handle the cleanup role in the batting order.
Throughout Loya's freshman season, despite bouncing around four positions in the field — catcher, first base, third base, and designated player — and several places in the order, the Mission Viejo, Calif. native led the team with 10 home runs.
Yet, Perry understood the dynamics to the 2019 version of the Illini could sway her decision.
Loya, hitting either fourth, fifth or sixth in the order over the course of five contests, notched seven RBIs on four home runs.
Perry wasted no further time in penciling in Loya at No. 4.
In fewer words than more, she not only sets the table; she often clears it.
Case in point, her dominating performance at the Mardi Gras Invitational in which she earned the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week after the designated player/catcher registered a .667 average with a 10-for-15 showing at the plate that included three home runs, two doubles, eight RBIs, four runs, and 21 total bases. In doing so, Loya, who was named to the Mardi Gras Invitational All-Tournament Team, recorded a 1.400 slugging percentage, a .688 on-base percentage and a 1.000 fielding percentage.
Loya, who made the Big Ten All-Freshman Team after batting .362, helped the Illini post a 3-1 record at the tournament hosted by South Alabama in Mobile, Ala. She went 4-for-4 with two singles, a double and a home run, as well as four RBI and two runs in a win over USA to begin the tournament, collected a pair of hits – including a double and a homer – to go along with an RBI and a run in the first win over Nicholls State on Saturday, before adding a hit and an RBI against Stephen F. Austin later in the day. She then wrapped up the tournament going 3-for-4 with a homer, two RBI and a run on Sunday against the Colonels.
Loya has continued her torrid start and currently ranks first in the Big Ten in home runs (9) and RBI (28). She also is among the league leaders in batting average (.398), doubles (7), RBI (31), and runs (20).
Redshirt senior Annie Fleming, who missed the 2018 campaign due to an injury and has been hitting third in the order, is off to the best start of her career with a .416 batting average. Redshirt senior Carly Thomas, who made the Big Ten Conference First Team after finishing the 2018 season with a .363 batting average, has also begun the season with improved numbers hitting .393 including 14 doubles, which is on pace to smash her career high of 17 doubles last year.
As a team, Illinois (19-7, 1-1) sits at the top of the conference with a .332 team average and 170 runs and are tied for second in home runs (31). More than half of the usual starting lineup own batting averages that are .333 or better.


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Home > Fordham University Press > Electronic Books > History > 15
Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades [Excerpted from WHOSE MIDDLE AGES?]
Nicholas L. Paul
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[Forthcoming Fall 2019]
Critical and Cultural Studies | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Political Science
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the non-specialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where humans have dug for meaning into the medieval past and brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author teases out the stakes of a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and reread familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths. By communicating consensus positions within the academy, Whose Middle Ages? gives non-specialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the medieval past. Myths about the medieval period are especially beloved among the globally resurgent far right, from crusading emblems on the shields borne by alt-right demonstrators to the on-screen image of a lily-white European populace defended from actors of color by internet trolls. This collection attacks these myths directly by insisting on seeing the relics of the Middle Ages on their own terms.
Each essay uses its author's academic research as a point of entry and takes care to explain how the author knows what she or he knows and what kinds of tools, bodies of evidence, and theoretical lenses allow scholars to write with certainty about elements of the past to a level of detail that might seem unattainable. By demystifying the methods of scholarly inquiry, Whose Middle Ages? serves as an antidote not only to the far right's errors of fact and interpretation, but to its assault on scholarship and expertise as valid means for the acquisition of knowledge.
Paul, Nicholas L., "Modern Intolerance and the Medieval Crusades [Excerpted from WHOSE MIDDLE AGES?]" (2019). History. 15.
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The Master of Wonder House
John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London
an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City, September 15, 2017—January 7, 2018
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Julius Bryant and Susan Weber. Bard Graduate Center Gallery/ Yale University Press, 580 pp., $70.00
Founded in 1993 and operating out of two townhouses on New York's Upper West Side, Bard Graduate Center has produced an admirable series of exhibitions and scholarly catalogs on subjects in its fields of study: decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Its monographic shows have focused on such figures as William Kent, the architect and pioneer of the English landscape garden; Thomas Hope, the collector of antiquities and definer of Regency design; and Charles Percier, Hope's equivalent in France, inventor of the Empire style and codesigner of the rue de Rivoli. The catalogs of such exhibitions form an impressive, coherent group—an accumulation of expertise.
Kipling Papers–Wimpole Archive, University of Sussex Special Collections at The Keep
Rudolf Swoboda: Sketch of John Lockwood Kipling and sketches of Rudyard Kipling, circa 1887–1888
Among the surprises sprung by the center was a charming small display in 2013–2014 recording a period in which, while the French textile industry ground to a halt during World War I, an attempt was made in New York to create a new American decorative art not beholden to Europe, using the design language of pre-Columbian America and other "primitive" cultures. To this end, the American Museum of Natural History encouraged fashion designers to study and copy textiles and garments from its extensive holdings, and amateur models were photographed wearing original items from the collections: a Sioux dress with a beaded yoke; a Tungus Siberian reindeer fur and sinew coat; an Ainu bark fiber robe.1 Doubtless no great harm was done to the textiles in question. One presumes, however, that today such a use of a museum's materials—using the museum like a dressing-up closet—would be absolutely taboo.
And not only taboo. The promotion of industrial art and design must rank low on the list of ways a modern anthropological museum wishes to engage with the world. Not so in 1919. Then the AMNH and the Brooklyn Museum joined forces for an exhibition of industrial art that showed what modern looms could produce when inspired by primitive looms and preindustrial design: the taupe silk charmeuse teagown with Bukharan motifs and the Sunset Fan-Ta-Si silk dress with blue duvetyn appliqué based on a Nanai fish-skin coat were among the proposals of the wartime ethnic look. "LADY or SQUAW," declared an advertisement in Women's Wear, "She Obeys the Impulse to DRESS UP."
This concern of cultural institutions to direct and enrich the course of modern manufacture may be traced back to London, to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the founding of what later became the Victoria and Albert Museum. Many imitations of the V&A sprang up around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, which once used to look much more like a museum of manufacture, a look it progressively shed during the last century.
When J. Pierpont Morgan and his son purchased the Hoentschel Collection…
—— March 22, 2018 ——
Hearing Poland's Ghosts
Eva Hoffman
'I Should Have Made Him for a Dentist'
Janet Malcolm
Fine Specimens
A Flag Is a Flag Is a Flag
Caesar Bloody Caesar
Josephine Quinn


At City Council meeting on July 25, the City of Berkeley declared July Plastic Free Month. The Ecology Center has advocated and led events for Plastic Free July for several years, as part of a growing, international effort to reduce plastic. We strongly support and commend the city for being a pioneer in addressing the problem of plastics. We urge them to continue pushing forward on solutions for plastics that are difficult to recycle, toxic to people, and polluting our oceans. The majority of our events for Plastic Free July have sold out weeks in advance; we are seeing a groundswell of support and interest from our community who are also ready to reduce plastic, in their daily lives, and in our environment. Mayor Jesse Arreguin signed the proclamation, the full text is below.
WHEREAS, Limiting plastic consumption effectively reduces Berkeley's contribution to Climate Change but also symbolically conveys the larger trend of a shift towards the use of renewable resources and green living.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that I, Jesse Arreguin, Mayor of the City of Berkeley, do hereby declare July 2017 as PLASTIC FREE JULY in the City of Berkeley.
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WAY TO GO BERKELEY!!! Proud and Grateful to be a resident!
Thank you Berkeley! Awesome leader by example.


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World's largest Apple travel retail experience opens at Dubai International Airport
Keywords:DubaiMiddle EastUAE
Apple last week unveiled its largest travel retail stores in Dubai, just in time to cash in on the expected summer vacation rush at the airports.
On June 14, Dubai Duty Free (DDF) officially opened two Apple store programmes at Dubai International T3, with the stores representing the largest Apple experience in travel retail.
According to DDF, the 86sqm and 70sqm units are located close to gates B15 and A12, respectively.
DDF sold close to 50,000 iPhones and iPads in 2015 (38,057 iPhones and 10,657 iPads), and the world's largest retailer in terms of sales announced sales of Dh6.892 billion ($1.888 billion) for 2015.
The retailer's iPhone sales made up for almost 30 per cent of its overall mobile phones sales while iPads accounted for almost 35 per cent of all tablet PCs sold by Dubai Duty Free in 2015.
Two big dedicated stores, therefore, make perfect sense for DDF, with the retailer saying it believes Apple brand's sales could contribute as much as Dh220m ($61m) in sales by the end of this year, according to Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO.
"With the Apple shop programme in Concourse B being the largest in any travel retail in the world, this is a very exciting development for Dubai Duty Free and our customers," said McLoughlin.
"They will enjoy the design, layout and products, along with a first-class customer experience and product knowledge," he said, adding that the brand's stores will be manned by Apple-trained employees.
In the first three months of 2016, DDF sold another 11,000 units of Apple devices (8,951 iPhones and 2,071 iPads) while the brand's new stores will also house Apple TV, Apple watch, the MacBook range as well as accessories.
In October last year, Apple opened its first two stores in the UAE – one in Dubai's Mall of the Emirates while the other in Abu Dhabi's Yas Mall.
Read: Inside Dubai's Apple Store: It isn't world's biggest, but…
"Between the two stores, there will be 150 employees who speak 40 different languages and come from 30 different nationalities," Wendy Beckman, Apple's Head of Retail – Europe and Middle East, had then said.
The opening of the Dubai and Abu Dhabi stores on the same day last year marked the first time Apple opened two stores in the same country outside the US on the same day.
Tim Cook, Apple CEO, had confirmed his company's intentions to expand its presence in the UAE during his visit last month.
Source: emirates247.com
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Generally, almost every freight dock, manufacturing plant, construction site and warehouse need forklifts. One can buy a new forklift or can also get a used forklift based on the requirements and budget from forklift dealers for fulfilling business or personal requirements. It is important to identify the needs and requirements before purchasing a forklift in order to find the right option. There are a number of factors which a buyer should consider before making any decision. The task for which the forklift is going to be used and the price of this useful equipment are the two important factors which should be considered for buying the right counterbalance forklifts.
Purchasing a new forklift is a bit expensive, even a decent new model will cost you at least $15,000. If you are thinking to buy an electric forklift then you should know this fact that they are more expensive. Though electric forklift might be expensive in the starting, but if you will consider this option in the long run, then you will find out that this very option is far more beneficial than other options. Know this fact that electric forklifts require more maintenance than any other option for working efficiently. Diesel engine forklifts are less expensive and are quite affordable but they are required to be refueled often for providing you the right result. Price range of a standard forklift with a capacity of 5,000 pounds lies in the range of $15,000 to $30,000 depending on the forklift's features.
Know this fact that forklifts which have greater lifting capacity costs much more. A forklift with a lifting capacity of 35,000 pounds will be of hundred thousand dollars. If you need greater lifting capacity, but have a tight budget, then you should consider the option of used forklifts. Used forklifts can help you in saving thousands of dollars. If you are going for used forklifts then you should consider dealing with a good and reliable forklift dealer. A used forklift might look like the best option in starting but if you don't pay attention during purchasing a used forklift then you might have to face problems in future. The fork; lift might need repairing therefore, while selecting used forklifts you should consider the repairing cost in addition to the cost of used forklifts. For keeping yourself on the safe side you should select a dealer who provides guarantee on used forklifts.
For what purpose the forklifts are going to be used for is also important. Some forklifts are equipped to ride efficiently over uneven or rugged terrain outdoors, while some of the forklifts are manufactured exclusively for indoor use. Different models of forklifts have different lifting capacities. If you have decided to buy a forklift then you should keep your requirements and budget in your mind. There is no doubt in the fact that buying a forklift is a daunting and confusing process. With so many options and different models this very process becomes much tougher.
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Russia's Investigative Committee Goes App in the World
Russia's Investigative Committee has propelled itself into the smartphone era by launching a mobile application that lets users follow news of crime investigations.
MOSCOW, March 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's Investigative Committee has propelled itself into the smartphone era by launching a mobile application that lets users follow news of crime investigations.
The app, available free from both iTunes app store and Google Play, allows users to tailor news about crime investigations in any Russian region. Content can also be selected thematically, from topics including corruption, high-profile cases and wanted lists.
The new app is not just for gore-hungry readers and journalists. Users can also upload photos, videos and other files containing potential evidence of a crime via the app, and request that investigators look into incidents they have witnessed or in which they were involved.
They can also contact investigators directly via the app's hotline.
The Investigative Committee, sometimes referred to as Russia's FBI, was set up in 2011 with the aim of eliminating corruption among prosecutors, and is subordinate only to the Russian president.
Critics have accused it of waging campaigns against opposition voices such as the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny. The Committee's head Alexander Bastrykin was also accused of making death threats in 2012 against a newspaper editor who had written a strongly critical report on the handling of an investigation into the killing of 12 people in Krasnodar in 2010.
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The three-stone royal diamond ring worn by U.S. actress Meghan Markle, engaged to Britain's Prince Harry, is influencing popular diamond cuts, triggering a trend for three-stone cushion-cut rings in similar designs.
Diamond jewellers attending the UK-based Company of Master Jewellers (CMJ) buying event in Birmingham, England, from March 4-5, said the royal engagement announcement had sparked a jump in enquiries for similar diamond cuts to Meghan Markle's ring.
Prince Harry designed the three-stone engagement ring that he gave to Ms Markle, which includes two diamonds from the jewellery collection of his late mother Princess Diana.
The main focus of the ring is an elongated cushion-cut centre stone from Botswana, where the couple holidayed, and is flanked by two round brilliant cut diamonds from Princess Diana's jewellery collection.
"We've seen increased inquiries for scaled-down versions of the Meghan Markle ring – for example, a rectangular cushion cut, with two classic round brilliants," said Roger Taylor of Birmingham-based Clark Diamonds.
Dominic Shotton of Fred E. Ullmann also noted increased inquiries for diamond jewellery inspired by Meghan Markle's ring.
The ring worn by Ms Markle was created by court jewellers and medallists to Her Majesty the Queen, Cleave and Company.
Ms Markle and Prince Harry will tie the knot on Saturday May 19, at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
Designed within hours of the royal engagement announcement in November, online retailer Jewlr revealed that its replica ring, 'The Duchess', had quickly become its best-selling engagement ring style since it went live.
Miss Markle's engagement ring, perhaps especially because it was designed by Prince Harry, should see strong sales in similar trilogy designs between now and at least several months after the May wedding.
Diamond jewellers at the CMJ Trade Event spoke of steady demand for round and oval cuts, and some saw declining interest in princess cuts. Round diamonds are straightforward to set in jewellery and account for most sales of finished diamonds, the jewellers said.
"We have seen steady demand for round diamonds, and regular busy trade in coloured stones," said Adrian Bates of Birmingham-based Bates & Sons Ltd.
Among coloured gemstones, the pink Padparadscha sapphire worn by Britain's Princess Eugenie (who is also getting married in 2018), is likely to stimulate enquiries for more readily available stones in pink and orange colours, jewellers said.


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19 June 2019updated 08 Jul 2021 11:16am
Forcing young people to do national service is the best way of stripping away its benefits
By Yiannis Baboulias
25th February 1952: British army Private Dudley Fisher during his National Service. (Photo by Stroud/Express/Getty Images)
"National service is an idea whose time has come (again)". With these words the Times columnist Clare Foges chimed into a renewed debate — adding that "this would be a way of mixing our woefully segregated country". Her comments came after a proposal last week by Tory leadership hopeful Rory Stewart that he would introduce a "national citizens service for all young people" should he become PM.
Beautiful in its seeming simplicity, the idea has never really gone away. The reason is simple: its popularity with many older voters, most of whom never had to serve any kind of similar scheme themselves, makes it an easy point score for politicians looking for a quick hit in the news.
The launch of the French version of a National Service initiative this week has also encouraged proponents of the policy to come forward, despite the fact Emanuel Macron had to climb down significantly from his initial proposal. After the army raised serious objections about playing nanny to millions of teenagers the French president is now promoting something closer to a citizens service. An opposition politician in France called the final shape of the scheme "a mountain giving birth to a mouse".
But it is precisely the superficial simplicity of such a proposal that leads us to potentially very wrong conclusions about the virtues of such schemes. A national citizens service is not necessarily a bad idea. The schemes already in place, like National Citizens' Service in the UK, consistently produce glowing results. Young people spend a month in the countryside learning skills, working on projects with their peers and later volunteer in related fields in their communities. They seem to achieve many of their targets: these young people report higher levels of confidence than other people their age, they feel closer and more integrated into their communities and their peers. Perhaps most importantly, the effects seem to follow them for years after the programme.
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The problems arise when we move from the voluntary nature of the current programme to a mandatory one.
Here, to begin with, we must ask a very simple question: what if a teenager refuses to participate? What will be the punishment? This is important, as it alters the spirit of the existing scheme and we must take into account a factor people seriously underestimate: that a voluntary scheme ensures that by and large only the most eager students will participate. This eliminates from the existing sample of schemes the negative attitudes of teenagers who will not want to be there, therefore biassing the results.
Then comes the cost: the programme already in place in the UK works with 100.000 teens every year, at a cost of £180m. Given that there are around 1.5 million teens between the ages of 16 and 17 in the UK, the cost would quite quickly. At a time when youth services across the country have been reduced to virtually nothing, spending these sorts of sums on a month-long programme but not permanent services seems misplaced at best.
Of course, the form the National Citizens' Service takes is nothing like serving in the army. Spending time in nature, working on a project with your peers and then volunteering in your community: these are all good things that we should cheer on and promote. However, if they are forced upon teens by an elderly demographic who themselves didn't serve in any kind of such programme, it would simply deepen the generational divide that is so intensely felt across our society at the moment — and frankly, some boomers need such an initiative to help break down barriers and impart civic spiritedness at least as much as teens.
Another objection to making a citizens' service mandatory is an example from my home country, Greece. One of the last states in Europe to retain mandatory conscription for 9 months, Greek society suffers from exactly the same issues as other western countries that don't have conscription. It is divided, political polarisation has now reached extreme levels and mutual suspicion abounds. The mandatory co-existence of young men for nine months simply doesn't seem to have the desired effect.
One of the reasons for this is precisely because service is mandatory and so for many people just something they need to get through, rather than engage with and gain from.
A more sensible approach is to expand the voluntary initiatives already in place and provide further encouragement for young people to join them. Perhaps a discount in tuition fees or vouchers to travel the country cheaply (a form of which used to exist) could be attached to participation. The cost of the expanded programmes and the potential bursaries attached to it would likely be lower than the cost of a mandatory scheme. If we want young people to feel like they have a stake in society, we must show them why, encourage them to engage with it. Forcing them would be just an admission of failure.
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Q: detail screen from grouped gallery I've built a Powerapp from a very simple excel file (MyData) with 3 columns (A,B, C).
Now I've 3 screens from the template: Browse, Detail, Edit.
In the Browse screen, I've added a new Gallery grouping the original MyData by column "A" GroupBy(MyData;"A";"GroupedData"). Then I added a SubGallery ("GroupedGallery") with single items from Mydata (ThisItem.GroupedData).
In this Subgallery I have a right arrow and I'd like to point to Detail Screen
So I added a second Detail screen (Detail2), In the right arrow property I've changed the OnSelct Property to "Navigate(Detail2)".
I've tried many things on the Detail2 screen but I couldn't manage to have the details of the selected item.
Among those, on the Item Property I tried to write "GroupedGallery.Selected".
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks

A: When navigating to the second screen, you can use the third argument to the Navigate function to pass the item that you want edited on the form - which you can get within the nested gallery with the ThisItem value:
Navigate(Detail2; ScreenTransition.Fade; { selectedItem: ThisItem })

And in the Item property of the form on the Detail2 screen you would use selectedItem.
Notice that the ThisItem value of the nested gallery does not have the grouped column (A). If you want that, you can use the Patch function to merge it into the value passed to the Detail2 screen on the Navigate function:
Navigate(
    Detail2;
    ScreenTransition.Fade;
    { selectedItem: Patch(ThisItem; { A: OutsideGallery.Selected.A }) })


Synopsis : A list of information The Social Security Administration will consider when hearing your disability claim application.
The Social Security Administration uses a complicated process to determine if you are disabled. Here is some of the information they will consider when hearing your claim.
When you apply for Social Security disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA), a complex, five step process is used to determine if you are disabled.
The process involves an examination of the work you did, the skills you learned and if your injuries prevent you from returning to that work or some other type of work.
The agency is interested in your medical condition, age, education, training, and work experience to see if you are able to return to the workforce.
The first three steps are straightforward; if you are working and making more than $1,000 a month, you won't qualify for disability benefits. If your condition is "severe," meaning it interferes with your ability to work, they then move to step three, where if you match a condition on the list, you generally qualify.
If you don't match a condition listed, the SSA will determine if your condition is of equal severity to one that is listed. If they determine it is of equal severity, you generally qualify as disabled. If not, the SSA then moves to step four.
Step four is very involved and entails an examination of your previous work history. This is used to create a baseline from which they can determine what capability you had and what remains in your current condition. The SSA takes into consideration what work activities you can do with your medical condition.
If you are determined to have a medical condition that affects your ability to work on a regular basis, but it is not as severe as any impairment described in the Listing of Impairments, the agency will assess your "residual functional capacity" (RFC).
Your RFC is based on all of the evidence about your condition and used to determine what you can still do, despite any limitations caused by your impairment and related symptoms, such as pain and fatigue.
To decide whether you can do your past work, SSA looks at a great number of factors, such as your ability for sitting, standing, walking, lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling; your ability for reaching, handling large objects, using your fingers, feeling, stooping, balancing, climbing stairs or ladders, kneeling, crouching and crawling.
They consider environmental conditions, such as temperature extremes, wetness, humidity, noise, hazardous working conditions like moving machinery or heights, dust, fumes, odors, gases, poor ventilation, vibrations.
Other general factors include your ability to see, hear, speak, maintain concentration and attention at work and understand, remember and carry out instructions.
The Social Security Administration then looks at the demands of your recent past work and compares them with their assessment of your remaining ability to do basic work activities. They only look at past work that they consider relevant.
It is your responsibility to see that we get the information we need to determine whether you are disabled. If you do not provide the information we need about your medical condition(s) and your work history, we will deny your claim for disability.
If, after all the questions in step four, they determine you cannot perform your previous type of work, they then move to step five, which decides you can do some other type of work.
In terms of complexity, the application for social security disability benefits is vastly more complex than filing a federal income tax form, but the consequences can be just as severe. If you make a mistake or forget to supply the appropriate information, your claim will be rejected.
For this reason, speaking with an attorney knowledgeable with the Social Security Act, regulations and SSA procedures is very valuable as a way of obtaining your benefits. The process is complex and can be confusing. An attorney can help you understand how to file a claim and assist with the necessary procedures you must follow.
The following is general information only. The Social Security Act and related regulations, rulings and case law should be used or cited as authority for the Social Security disability programs.


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La fábrica Harino Panadera, sita en Las Arenas (Guecho) (Provincia de Vizcaya, España) es un edificio racionalista con influencias expresionistas realizado en hormigón armado y proyectado en 1933.

Descripción
El edificio tiene planta rectangular y cuenta con gran presencia en el cruce de las calles Máximo Aguirre y Arellano. Es un edificio que muestra un aspecto cambiante, con partes diferenciadas y con una clara fluidez y fragmentación volumétrica que responden a las necesidades del programa funcional, manteniendo una unidad compositiva y estética. Tiene cubierta plana y presenta semisótano, planta baja y primera en parte de la construcción y solo semisótano y planta baja en la parte trasera del inmueble. Los materiales de acabado exterior se presentan homogéneos, siendo dominante la presencia del ladrillo caravista rojo. Los antepechos de los balcones se resuelven en ladrillo caravista coronados con barandilla de tubo metálico circular. Hay elementos constructivos puntuales como albardillas, vierteaguas y cercos de vanos de apariencia pétrea en color crema. El inmueble original fue objeto de modificaciones en el año 1986.

La fachada a la calle Máximo Aguirre tiene una presencia visual muy destacada. Consta de un paño de ladrillo como base de la composición y muestra una clara direccionalidad hacia el encuentro con la calle Arellano. La lectura se inicia desde la izquierda, marcando una altura inicial inferior con precisos cortes rectos como punto de arranque, para a continuación aumentar en altura y emerger del citado paño en su primer piso una sucesión de cuerpos curvos volados de diferente dimensión, pero con una direccionalidad hacia la esquina del inmueble y acabar girando literalmente el paño del muro en una forma curva en la planta primera y, cubrir en vuelo el corte en chaflán que se produce en ese mismo punto en la planta baja. En esta fachada actualmente se aprecian dos entradas principales delimitadas por un marco o portada plana de piedra caliza. Una de las entradas se sitúa a media fachada con la inscripción superior en grandes letras que dice Edificio Santa Ana, mientras la otra se ubica en la esquina del inmueble resuelto en chaflán y actualmente no tiene inscripciones. En la planta baja en su lateral izquierdo se ubican dos ventanas horizontales con un dintel y vierteaguas continuo que las unifica. En la planta primera, desde la izquierda, primero se sucede un cuerpo de ladrillo en vuelo con grandes ventanales que pasa a tener forma curva abriéndose y continuando en un balcón curvo que acentúa la dirección hacia el ángulo para posteriormente tras un paño recto con un vano destacar un semicilindro en vuelo con un vano continuo curvo y acabar iniciándose la curvatura de unión hacia la calle Arellano. En este último paño curvo se introduce una ventana continua curva con parteluces.

La fachada a la calle Arellano, es la continuación de la anteriormente descrita con la que comparte el diseño de la esquina del inmueble. La curvatura del paño de ladrillo rojo da paso a un paño recto liso que se destaca con una leve disminución en altura del inmueble. Posteriormente un nuevo cuerpo en vuelo formado por la unión balcón-elemento macizo de fachada similar al anteriormente descrito incide en la dirección hacia la curvatura de unión de las dos fachadas. La fachada prosigue con una disminución en altura pero manteniendo dos pisos para posteriormente a algo menos de dos tercios de su longitud pasar a un cerramiento liso de una única altura. Las ventanas en el primer tramo de la fachada son de un tipo, mientras en el tramo de una altura se realizan cuatro series de ventanas continuas horizontales.

La fachada a la calle Ibaibide es un paño simétrico de ladrillo caravista que se resuelve a modo de hastial con un escalonamiento en tres alturas. El muro es predominantemente ciego y en él se centran tres ventanas de desarrollo horizontal. Por último el edificio tiene una fachada que no mira a ninguna calle sino al edificio de viviendas que completa esta manzana de la trama urbana. Esta fachada es de una única altura, es una sucesión de vanos horizontales y en ella se produce el acceso de vehículos al semisótano mediante una rampa.

Véase también
 Patrimonio Industrial de España

Referencias
Este texto toma como referencia la declaración de Bien de Interés Cultural publicada en el BOPV n.º 2006160 de fecha 23 de agosto de 2006

Enlaces externos

Arquitectura de Guecho
Fábricas desaparecidas de España
Fábricas de harina de España
Bienes culturales calificados de Vizcaya


Dr. Driving is a fun driving simulator with a good number of gameplay modes, levels, and rewards to keep you engaged for hours. While it's not the prettiest game around, it's a great driving simulator.
This game asks you to complete races and obstacles in the middle of an incredibly crowded city street. As with most smartphone driving games, you turn your phone left and right to steer while pressing down on onscreen pedals to start and stop. Dr. Driving's controls are on a makeshift dashboard, which makes them a little less distracting than its competition. That's the best part of the game's graphics, however. The cars and characters in the game are incredibly boxy and might give you an impression they were designed for a SNES game. Thankfully, the game's controls and menus are easy to use and responsive. Though you can play multiple missions and earn rewards in the game without signing in, you need an account to play in the game's multiplayer mode. You can sign in through Facebook or Google+ to earn bonuses and share your stats with friends, though.
There are certainly more polished driving simulators, but this one is loaded with challenges and plenty to unlock. If you love getting behind the virtual wheel, Dr. Driving has enough competition to quench your need for speed. This game won't win over anyone who isn't already a fan of driving games, though.
"A fun game that also teaches you good driving lesson"
if you want to have fun & learn some valuable lessons in driving then its the perfect game, for some reason my play store app doesn't work, so I have to get it directly from this site drdrivingapp.com, i installed it direcly via the file & then did a test for the version2 of the game, dr driving 2 is also a good upgrade interms of graphics but the speed issue remains the same, the speed of the cars should be a little more.
Race as birds or pigs from the Angry Bird games.


To make tables easier to read, it is often helpful to style rows with alternating background colors. One of the most common ways to style tables is to set the background color of every other row. This is often referred to as "zebra stripes."
You can accomplish this is by setting every other row with a CSS class and then defining the style for that class. This works but is not the best or most efficient way to go about it. When using this method, every time you need to edit that table you may have to edit every single row in the table to ensure each row is consistent with the changes. For example, if you insert a new row to your table, every other row below it needs to have the class changed.
CSS makes it easy to style tables with zebra stripes. You don't need to add any extra HTML attributes or CSS classes, you just use the: nth-of-type(n) CSS selector.
The: nth-of-type(n) selector is a structural pseudo-class in CSS that allows you to style elements based on their relationships to parent and sibling elements. You can use it to select one or more elements based on their source order. In other words, it can match every element that is the nth child of a particular type of its parent.
The letter n can be a keyword (such as odd or even), a number, or a formula.
First, create your table as you would normally write it in HTML. Don't add any special classes to the rows or columns.
This will style every other row with a gray background color starting with the first row.
The syntax for a formula used in the selector is an+b.
a is a number that represents the cycle or index size.
n is actually the letter "n" and represents a counter, which stars at 0.
+ is an operator, which may also be "-"
b is an integer and represents the offset value—for example, how many rows down should the selector begin applying the background color. This is required if an operator is included in the formula.
If you're feeling a little daunted by the formula aspect of using the pseudo-class nth-of-type selector, try the: nth Tester site as a useful tool that can help you define the syntax to achieve the look you want. Use the dropdown menu to select nth-of-type (you can also experiment with other pseudo-classes here, too, such as nth-child).


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C/1898 L1 Coddington-Pauly
C/1898 L1 was discovered on 11 June 1898 by Edwin Foster Coddington at Lick Observatory. Independently, the comet was also found in the evening of 14 June 1898by Wolfgang Pauly in Bucharest, who had no knowledge of this discovery, although the comet was already observed at European observatories previously informed about this event.At the moment of discovery, C/1898 L1 was about 3 months before its perihelion passage and it was last seen on 7 December 1899.
This comet made its closest approach to the Earth on 19 June 1898 (1.079 au), that is a week after its discovery.
Solutions given here are based on data spanning over 1.49 yr in a range of heliocentric distances from 2.09 au through perihelion (1.702 au) to 5.27 au.Two non-gravitational solutions given here differ in how the data was weighted: solution n2 is based on measurements weighted as in the case of pure gravitational orbit determination;while preferred NG solution is obtain in a standard way (dedicated data weighting for non-gravitational orbit determination).
This comet suffers notable planetary perturbations during its passage through the planetary system; these perturbations lead to escape the comet from the planetary zone on hypebolic orbit (see future barycentric orbits).
C/1896 V1 was in the original sample of 19 comets used by Oort for his hypothesis on LPCs; however, according to presented here statistics for previous perihelion passage, this comet seems be dynamically old (see both non-gravitatioal solutions).
See also Królikowska 2020.
1898l1a5 1898l1n2 1898l1n5
orbit quality class 1b
recip semi-major axis [10-6 au-1] -586.86 ± 15.62
A1 [10-8au/day2] 0.6425 ± 1.283
A3 [10-8au/day2] -1.0055 ± 0.4656


Green beads bottle bracelet with "Dream as if you'll live for ever" charm.
Handmade with green ceramic and glass beads with a silver charm "Dream as if you'll live for ever".
Makes a great house warming gift, birthday gift, valentine's day gift.


As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our people who are in honest difficulties.
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.


4A Turkish translation has been published with the title 1873 Senesinde Türkiye'de Yerel Kıyafetler, translated by Erol Üyepazarcı (Istanbul: Sabancı Üniversitesi, 1999). The excerpts used are from the original edition of 1873, pp. 7–9 and 17–18.
5Osman Hamdi Bey [1842, Istanbul – 1910, Istanbul): Ottoman official and painter. In his youth, Osman Hamdi was sent to Paris by his father (İbrahim Edhem Paşa, a prominent member of the Tanzimat elite) to study law, where, instead, he attended classes on art and archaeology in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts until his return home in 1871. Although Hamdi Bey was not a registered student of the Ecole, it is generally assumed that he had worked in the ateliers of the eminent Orientalists Jean-Léon Gérôme and Gustave Boulanger. Osman Hamdi became one of the most active figures of Ottoman cultural life after returning to the imperial capital. From 1881 to 1910 he served as the director of the Imperial Museum of Antiquities. During his term, he directed several archaeological excavations within the imperial territories and initiated official regulations and laws that were aimed at stopping the pillaging of historical ruins by European dealers and archaeologists. Later, Osman Hamdi played a major role in the establishment of the Imperial School of Fine Arts (1882) where he taught painting until his death. In the footsteps of his masters, Osman Hamdi Bey produced paintings in the Orientalist manner throughout his artistic career. But in contrast to the majority of European artists, for whom the ideological constructs about the East existed as an uncritically accepted discursive substructure, the Ottoman artist manipulated the Orientalist genre as an instrument to deliver a clear alternative message that was informed by a larger cultural and ideological agenda. Osman Hamdi employed and appropriated European techniques of representation in order to construct what he held to be "objective" scenes of a putatively native and pristine Ottoman/Islamic past, albeit with a highly picturesque and self-exoticizing technique of representation. Marie de Launay and Osman Hamdi Bey were among the most vocal and productive on the Ottoman intellectual scene striving to assess, salvage and promote the traditional arts.
6Main works: Le Tumulus de Nemroud Dagh (co-authored with [Yervant] Osgan Efendi, 1883); Les Ruines d'Aslan-Tasch (1889); Une Necropole royale à Sidon: Fouilles de Hamdi Bey (co-authored with Salomon T. Reinach, 1892).
7Victor Marie de Launay [1822 or 1823, Paris –?, Istanbul]: Artist and amateur historian, an Ottoman official of French origin. According to the official Ottoman biographical records, Marie de Launay received most of his education at home, under the supervision of his father, César Marie de Launay, who was an official connected to the palace. The records indicate that de Launay also benefited from the tutorship of a certain Léon Gautier (most probably the eminent philologist and member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres), whose views on medieval history and folk traditions must have left an indelible mark on de Launay. Throughout his versatile career in the Ottoman Empire, he displayed a similarly romantic enthusiasm for Early Ottoman/Late Medieval history and for local customs and popular lore. Marie de Launay arrived in Istanbul around the time of the Crimean War, and in 1857 became the assistant engineer, archivist and draughtsman of the newly established Pera Municipality (the Sixth Municipal District) in Istanbul, which was the model area for instituting modern municipal reforms at the time. By virtue of his scholarly interest in architecture, art and traditional crafts, Marie de Launay became deeply involved in the representation of the Ottoman Empire in world expositions throughout his official career. He contributed to the Ottoman exhibits not only as an organizer and an author, but also as an exhibitor— an amateur artist and collector who displayed his own paintings (mostly scenes about medieval history), illustrations of Ottoman types and costumes, and collections of handcrafted objects on various national and international occasions. Through his official role he had a chance to be involved in many substantial publications related to the expositions. For the 1867 Paris Exposition, for instance, he authored the voluminous catalogue of the Ottoman exhibits, La Turquie à l'éxposition universelle de 1867 (Paris, 1867), generally attributed to the director of the Ottoman commission, Salaheddin Bey. Marie de Launay was co-author of the earliest scholarly study on the history and theory of Ottoman architecture, the Usul-i Mi'mari-i 'Osmani/ L'Architecture ottomane (Istanbul, 1873), produced on the occasion of the 1873 world exposition in Vienna. The records do not provide the date of Marie de Launay's death but indicate that he retired from his official post in 1890.
8Main works: Coup l'oeil général sur l'éxposition nationale à Constantinople – Extraits du "Journal de Constantinople" (Istanbul, 1863); with Montani Efendi, Usul-i Mi'mari-i 'Osmani / L'Architecture ottomane (Istanbul, 1873); and, with the palace chemist Bonkowsky Bey, Brusa ve Civarı [Bursa and environs] (Istanbul, 1880).
9The Elbise-i 'Osmaniyye/Les Costumes populaires de la Turquie is a photographic album of traditional Ottoman dress commissioned by the Ottoman government on the occasion of the 1873 World Exposition in Vienna. The Elbise comprises seventy-four photographic plates, each featuring a group of live models displaying regional outfits. The plates are organized under three main sections (the European Territories, the Aegean/Mediterranean Islands and the Asian/African Territories) that are subdivided into twenty two units according to the provincial divisions of the empire. Each plate (carrying explanatory headings in Ottoman Turkish) is supplemented by texts written in French, providing detailed comments about the sartorial traditions of the particular groups depicted as well as basic information on the history, geography and customs of the area under scrutiny. The whole project was undertaken jointly by Osman Hamdi Bey, the eminent painter who acted as the commissary of the Ottoman exhibits in 1873, and Victor Marie de Launay. In the Vienna Exposition the Elbise was displayed along with a large collection of Ottoman costumes, exhibited in the main gallery of the Ottoman section, consisting of mannequins wearing the popular costumes documented in the Elbise. As the French title of the volume suggests, with the Elbise collection Hamdi Bey and Marie de Launay sought to portray the ordinary Ottoman subject from a detached ethnographic viewpoint. Categorically dismissing images of the Westernized urban elite, they chose to focus exclusively on the Ottoman commoner who largely maintained the traditional tastes and life-style of the pre-Tanzimat era. Their vision was that an exhaustive and analytical documentation of popular dress would not only present a realistic and consummate picture of the diverse Ottoman polity to local and international viewers, but would also surpass and correct orientalist generalizations and inaccuracies that were ingrained in common European perceptions of the Ottoman Empire.
11The way Ottoman subjects are represented in the Elbise corroborated the role attributed to costume as a crucial agent of social order and harmony. In most photographs, people from various walks of life are brought together irrespective of their social standing or occupation in order to provide a comprehensive and amalgamated picture of the diverse imperial conglomerate. Interestingly, the very image of multi-ethnic unity conveyed by these syncretic tableaux was diametrically opposed to that defined and imposed by the early Tanzimat reformers, which entailed rigorous dress codes on the official level, promoting uniform Europeanized attire as the ubiquitous marker of a new and more homogenous Ottoman identity. The Elbise, then, with its celebration of local diversity in dress, is an accurate indicator of how the terms of participation within the reformulated Ottoman identity were altered during the Late Tanzimat. With a few decades of the reforms behind them, the Ottoman intellectuals were now keen to utilize the visual power of clothing in order to emphasize the expressed cultural differences (the abundant "variety") of the Ottoman society which were happily and harmoniously subordinated to a supra-ethnic/religious sense of (imperial/national) unity. Appropriately, Europeanized attire is displayed in only one case in the Elbise. The first plate of the album features a young "bourgeois" gentleman from Istanbul donning the "black official dress" adopted by government employees and the Westernized upper classes (see excerpt below). The authors openly acknowledge the civic virtues of this outfit that makes an "efendi, bey or pasha" out of Greeks, Armenians and Levantines and recognize it as an agent that helps dispel age-old hatreds nurtured by some intolerant Muslims. Yet, they still find it regretful that the "noble, comfortable and healthy" alternatives offered by the traditional costume are stamped out by the constricting and ungainly standards of Westernizing fashion.
12The Elbise, then, testifies to the ambiguities, contradictions and incurable optimism of the official Ottoman discourse, as it seeks to define the terms by which a modern and overarching Tanzimat identity can be reconciled with tradition and cultural diversity. But one also needs to remember that in its romantic-traditionalist view of Ottoman culture and society, the Elbise renders the products of 'indigenous tradition' favorable and attractive to the eyes of a modern European audience who displayed an immense aesthetic curiosity for anything that was 'untarnished' by the ills of modern industrialism. This compliance should not come as a surprise, though, since the Westernized Ottoman elite was equally obsessed with the sensual allure of 'pure' and 'authentic' tradition, and the aesthetic arsenal of Late Tanzimat traditionalism drew heavily on the sensibilities of European Orientalism.
14We believe that it is important to call attention to the essential differences between traditional "costume" and "garment." While both types of dress serve the same sartorial purpose, the latter [that is, the modern outfit] displays no particular or characteristic features appropriate to its use; always following the caprices of fashion, it is subject to endless change. Costume, on the other hand, is invariable in its overall features and its cut. It displays only slight modifications depending on the quality of the fabric chosen and the elegance of the supplementary adornments.
15Day by day, modern garment grows to be a uniform for the entire world. Not only does the garment efface all distinctions between various classes of a society, it also obliterates the natural and moral barriers that were thought to separate nations in inviolable ways. In direct contrast, the traditional costume is perfectly adapted to the particular conditions, climatic requirements and customs of each land. As such, it stands as a notable area of interest and an inexhaustible source of information for ethnographical and social studies. […] Considering all ranks of the social ladder, one would surely conclude that the costume surpasses the uniform garment in fully satisfying the diverse needs of the peasant, the workman from any trade, the modest bourgeois and the wealthy elite.
16Upon viewing our collection of the popular costumes of Turkey, one realizes the unmistakable superiority of costume over garment. The spectacle reveals the perfect appropriateness of the costume of a sakka [water carrier], a caïkdji [boatman], a hamal [porter], a Bulgarian peasant, an Arab chief or a Syrian to the diverse conditions in which he lives, to the climate of his region, to the trade or profession he belongs, or to the position he occupies in society.
17In this sense, we clearly recognize that the costume realizes the rational definition of the good and the beautiful, which can be epitomized by the words: variety in unity. Neither of these terms apply to garment, as during the short reign of each fashion there is no room for variety; fashion is strictly and coldly uniform. And then, exhausted after six months, the current fashion disappears; to be replaced by yet another one. Hence, the lack of a sense of unity in fashion.
18Perhaps it is partly due to the influence of the garment, a completely modern creation, that European societies are faced with a new moral deformity, unknown to this day, and for which a well chosen term is invented: the déclassé.
19The influence of costume is in complete contrast to that of garment; it is indisputably beneficial. Costume maintains, in a natural sense, lively sentiments of solidarity, which can still be observed in Europe, for instance, in the special uniforms of some elite regiments or in the apparel of certain religious orders.
20Similarly, the esnaf organizations [craft guilds] in Turkey deserve to be mentioned as regards the moralizing power of costume. Costume imposes a sense of shared responsibility, which engenders feelings of solid confraternity and professional integrity … to all members of the guild.
23[…] The "Europeanized" can be of all religions and nationalities of the Ottoman Empire, and from all classes of society. He sports the outfit rigorously adopted by the government officers. It is the ceremonial costume, the "black coat" of the progressives. It consists of the red fez, the black setri [Ottoman style frock-coat with no collar] and black trousers. But the excessively Europeanized type, very common among the rich classes, pushes things much further. … In Constantinople, Smyrna and other large cities of the empire, one comes across "advanced" bourgeois types of exquisite taste who are not afraid to replace their fez with that marvel of elegance, the top-hat. At all times, they take care to carry a fez in their pockets, in case they need to present themselves to a backward-minded authority.
24Still, we cannot deny the benefits of civilization. Everyone would agree that the black setri, the fez and the trousers, as well as the bottines [ankleboots], render a great service: they help mollify the hatreds that often divided the diverse religions and nationalities of the empire; they help efface the prominent differences that mark the non-Muslims in the eyes of the fanatics (that is, the spiteful Muslims), and allow Greeks, Armenians, Levantines and foreigners to be recognized as effendis, beys and pashas. Yet, while acknowledging all these benefits, we still regret the replacement of the picturesque costumes of the old days by the new garments.
25Indeed, traditional costumes, the large djubbé [robe], the chalwar [baggy pants] in which the feet move at ease, the salta [short jacket] with free and comfortable arm-holes […] the solid yèmènis [light shoes] of red and yellow color, the kulah [conical hat] and the saryk [turban], mortal enemies of the flu, in their simple, noble and comfortable ensemble, are indubitably more hygienic than the tight, ungraceful and ridiculous garment of the Europeanized moderns.
BEY, Osman Hamdi ; LAUNAY, Victor Marie de. The popular costumes of Turkey in 1873 In : National Romanticism: The Formation of National Movements : Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe 1770–1945, volume II [en ligne]. Budapest : Central European University Press, 2007 (généré le 22 avril 2019). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/ceup/2300?nomobile=1>. ISBN : 9786155211249.
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