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As the owner of Dogwood Land Management in North Henderson, Illinois, Chase Burns is on a mission is to be a steward of nature through wildlife habitat management, general land improvement and comprehensive property management services.
Burns pursued land management after getting into real estate and becoming a land sales professional about five years ago. After he would close on a big piece of land, he often hit the ground running by improving the property and getting a forest management plan written for it. He also started using government programs that were available to landowners to help advance the land's habitat.
Burns shopped around and ended up purchasing his first piece of Bobcat equipment, a new T650 compact track loader, to clear logs out of old access trails, install culverts for improved access and drainage, blaze new trails, mow overgrown grass, move brush and dirt, clear invasive shrubs, and cut creek crossings, among other tasks. The machine immediately expanded his capabilities and allowed him to take on more work.
Bobcat was a familiar brand to Burns given that he grew up on farms with several Bobcat skid-steer loaders that were considered to be "bulletproof" machines by his father.
Burns also got insurance and hired some part-time employees that year, until he was able to afford additional full-time employees to take on bigger projects. In 2013, he officially put his background in hunting, fishing and farming – as well as his education in wildlife biology – to work and started an LLC.
Today Dogwood Land Management specializes in offering comprehensive services for owners of larger recreational properties – predominately hunting properties – as well as landowners with timbered land, prairie or tillable land that they want to manage as a natural landscape. This includes planning and budgeting for annual improvements and maintenance expenses as well as taking care of it all as a turn-key solution. In almost every case, the services are related to wildlife management in some way or another.
The company currently manages about 4,000 acres and is comprised of Burns, a couple of full-time employees and several part-time employees.
Dogwood Land Management plans to expand in the future to place an emphasis on large acreages interested in aggressively and comprehensively managing for timber value and wildlife quality while restoring natural ecotypes. However, this year Burns did not currently adding any new accounts to the company's client roster because many of Dogwood Land Management's current accounts are already expanding organically as clients acquire new properties that require additional management contracts and services – or increase the number of acres they entrust to Dogwood Land Management.
"Once clients see us bump up the carrying capacity to increase the number of birds that are reared – increasing fawning success for deer and nesting success in quails, pheasants and turkeys – they often ask what we could do with 20, 50 or 100 more acres," he says.
Typically Dogwood Land Management breaks forest management plans out into phases. For a large property of timber, for example, the company may break it into 15 different sections and then work on sections throughout the property like a checkerboard, to maximize diversity.
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What's ahead in 2018 after record-breaking weather in 2017?
By: Annie Taylor
With the start of a New Year, the biggest question so many of us have is what will mother nature bring us this time around.
In 2017 we saw deadly hurricanes, horrifying wildfires, torrential downpours and warm temperatures in the middle of winter.
Predicting the weather begins off the coast of South America. Michael Bell, an Associate professor of Atmospheric Science at CSU says "those temperatures have been shown to highly correlate with weather patterns around the globe."
Bell leads the team that issues the nation's hurricane forecast each year.
He says the ocean temperature off the coast of Peru is a huge factor in determining El Nino and La Nina. And once you determine that, the process of predicting the overall weather outlook can begin.
La Nina tends to bring more hurricanes in the Atlantic and dryer conditions out West.
As for an El Nino season, you'll typically find wetter weather in the Pacific, and dryer conditions in the East.
Klaus Wolter with NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory says in 2017 all signs were pointing to an El Nino hurricane season, but that quickly changed between April and June.
The colder water in the Pacific and warmer water in the Atlantic meant we needed to brace for a very active season.
"You could argue that this year's active hurricane season in the Atlantic that's a quick response to a La Nina developing," says Wolter.
With that rapid shift to a La Nina developing, that meant the western part of the country like California would experience a dry winter. Those dry conditions made for the perfect igniter for wildfires.
"Having a La Nina puts them on the map or at risk for a resumption of drought conditions. Same in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas," says Wolter.
Bell says, "it's a complex problem but we try and boil it down and make it as simple as possible. But mother nature always has a way of surprising us."
By analyzing 2017's active weather, researchers like Bell and Wolter can better predict weather into the New Year.
"We can't predict with any kind of specific accuracy which storm will hit where but we can at least with some skills say there's a higher probability of certain areas getting hit than others," says Bell.
As for 2018, their preliminary prediction is for a weak La Nina, which means a weaker hurricane season in the Atlantic, and hopefully a break from the dry conditions out West.
But Bell says, "it's important people stay prepared regardless of what type of activity we predict. You got to make sure that one storm isn't coming for you."

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Portugalský král Ludvík I. Portugalský, celým jménem Luís Filipe Maria Fernando Pedro de Alcântara António Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis João Augusto Júlio Valfando de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha e Bragança, obdržel během života řadu portugalských i zahraničních titulů a vyznamenání. Během své vlády v letech 1861 až 1889 byl také velmistrem portugalských řádů.

Tituly

 31. října 1838 – 11. listopadu 1861: Jeho královská Výsost Luís, vévoda z Porta
 11. listopadu 1861 – 19. října 1889: Jeho nejvěrnější Veličenstvo Ludvík, král Portugalska a Algarve

Vyznamenání

Portugalská vyznamenání

Velmistr
Od 11. listopadu 1861 do 19. října 1889 byl velmistrem portugalských řádů:

  Stuha tří řádů
  Řád Kristův
  Řád věže a meče
  Řád svatého Jakuba od meče
  Řád avizských rytířů
  Řád neposkvrněného početí Panny Marie z Vila Viçosa

Zahraniční vyznamenání

  rytíř Domácího řádu věrnosti – 1885
  Řád zähringenského lva – 1885
  speciální třída Řádu Bertholda I. – 1885
  Bavorské království
  rytíř Řádu svatého Huberta – 1867

  velkokříž Řádu Leopolda – 9. července 1854

  velkokříž Řádu Jižního kříže – 1861
  velkokříž Řádu růže
  velkokříž Řádu Petra I.

  rytíř Řádu slona – 18. dubna 1864
 Ernestinská vévodství
  velkokříž Vévodského sasko-ernestinského domácího řádu – 1854

  velkokříž Řádu čestné legie
  Médaille militaire
  Hannoverské království
  rytíř Řádu svatého Jiří – 1861
  Havajské království
  velkokříž Řádu Kamehamehy I. – 19. srpna 1881
  Hesenské velkovévodství
  velkokříž Řádu Ludvíkova – 7. prosince 1865

  velkostuha Řádu chryzantémy – 20. dubna 1883

  velkokomtur Dobročinného řádu afrického osvobození
  Meklenbursko
  rytíř Domácího řádu vendické koruny

  velkokříž Řádu svatého Karla

  velkokříž Řádu nizozemského lva

  Řád Medžidie I. třídy

  rytíř Řádu černé orlice – 24 .července 1854 (řetěz 1862)

  velkokříž Královského uherského řádu svatého Štěpána – 1854

  velkokříž Řádu rumunské koruny
  velkokříž Řádu rumunské hvězdy

  rytíř Řádu svatého Ondřeje
  rytíř Řádu svatého Alexandra Něvského
  rytíř I. třídy Řádu svaté Anny
  rytíř Řádu bílého orla

  velkokříž Řádu Spasitele

 velkokříž Rytířského řádu San Marina
  Sardinské království
  rytíř Řádu zvěstování – 15. července 1855
  rytíř velkokříže Řádu svatého Mauricia a svatého Lazara – 15. července 1855

  rytíř Řádu routové koruny – 1 .srpna 1854
  Sasko-výmarsko-eisenašské vévodství
  velkokříž Řádu bílého sokola – 1. srpna 1854
  Siam
  rytíř Řádu devíti drahokamů

  rytíř Podvazkového řádu – 17. června 1865

  velkokříž Řádu Takova

  1002. rytíř Řádu zlatého rouna – 28. listopadu 1861
  velkokříž Vojenského záslužného kříže
  velkokříž Námořního záslužného kříže s červenou dekorací –1877
  velkokříž Vojenského řádu svatého Ferdinanda
  Švédsko-norská unie
  rytíř Řádu Serafínů – 27. listopadu 1861
  velkokříž Řádu svatého Olafa – 28. prosince 1872

  velkostuha Řádu slávy
   Württemberské království
  velkokříž Řádu württemberské koruny – 1865

Odkazy

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Tituly a vyznamenání osob z Portugalska

Nositelé Řádu zähringenského lva
Nositelé Domácího řádu věrnosti
Nositelé Řádu Bertholda
Nositelé Řádu svatého Huberta
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu Leopolda (Belgie)
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu Jižního kříže
Nositelé Řádu růže
Rytíři Řádu slona
Nositelé Vévodského sasko-ernestinského domácího řádu
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu čestné legie
Nositelé Médaille militaire
Nositelé Řádu svatého Jiří (Hannoversko)
Nositelé Řádu Kamehamehy I.
Nositelé Řádu Ludvíkova
Nositelé Řádu zvěstování
Rytíři velkokříže Řádu sv. Mauricia a sv. Lazara
Nositelé Dobročinného řádu afrického osvobození
Nositelé Domácího řádu vendické koruny
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu svatého Karla
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu nizozemského lva
Rytíři Řádu černé orlice
Nositelé Královského řádu svatého Štěpána
Nositelé Řádu rumunské koruny 1. třídy
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu rumunské hvězdy
Rytíři Řádu svatého Ondřeje
Nositelé Řádu svatého Alexandra Něvského
Nositelé Řádu svaté Anny
Rytíři Řádu bílého orla
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu Spasitele
Nositelé Řádu routové koruny
Nositelé Řádu bílého sokola
Nositelé Řádu devíti drahokamů
Rytíři Podvazkového řádu
Nositelé Řádu Takova
Rytíři španělského Řádu zlatého rouna
Nositelé Kříže za vojenské zásluhy (Španělsko)
Nositelé Námořního záslužného kříže (Španělsko)
Nositelé Vojenského řádu svatého Ferdinanda
Nositelé Řádu Serafínů
Nositelé velkokříže Řádu chryzantémy
Rytíři velkokříže Řádu svatého Olafa
Nositelé Řádu slávy (Tunisko)
Nositelé Řádu württemberské koruny
Nositelé Řádu Petra I.
Nositelé Řádu San Marina
Nositelé Řádu Medžidie

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50 years: 'Celebrate Life!' reaches milestone, to be commemorated at classic venue
Art Toalston
Church Life, Featured, Latest News, New York
True North Presents is bringing together people from around the nation to perform "Celebrate Life!" at Carnegie Hall on June 24, 2023. For registration information for participating or attending, visit truenorthpresents.com/celebrate.
(Photo courtesy of truenorthpresents.com)
The musical "Celebrate Life!" turns 50 years old this year — a milestone that will be commemorated in June at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Under the leadership of Roy Hayes, True North Presents is bringing together music ministers, worship pastors, choir directors, singers and instrumentalists from around the nation to perform the musical at Carnegie Hall on June 24, 2023.
Hayes expects 200–250 choir members and 55–60 orchestra members to participate.
"It's an interesting thing to be in a historic setting like Carnegie Hall … possibly the most famous stage on earth … and to be present when the Holy Spirit comes into an environment like that in a very powerful way," Hayes said.
'Totally captivated'
The idea of presenting the musical at its half-century mark in Carnegie Hall started with Bruce Greer, a composer, songwriter and musical director as well as pianist at First Baptist Church Dallas. "The first time I heard this music, I was 11 years old," he said. "I was sitting in church and listening to a youth choir rehearsal and was totally captivated." He has since performed in the musical "more times than I can even remember."
Greer did a full orchestration of the work for its 25th anniversary, which was performed in Houston by Second Baptist Church's choir and orchestra; Cynthia Clawson, who sang the solos in the original productions in 1972; and Ballet Magnificat.
"We took what was a youth musical and helped it 'grow up' and become a sophisticated work that adults could present," Greer recounted.
Movement in motion
Mike Harland was 11 or 12 years old the first time he saw a drum set in church.
But it wasn't only the drums; it was the new musical "Celebrate Life!"
"I was completely captured by it like everyone else in my generation," said Harland, associate pastor of worship at First Baptist Church Jackson, Mississippi, and director of worship at Lifeway Christian Resources from 2005 to 2020.
"Celebrate Life!" was an early Baptist expression of what was happening in the Jesus music movement on the West Coast, and it made its way to the northeast Mississippi town of Corinth where Harland grew up at Tate Baptist Church.
"When I was in high school several years later, we were still singing the songs of 'Celebrate Life!' in our youth choir and on our tours," said Harland, a 40-year veteran of music ministry.
In 2023, Carnegie Hall in New York will become the musical's most prominent venue since its release in 1972.
The June 24 performance, open to interested church choir and orchestra members, is being organized by True North Presents led by Roy Hayes, whose work focuses on enhancing the ministry of Christian artists and of church choirs.
"Unlike many musicals, which often have a narrow market acceptance and a short shelf life, 'Celebrate Life!' enjoyed a broad acceptance among Baptist and other evangelical churches," said Hayes, a former music minister in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Louisiana. "It remained an important work [that was] performed for many years, and a number of individual songs from the musical retained a performance life of their own … for choir tours and festivals and as a staple in their repertoire for weekly worship in local churches."
One of the songs, "In Remembrance," is in the Lord's Supper section of the 1991 "Baptist Hymnal" and the Communion section of the 2008 hymnal.
The late Buryl Red — a prolific New York-based composer, member of Manhattan Baptist Church and longtime musical director of The CenturyMen, a 100-voice chorus of music ministers — wrote the music for lyrics penned by Ragan Courtney, who turned 81 this year.
"Celebrate Life!" emerged from Courtney's plan to end his life the previous year after the one-week failure of a Broadway musical he had written with a cousin.
Walking into the Caribbean to drown himself, he suddenly began singing "Jesus Loves Me," recalling distant memories from his childhood days at church in Ruston, Louisiana.
"Stumbling back to the beach, I was overwhelmed with what I had experienced. Gasping in surprise, I ran to the house, grabbed a pencil and started writing as though I were taking dictation about a vision I was having," Courtney recounted (see sidebar, next page).
50th anniversary rendition
Earlier this year, Sugar Land Baptist Church in the Houston area performed a 50th anniversary rendition of the musical, with a 79-voice adult choir and 34-piece orchestra.
Worship and arts pastor Clint Kimmel said the church wanted to acknowledge the milestone and "celebrate what God has done through the years and through many different generations."
"'Celebrate Life!' was and still is a monumental work in church music and in Baptist church music particularly," Kimmel said.
As a youth in the 2000s, Kimmel learned of "Celebrate Life!" from his parents, longtime choir members who as teenagers in the 1970s performed various songs from the musical and spoke of "the impact it had on their faith and their relationship with the Lord."
Kimmel first conducted "Celebrate Life!" 10 years ago while serving part time at Chalk Bluff Baptist Church near Waco as a music student at Baylor University. He said the only way to describe the experience is simply as "a powerful work of the Holy Spirit."
The musical is told from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Kimmel said, "but not in a way with pretense — just very real, with [informal contemporary language]. … It goes back to the Scripture that the word of God does not return void. We are declaring the gospel, and we expect the Lord to move."
'Excited my passions'
Paul Magyar first encountered "Celebrate Life!" in 1974 as a 14-year-old missionary kid in Colombia, South America, when a team from Swope Park Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, taught the musical to 50-plus kids during their parents' two-week missions meeting.
"I was already captivated by music," said Magyar, worship pastor of West University Baptist Church in Houston. "But there was no doubt that Buryl's and Ragan's creative genius further excited my passions to continue a pathway of music-making."
Magyar conducted "Celebrate Life!" after his freshman year at Oklahoma Baptist University, enlisting a college and career Sunday School class at Bayless Baptist Church in St. Louis during the summer break of 1979.
It was "the first work that I conducted as a minister of music in the making," Magyar said. "And it was while we were rehearsing, then performing 'Celebrate Life!' in that context that I realized this is what God is calling me to do for my life." He subsequently conducted the musical at churches he served in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Houston.
"Celebrate Life!" exists in a category all its own, Magyar said.
Other musicals created during the '70s and '80s served a good purpose, but "Celebrate Life!" stood out in how it conveyed the biblical story of Jesus — "the Life, His Life, Life with a capital L" — with music "crafted in a timeless continuum," Magyar noted. "Even 'I Quietly Turned to You,' while in a '70s pop/gentle rock style, still sounds fresh."
Reaching young people
Leslie Anne Tarabella of Fairhope, Alabama, was in elementary school when her father, Cordell Harrison, minister of music at Myrtle Grove Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, began to make plans to produce "Celebrate Life!"
"I believe he heard it as a demo performance at a conference. He came back very excited about it and wanted to be one of the first churches to produce it," Tarabella recounted.
Harrison, who died four years ago, was building toward a moment like "Celebrate Life!" "A lot of people in the church were against any kind of contemporary music aimed at teenagers," Tarabella said. "So in the morning, he would always have traditional hymns, but in the evening the youth choir did more and more contemporary music.
"Some people would call our house after church about how they didn't like guitars and drums being used. He would just smile and say, 'Yes, yes, I understand,' and then he would hang up and shake his head because he knew what was important — trying to reach the young people. And because of that, he had a large youth choir that overflowed out of the choir loft and down both sides onto the platform."
"'Celebrate Life!' won over even the harshest critics when they heard the music and saw that it was biblically based," Tarabella said. "And once the parents saw their kids coming home from practice excited, they too joined in the excitement and helped with the production."
Myrtle Grove produced the musical several times during the '70s and '80s, once in conjunction with churches in the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association at the former Bayfront Auditorium.
Youth choir members from the '70s and '80s have gathered twice for reunions, each time including "He Is Alive" and "The Truth Shall Make You Free" in their performance at Myrtle Grove.
"It was just like yesterday. A lot of us, even though we need reading glasses, didn't even need the music because we remembered it by heart," Tarabella said. "If the accompanying musical score wasn't equally as powerful as the lyrics, I don't think it would have stuck with us all these years."
First person: From failure on Broadway to believing 'Jesus loves me'
"Celebrate Life!" at its inception was a half-hearted response to a request from the Baptist Sunday School Board (now Lifeway Christian Resources) to write a 30-minute skit for youth.
At the time, I was preparing for the opening night of "Earl of Ruston," a musical I had written with my cousin, C.C. Courtney, and my good friend Peter Link.
Compared to the excitement of a show opening on Broadway, the Sunday School Board was a faint thought — something to do later.
The reviews for our show were … mixed. The show closed in one week. My dream died.
A couple of weeks later, some friends suggested we go somewhere to escape, so we all bought tickets to Antigua, an island in the Caribbean.
I was far more depressed than I realized, and that depression reached its depth when I privately decided to end my life. I waded into the warm turquoise water feeling that my agony and sense of failure would soon be over.
Chest deep in the waves, I found myself singing a song I had not thought of since I was a small child in the junior choir at my church back in Ruston, Louisiana:
Jesus loves me! This I know, For the Bible tells me so;/ Little ones to Him belong; They are weak, but He is strong./ Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!/ Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
Suddenly I was weeping! I was alive! I had forgotten that the faith I had been brought up on was based on this truth: "Jesus loves me!" I immediately changed my outlook.
Stumbling back to the beach, I was overwhelmed with what I had experienced. Gasping in surprise, I ran to the house and started writing.
Suddenly, I paused [at the line] "The best was … ." What was the best thing He said to me? "I love you" did not fit the meter or the rhyme. Then it came to me. The best thing He said was "I love you" — and that was the truth! It was the truth that set me free. So I completed the poem:
The best was, truth shall make you free./ You shall know the truth,/ And love is the proof …/ that the truth shall make you free!
I realized I was writing about my Savior.
It was a story that had been told repeatedly down through the centuries, but somehow I had missed the truth of it.
I realized that if I missed the point, chances were others had missed it also. I would tell it again and call it "Celebrate Life!"
I was moved to tears by a Savior who muttered, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
EDITOR'S NOTE — First person sidebar by Ragan Courtney as told to Art Toalston.


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Germany's President Steinmeier: 'In Halle, a Nightmare Became Reality'
FeaturesGermanyMain
By Imanuel Marcus On Oct 9, 2020
A year ago today, two people were murdered in Halle. Had the Nazi culprit managed to open the local synagogue's main door, he would have killed many more. The attack answered the question whether Jews can live in Germany without fear.
Berlin, October 9th, 2020 (The Berlin Spectator) — On October 9th, 2019, at 12:01 p.m., Stephan Balliet, a Nazi from Halle, tried to open the door to the Synagogue of Halle. Inside the temple, congregation members were observing Yom Kippur, the most important high holiday in Judaism. Balliet wanted to shoot all of them, because they were Jewish.
Sick World View
He did not manage to open the door, not even with self-built grenades he threw at it. At this moment, a stable door was the one thing that saved the lives of everyone inside. There was no police protection, even though this kind of security is obviously necessary for Jewish facilities in Germany, and in spite of the fact that the Jewish community in Halle had asked for protection.
At 12:03 p.m. on that terrible day, Stephen Balliet shot a woman to death outside the synagogue. Her crime, in the Nazi's sick world view, is that she had addressed him because of the loud explosions he was causing. At the same moment, people inside the temple called an emergency number to report the attack.
Imminent Danger
Minutes later, the extremist right-wing terrorist got back into the car he had used to get to the synagogue. He drove half a kilometer to a Turkish doner kebab place which he attacked with Molotov Cocktails. Inside, he fatally shot a man. Then he shot at police officers who came to the scene. It took until 1:38 p.m. until Baillet finally was arrested.
The two murders, and the dozens of attempted murders were not really a surprise to some, because the imminent danger deriving from radical right-wingers was not a secret before the attack. The murder of Walter Lübcke some four months before, the 'NSU' murders years before, and known threats had been discussed and written about a lot. Of course, the deadly attack in Halle shocked Germany anyway.
Steinmeier in Halle
The trial against Stephen Balliet commenced two and a half months ago, on July 21, 2020. He was indicted for two murders, attempted murders in 68 cases, incitement and other crimes. It will take months until there is a verdict.
Today, on the first anniversary of the Halle attack, the victims were commemorated. Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was there. A week and a half ago, on September 29th, the World Jewish Congress had held its own commemoration event in Halle, at both the synagogue and the doner kebab stand.
Big Question
A year after the attack, the crime and its implications are still being discussed. There is one big question the murders answered, namely whether Jews can live in Germany without fear. No, they obviously can't.
In order to protect the relatively small Jewish community, the state just allocated 22 million Euro (26 million U.S. Dollars or 20 million Pounds Sterling) to improve safety at synagogues, Jewish schools, Jewish kindergartens and other Jewish facilities. The police are now protecting the synagogue even in Halle. These are important but secondary, superficial aspects.
Mental Arsonist
Antisemitic attacks, like the one in Halle, or the attempted murder in front of the Hohe Weide Synagogue in Hamburg the other day, are attacks against Germany as a whole, against the free and democratic country it is. And the hatred does not come out of nowhere.
After the Halle attack, the extremist right-wing party 'AfD' was being accused of being a mental arsonist because of the hatred it had spread for years. While some high-ranking members rejected the notion their party was responsible, one of them, the AfD's deputy Stephan Brandner, indirectly confirmed it, by asking this question: "Why do politicians with candles hang around in mosques and synagogues?"
Learning About Hatred
One thing is certain: Stephen Baillet, but also Stephan Brandner and other haters, were influenced somewhere. Their hatred most likely developed early on. Recently, members of democratic parties in Germany have said antisemitism and other forms of hatred needed to be addressed at schools much earlier than at secondary school.
Yesterday, the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the country's coordinator in the fight against antisemitism, Felix Klein, Monika Grütters, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Olaf Zimmermann of the 'Initiative Cultural Integration' announced a photo competition.
Jewish Everyday Life
It is entitled 'Solidarity in Diversity – Jewish Everyday Life in Germany' and being sponsored by media and other organizations. Details on the photo competition, in German only, are available here. The purpose is to make Jewish life in Germany visible more, in order to fight prejudice.
"Jewish life is a constituent part of our history and present", Felix Klein said in Berlin. "It is powerful and confident." Josef Schuster stated it was high time to get rid of reservations and prejudice towards Jews and to force back right-wing extremism. His organization runs several projects with that purpose, including 'Schalom Aleikum' and 'Meet a Jew'.
Main Commemoration Event
Today's commemoration in Halle began at 12:01 p.m., the moment the first shots were fired a year ago, with bell-ringing at the city's churches. Many residents observed a minute of silence on the main square. At 12:30 p.m., a 'Democracy Conference' organized by the government of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt took place.
In the synagogue's yard, a memorial was unveiled at 3:30 p.m.. It contains the door that protected the members of the Jewish congregation who were at the synagogue a year earlier. A memorial plaque was be unveiled at the kebab stand.
'A Nightmare Became Reality'
At Halle's 'Ulrichskirche' church, President Steinmeier sad a nightmare had become reality "in broad daylight, in the middle of Germany. Germany, of all places. A year has passed, but the pain and outrage have not." Steinmeier said his thoughts "and my profound sympathies" were with the next of kin of the victims.
"Two people were murdered in cold blood, because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time", the German President said. "For those closest to them, nothing has been the same since. There is no consolation for their loss. As Federal President, today I say to you, the bereaved: We
stand beside you. All of us, the people in our country, join you in
mourning. We do not forget."
Peaceful Revolution
He stated Germany also stood beside those who were seriously injured. "We stand beside those who were in the sights of the perpetrator and his murderous hatred. You, the members of the Jewish community, who
spent hours in fear for your lives, will never forget that day."
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that October 9th, 2020, was supposed to be a day of joy. "Not far from here, in Leipzig, we were going to be remembering the courage of the tens of thousands of people who took to the streets on October 9th, 1989, who dreamed of freedom and fought for freedom, and for respect for human dignity. We wanted to celebrate those peaceful revolutionaries, without whom the Wall would never have fallen and our country would not have enjoyed 30 years of unity."
'In Broad Daylight'
A year ago, a right-wing attacker had wanted to carry out a massacre in a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, Steinmeier stated in Halle. "In broad daylight, in the middle of Germany. In Germany, of all places. On Yom Kippur, of all days. The synagogue was full: old people, young people, families with children, visitors from abroad. They were to die. That was the perpetrator's barbaric plan. The fact that this brutal plan failed is nothing short of a miracle."
At the 'Marktkirche', another Christian temple, a prayer was scheduled to take place at 7:00 p.m.. Afterwards, the participants are expected at the Synagogue of Halle, for a more informal meeting with the congregation there.
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Weekend Plans: Free stuff, puppet rock and more
Will spring ever come? While you're pondering that question, here are some things to keep you busy this weekend.
Posted 1:34 a.m. Feb 25, 2010 — Updated 1:34 a.m. Feb 25, 2010
Will spring ever come? While you're pondering that question, here are some things to keep you busy with the family this weekend.
There are the free events at Target and Michaels on Saturday. Read more about them here. Target will host a storytime. At Michaels, it's a craft.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the RBC Center. Tickets start at $15. And if you're going, you should get there early. There's an all access pre-show an hour before the show where ticket holders can meet performers and animals and learn circus skills. And 90 minutes before show time, there will be an animal open house where ticket holders can meet with the animals and the staff who cares for them.
The Carolina Ballet's Cinderella continues this weekend with shows Saturday and Sunday, including a matinee on both days. Or you can get your tickets for the March 6 show, which was shortened to just include the about hour-long Cinderella ballet ... better for younger kids who might not be able to sit through a full performance (which includes other pieces as well). The performance is at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh.
Raleigh Little Theatre's Storytellers to Go! will present U.B.U Just Be Yourself! They'll tell the story of an insecure little cricket, a poetic mouse, a house with dreams and others who all have the message that it's OK to be yourself. It's performed by the theatre's Teens Performance Ensemble and includes some audience participation. Best of all, it's free of charge. The show is 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Cameron Village Library in Raleigh.
The N.C. State Fairgrounds in Raleigh will host a Native American Indian art show and sale featuring southwestern tribes and pueblos. You'll find jewelry, drums, bows, lances, rugs, pottery, Kachina dolls, artifacts, and more. It's 10 to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission to the event at the fairground's Holshouser Building is free.
Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill will hold one of its regular Family Fun Tours for kids ages 6 to 12 with their parents. It's an interactive gallery tour for adults and children starting at 1:15 p.m. Sunday.
The Paperhand Puppet Intervention opens what it's calling a puppet rock opera called Love and Robots. Shows are at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro this weekend and next weekend. This is the puppet intervention's second annual winter show. You might know their puppets from major festivals such as Artsplosure and First Night in Raleigh. http://www.paperhand.org/loveandrobots.htm
Free events for kids at local stores
Carolina Ballet offers Cinderella for families
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"Interactive Visualization: Video Walls for Collaborative Research and " by Krista Graham, Khyle Hannan et al.
Discusses large-scale video walls in libraries designed for collaboration that can change users' perspective and reframe and amplify digital content in shared physical spaces. Georgia State University Library's newly-opened CURVE: Collaborative University Research & Visualization Environment features a 24-by-4.5-foot, high-resolution CURVE interactWall that expands student and faculty access to digital resources, data visualization, and more.
Originally presented at the 2014 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 28, 2014.
Graham, Krista; Hannan, Khyle; Hurley, Joseph A.; and Sinclair, Bryan, "Interactive Visualization: Video Walls for Collaborative Research and Discovery (Snapshot of CURVE)" (2014). University Library Faculty Presentations. 28.


I often write multiple versions of a poem to get to the one I post. This week I ended up with the two versions below – and could not choose between them. So…I am posting both.
as the horse you road in on.
the horse does not die.
until the next famine comes.


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Pot Planet
Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture
by Brian Preston
"A gimlet-eyed and often hilarious account of the author's round-the-world reefer safari. With Britain's downscaling of penalties for marijuana possession currently stirring up controversy, Preston's book comes along at a propitious moment. And while Preston admits to recreational use and appears to condone efforts to legalize the drug he offers a surprisingly clear-headed view of potheads worldwide." –Mark Rozzo, The New Yorker
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In Pot Planet, journalist Brian Preston sets out on a global ganja safari to explore strange new cannabis cultures, to seek out new growers, activists, and other reefer revolutionaries. Preston's journeys take him across every strata of pot cultivation and enjoyment. In the Canadian Kootenays he meets hemp farmers struggling to harvest their crop on the fringes of legitimacy. In Cambodia and Morocco he explores the final frontiers of Third World weed enthusiasts. In Northern California he takes a clear-eyed look at the medicinal marijuana movement, seeing its promises and its problems. In England, Switzerland, and Spain he observes grudging governments catching up to public tolerance. And at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam he joins in the celebration at the international summit of breeders, growers, and connoisseurs.
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"Pot Planet is fun to read, gallops along and, should you like to embark on such an odyssey yourself, might even serve as a guide. . . . [or] an intoxicated mystery tour." –Douglas Cruickshank, Salon
"A marvelously entertaining, well-written and probing look at the world though marijuana, from the plant itself to the subculture of peoples who smoke it (an estimated 200 million worldwide), grow it, sell it and outlaw it. Throughout, Preston proves himself to be both an intrepid traveller and a fine storyteller. He effortlessly weaves tales humorous and harrowing, vividly rendering his environs and introducing readers to an array of fascinating characters. . .
. A copious researcher, he is equally at ease detailing plant science or the evolution of Amsterdam's drug policies." –Publishers Weekly
"An informative, reasoned travelog of weed smoking around the world . . . . Impressive." –Playboy
"An enlightening survey of twenty-first-century cannabis consumers, at an estimated 200 million strong."–Kirkus Reviews
"More than just another stoner's travelogue because of Preston's eye for cultural variation, the book demonstrates how pervasive pot use and culture really are."–Booklist
"Well worth reading . . . Preston's prose is pretty prosaic–there are no Kerouacian road rhapsodies here–but he's enough of a social critic not to write fluff, to mix in pot history artfully, to notice poverty in Thailand and ghosts of genocide in Cambodia." –Steven Wishnia, High Times
1 : My Hometown
Four years ago Rolling Stone magazine assigned me to write a story about the marijuana culture of Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver had been my home for nine years, and although I was a moderate toker by local standards, I had something of a reputation with my stressed New York editor: I was the West Coast stoner dude.
Until then I hadn't considered myself part of any kind of pot community, any more than someone who picks up a six-pack thinks of himself as part of the beer community. I was a consumer, that's all, and pot was a product, a form of euphoria that came to me in convenient little plastic Baggies, in eighth or quarter ounces at a time. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was mediocre, but I smoked it all regardless and never really worried too much about what variety it might be, or who had grown it, or where, or using what methods, any more than I would wonder about the dairy industry when buying a quart of homogenized milk.
Though I've smoked it on and off since 1976, I only really started thinking about marijuana seriously when, researching that magazine story, I ended up in a store called the Little Grow Shop in Vancouver. The shop sold hydroponic and other indoor growing supplies, and marijuana seeds over the counter, from the basement of a larger store called Hemp B.C., an upscale head shop selling bongs, books, rolling papers, pipes, hemp jeans, and tie-dyed T-shirts on West Hastings Street. Downstairs in the Little Grow Shop I had the strange feeling of being in some urban mutation of the rural farm supply outlets I'd known as a kid–comfortable places where farmers stood around and swapped talk about the crops. Even the manner of speaking was the same–a clipped, minimalist farmer shorthand. The five staff members had varying experiences growing marijuana outdoors in swampy lowlands, dry prairie, hillsides and valleys; some had grown indoors, in soil or hydroponically, using chemical fertilizers or going totally organic. I learned a lot about growing pot just by eavesdropping at the counter:
"We can't guarantee which are females. It's normal to get two or three males in ten seeds."
"You're giving them way too much nitrogen."
'sativas grow taller than indicas as a rule."
"You need a light, an exhaust fan, a reservoir to hold your water, soil, pots, nutrients, a good fertilizer, and good seed. For about a five-hundred-dollar start-up you can grow four ounces of pot every two months."
"Absolutely everybody grows it differently, which tells you it's real easy to grow."
Surrounded by super-enlarged photo posters of richly resinous buds from strains like B.C. Kush, White Rhino, and Pearly Girl, the store's staff dispensed advice, while the owner, Marc Emery, held court from his desk in the back corner of the open room. He wore his hair in a dated, parted-down-the-middle cut that showed too much of a spacious forehead, and had a habit of squinting as if he were trying to keep his glasses from slithering down his nose, yet somehow Emery managed to exude a kind of charisma. Likely you remember someone from high school who was smarter than the teachers and took pleasure in letting them know it. Emery would be the forty-year-old version of that bratty kid.
He toked from a huge fattie consisting of a variety called Shiva Skunk, then lit up a personal favorite, a cross of two varieties, Northern Lights and Blueberry, but smoking huge quantities of reefer didn't seem to mellow him at all, as pot does most people. He kept up a caustic, funny patter–he doesn't so much talk as crow–and since he was the boss, no matter how obnoxious or abrasive his opinions became, no one could tell him to shut up.
"American farm boy types come in here often," he told me, "and they'll stand there at the book rack, taking in the room over the top of a magazine for the longest time. Then suddenly a big smile comes over their face, and they'll burst out, "Ah cain't bu-leeve what ahm seein" here!""
His desk was a clunky old wooden schoolteacher's model with three cubic feet of drawers that contained the most intense concentration of marijuana genetics in North America. There were about three hundred little black film canisters in Emery's desk, each holding seeds of a unique marijuana strain, some back-bred to stability, others a first-generation hybrid. Many of these strains were local varieties that have given Canada's west coast a reputation for some of the world's best pot.
He wore a headset to take a constant stream of phone calls, and he was filling some of the $20,000 worth of mail orders he received each and every week, inlaying seeds in cardboard flats that he slid into envelopes bound most often for California and Australia. "Our Commonwealth brothers in Oz are really into pot," he said. "They're at the same stage of marijuana acceptance as Canada."
Listening to the staff chat to customers, I felt humbled, and a little intimidated, to be so thoroughly enlightened: growing pot can be approached with all the dedication and attention to horticultural science that any serious farmer gives his acreage, or any prize-winning gardener her rose bed. Beyond that, the fruits of these labors, the harvested flowers, can be damned or praised with the epicurean subtlety, the gourmandise, that the French or Italians bring to wine and food. Producing and imbibing the best marijuana can be elevated to an art form.
Researching the story gave me an excuse to keep hanging out at the Little Grow Shop. I really did enjoy the no-pretense General Store ambience of the place, plus there was the promise, or I should say the guarantee, of getting totally baked. By chance I met Jorge Cervantes, American author of Indoor Marijuana Horticulture and other outstanding grow books. "This is like a farmer's co-op," Jorge said as he took in the scene, "where you can meet growers and ask them what works for them. Europe is still much more advanced than here, but I think Vancouver's following in the same footsteps as Holland."
Jorge had come north for a research tour. "As an author, I cannot and will not go to a grow room in the United States," he said. "I could go to jail for the rest of my life. If a grower gets arrested and they have evidence of me being there, then I'm an accomplice and I'm equally guilty under the RICO statute." The Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act is a federal law from 1970 intended to fight organized crime, on the theory that planning to commit a crime, or even having knowledge of a crime, is the same as committing the crime, and should carry the same punishment. "I've been all over the world, and the U.S. is one of those Gestapo countries when it comes to marijuana laws," Jorge said. "Here in Canada I can visit people who are growing, do it carefully and quietly, and not have any troubles. And it's nice here."
Many Americans think of Vancouver as part of the Pacific Northwest, but for Canadians it's the extreme southwest. In winter it's as warm as you can get and still be in Canada. It's like Seattle, only rainier, if you can imagine that. Vancouver's a great town. One point eight million people, and you can still say, as a friend did lately from a sidewalk chair outside a pleasant cafe, "Let's get out of this cultural contrivance and into the beauty of nature." Nature, in the form of clean beaches, or spectacular temperate rain forest, is twenty minutes away. That makes Vancouver my pick as best city in the world to smoke a doob and go for a walk.
Jorge drove me east to the Vancouver suburb Coquitlam to visit the home of Mike, one of the five growers who at that time made up the Spice of Life seed company. We sat with him in the living room for a while, watching the local hockey team, the Canucks, take on Carolina on the tube.
The house was a labyrinth of white-walled grow rooms, some no bigger than a closet. Jorge happily snapped pictures of me sniffing bud, pictures that Mike was careful to stay out of. Things are cool in Canada, but not that cool. Jorge said, "I can't believe the attitude in Spain right now. When I take pictures there, the growers want to be in them."
Mike wished he could be that free. "As far as I'm concerned I'm not doing anything wrong at all," he said. "It's a crime that pot's illegal. It is. How dare they come in here and bust my ass, get the fuck out right now, that's how I feel about it. Turn around and don't break any lightbulbs on the way out."
Jorge said, "You'd make it about a week in the U.S. with that attitude. You'd be kissing the floor with your hands behind your back, a big boot right on your neck" –he made a choking sound–"and every time you'd squeak they'd stomp you a little bit more."
The plant names were labeled on white plastic knives stuck in the soil: Shishkaberry, Sweet Skunk, Purple Hempstar. The Shishkaberry, like the currently popular Bubbleberry, is a hybrid developed from a strain called Blueberry. Blueberry comes out of various crossings and recrossings of three strains: Highland Thai, also called Juicy Fruit when it was first bred in the 1970s in the American Pacific Northwest; Purple Thai, which was itself a cross between Chocolate Thai and Highland Oaxaca Gold; and a nameless Afghani indica.
This knowledge may sound as though it were difficult to acquire, but truth be told, a ton of information is out there for anyone, for free, on the Internet. This is how Blueberry was described in Marc Emery's Summer 2000 catalogue: "80% Indica, 20% Sativa. Dates to the late 1970's. Large producer under optimum conditions. A dense and stout plant with red, purple and blue hues, usually cures to a lavender blue. The finished product has a very fruity aroma and tastes of blueberry. Notable euphoric high of the highest quality, and very long lasting. Medium to large calyxes. Stores well. Height 0.7 to 1 meter. Flowering 45–55 days."
The genus cannabis belongs to the cannabaceae family, which has only one other member, hops. Indica and sativa are the two major species of the cannabis genus (a third, Ruderalis, native to Russia, is seldom bred for marijuana, although I've seen people attempt it indoors in Canada and outdoors in California).
Cannabis sativa originally grew (and still does grow) naturally nearer the equator than indicas. Sativas tend to be tall, from two to six meters, with long thin leaves and loose flowers. They smell fruity. The high is usually described as cerebral and uplifting.
Cannabis indica is associated with the Hindu Kush region, the cooler, mountainous, more northerly terrain of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's a smaller plant, one or two meters high, with short, fat leaves and tight, heavily resinous flowers. Almost all commercial strains of cannabis have some indica bred into them, because slow-growing long-limbed pure sativas aren't profitable. Indicas tend to smell more skunky than sweet. The high is a heavier "body" stone.
Smoke a sativa and go for a swim, and you're likely to feel yourself to be a water sprite, splashing on the diamond surface. Smoke an indica, and you'll feel yourself a shark, with an urge to hold long breaths and descend to the murky depths.
Most marijuana varieties have a lineage as complex as Blueberry, but not all of them are as well-documented. The venerable weed is, after all, illegal, and breeding in most places is a clandestine, secretive, risky business. And even if pot were legal, many growers would want to keep trade secrets from their competitors.
Mike pointed to an oddly spindly plant and said, "This one is really interesting, it's called Parsley Bud. It's going through a bit of stress right now, but all the leaves grow that way." Rather than spreading out in the familiar seven-leaf pattern, the crinkly leaves clung in tight bunches. "I'm crossing it with a purple strain to get the color into it, then I'm going to back-cross back, to try and keep some purple color with this leaf structure. It does not look like a pot plant."
"It looks like it should have berries," I said.
"The cops could fly over and look for what they're used to looking for, and not see that one. Great, eh?"
Mike had a new strain called Romulan he wanted us to taste. He was planning on entering it in an upcoming Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. The Cannabis Cup is a huge smokefest hosted annually by New York–based High Times magazine, America's leading monthly devoted to marijuana since 1974.
"We should hire someone to dress like a Star Trek character and hand out free samples," he said. "It's like any world-class flower show: you've gotta impress the judges."
Excerpted from Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture
" Copyright 2002 by Brian Preston. Reprinted with permission from Grove Atlantic, Inc. All rights reserved.
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I was planning on streaming some Software Inc, but due to the fact that Bebo wasn't able to detect the game, I instead streamed more of my Surviving Mars game for my live stream today. I may stream more this evening, but I haven't yet decided on that. I do want to play some modded Minecraft though, and probably will do some reading as well.


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This is a writing activity to celebrate Mad Hatter Day on October 6th. Students will engage in writing and participate in a fun art activity! This lesson is part of my holiday writing activities; one for every day of the year!


I've been workin with kids for about three years now. I love to watch them learn and grow. Its always so rewarding to see how quickly they pick up on things. I am CPR certified as well as First Aid certified. Also, i have a current fingerprint card with the State of Arizona.


I was browsing a website today and it was interesting to see a Microsoft Ad come on Google Ads. Amidst all the battles that are being fought, it does look like Microsoft does needs Google's extensive ad network to popularize their products.
Even Google buys ad links from Microsoft, Yahoo and vice versa. They need each other's support to reach more people.


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Q: DynamoDB - is there a need to call shutdown()? Considering this code:
QuerySpec spec = new QuerySpec()
    .withKeyConditionExpression("#1 = :v1")
    .withNameMap(new NameMap().with("#1", "tableKey"))
    .withValueMap(new ValueMap().withString(":v1", "none.json"));

//connect DynamoDB instance over AWS
DynamoDB dynamoDB = new DynamoDB(Regions.US_WEST_2);

//get the table instance

String tableName = "WFMHistoricalProcessedFiles";

Table table = dynamoDB.getTable(tableName);

ItemCollection<QueryOutcome> items = table.query(spec);

//getting over the results
Iterator<Item> it = items.iterator();
Item item = null;
while (it.hasNext()) {
    item = it.next();
    System.out.println(item.toJSONPretty());
}

While using DynamoDB to make any Query or a Scan like in the example above.
Is there an actual need to call shutdown() in order to close the connection?

A: The documentation seems pretty clear.

shutdown
void shutdown()
Shuts down this client object, releasing any resources that might be held open. This is an optional method, and callers are not expected to call it, but can if they want to explicitly release any open resources. Once a client has been shutdown, it should not be used to make any more requests.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaSDK/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/services/dynamodbv2/AmazonDynamoDB.html#shutdown--

But to clarify what you specifically asked about:

in order to close the connection?

There is not exactly a "connection" to DynamoDB.  It's accessed over HTTPS, statelessly, when requests are sent... so where your code says // connect DynamoDB instance over AWS, that really isn't accurate.  You're constructing an object that will not acually connect until around the time you call table.query().
That connection might later be kept-alive for a short time for reuse, but even if true, it isn't "connected to" DynamoDB in any meaningful sense.  At best, it's connected to a front-end system inside AWS that is watching for the next request and will potentially forward that request to DynamoDB if it's syntactically valid and authorized.
But this idle connection, if it exists, isn't consuming any DynamoDB resources in a way that should degrade performance of your application or others accessing the same DynamoDB table.
Good practice, of course, suggests that if you have the option of cleaning something up, it's potentially a good idea to do so, but it seems clearly optional.

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Papua New Guinea will meet the South Sydney Rabbitohs in a pre-season rugby league match next year.
The match, at Redfern Oval in February, follows on from last season's clash between the NRL side and English club Warrington, which attracted a sell-out crowd of 5000 people.
The game will form part of the Kumuls build-up to the Rugby League World Cup at the end of next year, where they're in the same pool as New Zealand, France and Samoa.


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Luke de Woolfson (born 7 March 1976) is a British film and television actor.

Filmography
2000: Urban Gothic as Noddy (1 episode in TV series)
2001: Model, Actress, Whatever as Matt (TV movie)
2001: Late Night Shopping as Sean
2001: Large as Jason Mouseley
2002: Bookcruncher as Bookcruncher (short)
2002: The House That Jack Built as JJ Squire (6 episodes in  TV series)
2002: Midsomer Murders as Paul Starkey (1 episode in TV series)
2003: The Reckoning as Daniel
2003: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Frightened Sailor
2003: Spine Chillers as Dave (1 episode "Goth" in TV series)
2003: Where the Heart Is as Russel Naylor (4 episodes in TV series)
2003: Shooting Blanks as Martin (short)
2003: Foyle's War as Harry Markham (1 episode "War Games" in TV series)
2004: Holby City as Private O'Brien (1 episode in In the Line of Fire)
2005: The Bill as Ryan Flynn (1 episode in "315" in TV series)
2005: Mile High as Robbie (1 episode in TV series)
2005: Stoned as Mick Jagger
2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as the Terrified and the Horrified British Sailor
2007: Popcorn as Zak
2007: Worth as Reg 1 (short)
2007: Holby City as Marcus Coe (1 episode "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in TV series)
2008: Reverb as Dan
2008: Criminal Justice as Stuart Napier (1 episode in TV mini-series)
2008: Holby City as Rory Westley (1 episode "Or I'll Never Fall in Love" in TV series)
2008: The Bill as Colin Mackie (1 episode in Forgotten Child: Part 1 in TV series)
2009: Best: His Mother's Son as Dave Sadler (TV movie)
2009: Mr. Right as Alex
2010: Shank as Whisper
2010: Forget Me Not as Luke
2019: Killing Eve

External links

English male film actors
English male television actors
1976 births
Living people
People from Woodbridge, Suffolk
Male actors from Suffolk


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Justin Trudeau's Liberals have left over $372 million from the federal kitty reserved for helping veterans unspent. This revelation has come only 6 months after an Edmonton town hall where Trudeau stopped asking certain groups for increased veteran welfare.
Trudeau admonished veteran groups who were fighting for improved benefits from the government by saying that these groups were asking for more than what the government is able to give them at the moment.
However, a latest report revealed by a news source has mentioned that Trudeau's leadership has failed to spend all of the money allotted for the Department of Veteran Affairs (VAC) for all of the last 3 years. This is something that Trudeau had slammed the previous Conservative government and Prime Minister Stephen Harper for.
"[The Conservatives] fired hundreds of front line veteran support staff; they closed nine local service offices, making it harder and harder for veterans to get the support they so badly need. They left unspent more than $1 billion that Parliament allocated for veteran support.
Canadians know that this is wrong. A government led by me would make it right." said Justin Trudeau, then Liberal Leader, at a veteran-themed campaign stop in August 2015.
The VAC defended these claims by mentioning that the funding for veterans are demand driven. No veteran has been left without aid, and if there is money still left in the kitty, it is because they overestimated demand.
Seamus O'Regan, the current Minister for Veteran Affairs, has defended Trudeau by clearing that they have done 'no stealing' under Trudeau.


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How to Help Your Kids Keep Track of Their Goals. How then can you help your kids remember and track their goals. Once a goal is set, it can be really easy to forget about it. Let's face it, life gets really busy and sometimes just surviving the daily schedule is an accomplishment! How then can you help your kids remember and track their goals. A visual reminder can be really helpful here. I used to read a book with my son about a similar topic as this, it was How to books, even if it was something as simple as How to explain how Scissors work! silly I guess, but it really helped him when he was small to learn how to explain things in a slow but confident manner, rated up! cheers nell.
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The Google Books lawsuit, which generated a widely hailed and criticized settlement that was ultimately rejected by the court, will go to trial--although the parties in the case say that they are still in talks.
Authors Guild attorney Michael Boni also told the court that talks were ongoing, and that the authors were hopeful of a settlement, but it was clear that publishers had made more progress, raising the likelihood that the authors and publishers cases could be split.
In other Authors Guild lawsuit news, a consortium of library groups has issued a statement criticizing the AG's recently filed lawsuit against several major university libraries over their use of orphan works via the HathiTrust repository.
"The case has no merit, and completely disregards the rights of libraries and their users under the law, especially fair use," the statement reads. "We are confident the court will not look kindly on this shortsighted and ill-conceived lawsuit."
For a thorough (though pro-library) analysis of the orphan works issue as it pertains to libraries, see this research packet from the Association of Research Libraries.
On the other side of the issue, the Authors Guild has punctured the assumption of due diligence in HathiTrust's procedures for locating copyright holders for the orphan works it plans to issue. So far, the AG has (easily) located the copyright holders for three so-called orphans: The Lost Country, a novel by J.R. Salamanca; a study on adolescent aggression by psychologist Albert Bandura; and Confusion, a novel by James Gould Cozzens. A subsequent post on the AG's blog, listing HathiTrust's "orphan work candidates" and inviting comments from the public, appears to have located several more.
HathiTrust is temporarily suspending its orphan works release program, until it can improve its research process for determining copyright status.
The process the Hathitrust outlined before included things like checking Amazon and Bookfinder for available copies. Yet they missed at least one book where brand-new, in-print copies are available on Amazon, and several more where used copies are available online.
I have little confidence in any future samples of an "improved process." All they need to do is rig the sample by exhaustively researching that handful of books--but not the next 20,000 proposed "orphans."


Time does fly when you're having fun, and the past 10 years with you in our lives, have been exactly that. And more.
You may be turning 10, but you will always be the baby of our little family of 4. The final member of our team.
The past few months have been a big change for us all. Taking you away from all you've ever known. It was you I was most concerned about. Worried that you wouldn't cope too well with the loose, slow paced lifestyle – but you're absolutely thriving.
You are relaxed and happy and you just love having Dad around all day, every day. So much so that Mum has been benched a little. I don't mind though, I love watching you and your Dad together – you two have something pretty special.
Just as you do with your sister.
The pair of you are like chalk and cheese, but you truly are best friends and this travel adventure is bringing you even closer.
You're such a good little brother. Always out to please your sister who you adore.
Playing mermaid games in the ocean and watching Barbie movies. One day she will be so grateful.
You miss your best mate Nick, but thanks to modern technology, you get your 'Nick fix' once a week, which always gives you a little extra pep in your step!
You are the happiest when near the water, and are absolutely loving body boarding whenever you have the chance.
You're still mad about basketball. Kyrie ("Top of the key, pops back for 3…") Irving remains your all time favourite. How lucky are you to have a Daddy who is just as obsessed with the sport as you are. You're both off shooting hoops any chance you get. You still dream of being an NBA player when you grow up, and Clash Royale is also a favourite pastime – when you're allowed on your iPad…!
You love life and all that it has to offer.
You're as cheeky as you are sweet.
As crazy as you are cautious.
You're funny. You're soft and gentle. You're loving and kind and thoughtful.
You can also be as stubborn as an ox, and a little short-tempered at times. You are strong-willed and determined which are qualities I admire.
You know exactly how to work your cute dimple faced magic with me and always seem to know when I need one of your special snuggles.
How lucky you are to be celebrating your 10th birthday in the magical Maldives. Your one wish was to swim with sea turtles. Yesterday we made that dream a reality for you and how magical it was for us all.
Thankyou for always letting me snuggle into that soft little crook in your neck and kiss your soft face all over. You're my best buddy and I just think the world of you.
My sweet boy, you are so blessed in this life, don't ever forget that.
Happy Birthday my little Spendoodle Buckets. Enjoy your special day.


Simon Shield - our men won the prestigious Walthamstow & District Simon Shield. 9 local clubs competed for it this year. It is a very large shield trophy so not sure where we are to display it yet!
Thursday 4's – our 'B' team had a very good season finishing second in Division 3 and being promoted to Division 2 next season where they will play against our 'A' team.
Foresters League – for the third year running Connaught won the Forester's trophy which was presented to us at a dinner attended by representatives from the nine participating clubs.
The Colbert Cup – our Ladies won this prestigious trophy competing against 11 other clubs.
Mixed: Hospital Charity Triples – played between Connaught, Loughton, Buckhurst Hill and Woodford was won again this year by Connaught. Tim Mould, Maggie Dexter and Marilyn Trentham were our successful trio. A large amount of money is raised each year for local charities.
Walthamstow & District Mixed Triples League – our 2 teams came second in Pool A and won Pool B. Our Pool B winners lost in the final play off against Loughton – Irene McGuigan, James Hill & Sylvia Bloomfield. Other team members Janet Gray, Jackie Weiss and Melvin Grant.
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Tower of Ecthelion
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The name Ecthelion refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Ecthelion (disambiguation).
"Minas Tirith" by John Howe
Other names White Tower
Location Minas Tirith, above the Tower Hall
Inhabitants King of Gondor
Created T.A. 1900
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The Tower of Ecthelion, also known as the White Tower, was a tall white tower atop Minas Tirith which contained the throne of the King of Gondor and a secret room housing a palantír. Although a tower had graced the highest point of Minas Tirith since ancient times, it was rebuilt by Steward Ecthelion I some three centuries before the War of the Ring, and so gained his name.
The Tower had "its eye upon many lands". It was because of this Tower that the city was later named Minas Tirith ("Tower of the Guard").[1]
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The Tower of Ecthelion was 50 fathoms (300 feet) tall. The plain white standard of the Stewards of Gondor flew from its pinnacle. The Tower stood in the center of the Citadel on the seventh level of the city. In front of the Tower was the Court of the Fountain where the White Tree of Gondor grew.
Under the sun, the Tower's shapely form shone and glimmered like a spike of crystals, pearl and silver against the sky. White banners waved from its battlements.[2]
In the Tower Hall was the throne of the King of Gondor upon a dais, and at the foot the dais on the lowest step was a black chair where the Steward of Gondor sat. The royal court must have been also there.[3]
There was a chamber high in the Tower and above it in the summit, just under its dome, there was a secret room where the palantír of Minas Anor, the Anor-stone was kept.
The White Tower was first built by King Calimehtar in T.A. 1900 to house the Anor-stone and the royal Throne. In T.A. 2698, the Tower was repaired and rebuilt by the Steward Ecthelion I, for whom the Tower came to be named.[4]
On March 9, T.A. 3019, Peregrin Took got his first glimpse of the Tower of Ecthelion as he rode with Gandalf to Minas Tirith.
After the fall of Sauron, on May 1, the standard of the Stewards of Gondor was raised for the last time. That day Aragorn was crowned King and when he entered the Citadel, the Livery of Elendil bearing the Tree and the Stars was unfurled on the pinnacle of the Tower of Ecthelion.[5]
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Also called the White Tower. It was renamed the Tower of Ecthelion after the Steward Ecthelion I who rebuilt it. Also called the Tower of Denethor during the reign of Denethor II.
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Minas Tirith"
↑ Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth, entry "White Tower"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Steward and the King"
The Two Towers: "The Departure of Boromir," p. 19; "The Palantir," p. 206
The Return of the King: "The Muster of Rohan," p. 73; "The Siege of Gondor," p. 91-92, 94-95, 97, 98-99; "The Pyre of Denethor," p. 129, 131, 132-33
Appendix B of The Lord of the Rings: "The Tale of Years," p. 367, 369
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GAO Says White House Lying About Drug Science is Perfectly Okay
White House Gets Permission to Lie (3/11/2004 - Marijuana Policy Project press release)
Responding to a request by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, yesterday gave the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) unfettered permission to mislead the public in the name of opposing drug legalization.
In the run-up to the November 2002 elections, ONDCP campaigned aggressively against state ballot measures to reform marijuana laws and other anti-drug policies. Part of this effort was a letter to local prosecutors from ONDCP Deputy Director Scott Burns, which made a number of statements considered misleading by experts, including the claims that "marijuana and violence are linked" and "no credible research suggests" that marijuana has medical uses.
In an April 2, 2003, letter, available here, Paul asked the GAO to investigate whether the Burns letter violated the ban on use of taxpayer funds for "publicity and propaganda" as well as the longstanding GAO position that "the government should not disseminate misleading information."
In its March 10 response to Paul, the GAO declared, in essence, that the truth or falsity of ONDCP's statements is irrelevant. "ONDCP is specifically charged with the responsibility for 'taking such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use' of certain controlled substances such as marijuana," wrote GAO General Counsel Anthony Gamboa. "Given this role, we do not see a need to examine the accuracy of the Deputy Director's individual statements in detail." The full GAO response is available here.
The declaration appears to contradict prior GAO actions. In 1976, for example, the GAO ruled that a pamphlet about nuclear energy was "not a proper document for release to the public" because of its misleading and one-sided statements.
"Amazingly, the GAO has ruled that the truth simply doesn't matter in the so-called 'War on Drugs,' " said Steve Fox, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. "This is even more shocking than the simultaneous GAO ruling on the administration's Medicare ads. In that case they suggested the ads were perhaps in a gray zone, but here they are saying that accuracy is irrelevant and lying is not a problem. We believe the American public expects better from their government."
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Q: JAX-WS + SOAP: How to parse HTTP Client Error I'm using JAX-WS + SOAP to communicate to a webservice. I can handle the SOAP message (handleFault) but i cannot understand how to catch HTTP errors, because they occur under the HTTP Java client layer...
com.sun.xml.ws.client.ClientTransportException: The server sent HTTP status code 412: Precondition Failed
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.checkStatusCode(HttpTransportPipe.java:203)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.process(HttpTransportPipe.java:177)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.processRequest(HttpTransportPipe.java:93)
at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Fiber.java:598)
at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Fiber.java:557)
at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Fiber.java:542)
at com.sun.xml.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Fiber.java:439)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.Stub.process(Stub.java:222)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SEIStub.doProcess(SEIStub.java:135)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:109)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:89)
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I know the server should include an entity containing an explanation of the error situation (and, in fact, i've been told it's doing just that).
My question is: HOW to reach that "entity"?

A: Looks like web service is not implemented according to specification. According to W3C Note 08 May 2000 on SOAP 1.1 (same with SOAP 1.2):

In case of a SOAP error while processing the request, the SOAP HTTP server MUST issue an HTTP 500 "Internal Server Error" response and include a SOAP message in the response containing a SOAP Fault element (see section 4.4) indicating the SOAP processing error.

Even if there is some "entity" I don't think you should handle that in your application. It would be definitely a hack. If you need to learn what entity is it only once, just use some sniffer tool like Wireshark.
If you really want to ignore HTTP status code you can switch to CXF as a JAX-WS implementation. There you can disable checking HTTP code:
org.apache.cxf.endpoint.Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(hw);
client.getRequestContext().put("org.apache.cxf.http.no_io_exceptions", "true");


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Superstars of the Indianapolis Colts
This photo-illustrated book will introduce young readers to the superstars of the Indianapolis Colts. Readers will learn about the team's history in the NFL, star players' accomplishments, and more. Includes fast facts and football words to know.
Superstars of the New England Patriots
This photo-illustrated book will introduce young readers to the superstars of the New England Patriots. Readers will learn about the team's history in the NFL, star players' accomplishments, and more. Includes fast facts and football words to know.
Superstars of the New York Giants
This photo-illustrated book will introduce young readers to the superstars of the New York Giants. Readers will learn about the team's history in the NFL, star players' accomplishments, and more. Includes fast facts and football words to know.
Superstars of the Pittsburgh Steelers
This photo-illustrated book will introduce young readers to the superstars of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Readers will learn about the team's history in the NFL, star players' accomplishments, and more. Includes fast facts and football words to know.
Superstars of the Seattle Seahawks
This photo-illustrated book will introduce young readers to the superstars of the Seattle Seahawks. Readers will learn about the team's history in the NFL, star players' accomplishments, and more. Includes fast facts and football words to know.
Pro Sports Superstars-NFL
Football fans won't want to miss this updated and popular series highlighting athletes from their favorite NFL teams. Readers will learn all about the accomplishments of these football superstars. Includes fast fact page, further resources, glossary, and index.
Complete Series of 10: retail $299.50 your price $209.50
READING LEVEL: GRADE 1 AND UP
Format: Reinforced Library Binding
Available in Paperback and eBook.
Trim Size: 6.5" x 9.5"
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