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Coronavirus: 53 new cases in Morocco, 949785 in total
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53 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) were confirmed in Morocco until Monday at 04:00 pm, bringing to 949785 the total number of cases of contamination, announces the Ministry of Health. The number of cases healed arose to 932133 with 148 new remissions, while that of deaths …
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4115 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) were confirmed in Morocco until Sunday at 06:00 pm, bringing to 353803 the total number of cases of contamination, announces the Ministry of Health. The number of cases healed rose to 302314 with 4374 new remissions, while that of deaths …
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2663 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) were confirmed in Morocco until Saturday at 06:00 pm, bringing to 131228 the total number of cases of contamination, announces the Ministry of Health. The number of cases healed rose to 108687 with 2643 new remissions, while that of deaths …
Coronavirus: 246 new cases in Morocco, 13215 in total
July 3, 2020 Uncategorized 1
246 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) were confirmed in Morocco until Friday at 10:00 am, bringing to 13215 the total number of cases of contamination, announces the Ministry of Health. The number of cases healed rose to 9158 with 68 new remissions, while that of deaths …
Three new species of pterosaurs discovered in Morocco
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In a study to be published in the scientific journal Cretaceous Research, researchers announce the discovery of three new species of pterosaurs from fossils found near Erfoud. Species that allow us to trace the evolution of this species before the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Kem-Kem mountains in south-eastern Morocco …


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Wigry (in latino: Wigerscensis) è una sede vescovile titolare della Chiesa cattolica istituita nell'ottobre del 2014.

Storia

Wigry, città tra Suwałki e Sejny, fu sede di una diocesi polacca eretta il 16 marzo 1799 con la bolla Saepe factum est di papa Pio VI, ricavandone il territorio dall'arcidiocesi di Vilnius. Assunse il nome di diocesi di Sejny il 30 giugno 1818 per effetto della bolla Ex imposita nobis di papa Pio VII, con cui i confini diocesani venivano adattati ai confini politici stabiliti dal Congresso di Vienna e pertanto al territorio diocesano vennero aggiunti tre decanati che erano appartenuti alla diocesi di Płock; contestualmente la sede vescovile fu traslata a Sejny.

Dall'ottobre del 2014 Wigry è annoverata tra le sedi vescovili titolari della Chiesa cattolica; dal 13 dicembre 2014 il vescovo titolare è Marek Szkudło, vescovo ausiliare di Katowice.

Cronotassi dei vescovi titolari
 Marek Szkudło, dal 13 dicembre 2014

Voci correlate
 Diocesi di Łomża
 Sede titolare di Sejny

Collegamenti esterni
 La sede nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
 La sede nel sito di www.gcatholic.org

Wigry

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BT-5 fast tank (1933) - Tank Encyclopedia.
Like the BT-7 before it, the T-34 became the basis for designing other, more advanced tanks. The Soviet T-44 tank was based on the T-34, and in turn became the starting point for the T-54. T-34-76 (Model 1941). Fading from Glory. The effectiveness of the T-34 was such that it remained a mainstay of the Soviet army for a decade after the war.
However, tank designers were already working on installing the gun on the T-34 tank, while the more heavily armed and armored Joseph Stalin series of tanks took over the KV's role. Still, small.
Russian tankers and Orlan-10 UAV conduct exercise in.
The T-24 was the first true Soviet medium tank. Only 25 were produced by the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (KhPZ) in Ukraine. Armed with a 45 mm (1.77 in) gun and three machine-guns, with one mounted in small turret on top of the main one, it was essentially an enlarged T-18 (18.5 tons), with a slightly reworked suspension.The A13 was first conceived in 1936 as a response to the Russian Christie-type BT being used by the Red Army. When the British War Office saw the Russian tank they asked designers at the Nuffield Organisation, a vehicle manufacturer in England, to create something similar and faster than the older A9 and A10. The organization imported Read more. A9 Cruiser Tank Mark I. M Malory in Interwar.The BT-3F is a new Russian tracked armored personnel carrier. Its development began in 2010. It is based on a BMP-3F infantry fighting vehicle with improved amphibious capabilities. It lacks turret of the BMP-3F, but has a raised superstructure, similar to that of the 1V172-2 artillery control vehicle.
A further DT machine gun was provided in a bow mounting. Fifty-nine 85mm projectiles were stored throughout the vehicle with 2,520 rounds of 7.62mm machine gun ammunition. Power was provided by a single V2-IS 12-cylinder engine delivering 520 horsepower. Top speed was 23 miles per hour while operational ranges were limited to just 93 miles - both values factoring in ideal conditions at that.To avoid confusion with the T113, this vehicle was designated as the armored personnel carrier T117. Five T113s and five T117s were manufactured by FMC. In addition, one aluminum T113 hull and one steel T117 hull were delivered for ballistic tests.
BT-3F armoured vehicle design and features. The BT-3F amphibious infantry fighting vehicle is based on tracked chassis and features an armoured hull. It is 7m-long, 3.3m-wide and 3m-high, and has a gross combat weight of 18.5t. The armoured vehicle is manned by three crew members and can carry up to 14 troops. The driver sits in the middle of.
Valentine IV of 36th Tank Brigade - Note Bren AA machine gun in Lakeman mount The first major combat action occured with the 22 th Tank Corps of the 38 th Army on May 13, 1942. The 22 th Tank Corps by that time consisted of 127 tanks in three Tank Brigades with a total of 41 Matilda III and IV as well as some 30 Valentine IV in the 13 th, 36 th and 133 rd Tank Brigade.
Although at first intended to carry a 12.7 mm machine gun like the T-40, the armament was later upgraded to the 20 mm TNSh cannon, a. The Romanians modified 34 captured T-60s into TACAM T-60 tank destroyers in 1943. They were armed with captured Soviet 76 mm divisional gun M1936 (F-22) housed in a light armoured superstructure open in its top and back, a typical configuration in the tank.
BM Bulat Main Battle Tank - Army Technology.
The T-28 had one large turret with a 76.2 mm gun and two smaller turrets with 7.62 mm machine guns. A total of 503 T-28 tanks were manufactured over the eight-year period from 1933 to 1941. Combat history. The T-28 was deployed during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, and the Winter War with Finland. During the initial stages of the Winter War, the tank was used in direct fire missions.
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T-80U main battle tank armament. The T-80U carries the 9M119 Refleks (Nato designation AT-11 Sniper) anti-tank guided missile system which is fired from the main gun. The range of the missile is 100m to 4,000m. The system is intended to engage tanks fitted with ERA (explosive reactive armour) as well as low-flying air targets such as.
Tanks equipped with both Polish and Russian engines are available. Varying Km and mth values. T-72 Medium tank, developed at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, designed for the 1st battle line. Good armouring and better mobility than in its antecedents, together with a powerful 125 mm gun with the option of anti-tank rockets, inspires respect even now. Suitable for a 3-member.
The T-18, initially T-16, was developed mainly after French Renault FT-17 tank, using even some of its components, like FIAT 15 ter engine and 37 mm Hotchkiss Gun (by Russian named 37 mm Model 1928), and its overall appearance. Developed by Professor V. Zaslavsky at new Tank Bureau, formed specifically for the development of tanks.
Scalehobbyist.com: Russian Tank BT-7 1935 by Tamiya Models.
The BT-7 featured a 47mm gun, 7.62mm DT machine gun, sloped frontal armor, and a Model M-17T (V-2 at BT-7m engine. The sloped armor was used in later tanks such as the T-34l. An estimated 4,700 BT-7 tanks were produced from 1935 to 1939. The tanks were used during the Spanish Civil War, in battles against the Japanese forces in Mongolia and on the Eastern Fronts.
The tank had a crew of three and was armed with a Model 32 45mm (1,77in) gun and three machine guns. Maximum armour (read also Armoured forces) was 25,4 mm (1in) and the tank weighed 18,500kg (18,20 tons). It was 6.5mm (21ft 3in) long, 3m (9ft 8in) wide and 2,8m (9ft 1in) high. Powered by an eight-cylinder 222kW (300bhp) petrol engine, its road.
The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank that had a profound and lasting effect on the field of tank design. (1) 274 relations: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland, Afghanistan, Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov, Alfred Jodl, Alvin Coox, American University, Angolan Civil War, Anti-tank warfare, Armoured fighting vehicle, Armoured warfare, Army of Republika Srpska, Army of the Republic of Serb.

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News Courts
Dominic died 'four days after being turned away from psychiatric care'
Dominic Kiernan
Gareth Naughton
THE brother of a man who died in unexplained circumstances four days after he had begged to be taken into psychiatric care but was refused because of cutbacks has called for more funding in mental health.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/dominic-died-four-days-after-being-turned-away-from-psychiatric-care-30544307.html
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Rory Kiernan was speaking after an open verdict was returned at the inquest into the death of his brother Dominic Kiernan from Bolbrook Villas, Tallaght, Dublin 24. The 45-year-old was found dead in the front garden of his father's home at Maplewood Park in Tallaght on June 25 last year.
The cause of death remains undetermined despite a forensic autopsy and two toxicology screens being carried out.
Mr Kiernan had a long history of mental illness having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was being treated through Southwest HSE psychiatric services in Tallaght. He was attended regularly by a home care team.
Dublin Coroner's Court had heard that four days before his death, Mr Kiernan took an overdose and attempted to slit his wrists. He pleaded to to be taken into a permanent facility but was told that he would not meet the criteria "because of cutbacks".
Following his death, the family launched a campaign to reinstate funding for mental health services in the Tallaght area. Speaking outside the court, Rory Kiernan said that his brother had been fine for 15 years when he could regularly access psychiatric facilities but this was taken away.
"Dominic needed full time care for a while until he got himself back on the straight and narrow and then put back out in the community. That has been taken away because of cutbacks. He used to go into Loman's for a few weeks, he was in a half-way house for a time. He came out and for about 15 years he was fine. It worked for him but that has all been cut back now. That just wasn't there anymore," he said.
He called on the Government to reverse cutbacks and put more resources into mental health.
"The health services are being cut back to the bone and mental health services really are the Cinderella of the health world," he said.
The cause of Dominic Kiernan's death remains undetermined. Deputy state pathologist Dr Michael Curtis carried out the post-mortem after concerns were raised about marks on his neck and arms. However, he told the Dublin coroner that the marks were consistent with self-harm and there was no definite evidence of an assault. "Certainly, if he had been assaulted, it had not led to his death," he said.
An initial toxicology screen found below therapeutic levels of valproic acid, a drug prescribed for Mr Kiernan's Parkinsonism, and no alcohol present. Dr Curtis said that he requested a further screen be carried out for "unknown substances" but this came back negative. "The cause of death has, therefore, not been determined," he said.
Coroner Dr Brian Farrell said that he had no reason to believe that the death was "unnatural". He had spoken to the State Laboratory regarding the toxicology screens, he told the family, and they can do no more on it. In the absence of a cause of death, he returned an open verdict.
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Andrew Phelan A DAUGHTER of Patricia O'Connor said her partner began crying and told her "I'm sorry, but I hurt your mam' before he went to tell gardai he had killed and dismembered her.
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XII is at this moment no really trying to beat all bosses, I think we just can't be bothered, we may take them down this week, or the next. We are clearing Naxx25 sans 2-3 bosses in 2 nights, so time enough.
Last week we got the achievement for fighting that lady (still bad with names) who enrages, and then you have to sacrifice one follower. It didn't went well with the first sacrifice, which meant that our MT that fight (Sajuuk,Warrior) hit the dust. I was tanking the 4 followers, but immediately picked her up, and went to town. I think I had 5 healers spamming me, my health went from full to 5%, to full again within nano-seconds. At that moment we made the split-descision to NOT sacrifice the adds, and just fight trhough the enrage...good job healers, achiecement accomplished.
Last Sunday, I spend around 500g to get Miriani to a lvl220-something Jewelcrafter, Gowron is now a high enough Blacksmith/Enchanter that he can make all the tools he want (tanking-enchants and all buckles), although with the new patch coming up, nchanting may need to be levelled (75 stamina on weapon).


Tecno Camon iAir2+ – Join me as we welcome Tecno to the display notch family. The company has launched three new devices touted to have artificial intelligence (AI)-backed camera features as well as a display notch design along with Super Full View screen panels.
Nice device. Good for that price.
the would have made it 3gb ram.
At that price, i think it is good enough.
They should fully adopt snapdragon… They produce a snapdragon the last time..
Hmmm, they following footsteps finally.
Tecno seems to always trade one spec for another, either battery is crap or ram is small… Anyway good one for their fans.


All Emerald Isle people and guest are welcome to take a break from routine and enjoy one or all pot luck events. The supper club pot luck will be held at the meeting room in Police Department Bldg. Turn at mile marker 19 to park behind the building and near the entrance. Please bring a pot luck dish of your choice to share. If you are interested in being on the Supper Club emailing list please email Tula Satterfield at jbsatty46@gmail.com or call Mary Leohner at 252-354-6079.
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package com.jimmoores.quandl.tests;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionGroup;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Parser;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.threeten.bp.LocalDate;

import com.jimmoores.quandl.DataSetRequest;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.Frequency;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.HeaderDefinition;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.MetaDataRequest;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.MetaDataResult;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.MultiDataSetRequest;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.MultiMetaDataRequest;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.QuandlCodeRequest;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.QuandlSession;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.SearchRequest;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.SearchResult;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.SessionOptions;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.TabularResult;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.Transform;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.util.DefaultRESTDataProvider;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.util.PrettyPrinter;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.util.QuandlRuntimeException;
import com.jimmoores.quandl.util.RESTDataProvider;

/**
 * Grab test data from quandl by having a look through the search results and pulling out pseudo-randomized result sets.  These
 * 'random' results are produced using a fixed seed, which means it produces the same sequence of test requests each time it is run.
 * This allows us to re-run tests and provide pre-recorded responses we got before very easily without indexing all the results.
 * One it has built a results list it can either save both the raw(ish) responses and parsed objects and then replay those results
 * as a regression test.  Following the patterns followed in this class, it is possible to easily regression test your system that
 * relies on Quandl data without hitting their servers.  This is both faster and more community friendly.
 *
 * This class can be run as a TestNG test in which case it will run tests using the data in
 *
 *   src/test/resources/com/jimmoores/quandl/testdata
 *
 * and
 *
 *   src/test/resources/com/jimmoores/quandl/testresults
 *
 * If run on the command line, there are a number of options available (see command line help):
 *   --record        this will save responses and result objects for later 'replay', typically these will appear in
 *                   target/test-classes/com/jimmoores/quandl/test[data|results].
 *   --file-tests    run the tests using previously saved reponses and compare the resulting objects against previously saved
 *                   result objects.
 *   --direct-tests  run tests against Quandl directly and don't record anything, but check results against previously saved
 *                   result objects.  This may well legitimately fail due to changing fields like last updated.
 *   --api-key       pass in your API key.  Pretty much required as anonymous access has small request limit.
 *   --requests      override the number of randomized requests to run.  Default is 200
 *   --seed          override the default seed to produce a different sequence of results.  This will require re-recording
 *                   results if used as the sequences of requests and reponses will no longer match.
 */
public final class RegressionTests {
  private static Logger s_logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RegressionTests.class);
  private static final int DAYS_PER_YEAR = 365;
  private static final int MAX_COLUMN = 5;
  private static final int DEFAULT_NUM_REQUESTS = 200;

  private static final double WITH_COLUMN_PROBABILITY = 0.1;
  private static final double WITH_FREQUENCY_PROBABILITY = 0.2;
  private static final double WITH_TRANSFORM_PROBABILITY = 0.1;
  private static final double WITH_MAX_ROWS_PROBABILITY = 0.1;

  private static final int MAX_ROWS = 400;
  private static final double WITH_START_DATE_PROBABILITY = 0.2;
  private static final int BASE_YEARS_FROM_EPOCH = 35;
  private static final int MAX_YEARS_OUT = 10;
  private static final double WITH_END_DATE_PROBABILITY = 0.2;
  private static final int MAX_PLUS_YEARS = 5;
  private static final long SEED = 2072619066;
  private static final int MAX_CODES_PER_MULTI_REQ = 20;
  private static final double PROBABILITY_SINGLE_COLUMN_REQ = 0.7;

  private static final String RECORD_OPTION_LONG = "record";
  private static final String RECORD_OPTION_SHORT = "r";
  private static final String FILE_TESTS_OPTION_LONG = "file-tests";
  private static final String FILE_TESTS_OPTION_SHORT = "f";
  private static final String DIRECT_TESTS_OPTION_LONG = "direct-tests";
  private static final String DIRECT_TESTS_OPTION_SHORT = "d";
  private static final String API_KEY_OPTION_LONG = "api-key";
  private static final String API_KEY_OPTION_SHORT = "a";
  private static final String REQUESTS_OPTION_LONG = "requests";
  private static final String REQUESTS_OPTION_SHORT = "req";
  private static final String SEED_OPTION_LONG = "seed";
  private static final String SEED_OPTION_SHORT = "s";

  private Random _random;
  private String _apiKey;
  private int _numRequests;

  private RegressionTests(final String apiKey, final long randomSeed, final int numRequests) {
    _apiKey = apiKey;
    _random = new Random(randomSeed);
    _numRequests = numRequests;
  }

  /** for TestNG. */
  private RegressionTests() {
    this(null, SEED, DEFAULT_NUM_REQUESTS);
  }

  private void runRecording() {
    runTests(new RecordingRESTDataProvider(_apiKey), new ResultSaver());
  }

  /**
   * Run tests using previously collected Quandl response data and compare with previously collected results.
   */
  @Test(groups = { "unit" })
  public void runFileBasedTests() {
    runTests(new FileRESTDataProvider(_apiKey), new ResultChecker());
  }

  private void runDirectTests() {
    runTests(new DefaultRESTDataProvider(), new ResultChecker());
  }

  private void runTests(final RESTDataProvider restDataProvider, final ResultProcessor resultProcessor) {
    SessionOptions options;
    if (_apiKey != null) {
      options = SessionOptions.Builder
        .withAuthToken(_apiKey)
        .withRESTDataProvider(restDataProvider)
        .build();
    } else {
      options = SessionOptions.Builder
          .withoutAuthToken()
          .withRESTDataProvider(restDataProvider)
          .build();
    }
    QuandlSession session = QuandlSession.create(options);
    Set<String> quandlCodes = sampleSearch(session, resultProcessor);
    fuzzDataSetRequests(session, resultProcessor, quandlCodes);
    fuzzDataSetsRequests(session, resultProcessor, quandlCodes);
    runMetaDataRequests(session, resultProcessor, quandlCodes);
    runMultiMetaDataRequests(session, resultProcessor, quandlCodes);
    runMultiHeaderRequests(session, resultProcessor, quandlCodes);
    if (restDataProvider instanceof RecordingRESTDataProvider) {
      RecordingRESTDataProvider recordingRESTDataProvider = (RecordingRESTDataProvider) restDataProvider;
      recordingRESTDataProvider.close(); // a somewhat unpleasant special-case hack, probably not even necessary as each entry is flushed to disk, but being careful.
    }
  }

  /**
   * Run a set of data set requests using the provided quandl codes.
   * @param session the Quandl session
   * @param resultProcessor a result processor to ether record or check the results
   * @param quandlCodes a random set of Quandl codes to construct the requests from
   */
  private void fuzzDataSetRequests(final QuandlSession session, final ResultProcessor resultProcessor, final Set<String> quandlCodes) {
    for (String quandlCode : quandlCodes) {
      DataSetRequest req = fuzz(DataSetRequest.Builder.of(quandlCode)).build();
      try {
        TabularResult dataSet = session.getDataSet(req);
        s_logger.info(req.toString());
        s_logger.info(PrettyPrinter.toPrettyPrintedString(dataSet));
      } catch (QuandlRuntimeException qre) {
        s_logger.warn("Caught" + qre);
        s_logger.info("Continuing...");
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Run a set of Meta data requests using the provided quandl codes.
   * @param session the Quandl session
   * @param resultProcessor a result processor to ether record or check the results
   * @param quandlCodes a random set of Quandl codes to construct the requests from
   */
  private void runMetaDataRequests(final QuandlSession session, final ResultProcessor resultProcessor, final Set<String> quandlCodes) {
    for (String quandlCode : quandlCodes) {
      MetaDataRequest req = MetaDataRequest.of(quandlCode);
      try {
        MetaDataResult dataSet = session.getMetaData(req);
        resultProcessor.processResult(dataSet);
        s_logger.info(req.toString());
        s_logger.info(PrettyPrinter.toPrettyPrintedString(dataSet.getRawJSON()));
      } catch (QuandlRuntimeException qre) {
        s_logger.warn("Caught" + qre);
        s_logger.info("Continuing...");
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Run a set of randomized Multi data set requests, of varying size between 1 and MAX_CODES_PER_MULTI_REQ.
   * It will contains a randomized mixture of single and all column requests, according to PROBABILITY_SINGLE_COLUMN_REQ
   * The idea here is to stress test all the possible combinations of request types.
   * @param session the Quandl session
   * @param resultProcessor a result processor to either record or check the results
   * @param quandlCodes a random set of Quandl codes to construct requests from
   */
  private void fuzzDataSetsRequests(final QuandlSession session, final ResultProcessor resultProcessor, final Set<String> quandlCodes) {
    Iterator<String> iter = quandlCodes.iterator();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
      int chunkSize = _random.nextInt(MAX_CODES_PER_MULTI_REQ - 1) + 1; // means we never get 0 sized chunks.
      List<QuandlCodeRequest> chunk = new ArrayList<QuandlCodeRequest>();
      while (iter.hasNext() && chunkSize > 0) {
        if (_random.nextDouble() > PROBABILITY_SINGLE_COLUMN_REQ) {
          chunk.add(QuandlCodeRequest.singleColumn(iter.next(), _random.nextInt(MAX_COLUMN)));
        } else {
          chunk.add(QuandlCodeRequest.allColumns(iter.next()));
        }
        chunkSize--;
      }
      MultiDataSetRequest req = fuzz(MultiDataSetRequest.Builder.of(chunk)).build();
      try {
        TabularResult dataSet = session.getDataSets(req);
        resultProcessor.processResult(dataSet);
        s_logger.info(req.toString());
        s_logger.info(PrettyPrinter.toPrettyPrintedString(dataSet));
      } catch (QuandlRuntimeException qre) {
        s_logger.warn("Caught exception", qre);
        s_logger.info("Continuing...");
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Run a set of randomized Multi meta data requests, of varying size between 1 and MAX_CODES_PER_MULTI_REQ.
   * @param session the Quandl session
   * @param resultProcessor a result processor to either record or check the results
   * @param quandlCodes a random set of Quandl codes to construct requests from
   */
  private void runMultiMetaDataRequests(final QuandlSession session, final ResultProcessor resultProcessor, final Set<String> quandlCodes) {
    Iterator<String> iter = quandlCodes.iterator();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
      int chunkSize = _random.nextInt(MAX_CODES_PER_MULTI_REQ - 1) + 1; // means we never get 0 sized chunks.
      List<String> chunk = new ArrayList<String>();
      while (iter.hasNext() && chunkSize > 0) {
        chunk.add(iter.next());
        chunkSize--;
      }
      MultiMetaDataRequest req = MultiMetaDataRequest.of(chunk);
      try {
        MetaDataResult metaData = session.getMetaData(req);
        resultProcessor.processResult(metaData);
        s_logger.info(req.toString());
        s_logger.info(PrettyPrinter.toPrettyPrintedString(metaData.getRawJSON()));
      } catch (QuandlRuntimeException qre) {
        s_logger.warn("Caught exception", qre);
        s_logger.info("Continuing...");
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Run a set of randomized Multi header requests, of varying size between 1 and MAX_CODES_PER_MULTI_REQ.
   * @param session the Quandl session
   * @param resultProcessor a result processor to either record or check the results
   * @param quandlCodes a random set of Quandl codes to construct requests from
   */
  private void runMultiHeaderRequests(final QuandlSession session, final ResultProcessor resultProcessor, final Set<String> quandlCodes) {
    Iterator<String> iter = quandlCodes.iterator();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
      int chunkSize = _random.nextInt(MAX_CODES_PER_MULTI_REQ - 1) + 1; // means we never get 0 sized chunks.
      List<String> chunk = new ArrayList<String>();
      while (iter.hasNext() && chunkSize > 0) {
        chunk.add(iter.next());
        chunkSize--;
      }
      MultiMetaDataRequest req = MultiMetaDataRequest.of(chunk);
      try {
        Map<String, HeaderDefinition> metaData = session.getMultipleHeaderDefinition(req);
        resultProcessor.processResult(metaData);
        s_logger.info(req.toString());
        s_logger.info(PrettyPrinter.toPrettyPrintedString(metaData));
      } catch (QuandlRuntimeException qre) {
        s_logger.warn("Caught exception", qre);
        s_logger.info("Continuing...");
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Perform a search to find how many documents there are in total and then choose random pages
   * and return a set of the quandl codes containing the first code in each page.  The idea here is to
   * give us a representative sample of the datasets available.
   * @param session the quandll session
   * @param resultProcessor a result processor to either save the results or check them
   * @return a randmly sampled set of quandl codes.
   */
  private Set<String> sampleSearch(final QuandlSession session, final ResultProcessor resultProcessor) {
    SearchResult result = session.search(SearchRequest.Builder.of("").build()); // return all available data sets.
    final int totalDocs = result.getTotalDocuments();
    final int docsPerPage = result.getDocumentsPerPage();
    final int totalPages = totalDocs / docsPerPage;
    Set<String> quandlCodes = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
    for (int i = 0; i < _numRequests; i++) {
      int pageRequired = _random.nextInt(totalPages);
      SearchRequest req = SearchRequest.Builder.of("").withPageNumber(pageRequired).build();
      System.out.println("About to run " + req);
      SearchResult searchResult = session.search(req);
      resultProcessor.processResult(searchResult);
      MetaDataResult metaDataResult = searchResult.getMetaDataResultList().get(0);
      quandlCodes.add(metaDataResult.getQuandlCode());
    }
    return quandlCodes;
  }

  private DataSetRequest.Builder fuzz(final DataSetRequest.Builder reqBuilder) {
    DataSetRequest.Builder builder = reqBuilder;
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_COLUMN_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withColumn((int) (_random.nextDouble() * MAX_COLUMN));
    }
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_FREQUENCY_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withFrequency(Frequency.values()[_random.nextInt(Frequency.values().length)]);
    }
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_TRANSFORM_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withTransform(Transform.values()[_random.nextInt(Transform.values().length)]);
    }
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_MAX_ROWS_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withMaxRows(_random.nextInt(MAX_ROWS));
    }
    LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.ofEpochDay((int) ((_random.nextDouble() * DAYS_PER_YEAR) * MAX_YEARS_OUT) + (BASE_YEARS_FROM_EPOCH * DAYS_PER_YEAR));
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_START_DATE_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withStartDate(startDate);
    }
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_END_DATE_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withEndDate(startDate.plusDays(_random.nextInt(DAYS_PER_YEAR * MAX_PLUS_YEARS)));
    }
    return builder;
  }

  private MultiDataSetRequest.Builder fuzz(final MultiDataSetRequest.Builder reqBuilder) {
    MultiDataSetRequest.Builder builder = reqBuilder;
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_FREQUENCY_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withFrequency(Frequency.values()[_random.nextInt(Frequency.values().length)]);
    }
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_TRANSFORM_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withTransform(Transform.values()[(int) (_random.nextInt(Transform.values().length))]);
    }
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_MAX_ROWS_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withMaxRows(_random.nextInt(MAX_ROWS));
    }
    LocalDate startDate = LocalDate.ofEpochDay(_random.nextInt(MAX_YEARS_OUT * DAYS_PER_YEAR) + (BASE_YEARS_FROM_EPOCH * DAYS_PER_YEAR));
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_START_DATE_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withStartDate(startDate);
    }
    if (_random.nextDouble() > WITH_END_DATE_PROBABILITY) {
      builder = builder.withEndDate(startDate.plusDays(_random.nextInt(DAYS_PER_YEAR * MAX_PLUS_YEARS)));
    }
    return builder;
  }

  /**
   * Entry point.
   * @param args command line parameters, not used
   */
  public static void main(final String[] args) {
    Parser parser = new GnuParser();
    CommandLine commandLine;
    try {
      commandLine = parser.parse(getOptions(), args);
    } catch (ParseException ex) {
      System.err.println("Could not parse command line options, exiting.");
      System.exit(1);
      return; // keep stupid compiler happy.
    }
    String apiKey = null;
    if (commandLine.hasOption(API_KEY_OPTION_SHORT)) {
      apiKey = commandLine.getOptionValue(API_KEY_OPTION_SHORT);
    }
    long randomSeed = SEED;
    if (commandLine.hasOption(SEED_OPTION_SHORT)) {
      try {
        randomSeed = Long.parseLong(commandLine.getOptionValue(SEED_OPTION_SHORT));
      } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
        System.err.println("Could not parse seed value (should be valid long), exiting.");
        System.exit(1);
      }
    }
    int numRequests = DEFAULT_NUM_REQUESTS;
    if (commandLine.hasOption(REQUESTS_OPTION_SHORT)) {
      try {
        randomSeed = Integer.parseInt(commandLine.getOptionValue(REQUESTS_OPTION_SHORT));
      } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
        System.err.println("Could not parse number of requests (should be valid int), exiting.");
        System.exit(1);
      }
    }
    RegressionTests regressionTester = new RegressionTests(apiKey, randomSeed, numRequests);
    if (commandLine.hasOption(RECORD_OPTION_SHORT)) {
      regressionTester.runRecording();
    } else if (commandLine.hasOption(FILE_TESTS_OPTION_SHORT)) {
      regressionTester.runFileBasedTests();
    } else if (commandLine.hasOption(DIRECT_TESTS_OPTION_SHORT)) {
      regressionTester.runDirectTests();
    }
  }

  // we need to suppress warnings because of the broken implementation of the builder pattern in commons CLI.
  @SuppressWarnings("static-access")
  private static Options getOptions() {
    Options result = new Options();
    OptionGroup group = new OptionGroup();
    Option recordOption = OptionBuilder
        .withDescription("Send repeatable pseudo-random queries directly to Quandl and record the reponses and resulting objects in files")
        .withLongOpt(RECORD_OPTION_LONG)
        .create(RECORD_OPTION_SHORT);
    Option fileBasedTests = OptionBuilder
        .withDescription("Run repeatable pseudo-random queries against previously gathered reponses and regression test against previously gathered result objects")
        .withLongOpt(FILE_TESTS_OPTION_LONG)
        .create(FILE_TESTS_OPTION_SHORT);
    Option directTests = OptionBuilder
        .withDescription("Send repeatable pseudo-random queries directly to Quandl and regression test against previously gathered result objects")
        .withLongOpt(DIRECT_TESTS_OPTION_LONG)
        .create(DIRECT_TESTS_OPTION_SHORT);
    group.addOption(recordOption);
    group.addOption(fileBasedTests);
    group.addOption(directTests);
    result.addOptionGroup(group);
    Option apiKeyOption = OptionBuilder
        .withDescription("Specify an API key to use when making requests")
        .hasArg(true)
        .withArgName("The Quandl API Key")
        .isRequired(false)
        .withLongOpt(API_KEY_OPTION_LONG)
        .create(API_KEY_OPTION_SHORT);
    Option requestsOption = OptionBuilder
        .withDescription("Number of requests to fuzz (default 200)")
        .hasArg(true)
        .withArgName("The number of requests")
        .isRequired(false)
        .withLongOpt(REQUESTS_OPTION_LONG)
        .create(REQUESTS_OPTION_SHORT);
    Option randomSeedOption = OptionBuilder
        .withDescription("Override random seed")
        .hasArg(true)
        .withArgName("The new seed as a long in decimal")
        .isRequired(false)
        .withLongOpt(SEED_OPTION_LONG)
        .create(SEED_OPTION_SHORT);
    result.addOption(apiKeyOption);
    result.addOption(requestsOption);
    result.addOption(randomSeedOption);
    return result;
  }
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Tyne Talk
Exclusive: Ashley Attempts To Sell Off Future Of Newcastle United On Cheap
In a statement released today, the Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST) have revealed that they've discovered Mike Ashley has quietly put plans in place for a very quick sell-off of a lease on land belonging to Newcastle United, next to St James Park.
Under the Hall/Shepherd administration, one of the good things that they did do was invest in land around St James Park with a view to possible further expansion of the stadium.
As part of this strategy they bought a long lease on land behind the Gallowgate end, which would allow for a major increase in capacity if the time ever came where it was viable/essential to accommodate increased demand. With the Milburn and Leazes sides of the ground developed to their full potential, and the East Stand capped due to Leazes Terrace behind it, the Gallowgate is the only part of St.James' Park that could could possibly be increased.
However, Mike Ashley has laid plans to sell the lease quietly and with potential bidders expected to be almost certain to be developers looking to build hotel or student accommodation. Once any deal is finalised and anything built on the land, it would mean any chance of further expansion would be lost forever, not just for our generation but all future generations.
Bear in mind we are still getting a 50,000 average after near relegation last season and over 43,000 averaged when in the Championship in 2009/10 – you just never know what is around the corner, just look at Manchester City.
This quick grab of money by Ashley is likely to amount to a few million at the very most according to estimates, is that what the future of our football club is worth?
Here is the statement from NUST;
'Recent statements from Newcastle United accompanying the release of the latest accounts, have called upon supporters to demonstrate patience with the stated intention of growing the club in a sensible and sustainable manner.
Putting aside several concerns regarding the drastic shrinkage of commercial income and the free advertising given to Mike Ashley's companies. There is now great concern that the potential growth of the club, namely through tapping into Newcastle United's greatest asset: it's support, is at risk through an appalling plan to put in jeopardy any potential expansion of St James' Park at the Gallowgate End of the ground – the only possible part of the stadium where future expansion could realistically occur.
In 1998 previous directors of the club had wisely leased the land around St James' Metro Station on a long term basis in order to secure any future development opportunity.
However, last autumn Newcastle United Holdings Limited –the parent company of NUFC, instructed Newcastle based agents Storey, Edward , Simmons to sell the lease on the land. Bids were invited with a deadline in December 2013 and it is understood that final unconditional bids are now under consideration.
It is thought developers would be looking likely to build student accommodation on the site but the whole site, which runs to Strawberry Place, could be developed by the preferred developer.
Were any buildings to be constructed on that site, it would then mean development/extension (of the type completed at the Leazes and Milburn sides of St James' Park) at the Gallowgate End of St James' Park would be near impossible. Given there is no way of developing the East Stand due to the listed status of many buildings on Leazes and St James' Terraces, that would mean there'd be no feasible way of extending the stadium.
In short, St James' Park would be locked into its current capacity. United are currently attracting the third largest attendances in the country of 50,000+ (an average home attendance of 43,384 even when in the Championship – season 2009/10). Given that the club's on-field performance is mediocre at best, it greatly suggests that our club is capable of attracting at least another 10,000+ were the club to perform better than it is currently, and attract more support, as well as persuade the currently disaffected to return to the stands.
If building on the land in question proceeds, any future ambitions to extend St James' Park and increase its long term income (critical under UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules) will be impossible. Selling this land illustrates the cramping lack of commitment and ambition there is from Mike Ashley towards Newcastle United, while it is also a cap on the capability of future owners of the club to develop the club further.
None of this looks like being part of a strategy to have a growing, sustainable football club that is doing everything it can to increase its own income and thus its sporting competitiveness. It looks very much like part of a plan to asset strip Newcastle United Football Club and make short-term decisions that are in the interests of the owner, rather than the long-term future of the club.
What can be done now to oppose the sale is unclear but the Newcastle United Supporters Trust will be seeking to explore how we can oppose any future applications from potential developers.
The Trust would have liked to have raised these matters with the club at the Fans Forum but NUST remains banned, while correspondence on other matters with directors at the club appear to be currently ignored.
Draw your own conclusions as to what is going on at St James' Park.'
We would everybody to consider joining NUST and help fight for the future of our football club and the future of all Newcastle United supporters.
Mark Jensen
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John Putters spent many years coaching and watching his only son, Elliott, play hockey.
When Elliott moved on from his minor hockey playing days, Putters was looking to find a way to give back to the game that gave him so many joyful memories.
Hockey has a unique way of creating special bonds and connections among the hockey community and Putters has formed many over the years.
But likely none are like what he has now with 10-year-old Joseph Gardiner.
Five years ago, Putters met Joseph and his family through his longtime co-worker who is Joseph's grandmother. The young boy's parents had recently moved to Alberta from Ontario and were trying hard to get settled in.
Joseph had a passion for hockey and wanted to learn, but money was tight after the family's big move.
So Putters stepped up and helped Joseph live his dream to lace up the skates.
Putters paid for Joseph's registration fees. He bought him a pair of skates and gave him Elliott's old equipment from when he first picked up the game.
He would pick him up and drive him to early morning practices and games.
He'd take Joseph to the outdoor rink and teach him to skate, shoot and stickhandle the puck.
Putters became Joseph's mentor. That was his way of giving back.
Since then, it's developed into a special bond between the two.
This is the first year Putters or his son Elliott aren't behind the bench coaching Joseph, but that hasn't stopped either of them from supporting Joseph.
On Sunday, John and his son Elliott made their way to Terwillegar Community Recreation Centre prior to coaching their own team's games to watch Joseph patrol the blue line for the Knights of Columbus Golden Knights in a round-robin game tournament game in the 55th annual Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week.
The countless hours Putters spent teaching Joseph hockey has paid off on and off the ice. Joseph's developed into a smooth skating steady defenceman and it's helped him mature off the ice.
"John's become a big role model and a big factor in Joseph's life," said Joseph's mother Gerry. "What John did for our family was so generous of him and we're so grateful to him. He's had such an amazing influence on Joseph.
As Putters has watched Gardiner's game grow on the ice, he can't help but remember back to those days and nights on the outdoor teaching him how to skate.
Gardiner's improvement continues to grow every year and this year he made the Knights of Columbus' top tier atom team.
Joseph always plays hard, but when John is in the stands, he works and tries even more. Regardless of the results on the ice, John is always there to show his support.


Nellie and I must REALLY like flying geese, because when I look back at our patterns, I find quite a few that have this block included. When we explain how to make the flying geese units in our quilt patterns, we always use the "sew and flip" method because it's accurate and easy to explain. But lately I've seen people making flying geese units using other methods, so for my lap quilt project I think I'm going to step out of the box and experiment with 3 ways to make flying geese blocks.
This dazzling quilt uses one block done in alternating colors to create a stunning secondary design. The flying geese around the border add the finishing touch!
This beautiful quilt was designed and made with the "Stonehenge Oh Canada/True North" line of fabrics from Northcott. You may not see the flying geese right away, but they are components of the main block that's used in the quilt.
This lovely quilt was designed and made with the "Mums the Word" line of fabrics from Northcott. The flying geese units make up part of one of the borders.
For this method you cut one rectangle of fabric and two squares of another fabric. Decide what finished size you want your flying geese blocks to be. They're traditionally twice as long as they're high. You cut the rectangle the length you want the finished geese unit to be plus ½ʺ, and you make it the height you want it to be (finished) plus ½ʺ. The two squares are cut so they measure half the desired length plus ½ʺ.
For example, if you want a 3″ x 6″ finished size, you cut the rectangle 3½ʺ x 6½ʺ and the squares are each 3½ʺ.
Place a small square atop the left corner of the rectangle, right sides together. On the back of the small square, draw a diagonal line. Sew on this diagonal line. Trim off the excess seam allowance, and press the remainder towards the outer triangle. Repeat with another square on the opposite end.
The first time that I used this method for making flying geese I couldn't believe that I was just supposed to throw out the little triangles that were trimmed off of the unit before flipping. So, from then on I would draw a second line ½" away from the diagonal one and sew along that line too so that I could cut between those lines and would get two half square triangle blocks for every flying geese block that I made. These little squares are great for making pinwheel blocks!!
For my "Mountain View" quilt I need a total of 24 flying geese blocks. I'm using the cream fabric for the small triangles and six rectangles from each of the following fabrics for the large triangles.
For this "Sew and Flip method" drawing the lines on the fabric is tedious but the blocks end up being very accurate. However, unless you take the time to draw and sew that second line on the back of the smaller blocks there can be a lot of wasted fabric. Another benefit is that you can cut your squares and rectangles from scraps of fabric.
To make my lap quilt, I want some large flying geese units that are 4" x 8" finished size. Using the chart on the Martingale website for the traditional method I determined that I need to cut a large 9¼" x 9¼" square and then cut it diagonally twice. I then need 4 smaller squares 4⅞ʺ x 4⅞ʺ that are cut in half once diagonally.
Using this method, you sew one small triangle to the larger triangle and then press. Then you sew a second small triangle to this unit and press. Be careful though when you're lining up the triangles, because you want the outer points to match while the inner points of the smaller triangles will extend past the point of the rectangle.
This will ensure that the ¼" seam allowance at the top of the block is accurate. Sew one side triangle on first, press, then line up and sew the second small side triangle and press.
With this method there is no waste, but if you were making smaller flying geese units, lining up the points might be a bit tedious. Also, you have to start with a large square of fabric, so you can't use up scraps the same way that you can with method #1.
Then you sew ¼" away from both sides of the drawn lines.
Cut along the drawn line and then press the two smaller triangles out.
Now a third small square is lined up on the corner of the large square and sewn ¼" on either side of the drawn line. Cut along the drawn line and then press the small triangles out. Repeat with the remaining small square.
For the "Four at a time" method, I don't particularly like drawing the lines on the back of the fabric and I find lining up and pinning the pieces together before stitching is a bit annoying. You need to cut your larger square from a large piece of fabric so you can't use up scraps the same way that you can using the sew and flip method.
After trying all three methods, I personally think that I like the traditional method the best. For me, I like the fact that I can cut everything at once and then just sit and chain sew. It's accurate and fast. Tonight, try the 3 ways to make flying geese blocks and see which method YOU prefer.
Thank you for showing different ways to make flying geese.


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Our consistent efforts, transparent business practices and ethical values empowered us to earn the trust and confidence of our valued buyers. We house more than 10,000+ designs which are crafted to perfection giving the flexibility to you to customize the products gold purity, color, diamond size & clarity to suit your needs. With in-house team of award winning designers and craftsmen creating a perfect blend of contemporary as well as classic designs. With cutting edge innovation & latest technology we make sure the brilliance is well reflected in our jewellery.
Manufacturing Traditional and Fashion line diamond jewellery from 15 years of inception, a new venture was laid in 2015 to start a much needed online B2B portal. The time and research that went into making the portal was more than 1 year of market survey by the promoters to check the need of a strong online B2B platform for this industry. The result that we could see was that the industry which still runs on a touch and feel business model has now over a period of time matured enough to run transparent business model using today's digital approach. New B2B inquiries, sourcing and new buyers were limited to traditional sales mode & offline exhibitions with limited participants, limited time frame and limited space. There was a need in the company to create a space which could accommodate the entire product range that could be viewed by our clients worldwide with a single click. New business opportunities can be routed with a larger audience through networking and digital exchange of products and services on such platform with a very limited budget.
Vision of the company states it loudly and is working aggressively to become India's best and largest B2B marketplace for diamond jewellery with a state of the art search engine for complete jewellery buying solutions. It aims to consolidate the entire value chain of this industry where thousands of diverse products will be listed with comprehensive and clear online presentation to generate qualitative leads and boost high conversion rates for growth of the company.


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God's Omnipotence in "El Milagro Secreto"
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The existence and power of God have been controversial and ambiguous topics for a long time. Does God exist? Can God intervene in the real world? In a modern world filled with technology, material things, and tragic events, it is sometimes easy to doubt the existence of God. But in his short story, El Milagro Secreto, author Jorge Luis Borges examines the omnipotence of God and the things that God can do for God's loyal followers.
To develop his theme of the importance of the power of God, Borges uses literary references. In this story, he refers to religious texts, such as the Koran, and religious authors and philosophers. Borges begins his story with the quote:
And God made him die for a hundred years and then encouraged him and said:-How long have you been here?"One day or part of a day," he replied. "(Qur'an, II, 261)
First, it is important to recognize that this quote is from a religious and sacred text. It lets the reader begin reading the story by thinking about the idea of God and having the concept of God in his or her mind. It is also very interesting to consider the meaning of the quote, not just where it comes from. This story talks about the relativity and flexibility of time in the hands of God. In this quotation from the Qur'an, it shows the power of God when God causes a person to die for a hundred years, and to revive him at any time God wants. Borges chose this quote intentionally and it serves as an important role in planting ideas of the omnipotence of God in the minds of the reader. Borges uses other literary and philosophical references to continue developing his subject. For example, he refers to Jakob Boehme (18), a religious mystic, the Sepher Yezirah (19), which is the book of creation in Judaism, and the Jewish poet and philosopher, Abraham Ibn Ezra (21), to name some examples. The meaning of these references are not obvious, but when you discover what and who these references are, the importance appears. The protagonist of the story, Jaromir Hladík, reads much of these authors and religious texts, so the reader can not help but think about the existence and importance of God at least in the context of Hladík's life. In general, references to religious philosophical texts are subtle but nevertheless important, and make the reader think of God and his importance.
Another typical style of Borges is the use of suspense to show and not simply write about the power of God. Many times, real life is very ordinary and predictable. It is not often that a person witnesses divine intervention or God's help. For this reason, Borges uses suspense to create contrast between the real world and the supernatural world, and to emphasize the power of God. For example, when Hladík is in the library looking for God, Borges writes: "A black-eyed librarian … said to him: … My parents and the fathers of my fathers have searched for that letter [with God]; I have been blind looking for it. He took off his glasses and Hladík saw the eyes, which were dead "(23). Borges could write only about his finding of God, and not about the process and journey of Hladík looking for God. But, creating the character of the librarian with strange features and fear creates suspense and makes it much more satisfying when Hladík finds God. The use of suspense in such a rare and strange situation shows that God is unpredictable and powerful. Also, there is a lot of suspense at the moment just before Hladík's death: "A heavy raindrop grazed one of Hladík's temples and rolled slowly down his cheek; the sergeant shouted the final order. The physical universe stopped "(24). The tension rising before the shot causes the reader to think about whether God will intervene or not, and when God does intervene, it is more impressive. This quote and the use of suspense help to show that in the end, God has all control to do what he wants. In general, the use of suspense compared to the normal life of Hladík places emphasis on the power of God, but also the importance of God, because He saves the life of Hladík.
The tale of the "El Milagro Secreto" is a story that is very complex and difficult to understand. But it is clear that Borges tries to develop the theme of God's power, using specific stylistic elements as references to erudite texts, and religious philosophers and suspense. These typical stylistic elements of Borges help their purpose of showing the omnipotence of God, and makes us think of the anciet question of the existence and the power of God. But, this story suggests that when you believe in something or someone loyally, magnificent things can happen.
Order, Memory, and Anxiety in Borges' Fiction
May 15, 2019 by Essay Writer
The fundamental questions of how and why we read have an infinitude of answers, none of which entirely 'do the job,' simply because they bear too closely upon the automatic, (and therefore, to us, secret) processes of the mind; the act of reading is too closely related to the act of living in the world for us to comprehend definitively. There are few writers who understand and exploit this primal link more persistently than Jorge Luis Borges. One of the ways in which he forces us to examine the parallels between reading and existing (I use the word 'force' because it is not always a pleasant confrontation) is through the thematic use of memory.
I. Total Recall
"It is because I forget that I read."
-Roland Barthes, S/Z
One of the most masterful treatments of the memory theme is in "Funes the Memorious", the brilliantly, (and somewhat absurdly), touching story of a man who cannot live under the strain of his natural and inescapable ability to remember everything perfectly.
The story begins with the words "I recall", and immediately we are plunged into the realm of memory-we understand that what we are about to read is a semblance of a reminiscence. Jon Stewart calls attention to the importance of the repetition of this verb in the opening paragraphs of the story: "The continual use of this verb clearly foreshadows the most important element of the character of Funes-his prodigious mnemonic powers: but there is more to it than this. Borges continually uses the same verb and with it brings together a number of scattered and seemingly chaotic memories that he has of Funes. The point of this repetition is to underscore his own impoverished memory of Funes." (p.74) But Stewart neglects to take this point to its logical and important conclusion; the narrator's 'impoverished memory' is not merely a foreshadowing of Funes' infinitely rich one-it comes to be, in fact, the necessary circumstance, and the subject of the story.
Borges tells us that the story grew out of his own bouts of insomnia: "I remember that I used to lie down and try to forget everything, and that led me, inevitably, to remember everything. I imagined the books on the shelves, the clothes on the chair, and even my own body on the bed… and so, since I could not erase memory, I kept thinking of those things, and also thinking: if only I could forget, I would certainly be able to sleep." (p.27) As many critics point out, it is not wise to take Borges' word with regard to his own work as final, however, later on in this short interview, he voices what I see as the essential fact of the tale: "Funes, the country boy, could not have written [this] story." (p.28)
In the context of Borges, this of course means several things, but one of its functions is to link, symbolically, life and narrative. Funes could not have written this story for the same reason that he could not go on living; "creation depends on omissions and omission means discontinuity." (p.112) The ability to forget is prerequisite, not only to sleep and to life, but to storytelling. Thus we might read the narrator's "I recall" as something like "Because I have forgotten so much, I am able tell you this…".
Narrative is simply the arrangement of events into some kind of order; telling the story of one's own life, or self-narration, is thus an organization of memory. But if the memory of every second of our existence clamored for a place of equal importance, we would be at a loss to tell our own stories. More than this, we would be unable to salvage meaning from the chaotic and arbitrarily juxtaposed scenes of our lives; it is the terrible dread and anxiety of this dilemma that makes Funes' life impossible: "Our principal antidotes to universality and immortality are death and forgetting. Because they confirm our mortality and our individual identity, death and forgetting are what make the universe bearable, real for us." (p.53)
Enter the reader; as readers, our primary activity is trying to find meaning in the ordered arrangement of the events that, (supposedly), hang together to constitute "Funes the Memorious". Michel Foucault, describing his reaction to a portion of "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" writes: "That passage from Borges kept me laughing a long time, though not without a certain uneasiness that I found hard to shake off." (p.xvii) This 'uneasiness' is a common response to reading Borges-he is not a comforting writer. Foucault is referring to a passage in which Borges, 'quoting' "a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge", reels off a fantastic and ridiculous list of animal categories. Foucault goes on to postulate that this readerly anxiety stems from our glimpse at "the disorder in which fragments of a large number of possible orders glitter separately in the dimension, without a law or geometry." In presenting the reader with this chaotic, and therefore meaningless, conjunction of orders, Borges implicitly spotlights and calls into question our own modes of organization and synthesis.
The theme is different, ("The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" deals with encyclopedic knowledge and the dangerous absurdity of language), but we can trace the same uneasy reaction as Foucault does in our reading of "Funes the Memorious". We jump into this story with all our readerly expectations on the alert, our ability to generate meaning at the ready, our guns half-cocked; at every turn, Borges works to rattle our complacency.
We understand that Funes cannot live because he cannot forget. The uneasiness begins, however, when we understand that it is only because the narrator forgets that he can tell us his story. What exactly has he forgotten? If he had remembered more, or differently, how would the 'meaning' of the story changed? How do we forget anyway? Is forgetting a loss or a repression? How do we decide what we want to remember? These are the questions that stand between the reader and meaning. In trying to answer them though, we stumble upon that same disordered order that caused Foucault so much anxiety; we are, in a sense, forced upon the realization that our ability to derive meaning is wholly reliant on an arbitrary and involuntary process of elimination, and, depending on how far we wish to push the metaphor, perhaps even repression. A certain readerly sweat is understandable.
It must be said, though, that we do not go without a certain measure of compensation for our anxiety; as Foucault's discomfort was accompanied by laughter, so there is no shortage of readerly pleasure in "Funes". There is his name, with its faint suggestion of somebody wiping away a tear; and we cannot deny the pathos (nor Borges' tenderness for his subject) in the description of Funes, restless, exhausted, wide awake, turning towards the part of town he doesn't know, or "imagin[ing] himself at the bottom of a river, rocked (and negated) by the current," (p.137) in order to get some rest from the incessant and senseless din of total memory.
II. Memory and Identity
At 84, Borges published another story that deals with the theme of memory-this time the treatment is slightly more serious, our unease a little less contained. In "Shakespeare's Memory", we see the ultimate ripening of Borges' prose; those clipped sentences and pruned paragraphs, which once felt as if they sprung from a well of mastery and wit, now seem to be aimless, almost confused, as if etched out of a deep-seated and all-devouring longing.
The story follows Hermann SØrgel, a lifelong Shakespearian scholar, who is offered the inheritance of Shakespeare's memory. The reader, along with SØrgel, must bear in mind what is being invoked. This is the four-hundred year old memory of a man many people consider to be the most brilliant in the world; the reader's inclination is to consider it a treasure of inconceivable value. This is our first mistake, or at least, it might be.
Hermann's immediate reaction to this strange offer is frustratingly blank: "It was as though I had been offered the ocean." (p.510) This is brilliant syntactical composition; not only does it mean nothing, (how are we to think it would feel if we were offered the ocean?), it simultaneously invokes infinite fluidity, giving the reader some premonition of anxiety. Upon the verbal acceptance, "something happened; there is no doubt of that. But I did not feel it happen. Perhaps just a slight sense of fatigue, perhaps imaginary." (p.511) This is strange for two reasons: first of all, it confounds any grandiose expectations we may have had regarding the magic of the transference; what is perhaps stranger, though, is the multiplication of bodies at play. There are several perspectives behind this paradoxical passage: an objective one, for whom "there is no doubt" that something happened; a subjective one, who did not feel it; and an imaginary self, the projection of "perhaps just a slight sense of fatigue". This muddle of identities will continue throughout the story, confounding narrative fixity, and lending the story a profound restlessness.
Possession of Shakespeare's memory is at first mundane; Hermann, who had thought that he would "in some way, be Shakespeare", remembers only old English pronunciations, dreams of the Bard's next door neighbor. He publishes an explication of a sonnet, having "forgotten that Samuel Butler had advanced that same thesis in 1899" (p.512); his visit to Stratford-on-Avon is, "predictably enough, sterile."(SM, p.512) This banality is slightly comical. Perhaps, like Hermann, we thought that he would become Shakespeare; or perhaps the discrepancy between the wonder of the proposition and the distinctly quotidian nature of these results is so great we cannot help but chuckle, although not without some of Foucault's uneasiness.
From here on in the reader enters strange, (or, more accurately, even stranger), territory. Hermann's feelings about possessing "the other man's" memory become harder to make out. On the one hand we are told: "For one curiously happy week, I almost believed myself Shakespeare. His work renewed itself for me."(SM, p.513) Two paragraphs later we are told: "Shakespeare's memory was able to reveal to me only the cicrumstances of the man Shakespeare. Clearly, these circumstances do not constitute the unique circumstances of the poet; what matters is the literature the poet produced with that frail material."(SM, p.513, my italics) Oddly enough though, the most intriguing thing said about possessing Shakespeare's memory is also the most completely ambiguous, the most absurdly offhand: "I knew states of happiness and darkness that transcend common human experience."(SM, p.513) The barren words and bare composition of this sentence are genius; calling attention to the discrepency between the words and all they might imply, this one-sentence paragraph conveys a weary resignation to the hopeless inadequacy of language to represent experience. (It may also be interesting to note that Shakespeare managed to put "happiness and darkness that transcend common human experience" into words quite well; this leads us nowhere in particular).
Abruptly, any enchantment Hermann might have been under disappears, and possession of the memory now becomes sinister: "I noted with some nervousness that I was gradually forgetting the language of my parents. Since personal identity is based on memory, I feared for my sanity."(SM, p.514) He wishes to reclaim himself, and verbally bestows the memory upon a total stranger, over the phone. If we feel that there is something hidden underneath Hermann's incoherent telling of the story, (he tells us himself, "I do not know how to tell a story,") it is at this point that we are given what may be a clue.
After hanging up the receiver, he repeats the words "Simply the thing I am shall make me live."(SM, p.515) Sylvia Molloy writes about Borges' use of this same Shakespeare quote in his "History of the Echoes of a Name": "Shakespeare's untruthful French soldier in All's Well That Ends succeeds perhaps… in obliquely naming himself and acheiving ephemeral being. Parolles continues to be and to speak through an imposture that he knows to be false, yet that imposture keeps him going: 'Captain I shall be no more;/ But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft/ As captain shall: simply the thing I am shall make me live.' From that tenuous substance, of whose deceptive nature he is well aware, Parolles… draws his self." (p.129) Somewhere between the realization that "a man's memory is not a summation; it is a chaos of vague possibilities", and the understanding that "personal identity is based on memory", Hermann glimpses that vortex of meaning conjured up by Foucault. In repeating Parolles' words, he resigns himself to continuing to live "through an imposture he knows to be false", but that will "keep him going".
There are also echoes here of Borges' achingly beautiful piece on Shakespeare, "Everything and Nothing" , which starts out by saying, "there was no one inside him", and goes on to tell how he "trained himself to the habit of feigning that he was somebody, so that his 'nobodiness' might not be discovered," and, "became an actor, that person who stands upon a stage and plays at being another person." Borges finally says, paradoxically, "No one was as many men as that man." In inheriting the memory of someone who simultaneously had 'no one inside him' and everyone inside him, in glimpsing a space where these two things mean the same, Hermann himself is annihilated.
The final thing to note about this story is that this annihilation is permanent. Whereas Molloy reads a kind of ironic glee into Parolles' words, these same words in the mouth of Hermann echo more like the quiet hysteria of devastation, the desparate attempt to pull himself back together; in the psychic panic induced by the vision of his own nothingness, Hermann fails to understand that this is impossible. Throughout the telling of the story, he lapses twice into 'the language of his parents', the forgetting of which had caused him to fear for his sanity, and the use of which now suggests that he is assuring himself of his identity. And there is the fact that he has "forgotten the date on which [he] decided to free [himself]"; in a story so thoroughly about memory, we cannot help but think this is odd, that it is somehow crying out for a Freudian interpretation, even though we understand that, in the realm of Shakespeare's Memory, Freud is little more than an absurdity. Finally, it is the tone of the story, with its unsettling hints of elegiac disembodiment, that signals Hermann's failure to fully recover from his experience; it is this same tone that conveys to the reader, in its intricate meaninglessness, a horror quite similar to that of Hermann's.
III. The 'False Imposture'
It is impossible to attempt a study of Borges without feeling an initial moment's shame at the undertaking; after all, 'understanding' is imposing order on chaos to produce meaning, and in dealing with Borges, we are dealing with a literary anarchist whose one burning subject was the absurdity, (and fragility) of order. And yet, as readers in crisis, (confronted with a text we don't know how to read), we must look to the author himself, and read as he wrote; Molloy notes that Borges, much like Parolles, writes out of "an imposture that he knows to be false, yet that…keeps him going." Writing about memory in the way he did was one more way of undermining our methods of reading-in so doing, he forces us to question the way we construe ourselves and our world.
The Gospel According to Mark: An Exploration of the Darker Domains of the Primitive Mind
May 2, 2019 by Essay Writer
The Gospel according to Mark written by Jorge Borges is a brilliant short story that captures the attention of the reader through the craft of tight narration leading to a shocking climatic action. The suddenness of the climax stuns the reader for some time, but when he or she turns to pick up the clues strewn all over the plot, feels compelled to appreciate the primitive world created by the author through the use of few connected, seemingly ordinary events; a world in which the unexpected slaughter of Balthasar Espinosa, a very likable young man, seems perfectly explainable. At the end, the author is capable of delighting the reader by throwing light to the mysterious hidden realms of the primitive psyche.
Let us jump into the most important question that the story creates in the mind of the reader. What provokes the Gutre family to sacrifice Balthasar at the end of the story? The intentions of the Gutres are not very clear, as they are not much expressive. The mystery surrounding the archaic world in the ranch is amplified by the fact that there is very little communication happening between the Gutres and Balthasar. But when the Gutres speak, they end up giving vital clues that will help the reader decode their thought process behind the final gruesome act. The reader realizes that the seemingly innocent question regarding the salvation of the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus is a very loaded one. Not only the conversation but also the behavior exhibited by the family indicates that they operate from a very archaic worldview. Their sudden interest in the Gospel, their response to the treatment provided by Balthasar to their sheep, their silent following of Balthasar everywhere – all these point to the arousal of a mythical and quasi-religious mindset.
The world surrounding them, too, seems archaic and adds to the spontaneity of the horror and superstition contained in the plot. The mysterious possibilities of a farm separated from the outside world by rain and flood effectively pave way for something as gruesome as this. Some of those symbols of persistent storm and flood remind us of Noah's ark in the Bible. The Gutre's inability to communicate takes us back to the old Biblical myth of the tower of Babel. Journey to La Colarada appears like travelling back to the primitive world. The vulnerability of a charmingly careless and lazy Balthazar is complete with the total lack of modernism in the ranch.
Another element that adds to the primitive nature of the world in the ranch and thereby the suitability of an intense ritual like human sacrifice is the obvious parallelism between Jesus and Balthasar. He is 33, the age at which Jesus was killed. The medical student with a beard preaching to a group of intense listeners remind us immediately of Jesus the healer and teacher. His unlimited compassion is another obvious parallel. The event of the healing of the sheep nailed the final bit that helped the Gutres decide conclusively that Balthasar is another Christ. So they crucified him to take things to the most logical conclusion that a primitive mindset can arrive at and thereby to achieve their own salvation.
What's the significance of the sexual encounter between Balthasar and the Gutre girl? The girl who voluntarily entered Balthasar's room for sexual union, at no stage, exhibit any expression of romantic affection or sexual attraction. What she does in the bed too seems like a ritual. It resonates with the tradition of fattening the calf that has to be given in sacrifice. In the similar vein, it may be understood as part of the extraordinary care and respect meted out to Balthasar by the Gutres until crucifying him. So, though, it is extraneous to the biblical narrative, the episode rhymes well with the overall worldview exhibited by the Gutres.
The narrative elements mentioned above helps the author to create a world where strong undercurrents of notion of salvation through sacrifice seem totally plausible. The horror unleashed by the sharing of the Gospel message, merely intended to kill time, is a chilling reminder of the role being played by the eternal religious myths in the minds of people especially those who are not much exposed to a modern way of living. It reminds us of the unexplored territories of the human psyche that still continue to determine and shape our personal as well as social living. By placing an eternal religious myth over a real-life situation, the author invites us to see how limited is our knowledge regarding the hidden depths of our own minds.
A Comparison and Contrast Study: Poe's and Borges' Labyrinths
March 28, 2019 by Essay Writer
A labyrinth, on the surface, can be described as "a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys" (Merriam-Webster), but it can also be characterized as "something extremely complex or tortuous" (Merriam-Webster). Both Poe and Borges intertwine labyrinths into their works, for example, Poe focuses on the more nonphysical representation of a labyrinth whereas Borges chooses to represent the labyrinth as a physical maze. The reader must pay close attention to the architectures of both variations – a detail that reveals how each labyrinth is different or similar. Labyrinths take on different interpretations and forms based on those who spawn them, but it is apparent similarities in the structure and entrapment of those within.
The major differences between the two authors' short stories is evident in how the labyrinths were presented. For example, Poe's labyrinth is present throughout the short story, while Borges' labyrinth only appears at the end of Lonnröt's investigation. Poe's interpretation in "The Purloined Letter" involves a labyrinth based on ignorance keeping the trapped from progressing, alternatively Borges' interpretation in "Death and the Compass" ostensibly consists of a labyrinth that depicts being one step behind. To compare both authors' labyrinths it is important to firstly identify the differences that make them unique. In Poe's "The Purloined Letter," the labyrinth is present as an entrapment that must be overcome by M. Dupin. The Prefect and Dupin are initially stuck in the search for the missing letter because of his ignorance of Minister D_______'s methods. According to the text this causes much embarrassment for the Prefect because he searches places where the letter could be hidden and doesn't account for things in plain sight. The labyrinth can represent a maze or rhizome that traps its characters because they are unaware of the right path to take, causing numerous trials which result in dead ends and endless paths. Poe's labyrinth represents being "…trapped by microscopes and measurements, fixites, and definites" (Pops 94), almost like the random twist and turns of a maze. However, it only traps those who are uneducated of the complexities that it possesses and those who are educated, Dupin, can escape it. Unbeknownst to him, the Prefect leads himself down an elongated maze by searching through every nook and cranny and even "…the jointings of every description of furniture" (Poe 212), reflecting the paths in a maze constructed with no outlets. Understanding the labyrinth of ignorance and the unknown is evident in how one would escape, according to Dupin he had to have "…an identification of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent" (Poe 215). Dupin, in order to solve the case, had to not think like a detective searching for clues instead he had to 'reason' with the thief. The Prefect's shortcomings were present in his lack of the necessary characteristics to find the letter such as the ability to be creative. Alternatively, Dupin through his imagination was able to discover the letter as not being hidden and that it was among a rack of hanging pasteboards.
In Borges' "Death and the Compass," the labyrinth depiction takes on the physical representation by trapping Lonnröt along a straight causing him to be one step behind Red Scharlach at all times. Unlike Dupin in Poe's work, Lonnröt doesn't learn that he is being trapped until it is already too late. Throughout the short story he examined the relationship of the points at which the murders occurred, firstly discovering that the points were "…in fact equidistant" and "…symmetrical in time" (Borges 82). Moreover, the labyrinth was designed to be like the straight line from the Greek culture; Scharlach assumed a detective would be lost along the line just as many have in the past. Furthermore, the simplicity of the labyrinth leads to the idea that Lonnröt lacks the intelligence that Scharlach possesses, which causing him to always fall behind. Similar to the previous pathways I feel like it should be noted that the labyrinth is warranted to be participated in.
Although "The Purloined Letter" and "Death and the Compass" are two separate short stories by two different authors, both have likenesses and differences in the labyrinths that each possess. Both labyrinths puzzle the main protagonist initially whether it be due to misunderstandings or because of a misinterpretation of key elements. For example, in "The Purloined Letter" the Prefect misunderstood how to go about finding the lost letter which left him bewildered about its whereabouts since the Minister had "…his person searched rigidly under…" the Prefect's "…inspection" (Poe 211). In addition, in "Death and the Compass" Lonnröt is caught up trying to discover how all the murders are connected and ultimately thinking he was "…on point of solving the mystery" (Borges 83), but he fails to realize that the fourth and final murder is himself; "…Erik Lonnröt" (Borges 84). Again, both short stories reflect the entrapment inside labyrinths one depicting a physical, ever looping, imprisonment and the other a mind prison. However, where the two stories differ is how the characters come about escaping the said labyrinths. It is important for the reader to notice that in "Death and the Compass" that Lonnröt's rival, Red Scharlach, is the constructor of the labyrinth thus making escape implausible. Whereas, the escape from the whirlwind of "…microscopes and measurements…" (Pops 94) in "The Purloined Letter" is feasible with reasoning.
Overall, it may be said that Poe and Borges' interpretations of labyrinths may be completely different. However, similarities are present in the introduction of them into the short stories. Furthermore, the characters are completely opposites in the way they approach escaping their respective labyrinths. A labyrinth of the mind is not similar to a physical labyrinth, the characters experience different circumstances which makes one easier than the other to escape. In addition, Poe and Borges' do an incredible job at tying their labyrinths into their specific stories; the labyrinths are not just randomly placed entities included into the text, they are specific as only the right labyrinth connects to the story at hand. Ostensibly, both authors have varying ideals in their construction. Poe relies on the psychological aspect of it as the characters trapped don't see the limits or bearings of the maze leading to the unraveling of oneself. However, Borges chooses the physical aspects and he also plays with the idea that life exists beyond death causing an eternal loop.
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Skylar Thompson 'More Than Likely' to Play in Texas Bowl
By Bryan Clinton
It sounds like Kansas State is getting a big boost heading into their Texas Bowl Matchup with LSU. Starting quarterback Skylar Thompson, who was injured during the Baylor game, is set to return in the bowl game, according to Chris Kleiman during his press conference on Tuesday.
The addition of Thompson makes Kansas State a much better football team and could be the deciding factor in the Texas Bowl. LSU, who has some quarterback issues of their own, certainly would rather have the less experienced Will Howard under center if they could choose who to face.
Thompson has completed nearly 69% percent of his passes this season and has a 9/4 touchdown-interception ratio. He has also added four scores on the ground for the Wildcats in 2021 and is a threat running the ball when healthy.
The Texas Bowl, Thompson's last game, will be played on Tuesday, January 4th, at 7:00 p.m. CT. When the game is over and the off-season officially begins, the Adrian Martinez era will ensue.
Martinez, a four-year starter at Nebraska, announced last Thursday that he would transfer to K-State for the 2022 season.
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A NARROW ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
Among the persons brought to the Court of General Sessions yesterday was Joseph Slavin, a laborer, of No. 303 West Thirty-third street, charged with stealing a pocket handkerchief and $1 piece from the person of Michael Coleman, of No. 341 West Forty-first street, while the latter lay asleep on a stoop in Eighth avenue. As is the custom with prisoners, Slavin entreated one of the subordinate officers of the court to intercede with the District attorney, so that a minor plea might be accepted, stating that he was guilty provided his punishment did not exceed two years imprisonment. Shortly afterward the Grand Jury entered court and presented, among others, a dismissal in the case of Slavin, there being doubt in their minds on the testimony. When Slavin subsequently was called up, it was not, as he expected, to plead, but to be discharged. His surprise and delight on hearing from Judge Gildersleeve the words, "You can go," can be better imagined than described. He was fairly wild with delight on his narrow escape from State Prison.
New York (New York) Times, August 8, 1878.