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Luda Kroitor is a salsa dancer from Australia. She is a five time world Salsa champion. She also won Australia's Dancing with the Stars twice.

Early life
Kroitor was born in Moldova. She moved to Australia at ten years old. At ten years old, she partnered with dancer Oliver Pineda.

Career
Kroitor is the former five time world Salsa champion with dance partner Oliver Pineda. She is known for her role as dance instructor on Dancing with the Stars. She rose to fame after winning Dancing with the Stars series 8, with her partner Luke Jacobz, who was an actor on Home and Away and McLeod's Daughters. She also won while partnered with singer Johnny Ruffo, in series 12.

Kroitor also choreographed for Australia's So You Think You Can Dance.

Personal life
In 2012, Kroitor became engaged to Matt Wilson. The couple had a daughter together in 2014.

See also
 Emanuel School, Australia

References

Australian ballroom dancers
Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series) winners
Living people
Australian female dancers
Salsa dancers
Year of birth missing (living people)


Sony's mid-range device, the Xperia Z, was released in 2013 running Android 4.1.2 JellyBean. As part of Sony's Xperia Z line, the device has gotten a lot of updates to Android 4.2.2, 4.3 JellyBean and Android 4.4 KitKat and Android 5.0.2 Lollipop.
The latest update that has been rolled out for the Xperia Z is to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.
If you've updated your Xperia Z, you might have noticed you've lost root access on your device. The system is now not directly root-able but don't worry, we've found a method.
In this guide, we're going to show you how to root & install TWRP/CWM recovery on your Xperia Z C5503, C5502 running latest Android 5.1.1 Lollipop 10.7.A.0.222 firmware.
If you have updated your Xperia Z to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, you need to downgrade it to KitKat OS and Root it.
Connect the phone to a PC with an OEM date cable and run install.bat.
Custom recovery should install now and when it's through we can move to the next step.
Copy the pre-rooted firmware to phone's internal storage.
Turn the tablet on again and press volume up or down repeatedly. This will cause it to enter custom recovery.
b. For CWM – select Install zip>Choose Zip from SD card. Find the pre-rooted firmware.zip and then select yes to flash it.
Have you installed a custom recovery and rooted you Xperia Tablet Z?


Based from Worcester City Centre this is generalist Senior HR Advisor role, working in a small team delivering all things HR. You will be partnering with stakeholders across the business at all levels and will be expected to travel to other sites once a week to promote HR and provide visibility across the organisation.
* Be confident supporting on all areas of generalist HR activity including recruitment and training.
We are looking for individuals with the capability to operate effectively at all levels including senior management.
Salary: £36-38k + benefits. 6 month FTC. Immediate Start.


Bose: Dead/Alive is an Indian historical period drama web series, based on the life of Subhas Chandra Bose. The show stars Rajkummar Rao, portraying the character of Bose and Naveen Kasturia in a supporting role.
Bose:Dead or alive is a web series concieved by Ekta Kapoor on her digital platform, Alt Balaji. It stars Rajkumar Rao, Naveen Kasturia and others.


Tim and I went to Marley's again this visit to the Dells. Again, we went before any type of rush for an early lunch so that we could get back to water parks. We might have been the only people eating at that time, in fact.
First, we started with an appetizer of crab dip. It was served cold with a few veggies and some toasted bread. I liked it, but Tim insists it was imitation crab. I liked it because it was spicy without having a ton of mayo or whatever to keep the dip together. Tasty.
I went with a cheeseburger with the seasoned fries. The burger was almost like what my mom would make at home. It came with lettuce, tomato and red onion. The portion was huge too. The fries were smokey and spicy but still good with ketchup.
Tim got the special of the day, which was a chicken Parmesan sandwich. Again, the portions were huge. It was a shredded chicken breast topped with marinara sauce and provolone. I gave it a try and the sauce was a bit bland but the chicken was moist and the cheese plentiful, so I let it slide. It was served on a toasted hoagie bun which was crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
We didn't opt for dessert this time because there was just so much food. Another great visit to Marley's.
The portion sizes look HUGE, but the burger looks soooo tasty. I always notice portion sizes when I visit the States. I'm not sure if it was like that when I was growing up and just don't remember it or if they have gotten larger.
I miss my burgers! can't get good ones here at the moment!
That burger looks so delicious! Thanks for visiting me and commenting.


Just write in the মতামত below and tell what আপনি think about this story.
But is this story really true অথবা is it just a crazy rumor???
Well they're not married and they don't have rings on their fingers but we shall find out whether they'll have a baby অথবা not.
Well let me tell আপনি who ব্যক্ত this isn't real.
Well a Twitter user ব্যক্ত it's not real and maybe she's right অথবা not,who knows.
And some YouTubers who মতামত প্রদত্ত about this also ব্যক্ত that this is fake.And one ব্যক্ত that Briana deleted her account on Twitter.
Ok well post your মতামত and tell whether this whole story is fake অথবা real.
Guys, Louis has made us proud once again দ্বারা doing a very sensible thing, something he believes in and something that is close to his heart.
He has launched HIS OWN RECORD LABEL with the full backing of Sony! Like a junior Simon Cowell. How awesome is that! And he is doing this while juggling his One Direction duties লেখা their new album, his tour commitments, playing football and getting involved in charity. He is amazing!
One Direction member Louis Tomlinson is beyond angry about a newspaper story printed দ্বারা The Mirror. In the story it is alleged that Louis' mom Johannah started dating her fiance Daniel Deakin after she was a midwife who witnessed the stillbirth of his child with his ex-wife Elaine. The newspaper is claiming that Johannah "stole" Daniel from his ex-wife, and has উদ্ধৃতি from Elaine collaborating on the story.
I am appalled দ্বারা what The Mirror has done to my family. It's disgusting and immoral. As long as I am in One Direction we won't be working with the mirror.
Yikes! We'll keep আপনি posted.
P.S. Louis just signed a deal to become a ফুটবল star!
However, I can't help thinking that the অনুরাগী - who will be majority male - would be entirely happy with this.
I can't imagine that football অনুরাগী will be happy to hear thousands of girls screaming every time he touch the ball; It is the last thing they will want. So sadly for him I fear he won't be playing in many games.
Louis Tomlinson দিন | Help !!!
1. Wear Louis' kind of clothes অথবা something that shows আপনি প্রণয় Louis.
3. Talk in a British accent whenever আপনি have to talk English (in case আপনি don't speak English normally).
4. Try to get #HappyLouisTomlinsonDay, #WeLoveYouLouis, #LouisWeLoveYou and #LouisTomlinsonIsAwsome trending on Twitter, to প্রদর্শনী him that we REALLY care.
Tryin' to be ok. Tryin' to be alright. But seein' আপনি with him just don't feel right.
And I'm like OW! Never thought it hurt so bad gettin' over you-o. And OW! Your givin' me a হৃদয় attack lookin' like আপনি do-o. 'Cause you're all I ever wanted thought আপনি would be the one. It's OW! Givin' me a হৃদয় attack. Gettin' over you-o-o-o.
Baby now that you're gone I can't stand dumb প্রণয় songs missin' আপনি is all i'm thinkin' about. Yeah.
Every one's tellin' me i'm just too blind to see how আপনি mess me i'm better off now. yeah.
I'm tryin' to be ok. I'm tryin' to be alright. But seein' আপনি with him just don't feel right.
And i'm like OW! Never though it hurt so bad. Gettin' over you-o. And OW! You're givin me a হৃদয় attack lookin' like আপনি do-o. 'Cause you're all I ever wanted thought আপনি would be the one. It's OW givin me a হৃদয় attack gettin over yooooooooooooo-o-ou.
My cell phone rang and that's when i noticed Louis changed my ringtone, to him গান গাওয়া wonder wall. "Louis" i laughed. the phone rang আরো and i answered it. "Hello?" i asked. "Hey Jessie, it's your father" my dad said. "What is it dad" i sighed. i hated my dad, after what he did to mom, no one could forgive him. "I wanted to know if this summer আপনি and your sister wanted to come to the U.S to see your dad" he asked. "No! If i were made to come, i'd only come with my friend Louis, and he won't come" I said. "Jessie?" Amie asked walking in. "Hold on dad, what is it Amie" I said. "Louis is here" she said. "Okay, send Louis up please" I ব্যক্ত while Amie walked out. "Let me talk to this....Louis" my father said. "Fine" i sighed while Louis walked in. "Here" i ব্যক্ত throwing the phone to Louis. "Who is it?" Louis asked putting it on speaker phone. "My dad" I ব্যক্ত rolling my eyes.
I woke up my hair a mess, listening to "Rock me" on the radio. "Jessie, আপনি silly girl come on we'll be late" My sister came in fully dressed with her bag hanging from her left shoulder. "Crap" I cried out jumping out of বিছানা and picking যেভাবে খুশী clothes. "so, আপনি have the radio on, but not your bloody alarm" My sister Amie ব্যক্ত rolling her eyes. "I'm sorry" I ব্যক্ত pulling up my skinny jeans. "No time for sorry's if we don't go soon Hall ক্রুশ isn't going to let us in. "Got it" i ব্যক্ত throwing my hands in the air when i buttoned my jeans. "Good for you, now let's go my sister ব্যক্ত tiredly. I grabbed my bag and ran behind my sister. "Bye mom, প্রণয় you" i shouted to my mother running out of the house. "Close the door" she shouted back. To bad i forgot to though. My sister and i ran about half a mile to get to school and the doors we locked right as we got on to school property. "Ugh, see what আপনি did" My sister yelled at my slamming the ball of her hand to the glass doors. "I'm sorry" i yelled back. "Sorry isn't good enough" My sister yelled back. "Just leave me alone" i yelled dropping my bag and running to the water ফোয়ারা in a small park we had on campus.
17: How have আপনি changed since becoming famous?
17: What's the most embarrassing thing that has happened to আপনি since One Direction hit it big?
LT: One time Harry and I were স্কিইং together when a girl and a guy came up with a camera. We assumed they were going to ask us for a photo, so we stood there with our arms around each other, posing. They said, ''No, we want আপনি to take a ছবি of us!'' It was embarrassing!
Louis Tomlinson's তারকা sign is Capricorn,same as Zayn Malik.
She's still getting used to the fact that Louis, her eldest child, is now officially a chart-topping pop তারকা and teen heart-throb.
In the last year, since the band the X Factor created in 2010 soared to the crest of a hysteria and hormone-driven tsunami, she and her four daughters have had to get used to a heck of a lot. Like seeing Louis' face plastered all over pencil cases and school bags. And waking up to find 100 love-struck girls sitting on the front lawn of their প্রথমপাতা in Bessecarr.
"The boys have a good অনুরাগী base," she says, giggling when she realises how mildly she has put it. সঙ্গীতানুষ্ঠান dates for Sheffield, and every other তারিখ on this, their first ever tour, sold out within minutes. Girls camped out on the streets to be first in the ticket queues.
On a date, he would wear his purple chinos and a polo অথবা T-Shirt and a cardigan.
Our One Direction boys have been far far away in America working on their album. We miss them. We want to see their faces again but we know it's very important for them to focus on their সঙ্গীত right now.
From everything they've been tweeting it's clear to see they've been working very hard, but as usual, it also sounds like they've been up to lots of যেভাবে খুশী stuff including hanging out with Perez Hilton, Chad Michael Murray and rubber chickens?
Hey! I am Kate and the creator of this অনুরাগী page!
My ফ্যানপপ name is LouTomlinsonFan and I would like to treat this as a fan-site আরো then a অনুরাগী Page so what I would like to say is that if আপনি do not post anything other then asks,so I can সম্পাদনা the site in a fan-site way other then a club!
I will update this page with all the latest Louis news, নবীকৃত তথ্য and gossip! Whcih will include pictures, চলচ্ছবি and polls!
IF One Direction তারকা Louis Tomlinson wanted a quiet break in Jersey yesterday (TUE) he would have been sadly disappointed.
Fortunately the 19-year-old seemed perfectly at ease surrounded দ্বারা excited অনুরাগী when he was spotted sunbathing on St Brelade's সৈকত and then eating a pizza.
PJ's, PANTS অথবা NOTHING IN BED: it depends on the temperateture. if it's nice and hot, i will happily sleep naked, but if it's a bit chilly then pyjama bottoms, but im all for sleeping naked!
WHAT MOBILE PHONE DO আপনি HAVE: i have a iphone 4 and a blackberry.
WHAT DO আপনি CUDDLE UP TO AT NIGHT: my pillow- all my teddies passed away a few years ago!


Just who is UkuleleMom? What am I all about? Well, first and foremost, I am a mom. I'm also married to the greatest human on the planet, who as luck would have it, happens to be my babies' father. And by babies, I mean my 15 year old teenager who is scared to death I will embarrass him by writing this blog and my 13 year old daughter who happens to have Down Syndrome and a sweet but sassy attitude. I cannot tell you how much I love my family. They are my earth, my wind, my sky; my entire world. I also love all things Hawaiian. And when I say 'all things', I mean, ALL THE THINGS that are Hawaiian. The trees, the lava, the ocean, the honus (that's sea turtle, to you mainland folk), the food, the waterfalls, the dolphins, the music, the language, the air, the valleys, the traditions, the spirit, the locals, the ukuleles, the spam… ok, maybe not the spam. But you get the idea.
Raising my kids in Texas while longing to live in Hawaii has required that I get creative in trying to live the aloha spirit everyday. I started playing the ukulele last year when I found that listening to Hawaiian music and eating lilikoi jam everyday just wasn't enough. You can't help but be happy when you're playing the ukulele so I try to play everyday. On the days that I can't, I just have to spend some time with my 'ohana ('family') and that usually does the trick. Usually.
I mostly write this blog for me, to be honest. And for my family. I want us to be able to remember all the little details about these awesome trips that we are so fortunate to take. But this blog can also be for anyone else that wants to get more ALOHA out of life. While there will be lots of talk about Hawaii (of course!) I think I might want to also explore other topics like gratitude, friendship, nature, peacefulness, love, special needs, beauty, o'hana, and of course, music!
ALOHA and MAHALO for joining me on this journey!
My first ukulele… hopefully not my last. For anyone that is interested, it's a Kanile'a K-1 Concert Satin Finish with a Koa wood body.


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La Adela est une petite ville de l'extrême sud-est de la province de La Pampa, en Argentine. Elle est le chef-lieu du département de Caleu Caleu.

Situation

La ville se trouve à 280 km de la capitale de la province, Santa Rosa, par la route nationale 154.

Elle est reliée au port de Bahía Blanca, situé à 178 km, par la route nationale 22. Cette route mène aussi directement vers l'ouest à la Haute Vallée du Río Negro, à Bariloche, et à toute la région neuquine des grands lacs andins.
La ville se trouve sur la rive gauche du río Colorado, qui fait frontière avec la province voisine de Río Negro.

La Adela forme une conurbation avec la ville rionégrine de Río Colorado, sise de l'autre côté du fleuve.

Population

La localité comptait  habitants en 2001, ce qui représentait une hausse de 32,8 % par rapport aux  habitants de 1991. Ensemble avec la ville de Río Colorado, l'agglomération atteignait  habitants.

Liens externes
 Site provincial
 Site concernant l'entité La Adela-Río Colorado
 Carte détaillée de la province de La Pampa

Ville dans la province de La Pampa

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Judge Orders Pentagon To Stop Discriminating Against Naturalized Citizen Soldiers A federal judge says the Pentagon has provided no justification for profiling immigrant recruits who became U.S. citizens.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly ruled Thursday that the Pentagon may not require soldiers who are naturalized citizens to undergo "continuous monitoring," or security checks every two years, when such scrutiny is not applied to U.S.-born soldiers.
The plaintiffs sued the Pentagon, arguing that the requirements for continuous security checks, even after discharge if they worked as civilians for the government or government contractors, represented unconstitutional discrimination based on national origin.
Attorneys for the Pentagon argued that the ongoing security checks were necessary for national security. The attorneys said the security checks were not related to the soldiers' national origin, but to the manner under which they had enlisted in the U.S. Army -- through the MAVNI program.
Judge Zilly noted in his ruling that the "defendant's witnesses acknowledged that no MAVNI soldier who has become a naturalized citizen has ever been charged or convicted of espionage or any other criminal offense or been denaturalized."
In July 2018, the Pentagon began discharging immigrants recruited under the MAVNI program, only to reverse that policy a month later.


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Ypané é uma cidade do Paraguai, Departamento Central. Foi fundada em 23 de Março de 1538, e é conhecida como a "Cidade Histórica do Paraguai".

Etimologia
O nome original da cidade era "Pitum", expressão guarani que significa: "água medicinal". Hoje é chamada de "Ypané", termo proveniente do Rio Ypané, afluente do Rio Paraguai, que corta a cidade. "Y" significa água; "pa" água que flui e flui para dentro de um rio; "ne" é o cheiro de riachos e estales secas, durante a estação seca.

História
Anteriormente a fundação, havia uma concentração de nativos na região, que se dedicavam a atividades primárias, como caça. Sua fundação se deu através de uma redução franciscana estabelecida em 1538. No contexto da Guerra do Paraguai, no atual território de Ypané, foi travada a Batalha de Itororó, em 6 de dezembro de 1868. Hoje, há um monumento erguido em homenagem aos heróis paraguaios. Na região também ocorreu a Batalha de Abay, onde foi construído um busto de Francisco Solano López. Em 1911, a cidade de Ypané, foi transferida do território de Villa Real para o Departamento Central.

Geografia

Clima
O clima característico de Ypané é subtropical. A temperatura máxima no verão, atinge 39°C. As temperaturas mínimas no inverno chegam a 1°C; a média anual é de 22°C. O índice de precipitação é de 1433 mm por ano. O período com maior quantidade de precipitação é entre os meses de janeiro e abril, sendo o período de seca entre junho e agosto.

Demografia
A cidade tem um total de 54.717 habitantes, dos quais 27.479 são homens e 27.238 são mulheres, segundo projeções da Direção Geral de Estatística, Pesquisas e Censos para 2019. 34% da população é urbana e os restantes 66% vivem na zona rural. Apresenta uma taxa de crescimento anual de 3,61%.

Bairros

Economia
O setor primário se destaca na produção de arroz e algodão. A industria se destaca no setor têxtil.

Cultura

Na propriedade da Plaza San Pedro Apóstol, encontramos o "Centro Municipal de Atração Turística". Este local mantém pontos que remetem a história de Ypané, onde é possível observar a rota dos três riachos até a boca no rio Paraguai. Outro ponto turístico é o monumento do protetor dos namorados "Valentine", localizado no centro da Plaza San Pedro Apóstol.

Esportes
A cidade de Ypané possui um clube em uma das divisões do Campeonato Paraguaio de Futebol, o Club Atlético Tembetary

Transporte
O município de Ypané é servido pelas seguintes rodovias:
 Caminho em pavimento ligando a cidade ao município de Lambaré
 Caminho em pavimento ligando a cidade ao município de Capiatá
 Caminho em pavimento ligando a cidade ao município de Villa Elisa

Distritos do Departamento Central (Paraguai)


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Tag Archives: Ground Zero
Paul Simon – "Sounds of Silence" at Ground Zero
This one strikes me as symbolic of the mixed feelings about what has become of 911, and the way it has been used to justify war and atrocity by the Bush Administration – and even today is used in political advertisement.
This 1965 song was written after the JFK assassination. It is widely interpreted as a peon of the willingness of people to buy into false leaders, and false causes – and the failure to listen and communicate because it is easier to follow a leader than think.
I think the "false prophets" in this version are the Giuliani and Bushes who used the event so cynically for political purposes, in the case of Bush to lead us into another war, or the case of Carl Rove as another "wedge issue" to divide America.
This is the Ground Zero version –
This is the original Simon and Garfunkel version before an electronic background was added for the Album –
My favorite Paul Simon song?
Posted by btx3 on September 12, 2011 in Great American Rip-Off, Music, From Way Back When to Now
Tags: 9/11, 911 memorial, Ground Zero, Music, paul simon, performance, song, sounds of silence
Your House is on Ground Zero
Another excellent piece by Tim Wise. What Wise discusses is the fact that America has seen a lot of atrocities in our history – and whether those atrocities have been largely glossed over in a historical context, or remain a part of the national consciousness…
When those atrocities have involved the death or murder of peoples of color in America, there is no sense of sacredness.
One would hardly anticipate a rise out of the "protectors of the plastic flag" if WalMart decided to build a store at Wounded Knee or Rosewood, Florida.
So who's "cultural significance" are we talking about here who's "sacred ground"?
Wounded Knee Massacre
In all the rancor over whether or not one group of Muslims should be allowed to build a cultural center and worship space near the site of the 9/11 attacks — which were committed by a separate and totally unrelated group of Muslims –there is one thing above all else that no one appears anxious to point out: namely, that for any white Christian to say "Ground Zero" is off limits to anyone is possibly the most deliciously and yet grotesquely ironic thing ever suggested.
After all, there is scarcely a square foot of land upon which we tread that is not, for someone, Ground Zero. I am sitting atop one now: a killing field for Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek; a graveyard in which are buried the bones — and if no longer the bones, then surely the dust — of peoples whose evisceration occurred not so long ago, and is still remembered by those who have not the luxury of forgetting.
And so the New Yorkers who believe against all evidence that their trauma is unique in the history of the world — or even their city for that matter — prattle on about the "defiling" of the former World Trade Center location. Meanwhile they overlook that their precious island was itself cajoled from indigenous peoples for a handful of worthless beads. And white men have been swindling those we viewed as inferior — be they of color, or even other white men — ever since, especially (and this is where the geographic symbolism of their protests becomes revealing) in and around Wall Street, where the actions of wealthy investors and financiers have done far more damage than Osama Bin Laden ever could. Would that we might prohibit the construction of banks anywhere in New York so as to make a point about terrorism and our unwillingness to collaborate with it.
Indeed, if those protesting the Cordoba House were the least bit interested in consistency — as opposed to being content to wallow in a type of hypocrisy both profound and typical — they would, to a person, vacate downtown Manhattan immediately. And this they would do out of respect for the lives destroyed by people such as they: black peoples forced to build Fort Amsterdam for the Dutch, which is where Battery Park is now, or the walls that gave the famous street its name, or the roads, or the very auction blocks upon which their compatriots would be sold, thereby allowing 40 percent of white New York households to possess other human beings as property by the mid-1700s.
And they would vacate midtown too, especially any with Irish ancestry, since it was their ancestral fathers who – and so as to show how badly they desired to become white – burned down a black orphanage on 5th Avenue between 43rd and 44th during the 1863 Draft Riots. But I'm guessing there is an Irish Pub within walking distance of the former orphanage, and yet no one seems particularly concerned about the slight.
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Truth be told, that whole city is a Ground Zero, and has been for far longer than the existence of al-Qaeda, since long before those phallic monuments to architectural ingenuity and big business were constructed, and since long before there were any airplanes capable of bringing them down. It was Ground Zero for Amadou Diallo but we still allow police to operate in the vicinity of Wheeler Street in the Bronx. It was Ground Zero for Sean Bell but we haven't banned the NYPD from around the environs of the Kalua Cabaret in Queens, where they shot he and his friends 50 times in 2006. Neither have we seen too many New Yorkers losing sleep over the inherent insensitivity towards the respective Ground Zeros for Patrick Dorismond or Timothy Stansbury Jr., both of whom were felled by police bullets, and yet which spots have hardly been made off limits to law enforcement out of respect for the dead.
That many New Yorkers in 2010, and especially white ones — since there are few residents of the South Bronx or Washington Heights who are making their way downtown for these protests — cannot feel those other pains hardly acquits their arrogance. That they cannot see how their livelihoods, their homes, their bank accounts, and the clothes on their backs have been paid for with the blood of innocent people, is theirproblem. It is not the fault of those who would build Cordoba House, and in so doing disturb the hallowed ground of what has been, most recently, a Burlington Coat Factory.
Their houses, and mine, and yours, sit atop Ground Zero. And those who died to make it so gave no permission for the construction of the homes, to say nothing of the churches that for so long were instrumental in rationalizing the slaughter. There were no building permits issued by those who died here so that we could be, as we like to say, "free." But here we are nonetheless. And it takes some nerve to pretend, even as we sleep above the graves of those extirpated to make way for us, that 9/11 was the day everything changed. Or to believe that we have the right to tell anyone where they can and cannot live, pray or work. Or to suggest that we are the only ones who have ever died, or known terror, and that having done so we now have the right to draw a circle around us, a bubble of specialness, which can keep us warm and protected as though it were an amniotic sac inside of which we will forever be insulated from harm.
We wish to be free from the pain, which is understandable. But it is not acceptable that in seeking that freedom we should ignore the pain by which we have come this far already.
Posted by btx3 on September 8, 2010 in American Genocide, Domestic terrorism
Tags: Ground Zero, hatred, mosque, Racism, Rosewood, Sacred Ground, Tim Wise, Wounded Knee
Faux News Owned by "Radical Muslim"!
Jon Stewart points out that Faux News Corporation is owned by the very same "Radical Muslim" guy who is funding the "Ground Zero" Mosque…
And he's not a "Radical Muslim funding terrorist activities around the world"…
Unless you consider Faux News a "Terrorist Organization".
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Posted by btx3 on August 24, 2010 in Domestic terrorism, Faux News
Tags: American Taliban, Anti-American, Domestic terrorism, Faux News, Fox News, Ground Zero, Hate News, Msque, Ownership, terrorism
Black Conservative Develops Cajones
Damn – Juan Williams?
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Posted by btx3 on August 23, 2010 in Faux News
Tags: Faux News, Fox News Sunday, Ground Zero, juan williams, mosque, President Obama
Would The Real Americans Please Stand Up!
Is it just me, or some other folks out there getting tired of the ignoramuses and bigots stealing all of the oxygen out of the public discourse?
Nazi Book burning May 10, 1933 in Berlin - Not Much Different From the Bozos in Florida Calling Themselves Christian Who Want to Burn Korans
Real Americans, Please Stand Up
By DICK CAVETT
All this talk about the mosque reminds me of two things I heard growing up in Nebraska.
I had a 6th grade teacher who referred to American Indians as "sneaky redskins" and our enemies in the Pacific as "dirty Japs." This abated somewhat after I asked one day in class, "Mrs. G., do you think our parents would like to know that you teach race prejudice?" She faded three shades.
The rest of that year was difficult.
As a war kid, I also heard an uncle of mine endorse a sentiment attributed to our Admiral "Bull" Halsey: "If I met a pregnant Japanese woman, I'd kick her in the belly."
These are not proud moments in my heritage. But now, I'm genuinely ashamed of us. How sad this whole mosque business is. It doesn't take much, it seems, to lift the lid and let our home-grown racism and bigotry overflow. We have collectively taken a pratfall on a moral whoopee cushion.
Surely, few of the opponents of the Islamic cultural center would feel comfortable at the "International Burn a Koran Day" planned by a southern church-supported group (on a newscast, I think I might have even glimpsed a banner reading, "Bring the Whole Family," but maybe I was hallucinating). This all must have gone over big on Al Jazeera news.
I like to think I'm not easily shocked, but here I am, seeing the emotions of the masses running like a freight train over the right to freedom of religion — never mind the right of eminent domain and private property.
A heyday is being had by a posse of the cheesiest Republican politicos (Lazio, Palin, quick-change artist John McCain and, of course, the self-anointed St. Joan of 9/11, R. Giuliani). Balanced, of course by plenty of cheesy Democrats. And of course Rush L. dependably pollutes the atmosphere with his particular brand of airborne sludge.
Sad to see Mr. Reid's venerable knees buckle upon seeing the vilification heaped on Obama, and the resulting polls. (Not to suggest that this alone would cause the sudden 180-degree turn of a man of integrity facing re-election fears.)
I got invigorating jolts from the president's splendid speech — almost as good as Mayor Bloomberg's
— but I was dismayed, after the worst had poured out their passionate intensity, to see him shed a few vertebrae the next day and step back. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by btx3 on August 21, 2010 in Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks, The New Jim Crow
Tags: bigotry, Book burning, gate, Ground Zero, koran burning, mosque, nazi, Racism, un-american
California Interfaith Weighs In on Mosque Issue
A lie can run half way round the world before truth can get it's pants on…
We are now beginning to see the adult voices speak up.
California interfaith leaders to back ground zero Islamic center
A group of 60 interfaith leaders in California will come out Friday in favor of a controversial Islamic center near ground zero in New York City.
"Christian, Jewish, Mormon and Muslim leaders will address the rapidly expanding epidemic of Islamophobia across the nation — from Temecula to Tennessee to New York to Connecticut — which they view as a threat to religious freedom and rights of mosques, churches, and synagogues to exist," the group said in a statement.
The event will take place at the Islamic Center of Southern California at 9:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET).
The New York Islamic center's leaders say they plan to build the $100 million, 13-story facility called Park51 two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.
"We Americans, whether Muslim or Christian, whether Jew or Hindu, whether of faith or no faith, were all attacked on 9/11 by terrorists who can only be described as criminals," the text of the signed statement provided to CNN says. "We oppose the exploitation of the pain and suffering of 9/11 by political opportunists. They only divide our country and undermine the principles of pluralism, religious freedom, and security by fostering hate based on fear."
Developer Sharif El-Gamal describes the project as an "Islamic community center" that would include a 500-seat performing arts center, a lecture hall, a swimming pool, a gym, a culinary school, a restaurant and a prayer space for Muslims.
Some New Yorkers say an Islamic center two blocks from the site of a terror attack by Islamic extremists that killed more than 2,700 people is a painful affront, and a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released August 11 marked nationwide opposition to the proposed facility at 68 percent.
"The rhetoric against Muslim Americans — namely, that they are a suspect community, or worse, enemies of the state; their religion is uncivilized and anti-American; they are deceitful; and they aim to destroy our culture and our constitution — are replicas of attacks against other religious minorities in the past as well as current attacks against ethnic and racial minorities," the group says.
Posted by btx3 on August 20, 2010 in The Post-Racial Life
Tags: american principles, chritianity, Ground Zero, interfaith, Islam, Jewish, mosque, religion
Keith Ellison Explains It, The Way Obama Shoulda'
Screaming high level debate now about the right of a Muslim group to build a Mosque near Ground Zero in NYC. President Obama stepped in it Friday, with support for the Mosque being built – which has had every Republican and bigot (but I repeat myself) in the United States bouncing off the walls. In usual form, President Obama has failed to stand up, and clearly and unequivocally justify his support for allowing the Mosque to be built on American Principle.
Representative Keith Ellison (D), in a debate with Peter King of NY (R) lays out exactly why those who oppose the Mosque are contrary to our tradition and core American values of Religious Freedom, the words and beliefs of the Founding Fathers, and out Constitution.
Can we finally get some backbone here, President Obama?
Posted by btx3 on August 16, 2010 in Stupid Democrat Tricks
Tags: 9/11, CNN, Debate, Ground Zero, keith ellison, mosque, muslim, peter king
Sympathy for the Devil, the Victimization of Bigots at the "Ground Zero" Mosque
How do you tell when the right wing is losing an argument…
They get page time for a really vicious screed in the Wall Street Journal declaring their victim status.
The short version of this is that an Moslem group wishes to build a Mosque on property they own near the site of the WTC. There are a couple of reasons they want to do that –
There was a Mosque there already – prior to 911. Indeed, the reason they own the land in the first place is that there was a Mosque already there – which had to be demolished because the roof was caved in by part of one of the airplanes which hit the towers.
Second, the new building isn't actually only a Mosque. It's an Interfaith Center where all are welcome, and Movie Theater which will participate in the Tribeca Film Festival.
By most lists, at least 60 innocent Muslims were killed in the 911 attacks. Muslims, just like Jews and Christians, have a piece of this tragedy as well.
This one really doesn't add up to more than your typical right wing "ism". Hatred of everyone, and everything which isn't white, male, and preferably Protestant quasi-Christian. "Quasi-christian"? Yeah – as much hate as has been directed at black folks, Jewish Folks, and now Hispanic and Muslim folks, sanctified in the very same churches…
It's got nothing to do with anything in the Bible… Or Torah for that matter.
On with the "Victimization of Bigots!"
Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11
Americans may have lacked for much in the course of their history, but never instruction in social values. The question today is whether Americans of any era have ever confronted the bombardment of hectoring and sermonizing now directed at those whose views are deemed insufficiently enlightened—an offense regularly followed by accusations that the offenders have violated the most sacred principles of our democracy.
It doesn't take a lot to become the target of such a charge. There is no mistaking the beliefs on display in these accusations, most recently in regard to the mosque about to be erected 600 feet from Ground Zero. Which is that without the civilizing dictates of their superiors in government, ordinary Americans are lost to reason and decency. They are the kind of people who—as a recent presidential candidate put it—cling to their guns and their religion.
There is no better exemplar of that faith than New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, though in this he is hardly alone. Compared with the Obama White House, Mr. Bloomberg is a piker in the preachments and zealotry department. Still, no voice brings home more unforgettably the attitudes that speak for today's enlightened and progressive class.
Immediately after the suspect in the attempted car bombing near Times Square was revealed to be Faisal Shahzad, of Pakistani origin, Mayor Bloomberg addressed the public. In admonishing tones—a Bloomberg trademark invariably suggestive of a school principal who knows exactly what to expect of the incorrigibles it is his unhappy fate to oversee—the mayor delivered a warning. There would be no toleration of "any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers."
That there has been a conspicuous lack of any such behavior on the part of New Yorkers or Americans elsewhere from the 9/11 attacks to the present seems not to have impressed Mr. Bloomberg. Nor has it caused any moderation in the unvarying note of indignation the mayor brings to these warnings. It's reasonable to raise a proper caution. It's quite something else to do it as though addressing a suspect rabble.
It's hard to know the sort of rabble the mayor had in mind when he told a television interviewer, prior to Shahzad's identification, that it "could be anything," someone mentally disturbed, or "somebody with a political agenda who doesn't like the health-care bill." Nowhere in the range of colorful possibilities the mayor raised was there any mention of the most likely explanation—another terrorist attempt by a soldier of radical Islam, the one that occurred to virtually every American who had heard the reports.
The citizens were, of course, right. Those leaders bent on dissuading them from their grasp of the probable cause of this near disaster were left with their red herrings hanging—but remembered. Mr. Bloomberg's "someone who doesn't like the health-care bill" would be inscribed in the golden book of howlers these events have yielded, along with Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano's brisk assurance there was no evidence this was anything but "a one-off."
The notion that it is for the greater good that the people be led to suspect virtually any cause but the one they had the most reason to fear reflects a contempt for the citizenry that's of longstanding, but never so blatant as today. It is in the interest of higher values, Americans understand—higher, that is, than theirs—that they are now expected to accept official efforts to becloud reality.
Such values were the rationale for the official will to ignore the highly suspicious behavior of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who went on to murder 13 Americans at Fort Hood. A silence maintained despite all his commanders and colleagues knew about his raging hostility to the U.S. military and his strident advocacy on behalf of political Islam.
Those who knew—and they were many—chose silence out of fear of seeming insensitive to a Muslim. As one who had said nothing in the interest of this higher good later explained, Maj. Hasan was, after all, one of the few top-ranking Muslim officers the army had.
In the plan for an Islamic center and mosque some 15 stories high to be built near Ground Zero, the full force of politically correct piety is on display along with the usual unyielding assault on all dissenters. The project has aroused intense opposition from New Yorkers and Americans across the country. It has also elicited remarkable streams of oratory from New York's political leaders, including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
"What are we all about if not religious freedom?" a fiery Mr. Cuomo asked early in this drama. Mr. Cuomo, running for governor, has since had less to say…
Posted by btx3 on August 5, 2010 in Domestic terrorism
Tags: 9/11, bigotry, Ground Zero, Islam, mosque, muslim, New York, Racism, religion


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Nottingham Lakeside Arts continues its 2018 exhibition programme with a solo exhibition of works by Rana Begum as part of an adapted tour from Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at University of East Anglia. Rana Begum: Space Light Colour will be an exhibition of works from one of the most exciting young artists working today. The exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery runs from Saturday 7 July to Sunday 30 September 2018, admission is free.
Rana has already completed a number of remarkable public commissions including King's Cross Cubitt Square in 2016, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in 2017 and Tate St Ives this year. She is the recipient of the prestigious 2017 Abraaj Group Art Prize with her commission unveiled at Art Dubai on 14 March and is also taking part in an all-women group show at National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington.
Rana Begum's working practice has a transformative quality that engages with space, light and form, blurring the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her work has a great affinity to the built environment and uses repetitive geometric patterns found within Islamic art and urban architecture. She imposes order and structure through the use of prefabricated components and pre-formed industrial materials, but transformed by the application of colour. The array of sensations –be it intentional or unexpected– evoked by these chromatic choices can optically change dramatically as the viewer moves through the space.
Begum has produced for public commissions will also be on display, providing a remarkable insight into how her practice engages with ideas concerning community and place.
The exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery runs from Saturday 7 July to Sunday 30 September 2018. Admission is free.


My friend and I arrive late at our lodge in the Masai Mara, the most popular wildlife park in Kenya. We have never been on a safari before and can barely wait for the next morning to start our expedition. Our high heels left behind in New York, we head to the lodge's bar in hiking boots—quite the adventure already. At the bar, we chat with other tourists, the conversation revolving around the wild animals they have already seen. The most celebrated, we learn, are the Big Five: elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard.
Before sunrise the next morning, we climb into the basket of a bright red-and-yellow hot air balloon along with a few other tourists for our first Masai Mara safari experience. The pilot cranks up the flames and it lifts off the ground.
As the sky brightens with the morning light, I take my first view of the Mara—an endless expanse of yellow rolling grasslands, backed by the purple silhouette of the Esoit Oloololo Escarpent to the west and divided by the chocolate waters of the Mara River. We float silently over zebras, wildebeests, antelopes, and gazelles, grazing in columns or loose herds. I alternate between snapping shots of them and looking through the binoculars, searching for the Big Five in islands of acacia trees and bushes where they often hide.
For the rest of the day, we drive around the dirt roads of the park among countless herds of zebras and wildebeest. At the sound of our Land Rover, they stop grazing and twist their necks to look at us, but we stare past them into the distance, looking for more celebrated animals.
Late in the afternoon, our driver is radioed with the location of a pride of lions. He makes a U-turn and hurries to the site. About 10 other vans and Land Rovers surround two lionesses and five cubs. I zoom in with my camera and start snapping photos, trying to keep the other cars out of my frames. Within minutes our driver starts the engine again and we rush off down the road to where a cheetah has been spotted.
The morning of my last day in the Mara, I wake up with one thought in mind. I have to see a leopard. It's the only one of the Big Five I haven't seen. We spend the day driving under the scorching African sun, exploring places favored by leopards.
Toward the end of the afternoon, we see a large herd of elephants. I reach for my camera — but then I stop myself. I have plenty of elephant photos. I decide to watch them instead as they move in a slow procession through the brush, their ears flapping back and forth, their heavy feet crunching on the dry grass.
Over the past two days, I have filled two memory sticks with images but I haven't really seen much outside the lens of my camera.
As the sun dips lower toward the horizon, we stop by a large acacia tree in Ngama Hills to take in the view. Bellow us, the Mara is dotted with herds of zebras and gazelles. A bunch of wildebeests are grazing 30 feet away from us. A soft, warm wind rustles tree branches; the sky turns orange at the edges. The radio crackles; the driver exchanges some words in Swahili and starts up the engine.
I've seen four of the Big Five and I have scores of photos to prove it. But my favorite picture, the one I will take home—not in my camera but in my mind—is of the ungainly wildebeests in front of me, their long beards glowing golden in the sunset.
Wow! Masai Mara… Gorgeous – you never cease to amaze me where u get around to!
Thanks, Becca! That was a few years ago. I can't wait to go back to Africa!


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Sundance 2018: Keira Knightley Illuminates Lush Portrayal of French Literary Icon in Colette
In 2015, director Wash Westmoreland and his husband, Richard Glatzer, watched the Oscars from a hospital room at Cedars Sinai. Julianne Moore won Best Actress for her role in their film Still Alice. Glatzer passed away days later following a battle with ALS. The next project he wanted to pursue was Colette, and Westmoreland honored Glatzer's wishes this week at Sundance.
Westmoreland, who won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and Grand Jury prize at Sundance in 2006, said it took 16 years to bring Colette to the screen. The first draft, written by Glatzer, poured out in a matter of days. Westmoreland said that after a trip to France for research, the film went through three title changes and "a couple of false starts." This stunning piece about a brave woman who fought for her rights, and won, was well worth the wait.
Keira Knightley beautifully embodied the fierce French writer who broke boundaries for women at the turn of the 20th century. Finding her voice through her pen, Colette's character Claudine became a national sensation, but the writings were attributed to her husband. Dominic West plays a delicious scoundrel in her philandering husband, Willy. Rather than fully loathe him, it's fun to see him appear on screen to stir up more trouble. Throughout her career, Colette pushed the boundaries of her art and sensuality, often both together.
The historic relationships between artists and audiences, husbands and wives, and authors and their muse are captivating. The 19th century setting is whimsical, but Colette and Willy's marriage is anything but. Their relationship falters and they move forward with an arrangement considered radical for their time. Colette is a figure to be remembered and Westmoreland has done a lovely job of memorializing her life.
Director Wash Westmoreland, Actor Keira Knightley and Actor Dominic West attend the World Premiere of Colette by Wash Westmoreland, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. © 2018 Sundance Institute | photo by Jemal Countess.
Knightley and West jokingly responded to an audience member who asked why they didn't use a French accent for the film. West demonstrated that it was distracting, evoking laughter from Knightley. In honor of her character's progressive fashion, Knightley wore a stunning tuxedo to the premiere.
Westmoreland told the audience that costume designer Andrea Flesch was so passionate about the project that she had bought the costumes before financing was finalized. The clothing was breathtaking and strikingly captured Colette's forward thinking attire. Of note is the spectacular production design by Michael Carlin (In Bruges, The Duchess). The scenes look like a Renoir come to life. Bleecker Street and 30West purchased the picture, so you'll be able to catch it in theaters soon.
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Charlton, Alexander and Connolly, Daniel and Pickerden, Alexander and Chivers, Rhys and Simmons, Adam and Evans, Adam (2012) Bowled out for a duck before picking up a bat: identifying women's perceived barriers and lived experiences of cricket within the City of Lincoln. In: BASES Student Conference 2012, 16.04.2012 - 17.04.2012, University of East London.
Gender inequality in sport has received significant attention from sports development initiatives and sociologists of sport. Gender inequality describes the structuring of aspects of society that favours one gender over another. Feminist academic literature is heavily focused around how the inequality is perpetuated in society (Hargreaves, J. (2000) Heroines of Sport: 'The politics of difference and identity'. London: Routledge.). The prevalence of gender inequality is reflected in women's participation levels in typically masculine sports such as cricket. Approximately 0.08% of the female population take part in cricket in the UK, which suggests there are inherent barriers to women's participation (Sport England, 2011, Active People Survey 2011). This problem is something that has been highlighted as a substantial aim that the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics can help overcome (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics games Ltd (2008) Diversity and Inclusion strategy).
The present study builds on previous work to increase opportunities for women to participate in cricket (Hibberd et al 2011; 'Not Just a Boys Game': Programme evaluation of a multi-agency cricket intervention designed to reduce gender inequity in a city in the East of England.'Paper presented at the student BASES 2011 conference). The principal aim of this study is to investigate the perceived barriers that active women feel prevent or inhibit their participation in cricket. A case study approach will be adopted, focusing on six women's community and University sports clubs in Lincoln, in conjunction with Lincolnshire Cricket board (LCB). Women will be recruited from an array of social backgrounds, with different abilities, ages and experiences of sport.
A mixed method approach utilising both questionnaires and semi-structured group interviews will be employed (Bryman, A. (1988) Quantity and Quality in Social Research. London: Routledge). A theory driven approach to understanding women's perceived barriers to participation in cricket will be adopted. The project will enable researchers to gain a better understanding of the reasons why women find access to certain sports easier than others. This information will allow researchers to make recommendations for widening participation in women's cricket, with a view to increasing the viability of women's participation in cricket locally.
Gender inequality in sport has received significant attention from sports development initiatives and sociologists of sport. Gender inequality describes the structuring of aspects of society that favours one gender over another. Feminist academic literature is heavily focused around how the inequality is perpetuated in society (Hargreaves, J. (2000) Heroines of Sport: 'The politics of difference and identity'. London: Routledge.). The prevalence of gender inequality is reflected in women's participation levels in typically masculine sports such as cricket. Approximately 0.08% of the female population take part in cricket in the UK, which suggests there are inherent barriers to women's participation (Sport England, 2011, Active People Survey 2011). This problem is something that has been highlighted as a substantial aim that the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics can help overcome (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics games Ltd (2008) Diversity and Inclusion strategy). The present study builds on previous work to increase opportunities for women to participate in cricket (Hibberd et al 2011; 'Not Just a Boys Game': Programme evaluation of a multi-agency cricket intervention designed to reduce gender inequity in a city in the East of England.'Paper presented at the student BASES 2011 conference). The principal aim of this study is to investigate the perceived barriers that active women feel prevent or inhibit their participation in cricket. A case study approach will be adopted, focusing on six women's community and University sports clubs in Lincoln, in conjunction with Lincolnshire Cricket board (LCB). Women will be recruited from an array of social backgrounds, with different abilities, ages and experiences of sport. A mixed method approach utilising both questionnaires and semi-structured group interviews will be employed (Bryman, A. (1988) Quantity and Quality in Social Research. London: Routledge). A theory driven approach to understanding women's perceived barriers to participation in cricket will be adopted. The project will enable researchers to gain a better understanding of the reasons why women find access to certain sports easier than others. This information will allow researchers to make recommendations for widening participation in women's cricket, with a view to increasing the viability of women's participation in cricket locally.


Reinhold Behringer is Professor of Creative Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University with more than 20 years experience in the development of prototypes for Human-Computer Interaction Technology. After studying physics in Würzburg (Germany) and Buffalo (USA) he got his Doctorate with a thesis about his development of a computer-vision based vision system for road lane marking tracking for autonomous driving (UniBWM, 1996). From 1996 on he worked in the USA at Rockwell Scientific as Senior Scientist and Program Manager and developed Augmented Reality (AR) systems for industrial applications before AR became mainstream on mobile phones. After he became Professor at LeedsMet in 2005 he got interested in geo-centric interfaces as means for conveying location-related information. He is also a classical music enthusiast and creates renditions of symphonies solely with a PC. His personal interest is in history and heritage, and he has been involved in several local initiatives in Leeds related to industrial heritage.


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Q: Strings of 4 byte character in Windows? I have a program that does various operations on char types in std::string, for example
if (my_string.front() == my_char) {
    // do stuff with my_string
}

I'm looking for some practical advice on how to make my program support Unicode. I need the ability to compare characters to characters, and that means 4 byte characters are required so that even the largest Unicode characters can be processed without losses.
I'm on Windows with a GCC compiler and read that in this case, std::wstring is 2 bytes. C++11 has std::u32string with 4 bytes but it seems largely unsupported by the standard library.
What's the easiest solution in this case?

A: Even if you had a string of uint32 you could not just compare these integers one by one. You would have to first normalize the strings before. As normalization is NOT simple, you will end up using a library like ICU. So you may directly try to use it directly :)
http://site.icu-project.org/

A: Windows uses the UTF-16 encoding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16
You don't need "four byte characters" to support all unicode symbols. UTF-16 is a variable length encoding.
Good reading material:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html


Time for another Stampin' Celebration sketch challenge (SC103)!
For my project I decided to try a masculine style card. My brother's birthday is today so I thought it would be perfect for him! And having more ideas for masculine cards is always a good thing!
Instead of using paper or cardstock for the three rectangles in the sketch I decided to use a stamp. I pulled out my Draw the Line photopolymer stamp set and decided it would be perfect. I stamped the open circles with Blackberry Bliss and the closed smaller circles with Tempting Turquoise.
The greeting is from the @SoSocial stamp set with some Hello Honey ribbon in the background.
I punched a few circles with various sizes of punches (1-3/8", 1-1/4", 1", 3/4" and 1/2") and played with the arrangement until I got something I thought looked random enough and yet pleasing to the eye.
A fairly simple card in the end.
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São Gonçalo, named after Gonçalo de Amarante (1187-1259), may refer to:

Places

Brazil
São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro
São Gonçalo do Amarante, Rio Grande do Norte
São Gonçalo do Amarante, Ceará
São Gonçalo do Abaeté, Minas Gerais
São Gonçalo dos Campos, Bahia
São Gonçalo do Gurguéia, Piauí
São Gonçalo do Pará, Minas Gerais
São Gonçalo do Piauí, Piauí
São Gonçalo do Rio Abaixo, Minas Gerais
São Gonçalo do Rio Preto, Minas Gerais
São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais
São Gonçalo Channel
São Gonçalo River

Portugal
São Gonçalo (Funchal), Madeira

Other uses
Convent of São Gonçalo (Angra do Heroísmo), Terceira, Azores
Igreja de São Gonçalo, a church in Amarante, Portugal
São Gonçalo Futebol Clube (RN), a Brazilian football club, São Gonçalo do Amarante, Rio Grande do Norte

See also

Gonçalo


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Croatia to Saint-Étienne train services, operated by Croatian Railways (HŽPP), depart from Zagreb station.
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What companies run services between Croatia and Saint-Étienne, France?
You can take a bus from Zagreb to Saint-Étienne via Grenoble, Grenoble - Bus Station, and Lyon - Saint-Exupéry Airport in around 18h 11m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Zagreb to Saint-Étienne via Stuttgart Hbf, Strasbourg, and Lyon Part Dieu in around 18h 57m.
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Croatia to Saint-Étienne bus services, operated by Ouibus, arrive at Saint-Etienne station.
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Croatia to Saint-Étienne train services, operated by SNCF, arrive at St Etienne Châteaucreux station.
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Yes, the driving distance between Croatia to Saint-Étienne is 1114 km. It takes approximately 10h 48m to drive from Croatia to Saint-Étienne.
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Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, Brussels Airlines and seven other airlines offer flights from Zagreb Airport to Lyon Airport.
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The Château de Grangent is a castle in the commune of Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert in the Loire département of France.
The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), or MAMC, is an art museum in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It is the second most important museum in France for collections of contemporary art and one of the most important in the world. The director of the museum is the art critic Lóránd Hegyi.
The Château de Rochetaillée is a ruined feudal castle in the city of Saint-Étienne in the Loire département of France.
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Q: If $x$ and $y$ are real numbers and $x^2+y^2-4x-6y-1=0$, what is the minimum value of $x + y$? If $x$ and $y$ are real numbers and $$x^2+y^2-4x-6y-1=0$$what is the minimum value of $x + y$?
I tried to factor it but I couldn't. Then I tried to make squares so all the squares could equal to 0. But I couldn't find a way. So please kindly give me the solution for this question.

A: Hint
Set $x+y=c$
Replace $y$ with $c-x$ to form a quadratic equation in $x$
As $x$ is real, the discriminant must be $$\ge0$$

A: The circle $(x-2)^2+(y-3)^2=14$ minimizes $x+y$ when meeting its leftmost tangent of the form $x+y=c$, hence of gradient $-1$, with a radius of gradient $1$. This radius joins the centre $(2,\,3)$ to $(2-\sqrt{7},\,3-\sqrt{7})$, where it meets the tangent. So the minimum $x+y$ is $5-2\sqrt{7}$.

A: $x^2+y^2-4x-6y-1=$
$=x^2-4x+y^2-6y-1=$
$=(x^2-4x+4)-4+(y^2-6y+9)-9-1=$
$=(x-2)^2-4+(y-3)^2-9-1=$
$=(x-2)^2+(y-3)^2-14$
The problem of finding the minimum value of $x+y$ can be solved by using Lagrange multipliers method.
Nevertheless, it is possible to solve this problem in the following way.
Let $X=x-2$ and $Y=y-3$.
The minimum value of $X+Y$ is a number $k$ such that the straight line $X+Y=k$ is tangent to the circle $X^2+Y^2-14=0$.
Now, we are going to find the two straight lines parallel to $X+Y=0$ and tangent to the circle $X^2+Y^2-14=0$
$\begin{cases}
  X+Y=k \\
  X^2+Y^2-14=0
\end{cases}$
$\begin{cases}
  Y=k-X \\
  X^2+(k-X)^2-14=0
\end{cases}$
$\begin{cases}
  Y=k-X \\
  X^2+k^2-2kX+X^2-14=0
\end{cases}$
$\begin{cases}
  Y=k-X \\
  2X^2-2kX+k^2-14=0
\end{cases}$
$\begin{cases}
  Y=k-X \\
  X^2-kX+\frac{1}{2}k^2-7=0
\end{cases}$
$\Delta=k^2-2k^2+28=28-k^2$
The straight line $X+Y=k$ is tangent to the circle $X^2+Y^2-14=0$ if and only if $\Delta=0$.
$28-k^2=0$
$k^2=28$
$k=\pm\sqrt{28}$
$k=\pm 2\sqrt{7}$
The two straight lines parallel to $X+Y=0$ and tangent to the circle $X^2+Y^2-14=0$ are:
$X+Y=2\sqrt{7}$ and
$X+Y=-2\sqrt{7}$
It means that the minimum value of $X+Y$ is $-2\sqrt{7}$, but $X=x-2$ and $Y=y-3$, so the minimum value of $x+y-5$ is $-2\sqrt{7}$.
Hence the minimum value of $x+y$ is $5-2\sqrt{7}$.


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A Skydiving Redemption
Dec 24, 2013 | Airplane Stretches, Choice Points, Short Trips, Vacation travel | 0
Jeffrey Sapinza and fiancee.
It's a couple of days before Christmas and the sky's a classic blue, so bright it hurts and cloudless. I'm in Perris, California with a family determined to go sky diving together. Hanging out in the waiting lounge after watching the training videos, the man sitting next to me starts explaining why he's there. Both of his feet are wrapped in bandages and thick, blue prosthetic boots reach up from his soles to calves. A pair of crutches are perched on the couch when we start commiserating about how long a wait it'll be before his skydiving plane takes off. Yes, he's planning on going skydiving.
Dave Rudie and Coral Rudie ready to jump.
Last July Jeffrey was in a motorcycle accident. It nearly killed him. He showed me a cell phone picture taken a few minutes before the truck hit him. Taken into the sun, there are glowing rays surround his head and in the ground behind him is a cross. As Jeffrey says, "You get closer to God" when you have an experience like his.
Jeffrey was riding alone after visiting his mom in Hemet that afternoon. He doesn't remember the crash. A 911 emergency call brought a Medivac helicopter to him in the ravine. Once on board he says he met Jesus. First he saw his back and hair. A moment later Jesus was pouring water over his mangled legs and the pain disappeared before he blacked out again. When he woke up in the hospital, pins and metal were attached to his legs.
Over 28 days he faced daunting surgeries but refused to accept the prognosis that he'd never walk again. In the Manor House convalescent hospital he worked with physical therapists and started complaining about the food. Soon the nutritionist was at his bedside. "I'm picky about things and was upset. We got talking and laughing. Over the next couple of months we fell in love." They were engaged just before Christmas.
Today Jeffrey has resumed his position with Mercedes in Beverly Hills. He's planning Christmas with his mom and new fiancee, but first he's interested in skydiving. It would too easy to say he's an adrenalin junkie, but there's more going on. His Christmas gift has already gone out for the driver who hit him. "It was an accident," Jeffrey says and he won't be suing anybody. Today he's considering one more close encounter with his maker by jumping out of an airplane.
This was so much fun!
Sky diving's not for everyone. (I opted for indoor skydiving. )
I'll be watching my family sky dive from the ground and as it turns out, so will Jeffrey. His physical therapist didn't sign off on the jump. It's still a stunning Southern California winter day and we'll both have to feel close to our maker with feet on the ground.
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Q: Python selenium scrolling doesn't work when used in class instance I'm trying to write a selenium script with python that downloads my bills from a website. There are more bills (rows) that can fit in the view port, and when the script reaches the end of the view port it fails. So I tried:

*

*ActionChains(self.driver).move_to_element(element).perform() ==> NOK

*element.location_once_scolled_into_view ==> OK in console

*self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo({});") ==> OK in console

Number 2. and 3. worked like a charm when I ran it in the pycharm python console line-by-line:

*

*the sidebar scroll moves down to the target element

*can .click() the element in question.

When used in a class

*

*the scroll bar does not move at all, and throws this error:

*selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message:
element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (1187,
642)

   def downloader(self, count, provider):
       print("count: ", count)  # count is the number of row for a
                                  provider
       for number in range(1, (count + 1)) :
           #sleep(2)
           element = self.wait.until(EC.visibility_of(
                             self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH,
                          "//table/tbody/tr[{}]/td[6]".format(number))))
           location = element.location_once_scolled_into_view
           # ActionChains(self.driver).move_to_element(element)
                                                           .perform()
           #self.driver.execute_script("arguments[0]
                                       .scrollIntoView(true);",element);
           # self.wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(element))
           # sleep(1)
           self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo({});"
                                               .format(location))
           element.click()

A: The issue could be due to the fact that the element is not being scrolled into view completely when being executed as part of a class. When you're executing the script line by line in the console, it has enough time to complete the scroll before the element is clicked.
To resolve the issue, you can try adding an explicit wait after scrolling to give the page enough time to load before attempting to click the element.
Here's an updated version of your code with the added explicit wait:
def downloader(self, count, provider):
    print("count: ", count)  # count is the number of row for a provider
    for number in range(1, (count + 1)):
        element = self.wait.until(EC.visibility_of(
            self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//table/tbody/tr[{}]/td[6]".format(number))))
        location = element.location_once_scolled_into_view
        self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo({});".format(location))
        # Add explicit wait
        self.wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(element))
        element.click()


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Best of Canada: 12 projects nab nation's top architectural prize [slideshow]
The conversion of a Mies van der Rohe-designed gas station and North Vancouver City Hall are among the recently completed projects to win the 2014 Governor General's Medal in Architecture.
BD+C Staff and RAIC
The Canada Council for the Arts and RAIC | Architecture Canada announced the recipients of the Governor General's Medals in Architecture.
The awards celebrate outstanding design in recently completed projects by Canadian architects.
The winning buildings reflect excellence in sustainable design, innovation, and compatibility with the landscape.
Eleven of the 12 buildings selected this year were built to enhance community life. Projects include cooperative housing, university buildings, a city hall, a community centre, an outdoor stage and two libraries.
The 2014 winners include:
1. 60 Richmond East Housing Co-Operative, Toronto
Teeple Architects Inc.
Photo: Shai Gil
Located in downtown Toronto, this LEED Gold housing co-operative provides an alternative to the ubiquitous local glass towers. Terraces are carved out of the building's solid mass to create social spaces and gardens on various levels. The project houses relocated hospitality workers from Regent Park, a deteriorating social-housing community undergoing redevelopment.
The residents operate a restaurant and training kitchen on the ground floor and a community garden on the sixth-floor terrace. The garden provides food for the restaurant and uses organic waste generated by the kitchens as compost. This creates a self-sustaining condition called "urban permaculture."
Jury Comment:
"This is a socially admirable project that very much transcends the type and stands as an exemplar for urban housing. The building design takes apart the various program components and recombines them into a complex, sustainable and very urban hive of neighborhoods. It is extremely gratifying to see a social housing project rise so far above mere accommodation."
Photo: Scott Norsworthy
2. Centennial College Athletic and Wellness Centre, Toronto
Kongats Architects
The Centennial College Athletic and Wellness Centre redevelops an existing gymnasium facility to create a central athletic centre for Centennial College. The new centre accommodates multiple programs – both athletic and academic. It also provides a venue for the college's annual convocation ceremonies and student association concerts and events.
Added to the project scope was the re-design of the interstitial campus grounds to create the Centennial College Alumni Courtyard. The courtyard provides the college community with durable and accessible connections between the campus buildings and useful places for gathering and reflection.
"Of the award winners, this project is singular in developing an architecture of enclosure, by way of an innovative glass and concrete envelope. It brings a minimal, and elegant resolution to both the fitness facility inside and the grounds outside. The façade's curved glass surface generates unique perceptual effects and magnifies the transformations in ambient light and atmosphere. Its articulation replays classical principles of a heavy base, column-like elements, and crown."
Photo: Double Space
3. Centre for International Governance Innovation Campus, Waterloo, Ont.
KPMB Architects
Photo: © Maris Mezulis
The CIGI campus transforms the historic Seagram distillery, the only site in Canada surrounded by three Governor-General-Award-winning projects, into a think tank on international governance. The design presents a contemporary interpretation of the academic quad with three interconnected buildings organized around a courtyard.
A two-storey glass pavilion with an entrance canopy and bell tower marks the main public entrance and contains the auditorium. The massing and expression were designed to relate to the heritage context of the area's 19th-century industrial fabric. A key element in Waterloo's revitalization vision, the project demonstrates the benefit of architecture.
"The jury salutes the elegant restraint of this project. Its roof overhang attracts the eye without being attention-grabbing; it calmly engages its patrimonial neighbour and prefigures the physical comfort to come, inside. Careful use of materials evokes a sense of comfort and longevity. A well-proportioned landscaped courtyard furthers the serenity and liveability of the center. A profoundly humane environment is achieved."
Photo: © Tom Arban
4. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Centre for Drug Research and Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes / Hughes Condon Marler Architects
All photos: Marc Cramer
The design of the state-of-the-art Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Centre for Drug Research and Development focuses on enjoyable, livable and sustainable spaces for research and learning. The architecture has a striking presence on campus, functioning as a gateway to the academic core.
Serving as an allegory for the development of modern medicine, the design concept relates to two trees whose foliage becomes fused into an extensive network of branches. To successfully contribute to UBC's legacy of architecture and pharmaceutical research, the project develops a sustainable, signature design so as to provide a benchmark for education and research buildings.
"A strong building with a strong concept, beautifully executed. A richly textured, angular base supports a polished, orthogonal building. A deeply articulated main façade contrasts with the side walls. Special attention is paid to users, both in terms of quality of light as well as opportunities to meet and socialize. On both counts of liveability and architectural expressiveness, this project brings a human dimension to a highly technical program."
5. Joseph L. Rotman School of Management Expansion, University of Toronto
The vertical, interconnected campus is an expression of Rotman's core mission to promote the power of creativity and integrative thinking. The design fuses ideas of campus and city-building, study and interaction, sustainable design, creativity and business strategy. Conceived through the lens of Rotman's Integrative Thinking program, the design encapsulates the power of architecture to harmonize seemingly opposite notions and objectives at every scale of design.
The expansion creates a vibrant global hub in which to advance its curriculum. It reinforces the necessity of architectural excellence to inspire growth in education to ensure Canada remains competitive in the global marketplace.
"Large glass volumes are anchored to an existing Victorian house and seem to float behind it. The volumes are simple and their detailing well-controlled, giving this building a sense of refinement and solidity. The lipstick-pink line of a staircase spirals up and down their core, to act as a social condenser and tease out the element of creation and innovation inherent in the school philosophy. This bright gesture in a sober box, along with the light volumes against the stately mansion, make a convincing use of contrasts."
6. Mies van der Rohe gas station, Verdun, Quebec
Les Architectes FABG
All photos: Steve Montpetit
The Mies van der Rohe gas station on Nuns' Island ceased commercial operation in 2008. The City of Montreal listed it as a heritage building in 2009 before initiating the project of a youth and senior activity centre. This simple program requires an open space for each group to congregate and participate in communal activities.
The project is not about the faithful restoration of a monument. It is an interpretation. It tries to communicate the essence of an artistic vision, formulated by someone else in response to a world that is no longer the same. Musicians do this every day.
"This superb reinterpretation of Mies van der Rohe's prototype gas station brings an end to years of relative neglect. The precise, essential reinvention of this structure as a community space is quite beautiful, right down to the mechanical servicing that reprises the gas pumps of the original. One might imagine that Mies would be happily surprised. It is a restoration without being a slavish reconstruction."
7. North Vancouver City Hall
Michael Green Architecture
Photo: Martin Tessler
The North Vancouver City Hall project revitalizes an existing modern-heritage municipal building with a significant addition of public space, staff offices and meeting rooms. The project features an innovative mass-timber structure within a 220-foot long atrium. The structure knits together the existing building with an adjacent vacated library.
The project upgrades structural and environmental performance. Careful attention was given to public and staff amenities and the flow of public space from inside to out. The design illustrates a successful restoration through the use of structural wood. A clear spatial design results in elegant public architecture.
"An elegant, restrained and sophisticated expansion to a small district municipal hall. A simple and engaging tube-like structure is inserted between two existing buildings, to act as a common entry point. The vocabulary is warm and refined, befitting a city hall's place in the community."
Photo: Ema Peter
8. OMS Stage, Winnipeg
5468796 Architecture Inc.
Photo: James Brittain Photography
OMS Stage ("The Cube") is an open-air performance venue in Old Market Square, a green space and summer festival hub in Winnipeg's historic Exchange District. A concrete structure enclosed by a flexible metal skin, the stage is a year-round public amenity. The membrane is composed of 20,000 identical hollow aluminum pieces strung together on aircraft cables.
The orientation of the pieces alternates, forming a malleable and shimmering curtain that can stand like a wall, pull in to reveal the performance space, or function as a light-refracting surface. It is a projection screen, concert venue, shelter and sculptural object.
"A small urban gesture but a large contribution to the city. This building works on many levels: as sculpture, performing stage, folly and meeting place. Its innovative and flexible design allows for constant transformation to accommodate a variety of programs and activities, year round. It expands the realm of possibilities associated with a band stand and is a shining reminder of the architect's responsibility to animate the public realm."
Photo: 5468796 Architecture
9. Raymond-Lévesque Public Library, Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Atelier TAG / Jodoin Lamarre Pratte
Photo: © Julien Perron-Gagné
As an interface between nature and culture, the new Saint-Hubert library celebrates the exceptional poetic force of its location: the library metamorphoses the forest and materializes the presence of the wind. Beyond the architectural allegory, its geometry speaks of the renewable resources of the earth, the wind, the sun and the rain. From west to east its roof scape is shaped by the prevailing winds.
The giant cut at its center collects the rainwater in a retention basin while the wood blades of its filigree envelope filter the sunlight. The resulting inner courtyard forms the geographic, social, and perceptual heart of the library. The fluidity of the interior spaces around an exterior common space facilitates serendipitous encounters and catalyzes human relations, fulfilling the role of the public library in the 21st century as meeting place for its community.
"The building's response to its unique park setting is greatly appreciated. As a courtyard building, it achieves a scale that is befitting to the park. It also forms a crucible for social interaction, amidst a loose suburban fabric. Light and visual transparency are celebrated in this inventive, economical, and thoroughly rigorous architectural design."
Photo: © Marc Cramer
10. Residence for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto
Shim-Sutcliffe Architects Inc.
Photo: Courtesy of the Sisters of St. Joseph
The new home for the Sisters of St Joseph forms a sinuous line between the Don Valley to the north and the low-rise urban fabric of the city to the south. The building articulates both individual contemplative life and the community engagement of the sisters' ministries. It makes relationships to nature and the city to reinforce public and private aspects. These dualities are expressed both in the exterior of the building and its interior spaces.
"This project shines for the care that was brought in creating a loving environment for the elderly. The progression of public to private living spaces is underscored by the transition from urban to natural setting, along a narrow site on the edge of a ravine. The choice of materials and the careful attention to detail further add to the notion of this being a life-supporting environment, in the most profound sense of the term."
Photo: Positive Imaging
Photo: Bob Gundu
11. The Bloor Gladstone Library, Toronto
RDH Architects Inc. / Shoalts and Zaback Architects Ltd.
Photo: Tom Arban
The Bloor Gladstone Library project is a renovation and addition to a listed heritage library in downtown Toronto. The architects were commissioned to design for an additional 12,000 square feet, bringing the facilities to a standard consistent with a district library. This project transforms a dilapidated and dysfunctional heritage library into a functioning, interactive, contemporary institution.
The quality of finish, detail and design resolution elevates the community library to a level commensurate with other significant cultural institutions. This enhancement illustrates the fundamental importance of access to information in the world's largest library system, the Toronto Public Library.
"This renovation and expansion of a distinctive historical library stands out for being both creative and respectful. The design re-imagines the entranceway and body of the original structure, adds a minimal glass addition and creates an intimate courtyard in the process."
Photo: Steven Evans Photography
Photo: Steven Evans and Tom Arban
12. Tula House, Quadra Island, B.C.
Patkau Architects Inc.
All photos: James Dow/Patkau Architects
Tula House sits on a remote island, at the edge of a cliff, 13 metres above the Pacific Ocean. The house is both primary residence for the clients and headquarters for their private foundation.
The spatial order of the house reflects the casual irregularity of the site's rock mounds, ocean edges and forest. Exterior walls are clad in black fibre-cement panels, visually receding into forest. A green roof consists of indigenous plants. A steel-framed, wooden deck cantilevers at cliff-edge. An expanse of glass captures the view while glazed apertures in the deck open vertiginously to the ocean below.
"Here is a spectacular house for a spectacular site. The jury admired the lightness of the structure on the land and the architect's sure hand in all aspects of the design and execution. Against the open views and overhanging floors, sea-side, sensory connections are established with groundwater streams and moss-covered rocks, land-side. Light is brought inside to create an atmosphere of repose, punctuated with dramatic moments. This house stands in dynamic harmony with nature."
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