How far north will the band actually get ?
As you can probably tell, I really feel very strongly about my children. They were only 27 and 25, when their Mother died. I can vividly remember telling them about Huntington's Disease and their Mother having it and that it was hereditary and there was a good/bad chance, they could inherit it!!
Ironically, I chose to tell them during a snow chase out to Dover/Folkestone, way. I broke the news to them, over fish and chips, in Folkestone. We had great fun in the snow but what a bitter/sweet day, that was!!
They're great kids, adults now obviously. When they were younger, due to Dad's weather and especially snow obsession, they learnt very quickly what a Scandinavian High was and the possible impact it could have, on our region.
My current Wife has obviously decided on the maxim of, "If you can't beat them, join them"!! She was reading out to me, Met Office advisories and warnings, yesterday. She even asked me for the link to the Meteox Radar site. Well, it will come in very useful to know if she's likely to get a soaking on her way to and from work, in Chislehurst. Wonders never cease!!
We got nothing, just an hour's flurry from about 7:30 for an hour last night.
Tomo looking better - but again doubting any significant snowfall or accumulations.
Doubting you'll be able to call anything this week an 'event'. I'd compare it to in summer when we get told there will be a thunderstorm and all you hear in the end is a distant rumble. Disappointing and not very practical weather.
So we had a pleasant enough evening in Ely last night, with snow between 8-9:30pm which delivered around 2cm. Surprisingly - although much was initially covered, there was a slight thaw and many of the paths that were covered ended up becoming clear again. By this morning it had all completely froze over however - my car was like an ice block!
I'm following the charts keenly regarding Thursday. It has some potential yes - and this time I believe we'll see an 'all snow' event so that will bode well. The precipitation band is slipping further and further South so we need to be a bit cautious about this one. I do detect however an overall weakening of the system with each run - so I'm not currently anticipating significant snowfall if it does reach Ely, perhaps 2-5cm max - which is exactly as all the forecasters are going by.
Some on here will need to reset their expectations - its not going to be a major 'dump' as it stands - it could even all boil down to a light sprinkling!
About 1 cm, in the end...I was tricked by the homepage; it's still saying 3C and rain!
No snow but very icy underfoot & took the car a while to defrost. An upgrade for me tomorrow luckily so might get first lying snow of the season...might..
Looks game over for anyone north of M4 then Kold? Sorry haven't had a chance to check the charts thoroughly this morning yet but I'm sensing this will be nothing more than a dusting for the north and east of region?
Hirlam and ICON have the front moving up and slowing over North London up to North Essex and then losing intensity as it moves further North. I'd say the line for good snow prospects can be drawn across from North Essex into Suffolk. South of there will do well, most south of London and M4.
Nah your still totally in the game north of the M4. Heaviest stuff looking probably south of there but there should be some snow around, even if the front is on the wane by that point.
However nothing to say the front can't penertrate more than expected. You guys north of M4 certainly within the range if error still.
Now we have model agreement about all three main factors regarding this low, any adjustments north or south should be minimal at this stage and probably only important to those on the northern and southern extents. This will be roughly where the front will be.
So is west London looking good for some heavier snowfall tomorrow evening?
Others may have a view but I would say London is looking in prime position for the Thursday potential as the whole system is forecast to bit a bit further South (as shown by the chart trends) which means the colder air needed will still be in place across London. How north of London the front will push and its intensity is currently the main discussion point - but 2-5cm looks likely.
I've accepted over the many years that an east coast locale in these set up can be difficult to get decent snowfall from. Having said that im still hoping for some positive adjustments in the the next 24 hours!
Lile @Steve Murr, some melt since last night. I was woken early by people starting to drive to work and the cracking sound of the ice on the road was so loud! Temps currently at 0C - a beautiful, clear, cold morning.
I think a very different anxiety will unfold for tomorrows snow compared to last night.
It's looking like an all snow event, which will be nice not having to endure hours or will it/wont it change from rain to snow.
BUT the big thing will be the heaviness of the snow and the extent it reaches. Which is another issue all together. As others have said north and east of London looking less likely to have higher amounts than south and west of London but still in the game. Still 36 hours or so and time for changes.
The radar will certainly come in handy tomorrow for nowcasting.
Wow you got quite a bit down there. Think we were just on the wrong side of marginal in north London, plus probably didn't get the same intensity of precipitation. We had snow but it only gave a dusting.
Very good point, it's never easy in the country is it?! The marginality was the major issue last night with the front arriving quicker than expected, the temps and dew points took much longer to drop to more snow conducive levels over here in the east.
As an aside it looks like there could be some very low minima tonight in the region and freezing fog so a real wintry flavour continues!


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Mechanicsville High School » Events » What's New » FFA program qualifies for national competition
A Hanover County Public Schools FFA chapter has qualified to participate in a national Future Farmers of America event.
The Mechanicsville High School (MHS) FFA Chapter recently qualified for the national organization's career and leadership development event this fall in Indianapolis where they will compete for national honors in the nursery and landscaping category. This is the first time in MHS history that its FFA chapter has earned this opportunity, qualifying through a successful National Chapter Award Program application.
"For our chapter to qualify is a testament of the quality and perseverance of our students," said Cindy Green, the agriculture teacher at MHS who also advises the chapter alongside fellow teacher Jessica Kreye. "Our student-leaders have worked very hard to make the organization meaningful to all student-members, and were very creative in dealing with all the ever-changing COVID-19 protocols."
The students representing the chapter in Indianapolis will be Macie Banton, Meghan Coble, McKenzie Marker, and Tyler Rankin. The chapter is a student-run, teacher-advised group, with roughly 190 student members enrolled in pathways related to agriculture power, structural and technical systems, and plant systems.
"Our members come from a diverse background, and share a passion for solving the world's problem through agriculture and its related industries," Green said.
Said MHS Principal Charles Stevens: "I am so proud of our students and our teachers for this outstanding accomplishment. They persevered through several challenges due to the COVID-mitigation strategies in place and figured out how to get the job done at a high level."
A virtual component of the competition, which includes community service, leadership development, and commitment to agriculture, is scheduled for Wednesday, August 25, while the in-person portion is set for Thursday, October 28.

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Toyota Corolla Cross revealed, coming to Australia in 2022
Brett Davis	 Jul 09, 2020
Car News, Hybrid, SUV, Toyota
Toyota has unveiled its upcoming small SUV based on the Corolla, creatively called the Corolla Cross. It has been confirmed it will go on sale in Australia during the second half of 2022.
Although detailed specs and the finer details are yet to be confirmed, Toyota has today revealed some images of the Corolla Cross. And, surprisingly, it doesn't look much like a Corolla. Instead, it takes the shape of a more traditional wagon-like SUV, with muscular wheel arches providing stance, and a new-look front grille which appears to be inspired by the grille applied to some of the big US trucks, like the Toyota Tundra.
Other highlights include sophisticated headlights with unique blue detailing, trademark black plastic moulding around the lower body and wheel arches for that rugged look, as well as a neat rear end with elongated taillights and a wrap-up diffuser/protection plate area below.
The Corolla Cross is based on the same TNGA-C platform as the Corolla hatch and sedan, which promises high rigidity and balanced handling, as well as a comfortable ride and refined driving character. Toyota confirms the new model will be available with either a petrol or petrol-hybrid powertrain. Speaking about the new model, Toyota Australia vice president of sales and marketing Sean Hanley said:
"Corolla Cross is not only stylish and versatile, it delivers the superior practicality demanded by customers in this segment including the high driving position, great visibility, spacious interior and ample head clearance."
When it arrives on the market the Corolla Cross will slot in between the C-HR and the RAV4, and also above the upcoming Yaris Cross. Further details, including engine specs for the Australian market, will be finalised closer to its local launch in 2022.
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Watch Mauna Loa erupt from SPACE for the first time in 40 years
Watch Mauna Loa erupt from SPACE: Satellite footage reveals the huge plume of lava, ash and toxic gases released as the world's largest active volcano exploded for the first time in almost 40 years
Mauna Loa's first eruption in 38 years has been captured in new satellite footage
It offers a bird's eye view of heat coming from largest active volcano in the world
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration observed the eruption
Lava flow is mostly contained in summit, but residents have been placed on alert
Satellite footage has revealed the huge plume of lava, ash and toxic gases released after the world's largest active volcano erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years.
It offers a bird's eye view from space showcasing the incredible heat signature coming from Hawaii's Mauna Loa at 23:30 local time on Sunday (09:30 GMT Monday).
Officials say the lava flow is mostly contained within the summit but the US Geological Service (USGS) warned the situation could change rapidly.
The volcano's alert level has been upgraded to the highest classification and residents have been placed on alert amid fears of falling ash.
Eruption: Satellite footage has revealed the huge plume of lava, ash and toxic gases released after the world's largest active volcano erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years
Satellites operated by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) observed the eruption from overhead at the weekend, with one animated image revealing both the heat signature of the eruption and a large plume of gas spreading to the northeast of Hawaii.
NOAA tweeted: 'Around 11:30 p.m. HST last night, @NOAA's #GOESWest captured the eruption of Hawaii's #MaunaLoa volcano, inside @Volcanoes_NPS.
'This imagery shows the heat signature and the sulfur dioxide released from the #volcano's summit caldera, Moku'āweoweo.'
It followed a series of warnings that an eruption was possible after more than a dozen earthquakes in the area.
The volcano rises 13,679ft (4,169m) above sea level and spans an area of more than 2,000 sq miles (5,179 sq km)
Satellites operated by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) observed the eruption from overhead at the weekend
An animated image from NOAA's GOES West satellite reveals both the heat signature of the eruption and a large plume of gas spreading to the northeast of Hawaii
Officials say the lava flow is mostly contained within the summit but the US Geological Service (USGS) warned the situation could change rapidly
The volcano rises 13,679ft (4,169m) above sea level and spans an area of more than 2,000 sq miles (5,179 sq km).
The eruption comes as native Hawaiians celebrate Lā Kūʻokoʻa, a former national holiday commemorating the signing of the Anglo-Franco Proclamation of 1843, which officially recognised the Kingdom of Hawaii's independence and sovereignty from Great Britain and France.
The volcano's lava rivers have historically flowed into different communities including Hilo, which has 45,248 residents, and Kukio — a billionaire's paradise which has blossomed over the last 38 years and now counts some of the world's richest people among residents.
Hawaii's Mauna Loa – the world's largest active volcano – has erupted, the U.S. Geological Service's (USGS) volcanic activity service has said. Pictured: An image released by the USGS shows the lava flow from Sunday night's eruption
Smoke filled the air in Kona, Hawaii on Monday as daylight broke through and the Mauna Loa volcano continued to erupt
According to the USGS, Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since 1843. Its previous eruption occurred in 1984 and sent lava flows within 5 miles of Hilo.
'Based on past events, the early stages of a Mauna Loa eruption can be very dynamic and the location and advance of lava flows can change rapidly,' the USGS said.
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that together make up the Big Island of Hawaii, which is the southernmost island in the Hawaiian archipelago.
At 13,679 feet above the Pacific Ocean, it is not the tallest (that title goes to Mauna Kea) but it is the largest and makes up about half of the island's land mass.
It sits immediately north of Kilauea volcano, which is currently erupting from its summit crater.
Historically, the volcano's lava rivers have flowed into different communities including Hilo, which has 45,248 residents, and Kukio – a billionaire's paradise which has blossomed over the last 38 years and now counts some of the world's richest people among residents
Kilauea is well-known for a 2018 eruption that destroyed 700 homes and sent rivers of lava spreading across farms and into the ocean.
Some of Mauna Loa's slopes are much steeper than Kilauea's so when it erupts, its lava can flow much faster. During a 1950 eruption, the mountain's lava traveled 15 miles to the ocean in less than three hours.
Mauna Loa last erupted 38 years ago in April 1984, sending a flow of lava within 5 miles of the city of Hilo. In written history, dating to 1843, it's erupted 33 times.
The Big Island is mostly rural and is home to cattle ranches, coffee farms and beach resorts.
It is about 200 miles (320km) south of Hawaii's most populous island, Oahu, where the state capital Honolulu and beach resort Waikiki are both located.
WHAT IS MAUNA LOA AND WHY IS IT ERUPTING?
Hawaii's Mauna Loa ('Long Mountain') is the world's largest active volcano.
It is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean that make up the US state of Hawaii.
It rises 13,679 feet (4,169 metres) above sea level and makes up about half of the island's land mass.
The volcano started to erupt late Sunday night, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), for the first time since 1984.
Early Monday (November 28), lava flows were contained within the summit area and weren't threatening nearby communities.
USGS does not believe there is any risk of magma fall, but an ash fall advisory has been issued and some residents have begun to voluntarily evacuate.
The eruption remains confined within the basin at the top of the volcano, called the caldera.
WHY IS MAUNA LOA ERUPTING?
Mauna Loa has had magma sitting under the surface since the last eruption in 1984. USGS has said Mauna Loa is expanding as more magma accumulates beneath the surface.
Geologists had recorded an increase in the number of earthquakes in the Mauna Loa region between August and October.
Dr Jessica Johnson, a volcano geophysicist at the University of East Anglia, said it's unclear why Mauna Loa has started erupting again now.
'It could be because a new pulse of magma has been added to the reservoir, or it could be because the pressure has built up over time,' she told MailOnline.
'Monitoring data from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has shown that Mauna Loa has been inflating – indicating magma accumulation – for several years, and increased small earthquakes – indicating magma pushing through rocks – for several months.
'Mauna Loa is considered active, even when lava is not coming out of the ground. This is because there is a magma supply, that could erupt.'
Volcanoes erupt because of the way heat moves beneath Earth's surface. Heat is conveyed from the planet's interior to its surface largely by convection – the transfer of heat by movement of a heated fluid.
In this case, the fluid is magma – molten or partially molten rock – which is formed by the partial melting of Earth's mantle and crust.
The magma rises, and, in the last step in this heat-releasing process, erupts at the surface through volcanoes.
Mauna Loa erupts a hot lava that turns into a rock named basalt when it cools.
'The Hawaiian Islands have been formed because there is a "hotspot" deep in the Earth, supplying material from the mantle that is hotter and therefore less dense than the surrounding material,' said Dr Johnson.
'This less dense material rises through the mantle and breaks through the crust as volcanoes. The same hotspot supplies heat for all of the volcanoes in Hawaii.
'In the crust of the Earth, pockets of magma accumulate (sometimes called magma reservoirs or "chambers").
'Some pockets of magma move quickly up to the surface to erupt, and some remain in the crust for decades without erupting.'
HAS MAUNA LOA ERUPTED BEFORE?
Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since 1843, according to USGS – but this latest eruption marks the end of the longest eruptive pause in its recorded history.
The most recent eruption, in 1984, lasted 22 days and produced lava flows that reached to within about four miles (7km) of Hilo, a city that's home to about 44,000 people today.
The volcano has produced large, voluminous flows of basalt that have reached the ocean eight times since 1868.
This new eruption is currently confined to the summit, and there is no indication that magma is moving into rift zones – areas where the volcano is rifting or splitting apart.
Mauna Loa is the much larger neighbour to Kilauea volcano, which erupted in a residential neighbourhood and destroyed 700 homes in 2018.
But some of Mauna Loa's slopes are much steeper than Kilauea's, so when it erupts, its lava can flow much faster.
During a 1950 eruption, Mauna Loa's erupted lava travelled 15 miles (24 kilometres) to the ocean in less than three hours.
The enormous size of Mauna Loa may allow it to store more magma, leading to larger lava flows when an eruption occurs.
Hawaii's volcanoes are called shield volcanoes because successive lava flows over hundreds of thousands of years build broad mountains that resemble the shape of a warrior's shield.
Shield volcanos are also found in California and Idaho as well as Iceland and the Galapagos Islands. Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park has eight shield volcanoes including Mount Wrangell.
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VLADIVOSTOK. August 26. VOSTOK-MEDIA – Japanese tourists will take a tourist trip all the way along the Trans Siberian Railway on electric train. The trip along the easternmost section of the Trans Siberian Railway will be an integral part of the excursion tour for the passengers of the Japan's cruise ship "Asuka II", which will enter the port of Vladivostok today, on August 26.
The special excursion electric train with the tourists from the Land of the Rising Sun will make a tour from Vladivostok Station to Ugolnaya Station. The Railway sightseeing guided tour was organized by Express Primorya company with the co-operation of the Far Eastern Branch of the JSC Russian Railways.
During the one-hour trip the Japanese tourists will be able to take a closer look at the historical spots and modern architecture of the capital of Primorsky Krai and enjoy the nature and scenic views of the Amur Bay coast in the suburban area of Vladivostok from the windows of the train.
The excursion electric train will start its trip from the Vladivostok Station on August 26, at 13:40 local time, and proceed up to Ugolnaya Station stopping at Morgorodok, Sedanka, Sanatrnaya and Sadgorod stations, reported press service office of the Vladivostok branch of the Far Eastern Railways.


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Disney Plus UK: five classic Simpsons episodes to binge-watch on March 24
As Disney Plus hits the UK, get ready to dive into a quintet of classic Simpsons episodes
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By Matt Evans
Disney Plus is coming to the UK on March 24. There's a huge amount of content to dive into, from originals like The Mandalorian and The World According to Jeff Goldblum to more than 30 Marvel films, Disney's entire back catalogue of animated movies and loads of TV. Live-action classics such as Home Alone, Hook, Hocus Pocus and more have also made the cut.
For a limited time only, until March 24, you can sign up for (opens in new tab)just £49.99 for an entire year (opens in new tab), which is incredible value at just £4.17 per month.
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While all the content above is amazing value alone, there's another hook to reel you in to the waiting arms of Disney Plus: after the Disney Corporation's acquisition of Fox, it's become the only place in which you can stream all 600-something episodes of The Simpsons.
Although it's been a 6pm primetime staple for years, The Simpsons is still a huge draw. With so many episodes, it's difficult to know where to start if you've not watched in a while, but there's some absolute comedy classics – with gags for every single age group – embedded in its back catalogue, classics that remain some of the funniest family-friendly TV ever aired. Don't believe us? Grab your donuts, crack open a Duff and make your way through our personal favourites.
Cape Feare, Sideshow Bob's best episode, is a must-watch
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1. Cape Feare (Season 5, episode 2)
There's so much to like about this spoof of the 1991 film Cape Fear, which starred Robert De Niro as a determined serial killer. For one, it's Kelsey Grammer's best turn as the murderous, meticulous Sideshow Bob, Bart's series-long sworn enemy. Whether he's stepping on rakes or singing the score to HMS Pinafore, Grammar steals every scene he's in with impeccable comic delivery and self-righteous fury at being outwitted, yet again, by his ten-year-old nemesis.
This is The Simpsons at its finest, with one-liners galore ("Use a pen, Sideshow Bob"), slapstick physical comedy (the cactus patch) and amazing pop-culture lampoons (Homer and Bob in the cinema, in a delightful role-reversal of the scene in De Niro's classic). It's no wonder the episode is considered to be one of the best in the whole series. Start here.
You Only Move Twice is a family story wrapped in a Bond parody
2. You Only Move Twice (Season 8, episode 2)
"Scorpio! He'll sting you with his dreams of power and wealth…" When the Simpsons move to the idyllic town of Cypress Creek, Homer begins working for wealthy billionaire Hank Scorpio. Of course, he's also a James Bond-style supervillain set on world domination. The episode is full of heart because it's really a look at how much Homer is willing to sacrifice for his family: while he excels at work for the first time ever, the rest of the Simpsons clan struggle with their new surroundings.
Marge begins drinking, Bart is put in a school that won't tolerate his antics, while Lisa is surrounded by nature but can't enjoy it because of her allergies. All the supervillain stuff is moved to the background, unnoticed by Homer, and there's no better representation of this than him casually kicking a live grenade while deep in thought, as if it was a beer can on the street.
Marge vs The Monorail was written by late-night star Conan O'Brien
3. Marge vs The Monorail (Season 4, episode 12)
Marge-focused episodes are relatively rare on "best of" lists, but this episode is just so darn good. With the late Phil Hartman as shady monorail salesman Lyle Lanley, it was initially rated one of the series' worst episodes on release, but has since grown into a cult classic.
A mixture of impressive sight gags (Mr Burns' hiring policies employing a duck at the power plant), sharp writing, a catchy musical number and a dramatic, high-speed third act, the whole family – and possibly Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy – work together to save the day. It also reveals the town's mob mentality, which becomes a recurring plot device in later seasons.
Last Exit To Springfield contains both pathos and punchlines
4. Last Exit to Springfield (Season 4, episode 17)
Last Exit is heavy on the Homer-Lisa relationship, which is arguably one of the best dynamics of the show. It's another episode that shows the lengths Homer will go for his family, proving that for all his buffoonery, he's really a good man at heart. When Lisa finds out she needs braces, Homer creates a union at the power plant, encouraging his fellow workers to go on strike or risk losing their dental plan.
It might have a few tender moments, but the best jokes of the show involve Homer, as the head of the union, matching wits with Mr Burns and Smithers in a game of class warfare. With heart, humour and a subtle nod to How The Grinch Stole Christmas, it's an episode that has it all.
"This isn't a very happy birthday for Rex Banner..."
5. Homer vs the Eighteenth Amendment (Season 8, episode 18)
There's not a huge amount of emotional content to be found here, but it's a riot from start to finish. When Bart gets drunk on St Patrick's Day, alcohol is banned in Springfield, kickstarting a chaotic Prohibition-themed episode as Homer becomes the Beer Baron, a mysterious bootlegger. It's a surprisingly adult episode as it examines the town's relationship with alcohol, but it doesn't have time to go too deep on the subject – it's too busy rocketing from one joke to the next.
From the St Patrick's Day parade to Homer's clever smuggling operation, it's full of classic Simpsons moments, but the cherry on top of the Banana Kaboom is the sheer genius that is police chief Rex Banner. The Elliot Ness figure charged with hunting Homer down, Banner is a single-minded straight-man antagonist, creating chaos and chewing scenery whenever he shows up. Perhaps the funniest episode ever written.
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(With Gregory D. Young) The Last Sentry: The True Story That Inspired the Hunt for Red October, Naval Institute Press (Annapolis, MD), 2005.
A former U.S. Marine intelligence officer and a Russian linguist, Nate Braden is the author, with Gregory D. Young, a retired U.S. Naval officer, of The Last Sentry: The True Story That Inspired the Hunt for Red October. The Hunt for Red October is the title of a novel by Tom Clancy and the 1990 feature film based on the novel. In the book and the film, the captain of a Russian nuclear submarine defects and tries to take the submarine to the United States to prevent the Russians from using the ship to launch a nuclear war against the United States. In their book, the authors tell the true story that Clancy drew from for his novel. Clancy first came across the story while conducting research for a novel at the U.S. Naval Academy Library. The true tale was originally told by Young in his master's thesis while attending the U.S. Naval Academy.
In their updated version of Young's thesis, Braden and Young provide an account of a disillusioned Soviet Navy officer named Valery Sablin who led a mutiny aboard the Russian destroyer Storozhevoy, which means "Sentry." This new account of the entire story was made possible because of newly declassified documents from the KGB, the intelligence services of the Soviet Union. In addition, the authors gained access to Sablin family documents.
The authors provide a chronological account of the events as they unfold as well as the events that prompted the incident. As the story progresses, readers learn that Captain Sablin had a bright future in the Soviet Navy and had been given the important task of indoctrinating his crew in Communist Party principles. Sablin, however, turned out to be a disillusioned idealist. He convinced half of the Sentry officers and almost all of its sailors to seize control of the ship. "Young and Braden try to portray their protagonist in a sympathetic light," wrote Michael Peck on the Military Channel Web site. "Some readers will see Sablin as a fallen hero in the struggle against communism. Yet it is important to remember that Sablin was a genuine communist. He was not a saint. He lied to the Storozhevoy's crew to secure their cooperation. He gambled the lives of 150 men in a hopeless plan."
In their book, the authors detail how Sablin and his crew were not intending to sail to Sweden or the United States to seek asylum, as some Western intelligence observers thought and as portrayed in The Hunt for Red October. Instead, they were intent on ultimately starting a revolution to overthrow the Soviet regime and install another Marxist regime more loyal to the ideas of the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. As a result, they set sail to Leningrad to overthrow Leonid Brezhnev, who was then leader of the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Sablin and his crew were stopped by a 500-pound bomb dropped on the ship. Sablin was later executed.
"Surprisingly, his [Sablin's] was the only life lost in the mutiny and its aftermath, though one confederate served six years in prison and in labor camps, and 12 got dishonorable discharges," wrote Daniel Ford in a review of The Last Sentry in the Wall Street Journal. The ship itself, or possibly one that looked just like it since the ship had been severely damaged, was used by the government to prove that any rumors about a mutiny were false. Ultimately, the ship was sent to Siberia to rusticate and then sold for scrap metal to India. The book includes sixteen pages of black-and-white photos and maps.
"Though Sablin's story is exciting to read, it is particularly valuable for the insights it provides into the conditions that existed in Brezhnev's empire," wrote Ronald E. Powaski in the Historian, adding that the book "is an impressively researched, clearly written, and balanced assessment of a significant event in Soviet history." Referring to The Last Sentry as a "gripping tale," Roland Green wrote in his review in Booklist that the historical account is a "vivid portrait of the Soviet navy at its height."
Braden told CA: "William Manchester influenced my work. A master storyteller and meticulous researcher, he taught me how important context is to a story (or at least to a historical narrative). Like me, he served in the Marines, and his memoir of the Pacific War, Goodbye, Darkness, is proof positive that really good writing always has a basis in the author's experience. I try to apply that to my writing as well.
"My writing process involves getting to know a story first. Research it well enough to immerse yourself in the narrative and master the details. Put something to paper, no matter how bad or contrived you think it sounds now. You have to start somewhere to get the juices flowing, and you can always go back and change what you wrote later.
"The most surprising thing I have learned as a writer is that the real work of writing comes in the revisions.
"My latest project is a biography of Smedley Butler, a Marine who won two Medals of Honor. In his day he was probably the most famous man in uniform—the New York Times alone wrote over 200 articles about him—but he was also one of the most controversial. In retirement he tacked hard left and described himself as a "racketeer for capitalism." Here was the most decorated American serviceman alive, a hero to his Corps and country, denouncing that service and flirting with Communism. In 1934 he testified before Congress that a Wall Street bond salesman had offered him 18,000 dollars in cash to lead a veterans' paramilitary group in an attempt to overthrow President Roosevelt. As bad as things were in the Depression, such a plot might have succeeded had Butler not been an ardent supporter of democracy and faithful in his oath to support the Constitution. It is a fascinating exploration into the nature of loyalty and patriotism.
"Above all, I just want to tell a good story; something that grabs the reader's attention and holds it. I love writing about the past because there are so many answers to be found there. I try to connect the events of yesterday with the issues of today in an effort to show people why history is always relevant."
Air & Space Power Journal, winter, 2006, Gilles Van Nederveen, review of The Last Sentry: The True Story That Inspired the Hunt for Red October, p. 113.
Booklist, May 15, 2005, Green Roland, review of The Last Sentry, p. 1633.
Historian, winter, 2006, Ronald E. Powaski, review of The Last Sentry.
Reference & Research Book News, November, 2005, review of The Last Sentry.
Russian Review, April, 2006, review of The Last Sentry.
Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2005, Daniel Ford, "The Story behind Red October."
Coloradobook.org,http://www.coloradobook.org/ (March 28, 2008), brief profile of author.
Military Channel,http://military.discovery.com/ (March 28, 2008), Michael Peck, review of The Last Sentry.
"Braden, Nate 1968-." Contemporary Authors. . Encyclopedia.com. 25 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.


Bono was absent (recovering from serious injuries sustained in bike accident) but that didn't stop U2 from performing with some special guests, live in NYC's Times Square on World AIDS Day, Monday December 1st for RED.
Filling Bono's role as front man for U2 were Coldplay's Chris Martin and Bruce Springsteen. Also on the bill: Kanye West, and Carrie Underwood. Segments to raise awareness about AIDS, aired between the sets, including a video appearance by President Barack Obama. Former President Bill Clinton was there too, to introduce the show. Watch the entire concert below.


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From Title 38-VETERANS' BENEFITSPART II-GENERAL BENEFITSCHAPTER 18-BENEFITS FOR CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS AND CERTAIN OTHER VETERANSSUBCHAPTER III-CHILDREN OF CERTAIN KOREA AND THAILAND SERVICE VETERANS BORN WITH SPINA BIFIDA
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(a) Benefits Authorized.-The Secretary may provide to any child of a veteran of covered service in Korea who is suffering from spina bifida the health care, vocational training and rehabilitation, and monetary allowance required to be paid to a child of a Vietnam veteran who is suffering from spina bifida under subchapter I of this chapter as if such child of a veteran of covered service in Korea were a child of a Vietnam veteran who is suffering from spina bifida under such subchapter.
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The Iconic Vogue Ball
June 3, 2017 June 3, 2017 by Subvrtmag
House of Ayebatonye x Brick City Studios presents The Iconic Vogue Ball
The Iconic Vogue Ball shot by Campbell Henderson
The Iconic Vogue Ball was more than just an ordinary party. An immersive and interactive audiovisual experience, the Ball was a homage to the birthplace of Vogue, New York City.
Through ballroom culture, Voguing has provided an outlet for those who were marginalized to express themselves creatively, and it is so much more than just striking a pose. The art of Voguing began in the early 1960s by the African American and Latino gay and transgender community as an escape from the oppression they experienced daily, and as a means to celebrate their own individual identities. A dance consisting of stylised poses reminiscent of models on the runway, it was started to create safe spaces that rejected racism, transphobia and homophobia. An underground culture made famous by Madonna with her song "Vogue", it has unfortunately been commercialised, appropriated and watered down in mainstream contexts to simply a visual experience.
The Iconic Vogue Ball held at Brick City Studios (BCS) in Marrickville on the 27th of May 2017 was an embodiment of the New York ballroom culture ideology within an Australian context. Starting with vogue battles hosted by Brisbane based MC, Miss Blanks, voguers competed in the categories Old Way, New Way, Vogue Femme and Runway. In line with vogue culture in NY, there were drag and gender queer performances throughout the night by Radha La Bia, Ponnaya Devi, Gina Colada, Matt Format, Marlena Dali, Akashic, Sarah Moany and Koco Carey. The ball encouraged creative experimentation, and putting your DIY skills to good use by making a costume that you feel represents the true essence of your character.
BCS is a new all female Artist Run Initiative and Creative Warehouse Space that was started as a space for female identifying, gender fluid and minorities to exchange knowledge and ideas, share experiences and create freely. Event Organiser and Creative Director at BCS, Ayebatonye Abrakasa, was inspired to create the event after returning to Sydney after living in Berlin for two years. Feeling disheartened by the effect the lockout laws have had on the Inner West, and inspired by the Berlin adaptation of ballroom culture, Abrakasa aimed to create a safe haven for all those who felt they couldn't be themselves everyday.
Proceeds from the event will be going to the Gender Centre (gendercentre.com.au), an NGO and charity organization that has been operating direct front line services to the transgender, gender questioning and gender diverse community for almost 34 years. They provide services including crisis and transitional housing, group work counseling, outreach to transgender street based sex workers, jail outreach, youth support and much more.
Through projection mapping, and art installations, Mikaela Stafford transformed Brick City Studios into a variety of curvilinear appearing and disappearing projected forms that were interactive for patrons. Stafford also considered how the architecture of Brick City Studios could interact with the audience. With a Matrix inspired effect she created artificial "doorways" with lasers and fog for people to walk through. Consequently creating a separation from the real world, a new one was made, that was an inclusive and safe space for anyone that entered. A celebration of self -empowerment, identity and representation the Iconic Vogue Ball was an event not to be missed.
Press release via Ayebatonye, Images by Campbell Henderson.
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Q: Script encounters an error while parsing names and addresses out of populated results I've created a script to parse the names and addresses of different results (56 in this case) from a website. The addresses become visible when a click is initiated on each result. However, When I run the following script, I get two results but then I encounter this element not interactable error pointing at this line item.click().
website link
To populate the result it is necessary to fill in the searchbox with this M203DB and hit the search button.
I've tried with:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

def get_content(link):
    driver.get(link)
    WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.inv_addressSuggestion"))).send_keys('M203DB',Keys.RETURN)

    for item in WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "[id^='listItemContainer_']"))):
        item.click()
        name = item.find_element_by_css_selector("span.detailContactVal").text
        address = item.find_element_by_css_selector("span.detailAddr").text
        print(name,address)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    URL = 'https://www.sjp.co.uk/site-services/find-your-adviser?async=1'
    with webdriver.Chrome() as driver:
        get_content(URL)

Error the script throws:
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable

How can I scrape names and addresses out of all the results?

A: This error indicates that the items you're trying to click are not visible in the viewport.
Check this Q/A "How to resolve ElementNotInteractableException: Element is not visible in Selenium webdriver?" for more details and solutions.
There are many challenges to this specific scraping (https://www.sjp.co.uk/site-services/find-your-adviser).

*

*It has a responsive layout, which displays differently for mobile

*It has a "Load more" button for mobile view

*It has grouped sections which need to be expanded

*It has multiple views and this application renders duplicate IDs. If
you try to get the length of the query
document.querySelectorAll("[id^='listItemContainer_']").length you'll
get 112 instead of 56 which the total results are. You'll have to limit
the results to the first container using this selector
#mCSB_1_container [id^='listItemContainer_'].

Here is a working python script that utilizes all these. Please read the inline comments:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
import re

def get_content(link):
    driver.get(link)
    WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.inv_addressSuggestion"))).send_keys('M203DB',Keys.RETURN)

    try:
        # If there is a "Load more" button, click it
        load_more = WebDriverWait(driver,5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".inv_loadMoreBtn")))
        load_more.click()
    except:
        pass

    # Select from #mCSB_1_container element and not everything to avoid dublicates
    for item in WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#mCSB_1_container [id^='listItemContainer_']"))):
        print("#%s\n" % (item.get_attribute("id")))

        # Get the parent element and its class
        parent = item.find_element_by_xpath('..')
        parent_class = parent.get_attribute("class")

        # If parent element has "inv_childData" then it's grouped and it needs to be expanded
        if re.search(r"inv_childData", parent_class):
            # If the parent expandable element is not expanded (has not the class "inv_childCollapsed")
            if not re.search(r"inv_childCollapsed", parent_class):
                actions = ActionChains(driver)
                # Move to element
                actions.move_to_element(parent).perform()
                # And click it to expand the child items
                parent.click()

        # Use Javascript scrollIntoView() to scroll the view to the item to avoid ElementNotInteractableException
        driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView()", item)

        # Click the item
        item.click()

        name = item.find_element_by_css_selector("span.detailContactVal").text
        address = item.find_element_by_css_selector("span.detailAddr").text

        print("Name: '%s'\nAddress:\n%s\n" % (name, address))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    URL = 'https://www.sjp.co.uk/site-services/find-your-adviser?async=1'

    chrome_options = Options()

    # Make headless
    # chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")

    # Make window size to 1920x1080 to avoid responsive mobile view
    # chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080 ")

    with webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options) as driver:
        get_content(URL)

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Q: ASP.NET Custom Error Pages I have custom error pages setup in my ASP.Net 4.0 application. I would like to have it ignore 404s from images. I am getting error e-mails pertaining the 404 page getting image urls sent to it. Is that possible?
        <error redirect="http://***/404-Error/" statusCode="404" />

Thanks in advance

A: Store images in separate directory and create in that directory web.config with different error handling routine.


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Q: How to make SJCL and Python hashlib generate identical pdkdf2 output I have a JavaScript app and a Python app that communicate using a key derived from a password using pbdkf2. The problem is, the generated keys don't match. I've produced a minimal test case for each.
Python
import hashlib, binascii
bytes = hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac('sha256', "password".encode(), b'', 100000)
print(binascii.hexlify(bytes).decode())

Generates: 64a868d4b23af696d3734d0b814d04cdd1ac280128e97653a05f32b49c13a29a
JavaScript
<script src="lib/sjcl.js"></script>
<script>
var hmacSHA256 = function (key) {
    var hasher = new sjcl.misc.hmac(key, sjcl.hash.sha256);
    this.encrypt = function () {
        return hasher.encrypt.apply(hasher, arguments);
    };
};
hash = sjcl.misc.pbkdf2("password", [0], 100000, 256, hmacSHA256);
console.log(sjcl.codec.hex.fromBits(hash));
</script>

Generates: 41c04f824d843d5be0ae66b3f621d3f05db7d47e7c46ee0e9171b5cbff7f3631
I'm scratching my head a lot now. I think b'' and [0] are equivalent salts, but I'm not sure. I think they both use utf-8 to encode the password, but I'm not sure. And I'm not convinced the JavaScript hmacSHA256 function exactly matches what Python is doing. Or it could be something else still.

A: Off the top of my head, have you checked if
hash = sjcl.misc.pbkdf2("password", "", 100000, 256);

gives the correct result?
As far as I can tell from the docs, SJCL's PBKDF2 implementation defaults to HMAC-SHA256 if you don't explicitly give it a PRF.  If making that change fixes the bug, then there's probably something wrong with your hmacSHA256 wrapper.
Also, I'm not sure if specifying an empty salt as [0] really works (or is guaranteed to work in future versions, given that the format of SJCL's bitArrays is explicitly subject to change), but "" definitely should work.

A: This is sharing for the rest based on my recent experience.
My objective:
To generate PBKDF2 password using Python. The client will be Android (Java), and the back end will be on Flask (Python).
Issue:
While testing, I discovered that both versions (Java vs Python) produced different hashing output (all other parameters were equal - SHA256, 1000 iterations, similar SALT)
What I have found out:
Using PBKDF2 generation tools available on the internet, the Android result was an exact match, while the Python was not. So there is a good chance the Python result was somehow skewed .....
Problem solved:
While looking for possible explanation in SO, I discovered that the way I converted String to bytes in Python was somehow not entirely correct:
Original code:
dk = hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac('sha256', b'base64_message', b'salt', 1000)

Working code:
dk = hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac('sha256', base64_message.encode(), salt.encode(), 1000)

This is probably due to my lack of experience in Python. Hope this note will be of use to others, especially those who are new to Python!


The UK based, space internet company OneWeb has just secured an additional $1.25 billion in funding, bringing the total to $3.4B. That enables it to accelerate plans for a global, high speed broadband network. They say, they'll have the network launched in 2021. They've already launched six satellite for service. By the end of 2019 they'll be launching 30 satellites per month. For global internet coverage, they'll need a network of at least 650 satellites. And, as the internet of things expands, that number could triple.
OneWeb isn't alone in its goal to deliver global internet coverage. Elon Musk's Space X is racing to do the same thing. OneWeb has big pocket investors including Japan's tech giant SoftBank, Virgin Group and Coca-Cola. The company is also launching low cost, mini satellites to bring mobile to the world. One of the great hopes is to provide full internet access to the developing world to help lift many out of poverty through education and connectivity.


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Who Is Kuan Yin?
Kuan Yin (also spelled Guan Yin, Kwan Yin) is the bodhisattva of compassion venerated by East Asian Buddhists. Commonly known as the Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin is also revered by Chinese Taoists as an Immortal. The name Kuan Yin is short for Kuan Shih Yin (Guan Shi Yin) which means "Observing the Sounds of the World".
In Japanese, Kuan Yin is called Kannon or more formally Kanzeon; the spelling Kwannon, resulting from an obsolete system of romanization, is sometimes seen. In Korean, she is called Kwan-um or Kwan-se-um. In Vietnamese, she is called Quan Âm or Quan Thế Âm Bồ Tát.
Kuan Yin is the Chinese name for the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. However, folk traditions in China and other East Asian countries have added many distinctive characteristics and legends. Most notably, while Avalokitesvara can be depicted as either male or female, Kuan Yin is usually depicted as a woman, whereas Avalokitesvara in other countries is usually depicted as a man.
Along with Buddhism, Kuan Yin's veneration was introduced into China as early as the 1st century CE, and reached Japan by way of Korea soon after Buddhism was first introduced into the country from the mid-7th century.
Representations of the bodhisattva in China prior to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) were masculine in appearance. Images which later displayed attributes of both genders are believed to be in accordance with the Lotus Sutra, where Avalokitesvara has the supernatural power of assuming any form required to relieve suffering and also has the power to grant children. Because this bodhisattva is considered the personification of compassion and kindness, a mother-goddess and patron of mothers and seamen, the representation in China was further interpreted in an all female form around the 12th century. In the modern period, Kuan Yin is most often represented as a beautiful, white-robed woman, a depiction which derives from the earlier Pandaravasini form.
One Buddhist legend presents Avalokitesvara as vowing to never rest until he had freed all sentient beings from samsara. Despite strenuous effort, he realized that still many unhappy beings were yet to be saved. After comprehending the great demand, he became overwhelmed and his head split into thousands of pieces. Fortunately, a Buddha assembled him back together again. With eleven heads gazing to the front and sides, Avalokiteshvara possesses the unique gift to see everywhere at once and reach out to the needy.
A character known as Kuan Yin is also mentioned in the Book of Lie Zi as a Taoist sage, but it is unclear if this refers to the Kuan Yin later venerated as a bodhisattva.
In China, it is said that fishermen used to pray to her to ensure safe voyages. The titles 'Kuan Yin of the Southern Ocean' and 'Kuan Yin (of/on) the Island' stem from this tradition.
Another story, possibly Taoist in origin, describes Kuan Yin as the daughter of a cruel father who wanted her to marry a wealthy but uncaring man. She begged to be able to enter a temple and become a nun instead. Her father allowed her to work in the temple, but asked the monks to give her very hard chores in order to discourage her. The monks forced Kuan Yin to work all day and all night, while others slept, in order to finish her work. However, she was such a good person that the animals living around the temple began to help her with her chores. Her father, seeing this, became so frustrated that he attempted to burn down the temple. Kuan Yin put out the fire with her bare hands and suffered no burns. Now struck with fear, her father ordered her to be put to death. After she died she was made into a goddess for all of her kindness and began her journey to heaven. She was about to cross over into heaven when she heard a cry of suffering back on earth. She asked to be sent back and vowed to stay until all suffering had ended.
One version of this legend states that, at the point of Kuan Yin's father's execution of her, a supernatural tiger took Kuan Yin to one of the more hell-like realms of the dead. However, instead of being punished by demons like the other inmates, Kuan Yin played music and flowers blossomed around her. This managed to completely surprise the head demon. The story says that Kuan Yin, by being in that hell, turned it into a paradise.
Due to her symbolising compassion, in East Asia Kuan Yin is associated with vegetarianism. Chinese vegetarian restaurants are generally decorated with her image, and she appears in most Buddhist vegetarian pamphlets and magazines.
According to one legend, Kwan Yin, who is often referred to as the female Buddha, was a beautiful Indian princess who forsook marriage and the good life to live in a convent in order to become a truly enlightened human being, or bodhisattva. By turning her back on a life of luxury and seeking out spiritual enlightenment, her life story is similar in theme to that of the historical Buddha, Prince Siddhartha Gautama. Both individuals eventually became thoroughly enlightened and compassionate spiritual beings, who sought to alleviate mankind's sufferings. Talk about more joy in Tushita Heaven!
After having achieved enlightenment and the right to enter Buddhist Heaven or Nirvana, legend has it that at Heaven's gates Kwan Yin heard the despairing cry of someone back on earth. Upon hearing that sad cry, she quickly returned to the earthly plane, and vowed to stay there to help all those who suffer achieve the same level of enlightenment that she had, so that they too could enter Nirvana. Kwan Yin's name means "The one who hears the cries of the world."
Compassionate Goddess
For centuries Eastern cultures have worshipped Kwan Yin as the Compassionate Saviouress of the East. Likened to the great stature of the Virgin Mary in the West, she is the Goddess of Compassion, a motherly figure thought to bestow children on the truly faithful, and to be there for anyone in need of love and sympathy.
All those who needlessly suffer are Kwan Yin's children. She is all-loving, and the perfect embodiment of beauty, grace and enduring compassion.
Kwan Yin's appeal is that she responds to the heartfelt needs of ordinary people. She is accessible to anyone, regardless of social status, and will come to the emotional rescue of anyone who calls upon her in a time of crisis. There are many ways to invoke Kwan Yin into one's life. The traditional way is by chanting the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM.
It is further believed that to have a picture or statue of Kwan Yin in one's home brings good luck and protection to the household.
The Jewel in the Lotus
Amongst modern Buddhist scholars, Kwan Yin is considered to be the feminine form of Avalokitesvara (Sanskrit), the male bodhisattva of compassion of Indian Buddhism whose worship was introduced into China in the third century. The Buddhist monk and translator Kumarajiva was the first to refer to the female form of Kwan Yin in his Chinese translation of the Lotus Sutra in 406 A.D. Because Kwan Yin's name appears thirty-three times in Kumarajiva's translation, Chinese and Japanese Buddhists have come to associate the number 33 with her radiant identity.
Despite ongoing controversy over the true historical origins of Kwan Yin as a female deity, the depiction of a Buddhist bodhisattva as both 'god' and 'goddess' is not inconsistent with Buddhist doctrine; however, the legendary Buddhist saint Miao Shan, a Chinese princess who lived about 700 B.C., reinforced the image of the bodhisattva as being that of a woman.
The precious vase Kwan Yin often holds in her depictions symbolizes the sacred nectar of compassion and wisdom. She is also frequently portrayed as a slender woman in flowing white robes who carries in her left hand a white lotus, an abiding symbol of purity of heart and spirit.
Kwan Yin's role in Chinese Buddhism is that of a wise and compassionate Madonna. Her embodiment of beauty, grace and compassion still represents the ideal of womanhood in Asia. There was a statue of Kwan Yin in every Buddhist monastery in China by the end of the ninth century. This highly evolved Chinese Buddhist goddess of infinite mercy, this precious jewel in the lotus, has transcended her own origins and is regarded as the female Buddha by the truly faithful all over the world. It is believed one third of the world's population still pray to her on a regular basis.
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On the turbulent sea of life,
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And guides the way.
She brings the comforts to the sufferers
who invoke her name sincerely and mindfully,
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Manifests herself and showers mercy just in time in all realms.
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Vasily Yegorovich Flug (March 19, 1860 – December 3, 1955) was an Imperial Russian Army General of the Infantry. A career military officer, he served in the Boxer Rebellion, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, before joining the White movement during the Russian Civil War. Like many other officers, he went into exile after the end of the Russian Civil War, initially moving to Yugoslavia. After World War II, Flug went to the United States, where he died.

Biography
Flug graduated from the 2nd Saint Petersburg Military Gymnasium in 1877 and the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy in 1880 with the rank of second lieutenant, being first assigned to the 7th Horse Artillery Battery. Upon his graduation from the General Staff Academy in 1890, he was appointed head of the drilling staff department of the Vladivostok Fortress on November 26 of that year. From October 4, 1893, Flug served as a squadron commander in the 11th Kharkov Dragoon Regiment. He transferred to become a senior adjutant of the  Caucasian Grenadier Division on October 6, 1894.

Far East service

On February 16, 1896, Flug became a staff officer at the headquarters of the 2nd East Siberian Rifle Brigade, stationed in the Russian Far East. He participated in the Russian invasion of Manchuria during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and 1901. On July 22, 1900, he became head of the military staff department of the Kwantung Oblast. For his actions during the capture of Lutai on September 9, 1900, Flug was awarded the Gold Sword for Bravery on March 15, 1901. On January 22, 1902, he became chief of staff of the Kwangtung Oblast, and was promoted to major general on August 27, 1903, for distinguishing himself.

From 29 January 1904, Flug was the quartermaster of the field headquarters of the governor in the Far East.
He participated in the Russo-Japanese War. From 14 January 1905, Flug was the general quartermaster of the headquarters of the 2nd Manchurian Army. From 21 September 1905, he is the military governor of the Maritime Region and Ataman of the Ussuri Cossacks.
A Lieutenant General in 1908, he became on 19 November 1909, the commander of the 37th infantry Division and on 30 July 1912, of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division. From 12 January 1913, Flug was an assistant to the General Governor of Turkestan and commander of the Army of the Turkestan Military District.

World War I
After the destruction of General Samsonov's 2nd Army in the wake of the Battle of Tannenberg, the 10th Army was formed in late August 1914 from reserve units. On 29 August 1914, Vasily Flug was appointed commander of this 10th Army and made a general of the infantry. Despite successful actions in the battles against the 8th German Army and the taking of Suwałki, and because of disagreements with General Nikolai Ruzsky, Vasily Flug was on 23 September 1914 suspended for "dangerous activities" by the command of the army and transferred to the supreme commander. On 4 October 1914, he was appointed to supervise the restoration of the 13th and 15th Army Corps, which had been all but destroyed in Eastern Prussia in August 1914. On 8 July 1915, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Army Corps. He was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree.

During the Vilnius operation in September 1915, the Germans set out to disengage the troops of the Northern and Western fronts by hitting at the wedge between the 5th and 10th armies, and sending cavalry to the area of Molodechno to operate in the rear of the 10th Army. Part of the 2nd Corps under the general command of General Flug was ordered to counter the enemy's designs. Not only did he withheld the onslaught of the enemy, but he also moved to the offensive. As a result of the energy, courage and skilful leadership shown by General Flug, the German plan came to nothing.

In 1916, the 2nd Corps joined the 7th Army and participated in the South-Western Front offensive in the summer of 1916.

Revolution and Civil War
After the February Revolution, Flug was put on 30 May 1917 in the reserve of officers at the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District. After the October coup, he left for Don. On November 14, 1917, he arrived in Novocherkassk and offered his services to General Mikhail Alekseyev, who had formed the Volunteer Army.

In February 1918, Vasily Flug was sent to Siberia to organize the anti-bolshevik resistance there. He left Novocherkassk on 25 February under the name of Vasily Fadeev. During his mission to Siberia, he helped unify and coordinate the activities of the clandestine officers' organizations in Omsk, Petropavlovsk, Tomsk and Irkutsk. On 29 March 1918, he arrived in Omsk, on 27 April, in Tomsk, on 4 May, in Irkutsk, and on 11 June in Vladivostok. Vasily Flug then travelled to Harbin, where he was a member of the Government of General Horvath from June 1918. On 1–14 December 1918, he temporarily served as commander of the troops in the Amur military region. As of 3 December 1918, he became an assistant High Commissioner in the Far East of General Horvath in the civil area.

At the very end of 1918, Flug arrived in Omsk, where he met Admiral Kolchak. Despite his extensive experience and involvement in the organization of the Anti-Bolshevik resistance in Siberia, there was no place for him in Kolchak's Army. On the instructions of Kolchak, he returned to southern Russia at the disposal of general Anton Denikin. On February 10, 1919, Vasily Flug sailed from Vladivostok on the steamboat Tomsk and on April 6, 1919, arrived in Novorossiysk.

After returning to Southern Russia, Flug was entrusted in May 1919 with carrying out an inspection of all logistical institutions under the authority of the Special Meeting. His main task was the expulsion from the excessively overgrown number of logistical offices compared to officers suitable for combat service. In September 1919, he was appointed an assistant to the military unit of the commander-in-chief and commander of the Kiev region, General Dragomirov. After the loss of Kiev, he retreated to the Crimea. On 8 December 1919 Flug was transferred to the reserve ranks at the headquarters of the Novorossiysk region.

In exile
In 1920, after the Crimea was abandoned by the White Russian troops, Flug left for Yugoslavia. From 1922 he served in the Yugoslav Military Ministry (Varaždin). He was actively involved in the activities of the Russian All-Military Union. In 1930, Flug became acting chief of the 4th Division of the Russian All-Military Union (Yugoslavia), and at the same time until March 1932, he served as chairman of the district government of the Russian staff officers in the 4th Division of the Russian All-Military Union.

During World War II Flug served in the Russian Corps. After the war ended, he moved to the United States. He was a member of the Society of Great War veterans. He was a permanent employee of the magazine Watch and Bulletin of Military Knowledge.  Flug died in San Francisco.

Essays
A mission report from the Volunteer Army to Siberia in 1918//Archives of the Russian Revolution. -Berlin, 1923. -T. 9. -c. 243–304;
10th Army in September 1914, military compendium-kn. V. Belgrade, 1924. -c. 232–260;
New French Field Service Statutes/Military Knowledge Bulletin. -No. 1-4. 1931;

Unpublished memoirs
From the Kvantuna class to the beginning of the Japanese War (1929, manuscript);
The Japanese War of 1904–1905. (1930, manuscript);
The Great War (1930, manuscript);
Revolution and Civil War (1931, manuscript);
After the Russo-Japanese War in the administrative post of 1905–1910. (1932, manuscript);
In the Great War, chapter II of the Army Corps. 1915–1917. (1934, manuscript).

Awards
Flug received the following awards and decorations:
 Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class (1896) and 1st class with Swords (1905)
 Order of the White Eagle with Swords (May 25, 1915)
 Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class (1893), 2nd class (1900), and 1st class with Swords (1905)
Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class with Swords and Bow (1900), 3rd class with Swords (1905), and 2nd class (December 6, 1911)
Gold Sword for Bravery (March 15, 1901)
Order of St. George, 4th class (January 9, 1916)

References

Sources

E. Wolves, N. D. Egorov, and B. Merchants. White generals of the Eastern front of the Civil War. M. Russian route, 2003.
Rutych N. H. Biographical Directory of the highest ranks of the voluntary Army and the armed forces of southern Russia. M., 2002.
A. Ganin. General Fluga's secret mission.
Flug, Vasily E. On the Russian army in Great War website

1860 births
1955 deaths
Russian military personnel of the Boxer Rebellion
Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
Russian military personnel of World War I
People of the Russian Civil War
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class

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Q: MP3 Playing modules that will run within a thread Python I'm trying to write a program that will play MP3's. This program will also have a GUI. In order to allow both to happen simultaneously I'm implementing threading. However, I've run into a problem. Whenever I run my program everything executes normally, except no sound comes out. No errors nothing. It's as if the command was skipped. Through process of elimination I believe I've found the problem is caused when I run the music playing portion of the program from within a thread (self.MP.controls.play()).
Is anyone familiar with other modules that will allow me to play music within a thread? Or is anyone aware of what may be causing the problem?
Code:
import GUIThread as GUIT # GUIThread is just an interface I made for the threading module, just act as if it was threading.
from win32com.client import Dispatch

class Test :
    def __init__ (self) :
        self.Dir = r'song.mp3'
        self.Thread = GUIT.Thread(self, func=self.play_song, loop=False)
        self.MP = Dispatch('WMPlayer.OCX')
        song = self.MP.newMedia(self.Dir)
        self.MP.currentPlaylist.appendItem(song)

    def start (self) :
        # Starts the thread.
        # Equivalent to :
        # t = threading.Thread(target=self.play_song)
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    def play_song (self) :
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        if self.Dir != None :
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Edit:
Also, I'm going to be using Tkinter for the GUI toolkit.

A: You could try pymedia or pyglet. I know pygame has mp3 support as well.


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Warped Reflections: The Cinematic Identity of Helmut Berger
July 18, 2016 /in Audiovisual Essays, Spring 2016_'Small data' /by Jeroen Sondervan
Tags: audiovisual essay, Helmut Berger, identity
by Hugo Emmerzael
Last year the International Film Festival Rotterdam hosted the second edition of the renewed Critics' Choice program, in which film critics were invited to introduce a film of the program with a video essay. Films reflecting on film, in front of a live audience that could ask questions to the video essayist instead of the filmmaker, is the idea. Since the critics who participated in the first edition encountered some problems along the way in terms of availability and licensing of audiovisual materials, a theme was chosen for this edition: 'Whose Cinema?'. This theme opened up the possibility to raise many more important questions in the flourishing field of the audiovisual essay: who is allowed to use copyright materials for what reasons?; is every film downloadable/remixable/mashupable/supercutable?; what films will be lost in the inevitable shift from the analogue to the digital? Essentially the main question raised was: who owns film?
When I was suggested which film to introduce with a video essay I was also confronted with this question, but on a different level. Andreas Horvath's Helmut Berger, Actor (2015) is a startling portrait of an aged actor once known for his beauty, his extravaganza, and his roles in films by Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica. Horvath portrays his subject mercilessly, as a vile, mean, and ill-spirited old man who is desperately seeking out the attention of the filmmaker. It is true that Helmut Berger is an asshole – he insults, intimidates, and annoys Horvath without showing any interest in collaborating on the documentary. He is actually at his most expressive when he leaves Horvath unnerving voice messages on his phone at night. When he is on camera he suddenly snaps and shouts at the filmmaker without any clear reason. Horvath cranks up this tension by incorporating a creepy, angry, and abstract soundtrack that he composed himself. In a sense he has not only made a documentary but also a horror film. Helmut Berger, Actor is a portrait of a monster created by the cinema as Dr Frankenstein.
Horvath takes cinematic revenge on his tormentor; he captures Berger in some of his nastiest moments. When we are introduced to the Austrian actor he is mindlessly sitting in a chair in his cramped and messy apartment, pants down with his hands on his private parts. One of the final scenes of the film is among the most uncomfortable and sexually-explicit scenes I have ever seen in a documentary film. Here, Berger is stripped of all the dignity that he had left, if he still had any. This also raises a question: can a filmmaker capture this material and screen it in front of an audience? Berger's outrageous behaviour can be interpreted as a scream for attention, a desperate way to finally get the cameras rolling again. He has always been ready for his close-up – the picture just is not so pretty anymore.
If we go back to the main theme of the Critics' Choice program and we ask whose cinema it is, the answer could be either Berger's or Horvath's. This documentary portrays a struggle between object and subject, between creator and creation, between art and real life. It got me wondering about the relationship Helmut Berger has had with the camera in other films throughout his career. To my surprise I found out I had only seen him play a small and forgettable part in The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1995). My proper introduction to Helmut Berger has thus been a very strange one.
With Berger's vanity displayed in the documentary in mind, I watched as many of his films as I could possibly find (and believe me, many could be considered lost). This search has led me to Italian classics (ranging from Visconti's The Damned [1969] to De Sica's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [1970]), European trash (A French/Spanish softcore porn film called Femmes [Tana Kaleya, 1983], the agreeable Jesús Franco horror film Faceless [1987], among others) and a huge amount of films in which Helmut Berger played a Nazi. If I can make a quick side note here and reflect on the issues raised by the Whose Cinema? program: some of these films were so obscure that I could only find them on dedicated torrent sites. A case can be made here that peer-to-peer file sharing can result in a more complete archive than the official ones owned by studios and television stations. Piracy can save some films from digital oblivion.
Back to the films. One thing that all of them had in common was an almost obscene fascination with the image of Helmut Berger, as if all his films were ultimately concerned with Helmut Berger and not with the characters he played. This obsession with Berger as an icon is visualised in a lot his films through shots of images of Berger's images: windows, mirrors, drawings, paintings, photographs, and other films. They all provide warped reflections of Helmut Berger within his films. I set out to use these shots of Berger's images in my audiovisual essay to ask myself questions: what does this hall of cinematic mirrors say about the man I saw in Horvath's documentary?; can I understand this documentary better through Berger's fiction work?; is every film with Helmut Berger ultimately a film about Helmut Berger?
I think the answer to that final question is a resounding yes, and I am guilty of this phenomenon myself. I have set out to make a critical enquiry of the nature of Berger's cinema and by doing so I have been seduced to collect as many of his images as possible to put them in a sequence. I have made an analysis of Berger's images, but I accidentally also made a celebration of those same images. Just like Horvath and all the other filmmakers who have worked with Berger, I have discovered that when you set out to make something with Helmut Berger in it he is going to take over. Frankenstein discovered that he made a creature with a life of its own. The same can be said about the imagery of Helmut Berger.
Hugo Emmerzael is a film critic from the Netherlands. He is a member of the editorial team of de Filmkrant and a music critic for Gonzo (circus). He also works as a programmer for Pluk de Nacht, hosts a monthly screening in the art cinema 't Hoogt in Utrecht, and will launch the radio show Stranded Cinema in 2016.
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One of the things that set the Cosmonaut apart from other reverbs is its set of alt controls. The Cosmonaut has 3 knobs on the "top" row which have been duplicated on the "Bottom" row giving you two different sounds you can jump between. You can set both rows to the same row and jump between two different sounds on the same reverb or set them as different reverbs using the toggle switches at the top of the pedal. This creates a simple and straight forward way to get a wide and dynamic sound from just one pedal.
We have cut the power requirement in half making it easier to find a place on your power supply!
Probably one of the most requested features for the Cosmonaut is the ability to let those beautiful haunting layers continue as you switch the pedal off preventing a hard cut to your sound as your playing. If you still want that hard cut sound simply hold both foot switches for 10 seconds until the bypass led flashes and now you are in the bypass mode which cut the reverb signal as soon as you turn it off.
Fuel: The mix of your signal. Turn up to go 100% wet.
The top left toggle lets you choose which algorithm is active for the top row.
The top right toggle lets you choose which algorithm is active for the bottom row.


An Indian Ocean beach party (shame we had to hold it in rainy old Crawley)!
After the Atlantic and Billy, the Indian is undoubtedly our favourite Ocean! And on Saturday night the people of Crawley were treated to the sounds of that most beautiful of Indian Ocean Islands, Mauritius. A large crowd turned up to party the night away at Redz bar, and some of us realised that we're not as young as we used to be and couldn't keep up (but enough about Jason and Owen)!
Reggie in a rather sedate mood....it didn't last.....!
Music was provided throughout by the Eric and Adrian Disco (07768900208/07428950386), interspersed with live appearances from Babale and Didier (07914445210) accompanied by the Music Omaz Crew. The floor was filled with rather energetic dancing, the wine (and beer) flowed, large amounts of alcohol were consumed, children played football and beat each other senseless with CTSA balloons, and a very good time was had by all. As well as the photographs found here, many more can be found at our Facebook site- link below- and if you took any you'd like us to add, please feel free to email them to chairman@ctfcsa.co.uk and we shall endeavour to post them as soon as possible.
"OK, who's ready to paaaartyyyy?"
The Crawley Town Supporters Alliance would like to thank all those who attended for their support and for being very friendly and rather wonderful! All money raised will go towards our community initiatives over the next season, and as all of the artists gave their time for free we should have a few hundred pounds to put towards enriching the lives of children in our community and introducing them to the delights of Crawley Town. And we'd particularly like to thank Andrew "Wiggy" Dunn for getting right into the spirit of the evening- although we can't tell you why, we'd have to kill you!
Perhaps we'll do this again very soon. And just perhaps we might pick an evening where the weather fits with the mood……..
...and becomes a party animal...!
Great night – thoroughly enjoyed it, and what's more managed to stay the course for over 7 hrs – must have been the Latin beat and memories of sun filled holidays!!
We should do this again and if we do, make sure you're there – you'll have a ball.