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FreshCo grocery delivery
FreshCo (Toronto) is the discount banner of Sobeys Incorporated (a 100% Canadian owned company established in 1907). Launched in 2010, FreshCo's commitment is to provide the best discount grocery shopping experience by offering quality fresh food at low prices and with less compromise. Today FreshCo has 92 stores in 50 towns/cities across Ontario and our unwavering commitment continues. Regular Freshco Hours (grocery delivery) - 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
Organic Garage grocery delivery
Organic Garage (Toronto) is a Canadian, grocery store with a healthy conscience. Our mission is to bring you the best quality organic and all natural products, at the lowest possible prices. Regular Organic Garage Hours (grocery delivery) - 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
Summerhill Market grocery delivery
Frank McMullen was the founder of Summerhill Market (Toronto), which he opened in Rosedale back in 1954. As the neighborhood grocer, Frank took pride in knowing the majority of our customers by name and eventually became one of the most well known faces in the community. Regular Summerhill Market (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Sobeys Urban FRESH grocery delivery
Sobeys Inc is the second largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1,500 stores operating in Canada under a variety of banners. it operates stores in all ten provinces and accumulated sales of more than $24 billion CAD in the fiscal 2017 operating year.
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Galati Fresh Market (Toronto) is a small chain of supermarkets in Toronto. The chain emerged from the Galati Brothers. Regular Galati Fresh Market (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Coppa's Fresh Market is a family-owned and operated grocery store chain in the Greater Toronto Area. We are committed to providing a truly authentic grocery experience, where customers get exceptional value, great service, and selection of the finest quality food from around the corner…and around the world! Regular Coppa's Toronto (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Costco grocery delivery
Costco Wholesale Corporation, trading as Costco, is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs. Regular Costco hours Toronto (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
LCBO alcohol delivery
LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is a Crown corporation that retails and distributes alcoholic beverages throughout the province of Ontario, Canada. Regular LCBO Toronto (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Concord Foods grocery delivery
Concord Foods, Toronto is a leading supplier of retail food products and custom ingredients to nationally recognized supermarkets, food service operators and leading food manufacturers. Regular Concord Foods (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Walmart grocery delivery
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Walmart may be the nation's largest grocery retailer. Shop Walmart's food selection online anytime, anywhere. Regular Walmart Grocery (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Rexall Pharma Plus grocery delivery
Rexall also operates Rexall Direct, Canada's national mail-order pharmacy and Rexall Health Solutions, a division focused on providing highly specialized clinical care and complex medication management services in transitional care settings. Rexall is a member of the Rexall Pharmacy Group Ltd., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of McKesson Corporation. Regular Rexall (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Shop for best vitamins and supplements,healthy nutrition products,sports nutrition,beauty care range,herbs ,workout supplements,multivitamins and groceries online at Healthy Planet Canada. Regular Healthy Planet Toronto (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
M&M Food Market grocery delivery
For over thirty-five years, M&M Food Market has helped Canadians put delicious meals on the table by offering restaurant-quality food, great customer service and a convenient shopping experience. Regular M&M Food Market hours Toronto (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Enter McEwan, where you will discover tantalizing flavours chopped, stirred and blended into a culinary shopping adventure that brings the world's absolute finest to your table – including a delectable selection of specialty and hard-to-find items unavailable anywhere else in Toronto. Regular McEwan Gourmet Grocery hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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What a Bagel is a Toronto staple for fresh, delicious bagels. Drop in to any of our locations for warm, fresh bagels. What a Bagel is a Toronto staple for fresh, delicious bagels. Regular What a Bagel hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Beer Store alcohol delivery
The Beer Store was established in 1927, which means we've been around longer than the Internet. And television. And a lot of other things (probably even you!). Regular The Beer Store hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Sweet Boutique grocery delivery
Sweet Boutique is a quaint, traditional Italian-style, family-oriented bakery and café located in the heart of Vaughan, Ontario.
Grande Cheese grocery delivery
Grande Cheese has been a cherished and trusted source since our humble beginnings in 1958 on a small family farm in Orangeville Ontario.
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Brothers Butcher Shoppe is located in Vaughan. It specializes in gourmet meat and poultry as well as prepared foods and ready to eat meals.
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Grocery Delivery Ottawa
FreshCo (Ottawa) is the discount banner of Sobeys Incorporated (a 100% Canadian owned company established in 1907). Launched in 2010, FreshCo's commitment is to provide the best discount grocery shopping experience by offering quality fresh food at low prices and with less compromise.
Today FreshCo has 92 stores in 50 towns/cities across Ontario and our unwavering commitment continues.
Regular Freshco Hours (grocery delivery) - 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
Sobeys Inc is the second largest grocery retailer in Canada, with a lot of stores operating in Canada. it operates stores in all ten provinces.
Regular Sobeys Ottawa (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Costco Wholesale Corporation, trading as Costco, is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs. Regular Costco hours Ottawa (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is a Crown corporation that retails and distributes alcoholic beverages throughout the province of Ontario, Canada. Regular LCBO Ottawa (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Rexall Pharma Plus - Ottawa - Wellington St. Today, our more than 450 Rexall and Rexall Pharma Plus locations are supported by 8600 staff, all dedicated to providing exceptional service and care. Regular Rexall (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Walmart Ottawa grocery delivery. Regular Walmart Ottawa hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Your food tastes and eating habits have changed, so we've changed, too. We invite you to rediscover M&M Food Market. Our food now contains absolutely no artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners. And we are launching more new delicious, prepared entrées than ever before. Regular M&M Food Market hours Ottawa (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Brewers Retail Inc., doing business as The Beer Store, is a Canadian privately-owned chain of retail outlets selling beer and other malt beverages in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Grocery Delivery Vancouver
Costco Wholesale - Vancouver - phone number, website, address & opening hours - BC - Grocery Wholesalers. Regular Costco hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
PetSmart grocery delivery
Best pet supplies online and in store! Vancouver PetSmart offers quality products and accessories for a healthier, happier pet. Regular PetSmart (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Find a Rexall Store in Vancouver. Regular Rexall (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Greens Organic + Natural Market grocery delivery
Greens Organic + Natural Market brings everything you need to live a healthy, sustainable lifestyle to the heart of your neighbourhood. Organic produce...fresh seafood...gourmet deli meats...natural beauty products & more-all at the corner of Broadway & Maple St. Regular Greens Organic + Natural Market (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
88 Supermarket grocery delivery
Safeway grocery delivery
Shop online for groceries, find out about our grocery stores, partner promotions, get health and nutritional information, and find all recipes and meals ideas. Regular Safeway Vancouver hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Walmart Vancouver grocery delivery. Regular Walmart Vancouver hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Welcome to the new M&M Food Market. Regular M&M Food Market hours Vancouver (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Bottle Jockey alcohol delivery
Browse and buy wine, craft beer and liquor online - Burnaby, Vancouver and the rest of British Columbia(BC).
BC Liquor Stores alcohol delivery
The Liquor Distribution Branch operates 197 retail stores located throughout the province under the brand BC Liquor Stores and is one of the largest retailers in British Columbia. BC Liquor Stores serve more than 36 million retail customers every year.
BC Liquor Stores is committed to providing our customers with an enhanced shopping environment, increased product selection and a high level of service.
Canadian Tire grocery delivery
Grocery Delivery Calgary
Find a great collection of Calgary at Costco. Enjoy low warehouse prices on name-brand Calgary products. Regular Costco hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Come to PetSmart and rise and shine with our furry friends! Regular PetSmart hours Calgary (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Rexall Pharma Plus - Calgary - phone number, website & address - AB - Pharmacies.
Safeway stores operate under the logo of a stylized white "S" inside a rounded red square with the slogan "Ingredients for life". Following the organics trend, the stores have expanded the number of organic fruits and vegetables in the produce section and offer other items under the "O Organics" label. Regular Safeway hours Calgary (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Walmart Calgary grocery delivery. Regular Walmart Calgary hours (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
M&M Food Market (French: Les aliments M&M), formerly known as M&M Meat Shops, is a Canadian frozen food retail chain. Regular M&M Food Market hours Calgary (grocery delivery through INABUGGY) - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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As I say every year: I don't do new year's resolutions. Instead I take a look back at the year and see what I accomplished. Then I look ahead to the new year and see what I might want to accomplish in the year ahead.
I found a full time job at an awesome company. After two years of working part time jobs, I finally found a full time job at EventMobi, doing tech support, and I love it there.
Keystone Theatre presented The Last Man on Earth at the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto, which allowed me to have this moment with a poster of me as Gormless Joe in the lobby.
My play The Parliamentarians was performed at the Red Sandcastle Theatre. It was a huge thrill to work on this play with my very talented cast: Richard Beaune, Scott Clarkson, Rebecca Rodley, Siobhan Richardson and Adrianna Prosser, and I'm very grateful to both them and to Rosemary Doyle at the Red Sandcastle. Also, big thanks to my stage manager: Christopher Douglas. Its really interesting to see how the cast helped me improve the show. It was really gratifying to work with actors who were able to give some great feedback that helped me improve the play.
Keystone Theatre presented its latest show, Gold Fever at the Toronto Fringe Festival to rave reviews. It was great to rework this play and find new depth. It was in the end, very different from the play that we presented at the Festival of Clowns in 2013.
Sarah and I spent Canada Day weekend in Niagara on the Lake, which was an exciting surprise getaway.
We also went to a cabin in the woods, on the other side of Ottawa. It was a little place with no running water and no electricity. Its the most rustic I have ever been. The purpose of the trip was to do some writing, and we did. I was working on a new play, and Sarah was working on an awesome new project. We'd wake up in the morning, and make some coffee on the Coleman stove, and then sit out on the porch overlooking the a ravine as the mist rose.
In November I took a shot at NaNoWriMo and tried to write a novel in a month. I didn't make it to the 50,000 word goal, but I learned a lot about writing, so I count it as a win.
In addition to NaNo, I've been writing quite a bit.
Sarah and I also took a big nine day trip to New York City, and it was awesome. We'd been planning the trip for a year and a half, and it was just as awesome as we had hoped.
Next year, is about creating.
Reviewing the drafts of plays I've written this year, and starting the work on revising them.
In May, I've organized a weekend Playwrights' Retreat, with Artscape Gibraltar Point.
Planning to submit one of my plays for the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival. The only question is, which one?
That was my year, and a look ahead to next. How was your year?


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Pernicious (2015) - Horror Film News
Pernicious is a horror film from director James Cullen Bressack (My Pure Joy, Blood Lake) that has been on the official selection for a variety of film festivals around the globe as well as won a few awards including best director (Underground Monster Carnival) and best horror film (Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival 2014). It has been described as 'a bloody, supernatural horror flick'.
Three young girls go on a trip to Thailand to teach English for the summer but while there they unwittingly free the spirit of a murdered child who appears as a gold statue. With the golden girl wanting nothing more than to kill, the trio must delve into Thai folklore and find a way to stop the madness.
From the trailer you can view below it looks like Pernicious could be interesting, the antagonist of a gold girl haunting the girls looks like she could be creepy while dream sequences or maybe actual events of people being tortured seem to cover those hankering for some more Saw/Hostel style misery. It stars Ciara Hanna, Emily O'Brien, and Jackie Moore in the lead roles and as well as directing it Cullen Bressack is also the films writer.
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Last year, I wrote a blog post about why we built our platform on AWS and rebuilt it with open source. It chronicles our journey to build our ideal unified system, one that checks all our boxes (like cross-infrastructure, secure, efficient, highly available, self-healing and able to execute long running processes as well as spin up one-off processes and specialized clusters of machines on the side).
Yes, the capabilities of best-in-class open source components like Apache Airflow, Apache Mesos, Docker, Marathon and more enabled us to build this ideal platform, an engine to power everything we do, called DataRouter.
But there's a deeper, philosophical reason we are pursuing open source—and why we are, in turn, open sourcing our platform: we want to live in a world that's open source.
According to Wired, when Facebook decided to stop "treating data center design like Fight Club," companies like Microsoft, HP and even Google followed suit. This changed the game. No longer are companies forced to waste time reinventing the wheel. Now they can implement the components they need—created by top developers—and innovate elsewhere (let's get to Mars!).
We've all had "technical difficulties" when our technology operated unreliably. Professionally, that can cause a variety of outcomes, from mild annoyance to genuine detriment. When everybody's using the same components, everybody's optimizing the same components. As Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, said, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (Linus's Law). In other words, the more people who can see and test a set of code, the more likely any flaws will be caught and fixed quickly. When smart people who've spent years doing academic research and real world work build tried and true components, we can be confident in it.
It's a huge benefit to have a large number of developers look at and contribute to the same systems. Instead of a few people with the same view of the world building components, an entire community with varying perspectives and strengths contributes to the system (and has a stake in its success and adoption), which makes the system more resilient.
Not transparent like the world Dave Eggers helped us envision, where privacy is forsaken, but one where people aren't tied down to a proprietary system protected in a black box. Transparent, as in the ones actually using and building on the system can see everything; they can pop open GitHub, look at the code and trust that the code has been reviewed publicly. This gives decision-makers insight to what's going on and where components can be swapped around—and the control they need to actually do it.
When components are living in a community-curated open source world, they are built to "play nicely" with other components. For example, one of our ingestion systems can dump a file in a well-known format to our distributed file system. We can write some common transformations using the Apache Beam API, but are free to swap around the underlying execution engine. We may use Apache Spark today, but may move to Apache Flink, or whatever comes next. Beyond that, we can even swap components of the execution engine, like the in-memory representation. This flexibility allows us (and anyone) to stay cutting edge. And with open source, any organization can take a piece of code and customize it to best fit their needs.
When it comes to tech, we want to live in a world where we're totally free to explore, invent best-in-class technology and use it in revolutionary ways. We can do it through open source.


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Is the "system-agnostic" tag really necessary?
Looking over the questions that have been tagged as system-agnostic I have to question what value the tag really has. The questions all are phrased so no system in particular is mentioned, so tagging it as system-agnostic seems to be redundant. When you're searching for an answer (especially those that are new to the site), your first thought for searching is generally going to be specific to the system you're in.
The only value it may have is for those that are just browsing the site looking for nothing in particular, just seeing what's all out there.
So is there really a good reason to keep using the system-agnostic tag?
Agent_9191Agent_9191
The tag can serve the purpose of being an easy short-hand for the types of answers being sought. Ideally, if I click on such a tag I'll find lots of questions/answers dealing with setting material, general play advice, the social atmosphere around the table, and so on. I may be in the minority in this, but I've been using the tags as a navigation device.
C. EdwardsC. Edwards
\$\begingroup\$ I haven't actually searched for that tag, but when skimming I find it to be a helpful visual aid. Also, there is no other way to search for "questions with no tag that corresponds to a rules system". I would have to put every game system tag as an ignored tag, I guess? FWIW, stackoverflow has a "language-agnostic" tag (3,410 questions). \$\endgroup\$ – RMorrisey Aug 21 '10 at 8:28
On the other hand, one of the legitimate uses of the system-agnostic tag could be to clearly flag a question as wanting answers that are system-agnostic. (For example this question and this question.) If we tightly define it that way and enforce it, then I can see it being very useful.
\$\begingroup\$ This is how I interpreted the tag, for what is worth. When I have used it, it was with the intent of hopefully preventing responses that invoke the rules of a specific system. (Although after 7 months with the tag still around, I am guessing it is here to stay.) \$\endgroup\$ – Runeslinger Apr 15 '11 at 12:28
\$\begingroup\$ @Runeslinger It's likely here to stay, yeah. The general opinion of what it's for seems to have shifted so that it's being applied more usefully, though there are still times I look at the tags on the question and think "isn't there something more appropriate than [system-agnostic] for this?" \$\endgroup\$ – SevenSidedDie Apr 15 '11 at 17:34
One use of tags is to help people answer questions, as it can help focus where your specialities lie.
I don't see how system-agnostic helps in this case.
Iain M NormanIain M Norman
\$\begingroup\$ +1 - theoretically in absence of other indicators/tags the site should be "system-agnostic" by default, making the tag redundant. \$\endgroup\$ – LeguRi Aug 20 '10 at 15:25
\$\begingroup\$ It should also be noted that there are now 40+ questions tagged as [system-agnostic] \$\endgroup\$ – LeguRi Sep 9 '10 at 17:44
\$\begingroup\$ Unfortunately, there's no convenient way to search for questions which are not tagged with any other indicators and tags. Browsing the top-voted questions in [system-agnostic] is a great way to look for answers to problems you didn't realize you had. \$\endgroup\$ – kodi Sep 9 '10 at 20:28
"The questions all are phrased so no system in particular is mentioned"
The problem, here, is that sometimes those questions are phrased in such a way that people assume they're referring to a particular system. This is rare so far - for the most part, people are seem more likely to ask questions which could be answered in a system-agnostic way, but are narrowing the scope to a particular system and getting more focused answers as a result. Still, if someone really wanted to ask Is there any benefit to trying to have someone start at the bottom and joining in? in a system-agnostic context, they'd pretty much have to disclaim that they were talking about D&D at some point, either in the question, or in response to a comment asking, "Are you talking about D&D?" The system-agnostic tag strikes me as an excellent way to formally include that disclaimer: "I really do want something that applies to all systems [which have mechanics similar to the one I'm discussing]."
Indeed, [dnd] is seeing a LOT of use as a shorthand for "systems [which have D&D-like mechanics]." With that in mind, I could see tagging a question "[dnd] [system-agnostic]" to indicate that you're talking about games that act like D&D, but that you don't believe the answer depends on any particular system.
"When you're searching for an answer (especially those that are new to the site), your first thought for searching is generally going to be specific to the system you're in."
Well, we should plan tags in such a way that they're useful to people who are not new to the site, as well. And if you have a question that you know will be the same no matter what the system, you might well include [system-agnostic] to avoid getting answers that are too cluttered with a particular system's mechanics. More than that, though, I think that [system-agnostic] is a fascinating tag to browse, because it has answers that are by design applicable regardless of what system I might choose. That strikes me as well-defined and useful.
"The only value it may have is for those that are just browsing the site looking for nothing in particular, just seeing what's all out there."
I do not agree that this activity is worthless. The top-voted [system-agnostic] questions are a fascinating collection already, and I look forward to continuing to browse them as the site grows.
Another problem I've been made aware of:
"There is disagreement about what [system-agnostic] actually means."
Jeremiah Genest believes it means something very specific, but hasn't shared that definition. I took it to mean something very different. So I'll admit that [system-agnostic] may not be the best possible wording to achieve what I want, because it generates such ideological conflict. Here's what I want:
I want a tag that includes "What problems do evil characters cause?" "What iPhone apps do you use for gaming?" and "What are some alternatives to miniatures?" but does not include "Do healing bonuses (Pacifist healer) apply to flat healing effects like consecrated ground?" and "What are the exact rolls and totals for a direct combat spell?" Each of the first three questions clearly cannot possibly apply to ALL game systems imaginable. I propose that no question could do so. I don't want a tag that means that. I want a tag that means "my question has broad applicability across a number of systems." I don't care what it's called, but that seems to be what people are using [system-agnostic] to mean, and I appreciate being able to readily find the questions that (some people feel) are "system-agnostic" (as opposed to truly being "system agnostic").
kodikodi
\$\begingroup\$ System Agnostic is a meta, non-specific tag that means "This question appleis to anyone, anywhere, anyhow what you play." That is both untrue (all the questions you listed are very specific) and doesn't serve any purpose. They are meaningless generic tags that are rather against stackexchange philosophy (see blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags). Basically if its a meta tag it doesn't belong. \$\endgroup\$ – anon186 Sep 10 '10 at 17:33
\$\begingroup\$ Again, that is very specifically NOT what I take [system-agnostic] to mean. I conceded above, and I concede again that there is no question that can possibly apply to "anyone, anywhere, anyhow what you play" except perhaps "Where are the Cheetos?" That is not what I am talking about, and I don't believe it's what the people who are applying the [system-agnostic] tag mean to talk about. I find it difficult to interpret the rest of your reply because I don't think we're talking about the same thing. You say all the questions I listed are very specific, and they are... \$\endgroup\$ – kodi Sep 10 '10 at 18:19
\$\begingroup\$ from the perspective of "does this apply with equal force to Harn and Cops and Robbers?", but not from the perspective of "does this apply to anything except D&D 4.0?" \$\endgroup\$ – kodi Sep 10 '10 at 18:20
Based on the disagreement over what "agnostic" means in this context, (is it "universal" or "could apply to multiple/many/most systems?"), I'd suggest the term system-neutral as an alternative. I think "neutral" more clearly doesn't require it to apply to every system, just not to be specific to one system. System-neutral is actually the term I was more familiar with from reading product reviews and such.
I know not everyone finds the tag useful at all, but for those that think its useful, this might be a way to clarify.
NumeneticsNumenetics
I use tags to get the highlighting in the question list so I can easily skip over those that aren't of interest to me when I am browsing the landing page. Let's say I would like to see questions that are tagged with one of the many dnd tags, or questions that are not system specific, but I don't want other system specific questions highlighted. Without a tag to represent questions that are not system specific there is no way I can get that highlighting.
digitaljoeldigitaljoel
\$\begingroup\$ Thanks for essentially (re)defining the entire purpose of tags. But not everybody keeps ignored tags visible. Plus, like Richard commented on the other answer, site is set up for any and all RPGs so it seems to make more sense that the question is "system-agnostic". So adding system specific tags to your Interested tag would add a better highlighting rather than dimming out ones you're not interested in. \$\endgroup\$ – Agent_9191 Aug 20 '10 at 21:24
\$\begingroup\$ I don't really see how he's redefining the purpose of tags; that's how he uses them, and other people may use them that way as well. \$\endgroup\$ – Numenetics Aug 21 '10 at 2:04
\$\begingroup\$ I wasn't trying to (re)define the purpose of tags. I don't generally click tags at all. I'll visit when I've got time, and look at the front page or two for those that are highlighted and see if there is anything I have input on or interest in. I'm not married to the system-agnostic tag, I'm just demonstrating how some people (myself included) may find it useful. I thought it would be easier to add system-agnostic to my interesting tags rather than add every other system to my ignored tags. If the majority want to get rid of it, I'm fine with that, whatever makes the site more usable. \$\endgroup\$ – digitaljoel Aug 21 '10 at 3:59
Although I have to agree with other answers that say the list of questions tagged system-agnostic is fascinating reading, I don't think it adds anything to the questions themselves. Often it's unnecessary, and seems to be stuck on anything that doesn't deserve a particular system tag. In those cases eliding it would be more appropriate. The questions about mapping come to mind in particular—of course a general question about map-making software is going to be system-agnostic. If it's not system-agnostic, it would be tagged with a system tag.
In other cases it's simply misapplied. There are a lot of questions that are specific to a particular kind of system that use the tag, but they're not really system-agnostic questions. The question about evil characters would be better tagged with something like party-dynamics, which would be something like the in-game equivalent of the social tag, since it only applies to games/systems that happen to have a cooperative party dynamic built-in and therefore isn't agnostic about systems. It's more like the question is pluralistic about systems.
As for fascinating reading, that alone isn't enough to save a tag, in my view. With the other problems I'm seeing in the way the tag is currently applied, I don't think it's worth keeping.
\$\begingroup\$ Looking at the top vote gathers of the tag it strikes me as one that is meta (see blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags) as it either is erroneously applied (many aren't truly system independent) or unnecessary ebcause other tags serve to delineate the question. We should remove. \$\endgroup\$ – anon186 Sep 10 '10 at 16:58
\$\begingroup\$ @Jeremiah--as I'm new to SE, I may be off base on this, but it seems that the language-agnostic tag that RMorissey mentioned is roughly similar--is that tag being phased out? \$\endgroup\$ – Numenetics Sep 10 '10 at 23:03
I think the tag is really causing more trouble than it's worth. If you ask a question that contains
Fantasy Setting
Co-operative dynamics
Antagonistic dynamics
An established game master position
Then it may not longer be system-agnostic. See this question for an example
C. RossC. Ross
\$\begingroup\$ What trouble is that causing, exactly? \$\endgroup\$ – kodi Sep 9 '10 at 21:00
\$\begingroup\$ I don't see how the bullet points you lay out are not system-agnostic. That still describes quite a few different game systems: Runequest, D&D, Warhammer Fantasy, Dragon Age, HeroQuest... I don't know tons of different systems, but those are a few examples. \$\endgroup\$ – Numenetics Sep 9 '10 at 21:07
\$\begingroup\$ @Kodi see the question. \$\endgroup\$ – C. Ross Sep 10 '10 at 0:25
\$\begingroup\$ @Numenetics I agree, but if you look at how people react to the tag, if it has any of those traits it's not system-agnostic because it can't apply to all questions. \$\endgroup\$ – C. Ross Sep 10 '10 at 0:27
\$\begingroup\$ Isn't that what the tag wiki is for? system-agnostic is a very different claim from system-universal, which seems to be what people reacting to the tag are assuming. If enough people find the tag useful (currently the highest rated answer here, but not by much) we just clarify its use in the wiki. \$\endgroup\$ – Numenetics Sep 10 '10 at 2:53
\$\begingroup\$ Except in this context, "agnostic" does mean "universal". "Agnostic" means roughly "able to be ignorant of X", so "system agnostic" means a question that is relevant regardless of system. \$\endgroup\$ – SevenSidedDie Sep 10 '10 at 4:53
\$\begingroup\$ That's not a definition I'm familiar with. The closest "official" definition I can see is "someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something." You bring up a good point, though--maybe we are disagreeing over the second word, not about the tag. \$\endgroup\$ – Numenetics Sep 10 '10 at 12:30
\$\begingroup\$ @C. Ross: I have read the question a number of times. The only "trouble" I can identify is that Agent_9191 does not believe it has value. Is that the trouble you are referring to? Or are you referring to the fact that we're having this discussion at all? If the trouble is "Some people value it and others are ideologically opposed to it," I don't see how getting rid of it is the obvious answer. \$\endgroup\$ – kodi Sep 10 '10 at 15:11
\$\begingroup\$ Please are thinking system agnostic in very specific ways based on their experience. And thus I find myself disliking it. I'd rather see it not used as a tag. If I'm interested in campaign development I can follow that tag, the system agnostic tag tells me nothing new. \$\endgroup\$ – anon186 Sep 10 '10 at 15:41
\$\begingroup\$ @Kodi Evil is a horrible thing. I play a game of hard boiled spies and some might be highly moralistic, others gray others black, but evil doesn't really apply, even if the game is all about moral choices. The evil question is very, very fantasy based and not system agnostic at all. \$\endgroup\$ – anon186 Sep 10 '10 at 15:42
\$\begingroup\$ @Jeremiah Genest : I'm totally on-board with "we can't agree what system-agnostic means" being a problem. I took it to mean "this question is not tied to the mechanics of one particular system" rather than "this question applies to every possible system." I do not believe that any question could apply to every possible system, so I assumed based on that belief that no tag attempted to describe such an impossibility. I'll edit my answer to reflect my thoughts, since I'm out of characters here and generally really hating the comments system. \$\endgroup\$ – kodi Sep 10 '10 at 17:07
\$\begingroup\$ I think that it's being used as "this Q is not tied to the mechanics of a particular system, but it is tied to the mechanics of a set of similar systems". In that case, shouldn't we identify the commonality and tag that? \$\endgroup\$ – SevenSidedDie Sep 10 '10 at 21:13
\$\begingroup\$ @Jeremiah: I wholeheartedly disagree that the evil question is fantasy based. Mixing evil (or "bad", or whatever term you like) characters can be a part of CoC (any time period) D20 modern, GURPS (any setting), Boot Hill, Metamorphosis Alpha, Star Trek, etc. etc. It's not really a question about the fantasy alignment system (at least as I read it), but about parties of mixed morality. \$\endgroup\$ – Numenetics Sep 10 '10 at 23:01
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Global LTE Connections Approach 2 Billion at Year-End 2016
4Q 2016: Nearly 300 Million LTE Subscriptions in North America
BELLEVUE, Wash. – March 13, 2017 – 5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, today announced that LTE continued its impressive momentum in North America, Latin America and throughout the world according to data from Ovum for the fourth quarter of 2016. As of the end of 2016, global LTE connections reached 1.9 billion and surpassed 2 billion connections by February of 2017. The North America region achieved nearly 300 million LTE subscriptions by the end of 2016 with some of the highest penetration rates, most extensive coverage and largest market share for LTE in the world.
Worldwide, LTE is forecast to continue its momentum reaching 3 billion connections in 2018, 4 billion connections in 2020 (Ovum) and 5 billion connections in 2022 (5G Americas).
"At the recent Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, 5G continued to show incredible progress and great promise in all areas. Yet, at the same time, the evolution of LTE toward LTE-Advanced Pro is being welcomed by mobile wireless customers throughout the world as evidenced by the tremendous growth of LTE customers," stated Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas.
4Q 2016 - North America
LTE achieved 298 million connections and a penetration rate of 83 percent compared to the population of 360 million in North America. This penetration rate compares to the next highest regions of Western Europe at 47 percent penetration and Oceania, Eastern and Southeastern Asia with 46 percent penetration. In North America, LTE penetration is expected to pass 100 percent in 2018.
In addition to having a significantly higher penetration rate, the U.S. and Canada also have the highest market share for LTE in comparison to all mobile wireless technologies with 65 percent versus Oceania, Eastern and Southeastern Asia at 41 percent and 35 percent in Western Europe. Market share represents the percentage of mobile wireless connections that are LTE technology versus all other mobile technologies.
298 million LTE connections for net gain of 61 million new LTE customers from 4Q 2015 to 4Q 2016
LTE is forecast to reach 452 million connections at the end of 2021 (including M2M)
11 million 5G connections forecast in 2021 – nearly 44 percent of all global 5G connections
4Q 2016 - Latin America and the Caribbean
Jose Otero, Director of Latin America and the Caribbean for 5G Americas, summarized trends in the region, "2016 was a challenging year for the Latin American economies, which translated into a decrease of mobile wireless lines in several countries as people sought ways to decrease their spending. But even under these difficult conditions, LTE continued to be the fastest growing mobile technology to have ever been deployed in Latin America with several countries showing double digit growth and new operators launching commercial LTE services." Otero continued, "In addition, during this year we saw LTE-Advanced strengthen its position in the region with network launches in British Virgin Islands, Brazil, and Peru as well as numerous trials throughout the region."
LTE's market share increased from 7.7 to 17 percent year-over-year at the end of 2016, thus more than doubling in the region. LTE rose significantly at 21 percent in one quarter alone (3Q 2016 to 4Q 2016) showing tremendous growth in three months.
699 million total mobile wireless subscriptions119 million LTE connections; 65 million added year-over-year from 4Q 2015
LTE is forecast to reach 171 million connections at the end of 2017 (forecast includes M2M) and a 24 percent share of market
By the end of 2021, LTE is forecast to reach 449 million connections (forecast includes M2M)
4Q 2016 - Global
"Worldwide, LTE subscriptions grew 74 percent from year end 2015 to year end-2016. By contrast, in the mature North America region, where LTE was an early leader, LTE subscriptions grew by a much smaller 26 percent as the market is more mature and LTE penetration higher," explained Kristin Paulin, Senior Analyst at Ovum.
1.9 Billion LTE connections out of a total of 7.6 billion total cellular connections worldwide
818 million new LTE subscriptions year-over-year from 4Q 2015; 74 percent growth
LTE connections forecast to reach 4.7 billion by year-end 2021 (forecast includes M2M)
LTE global market share forecast to reach 53 percent by year end 2021
Kristin Paulin further explained Ovum's LTE data forecasts, which previously did not include M2M, "Ovum has recently aligned its forecast methodology with its treatment of historical data, which is to track total subscriptions including M2M.
For more information and to view a variety of statistical charts on the 3GPP family of technologies, visit www.5gamericas.org. Subscriber and forecast data is provided by Ovum.
About 5G Americas: The Voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas
Follow our news on Twitter at @5GAmericas and Facebook at www.facebook.com/5gamericas.
5G Americas' Board of Governors members include: América Móvil, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, CommScope, Entel, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Kathrein, Mitel, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Inc. and Telefónica.
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'''
Mimics a neopets websession, handles cookies, headers, updating referer
header and human-like pauses.

Part of naps (neopets automation program suite)
'''

import requests
import pickle
import json
import os
import sys
import random
import time
import datetime
import configparser as cp

class NeoSession:
    '''Login to neopets.com'''
    conf = cp.ConfigParser()
    conf.read('settings.conf')
    session = requests.Session()
    username = conf['USER-SETTINGS']['USERNAME']
    login_data = {'username': username, 'password': conf['USER-SETTINGS']
    ['PASSWORD'], 'destination': '%2Findex.phtml'}
    jar = conf['PROGRAM-SETTINGS']['COOKIE_JAR']
    pause_tuple = (2, 3)

    def __init__(self):
        self.load_cookies()
        self.load_headers()

    @staticmethod
    def current_time():
        return str(datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%r %D'))

    def get(self, url, pause=pause_tuple, login_check=True, referer=None):
        if pause:
            time.sleep(random.randint(pause[0], pause[1]))

        resp = self.session.get(url)
        if referer is None:
            self.session.headers.update({'Referer': url})
        else:
            self.session.headers.update({'Referer': referer})
        self.update_cookies()

        try:
            resp.raise_for_status()
        except requests.exceptions.HTTPError:
            print('{}: ERROR - Connection error.'.format(self.current_time()))

        if login_check is True:
            if self.login_status(resp) is False:
                self.login()
                resp = self.session.post(url)
                self.session.headers.update({'Referer': url})
                self.update_cookies()
                return resp
            else:
                return resp
        else:
            return resp

    def post(self, url, data=None, pause=pause_tuple, login_check=True, referer=None):
        if pause:
            time.sleep(random.randint(pause[0], pause[1]))

        if data is None:
            resp = self.session.post(url)
            if referer is None:
                self.session.headers.update({'Referer': url})
            else:
                self.session.headers.update({'Referer': referer})
            self.update_cookies()

        else:
            resp = self.session.post(url, data)
            self.session.headers.update({'Referer': url})
            self.update_cookies()

        try:
            resp.raise_for_status()
        except requests.exceptions.HTTPError:
            print('{}: ERROR - Connection error.'.format(self.current_time()))

        if login_check is True:
            if self.login_status(resp) is False:
                self.login()
                resp = self.session.post(url, data)
                self.session.headers.update({'Referer': url})
                self.update_cookies()
                return resp
            else:
                return resp
        else:
            return resp

    def update_cookies(self):
        if os.path.isfile(self.jar):
            with open(self.jar, 'wb') as jar:
                pickle.dump(self.session.cookies, jar)

    def load_cookies(self):
        if os.path.isfile(self.jar):
            if os.path.getsize(self.jar) is not 0:
                with open(self.jar, 'rb') as jar:
                    session_cookies = pickle.load(jar)
                    self.session.cookies.update(session_cookies)

    def load_headers(self):
        with open(self.conf['PROGRAM-SETTINGS']['HEADERS'], 'r') as headers:
            session_headers = json.load(headers)
            self.session.headers.update(session_headers)

    def login_status(self, resp):
        if 'Welcome, '.format(
                self.username) not in resp.text:
            print('{}: Session - Not Logged in. [{}] \n{}: Session - Logging in.'.format(self.current_time(), resp.url, self.current_time()))
            return False

        if 'Welcome, '.format(
                self.username) in resp.text:
            print('{}: Session - Login check passed. [{}]'.format(self.current_time(), resp.url))
            return True

    def login(self):
        '''Log-in to neopets.com'''
        url = 'http://www.neopets.com/login.phtml'
        resp = self.post(url, data=self.login_data)
        self.session.headers.update({'Referer': resp.url})
        if os.path.isfile(self.jar) is not True:
            os.system('touch neopets.cookies')
        self.session.cookies.update(resp.cookies)
        self.update_cookies()
        print('{}: Session - Login successful.'.format(self.current_time()))

    def download_image(self, image_url):
        resp = self.session.get(image_url, stream=True)
        if resp.status_code == 200:
            with open("captcha.jpeg", 'wb') as f:
                f.write(resp.content)

def main():
    NeoSession()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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Established in 1973, The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world held every three years. Originally and previously named after its sponsors — "Whitbread Round the World Race" until 2001 and "Volvo Ocean Race" until 2018 — the event features a small number of boats, between seven and ten, competing in nine to eleven legs, some of them 20 days long, traveling more than 40,000 nautical miles over the course of seven months. It's a grueling endurance competition across four oceans and six continents. With a recent change in ownership and in preparation for the 2021-22 event, The Ocean Race introduced a new identity designed by the Barcelona, Spain, office of Mucho.
Mucho was hired to collaborate with The Ocean Race in redefining brand values and crafting a fresh brand narrative as well as creating a new visual language, looking to reshape the attitude of the race going forward. The objective was to capture the essence and equity of a legendary brand whilst opening it up to a new audiences through a meaningful, versatile and engaging brand expression.
The symbol's role is crucial in expressing the shift in the brand's essence and narrative. Sustainability, competition and team effort are all represented by the simple shape and organic movement symbolizing boats sailing with the wind in their sails. The logotype is a simple uppercase structure that highlights the importance of the word OCEAN in The Ocean Race.
The old logo was half fine, half terrible with a decent brush-styled sail graphic but the least exciting typography possible that looked as if the font didn't load and a dotted red line as slick as an inflatable banana boat. Considering the ton of money that goes into the boats and teams, the logo was surprisingly cheap-looking. The new logo is such a vast improvement, with a lovely asymmetric icon and a geometric sans wordmark accentuated by custom "A"s that look like yachts from above and a low crossbar that gives it an Art Deco vibe that evokes 1920s travel posters. Although I really like the look of the icon, if you stop to think about it, it's a little awkward in how it has all the boats facing each other as if they were being sucked into a whirlpool. The propeller-like animation helps snap me out of such dark thoughts though and major bonus points for the flexibility of the icon and wordmark.
Graphic tools have been created to define the visual language that accompany the identity. These will work across dynamic and static media. A collection of horizontal and vertical shapes using some of the corporate colors mixed with patterns inspired by graphics of 'wind directions' all work together to create an holistic, rich, visually exciting brand identity.
The identity mixes blocks of colors with a wind-vector pattern made of more little boats that, being loosely spaced, overlays quite nicely over other elements. The main color palette of dark and light blue is fine and the addition of mint and orange as accents is at times a little jarring but it definitely pops, as seen in the ad.
There are also some really nice motion things going on in the video above like the single little boat marker that moves up and down, the blocks and strips of color sailing into place, and the animated wind-vector boats. Overall, this has a subtle mix of elegance, adventure, and history that feels quite appropriate for this particular and peculiar event.


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Uganda nahm an den Olympischen Spielen 2016 in Rio de Janeiro teil. Es war die insgesamt 15. Teilnahme an Olympischen Sommerspielen. Vom Uganda Olympic Committee wurden 21 Athleten in drei Sportarten nominiert.

Fahnenträger bei der Eröffnungsfeier war der Schwimmer Joshua Tibatemwa.  Bei der Schlussfeier führte die Leichtathletin Halima Nakaayi die Delegation an.

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Leichtathletik
 Laufen und Gehen

Schwimmen

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Uganda
Sommerspiele 2016

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International Labour Organization Adopts Legally Binding Protocol to Eliminate Forced Labor (June, 11, 2014)
By: Nicole R. Tuttle | June 20, 2014 - 1:49pm
On June 11, 2014, the International Labour Organization adopted a legally binding Protocol that seeks to strengthen efforts to combat forced labor. According to a press release, "[t]he new Protocol brings the existing ILO Convention 29 Concerning Forced Labour, adopted in 1930, into the modern era to address practices such as human trafficking." As such, "[t]he Protocol strengthens the international legal framework by creating new obligations to prevent forced labour, to protect victims and to provide access to remedy, such as compensation for material and physical harm." The Protocol was adopted at the International Labour Conference with 437 votes for, twenty-seven abstentions, and eight against.
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Petition to Phil Weiser, Clifford Reidell
Accountability for shootings resulting in death in a residential home.
My friend was one of 4 teens that were drinking in the home. The home The teens had access to firearms. After passing around playing with it, it went off, A child was accidentally killed and the parents need to be held accountable. If the parents had been doing their job checking in on their teenager, this terrible accident would not have happened. Tip toeing around the family and not wanting to charge them because of their loss is unethical. Although they lost their child they should pay for their irresponsibility. It could have been any of the 4 kids shot... ALCOHAL TEENS AND FIREARMS DO NOT MIX Let's make a change. Parents who neglect to take care of their teenagers in their own home, need to be accountable for their actions. Hold Home Owner/renter Gun owner and or parents accountable for tragic shootings resulting in death that happened in their own home. Colorado Social Host Liability and Underage Drinking C.R.S 12-47-804 February 15, 2017It is something that has happened for generations. Kids and their friends sneak into their parents' liquor cabinets and drink their alcohol. In some cases, some parents even provide alcohol for their kids and their kids' friends. Many parents believe that as long as the kids are being responsible and staying in, it is better to have them drink at home with their friends than risk drinking and driving. However, issues arise when one of those kids decides to leave while intoxicated and injures him or herself or another person. In such cases, parents that provided alcoholic beverages to the minor that caused injury could be held civilly liable for damages related to the injury. The Social Host Liability Law Most people are familiar with the basic idea of a dram shop law. A dram shop law, which most states have, is a law that makes a business that sells alcoholic beverages to someone that is obviously intoxicated liable for damages that result from doing so. Colorado's dram shop law, found in C.R.S. §12-47-801, not only covers business that sell alcohol but also includes provisions that cover social hosts. The applicable language of the statute from subsection 4(a) is: "No social host who furnishes any alcohol beverage is civilly liable to nay injured individual or his or her estate for any injury to such individual or damage to any property suffered, including action for wrongful death, because of the intoxication of any person due to the consumption of such alcohol beverages, except when it is proven that the social host knowingly served any alcohol beverage to such person who was under the age of twenty-one years or knowingly provided the person under the age of twenty-one a place to consume an alcohol beverage." Other provisions within the statute require any civil suit filed under to be commenced within one year of an injury and limit damages to $150,000. Basically, this means that if you provide alcohol to a minor or provide minors a place in which to consume alcohol and one of the minor injures or kills another or damages the property of another while intoxicated from the consumption of alcohol, you can be held liable for injury to a third person or damages to property. Provisions within the law prohibit the estate of the minor that caused injury or damage from seeking any compensation from you, but the family or estate of a minor's victim may do so. So, you can be held liable for damages resulting from a minor that receives a DUI after you have provided that minor with alcohol or a place to consume alcohol. Under Colorado law, a social host may not be held liable for injuries caused by an adult who is 21 or older, even if the host continued to serve alcohol after the adult became visibly intoxicated. However, a social host may be held liable for injuries caused by a minor if the host knowingly served alcohol to the minor or knowingly provided a place for the minor to drink alcohol. Here's an example of Colorado's social host liability at work. Suppose that Hannah, the host, throws a pool party at which she serves beer. Among her guests are Adam, an adult friend from work, and Minnie, Adam's 15-year-old daughter. Although Adam drinks several beers and becomes visibly drunk, Hannah continues to give him drinks. During the party, Hannah sees Minnie raiding the beer cooler and then disappearing into the basement, but she says nothing. Later that night, Adam and Minnie are running across the pool deck when they bump into Pat. Pat falls down the deck stairs and is injured. In this situation, Pat cannot file a dram shop case against Hannah for the injuries Adam caused. Even though Adam was visibly drunk, he was also an adult, and social hosts cannot be held liable when they serve alcohol to adults who then cause injury. However, Pat may have a dram shop claim against Hannah for the injuries caused by Minnie, because Minnie is a minor and Hannah provided Minnie with alcohol and a place to consume it.
Milissa Mercer
Update posted 2 months ago
Petition to Hart District, SCV Sheriff's Department
More Deputies On Hand At Hart District Schools, As Well As Mental Health Resources
As most of us know, today, November 14, 2019, before school started, Saugus High School of the William S. Hart Union School district experienced a tragic shooting, which has left two students dead and others injured. As a community, Santa Clarita should come together to mourn the lives lost in this tragedy, and the countless others that have been affected. We should also come together to create change, to prevent such a tragic event from ever happening again. With this petition, hopefully a step can be taken to help prevent another such shooting. Currently, at each of the Hart District Schools, we don't have a single armed sheriff deputy on hand at all times, in case of a school shooter situation. Each deputy is assigned to several high schools and junior high schools. It is impossible for each school at the moment to have an armed security guard at hand throughout the school day to help contain such a situation like the one that unfortunately occurred at Saugus today. This petition proposes that the Hart District increases the number of armed Deputies that are staffed to protect students. With an increase in the available armed deputies, hopefully there can be at least one on each campus in the Hart District at all times, which can hopefully help to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. Another problem faced by Hart District students currently is a lack of mental health resources. Currently, only Valencia High School has trained mental health professional available to assist students, but only part time. Mental health problems are a big factor in such events as the shooting that occurred today, but there is a lack of resources available at our schools currently for students to turn to for help. Currently, only school counselors are available for students to turn too, but even then, they are not professionally trained specifically to help kids with any problems with regards to mental health. This petition proposes that the Hart District hires trained mental health professionals, whether it be therapists or counselors or other such specialists, to be available full time on all campuses for students to turn to for assistance with any mental health problems they may be suffering. With the availability of mental health specialists, problems with students' mental health can hopefully be reduced which can in turn hopefully reduce the chances of another such event as the one today. While this is just a petition, this will hopefully be a step in the right direction, to help prevent another tragedy from occurring on our school campuses. These proposals will not solve our problem, but hopefully it will help and spark the necessary change to make our campuses safer. Condolences are out and prayers are up for all affected by this tragic event. #saugusstrong
Ayden Zhuang
Started 6 months ago
Petition to Lindsey Graham
Block Confirmation of Canterbury to ATF for Opposing Universal Background Checks
One of the key missions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is to protect communities from "the illegal use and trafficking of firearms." So it is totally unacceptable that Chuck Canterbury, President Trump's nominee to lead the ATF, opposes all new federal gun regulations, including background checks for all gun sales. Background checks have stopped more than 3.5 million sales to convicted felons, domestic abusers, fugitives and other dangerous people. Universal background checks are supported by more than 95% of Americans, including Republicans and gun owners. Please sign this petition demanding that Sen. Lindsey Graham, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, block Canterbury's confirmation as ATF Director. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Canterbury said that he does not "support any more restrictions than are currently in the law." In response to questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Canterbury stated his opposition to expanding federal criminal background checks to all firearm sales and banning assault-style weapons. Clearly trying to dodge questions about his position on a whole range of federal gun regulations, Canterbury was accused by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) of being "evasive." What's also clear is that the person who would be one of the most senior officials in the federal government responsible for ensuring that guns don't get into the wrong hands favors gun rights over public safety. In 2009, as president of the Fraternal Order of Police, Canterbury proclaimed, "I take a back seat to no one in my reverence for the Second Amendment." Gun violence in America is a public health crisis. Nearly 40,000 people were killed by guns in 2017. The ATF needs a director that believes in common-sense federal gun regulation. The agency has lost its way, with senior officials in the agency taking direction from the NRA, and routinely overturning the recommendations of field agents to revoke licenses of federal gun dealers who break the law. Sen. Graham has the power to stop the appointment of a nominee who even Sen. Kennedy, no friend of gun control, said was "not qualified" to run the ATF. Get Graham to use it.
Petition to Ned Lamont
Arming Teachers is a Bad Idea.
Hello! I am a 16-year-old junior in high school. My fellow classmates and I believe it is not okay to arm our teachers with guns. More guns will create more problems. Please consider the lives of your children, nieces and nephews, and other children in your community. Please consider the mental health of adults and teachers. A teacher was not trained to be a shooter. They are here to educate your children! Do not put teachers under the huge responsibility of a gun in a classroom full of children. Please help me and thousands of other students in saying NO to arming teachers with guns! Thank you!
Nicoleena Radujko
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Q: Beamer: uncover a formula from inner to outer With the following code
\documentclass[beamer]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \[
    \sqrt{\uncover<2->{a\uncover<3->{+b}}}
  \]
\end{frame}
\end{document}

I can uncover a formula showing first outer elements then the inner ones.
How can I obtain the converse? That is: first display the "+b", then the "a" in front of it, then the square root sign around the sum?

A: I worked a little bit more on my example (I need it for a somewhat more complicated formula) and I discovered that inner \textcolor have priority on outer ones, so the following works:
\begin{frame}
  \[
    \textcolor<3>{black}{\textcolor<1-2>{white}{%
      \sqrt{%
        \textcolor<2>{black}{\textcolor<1>{white}{%
          a%
          \textcolor<1>{black}{%
            \vphantom{a}+b%
          }%
        }}%
      }%
    }}%
  \]
\end{frame}

In my case, I can generalize this easier than @egreg suggestion (which is, anyway, very nice and "TeXnical")
As a more elaborated example, consider the following:
\begin{frame}
  \[
    \textcolor<6>{black}{\textcolor<1-5>{white}{%
    \textcolor<5->{black}{\textcolor<4>{red}{%
      {\sqrt{%
    \textcolor<3->{black}{\textcolor<2>{red}{%
        {\left(%
    \textcolor<2->{black}{\textcolor<1>{red}{%
          {\frac{a}{2}}%
      }}%
          \right)^{2}}%
      }}%
    \textcolor<4->{black}{\textcolor<3>{red}{%
      {\vphantom{1}+b}%
      }}%
      }}%
      }}%
    \textcolor<6->{black}{\textcolor<5>{red}{%
        {\vphantom{1}+\frac{c}{2}}%
      }}%
      }}%
  \]
\end{frame}

A: The square root is the problem.
\documentclass[beamer]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\[
  \only<1>{\phantom{\sqrt{\vphantom{a+b}}}\hphantom{a}+b}
  \only<2>{\phantom{\sqrt{\vphantom{a+b}}}a+b}
  \only<3>{\sqrt{a+b}}
\]
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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"""
Validates service json configuration templates and/or Cloudformation parameter files

Exit codes:
  0 if all tested configs were valid
  1 if one or more tested configs had errors
  2 if an I/O error occurred when processing a file
  3 if some other error occurred

Copyright 2016-2017 Ellation, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
"""

from __future__ import print_function
import argparse
import json
from os import walk
import os.path
import sys

CONFIGS_RELATIVE_PATH_FROM_SCRIPT_DIR = "../configs"
PARAMETER_SUFFIX = ".parameters.json"
DEFAULT_LOGFILE = "/tmp/instanceinit.log"

def handle_args(args):
  """
  Handle command line arguments
  Raises:
    Exception if the config path wasn't explicitly state and dead reckoning based on script location fails
  """
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Check if a late bind config is valid or not.")
  parser.add_argument("configpath", default=None, nargs="?",
                      help="/path/to/configs (always a directory; if omitted, all /configs are checked")
  parser.add_argument("--verbose", action="store_true", default=False)
  parsed_args = vars(parser.parse_args(args))
  # If a config path wasn't given, calculate it based on location of the script
  if parsed_args["configpath"] is None:
    script_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
    parsed_args["configpath"] = os.path.normpath("{}/{}".format(script_dir, CONFIGS_RELATIVE_PATH_FROM_SCRIPT_DIR))
  else:
    parsed_args["configpath"] = os.path.normpath(parsed_args["configpath"])
  # If the path is a directory, all good. if it's a file, find the directory the file is in and check that instead
  if os.path.isdir(parsed_args["configpath"]):
    parsed_args["configdir"] = parsed_args["configpath"]
  else:
    parsed_args["configdir"] = os.path.dirname(parsed_args["configpath"])
  return parsed_args

def load_json(json_filespec):
  """
  Loads JSON from a config file
  Args:
    json_filespec: path/to/file.json
  Returns:
    a dict made from the JSON read, if successful
  Raises:
    IOError if the file could not be opened
    ValueError if the JSON could not be read successfully
    RuntimeError if something else went wrong
  """
  json_fh = open(json_filespec)
  config_dict = json.load(json_fh)
  json_fh.close()
  return config_dict

def check_file(json_filespec):
  load_json(json_filespec)

def main():
  args = handle_args(sys.argv[1:])
  if args["verbose"]:
    print("Path: {}".format(args["configpath"]))
    print("Dir: {}".format(args["configdir"]))

  # Confirm that all parameters files can be loaded
  exit_code = 0
  for root, dirs, files in walk(args["configdir"]):
    for f in files:
      filename = os.path.join(root, f)
      # dot-files aren't checked
      if filename.startswith("."):
        continue
      # Only 'parameters' files, not templates
      if not os.path.dirname(filename).endswith("/parameters"):
        continue
      if args["verbose"]:
        print(filename)
      try:
        check_file(filename)
      except ValueError:
        print("JSON syntax error: {}".format(filename))
        exit_code = 1
      except IOError as e:
        print("IO error processing file:\n{}\n{}".format(filename, e))
        sys.exit(2)
      except Exception as e:
        print("Exception processing file:\n{}\n{}".format(filename, e))
        sys.exit(3)

  sys.exit(exit_code)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()


This article describes two analysis methods that are used to determine the life of aircrafts: fatigue life and fracture mechanics methods. The life limiting factors that control the durability of the aircraft are also discussed. The article provides an overview of the various approaches to corrosion identification and prevention. These include safe-life, fail-safe, and damage tolerance approaches. The article discusses their application to the process of extending the life of aircraft structural components.


Welcome back to week two of summer journal tips with me! In this video I show you my current set up for bringing supplies with me daily and for a longer extended stay, craft night etc. I always carry a bag of supplies with my daily, you just never know when you will need scissors, washi tape and pretty pens! I hope this video inspires you to create a bag of journal goodies to help you document your summer.
Hello!!! Happy National Scrapbook Day, one day later! I am about 6 weeks behind in memory keeping in my Happy Planner so yesterday, laye evening I started working to get caught up. I created this video to show you my process of making a coversheet for the month of May 2018. At the beginning of each month in the Happy Planner there is a section to list your current happenings and a quote page. I like to cover the quote page with either a theme of the month or current pictures. For the month of May I created a collage of pictures to represent Mother's Day. Here in my process video.


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Success! Senate Holds Powerful Hearing on Women's Rights
Exciting news in the struggle to ratify CEDAW: the Senate is finally moving forward to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women, or CEDAW.
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, chaired by Senator Durbin, held a hearing on CEDAW. The hearing, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)", featured several high profile women's rights advocates and U.S. government witnesses, as well as a huge crowd of supporters.
An exciting group of human rights activists headlined by the stunning actress Geena Davis testified on the importance of ratification. Davis spoke poignantly of being a mother and having her three children, two boys and a girl, able to equally participate in sports and other activities. She voiced her support for CEDAW because she envisions a world where women and girls around the world have the same possibilities and opportunities as children in the U.S.
Wazhma Frogh from the Afghan Women's Network told a heartbreaking story from her own life. In Afghanistan, girls were only supposed to clean the family's garden, but Wazhma wanted to play with her male cousin. When her grandfather found out, he broke all of her toys as an illustration of what would happen to her if she broke any family rules again. As a result of her experiences, Wazhma has been fighting for women's human rights in Afghanistan and has used CEDAW to deliver real change for Afghan women.
Testifying at the hearing for the U.S. government was Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State. She testified that in her travels, the number one question she is asked time and time again is, "Why hasn't the United States ratified CEDAW?" She told the subcommittee that "some governments use the fact that the U.S. has not ratified the treaty as a pretext for not living up to their own obligations under it." Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samuel Bagenstos from the Civil Rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice also testified in support of CEDAW.
CEDAW addresses basic human rights of women. It can be a crucial tool to reduce violence and discrimination against women and girls, ensure girls and women receive the same access as boys and men to education and health care, and secure basic legal recourse to women and girls against violations and abuses of their human rights. Amnesty International has been working in coalition to ratify CEDAW and worked hard to make this hearing such a huge success. AIUSA submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in support of ratification, which can be read here.
Help us take advantage of this important opportunity by taking action and calling on Senator Kerry to work for ratification and hold a hearing on CEDAW. Let's show the Senate that we want them to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women!


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Point Loma Shooting Suspect Has Paranoid Schizophrenia: Sister
By Laura McVicker and Candice Nguyen	• Published November 28, 2014 • Updated on January 7, 2015 at 11:09 am
The sister of a man suspected of fatally shooting his parents Friday morning in a quiet Point Loma neighborhood said her brother suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
A man identified by numerous neighbors as 22-year-old Peter Haynes was arrested hours after he's accused of killing his mother and father in Point Loma and forcing a neighborhood to go into lockdown.
His sister told NBC 7 that her brother is severely mentally ill. She had posted a picture two weeks ago on her Facebook page with her brother showing her how to hold a gun.
Kimberly Haynes doesn't see the photo as troubling — instead, she sees it as a bonding moment between her and her brother.
"It's very difficult to get close to him and one of the ways he and I connect is by teaching each other how to bond," Haynes said.
Early Friday morning, police and SWAT officers converged on the neighborhood surrounding Catalina Boulevard and Verona Street for hours searching for the suspect. Four blocks of homes near the shooting were in lockdown much of the morning.
The suspect was found walking down a nearby street and taken into custody. Police said they found a semi-automatic handgun in his pocket.
The situation started just after 3 a.m. when officers received a 911 call about a shooting at a home in the 1000 block of Tarento Boulevard.
Responding officers found the door to the home ajar and a man and woman who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds inside, said San Diego police Lt. Paul Rorrison.
Several neighbors identified the victims as Lissa and David Haynes.
The Haynes were rushed to the hospital but died there, Rorrison said.
Residents on Friday morning expressed shock that their quiet, safe neighborhood would be the scene of a shooting.
"I'm a little shocked. This doesn't usually happen in Point Loma," said neighbor Tyler Sinks.
Another resident, who wished to remain anonymous, described it as a close-knit neighborhood.
"We all know each other," she said. "We all walk our dogs here."
Peter Haynes' father, David Haynes, lived in Point Loma but worked as an emergency room doctor in Yuma.
Public documents show he graduated from medical school in Nebraska and specialized in surgery and emergency medicine at University of California Irvine and Harbor-UCLA Medical Centers.
Dr. Haynes' father, Vital Haynes, was a well-known doctor in San Diego, and his two brothers are also physicians.
Peter Haynes has been booked into the San Diego Central Jail on two counts of first-degree murder. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 3.
A motive in the shooting also not been released.


WEST GLACIER – Officials at Glacier National Park announced Friday morning that the east side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road has been re-opened to vehicles. The road had been closed due to the Reynolds Creek Fire that has burned an estimated 3,913 acres several miles east of Logan Pass.
I had noticed my eyes burning two days earlier and a hundred miles to the east, and yesterday the mountains before us had been shadowed in a haze. But today the air at Logan Pass is clear.
With only one entrance to Glacier National Park open, we leave early to beat the crowds. Climbing thirty miles on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, we arrive at the pass shortly after 8:00am.
Open only from May through October, the pass crosses the Continental Divide, has known wind speeds of 139 mph and can be buried beneath eighty feet of snow. Hard to believe as we make our way through the stillness of the morning.
Although much better since she's started walking, stairs are tough for mom, and these are big steps at a high altitude. She soon finds herself out of breath, and insists that Jetta and I go on without her. She will sit and rest, and then catch up with us in her own time.
So we continue on, passing chipmunks, marmots, Mountain goats and a warning that we are entering Grizzly bear territory. Jetta meets a young man, a friend of friends, who is getting married later that day. They chat for a time and then, with an amazing lightness, he takes off at a dead run to catch up with his family, heading further up the trail and disappearing over the ridge in a matter of seconds.
Having reached our destination, we turn back to see how mom's doing. But she appears just a few minutes later, smiling, her borrowed hat flapping in the wind.
From her house on house on Echo Lake outside of Big Fork, Montana, mom's friend Jetta takes us the next morning to meet her friends.
But there's more than hiking. There is an ease and a joy.
Glen helps us with our route, and as I learn more about them all, I find I have misjudged everyone's age by about 15 years.
In the afternoon, we go kayaking, something I never thought I'd do with my mom.
She continues to surprise me.


Snowbound in the Yukon: Quiet time.
All the children are sleeping. Shhh, don't wake them. I hope the tap tap tap of the key board doesn't wake them. They are angels when they sleep, soft limp bodies, butterfly eyelashes resting on cheeks. Why wasn't I that lucky to get those eyelashes and all three of them have them. Lucky lil'devils. I can hear one of them breathing, probably because they can't breath through their noses, kinda like me right now. The tail end of the nasty cold we've been suffering with.
It's been an interesting week, all three boys all to myself with no daddy around. In some ways it's been nice, they seem easier but I think it's because I know I have to deal with everything they through at me. I can't rely on hubby to come home and deal since he's 500 and some kilometers away right now but he's flying home tomorrow and we've all missed him.
We talked on the phone tonight and I know he's anxious to get home too. The two oldest really miss him and after talking on the phone Little M keep making the sign for plane and saying da-da. He's really making more efforts to communicate these days and I'm encouraging him as much as I can. Time and patience is all it will take. They were finally asleep by about 9:45 and I called Hubby back so I could talk to him.
I haven't gone insane this week but I have been having cigarettes at night and I know I should stop now or it won't stop. I'm really trying but when I'm stress it's either eat or smoke or both and right now it's both. I haven't walked in a week but luckily for me I haven't put on any weight but my hip has started bothering me again. I really have to lay off the M&M's. My gosh those are addictive.
We did manage to clean up the back yard a bit I have a big pile of trash by the side of the road waiting for Hubby's truck to haul it away. We picked up toys and SmartGuy moved all the big toys to one area and made himself a little classroom.
SmartGuy is officially out of school as of yesterday and we noted on his report card that he would be moving onto Grade 1 next year. It's really hard to belive how quickly they grow up. His behavior as improved but only back to what is was ages ago. He's still 5 years old and still does 5 year old things. I'll take what I can get and keep working on it.
I think in the morning I will take them to the park since Romp'n'run is now over, since it's summer. Hopefully there will be other mother's there and other children for the little ones to play with. We went to the school park today so they could burn off some energy, it seems to have helped.
I'm hoping that starting Monday I will have a better schedule for the days. It will be a busy summer. Art camps starts soon and the sign said for 6-9 or something like that. I was bummed but I'll call and see anyway if they'll take an almost 6 year old. It's for 3 afternoons a week and it would really help me because I know SmartGuy will need breaks from his brothers and I. The pool opens tomorrow as well and there is a free swim. I'll have to sign SmartGuy up for lessons as well. I'm wondering what I should do for Little M. I guess it begins now where I will be enrolling two boys into activities and the expenses will go up. I signed up for it though having more than one child.
I do love my boys.


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All Swiss Watches, Arnold & Son
Arnold & Son UTTE Skeleton Watch Is Thinnest Skeleton Tourbillon
In 2013, Arnold & Son raised eyebrows with their Ultra-thin Tourbillon Escapement "UTTE" watch which, back then, was the world's thinnest tourbillon watch. The watch was just 8.34mm thick and housed the calibre A&S8200 which measures just 2.97mm thick. Though it has since lost the title of thinnest tourbillon watch to the Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon (hands-on here), the UTTE still remains an impressive masterpiece.
Skeletonizing a watch is no easy feat. And it's doubly hard for an ultra-thin movement, mainly because the movement is already so thin that removing any more material is bound to affect structural rigidity. As a result, the A&S8200 calibre in the Arnold & Son UTTE Skeleton watch had to be thoroughly redesigned and re-engineered. The result is the A&S8220 calibre, which measures 3.3mm thick. The extra thickness, according to Arnold & Son, is necessary to guarantee rigidity as they sought to skeletonized the movement. Still, let's face it, 3.3mm for a tourbillon movement with two barrels and a power reserve of at least 90 hours is seriously impressive.
The new A&S8220 calibre boasts some major revisions. For instance, the main plate has been heavily modified to reveal as much as possible of the inner workings. But perhaps what's most visible to owners is that the tourbillon cage has been totally reworked to show off more of the mechanism while retaining the three-dimensional design that has become a signature of the earlier Arnold & Son UTTE watch. In addition, the tourbillon cage is relatively large as compared to the movement. It measures 14mm across, while the movement itself is 32mm. This means it's the single most dominating component of the dial, and on top of that is the fact that the cage is fully hand-polished and chamfered, making it a real visual treat for owners.
On the opposite side of this Arnold & Son DBG Skeleton, the bottom plate of the manufacture grade A&S1309 is revealed. The movement is made of nickel silver (also called German silver or Maillechort, an alloy of aluminum, nickel and zinc) which was rhodium-plated and decorated with Côtes de Genève. The wheels are satin-finished and provide a contrasting three dimensional texture into the bottom plate, and between the chamfered edges of these bridges, the gold gear train can be viewed. The movement is hand wound obviously, which contributes to its thinness at a mere 3.9mm. It features 42 stones and provides a 40 hour power reserve whereas the double accounts oscillate at 21,600vph, or 3Hz. This is definitely a highly elegant motion, but compared to the depth of detail given by the skeletonized dial, the reverse side of the movement almost feels like a letdown.Despite the large 44mm case, the Arnold & Son DBG Skeleton wears fairly well, with its slender 9.89mm profile easily slipping under a shirt cuff and the tapered lugs nicely hugging the wrist. The situation is made of 4N rose gold along with the sapphire crystal has anti-reflective coating on either side to help eliminate distracting reflections. My mind went into the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre models, but where they provide twin barrels controlled by the exact same balance wheel, the Arnold & Son DBG Skeleton goes full monoblock style for each dial, in the event the Hi-Fi analogy is at all apt for describing a wristwatch.
And as you would expect, the A&S8220 calibre is also treated to the finest haute horlogerie finishing: The main plate and bridges are constructed using nickel silver and finished with Côtes de Genève rayonnantes; The edges are also polished and chamfered; The steel components, gears, and ratchets are all satin-finished with their edges polished and chamfered; The screws have bevelled and polished heads, and finally, the jewels are placed in polished countersinks; Reading of the time is done off a sapphire disc with printed numerals at 12 o'clock; The hour and minute hands are golden and feature white lacquered tips.
The Arnold & Son UTTE Skeleton comes in a 42mm 5N red gold case, which is as exquisitely crafted as the movement. It is stepped, tapering from top to bottom. The dial part, which is the widest section, also features an extra-large sapphire glass to showcase the caliber A&S8220 in all its glory. The bottom of the case is made narrower to fit snugly on the wrist.
The Arnold & Son UTTE Skeleton watch will be limited to just 50 pieces, and each watch will come with a hand-stitched brown or black alligator leather strap with a matching 5N red gold buckle with the Arnold & Son logo. Price is $76,750. arnoldandson.com
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Film "Armenian legacy of Europe"
The fate of the Armenian people in world history - is mournful and tragic.
Merciless blows of foreign invasions of the flow exodus of Armenians from their historical territories.
In the 11th century after the capture of the Seljuk Turks of the ancient capital of Ani tens of thousands of Armenians fled across the Black Sea on the Crimean peninsula.
After four centuries, when the Turks stormed the fortress Kafa (Feodosia), the majority of Armenians fled the Crimea and moved to the north-west.
Large groups of Armenian immigrants in different ways reached Central Europe and take a friendly attitude of the local population, settled here and began to establish a familiar life.
The rulers of Russ, and then change their Lithuanian Grand Dukes, Polish and Hungarian kings, of Master and Prince of Transylvania, when he saw a useful role of the Armenian population in the economy and defense of their country from foreign invaders, gave the Armenians a variety of privileges.
So a huge Armenian diaspora has become part of European nations.
Lviv, where was one of the most famous and oldest Armenian communities, is one of the centers of spiritual culture of the Armenians of Ukraine.
Until now, there is a Europe's largest Armenian Cathedral, which is located at Armenian Street. Previously, there were other temples and monasteries, the inside of whole neighborhoods, populated by Armenians.
Armenians first appeared in Podolia in the mid 11 century. Ancient Kamenetz-Podolsky, with its famous castle and the unique landscape position immediately drew the attention of Armenian immigrants. They settled on the rocky terraces of the river canyon Smotrich remind them landscapes native Armenia.
Armenian Cathedral of St. Nicholas, was blown up in the 30-ies of the Bolsheviks and the KGB, was one of the major architectural landmarks of the city.
Remained intact only the chapel. But the Armenians Kamenetz has regained its foundation and are going to recreate the church in its historic form.
Film "Armenian legacy of Europe" aims to uncover a grand cultural potential of the European Armenian culture, covering the historical period of more than a thousand years.