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N. Korea blasts Pompeo as obstruction to nuclear talks
June 26, 2019 (3 weeks ago) 12:09 pm
Talks have been stalled since a second summit between the US and North Korean collapsed in February © KCNA VIA KNS/AFP / KCNA VIA KNS
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, Jun 26 – North Korea denounced US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as an obstruction to nuclear negotiations on Wednesday, days before President Donald Trump visits Seoul while talks with Pyongyang are deadlocked.
The process has been stalled since a second summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in February collapsed, after they failed to agree on what the North would be willing to give up in exchange for sanctions relief.
The two sides have had minimal contact and Trump is due to fly to Seoul at the weekend for talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
But a spokesman for the North's foreign ministry criticised Trump's top diplomat on Wednesday, calling recent comments by Pompeo "a manifestation of the most extreme hostile acts" against Pyongyang.
The top US diplomat told reporters this week the resumption of working-level talks with the North was becoming "a very real possibility", adding: "Some 80-plus percent of the North Korean economy is sanctioned."
He immediately corrected himself, saying he had misspoken and the figure applied to the effect of US sanctions on Iran, but the remarks were nonetheless deemed "reckless" by Pyongyang.
"If the US sanctions are affecting 80-plus percent of our economy, as Pompeo mentioned, the question is whether the US target is to raise it up to 100 percent," the foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Hostile comments and actions by US policymakers were hampering top-level efforts to revive the stalled diplomacy, the spokesman added, so that it would be "difficult" to look forward to "the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula".
On Sunday, KCNA reported that Kim received a personal message "of excellent content" from the US president, just days after Trump said he received a "beautiful letter" from the North Korean leader.
Pompeo visited Pyongyang four times last year as Trump's top envoy to arrange his two summits with the North Korean leader.
But since Hanoi, North Korea has accused Washington of acting in "bad faith" and demanded the removal of top US officials.
Last month the North slammed National Security Advisor John Bolton, calling him a "war maniac" and "war monger".
Pyongyang, however, has refrained from insulting Trump, who has expressed confidence in his relationship with Kim and even claimed they had "fallen in love".
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Q: Ruby + Curses: Non-blocking getch() + Trap for Ctrl+c? I want to use Curses in Ruby:

*

*getch() cannot block/suspend the program.

*When pressing q , exit the program immediately.

*A trap for Ctrl-C to avoid interruption.

However, I just can done the first point:

*When press q, it would wait for a while (< 1 sec) before exit.

*It seems that Curses makes the trap for Ctrl-C not work at all...

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
require "curses"

Curses.init_screen
Curses.noecho()
Curses.curs_set(0)              #invisible cursor
Curses.timeout = 0
Curses.addstr("Press [q] to abort")
sec=0
while true

  # if place this outside the while loop, q key will be unable to work
  # at all...
  if Curses.getch == 'q'
    Curses.close_screen         #seems unnecessary
    exit
  end

  sec += 1
  hello = "Hello World #{sec}"
  Curses.setpos(Curses.lines / 2, Curses.cols / 2 - (hello.length / 2))
  Curses.addstr(hello)
  Curses.refresh
  sleep 1
end

# Avoid C-c interruption, but Curses seems to ignore it.
Signal.trap(:INT){
  return nil
}

A:
When press q, it would wait for a while (< 1 sec) before exit.

You should combine unresponsive sleep with blocking input:
Set timeout = 1000 and remove sleep 1.
If this is not what you want, then you need multithreading.

A trap for Ctrl-C to avoid interruption.

You can use Curses.raw() to switch to raw mode, where all input will be transfered to you directly, without automatic handling of Ctrl+C and such.

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Q: When does triviality of $f_*$ imply null-homotopy of $f$? I've been considering problems of the following type:

Given certain topological spaces $X$ and $Y$ and a continuous function
  $f:X\to Y$, prove that $f$ is null-homotopic.

The cases studied so far could all be solved in two steps:

*

*The spaces $X$ and $Y$ were such that no nontrivial morphism from $\pi_1(X)$ to $\pi_1(Y)$ could exist. So $f_* = 0$.

*The topological space $X$ was connected and locally arc-connected and $Y$ admitted a contractible covering space $E$. With the lifting lemma I could factor $f$ through $E$ because $f_*(\pi_1(X)) = 0 \subseteq p_*(\pi_1(E))$.

The conclusion followed using the contractibility of $E$ to prove that $f$ must be null-homotopic.Examples can be seen here and here.
My question is what can we say about $f$ if we don't have the technical hypotheses needed for the lifting lemma or if we don't know that $Y$ has a contractible covering space. In particular, I'm interested in the latter case. More precisely, the question is:

Let $X$ and $Y$ be arc-connected topological spaces such that no
  nontrivial morphism from $\pi_1(X)$ to $\pi_1(Y)$ can exist. Suppose
  that $X$ is locally arc-connected. If $f:X\to Y$ is a continuous
  function, what can we say about it? Is $f$ null-homotopic?

A: Typically, you can't say much.  For instance, if $X=Y=S^2$, then the fundamental groups are trivial, but the identity map $f:X\to Y$ is not null-homotopic (you can prove this using homology groups, which unlike the fundamental group are nontrivial for $S^2$).  In general, coming up with computable invariants that can detect when a map is not null-homotopic (or more generally, when two maps are homotopic) is very hard, and is more or less what the entire vast field of algebraic topology is about.  The fundamental group is just one of the most basic such invariants, and in most cases it is far too weak to distinguish maps on its own.


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(Tokyo, Japan)
For Immediate Release                                July 9, 1993
PRESS BRIEFING
COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT DAVID GERGEN
The Ambassador's Residence
7:35 P.M. (L)
MR. GERGEN: If we could just have a moment or two of your time, we all missed you so much that we decided we had to come over and see you yet again.
I wanted to give you an update about where things stand and sort of clear the decks before the President gets here. Then we're going to have [name deleted] talk to you for a few minutes on background about this afternoon's session -- just so we've cleared all the decks and you've got a clean slate here going into tonight's press conference with the President. Many of you have been asking about the status of the framework talks, and I wanted to tell you that the parties are continuing to talk. Some progress has been achieved, but there are still unresolved issues. There's no deadline for these talks. They may finish now or they may finish later. I wanted to make sure you understood that the dinner tonight is regarded as a social event. It is not part of the negotiating process.
I'm sure they'll be talking about the summit. The President wants to pay tribute to Prime Minister Miyazawa for the very fine way he hosted this summit. Some of you asked whether there will be an agreement tonight or lack of agreement tonight on the framework, whether there will be some decision tonight. I think a decision tonight is unlikely, unlikely, unlikely.
So in any event, are there any questions? Now, you all have asked about whether we would provide a readout. We won't do a formal readout, I think, after tonight's dinner. I hope that one of us will circulate in the press room after the dinner is over just to give you some sense of -- to tell you that nothing happened. If the unlikely happened, we would give you notice.
Q And would there be a joint statement of some sort --
MR. GERGEN: The frank answer is we haven't -- there's been no serious discussion -- one way or the other. There's been some discussion. We've thought about it. I mean --
Q Is this basically a farewell dinner for Miyazawa?
MR. GERGEN: It's a farewell dinner for President Clinton as he prepares to leave Tokyo.
Q (inaudible) --
MR. GERGEN: No, this was a dinner suggested by Prime Minister Miyazawa. It's an opportunity for the President to have a chance to pay tribute to him.
Q Even though this is not supposed to be a negotiating session, you wouldn't rule out that they might actually talk about outstanding issues between them?
MR. GERGEN: No, I don't rule that out at all. It is a social event, it is not a negotiation. The negotiations we've been trying to stress over the last few days -- ministerial level, so this is not a negotiation.
Q By the ministers, you mean?
MR. GERGEN: Well, there -- representatives from both sides who have been talking during the day today. They talked yesterday, they talked the day before. And they were -- when I just came over here, those talks were still continuing -- just about 20 minutes ago.
Q Who's at the dinner, David?
MR. GERGEN: Mrs. Clinton will not be there. She has another event on her schedule tonight. So it will be the President, the Prime Minister, and whether it will be Tony Lake or Sandy Berger or Michael Armacost, I'm not sure. But there will be one other American there, and I think there will be some counterpart on the Japanese side.
Q Would there be Roger Altman or Larry or --
MR. GERGEN: You mean Roger Altman, someone directly from that group?
Q negotiations?
MR. GERGEN: Roger Altman? I'm not anticipating -- as I say, I think the much more likely candidates for being there will be Tony or Sandy or possibly Michael Armacost.
Q Assuming that you're not going to get anything one way or the other on the framework tonight, are the talks likely to continue tomorrow into the weekend, early next week, or do they stop at least temporarily while the President leaves?
MR. GERGEN: Well, I think the anticipation would be, if they're not concluded tomorrow before he leaves, then there would be at least a brief pause and then they would be taken up after Tokyo. That's the anticipation.
Q have to tell us in the morning where we are.
MR. GERGEN: Yes, sure, we'll let you know tomorrow before you leave. Yes, I think -- we'll keep you abreast of this. We just want to make sure you're not --
Q Can you let us know tonight -- at some point tonight whether the talks will continue --
MR. GERGEN: Yes, I think what we'll do after -- as I say, I think the latest reading is it is unlikely that there will be any conclusion one way or the other this evening. But after dinner, I think you all are probably are going to be interested in an update, so we'll just come down and say -- you know, we'll circulate or go to the podium and just deal with it. But I think you're owed some update after the dinner if there's anything.
Q Can you tell us why the leaders don't negotiate -- that is, to sit down and see if they can work through some of the details that their aides haven't been able to cut through?
MR. GERGEN: Well, I think the truth of the matter is, as I understand and the more I've gotten into this, the more it's become apparent that the issues are very complex, it's exactly the kind of discussion you would want to put in the hands of your representatives, rather than having done it at a summit level. So I just don't think the dinner lends itself to it. And for the kind of complexities involved, you have to have a whole group of aides, representatives and one thing or another. It's just not the kind of thing that they had anticipated. The dinner was on track a few days ago.
Q I thought the President was prepared at the bilateral to try to address some of the substantive issues, and I'm wondering why he doesn't give it a try.
MR. GERGEN; Well, I think the President would be -- sure, the President can easily deal with some of the overview questions. But when you get down to the details of something like this, this is an extremely complex agreement. If it's reached, then it would -- as we said before, if it were to be reached, it would represent a major step forward, significant step beyond where we've been. So that -- as you know, you look at these baskets and what might be in the baskets. There are a lot of different questions here that arise. It's not a simple thing that can be resolved over sushi.
Q If the talks are taken up again after Tokyo, would that be before the July 18th elections, or would it wait until the new government is in place?
MR. GERGEN: That has not been addressed, Gwen. It's a good question. Frankly, I think that they'll probably decide -- let's say the talks went through tomorrow morning, I think that they would then decide, well, look, why don't we take this up within a week or so, or something like that.
The current government, the Miyazawa government, has been, as we say, quite forthcoming in these talks. So I see no reason why they wouldn't continue with the current government.
Unless there's any other questions --
Q Following up on Ruth's question, if you're saying that the differences at this point are not the sort of thing that could be resolved -- that could be advanced by the principals because they have to do with detailed, complex issues, does that mean that on the level of basic principle they've more or less agreed and it's a question of working out details? Or are they not at that point?
MR. GERGEN: I think there's been a general desire on both sides to reach an agreement, but on both sides -- I can only speak for the American side, I know that there's a very strong view that, as we've said repeatedly, a good agreement is better than a quick agreement. And it should not be guided by artificial deadlines.
Q But are the differences that remain at this point on the level of principle, or are they on the level of the detailed --
MR. GERGEN: I'm sorry, I'm not prepared to go into that. We've agreed from the beginning we wouldn't go into the negotiations themselves.
Can I just put to rest one other story that has been -- we've been asked about in the last several hours? Apparently, there's a story out of Washington that Secretary Aspin may be coming here to Seoul or on this trip to settle the issue about gays in the military -- those questions. And I just wanted to make sure you understand that is not going to be a subject for discussion between the President and Secretary Aspin. I don't know where that story is coming from. The Pentagon -- that has never been our -- the Secretary was coming here for quite different purposes.
Q They're coming from the Pentagon.
MR. GERGEN: Well, I don't know who it's coming from the Pentagon. It's a very large building. But that is not on, as I say.
Q Will he not have with him any material --
MR. GERGEN: Well, I can't guarantee what issues -- what materials he's going to have in his briefcase, but I can tell you that's not going to be a subject of discussion.
Q downer -- trip going well and you don't want it to --
MR. GERGEN: No. It's just that that's -- it's not something for -- it's always been understood that the Secretary would have a report ready for the President by the 15th of July. We look forward to receiving that report and at that point the President will deal with it.
Q to Hawaii? Would Secretary Aspin --
MR. GERGEN: No, I don't anticipate it. He'll be -- I think the next time the President will be looking at this issue is when he gets back to the mainland.
Q Was Aspin going to bring out the recommendations, but changed his mind?
MR. GERGEN: It has never been our understanding on this end.
Q Are you answering it from the White House --
MR. GERGEN: I'm just telling you I don't know where the story came from within the Pentagon source area, but that has never been our understanding. I talked to Les in San Francisco, I guess it was just before leaving. And it has never been an understanding that he would come here and discuss that.
Q never discuss -- I mean, the word would not --
MR. GERGEN: Discuss, negotiate -- yes -- consider, present, whatever verb you want to use, it's not going to happen.
Q Has the President or have you talked to the Secretary today?
MR. GERGEN: We've had discussions here. I've talked to the President about it.
Q No -- has the President or you talked to Secretary Aspin today?
MR. GERGEN: No, I've talked to people here. I have not talked to Secretary Aspin today. It was a rather --
Q Has the President talked to Secretary Aspin about the subject since he's been here?
MR. GERGEN: No. Why don't we move on. (Laughter.) No, I just thought -- I don't see any point in pursuing this. But Strobe is here to talk on background to give you an update on the rest of the session this afternoon. The President will be over shortly.
END7:42 P.M. (L)

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As the most hotly anticipated show of the year draws closer, The Rolling Stones have announced British India and The Preatures as supports for their Hope Estate concert on Saturday November 15.
Both known for taking a retro rock sound and giving it a modern twist these young Australian bands are the perfect complement to one of the most iconic rock 'n' roll bands of all time.
British India returned from Berlin earlier this month with album number five written, recorded and ready to be mixed. Lucky ticketholders at The Rolling Stones' Hanging Rock and Hope Estate shows will be amongst the first to hear the new single from their upcoming fifth full-length release, as well as tracks from 2013's Controller (out now through Liberation Music) like 'Summer Forgive Me' and 'Blinded', and selections from their illustrious back catalogue.
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Before even releasing their debut album, Sydney five-piece The Preatures have played mind-blowing sets at Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, Splendour In The Grass and Coachella, performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, received a bevy of awards and an ARIA nomination, and have a gold-certified single to their name. This October, they can add supporting The Rolling Stones to this list as they kick off the fun at Hanging Rock and follow British India at Hope Estate.
"When we heard there was a chance of supporting The Rolling Stones, we tried not to think about it, in case it didn't happen. When we actually got the nod from them, we went in to shock and we still are!" Gideon Benson of The Preatures said.
The Rolling Stones play Hope Estate on Saturday November 15 with special guests British India and The Preatures.
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September 2020 Milestones
Editorial Send an email October 2, 2020
HumAngle Milestones
In September, the United Nations marked its 75th Anniversary and the 21st day was the International World Peace Day but the guns of conflict seemed to have sounded loudest in areas of conflict across the globe with new fronts emerging.
In Nigeria, as in other parts of Africa, where long years of conflict have left in their trails large areas of devastation, the enemies of the state continue to change strategies and stretch national resources, especially the security agencies, in men and material.
When it seemed the Nigerian military had restored order in the Northwest region where terrorists were daily destroying communities, the criminals launched fresh attacks in the Northeast which has been the centre of terrorism in Nigeria over the past decade. They inflicted heavy casualties on the security forces, including taking out field commanders.
The relics of the conflicts, including natural disasters, are numerous with victims also trying to eke out a living and HumAngle attempted to capture them in the month of September.
Boko Haram's Heavily Juvenile Militia Confines Them To The Fringes
A new demographic of teenagers is becoming dominant in the cadres of fighters populating the terror troops in the Lake Chad Basin. The teenage and child soldier phenomenon has become the new normal in the camps and formations. And the development is seriously impacting the terror group's strategies and effectiveness, HumAngle has learned.
Boko Haram Roadblocks, Ambushes In Borno Claiming Prime Targets
On Sunday, September 20, insurgents mounted a roadblock on the road leading to Maiduguri from Monguno town, in Monguno Local Government Area, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. Monguno is 130 kilometres northeast of Maiduguri. State officials from the Ministry of Health in Maiduguri were among the travellers on the road that day. The health officials were on assignment to fumigate internally displaced person (IDP) camps in the garrison town. When these particular travellers got to the roadblock, it was already too late when they realised they were in the hands of insurgents.
Outrage Among Troops As Army Fail To Recognise Soldiers Slain With Col Bako
Sunday, September 20, turned out to be one of the most depressing days for troops of the Nigeria Army, particularly among the soldiers in the 25 Task Force Brigade, Damboa, Borno state. News of the death of Dahiru Bako, an Army Colonel and Commander of the Brigade came as an over wrenching bombshell. Every soldier among the troops fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria knows Col Bako as a soldier's soldier.
Insecurity Forcing Ogun Communities To Use Traditional Safeguards In Combatting Crime
Realising that the Nigeria Police cannot curb crime alone, vigilante groups in a southwest state have stuck to ancient practices of reducing insecurity and seem to be succeeding. In communities in Southwest Nigeria, it is common to use traditional methods in crime-fighting. The practices include oath-taking, adjudication or alternative dispute resolution, use of herbs to fortify crime fighters, and the invocation of gods and spirits at shrines. While many of these practices are fading, especially in urban areas due to conventional policing, rural communities still use them.
Sex For Survival: How Officials Use Underage IDP Girls As Objects Of Pleasure
Young IDPs in Nigeria are sexually assaulted by officials as a condition to receive food and medical supplies. Aisha has had more than her fair share of misfortunes. She was only six years old when the Boko Haram terror group levied war on the secular society in Nigeria. The ensuing carnage and bloodbath has taken the lives of over 30,000 people. Originally from Goniri, a town in Yobe State, she was forced to move to Bama, about 60 kilometres southeast of Maiduguri in neighbouring Borno State.
Ex-Boko Haram Fighters, Eluding Detection, Start A New Life In Kaduna, Kano, And Abuja
He was in the senior commanding cadre among the revered elite jihadist corps in the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram. As a Qa'id, the Nigeria Army equivalent of a Brigadier-General, he was high in the sect's pecking order. Two years ago, Musa (not his real name) took residence in Hayin Rigasa in Kaduna among ordinary people. Musa was joined by his family, his wife and three children. He lived discreetly, with a keen interest in the minutest information about his neighbours and the neighbourhood. He avoided conversations with people and only ventured out when it was necessary.
Kano Residents Hiring Pricey Outfits To Assume False Identities
Kano State is known as the centre of commerce because of thriving economic activities in its communities that have made it to have one of the largest Gross Domestic Products in Nigeria. Among such commercial activities is the renting of clothes – a practice which, according to some sources, dates back many decades in Fagge Local Government Area of the state. But concerns have been raised by experts as to the medical and social implications of this kind of business.
Knifar: Women Facing Forced Family Separation By Soldiers Cry Out
Thousands of women in Borno have had to raise their children alone because their husbands, arbitrarily accused of being members of Boko Haram, are jailed by the Nigerian Army. But they are not planning to give up hope.
Navigating Hunger And COVID-19: Pathetic Story of IDP Sole-Providers Battling Against Starvation
Fanna Modu has 11 dependants and 10 among them are children. On good days, she hands out N10 notes to each so they can get food to eat. These good days are bad days in normal survival terms but nothing about the conditions of Internally Displaced Persons in Northeast Nigeria is normal. Modu, like many other women in the camp, is a sole provider for her household which has been thrown into heavy dysfunction by bouts of conflicts and terror attacks. The husbands are absent, not by choice. They are scattered in detention camps after being separated from their families on the suspicion that they are members of the Boko Haram insurgency group.
Faced With Insurgency, Firewood Sellers in Borno Opt For New And Green Livelihood
The sellers make brisk businesses all seasons. To feed the supply chain, trees are frequently felled. In the process, deforestation is escalated across the state. As trucks filled with firewood move to markets and communities, they leave behind a trail of environmental degradation. HumAngle spoke with firewood dealers in Maiduguri, Borno State, Northeastern Nigeria, on the environmental impact of their trade.
Tale Of Woes Of Abuja's Leper Community
Ali Isa looks forlorn and dejected in the midst of some four elderly men under a tree providing them with a shade in the centre of Al-Heri community also known as Abuja Leprosy Colony. The Leprosy colony is about 73 kilometres away from Abuja situated on Abuja-Lokoja expressway. But written all over Isa is evidence that he has been through a lot- suffered and survived leprosy and now struggles to survive the pangs of poverty in an abandoned community.
Fear Of Reprisals Grips Middle-Belt After Nigerian Army Kills Terror Leader
A spectre of impunity and violence hangs over Nigeria. On September 8, 2020, what seemed a replay of the costly extra-judicial killing of Mohammed Yusuf, the founder of Jammatu'atu Ahlul Sunnah Lidda'awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram in Police custody in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria was re-enacted by state actors on a highway, few kilometres away from Makurdi, Benue state in North Central Nigeria. Only that this time, the perpetrators are troops of the Nigeria Army deployed to field operations in Benue state.
Armed Violence Breeds New Generation Of Nigerian-Nigerien Citizens
Chased out of Nigeria's Northwest region by seemingly intractable violent crimes, many Nigerians taking refuge in Niger Republic's 'Villages of Opportunity' seem to be rebuilding their lives as Nigeriens. For Bilkisu, remembering an act of terror is as traumatising as the act of terror itself considering its consequences on victims. The experience still agonises her but the mother of 11 struggles with emotion but must ere courage and calmness to recall the night she would permanently dread and wish to forget for the rest of her life – a night in April 2019 although she could not remember the exact day.
WhatsApp Audio Circulating On Zabarmari Massacre Misleading – Borno Elders
Boko Haram: Nigeria Begins Trial Of 5,000 Suspects
FG Demands Investigation Into Death Of Nigerian Woman In Cote D'ivoire Prison
ISWAP Terrorists Kill 7 Soldiers In Northern Cameroon
Agonies Of Communities In The War Front: Brutalized, Exploited And Traumatized By Army and Insurgents


While we hold this palette to be self-evident (all men—and women—will undoubtedly be clad in red, white, and blue tomorrow), all celebrations are not created equal. Therefore, while it is important to exercise a little liberty in your look on Independence Day, that cute bikini worn on board for the fireworks sail may not be unanimously ratified at the great American gala that evening. Not to worry, whether you'll be playing patriotic tourist for the day or grilling on a rooftop at night, here are five perfectly curated, totally stylish ways to work a little stars and stripes (and watermelon!) into your pursuit of happiness.


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Donegal boasts breathtaking scenery, pristine beaches, rugged islands and an amazing selection of fauna & flora, this northern - almost untouched - stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way is a must to explore.
Ballybofey & Stranorlar are TwinTowns. Ballybofey in Irish meaning "valley of the cow" and Stranorlor "low valley" are small historic towns. Some years after the Plantation of Ulster, in the aftermath of Cromwell, possession of the rich land of the Finn Valley was the top priority for Scots and English settlers in Donegal. Their first task was to build their castle-type houses, provide manor houses and build stone bridges across the River Finn which can still be seen to this day.
Ballybofey & Stranorlar encapsulates the tragedies of the Irish Civil War. Here is were the last four republicans, who subsequently became known as the "Drumboe Martyrs", were executed by a Free State firing squad in ballybofey in March 1923. A monument rests in commemoration to this day. Contemporary Ballybofey & Stranorlar has many great shops such as McElhinneys, voted best independent store in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
An array of traditional Irish pubs and restaurants are dotted around the streets. With the county home Gaelic Games field within a few minutes walk, you also have the opportunity to see a traditional Irish sport played at the top level.
In Barnesmore Gap located 5 minutes drive from the TwinTowns are rugged and gaunt grey mountains which, from a distance, give off a hue of blue, and for three miles on either side the traveller is between massive cliffs cut by streams racing down the mountain and falling into the noisy Lowerymore river. The TwinTowns are located in the centre of Co. Donegal, which makes them the perfect area to be based from which to explore the north-west of Ireland.
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These stunning sea cliffs are the highest marine cliffs in Europe.
Accessible all year round and standing 600m tall, the sheer drop down into the crashing Atlantic swells below is quite the sight.
Lastly with a coastline of 1235 km/772 miles, County Donegal Wild Atlantic Way is blessed with many beautiful sandy beaches, twelve of which are Blue Flag Beaches. Whether you wish to scuba dive, fish, swim, surf or walk along Donegal's breathtaking coast you can do it all here. One particular highlight is Ballymastocker Bay, voted the second most beautiful beach in the world by Observer Magazine.
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Two Ships Trapped In Antarctic Ice For Weeks Finally Break Free
Paul Szoldra
Jan. 7, 2014, 11:42 PM
his image taken by expedition doctor Andrew Peacock of www.footloosefotography.com on January 2, 2014 shows passengers on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy watching as a helicopter from the nearby Chinese icebreaker Xue Long picks up passengers.
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Two ships that had been stuck in Antarctica have finally broken free of surrounding ice due to favorable change in wind conditions, according to a release from the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard, which had dispatched its Polar Star icebreaker to rescue the two ships — Russian-flagged Akademik Shokalskiy, trapped since Christmas Eve, and Chinese-flagged Xue Long, an icebreaker attempting rescue — said in a statement it had received confirmation they were free from Australian Maritime Safety Authority at 2 p.m. Pacific time.
"I am exceptionally proud of my crew in their ability to respond to this mission," said Capt. George Pellissier, commanding officer of the Polar Star, in the statement. "I, too, am extremely pleased that both the Akademik Shokalskiy and the Xue Long have been able to work their way free of the ice. We're now looking forward to continuing on our primary mission of resupplying McMurdo Station."
From CNN:
The Akademik Shokalskiy had been trapped in unusually deep ice since Christmas Eve with scientists, journalists, tourists and crew members on board. A helicopter ferried the ship's 52 passengers to an Australian icebreaker last week.
"We continue to sail northward, changing courses and speed. The speed is 7 knots," the Russian ship's captain, Igor Kiselev, told the ITAR-TASS official news agency Tuesday.
The Coast Guard had responded to the request for its only active icebreaker on Jan. 4, and wasn't expected to arrive until the 12th.
While stuck, passengers on the Russian research ship tried to keep busy with movies, photography, and dinner and drinks on New Year's, according to Reuters. Two journalists shared much of what it was like over social media.
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Q: Cannot get Web Sockets to work with virtual IP redirection I can't get Web Sockets to work on my site when I access it via its virtual IP. If I use it's real (intranet) IP, everything works perfectly. If I use the virtual IP, I get this on Google Chrome console:
SignalR: Connecting to websocket endpoint 'ws://123.456.78.9/signalr/connect?transport=webSockets&connectionToken=0vWQGMzm6Hb59MMbQIEPODQnjqUUxAMmiITaNHUZYZ1tfAK%2FQvXCVDRNll0y4vQkzNcSdK7smLN%2FzCRFtK7AWogA%2FjfwNt47eUu%2F7TdwFYUZCkZlQMP8xqkaY5kfA0oO9N2F5tQYBGedapl3YxHjNQ%3D%3D&connectionData=%5B%7B%22name%22%3A%22jobhub%22%7D%5D&tid=3'.
SignalR: Closing the Websocket.

And I get this on MSIE:
SCRIPT12031: WebSocket Error: Network Error 12031, The connection with the server was reset

Is there any way to make this work?

A: So to fix this the load balancer needs to be configured specifically for Web Sockets (eventually it'll be by default). How to do this depends on the manufacturer, here's the link for NetScaler:
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/ns-system-10-map/ns-ac-config-websock-tsk.html


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Work Without Auteur: A Review Of Never Look Away
April 30, 2019 at 8:01 am by Ray Pride
by Ray Pride
April 30, 2019 May 4, 2019 Filed under:
I hadn't seen a whale in a while. Producer-writer-director Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck's second German-language feature, the century-spanning "Never Look Away" (Werk ohne Autor) is a perverse psychological thriller, an art-history leviathan and a pastel lullaby of touchable things and thieved portfolios, a languorous three hours and eight minutes that peruses high art for the sake of hot ham. I looked forward to von Donnersmarck's latest, despite hushed reviews from festival outings and a lackluster German release. The movie was thrashed in German-language reviews, but I don't know how much is taking the film to task for its wholesale appropriation of the life of the living Gerhard Richter and the late Joseph Beuys. (Richter is eighty-seven.)
"Never Look Away" is an uncommonly greedy magpie epic fictionalization of a living artist's life: the screenplay's inspiration, Richter, has objected in a now-notorious New Yorker profile-cum-hit piece on the eccentric filmmaker. The lovely but inert movie's assembly of absurd, absurdist particulars is fractured more than knit, panoply and pageant. (Whether ripped from conversations with Richter or invented, the central psychosexual-social-family conflict is brutal.) The screenplay could be taught in shop class: the smell of fresh carpentry hangs. The writer-director's worst crutch is to let scenes end with a pause, with reaction shots from characters, often murmuring a line to no one but the absent audience, grasping for a last straw of "meaningfulness," if not emotion, if not narrative economy. The camera doesn't capture thought, but instead the actors' reaction, consternation, attitude after attitude: platitudinous attitudes.
The female is form: women are extended figures examined in tracking shots along elevated buttocks, or overhead frames of pluperfectly arrayed breasts, a single mole centered across the wide frame. Men, the male artists, like boys, are perpetually barefoot, soulful, soiled soles centered. It's an older man's view of the body and of representation from earlier eras of German art, these splurges of fleshy figuration.
Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel's wondrous pastel colors, storybook colors, in gently urgent falling light, are honeyed dream instead of standstill dust-coned moments. Von Donnersmarck's production crew shares a joy in brightening commonplace details: vests, cardigans, sagging; wallpaper, shouting. Several set pieces gleam: two political posters aflame in a classroom; a "memory" that belongs to Beuys, the touchstone suffering that made him a survivor and the artist he was.
Even the distressed clothing of supposedly impoverished students stinks of esthetic perfumery. Everything is a "callback" to another thing. It wearies. The combination of bursts of beauty and compulsive structuring resembles habits of some of the movies of Robert Zemeckis, and Von Donnersmarck exuberantly demanded of me at the time of "Lives of Others" to explain why there is no monument built to Zemeckis in his Chicago birthplace.
But the great saga dancing across this canvas is the taking of Gerhard Richter. Cleverness abounds. Disrespect dances. In a New Yorker piece akin to the Janet Malcolm essay that insists that all journalists betray, von Donnersmarck gleefully recounts the days reticent Richter spent opening up to the cherubic yet elephantine man who made "The Lives of Others" and "The Tourist." (These titles could be affixed to this film as well.)
Here's a passage from Dana Goodyear's toxic January 14, 2019, profile of von Donnersmarck in The New Yorker: "'This man has lived through everything imaginable,' he told me. 'He's lived through his mother being raped by the Russians, his father committing suicide, his aunt being euthanized, both of his uncles being killed on the Eastern Front, his childhood classmates being killed in the bombing of Dresden, the experience of incredible impoverishment. Yet he manages to take all these things and charge them, in his paintings, with this mystical energy that comes from the suffering.' In this way, Donnersmarck said, art becomes an emblem of resilience, even productivity: 'It gives us that wonderful feeling that our suffering can be of use.'"
Typical line of von Donnersmarck dialogue: "You've been through a lot of shit, haven't you, but does it help you to wallow in it?" Richter wrote to Goodyear: "Unfortunately, this visualization of all the facts caused such bad feelings, and my dislike of both the movie and the person grew so much again, that I find it impossible to give you an answer."
For another voice, eighty-three-year-old filmmaker William Friedkin, who maintains a steady Twitter presence, likes "Never Look Away" very much.
Billy – my first ever tweet (from a handle my cousin Nicky D. gifted me almost a decade ago) to thank you and Sherry for your kind words and your great support. @williamfriedkin pic.twitter.com/T8KRrYDJtO
— Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (@donnersmarck) April 23, 2019
Max Richter's score is largely a delight. With Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer. 188m. (Ray Pride)
"Never Look Away," nominated as Best Foreign Language film, is available on home video.
Ray Pride
Ray Pride is Newcity's film critic and a contributing editor to Filmmaker magazine.
His history of Chicago "Ghost Signs" in words and images is in the works. Previews on Twitter (twitter.com/chighostsigns) as well as photography on Instagram: instagram.com/raypride.
Twitter: twitter.com/RayPride.
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Ensuring students with such diverse abilities and interests master the same concepts and skills is one of the many challenges teachers face. One instructional method incorporating such a philosophy is Differentiated Learning, which allows teachers to meet the needs of students with differing abilities by changing what students learn (content), how they retain the information (process), how they demonstrate knowledge of skills (product), and with whom and where learning happens (learning environment). While this method of instruction sounds ideal in theory, in practice, differentiated instruction can be complicated by other teacher-related stressors, such as limited time for planning and instruction, large classes, and limited adjunct support, amongst others. This presentation will focus on working efficiently to recognize diverse learners and include techniques for putting differentiated instruction into practice.


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The Long Term Impact of Israel's Separation Barrier in the West Bank
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A decade after construction began on the Separation Barrier, the harm to adjacent Palestinian communities is clear. With some two-thirds of the barrier completed, it has crippled agriculture along its route. By isolating communities from each other and from their land, the barrier has eroded their ability to survive and prevents any sustainable development. This reality violates the state's commitment to the High Court that the barrier would not seriously harm these communities.
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The report surveys the broad spectrum of issues regarding the Israeli authorities' human rights record in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the past year, the 44th year of the Israeli occupation. An interactive version of the report is available online and distributed through social media. The report documents a sharp increase in the number of uninvolved Palestinians killed by the Israeli security forces in the Gaza Strip in 2011. There was also an increase in the number of Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians, compared to 2010.
The Right to Demonstrate in the Occupied Territories
The Separation Barrier causes severe violations of human rights, and gave rise to popular Palestinian resistance. In a new position paper, B'Tselem examines the army's increased efforts to quell these demonstrations, in light of the right to demonstrate.
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Israeli Settlement Policy in the West Bank
A report analyzing the mechanisms Israel uses to gain control of West Bank land for building settlements. The report, which is based on official state information, shows that one-fifth of the settlements' built-up area is private Palestinian land and that the settlements control 42 percent of West Bank land.
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B'Tselem's annual report on human rights in the Occupied Territories, covering the 16-month period from January 2009 to April 2010. The report surveys the events since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead. One and a half years after the operation, the allegations regarding breaches of international humanitarian law by Israel and Hamas have yet to be properly investigated.
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The Establishment and Expansion Plans of Ma'ale Adummim and their Human Rights Ramifications
The report reveals that as far back as the 1970s, Israel planned to annex Ma'ale Adummim. To do this, it expropriated over the years tens of thousands of dunams of Palestinian land and expelled hundreds of Beduin who were living there. Implementation of plans to expand the settlement will destroy north-south territorial contiguity in the West Bank and impede realization of the Palestinians' right to self-determination.
According to the report, the number of Israelis and Palestinians killed in clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip dropped. However, there has been deterioration in many other measures of the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories.
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Since the beginning of the second intifada, in September 2000, Israel has imposed restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank that are unprecedented in scope and time. As a result, the fundamental right of West Bank Palestinians to freedom of movement, their exercise of which was limited in any event, has become a privilege that Israel extends to them as it deems fit. Indeed, Palestinian travel in the West Bank is now an exception, which must be justified to the Israeli authorities, and almost every trip entails uncertainty, friction with soldiers, much waiting, and often great expense.
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Routing the Separation Barrier to Enable the Expansion of Israeli Settlements in the West Bank
The report deals with the route of the separation barrier showing that the route was based on considerations relating to settlement expansion and control of land, and not on security reasons, as the government has continuously claimed.
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Preventing Palestinians Access to their Lands West of the Separation Barrier in the Tulkarm-Qalqiliya Area
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The Isolation of Sheikh Sa'ad Village – Before and After the Separation Barrier
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Israel's regime of occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B'Tselem strives to end the occupation, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Master Warrant Officer Cheryl McHugh CD is commissioned Captain.
Warrant Officer Angus Brady CD promoted Master Warrant Officer 8 September 2018.
Sergeant Nathaniel Senff CD promoted Warrant Officer September 2018.
Master Bombardier Eric Wong CD promoted Sergeant 8 September 2018.
The following were qualified Gunner over the summer 2018 period.
The Honorary Colonel, Al Degenova and the Regimental Sergeant Major, Chief Warrant Officer Rob Garrett, discuss Honor House with the early morning show on 7 December. The audio is a little faint.
Bombardier Albert Law received several awards at the Canadian Armed Forces Imagery Contest Awards Ceremony at the National War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario on 28 November, 2018. Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, Lieutenant-General Paul Wynnyk (a former Reserve Bombardier from 20th Fd Regt RCA), presented Bombardier Law with the First Place award in both the People Category - Advanced Classification and the Altered Image Category - Advanced Classification.
The Vancouver Canucks hosted members of the unit and the Brigade to their hockey game against the Vegas Golden Knights on 29 November.
The Regimental Sergeant Major CWO Rob Garrett and Captain Rob Wishnicki attended the Abbotsford Police Department Mess Dinner with Bombardier (Ret'd) Craig Burridge.
Warrant Officer Nathaniel Senff receives Commander's coin from Brigadier-General Dave Anderson in Norway.
Allan De Genova supporting the 6th annual Adrian Oliver Memorial Run and the Honour House " A home away from home " with Ben Oliver.
The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Lajoie, presents the Director of Music, Captain Cheryl McHugh with her new commissioned rank. The Regimental Sergeant Major, Chief Warrant Officer Rob Garrett provided his congratulations on the new officer status. That's now four former members of the Warrant & Sergeants' Mess that are still currently serving as officers.
The Officers' Mess now has three members that were former Regimental Sergeant Majors. Captains George Dempsey, Rob Wishnicki, Kevin Walker. Research indicates that this may well be only the second time three former RSMs were Captains together. Back in 1988 there were Captains Leon Jensen, Bill Amos and Eric Tyldesley-Gore. Congratulations to the newest trio for continuing to serve!
Honorary Colonel Allan DeGenova and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Don Foster attended the 3rd Division conference held at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton in October 2018.
The Honoraries were introduced to the Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicle (TAPV) by BCR RSM CWO Tony Harris at St John Armoury 39 CER in Chilliwack on October 13, 2018.
On 20 October 1871, the first regular Canadian army units were created, in the form of two batteries of garrison artillery; thus, that date is considered the regiment's birthday. What's flying from your flagpole today? Happy 147th birthday!
Captain Rob Wishnicki and Master Warrant Officer Roberts attended the LUSAR writing board at Canadian Forces Base Kingston from 1 to 5 October 2018.
You are invited to the 15th Field Regiment Band Open Rehearsal night!
28 July marked the completion of this year's Reserve Army Operations Course. The photo shows the successful graduates from 3rd Division including our own Captain Conway Hui.
Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Don Foster and Sergeant (ret'd) Ralph Webb, who served with 85 Battery in Ladner in the 60s, attended a Memorial Dedication of a 25 pounder at the Guelph Armoury on 26 May in Guelph Ontario. HLCol Foster's father was a signaler in the 43rd Battery, 12th Field, Ralph's father was the CO of 12th Field. Both fathers served with the 12th Canadian Field Regiment from D-Day to VE Day. Check out the D-Day after action report here.
The Regimental recruiting team is at the Cloverdale Rodeo on the long weekend, 19-21 May with a C3 howitzer.
15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA and 5th (BC) Field Artillery regiment combine for Exercise Claymore Steel in Yakima, WA. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Lajoie and Master Warrant Officer Rob Garrett receive a tour of an Apache attack helicopter while at Yakima Firing Centre.
A new rug was recently delivered to the recruiting office. Nice! Bring a friend along the next time you go to the Armoury. Have them check out the recruiting office and talk to Captain Morrison. He's got some great information on summer employment! Check out the attached ads - download a copy - send it to all your friends!
Wasn't that a party! The Regimental Sergeant Major pulled together a hard rocking band and blasted the Bessborough Armoury with some great tunes. I've got a few pics. How about sending me some of yours?
The 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA combined with The 5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment RCA for a weekend shoot with 81 mm mortars at Fort Lewis, WA. 39 Brigade's Signals and Medics provided support.
In January 2018, Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Don Foster attended the Change of Honoraries at the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada.
The Levee Breakfast originated with RSM CWO Dave Penman in the early 1960's. In those years, the Band of the Regiment would perform at functions on New Year's Eve as this was a working day for them. The unit would also have New Year's Eve parties at the armoury. With the drinking and late night of the eve, the RSM wanted to look after his soldiers and get them out of bed and get them some breakfast New Year's morning. He gave direction that a restaurant be found to hold the breakfast that was open on this holiday. The breakfast was also attended by the RSM, WOs and Sergeants in the Regiment, both band and artillery. The Directors of Music attended as well. The breakfast has been held in many locations which no longer exist including the Park Hill (Ming Court) on Davie. One year at Denny's because the Ming Court had closed unknown to us and it has been held in the Bistro on Beatty Street for about the last 10 years.
The dress for the 1st of January is DEUs, medals and oxford shoes.
The New Year's Levee is at 1030 hours in the Officers' Mess.
Captain (ret'd) Richard Van Slyke gets tagged as the aide to Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire, OC CMM GOQ MSC CD at the War Related Trauma Stress Injuries Symposium at the University of British Columbia. Also in attendance is the Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Don Foster.
Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret'd) Leon Jensen OMM CD has been elected president of the Royal Canadian Artillery Association during their 2018 Annual General Meeting. Colonel Jensen has a long history with the 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA. He joined in 1970, was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major in 1986, appointed Commanding Officer in 1998. He was promoted Colonel (WSE) on two occasions - first as Project Director Land Force Reserve Restructure and the second time as Regional Liaison Officer Canadian Forces Liaison Council.
Your Vancouver Artillery Association President attended the Royal Canadian Artillery Mess Dinner in Ottawa on 18 October 2018. It was a great dinner that provided an opportunity for the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery to sit down and dine in a traditional mess dinner format. Your president was honoured to be tasked as the President of the Dinner at the meet and greet the night before.
Three former members of 15th (Vancouver) Coast Regiment RCA who volunteered for overseas service are buried at Bretteville-sur-Laize. Sergeant Claude Everly Rogers and Bombardier Gordon George Sheldon, both with 3rd Light Ant-Aircraft Regiment RCA, both survived Dieppe only to fall during the Normandy campaign. Sergeant Robert Dixon Spring also died in Normandy while serving with 6 Field Regiment RCA.
Lieutenant Edward Franklin Mantle of the 5th Anti-Tank Regiment RCA, a former Gunner in 31st Battery, 15th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery and a Sergeant in the 85th Battery, 15th (Vancouver) Coast Brigade RCA was wounded on 1 August 1944 and died the following day.
Several former members of 15th (Vancouver) Coast Regiment RCA and the 1st Anti-Aircraft Regiment RCA volunteered for overseas service. They were subsequently assigned to the 3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment and assigned to the Dieppe operation. Gunner Joseph Camile Dessureault is buried at the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery while Bombardier James Charters and Bombardier George Allen Northgraves were presumed killed in action and not identified after the battle.
Second Lieutenant William J Jephson was the Brigade Sergeant Major of 15th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery as it was formed in Western Canada for World War I. The Brigade was subsequently broken up in Great Britain with the members dispatched as reinforcements to the existing Canadian Field Artillery units. Sergeant Major Jephson received his commission as a Second Lieutenant with C Battery 175th Brigade Royal Field Artillery before meeting his fate on 26 September 1918. He will not be forgotten.
Your Association President stopped at the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery in Souchez Pas de Calais, France to pay respect to former members of our perpetuated 5th Siege Battery, Canadian Siege Artillery. Lieutenant James Kay was a former Battery Sergeant Major who was subsequently commissioned and Gunner Roland Francis Turner who was killed by counter battery fire.
Great news – The Fat and gun stayed at the Hawthorne/Watkins compound near the Abbotsford Airport over the summer while it went from event to event, finishing at the Airshow the weekend before last. While it was there John Hawthorne did some basic maintenance. Changed the oil, lubed the chassis, minor tune up, adjusted the parking brake AND installed permanent turn signals on the FAT and got the brake lights and turns signals working on the gun lighting kit. The signal controller is manual, of course, and the driver has to remember to switch it off after turning, not easy when you are manhandling the steering wheel, shifting gears and watching traffic. It is also very noisy in the cab (not that most of us notice, being Gunners) and it is suggested that we employ a young 'powder boy' to ride behind the driver and rap him on the head with a rubber mallet to remind him to turn off the signal after a turn if he does not do so in a timely manner.
Your Vancouver Artillery Association president has spent the last two afternoons in the Canadian War Museum checking out 18 pounders and 25 pounders in addition to a couple of hours in their archive department. I could spend a month in here!
The Association had the 25 Pounder, Limber and Field Artillery Tractor out at the annual Abbotsford Agri-Fair from 4 to 5 August. Certainly a distinguished looking trio manning the display! Former Honorary Colonel Bill Rodgers, current Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Don Foster and Major (Ret'd) Bob Mugford. Good job!
The 25 Pounder detachment deployed to the Aldergrove Fair from 20 to 22 July. They finished off the Langley's Thunderbird Fast Draw Club's 105 pistol salute with the final 106th bang to celebrate the years of the fair.
Leon Jensen, Doug Loney, Bob Mugford and Don Foster donated their time to represent the Vancouver Gunners at this great event. Sunday's schedule includes another firing at 1500 hours - drop on by and say hi.
Not all the Gunners are working with the Vancouver Artillery Association during the Aldergrove Fair. Ian Newby has a gang showcasing his M109 self propelled howitzer and Armoured Personnel Carriers. They include Ian Smith, Doug Butler, Darren Kostinuk and Ross Keller. Great looking vehicle park!
Summertime is great for catching up with stories from the past. Not too sure if I can print any of the ones that came up from this Saturday beer and pizza night. Colonel (Ret'd) Leon Jensen, Captain Rob Wishnicki and Master Warrant Officer (Ret'd) John Mclelland. John's in town for a couple of months on a construction project in West Vancouver and I'm sure we'll see him a couple of times while he's here.
The Vancouver Artillery Association deployed the 25 Pounder and Field Artillery Tractor to Wallace Field in Jericho Beach Park. It was a great day showing off the equipment to local Vancouverites. Wallace Field has a monument which provides information on the members of the RCAF that it was named after. In addition, the monument lists the units that had a connection with the Jericho Station including the Royal Canadian Artillery. We've been promised photos of the wedding shoot that used the FAT as a prop! They'll be posted when they arrive. In the meantime, mark your calendar for Sunday, 26 May 2018. We'll do a similar event but with more guns. Now that we've figured out the time required to acquire our Parks Board permit and our insurance certificate, we'll ensure that the application goes in sooner.
Richard Van Slyke joined the Australian Consul General and the New Zealand Consulate along with CANZBA members at their annual ANZAC Day Commemoration on 25 April The event started at 6:00 pm with a ceremony at Victory Square in Vancouver and continued the celebration at Moose's Down Under Pub, 830 West Pender St.
Have you got a couple of weekends to spare?
The 25 Pounder Detachment have just received their new replica Khaki Drill uniforms! Thanks to Ian and Doreen Newby at International Movie Services, we can now wear uniforms that match the summer dress that were worn during the Second World War. The uniforms are currently equipped with General Service buttons and we'll be purchasing some proper Artillery buttons with the appropriate crown as soon as we can track some down. We're also looking for some brass RCAs and Canada flashers as well as the appropriate rank badges.
The Regiment participated in training exercises at Macaulay Point in the 1930s and 40s. One of our members, John Eckersley, was on Vancouver Island recently and reports: " I attended the annual public guided tour of the Fort on Saturday (Artillery Day - ed.). If you haven't visited it since last November and have the chance to do so, I highly recommend it. It was a few years ago since I had been there and was very impressed with the amount of clearing and cleanup that had been done. Also in November they had installed a very good illustrated signage system giving a history and explanation at the key points, as explained in the article linked below.."
Our Regimental Museum curator has been busy in other fields as well. His recent publication, "Transatlantic Mail Between France and Canada Before 1760," was chosen for its scholarship and original research.
A lesser-known fact about the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) overlooking the cliffs of the University of British Columbia: The museum building was built on the foundations of a World War II military base.
Christopher (Chris) Sewell born February 3rd, 1988 in Victoria, B.C., passed away unexpectedly on August 24th, 2018. He was predeceased by his mother, Lea-Anne Sewell (2016) and will be lovingly remembered by the many friends he made in life.
Chris was an undergraduate student in Mathematics at Simon Fraser University, as well as a Master Bombardier for the Canadian Armed Forces. Having grown up in and out of foster care, Chris had a more challenging start at life than most.
Eric was born in Montreal, PQ in 1934 and moved to Vancouver, B.C. at an early age. He was raised on Sea Island close to the Vancouver Airport.
He married his first wife, Verle Evans, in 1952 and had two beautiful children: Gary, who married Dorothy and gave him two grandchildren, Dillon and Geena. Geena has blessed him with a great grandchild Kade Patrick-Gore and another on the way. His daughter Linda has two wonderful sons, Ryan Sigerson and Mark Mueller. He has one sister Noreen (Fred) Babuin, and two nephews Leslie (Paddy) Babuin and Chris (Ann) Babuin. Two great nephews, Tyler Babuin and Heather (Jon) Mattei who have two beautiful children Reagan and Nolan.
Deceased - 19 February 2018. Gunner John William Craven Kostinuk enrolled in the 15th Field Regiment on 14 March 1957. He was a drummer in the band in 1962. His choice of joining the 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA was possibly due to his own father's (Bombardier John Kostinuk) enlistment in the 1st Searchlight Regiment RCA, his subsequent transfer to the 108th (Howitzer) Battery in Lethbridge and then on to the 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment RCA in 1940. The Kostinuk family continued their Artillery Tradition with John William Craven Kostinuk's son, Bombardier Darren Craven Kostinuk, joining the 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA on 22 March 1983. Ubique. He will not be forgotten.
Jean and Don Maskovich ran the bar and kitchen of the Officers Mess from the early 60s to the mid 80s and catered most of the events that took place in the Armoury during that period.


Description: When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?
Sort of reminded me of Atwood's Handmaid's Tale for the younger set.
Was extremely impressed with how sensitively the author has told this tale. Much of the sexuality is just hinted about and not described in detail, which is very fresh.
Beautifully written, an author whose descriptions are so vivid you feel you are there in the book with them.
"I'm relieved, because this means nobody can look up my dress. And something tells me some of these House Governors would try."
"Hello," she says, in a tone that's gentle as only a child's can be. "How are you feeling?"
My answer wouldn't be kind, so I don't say anything."
"All we were taught of Geography was that the world had once been made up of seven continents and several countries, but a third world war demolished all but North America, the continent with the most advanced technology."
I would really recommend this for the more mature YA reader. Young or sensitive readers may have a hard time with the subject matter.
I received this from Simon and Schuster at the OLA conference.
It seemed almost as though Ms. DeStefano couldn't stand the sadness of the situation herself and softened the blow by pulling the full force of the punch. I can forgive her, however, because she caught me so off guard by something else a chapter later that I actually did cry.
This is the best YA book I've read this year and in quite some time. Ms. DeStefano is excellent in her craft and I would follow her into whatever adventure she writes in the future.


Dave Marlow has a wealth of experience training city professionals in all areas of financial modelling, accounting and financial analysis.
Dave qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He then joined the PwC Training Consulting practice, helping PwC clients implement their finance change initiatives with related training programmes.
Dave is the Head of the Financial Modelling area at BPP within Professional Development.


Telemetry Market report uncovers accurate information about the long run prospects of this market and reveals the complete study of the industry sectors, business development, and current market.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 09, 2018 ) Telemetry Market report uncovers accurate information about the long run prospects of this market and reveals the complete study of the industry sectors, business development, and current market. The foremost objective of this report is to send its readers with a real intelligence on the Telemetry market, to support them collect and organize possible strategies.
The Players mentioned in our report: Siemens AG , GE Healthcare , Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) , Lindsay Corporation , Philips Healthcare , Siemens AG , GE Healthcare , Rogers Communications, Inc. , Schlumberger Ltd. , Astro-Med, Inc. , Schneider Electric , Sierra Wireless, Inc. , Verizon Communications, Inc. , IBM Corp.
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To analyze and research the global Telemetry status and future forecast involving, production, revenue, consumption, historical and forecast.
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In the majority of productions that contain projection, the desired size of the projected image will determine how many and what types of projectors will be necessary to cover the area. While traditional video engineers and projectionists have been managing the organization and blending of multiple projectors into one image for years, lighting programmers are beginning to take on this task because of the evolution of features in many media servers today. In this chapter we will take a look at some of the software and hardware options in DMX controlled media servers that allow a single image to be blended across multiple display devices.


Dissolved Nb in both austetinic and ferritic phases of 9%Cr1%Mo0.2%VNb steel was measured using an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscope (ICP), and the microstructure has been characterized using a field emission scanning electron microscope of a ultra high resolution type and an analytical electron microscope. The dissolved Nb in austenitic phase measured by ICP is in agreement with that predicted by a phase equilibrium calculation system. However, the measured values of dissolved Nb in the specimens which are heat-treated for 2h just below AC1 are much higher than the calculated values. It is newly confirmed by both chemical and physical analyses that the fine NbC particles which are preformed at 950°C and stable at this temperature are on one occasion re-dissolved into the matrix by the subsequent heat treatment at 800°C for 2h. This fact suggests that high temperature tempering is recommended in order to improve creep resistance of high Cr heat resisting steels which contain strong carbo-nitride formers.


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The 2014 NZPI Conference took place at the Millennium Hotel in Queenstown.
A number of initiatives put in place by the venue and Green Event worked well to reduce the events environmental impact.


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