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Péter Pázmány de Panasz [] (,  auch Peter Pazman, ; * 4. Oktober 1570 in Oradea (deutsch Großwardein, ungarisch Nagyvárad), Siebenbürgen; † 19. März 1637 in Preßburg (ungarisch Pozsony), Königliches Ungarn) war ein ungarischer Philosoph und katholischer Theologe. Der in einer calvinistischen Familie in Siebenbürgen geborene Konvertit wurde zunächst Jesuit, später Erzbischof von Gran und damit Primas von Ungarn. Pázmány war die Hauptfigur der Gegenreformation im königlichen Ungarn seiner Zeit, weitgehend in Oberungarn.

Leben
Péter Pázmány, Sohn calvinistischer Eltern, nahm unter dem Einfluss seiner katholischen Stiefmutter und des Jesuiten István Szántó 1583 den katholischen Glauben an und trat in das Jesuitenkolleg zu Cluj (deutsch Klausenburg, ungarisch Kolozsvár) ein. 1583 trat er in den Orden der Jesuiten ein. Während des Noviziats war er in Krakau und Wien, wo er an der Philosophischen Fakultät studierte, und 1593–1597 studierte er Theologie in Rom. In Rom wurde er auch Priester und Doktor der Theologie. Er lernte dort auch Robert Bellarmin kennen, den berühmten "Bekämpfer" von Giordano Bruno. Pázmánys Ansichten und Rekatholisierungsbemühungen entstanden in dieser Zeit.

Nach seinem Studium kam er auf Berufung Erzherzog Karls nach Graz. Dort wurde er vorerst von 1597 bis 1601 Professor für Philosophie (er unterrichtete Logik, Ethik und Naturwissenschaften), später auch für Theologie (1603–06). Einer seiner Theologiestudenten in Graz war der hl. Marko von Križevci. 1601 wurde er als Missionsprediger in seine Heimat geschickt, wo er in Šaľa, später in Košice (deutsch Kaschau, ungarisch Kassa) tätig war. 1607–1616 war er in Diensten Ferenc Forgáchs, des Erzbischofs von Esztergom (deutsch Gran). Auf dessen Initiative hin wurde Pázmány vom Ordensgelübde der Jesuiten befreit und am 25. April 1616 vom Papst zum Propst der Turz ernannt. Da Forgách noch im selben Jahr starb, wurde Pázmány 1616 zum Erzbischof von Gran und Fürstprimas von Ungarn ernannt. Zudem erhielt Pázmány im Konsistorium vom 19. November 1629 durch Papst Urban VIII. die Kardinalswürde.

Er starb am 19. März 1637 in Pressburg und wurde dort im Martinsdom begraben.

Das Grab von Peter Pázmány wurde am 12. September 1859 bei Sanierungsarbeiten am Pressburger Dom durch den katholischen Priester Ferdinand Knauz wiederentdeckt. Seine sterblichen Überreste waren sehr gut erhalten, selbst sein Haar unter dem Jesuitenhut und das Barthaar waren noch vorhanden. Gekleidet war er in eine rote Soutane mit einfachen Lederschuhen an den Füßen.

Wirken
Péter Pázmány war der bedeutendste Vertreter der katholischen Restauration im königlichen Ungarn. Sein Gegenspieler war der Protestant István Magyari, der alles Unheil im Königlichen Ungarn als eine Gottesstrafe für den "katholischen Götzendienst" im Lande sah.

1619 gründete Pázmány in Trnava eine Erziehungsanstalt für Katholiken, 1623 in Wien das Pazmaneum, das im Jahr 1761 vorübergehend nach Trnava verlegt wurde, und in Trnava das Adalbertinum als Priesterseminar. In Pressburg gründete er für die Jesuiten eine theologische Schule mit Studentenheim und in Nové Zámky (Neuhäusl) und Kremnica (Kremnitz) Klöster für die Franziskaner. 1635 gründete er in Tyrnau/Trnava/Nagyszombat eine wichtige Universität, die 1777 nach Budapest verlegt wurde: die Eötvös-Loránd-Universität und die Katholische Péter-Pázmány-Universität.

Pázmány gilt als der Begründer der ungarischsprachigen Barockliteratur. Er verfasste mehrere Kampfschriften gegen die Ideen der Calvinisten, die er gut kannte, aber auch viele Predigten und katechetische Schriften. Er beschäftigte sich zudem mit der Übersetzung lateinischer Religions- und Gebetbücher; unter anderem übertrug er Die Nachfolge Christi ins Ungarische. In seinen in bildhafter, kraftvoller Sprache verfassten Werken stellt er die Herrlichkeit Gottes der menschlichen Unvollkommenheit gegenüber und mahnt zur Demut. Die wichtigste seiner Schriften ist der Isteni igazságra vezérlő kalauz ("Wegweiser zur göttlichen Wahrheit").

Ehrungen
1992 wurde in Budapest die Katholische Universität reaktiviert, die Péter Pázmánys Namen trägt. Das von ihm gegründete Priesterseminar Pazmaneum im Wiener Bezirk Alsergrund fungiert als Studien- und Gästehaus des Erzbistums Esztergom-Budapest. Im Wiener Bezirk Leopoldstadt ist die Pazmanitengasse nach den Seminaristen des Pazmaneum ("Pazmaniten") benannt.

Wichtigste Schriften
 Felelet az Magyari István sárvári prédikátornak az ország romlása okairul írt könyvére (Antwort auf das Buch des Sárvárer Predigers István Magyari über die Gründe der Verderbnis des Landes, 1603)
 Az mostan támat uy tudomaniok hamissaganak, tiiz nilvan valo bizonisaga: Es reovid intes a teoreok birodalomrul, es vallasrul (Zehn offensichtliche Beweise für die Falschheit der kürzlich aufgekommenen neuen Wissenschaften: Und kurze Mahnung über das Reich der Türken und ihre Religion, 1605)
 Keresztyéni imádságos könyv (Christliches Gebetbuch, 1606)
 Alvinci Péter uramhoz írt öt szép levél (Fünf schöne Briefe an Herrn Péter Alvinci, 1609)
 Isteni igazságra vezérlő kalauz (Wegweiser zur göttlichen Wahrheit, 1613, 1623, 1637)
 Vasárnapokra és egynéhány ünnepekre rendelt evangéliumokról prédikációk (Predigten über die Evangelien der Sonntage und mancher Feiertage, 1636)

Sammelausgaben:
 Grazer philosophische Disputationen von Péter Pázmány, ed. Paul Richard Blum and Emil Hargittay, Piliscsaba (Katholische Péter-Pázmány-Universität) 2003.
 Pázmány Péter és kora [P. P. und seine Zeit], ed. Emil Hargittay, Piliscsaba (Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem) 2001.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Publikationen von und über Péter Pázmány im Bibliotheks- und Bibliographieportal / Herder-Institut (Marburg)

Einzelnachweise

Erzbischof von Esztergom
Kardinal (17. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Universität Graz)
Römisch-katholischer Bischof (17. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Theologe (17. Jahrhundert)
Philosoph der Frühen Neuzeit
Literatur (Ungarisch)
Literatur (17. Jahrhundert)
Übersetzer aus dem Latein
Übersetzer ins Ungarische
Person der Gegenreformation
Person (slowakische Geschichte)
Person (Habsburgermonarchie vor 1804)
Ungar
Geboren 1570
Gestorben 1637
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Close. Mormon-owned Brigham Young University decided to start serving caffeinated soda on campus, overturning a policy that's been in place since the 1950s.
And there was much rejoicing. Not only, I think, among the current students at BYU, but among U.S. Mormons of all ages, because it's one more confirmation that what most of them are already doing is kosher in the eyes of the Church.
Most American Mormons do consume caffeinated soda, according to the Next Mormons study. We asked respondents a wide variety of questions about whether they had consumed any of the following in the last six months, including things that were clearly OK (herbal tea), things that were clearly not OK (psychedelic drugs, marijuana, alcohol) and things that were somewhere in the middle (decaf coffee, see explanation below*).
The full results are being discussed in Ben Knoll's forthcoming journal article, so I won't offer any spoilers here except to say that it's not just LDS President Dieter Uchtdorf who loves him some soda.
Nearly two-thirds of currently identified Mormons have had caffeinated soda in the last six months.
And in contrast to other questions for which the younger generations were clearly more likely to imbibe certain substances, in this case the Silver Fox's generation is leading the way: For folks his age, just under 7 in 10 respondents have consumed caffeinated soda, while for millennials it's about 58 percent.
Wallace: Mormons adhere to a very strict health code. No alcohol, no tobacco, no coffee, no tea. Not even caffeinated soft drinks.
Wallace: Eat meat sparingly. Exercise.
Wallace: Get plenty of sleep.
Some attitudes have clearly shifted over the last two decades. After this BYU policy change and President Uchtdorf's beloved 2016 endorsement of diet soda, many, many Mormons are pretty happy right now.
I have more mixed feelings, myself. I've shared before that as a convert, I personally discovered the power of the Word of Wisdom when I joined the Church in 1993. My health improved — noticeably.
That wasn't because I had a drug or alcohol problem, though I enjoyed the occasional glass of wine (and still miss that very much). Rather, I think it was because I gave up caffeine, which started a chain reaction that forced me to get enough sleep for the first time since childhood. I hadn't realized until I quit caffeine cold turkey how much I depended on it to keep me going.
My health improved when I began getting enough sleep — between seven and eight hours a night, rather than the five or six I routinely got before. I came down with fewer colds and stopped getting bronchitis Every. Single. Winter.
Weirdly, I also started eating a bit better, mostly because my worst junk food binges had tended to come late at night when I was jacked up on caffeine and trying to finish some paper or project.
Overall, then, I have a good old-fashioned Mormony testimony of the truth of the Word of Wisdom, at least as I have practiced it all these years. I've received health in navel, as advertised; I've been able to run and not be weary — at least until about 9:30 p.m.! — even without the caffeine I once required.
So while I'm glad about BYU's change of policy, and the less rigid approach Mormons have to caffeine overall nowadays, I won't be partaking of it myself.
Sanka (derived from the French "sans caffeine," or "without caffeine") was at the time the major brand name for decaffeinated coffee and for several decades the only such product available in the United States. As this letter seems to be the the Church's only official guidance on decaffeinated coffee, it would seem that decaf is permissible, yet few Mormons say they drink it.
Are Mormons flunking the Word of Wisdom?
I do know that Dr.pepper was officialy against the Word of Wisdom during Hinkley's tenure but the unofficial policy was that Mr.Pib was consumed in the Thursday meetings of the apostles in great abundance~!
I love Mountain Dew. Still not quite sure what's in it, but it tastes good.
I don't drink caffeinated soda, and rarely drink any soda at all, but there was one time when I did consume caffeinated drinks regularly: while I served a full-time LDS mission in the Philippines. Like many Hispanic cultures, the Philippine culture I observed insisted on giving any visitors something to eat or drink. I had a hard time refusing to at least sip some of what people offered me out of their obvious poverty. (I also got an amoeba from drinking contaminated water, but don't worry, that was soon cured).
The Word of Wisdom is not about caffeine. If it were, decaffeinated coffee and tea would be LDS-kosher, and I know full well (thanks to an excellent Bishop) that they are not.
For myself, I love Dr. Pepper, but mostly save it for the weekends — as much to keep my weight down as for a good night's sleep when I have work in the morning.
no-nos which focused on a law of moses perspective. There are "principles" in the revelation that if followed bring the promised blessings, like moderation.
The 1969 First Presidency letter authorizing Sanka would seem to contradict your Bishop's statement.
I don't get it. I can understand that "hot drinks" meant coffee or tea to Joseph Smith. He had no knowledge of Coca-Cola. But it seems like the Church long understood this to mean that caffeine was the culprit. Jana certainly seems to have understood it this way. If not, then the 1969 edict permitting decaf coffee makes no sense.
I like your note explaining what Sanka is. I feel old now. Are the millennials out there wondering why decaf coffee pitchers are universally signified by an orange handle?
My Bishop made the statement in December 1984.
Inasmuch as he stated that drinking decaffeinated coffee would cost me my Temple recommend, and since I sustained him as my Bishop, I did not pursue the matter.
Since no Bishop of mine has stated any differently since, I consider the matter settled.
Nice try. Paul's advice here is a lot more nuanced than your plopping it down in this context suggests. First, Paul is advising against preoccupation with worldly commands; the Word of Wisdom is a revelation from God (so your invocation of Paul is only convincing if you first reject that premise). Second, the worldly commands alluded to are the kinds that result in "harsh treatment of the body" such as asceticism. The Word of Wisdom encourages healthy behavior and respect for the body. Third, Paul could not possibly mean that any advice to not handle, taste or touch some particular class of things is unwise, since Jesus himself taught fairly strict abstinence from certain worldly indulgences (e.g. Jesus' command that to even lust after a woman amounts to adultery) and encouraged certain deprivations, such as fasting.
I do reject the premise that the Word of Wisdom is a revelation to God. The only way to accept it as a revelation is to test the one who claimed that it was: Joseph Smith.
If he was a prophet sent by God, then what he says should be listened to. If he was not a prophet sent by God, then what he said should be rejected.
And when you put Joseph Smith to the test, God's way, you discover God did not send him. Therefore his message should be rejected.
David, we know what you think God's way to test a prophet is, and as I've pointed out and you have not adequately rebutted, a number of Biblical prophets also fail that test. So either they're also not prophets, or your test is wrong.
That is bizarre logic. If your bishop told that the LDS Church was secretly bringing back plural marriage, would you consider that settled? Would you not question that either?
Sometimes it is the lesser of two evils, Coke or bad water. Paul instructed Timothy to imbibe a little wine now and then for his stomach's sake. They likely had bad water as well!
I never knew about the '69 letter. In the Montana Billings Mission in '75 – '77, while I was a missionary there, we couldn't baptize folks drinking decaf!
Tea has much less caffein than coffee. I loved iced tea. It was very hard to give up at 18 when I joined the LDS Church. I love it and enjoy it to this day. But I'm also a retired Starbucks/Teavana mgr as well.
A bottle of Coke has about 16 teaspoons of sugar. I would worry about that more than a little caffein.
It's not what I think. It's what the Scripture says.
Shall we go over this again?
Explain how Jonah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah pass that test with respect to prophecies regarding Ninevah, Tyre, Egypt, and Jehoiakim?
I appreciate that when you and I have discussions that you stay away from the topics of Joseph Smith (a false prophet), the Book of Mormon (with no archaeological evidence to support its claims), and the Book of Abraham (which is known to be a fraudulent book), because all of these are indefensible.
Instead you want to call the Scriptures into question. But I appreciate that you do that. If I don't know the answer to a point you are trying to make concerning the Scriptures, it forces me to dig into it. And that is a good thing. It benefits me.
So, let's start with one issue at a time, rather than giving me several issues to look into at one time.
Let me know the concern you have about Jonah. We can deal with the other prophets after we have dealt with him.
And then, after dealing with your questions, we can deal with Joseph Smith.
David, you of all people don't have the moral standing to demand that we stick to one topic at a time. Our previous discussions have had you moving from topic to topic without a resolution. Further, I don't stay away from the topics you mentioned; I have addressed each of those directly.
What I really want to do is not call scripture into question, but your application thereof. You are a hypocrite in that you apply a standard of evidence to Mormonism that you do not apply to your own belief system. I have noted this repeatedly.
Take on all four, please. The issue is simple. In each case, a prophet prophesied something that did not come to pass. Under your simplistic standard, these prophecies fail.
I believe the test involves wood, a set of scales and a duck.
Moral standing? How about common courtesy.
Jonah's prophecy was a conditional prophecy, as we can understand if we read the whole book. Why did Jonah run instead of going to Nineveh? Because he knew God would relent if the Ninevites repented.
Jonah 3:10-4:2, When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction He had threatened.
But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. He prayed to the Lord, "O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
Which prophecy would you like to address next?
I see that you want to set yourself up as my enemy and jeer at me.
I don't choose to have enemies, or to be jeered at.
Ok, so we have established that a true prophet may sometimes make conditional prophecies.
Take your pick: Tyre, Egypt, Jehoiakim.
David, this isn't new. We've gone over this before. Ezekiel 26:7-21, prophecy that Tyre would be destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and never be rebuilt. "When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God." Nebuchadnezzar never destroyed Tyre, and Tyre has been rebuilt following other conquests of Tyre.
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A very complicated prophecy, isn't it.
Ezekiel in the passage you are referring to says Nebachadnezzar would destroy Tyre. Yet in the same chapter, verses 3- 4, we are told that the nations would destroy Tyre.
And we read in the passage you quoted above that it would not be inhabited again. Yet in the same chapter, in verse 5, we read that Tyre will become a place to spread fishnets. Fishnets do not spread themselves.
So, unless you can distinguish between Nebachadnezzar and the nations, and between uninhabited and people spreading fishnets there, I don't think you are able to determine whether or not this is a failed prophecy.
Yes, Tyre has been rebuilt. But the former glory of Tyre has never returned.
What Biblical prophecy would you like to discuss next?
So, we can establish that sometimes true prophecies may seem ambiguous, contradictory, even self-contradictory, and may be more complicated than a superficial reading may imply. We may also establish that a literal reading is not the only acceptable reading of a prophecy ("Yes, Tyre has been rebuilt. But the former glory of Tyre has never returned.") Would you agree?
I'll take this one next: Ezekial 30. Prophecy that Nebuchadnezzar would conquer Egypt. Jeremiah 43 states that he would burn the Egyptian temples. Nebuchadnezzar never successfully entered Egypt.
Historical records show he did. Make your own choice as to what you choose to believe.
There is precisely one fragmentary historical document that briefly mentions a campaign in Egypt, made by the Babylonians, that doesn't even claim to have laid waste to the temples and leave Egypt uninhabited for 40 years (Ezekiel 29), or even to claim to have successfully entered Egypt.
In any event, a large scale conquest of Egypt by Babylon contradicts every other piece of historical evidence.
Read the source I cited. It's obvious you didn't.
That makes precisely one piece of historically reliable evidence that blows your claim out of the water.
Not at all. It's a piece of evidence that doesn't support what you say it supports. Even if we take it as truth (there is no other corroborating evidence and ancient historians were notorious for inflating the egos of the emperors they served), the Chronicle doesn't even claim that Nebuchadnezzar conquered Egypt. It says he went to battle with Egypt. No burning temples mentioned. No mention of a desolate Egypt from Syene to Ethiopia (Ezekiel 29:10). No forty years of waste. That leaves zero evidence of those facts. I'm fine if you believe things occurred for which we no longer have the historical record (most of the world's history has gone unrecorded), but you then risk applying a double standard when you criticize some other fact for lack of evidence.
6 comments ago you said Nebuchadnezzar never successfully entered Egypt.
The Bible says he would. The fragment says he did.
No….the fragment says he went to battle against Egypt. No mention of success. Besides, the Bible says he would do much more than enter Egypt. It says he would lay waste to Egypt, burn its temples, etc. Even if it rebuts my earlier statement (it doesn't) it doesn't support fulfillment of the prophecy.
Let's try something a little different here.
The Bible tells us King Nebuchadnezzar would invade Egypt. The fragment indicates he did invade Egypt.
Now prove King Nebuchadnezer did not enter Egypt. Not what someone currently says about it…but perhaps a Scripture that says he would not, or a fragment that says he did not.
And then I will prove to you that Joseph Smith's prophecies did not come true.
The actual fragment and your source disagree. In other words, your source is at best reading more into the fragment than is justified, or at worst, lying and hoping that his audience isn't knowledgeable enough to call him out on it.
God tells us in Deuteronomy 18:22 to test those who claim to be His prophets. Joseph Smith fails that test. To try and defend him, you selected a few prophecies from Jonah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah to show that they also fail that test. Jonah's was conditional. Ezekiel's concerning Tyre was complicated and not easily understood. And Jeremiah's prophecy concerning Egypt has an ancient fragment indicated this happened. Though it is not a prophecy that can be proven archaeologically, yet, neither can you disprove it. But then you would also have the prophecies of these prophets that did happen. So you haven't proven them to be false prophets.
But Joseph Smith's prophecies are easily understood. And can be proven false.
Typical, David. You refuse to even acknowledge the contrary evidence. I have responded to this link before. You have presented nothing new, so I refer you back to that prior response. I will note that we have established that some prophecies are conditional. Some may be understood as being fulfilled in a non-obvious timeline, and some may change subject or prophecy of multiple events. Applying each of these principles, Joseph Smith's prophecies pass the test.
He failed the test, Zampona. Joseph Smith was a false prophet.
Again, the good news is that Mormonism no longer controls the information available to its members.
David, he did not. Read the links I provided. Pray about it. Recognize that you hold Joseph Smith to a different standard than Biblical prophets.
You realize that Atheists say the same thing about the Internet and Christianity in general, right?
God no longer uses prophets.


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Technology firm reclassified $11.6 million to correct balance sheet error.
Elastic (ESTC), a technology firm that enables companies to search structured and unstructured data for actionable insights, is at war with Amazon. In its third quarter FY21 10-Q ending January 31, 2021, Elastic disclosed the newest release of its core offering— the combination of Elasticsearch and Kibana— is no longer being offered under an open source license:
"In February 2021, with the release of version 7.11 of the Elastic Stack, we moved the source code that had historically been licensed under Apache 2.0, to be dual licensed under ELv2 and SSPL, at the user's election. Neither the Elastic License nor the SSPL has been approved by the Open Source Initiative or is included in the Free Software Foundation's list of free software licenses. Further, neither has been interpreted by any court."
Requiring an Elastic or SSPL license, according to Amazon, limits how the software is used or makes it unacceptable to some in the open source community. In response, Amazon is forking Elastic, meaning it will provide everything users need to continue using Elastic on Amazon Web Services (AWS) seamlessly. Amazon says:
"When AWS decides to offer a service based on an open source project, we ensure that we are equipped and prepared to maintain it ourselves if necessary."
The decision to no longer offer open source licenses could harm adoption of Elastic's new release and developers who have relied on the open source licensing for years:
"While the vast majority of downloads of Elasticsearch and Kibana from mid-2018 through early 2021 were licensed under the Elastic License, the removal of the Apache 2.0 alternative could negatively impact certain developers for whom the availability of an open source license was important. In addition, some developers and the companies for whom they work may be hesitant to download or upgrade to new versions of Elasticsearch or Kibana under the Elastic License or SSPL because of uncertainty around how these licenses may be interpreted and enforced."
The two companies have been on a collision course for some time. In the past, Elastic has argued Amazon's Elasticsearch service offers only a subset of the functionality of Elastic's offering. Only by purchasing directly from Elastic— rather than Elasticsearch on AWS— would users get the full benefit of Elastic's capabilities.
Requiring an SSPL licence, which Amazon says is not open source, and breaks a promise Amazon says Elastic made to users in 2018. In response, Amazon is planning to deliver new features, enhancements, and fixes so current users don't need to update their code. In pledging a better performing service, Amazon also takes a few shots at Elastic:
"Last week, after reneging on this promise, Elastic updated that same page with a footnote that says "circumstances have changed.""
"Elastic knows what they're doing is fishy."
"Elastic's assertions that the SSPL is "free and open" are misleading and wrong. They're trying to claim the benefits of open source, while chipping away at the very definition of open source itself."
The competition from Amazon's forked product, Elastic acknowledges, may result in Elastic's customers switching to Amazon:
"Other developers, including competitors of Elastic such as Amazon, have announced that they will "fork" Elasticsearch and Kibana. In doing so, they will develop a new product based on the software, which they claim will continue to be licensed under Apache 2.0. The combination of uncertainty around our dual license model and the potential competition from the forked versions of our software may negatively impact adoption of Elasticsearch and Kibana, which in turn could lead to reduced brand and product awareness, ultimately leading to a decline in paying customers, which could harm our ability to grow our business or achieve profitability."
Separately, Elastic has reclassified deferred revenue it improperly classified on the balance sheet a year earlier. In its latest quarterly report, Elastic disclosed the misclassification:
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Ha preso parte alla gara d'esordio assoluto della Coppa Continentale a livello femminile, il 23 luglio 2004 a Park City giungendo in quarta posizione. Il 16 febbraio 2005, con il terzo posto a Breitenberg/Rastbüchl, è salita per la prima volta sul podio in una gara della massima competizione femminile di salto prima dell'istituzione della Coppa del Mondo nella stagione 2012 ed il 7 agosto 2005 a Bischofshofen ha conquistato la prima vittoria in Coppa Continentale. Ha partecipato altresì alla gara d'esordio assoluto della Coppa del Mondo a livello femminile, il 3 dicembre 2011 a Lillehammer, terminando in ventottesima piazza.

Ha gareggiato nel trampolino normale in tutte e quattro le edizioni dei campionati mondiali di salto con gli sci femminile disputate fino ad oggi: a Liberec 2009 è giunta in nona posizione, ad Oslo 2011 è stata decima, in Val di Fiemme 2013 ha concluso al trentasettesimo posto ed a Falun 2015 è giunta in diciassettesima piazza; in quest'ultima occasione ha preso il via anche nella prova a squadre mista conquistando la medaglia d'argento.

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Q: share the encfs encrypted ".directory" via NFS encfs uses FUSE to mount an encrypted directory (a hidden ".directory" by convention) onto another directory specified by the user.
I want to share the encrypted ".directory" via NFS where it will be decrypted on the client (on demand).
When I try doing that the mount command succeeds and no errors are reported (even with "-vvv" parameter). However, the mount on the client is always empty. Why? How do I resolve this?
My plan is that the client will not have to keep the decrypted directory mounted at all times, thus increasing security (I hope).
The other way of sharing it, where it is decrypted on the NFS server means it will have to stay decrypted at all times (afaik).
UPDATE: I want to clarify that I am not mounting the decrypted directory on the NFS server and then trying to share that. I am trying to share the raw encrypted directory.
NFS server (192.168.1.1 fileserver)
/etc/fstab:
/home/.shared /export/home/.shared        none    bind 0 0

/etc/exports:
/export/home/.shared 192.168.1.10(fsid=2,rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check,nohide)

NFS client (192.168.1.10)
I haved tried two approaches:
first try:
fileserver:/export/home/.shared /home/.shared  nfs4    noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,timeo=14,rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,intr,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.1.10,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.1.1      0 0

I have also tried:
fileserver:/export/home/.shared /home/.shared     nfs4    noauto,_netdev,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,intr    0 0

A: The data stored in the encrypted directory just looks like normal files to the filesystem (just with odd names and encrypted data).  So exporting the encrypted mountpoint will work as normal.
So, on server test1 we can create a test directory:
$ cd /home/sweh
$ mkdir encrypted decrypted
$ encfs ~/encrypted ~/decrypted
[...]
$ echo hello > decrypted/foo
$ ls encrypted
C-1Ky9g41JBTIYaBJC7EeiiH

Now we can export this.  /etc/exports has:
/home/sweh/encrypted *(rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check,nohide)

And we run exports -a to export it.
Now on test2 we can mount it:
$ mkdir encrypted decrypted
$ sudo mount test1:/home/sweh/encrypted encrypted
$ ls encrypted
C-1Ky9g41JBTIYaBJC7EeiiH

And we can use this with encfs on the client:
$ encfs /home/sweh/encrypted /home/sweh/decrypted
EncFS Password:
$ cat decrypted/foo
hello

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Going with a different electronic health record vendor to replace VistA might force the industry to take interoperability issues more seriously, Chilmark founder says.
As the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs weighs replacing its home-grown VistA EHR with a commercial electronic health record platform, at least one expert hopes the federal agency will pick any other vendor but Cerner.
"Choosing another vendor besides Cerner may actually force leading industry EHR vendors to truly address interoperability at a far deeper level than what has been done to date," said Chilmark Research founder John Moore.
The VA is in a unique position right now to advance health information exchange and interoperability not only with the Defense Department but, even more important, with the healthcare industry at large.
With the DoD's massive Cerner EHR early-stage pilot testing underway, it is tempting to think that Veterans Affairs could also adopt Cerner and ultimately integrate data of all the patients both agencies serve.
Black Book, in fact, ranked Cerner as the best vendor candidate to replace VistA. But choosing Cerner might not be the interoperability fix it appears to be.
The VA is poised to spark real change with current interoperability issues facing the entire healthcare industry, but if goes with Cerner it will miss that opportunity to fix cross-vendor interoperability, said Moore.
But such thinking would be a new path for VA, which doesn't typically engage in the same sort of interoperability discussions that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT drives.
VA, however, is no stranger to interoperability and it grapples with the need to exchange records with the private providers and specialists that treat a significant portion of its patient population. So it does stand to benefit as interoperability increases among various hospitals, practices, networks.
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When Napoleon returned to Paris after exile on the Island of Elba, he appealed to the European heads of state to be allowed to rule France in peace. His appeal was rejected and the Emperor of the French knew he would have to fight to keep his throne.
In just eight weeks, Napoleon assembled 128,000 soldiers in the French Army of the North and on 15 June moved into Belgium (then a part of the kingdom of the Netherlands). Before the large Russian and Austrian armies could invade France, Napoleon hoped to defeat two coalition armies, an Anglo-Dutch-Belgian-German force under the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army led by Prince von Blücher. He nearly succeeded.
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka
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China and Sri Lanka Part One
This article appeared in Ceylon Today on Thursday February 9 2017.
Donald Trump seems to be determined to annoy as many people as he can. He has made a good start on antagonising China. The appointment of Peter Navarro, who has forged a career out of condemning China, to the newly- created National Trade Council does not bode well. Navarro, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, published a book called: Death by China: Confronting the Dragon – A Global Call to Action.
This seems like a good time to examine Sri Lanka's relationship with the PCR (People's Republic of China). February 7 was the 60th anniversary of full diplomatic relations between this island nation and China.
Professor KM de Silva, in his monumental History of Sri Lanka, describes how this island punched above its weight in ancient times. Sri Lanka, despite its diminutive size, belonged to the big league along with the ancient hydraulic civilisations such as China.
The economic potential of the Anuradhapura region was increased by proximity to the Mahaweli River. Mahasena's Minneriya tank, plus many smaller tanks and irrigation systems built between the fourth and ninth centuries, helped sustain a considerable local population as well as producing a substantial agricultural surplus for export. The port of Gokanna (Trincomalee) played a part in the development of commercial relations with China and South-East Asia which enhanced the economic potential of the region.
Sri Lanka's strategic position on the sea route between China and the west meant that from the early days of the Christian era there would have been trade between the island and China which would have been bolstered by religious affinity. However, up until the eleventh century the cohesion that comes from strong diplomatic and political ties was lacking.
The Buddhist connection helped to forge links between the two countries. There is evidence that Sinhalese nuns went to China in the fifth century and helped in the ordination of women there. In 411 AD, the famous Chinese Buddhist traveller Fa Hsien visited the island and stayed for two years.
However, contacts with Chinese Buddhism were occasional and tenuous.
During the Polonnaruva Kingdom, Sri Lanka was a vital link in the great trade routes between east and west. The unity imposed on the Muslim world by the Caliphs and the peace imposed on China during the T'ang and Sung dynasties allowed trade between China and the Persian Gulf to flourish. Sri Lanka's geographical position helped it to benefit from this.
In the early fifteenth century, under the Ming dynasty, seven powerful fleets from China visited the ports of the Indian Ocean demanding tribute and obedience to the Chinese Emperor. The Muslim explorer Zheng He (often known as Cheng-ho) was a Hui court eunuch and fleet admiral during the early Ming dynasty. On Zheng He's, first visit to Sri Lanka in 1405, his objective was to take back the tooth relic from Kandy. In 1284, Kublai Khan had sent a similarly unsuccessful mission for the same purpose. Zheng went back to China disappointed but also aggrieved and he returned five years later to capture the Sinhalese king, Vira Alakesvara, his queen and several notables and took them as prisoners to China. The king was eventually released but his humiliation meant that he could not recover his throne. In 1411, the Chinese emperor sent a nominee to the Sinhalese throne but he was swiftly eliminated by Parakramabahu who began a reign of 55 years.
Relations with Communist China
Fast forward to the Communist Revolution – Ceylon was among the first countries to recognize the PRC. Ceylon and the People's Republic of China accorded each other diplomatic recognition in January 1950.
In 1952, Dudley Senanayake had just formed a new government when Ceylon faced a world shortage of rice.
The country entered independence saddled with a colonial plantation economy which was susceptible to fluctuations in world conditions. The country faced a foreign exchange crisis in 1952 caused by a dramatic fall in export prices after the end of the Korean War and the price of natural rubber declined by 36%. The Rubber-Rice Pact of 1952 further consolidated a cordial relationship with China. The agreement gave the newly-independent Ceylon a large market for its rubber in China, and China supplied China with low-cost rice. This agreement was entered into at a time when China was victim of trade embargoes which cut off imports of strategic materials including rubber.
After SWRD Bandaranaike became prime minister in April 1956, the two countries established full diplomatic relations on 7th February 1957 and set up embassies. A number of bi-lateral agreements strengthened political, economic, trade and cultural bonds. Ceylon/Sri Lanka supported the PRC's "One China" policy, which Trump is now undermining, and efforts to give the UN's China seat to the PRC. The USA did not establish diplomatic relations with the PRC until 1979; Japan in 1972; UK in 1972 and France in 1964.
Mao Zedong died on September 9 1976. September 18, the day of Mao's last rites in Peking, was also declared a day of national mourning and a public holiday in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government declared an eight-day period of mourning to coincide with observances in China. A condolence book was opened by the Chinese embassy.
Mrs Bandaranaike and China
The premiership of Sirimavo Bandaranaike further consolidated the gratitude of the PRC towards Sri Lanka. Her commitment to the Non-Aligned Movement provided the country with a great deal of international support and respect. She said: "Underlying the policy of non-alignment is the belief that independent nations, although small and militarily weak, have a positive role to play in the world today. This attitude is completely different from that of washing our hands of these matters, which was perhaps the idea behind the classical theory of neutralism. That was non-involvement — remaining in splendid isolation."
The world's first woman prime minister fully understood the importance for Sri Lanka of good relations with both India and China. She had close personal friendships in both countries and was distressed when the Sino-Indian war broke out in 1962. The Chinese Government were feeling somewhat victimised and expressed the view that the Colombo Conference countries were functioning as judges rather than mediators. Mrs Bandaranaike's mediation efforts were helped by her husband's and her own history of support for the PRC and her close personal friendship with Chou En-lai.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike paid her first official visit to China in 1962, and made further visits in 1972 and 1977. China was isolated at this time and did not regain its UN seat until 1971. The Chinese government appreciated Mrs Bandaranaike's visits and she forged close personal connections with the Chinese leadership. At her request, relics of the Buddha were brought to Sri Lanka from China on loan.
Chinese aid, which was on more favourable terms than aid from other countries, started during Mrs Bandaranaike's premiership. She personally supervised the plans and construction of the BMICH (Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall). Built between 1970 and 1973, the convention center was a gift from the PRC in memory of her husband SRWD Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1956 to 1959.
JR and China
Although he led Sri Lanka into a closer relationship with the west, President JR Jayewardene visited China in May 1984. During JR's rule the USA was Sri Lanka's main arms supplier and China accounted for only 30%. In the 80s, India strongly objected to Sri Lanka's evolving relationship with the US, Pakistan, China, as well as Israel. The former Indian Foreign Secretary, JN Dixit, cited JR's foreign policy as the primary reason for Indian military intervention in Sri Lanka in 1987.
Premadasa
Premadasa was president of Sri Lanka at the time of India's disastrous military intervention in 1987. India's actions, the imposition of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord and the 13th Amendment and the forced merger of the Northern and Eastern provinces as well as the invasion by the Indian Peace-Keeping Force, drove Premadasa towards China. As prime minister, he had visited China in 1979 and received a warm welcome. By the late 1980s China had become Sri Lanka's main arms supplier, accounting for 58% of all weapons imports, providing warplanes, artillery and tanks. Premadasa invited a senior Chinese political leader to his party-political events and China played a big part in his economic policy.
Thinking about the "G"-word
This article appeared in Ceylon Today on March 16 2015
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'"
The purpose of language is to convey ideas as succinctly and accurately as possible under the aegis of a common understanding. Definition is crucial. We must define our terms logically, sensibly and consistently if we are to have a productive dialogue – otherwise we are talking at cross-purposes.
Way back in the mists of last century, I worked in the child protection field. The NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) sent me a report alleging that 50 % of girls and 25% of boys under the age of 16 in the UK had been victims of child sexual abuse. This was shocking news. When I analysed the raw data of the NSPCC survey, a different picture emerged. One is horrified at the idea of innocent children being raped. However, one might be less upset at girls encountering a flasher or hormonal boys seeking out pornography. The NSPCC's definition of sexual abuse of children encompassed consensual sexual relations between teenagers below the legal age of consent and obscene language. The NGO was pursuing its fund-raising agenda by propagating sensational statistics, which covered a wide continuum of behaviour. Reading the small print one could see that: "Sexual abuse takes many forms: explicit sexual talk; showing pornography; sexual touching; lack of privacy to bath or undress; masturbation; and sexual intercourse."
The Northern Provincial Council passed a resolution alleging that successive national governments of Sri Lanka have been following a policy of genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka.
What is genocide? The etymology is hybrid, coming from genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing). Has the entire race of Tamils in Sri Lanka been killed? Has there been any official plan or policy to exterminate Tamils in Sri Lanka? Is Humpty Dumpty a member of the NPC?
The word "genocide" did not exist until 1943. This does not mean that there was no genocide before that date. Many Irish people believe that Oliver Cromwell engaged in genocide. The ground for Cromwell's actions was prepared under the Tudors in a manifesto written by the poet Edmund Spenser. In his "View of the Present State of Ireland" (1596), Spenser argued that starvation was the best way to control the fractious Irish. Spenser described how the starving Irish population would "consume themselves and devour one another".
The Irish quite naturally resisted . Cromwell re-conquered Ireland with a death toll of possibly 40% of the entire Irish population. There was wholesale burning of crops and killing of civilians and many were sent to the West Indies as indentured labourers. A recent book, God's Executioner by Mícheál Ó Siochrú, is a forceful restatement of the prosecution case that Cromwell's campaign was genocidal. Cromwell's programme achieved the almost complete dispossession of the Catholic landed elite. The native ruling classes were destroyed and replaced by the Protestant Ascendancy.
There was a plan. Hitler, Mengele and Baldur von Shirach might have learnt a thing or two from Sir William Petty (1623-87) – mathematician, mechanic, physician, cartographer and statistician – who devised a public-private partnership for "fusing science and policy". Petty explored the idea of breeding the "meer Irish" out of existence by deporting 10,000 Irishwomen of marriageable age to England every year and replacing them with a like number of Englishwomen."The whole Work of natural Transmutation and Union would in four or five years be accomplished." Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal to lampoon Petty's ideas. Swift suggests that impoverished Irish might profit by selling their surplus children as food for the rich.
Because of the famine that followed the potato blight of 1845, Ireland's population fell by 25%. One million people died of starvation and typhus. Millions emigrated over following decades. Some 2.6 million Irish entered overcrowded workhouses where more than 200,000 people died. In his book Three Famines, Thomas Keneally, the Australian novelist who wrote Schindler's List, quotes a contemporary observer: "Insane mothers began to eat their young children who died of famine before them; and still fleets of ships were sailing with every tide, carrying Irish cattle and corn to England". The 1911 Census showed that Ireland's population had fallen to 4.4 million, about half of its peak population. Broadcaster and historian Robert Kee suggested that the Irish Famine of 1845 is "comparable" in its force on popular national consciousness to that of the "final solution on the Jews," and that it is not infrequently thought that the Famine was something very like, "a form of genocide engineered by the English against the Irish people".
Kee mentioned the horror that is the benchmark for genocide in the 20th Century. There is no doubt that Hitler had long had a plan to exterminate all the Jews in Europe and he succeeded in killing six million of them. It is an affront to logic to give the name of genocide both to what happened to the Jews under the Nazis and to what happened to Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900 – August 28, 1959) coined the word "genocide". Lemkin was a Jewish Polish lawyer who immigrated to the United States in 1941. He first used the word in print in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation – Analysis of Government – Proposals for Redress (1944), and defined it as "the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group."
By Lemkin's original simple definition, it would seem obvious that many Sri Lankan Tamils are using the word genocide incorrectly and mischievously. Whatever heinous crimes may have been perpetrated against Tamils in Sri Lankan the "ethnic group" has clearly not been "destroyed". According to the 2012 census, there were 2,270,924 Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka, 11.21% of the population. Sri Lankan Tamils constitute an overwhelming majority of the population in the Northern Province and are the largest ethnic group in the Eastern Province. The current Chief Justice is Tamil and Tamils occupy many senior positions.
Lemkin took an interest in the subject of genocide while studying the killing by Turkish forces of 1.5 million Armenians. In 1913, a triumvirate of Young Turks, consisting of Mehmed Talaat, Ismail Enver and Ahmed Djemal, assumed dictatorial powers and concocted a plan to create a new Turkish empire, a "great and eternal land" called Turan with one language and one religion. On 24 April 1915, Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. There had been prior preparations. In fact, one argument for defining this as genocide is that it had been brewing for at least a century. In 1913, Turks disarmed the entire Armenian population. About forty thousand Armenian men served in the Turkish Army. In the autumn and winter of 1914, all their weapons were confiscated and they were employed as slave labour to build roads or used as pack animals. There was a very high death rate. Along the way, they were frequently set upon by Kurdish tribesmen, who had been given license to loot and rape. Kurds are seen today as victims of the Turkish state but they played a major role in the persecution of Armenians.
It is still dangerous in modern Turkey to talk about the genocide. Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk was accused of having violated Section 301 of the Turkish penal code, which outlaws "insulting Turkishness." An optimistic feature in today's Turkey is that many non-Armenians are prepared to speak out and many Kurds in particular are taking reconciliatory measures to atone for the crimes of their ancestors.
The simple definition of genocide – the attempt to exterminate an entire race- has been expanded to cover a continuum that undermines the usefulness of genocide as a concept. Tamils who support the NPC resolution say that it fits the UN convention of 1948. According to that genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group:
killing members of the group;
causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction;
imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
forcibly transferring children of this group to another group.
To say that the whole GOSL campaign against the LTTE was a genocide against the Tamil people is just plain wrong. To say that genocide has been going on since 1948 is ludicrous. It does not help victims of real child sexual abuse to bump up the statistics by including minor offences. While dirty talk might be unseemly and inappropriate, it is not the moral equivalent of raping a baby. Action should be taken against sexual crimes and against violations of human rights. However, racial discrimination is not on a par with the extermination of a race. It does not help victims (Sinhalese and Muslim as well as Tamil) of the GOSL to pretend that Sri Lanka has had a Hitler or a Stalin or a Mao or a Pol Pot or a Cromwell or an Ahmed Djemal. (Although a successful Tamil businessman spoke to me vehemently in those terms about Dickie Jayewardene.)
Martin Shaw is a research professor of international relations at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals and Sussex University best known for his sociological work on war, genocide and global politics. He is a frequent contributor to the website Open Democracy. I asked Professor Shaw about the question of genocide in Sri Lanka but he hedged and prevaricated. Commenters on Open Democracy have been critical of his writings on genocide. "What Shaw and his post-modernist ilk contend is that we should move in the opposite direction and expand definitions to points ad infinitum."
Dr Rhadhika Coomaraswamy has been described as a brilliant scholar and there is no doubt that she is a doughty champion of human rights. She was the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict until 13 July 2012. She wrote in response to the NPC resolution: "some Tamil nationalist lawyer has suddenly woken up to the fact that if we use the "G" word then there is a legal case for a separate state. This of course is a delusion of theoretical lawyers… Accountability for war crimes and human rights violations is a completely different frame of action than the claim for a separate state". She continued: "We as a community have had enough of all this name-calling- genocide, traitor, nation- all that is just unnecessary hyperbole at this time in our history. There are so many problems that have to be solved through discussion and dialogue that affect people in their everyday life".
Dr Coomaraswamy argues that it is time to abandon the victim mentality that lies behind the NPC resolution: "Let us regain our self -respect and our self-confidence, stand tall, look our Sinhalese and Muslim brothers and sisters in the eye, start acting as their equals and begin to build lasting partnerships."
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This article appeared on Page 9 of Ceylon Today on Tuesday January 6 2015.
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Vote in hope and repent at leisure
About twenty years ago, I had a meeting in Whitehall with a Conservative MP who was concerned that one of his constituents had been falsely accused (by his estranged wife) of child abuse. After the meeting, I noticed that my umbrella was missing. Soon after, I was watching the news on TV when I saw the MP announcing that he had switched to the Labour Party. "That's the man who stole my umbrella", I cried.
Alan Howarth, for it was he, was the first MP to defect directly from the Conservatives to Labour, and the first former Conservative MP to sit as a Labour MP since Oswald Mosley. Howarth wanted to be seen to be doing the decent thing by winning a seat as a Labour candidate. He failed at Wentworth and then again at Wythenshawe, but got a chance at the safe Labour seat of Newport East. Miners' leader Arthur Scargill, who had been emasculated by Thatcher, stood against him but Howarth easily held the seat for Labour. He now sits in the House of Lords, as does his partner Baroness Hollis. They came under a cloud for claiming separate expenses although they live next door to each other. He did send my umbrella back.
When I lived in the UK, I always regarded it as my moral duty to exercise my franchise. Because of my class and family background, it would have been anathema for me to ever vote for a Conservative candidate. The Labour Party stood for my class, the working class; it had provided the welfare state (with some help from Liberal Party thinkers); it had allowed me (with some help from Conservative education minister RAB Butler) to go to grammar school and university. Labour candidate Jack Diamond came to our school. He always won the Gloucester seat- until he lost to Conservative Sally Oppenheim.
When I moved to Wimbledon, I found it rather creepy when I received a letter from Sir Michael Havers welcoming me to his constituency. This was a rock-solid conservative seat, so I later tactically voted Liberal-Democrat in the hope of unseating Sir Michael's successor Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes. I was unsuccessful in my attempted coup. However, in 1997, miracle of miracles, Roger Casale won the seat for Labour.
That was the year that New Labour ended 18 years of Conservative rule. On the BBC's election night programme Professor Anthony King described the result of the exit poll, which accurately predicted a Labour landslide, as being akin to "an asteroid hitting the planet and destroying practically all life on Earth". Anthony Charles Lynton Blair entered Downing Street on a wave of optimism and good will, on 2 May 1997. He promised to restore trust in politics and breathe new life into Britain's tired institutions. Sound familiar?
The Myth of Political Parties
The story of the development of political parties is a fascinating one but must wait for another article. Briefly, the theory is that like-minded people band together and agree a set of policies. They exert a discipline within the group in order to translate those policies into legislation and administrative procedures. They persuade the public to support them by placing before them an outline of what they propose to do if elected. The public can compare this with what rival parties propose to do.
How does this work out in practice? Blair had won power by jettisoning many traditional Labour policies. The Blair government achieved some progressive measures but the effort was undermined by madcap experiments in neo-liberalism that undermined health services, education and transport by the attempt to introduce quasi-markets. Prisons have been privatized and there are record numbers of people occupying them – how else to make a profit? Soon after taking office, the new administration announced that it would be continuing the economic policies of the outgoing administration in the interests of stability. One can see why New Labour was attractive to a Conservative like Howarth – it was carrying on Thatcherite policies and it was in power. Power attracts crossovers.
Blair was a career politician with no trace of socialist principles or ethics who joined a socialist party as a career move. His father had been a prospective Conservative candidate and his political leanings appeared to have rubbed off on the young Tony, who stood in a mock school election as the Conservative candidate.
Democratic elections involving political parties are often little more than the chance to get rid of one set of scoundrels when we are tired of them, only to replace them with another set. Blair replaced Major but carried on the same policies. In Ireland, Fine Gael replaced Fianna Fail. The voters did get the chance to throw out the corrupt scoundrels who got the nation in a mess, but now the Irish economy is being supervised by 15 unelected officials from Brussels, and even the (elected) cabinet is kept in the dark.
Sri Lankan Party Theory
What do the Sri Lankan political parties stand for? We think of the SLFP of Sirimavo Bandaranaike as a party of the left. She had Marxist parties, LSSP and CP, as members of her governing coalition and she moved a long way towards a command economy with nationalisation of key areas and subsidies alongside austerity.
The UNP of JR Jayewardene was instrumental in introducing economic liberalisation even before Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. When he was prime minister from 2001 to 2004, Ranil Wickremasingha tried to continue such policies. Strange to note then that in 2014 the official website of the UNP says: "We are being cheated by the neo-liberalists and the Washington consensus: the UNP vehemently opposes 'social protection' cuts and wants more subsidies".
Crossovers in Sri Lanka
Incessant party-hopping is bad for democracy, confuses the voters and casts doubt upon who stands for what, if anything. There are stories of vast sums of money being paid to those who change allegiance. The case of Amir Ali vs. Sri Lanka Muslim Congress and Others (2006) opened opportunities for crossovers. That same Amir Ali, only a fortnight after being nominated as an MP by the UPFA, crossed over to the Opposition. As I write, 26 UPFA MPs from a 225-member parliament have defected and more are expected.
After weeks of speculation, Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem, finally said he would resign his ministerial portfolio to support Sirisena. This is in spite of Wickremesinghe and Sirisena strongly rejecting Hakeem's demand for a separate administrative district in the East for Muslims. I will never forget Rauf Hakeem's comment back in 2007: "The subject of political morality is a relative thing. The current electoral system does not give any government the confidence to try and deliver on the commitments made during the polls." Blair would appreciate that.
Fissiparous Alliances
Keeping the governing coalition together must have been like herding cats. The opposition will find it as difficult as the government to herd its constituent components. Although the UNP has retained some atavistic loyalty among the planting community in places like Uva Province, Ranil Wickremasinghe has not been able to match the populist appeal of Mahinda Rajapaksa to the rural Sinhala Buddhist masses. Siresena might be able to eat into Rajapaksa's Sinhala Buddhist support but he will also need support from the minorities.
Significant numbers of Tamil and Muslim politicians have gone over to the opposition, but will that be enough to convince minority voters that their needs will be met when the JHU seems to be exerting an unhealthy influence on opposition strategy? Rajitha Senaratne cited as one reason for his defection the ruling party's silence over the hardcore Sinhala-Buddhist groups who were allegedly involved in anti-Muslim clashes. Faizer Mustapha decided to join the common opposition because the government failed to take action against BBS. Hunais Farook crossed over for the same reason. The opposition's dependence on the JHU should cause Muslim voters some anxiety. The common opposition candidate has agreed with the JHU to preserve the constitutional prominence given to Buddhism.
Tamils are seeking greater devolution of power to Tamil areas but the JHU sees that as creeping separatism. Many Tamil politicians are unhappy that the TNA is supporting Sirisena. TNA Northern Provincial Council Member Ananthi Sasitharan told the BBC Tamil Service that the TNA election manifesto for the last Northern Provincial Election was clear on its stance on Tamil identity and autonomous rights. There is nothing in the JHU-inspired Manifesto to give Tamil voters confidence that their lot will be improved by an opposition victory. The hand of the JHU can be seen in the formulation: "I will not undertake any amendment that is detrimental to the stability, security and sovereignty of the country."
The president has been seen as a canny populist who understands the rural masses in a way that Ranil Wickremasingha never could. Recently, many have remarked that the President appears fatigued and overworked. He was once the youngest elected MP and he has spent 40 years in politics and nearly ten years as President. US presidents always seem to age rapidly in office but they are limited to eight years. Tony Blair became haggard by the end of his reign.
Blair tried to appear hip by associating with the likes of Noel Gallagher of Oasis (the more truculent brother Liam Gallagher refused to be wooed). An indication that the president may have lost touch with the masses is that he has recruited Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez to help in his campaign. According to The Hindu newspaper based in Tamil Nadu, under his usual rates in 2012, Salman Khan charged approximately 30,000,000 Sri Lanka rupees per day for public appearances. Near where I live there are people living in temporary accommodation in schools because their homes have been destroyed. They may not be impressed at this time by Bollywood stars. The Hindu also reported that 30 people had been killed and 650,000 displaced because of severe rain.
The historian, Tony Judt, wrote: "Tony Blair is a political tactician with a lucrative little sideline in made-to-measure moralising." Judt also called Blair: "the garden gnome in England's Garden of forgetting…the inauthentic leader of an inauthentic land." Thinking about an election in 2015 prompts a recollection of an article I wrote about an election in 2008, which prompted a recollection of an election in 1997. Barack Obama promised to close Guantanamo. It has not been closed yet and today Obama seems unlikely to take action against those found guilty of torture. In 2008, I advised those euphoric over Obama's victory: "Celebrate a new dawn but watch out. The nights draw in quickly."
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Forgiveness is the Best for a Peaceful Solution.
Everyone makes mistakes in their life, both consciously and unconsciously, because a perfect person is yet to be born.
But when is someone perfect?
This is different for all of us, everyone has a different limit and if we are too demanding, we can never be satisfied with somebody.
If we want a partner with look and character in perfection, this will not be easy to succeed.
A good looking and smart person does not always have a soft character, because of many attention and abundant choices they have, and they usually make use of it.
But there are always exceptions, and in life we get what we deserve, so always be alert and patience then we will not lose our chance easily.
Sometimes we think we've met the right partner or relationship, but then it turns out that its only the feeling from our single side, and that's heartbreaking.
That also happened from the other side of the relation, that there are also no feelings, that eventually give impossible reactions with bad feelings on both sides.
If we give our trust to friends but it turns out that they abuse it, this give a terrible pain with disappointed feeling for us.
We usually will be very angry and our inner feelings are about to erupt, but by doing so, the situation will not be improved and it only give more frustration to us.
Try to remain calm and realize that this is no future on our relationship but one for the section of the past.
React with evil action or doing stupid things will change the situation and the conflict will only worsen for ourselves, this certainly not worthwhile for us.
Maybe we should consider to take legal action, so there is a possibility for us to triumph by compensating both of our rights when there is a need for retribution.
Even if we must constantly walk around with this relationship in mind, we ruin our own life by being unhappily and we do not deserve for this.
When we meet people who break our trust, then maybe the best thinking in our mind is that we have to tell them!
Forgiveness is my gift to them and going through with my life without them is the gift to myself.
Then we create a peaceful solution with forgiveness for the mistake make by ourselves, because we've already let the wrong relationship abuse on the trust of us.
Always looks for the positive side and never let the negativity people influence our life.
Le pardon est nécessaire mais l'oubli reste car les cicatrices du passé restent ancrées dans la mémoire et s'effacent peu à peu. Thanks Jan. Happy to read you. Beautiful Thursday! ! !
Absolutely. forgive and forget. Tnk u Jan Jansen. Gud morning.
Thanks Jan! I think forgiveness is the key of the world and it's the key of my live too. Knowing how to do it you only could have a plenty life. Nice day!
Best revenge is FORGIVENESS. Best Solution for permanent happiness is Forgiveness. In fact, Forgiveness is a paradigm-shifting solution for transforming anger. Forgiveness makes us happier, healthier, sustains relationships, Brings Conjugal harmony, and boosts kindness and connectedness. Mind it !!! "Forgiveness" is an act of "Cowardice". It's an act of extreme "COURAGE AND FORTITUDE."
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Le château de Wineck est un monument historique situé dans l'écart de Wineckerthal, sur la commune de Dambach, dans le département du Bas-Rhin.

Histoire
Le château est édifié vers l'an 1300 pour la famille de Windstein.
Il est sans doute conçu comme un poste d'observation destiné à compléter le système défensif du château de Schœneck dont il est peu éloigné.

Il est démantelé à la fin du  sur ordre du roi de France.

Installé sur une crête rocheuse, le château n'a conservé qu'une partie des murs en pierres de taille avec chaînes d'angles à bossage rustique du donjon polygonal, servant autrefois de bouclier au logis modeste disparu depuis.

On y accède par une galerie creusée dans la roche, avec porte à mi hauteur de la falaise.
La basse-cour, du côté est, est limitée par une enceinte en partie conservée.

Le site fait l'objet d'une inscription au titre des monuments historiques depuis le .
Les éléments protégés comprennent la totalité des vestiges y compris les éléments troglodytiques.

Accès
Dans le village de Dambach, se diriger vers l'écart de Wineckerthal.

Notes et références

Annexes
 Liste des châteaux du Bas-Rhin
 Liste des monuments historiques du Bas-Rhin

Liens externes

Bibliographie

 Wineck (ou Windeck), sur chateauxalsaciens.free.fr
 Le château de Win(d)eck, sur www.chateauxfortsalsace.com/

Wineck
Monument historique dans le Bas-Rhin
Wineck
Monument historique inscrit en 1985


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Ким Чир Сен, русское имя — Николай Григорьевич, в других источниках возможны варианты — Ким Сен Чер, Ким Чир Сон, Ким Чер Сон, Ким Чхиль Сон (17 сентября 1926 года, Посьетский район, Приморский край — дата смерти неизвестна, КНДР) — северокорейский военный деятель, контр-адмирал ВМС КНДР, начальник штаба ВМС КНДР. Герой КНДР (1950).

Биография
Родился в 1926 году в одной из корейских деревень Посьетского района Приморского края. Получил начальное образование в местной корейской школе. В 1937 году вместе с родителями депортирован в Ташкентскую область на спецпоселение в колхозе имени Ленина Средне-Чирчикского района. Родители не пережили первую зиму в ссылке и Ким Чир Сен осиротел в 12-летнем возрасте. Воспитывался у своих родственников.

В 1942 году после окончания средней школы поступил в Среднеазиатский государственный университет. В 1943 году был призван в Красную Армию. Служил в Ухте в областном военно-промышленном комитете и позднее — начальником автохозяйства. С 1945 года — на службе в Среднеазиатском военном округе. Будучи на военной службе, обучался на заочном факультете Среднеазиатского государственного университета. После демобилизации — директор одной из средних школ в Средне-Чирчикском районе. В 1947 году окончил шестимесячные курсы по подготовке учителей русского языка для корейских школ при Ташкентском государственном университете, после чего был директором школы имени Микояна в Средне-Чирчикском районе.

С декабря 1947 года находился в Корее, где обучался в военно-морском училище. Был переводчиком командующего флотом КНДР Хан Ир Му. С 1948 года — начальник оперативного отдела штаба ВМС КНДР.

С начала Корейской войны — начальник штаба по разработке тактики ведения боевых действий. Руководил внезапной военной атакой против американского крейсера типа «Балтимор», находившегося в бухте города Чумунджин. Северокорейские военно-морские силы в составе нескольких торпедных катеров атаковали крейсер, потопив его и два сопровождающих крейсер корабля. Указом Верховного народного собрания от 30 декабря 1950 года за успешную военную операцию удостоен звания Героя КНДР.

С 1951 года — капитан первого ранга. В этом же году был откомандирован в Ленинград для учёбы в Военно-Морской академии. В июне 1953 года возвратился в КНДР. Был назначен начальником штаба ВМС КНДР.

Позднее во время репрессий против советских корейцев, проживавших в КНДР, был отстранён от военной службы и назначен директором революционной школы. 28 ноября 1958 года был арестован по обвинению в критике партизанского движения и казнён.

Позднее был посмертно реабилитирован и признан невиновным.

Примечания

Источники
 Герман Ким, Ким Чир Сен, репрессированный и пропавший без вести контр-адмирал, Герой КНДР

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