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From the Balcony
Statler & Waldorf: From the Balcony was an online series starring Statler and Waldorf which ran biweekly on Movies.com from June 2005 until September 2006. The series consisted of 35 episodes and featured many Muppet characters, old and new. The two elderly curmudgeons would discuss upcoming films, watch the latest movie trailers, and share the week's "balconism" from their theater box. For a time, the series was also available on iTunes as a subscribed podcast.
Many of the "webisodes" featured segments spotlighting other Muppet characters - for example Pepe the King Prawn often reviewed the recent DVD releases or gave remote reports, and fictional movie trailers or commercials featuring other Muppets were common. Other established Muppets who appeared included Pepe, Rowlf the Dog, Johnny Fiama, the Swedish Chef, Bobo the Bear, Dr. Teeth, Animal, Sam the Eagle, and Sweetums. In addition to one-shot supporting Whatnots, a few new recurring characters were also introduced, such as Larry and Oliver, Lester Possum, Ted Thomas, Stan and Louie, the Hollywood Pitchmen, The Blimp, Loni Dunne and a pair of musical performers.
Statler and Waldorf in the balcony.
Massey and Yerrid perform characters in "Poseidon: The Musical".
From the Balcony was produced by Movies.com in association with The Muppet Studios and Hirsch Productions.
A test pilot was briefly available online in February 2005. The pilot featured Statler and Waldorf in a movie theater watching, rating and commenting on the latest trailers for The Pacifier and Constantine; additionally, Pepe the Prawn appeared to give a rundown on the latest DVD releases. The pilot did not feature the classic balcony set seen in later episodes, a "Balconism" and other regular features the series would later include. The puppeteers on the pilot were Victor Yerrid (Waldorf) and Drew Massey (Statler and Pepe). The pilot was removed from Movies.com in the spring of 2005 and has not been officially released or reposted since.
In early June 2005, Movies.com announced that From the Balcony would soon become a regular feature of the site. Biweekly episodes started appearing on Movies.com beginning on June 26. The first eight episodes featured regular Muppet performers Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire and Bill Barretta performing the cast of Muppets in each episode. However starting with episode 9, and continuing until the end of the series, Victor Yerrid and Drew Massey returned to take over the main puppeteering duties on the project.
Victor Yerrid commented on his and Drew Massey's role in the series in a 2007 interview:
"We did about ninety-five percent of the puppeteering so we worked on just about every scene together. We were also involved in the creative meetings and got to pitch characters and segment ideas.[1]"
The opening of each episode started with a quick first-person perspective traveling through the El Capitan Theatre. The song "Hey a Movie!" from The Great Muppet Caper was used as the theme song in early run of the series before being replaced (starting with episode 5). The show originally was produced in the traditional 4:3 (1.33:1) aspect ratio, but starting with episode 15, and continuing for the rest of the series' run, the picture switched to a 16:9 (1.78:1) widescreen format.
Aside from the biweekly episodes, the series produced sets of promotional Halloween and Oscar clips that were released to television news syndicates to promote the web series. Statler and Waldorf also appeared from the set of From the Balcony in a promotional tie-in to introduce the films for ESPN Classic's Reel Classics Extra and promote the webshow. The characters and set were also used in a public service announcement for the Will Rogers Institute in late 2005.
In October 2006, after the 34th episode of the webshow debuted online, Movies.com sent the following message via the "Balcony Bulletin" mailing list (an e-mail mailing list that would alert subscribers when a new episode was posted):
"Dear Statler & Waldorf Fans:
As you know, your favorite cranky critics, Statler and Waldorf, are getting up there in years. While they're not ready for retirement, they've decided to take some time away from the balcony for some well-earned rest and relaxation (read: finding new things to complain about).
Don't despair, though -- during the hiatus you can still enjoy classic From the Balcony. Every show is available for viewing in the archives! There's also a rumor going around that everyone's favorite curmudgeons may be popping in for special appearances on new parts of Movies.com. Stick around to find out where!"
Test Pilot — February 25, 2005
Statler and Waldorf take a look at The Pacifier and Constantine; however, the pair is unable to get a consistent rating scale to rank the films. Pepe the King Prawn pops in to give a run down on the latest DVD releases - Saw, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko and Taxi.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and Pepe the King Prawn
Episode 1 — June 26, 2005
Statler and Waldorf take a look at the trailers for War of the Worlds and Bewitched. The pair rank each film on their "Snooze-O-Meter" noting how far into the film they will fall asleep. Plus the two toss it over to Pepe the King Prawn to talk about the newest titles on DVD: Miss Congeniality 2, Coach Carter and Hostage.
Balconism — Dej-HAH-vous: When all of the funny parts of a movie have already been shown in the trailer.
Episode 2 — July 6, 2005
Statler and Waldorf preview Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Fantastic Four. The two rank the films on the "old man driving scale," noting how fast they would drive to (or from) the film. Rowlf the Dog stops by the set of The Wedding Crashers to give tips on how to be a wedding crasher.
Balconism — KILL-dren: The uncute kids in horror movies.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and Rowlf the Dog
Episode 3 — July 18, 2005
Statler and Waldorf preview Stealth and The Island, ranking them on the "old guy scale" ("not-so-bad" being the best, "yuck" being the worst). Plus Johnny Fiama interviews Keanu Reeves (through edited footage).
Balconism — Expenda-BILL: The nameless character who always goes on secret missions and is always the first to die.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and Johnny Fiama
Episode 3: Bonus Clip — July 19, 2005
Upset that Johnny Fiama took his place in episode 3, Pepe releases a "top-secret" video giving his take on the week's new DVD releases.
Balconism — none
Cast: Pepe the King Prawn
Episode 4 — August 3, 2005
Statler and Waldorf review The Dukes of Hazzard and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, ranking them on the "pain-killer scale" ("over the counter" being the best, "massive sedative" being the worst). Plus the Swedish Chef makes a pair of Daisy Duke jeans.
Balconism — COUGH-in: When a main character coughs in the first few minutes of a movie, and you know they'll be dead by the end.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and the Swedish Chef
Episode 5 — August 18, 2005
Statler and Waldorf review The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Red Eye, ranking them on the "Bobby Brown scale" ("New Edition years" being the best, "in jail/reality show years" being the worst). Plus Pepe is on the street to talk about Sin City, Beauty Shop and A Lot Like Love on DVD.
Balconism — Doggie-DAR: The innate ability of the family dog to sense an evil man in their company even when the humans are completely oblivious.
Episode 6 — September 1, 2005
Statler and Waldorf host "The Balc-y Awards" covering the best (or in their case, worst) in summer movies.
Balconism — TRAVOLTED: When one key film role rescues an actor's career after years of struggle and puts them back on the map.
Episode 7 — September 14, 2005
Statler and Waldorf review Just Like Heaven and The Corpse Bride, ranking them on the "old guy activity scale" ("a heated game of pinochle" being the best, "a colonoscopy" being the worst). The two also share a rare Revenge of the Sith audition tape from Bobo the Bear.
Balconism — Lucky BLAST-ard: The main character of an action movie who can run, jump, swim or drive just one step faster than the fireball of a huge explosion.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and Bobo the Bear
Statler and Waldorf review Into the Blue and Two for the Money, ranking them on the "car accident scale" ("fender-bender" being the best, "completely totaled" being the worst). Plus Pepe is on the red carpet of Flightplan where he interviews such celebrities as Brent Sexton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Irby, Constance Marie, Isaiah Washington, Jodie Foster, Erika Christensen and several other guests.
Balconism — Prev-EULOGY: When movie studios cram the whole movie into the preview and kill any chance of people going to see it.
Episode 9 — October, 12, 2005
Statler and Waldorf review Doom and Elizabethtown, ranking them on the "talk show host scale" ("Johnny Carson" being the best, "Chevy Chase" being the worst). Plus Dr. Teeth and Animal talk about Shop Girl's love triangle.
Balconism — CON-mercial: When the studio puts out a misleading trailer, that cons viewers into the theater.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Dr. Teeth and Animal
Episode 10 — October 27, 2005
Statler and Waldorf review Jarhead and The Legend of Zorro, ranking them on the "early-bird special scale" ("chicken pot pie" being the best, "salmon casserole" being the worst). The Weather Guy checks in with the report for the movie The Weather Man.
Balconism — Coinci-DANCE: When the music starts playing, everyone breaks out in a perfectly choreographed dance that they all know.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and the Weather Guy
Halloween Press Clips — October 28, 2005
In a series of videos not released on the official website, Statler (dressed as a mummy) and Waldorf (dressed as a vampire) give a "Halloween Film Countdown". These clips were released to news syndicates to air as promotion for the web series.
Balconism — RUN-derwear: When a female in a scary movie runs away from the killer and for some reason is always in her underwear.
Cast: Statler and Waldorf
Episode 11 — November 11, 2005
Statler and Waldorf review Get Rich or Die Tryin and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, ranking them on the "old guy hairdo scale" ("distinguished gray" being the best, "blatant hairplugs" being the worst). Plus Sam Eagle gives an editorial on the Johnny Cash movie Walk the Line.
Balconism — BLONDE-tourage: When the cool girl in a teen movie is surrounded by several dumb sidekicks who will do anything she says.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and Sam the Eagle
Statler and Waldorf review Rent and In the Mix, ranking them on the "Thanksgiving dinner scale" ("a slice of pumpkin pie" being the best, "dry turkey" being the worst). Plus the theater rats give their take from "Below the Balcony".
Balconism — WEAK-quel: A sequel that comes so long after the first movie that nobody really cares.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Stan and Louie
Episode 13 — December 10, 2005
Statler and Waldorf review The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and King Kong. Plus Ivan the Villager and Sweetums beg for Hollywood's mercy and Clive Focus gets shots of the stars of March of the Penguins.
Balconism — HACK-tors: Cut-rate actors who replace big stars in cheap sequels to their hit movies.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Ivan the Villager, Sweetums, Clive Focus and penguins
Statler and Waldorf give their Christmas film countdown from a decked out balcony. Plus Larry and Oliver act out every Christmas movie ever made.
Balconism — YULE LOG-jam: The glut of big movies that comes out right around Christmas.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Larry and Oliver
Episode 15 — January 7, 2006
Statler and Waldorf showcase some of the international rip-offs of their webshow, while Indiana complains about being a fly-over state (with a disclaimer from Sam the American eagle).
Balconism — Fluctu-WEIGHT: When an actor gains or loses a large amount of weight to suit an upcoming role.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, whatnots, Billy, goat, aliens, penguins, The State of Indiana and Sam the Eagle
Episode 16 — January 20, 2006
Statler and Waldorf review Big Momma's House 2 and Underworld Evolution. Alvy Mellish weighs in on Match Point and Lester Possum takes to the streets to find out what the average moviegoer is thinking.
Balconism — WIN-jury: When the star of a sports movie receives an injury that hurts his ability to play, but overcomes it and finds a way to win in the end.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Alvy Mellish and Lester Possum
Episode 17 — February 4, 2006
Statler and Waldorf review Firewall and The Pink Panther. Meanwhile, Ted Thomas and Loni Dunne discuss the Oscar nominations, and Mr. Movie gives Billy a lecture on how movies are made.
Balconism — Romantic KARMA-dy: Where the main character unexpectedly finds love while helping others with their relationships.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Deliveryman, Loni Dunne, Ted Thomas, Mr. Movie, Billy
Episode 18 — February 18, 2006
Statler and Waldorf host their big Oscar prediction episode. A detective interrogates an Oscar envelope and Lester Possum goes to the street to hear people's views on who will win the Oscars.
Balconism — It's OVER-ture: The music they play at the awards show when they want the acceptee to shut up and get off the stage.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Oscar Envelope, Detective, Sam the Eagle and Lester Possum
Oscar Press Clips — March 2, 2006
In a series of videos not released on the official website, Statler and Waldorf are interviewed about their Oscar predictions. These clips were released to news syndicates to air as promotion for the web series.
Episode 19 — March 4, 2006
Statler and Waldorf are off to the beach to review Failure to Launch, Ultraviolet, and 16 Blocks. Ted Thomas interviews Hugo, the star of The Shaggy Dog. Plus a commercial for "Muppets Gone Wildlife".
Balconism — PROM-blematic: When most of the problems in a teenage comedy come back to the characters at the prom.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Ted Thomas, Hugo, Assorted Muppet Animals, Spamela Hamderson
Episode 20 — March 18, 2006
Statler and Waldorf review She's the Man, Inside Man and V for Vendetta. The Muppet penguins stars in a promo for March Madness of the Penguins and Larry and Oliver are back to reenact every sports movie ever made in another installment of "Film Crew Theater".
Balconism — ACT-lete: An athlete who attempts to act in movies but really should just stick to their sport.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, penguins, Larry and Oliver
Episode 21 — April 1, 2006
A pair of anxious Hollywood pitchmen try to sell new ideas for movie sequels and Statler and Waldorf show an old episode of From the Balcony (a black and white silent movie).
Balconism — Hide and SEQUEL: When actors makes sure they won't be found in the sequels to their previous movies.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, the Hollywood Pitchmen, Young Statler and Young Waldorf
Episode 22 — April 15, 2006
Statler and Waldorf show their American Idol audition and Stan and Louie are back for another view from "Below the Balcony".
Balconism — PET-amorphosis: When a movie character suddenly finds himself turned into the family pet.
Statler and Waldorf show sneak-peeks of the trailers for Mission: Impossible 4: Ridiculously Impossible and Mission: Impossible 5: Impossibly Impossible ; plus Loni Dunne interviews an excited Tom Cruise.
Balconism — THESPIAN-age: When an award winning actor is cast as a villain in a spy thriller.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Tom Cruise, Cruise's assistant, and Loni Dunne
Statler and Waldorf showcase some rejected mutants' auditions for X-Men, including the Blimp, The Procrastinator, The Defroster, Beaverine, The Invisible Twins, and Scorn. The duo also take a look at a trailer for Poseidon: The Musical.
Balconism — LAUGHTER-math: when the aftermath of a disaster movie is so laughable, it practically ruins the whole film.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, The Blimp, The Procrastinator, The Defroster, Beaverine, The Invisible Twins, Scorn and "Poseidon: The Musical" singers
Episode 25 — May 27, 2006
Inspired by The Break-Up, Statler and Waldorf go their separate ways. While Waldorf is at home alone, Statler brings in a new co-host to review The Omen.
Balconism — Opening FREAK-end: When a horror movie's release date coincides with its subject matter.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf and Waldorf's Replacement
Episode 26 — June 10, 2006
Statler and Waldorf, with the help of Manny Folds, talk about all the summer car films. The duo gets the balcony pimped out, and the Swedish Chef makes "Nacho Libres".
Balconism — STARING wheel: When someone driving a car in a movie ends up staring at the passenger instead of watching the road.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Manny Folds and the Swedish Chef
Statler and Waldorf review An Inconvenient Truth. Ted Thomas interviews Superman's cousin Craig. Plus, Superman returns... a video.
Balconism — Armed FARCES: When the army is rendered useless in a Sci-Fi or action movie, and the true hero turns out to be an average Joe.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Ted Thomas, Craig Kent, Video Rental Clerk and Superman
Episode 28 — July 7, 2006
Statler and Waldorf look for buried treasure in the balcony after talking about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. "Inside the Actors Studio" gets up close with a starring pirate's parrot. Plus Long Joel Silver advertises the "Movies for the Marooned Box Set".
Balconism — Yo HO HUM: How Hollywood felt about pirate movies before the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise became such a big hit.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, James Lipton, Polly Wanna Cracker and Long Joel Silver
Episode 29 — July 22, 2006
David Hasselhoff and Tom Cruise star as Statler and Waldorf in the big screen adaptation of From the Balcony.
Balconism — MAD-aptation: when a TV show is adapted into a movie, but it stinks so much that it angers the loyal fans.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Tom Cruise and David Hasselhoff
Episode 30 — August 4, 2006
Statler and Waldorf have some problems with the camera as they showcase many Snakes on a Plane knockoffs - such as Bunnies on a Balloon and Sheep on a Submarine.
Balconism — HELL-titude: a horror film that takes place at a high altitude (e.g. mountain, plane,)
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, bunnies, sheep, Milton the Blue-Footed Booby and Molly the Albatross
Episode 31 — August 18, 2006
Statler and Waldorf are on vacation, so the producers treat viewers to From the Balcony's last good episode - an episode from 1977. Ted Thomas Sr. interviews rising director George Lucas, and a younger Statler and Waldorf look at what Close Encounters of the Third Kind would have been like if Woody Allen directed.
Balconism — In-FAD-uation: When Hollywood tries to make money by doing movies about the latest cultural trends.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Ted Thomas Sr., George Lucas, Woody Allen and Close Encounters Alien
Episode 32 — September 2, 2006
Statler and Waldorf's "Back to School Special". Larry and Oliver return to re-enact every high school movie ever made in another installment of "Film Crew Theater". Plus Flopsy prepares to play in the big football game.
Balconism — FLICK-tion: A modern day high school flick that's lossely based on a classical work of fiction.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Coach Gruesome, Flopsy, Larry and Oliver
Episode 33 — September 16, 2006
Statler and Waldorf showcase a film noir parody starring Statler as Dashiell Chandler. The two critics also show off a clip from another upcoming musical about going to the movies.
Balconism — POP-coronary: a medical condition that develops when you see how expensive things are at the concession stand.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Dashiell Chander, Whatnot dame, Caspar Von Blimpman, The Maltese Falcon, movie customer, concession stand workers, Popcorn, Candy, The Licorice Whips
Statler's new intern Jimmy quickly outgrows his coffee fetching job and rises to the heights of fame. The Hollywood pitchmen return to pitch wild prequels to Jimmy. Soon, Jimmy's 15-minutes of fame are up. In a twist ending, Jimmy, in hope of a come-back, buys the balcony and takes over the show.
Balconism — OS-carred: when a person is unable to get any more work after winning an Oscar.
Cast: Statler, Waldorf, Jimmy Pureisle and The Hollywood Pitchmen
In August 2006 TIME Magazine named the series among "the 25 Sites We Can't Live Without" (sharing the ranks with eBay and Amazon.com, Google and Wikipedia).[2]
From the Balcony won a Silver Telly at the 2006 Telly Awards, for best use of comedy. Movies.com was awarded the highest-level Silver Telly Award for Best use of Humor in a Non-Broadcast Video for From the Balcony's creative spoof of the film Dukes of Hazzard.[3]
In April 2007, the series won a Webby Award. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, the Webby Awards are the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The series' nomination, in the "Comedy: Long Form or Series" category, was Movies.com's first nomination for a Webby. Public voting ran on the Webby Awards website throughout April 2007 to decide the winners of the award. On May 1, 2007 it was announced that From the Balcony was the winner of the People's Voice 2007 Webby for Best Comedy Long Form or Series due to the show gaining the most votes of the five the nominees in the category.[4]
Steve Whitmire (episodes 1-8)
Dave Goelz (episodes 1-8)
Bill Barretta (episodes 1-8)
Pepe the King Prawn, Rowlf, Johnny Fiama, The Swedish Chef, Bobo the Bear
Drew Massey (episodes 9-34)
Statler, Pepe the King Prawn, Animal, The Weather Guy, Sam the Eagle, Stan, Ivan the Villager, Clive Focus, Oliver, Mr. Movie, Ted Thomas, Oscar Envelope, Hollywood Pitchman, Tom Cruise, "Poseidon: The Musical" singer, Manny Folds, James Lipton, Long Joel Silver, Ted Thomas Sr., Woody Allen, Coach Gruesome, and others.
Victor Yerrid (episodes 9-34)
Waldorf, Dr. Teeth, Louie, Sweetums, Larry, The State of Indiana, Lester Possum, Billy, Loni Dunne, The Blimp, Detective, Hollywood Pitchman, Hugo, "Poseidon: The Musical" singer, Waldorf's Replacement, Craig Kent, Polly Wanna Cracker, David Hasselhoff, George Lucas, Flopsy, Close Encounters Alien, Jimmy Pureisle, and others.
Allan Trautman (episode 17)
Deliveryman
Alice Dinnean (episode 33)
Whatnot dame, customer, popcorn
Executive Producer: Ian Hirsch
Cinematograper: Byron Werner
Editor: David Tarleton
Writers: Joe Nussbaum, Mike Pellettieri, David Young
Director: Ian Hirsch
Reel Classics Extra on ESPN Classic
From the Balcony characters
From the Balcony an proposed book by Statler and Waldorf
↑ Yerrid, Victor. An Interview with Victor Yerrid. The Muppet Newsflash. August 2007.
↑ Buechnet, Maryanne Murray.25 Sites We Can't Live Without. TIME. August 03, 2006.
↑ Movies.com Wins Multiple Prestigious Awards Rogonizing Achievements in Entertainment, News and Creative Content. Movies.com. May 30, 2006.
↑ Webby Awards website
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"The Role of the Levites, and the Service of Yeshiva Students in the Israeli Army."
(updated and revised from Bamidbar 5763-2003)
This week, we begin to study the fourth book of the Torah, Sefer Bamidbar, the Book of Numbers.
In parashat Bamidbar, out of His great love for Israel, G-d instructs Moses to take a census of the Israelites, because every Jew is precious to G-d. The count records that the total number of Jewish men twenty years old and upward, who are of appropriate age to serve in the army of Israel, is 603,550.
One of the tribes of Israel, however, is not counted. In Numbers 2:33we are informed: וְהַלְוִיִּם לֹא הָתְפָּקְדוּ בְּתוֹךְ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה השׁם אֶת מֹשֶׁה, the tribe of Levi was not counted among the Children of Israel, as G-d had commanded Moses. In Numbers 3:12, the Torah relates why the Levites were not counted for the army: וַאֲנִי הִנֵּה לָקַחְתִּי אֶת הַלְוִיִּם מִתּוֹךְ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, תַּחַת כָּל בְּכוֹר פֶּטֶר רֶחֶם מִבְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, וְהָיוּ לִי הַלְוִיִּם, G-d declares that the Levites belong to Him, in place of the בְּכוֹרים—b'chorim, the first born, who sinned with the Golden Calf and thus lost the privilege of ministering to the children of Israel, while the Levites remained faithful.
From early on, we notice that the Levites were significantly different from the other tribes of Israel: 1) As opposed to the rest of the Israelites who were counted from 20 years old and upward, the Levites were counted from 30 days old and upward 2) The Torah seems to indicate that G-d himself counted the Levites 3) We later learn, in Numbers 3:44-47, that 22,000 Levites were used to redeem 22,000 first born of the other 12 tribes. The remaining 300 first born of the other tribes were redeemed by paying five shekels, which is similar to the פְּדְיוֹן הַבֵּן—Pidyon Haben, redemption of the first-born ceremony, that is practiced today.
It is interesting to note, that the tribe of Levi was, by far, the smallest tribe of Israel. The next smallest tribe in number, was Menashe, with 32,200, who were counted from 20 years old and upwards, whereas the Levites who numbered 22,000, were counted from 30 days old and up. The Levites population was clearly significantly less. (Parenthetically, the largest tribe in Israel was Judah, who numbered 74,600 souls.)
A host of reasons are proffered for Levi's small population. First, tradition claims that since the Levites were not subject to slavery in Egypt and were not included in the peoples' suffering because of their special position as clergy, they were also excluded from the blessing of fertility. (Remember, according to the Midrash, the Israelite women gave birth to six children at a time.) In addition, the tribe of Levi was condemned by Jacob (Genesis 34:30), because of Levi's zealotry at the time of the rape of Dina, when Levi and Shimon killed the men of Sh'chem. A third reason for Levi's smallness is that, from a practical point of view, it would be too difficult for Israel to support a burgeoning clergy class. Whatever the reason for its smallness, we see clearly, that the tribe of Levi was "a breed apart" from the other tribes.
Even Levi's birth was special. At the birth and naming of all the other tribes, the Torah notes, וַתִּקְרָא–"Va'tikra," "she," the mother, named the child. Whereas with Levi, the Torah says (Genesis 29:34), עַל כֵּן קָרָא שְׁמוֹ, לֵוִי, that's why he called his name Levi. Jewish tradition assumes that either Jacob himself gave Levi his name, or since the verse doesn't specifically say Jacob, it may be that the angel Gabriel gave the child his name.
Clearly, the tribe of Levi had a "calling." The Hebrew word Levi, means "to escort," indicating that Levi was destined to bring, to escort, many Jews closer to G-d. Yes, Levi was a zealot, but he was a balanced zealot–both internally and externally. He was a zealot internally for his own family, for Dina, when he responded to her rape by attacking the men of Sh'chem. But he was also a zealot for G-d at the Golden Calf. It was there, when no one else responded, that the Levites stood up in response to Moses' call, (Exodus 32:26): מִי לַהשׁם אֵלָי, "Whoever is for G-d, come join me!" While the b'chorim, the first born, were the first biologically, the Levites were the first spiritually.
The Levites also had a particular character trait that proved vital to them in their role as leaders. They were enablers, who brought out the best in others. They sang songs, but did not necessarily compose. They taught law, but did not write law. Enabling was truly a very special gift of the Levites.
Many of our readers are surely aware of the ongoing controversy concerning the large numbers of Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) Yeshiva students in Israel who do not serve in the army. Some reports claim that as many as 60,000 Yeshiva students are now exempt. A significant number of secularists, and even many moderates, feel that the situation has gotten dangerously out of hand. One prominent Israeli politician, Avigdor Lieberman, who strongly opposes the growing strength of the Chareidim, formed a protest political party, Yisrael Beiteinu, which plays a very powerful role in the current coalition government.
Those who oppose the draft of Yeshiva students in Israel often point to the Biblical text here in parashat Bamidbar, where the Levites are exempted from serving in Israel's army because they serve in G-d's army! Many religious Jews feel strongly that there must always be a cadre of the most excellent Yeshiva students who are exempt from military service because, they truly believe, that Yeshiva students serve as a spiritual defense force in the State of Israel, who protect Israel through the study of Torah. However, it is generally acknowledged that, unfortunately, there are significant numbers of Yeshiva students who abuse the system, avoiding service, despite not really being serious students.
Surely, the best and the brightest, (perhaps, determined by oral and written examinations) should be exempted. In addition to the issue of sharing in the national burden and the increased manpower, there are many who believe that having tens of thousands of Yeshiva students in the army would have a most meritorious effect on the army, the State of Israel, and its people. In fact, the Nachal Chareidi corps that has been established is already widely acclaimed and admired. Despite the progress that has been made over the past few decades, it is still most disappointing that many Israelis never have a chance to really meet and get to know the Chareidim and the Yeshiva students, and are, consequently, very resentful of those whom they see as "parasites," not working, not serving, yet greatly benefitting from the Israeli's generous social system.
On the other hand, the Hesder Yeshiva boys, those who learn in Yeshiva and serve in the army at the same time, are among the most highly regarded in all of Israel. In fact, their units are considered among the best and the bravest, and, unfortunately, have suffered the highest casualties of any units in the Israel Defense Forces. It was reported in 2015, that more than to 50% of young officers in combat units of the Israeli army wear kipot. This transformation which has taken place in the army could be a most important factor in determining the future of Israel.
May these contemporary "Levites" lead us into a period of peace and tranquility for our people Israel.
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Chag Shavuot Samayach. Have a happy, festive, and healthy Shavuot.
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How often do you sew jackets with a zipper closure? Do you have a favorite type of zipper you keep using again and again? What do you do when a pattern calls for a non-standardized zipper length? Do you know how to shorten a zipper and how do you do it?
A few days ago I started working on a new jacket which, you've guessed, has a zipper closure. This has given me an idea to show you a very simple technique I'm using on almost all the zippers.
But, before that, I'll give you some technical details about jacket zippers. These mechanisms can be found in various lengths and with various teeth, which can be metal or plastic teeth, and can be spiral or single teeth.
I usually use the ones with single plastic teeth. Although I like the looks of the metal zippers, I find these mechanisms too rough and heavy for jackets made of light and soft fabrics. I avoid the zippers with spiral teeth, as I don't like how they look. So, I'm left with the ones that have single plastic teeth.
These zippers can be easily shortened. The teeth can be easily removed, but the question is how to secure the zipper end and keep the zipper head from falling off? I'll show you how I do it in the following text.
Measure the length of the zipper you need and the length you need to cut off. I usually measure directly on the jacket, as this way I am sure I will measure just the right length.
I shorten the measured zipper length by 2-3 teeth, as shown on the picture - the upper pin marks the exact length I need, while the bottom pin marks the length shortened by 2 teeth. This way I am sure the zipper teeth won't get stuck in a seam.
Then I make a zipper stop using a thread in a matching color. I make a few stitches around the zipper band, and then I make loops around the stitched thread.
Once the zipper stop is made, I can remove the extra teeth. I use these two wire pliers for this.
I remove the teeth one by one, starting from the top of the zipper band and moving towards the new zipper stop. This way I make sure I don't damage the teeth I need.
Once enough teeth has been pulled out, I cut off the extra zipper band and I'm left with the zipper in a length I needed.
When sewing the zipper to the fabric, I additionally secure the zipper stop by folding the zipper band to the side and twisting it one more time. This way I make a fold that will stop the zipper head from falling off of the zipper band.
Here's how the zipper looks once it's being sewed into the jacket and closed. You'll notice I left the right zipper band longer than the left one, as I wanted to make the zipper a trim of the jacket. The zipper head is secured from falling off, and my alteration on the zipper is invisible. If I wanted to secure the zipper more, I could have added the zipper stop to the right side of the zipper. I will consider doing this once the jacket is completed.
P.S. You have probably noticed double posts - one in English and the other in Serbian. I wanted to try blogging this way, so you could read the posts more easily. Let me know if this suits you!
Samo da javim posto sam upravo procitala tvoje objasnjenje skracivanja zipa da je odlican post i da je po meni ovako jednostavnije, preglednije za pracenje. Hvala, sjajna si!
Hvala Dušanka, drago mi je da Vam se dopao post, kao i nova organizacija bloga.
Love your English posts as I am a big fan! Really good info. Thanks so much.
Thanks Bunny, I'm really flattered to have a fan as experienced as you are! And, I'm glad you like the new way of blogging.
Super ti je tutorijal. I ja tako slicno skracujem, mada mi se cesce desi da mi zapravo zafali:))) e tu pomoci nema puno, sem nekih kreativnih umetaka.
Haha, ja uvek kupim duzi rajsferslus, za svaku slucaj!
Thank you for sharing. This is awesome information.
You're welcome, I'm glad it was helpful.
Ja volim kako pišeś na Srpski I Engleski jel ja možem da vežbam moj Srpski. Ako nešto ne razumjem onda možem da povjerim na Engleski!


So we're on about week five of Fall Semester 2018 and at this point I am still confused. I'm in classes making grades I have no clue how I got, completing projects before the deadline that I didn't know existed, at this point what is going on because I'm in lecture but still trying to figure out why I'm even in half of these classes. My days are running together and I literally put November on one of my papers...I skipped a whole month and wasn't even trying to finish this one.
I've always been ready to graduate and really get into my career field, but at this point who do I need to talk to because baby this last year feels like 6 more. I'm no longer interested in my classes. Everything is repetitive and in all honesty, my major it's even what I actually want to do. I envision myself creating billboards, book covers, storyboards for commercials...but instead..they're out here still trying to put News Broadcasting and Film.
When I tell you I genuinely could not care anymore at this point. I'm fed.
Mass Media is supposed to be media on all platforms. Freshman year we learned radio, books, film, television, law, magazines, literally when I first joined the Mass Media department, I just knew it would be everything for me. I hate limitations, so the fact that there were so many things I could do in such a short amount of time and actually cross over into every market, that excited me. But now, it's year four and I'm looking at my major like it's the divorce that won't end.
I have so many goals in life, so why is it that we go to school to learn one thing, hopefully be good at it, and possibly make a career out of it? Sure you could double major, but why do I have to come to school and say this is the one thing I want to do for the rest of my life and then if that doesn't work out, go back to school and pay thousands to try again.
The idea is strange to me in all honesty, but at this point everything is. I'm just trying to graduate and get started with my big girls goals. I have so much more to do and so little time to do it all, so let's get going. I'm ready.


Essential options of any style dysfunction around the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological Conditions IV (DSM-IV) often are individuals manifested by an impairment of individuality and pathological individuality characteristics. People with personality ailments indicate attribute styles of cognition, affectivity, interpersonal associations and impulse influence. Narcissistic Temperament Dysfunction (NPD) is particularly characterized by elevated grandiosity, preoccupation with self, aggression and also a excellent perception of uniqueness. These make the people less empathetic to others.
The cognitive function of clients with persona diseases is affected these types of which the way the way they consider themselves along with people is impaired. Clients with NPD show an elevated perception of grandiosity get exaggerated expectations of victory, brilliance, energy, excellent really enjoy, beauty and so they imagine that they are distinct or extraordinary. NPD is connected with psychosis, schizophrenia, paranoia, suicide, depression, not enough enthusiasm, hypochondria, hypersensitivity and addictive or delinquent actions. These abilities are usual in psychiatric sicknesses and they can this is why be categorized as comorbidities or differential diagnoses.
Cognitive malfunctions can expose the affected person to physical of social hazard. The people may get tragic when immediately following becoming grandiose and suffering from guiltless despair, they have an understanding of and know that they may have not realized their ambitions. When their aims of creative imagination and self-expression have not been attained, they practical knowledge disgrace. The clients might also build very low self-esteem. The folks may be described as self-depleted simply because they endure vacant melancholy arising from unachieved ambitions and not enough ideals. Patients with individuality conditions basically have got a malfunction inside their affectivity. In some persona disorders, individuals are constricted emotionally even as in people they can be excessively emotional. Individuals mostly change amongst these extremes. Sufferers with NPD are typically excessively arrogant with outstanding and disdainful attitudes and no empathy myroyalessays for the folk all over them. In addition they acquire acute temper swings. The affectivity conditions bring about interpersonal troubles mainly because the affected person as well as other families have difficulties in relating with each other. The patients then indicate contempt, depreciation and devaluation of others. They turned into enormously jealous and they're struggling to get from others.
Interpersonal difficulties are pretty much basic to all identity diseases. They are the distinguishing characteristic relating to personality ailments and various psychological conditions which happen to be almost always just characterised by trouble with impulse command and outstanding affective and cognitive features. The narcissistic, antisocial, obsessive compulsive and histrionic persona disorders are all characterized by an inclination in the direction of or desire for dominance in interactions. Individuals with NPD in particular have a very exceptional motivation for admiration. People with narcissistic, histrionic and dependent temperament issues have significant degrees of affiliation conduct considering that they have a necessity for admiration, attention and assist respectively. To summarize, sufferers with NPD will exhibit exaggerated rage, humiliation or shame when criticized, use others for private obtain with out considering them, be seriously grandiose, exaggerate achievements or skills, be occupied with fantasies of wonderful really enjoy or lifetime, have unreasonably great anticipations, constantly really want admiration, deficiency empathy, be obsessive about self-interest and have selfish intentions. The impairment during the cognitive operate makes the individuals provide the wrong perceptions of them selves as well as other families, and this is exhibited as grandiosity. The impairment in affectivity may make the patients excessively disdainful and arrogant to other people. The impairment in interpersonal traits makes them have the ought for admiration.


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La Casa ucraina è un edificio utilizzato come centro culturale, situato a Kiev.

Utilizzato per ospitare mostre d'arte, congressi, conferenze, concorsi internazionali e nazionali, festival, concerti di musica classica e moderna, si articola su cinque piani, avendo a disposizione una superficie totale di 17 550 m².

Precedentemente sul sito dell'edificio vi era edificato un teatro, costruito tra il 1802 e il 1805 dall'architetto Andrei Ivanovich Melenski, che venne poi demolito nel 1851. L'odierno centro culturale venne costruito tra il 1978 e il 1982 da un gruppo di architetti guidato da Vadim Ivanovič Hopkalo e inaugurato il 26 maggio 1982. Dal 1982 fino al 2 aprile 1993 ospitò al suo interno un museo, per poi venire trasformato in un centro culturale.

Durante le proteste dell'Euromaidan, l'edificio venne occupato e utilizzato dai manifestanti come quartier generale.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Architetture di Kiev

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Q: How to use createdDateTime filter for identityRiskEvents graph api? Right now I am using $url = "$url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityRiskEvents?" to query beta identityRiskEvents Graph api. I can loop thru '@odata.nextLink' and retrieve all event IDs. But looks like it can go up to $skip=5100 then it fails.
So I I am looking for a filter query with createdDateTime or any other property mentioned in this URL https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/beta/resources/identityriskevent
Trying to learn how these things work with powershell i.e. Invoke-WebRequest.
Appreciate any help.

A: Use the $filter query parameter to retrieve just a subset of a collection. Refer: Use query parameter with Microsoft Graph API.

A: Panda in your case you need to use either escape character before the $filter or backtick that removes latest char and makes the dollar sign to be used as a character $ not as the variable starting mark...
If you want to pass $filter towards put a backtick before the dollar sign. As you need to pass that $ mark to the url and if you only put $filter the $ gets removed as it is the start of variable mark and if you don't have variable named $filter then you don't get any output as empty variable...
You can test by your self to write a text file and append there a dollar sign.
if you put it as `$filter it will go as $filter...
You need to remove the special meaning of that dollar and tell that it is to be handled as a static dollar without speciality.
Next are possible url filters that verified to work.
# Select 1 record:
$url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityRiskEvents?`$top=1"

# Select by createdDateTime yyyy-MM-dd
$url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityRiskEvents?`$filter=createdDateTime ge XXXX-XX-XX"

# Select by user account
$url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityRiskEvents?`$filter=userPrincipalName eq 'username@domainsuffix'"

# Select by user and createdDateTime
$url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/identityRiskEvents?`$filter=userPrincipalName eq 'username@domainsuffix' and createdDateTime ge xxxx-xx-xx"

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Q: how to record properties of other variables in stata I have to generate variables entry_1, entry_2 and entry_3 which will adopt the value 1 if id_i for that particular month had entry=1.
Example.
 id month entry entry_1 entry_2  entry_3
  1   1     1     1       0        0
  1   2     0     0       0        0
  1   3     0     0       1        1
  1   4     0     0       0        0
  2   1     0     1       0        0
  2   2     0     0       0        0
  2   3     1     0       1        1
  2   4     0     0       0        0
  3   1     0     1       0        0
  3   2     0     0       0        0
  3   3     1     0       1        1
  3   4     0     0       0        0

Would anyone be so kind to propose an idea of how to implement a loop in order to do this?
I am thinking of something like this:
forvalues i=1(1)3 {
  gen entry`i'=0
  replace entry`i'=1  if on that particular month id=`i' had entry=1
}

A: You could do something like this (although your data don't quite look right for the question you're asking):
forvalues i = 1/3 {
  gen entry_`i' = id == `i' & entry == 1
}

This generates a dummy variable entry_i for each i in the forvalues loop where entry_i = 1 if id is i and entry is 1, and 0 otherwise.

A: The code can be simplified down to at most one loop.
clear
input  id month entry entry_1 entry_2  entry_3
  1   1     1     1       0        0
  1   2     0     0       0        0
  1   3     0     0       1        1
  1   4     0     0       0        0
  2   1     0     1       0        0
  2   2     0     0       0        0
  2   3     1     0       1        1
  2   4     0     0       0        0
  3   1     0     1       0        0
  3   2     0     0       0        0
  3   3     1     0       1        1
  3   4     0     0       0        0
end

forval j = 1/4 {
     egen entry`j' = total(entry & id == `j'), by(month)
}

list id month entry entry? , sepby(id)

     +--------------------------------------------------------+
     | id   month   entry   entry1   entry2   entry3   entry4 |
     |--------------------------------------------------------|
  1. |  1       1       1        1        0        0        0 |
  2. |  1       2       0        0        0        0        0 |
  3. |  1       3       0        0        1        1        0 |
  4. |  1       4       0        0        0        0        0 |
     |--------------------------------------------------------|
  5. |  2       1       0        1        0        0        0 |
  6. |  2       2       0        0        0        0        0 |
  7. |  2       3       1        0        1        1        0 |
  8. |  2       4       0        0        0        0        0 |
     |--------------------------------------------------------|
  9. |  3       1       0        1        0        0        0 |
 10. |  3       2       0        0        0        0        0 |
 11. |  3       3       1        0        1        1        0 |
 12. |  3       4       0        0        0        0        0 |
     +--------------------------------------------------------+


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Q: Spring security configuration in spring boot not working as expected I am using spring security with spring boot. But my spring security configuration is now working as expected.
Note : H2 database is running as a separate database in server mode ( Not in embedded mode ).
Here are my project details :
pom.xml
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
    <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

Application.properties
server.port=8085

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9092/mem:testdb
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect

EmployeeeResource.java
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/employee")
@Slf4j
public class EmployeeResource {

    @Autowired
    EmployeeRepository employeeRepository;

    @GetMapping(path = "/greetEmployee", produces = MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_VALUE)
    public String sayHello() {
        return "Hello Employee !!!";
    }

    @GetMapping(path = "/getAllEmployees", produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<List<Employee>> getAllEmployee() {
        List<Employee> employeeList = employeeRepository.findAll();
        return new ResponseEntity<>(employeeList, HttpStatus.OK);
    }

    @GetMapping(path = "/getEmployee/{employeeId}", produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<Employee> getEmployee(@PathVariable("employeeId") int employeeId) {
        Optional<Employee> optionalEmployee = employeeRepository.findByEmployeeId(employeeId);
        if (optionalEmployee.isEmpty()) {
            return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
        }
        return new ResponseEntity<>(optionalEmployee.get(), HttpStatus.FOUND);
    }

    @PostMapping(path = "/createEmployee", consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<HttpStatus> createEmployee(@RequestBody Employee employee) {
        Random random = new Random();
        employee.setEmployeeId(random.nextInt(9999));
        employeeRepository.save(employee);
        log.info("Created employee with Id : {}", employee.getEmployeeId());

        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.CREATED);
    }

    @PostMapping(path = "/createEmployees", consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<String> createEmployees(@RequestBody List<Employee> employeeList) {
        int count = 0;
        Random random = new Random();
        for (Employee employee : employeeList) {
            employee.setEmployeeId(random.nextInt(999999));
            employeeRepository.save(employee);
            log.info("Created employee with Id : {}", employee.getEmployeeId());
            count++;
        }
        HttpHeaders responseHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
        responseHeaders.set("countOfObjectCreated", String.valueOf(count));
        return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.CREATED).headers(responseHeaders).build();
    }

    @PutMapping(path = "/updateEmployee/{employeeId}", consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<HttpStatus> updateCustomer(@PathVariable("employeeId") int employeeId, @RequestBody Employee employee) {
        Optional<Employee> optionalDbEmployee = employeeRepository.findByEmployeeId(employeeId);
        if (optionalDbEmployee.isEmpty()) {
            return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
        }
        Employee dbEmployee = optionalDbEmployee.get();
        dbEmployee.setFirstName(employee.getFirstName());
        dbEmployee.setLastName(employee.getLastName());
        dbEmployee.setExtension(employee.getExtension());
        dbEmployee.setEmail(employee.getEmail());
        dbEmployee.setOfficeCode(employee.getOfficeCode());
        dbEmployee.setReportsTo(employee.getReportsTo());
        dbEmployee.setJobTitle(employee.getJobTitle());
        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.OK);
    }

    @DeleteMapping(path = "/deleteEmployee/{employeeId}")
    public ResponseEntity<HttpStatus> deleteCustomer(@PathVariable("employeeId") int employeeId) {
        employeeRepository.deleteById(employeeId);
        log.info("Employee with employee id {} Deleted successfully.", employeeId);
        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.OK);
    }
}

Employee.java
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@Getter
@Setter
@Builder
@Entity
@Table(name = "EMPLOYEE")
public class Employee {

    @Id
    @Column(name = "EMPLOYEE_ID")
    int employeeId;

    @Column(name = "LAST_NAME")
    String lastName;

    @Column(name = "FIRST_NAME")
    String firstName;

    @Column(name = "EXTENSION")
    String extension;

    @Column(name = "EMAIL")
    String email;

    @Column(name = "OFFICE_CODE")
    int officeCode;

    @Column(name = "REPORTS_TO")
    Integer reportsTo;

    @Column(name = "JOB_TITLE")
    String jobTitle;
}

OfficeResource.java
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/office")
@Slf4j
public class OfficeResource {

    @Autowired
    OfficeRepository officeRepository;

    @GetMapping(path = "/greetOffice", produces = MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_VALUE)
    public String sayHello() {
        return "Hello Office !!!";
    }

    @GetMapping(path = "/getAllOffices", produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<List<Office>> getAllOffices() {
        List<Office> officeList = officeRepository.findAll();
        return new ResponseEntity<>(officeList, HttpStatus.OK);
    }

    @GetMapping(path = "/getOffice/{officeCode}", produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<Office> getOffice(@PathVariable("officeCode") int officeCode) {
        Optional<Office> optionalOffice = officeRepository.findByOfficeCode(officeCode);
        if (optionalOffice.isEmpty()) {
            return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
        }
        return new ResponseEntity<>(optionalOffice.get(), HttpStatus.FOUND);
    }

    @PostMapping(path = "/createOffice", consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<HttpStatus> createOffice(@RequestBody Office office) {
        Random random = new Random();
        office.setOfficeCode(random.nextInt(999));
        officeRepository.save(office);
        log.info("Created office with office code : {}", office.getOfficeCode());

        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.CREATED);
    }

    @PostMapping(path = "/createOffices", consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<String> createOffices(@RequestBody List<Office> officeList) {
        int count = 0;
        Random random = new Random();
        for (Office office : officeList) {
            office.setOfficeCode(random.nextInt(999));
            officeRepository.save(office);
            log.info("Created office with office code : {}", office.getOfficeCode());
            count++;
        }
        HttpHeaders responseHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
        responseHeaders.set("countOfObjectCreated", String.valueOf(count));
        return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.CREATED).headers(responseHeaders).build();
    }

    @PutMapping(path = "/updateOffice/{officeCode}", consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE})
    public ResponseEntity<HttpStatus> updateOffice(@PathVariable("officeCode") int officeCode, @RequestBody Office office) {
        Optional<Office> optionalDbOffice = officeRepository.findByOfficeCode(officeCode);
        if (optionalDbOffice.isEmpty()) {
            return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
        }
        Office dbOffice = optionalDbOffice.get();
        dbOffice.setCity(office.getCity());
        dbOffice.setPhone(office.getPhone());
        dbOffice.setAddressLine1(office.getAddressLine1());
        dbOffice.setAddressLine2(office.getAddressLine2());
        dbOffice.setState(office.getState());
        dbOffice.setCountry(office.getCountry());
        dbOffice.setPostalCode(office.getPostalCode());
        dbOffice.setTerritory(office.getTerritory());

        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.OK);
    }

    @DeleteMapping(path = "/deleteOffice/{officeCode}")
    public ResponseEntity<HttpStatus> deleteOffice(@PathVariable("officeCode") int officeCode) {
        officeRepository.deleteById(officeCode);
        log.info("Office with office code {} Deleted successfully.", officeCode);
        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.OK);
    }
}

Office.java
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@Getter
@Setter
@Builder
@Entity
@Table(name = "OFFICE")
public class Office {

    @Id
    @Column(name = "OFFICE_CODE")
    int officeCode;

    @Column(name = "CITY")
    String city;

    @Column(name = "PHONE")
    String phone;

    @Column(name = "ADDRESS_LINE1")
    String addressLine1;

    @Column(name = "ADDRESS_LINE2")
    String addressLine2;

    @Column(name = "STATE")
    String state;

    @Column(name = "COUNTRY")
    String country;

    @Column(name = "POSTAL_CODE")
    String postalCode;

    @Column(name = "TERRITORY")
    String territory;
}

SecurityConfiguration.java
    @Configuration
    @EnableWebSecurity
    public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

        @Autowired
        DataSource dataSource;

        @Override
        protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
            auth.jdbcAuthentication()
                    .dataSource(dataSource)
                    .usersByUsernameQuery("select username,password,enabled from users where username = ?")
                    .authoritiesByUsernameQuery("select username,authority from authorities where username = ?")
                    .passwordEncoder(NoOpPasswordEncoder.getInstance());
        }

        @Override
        protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
            http.authorizeRequests()
                    .antMatchers("/employee/createEmployee", "/employee/createEmployees", "/employee/updateEmployee/**", "/employee/deleteEmployee/**").hasRole("Admin")
                    .antMatchers("/office/createOffice", "/office/createOffices", "/office/updateOffice/**", "/office/deleteOffice/**").hasRole("Admin")
                    .antMatchers("/employee/getEmployee/**", "/employee/getAllEmployees").hasAnyRole("Admin","User")
                    .antMatchers("/office/getOffice/**", "/office/getAllOffices").hasAnyRole("Admin","User")
                    .and().formLogin();

        }

After hitting the url "http://localhost:8085/employee/getEmployee/1002" from browser i am getting login form and after enter the credentials for "User1" who is "Admin" user and am getting "Forbidden, status=403" error.
Need Help.

A: hasRole and hasAnyRole prefix your strings with ROLE_. Use hasAuthoritiy or hasAnyAuthority instead. See spring docs


More info:Standard Adventure Holiday: 5 night stay +bike, 4 full active days,Transfers,Meals, Trekking, Rafting, Mountain Biking,Jeep Safari, Games Room, BBQ, Zip Lining, WiFi! Family Incentives: Children 0-5 go FREE, Children 6-16 Standard 15% discount!
Offers:10% Adult discount of = €65.00 per adult guest and children aged 6-16 (yoa) receive a 15% discount of = €100.00!
Perfect for all ages, this multi activity holiday takes place in Durmitor National Park, in Montenegro, where our mountain camp is located. It's a tranquil setting with beautiful mountain views and the forest of Durmitor only meters away.
This tour includes all transfers, at least five meals and four great adventure days, perfect for a fantastic mountain experience. Take a wonderful trekking tour through Durmitor forest, visiting two beautiful lakes, the Black Lake and Snake Lake. Try rafting along the Tara River, with a traditional Montenegrin lunch and the chance to ride the Adrenaline Zip Line over the Tara Canyon. The Ring of Durmitor jeep safari is a tour taking in some of the best views of Durmitor, with another delicious lunch included and wild swimming, too, in summer. You can also enjoy a brilliant day mountain biking through villages and valleys, fuelled by a pack lunch which we provide and stopping to swim when you want to cool off. If you prefer to tailor make this trip, picking out activities, just ask.
Durmitor is a wonderful location for an adventure holiday. Within a radius of just 20km there are 18 glacial lakes, four canyons, a large number of caves and 48 mountain peaks that are over 2,500 meters high! Durmitor's Tara River is one of the cleanest in Europe and safe enough to drink. It also flows through the deepest canyon in Europe and the second deepest canyon in the world, only beaten by the Grand Canyon in the USA!
Our camp has four lovely self catering apartments and is spread over a large garden space. We have a total of six double bedrooms and six bathrooms, which comfortably sleeps groups from two to 12 guests. In the garden there's a stone barbecue, the 'barn' where you can enjoy all meal times together and the 'den', which has a table tennis table. There is WiFi Internet and satellite TV (children/sport channels) in each apartment. We also include a mountain bike and helmet for all staying guests. Our camp is in the small town of Zabljak which has lots of restaurants, cafes and bars.
The minimum age for children on most the activities we offer is 6 years of age. Children under the age of 6 (0-5 years) go FREE, however they cannot do all of the activities and parents must supervise them at all times. We can arrange babysitting if parents would like to leave their younger children back at camp. The minimum age for Paragliding, Canyoning, Quad Biking & Horse riding would be 10 Years. The minimum age for Mountaineering would be 13 Years.
Nearly all of our activities have the concept of Eco tourism and mostly all of our activities are deemed as not harmful to the environment. Indeed the Durmitor National Park is a UNESCO protected national park and considered an 'Air' spa for visitors.
We provide all our guests with a friendly welcome BBQ meal and drink on arrival of stay. We also provide packed lunches and we buy all our produce directly from the market place, from local farmers in the area, such as locally produced jams, preserves, fruit berries, meats and cheeses. We also have a cultural day out where our guests shall have a traditional Montenegrin meal which again has all foods and drinks that are locally produced such as meats, wines and plum brandy, etc.
Our camp is surrounded by green fields, mountains and forests and we shall be discarding wherever possible all rubbish for recycling. We shall also have our outdoor lights run on solar energy and energy saving bulbs. We also offer our guests free usage of mountain bikes which we shall encourage our guests to use, so they can travel around the area by Eco transport.
This is our first season in 2016 and we shall hopefully be a success this year and we shall endeavor to include as much possible for local people to be employed and for income to be spent back into the camp and to stay with the community.
Canyoning day trip - excellent day out. Adrenaline filled with plenty of jumps, slides and great fun.
Hospitality of Stan the host - he was excellent, very friendly and obliging and willing to go above and beyond to make sure you were having a good stay.
Do it - its a great trip to get off the beaten track and experience a new country. Take in the beautiful scenery while getting in some activity at the same time.
hosts, with great knowledge of the area. Of all of the activities - we loved the hike to the lakes (and swimming in the lake!) as well as horse riding!
weather can be quite changeable in the mountains - bring jumpers for the evenings and raincoats in case the clouds come in.
extreme so that you aren't exhausted by the time you come home!
very relaxing to chill out there in the afternoon after a hike in the morning. And the prices are very reasonable!
a lot of walking. We also supported the local farmers by buying honey, dried mushrooms and other regional produce off them directly.
made kindly by Stan's wife, this was not part of the trip but a very much appreciated added extra.
supermarket to shop for groceries, which was a great help.
couple of days with snow (end of October), but Stan offered us everything possible to replace the planned activities. What a host, he couldn't be any better.
i) Stan and his wife's hospitality and getting things organised.
ii) Being able to walk into the Durmitor National Park to the Black Lakes from the door of Montenegro Mountain camp.
iv) When around Žabljak the feeling that you are in a different country and not a nebulous "Euro-feel".
riding before only book a half day to make sure you are comfortable with it.
be as "slick" as things you might do in Croatia (which is more expensive).
Montenegrin side and all went smoothly but we were apprehensive about this beforehand with kids in tow. The weather is fairly unpredictable and changeable so pack accordingly.
to tears. It was like going back in time.
The most exciting was the white water rafting. Great fun and lovely to do this activity with people from all over the planet.
knowledgeable and cannot do enough for you. He organised everything from being picked up at the airport to organizing a taxi if you want to go for a meal.
I am 63 and my wife 59. We don't want to sit on a beach or look at another museum. This was 5 days of heaven that seemed like 2 weeks. Expect aching legs from walking and a sore bum from cycling, but it is worth it.
proud of his heritage and was keen to preserve the unique environment.
love to walk, cycle, swim and push yourself a bit, then this is for you.
bottom of the Tara valley really drove home the majesty of the place.
worried. The golden fields, turquoise streams and variegated amber mountains were well worth the extra layers and occasional rain.
Yes. Every activity which wasn't led by Stan was led by local families or small businesses, and Stan hired local people for cleaning and maintaining the apartments. We cooked some of our meals, but Stan also took us to some small cafés and restaurants in the area. Stan was conscious of the fact that we were staying in a small village, and asked us to be considerate with water use.
If they go on October they should Take good equipment for outdoor activities.
Especially boots for trekking, a nice anorak and inside warm clothes.
leader of the group makes your stay very pleasant.


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Chapter Two - Nob
Nob was stuck. His given name was Norris O'Brien, but everybody called him Nob. When standing fully erect, Nob was almost one and a half meters tall. Nob rarely stood fully erect. If Nob had been on Earth, he would have weighed a little over forty kilos. Nob hadn't been on Earth in a very long time, though every time he got stuck, Nob remembered what it was like to be on Earth and wished he could be there instead of being stuck.
Nob was a namach. One of the first, if the truth was known, but this was one of those truths that most namachs chose to forget. Namachs were supposed to be tall and muscular and graceful and healthy and brilliant and all the things that Earth-bound humans dreamt of being when they looked in a mirror. Nob was none of these things.
Nob was skinny. He tripped over his own feet. When in a place with an atmosphere, his nose ran and he suffered from arthritis, which undoubtedly explained why he rarely stood fully erect. Nob was also far from brilliant, which explained, in a way, why Nob was stuck.
Nob was the Chief Mechanic for Ore Processing Plant Number 4 on the asteroid named Pallas. Pallas, Vesta, and Cerus were the three largest asteroids in the asteroid belt circling the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The Chinese had come to them first, surging up from the Earth on a swell of nationalism, capitalism, and pride that saw them build the first lunar colony, the Yang Liwei station, and the first ore mining and processing plants in the asteroids.
Unfortunately for the Chinese, however, this brought such prosperity that the old communist leadership rapidly began to be shoved aside. Not willing to go quietly, these leaders rallied the relatively uneducated and deliberately uncared for masses in the countryside with exhortations of exploitation and dominance by the privileged few. When the New Revolution ended in 2033, China was once again in the hands of the leaders, one hundred million educated and wealthy Chinese had been killed, and China no longer had the resources or desire to deal with their enterprises off planet.
Ever a capitalistic nation, American business took up the cry of those stranded off world and bought the Chinese space faring assets for ten cents on the dollar. The Chinese only had one stipulation, in addition to the cash, of course. All of the scientist and technicians still living on the moon, in the stations, and working in the asteroid belt must be brought home to China. It seemed the leaders somewhat belatedly had realized that electric power plants, weapons plants, and pharmaceutical plants required educated labor, something they suddenly had in short supply.
American business soon realized they also had a problem. The Chinese had designed their stations with almost complete disregard for human comforts, including such things as male and female bathrooms, individual sleeping areas, and adequate radiation shielding, life support, or medical facilities. While separate bathrooms and group sleeping areas could be dealt with, losing highly trained personnel to a radiation leak or an outbreak of cholera was a PR nightmare. Something had to be done to protect the corporate image and labor force.
Enter nanotechnology. In the very early years of the twenty-first century, scientists began to create molecule sized machines, including motors, mechanical actuators, and detectors. As these machines became more sophisticated and easier to produce, applications were found for them in almost every sector of the economy. Nanomachines built nanoprocessors with a skill, precision, and speed unmatched by any other scientific innovation. Nanomachines were incorporated into paints, allowing a person to drive a red car on Tuesday and a blue one on Wednesday. Nanomachines could build diamonds that were absolutely perfect and purify water before it left the polluting location.
Perhaps the largest boon of nanotechnology was realized in medicine. Small nanomachines could enter a person, seek out cancer cells and destroy them, then fade away without leaving a trace. In many cases, the patient never knew they had cancer because an injection of nanomechs introduced to dispel the flu or common cold could also be programmed to look for other problems and correct them as well.
Nanomachines could rejoin broken bones as easily as they rebuilt nerve tissue in a spine. They could change eye color and even correct most birth defects or perceived defects. Were your arms too long? A simple injection could correct this in just a few months. The business of nanomachines was the largest growth industry during the third decade of the twenty-first century.
As with all things, however, there was a dark side to this business. Nanomachines could be very effective assassins. They could rupture blood vessels in the brain, for example, and exit without leaving a trace that they had been there. Nanomachines could be blown onto the back of an engineer working on a classified military project and then relay what they had seen while they were inside the top secret factory. Perhaps darkest of all, however, nanomachines could be used to tailor-make children.
It was the latter which finally forced the governments of the industrialized world to take a good, long look at what they had wrought. They found hidden documents showing that at least ten percent of the recipients of nanomachines were harmed by them either inadvertently by being allergic to an aspect of the nanomachine's makeup or deliberately by medical personnel who would then sell the cures.
As government opinions turned against nanotechnology, so did public opinion. Nanotech was not cheap. The wealthiest ten percent of the population used almost ninety percent of all nanotechnology. They were wealthier and healthier. Their children were genetically constructed super-humans. Those of them inclined to athletics could always outperform those who could not afford to have their lungs enhanced by tiny machines that scrubbed each gulp of air for the maximum amount of oxygen while diminishing the body's natural reaction to physical exertion.
As the world rolled into the fourth decade of the century, wars also began to expand as a result of nanotech. While the industrialized world, for reasons having little to do with morality and a lot to do with public image, would never think of asking a soldier to give up most of his or her life to fight a war more effectively, some developing nations had no such compunctions. Soldiers were augmented with nanomachines that made them faster, never sleep, rarely eat, and even more rarely question orders. The bodies of these soldiers lasted only a few months in this hyper state, but if territories could be won or defended, this was a price easily paid.
By the latter part of the decade, even the industrialized nations were drawn into these wars. They found themselves suddenly confronted with legions of hyper soldiers at their doorsteps augmented by the weapons and nanotechnology they had been selling since before the turn of the century.
These wars culminated in the Malaysian and Philippine conflicts. In the end, access to space had proved to be the deciding factor. America could destroy even the most deeply buried nanomachine factory with simple kinetic weapons. As their nano-warriors died or were killed, the dictators in these countries found they could no longer create more. The wars officially ended in 2053, though minor skirmishes still occur.
The World Congress effectively outlawed the use of nanotechnology to augment humans in 2056, though repairing naturally occurring defects and diseases is still permitted. To enforce this ban, all newly-developed augmentation nanomachines, like those used by the namachs, were designed to slowly degrade under gravity.
Nob had been augmented in 2034, while Off-World Resources Corporation was still looking for a solution to their problems on the moon and in the asteroid belt. Nanotechnology was still in its infancy, but machines were readily available to replace lost bone mass (developed for osteoporosis sufferers), augment weakening muscles (developed for comatose patients), fight most of the bacterial diseases known to modern medicine (developed for travelers to developing nations), and to seal the body away from adverse environments (developed for fire fighters and deep sea divers).
In short, Nob was equipped to survive in space, but just barely, then sent to Pallas to maintain the processing plants there. Most of the subsequent namachs, upon finding that they did not need to spend their salaries on food, clothing, housing, or most of the other things that they had been used to paying for prior to being augmented, eventually bought "upgrades" to make themselves more "valuable" to the company. Nob, being somewhat more mentally challenged than those chosen to be namachs later in the program, never even considered an "upgrade." If he had been asked, he undoubtedly would have said, "Make myself better looking? For what? Who's going to want to come see me all the way out here?" But now Nob was stuck and was indeed glad that someone had come all the way out to visit him.
Annanias Hindley was this month's visiting company representative to the asteroid belt. Each month, some unlucky corporate flunky was chosen to travel from the Irvine, California headquarters of OWR Corp. to one of the main processing plants in the asteroid belt in order to check on and hopefully improve production there.
Annanias came with as much determination as his predecessors to "finally straighten those lazy namachs out." He was rapidly finding that the cold vacuum of space-time itself controlled more of the variables in ore processing than he could possibly grasp. On his third day of his five-day visit he finally noticed that one of the over-arching braces leading to a smelting vat was missing some of it ladder rungs. As this was a clear violation of safety protocols, he immediately dispatched Nob to replace these rungs.
Each of the ore smelters on Pallas and the other processing asteroids used huge mirrors to focus distant sunlight onto tiny vats suspended high above them by arching braces. The raw ore, carefully mined by robots controlled by prospecting namachs, was brought to the processing plants by an almost endless parade of cargo carriers. Machines sorted the ore according to type and then pulverized it prior to storing it in vats that slowly moved along a conveyor belt. When full and a spot was found for it, a vat was lifted into place and left to slowly melt in the heat from mirror-focused sunlight.
Occasionally, a vat would refuse to come loose or to lock into place for reasons not readily apparent to the maintenance circuits installed at the ends of the support arms. When this happened, the Chief Mechanic was called to go out and correct the problem. Ladders were installed on each of the support arms to make this process easier. Some of the newer mechanics simple jumped, gravity being so weak that they could sail to the vats with ease. If they missed, however, they could sail completely off the asteroid and be lost until someone was dispatched to rescue them. Few who did so ever jumped again.
Nob had never jumped. In his mind, the ladders were there for a reason. No one could jump that high on Earth, so why should he believe he could jump that high? He occasionally smashed a thumb or dropped a tool on his foot and in his anger tossed the tool up and off the asteroid, something he could never do on Earth, but his simple brain could never make the connection between a tool floating up and off the asteroid and him floating up and off the asteroid.
So, when Annanias told him to go replace the ladder rungs, he dutifully grabbed his tool belt, wrapped it around his naked waist, attached a line to the box of metal rungs sitting at the bottom of the support arm, and started to climb.
He found the first missing rung, or didn't find it as the case may be, about one third of the way up the support arm. Pulling on the line he had towed up with him, he rapidly pulled the box of metal rungs up to where he was, pulled a rung out of the box, and used the tools on his tool belt to secure the rung to the ladder. Where the previous rung had gone or why the metal where the old rung had attached seemed slightly brittle was a concern he noted for later correction. It would require a torch to cut out the brittle metal and weld in a new piece. For now, The Company wanted him to replace rungs.
Having fixed the first rung, Nob pushed the box of rungs off his leg where it had sat while he worked. He watched it slowly fall toward the surface below him and thought it kind of pretty how things moved in slow motion here on the asteroids like those special effects he remembered from the movies he saw when he was young. It had almost reached the surface, when it suddenly jerked to a stop. He had inadvertently left the rope attached to it over the top of the rung he had just replaced.
That rope was looped over his shoulder. Before Nob could think, the momentum of the box had pulled his shoulder toward the ladder. His head passed seemingly with ease between the rung he had replaced and the rung above it, but when he tried to pull it out again he found the space was just too small. Regardless of how he turned his head, he just could not seem to get his head out. He was stuck.
Annanias had watched Nob slowly climb the ladder but found the sight of the skinny freak just too depressing.
"Why didn't he just jump up there?" He wondered aloud. "As small as he is, I could have tossed him up."
Not for the first time, he wondered what it was The Company expected him to do out here. He had a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, not Processing Metrics.
"They should have sent Natalie, the little she-weasel."
Natalie was Director of Processing Metrics for the Micro Components Division. Metrics was The Company organization responsible for reviewing all of the processes and procedures each of the other departments developed and then used to produce Product and Customer Value, two concepts Annanias hoped somebody would choke on someday.
"How can you skimp on the production process and hope to produce better Product?" He asked when she returned his Process Control Document to him for the third time with markups that removed yet more steps in the complex chain needed to produce a new micro coil. Glancing at the first couple of pages, he suddenly stopped where an entire section had been marked for deletion.
"We're not checking the nanowires for defects prior to winding the coils? We'll make an entire run with bad wires and not know it!"
"Only marginally possible," she had imperiously answered. "That wire is thoroughly checked by the manufacturer, our plant on Vesta in this case, and then inspected prior to shipment. To check it again would be redundant and would only find defects in an estimated point oh one percent of the product received and then in only small sections of the wire. A few coils might turn out substandard, but those will be found by our customers and returned for prompt replacement."
"And what if our plant on Vesta ships us an entire section of wire that was produced correctly, but labeled incorrectly?"
"Cannot happen," she said as she was leaving. "They check them first."
Two days later they told him he was to be the next inspector for the asteroid belts. His job? To see if any improvements could be made in their processes. He had cursed Natalie all the way to Pallas, though she had sworn she didn't have that kind of clout.
Now that he was here, he could see at least two-dozen ways that processes could be improved. All of them required large amounts of capitol investment, something he knew The Company would never find the budget for. Like each of his predecessors, he would file his report listing all of the things he knew would never be implemented. Things like removing Nob as the Chief Mechanic and putting somebody in his place that had at least half a brain.
"What's taking that idiot so long?" He said as he returned to the main station observation window. There he spotted Nob with his head stuck between the rungs of the ladder. He had dropped the rope and it was slowly settling back to the planetoid as his legs flailed in the hard light of the distant sun.
It was at that moment that all of the absurdities of the past few months slid away to be crowned by Nob's naked body flailing ineffectually against the vacuum of space. Something inside Annanias came undone and he laughed. He laughed so deep and so hard that tears ran from his eyes and snot slid across his perfectly trimmed mustache. When Nob finally braced his arms against both sides of the ladder and pushed until his face turned red, Annanias couldn't take it any longer and dropped to the floor rolling with laughter. It was thus that no one actually witnessed Nob, his head popping loose from the ladder with a sound only he heard; sailed gracefully up and away from Pallas. Nob was no longer stuck.
It took Annanias and a host of robots eleven hours to find Nob. He had floated up from Pallas; arcing around it to land on a smaller asteroid that was slowly sliding behind its mirror-speckled surface. Annanias was still giggling when Nob, hunched over and nose running, slowly plodded into the station's central computer room where Annanias had summoned him.
"Hello Nob. I'm glad I found you," Annanias said from behind a huge smile.
"Uh, okay. Thanks Mr. Hindley. I is glad you finds me too. Still more rungs missing on that ladder. Want I should go out and finish putting them back?" Nob was holding a nutrient bar and looking a little pale. His nanomachines could keep him going for quite some time, but a regular infusion of fresh nutrients helped replace those that slowly leaked away while he was outside. The newer namachs could go weeks without food. Nob felt hungry after only a few hours.
Annanias had not missed the fact that Nob needed to eat, but he needed to explain something to him first. "Nob, can you keep a secret?" When Nob looked at him thoughtfully, shrugged and then nodded, Annanias took that for a yes and continued. Who would believe the little freak anyway?
"I need access to these computers so that I can make some modifications. I have most of the codes for the areas I want to get too, but there are three areas that require the Chief Mechanic first validate what I do won't harm the station. I assure you Nob that I won't harm the station, but some of the products you produce might be a little different. In short, I need you to give me access to the vat temperature controls and the product verification hardware and I need you to keep quiet about what we do here today. Is that okay, Nob?"
Nob looked at the engineer for a long time. Annanias was beginning to grow alarmed, fearing that the loss of nutrients might have somehow damaged the little namach, when Nob simply walked over, typed a few entries into the vat temperature control station then did the same at a console on a side wall labeled Product Verification.
"Is that all Mr. Hindley?" Nob said clutching hard at the nutrient bar. "Want I should fix them rungs now?"
"Sure Nob, when you've eaten and rested, please fix the ladders so they conform to The Company safety regulations. Thanks for helping me make these modifications." Annanias then turned and began bringing up various portions of the station's manufacturing program on the various terminals scattered about the control room.
After a few moments, Nob turned and went to his sparsely furnished room. He slowly chewed on the nutrient bar, while lying on a mattress that had no sheets and no blankets. Since Nob didn't wear clothes, he didn't have a dresser and since he had no need to shower or excrete he had no bathroom. A single writing table sat against one wall and a computer terminal sat against the other.
Done with the nutrient bar, Nob went to the writing table and dutifully logged everything that had happened to him since he had last been in his room. He had a precise memory of each event and could paint them in words on the page with unerring clarity, a gift that had garnered him his nanomachines so many years ago.
He finished and was starting out of the room to go work on the ladder when an odd thought came to him. 'What if Mr. Hindley lied to you?' An inner voice said.
So rarely did this inner voice talk with him, Nob had to stop and sift through long years of memory before realizing it wasn't Mr. Hindley talking to him on the speaker or a ghost come to visit. This was why many people thought Nob was stupid. He wasn't. He just had so many deep and detailed memories to sift through.
"Why would he lie?" He asked himself.
'Mr. Hindley wants to keep what he's doing secret, right?'
"Yeah and I is good at keeping secrets." Nob smiled with pleasure at all the secrets he had kept over the years.
'But if he really wants to keep it secret, maybe he would tell you a lie so even you wouldn't know.'
This reasoning was beginning to hurt Nob's head as he slowly sifted through his long list of memories trying to piece together what he was trying to tell himself. That Hindley might lie to him was certainly a possibility. People in authority had lied to him many times in the past.
"Okay, maybe he did and maybe he didn't, but what can Nob do? Nob just fix broken things at Ore Station Number 4."
'Nob could try to find secret Mr. Hindley is keeping.'
"Why?" Nob asked himself. This seemed to quiet his inner voice for so long that Nob simply shrugged and started for the airlock.
'He might be lying about hurting the station or even Nob,' his mind said as he entered the airlock room.
It had worked before. "Why?" He asked again hoping to quiet these thoughts that hurt his head.
'If it would not hurt the station or Nob why would Mr. Hindley tell you a lie? Would he tell you if he was going to hurt the station or Nob?'
This line of thought hurt more than anything Nob could remember. He just could not seem to understand why Mr. Hindley would lie to him, though something inside his head seemed to think he would.
"Okay, if Mr. Hindley did tell Nob a lie how can Nob find out what Mr. Hindley is doing?"
'There's a terminal in your room,' his thoughts casually answered.
"Yes, Nob play games there sometimes with Angel at Ore Processing Station Number 2." Nob smiled thinking about the beautiful Angel, a namach like Nob who was augmented in the middle 2030's. "Nob should call Angel and see how her is doing."
'Nob can also use the terminal to monitor all of the computer stations on Pallas, right?'
"Yes, Nob can look and see if anything is wrong when he gets up in the morning."
'Nob could use the terminal to see what Mr. Hindley is doing.'
"Yes, Nob can do." Nob paused as he searched his recent memories for why he would want to see what Mr. Hindley was doing. "Oh, so then maybe Nob can know if Mr. Hindley lied to him." He smiled at having reasoned the whole thing out on his own.
'But if he lied, who would believe dumb Nob and not smart Mr. Hindley?' His mind asked as he turned back to pull himself along the rail leading down the hall toward his room.
Now this was stepping into territory that Nob did not like to go. He knew that many people thought him a little slow or ugly, but he usually chose to ignore this in favor of thinking that most of these people just did not know him well. To actually think that someone might trust Mr. Hindley's word and not his was something he did not like to think about.
"You shut up with that stuff," he growled at himself.
'But haven't they done that in the past?'
Nob slowly searched his memory, pausing in his glide down the hall, to find at least a dozen times people had believed someone else and not him simple because he was not considered as smart as the other. The memory of each of those times was almost as vivid as experiencing the events when they occurred and Nob found tears springing to his eyes as the hurt washed over him for each one.
"Yes, but they did not mean to be bad to Nob. They just did not know Nob well."
'Does it matter why they were bad? They will believe Mr. Hindley and not Nob when the station or Nob is hurt.' His mind seemed to be reveling in dragging up these old hurts, something Nob found he did not like about himself.
"What can Nob do then?"
'Nob can use the terminal to record what Mr. Hindley does. Isn't Nob supposed to record everything that happens at Station Number 4?'
"Yes, Nob is supposed to do this, but Nob is supposed to ask before he records actually people."
'But the only one to ask is Mr. Hindley and Mr. Hindley would say no if he didn't want Nob to find out what he was doing.'
His head was starting to hurt again. "Okay, Nob will record and find out what Mr. Hindley is doing, but if he did not lie to Nob, Nob will erase."
That seemed to satisfy his inner voice that grew quiet again, pleasing Nob greatly in the process. Some of the things it had said were troublesome and Nob did not like to be troubled in that way.
He pulled himself back into his room and spent the next twenty minutes remembering how to set up the terminal to record what Mr. Hindley was doing. It wasn't easy and several times his inner voice had to prod him to keep him going. In the end, however, the recording light on his terminal was steadily blinking and Nob breathed a sigh of relief.
"Nob can go fix ladder now."
He pulled himself back along the hall, wrapped his tool belt around his waist once again, grabbed the box of ladder rungs, and went out to fix the ladder. In the cold vacuum of space, Nob did not have to think, just work. He pulled himself up the ladder again and this time made certain his head would not get stuck. He even took the time, once he had finished replacing the rungs of course, to cut out the brittle section of the ladder where he had been stuck before. With a smile, he welded a new section of pipe into the ladder making it once continuous section arching up and over the mirrors of Station Number 4.
When he returned to his room, he found that Mr. Hindley had finished and was busy out at the metal processors, actually another set of machines that separated the molten metal from the slag and transferred it to the nanoprocessors which purified it to the proper levels. The slag was sent to another pile for transfer to the inner systems as well. Nothing went to waste at the processing plants. The scientists on the moons of Mars used the slag to increase their radiation shielding.
With nothing left to do, Nob pulled out another nutrient bar; it had taken him almost four hours to repair the ladder, and started playing back the recording of what Mr. Hindley had done while he was away.
Most of it was simple stuff, which was good. Nob liked simple stuff. He didn't understand why Mr. Hindley was modifying the metal enrichment processes or even why the labels on several of the processed materials had been changed, but that was something the company did all the time so he accepted it as just normal business. But what did not make sense was why Mr. Hindley wanted to keep these things secret.
"Maybe Mr. Hindley thinks Nob will change them back." He said, giving the only explanation his conscious mind could think of.
'Maybe Mr. Hindley did more than you saw,' his inner voice said once more. 'Maybe you need to look at the recording one more time.'
Nob did, this time being very careful to look at each line of code that Mr. Hindley changed. In the end, he could only find one thing that worried him. Mr. Hindley had set the automated systems of the station to revert the code back to its original state in seven days.
At the metal enrichment processors, Annanias was still laughing. "They check them first," he said to no one in particular.


The Nike Air Jordan 1 Retro Low shoes combine the iconic style of the 1985 original with a modern twist. They are made with premium materials for durability and comfort.
The Nike Air Jordan 1 Retro Low shoes combine the iconic style of the 1985 original with a modern twist. They are made with premium materials for durability and comfort. They feature an Air-Sole unit for maximum cushioning. The outsole is in rubber with flex grooves.


First , welcome to EEH forum. I'm glad to see that even when the game is old it still attracts new designers.
P.S : I am excited about the new talent that shows up afther this period of drought.
Just played it , didn't really like it but your new so..
3. Disable cheats!!!! and add real hints.
4. Make it into a real scenario, say you need to destroy certain buildings, make it real cities not just 2 barracks and a TC.
And he reads this coment he'll kill me too.
Looks good for a begginer.


The Heckler & Koch HK416 is an assault rifle designed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch. It was originally conceived as an improvement based on the Colt M4 carbine family issued to the U.S. military. Body made from plastic.
Fire selector switch performs the power-on function. Reload is done to the button. 4 rails of RIS system allows you to mount different gadgets (optic sight, AN-PEQ, flashlight). The HK416 has an adjustable multi-position telescopic buttstock, offering six different lengths of pull.


On January 31, the exchange rate of Renminbi against the U.S. dollar rose sharply to the point where the spot exchange rate rose by as high as 2,200 basis points or 3.38% in a month, the largest monthly increase since the 1994 exchange rate merger.
January 31, the renminbi exchange rate strong pull up. On the same day, the central parity of RMB against the U.S. dollar was devalued by 27 basis points to 6.3339 yuan. However, as the U.S. dollar continued to weaken, the spot exchange rate of the Renminbi continued its recent gains.
From the disk point of view, yesterday, the renminbi exchange rate against the US dollar opened higher 128 basis points at 6.3287 yuan, the morning mainly around 6.3273 yuan first-line shocks in the afternoon appeared quickly pulled up after the plate broke 6.32,6.31,6.30,6.29 four-pass mark , 16:30 closing price of 6.2920 yuan, 495 points higher than the previous day; Hong Kong market, the offshore RMB against the US dollar strengthened simultaneously, as of January 31 at 16:30 Beijing time reported 6.2981 yuan, up 307 basis points , Then continue to pull up intraday to 20,800 up to 6.2866 yuan, 422 basis points higher than the previous day.
At this point, in January this year, the onshore renminbi against the U.S. dollar alone gained as much as 2,200 points (3.38%) in a single month, the largest one-month gain since merging with the exchange rate in 1994; the offshore renminbi against the U.S. dollar surged more than 2100 in January Point, also set the largest monthly increase in history.
The main driver of this round of RMB exchange rate surge was the continuous plunge of the U.S. dollar index. January 31 Asian session, the dollar index continued to weaken, intraday low dropping to 88.8021, compared with December 18 last year has fallen more than 5% in January this year, the cumulative decline has more than 3.6%, or will be The largest monthly decline since March 2016.


A classy and chic multi-cultural affair in Tulum, Mexico that brought together this fun group from all over the world, to celebrate the love between Ravi & Rhys. These two have grown together, travelled the world together, and finally decided to say their I-do's in a place they consider absolutely amazing: the pristine white beaches of Tulum, Mexico.
Maju from LM Weddings brought their vision of a classy and chic LGBT destination wedding to life, highlighting the beauty of Akiin Beach Club.After an emotional wedding ceremony including Indian traditions to honor Ravi's background, all guests enjoyed refreshing cocktails and an incredible beach front dinner.
Congrats Ravi & Rhys!! Love is love!!