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package com.fluentinterface.convert;

import javax.lang.model.type.NullType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.time.*;
import java.util.*;

import static com.fluentinterface.convert.PathMatcher.match;
import static com.fluentinterface.convert.TypeMatcher.*;
import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;

public class Conversions {
    private final LinkedList<ConverterEntry> converters = new LinkedList<>();

    private Conversions(List<ConverterEntry> converters) {
        this.converters.addAll(converters);
    }

    public static Conversions empty() {
        return new Conversions(emptyList());
    }

    public static Conversions defaults() {
        return empty().addDefaultConverters();
    }

    public static Conversions of(Conversions... conversions) {
        return new Conversions(Arrays.stream(conversions)
                                     .map(c -> c.converters)
                                     .flatMap(Collection::stream)
                                     .collect(toList()));
    }

    public <S, T> Conversions add(TypeMatcher<S> source, TypeMatcher<T> destination, Convert<S, T> converter) {
        return add(match(source, destination), converter);
    }

    public <S, T> Conversions add(PathMatcher<S, T> matcher, Convert<S, T> converter) {
        converters.add(new ConverterEntry(matcher, converter));
        return this;
    }

    public Conversions addDefaultConverters() {
        add(nulls(), is(boolean.class), (v, t, c) -> false);
        add(nulls(), is(char.class), (v, t, c) -> (char) 0);
        add(nulls(), is(byte.class), (v, t, c) -> (byte) 0);
        add(nulls(), is(short.class), (v, t, c) -> (short) 0);
        add(nulls(), is(int.class), (v, t, c) -> 0);
        add(nulls(), is(long.class), (v, t, c) -> 0L);
        add(nulls(), is(float.class), (v, t, c) -> 0f);
        add(nulls(), is(double.class), (v, t, c) -> 0d);
        add(nulls(), any(), (v, t, c) -> null);

        add(is(String.class), is(Boolean.class, boolean.class), (v, t, c) -> Boolean.parseBoolean(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(Character.class, char.class), (v, t, c) -> v.length() > 0 ? v.charAt(0) : 0);
        add(is(String.class), is(Short.class, short.class), (v, t, c) -> Short.parseShort(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(Byte.class, byte.class), (v, t, c) -> Byte.parseByte(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(Integer.class, int.class), (v, t, c) -> Integer.parseInt(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(Long.class, long.class), (v, t, c) -> Long.parseLong(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(Float.class, float.class), (v, t, c) -> Float.parseFloat(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(Double.class, double.class), (v, t, c) -> Double.parseDouble(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(BigDecimal.class), (v, t, c) -> BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.parseDouble(v)));
        add(is(String.class), is(BigInteger.class), (v, t, c) -> BigInteger.valueOf(Long.parseLong(v)));

        add(is(String.class), is(Date.class), Converters.stringToDate);
        add(is(String.class), is(LocalDate.class), (v, t, c) -> LocalDate.parse(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(LocalTime.class), (v, t, c) -> LocalTime.parse(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(LocalDateTime.class), (v, t, c) -> LocalDateTime.parse(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(ZonedDateTime.class), (v, t, c) -> ZonedDateTime.parse(v));
        add(is(String.class), is(Instant.class), (v, t, c) -> Instant.parse(v));
        add(is(String.class), isInstanceOf(Enum.class), Converters.stringToEnum());

        add(any(), is(String.class), (v, t, c) -> v.toString());

        return this;
    }

    Optional<Convert> find(Type source, Type target) {
        final Type sourceType = source != null ? source : NullType.class;
        final Type targetType = target;

        return converters.stream()
                         .filter(c -> c.matcher.matches(sourceType, targetType))
                         .findFirst()
                         .map(c -> c.converter);
    }

    @FunctionalInterface
    public interface Convert<S, T> {
        T convert(S source, Class<T> target, Converter converter);
    }

    private static class ConverterEntry {
        private final PathMatcher matcher;
        private final Convert converter;

        private ConverterEntry(PathMatcher matcher, Convert converter) {
            this.matcher = matcher;
            this.converter = converter;
        }
    }
}

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VIDEO: Alex Revell's wonder goal helps Rotherham seal promotion
By Joe Prince-WrightMay 25, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
Trailing 2-0 at Wembley to Leyton Orient in the League One playoff final, Rotherham United needed a miracle to seal promotion to the Championship.
Alex Revell popped up to provide the goods, as the 30-year-old striker scored twice against his former club, then Rotherham won 4-3 on penalties to seal their spot in England's second-tier for the first time in nine years.
Revell's second will capture the headlines as the Englishman chested the ball down and smashed in a tremendous looping volley from over 30-yards out to send the Rotherham fans wild and help the Millers on their way to promotion.
The technique, precision and quality of his strike is sublime and Revell will be dining out on that goal for quite some time in the Yorkshire town.
Tough luck for the O's but Revell's stunner meant he didn't deserve to be on the losing side on Sunday.
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Remember that AT (Anaerobic Threshold) is the pulse you can stay for an hour without acid accumulate in your muscles.
If you race a 25 miles Time Trial and you expect to keep an average pace at 20-25 miles/hour throughout your Time Trial it ends up that you race for about 45-50 minutes which is less than an hour. Thus you should be able to maintain a higher average heart rate because you race less than an hour. Instead of the usualy 90% of your heart rate reserve that should be equivalent to your AT, you should be able to race at 92% or perhaps up to 94% on one of your good days.


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We absolutely must avoid group think if we are ever to succeed in bringing about constructive change in our societies. Group think, which is encouraged by the power elites – who, from behind the scenes, pull our strings as puppet masters – is effectively a highly contagious and collective psychosis. Group think is for the slothful, those individuals too damn lazy to use their God-given reasoning ability to constructive purposes.
That is my thought for this Thursday, 5 July, 2018.
Below are links to recent, thought provoking and informative essays from other bloggers that merit being more widely read and thought about.
Our feature image is from Lake Powell not very far from Glen Canyon Dam in northernmost Arizona.
For parents and concerned citizens, here is an important article on the danger of vaccines to babies' lives and health.
Here is a good thought for the day and for enjoying life.
This next post makes the argument that so much of the impassioned divisiveness, identity politics, and fragmentation in society today is due to the breakdown of the traditional family as the basic social unit of human society.
"Andrea", who it appears may be posting from the Far East in Japan, gives us this no holds barred critique of the power dynamic in play in the US where both Jews and Gentiles alike work to further exclusively Jewish interests in the world. Do not be put off by the long title. Some bloggers try to put forth a summary of their post in the title. This is thought provoking and worth the several minutes to read it.
On this blog, as long time readers know, we have been quite critical of the religious error (really a contemporary heresy) within Christianity today of Christian Zionism (mainly a problem in Protestantism here in the US). This next essay written from an Orthodox Christian perspective (as in Greek or Russian Orthodox Church) exposes the serious errors of contemporary Christian Zionism.
From the Mystery Worshipper blog, this post tells of the passion for Israel among "Judaized" Christians. The question posed at the end is essentially: who will these Judaized Christians choose to worship and serve, Jesus or the Jews?
My sentiments exactly. This seems to be the common denominator of practically everyone on the Left these days. I simply don't understand it, one bit. Why would anyone want to embrace a particular way of thinking, just to be accepted by their peers? This seems to be what's going on.
What a shallow , fragile sense of character these people must have, when they are take on all the views that are "popular", simply to be "liked" or "accepted".
I'm very much a loner (way too much actually), simply because I hate feeling the tug of peer pressure to be like everyone else.
Thanks, Stephen, for your thoughts. I must say that I pretty much have been a solo act in many ways in my adult life. Often times, doing what is right is not popular. People ought to act on or from principle(s), and not base their decisions or actions on the public mood or over concerns for personal popularity.
Stephen, here is a link from a post this weekend that may interest you. Rather lengthy, but this piece does have some good insights.
Totally agree, we are human beings, not a flock. We should think and question life.
And just to say that the picture of the lake is really beautiful.
Thanks Elitsa for stopping by. We should think and question life as you say. But, there does seem to be a "herd instinct" among humans.
Yes, Lake Powell, formed once the dam was completed in the mid 1960s, has some interesting scenery with the contrast of the water with the rocks forming the shoreline.
With the mass media owned by the elite, it's hard to not be a group thinker these days. Witness the imprisonment of Canadian pacifist Monika Schaefer in Germany in January 2018. Here is a Canadian-born, law-abiding lady who was kidnapped in Germany while visiting her brother. The Canadian branch of B'nai Brith colluded with authorities in Germany and Monika has been in a high security prison and her show trial is on-going now. But if you listen to the MSM, groupthink says Monika deserves to rot in that jail cell.
Here is a post by another blogger this weekend that may be of some interest. Talk about double standards.
Thank you, Larry, for including a post from Mystery Worshipers in your "groupthink" topic. In Canada right now, groupthink prevails. In January 2018 a Christian Canadian-born pacifist lady was kidnapped in Germany with the collusion of B'Nai Brith. Her show trial continues. Of course, this is to be expected with the MSM owned by enemies of free speech.
Here are a couple of links that are not part of the "groupthink" crowd.
Thank you mystery worshipper for your comments and links. Yes, we are aware of the sad case of Monika Schaefer in jail and on trial in Germany. It seems the only ones covering and sending updates about the ongoing trail are various bloggers. It is a show trial. There is no freedom of speech in Europe or freedom of thought when it comes to the holocaust.


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Geoffroy d'Aigremont, né vers 1075 et mort vers 1097, est probablement le fils de Foulques de Serqueux, premier seigneur connu d'Aigremont, et de Saruc de Grancey, veuve de Tescelin, seigneur de Fontaine-lès-Dijon et grand-père de Bernard de Clairvaux.

Biographie

En 1095, il se joint à la première croisade, probablement avec Roger de Choiseul, et participe au siège de Nicée en 1097 où il trouve la mort des suites de blessures reçues au combat.

Mariage et enfants

Geoffroy d'Aigremont n'a pas d'union ou de postérité connue.

Sources

 Marie Henry d'Arbois de Jubainville, Histoire des Ducs et Comtes de Champagne, 1865.
 Théodore Pistollet de Saint-Ferjeux, Recherches historiques et statistiques sur les principales communes de l'arrondissement de Langres, 1836.
 Émile Jolibois, La Haute-Marne ancienne et moderne, 1858.
 L'abbé Roussel, Le diocèse de Langres : histoire et statistique, 1875.
 Henri de Faget de Casteljau, Recherches sur la Maison de Choiseul, 1970.

Articles connexes

 Comté de Champagne
 Seigneurs d'Aigremont
 Première croisade

Notes et références

Noblesse du Moyen-Âge en Champagne
Personnalité liée à la Haute-Marne
Croisé du XIe siècle
Personnalité de la première croisade
Croisé mort au combat
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Lagoonar Screen Printing Lab is a newborn space that offers hand-pulled prints on t-shirts, tote bags and posters.
We use a manual machine built from recycled wood, appositely designed and created by a local woodworker.
We can either print an existing design or take care of the artwork, creating an original graphic following the artist's guidelines.
Run by Laura Gamba and Fernando Nuti.
"Screen printing is one of the most ancient printing techniques ever known. Despite its millennial age, many contemporary artists and craftsmen still choose it to replicate images, obtaining unique and authentic visual outputs against the anonymity of polished digital copies. This is what I love about screen printing: each squeegee pull, each layer of ink and each screen lift acts together to create special prints, all different and all high quality. It is always exciting to see mine or other artists' design taking concrete form on the surface and coming into life with their distinctive tactile finish. It's real fun to get messy, too."
Laura Gamba makes art under the name of Lucy Færy. She studied graphic design at the Academy of Venice and art history in St. Andrews (Scotland) and in Padua, where she graduated in 2017 with a thesis on the visionary art of William Blake. At 18 years old she got her first art job, drawing jewellery collections for Caterina Zangrando Atelier. She has spent 2 years in England, following the signwriter Peter Hardwicke trough the streets of London, working as his apprentice. In 2013 Laura attended a fashion styling course at Central Saint Martins, held by Aimee McWilliams, styling afterwards a series of photoshoots by International Decoy. She later took care of the stage costumes for the Goldonian play "Le Donne Gelose" by Tremilioni, and collaborated with the company Fatebenesorelle Teatro on the promotion of its spectacle "Macbeth? Study for Wo.Men". Laura's involvement in coltural institutions include intern experiences at the New York City Ballet and at the International School of Illustration Stepan Zavrel (Sarmede). Her illustrations has been exhibited in her hometown, Santa Lucia, in the Venetian mainland and in Padua. She has collaborated with bands and musicians, illustrating a book of lyrics and designing record artworks and tour posters. She is currentely working for Los Angeles' Highland Park Bowl creating posters for their music shows.
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Mainstream teachings from Babylon that are Deadly Errors
Right from the garden of Eden where the first lie was told by the serpent, he still propagate GREAT errors that leads men to perdition. God's words are plain and simple to the mind but Satan seek to make things a mystery before the mind. Every simple truth in the scriptures is turned upside down by the enemy of souls. The sad part is what we believe is an essential part of our salvation. Satan knows this truth and he has endeavored to confuse many that he can and deceive many.
God always come to our aid to manifest the truth. God sent Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth and life to our world to redeem souls from darkness. The Bible, when studied with humility and prayers for understanding reveals all the deception of Satan. God will allow His truth to shine upon all hearts that are willing to receive the truth. "John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
There are deadly errors that are spread by Satan through false teachers, Hollywood and we'll address these and what the Bible really teaches:
The dead go straight to Heaven: It is only when men don't take counsels from the Bible that they get deceived. Jesus overcame Satan by "It is written" and He didn't take His argument against Satan outside the word of God. It's only when we make the Bible our ONLY rule of faith that we'll be able to stand and overcome all deceptions.
There's a very popular doctrine that teaches "man consciousness after death". The pagan world believe that when man dies he's not really dead but passed on to a different world where he become more powerful and grows on to become his own god. That's doctrine of devils. We didn't expect Christians to have this erroneous views too because they profess to follow their master Jesus but surprisingly majority of the Christian world/churches have the same belief but have rebranded it. The Christian world teaches that when their loved ones die they go straight to Heaven to have peace and happiness. Is this found in the Bible? No! but it's just another version of the pagan belief about life after death. Pagans also belief in reincarnation. Sadly Christians borrow their doctrines from paganism and lead so many away from Bible truth to fables. There must be a church which originated all these falsehoods. There's no other church than the MOTHER of harlots(Apostate Protestantism), the Roman Catholic Church. This church takes pagan beliefs and "baptize" it to be a Christian belief -how sad! So there's no wonder Pagans believe the dead are not really dead but become gods and Christians also believe the same thing which is the dead are not really dead but in Heaven.
Does the Bible teach these? Did these errors originated from the Bible? No! it originated from the father of lies not the Bible. The Bible plainly teaches that when a person dies he loses consciousness and he's no where to be found. He's as if he's never been in existence because he has returned into the dust he was created from. For "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Genesis 3:19
Man is dust and he's only a living being because God breathed into his nostrils for him to be alive. "Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." So we cannot be in existence when God takes the breathe of life( Simple math: Breathe of life+body=living soul). The dead return to the dust, the ground he was taken from and he ceases to exist until Jesus comes to raise the dead.
Job simplified it this way "As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." Job 14:11
"Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up NO MORE. 7:10 He shall RETURN NO MORE to his house, NEITHER SHALL HIS PLACE KNOW HIM ANY MORE."
Let's look at this illustration( A Chair) :
This chair is made up of wood and nails. the nails connected all the woods for it to become a chair. When the nails are taken out it ceased to be a chair but a dismantled material. the wood will be aside and the nails too.
dismantled chair:
Man ceases to exist when the breathe is taken. Until Jesus comes back, he'll still be in the dust deformed and "as if he was not in existence". "John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."
So the Bible teaches dead man thoughts perish, he's no where until the end of the world, when Jesus comes. "Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." "Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth." "Psalms 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence."
Secret Rapture and 7 year tribulation: One of the deadly doctrines is this teaching that there'll be a secret rapture. The "Left Behind" theory is propagated by Hollywood and the Christian world. They teach that the second coming of Jesus will be secret. It is also taught that after the righteous are secretly taken to heaven, then there'll be another 7 year tribulation for people to suffer for their wrongs and be purged. Unfortunately all these are great errors and not found in God's word but from the enemy of souls. This doctrine is another version of Roman Catholic Church "purgatory" where it is believed people are purged in hell fire and afterwards taken to Heaven. All these are false and not found in God's word. The truth from the Bible is that now is the time we're to prepare for Jesus soon coming. After the second coming there'll be no chance for the sinner to repent. It'll be forever too late. Today is the day of salvation. The unrepentant sinner looking forward for another 7 years after Jesus second coming will be bitterly disappointed when he rises in the second resurrection(the resurrection of the wicked). God's word says today is the day of salvation. Repent before it's too late. It'll be too late when Jesus pronounces the final irrevocable words "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." Revelation 22:11. "Hebrews 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
"Job 22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 22:22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. 22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 22:25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. 22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God…"
Immortality of the soul: This was the same lie Satan told Eve in the garden of Eden that she shall not SURELY die but shall be as a god. He's still propagating this falsehoods and this is the basis of all paganism. It's sad Apostate Christianity is also holding this false doctrine.
Immortality Forfeited by Transgression
In the midst of Eden grew the tree of life, whose fruit had the power of perpetuating life. Had Adam remained obedient to God, he would have continued to enjoy free access to this tree and would have lived forever. But when he sinned he was cut off from partaking of the tree of life, and he became subject to death.The divine sentence, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," points to the utter extinction of life.DD 14.2
Immortality, promised to man on condition of obedience, had been forfeited by transgression. Adam could not transmit to his posterity that which he did not possess; and there could have been no hope for the fallen race had not God, by the sacrifice of His Son, brought immortality within their reach.While "death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned," Christ "hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." Romans 5:12; 2 Timothy 1:10. And only through Christ can immortality be obtained. Said Jesus: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life." John 3:36. Every man may come into possession of this priceless blessing if he will comply with the conditions. All "who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality," will receive "eternal life." Romans 2:7.
The only one who promised Adam life in disobedience was the great deceiver. And the declaration of the serpent to Eve in Eden—"Ye shall not surely die"—was the first sermon ever preached upon the immortality of the soul. Yet this declaration, resting solely upon the authority of Satan, is echoed from the pulpits of Christendom and is received by the majority of mankind as readily as it was received by our first parents. The divine sentence, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:20), is made to mean: The soul that sinneth, it shall not die, but live eternally. We cannot but wonder at the strange infatuation which renders men so credulous concerning the words of Satan and so unbelieving in regard to the words of God.
Had man after his fall been allowed free access to the tree of life, he would have lived forever, and thus sin would have been immortalized. But cherubim and a flaming sword kept "the way of the tree of life" (Genesis 3:24), and not one of the family of Adam has been permitted to pass that barrier and partake of the life-giving fruit.Therefore there is not an immortal sinner.
But after the Fall, Satan bade his angels make a special effort to inculcate the belief in man's natural immortality; and having induced the people to receive this error, they were to lead them on to conclude that the sinner would live in eternal misery. Now the prince of darkness, working through his agents, represents God as a revengeful tyrant, declaring that He plunges into hell all those who do not please Him, and causes them ever to feel His wrath; and that while they suffer unutterable anguish and writhe in the eternal flames, their Creator looks down upon them with satisfaction.
The ministration of holy angels, as presented in the Scriptures, is a truth most comforting and precious to every follower of Christ. But the Bible teaching upon this point has been obscured and perverted by the errors of popular theology. The doctrine of natural immortality, first borrowed from the pagan philosophy, and in the darkness of the great apostasy incorporated into the Christian faith, has supplanted the truth, so plainly taught in Scripture, that "the dead know not anything." Multitudes have come to believe that it is spirits of the dead who are the "ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation." And this notwithstanding the testimony of Scripture to the existence of heavenly angels, and their connection with the history of man, before the death of a human being.
The doctrine of man's consciousness in death, especially the belief that spirits of the dead return to minister to the living, has prepared the way for modern spiritualism. If the dead are admitted to the presence of God and holy angels, and privileged with knowledge far exceeding what they before possessed, why should they not return to the earth to enlighten and instruct the living? If, as taught by popular theologians, spirits of the dead are hovering about their friends on earth, why should they not be permitted to communicate with them, to warn them against evil, or to comfort them in sorrow? How can those who believe in man's consciousness in death reject what comes to them as divine light communicated by glorified spirits?Here is a channel regarded as sacred, through which Satan works for the accomplishment of his purposes. The fallen angels who do his bidding appear as messengers from the spirit world. While professing to bring the living into communication with the dead, the prince of evil exercises his bewitching influence upon their minds.
He has power to bring before men the appearance of their departed friends. The counterfeit is perfect; the familiar look, the words, the tone, are reproduced with marvelous distinctness. Many are comforted with the assurance that their loved ones are enjoying the bliss of heaven, and without suspicion of danger, they give ear "to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils."
Can the Dead Speak to Us?
When they have been led to believe that the dead actually return to communicate with them, Satan causes those to appear who went into the grave unprepared. They claim to be happy in heaven and even to occupy exalted positions there, and thus the error is widely taught that no difference is made between the righteous and the wicked. The pretended visitants from the world of spirits sometimes utter cautions and warnings which prove to be correct.Then, as confidence is gained, they present doctrines that directly undermine faith in the Scriptures.With an appearance of deep interest in the well-being of their friends on earth, they insinuate the most dangerous errors. The fact that they state some truths, and are able at times to foretell future events, gives to their statements an appearance of reliability; and their false teachings are accepted by the multitudes as readily, and believed as implicitly, as if they were the most sacred truths of the Bible. The law of God is set aside, the Spirit of grace despised, the blood of the covenant counted an unholy thing. The spirits deny the deity of Christ and place even the Creator on a level with themselves. Thus under a new disguise the great rebel still carries on his warfare against God, begun in heaven and for nearly six thousand years continued upon the earth.
Original sin: The doctrine of original sin also originated from paganism and was rebranded to Christianity by Roman Catholic Church. This is the reason why they baptise children lest when he dies in infancy he'll be lost. What a great deception. This belief makes it appear the Bible is a liar because it says Jesus Christ NEVER SINNED. From infancy to adulthood He never sinned. "Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."
This belief is from the devil because there's no original sin. Adam's sin was not passed to his children but only the results, the traits, the prone to sin was passed to them. Adam has his own account record before God so as each of Adam's descendants. NO ONE IS BORN A SINNER. I REPEAT, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE. But we have a "sinful" nature which is prone to sin. Everyone have a choice to sin or not to sin. A child who doesn't have the knowledge of sin have no sin. Don't be deceived by the enemy. Infant baptism originated from this false doctrine. Don't be deceived but hold fast God's word of truth. The devil is a liar from the beginning and wants to undermine Jesus sacrifice for humanity but all is to no avail. You can overcome sin because Jesus will strengthen you. He'll give you strength to overcome all. You're not charged with Adam's sin but your own sinful choices. Everyone will bear his own burden. "Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." "Ezekiel 14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness."
Eternal hell fire: People say so many scary things and many personal theories which has no biblical basis….The Bible and the Bible alone can provide us the only truth about hell but not what people say or teaches. Please DON'T BUILD your house(faith) on men teachings(sand) but build your house on the Rock Of Ages(Jesus Christ.)
I normally hear people saying "hell is burning right now, people are really suffering". Some also say "some dead hip hop artist have brought message from hell that they suffer more when they play their songs". Though their songs are bad it Is All deceptions…serious deceptions…
Even sometimes, you will hear some false news about some one giving "testimony from hell" some also publish "life in hell" and many other false teachings. Please these are all lies. Don't build your faith on them. They will lead you astray. Jesus is The TRUTH(John 14:6 ) and we must only live by His word and not lies of the devil.
THE TRUTH: Hell is not there now. WHY?
Answer: hell will come after the 1000 years when the redeemed are returning from heaven with Jesus. Revelation 20:9. There is no "underworld" as some people teaches. There is no "hell burning now until Jesus come and after the 1000 years before."
GOD IS LOVE AND HE'S NOT HAPPY FOR PEOPLE TO DIE IN HELL. (Ezekiel 18:31). God says "Oh why will ye die?" This means God is love and love us all but He has to end sin and secure the universe from evil and It's curses. Therefore sinners have to die since they didn't turn to Jesus for salvation. ( Ezekiel 18:20 )
Again HELL IS NOT FOREVER. HELL WILL NOT BURN FOREVER.
Malachi 4:1-3, Isaiah 34:8-10. All sinners and Satan will burn according to the harm they caused to humanity. Satan will suffer the most. After that they will turn into "ashes" as every fire does. Please Don't be deceived. They will all be no more. Why? Answer: because God will wipe their ashes and make a new earth right here again. Revelation 21:1. This means hell is not forever as people teach. It's deception. God is LOVE and wants to save us all. John 3:16-17.
But only those who will remain faithful shall be saved – Revelation 14:12
WHERE IS HELL?
Answer:HELL IS THIS EARTH AND NOT "UNDER-EARTH". Do you see fire burning on the earth now? Answer: no, fire is not burning on earth surface now. "Hell" will come when Satan and his fellows surrounds the Holy City; as Jesus ascends New Jerusalem on "Mount Olive". Then fire will come from God and devour them all. Revelation 20:9 THAT'S WHAT WE CALL HELL. THEY WILL ALL DIE AND TURN INTO ASHES AND "FOREVER" be no more. Both the soul and body will "be no more" Matthew 10:28
It won't leave either their "root or "branch" Malachi 4:1. So hell is not there now….until Jesus comes and take the redeemed home. After the thousand years, then Satan, his angels and sinners will be burned as they approach the Holy City and want to have it. DON'T LET ANYONE DECEIVE YOU ABOUT "ONGOING BURNING HELL" AND "FOREVER BURNING HELL". They are lies from the devil. John 8:44
GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU TO BE IN HELL.
"But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?"
The LORD IS Calling You To Turn To Him Before It's Too Late:
"Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye." Ezekiel 18:31-32.
Also read the truth about hell and end of sin.
Sunday Sacredness: Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.
As spiritualism more closely imitates the nominal Christianity of the day, it has greater power to deceive and ensnare. Satan himself is converted, after the modern order of things. He will appear in the character of an angel of light.Through the agency of spiritualism, miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, and many undeniable wonders will be performed. And as the spirits will profess faith in the Bible, and manifest respect for the institutions of the church, their work will be accepted as a manifestation of divine power….
But notwithstanding all the efforts to establish Sunday sacredness, papists themselves publicly confessed the divine authority of the Sabbath and the human origin of the institution by which it had been supplanted. In the sixteenth century a papal council plainly declared: "Let all Christians remember that the seventh day was consecrated by God, and hath been received and observed, not only by the Jews, but by all others who pretend to worship God; though we Christians have changed their Sabbath into the Lord's Day."—The Great Controversy, 281, 282. Those who were tampering with the divine law were not ignorant of the character of their work. They were deliberately setting themselves above God….
The Healing of the "Deadly Wound"
The prophecy of Revelation 13declares that the power represented by the beast with lamb like horns shall cause "the earth and them which dwell therein" to worship the papacy—there symbolized by the beast "like unto a leopard." The beast with two horns is also to say "to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast;" and, furthermore, it is to command all, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond," to receive the mark of the beast. Revelation 13:11-16. It has been shown that the United States is the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns, and that this prophecy will be fulfilled when the United States shall enforce Sunday observance, which Rome claims as the special acknowledgment of her supremacy. But in this homage to the papacy the United States will not be alone. The influence of Rome in the countries that once acknowledged her dominion is still far from being destroyed. And prophecy foretells a restoration of her power. "I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." Verse 3. The infliction of the deadly wound points to the downfall of the papacy in 1798.After this, says the prophet, "his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."Paul states plainly that the "man of sin" will continue until the second advent. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8. To the very close of time he will carry forward the work of deception. And the revelator declares, also referring to the papacy: "All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life." Revelation 13:8. In both the Old and the New World, the papacy will receive homage in the honor paid to the Sunday institution, that rests solely upon the authority of the Roman Church.
The emperor Constantine issued a decree making Sunday a public festival throughout the Roman Empire. (See Appendix) The day of the sun was reverenced by his pagan subjects and honored by Christians.He was urged to do this by the bishops of the church. Inspired by thirst for power, they perceived that if the same day was observed by both Christians and heathen, it would advance the power and glory of the church. But while many God-fearing Christians were gradually led to regard Sunday as possessing a degree of sacredness, they still held the true Sabbath and observed it in obedience to the fourth commandment.
The archdeceiver had not completed his work. He was resolved to exercise his power through his vicegerent, the proud pontiff who claimed to represent Christ. Vast councils were held in which dignitaries were convened from all the world. In nearly every council the Sabbath was pressed down a little lower, while Sunday was exalted. Thus the pagan festival came finally to be honored as a divine institution, while the Bible Sabbath was pronounced a relic of Judaism and its observance declared accursed.
The apostate had succeeded in exalting himself "above all that is called God, or that is worshiped." 2 Thessalonians 2:4. He had dared to change the only precept of the divine law that points to the true and living God. In the fourth commandment, God is revealed as the Creator. As a memorial of the work of creation, the seventh day was sanctified as a rest day for man, designed to keep the living God ever before the minds of men as the object of worship. Satan strives to turn men from obedience to God's law; therefore he directs his efforts especially against that commandment which points to God as the Creator.
Protestants now urge that the resurrection of Christ on Sunday made it the Christian Sabbath. But no such honor was given to the day by Christ or His apostles. The observance of Sunday had its origin in that "mystery of lawlessness" (2 Thessalonians 2:7, RV) which, even in Paul's day, had begun its work. What reason can be given for a change which the Scriptures do not sanction? HF 35.2
From Here to Forever
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Vatican to the Christian world: "Sunday Worship is NOT in the Bible"
John Huss Burned at the stake by Roman Catholic Church on the charge of being a Heretic!


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That magnificent analogy up there from my boss made me pretty happy not just for its vivid imagery, but for making a point we struggle to make sometimes: Head Start and high-quality publicly-funded pre-K are not the same things. Opponents of publicly-funded early ed (or, sometimes, early ed in general, but I prefer not to give them much credence) often point to studies that show a Head Start "fade out" as evidence against early education. For one thing, those studies aren't really saying Head Start is ineffective, and for another, the programs aren't all that comparable. Head Start is hugely important in preparing disadvantaged kids for school and life, but it focuses on not just academic issues (just look at the fact that it's operated by Health and Human Services, and not the Department of Education), but also physical well-being, health, and parent education classes. Academic success is only one measure, and you're a little bit crazy if you think that's the only thing on which the program should be judged.
This particular quote came from a great piece on the proposed pre-K program in San Antonio, Texas–voters in November will decide whether a 1/8th cent sales tax to fund the program is an investment they're ready to make. You can also check out Steve Barnett's op-ed this week on the economic case for this program. The vote on this pre-K program has been pretty big news on the field over the last few months, but it got a huge bump last week when San Antonio's awesome/charismatic/vibrant mayor Julian Castro name-dropped it in his DNC keynote. Early care and education policy generally gets addressed at the state level, but San Antonio is one of a handful of large U.S. cities making strides on aligning services for kids and families, as you can read about in this recent National League of Cities report.


I'm sorry, I can't retrieve my review of the first book. In summary: I love it so much. 11/5 stars for that book. This series is one of my favourite of all time.
Transcended my expectations! I cringed at a few scenes and spelling errors, here and there; but overall I loved this book. There was definitely more angst in this one, which I'm unsure if I liked that or not (how ironic).
There's not much else to add, I just really loved the book. I can't believe I'll have to wait another 2 weeks for the sequels to arrive (I bought the rest of the series- I know I'll enjoy the rest now).
Katy is extremely relatable and hilarious– one of my favourite quotes is when she said books are more important then the life-threatening Arum. I just want to hug her and clap for the choices she made (except for the whole Blake thing– but that's a different story all together!).
I don't trust Matthew. He hasn't given any reason for me to doubt him, but it's my only theory on who betrayed D&B.
Speaking of whom, what ever happened to Bethany??? That was a quickly dismissed plot twist IMO. However, I love/hate the plot twist at the end. Bless J.L. Armetrout.
Romance: 40000000/10- it feels like the best Twilight fanfic I've ever read combined into a read book????
Reread? Not as much as I would of Obsidian, although I definitely will whenever I get the chance to reread the entire series.


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Clonkeen Church is a medieval church and a National Monument in County Limerick, Ireland.

Location
The church is located on the R506 road,  southeast of Annacotty, north of the River Mulkear.

History

A monastery was founded here by Saint Mo-Diomog (feast day 10 December) in the 6th or 7th century.  The present church dates to the mid-12th century (based on its similarity to Aghadoe Cathedral, dated to 1158).

The church was ruined by 1657.

Church

Clonkeen Church is a small rectangular church with antae at the east and west ends. The west part of the church, incorporating the west doorway is Romanesque, built of roughly coursed large stones, mostly sandstone. It has a well-preserved doorway with an arch of three orders, with Romanesque carving around the jambs.

The capitals and columns with chevrons are similar to those at Aghadoe.

References

Religion in County Limerick
Archaeological sites in County Limerick
National Monuments in County Limerick
Former churches in the Republic of Ireland


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Retread supplier Robbins sold
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish rubber compounder Hexpol A.B. has acquired Robbins Holdings Inc. of Muscle Shoals, Ala., a compounding specialist and producer of curing envelopes for the retread industry, for $89.2 million.
"The acquisition is a very good complement to Hexpol Compounding and broadens our presence with rubber compounds into end user markets like agriculture, mining, oil and gas," said Hexpol CEO Georg Brunstam. "It also brings a global leadership in molded envelopes and curing tubes to the tire industry."
Robbins has estimated annual sales of about $100 million with 240 employees in three factories: Findlay, Ohio; Tallapoosa, Ga.; and Muscle Shoals, Hexpol said. Among its products are molded envelopes and curing tubes for truck, heavy equipment and airplane retreads.
Hexpol estimated Robbins' pre-tax operating income margin is slightly lower than its own but said it expects Robbins to have a positive impact on its earnings from the start. Hexpol will start integrating Robbins in December.
The acquisition is on a debt-free basis and is funded by a combination of cash and existing bank loans, Hexpol said.
Hexpol considers itself one of the world's leading polymer groups with annual sales of $1.11 billion and manufacturing in nine countries on three continents. Polymer compounding comprises 90 percent of sales, with molded rubber and plastics products—including elastomeric forklift tires and wheels—accounting for the rest.
Robbins was founded in 1921 by Stanley Robbins as a manufacturer of inner tubes. The company, known as Robbins Tire & Rubber Co., was purchsed by Poncet Davis Sr. in the early 1940s, who broadened the company's scope into tread rubber and curing tubes in the 1950s as demand for tubes started to drop as tubeless tire technology took hold.
Robbins purchased Ultima Rubber Co. of Social Circle, Ga., in 1994 and moved all tread rubber manufacturing to Social Circle. In 1995 Robbins sold its inner tube manufacturing equipment to Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. and branched into custom mixing.
Two years later Robbins sold the Social Circle plant to Goodyear but retained the custom mixing customers.
In 2002 Robbins purchased the assets and technology of Presti Rubber Products Inc. of New Britain, Pa., a producer and distributor of retreading envelopes for light truck through larger, off-the-road (OTR) envelopes. The Presti business was relocated to the Muscle Shoals plant.
Robbins expanded the custom mixing business in 2004 with the addition of a plant in Tallapoosa, Ga.
Grey Mountain Partners of Colorado purchased Robbins in 2007.


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New data from Credit Suisse reveals that 42 people now own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity. This figure cannot be compared to figures from previous years - including the 2016/17 statistic that eight men owned the same wealth as half the world - because it is based on an updated and expanded data set published by Credit Suisse in November 2017. When Oxfam recalculated last year's figures using the latest data we found that 61 people owned the same wealth as half the world in 2016 – and not eight.
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該外側縁部と前記突出部との間とに取り付けられ、前記外側縁部と突出部との間に位置する弾性部材は、前記外側縁部の弾性部材と比較して、伸長応力が低いかまたは同じである。 Attached to and between the projecting portion and the outer edge, the elastic member positioned between the projecting portion and the outer edge, as compared to the elastic member of the outer edge, or tensile stress is low or is the same. 【0007】 【発明の実施の形態】添付の図面に基づいて、この発明に係る使い捨ておむつの詳細を説明すると、以下のとおりである。  Based on PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The accompanying drawings, describing the details of a disposable diaper according to the present invention is as follows. 【0008】図1,2は、使い捨ておむつ1の部分破断平面図と、おむつ1の部分破断斜視図である。  Figure 1 is a partially cutaway plan view of the disposable diaper 1 is a partially broken perspective view of the diaper 1. 図2では、おむつ1が後記の各弾性部材の収縮によって湾曲している。 In Figure 2, the diaper 1 is curved by contraction of the later of the elastic member. 【0009】おむつ1は、透液性表面シート2と、不透液性裏面シート3と、これら両シート2,3間に介在する吸液性コア4とを有し、前後の長手方向が前胴周り域6と、後胴周り域7と、股下域8とで構成されている。  The diaper 1 comprises a liquid-pervious topsheet 2, a liquid-impervious backsheet 3, and a liquid-absorbent core 4 interposed between these two sheets 2, front and rear longitudinal direction before the waist region 6, a rear waist region 7, and a crotch region 8.
0とには、不織布やプラスチックシート、より好ましくは不透液性の不織布やプラスチックシート、さらに好ましくは、通気・不透液性の不織布やプラスチックシートを使用する。 0 and, the nonwoven fabric or a plastic sheet, more preferably liquid-impervious nonwoven fabric or a plastic sheet, more preferably, use a breathable, liquid-impervious nonwoven fabric or a plastic sheet. 表面シート2には、透液性の不織布や開孔プラスチックシートを使用することができる。 The topsheet 2 can be used a liquid-pervious nonwoven fabric or apertured plastic sheet. 裏面シート3には、不透液性のプラスチックシートを使用し、コア4には粉砕パルプや粉砕パルプと高吸水性ポリマー粒子との混合物を使用することができる。 The backsheet 3, using a liquid-impervious plastic sheet, the core 4 may be used a mixture of fluff pulp and fluff pulp and super-absorbent polymer particles. おむつ1の各弾性部材は、ホットメルト接着剤によってシート部材に接合することができる。 Each elastic members of the diaper 1 may be bonded to the sheet member by a hot-melt adhesive. シート部材どうしの接合には、ホットメルト接着剤の他に、溶着技術を利用することができる。 The joining of the sheet members to each other, may be in addition to the hot melt adhesive, use welding techniques. 【0017】 【発明の効果】この発明に係る使い捨ておむつでは、防漏カフがフラップから起立可能な突出部と、突出部上端に位置するシール面域とで構成され、シール面域の複数条の弾性部材は、内側縁部に位置するものの伸長応力が最も高く、外側縁部に位置するものの伸長応力が低いから、シール面域は内側縁部の弾性部材を支点にして外方へ旋回して広い面積で脚周りに当接し、体液の漏れを確実に防ぐことができる。  [Effect of the Invention] In the disposable diaper according to the invention is constituted by the upright can protrusions leak-barrier cuffs from the flap, the sealing surface region extending protrusion upper end of the plural rows of the sealing surface area elastic member, highest elongation stress of those located in the inner edge, because the tensile stress of those located in the outer edge portion is low, the sealing surface zone turning outward by the elastic member of the inner edge as a fulcrum contact with the leg in a wide area, it is possible to reliably prevent leakage of body fluids.
張り出し部を下方にして傾斜する ことを特徴とする前記おむつ。 Said diaper, characterized in that inclined by an overhang downward. 【請求項2】 前記第1張り出し部では一条の前記弾性部材が前記シール面域の内側縁部に取り付けられ、前記第2張り出し部では複数条の前記弾性部材が前記シール面域の外側縁部と、該外側縁部と前記突出部との間とに取り付けられ、前記外側縁部と突出部との間に位置する弾性部材は、前記外側縁部の弾性部材と比較して、伸長応力が低いかまたは同じである請求項1記載のおむつ。 Wherein said the first projecting portion is the elastic member Article is attached to the inner edge of the sealing surface area, and in the second projecting portion is the elastic member of plural rows the sealing surface area of the outer edge When attached to the between the projecting portion and the outer edge, the elastic member positioned between the projecting portion and the outer edge, as compared to the elastic member of the outer edge, elongation stress low or diaper according to claim 1, wherein the same.


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Russian 'Expert' Denies Documented Repression of Crimean Tatars
UKRAINE -- Crimean Tatars and other participants gather for a memorial event on the Independence Square in Kyiv, May 18, 2020
Vladimir Zharikhin
Deputy Head of the Institute of CIS Countries
"This (claim about persecution of Crimean Tatars) once again confirms that in Ukraine the name of the presidenthas changed, but the regime that came power in Ukraine after the coup has not changed. The actions are the same, the policy is the same, which is based on outright falsification, outright distortion of facts, outright labeling without any attempt to confirm them with any evidence."
Source: TASS, May 18, 2020
May 18 is the annual Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Soviet Union's mass deportation of Crimean Tatars (and other minorities) from the Crimean peninsula in 1944.
This year, the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Poland issued a joint statement on the 76th anniversary of the deportations. The ministers connected the Crimean Tatars' treatment after 1944 with their treatment since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
"The tragedy of the Crimean Tatar people repeated in 2014, when the Russian Federation seized and illegally attempted to annex Crimea, which is an integral part of Ukraine," the statement read.
"It is no coincidence that Russia, which glorifies Stalin's totalitarian regime, continues its criminal policy in the 21st century in the temporarily occupied Crimea: ban [on] the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, systemic repressions, persecution and violations of the rights of Crimean Tatars, who opposed Russia's armed aggression against the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It forced thousands of Crimean Tatars, indigenous people of Crimea, to leave their homes and move to mainland Ukraine."
The Russian state news agency TASS quoted a response to the declaration by Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy head of the Institute of CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries, who said that the countries making the declaration were "unreasonably claiming that the rights of Crimean Tatars have allegedly been violated."
"This once again confirms that in Ukraine the name of the presidenthas changed, but the regime that came power in Ukraine after the coup has not changed," Zharikhin said, referring to Ukraine's 2014 Maidan Revolution, which was not a coup, and the two Ukrainian presidents who have been elected since then.
He added: "The actions are the same, the policy is the same, which is based on outright falsification, outright distortion of facts, outright labeling without any attempt to confirm them with any evidence."
Zharikhin's claims about "outright falsification" and no attempts to confirm instances of repression are false.
Persecution of Crimean Tatars began when the Russian military moved to occupy and control the peninsula in late February 2014.
On March 16 of that year, the body of Crimean Tatar activist Reshat Ametov was discovered two weeks after he disappeared, with signs he had been tortured. Ametov had disappeared on March 3 after taking part in a demonstration against Russia's occupation of the peninsula. There is video evidence suggesting he was abducted by men in unmarked Russian military uniforms.
By September 2014, Human Rights Watch documented seven cases of "enforced" disappearances in Crimea. Five of the victims were Crimean Tatars.
The Day of Remembrance on May 18, 2014, followed Russia's formal annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Crimean Tatars found themselves under Moscow's de facto control for the first time since 1991. Still, the Crimean Tatar community held its 2014 memorial march in defiance of a ban on public events by the occupying authorities.
The following year, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that 60 individuals who participated in an unsanctioned motorcade on May 18, 2015, were arrested, interrogated and fined. Authorities also tried to restrict celebration of the Crimean Tatar flag day on June 26.
An August 2014 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues noted that Crimean Tatars under Russian occupation had complained of "growing anti-Tatar sentiment."
It quoted internally displaced Crimean Tatars who recounted incidents of physical and verbal abuse against members of their community during and after the annexation. Some reported that their houses had been marked or vandalized by unknown individuals, while others cited incidents of uniformed men trying to "claim" land and property from Tatar owners.
Since then, the Crimean Tatar community has seen a wave of persecution and mass arrests, often on dubious allegations of connections to a "terrorist" group. The group, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, was designated a terrorist group by Russia but is legal in Ukraine and many other countries. Many of the arrests of Tatars, typically carried out by Russia's FSB (Federal Security Service), are based on unsubstantiated and vague accusations of connections to "terrorist" groups.
In 2016, Russia banned the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, the highest representative and executive body of the Crimean Tatars, which was founded in 1991. Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Soviet-era dissident who is the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement and former chairman of the Mejlis, was banned from entering Crimea in April 2014, barely a month after Russia annexed it.
Kyiv, Ukraine - The national leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev, 20Aug2015
In 2016, Russia issued an arrest warrant for Dzhemilev. A survivor of the 1944 deportations, Dzhemilev has effectively been banished from his homeland twice in his lifetime. Russia also issued an arrest warrant for Refat Chubarov, the Mejlis' current chairman.
Such incidents show the accusations of repression targeting Crimean Tatars run counter to Zharikhin's claims of falsification or distortion.
On May 18, this year's Day of Remembrance, Sever Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar activist, journalist, and Amnesty International-recognized prisoner of conscience, issued a statement from Russia, where he is currently imprisoned while on trial. During a court hearing that same day, some defendants held signs saying "May 18 Repeated" and "Free Prisoners of [the] Kremlin."
"These so-called 'trials' on this somber date, for me personally, and for my people, is an indicator of the Russian Federation's attitude to us, and of its generally formal words about our rights, about peace in Crimea, about justice and so forth," Mustafayev's statement read.
"Systematic pressure on the Crimean Tatar people, repression against Ukrainian citizens on religious and ethnic grounds; ethnic and political persecution of Crimean Tatars, of the Mejlis, of imams, human rights defenders, civic activists and journalists by the Russia authorities and enforcement agencies are deliberate policy of ethnocide of Crimeans and Crimean Tatars," it continued.
The Crimean Tatars are a Turkic people who have inhabited the Crimean peninsula – and, at one time, parts of southern Ukraine - since the Middle Ages. During the Second World War, the Soviet government dubiously accused the ethnic group of collaboration with the Nazi occupier and deported them en masse to settlements in Central Asia, a fate shared by several other nationalities under Soviet control at the time.
In 2013, a film was released depicting the deportations as well as the exploits of Ahmet-Khan Sultan, a highly decorated Crimean Tatar fighter who witnessed the deportation of his own people in 1944. In 2016, Crimean Tatar singer Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine with her song "1944," about the deportations.
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Docker seems to keep orphaned volumes on the filesystem even if the container has been removed.

To resolve this problem, I use the following script scheduled on a daily basis: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

Plan it inside a cron file (example, every day at midnight):

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Lindenwood Lynx Visit NOLA for Service Spring Break Experience
Nearly 20 students from Lindenwood University-Belleville opted for an alternative version of Spring Break and visited New Orleans, where they traded a week of their free time for volunteer work.
Belleville's Prunty, Students Selected for 2019 Instructional Resource Award Grant
Lindenwood University Belleville Professor of Psychology Dr. Trisha Prunty and four of her students – Katie Landsbaum, Bessie Flores, Nikki Thomas, and Katie DeLuka – were selected as the recipients of the 2019 Instructional Recourse Award Grant by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. The funding will be used to support a project entitled, "Using Guided Outlines for Principles of Psychology," in which the four students will create guided notes as supplement for students in the university's Principles of Psychology courses.
Belleville Welcomes Newest Members of Psi Chi
The Psychology Department at Lindenwood University-Belleville recently inducted four students into Psi Chi, the international honor society for psychology. Psi Chi is a club dedicated to the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship and advancing the science of
Lynx Collegiate Rugby 7s Tourney Slated for April 13
The Lindenwood University-Belleville Athletics Department will host its inaugural Lynx Collegiate Rugby 7s Tournament April 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Lynx Field, 2600 W. Main St., Belleville.
Senior Earns Internship with US Ski and Snowboard Olympic Team
The Lindenwood University-Belleville Athletics Department is excited to announce that senior Maddison Beck, St. Louis, Mo., of the Lady Lynx soccer team has earned a summer internship as a strength and conditioning coach with the United States Ski and Snowboard Olympic Team.
Lindenwood Belleville Hosts Girl Scouts for My Best Self Merit Badge
The Lindenwood University-Belleville Division of Sciences recently held an event for Girl Scout Brownie Troop #1110 from Belle Valley Elementary School in the exercise science lab, hosted by Associate Professor of Exercise Science Dr. Lindy Rossow and Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Scott Shreve. Rossow and Shreve planned three different stations, showcasing the exercise science lab equipment, to give the girls a fun, hands-on glimpse into the world of what exercise science.
Trice Publishes Research with Help of Undergraduate Students
The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police recently published research conducted by Lindenwood University-Belleville Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Dr. Thomas Trice along with three of his students, Naomi-Denise Oudshoorn, Leiden, Netherlands; Peyton Rose, Manteca, Calif.; and Courtney Smith, Breese, Ill. Their research, Law Enforcement Leadership Through the Eyes of a Citizen: Why Real Leadership, Cultural Competency and Empathy Matter analyzed how police officers can better connect to communities through three key factors – leadership, cultural competency, and empathy.
Lady Lynx Softball Poised for 2019 Season
The Lindenwood University-Belleville softball team is preparing to begin the 2019 season with high hopes. Despite finishing the 2018 campaign with a 24-22 (.522) record, the Lady Lynx missed out on the American Midwest Conference Tournament.
Lady Lynx Athletes Selected To Represent the United States at 2019 World University Games
The No. 3-ranked Lindenwood University-Belleville women's ice hockey team (16-4-3) is proud to announce that three Lady Lynx players, freshman goaltender Hannah Stone, junior forward Alicia Williams, and junior defenseman Katie Stelling, have been chosen to represent the United States at the 2019 World University Games in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, March 1-9.
Professor to Attend United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women
Lindenwood University-Belleville's Division Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Dr. Andrea Boyles is taking her profession to the global stage, as she attends the United Nations (UN) Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) in New York City this spring. As a member of the non-governmental organization, Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) and as co-chair of that organization's Women of Color Committee, Boyles will join other experts in the field of gender equality as a catalyst for social change.


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(#12) Islam Makhachev Welcomes Former Champion (#12 WW) Rafael Dos Anjos Back to Lightweight at UFC Apex in Las Vegas Nov. 14
UFC continues its run of events in Las Vegas with a pivotal lightweight main event as surging No. 12 ranked Islam Makhachev welcomes No. 12 ranked welterweight Rafael Dos Anjos back to the weight class he once ruled as champion. In the co-main event, explosive welterweight strikers clash as Abdul Razak Al-Hassan meets Khaos Williams.
UFC FIGHT NIGHT ON ESPN+: MAKHACHEV vs. DOS ANJOS will take place Saturday, November 14 from UFC APEX in Las Vegas. All bouts will stream exclusively on ESPN+ in English and Spanish, starting with the prelims at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT, followed by the main card beginning at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT.
Khabib Nurmagomedov prodigy Makhachev (18-1, fighting out of Makhachkala, Russia) intends to make the most of his first UFC main event and insert himself into the title conversation. Considered by many to be the dark horse of the lightweight division, Makhachev is currently riding an impressive six-fight win streak that includes victories over Davi Ramos, Arman Tsarukyan and Gleison Tibau. He now seeks to secure the biggest victory of his career by taking out his first former world champion with a vintage performance.
Dos Anjos (29-13, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) returns to lightweight for the first time since 2016 and looks to make a statement to the rest of the division. He first captured the title following a dominant win streak that included victories over Donald Cerrone, Benson Henderson and Nate Diaz. After moving up to welterweight, he continued to prove himself with wins over Robbie Lawler and Neil Magny. Dos Anjos now aims to show he can still compete with the best in the world and make another run at the championship.
Knockout artist Al-Hassan (10-2, fighting out of Fort Worth, Texas) has captured the attention of the welterweight division and MMA fans alike with his impressive 100 percent, first-round finishing rate. Despite holding a black belt in Judo, Al-Hassan prefers to let his hands do the talking, as seen with his remarkable stoppages over Niko Price, Sabah Homasi and Charlie Ward. He now looks to reclaim his momentum with another statement victory over Williams.
Williams (10-1, fighting out of Jackson, Mich.) intends to follow up his emphatic UFC debut with another dominant performance. An undefeated pro boxer, he announced himself to fans with a 27-second knockout of veteran Alex Morono earlier this year. Williams now plans to stay undefeated in the UFC by becoming the first person to finish Al-Hassan.
Additional bouts on the card include:
In a middleweight bout guaranteed to deliver action, Julian Marquez (7-2, fighting out of Las Vegas, Nev.) locks horns with Saparbeg Safarov (9-3, fighting out of Makhachkala, Russia)
Heavyweights Don'Tale Mayes (7-4, fighting out of Louisville, Ky.) and Roque Martinez (15-6-2, fighting out of Tamuning, Guam) seek to secure their first UFC wins
Daniel Rodriguez (13-1, fighting out of San Gabriel, Calif.) intends to stay undefeated in the UFC when he takes on veteran Bryan Barberena (15-7, fighting out of Gastonia, N.C.)
Eryk Anders (13-5, fighting out of Birmingham, Ala.) and Antonio Arroyo (8-3, fighting out of Albuquerque, N.M. by way of Nazare, Para, Brazil) meet in a clash of middleweight finishers
Rising strawweight prospects face off as Kay Hansen (7-3, fighting out of La Mirada, Calif.) takes on Dana White's Contender Series signee Cory McKenna (5-1, fighting out of Wales, United Kingdom)
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu specialist Ashley Yoder (7-6, fighting out of Temecula, Calif.) intends to bounce back into the win column against Miranda Granger (7-1, fighting out of Arlington, Wash.) at strawweight
Alex Morono (17-6 1 NC, fighting out of Houston, Texas) and Rhys McKee (10-3-1, fighting out of Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) plan on delivering statement performances at welterweight
Jose Quinonez (9-4, fighting out of San Diego, Calif.) takes on Louis Smolka (16-7, fighting out of Kapolei, Hawaii) in an exciting bantamweight matchup
Women's strawweight veteran Randa Markos (10-10-1, fighting out of Windsor, Ontario, Canada) intends to spoil the UFC debut of Invicta FC champion Kanako Murata (11-1, fighting out of Tokyo, Japan)
Geraldo de Freitas (12-5, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) looks to stop Dana White's Contender Series veteran Tony Gravely (19-6, fighting out of Pompano Beach, Fla.) from getting his first UFC win at bantamweight
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As first steps go, the start of Sorenstam's run at history was something else
Alice Miller could barely sit still. She was spending Easter Sunday with family and friends in Lititz, Pa., but even with a holiday celebration in full swing, Miller, the executive director of the June 9--12 McDonald's LPGA Championship, the next major on the women's schedule, was glued to the TV in the living room watching Annika Sorenstam's crushing eight-stroke win at the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
"We were already very excited to have Annika, our two-time defending champ, back," said Miller, "and with our move to a new venue [Bulle Rock Golf Course, in Havre de Grace, Md.], the rest of the field might've felt they had a chance. Now with all the talk, it's hard to describe how excited I am."
The "talk" Miller was referring to in the wake of Sorenstam's staggering victory at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., was of the possibility of a Grand Slam, golf's ultimate prize, and how Sorenstam, who has made the Slam her goal for the past two seasons, took the first step with her 15-under 273. The win was the 59th of Sorenstam's 13-year pro career and her eighth major. The Nabisco was also her fifth consecutive victory, which tied a record set by Nancy Lopez in 1978, and the seventh W in her last nine starts.
Asked if Sunday's victory was a one-down-three-to-go scenario, Sorenstam, 34, played coy. "I told everyone what my goals were [last year], and then I didn't get to come in here and hold the trophy or be soaking wet, so my goal went down the tubes. But now I am here and I'm soaking wet, and looking forward to the rest of the year."
The other players, though, were more effusive. Many feel that this run by the Hall of Famer is probably the best in the career of one of the greatest female golfers of all time. "What Tiger did for the men, Annika will now do for the women," said third-year player Christina Kim. "I remember the first time I played with Annika. I wasn't overly intimidated because no one part of her game stands out. Then I looked up, and I was down 10 strokes. Now, she's even better. She can't be stopped." Said 18-year veteran Liselotte Neumann, like Sorenstam a Swede, "It's hard to believe that she could get any better, but it's even harder to believe that she won't."
Last week Sorenstam was long (only one player bettered her 274.3-yard average off the tee), straight (she hit 66% of the fairways) and the most accurate player in the tournament (she led the field with 55 greens hit in regulation). Disgusted after a two-under-par 70 on Thursday, yet satisfied with a second-round 69 that put her in a first-place tie with crowd favorite Rosie Jones (page 12), Sorenstam shifted into another gear on the weekend, shooting bogey-free rounds of 66 and 68 to obliterate the field.
In an informal poll more than a dozen players were asked which would be more impressive: a Grand Slam or breaking Kathy Whitworth's record of 88 tour victories. The Slam won easily. And, to a woman, those polled believed that Sorenstam can do it. Said Lopez, "I think Annika wants the toughest record--the Slam--and I think she'll succeed."
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DRIVE FOR FIVE
Sorenstam's fifth consecutive victory, this one by eight strokes, tied the LPGA record set by Lopez in 1978.
Having a Blast
Golf is sweet--even if you have to hit the occasional bunker shot--when you're on your way to an eight-stroke victory, as Annika Sorenstam was at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Sorenstam would play the final 39 holes without a bogey to claim the first leg of her goal: winning a Grand Slam.


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Recipient Certification: Recipients must certify themselves to open your encrypted eLetter. Then you know it was indeed your recipient who opened it and not someone else.
Notification of Receipt and Opening: You know when your eLetter was received and opened, all with recipient knowledge. You also get the added security of a complete, confirmed tracking record of your eLetter's transmission and delivery from you through ePostal processing to receipt and opening.
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