How will southern gardeners react when they find out that we can grow Crape Myrtles here in Indiana?
Regardless, ha! We can grow Crape Myrtles in Indiana!
I saw some the other day at Lowes.
Now, normally, just because a plant shows up at Lowes, I don't assume it is good to plant it in my garden. But, my own sister has two Crape Myrtles growing quite well in her Indianapolis garden, so I wasn't all that surprised to see them at Lowes.
That's one of her Crape Myrtles pictured above.
In case you think hers are just a fluke, or were a bit skeptical like I was, I also got an email recently from a reader in Michigan with pictures of Crape Myrtles growing "clear up there"!
Here are the ones I saw for sale at Lowes.
And here's a picture of one growing near Coldwater, Michigan sent by reader, Stephen A. That area of Michigan is also zone 5, like Indiana.
Those I saw at Lowes were primarily Lagerstroemia indica, which surprised me because according to this Clemson University website, Lagerstroemia faurei is the more cold hardy species. Funny thing, too, on the Clemson website they are spelling the common name as Crapemyrtle, all one word, but in the web address they spelled it "crepe". I know it isn't "crepe", but is it one word or two?
The tag on the ones at Lowes mentioned them being "root hardy" which usually means the branches die back over the winter, and new branches come up from the roots in the spring. This is what Caryopteris and Buddleia do when we grow them here.
I asked my sister and she said that does cut hers back each year like a butterfly bush. Based on that, I wouldn't expect any Crape Myrtles around here to become big trees or huge shrubs. But for gardeners who would be satisified to have a few Crape Myrtle blooms in their zone 5 garden, regardless of what size the plant grows to in one season, it might be worth the effort.
So what say you, southern gardeners, are you happy for us, that we can have Crape Myrtles in Indiana?
Are you pulling my leg? This is too good to be true! Maybe they're hardy only to Zone 5b, not to my Zone 5a garden. Ah, I knew there was a catch, they're dieback shrubs. That's Ok, as long as they bloom. To bad there isn't a Lowe's near me.
Several new varieties were unveiled at GWA last year, so I would give them a try. Theoretically hardy to zones 5/6. Let me know!
We always want the difficult-to-grow! In Davis they grow everywhere..and I am not that fond of them. Kind of like bottlebrush. Proving the attraction of playing hard to get I guess.
That would be me saying, "No fair, you've already got lilacs!" And what's even more unfair is that your sister's crepe myrtle is one of the lavender-colored varieties instead of the usual hot pink.
If you want to grow "crape myrtles", Carol - go right ahead. But I grow Crepe Myrtles - that other spelling is just too tacky.
Oh, and it's actually crapemyrtle. See the National Arboretum's article on it. I don't have the link, but you can google it.
I know that there are several cold tolerant cultivars, but I don't think they will be reliable beyond zone 6. Most likely they will behave more like a cut-back shrub as several have indicated. They grow house sized here and are probably one of my favorite trees. I sell many to people who visit here in the summer and stuff them into trunks to take home to places far colder. This summer I sold one to a couple taking it to S. Dakota, a personal record for the furthest away. I told them to keep it in a pot a be prepared to pull it into the garage for the winter.
I don't know what varieties I have, but I did purchase them in Williamsburg, Virginia. This year the Japenese beetles didn't attact them very much. I might have to move one of them because it is too shaded and didn't bloom this year. Can I do that without killing it?
We can grow Crepe Myrtles but they don't grow up and have that beautiful exfoliating bark like they do in the South. I love their blooms no matter what.
Ok Carol, I'll bite: No fair - you've already got Lilacs!!! No, I am thrilled that you get to have these wonderful trees. They provide us with beautiful bark, stunning and long-lasting blooms and even leaves that change color for us in the fall when few others do down here in Texas. And thanks to Dee for telling us that they are one word ... never seen them treated that way, but I can learn new tricks! So, did you buy one? What are you waiting for?!
This is one southern gal who is glad to hear this good news. I really miss the crapemyrtles. I did see those at Lowes but thought it couldn't possibly be true. I just might have to give those a try! Thanks!
Hi, Carol--first a hearty CONGRATULATIONS! Blotanist of the Year, indeed. Easy to see and well deserved!
Now, crepe myrtle. I did a long post about six weeks ago and there was much interest about whether they might grow in colder climates, so I'm certain there will be folks who are glad you've added to that conversation and affirmed it can be done in your zone. Thank you!
I'm happy that you can grow them, Carol. Only it's a shame you won't have the twisted and muscular trunks of a mature tree.
I've grown up seeing this plant name spelled crepe myrtle, so I don't think I'll be changing my tune anytime soon. Tradition, you know.
Carol, our Lowe's had them on CLEARANCE! $12 and I didn't buy one! They were pretty good-sized, too - three to four feet. I just know I'm going to be sorry I didn't at least try one!
You've got to be kidding says I to the shrub buyer at our nursery - a crapemyrtle in Chicago ? Are you in zone denial ? He just smiled and said I was waiting to see the look on your face ! Then he pointed to the Magnolia Grandiflora 'Edith Bogue' and smirked.
Wish I had a bigger garden.
Like Pam, I grew up calling them crepe myrtles (NW Florida, you know), so I won't be changing any time soon, either. But bravo if you can grow them - I'd have a hard time existing without them.
The National Arboretum has introduced a number of hybrids that are root hardy to zone 6, but you know you can often "push" a zone if the conditions are right. The ones with Indian names are the hardier ones, but not all are root hardy to zone 6. The National Arboretum website has a lot of good information - Good Luck! I think everyone should be able to enjoy crepe myrtles, that most southern of blooming trees.
I've been so envious of Southern gardeners who show these beautiful trees. I just assumed they wouldn't grow here--hmmm, I may have to run over to our Lowe's and see if they have any.
You Southern gardeners wishing for lilacs don't have my sympathy (In fact you can have mine mildew and all). You have camellias, ceonothus and saphoras that I wish I could grow.
There is another set of cold hardier crepe myrtles called the azzle-dazzle series that stay as small shrubs for containers if necessary.
That shoiuld have been razzle dazzle.
I'm glad to hear it! I'm hoping to find one for my small garden (zone 6) next year, so it's good to hear that you can keep it low growning by cutting it back every year.
Good for you! We are overrun with crepe myrtles in my neck of the woods and though my gardening friends here would poo poo me, I like them. I have two. I have a large Natchez (white) in the front and a volunteer from the neighbors that is lavender. You know the good thing about them? They attract bees. Lots of 'em. That makes me happy. I don't prune my front one at all, unless it touches the roof. What would happen if you didn't prune yours? My mature one has the most wonderful cinnamon trunk!
You can grow lilacs AND peonies, and you want crape myrtles as well? OK, I'll agree on the condition that you only grow them as shrubs! I'd recommend you keep them away from swimming pools, though: they're messy when they shed.
Wow, it seems like most are viewing this as good news for us gardeners in zone 5. Just remember, pick varieties known to be root hardy and don't expect it to become a tree. We are in it for the blooms!
They are crepe myrtles here, like the crepes you eat and crepe paper -- because they're frilly, I imagine. There is a little hat over the first E. I want a crepe myrtle or two; I think they are fantastic plants, with the autumn colour (not all deciduous plants colour up here), the beautiful bark and the small size.
I live in West Lafayette and have had 2 Crape Mrytles for 3 years. This will be the fourth year. They do die back all thge way to the ground but reamerge every spring a little bigger than the year before.
I have been growing crapemyrtles in southeast Pennsylvania for 15 years. There are many varieties that grow well here and even develop into small to medium trees. Pink Velour is one of my favorites. Hopi, Tonto, Sarahs Favorite, and Acoma also do well.
I live in a far Chicago suburb and the 6 Crape Myrtles in various locations well away from the house have survived and grown significantly wider and stronger for the past 5 years. 4 of the 6 have flowers in 2011. The 2 exceptions are the "Country Red" that are in a mostly shade east understory garden. The 2 "Dynamite" have flowered 4 of their 5 years post winter. 2 Catawba looked dead after the winter of 2010 - 2011 but both are 3+ feet and have flowers. Yes they die back to the ground but they can reach 5 feet and flower by August when most everything else looks tired and dry. The foliage is also attractive and unusual for the area. Just cover with 12" of leaves in the fall and they will likely return the following year with no issues. for additional insurance, cover with snow if temps are to fall below 0.
I have a Crape Myrtle growing in Indianapolis on Geist Reservoir -Zone 5. Not the nicest winter weather. It is not a cut back. I do trim the suckers that grow on the sides, but it has 3 strong branches and is a story and a half high!
How can I get one of your crepe myrtle trees.


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Q: SAP Hybris Commerce - Initialize default value for a reference attribute I'm working on SAP Commerce (Hybris) 1811 and I'm trying to extend a Product type with a reference to a type ProductSales, which is going to contain product sales data and be filled via a cronjob.
However, I can't find a proper way to initialize this new type for all new and existing products. Even after a system update, this reference is uninitialized (null).
There should be a 1-to-1 relation between Product and ProductSales.
I'd like this referenced type to be initialized:

*

*During system update for all existing products which don't have the reference yet

*Create an instance for all newly created products

My items.xml definition:
<itemtype code="ProductSales" autocreate="true" generate="true" >
    <deployment table="productsales" typecode="15011" />
    <attributes>
        <attribute qualifier="unitsSold" type="localized:java.lang.Long">
            <description>Amount of units sold</description>
            <persistence type="property"/>
        </attribute>
        <attribute qualifier="ordersCount" type="localized:java.lang.Long">
            <description>Count of how many orders contained this product</description>
            <persistence type="property"/>
        </attribute>
    </attributes>
</itemtype>

<itemtype code="Product" autocreate="false" generate="false">
   ...
    <attribute qualifier="productSales" type="ProductSales">
        <description>Product Sales</description>
        <modifiers partof="true" optional="false" initial="true" />
        <persistence type="property"/>
    </attribute>
   ...
</itemtype>

The reason I'm not storing the data directly in the Product table, but as a reference, is that I don't want these data to be synchronized during catalog synchronization.
What would be the best way to initialize this new type for all products?
Thanks for any tips.

A: In the end, I solved this by creating the missing references in the cronjob itself. I only create this wrapper object in the staged catalog to be synced later.
By the way, I found that besides modifying the sync job, creating a wrapper object and keeping its reference synchronized between the catalogs is the solution recommended by SAP.

A: You can check for  of ProductSales typeCode .Because it may have been used before

A: I re-read your question and created a new answer.
I think it's easier if you just add the attributes to Product. After that, import the impex below to disable sync for the attributes you don't want to be synced. You will need to replace "MySyncJob" with the code that use for the sync job.
INSERT_UPDATE SyncAttributeDescriptorConfig;syncJob(code)[unique=true][path-delimiter=!];attributeDescriptor(enclosingType(code), qualifier)[unique=true];includedInSync;copyByValue
;MySyncJob;Product:unitsSold;false;false
;MySyncJob;Product:ordersCount;false;false

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YA Author Series - Author Spotlight: Pier Dye
What three things do we need to know about who you are and why you write . . .
I write because I cannot not write. I have written a scifi trilogy I have not published yet titled, Cats without bodies and Snakes With Wigs, Social Justice Abounds and Pop Goes The Monkey.
I home school two boys, ages 10 and 11. We are actually unschoolers, which means we learn differently than in a typical classroom. We were discussing time travel and watching you tube videos on the subject when the concept of the butterfly effect came up. My oldest had taken a keen interest in writing and we were looking for a new school project. Thus began our writing adventure!
Tell us about the story . . .
Ethan is an intelligent, solitary child. He as never met his father and his mother died in a car crash, shortly after they relocated from California to New York City to take care of is his grandmother. His grandmother is suffering from dementia but he and the superintendent in his building are conspiring to keep him out of foster care. On the last day of school, Ethan inadvertently travels back in time 100 years, while taking the subway to the beach. Trying to locate a surf shop he saw online, he winds up in New Jersey circa 1916 and encounters a group of boys around his age. Realizing the year he has arrived in, he is privy to the immediate future because he has just studied it in school. When he discovers one of his newfound friend's fathers is about to die in the impending catastrophe, he determines to save the lives of those who died in the infamous Black Tom Island explosion in New Jersey and adventure ensues!
What are three things you want us to know as we read?
Ethan is completely dependent on these boys who have befriended him. He has no money and knows no one from this time. The boys think Ethan had merely accidentally stranded himself overnight and they feed him and let him stay in their secret fort. Meanwhile, Ethan is more worried about leaving his grandmother alone than what may happen to him.
Where can we find this story? Where can we find you (IG, Twitter, FB, website).
You can follow me on IG pier_fuhrman and Twitter, Piersbellavita,
The book has yet to be published. We are currently seeking publication.
From Sweetie and the Secret Fort by Pier Dye
Sweetie was eating the crust Ethan had pulled off his sandwich. For such a small dog she had quite an appetite!
Despite being born in California, Ethan had never spent much time at the beach before. But he regretted that now. He was thoroughly enjoying himself today until he heard someone yelling.
"Hey you over there!" It was coming from behind him. Several men were moving rapidly towards Ethan and his new friends. One minute Ethan was relaxing, sitting on the beach, watching the waves and enjoying this newfound camaraderie and then a loud yell spoiled everything! "Zats zem," he heard someone say in a heavy German accent.
"Time to go," George said without hesitation!
"What," Ethan asked confused?
"Ethan, you stick with James, I'll try to lead them away," George continued. Then he stood and waved a friendly hello to the group of men descending upon them, just before abruptly turning and running upshore.
Everything was happening so fast Ethan barely had time to scoop Sweetie up and place her in his bag before James scrambled up in a flurry. "Divide and conquer," James declared, taking off in the opposite direction of George!
Ethan was still slinging his bag over his shoulder as he jumped up to follow James, running as quickly as he could. "Why are we running," Ethan called out to James?
"That's the Sheriff back there with those two Germans we saw earlier. If they can't catch us they can't accuse us," James said, between breaths!
"Accuse us of what," Ethan asked?
"I'd rather not wait to find out," James said.
Ethan didn't much like that answer. But it made a certain amount of sense and there wasn't much time to think!They ran as fast as they could and although Ethan had no idea where they were going, why they were running, or even if they were being persued, he continued to run.
They cut right and ran towards the fort but then crossed over and went the other way, through a copse of trees. They passed a small pond and had gone so far inland they had completely lost sight of the ocean. By this point Ethan was so hopelessly lost he had no choice but to continue following James.
Finally, James stopped behind a tree and Ethan joined him. Both were bent over leaning with their hands on their knees, and both were breathless. "I think George threw them off our trail," James whispered hopefully.
Ethan checked to make sure the tiny dog in his bag was not jostled around too severely and asked, "So what now?"
"I live right there," James whispered softly, pointing to a house in the distance, "and I'm going to the shed out back to start working on a project that's almost finished. If they come asking, I'll say I've been there all day. "And you . . . " James paused and looked around thinking before continuing, "You are going to sit right there in that old outhouse," he said, as inspiration struck! "Just until we're sure we weren't followed. Then I'll walk back with you to the fort," he said, still whispering.
Ethan had no idea what he was caught up in but he didn't like it. He still wasn't even sure why they were running in the first place. But he understood that James was trying to look out for him so he stepped inside the outhouse and sat down. He was just pulling Sweetie out of the bag when James whispered through a knot hole in the wood on the back wall of the tiny outhouse, "Whatever you do, don't open up that door until I come back. Understand?"
"Yes," Ethan whispered back. But he didn't understand. He didn't understand at all.
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The Muslim population of Surrey has been historically based around the major commercial centres of the county, with North West Surrey being close to higher concentrations of followers in neighbouring towns such as Kingston, Hounslow, Southall, or further towards London.
Woking hosts the oldest mosque in Britain and was the most popular focal point for bi-annual Eid prayer celebrations, in the area.
More regularly, Surrey-based muslims would usually need to travel quite far to attend Friday prayers or Ramadan festivities at a mosque.
Daily prayer attendance would always be difficult, with worshippers gathering informally at private residences.
Eventually, a group of dedicated British-Bangladeshi elders decided establish a trust, with the long-term goal of establishing a permanent prayer facility or fully-fledged mosque, to serve the local communities outside the Kingston and Woking areas.
Surrey Islamic Trust was subsequently created and registered in mid-1992, with regular donations from the local community. These funds were initially used to hire a space, such as Weybridge Village Hall, or Addlestone Community Centre, for Friday prayers which began with 20-30 worshippers and quickly grew to a regular 80-100 every week, with donations increasing over time.
A fundraising committee was established which, following larger individual contributions, were able to purchase a building in Addlestone, that was large enough to accomodate a larger congregation. The growing congregation faced various obstacles in establishing the site for prayer, as permission was only granted for learning or education purposes and, as the group continued to grow, the trust continued to search for a larger, more suitable premises that would allow worship to take place.
By the Grace of God/Allah, news of the the Surrey Islamic Trust reached an enlightened priest at a nearby church, St. Augustine's, close to the Addlestone/Weybridge border. He understood the plight of the congregation and, having a shared belief in the worship of One God, graciously offered to sell the church building and grounds, with its' Licence to Worship, to be purchased by S.I.T. in 2008, from the proceeds of the sale of the Addlestone premises.
The Surrey Muslim Centre was subsequently established at Albert Road, Addlestone, close to the mainline railway station and with easy access to the M25 and surrounding towns.
The congregation has grown significantly in the 10 years since, with the addition of washing (ablution) facilities and, more recently, clean-room facilities for Muslim pre-burial process, transportation and ritual body washing (Ghusl) of deceased.
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Q: HttpClient 301 Moved Permanently I am trying to get data through an api and api has token header. When I get the endpoint from postman, I return data without error. But when I try to do this in c# using HttpClient there are two cases:

*

*AllowAutoRedirect = false; => "301 Moved" code returns and I cannot receive data.

*AllowAutoRedirect = true; => The API works but pretends to ignore the token header and gives an authorization error.

My codes is here:
 public async Task<string> CallWebAPIAsync()
        {

            HttpClientHandler clientHandler = new HttpClientHandler();

            clientHandler.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
            //clientHandler.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
            clientHandler.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

            using (var client = new HttpClient(clientHandler))
            {
                client.BaseAddress = new Uri(baseUrl);
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("authorization", "Token 5b187bd62127baace");
                client.Timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30000);

                var response = await client.GetAsync(endPoint).ConfigureAwait(false);

               return await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

            }
        }

How can I pass the header values to the redirected page?
EDIT:
As @Mekroebo said, I directly redirected to the Location value returned from the response and my problem was solved.


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import rethinkdb as r
import time
import settings

#call right when people are starting (opening the level editor/leaving main menu)
def startGame():
    if settings.connectionSettings['ip'] == "localhost":
        conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))
        if len(r.table_list().run(conn)) == 0:
            r.table_create('levels').run(conn)
            r.table_create('users').run(conn)

        if r.table('levels').count().run(conn) > 0:
            r.table('levels').delete().run(conn)
            r.table('users').delete().run(conn)

        r.table('users').insert({'username' : settings.connectionSettings['user'], 'time' : 999, 'done': False, 'type' : 'player', 'pos' : (0,0)}).run(conn)
        r.table('users').insert({'numUsers' : 1 , 'type' : 'numUsers'}).run(conn)

    else:
        conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))

        if len(r.table_list().run(conn)) != 0: #firstly, check if there are tables on the db
            if r.table('users').filter({'done': True}).count().run(conn) > 0: #if this is true surely we are looking at old data
                for changes in r.table('users').filter({'done': True}).changes().run(conn): #post up here to check for changes
                    break #if anything changes than our stuff is updated (almost definitely)

        r.table('users').insert({'username' : settings.connectionSettings['user'], 'time' : 999, 'done': False, 'type' : 'player', 'pos' : (0,0)}).run(conn)
        r.table('users').filter({'type':'numUsers'}).update({'numUsers' : r.row['numUsers']+1}).run(conn)

#called when level is finished building, should force the players to wait, takes in an array that is the level
def levelBuilt(levelArray):
    conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))
    r.table('levels').insert({'level' : levelArray, 'type' : 'level' }).run(conn)

    waiting = True

    while waiting:
        numPlayersCursor = r.table('users').filter({'type' : 'numUsers'}).run(conn)
        numPlayersList = list(numPlayersCursor)
        numPlayers = numPlayersList[0]['numUsers']
        print numPlayers
        numFinishedCursor = r.table('levels').filter({'type' : 'level'}).run(conn)
        numFinishedList = list(numFinishedCursor)
        numFinished = len(numFinishedList)
        print numFinished
        if numPlayers == numFinished:
            waiting = False
            #we move onto the game
        else:
            time.sleep(1)

#returns an array of levels (each level is of course its own array)
def getLevels():
    conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))
    levelsCursor = r.table('levels').run(conn)
    Levels = []
    for level in levelsCursor:
        tiles = level['level']
        Levels.append(tiles)
        #ok now you have the tiles of the level
    return Levels

#returns list of positions as tuples, takes in our players position as a tuple (x,y,level)
def updatePlayerPositions(playerPosition):
    conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))
    r.table('users').filter({'username' : settings.connectionSettings['user']}).update({'pos' : playerPosition}).run(conn)

    usersCursor = r.table('users').filter({'type':'player'}).run(conn)
    positions = []
    for user in usersCursor:
        if(user['username'] == settings.connectionSettings['user']):
           pass
        else:
            positions.append(user['pos'])
        #This is the position of every user as a tuple (x,y,level)
    return positions

#called when the player finishes the round, takes in his time to finish and returns the winner of the round
def roundFinished(timeToFinish):
    conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))
    r.table('users').filter({'username' : settings.connectionSettings['user']}).update({'time': timeToFinish}).run(conn)
    r.table('users').filter({'username' : settings.connectionSettings['user']}).update({'done': True}).run(conn)

    while True:
        numPlayersCursor = r.table('users').filter({'type' : 'numUsers'}).run(conn)
        numPlayersList = list(numPlayersCursor)
        numPlayers = numPlayersList[0]['numUsers']
        numFinishedCursor = r.table('users').filter({'done' : True}).run(conn)
        numFinishedList = list(numFinishedCursor)
        numFinished = len(numFinishedList)
        if numPlayers == numFinished:
            players = r.table('users').filter({'type' : 'player'}).run(conn)
            fastest = 999999 #don't be fat and slower than this
            for document in players:
               if document['time'] < fastest:
                    fastest = document['time']
                    winner = document['username']
            return winner
        else:
            time.sleep(1)

#if the same crew of people want to play again call this, and then jump into the level editor
def restartGame():
    if settings.connectionSettings['ip'] == "localhost":
        conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))
        r.table('levels').delete().run(conn)

        r.table('users').filter({'type' : 'player'}).update({'time' : 999}).run(conn)
        r.table('users').filter({'type' : 'player'}).update({'done' : False}).run(conn)
    else:
        conn = r.connect(settings.connectionSettings['ip'], int(settings.connectionSettings['port']))

        if len(r.table_list().run(conn)) != 0: #firstly, check if there are tables on the db
            if r.table('users').filter({'done': True}).count().run(conn) > 0: #if this is true surely we are looking at old data
                for changes in r.table('users').filter({'done': True}).changes().run(conn): #post up here to check for changes
                    break #if anything changes than our stuff is updated (almost definitely)

        #nothing actually happens for the clients here, they should just be held up until the host has reset the game. Upon which they go back into the level editor and things continue

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Station Grajewo is een spoorwegstation in de Poolse plaats Grajewo.

Grajewo


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Mansowie (dawniej "Wogułowie", w staroruskich kronikach "Jugrowie", nazwa własna Mańś lub Moańś) – naród ugrofiński zamieszkujący zachodnią Syberię pomiędzy Uralem a rzeką Ob. Posługują się językiem mansyjskim, należącym do języków ugryjskich, oraz – coraz częściej – językiem rosyjskim.

Liczebność
Według danych z 2002 r. Federację Rosyjską zamieszkiwało 11 432 Mansów, głównie w Chanty-Mansyjskim Okręgu Autonomicznym (9894 osób) oraz w pozostałej części obwodu tiumeńskiego (667 osób), a także w obwodzie swierdłowskim (259 osób). 11 Mansów zamieszkuje Republikę Komi.

W Chanty-Mansyjskim Okręgu Autonomicznym, będącym w założeniu jednostką podziału terytorialnego, w którym Mansowie posiadają autonomię i od których wziął on swą nazwę, Mansowie stanowią ok. 0,67% populacji.

Historia
Nazwa Manś (Moańś) w języku mansyjskim oznacza "człowiek".

Naród wykształcił się w rezultacie zmieszania się miejscowych, neolitycznych plemion uralskich z napływowymi plemionami uralskimi, które w II–I tys. p.n.e. przez stepy i lasostepy zachodniej Syberii i Kazachstanu przybyły do północno-wschodniego skrawka Europy (świadomość owego dwuskładnikowego pochodzenia narodu zachowana została w tradycji podziału Mansów na dwie grupy: Por i Moś).

Pierwotnie Mansowie zamieszkiwali tereny położone na zachód od obecnie zasiedlanych ziem, w górach Uralu i po ich zachodniej, europejskiej stronie, jednak w XI–XIV w. z obszarów tych wyparli ich Komiacy oraz Rosjanie. Pierwsze kontakty z cywilizacją europejską Mansowie nawiązali za pośrednictwem ruskim (nowogrodzkim) w XI w. W staroruskich kronikach Mansowie nazywani są mianem Jugrowie, która to nazwa została przez Nowogrodzian zapożyczona od Komiaków, określających Mansów mianem Jögra. (Tą samą nazwą określani byli także spokrewnieni z Mansami Chantowie, zamieszkujący bardziej na wschód).

W XVI w. tereny obecnie zamieszkane przez Mansów zostały przyłączone do Rosji. Kolonizacja rosyjska sprawiła, iż już w XVII w. Mansowie stali się mniejszością na zajmowanych terenach.

Po utworzeniu Związku Radzieckiego Mansowie, wspólnie z pokrewnymi kulturalnie i językowo Chantami otrzymali niewielką autonomię w ramach utworzonego 10 grudnia 1930 Ostjako-Wogulskiego Okręgu Autonomicznego (w 1940 r. przemianowanego na Chanty-Mansyjski Okręg Autonomiczny). Autonomia ta istnieje do dziś.

Religia
Do XVIII w. Mansowie wyznawali szamanizm, następnie lud ten formalnie został schrystianizowany, jednak liczne przeżytki poprzedniej religii przetrwały do dziś. Po okresie walki z rodzimymi wierzeniami w XIX w., a następnie po walce z wszelkimi przejawami religii w Związku Radzieckim, większość Mansów wyznaje prawosławie, zaś niektórzy wracają do tradycyjnych, rodzimych wierzeń. Nawet wśród prawosławnych istnieją silne tradycje nawiązujące do starej religii: żywy jest kult duchów opiekuńczych i przodków, istnieje kult niedźwiedzia.

Kultura
W obrębie narodu Mansów istnieją dwie grupy ludzi: Por i Moś. Różnią je obyczaje i tradycyjnie wywodzone pochodzenie. Por uważani są za potomków autochtonicznych ludów łowiecko-rybackich, zaś Moś – za potomków napływowych, koczowniczych Ugrów. W wersji bardziej zmitologizowanej przodkiem Por był niedźwiedź, zaś Moś – kobieta Kałtasz, przedstawiana w postaci rysia, zajęczycy lub motyla.

Charakterystyczną cechą Mansów jest egzogamia. Mężczyźni z grupy Por mogą zawierać związki małżeńskie tylko z kobietami z grupy Moś, zaś mężczyźni z grupy Moś – z kobietami z grupy Por.

Mansowie posiadają bogaty folklor i mitologię; zaliczani są do rdzennych ludów Syberii; podobnie jak w przypadku innych ludów z tej grupy rodzime tradycje są zagrożone poprzez wypieranie ich przez kulturę zachodnią, głównie rosyjską.

Dla ochrony mansyjskiego dziedzictwa kulturowego powołanych zostało kilka fundacji, jednak proces zaniku tradycji narodowych postępuje i jest związany z rozwojem gospodarczym i procesami urbanizacyjnymi.

Tradycyjne domy Mansów dzielą się na stałe i sezonowe – zakładane w miejscach pobytu przez myśliwych i hodowców reniferów, w okresie wiosenno-jesiennym.

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Język mansyjski (dawniej język wogulski), zaliczany do grupy ugryjskiej w uralskiej rodzinie językowej, jest językiem zagrożonym wymarciem, wypieranym przez rosyjski; spośród ok. 10 000 Mansów ojczystym językiem posługuje się tylko ok. 3000 osób zamieszkujących głównie małe ośrodki osadnicze; w większych Mansowie posługują się rosyjskim. Badaniem języka mansyjskiego zajmowali się uczeni węgierscy i fińscy, którzy wyodrębnili w nim cztery podstawowe dialekty. Najwięcej mówiących używa dialektu północnego, dialekt południowy praktycznie wymarł. Od XX wieku język mansyjski posiada skromną literaturę zapisywaną początkowo alfabetem łacińskim, a od 1937 r. – cyrylicą.

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Tradycyjne zajęcia Mansów to: myślistwo, rybołówstwo i hodowla reniferów (przejęta od plemion samojedzkich w XIV w.), a od XVIII w. także uprawa roli i chów bydła.

W okresie ZSRR działalność gospodarcza w tych dziedzinach odbywała się w obrębie kołchozów.

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Q: Using the Ubiquity Container after all files have been deleted We are using the iCloud ubiquity container along with a derivative of UIDocument to store a users backup files in iCloud. Recently it occurred to us, that if we delete the files we have stored via the iOS devices settings unter Settings > Apple-ID > iCloud > Manage Storage, we are not able to use the ubiquity container anymore.
We still get a URL for the container via NSFileManager.GetUrlForUbiquityContainer(null) (we are using Xamarin, hence C#, FWIF, but I don't think it matters that much), but neither will saving the UIDocument save anything to iCloud (at least not as far as I can tell, Manage storage won't show our app, let alone any files), nor will getting saved files with a NSMetadataQuery with SearchScopes = new NSObject[] { NSMetadataQuery.UbiquitousDocumentsScope } } return anything.
I've tried disabling and enabling iCloud for our app, reinstalling (from visual studio and from TestFlight) and explicitly creating the ubiquity container folder from out app, but to no avail.
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Moglea is an Iowa-based letterpress studio that focuses on the craft of artful stationery and paper goods. Production processes are done by hand and make each piece one-of-a-kind. Moglea was launched in May of 2012 by Chad and Meg Gleason. After moving to Chad's family farm in Audubon, Iowa, they bought a century-old letterpress and started creating the Moglea line. Meg sought to bring unexpected processes like dip dye and hand painting to the fine stationery market.


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The candidates in the 2021 Pa. Supreme Court race, Democrat Maria McLaughlin (left) and Republican Kevin Brobson, have raised more than $6 million this year.
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November 3, 2021 | 5:03 AM
Republican Kevin Brobson wins seat on Pennsylvania Supreme Court as GOP appears poised to sweep appellate races
The race between Democrat Maria McLaughlin and Republican Kevin Brobson was marked by big campaign spending and negative ads.
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Danielle is an investigative reporter covering the Capitol for Spotlight PA. She previously worked at The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, where she won a Pulitzer Prize special citation with her newsroom for covering the mass shooting of her own colleagues. She worked with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network investigating thousands of lawsuits filed by the Annapolis housing authority against tenants. With The Capital, she covered city hall, the U.S. Naval Academy and the COVID-19 pandemic. She is an avid home cook, plant mom and will gladly take pie recipes alongside news tips.
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Angela Couloumbis has covered government, politics, courts and crime for The Philadelphia Inquirer since 1996. She has reported on forest fires in the Rocky Mountains, riots in Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati, the mob's effort to infiltrate city hall in New Jersey's poorest city and the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
For the past 13 years, she has focused on government and politics in the Pennsylvania State Capitol, shedding light on backroom dealing and corruption. She was part of a two-member reporting team that, in 2014, exposed a secret effort by the state Attorney General's office to shut down an investigation into lawmakers who accepted envelopes stuffed with cash from an undercover government informant. The reporting led to a series of resignations and criminal convictions over several years. She has spent the past 18 months focused on investigative reporting on the #metoo movement in Pennsylvania. Her coverage has included projects on secret, taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements in the Legislature and state government.
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(Harrisburg) — Republican Kevin Brobson edged out Democrat Maria McLaughlin to win a spot on Pennsylvania's highest court, ending a contentious race marked by negative ads and big campaign spending.
Unofficial election results early Wednesday showed Brobson, currently a Commonwealth Court judge, with 53% of the vote. The Associated Press called the race at 1:30 a.m.
With Brobson's projected victory, Republicans will keep one of their two seats on the seven-member court with another election looming. Chief Justice Max Baer, a Democrat, will turn 75 at the end of 2022 and face mandatory retirement.
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Many Republicans contend electing appellate judges by districts rather than in statewide partisan contests — as is currently the process — will ensure that the state Supreme Court, Superior Court, and Commonwealth Court reflect the state's diverse geography.
The new court will be closely watched. Within the next year, it is likely to consider controversial and politically charged cases surrounding elections, redistricting, and abortion. The 2022 governor's race could also set the stage for the court to continue to mediate policy and other disputes between the new administration and the GOP-controlled legislature.
Republican candidates appeared poised to sweep Tuesday's appellate court elections. Megan Sullivan, a former Pennsylvania deputy attorney general, was projected to defeat Democrat Timika Lane for a spot on Superior Court, which handles civil and criminal appeals. Attorney Stacy Wallace won a seat on Commonwealth Court, the venue for suits involving state agencies, while Drew Crompton, already an appointee to the court, was leading the two Democrats in the race to secure a permanent position.
Brobson, who will replace outgoing Republican Justice Thomas Saylor, has served on Commonwealth Court since 2010 — for the past year, as its president judge. Before that, he was a lawyer with Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, where he worked in commercial litigation and administrative law.
Among the more notable cases he handled during his tenure in Commonwealth Court was one centered around the question of whether Pennsylvania's congressional districts, drawn in 2011, unfairly benefited Republicans.
In that case, Brobson said partisan considerations played a role in drawing the map, but that a degree of partisanship is acceptable in the redistricting process. He said plaintiffs in the case had not proved the map crossed the line, and recommended that the high court let the existing map stand. The Supreme Court later rejected Brobson's recommendation and ordered a new map.
Brobson also authored a majority opinion in 2019 that expanded the ability of gun owners and others, including people outside the state, to challenge firearms restrictions in Pennsylvania cities with, often stricter, local laws. During the campaign, Brobson highlighted his record on the issue and his endorsements by gun-rights groups.
The state Supreme Court just last month upheld that decision, which is expected to open the gate to similar lawsuits across the state.
In the lead-up to this year's election, Brobson and McLaughlin raised $6.1 million — much of that in the waning weeks of the race. Brobson, with significant financial support from the state Republican Party, brought in more than $470,000 between Oct. 19 and 29, campaign filings show. That does not include an additional $447,000 in independent expenditures made on his behalf by groups that are not permitted under the law to coordinate directly with a candidate.
McLaughlin raised just over $225,000 in direct donations during the same period, with $80,000 coming from Fairness PA, a political action committee associated with unions and lawyers in Philadelphia. Outside groups spent another $101,000 in independent expenditures on her behalf.
The two spent the bulk of their money on campaign consultants and ads that became increasingly sharp over the course of their contest.
Less than a week before Election Day, Brobson's campaign revised an attack ad that the state bar association said violated its standards for accuracy and integrity in campaign advertising.
The ad added additional context to its claim that McLaughlin voided the guilty plea of a drunk driver who admitted to killing a pregnant woman. McLaughlin in fact joined a majority opinion that sent the case back to a trial court after the defendant hadn't been adequately advised before entering his plea. In the lower court, he again pleaded guilty and is still in state prison.
Brobson's campaign also removed claims that McLaughlin's top donor is "indicted by the FBI for political bribery." Labor leader John Dougherty, currently on trial on federal corruption charges, manages a campaign fund for Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The union PAC is a top McLaughlin donor.
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In this photo made on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, Judge Kevin Brobson, center, greets people after attending the Amen Corner luncheon in Pittsburgh.
In the coming months, the state Supreme Court will decide a case challenging Pennsylvania's ban on abortion coverage through the Medical Assistance program. Separately, the justices are widely expected to hear any legal challenges arising from the state's efforts to redraw congressional and state legislative districts.
The justices will likely be asked to weigh in on a controversial review being undertaken by the state Senate of the 2020 presidential election, as well as a major education lawsuit over equitable funding for low-income school districts.
Pennsylvania's appellate judges are elected in statewide contests, but that could change in the future. Some Republican lawmakers are pushing a proposal to create regional districts for these judges, a change that would require the approval of the voters. The earliest such a question could appear on the ballot is 2023.
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Missing data is a common problem that appears in many real applications. Handling missing data is a essential requirement for pattern classification because inappropriate treatment of missing data may cause large errors or false results on classification. A classical approach is to estimate and fill the missing values. Up to now, proposed methods are efficient but they do not focus the missing data estimation to pattern classification. In this work, we propose a novel neural network that uses the advantages of Multitask Learning (MTL) to classify patterns with incomplete data. A MTL neural network learns at the same time the classification task and the different task associated to incomplete features. Missing data estimation is guided and oriented by the classification task during the MTL process. Obtained results based on real and artificial classification problems demonstrate the advantages of the proposed algorithm.


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Business Structuring should include legitimate tax reduction strategies.
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Options for Asset Protection to be undertaken during insolvency are more limited. For example, insolvency limits the manner in which assets can be transferred, quite justifiably to protect creditors and ensure they are not deprived of assets (or the proceeds of sale of assets) that they would otherwise have access to in a liquidation.
Some of the consequences of a failed business are well known (eg director liability for insolvent trading), but others are less well known and are sometimes overlooked in asset protection strategies.
Holding company liability for insolvent trading. Not only can a director (or de facto director or shadow director) be liable for insolvent trading, but so too can a holding company be liable for the insolvent trading of its subsidiary. That is, the holding company can be held liable for the debts of a failed subsidiary, in circumstances similar to insolvent trading. See s588V Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Accordingly, if the "asset holding company" (ie the company who owns the assets) is also the holding company of the trading subsidiary, the level of protection achieved by separating the assets from the trading subsidiary is eroded in a liquidation of the subsidiary.
Drawings and wages. In order to avoid having to pay tax on wages, shareholders (with a director in the company) often take "drawings" which are effectively loans by the company to the shareholder which are classified/converted as dividends when profits are determined. Of course, if the company is insolvent then there is likely to be no profit, and therefore no dividends. That means the drawings cannot be classified as dividends, and the shareholder must repay the whole of the drawings as a loan, as opposed to having only paid a percentage of it in tax if it was taken as a wage.
If there are other secured creditors, have less chance of recovering any of the director/shareholder's loan from the company, given that unsecured creditors rank after secured creditors, after liquidator's fees, after priority creditors (eg employees), and after 'circulating' secured creditors. Then (if anything is left) unsecured creditors participate for their fair share of the remainder of assets in proportion to their debts (known as pari passu).
If the company had re-paid some of the debt to the director/shareholder when the company was insolvent, the director/shareholder may be at risk of a claim by the liquidator to claw back those re-payments as an unfair preference.
Good lawyers can separate assets from some risk. Great lawyers can separate assets from risk and work together with a client's accountant to determine a strategy which accounts for where on the scale of protection -v- tax minimization a client's current needs are and future needs dictate.
Only in that way, will a client be able to make informed decisions, armed with the ability to adapt as needs be.


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Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and adjoining buildings were purchased by the Kohler Foundation, Inc., in 1950, and restored under the direction of the young lady's mother, the late Mrs. Herbert V. Kohler. Her father, Herbert V. Kohler, chairman of the Kohler Foundation, is standing on the left. Other people can be seen standing behind the white fence and on the porch.


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March 23, 2012 Updated: July 27, 2017 4:56 a.m.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Sheriff's deputies said a woman threw powder on Kim Kardashian in the lobby of a West Hollywood hotel where the television personality was hosting an event.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said deputies were called to the unidentified hotel on North San Vicente Boulevard shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday.
Deputy Peter Gomez said the woman who allegedly threw the powder was detained by hotel security and later released at the scene.
Gomez said Kardashian told the deputies she did not want to press charges against the woman and a non-criminal battery report was taken
Gomez said paramedics were called to the hotel, but Kardashian refused medical treatment.
He said Kardashian returned to her room, removed the powder from her hair and clothing and returned to the event.


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The "Star Wars Rebels" animated series, set five years before the events of "Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope," tells the story of the Rebellion's beginnings. The animated series broadcasts on Disney XD every Monday night, and has been an excellent filler while we wait for J. J. Abrams to finish up "The Force Unleashed." True Star Wars fans now have a new iOS game to play based on the Disney XD series, Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions.
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Collect and manage Phoenix Emblems and other resources to raise "Hope" to get power-up boosts.
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Another beautiful night in San Jose for photography! So many times in photography are spent waiting for the perfect set of circumstances in which to capture the magic of a scene. These exercises can take months, if not years to complete to get the perfect set of conditions for amazing images. Saturday night was one of those rare events for our Darkside workshop. Stephen Oachs himself, along with Scott Donschikowski, shuttled out 12 eager photographers to our location nestled in the Almaden countryside for what was to be a great night of long exposure photography.
After a brief welcome to our guests and explanation of the nights events, we quickly got in the van and brought everyone on location because that night, a full moon had a rise time just as the sun had set, and coupled with that rarity, the weather had changed dramatically in our favor and drastically reduced all the haze that had stuck around the horizon since our last outing almost two weeks prior.
We got everyone set up, tripods and large tele zoom lenses pointed on the horizon eagerly awaiting the rising harvest moon. It did not disappoint. Rising slowly right over a perfectly placed oak tree off in the distance, proved a dramatic beginning to our workshop. Once the light slowly began to fade, and the moon rising out of its composition with the tree, we switched our focus to framing the moon itself, trying to capture all its detail.
The light slowly ebbed away, and the stars began to peer out from the blue sky, and with the last available light we switched gears again and had everyone switch to their wide angle lenses and began composing our shot for the star trails and light writing. Scott was up for the challenge, and after a few miscues with writing backwards (he was a little rusty) and breaking a couple hand held lights (which gave raucous laughter) he succeeded and the students had some pretty cool unique images to take home.
From there we began the last part in the workshop; long exposure with star trails. Stephen and Scott each gave explanations on how to minimize noise by capturing many images and then using a Photoshop stacking technique, having the final image look as though it was one continuous shot. We spent the rest of the night taking frame after frame to build a rather long 45-50 minute exposure, each frame varying between 5-10 minutes each.
After a time, the moon slowly crept into our perfectly placed compositions, which meant the night had come to an end, and right on time to get everyone back into van and back to their respective vehicles to start another journey of processing their newfound images and to try the new techniques they had learned. It was another great night out for The Cad!
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