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A Lure of Light
Joshua Hall
A small blade cut around the edge of a can of tuna. The distinct motor hummed cheerfully and attracted the attention of Muffins.
The cat's head peeked around a corner and into the kitchen. Its stubby nose sniffed the pungent air. Every morning the air smelled a bit different.
"Just cauterizing some moldy eggplants," said a man in a white lab coat. In his left hand was a cup of coffee and in his right was a soldering gun. He took a sip of the coffee and smiled at his cat.
The cat meowed and entered the room. Muffins was a longhaired breed whose white fur matched the lab coat of her owner. She walked towards the can opener, which stood on the end of a crowded table.
In front of the can opener laid a pile of overdue electrical bills. The man swept these onto the floor in annoyance with his right knuckle and beckoned Muffins up to the open spot.
The can opener sensed Muffins' presence. A metal spatula from the machine scraped the tuna out of the can and dropped it into a blue bowl. A claw then took the empty can, rotated, and dropped the can into a wastebasket. Next, the claw grabbed a new can out of an opening at the base of a separate cylindrical container, and wedged it in place next to the blade to be opened later in the evening.
This automatic can opener was one of hundreds of machines in Dr. G Louis Manzaro's home. Most of the machines were for Dr. Manzaro's experiments and studies. One such machine in front of him was injecting mysterious liquids into a row of decayed purple fruits.
"You see," he said, glancing at his cat as it ate the tuna, "The gasses released by the mold react with the compounds in the serum. And the serum bonds with the solder, so the reaction stays inside the eggplant."
Muffins seemed to nod as she ate the tuna.
"Yes, I agree. Hopefully this time it will explode. Well—here we go." Dr. Manzaro set to work on soldering the openings. The great hissing sound and odor from the soldering added to the already noisy and smelly kitchen, which, like all of the other rooms in the house, had been transformed into its own type of laboratory.
While Dr. Manzaro finished his experiment, Muffins finished her tuna. It was a high-quality brand, but it was never quite like a real fish.
A few minutes later, Dr. Manzaro sequestered the experiment in a containment chamber in the wall of the kitchen enclosed by reinforced glass. He waited for an explosion, but none came. He waited still longer, and none came. After about a half hour of waiting, he concluded in disappointment that the eggplants were likely a dud, but that it probably wasn't safe to take them out and examine them in case the explosion was still delayed. Thus, he took the opportunity to feed his newest pet.
He exited the kitchen and went into the living room. Muffins followed.
The distinguishing feature of the living room was not the rotating conveyor belt, nor the piles of wires connected to pulsing circuit boards, nor the digital monitors crunching numbers. No, the thing that stood out was a steel door with no handle, connected to a panel mounted on the wall. All other rooms had free entry.
Dr. Manzaro placed his right hand on the panel, which scanned his fingerprints. A moment later, the digital panel read "Scan completed. Open?" He touched a green confirmation box that said "Yes."
With a slow hiss of air, the door slowly opened outward and revealed a short hallway, more of a cabin, only around 6 feet long and 7 feet high, with another similar door on the other side. A florescent panel in the ceiling cast light into the cabin. The walls were lined with vents, and the air was dry and stale.
On a hook next to the panel outside the cabin was a hooded winter coat. Dr. Manzaro put on the coat over his lab coat, as well as a pair of thick gloves that were in the coat's inner pocket. He then stepped into the cabin and reached for the handle on the inner side of the door. As he closed the door, Muffins jumped through the crack and joined him.
"You want to come?" he said, as Muffins curled up to his leg. "I told you, I'm not sure it's ready for kitties."
Muffins purred and stayed put.
"Well…it has been a successful first week…"
Muffins swished her tail back and forth.
"…and I suppose my tests have shown that you can withstand the pressure and cold…and I guess you are curious about what I've been hiding…"
Muffins cocked her head and meowed.
"Oookay. I guess it will be fine. Everything is in order. Little Muffins finally gets to see my new experiment!" Dr. Manzaro reached down and patted her on the head. Yes—he was silly to worry—Muffins hadn't hurt herself around any of his other experiments, and this one should be fine, too.
He closed the door, turned, and stepped to the other door in the end of the cabin next to a similar panel to the one outside. Here, he scanned his hand again, and a different option popped up: "Pressurize?" He touched the box that said "Yes," then stepped back.
A deep churning noise of generators starting filled the cabin. Air flowed out of the vents on one side and into the vents on the other. Each pass of the air circulation made the room seem a bit more oppressive, as if invisible hands were pushing down on the shoulders of Dr. Manzaro and Muffins. This weight grew heavier until it reached a set limit and stopped increasing.
"I wouldn't lay down," said Dr. Manzaro, in a voice that had become much deeper and raspy. He glanced at his cat and smiled. "It will be hard to get up again. Just brace yourself, and you'll get used to the pressure. When I get tired, I like to think of the super-heavy Oxygen isotopes giving me a nice bear hug."
With the cabin at its designated pressure, the generators slowed down and the air became still again.
Dr. Manzaro took a few deep breaths with long pauses between each. The air was heavier, but simultaneously heartier; it wasn't necessary to breathe as often, as the richness of the Oxygen permeated the bloodstream and sustained the body with longer-lasting energy. It was like every breath was a bite of chocolate cake rather than a nibble of lettuce. The isotopes were Dr. Manzaro's greatest invention, as well as the excuse to get his newest pet.
"One step at a time, Muffins," he said, trudging two of his own forward to the door. He grunted and lifted his hand to the panel, scanned his hand, and pressed a button that said "Open." "Someday I'll add voice activation," he muttered. "Let's go, Muffins. You were the one who wanted to come."
The cat meowed and it sounded like a growl. Her legs were shaking and looked ready to collapse. She meow-growled again, then took one, then two, then three steps forward. Her momentum made it easier to keep moving, and she followed Dr. Manzaro out of the cabin.
Dr. Manzaro closed the door behind her. All light vanished. It was quite cold and completely dark. He stood for a minute and let his eyes adjust.
Muffins' eyes adjusted much more quickly than his. She saw two dim lights in the darkness up ahead. One of the lights was small and red, and seemed to be attached to the wall on the right. The other light was like a pale, glowing, yellow orb, drifting about of its own accord. Enraptured by the moving light, she plodded towards it.
Behind her, Dr. Manzaro waited and squinted into the darkness. Especially in the heightened air pressure, he did not want to step on his cat. Soon he heard a slight crackling sound accompanied by tiny sparks a little ways in front of his feet. The sparks were being set off by Muffins as she moved forward.
"Excellent," he chuckled. "The magic of a shag carpet. No extra light needed."
He moved in step behind Muffins, who had turned into a little ball of static electricity.
The sparks sent off by Muffins seemed to attract the attention of the yellow orb of light. The light stopped drifting and became still a few feet above the ground.
As Muffins approached, she could detect a form behind the light. The form first revealed two rows of long, pointed teeth like daggers. Next came a pair of beady eyes and glistening skin to complete the form's face. Finally, small fins protruding from either side of the form revealed its identity. It was a fish.
"This," said Dr. Manzaro, seeing his cat stop in front of the tank, "is Grimwold. He is a very special fish."
Muffins halted right in front of the glass. She gazed at the light. She gazed at the fish. How beautiful. How hideous. How delicious.
Grimwold briefly lost sight of Muffins when she stopped. There were no more sparks of light that illuminated her presence. Then, very gradually, he saw the outline of her face from the light of his lure. She was much bigger than the other fish he devoured.
"A fish like Grimwold normally lives deep under the sea," said Dr. Manzaro. "This room and tank simulate his natural environment. This keeps him comfortable in light of his changing diet. You see, his breakfast never stays the same…" Dr. Manzaro turned to his right and lumbered over to the red light that was attached to the wall.
The light came from a round, red button. The tank stopped a few feet in front of the wall, where there were steps that lined the wall to the lip of the tank. Wires attached to the button led up the wall to a switch at the top. This switch controlled a sliding metal panel in the back of the tank that opened when the button was pressed.
"Today we have a miniature trout. How long will this one fare?" Dr. Manzaro pressed the red button, and a digital timer in red digits appeared next to it and began counting.
A sliver of yellow light appeared in the back of the tank. This sliver began to come forward as Grimwold and his glowing lure moved back towards it. The two lights drifted closer and closer together. Then, in an instant, the sliver vanished.
The timer on the wall stopped. Dr. Manzaro turned his head in expectation and gave a deep hoot of excitement. "Wow! Only 15.43 seconds! A whole minute faster than the seabream! And yet…so many questions. How much longer will the trout last without an injection of bioluminescence solution? Was this trout abnormally curious about Grimwold's lure? Was Grimwold himself hungrier than normal? Could Grimwold have been overstimulated by Muffins' static electricity? Hmm…so many questions indeed…" Dr. Manzaro gazed into the tank at the anglerfish in thought. A few moments later, he shook his head and turned to head back to the door. "Better to think about these things in a friendlier environment. Plus, I need to check on those eggplants. Come on, Muffins."
The cat moaned, still looking in the tank. There was no way to get to the fish. If only she could get her paws on that light…but she was just too heavy, too tired, too far away.
Dr. Manzaro called again, and Muffins turned reluctantly away from the glass. Shuffling through the shag, she created a pathway of sparks to the door that led to the cabin.
Behind her in the tank, Grimwold spotted the light and swam towards it. The flurry of sparks was so bright and tantalizing. The tip of his lure touched the glass and he could go no further.
A tall rectangular light appeared in the dark and blinded Grimwold's vision. Two shadows disappeared into the light, and all became dark again.
The next morning, Muffins awoke in the living room. During most nights she traipsed around the house, exploring this at that room, smelling this and that scent, watching this and that machine work away at whatever it may be doing. But the previous night was spent entirely in the living room. In and out of naps, she would look to the steel door and pat it with her paw, hoping that it would open.
The noise of the can opener rung from the kitchen. She battled her instincts to head towards the lovely sound. That wasn't the food she wanted. She planted herself in the ground and let go a low meow.
After a moment or two the can opener's hum stopped. Time seemed to tick in slow motion. Muffins' belly growled. It wasn't right to go without breakfast. The fish would have to wait.
She rose and trudged toward the kitchen, doing her best to drag her feet like she did in the mysterious dark room. Eventually she reached the edge of the living room and ducked her head into the kitchen like the morning before.
Dr. G Louis Manzaro was in a similar position as the previous morning, coffee in one hand, cauterizer in the other. Except this time the line of moldy fruits behind him were cantaloupes, not eggplants.
"There you are!" he said. "A little late this morning. You don't want to miss this—I think I found what was missing."
Muffins walked over the pile of overdue electrical bills still laying on the floor and hopped up in front of the can opener. The opener went through its automatic procedure, and soon Muffins was munching on the canned food.
"So," Dr. Manzaro continued, "This is why I think cantaloupes will succeed where the eggplants failed. You see—"
KA-JOOOOONK -Ka-Ka-Ka- …kaaaaaaahhhh…
"Great. Just great!" Dr. Manzaro cursed and slammed the soldering gun on the counter. The reason for his reaction was that the "KA-JOONK" and noise that followed was the sound of the electrical power shutting off in the house, with all of the machines grinding to a halt.
Both the noise and Dr. Manzaro startled Muffins, who hopped to the ground, then stood still nervously in the silence.
"They know I'm going to pay, and they can't wait one more lousy week!? I don't have time for this," Dr. Manzaro continued, placing his cup of coffee on the counter and fumbling in his lab suit pocket for his cell phone. "The power company does not realize the work that I'm doing here. My experiments are sensitive! My experiments are important! My experiments are successful!" His hand shook as he searched for the power company's number in his contacts. "Those fools," he said. "They need to know more about my success. That I can't be bothered by these interruptions. That I am Dr. G. Louis Manzaro, inventor of isotopes, exploder of cantaloupes—" He paused. "Hello? Hello, is this Miranda? Yes, Miranda, I think you know why I'm calling. How do you know? Maybe it's because you SHUT OFF MY POWER!" He waited for a few moments and listened to the tech service agent. A second later he stopped breathing and gave a short gulp. "Oh," he managed. "You're saying a fuse blew and that's what shut everything off? I suppose…I suppose that could be the case." After a hasty apology and some rushed assurances that the electric bill would be paid soon, Dr. Manzaro hung up the phone and sighed. "It's been a while since the fuses have blown," he muttered. "Now where was that box again?…"
He used his phone as a flashlight to navigate out of the kitchen and into the living room.
Muffins followed him and saw him leave the living room and head into the room next door. She was going to follow him, but sensed a trickle of air from a familiar spot—the steel door was slightly ajar.
Muffins ducked her head into the crack and pushed the door open with her body. The door moved freely with no magnetic seal in place. She hopped into the cabin and walked to the other side. When she pressed her paw on the opposing door, it opened freely as well.
She stepped into the other room and onto the shag carpet. It was still cold, but the air pressure was normal. In the black she saw a sole pale light bobbing left and right, up and down. Its movement was frenetic and impulsive. Grimwold was unused to these conditions.
She purred and pranced over to the tank. As she moved, little sparks flew from the tips of her feet.
These small bits of light attracted Grimwold, who rushed over to the front of the tank and greeted Muffins at the glass.
Immediately, Muffins paced back and forth in front of the glass, wondering how to get at Grimwold. Static illumined her body with each movement.
Grimwold darted in double pace with Muffins. His craving for her increased with every flash of light. He wanted her, needed her, but the annoying barrier blocked every pass he made at her face. The unnatural, nervous energy he felt pulsing through his body made him more frantic every second.
Soon, Muffins decided to pace the full length of the tank. She walked along the glass, her head always pointed at Grimwold, when at some point she realized that Grimwold could move no further. She put out her paw and found that there was a shaggy step rather than a pane of glass. Upon this step she hopped, and saw Grimwold follow her to her left. Thus she continued hopping up the steps, the dance of sparks in her wake, until she reached the pinnacle of the staircase. Here, the lip of the tank formed a tiny ridge that lined the edge of the carpet.
Muffins turned her whole body to look down into the tank at Grimwold.
Grimwold approached the water's edge and looked up at Muffins.
Muffins stood on all fours, her body the length of the carpet between the tank and the wall. Her tail swished back and forth against the switch attached to the wall. She reached out her right paw and gradually descended it towards the water. It was hers. Just a little closer and she would have the light and have the fish. Oh, what a glorious light…
Grimwold inched towards the outstretched paw. His lure dangled in front of his quivering jaws. He could see the outline of the enticing creature's body. It was his. Just a little closer and he would snatch it into his grasp. Oh, what a delicious meal…
The tip of Grimwold's lure emerged out of the water.
The tip of Muffins' paw came down and touched the lure.
At that moment, the switch at the top of the staircase switched on with a surge of electricity as the power returned to Dr. Manzaro's home.
An ensuing burst of electricity jumped from the switch into Muffins' swishing tail. In a flash of light, Muffins and Grimwold were connected as the electricity shot through Muffins' body, out through her paw, and into Grimwold's body.
After the shock, both Muffins and Grimwold went blind with pain and confusion. Grimwold backed away into the depths, barely alive, full of betrayal and doubt.
Muffins cried and mewed, stumbling down the steps as she fled in terror. She yelped in fear with each spark that hopped from her body as she staggered through the shag carpet toward the cabin leading back into the living room. Right as the pressure began to grow in the room, she collapsed into the cabin, and the door closed behind her.
Dr. Manzaro appeared at the other side and looked down at her in shock.
"Well!" he exclaimed, gazing at his cat's body, which was now one big puffball of white fur. "It looks like you got the news: the balance of power in the house is restored."
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[. . .] The fact that everyone has these feelings supports the idea that one trait may be dominant in one situation and another in another situation (Allport, 1937a).
In order to connect the traits and dispositions in order to make them work together, Allport developed the concept of the proprium. The proprium is the integrating aspect of personality that other psychologists have referred to as the "self," "ego" and "style of life" (Chaplin & Krawiec, 1968). Propriate comes from the word proprium, which is Allport's name for that essential concept, the self. He had reviewed hundreds of definitions for that concept and came to feel that, in order to more scientific, it would be necessary to dispense with the common word self and substitute something else.
Allport believed that most human behavior is associated with a profound desire for people to function in some way that expresses the self (Allport, 1955). For instance, one form of motivation is the tendency to satisfy biological survival needs, which Allport referred to as opportunistic functioning. Allport characterized opportunistic functioning as either reactive, past-oriented, and, of course, biological (Allport, 1955). But Allport also believed that opportunistic functioning was relatively unimportant for understanding most behavior. Allport believed that most human behavior was motivated by functioning in a manner expressive of the "self" which he termed propriate functioning. Propriate functioning for Allport was characterized as being proactive, future-oriented, and psychological. Thus the person's motives, experiences and traits work together and create his/her sense of identity. Allport later referred to some traits or dispositions as propriate traits. These are the traits that the individual considers important to his/her own sense of identity (Allport, 1955).
As mentioned earlier, Allport did not give a great deal of weight into looking into a person's past in order to understand their current actions. This belief is most strongly evident in Allport's concept of functional autonomy (Allport, 1937b, 1968). Functional autonomy basically states that one's current motivations are independent or autonomous from their original motives. Allport separated the concepts of motive and drive and posited that a drive formed as a reaction to a motive could mature into a motive as a reason for behaving. The drive then becomes autonomous and distinct from the motive. For example a person who attempts to excel at a task such as golf may have originally had motivations resulting from a sense of inferiority engrained in their childhood. But as the person matures the person later gets enjoyment out of jut playing the game for its other benefits and personal mastery of the tasks.
There are two categories of functional autonomy (Allport, 1937b): The first is perseverative functional autonomy. Perseverative functional autonomy refers to habits or behaviors that no longer serve the purpose they were originally intended for and yet still continue. For instance may people may have started smoking cigarettes as a symbol of their adolescent rebellion against adult enforced rules, but they continue to smoke now because it is very difficult to quit. Social rituals such as saying "bless you" after someone sneezes actually had a reason in the past (during the plagues of Europe a sneeze was a far more serious symptom than it is now); however, now this behavior continues in an effort to be polite.
Propriate functional autonomy is more self-directed than habits (Allport, 1961). For instance, a person may play the flute as a child due to being rewarded by parents and teachers, but as the person matures making or playing music becomes rewarding in and of itself. This level of functional autonomy is the highest level and has to do with self values and higher motivations. The concept of functional autonomy represents a reaction of Allport to Freud's and behaviorists theories of motivation that vary from totally past motives (Freudian) to only current conditions (behaviorists). Allport believed that most behavior was personally relevant to the proprium (Allport, 1968).
Allport recognized that some behaviors are not functionally autonomous. These included: (1) biological drives, (2) motives directly linked to the reduction of basic drives, (3) reflexes, (4) constitutional equipment, (5) habits in the process of being formed, (6) patterns of behavior that require primary reinforcement, (7) sublimations that are linked to unpleasant childhood experiences, and (8) certain neurotic or pathological symptoms (Allport, 1937b). Allport emphasized conscious motivation over unconscious motivation or stimulus response reactions; however, he did not completely fail to notice the probable influence of unconscious motives on certain types of behaviors. For example, he believed that certain pathological behaviors (e.g., OCD) are often motivated by unconscious drives (Allport, 1968). However, Allport was interested in the study of psychological healthy individuals and believed that such people are ordinarily consciously in control of their behavior and direct their motives (Allport, 1966). Before Abram Maslow theorized the characteristics of self-actualization, Allport listed six criteria for psychological health: (1) an extension of the sense of self, (2) warm relationships with others, (3) emotional security or self-acceptance, (4) a realistic view of the world, (5) insight and humor, and (6) a unifying philosophy of life (Allport, 1968).
1. A sense of body develops in the first two years of life. We develop an awareness of ourselves, our physical boundaries, pain, touch and movement.
2. A sense of self-identity also develops in the first two years. Somewhere we recognize ourselves as continuing with a past, present, and future. We view ourselves as separate from others.
3. Self-esteem develops between ages two and four years. During this time people recognize that they have value to others and to themselves.
5. Self-image also develops between ages four and six. We become aware of the impression we make on others. This is the beginning of what other theorists call conscience, ideal self, or the persona.
6. Rational coping is learned between the ages of six to twelve. A child begins to develop the ability to deal with life's problems rationally.
7. Propriate striving usually begins after the child is twelve years old. This is the self as seen in terms of goals, ideal, plans, or a sense of purpose.
Allport's theory of personality then focuses on the uniqueness of the individual, motivation, and the enduring aspects of these for each person. His ideas are regarded as the forerunner to later humanistic theories and would influence many others including Kelly, Maslow, and Rogers (Hall & Lindzey, 1985). One unfortunate aspect of Allport's ideas was his use of the word trait, which of course brought down the antagonism of a number of behaviorists who may have been open to his ideas otherwise. Another critique of Allport's ideas has been his that he did very little empirical research in support for his theories (but neither did Freud or many other famous theorists). Nonetheless, his ideas inspired many others and his theories have become more attractive given the new interest in qualitative research in psychology.
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Allport, G.W. (1961). Pattern and growth in personality. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
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by Michelle Waters
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On Thursday, April 21st, legendary musician Prince—he of the smoldering stare and funky stage presence—was reported dead at age 57. The icon's death follows last month's announcement that Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Penguin Random House, was to publish his memoir in fall 2017. Now, according to Elizabeth Whitman of the International Business Times, it's unclear what will happen to the memoir-in-progress: on Thursday, Spiegel & Grau declined to comment on its status.
Prince announced that he was at work on the book with "my brother Dan"—Dan Piepenbring of The Paris Review—at a pop-up performance in March, reports the New York Times' Joe Coscarelli. (In true superstar fashion, reports Eben Shapiro of The Wall Street Journal, he arrived hours late to the event.) "We're starting from the beginning, from my first memory, and hopefully we can go all the way up to the Super Bowl," Prince told the audience.
Spiegel & Grau's executive editor Chris Jackson, known for his work on Ta-Nehisi Coates's National Book Award-winning Between the World and Me, acquired world rights to the book from Esther Newberg and Dan Kirschen of ICM Partners. At that time, Newberg noted that Prince had submitted fifty pages of the manuscript—a number that doesn't bode well for the release of a complete and comprehensive memoir following his death.
Often inscrutable, always compelling, Prince certainly wasn't short on material for a memoir: his career spanned five decades and 37 studio albums, including Purple Rain, the album that launched him to superstardom in 1984 and spent 24 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, according to the Hollywood Reporter's Andy Lewis. Born Prince Rogers Nelson, he won seven Grammys, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. And it's Prince we have to thank for those ubiquitous "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" stickers. In 1984, TIME's Gilbert Cruz reports that a concerned Tipper Gore was inspired to found the Parents Music Resource Center, which slaps the black-and-white warnings on album covers, when she heard Prince sing about a girl named Nikki's hotel-lobby shenanigans.
"You all still read books, right?" Prince asked the crowd at the March event, Coscarelli writes. Though, sadly, it remains to be seen if we'll be able to read his.
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Author : Mark K. Bauman
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, "rewriting southern Jewish history" in ways that its earliest historians could not have envisioned or anticipated, and doing so by specifically targeting themes and trends that might not have been readily apparent to those scholars. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility features essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article. The prevailing narrative in southern Jewish history tends to emphasize the role of immigrant Jews as merchants in small southern towns and their subsequent struggles and successes in making a place for themselves in the fabric of those communities. Bauman offers assessments that go far beyond these simplified frameworks and draws upon varieties of subject matter, time periods, locations, tools, and perspectives over three decades of writing and scholarship. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History contains Bauman's studies of Jewish urbanization, acculturation and migration, intra- and inter-group relations, economics and business, government, civic affairs, transnational diplomacy, social services, and gender—all complicating traditional notions of southern Jewish identity. Drawing on role theory as informed by sociology, psychology, demographics, and the nature and dynamics of leadership, Bauman traverses a broad swath—often urban—of the southern landscape, from Savannah, Charleston, and Baltimore through Atlanta, New Orleans, Galveston, and beyond the country to Europe and Israel. Bauman's retrospective volume gives readers the opportunity to review a lifetime of work in a single publication as well as peruse newly penned introductions to his essays. The book also features an "Additional Readings" section designed to update the historiography in the essays.
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Bernini's Church of Santa Bibiana in Rome
Cardinal Cencius (future Pope Honorius III), the author of the Liber Censuum; portrait by Giotto (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Imatge d'Honori III (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Ms 722/1196 f.392r Frederic II (1194-1250) crowned by Pope Honorius III (d.1227) from Le Miroir Historial, by Vincent de Beauvais (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
St Francis preaches in the presence of pope Honorius III (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Bernini designed the Church of Santa Bibiana, a small church in Rome devoted to Saint Bibiana.
Santa Bibiana by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini at Church of Santa Bibiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This church was originally built by Pope Simplicius and consecrated in 467. In 1224, the church was restored by Pope Honorius III. The church is located on via Giovanni Giolitti near the Termini Station in Rome.
Portrait of Honorius III – Detail of the apse mosaic of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (1220) – Roma – Italy Pope Honorius III ordered the mosaic and, following the Roman Catholic tradition, is represented near Christ's feet. Pope Honorius III (1148 – 1227), born Cencio Savelli, was Pope from 1216 to 1227. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Honorius_III (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pope Honorius III, was the author of the Liber Censuum. This was a financial record of the real estate revenues of the papacy from 492 to 1192.
Pope Urban VIII (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Portrait of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
the Church of Santa Bibiana, Rome, Italy. Facade. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The present facade was designed and built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini when he was 26 years old.
It was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII. The commanding columns in the nave are from the original 5th century church.
Statue of Pope Urban VIII sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his students between 1635 and 1640, and currently on display at the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
the Church of Santa Bibiana, Rome, Italy. Facade: Gate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Italiano: Roma, santa Bibiana, interno (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The church houses a statue of St. Bibiana by Bernini. She is holding a palm leaf and is positioned next to the column where she was martyred. The bodies of St Bibiana, her mother Dafrosa and her sister Demetria where discovered inside a 3rd century sarcophagus. They are now in an alabaster urn under the altar. There are beautiful frescoes by the famous artists, Pietro da Cortona and Agostino Ciampelli in the church of Santa Bibiana.
Italiano: Roma, santa Maria in via Lata: facciata di Pietro da Cortona (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pietro da Cortona – Landing of the Trojans at the Mouth of Tiberis – WGA17686 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Some of Pietro da Cortona's other magnificent works of art in
include: "Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power"; "Landing of the Trojans at the Mouth of Tiberis" and "The Gaurdian Angel." He was also associated with Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome.
Pietro da Cortona – Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power – WGA17683 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Ciampelli created many interesting pieces of art in Rome. He painted frescoes in the apse of the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere. At Il Gesu in Rome, he was commissioned to paint "The Martyrdom of St. Andrew" altarpiece and "The Martydom of Saints" in the chapel of St. Andrew in the church of Il Gesu.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini's statue of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni in the Paluzzi-Albertoni chapel in San Francesco a Ripa. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"The martyrdom of Pancras of Taormina", painting by Agostino Ciampelli in the Chapel of St. Andrew in the church Il Gesù, Rome, Italy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"The martyrdom of saints", painting by Agostino Ciampelli in the Chapel of St. Andrew in the church Il Gesù, Rome, Italy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"The Martyrdom of St. Andrew", by Agostino Ciampelli (1577-1642), altarpiece in the Chapel of St. Andrew of the church Il Gesù, Rome, Italy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Angelic procession, by Agostino Ciampelli, in the apse of S. Maria in Trastevere, from about 1600. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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This study intends to stimulate thinking and action based on the active participation of children and young people. The study is based on interviews with 31 children and young people (30 girls and 1 boy) who had been trafficked. Interviews were conducted in Albania, Kosovo, Republic of Moldova and Romania in 2005 and 2006.
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Q: "Not only should I" in declarative sentence There is a phrase "Not only should I succeed but others should fail". And I saw it many times in similar structures that the order of words "should I" are as if they were in a questioning sentence. (In a declarative sentence the order is "I should")
Can anyone give me an explanation why that is?

A: I don't know the specific grammatical rule for this, but it is common to invert subject and verb when adverbs or adverb phrases are placed at the beginning of a sentence. See more
here:
http://www.englishgrammar.org/inversion-subject-verb/#udVqaYOcOyIydwVs.99
and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_sentence

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The brand behind the iBubble underwater drone has presented its latest video showcasing the capabilities of the device, #iMakeMemories, filmed in the Maldives.
Late last year we reported on the launch of the world's first wireless, autonomous diving drone camera – the iBubble.
Almost a year on, the brand behind the iBubble has presented its latest video showcasing the capabilities of the device, #iMakeMemories, filmed in the Maldives.
The drone automatically follows and films divers on their underwater adventures, operating in silence, avoiding marine life and recording high definition footage while descending to 60m (200ft) at 2.2mph.
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Charlie's Sneaker FAQ and Glossary - T
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Tackies
A term used in South Africa for either sneakers or tires (spelled "tyres" in South Africa). Therefore, your "tackies" can either be on your feet or on your Ford. Also used in Ireland for sneakers; they also call sneakers "runners" in Ireland.
The (usually) plastic coating at the tips of sneaker laces that makes it easier to pass the laces through the eyelets. Also called an aglet or an ornament.
Takkies
An alternative spelling sometimes used for "tackies."
Taylor, Chuck
Early basketball player, salesman, and shoe endorser for Converse. His namesake sneaker held over half of the basketball athletic shoe market until the middle 1970's. Serious competition came first from adidas and then other manufacturers. Chuck was honored for his contributions to the industry by the National Sporting Goods Association.
The group of young people with the maximum desire to buy expensive sneakers (like the Air Jordan) but the least amount of money to buy them. One exception: If they really like punk rock, the only sneakers they really like are black high-top Chucks.
Teenage Sneakers, Charlie's Law Of
"The price of the basketball sneaker is inversely proportional to the basketball ability of the teenager." I (Charlie) determined this by watching actual teenagers play basketball.
Teenage Sneakers, Charlie's Law Of (Corollary)
"Michael Jordan can beat you playing basketball if he's wearing Cat Heads and you're wearing Air Jordans."
A primitive time-wasting device whose function was perfected when the Internet became available. Its main remaining use is providing advertising, occasionally interrupted by programming, at a bandwidth impossible over most 1990's modem technology. However, in 2009, television essentially became a fancy one-way modem. And, in 2018, I (Charlie) went to exclusively streaming media (except for an over the air TV antenna as a backup when something interrupts the broadband service but not the grid power). One ROKU box for the TV that survived Hurricane Harvey, and ROKU TVs for the ones that didn't.
Tennie-runners
A slang nickname for tennis shoes.
Tennies
British Major Walter Clopton Wingfield defined the rules of modern game of tennis in 1874. He called it "sphairistike." (Greek for "playing ball.") Major Clopton Wingfield converted the design of an earlier French game to one that could be played in an open field. In the French game, the server announced "Tenez!" ("Look here!") and then served the ball. The name soon became associated with the English game.
Tennis shoes (common definition)
For the 99% of humanity who are sloppy on their nomenclature, tennis shoes are any type of athletic shoe. Anything from a heavy high-top basketball shoe to an utterly minimalist track racing shoe gets lumped together under the nomenclature of "tennis shoe."
Tennis shoes (technical definition)
A shoe designed to be worn while playing the game of tennis. Traditionally, white and non-attention getting. Classic examples include the adidas Stan Smith and the Tretorn Nylite. However, your average person uses the common definition.
Tetanus Shoes
A corruption of the term tennis shoe originated by my older brother Bruce. Probably so named because the rubber soles could be penetrated by sharp foreign objects. When this happened (Bruce was always damaging his feet one way or another when he was a kid), the offending foot went to the family doctor for an infection check and a possible booster of tetanus toxoid.
A manufacturer of sport sandals, founded by Mark Thatcher. Named for the Hebrew word for "nature," pronounced "Teh-vuh." Two different companies use the name Teva, but for different products altogether: Teva Sport Sandals and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (reportedly the world's largest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals).
An enormous state in the Southwestern United States best known for computers (including Compaq and Dell), pioneering execution by IV, and oil wells. The state where I (Charlie) live. Texas is easy to find on a map because it's the same shape as the TI logo.
Texas Sales Tax Holiday
The Texas Sales Tax Holiday for clothing, footwear, and school supplies for 2019 starts on the second Friday in August (August 9th) and continues through the next Sunday (August 11th). There are other sales tax holidays for emergency preparedness supplies and ENERGY STAR labeled products earlier in the year. Many clothing and footwear items, including sneakers, are exempt from sales tax those three days. The exemption for athletic shoes covers only those that can be worn for general use; cleats and spikes are still taxed. When it comes to clothing: Sports bras are not taxed, but jills and jocks are. Furthermore, each item must be under $100, so Air Jordan models get no exemption (unless they're on sale).
Thatcher, Mark
Inventor of the Teva sport sandal. He hated river rafting in soggy Chucks. US Patent 4584782 and US Patent 4793075 describe his innovations.
"The Brand With The 3 Stripes"
A slogan used for, and sometimes printed on, adidas athletic shoes.
"The Sneaker Book"
A book, subtitled "Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon," by Tom Vanderbilt (ISBN 1-56584-406-8, The New Press, 1998). A worthwhile read for anybody interested in the athletic shoe industry. For what it's worth: This web site (at its previous Internet address) is mentioned on page 6.
Thinclads
Term used for runners in a competitive track meet. I (Charlie) think this is a stupid name. After all, so-called "thinclads" get to wear a tank top, shorts, and track shoes. Competitive divers only get tight trunks that border on public indecency... if Nike trunks were any smaller, they'd have trouble putting a SWOOSH on them!
A computer made by Lenovo that Charlie thinks is the only computer better than an Apple Mac: more expandable, more versatile, runs more software than a Mac does, and with a lower price to boot!
One of the characteristics of adidas sneakers, but sometimes copied by others. Supposedly, founder Adi Dassler used three stripes, one for each of his three sons.
Part of the Education Amendments of 1972, a law in the United States, that required equal treatment for men and women in education. Its effect in the athletic shoe world: The women finally got to shed their nasty old Keds and play basketball and volleyball. Some intrepid souls even tried out for the wrestling team!
Tiyo
An outcropping over the Grand Canyon (Tiyo Point). Probably the naming inspiration for the Nike Tiyo sport sandal.
A canyon in Los Angeles County, California, south of the city of Chatsworth. California Route 27 (also known as Topanga Canyon Boulevard) runs south from Chatsworth to the Pacific Ocean. Probably the inspiration for the Reebok Topanga hiking boot.
Ironically, given that the name is an inspiration for a Reebok style, there is a VANS Factory Store on Topanga Canyon Boulevard. I (Charlie) have been by (while on a business trip) but it wasn't open at the time.
A hard plastic bar in the midsole of certain adidas models that connects the heel to the toe. It allows trimming away part of the outsole.
A track meet (Definition #2) held in New Jersey.
Track Meet (Definition #1)
An athletic event. Determines that day which extremely quick participant brought the fastest sneakers to town.
An involuntary athletic event. The main event consists of running back and forth from one end of the gymnasium to the other, over and over again. Track meets are usually the result of excess goofing off in gym class. Also known as a "tournament." It typically took no more than one or two track meets before the Baby Boomers behaved. Some coaches also used slippering, but I (Charlie) had never known it to be used at the old school.
Track shoes
Really fast sneakers for a hot and heavy foot race. In other words, runners for runners.
A running shoe designed for off-road use. Usual features include a colorway that doesn't show dirt and modifications to the outsole.
An athletic shoe worn in the United Kingdom.
Yet another sneaker (and footwear in general) nickname.
Trefoil
The trademarked "flower" logo used by adidas starting around 1972. Thought by some to bear a resemblance to a pot leaf. Probably drug users hallucinating again...
A Swedish sneaker. A preppy alternative to Keds, sometimes seen on sorority girls and yuppies.
"Trimm Dich durch Sport mit adidas"
Translation from German: "Trim you by sport with adidas." Logo seen on some adidas boxes from the 1970s.
Tube AIR
A variant of Nike AIR with cylindrical tubes that look very much like Converse Helium.
Tuned AIR
A variant of Nike AIR that combines AIR cushioning components with additional mechanical elements for motion control. US Patent 5572804 covers the mechanical elements.
Tyre Burst
In the United Kingdom: The automotive equivalent of having your track shoes fall apart during a race. Michael Johnson once experienced this to his great embarrassment.
The automotive equivalent of sneakers, in countries that learned their spelling from the United Kingdom. (Or, should we say, "the automotive equivalent of trainers?") See "tyre burst" for further explanation.
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Edinburgh tech company Pufferfish targets £900k in crowdfunding
The display systems specialist bids to expand its international presence and launch four new products
Kristy Dorsey
Display systems specialist Pufferfish has launched a £900,000 crowdfunding campaign to expand globally with its interactive spherical technology.
The Edinburgh-based firm had already secured 40 per cent of its funding target by day three of the month-long campaign on Crowdcube, and hopes to join the platform's "over-funded" club. The money will be used to extend the international reach of its PufferSphere solutions, which integrate touch-sensitive spherical displays with a software and content development platform.
IT firms Icelantic and Highnet form new strategic alliance
The company is backed by Par Equity, which invested £600,000 in the business in 2015. Its displays first appeared in Coldplay's Viva La Vida tour in 2008, and are now used by customers in 39 countries for corporate and science communications, visitor attractions, education and data visualisation.
Chief technology officer Will Cavendish, who co-founded Pufferfish in 2004, said the company wants to build on existing its existing business working with "some of the world's biggest brands, scientists and institutions".
"This investment will allow us to build a partner network to service the demand for our products world-wide, grow our team and transform our space into a sophisticated R&D and production centre, in turn paving the way for the launch of four innovative new products," he said.
Chief executive Angus MacFadyen, who joined Pufferfish in 2016, said the company aims to transform the "use and understanding of global information".
"It's time to expand our international presence and service these opportunities more efficiently, and that' why we're looking to the crowd to help us make this happen," MacFadyen said. "We're thrilled with our progress so far and are looking forward to kicking off our expansion plans."
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The Przebraże Defence – defensive fights in the village of Przebraże (now Гайове, Ukraine) belonging to the Trościaniec cluster, in Lutsk poviat, voivodeship in Volhynia between July 1943 and January 1944. In Przebraże, Polish civilians from Volhynia organized defense against the UPA. The village was never conquered by UPAs.

Location
The Przebraże settlement was located  south of Troscianiec and  north-east of Lutsk, the capital of Polish Volhynia before the Soviet invasion of Poland in agreement with Nazi Germany. The geographic area featured numerous peat bogs and forests. The Konopla river was to the west of the settlement. The population consisted of Poles, who had settled there in the 17th century. They were descendants of several szlachta (Polish nobility) families, that came to Volhynia from Mazowsze. The surrounding villages were inhabited mostly by ethnic Ukrainians. In 1938, Przebraże had 200 houses and some 1,150 inhabitants.

Background
In late 1942, Ukrainian nationalists began attacks on Polish settlements in Volhynia (see: Massacres of Poles in Volhynia). Throughout 1943, these incidents moved westwards from one county to another, reaching the area of Kowel in May. The Polish population and the weak Volhynian units of the Polish Home Army were taken by surprise. After the initial shock, however, the Poles started to organize their own units to attack Ukrainians in turn. The Polish 27th Home Army Infantry Division was created out of these units.

Creation
Some time in April 1943, Poles in Przebraże under former officers 'Harry' Henryk Cybulski and Ludwik Malinowski (a veteran of the Polish–Soviet War), decided to create a self-defence force, which would help them to resist future Ukrainian attacks. The area in question was vast, with several surrounding smaller settlements, such as Cholopiny, Jazwiny, Mosty and Zagajnik. Sentries were posted, armed with weapons found in the fields after the border battles of the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union and Sten guns made by the Prżebraze gunsmithery. The regional Armia Krajowa also supplied arms and money so that Poles could buy weapons from corrupt Hungarian soldiers stationed in Volhynia. Two 45mm cannons were salvaged from Soviet tanks that had been destroyed in June 1941 and mounted on carriages. A train driver with AK contacts also delivered arms to the Polish railwaymen at Kiwerce, which were then transported to Przebraze.

To avoid clashes with the Germans, a weapon permit from local German authorities in Kiwerce was obtained. According to the memoirs of Henryk Cybulski, the German commander of Kiwerce was bribed with a pig and gold jewelry, after which he signed a document that stated: "Hereby authorized inhabitants of the village of Przebraże are allowed to use weapons to fight forest gangs, which harm [the] interests of the German Reich".

Polish units in Przebraże numbered some 500 men, they were divided into four companies and a mounted scouts platoon. In mid-1943 their number grew to 1,000. Reconnaissance patrols would check the surrounding area by day and at night, so that the settlement would not be caught by surprise. A defence line was created around Przebraże and neighbouring settlements, which consisted of foxholes and barbed wire. The length of barbed wire totalled around  and the size of the "camp" -  from east to west and  from north to south.

Population in 1943
As news of atrocities spread across Volhynia, up to 28,000 Poles from neighbouring villages and settlements came to Przebraże. The number of refugees grew day by day; several houses accommodated up to five families, others had to live in temporary mud huts. A field hospital was organized and as skirmishes with Ukrainians were frequent, beds were usually full.

In June 1943 Polish units from Przebraże scouted the area, telling all Poles to leave their houses and move to the fortified settlement. Unfortunately, not all agreed to move and their reluctance later proved to be fatal.

Ukrainian UPA attacks
At the beginning of the summer of 1943, local Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) commanders suggested that Henryk Cybulski, Ludwik Malinowski and their men should meet and talk. Delegates of both sides met four times, the Poles grew suspicious. Reportedly, the talks were a trap, the Ukrainians wanted to kill Cybulski. Thus, negotiations were terminated.

July 5, 1943 attack
On July 5, 1943, UPA units tried to attack Przebraże, burning nearby villages and murdering their inhabitants. Shocked refugees would come to the settlement, often only dressed in their underwear. The defence line was then attacked in several places, the battle lasting throughout the night. The next day, July 6, was just as hectic, as Ukrainian units surrounded the settlement and attacked it from all sides. After several hours they gave up, 10 Poles died.

As soon as the Ukrainians had left, mounted scouts scoured the area. They counted as many as 550 massacred Poles, those who had refused to move to Prżebraze. The surrounding villages, such as Majdan Jezierski, Dermanka, Budy, Huta and Dobra, were burned.

Other attacks
A second attack took place on July 12, the UPA concentrated its forces on the village of Rafalowka. The Polish side managed to force the enemy to flee, but this was not the end. As Henryk Cybulski wrote in his memoirs, throughout the summer of 1943 the "war for grain" persisted. The number of Poles in Przebraże was too high and its defenders realized that it was impossible to feed so many people. Thus, in April and July 1943, Polish peasants, guarded by patrols, were harvesting crops, transporting it to the settlement. The Ukrainians would attack the peasants, killing several.

The last major attack took place on August 31, 1943. Ukrainian forces numbered around 10,000 men, including a 4,000 strong unit from the area of Lviv and 5,000 drafted local peasants, armed with axes and scythes.<ref>Władysław Filar, Przebraże pastion polskiej samoobrony na Wołyniu, 2007 - pages 90/91, based on the master's thesis of Stefan Chojnecki " Samoobrona ludnosc polskiej na Wolyniu w latach 1943-1944",   Henryk Cybulski, " Czerwone noce " 1969 - Atak Na Przebraze, pages 255/256</ref> . They worked out a detailed plan of attack (codename "Kublo"); their headquarters were established in the village of Swozie.

Helped by artillery, they attacked from the south. The Przebraże defenders asked local Home Army units and the Soviet partisan forces of Nikolay Prokopiuk for help, (the latter were numerous in the area and themselves threatened by Ukrainians). They joined the Poles. As a result, the UPA, attacked from the rear, withdrew, losing more than 100 men and abandoning a large quantity of arms.

Raids on UPA bases
To prevent attacks on Przebraże, the self-defence forces conducted counter-attacks on UPA bases situated in villages close to the base, which constantly posed a gravely threat to its security. On 12 July 1943  after the first attack on the base, Henryk Cybulski led 3 companies on a  raid on the UPA  base in the village of Trościaniec, which lay 7 km to the north, destroying it and dispersing the UPA garrison. On 2 August 1943 a raid destroyed the UPA base at Jaromla, which lay 5 km to the north east.

At the end of September, 1943 a 100-man unit from Przebraże, with the soldiers of the Rafałówka and Komarówek self-defences, conducted a joint counter-attack which destroyed the UPA base at Hauczyce, 8 km south of Przebraże, eliminating  a constant threat to Rafałówka. A raid against the UPA NCO training school in Omelno on 5 October 1943 was carried out as a joint operation with colonel's Prokopiuk unit. Taking part in it were 300 Polish troops and 150 Soviet partisans, against 200 UPA troops, including 120 UPA students at the school.  The school was destroyed, but UPA lost over 10 men only. A similar action was undertaken on the night of 27/8 October 1943 when a joint party with Prokopiuk's partisans attacked Słowatycz. UPA losses were several dozen men.  A 100 Uzbek deserters from the German Army, who were serving in the UPA forces were taken prisoner and went over to the Soviet partisans.

A raid against UPA was undertaken around Żurawicz on 26 November 1943. It had a significant impact on the supply of provisions for Przebraże.  After obtaining reconnaissance reports that Ukrainian nationalists in Żurawicz held over 1,000 requisitioned cattle, a large force of about 740 defenders of Przebraże struck the village, seizing the cattle and large quantities of flour and grain. On 31 December 1943 after receiving intelligence information about the upcoming attack on Przebraże, the same unit ambushed a large force of UPA troops moving south on the road to Przebraże. Taken by surprise the UPA troops fled in disorder suffering many losses.

Aftermath
In February 1944, Volhynia was occupied by the Red Army. As the UPA was considered an enemy of the Soviet regime, the Soviet military forces put a stop to the attacks by the UPA.

In 1945 Poles from this part of Volhynia were forced by Soviet authorities to move to the area of Niemodlin, in Opole Voivodeship, the land that had belonged to Germany before the war.

In 2004 Ukrainian authorities cleaned the Polish cemetery. A victory flag, woven by women from Przebraże in September 1943, can be seen in the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw.

See also
 Ludwik Malinowski
 Henryk Cybulski
 Kuty (Kąty) defence
 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galizien (1st Ukrainian)
 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division
 Operation Vistula
 Anti-Polonism
 Huta Stepanska
 Janowa Dolina
 Koliyivschyna
 Nachtigall
 Operation Tempest
 Pawłokoma massacre
 Poryck Massacre

 Notes

Sources
 Władysław Filar, Przebraże bastion polskiej samoobrony na Wołyniu, Rytm Oficyna Wydawnicza, 2007.
 Henryk Cybulski, Czerwone noce "O powstaniu i przetrwaniu organizacji samoobrony ludnosci polskiej we wsi Przebraże na Wolyniu w latach 1943-1944". Wyd. MON, Warszawa 1969 r., wyd. I. stron 377 Grzegorz Motyka. Ukrainska partyzantka 1942-1960. Rytm Oficyna Wydawnicza, 2006. . Przebraze: strony 328-329, 339, 349.
 Józef Sobiesiak, Prżebraże. Wyd. MON. Warszawa 1969 r. Wyd. I,. wyd. II 1971.
 Filip Ozarowski, Gdy plonal Wolyn, Chicago 1996,
 Apoloniusz Zawilski, Polskie fronty 1918-1945, t. 1, Warszawa 1997'',

References
 Description of the interbellum Przebraze  (Polish)
 History of Przebraże
 Life of Ludwik Malinowski

Ukraine in World War II
World War II crimes in Poland
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia

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Pointe-Gatineau (appelée Pointe-à-Gatineau jusqu'en 1959) est une ancienne ville du Québec.

Géographie
Le quartier de Pointe-Gatineau est situé au centre sud de la Ville de Gatineau. Il est bordé au sud par la rivière des Outaouais et la rivière Gatineau. Au nord-ouest par les quartiers de Touraine, du Carrefour de-l'Hôpital et du versant. À l'est par le quartier du Lac-Beauchamp.

Quartier et districts limitrophes

Communautés
La quartier de Pointe-Gatineau comporte quatre communautés distinctes.
 Communauté du Ruisseau
 Communauté Saint-Rosaire
 Communauté Jacques-Cartier
 Communauté Laflèche

Historique

Premières Nations

La colonisation

l'industrialisation

Faits marquants

Patrimoine

Démographie
En 2016, le quartier de Pointe-Gatineau compte 13 945 habitants.

Toponymie
Depuis sa colonisation qui remonte à près de deux siècles, le territoire de Pointe-Gatineau a porté divers noms .

En 1876, le village de Pointe-Gatineau se détache du canton de Templeton. Le village porte alors le nom de Pointe-à-Gatineau.

En 1957, le village de Pointe-à-Gatineau devient la ville de Pointe-à-Gatineau.

En 1959, le nom de la ville devient Pointe-Gatineau.

En 1975, les villes de Pointe-Gatineau, Gatineau, Touraine, le village de Templeton, les municipalités de Templeton-Ouest, Templeton-Est et Templeton-Est-Partie-Est fusionnent pour former la ville de Gatineau.

Notes et références

Histoire de Gatineau
Ancienne municipalité au Québec
Quartier de Gatineau


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It's not a condition in itself, but can be a sign of an underlying health problem. These underlying conditions aren't usually serious, although occasionally acanthosis nigricans can be sign of cancer.
If you have acanthosis nigricans, you'll have thickened, brownish-grey or black patches of skin.
The patches will be dry and rough, feeling similar to velvet. They may also be itchy.
These patches may occur anywhere, but are usually seen around the neck, in the armpit, around the groin and sometimes in other skin folds. Occasionally, the skin over the joints of the fingers and toes may be affected, as well as the lips, palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
The patches usually develop slowly over time. Patches that grow and spread quickly are more likely to be associated with cancer. In these cases, the mouth, tongue, throat, nose and windpipe may also be affected.
You may also have lots of tiny finger-like growths from the patches. This is known as papillomatosis.
There may also be skin tags around the affected area. These are small flesh-coloured or pigmented growths that hang off the skin and look a bit like warts.
Acanthosis nigricans is usually harmless, but as it can be a sign of something serious it's a good idea to see your GP if you think you have it. They may suspect acanthosis nigricans just by looking at your skin.
If the cause isn't clear, you may have blood tests to check your blood sugar or hormone levels, and you might need additional tests such as an endoscopy or X-ray.
Acanthosis nigricans sometimes occurs in people who are otherwise in good health, particularly dark-skinned people of African descent.
However, in most cases it's a sign of an underlying problem or condition such as obesity, diabetes or abnormal hormone levels. Some of the main causes of acanthosis nigricans are outlined below.
Acanthosis nigricans is usually the result of obesity. This is known as obesity-associated acanthosis nigricans.
It occurs because obesity can cause insulin resistance (when the body is unable to properly use the hormone insulin), which may lead to high levels of insulin in the blood, affecting the skin cells.
Insulin resistance can also cause type 2 diabetes, so acanthosis nigricans can be an early sign that you have diabetes or are at risk of developing the condition.
This type of acanthosis nigricans is known as syndromic acanthosis nigricans.
Acanthosis nigricans is sometimes triggered by medicines, including insulin, corticosteroids, and hormone treatments such as human growth hormone or the contraceptive pill.
This is known as drug-induced or medication-associated acanthosis nigricans.
In rare cases, acanthosis nigricans can be caused by a faulty gene inherited directly from your parents. This is known as familial or benign genetic acanthosis nigricans.
This type is usually passed on in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means it can be passed on if only one of your parents carries the faulty gene.
If the dark skin patches come on suddenly and spread quickly, it may be a sign you have cancer (usually stomach cancer). This is known as malignant acanthosis nigricans.
This is a rare condition that tends to affect middle-aged or elderly people, regardless of their weight or ethnic background.
The patches are more severe and the mouth, tongue and lips may also be affected. The skin may also become irritated and itchy.
Treatment for acanthosis nigricans aims to correct the underlying cause of your symptoms. This will usually cure the acanthosis nigricans or significantly improve the appearance of your skin.
There's no specific treatment to get rid of the patches, but a dermatologist (skin specialist) may be able to recommend treatments such as creams or tablets that may help improve the look of your skin.
Most cases of acanthosis nigricans are harmless and not a sign of anything serious. The skin patches often fade with time as the underlying condition is treated.
If you have inherited acanthosis nigricans from your parents, your patches may gradually get bigger before staying the same or eventually fading on their own.
Only in cases where there is underlying cancer is the situation very serious. If the tumour is successfully treated, the condition may disappear, but unfortunately the types of cancer that cause acanthosis nigricans tend to spread quickly and a cure is often not possible.


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As we near the end of Andrew Lincoln's tenure as Rick Grimes on The Walking Dead, it's understandable that emotions are running high among the show's fans. There's sadness, anger, maybe even some confusion, but after Sunday night's episode all of those emotions were redirected. Suddenly those feelings weren't aimed at Rick or Lincoln or another of the human characters, but at a horse.
*Spoiler Warning: There are spoilers for The Walking Dead Season 9, Episode 4, "The Obliged," below.**
Sunday's episode, "The Obliged," ended on a cliffhanger after Rick found himself in a rather precarious situation. Caught between two herds of walkers, his horse was spooked, and he couldn't calm the animal down fast enough. The horse threw Rick, he landed in a pile of debris, and was impaled on a piece of rebar. That's where it ends, with Rick gravely wounded with just one more episode remaining in Lincoln's run as the character.
Needless to say, fans were shaken, angry, and even laughing over the implication that after all he's been through, a horse would be the thing that finally brings Rick down.
Of course, many fans were also quick to point out that it's probably no accident that the writers happened upon a horse as the catalyst for Rick's death. There's a bit of symbolic mirroring happening there that goes all the way back to Season 1, when Rick rode a horse into Atlanta and got trapped within a walker herd. He ended up sacrificing that poor animal to distract the walkers, so maybe this is some kind of karmic justice from a vengeful horse god, or just a personal vendetta.
In fact, it didn't take long after the episode aired for a whole Reddit thread to spring up, built around the possibility that the real story of Rick's demise is a horse who found out a relative of his was killed by some guy in Atlanta, and he's been hunting for the killer ever since.
However the incident with the horse was put together, the episode ends with Rick in very bad shape, and the preview for next week's episode is full of apparent hallucinations he's having while he bleeds out. However it ends, we've got precious few moments left with Rick Grimes, and that horse drove that point home for us all Sunday night.
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by Ed Shutenko | Jul 5, 2018 | Apple Industry news |
If you've been hearing talk of a new HomePod, you're in luck. In this article we'll have the latest rumours surrounding the HomePod including the possible release date, pricing, and other specs. If you have never heard of the HomePod but enjoy Apple products, this article is for you too. By the time you finish reading this, you might decide that you should jump on the HomePod bandwagon.
The HomePod is in the same category as Google Home and Echo. It sold less than both of those products in its initial release, but Apple is planning on making some improvements to the HomePod that will likely make it a more desirable product for Apple fans.
When is it to be released?
The release date of the first HomePod was February 2018. It was announced at the WWDC in June 2017, but it didn't start hitting shelves until much later. It's not possible to pinpoint an exact date because one hasn't been released yet, but it's a possibility that the HomePod might be coming out again in late 2018. Apple products don't generally follow a specific release schedule, though, so this is just one of the possibilities. Apple generally has three main times when products are released. In September of this year, the newest iPhone is expected. It's possible that Apple might also release the next gen HomePod.
It's also a possibility that Apple is releasing a cheaper HomePod. A noted analyst believes that it's possible for Apple to launch a lower end HomePod for around £160.
A Bloomberg report supports the idea that a September or October launch for the HomePod is possible. This same report claims that Apple is working on a new version of the HomePod slated to be released in 2019. The report states that Apple will be launching new AirPods as well as over-the-ear headphones in the spring of 2019.
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The HomePod released in early 2018 held a price tag of £319. It's common for newer versions of products to have about the same price tag as their predecessors. However, rumours have been flying that the new HomePod could be less than the original was. It's been reported that a price tag of £147 – £160 is a possibility. Since the first generation of HomePod sales weren't as strong as they could have been, Apple may decide to make the price point of the newest HomePod cheaper, hoping this will spur more sales of the product.
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The newest generation of HomePod may be called the HomePod mini when it's released. It may also be called the HomePod 2. Or it may not be called HomePod at all. It all really depends on what Apple decides. As mentioned above, the original HomePod didn't sell as much as Apple had hoped. In order to distance themselves from a product that had lackluster sales, it's possible that they will change the name to something different when the new HomePod is released. Reports have indicated that the new HomePod will have a Beats smart speaker which is powered by Siri. This factor could influence whether the HomePod has the same name when it's released or whether it comes back with a different name.
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The newest features from the HomePod include a reduction in size. Reports have indicated that the new HomePod will be smaller than the original.
Another feature expected in the new iteration is a better array of features for the voice command. When the first iteration was released, users were not happy with the limited ability to give commands, so the new generation will expand on the previous one.
Another feature expected to be included is the ability to recognize different voices using different accounts. You wouldn't want your child to be able to access your movies or music videos, so it would be ideal for users to be able to set up multiple accounts.
To sum it all up, then, users can fully expect a newly revised HomePod sometime within the next several months. There will be new features and possibly a new price point as well. If you didn't get in on the first generation HomePod, this version might be just what you've been waiting for.
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Q: Socket IO client + React Typescript + Context API causing TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'exports' of object '#' I am using context API to delegate socket io client instance to other child components, once I declare a socket io client instance, react app throws TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'exports' of object '#'
import { createContext } from 'react';
import { io } from "socket.io-client";

const socket = io("http://localhost:5000"); // < once this line is added, throws error

export const SocketContext = createContext({});

export function SocketProvider(props: any) {
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A: I have the same problem and mine was caused because of my (socket.io-client) version, I fixed it by downgrading the version to 2.1.1 and it worked for me.
by this reference https://flaviocopes.com/cannot-assign-readonly-property-export/
the problem is because of how the function is declared and the newest versions of (socket.io-client) there is a typescript but in the version the I have been downgraded to there is no typescript and it was the solution.

A: This happened to me also. This problem is from socket.io-client. Best solution is to downgrade the socket.io-client version to 4.3.0 as:
npm install socket.io-client@4.3.0