And furthermore, I adore a good story.
Naturally, I gravitated toward this recipe, since it combines all of the above in one tasty form. Adding to its intrigue was the fact that is was an award-winner: these bars are featured in the new book Holiday Cookies: Prize-Winning Family Recipes from the Chicago Tribune for Cookies, Bars, Brownies and More .
Victoria Weisenberg won first place in 2012 for this recip and her tale of using them to woo "a very special man". Weisenberg created the recipe as a Hanukkah give for her former beau and said the "H" stands for the first letter of his first name, though she opted to leave that name a mystery.
Luckily (great timing!) I just received a package from the California Dried Plum Board (no, really). It didn't take me long to decide to swap the prunes for the raisins. I'm glad I did: they add a wonderful moisture and mellow flavor to the bars.
The only other thing I did differently is I baked the bars in a loaf pan rather than the size specified in the recipe. Doing such, I had to increase the bake time by about 5 minutes. I have left the instructions intact though; if you want to make them look like mine, use a loaf pan, increase the bake time, and slice into fingers instead of bars.
Grease or coat with cooking spray a 7½-by-11-inch baking pan. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
For the shortbread, combine butter, flour and granulated sugar in a medium bowl until crumbly. Pack into the prepared pan; bake, 15 minutes.
For raisin layer, stir together flour with the baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl. In another bowl, beat brown sugar, eggs and vanilla together until blended. Stir in dry ingredients and dried plum bits. Pour over the baked shortbread layer.
For the topping, combine ingredients in a bowl until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over the middle layer. Bake, 22 to 25 minutes. Cool.
For the icing, combine confectioners' sugar, 1½ tablespoons milk and vanilla in a small bowl. Add more milk, if needed, until you get a smooth, easy-to drizzle mixture. Drizzle over the top. Cut into 20 bars.
Food processor method: You do not have to wash the bowl of the processor between steps. Combine ingredients for the bottom layer with a few pulses until crumbly. Pack in pan. Bake as above. Prepare topping in the processor in the same way. Place in a bowl and set aside. Then, place brown sugar, eggs and vanilla in processor bowl and process until blended. Add dry ingredients and pulse a few times. Stir in raisins. Continue as above.
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Situé dans la vallée des rois, dans la nécropole thébaine sur la rive ouest du Nil face à Louxor en Égypte, KV 56 est le tombeau d'un inconnu. On y a retrouvé des objets au nom de Séthi  et Taousert. Certains pensent qu'il s'agit plutôt d'une cache, d'autres d'une tombe d'un fils de Séthi . On y a en effet découvert des restes d'un revêtement d'or et de stuc provenant probablement d'un sarcophage, d'où le surnom de tombe d'or.

Bibliographie

Liens externes

  Bibliographie concernant KV56 sur Theban Mapping Project

Index égyptologique
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S. Korea's Lotte chairman charged in connection with corruption scandal
Posted at Apr 17 2017 05:40 PM | Updated as of Apr 17 2017 05:57 PM
Lotte Group chairman Shin Dong-bin arrives for a trial at a court in Seoul, South Korea, March 20, 2017. Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters
South Korean prosecutors on Monday charged the chairman of retail giant Lotte in connection with the corruption scandal that brought down former president Park Geun-Hye.
Shin Dong-Bin is accused of using more than $6 million to bribe Park and her secret confidante Choi Soon-Sil, the prosecutors said on the same day they charged Park with bribery and abuse of power.
Shin, 62, allegedly offered seven billion won ($6.15 million) to a sports foundation linked to Choi in exchange for a policy favour from Park over Lotte's duty-free business.
Choi is on trial for coercion and abuse of power. She allegedly used her presidential ties to force local firms to "donate" nearly $70 million to non-profit foundations which she allegedly used for personal gain.
Now Choi faces an additional charge of bribery involving Shin, the prosecutors said.
Park is accused of colluding with Choi and offering policy favours to top businessmen who enriched her friend. These are alleged to include Shin and Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong, who was arrested earlier and is also on trial for bribery.
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July 1, 2012 by scillagrace
The Raspberry School is part of the Norwegian area of Old World Wisconsin. The one-room schoolhouse dates back to the late 19th century and brings back memories for lots of visitors who went to schools like this one. One fellow I talked to said he loved telling people that he graduated 3rd in his class…and omitting the fact that there were only 3 pupils in his grade level.
Multi-aged classrooms became a "new" education idea again in the 70s when I was in grade school and when my kids were in elementary school in the 90s, but ours only spanned two grades. I remember when we all walked home for lunch in the middle of the day. No lunch pails needed.
Each desk at the school has a slate and a slate pencil (no chalk, just slate on slate) and a copy of one of the McGuffey Readers. I never used one as a child. What about you?
But I found the most fascinating thing I learned last Monday at this school was about the Pledge of Allegiance. The 1892 version by Francis Bellamy reads: "I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." With so many immigrants from different nations, allegiance to a new flag was part of public school education. It wasn't until 1923 that the phrase "the flag of the United States of America" replaced "my flag". Bellamy protested, but his opinion was ignored. Twenty years after that, in Japanese internment camps, all those over the age of 17 were asked if they would swear unqualified allegiance to the United States and "forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, to any other foreign government, power or organization". It wasn't until 1954, when atheism and Communism were perceived as national threats, that "under God" was added. Francis Bellamy's granddaughter asserts that the author of the original pledge would have objected to this change as well.
To what or to whom would you pledge your allegiance? Liberty and equality (which Bellamy wanted to include but knew the state superintendents were against equality for women and African Americans) and justice are the three great ideas of the American political tradition, according to Dr. Mortimer Adler. Are we in agreement on supporting these ideas in the U.S.A.? It's something to think about as Independence Day approaches. Feel free to submit an essay in the comments section. Spelling counts, but neatness doesn't (it'd be typed, after all).
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I would pledge allegience to love and peace and that is all 🙂
I would join you in that pledge!
I thought you might 🙂
Really good post. I'd wondered about the pledge. Also terrific photos, especially to the school.
I wished I could pick up some of those books on the shelf and see what stories children read back then…and their illustrations!


Description Buccheroid fragment, possibly the supporting leg for a vessel, terminating in the shape of a feline paw. The front plane of the leg itself is flat while the back is curved convexly. The leg tapers towards the bottom: the toes (four?) of the paw rest on a flat base.


Esha Bhandari, staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project discusses her recent article is headlined "Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It's Complicated."
Can Americans learn about digital security from Dalit activists with experience in India? This week's episode offers tech tips to protect yourself from state control and violence as a result of online surveillance.


It is widely recognised that lipreading improves communication for people with all types of hearing loss. A Lipspeaker repeats spoken messages for people who are able to lipread. They ensure clear communication in critical situations or when there is more than one voice to follow. A Lipspeaker uses facial expressions, natural gestures and fingerspelling to support communication.
We offer a qualification in Lipspeaking for Level 3.
The aim of the Signature Level 3 Certificate in Lipspeaking is to provide those who wish to work as Lipspeakers with the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills in order to effectively fulfil their role. This qualification is intended to support the professionalism of the lipspeaking workforce and enable a wider recognition of the valuable role it plays.
promote personal and professional development.
To be awarded a Level 3 Certificate in Lipspeaking candidates must achieve four mandatory units in order to be awarded the full qualification.
A holistic approach should be taken by centres for the units, in that units may run concurrently and the teaching may cover the learning requirements of several units.
LS302 D/506/5702 Deliver Lipspeaking Services Live observation, recording.
The following table shows the recommended learning hours required to achieve this qualification.
Potential candidates should have or be developing their skills in English, mathematics and ICT at Level 2 and should have undergone an initial assessment of these skills prior to commencement on the course. In addition candidates will be assessed at interview for their suitability to perform the technical skills required for lipspeaking so that their message is potentially clearly lipreadable. Candidates should also have good unaided hearing to perform accurate lipspeaking.
Signature Level 3 Certificate in Lipspeaking is appropriate for people who wish to work in the area of lipspeaking and those who wish to lipspeak as part of their role. It may also be of value to Speech to Text Reporters (STTRs) and Electronic Notetakers and BSL Interpreters and other Communication professionals working in the field.
This qualification is listed as appropriate for learners 19+.
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Turkish Court says gay sex is 'natural' in ruling against pornography vendor
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- A Turkish Court ruled Monday that that gay sex is "natural," contradicting a ruling by the country's Supreme Court of Appeals in a similar case last year.
By Staff Reports Wednesday, February 20, 2013
ISTANBUL, Turkey — A Turkish Court ruled Monday that gay sex is "natural," contradicting a ruling by the country's Supreme Court of Appeals in a similar case last year.
Ruling in a case of a vendor charged with unlawful sale of 125 DVDs depicting gay and group sex pornography, Judge Mahmut Erdemli stated that an individual's sexual orientation should be respected, and cited examples of same-sex marriages in Europe and in the Americas.
The defendant, identified solely by his initials, DM, had faced up to four years imprisonment according to article 262/2 of the Turkish penal code that prohibits owning, trafficking, distributing and publishing "unnatural sex" videos.
Erdemli's ruling on Monday counters last year's decision by the appellate court that said video or photographic depictions of gay sex were "unnatural."
"Today, it is possible to have gay marriages in modern countries. International regulations prohibit discrimination regarding peoples' sexual preference, and it is therefore an obligation to respect their sexual orientation," Erdemli said. "In this respect, most of the European countries see gay relationships as equivalent to marriage."
Erdemli added that contemporary societies allow same-sex couples "to achieve this legal status and therefore the contents of the DVDs can not be seen as unnatural."
Erdemli did, however rule that the videos that depicted necrophilia and bestiality were correctly classified as "unnatural," and found the defendant guilty of "unauthorized" sale of pornography. He imposed an 8 month sentence on the defendant.
Europe, Gay Sex, Istanbul, Pornography, Turkey
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DC Comics' 'Batwoman' proposes to her secret girlfriend in latest issue


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Q: social auth django authentication Google when authentication with google is completed the user is created in django.auth.user with all the correct fields but not logged in. It basically redirects to the redirect URL but doesn't log in the user.
I've tried several other projects including this one: https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/10/24/how-to-add-social-login-to-django.html
But same issue. Authentication and everything is all good. redirects back to url, creates django.auth.user but doesn't log the user in after redirecting.
I can go into django admin and login there but I would like it to automatically log the user in after the redirect from google.
Any help would be appreciated :)

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The complete works of an artist, writer, musician, group, etc., is a collection of all of their cultural works. For example, Complete Works of Shakespeare is an edition containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. A Complete Works published edition of a text corpus is normally accompanied with additional information and critical apparatus. It may include notes, introduction, a biographical sketch, and may pay attention to textual variants.

Similarly, the term body of work may be used to describe the entirety of the creative or academic output produced by a particular individual or unit.

Terminology
Complete works may be titled by a single word, "Works". "Collected works" is often treated as a synonym. A distinction began to be seen clearly in the second half of the 18th century.

The Latin language equivalent Opera Omnia is still used in English, for example, to refer to the works of Galen or Leonhard Euler. German usage distinguishes :de:Gesamtwerk as a complete corpus, :de:Gesamtausgabe for a published edition of the works, and Gesammelte Werke or collected works that may be selective in some way. A contrasting term is "selected works", which is a collection of works chosen according to some criterion, e.g., by prominence, or as a representative selection.

Examples
The first literary author to have "complete works" published, in the modern sense, has been identified as Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, in 1637/8.
The first critical complete edition of a musical composer's works has been identified as Joh. Seb. Bach's Werke (of Johann Sebastian Bach) published 1851 to 1926 by the Bach Gesellschaft at Leipzig, in 46 volumes.
The Opera Omnia Leonhard Euler, a compilation of the works of the mathematician Leonhard Euler, began publication in 1911 and volumes were still being compiled for publication .
The Iwanami Shoten complete works of Natsume Sōseki, new edition, set up a Japanese model for complete works of other authors.

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Make Something You Love with Huge & Mr Lyan.
About the series.
Make something you love is a series of talks by makers, for makers, about the art of creating something out of nothing. Hosted by Huge, this semi-regular series of events comes with pizza, booze and inspiration. Come hang with us and our friends for an hour or two.
About the speaker.
Meet Ryan Chetiyawardana aka Mr Lyan, recognized as one of the Most Influential Londoners by the Evening Standard and owner of the award winning Dandelyan and White Lyan – the first cocktail bar in the world to use no perishables whatsoever. Join us for an interactive evening where we explore the complex world of taste and learn how Mr Lyan's innovative approach to his craft has resulted in critical acclaim.
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What Does It Take For A Child To Get Help With Their Mental Health?
In partnership with Minds Ahead
Our new report published today lays bare the scale and severity of the UK's Youth Mental health crisis, showing that children in desperate need are being refused help. One young person was told a suicide attempt was 'not serious enough' for them to access support and another to put their 'chin up'.
Our report, published with the school mental health organisation "Minds Ahead" warns that despite the government's increasing focus on mental health it is likely to miss its own targets for improved services due to patchy implementation, a severe lack of funding and a shortage of trained specialists.
"Schools and Mental Health", argues that schools cannot, and should not avoid their role in tackling the crisis. The report calls for a new development programme to train mental health specialists to support young people with 'pre-clinical' needs within their school. It also calls for Ofsted to improve the way it inspects schools' contribution to pupil wellbeing and for school leaders to be 'true to their moral purpose,' by prioritising pupil wellbeing above league table positions.
Former Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan MP has welcomed today's report and called for "more emphasis to be put on wellbeing." Meanwhile former Health Minister Norman Lamb MP described the report as "essential reading" and backed its call for PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) teaching in school to include a practical emphasis on learning to deal with stress and learning about healthy use of social media.
The report will be launched at a Westminster Briefings event attended by teachers, school leaders and policy makers. It highlights shocking figures showing that:
Suicide is the leading cause of death, for five-nineteen year olds (ONS 2017).
Research by the NSPCC finds that one in three school referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are turned down (NSPCC 2017).
75% of mental health problems begin before the age of 18 (NHS 2015).
As part of this project we spoke to dozens of experts to understand the spiralling incidence of poor mental health amongst young people and what can be done about it. Research participants particularly highlighted:
Chronic under-resourcing and under-staffing;
Fragmentation and poor coordination of services;
Unhealthy use of social media;
Changing social attitudes;
Exam pressure; and,
Uncertain and precarious career options for young people.


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The purpose of this role is to provide excellent and efficient customer support to Placer app's users. The Customer Support Manager is responsible for monitoring and maintaining all support channels while providing feedback to the technical team for the purpose of enhancing user-experience.
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THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS INVESTIGATE
NICK CLEGG: Danny, I've heard rumours that Chris Rennard has been a bit naughty! Will you have a word?
DANNY ALEXANDER: Righto, Nick!
Later …
DANNY ALEXANDER: Chris, I'm told there are rumours you've been a bit naughty! Are they true?
CHRIS RENNARD: No, but I resign on grounds of ill health.
DANNY ALEXANDER: Splendid, Chris, I'll pass that on!
Later still ...
NICK CLEGG: Did you have a word with Chris?
DANNY ALEXANDER: Yes. He says there's no truth in the rumours and has resigned.
NICK CLEGG: Phew, that's a relief!
Some years later on TV …
MARGOT BONHAM CARTER (former Lib Dem candidate): That rotter Chris pinched my bottom! I told him off and then went home.
PAMELA ASQUITH (former aide to Nick Clegg): I felt his fingers fondly caressing my thigh as we discussed alternatives to the council tax after dinner at his flat. He was really creepy, so I immediately called a taxi back to Tooting.
MARIGOLD THORPE (Lib Dem leader of Pendon council): When he suggested we went upstairs for a 'pervy quickie' at the conference hotel, I burst into tears and ran off to my room.
ANONYMOUS (Lib Dem activist): I went over to his house to see his collection of Lib Dem Focus newsletters. But I thought he was revolting and left after a drink.
Back at Lib Dem HQ
NICK CLEGG: This is a crisis! We must make a statement! Danny, do you remember the rumours about Chris?
DANNY ALEXANDER: Rumours? I'm sure the first I heard was when Margot and Pamela went public on TV.
NICK CLEGG: Oh, I thought I heard something vaguely before and told you about it. Never mind! If we both tell everyone what we remember, I'm sure the truth will out!
NO LABOUR SELL-OUT ON LIBEL REFORM!
The threat Labour is posing to the libel reform bill is breathtakingly dumb and cynical.
It is a small piece of legislation that would curb some of the worst idiocies of our libel law – making it just a little more difficult for charlatans and foreign billionaires to suppress legitimate criticism – and was making its way through parliament with cross-party support.
Then up pop Labour Lords Puttnam and Falconer to amend the bill with a lot of proposals based on Lord Justice Leveson's report on press regulation – which get the support of the Labour leadership. No matter that their proposals are utterly illiberal where they are not entirely irrelevant (they include the creation of a body that would vet material before publication, which is outrageous): they know that their action endangers the entire bill, because the government will withdraw support for it if amended. Indeed, the sole purpose of their intervention appears to be to embarrass David Cameron for wavering over Leveson.
There's 24 hours for Labour to change tack and drop this opportunistic wrecking move: the Lords vote tomorrow. If Labour doesn't withdraw, it will lose all credibility with journalists … and it wouldn't want that, would it? Read Nick Cohen, John Kampfner and Tim Luckhurst.
IRAQ STARTED A DISMAL DECADE
Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 22 February
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," wrote William Wordsworth of the French revolution. "But to be young was very heaven!" And to quite a lot of people, the same seems to apply to having gone to the giant London demonstration of 15 February 2003 against British participation in the war to topple Saddam Hussein.
I've lost count of the pundits who have told us how it changed their lives and opened their eyes and nothing was ever quite the same again. Yes, it was massive, the biggest demo in London maybe ever – 1 million, 2 million? No one knows. We came from all over, all sorts of people. It was an extraordinary mobilisation, and it felt good to be part of a giant crowd.
But that was it. We came, we hung around in office-land, we eventually got to Hyde Park. A month later, Robin Cook resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet and there was a backbench Labour revolt in the House of Commons. Then Britain went to war.
In short, the demo failed. OK, it might have been more effective – a Tory MP on the platform, perhaps, or a bit of direct action? – but the brutal truth is that a lot of us turned out to say we didn't want war, and the government, which had won a big majority in 2001, ignored us, as was its democratic right.
So why is everyone talking about it ten years after? It's not just the convenience of anniversaries for editors. Ian McEwan's novel Saturday, framed by the day of the protest, captures the unease that made the Iraq war a watershed for liberals and leftists. Should we be opposing the overthrow of the most murderous tyrant of the late 20th century? Or should we be backing an imperialist adventure that has every prospect of failing? It was a defining moment, and the arguments continue to this day, filled with passionate intensity.
At the time, it seemed that the scale of opposition to war might prove fatal to Blair's premiership. But it turned out to be only a nagging wound for New Labour. For all the sound and fury, Blair won another general election in 2005, and Iraq played only a small role in the manoeuvring by Gordon Brown that eventually ousted him.
The war did, however, prove critical for the confidence and credibility of the left in the Labour Party. It was riven over the war but also committed to maintaining Labour in power. Cook's resignation speech won a standing ovation in the Commons, but most Labour MPs who agreed with him stuck with Blair. Individual Labour Party members opposed to war drifted out of the party, and the anti-war cause became the property of the Liberal Democrats, the Leninist far left (the Socialist Workers Party, the Communist Party of Britain and George Galloway), the mosques with whom the far left had allied, and the Greens.
None of them managed to capitalise on the political collapse of the Labour left. The Lib Dems won 62 seats in the 2005 general election, the biggest haul for a centre party since the 1920s but only 10 better than 2001, then jettisoned two leaders before turning to the free-market right. George Galloway won Bethnal Green for Respect after a campaign directed at traditionalist Muslims, but Respect soon split after a bust-up between Galloway and the SWP. Galloway resurrected his Bethnal Green strategy to win a by-election victory in Bradford last year, but it's hard to see that as more than a one-off. The Greens retained the European Parliament seats they won in 1999 in 2004 and 2009 and won representation on local councils, though it wasn't until 2010 that they got their first MP (and that had little to do with Iraq).
Meanwhile, Labour lost power in 2010 to the most reactionary government we've had since the 1930s. Iraq was not a major factor in the defeat – at least by comparison with the MPs' expenses scandal, immigration and the press trashing of Brown and Labour's record on economic policy. But it was a factor, and it was an issue in the leadership election that followed. Ed Miliband won in part because, conveniently, he'd not had anything to do with the decision to go to war.
The war marked the start of a dismal decade for the British left. Can we move on, please?
MR CAMERON GOES TO AMRITSAR
The Amritsar massacre of 1919 is rightly remembered as one of the great outrages of the British empire in its twilight years. Brigadier Reginald Dyer, the local British army commander in the northern Indian city, nervous that the natives were restless and thinking they needed to be taught a lesson, ordered his troops to fire live rounds from rifles and machine guns into an exuberant but unthreatening crowd celebrating a Sikh festival. By the time Dyer's men had exhausted their ammunition, at least 400 and perhaps as many as 1,000 of the revellers had been shot dead, with thousands seriously wounded.
It was not the only crime of empire or even the greatest – but it was the most brutal and public of the immediate post-first-world-war years, and the news of it, transmitted through the mass-circulation press, horrified Indian and most informed British opinion (to say nothing of the anti-imperialist Americans). Not so the British government, then a Conservative-Liberal coalition led by David Lloyd George, which procrastinated while inquiries and disciplinary procedures dragged on, eventually, more than a year afterwards, when it had no other option, putting up Winston Churchill, the most right-wing Liberal of the day, to explain in the Commons that it had decided that the massacre was a bad thing.
He did so reluctantly but well, against the protests of the Tories and their supporters in the press: it was the only time in the interwar years that Churchill did not take the most reactionary line available on India. The diehard Tory Morning Post, lately distinguished by publishing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as documentary evidence of the conspiracy behind Bolshevism, put the hat round after Dyer was disciplined to make sure he had a bounty when he got home, and Dyer remained a hero of the diehards until his death in 1927. Rudyard Kipling, who was of course much more than a diehard, said that Dyer had saved India.
In the circumstances, I think that anyone associated with the Tory party should be grovelling whenever they go to India. "I renounce my party's despicable history, its tame press and the horrors of British imperialism" was not, however, the message that David Cameron gave when he sort-of apologised (by saying that it was rather awful but Churchill had said sorry already) this week.


The Farmers Wife: New Hair!
As promised I finally got some pictures of my new haircut! Which I totally LOVE!!! I hope you all will enjoy it as well! Let me know what you think, I know it's pretty different and will take some adjusting for everyone, but it's SOOO easy!!
Thank you! It's so different from how my hair used to be, it doesn't hardly curl anymore at all. It's crazy!


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Q: How to convert an Enum to ViewModel I'm using Web Api to build a ViewModel based on the Enum. This view model will be sending id and the name. Basically I want to use this viewModel to use dropdownList.
Here is my code: works fine but I don't want to use ListItem in Web Api.
// GET api/values
    public List<DropdownViewModel> Get()
    {
        List<DropdownViewModel> ddlList = new List<DropdownViewModel>();

        foreach (int r in Enum.GetValues(typeof(CountryEnum)))
        {
            ListItem item = new ListItem(Enum.GetName(typeof(CountryEnum), r), r.ToString());
            ddlList.Add(new DropdownViewModel
            {
                id = item.Value,
                name = item.Text
            });
        }

        return ddlList;
    }

Can anyone re-factor this code without using ListItem?

A: The Linq Select method should work.
Edit: That just goes to show that if it's not tested it doesn't work. This is tested. It should work.
public List<DropdownViewModel> Get()
{
    return Enum.GetValues(typeof (CountryEnum)).Cast<int>()
        .Select(id => new DropdownViewModel
        {
            id = id,
            name = Enum.GetName(typeof (CountryEnum), id)
        }).ToList();
}


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I am providence the life.., p.100
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2 VOLUMES), page 100
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This opening is also a refinement of the opening of "The Picture in the House" (1920), which might be thought to have piled on the horror—and the adjectives—a little too strongly; here greater restraint is shown, and the entire story could be regarded as one long but subdued prose-poem.
The key to the story, of course, is the anomalous meteorite. Is it—or the coloured globules inside it—animate in any sense we can recognise? Does it house a single entity or many entities? What are their physical properties? More significantly, what are their aims, goals, and motives? The fact that we can answer none of these questions very clearly is by no means a failing; indeed, this is exactly the source of terror in the tale. As Lovecraft said of Machen's "The White People," "the lack of anything concrete is the great asset of the story."[27] In other words, it is precisely because we cannot define the nature—either physical or psychological—of the entities in "The Colour out of Space" (or even know whether they are entities or living creatures as we understand them) that produces the sense of nameless horror. Lovecraft later maintained (probably correctly) that his habit of writing—even if unconsciously—with a pulp audience in mind had corrupted his technique by making his work too obvious and explicit. We will indeed find this problem in some later tales, but here Lovecraft has exercised the most exquisite artistic restraint in not fully defining the nature of the phenomena at hand.
It is, therefore, in "The Colour out of Space" that Lovecraft has most closely achieved his goal of avoiding the depiction of "the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards— . . . as native to other worlds or other universes." For it is manifest that the meteorite in "The Colour out of Space" must have come from some dim corner of the universe where natural laws work very differently from the way they do here: "It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes." The chemical experiments performed on the object establish that it is physically unlike anything we know; and the utter absence of any sense of wilful viciousness, or conventionalised "evil" in the object or the entities it contains similarly results in a psychological distancing from human or earthly standards. To be sure, the meteorite causes great destruction, and because some remnants of it are still on the planet, it will continue to do so; but perhaps this is an inevitable product of the mingling of our world and its own. In order for an animate being to be morally culpable of "evil," it must be conscious that it is doing what is regarded as evil; but who can say whether the entities in "The Colour out of Space" are conscious at all? Nahum Gardner's poignant dying speech makes the matter clear: his simple utterance, "dun't know what it wants," puts the matter in a nutshell. We have no way of ascertaining the mental or emotional orientation of the anomalous entities, and as a result we cannot possibly apportion praise or blame to them by any conventional moral standard.
But Lovecraft has rendered the plight of the Gardner family inexpressibly poignant and tragic, so that although we cannot "blame" the meteorite for causing their deaths, we still experience a tremendous sense of sorrow mingled with horror at their fate. It is not merely that they have been physically destroyed; the meteorite has also beaten down their minds and wills, so that they are unable to escape its effects. When Ammi tells Nahum that the well water is bad, Nahum ignores him: "He and the boys continued to use the tainted supply, drinking it as listlessly and mechanically as they ate their meager and ill-cooked meals and did their thankless and monotonous chores through the aimless days." This single sentence is one of the most heart-rending and depressing moments in all Lovecraft.
"The Colour out of Space" is of course the first of Lovecraft's major tales to effect that union of horror and science fiction which would become the hallmark of his later work. It continues the pattern already established in "The Call of Cthulhu" of transferring "the focus of supernatural dread from man and his little world and his gods, to the stars and the black and unplumbed gulfs of intergalactic space," as Fritz Leiber ably termed it.[28] In a sense, of course, Lovecraft was taking the easy way out: by simply having his entities come from some remote corner of the universe, he could attribute nearly any physical properties to them and not be required to give a plausible explanation for them. But the abundance of chemical and biological verisimilitude Lovecraft provides makes these unknown properties highly convincing, as does the gradually enveloping atmosphere of the tale. If there is any flaw in "The Colour out of Space," it is that it is just a little too long: the scene with Ammi and the others in the Gardner farmhouse is dragged out well beyond the requirements for the tale and actually dilutes some of the tensity of atmosphere Lovecraft has so carefully fashioned. But beyond this slight and debatable flaw, "The Colour out of Space" is an achievement Lovecraft rarely, perhaps never, equalled.
In a sense the most controversial aspect of the tale is the mundane matter of its publication history. "The Colour out of Space" appeared in Amazing Stories for September 1927; but the critical question is whether the tale was ever submitted to Weird Tales. Apparently the only evidence for this occurs in Sam Moskowitz's article, "A Study in Horror: The Eerie Life of H. P. Lovecraft," first published in Fantastic for May 1960 and reprinted (as "The Lore of H. P. Lovecraft") in Moskowitz's Explorers of the Infinite (1963). There Moskowitz writes:
So full of high hope for this story, Lovecraft was stunned when it was rejected by Weird Tales. In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft stormed at the shortsightedness of Farnsworth Wright. Though Weird Tales printed numerous science fiction stories, Wright preferred the romantic adventure so popular in Argosy, or even straight action stories. Lovecraft submitted the story to Argosy, which also rejected it as being a bit too "strong" for their readership.[29]
Here now are two remarkable assertions: that the tale was submitted both to Argosy and to Weird Tales. Moskowitz, however, told me[30] that his article was originally written at the request of Frank Belknap Long for Satellite Science Fiction (of which Long was an associate editor), and that Long had provided him with the information about the rejections of "The Colour out of Space." At this time (1959), however, Long no longer had his letters from Lovecraft: he had sold them to Samuel Loveman in the early 1940s. My feeling, therefore, is that Long has misremembered the entire episode, confusing it with the rejection of "The Call of Cthulhu." There is no mention of any rejection by Weird Tales in any of the letters to Long that I have read for this period, although there may be other letters to which I have not had access; but Lovecraft's total silence on this matter in letters to other colleagues—particularly August Derleth (to whom he mentions, in late April, merely the intention of submitting the tale to Wright[31]) and Donald Wandrei, with whom he was corresponding very frequently in 1927 and to whom he was making frequent mention of acceptances and rejections—is significant. Consider also Lovecraft's comment to Farnsworth Wright in his letter of July 5, 1927: ". . . this spring and summer I've been too busy with revisory and kindred activities to write more than one tale—which, oddly enough, was accepted at once by Amazing Stories . . ."[32] The wording of this letter suggests that this is Lovecraft's first mention of the story to Wright. There is equal silence concerning a possible Argosy rejection; Long may have confused this with the rejection of "The Rats in the Walls" in 1923. In 1930 Lovecraft wrote to Smith: "I must try the Argosy some day, though I gave up the Munsey group in disgust when the celebrated Robert H. Davis turned down my 'Rats in the Walls' as 'too horrible and improbable'—or something like that—some seven years ago."[33] Unless one assumes that Lovecraft is uncharacteristically lying, this certainly suggests that he had made no submission to Argosy since 1923.
It would not at all be unusual for Lovecraft at this time to be trying new markets. As early as Apr
il 1927 he was complaining of "Wright's increasing disinclination to accept my stuff,"[34] and we have already seen his attempt to land his work in Ghost Stories in 1926. In May 1927 the redoubtable Edwin Baird resurfaced with plans for a new magazine; in spite of his past troubles with Baird, Lovecraft submitted six stories to him.[35] The magazine of course never materialised. Also at this time Lovecraft submitted "The Call of Cthulhu" to Mystery Stories, edited by Robert Sampson, where it was rejected on the ground (as Lovecraft tartly termed it) "that it was 'too heavy' for his airy & popular publication."[36]
Amazing Stories was the first authentic science fiction magazine in English, and it continues to be published today. Lovecraft remarked wryly, "The magazine certainly lived up to its name so far as I am concerned, for I really hadn't the remotest idea the thing would 'land'. I guess the pseudo-scientific camouflage near the beginning was what turned the trick."[37] Scientific romance of a sort had been featured in the early decades of the century in Argosy, All-Story, the Thrill Book, and others, but Amazing was the first to make a coordinated effort to print material of this kind—material, too, that was fairly sound in its scientific premises. During its first year, when Lovecraft subscribed to it, it also attempted to draw upon what editor Hugo Gernsback perceived to be the literary origins of the field by reprinting Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and other "classics." When these reprints ceased, Lovecraft found the new work not sufficiently interesting to warrant purchasing the magazine.
But if he was hoping that he had somehow found an alternative to Weird Tales, he was in for a rude awakening. Although his later work, as it turns out, contained a fairly significant scientific element, Amazing became a closed market to him when Gernsback paid him only $25.00 for the story—a mere 1/5¢ per word—and this only after three dunning letters. Gernsback paid incredibly poorly and also delayed payment for months or even years. The inevitable occurred: many potential writers abandoned the magazine, and others who—like Clark Ashton Smith—published in it or in Gernsback's later magazine, Wonder Stories (where the same financial practices prevailed), were compelled to file suit against him to receive payment. In the 1930s there was a lawyer who made a specialty of exacting payment from Gernsback. Although in later years Lovecraft briefly considered requests from Gernsback or from his associate editor, C. A. Brandt, for further submissions, he never again sent a tale to Amazing. He also took to calling Gernsback "Hugo the Rat."
One further work of fiction that may be considered here is the fragment titled (by R. H. Barlow) "The Descendant." This has customarily been dated, on no evidence that I can ascertain, to 1926; but it is conceivable that an early 1927 date is more probable. The clue may reside in a letter of April 1927:
Just now I'm making a very careful study of London by means of maps, books, & pictures, in order to get background for tales involving richer antiquities than America can furnish. . . . If there's anything I hate, it's writing about a locality without an adequate knowledge of its history, topography, & general atmosphere; & I don't wish to make this blunder in anything I may concoct with an Old London setting.[38]
Lovecraft does not, of course, say in this letter or in any other I have read that he had actually written anything with a London setting; but "The Descendant" certainly has a London setting, as no other work of this period does. The only other clue to dating the fragment is the mention in it of Charles Fort; Lovecraft, although having previously heard of Fort, did not read any of his work until Donald Wandrei lent him The Book of the Damned in March 1927.[39]
I do not know that much more can be made of this piece; it is clearly a false start, and it is just as well that Lovecraft abandoned it after a few pages. It is written in that frenetic, overheated style of some of his earlier tales—a style that Lovecraft, with "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Colour out of Space," was wisely starting to abandon. This tale, like "The Rats in the Walls," brings Roman Britain into play; and, as in that story, Lovecraft continues to make errors regarding which legion was in England (the second, not the third Augustan) and the location of its legionary fortress (Isca Silurum [Caerleon-on-Usk], not Lindum [Lincoln]). Again, these changes could perhaps be deliberate, but I fail to see their point if they are. There is also a focus on the Necronomicon, and the scene in which one character purchases the tome from a "Jew's shop in the squalid precincts of Clare Market" is surprisingly similar to the opening sonnet of the later Fungi from Yuggoth (1929–30) sequence. Some external features of another character, Lord Northam, bring Arthur Machen and Lord Dunsany to mind, although in a superficial way. Northam lives at Gray's Inn, where Machen lived for many years; and Northam is the "nineteenth Baron of a line whose beginnings went uncomfortably far back into the past," just as Dunsany was the eighteenth Baron in a line founded in the twelfth century. Northam, like Randolph Carter in "The Silver Key," undertakes a wide-ranging sampling of various religious and aesthetic ideals ("Northam in youth and young manhood drained in turn the founts of formal religion and occult mystery"), allowing us perhaps to believe that the fragment was written after "The Silver Key." Beyond these things, there does not seem to be much to say about "The Descendant."
Just before writing "The Colour out of Space," Lovecraft had to hurry up and type "Supernatural Horror in Literature," since Cook wished it immediately for the Recluse. When he had returned from New York, Lovecraft noted that "somebody [C. M. Eddy?] has put me on the track of a list of weird fiction at the public library which (if I can get access to it) may cause me to expand the text considerably."[40] He did read, in the summer and fall of 1926, some material new to him and made a few additions. Among them was the substantial work of Walter de la Mare, whose two collections, The Riddle and Other Stories (1926) and The Connoisseur and Other Stories (1926), as well as the novel The Return, are among the most subtle examples of atmospheric and psychologically acute weird fiction of its time; Lovecraft came to rank de la Mare only just below his four "modern masters," and in later years yearned to achieve the sort of indirection and allusiveness found in de la Mare's best work—"Seaton's Aunt," "All Hallows," "Mr. Kempe," and others. Other works he read at this time were Sax Rohmer's Brood of the Witch Queen (1924) and H. Rider Haggard's She (1887).[41] Cook's rush order, however, compelled Lovecraft to type up the essay without the more significant enlargements, whatever they may have been.[42] The typescript came to 72 pages. Cook must have done the typesetting incredibly rapidly, for he had already delivered the first set of page proofs to Lovecraft by the end of March, scarcely two weeks after he received the text.
Even this, however, was not quite the end. Late in the month Donald Wandrei lent F. Marion Crawford's superb posthumous collection of horror tales, Wandering Ghosts (1911), to Lovecraft,[43] while in April Lovecraft borrowed Robert W. Chambers's early collection The King in Yellow (1895) from Cook;[44] he was so taken with these works that he added paragraphs on both writers in the page proofs.
Neither Lovecraft's fondness for the weird work of Chambers (1865–1933) nor the amazement he expressed when he came upon it—". . . the forgotten early work of Robert W. Chambers (can you believe it?) who turned out some powerful bizarre stuff between 1895 & 1904"[45]—need be a surprise. The King in Yellow, he writes in "Supernatural Horror in Literature," "is a series of vaguely connected short stories having as a background a monstrous and suppressed book whose perusal brings fright, madness, and spectral tragedy"—in other words, rather uncannily like the Necronomicon! It is natural that some critics (such as Lin Carter), not knowing when Lovecraft first read Chambers, would think that The King in Yellow was the actual inspiration for the Necronomicon. Chambers's volume is a powerful collection and is now recognised as a landmark; indeed, Lovecraft himself is chiefly responsible for this recognition. Lovecraft went on to read some of Chambers's other weird work—The Maker of Moons (1896), In Search of the Unknown (1904), and the mediocre
later novel, The Slayer of Souls (1920)—but never seems to have read The Mystery of Choice (1897), another early collection in some ways nearly equal to The King in Yellow. The "can you believe it?" remark relates to the fact that Chambers abandoned the weird around the turn of the century to write an endless series of shopgirl romances that were perennial best-sellers, making Chambers very wealthy but spelling his complete aesthetic ruination. Lovecraft correctly remarks, "Chambers is like Rupert Hughes & a few other fallen Titans—equipped with the right brains & education, but wholly out of the habit of using them."[46]
The Recluse appeared in August 1927; although initially planned as a quarterly, this was the only issue ever published. It is a landmark in more ways than one; but I think it an error to regard it as being strictly a publication devoted to the weird. It certainly was not conceived as such, and the issue—although containing a large proportion of weird material by Lovecraft and his friends—was simply another of Cook's long line of amateur ventures. The lead item, taking up the first fourteen (out of seventy-seven) pages, is a detailed study of Vermont poets and poetry by Walter J. Coates. Lovecraft's essay does indeed take up the bulk of the issue (pages 23–59); he was, in fact, not certain whether Cook would run it all in the first issue, and as it turns out it was fortunate that Cook did so. There is some fine weird writing by Clark Ashton Smith (the poem "After Armageddon"; "Brumes et Pluies," translated from Baudelaire), Donald Wandrei (the story "A Fragment of a Dream" and the poem "In the Grave" [later titled "The Corpse Speaks"]), and H. Warner Munn (the story "The Green Porcelain Dog"); Frank Long's poem "Ballad of St. Anthony" is an admirable romantic specimen, and Samuel Loveman's essay on Hubert Crackanthorpe is a sensitive analysis. One of the most striking pieces is Vrest Orton's superb line drawing for the cover—a picture of a bearded old man poring over ancient tomes in a mediaeval study, with iron-hasped books and beakers containing strange substances heaped about, and three flickering candles providing scanty illumination. All in all, it is a remarkable cover to a remarkable issue.
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Game of Thrones season 7 ended a couple days ago, but we're still scanning the finale episode for all sorts of insight into the show's future — anything to tide us over for the next year until the show returns. And we've just stumbled on a seriously game-changing clue that has us all screaming and wishing it wasn't true.
There is a theory that Bran Stark is the Night King. We've previously discussed this theory in detail. Its basic premise is that Bran uses his time-travel abilities to go back to the moment that the Night King was created by the Children of the Forest in order to intervene, but accidentally gets trapped within the body of the zombie lord instead. It's not as far-fetched as it seems: there's a few clues that suggest this, including Bran's clothing suspiciously mirroring the Night King's garb.
But the finale episode, "The Dragon and the Wolf," may have dropped a major hint that this theory is true. It comes to us from Reddit by way of Marie Claire, and we need to discuss it immediately.
Remember that terrifying scene of undead Viserion destroying the Wall? When the Army of the Dead began their march , there was an aerial scene of the horde as the trudged through the glacial remains of the Wall and Eastwatch. And this aerial scene happens to show the horde assembled into...wait is that a Stark direwolf head?!
Here's an overhead shot of the Night Army, possibly shaped like the direwolf sigil?
...and here is the Stark direwolf sigil on the flags of Winterfell.
I couldn't believe it either. To investigate this theory, I rewatched the last few minutes of the finale several times to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. And yes, it definitely looks like the Army of the Dead is shaped like a direwolf head. The direwolf is, of course, the sigil of House Stark, and it seems to be a massive clue that Bran is the Night King. Or at least that the Army of the Dead has some connection to the Starks. In the books, the Night King is a fallen Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who is rumored to have been a Stark.
Personally, I hate this theory, because I want Bran to be a quiet, honorable Stark like the rest of his family, not the embodiment of inexorable evil. Unfortunately, when it comes to Game of Thrones, there are no happy endings.


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#region License
//
// Copyright © 2013-2016  Simon Gong
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
//
//
/******************************************************************************
 * Description:        AppProcessControllerTest
 *
 * Created by:         Simon Gong
 * Created on:         December 25, 2013

 * Modified By         Date           Description
 *
 *
******************************************************************************/
#endregion

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;

//using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using NUnit.Framework;

using log4net.Config;

using SimonGong.AppProcessManage.ProcessControl;

namespace ProcessController.Test
{
    [TestFixture]
    public partial class AppProcessControllerTest
    {
        private string serverConfig = @"C:\Workspace\GitHub\AppProcessManager\bin\servers.config";

        [TestFixtureSetUp]
        public void TestInitialize()
        {
            XmlConfigurator.Configure();
        }

        [TestCase]
        public void Test_SetupAppProcesses()
        {
            AppProcessController.SetupAppProcesses(serverConfig);

            var modules = AppProcessController.AppServers;

            foreach(var v in modules)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}, {2}", v.Key, v.Value.ProcessID, v.Value.IsRunning);
            }
        }

        [TestCase]
        public void Test_StartAppProcesses()
        {
            this.Test_SetupAppProcesses();

            var modules = AppProcessController.AppServers;

            AppProcessController.StartAppProcesses();

            foreach (var v in modules)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}, {2}", v.Key, v.Value.ProcessID, v.Value.IsRunning);
            }

            Thread.Sleep(5000);
        }

        [TestCase]
        public void Test_IsRunning()
        {
            //Task.Run( () => { this.Test_StartAppProcesses(); });

            this.Test_StartAppProcesses();

            var modules = AppProcessController.AppServers;

            bool run = true;
            int cnt = 0;
            while (run)
            {
                cnt++;

                foreach (var v in modules.Values)
                {
                    if ((cnt % 20) == 0)
                    {
                        v.Reconfigure();
                    }

                    Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}, {2}", v.ProcessGuid, v.ProcessID, v.IsRunning);
                }

                Thread.Sleep(5000);

                if (cnt > 100)
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Avenida Polo Carnaval Nacional for security services, public synergy
Football1 month ago
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, described the 2022 Carnival National Polo Tournament over the weekend as a way to create synergy between security services and the general public.
The 2022 Carnival National Polo Tournament got off to a gallop at the Nigeria Polo Resort/Guards Polo Club on December 10 and wrapped up yesterday.
Speaking after the FCT Minister's Cup final between the Nigerian Police (IGP Strikers) polo team and the Nigerian Army Polo Association (NAPA) team on Saturday, Baba noted that both teams They showed professionalism during the game.
NAPA won the hard-fought match 5-4.
At the end of a heart-pounding four chukker, the Police Chief emphasized that the main objective of the tournament was to cement and promote partnership and cooperation between security services and the general public.
Baba said, "Everyone has done well.
The game was perfectly matched and the rules were strictly adhered to.
The start was excellent, as well as the clothing of both teams, which was a faithful representation of the two services.
"The horses were also in top form and the umpire was on top of the game.
Today both teams met in the final, having defeated so many opponents to reach this stage.
"For every game, there must be a winner and a loser and I congratulate NAPA on a hard-fought victory against a formidable law enforcement team.
"I am still very proud of my team as they showed with their display that they are a team to be reckoned with anytime, any day against any opposition.
"But the real goal of participating in this tournament is to cement the partnership, the relationship, the cooperation and the understanding between us.
If you also look at the number of spectators that came out to watch the game today, you can see that it was impressive.
So polo is also an avenue for the police to entertain and engage with the general public, which was evident today.
" Captain NAPA, Brig. General Adamu Laka expressed his joy at the victory of his team, adding that the tournament was also a way for both security services to achieve synergies.
"The Nigerian military and police have always had a rivalry over the game of polo and the aim of these games is to create synergy between the security forces.
In fact, today's match was really difficult and quite exciting and we thank God that we were victorious in the end.
"The police had a very strong and determined team.
However, they were playing in an Army field and the Chief of the Army General Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya had just sponsored the Army team in Argentina and we just returned".
Hadi Sirika's Abuja Rubicon defeated Max Air by four and a half goals to three to win the Legislative Shield.
Yesterday's grand final pitted Alphamsa against Dogon Yaro Farms in a battle for the Guards Challenge Cup, while Malcomines of Jos faced 60 Yard/Afmaaj in the fight for the tournament's highest prize, the President's Cup.
National Carnival 2022 Polo, a way for synergy security, public, says Baba
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, said that the 2022 Carnival National Polo Tournament was a way to create synergy between security services and the general public.
It should be noted that the tournament that was held by galloping at the Nigeria Polo Resort/Guards Polo Club on December 10 ended on Sunday.
Baba, speaking to reporters after the FCT Minister's Cup final match between the Nigerian Police Polo Team (IGP Strikers) and the Nigerian Army Polo Association (NAPA) team on Saturday , noted that both teams showed professionalism during the game.
After NAPA won the hard-fought match 5-4 goals at the end of a thrilling four-chukker, the Police Chief, however, emphasized that the main objective of the tournament was to cement and promote partnership and cooperation between the two services.
security as well as the general public.
The start was excellent, as was the clothing of both teams, which were a faithful representation of the two services.
Today, both teams met in the final after defeating so many opponents to reach this stage.
For every game, there must be a winner and a loser and I congratulate NAPA on a hard-fought victory against a formidable police team.
"I am still very proud of my team as they showed with their display that they are a team to be reckoned with anytime, any day and against any opposition.
But the real objective of participating in this tournament is to consolidate the association, the relationship, the cooperation and the understanding between us.
" On improving the quality of the team to ensure better performance in future tournaments, he said that he would continue to do everything possible to encourage the team, adding: "We can only do more and keep improving at what we are doing.
"Sport in general promotes many things in all services and in all institutions.
Even as an individual, you have to be sporty, in other words, exercise.
So polo is one of the very old games played by both the Nigerian Police and the Army to help us keep fit.
"We've had our teams since the early 1960s.
So we just continued and stepped up our efforts from where our predecessors left off.
The mounted troops are an integral part of the Nigerian Police where we use those of that department for operations and ceremonies.
It is also from that department that we normally choose our players and our horses".
The IGP noted that the Police still hold the lead when it comes to sports, adding that they are working hard to ensure the pace is maintained.
"We just finished our biennial police games and we also fully participated in the National Sports Festival.
We have also sent some of our players to international competitions to represent Nigeria.
Therefore, we are still at the top of our game, whether it is in track, field events or any other sport.
" Brig. General Adamu Laka, the captain of the NAPA team, expressed his delight at the victory of his team, adding that the tournament was also a way for both security services to synchronize.
However, they were playing on an Army field and the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya had just sponsored the Army team in Argentina and we had just returned.
"So, we learned some new skills and I think we incorporated them into our game.
Apart from the speed and quality of our mount, we applied a tactical strategy in the game that gave us the advantage," he said.
Laka revealed that the key to the team's victory also largely depended on the quality of their mount, adding that COAS had ensured that the team purchased new, high-quality horses before the tournament.
"COAS also bought 11 horses for the Army team, in addition to the ones we already had.
We also had a very good mount that gave us the victory because in Polo 80 percent of the game depends on the quality of your mount.
"We have a couple of Argentinian and Sudanese horses, as well as some South Africans.
So, in fact, the mount that COAS bought us really gave us an advantage over the Police equipment," he said.
Burutai congratulates Lalong for using sports to restore peace in Plateau State
Football2 months ago
Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, hailed the commitment of Governor Simon Lalong's administration to peace and security with careful implementation of various strategic efforts since he took office.
Buratai emphasized that the governor's intervention with golf has enhanced unity and engaged youth for the energy in a meaningful pursuit.
Speaking after accompanying the governor to commission the Lamingo Golf Course building, which was renovated and named after the governor, Burutai praised the governor for prioritizing peace.
construction and security, saying that as governor, that he should delve into national politics, more Nigerians will benefit from his commitment to serve humanity.
In his reply, Lalong expressed his happiness at being named a forerunner of peace and security through golf development, saying he highly appreciates high-profile visitors for identifying with the tournament, which he said contributed to tournament stability.
State over the years.
The club's captain, Reverend Father Bless Agwom, said 400 international golfers, including professionals from Ghana and the United States, had come to compete for prizes in various categories of the competition.
Buhari congratulates TY Danjuma at 83
President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.) on Thursday congratulated former Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma on his 83rd birthday on December 9, 2022.
Buhari's birthday message was contained in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, titled "President Buhari congratulates former Defense Minister Theophilus Danjuma on the age of 83."
According to Adesina, "The President joins family members, particularly his wife, Senator Daisy Danjuma, in celebrating with the former Army Chief of Staff, 1975-1979, who served meritoriously in the armed forces and is He has remained active in the private sector, providing employment. for many, and sharing his experience with institutions and governments in the formulation of development policies.
"President Buhari commends the former Defense Minister for his role in promoting democracy and democratic values in the country, and regularly advises political leaders on the need to put the nation first and work for the good of the citizens".
Buhari recognized the goodness of the former COAS in establishing a foundation that caters to the underprivileged, with commendable interventions in the health and education sectors.
Therefore, he prayed for the welfare of the military officer and his family.
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COAS tasks Kebbi monarchs on security
Foreign3 months ago
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Farouk Yahaya has appealed to traditional rulers and other stakeholders in Kebbi State to cooperate with security agencies in the fight against bandits and other security threats in the state.
He made this call, yesterday, at Ka'oje when he visited the Sarkin Bargun Kaoje in his palace during the commissioning of the 1.
4km Civil-Military Cooperation Road Project.
The COAS stressed that monarchs must not be left out in the security architecture of their domains because of their strategic position in the community.
"I urge all the traditional rulers and residents of various communities in Kebbi to furnish the military with useful information that will help in the fight against banditry in the state.
"In society, traditional rulers have important roles to play in the fight against banditry and other criminal elements in the community, as there is important information at the disposal of traditional rulers that may help the military in their constitutional duties of improving the security situation in the state," he added.
As leaders of their communities, Yahaya added, the monarchs have a duty to be on the lookout and report any suspicious or strange activity and movement of criminal elements to security agents, for people in their domains to live in peace.
Civil-Military Cooperation: Army boss commissions 1.4 Km road in Kebbi
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya on Tuesday, commissioned a newly constructed 1.
4 Km road in Kaoje Bagudo Local Government Area of Kebbi State, as part of his special intervention Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) projects.
Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, Gen Yahaya disclosed that the civil-military cooperation scheme was initiated to provide support to communities of serving senior Nigerian Army (NA) officers across the nation, who through dedication to duty and service to the nation have risen to the enviable rank of Major General in the Nigerian Army. The projects, he stated, are intended to complement basic services, amenities and infrastructure to bring succour to benefitting communities.
He noted that some of the projects executed so far include, the construction and rehabilitation of hospitals, schools and community centres, the sinking of boreholes to provide portable water and the construction of access roads, among others.
The Army Chief further remarked that the project was executed in honour of Maj Gen Nasiru Usman Muktar, stressing that the construction of the road was solely conceived by the executor and the people of Kaoje, after a thorough needs assessment.
The COAS used the opportunity to appeal to the traditional institution to galvanise support for the Nigerian Army and other security agencies in the fight against threats to national security.
Equally speaking at the event, the Secretary to Kebbi State Government, Babale Umar Yauri, who represented the State Governor, described the project as one that will greatly impact on the socio-economic well-being of Kaoje people, adding that the road will provide access to agricultural produce from rural communities, aside other economic activities.
Earlier, the Sarkin Bargu Kaoje, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Mustapha Usman Adamu Kaoje, while receiving the COAS in his palace, revealed that the newly constructed road is the busiest in Kaoje and will positively turn around the economic fortune of the community.
The royal father expressed appreciation for the choice of his community to execute the project.
Senior officers who joined the COAS at the commissioning were the Commander Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Maj Gen Stevenson Olabanji, the Chief of Operations (Army) Maj Gen Olufemi Akinjobi, General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Maj Gen Uwem Bassey, Provost Marshal (Army) Maj Gen Robert Aiyenigba, Chief of Military Intelligence (Army) Maj Gen Ibrahim Salihu and the Commander Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command, Maj Gen Abubakar Adam
Army provides free medical services for Kogi communities
Defence/Security3 months ago
The Nigerian Army on Thursday provided free medical services to the people of the Eika-Ohizenyi communities in the Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi.
The Nigerian News Agency reports that the Nigerian Army provided free medical services as part of its Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC)-related activities.
Speaking at the event, Army Chief of Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya said the medical outreach was carefully planned to address the identified common health challenges of indigenous people in the communities.
This, he said, would enhance the existing cordial relationship and increase the support the Nigerian military had enjoyed from the people.
The COAS, who was represented, Headquarters Command Army Records (CAR), Maj.-Gen. On Sunday Igbinomwanhia said the free medical outreach was in continuation of the recently launched Army Enduring Peace II exercise.
COAS said it was in line with its vision of a professional Nigerian military, ready to fulfill assigned missions within a joint environment in defense of Nigeria.
Yahaya explained that in pursuit of his vision, he had ensured that formations and units in the Nigerian Army paid proper attention to the non-kinetic aspect of military operations.
He said that conscious efforts had been made to reach out to pregnant and lactating women for the distribution of treated nets during the outreach.
According to the COAS, in addition to the free medicines that will be dispensed, free medicated glasses will also be distributed to people with vision problems.
He stressed that the Nigerian Army had enjoyed and would continue to enjoy the support and cooperation of the good citizens of Kogi in overcoming the challenges of insecurity in the state and the nation at large.
COAS called on people to see the medical outreach as evidence of cooperation between the Nigerian military and Kogi residents.
"May it foster the desired peace, progress and prosperity in these communities and in all Kogi," he said.
COAS assured the people that the Nigerian Army, along with other sister security agencies, was working hard to rid the country of criminal activity and all forms of insecurity.
He thanked Governor Yahaya Bello for his support in making the Kogi state government apparatus available for military operations.
He also praised the heads of all the sister security agencies for the perfect synergy in their efforts to rid the state of criminal elements.
Yahaya urged the people to continue living in peace and harmony and to be tolerant with each other.
The Commander, Headquarters Command Army Records (CAR), Maj.-Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia, presenting mosquito net to a beneficiary on behalf of COAS, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, in KogiIn his remarks, Bello praised COAS for medical outreach and ensuring adequate security in the state.
Bello, who was represented by Security Advisor Cmdr. Jerry Omodara (rtd.), advised people to be well informed and take advantage of the opportunity to provide credible information to security agencies to rid the state of criminal elements.
The Chairman of the Okehi Local Government Area, Mr. Abdulraheem Ohiare, praised the COAS for the gesture and for restoring peace to the area.
According to Ohiare, the area had been a hideout for criminals, noting that the Eika Police Station was set on fire twice and many people were killed.
"We are grateful to the Nigerian Army and other security agencies for restoring peace to our communities," he said.
Some of the outreach beneficiaries, Ms. Sabiat Abdulkadiri, Ms. Hajara Salihu and Hajia Habibat Sadiq, praised COAS for the free medical treatment and medicines.
Edited /Kingsley Kubeyinje
HURIWA hails Nigerian army on operational successes
The National Coordinator of the Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), Emmanuel Onwubiko, praised the Nigerian Army for its recent successes against the country's enemies.
Onwubiko gave the eulogy as he led a delegation to pay a courtesy visit to the Chief of Staff of the Army (COAS), Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on Thursday in Abuja.
He said the visit was to acknowledge that Yahaya's emergence as COAS had led to sustaining the war on terror with renewed energy, zeal, patriotism, speed and precision.
The HURIWA coordinator expressed his confidence that Nigeria will achieve a great victory against terrorists and other criminals in a short time.
He praised the army chief for promoting strategic partnership and harmonious relations between all segments of the military to address insecurity.
"We acknowledge that just after his appointment a few months ago, he allegedly paid visits to sister agencies within the Nigerian armed forces.
"We also know that in other areas, the Army Chief of Staff has recorded phenomenal milestones, particularly with specific reference to personnel wellness, and we urge him to uphold this qualitative wellness policy.
"Wellness is everything and it is the tonic that motivates the workforce to give their best," he said.
Onwubiko condemned the attacks against military and other security personnel in parts of the country.
He urged the Nigerian military to promote dialogue and adopt faster and more transparent mechanisms for resolving issues related to allegations of human rights violations in internal security operations.
Onwubiko also urged the military to take a law-based and forensic approach to dealing with suspects.
According to him, the Nigerian military is a creation of the constitution and the grand rule does not tolerate impunity and lawlessness.
He also urged the military to ensure that no officer or soldier is found aiding or abetting any act of arson, vandalism or unprofessional conduct.
He added that troops had a duty to intervene in any situation to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
In response, the Chief of the Army General Staff, Lieutenant General. Yahaya praised HURIWA for finding him worthy of interacting with the Nigerian military.
Yahaya said that the constitutional mandate of the armed forces is to ensure the territorial integrity of Nigeria, as well as assist the civil authority when requested.
He said that, over the years, the military has carried out its constitutional responsibility in a professional manner within its code of conduct.
COAS assured HURIWA that all army operations were conduct-guided, adding that it became aware of infractions or infractions during operations.
He said that the establishment of the Department of Military Civil Affairs and Human Rights Offices and other outlets was made to handle all issues related to human rights.
These, according to him, are aimed at ensuring that army personnel are more professionally trained and more competent in their operations.
He urged the team to always verify information about any occurrence and authenticate before posting it.
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Nigerian Army donates new block of classrooms in Kogi
The Nigerian Army has built and donated a four classroom block with bathrooms to the College of Arabic and Islamic Studies (CAISO) Idoji, Okene Local Government Area in Kogi.
The Nigerian News Agency reports that the Army Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouq Yahaya handed over the project along with the director's office and a renovated block of Assembly Hall and staff rooms.
Speaking Saturday at the inauguration of the projects in Okene, the COAS said the gesture was part of the Civil-Military Cooperation Intervention (CIMIC) projects carried out by the Army throughout the country.
The COAS, who was represented, Headquarters Command, Army Records (CAR), Maj.-Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia, said the Nigerian Army had enjoyed a high level of cooperation and goodwill from the host communities and Nigerian citizens.
According to him, over the years, the Nigerian Army has taken deliberate steps to ensure that it returns to society the cooperation it enjoys from its corporate social responsibilities.
He said that it was very much in line with his vision of a professional Nigerian military, ready to fulfill assigned missions within a joint environment in defense of Nigeria.
"The project launched today is one of several activities related to Civil-Military Cooperation and quick impact projects executed in various parts of the country's Army to contribute to national development.
"Therefore, I believe that this project will serve the collective needs of the members of this community and its immediate surroundings.
"Therefore, I want to ask you to see this project as a symbol of friendship between the Nigerian Army and your community.
"May it foster the desired peace, progress and indeed bring prosperity to the community as well," Yahaya said.
Meanwhile, COAS also thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for his continued support of the Nigerian Army and for providing the necessary enabling environment to carry out his constitutional mandate.
Yahaya commended Governor Yahaya Bello of the state, the traditional leaders and all the people in the community for their unremitting support, particularly the Nigerian Army.
The COAS, however, urged people to continue to live in peace and harmony and be tolerant with each other, noting that the Exercise Lasting Peace ll, recently launched in the state, was to guarantee peace.
For his part, Maj. Gen. Sanusi Dahiru, Director of Administration and Logistics of the Office of Defense Research and Development, who executed the projects, thanked the COAS for its passion for education and the official commitment to carrying out the projects.
Dahiru said the project was a way to reach out to the community, noting that her father had a lot of passion for the school throughout his life.
In his remarks, the Ohinoyi of the land of Ebira, Alhaji Ado Ibrahim, thanked the COAS for the gesture towards his people and for ensuring adequate security in the state.
Ohinoyi, who represented Ezuka, Dr. Muhammed Isah, said the projects would go a long way in helping the community and student improve effective learning.
Meanwhile, the school's director, Mr. Zakarriyau Ahmad, said he was overwhelmed by the projects and expressed his gratitude to COAS and Dahiru.
Edited /Idris Abdulrahman
Nigeria Army donates new block of classrooms in Kogi
The Nigerian Army has built and donated a four-classroom block with bathrooms to the College of Arabic and Islamic Studies (CAISO) Idoji, Okene Local Government Area in Kogi. The Nigerian News Agency reports that the Army Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouq Yahya handed over the project along with the director's office and a renovated block of Assembly Hall and staff rooms. Speaking Saturday at the inauguration of the projects in Okene, the COAS said the gesture was part of the Civil-Military Cooperation Intervention (CIMIC) projects carried out by the Army throughout the country. The COAS, who was represented, by Headquarters Command, Army Records (CAR), Maj.-Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia, said the Nigerian Army had enjoyed a high level of cooperation and goodwill from the host communities and Nigerian citizens. According to him, over the years, the Nigerian Army has taken deliberate steps to ensure that it returns to society the cooperation it enjoys from its corporate social responsibilities. He said that it was very much in line with his vision of a professional Nigerian military, ready to fulfill assigned missions within a joint environment in defense of Nigeria. "The project launched today is one of several activities related to Civil-Military Cooperation and quick impact projects executed in various parts of the country's Army to contribute to national development. "Therefore, I believe that this project will serve the collective needs of the members of this community and its immediate surroundings. "Therefore, I want to ask you to see this project as a symbol of friendship between the Nigerian Army and your community. "May it foster the desired peace, progress and indeed bring prosperity to the community as well," Yahaya said. Meanwhile, COAS also thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for his continued support of the Nigerian Army and for providing the necessary enabling environment to carry out his constitutional mandate. Yahaya commended Governor Yahaya Bello of the state, the traditional leaders, and all the people in the community for their unremitting support, particularly the Nigerian Army. The COAS, however, urged people to continue to live in peace and harmony and be tolerant with each other, noting that the Exercise Lasting Peace ll, recently launched in the state, was to guarantee peace. For his part, Maj. Gen. Sanusi Dahiru, Director of Administration and Logistics of the Office of Defense Research and Development, who executed the projects, thanked the COAS for its passion for education and the official commitment to carrying out the projects. Dahiru said the project was a way to reach out to the community, noting that her father had a lot of passion for the school throughout his life. In his remarks, the Ohinoyi of the land of Ebira, Alhaji Ado Ibrahim, thanked the COAS for the gesture towards his people and for ensuring adequate security in the state. Ohinoyi, who represented Ezuka, Dr. Muhammed Isah, said the projects would go a long way in helping the community and student improve effective learning. Meanwhile, the school's director, Mr. Zakarriyau Ahmad, said he was overwhelmed by the projects and expressed his gratitude to COAS and Dahiru. Source Credit: NAN