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The Charleston Shooter Has Plenty of Company on the Internet
June 20, 2015 • Sophie Bjork-James • cyber racism, violence
When I first heard there was a shooting in Charleston and that a white man was the main suspect in killing nine people in a historic black church, I knew, like too many of us, that this had everything to do with race. When I saw photos of him with a disaffected stare and wearing a jacket with patches of the flags of segregated Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa, I knew immediately he was connected in some way to the white nationalist movement. And when I heard the statement he made about rape and take-over, I was pretty sure I knew where Roof had been spending time online.
The shooter, wearing white power symbols (New York Times)
I knew that the attack would be linked to a white nationalist because I have spent a significant amount of time monitoring Stormfront.org( using do not link URL), the main online hub of the white nationalist movement. As a white anti-racist, I began studying the website in 2004 as part of research for my master's degree on the contemporary white supremacist movement. At the time, the site boasted over 30,000 views per day, while today the site claims over 300,000 members.
Sylvia Johnson, who spoke with one of the survivors
"You are raping our women and taking over the country."
This is what Ms. Sylvia Johnson told the world she heard from a survivor of the attacks. This statement by Dylann Roof made during his killing spree is loaded with white nationalist paranoia. It is a claim to victimhood and innocence, even in the act of perpetrating a massacre. The statement frames the twin concerns of the contemporary white nationalist movement succinctly, uniting sex and space, morality and politics, the home and the nation.
As yet, we do not know if Roof spent time on Stormfront (although I'd be surprised if he did not), but in his recently exposed manifesto he does identify as a white nationalist. He also names the Council of Conservative Citizens specifically as helping to foster his racist views. While Stormfront offers a "big tent" approach to white nationalism, and thus represents a variety of political perspectives, it collectively represents the key tenets of white nationalism. Discussing them sheds light on this violent act and may help us understand it.
So, what are the themes that make up the white nationalist ideology? There are three key themes that appear at Stormfront and in Dylann Roof's manifesto.
1. White Innocence
By 10:41PM on June 16th a discussion thread had already been created on the site responding to the Charleston massacre, and over the next two days the forum generated over 1,100 posts. Participants on Stormfront were almost immediately discussing whether or not the perpetrator was one of them. Just after 11:00PM, user WhiteNationhood wrote, "there's been some dude over at /pol/ who has posted about scenarios where you could shoot up a black church and make an escape. I always assumed it was a (tasteless) copy pasta [sic] but with this I'm worried it might be him." After Roof's rape statement and photos with apartheid badges were circulated Thursday morning, Darling Blade posted, "Dare I ask the question? Was he on here?"
While a few Stormfront members made statements either supporting the murders or dismissing them as insignificant, the majority of posters claimed they do not support violence and some even offered condolences to the victim's families. However the collective ideological response was one of deflection of blame, and a claim to innocence.
Robin DiAngelo has written on what she calls white fragility, the idea that whites are institutionally guarded from racial stress and so experience even minor racial stress as deeply troubling. Framing whites as targets of racial violence allows individuals who experience whiteness as fragile to develop a framework where violence is justified. Since the founding of Stormfront moderators have focused on rules that limit threats of violence or illegal activity and people who make such threats are censured or banned. Most participants claim they support white pride and segregation, not violence. Shortly after the shooting MattwhiteAmerica wrote, "White nationalism is about the survival of the white race. WE do not promote violence..> [sic] Certainly, we do support separation, but not violence. This piece of human filth is condemnable. I hope all guest [sic] can understand this and join us in our journey to preserve our race." This is a popular opinion on the site, however the logical response to their ideological position is to engage in violence against people of color and Jews, although this violence is seen as self-defense.
Roof certainly came to this conclusion, writing: "We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me." After encountering the barrage of selectively curated crime stories on these sites that portray whites as always innocent victims, many participants come to the conclusion that they also must join the race war by enacting violence.
2. Whiteness is about gender and the family, and it is good
The foundational assumption and understanding of white nationalism is that whiteness is morally good and whites are superior. Much scholarly work on the white nationalist movement has shown that the white nationalist movement is primarily a movement designed to defend white masculinity and white femininity, to defend the always already heterosexual white family as the source of all things good.
If you want the deep dive on the research on this, check the following: Daniels, White Lies (Routledge, 1997) Daniels, Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009); Ferber, White Man Falling (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) and Statzel, R. S. (2006). "The Apartheid Conscience: Gender, Race, and Re-Imagining the White Nation in Cyberspace." Ethnic Studies Review 29(2): 20-45.
This understanding of the white family and white (hetero)sexuality as inherently moral allows for a justification of white violence, as white violence is framed as a defense of the good. Roof's claim that he is defending white women from the threat of black rape is shaped by this ideology of white morality, so that even in the act of murdering innocent people—primarily black women—his narrative implies his actions are defensible.
The morning after the massacre, Stormfront member Freedom lover discussed Roof's statement that the murders were a defense of white women, writing: "Dare I say it, if this is true and this is the real reason, then it's karma being visited on the negro race. Someone was going to react sooner or later. If they thought we would accept being slaughtered like lambs, this guy has answered them in no uncertain terms." Freedom lover continues, "This will just happen more and more often as the embattled white race are forced into a corner. We need people to stand up and instead of condemning this guy's actions, they should condemn the vile brutes who made this possible, the liberal marxists who now run white countries. These are our real enemies. "
This history of whiteness is a history of racial terror, which bell hooks so clearly discusses (bell hooks, "Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination." Cultural Studies. 1992, Eds. Lawrence Grossberg et al. London: Routledge: 338-342) but white racial terror has consistently been justified as a defense of white femininity. In this framing, an imagined hyper-sexual black terror circulated as the inverse of a purported white innocence.
3. Whites are under attack.
The savvy use of new media has allowed white nationalists to circulate their ideology that whites are already under attack, that a race war is already underway and most whites are oblivious of this to their own peril. In his manifesto Roof credits his racial radicalization to the news surrounding Trayvon Martin's murder, writing that the media response to Martin's murder, "prompted me to type in the words 'black on White crime' into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.''
Circulating the idea that there is an epidemic of black on white crime is perhaps the most popular theme on Stormfront, and the two main forums in the popular Newslinks section are the "Ethnic Crime Report" and the "Jewish Crime Report." For over a decade these forums have chronicled hundreds of purported crimes committed by people of color against whites. The Council on Conservative Citizens hosts a similar site, with the title, "Our black on white murder study has shocked even us," replete with photos and a numerical tally of white victims. As on Stormfront, dozens of photos of smiling white faces alongside mug shots of primarily African Americans and vivid descriptions of murder and rape provide visual and narrative proof that whites are the victims of racial violence.
The tagline for Stormfront is, "We are the voice of the new, embattled White minority!" Circulating the false idea that whites are an embattled minority already under attack by racial others inverts the history of institutionalized white supremacy to portray whites as victims of history. This false portrayal allows white nationalists to frame anti-racist efforts as part of a conspiracy to destroy the white race, and leads at least some to feel compelled to violence to protect whites.
The anti-racist challenge
In this time of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, with so much attention being paid to the dehumanizing racism of police brutality, the Charleston massacre reminds us to remain concerned about the threat of organized racism. The recent Southern Poverty Law Center's report on the link between Stormfront and nearly 100 murders provides a broader context for concern about the online white nationalist movement. For people concerned with racial justice, we must be aware of ongoing threats the racist right poses. The white nationalist movement has proven adept at utilizing online venues to pursue their goals and engage in pedagogical projects, with devastating effects for many. Anti-racists are now challenged to also engage in savvy new media interventions to work to challenge this threat.
Any strategy for countering the effects of the organized white nationalist movement is complex, and should not involve posting anti-racist challenges to these sites. Many white nationalist actually enjoy responding to "antis," the name given to everyone who challenges white nationalist ideas, and responding to these posts can actually serve to solidify white nationalist views. The challenge to anti-racists is how to also utilize the power of new media to both challenge white nationalist logic, and to provide a different lens for disaffected whites to interpret their malaise within.
~ Sophie Bjork-James is an anthropologist and a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University. She is an expert in conservative and white supremacist social movements in the US and has monitored the largest white nationalist website, Stormfront.org, since 2004. Bjork-James has published her findings in "The Apartheid Conscience: What the white nationalist movement can teach us about the reproduction of white supremacy in America" and the chapter titled "Cybersupremacy: The new face and form of white supremacist activism" in Tactics in Hard Times: Practices and Spaces of New Media.
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"""
emby eac3 episode locator
"""
import os
import sys
import time
import subprocess
import logging
import shutil
import requests

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(filename='/config/embyac3.log', filemode='a', level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', datefmt='%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p')

DEFAULT_HEADERS = {
    'Content-Type': "application/json",
    'Accept': "application/json"
}

AOUTCODEC = "ac3"      # Choose audio output type (ac3 only for now)
ASAMPLERATE = "640k"      # Choose audio sample rate (default 640k)
CMIXLEVEL = "0.707"         # Center channel mix level

AUDIOTRACKPREFIX = "audio ("
VIDEOTRACKPREFIX = "video ("

def convertEAC3(file_path):
    """Convert EAC3 audo to AC3 audio"""
    _LOGGER.info("Converting: " + file_path)

    name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(file_path))[0]

    ac3file = "/config/" + name + ".ac3"
    newfile = "/config/" + name + "_AC3.mkv"

    cmd = ['mkvmerge', '-i', file_path]
    result = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    file_info = result.stdout.decode('utf-8')

    audio_track_id = None
    for line in file_info.split('\n'):
        _LOGGER.info("Track found: " + line)
        if AUDIOTRACKPREFIX + "AC3/EAC3)" in line:
            audio_track_id = line.split(':')[0].split(' ')[2]
            break

    if not audio_track_id:
        _LOGGER.error("No EAC3 audio tracks found.")
        return

    logline = "EAC3 Audio Track ID: " + audio_track_id
    print(logline)
    _LOGGER.info(logline)

    cmd = ['mkvinfo', file_path]
    result = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    file_info2 = result.stdout.decode('utf-8')

    # Extract Audio Track Section from Output
    start_audio = False
    audio_info = ""
    for line in file_info2.split('\n'):
        if "mkvextract: " + audio_track_id in line:
            start_audio = True
        if "mkvextract: " + str((int(audio_track_id) + 1)) in line:
            start_audio = False
        if start_audio:
            audio_info += line + "\n"

    # Confirm the track is EAC3
    audio_track_type = None
    for line in audio_info.split('\n'):
        if "Codec ID" in line:
            audio_track_type = line.split(':')[1]
            break

    # Try to get track language
    audio_track_lang = "eng"
    for line in audio_info.split('\n'):
        if "Language" in line:
            print("Language other than english detected.")
            # audio_track_lang = line.split(':')[1]
            break
    print("Language: " + audio_track_lang)

    # Generate AC3 Audio
    if audio_track_type == " A_EAC3":
        logline = "Generating AC3 Audio File..."
        print(logline)
        _LOGGER.info(logline)
        cmd = ['ffmpeg',
               '-drc_scale', '0',
               '-i', file_path,
               '-vn',
               '-acodec', AOUTCODEC,
               '-center_mixlev', CMIXLEVEL,
               '-ab', ASAMPLERATE,
               ac3file]
        result = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)
    else:
        print("EAC3 Audio Track Could Not Be Verified.")
        return

    # Get ID of video track
    video_track_id = None
    for line in file_info.split('\n'):
        if VIDEOTRACKPREFIX in line:
            video_track_id = line.split(':')[0].split(' ')[2]
            break

    logline = "Video Track ID: " + video_track_id
    print(logline)
    _LOGGER.info(logline)

    # Merge files together
    logline = "Merging files back together..."
    print(logline)
    _LOGGER.info(logline)
    cmd = ['mkvmerge',
           '-o', newfile,
           '-A',
           '--compression', video_track_id+':none', file_path,
           '--language', '0:'+audio_track_lang,
           '--compression', '0:none', ac3file]
    result = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)

    # Remove AC3 file
    logline = "Removing temporary AC3 file..."
    print(logline)
    _LOGGER.info(logline)
    try:
        os.remove(ac3file)
    except FileNotFoundError:
        _LOGGER.info("AC3 File doesn't exist, quitting.")
        return

    # Explicitly set new file permissions
    os.chown(newfile, 99, 100)

    # Overwrite existing with new file
    shutil.move(newfile, file_path)

    # We are done
    logline = "Conversion of " + name + " is complete."
    print(logline)
    _LOGGER.info(logline)
    return

def main():
    """Main function."""
    api_key = sys.argv[1]
    user_key = sys.argv[2]
    server_url = sys.argv[3]
    unc_path = sys.argv[4]

    id_dict = []

    audio_type = "EAC3"

    emby_request = requests.Session()
    emby_request.timeout = 5
    emby_request.stream = False
    emby_request.params = {'api_key': api_key}
    emby_request.headers.update(DEFAULT_HEADERS)

    list_url = server_url + "/Reports/Items?StartIndex=0&Limit=10000&IncludeItemTypes=Episode&HasQueryLimit=true&GroupBy=None&ReportView=ReportData&DisplayType=Screen&UserId=" \
        + user_key + "&SortOrder=Ascending&ReportColumns=CName%7CEpisodeSeries%7CSeason%7CEpisodeNumber%7CVideo%7CAudio%7CPath&ExportType=CSV"

    _LOGGER.info("Starting Emby Update Fetch Loop...")
    while True:
        #Nested while loop to keep trying to connect rather than fail
        while True:
            try:
                response = emby_request.get(list_url)
            except requests.exceptions.RequestException as err:
                _LOGGER.error('Requests error getting episode list: %s', err)
                #Wait, then try again
                time.sleep(60)
                continue
            else:
                try:
                    episode_list = response.json()
                except ValueError:
                    continue
                else:
                    break

        for episode in episode_list['Rows']:
            if episode['Columns'][5]['Name'] == audio_type:
                #print(episode['Columns'][0]['Name'] + " - " + episode['Id'] + " - " + episode['Columns'][5]['Name'])
                id_dict.append(episode['Id'])

        for epid in id_dict:
            lookup_url = server_url + "/Users/" + user_key + "/Items/" + epid
            try:
                response = emby_request.get(lookup_url)
            except requests.exceptions.RequestException as err:
                _LOGGER.error('Requests error getting episode path: %s', err)
                return
            else:
                info = response.json()

            local_path = info['MediaSources'][0]['Path'].replace("\\", "/")
            local_path = local_path.replace(unc_path, "/tv_mnt")

            print("Found: " + local_path)
            _LOGGER.info("Found: " + local_path)

            convertEAC3(local_path)

        # Clear dicts
        id_dict = []

        # Check every 10 minutes
        time.sleep(600)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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SAP Marketing Cloud (formerly SAP Hybris Marketing Cloud) offers a comprehensive set of marketing apps that you can use to create leads, and activities in sales.
Lead Campaigns: Create leads in Sales: SAP Sales Cloud or SAP CRM.
Call Qualification: Create leads in SAP Sales Cloud via marketing campaigns with action for Call Qualification.
Marketing-Driven Sales Enablement: Create activities in SAP Sales Cloud or SAP CRM and get an insight on marketing campaigns in SAP Sales Cloud.
But how can you nurture your valuable leads through the different phases of your sales cycle?
Recently, SAP added a new app Lead Nurture Stream to its portfolio to define the lead nurture stream at various phases of the sales cycle and to support the lead management process as a whole. As from now on Lead Management in SAP Marketing Cloud is called Lead Management and Nurtering.
With this new functionality you can define different stages within your lead nurturing process, which represent lead phases of your prospects and customers to engage them during the various phases of the sales cycle to generate leads and to coordinate a longer, broader and consistent cross-channel nurture experience.
Via the Lead Nurture Stream you can target the right people dynamically across the right stages. The Lead Nurture Streams have programmatic and sequential logic that arranges that individuals flow through the stages and the activities in a structured manner. This functionality is used often in B2B marketing scenarios.
With the use of the streams, customers can jump ahead based on their activities, track the success and flow of their prospects and customers and deliver good, qualified leads to Sales. This will make collaboration between Marketing and Sales simpler and easier which will lead to better results.
For example you can define different campaigns within the stages to attracts prospects to eventually engage them as qualified leads or customers. This process which will go from the top of the Lead Funnel to the bottom.
This can be a website visit in which product info was downloaded, which will trigger a campaign that will send an invite for a webinar.
This can be a detailed whitepaper download, which will trigger a campaign that will send an invite for the free trial version of the product.
This can be a personal invitation for a demonstration on-site, which will be followed-up with an email for contact and ask for feedback afterwards.
In underneath screenshot an example is shown of how a typical Lead Nurture Stream looks like in SAP Marketing Cloud. It is divided in three phases as described above and within each phase several marketing campaigns are created to support the conversion of prospects to qualified leads/customers.
The results of each phase of the Lead Nurtering process can be measured via the Performance tab to adjust future Lead Nurture Streams for better results.
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Following some past successful posts on /r/iOSSetups before. I thought with my next post I'd go for something that's important – especially in 2019 where Privacy has become one of the largest topics in the tech industry.
Whilst iOS is restrictive in customisation (it's better now, but still behind Android in pure theming etc), there's still a large degree of customisation that can be done.
I'm running an iPhone X.
I've never been a release day guy, and before this, I've had a plethora of devices. My first device was a Galaxy S2. Since then I've had Nexus Devices, and started on iPhone at the 6S+ era.
I upgraded to the iPhone X after seeing the keynote and thinking; this is the new form, the new UI and is going to be where to get your foot in the door on what Apple is going to do with iOS 12 onward.
The apps and why I've got them and where I've protected my data in the sight of apps which are known to take as much as possible.
(Stock) Safari – Apple has made leaps and bounds to user privacy in Safari. Some may opt to use apps like Firefox Quantum to protect themselves further. I instead use AdGuard Pro with custom DNS, Filters and Subscriptions to get the same features in stock Safari apps.
Mail – I considered using FastMail but found it's outdated GUI and next to no considerable benefit against Stock was not worth it. All my email comes through the stock app, and Email Privacy Testersays it's pretty good – so going to stick with that for now!
(Stock) Shortcuts – Previously known as workflow, this is my custom shortcuts and scripts for day to day tasks. My current project is Reddit Removal Tools.
Feedly – RSS Feed as YouTube Replacement. Add in my YouTube Subscription RSS feeds into here and watch them using the in-app browser. If quality is an issue – just use my work desktop and Firefox to view.
Instagram – This is my crux. I want to get rid of it. Yes I know it's Facebook, but it's how I keep in contact with most family, my account is private, and I've limited microphone, location and as many in app permissions as possible. I'm considering the switch to VSCO, but my family isn't on there, and I'd have a hard time convincing them to switch. One benefit of my Instagram account is that it was never linked to Facebook, I created it before that was a thing, so uses an old email. Ads are blocked using AdGuard Pro. Edit: turns out the lack of Ads in my instagram feed is a co-incidence with the time of enabling AdGuard. Thought they were linked, user /u/Martyn-Lee on reddit sent me down a rabbithole that shows it was not.
Discord – I moderate a lot of subreddits, and all of them use Discord Groups to chat about what to moderate and do. I really don't like discord's user policy, but it uses an alias and anonymous email, so I have no qualms with them using fake personal data. When it comes to the app, I've limited what I can with their access permissions, but nothing shared on Discord is connected to my "real" life.
Messages – iMessage, secure and simple. Just don't backup to iCloud – that's when your data isn't safe.
Apple Music – I've used Tidal and Spotify but I've always come back to Apple Music, purely because I love the system integration, and I'm kinda a fan of that white space (even though I know a lot hate it!) I am however interested to see what Dark Mode Apple brings to this app in the coming year.
If it's in a folder it's not important really. (With some caveats).
Bookmarks – Rather than downloading apps for sites I use, like IMDB, LinkedIn, I made them homescreen bookmarks. No data tracking as a result thanks to Safari and AdGuard Pro.
Apps – All the Apple stock apps that I need for Shortcuts, or handoff. I have faith these are not harvesting my Data due to community feedback on Apples Privacy Policies. That being said I have disabled all analytics and location sharing for the purposes of recommendations as well.
Life – I'm health conscious so have some Health Apps. Cardiogram to contribute towards health studies, AutoSleep and Lifesum as well. I use these to log my intakes and sleep, with anonymous user details and my "throwaway" email. This folder also contains my banking apps.
Utilities – This houses apps like AdGuard or System Utilities. It also has some work apps like FreshDesk for ticket monitoring. Finally, my wordpress management app and drone control app are here as well.
TimePage Monthly Overview – This gives me a quick view of a heat map of my week. The darker the circle, the more events that day. If you do show more, you get the heat map for the month, events that day (or the day you select) and the option to add events. Really good use of the Widget Functionality by Moleskine.
PocketCasts Up Next – I listen to a lot of podcasts, and have my unplayed and new shows automatically set to download and add to up next, so here I can quickly see what's next, and what I can expect to listen to today.
Shortcuts – I use shortcuts daily and will do a write up on these in a separate article. Show more will give a full set of everything I have favourited to here.
Darkroom – This is the editing counterpart to Halide and has a great feature set – including hashtag posts. Saves me considerable time when posting that fresh look to insta.
I hope you've enjoyed the above, and it's given you an insight into the small but great leaps into a privacy conscious iOS.


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Gearbox adds face masks to Borderlands 3 to aid frontline workers
Get the 'Antisocial Mask' for a $5 donation
By Ryan Gilliam@RyGilliam Jun 22, 2020, 2:07pm EDT
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On Monday, Borderlands developer Gearbox Software announced a new initiative to help healthcare workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Borderlands 3 players can donate $5 to Direct Relief through the Gearbox merchandise store, and get an in-game cosmetic in return.
By donating $5 to Direct Relief, players can earn a SHiFT code from Gearbox, which unlocks a new "Antisocial Mask" cosmetic for their in-game characters. These are essentially the same masks you'd find on any responsible citizen roaming the streets today, but on the face of Amara, Moze, Zane, or FL4K instead.
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Player donations to Direct Relief go toward buying protective medical supplies to healthcare workers. "This campaign and these contributions are coming at a critical time in the pandemic," said Thomas Tighe, president and CEO of Direct Relief, in a news release. "While states are opening, we continue to see surges in the spread of Coronavirus and there is still a need to provide PPE for frontline healthcare workers. Direct Relief is deeply grateful to Gearbox for its partnership."
The donation center is currently live the Gearbox Loot store, and players can start donating now.
Coronavirus/COVID-19: What you need to know
The spread of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has unfortunately been characterized by an abundance of misinformation about the virus and xenophobia pertaining to its origins. To help educate our readership, we've compiled helpful explanations from our sibling sites The Verge and Vox.com. You can find answers to the most common questions in the links below:
Everything you need to know about the coronavirus
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For some time now, semi-finished plastic products that come into direct contact with foodstuffs have had to comply with the EU10/2011 regulation. Also known as the 'Plastic Implementation Measure (PIM)', this rule is intended to eliminate toxic effects as a consequence of interaction between food substances and plastics.
In order to serve our clients in the food industry, at Hemabo we have an extensive portfolio of semi-finished plastic products that meet these regulatory requirements as a basis for our manufactured products. This also includes plastics that are optically or inductively detectable and antimicrobial plastics.


Many of the words that come into my inbox I already know. Some I have never heard of before. And then there are those that I THOUGHT I knew, but when I read the definition, realize that I didn't. This is one of those words- it rhymes with "unfortunate"- I probably have always thought it meant that or something like it. Being the mother of four children, this is a wonderful word!
Troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand; unreasonably solicitous.
An emperor penguin in captivity starved to death by feeding all his rations — about six pounds of fish daily — to an importunate chick.


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Chinese automaker Geely enlists Tencent as third tech partner
Chinese carmaker Geely has signed key partnerships in recent weeks for its projects related to e-mobility and autonomous driving. After internet all-rounder Baidu and Apple supplier Foxconn, it is now also working with technology provider Tencent. Geely aims to develop smart vehicle cockpits and autonomous driving capabilities with its partners. Chinese entrepreneur and Daimler partner Li Shufu is behind Geely's agreements with companies from the technology sector. The components and parts required for the construction of such cockpits are usually subject to CCC Certification and must undergo product certification before they can be introduced into the Chinese market.
The collaboration is already bearing fruit: Baidu has announced that it will launch a new subsidiary brand together with Geely to develop intelligent electric cars. Baidu had already previously collaborated with BMW on similar projects. According to insider information from Reuters, Baidu will have a majority stake in the new joint venture. Geely is to provide the necessary automotive know-how, as the Chinese carmaker is increasingly focusing on electric vehicles. After acquiring the Swedish car brand Volvo in 2010, Geely developed a new platform for e-cars, which resulted in the Volvo XC40 Recharge and a new sub-brand, Polestar, among others.
In addition, Geely CEO Li Chufu is also a major shareholder in German automaker Daimler. Their cooperation is to be expanded in the future at Li's insistence: The next generation of the now all-electric Smart will be built by Geely in China. In addition, there will again be a four-seater as well as a new compact electric SUV. Despite all of Geely's ambitions regarding the expansion of electric mobility, internal combustion engines will continue to be developed and manufactured. In the future, it will also build powertrains for Daimler in its own company, which is operated jointly with Volvo. Geely has also founded the Lynk&Co brand, which offers both combustion engines and electric cars. On the global market, Geely is the largest shareholder in the Malaysian car manufacturer Proton and the traditional British brand Lotus.
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Valentina is a San Diego native, television host, actress, and licensed Realtor. You may have seen her on local commercials, and she is very excited to soon be hosting and co-producing a fun new talk show highlighting inspirational leaders and hot new businesses right here in San Diego. When she is not hosting, Valentina is getting fit with CrossFit, spending time with family and assisting her real estate clients achieve their dreams of homeownership. Valentina is honored working with ICAP and enjoys making a difference, especially in the lives of children.
Paul has over 35 years of experience in non-profit administration, management, and service delivery. Paul successfully completed contracts relating to Community Youth Development in the following countries: Central Asia; the Netherlands; South Africa; Brazil; and Jamaica. Currently, Paul is the President and CEO of the Global Action Research Center, as well as, professor at UCSD.
He also founded his own training and consultation company, Watson and Associates International. He has served as Executive Director at San Diego Youth and Community Services. Paul was Past-Chair of National Council on Youth Policy(National Network for Youth), and consultant to California Governor's Child Welfare Services Re-design Workgroup. He has also published articles on Community Youth Development.
Lee is currently a Senior Loan Manager at a financial institution, and volunteers his time tirelessly for the improvement of our communities. He has coached and umpired girls high school and recreational league softball for many years. Lee has served on many boards and cares about our youth's well-being.
Frances Marie Reilly is the founder of Earth Connect, a new organization whose vision is to enable people to self-heal through connecting with nature. She has over twenty-year's experience working with small businesses and non-profits, helping them to streamline their policies and procedures, return to profitability, and bring compassion to management. Frances formerly owned and operated a photography business in San Diego and currently carries certifications as an administrator for RCFEs, Creative Expressions, and Transpersonal Ecopsychology. Her passion is to enable the overall well-being of people through their interaction with the natural world.
Joyce is a retired entrepreneur and former owner of the famous Gellerosa Ranch Barbeque in downtown San Diego, know for their secret sauce, smoked meats, and extraordinary Strawberry-Banana cake. Politicians, movie stars, and professional athletes always enjoyed dining in the Gellerosa. She hosted the talk show, "Parenting," and has appeared on numerous cooking shows. Joyce has served on many boards: Chamber of Commerce, Central City Association, Convention Bureau, Metro Network, Sisters of Survival, and the San Diego Opera Board of Directors as Vice President of Community Affairs & Education Committee. She has also trained at-risk youth who needed employment who made careers out of their experience at the Gellerosa. Joyce is known as, "Mrs. Gellerosa."
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Clarence is the Founder/CEO of Inner City Athletic program. He has over 20 years experience working with fostered, abused, neglected, and at-risk youth within state shelters, group homes, and institutions. Clarence earned his Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership and Management at Springfield College, and conceptualized and established ICAP in 2008. He has played sports his entire life, coached basketball, umpired girls high school and recreational league softball, to his enjoyment. He has also worked in the medical field as a Physical Therapist Assistant and Neurodiagnostic Testing Technician performing electroencephalograms and evoke response testing. Clarence has his Food Service Manager's License, County of San Diego, and managed Gellerosa Ranch Barbeque, Bonnie B's Smokin in Pasadena, CA, and former owner of Chuck Wagon Barbeque participating in Street Scene and Encanto Street Festivals as a vendor. He enjoys providing healthy development, education, and guidance to youth for empowerment towards healthy lifestyles. Mr. Henderson is a board member of the Global Action Research Center, participate in Live Well Leadership Team Meetings, San Diego Accountable for Health, and Lemon Grove's Heal Zone Recreation Workgroup, among others.
Rah'Az'Jah is a 15 year-old sophomore that attends James Madison High School. Although she has always been an honor roll student, she has also had an interest in sports. Rah'Az'Jah has never played an organized sport until her freshman year at Madison High School, when she became part of the junior varsity softball team. She fell in love with the game instantly and came to the conclusion that she wanted to continue the journey of softball. She realized she also wanted to share her joy in the game and that's when she decided she wanted to engage in the Inner City Athletic program. She knew that this program would allow her to share her joy in the sport with many children, but also help a good cause as well.


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Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, in the valley of the River Arno, Tuscany, territory of the Medici and Republic of Florence.
Illegitimate son and firstborn of the notary Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, and of Caterina, a peasant woman. His baptism took place in the nearby parochial church of Santa Croce, but both the father and the mother did not attend when they were not married.
Leonardo da Vinci had no surname in the current sense, and "Da Vinci" simply means "De vinci": His full birth name was "Lionardo di ser Piero da vinci". The inclusion of the title of "Ser " indicates that his/her father was a gentleman. His mother found a husband who accepted his situation "compromised."
He spent his first five years in the village of Anchiano at his progenitor's home, and from 1457, at his father's and grandparents ' house. In 1452, his father Piero had married Albia Giovanni Amadori, of which he had no children.
In 1460 Leonardo da Vinci moved to Florence, where it was formed. His stepmother died in 1464, when the family was already living in Florence, and was buried in San Biagio. Being Piero married three times more: in 1464, with Francesca di Ser Giuliano Lanfredini, who also died without offspring; With Margherita di Francesco di Jacopo di Guglielmo, in 1475, who finally gave him six children; Another six had his fourth and last marriage. Leonardo had thus 12 half-brothers, all much younger than him (the latter was born when Leonardo was forty), and with whom he did not have much relationship but a great deal of problems for his father's inheritance.
Around 1466 he attended the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, where he started in various activities, from painting altarpieces and tables, to the elaboration of large sculptural projects in marble and bronze. In 1472 he was admitted to the Guild of Painters of Florence, and in 1476 is still mentioned as assistant Verrocchio, in whose work The Baptism of Christ (c. 1470, Uffizi, Florence), painted the angel kneeling on the left and the landscape of nuances Neblinosos. His first assignment was an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio, of the Florentine town hall, although it did not run.
Sublime painter, sculptor, avant-garde engineer, original inventor, musician, innovative architect, daring strategist, eccentric writer, demanding master… he is considered one of the greatest geniuses of mankind. His first great work, the Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi), which left unfinished, was commissioned by the monks of San Donato de Scopeto, near Florence, towards 1481. Other works of this period are: the Benois Madonna (c. 1478, Ermitage, St. Petersburg), the portrait of Geneva from Benci (c. 1474, National Gallery, Washington) and the unfinished San Jerónimo (c. 1481, Vatican PINACOTECA).
In 1482 Leonardo da Vinci was placed at the service of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, after having written a letter in which the artist offered as a painter, sculptor, architect, as well as an engineer, inventor and hydraulic and where he said he could build bridges Laptops, who knew the techniques for bombing and cannon, which could make boats as well as armoured vehicles, catapults and other war machines and could even make sculptures in marble, bronze and terracotta.
He helped the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in his famous work The Divine proportion (1509). The most important work of the period in Milan are the two versions of the Virgin of the Rocks (1483-1485, Louvre, Paris; Decade of 1490-1506-1508, National Gallery, London), where it applies the triangular compositional scheme that encloses the Virgin, the Child, Saint John and the Angel , and where it applies for the first time the technique of sfumato.
1 Life of Leonardo da Vinci
2 Works Leonardo da Vinci
Life of Leonardo da Vinci
From 1495 to 1497 he worked in his masterpiece The Last Supper, mural painting for the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. He also made other paintings, drawings and models for the dome of the Cathedral of Milan. His biggest assignment was the colossal Bronze equestrian monument of Francesco Sforza, Ludovico's father, for his location in the courtyard of the Sforzesco Castle. However, in December 1499, the Sforza family was expelled from Milan by the French troops. The statue was unfinished and destroyed by French archers who used it as a Diana.
In 1500 Leonardo da Vinci returned to Florence. In 1502 he began to serve César Borgia, Duke of Romagna, son of Pope Alexander VI. In his capacity as architect and senior engineer of the Duke, he oversaw the works in the fortresses of the papal territories of central Italy. In 1503 he was a member of the Commission of Artists responsible for deciding on the proper location of David de Miguel Ángel (1501-1504, Academia, Florence), and also worked as an engineer in the war against Pisa. At the end of this year began to plan the decoration for the Grand Hall of the Palace of the Signoria with the theme of the Battle of Anghiari. He made numerous drawings and completed a carton in 1505, but never made the paint on the wall. The cardboard was destroyed in the 17th century.
During his second Florentine period, he made several portraits, of which only the de La Gioconda (1503-1506, Louvre, Paris) is preserved, also known as Monna Lisa. It seems that I felt a great predilection for this work as it carried it with it in its travels. La Gioconda, with an enigmatic face, actually existed: it was Lisa Gherardini, second wife of Francesco del Giocondo, a wealthy Florentine silk merchant, according to the Florentine historian Giuseppe Pallanti, who concluded that the figure painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506 was real.
In 1506 it returns to Milan in the service of the French governor Charles II Chaumont, Marshal of Amboise. A year later he was appointed painter of the Court of Louis XII of France, who was then residing in the Italian city. For the next six years he spent his time between Milan and Florence. From this same time it seems to be the second version of the Virgin of the Rocks and Santa Ana, the Virgin and the Child (c. 1506-1513, Louvre, Paris).
From 1514 to 1516 Leonardo da Vinci lived in Rome under the patronage of Giuliano de Medici, brother of Pope Leo X. He was staying at the Belvedere Palace in the Vatican, mainly dealing with scientific and technical experiments.
In the scientific part you can see his interest in the anatomical studies of the human body, based on the autopsies of cadavers he performed, although this practice was banned in the fifteenth century. It is believed that he was able to dissect some thirty corpses with whom he drew in detail and clarity a large part of the body's organs.
Leonardo da Vinci was strictly vegetarian, called the omnivores "corpse Eaters ". It seems that he never had a relationship with women except for his friendship with Cecilia Gallerani. Kept secret private life. In Florence, when Leonardo was an apprentice of Verrochio, a complaint was filed against the painter accusing of paedophile. His guards managed to evade public judgment.
His sexuality has been the subject of controversy and it seems that he had intimate relations with his disciples Salai and Melzi. In 1476, Leonardo da Vinci and three other young men were charged with sodomy, although the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence. In any case, Leonardo remained single and without children.
In 1516 it moved to live in France, with the court of Francis I, where it spent its last years in the castle of Cloux, near Amboise.
On April 23, 1519, he drafted testament to the notary Guglielmo Boreau, expressing his desire to be buried in the church of Saint-Florentin, with a funeral ceremony accompanied by small chaplains and friars, as well as 60 poor people, each with a Torch. Leonardo died on May 2 of the same year in Amboise, Kingdom of France. It was buried in the cloister of the Church of Saint-Florentin in Amboise. Fifty years later the tomb was violated and its remains were scattered during the religious struggle between Catholics and Huguenots.
Collage Leonardo da Vinci
Works Leonardo da Vinci
Dreyfus Madonna (Madonna of the Grenade), 1469-1470, oil on table, 15, 7×12, 8 cm
Tobias and the angel, about 1470-1475, Temple on table, 84×66 cm
Annunciation, about 1472-1475, tempera and oil on canvas, 98×217 cm
Landscape with river, in 1473, drawing on paper, 19×28, 5 cm
Madonna of the carnation, about 1473, oil on wood, 62×47, 5 cm
Hand study, about 1474, white silver tip on pink paper, 21.4 x15 cm
Portrait of Ginevra de ' Benci, about 1474, oil and temple on wood, 38.8 x36, 7 cm
Former captain's profile, 1475, silver tip on prepared paper, 28.5 x20, 7 cm
Baptism of Christ, 1475-1478, oil and temple on board, 177x151cm
Annunciation, on 1475-1478, Temple on table, 16×60 cm body of Bernardo Baroncelli, hanged in 1478
Madonna Benois, 1478-1482, oil on table transferred to canvas, 48×31 cm
St. Jerome, 1480, oil on canvas, 103×75 cm
Defense Device Studies 1480
Hydraulic tool Studies 1480
Flower Studio, 1480-1481
Sketch for the Virgin of the Gatto, 1480-1481
Prospective study of the Adoration of the Magi, 1481
Study for the Adoration of the Magi, 1481
Adoration of the Magi, 1481-1482
Equestrian monument of Francesco Sforza, 1482-1493
Study of the Angel of the Virgin of the Rocks, 1483-1485
Studies for the Virgin of the Rocks, 1483
Virgin of the Rocks, 1483-1486, oil on table transferred to canvas, 199×122 cm
Portrait of a musician, towards 1485, oil on canvas, 44, 7×32 cm
Study for the monument to Francesco Sforza, 1485
Air Screw, 1487
Milan Cathedral cruise coverage project, 1487-1488
Study for war machinery, 1487-1490
Lady of Ermine, 1488-1490, oil on table, 54, 8×40, 3 cm
Ideas for the figure of St. Peter at the Last Supper, 1488-1490
Studio for the Last Supper, 1488-1490
Skull section, 1489
The man of Vitruvio, 1490, pencil and ink on paper, 34×24 cm
Study of the front legs of a horse, 1490
Geometric and botanical figures design 1490
Light rays through a small aperture angle, 1490-1491
Ferronnière, 1490-1495, oil on table, 63×45 cm
Project for strengthening the fusion of the horse's head, 1491-1493
Emblem of the Sforza, 1492-1494
Virgin of the Rocks, 1494-1508, oil on canvas, 189.5 x 120 cm
Head of Christ, 1494, chalk and pastel on paper, 40×32 cm
Hair, tapes, masking objects, 1494
Virile head, 1494 or 1499 project for a device, 1494-1496
Last Supper, 1494-1498, oil on wall, 460×880 cm
Portrait Sforza, 1495, chalk and ink on parchment, 33×23 cm
Sketch of three figures in the profile, 1495
Old and young tackled, 1495
Portraits of the Dukes of Milan with their children, 1497, tempera and oil on the wall, 90 cm
1497 Lady handbag Sketch
interweaving plants with fruits and monochromes of roots and rocks, 1498
Study for the portrait of Isabel of this 1499
Portrait of Isabella of East, 1500, 63×46 cm
Madonna dei Fusi, 1501, oil on table transferred to canvas and glued on wood, 50, 2×36, 4 cm
Madonna dei Fusi, 1501, oil on board, 48, 3×36, 9 cm
Study for the Virgin and Santa Ana, 1501
Santa Ana Carton, 1501-1505, black pencil, lead white and stain on paper, 141, 5×104, 6
Billiard facing a circular atrium, 1502-1503
Polygonal fortress, 1502-1503
Mona Lisa, 1503-1514, oil on canvas, 77X53 cm
Study of the proportions of the Battle of Anghiari: Infantry and Cavalry, 1503-1504
Study of the head of a warrior of the Battle of Anghiari, 1504
Battle of Anghiari, 1505
Leda's head, about 1505-1510, red chalk on paper prepared red, 20×15, 7 cm
Leda and the Swan, 1505-1510
Cranberries, 1506
Study for the monument to the Marshal Trivulzio, 1507
Scapigliata, 1508, over Wood, 24, 7×21 cm
Look through a human eye, 1508-1509
San Juan Bautista, 1508-1513, oil on table, 69×57 cm
Santa Ana, Madonna and Child with Lamb, 1510-1513, oil on canvas, 168×112 cm
Baco, 1510-1515, oil on table transferred to canvas, 177×115 cm
Reflection, 1510-1515
Canal between the lake of Lecco and the Lambo, 1513
Geometry studies, 1513
Studies on Civitavecchia 1514
Study of three dancing figures, 1515
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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Community.CsharpSqlite
{
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  {

    //#include "sqliteInt.h"

#if !SQLITE_OMIT_BUILTIN_TEST
    /*
** Global variables.
*/
    //typedef struct BenignMallocHooks BenignMallocHooks;
    public struct BenignMallocHooks//
    {
      public void_function xBenignBegin;//void (*xBenignBegin)(void);
      public void_function xBenignEnd;    //void (*xBenignEnd)(void);
      public BenignMallocHooks( void_function xBenignBegin, void_function xBenignEnd )
      {
        this.xBenignBegin = xBenignBegin;
        this.xBenignEnd = xBenignEnd;
      }
    }
    static BenignMallocHooks sqlite3Hooks = new BenignMallocHooks( null, null );

    /* The "wsdHooks" macro will resolve to the appropriate BenignMallocHooks
    ** structure.  If writable static data is unsupported on the target,
    ** we have to locate the state vector at run-time.  In the more common
    ** case where writable static data is supported, wsdHooks can refer directly
    ** to the "sqlite3Hooks" state vector declared above.
    */
#if SQLITE_OMIT_WSD
//# define wsdHooksInit \
BenignMallocHooks *x = &GLOBAL(BenignMallocHooks,sqlite3Hooks)
//# define wsdHooks x[0]
#else
    //# define wsdHooksInit
    static void wsdHooksInit()
    {
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    //# define wsdHooks sqlite3Hooks
    static BenignMallocHooks wsdHooks = sqlite3Hooks;
#endif

    /*
** Register hooks to call when sqlite3BeginBenignMalloc() and
** sqlite3EndBenignMalloc() are called, respectively.
*/
    static void sqlite3BenignMallocHooks(
    void_function xBenignBegin, //void (*xBenignBegin)(void),
    void_function xBenignEnd //void (*xBenignEnd)(void)
    )
    {
      wsdHooksInit();
      wsdHooks.xBenignBegin = xBenignBegin;
      wsdHooks.xBenignEnd = xBenignEnd;
    }

    /*
    ** This (sqlite3EndBenignMalloc()) is called by SQLite code to indicate that
    ** subsequent malloc failures are benign. A call to sqlite3EndBenignMalloc()
    ** indicates that subsequent malloc failures are non-benign.
    */
    static void sqlite3BeginBenignMalloc()
    {
      wsdHooksInit();
      if ( wsdHooks.xBenignBegin != null )
      {
        wsdHooks.xBenignBegin();
      }
    }
    static void sqlite3EndBenignMalloc()
    {
      wsdHooksInit();
      if ( wsdHooks.xBenignEnd != null )
      {
        wsdHooks.xBenignEnd();
      }
    }
#endif //* SQLITE_OMIT_BUILTIN_TEST */
  }
}


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Marius Kimutai (born 10 December 1992) is a Kenyan-born Bahraini long-distance runner.

Career

In 2015, he won the Dalian International Marathon in Dalian, China with a time of 2:15:18.

In 2017, he won the Rotterdam Marathon in Rotterdam, Netherlands with a time of 2:06:04. That year, he also won the Ljubljana Marathon in Ljubljana, Slovenia with a time of 2:08:33.

In 2019, he won the Hangzhou International Marathon in Hangzhou, China with a time of 2:10:05 which was also a new course record. He became the first Bahraini winner of the event.

In 2023 Marius Kimutai won the Barcelona Marathon with 02:05:06

Achievements

References

External links

Living people
1992 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Bahraini male marathon runners
Bahraini male long-distance runners

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It is July 4th weekend, summer is in full swing, and excitement is in the air, as families flock in droves to attend the local fireworks shows. What can be better than viewing the spectacular displays of shooting lights illuminating a pristine natural backdrop, commemorating the birth of our nation? Actually, things couldn't be worse for a number of our four-legged family members. For many pets, fireworks are frightening and trigger stress reactions.
Many animal health facilities see a significant rise in emergency visits during the holiday weekend. Loud noises emanating from exploding fireworks can cause dogs to jump fences or burrow out of yards. Some startled pets have even jumped through glass windows and door screens. Additionally, the week following the July 4th holiday, is generally the busiest for animal shelters housing stray animals. The number of shell-shocked pets arriving at their doors is staggering.
As reactions vary from pet to pet, there is no telling just how and when a pet will react to the "bombs bursting in air." Some pets may be more susceptible to panic attacks at an older age; weathering the storm during their youth is not indicative of what may develop in the future.
Pending consultation with a veterinarian, administering a mild sedative may be effective.
If it is indeed necessary for the pet to go outdoors, extra precautions should be taken. Use a leash at all times and ensure that all microchip and identification information are up to date.
Do not leave your pet alone for extended periods of time. Company of loved ones can have a calming and soothing effect.
In an effort to drown out the loud explosions, turn up the volume on a TV show or music recording. It may soften the blow.
Small steps that can perhaps make the holiday more enjoyable for the entire family…Wishing everybody and their pets a Happy 4th!


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The number of home burglaries increases continuously. In most cases the perpetrators get into the home through external doors or ground floor windows.
The burglar resistant effect of external doors, such as front doors or basement doors, can be increased significantly by fitting them with security escutcheons, which protect the lock. Security escutcheons are designed to make mechanical manipulation (lock drilling or forced lock-snapping) of the profile cylinder considerably more difficult and thus burglary can be prevented.
HEWI security escutcheons are conically shaped so that they cannot be forcefully twisted off. The bottom section is additionally hardened to increase the stability of the rose.
From April 2017, HEWI security escutcheons are optionally available made of polyamide-steel composite or stainless steel, they are certified according to DIN 18 257 Class 1. HEWI security escutcheons are suitable for use on burglar resistant doors (EN 1627 -1630). They have an additional anti-drilling plate in the area of the lock for increased security requirements.
The lockable window handles are certified by an independent test institute. They fulfil the requirements of resistance class RC 1-6 (protection against twisting off and forced lock-snapping). They are suitable for use on burglar resistant windows (EN 1627 -1630).


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Pásztory Edith (ismertebb nevén Bartókné Pásztory Ditta) (Rimaszombat, 1903. október 31. – Budapest, 1982. november 21.) zongoraművész, érdemes művész (1963), Bartók Béla második felesége.

Életútja
Pásztory Gyula matematika–fizika szakos gimnáziumi tanár és Petrovics Kornélia zongoratanárnő leányaként született. Somogyi Mórnál, a Budapesti Konzervatóriumban folytatta tanulmányait, 1922-től a Zeneakadémián Bartók Béla növendéke volt, majd 1923-ban Bartók felesége lett. Tanulmányait férje vezetésével fejezte be.

Első közös fellépésük a Szonáta két zongorára és ütőhangszerekre bázeli bemutatója volt 1938. január 16-án. 1938-tól további kétzongorás hangversenyeket adott Bartókkal Európában és az USA-ban.

1940-ben a náci diktatúra elleni tiltakozásul Bartókkal együtt hosszabb időre az Egyesült Államokba utazott. Haza, Bartók halála miatt, már csak ő térhetett. (A sok helyen megjelenő tévhittel szemben Pásztory Ditta nem volt zsidó származású – evangélikus és görög katolikus szülők gyermeke –, azonban Bartók humanizmusából fakadóan sorsközösséget vállaltak a nemzeti szocialista diktatúra által embertelen elbánásban részesülőkkel.)

1946-tól ismét Budapesten élt, 1960-tól koncertezett itthon és külföldön, főként Comensoli Máriával és Tusa Erzsébettel. Vendégszerepelt Ausztriában, Belgiumban, Franciaországban, Hollandiában, Luxemburgban, Nagy-Britanniában, az NSZK-ban, Olaszországban, Spanyolországban, Svájcban és az USA-ban.

Hanglemezfelvételei készültek Bartókkal (a kétzongorás Szonáta, hét darab a Mikrokozmoszból); a Hungaroton Bartók-összkiadásában játszotta Bartók zongoraműveit, többek között a teljes Mikrokozmoszt és a Gyermekeknek sorozatot.

Bartók III. zongoraversenyét neki írta. Amikor férje halála után zongoraművészként a nyilvánosság elé lépett, szinte kizárólag Bartók-műveket játszott: hanglemezfelvételeken, hangversenyeken vállalkozott arra, hogy továbbadja Bartók műveinek előadási stílusából mindazt, amit elsajátítani tudott. Bartók tolmácsolásában olyasmit mutatott fel a művekben, amelynek csak fölismeréséhez is az ő tehetsége, elmélyedése, személyisége kellett.

Jegyzetek

Források

Baranyi Anna–Büky Virág–F. Dózsa Katalin: Egy különleges életút tanúi. Bartókné Pásztory Ditta hagyatéka a Zenetörténeti Múzeumban / Witnesses of an extraordinary path of life. The legacy of Ditta Pásztory-Bartók at the Museum of Music History; szerk. Gombos László, angolra ford. Németh István Csaba; MTA BTK ZTI Zenetörténeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2017

1903-ban született személyek
1982-ben elhunyt személyek
Magyar zongoristák
Magyar nők
Emigráns magyarok
Rimaszombatiak
A Magyar Népköztársaság Érdemes Művésze díjasok
Bartók család


Staunton, September 26 – By calling for the establishment of a Russian air force base in Belarus, Vladimir Putin has united the Belarusian opposition, all of whom are against such a base, and ensured that Alyaksandr Lukashenka will not sign any such deal in the near future and certainly not before the elections, according to Mensk military affairs analyst Aleksandr Alesin.
In an interview with Belsat, Alesin says the Belarusian leader has no interest in signing any such agreement now. On the one hand, the entire issue has arisen in a way that works against him in the election. And on the other, it undercuts his efforts to seek a rapprochement with the West (vybary.belsat.eu/ru/news/alesin-lukashenko-ne-budet-speshit-podpisyvat-dokumenty-po-aviabaze/).
At the same time, he continues, the dependence of Belarus on Russia under Lukashenka is "so great" that Russia can "at any moment complicate the situation" and even force the issue of opening a base, something Putin almost certainly will do. So even though Lukashenka may not hurry to put his signature on an agreement, the Kremlin leader will likely get what he wants.
Such a base would be for Russia "an extraordinarily useful place des armes," Alesin says, given the West's military buildup in the Baltic countries and Poland. But it would not fundamentally change the position of Belarus because its union treaty with Russia means that in the event of war, Belarus would be on Moscow's side.


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package io.aino.agents.core;

import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException;
import io.aino.agents.core.config.AgentConfig;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;

/**
 * Class doing the message sending to aino.io.
 */
public class Sender implements Runnable, TransactionDataObserver {
    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Sender.class);

    private enum Action {
        RETRY, SEND, NONE
    }

    private AtomicBoolean continueLoop = new AtomicBoolean(true);
    private SenderStatus status = new SenderStatus();

    private final AgentConfig agentConfig;
    private final TransactionDataBuffer transactionDataBuffer;
    private final ApiClient client;
    private String stringToSend;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param config agent configuration
     * @param dataBuffer databuffer to use
     * @param client the Aino.io API client to use
     */
    public Sender(AgentConfig config, TransactionDataBuffer dataBuffer, ApiClient client) {
        agentConfig = config;
        this.client = client;
        transactionDataBuffer = dataBuffer;
        transactionDataBuffer.addLogDataSizeObserver(this);
    }

    /**
     * Stop sending gracefully.
     * If sending is in progress, continue until it is done.
     */
    public void stop() {
        continueLoop.set(false);
    }

    @Override
    public void logDataAdded(int newSize) {
        synchronized (this) {
            if (newSize >= agentConfig.getSizeThreshold()) {
                notify();
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        status.initialStatus();

        try {
            while (transactionDataBuffer.containsData() || continueLoop.get()) {
                switch(action()) {
                    case RETRY: retry(); break;
                    case SEND: send(); break;
                    case NONE: default: sleep(); break;
                }
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
            // Thread has been interrupted. Stop processing.
        }
    }

    private Action action() {
        if(status.retryLastSend) {
            return Action.RETRY;
        }

        if(transactionDataBuffer.containsData()){
            return Action.SEND;
        }

        return Action.NONE;
    }

    private void retry() throws InterruptedException {
        performRequest();
        sleep();
    }

    private void send() throws InterruptedException {
        sendLogData();
        sleep();
    }

    private void sleep() throws InterruptedException {
        // If sleep interval is very short, this will generate a ridiculous amount of log messages. Enable only in dire need of debugging.
        // log.trace(new StringBuilder("Sleeping for a maximum of ").append(agentConfig.getSendInterval()).append(" ms."));

        synchronized (this) {
            wait(agentConfig.getSendInterval());
        }
    }

    private void sendLogData() {
        try {
            stringToSend = transactionDataBuffer.getDataToSend();
            performRequest();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            log.error("Failed to send LogEntries because the JSON serialization failed.", e);
        }
    }

    private void performRequest() {
        try {
            status.retryCount++;
            log.debug("Attempting to resend log entries (retry " + status.retryCount + ").");

            ApiResponse response = client.send(getRequestContent());

            status.responseStatus(response);
        } catch (ClientHandlerException e) {
            status.exceptionStatus();
        } finally {
            status.continuationStatus();
        }
    }

    private byte[] getRequestContent() {
        if(!agentConfig.isGzipEnabled()) {
            return stringToSend.getBytes();
        }

        try {
            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            GZIPOutputStream gzipStream = new GZIPOutputStream(baos);
            gzipStream.write(stringToSend.getBytes());

            gzipStream.finish();
            baos.flush();
            byte[] returnBytes = baos.toByteArray();
            baos.close();
            gzipStream.close();

            return returnBytes;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new AgentCoreException("Failed to compress Aino log message using gzip.");
        }
    }
}


The number of "Cutn" PSNs on this blog cuts like a knife! Spotted in Clemmons, North Caroline by Sandy Schneider.
Give me your best cut! A PSN that works on so many levels. From first time PSN spotter Laura Sciortino in Portland, Oregon.
The shear number of hair related PSNs is simply overwhelming. Lynne Segall's find from Roswell, Georgia brings the count to 22, second only to restaurants at 56 as of this writing.
With all that's going on in this sign, it might be easy to overlook the PSN. But not for Sandy Schneider. Spotted in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
This is not a PSN To Dye For or even 2 Dye For, but it's a PSN nonetheless. Spotted by Sandy Schneider in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Lynne Segall delivers a knockout punch with this find in Ellsworth, Maine. Yet another hair related PSN on A Glutton For Pun bringing the total count to 18 as of this writing.
It pays to stay heads up because a PSN can come into view when you least expect it – like around mile 60 of an 80 mile bike ride. Spotted by Jonathan Schneider in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.
When speaking with Sandy Schneider, conversations inevitably turn to PSNs these days. It's no wonder then that she found Cut Versations in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Love the tagline!
Shearly she's not joking around. Sandy Schneider finds yet another hair raising PSN in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Some of you might remember its close cousin, Shear Excitement in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.


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Glacier Biogeochemistry
Martin Sharp, Martyn Tranter
School of Geographical Sciences
Bristol Glaciology Centre
This volume charts our interlinked research pathways, which began with an interest in water flow paths at glacier beds and expanded into an exploration of the role of glaciers and ice sheets in local, regional, and global biogeochemical cycles. Along the journey, we discovered that glacier beds are habitats for microbes, and that the microbes are sustained by a variety of rock- and organic carbon-related processes. We were encouraged to write our story in a travelogue style, highlighting the contributions of the great students, post docs and colleagues we have had the pleasure to work with, the sometimes random nature of the factors that led us to explore new systems and processes, and some of the dead ends we ran into. We could have written so much more, but we have covered the state of the science when we were post grads, the things that motivated us to study rock dissolution and water flow paths at glacier beds, what happened when we explored glacier beds for the first time, in terms of biogeochemical weathering reactions, our desire to upscale from small valley glaciers to the larger ice masses of Svalbard and Ellesmere Island and, finally, the opportunities we had to work on the biogeochemistry of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. It is with some pride that we note that most of the biogeochemical processes we deduced from our studies of smaller glacier systems also occur beneath the large ice masses, given due regard to differences in spatial scale, the timescales on which processes operate, and the provenance of sediment at the glacier beds. Our students have made huge contributions to the field of glacier biogeochemistry, the role of glaciers in fertilising the oceans, and the role of bedrock abrasion and crushing in subsidising microbial communities beneath ice sheet interiors. We suspect that these are going to be topics they will write about in future volumes of this series, as a minimum.
Geochemical Perspectives
https://doi.org/10.7185/geochempersp.6.2
10.7185/geochempersp.6.2
This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via European Association of Geochemistry at DOI: 10.7185/geochempersp.6.2. Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher.
Accepted author manuscript, 10.3 MB
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Glacier Biogeochemistry'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
biogeochemistry Earth & Environmental Sciences
glacier Earth & Environmental Sciences
ice sheet Earth & Environmental Sciences
water flow Earth & Environmental Sciences
student Earth & Environmental Sciences
ice Earth & Environmental Sciences
valley glacier Earth & Environmental Sciences
biogeochemical cycle Earth & Environmental Sciences
Professor Martyn Tranter
M.Tranter@bristol.ac.uk
School of Geographical Sciences - Professor of Polar Biogeochemistry
Person: Academic , Member
Sharp, M., & Tranter, M. (2017). Glacier Biogeochemistry. Geochemical Perspectives, 6(2), 173-339. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochempersp.6.2
Sharp, Martin ; Tranter, Martyn. / Glacier Biogeochemistry. In: Geochemical Perspectives. 2017 ; Vol. 6, No. 2. pp. 173-339.
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Deputies searching for man wanted in shooting
Written by Christine Steele" title=" Christine Steele" class="author-link" rel="author"> Christine Steele on March 14, 2017
A Grant County man is wanted by sheriff's deputies after allegedly shooting another man in the leg in front of several children following an argument over whether a child should be allowed to cuss and use profanity.
Grant County sheriff's deputies are looking for Rudy Marquez III in connection with the Saturday evening shooting at a home in the 100 block of N. Hurley Road.
According to an incident report from the Grant County Sheriff's Office, the 25-year-old victim and his girlfriend — who has children with Marquez — went to the home to pick up a child. Once there, the victim and Marquez got into an argument about "whether or not the child should be allowed to cuss and use profanity," the victim's girlfriend told police.
During the argument, Marquez pulled out a gun and pointed it at the victim. The victim said, "What are you going to shoot me?" the report states. Marquez then allegedly fired the weapon, a .40 caliber handgun. The victim told police he did not realize he had been shot until he felt his leg get wet. The bullet appeared to go through his upper left thigh.
The victim's girlfriend then drove the victim and two of her children to the Penjamo Bar in North Hurley, where they were met by deputies. She said several children remained in the home with Marquez, including a 4-year-old boy, a 7-to-9-year-old girl, and a 10-year-old boy. The victim was transported to Gila Regional Medical Center. His condition is unknown.
Deputies went to the N. Hurley residence and attempted to contact Marquez but no one came to the door. They located a spent shell casing near the gate that appeared to be a .40 caliber casing and set up security at the scene until they could get a search warrant. They executed the search warrant later that evening.
Grant County Sheriff's Lt. Fermin Lopez said a warrant has been issued for Marquez's arrest and he currently faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, a third-degree felony; tampering with evidence, a fourth-degree felony; and possession of a firearm by a felon. Lt. Lopez said the weapon has not been recovered and Marquez is believed to still be in Grant County.
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