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Five faith facts about former President Barack Obama's new book: 'A Promised Land'
by Adelle Banks | Nov 19, 2020 | Current News |
Video Courtesy of 60 Minutes
Obama and Curry to Boys of Color: "You Matter"
Aide Shares the Bible Devotionals He Sent to President Obama Each Morning
Former President Barack Obama's new book, "A Promised Land," only mentions four pages in its index under the category "faith and."
But the title of the book by the 44th U.S. president invokes biblical imagery — a land promised by God to his people — and Obama includes the role of religious institutions, faith leaders and personal traditions throughout the 750-page book. On the page after his dedication of the tome to his wife and daughters, Obama features the words from an African American spiritual: "Fly and never tire/There's a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land."
While friends and strangers have told him they believe God engineered his road to the White House, Obama says he didn't view his political path as a call from God.
"I suspect that God's plan, whatever it is, works on a scale too large to admit our mortal tribulations; that in a single lifetime, accidents and happenstance determine more than we care to admit," he writes, "and that the best we can do is to try to align ourselves with what we feel is right and construct some meaning out of our confusion, and with grace and nerve play at each moment the hand that we're dealt."
Video Courtesy of Dallas City Temple
Here are five faith facts about Obama from his highly anticipated book released Tuesday (Nov. 17):
He'd rephrase his 'guns or religion' remark.
Obama was asked at a 2008 California fundraising event for wealthy donors why he thought working-class Pennsylvania voters opted for Republicans. His response included the words "they cling to guns or religion," referring to frustration over job losses in their region.
The former president calls that response "my biggest mistake of the campaign," one that he said could have been due to fatigue or impatience.
"Even today, I want to take that sentence back and make a few simple edits," Obama writes. "I would say in my revised version: 'and they look to the traditions and way of life that have been constants in their lives, whether it's their faith, or hunting, or blue-collar work, or more traditional notions of family and community.'"
He said "the best policies in the world don't matter to them" when Republicans tell working-class people that Democrats oppose traditions they may cherish. He later notes that Sarah Palin, Republican opponent John McCain's running mate, included his original words during her 2008 Republican National Convention speech.
Video Courtesy of Libro.fm
He respected his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, before he had to part ways.
Obama writes that, especially from his perspective as a young man, "the good in Reverend Wright more than outweighed his flaws." Obama had noted, as he attended and joined Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, that some of the pastor's sermons were "a little over the top." But when news coverage showed his pastor speaking of an America that believes in Black inferiority and white supremacy "more than we believe in God," Obama chose to withdraw his invitation for Wright to give the invocation as he announced his candidacy.
And after more of Wright's sermons started appearing in loops on broadcast media, Obama distanced himself from the minister with a speech on race that drew a record number of online watchers.
Then, after Wright "unleashed a rant for the ages" at a National Press Club appearance, Obama says he was forced to "permanently sever my relationship with someone who had played a small but significant part in making me the man that I was."
Obama recalls a time later, as he awaited primary vote outcomes, how a couple of African American longtime friends reviewed campaign highs and lows and took turns "acting out some of the more excruciating lines" from Wright's Press Club appearance: "we all started to laugh and couldn't stop, the kind of deep, tear-inducing, falling-out-of-your-chair laughter that's a kissing cousin to despair."
Another minister helped him regain confidence.
While Wright's use of "audacity of hope" gave Obama a book title and a key phrase for his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, another minister influenced him by shoring up his confidence.
The Rev. Otis Moss Jr., whose son succeeded Wright at Trinity UCC, called Obama early in the controversy surrounding Wright. Moss knew some Black Americans had questioned whether Obama was ready for the White House.
Obama writes that Moss described himself and other civil rights veterans as "the Moses generation" who marched, were jailed, "got us out of Egypt," but could only go so far.
"You, Barack, are part of the Joshua generation," Obama says Moss told him. "Perhaps you can learn from some of our mistakes. But ultimately it will be up to you, with God's help, to build on what we've done."
Moss' words about leading Americans "out of the wilderness" were what Obama says he needed to move on from the Wright controversy and forward in his campaign.
"It's hard to overstate how these words fortified me, coming as they did almost a year before our Iowa victory, what it meant to have someone so intimately linked to the source of my earliest inspiration say that what I was trying to do was worth it, that it wasn't just an exercise in vanity or ambition but rather a part of an unbroken chain of progress."
Obama — who later spoke of successive generations in his speech about race — said Moss' public support, along with that of other co-laborers with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., such as the Rev. Joseph Lowery and the Rev. C.T. Vivian, helped boost support of his campaign among Black Americans.
He tried to keep his prayer life private.
Obama mentions his "broader skepticism toward organized religion" but says he often turned to private prayer.
Not long after he was shown the Lincoln Bible on which he would be sworn in, Obama paused before entering the inaugural platform.
"For a brief moment, before trumpets sounded and I was announced, I closed my eyes," he writes. "And summoned the prayer that had carried me here, one I would continue to repeat every night I was president. A prayer of thanks for all I'd been given. A prayer that my sins be forgiven. A prayer that my family and the American people be kept safe from harm. A prayer for guidance."
Months before that moment, Obama had paid a visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall — where pilgrims have long left petitions to God — as he was feeling the weight of what lay ahead if he became president.
"I'd written my own prayer on a piece of hotel stationery," he writes. "I had assumed those words were between me and God," he said of the personal request he placed within a crack in the wall. "But the next day they showed up in an Israeli newspaper before achieving eternal life on the internet."
He's not superstitious but carried religious symbols among his collection of charms.
Obama writes that he never had a rabbit's foot or lucky number as a child.
"Over the course of the campaign, though, I found myself making a few concessions to the spirit world," he says.
He developed a habit during his campaign of carrying five or so tiny mementos people had given him, from a biker's "lucky metal poker chip" to a nun's silver cross.
"My assortment of charms grew steadily: a miniature Buddha, an Ohio buckeye, a laminated four-leaf clover, a tiny bronze likeness of Hanuman the monkey god, all manner of angels, rosary beads, crystals and rocks," he writes.
Obama calls them a "tactile reminder" of the people he had met and of their hopes.
"If my cache of small treasures didn't guarantee that the universe would tilt in my favor," he writes, "I figured they didn't hurt.''


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Doorstop interview, Canberra
Interview Transcripts 17 April, 2019
Doorstop interview, Canberra Subjects: Labor's proposed taxes on superannuation, George Christensen EO&E………………………………………………………… SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well another day and another case where Bill Shorten clearly either cannot or will not be upfront and honest with the Australian people about his policies or the impact of his policies. We've seen today that Bill Shorten in relation to…
Interview on ABC Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke and David Bevan
Interview on ABC Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke and David Bevan Subjects: Climate change; Sharrouf children; Tony Abbott EO&E………………………………………………………… ALI CLARKE: It's good morning to Minister for Trade, Liberal Simon Birmingham, hello. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Hello, good to be with you. ALI CLARKE: Good morning, we also are joined by Labor Senator for South…
Interview on ABC 774 with Jon Faine
Interview on ABC 774 with Jon Faine Subjects: Federal Election, Kyoto, Adani EO&E………………………………………………………… JON FAINE: Simon Birmingham is the Liberal Party's official spokesperson for the election 2019. That's now getting under way. He's also Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment in the Morrison led Coalition Government. Last week we heard from Labor Deputy Leader…
Interview on ABC Northern Tasmania with Belinda King
Interview on ABC Northern Tasmania with Belinda King Subjects: Federal Government funding boost for the Freycinet EO&E………………………………………………………… BELINDA KING: Good morning. Good to have you company on this shortened working week bit of a holiday weekend coming up what are you doing that holiday weekend nicking off down the coast. Maybe you're heading down to…
Interview on ABC Hobart, Breakfast with Ryk Goddard
Interview on ABC Hobart, Breakfast with Ryk Goddard Subjects: Tourism, TAS, Freycinet National Park, Adani EO&E………………………………………………………… RYK GODDARD: What do you think about tourism infrastructure? It's been pretty stretched particularly Bruny and Freycinet, Simon Birmingham as Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, good to be with you. RYK GODDARD: Nice…
Doorstop interview, Canberra Subjects: Health Funding; Labor's $387 billion in extra taxes; Clive Palmer; Pauline Hanson EO&E………………………………………………………… SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thanks for coming along today. As we approach the one week mark of the election campaign, what's clear is and what's at stake in this campaign is becoming increasingly obvious and clear. Today Prime Minister Morrison…
Interview on 2GB with Ross Greenwood
Interview on 2GB with Ross Greenwood Subjects: Federal Election, ZTE and Huawei, China, WTO EO&E………………………………………………………… ROSS GREENWOOD: Great to have your company here on Money News right around Australia, I want to take you to the federal election because quite clearly now with the election in full steam mode it's really a situation of both…
Interview on ABC 24 with Kathryn Robinson
Interview on ABC 24 with Kathryn Robinson Subjects: Skilling young Australians; Section 44; Peter Dutton; Labor's $387 billion in higher taxes; Tanya Plibersek EO&E………………………………………………………… KATHRYN ROBINSON: We're reading the reports today that the Prime Minister is set to announce a $58 million youth unemployment package today, is it enough to counter Labor's $1 billion investments…
Interview on ABC AM with Sabra Lane
Interview on ABC AM with Sabra Lane Subjects: Federal Election EO&E…… Sabra Lane: A sign of just just how hard this election will be fought, the Coalition has chosen the first full day of campaigning to release fresh Treasury Department costings of Labor's policies, saying the ALP he will slug voters $387 billion more over…
Interview on ABC 730 Report with Leigh Sales
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Pumping June in Hossegor... > Cheap surf camp in the Hossegor Capbreton area.
June is one of the quietest months here in Hossegor but we can have some of the most epic conditions, the longest day, the hottest day and there is always decent swell.
Its all about airs in June with the afternoon on-shores.
Its all about barrels in June with the groomed off-shores in the morning.
Its all about the last surf of the day in June with the evening glass off.


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Q: Spring security 3 intercept-url pattern with index I am trying to use Spring Security v3.2 for a project. At the moment I always use a coldfusion file that calls other files to build up the view. So all my urls go trough index.cfm?blablah.
Now I am stuck with allowing the anonymous user enter the home view. Following Spring Security request matcher is not working with regex, I made up the this code:
<http use-expressions="true">
    <intercept-url pattern="^.*index.cfm\?action=home.*$" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/root/index.cfm" access="isAuthenticated()" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="isAuthenticated()" />
    <form-login />
</http>

But whatever I try, I always enter the login field.

A: After more trying I found a solution:
<http request-matcher="regex" pattern="^.*index.cfm\?action=home.*$" security="none"/>

<http use-expressions="true">
    <intercept-url pattern="/root/index.cfm" access="isAuthenticated()" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/root/**" access="permitAll" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="isAuthenticated()" />
    <form-login />
 </http>

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Primo Mori (San Miniato, 7 April 1944) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer.

Major results

1969
1969 Giro d'Italia:
8th place overall classification
1970
Tour de France:
Winner stage 13

External links

Official Tour de France results for Primo Mori

1944 births
Living people
People from San Miniato
Italian male cyclists
Italian Tour de France stage winners
Sportspeople from the Province of Pisa
Cyclists from Tuscany

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Survival Food and Storage
Survival Skills →
Sword vs. Machete: What Is The Difference?
In adventure films, you rarely ever see the hero lost in the wilderness hacking and slashing at underbrush with a samurai sword. Rather, they usually have a machete in hand. But aside from cutting down shrubbery, is there really a difference between the two blades? The answer: Yes. Machetes and swords have many dissimilarities in design, purpose, and fabrication.
The origin of the word "sword" is Germanic, spawning from three different Anglo-Saxon dialects. In Old English, the word was sweord; in Dutch, it is zwaard; and in German, it is Schwert. However, swords have many names depending on where the weapon is from. There are scimitars, katana, Chinese Jian or dao, Korean hwandudaedo, nodachi, the Indian khanda, zweihanders, claymores, and so much more.
Zweihander Sword
Interestingly, "machete" was first used in 16th century Spanish and is derived from the word macho, meaning "hammer." There is also some evidence that "machete" also stems from the Latin word marculus, or "small hammer." Further, in English-speaking cultures, a "machete" is often called a "cutlass."
As you can see, the sword as we know it has always been called a sword. Machetes, on the other hand, has roots in the Spanish word for "hammer."
A History Lesson in Weaponry
Though the etymology gives way to some interesting perspectives, it is necessary to look into the origins and reasons behind the production of swords and machetes.
The first occurrence of a weapon that can described as a sword was in 3300 BC. They were unearthed in Arslantepe-Malatya, Turkey, a UNESCO archaeological site. For the historical buffs, Arslantepe was part of Mesopotamia, the first true human civilization. These swords were crafted from bronze, inlaid with silver, and were about 60 cm (24 in) in length. Other variants found in the Middle East were made of arsenic copper.
Around 1700 BC in Minoan Crete, the 100 cm swords of the Aegean Bronze Age were developed. You may see these referred to as "type A" bronze swords. But it was the birth of the Naue II type sword (also known as the Griffzungenschwert), originally described by Julius Naue, of the European Bronze Age that change the way European swords were made. The design lasted well beyond the Iron Age.
In other places around the world, such as the ancient Punjabi city of Harappa (3000-1500 BC), and in the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty of China (around 1700 BC), the precursor of modern day swords were widely used in war.
Mind you, that was solely the Bronze Age of humanity. Swords have been used by the Spartans, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Middle Age knights, Vikings, Celtics, samurai, and so many other ethnic groups throughout history.
Quotes About Swords
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run, the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." – Napoleon Bonaparte
"A properly balanced sword is the most versatile weapon for close quarters ever devised… a sword never jams, never has to be reloaded, is always ready. Its worst shortcoming is that it takes great skill and patient, loving practice to gain that skill." – Robert A. Heinlein
Scimitar Sword
Katana Sword
Zweihanders Sword
Claymore Sword
In the 13th century, there was a medieval weapon called the falchion, which resembled the modern-day machete. The falchion was a short sword that had a curved cutting edge and widened point. But, where the machete lacks a guard, the falchion has both a protective guard and a hilt for battle.
In ancient Greece, the kopis (an adaptation of the Ancient Egyptian khopesh) was comparable to the machete. The kopis was used for cutting meats, especially during ritual slaughters.
Source: Kopis
Since the 16th century, the machete has been a popular tool for agriculture in tropical and subtropical climates—especially in Africa, Central, and South America. Explorers once used machetes to hack through forest undergrowth or chop down sugar cane. In daily household chores, many cultures use the machete as a cleaver to downsize large foodstuffs.
We have also seen the machete as the ideal weapon for uprisings and, more unfortunately, in genocides.
Quotes About Machetes
"The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence…as their boots sank into pools or steaming oil, and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders." – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort." – Armie Hammer
The major historical difference between the sword and the machete would be that the sword was primarily used for war and self-defense rather than an agricultural tool. However, the machete, being more simplistic in design and readily available, has become a symbol of resistance.
Kopis Machete
Gerber Gator Machete
Differences in Construction and Performance
A lot of survivalists will choose a machete as their tool for cutting through the wilderness for multiple reasons. This has to do with how swords and machetes differ in construction, price, and performance.
Machete Construction & Performance
In the past, machetes had a much more dependable construction. However, since the 1950s, the fabrication of these tools has resulted in a crude presentation. Common metals are tempered carbon spring steel or stainless steel—though the latter is not durable and will break after a short duration. The blade usually has uniform thickness and features a full-length tang that is punched into one end of the metal. There is no primary grind, resulting in a shape that is ideal for hacking and chopping but not much else. Machetes can be mass produced. Thus, the price of a utilitarian design is roughly 20 USD.
The basic performance of a machete, that is to say the motion one must use for efficiency, is hack and chop. Because of the lack of grinding and geometry of a machete, it is not meant to slice. A machete essentially works like a long cleaver.
Sword Construction & Performance
Regardless of where the sword is from, the manufacturing of these weapons has always been left to the specialists, commonly referred to as swordsmiths or blacksmiths. While swords can be mass produced, they are "wall-hangers," rarely utilized for anything but decoration.
A sword worthy of battle requires a plethora of metalworking techniques, from casting the melted metal, filing, grinding, cutting, re-firing, folding the metal, and then tempering the blade for resilience. The entire process may take up to several weeks and is extremely labor intensive for the crafters. That is why a handcrafted, functional sword will often be priced around 500-2000 USD. Utilitarian models, however, will be in the 100-300 USD range.
The design of swords, even those from ancient civilizations, were fabricated in such a way that with one swing an attacking person or animal could killed. As grim as it sounds, swords were made solely for slicing through flesh and bone.
Thus the ultimate difference is that, while both are technically blades, swords are weapons and machetes are tools. Where carrying a sword of survival is frowned upon (and illegal in many countries), a machete is often utilized by farm workers and survivalists who spend extended time in the wilderness.
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All of us have been delighted and amazed when our wee one brought home school art. Some delight us with the colour and some amaze us with the interpretation of subject. Some display them for the appropriate time or until they are displaced by another equally wonderful picture. Some of us keep them forever.
I happened upon this picture when visiting with a relative. It was crayoned by a 4 yr old and held a place of honour, on the wall under glass.
I'm sure you'll agree the colour blocking is wonderful and the lolly pop red of the Balloon and the colours in the basket just draw the eye. So I decided to gift them with my rendition of their grandson's work.
The same size,.. 8x12 might be interpreted as a replacement for the original. That's not my intention.
This is enlarged to 36x48. With a suitable border it will be large enough to be useful as a lap quilt as they watch TV.
The basic outline is very simple so the fabric choices become very important.
I tried to use only my own material as some of it had the scribbly and patchy look I wanted to imitate.
And seeing as this quilt will be washed I rewashed all my own painted and dyed material with sythropol.
Using the master outline I quickly cut the different shapes.
The basket material worked up a bit TOO regular, but I can live with that.
So here are the colour blocks in place.
They're only glued at this point while I decide the rest.
I have several choices. I could satin stitch or I could couch some stands of wool in the place of the rayon marks. That's the way I'm leaning at the end of this day.


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When behavioral health care is available, children and adolescents can build a solid foundation to realize their potential. We help them navigate their lives as part of our commitment to strong families and communities.
Children's Aid is licensed by the State of New York, and we provide kids and families with confidential individual and family counseling or group therapy.
So many factors can have a powerful impact on children's well-being: parents' financial worries, unaddressed ADHD, fear of deportation, or the overarching stresses of poverty and acclimating to a new country. We help young people focus on their potential instead.
We also provide crisis intervention and emergency assessments for children and adolescents suffering from abuse, trauma, or serious emotional disturbance.
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Q: Windows explorer blanks top border when maximized a colleague of mine is experimenting an issue with file explorer in windows 10.
As of the title, the top border is blanked:

It's quite annoying. Any chance we get to fix it?

A: I had the same problem. That blank space represents desktop. I had to restart my pc whenever this happened. I tried all the solutions on internet and found one trick with summary.
Try the below steps; this has solved my problem:

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*Right click on desktop

*Click on Graphics Options

*Click on Panel fit

*Click on Digital display

*There will be a tick on Maintain display scaling. Click on Scale full screen

This will solve your problem and once again you perform same steps and again click on Maintain display scaling.
Whenever you have this problem again follow the steps. This will solve the problem without restarting the computer.
Revert back with your effort whether it helped or not.

A: Not sure if you are going to see this, but this issue is still an ongoing issue that Microsoft has yet to fix.
The link to the main topic is here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/windows-10-multi-monitor-maximized-window/3c2042ef-73df-401c-9a59-65b347d4dbea?page=3

A: I really haven't found a fix to this. It happens from time to times, usually when computer resources are highly used. An easy workaround, by the way, would by split the screen in 2, using (WINDOWS_KEY) + (LEFT_KEY), like this:

This way, at least the window that has a blanked top will be movable again

A: I just had this same issue occur.  I'd never seen it before, nor even heard of it.  At first, I was very concerned that there was something malicious going on, but thankfully Google brought me here.
In the environment in which this occurred, the system is running Windows 7 (fully updated), has 2 monitors connected to an nVidia-based graphics card, and the issue was presenting on only the primary display.  Initial results indicated a need to update the graphics driver, but after reading previous responses in this thread, I determined that this might not be necessary.
Since W7 has different options from W10, I couldn't follow the above directions, so here's what I did, for anyone in a similar situation:
I went into the NVIDIA Control Panel, and in the "Display" section, on the "Adjust desktop size and position" screen, I selected my primary monitor and simply checked the box for "Override the scaling mode set by games and programs" and clicked "Apply".  This was enough to resolve the issue.
Hope this helps others in similar situations.

A: Use the Ctrl+Alt+F11 keyboard combination. It will solve the problem. This resets scaling options.

A: Quick workaround that works for me without logging out/restarting is to press Ctrl + Shift + Windows + B. Your screens will flash for a while and everything is resolved.
I am using NVidia 1070TI card, heard it's because of its driver.

A: Hum, I tried a bunch of stuff and now the problem appears to be gone. I did LENOVO firmware updates. There was a New BIOS dated Jan even though there was a Dec BIOS update. There was also a new LAN update.
Did all the Windows 10 updates on 1903 (avoiding 1909 for now) and there were 2 new .NET updates. They could be the culprit.
Then I went to the Intel Site for Intel Driver Updates as this PC has an Intel 630 Video Card. When I launched the update utility it told me to Un-Install the Intel Control Panel stating it had been replaced with the new Intel Graphics Command Center. Un-installed it. Restarted the PC. Installed the new Intel Graphics Command Center. Ran updates. The problem appears to be gone. I hope this works for others.

A: I really dont know whether this will be a feasible solution, since I cannot replicate the issue.
But try these:

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*Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete then start Task Manager and kill "explorer.exe". Then Windows key + R to open a run window and type explorer.exe and hit enter.

*Restart your computer.

*Check your monitor's resolution settings.

*Update your system.

*Run a Scan with your favourite Antivirus  Program to check for some security issue /malware.

*Prevent unwanted apps from draining CPU resources while they run in the background.

*Maybe there is an issue with the Graphics driver or corresponding software.

Sorry for not being able to provide a concise and simple answer, this could be a minor flaw or could be an outcome of something else...


Since the large updates today, I find Firefox covers the entire screen and I am unable to minimize the screen or to view the Ubuntu headings without going file exit to exit the Firefox. Is there a quick fix for this view?
Don't know for sure that it will work, but you could try closing Firefox, then renaming your ~/.mozilla folder to something like .mozillaOLD, then restart Firefox so that the configuration files can rebuild themselves.
If it works, you can reclaim your bookmarks from the OLD folder.
Thanks for the reply. Sorry, I can't figure out how to do this - gthumbs doesn't seem to be installed. BTW I have another problem is that menu.1st is coming up blank so I am no longer able to edit it.
To change the name of the hidden .mozilla folder, open your file manager, enable the viewing of hidden files/folders, and navigate to the folder mentioned above. Right-click on the folder to change the name.
T... menu.1st is coming up blank so I am no longer able to edit it.
If you have a /boot partition then it may not be mounted. You can check your /etc/fstab file to see if /boot in on a unique partition and that noauto is set.
If so then you are not seeing the real /boot files, and you will have to manually mount the partition first.
menu.1st is coming up blank so I am no longer able to edit it.
Are you saying that GRUB is broken and you can't boot into your system at all?
Have you tried using Alt and the middle mouse button (wheel) to resize the window? You can usually drag that way to resize a window.
Hitting F11 once or twice will change Firefox from full-screen mode to normal.
Menu.1st does not exist. Perhaps you're thinking about menu.lst (with a lower-case "L", not the number "1" one) ?
Thanks for the replies. OK on the menu.lst instead of menu.1st. Evidently I have been pasting into the terminal from web pages for a long time. I am able to use Alt-Right Click and then click minimize, but it's very difficult to make the Firefox not cover up the System Menu headings. If I keep changing workspace I can sometimes get it to show properly, but when I close Firefox and reopen it keeps reverting back to cover the system headings. It's not really full-screen mode - the Firefox menu is still there - it just covers the system headings (Applications, System, etc.) and the usual minimize, exit symbols do not appear in the top right corner, just a circle (perhaps the Ubuntu symbol) and under it the Google Search window. Regarding the menu.lst I have been trying to change the boot default from 1 to 3 to make Windows the default. I change the number but it keeps booting Ubuntu by default.
If you hold down the "alt" key, you can click and drag any part of a window (not just the title-bar) to move it around the screen.
Remember that it counts from zero, so the first entry on the list is "0", the second is "1", etc. Also, make sure to edit this file as root in order to have the proper permissions.


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Q: Microservices Authorization best practices - .NET Core Migration of a Monolith to a micro service architecture. Below is the Authorization process prepared. However, I'd appreciate it very much to hear if the following will suffice or I may include more layers to secure the architecture.
Architecture contains:

*

*MasterAPIGateway => Interacts with the UI, responsible for SSO

*FirstAPI, SecondAPI, ThirdAPI => calls their Microservices

*FirstAPI calls 3 micro services => MSOne, MSTwo, MSThree
MasterAPIGateway calls FirstAPI's method passing MasterAPIClientId, MasterAPISecret in headers
FirstAPI/RequestAccess(Guid userId, payload)
{
    // Checks if the MasterAPIClientId,MasterAPISecret is valid
    // generates H2HToken valid for 10 mints to be used by microservices.
}

FirstAPI is calling micro servies, passing H2H token, payload and UserID.
FirstAPI/MSOne(H2HToken, payload, userId)
{
    // validates the H2HToken
}

FirstAPI/MSTwo(H2HToken, payload, userId)
{
    // validate the H2HToken.
}

Thank you in advance. Looking forward to your ideas.

A: One comment is that the UserID might be included in the access token.
Often it can be useful to delegate the token generation and authentication to a separate service, like IdentityServer that all services depends on. Then you do not need to reinvent the wheel and invent your own crypto/authentication scheme. Better to depend on established trusted libraries and use JWT tokens.


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Alanya Castle: Red Tower and Shipyard Alanya
Alanya Castle, which is located on the Alanya peninsula and has an exquisite view with its 6.5 kilometer long walls, dates back to the Hellenistic period, but the Seljuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat built the version we see today in 1221.
Alanya Castle
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Alanya Castle has nearly 400 cisterns to meet the water needs of the city. With 83 towers and 140 bastions, the castle, which is located in a very large area, was built by surrounding the peninsula, passing through Ehmedek, İçkale, Adam Atacağı, Cilvarda nose, Arab Evliyası Burcu and Esat Burcu, then Tophane and Tersane and ending at the Red Tower.
Various historical artifacts are exhibited within the borders of Alanya Castle. Among these artifacts is the ram's head, which was used in history, especially in the Middle Ages, to break down castle gates or demolish walls. A wheeled and sheltered version of the ram head, which was used by many people, is exhibited in Alanya Castle.
It is also possible to see undated inscriptions inside the castle. At the entrance gate of the shipyard, you can also come across a magnificent inscription written in relief in celi sülüs calligraphy on marble.
Gratitude is to Allah. The Great Sultan, the great Khan, the great of religion and the world, the conqueror of countries, the ruling partner of Amir al-Mu'minin, Keykubad, son of Keyhusrev, son of Kilic Arslan
You can see almost the whole of Alanya from the most extreme point of the Inner Castle. The combination of the blue flag Cleopatra Beach on your right and Keykubad Beach on your left with the deep blue sea fascinated us as well as many visitors.
The area where you enter the castle is called the Inner Castle, this part is the highest part of the castle, if we express it numerically, it is 250 meters above the sea. Click here to see the plan of Alanya Castle, which includes the Inner Castle, the Outer Castle and the Middle Castle.
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In the east of the castle, which uses an elegant and impressive Seljuk style in terms of architecture as well as defense, you will see a tower in red tones protecting the coastline. The tower, which dominates the entire harbor and shipyard, is known as the Red Tower.
Alanya Castle is open every day. While it can be visited between 08:00 – 19:30 in the summer period, the closing time is 17:00 in the winter period. However, you can enter free of charge with Museum Pass.
The castle is 136km from Antalya, but it is located right in the center of Alanya. If you go to Alanya, be sure to go up to the castle, which can be seen from everywhere in Alanya. Because this is the only point in Alanya that shows the beauty of both sides from a bird's eye view.
If you are coming by car, you will climb upwards on a winding road until the entrance of the castle. There is a paid parking lot in front of the entrance.
The Red Tower, which was built at a dominant and important point for security purposes, got this name because of the red bricks used on the upper floor due to its lightness. The reason why the bricks were red was the egg applied to make them strong.
For the construction of the Red Tower, the Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I, after the Seljuks conquered Alanya, commissioned the Aleppo master Abu Ali Reha el Kettani, who built the Sinop Castle in 1215.
The Red Tower, which has a unique place among the structures of Turkish architecture, especially in the Seljuk period, has come to an important place in Alanya region with the dominance it established at sea.
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The tower, which provides the security of the city and is also important for the protection of the castles surrounding it, was deployed on the eastern edge of the Alanya peninsula in 1226.
The Red Tower is an eight-sided structure with each corner measuring 12.5 meters wide. The tower, which has a large cistern in the middle, has a height of 33 meters and a diameter of 29 meters. Each floor of the 5-story tower is designed for a different purpose.
The 1st floor of the tower was opened to visitors in 1979 and started to be used as Kızılkule Ethnography Museum and exhibition hall.
Here you can see various clothes, utensils, weapons, looms, scales, carpets and rugs, as well as ethnographic artifacts belonging to the Yoruk culture of Alanya region. Thus, you can not only visit the tower, but also closely examine the culture of the region.
Although it has a simple structure from the outside, it is a very functional tower. The narrow windows on some floors were once used for shooting arrows at the enemy and pouring hot oil. The fourth floor is the floor with the huge mouth of the cistern built to meet the water needs of the soldiers.
On the last floor, the 5th floor, you have the opportunity to see the location of the tower in 360 degrees. It is also possible to see the Red Tower as a drawing on the back of the 250.000 TL coin in circulation between 1992 and 2005.
If you are coming to the Red Tower, which adds movement to the silhouette of Alanya, you can leave your car in the parking lot right in front of the tower. The entrance of the tower is not from the parking lot side but from the back side. If you are going for the first time, don't let it escape your eyes.
The Seljuk ruler Alaeddin Keykubad I started the construction of the shipyard in 1228, two years after the Red Tower. Keykubad, who wanted to realize his desire to become Sultan-ül Bahreyn (Sultan of the Seas), built the Alanya Shipyard after the Sinop Shipyard and took the title of Sultan of the Two Seas.
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The shipyard has five compartments, each compartment is 1.60m x 2.50m. When you enter inside, the height reaches 7.70 meters. The shipyard, where the inward depth is 42.30 meters, is currently operating as a museum with various marine artifacts. Click here to see the map of Alanya shipyard.
It is possible to see many historical sea products in the shipyard where boat building and repair continued until the 1960s. Today it is used as a museum. A wooden platform has been built and as we walk on this platform, we see some parts of the boats and the tools used on the ships such as anchors. One of them is a crane made of wood. It is completely man-powered and is used for loading and unloading stone materials and for the construction of castles and buildings.
As we move through the shipyard, we also see a sample drawing showing the relationship of Alanya Castle with the number pi. The tophane is 10 meters high from its end to the west of the shipyard. The main purpose was to protect the shipyard from foreign forces and was built in 1228.
Müzekart is valid for entrances to the Red Tower and the shipyard. Visitors without a Müzekart can enter the Red Tower, Shipyard and Damlataş Cave separately or by purchasing combined tickets depending on the museum or museums you will visit.
The shipyard is located on the sea side on the slopes of the castle. You can reach the entrance of the shipyard by continuing along the coast from the city walls in front of the Red Tower. During this time, people swim in the sea in front of the city walls. It has a clean sea, we recommend it. If you want, you can return to the shipyard not from the same road but from the sea.
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South Normanton Athletic Football Club is a football club based in South Normanton, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, England. They play at Lees Lane.

History
The nickname 'Shiners' derives from the mid-1750s when South Normanton was at the heart of the ribbed stocking industry. The people involved in this craft worked long hours sitting at their windows on wooden stools, so much so that the backsides of their trousers became very shiny making them instantly recognisable as coming from the South Normanton area; since then local people have been referred to as 'Shiners'.

The club was originally known as South Normanton Miners Welfare and played under that name until 1990.  Under the new name South Normanton Athletic joined the Central Midlands League in the 1990–91 season. The club's first major success came in the 1993–94 season when they finished runners up in the Premier Division. This gained them promotion to the Supreme Division. The club made their first entry into the FA Vase in the 1994–95 season.

In the 1996–97 season the old changing rooms were destroyed by fire. The club's future lay in the balance and with limited time available members of the committee virtually worked round the clock to convert a derelict building into suitable changing rooms, which at the time were intended to be for a temporary period only the leagues deadline for completion was accomplished with little time to spare.

At the end of the 1996–97 season, the club was relegated due to the 3-year flood light installation rule not being met; funds set aside to complete this project had been spent in establishing new changing rooms. The floodlights were completed in 1998 and the club was reinstated back into the supreme division.

The team's best position being 3rd which was a promotion place. The club was promoted to the NCEL for the start of the 2003–04 season where they played till the club decided to fold at the end of the 2007–08 season due to an ageing committee and no new blood coming to the club.

The club reformed with a new committee under the chairmanship of Phil Bailey, with new management and players. Despite 5 seasons of promise, the dream of promotion could not be realised despite numerous top 3 finishes.

2013 brought the summer appointment of former Borrowash Vics manager Mark Wilson to the club. The team started strongly with 10 victories and 2 draws from the first twelve games, before a winter of weather postponements brought an abrupt end to the form. Victories became harder to come by in the New Year, and a run of one win in eight threatened to derail the promotion dream. However, Wilson steered the team to a strong run in and a runners-up finish. This was enough to guarantee a promotion to Step 6 East Midlands Counties League for the first time since the club's re-formation.

After finishing 2nd in the 2016–17 season they were promoted to the Midland League Premier Division after champions West Bridgford refused promotion.

On 6 April 2020, South Normanton Athletic announced that they had resigned from the Midland Football League.

For the 2020/2021 season, SNAFC successfully applied and resumed their status at Step 7 football in the Central Midlands Premier League and reinstated a reserves team playing the Central Midlands Division 1.

Backroom staff
The first team manager is Daniel Hatfield, with Dean Bland as his assistant. The reserves side is managed by Jermaine Judson.

Current squad

Honours
East Midlands Counties League
 League Cup: Winners 2014–15
 Runners-up: 2016–17 (Promoted)
Central Midlands League
Runners-up: South Division 2013–14, Premier Division 1993–94

Records
FA Cup
First Qualifying Round 2005–06, 2019-20
FA Vase
Fourth Round 2019-20

References

External links

Association football clubs established in 1926
1926 establishments in England
Central Midlands Football League
Football clubs in England
East Midlands Counties Football League
Football clubs in Derbyshire


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Q: How to create layout in Android to list TextViews horizontally I want to create layout which looks like this:

Name1, Something1, OtherThing and Name2 are TextViews (each one of them is clickable with different action) which are added do parent layout programmatically. Sometime there too much elements to fit in one line. Which layout as parent should I use to let TextViews be placed horizontally but with possibility to "break line"? Horizontal LinearLayout isn't working.

A: try to use FlowLayout:

FlowLayout is an layout that display its children in multiple rows
  depending on their size.

 <LinearLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

       <LinearLayout
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="match_parent"
          android:orientation="horizontal">

        <TextView
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="STUFF"
          android:textSize="30dp"/>

       </LinearLayout>
       <com.wefika.flowlayout.FlowLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        >
        <TextView
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="Name1" />

        <TextView
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="Something1" />

        <TextView
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="OtherThing" />

         <TextView
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:text="Name2" />

       </com.wefika.flowlayout.FlowLayout>

           <LinearLayout
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="match_parent"
          android:orientation="horizontal">

        <TextView
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:text="MORE STUFF"
         android:textSize="30dp"/>

       </LinearLayout>

     </LinearLayout>

A: Try this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:orientation="vertical"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="match_parent">

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="STUFF"
    android:textSize="30dp"/>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Name1" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Something1" />

</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="OtherThing" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Name2" />

</LinearLayout>

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="MORE STUFF"
    android:textSize="30dp"/>

</LinearLayout>