Sometimes lesser known royals do not end up in grand mausoleums and are buried among us commoners. Two of these Princesses – Eleonore of Lippe Weissenfeld and Simone Arnoux – are buried in The Hague at the Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery.
Eleonore of Lippe Weissenfeld was born on 11 August 1913 in Dresden as the daughter of Count Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld and Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen. She never knew her father as he was killed at the Eastern front on 11 September 1914. Her mother later remarried to Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe and they had one son together, Eleonore's half-brother – Armin, Prince of Lippe. Her half-brother was a first cousin of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, who married Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. On 19 May 1935, she married Sweder, Count of Rechteren-Limpurg and they had two children together – a son named Roderik and a daughter named Anna. They divorced in 1944 and Eleonore died on 19 October 1964 in The Hague. She is buried in the same cemetery as Prince Bernhard's brother Aschwin and his wife Simone, though on completely opposite ends.
Simone Louise Arnoux was born on 9 May 1915 as the daughter of Henri Arnoux and Louise Françoise Nelly Lian. She had been married once before to Gottfried Adam Vollrat von Watzdorf, with whom she had two sons – Stephan and Tilo. They divorced in June 1951 and she married Aschwin in September. They had no children together. Aschwin died on 14 May 1988 and Simone survived him until 21 November 2001.


This post begins a three-part series (see the bullet list). It was originally written on December 2, 2009, then revised on February 26, 2013, after reading Bishop Karol Wojtyła's Love and Responsibility.
The book was written in 1960. In addition to Blessed John Paul II's discussion of personhood as the basis for true love, the primary topic of Love and Responsibility, his caution about emotions and the "authenticity" of experience significantly clarified and strengthened my thoughts I had written about feelings. See especially the first and third paragraphs after the list.
No forced feelings: In the Church, God meets us as what we are: men and women composed of matter and spirit. Our spirits long for communion, for deep belonging, for love—to love and be loved. We may not always be quick to identify the only truly satisfying Object of our love: God. But because our longings are so powerful, we too frequently imagine intense emotion also will signal the satisfaction of our longings—if our experience is genuine.
Yet authenticity is not dependent on feeling. "Emotion . . . diverts 'the gaze of truth' from the objective elements . . . The effect of emotion is that the consciousness is preoccupied above all with the subjective 'authenticity' of experience."¹ This doesn't mean Catholic Christianity is cold or abstract, by any means. Quite the contrary. It is physical—Incarnational. Moments of great spiritual passion are not uncommon. But it has objective truth as its foundation.
Lord, You are the source of unfailing light. Give us true knowledge of Your mercy so that we may renounce our pride [belief that salvation is something that depends on anything but grace] and be filled with the riches of Your house.
¹ Karol Wojtyla, Love and Responsibility (San Francisco: Ignatius Press), p. 154.


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Uma versão mais “Senhor dos Anéis” do popular conto divulgado pelos irmãos Grimm, Branca de Neve e o Caçador tenta focar exatamente nessas duas figuras da história da linda jovem que é perseguida pela rainha má, ao mesmo tempo em que utiliza uma direção de arte fabulosa, que consegue reconstruir de maneira estilizada uma atmosfera propícia para o engrandecimento da vilã (Theron). Incrivelmente, é esta que consegue sugar melhor a atenção do público, mesmo tendo relativo pouco tempo de tela. Enfim, uma empolgante releitura que merece uma atenção especial.

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 Branca de Neve e o Caçador ● Branca de Neve e o Caçador. Snow White and the Huntsman (USA, 2012). Dirigido por Rupert Sanders. Escrito por Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, Hossein Amini, Evan Daugherty. Com Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Sam Spruell, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost. ● Nota: 4/5. Categoria: movies.  Publicado em 2012-07-20.  Texto escrito por Wanderley Caloni.

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TORONTO, ON (May 2, 2018) — Thousands of episodes of home-grown CBC television shows that captured life in Canada are about to be systematically destroyed.
Gone in a flash will be childhood icons like The Friendly Giant and Mr. Dressup as well as episodes of Canadian television classics such as Wayne & Shuster, King of Kensington, The Tommy Hunter Show and The Beachcombers.
CBC has decided betacam versions of these and hundreds of other iconic Canadian TV shows are no longer relevant so a destruction order for 26,163 recordings will be carried out this week. These vintage recordings will be ground up into small pieces, then shipped for incineration to New York where the steam generated will feed energy into the state's power grid.
This is a precursor to the mass digitization program CBC plans to launch this summer during which close to one million English-language original program 'carriers' will be destroyed after being transferred to the latest digital media formats.
This controversial plan flies in the face of international archival protocols that, because of the instability and insecurity of present-day digital media (think how frequently we are warned of 'hacking threats') requires the preservation of original content.
"The CBC's digitization plan will be underway for five years", said Kealy Wilkinson, Executive Director of the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation. "Until we can gauge the reliability of the outcome, it would be foolhardy to destroy early generation copies like betacam – or original programs.
It is up to the CBC and the Department of Canadian Heritage to halt any destruction.
Doing less risks the extinction of Canada's national audiovisual history."
The Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation (CBMF) is a not-for-profit charitable foundation working in the public interest to preserve and provide public access to Canada's history, culture and broadcasting heritage.
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The fragmented opposition sought to rally public opinion against President Mikheil Saakashvili in 2009 as the country prepared for municipal elections in 2010. However, the political debate was often overshadowed by ongoing tension with Russia, with which Georgia fought a brief war in 2008. Russian troops continued to occupy a considerable portion of Georgia's internationally recognized territory, and in August Georgia officially withdrew from the Russian-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States.
Georgia gained its independence from Russia in 1918, only to become part of the Soviet Union in 1922. In 1990, shortly before the Soviet Union's collapse, an attempt by the region of South Ossetia to declare independence from Georgia and join Russia's North Ossetia republic sparked a war between the separatists and Georgian forces. Although a ceasefire was signed in 1992, South Ossetia's final political status remained unresolved.
Following a national referendum in April 1991, Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Nationalist leader and former dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia was elected president in May. The next year, he was overthrown by opposition militias and replaced with former Georgian Communist Party head and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Parliamentary elections held in 1992 resulted in more than 30 parties and blocs winning seats, although none secured a clear majority.
In 1993, Georgia was rocked by the violent secession of the Abkhazia region and an insurrection by Gamsakhurdia loyalists. Shevardnadze legalized the presence of some 19,000 Russian troops in Georgia in return for Russian support against Gamsakhurdia, who reportedly committed suicide after his defeat. In early 1994, Georgia and Abkhazia signed an agreement in Moscow that called for a ceasefire, the stationing of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) troops under Russian command along the Abkhazian border, and the return of refugees under UN supervision.
In 1995, Shevardnadze and his Citizens' Union of Georgia (CUG) party won presidential and parliamentary polls. The CUG won again in the 1999 parliamentary elections, and observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concluded that, despite some irregularities, the vote was generally fair. In the 2000 presidential poll, however, Shevardnadze's wide margin of victory led to fraud accusations that were supported by election monitors.
Shevardnadze faced growing opposition from prominent members of the CUG, including Justice Minister Mikheil Saakashvili, who criticized the president's failure to contain widespread corruption. While Shevardnadze resigned as CUG chairman in 2001, Saakashvili left to form his own party, the National Movement.
A flawed parliamentary vote in November 2003 sparked a campaign of street protests known as the Rose Revolution. While official results put a pro-Shevardnadze coalition in the lead with 21 percent, independent domestic monitors concluded that the National Movement had actually won with nearly 27 percent. OSCE monitors reported violations including ballot-box stuffing, inaccurate voter lists, biased media coverage, harassment of some domestic election monitors, and pressure on public employees to support progovernment candidates.
The postelection demonstrations ultimately forced Shevardnadze to resign, and Parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze, a Saakashvili ally, was named interim president. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court cancelled the results of the parliamentary elections. Saakashvili won a snap presidential election in January 2004, running virtually unopposed and capturing 96 percent of the vote. Fresh parliamentary elections in March gave two-thirds of the seats to the National Movement and allied parties.
Saakashvili's relations with Russia soured as he quickly reestablished Tbilisi's control over the semiautonomous southwestern region of Ajaria and pledged to reintegrate the separatist enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which were tacitly supported by the Kremlin. Russia imposed a trade and transport embargo on Georgia in 2006—in response to Georgia's brief detention of several alleged Russian spies—and the two countries continued to exchange accusations of military provocation surrounding the two breakaway territories over the next two years.
Growing opposition to Saakashvili's dominance of the domestic political scene culminated in large street protests in late 2007. Demonstrations in November drew between 50,000 and 100,000 people, prompting a violent police crackdown and the imposition of a November 7–16 state of emergency that barred opposition media from the airwaves and restricted freedom of assembly. Responding to opposition demands for early elections, Saakashvili scheduled an early presidential vote for January 5, 2008, giving his opponents little time to prepare.
Saakashvili won reelection with roughly 53 percent of the vote, but his main challenger alleged fraud, and OSCE observers noted an array of irregularities. The ruling party and its allies captured 119 of the 150 seats in May parliamentary elections, with the opposition again declaring that the balloting was rigged. A dozen of the winning opposition candidates refused to take their seats, and international monitors found that the authorities had failed to correct the problems cited in the presidential vote.
Tensions with Russia over South Ossetia and Abkhazia mounted during the spring and summer of 2008. Open warfare erupted in South Ossetia in early August, and an ensuing Russian invasion pressed deep into Georgian territory. A French-brokered ceasefire took hold after more than a week of fighting, and by fall Russian forces had largely withdrawn to the confines of the two separatist enclaves. Russia recognized the territories' independence in the wake of the conflict, but few other countries followed suit. Russia also established a substantial troop presence in both territories that remained in place at the end of 2009, despite the fact that the ceasefire deal called for a withdrawal of all forces to their positions before the fighting. A European Union (EU) report released in September 2009 assigned blame to both Russia and Georgia for the 2008 hostilities.
Georgian opposition factions continued press their case against Saakashvili in 2009, and the confrontations between the two sides—while still intense—took place in a somewhat more stable and permissive environment than in the previous two years. Opposition leaders demanded the president's resignation in April, and his refusal led to a series of street protests and arrests that lasted into the summer. At one point in April, opposition activist Kakha Khozelishvili was severely beaten by unknown assailants in Tbilisi, and dozens of protesters reported being assaulted by masked attackers as they left demonstrations.
The year's political standoff was often interwoven with looming national security concerns. Several members of the opposition Democratic Movement–United Georgia party, founded by Burjanadze after she broke with the president in 2008, were arrested in March for alleged involvement in arms purchases and plans to foment violence. Burjanadze claimed that the case was part of a government intimidation effort. Her husband, Badri Bitsadze, was swept into the intrigue later that month, when the media aired photographs of him meeting with Shalva Breus, a Georgian with Russian citizenship who had once served as a Russian deputy property minister. The episode stoked fears of collusion between the Kremlin and the Georgian opposition, though Bitsadze denied any impropriety. Adding to the tension, a tank battalion based east of Tbilisi allegedly launched an abortive mutiny in early May. One of the suspected ringleaders, Gia Krialashvili, was killed in a shootout with security forces later that month, and two other suspects were wounded. A trial of the accused officers had not yielded a verdict by year's end.
Cementing its rift with Moscow, Georgia formally withdrew from the Russian-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States in August. Saakashvili also drew criticism from Russia and many Georgians in December, when the government-ordered demolition of a Soviet-era World War II monument in the city of Kutaisi accidentally killed two local residents.
Georgia is not an electoral democracy. The elections following the 2003 Rose Revolution were considered improvements over previous polls, but OSCE monitors have identified problems with more recent balloting, including the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections. The flaws have included the abuse of state resources, reports of intimidation aimed at public employees and opposition activists, and apparent voter-list inaccuracies.
In September 2009, Parliament adopted a constitutional amendment that allowed 10 opposition politicians to assume their seats after refusing them in 2008 to protest the flawed elections. However, only one of the eligible candidates—Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, son of the late president—accepted this offer, and some observers said he had been persuaded by the government's pledge to reopen an investigation into his father's death.
According to the constitution, the president appoints the cabinet and serves up to two five-year terms, although current president Mikheil Saakashvili—first elected in 2004—was reelected in 2008 after calling an early vote. The cabinet's membership under Saakashvili has been fairly unstable; in February 2009 he named Nika Gilauri to serve as his fifth prime minister, and in August he appointed a 28-year-old defense minister. Parliament until the 2008 elections consisted of 235 members, with 100 elected by party list, 75 elected in single-member districts, and 10 others representing displaced citizens from Abkhazia. Under the new structure, Parliament has just 150 seats, with half chosen by party list and the other half in single-member districts. The amended electoral code did not require the constituencies to be of equal size, and the OSCE noted that the number of voters in each district ranged from 6,000 to 140,000.
Parliament in December 2009 passed a new elections law to govern municipal balloting scheduled for May 2010. It allows the direct election of Tbilisi's mayor for the first time, but opposition parties objected to a provision permitting the leading candidate to secure a first-round victory with as little as 30 percent of the vote, among other complaints.
Saakashvili's National Movement has been the dominant party since 2004. The fragmented opposition parties have formed a series of shifting alliances in recent years, and the defection of former Parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze and other Saakashvili allies to the opposition in 2008 set off a new round of reorganization. Irakli Alasania, previously Georgia's ambassador to the United Nations, emerged as one of several potential leaders of a unified opposition in 2009, forming a new party called Our Georgia–Free Democrats.
Corruption remains a challenge in Georgia. While notable progress has been made in recent years with respect to lower- and mid-level corruption, efforts to combat high-level corruption that began in the mid-2000s have stalled. The government's achievements have included university-level education reforms that curbed bribery in admissions and grading. However, implementation of a 2005 plan aimed at improving the transparency and effectiveness of the civil service, in part by strengthening the role of inspectors general within public agencies, remains in its nascent stages. Moreover, Georgia apparently continues to suffer from corruption at elite levels, and the administration's growing insularity has fostered opportunities for cronyism and insider deals. Georgia was ranked 66 out of 180 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index.
The constitution provides guarantees for press freedom, and the print media, though limited in reach, feature a diversity of political opinions and perspectives. The state television and radio outlets were converted into public-service broadcasters in 2005, but critics assert that the stations have become increasingly progovernment rather than striking an independent course. The private broadcast media, while retaining a considerable degree of pluralism, have not escaped the political turmoil of recent years. The opposition-oriented Imedi TV, whose broadcast facility was raided by security forces in November 2007, was taken over by a progovernment businessman in 2008, and relatives of the deceased previous owner, Badri Patarkatsishvili, have waged a campaign to reclaim control. Maestro TV, an opposition station that covers the Tbilisi area, was the target of a grenade attack in May 2009; no injuries were reported. In November, a wealthy businessman and former co-owner of the progovernment channel Rustavi-2, Erosi Kitsmarishvili, took over management of Maestro TV and announced his ambition to transform the station into a national enterprise with an emphasis on critical assessment of government policies.
The authorities do not restrict access to the internet, but high-speed connections are prohibitively expensive for many citizens. In October 2009, the authorities opened an investigationinto the posting of web videos that mocked the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II. Tea Tutberidze, the head of a progovernment civil society group, said she posted the material in response to the cleric's recent criticism of the president's handling of the 2008 war with Russia.
Freedom of religion is respected for the country's largely Georgian Orthodox Christian population and some traditional minority groups, including Muslims and Jews. However, members of newer groups, including Baptists, Pentecostals, and Jehovah's Witnesses, have faced harassment and intimidation by law enforcement officials and Georgian Orthodox extremists. The government does not restrict academic freedom.
Respect for the freedoms of association and assembly was tarnished by the November 2007 state of emergency and crackdown on opposition protests, in which several hundred people were injured. These rights were again constrained by the August 2008 conflict and Russia's weeks-long occupation of significant portions of Georgian territory beyond South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Opposition parties held a number of sizeable rallies during 2009, and there was no repeat of violence on the scale of 2007. Nevertheless, clashes with police were reported in several instances.
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are able to register and operate without arbitrary restrictions. They play an active role in public debate, though their influence has decreased somewhat under the current administration.
The constitution and the Law on Trade Unions allow workers to organize and prohibit antiunion discrimination. The Amalgamated Trade Unions of Georgia, the successor to the Soviet-era union federation, is the principal trade union bloc. It is not affiliated with and receives no funding from the government. While Georgia replaced its Soviet-era labor code with a new framework in 2006, union influence remains marginal. In 2009, unions sought further reforms of the labor laws, complaining that the government ignored workers' rights in its pursuit of foreign investment and economic recovery from the war and the global financial crisis.
The judiciary has not undergone meaningful or durable reform in recent years, and continues to suffer from significant corruption and pressure from the executive branch. The payment of bribes to judges is reportedly common.
The police force has improved its performance since the government dismissed half of its personnel in 2004 as part of an anticorruption overhaul. Among other results, the changes virtually eliminated bribe-seeking vehicle stops by police, previously a part of daily life. However, human rights ombudsman Sozar Subari has repeatedly accused the police of abusing and torturing detainees; he joined the political opposition after his five-year term expired in September 2009. Prison conditions in Georgia remain grim.
The government generally respects the rights of ethnic minorities in areas of the country that are not contested by separatists. Freedom of residence and freedom to travel to and from the country are observed.
Although some women have achieved high positions in government, they remain seriously underrepresented, holding just nine seats in the current Parliament. Societal violence against women is a problem. The authorities have acknowledged the issue and in 2006 passed the first law on domestic violence, which allows victims to file immediate protective orders against their abusers and permits police to issue a temporary restrictive order against suspects. While there are no laws that specifically criminalize violence against women, the criminal code classifies rape and sexual coercion as crimes. Georgian law prohibits trafficking in persons, but the country remains a source, transit point, and destination for the trade.
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The numerical ratings and status listed above do not reflect conditions in South Ossetia or Abkhazia, which are examined in separate reports.


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Q: What is the best performance I can get by querying DynamoDB for a maximum 1MB? I am using DynamoDB for storing data. And I see 1MB is the hard limit for a query to return. I have a case that queries a table to fetch 1MB of data in one partition. I'd like to know what the best performance I can get.
Based on DynamoDB doc, one partition can have a maximum of 3000 RCU. If I send an eventual consistency read, it should support responding 3000 * 8KB = 24000KB = 23MB per second.
If I send one query request to fetch 1MB from one partition, does this mean it should respond 1/23 second = 43 milliseconds?
I am testing in a lambda sends a query to DynamoDB with XRay enabled. It shows me the query takes 300ms more based on XRay trace. So I don't understand why may cause the long latency.
What can I do if I want to reduce the latency to a single-digit millisecond? I don't want to split the partition since 1MB is not really big size.

A: DynamoDB really is capable of single-digit millisecond latency, but if the item size is small enough to fit into 1 RCU. Reading 1 MB of data from a database in <10ms is a challenging task itself.
Here is what you can try:

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*Split your read operation into two.

One will query with ScanIndexForward: true + Limit: N/2 and another will query with ScanIndexForward: false + Limit: N/2. The idea is to query the same data from both ends to the middle.
Do this in parallel and then you merge two responses into one.
However, this is likely will decrease latency from 300 to 150ms, which is still not <10ms.

*Use DAX - DynamoDB Caching Layer

*If your 1 MB of data is spread across thousands of items, consider using fewer items but each item will hold more data inside itself.

*Consider using a compression algorithm like brotli to compress the data you store in 1 DynamoDB item. Once I had success with this approach. Depending on the format, it can easily reduce your data size by 4x, which translates into ~4x faster query time! Which could be 8x faster with the approach described in item #1.

Also, beware, that constantly reading 1 MB of data from a database will incur huge costs.

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Promised Land is an American drama television series which aired on CBS from September 17, 1996, to May 20, 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel. The series was cancelled after its third season, spanning a total of sixty-nine episodes.

Plot
Promised Land had an ensemble cast, which featured Russell Greene (Gerald McRaney) who was on a divine mission. In the premiere episode, which aired as a special episode of Touched by an Angel, angels Tess (Della Reese) and Monica (Roma Downey) asked Russell, recently laid off from his factory job, to "redefine what it means to be a good neighbor and recapture the American dream." To do this, Russell and his family traveled around the country in a beat up Airstream trailer, helping people in need, looking for work, and learning from their experiences.

Russell's family included his wife Claire (Wendy Phillips), who was licensed to homeschool their kids while they were on the road; his mother Hattie (Celeste Holm), who updated a hand-embroidered map to show all places they had traveled; teenage son Josh (Austin O'Brien); daughter Dinah (Sarah Schaub); and young nephew Nathaniel (Eddie Karr), who had been abandoned by Russell's troubled brother Joe (Richard Thomas). Erasmus was an old friend of the family who lived in Chickory Creek, the small town in Kentucky where Hattie grew up. The family frequently returned to Chickory Creek to celebrate holidays and to rest. Occasionally they were assisted by Tess or other angels while they tried to help people overcome their personal problems or rekindle their lapsed faith.

Early in the second season, Claire found out that she was pregnant, but tragically their infant daughter, Grace, died soon after her birth in the season's final episode. In the third season, the family decided to settle down and moved into a run-down small house in a poor neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. Russell convinced the owner to let them live there rent free in exchange for the renovations he made to the house. Claire got a job as a guidance counselor at the local high school, where Josh and Dinah enrolled as students. Russell volunteered at the Ridley Center, a neighborhood teen center. Living next door to the Greenes in Denver were Shamaya and her teenage brother L.T., a former gang member who was struggling with trying to go straight. Josh's girlfriend was Bobbie, an unwed mother with an infant son, and Dinah had a friend named Margot, who enjoyed the 1940s era and its fashions in particular. In the series' final episode, Hattie married an old friend of the family and Russell quit the Ridley Center to take a job as a police officer.

Most of the third season was spent in Denver, Colorado, but—much like Touched by an Angel—it was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Cast

Main
 Gerald McRaney as Russell Greene
 Wendy Phillips as Claire Greene
 Austin O'Brien as Josh Greene
 Sarah Schaub as Dinah Greene
 Celeste Holm as Hattie Greene
 Eddie Karr as Nathaniel Greene
 Eugene Byrd as Lawrence "L.T." Taggert Jr. (season 3)
 Kathryne Dora Brown as Shamaya Taggert (season 3)
 Michael Flynn as Principal Vincent Peters (season 3)
 Tinsley Grimes as Bobbie Wagner (season 3)
 Ashleigh Norman as Margot Noteworthy (season 3)

Recurring
 Ossie Davis as Erasmus Jones
 Suzzanne Douglas as Dr. Rebecca Dixon (seasons 1-2)
 Kamar de los Reyes as Leon Flores (season 3)
 Della Reese as Tess
 John Dye as Andrew
 Richard Thomas as Joe Greene
 Roma Downey as Monica

Episodes

Production
The pilot episode was filmed in the spring of 1996 by the crew of Touched by an Angel at the conclusion of production of the latter's second season. The pilot episode took place primarily in the fictional town of Chickory Creek, Kentucky but the actual location was Springville, Utah.

Because Touched by an Angel continued production for a third season, a new crew was hired for production of the Promised Land series. In the meantime, parts of the pilot episode were re-written and two characters from the original pilot episode were recast. Originally, the part of Hattie Greene was played by Peg Phillips. Celeste Holm replaced her in the cast. The part of Nathaniel Greene was also recast with Eddie Karr playing the role in the new version of the pilot and throughout the series. The newly hired crew of Promised Land spent six days reshooting portions of the pilot episode in July 1996.

The storyline of the series called for the Greene family to travel throughout the United States, so northern Utah served as a stand-in for many states. As was the case with Touched by an Angel, the crew's filming locations were usually within a two-hour drive from downtown Salt Lake City. However, during each of the first two seasons, three episodes were filmed in and around Saint George, Utah. During the third season, three episodes were filmed in and around Natchez, Mississippi (in August and September 1998).

Cancellation
After the show's third season in 1999, the show was cancelled by CBS due to low ratings and not the controversial school shooting episode "A Day in the Life" scheduled to air two days after the Columbine shooting. According to then CBS president, Nancy Tellem, she states the following on the show's cancellation: "We were looking at it to see how it was growing, as we normally do with all our shows, and, unfortunately, it wasn't growing. And, as much as we tried to change the emphasis -- instead of it being a Winnebago going across the country we placed it in an urban setting -- it just wasn't performing."

The last episode, simply titled "Finale" aired on May 20, 1999. The characters of the Greene family were never seen or mentioned again on the parent show Touched by an Angel which continued on for four more years, ending in 2003. Recurring actor Ossie Davis returned to the show on a recurring basis, but not as his Erasmus Jones character, but instead playing an angel named Gabriel.

Broadcast
The series aired Tuesdays at 8:00 pm (EST) on CBS for its first season and Thursdays at 8:00 pm (EST) for the rest of its run.

Home media
In May 2018, Visual Entertainment released Promised Land: The Complete Collection on DVD in Region 1.

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Combine in a blender the lemon juice, cranberry juice, honey, goat cheese, salt and pepper. Blend until smooth, then, with the motor running, gradually add in the olive oil.
The vinaigrette can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
Toast chopped walnuts on a shallow baking dish for 8-10 minutes.


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Nagaland: Mokokchung DC cautions on ILP
Kohima, Jul 28: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Mokokchung district in Nagaland has issued an order to take extra precaution while renewing or issuing the Inner Line Permit (ILP) to people from Assam's Karimganj, Cachar, Silchar and Hailakandi districts.
Officials here today said DC Abhishek Singh had issued said no application for renewal or issue of fresh ILP to any person belonging to these districts would be processed without relevant documents.
The order also stated that henceforth the certified copies of electoral rolls, prescribed by Election Commission of India, would only be accepted as proof of residence.
He also said it was observed that many ILP holders supposedly belonging to these districts of Assam have left Mokokchung following the call given by the Ao Students Union against illegal migrants from Bangladesh there.


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Q: Java - Run Excel using runtime.getRuntime().exec try {
    Runtime.getRuntime().exec("excel C:\\file.xls");
} catch (IOException ex) {
    System.out.println(ex);
}

Doesn't work.
I have to put the full path of excel.exe in order to work.
How can I make it generic (For any Excel Folders/Versions)?
When I run the same line from OS with Windows Run (Start --> Run)
it works. Is there a code in Java to simulate Windows' Run command?

A: Why don't you try with the Desktop class (api doc here) introduced in JDK6 that has the method
public void open(File file) throws IOException

which is documented as what you want to do:

Launches the associated application to open the file.
    If the specified file is a directory, the file manager of the current platform is launched to open it.

Of course this assumes that .xls extension is mapped by OS to Excel. Then you can go with
Desktop.getDesktop().open(new File("c:\\file.xls"));

A: I use
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /C start " + *filename*
it works for me on Windows platforms

A: Call the Windows "start.exe" command instead of Excel directly.  Start.exe appears to search paths, etc.  However, it still may not find it if it's not in the path.

A: You might try using "cmd" instead of "excel", and then pass in an array of params.
For easier debugging, you might also try using ProcessBuilder instead. In my experience it's much nicer to work with: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ProcessBuilder.html


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Home > Personal Finance > A Valentine's Day Warning: 45% of Divorcees Didn't Talk About Money Before Marriage
A Valentine's Day Warning: 45% of Divorcees Didn't Talk About Money Before Marriage
February 14, 2014 • min read by Christine DiGangi 0 Comments
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, here's some advice for all you lovebirds out there: Discuss money before you get married. While it won't guarantee divorce, failing to talk about your finances before combining them is bound to cause problems.
To get an idea of how important it is to have conversations about money before tying the knot, we surveyed 1,061 married and divorced U.S. consumers ages 18 and older from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, and those who didn't talk about finances before the wedding were more likely to be divorced. While the sample isn't nationally representative, it provides meaningful insight into the role of communication when trying to successfully manage a relationship and the money within it.
With the help of the National Association of Personal Finance Advisors, we put together some tips for transitioning from the "my money" to "our money" mindset.
It Will Come Up Eventually
Among the 526 divorced respondents to our survey, 45% said they didn't go over money goals or challenges with their spouse before getting married. Specifically, 28% said they didn't talk about it but should have, and 17% said it was fine because they figured it out once they were married. Only 19% said they discussed the topic often.
"The fear that keeps couples from talking about money is a fear of being judged," said Alan Moore, founder of Serenity Financial Consulting in Milwaukee, in an email. "They don't want their partner to know of their spending failures, lack of money savings habits, or propensity to buy things on credit cards. …. Whatever you do, don't judge them for a past mistake — make a plan to move forward together."
Things were a bit different among the married respondents: 27% said they talked often about money, and only 10% said they didn't but should have. The percentages of people who said they discussed finances occasionally before marriage were closer: 34% among the divorced, 39% among the married.
Granted, money isn't necessarily fun to talk about, but it does touch so many aspects of our lives. These may not be among your more enjoyable conversations — about 30% of married respondents said credit or debt issues sometimes bring stress to the relationship (10% said often, 37% said rarely and 23% said never) — but they still have to happen.
"It's a huge deal," said Trent Porter, founder of Priority Financial Planning in Denver. "People that communicate about money it seems to me are leaps and bounds ahead, not only financially but also with their relationship."
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Personal finance is aptly named. Baring your financial soul can make you feel vulnerable, but your partner's different opinions on money matters aren't character judgments — you just need to figure out how to make your differences work, like anything else in your relationship.
Having clear expectations and communicating personal priorities will help you compromise and reach decisions both parties can appreciate and understand.
"it's not changing one person or the other," Porter said. "It's understanding the other person."
It helps to set aside time to sit down and go over the whole financial picture. Cheryl Sherrard of Clearview Wealth Management in Charlotte, N.C., listed in an email some discussion topics for couples considering marriage:
The assets and debts each person brings to the table
Spending limits — for instance, discuss any purchases more than $100.
Joint or separate accounts
How to share or split up living expenses
Attitude toward debt
While it's a good idea to check your credit reports and credit scores even if you're single, couples should go through this information together. If one of you has done this before, you can help your partner through the process. It's easy — everyone is entitled to a free copy of an annual credit report from each of the major credit reporting agencies, and you can see two free credit scores that are updated every 14 days using Credit.com's Credit Report Card.
No matter what stage of life you're in when you get married, it's better to address finances before you are legally bound.
"[It] leads to some tough conversations," said Bonnie Sewell of American Capital Planning, in an email, "but much better to have them now before they seal the deal than to go forward and be frustrated by what could have been learned before."
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Communication is at the forefront of our operation. The number one complaint about lawyers across the profession is a lack of communication between attorney and client during the course of representation. Many personal injury firms assign "case managers" or other administrative staff to handle cases and field client calls. I assure you this is NOT the case at the Baker Law Group. As a boutique firm, our team is strong and well informed. You will speak to an attorney when you have questions regarding your case.
Insurance companies are more than willing to accept your premium every month. However, when you file a claim for fair and reasonable compensation, full cooperation is rare at best. Tort reform, caps on jury verdicts and keeping you out of the courtroom are the mechanisms insurance companies use to reduce the bottom line. They also spend countless sums of money on advertising for a product you are legally required to purchase if you choose to drive in the State of Ohio. For them, it's just business. For you, it is a serious disruption in your quality of life.
We are a low volume firm. Personal attention to our clients and their cases matter. Stretching resources results in an overall reduction in quality leading to diminished outcomes. We are a boutique firm for a reason; quality over quantity produces the best results. Read our reviews, they speak for themselves. Our results are recovery driven, with less of a focus on injuries and the negativity associated with the same.
I very much look forward to meeting with you and reviewing your case. At The Baker Law Group, gone are the days of allowing the insurance companies defining the process in which our clients are compensated.
The Baker Law Group is committed to our clients' needs, and the cases they entrust us to handle. We pledge to conduct our business operations with the highest degree of ethics and integrity. We pledge to zealously represent our clients and place communication with our clients at the forefront of our objectives. We will provide our services for reasonable fees without sacrificing the quality of the representation we provide. We pledge to display superior professionalism and respect when interacting with our colleagues. At the Baker Law Group, our most important task is to act as counselors, and as such, provide our clients with superior guidance in their most important of affairs.


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April is National Poetry month, and in honor of this, today's Thoughtful Thursday will feature two poems about writing poetry. John Brehm's "The Poems I Have Not Written", and Billy Collins' "Workshop," use humor to offer insight into the poetry writing process. Enjoy.
on the ground for other words to eat.
which gives me a very clear picture.
a hook in the slow industrial canal below.
I love slow industrial canal below. All those l's.
that makes it feel outdoors, but what about this wallpaper?
Or is it a kind of indoor cemetery?
But then there's that last stanza, my favorite.
especially the lines spoken in the voice of the mouse.
when he's describing where he lives.
the spool of thread for a table.
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Jo Treggiari was born in London, England, and raised in Canada. She started revising classic fairy tales at age eight, making the baddies really, really bad, and giving the princesses more grit. She spent many years in San Francisco and New York, where she trained as a boxer, wrote for a punk magazine and owned her own gangster rap/indie rock record label.
Somehow she found herself on Nova Scotia's beautiful, inspiring south shore with her kids and two dogs. She still enjoys shadow boxing when she's not writing or dreaming. Her most recent book Ashes, Ashes, a YA post-apocalyptic adventure, was published by Scholastic Press in 2011. Her website is www.jotreggiari.com.


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New loan from China to build 1M houses
by Prix D Banzon
Davao City (6 October) -- Negotiation for a joint project with the China government is in the final stage for building one million units to benefit informal sector throughout the country.
Representative Eduardo C. Zialciita of first district Paranaque City in a press conference on Tuesday at the Mindanao Economic Development Council (MEDCO) said the negotiation is now at the final stage and signing of the agreement may take place during the visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of China to the Philippines this December.
Zialcita, chair of the House of Representative Committee on Housing and Urban Development together with Vice Chair Representative Arthur Y. Pingoy, Jr. and Davao Oriental 2nd district Representative Corazon Malanyaon conducted a public hearing on October 4, 2006 in Davao City on House Bill Nos. 3508, 4521, 4803, and 4903.
A pet project of House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Zialcita said it would be a ten-year soft loan with total investment of P200 billion.
"But there are still other areas that are being negotiated including the moratorium of payments," he said.
He said the project could initially address the 4 million housing backlog and the rate is increasing.
The country's average growth per year on housing requirement is at two to three percent and the government annually could only produce about 100,000 units.
Zialcita said that it is being studied carefully especially on the loan repayments as it might add up to the figure of the country's foreign debt.
"It is in the take out that we may have difficulties because it would take a period of time," he said.
He said the agreement is now being studied by the National Economic and Development Authority and Zialcita is optimistic that the venture will be forged by December 2006.
Zialcita also said that the distribution of the units will be done proportionately to the housing needs of the area.
He said beneficiaries will be the informal sector where most of them are living in railways, creeks and other related areas.
"We are looking at the Abot Kaya Pabahay scheme so it would be affordable to the beneficiaries," he said.
"For a term of 35 years the monthly amortization could be less than a thousand pesos," he added. (PIA XI) [top]
» New loan from China to build 1M houses
» New bills discussed in Housing Summit
» HIV-AIDS convention in Davao City slated Oct. 6-7
» BIR surpasses August collection target
» DOH targets infant mortality rate reduction to 19%
» Davao awaits further study on chemical spraying
» NPA extortion activities intensified to fight all-out-war, says AFP
» Komentaryo: Alyansa sa ibang bansa, mahalaga
» Lanao Sur leaders hopeful on GRP-MILF peace
» Gov. Manalao appreciates gov't response to typhoon-affected areas


After the release of their self-titled debut EP and a sold out North American spring tour, New Zealand's brother-sister duo BROODS, comprised of multi-instrumentalist Caleb Nott and vocalist Georgia Nott, have today premiered the video for their new single Mother & Father as well as announced the official title of their debut album 'Evergreen'. The band will also be joining British singer-songwriter Sam Smith as direct support on his upcoming North American tour this fall.
'Evergreen', the duo's anticipated debut album and follow up to their self-titled EP released earlier this year — is scheduled for release this fall on Capitol Records. Fans can get an early summer preview of the album with two new tracks released online by the band, 'Mother & Father' and 'L.A.F.'.
You can watch the video for 'Mother & Father' here.
You can stream and listen to the new track 'L.A.F." here.
You can also preorder the new album 'Evergreen' here.


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Q: Excel Vba "File already open" when its not - windows office I am trying to read data from another spreadsheet in the same folder as my currently opened workbook, whenever I run this code I get the error file already open. Is there something wrong with my syntax or anything that might stop this from happening?
Here is the code.
Sub ReadFile()
    Infile = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\smallDataset.csv"
    Open Infile For Input As #1
        Input #1, a, b
        Close #1
        Debug.Print (a & " " & b)
End Sub

Thanks.

A: Try the following code to make sure there is no file open with handle #1
Sub ReadFile()
    InFile = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\smallDataset.csv"
    Close #1
    Open InFile For Input As #1
        Input #1, a, b
        Close #1
        Debug.Print (a & " " & b)
End Sub

Or you use Freefile to get the next number
Sub ReadFile
FileNumber = FreeFile

InFile = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\smallDataset.csv"

    Open InFile For Input As FileNumber
        Input #FileNumber, a, b
        Close #FileNumber
        Debug.Print (a & " " & b)
End Sub

A: I am also experiencing the errors which you have, these are the probable causes of the said error.
1) The CSV is open along with the Excel file
2) Your code has memory leaks
To resolve number 1

*

*Try running the VBA code when the CSV is not opened

To resolve number 2

*

*Try to use close the CSVobject after you have written your data inside it.

I'm not sure about your full code, but please check if you have something like Excel.Close or Excel.Quit.


YP - The Real Yellow PagesSM - makes it possible to find the right local businesses to satisfy your particular needs. Search engine results are sorted by a combination of elements to provide you with some choices as a result towards search criteria. These factors act like those you might used to determine which company to select from a nearby telephone directory directory site, including distance to what your location is looking around, expertise within the particular services or products you want, and comprehensive company information to greatly help assess a small business's suitability for you personally. "Preferred" listings, or individuals with presented site buttons, indicate YP marketers just who directly provide information about their organizations to aid customers make more informed buying choices. YP advertisers get higher positioning in the default ordering of serp's and may even appear in sponsored directories on top, side, or base of search results page.


This form is to be used to reserve the Webster Groves Aquatic Center for the time and date requested. Please note that this form is not a rental contract. The rental confirmation and actual contract will be mailed to you according to the information provided on this form. The rental date and time cannot be entered into the reservation book until this Rental Intent Form is returned. Dates and times are taken on a first come - first served basis. Please call ahead prior to completing this form to inquire on availability.
PLEASE NOTE: POOL/PARTY PAVILION RESERVATIONS CAN ONLY BE ACCEPTED FROM WEBSTER GROVES RESIDENTS.
PLEASE NOTE: Aquatic Center rentals can only be made between 7:30-11:00 p.m. on weekend; 8:30 or 9:00-11:00 p.m. on weekdays. Party Pavilion rentals are either 12:00-3:00 p.m. or 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Please be specific and describe the nature of the reservation. Include whether adults, children, teens, families, etc.
Please note: An additional clean-up fee of $25 will apply to after hours rentals that bring in their own food. Alcoholic beverages are not allowed. This fee will be waived if using complex concessionaire, S.C. Concessions (314-963-5610). An additional staffing fee of $15/hour will apply to all teenage parties.
* Do not pay from this intent form. You will be mailed a rental contract indicating payments due.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN OUR FACILITY WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING AS YOUR RENTAL LOCATION!


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Nancy Baym studies how people, audiences and workers such as musicians understand and use communication technologies in their everyday relationships. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity Press, 2010/2014), now in its second edition, Internet Inquiry: Conversations about Methods (co-edited with Annette Markham, Sage 2009), as well as dozens of articles and book chapters. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994, writing the first Ph.D. dissertation on online community (later published as Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community; Sage, 2000). She was a co-founder and is Past-President of the Association of Internet Researchers and serves on the editorial boards of several new media and Communication journals. Before coming to Microsoft, she was a Professor of Communication Studies. She is a Research Associate in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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I relished the prospect of working in an historic setting such as this 18th century building which was bought in 1814 by the Duke of Wellington on behalf of George III. The existing garden in the heart of Paris had a wonderful framework of mature trees and shrubs but the design was almost non-existent. The challenging brief was to create a garden which could host functions for royalty and heads of state and provide colour through the year. The budget was minimal and we were barely allowed to change anything but we introduced structure and shape to the planting and devised carefully worked successional planting schemes.


A small but growing number of elected lawmen in Oregon have now gone public with their opposition to potential federal laws that could affect law-abiding gun owners, but Lane County Sheriff Tom Turner isn�t one of them.
Turner said Wednesday that he has bigger fish to fry at the moment � such as trying to run a sheriff�s office in a county where budget cuts have ravaged investigative, patrol and incarceration efforts.
�I recognize that people are concerned about (local law enforcers� response to possible firearms restrictions) but I have enough to think about just dealing with providing services here. That�s what I want to focus on,� Turner said.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that plainly stated that they wouldn�t work with federal officials to enforce any future gun laws that they deemed unconstitutional.
�To me, this is about allowing law-abiding citizens to possess guns and not taking their rights away from them,� Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said in an interview.
Hanlin � along with sheriffs in Crook and Grant county � sent their letters after Mueller on Monday mailed a similar missive to Biden that outlined his stance on potential gun control legislation. Mueller�s letter made national headlines, and prompted heightened public interest in other Oregon sheriffs� opinions on the topic.
�I literally have a kink in my neck from being on the phone all day with people, talking about this,� Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni said Wednesday.
Zanni waited until after reading about President Obama�s proposal to reduce gun violence before issuing his own letter � not to Biden, but to the people who elected him.
Zanni said he didn�t disagree with Mueller and the other sheriffs who said they wouldn�t tolerate an attempt to enforce an unconstitutional law. He just didn�t feel it was necessary to follow them in writing to Biden before Obama outlined his gun control proposal.
�Rather than reacting beforehand, I wanted to know first what we�re dealing with,� he said.
Zanni added that he wasn�t upset by anything contained in a list of executive actions announced Wednesday by Obama, who also asked federal lawmakers to consider reinstating an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds and requiring background checks for all gun sales.
Turner said he hadn�t read Zanni�s letter but that he plans to issue an �essentially� similar statement in response to the countless comments and questions he�s received in recent days regarding his position on potential firearms restrictions.
�I certainly have a lot of enthusiastic and opinionated constituents, and I am getting inundated with calls,� Turner said.
Mueller did not return a message left Wednesday at his office in Albany.
Hanlin, the Douglas County sheriff, said he spoke with Mueller, who �was a little bit surprised by the response he got� after the national media reported he had sent a letter to Biden.
A spokeswoman with the Oregon State Sheriffs� Association referred questions to individual county sheriffs, and said the group had not taken �a formal stand� on the issue.


Hammer toe can be corrected by surgery if conservative measures fail. Usually, surgery is done on hammertoes an outpatient basis with a local anesthetic. The actual procedure will depend on the type and extent of the deformity. After the surgery, there may be some stiffness, swelling and redness and the toe may be slightly longer or shorter than before. You will be able to walk, but should not plan any long hikes while the toe heals, and should keep your foot elevated as much as possible.