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What exactly happened at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and how it all ended
Troubles begin when catastrophes happen. Whichever it may be, the catastrophe usually remains unexplained and incomprehensible. Why did the sole of this completely new left sandal fall off, while the right one is ok? Why did only one of the thousands of cars that had passed through the frozen puddle that day hit the ditch? Why on April 26, 1986, during a completely usual process at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, everything began to develop quite differently than usual, not as described by the regulations and as common sense dictates? However, let's give the floor to the participant of abovementioned events.
Employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. 1984
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Anatoliy Dyatlov
"On April 26, 1986, at one twenty-three am, Alexander Akimov, shift supervisor of Unit #4 of the ChNPP, ordered to turn off the reactor at the end of the works that are carried out before the power unit is shut down for the planned repair. Leonid Toptunov, the reactor operator, removed the cap from the reactor safety system button, preventing accidental mistakes, and pressed it. According to this signal, 187 control rods of the reactor began to move downward into the core. The headlights on the screen illuminated, and rods indication arrows came into motion. Standing half-turned to the control panel of the reactor, Alexander Akimov noticed this; he also saw the arrows of the unbalance indicators of the automatic control rod flashed to the left, as it should be, which meant a decrease in reactor capacity. After that, he turned to the safety panel, which he observed in the experiment.
Then something happened that could not be predicted even by the most unrestrained fantasy. After a slight decrease in power, the reactor suddenly began to increase at an ever-increasing rate, alarms appeared. Toptunov shouted about the emergency increase in power. However, it was beyond his power to do anything. All he could do was hold the reactor safety system button; the CPS rods were in the active zone. There are no other means at his (or anybody else) disposal. Akimov shouted: "Shut the reactor down!" He jumped to the console and de-energized the electromagnetic couplings of the drives of the CPS rods. His action was correct but useless. After all, the logic of the control system, that is, all its elements of logic circuits, worked correctly, the rods were in the active zone. Now we know: after pressing the reactor safety system button, there were no correct actions, there was no means of salvation… Two powerful explosions followed with a short interval. Reactor safety system rods stopped moving not having done even a half way. At one twenty-three am, the reactor was destroyed by the power of the prompt neutrons. This is a crash, the ultimate catastrophe that can ever happen on power reactor. Nobody have ever prepared for it."
This is an excerpt from Anatoly Dyatlov's book "Chernobyl. How it was". The author was the deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who at that time was present on Unit #4, who became one of the liquidators. He was recognized as one of the perpetrators of the tragedy; he was sentenced to ten years in prison, whence he was released after two years of being dying from radiation. He managed to write his memoirs before he died in 1995.
If you were not really interested in physics in school and vaguely imagine what is happening inside the reactor, you probably did not understand what was described above. To make it simple, it can be explained as follows.
Imagine that we have tea in the glass, and the tea is boiling on its own (just imagine that we have such a strange tea). To ensure it did not break the glass and did not fill the kitchen with hot steam, we regularly drop metal spoons into the glass — in order to cool it down. The colder tea we need tea, the more spoons we put. And vice versa: to make the tea hotter, we take out the spoons. Of course, carbide and graphite rods, which are placed in the reactor, operate on a slightly different principle, but this does not change the essence much.
Now try to remember: what is the main problem the power plants around the world are facing? The major problem for power engineers are not about fuel prices, not drinking electricians and not crowds of "green" picketing their checkpoints. The biggest trouble in the life of any power engineering is uneven power consumption by the customers of the station. The unpleasant habit of mankind to work during the day, to sleep at night, and even to wash, shave and watch TV shows at the same time leads to the fact that instead of smoothly flowing, the quantity of produced and consumed energy all the time drastically changes; this causes blackouts and other troubles. After all, instability in the operation of any system leads to failures, and getting rid of excess energy is harder than producing it. Nuclear power plants have especially great difficulties with this, because it is impossible to "explain" the chain when it should go more active, and when it is better to slow down.
Engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. 1980
In the early eighties, the USSR began slowly exploring the possibility of rapidly increasing and reducing the power of the reactors. As a theory, this method of controlling energy loads was much easier and more profitable than all the others.
Of course, this program was not discussed publicly; the station personnel could only guess why such "planned repairs" became so frequent, and the rules of working with reactors changed. On the other hand, nothing uncommon was done to reactors. And if this world was regulated only by the laws of physics and logic, then the fourth power unit would still be in the service of a peaceful atom.
For so far, no one could really answer the main question of the Chernobyl disaster: why, at that time, the power of the reactor did not decrease (although the rods were applied), but, on the contrary, inexplicably increased?
After several years of work, the two most authoritative bodies, the USSR Inspectorate for nuclear and radiation safety and the IAEA special committee published documents, each with plenty of facts about the course of the accident, but without a single answer — why it happened. On numerous pages of these detailed studies, one can find offers, regrets, fears, indications of shortcomings and forecasts for the future, but there is no intelligible explanation for what happened. Largely, both of these reports could be reduced to the phrase "Something boomed".
"No, well, this is slander! The staff of the IAEA spoke more culturally. In fact, they wrote: "It is not known for certain what caused the power jump that led to destruction of the Chernobyl reactor"
On the contrary, less formal researchers, had numerous versions, each and every more beautiful and more convincing. If there were not so many of them, we could have believed one of them.
Different institutions, organizations and scientists with a world name declared the perpetrators: incorrect design of the rods;
incorrect design of the reactor itself;
the error of personnel who reduced the reactor capacity for too long;
a local unnoticed earthquake that occurred exactly at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant;
ball lightning;
still unknown to science particle, which sometimes occurs in a chain reaction.
There is no book enough to list all authoritative versions (unauthoritative, of course, as always, they look more interesting and include such wonderful things as spiteful Martians, crafty churches and angry Jehovah).
These strange methods of radiation protectıon
For the layman, the list of items that are usually required to be distributed to the public in the event of a radiation hazard seems incomplete. Where is the accordion, boa and net? However, in fact, things on this list are not so useless.
Someone seriously believes that five layers of gauze will save you from gamma rays, instantly piercing the steel? Of course, no. However, the radioactive dust, which has already absorbed the heaviest, but no less dangerous substances, will less intensively enter your respiratory tract.
Isotope of iodine, one of the shortest living elements of radioactive release, for a long time stays in the thyroid gland and causes it great harm. It is recommended to take iodine pills to make sure there is enough in your thyroid gland and your body will not take more from the air. However, overdose of iodine is a dangerous thing, so it is not recommended to take too much.
Milk and vegetables would be the most useful when exposed to radiation, but, alas, they are the first to get infected. Then comes the meat, which was fed on vegetables and gave milk. Therefore, it is better not to eat berries, fruits and vegetables in the contaminated region. Especially mushrooms: the concentration of radioactive chemical elements there is the highest.
Rescue works
The explosion killed two people: one died immediately, the second survived and was taken to the hospital where he died. The firefighters arrived first in the place of the disaster and set to do their work — extinguishing a fire. They slaked t in canvas robes and helmets. They did not have any other means of protection, and they did not know about the radiation threat — only a couple of hours later they have heard first information that this fire is something different from the usual one.
Rescue works at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
By morning, the firefighters extinguished the flame and began to faint — the radiation damage began to affect them. 136 employees and rescuers who were on that day at the station received a huge dose of radiation, with one in four died in the first months after the accident.
In the next three years, about half a million people were engaged in rescue works (almost half of them were conscripted soldiers, many of whom were sent to Chernobyl virtually forcibly). The very place of the catastrophe was filled with a mixture of lead, boron and dolomites, after which a concrete sarcophagus was built above the reactor. Nevertheless, the amount of radioactive substances released into the air immediately after the accident and in the first weeks after it was enormous. Neither before nor after such radiation appear in places of dense human habitation.
The deafening silence of the Soviet authorities on the accident did not seem so strange as it would be now. Hiding bad or exciting news from the population was so in the then practice that even information about the sex maniac operating in the district could not reach the ears of a serene public for years; and only when the next Fisher or Mosgaz (famous USSR serial killers) killed dozens (or even hundreds) of victims, the precinct was given a task to bring to the attention of parents and teachers the fact that children should better not run alone down the street.
Therefore, the next day after the accident the city of Pripyat was evacuated hastily, but quietly. People were told that they were being taken out for a day, a maximum of two, and asked not to take any things with them, so as not to overload the transport. The authorities did not drop a word about the radiation.
There were some rumors, of course, but the vast majority of residents of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have never heard of any Chernobyl. Some members of the Central Committee of the CPSU had enough conscience to raise the issue of canceling the May Day demonstrations in at least the cities directly on the way of polluted clouds, but it was considered that such a violation of the eternal order would cause unhealthy excitement in society. Therefore, the residents of Kiev, Minsk and other cities had a great chance to run wild with balls and carnations under the radioactive rain.
However, it was impossible to conceal the radioactive emission of such a scale. The Poles and the Scandinavians were the first to panic — those radioactive clouds came to their countries from the east and brought many interesting things.
Aggrieved people
Of course, the government could continue to pretend that nothing is happening, but here we can justify Soviet officials a little: they were not yet such ghouls who dream how to turn two hundred and a half million people of their country into mutants covered with ulcers. From the very beginning, they consulted with scientists, trying to find out the degree of threat to the health of citizens of the regions neighboring Chernobyl. The content of these talks is either not fixed, or is still secret, but it seems that at that time the scientists were radiant with exceptional optimism.
Indirect evidence confirming that the scientists gave the government the right to silence about Chernobyl could be the fact that in 1988 the scientist Valery Legasov, a member of the government commission for the investigation of the accident, who organized the liquidation for four months and who voiced an official (very smooth) version of what was happening to the foreign press, hanged himself. In his office he left a tape record telling about the details of the accident, and that part of the record where the story about the authorities' reaction to the events in the first days, was erased by unidentified persons.
Another indirect evidence of this is that scientists still radiate optimism. Even now officials of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency insist that only a few hundred people who took part in the liquidation in the first days of the explosion can be considered victims of the explosion. For example, the article "Who helped create the Chernobyl myth", written by the experts of the FAAE and IBRAE RAS in 2005, analyzes the statistics on the health status of the inhabitants of the contaminated areas and, recognizing that the general population there is a little more sick, sees the reason only that, succumbing to alarmist sentiments, people run to the doctors with every pimple, and secondly, they have been living in stress for many years, caused by hysteria in press. They explain a huge number of disabled people among the first rescue workers saying "it is beneficial to be disabled", and hinting that the main cause of catastrophic mortality among liquidators is not the consequences of irradiation, but alcoholism caused by the same irrational fear of radiation. Our atomic scientists use the phrase "radiation danger" only in quotation marks.
However, this is only one side of the coin. For every nuclear scientist, convinced that there is not yet a cleaner and safer energy in the world than the nuclear one, there will be a member of an environmental or human rights organization ready to sow the same panic with generous handfuls.
Greenpeace, for example, estimates the number of victims of the Chernobyl accident as 10 million, taking into account, however, representatives of the next generation, who will fall ill or be born sick in the next 50 years.
Between these two poles, there are dozens and hundreds of international organizations whose statistical research contradicts each other so much that in 2003 the IAEA had to create the Chernobyl Forum organization, whose task is to analyze this statistics in order to create at least somewhat reliable picture of what is happening.
Up to now, nothing is clear about the consequences of the disaster. The increase in the death rate of the population from areas close to Chernobyl can be explained by the mass migration of young people. Minor "rejuvenation" of oncological diseases — by the fact that people there are checked for oncology much more intensively than elsewhere; therefore, many cases of cancer are first seen at very early stages. Even the condition of mugs and ladybirds in the closed zone around Chernobyl is the subject of fierce disputes. It seems like the burdock grows well, and the cows are well fed, and the number of mutations in the local flora and fauna is within the natural norm. However, this is difficult to answer what the harmlessness effect of radiation is, and what the beneficial effect of human beings absence for many kilometers around is.
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Кримський центр ділового та культурного співробітництва «Український дім» (КЦДКС «Український дім») — українська громадська організація з Криму.

Організація заснована 17 березня 2011 року в м. Бахчисарай (Автономна Республіка Крим, Україна).
Після окупації Кримського півострова Російською Федерацією в 2014 році перемістилася і діє в м. Києві.

Основна мета діяльності — сприяння задоволенню та захисту духовних, законних, соціальних, економічних, творчих, вікових, національно-культурних, спортивних та інших спільних інтересів членів організації.

Місія організації
 Деокупація та реінтеграція тимчасово окупованого Криму.
 Утвердження та розвиток демократичних засадничих прав та свобод в Українському Криму — невід'ємній частині території України

Основні цілі
 розширення інформаційного україномовного простору України
 зміцнення та розвиток кримських незалежних громадських інституцій

Основні напрями діяльності
 українська освіта для кримчан;
 розвиток українських кримських ЗМІ;
 видавництво книг та друкованих періодичних видань;
 розвиток української мови серед кримчан;
 інформаційна реінтеграція тимчасово окупованих територій АР Крим та м. Севастополь.

Нещодавні проєкти

 Створення та підтримка інформаційного ресурсу «Голос Криму », з 2015 р.
 Створення та підтримка інформаційного ресурсу «Голос Криму. Культура », з 2018 р.
 Інформаційна підтримка Крайової Ради Українців Криму, з 2020 р.
 Участь у експертній мережі Кримської платформи, з 2021 р.

Видання КЦДКС «Український дім»
 «Альманах "Гроно" — суспільний проект кримчан для України», 2018 р.
 «Пам'ятки Криму — сучасний стан культурної спадщини України», 2019 р.

Примітки

Див. також

 Український культурний фонд
 Міжнародний фонд «Відродження»
 Посольство США в Україні
 Посольство Нідерландів в Україні
 Посольство Великої Британії в Україні

Посилання
 Річний звіт 2020 року
 Круглий стіл «Пам`ятки Криму – сучасний стан культурної спадщини України»
 «Пам'ятки Криму – сучасний стан культурної спадщини України». Презентація спеціального номеру журналу

Громадські організації Автономної Республіки Крим
Громадські організації України
засновані в Україні 2011

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Kelly Rae Roberts is giving us some new wall art for 2017! This LOVE word is 18" long by 7" tall and is 1/2" thick. It is made of wood composite. It has saw tooth hangers to hang on the wall or you could prop on a self. The colors are pastel with Kelly Rae bird, dragonfly, butterfly, and flowers. On the LOVE is the words: Love Always Wins; listen to your heart whispers; open your heart; love wide.


We desire to embody the way of Jesus: to love God and love people. Like a river overflowing its banks, we see the gospel of Jesus moving into our neighborhoods, transforming lives and communities. As we intentionally engage in proximity to our city, we will see the life and love of Jesus bring transformation to everyone, everywhere across Central Oregon.
We want our legacy to be greater than what any one of us could do individually. Together- we can saturate Central Oregon and beyond- by genuinely doing what Jesus has called us to do: to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love others as we love ourselves.
The gospel is transformative, expansive, Jesus-centric, and for everyone, everywhere. This gospel gives us a clear mandate to be present with people; to be by their side in their suffering and in their celebration; to meet needs and champion the lives of others. We are compelled to move outside our familiar and comfortable environments to be with and for others – all others – always.
We envision a world where the Gospel is seen and not just heard – where the Church has a reputation for abundantly and generously loving people everywhere, always. We see ourselves with a seat at the civic table, working side by side with leaders in our communities to address the greatest needs – invited to this table because the evidence of our love for others has given us a seat. The love of Jesus will become clear for many – some for the very first time – both by what we say and what we do. As culture continues to drive people apart, we entrench ourselves firmly in the middle – showing people the love of Jesus and inviting them into the family of God.
The focus of For the City is to express the true gospel of Jesus to the city by moving closer in proximity to our city and being present with the tens of thousands of people who live and work in our neighborhoods.
Send a core launch team of 100 leaders and dedicated pastoral leadership to plant a church on the eastside of Bend in the fall of 2019 that we believe will grow to 500 by 2021.
Build a Spanish language, culturally-bridging ministry within our church, resulting in a weekly bilingual service of 250 by the end of 2020, and continued community transformation through expanded influence.
Actively surround every child with family and commit to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in our community through at-risk family care, fostering and adoption.
Utilize technology and media to reach everyone, everywhere in Central Oregon – so all can hear our message of the Gospel.
A new address at the heart of our city as a tangible expression of our commitment to live and love people where they work and play. Make room for hundreds more to gather for worship, teaching and community connection.


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Q: Asp.NET Identity stopped working on Chrome For some unknown reason, I no longer can log in into my own application on Chrome.
This is how I'm doing signing in:
    [AllowAnonymous]
    [HttpPost]
    public async Task<ActionResult> Login(LoginModel model)
    {
        if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
            return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");

        if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            return View();

        var status = await signInManager.PasswordSignInAsync(model.Login, model.Password, true, false);
        switch (status)
        {
            case Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin.SignInStatus.Success:
                {
                    int userId = User.Identity.GetUserId<int>();
                    if (userManager.IsFirstLogin(userId))
                    {
                        return RedirectToAction("Declaration", "Home", new { returnUrl = model.ReturnUrl });
                    }

                    return RedirectToLocal(model.ReturnUrl);
                }
            default:
                return View();
        }
    }

I debugged the code and PasswordSignInAsync succeeds, however Chrome shows no cookies set for the page. In effect redirection to action, which is marked with [Authorize] attribute redirects again to login page.
I tested site on IE and everything works correctly, I can log in and out and the cookie is being set correctly.
If I can provide more detailed information, just tell me.

Edit: More details
I've been testing a piece of application, which is date-time sensitive (stops displaying after specific date). I changed system time to 01 August 2016, logged in and then switched back to now. That was when everything stopped working.
What is curious, when I switch back to that future time, I can log in again and session cookie is being set correctly. But when I return to "now", I can not log in again.

A: Still need to investigate whats going on, however for me the "fix" was to change Auth cookie's name.
in Startup.Auth.cs:
app.UseCookieAuthentication(new CookieAuthenticationOptions
{
    AuthenticationType = DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie,
    LoginPath = new PathString("/Account/Login"),
    CookieName = $"SomeCustomNameForAuthCookie",
    Provider = ...
});

I suspect the fact, that there is a lot of webs for development on my computer and all with the same default cookie name.

A: I have same problem in my app but in my case my app is opened inside iframe and when logging in cookies are not set into browser due to which error occured and the version of chrome which is greater than 80 changes there cookies policy.We need to set this code in web.config file
<httpCookies sameSite="None" requireSSL="true" />

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Иван Тимофеевич Дренякин — русский военачальник, генерал-майор.

Биография
Родился в 1760, по другим данным в 1767 году.

Дата вхождения в военную службу неизвестна. 2 апреля 1797 года по случаю упразднения департамента Генерального штаба переведен из обер-квартирмейстеров в премьер-майорский чин. 20 августа 1798 года был произведен в подполковники, 15 октября 1799 года — в полковники.

4 декабря 1799 года назначен полковым командиром 63-го Углицкого мушкетерского (пехотного) полка, а 7 февраля 1800 года за многочисленные побеги рядовых исключен из службы.

Генерал-майор с 1804 года (по другим данным с 1811 года), служил по 1822 год.

Семья
 Отец — прапорщик Белгородского гарнизона Тимофей Дренякин.
 Брат — генерал-майор Максим Дренякин кавалер ордена Св. Георгия 4-й степени.
 Брат — генерал-майор Василий Дренякин кавалер ордена Св. Георгия 4-й степени.
 Был холост, детей не имел.

Награды
 Орден Св. Георгия 4-й степени (№ 3162; 26 ноября 1816).
 Также награждён другими орденами Российской империи.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Неизвестный Дренякин

Генерал-майоры (Российская империя)


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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Sells His Kalorama House for $3.9 Million
You sell your house to the offer you get, not the offer you wish you got.
| Published on January 9, 2015
In the latest in a string of plans that did not pan out the way he envisioned, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has sold his house in Kalorama for nearly $600,000 less than what he originally listed it for. The seven-bedroom brick federal sold this week for $3.9 million; Rumsfeld put it on the market last June at $4.5 million.
Rumsfeld and his wife, Joyce, purchased the 5,115-square-foot home in February 2001, at the beginning of his six-year run as the nation's top military official. The house, which includes a well-manicured backyard patio and in-ground pool, sits across the street from the French ambassador's residence, which probably made for some awkward neighborhood gatherings while Rumsfeld was in office. It also features "embassy-sized" reception rooms, a master suite with sky-lit sitting areas and marble bath, and a sculpture of a Dachshund on one of the outer gates.
While secluded on posh Kalorama Road, Northwest, the house is not far from Adams Morgan and its nightlife full of known unknowns.
The Rumsfelds, who now live primarily at their home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, paid $3.35 million for the place, according to DC property records. But even with that modest gain, Rummy will have one thing to dangle in front of anyone who dares to criticize his sale.
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This token set is designed to allow you to easily and quickly track your character's status effects. If your character is frightened, paralyzed or unconscious, your allies will be able to see at a glance that you are in need of help. Because all of our full-color tokens are made of durable perspex they are wet-erasable, so you can write additional information straight onto them. The combat tile provides a place for you to keep a running total of constantly changing statistics like character health and resources, all without dirtying your character sheet with eraser marks. Presented in a unique class tin, with space to add your character's name. * D&D and Dungeons & Dragons are Trademarks of Wizards of the Coast
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From two rolls of 35mm Kodak Tri X shot in 1985. More reference shots whilst searching for a car location in the City, near the Museum of London. This street, Little Britain, was boarded up, ready for demolition. I can't remember why, but the location was never used in the end.


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Boomer Reunions.. Is it Time for Baby Boomers to Reminisce?
BONZA organised a high school reunion around 10 years ago and we had 600 fellow high school Boomers attend..just for the one school Indooroopilly High in Brisbane but it was great to invite 10 odd years of ex-students as you saw faces from the years before and after your year..ex army cadet leaders, prefects and sportsmen and woman who made school life so vibrant. Ex teachers were also invited and many were cheered as they spoke to the crowd.
I really enjoyed it and recommend it to you all..gather some ex classmates and reminisce to your hearts content.
In the last 10 years I have tracked down...
Brothers in Arms- The John Hunter Story
The year was 1917 and the Australian 49th Battalion was fighting for the Commonwealth Forces on the Western Front. The battle was raging just outside Ypres in Belgium and two brothers fought side by side against the might of the German army.
Their names were Jim and John Hunter from Nanango in Queensland. The brothers had been in battle before so they knew the risks they were taking as they attacked the German lines and for the first time on the Western Front the tide was turning as the strength of the Aussie attack finally had the Germans wondering how for the first time in the war as they were losing because of the Australian efforts.
The battle was furious and the ground was covered with broken and mutilated bodies, dead animals, mud and disused army equipment amongst the smell of dead and the screaming of wounded soldiers from both sides.
The Aussies were eventually triumphant under the leadership of the great Australian general John Monash but at a huge cost and in this battle of Pozieres alone there were thousands of Aussies being blown apart by the German artillery to the extent where there would never be even a simple headstone to remember them by.
In the midst of this nightmare of a battle, John Hunter was killed and his heart broken brother had little time to think what to do with his body but wanted him buried so he could find him later. He wrapped him tightly in an army issue groundsheet and buried him on his back as if resting peacefully in the field of battle
...
Super Greys
This is a story that happened in Spain on the 29th May 2016. My mate Keith Blake was travelling with his wife Sally and he sent me this on Facebook. They were attacked by two young men.
" We have felt safe in Spain so far, having only seen one incident of pick pockets on the Metro. But today we were targeted.
We had been shopping and stopped at a little bar for a rest and a wine on the way home.


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Ultra named as Gold Award winner in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme for 2021
We are very excited to announce that Ultra has received the Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award for our 'outstanding support towards the Armed Forces community'. This award represents the highest badge of honor and is awarded to employers that employ and support those who currently serve, veterans, and their families.
The Employer Recognition Scheme was launched in 2014 by the then Prime Minister David Cameron to recognise employer support for the wider principles of the Armed Forces Covenant and the full spectrum of Defence personnel. This includes the Reserves, service leavers, cadets, spouses and wounded, injured and sick.
To achieve Gold Award status, a company must uphold recruitment and HR policies that are positive to people in and leaving the armed forces and create opportunities for Veterans, Reserves, and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers, as well as spouses and partners of those serving in the Armed Forces. Ultra pledged its continued support to current and future employees from the military and other forces' veterans, reservists and their families, globally with the launch of its ONE Ultra Forces Charter earlier in 2021. The charter sets out to recognise, respect and show gratitude for military and forces' service communities, take positive measures to prevent any disadvantage and support our wider ESG strategy.
We are extremely proud to be recognised with this prestigious award and are dedicated to continuing to support those who are currently or have previously served in the Armed Forces and their families.
For more information on the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, visit GOV.UK.
The full list of Employer Recognition Scheme Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners is available here.
The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise by the United Kingdom, ensuring that those who serve or who have served in the Armed Forces, and their families, are treated fairly. More information about the Armed Forces Covenant and how to get involved is available here.
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This is an experiment in using the web audio API together with canvas to make some interesting and cool-looking visualizations.

Since this is my first foray into the world of both canvas and web audio, I have slowly iterated over a number of ideas and trials which are all in the `/tests` folder.

The visual style was inspired by the artwork of the album ["The Resistance"] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theresistance.jpg) by Muse.

Thanks to [Soundcloud] (https://soundcloud.com) for providing a great open API!

# Demo

[Here's a working demo] (http://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/experiments/soundcloud-vis/#muse/undisclosed-desires). Enjoy and share!

**Update May 2015** - As of latest versions of Chrome (42+) and recent versions of Firefox, changes in the way cross-origin audio is handled mean this demo may not work. It's a well-known issue for everyone who's used the SoundCloud API for JavaScript visualizations (there are a lot of us). I'm working on a new project to bring this (and many other) JS/Canvas visualizations onto your computer, allowing you to visualize the output of your soundcard directly and thereby bypassing all the problems associated with streaming over the internet.

# Instructions

Go to [https://soundcloud.com] (https://soundcloud.com) and find some music. From the individual song page, copy the url and paste it into the input of the visualizer, then hit enter or press the play button.

You'll notice that part of the the track URL is added to the visualizer's URL. This makes it possible to easily save or share the state. So, if you find a good track that looks cool with
 the visualization that you want to share, just give the new URL to someone and when they load it up, it'll automatically start streaming and visualizing that track.

## Playlists
Playlists (also known as "sets" in Soundcloud) can now be pasted into the visualizer, which will cause the whole playlist to play in sequence. You can navigate the playlist using the controls below.

## Controls
- `spacebar` = toggle play/pause
- `>` (right arrow key) = skip forward to next track in playlist
- `<` (left arrow key) = skip backward to previous track in playlist

# Issues

Since the web audio API is pretty new, browser support is patchy:

- *Chrome* Latest versions works well, that's what I've been building in.
- *Firefox* This *should* work, since it has supported web audio since version 25, but in my tests the audio fails to play. Any suggestions?
- *Safari* I haven't tested it since I'm stuck with the dead Windows version, but I guess it should work since it's WebKit.
- *IE* Nope.
- *Opera* Not tested but maybe now that they switched to WebKit.

# Improvements

I can think of a few improvements that I might implement, or someone else might want to:

~~- Support for playlists. So you can paste the playlist URL and it just keeps going through to the end of the playlist.~~ - DONE (thanks to [adg29](https://github.com/adg29))
- More types of visualization. I've written the code in a pretty modular way so it's simple to write a visualization that can plug into the app (see below)
- Better browser support. I'm sure there can be more done on this to get it working at least in Firefox and mobile WebKit browsers, with perhaps fallbacks for IE.

# Writing visualizations

If you want to fork this and write your own visualizations, they way I've set it up is pretty simple:
The audio data from Soundcloud is processed by the SoundCloudAudioSource object, which exposes two properties, `volume` and `streamData`, which are continuously updated in real-time.

`streamData` is an array of 128 integers from 0-255, representing the volume of the signal at each frequency.
`volume` is a single integer representing the overall volume, useful for things like pulsing effects that reflect the beat of the audio track.

Your visualization object just needs to consume this object and then it will be able to do whatever it wants to with the data provided. The visualization object should make
it's own canvas elements and append them to the `#visualizer` div.

# License

MIT

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2013 was a historic year for 30 communities from the Koulikoro region in Mali. Many representatives from these Bambara communities – including women, men, young children and teenagers gathered in the village of Fégoun near the banks of the Niger river to publicly declare the abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) and child/forced marriage in their communities. The declaration is the result of decisions made in each community that these practices were harmful to the general well being of community members.
Traditionally, communities in Mali have been resistant to abandon these practices. The latest figures put the prevalence rate for FGC at 85.2% and for child/forced marriage at 71% in the country.
However, little of these complications were evident at the declaration itself. With hundreds of community members gathered together, many of whom were related or had not seen each other in a long time, the declaration took on a celebratory air. In addition to singing and dancing at the declaration and the celebrations the evening before, participants put on a play during the event which showed an individual family having discussions which led them to decide not to cut their daughters – a scene which had played out recently in hundreds of community members' households.


A heavy duty hole punch?
Well, what NOT to do is cut and stick your worksheets into your exercise books anymore.
Why not try this. Hole Punch every exercise book. Give students two treasury tags and from now on, only slip the sheets into the relevant part of the books via the tags, rather than sticking them in!
We have been doing this since September 2017, it is working a treat! I will add some pictures ASAP!
Colour code your sheets? Hole punch texts/extracts to annotate easily?
Nice to see this idea being shared to new teachers!


Wesfarmers acquired Coles Group Ltd for $19.3 billion, in Australia's biggest corporate takeover. Persevering through the withdrawal of its private equity partners and the looming global financial crisis, Wesfarmers' offer was accepted by Coles' board on 1 July and approved by Coles shareholders in November. Three new divisions were created as a result – Coles, Kmart and Target – while Officeworks and Harris Technology joined Bunnings in the Home Improvement and Office Supplies Division.


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De Notre-Dame de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is een voormalige kathedraal in de regio Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Het was de zetel van het voormalige bisdom Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux. De kerk werd in de 12e eeuw gebouwd en is een voorbeeld van romaanse architectuur in de Provence. De kerk is parochiekerk van de circa 9000 inwoners tellende plaats en is gewijd aan Maria, de moeder van Jezus.

Geschiedenis
De plaatsnaam Saint-Paul herinnert aan een in Reims geboren heilige, die in 372 als opvolger van Torquatus bisschop in Tricastin werd en na zijn dood in het jaar 412 in de kathedraal werd bijgezet. Van deze eerste kathedraal is niets overgebleven. Ook van een in 852 genoemde kathedraal is na invasies door Germanen, Saracenen en Hongaren geen spoor bewaard gebleven.

Het begin van de bouw van de huidige kerk wordt gedateerd rond het jaar 1120. Eerst werden het koor en het transept gebouwd. In 1180 waren het schip, een groot deel van de decors met sculpturen, en de gewelven voltooid.

Tijdens de Hugenotenoorlog werd de kerk zwaar beschadigd. Als gevolg van het Concordaat van 1801 werd het bisdom Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux opgeheven en verdeeld over het aartsbisdom Avignon en het bisdom Valence. In 1840 werd de kerk als monument historique aangemerkt.

Architectuur

De kerk staat in het centrum van de plaats. De kerk is uit regelmatig uitgehouwen en zorgvuldig samengevoegde steenblokken opgebouwd, die talrijke steenhouwersmerktekens dragen. Enkele stenen zijn voorzien van reliëfs, die in elkaar gedraaide ringen, fabelwezens, ruiters met jachthoorn of groepen personen afbeelden.

De westgevel is voorzien van drie oeil de boeufs en twee rondboogvensters. Gegroefde pilasters en halve zuilen omgeven het portaal, waarvan de archivolten met cymatium, hoofden en acanthusbladeren zijn versierd. Het portaal van de zuidingang, met kruisribgewelf, stamt uit de 15e eeuw. Het timpaan met de voorstelling van Driekoningen werd tijdens de godsdienstoorlog verwoest.

Het koor toont als een apsis, de buitenmuren vormen een vijfhoek aan de oostzijde van de kerk. Het koor is versterkt met massieve pilasters met acanthuskapitelen. De beide halfronde straalkapellen links en rechts van het koor hebben geen versieringen en zijn slechts voorzien van een rondboogvenster. Het schip is uitgevoerd met twee zijbeuken, van het middenschip gescheiden door zware pilaren. Aan de buitenzijde is onder de dakaanzet een lijst van steenplaten met ornamenten aangebracht, die op gebeeldhouwde kraagstenen liggen.

Bij de zuidelijke transeptarm staat een klokkentoren uit de 17e eeuw.

Interieur
Het interieur is driebeukig en verdeeld in drie traveeën. Erboven een tongewelf met gordelbogen, de hoogte ervan is 24 meter. Het gewelf rust op pilasters en gegroefde halfzuilen met kapitelen, die weer door forse pijlers worden gedragen.

Het dwarsschip steekt duidelijk buiten de breedte van de kerk uit. Boven de  viering verheft zich een octogonale koepel op trompen. Deze werd tijdens de renovatie in de 19e eeuw gebouwd. De laatste travee van het schip is voorzien van drie blinde arcaden met nissen, omlijst door pilasters en kleine zuilen. Onder de arcaden verloopt een kroonlijst met een fries van acanthusbladeren en cymatium. Daaronder, uitgehouwen in steen, een gordijn dat aan touwen omhoog wordt getrokken door figuren aan de zijkanten.

De wand van de halfronde hoofdapsis is door blinde arcaden op smalle zuilen met arcanthuskapitelen in stukken verdeeld. Ze dienen als ondersteuning voor de vlakke ribgewelven,  die de halve koepel dragen.

Aan enkele pijlers werden wandschilderingen uit de gotische tijd weer aan het licht gebracht. In 1897 werd in het koor fragmenten van een mozaïek ontdekt die de stad Jeruzalem voorstellen. Dit mozaïek is waarschijnlijk uit de periode van de eerste twee kruistochten, ongeveer dertig jaar na de bouw van de kathedraal.

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Romaans kerkgebouw
Kathedraal in Frankrijk
Historisch monument in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
Bouwwerk in Drôme


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