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Watch Billy Porter Get Draped in Diamonds For His Allure Cover Shoot
"I always wanted to express myself in my clothes differently. And I always had great taste."
By Leah Prinzivalli
Fashion stylist, Nicola Formichetti. Grooming: Melissa DeZarate. Makeup: Peter Philips. Manicure: Naomi Yasuda. Production: Studio Lou. Details, see allure.com/credits.
With awards season in full swing, it was only right to tap red carpet king Billy Porter as Allure's February cover star. Every time Porter walks down a red carpet, he makes headlines, whether its with a feathered train at the Golden Globes or an avant garde cowboy hat at the Emmys. For this month's magazine cover, Porter and stylist Nicola Formichetti created a series of looks that had him draped in diamonds, puckering up in glitter lipstick, and turning "eyepiece" into 2020's must-wear accessory.
"[Fashion] was always an expression for me," Porter explains in the cover story, written by Ashley C. Ford. "I always wanted to do something different. I always wanted to express myself in my clothes differently. And I always had great taste. And expensive taste."
It takes a serious presence to pull off fashion and beauty this intricate, and Porter tells us that he wasn't always as comfortable as he seems in an A-Morir headpiece and fringed sunglasses. "The heteronormative construct that masculinity is better silenced me for many years," he says. "It was like my masculinity was in question before I could even comprehend thought. I was sent to a psychologist at five years old because I was a sissy and my family was afraid. I love them. They didn't know. It was a different time."
Thankfully, the times have changed. While it may no longer be shocking to see Porter in a series of ultra-glam accessories, it's still a hell of a lot of fun — which is what we had on set. We couldn't bring you directly into Porter's bright aura, but let us take you backstage with this behind-the-scenes look at his photoshoot with Formichetti, groomer Melissa DeZarate, makeup artist Peter Phillips, and a series of rapidfire manicures from nail artist Naomi Yasuda.
Read the whole profile HERE to learn from Porter's lessons on self-love — and, just maybe, how to pull off an eyepiece.
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Image of a political cartoon called Balance by Herb Block and published in the Washington Post on February 4, 1998.
From the U.S. Library of Congress we learn:
Allegations of an affair between President Bill Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky became public on January 21, 1998. Although Clinton repeatedly and forcefully denied any improper relationship, which later testimony proved his statements untrue and resulted in a House vote of impeachment. While fending off these accusations, Clinton proposed the first balanced budget in nearly 30 years.
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Image online, courtesy the U.S. Library of Congress. LC-USZ62-126900.
Bos, Carole "Balancing Act" AwesomeStories.com. Oct 07, 2013. Jan 19, 2020.
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In Honor of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Fuck Bill Clinton!
Fuck Al Gore!
Fuck James Exon!
Fuck Pat Buchanan!
Fuck Bob Dole!
Fuck all the bastards who had anything to do with this assault on the First Amendment!
If you are offended by the language or graphic thoughts communicated in this message, then welcome to America, where some of us still believe we have the right to say what we think!
Just think, the word "fuck" is included in the dictionary bundled with the Bookshelf 94 and Bookshelf 95 CD-ROMs which are a part of Microsoft Office Professional. The word isn't just included, it has a sound button. You can click on the speaker icon and your computer will say, "Fuck!" to you. Want to take bets on the government, any government, going after Billy Gates and trying to arrest him for violating the "decency act" because he's shipping a CD-ROM with dirty words on it all over the place?
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Home > TU Applauds EPA's proposal to Curtail Toxic Air Pollution
TU Applauds EPA's proposal to Curtail Toxic Air Pollution
Contact: Erin Mooney, TU National Press Secretary (571) 331-7970
Arlington, Va. - Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation's leading trout and salmon conservation organization, lauded EPA's long-awaited proposal to tighten controls on toxic air pollutants from some types of coal-and oil-fired power generating facilities.
The proposal, announced yesterday, would reduce the amount of airborne mercury pollution reaching lakes and rivers. This pollution becomes concentrated in sport fish and poses a threat to sportsmen who consume fish. Each state in the nation has at least one waterway with a fish consumption advisory because of risky levels of mercury in fish. Minn. and Wisc., as well as 22 other states have state-wide advisories warning against fish consumption.
Using its Clean Air Act authority, EPA's proposed rule would reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants, such as mercury and chromium, from new and existing coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units.
"Trout Unlimited pioneered catch and release angling, so reducing air pollutants to create safer fish consumption may seem like an unlikely cause for us," said Steve Moyer, TU's Vice President for Government Affairs. "But when fish are too toxic for safe human consumption, it's a strong indicator of ill-health for the fish and of its habitat," said Moyer.
Research has linked elevated mercury levels in trout with depressed olfactory senses, potentially affecting their feeding, navigation and breeding abilities.
The proposal would also revise new source performance standards for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, which cause acid precipitation, responsible for undermining the health of Eastern mountain streams. Acid precipitation has been one of the primary causes of reduced brook trout populations in the Appalachian Mountains from Maine to Georgia.
For decades, TU has been a leader in ensuring that the Clean Air Act was strengthened and implemented well to substantially reduce deposition in the region.
"The 1990 cap and trade provisions of the Clean Air Act showed that it's possible to greatly reduce acid deposition by curtailing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions," Moyer said. "We are hopeful that the new standards will be part of a long-term solution that eliminates this scourge once and for all."
Power plants are the largest source of mercury emissions into the air. Once mercury from the air reaches water, microorganisms can change it into methylmercury, a highly toxic form that builds up in fish. People are primarily exposed to mercury by eating contaminated fish.
Trout Unlimited is the nation's largest coldwater conservation organization, with 140,000 members dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring North America's trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.


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This paper deals with finding low autocorrelation binary sequences which is a hard combinatorial optimization problem. Recent developments in this area analyzed, in order to understand characteristics of a problem. Emphasis is put on effective energy recomputation operators. Different types of these operators are tested to achieve full picture of LABS solvers development process. It is shown that latest state-of-the-art metaheuristics in fact all based on simplest Tabu Search framework, achieving performance boost by means of energy recomputation operators' optimization. In this paper we construct variation of memetic algorithmincorporating latest developments to reach higher performance than it's original. Comparison to a state-of-the-art TSv7 approach completed on instances with known optimums as well as on some unsolved larger ones. It is concluded that these approaches shows similar performance as they both have the same built-in heuristic. As further research proposed a comparison of different metaheuristic frameworks applied to this problem.
Ключові слова: combinatorial optimization, low autocorrelation binary sequences, memetic algorithm,stochastic local search, tabu search.


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2016 Dodgers review: Howie Kendrick
Kendrick was Mr. Versatile in 2016
By Eric Stephen@ericstephen Oct 26, 2016, 6:00am PDT
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Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports
A look back at the strange 2016 season of Howie Kendrick, who contributed to the Dodgers in ways not many would have guessed this season.
What went right
Kendrick gets full credit or his willingness to play pretty much anywhere, including several positions he barely played before. A 10-year veteran who entered 2016 with 1,061 career starts at second base, Kendrick played three other positions this season:
94 games, 79 starts in left field, a position he last played in 2013 and last started in 2011
17 games, 14 starts at third base, a position he last played in 2006
11 games, 7 starts at first base, a position he last played in 2012 and last started in 2011
He was the first Dodger dating back to at least 1913 to play second, third and left field in the same game on May 4, then did it again on Sept. 18. On May 20, Kendrick became the only Dodger in at least 103 years to play second, first and left in the same game.
Along with his 32 games at second base, Kendrick is the only Dodger ever with 10 or more games at first base, second base, third base and left field in the same season.
Kendrick led the Dodgers in defensive games and innings in left field, and felt more comfortable there than at second base by the end of the year. The defensive metrics varied on Kendrick in left field, with Ultimate Zone Rating (+2.4 runs) seeing him as above average, Defensive Runs Saved (0) as average, and Total Zone Rating (-1) as below average.
Kendrick led the Dodgers with five 4-hit games, tied for fourth-most in the majors.
From May to August, Kendrick hit .286/.358/.431 with 23 doubles in 100 games.
He led the Dodgers with 10 stolen bases, in 12 attempts.
Kendrick in 2016 had a career-best 50 walks and 9.21% walk rate, almost double the walk rate (4.84%) of his first 10 seasons.
Howie Kendrick set a career high in walks and walk rate in 2016.
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After seeing most of his spring training cut short with minor injuries to his right groin and left calf, Kendrick spent the first week of the season on the disabled list. But the recovery took much longer, as through May 1 he was 8-for-56 (.143) with no extra-base hits and no RBI in his first 19 games.
Kendrick also ended the season on a low note, hitting .190/.277/.226 in 28 games in September/October. He started the season's final month with a 4-for-5 game on Sept. 2, then went 12-for-79 (.152) the rest of the way.
The result was a seasonal line of just .255/.326/.366, setting career lows in batting average (first time below .279), slugging percentage, OPS (.691), wOBA (.303). His OPS+ (90) and wRC+(91) were Kendrick's worst since his rookie season of 2006.
In the postseason, Kendrick was 5-for-22 (.227) with a pair of doubles, and was relegated to platoon duty, starting only the three games against left-handed pitchers. Though Kendrick did still play in six of the eight games he didn't start in the playoffs.
2016 particulars
Stats: .255/.326/.366, 26 doubles, 0.5 rWAR, 0.9 fWAR
Salary: $10 million, of which $5 million is deferred until Dec. 15, 2018.
Kendrick hit a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning, then doubled an scored the winning run in the 17th inning in a 9-5 win over the Padres on May 22 in San Diego, the Dodgers' longest game of the season.
That was one of Kendrick's five 4-hit games — he was 4-for-8 with the home run and two doubles in the win.
Roster status
Kendrick has one season and $10 million remaining on his two-year contract, and will be a free agent after 2017. Half of his salary next season is deferred until Dec. 15, 2019.
2016 Dodgers player reviews
2016 review: Julio Urias
2016 review: Howie Kendrick
2016 review: Kenta Maeda


Dr. Lindsay Harrison completed her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist University where she was on the swimming and rowing teams. She then attended The University of Texas Medical School at Houston where she received her medical degree with Honors.
After completing her medical degree, Dr. Harrison then moved back to Dallas to train at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School for both an Internal Medicine residency and then anEndocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism subspecialty fellowship. She is board certified in both. During her time there she was Chief Fellow in the Endocrinology division and she published several manuscripts and received funding to initiate a large research protocol. Dr. Harrison completed her fellowship in Endocrinology in June of 2013. She joined Texas Diabetes & Endocrinology in October of 2013.


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new <wbr>App(info: IAppInfo, logger: ILogger): App

Defined in App.ts:16

Create a new App, this is called whenever the server starts up and initiates the Apps.
										Note, your implementation of this class should call super(name, id, version) so we have it.
										Also, please use the initialize() method to do items instead of the constructor as the constructor
									might be called more than once but the initialize() will only be called once.

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info: IAppInfo

logger: ILogger

Returns App

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Protected extend<wbr>Configuration

extend<wbr>Configuration(configuration: IConfigurationExtend, environmentRead: IEnvironmentRead): Promise<void>

Defined in App.ts:164

Method will be called during initialization. It allows for adding custom configuration options and defaults

Parameters

configuration: IConfigurationExtend

environmentRead: IEnvironmentRead

Returns Promise<void>

get<wbr>Author<wbr>Info

get<wbr>Author<wbr>Info(): IAppAuthorInfo

Implementation of IApp.getAuthorInfo

Defined in App.ts:96

Gets the information regarding the author/maintainer of this App.

Returns IAppAuthorInfo

author information

get<wbr>Description

get<wbr>Description(): string

Implementation of IApp.getDescription

Defined in App.ts:77

Get the description of this App, mostly used to show to the clients/administrators.

Returns string

the description

getID

getID(): string

Implementation of IApp.getID

Defined in App.ts:59

Get the ID of this App, please see <link> for how to obtain an ID for your App.

Returns string

the ID

get<wbr>Info

get<wbr>Info(): IAppInfo

Implementation of IApp.getInfo

Defined in App.ts:105

Gets the entirity of the App's information.

Returns IAppInfo

App information

get<wbr>Logger

get<wbr>Logger(): ILogger

Implementation of IApp.getLogger

Defined in App.ts:114

Gets the ILogger instance for this App.

Returns ILogger

the logger instance

get<wbr>Name

get<wbr>Name(): string

Implementation of IApp.getName

Defined in App.ts:41

Get the name of this App.

Returns string

the name

get<wbr>Name<wbr>Slug

get<wbr>Name<wbr>Slug(): string

Implementation of IApp.getNameSlug

Defined in App.ts:50

Gets the sluggified name of this App.

Returns string

the name slugged

get<wbr>Required<wbr>Api<wbr>Version

get<wbr>Required<wbr>Api<wbr>Version(): string

Implementation of IApp.getRequiredApiVersion

Defined in App.ts:87

Gets the API Version which this App depends on (http://semver.org/).
									This property is used for the dependency injections.

Returns string

the required api version

get<wbr>Status

get<wbr>Status(): AppStatus

Implementation of IApp.getStatus

Defined in App.ts:32

Returns AppStatus

get<wbr>Version

get<wbr>Version(): string

Implementation of IApp.getVersion

Defined in App.ts:68

Get the version of this App, using http://semver.org/.

Returns string

the version

initialize

initialize(configurationExtend: IConfigurationExtend, environmentRead: IEnvironmentRead): Promise<void>

Defined in App.ts:122

Method which will be called when the App is initialized. This is the recommended place
									to add settings and slash commands. If an error is thrown, all commands will be unregistered.

Parameters

configurationExtend: IConfigurationExtend

environmentRead: IEnvironmentRead

Returns Promise<void>

on<wbr>Disable

on<wbr>Disable(configurationModify: IConfigurationModify): Promise<void>

Defined in App.ts:143

Method which is called when this App is disabled and it can be called several times.
									If this App was enabled and then the user disabled it, this method will be called.

Parameters

configurationModify: IConfigurationModify

Returns Promise<void>

on<wbr>Enable

on<wbr>Enable(environment: IEnvironmentRead, configurationModify: IConfigurationModify): Promise<boolean>

Defined in App.ts:135

Method which is called when this App is enabled and can be called several
										times during this instance's life time. Once after the ititialize() is called,
										pending it doesn't throw an error, and then anytime the App is enabled by the user.
										If this method, onEnable(), returns false, then this App will not
									actually be enabled (ex: a setting isn't configured).

Parameters

environment: IEnvironmentRead

configurationModify: IConfigurationModify

Returns Promise<boolean>

whether the App should be enabled or not

on<wbr>Setting<wbr>Updated

on<wbr>Setting<wbr>Updated(setting: ISetting, configurationModify: IConfigurationModify, read: IRead, http: IHttp): Promise<void>

Defined in App.ts:156

Method which is called whenever a setting which belongs to this App has been updated
									by an external system and not this App itself. The setting passed is the newly updated one.

Parameters

setting: ISetting

the setting which was updated

configurationModify: IConfigurationModify

the accessor to modifiy the system

read: IRead

http: IHttp

an accessor to the outside world

Returns Promise<void>

Protected set<wbr>Status

set<wbr>Status(status: AppStatus): Promise<void>

Defined in App.ts:173

Sets the status this App is now at, use only when 100% true (it's protected for a reason).

Parameters

status: AppStatus

the new status of this App

Returns Promise<void>

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Q: How to see which watchers get called in Vue.js? I have a parent component, with many nested children components inside.
A click on one of my children's components updates the route. The route property is watched on the parent component, and does some actions on change.
This can be extremely difficult to debug if I don't know which component contains the watcher. Is there a way to see which watchers get executed?

A: Not sure if it helps but you may use the devtools to see which components emit something.

On top of that, you could probably console.log in the watch or emit some additional payload to identify the component more easily.

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Brewton man dies in single-vehicle Old Flomaton Road crash
A 37-year-old Brewton, Alabama, man died Tuesday night when his 1999 Silverado became submerged in a large body of water off Old Flomaton Road.
Brewton man dies in single-vehicle Old Flomaton Road crash A 37-year-old Brewton, Alabama, man died Tuesday night when his 1999 Silverado became submerged in a large body of water off Old Flomaton Road. Check out this story on pnj.com: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2018/10/24/brewton-man-submerged-fatal-tuesday-crash/1748292002/
From staff reports Published 6:59 a.m. CT Oct. 24, 2018 | Updated 12:17 p.m. CT Oct. 24, 2018
Ambulance illustration.(Photo: Stock photo)
A 37-year-old Brewton, Alabama, man died Tuesday night when his 1999 Chevrolet Silverado hit a power pole and was submerged in a large body of water off of Old Flomaton Road, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
Jordan Cooper was traveling south on Old Flomaton Road approaching the right curve in the roadway at about 7 p.m. when he failed to negotiate the curve and crossed the center line. His Silverado then ran off the roadway to the left onto the grass shoulder.
The front of the vehicle collided with a power pole located on the shoulder, continuing south where its front tire caught the drop off and traveled down the embankment. The Silverado continued through the tree line and entered the water, where it became submerged.
Cooper came to a final rest completely submerged approximately 10 feet from the shoreline facing west. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Read or Share this story: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2018/10/24/brewton-man-submerged-fatal-tuesday-crash/1748292002/
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Man shot Tuesday night while walking down Gulf Beach Highway
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by southafrica-for-dummies 2 months ago
#AfricaDay: Curtain rises on revamped Young Performers Project favourite, 'Curtain Up!'
The newly-invigorated Young Performers Project is re-staging a reprise of its very first musical production, "Curtain Up!"
The first production was done in 2001. Now it's been re-written and updated by multi-award-winning actress Charon Williams-Ros, directed by Jaco van Rensburg and stars professional theatre actors Mthokozisi Zulu and Sbongiseni Shezi along with kids from the Road Safety Musical Theatre Academy based in Inanda, KwaMashu and KwaDabeka.
"Curtain Up! is the truth of the industry we work in. I identify with it so much. It reminds us how much we need theatre. Charon Williams-Ros did a very great job speaking our truth,"said Zulu about the production.
The show will feature show-stopping musical theatre numbers like a medley of South African songs woven into a script about a diverse group of talented young performers who take shelter from the rain in a derelict theatre where they discover the evocative remnants of past productions. Inspired by the idea of bringing the old theatre back to life, the performers appeal to the new owner, Siyanda, to re-open as a community theatre, only to learn that the theatre is to be knocked down to make way for a casino.
The passion with which the young performers fight to save the theatre leads Siyanda to the realization of where his true values lie.
Zulu, who also doubles as a drama coach said 14 children in the production come from the Road Safety Musical Theatre Academy which he is apart of.
"It has been a great experience because the young stars are not only talented but also a joy to work with. A lot of my coaching is inspired by what I learned in Germany. When I run my rehearsals, exercises I learnt they help me a lot. I share the knowledge through the Road Safety Musical Theatre Academy which I am part of. In fact, 14 kids in Curtain Up! come from this academy based in Inanda, KwaMashu and KwaDabeka," he said.
Zulu urged people to attend theatre regular.
"Theatre heals and transforms. People should watch because we open up our hearts and transform to a far away land. Audiences get to join us on this journey," said Zulu.
Some of the featured songs in Curtain Up! include numbers from The Wiz; Little Shop of Horrors; Cats; Cabaret; Fiddler on the Roof; Oliver!; Rent; Les Mis; Into the Woods and a medley of South African numbers.
"Curtain Up!" Runs until June 2 at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on UKZN Campus. Tickets available at Computicket.
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require 'yaml'

def person
  { name: 'George Harrison',
    age: 58,
    song: 'Something',
    url: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAp-jRUp2o'
  }
end

def database
  File.absolute_path('lib/class6/database.yml')
end

def save
  records_string = person.to_yaml
  File.open('database.yml', 'w') { |io| io.write records_string }\
end

save

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Thursday's Rainbow 6 Carryover Jackpot Exceeds 2.5 Million
Stormy Embrace Breezes for Title Defense in June 29 Princess Rooney
Gulfstream-based Imprimis Set for Tuesday Start at Royal Ascot
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot climbed to $2,544,245 for Thursday's program at Gulfstream Park when the popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the 48th consecutive racing day Sunday.
Multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $12,532.92.
The carryover jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
A total of $246,241 was bet into the Rainbow Sunday, when wagering on the six-race sequence started with a carryover of $2,485,161.25 from Saturday's program.
Matalona Thoroughbreds, LLC's Stormy Embrace prepared for a title defense in the $250,000 Princess Rooney (G2) Sunday morning, breezing a comfortable five furlongs in 1:03.40 over the sloppy track at Gulfstream Park West.
The Princess Rooney, a seven-furlong Breeders' Cup 'Win and You're In' sprint for fillies and mares, will co-headline the June 29 Summit of Speed card with the $250,000 Smile Sprint (G3) at Gulfstream.
Stormy Embrace most recently came off a four-month freshening to defend her title in the May 18 Musical Romance Stakes, scoring by 10 ½ lengths over Lady's Island, who came back to dominate the Nicole's Dream Stakes by nine lengths. The Kathleen O'Connell-trained 5-year-old mare ran seven furlongs in a sharp 1:21.51 in the key prep for the Princess Rooney.
Last year, Stormy Embrace won the Musical Romance on her way to capturing the Princess Rooney by six lengths to earn a berth in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) at Churchill Downs. After finishing off-the-board at Churchill, she returned to finish behind multiple-stakes winner Dream Pauline twice during the Championship Meet, losing a photo finish in the Dec. 15 Sugar Swirl (G3) and checking in third in the Hurricane Bertie (G3),
Breeze Easy, LLC's Imprimis, who is based at Gulfstream Park with trainer Joe Orseno, is scheduled to run in the King's Stand (G1) on Tuesday's opening day card at Royal Ascot.
Imprimis is 2-for-2 this year, having won the Silks Run Stakes at Gulfstream by 3 ½ lengths off a six-month layoff before overcoming a stumbling start to capture the Shakertown (G2) at Keeneland April 6. The 5-year-old son of Broken Vow has breezed three times at Gulfstream before embarking on the cross-Atlantic journey.
International superstar Frankie Dettori has accepted the mount aboard Imprimis, who is slated to meet 12 opponents in the five-furlong turf stakes, including Blue Point, Battaash and Mabs Cross, the 1-2-3 finishers last year.
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Ludwik Henryk Wilczyński (ur. 6 września 1892 w Żerebkach, zm. po 1945) – major piechoty Wojska Polskiego, działacz niepodległościowy, kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari.

Życiorys
Urodził się 6 września 1892 w Żerebkach, w ówczesnym powiecie starokonstantynowskim guberni wołyńskiej, w rodzinie Aleksandra i Heleny z Kotowiczów.

19 sierpnia 1920 został zatwierdzony z dniem 1 kwietnia 1920 w stopniu kapitana, w piechocie, w grupie oficerów byłych Korpusów Wschodnich i byłej armii rosyjskiej. Służył w 29 Pułku Piechoty w Kaliszu. 3 maja 1922 został zweryfikowany w stopniu kapitana ze starszeństwem z 1 czerwca 1919 i 80. lokatą w korpusie oficerów piechoty. W lipcu tego roku został zatwierdzony na stanowisku pełniącego obowiązki dowódcy batalionu sztabowego. 31 marca 1924 został mianowany majorem ze starszeństwem z 1 lipca 1923 i 28. lokatą w korpusie oficerów piechoty. Po awansie został wyznaczony na stanowisko kwatermistrza pułku. W maju 1927 został przesunięty na stanowisko dowódcy I batalionu. W kwietniu 1928 został przeniesiony do 51 Pułku Piechoty w Brzeżanach na stanowisko dowódcy II batalionu. W marcu 1930 został przeniesiony do Powiatowej Komendy Uzupełnień Nisko na stanowisko komendanta. Z dniem 1 stycznia 1933 został przeniesiony do Komendy Placu Kalisz na stanowisko komendanta. Z dniem 30 września 1935 został przeniesiony w stan spoczynku na podstawie orzeczenia komisji rewizyjno-lekarskiej. W latach 1937–1938 został zatrudniony w Junackich Hufcach Pracy na stanowisku komendanta 14 batalionu pracy w Wilnie.

Jako dowódca 6 kompanii zaopatrywania 5 Kresowej Dywizji Piechoty wziął udział w kampanii włoskiej, m.in. w bitwie o Monte Cassino.

Żonaty. Był ojczymem: Feliksa (ur. 14 stycznia 1907), studenta weterynarii, Jana Konstantego Trzebuchowskiego (ur. 15 maja 1908), kapitana 25 pułku artylerii lekkiej i Zbigniewa Izydora Trzebuchowskiego (ur. 14 stycznia 1912), porucznika 16 pułku ułanów.

Ordery i odznaczenia
 Krzyż Srebrny Orderu Wojskowego Virtuti Militari nr 3647
 Krzyż Niepodległości – 9 listopada 1933 "za pracę w dziele odzyskania niepodległości"
 Krzyż Walecznych trzykrotnie
 Złoty Krzyż Zasługi – 10 listopada 1928 "w uznaniu zasług, położonych na polu pracy w poszczególnych działach wojskowości"
 Medal Pamiątkowy za Wojnę 1918–1921
 Medal Dziesięciolecia Odzyskanej Niepodległości
 Krzyż Pamiątkowy Monte Cassino nr 27332
 Odznaka za Rany i Kontuzje z jedną gwiazdką
 Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Imperium Brytyjskiego – 13 sierpnia 1945
 francuski Medal Pamiątkowy Wielkiej Wojny

Uwagi

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Dowódcy batalionów 29 Pułku Strzelców Kaniowskich
Komendanci uzupełnień II Rzeczypospolitej
Kwatermistrzowie 29 Pułku Strzelców Kaniowskich
Ludzie związani z Niskiem
Majorowie piechoty II Rzeczypospolitej
Majorowie piechoty Polskich Sił Zbrojnych
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Niepodległości
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Srebrnym Orderu Virtuti Militari (II Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Pamiątkowym Monte Cassino
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Walecznych (II Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Walecznych (trzykrotnie)
Odznaczeni Medalem Dziesięciolecia Odzyskanej Niepodległości
Odznaczeni Medalem Pamiątkowym za Wojnę 1918–1921
Odznaczeni Odznaką za Rany i Kontuzje
Odznaczeni Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (II Rzeczpospolita)
Oficerowie 51 Pułku Piechoty Strzelców Kresowych
Polacy – oficerowie Imperium Rosyjskiego
Polacy – żołnierze Armii Imperium Rosyjskiego w I wojnie światowej
Polacy odznaczeni Medalem Pamiątkowym Wielkiej Wojny
Polacy odznaczeni Orderem Imperium Brytyjskiego
Uczestnicy bitwy o Monte Cassino 1944
Uczestnicy kampanii włoskiej 1943–1945
Uczestnicy wojny polsko-bolszewickiej (strona polska)
Urodzeni w 1892
Zmarli w XX wieku

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Thailand, Cambodia brawl over kickboxing event name at SEA Games
While the name Muay Thai may be better known around the world, Cambodian officials insist the sport originated from their Khmer culture. PHOTO: ST FILE
BANGKOK – Thailand will boycott a kickboxing event at the upcoming SEA Games in Cambodia, officials confirmed on Tuesday, in a bitter row with the hosts over what to call the sport: Muay Thai or Kun Khmer.
Thai officials are angry at plans by Cambodia to refer to the event – which they regard as their national sport – on the official programme as Kun Khmer and not Muay Thai.
While the name Muay Thai may be better known around the world, Cambodian officials insist the sport originated from their Khmer culture.
The event is one of several combat sports at the 11-country regional games, alongside others such as regular kickboxing, taekwondo, karate, kun bokator and vovinam.
Singapore will be sending combat athletes in kickboxing, taekwondo, judo, silat and wrestling.
The Games will be held in May in Cambodia for the first time, after its 1963 edition was cancelled.
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Charoen Wattanasin, vice-chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Thailand, said the International Olympic Committee had not endorsed the term Kun Khmer.
"They are violating international regulations for sports competitions," he told AFP. "The Thai Boxing Association won't be sending athletes to compete."
Cambodian sports officials are refusing to back down.
"We are the host country so we have the right to change it to Kun Khmer as the sport has its origin in Khmer and it is our culture," Vath Chamroeun, secretary-general of the Cambodian SEA Games organising committee, told AFP. "We have to satisfy our people."
He said Cambodia would retaliate and not send fighters to Thailand when it hosts the 2025 Games. The sport will be called Muay Thai at that event.
The two kingdoms have repeatedly clashed over their cultural heritage, with 2011 seeing several months of bloody military conflict over a disputed temple on the border.
Cambodia ultimately won that dispute when the UN's top court ruled in its favour.
Muay Thai secured Olympic recognition as a sport in 2021 – but its pathway to the Olympic Games is uncertain because of safety concerns. It allows some moves that are banned in other forms of kickboxing, such as elbow- and knee-strikes. AFP
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Girl Made of Stars: 12/06/19
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake is about fraternal twins and the aftermath of a rape accusation. Mara and Owen join their friends to party at the lake. That involves underage drinking and coupling. Afterwards, though, Owen's girlfriend claims he raped her. He swears it was consensual. Mara feels torn in half.
The entire drama that unfolds is one of a twin having grown up believing she can always trust her brother. She's also a feminist. People who say they were raped should be believed. But now there's a conundrum. She doesn't believe her brother is capable of raping but she doesn't want to call her friend a liar.
These types of novels are situation dramas just as there are situation comedies. It's a big, melodramatic what if. It felt more like a thought experiment than an actual believable narrative.
In terms of the road narrative spectrum, it sits fairly high up, but isn't fantasy. The travelers are the twins (CC). The destination is a metaphoric one. Both want to go back to a time before the party at the lake. While uhoric journeys (CC) are usually literal, this time it isn't. Finally the route taken is along the country roads to and from the lake, which count as Blue Highway (33). All together it's the tale of sibling travelers trying to reach uhoria via the Blue Highway (CCCC33).


Redwater senior pitching ace Bethanee Calicott has done it again, eclipsing the 200 strikeout mark for the third year in a row.
Calicott has had over 200 strikeouts as a sophomore, junior and now a senior, with only her freshman year not listed. You might remember that in her freshman year, Calicott was the backup pitcher by to former Redwater phenom Katy Worrell.


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Weaving and Knotting
The most basic of looms has been used to produce exquisite Oriental rugs. For the wandering nomads, two trees growing a few feet apart can become a loom when a couple of poles are stretched between the trees.
Looms can be horizontal or vertical. Vertical looms are further divided into the village loom, the Tabriz loom and the loom with rollers. The village loom is the simplest with an upper and lower beam, both horizontal, fastened firmly to two vertical posts. The warp threads are rolled around the lower beam and their free ends are brought together in bundles that are fixed to the upper beam.
Whether horizontal or vertical, the loom has a simple mechanism that allows the weaver to divide the warp threads into two sets so that the warp threads can be reversed after each shoot of the weft. The artisan first weaves a selvage. Several shoots of weft are made to obtain a narrow band which is intended as a firm edge for the knotted areas.
The knots of yarn are the basis of the carpet's pile. The most common types of knots are the Turkish (Ghiordes) knot and the Persian (Senneh) knot. An important factor in determining a carpet's origin is the identification of the type of knot with which the carpet is tied.
The basis of a carpet are two sets of threads -- the fixed warp threads which run from north to south, and the weft threads which are woven from east to west and separate each row of knots. The Turkish knot is knotted around two warp threads while the Persian knot is knotted around one warp thread and looped under the next in an TS' pattern.
Each knot is tied by hand. Skillful artisans can tie about 15 knots a minute or about 8,000 a day. This means it would take the artisan more than two months to weave a carpet that is 10 feet by 6 feet and has a hundred knots per square inch. Typically, a rug of this size would be woven by several artisans working together from a chart which shows the number of knots to be tied in each color.
Weft-wrapping or Soumak
In addition to knotted rugs, the Caucasus is known for producing Soumaks. These are pile-less carpets made with a flat weave technique of wrapped weft threads -- a technique used throughout the Middle East. The geometric decorative elements used for the Caucasian soumaks are based the designs used for knotted carpets. A typical layout includes superimposed medallions in the form of notched stars. Typically made of wool, these Soumak carpets are strong and compact.
The majority of Oriental rugs, including those from Turkey and the Caucasus, use Turkish knots. Many Turkoman and Persian rugs use Persian knots, but Turkish knots also are common in those regions. The geographical dividing line seems to be the Caspian Sea. To the west of it, the Turkish knot is used almost exclusively. To the east, the Persian knot dominates. Lying on both sides of the dividing line, Persia uses both types of knots.
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For Car-Free Sunday, VO Event organised a sports day to encourage youngsters to take up a physical activity. Sports enthusiasts raced to the Cinquantenaire to discover something new and have a go at the various things on offer.
A skate ramp in a church? Why not? This is exactly what VO Event did to introduce the brand's skate collection during the Levi's Skateboarding Event in Berlin. For two days, skateboarders invaded this protestant church to celebrate their own religion. Their energy provided a striking contrast with the church's serenity, as they performed acrobatic tricks in the light of the stained glass windows.
VO Event remixed the traditional Mobility Week and Car-Free Sunday with a youthful touch. We took the motto "Be Mobilmix Be Brussels" to heart to really encourage residents to switch to more eco-friendly modes of transport. The huge Tunnel Party, held in the Porte de Namur tunnel, brought a breath of fresh air to the city centre.


Bordon Country Club offers a choice of services intended predominantly at golfers and tourists who are looking for something that is a little uncommon.
The grounds are large and include garden areas, tennis courts, croquet lawns and access to country ambles.
Uniqueness of style is significant that it is in keeping with the period and style of Bordon country club.
The need for overnight accommodation is rising and country clubs, like hotels, are enjoying bigger popularity as a consequence. Hotels in inimitable and remarkable settings have benefited from the need for reasonably priced accommodation.
Bordon country club is more than a great hotel. Our country club creates an atmosphere of pampered luxury that surpasses the standard fare of Bordon.
We plan to be more than a splendid hotel. We plan to create an environment of pampered luxury that surpasses the standard fare of Bordon. Increasing our exposure by the use of the internet and introducing the region to people that have not yet visited this fascinating region will permit us to keep up a higher than normal habitation rate and above average profits.
Our country club offers a range of comprehensive business facilities available in luxurious settings.
Differentiating the variety of business services open, from that of the competition, will assist not only in building the Country Club brand as a whole, but will appeal to regular travellers, who need a superior level of individual service and respect than they can receive at other competitive hotels in Bordon.
This will provide the Country Club with a prospect to leverage its core competencies as regards servicing the traveller in a luxurious environment.
Following a brief period of becoming well-known the Country Club will diverse into further ventures to ensure a steady stream of patrons through its doors.
The mission for Bordon Country Club is committed to providing a facility that is dedicated to serving golfers and other tourists in the hunt for a unique environment. The mission of the Country Club is to develop into the number one choice of visitors to Bordon.
Bordon Country Club will strive to make each customer feel that they are vital to our business and will give each client value for their cash.
The keys to success will be to offer brilliant client service with a proactive lively staff in a quality facility.


So how does your home stack up as a domestic church?
1. Could you be caught in prayer in your home?
2. Do those who live in your house ever pray together – even grace? Do the heads of the house offer blessings?
3. Are Christian/Catholic ideals in manner, speech, and action upheld, fostered and honored?
4. Is Mass and regular confession a priority in scheduling?
5. Do images, shows, stories, or any other manner of media invited into your living room through television, computers, and other electronic or print media noble or at least not scandalous?
8. Is the faith ever discussed (even the weekend's homily)?
10. Has your house been blessed or given a patron?
11. Are there resources for learning or being inspired about the faith? Do you a book blessings and use it?
12. Is your home a place of love and joy?
government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it.
are thinkers, dreamers, explorers, artists, writers, engineers.
but only if its roots are given a healthy foundation.
authoritarian ideologies of instructors, do not be disheartened.
mind instead of directing it. Demand that you be interested in class.
Demand that the excuse, "You have to learn this for the test"
properly, but focus more on learning rather than getting good grades.
do not comply. Our potential is at stake.
watching me. I couldn't have accomplished this without all of you.
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Memo: NCAA to Furlough its Entire Staff for 3-8 Weeks
The memo from NCAA President Mark Emmert went out to the association's more than 1,200 member schools Wednesday. The furloughs will not affect senior executives.
Starting Sept. 21 through the end of January 2021, all national office staff will be subjected to a mandatory three-week furlough, Emmert wrote. Some staff will be furloughed up to eight weeks, depending on position and "seasonal timing of their duties."
Earlier this year, USA Today reported Emmert and NCAA senior management were taking a 20% salary reduction and vice presidents would be taking 10% pay cuts. The association also implemented salary freezes for all employees and did not fill open positions.
The latest belt-tightening measures include voluntary separation and early retirement packages being offered to many NCAA employees.
"There decisions are unfortunate but necessary as we continue to identify ways to cut costs across the national office," Emmert wrote. He said all the measures represent "top of budget cuts in every national office group totaling nearly half our operating budget."
The NCAA took a massive financial hit when it canceled the men's college basketball tournament in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament accounts for almost all of the NCAA's annual revenue, which reached $1.1 billion last year.
The NCAA cut its annual distribution to Division I conferences and schools this year from an expected $600 million to $225 million.
"We are committed to supporting our member schools and conferences and student-athletes in every way possible, and yet I expect that some of our services to membership may be limited or delayed during this period furloughs," Emmert wrote. "I ask for your patience as we all strive to weather these difficult times together."
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