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Foundation Trust Initiates Partnership With Greater Boston Stage Company To Support Regional Theater
A curious observer might wonder why a new charitable foundation with an otherwise clear emphasis on supporting vulnerable communities and the nonprofit organizations that serve them has designated preservation of New England's cultural and environmental heritage as its fourth priority funding track.
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Access to the Arts and Nature Is an Essential Part of Healing
For the Foundation Trust, this decision was obvious. Access to nature, culture and the arts is an essential but often overlooked component of healing, recovery and healthy development for human beings of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. This realization moved the Foundation Trust to commence what will hopefully be a long-term partnership with the Greater Boston Stage Company (GBSC)– an award-winning regional theater in its 18th season located in Stoneham, Massachusetts.
Dr. Joseph Spinazzola, Executive Director of the Foundation Trust explains "Of all the arts, none span generations and open lines of communication across communities more so than the theater arts." Consequently, supporting the Greater Boston Stage Company was an obvious choice for the Foundation Trust on multiple levels.
Dr. Spinazzola elaborates:
"The Company's fastidious selection of diverse, socially relevant, and gripping plays give voice to critically important cultures and subcultures in America that have often silently co-existed for decades only to periodically violently collide precisely because they lack safe venues to come together and make themselves known to each other in a meaningful way that can ultimately transcend fear and misunderstanding through joy and laughter."
"Second, the GBSC works hard to serve as a conduit for and convener of community involvement across the lifespan, from their array of year-round classes and festivals for children and youth to their active efforts to engage and sustain the connection of sometimes otherwise isolated elders to their larger community through the theater. Ultimately, our Foundation's mission across all its priority tracks is to help children, adults and communities impacted by trauma, hardship, impairment and other life adversities to not just survive but thrive. Sponsoring programming offered by the Greater Boston Stage Company embodies this goal and simultaneously champions the voices and perspectives of many of the same marginalized communities that our other tracks serve."
Leaders from the Greater Boston Stage Company echo the importance of these goals. Per Weylin Symes, Artistic Director at GBSC,
"The Foundation Trust's support of live theatre helps to build and strengthen community by making it possible for people of all ages and walks of life to gather for shared experiences – something all too rare in today's world."
Adds Jim Oosterman, President of the Board of Trustees at GBSC,
"Live, professional theatre is one piece of the artistic fabric that makes our communities vibrant and improves both the social and business welfare where we live and work. Our theatre brings people into our community and helps build up the other businesses in the area, too. When one business or organization in our locality is successful, others are able to draw off that strength and also succeed."
Mr. Symes further explains the importance of supporting "straight theater" (aka dramatic plays) versus musicals:
"In a time when non-musical theatre is harder and harder to come by and less and less financially viable, the Foundation Trust's specific support of our dramatic programming truly helps to keep the art of theatre alive and relevant in today's world. Their support allows us to continue to share stories that reflect the world around us with our communities – stories like "Unveiled" that shows us the point of view of five Moslem women in a post-9/11 world. These stories look at our world today and allow our patrons to be exposed to ideas and stories they would otherwise not be able to experience."
Season 18 Opens with "Miss Holmes", (a Female Sherlock)
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Beginning in Season 18 with Miss Holmes, a timely and ingenious re-envisioning of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic featuring a female Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, the Foundation Trust will serve as a Platinum Sponsor of at least one dramatic play per season, and will begin to explore the potential of forming a more substantive partnership with Greater Boston Stage Company to work together in innovative ways to bridge communities and shift developmental trajectories for at risk children and youth. Concludes Weylin Sims, "Theatre can't survive without the support of generous donors like the Foundation Trust."
Miss Holmes runs from April 5-22. For tickets and more information about the Greater Boston Stage Company, visit www.greaterbostonstage.org.
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Published: 03 Oct 2014 05:44 PM BdST Updated: 04 Oct 2014 03:25 PM BdST
Sheikh Hasina has put days of speculations to rest saying Abdul Latif Siddique, who is facing fire for his snide remarks about the Hajj and Tabligh, will not be in her Cabinet.
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The prime minister made her government's stance clear on Friday afternoon at a media call amid criticism over the telecoms minister's comments.
Hasina said that the government will not be held to account for anyone's "inconsiderate remarks".
"I will do what I said, there's no doubt. I won't keep him in the Cabinet. He won't be in it," she said replying to a question.
However, the prime minister did not specify when her order would be executed.
"Some procedures must be followed in case of a minister's removal. (He) will have to resign if I give the order. Otherwise, (he) will be sacked."
"But for removing (a minister), the file will have to be sent to the president. The president is abroad to perform Hajj. I have asked the Cabinet Division to prepare the file on him (Siddique) and they are done with it," the prime minister further said.
She said the cabinet secretary would take file to president when he gets back and that Siddique would be out once the president signed it.
Siddique, who has been at the helm of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, drew widespread condemnation after rubbishing the practice of Hajj and Tabligh Jamaat at a programme in New York on Sept 28.
A video clip of him making that statement kicked up a storm as it went viral on the internet and touched a few raw nerves within his party and beyond.
"So much manpower is wasted over the Hajj. Two million people are now in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj. They have no work or role in production. They only eat and go abroad using the country's money," Siddique was heard saying in the video.
Since then, over two dozen cases have been filed against the senior Awami League leader at different courts in several districts of Bangladesh, accusing him of hurting religious sentiments.
The BNP and many Islamist organisations have demanded Siddique's immediate arrest. The BNP has also asked the government to punish him under the law.
Amid the ruckus, the ruling party said its chief Hasina had decided to sack Siddique from the Cabinet and the Awami League. Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu said similar things in his Friday's statement.
But everyone was interested to learn the fact from the prime minister at the press conference.
Friday's media call, on her recent tour of the US to attend the 69th UN General Assembly, was held at her official residence Ganabhaban.
She readout a written statement first greeting people on the occasion of the Hajj, Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja.
At the beginning of the question-answer session she said she knew what everyone wanted to ask her.
Inevitably, the first question was about Latif Siddique, to which Hasina said, "If anyone made an inconsiderate statement, it will certainly not be acceptable to us. So, we'll take necessary steps against him.
"We've already done that."
Replying to a question on whether the government was in a tight spot over the minister's comment, she said, "No."
"I don't think the government is under pressure. He (Siddique) is the one in trouble.
"What's the government fault here? It did not say anything. He (Siddique) will have to pay for his own doing."
She clarified that she ordered the minister's expulsion as the government would not accept anyone's comments or acts hurting religious sentiments.
"I had only boarded the plane when I learnt about it (Siddique's comments) and contacted once I was in London. I said we must take actions. I didn't delay a bit in making up my mind," the prime minister recalled.
Asked whether a political issue was being created out of the minister's comments, she said, "It's not something that can be used as an issue. The comments hurting religious sentiment cannot be acceptable to anyone."
On expelling the presidium member from the party, Awami League President Hasina said, "The party will have to discuss the matter of expulsion. The working committee will discuss the allegations and decide."
Replying to another question, she asserted: "It does not matter what the others say, I have faith in the people. Common people do not make a mistake... they are the ones I mainly trust. He (Siddique) is the one in trouble, not the Awami League and the government."
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Bionic Bird is like a real swallow, especially in its ways of flying. We own Edwin Van Ruymbeke this furtive and ultra-manageable robot bird, who is a French engineer. During an AFP interview, he said that the idea has been incubated "for a long time", except that at that time, the technology still didn't allow the faithful reproduction of the birds' wings.
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Edwin's passion for flying robots is probably not a matter of chance. In the 1960s, his father and grandfather were actually laying a plastic bird called Tim Bird. Then, the flapping of the wings was produced with an elastic torsion mechanism. By the way, let's emphasize that China continues to produce this flying toy robot sold 20 million copies across the world...
To finalize this Bionic Bird, a real-false flying swallow, Van Ruymbeke gave the bulk of his time to study birds, with the goal of gathering as much information as possible about their flying style. It's necessary to say that this great enthusiast and no less aeronautics engineer conferred a touch of originality in the wonderful world of drones.
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Edwin Van Ruymbeke achieved a feat by allowing his robot bird Bionic Bird to fly as a real swallow. This ability is certainly to put into account of this toy robot's characteristics. In fact, for a span of 33cm, it weighs only 9.5 grams. In its bowels, we make a list:
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If there is one thing that could be blamed for this robot bird, it would be its autonomy that reaches a ceiling for this moment to 8 minutes. In contrast, Bionic Bird is delivered with a mobile USB charger. That confirms the passion of the Marseille engineer for nature: the toy robot sits on the charger in the form of an egg to regain power. After 12 minutes, the game can take again.
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Its ultra-maneuverability establishes undoubtedly one of the strengths of this remote-controlled bird. It's enough to play on inclinations of the smartphone so that it negotiates the turns 'like a real one". Not surprisingly, its shell is made of ultra-light elastic foam (0.5 g), but also ultra-resistant to shocks.
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Confidence, Status, and Women Undermining Women
23:20 Mon 01 Feb 2010. Updated: 23:31 03 Nov 2010
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Recently Clay Shirky wrote "A Rant About Women", a piece essentially claiming that women needed to act more confidently, even or especially in situations where confidence would be unwarranted, in order to be more successful. There's more to it than that, but that was what I took as the core message. I think there are some valid points in there, but I also think that Shirky radically underestimates the ways in which women are frequently punished for acting confident, and that he appears to assume that a system which promotes self-aggrandizers is something that we all (not just women) should accept as the natural way of things.
I might write up a longer response to "A Rant About Women" at some point, but right now I want to bring some attention to a piece that's probably more important than my response.
That piece is "Girl Culture and the Race to the Bottom: About that Rant About Women". I suggest you go read it. It contains a number of important but ugly truths, and is focused on the ways that modern Western female culture is focused on undermining women, and how more or less constant undermining from a female peer group is a major feature of women's lives from adolescence onwards (and maybe earlier).
Just as I don't think there's enough discussion about male status and gender role enforcement and how it forms a critical strut of support for society's patriarchal bias, I don't think there's been enough discussion of how female peer groups do similar work to prop up the power structure, and I hope that posts like this one help bring that out more.
It's difficult territory, and I should stress that I don't think the answer is anything as simple as "women should act more confident and be nicer to each other". I do think it's important to recognize that it's not at all simple to unravel our responsibility for, and complicity in, the deeply harmful and problematic structure of our society.
The concept of, and importance of, "status" runs through this entire discussion, for example going right down the center of one of the most depressing (to me) things from that piece:
[A]dult female friends have told me they only want to date dudes more successful than themselves, because dating dudes less successful than themselves always sends them through some wacky hell-ride of Let's Take My Girlfriend Down a Peg that they'd rather not endure again.
—Sady Doyle. "Girl Culture and the Race to the Bottom: About that Rant About Women". Tiger Beatdown, 30 Jan 2010.
My first reaction to that was "what, really?" followed by a sinking feeling of despair. My second was a desire to get these dudes in a room and shout at them about how awful and pathetic it is to undermine your partner because of your own insecurities. My third reaction was that the phenomenon is so common because of how the whole notion of "success" is constructed, and how it feeds into our conceptions of gender roles. There's no definition here, partly because the article isn't about that and partly because for the author's purpose none is necessary, but what does "success" mean? Here it's primarily economic, I'm quite sure. So that's where we really are, in 2010? Where men and women are both subject to status pressure if the man isn't the more economically powerful of the two? Note that this is self-perpetuating in a variety of ways: if the women refuse to date men less well-off than they are, they reinforce the notion that such pairings are strange and low-status; furthermore, on a large scale this actually creates economic pressure for men to earn more than women. It also reinforces the notion that women should gain status not from their own achievements (economic or otherwise) but from those of their male partner, which is pretty clearly not a recipe for anyone's happiness.
There's another larger topic here, one that I suspect is even more controversial: the ways in which status judgments by each gender about the other, including the judgment of who to partner with, are wrapped up in supporting the current social structure. It's tough to find a messier mixing of the personal and the political than that one, I think, and that's not something I'm going to explore further at the moment.
Instead, a personal note: I've been extremely lucky in having many female friends and acquaintances who have managed to shrug off a lot of the confidence-killing bullshit. I have female friends who are highly intelligent and know it and don't try to hide it; who are highly successful; who are creative and possessed of the determination to see their creative projects through; who are justifiably loud and forthright about knowing their shit; who lead and direct groups and make things happen. To them I want to say: you rock. The world needs more of you. You shouldn't feel bad if your confidence is dented by the kind of crap under discussion here, and I'm not exhorting you to act as Shirky suggests, but you should know that you deserve to feel confident and happy about what you've done and who you are, and that anyone who tells you otherwise, outright or by subtle implication, is full of shit.
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Cool piece , on another note from the WORST friend in the world, happy belated birthday!
Amen ;)
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21 Mar 2010 at 22:26
You know, I love your post, but part of the mansplaining "You women should be more confident" is, imo, a bit of a crock.
It's explained in detail both in the initial mansplaining diatribe and the feminist reactions thereto what the consequences are of women *not* displaying or acting on their confidence and competence.
Neither initial diatribe nor reactions goes *at all* into the beatdowns that await us women — from both sexes, I emphatically add — if we *do*.
I have to admit I find that a rather singular omission.
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On children's day, PrayasJuvenile Aid Centre Society organized a 'Run for Children' at Vinay Marg adjacent Nehru Park in Chanakyapuri, Delhi.
Actor Randeep Hooda, Boxer Vijender Beniwal, Commissioner of Police Mr. Amulya Patnaik, Singer Hamsika Iyer, Singer and many other personalities graced the occasion to encourage the kids.
New Delhi, 14th November 2017. President of India Shree Ram Nath Kovind today called upon the children to work hard in such a way that they should play a significant role in the future of the national building. On the occasion of Children's Day, under the aegis of Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre Society ten (10) Children from the disadvantaged sections of society went to the President House to meet the Honorable president of India.
Earlier in the morning, these children won the massive children marathon 'Run for Children' organized under the aegis of one of India's largest non-profit organization children belongs to downtrodden Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre Society. About 5000 children from different schools of Delhi and 1,000 underprivileged children participated in the marathon to build awareness about Right of Children.
Actor Randeep Hooda, Boxer Vijender Beniwal, Commissioner of Police Mr. Amulya Patnaik, Singer Hamsika Iyer, Singer and Mr. Amod K Kanth, General Secretary of Prayas were amongst many other prominent personalities graced the occasion to encourage the kids.
Actor Randeep Hooda said that today is the day of children and He is very happy to meet these children. He appreciated the efforts of PRAYAS and Shree Amod K Kanth.
The 'Run for Children' started at 7:30 am from Central Secretariat Ground, Vinay Marg Chanakya Puri (adjacent to Nehru Park), proceeding to Hyatt Hotel, Via Leela Palace. The return lap was through Hyatt Hotel, taking a U-turn from Mahatma Gandhi Flyover before terminating at Central Secretariat Ground.
Groups of School children joined the homeless, working, destitute and other less privileged and Special children to run a short marathon from Secretariat Ground to Leila Hotel and back on the same route. Celebrities, VIPs, Politicians, Corporates, top cops, Govt officials and representatives of NGOs flagged off the kids whose massive presence and electrifying enthusiasm have become the hallmark of the Children's Day in the capital next only to Bal Diwas function.
Four hour-long celebrations started with a 4 km long Run of the more than 4,000 children belonging from different strata of society in the age group of 10- 18 divided into four groups followed by cultural programmes presented by various Projects of Prayas, different NGOs, Public and Government Schools.
On this occasion, Shree Amod Kanth said that Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre Society, which was born out of the dire need of the marginalized children in 1988 is completing twenty-seven years of its existence on November 14, 2015. Prayas JAC Society is a national level humanitarian, gender sensitive and Child focused development organization operating 242 Centers including 52 Vocational Training Centers, for children etc. across the country in 09 States/UTs directly serving about 50,000 beneficiaries. The organization serves over 15,000 marginalized children and 25,000 youth and women addressing the multiple issues and programs relating to child protection and juvenile justice, trafficking of children and women, vocational and life skills training, empowering women through Self-Help Groups and Income Generation Programmes, promotion of entrepreneurship, facilitating credit through bank linkages and also direct microfinance operations.


So wrote Sen. Rick Scott in a Washington Post Op-Ed that had, by Monday morning, garnered more than 6,700 reader comments, some of them rather unflattering to the freshman senator from Florida.
Some Washington Post readers have used such terms as "goon," "toady," "goofy" and "fool" to describe the former Florida governor, who helped expand GOP control of the Senate, where Trump's judicial nominations are confirmed, and where – according to Second Amendment advocates – the extremist gun control agenda of House Democrats will likely collide with a wall similar to that which Trump envisions for the southern border.
If one peruses the comments about Scott, there are two conclusions possible: the irrational hate extends far beyond Trump to any Republican, or Scott really is a "dangerous demagogue" as described in one reader comment, who possesses a "plutocratic mindset" as alleged by another.
Scott evidently is not well-liked by Washington Post readers.
And where the Wall comes in, Bennett did something Scott didn't. Bennett recalled some inconvenient history.
"Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was on record as supporting border and immigration control, including walls and barriers in 2009," Bennett noted. "Now its chief opponent, he recently tweeted, 'The shutdown cost the U.S. economy $11 billion…what a devastating & pointless exercise this has been.' With an estimated cost of $5 billion dollars, Schumer could have approved the wall, saved $6 billion dollars, avoided a shutdown, and been in line with his party's stance on immigration reform during the Obama administration.
Scott may be new to Washington, D.C. but Bennett knows the landscape (both physical and political) inside the Beltway well enough to find Capitol Hill in his sleep.
Bennett served in the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations. He's been around long enough to know the difference between something fragrant, and something rotten.


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Located along the Tigris River, Hasankeyf is an ancient town in the Batman Province in southeastern Turkey. Many valuable historical and cultural works and thousands historical caves in this town will be under the water of the Dam of Ilisu. Activists of nature, environment and history refuse the building of this dam here, which is supported by some Europe countries.
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Mehmet Masum Suer is a Kurdish international photographer and freelance journalist living in city of Diyarbakir in Turkey. He began his career as a journalist in 1974, then worked for different agencies and newspapers of Turkey as a reporter, photo-journalist, writer, redactor and representative. He quit journalism after 1993, and got involved on his researches about history, culture and language. Mehmet Masum Suer has been taking photos professionally in different fields besides photojournalism since 2005. Suer takes pictures of historic places and buildings especially in citys of Diyarbakir, Mardin, Van and Hasankeyf. Meanwhile he has been involved on a project of taking photos of famous Kurdish politicians and artists. Cultural, historical values, and works of art are the subjects that take his attention. Suer also records the cultural festivals, and presentations as documentaries. Some of his exhibitions took place in Turkey, Iraq, and USA. Photos of Suer are especially used in touristic publications such as guide books, brochures, and postcards as well as they are used in international tourism fairs, newspapers, and magazines.
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Deeplight is a young adult fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, published October 31, 2019 by Macmillan Children's Books. It is her 9th novel.

Plot
In the fictional island region of the Myriad, the inhabitants worshiped and revered enormous sea creatures referred to as 'gods' that fed on human fear from a source below the sea known as the Undersea. 30 years before the events of the book, the gods all turned on each other and tore each other apart in a disaster known as the Cataclysm, and the remnants of their bodies are now used as high durability material called 'godware' for various purposes. Our protagonist, Hark, lives on the island Lady's Crave with his best friend Jelt. In an accident involving a stolen bathysphere, Jelt seemingly drowns but comes back to life when a submerged ball of godware reanimates his body and heals his wounds. They decide to use the ball to heal people as a way to pay their debts for stealing the bathysphere. However, Hark soon discovers that prolonged exposure to the ball affects your body in strange ways, and is worried about its effect on Jelt, who never leaves its presence. Discovering that the ball is actually the heart of one of the gods, Hark tries to warn Jelt but is too late, as he is already too far gone, having been molded by the heart into something barely resembling a human. In a clash between the two, Hark steals the heart but is captured by the Leaguers, a group who wish to bring back the age of the gods. They transport the heart to the undersea to awaken their own god-construct, but the Jelt-thing appears and merges with the heart and the god-construct, empowered by the fear in the undersea. In a final altercation, Hark reconcile that Jelt drowned in the bathysphere accident, being only kept alive since by the power of the god-heart. Hark crushes the heart, killing the Jelt-thing.

Reception
Deeplight has received positive reviews from The Guardian, Readings, Common Sense Media, and Booklist, including starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. The book also received the following accolades:

 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Artwork Nominee (2019)
 Lodestar Award Nominee (2020)
 American Library Association Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten (2021)

References

Young adult fantasy novels
British horror novels
English-language novels
2019 British novels
Macmillan Publishers books
2019 science fiction novels
2019 children's books

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In Tokyo Pocahontas has sometimes been seen in American Waterfront or Critter Country, but both of those are increasingly infrequent.


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36th Fajr Festival opens on 120th anniversary Iranian Cinema
IFP – The 36th edition of Fajr International Film Festival opened last night as the country celebrated the 120th anniversary of the Iranian Cinema.
Renowned actor Reza Kianian cut into a cake on Wednesday to celebrate the birthday anniversary of cinema in Iran.
The ceremony was followed by the national premiere of Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi's latest drama Beyond the Clouds.
This year's edition of Fajr International Film Festival is being held in Tehran on April 19-27, according to a Farsi report by ISNA.
The prestigious cinematic event is set to convene over 300 special guests ranging from filmmakers to screenwriters, actors to activists.
Founded in 1982, FIFF is considered as Iran's largest annual film festival which celebrates cultural exchange, displays creative achievements of highly acclaimed cineastes and pays tribute to quality international films.
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Q: How is Mesa different from OpenGL drivers? What exactly does it mean to say that Mesa is an implementation of OpenGL? Don't the drivers of my Nvidia card implement all the OpenGL functions, etc.? So given that the drivers of my Nvidia card are taking Opengl calls and handing them off to the hardware, what exactly does Mesa do? Can someone clarify the distinction between Mesa and drivers?

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Can someone clarify the distinction between Mesa and drivers?

Mesa provides the client side OpenGL interface for the open source GPU drivers based on the DRI2/DRM architecture. Or in other words: It's also a part of a driver.
If you've got the proprietary drivers from NVidia or AMD installed you don't need Mesa. If you want to use the open source drivers (nouveau, radeon, radeonhd, intel) you need Mesa.

A: I believe LinuxQuestions.org forum member geeman2.0 provided a good explanation for this matter:

OpenGL and Mesa aren't really two separate choices, but rather Mesa is a specific type of OpenGL.
OpenGL is simply an interface that defines a standard set of functions needed for drawing 3d graphics. It doesn't involve the actual code that makes these functions happen, it only specifies what the functions are called and what they are supposed to do.
An openGL implementation provides the actual code that runs the methods specified by the OpenGL standard. Without an implementation installed, you cannot run any opengl programs.
Mesa is just one of many OpenGL implementations, and is the most standard one included in linux distributions. It does all the work in software, which is why it is slow.
When you install Nvidia or ATI drivers for a fancy graphics card, these drivers provide a new OpenGL implementation that runs on the graphics card. This implementation would take the place of the Mesa implementation, but it is still an openGL implementation. That is, all of Mesa/ATI/NVidia drivers implement the same set of functions, they just do it in different ways, and they are all openGL.

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What exactly does it mean to say that Mesa is an implementation of
OpenGL?

First of all, OpenGL is an API Specification created between Khronos and the videocard manufacturer (Nvidia, ATI, Intel, etc), it's like an agreement on what functions the hardware is capable of.
Mesa is a software library for 3D computer graphics that provides a generic Khronos-compliant OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms. So, for example, if you are running Linux you will probably have to install Mesa in order to generate any kind of graphics. For Microsoft Windows there is already an implementation installed.

Don't the drivers of my Nvidia card implement all the OpenGL
functions, etc.?

Yes, your Nvidia card driver implements OpenGL functions.

So given that the drivers of my Nvidia card are taking Opengl calls
and handing them off to the hardware, what exactly does Mesa do?

Your program communicates to Mesa, Mesa to your video card's driver, the driver to the actual GPU, the GPU sends the signal to the monitor for you to finally watch the drawing.

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One City. One Movement. A World of Stories.
Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915. It's the day when tens of thousands of women marched up Fifth Avenue, demanding the right to vote in New York City. Thirteen of today's bestselling authors have taken this moment as inspiration to raise the voices of history and breathe fresh life into their struggles and triumphs.
The characters depicted here, some well-known, others unfamiliar, each inspire and reinvigorate the power of democracy. We follow a young woman who is swept up in the protests when all she expected was to come sell her apples in the city. We see Alva Vanderbilt as her white-gloved sensibility is transformed over the course of the single fateful day. Ida B. Wells battles for racial justice in the women's suffrage movement so that every woman's voice can be heard. Each story stands on its own, but together Stories From Suffragette City becomes a symphony, painting a portrait of a country looking for a fight and ever restless for progress and equality.
With an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories from:
M.J. Rose
Katherine J. Chen
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Megan Chance
Chris Bohjalian
and Fiona Davis
Publisher Name Henry Holt and Co.
Imprint Henry Holt and Co.
Publication Date Oct 27, 2020
Fiction & Literature » Fiction: general & literary
Fiction & Literature » Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Fiction & Literature » Fiction: narrative themes » Narrative theme: Politics
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Yul Brynner (Youl [ou Yuliy] Borisovich Briner, Vladivostok, 11 de julho de 1920 — Nova York, 10 de outubro de 1985), foi um ator russo-americano.

Carreira
Devido à sua ascendência mongol passou a se denominar Taidje Khan. Brynner era filho do inventor e cônsul suíço na Rússia Boris Brynner e Marussia Blagowidowa.

Depois que seu pai deixou a família na década de 1930, passou a infância entre Pequim e Paris, chegando a estudar Filosofia na Sorbonne. Em 1941, chegou aos Estados Unidos para estudar teatro. Oito anos depois estreou no cinema com o filme Port of New York.

Raspou a cabeça em 1951 quando foi convidado a representar o rei de Sião no musical da Broadway, O Rei e Eu, peça que representou durante trinta anos. Anos depois ele ganhou o Oscar de melhor ator pela sua atuação no filme O Rei e Eu, baseado no mesmo espetáculo. Nos anos 70 ele retomaria o personagem em uma série de televisão.

Estrelou várias produções de sucesso entre as quais podem ser citadas: Os Dez Mandamentos, Sete Homens e um Destino, Anastácia, a Princesa Esquecida, Os Irmãos Karamazov, Taras Bulba e O Farol do Fim do Mundo.

Casou quatro vezes e teve quatro filhos. Faleceu vítima de um câncer no pulmão, no mesmo dia em que faleceu o ator Orson Welles.

A banda de punk rock inglesa Toy Dolls compôs uma canção sobre o visual capilar do ator, denominada "Yul Brynner was a skinhead.

Filmografia
 1949 - Port of New York
 1956 - The King and I
 1956 - The Ten Commandments
 1956 - Anastasia
 1958 - The Brothers Karamazov
 1958 - The Buccaneer
 1959 - The Journey
 1959 - The Sound and the Fury
 1959 - Solomon and Sheba
 1960 - Once More, with Feeling!
 1960 - Testament of Orpheus
 1960 - Surprise Package
 1960 - The Magnificent Seven
 1961 - Goodbye Again
 1962 - Escape from Zahrain
 1962 - Taras Bulba
 1963 - Kings of the Sun
 1964 - Flight from Ashiya
 1964 - Invitation to a Gunfighter
 1965 - Morituri
 1966 - Cast a Giant Shadow
 1966 - The Poppy Is Also a Flower
 1966 - Return of the Seven
 1966 - Triple Cross
 1967 - The Double Man
 1967 - The Long Duel
 1968 - Villa Rides
 1969 - The Picasso Summer
 1969 - The File of the Golden Goose
 1969 - The Battle of Neretva
 1969 - The Madwoman of Chaillot
 1969 - The Magic Christian (participação)
 1971 - Adiós, Sabata
 1971 - The Light at the Edge of the World
 1971 - Romance of a Horsethief
 1971 - Catlow
 1972 - Fuzz
 1973 - Night Flight from Moscow
 1973 - Westworld
 1975 - The Ultimate Warrior
 1976 - Death Rage
 1976 - Futureworld

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Óscar de melhor ator
Atores da Rússia
Atores dos Estados Unidos
Norte-americanos de ascendência russa
Naturais de Vladivostok
Mortos em 1985
Tony de melhor ator secundário em musical


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How does Oregon keep itself so clean?
We talked in June about a study by Indiana University and the City University of Hong Kong that ranked the U.S. states from least to most corrupt, with Mississippi scoring worst and Oregon as best. A couple of weeks ago, Reid Wilson of the Washington Post asked how Oregon does it.
Over a period of 32 years, he said, "there were fewer corruption convictions in Oregon than in any other state, when controlling for the number of state workers."
So what's Oregon's approach? Here's what Wilson came up with:
Robust transparency laws. Oregon's rules for campaign finance disclosures are among the toughest in the country.
Limited gift giving. Lobbyists and special interest groups can't give gifts worth more than $50 to state employees, Wilson said.
No no-bid contracts. Oregon requires most public-improvement contracts to be awarded based on competitive bidding.
"An awful lot of corruption comes from government contracts," Melanie Sloan told Wilson. She's a former federal prosecutor who now runs Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
"You can't have no-bid contracts. You have to have transparent contracting procedures," Sloan said.
It sounds too simple but the fundamentals done well always work. Throwing, hitting, fielding.
Between 2003 and 2012, Wilson said, more than 7,000 state and local officials across the United States were charged with corruption, according to the DOJ's 2013 report to Congress.
"The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia reported 336 federal convictions over that time period," Wilson said. "New Jersey's U.S. attorney reported 428 convictions; and the four U.S. attorneys who oversee Texas reported 775 convictions. By contrast, Oregon registered just 42 convictions during that period."
The most corrupt states — Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee — registered more than four times more convictions than the least-corrupt states.
"Those states should look to Oregon," Wilson said, "home of the most honest government workers in the country."
Just keep it simple.
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Title: West Side Expanded Mental Health Services Program and Governing Commission
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Contact E-Mail: odagray@yahoo.com
Function: The Governing Commission shall maintain the expanded mental health services fund for the purposes of paying the costs of administering the Program and carrying out its duties under this Act, subject to the limitations and procedures set forth in this Act.
Term: Of the Governor's initial appointments, 2 shall be for 3 years, one for 2 years, and 2 for one year; and of the Mayor's initial appointments, one shall be for 3 years, 2 for 2 years, and one for one year. Then, 3 years or until successor is appointed.
Qualifications: No fewer than 7 commissioners serving at one time shall reside within the territory of the Program.
Composition: Five Commissioners appointed by the Governor -- 4 commissioners from a list of nominees supplied by a community organization or community organizations as defined in this Act; these 4 commissioners shall reside in the territory of the Program. -- 1 shall be a mental health professional and one shall be a mental health consumer residing in the territory of the Program. Four appointed by the Mayor of the municipality -- 3 commissioners from a list of nominees supplied by a community organization or community organizations as defined in this Act; these 3 commissioners shall reside in the territory of the Program. -- one shall be a mental health professional and one shall be a mental health consumer residing in the territory of the Program.
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Periodontal disease in dogs is a pretty serious business. Some symptoms include bad dog breath, bleeding or inflamed gums, missing teeth, not eating, and sensitivity around the mouth, which can lead to behavior problems. If left untreated, periodontal disease can cause heart disease, kidney disease, and liver disease, and a dog's jaw can even fracture. As you can see, good dog dental hygiene is much more than preventing bad dog breath.
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A dog may also have regular dental services under general anesthesia from his veterinarian. Dexter had a dental about two years ago. I try really hard to clean Dexter's teeth every day, but admittedly, I'm not perfect.
Bark5TM is a natural, alcohol-free dog dental spray. The company takes our dogs' health to heart by ensuring the ingredients used in their pet dental spray are registered though the Low Risk Veterinary Health Products Notification Number in Canada! That's pretty impressive. But, as with everything I use with Dexter, the first thing I do is check the entire ingredient panel to ensure each ingredient is safe, especially with dental products. Dog dental products are notorious for including very unsavory ingredients.
Bark5TM Ingredients: Distilled water, grapefruit seed extract (citrus paradisi, seed, pulp), grape seed extract (vitis vinifera, seed, Propolis (vegetarian Propolis Erba Vita Soluble Propolis) containing propolfenol) Note: all ingredients are human grade and water-soluble. The product is actually blended when ordered to make sure it's fresh. How cool is that? Not for use in animals on anticoagulants or for use in combination with antibiotics.
I will be the first one to admit I am not a chemist, and I had to research some of the ingredients above to see what they were. And that's okay—it's part of my job as a Dog Mom. I thought it was fun to learn about some of the ingredients used and why they are so helpful in a dog's dental product.
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Cross Border terrorism results in suspension of India-Pakistan Dialogue
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India cancels Indo-Pak Foreign Ministers meet
Glorification of terrorists by Pakistani government
New Delhi. 26 September 2018. India cancelled the resumption of talks with Pakistan within 24 hours of agreeing for the meeting of Foreign Ministers of both the countries. Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had to meet in the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meeting at New York next week. India agreed to resume the dialogue, after receipt of a letter from Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, in which he requested to resume the dialogue.
The dialogue was in suspension since 2016, when Pakistan sponsored terrorist outfits carried out several terrorist attacks in India. However the most deadly terrorist act was on, an army camp at Uri on 18 September, 2016, in which 19 valiant soldiers were martyred. Security forces also exterminated four terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Toiba who were involved in the attack.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), spokesman Raveesh Kumar, while cancelling the Indo-Pak talks stated on 21st, September that "Since yesterday, the announcement of a meeting between foreign ministers of India and Pakistan, two deeply disturbing developments have taken place. The brutal killing of our security personnel by Pakistan entities and the recent release of series of 20 postal stamps by Pakistan in which it had glorified terrorists, has forced India to cancel the talks."
In a hard hitting statement MEA spokesman mentioned that the "The true face of Imran Khan has been exposed in his first few months in office". In fact Pakistan was playing a dual game Imran Khan wrote a letter to Prime Minister Modi on September 15 to resume the dialogue while the notorious Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) supported terrorist outfits have enhanced their activities.
On 21 September, three Jammu and Kashmir police personnel were abducted from their houses and killed mercilessly. Not only was this, on 18 September, a head constable of Border Security Force (BSF) kidnapped from international borders. BSF jawan was on patrol duty and Pakistan Rangers started unprovoked firing with malicious intention of helping Border Action Team (BAT). The infamous BAT which consists of personnel of Pakistan security forces and terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen kill Indian security forces and mutilate their bodies.
Indian security forces requested Pak Rangers to jointly search the missing BSF personnel but Pak Rangers have refused to cooperate and after sometime the mutilated body of head constable Narendra Singh was recovered. BAT had done the dastardly task before also on Line of Control in Kashmir, but this was the first time when Pakistan security forces resorted to this reprehensible deed on International Border. The patrol party was engaged in clearing the elephant grass near the borders as the Pakistani infiltrators hide in the grass. Pakistani security agencies which are involved in infiltrating the terrorists resorted to firing to obstruct the clearing of the elephant grass.
In an another disingenuous act Pakistan postal department released 20 commemorative postage stamps depicting killed Kashmiri terrorists as victims, while Indian security forces were exhibited as brutal force who are violating the human rights of Kashmiris. These stamps were issued on 'Kashmir Martyrs Day'. Burhan Muzaffar Wani the commander of Hizbul Mujahideen was killed by security forces in Anantnag in July 2016. Wani was portrayed as a 'freedom icon'. These stamps would be used as propaganda material in Pakistan as well as in international arena to malign Indian security forces and illustrate Kashmiri terrorists as freedom fighters. Few stamps were also captioned as 'use of pellet guns', 'use of chemical weapons' 'mass graves' etc. The philatelists mention that stamps are in poor taste as they are used to distort facts and slander India.
As a matter of fact the initial statement of Imran Khan where he stated that "If India takes one step, Pakistan will take two" and also mentioned that Kashmir is a stumbling block, and it should be resolved under the framework of UN Resolution itself cleared the malafide intention of the cricketer turned politician. The UN resolution is outdated and obsolete and in past it could not be implemented as Pakistan has not withdrawn its troops from Kashmir. Secondly Kashmir issue is very complicated and both countries have totally opposite views, hence initially there cannot be any amicable settlement. If Pakistan government wants peace with India first of all it must stop cross-border terrorism and should dismantle the big infrastructure it created to help terrorists.
India accorded Most favoured Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan in 1996 but the later has not reciprocated so far. Nonetheless in case of China both countries accorded MFN status simultaneously in 2013. There are immense possibilities of increasing trade between both the countries hence Pakistan should give MFN status to India so that trade can increase. Once trade enhances other issues can also be resolved slowly.
Imran Khan became Prime Minster because of assistance rendered by Pakistan army. After taking over as Prime Minister he visited Army Hqrs as well as Hqrs of ISI and appreciated the services of rogue intelligence agency. After Khan became Prime Minister, ISI and terrorist outfits sponsored by it have increased their nefarious activities manifold. According to intelligence reports about 350-400 fully trained terrorists are waiting near India Pakistan border to infiltrate as the number of hardcore trained terrorists is decreasing in the valley. Unfortunately radicalisation have increased hence few local Kashmiri youths have also joined terrorist outfits but they are mostly untrained hence their shelf life is limited.
At present there is good cohesion between security agencies and they are getting actionable and pinpointed intelligence. Security forces eliminated 25 terrorists last month while in 2018 more than 143 terrorists are killed. The terrorists are aware that the local police and SPOs collect actionable intelligence hence they are threatening them as well as their family members. Terrorists want to smash the intelligence gathering mechanism of the security forces. Several commanders of terrorist outfits are killed and the junior leadership is finding difficult to safeguard them.
Recently terrorists kidnapped ten close family members of police personnel, although they were released later on, but terrorists gave stern warning, that the security forces should not touch family members of terrorists and police personnel and SPOs should relinquish their jobs. There are conflicting reports that few SPOs have tendered their resignations while government agencies mention that they have not received any resignations so far.
Government has announced local bodies' elections, while three prominent terrorist organisations L-e-T, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad jointly warned the masses including political parties not to participate in the elections. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), consisting of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik and few political parties also refused to participate in the elections. The ISI and its lackeys will try their best so that local bodies elections could not be held and even if government continues with its plan then they will announce shutdowns, strikes and bunds so that candidates and voters do not participate in the forthcoming polls.
There are reports that ISI has renewed its assistance to secessionists who are demanding Khalistan and also cultivating Rohingya Muslims residing in pitiable conditions in Bangladesh. Both Imran Khan and other ministers shed crocodile tears on cancellation of talks. Khan alleged that India's attitude was "arrogant" and "negative". His statement that "all my life I have come across small men occupying big offices who do not have the vision to see the larger picture" was inopportune and undiplomatic. Both Qureshi and information minister Fawad Chaudhry also criticised Indian decision to cancel the talks.
In reality, Pakistan's relations with India are directly handled by the deep state and the civilian government has to follow the instructions. There are several examples that whenever civilian government made sincere efforts to have peace with India, deep state had conducted some operation and sabotaged the peace attempts. At present Pakistan is facing major economic crisis and US had already suspended aid twice in 2018. Hence Imran Khan offered to resume negotiations with India to project that Pakistan wants peace with its neighbours. It was a trap and unfortunately India fallen in it. India should not accept any offer of negotiation unless Pakistan first stops cross border terrorism.
(Jai Kumar Verma is a Delhi-based strategic analyst and a retired senior intelligence officer. He is also member of United Services Institute of India and Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. The views in the article are solely the author's. He can be contacted at [email protected])
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Regarded by many as the capital of the Lleyn Peninsula, Pwllheli is an attractive seaside town with a modern marina, small harbour and two beaches. A meeting place for Lleyn folk, Pwllheli boasts a bustling weekly market, fine shopping and a modern leisure centre. The narrow streets of the town, with their plentiful shops, cafes and restaurants are full of character.
South Beach, comprising of sand and shingle, stretches westward for almost three miles towards Llanbedrog. The long promenade, recently improved, follows the route of the now defunct tramway and offers good access via board walks to the beach. Glandon Beach, mostly sandy, stretches for several miles, east of the town towards Hafan Y Mor Holiday Park, now run by Haven. Both beaches are ideal for bathing and sunbathing.
The modern marina, Hafan Pwllheli, is a magnet for boat enthusiasts. Accessible at almost all states of the tide, the marina is perfectly situated to take advantage of some of the best sailing waters in the UK. With 400 berths available and more planned, launching facilities, boat sales, chandlery, marine engineers, sail and powerboat training, the marina provides everything a mariner could possibly require. Boat trips, charters and fishing excursions are also available.
Pwllheli is an ancient borough, receiving its charter from the Black Prince in 1355. Its heyday was in the nineteenth century, when it was an important and thriving port, relying heavily on the fishing and shipbuilding industries.
Pwllheli became an important tourist destination, changing the face of the town to the largely Victorian one we see today.
In 1925 the six founder members of Plaid Cymru, met in Maesgwyn Temperance Hotel, to set up the new national Welsh party. A plaque in Y Maes, the central square, commemorates this event.
A few miles from Pwllheli, is a fine example of a Welsh gentry's house, from the 15th century, Penarth Fawr. Stone and timber built, it has a wealth of original features and has been fully restored. The stable block now houses a craft gallery.
Another spot worth visiting, just north of Pwllheli, is the holy well at the pretty village of Llangybi. Founded by St Cybi in the 6th century, the waters of St Cybi's well, are thought to have remarkable healing properties. Worth a try for those troublesome ailments! Also in the village is the church dating from the 13th century. For those with excess energy, a trek to the top of Garn Bentyrch, to view the remains of an Iron Age hill fort and take in the magnificent panorama, is well worthwhile.
Perfectly situated in the middle of the Lleyn Peninsula, Pwllheli is an ideal base for exploring the delights of the local area, to relax, enjoy the beach and take in the special atmosphere.


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Q: PHP call function from parent in child best practice I have a trick question regarding PHP calling a function from parent in child class.
We have 3 scenarios, and I want pros and cons.
<?php
class test{
   private $var ;
   public function __construct(){
    $this->var = 'Hello world';
   }

   public function output(){
      echo $var.'<br>';
   }
}
//scenario 1
class test1 extends test{
   public function __construct(){
    parent::__construct();
   }
   public function say(){
    parent::output();
   }
}
//scenario 2
class test2 extends test{
   public function __construct(){
    test::__construct();
   }
   public function say(){
    test::output();
   }
}
//scenario 3
class test3 extends test{
    private $handle ;
    public function __construct(){
     $this->handle = new test();
    }
    public function say(){
     $this->handle->output();
    }
}
//finally I can call any 3 cases by one of the below codes
$test1 = new test1();
$test1->say();
//or
$test2 = new test2();
$test2->say();
//or
$test3 = new test3();
$test3->say();
?>

Is there a best practice or is there any of the 3 scenarios better than other?
Thank you in advance.

A: 1) Is correct
2) Is incorrect call the method like a static method.
3) It does not have any sense extend and create in the constructor.

A: 1)
This one is correct, as its calling the parent from its methods.
class test1 extends test{
   public function __construct(){
    parent::__construct();
   }
   public function say(){
    parent::output();
   }
}

2)
The inheritance in here is unnecessary.
If you choose this implementation, you must change both output and construct method to static.
//scenario 2
class test2 extends test{
   public function __construct(){
    test::__construct();
   }
   public function say(){
    test::output();
   }
}

3)
The inheritance from here is also unnecessary.
Note here you are using "component over inheritance" pattern which is a good practice as it provides more flexibility, but you must delete the "extends test".
//scenario 3
class test3 extends test{
    private $handle ;
    public function __construct(){
     $this->handle = new test();
    }
    public function say(){
     $this->handle->output();
    }
}


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Q: What gets lost in a roundtrip between Subversion and Git? I have been thinking about doing some history rewriting on my Subversion repository, but Subversion is at the moment not very good at that. One option would be to convert to Git (which I gather is considerably better at that sort of thing), do the rewriting, and then convert back to Subversion. What, if anything, is likely to get lost in such a translation (apart from the parts of history that are supposed to get lost)?
And just in case anyone feels like offering the suggestion that I just switch to Git for good, the answer is: No, I do not want to do that :-)
The code I used follows below. It depends on having set $REPO_SVN AND $REPO_SVN_CLONE to a set of Subversion repositories, one with the original and one (almost) empty repository to hold the clone.
(Based on Google code article on importing from Git):
# Create first git repository, containing all my data
git svn clone $REPO_SVN RepoGitA

# Create a svn repository to hold the end product
# It must hold one revision, according to Google Code
# svn propset svn:git:svn 1 WCSvnOut
# svnadmin create RepoSvnOut
# svn co file://`pwd`/RepoSvnOut WCSvnOut
# echo "placeholder" > WCSvnOut/placeholder.txt
# svn add WCSvnOut/placeholder.txt
# svn ci -m "Initial commit of svn-git-svn roundtrip" WCSvnOut

# Create second git repository, connected to the new svn repo
# git svn clone file://`pwd`/RepoSvnOut RepoGitB
git svn clone $REPO_SVN_CLONE RepoGitB

# FROM NOW ON, WORK HAPPENS IN THE SECOND GIT REPOSITORY
cd RepoGitB

# Fetch all the data from the first git repository
git fetch ../RepoGitA

# Create a temporary branch for the fetched repository, and tag its head
git branch tmp $(cut -b-40 .git/FETCH_HEAD)
git tag -a -m "Last fetch" last tmp

# Apply initial commit
# Unfortunately, Git treats the initial commit specially,
# and in particular, cannot rebase it. Work around this as follows:
INIT_COMMIT=$(git log tmp --pretty=format:%H | tail -1)
git checkout $INIT_COMMIT .
git commit -C $INIT_COMMIT

# Rebase:
# Apply all the other commits to the temporary branch,
# and make it the new master branch:
git rebase master tmp
git branch -M tmp master

# Here I could do some more work to rewrite the repo history

# Lastly, commit the changes to the fresh svn repo
git svn dcommit

A: This does not sound like a good idea. In git, you should only rewrite history which hasn't been published. In subversion and other client-server SCMs, all history has been published to the central server, so no history is safe to rewrite.
Why do you want to rewrite history? What are you trying to achieve?


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we are thinking of moving to cincinnati and i have some questions.
i know that hyde park and walnut hills are especially nice neighborhoods to live in.
also, i know that oakwood (outside of dayton) has a lot of older victorian homes that are very well maintained. are there places in cincinnati that have neighborhoods similar? or are there suburbs similar to oakwood in cincinatti?
wow, thanks for the link and the response!
are there any cities/suburbs outside of cincinnati that are similar to oakwood?
I'm not very familiar with Oakwood and I think Jeffery on here would be the best person to ask, but if you're looking for grande victorians, go back to that link and look at: E. Walnut Hills, Columbia-Tusculum, Mt. Lookout, and Mt. Adams.
I'd say Wyoming and Glendale are similar to Oakwood.
I looked up Oakwood on the Sibcy Cline web page to see the styles of homes and prices ranges....Looks like a lot of homes you will find in Cincinnati but the price of that home depends on what neighborhood you are looking in. First thing Oakwood reminded me of was Wyoming.


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Common Law Vs Prenuptial Agreement
With respect to financial issues related to divorce, marital agreements are regularly maintained and enforced by courts in virtually all states. There are circumstances in which the courts have refused to apply certain parts/provisions of these agreements. In North Dakota.B, divorce courts retain the jurisdiction to amend a limitation on the right to apply for spousal support or assistance in a pre-marital contract if this would result in the spouse who waived that right in need of public assistance at the time of the divorce. [45] Florida and several other states have similar restrictions to prevent an outgoing spouse from becoming a community of the state after divorce under a marital agreement. [46] In addition, in Florida, the Pre-Trial Contracts Act, where inheritance (electoral quota) and thought rights granted to surviving spouses under state law are so strong that a waiver of the rights of the surviving spouse, enshrined in a matrimonial agreement, is enforceable with the same formality as the will (notarially and notably). Boyd also says that people who have large debt disparities also tend to enter into these agreements. In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court granted same-sex marriage the same legal basis as same-sex marriage, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges (decided June 26, 2015). The consequence of the Supreme Court decision is that a pre-marriage contract entered into by a same-sex couple in one state is enforceable in the event of a divorce in another state. [47] A movement has recently emerged in some modern Orthodox circles, supporting an additional marital agreement.
This is a reaction to a growing number of cases where the husband refuses to grant a religious divorce. In such cases, local authorities are not in a position to intervene, both for the sake of separation of church and state and because some halachic problems would arise. This situation leaves the woman in a state of aginut where she cannot remarry. To remedy this situation, the movement promotes a marital agreement in which the couple agrees to file their divorce, should it occur, before a rabbinical court. What is a marital agreement? "The purpose of a marriage agreement is to determine in advance what happens in the unlikely and tragic event that the marriage collapses," Boyd explains. The idea is that instead of leaving it until the date of separation, to find out what`s going on, you try to anticipate in advance. In some countries, including the United States, Belgium and the Netherlands, the matrimonial agreement provides not only for what happens in the event of a divorce, but also to protect certain properties during marriage, for example in the event of bankruptcy. Many countries, including Canada, France, Italy and Germany, have marital rules, in addition to or in some cases instead of marriage agreements. Upsides: "In big marital agreements, you want to help clarify in advance what will happen if things go south in a relationship," boyd says. "Sometimes they talk about how the couple will conduct the wedding itself… But that doesn`t happen. So most of the time, it`s a question of whether the spouse`s help will be payable – and if so, how long and for how long – and what qualities they should keep and what things do.
They reached this agreement to avoid spending tens of thousands of dollars later on lawyers. The British Columbias Family Law Act came into force in 2013 and replaced the province`s old Family Relations Act. The new legislation focuses on concerns about common law relations, which have gained considerable popularity since the adoption of the Family Relations Act in 1979. In several European countries such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, marriage agreements have long been considered valid.
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Recommended daily intake of vegetables is not less than 500 grams, about two grams of food, which can ensure adequate dietary fiber, is conducive to reducing blood sugar. The principle is that the food nutrition is balanced, therefore, experts recommend eating more varieties of vegetables. It can maximize the use of the dietary fiber, hypoglycemic effect is better. But we must pay special attention to clean raw vegetables. The cup of water, salad, boiled more sugar. There are few people in the South eat vegetables raw habits, and some elderly people and people are not suitable for the spleen and stomach, often eaten raw vegetables. Experts suggest that these populations may wish to blanch the vegetables cold, compared to high temperature cooking, cooking in this way can retain more dietary fiber. In addition, it can save more nutritious than boiled fried, braised etc.. The more the vegetables, the more the fiber will be destroyed. That can be cut into segments, chopping blocks, and don't chop mince, so you can better retain the fiber.


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Boy In Hotel
Creepy, Hotel / By asianghosts
This is the story that my teacher told us. It began like this…….
My teacher friend told him that his friend (john) encountered a ghost. John book room 13 in a hotel(i've forgotten wats the name) The receptionist told him that if there is a call, don't answer and try 2 on the tv in the midnight so as to make noise and have some light. So john do as wat the receptionist said.
The phone really rang in the middle of the night. He did not answer. And it happened every night. So 1 day, he pick up the phone. A boy asked him whether he could sing a song for john. "Ok" said john, and the boi started singing " A,B,C,D……."and so on. Then the boy ask whether he could sing another song 4 him and he said ok too. He sing the same song again. This happen every night.
On day, john said, "Where are your parents??" The boy said "They are in room 13." John was shocked. He put down the phone and dash to the receptionist and told the recepionist what happen. The receptionist said the boy was drown in the sea beside the hotel and never found. And the boy's parents was stayin at romm 13.
When John wanted to pack his thing and cheak out, he went back to his room. To his horror, before he open the door, he smell the smell of the sea and it is flooded with sea water. He open the door and saw a boy with an ugly face and cover with seaweeds.
That is what my teacher told me (he told us half way, sorri).


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Mike Pence looks at the 2024 presidential race but sees Donald Trump everywhere
By David Jackson
As Mike Pence discussed his tenure as vice president with about 500 religious Republicans, some listeners couldn't help but wonder if they were seeing a preview of coming attractions.
"I said to my husband, 'Did you think this was a trial run for a campaign speech?'" said Beth Atwater, an attorney from Lexington, South Carolina, who attended Pence's speech before the Palmetto Family Council last week.
Republicans across the country are pondering Pence's chances of becoming president – thanks in part to the man who remains at the heart of GOP politics and made Pence vice president: Donald Trump.
Trump and some allies criticize Pence for refusing Trump's demands that he help overturn his election loss of Joe Biden. The insurrection by pro-Trump rioters Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol put Pence's life in danger.
Republicans who want the party to move on from Trump see the former vice president as part of the problem – a loyalist who too often enabled the president.
Pence hasn't said he's running for president, but he raised eyebrows with his reemergence in public in South Carolina, home of a key GOP primary in 2024. He has a lineup of events in the coming months that looks like an attempt to appeal to Trump voters without alienating their leader.
Building a base for a presidential run is always challenging, Republicans said, but Pence's predicament is unique.
"I just don't see the path," said Denver Riggleman, a former GOP congressman from Virginia and an outspoken critic of Trump.
Making the moves
Pence is one of several Republicans making the kind of moves one does when exploring a presidential run.
The former vice president has created a political committee, Advancing American Freedom, to promote and defend the policies of the Trump-Pence administration. It has run web ads featuring Pence on issues such as border security.
Young America's Foundation, a conservative group, announced that Pence will give the keynote address at its National Conservative Student Conference in August in Houston. Pence plans to campaign for Republican candidates in the 2022 congressional races.
The former vice president is writing an autobiography scheduled to be published in 2023, a year before the presidential election.
In deciding where to make his first first speech since leaving office, Pence picked South Carolina – home of the first-in-the-South primary that has been pivotal in Republican nomination battles.
Friday, Pence will attend an early cattle call of eight potential Republican candidates not named Trump. Texas Republicans organized a private meeting of donors to hear from Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, Tim Scott and Rick Scott.
Sarah Longwell, a GOP strategist who ran a group called Republican Voters Against Trump in 2020, said Pence's challenges in a 2024 race are many.
"No. 1, Trump is going to attack him as insufficiently loyal," she said, and Trump voters who believe the election was stolen will blame Pence.
Republicans who want to shed Trump see Pence as complicit in the administration's actions, including the drawn-out protests of the election.
Longwell said, "People who love Trump don't like him, and people who hate Trump don't like him."
'A Christian, a Conservative, a Republican – in that order'
During his half-hour speech in a downtown Columbia ballroom last week, Pence said that serving alongside Trump was "the greatest honor of my life," though he didn't mention the ex-president's name that much. He spoke more about the administration's record and criticized the Biden administration over immigration, spending, taxes, abortion and religious freedom.
In his opening, Pence recited a standard self-description: "I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican – in that order."
Though vice presidents often find it hard to emerge from the shadow of the presidents they served, the job has become a stepping stone toward the Oval Office. Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and Joe Biden were elected to the presidency as former vice presidents. Hubert Humphrey (1968), Walter Mondale (1984) and Al Gore (2000) won the Democratic nominations but fell short in the general elections.
None of those former veeps faced the kind of obstacle within their own party that Pence has in Trump.
Pence has to answer one question first: Will he run if Trump does? The former president said he is considering another race in 2024 but won't make an announcement until after the 2022 congressional races.
Normally, a former vice president would be in "the top spot" for the next election, but "in a Trump GOP, it is more complicated," said Mike DuHaime, former political director for the Republican National Committee.
Despite Pence's "fealty over the four years," DuHaime said, "Trump may have forever damaged (Pence's) reputation with Trump supporters by calling him out during the election lie and the Capitol riot on Jan. 6."
Pence, who frequently talks about his religious faith, does have support from at least one important Republican constituency: evangelical voters such as the ones who saw him speak at the Palmetto Family Council.
Tim Miller, a former Republican political strategist who saw Pence in Columbia, said he has "a base of support with evangelicals, which is better than most have, but can he expand out of that?"
Members of Trump's "Make America Great Again" caucus may remain suspicious.
"Hard to imagine the MAGA voters are ever going to love him," Miller said.
'He did the right thing … And it's going to cost him'
One of Pence's biggest hurdles to a potential run isn't just his association with Trump but Trump's own criticisms of him.
At a Republican donor conference last month at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said he was still "disappointed" that Pence did not move to block the counting of electoral votes from states that went for Biden.
In a statement this week attacking Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Trump said the election result would have been different "had Mike Pence referred the information on six states (only need two) back to State Legislatures."
Trump denounced his vice president at a rally Jan. 6 that preceded the insurrection at the Capitol, where some Trump supporters roamed the halls looking for Pence and calling him a traitor.
Riggleman, the former congressman from Virginia, said he has seen Trump-Pence yard signs in his district with the vice president's name painted over or otherwise vandalized.
He said he likes Pence and believes the vice president acted honorably in refusing to interfere Jan. 6 when Congress met to confirm Biden's victory. "He did the right thing for the country that day," Riggleman said. "And it's going to cost him."
One thing potentially working in Pence's favor: Few people are paying attention to the Republican presidential race.
Jenny Beth Martin, honorary chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, said reporters and political activists are interested in the early jockeying, but most Americans are worried about things such as schools opening once the COVID-19 pandemic is under control.
When the time for attention comes, she said, "the grassroots would want to know first and foremost whether Trump is going to want to run."
'A long time away'
At the Columbia Convention Center, South Carolina Republicans said they believe compatriots in their state and elsewhere – places such as Iowa and New Hampshire – will judge Pence on his merits. They are intrigued by how Pence might navigate the issue of Trump.
Kelly Ross, who works for a nonprofit company in Greenville, said Pence's base of voters is different from Trump's, and the election "is a long time away" in any event.
Others said the Pence-Trump dispute over Jan. 6 will mean little to Republicans in 2024.
"I think people forget things and get over them and move on to what's best for the country," said Cathy Wells, a housewife from Lexington.
In short, many said, they'll wait and see.
"It's kind of hard to tell," said Atwater, the attorney from Lexington. "You know, politics changes so quickly."