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A Classics Trip to Russia?!
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Mention a school trip to Russia and one usually thinks of the History department; Tsars, Napoleon, revolutions and the Cold War. However, thanks to Catherine II and Peter I (avid collectors of all things European) the country boasts not only an impressive collection of Neo Classical Architecture, but also of Greek and Roman, Hittite and Persian, Naukratis, Black Sea and Scythian archaeology. Lenin, having studied Greek and Latin before concentrating on law, wrote extensively on Greek Philosophy, considered Dialectical Materialism as a revolutionary tool and has been seen by some as a Philosopher King!
Forget any negative preconceptions you may have read about visiting Russia. The people are extremely welcoming (if you are prepared to make an effort!), it's spotlessly clean (no litter, dog mess, chewing gum, little graffiti – even free public conveniences in public parks were spotless), the food is of a high standard (varied and inexpensive), the security second to none (scanners and luggage x-ray before entry to airports, railway stations, shopping malls, department stores and museums). It may be inconvenient for individuals to travel from London, Edinburgh or Manchester for visa formalities, but for schools there may be the option of the biometric visa van coming to you!
Food wise, we were spoiled for choice and rarely spent more than £6.00 each for lunch, including drinks. Moscow offered licensed street vendors in Revolution Square, self-service cafeteria in GUM (C19th 'State Department Store') and the basement food hall of the Okhotny Ryad Shopping Centre, Dzhondzholi (excellent Georgian Restaurant opposite Pushkin Museum) and the rather posh (but still reasonable if restricting to one course and avoiding wine!) Sicilian Bodega (also Okhotny Ryad). St Petersburg also offered varied fare. French Parc Giuseppe (2B, Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboedova, adjacent to Saviour on Spilt Blood), Idiot (Vegetarian, excellent pastries. Reki Moyki, 82, Leningrad Oblast). Even the elegant Elisyeff Emporium was very reasonable, the uniformed waiters objecting not a jot our dallying.
Moscow expanded concentrically from the early Iron Age culture based in the area of what now is the Kremlin Citadel. Consequently, architecture is hugely varied and street plans interestingly random within its historic quarters.
The Palaces of the Kremlin Citadel, stunning Orthodox Cathedrals, concert hall, Ivan the Great Campanile and gardens are enclosed by the famously atmospheric red walls and arsenal towers. Gold rooftops gleam, white limestone lattice work shimmers and green ceramic tiling virtually glows. Beneath, in the tranquil Alexander Gardens are both the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the 'ruined grotto' constructed from masonry remains of the 1812 Invasion with Doric colonnade; wrought iron gates are decorated with Roman Fasces. Red Square is enclosed by Lenin's Mausoleum, GUM and St Basils (interior largely stripped). The C16th Resurrection Gate and Iveron Chapel lead through to Revolution Square and the Lenin Museum, Bolshoi and open air markets with street food vendors – licensed of course! The adjacent State History Museum houses a fine Palaeolithic to Bronze Age collection from Siberia, Georgia, Panticapaeum (Crimea), Olvia (Ukraine), Tauric Chersonese. Highlights are the C2BC Aphrodite of Taman (Sea of Azov) and Turmanskiy Sarcophagus (an Hellenic and Chinese composite).
The Pushkin Museum is the repository of Priam's Gold. Whilst the Ionic façade conceals a reproduction Panathenaic Frieze, the vestibule reveals a monumental Ionic staircase. The effect is quite breath-taking. Not all of Schliemann's Treasure is on display but in addition to the famous headdresses are the rock crystal magnifying lenses, amber jewellery, lapis lazuli ceremonial axe heads, several interactive screens explaining the Hissarlik excavations and ancient Greek daily life. Elsewhere are displayed Hittite and Mycenaean artefacts, a vast array of Greek Ceramics (Villa Giulia Painter Hermes with infant Dionysus, Andokides Painter Bilingual Herakles with two headed Cerberus) and several cast galleries which know no bounds – full size Erechtheion Porch or Olympia East Pediment anyone?!?!
The Ryabushinsky Mansion provided a welcome respite after such an aesthetic onslaught. An extravaganza of Art Nouveau, almost a living being in itself (the beauty of the staircase will make you weep) it was gifted to Maxim Gorky in 1931 on his return from exile. Having lived in Naples and Capri the walls are adorned with watercolours of the Bay of Sorrento. Indeed, he was twice visited by Lenin and they toured Pompeii, Vesuvius and the Naples Archaeological Museum together. Somewhat of a Roman history expert, Lenin spoke Italian, Gorky did not. Lenin refused to engage in philosophical discussion with his host, stating that it was a tool for action and not to be frittered way.
At the confluence of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal lies the 98m high statue of Peter the Great. The nearby Graveyard of Fallen Heroes (an open air museum for discarded Soviet Statuary) is perfect for peripatetic dialectical discourse on turning 'Swords into Ploughshares'. Gorky Park is accessed via an immaculate underpass and impressive Doric Propylaea. Therein lie manicured gardens, cafes, fast food outlets, roller blade parks, ornamental ponds and a gigantic sandpit for infants. Open 24/7 it is the perfect place to spend a very safe evening.
One can simply walk Moscow, but one must appreciate the delights of the Metro. Not only a famous art gallery in its own right, some trains are decorated and even carry mini art exhibitions!
The four hour train journey from Moscow to St Petersburg was seamless (sleepers available). Prompt (of course), numbered seats, trolley service, buffet car, film, radio and internet, even a shoe shining service – in economy class!
St Petersburg was created by Peter I on the Nerva archipelago and follows a strict grid pattern. A plethora of Neo Classical, Baroque, Art Nouveau and occasional Bauhaus architecture, it is best appreciated by canal boat; the waterways were of course the original thoroughfares onto which face the major mansions.
Far more European than Moscow, the lower end of Nevsky Prospect is 'ruined' by a proliferation of western chain stores and fast food outlets. The closer to the historical centre, the more aesthetically pleasing the bridges, buildings and parks – the Art Nouveau Book House, Singer Building, Elisyeff Emporium, bronze horse statues of Anichov Bridge, the Great Gostiny Dvor (C18th shopping mall) and the elite Passage (glass roofed m.C19th department store). Impressive golden winged Griffins, Lions and Sphinxes adorn bridges elsewhere.
Churches are abundant; Orthodox Kazan Cathedral and St Isaacs, the Armenian Chapel and most notably, the stunning Saviour on Spilt Blood, built upon the spot of the assassination of Nicholas II; interior smothered with spectacular mosaics, exterior surrounded by plaques commemorating his reforms.
Across the Neva lie the St Peter and Paul Fortress (burial place of Tsars and other notables), the Lenin Statue (bedecked with carnations as we arrived just after his birthday) outside the Finlandia Station (we had a military escort in order to view the train from which he returned from exile in August 1917 ) and two lighthouses decorated with ship beaks al la Roman Rostra, Peter I's original cabin (that man was tough!) and his Kunstkammera (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography); the first University in Russia and one of the oldest in the world. Perhaps unforgivably, this museum is more famous for its collection of anatomical specimens, but it was Peter's 'Chamber of Art' and his 'oddities and curiosities' also include tools, scientific and astronomical instruments. The anthropological section displays C6BC silver Scythian artefacts including a death mask. Originally the public were enticed in with free vodka and coffee, now we pay.
The Winter Palace/Hermitage Museum is the jewel of the City. Site of the bloody Red Sunday Massacre which presaged the 1905 Revolution and overthrow of the Kerensky Provisional Government in the White Room by Bolshevik forces in 1917, it is perhaps the finest museum in the world. We have Lenin to thank for the preservation of many of the treasures therein as he spent five years cataloguing the artefacts and prevented looting with promise of execution on the exact spot of the intended theft. Although spread across five separate buildings, do take an official tour of the 'must sees' (Old Masters, Moscow Campaign Patriotic Hall, mechanical peacock, Tsarskoe Library, State Rooms, Raphael Loggias – one mirror still bears bullet holes from the 1941- 44 siege) but then make your own way to the Antiquities Collection. Hellenistic and Ancient Greece (5 rooms), Ancient Italy and Rome (7 rooms), Armenia and Georgia (3 rooms), Pre Islamic Central Asia/ Parthia/Greco-Bactria (9 rooms), Northern Black Sea (3 rooms), Caucasus (3 rooms), Egypt (1 room), Scythia (3 rooms), Middle East (3 rooms). Sadly for us, much of the famed Greco-Scythian Gold from Kul-Oba (additional ticket, the Gold Room) is on loan to Athens until October. It isn't simply the sheer volume of ancient culture on display; it's also the quality and sophistication of the displays. Best of all, with the correct documentation, regardless of nationality, pupils gratis. We spent ten hours crippling ourselves; take two days with a school party if necessary – but do it!
Peterhoff Palace we decided against as the fountains were not active until May, but the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo was perfectly positioned for a morning visit before our flight home. Maliciously damaged by retreating forces after the Siege of Leningrad, it is a marvel of restoration – in particular the Amber Room. Miraculously, the private rooms of Catherine the Great designed by architect Charles Cameron, survived largely undamaged except for graffiti. Having read his 'Baths of Rome' Catherine summoned him to Russia in 1779, abandoned her original plans for a Diocletian Thermae style building and entrusted the Scot to the execution of a more restrained, Neo Classical plan. Whilst her private apartments are more Romano Wedgewood Green in style, the gardens (often compared to Stowe) contain several Classical allegorical follies, a two storey Greco Roman cold Bath House, a two storey Neo Classical Pavilion (Cameron's Pavilion) adorned with statues of philosophers (always her favourite promenade) and a model town, Sophia, designed to represent Constantinople.
A Classical education was preeminent in Russia for hundreds of years because of their debt to Byzantine Civilisation, ancient trade routes and Black Sea Cleruchies.
It was suppressed by the Bolsheviks and until Perestroika, a black market existed not just in blue jeans but also in Platonic dialogues!
Perhaps one cannot justify a solely Classics trip to Russia, but a joint trip with the History department (and/or RS) would certainly reap cross curricular benefits.
For those unfamiliar with the Marxist inclination of Ste. Croix, Ben Farringdon, George Thomson et al, in addition to their works, the following may be of interest.
Between the Party and the Ivory Tower: Classics and Communism in 1930s Britain. Henry Stead and Edith Hall (KCL) 2014. Click here to read more.
Conspectus of Hegel's Book Lectures On the History of Philosophy: Volume XIII. Volume I of The History of Philosophy. History of Greek Philosophy. V I Lenin 1916. Click here to read more.
What is to be Done? V I Lenin 1902. Click here to read more.
CLR James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism? – John H. McClendon III. Click here to read more.
How Red Was Plato? Click here to read more.David Black 06/11/2008. Click here to read more.
The failure of Democracy by Plato… – 7th Century Generation (From Jorn K. Bramann: The Educating Rita Workbook, Copyright © 2004) Click here to read more.
Classical education in Russia today. Alexandr Podossinov 2007. Click here to download document.
Ancient Greek Language and Culture in Russian Schools. Elena Ermolaeva Saint-Petersburg, 11/08/2008. Click here to download document.
Saint Petersburg Classical High School (1989 – 2009) Principal Sergey V.Buryachko. Click here to read more.
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more cowbell please
living life louder
get ya vibes right
as we shove along into a new year and a new decade i decided to hell with a resolution. for this coming season i am focusing on a vibe. i am reconnecting with my internal energy. bunkering in. grounding down. getting in touch with what i feel and why i feel it.
stackin' paper
these were the books i (for the most part) enjoyed in 2019. any suggestions on books i should add to my stack for 2020?
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In 2006, Lights stepped onto the alternative pop-rock scene and quickly built herself an army of loyal fans. Throughout the last 11 years, the talented artist has kept fans and followers captivated with gorgeous songs, intimate lyrics, and glimpses inside her life with husband, Beau Bokan (Blessthefall), and their daughter, Rocket Wild.
An Interview with Nicole Atkins: The Former Asbury Park Princess Reflects on Writing, Singing, and Staying Sober
First there was Aretha. Then there was Amy. Now there is Atkins. With her rich, soulful voice, her penchant for yesteryear, and her relentless reverence for the forefathers (and foremamas) of rock, Nicole Atkins weaves her way into the hearts and guts of everyone lucky enough to watch her perform. Atkins' spectacularly honest new album, Goodnight Rhonda Lee, pairs overwhelming raw talent with pure, can't be contained, naked emotion. The album's 11 songs beautifully battle complex themes of sobriety, transition, isolation and to quote the artist herself, "bad behavior."
An Interview with Tyson Ritter: Growing Up An All-American Reject
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An Interview With Poison: Rikki Rockett On Poison's Upcoming Tour And On Looking At Life Through A New Lens
After nearly 10 years, the explosive rock band Poison is set to headline a tour through the United States and Canada. The upcoming shows will celebrate Poison's greatest hits and fan favorites including "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," "Talk Dirty To Me," "Nothin' But A Good Time," "Something To Believe In," and "Unskinny Bop." With seven studio, four live, and five compilation albums to their name, Poison has amassed an enormous following of die-hard fans.
and at the end… there was you
you. where do i begin with you?
well… jay… simply put… you are tough. tough in every sense of the word.
let that shit go (part two)
there was no awareness of the moment while it was happening.
life simply moved on.
life can be brutal like that.
and the mets will WIN!
i wish i could somehow show this photo to myself ten years ago.
"chill. you will find a GORGEOUS man. a good man. and you will have a baby boy with curly blonde hair and crystal clear blue eyes. and they will both love you so much that they root for the mets.
so wonderfully ours
to my hunny on your second birthday,
two. oh my. my boy, my heart, my world. you are two. how can this be? on one hand i can hardly believe two whole years have passed since we met. on the other it seems like an entire lifetime ago when it was just me and baba and snoop dogg.
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Barry Cumberlege
Barry Stephenson Cumberlege
Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
22 September 1970(1970-09-22) (aged 79)
Sandgate, Kent
Rugby union career
National team(s)
Team Apps (Points)
England 8 (2)
Barry Stephenson Cumberlege, OBE (5 June 1891 – 22 September 1970) was an English sportsman who played international rugby union for England. He also played first-class cricket and served in the British Army in the First World War.
1 Early life and education
2 War career
3 Post-war sporting career
4 Family and professional life
Cumberlege was born at Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1891, the son of Esther and Charles Cumberlege. His father was a superintendent at the Bank of England and had played cricket for Northumberland and Surrey.[1][2][3]
He was educated at Durham School where he played both rugby union and cricket, captaining the school cricket team from 1908 to 1910. He was invited to tour South Africa with the Great Britain rugby team which he declined.[1][4] He went on to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating in 1913.[1]
Cumberlege won both cricket and rugby Blues at Cambridge. His rugby Blue was won as a freshman in 1910 and he played for the University each year, captaining the side in 1912–13. Cumberlege played as a fullback. He captained the side against the touring South African team in 1912–13.[1] Having played in the Minor Counties Championship for Durham and Northumberland between 1909 and 1912, Cumberlege made his first-class cricket debut for the University in 1913.[5] He played seven times during 1913 for the University and also made an appearance for Free Foresters against Cambridge, scoring the only century of his first-class career, an innings of 172.[1][5]
War career
After graduating Cumberlege became a school teacher. He enlisted five days after World War I started and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps at the beginning of September 1914. He joined the 414 Mechanical Transport Company attached to the supply column of the 3rd Cavalry Division, serving in Belgium and Northern France from 1914 to 1916. He was promoted to Lieutenant and then to Temporary Captain in May 1916 before being granted three weeks leave on medical grounds at the end of 1916.[1]
On his return to action in January 1917, Cumberlege moved to serve with the supply column of II ANZAC Corps. He served at Messines in June 1917 and later in the summer was appointed the commanding officer of the New Zealand Division supply column, serving in the Ypres area throughout the winter of 1917–18 and having his rank confirmed before being promoted to acting Major in March 1918.[1] He served until the end of the war and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded an OBE in 1918. He was demobilised in April 1919 and resigned his commission in January 1920, being granted the rank of Major.[1]
Post-war sporting career
After the war, Cumberlege played rugby for Blackheath and was called up to the England team for the 1920 Five Nations Championship.[4] He made his international debut at fullback against Wales in the first Five Nations Championships since the end of the war.[6] He was capped eight times by England, playing in the 1920, 1921 and 1922 championships,[7] and was described by William Wakefield as "by far the best full-back we [England] have had since the war" in 1928.[8] He was dropped after England suffered a heavy defeat to Wales in 1922 at Cardiff and retired from international rugby.[9] Cumberlege also played for the Barbarians and, after his playing career was over, became a rugby referee, officiating in 16 international matches between 1926 and 1934.[1]
He played a total of six first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1923 and 1924. He scored 288 runs in nine innings for the county, with a highest score of 76 against Essex at Leyton.[4] These matches brought his final tally to 14 first-class matches from which he scored 763 runs at a batting average of 38.15.[10] He played club cricket for Blackheath.[5]
Family and professional life
Two of Cumberlege's brothers, Rutland and Royston, played cricket for Northumberland and Durham.[11][12] Rutland also played rugby union for Cambridge University, Barbarians and Harlequins.[12] Another brother, Henry, also served in the Army Service Corps, commanding another of the Mechanical Transport Companies of the 3rd Cavalry Division before his death in September 1914.[1]
After leaving the Army at the end of World War I, Cumberlege worked as an underwriter for Lloyds of London.[5] He married Louella Gillis in Kensington in June 1919. During World War II he served with the Royal Observer Corps. Cumberlege died in September 1970 aged 79.[10]
^ a b c d e f g h i j Lewis P (2014) For Kent and Country, pp.141–143. Brighton: Reveille Press.
^ Cumberlege, Mr Charles Farrington, Obituaries in 1929, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1929. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
^ Charles Cumberlege, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
^ a b c Cumberlege, Barry Stephenson, Obituaries in 1970, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1971. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
^ a b c d Barry Cumberlege, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
^ Cooper S, Leonard J (2015) After the Final Whistle: The First Rugby World Cup and the First World War, p.222. The History Press. (Available online. Retrieved 2017-04-30.)
^ Barry Cumberlege, ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
^ Wakefield W (1928) Rugger - The History, Theory and Practice of Rugby Football, Read Books Ltd, 2013 edition. (Available online. Retrieved 2017-04-30.)
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^ a b Barry Cumberlege, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
^ Royston Cumberlege, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
^ a b Rutland Cumberlege, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
Barry Cumberlege at ESPNcricinfo


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The series of 20 x 5mins episodes for CBeebies mixes wildlife and landscapes, Viking history and a rich family of characters. Beautifully filmed in stunning Scottish surroundings, this enchanting series has been commissioned by Kay Benbow for CBeebies. The series will also be versioned in Gaelic for BBC Alba and transmission to be announced for 2018.
"We're thrilled to be in production on this exciting new series mixing wildlife and landscapes, Viking history and a rich family of characters," executive producer, Julia Bond said, "Gudrun the Viking Princess delivers a lovely narrative of building confidence and solving problems through interactions with the natural world, which we hope will inspire our CBeebies audience".
"Bringing together children's production and natural history in this unique new format is a dream combination and a commission we are thrilled to be embarking on for CBeebies," added Nigel Pope, co-founder and creative director, Maramedia.
Maramedia have also been commissioned to create a spectacular Natural History and wildlife drama-doc – The Wild Way of the Vikings for PBS, ORF, France 5 as well as a new blue-chip one-off on Shetland for BBC Scotland.


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July 17, 2020 July 19, 2020 franjslater
REVIEW: Nadine Shah – Kitchen Sink
I have a pretty basic question that I ask myself when I'm first trying to evaluate a new album by a favourite artist: is it as good as the last one? As excited as I was for Kitchen Sink, Nadine Shah's fourth album, I knew that it was going to face a bit of an uphill struggle in that respect. Why? Well Holiday Destination was not only my favourite album of 2017 and my second favourite album of the 2010s, but it was also one of the only albums to ever talk to me on the personal and emotional level that it did. It felt like that album got me. It wasn't only that songs like '2016', 'Holiday Destination', and 'Jolly Sailor' encompassed so many of my political and social beliefs, but also the way that 'Out The Way' and 'Evil' touched on the experience of being a brown-skinned person in the UK since the EU Referendum was announced. An experience I share (parts of) with Nadine and one that isn't talked about enough. The last few years have been so turbulent, in so many ways, that there was always going to be great music made about them. But Holiday Destination melded the personal and political so well that I felt seen and heard. It's rare that music can do that.
So Kitchen Sink had some pretty big boots to fill. And if I'm being as honest as Nadine is in her music, it didn't fill them for me straight away. But it is also worth noting at this point that Nadine doesn't make music that is completely digestible on the first listen; she makes songs and albums that you need to sit with and absorb. I wasn't in love with Holiday Destination immediately, either.
That said, there were some things about the new album that stood out on first listen. I was glad to see that the jagged guitar lines that were so central to the last record were still extremely prevalent here. I was pleased to hear a set of songs that built into frantic and energetic crescendos which mean that, even when she is singing about some hugely important topics, Nadine makes music you can move to. And I was happy to hear that, while there may be a different central focus to this album, we were still in the realm of the societal and the political. The funky protest songs. I was also immediately drawn to the song 'Dillydally', which has remained a firm favourite through repeated listens.
But while Holiday Destination had that intense personal connection for me, Kitchen Sink doesn't. At least not to the same degree. Which is why it will probably never overtake that album in my own personal rankings. But this isn't all about me. What I have absolutely no doubt at all about, is that there will be a whole host of people out there for whom that connection with this album exists. There has to be. Because just as Nadine shone a light on the personal and political outcomes of racism and xenophobia on Holiday Destination, here she puts a similarly intense focus on sexism and misplaced expectations of femininity. The amazing 'Trad' starts with the lines 'Shave my legs/Freeze my eggs/Will you want me when I am old?/Take my hand/Whilst in demand/And I will do as I am told.' The refrain of the song is 'take me to the ceremony/make me holy matrimony'. In just eight simple lines, she lays out the thesis of this powerful album.
Similar pieces of magic exist throughout. The title song is an empowering piece of work about fighting the externalised and internalised misogyny that surrounds you, 'letting' the misplaced and unfair expectations 'pass me by.' 'Kite' is sonically the album's quietest song, but its message is loud. This song seems to convey a more vulnerable feeling for Nadine, a time when maybe those empowered words of 'Trad' felt harder to come by. Potential album highlight 'Buckfast' falls somewhere between the two. It is an aggressive, angry song that feels like a release. But it seems to document a difficult, abusive relationship, switching between the abused and the abuser. On the surface it's another Nadine Shah banger, but it tells a troubled and important tale. It might be her best song yet.
So where did I land on that straightforward question I asked at the start? Kitchen Sink is every bit as good and important as Holiday Destination. It is the album that catapults here even higher up my list of favourite artists (now top ten of all time, surely), but I also hope it will be the album that catapults her higher up the festival rotas and the charts. It doesn't have those same personal resonances for me, but that is fine. Because I know this is an album will be making a lot of other people feel seen and heard in a way that only Nadine can. Her albums are like a therapy session in which you dance and laugh your arse off. I just hope that she'll still be up for touring this album once she is able to tour again, so we can all get together in a room and enjoy the feeling of release that this album was made for.
Words by Fran Slater
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Opened in 1973, Milton Keynes Museum is now the largest museum in the UK run purely by volunteers. Through their determination and enthusiasm, and with their animated tours, these amazing people make the exhibits and their stories come alive. Bill Griffiths successfully manages the museum procuring funding and lottery grants to enable its continuation and support future expansion.
Sitting in 4 ½ acres, with the manor house at its heart, the site dates back to the Doomsday book, and was owned by the Longueville family before being sold onto famous doctor, John Radcliffe. When the site was purchased by Milton Keynes Development Corporation, areas were let for the establishment of a Museum a well as for office and creative space.
The Farmhouse is full of antiques and furniture and games would have been played including puff billiards, wind up gramophones and a Pianola (a self-playing piano). The school room has rows of old wooden desks with chalkboard and items used to discipline, very different to modern day schooling. There is a Parlour, a Toy room and in the Kitchen where you can make toast on the fire.
The street of shops was set up in 2001 with the smells and sounds of a historic street, displaying original frontages, cabinets, counters, scales, bottles and more from actual local shops and public houses. The shop fronts are from villages and towns around Milton Keynes making it an incredibly authentic experience.
The site of the museum was commercial agricultural farmland. The farming gallery displays exhibits including steam ploughs made by William Smith of Woolstone and a Forge which has a working Blacksmith recreating and making items on the furnace.
In the Communication Hall you can see the various methods of communication through the ages, from smoke signals and cannons (if you can handle the bang!), to old phone exchanges and police call boxes. You can even pretend to be a telephone operator transferring calls to other phones in the room.
In the Hall of Transport the world's first compression ignition engine is proudly displayed, together with the World's biggest steam tram. Sitting inside it you can imagine how it must have felt to be one of the 100 people it could transport at a time, travelling from Haversham through to Deanshanger.
The presses and typefaces of McCorquodale Printing Works of Wolverton are on display in the Print Shop. It employed only the daughters of the men working in the railway works (as married women were not expected to work!).
A treasure trove of local historical facts and diverse activities for all ages, the museum is definitely well worth a visit for anyone who is interested in the history of Milton Keynes and Victorian life, innovation and technology.
Special events include musical and theatrical re-enactment of historic events in addition to the ever popular Victorian Christmas weekends.
In fact the best way to see it all is to purchase a season ticket. These are great value and a fantastic gift as there is always something different to see.
Individual hire may be available for corporate and other events – please get in touch to discuss your individual requirements.
Future Wolverton Ltd
Foundation House, The Square
Wolverton, Milton Keynes
MK12 5HX
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©2014-2019 Future Wolverton Limited is registered under the Industrial and Provident Society Act 1965, Register Number 32016R


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Q: how to add multiple events in google calendar android Kotlin? For calendar, we want to show multiple events in calendar view on android.
Events coming from the API
https://myfarmapp1.herokuapp.com/api/v1/upcoming/actions/dates?userId=61efd161be38db6f4ab23fe7.
Using the above API I want to show multiple events on Calendar view.
What is the Problem?
When we set event date on calendar its show latest event on the calendar and previous events are not showing.
val call: Call<com.android.farmist.model.dateCalender.Date> =

                 Api_Controller().getInstacne().getDates(userId)
                call.enqueue(object :
        Callback<com.android.farmist.model.dateCalender.Date> {

                    @SuppressLint("NotifyDataSetChanged")
                    override fun onResponse(
                        call: Call<com.android.farmist.model.dateCalender.Date>,
                        response: Response<com.android.farmist.model.dateCalender.Date>
                    )
                    {

                        val respo = response.body()
                        if (respo ?.allDates!= null) {

                            for (i in respo.allDates)
                            {

                                val y = i.value.year
                                val m = i.value.day
                                val d = i.value.date

                                val  events: MutableList<EventDay> = ArrayList()
                                val  calendar = Calendar.getInstance()
                                val  calendar2=Calendar.getInstance()
                                val  calendar3 = Calendar.getInstance()

                               calendar.set(y,m-1,d)
//                                Toast.makeText(requireActivity(),
//                                    "${calendar2}",
//                                    Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
                                calendar2.set(y,m-1,d-1)
                                calendar3.set(y,m-1,d-2)

                               events.add(EventDay(calendar, R.drawable.dot))
                                Log.d("editDate","${(y ).toString() + (m-1 ).toString() + (d ).toString()}")
                                events.add(EventDay(calendar2, R.drawable.dot))
                                events.add(EventDay(calendar3, R.drawable.dot))
                                binding.calendar.setEvents(events)
                            }
                        }
                      }

                    override fun onFailure(
                        call: Call<com.android.farmist.model.dateCalender.Date>,
                        t: Throwable
                    ) {
                        Log.d("userId", t.toString())

                    }
                })

A: The Google Calendar API allows to set multiple events e.g. by starting a list of intents.
import androidx.core.content.ContextCompat.startActivities

startActivities(context, arrayOf(intent, intent2))

Likewise, startActivity starts a single intent
import androidx.core.content.ContextCompat.startActivity

startActivity(context, intent, null)

As described in the Android Developer Guide, an intent itself can look as follows.
import android.content.Intent

val startMillis: Long = Calendar.getInstance().run {
    set(2012, 0, 19, 7, 30)
    timeInMillis
}
val endMillis: Long = Calendar.getInstance().run {
    set(2012, 0, 19, 8, 30)
    timeInMillis
}
val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT)
        .setData(CalendarContract.Events.CONTENT_URI)
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_BEGIN_TIME, startMillis)
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_END_TIME, endMillis)
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.TITLE, "Yoga")
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.DESCRIPTION, "Group class")
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_LOCATION, "The gym")
        .putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.AVAILABILITY, CalendarContract.Events.AVAILABILITY_BUSY)

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THE SECOND EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS.
Paul had written and sent his first letter to the Thessalonians shortly after he took up his ministerial labors in Corinth. The immediate effect of the letter had been to strengthen the bond of affection between the apostle and the Christians of Thessalonica. According to reports that reached him, the brethren remained firm in spite of various afflictions and persecutions. For the same reason, however, they had been imbued with the idea and were now frankly obsessed with the notion that the last day was at hand, that the Lord's coming to Judgment would take place immediately. "Mistaken and enthusiastic men had also nourished this deception by appealing to visions and to the traditionary sayings of the apostle; and it would even appear that an epistle had been forged in the name of the apostle. The church was thrown into a state of wild excitement; an impatient and fanatical longing for the instant when Christ would come seized upon one portion.... The consequence was that many of the Thessalonians were neglecting their secular business and living idle and useless lives, conceiving that there was no use of working in a world which was so soon to be destroyed." 1) Cp. chap. 2, 2. 3; 3, 11. 12. This state of affairs caused the apostle to send second epistle, written within a few months after the first, also from Corinth.
The contents of the letter may be briefly given as follows. After the opening salutation Paul addresses to the afflicted congregation a comforting exhortation with reference to the punishment of God upon the evil-doers on the last day. He follows this up with a reminder and further instruction concerning the second advent of Christ, which would be preceded by the rise and exposure of Antichrist. A thought which is closely connected with this is that of a warning against disorderly conduct and shiftlessness. The letter closes with a line written by Paul's own hand and with the apostolic benediction.


The Association for Women in Sports Media is a 501(c)(3) organization whose female and male members support the advancement and growth of women – both professional and student – in sports media.
AWSM is a volunteer-managed, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1987 as a support network and advocacy group for women who work in sports media (reporting, editing, broadcast, media relations, etc.). Founded by Nancy Cooney, Susan Fornoff, Michele Himmelberg and Kristin Huckshorn – our membership of more than 1,000 women and men primarily includes professionals in sports media and students aspiring to careers in the industry.
AWSM works to promote and increase diversity in sports media through career-enhancement networking and mentoring initiatives as well as the internship/scholarship program – which has placed more than 150 female college students in paid summer positions since 1990. We hold regional events and an annual summer conference, where we honor individuals who have paved the way for women in the industry with the Mary Garber Pioneer Award.
Serve as a positive advocate for women in sports media by offering support, mentoring and networking services as well as national visibility.
Serve as a watchdog, promoting fair portrayal of female professionals in sports media, encouraging diversity, positive workplace environments and equal access to opportunities.
Mentor and assist college women interested in pursuing careers in sports media through internships and scholarships, student chapters and networking events.
AWSM thanks the following individuals for their service on the board during the organization's first 30 years: 1987-2017.


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Q: How to capture a variable query string, then append it to all URLs in a Wordpress site I have a site in which people will be sent there with various promo code query strings (that will change all the time), i.e., www.example.com/?source=emailad
How would I capture the query string, then append it on to all URLs in the site.
I have searched for an hour, and have found how to capture a query string, and also how to append a known value onto an href, but not how to capture an unknown string and append it on. I need to just capture everything from the ? on and append it to a URL, regardless of what the string is.
Thanks for any help!

A: The $_GET global stores all query string entries, you should be able to use that. As for appending them to URLs, you could add a hook to the post_content filter to update any links in the post/page content, as well as hooks on the various permalink filters (e.g. page_link, post_link, etc.).
Personally, the filters approach will take a lot of work to make sure you cover all links on the site. I suggest instead you use javascript to update them all on page load. Here's how you could do it in jQuery
$('a[href]').each(function(){
    var href = $(this).attr('href');

    if(href.indexOf('?') !== -1){
        // Query string exists, append current query string
        href += '&' + location.search.replace(/^\?/, '');
    }else{
        // No query string yet, add it
        href += location.search;
    }

    $(this).attr('href', href);
});

The location.search contains the query string of the page. The function will update ANY links it finds so you may want to refine it to only cover links that are relative to your site (test if this.href starts with your site's home url.
If you have any links that may be created after page load, you'll need to rework it into a click event that replaces the href attribute before it fires.
I'm not sure why you need to do this, but depending on the purpose it may be simpler to just have some custom code that stores data in their $_SESSION so that they're remembered as having come to the site via the email, without having the query string preserved everywhere.
if(isset($_SESSION['source'])){
    $_SESSION['was_referred'] = true;
}
if(isset($_SESSION['was_referred'])){
    // do stuff
}


I met Parker a couple of years ago at a grassroots wake boarding tournament just outside of Houston. We stumbled upon he and his family at the tournament because my husband recognized his mom from a restaurant we frequented in a small East Texas town (where we previously lived and where they currently live). Confused yet? Okay, so basically with less than 7 degrees of separation, we knew each other. We ended up hanging out most of the tournament with them and had a great time.
While chatting, we learned about Parker's start in wake boarding. He grew up in an action sports family. While riding motocross at a Conroe track, he fell (figuratively speaking) into the world of wake boarding and began getting riding tips from one of the wake boarding community greats, Pat Panakos, while Panakos was in town building a new cable park.
At the time of the tournament, Parker had only been wake boarding about a month or six weeks but was already doing quite well in his novice state, hitting rails and landing 360s and backflips.
Fast forward two years to this summer. I started asking around Facebook to see if any wake boarders would be interested in being photographed for my project. Quite a few volunteered, including Parker. So Parker and I met up at Hangar 9 (the Conroe wake park previously mentioned) for an afternoon of him riding and me shooting.
In just two years, Parker is a completely different rider. He did trick after trick, hardly falling on anything. He pressed, grabbed, spun and flipped through so many tricks, I can't even name them all. Let's just say, I was thoroughly impressed. Hopefully you'll be equally as impressed with his riding and the images.
Have camera. Will travel. Just add water.


Entegra Coach is recalling 95 model year 2019 Entegra Anthem, Aspire, Cornerstone and Insignia motorhomes.
The vehicles have entry doors with latch rods that may be improperly adjusted, allowing the door to open during transit.
A door opening during transit can increase the risk of injury or a crash.
Entegra has notified owners, and dealers will adjust the door latch rod, free of charge.
The recall began October 15, 2018.
Owners may contact Entegra customer service at 1-800-517-9137. Entegra's number for this recall is 9903409.


Addressing the conference on Saturday, Merkel declared, "I cannot imagine any situation in which improved equipment for the Ukrainian army leads to President Putin being so impressed that he believes he will lose militarily. I have to put it that bluntly."
"I understand the debate but I believe that more weapons will not lead to the progress Ukraine needs," added Merkel, who has pressed for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis.
"At the end of the day, to our European friends, this is not working," said Graham. "You can go to Moscow until you turn blue in the face. Stand up to what is clearly a lie and a danger."
Nato's top military commander, US Air Force general Philip Breedlove, also urged the conference to consider military escalation. "I don't think we should preclude out of hand the possibility of the military option," he said.
Merkel's statements, furthermore, were immediately slammed by Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).


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Ludwigshöhe – szczyt w Alpach Pennińskich, części Alp Zachodnich. Leży na granicy między Szwajcarią (kanton Valais) a Włochami (regiony Piemont i Dolina Aosty). Należy do masywu Monte Rosa. Leży na południe od Dufourspitze i Ostspitze. Szczyt można zdobyć ze schronisk Monte Rosa Hut (2795 m) po stronie szwajcarskiej oraz Capanna Gnifetti (3611 m) i Rifugio Citta di Mantova (3498 m) po stronie włoskiej. Szczyt przykrywa lodowiec Piode.

Pierwszego odnotowanego wejścia dokonał Luwig van Welden 25 sierpnia 1822 r.

Bibliografia
 Ludwigshöhe

Szczyty Alp Pennińskich
Szczyty Szwajcarii
Szczyty Włoch

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Amber Broos (Leuven, 16 oktober 2002), vroeger bekend als DJ 13 amps, is een Belgische dj en muziekproducent.

Biografie
Amber Broos werd geboren op 16 oktober 2002 in het Belgische Leuven. Op twaalfjarige leeftijd kwam zij al in contact met elektronische muziek en het mixen van plaatjes via haar vader, Joeri Broos, die zelf ook dj/producer is en eigenaar van een dj-school. Al op jonge leeftijd besloot Amber haar droom om dj te worden na te jagen.

Carrière
Op dertienjarige leeftijd deed Amber mee met een dj-contest van de Nederlandse top-dj Robert Abigail. Ze werd uit meer dan 1000 kandidaten gekozen als winnaar. Hiermee won ze persoonlijke begeleiding voor een jaar door Robert Abigail. In 2017 brachten Robert Abigail en 13 Amps de single Living On The Right Side uit.

Broos begon ook zelf met produceren van haar eigen muziek. In 2019 kwam haar eerste eigen single 1AM uit. Destijds nog onder haar artiestennaam 13 amps. Kort daarna besloot Broos om niet meer onder die naam te draaien en te produceren, maar onder haar eigen naam. Als Amber Broos bracht ze in 2019 nog Idolize uit en in 2020 Watch me. In 2021 bracht ze samen met Bo Vera August de single Moon Shimmer uit.

Door de jaren heen stond Broos onder andere live op Suikerrock, Lokerse Feesten en het Crisis festival en online optredens voor o.a. We Own The Night, Sorry for the Noise, MijnLeuven en De warmste week.

Amber Broos zou optreden op de 2021 editie van Pukkelpop. Door de corona epidemie is deze editie van Pukkelpop echter niet doorgegaan en is haar optreden doorgeschoven naar de 2022 editie. Daarnaast staat zij in 2022 onder andere op Suikerrock en tweemaal op Tomorrowland.

Ook is ze resident-dj bij Ancienne Belgique,  One World Radio en voor Studio Brussel bij o.a. Filefuif. Sinds september 2021 presenteert Broos het programma UNTZ op Studio Brussel. Vanaf 2023 heet ze haar eigen show, Sorry For The Noise, op One World Radio - het radiostation van Tomorrowland

Op 28 januari 2023 werd tijdens het speciale digitale evenement  "Adscendo - A Digital Introduction", de line-up van Tomorrowland 2023 bekend gemaakt. Amber Broos, die tijdens deze editie op het hoofdpodium zal optreden, verzorgde tijdens dit event een digitaal optreden. Na de live stream werd het optreden ook geuploade naar het Tomorrowland YouTube Kanaal

Discografie

Singles

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Muziekstijl
Ze draait een diversiteit aan stijlen, o.a.: alternative dance, techno, house, club en retro.

Externe link
 Officiële website

Belgisch muziekproducent
Belgisch live-dj


Could your little one use some practice when it comes to writing their letters? Maybe they are "messy" or maybe some of their letters are written HUGE while others are microscopic. All children go through this while they are trying to learn how to write properly. Give your child a helping hand, by offering them fun ways to practice their handwriting skills! Here you will see both fun and educational printables that will get your child excited about writing their letters!
These worksheets all have at least one single component of handwriting - These work on forming letters, appropriate letter size, and more!


Kill some time with a long Hautelinks list, including a DIY Dole Whip recipe, GoT excitement, Jaclyn Hill and Kim Kardashian's collab, and more.
In case you didn't hear about this, Kendall and Kylie Jenner are being sued over a line of "band tees". Will be interesting to see how it plays out. Shocked their team didn't see the potential legal issues here.
Vans just launched a new athleisure shoe and I'm sure we'll see it everywhere soon.
WIRED explains what Net Neutrality is and why you — yes, every single one of you — will be affected by it and absolutely need to care about it. This is SUCH an important issue that will define our generation.
These light, lettuce-wrapped taco recipes from Lauren Conrad are perfect inspo for an at-home summer meal.
Plus size jewelry is now available thanks to Universal Standard. Very cool!
Kinda upsetting: Target is cutting some of their biggest brands!
Snapchat rolls out a new feature Instagram doesn't have: links.
This article compares how Spider Man: Homecoming ranks among the other Spider-Man installments.
In case you needed further evidence J.K. Rowling is the QUEEN, this little tidbit of info will about do it.
Hooray! Kesha is back with an emotional new video. We are rooting for you, girl!
Emily from Cupcakes & Cashmere shares her tips for getting more done in a day.
Fashionista lists the trends that have defined modern American beauty.
Racked did a long piece on the obsession with "French Girl" style and beauty and revealed – surprise! – that it's pretty much all marketing.
This NBC article helps you keep better track of how you're spending your money.
This whole Lele Pons hair donating controversy is too strange for words.
Perfect your eyeliner game with this tape trick from SheFinds.
Speaking of makeup, we loved these beauty tips from Gal Gadot (aka Wonder Woman).
Love, love, loving the post-punk vibes at Raf Simons' latest show.
Popsugar explains the one habit that ensures a clutter-free closet.
Make your own Dole Whip at home with this recipe!! Doing this immediately.
THIS: Why It's OK to Start a TV Show in the Middle, from the NY Times.
Ummm, what? People are "snorting chocolate" now.
OMG: Someone Replaced Rihanna With Waluigi In "Wild Thoughts" And I Can't Stop Giggling.
Man Repeller's SATC-inspired summer shoot was AMAZING.
So great: a coffee shop that only hires people with disabilities.
H&M and Colette are teaming up this fall and we want everything.
But in sad news, Colette is closing this year! If you have a trip to Paris planned before December, you MUST visit.
Interesting perspective: Why a Long-Distance Relationship is a Million Time Easier Than Living Together, from ELLE.
Also from ELLE, Game of Thrones reunions we can't wait to see. AAAAAH SO EXCITED!!!!
Speaking of GoT, Kit Harrington did an amazing skit on Jimmy Kimmel where he "auditions" for other roles on the show.
"Psych, the Movie" is coming and we're, well, psyched.
Dying: Hilary Duff recreated her "Lizzie McGuire" Disney promo.
This woman's boss had the best response when she asked for a "mental health day".
Aww: People are rooting for these two strangers who have kept up a joke on Tinder for years.
Ditch that phone during lecture: A new study says (somewhat unsurprisingly) that using social media in class can lead to lower test scores.
This Woman Did a Boudoir Shoot in a T. Rex Costume. Amazing.
Naturally, the "Raven's Home" theme song is just as amazing as "That's So Raven"'s.
Lauren Conrad explains the difference between physical and chemical sunscreens.
I asked 6 Smart People Why They Read Celebrity Gossip, from Man Repeller. Is this your guilty pleasure too?
(Potential trigger) Lily Collins talked to Teen Vogue about her new role as an anorexic woman in "To the Bone," and her experience battling an eating disorder.
Project Runway is back for its 16th season: meet the new designers!
Ashley Graham shares her best bathing suit hack for women with larger chests.
Popsguar explains the only ethical way to see elephants in Phuket. Those rides were on my bucket list until I learned about the reality behind them.
Stranger Things Season 2 finally has a release date!!!
So much love for these amazing tweets about women supporting women.
Very cool: This interactive periodic table shows the uses for every element.
How to Improve Your Mood Right Now, from Positivity Blog.
This new website is the perfect tool for planning a spontaneous trip — just enter your budget and it does the work for you!
And finally… oh boy oh boy oh boy!


For two years, Jalen Hurts started as quarterback for the University of Alabama football team, leading them to 26 wins in two seasons. But as a junior in the fall of 2018, he was bumped back to second string behind a new freshman quarterback sensation, Tua Tagovailoa.
Rather than accepting an offer to transfer to another school where he could be the starter, Hurts stuck it out through a "humbling" season, he writes. He practiced with Tagovailoa and encouraged him to take Hurts' former leadership role, Tagovailoa told reporters.
And when Tagovailoa came up short in the team's conference championship, Hurts returned to his old position and led the team to a conference win.
Hurts' return made headlines—and Twitter feeds—because it's so rare to see an individual put a team's interests before his own. It's the kind of teamwork that enables come-from-behind wins and miracle successes.
That kind of teamwork isn't just important in athletics. Every great accomplishment of an organization is the result of teamwork.
For instance, when PODS successfully managed logistics to pull off a successful New Year's Eve event in New York's Times Square, we needed a team of dedicated individuals.
The challenge is assembling a team of players — like Hurts —willing to do whatever it takes to make the team successful, even if that means putting their own ego, their own desires, their own ambition, to the side for a period of time. The most victorious leaders follow these four steps to build, develop and nurture their teams to do great things.
Take time to share your vision with team members. When the whole team shares a detailed view of what success looks like, everyone will be committed, excited and engaged to make it happen.
2. Delegate pieces of the vision to qualified partners.
You may communicate your vision perfectly, but you still have to assign each part of the work to the right people — and equip them to do their jobs well.
"People get excited about what's possible, but they commit only when they understand their role in making it happen," according to the Harvard Business Review. Like the University of Alabama coach, you can only play one quarterback, but every other team member plays an important role in your success. You need to explain what their roles are and provide the support they need to do their jobs. When your team members understand that their actions and skills are necessary for the success of your shared vision, they'll be more likely to execute their roles effectively.
3. Truly care about the people on your team.
In his book, "The Customer Comes Second," Hal Rosenbluth describes how he led a culture change at Rosenbluth Travel, the family business started by his grandfather. The culture was highly political and ego-driven. Rosenbluth transformed that competitive culture into one where senior leaders cared for and about their direct reports.
In addition to policy-level changes such as benefits that offer better work-life balance, Rosenbluth engineered subtler changes by fostering a genuine interest among managers in the lives and well-being of employees. Those managers then demonstrated the same caring to their direct reports, which rippled through the organization to create the best customer experience in the industry.
In response to this new culture of caring, employees no longer have to worry about how they'll manage work if a child gets sick or other emergencies arise. Because they feel validated, they're more productive and engaged. As a result, over a relatively short period of time, the shift to caring about the employees transformed the small business into the largest privately-held travel company in the world.
After months of planning and organizing, and almost 24 hours of on-the-ground production, our PODS team celebrated the New Year in Times Square and watching from home. We've continued to celebrate that successful project by sharing the story through video and recognition of contributing team members. Such recognition shows team members that their efforts are appreciated and motivates them to continue striving for success on the next project.
As your team celebrates large and small successes, taking time to reflect and celebrate is crucial for maintaining your team's engagement, loyalty and continued efforts.


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Thousands of Californians Are Fleeing an Enormous Methane Leak. Here Are 8 Things You Need to Know.
The impact on the climate is equivalent to driving 7 million cars every day.
Aliso Canyon, where millions of tons of methane have leaked from a natural gas storage facilitySouthern California Gas
For more than two months, California has experienced a slow-moving environmental disaster: Methane leaking from a faulty natural gas well near the Los Angeles neighborhood Porter Ranch has displaced thousands of families and is releasing the greenhouse gas equivalent of driving 7 million cars each day. Here's what's going on:
When did all this start? On October 23, methane began leaking from a faulty well in Aliso Canyon, the site of a natural gas storage facility owned by Southern California Gas company. Since then, the well has been releasing about 70,000 pounds of methane every hour—equivalent to about a quarter of the state's methane emissions, according to CBS News. (Methane is a particularly powerful greenhouse gas; pound for pound, it traps 86 times more solar radiation than CO2 over a 20-year period.) SoCalGas estimates the leak won't be fixed until February or March.
All non-EDF infographics created by James West
Why is it taking so long to fix? Often, leaky wells take just a few days to repair—you simply plug the well. But this leak is particularly tricky, in part because the gas is escaping not just from the well but from the soil and rocks around it. According to the Los Angeles Times, the leaky well in question is 61 years old. The reservoir holding the natural gas is among the biggest in the country, and it's thousands of feet below the ground. About 500 feet below the surface, there's likely a hole in the pipe that carries natural gas from the reservoir to the top of the well. That pipe is surrounded by a cement casing, and the gas may be leaking from the hole in the pipe into the cavity of the casing. From there, it flows down until the casing ends, where it leaks into the surrounding soil and rock. In order to fix it, crews will have to build an entire new relief well.
What's the impact on climate change? This is one of the largest—if not the largest—methane leaks on record, says Timothy O'Connor, the California Oil and Gas Program director at the Environmental Defense Fund. The EDF, which keeps a running counter of the leakage (below), estimates that roughly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent will have been released by the time the leak is stopped. That's about 6 percent of all methane emissions from the US gas industry in 2013.
What's SoCalGas doing about it? According to company spokeswoman Melissa Bailey, SoCalGas is "doing everything we can to stop the leak as quickly as possible." Furthermore, the company has "committed to mitigating the effects" of the leak on climate change, and has reached out to Gov. Jerry Brown's office to do so. "We're not sure how the mitigation will happen—everything's on the table," said Bailey. "We want to make sure we don't set California back."
What symptoms are residents reporting? Nearby residents, most of whom live in an affluent neighborhood called Porter Ranch, have reported a number of acute symptoms, including blurry vision, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, shortness of breath, and headaches. These are likely due to exposure to mercaptans—chemical scents added to natural gas, which is naturally odorless. But the biggest concern for many is exposure to benzene, a known carcinogen that has been found at levels three to five times higher than those in urban Los Angeles. While the levels are lower than those expected to produce long-term health impacts, says O'Connor, "any exposure to those is concerning."
Are residents moving? Los Angeles County has ordered SoCalGas to temporarily relocate residents reporting symptoms from the leak. The company has paid to relocate 2,500 families, and more than 1,300 more are waiting to move, according to Bailey. Because the leak will likely not be fixed for two to three months, she wrote in an email, "we're working to provide residents with extended stay and more home-like accommodations."
Those residents must be pissed. Yup. Since the leak started, five lawsuits have been brought against SoCalGas, mostly from residents seeking damages and compensation for the impact on health and property prices. The city of Los Angeles has also sued SoCalGas for air and climate pollution.
What caused the leak to begin with? No one can say for sure—several investigations are currently underway. We do know that this facility had documented corrosion and well failures at Aliso Canyon; in a testimony last year, Philip Baker, director of storage operations at SoCalGas, wrote, "Well integrity may have already been severely compromised requiring immediate attention to maintain safety, integrity and reliability." (Baker was requesting permission to raise rates, saying the company would need more than $30 million to conduct repairs at its four storage facilities.) O'Connor says the leak represents a larger national problem: Aliso Canyon is one of the nation's 400 natural gas storage facilities, many of which were built before modern well standards were in place. Unlike natural gas production facilities, the storage facilities are exempt from the federal laws that regulate underground well integrity, leaving regulation up to the states. "The regulation of these facilities really flies under the radar until catastrophe strikes."
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Home PERSPECTIVE IYMI : Nigeria And The Cow Problem: Another Letter To Buhari
IYMI : Nigeria And The Cow Problem: Another Letter To Buhari
The Daily Crucible 12:54 AM PERSPECTIVE,
• Niyi Osundare
By Niyi Osundare
Dear President Buhari,
This letter, my second to you in five months, will begin with a very, very absurd question: Mr. President, will Nigeria drift into another civil war under your watch simply because the 'Giant of Africa' does not know how to manage its cows? Yes, absurd: for, absurdity is the faithful cohort of the grotesque and irrational, the conspicuously invisible and falsely true. No war has ever taken place without a potent dose of the absurd in its mix of causes. No calamity has ever happened without a touch of the irrational. The distance between travesty and tragedy is perilously short. This is why History's capacious house is replete with the skeletons of nations, which went to war, after leaving their brains behind.
Mr. President, the country over which you preside is burning in all its flanks: kidnapping on the highways, kidnapping on village roads, kidnapping on township streets, kidnapping in the homestead, kidnapping on the farmlands. Nigeria has never had it so bad. The notorious perpetrators of these crimes are widely called 'bandits' and/or 'Fulani herdsmen', depending upon the speaker's degree of sensitivity or political correctness. The ethnic origination and/or attribution of these crimes is my object of worry – and should be to anyone who cares for the stability of Nigeria and its survival as a corporate entity. Yes, the cow, that four-legged, two-horned, long-tailed, absolutely innocent animal, has become Nigeria's casus belli, the moo-ing metaphor of a planless, dysfunctional country, waiting for another bout of absurdity to push her beyond the brink, and plunge us all into avoidable catastrophe. Big wars are often caused by thoughtless little issues.
Mr. President, war drums are already sounding in some parts of the country, provoked by a question as dangerously absurd as this: when you and a herd of cows meet on the road, who/which should have the right of way? When you, a struggling farmer, get to your farm and find a herd of cows making a meal of the crops which are the lifeline for you and your family, should you take a bow as you shout bon appetite to the bovine bunch? When your only child is kidnapped and tortured and murdered, even after the payment of a hefty ransom, will you ask your neighbours to join you in the singing of the national anthem? Absurdity, dangerous absurdity. But Mr. President, permit me to poach this unavoidably long excerpt from an interview, which was part of my contributions to the activities marking the 59th anniversary of Nigeria's Independence:
Now, on to the Fulani Herdsmen. The frightening frequency of the repetition of that designation in the Nigerian media in recent times has left me with chilling apprehensions. As I have said on other occasions, we need all the tact, all the restraint, all the wisdom we can muster to tackle this extremely dangerous development, for Nigeria cannot afford to stampede itself into another civil war. Let no one underrate the havoc and destruction that are widely caused by these herdsmen; the epidemic of kidnapping , ransom extortion, and murder, the looting and destruction of farmlands, especially in the southern parts of Nigeria, and the uncountable bereavements that have been the lot of many households. President Buhari and his Federal Government cannot pretend that they do not know what is happening – that, indeed, there is fire on the roof of the Nigeria house. How much investigation has the government done into this dangerous situation? If any, how thorough, how non-partisan? If, indeed, as we have been told, many of the so-called Fulani Herdsmen are foreigners in search of green pastures in Nigeria, how did they get into the country, and what are the border patrol officers doing about this? What do we call a country that cannot secure its own borders? With the cloud of insecurity hanging over the country, you cannot but ask "Where are Nigeria's security authorities: the army, the police, immigration, the civil defence corps, etc? What do President Buhari and the Heads of these security units talk about at their official briefings?
To say the least the Federal Government's handling of the herdsmen crisis has been amateurish, pedestrian, and dangerously incompetent. Tell me: Is someone in Aso Rock trifling away while the Nigeria house is burning? Say something, President Buhari. Do something.
The Ruga proposition is a 'solution' that is bound to compound the problem. That is why many people in many parts of the country have seen it as a poorly thought out attempt at the colonization of their own territories. And, by the way, there is crucial, fundamental question we have not been not asking: why do so many Nigerians, in this day and age, have to roam the entire country, in search of grass for cows they rear and nurture on behalf of richer, more powerful Nigerians? Why are they not in school – like the children of their rich and powerful patrons/clients? Let no one insult our intelligence with the atavistic excuse that this wasteful mis-employment of a vital group of Nigeria's youth is a matter of culture and tradition. Genuine culture fares better; and tradition is no disempowering imprisonment.
The Americans pasture their cows, the British do; so do South Africans and Ghanaians and Australians and Argentines, Chinese and Koreans, without turning a sizeable number of their young men into cow-chasers; without plunging their countries into 'Herdsmen' war. Let us try the miracle of the modern ranch: green, friendly, and peaceably/equitably located. Let us stop this ethnic profiling and stereotyping, this hype and hysteria, before they plunge us into another civil war. The War of Bullets usually begins with the War of Words. Let Rwanda provide us with a tragic – but avoidable – example.
Mr. President, I said the above some 17 months ago. Since then the situation has grown grimmer, the absurdity more alarming, more dangerous. The war drums are louder now and more persistent because the tension has been left to escalate. The customary silence from the seat of power has accentuated the loudness of the drum.
In the opinion of many Nigerians, your apparent silence is nothing short of ethnic connivance: that the herdsmen roam and range all over the country, killing and maiming with astonishing impunity, because 'the man at the top' is their man. This feeling of untouchability, this sense of ethnic entitlement is evidenced by the preferential treatment reportedly enjoyed by the herdsmen, and the failure of Nigerian Law to hold them accountable for their actions. Mr. President, you owe yourself, this troubled country, and the world at large the urgent need to show in demonstrably practical terms that the entire country is, indeed, your ethnic constituency. Say more, do more about the violence that is threatening the already frail fabric of the country. Go out and see things for yourself. The monsters consuming Nigeria are not the type you can tame through chats with traditional rulers on emergency trips to Aso Rock. The story in many parts of Nigeria today is those of murderous assaults by herdsmen and gory reprisals by local victims. A trip to Nigeria's southwest region will tell you how perilously close the country is to a civil war.
Needless to say, Mr. President, we live in strange and difficult times. As a result of climate change the desert is marching towards the coast; swarths of old pastoral land have disappeared; the beneficent streams between the mountains have all but vanished. As the search for pasture pushes cattle rearing southwards, herdsmen and local farmers have found themselves locked in bloody battle over the available green patch, with old friends and neighbours becoming mortal enemies, and frequent skirmishes flaring into ethnic conflagrations, the type that consume unwary nations. But bad as this situation is, the climate-change excuse will not suffice.
Ranches, Mr. President, ranches. Computer-regulated irrigation. Pasture colonies. Created oases. Artificial lakes. Let the cows eat and drink where they are born, not forced into endless dangerous treks across the country in search of dwindling patches of greenery. Ask our River Basins how it could be done. Empower the Faculties of Agriculture in our various universities, (and our Universities of Agriculture), working in creative alliance with those of Engineering and Technology, instead of stampeding them into interminable strikes that drain the nation dry. Israel made the desert bloom by putting its citizens' brains to work. Today, the country produces 95% of its food requirements, and some of the best citrus products in the world . Concerning the young men and boys now famously known as 'herdsmen', put them in school; put their feet on the road to a worthy life. Let their rich and powerful masters/patrons (all over Nigeria!) treat them the way they treat their own children. Science, not superstition, purposive reality, not bovine absurdity, that's the magic. Time to wake up, Mr. President. Time to wake up. The thinking, working world has left us behind. The whole wide world is appalled by Nigeria's ostensibly incurable delinquency.
And that world is watching and wondering at the tragic absurdity of a country sliding mindlessly into a civil war over where and how to graze its cows. It is waiting for us to prove that we are wiser than our bovine bunch. It is, indeed, wondering whether in 'Africa's most populous country', it is the people who rear the cows, or it is the cows that rear the people. Yes, the world is really wondering who owns Nigeria: the people or the cows?
Say something, Mr. President. Do something. Let us save Nigeria from another (un)civil war.
Your Impatient Compatriot, Niyi Osundare
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If developed, Hilcorp's Liberty project, would be the first in U.S. federal offshore oil produced in the Arctic.
A federal agency has granted its blessing to Hilcorp Energy Company's plan of development for what would be the first producing oil field located entirely in federal waters off Alaska.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Thursday released a final environmental impact statement that endorsed Hilcorp Alaska LLC's plan to produce oil from the Liberty field from an artificial gravel island constructed in the Beaufort Sea.
Hilcorp's plan of development is the third submitted for Liberty, a field with an estimated 150 million barrels of recoverable oil. The prospect is about five miles offshore, putting it just past the limit of state territory, and about 20 miles east of Prudhoe Bay.
If Liberty is developed, it would mark a milestone. Although there have been several discoveries of oil in federal waters off Alaska, there has never been a producing oil field located entirely in the federal outer continental shelf area.
Hilcorp estimates that Liberty will provide 60,000 to 70,000 barrels per day at peak production, and that the field will be in production for 15 to 20 years. The plan for development includes an artificial island in water about 19 feet deep to hold all drilling and production, with a pipeline through the Beaufort Sea to tie into existing pipeline infrastructure. The island would hold a little over 9 acres of work surface and a total footprint of about 24 acres built in waters on the sea floor.
Four other North Slope fields already use such artificial islands, the final EIS notes.
Hilcorp submitted its development plan to BOEM in 2015. That plan emerged as the preferred alternative after a draft EIS was published last year and after the agency held public hearings in the Beaufort Sea communities of Utqiagvik and Nuiqsut and the cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks.
"This Final EIS incorporates input from those communities and the comments we received from other stakeholders, partner agencies and the general public. With that input, our scientists have produced a robust analysis that thoroughly analyzes the potential impacts of Hilcorp's proposal, BOEM Acting Director Walter Cruickshank said in a statement.
A major concern about Liberty development is potential impacts to the nearby Stefansson Sound Boulder Patch, a biological hotspot rich with kelp. BOEM considered some alternatives that would have routed Liberty's production island farther away from the boulder patch, but ultimately rejected them as not feasible.
One of those alternatives would have put the island about a mile to the east, and thus more distant from the most concentrated part of the boulder patch, but that would have required an additional 0.25 miles of pipeline that would be almost certainly at risk of "overflood occurrence," making that section vulnerable to wear and buckling, BOEM said in the final EIS. The second of the boulder-patch-avoidance alternatives would have put the island about 1.5 miles closer to shore — into state territory — but that would have resulted in a need to drill much longer well bores of about 17,200 feet instead of the planned 13,900 feet length, the final EIS said.
Although oil in the area was first found in the 1980s and Liberty's resources have long been known, the prospect has languished for many years. Previous development plans submitted were submitted by BP in 1998 and 2007, but the company abandoned both. In 2014, in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP sold several North Slop assets to Hilcorp, including a half share in Liberty, and Hilcorp became the prospect's operator.
BP's initial development plan proposed an artificial island, but the company withdrew that plan after a similar island at the Northstar field proved costlier than the company had expected. BP's second plan for development proposed to use ultra-extended-reach wells to drill into Liberty oil from shore, a proposal that would have avoided the need for any island.
A similar for ultra-extended-reach drilling was considered in the latest EIS as a development alternative, but it was rejected by BOEM.


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I'm starting to create my first RTX166 program. However, when I compile and link my program, I receive a lot of linker errors.
Why do I receive these error messages?
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Jun. 10, 2016 9:00 a.m.
A violent offender who has allegedly breached conditions of his release from prison, is now subject of a police manhunt.
Surrey RCMP is seeking public assistance is finding Bryan Travis Kelly.
The 5'9″ Caucasian with tattooed arms was released from a federal penitentiary after a two-year sentence for robbery and assaulting a peace officer.
Kelly was released under strict conditions, and is alleged to have breached those conditions already.
A warrant was issued for his arrest on Friday.
Police regard Kelly as dangerous and advice the public not to approach him, but to call 9-1-1 and immediately report his whereabouts.
Anyone with more information on where to find him is asked to contact the Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502 or Crime Stoppers, if they wish to remain anonymous, at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or www.solvecrime.ca.


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Die Communauté de communes du Pays de Seyne war ein französischer Gemeindeverband mit der Rechtsform einer Communauté de communes im Département Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in der Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Sie wurde am 5. Dezember 2008 gegründet und umfasste acht Gemeinden. Der Verwaltungssitz befand sich im Ort Seyne.

Historische Entwicklung
Am 1. Januar 2017 wurde der Gemeindeverband mit den Communautés de communes Asse-Bléone-Verdon, Haute-Bléone, Moyenne-Durance und Duyes et Bléone zur neuen Provence-Alpes-Agglomération zusammengeschlossen.

Ehemalige Mitgliedsgemeinden
 Auzet
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Quellen

Pays de Seyne
Gegründet 2008
Aufgelöst 2016


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Q: Composite or Graph API - deleting multiple records based on external Id I've tried to leverage the new Composite Graph API to delete records for which I only know the external Id.
I've tried 2 ways and both of which have failed

*

*Method 1:
In a single request:
a subrequest to GET the record
a subrequest to DELETE the record using {referenceId.Id} in the URL
Result: Failed

*Method 2:
In a single request
a subrequest to PATCH the record
a subrequest to DELETE the record using {referenceId.Id} in the URL
Result: Endpoint not supported in Composite Graph API:
/v51.0/sobjects/Account/{AccountToDelete.Id}
Has anyone successfully done a delete using the Composite Graph API?

A: Actually, as @sfdxfox said, you should better prefer Composite API because Graph API provides an enhanced way to perform composite requests, that is, it serves other purposes (e.g. allows to assemble a more complicated and complete series of related objects and records).
But if you still want to use Graph API to delete records by external id, you can make the following request:
POST https://{{instance_url}}/services/data/v50.0/composite/graph
Accept: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}
X-PrettyPrint: 1
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "graphs" : [
    {
      "graphId" : "1",
      "compositeRequest" : [
        {
          "url" : "/services/data/v50.0/sobjects/Account/External_Id_Field__c/externalIdValue",
          "method" : "DELETE",
          "referenceId": "ref1"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

So in case if your external id field value is unique, you will get the next response:
{
  "graphs": [
    {
      "graphId": "1",
      "graphResponse": {
        "compositeResponse": [
          {
            "body": {
              "attributes": {
                "type": "Account",
                "url": "/services/data/v50.0/sobjects/Account/0011j00000yM0ReAAK"
              },
              "Id": "0011j00000yM0ReAAK",
              "ExternalId__c": "externalIdValue"
            },
            "httpHeaders": {
              "Last-Modified": "Thu, 28 Jan 2021 23:04:41 GMT"
            },
            "httpStatusCode": 200,
            "referenceId": "ref1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "isSuccessful": true
    }
  ]
}

If your external id field value is not unique you'll get a response with "httpStatusCode": 300. In this case you should retrieve the records ids by external id using standard REST API:
GET https://{{instance_url}}/services/data/v50.0/sobjects/Account/External_Id_Field__c/externalIdValue
Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Response:
[
    "/services/data/v50.0/sobjects/Account/0011j00000yM0ReAAK",
    "/services/data/v50.0/sobjects/Account/0011j00000yM0RgAAK"
]

And then having the ids of found records delete them using sObject Collections endpoind:
DELETE https://{{instance_url}}/services/data/v50.0/composite/sobjects?ids=0011j00000yM0ReAAK,0011j00000yM0RgAAK
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

However, I don't believe it is possible to do it in a single composite request with 2 subrequests.
NOTE. You can delete up to 200 records at a time

A: Use the Composite API, not the Graph API. The latter is used to insert and update related records. The first subsequent would be a get, the second the delete call.


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package com.commercetools.sunrise.framework.template.engine.handlebars;

import com.commercetools.sunrise.cms.CmsPage;
import com.commercetools.sunrise.framework.viewmodels.PageData;
import com.commercetools.sunrise.framework.template.engine.TemplateContext;
import com.commercetools.sunrise.framework.template.engine.TemplateEngine;
import com.commercetools.sunrise.framework.template.i18n.I18nIdentifierFactory;
import com.commercetools.sunrise.framework.template.i18n.TestableI18nResolver;
import com.github.jknack.handlebars.Handlebars;
import com.github.jknack.handlebars.io.ClassPathTemplateLoader;
import com.github.jknack.handlebars.io.TemplateLoader;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

import static java.util.Collections.*;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

public class HandlebarsCmsHelperTest {

    @Test
    public void resolvesMessage() throws Exception {
        testTemplate("simple", html -> assertThat(html).contains("something"));
    }

    @Test
    public void fieldNotFound() throws Exception {
        testTemplate("missingField", html -> assertThat(html).isEmpty());
    }

    private static void testTemplate(final String templateName, final Consumer<String> test) throws Exception {
        final String html = renderTemplate(templateName, handlebarsTemplateEngine());
        test.accept(html);
    }

    private static String renderTemplate(final String templateName, final TemplateEngine templateEngine) throws Exception {
        final TemplateContext templateContext = new TemplateContext(new PageData(), emptyList(), cmsPage());
        return templateEngine.render(templateName, templateContext);
    }

    private static CmsPage cmsPage() {
        return fieldName -> {
            if (fieldName.equals("someid.somefield")) return Optional.of("something");
            else return Optional.empty();
        };
    }

    private static TemplateEngine handlebarsTemplateEngine() {
        final TestableI18nResolver i18nResolver = new TestableI18nResolver(emptyMap());
        final List<TemplateLoader> templateLoaders = singletonList(new ClassPathTemplateLoader("/templates/cmsHelper"));
        final Handlebars handlebars = HandlebarsFactory.create(templateLoaders, i18nResolver, new I18nIdentifierFactory());
        return HandlebarsTemplateEngine.of(handlebars, new HandlebarsContextFactory(new PlayJavaFormResolver(msg -> msg)));
    }
}

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