"In antiquity this sylvan landscape was the scene of a strange and recurring tragedy. On the northern shore of the lake, right under the precipitous cliffs on which the modern village of Nemi is perched, stood the sacred grove and sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis, or Diana of the Wood… In this sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if at every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; and the man for whom he looked was sooner or later to murder him and hold his priesthood in his stead. Such was the rule of the sanctuary. A candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to office by slaying the priest, and having slain him, he retained office till he was himself slain by a stronger or a craftier…The post which he held by this precarious tenure carried with it the title of king; but surely no crowned head ever lay uneasier, or was visited by more evil dreams than his. For year in, year out, in summer and winter, in fair weather and in foul, he had to keep his lonely watch, and whenever he snatched a troubled slumber it was at the peril of his life." Welkin, i.e., the celestial sphere, the vault of the world. What is the world? wood, wold, copse, dale, dell, glade, marsh, moor, bog, heath, valley, vale, meadow, fen, field, and pasture. Text: James George Frazier, "The King of the Wood," "The Golden Bough." Macmillon: New York, 1922. Image: J. M. W. Turner, "The Golden Bough," 1041 mm x 1638 mm, 1835. Collection: Tate Museum, London.


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Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome
by Billie Doux
Spock: "Tell Doctor McCoy he should have wished me luck."
Ah, yes. The giant amoeba episode.
It was sort of like "The Doomsday Machine" but in slow motion; it even ended with them going right down the monster's "throat." But there was no exciting space battle, and like the crew, the story lacked energy. It actually felt like the crew were simply fighting exhaustion and depression, with the big blob of nothing representing an empty future, or possibly death.
The character interaction was a bit more satisfying than the monster plot. There was a human versus Vulcan dynamic that began when Spock sensed the death of the Intrepid. The shock seemed to make Spock act species-ist and almost deliberately obtuse, like, you bloodthirsty inferior humans, you. And yet, the implication was that the Intrepid didn't make it because they couldn't get past the illogic of the creature's backward existence, and that the humans defeated the Amoeba of Death because they were able to think outside the box.
Later, Kirk, Spock and McCoy practically came to blows arguing over who would have the honor of going on a suicide mission. And yes, it was very like Spock to volunteer in order to learn something new and unique. And it was very like McCoy to sacrifice himself for the ship and for his friends. But I don't think I'd throw myself at a suicide mission quite so enthusiastically.
Why did Kirk order the ship into the nothingness after what happened to the Intrepid? Okay, I suppose they saved the galaxy from drowning in depression as well as protoplasm, so I guess that justifies his decision, but maybe he should have called for help and thought about other options. While I'm complaining, perhaps I should mention that the no-seat-belt situation during the final explosion was probably their worst; everyone was throwing themselves in conflicting directions, which might be contrary to the laws of physics.
And there was no debris after the explosion. With eleven thousand miles of protoplasm, shouldn't there have been goo everywhere?
Ben says...
Let me just say, that after growing up eating food off of taco carts on the street corners of Juarez, it was particularly satisfying to see an amoeba swallowing humans and getting explosively sick. Take that, illness inducing micro-organisms. But I digress.
What I am really getting watching these episodes all in a row and in quick succession was that there really was a lot of painful repetition in plots and elements. This is the third giant space monster of season two (Obsession Cloud o'doom, Doomsday Machine's Suggestively Phallic Cylinder o'doom, and our current Amoeba o'doom), the parallel planetary development thing gets a pretty good going over as well, evil twins are sadly thick on the ground, and let's not leave out computers run amok. At the same time they sprinkle episodes between these tropes that are some of the most fun and best written science fiction to ever grace the small screen.
I think trying to produce a consistently high quality show in this period was just a huge challenge. I just don't think that either quality science fiction or quality television were really valued in the period. Now, this kind of repetition on, for example, Lost would be immediately identified and picked apart by fans. Heroes failed on exactly this repetitious redundant repeating. Now we have penetrated the amoeba of Hollywood which has threatened to drain pop culture's energy to plant a fannish anti-matter bomb of quality... or maybe there is just more money in television and SF now, hard to say.
Back to Billie for bits and pieces:
— The stardate was mentioned several times: 4307.1 to 4309.4. Enterprise was en route to Starbase 6 for shore leave. Solar system Gamma 7A was destroyed.
— Spock was able to feel the deaths of 400 Vulcans even though he was, of course, not in physical contact with them.
— It's probably happened before, but I noticed this time that both miles and kilometers were mentioned. The Star Trek Powers That Be should have picked a future system of measurement and stuck with it.
— Spock mentioned that Vulcans hadn't been conquered in collective memory.
— We saw a lot of medical staff for a change. Although all they basically did was shoot people up with stimulants.
— The shuttlecraft Spock took on the suicide mission was the Galileo.
— It's been awhile since I saw the original, but the remastered amoeba looked cooler than the original to me. Or maybe it's just that my television is a lot bigger now.
— Was that Eddie Paskey in a red shirt who passed out on the bridge?
Kirk: "A boundary layer? Between what and what?"
Spock: "Between where we were and where we are."
Kirk: "Are you trying to be funny, Mister Spock?"
Spock: "It would never occur to me, Captain."
Kirk: "Both are right. Both are capable. And which of my friends do I condemn to death?"
Spock: "Do not risk the ship further on my behalf."
McCoy: "Shut up, Spock. We're rescuing you."
Spock: "Why, thank you, Captain McCoy."
Two out of four zones of darkness,
Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.
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Jerry Modene Monday, July 4, 2011 at 8:32:00 PM EDT
That was indeed Eddie Paskey who passed out on the bridge. Interesting, given that he was killed in the week-previously-filmed episode, "Obsession". I guess he hadn't gotten over that yet. He shows up again, in about four weeks, as one of the two redshirts who beam down with Sulu to arrest Captain Tracey in "Omega Glory".
tinkapuss Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 11:17:00 AM EDT
The best part about this episode for me is the contest over who gets to sacrifice himself for science; and the banter-turned-serious-exchange between McCoy and Spock as the latter leaves for the shuttle. I always thought it was sad that Bones could not bring himself to say at least, "good luck" in Spock's hearing.
Also the comment in your review about the repetition of themes and tropes is valid; I noticed when binge-watching the old tv series Twin Peaks how it was not designed for such viewing. The repetition of music, imagery etc really got on my nerves. It very much relied on a week's break between episodes like the Star Trek series. Our culture's viewing habits have definitely altered over the decades, which is interesting.
Outsider65 Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 2:53:00 AM EDT
Some good character interactions this episode.
"Tell Dr. McCoy, he should have wished me luck." OUCH. So much done with that one sentence. And then Kirk looks over at Bones with a "if we survive this, you two should really cut this shit out" look and it just gets worse. He rarely had something to say on their verbal rivalry, and sometimes joined in, but the possibility of them dying having parted on bad terms due to petty squabbling was very real. The first time I watched this episode I thought that line was pretty cruel, intended to make McCoy feel even worse about his friend's death, but coming back to it, now I wonder if it wasn't an expression of regret for their childish behavior and the rift between them before what could've been their final parting. (I mean, we all know logically that saying that would probably only serve to make McCoy feel bad, but we all know Spock doesn't operate on pure logic.)
Mikey Heinrich Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 7:53:00 PM EST
I could have forgiven Kirk's super skeezy joke about relaxing on a beautiful...planet, while leering at his female crew members. But then they go and repeat it again at the end. Gross, dude.
And where was Sulu? That's been the biggest surprise of finally watching these- how often sulu isn't around

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I came to yoga, like most people, the long way.
As a kid I was involved in gymnastics and loved being upside down, being strong and dynamic and present in my body.
As a young teenager some of that presence started to disappear. My confidence faded and my normal shyness started to increase. I started having panic attacks. Having panic attacks led me to be constantly alert for possible stressors and sources of anxiety. That is, when I wasn't drinking or taking drugs, dancing like a wild thing and partying myself into a state that kept the anxiety at bay, but didn't leave me feeling healthy and happy either.
Fear constricts the breathing. It makes the body rigid and locks down connection and spontaneity. While I looked fit and healthy on the outside - I was vegetarian, I looked trim and strong - I was still separated in some way from myself.
Through yoga - practicing it and teaching it - I found a way to reconnect myself.
I took my first yoga class in 2000. It was out the back of a whole foods cafe on Lygon Street in Brunswick, Melbourne. I only lived a few doors down, so it was pretty easy to get there. But being an anxious little bundle, I arrived at the door with a million doubts: is it going to be too hard for me?... I'm not as flexible as I used to be... am I hippy enough?... is everyone going to know each other already? Blah blah, the usual. Of course, the room was peaceful, quiet and welcoming. There were, as there always are, a whole range of different people. I was fine.
I remember quite a lot from the first class. It was the first of a term of beginners' classes, so we were taught Tadasana, a version of Salute to the Sun and Savasana.
The teachings from that first class have really stayed with me. Particularly Tadasana, or Mountain Pose. I loved (and still do) how simply standing still was considered yoga. (That in itself taught me a lot about what yoga is.) How strong you can feel by getting that pose right! The improvement in my posture and balance and the knock-on effect on my attitude. So simple!
For many years I floated in and out of yoga classes, all over Melbourne. I saw it as a stress management tool. I'd come back to yoga when I needed it, when life or work or relationships were leaving me feeling ragged.
In 2011 I started taking classes at Embody Yoga in Daylesford with Janet Lowndes. I took 3 or 4 classes a week. Whenever Janet taught, I'd be there. A wonderful, fun teacher and a beautiful, inspirational woman. Janet just breathes calm. Yes, inspirational. She taught me to dance in yoga, and to giggle and breathe.
I'd done some breathing exercises before, but this was the first time anyone had explained why. One day we practised 3-stage-breathing, for a few minutes. When we finished, my first clear inhalation was the purest, most delicious breath I'd ever taken. I'm hooked! Breathing's awesome! It took me a lot of persistence to change the habits of a lifetime, but I finally nailed it. Abdominal breathing! Guaranteed to calm the most anxious tummy.
Yoga was starting to open up a whole new way of being for me. I enrolled in a teacher training course in Kerala, India, hoping it would deepen my learning. I didn't have ambitions of being a teacher, I just wanted to be immersed in that world for a while. I was exposed to more wonderful teachers, made some incredible friendships and lived and breathed yoga for a whole month. 5am starts. 10pm finishes. 4-5 hours of asana every day. Plus meditation, breathing, philosophy, history, anatomy, teaching practice as well as Ayurveda and Reiki classes.
And it turned out I enjoyed teaching!


Many years have we walked in the dust to find water.
Many years with only tears for the dead.
Humans, sit with me and look up at the stars.
We fight among the bones of our ancestors when the Universe awaits.
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Q: Parse environment variables in dockerfile entrypoint for mvn spring-boot:run I am trying to run a spring-boot app in docker but when I try and parse environment variables in the dockerfile entrypoint I am getting the following error:
Unable to open JDBC Connection for DDL execution
My dockerfile looks like this
FROM maven:3.6-jdk-8

COPY . /usr/src/api
WORKDIR /usr/src/api

ENV SPRING_URL ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL}
ENV SPRING_USERNAME ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME}
ENV SPRING_PASSWORD ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}

RUN mvn install:install-file \
     -Dfile=.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar \
     -Dversion=1.0 \
     -Dpackaging=jar \
     -DgeneratePom=true \
     -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=SPRING_URL \
     -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=SPRING_USERNAME \
     -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=SPRING_PASSWORD

ENTRYPOINT mvn -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=SPRING_URL -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=SPRING_USERNAME -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=SPRING_PASSWORD spring-boot:run

The env variables are coming from the docker-compose file. I am running
docker-compose build, which builds successfully (including the tests being passed) and docker-compose -p 0.0.0.0:8080:8080 run api which fails with the above error.
My docker-compose.yml looks like this:
version: '3'
services:
  api:
    image: test/api:1.0
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    environment:
        - SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL}
        - SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME}
        - SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}

The problem is in how I am parsing env variables to the entrypoint. On the mvn install, it seems to be working fine, but not on the spring-boot:run. Is the shell form of entrypoint te right command and how should I be parsing the variables?

A: I followed this https://spring.io/blog/2018/11/08/spring-boot-in-a-container to dockerize the app with my application.properties looking like this:
spring.datasource.url=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL}
spring.datasource.username = ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME}
spring.datasource.password = ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}

Then my docker-compose.yml remained the same and my Dockerfile looks like this:
FROM openjdk:8-jdk-alpine
RUN addgroup -S spring && adduser -S spring -G spring
USER spring:spring

ARG DEPENDENCY=target/dependency
ARG SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL
ARG SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME
ARG SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD

ENV SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL}
ENV SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME}
ENV SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}

COPY ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/lib /app/lib
COPY ${DEPENDENCY}/META-INF /app/META-INF
COPY ${DEPENDENCY}/BOOT-INF/classes /app

EXPOSE 8080

ENTRYPOINT ["java","- cp","app:app/lib/*","test.ApiApplication"]

I found this page very useful in explained ARGs and ENVs in dockerfile https://vsupalov.com/docker-arg-env-variable-guide/
Also to make my original dockerization approach to work my application.properties and docker-compose remained the same and my dockerfile was like this:
FROM maven:3.6-jdk-8

COPY . /usr/src/api
WORKDIR /usr/src/api
ARG SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL
ARG SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME
ARG SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD

RUN mvn install:install-file \
     -Dfile=.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar \
     -DgroupId=test.ApiApplication \
     -DartifactId=api \
     -Dversion=1.0 \
     -Dpackaging=jar \
     -DgeneratePom=true \
     -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL} \
     -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME} \
     -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}

ENV SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL}
ENV SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME}
ENV SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD ${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}

EXPOSE 8080

ENTRYPOINT mvn -DSPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL} - DSPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME} - DSPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD} spring-boot:run

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Bronx livery driver stabbed after argument with 3 passengers over cost of ride
Ex-Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry praised during funeral
He came to the nation's capital a freedom fighter, and by the time Marion Barry was done, he had "emancipated Washington," the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday.
"Marion was one of the architects of the New South and the new America," Jackson said in his eulogy for the four-term Washington mayor. "Marion Barry emancipated Washington."
Local and national political leaders, prominent clergy and ordinary Washingtonians who got their first jobs as a result of Barry's programs were among the thousands who gathered Saturday to say goodbye to the Mississippi native dubbed "Mayor for Life."
Barry, who died Nov. 23 at 78, leaves a legacy as the most famous, the most beloved and the most divisive local leader in four decades of District of Columbia self-rule. He was credited with expanding economic opportunity for the city's black majority and helping to revitalize downtown Washington.
He also had well-documented personal struggles, culminating in a 1990 arrest for smoking crack cocaine. Barry served six months in prison, but was later elected to his fourth term for a remarkable comeback.
"Marion Barry was an icon. He was the consummate politician. He was an elder statesman. He was a fierce fighter for the dispossessed," said the Rev. Willie Wilson, a southeast Washington pastor and one of several clergy who ministered to Barry over the years.
Cora Masters Barry recalled her husband's generosity at the service in the Washington Convention Center.
"I stopped letting him go to the gas station because he would spend all his money, not on gas, but on people asking him for money," Masters Barry said.


DSLR cameras (that's short for "digital single-lens reflex") are the powerhouse cameras favored by serious photographers, bloggers, and craft businesses. DSLR cameras are larger, heavier, and more expensive than point and shoots. What can a DSLR do that a point and shoot camera can't?
Read on as we explain the biggest DSLR advantages over point and shoot cameras!
Swapping lenses is like giving your camera new super powers. Lenses = versatility.
Wait a minute – don't point and shoot cameras come with lenses built in? Yes, but those are "all purpose" lenses – they put everything into focus and that's the end of it. On a DSLR, however, you can chooses lenses that put the background out of focus, magnify tiny details, or photograph objects thousands of feet (or miles) away with clarity.
Blurred backgrounds, hooray! Many product photographers want to achieve this blurred background look. To get it, you'll need a lens designed for a shallow depth of field. Look for a lens with "85mm" or "100mm" in its name and you can create beautiful bokeh effects. (Tip for searchers: "bokeh" is just a fancy photographer word for "blurry background").
A shallow depth of field puts close objects in focus while blurring the further ones. Adorable cupcake charms are by Shayaaron on Etsy.
Point and shoot cameras really struggle to achieve this professional-looking effect. This is because a point and shoot camera is designed to put everything in focus. That's the tradeoff – a "foolproof" camera assumes you want in-focus shots! Some point and shoot cameras offer macro mode, but macro mode doesn't work well on objects larger than, say, your hand – not to mention subjects like children and decorated rooms.
With a shallow depth of field lens, your crafts can look sharp as that messy kitchen behind them becomes a pleasing blur! These 85mm lenses by Canon and Nikon are highly rated and good examples of the kind of lens you would need to achieve this flattering effect.
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM medium telephoto lens for Canon SLR cameras. This lens is built for beautiful background blurs, earning it a full 5 star rating on Amazon.
Nikon 85mm f/1.8G AF-S NIKKOR Lens for Nikon SLR cameras. Another 5-star lens, the Nikon 85mm creates beautiful bokeh (blurred backgrounds).
If you've ever been frustrated by indoor lighting, poor lighting, moving subjects – you'll love the options a DSLR offers.
Yes, you'll have to practice a bit to master your DSLR, but the effort is well worth it. The typical DSLR offers aperture controls, shutter priority, full manual exposure, light metering, channel controls, and more. Don't worry if you don't even know what these terms mean yet – the web is packed with helpful guides to virtually every camera on the market.
When you're ready to step up, a DSLR will feel like the training wheels have come off.
Camera manufacturers love to boast about megapixels, but sensor size also matters. DSLR sensors are much larger than those of point and shoot cameras. Larger sensors let more light in, reducing grain and increasing sharpness. Look closely at your point and shoot photos and you'll probably find a blurry haze at the edges of objects – larger sensors get rid of (or reduce) that effect.
Size does matter. The Nikon D3200 shows off its larger sensor next to a compact Nikon Coolpix S2700.
Wait, what is the sensor, exactly? In a DSLR camera, a mirror behind the lens directs light to the viewfinder (allowing you to see what the camera sees). When you press the shutter button, the mirror moves out of the way and light hits the sensor instead, recording the image. Sensors are what replaced the 35mm film frames of yesteryear. Like film, sensors are sensitive to light. Larger sensors are what make DSLRs what they are: better cameras.
A quick terminology lesson for the interested: Most DSLRs have sensors described as "APS" or "1.5x" or "1.6x". Some DSLRs are "full-frame", meaning their sensors are the same size as 35mm film – and at that point you're entering "serious landscape photographer for National Geographic" territory. All you really need to know is that DSLRs let more light in, and more light = better photos.
If you're looking first at an "entry level" DSLR before investing in a higher quality DSLR later on, you'll be happy to hear that you'll probably be able to resell the camera body and/or lenses and apply the earnings to your next camera. (But don't get too wrapped up in the upgrade cycle – here's why.) Point and shoot cameras are so inexpensive and so ubiquitous they're difficult to resell a few years after purchase.
Even more valuable are the lenses. At anywhere from $200-$2000+ each, lenses are a real investment. New lenses can become an addiction, too, since each one unlocks new photography possibilities! Fortunately, lenses generally stay compatible over the years, so your collection of lenses will stay "current" for a long time.
Quick word of advice: you'll need to pick a camera family and stay in it. Generally speaking, Canon lenses work with Canon cameras, Nikon lenses with Nikon cameras, and so on.
Many point and shoot cameras have a noticeable delay after you press the shutter button. If you've ever tried to capture a moving subject, you know the frustration of blurred photos and missed shots.
DSLRs are lightning fast – press and shoot! Most can take multiple pictures a second.
This beautiful shot from Etsy seller PowderBlueBijoux shows the quality of soft, controlled lighting you can achieve with the right camera accessories. Pale backgrounds, skin tones, and hair colors can be difficult to capture – they're prone to "blowing out" in too-bright light. In this photo, the photographer diffused the lighting and captured all the subtle details of the flowers and the model's delicate skin tones. If you're working with human models, mastering your DSLR accessories is essential.
My favorite accessory is the remote. Without a remote, you're left relying on the self-timer. It can be a real hassle to get everything into position before the self-timer runs out, and a remote lets you just rapid fire shots and pick the best one later.
Be your own model with an inexpensive camera remote.
If you've enjoyed taking photos with your point and shoot and find yourself wanting more, a DSLR is the next logical step. There's more to learn (and buy), but photography is a rewarding life-long hobby. If you think you'll enjoy it, why not jump in with a DSLR?
This particular list of DSLR advantages over point and shoot cameras was written for crafters and product photographers! There's soooo much more you can do with a DSLR: landscape photography, high speed photography, long-exposure, portraits – they really are the "everything" camera.
Remember, too, that you don't have to own just one camera. If you've already got a point and shoot camera, think of a DSLR as an addition to the family. For photographing your crafts for Etsy, a DSLR will almost certainly help you take more polished-looking photos and your compact point and shoot camera still fills that "go anywhere" role.


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NSSF in capacity building drive
The independent November 20, 2017	Business, In The Magazine Leave a comment
NSSF staff graduates in leadership skills at Strathmore Business School
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda's pension fund plans to equip leadership skills to most of its employees as part of the effort to achieve a Shs20bn target in contribution by 2025.
This follows graduation of 132 of its staff on Nov. 08 upon completion of the 8 month leadership training in Kampala which was conducted by the Nairobi-based Strathmore Business School.
NSSF Managing Director, Richard Byarugaba, said the training aims to strengthen skills and also facilitate its staff assume leadership roles in the Fund.
"We are in the process of making new appointments. There are about six positions that need to be filled and all these appointments are going to be made internally," he said. "We will only hire staff like ICT, business intelligent and business analytics outside the Fund."
Last month, finance minister, Matia Kasaija re-appointed Byarugaba for another five-year term including the Corporation Secretary, Richard Wabwire. Patrick Ayota, who was the chief finance officer, was appointed to the position of deputy managing director replacing Geraldine Busulwa, whose contract was not renewed.
Byarugaba said the Fund has deliberate strategy to equip its staff with competencies not only in managing systems but also in critical management and leadership skills.
Speaking during the graduation ceremony, George Njenga, the dean at Strathmore Business School said there's need to nurture leaders who will make wise decisions that balance short-term considerations with the achievement of long-term objectives.
He said the bewildering rate of change and new ethical and governance challenges have heightened the demand for great ethical leaders with a passion for excellence. NSSF's pension assets now stand at Shs 8.4 trillion with a membership of 1.7milion people mainly in the formal employment.
We now have a pool full of talent in the Fund
Congratulation colleagues.#NSSFSBS pic.twitter.com/i3o4xGBZhg
— NSSF Uganda (@nssfug) November 8, 2017
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Russia and Iran on the North-South transport corridor: security, control, and power
by Nicholas Trickett	,	March 28, 2017
The global community has their eye on Russia and Iran regarding developments in Syria and the broader Middle East North Africa (MENA) region.
The Syrian war has proved to be a humanitarian catastrophe and a direct show of force between the West, Russia and Iran. The background of the developing Iranian-Russian partnership has roots elsewhere, in the often neglected Caspian, where current events reveal these two powerhouses are reasserting their dominance in uncharacteristic moves over a shared periphery. Infrastructure and the North-South Transport Corridor, a buzzword regional project by Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and India, tell the real story.
Russia's Caspian port Astrakhan sits at the mouth of the Volga River, a transport artery for trade with Iran and other Caspian littoral states. The port is an important node in the proposed North-South Transport Corridor linking Russia with India. Back in 2011, Iranian companies Hazar See Shipping Lines and South Way Shipping Agency partnered with Azores Shipping Company L.L.FZE from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to buy a controlling stake of the Russian firm Astrakhan Port OJSC, which controlled the city's port of Solyanka.
The acquisition allegedly didn't conform to Russian regulations concerning strategic investments so the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) launched a suit in 2012, calling for the trio to eliminate their shares. It wasn't until February 2016, that the suit was settled and the firms agreed to sell their controlling shares.
The decision was an odd one. In December of 2015, the FAS pre approved the acquisition of a controlling stake of the port's shares by Iranian shipping firm Nasim Bakhr Kish (NBK), who bought out the other three firms. News reports were scant but it seems Nasim Bakhr Kish has retained ownership of Astrakhan's Solyanka port.
More likely, Russia preferred to work with a non-state firm that had links to Kish Island, a potential banking hub for companies seeking to operate in Iran. $5 million has since been pledged to improve Solyanka.
Reports also surfaced last December that Iranian interests won a bid for Russia's other Caspian port Makhachkala in Dagestan, which would extend Iranian influence into the Northern Caucasus in Russia. Ports are critical strategic assets and Russia closely guards ownership as different national elites and international players compete for the country's maritime infrastructure. Now that Iranian firms have controlling stakes in both of Russia's Caspian ports, Russia is clearly comfortable ceding ownership of assets to Iran as opposed to other Caspian states.
A complicated partnership
Attempts to deepen trade with Iran gathered steam once the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) came into view and consensus was reached on Iran's nuclear program. In 2015, the two countries agreed to start direct flights between Tehran and Astrakhan and Islamic Shipping Lines expanded service to Astrakhan and Makhachkala.
There is also reason to believe that as Iran's economy grows, imports for cars, aviation equipment, and power generation technology will grow as well, giving Russia and Iran potential economic complementarity. There is broad consensus publicly that Iran and Russia share mutual interest in improving trade, evidenced most strongly by a preliminary agreement between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union for a free trade deal.
However the sales of port assets represent a security decision. Azerbaijan's Caspian Shipping Company opened a subsidiary in Astrakhan in 2015 and has pursued closer commercial contacts with the region as a means of influencing Moscow. The sale of the controlling stake in Solyanka cost roughly $11 million, something that could be written off with public debt in Kazakhstan or Azerbaijan.
In conjunction with sales to Iranian firms, Russian Railways prioritized repairs and expansions of rail capacity in the rail corridor heading north from Astrakhan instead of improving Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia's rail network, which connects to Azerbaijan.
It seems that not all partners on the North-South Transport Corridor are equal. Russia is attempting to superficially include Azerbaijan in the Corridor as a regional initiative and reduce Azerbaijani influence in Dagestan while targeting bigger trade flows through Astrakhan into Central Russia by partnering with Iran. The project is therefore a means for Russia and Iran to politically entrap Azerbaijan into cooperation as it loses regional influence in relative terms.
The end of Azerbaijan's Soviet Dividend
For two decades, Azerbaijan had near monopoly power over Caspian shipping because it inherited almost the entire Soviet Caspian tanker fleet. The 2008 financial crisis encouraged states to build or buy their own fleets, chipping away at Azerbaijan's market power. The shift paralleled growing military spending from Russia and Iran in the Caspian.
In October of 2013, Azerbaijan merged its two largest shipping operators into one firm: the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ACSC). The company remains the largest player on the regional market and owns 34 tankers and 20 container ships. For reference among the smaller Caspian states: Kazakhstan's Kazmortransflot owns 8 tankers and 13 container ships while Turkmenistan's Marine Trade Fleet has 6 tankers and, source depending, a few more container ships.
Russian companies lease some of ACSC's considerable support fleet, but Russian and Iranian firms have ordered or acquired more tankers and container ships in recent years. Russian firms such as the Safinat Group have sought greater market share through Astrakhan and its sister port Olya, and Iran has set a goal of controlling as much as half of the Caspian shipping market by 2018-2019, squeezing Azerbaijan's influence as a shipping power.
North-South integration vs. East-West integration
Azerbaijan's market dominance in the region has slipped at an inopportune moment. Infrastructure initiatives connecting Europe and Asia have taken off. Baku's seaport and the expansion at Alyat south of Baku remain the gold standard for regional port projects, largely because of oil deliveries bound for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline or the Baku-Novorossisk pipeline, both of which can send about 1 million barrels of crude on to other markets. East-West oil flows shape most of the Caspian shipping industry. That dynamic may change if the JCPOA holds steady and Iranian oil production rises.
In 2015, Iran began expanding capacity in the Caspian port of Neka to enable North-South transit of oil from the region to the Gulf. Expanded capacity would mostly benefit Russia. Kazakhstan's rising production is largely transiting Russia to Novorossisk by contract, Azerbaijan's oil production will not grow again, and Turkmenistan's energy sector is geared towards China-bound export.
Russia is particularly interested because Caspian oil is of higher quality than Western Siberian oil and therefore more attractive on Asian markets. Russian firm Lukoil is committing $8.5 billion to develop Caspian oil fields and was the first international oil firm to sign contracts in Iran.
Since 2009, Iran has sought financing for a pipeline connecting Neka to the Gulf port of Jask with a planned capacity of a million barrels of oil per day. Growing fears of an oil supply shortage in the early 2020s may aid investment in newer oil infrastructure, which would come onstream as Lukoil's production hits the market.
Azerbaijan is ostensibly set to benefit from its newly minted rail connection with the Iranian rail network. The link will also help Iran trade with the Northern Caucasus and aid the transit of Indian goods from Iran's Gulf ports to Russian and European markets.
The rail link was financed largely by Azerbaijan and Russian Railways is committing significant resources to upgrade rail in the Northern Caucasus despite the increase in usage one would expect. Peculiarities of Russian policy in the Caucasus, particularly Dagestan, suggest that the rail link is not the primary desired route for Indian and Iranian goods, limiting the benefits of the Corridor for Azerbaijan and ideally directing investment towards Astrakhan.
Some roads lead to Dagestan
Dagestan is the most populous, most diverse, and most troublesome republic in Russia's Northern Caucasus. Whereas Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya has created a semi-autonomous fiefdom—state-owned Rosneft's sale of Chechnya's oil assets to Kadyrov is proof—Dagestan lacks a comparable figure with the same grasp on power.
Current governor, Ramazan Abdulatipov, is constantly negotiating between local elites in cities and towns in Dagestan who despise Kadyrov, Dagestani oligarchs living in Moscow, the Kremlin, different clan networks and ethnic groups in the capitol Makhachkala and city of Derbent, and a complicated relationship with neighboring Azerbaijan.
Growing regional interconnectivity has added a new factor to Abdulatipov's delicate balancing act. Russia has historically used isolation as a means of guaranteeing Dagestan's budget dependency on Federal aid to deter secession. The same day that Dagestani and Iranian interests agreed on the sale of Makhachkala's port, Abdulatipov paid an official visit to Baku.
It's difficult to imagine that the optics weren't considered. After being awarded the Order of Friendship by Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, Abdulatipov made sure to emphasize the constructive role played by Putin in Dagestani-Azerbaijani relations.
The reference was not subtle or perfunctory. Dagestani farmers have fought over water usage from the Samur River due to a water sharing agreement reached by Moscow and Baku, many of Azerbaijan's radicalized population bound for Syria likely come from ethnically mixed border regions with Dagestan, and Dagestan's Interior Ministry recently clamped down on illegal migrant labor from Azerbaijan in Derbent.
Investment has not been forthcoming from Azerbaijan and long-standing political tensions limit its potential. The Kremlin's involvement has much to do with both problems. One would expect the North-South Transport Corridor would encourage trade. Agreements for Azerbaijani investment in Dagestan were reached in late October, but the picture is quite skewed.
In 2014, turnover between the two republics amounted to $278.8 million. In 2015, that figure dropped to $161.1 million, of which only 12.9% were Dagestani exports to Azerbaijan. That dynamic is unlikely to shift with token projects and it seems that Iran is likelier to benefit by controlling more of the supply chain. Iranian-invested firms in Dagestan would ship through Makhachkala, increasing profitability for Iranian firms.
Iran as friend of Dagestan and Moscow
Iran is cutting into Azerbaijan's shipping advantage just as it has become Russia's preferred investment partner for the Northern Caucasus. Agreements have been reached between agricultural firms and manufacturers in Iran, Dagestan, and Ingushetia in the last year and a half.
Abdulatipov and trade interests in Makhachkala have publicly invited Iranian investment, though efforts have been marred by Dagestan's shoddy record in the past with Azerbaijan and Turkey. Iranian businessmen are now fielding proposals on waste processing and agricultural products in the region and there's public momentum towards bettering economic ties.
In the last few years, Iran's Moscow cultural attaché Reza Maleki has consistently met with Russia's Minister of National Policy in Dagestan, Tatiana Gamalay, to discuss cooperation concerning religious extremism and terrorism. Iran also recently sailed a small flotilla of warships to Makhachkala's harbor as a sign of military cooperation with Russia.
Given the relatively low economic value of trade with Dagestan and issues for rail transport in the region, Iran and Russia's partnership seems most driven by security and political aspirations.
It's the security, stupid
Crackdowns by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and Ramzan Kadyrov's loyalists have produced a decrease in terrorist attacks in the Northern Caucasus, but ISIS has gained a foothold in the region. The potential for attacks will likely scare off some shippers and events in Syria and Iraq may shift the network's focus elsewhere in the region.
Dagestan, not Chechnya, has become the locus of recruitment and attacks continue, not just against the Russian state but between Sufis and Salafists as well. Dagestan's terrain makes it incredibly difficult for Russia to suppress insurgency.
To deepen trade through Azerbaijan and Dagestan, Russia therefore must guarantee the physical security of rail transport through the region. Over the last seven years, the Russian military has repeatedly had to deploy railway troops—engineer battalions equipped with heavily armed and armored trains and weapons platforms—to repair tracks in the Northern Caucasus after attacks, accidents, or disrepair rendered connections inoperable.
As of 2015, Russia had 10 engineer battalions available and there's little evidence that greater resources have been devoted to them since. Every deployment dents Russia's ability to logistically respond to threats on its borders elsewhere and eats up valuable military resources.
Greater trade could also fund local insurgents. For example, if Russia wished to export uncut diamonds from Yakutia to India—one of the prizes of current trade talks—potential transit through Dagestan could provide valuable resources to insurgents looking for sources of funding. That example is unlikely as Astrakhan or Far Eastern ports are better situated but the logic remains that transshipped goods can be turned into financial support for violent activities.
The region's oil tank farms lost 1.43% of transshipped oil, considerably higher than the .2% norm. Between 20,000 and 30,000 tons of oil are lost in the region every year, mostly to theft.
Stolen oil supplies provide an important source of offbook, untaxed revenues for locals and, by extension, insurgents. As much as 59% of neighboring Azerbaijan's economy functions in the shadows, untaxed or unregulated. In Dagestan, sector depending, it's between 40 and 66%.
An increase in good transshipments would exacerbate that problem for local authorities seeking to reduce their dependence on Federal money while also threatening Moscow's grip on the region's economic fortunes.
Astrakhan remains the Window to the East
Russian Railways has targeted investment in rail between Astrakhan and Volgograd for its portion of the Corridor, in part, because of security concerns in the Caucasus. Another driver are similar economic-security concerns in Tatarstan. The region is currently struggling with the failure of Tatfondbank, a crucial financial institution for the regional economy.
There are widespread protests calling for repayments on lost deposits. Improving trade would be a big win for the Kremlin, as Tatarstan has a history of toying with independence. The regional government has sought greater trade ties with Iran in the past. Azerbaijan has representative offices in both Dagestan and Tatarstan, a telling symbol of its desired reach into Russia's Muslim regions. Post-JCPOA, Russia seems to be using Iran to feed these regions trade deals that historically would have been a means of pressuring Moscow.
However, if Moscow maintains cooperative relations with Tehran in the Caspian, that leverage will be lessened.
Astrakhan is also much better situated to serve Russia's traditional military-industrial base in Central Russia. Arms are Russia's most lucrative export for Iran in the short-term and Russia faces future competition from China on the Iranian market. As China's military exports improve in quality, Russia needs to lock in market share abroad where it can.
Russia would not risk shipping arms through Dagestan. Astrakhan is also fast becoming an oil province as Lukoil's investments bear fruit, bringing needed regional and Federal revenues into view. Russia has consciously prevented the development of Dagestan's energy reserves, a policy that bears no signs of change.
The confluence of security and economic concerns and drivers point to a Russian-Iranian partnership in the Caspian to Azerbaijan's detriment and the benefit of the tortured political relationship Moscow has with Dagestan. Infrastructure spending reveals a different picture than public announcements. The Baku summit last August that birthed the latest frenzy over the Corridor showed a public face of cooperation.
As usual, the motives of the Caspian's two biggest powers suggest otherwise. Azerbaijan has lost much of its power to control Caspian trade. Growing East-West trade flows will not ease the country's loss of influence in Southern Russia and potential shifts in regional trade patterns.
Russia and Iran are angling to control more of the flow of goods East-West and North-South while paying lip service to Azerbaijan's role. If Iran signs a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union, it will become more difficult for Azerbaijan to resist Russian attempts to incorporate it. Any talk of circumventing the Suez Canal is a means of hiding the actual political motivations of what's at stake.
Categories:	Middle East/North Africa, Security
Tags:	Astrakhan, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Iran, North-South Transport Corridor, Russia
Nicholas Trickett
Nicholas Trickett currently works as a think tanker in Washington D.C. He has focused and written on Post-Soviet foreign policy and energy politics, with an emphasis on Russia's Pivot to Asia, Russia's East Asian energy relations, and evolving projects in the Eurasian space such as the Silk Road or the North-South Transport Corridor. He is interested in further pursuing the development of kleptocratic networks in Eurasia and the effect the One Belt, One Road initiative is having on the political economy of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Russia. He received an M.A. in Eurasian studies through the European University at St. Petersburg with a focus on energy security and Russian foreign policy.
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The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College's student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). As of Fall 2019 The Anchor has moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.
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The TN! Theatre Company (1979–1991) was a theatre company in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

History
The TN! Theatre Company had its roots in the Twelfth Night Theatre Company which was established in 1936. The company established its own theatre building in Bowen Hills in 1971, but the costs of operating the theatre lead to conflicts between artistic and commercial considerations, leading to a decoupling of the premises and the performing arts aspects of the organisation in 1979. The TN! Theatre Company was the resultant performing company which would lease premises as it required for performance.

The TN! Theatre Company formed an alliance with the Brisbane College of Education and used its performance space (the former Fortitude Valley Methodist Church) in Brookes Street, Fortitude Valley. In 1986, the TN! Theatre Company entered into a 10 year lease of the Princess Theatre in Woolloongabba. However, financial difficulties resulted in the closure of the company with its last performance in 1991.

The University of Queensland Fryer Library holds a substantial collections of records of the company.

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External links
 A listing  of the company's productions

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NBA Rumors: Lakers not anticipated to make huge transfer earlier than commerce deadline
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The Los Angeles Lakers will not be anticipated to make any blockbuster offers previous to the commerce deadline on Feb. 9, in line with the most recent NBA rumors. In any case, the struggling workforce has solely two first-round picks obtainable for the rest of the last decade for 2027 and 2029. So, this information shouldn't be very reassuring.
"I'm advised the group will probably be prudent with their two first-round picks obtainable that they've for the rest of the last decade in 2027 and 2029," reported Shams Charania of The Athletic again in November. "I don't consider the Lakers are ready proper now to mortgage their future with these two obtainable picks."
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Now, the Lakers will doubtless pursue an out of doors shooter to spice up their offense. Nevertheless, followers shouldn't anticipate a blockbuster commerce within the coming weeks. "I feel for the Lakers, a participant like Boban Bogdanovic in Detroit who a whole lot of groups — his capturing, his floorspace — have curiosity in," mentioned ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
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Kendrick Nunn for Cam Reddish of the New York Knicks is one among many NBA rumors selecting up steam.
NBA Rumors: Lakers will not be anticipated to make any game-changing strikes previous to the commerce deadline on Thursday, Feb. 9
Moreover, Anthony Davis is one other participant on the minds of normal managers throughout the league. Though the injury-prone middle has missed a whole lot of video games the final two seasons, a contender would possibly nonetheless be keen to barter a commerce for the eight-time All-Star.
Would the entrance workplace contemplate buying and selling Davis for not less than one first-rounder? G.M. Rob Pelinka shouldn't be ruling out this doable possibility, per sources. Davis has missed the final 17 video games because of a stress response damage in his proper foot. The 11-year veteran might return as early as subsequent week.
However Lakers executives are aiming for youthful expertise. That time can't be emphasised sufficient. On Thursday, Lakers coach Darvin Ham mentioned that Davis is "progressing actually, actually, rather well." Extra NBA rumors are on the primary web page.
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As an alternative of beginning over from scratch, the entrance workplace ought to contemplate buying and selling Davis for a youthful All-Star participant, particularly if the workforce can purchase first-rounders in return.
Such a transfer might backfire actually fast. On Dec. 4, in Los Angeles' 130-119 win over the Washington Wizards, the veteran middle recorded a season-high 55 factors on 73.3% capturing from the sector. Previous to his damage, Davis was additionally logging a career-high 12.1 boards per sport.
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More than 350 organizations from around the world oppose greenwashing and false solutions of 'Climate Smart Agriculture'
Groups call for increased support for agroecology to address climate change
Minneapolis–One year after the launch of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA), more than 350 civil society organizations from around the world, including the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), rejected the ill-defined agenda of the Alliance as an empty marketing slogan, distracting governments from the transformational changes that are needed in agriculture to address climate change.
The civil society statement, published today, comes prior to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York at the end of this month, as the world's governments prepare for the Paris global climate talks in December. The statement called for greater recognition of "agroecology within a food and seed sovereignty framework" to both help the world adapt to a changing climate, while contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
"The term 'Climate Smart Agriculture' is really a marketing campaign for multinational agribusinesses and some governments that want to maintain the status quo," said IATP's climate director Ben Lilliston. "Without definitions or criteria, corporations such as Monsanto, Walmart, Syngenta, and the world's largest fertilizer company Yara, brand themselves as 'Climate Smart,' without making significant shifts in the climate-damaging industrial system from which they profit."
The organizations criticized GACSA for advancing a definition of climate-smart agriculture that is too broad and vague to be beneficial; leaving room for the inclusion of damaging practices. There are currently no criteria defining what is and is not "climate smart." Agribusiness corporations that promote synthetic fertilizers, factory meat production and chemical-intensive industrial agriculture, all of which contribute to climate change and undermining the resilience of farming systems, can and do call themselves "Climate Smart." The murky governance structure of GACSA also raises serious questions about how the alliance functions and who it is accountable to.
"CSA claims to include all models of agriculture," the groups stated. "However it lacks any social or environmental safeguards and fails to prioritize farmers' voices, knowledge and rights as key to facing and mitigating our climate challenges. It therefore actually threatens to undermine agroecological approaches…"
CSA was first introduced by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2010 and GACSA was officially launched during the Climate Summit in September 2014. Since GACSA's formation, it has been widely criticized. Last year a letter signed by 70 scholars, openly opposed the CSA model, instead promoting the scientific and social legitimacy of agroecology.
Today's statement is the third published by a growing alliance of civil society organizations opposing GACSA. The world's largest peasant farmers' movement, La Via Campesina, is among the signatories. CIDSE—which coordinated the development of this new statement—Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Center for Food Safety, the Organic Consumers Association, the Asia Pacific Farmers Forum, Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers' Forum, The African Food Sovereignty Alliance, ActionAid, Slow Food, and many others signed the statement.
Leading up to the global climate talks in Paris, the groups expressed concerns that governments would include the Global Alliance or Climate-Smart Agriculture initiatives in the so-called "Agenda of Solutions," launched by UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon. The groups urged governments not to endorse Climate Smart Agriculture as a solution for climate change and not to direct any climate finance towards projects and programs labelled as "climate-smart agriculture."
You can read the full civil society letter here. You can read past civil society letters opposing CSA here.


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Q: C# Save a textures content path as string I'm wondering if there is a simple way to store the path of a texture in a string.
I'm wondering this because I'm using a save system for a game where I need to store the path of a texture in a file to later load it.
I've tried using Texture2D.Name but that just returns "" or null.
If I can't get the full path that's okay, but at the very least I'd like to have the name of the texture.
EDIT: I think I explained it a bit bad or I don't understand the answers properly, I'll give explaining a new try.
I've made a script that will save the Position, HP etc for an "Enemy" class. This then gets stored in a .txt file on the \My Documents folder. Once I want to load the information back in I create a new instance of an Enemy(Vector2, int). Then I load the information and use an int.Parse to convert my string to an int > new Enemy(new Vector2(int.Parse(string1), int.Parse(string2)), int.Parse(string3)) <
What I then want is to somehow save the name of the texture to later load it back in using a similar method mentioned above. (Retrieve it from a .txt as a string)

A: Most objects don't have usable names, and even if they would it may not necessary to be safe to be used as file name.
Unless you have good reason to expect good name on you object and actually use it, I'd recommend simply Guid.NewGuid().toString() as file name - safe and unique.

A: A Texture2D is strictly an in-memory object, there is no relation between a Texture2D and a file  (except that a Texture2D can be loaded from and saved to files). If you want to remember the file name you loaded it from, you should hold on to the file name when you load the texture.
EDIT In response to your comment:
Assuming you're not talking about a screenshot, you'll need to do something like this:
FileStream fs = new FileStream("myFile.png", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
myTexture.SaveAsPng(fs, myTexture.Width, myTexture.Height);
fs.Flush();

A: The ContentManager has a RootDirectory property that identifies the folder where content manager content is stored. The path is relative to the executable folder, so you can build a path to the content using that, along with the name you specify when loading the content.
For example, if you load a .PNG texture like this:
Texture2D texture = Content.Load<Texture2D>("SomeTexture")

Then the path to that texture could be built like this:
string path = Content.RootDirectory + Path.DirectorySeparator + "SomeTexture" + ".png"

Note that you need some knowledge of the file type in order to know what the extension is. This is also assuming that you've not change the name in the content item properties, so the key you use in the Load call matches the file name, which it does by default.
If you store your content in subfolders then you just append those as well to build up the full path.
If you need the full disk path, rather than a relative one, then you can get the executable path and prepend that to Content.RootDirectory. Google is your friend in that regard.

A: If your game is content project based, the easiest is to use the path relatives to the content project path root.
In your Content Project:
the relative path to file is "Textures/Animated/Rambo"

In your Script:
 TextureAsset = "Textures/Animated/Rambo";

In your Engine
 Texture = Content.Load<Texture2D>( "Textures/Animated/Rambo");

 //Or if you don't want to load through Content

 Texture = Texture2D.LoadFromFile(Path.Combine(Content.RootDirectory, "Textures/Animated/Rambo"));

If you want to save I recommend you proceed in the same way, and force to save in the content project folder.


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import urlparse
import urllib
import cgi
import hashlib
from six import moves
from w3lib.util import unicode_to_str
import tldextract

# Python 2.x urllib.always_safe become private in Python 3.x;
# its content is copied here
_ALWAYS_SAFE_BYTES = (b'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
                      b'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
                      b'0123456789' b'_.-')

_reserved = b';/?:@&=+$|,#'  # RFC 3986 (Generic Syntax)
_unreserved_marks = b"-_.!~*'()"  # RFC 3986 sec 2.3
_safe_chars = _ALWAYS_SAFE_BYTES + b'%' + _reserved + _unreserved_marks

def parse_url(url, encoding=None):
    """Return urlparsed url from the given argument (which could be an already
    parsed url)
    """
    return url if isinstance(url, urlparse.ParseResult) else \
        urlparse.urlparse(unicode_to_str(url, encoding))

def parse_domain_from_url(url):
    """
    Extract domain info from a passed url.
    Examples:
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     URL                       NETLOC              NAME            SCHEME    SLD         TLD     SUBDOMAIN
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     http://www.google.com     www.google.com      google.com      http      google      com     www
     http://docs.google.com    docs.google.com     google.com      http      google      com     docs
     https://google.es/mail    google.es           google.es       https     google      es
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    """
    extracted = tldextract.extract(url)
    scheme, _, _, _, _, _ = parse_url(url)

    sld = extracted.domain
    tld = extracted.suffix
    subdomain = extracted.subdomain
    name = '.'.join([sld, tld]) if tld else sld
    netloc = '.'.join([subdomain, name]) if subdomain else name

    return netloc, name, scheme, sld, tld, subdomain

def parse_domain_from_url_fast(url):
    """
    Extract domain info from a passed url, without analyzing subdomains and tld
    """
    result = parse_url(url)
    return result.netloc, result.hostname, result.scheme, "", "", ""

def safe_url_string(url, encoding='utf8'):
    """Convert the given url into a legal URL by escaping unsafe characters
    according to RFC-3986.

    If a unicode url is given, it is first converted to str using the given
    encoding (which defaults to 'utf-8'). When passing a encoding, you should
    use the encoding of the original page (the page from which the url was
    extracted from).

    Calling this function on an already "safe" url will return the url
    unmodified.

    Always returns a str.
    """
    s = unicode_to_str(url, encoding)
    return moves.urllib.parse.quote(s, _safe_chars)

def _unquotepath(path):
    for reserved in ('2f', '2F', '3f', '3F'):
        path = path.replace('%' + reserved, '%25' + reserved.upper())
    return urllib.unquote(path)

def canonicalize_url(url, keep_blank_values=True, keep_fragments=False):
    """Canonicalize the given url by applying the following procedures:

    - sort query arguments, first by key, then by value
    - percent encode paths and query arguments. non-ASCII characters are
      percent-encoded using UTF-8 (RFC-3986)
    - normalize all spaces (in query arguments) '+' (plus symbol)
    - normalize percent encodings case (%2f -> %2F)
    - remove query arguments with blank values (unless keep_blank_values is True)
    - remove fragments (unless keep_fragments is True)

    The url passed can be a str or unicode, while the url returned is always a
    str.

    For examples see the tests in scrapy.tests.test_utils_url
    """

    scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment = parse_url(url)
    keyvals = cgi.parse_qsl(query, keep_blank_values)
    keyvals.sort()
    query = urllib.urlencode(keyvals)
    path = safe_url_string(_unquotepath(path)) or '/'
    fragment = '' if not keep_fragments else fragment
    return urlparse.urlunparse((scheme, netloc.lower(), path, params, query, fragment))

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No Rhyme (or Reason) – on Sean Bean's Name
June 15, 2016 Jake Christie
You likely know actor Sean Bean from his turn as Boromir in Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (he's the guy who says that one does not simply walk into Mordor), or as Ned Stark on Game of Thrones or from the picture I included in this article. He is a very accomplished English actor who is often associated with dying in everything he is in. None of that matters for the purposes of this article, but I thought it would be nice to include.
Sean Bean's name, at first glance, looks like it rhymes. It is, after all, the same last three letters in the first and last with only the first letter changed. If you replaced the 'S' with basically any other letter, it would rhyme (Jean Bean, Lean Bean, etc.). However, all of us are unconsciously familiar with the Gaelic pronunciation of the letters S-E-A-N, so we know it is in fact SHAWN BEEN.
Yet, it is still curious that his name looks like it rhymes in the first place. I am in no way alone in jokingly calling him "Seen Bean" to those unfortunate enough to spend time around me. In fact, many people have likely tripped up on his name, completely unironically, just because of how it appears to the brain. One would think that his parents should have anticipated this or, more likely, didn't try to be cute with the spelling of their son's name. Obviously a 4-by-4 name with only one letter different between the components is visually pleasing, but it's also confusing and silly.
However, in a completely stunning turn of events, it is not the-other-Mr. Bean's parents' fault at all, because the English actor was born SHAUN BEAN. That's right, he was born with the phonetic spelling of Sean, and changed it at a later date, likely when he went into show business. Yet, when most people change their names for the stage and screen, they do it to clear up confusion or to get rid of an embarrassing moniker (Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Cockburn, for example), yet Bean seemed to only make his situation worse.
Another major reason to change one's name is because the Screen Actors Guild only allows one person to use a specific name. That's why his name is "Michael J. Fox", even though his middle name is Edward. Yet, I could not for the life of me find an actor at any point with the name "Shaun Bean." It simply wasn't taken. What was it in Shaun Bean's early life that made him want people to briefly think his name rhymed and then realize it only looked that way?
I have no answers, only an enigma that will remain unsolved until Mr. Sean Bean himself answers to it. If you know him by any chance, please ask. It's a long shot, but it's worth trying.
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It's out as of today and follows recent appearances on Ninja Tune and Blip Discs.
The producer and disc jockey has announced the release of a new record on his newly founded label.
The EP will feature two tracks and is titled "TKOTN/Siberian Goose Down". It's out as of today and follows recent appearances on Ninja Tune and Blip Discs. The producer has been heralded in recent times for his forward thking approach to dance and club music, drawing upon far flung influences and merging genres. The new EP see's him deliver one typically percussive laden cut, whilst the other blurs the lines between trance and electronica. The release is now available on 12".


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Home AMERICAN BRAINWASH Cui bono? Iran has 'no reason' to torpedo oil tankers in Gulf of Oman & 'go to war'
Cui bono? Iran has 'no reason' to torpedo oil tankers in Gulf of Oman & 'go to war'
Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post. Be sure to share it widely.
RT.com
Despite accusations from Washington, Iran has no motive for instigating the attack on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, analysts told RT, stressing that the suspicious incident has harmed, rather than helped, Tehran.
Iran rescued 44 sailors from two tankers, 'Front Altair' and 'Kokuka Courageous,' after the vessels came under attack on Thursday. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quick to pin the blame for the incident on Iran, claiming that the Islamic Republic was "lashing out" in frustration over Washington's draconian sanctions regime.
Analysts who spoke with RT, however, questioned Pompeo's line of reasoning.
'Why would Iran do it?'
Tehran has nothing to gain from attacking the oil tankers, defense analyst and retired Lt. General Amjad Shoaib said.
"Why would Iran do it? They have no reason to go to war and they have no reason to escalate the situation,"he stressed.
Tehran has adamantly denied any involvement. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif described the incident as highly suspicious, adding that Washington's evidence-free accusations are designed to "sabotage" Iran's diplomatic efforts.
'Iran written all over it': Trump accuses Tehran of carying out tanker attacks
Experts noted the strange timing of the attack, which came as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, marking the first time in 40 years that a Japanese leader had visited Tehran. Coincidentally, one of the oil tankers targeted in the attack was Japanese-owned.
The Japanese firm, Kokuka Sangyo Co, said on Friday that its tanker had been attacked by two "flying objects" but that there was no damage to the ship's cargo of methanol.
Kourosh Shamlou, an attorney and Middle East specialist, told RT that it would be completely illogical for Iran to quite literally torpedo such a historic summit, especially since doing so would play into the hands of Washington's anti-Iran hawks.
"I'm an attorney. You have to know for whom a crime is beneficial. We can see the geopolitical situation of Iran and the US in the Persian Gulf. We can say that the Iranians are not going to torpedo a ship that will lead to the Americans attacking them. It's going to give the Americans an excuse to attack Iran. So it cannot be the Iranians."
In fact, the incident has already had negative economic consequences for Iran, Hamed Mousavi, professor of political science at the University of Tehran and visiting professor at Carleton University, noted to RT.
"Iran's currency lost five percent of its value today just because of talk of escalating tensions as well as perhaps the possibility of war. I think right now Iran wants to de-escalate the situation with the United States," said Mousavi.
'Mainstream conspiracy theory'
It's not surprising that media outlets are dutifully relaying Pompeo's accusations against Iran without questioning his logic – or asking for evidence, observed political analyst Shabbir Razvi.
"As soon as something happens in the Gulf region, particularly over the last few months in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, it's immediately blamed on Iran," he said, describing the phenomenon as a "mainstream conspiracy theory" being pushed by Washington and uncritical media.
Sabotage diplomacy: Zarif says no need to be 'clairvoyant' to see US 'plan B' for Iran
Razvi stressed that without evidence, it would be irresponsible of Washington – or anyone else – to put forward theories about who was responsible for the attack. However, there's at least one country that has a documented history of fabricating scenarios to justify military action, Shamlou noted.
"All of a sudden, an accident happens, and [the United States] starts saying 'it's the Vietnamese, it's the Iraqis, it's the Iranians.' And then they have a legitimate cause for their people to attack."
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Last updated on: 12/19/2016 | Author: ProCon.org
Michael McCaul, JD Biography
Member of the US House of Representatives (R-TX)
Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should the Government Allow Immigrants Who Are Here Illegally to Become US Citizens?"
"History has proven that unilateral action on immigration simply perpetuates a cycle of illegal entry into this country. This was true under the 1986 amnesty and it has been true under DACA, which enticed 60,000 unaccompanied children to make the perilous journey across our border this summer. We will see a wave of illegal immigration because of the president's actions, and in no way is the Department of Homeland Security prepared to handle such a surge. Furthermore, the president knows any immigration reforms will be ineffective as long as our border remains insecure."
"President's Actions Tonight Threaten Our Democracy," mccaul.house.gov, Nov. 20, 2014
Member, US House of Representatives (R-TX), 2005-present
Chairman, US House Committee of Homeland Security, Jan. 2013-present
Chairman, US-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Group
Member, US House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Congressional High Tech Caucus
Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Cybersecurity Caucus
Co-Chair, Congressional Childhood Cancer Caucus
Recipient, St. Mary's Distinguished Graduate award, 2009
Deputy Attorney General, Texas Attorney General's Office, 2002
Former Chief of Counter Terrorism and National Security, US Attorney's Office
Former Federal Prosecutor, Public Integrity Unit, US Department of Justice
Graduate, Senior Executive Fellows Program, School of Government, Harvard University
JD, St. Mary's School of Law, 1987
BA, Business and History, Trinity University, 1984
Attended Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas
With an estimated net worth of at least $107.6 million in Nov. 2015, McCaul was the second-wealthiest member of Congress.
Twitter handle: @RepMcCaul
Should US Customs and Border Enforcement Use Military Equipment to Help Prevent Illegal Immigration?
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