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El castaño (Castanea sativa) es un árbol que pertenece a la familia de las fagáceas, cuyo fruto, la castaña, es comestible y fue una importante fuente alimenticia, en particular en algunas regiones del sur de Europa.

Descripción
Árboles de hasta 25-30 m, de tronco derecho, corto y grueso (hasta 2 m de diámetro) y de corteza lisa, cenicienta o pardusca hasta los 15-20 años, después castaño-oscura y agrietada longitudinalmente con ramitas glabras, castaño-verdosas

Yemas ovoideas, obtusas, las terminales ausentes. Hojas de 8-22 por 4,5-8 cm, oblanceoladas, agudas, de base redondeada ligeramente asimétrica, serradas, con dientes agudos, glabras por el haz y un poco pubescentes a lo largo de los nervios por el envés.

Flores masculinas en amentos de hasta 20 cm, con periantio trímero doble, y con 8-12 estambres exertos rodeando un ovario estéril rudimentario (pistilodio); las femeninas con 7-9 estilos en el ápice del ovario, ápice cubierto de pelos sedosos adpresos que se extienden hasta la base de los estilos, y persistirán en el aquenio derivado de dicho ovario.

El fruto es una cúpula subglobosa cubierta de largas espinas ramificadas y algo pelosas (calibio) que mide entre 5-11 cm de diámetro, de dehiscencia por 4 valvas y que contiene usualmente 2-3 aquenios que son las castañas propiamente dicho. Dichos aquenios, aunque se puede también interpretar como una "nuez", en el sentido botánico del término, miden unos 2-4cm; tienen forma abombada hacía el exterior y la cara interior plana (cuando hay más de 2, ambos lados de los centrales adoptan una forma aplanada). La base, convexa o planoconvexa, de cada uno presenta una ancha cicatriz (Hilo) grisácea que corresponde a su fijación en la cúpula exterior, y conserva en el ápice el pistilo peludo y también sus estilos. El endocarpo, que es la "piel"/cáscara exterior integra, aunque puede presentar dehiscencia por ruptura, tiene color pardo oscuro ("castaño") con bandas longitudinales algo más oscuras; es brillante, prácticamente liso con imperceptibles surcos irregulares longitudinales desde el hilo (excluido) casi hasta el ápice. Su cara interna es abundantemente peluda/aterciopelada, con largos y sinuosos pelos blanquecinos. Dicho endocarpo rodea la semilla, que es ruminada, sin endospermo y envuelta por un tegumento (epispermo) de color canela, irregular e íntimamente pegado a los cotiledones, penetrando en las fisuras e irregularidades de sus superficies. Dicha semilla es la parte comestible de la castaña.

Distribución
Es originario de Europa meridional y Asia Menor. Forma bosques en suelos frescos y húmedos. Introducido para su cultivo, y ocasionalmente naturalizado, en muchos países de todo el mundo, incluidos Australia y Nueva Zelanda

En la península ibérica además de en España lo podemos encontrar en el norte y centro de Portugal, si bien en este país se da una tendencia a realizar nuevas plantaciones con castaño japonés, más resistente a las enfermedades.

En Francia es muy frecuente en el Macizo Central, Córcega y la región de París, si bien su cultivo está muy abandonado, y se trata casi siempre de bosques de castaños no injertados.

En Italia se extiende por toda la península, el área al pie de los Alpes en Piamonte y Lombardia, en la Barbagia de Cerdeña y en zonas de montaña de Sicilia. Aparece también en el sureste de Inglaterra; y en el Palatinado, el Odenwald y regiones en torno al alto valle del Rin en Alemania.

Lo podemos encontrar en la región oriental de Estiria (Austria) o en el Transdanubio (Hungría),  así como en algunas regiones del sur de Moravia (República Checa), o algunas zonas del sur de Eslovaquia. Está presente en la zona occidental de Rumania, en torno a las Puertas de Hierro del Danubio, así como en Serbia. Es un árbol frecuente en el norte de Grecia.

Castaños en España
En España es especialmente abundante en Asturias y Galicia (principalmente en las provincias de Lugo y Orense). Es también muy frecuente en la parte occidental de León, especialmente en el Bierzo y la Cabrera, con algunos ejemplares impresionantes en los Montes Aquilianos, cercanos a Ponferrada, las Médulas o los Ancares; también aparece en  Sanabria, Carballeda y Aliste sierras del sur de Salamanca (Peña de Francia, sierra de Béjar, Quilamas) y sur de Ávila, Valle del Tiétar y castañar del Tiemblo). Existen algunos ejemplares en el norte de Burgos, comarca de las Merindades.

Es un árbol frecuente en  País Vasco (principalmente Vizcaya y Guipúzcoa). Si bien en estas zonas, su cultivo no tiene la importancia que ha tenido tradicionalmente en Asturias, Galicia o León, donde hasta hace no muchas décadas era un alimento básico en zonas de montaña.

En Extremadura lo encontramos en las sierras del norte de Cáceres (Hurdes, Sierra de Gata, Valle del Jerte y comarca de la Vera), en las Villuercas y en estribaciones de Sierra Morena, al sur de Badajoz.

En Castilla-La Mancha aparece en la sierra de San Vicente, en los Ibores y la Jara, provincia de Toledo; y en Sierra Madrona, Ciudad Real. Está ausente en las provincias de Albacete, Cuenca y Guadalajara.

Podemos encontrar castaños en el suroeste de la Comunidad de Madrid, en el término municipal de Cadalso de los Vidrios. Está ausente, no obstante, en otras zonas serranas de más al norte de la provincia.

En Aragón aparece el castaño de forma muy localizada en algunas sierras silíceas del sistema Ibérico zaragozano (Algairen, Moncayo o Herrera, Luesma). No existen castañares ni en el Pirineo oscense, ni en Teruel.

En La Rioja aparece algún ejemplar aislado en la comarca de Cameros.

En Cataluña, el castaño es muy abundante en la provincia de Gerona (Garrocha, la Selva, Alto Ampurdán), algunas sierras del noreste de Barcelona (Valles Oriental, Osona, serranías litorales del Maresme) y en la provincia de Tarragona, el núcleo aislado de las montañas de Prades, bosque de Poblet. No aparece en las comarcas occidentales de Barcelona, ni en Lérida.

En la Comunidad Valenciana existen algunos ejemplares en la sierra de Espadán, en el entorno de Almedijar, Ah!,y Alcudia de Veo, Algimia de Almonacid. Se trata de una población totalmente aislada y muy escasa, desconocida para la mayoría de los valencianos. No aparece en ningún otro punto de la Comunidad.

En Murcia está totalmente ausente, pero vuelve a aparecer en las Alpujarras, tanto  de Almería como de Granada. Está presente en la serranía de Ronda y las serranías del parque natural de los Alcornocales, entre Málaga y Cádiz. En Sierra Morena aparece en Huelva  (Sierra de Aracena), Sierra Norte de Sevilla y algunas zonas de la Sierra Morena cordobesa.

Existe un ejemplar monumental en las colinas de sierra de Benzú (Ceuta).

Igualmente, existen castañares en Gran Canaria, Teror (castañar de Osorio, descrito por Miguel de Unamuno), Tenerife y norte de Canarias, en zonas ocupadas antiguamente por la laurisilva (al igual que sucede en la isla portuguesa de Madeira).

Cultivo
Esta especie requiere un clima suave y una humedad adecuada para su crecimiento y la producción de castañas. Es sensible a las fuertes sequías estivales y a las grandes heladas invernales, perjudicándole las tardías de primavera y las escarchas precoces del otoño. Le gustan los terrenos silíceos, no tolera los suelos calizos. En hábitats boscosos puede tolerar una sombra ligera; se encuentra bien en laderas de montaña algo frescas pero calientes durante el verano, que es cuando se forman sus frutos.

En los últimos tiempos, este magno árbol ha retrocedido enormemente, debido, en gran parte, a dos terribles plagas: la tinta y el cancro, pero su enorme vitalidad y la facultad de rebrotar de cepa aseguran la supervivencia de muchos castañares.

Usos
El castaño es ampliamente cultivado por sus sabrosos frutos comestibles, las castañas, que se consumen crudas o asadas y son utilizadas por los confiteros. La castaña ha sido un recurso alimenticio de primerísimo orden en muchos lugares, en el pasado se consumían durante todo el año, pero el progreso, la introducción de nuevos cultivos y el cambio de hábitos alimenticios amenazan su buena fama y protagonismo.

En noviembre, estos árboles colosales dejan caer su preciado fruto, para disfrute de los animales del bosque, y para que los seres humanos no dejen pasar la ocasión de recolectar castañas. En tiempos de los romanos fue introducido en regiones más septentrionales y más tarde cultivado por monjes en los monasterios. En la actualidad se pueden encontrar especímenes de varios siglos en Gran Bretaña y toda la parte central y occidental de Europa, y en el sur de Sudamérica, en Chile.

Su duradera madera se usa para fabricar muebles, tutores para plantas, vigas para decoración y construcción, barriles y vallas, bicheros para la pesca del atún. Sus hojas, que se cuentan entre las más fáciles de reconocer de todos los árboles, han sido usadas en la alimentación animal.

Medicinales
Las hojas se usan como expectorante, antitusivo, astringente, antidiarréico, antipirético y antirreumático.
La corteza es astringente. Las hojas febrífugo, astringente.

Indicado para estomatitis, parodontopatías, faringitis, bronquitis, tos irritativa, gripe, resfriados, diarreas.

Los taninos pueden producir molestias digestivas, especialmente en pacientes con dispepsias hipersecretoras. Para paliar este posible efecto secundario, se recomienda administrar las tisanas asociadas a drogas con mucílagos, como el malvavisco.

Taxonomía
Castanea sativa fue descrita por Philip Miller y publicado en The Gardeners Dictionary: . . . eighth edition no. 1., 1768.
Etimología
 Castanea: nombre genérico que deriva del Griego χάστανον y luego el Latín castănĕa, -ae, nombre del castaño y de la castaña (Virgilio, Bucolicas,1, 82), esta última también llamada castanea nux (Virgilio, Bucolicas, 2, 52), la nuez del castaño. También podría derivar de Castanaea, -ae o Castana, -ae, ciudad de Asia Menor o, según otros, del nombre armenio de este árbol.

 sativa: epíteto latino que significa "cultivado".

Sinonimia
 Castanea castanea (L.) H.Karst.
 Castanea prolifera (K.Koch) Hickel
 Castanea sativa f. discolor Vuk.
 Castanea sativa var. hamulata A.Camus
 Castanea sativa var. microcarpa Lavialle
 Castanea sativa var. prolifera K.Koch
 Castanea sativa var. spicata Husn.
 Castanea vesca Gaertn.
 Castanea vulgaris Lam.
 Fagus castanea L.
 Fagus castanea var. variegata Weston
 Fagus procera Salisb.

 Nombres comunes

Su nombre común en castellano incluye: bravas, castaña, castañal, castañal bravo, castañar, castañas, castañas bravas, castañas (fruto), castañeda, castañeiro, castañero, castaño, castaño bravo, castaño común, castaño macho, castaño molar, castaño real, castaño regoldano, castaño regoldo, castaño regueldo, castaño salvaje, castaño silvestre, castañu, concha, concho, engertos, erizo, molso, morso, reboldanos comunes, reboldos, regoldana, regoldanos, regoldo, regoldonas, regoldos, sanmartiniegos, tagarnizos, valdunas, zapatonas.

 Véase también

 Magosto, fiesta de las castañas asadas.
 Trapa natans (Castañas de agua)Aesculus flava (falso Castaño)
 Araucaria''

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Breedlove, D. E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Floríst. México 4: i–v, 1–246.
 Morales, J. F. 2010. Fagaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 119: 776–781.
 Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980-2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.

 El libro de EL ÁRBOL. Bernard Fischesser. Ed. DRAC. ISBN 84-88893-80-9
 La Magia de los Árboles. Ignacio Abella. integral. ISBN 84-7901-190-4
 ÁRBOLES. Allen J. Coombes. Ed. OMEGA. ISBN 84-282-0942-1
 Guía de los árboles y arbustos de la península ibérica y Baleares. G. López González. Ediciones Mundi-Prensa. ISBN 84-8476-210-6
 LOS BOSQUES IBÉRICOS. Una interpretación geobotánica. Varios autores. Ed. Planeta. ISBN 84-08-05820-7
 Árboles y arbustos de la España Peninsular. Juan Ruiz de la Torre. Ed. Fundación Conde del Valle de Salazar (ETSIM). ISBN 84-600-1541-6

Enlaces externos

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  Castanea sativa

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Plantas medicinales
Nueces y semillas oleaginosas
Árboles de clima templado marítimo
Plantas descritas en 1768
Plantas descritas por Miller


HAS FINALLY ENDED! YES! All I have to do now is wait for the enrolment package, which will arrive by the end of February. Another long wait again but it's worth it. You know what they always say, "Good things come to those who wait."
Wait wait wait. . .


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Q: Showing image at certain times of the day I am trying to show different images during different times of the day. The time should correspond with the user's timezone. It is actually supposed to look like an image is fading away with dawn (now I am just using of cats as example though). The problem I am running into is that when I remove the day variable the whole thing doesn't work. As far as I understand d == 2 equals Tuesday (I derived that information from w3schools and this post here: Answer by Yoshiyahu), though how can I make this work any day of the week? I also tried just adding all the numbers ( d == 01,2,3,4,5,6 ), but that also doesn't seem to work.
Here is a snippet with my code. The example should show background image .c during the timeframe between 12:20 and 12:30 on a Tuesday. And background image .b should show during the timeframe between 12:31 and 12:40 on a Tuesday. Am I missing something very obvious?
I would really appreciate if someone knows what's wrong.

$(document).ready(function(){
    var n = new Date();
    var h = n.getHours();
  var d = n.getDay();
  var m = n.getMinutes();
    if (d == 2 && h == 12 && m < 30 && m > 20 || d == 2 && h == 12)

      document.body.className = "c";

    else if (d == 2 && h == 40 && m < 12 && m > 31 || d == 2 && h == 12)

      document.body.className = "b";

    else

      document.body.className = "a";
});
.a { background: url('https://www.pon-cat.com/application/files/6616/0709/1555/homepage-pon-cat.jpg'); }
.b { background: url('https://d128mjo55rz53e.cloudfront.net/media/images/cat-hunting.2e16d0ba.fill-1000x700.png'); }
.c { background: url('https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/033120_HT_covid-cat_feat-800x450.jpg'); }
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

A: The getHours() method returns the hour (from 0 to 23) of the specified date and time.you have h== 40

$(document).ready(function(){
    var n = new Date();
    var h = n.getHours();
  var d = n.getDay();
  var m = n.getMinutes();
    if (d == 2 && h == 12 && m < 30 && m > 20 || d == 2 && h == 12)

      document.body.className = "a";

    else if (d == 2 && h == 12 && m < 12 && m > 31 || d == 2 && h == 12)

      document.body.className = "b";

    else

      document.body.className = "a";
});
.a { background: url('https://www.pon-cat.com/application/files/6616/0709/1555/homepage-pon-cat.jpg'); }
.b { background: url('https://d128mjo55rz53e.cloudfront.net/media/images/cat-hunting.2e16d0ba.fill-1000x700.png'); }
.c { background: url('https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/033120_HT_covid-cat_feat-800x450.jpg'); }
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

$(document).ready(function(){
    var n = new Date();
    var h = n.getHours();
  var d = n.getDay();
  var m = n.getMinutes();
    if (d == 2 && h == 12 && m < 30 && m > 20 || d == 2 && h == 12)

      document.body.className = "c";

    else if (d == 2 && h == 12 && m < 12 && m > 31 || d == 2 && h == 12)

      document.body.className = "b";

    else

      document.body.className = "a";
});
.a { background: url('https://www.pon-cat.com/application/files/6616/0709/1555/homepage-pon-cat.jpg'); }
.b { background: url('https://d128mjo55rz53e.cloudfront.net/media/images/cat-hunting.2e16d0ba.fill-1000x700.png'); }
.c { background: url('https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/033120_HT_covid-cat_feat-800x450.jpg'); }
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

A: The problem seems to come from your conditions.
first if you want to make it works every day just remove d variable.
and your condition have to look like this:
$(document).ready(function () {
  var n = new Date();
  var h = n.getHours();
  var m = n.getMinutes();

  if (h === 12 && m >= 20 && m < 30) document.body.className = "c";
  else if (h === 12 && m > 30 && m < 40) document.body.className = "b";
  else document.body.className = "a";
});

here is a sandbox with all the code

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import { bindActionCreators } from 'redux'
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import Counter from '../components/Counter'
import * as CounterActions from '../actions/counter'

//将state.counter绑定到props的counter
function mapStateToProps(state) {
  return {
    counter: state.counter
  }
}
//将action的所有方法绑定到props上
function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
  return bindActionCreators(CounterActions, dispatch)
}

//通过react-redux提供的connect方法将我们需要的state中的数据和actions中的方法绑定到props上
export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Counter)

/*
  state就是数据,组件就是数据的呈现形式,action是动作,action是通过reducer来更新state的。

  上述代码,我们干了几件事:

    1. 把state的counter值绑定到props上

    2. 把四个action创建函数绑定到props上

*/

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Q: How to draw a dotted "L" shapped line, When accordion is open?

import BaseAccordian from "@/components/BaseAccordion";

export default {
  components: {
    BaseAccordian,
  },
  data() {
    return {
      accordions: [
        {
          title: "Vue",
          text: "AllaboutVue",
          textwo: "hi",
        },
        {
          title: "Nuxt",
          text: "AllaboutNuxt",
          textwo: "hi",
        },
        {
          title: "webpack",
          text: "Allaboutwebpack",
          textwo: "hi",
        },
      ],
    };
  },
};
.green {
  color: green;
  font-weight: bold;
}
.red {
  color: red;
  font-weight: bold;
}
.pink {
  color: pink;
  font-weight: bold;
}

      <BaseAccordian>
        <template v-slot:title>{{ accordion.title }}</template>
        <template v-slot:content>

{{ accordion.text }}

{{ accordion.textwo }}

        </template>
      </BaseAccordian>

I have already set the colours for different text, when the accordion is open , Now I need   draw dotted lines with content on it. So that it draw dotted line based on content colour.
I am thinking that it is possible with css.
I have already set the colours for different text, when the accordion is open , Now I need   draw dotted lines with content on it. So that it draw dotted line based on content colour.
I am thinking that it is possible with css.

A: To get layout like:

Just add to your:

class, for example, line:

Then add some styles:
.line >>> .content > div {
  --line-width: 2px;
  --x-offset: 8px;
  --x-width: 120px;

  position: relative;
  padding-bottom: var(--line-width);
}
.line >>> .content > div:before {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: var(--x-offset);
  width: var(--x-width);
  height: 100%;
  border-left: var(--line-width) dashed currentColor;
  border-bottom: var(--line-width) dashed currentColor;
}
.line >>> .content > div:after {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: calc(-1 * var(--line-width) * 1.75);
  left: calc(var(--x-offset) + var(--x-width));
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border: calc(var(--line-width) * 2.5) solid transparent;
  border-right: 0;
  border-left: calc(var(--line-width) * 5) solid currentColor;
}


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It's a very pretty bright barbie-ish warm pink..
and I definitely like it a lot.
that is the colour of the lipstick with flash, I know the photo s not exactly highl quality but my camera was being a pain.
Catrice Absolute Eye Colour eyeshadow in 080 Go! Charlie Brown!
ooh...I will definitely be picking up this shade!


At cash registers all across Luther, shoppers are filling out tickets in hopes of winning a pile of Christmas cash. The Luther Parks Commission has organized the holiday promotion for the second year by asking businesses to pitch in some cash to make a nice holiday pot.
For every $10 a shopper spends at Luther spots like Josephine's Cafe, Beth's Baubles & Bits, Brew 66, and many others, a ticket with the shopper's name and phone number goes into a jar for a drawing on December 15.
Winners do not have to be present to win. But why not come participate in the festivities, and then spend some of your winnings back in Luther? The drawing will be on December 15 at 2 pm at The 116 Farmstead Market & Table. To get in on the festivities, the restaurant will have an Ugly Sweater Contest and will offer some holiday treats.
The drawing will be hosted by Josh Smith of Opus Entertainment. The Parks Commission developed the Luther Local contest in 2017 to promote shopping in Luther during the holiday season.
The first winner of the Luther Local Christmas contest was Ktara Brinkley who lives in Wellston but has a counseling office in Luther. Last year, she told The Luther Register that she guessed the raffle ticket drawn was from one she filled out at The Chicken Shack, although she had filled out tickets at many Luther stores over the last three weeks, including Rustic Farm, Urban 66 and The 116 Farmstead Market & Table. Brinkley is a Licensed Professional Counselor and owns Revitalize Life Counseling on Main Street, located on the second floor of the 116 cafe in the middle of Main on the east side of the street.
The drawing for the cash prizes is Dec 15 at 2pm.


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Home » Filme » Spectacole si Concerte » Classic OPERA
Giuseppe Verdi : AIDA, Arena Di Verona, Omer Meir Wellber (Bel Air Classiques)
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An Aida for the XXIst century. To celebrate the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi's birth, La Fura dels Baus opens the ""Centanario Festival 2013"" of the Arena di Verona. Carlus Padrissa and Alex Ollé sign a brillant new version of Aida.
Aida is the most popular opera of Verona Festival, the only one performed every year, where 17.000 spectators enjoy the show every evening. This new production is designed by La Fura dels Baus. They transform the arena into a huge desert, creating mechanical animals and manufacture a solar power plant. They use their experience in leading large-scale shows and opera to create the Aida of the XXIst century, splendidly conducted by a young talented conductor: Omer Meir Wellber.
The Egyptians have captured and enslaved Aida, an Ethiopian princess. An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. To complicate the story further, the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
This is the Live performance of Verdi's opera, recorded in 2013, on the 100th anniversary of the Verona Arena Festival. The production stars Hui He, Fabio Sartori and Giovanna Casolla with Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona.
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Karl Marx: The Father of Communism
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Revolutionary German Philosopher Karl Marx, born 1818 in Prussia (modern day Germany), was known for publishing the Communist Manifesto in 1848 with Fredrich Engels. His anticapitalistic works would form that basis of the philosophical thought known today as Marxism. His works would soon get Marx exiled out of German and France.
Born of Jewish decent, his parents converting to Lutheran in 1816, due to laws banning Jews from high society. Marx's father was a lawyer and an activist for Prussian reform.
Marx attended the University of Bonn and later, after getting in to trouble with authorities for drunkenness, taking part in a duel, and becoming co-president of the drinking society, he would transfer to the University of Berlin under strict order from his father, where he studied law and philosophy. During his term at the university, Marx would become involved with a radical group of students know as the Poets Club who criticized political and religious view and formations of the day.
A color photo of Karl Marx in 1875. Colorization by Klimbim
While Marx was pursuing his doctorate, he was becoming more politically passionate. So much so that he put off his marriage with is fiancé, Baroness Jenny von Westphalen who derived from a high-class family. Marx was close and fond of Jenny's father Ludwig von Westphalen, whom Marx dedicated his doctoral thesis to.
Wife of Karl Marx, Jenny von Westphalen.
With his increasing radicalism, Marx was finding a way to combine law and philosophy together. In 1837, Marx joined the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers who followed the ideas of deceased German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, criticizing Prussian political systems, religion, and restricting reason and freedom. Due to his involvement with the Young Hegelians and radical ideas, Marx was banned from pursuing an academic career. He then moved to Cologne where he became a journalist for the radical newspaper, Rhineland News (Rheinische Zeitung), criticizing conservative Europeans governments, political figures and expressing his views on socialism. The Prussian government banned an article written by Marx attacking the Prussian government and the Russian Monarchy.
The front page of Rhineland News (Rheinische Zeitung) on the 16th October 1842. Karl Marx wrote and edited for the newspaper.
In 1843, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris where Marx became the co-editor of the far-left radical journal, Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (German-French Annals), with German Socialist Arnold Ruge. However, his friendship with Ruge along with the newspaper Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher was short lived due to conflicting views. The newspaper only published a few works before its abandonment. During this period, Marx met German Socialist Friedrich Engels who published "The Condition of the Working Class in England". Together Engels and Marx shared their socialist ideology publishing "The Holy Family" in 1845. Around this time, Marx began studying the political economy, the relation of production, trade, national income, wealth, law and government. This study would result in Marx's major published work "Das Kapital" in 1867. Marxism was highly influenced with these studies, English economics, Hegel's dialectics, and French utopian socialism.
A first edition copy of Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital' published in 1867. This book was owned by Marx himself and includes written corrections and annotations inside.
Marx was soon banned from France due to writing for yet another radical newspaper, Vorwarts! (Forward!), which would later become the papers of the Communist League. Unable to move to Germany or to continue living in France, Marx moved to Brussels on the condition that he would no longer publish anything pertaining to current politics. Engels met up with Marx as well as meeting with other exiled socialists such as Moses Hess. Together they shared ideas on the philosophy of socialism and abandoning the philosophy of the Young Hegelians. While in Brussels, Marx wrote The German Ideology which was not published until after his death.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels with Marx's daughters Jenny Caroline, Jenny Julia Eleanor, and Jenny Laura in c. 1864.
In 1846, Marx founded the Communist Correspondence Committee that inspired socialists across Europe as well as England to hold a conference to form the Communist League. In 1847, the Committee asked Marx and Engels to write and publish the Communist Manifesto, which was officially published in 1848. Marx was then exiled out of Belgium; since he was still banned from living in France and Prussia, he ended up moving to London without citizenship and relied on Engels for financial support. Marx then continued to publish works and pamphlets and work as a journalist.
A photograph of a young Friedrich Engels, Marx's co-author of The Communist Manifesto, in c. 1845.
A 43-year-old Karl Marx in 1861.
Marx died in London on the 14th March 1883 (age 64) of pleurisy, an inflammation of the mucus membranes. He died as a "stateless" person buried in London's Highgate cemetery. In 1954, Marx and his family were reburied at a new site. In 1956, The Communist Party of Great Britain erected a tombstone along with a bust of Marx and an inscription from the final line of the Communist Manifesto that reads "Workers of All Lands Unite". His ideas and works would continue to impact new ideas, thoughts, and eventually lead to large political movements across the world influencing modern day world leaders.
The grave of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery in London, England where he is buried along with his family.
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Dmitry Tymchuk: Update from the zone of combat operations
The situation in the zone of combat operations is extremely difficult. Russian troops and terrorists are taking the offensive, with new reinforcements from the Russian Federation.
On the occupied territory, the Russian troops put up roadblocks and equip strongholds. Accumulation of the RF Armed Forces units recorded in the areas of Vasilevka, Razdolnoe and Komsomol.
In the village of Krasnyi Luch, the local authorities have been instructed by the representatives of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to allocate a plot of land to bury the dead. According to our data, the talk is that it's about dead Russian soldiers.
Ukrainian troops are carrying out a regrouping of forces, pulling reserves and inflicting retaliatory strikes. Our troops destroyed 1 u. BM-21 "Grad" and several units of the enemy's vehicles.
Ukrainian troops shelled positions in the areas of Tonenkoe, the village of Stanitsa Luhanskaya and Vesela Hora. Shelling of our units was carried out from the territory of Russia from an MLRS [Multiple Launch Rocket System] Smerch.
Near the village of Lenino there was an ambush by Russian soldiers who fired on a convoy of Ukrainian medical troops. Vehicle columns were marked accordingly.
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Margaret DeFrancisco's claim that she shot Oscar Velazquez because he threatened her sister "was not believable," a jury found late Friday, convicting the 20-year-old of murder in about 90 minutes after a weeklong trial.
"She said herself that she shot him," said one juror, who declined to be named. "We looked at everything from there."
Important to the panel was the fact that DeFrancisco, who was 16 at the time of the slaying, hid from authorities for two years, the juror said. Prosecutors had argued that flight was evidence that the self-defense claim of DeFrancisco and her sister, Regina, who was convicted earlier this year, was bogus.
Prosecutors said the sisters lured Velazquez, 22, to their Pilsen home to rob him in June 2000 and then tried to cover up the crime by setting his body on fire with nail-polish remover.
Margaret DeFrancisco, who faces a minimum of 45 years in prison, showed no emotion. A sheriff's deputy tried to give her her coat as she was taken into custody, but DeFrancisco turned and left it in her chair.
It was DeFrancisco's second trial this year. The first jury that heard the case over the summer could not reach a verdict with one member against conviction refusing to deliberate.
Maria Rios-Velazquez, the victim's mother, said the verdict was especially gratifying because the sisters' defense was to claim that her son had waved a gun in their home as he tried to collect a debt.
Defense lawyer Ed Genson argued that Velazquez had brought a gun to the house to collect $1,000 the sisters had duped him out of, and then was shot when he threatened Regina, then 17.
"They want to make her an animal," Genson said, urging the jury to send DeFrancisco home to her toddler.
Prosecutors had presented testimony of former friends of the sisters, including Veronica Garcia, who was in the house during the shooting and told jurors the sisters planned to scare Velazquez with her boyfriend's gun to get money.
When she testified Wednesday, DeFrancisco repeatedly denied she planned to rob Velazquez with her sister or ever intended to shoot or kill him.
During cross-examination Friday, Assistant State's Atty. Catherine Sanders began by asking about DeFrancisco's stoic demeanor. "When you wrapped him up in plastic, and in a sheet, were you crying?" Sanders asked.
"No," DeFrancisco said. "Just because I wasn't crying doesn't mean I didn't feel bad."


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Union-backed vets super PAC weighs in against Trump
by Erin Quinn July 20, 2016 July 9, 2019
Youtube/votevets
July 20, 2016: This story has been corrected.
A left-leaning veterans' organization made its first ad buy of this election cycle last week, telling voters that Donald Trump is "too dangerous for America."
VoteVets, the super PAC that sponsored the ad, claims more than 400,000 supporters on its website and states its mission is to "use public issue campaigns to give a voice to veterans on matters of national security, veterans' care and every day issues" affecting veterans.
Its new ad received production assistance from Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that's raised millions to support Hillary Clinton. The group was behind a well-known anti-Trump ad earlier this year that featured women lip-synching Trump quotes criticizing women.
Who's behind it?
Leading VoteVets is Chairman Jon Soltz, a founder of the group and two-tour Iraq veteran. Soltz blogs for the Huffington Post and is a frequent media commentator, appearing on shows like "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC.
Last week, Soltz criticized Trump as not having the right temperament for commander-in-chief, stating that "emotion-based judgement will not 'Make America Safe Again,'" in a blog post, penned with Paul Eaton, another VoteVets advisory board member. Eaton is also senior adviser to the progressive think tank National Security Network.
The VoteVets board of advisors is made up mostly of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, one of whom also served three terms as a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Others include the former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the executive director of the Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO.
Formed in 2006, the group is also backed by a number of individual donors and trade unions.
VoteVets' Eaton, a retired U.S. Army major general, starts off the ad from behind a desk, clad in a suit and tie, saying, "I know the sacrifices our military makes."
The ad cuts to an old photo of an Air Force pilot as Eaton speaks about his father's service as a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War. He points to his own 30 years of service, saying "I've been responsible for the lives of our sons and daughters."
It's because of those sons and daughters and the rest of the country that he cannot support Donald Trump for president, he says.
"Donald Trump doesn't have the temperament or judgment to be our commander-in-chief," he says as the ad comes to a close. "That's why I'm speaking out, for America."
Money in
The group has collected about $255,000 so far this election cycle, the majority of which came from individual donors. Among the donors were engineers at Raytheon and Shell Oil, a program integrator at the Department of Defense and a number of retirees.
About $50,000 in donations to VoteVets came from trade unions, including $10,000 each from the American Federation of Government Employees PAC and the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association PAC.
Other union donors included the Ironworkers Political Education Fund, Engineers Political Education Committee and the United Mine Workers of America Coal Miners PAC.
Money out
The new ad blitz cost VoteVets nearly $668,000, about $17,000 of which it paid to Priorities USA Action for advertising production costs.
VoteVets has aired more than 900 ads since July 12, according to data provided to the Center for Public Integrity by ad tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG, which monitors ads on broadcast television and national — but not local — cable.
The group's TV ad blitz has been focused on viewers in the potential battleground states of Virginia, Colorado and Tennessee.
Why to watch this group
The group is a late-comer to what is shaping up to be the most expensive election on record. Its anti-Trump ad began airing less than a week before the Republican National Convention kicked off in Cleveland on Monday.
Correction, July 20, 2016, 11:05 a.m.: An earlier version of this article misidentified Paul Eaton's rank. He is a retired U.S. Army major general.
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Union-backed vets super PAC weighs in against Trump

by , Center for Public Integrity
July 20, 2016

July 20, 2016: This story has been corrected.

A left-leaning veterans' organization made its first ad buy of this election cycle last week, telling voters that Donald Trump is "too dangerous for America."

VoteVets, the super PAC that sponsored the ad, claims more than 400,000 supporters on its website and states its mission is to "use public issue campaigns to give a voice to veterans on matters of national security, veterans' care and every day issues" affecting veterans.

Its new ad received production assistance from Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that's raised millions to support Hillary Clinton. The group was behind a well-known anti-Trump ad earlier this year that featured women lip-synching Trump quotes criticizing women.

Who's behind it?

Leading VoteVets is Chairman Jon Soltz, a founder of the group and two-tour Iraq veteran. Soltz blogs for the Huffington Post and is a frequent media commentator, appearing on shows like "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC.

Last week, Soltz criticized Trump as not having the right temperament for commander-in-chief, stating that "emotion-based judgement will not 'Make America Safe Again,'" in a blog post, penned with Paul Eaton, another VoteVets advisory board member. Eaton is also senior adviser to the progressive think tank National Security Network.

The VoteVets board of advisors is made up mostly of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, one of whom also served three terms as a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Others include the former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the executive director of the Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO.

Formed in 2006, the group is also backed by a number of individual donors and trade unions.

 https://www.youtube.com/embed/II8HAL60vOI

The ad

VoteVets' Eaton, a retired U.S. Army major general, starts off the ad from behind a desk, clad in a suit and tie, saying, "I know the sacrifices our military makes."

The ad cuts to an old photo of an Air Force pilot as Eaton speaks about his father's service as a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War. He points to his own 30 years of service, saying "I've been responsible for the lives of our sons and daughters."

It's because of those sons and daughters and the rest of the country that he cannot support Donald Trump for president, he says.

"Donald Trump doesn't have the temperament or judgment to be our commander-in-chief," he says as the ad comes to a close. "That's why I'm speaking out, for America."

Money in

The group has collected about $255,000 so far this election cycle, the majority of which came from individual donors. Among the donors were engineers at Raytheon and Shell Oil, a program integrator at the Department of Defense and a number of retirees.

About $50,000 in donations to VoteVets came from trade unions, including $10,000 each from the American Federation of Government Employees PAC and the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association PAC.

Other union donors included the Ironworkers Political Education Fund, Engineers Political Education Committee and the United Mine Workers of America Coal Miners PAC.

Money out

The new ad blitz cost VoteVets nearly $668,000, about $17,000 of which it paid to Priorities USA Action for advertising production costs.

VoteVets has aired more than 900 ads since July 12, according to data provided to the Center for Public Integrity by ad tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG, which monitors ads on broadcast television and national — but not local — cable.

The group's TV ad blitz has been focused on viewers in the potential battleground states of Virginia, Colorado and Tennessee.

Why to watch this group

The group is a late-comer to what is shaping up to be the most expensive election on record. Its anti-Trump ad began airing less than a week before the Republican National Convention kicked off in Cleveland on Monday.

Correction, July 20, 2016, 11:05 a.m.: An earlier version of this article misidentified Paul Eaton's rank. He is a retired U.S. Army major general.

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Q: How unplugging a JTAG can (not restart but) unfreeze a device previously frozen before the JTAG plugging? We programmed a STM32L072, using, for the lower layers, the HAL lib generated from cubeMX.
Note that the "programming style" in my enterprise does not involve to include a watchdog in their embedded devices. No comment.
During one particular field test (out of many), the device stopped working (i.e.: screen freeze, and no response on the communication bus, but the PWM driver was working).
The device has been restarted and after a few minutes of work, the freeze happened again. This happened a few times before we arrived.
We plugged a JTAG/ST-LinkV2, and nothing changed on bus or screen.
As soon as we unplugged the flasher, the device restarted working without a reset (we could have recognized a initialization pattern if it had happened).

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*I don't understand how JTAG specification could explain this behavior (i.e. the unfreezing)?

*By the way, what can cause a freeze that can be unfrozen by a JTAG unplugging? Oscillator stopped? Auto sleeping modes? hardware breakpoint? software breakpoint? Interrupts disabled?

EDIT - Answer to comments and recap :

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*Not an oscillator cause because PWM is still working.

*Software breakpoint? unlikely as none has been set before flashing the
program.

*Concerning interrupts, I think this is an interesting lead, but how can the JTAG change anything by unplugging it?

A: Hard to determine without knowing more about your software.  If the PWM is running, clearly the oscillator has not stopped. It sounds like the code may have an embedded software breakpoint instruction.  The on-chip debug does not by default stop peripheral clocks when it hits a break-point.
Such instructions should be guarded to only block when the host debugger is attached (i.e. the debugger software, not just the physical JTAG hardware), e.g:
if (CoreDebug->DHCSR & 1) __BKPT(0);

If the breakpoint is not conditional on the debugger, the processor will halt with nothing to restart it (other than a watchdog, preferably the independent watchdog, because the windowed watchdog can be configured to have its clock stopped when a breakpoint is hit).
When a debugger is detached the break-point will be released, which may be what is happening here.


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This setting enables you to remove the cache of Internet Explorer.
For this, go to Start > Run, enter "regedit" and search the keys listed below. Now, delete a particular URL or delete the entire URLs cache.
Internet Explorer serially displays all the URLs in the cache. Upon deleting a particular URL from the cache, Internet Explorer will not show any of the URLs succeeding the deleted URL entry in address bar.
Second, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs\] and right click on the given url's and select 'Delete' to remove Internet Explorer typed URL history.


This is an excerpt from NIAAA's Guide to Interscholastic Athletic Administration by National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA).
The overall athletic budget will obviously need to include transportation but cannot consume the entire pool of funds earmarked for athletics. As the cost of transporting athletes continues to increase, it is important to be creative.
Prudent budget management is expected of athletic administrators, even when scheduling travel to correspond with league schedules set three or four years in advance of the game dates. This expectation includes some form of controlling recurrent transportation costs and perhaps could include finding alternative funding. Sound financial management of the transportation budget during stable and challenging economic periods enhances public confidence along with that of the senior administrators and the school board directors.
Not every school district situation is similar, but commonalities exist that should be examined and implemented when prudently managing an athletic transportation budget. Leagues and conferences should include idea-sharing opportunities on their meeting agendas at least twice a year.
A growing and popular choice for funding athletic departments is the "pay to play" model. This model can be formulated to have a specific role that may include funding the transportation of athletes. This strategy along with fund-raising is increasingly used to balance transportation budgets. Athletic directors should exercise caution when implementing this model. In some cases, events are canceled and not rescheduled. In this case, patrons may ask that contributions be refunded. Conversely, contributors may also indicate a desire to contribute their unused funds to the entire athletic transportation budget for transporting athletes instead of a specific sport fund.
Transportation costs are typically one of the largest athletic budget categories, usually second only to salaries and benefits. Because there are some discretionary cost-reduction measures that may be instituted with transportation budgets, the following sections discuss some practical cost-saving measures currently in use throughout the United States.
A common technique used to create savings is to place two or more teams together on the same bus when traveling to the same contest site or to locations that are in reasonable proximity. This method can be implemented and enhanced through analysis, creative scheduling at the league or conference level, specific vehicle selection, and making sure the paired teams will be in the same area on a specific date and time. These arrangements must be discussed with the involved coaching staffs and the bus driver so all understand the intent and level of cooperation needed to efficiently coordinate efforts. It is important to plan and publish paired-team transportation schedules well in advance because squad numbers can be used to determine a compatible match. In addition, pairing opposite-gender teams may require dedication of various bus seating sections to a particular team, with coaches distributed accordingly and expectations stated.
As a more austere measure, athletic directors have been forced to adopt a system wherein sports teams are picked up at school and delivered to the competition site by a school or contracted carrier. Upon delivery, the bus and driver are released from further responsibilities. In this system, parents or other adults are responsible for meeting and returning athletes to the home school after a contest.
If this method is selected, care must be taken to ensure safety and security of the athletes. To begin, the athletic director should consult with the school or district legal counsel and risk management team or insurance carrier to determine the risk exposure of the school or district when implementing this model. In addition, an attorney must develop a document used for preseason orientation meetings and in handbooks for coaches, parents, and athletes to clearly explain the responsibilities of all involved. Along with other contents of the school athletic code, the entire "delivery or drop only" process should be acknowledged in writing by a parent or legal guardian and kept on file in the athletic office.
Risk management efforts must be followed by extensive publicity through school and public media outlets. Preseason team and parent orientation meetings present another opportunity to ensure all parties understand the requirements. In this model, school personnel, parents, and athletes must make cooperative efforts to monitor the security of athletes after competition. After an event, one or more members of the coaching staff must remain at the competition site to ensure no athlete is left without a confirmed, safe ride.
The least desirable and most drastic measure is to have athletes transport themselves to off-campus events. This measure should be clearly defined in terms of approved destinations. In most cases, out-of-town driving is prohibited, while in-town transportation may be authorized. In addition, there may be need to curtail student drivers from transporting other students to a competition or practice site.
In all cases, the athletic director must provide clear driving directions to the opponent's facility, the required time of arrival, any special or required group travel, and parking directions. In addition, school personnel should conduct pretrip research to ascertain the potential for imminent hazardous weather conditions or highway detours so that prudent decisions can be made and accurate directions given.
Another potential cost-saving choice is to create a business contract with a national or regional rental company for rentals throughout a school year. For these contracts, a negotiated rate, unlimited mileage, vehicle usage limitations, and the overall process should be agreed on. This type of contract can be very effective if gasoline prices fluctuate significantly, although the rental company may include an escalator clause to account for changes in fuel price. This may be the most cost-efficient method in the sense that the rental company has responsibility for vehicle maintenance and compliance with federal and state safety regulations. Coaches who transport athletes in rental vehicles may be required to acquire certain licensure.
The school or district may be required to submit a driving abstract that clears district personnel to drive vans for athlete transportation. As a related matter, some states require a type II bus driver certification, which allows a designated school official to transport athletes in a vehicle that has a capacity of more than 10 persons but fewer than 16. Athletic personnel should make regular use of school and rental agency forms and agreements that document dates, purpose of vehicle use, usage times, mileage, number of passengers in the vehicle, destination, rental cost of the vehicle, and the number of gallons of gasoline used. The athletic director or transportation coordinator must ensure that specific state laws and guidelines are implemented in addition to all existing federal mandates when renting or using vehicles other than regulated buses.
Documentation and data collection can be used from previous transportation budgets to create the next year's schedule. With previous knowledge and experience, an athletic director can be better prepared to face obstacles during the upcoming sports year. New and veteran athletic administrators must dedicate time to review and evaluate current policies and practices related to the transporting of athletes to school district-approved events.
Constantly seek innovative ideas and best practices to enhance safe student-athlete travel. Institute a process for assessing, monitoring, and adjusting the transportation program to minimize risk to athletes and coaches. Count on the fact that change is inevitable, and continuously research the most efficient and effective practices in the area of transportation.
Learn more about NIAAA's Guide to Interscholastic Athletic Administration.


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Geschrieben am 14. März 2018 von Thomas Adcock für Crimemag, CrimeMag März 2018, Kolumne
Thomas Adcock	 Mrz 14, 2018
HOWARD BEALE The cri de coeur of Everyman in times of national disgrace
The Never Again Generation
'We are not afraid … we will not be silenced … our voices are loud'
by Thomas Adcock
Copyright © 2018 – Thomas Adcock
NEW YORK CITY, near America
Young and golden is the moment when ordinary people achieve a coalescence of causes based in righteous anger, when we realize a combined power that might shape a better future, when we cease to abide belligerent ignorance and curable injustice. When we act, e pluribus unum, to redeem a wounded national honor.
When we feel we hold the reins of history in our hands.
In my seven decades of life in these United States, I have twice known such palpable moment: forty-nine years ago, and right now—today—as you read my words:
November 1969. The "Moratorium Against the War" drew a half-million ordinary, mostly young people to Washington. We engaged in weeklong protests against the U.S. military invasion of Vietnam. I best remember the Thursday evening when some forty thousand of us surrounded the White House in what we tagged the "March Against Death." We bore placards naming thousands of American conscripts slaughtered thus far, for no discernible purpose beyond enriching corporations that peddle matériel. All through the night we marched, shouting our demand that President Richard M. Nixon end the immorality forthwith.
Spilling into Friday afternoon, our march was halted in DuPont Circle, under clouds of tear gas and pepper gas. (I wore a helmet to protect my skull from police billy clubs.) Mr. Nixon said of our efforts, "Now, I understand that there has been, and continues to be, opposition to the war in Vietnam…As far as this kind of activity is concerned, we expect it; however, under no circumstances will I be affected whatever by it."
Nevertheless, we persisted. In August 1974, Mr. Nixon resigned the presidency, in disgrace. In April 1975, the war in Vietnam came to inglorious end.
Right Now. Paul Krugman, a Nobel economics laureate and columnist for the New York Times, describes a noble reaction to a kleptocracy that took hold in the polluted wake of last November's presidential election: "A funny thing is happening on the American scene: a powerful upwelling of decency" as backlash against a wealthy mob with "far too much power…in the hands of men who are simply bad people." Mr. Krugman identifies the capo di tutti capi of said mob as Donald J. Trump, "the tweeter-in-chief himself."
Days are numbered for the cynics and plutocrats associated with a deplorable president. And whether or not the president follows through on a proposed tête-à-tête with the wily Kim Jong-un of North Korea, an exit ramp will soon be set in place for The Donald—a handle coined by the first of Mr. Trump's three wives, the one who accused him of marital rape during divorce litigation back in 1992.
—Ivana Trump, née Zelnícková, softened that allegation upon $ettlement of the divorce $uit. Thu$, she explained it was not rape in the "literal or criminal sense." Whatever, she was a harbinger of allegations to come. At latest count, twenty-two women claim to be victims of the president's sexual misconduct. "Liars!" Mr. Trump retorts. Three years ago, he pledged to bring each and every lady detractor to court, on grounds of character defamation. Between then and now, he has not sued a soul. Meanwhile, wife number three—First Lady Melania Trump, née Knauss—remains silent on the lawsuit filed this month by her husband's ex-mistress, the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels.
Practically every hour on the hour, The Donald and The Mob affirm their fatal flaw: the courage of their limitations.
They are confident that politicians cheaply purchased will preserve their privilege and shield them from the rabble. The louche Mr. Trump appears to believe, as the late Mr. Nixon famously believed, that "When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." The Mob—virtually all male and fair of face, I am pained to say—is certain that ill-gotten power and suspicious wealth constitute a god-given green light to run roughshod over women and Muslims and gays and Jews and Asians and Latinos and African Americans and scholars and artists and intellectuals and scientists and pesky journalists.
They ignore the voices of the young, and allies of the young. They scoff at satire, unmoved by how it reflects a controlled rage in us commoners. They fail to see that we are in metaphorical union with the star character in a Nixon-era film polemic: Howard Beale, the fictive TV newsman of "Network" who inspired New Yorkers to throw open their apartment windows and roar along with him, in fury over a hegemony of ignorance and cruelty and proud stupidity. Once more, we sound Mr. Beale's signature plaint: "I'm as mad as hell, and I am not going to take this anymore!"
And so again, the young take to the streets throughout the land, with those of us not so young marching along. Again, we demand the head of a squalorous president, the embodiment of much that is wrong; we hasten to aid the implosion of his regime. Again, we shout for an end to iniquitous war—this one not halfway around the world, but right here at home.
In the war this time, a principal weapon remains virtually the same as in Vietnam. In the 1960s, combat troops carried M-16 machine guns with which to slaughter "the enemy." Today, semiautomatic assault rifles—collectively known as AR-15s, slightly modified from M-16s—are used to slaughter us ordinary people. Classrooms are frequent targets: Between 1999 and last month, one hundred and fifty-two students and teachers were thus murdered, some as young as six.
In 1994, a Congress controlled by the Democratic Party enacted a ten-year ban on semiautomatic weapons, during which time ninety-six people were killed, according to a tally by Mother Jones magazine. In 2004, a Republican Party majority wasted no time in abolishing the ban, ushering in one hundred and ninety-five murders over the next decade; the death toll mounts, inexorably.
The benefits of Republican nonfeasance redound to gun manufacturers. Immense corporate profits are safeguarded by an industry-financed posse of soulless stooges in Washington and the statehouses, where "bad people" are briskly paid to nix anything that would upset the sales of retrofitted combat rifles—to do nothing that would protect their constituents, or even their sorry selves, from the country's epidemic of massacres.
Many, if not most massacres involve AR-15s. Valued for its lightness of weight and minimal kickback, the AR-15 is capable of firing forty-five rounds of .223 caliber organ-shattering dum-dum bullets in less than a minute.
In 2016, the National Rifle Association, chief lobbyist for the gunmakers, shelled out $30 million (€24.3 million) to the Trump presidential campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Another $400 million (€325 million) went to Trump-aligned Republicans. Gunmakers can easily afford bribery of such proportion. According to his declaration filed in the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court matter of District of Columbia v. Heller, N.R.A. research director Mark Overstreet predicted sales of AR-15s to civilian "gun enthusiasts" would reach 2,446,294 units by year's end 2012. That number then doubled over five years, to at least five million by 2017, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms. Applying the average retail price of $1,500 (€1,215) for a fully equipped AR-15 to the larger A.T.F. figure, gross sales of AR-15s measure not in the billions, but in trillions—to wit, a minimum $75,000,000,000 (€60,500,000,000).
In the Heller case, a one-vote Republican majority on the high court bench overturned municipal law in the District of Columbia (Washington) that limited gun possession. The controversial decision, the majority declared, was based on the Second Amendment to the Constitution: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." By such reasoning, murderers are free to buy all the guns they can afford.
Legal academicians were appalled by the high court's '08 ruling in Heller. They are still appalled, none more so than Dean Alfange, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"I taught constitutional law," Mr. Alfange told me in an email exchange. "[S]tudents who retained any class notes from my courses should throw them away because they are now all wrong. In the twenty-first century, the most basic precedents [of American law] that have formed the foundation of constitutional interpretation…have been ignored or distorted, and constitutional principles that have been ingrained in our legal system since [Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s] are being tossed aside in favor of a new and reactionary constitutional order." Prior courts, he added, held a "universal understanding" of the Second Amendment—"that it had to do with the maintenance of militias, and was not intended to guarantee a right to bear arms outside of that context."
That was then. We are in a dark place now, where Supreme Court justices are given lifetime appointments on the basis of loyalty to reductive Republican dogma rather than respect for legal exigencies of modern life; where N.R.A. cash calls the tune in a Republican-controlled Congress and the Trump White House; where mass murder—defined as four or more shot dead—occurs somewhere in America almost every day, according to a United Nations study published last month.
Where the swinish Donald J. Trump pulled off another of his trademark political switcheroos in the wake of the latest massacre—last month at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The school is an hour's drive north from Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, where he played golf as funerals were held for the slaughtered. At first, the president joined fellow Republicans in the party's usual two-stanza diversionary chorus: 1) alarm over the mental state of homicidal gun owners, followed by 2) hollow offerings of "thoughts and prayers to the families of the dead. But then he ventured a step too far: He issued a vague promise to consider vague new legislation that might threaten gun profits in some teensy-tiny way.
The next day, after N.R.A. operatives reminded Mr. Trump of their $30 million "donation" to his 2016 campaign, the president returned to dutiful guidance of a government of gun profits, by gun profits, and for gun profits.
In Donald Trump's America, money trumps murder.
Now come the young and golden—survivors of the bloody AR-15 assault last month in Parkland, on Valentines Day. The students are as articulate and persistent as their school's namesake: Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998). A crusading journalist, feminist, and environmentalist, Ms. Douglas bested a cabal of Miami real estate developers poised to destroy Florida's Everglades region, a vast swath of tropical wetlands Ms. Douglas dubbed a "river of grass."
On February 14, a gunman with a perfectly legal AR-15 mowed down fourteen teenagers at Douglas High, as well as two athletic coaches and a geography teacher. Adept at social media, terrorized students who hid in classroom closets during the shooter's rampage paid respect to the fallen by swiftly organizing the "Never Again Movement," grown now to a national force. With dignity, decency, and fiercely eloquent prose, students in the spirit of Marjory Stoneman Douglas have made their elders listen to their fears and sorrow, at long last.
Hear what five of them have to say: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER From left: Emma González, David Hogg, Tanzil Philip, Alfonso Calderón, Delaney Tarr
"This isn't just a mental health issue," said Douglas High senior Emma González during a recent rally in Parkland. Of the murderer awaiting trial, she said, "He wouldn't have been able to kill that many people with a knife. To every politician taking donations from the N.R.A., shame on you."
In a recent essay for Harpers Bazaar magazine, Ms. González wrote, "[T]he majority of American people have become complacent [about] senseless injustice that occurs all around them. …American politicians have become more easily swayed by money than by the people who voted them into office."
Addressing politicians watching his interview on CNN Television, senior David Hogg looked straight into the camera lens with his challenge: "We're children. You guys are the adults. Take action, work together, get over your politics—and get things done!"
Tanzil Philip, a sophomore, addressed the people who own the politicians: "To everyone at the N.R.A., and everyone affiliated with the N.R.A.—we are not afraid of you, we will not be silenced by anything you have to say. We are here, our voices are loud, and we're not stopping until change happens."
Alfonso Calderón, a junior, damned the do-nothing pols: "They have always said the wrong thing at the wrong time, but they're still taken seriously, time and time again, instead of being disavowed or disqualified for holding an office after making ridiculous statements. Our message is simple: never again!"
The Never Again Movement, said senior Delany Tarr, was "created by students and is led by students and is based on emotion. Our biggest flaws—our tendency to be a bit too aggressive, our tendency to lash out, things you expect from a normal teenager—are our strengths. The only reason that we've gotten so far is that we are not afraid of losing money or being reëlected or not getting reëlected."
The movement begun is profoundly bigger than the Parkland Five, or any of their classmates, of any of their contemporaries from coast to coast—the millions of young people we call the millennial generation. Hereinafter, I prefer they were known as the Never Again Generation.
Some will remain staunchly deaf to voices of the young and clear-eyed: case in point Florida State Representative Elizabeth Porter—a Republican. Last week during debate in the Florida Legislature over the state's first gun policy overhaul in more than twenty years, she prattled, "We've been told that we need to listen to the children and do what the children ask. Do we allow the children to tell us that we should pass a law that says 'no homework?' Or you finish high school at the age of twelve just because they want it so? No. The adults make the laws because we have the age, we has (sic) the wisdom, and we have the experience."
"Adults" did not function well. The gun bill they adopted fell cruelly short of Never Againers' demands, chief among them the simple logic of once again banning semiautomatic weapons—at least in sunny Florida. Instead, the bill allows schoolteachers to arm themselves with AR-15s and other weapons, and raises the minimum age for gun ownership from 18 to 21. The N.R.A. applauded the former—hurrah for more sales!—and promptly filed a federal lawsuit against the latter, claiming violation of Second Amendment "gun rights" for those aged 18-21.
Then there is Betsy DeVos.
Secretary of education in the Trump administration, Ms. DeVos has zero experience in public education (beyond decades of attempting to supplant it with a for-profit system of private academies), and a particularly ludicrous Republican notion: She urges teachers in rural districts to carry firearms in order to protect students from marauding—bears. Five weeks after the massacre in Parkland, Ms. DeVos dropped in at Douglas High, a campus in mourning. Flustered by a lukewarm reception to her recitation of Republican bromides, Secretary DeVos abruptly walked out.
No matter. Everywhere they go, movement teenagers remind the likes of Elizabeth Porter and Betsy DeVos—and invertebrate lawmakers—that they will soon be joining the American electorate as a bloc of conscientious malcontents, and that they will remember Valentines Day and all the other bloody days they have known throughout their young lives. Many will be of voting age for this November's state and federal elections; all will be of age for the presidential contest two years hence.
Until then, the Douglas Five—along with hundreds of others from their own school, and hundreds of thousands more teenagers throughout the country—will be among a half-million soon-to-be-voters expected to descend on Washington on March 24, to shake their thunder at the president and Congress.
Perhaps this time those who "has the wisdom" could be stirred to take a few baby steps toward rational gun policy.
The Never Again Generation has brought us to a watershed moment in America. They have opened a window long closed, made us see that which we have not been willing to see: the depths to which our country has sunk, the disintegration of our democracy, the damage and disgrace wrought by the curse of blood money and bad people. The young have made us ordinary people aware of what we may do about it.
They have placed the reins of history in our hands.
As they say, we are "woke."
—Thomas Adcock is America correspondent for CulturMag
tadcocknyc@gmail.com
Additional photo credits
"March Against Death" – smithsonianmag.com
Richard Nixon – bloodandporridge.co.uk
Paul Krugman – twitter.com
Howard Beale – loripalminteri.com
NRA bloody logo – facebook
Dean Alfange – polsci.umass.edu
Trump/swine – facebook
Marjory Stoneman Douglas – wikipedia
Emma González – NBCnews.com
David Hogg Douglas – CNN.com
Tanzil Philip – msnbc.com
Alfonso Calderón – ABCnews.com
Delaney Tarr – foxnews.com
Betsy DeVos – huffingtonpost.com
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Aston Martin To Build James Bond 'Goldfinger' DB5s Costing $3.5 Million
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Of all the iconic movie cars people might like to own, the silver Aston Martin DB5 driven by James Bond in the 1964 film "Goldfinger" probably tops the list. And now you can own one of 25 "Goldfinger" DB5 continuation cars being built by Aston Martin, with all the gadgets and gizmos included.
Thanks to a unique collaboration between the British sports car manufacturer and EON Productions — the company responsible for producing the James Bond movie franchise – the classic DB5 is being brought back to life atAston Martin Works, Newport Pagnell, which was the original home of the DB5.
The 25 examples being produced by Aston Martin will be equipped with all the same gadgets as the car in "Goldfinger," with a few 'sympathetic modifications' to ensure this reproduction conforms to the company's standards of build quality and reliability.
Unlike the original production DB5s, this limited run will include all the gadgets and armaments installed by Q Branch in the movie, which helped make the secret agent's Aston Martin an instant hit with moviegoers.
Gizmos such as revolving number plates will be functional, though Bond's machine guns will not be included. The gadgets will be developed along with Oscar-winner Chris Corbould, the special effects supervisor from the James Bond franchise. The car will only come in one color — Silver Birch, just like 007's.
Since making its debut with Sean Connery in the 1964 film "Goldfinger," the DB5 has made a further six appearances in Bond films. Connery was behind the wheel again in "Thunderball" in 1965, while Pierce Brosnan took over for "GoldenEye" in 1995 and "Tomorrow Never Dies" in 1997. The car has also made three appearances alongside Daniel Craig in "Casino Royale" in 2006, "Skyfall" in 2012 and "Spectre" in 2015.
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Aston Martin President and Chief Executive Officer, Andy Palmer, says of the project: "The connection between Aston Martin and James Bond is something of which we are very proud and it is remarkable that the DB5 remains the definitive James Bond car after so many years. To own an Aston Martin has long been an aspiration for James Bond fans, but to own a Silver Birch DB5, complete with gadgets and built to the highest standards in the very same factory as the original James Bond cars? Well, that is surely the ultimate collectors' fantasy."
28 cars will be produced in total, of which one will go to Aston Martin, one to EON Productions, and one to be auctioned for charity.
Of course, there's no such thing as a cheap Aston Martin. The "Goldfinger" continuation cars will start delivery to customers in 2020, and will each cost $3.5 million plus taxes.
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I'm a long time bottle collector and was asked by a friend to value this little jar. I've never seen one before so was hoping for input from this forum. Is it rare? What did it hold? I know Glenn & Co Perfumers succeeded L.W. Glenn around 1858 in Philadelphia, so was thinking this one may be Civil War period because of the shields. 4" tall,ground lip, glass is embossed vertically Glenn & Co with a shield embossed on front.
Any picture of the embossing on the glass? Also the base would help.
I gave the jar back to the owner so I can't take any more photos but the base is unmarked and not pontilled. The jar is embossed vertically Glenn & Co between the ridges of the jar and a shield is embosses horizontally on the front.


A Birmingham college will be closed for the rest of the week after a teenager was stabbed outside.
The 16-year-old victim was knifed closed in Belgrave Road, Highgate , near Joseph Chamberlain College, on Wednesday afternoon.
He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition with suspected stab wounds to the chest .
Two other teenagers were also hurt, less seriously, and another 16-year-old was arrested.
In a message posted on its website, the college wrote: "We can confirm an incident occurred outside the college on Belgrave Road.
"As it is a police investigation, we are unable to comment further at this time.
Police at the scene of the stabbing in Belgrave Road.
"Our thoughts are with with the student who was attacked and his family.
"Lessons will resume after the half-term holiday."
The college previously said in a tweet on Wednesday , which was later deleted: "We can confirm an incident has occurred at college.
"But at this moment we are unable comment or give further details. We have made the decision to close the college tomorrow. And will not be opening until after the half term break.
The condition of the stab victim was not immediately known on Thursday morning.
The other two injured were a 19-year-old who suffered minor cuts to his back and his hand and an 18-year-old who was treated for a cut to his hand.
The attack happened just an hour before another teenager was also stabbed in the chest in Orchard Meadow Walk, Castle Vale.
That incident took place just before 5.15pm. It was not known if they were connected or if anyone had been arrested.
BirminghamLive has asked West Midlands Police for updates into both investigations.
Witnesses to the Highgate stabbing said the 16-year-old victim was knifed by a masked offender .
An 18-year-old student said: "He was tumbling towards the floor.
"I noticed that something was wrong. I went to him: 'Yo stay with me, stay with me'.
"I was holding him until paramedics came. I hope he's going to be OK.
"He was stabbed just to the right of his stomach. It's sad, bro.
West Midlands Police said in a statement on Wednesday: "A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after three other teenagers were injured in a disturbance on Belgrave Road this afternoon, February 13.
"A 19-year-old was left with minor cuts to his back and his hand, while an 18-year-old was also treated for a cut to his hand.
"The investigation is at an early stage, and officers remain at the scene this evening.


Let's Share is back again! I feel that among the long list of big names, smaller fans get lost in the shuffle. There's a lot of talent and skill out there, but goes unnoticed. So I want to promote these talented people in a way to help build awareness and unity among anime fans and otaku.
Somewhat related to My Figure Collection, I would like to take the time to pass the spotlight to a talented anime fan. She goes by the name of Tsubaki, and is very skilled at figure photography.
For the uninformed, figures usually involve small statue like replications of anime characters. They're known to be collected by fans and otaku. While it may not seem like it, collecting is a very interesting hobby, as not only do you get to see your collection of favorite characters grow, you meet a lot of exciting people along the way.
Please take a look at the pictures below, and please check out Tsubaki's profile to support her!