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Review: Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact
Chris Baker
Back in June, I wrote a post all about my search for the ideal compact 22 pistol that I could pair with my new Silencerco Sparrow rimfire suppressor. Not particularly satisfied with any of the current production options, I ended up with the now-discontinued and rather obscure S&W Model 2213. I've had some more trigger time with the pistol since writing that post, and it's… okay. Still not quite scratching the compact 22 itch, though.
It turns out that what I was really looking for wasn't officially released for another couple of months: the Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact. When I first heard about this pistol, I wasn't particularly interested. I have handled the full size M&P 22 that came out a couple of years ago, and wasn't very impressed. The trigger isn't very good, and it has that "toy-like" feel that I've complained about in other 22 pistol reviews. Not surprisingly, production of the full size M&P was contracted out to Walther, whose 22 pistols don't have the greatest reputation for being especially robust.
Conversely, the new M&P 22 Compact is being produced in-house by Smith & Wesson, and features a durable aluminum slide. That got my attention. If you've seen many of the previous videos here on the Lounge, you've probably noticed that I'm a big fan of the full size and compact 9mm M&P pistols, so I'm quite at home with the controls and layout of the M&P series. I could really get used to a compact 22 M&P if it's as good as its centerfire cousins. So let's see what we've got…
The Smith & Wesson M&P 22 Compact Out of the Box
Like most .22 LR pistols, the M&P 22 Compact fires from 10-round magazines, two of which are included with the gun. It lacks the interchangeable backstraps of the rest of the double-stack centerfire M&P pistols, but that detail is far less critical on a light recoiling rimfire.
Sights are the bland painted white three-dot variety, but the rear is fully adjustable for elevation and windage, which is always nice to see on a 22. I plan on blacking out the rear dots, and I may replace the front sight with a red fiber optic sight from Dawson Precision. If not, I'll most likely take advantage of the front accessory rail and try equipping it with one of the little Crimson Trace Railmaster lasers because… "pew pew" laser beamz!
The rear sight of the S&W M&P 22 Compact is adjustable for windage and elevation
Speaking of "pew pew", the M&P 22 Compact comes from the factory with a threaded muzzle, covered by a barrel cap. This fact could be easily missed if you weren't looking for it because Smith & Wesson failed to include any mention of the threaded barrel in the owner's manual, nor did they provide the appropriate sized wrench to remove the barrel cap. After much cursing and gnashing of teeth, I eventually managed to wrestle the cap loose by modifying a small wrench that I had from another threaded pistol.
You might notice that I didn't include any closeup photos of the barrel cap, and that's because it's not exactly photogenic after what I had to do to remove it. It has since been replaced with a thread adapter, which is required if you want to attach a suppressor or other muzzle device. I ordered mine from EWK Arms to extend and convert the M&P's 3/8"x24 threads to the standard like 1/2"x28.
The barrel comes from the factory with a 3/8"x24 threaded muzzle.
Interestingly, Smith & Wesson's M&P 22 compact is not the same form factor as the compact centerfire M&Ps. The original compacts share the same dimensions as the full size M&P, only with shorter barrel/slide, and shorter grip. The 22 compact, on the other hand, has the same proportions as the full size, but reduced in size by 15%. The end result is a pistol that's much closer in size and feel to the single stack M&P Shield than to any other M&P offering. At 15.3 ounces, it's a bit lighter than the Shield's 19 ounces, and I actually wish it were a few ounces heavier to aid in keeping the sights steady for those longer shots.
That said, I like the size overall. It's small enough to be usable by people with very small hands, but the grip is long enough for the average person to get all their fingers on board. The 3.56-inch barrel is long enough to provide a decent sight radius, but not too long in proportion to its light weight.
Safeties… Safeties Everywhere!
I'm not sure why rimfire pistols always seem overburdened with unnecessary safety mechanisms, but the M&P 22 compact is no exception. It has an ambidextrous manual thumb safety patterned after the optional thumb safety found on the standard M&P pistols. It's large, easy to use, and unobtrusive, especially if you're used to 1911-style thumb safeties.
That one's not really a problem. The safeties I object to are the magazine disconnect safety and the internal safety "lock" that uses a small key to disable the pistol. I've already expressed my thoughts on the S&W internal revolver lock, and I can't think of any reason it would be any more desirable on a semi-auto. As for the magazine disconnect, I think it actually makes the gun less safe. If I'm going to dry fire the pistol for practice, I don't want a magazine in the gun if at all possible. Requiring the magazine to be present only serves to offer one more opportunity for a round to inadvertently end up in the chamber when it should be empty. But, you know… lawyers and stuff.
The thumb safety resembles the optional thumb safety on the full size and compact centerfire M&P pistols.
M&P 22 Compact at the Range
Okay, lame safety features aside, I still think the M&P 22 Compact is a great little plinker, which was confirmed after taking it to the range. The trigger breaks at about 6 lbs, which is on par with the more recent and much improved centerfire M&P triggers. When handling and shooting the 22 Compact, it just feels like an M&P, despite being a slightly different size than any of the existing pistols in the series. Accuracy wasn't too bad, either. Like I said in the Sig P938-22 review, these lightweight compact .22 LR pistols aren't a replacement for the more traditional target pistols, but for what its worth, I didn't have any trouble shooting inch-sized groups at 20 yards using match grade ammo and a bench rest.
When using the M&P 22 Compact as a self-defense training tool, my one complaint is the slide lock lever. Lefties will notice right away that it's not ambidextrous like the original M&P pistols, but even as a right-handed user, I didn't find it especially useful for reloads. The slide lock levers on my other M&P pistols were stiff at first, but they all loosened up after the first couple of hundred rounds. The lever on the 22 Compact is every bit as immovable as it was out of the box — at this point I can't even force it down after slide lock without getting multiple fingers involved. I guess that's just one more point for advocates of the "power stroke" reload method.
Realistically, I'm less likely to use the M&P 22 Compact as a serious training tool for myself but more likely as a fun range gun and something for new shooters to start on. That means it will most often be equipped with a suppressor which seems right at home on the M&P 22 Compact. With the Silencerco Sparrow, it sounds at least as quiet as any full-sized rimfire suppressor host I can recall. I also discovered that, at least with the loads I tried, the short barrel doesn't give high velocity 22 ammo enough room to get the bullets up to supersonic speed, meaning that most factory ammo should stay quiet and subsonic for suppressor users.
With .22 LR still being in limited supply, I didn't fire a dozen bricks of ammo through the little M&P for the review like I would have wanted. I did, however, manage to salvage a couple of boxes from our warehouse's damaged-box reject inventory. I fired about 300 rounds of CCI Mini-Mags (after sorting through the shattered remnants of the little plastic CCI boxes looking for the rounds that weren't smashed beyond recognition) followed by a few magazines worth of Federal Champion Bulk Pack lead round nose and some Eley Subsonic Hollowpoints.
Field stripping the M&P 22 Compact is quick and easy.
Then, dipping into the supply of target-grade 22 I have squirreled away for reviews, I also tried a box each of Federal Gold Medal Ultramatch and Wolf Match Target for accuracy, both with the excellent results I mentioned earlier. With nothing more than a couple of drops of lube added to the slide rails, the M&P 22 Compact ran through more than 500 rounds right out of the box without a single malfunction to speak of — no small feat for the typical .22LR handgun.
If all this talk of 22 ammo has you jealous, Smith and Wesson is coming to the rescue. For the next couple of months, when you buy an M&P 22 Compact, you can send them your receipt and you'll get a free 222 round box of Winchester plinking ammo to go with it. But after you burn through that and need to re-stock, just don't forget who gave you the heads up.
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Spot ethanol prices traded lower in Chicago and northern California Tuesday, tracking falling corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade. Trade volume was thin, a source said.
In cash trade, prompt delivered ethanol at the Argo supply hub in the Chicago market traded at $1.39 per gallon and was talked at a $1.37 to $1.385 bid/ask spread, down 2.0 cents. Chicago ethanol under Rule 11 for this week shipment traded at $1.37 per gallon for a 2.0 cents loss. Northern California this week delivered ethanol traded at $1.53 per gallon, down 5.0 cents.


To visit The Elms is to catch a glimpse of life in New Zealand in the early days of European settlement. The fine, late-Georgian Mission House was started in 1838 as the home of Rev A N Brown of the Church Missionary Society, and was occupied continuously until 1991 by descendents of Archdeacon Brown's second wife. The library, constructed in 1839 the oldest free-standing library in the country, still has most of the original books. Items of furniture brought from England in 1829 include an oval table around which British officers dined on the eve of the battle of Gate Pa.


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I was down for a circle line SMRT makan session with Dr Leslie Tay, author of ieatishootipost.com with 19 other participants. All of us head down to Spice Perankan which is about 5 to 7 minutes walk from Buona Vista MRT station.
When I first entered their restaurant, I was pretty taken aback by their modern furnishings that spells out "western" rather than "asian". It looks no different from a western dining place. You wouldn't have known that this restaurant here actually serve traditional peranakan food. Though there are some signs of items that speaks of the past about the history of peranakans. There's definitely a stark contrast in the decor. Did you see the traditional costume of the nyonyas framed up on the wall?
Dr Leslie Tay with Lady boss of Spice Peranakan.Dr Leslie Tay also shared with us some food photography and his experience in blogging which I find it really useful and inspiring. I think, I really have a long way to go in this blogging journey.
This is one of the outstanding dish served in this restaurant. The onions, according to the boss, was caramelised with Kecap Manis for almost 4 hours long! The ayam goreng was fried to almost perfection: crunchy and light, not too greasy at all. And the sweet cameralised onion sauce gives it that final kick.
(or sardines) has a nice crunch to it. After, it's mainly bones, which is high in calcium.
It's not too sweet and light but has an adequate aroma and taste of the coconut.
This is really spicy! I love spicy food but this is quite a challenge. It must be the chili padi.
This is one dish that has that "homely" or "mum's cooking" taste to it. It's not too spicy as compared to the fish curry, goes well on your tongue.
(Payaya and dried Shrimp)This is my first time trying the Papaya Titek. But I must warn you first. This soup must be serve hot because when it's cold, the sourness of the soup is pretty overpowering and uncomfortable on the tastebuds.


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The Horrors - The Roundhouse, London - 12/10/11
Written by: joe daniels
"As a fan and a critic: I like the first album, I hadn't written it off. So, please play some songs off it..."
Having seen The Horrors for the umpteenth time this Summer, any formal review – judging them on the basis of their live capabilities – seems pointless. I have already reviewed them not once but twice on this site in the last few months, and so I shall spare readers from any dredged-out response about how the evening went. For those interested in their performance on this particular occasion: they were great. They played their songs with the usual ferocity, 'Sea Within A Sea' and 'Moving Further Away' slayed the audience (as they are wont to do), and Faris again proved that he gets a little better at singing every time he steps up to the microphone.
Beyond that though, there is nothing more to say on the specifics of the performance; it was essentially a carbon copy of the two times I've seen them before this year, both gigs I reviewed emphatically. Instead, here are three reflections on their live prowess, as they've occurred to me over the past while.
Firstly, as I've already said, Faris is becoming a better singer, but beyond this, he is becoming a better a frontman. The band will be rattling through one of their songs, 'Mirror's Image' or 'Monica Gems' – something with some serious bite – and out of nowhere, he will unleash a fierce shriek. It's a strange sound that, given the band's undeniably affected appearance, comes as a complete shock and imbues the performance with even more pep. It's an observation compounded with each gig, as Faris's caterwaul becomes even more unforgiving.
Secondly, and feeding on from 'Firstly…' both numerically and thematically, the wonderful squawking would benefit renditions of the much-overlooked first album. It's an album they are trying to get away from, and it's not hard to understand why: it smashed them onto the scene, with the pre-packaged gothic-cum-romantic aesthetic in tow, and it condensed them into a nice marketable size. Just the right size, in fact, to be swallowed whole by the hype machine. So much has been made of how Primary Colours marked a profound departure for the band, and instilled a sense of 'don't-write-'em-off-yet' in fans and critics. But as a fan and a critic: I like the first album, I hadn't written it off. So, please play some songs off it.
Thirdly, and finally, this gig cements their ability to play to biggish crowds. They should now add some sense of spectacle. The trippy-ness of both Primary Colours and Skying would benefit some serious psychedelic backdrop work. They seem okay borrowing from the musical handbook of My Bloody Valentine, why not the visual one?
So there you have it. A cop-out of a review, but three thoughts on The Horrors and their ever-impressive live shows.
Listen To: The Horrors - 'Higher' (Remix Album)
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Q: How to get the authenticated user avatar in the header blade? in profile page a user has an option to choose an avatar picture, and in the header.blade.php I want  to check if the user has chosen an avatar ,if yes, then display the avatar picture next to the user name.
now in profile.blade.php I can show the chosen avatar with this line of code
<img style="border-radius: 50%;" src="{{url('/')}}/Uploads/avatars/{{$myAvatar->image}}" height="60px;" width="60px;" alt="" id="avatar-preload" name="avatar-preload">

in profile controller i have index function which passes $myAvatar to profile.blade.php
public function index()
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    $user= User::where('id', Auth::user()->id)->first();
    $myAvatar = Avatar::find($user->avatar_id);
    return view('admin.profile.index')
           ->with('avatars', Avatar::all())
           ->with('myAvatar',$myAvatar);
}

I want to apply the same logic to bring the avatar picture to header.blade.php but I dont have a controller to send data to the the header blade through it, how can I do that?
Every user now has an avatar_id which refers to the id of the chosen avatar in the avatar table

A: Create A Model Relationship
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Then Call Like This
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A: In your User model you could define a relationship with Avatar
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Then in your blade, you could use Auth::user()->avatar anywhere you want.

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In the same way that medicine seeks to heal bodily sickness, Peter and Paul in their day sought to bring healing to the souls of men. But unlike the progression of medicine over two millennia, much of preaching today has regressed.
The preaching of Peter and Paul was based on an accurate spiritual diagnosis and the offer of a sure cure. Sadly, much preaching today evades the basic sickness of the soul.
Those early apostles confronted their hearers with the fact of sin, its enormity, its wages and its cure. They preached sin, judgment, repentance and forgiveness through the atoning work and shed blood of Christ, and they saw results. They used the power available then, and now—the power of the Holy Spirit, the Scriptures and prayer. How much preaching today is dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit to make it effective, the power of the Scriptures as the Sword of the Spirit, and the power of prayer?
• The enormity of the crucifixion was stressed. Evil men killed the Son of God even as they asked for a murderer's release. The good and righteous One was rejected in favor of a common criminal.
• The vindication of Jesus Christ and His work, by the resurrection, meant salvation and hope.
• In early preaching, mercy and warning were combined. To hear the Gospel was and is a great privilege, but it always carries with it a terrible responsibility.
• Repentance must follow the knowledge of the guilt of sin. And this repentance had consequences: The past sins were wiped out. And with the remission of sins the entire future was affected. Instead of despair, there was hope; instead of weakness and futility, God-given power to overcome; instead of endless striving, rest and peace.
How much preaching on sin and repentance do we hear today? How really smart is a "sophistication" that denies or evades the reality of sin, with its sure judgment, and substitutes a different "gospel"?
I am convinced that if the chaos that exists in modern theological education existed instead in medical education, the health of the world would be imperiled.
Modern physicians are trained in the basic sciences and taught how to use the latest advances in every field of medicine and surgery.
Modern preachers (with some wonderful exceptions) are being trained away from the simplicity of the Gospel, while the "basic science" of their calling—a heart and head knowledge of the Bible—is woefully neglected.
Tragically, many come to regard Scripture as a "bent sword" and turn from it to fields of secondary importance. Meanwhile, the souls of men continue their death march to a Christless eternity.
ADAPTED FROM WHILE MEN SLEPT: A CONCERNED LAYMAN'S VIEW OF THE CHURCH TODAY DOUBLEDAY 1970), BY L. NELSON BELL (1894-1973) WITH REPRINT PERMISSION FROM EAST GATES MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL.


With the initiative of Brian McCallum, director of galleries and art instructor, and the support of Dr. Bruce Exstrom, vice president of instructional services, Garden City Community College has renewed the Sandhills Purchase Award. The award, last granted in 2007, allows GCCC to support local art and purchase a work of art for the college's permanent collection.
The Sandhills Art Association sponsored its annual art show and juried exhibition at the GCCC Mercer Gallery in October. This is the second consecutive year for the college to host the event.
College faculty and students were given the opportunity to voice their opinions and selected Robin Valenzuela's painting "Shift of Season." Valenzuela is a native and current resident of Garden City and has been working in acrylics and oil pastels since 2006. Most of her pieces, like the one chosen, are vibrant and full of energy.
Valenzuela's work has been shown in local galleries and art shows, as well as art festivals in surrounding states. She is mostly a self-taught artist but says she has been influenced by art instructors and creative family members her entire life.


I am again taking a slightly different approach to the Thursday Doors theme. For one thing, it's not Thursday . . . but these are still doors. They just aren't doors that humans can literally walk through. They are doors to the imagination: doors to books!
To promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide and to build a sense of community as we share skills, creativity and wisdom across generations.
There are now over 40,000 of them worldwide, and they've had a Twitter account since 2011.
I vaguely knew about them when I lived in the Boston area, but I can't remember if I'd ever seen one. I certainly didn't know about any close by. Then I moved to California.
My first weekend here, I went to the UU Church of Palo Alto, and I saw the LfL pictured above. I posted it on Facebook with the caption, "Gotta love a church with a Little Free Library." That church lives its love of literacy in other ways too, with reading groups and a thriving bookstore.
And if I look around just a little bit, I find that they're all over the place. There are 5 registered in the Mountain View zip code alone. And every now and then, an LfL has a geocache too. I think that geocaching and Little Free Libraries are kind of spiritual cousins. They're both free, shared community activities where enthusiasts leave objects for others to find, to return, to exchange, and enjoy. I left a few copies of Geocaching GPS in some local LfL earlier this year. You can even track their journeys like geocaching trackables using BookCrossing.com.
Some day, I hope soon, I am planning to put up an LfL with a geocache and a supply of geocaching-themed books, as well as others. Until then, I will keep visiting the others in the area.
These free little libraries are popping up all over the place where I live in Lancaster, Karen. I went around to the ones downtown and put a signed copy of "Six Sisters" in each. About a month later, my friend and I were having lunch and she brought a copy of "Six Sisters" along for me to sign and while she was waiting for me to arrive, the waitress said, "Oh, I"m reading that book right now." I'm pretty sure that she got it from the FLL because all the marketing I was doing was pretty much homegrown, FB, word of mouth, etc. Maybe you should spread a couple copies of "Geocaching GPS" around town!
Yes! The LFL pictured is not a geocache, but I put 4 copies into local LFLs that are also geocaches. Two of them have been logged on book crossing.
Just came across one of these little libraries here in Coupeville, Washington. Great concept…and those little doors are indeed a great gateway to something much larger.
There's much in your comment "They're both free, shared community activities where enthusiasts leave objects for others to find, to return, to exchange, and enjoy." Most of all it points to a sense of a community within a particular geographical area is not a given (as those who oppose these little libraries attest to), but rather must be nurtured and facilitated.
I think that's a modern problem, but an important one that a lot of us who grew up before online communities were a thing may not have expected. Nowadays it's more of a given that communities form on the basis of choice and shared interests than geography. It's very important to nurture them regardless. Thanks for your comment!
if we ignore our geographical communities at the expense of on-line communities, there is a price to be paid…akin to losing our sense of place, where we should be rooted.
I'd love to have one of these in our yard. Do you know if you have to pay for them?
Love this – "doors to books!" Great post, Karen.
I've seen pictures of so many different kinds, yet I've never seen on around here. Been in a couple restaurants, however, that have bookshelves for doing the same thing. And I understand they're quite popular in Britain.
This is such a wonderful idea, it warms my heart every time I see one of these.
We have one of these at our favorite hiking spot. We dropped off several books last time, and may soon borrow one. There's a sign requesting kids books especially, but, man! Li'l D does not want to part with even books he hasn't touched for years.
The thought folks would favor their aesthetic preferences over increased access to literacy is … argh.


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Institute for Studies of the Recent Past
Independent research institution located in Bulgaria
Category: Projects
Through the years of its existence the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past has initiated and implemented numerous projects and activities. With different scope and dimension they all try to provoke the institutional, educational social and individual capacity to know and understand the communist past.
Dissident Cultural Movements in the Eastern Block
Project "EUnderground" wants to bring the history closer to young citizens with a very unique topic which has received less attention so far. The project reveals a hidden and less accessible cultural heritage of former socialist countries: the field of underground cultural movements in Eastern- and Central-Europe between 1948-89. The project's scientific, cultural and non-formal educational activities about counterculture helps significantly the acquaintance of the era, which creates a better understanding the importance of free speech and civil dialogue in a democracy. We show different forms of cultural protesting against the repression of the freedom of thought and conscience through censorship, and accent the contrast between the dictatorship of the party state and the democratic system of the EU nowadays.
Intercultural Student-Journal Workshops
We would like to organize creative workshops for European students (under 20) about the cultural censorship in the communist past. A guest speaker (historian) from a partner country will visit a school in another partner country and will deliver lectures about the life of artists under communism of his/her own country. With the help of the foreigner teachers the students will learn how the totalitarian propaganda was worked, and what happened if somebody had "different thinking" in the field of literature, painting, music or any other type of arts. At the end of the workshops the young participants from all countries have to make together a "samizdat" newspaper with old photos about a specific event from the past like rock concerts, underground cultural gatherings or alternative artworks. With this censorship-circumventing journal, they have to explain the truth against the totalitarian propaganda. We will translate the student articles to every partner's language and publish it.
European Traveling Exhibition
It will be a traveling exhibition about the underground cultural movements in the Eastern Block countries. We would like to display the tragic fates of artists who were exiled from the "official" communist culture because of their political views, artistic styles or their subjects. We try to show a wide variety of culture and art forms. We will use the case-studies from the Knowledge-Center and we will introduce around 3 artists/groups per countries (18 together). We want to tell their stories mainly with innovative visual and iconographical elements. The location of the exhibitions will be held in unconventional places, like main walking streets, squares, shopping malls, or busy public places. With this method we can reach much more quantity of visitors and more diverse target groups. The national opening ceremonies will include performances and talks with the artists too.
Censorship Festival
It will be a one day long cross-national cultural festival to remembering the victims of the totalitarian censorship. With this festival we would like to commemorate to the oppressed artists and the cultural opposition movements from the Soviet Block. Our main aim with the festival is to get the attention of the young generations and with cultural examples from the past, explain the democratic EU values nowadays. The programme of the festival: art performances from underground and dissent artists from the former socialist countries, concerts, opening ceremony of the traveling exhibition, displaying the student samizdat-journals from the workshops, public readings, interactive debates with the witnesses, exhibitions, film projections, etc. Location: Budapest, Hungary.
Transnational Knowledge Center
We would like to develop a crowd-sourcing online community surface. Here will be loaded up all of the project related educational and scientific materials. At the beginning it will contain 30 case-studies with multimedia elements (interactive maps, images, films) about the life of oppressed artists or illicit groups. After the end of the project we would like to expand continually the center with new contents from other European countries.
Organizer: Laterna Magica (Hungary)
European partners:
SAN- Social Sciences University (Poland)
University of Bucharest (Romania)
Art Kontakt (Albania)
Educentrum (Czech Republic)
Institute for Studies of the Recent Past (Bulgaria)
Full data on implemented activities can viewed in the attached document.
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Images from Persin, Belene – Drawings from a Communist Labour Camp
The immediate aim of the project is by using the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the accompanying public interest to process and present as a traveling exhibition under the auspices of the Bulgarian President an unique collection of original and first-hand testimonies about the communist totalitarianism and its victims to different social mediators and communities, especially to engage and provoke younger people who does not have direct experience of the communist past.
Period: 2014
The vivid and realistic imagery of the drawings made by Petar Baychev during his detention on the Belene Island from 1950 to 1954 has a huge potential to revitalize discussions and remembrance about the communist regime and its impact on Bulgarian society.
Through the project ISRP also intends to catalogue, classify, digitize, describe and analytically communicate in series of publications these findings, as well as translate the whole corpus in English and prepare its dissemination beyond the national scope.
Author minaloto.orgPosted on 15/05/2014 18/09/2019 Format AsideCategories ProjectsTags repression / resistance
Remembering and understanding communism in Bulgaria
Тhe main challenge before our Institute now is to change the research perspective and direct our attention deeper into the everyday functioning of the regime, to elucidate the social system it created and to observe and understand the specific professional and social groups that communism has "designed" and nourished.
Period: 2013 – 2016
The aim of this project is to go beyond these dividing lines and to explore the period from an independent and methodologically informed academic perspective that guarantees the accumulation and communication of academic knowledge to the wider public.
Most of the nowadays political, economic and social downsides in Bulgarian democratic development are deeply rooted in the decades of communist totalitarian rule. The thorough analysis and profound understanding of the regime-society relations and practices during these times can help decision makers, stake holders and society as a whole to proper identify and deal with these pressing challenges.
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Oral History of Communism in Bulgaria (1944–1989)
a) In-depth interviews with the "inhabitants" of the communist regime and
b) Call for life narratives and authentic diaries from the communist times.
Our general goal is by introducing to the interested audience the private, intimate experience of the people under communism to enrich and broaden the critical historical knowledge and social capacity for moral evaluation of our common recent past.
The project team tries to achieve these through the development of a rich database of people's testimonies from the times of the communist regime in Bulgaria. As it is noted in the proposed project title it will consist of two types of resources: (1) interviews and (2) written life narratives gathered through an open call for recollections and authentic diaries from 1944–1989. These two forms of witnesses have things in common but also presuppose a different level of self-awareness and varying proportion of spontaneity and auto-censorship. Viewed from this perspective they are complementary and provide an additional validation for each other. It is hard to foresee who and how many will answer the call for written life stories. However, in respect to the anthropological survey and according to the financial and human resources the project team can conduct from 150 to 200 in-depth interviews.
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Knowledge and Memory Policies
"Knowledge and Memory Policies: Public (Mis)Use of the Recent Bulgarian Past" is three year research project. Its basic premise is the lack of critical and profound mass of knowledge about the communist period which hinders the independent evaluation of the past.
Implementing partners: National Art Gallery, Paideia Foundation, Political Science Center.
At different stages of the project implementation the Institute will closely cooperate with Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sofia University, other universities, Bulgarian Media Coalition, The Victims of Communism Union.
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Historical Research on the Communist Period
The Institute for Studies of the Recent Past started a common research project with Open Society Institute in Sofia on the communist years in Bulgaria. Researchers are writing on 16 actual topics from the recent past. Outcomes to be announced and published in the following years.
The "Revival Process" (Cultural assimilation of the Muslims in Bulgaria), Alexey Kalionski
Bulgarian Communist Party and its Policy toward Bulgarian Emigration, Boyko Kiryakov
Bulgarian Rural Areas, Mihail Gruev
The Political Regime and the Bulgarian Muslims, Mihail Gruev
State Security, Momchil Metodiev
Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Momchil Metodiev
The Party Nomenclature, Alexander Vezenkov
Governmental and Social Organizations, Alexander Vezenkov
The Foreign Debt of Bulgaria 1944 – 1989, Daniel Vachkov and Martin Ivanov
The Socialistic Reform "during the 80-ies", Martin Ivanov
Currency Policy without Currency, Roumen Avramov
"The Real Socialism". Political and Cultural Analyses, Ivaylo Znepolski
The Cultural Policy during Communism, Ivan Elenkov
The Production of Historical Knowledge during Communism, Ivan Elenkov
Policies for Construction of Cultural Memory, Evelina Kelbecheva
Memory Awakened – Voices from Below
The project aim is to involve people from the countryside (village, small town, medium-sized town), ordinary people in reflecting on their past (life under communism 1944-1989) and put their own stories in the public debate, looking for reasons of silence, non-participation, alienation and melancholy.
The voices from below are voices of people from the periphery of the system, performers of prescribed roles who were trampled or privileged by the system, people who have failed to conceptualise their life experience and are therefore still helpless in the changing times.
The project has three components which are not only mutually complementary but also follow a logic of deeper investigation of the problems in question: oral history, reflective seminars, open competition THIS IS MY PAST.
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As promised Omar Beshir, the master of Sudan's complication exploded expressly on the day of the election his time bomb Abyie the oil rich northern part of Southern Sudan. At least 23 people have been killed in ongoing clashes around the disputed region, an oil-rich area that the British transferred to Sudan in 1905. The 2005 peace agreement called for people in Abyie to vote this week on whether to remain part of the north or return to the south, but that vote has been delayed. In the coming 6 months many bombs of Beshir must be a lot of Deming to be done by the international community before the South to be truly Independence- oil wealth share, boarder demarcations, Abyie , LRA infiltrations, Omar Beshir's arming minority tribesmen in the south …
Clashes have happened for four days between members of the Ngok Dinka ethnic group, which tend to have more in common with the south, and the Misseriya, a nomadic Arabic tribe that comes in and out of the Abyie region and whose sympathies would most likely tilt toward the northern government.
The death toll was at least 23. Thirteen were Misseriya, according to hospital officials in nearby Muglad. Ten were reported dead in Abyie, said John Ajang, secretary general of the Abyie government.
"Clashes have now entered their fourth day between the Abyie government forces and armed militias," Ajang said. "We do not believe that these are mere Misseriya tribesman; we believe that these are Sudanese government-supported militias."
Ajang said witnesses described heavy weaponry inconsistent with the automatic weaponry seen carried by Misseriya tribesmen in the past.
"We believe this is an attempt by the Sudanese government to take Abyie while the governments of south Sudan forces are busy with the referendum," Ajang said.
The 4th day conflict in Abyie is putting at stake the seven-day referendum is the separation of Africa's largest state into two sovereign states. The divisions between the Muslim and Arab-dominated government in the north and the Christian and African tribal populations of the south have been festering since end of colonial rule in 1956. In 1983, those tensions erupted into a 20-year civil war that killed 2.5 million people. As North and South negotiated a peace treaty that would be signed in 2005, Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, began genocide against Muslims in Darfur, a western province of Sudan; he has since been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his crimes there.
The negotiated comprehensive peace agreement of 2005 and set Jan. 9, 2011, as the date of a Southern Sudan referendum to decide the fate of the two-state solution was supposed to include Abyie, but due to the complication created by the genocidal Omar Beshir it has been delayed and conflict just flared.
As this hopeful and historic day unfolded, and counter to most official expectations, the south resisted provocations in the early going–only to see the initial triumph tested by reports of violent clashes in Abyie.
It is a moment of unaccustomed celebration in a trash and rubble covered with red dust under a broad blue sky. But the spirit of the Southern Sudanese people is a mix of jubilation and determination, as they anticipate deliverance in the birth of the world's newest nation. But Omar's time bomb in Abyie the Misseriya and the LRA (Lord's resistance Army of Uganda) already started taking victims. The later recently kidnapped two girls.
In Juba Crowds started to gather outside polling stations in at 3 a.m. on Sunday morning. Barring massive fraud, there is little doubt the south will vote overwhelmingly for secession—the betting at local bars is on whether the vote in favor will be over or under 95 percent. Omar Beshir is working to hard with his gents that the threshold 60 percent of the 3.9 million registered South Sudanese voters participated in the referendum not to pass, so the South will stay under his genocidal shadow of slavery.
Street signs and billboards imprinted with the words "Vote Wisely." It is difficult to find any Southerner who wants to remain part of the existing Sudanese state under Sharia law. But those living under the shadow Beshir as middle man working for him reject the referendum. This is surprising, considering the 55 years of struggle and 2.5 million lives that have been lost fighting for independence.
Over estimated 40,000 refugees known locally as "Returnees" have flooded the south over the past three months to participate in the referendum and build a new life in their new nation was an additional shock to Omar Bashir.
Three months ago, Bashir made the world to believe that the voting would have to be pushed back or delayed indefinitely. International attention had shifted away from Sudan in the aftermath of the peace accords, and "Save Darfur" started to sound like a dusty bumper sticker from 2005. With decreased attention came increased tension between the north and the south. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Sudan was "a ticking time bomb," while then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair declared that "a new mass killing or genocide is most likely to occur in Southern Sudan."But renewed focus on Sudan from the Obama administration, including the appointment of Senator John Kerry as a special negotiator, helped turn the tide.
October 2009, China surprised observers by announcing that it would support the outcome of the voting, making it more difficult for the north to suppress the south without displeasing its largest investor.
On this first day of referendum voting, there were, however, two conflicts exploding the time bomb of Bashir. They occurred in the provinces of Unity State and Abyie in the 48 hours before people went to the polls in order to scare them away. Specifics are slow to travel in Sudan, and even local government officials seemed short on detailed information, but unconfirmed reports from the regions indicate that four people were murdered in Unity State and as many as 30 in Abyie.
Reports of the violence have thus far failed to dampen the hopeful tone of Sunday's voting. But serious hurdles await the fledgling state. A new government will need to be formed, and official independence will not be granted until July 9. This gives the north at least six months to disrupt the transition and derail the secession after the international camera crews depart. And it's anybody's guess whether Monday's clashes portend the coming greater bomb by Omar Bashir.
While President Bashir has earned a reputation as an untrustworthy negotiator, he has said repeatedly that he will accept the results of the referendum. Nonetheless, a contentious issue remains in the fate of the still-contested border state of Abyie. The tribal leaders made it clear that their people's allegiance is with the south, though they are legally barred from participating in the referendum. Their frustration could result in a popular declaration of affiliation with the south at any time, which could in turn provoke an attack. Tribal proxy wars have proved a devastatingly effective tactic for the north in the past, with the town of Abyie entirely destroyed as recently as 2008.
"If the north thinks they could do something and get away with it without dramatic serious implications, they are making the biggest mistake of a lifetime," Senator Kerry official observer of the Referendum.
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Over thirty Mayan languages are spoken today, descendants of a common ancestral language Proto-Mayan, which was spoken in the western highlands of Guatemala as late as 4,000 years ago. The Mayan languages of modern times are as different from one another as European languages are from each other. For example, a Q'anjob'al speaker with only knowledge of his native tongue will not understand K'iche' or Yucatec.
The study of indigenous languages was important for the Spanish settlers in New Spain. Many clergy became proficient in Mayan languages in order to evangelize. They developed orthographies to transcribe the languages with the Latin alphabet. Some Maya learned to write their languages alphabetically from the Catholic missionaries, although the ruling Spanish forcibly ended hieroglyphic writing, which had persisted in northern Yucatán.
In the nation-state era, Spanish became the official language of Mexico and the Central American nations; for the colony of British Honduras, it was English. Speakers of Mayan languages were at a disadvantage as governments grew and extended their functions. In El Salvador, policy eliminated Mayan languages.
The 1990s were years of political change that affected the status of indigenous languages in Mesoamerica. With the Peace Accords of 1996, Guatemala officially recognized twenty-three indigenous languages, although instruction in them remains limited due to restricted resources.
While Spanish continues as the official language of Mexico, Yucatec Maya, the language of close to one million speakers, is taught in bilingual schools, and there is now Mayan-language instruction for primary school teachers at the university level in Yucatán.
In 2012, the Yucatec Maya Summer Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill celebrated its twentieth anniversary year.


The following article, written John Baltzer (prior to marriage and taking the name of Kintree), was published in the October 1988 issue of "A Plea for Sanity," the monthly newsletter of the St. Louis chapter of Clergy and Laity Concerned.
By the way, the price/performance of computers has improved by a factor of tens of thousands in the 28 years since this article was written.
We love because God first loved us. That is trying to say something which goes beyond our ability express in words. It has also been said that love isn't taught, it's caught. That's something like "caring is sharing."
More than twenty people gathered at the Salvation Army office at noon, October 11 for the presentation and discussion, "From the Information Age to the Age of Peace." Some brought their own lunch, and some came without food. By a show of hands we learned that some who had no food did want to eat. We had a maldistribution of resources.
After several suggestions, we reached consensus that those who had food would place it on a table, and anyone who wanted could help themselves to that food. At the end of the program, there was still food on the table. We had more than enough to meet our needs.
In a manner of speaking, they are a way to put all of the world's food on the table. They are a way for us to "see" all of the world's resources, and to communicate with other people to find a way to "make the world work for 100% of humanity...without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
A complete computer system with a modem and a printer can be purchased today for about $1,000. Significant reductions in cost are still possible. We could purchase 500 million computers, that would be one computer for every 10 people in the world, for as little as $500 billion. That's about half of what the nations of the world spend for military purposes in one year.
Of course, there would be additional expenses for the installation and training in the use of these computers and communications systems. This would be a good job for the armies to do, and they could leave their guns behind while they do it.
There will be no need for weapons because we will only install the computers in the villages and communities which want them. We will respect the right of self-determination of those who might not want to have anything to do with that kind of technology. It would probably be a good idea to include training in human relations for the workers who will be installing these systems.
I'm not joking. This is a serious proposal, even if it sounds funny.
The hilarious thing is that it's possible. The technology is the easy part. Natural language front-ends have already been written that allow computer users to extract information using conversational English rather than a programming language.
Incompatibilities between different kinds of computers (IBM vs. Apple, and micro vs. mainframe) are being eliminated. Digital transmission and fiber optic cables are being installed which will allow the integration of millions of computers into a global whole. These computers can not only store and transmit statistical information, they can also store music and art, all of which will be available at terminals anywhere in the world.
What will we do with this technology? This is the difficult part.
Hopefully, we will come to know what the seers and the mystics all through the ages have known, that we are One; that there is an interconnectedness to all life; that there is a home. There is a place which has been prepared for us, from the beginning it has been prepared for us.
Yes, the lesson is learned not so much by technology, but by the way the technology is used. It is learned by the love we share with each other.
It is for this that Jesus prayed the night on which he was betrayed, just hours before he was crucified. He knew it, and that more than words are required to communicate it.
All praise be unto God!


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Q: partial page not rendering css class correctly I have created .css classes to create circles of different colors.  If I use the css class in one file it works as expected.  However when I try to use it in an angular partial page it does not render correctly?
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Here is css class for red circles
  .red-circle {
  margin: 40px auto 0;
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  border-radius: 100%;
  border: 1px solid #c92c09;
}.red-circle:before, .red-circle:after {
  content: '';
  width: 15px;
  height: 30px;
}.red-circle:before {
  float: left;
  border-top-left-radius: 15px;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 15px;
  background: #c92c09;
}.red-circle:after {
  float: right;
  border-top-right-radius: 15px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 15px;
  background: #c92c09;
}

And here is how it is being used in the correct html page
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/circles.css" type="text/css" />

and here is the html that displays incorrectly

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/circles.css" type="text/css" />

A: Just add positionand top and remove floats, instead use rightand left
CSS
.red-circle {
  margin: 40px auto 0;
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  border-radius: 100%;
  border: 1px solid #c92c09;
  position: relative;
}

.red-circle:before,
.red-circle:after {
  top: 0;
  position: absolute;
  content: '';
  width: 15px;
  height: 30px;
}

.red-circle:before {
  left: 0;
  border-top-left-radius: 15px;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 15px;
  background: #c92c09;
}

.red-circle:after {
  right: 0;
  border-top-right-radius: 15px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 15px;
  background: #c92c09;
}

.container {
  display: inline-block;
}

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You will find, once you are doing you research, whether you have a cyst or not, that cysts usually grow in places where you will have a lot of pain, like in your ovaries.
This is a very expensive procedure and you can be stuck in bed for a good few weeks. The alternative way is to prevent them from coming in the first place and by finding a good cyst cure. These are not always easy to find, but one of the main reasons for a cyst is due to the body not filtering out toxins.
If this happens you will usually need to get the excess tissue surgically removed. Instead of going through all this worry, you should try to find a good cyst cure. Scientists have been working on a number of cures and some products are used for treating them already. Unfortunately there are only a handful that actually work at curing the cysts so that they never ever come back again.
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Fresh pizza is one of my favorite things, but it takes forever to make and rise. Not anymore. I was recently out of yeast, but I really wanted fresh pizza. Enter greek yogurt and self rising flour. Two ingredients, and no rising time. The rumors are true. Fresh pizza crust is so good, you don't need any fancy toppings or sauce. Try pesto and mozzarella, or marinara and mozzarella. Or skip the sauce, and put some feta and olives. I could keep going.
That's it. Really. You may have to adjust the flour and yogurt a bit- pizza crust isn't an exact science. The original recipe called for flour and yogurt in a 1:1 ratio, but that was way too soft. You should be able to easily pick it up and knead it. Knead it until it's nice and smooth, not tacky at all.
Once it's ready, you don't need to let it rise, but it can sit, covered, for up to 24 hours. Once you're ready to bake it, preheat the oven to 400 F, and roll it out. I like to make pizza really thin, because thick pizza crust takes a much longer time, which can really dry out the crust.
Bake it with no toppings or sauce for 10 minutes, then spread on the sauce, and add whatever cheese or toppings you'd like. I made a 5 minute tomato sauce- just garlic, tomato sauce, sugar, salt, and basil, and then topped it with fresh mozzarella. If you're worried about the mozzarella making the pizza watery, let it sit out, uncovered, and dry out for 30 minutes, or dab the mozzarella with a paper towel. Bake it for 5 minutes, or until the cheese is bubbly!


The latest wave of Muppets figures has started to show up at Electronic Boutique stores, and will be at Toys R Us stores any time. Unfortunately, you won't find this wave at Target, but perhaps they'll come to their sense by the Fall reset. We can always hope!
My thesaurus is completely worn out looking for words to describe this line on an on going basis. Palisades continues to do work unlike any other company, especially with animated lines. With Ren and Stimpy, Fairly Odd Parents, Pink Panther and Invader Zim coming out this year, they'll cement their position as THE company to handle any sort of cartoon property.
This wave consists of Johnny Fiama, the Italian singer from Muppets Tonight (actually three versions of him, each a repaint of the other), Beauregard, the lovable stagehand from the Muppet Show, Kermit as Captain Smollet from Muppet Treasure Island, and Frog Scout Robin, Kermit's nephew from the Muppet Show. They retail for $9 - $10, depending on the retailer. I suspect we'll see them very soon at the Musicland family of stores, and I have some other on-line options for you at the end of the review.
If you've been paying attention, the clamshell packaging will be no surprise. It looks good, shows off the figures and accessories nicely, has great text on the back, and excellent graphics. I do notice on mine that the sticker on the front of the bubble appears washed out.
As you'd expect, the sculpting is once again amazing. I've noticed that 'amazing' is a word that gets over used with this line, but it's hard to find a better word to describe the ultra attention to detail.
I knocked Beau a little because his figure isn't quite the same level of detail and perfection as the others. The skin texture, especially on the head, didn't come out quite as perfect as the others, and the facial expression doesn't do too much for me. But even he is playing in a whole different ball park than other lines by other companies.
Now lets talk about the rest of this line. Robin has an amazing expression, happy and innocent, with excellent work on the uniform and overall body sculpt. He stands great on his own, doesn't look like he'll have weak leg issues, and has proper hand sculpts to hold some of his accessories.
I hadn't expected to like Johnny a whole lot. I'm not a big Muppets Tonight fan, and this character never did much for me. But in the hands of the right artists, this figure leaps off the shelf.
First there's his expression. With the tilted eyebrow, half open mouth, and lidded eyes, he has the perfect smarmy expression for just about any pose.
The body is sculpted and articulated for most basic standing poses, and the hand sculpts fit the character perfectly. And the microphone fits the right hand just as perfectly. For a character I wasn't really looking forward to, he quickly leaped to the front of the line.
Then there's Smollet. This is Kermit in his outfit from Muppet Treasure Island, and while there are a couple minor issues, it's clear that Bill Mancuso is the man when it comes to sculpting Kermits. Just like Adventure Kermit, he's managed to capture the essence of frog in plastic form. Every detail is included in his outfit, right down to the button fly. The kind of fly in his pants, not one he would eat.
I do have a couple issues with him, as I mentioned. The sculpt and articulation don't work quite as well together as I'd hoped, and the hair and hat don't fit together quite as neatly has they have on previous figures. But overall he's still an amazing looking sculpt.
The scale across these figures seems fairly accurate to me, and Robin fits in nicely with the other small figures. Beauregard is close to Fozzie in size, and Kermit matches up with the other Kermits.
I looked over two complete sets of these figures, including all the Johnny repaints, and couldn't find a single major problem. There were a couple minor ones - a rub mark here, a slightly fuzzy line between colors there. But in general, it is one of the best paint jobs I've seen on a Muppet series so far.
The two figures with the greatest amount of complicated work are Smollet and Johnny. Both have excellent small details, great color separation and consistency, and clean lines.
It's worth talking about the Johnny repaints here. There are three Johnny figures, all identical except for minor variations on the accessories, and very different paint ops. All the accessories are a different color, even the basic stool. Johnny comes painted in three outfits - pinstripe suit, 'wedding singer' suit, and a one color suit that looks like silk. The sculpt works great with all three paint schemes, and they've included important details, like ties and pocket squares that match the style of the suit.
It's not likely that anyone, other than us completist psychos, require all three Johnny's. But everyone is going to probably have a different favorite, and having three like this gives you the buyer the opportunity to pick up the one that floats his or her boat.
For me, the wedding singer, tux style paint scheme works the best. It looks the most like a lounge singer to me, and the color combination stands out great with the green skin color.
The articulation varies across this series, with Smollet and Johnny having the most at 16 points.
Johnny really shines in this category due to the ball jointed neck. This single detail gives him a tremendous number of posing possibilities, and combined with the ball jointed shoulders, cut biceps, elbows, wrists, hips waist and knees, there's not much you can't do with him. Okay, you can't have him sit on his stool, but that was never the intention.
Smollet sports the same level of articulation: neck, ball jointed shoulders, cut biceps, elbows, wrists, waist, ball jointed hips, and knees. I had a little more trouble getting him to stand than I expected - the center of gravity was a little off - but he does have the most articulation of any regular release Kermit.
Then there's Beauregard and Robin. They have fewer points, mostly due to the basic design of the characters. Robin has neck, ball jointed shoulders, cut arms at the sleeves, cut legs at the shorts, and waist. Beau has a ball jointed neck (although with less range of movement than Johnny), ball jointed shoulders, cut biceps, elbows, wrists, waist, and hips. The most important pose - with the broom or mop - is easy to produce, and he stands great on his own. I did notice a little gapping at the hip joints on some of the Beau's in the case, but it wasn't terrible.
It seems like Palisades out does themselves every time in this category. The quality and variety of the accessories is really amazing. There's that word again!
Lets start with Beauregard this time. He has his hat, with a decent magnet to hold it on his head. There's also a broom and mop, either of which he can hold in his hands in a proper pose. Then there's the mop bucket with ringer - the ringer actually moves realistically, fits on one end of the bucket and can be removed, and the bucket has a metal handle and rolling wheels!
Next up is Robin. He has a huge trunk, that even he can fit in, with a set of neat stickers to apply to the outside. These stickers fit the overall 'camp' theme perfectly. He also has a campfire, backpack that fits nicely on his back, Frog Scout handbook that opens and fits inside the backpack, package of Trail Mix, and best of all, a stick with half toasted marshmellows.
Smollet has the fewest accessories, but also the only one that has an accessory that counts as another figure in itself. He comes with Polly Lobster, who is scaled fairly well, with an excellent sculpt and paint application, and even one point of articulation at the neck. He also has a sword and scabbard, and a hat. The hat doesn't fit on the head quite as well as I'd expected, but the magnet is nice and strong. The sword and scabbard look great, and there's a peg on the front of his costume to hold the scabbard, but I couldn't get my sword to fit all the way inside. I suspect there's some left over spru or plastic inside the scabbard that's blocking it.
Finally, there's the Johnny triplets. They each come with a microphone, stool, record and sleeve, and photo in a frame. The microphone, stool and frame are all painted slightly different colors, while the photos are all different - Sal, Johnny and Johnny's mom - and the album sleeves are all for different albums. The only accessory that's identical between the three figures is the album itself.
Do you need three Johnny's? No, probably not, but if you are buying them, they've at least taken the time to change up the accessories enough to make it interesting.
This is slightly qualified four stars - if your kids love Muppets, they'll love these figures. They have everything a kid could want, including great sculpts, articulation and accessories.
At about $9, or $10 SRP, these aren't a penny pinchers dream. But they are a solid value, at a solid price point. I felt no pangs in my wallet when I paid for the full set.
I also want to point out that people better appreciate what they are getting for ten bucks, because with the continued decline in the number of retailers, the prices for high quality specialty figures like this have only one direction to go. Either the prices will rise, or the figures from companies like Palisades, Mezco and NECA are going to have to change in quality.
There are two sure signs that a set of action features are stupendous - one, I can't wait to write the review, and two, it's simply not possible to take a bad photo of them. This set of Muppets fulfilled both requirements.
Not everyone is going to want all three Johnny's, and since two are repaints, they technically get a half star less each. The problem is, which ones are the two you don't need? That's going to depend on which Johnny you prefer, and that's the one that gets four stars.
Let's just keep our fingers crossed that we see this line last at this level of quality and diversity for another 7 waves!
- Southern Island has the set of four available for $40.
- Killer Toys has the set of four for $37, or the set of six for $54.95.
- Electronics Boutique has some of them available as individual figures for $9 each.


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Q: How should I persist validation info from validation page to upload/import page? I am developing a spreadsheet uploader tool which creates/updates contacts, which will be added as a new option to my website.
The spreadsheet has the following columns:

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*Full Name

*Job Title

*Salutation

*Qualifications

*Company Name

*Address Line 1

*Address Line 2

*Address Line 3

The database table structure is as below:
Contact(contact_id INT PK IDENTITY(1,1), fullname VARCHAR(30), jobtitle VARCHAR(100), salutation VARCHAR(100), qualifications VARCHAR(100), companyname VARCHAR(100) , address1 VARCHAR(100), address2 VARCHAR(100), address3 VARCHAR(100))

The rules are:
1. The Full name must contain at least one space (leading and/or trailing spaces will be trimmed).
2. Total length of the full name must not exceed 30 characters (including any space(s)).
3. 'Full Name' is the key field to identify an existing contact in the system. As such, raise a validation error if this field is
blank.
4. If a match is found on the 'Full Name', then the other fields of the contact will be updated with the values populated in the
spreadsheet.
5. If a match is not found on the key field, then create a new contact with the details.
6. When creating/updating a contact a value must be populated in at least one other column (in addition to the 'Full Name'), otherwise
raise a validation error.

The process:
There are two phases called 'Validation Phase' and 'Actual Upload' phase.
- When the spreadsheet is uploaded the spreadsheet has to be validated as per the rules above and display the validation/status messages (on screen):
For example:
Row 1 is the header row so it will not be validated.
Row 2: Error - Full Name cannot be empty
Row 3: OK - A contact will be created
Row 4: OK - Contact will be updated
Row 5: Error - Full Name must contain at least one space
Row 6: Error - At least one other column must be populated in addition to the 'Full Name'

The user will have two options here:

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*Cancel - Then the upload will not be proceeded any further (so the user will have a choice to correct the rows as per validation messages then re-upload it).

*Continue - Then the upload will move to 'Actual Upload' phase and the contacts will either be created or updated (if there are no validation errors as per the rules above).
Also, the validation/status message (similar to the messages in validation phase) should be displayed on screen after the successful upload.

I have managed to work out everything I had illustrated above, but I had to re-validate each row in 'Actual Upload' phase (i.e. I'm doing the same checks twice).
My question is, is there a way to preserve the results from the validation phase so I don't have to re-validate each record in the second phase?
I'm develioping this using the NativeExcel libraries on .NET Framework (Version 4.0.30319.34209) using VB.NET/ASP.NET (and No VISUAL STUDIO).
Please note all the code will be written in the code-behind page using VB.NET (I have no choice here, sorry).
Any suggestions/help will be much appreciated.

A: Save the validation status messages as a List(Of String) and then make that a session variable so that you can use it as a prompt during the upload phase.

A: To read the Excel file:
right-click References>COM>Office xx.x Object Application
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application exlApp = new     Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook exlWb = exlApp.Workbooks.Open(@"C:\Users\user\Excelfile.xls");
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet exlWs = exlWb.Sheets["Sheet1"];
        int col = Convert.ToInt32(usedRange.Columns.Count);
        int row = Convert.ToInt32(usedRange.Rows.Count);
        exlApp.Visible = true;
        string[,] cellValue = new string[row + 1, col + 1];
        for (int j = 1; j <= row - 1; j++)
        {
            for (int k = 1; k <= col - 1; k++)
            {
                cellValue[j, k] = exlWs.Cells[j, k + 1].ToString();
            }
         }
        exlWb.Close();
        exlWs = null;
        exlWb = null;
        exlApp.Quit();
        exlApp = null;


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Mangge is een bestuurslaag in het regentschap Bima van de provincie West-Nusa Tenggara, Indonesië. Mangge telt 1348 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).

Plaats in West-Nusa Tenggara

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CHALLENGE: Once recognized as one of the top 100 heart hospitals in the nation, MetroSouth Medical Center saw a major drop in heart patients and a dip in cardiac service revenue compared to ten years prior.
RESULTS: This campaign generated close to three times the number of $30 heart exams over the year prior and resulted in $132,971.00 in additional revenue for the hospital.
Additionally, at least one open-heart surgery resulted from the Healthy Heart Exams, along with 16 others referred to cardiologists.
In Years Two and Three, we created similar campaigns featuring patient testimonial videos, celebrity appearances, media participation and referring physician events.


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AB Volvo er et svensk industrikonglomerat, der fabrikerer lastbiler, busser, entreprenørmaskiner og bådmotorer. Virksomheden er grundlagt i 1927 og har hovedsæde i Göteborg. Tidligere fremstillede Volvo også personbiler og flymotorer.
Volvo betyder "Jeg ruller" på latin.

Historie
Den første serieproducerede bil rullede ud fra samlebåndet den 14. april 1927. Bilen var en åben vogn med en 4 cylindret motor – heraf navnet ÖV4 (Öppen Vagn). Den lukkede model hed PV4 (Person Vagn). ÖV4 fik først et par år senere øgenavnet "Jakob".

Den store succes fik Volvo efter 2. verdenskrig med personbilen Volvo PV 444. PV444 blev første gang fremvist i september 1944. Prisen var fastsat til 4800 svenske kroner. På grund af krigen og mangel på råstoffer lige efter, kom produktionen først rigtig gang i februar 1947.
Motoren i PV 444A – B4B – havde 40 HK (SAE). Modellen gennemgik små forandringer indtil 1958, hvor der til alles store forbløffelse blev fremvist en efterfølger – Volvo PV 544. Allerede 2 år inden havde man begyndt at producere en helt moderne vogn Volvo Amazon. Volvo PV 544 havde samme form som PV 444, men med en større og udelt forrude. Modellen blev bygget helt frem til oktober 1965. I alt blev der samlet fremstillet 440000 eksemplarer af PV444 og PV544. Den sidste PV 544 med stelnummer 440000 står på Volvo's museum.

Volvo Amazon – modelbetegnelse P120 – fik ligeledes stor afsætning med ca. 667.322 stk. og blev fremstillet fra 1956 til 1970.

Fra 1970 var Volvokoncernens stærke mand Pehr G. Gyllenhammar. Under Gyllenhammars ledelse blev der gennemført en række mere eller mindre vellykkede strategiske beslutninger. Volvo satsede blandt andet på diversificering med Volvo Fritid og Procordia. Man gik også ind i det hollandske DAF's personbilsproduktion.

I 1977 mislykkedes en fusion af personbilsdelen med den anden svenske personbilsproducent, Saab. I 1980'erne indledtes et samarbejde med den franske Renaultkoncern, som fortsatte frem til, at Volvos afdeling for personbiler i 1999 blev købt af Ford Motor Company fra USA. Siden 2010 er Volvos personbiler en del af den kinesiske multinationale Geely Holding Group, som fortsætter bilproduktionen under Volvo-logoet.

Gyllenhammars planer om at fusionere Volvos personbilsdivision med Renault mislykkedes, og Gyllenhammar blev tvunget til at forlade Volvos koncernledelse i 1993.

Volvo har en stor produktion af lastbiler til især det europæiske marked, men også de amerikanske og australske markeder serviceres, både direkte gennem Volvo, og gennem det opkøbte amerikanske firma White.

Datterselskaber
 Volvo Trucks
 Mack Trucks
 Renault Trucks
 UD Trucks
 Eicher
 Volvo Construction Equipment
 SDLG
 Volvo Busser
 Volvo Penta
 Volvo Financial Services
 Volvo Rents

Tidligere datterselskaber
 Volvo Cars - Personbilsfabrikant frasolgt til Ford Motor Company i 1999, Siden 2010 er Volvos personbiler en del af den kinesiske multinationale Geely Holding Group, som fortsætter bilproduktionen under Volvo-navnet.
 Volvo Aero - Flymotorfabrikant frasolgt til britiske GKN i 2012, videreføres under navnet GKN Aerospace Sweden AB

Tidligere personbiler
 P1900 – 1956-57, 67 styk
 P1800 (S/E) – 1961-72, 39385 styk
 P1800 ES – 1971-73, 8077 styk
 142/144/145
 164
 242/244/245/264/265/262 (siden 1985 har modellerne 242/244/245 fået betegnelsen 240 og modellerne 264/265/262 har fået betegnelsen 260)
 66 (DAF)
 343/345/340/360
 740/760/780
 940/960/S90/V90
 440/460/480
 850
 S70
 S40/V40
 S40/V50

Eksterne kilder/henvisninger

 Volvo-gruppen i Sverige
 Volvo-gruppen i Danmark

Etableret i 1927
Leverandører til Det Kongelige Danske Hof


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Q: Power Point VBA: Previous button click Background: I have a power point presentation that will be used/modified/edited by many people without knowledge of VBA/ coding in general. There are shapes that I am trying to use at buttons to jump to sections in the power point. What I need is to record where they jump from with these buttons so I can get them back to the starting page. And they want to be able to move through a section, find a go back button and return from where they jumped. Multiplule buttons from other slides also jump to the same page/section.
All I need is to figure out what button they pressed without relying on these buttons specific names.
Basically is there an "active shape" command or something along those lines? or a way to get the name of a clicked button? And it needs to all happen in the presentation view.

A: You can use a public variable, assign it a value when clicking on the starting page button and retrieving that value with the sections last pages' back button.

A: So long as you're not trying to do this on a Mac (where it's broken)
Sub Example ( oSh as Shape )
  MsgBox oSh.Name & " says Stop POKING Me!!!"
End Sub

Assign the shape an Action Setting of Run Macro:  Example (or whatever you want to call it).


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God has taken a bunch of individuals and made them into a people, a spiritual house, a priesthood, in order to display His wonder.


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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.utils;

import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

public class StringUtils {

  /**
   * Return the internalized string, or null if the given string is null.
   * @param str The string to intern
   * @return The identical string cached in the string pool.
   */
  public static String intern(String str) {
    if (str == null) {
      return null;
    }
    return str.intern();
  }

  /**
   * Return an interned list with identical contents as the given list.
   * @param list The list whose strings will be interned
   * @return An identical list with its strings interned.
   */
  public static List<String> intern(List<String> list) {
    if(list == null) {
      return null;
    }
    List<String> newList = new ArrayList<>(list.size());
    for(String str : list) {
      newList.add(intern(str));
    }
    return newList;
  }

  /**
   * Return an interned map with identical contents as the given map.
   * @param map The map whose strings will be interned
   * @return An identical map with its strings interned.
   */
  public static Map<String, String> intern(Map<String, String> map) {
    if (map == null) {
      return null;
    }

    if (map.isEmpty()) {
      // nothing to intern
      return map;
    }
    Map<String, String> newMap = new HashMap<>(map.size());
    for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : map.entrySet()) {
      newMap.put(intern(entry.getKey()), intern(entry.getValue()));
    }
    return newMap;
  }

  public static Set<String> asSet(String... elements) {
    if (elements == null) return new HashSet<>();
    Set<String> set = new HashSet<>(elements.length);
    Collections.addAll(set, elements);
    return set;
  }

  /**
   * Normalize all identifiers to make equality comparisons easier.
   * @param identifier identifier
   * @return normalized version, with white space removed and all lower case.
   */
  public static String normalizeIdentifier(String identifier) {
    return identifier.trim().toLowerCase();
  }

  /**
   * Make a string representation of the exception.
   * @param e The exception to stringify
   * @return A string with exception name and call stack.
   */
  public static String stringifyException(Throwable e) {
    StringWriter stm = new StringWriter();
    PrintWriter wrt = new PrintWriter(stm);
    e.printStackTrace(wrt);
    wrt.close();
    return stm.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Given an array of bytes it will convert the bytes to a hex string
   * representation of the bytes.
   * @param bytes Input bytes
   * @param start start index, inclusively
   * @param end end index, exclusively
   * @return hex string representation of the byte array
   */
  public static String byteToHexString(byte[] bytes, int start, int end) {
    return org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils.byteToHexString(bytes, start, end);
  }

  /**
   * Checks if the input string/char sequence is empty
   * @param cs Input char sequence
   * @return true if empty and false if not
   */
  public static boolean isEmpty(CharSequence cs) {
    return cs == null || cs.length() == 0;
  }
}

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