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Count Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky (Russian: Пётр Алекса́ндрович Румя́нцев-Задунайский; 15 January [O.S. 4 January] 1725 – 19 December [O.S. 8 December] 1796) was one of the foremost Russian generals of the 18th century. He governed Little Russia in the name of Empress Catherine the Great from the abolition of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1764 until Catherine's death 32 years later. Monuments to his victories include the Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoye Selo (1772), Rumyantsev Obelisk on Basil Island (1798–1801), and a galaxy of Derzhavin's odes.
Peter was the only son of Count Alexander Rumyantsev by Maria, the daughter and heiress of Count Andrey Matveyev. As his mother spent much time in the company of Peter the Great, rumours suggested that the young Rumyantsev was the monarch's illegitimate son. He was named after the ruling Emperor who was his godfather. He was the brother of Praskovya Bruce, confidant of Catherine the Great.
Pyotr Alexandrovich first saw military service under his nominal father in the war with Sweden (1741–1743). He personally carried to the Empress the peace treaty of Abo, concluded by his father in 1743. Thereupon he gained promotion to the rank of colonel.
His first military glory dates from the great battles of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), those of Gross-Jägersdorf (1757) and Kunersdorf (1759). In 1761 he besieged and took the Pomeranian fortress of Kolberg, thus clearing for Russian armies the path to Berlin.
Rumyantsev Obelisk (1799–1801) was moved from the Field of Mars to St. Andrew's Cathedral by Carlo Rossi in 1818.
Throughout the reign of Catherine the Great, Rumyantsev served as supreme governor of Little Russia. In this post, which his father had held with so much honesty, Rumyantsev made it his priority to eliminate any autonomy of the hetmans and to fully incorporate the newly conquered territories into the Russian Empire. Some accuse him of having promoted serfdom in New Russia, but the choice of such a policy remained out of his control.
With the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war in 1768, Rumyantsev took command of the army sent to capture Azov. He thoroughly defeated the Turks in the Battles of Larga and Kagula, crossed the Danube and advanced to Romania. For these dazzling victories he became Field-Marshal and gained the victory title Zadunaisky (meaning "Trans-Danubian"). When his forces approached Shumla in 1774, the new Sultan Abdul Hamid I started to panic and sued for peace, which Rumyanstev signed upon a military tambourine at the village of Küçük Kaynarca.
By that point, Rumyantsev had undoubtedly become the most famous Russian commander. Other Catharinian generals, notably Potemkin, allegedly regarded his fame with such jealousy that they wouldn't permit him to take the command again. In times of peace, Rumyantsev expressed his innovative views on the martial art in the Instructions (1761), Customs of Military Service (1770), and the Thoughts (1777). These works provided a theoretical base for the re-organisation of the Russian army undertaken by Potemkin.
During the Second Russo-Turkish War, Rumyantsev suspected Potemkin of deliberately curtailing supplies of his army and presently resigned his command. In the Polish campaign of 1794 he once again won appointment as commander-in-chief, but his rival Suvorov actually led the armies into battle. On this occasion Rumyantsev didn't bother even to leave his Ukrainian manor at Tashan which he had rebuilt into a fortress. He died there on 19 December 1796, just over a month after Catherine's death, and was interred in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
As the story goes, old Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky grew enormously fat and avaricious, so that he pretended not to recognize his own sons when they came from the capital to ask for money. Under his son Sergey's administration, Tashan fell into ruins, although he erected a mausoleum near Balashikha for his father's reburial (which never took place). Neither Sergey nor his brother Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev married, and the comital branch of the Rumyantsev family became extinct upon their death.
^ Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Bezborodko, Aleksander Andreevich" . In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 840.
^ Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Elizabeth Petrovna" . In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 285.
The Battle of Cahul (Russian: Сражение при Кагуле, Turkish language:Kartal Ovası Muharebesi) was the most important land battle of the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 and one of the largest battles of the 18th century. It was fought on 1 August 1770 (21 July at Julian Calendar), in Moldavia, near the village of Frumoasa (now Cahul, Moldova), just a fortnight after the Russian victory at Larga.
Under contribution of Pyotr Melissino, the Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev arranged his army of 40,000 soldiers in solid squares and surprisingly chose to go on the offensive against the allied forces of the Khanate of Crimea and the Ottoman Empire, which consisted of 30,000 Ottoman infantry and 45,000 Ottoman cavalry. About 80,000 Crimean Tatar cavalry were deployed within 20 km from the battlefield but they did not engage in battle.
The comparatively small Russian army assaulted the Ottomans and put them to flight. The Russian casualties were 1,000, while casualties on the Ottoman side amounted to over 20,000 soldiers killed and wounded. In the wake of this victory, the Russians captured 130 Ottoman cannons and overran all major fortresses in the region - İsmail (now Izmail), Kilya (now Kilia), Akkerman (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi), İbrail (now Brăila), İsakça (now Isaccea), and Bender.
In commemoration of the victory, Catherine II of Russia ordered the Cahul Obelisk to be erected in Tsarskoe Selo, while Frederick II of Prussia sent to Rumyantsev a congratulatory letter in which he compared the Russian victory to the deeds of the Ancient Romans.On the same day four years later, Russian and Ottoman empires signed the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, ending the war.
Bruce (Russian: Брюсы) is the name of noble family of Scottish origin. The family members bear the title of Count.
The Cossack Hetmanate (Ukrainian: Гетьманщина, Hetmanščyna), officially known as the Zaporizhian Host (Військо Запорозьке, Vijśko Zaporoźke, Latin: Exercitus Zaporoviensis) was a Ukrainian Cossack host in Central Ukraine between 1649 and 1764 (some sources claim until 1782).The Hetmanate was founded by the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Uprising of 1648–57. Establishment of vassal relations with the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Pereyaslav of 1654 is considered a benchmark of the Cossack Hetmanate in Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian historiography. The second Pereyaslav Council in 1659 further restricted the independence of the Hetmanate, and from the Moscow side there were attempts to declare agreements reached with Yuri Khmelnitsky in 1659 as nothing more than the "former Bohdan's agreements" of 1654. The 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo – conducted without any representation from the Cossack Hetmanate – established borders between the Polish and Russian states, dividing the Hetmanate in half along the Dnieper and putting the Zaporizhian Sich under a formal joint Russian-Polish administration.
Cossack with rifle, sometimes as Knight with rifle or Cossack with musket (Ukrainian: Лицар із самопалом, Lytsar iz samopalom) is a former national emblem of the Cossack Hetmanate (Zaporizhian Host). In 20th century it was the official national emblem of Ukrainian State.
The Assumption or Dormition Cathedral was the main Orthodox church of Kharkov, Russian Empire (present day Kharkiv, Ukraine) until the construction of the Annunciation Cathedral in 1901. The cathedral stands on the University Hill by the bank of the Lopan River and dominates the entire downtown. The Neoclassical cathedral bell tower, built in the 1820s and 1830s to a height of 90 meters, remained the tallest building in the city until the 21st century.
The original Dormition Church was built in the Kharkov Fortress in the 1680s. It was completely rebuilt after a fire to a Late Baroque design loosely based on St Clement's Church, Moscow. The cathedral was consecrated in 1780 in the presence of a viceroy (Pyotr Rumyantsev). The church boasted a gilded icon screen, carved from limewood to Rastrelli's Rococo design.
The free-standing Alexander Bell Tower was built in the aftermath of Napoleon's expulsion from Russia "to express the people's gratitude to Alexander I". It used to be the second tallest building in the Ukraine after the Great Lavra Bell Tower. The seat of the local bishop was moved from the older Intercession Cathedral to the Dormition Church in 1846. A large French clock was installed in the bell tower in 1856.
The Rumyantsev-Paskevich Residence is the main place of historical importance in the city of Gomel, Belarus. The grounds of the residence stretch for 800 meters along the steep right bank of the Sozh River. An image of the residence is featured on the Belarusian 20,000-ruble bill.
The two-storey palace of Field Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev was built between 1777 and 1796 to a Neoclassical design attributed to Ivan Starov. The palace replaced the ruined castle of Gomel's previous owner, Michael Frederick Czartoryski. The central part is surmounted by a square belvedere with a wide flat dome. The six-columned Corinthian portico faces an extensive English park. The main portico is placed on a high platform and is supported by four Corinthian columns.
After Pyotr Rumyantsev's death in 1796, the grounds were slowly improved by his son Nicholas (1754-1826). His brother Sergei was the next owner. He was never interested in country housekeeping and promptly sold the palace to the crown (1834). Gomel was immediately purchased by another Field Marshal, Ivan Paskevich, who had both the palace and the park substantially renovated. He employed architect Adam Idźkowski to add a four-storey tower and a three-storey wing to the existing structure.
After the Russian Revolution the palace was nationalized to house a local museum. Paskevich's daughter-in-law Irina had to move from the palace into an ordinary flat. The buildings sustained heavy damage in the Russian Civil War and World War II. They were shared by the Gomel History Museum and the local pioneers' palace until the late 1990s. The current Neoclassical interiors result from a late 1990s restoration campaign.
The park contains a modern statue of Count Nikolay Rumyantsev. The original marble statues of Euripides, Venus, Athena, Ares, Bacchus, and the Nymph were lost. It was only in 2006 that the replacement statues were put in place. The Paskevich art collection also boasted several paintings by Ivan Kramskoi, Marcin Zaleski, and January Suchodolski, as well as a marble bust of Count Rumyantsev by Antonio Canova.
The bronze equestrian statue of Prince Joseph Poniatowski by Bertel Thorvaldsen, which Paskevich had brought from Warsaw as a trophy in 1842, was dismantled by the Poles during the Polish-Soviet War and transported back to Warsaw, only to be destroyed by the Germans in the 1940s. Its copy stands in front of the Presidential Palace, Warsaw.
Other buildings on the grounds are the Russian Revival chapel with the tombs of Ivan Paskevich and his family, a winter garden (which originated as Prince Paskevich's sugar-mill), several subsidiary outbuildings, and a set of cannons captured by Paskevich's soldiers in the course of the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829).
By far the most conspicuous landmark in the park is the Neoclassical church of Sts. Peter and Paul. It was commissioned by Count Nikolay Rumyantsev from architect John Clark in 1809 but was not consecrated until 1824. The church is the seat of the local Orthodox bishopric.
Count James Bruce or Yakov Alexandrovich Bruce (1732–30 November 1791) was a Russian general. He was a grandson of Lieutenant General Robert Bruce and great-nephew of Jacob Bruce. His father was Lieutenant Colonel Count Alexander Bruce, Ekaterina Alekseyevna Dolgorukova was his stepmother. James Bruce married Praskovia Rumiantseva, sister of General (and later Field Marshal) Pyotr Rumyantsev. Praskovia was a lady-in-waiting and friend of Catherine the Great. These connections greatly helped the career of James Bruce. In 1774, he became Commander of the Finland Division.
However, even after Praskovia was in 1779 banned from the court after having had an affair with the Empress' lover, Bruce stayed in favour and received new posts. Bruce first became simultaneously Governor-General of Moscow and Saint Petersburg Governorate between 1784 and 1786, and then of Saint Petersburg only until 1791. He died the same year, without male offspring, and with him ended the line of the Russian counts Bruce. His only daughter Catherine died childless in 1829.
Kachanivka Palace (Ukrainian: Качанівка; Kachanivka; Russian: Качановка; Kachanovka) is one of the many country estates built by Pyotr Rumyantsev, Catherine II's viceroy of Little Russia. It stands on the bank of the Smosh River near the village of Petrushivka in Ichnia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. Perhaps the best known Rumyantsev estate in the region is the Gomel Residence.
The Kachanivka residence was erected in the 1770s to Neoclassical designs by Karl Blank. The church, orangery, aviary, water tower and several other buildings date from the 19th century. After Nikolay Rumyantsev's death, the property passed to the Tarnovsky family. Vasily Tarnovsky was interested in the history of Ukraine and amassed a collection of weapons that had been owned by the hetmans of Ukraine. Among the 19th-century visitors to Kachanovka were Nikolai Gogol, Taras Shevchenko, Ilya Repin, Mikhail Vrubel, and Mikhail Glinka (who worked on his opera A Life for the Tsar in the summerhouse).Although the Soviets nationalized the palace for use as a penal colony and tuberculosis hospital, the manor, including the extensive English park and several subsidiary outbuildings, is exceptionally well preserved. It has been designated a national cultural preserve since 1982 and was selected as one of the Seven Wondrous Castles and Palaces of Ukraine.
Kaynardzha (Bulgarian: Кайнарджа, pronounced [kajnarˈdʒa], Romanian: Cainargeaua Mică, Turkish: Kaynarca; also transliterated Kajnardža) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Silistra Province. It is the administrative centre of Kaynardzha Municipality, which lies in the easternmost part of Silistra Province, in the historical region of Southern Dobruja, close to the Romanian border.
The village is known as the location of the signing of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca on 21 July 1774 between Count Pyotr Rumyantsev, representative of Empress Catherine the Great of the Russian Empire and Musul Zade Mehmed Pasha, representative of Sultan Abdul Hamid I of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty put an end to the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, which was devastating for the once-mighty Ottoman realm.
The village was liberated from Ottoman rule in 1878, following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. After the Balkan Wars, it was ceded by the Kingdom of Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Romania along with all of Southern Dobruja; as part of the interwar Durostor County, it was known as Cainargeaua Mică, a translation and adaptation of the older Ottoman Turkish name, Küçük Kaynarca ("small spa place"). Per the Treaty of Craiova of 1940, all of Southern Dobruja was returned to Bulgaria.
Since October 2017, Kaynardzha has been linked with the neighbouring commune of Lipnița in Romania via the Kaynardzha-Lipnița border crossing.
Little Russia, sometimes Little Rus' (Russian: Малая Русь, Malaya Rus', Малая Россия, Malaya Rossiya, Малороссия, Malorossiya; Ukrainian: Мала Русь, Mala Rus'; or Rus' Minor from Greek: Μικρὰ Ῥωσία, Mikrá Rosía), is a geographical and historical term first used by Galician ruler Bolesław-Jerzy II, who in 1335 signed his decrees as Dux totius Russiæ minoris.A Little Russia Governorate existed from 1764 to 1781, administered by the Collegium of Little Russia (1764–86; originally established 1722 and abolished 1727) headed by Pyotr Rumyantsev. The Collegium was tasked with liquidating any remnants of autonomy in Ukraine.With time, "Little Russia" developed into a political and geographical concept in Russia, referring to most of the territory of modern-day Ukraine before the 20th century. Accordingly, derivatives such as "Little Russian" (Russian: Малороссы, Malorossy) were commonly applied to the people, language, and culture of the area. Prior to the revolutionary events of 1917, a large part of the region's élite population adopted a Little Russian identity that competed with the local Ukrainian identity.
After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, and with the amalgamation of Ukrainian territories into one administrative unit (the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), the term started to recede from common use. Its subsequent usage has been regarded as derogatory, referring to those Ukrainians with little or no Ukrainian national consciousness.
The term retains currency among Russian monarchists and Russian nationalists who deny that Ukraine and Ukrainians are distinct from Russia and Russians. By the late 1980s, the term had become archaic, and Ukrainians regarded its anachronistic usage as offensive.
The First Little Russia Governorate (Russian: Малороссiйская Губернiя) or Government of Malorossiya was created by Russian authorities in 1764–65 after the abolition of Cossack Hetmanate in Ukrainian lands incorporated into the Russian Empire. The (First) Little Russia Governorate was governed by Pyotr Rumyantsev.
With another administrative reform of 1781 the governorate and its subdivisions (regiments) were liquidated and replaced with vice-royalties divided into counties (uyezds).
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (Russian: князь Михаи́л Илларио́нович Голени́щев-Куту́зов; 16 September [O.S. 5 September] 1745 – 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1813) was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as one of the finest military officers and diplomats of Russia under the reign of three Romanov Tsars: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. His military career was closely associated with the rising period of Russia from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. Kutuzov is considered to have been one of the best Russian generals.He was born in Saint Petersburg in 1745 to a family of Novgorod nobility. His father was a Russian general and senator. Kutuzov began military schooling at age 12 and joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1759. Three years later Kutuzov became a company commander in the Astrakhan Infantry Regiment under Alexander Suvorov. He took part in crushing the Polish Bar Confederation rebellion. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 he served in the staff of Pyotr Rumyantsev at Moldova for the battles of Larga and Kagul. In July 1774 at Crimea, Kutuzov was severely wounded by a bullet that went through his temple and out near his right eye, which became permanently scarred. He returned to Crimea in 1776 to assist Suvorov and conducted negotiations with the last Crimean khan Şahin Giray, convincing him to abdicate and submit to Russia.
After Kutuzov became Governor-General of Crimea in 1787, the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 began. He was again severely wounded in 1788 during the Siege of Ochakov when a bullet was shot through both of his temples. Kutuzov came back a year later, taking part in the Battle of Rymnik and Siege of Izmail. Near the end of the war, he led a decisive charge at the Battle of Măcin. Kutuzov was on good terms with Tsar Paul, but had disputes with his successor Tsar Alexander. In 1805, he led Russian forces alongside Austria during the Napoleonic Wars. The allied Russo-Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. Alexander blamed Kutuzov and demoted him to Moldova for the Russo-Turkish War of 1806–1812. Kutuzov vanquished a four-times larger Turkish army at Rousse and brought an end to the war with a decisive victory at the Battle of the Danube. For his achievements, he was awarded the titles of count and prince.
Kutuzov returned at the request of Alexander for the French invasion of Russia. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, succeeding Barclay de Tolly and continuing his scorched earth policy up to Moscow. Under Kutuzov's command, the Russian army faced the Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino. He allowed Napoleon to take an abandoned Moscow, which was set on fire. Kutuzov counter-attacked once Napoleon retreated from Moscow, pushing the French out of the Russian homeland. In recognition of this, Kutuzov was awarded the victory title of Prince Smolensky. He stepped down from command due to deteriorating health soon after the French left Russia. Kutuzov died in 1813 at Bunzlau and was buried at the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Kutuzov was highly regarded in the works of Russian and Soviet historians.
Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Румя́нцев; 3 April 1754 – 3 January 1826), born in Saint Petersburg, was Russia's Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the Russian Empire in the run-up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1808–12). He was the son of Field Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky from the Rumyantsev comital family.
lady-in-waiting and noble, confidant of empress Catherine the Great.
Pârvu III Cantacuzino, also known as Pârvul or Pîrvu Cantacuzino (? – late November 1769), was a high-ranking Wallachian statesman who served intermittently as Spatharios and Ban of Oltenia, primarily known as the leader of an anti-Ottoman rebellion. Holding sway over a Russophile faction within the Wallachian boyardom, he briefly served as an officer in Russia's Imperial Army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. Pârvu was a member of the Cantacuzino family, which made him a descendant of several Wallachian Princes, and was joined in all of his political and military actions by his younger brother, the Vistier Mihai.
Helping Pyotr Rumyantsev and Nazary Alexandrovych Karazin in their occupation of Bucharest, the Cantacuzinos also arrested Grigore III Ghica; in the aftermath, Pârvu served as civilian governor of Wallachia. He commanded a part of the Wallachian military forces, assisting against the Ottoman army on the road to Giurgiu. He and his soldiers were ambushed and killed on the way to Comana Monastery, where Pârvu was buried.
His Cantacuzino branch, headed by Mihai, survived mostly in exile, joining the ranks of Russian nobility and calling for Wallachia's annexation to Russia. It included Pârvu's nephew Ioan Cantacuzino, the poet and politician, who returned for a while to take over as leader of the Russophile faction. The Russophiles maintained a presence in Wallachian politics to ca. 1800, but frictions between the Empire and the boyars pushed the party a steady decline.
On 25 September 1768 the Ottoman Empire declared war onto the Russian Empire following the recent treaty between Ottomans and members of Bar Confederation. On 31 October 1768, the President of the Collegium of Little Russia (Malorossia) Pyotr Rumyantsev ordered the Kosh Otaman of Zaporizhian Host Petro Kalnyshevsky "все войско свое устроить… в военный порядок тот час, чтобы готовы вы были к внезапному ополчению" (all troops of yours prepare... in battle order at the same time that you will be ready to sudden mobilization).
The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji Turkish: Küçük Kaynarca Antlaşması (also spelled Kuchuk Kainarji) Russian: Кючук-Кайнарджийский мир) was a peace treaty signed on 21 July 1774, in Küçük Kaynarca (today Kaynardzha, Bulgaria) between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Following the recent Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Kozludzha, the document ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74 and marked a defeat of the Ottomans in their struggle against Russia. The Russians were represented by Field-Marshal Count Pyotr Rumyantsev while the Ottoman side was represented by Musul Zade Mehmed Pasha. The treaty was a most humiliating blow to the once-mighty Ottoman realm. It would also stand to foreshadow several future conflicts between the Ottomans and Russia. It would be only one of many attempts by Russia to gain control of Ottoman territory.
Russia returned Wallachia and Moldavia to Ottoman control, but was given the right to protect Christians in the Ottoman Empire and to intervene in Wallachia and Moldavia in case of Ottoman misrule. The northwestern part of Moldavia (which became known as Bukovina) was ceded to Austria in 1775. Russia interpreted the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji as giving it the right to protect Orthodox Christians in the Empire, notably using this prerogative in the Danubian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) to intervene under the last Phanariote rulers and after the Greek War of Independence. In 1787, faced with increased Russian hostility, Abdul Hamid I declared war on Russia again.Russia gained Kabardia in the Caucasus, unlimited sovereignty over the port of Azov, the ports of Kerch and Enikale in the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea, and part of the Yedisan region between the Bug and Dnieper rivers at the mouth of the Dnieper. This latter territory included the port of Kherson. Russia thus gained two outlets to the Black Sea, which was no longer an Ottoman lake. Restrictions imposed by the 1739 Treaty of Niš over Russian access to the Sea of Azov and fortifying the area were removed. Russian merchant vessels were to be allowed passage of the Dardanelles. The treaty also granted Eastern Orthodox Christians the right to sail under the Russian flag and provided for the building of a Russian Orthodox Church in Constantinople (which was never built).
The Crimean Khanate was the first Muslim territory to slip from the sultan's suzerainty, when the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji forced the Sublime Porte to recognize the Tatars of the Crimea as politically independent, although the sultan remained the religious leader of the Tatars as the Muslim caliph. This was the first time the powers of the Ottoman caliph were exercised outside of Ottoman borders and ratified by a European power. The Khanate retained this nominal independence, while actually being dependent on Russia, until Catherine the Great formally annexed it in 1783, increasing Russia's power in the Black Sea area.
The Ottoman-Russian War of 1768–74 had opened the era of European preoccupation with the Eastern Question: what would happen to the balance of power as the Ottoman Empire lost territory and collapsed? The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji would provide some of the answer. After the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, the Ottoman Empire ceased to be an aggressive power; it had terrified Christendom for over three hundred years. From then on, it mainly fought against the overwhelming might of Christian Europe. The Habsburgs had been one of the Ottoman Empire's chief European foes, but by the middle of the century, the tsars had taken over the Habsburgs' fight against the Turks. The Russian tsars were seeking the Black Sea, the bulwark of the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. Finally, after two centuries of conflict, the Russian fleet had destroyed the Ottoman navy and the Russian army had inflicted heavy defeats on the Ottoman land forces.The Ottoman Empire's frontiers would gradually shrink for another two centuries, and Russia would proceed to push her frontier westwards to the Dniester.
Çenebaz Osman Efendi (Osman Efendi the Chatterer or the Loudmouthed), formally named as Yenişehirli Osman Efendi (either from Yenişehir near Bursa, or from Giannitsa, now in Greece, which was also called "Yenişehr-i Fener" in Ottoman times) in Ottoman sources, was an Ottoman diplomat who was the first plenipotentiary in the first peace conference, held in Focşani, today in Romania, starting August 19, 1772, among the several that were organised during the ten-month truce (May 10, 1772 – March 21, 1773) in the course of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). His Russian counterparts were Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov, Catherine II's lover and counsellor, and Aleksey Mikhailovich Obreskov (1720–1787), Russia's peacetime ambassador in İstanbul.
His name remains a byword to this day, thanks to his highly original perception of international relations and the unusual methods he developed while conducting diplomatic negotiations. He regained notoriety in Turkey's everyday culture from an anecdote about him related in a book by the Turkish novelist Kemal Tahir.
He started by burying an amulet into the ground on the way the members of the Russian delegation were to walk each day to render themselves to the conference hall. He also kept by his side a large sack full of gold coins at all times during the pourparlers, shuffling the coins noisily and gazing at his interlocutors with meaningful eyes, to the great puzzlement of the Russian negotiators. Proud of his rhetorical skill, he thought he could wear down the Russians with his diatribe of words and he sometimes just shouted at them meaninglessly to keep the pace of his speech. A first-hand Ottoman witness, named below, wrote that, in the end, the Russians had got used to listening to him as they would listen to a kaval.
Russian Field-Marshal Count Pyotr Rumyantsev noted in his memoirs: "If we say this efendi is crazy, it would be improper, so let us just say that he is smart but his is not like any other intelligence, we have ever experienced.". In his account of the war, Ahmed Resmi Efendi, a fervent advocate of immediate peace, placed the blame for the failure of the first round of negotiations, centered on the question of Crimea, squarely on Çenebaz Osman Efendi's shoulders.
The same Ahmed Resmi Efendi was to be the one to appose his signature on the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, disastrous for the Ottomans, at the end of the second round of the war resumed in March 1773.


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DERRY, N.H. (August 30, 2020) – Two regional title bouts, supported by several stay-busy fights, highlighted Granite Chin Promotion's first pro boxing event since this past November, 'Return to Derry," last night (Sat., Aug. 29), in front of a near capacity crowd at New England Sports Center in Derry, New Hampshire.
Two world champions were in attendance to support the fighters, undefeated reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight champion Demetrius "Boo Boo" Andrade and "El Gallo" Jose Antonio Rivera, the retired 3-time, 2-division title holder.
"I'm glad that tonight we took as step forward towards normalcy," promoter Chris Traietti commented. Sports help to bring people together and tonight we had a packed house with people of all races, religions, and creeds. I'm happy these Americans enjoyed themselves here tonight."
Justin "Crazy Train" Rolfe was crowned New England heavyweight champion by way of an 8-round unanimous decision over Tracey "Titan" Johnson in the main event.
Rolfe vs. Johnson II was a rematch of a 6-round majority draw last November in Quincy, Massachusetts. A lot more was at stake in the rematch, though, because the N.E. heavyweight title was on the line. Boston southpaw Johnson, the half-brother of Andrade, methodically boxed, while Maine-resident Rolfe came forward throwing bombs, and their contrast of styles made for a entertaining fight.
The elusive Johnson started finding his range in the fourth round, connecting with combinations as Rolfe appeared to tire, but he got his second wind and continued to be aggressive, often pinning Johnson on the ropes. The two evenly matched fighters went back and forth in the latter half of the fight, although Rolfe pressed the action and Johnson countered. Neither appeared to be hurt at any point during the bout., Both let loose in the eighth and final round, leaving nothing in the tank. Rolfe's non-stop attack and turned out to be the difference in this match-up.
Ryan DiBartolomeo captured the vacant New Hampshire welterweight title, taking a 6-round split decision over Kris Jacobs, in the co-featured event. "I live in Massachusetts but all my fights (3-0-1) have been in New Hampshire and I train in Nashua (NH)," DiBartolomeo said after the fight. "Fighting in New Hampshire is like fighting at home and now I'm the New Hampshire welterweight champ."
DiBartolemeo quickly came out of the corner and soon dropped Jacobs for an 8-count. Jacobs made it through the opening round, but he was unable to avoid the free-swinging DiBartolemeo's strong right hand, peppering his opponents head, in round two. Jacobs settled down in the third, picked-up the pace in the fourth, and started letting his hands go more in the fifth, landing more effectively on his aggressive foe. The two fighters went at it toe-to-toe in the final round and DiBartolemeo closed the show.
New England middleweight champion Kendrick Ball, Jr., fighting light heavyweight Tahuk Taylor, displayed his skill set to the maximum, blasting his opponent to the mat with a sweet straight right, again with a beautiful left hook, and he was about to close the show when referee Jackie Morell mercifully ended the fight with 13-seconds left in round one.
Popular junior welterweight Mike "Bad Man" OHan, Jr. did just about everything but stop gritty DeWayne Wisdom, who was penalized two points and officially floored once. But he survived, albeit losing a lop-sided 6-round unanimous decision to Ohan.
New England Golden Gloves champion Francis "Frank The Tank" Hogan dismissed Rashan Wisdom, who went down on the canvas twice before his corner threw in the towel. Hogan is a tall, lanky southpaw who is well schooled and now 2-0 (2 KOs).
In a spirited fight, undefeated light heavyweight Edet "Papito" Mkpanam (4-0, 3 KOs) was relentless against a game Saul "Spider" Almeida, one of the top mixed-martial-arts fighters in New England. Mkpanan dropped Almeida in the first two rounds on his way to a tough 4-round unanimous decision.
Promising Boston lightweight prospect Jonathan Depina outclassed Theo "The Unholy Truth" Desjardin, flooring him early and finishing him off soon after with a blistering shot, to improve to 2-0 (2 KOs).
Middleweight Anthony Concepcion won by way of a third-round disqualification when his opponent, pro-debuting Caleb Denham, ignored the referee's instructions to continue fighting.
Middleweight Larry "Slomoshun" Smith, fighting out of Dallas, recorded his first victory in more than nine years, taking a 4-round unanimous decision from Jesus "The Juice" Cintron. The 41-year-old Smith, 0-39-2 during his winless streak, dropped Anderson in the first round.
Larry Smith celebrated after his first win in 9 years
Texas light heavyweight Bryan Vera knocked out Mike Anderson with a big right hand early in round one. Referee Leo Gerstel immediately waved off the count right after Anderson hit the mat. Vera, who is known for his participating in The Contender reality television show, has defeated world champions Sergio Mora (twice), then-undefeated Andy Lee and Serhiy Dzinziruk during his 16-year pro career.
Veteran junior middleweight Cliff "Magician" McPherson had no tricks for Tyrone "Hands of Stone" Luckey because he was disqualified in the second round by referee Morrell for repeated holding.
Opening the night was a cruiserweight match between Larry "Hitman" Pryor and Francisco Neto. It didn't take long for Pryor, whose cousin was the late, Hall of Famer Aaron "Hawk" Pryor, put down Neto with a nicely placed left hook. Neto beat the count but stood on wobbly legs, leading referee Gerstel to halt the fight at the 35-second mark of the opening round.
Complete results below:
MAIN EVENT – VACANT NEW ENGLAND. HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Justin Rolfe (4-1-1, 3 KOs), Fairfield, ME
Tracey Johnson (4-8-6, 0 KOs), Boston, MA
(Rolfe won the N.E. heavyweight title)
CO-FEATURE – VACANT NEW HAMPSHIRE WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Ryan DiBartolomeo (3-0-1, 1 KO), Leominster, MA
Kris Jacobs (2-1-1, 0 KOs), Fall River, MA
(DiBartolomeo won vacant N.H. welterweight title)
CRUISERWEIGHTS
Larry Pryor (12-22, 6 KOs), Frederickson, MD
WTKO1 (0.35)
Francisco Neto (1-9), Woburn, MA
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS
Kendrick Ball, Jr. (15-1-2, 11 KOs), Worcester, MA
Tahuk Taylor (3-12-1, 1 KO), Greensboro, NC
Edet Mkpanam (4-0, 3 KOs), New Bedford, MA
Saul Almeida (0-12), Framingham, MA
Bryan Vera (27-16, 17 KOs), Auston, TX
Mike Anderson (0-6), Philadelphia, PA
Francis Hogan (2-0, 2 KOs), Weymouth, MA
Rashan Blackburn (8-54-2, 4 KOs), Columbus, OH
Larry Smith (11-44-2, 7 KOs), Dallas, TX
WEC4 (40-35, 40-36, 40-36)
Jesus Javier Cintron (1-14-2, 0 KOs), Asbury Park, NJ
Anthony Concepcion (5-0-1, 4 KOs). Providence, RI
WDQ3 (152)
Caleb Denham (0-1, 0 KOs), Jamaica Plain, MA
Tyrone Luckey (10-12-4, 7 KOs), Little Egg Harbor, NJ
WDQ2 (2:51)
Cliff McPherson (2-41-1, 1 KO), Cleveland, OH
Mike Ohan, Jr. (10-1, 5 KOs), Holbrook, MA
DeWayne Wisdom (7-54-2, 3 KOs), Indianapolis, IN
Jonathan Depina (2-0, 2 KOs), Boston, MA
Theo Desjarden (0-12), Wrentham, MA
Bob Trieger, Bryan Vera, Chip Mitchell, Full Court Press, Larry "Slomoshun" Smith, Larry Pryor, TheFightJournal.com, Tyrone Luckey
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Q: Changing subfolder name in git project without losing file history? FYI, I'm pretty new to git, using mostly gitgui.
When I change the name of an already tracked folder containing already tracked files in my project, git sees all the files in the folder as new untracked files. How do I make git understand that I only changed the name of the folder, so that I don't "lose" the history of the files contained in that folder?

A: Git doesn't care about your files or folders. There I said it. It tracks your content. After you move your files it'll show in git status as deleting a set of files/folders and a creation of files/folders. After your commit Git will detect that it's already seen this exact content and be able to follow not only the "files" and "folders" but even if you moved code from one file to another by the way it manages chunks.
Welcome to Git!

A: Git doesn't explicitly track moves/renames or copies. Instead, it detects them when it's asked to. Do the move, and run git diff -M.

A: Here are some examples to show that Git is really a content tracker:

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*The -CCC option of git blame can find lines that have been moves across files and revisions, and associate the correct blame.

*The --find-copies-harder option of the git diff family, git format-patch, and git log illustrate the same point. On a related note, do run format-patch with atleast -C when sending of patches to projects.

Therefore, you don't have to tell Git explicitly about copies or moves: it will detect them automatically.

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Shri J S Deepak, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications and Shri P K Gupta, CMD ITI after signing MoU and exchanging MoU for 2016-17.


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With his two-part biography of Mark Twain on PBS stations Monday and Tuesday nights, Ken Burns continues to plumb the corners of American history, pulling up old photographs and panning his cameras over them, simulating movement.
After about a quarter of a century of making films, on subjects ranging from the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to the expedition of Lewis and Clark to the history of baseball to, most famously, the Civil War, Mr. Burns knows that he has earned a certain reputation, both for artistry and for grandiosity.
The ridicule his shooting style occasionally evokes is probably the only thing about his work that Ken Burns does not take seriously. He remains a man who wears his passion for his latest project on his sleeve -- and his collar, his pants leg and his shoes.
Mr. Burns loves dualities in his subjects, and Twain offers them up in big doses, beginning with the twin sides of his nature, one as the often troubled, financially beset Samuel Clemens, the other as his alter ego, ''the irrepressible, endlessly interesting'' Mark Twain.
As always, by the end of his film exploration, Mr. Burns knows his subject about as well as the many historians he puts on camera to talk about the man. He knows, for example, that Twain visited Germany in the 1890's and that one day he met Kaiser Wilhelm, who called him his favorite writer, and later that day he repaired to his hotel, where the doorman told him the same thing.
Mr. Burns gave a relaxed interview, sitting back with no notes handy and dropping anecdotes about his subject, pulling up quotes on command.
For Mr. Burns, who always deals in superlatives -- the biggest, the boldest, the most tragic, the turning point, the seminal moment -- the humor that is inevitable in the telling of Twain's life seems liberating, less portentous. ''He was the first stand-up comedian,'' he said.
Mr. Burns uses his signature techniques in ''Mark Twain,'' with various actors and others supplying the voices of Twain and other characters, historians and literary figures doing analysis, and lots and lots of period photographs. ''Twain was probably the most photographed man of his time,'' Mr. Burns said. He recalled that for his first film, on the Brooklyn Bridge, there was exactly one photograph of its builder, John Roebling, and for ''Lewis and Clark'' all he had to work with was one oil painting.
In picking his voice for Twain, Mr. Burns faced one unusual dilemma: who but Hal Holbrook, whose one-man show, ''Mark Twain Tonight'' has been an audience favorite for decades, could play the man? But Mr. Burns, who has used Mr. Holbrook on other films -- he was the narrator of ''Lewis and Clark'' -- wanted to use him in an on-camera interview.
Mr. Burns went back to another voice he has used on previous films, that of the actor Kevin Conway. The results, he said, had several of the historians attached to the project believing they were listening to the real voice of Twain.
Mr. Burns, whose next major series will be on World War II, is clearly not daunted by the fact that other filmmakers may have already trod that ground. He is nothing if not confident in his own talent.
''You don't say to Cézanne that there have already been some paintings about oranges,'' he said.


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New CERB replacements: Flawed program design could impede economic recovery
On September 27th, Canadians said goodbye to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), a widely praised income support program that gave $500 per week to Canadians who were laid off or otherwise unable to work because of the economic shutdown. CERB has been credited with helping minimize the immediate damage from the shutdown and providing a safety net for those who needed it the most.
For Canadians who lost work, CERB will be replaced by a return to a simplified and more generous version of the Employment Insurance (EI) program. To fill in the gaps, the federal government is also introducing three new temporary income support programs while it designs further reforms to permanently modernize and expand EI.
There are some things to like about these programs, but reasons to be concerned as well. On the positive side, they continue to provide support to Canadians who are unable to work because of COVID-19; this is critically important as cases surge in many parts of the country. On the negative side, these programs are not only costly, but certain aspects may create a disincentive to rejoin the workforce—an issue that, if left unaddressed, could lead to labour shortages and hamper Canada's economic recovery.
In this commentary, we explain why we're concerned and highlight some reform options that could address the disincentive problem without unduly harming those who need income supports the most.
The bottom line: The current EI and recovery benefit programs are stopgap measures while the federal government develops a modernized Employment Insurance program. This new program needs to preserve the incentive for Canadians to find work by ensuring that no one is better off by avoiding a job. Poverty and barriers to labour force participation are better addressed through other government initiatives.
Program design for the federal government's new CERB replacements could potentially impede labour force growth, and, ultimately, Canada's economic recovery. #cdnpoli Click To Tweet
In a nutshell, CERB is being replaced by two program streams. Most people who were collecting CERB at the end of September will transfer over to a revamped EI program—one that has been simplified and broadened to make it more accessible and more generous than the version in place before COVID hit.
The second stream is a suite of three new recovery benefit programs aimed at supporting Canadians as the economy re-opens: the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB); the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB) and the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB).
Employment Insurance
Changes to EI make it easier to qualify for the program, the benefits are more generous, and people can collect it for a longer period of time. These changes are being made to accommodate the fact that the COVID economic shutdown made it more difficult for Canadians to accumulate the hours previously needed to qualify for EI.
In its previous form, EI provided Canadians who had lost their jobs with 55% of their income up to about $55,000—to a maximum of $573 per week. Eligibility and payment duration depended on local labour market conditions. The lower the unemployment rate in your area, the more weeks you needed to work to qualify for EI and the fewer weeks of benefits you received. If you chose to work while collecting EI, the Working While on Claim provisions allowed you to keep 50 cents on the dollar until your total income (EI plus earned wages) reached 90% of your previous earnings. For example, an individual earning $45,000 per year ($865 per week) would have qualified for $476 in weekly EI payments. But if they worked part time while collecting EI, they could make as much as $779 per week (wages plus EI) before losing their entitlements completely.
Under the new temporary changes, local labour market conditions are largely irrelevant. Except for areas with exceptionally high unemployment rates (over 13.1%), EI is structured as follows:
Canadians can qualify for EI if they have worked 120 hours over the last 12 months (previously 420-700 hours, depending on the local unemployment rate)
If they qualify, their benefits can last for 26 weeks or more (up from 14 weeks) if they cannot find work
There is a minimum floor payment of $500/week, rising to $573 dollars using the same 55% formula described above.
Finally, there are a few features to EI that make it slightly stricter than CERB. People must reapply for EI every two weeks (instead of four under CERB), they must demonstrate that they are actively looking for work, they must accept a job if it is reasonable to do so, and the benefit is taxable upfront.
New Recovery Benefits
Canada Recovery Benefit
This new program is intended to capture those Canadians who do not qualify for EI—self-employed, contract, and gig workers, and those whose EI benefits have expired. Effectively, it works the same way as CERB did. Those who qualify will receive $500/week for up to 26 weeks, provided they meet the same basic conditions that were in place with CERB. The key differences between the CRB and CERB are in two areas: administration and the benefit clawback. On the administration side, the EI stipulations described above for re-application, job search, and tax treatment are also in place for CRB. As for the benefit clawback under CRB, Canadians will be allowed to earn up to $38,000 before their benefits start to be lowered—at the rate of 50 cents per dollar earned.
Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit
The Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit targets individuals who are sick or must self-isolate because of COVID; or who have underlying conditions that put them at increased susceptibility to COVID. It provides $500 per week for up to two weeks, although the proposed implementing legislation allows the government to easily increase that limit whenever it wants. Individuals can claim CRSB benefits any time over the next year until their two weeks runs out. They are eligible for CRSB payments if they are unable to work 50% of their normal work hours but cannot claim the benefit if they have access to sick leave from their employer, or if they are collecting EI or one of the other recovery supports.
Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit
The Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit is similar in structure, but broader in scope than the sickness benefit. It is intended to help Canadians who need to stay home to look after children or other dependents who are unable to go to school, day care, or similar programs because of COVID-related closures and limitations, high personal risk levels, or caregiver unavailability. Qualifying households receive $500 per week for up to 26 weeks (again, with an open window to extending the time limit). As with the CRSB, they are eligible if they are not collecting EI or other recovery supports, have no access to paid leave from work, and are unable to work 50% of their normal hours.
The new suite of income supports offer a number of benefits. Beginning with the EI program, the reduction in the number of qualifying hours will protect people who have been unable to find work and accumulate the necessary hours during the economic shutdown. It also ends some of the regional inequity that saw people in some parts of the country receive more generous benefits than those living elsewhere.
The CRB will help Canadians who slip through the cracks of EI. EI does not cover all self-employed, contract or gig workers (self-employed individuals could have opted in to EI, but many did not). This new program, like CERB, allows those individuals to receive temporary income supports that are roughly equivalent to EI.
Finally, and most importantly, the two sickness-related benefits (CRSB and CRCB) are designed specifically to help Canadians affected by COVID. Last May, BCA recommended to the federal government that a modified CERB program be extended on a limited-eligibility basis to support affected individuals. The idea was that when individuals contract COVID, need to quarantine, or need to care for infected/quarantined dependents, they should be able to do so and still receive some income support. That is exactly what these programs do.
What are the problems?
Disincentive for part-time workers to re-enter the workforce
The problems lie with the incentives created with EI and CRB. Because there is a minimum $500/week payment floor, many part-time or casual workers would be in a better financial position if they remain on those income supports than if they re-entered the workforce.
Source: Business Council of Alberta
For full time workers, this is not so much an issue: a minimum-wage full-time employee in Alberta earns $31,200 per year. Without work, this individual would make the equivalent of $26,000 per year (for 26 weeks) through EI. Once they find work, since this $26,000 is less than 90% of their previous income, they would earn slightly more money by working under the Working While on Claim rule because they could keep a small portion of their EI payments.
On the other hand, all but the highest-paid part-time workers will earn more not working and collecting EI than they would if they returned to work. Furthermore, the Working While on Claim provisions—which are intended to encourage a transition back to work—do not apply in any meaningful sense because, unless they find a new job that pays more than $500 per week, any amount they earn working will be less than what they were collecting under EI.
Additionally, context matters: combining labour market uncertainty, health risks with being in public, and additional costs associated with work (transportation, clothing), it could easily make more sense for individuals to choose to remain on EI rather than find work. To be clear, this is not a laziness issue; it's about people making rational choices given the options they have available.
The issue here is bad program design. Not only do these changes to EI discourage part-time workers, they could adversely affect the economic recovery. As businesses ramp up their operations, many are not in a financial (or demand) position to hire full-time workers. If EI creates a disincentive to accept part-time work, it could perversely create labour shortages in a time of high unemployment.
Inconsistent treatment of people on EI vs CRB
The second major problem with these new support programs is that people under EI are treated differently than those collecting CRB. This is specifically about the income claw back when people start to work while still collecting income supports. As described above, Working While on Claim provisions allow EI claimants to keep 50 cents of EI for every dollar they earn, up to 90% of their previous income.
Under CRB, the rules are considerably more generous. A person can earn up to $38,000 per year before losing a single dollar of CRB benefits. At that point, CRB payments are clawed back at a rate of 50 cents per dollar earned.
The differing impact is best illustrated with an example. Suppose two individuals worked full time earning $16/hour ($640/week) but then both lost their jobs. One went on EI, the other qualified for CRB. Both later returned to their jobs working part-time at half their regular hours. The individual collecting EI would see their benefits clawed back to the point where they would be making $576/week in total. However, the person on CRB faces no such limit; they would collect up to $820/week—more than they were making when they worked full time—even though both people are earning the same wage and working the same hours.
So, what would make it better?
What complicates these issues is that there are undoubtedly cases of individuals who, because of personal circumstances, were never able to work full-time and who are having trouble making ends meet. For those individuals, the EI/CRB payment floor and CRB claw back provisions are a welcome relief. But they do not represent most part-time workers. We need more nuanced program design that differentiates between those who need additional supports and those who simply find themselves better off staying home rather than working.
What might that program design look like?
For one thing, EI should not provide qualifying applicants with more than 100% of their previous earnings. That turns EI into a Universal Basic Income, which is far beyond the intended scope of the program.
Second, people collecting CRB should not receive more generous claw back provisions when they go back to work than their counterparts on EI. This is especially true from a fairness perspective because most CRB recipients had not been paying employment insurance premiums but are now collecting more generous benefits.
Finally, EI and CRB are insurance programs, not welfare; they are not the appropriate mechanisms for helping Canadians living in poverty. These instruments are far too blunt and capture too many people who are not actually poor. Enhanced child care supports, paid training/upskilling, more generous GST tax credits, increased Canada Child Benefit payments, or even a negative income tax are preferable, more targeted, options.
The current EI and recovery benefit programs are stopgap measures while the federal government develops a modernized Employment Insurance program. This new program needs to preserve the incentive for Canadians to find work by ensuring that no one is better off by avoiding a job. Poverty and barriers to labour force participation are better addressed through other government initiatives.


Mehrzad Boroujerdi, director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was quoted a New York Times article on political disagreement inside Iran about the proposed nuclear deal with the West.
Jason Wiles, assistant professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a New York Times story on Islam, evolution and creationism.
The Washington Post, Government Executive magazine, Federal News Radio and WTOP2-DC radio reported on Monday's Maxwell School presentation by John Berry, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was quoted in Politico on the "Joy Behar Show" on cable television's HLN network and in the Financial Times Deutschland on media hoaxes and the news industry.
Nancy Snow, associate professor in the Newhouse School, wrote a Huffington Post column on Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, public diplomacy and the reunification of Germany.
WAER radio covered the Central New York region's Progressive Dialogue event at SU's Warehouse, which focused on the importance of S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education in New York state.
Establishment of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum speaker series in the Newhouse School was noted briefly in the New York Times.
Syracuse.com previewed the Wednesday evening Newhouse School presentation by Christie Hefner.


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Q: как в std::thread передать allocated класс? Работает, если класс создавать на стеке, но мне нужно создать интерфейс, ну типа базовый класс, то есть Factory по настоящему создает new Binance, а binance наследуется от Market. я думал что должно быть всё просто, но нет, опять какие то сложности, думал сделать код красивым, но нет, видимо на c++ можно писать только код, который не прикольный. хотя в цикле можно сделать создание класса в стеке, но может есть вариант создать из выделенной памяти?
#include <thread>
#include "Binance.hpp"
#include "Markets.hpp"
#include "Factory.hpp"

struct Params {
    const char *url;
    const unsigned short port;
    enum Markets type;
} Params[] = {
    { "wss://stream.binance.com/ws", 9443, Markets::BINANCE }
};

int main ( int argc, char **argv ) {

    const int sizeOfParams = sizeof (Params) / sizeof (struct Params);

    for ( int i = 0; i < sizeOfParams; i++ ) {
        Market *market = FactoryNewMarket ( Params[i].url, Params[i].port, Params[i].type );

        std::thread threadMarket ( market );

        threadMarket.detach ( );
    }
}


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Faculty Promotions and Tenure Announced
Posted on June 10, 2016 Updated July 15, 2021 By St. Thomas Newsroom
The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce affirmative decisions on promotion and tenure following the conclusion of the Tenure and Promotion Committee meetings in May.
The following tenured members of the faculty were promoted, effective Sept. 1:
Angela High-Pippert, Department of Justice and Peace Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, promoted to professor
Debasish Mallick, Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Opus College of Business, promoted to professor
Greg Mowry, School of Engineering, promoted to professor
Eric Rawdon, Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, promoted to professor
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Today cloudiness will be variable, often decreasing to sunny. It will blow moderate, northwestern wind in the Northwest, which will weaken in the evening and will orient from the Southwest. Maximum temperatures between 17 ° and 22 °, in Sofia around 18 °. This was reported for FOCUS News Agency by the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology .
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Chris Young the Rapper changes up his style a little bit with "Party Animals". Instead of the laid-back hip-hop that we are used to hearing out him, he provides a new party track with a dub step "womp womp" type feel to the song. I am glad to see him experiment with more types of sounds as he does once again kills it with his rapping. Enjoy!


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Highways England awards first contracts on £8.7bn framework
Himaja 23 July 2019
Highways England has signed the first in a series of contracts with supply chain partners to undertake up to £8.7bn of work on England's motorways and major A-roads.
Construction company Geoffrey Osborne has secured a £61.4m contract to deliver a major upgrade that transforms A46 at Binley in Coventry.
A £52.4m contract has been awarded to VolkerFitzpatrick to perform improvements along the A27 near Lewes in East Sussex.
Under the UK Government's Road Investment Strategy, Highways England is developing a scheme to improve the junctions along the A46, including the Binley and Walsgrave junctions. It will also upgrade multiple junctions along a nine-mile section of the A27 between Lewes and Polegate.
In November last year, Highways England selected 13 contractors to take on £8.7bn of roadworks over the next six years.
Deals were set-up under the Routes to Market Regional Delivery Partnership, which encourages companies to improve safety and journeys on roads.
The A46 and A27 projects are part of the 18 packages, where 13 companies, known as Delivery Integration Partners (DIP), are working on selected the schemes.
Highways England major projects executive director Peter Mumford said: "These are the first of 13 companies that will be working with us to deliver these important road projects, safely, with our customers in mind and to the delivery plan.
"To achieve this we have worked hard to create alignment between Highways England and its supply chain, focusing on the behaviours that support us to achieve our shared goals."
The A46 road upgrade is being developed in phases. It will initially start with Binley junction to avoid heavy congestion. The strategic road link stretches between the East and West Midlands and connects Coventry and Warwickshire to the motorway network.
Construction on the A46 will begin in the first calendar quarter of next year and is expected to take around 12 months to complete.
The A27 upgrade will create a new dual carriageway on a short section west of Polegate, with improved walking and cycling facilities stretching over the whole corridor.
Construction of the A27 upgrade is scheduled to also start in the first few months of next year.
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Q: Sphinx (searchd) not able to find newly indexed documents I am having a an issue with sphinx that I am having a hard time troubleshooting.  I am running a sphinx index job once a day.  The output of this job is
2018-08-09T13:41:12-07:00 INFO (6): /usr/local/sphinx/bin/indexer --config /home/app/code/server_config/sphinx_config.php --rotate jt_lqo_index
2018-08-09T13:41:12-07:00 INFO (6): Sphinx 2.0.5-release (r3308)
2018-08-09T13:41:12-07:00 INFO (6): Copyright (c) 2001-2012, Andrew Aksyonoff
2018-08-09T13:41:12-07:00 INFO (6): Copyright (c) 2008-2012, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)
2018-08-09T13:41:12-07:00 INFO (6):
2018-08-09T13:41:12-07:00 INFO (6): using config file '/home/app/code/server_config/sphinx_config.php'...
2018-08-09T13:41:12-07:00 INFO (6): indexing index 'jt_lqo_index'...
2018-08-09T14:12:15-07:00 INFO (6): collected 7425589 docs, 1111.2 MB
2018-08-09T14:16:58-07:00 INFO (6): sorted 983.0 Mhits, 100.0% done
2018-08-09T14:16:59-07:00 INFO (6): WARNING: 324357 duplicate document id pairs found
2018-08-09T14:16:59-07:00 INFO (6): total 7425589 docs, 1111230505 bytes
2018-08-09T14:16:59-07:00 INFO (6): total 2147.196 sec, 517526 bytes/sec, 3458.27 docs/sec
2018-08-09T14:16:59-07:00 INFO (6): total 95 reads, 2.116 sec, 72207.6 kb/call avg, 22.2 msec/call avg
2018-08-09T14:16:59-07:00 INFO (6): total 11651 writes, 16.540 sec, 1085.5 kb/call avg, 1.4 msec/call avg
2018-08-09T14:16:59-07:00 INFO (6): rotating indices: succesfully sent SIGHUP to searchd (pid=10183).

It looks  to me like the documents that it found are being added and the index is rotating correctly.  However searches against any new data in the last two days return empty.  Searches against older data return fine.
This process has been running fine for years, until we had a system crash a couple days ago.  I have since restarted sphinx and indexed numerous times without any luck
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated


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Q: How to read a data from test file which is in different system drive using Batch command? How to read a data from test file which is in different system drive using Batch command?
for /f "delims=" %%x in (version.txt) do set ver=%%x

I have defined in C drive this text file but I have to use same variable in different location system drive script?


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Evaluation of clinical criteria for the identification of Lynch syndrome among unselected patients with endometrial cancer.
Amanda S Bruegl et al.
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.), 7(7), 686-697 (2014-04-29)
Clinical criteria, primarily young age of cancer onset and family history of signature cancers, have been developed to identify individuals at elevated risk for Lynch syndrome with the goals of early identification and cancer prevention. In 2007, the Society of
Rapid single nucleotide polymorphism based method for hematopoietic chimerism analysis and monitoring using high-speed droplet allele-specific PCR and allele-specific quantitative PCR.
Chiaki Taira et al.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry, 445, 101-106 (2015-03-24)
Chimerism analysis is important for the evaluation of engraftment and predicting relapse following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We developed a chimerism analysis for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), including rapid screening of the discriminable donor/recipient alleles using droplet allele-specific PCR
Detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus ticks from Norway using a realtime PCR assay targeting the Anaplasma citrate synthase gene gltA.
Anna J Henningsson et al.
BMC microbiology, 15, 153-153 (2015-08-02)
A TaqMan real-time PCR assay targeting the Anaplasma citrate synthase gene, gltA, was developed and used for detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in 765 Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from dogs and cats in northern Norway (n = 669) and Telemark county in southern
Somatic loss of function mutations in neurofibromin 1 and MYC associated factor X genes identified by exome-wide sequencing in a wild-type GIST case.
Martin G Belinsky et al.
BMC cancer, 15, 887-887 (2015-11-12)
Approximately 10-15 % of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) lack gain of function mutations in the KIT and platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRA) genes. An alternate mechanism of oncogenesis through loss of function of the succinate-dehydrogenase (SDH) enzyme complex has
On-chip quantitative detection of pathogen genes by autonomous microfluidic PCR platform.
Hiroaki Tachibana et al.
Biosensors & bioelectronics, 74, 725-730 (2015-07-27)
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based genetic testing has become a routine part of clinical diagnoses and food testing. In these fields, rapid, easy-to-use, and cost-efficient PCR chips are expected to be appeared for providing such testing on-site. In this study, a
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Q: Curried function not getting called in componentDidMount componentDidMount() {
    this.onRefresh(this.props.subdomainConfig)
}

onRefresh = config => () => {
    console.log('onRefresh', config)
}

In this react component the onRefresh function is not getting called at all when component mounts. If I use this function for RefreshControl then it is getting called.
<ScrollView
    refreshControl={
        <RefreshControl
            refreshing={this.state.refreshing}
            onRefresh={this.onRefresh(this.props.subdomainConfig)}
        />
    }>
    <ZoneListComponent
        zones={zones}
        onPressEdit={this.onPressEdit}
    />
</ScrollView>

Appreciate if someone can tell me why this is not getting called in componentDidMount but works for RefreshControl.

A: onRefresh returns a function but doesn't call it.  Change that to
componentDidMount() {
    this.onRefresh(this.props.subdomainConfig)();
}


Groot Draks' unbeaten run finally came to an end against the spirited Kai Tank touring side from Hong Kong. They had their heads in the clouds after their victory against Cape Town Cricket Club and the pilots were determined to make it two tour victories in a row.
To honour the Groot Drak tradition, Kai Tak batted first and were soon on the ropes at 40/5. Our opening bowlers Colin Myburgh (3/18) and Corrie Brand (1/26) did an exceptional job. Just before the drinks break, Craig McNaught (1/1) bowled one magical over to send the tourists further into disarray. To ensure a proper game, skipper Jono Boulton took the foot off the proverbial jugular and brought some slower bowlers on. A South African, an Englishman and a Kiwi might sound like an intro to a bad joke, but after a while, none of the Groot Drak players were laughing anymore… Kai Tak's SA-born captain, JP Du Plessis (56) and Matts Parkinson (35) steadied the ship. It was unfortunate that Kiwi Jeff Maw (44*) would end up short of a well-deserved 50 as the innings came to a close at 212 after 40 overs.
Groot Drak, who bat fairly deep were confident and always thought the total was a achievable. Unfortunately, none of the usual suspects ended up in the runs. This was due to really good pin-point bowling aided by late Kai Tak swing bowling. Colin Myburg (77) tried his best but eventually ran out of batting partners with Groot Drak falling short by 37 runs. Gus Simmers(24) and Jannes Mouton (20) got starts, but could not convert to a match-winning batting display. JP Du Plessis (who was only not given the man of the match award because he received it in their previous game) also ended up shining with the the ball with figures of 3/26.
After a near cancellation and a three-player-donation from Groot Drak, Saturday the 26th of January 2019 saw what is always a great fixture, against Cape Town Cricket Club.
A very solid start from the visitors meant that in the over before drinks, Cape Town lost only their first wicket for 85 runs. After being told that they were largely a 'bowling unit', Groot Drak knew this would be a tough game from here.
Opening, Darren Nash hit a dominant 71, with valuable contributions from brothers, Jannie (29) and Andri le Roux (26 not out) further down the order.
Good bowling performances from Corrie Brandt (0/28 from 7), Jannes Mouton (1/28 from 6), Angus Simmers (2/41 from 7) and MC Uys (1/31 from 5), kept Groot Drak in the game, albeit only just. Angus' figures don't truly reflect his performance, as he had two successful appeals retracted in two overs!
At the half-way mark, CTCC had posted a very competitive target of 203 for victory in 35 overs at a required run rate of a just under 6 per over.
Groot Drak's openers, MC Uys (20 off 19) and debutant, Claude Chantler (21 off 31) got the local boys off to a reasonable start. Very few batters were allowed to settle as wickets fell regularly. Wilhelm Esterhuizen played a great knock, scoring 37 from 37, supported ably by Jono Boulton (18 from 16).
At 162 for 8, Groot Drakenstein were looking down and out as they needed around 8.5 per over with only one batsman to come.
Jannes Mouton and Corrie Brandt put on a heroic 9th wicket stand, with Corrie smashing 26* from 11 and Jannes playing a very mature innings, ending with 19* from 19 to see Groot Drak finish in style. Securing a narrow victory, Groot Drak continued their unbeaten streak for the 2018/2019 season!
As is always the case against CTCC, the game was played competitively, but each player maintaining a sense of humour and sportsmanship throughout.
A well deserved swim and fines meeting in the shade, followed by a quick post-match braai brought a fantastic day to a close.
Congratulations to Corrie Brandt for picking up yet another Man-of-the-match award for his outstanding all-round performance.
On the 20th of January 2019, Groot Drak hosted their great friends, West Coast Rollers at Pickstone Oval.
Looking to continue their unbeaten streak, Groot Drak took the field with loads of energy. Danie van der Nest (2/21 from 4) and Kudu Kotze (1/17 from 4) did the damage up front, with continued pressure from Conrad Harley (1/14 from 5) and Adrian Raisbeck (1/9 from 4) . Some good catching from the Drakies saw the Rollers struggling at drinks, having lost 5 wickets after 17 overs.
The spinners took over the attack after the break. Martin van der Merwe (0/25 from 7) and Wynand Grobler (2/6 from 2.2) kept things incredibly tidy and continued to hurt the opposition. Marco Bosman (2/42 from 6) and Jaco Swarts (1/10 from 2) took some valuable wickets as the innings was wrapped up, with the West Coast Rollers managing 138 all out.
A quick lunch saw Groot Drak begin the run chase with openers Jaco Swarts and Craig McNaught (33* from 37). Despite some good bowling from the visitors, a few chances went awry, allowing the home side to capitalise early on. Jaco retired after a blistering innings of 59 from just 37 balls, which earned him 'man-of-the-match'. Hannes Langeveldt (TFC) came in at 3 and got a corker of a ball that removed his leg stump for a duck. Wynand Grobler didn't need any sighters and blasted Groot Drak to victory with a quick-fire 36 from 17 balls. The second innings lasted 16.2 overs before the total was knocked over.
A post-match swim and beverage was in order after a boiling hot day of cricket. A few well-deserved fines were enjoyed in the shade, some good, some not so much. Even though the game ended a little one-sided, both teams played the game in a wonderful spririt and Groot Drak continue their unbeaten run in 2019.
On Sunday the 13th of January 2019, Groot Drak hosted Coastal Strikers at Pickstone Oval.
A cloudy and cool afternoon meant that bowling first was a great advantage for the home side. Groot Drak's opening bowlers, Corrie Brand and Andri le Roux, bowled extremely tightly, with a barrage of unplayable deliveries – both unlucky not to get wickets in their opening spells, they ended up with 0/20 off 7 and 1/16 off 7 respectively.
Going in to drinks, Coastal Strikers had only managed 43 runs, but still had all their wickets in tact, setting up the latter half of the innings nicely.
Clearly, the Oros consumed at drinks had a little something extra in it as the visitors turned up the heat immediately. They scored freely, but lost a few wickets along the way. Most of the bowlers went for plenty of runs, but a great performance from Bruce Taylor (2/26 off 6) saw a welcome return to form for Groot Drak's resident "spinner".
A quick-fire 57 off 31 from Francois allowed Coastal Strikers to set a respectable target of 189 at lunch.
After a filling lunch, Groot Drak went out to start the run chase. Unfortunately, the openers were both nicked off early, putting pressure on the middle order.
Conrad Harley (25 off 37) and Herman Fourie (45 off 37) did a fantastic job of rescuing the situation and giving Groot Drak a good chance at the drinks break.
Needing 6.5 per over, Jannes Mouton strode out to bat and was later joined by keeper/batsman, Jono Boulton (16* off 14). Jannes blasted a man-of-the-match-winning 62 not out off just 45 balls to see Drak over the line with 2 overs to spare.
As is always the case with Coastal Strikers, the game was played in a fabulous spirit, with both teams having a great outing and enjoying some well-deserved fines back at the clubhouse.
On Tuesday the 8th of January, Groot Drak played host to Oxford University's first XI at Pickstone Oval. Rightly anticipating a tough contest, the home team selected a particularly formidable side to take on the young and fit students.
Honouring tradition, the visitors were sent in to bat and Oxford immediately made the significant age gap count by putting on a first wicket partnership of 83 runs, followed by a century from one of their openers.
If not for a middle-order collapse, Oxford would have comfortably posted a score of 270+ in their 40 overs, but the Groot Drak bowling-and-fielding effort limited the visitors to 227/5.
Particularly impressive spells from Andri le Roux (32/2 from 8), Martin van der Merwe (33/1 from 8) and Danie van der Nest (40/2 from 7) were instrumental in the resultant target.
After a quick lunch break, Groot Drak headed out to attempt the run chase. A shaky start saw the local boys 63/3 before the innings was stabilized by Martin van der Merwe (41 from 55) and Craig McNaught (48 from 61). A few quick wickets saw Groot Drak in trouble – but, batting all the way to number 11, there was still a chance of victory for the home side.
Great starts from Jannes Mouton (18 from 13), Kudu Kotze (23 from 23) and Corrie Brand (21* from 29) took the game down to the wire… needing one run for victory from the last ball of the match, some efficient fielding from Oxford saw a run out and the game being tied!
The shared result was soon forgotten over a customary beer on the pitch and a brief history of the club shared with the visitors, courtesy of Richard von Hoesslin.
A brief fines meeting warmed both teams up for what would be a fantastic dinner and bonding experience between, what we hope will be, two teams that begin a tradition of regular fixtures in the future.
It was a wonderful opportunity to host such a fantastic bunch of cricketers, who, along with Groot Drak, enjoyed each aspect of the day, both on and off the pitch!


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Q: SMSBroadCast, How do I receive and output SMS I have sent? I have this snippet to receive incoming text messages and show them as a notification with Toast and stick the containing Senders Phone and Message body inside a file with writeToFile();. How do I receive text messages I send to others ?
public class SMSBroadcast extends BroadcastReceiver {

        private static final String SMS_RECEIVED = "android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED";
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        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            Log.i(TAG, "Intent recieved: " + intent.getAction());
            Toast.makeText(context, "Recieved", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

            if (SMS_RECEIVED.equals(intent.getAction())) {
                Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
                if (bundle != null) {
                    Object[] pdus = (Object[])bundle.get("pdus");
                    final SmsMessage[] messages = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
                    for (int i = 0; i < pdus.length; i++) {
                        messages[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[])pdus[i]);
                    }
                    if (messages.length > -1) {
                        Log.i(TAG, "Message recieved: " + messages[0].getMessageBody());
                        Toast.makeText(context, messages[0].getDisplayOriginatingAddress(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        try {
                            writeToFile( messages[0].getDisplayOriginatingAddress()+messages[0].getMessageBody());
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                            Toast.makeText(context,e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

A: It was as easy as using Uri to get the content from my "Sent" box.
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    Uri uriSMSURI = Uri.parse("content://sms/sent");
    Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(uriSMSURI, null, null, null,null);
    String sms = "";
    while (cur.moveToNext()) {
        sms += "To :" + cur.getString(2) + " : " + cur.getString(12)+"\n";
    }
   //Do code with string (sms)


Validate the control tower strategy for a large industrial manufacturing company and support the outsourcing process to select multiple LLPs.
BCI supported a large industrial manufacturer in the validation of the control tower strategy in terms of organization structure, headcount, systems and partners.
Validated control tower strategy for all geo's and for both finished goods as well as spare parts. Thorough selection process. Selected and contracted 2 LLPs to execute the control tower for the Client.