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Planning for planned cities
Written by Professor Barry Goldsmith
If you've been to London, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, St. Petersburg, Berlin, New Delhi, Kyoto, Shanghai, Philadelphia, Washington, DC - and even smaller cities such as Edinburgh, Bath, Versailles, Williamsburg, VA, Savannah, you've probably already vacationed in a planned city (or a re-planned city) without even realizing it. In addition, there are many fantastic, totally planned cities (from the ground up) sadly unknown even to the most sophisticated travelers, such as Karlsruhe (Germany), Zamosc (Poland), Richelieu (France).
Whether a city was rebuilt after an earthquake such as Ragusa, Noto, Modica (Sicily, 1693), Lisbon (1755), San Francisco (1906) – or designed from scratch -- because a new capital was needed -- such as St. Petersburg, Washington DC (1798), Canberra (Australia, 1927), New Delhi (1931) and Chandigarh (India, 1947) or Brasilia (1960) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil, 1898) – cities planned from the ground up (literally) offer great design, living and traveling advantages.
What makes a planned city special? Most planned cities are easier for tourists to navigate – you know (and see) where you're going – and can enjoy your walk and sightsee getting there. For example Paris -- from the Louvre you can see in a straight line up the Champs Elysees, past the Arc de Triomphe miles away to the newest monument on the horizon – the Arc de la Defence (1989). "Light" – in the "City of Light" was alien to dark and dingy Paris before Baron Haussmann totally redesigned Paris in mid-19th century for Emperor Napoleon III?
Was Emperor Napoleon III's motive beautification or fortification – linking the railroad stations by long avenues – to quickly quell a potential revolution? It's a long debate? Just appreciate Paris' beautify whatever the reason.
Linking long avenues with vertical points was already at work three centuries earlier in Rome. In the 16thcentury Pope Sixtus V repositioned Egyptian obelisks (brought over by the Ancient Romans) in plazas and started linking those plazas with straight, long avenues. Rome has the best of both types of city-planning – long straight avenues and kasbah-like unplanned alleys. In Rome's charming back alleys –- I'm guided by sounds. As the sound of a splashing fountain becomes louder and louder – I know I'm nearing a fountain with its spread-out piazza --such as the world-famous Fountain of Trevi.
The great piazza in front of St. Peter's used to be approached through narrow dark streets -- a "borgo." You leave the dark borgo suddenly being thrust into the bright humongous Piazza San Pietro with the arms of Bernini's colonnade embracing you – which is known as a surprising "Baroque" experience. That is until Mussolini poked through the borgo with his long disrupting avenue, Via della Concilliazione. (Although Mussolini's Via dei Fori Imperiali linking Palazzo Venezia, his former office, with the Coliseum does add grandeur – while dividing the Ancient Roman forums in two.)
Italy was the birthplace of the grid-planned city – something that even older cities – founded with meandering "cow paths" -- adopted in the 19thcentury – such New York, Boston, Sydney. Pompeii and Herculaneum are good examples of the ancient grid. And yet the grid -- a basic and very logical city plan -- seems to have developed simultaneously all over the world. While Europe was in the dark ages, Kyoto's grid was the basis for a very civilized temple-and-palace planned city around 800 AD
Italy gave birth to the Renaissance Planned City. The great Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote treatises on the ideal planned city, which centered around a square with a church, a government building and a palace as exemplified in Bernardo Rossellino's Pienza (in Tuscany near Sienna). This concept traveled of cities planned around central plazas took a strong foothold in South America. However, to see the most dramatic planned plaza let's return to Rome to its most famous 16th-century piazza, the Compidoglio designed by Michelangelo.
The best totally planned city is 18th-century St. Petersburg. Its main street Nevsky Prospect has many recessed elegant squares – building ensembles -- which takes the visitor by surprise -- just as walking on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and suddenly coming across the Rockefeller Center's ensemble of buildings. St. Petersburg's three main avenues radiating from the Admiralty yet again brings to mind Italy – the three radiating avenues originating from Rome's much older Piazza del Popolo.
Italy-inspired Renaissance cities spread around the world such as the spectacular Zamosc in Eastern Poland with its prolonged rectangular grid contained in pentagon-shaped walls. All its 16th-century buildings were built within just a few years – giving the city a uniform character. Zamosc is more than merely "Italy inspired" – it's Italian designed by the Venetian architect Bernardo Morando. It's even a UNESCO site -- not to be missed.
Contemporary to Zamosc is Palmonova – another Italian Renaissance fortified city with a circular pattern radiating outward (like spokes on a wheel) from its circular main piazza in the center. It's almost as if Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of "Vitruvian Man" (a man set within a circle) became a city plan – man at the center of his universe. Sadly the last time I visited this amazing city – not far from Venice – there wasn't even a single man (or woman) tourist. (An easy way of recognizing a "Been There, HAVEN'T Done That" special site is when its official website is only in one language -- the native language – as is Palmonova's – in Italian only.)
Karlsruhe, Germany (1715) is another 18th-century circular planned city planned with man in the center of the universe – the center of its inhabitants' universe – King Charles William. Half of the city is a park – making Karlsruhe one of the greenest cities of its day.
Great circular-planned cities are almost as ubiquitous as grid-planned. One of my favorites is Bath – England's great 18th-century Georgian resort. Instead of circles ("circuses" as the "Bathers" call them) with a building in the center – the circumference of the actual circle is composed of buildings! Whenever I visit India's grand new capital, New DeIhi, I feel as if "I'm going around in circles" since New Delhi is composed of interconnecting radiating rotaries. New Delhi was built by the British and completed in1931 almost just in time for the country's independence sixteen years later.
Two other great Asian planned cities also in India and are grid-oriented – 18th-century Jaipur and mid 20th-century Chandigarh -- Le Corbusier's only realized planned city -- created after the partition of Pakistan from India Finally in the 21stcentury the great architecture of Chandigarh is getting the infrastructure it deserves with new 5-star hotels such as the JW Marriott.
Another benefit of planned cities is the inclusion of lots of green spaces. Once again, the best example is Paris in which large parks transformed land that previously served as everything from stone quarries to a city dump. Pudong, the new city across the river from Shanghai, exemplifies the greening of China's 21st-century planned cities.
While grid-planned cities -- with the main square smack in the middle – dominates city planning there are some exceptions. My two favorite smaller French rectangular planned cities – with squares at opposite corners of the longer ends – are 17th-century Richelieu and 18th-century re-planned Nancy.
The unknown and seldom-visited Richelieu has an elegant tree-lined avenue linking its two separated main squares at opposite ends. It's a charming "17th-century French Colonial Williamsburg" in France's famous Loire Valley – not far from Chinon -- and definitely worth a visit.
As long as we're in the Loire Valley – stop off at another chateau – the Chateau Cande (just a few miles from the famous Azay-le-Rideau). With all the hoopla over the recent wedding of Prince Harry and American Meghan Markle, why not visit the chateau where another royal, King Edward VIII married an earlier American divorcee – Wallis Simpson.
In the mid 18th century – the elegant re-planned city of Nancy has a similar -- but grander -- layout. Rococo Stanislaw Square (names after Louis XV's father-in-law – the Polish King Stanislaw) is united by an avenue of clipped trees starting at a triumphal arch and ending in the oval – and equally elegant -- Place de la Carriere with its palaces conforming to the oval. (Nancy is also one of France's great Art Nouveau cities.)
For another 18th-century elegant planned city -- with two widely-separated main squares at opposite ends -- cross the English Channel and then cross Edinburgh's main street, Princes Street and visit Edinburgh's New Town. New Town is contemporary to Nancy in date – but not in style. While Nancy's new town is in more elaborate Rococo – Edinburgh's planned New Town is Palladian – with buildings in the Neoclassical style – many designed by the Adams Brothers.
Planned cities with ceremonial buildings linked by a broad long avenue aren't unique to Europe and the 17th and 18th centuries. The Aztec town of Teotihuacan – just outside Mexico City – dates from around 250 AD – and it links temples and palaces. The scale of its monumental pyramids truly overwhelms.
Versailles influenced many planned cities around the world. Not the 18th-century planned town of Versailles (with three avenues radiating from the palace's city façade)– but the gardens of Versailles with its intersecting diagonals creating interesting, unique and even disconcerting spaces such as triangular plots. Versailles' gardens were the inspiration for the city plan of our own capital, Washington, DC. (1791).
The 20thcentury saw planned cities that neither conformed to a grid or to a circular plan – almost defining all previous planning rationales – Australia's capital, Canberra (1927) and Brazil's capital, Brasilia (1960).
I'm lucky to have visited both. I call Canberra's "America's Planned Capital" -- since it was designed by two Americans, Walter Burley Griffin and his wife. (America's planned capital, Washington, DC, was designed by Frenchman, Pierre l'Enfant.) Canberra -- probably the most bucolic planned capital city -- has a very strange plan where long esplanades are suddenly interrupted by lakes. Canberra's sod-roofed new parliament building looks as if it belongs on "Little House on the Prairie. " Whereas Brasilia's plan looks like an airplane with wings spread – ready to take off as does much of its space-age sculptured great Oscar Niemeyer architecture – Bauhaus with curves. I think it's about time that American tourists know the difference between Oscar Niemeyer and Oscar Meyer.
The re-planned Paris of the late 20th and early 21st century is Berlin. Berlin reminds me of a married couple who get divorced, remarried to other people, divorce their second spouses – and then remarry their first spouses. However that renewed reunion can never be the same. The problem applies to Berlin – the reunification of a city separated by decades. When first united in 1991, Eastern Berlin was trying to keep up with Western Berlin. When the new government buildings, united museum collections and new hotels came to Eastern Berlin – it's now Western Berlin trying its best to keep up with the East. Hopefully soon Berlin will have marriage equality.
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NICK MILLEVOI´S DESERTION TRIO WITH JAMIE SAFT // Midtown Tilt
NICK MILLEVOI . guitar
JOHNNY DeBLASE . electric bass
KEVIN SHEA . drums
JJAMIE SAFT . organ
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1. Midtown Tilt
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Midtown Tilt by Desertion Trio with Jamie Saft
Guitarist Nick Millevoi's (Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band, John Zorn's Bagatelles) Desertion project has created its second opus, Midtown Tilt. Now using the title Desertion Trio, the band features Johnny DeBlase (Many Arms, Sabbath Assembly) on bass, and Kevin Shea (Mostly Other People Do The Killing, Talibam!) at the drumkit, and follows 2016's Desertion by also featuring guest Jamie Saft (Electric Masada, The New Standard Trio with and without Iggy Pop) on the organ. Vibraphonist and percussionist Ashley Tini joins on three tracks.
Much like Desertion, the formula for Midtown Tilt continues to follow an instrumental country-folkrock mix with elements from jazz, as we would expect from these musicians. The musicians improvise as if their lives depend on it, but also evoke an imagery that takes listeners through the history of instrumental electric guitar music. Inspired by the town of Wildwood, NJ and the anachronistic clash of re-imagined cultures seen in its motels and amusements, Midtown Tilt is an amalgamation of jazz, psychedelic blues, surf music, and country rock instrumentals, often reminding us of Neil Young's Crazy Horse scoring a western. Through Saft's organ, something else is added: traces of the rhythm and blues played by Booker T. & The M.G.'s and of the blues-rock of bands like The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith. The mix is explosive.
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Neil Ferris, Director of Strategy and Developments, MWDA, will give a presentation to the Committee.
A report by the Director of Technical Services provided the Committee with information relating to the Merseyside Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy (JMWMS) review and associated complementary Wirral Council District Action Plan (DCAP). It was noted that, subject to Members' approval and ratification by the Council, the current schedule for the publication of the JMWMS and the Wirral DCAP was December 2011.
The JMWMS and Wirral Council's DCAP would become the Council's strategic documents to support the delivery of the corporate goal "Minimising Waste by Encouraging Waste Reduction and Recycling".
Neil Ferris, Director of Strategy and Developments at the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority provided the Committee with a presentation on the latest position of the JMWMS. Mr Ferris reminded Members of the EU Waste Framework Directive and EU Landfill Directive Targets. He also provided a short list of strategy objectives, a menu of delivery options and informed of the details of his Authority's ten week public consultation exercise, which had ended on 7 September 2011. A review timetable had been prepared along with an action plan for Wirral Council to assist it in delivering the Waste Strategy.
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(7) following the ratification of the JMWMS a request be made that the Merseyside Waste Levy Payment Mechanism review must be undertaken, as soon as possible, and the progress of this work be monitored by this Committee.


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For some immigrants, a wrenching dilemma: Stay or leave?
When the Trump administration decided to end protected status for people from El Salvador, Hector Soriano faced a wrenching decision and a big gamble.
In the 17 years since he gained protection from deportation — giving him the right to work legally in the U.S. — Soriano established a successful landscaping business and fathered four young children, all U.S. citizens. Recently, Soriano, 42, and his fiancee, Jennifer Carlsen, moved up their wedding plans, knowing that marriage to a U.S. citizen generally provides a sure path to legal status for immigrants.
But because Soriano first came to the U.S. illegally, in 1999, immigration law says he will have to return to El Salvador before he can apply for a green card.
"If it wasn't for that, I would have done it a long time ago," said Soriano, of Bensalem, Pa., outside Philadelphia. "The reason I didn't do it — if I had to leave the country, I was afraid they wouldn't let me back in. I can't afford to leave her, and leave my kids."
If Soriano lived in California or Ohio, however, he would not face that decision. In 13 states covered by the U.S. 6th and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals, including the entire West Coast, courts have ruled that someone in Soriano's situation can apply for a green card without leaving the U.S.
The judges in those courts have ruled that having so-called temporary protected status, or TPS, counts as a "legal entry" — usually a necessary first step toward applying for legal status.
That's just one example of the complexity of immigration law that hundreds of thousands of immigrants now must navigate as the Trump administration winds down programs that have allowed them to live and work legally in the U.S.
All told, the administration has announced plans to terminate federal protections that have covered roughly 1 million immigrants, including TPS and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
"Unfortunately, that's one indication of our broken immigration system, where the system doesn't make a whole lot of sense," said Nick Katz, a lawyer with CASA de Maryland, an immigration advocacy group based in Tacoma Park, Md. "There's not a whole lot of consistency across the board."
The approaching end of temporary protected status for people who came to the U.S. from El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua affects more than 300,000 people and has led to lots of agonized kitchen-table conversations.
Immigration lawyers are getting calls with tough questions: Should I leave now and apply for a visa? What are the odds, in the Trump era, that I will be allowed to come back? Or should I stay and take my chances as an undocumented immigrant?
Moving his family to El Salvador is not an option, Soriano said.
"If my country was a different country, if you could live without having to fear one of our kids getting killed by something stupid, I would say, of course," he said. "The way things are in El Salvador, you can't afford to do that."
In a briefing with reporters this month about the end of temporary status for Salvadorans, an administration official declined to offer advice to immigrants with families, saying only that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will consider cases on their merits.
"We're not getting involved in individual family decisions," he said. The official briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.
President Trump has been determined to wind down TPS, the special protection from deportation that is granted under immigration law for people from countries hard hit by natural disasters and civil wars. Salvadorans got the protection after two massive earthquakes in 2001, and the country's continuing problems led successive administrations to renew the program 11 times.
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has taken a stricter approach, but has given affected people as much as 18 months to prepare. The TPS designation for El Salvador will expire in November 2019. Protections for some 59,000 Haitians expire in July 2019. Both groups of protected immigrants must apply by March 18 to extend their protections until the new expiration dates.
About 5,000 Nicaraguans, who will lose TPS in January 2019, must apply for an extension by Feb. 13.
In ending the protections, administration officials noted that Congress could pass a law allowing longtime TPS holders to stay. Democrats have introduced bills to do that, and senators discussed including such a provision in the deal to protect the so-called Dreamers.
But Trump ripped that idea at a White House meeting last week, saying he didn't want more people coming to the U.S. from "shithole countries," according to participants in the meeting. Trump and some Republicans have denied he used that vulgarity, with some White House officials suggesting that he may have said "shithouse."
After the current protections end, immigration advocates say many of those who have been covered by TPS will have limited options; unlike Soriano, many don't have a good route to become legal residents of the U.S. Over the years, Salvadorans covered by TPS have become parents of nearly 200,000 U.S. citizen children, studies have found.
"Probably the majority of people living under TPS will either go underground or go back to their home countries," said Andrew Cohen, an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles. For a lot of people, however, returning to their country of origin "is not a viable option, because they're the breadwinner of an extended family here," he said.
Those in the best position are people who have a U.S. citizen spouse or other close family member and live in a state covered by the 9th or 6th Circuit.
Last March, the 9th Circuit held that Jesus Ramirez — a Salvadoran who had entered the U.S. illegally in 1999, received temporary protected status and married a U.S. citizen — could stay in the U.S. while applying to become a permanent resident. That decision echoed a similar one by the 6th Circuit in 2013.
9th Circuit decisions apply in California and eight other Western states: Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
The 6th Circuit covers Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
Another appellate court, covering Florida, Georgia and Alabama, made an opposite ruling.
In states not covered by the two rulings, the choice to leave the U.S. and seek a green card is a risky one, said David Leopold, an immigration lawyer from Cleveland.
"People who seek a green card need to think long and hard before they depart the U.S., expecting to be permitted back in with a waiver," Leopold said.
So far, the immigration service has been treating applications according to the rules that apply in each state. There's nothing in the rules that says a TPS holder can't move to another state and make the application from there, a spokeswoman said.
Soriano and Carlsen have thought about that option, but it would require him to give up his business and the 120 clients he's gathered through years of work. "It's a really hard predicament," Carlsen said. "If it came right down to it, we'd have to do whatever was necessary to keep our family together."
The whims of the quirky system are not lost on them. "We border Ohio," Carlsen says. "It's right there. It's so frustrating."
Read more:http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-tps-20180119-story.html
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The competition and markets authority (CMA) is calling on social media influencers to be more transparent when it comes to their online posts.
In the past few years, social media influencing has quickly become an integral part of social media marketing for many brands. Recently, the CMA contacted several celebrities, including the likes of Zoella, Rita Ora, Michelle Keegan and Alexa Chung, after it found that their posts may not comply with consumer protection laws.
Usually, when a celebrity posts an online endorsement of a brand or product, consumer protection laws say they must disclose whether they are being paid or rewarded by the brand in return.
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Instagram, which is currently still one of the biggest platforms worldwide, is full of paid and sponsored posts. Bloggers and influencers alike used to use the hashtag #Ad or #SponsoredPost to make it obvious that their post was endorsed, that is until Instagram implemented a feature that would do this automatically.
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Torah Portion: Vaetchanan
Dvar Torah on Deuteronomy 3:23-26
There we were in the land of Moav, on the 1st day of the 11th month in the 40th year of wandering in the desert.
Moses is standing before the whole people, recounting the voyage thus far.
At first, he reminds us of our victories over the Amorites and how we began to take hold of the land that would become some of ancient Israel:
So the LORD our God also delivered into our power King Og of Bashan, with all his men, and we dealt them such a blow that no survivor was left.
At that time we captured all his towns; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty towns, the whole district of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan--
all those towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars—apart from a great number of unwalled towns.
We doomed them as we had done in the case of King Sihon of Heshbon; we doomed every town—men, women, and children--
and retained as booty all the cattle and the spoil of the towns.
Thus we seized, at that time, from the two Amorite kings, the country beyond the Jordan, from the wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon--
He sounds like a typical war hero. His words echo descriptions of many other military victories and sound meant to instill hope as the Israelites prepare to conquer the land of Israel. As a meandering, vulnerable, recently-enslaved people his words probably made the people feel strong, powerful--all of the things they lacked when they were enslaved.
At the beginning of this week's parasha, however, Moses' tone shifts dramatically.
וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן
That is the name of this week's Torah portion, meaning "And then I pleaded."
It is not often we hear of military leaders pleading at all, especially if the pleas are ineffective. But here, we witness Moses not just pleading--we witness him RETELLING the story of pleaing before God, and ALSO how his plea is flat-out rejected by God.
וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן אֶל־יְי
Va'etchanan el Hashem
"And then I pleaded to God and said
'O Lord GOD,
You who let Your servant see Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal!
Let me, please, cross over and see the good land
on the other side of the Jordan.'"
It takes an extraordinary amount of vulnerability and a very special leader to be able to share their deepest desires before an entire people. For a lot of us, it's hard to share our desires even in private, whether it's a job you really want that you might not get, whether it's a career or hobby you want to pursue but don't know if you'll be any good at, or whether it's telling someone "I love you" who might not say it back
Moses, special leader that he is, not only has the vulnerability to express his deep desire to see the land on the other side of the Jordan to God, but he is even willing to recount that experience, as well as God's rejection before his entire people.
It is hard to imagine having a leader in America today willing to show that kind of vulnerability before an entire audience. In today's culture, Moses' behavior would be very countercultural.
The Jewish community no longer has a leader like Moses, and will never have another leader like Moses. BUT we are all inheritors of his teachings--that is why we traditionally refer to him as Moshe Rabbenu, Moses our Teacher. And without a Moses to lead our community, we all must step into his legacy of leadership to keep us moving forward toward the Promised Land.
The first part of Moses' leadership legacy is instilling a sense of hope and strength and power. To that end, I want to recognize the incredible leadership of the 35+ Chevrei members of all ages who participated in the protest in Howard County. Without your presence and your voices, fewer people would even know about the massive atrocities that are being committed against detained individuals in this country. By showing up and expressing your desires, you make change possible. There is much more work to do, but your example, gives me and I'm sure many others the hope and the energy to take the next step in stopping our government from violating the human rights of migrants and immigrants.
The second part of Moses's leadership legacy is recognizing our vulnerabilities and our desires. The root of the Hebrew word for Moses' prayer to God וָאֶתְחַנַּ֖ן is chet-nun-nun, which is the same as the root for the word "chen", which is the Hebrew word for grace. According to Rashi, this implies that Moses made his request to God without making any argument or justification for why he should to enter the land. He does not reflect upon his qualifications but rather places his desire, simply and straightforwardly, depending on God's will to grant him permission to enter the land or not.
As we move into Elul and focus on repairing our interpersonal relationships, in order to make deep shifts, we will have to look openly at where we stand with one another, and what we want to ask for from one another. We might find ourselves asking for forgiveness in a situation where we don't think we deserve it. We need to take the risk of being open with our desires and risk not getting what we want. It's very vulnerable and uncomfortable, but this too is a kind of leadership.
On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we will make many supplicatory prayers. We will sing the prayer Avinu Malkenu, we will say:
Avinu Malkenu Chanenu,
Be gracious to us
Chanenu the same root, chet-nun-nun, as V'etchanan. Our prayer will follow Moses' model, giving us a chance to get in touch with our deepest desires, whether we think we deserve them or not, whether we have any realistic hope of getting the thing that we want or not.
Part 1 of Moses' leadership legacy--the instilling of hope, of strength, of power--that kind of leadership is all over the place in American culture. Part 2--the risking vulnerability--that is what is so countercultural. I'm proud to be joining a community here that is not afraid to be countercultural, to hold different values than the mainstream, and that not only CAN embrace a legacy of leadership that is just a little different than the mainstream, but that actually RELIES on its whole community to take on leadership to be the daringly whole-hearted enterprize that Chevrei Tzedek is.
Let us then step into the leadership legacy of Moshe Rabbenu, yes by instilling hope and strength in one another and also by sharing our visions and desires with one another, in all of their vulnerability.
Bit by bit, perhaps we can amplify a different vision of leadership, one that is as old as Moses would be if he were here, and is renewed with each leader who steps up.
Rory Katz is the rabbi of Chevrei Tzedek Congregation in Baltimore. She was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in May 2019.
About the name of this blog, Baltimorah. It is a longstanding tradition for rabbis to be known by the cities in which they teach. Baltimorah is a portmanteau that contains a double word play, depending on whether it is read as "BaltiMorah" or "BaltimOrah". The word for "teacher," which is the essential function of a rabbi, is "Morah" in Hebrew. On top of that, Rabbi Katz's Hebrew name is Orah (Hebrew for "Light").
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Change is good. The growth of sports gaming over the last 20 years has been astronomical, and recent AAA releases remind us what a treasure it is to be alive. However, there are a number of features that were present throughout the 1990s and early 2000s that today's titles are missing. I have compiled five of the most glaring absences from recent sports releases.
Classic games are considered as such because of their gameplay. The limitations of earlier consoles prevented lifelike graphics, realistic physics and a wealth of other features. But that did not stop Tecmo Super Bowl, Mutant League Football, Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball and NBA Jam from becoming critical and cultural triumphs. In part, this may be because these games now serve as blissful time capsules to our youthful ignorance. But what really made these games classics is their arcade-style gameplay. Pick up any of these games today and feel the immediate difference in control, ability and experience from current-gen sim titles.
NFL Blitz was not a hit in 1998 because it had cutting-edge graphics and a narrative-driven career mode. Blitz saw immense success due to lightning fast gameplay that incorporated insane trick plays, a host of inopportune turnovers and superhuman strengths. Plainly and simply, it was fun. The gameplay was fluid and controls were easy, but there was so much more to master. Extrapolating fans' favorite elements of football, cranking up the absurdities and dramatically altering the rules combined for a wholesomely different experience.
Unfortunately, the blissful arcade gameplay that dominated the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s has largely vanished in favor of hyper-realistic simulations. Titles like NBA Playgrounds are rarities in a modern market that was once equal parts arcade as it was sim. MLB The Show included a Retro Mode to harken back to the Griffey days on the SNES, but it felt like a palette swap of the the slower sim gameplay that the franchise has otherwise mastered instead of a full-fledged nostalgic mode.
Taking a cue from its arcade roots, the 2010 NBA Jam reboot did an excellent job of burying tons of secret teams, players and gameplay enhancers into its unlockables vault. The Beastie Boys, politicians, and even Thanksgiving turkeys all had individual stats and animations. Playing as Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton on the Supersonics again or unlocking legendary Shaq to pair with the Magic's mascot Stuff kept the game engaging long after its release. Unfortunately, NBA Jam fell off of EA's radar, and despite a superbly deep revival, NBA Jam slowly fell to the wayside as its rosters stopped receiving updates.
Madden, MLB The Show and NBA 2K have all demonstrated a commitment to growing their legend pools for their card-collecting modes. However, fans are not universally interested in card-collecting modes, and many gloss over them altogether. Unearthing bizarre cameos (Jamie Kennedy in ESPN NFL 2K5 or Mortal Kombat's Scorpion in NBA Jam) provided intrigue that breathed new life into titles back in the day. What about collecting MVP Points to spend on MVP Baseball 2005's monster collection of legends, stadiums and throwback jerseys? Regrettably, this content has shifted to a premium and exists wherein real-life currency becomes a factor. Card-collecting modes do not recapture the joy of earning these characters through in-game achievements. MLB The Show 17 rewards Diamond Dynasty players for milestones and missions, but it is not the same experience as shopping at WWF No Mercy's still-impressive Smackdown Mall. It may be a very long time before we see secret characters and gameplay enhancers return to AAA sports titles the way they used to function.
This is not exactly a feature, but its impact on classic sports games is immeasurable. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s -- the "Pre-Monopoly Era" -- there were as many as six potential games coming out for a single year of a single sport. Six! EA's Madden exclusivity, Sony San Diego's MLB exclusivity, and 2K's stranglehold on the NBA do not yield much opportunity for other titles. Sure, indie titles will surface every year or so, but the lack of choice stunts the genre's growth.
Were it not for the crazy competition, would we ever have seen ESPN NFL 2K5 or MVP Baseball 2005? NFL 2K5 even launched at $19.99 to further encourage gamers to check it out. Could you imagine NBA 2K18 doing the same thing to keep NBA Live at bay? It would not happen because 2K has basketball gaming completely locked down.
Competition meant that developers needed to get creative to retain gamers. As such, ESPN NFL 2K5 was loaded with features on top of its perfected football engine, and remains one of the greatest football games of all-time. Midway's violent arcade sims were born out of giving players oversaturated with sims a completely new experience. When this whittles down to only one or two companies, it is easy for them to regurgitate a similar perennial product without significant feature overhauls.
How much joy did you feel when a batted ball slammed into the tractor in MVP Baseball 2005's batting practice mode? The digital equivalent of hitting the golf cart at the driving range was a pure delight as MVP trained players to take different approaches at the plate. What about the ultra-violent 2-on-2 body checking mode in NHL Hitz that taught players to master evading hits? Which of your favorite celebrities and friends did you create for your NFL Challenge team in NFL Street, only to lead them to unprecedented glory? Were you able to pitch the ball six times in a single play and score? Some gamers' fondest memories came from modes that existed completely outside of the traditional season or franchise modes.
The 2K series has Blacktop, the NHL series tried NHL 94 mode, Madden has the Gauntlet, and MLB The Show has Events, Ranked Seasons and Battle Royale. But these feel more like aesthetic changes than they do a separate experience. Could The Bigs' pickup mode be included in future Show releases? How will they revamp Retro Mode? How about an NBA Jam-style mode within NBA 2K18? Or an 8-bit mode for Madden? Gimmicky throw-ins get worn out quickly, but if EA stuck an HD version of NFL Street as a pre-order bonus for Madden 18? I know I would certainly pre-order it.
One of the most enjoyable moments in sports gaming is taking your own custom teams and players across multiple seasons. Narrative-driven sports RPG modes have created new levels of immersion for players. However, creating your own team from the ground up is a bit of a lost treasure. Sure, fantasy drafts and forcing trades allow players to concoct dream rosters, but the joys of creating a team from scratch are fewer and further between these days.
The NBA 2K series allows players to swap out legendary teams in franchise modes. This has been an absolute blast as players basically create their own league of the greatest teams of all-time. But what about the games that would allow you to design your own jerseys, logo, rosters and stadium? The corresponding "World Tour" modes are buried in sports gamers' deepest nostalgic throes and allowed for unique local multiplayer experiences that we recall fondly.
Additionally, create-a-stadium would have to be right behind it. These editors do not have to be crazy, even though the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series has been doing it well since the PlayStation 1 days. MVP Baseball and Madden allowed players to tweak stadiums from a few preset options, and the arbitrary changing of concessions prices did not yield notable functionality. However, given the strength and depth of modern consoles and software, including an advanced stadium creator could provide supplemental depth to already strong sim titles.
What about you, loyal readers? Sound off on the features you miss the most in the comments section below.
For me personally only Number 3 is something that I see as an issue with today's sports games.
Man I do miss being able to buy a great football game for $20, now you have to pay $60 for an ok game.
I will take todays more simulation style of MLBTS and NBA2k, to any of the 80's-90's sports games. Thing have improved so much compared to my very 1st gaming console with was the original atari.
The 1 game I miss the 1 game I would buy if it were to come back out, is Baseball Stars, I played that game till the cartridge went blank on the Nintendo. I loved that game, and how you could rename the players and boost them up, and sign rookie, or aging vets to contracts.
I did really enjoy Super Techmo bowl and played the heck out of it, but dont think it would hold my attention now very long, as without drafts and retiring players, I know I would lose interest in it.
There is too much arcade still in sports games. I agree with the rest though.
We need a Custom camera option back in Madden!
Please stop blaming 2K for EA Sports incompetence with the NBA Live franchise. 2K beat out Live fair and square.
nba 2k has added some great modes/features and teams since 2k11.....why can't madden follow suit? some historic teams and create-a-team/league features would be nice additions. mlb the show had the right idea with griffey and the retro mode. now just add some historic teams and/or world baseball classic.
Seems NBA Live might benefit from selling their game for $20 option to try and compete with 2K.
On another note, we could create some of our own nostalgia if we were given tools like schedule creation, being able to move teams to a different league or division and customizing leagues.
Yep, I agree completely. I miss the days of selecting between games for that season's sport (or, splurging and buying more than one of them!). This past football and hockey seasons, I bought zero games, since neither EA product showed me enough to make the purchase worth that much money.
I miss being able to throw the ball around after a play in Baseball games. I would love to see better integration of created players and teams in sports games. "The Home Team" just doesn't cut it with me.
Really do miss the secret characters and unlockables. It was so damn satisfying to be rewarded for your gameplay. I generally don't even pay for DLC anymore. I already dropped 60. I don't want to pay more, and it's not fun.
Apparently the NBA would not allow this. They felt that a budget title would cheapen their premium brand. This was discussed awhile back on an episode of the Press Row Podcast.
Franchise modes while deep, for me have gotten too complicated. Specifically, the UI in Madden is dreadful and feels laggy. I don't want to spend an hour doing drills for players, or being forced to recruit manually and spend points. I want options that allow me to focus on playing, or at least make these add ons fun. Remember Madden 09 where you could train your player with sprint or benchpress, now that was cool.
a name database. that used to be in 2k games. you could create just about any name, much more personable when the arean mc's and commentators would say the name.
Awesome read. Totally agree with customisation. Why has this been so neglected from all major sporting games? It adds so many hours of longevity to their career/maanger modes.
It is more than possible to do in this age though. Look at some of the lesser played/known sports games such as Don Bradman Cricket and Rugby League Live (3 now 4). The developer of these games, BigAnt has included an 'Academy' of sorts. Initially to get around lack of any licenses for Cricket. It allows community creation and sharing of players, teams, leagues, umpires and stadiums. This sharing occurs across all platforms I think. It's use in Rugby League wasn't to get around licenses as all major competitions and teams in that game are official. Despite average gameplay of Rugby League Live 3 it allowed me to create endless teams and players, access old classics and updated rosters. It added 100s of hours of extra gameplay.


LeEco May Still Be Alive And May Do A Comeback With A Dual Camera Smartphone !
Do you remember LeEco ? Well in case you can't or you simply don't know, LeEco is a Chinese company who offered Smartphones with good hardware at a lower price point.
But, this wasn't a stable thing for LeEco. They were giving quite a lot of subsidy to keep the prices low. As, devices didn't sell that well, they faced a huge loss. Even the CEO Jia Yueting resigned from the company,just a while ago. So, we kinda thought that there'll be no upcoming smartphones from LcEco's side in near future.
But, a recent leak is trying to prove us wrong as it shows that LeEco is working on a smartphone that is rocking Dual Camera setup at the back.
The front looks quite similar with the older LeEco models. However, we don't have any hardware info as of now. But, looks like they're not ditching the headphone jack this time. Also there's no visible Antenna lines on this one. So they may go with some similar Antenna setup like the iPhone.
We think that LeEco needs to work on their Camera Software a bit as, the previous devices faced a lot of Camera quality issues due to bad image processing. So, let's see what they can do with the Dual Camera Implementation here. Keeping in mind that LeEco's joint project with Coolpad that resulted in the Coolpad Cool 1, had a decent Camera for the price. So, we are definitely looking forward to the efforts of LeEco with this new Dual Camera Smartphone.
By the way, if LeEco comes back with a good device, will you give it a try ? Let us know in the comments section right below this article !


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How a judge is selected in Massachusetts
/ Civil Procedure /
In the United States, some states elect their judges, while in others they are appointed.
Judges in Massachusetts are appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, also known as the Governor's Council. This has been so ever since 1780, when the Massachusetts Constitution was established. [See the Massachusetts Constitution Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 9.]
Judges serve lifetime appointments, with mandatory retirement at age 70. (Originally, in 1780, the Massachusetts Constitution gave judges lifetime appointments with no age limit. In 1972 an amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution [Article XCVIII, scroll down to it] made retirement mandatory at age 70.)
The eight (originally nine) members of the Governor's Council are elected from their respective districts every two years. Five members must be present to make a quorum. The Lieutenant Governor also sits on the Council, ex officio, and may be called upon by the governor to serve as a tie breaker. [Massachusetts Constitution, Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 3, Article 1.]
Since 1975, each governor has issued an executive order creating a Judicial Nominating Commission to screen potential judicial candidates for the governor. The members are distinguished volunteers selected by the governor, serving for one year at the governor's pleasure.
There is no law or constitutional provision that states that a judge should have a background as a lawyer, but the governor's Executive Order states the educational and work experience that a successful candidate should have. (No non-lawyer has advanced to become a judge in modern times.) Qualifications include membership in the bar and a minimum number of years of legal experience in the court. The current qualifications may be found in Governor Baker's (2015) Executive Order 558.
In addition, the Massachusetts Bar Association, in association with local bar associations, participates in the selection of judges by offering its opinions on the candidates through the Joint Bar Committee (JBC) on Judicial Appointments.
The Massachusetts Bar Association's, A Guide to the Massachusetts Judicial Selection Process: the Making of a Judge, (3rd ed., 2015) details the judicial selection process, and describes the measures that have been put in place to reduce political influence in the selection of judges, including with regard to the JNC (Judicial Nominating Commission). "The JBC was formally established in 1961 and the committee has played a role with every administration in evaluating the qualifications of judicial applicants. The committee works with the governor's chief legal counsel, on a confidential basis, in serving as the final independent check and balance on those individuals selected by the governor for nomination. In other words, the committee operates after an individual is approved by the JNC, selected by the governor, and prior to their submission to the Governor's Council. "
The National Center for State Courts has an excellent, brief description of the process of appointing judges in Massachusetts, as well as for removing them.
The Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries have a web page devoted to "Law About Judges", which includes more general information.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts, Edward F. Hennessey, wrote in his book Excellent Judges, (1997):
"…that few functions of presidents and governors are more important than the identification and selection of excellent judges, and that appointing authorities must pursue excellence and reject cronyism…We recognize that only in the appointment process can there be true quality control over judicial performance." (p. 1)
"It is a cynical abuse of executive power when a judicial appointment is made for the primary reason that the appointing authority seeks capital in her own reelection campaign….." (p. 3)
"One can only urge that, at all stages from beginning to end of the appointment process, the search should be for excellence, as judged by the experience and the character of the candidates." (p. 4)
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Q: Running standard optimization passes on a LLVM module Say I have a valid LLVM module:
std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module> module;

I want to run LLVM traditional optimization passes on it:
llvm::PassBuilder passBuilder;
llvm::ModulePassManager modulePassManager = passBuilder.buildPerModuleDefaultPipeline(llvm::PassBuilder::OptimizationLevel::O3);
llvm::ModuleAnalysisManager moduleAnalysisManager;
passBuilder.registerModuleAnalyses(moduleAnalysisManager);
modulePassManager.run(*module, moduleAnalysisManager);

Unfortunately, the call crashes and debugging shows that the moduleAnalysisManager has only the module passes, but
not the function ones that are wrapped with the proxy class.
How should I setup modulePassManager to handle all (module) passes of a specific level? I don't have individual functions, so I can't run the function passes just on them.

A: The proper LLVM way is to create all analysisManagers and then link all of them together. Let's start by creating them:
llvm::PassBuilder passBuilder;
llvm::LoopAnalysisManager loopAnalysisManager(true); // true is just to output debug info
llvm::FunctionAnalysisManager functionAnalysisManager(true);
llvm::CGSCCAnalysisManager cGSCCAnalysisManager(true);
llvm::ModuleAnalysisManager moduleAnalysisManager(true);

Then we register each manager individually, and then we cross register them. This means that the number of managers here is fixed by design and if LLVM (7 at this time) changes the number of managers, this will need to be adapted:
passBuilder.registerModuleAnalyses(moduleAnalysisManager);
passBuilder.registerCGSCCAnalyses(cGSCCAnalysisManager);
passBuilder.registerFunctionAnalyses(functionAnalysisManager);
passBuilder.registerLoopAnalyses(loopAnalysisManager);
// This is the important line:
passBuilder.crossRegisterProxies(
    loopAnalysisManager, functionAnalysisManager, cGSCCAnalysisManager, moduleAnalysisManager);

Once the passBuilder is created, we can finally make the optimization passes for the module with a call to the moduleAnalysisManager.
llvm::ModulePassManager modulePassManager =
    passBuilder.buildPerModuleDefaultPipeline(llvm::PassBuilder::OptimizationLevel::O3);
modulePassManager.run(*module, moduleAnalysisManager);

This will run module level passes as well as all inner passes that LLVM can run on pieces of the module (function level, loop level...).

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Q: Displaying a JLabel text on top of a drawing i can't figure out how to make this work.
I created a main class, extended in JFrame.
If I run the program with the draw() and paint() methods to draw something, my label is not visible. If I just run the Main() class without the draw() and paint() methods, it works.
I'm trying to playing around with Swing components but this is really hard (I'm such a noob T.T).
Would you help me, please?
I'd like to see the label on top of my rectangle.
public class Main extends JFrame {

    JLabel label;

    public Main() {
         setSize(400, 300);
         setTitle("Title");
         setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
         setLocationRelativeTo(null);
         setVisible(true);

         label = new JLabel("Text inside");
         add(label, BorderLayout.NORTH);
   }

    public void paint(Graphics g){
        Image img = createImage(getWidth(), getHeight());
        Graphics gr = img.getGraphics();
        draw(gr);
        g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, this);
    }

    public void draw(Graphics g){
        g.drawRect(100, 100, 200, 100);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main start = new Main();
    }
}

A: Couple of things:

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*move your addition of label up before showing your JFrame and add your label to contentPane instead of JFrame directly.

*Currently your Image is Overlaying everything because the width and height of image is equals to your frame. I am not sure what you are trying to achieve with drawing blank image with a rectangle. you can directly draw your rectangle on JFrame itself.

*If you intend to set your Image as Background and over it you want to show your label then you need to do it differently. You need to create a JLabel with desired image and add it as contentPane.
Hope these pointers will help you.

A: The resolution of your problem is pretty simple. First, you don't need to create an Image and use createImage(getWidth(), getHeight()) on it to create the Graphics. Apart of that, when you override a method, you "invalidate" it and "replace" it with your code. Swing uses the paint(Graphics g) method to draw the components (like JButtons and JLabels). Override it will cause that your method is called not swing's. To fix the error, in the draw(Graphics g) you simply can write super.paint(g) to call the swing's method. So your class will be like this:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;

public class Main extends JFrame {

    JLabel label;

    public Main() {
         setSize(400, 300);
         setTitle("Title");
         setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
         setLocationRelativeTo(null);
         setVisible(true);

         label = new JLabel("Text inside");
         add(label, BorderLayout.NORTH);
   }

    public void paint(Graphics g){
        Image img = createImage(getWidth(), getHeight());
        Graphics gr = img.getGraphics();
        draw(gr);
        g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, this);
    }

    public void draw(Graphics g){
        super.paint(g);
        g.drawRect(100, 100, 200, 100);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main start = new Main();
    }
}


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Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), have created a series of "dialogues" which weave together excerpts from Aeschylus' play, studio discussions, and outside commentary. The outcome is pages or "scrolls" which are works of art that, as with all of their work, has been produced collectively.
Funding for Dia's series of artists' projects for the web has been provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) have worked together collaboratively since the early 1980s when Rollins, a special ed teacher assigned to public school 52 in the South Bronx, established the Art and Knowledge workshop for students with learning disabilities. Out of this grew a collective art practice based on texts which the group studied together. Typically, pages from literary classics were laid on canvas to form a ground, then overpainted with imagery that had evolved through discussion as an embodiment of motifs and issues central to the given material. Their study of art history through books and museum visits was supplemented by a deep engagement with contemporary art practice as well as a strong appreciation of certain highpoints of contemporary mass culture. Thus, for example, works which presented unadorned pages from X-men comics coexisted with paintings based on Flaubert's "Temptation of Saint Anthony," Kafka's "Amerika," Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," and Aristophanes' "The Frogs."
In turning to the Web as a new site of activity Rollins and K.O.S. continue a practice that has long incorporated interaction with others. For over the past fifteen years they have held workshops in numerous cities throughout the Western world in which they have engaged youth from many different backgrounds and circumstances. For their Web project they have decided to create a work "in public", taking Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound" as their point of departure.
In the classic Greek play Prometheus is punished by Zeus above all for his defiance in giving fire to humankind. And it is this fire, which Thoreau translated as "that glowing flower", that has become the focal point for Rollins and K.O.S. in their exploration of Aeschylus's work. Each member of K.O.S. has created animations to represent what one of the group described as Prometheus's "luminous petals". Used to indicate points of navigation throughout the site, these animate flames are especially appropriate for a web site work in that they perfectly capture the medium's dynamism as much as its capacity for unfettered expansion, its boundlessness.
In place of discussions conducted in the studio to tease out the currency and topicality of the key issues in this play a series of dialogues has been initiated with art educators, philosophers, and others. These exchanges are amplified by reference to what the group regards as key visualizations of the theme, by artists of the past as well by diverse contemporary practitioners including film-makers and graphic artists. Commentaries by invited interlocutors and contributions from the Web audience will be incorporated into these dialogues on an ongoing basis. In addition, Rollins and K.O.S. will offer their own translation of this exemplary tale in the form of an audio text.
Tim Rollins was born in Pittsfield, Maine, in 1955. He died in New York City in 2017. His collaborative group, K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), live and work in New York City.
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Пётр Андреевич Томилов () — машинист врубовой машины шахты 7-8 треста «Копейскуголь» (г. Копейск), Герой Социалистического Труда (1948).

Биография
Пётр Томилов родился 31 августа 1907 года в крестьянской семье в деревне Гаганово Воскресенской волости Челябинского уезда Оренбургской губернии, ныне деревня входит в Первомайский сельсовет  Курганской области.

С 9 лет батрачил. Активно участвовал в общественной жизни. Вступил в комсомол, затем в коммунистическую партию.

В 1932 году по призыву партии приехал на Челябинские угольные копи. Начинал на шахте города Копейска забойщиком (горнорабочий очистного забоя).

Участник Всеуральского слета шахтеров-ударников (1933 год).

С 1933 года работал машинистом врубовой машины на шахте № 7-8 Челябинских угольных копей, затем машинистом комбайна «Донбасс».

В годы Великой Отечественной войны выступил зачинателем подрубки угольного пласта двукратной зарубкой. Это позволило значительно увеличить производительность труда шахтёров-навалоотбойщиков. Метод Томилова стал основой для конструирования нового типа врубовых машин.

Вёл большую общественную работу. Избирался членом бюро парторганизации шахты, членом бюро райкома и обкома КПСС, членом ЦК профсоюза угольщиков, членом президиума обкома профсоюза угольщиков. Дважды избирался депутатом Верховного Совета РСФСР 2-го и 3-го созывов. Депутат Копейского городского Совета депутатов трудящихся (избран в 1957 и 1965 годах). С его помощью в Копейске были построены и оснащены современной техникой хлебозавод, горный техникум, ряд больниц, школ и клубов.

В 1959 году был делегатом XXI съезда Коммунистической партии Советского Союза.

Пётр Андреевич Томилов скончался 17 октября 1974 года. Похоронен в городе  Челябинской области.

Награды и звания
 Герой Социалистического Труда, 28 августа 1948 года
 Орден Ленина № 79077
 Медаль «Серп и Молот» № 2845
 Орден Ленина, 29 августа 1953 года
 Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, 4 сентября 1948 года
 Медаль «За трудовую доблесть», 14 апреля 1942 года
 Знак «Шахтёрская слава» II степени (1957 год) и III степени
 Звание «Почётный шахтёр».

Память
 В городе Копейске одна из улиц с 1979 года носит имя Томилова.
 В городе Копейске на Аллее славы ему поставлен бронзовый бюст.
 В городе Копейске по адресу улица Петра Томилова, дом 1 установлена мемориальная доска, в 2014 году была обновлена

Семья
Дочь Лидия Троянова, внучка Татьяна Каменьщикова.

Ссылки

 Музалевский М. В. Герои Социалистического Труда. Биобиблиографический словарь. — М.: РИЦ «Кавалер», 2008. — Т. 2. — 200 с.

Примечания

Депутаты Верховного Совета РСФСР 2-го созыва
Депутаты Верховного Совета РСФСР 3-го созыва
Депутаты Копейского городского совета
Делегаты XXI съезда КПСС
Члены Челябинского обкома КПСС

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'… [an] exemplary and generously illustrated account; it incorporates new historical material'
Gustaf Mannerheim was on of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. As a young Finnish officer in Russian service he witnessed the coronation the last Tsar and was both reprimanded for his foolhardiness and decorated for his bravery in the Russo-Japanese War.
He spent two years undercover in Asia as an agent in the 'Great Game', posing as a Swedish anthropologist. Crossing China on horseback, he stopped en route to teach the thirteenth Dalai Lama how to shoot a pistol and spied on the Japanese navy.
Having escaped the Bolshevicks by the skin of his teeth in 1917, he led the anti-Russian forces in the local revolt and civil war and later, during Finland's darkest hour, he lead the defence of his country against the impossible odds of the Winter War.
In this, the first major English language biography of Mannerheim for a decade, Jonathan Clements brings new material to light on Mannerheim's time in Manchuria, China and Japan. The result is a fascinating appraisal of an adventurer and explorer who would go on to forge a new nation.
JONATHAN CLEMENTS has written biographies of Mao, Marco Polo and Admiral Togo, as well as volumes on Wellington Koo: China and Prince Saionji: Japan in Haus' Makers of the Modern World series. After living in Finland for over a decade, Jonathan became a Finnish citizen in 2021.
Also by this author, A Short History of Finland, A Short History of Beijing, A Short History of Tokyo, A History of the Silk Road.
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by Hal Kelly
Originally planned as a tender for a large boat, this little pram became a sailboat at the insistence of youngsters in the family. It has served both purposes welL Up to four people have been rowed ashore at once and even the slightest breeze carries the kids along under sail. We used less than three 4x8-foot sheets of quarter-inch exterior plywood for the planking, seats and gussets. The bottom was fiber-glassed for added protection in beaching. As a study of the drawings will show, a handyman in a hurry could finish most of the work in one week end. The jig is nothing more than two parallel 2x4's, cross braced and leveled on blocks or sawhorses. The jig lumber needn't go to waste, either, for there are many uses it can be put to around the house. We used white cedar for the framing but straight-grained fir would fill the bill, too.
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Q: Model attribute value is not passed to input type text in Thymeleaf I'm trying to set model attribute(entryNumber) value to input type text in Thymeleaf. But input value is always empty though the entryNumber value is present.
Empty Entry Number field
Please see my AllocationController, LedgerDto and receive-allocation.html files.
AllocationController
/**
 * This method allows to enter receive allocation details.
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@GetMapping("/admin/receive-allocation")
public String receiveAllocation(final ModelMap model) {
    model.addAttribute("entryNumber", allocationService.getLedgerEntryNumber());
    model.addAttribute("votes", allocationService.getAllVotes());
    model.addAttribute("divisions", userService.getAllDivisions());
    return "receive-allocation";
}

When I'm debugging the application, entryNumber is present in the ModelMap. Refer the below image.
entryNumber is present in the ModelMap
LedgerDto
public class LedgerDto {

@NotEmpty
private String voteNumber;
@NotEmpty
private String division;
@NotEmpty
private String entryNumber;

public String getVoteNumber() {
    return voteNumber;
}

public void setVoteNumber(String voteNumber) {
    this.voteNumber = voteNumber;
}

public String getDivision() {
    return division;
}

public void setDivision(String division) {
    this.division = division;
}

public String getEntryNumber() {
    return entryNumber;
}

public void setEntryNumber(String entryNumber) {
    this.entryNumber = entryNumber;
}

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<form th:action="@{/admin/receive-allocation}"
                                    th:object="${ledgerDto}" method="post">

                                            Entry Number <input
                                                type="text" class="form-control"
                                                th:field="*{entryNumber}">

Validation error

Please help me to solve this.

A: It is not possible to use th:field when you want to prefill your form with values from your model attribute. In this case you have th:with in combination th:value
<form name='form' action="#" th:action="@{/internal/user/account/datachange}" method='POST' th:object="${userDTO}">

                Name:
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import React, { Component } from 'react';

class Chat extends Component {
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        Chat {this.props.params.chat}
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}

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Storylines Crossing
Tribeca New Music
In their NYC debut performance, NakedEye's concert Storylines Crossing reflects both the journey of the performers into their point of convergence in NakedEye, and the many stories that will be told in the works featured. Some of them have been written for the group, others have become a staple of our repertoire. All of them have a story to tell. Because members of the group come from diverse s... (more)
In their NYC debut performance, NakedEye's concert Storylines Crossing reflects both the journey of the performers into their point of convergence in NakedEye, and the many stories that will be told in the works featured. Some of them have been written for the group, others have become a staple of our repertoire. All of them have a story to tell. Because members of the group come from diverse stylistic backgrounds, our music reflects the rock, jazz, experimental, and classical genres that define each musician separately. For us and for composers writing for us, this is a journey where storylines cross from the personal into the musical." –NakedEye
The composers are: Randall Woolf, who takes Chopin to the precipice of chaos, Ethan Wickman, who sings his atomic opera, Jude Traxler, who counterpoints in rhythmic virtuosity, Richard Belcastro, who turns whiskey shots into toy piano and electric guitar licks, Monica Pearce, who riffs iPhone text messages into music, Zack Browning, who gives a Vietnam War rock tribute, and Moritz Eggert, who is a one-(wo)man fury band. Storylines Crossing is also the title for NakedEye's upcoming debut album. (less)
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