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New York City Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians
New York Genealogical & Biographical Society: New York, 2016
winner of the National Genealogical Society's 2017 Award for Excellence: Genealogical Methods and Sources
click here to order the book from the NYG&B
advance praise
For the first time a treasure trove of New York City history going back to the Dutch Colonial Era is described to facilitate easy access. What a gift to genealogists, researchers, and the just plain curious!
-- David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
This volume opens the door to one of the biggest archives in America. Any researcher, novice, or expert who is researching people in New York City will find this guide indispensable.
-- James A. Folts, Senior Archivist, New York State Archives
This new guide brings to light hitherto little-known but immensely important collections of the New York City Municipal Archives, revealing treasures never before described in published form. It is a remarkable resource for genealogists and family historians.
-- Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society
The content listed here takes years for professionals to master—now it's available with multiple sample documents and numerous easy-to-read chronological tables. The best part—rather than just detailing what's available, the author navigates the reader through the analysis and utilization of the documents. This volume truly fits the needs of the entire range of New York City researchers!
-- David E. Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer, FamilySearch
This distinctive guide introduces family history researchers to the treasure trove of records available at the New York City Municipal Archives. It is an essential reference for those wishing to tap into such riches. Throughout every chapter, Goodwin guides the reader with helpful examples for analyzing and using various records, effectively breathing new life into these largely undiscovered and underutilized resources.
-- Ann D. Thornton, Vice Provost and University Librarian, Columbia University
Chapter 1: Vital Records (1795–1949)
Chapter 2: Coroner and Office of Chief Medical Examiner Records (1823–1955)
Chapter 3: City Cemetery Burials (1872–1980s)
Chapter 4: Bodies in Transit (1859–1953)
Chapter 5: Civil War Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund (1861–1867)
Chapter 6: Almshouse Records (1758–1953)
Chapter 7: Assessed Valuation of Real Estate (1699–1979)
Chapter 8: Department of Buildings (1866–1970s)
Chapter 9: Property Cards (1939–1990s)
Chapter 10: Farm Histories from the Dutch Period through the Mid-19th Century
Chapter 11: New Amsterdam Records of the Dutch Colonial Era (1642–1674)
Chapter 12: Common Council/City Council Records (1675–1977)
Chapter 13: Court Records (1683/4–1987)
Chapter 14: Old Town Records (1644–1898)
Chapter 15: Richmond County Clerk Records (1706–1947)
Chapter 16: City and State Censuses
Chapter 17: City Directories and Civic Directories (1802–1988/89)
Chapter 18: WPA Federal Writers' Project New York City Unit (1935–1943)
Chapter 19: Photography Collections (1850–2013)
chapter structure
Introduction (background information including, where applicable, the laws that created the record set)
Description (detailed description of the records available)
Sample Records
Suggested Citations
Analyzing and Using the Records
Accessing the Records
An appendix features a table of the Wards of the old City of New York

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Castlebay är huvudstad och den största staden på Barra i Yttre Hebriderna i Skottland. Byn är belägen 25 km
från Lochboisdale. Orten har  invånare (1971).

Referenser

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Orter i Yttre Hebriderna

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WHY WURK Folsom, California Why Work? I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.


Back-to-back wins have helped to halt a tough start to the season for Olney Lady Tiger Softball. After picking up a road win on Monday, the Lady Tigers again had to be road warriors as they traveled to Clay City. The Lady Tigers (3-5) pounded out a season high 15 hits to pick up their third win of the year, and back-to-back victories for the first time this season. Olney defeated Clay City 17-6, behind a solid day at the play by their seniors. Jesika Ochs, Madisyn Wease, and Jalayna Reynolds showed off their abilities at the plate. The trio went a combined 7-11 at the plate collecting four extra base hits, eight RBI, six runs scored, and swiped three bases. Ochs blasted a one out triple in the first to start the Lady Tiger offense. Wease knocked in her fellow senior to give Olney the lead 1-0. A pair of walks and a hit by pitch forced Wease home, and brought Reynolds to the plate with the bases loaded. The senior singled home two more, leading Olney to a 4-0 lead. Sophomore Jade Reppert was making her third start of the season. The righty danced around a two out walk to keep Olney ahead 4-0. Olney's seniors loomed large again in the second. After two straight walks to start the second, Ochs drove a single to center to score a run. Wease followed that with a triple that plated two more, ballooning the Lady Tiger lead to 7-0. Madisyn Wease swiped her sixth base of the season on a steal of home, scoring Olney's eighth run of the game. Reppert answered in the bottom half with a shutdown inning. The sophomore retired Clay City 1-2-3. Senior Jalayna Reynolds started the third with a leadoff double, again putting the first batter of the inning on base. A one out walk brought in freshman Allison Harness with a chance to drive in a run. Harness lined a ball to left scoring Reynolds. Olney took their 9-0 lead into the bottom of the third, where Clay City broke through on the scoreboard. A two out rally lead the Lady Wildcats to score. A two out single by Breanna Farris was followed by back-to-back doubles by Kirstin Allen and Malorie Craig, scoring two runs. Reppert got out the inning, allowing just the two runs, with a strikeout. Olney's offense went back to work, scoring six runs in the fourth, all coming with two outs. Allen retired the first two up quickly on two pitches. Carlene Weiler was hit by a pitch, starting the rally. Kaylei Eubank drove a grounder into left field to put a runner in scoring position for Aubrey Page. Page knocked home Weiler on a liner to center field, giving Olney a 10-2 lead. A walk loaded the bases, as the lineup moved to the top with Harness. The freshman was hit by a pitch, scoring a run in the process. That brought in the two hottest hitters on the day in seniors Jesika Ochs and Madisyn Wease. Ochs continued to swing a hot bat, driving her second double of the game to left, scoring a pair. Wease followed the Ochs double by reaching on an error that scored another run. Jade Reppert helped her own cause with a singled to left scoring Ochs. The two out rally, scored six runs and gave Olney the 15-2 lead. In the bottom of the fourth, Clay City kept the two out rally theme going. A hit by pitch and walk was followed by strikeouts. Two on and two out, Clay City pitcher Kirstin Allen singled home a run. Back-to-back singles followed that with Clay City cutting the lead down to 15-5. The Lady Wildcats took advantage of the lone Lady Tiger error, scoring a run off a ground ball while Olney could not convert the final out. Reppert held the damage to four, with Olney holding the 15-6 lead heading into the fifth. Each side went quietly. In the fifth frame, both Olney and Clay City managed just one hit, and both runners were stranded. Harness would enter in relief in the fifth, working a quick first inning in relief. Olney scored two in the sixth, behind an error on Clay City. A two out base hit by Reppert allowed Harness to race around the bases. Allison Harness took advantage of an error, scoring on the play. Paige Troyer followed that two out hit with a triple, scoring Reppert and pushing Olney ahead 17-6. Olney needed just three outs to pick up their second straight win. Freshman Allison Harness, working her second inning in relief, had to work for the final outs. A leadoff single put pressure on Olney quickly. A pop out was followed by a strikeout as Harness recorded two outs on just six pitches. Another single kept the inning alive for Clay City. Harness quickly dashed that hope. Two pitches later, a pop out to short stop Wease, ended the game. Olney picked up the win 17-6, improving to 3-5 on the season and winners of two straight. OLNEY 17 - CLAY CITY 6 OLNEY BATTING Hits: Jesika Ochs - 3, Aubrey Page - 2, Jalayna Reynolds - 2, Madisyn Wease - 2, Jade Reppert - 2, Allison Harness - 2, Paige Troyer - 1, Kaylei Eubank - 1 2B: Jalayna Reynolds - 1, Jesika Ochs - 1 3B: Madisyn Wease - 1, Jesika Ochs - 1, Paige Troyer - 1 RBI: Madisyn Wease - 3, Jesika Ochs - 3, Jalayna Reynolds - 2, Allison Harness - 2, Aubrey Page - 1, Carlene Weiler - 1, Paige Troyer - 1, Jade Reppert - 1 Runs: Jesika Ochs - 3, Allison Harness - 3, Gloria Beal - 2, Madisyn Wease - 2, Jade Reppert - 2, Aubrey Page - 1, Jalayna Reynolds - 1, Carlene Weiler - 1, Paige Troyer - 1, Kaylei Eubank - 1 BB: Gloria Beal - 3, Jade Reppert - 2, Paige Troyer - 1, Allison Harness - 1 SO: Carlene Weiler - 1, Paige Troyer - 1, Dixie Elie - 1 SB: Madisyn Wease - 2 (6, 7), Gloria Beal - 1 (4), Jalayna Reynolds - 1 (1) OLNEY PITCHING WP - Jade Reppert (1-2):4.0 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 6 K Allison Harness: 2.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K CLAY CITY BATTING Hits: Malorie Craig - 3, Keisha Allen - 2, Breanna Farris - 2, Kirstin Allen - 2, Destiny Lewis - 1 2B: Malorie Craig - 1, Kirstin Allen - 1 RBI: Kirstin Allen - 2, Keisha Allen - 1, Malorie Craig - 1, Breanna Farris - 1 Runs: Breanna Farris - 2, Maddie Lovett - 1, Keisha Allen - 1, Destiny Lewis - 1, Kirstin Allen - 1 BB: Maddie Lovett - 1, Kirstin Allen - 1 SO: Hailey Miller - 2, Kaylee Norten - 1, Maddie Lovett - 1, Keisha Allen - 1, Taylor Golden - 1, Kirstin Allen - 1 CLAY CITY PITCHING LP - Kirstin Allen: 6.0 IP, 15 H, 17 R, 15 ER, 7 BB, 3 K UP NEXT Olney hosts Red Hill in LIC play today. Game time set for 4:30 pm.


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Harold Jocelyn Buxton (20 June 1880 – 13 March 1976) was a British Church of England cleric. He was Bishop of Gibraltar from 1933 to 1947.

Buxton was born into a noble family, the son of Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, on 20 June 1880. He was educated at Harrow  and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1904 he embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Cuthbert, Bensham. From 1907 to 1910 he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Rangoon, and from 1911 to 1914 curate of Thaxted.  From 1914 to 1918 he was Vicar of Horley, Oxfordshire; during World War I he was also a temporary Chaplain to the Forces in France and attached to the Russian Red Cross at Erzurum in the Ottoman Empire. From 1926 to 1927 he was Chaplain of  St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, and then, before his appointment to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Cyprus from 1928 to 1932. A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 13 March 1976.

References

External links

Harold Jocelyn Buxton scrapbooks, 1926-1957 at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology

1880 births
People educated at Harrow School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Cyprus
20th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar
1976 deaths
Sub-Prelates of the Venerable Order of Saint John
World War I chaplains
Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers
Anglican socialists
English Christian socialists
Younger sons of baronets


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class Company extends Anagrafica
{
    protected static $entity = 'company';

    public static function getByCode($code){
        return ContactClient::get('/company-by-code/'.$code);
    }

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        return ContactClient::get('/company-freesearch/' . rawurlencode($freesearch));
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    {
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        return true;
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Home > Academic Units > Graduate Studies > Electronic Theses and Dissertations > 188
With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear
Charles J. Yow, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow
Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
Department of Literature and Philosophy
Mary Villeponteaux
Candy Schille
Audiences and critics, spanning from the play's debut to modern renditions, find Cordelia's death at the end of Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear to be both troubling and unjust. Despite original sources for the plot's happy ending and Cordelia's survival, Shakespeare consciously chooses to kill her. The question remains: why? I propose that due to the play's overt saturation with language and themes directly pointed toward a discussion of gender, Shakespeare reflects Renaissance society's fear of gender reversals and, as such, must kill off what could be the play's most virtuous character. Through a study of both general gender studies and Shakespearean criticism, I plan to explore the gender roles of early modern English society which asserts that men must behave like men and women like women. By distilling the basic components of masculinity, military and political authority and rationality, and by consequence the concept of femininity, meekness and subjugation, I will show how the play's tragedy is bound up in the reversal of standard gender roles. Lear exhibits little rationality and loses all grasp on military and political authority. By contrast, his daughters, Goneril and Regan, take up the masculine position as the play's politically dominant characters. Equally, Cordelia, despite her intentions to restore her father to his "proper" place, violates the gender system by defending it. She must assume the masculine qualities of authority and reason in order to combat the obviously malevolent actions of her sisters. It is because Cordelia subverts the standard gender roles set forth by patriarchal society that she must be punished. Shakespeare, reflecting the anxiety of early modern English society, deliberately chooses to kill her, despite her virtue. While shocking, her death is necessary due to the play's obsession with gender roles and Renaissance society's fear of their reversal.
Yow, Charles J., "With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 188.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/188


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Fresh from his podium success in Scotland last month following two years away from the sport, Paul Bird Cumbrian rally driver Paul Bird got back to winning ways when he took a convincing victory on today's Eventsigns Woodpecker Stages Rally based in Shropshire.
A new format for this years EventSigns Woodpecker Stages Rally has attracted an almost capacity field ahead of this weekend's event, when around 150 cars will take to the stages around Ludlow on Saturday 2nd September.
Although there is four weeks to go until the 34th running of the EventSigns Woodpecker Stages Rally, organisers Sixty and Worcestershire Motor Club are encouraging competitors to enter as soon as possible as entries are filling up much quicker than anticipated.


A Lynch car rental gives you the opportunity to go where you want, when you want. You can explore all the sights, and even see what else the rest of Kentucky has to offer. CarRentals.com has answered the most frequently asked questions about car rentals in Lynch. Read on to see the dos and don'ts of renting a car.
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El Español fue un periódico editado en Madrid entre 1835 y 1837 y, en una segunda época, de 1845 a 1848. Fue fundado por Andrés Borrego.

Historia
Apareció por primera vez en Madrid en 1835, fundado por Andrés Borrego.

Redactado por autores como Flores Calderón, Saturnino Calderón Collantes, Santos López-Pelegrín, Buenaventura Carlos Aribau, contó con colaboraciones de Álvaro Flórez Estrada, Francisco Navarro Villoslada, José Zorrilla, José de Espronceda, Antonio de los Ríos Rosas, Donoso Cortés, Pérez Hernández, Joaquín Francisco Pacheco, Ignacio José Escobar, José García de Villalta, Luis González Bravo y Mariano José de Larra, que lo consideraba «el mejor, indudablemente, de Europa».

Dejó de publicarse en 1837 —su sucesor vino a ser El Correo Nacional— y reapareció entre 1845 y 1848. En este segunda época colaboraron autores como Pedro Nolasco Aurioles, Ramón de Campoamor, Eduardo González Pedroso, Eulogio Florentino Sanz, Manuel Seijas Lozano o Luis Valladares y Garriga, entre otros.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Periódicos desaparecidos de Madrid
Periódicos en español
Publicaciones fundadas en 1835
Publicaciones desaparecidas en 1845
Publicaciones fundadas en 1845
Publicaciones desaparecidas en 1848


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He is quick to make your words his own and is fun to work with. With his voice work mostly interstate (and from a previous life), Rob is now a "fresh voice" onto the Melbourne scene, ready to bring your customers onside.
In his spare time, he loves the 3-R's … Writing, Renovating & Red Wine.


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## where's what?

[css/](https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards/tree/master/css) - CSS source (stylus + nib) of the example

[dist/](https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards/tree/master/dist) - deck.js & deck.min.js

[example/](https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards/tree/master/example) - https://pakastin.github.io/deck-of-cards

[lib/](https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards/tree/master/lib) - JS (ES6) source of deck.js

[views/](https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards/tree/master/views) - HTML source of the example

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The second war against the Cylons is over and The Twelve Colonies have been destroyed. Now Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galatica and President Laura Roslin lead a ragtag fleet of refugees in a supposed search for the fabled lost thirteenth colony, Earth. However, the dangers they face are many which compound an already difficult situation. In addition to the Cylons hunting and attacking the fleet in space, their infiltrator units carry out a more subtle plot even as their former unwitting pawn, Gaius Baltar, helps in the hunt for them while hiding both his own guilt and the strange presence that haunts his every thought. If that wasn't enough, the fleet also faces internal political conflict in which the rabble-rousing figure, Tom Zarek, is merely the loudest dissenting voice. In the midst of these trials however, clues begin to appear that suggest that Adama's simple bluff about Earth may be more truthful than anyone could have guessed. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
[Source: IMDB]
Season 1, Episode 1: 33
Original Air Date—18 October 2004
The crew of Galactica is exhausted after 237 consecutive jumps in intervals of 33 minutes and 132.25 hour without sleep to escape from the Cylons. When Galactica is contacted by the Olympic Carrier, a vessel with more than 1,300 persons, Commander William Adama and are advised that there is a traitor on board. However, Dr. Gaius Baltar convinces both leaders that the Olympic Carrier is a menace to the refugee fleet led by Galactica.
Season 1, Episode 2: Water
President Roslin arrives on Galactica as Boomer's Cylon side asserts itself, forcing her to sabotage Galactica's water supply against her will. A series of explosions leads to the loss of 60% of the water reserves and Commander Adama is compelled to introduce rationing and begin a search of nearby planetary systems for any H20 deposits.
Season 1, Episode 3: Bastille Day
Original Air Date—1 November 2004
Deciding to use the thousand prisoners on a prison transport ship to mine the ice on the planet they've found, Galactica's plans are upset when a political prisoner onboard leads an uprising, taking hostages. He questions the legitimacy of Roslin's government and demands free elections to be held in the fleet.
Season 1, Episode 4: Act of Contrition
There's a party on Galactica's flight deck as Flat-Top just had his thousandth landing. Something goes terribly wrong however when a drone accidentally goes off and explodes in a group of pilots. 13 are dead. During the ceremony Kara Thrace starts thinking about her dead fiancée Zak Adama. And those memories even get clearer when Adama orders her to start training new pilots. She seems very uncomfortable in doing so. The favor she did for Zak by letting him pass basic flight seems to bother her more and more. Angrily she stops training pilots after just one day. Meanwhile on Cylon-occupied Caprica Helo and Cylon-Sharon find a bomb shelter in a restaurant. It seems like a good place to stay for a while. There's food, water and anti-radiation medication in abundance.
Season 1, Episode 5: You Can't Go Home Again
Original Air Date—15 November 2004
Starbuck has been shot down over a barren moon, and must be rescued before she runs out of oxygen. Adama become obsessed with trying to save her even when all hope seems lost, putting the Fleet at risk. Meanwhile, Starbuck finds the Cylon Raider she shot down, and tries to learn how to fly it so she can escape.
Season 1, Episode 6: Litmus
A humanoid Cylon straps himself with explosives and commits a suicide bombing in a crowded hallway on Galactica. Roslin and Adama are forced to publicly reveal that the Cylons now have models that look like humans, and a wave of paranoia spreads over the fleet as everyone starts being suspected of being a Cylon.
Season 1, Episode 7: Six Degrees of Separation
After Baltar has an argument with the vision of Number Six he sees in his head, a physical copy of Cylon model Number Six shows up in Galactica's CIC claiming to be a woman named Shelley Godfrey who has evidence that proves that Baltar has betrayed humanity...except that she's trying to frame him for an act of pre-attack sabotage.
Season 1, Episode 8: Flesh and Bone
Original Air Date—6 December 2004
A humanoid Cylon is captured in the fleet, a copy of the Leoben model, who claims that he has planted a nuclear bomb in the Fleet before he was captured. Starbuck is tasked with interrogating him, which soon becomes a battle of wills as Starbuck has her marines to torture the Cylon to try to break him.
Season 1, Episode 9: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
Original Air Date—13 December 2004
After the interrogated Cylon gave Roslin the idea that Adama might be a Cylon, Roslin becomes suspicious of him. Unexpectedly, Colonel Tigh's estranged wife Ellen turns up alive in the fleet, apparently miraculously, raising the possibility that she might be a Cylon.
Season 1, Episode 10: The Hand of God
Original Air Date—3 January 2005
The fleet is running out of tylium fuel and will soon not have enough to keep running from the Cylons, when they find an asteroid with several years worth of tylium ore...unfortunately, the Cylons have already built a mining base on it.
Season 1, Episode 11: Colonial Day
Original Air Date—10 January 2005
President Roslin has rebuilt a new Quorum of Twelve, the legislative branch of the government, but terrorist leader/political dissident Tom Zarek is elected as a member, and immediately motions that the Quorum vote to appoint a new Vice President, and runs for the office.
Season 1, Episode 12: Kobol's Last Gleaming: Part 1
Galactica stumbles upon Kobol, the long-lost home world of humanity that the 13 Tribes came from, which legend says holds the only clues to the location of Earth. Roslin convinces Starbuck to steal the captured Cylon raider and return to Cylon-occupied Caprica with it to retrieve a religious artifact that will unlock the secrets on Kobol.
Infuriated that Roslin usurped his command by ordering Starbuck to steal the captured Raider, Adama decides that his only option is to storm Colonial One with marines and terminate her presidency. Starbuck reaches Caprica and finds the Arrow of Apollo in a museum, but she has to go through a copy of Number Six to get it.
Season 2, Episode 1: Scattered
Original Air Date—15 July 2005
As the premiere for the second season unfolds, Adama lay dying leaving Tigh in command. Lee and Roslin have been sent to the brig. An emergency jump goes wrong leaving the Galactica alone in space without the fleet.
Season 2, Episode 2: Valley of Darkness
A Cylon virus is hampering with Galactica's power supply, while Cylon centurions are heading for crucial systems. Somehow they must be stopped.
Season 2, Episode 3: Fragged
Tigh has problems with the responsibility of being a leader, president Roslin loses control without chamalla. The Kobol team discovers a Cylon battery.
Season 2, Episode 4: Resistance
Original Air Date—5 August 2005
Tigh's decision to impose martial law is protested in the fleet as well as on Galactica. On Caprica, Helo and Starbuck meet other humans.
Season 2, Episode 5: The Farm
Original Air Date—12 August 2005
Starbuck finds herself wounded in a hospital on Caprica where she is suspicious about her doctor. President Roslin makes an appeal to the fleet to follow her to Kobol.
Season 2, Episode 6: Home: Part 1
Starbuck, Helo and Boomer bring back the Arrow of Apollo, but Boomer doesn't seem welcome. Commander Adama wants to keep the fleet divided and appoints a new CAG.
While commander Adama tries to join Roslin's team on Kobol, Dr. Baltar's Number Six tells him he's crazy.
Season 2, Episode 8: Final Cut
Original Air Date—9 September 2005
Journalist D'Anna Biers is making an item on the Gideon incident, when she's asked by Adama and Roslin to film daily life on Galactica.
Season 2, Episode 9: Flight of the Phoenix
Original Air Date—16 September 2005
While Tyrol decides to start building a new fighter, the Cylon virus is rearing it's ugly head again. Boomer tells it means a large Cylon attack is imminent.
Season 2, Episode 10: Pegasus
Gallactica meets Pegasus, and Adama's command is threatened when the captain of Pegasus outranks him. A joyous celebration turns sour at some of the secrets emerging out of the differences of the two crews, and Baltar meets a familiar Cylon prisoner aboard Pegasus.
Season 2, Episode 11: Resurrection Ship: Part 1
Adama and Cain find common ground when Starbuck returns with footage of the Cylon ship. Roslin negotiates a temporary truce, while Starbuck plans an attack.
Starbuck and Fisk are preparing for the murder jobs, while the attack on the Resurrection ship is planned. It goes wrong for Apollo. Dr. Baltar has feelings for Pegasus' Number Six.
Season 2, Episode 13: Epiphanies
President Roslin, who is about to die, believes Sharon's baby is dangerous and orders it must die. Meanwhile, a terrorist group inside the fleet starts to ask for a peace negotiation with the cylons.
Season 2, Episode 14: Black Market
Apollo investigates the murder of one of the crew and falls for a young prostitute, whom he vows to save from the rogue ship dealing with the Black Market. As well as confronting the bad guys, Apollo has to confront some past mistakes.
Season 2, Episode 15: Scar
Original Air Date—3 February 2006
This is an episode about loss. Kat and Starbuck confront each other about their piloting skills and each vow to kill Scar (a Cylon spaceship) before the other.
Season 2, Episode 16: Sacrifice
Original Air Date—10 February 2006
A terrorist attacks and holds several key people hostage and threatens to murder them unless she is given the Cylon prisoner.
Season 2, Episode 17: The Captain's Hand
Two of Pegasus' raptors go missing after a suspicious distress call. President Roslin must make a decision on abortion that could hurt her political career.
Season 2, Episode 18: Downloaded
The Cylon baby is finally born, leading to some political decisions being made. Meanwhile, the Cylons on Caprica contemplate life and humans when they meet up with a certain human from a previous episode. This story explores the Cylon world.
Season 2, Episode 19: Lay Down Your Burdens: Part 1
Original Air Date—3 March 2006
While Dr. Baltar is behind in the polls for the election and tries desperately to turn things around, Starbuck is planning a mission to rescue Anders from Caprica.
Original Air Date—10 March 2006
The group on Caprica is under fire by the Cylons, but suddenly they stop. With only one ship's votes to be counted, Roslin is way behind in the elections.
Season 3, Episode 1: Occupation
Original Air Date—6 October 2006
Tigh, Tyrol and Anders lead the Resistance on New Caprica to increasingly deadly attacks against the Cylons. Kara finds herself trapped in a new life with Leoben Conoy, and Duck makes a fateful decision. Meanwhile on Galactica, Adama struggles with the question of whether to return to New Caprica to mount a rescue attempt.
Season 3, Episode 2: Precipice
Adama plans to return to New Caprica and drop off a surprising person to act as a liaison between Galactica and the Resistance. Tigh's insistence on the use of suicide bombers and ever escalating violence stuns even the fellow leaders of the Resistance. Eventually, the suicide bombings cause the Cylon occupiers to crackdown on their human subjects.
Season 3, Episode 3: Exodus: Part 1
Sharon helps to organize the Resistance as Adama heads to New Caprica aboard Galactica for a daring rescue operation. Lee disagrees with Adama's plan to return to New Caprica, arguing that they need to focus on the survival of humanity. He sees the rescue mission as a one-way trip.
Tigh must decide the fate of his wife Ellen after the assistance she rendered to the Cylons. Lee struggles with his assignment to protect the civilian fleet on its journey toward Earth while Adama returns to New Caprica with just the Galactica. The Resistance coordinates an attack on the Cylons just as Galactica arrives. As the Cylons begin to lose control, Number Three (D'Anna Biers) vows to put a final end to the New Caprican experiment.
Season 3, Episode 5: Collaborators
Tyrol participates in the Circle, a secret tribunal on Galactica that tries and convicts in absentia those accused of collaborating with the Cylons during the Occupation. The death sentences--administered without the knowledge of Roslin or Adama--begin to weigh on Tyrol's conscience. Baltar faces a similar jury among the Cylons, who must decide whether he is allowed to stay with them.
Season 3, Episode 6: Torn
The Galactica encounters a Cylon Basestar devastated by a deadly virus. Lingering feelings of rage lead Saul Tigh and Kara Thrace to cause problems aboard Galactica between the survivors from New Caprica and those who stayed with the fleet during the Occupation. Baltar tries to convince the Cylons of his value to them in an attempt to stay alive.
Season 3, Episode 7: A Measure of Salvation
When a group of ill Cylons from the infected Basestar is brought to Galactica, Lee discovers a way to solve the Cylon problem forever - by destroying the whole Cylon race. Meanwhile, D'anna's acts to discover if Baltar is reliable will forge an unusual relationship.
Season 3, Episode 8: Hero
A figure from Adama's past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the Twelve Colonies.
Season 3, Episode 9: Unfinished Business
A look at the events that took place during the year-long gap from the storyline in the Season Two finale. The story reveals the reasons for the rift between Kara ("Starbuck") and Lee ("Apollo").
Season 3, Episode 10: The Passage
The Colonial fleet makes a "harrowing" journey. "Kat" plays a vital role in the success or failure of the "Passage" through space.
Season 3, Episode 11: The Eye of Jupiter
The crew of Galactica makes a stop at the barren Algae planet.
Season 3, Episode 12: Rapture
The Cylons descend upon the re-supply mission as the Chief races to decipher the markings in the temple believed to hold The Eye of Jupiter, a sacred icon that is believed to contain a map to Earth.
Season 3, Episode 13: Taking a Break from All Your Worries
Baltar plays a game of cat and mouse with Adama and the President, thinking they will kill him once they've gotten out of him what they want to know. Lee deals with his feelings for Kara, while struggling to hang on to his marriage.
Season 3, Episode 14: The Woman King
When a group of refugees board Galactica with a curable illness, it becomes very mysterious when they begin to die after taking the injection they do not believe in.
Season 3, Episode 15: A Day in the Life
The Chief and his wife get trapped in an airlock on a routine maintenance job, while the Admiral copes with his wedding anniversary and the memories of his ex-wife.
Season 3, Episode 16: Dirty Hands
When the head of the fuel production plant holds the fleet hostage by providing unsafe fuel, he's arrested for treason, which results in the Chief sent to the ship and held responsible for getting the plant back up and running.
Season 3, Episode 17: Maelstrom
The Admiral is forced to make the decision of whether to ground Kara Thrace when she begins to show signs of an oncoming nervous breakdown.
Season 3, Episode 18: The Son Also Rises
Besides having to deal with the loss of Kara Thrace, the crew of the Galactica is also charged with the security surrounding the trial of Dr. Baltar and his defense attorney, who is replacing one lawyer that has already been killed.
Season 3, Episode 19: Crossroads: Part 1
Baltar goes on trial for his life, and it affects everyone from Lee on up to the president.
Coincidences creates new alliances aboard Galactica.
Season 4, Episode 1: He That Believeth in Me
Original Air Date—4 April 2008
During a seemingly hopeless battle, Kara Thrace appears in a pristine Viper, claiming that she has been to Earth and can lead the Fleet there -- but the terminal Laura Roslin believes otherwise. Meanwhile, four of the so-called Final Five are forced to tackle the repercussions of their newfound nature, while Gaius Baltar discovers he has a commune of nubile female cultists who believe him to be an agent of the "one true God".
Season 4, Episode 2: Six of One
Original Air Date—11 April 2008
Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) face off with a gun between them, Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) says goodbye to the Galactica, violent conflict breaks out between the seven models aboard Cylon Basestar, and Gaius Baltar (James Callis) is directly pulled into the "Final Five" situation.
Season 4, Episode 3: The Ties That Bind
The aftermath of a coup among the Cylons leads to further violence, Lee finds himself facing off against Roslin during his first meeting with the Quorum of Twelve as the new representative of Caprica, and Cally discovers the horrible truth about her husband Galen Tyrol. Meanwhile, Starbuck aimlessly searches for Earth with Anders and other Galactica officers.
Season 4, Episode 4: Escape Velocity
Gaius Baltar causes intense unrest within the fleet when he begins to openly promote belief in the Cylon god. Colonel Tigh, Galen Tyrol, and Tory Foster argue over how far they should go to ensure their secret is not revealed.
Season 4, Episode 5: The Road Less Traveled
Original Air Date—2 May 2008
When a Heavy-Raider manned by Leoben Conoy docks aboard the Demetrius, confrontations form between the crew over the possibility of a truce with Cylon rebels, while Starbuck puts her trust in an old enemy.
Season 4, Episode 6: Faith
A vicious injury ends the mutiny attempt aboard the Demetrius, Kara leads her crew to the Cylon rebel's Basestar, and Roslin begins to understand Gaius Baltar's appeal to his followers. Meanwhile, Anders attempts to secretly find answers to his purpose as a member of the Final Five.
Season 4, Episode 7: Guess What's Coming to Dinner
Original Air Date—16 May 2008
A shaky alliance between the Colonial Fleet and Cylon rebels is put to the test when the two groups combine efforts to take out a Cylon "Resurrection Hub". Meanwhile, Athena loses control when Hera becomes unnaturally drawn to Natalie.
Season 4, Episode 8: Sine Qua Non
President Roslin's abduction by the Cylon Hybrid triggers a bitter power struggle within the Colonial Fleet.
Season 4, Episode 9: The Hub
Original Air Date—6 June 2008
Season 4, Episode 10: Revelations
Original Air Date—13 June 2008
Season 4, Episode 11: Sometimes a Great Notion
Season 4, Episode 12: A Disquiet Follows My Soul
Season 4, Episode 13: The Oath
Season 4, Episode 14: Episode #4.14
Season 4, Episode 17: Someone to Watch Over Me
2003 Series Reimagining
Despite attempts to revive the series over the years, none came to fruition until it was reimagined in 2003 by Universal Television in association with Sky1 and the Sci-Fi Channel with Ronald D. Moore and David Eick as the creative forces behind it. Edward James Olmos stepped into the role of Commander Adama. A weekly new Galactica series followed, premiering on Sky1 in the UK and Ireland in October 2004, and on Sci-Fi in the U.S. in January 2005.
In December 2003, the American Sci-Fi Channel broadcast a three-hour miniseries that reimagined Battlestar Galactica. This miniseries was so successful that Sci-Fi opted to develop this new version of Galactica into a television series.
Featuring Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Edward James Olmos as Commander William Adama and Oscar-nominated Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, the new series first aired in the UK and Ireland on Sky1 in October 2004. The series debuted in North America on the Sci-Fi Channel in January 2005. Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Grace Park and Tricia Helfer round out the original cast.[6]
An edited version of the "pilot" miniseries was broadcast on NBC—a corporate sibling of the Sci-Fi Channel—on January 9, 2005, five days before the Sci-Fi series premiere.[citation needed] NBC also aired three selected first-season episodes to promote the show in advance of the second-season premiere in July 2005. Three and a half seasons aired on Sci-Fi and Sky One between 2005 and 2008. Owing to production delays caused by the 2007-2008 Writers Guild strike, the fourth season was split into two parts, with a 7 month hiatus in between. The second half of the season is scheduled to begin airing January 16, 2009. The fourth season will also air on Universal HD beginning in July 2009. A two-hour film (set during the show's second season), Battlestar Galactica: Razor, aired on Sci-Fi on Saturday November 24, 2007, as a prelude to the fourth season.
The series has won widespread acclaim among many mainstream non-genre publications. Time magazine,[7] Rolling Stone magazine[8] and New York Newsday[9] named it the best show on television in 2005. Other publications like The New York Times,[10] The New Yorker[11] and National Review[12] also gave the show positive reviews.
The show has received a Peabody Award for overall excellence, several Emmy Awards for Visual Effects, and Emmy nominations for Writing and Directing.
Webisodes: The Resistance
The first set of webisodes were a series of shorts produced to promote the third season of the show. They filled in some of the events between the second and third seasons and featured some of the main cast. These webisodes were made so as not to reveal what would happen in the beginning of season three. Season 3 was also set up so that missing the webisodes would not leave a viewer confused about the story.
Each of the ten webisodes was approximately three minutes in length, and they were released two times a week leading up to the U.S. Season 3 premiere.
Webisodes: Razor Flashbacks
The Razor Flashbacks were a small series of seven webisodes set during William Adama's fighter pilot days during the later stages of the First Cylon War. They were released on the internet as "webisodes" leading up to Razor's release. They are now available on the DVD of Battlestar Galactica: Razor and all are inserted into the extended cut of the movie on the DVD (as opposed to just several on the shorter version which aired on television).
Razor (TV movie)
Battlestar Galactica: Razor is a television movie produced and broadcast in the gap between Seasons 3 and 4. Razor is also technically the first 2 episodes of Season 4 though it chronicles events on Battlestar Pegasus in two time periods, both of which are "in the past" with respect to the Season 4 continuity. The "present day" framing scenes are set during Lee Adama's command, in the latter half of Season 2, while "flashback" scenes depict Helena Cain's command in the period between the Cylon attack and the reunion with Galactica in the second season episode Pegasus. Also during the extended episode the Razor Flashbacks, which were previously released as webisodes, were integrated into the movie but only several were inserted into the shortened television cut. It aired in the United States and Canada on November 24 and in Britain and Ireland on December 18, 2007. An expanded version of the movie was released on DVD on December 4, 2007.
Webisodes: The Face of the Enemy
In late May 2008, a set of 10 webisodes were announced to be in the works which will be released during the 7 month hiatus between episodes 12 and 13.[13] The web series premiered on December 12, 2008 on SciFi.com. Also available to view on Hulu.com. Canadians are able to view them on spacecast.com/bsg[14][15]
The Plan (TV movie)
On August 7, 2008 Sci-Fi Channel officially announced the production of a two-hour TV movie which will air after the final episode of Season 4. Written by Jane Espenson and directed by Edward James Olmos, The Plan storyline begins before the attack on the 12 colonies and will show events mainly from the perspective of two Cylon agents [16] . Confirmed cast members include Olmos, Michael Trucco, Aaron Douglas and Dean Stockwell.[17] Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Rick Worthy, Matthew Bennett, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Hogan and Rekha Sharma will also feature.[18] The movie began production on September 8, 2008.[18]
Caprica (TV series)
Caprica is a television series, set to premiere on Sci-Fi in 2010, described as "television's first science fiction family saga". It was originally a 2 hour back door pilot for a possible weekly television series but on December 2, 2008 Sci-Fi gave the go-ahead to expand the project into a full series. Caprica will be set on the fictional planet Caprica around fifty years before the events depicted in the 2004 reimagined series. The show will revolve around two families, the Adamas and the Graystones, the building of the Cylons, and the beginnings of the first Cylon War. The pilot is directed by Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights),and stars Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker. [19] Sci-Fi has ordered 20 hours of Caprica including a 2 hour pilot. Production is expected to resume in the middle of 2009 for an anticipated premiere in early 2010.


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Congress giving money to their corporate pals
On October 24, the House of Representatives passed a bill to revoke the 1986 alternative minimum tax law and give BACK taxes paid by some of the largest corporations in the country. The 1986 law was an attempt to get corporations which made profits to pay some tax – "an alternative minimum tax" – when they managed to avoid all taxes – thanks to all the tax loopholes written for them by their friends in Congress.
It hasn't passed the Senate yet, but even if the version passed by the House were to be cut back, it would still provide gigantic corporate give-aways.
The House bill would now give corporations back all the taxes they paid during the last 15 years under this "alternative minimum tax." This would come to 25 billion dollars rebated back to the corporations. Ford Motor would get a refund of 2.3 billion dollars; GM would get a refund of 832 million dollars; DaimlerChrysler would get 600 million dollars; IBM would get 1.4 billion dollars; General Electric would get 671 million dollars; Enron, the famous "energy" conglomerate, would get 254 million dollars; Chevron Oil would get 314 million dollars.
What a gift – a real "shot of adrenaline," according to the chairman of the House Ways and Means committee. The corporations have been quick to try to convince Congress the passage of this bill is necessary. September 11, it seems, harmed the economy.
No! They are simply using September 11 as a fig leaf behind which they try to hide their raid on the U.S. treasury.
Editorial: Don't line up behind the butchers who pretend to speak in our name
Arrests of over 1,000 on trumped-up charges
Anti-terrorism law: Many new attacks on basic liberties
Attack on immigrants of another era: The Palmer Raids
Domestic germs in warfare
How to deal with terrorism...
For once, the Congress sets a good example!
U.S. military: "We did it, but it's not serious"
Germ warfare used on civilians ... in Iraq
California: Multi-billion dollar bailout of electric utilities
N.Y. firefighters arrested at protest
Just a modern-day knight in shining armor!
South Carolina longshoremen go on trial November 13
The government gears up to "get the truth out" about Afghanistan... and look who they hire!
U.S. shows how to starve millions while dropping food rations


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Q: Qt - Using user text input to direct to folder Is there a way to include user text input in a file address? For example:
The user inputs a first and last name, and it is saved as Qstrings firstname and lastname. I want to then access a folder that is named firstname_lastname (Ex:John_Doe`), saved in location like this one:
C://Users/User/Documents/Patients/firstname_lastname

How would I go about using those strings to direct to that folder?

A: Use arg()
qDebug() << QString("C:/Users/User/Documents/Patients/%1_%2")
.arg(ui->lineEdit->text())    //firstname
.arg(ui->lineEdit_2->text()); //lastname

I don't know what exatly you want, but you can use this to open directory. Or you can use QDir


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Aaron Judge takes apparent dig at Jose Altuve during home run trot in New York Yankees win
By Marly Rivera
HOUSTON -- Let bygones, be bygones? Not for Aaron Judge.
The All-Star outfielder hit his 21st home run of the season against Zack Greinke Saturday night, which was the only run scored by the New York Yankees in their 1-0 win over the Houston Astros in what was a masterful nine-inning shutout by Gerrit Cole.
As Judge rounded third base, he seemed to take a shot at 2017 American League MVP Jose Altuve. Judge briefly held his jersey and seemed to imitate Altuve gesturing to his teammates to not rip off his shirt after his pennant-winning, walk-off homer in the 2019 American League Championship Series.
Altuve purported that a bad tattoo on his collarbone was the reason why the Astros All-Star second baseman did not want his jersey ripped off.
Video replay of Altuve agitatedly motioning to his jersey and shaking his head and finger in a "no" gesture as he rounded third base inspired a debate over whether the Astros were cheating by using buzzers under their jerseys which would let them know what pitch was coming.
"Whenever they keep the roof closed here, it's pretty chilly. So just letting my team know to button up a little bit," Judge said, tongue-in-cheek, when asked about whether the gesture was directed towards the opposing team dugout. Teammate Kyle Higashioka, who admitted he did not notice Judge's gesture, said it was likely just "playful banter."
An investigation led by Major League Baseball confirmed the Astros had cheated by using a camera-based, sign-stealing system during their 2017 World Series-winning regular season and playoffs, and during part of the 2018 regular season. The investigation detailed that the sign-stealing did not take place in 2019.
Judge was one of the many players that did not mince words when addressing the Astros sign-stealing scandal last year, saying the team should vacate the title and that players should have been punished. Judge also said he believes that the sign-stealing scheme had a direct impact on the 2017 ALCS, which the Yankees lost to Houston in seven games.
Altuve and Judge were both selected as starters for the 2021 All-Star Game. Altuve decided not to play in the Midsummer Classic at Coors Field on Tuesday and will instead remain in Houston to deal with an unspecified left leg injury. Judge is one of three All-Stars for the Yankees this year, alongside Cole and Aroldis Chapman.
Judge's third-inning home run was all Cole would need after allowing only three hits over nine shutout innings. Cole threw 129 pitches against his former team, a new career high and an MLB season high, and struck out 12 batters. His performance was made all the more impressive by the fact that he had been dealing with an undisclosed illness that severely affected him physically, to the point where he could not keep food down and needed intravenous fluids, leading to his turn in the rotation being questionable at one point.
"It's probably one of the greatest [performances] I've ever seen, certainly in a regular-season setting," said manager Aaron Boone of Cole's outing, his first shutout since May 4, 2018, against the Arizona Diamondbacks. "And honestly, two days ago, I didn't know if he was going to be able to make the start. He was under the weather and getting IVs in Seattle. So it was even questionable whether he's gonna go out there. Not only does he go out there, he does that. It was that's about as special as it gets."
Judge had high praise for Cole's performance, particularly in response to being one of the starters singled out as having diminished results since the league-wide crackdown on the use of foreign substances on baseballs.
"That took guts. That took heart," Judge said. "People can say what they want about different things going on or he's not the same but he's the same guy. He brought the intensity tonight; we fed off him all night. And to keep a team like the Astros, shut them out for all nine, it's pretty impressive.
"I know they're missing a couple of their big bats, [Alex]Bregmanand [Carlos]Correa, especially. But that was just an impressive performance all night. And even in the ninth inning trying to get pulled, he said 'no, this is this is my game.' You love to see that out of your ace."
Judge sends message to Altuve on home run trot
Aaron Judge connects on his 21st home run and while rounding the bases pulls at his jersey.
Judge denies trolling Altuve after hitting homer
Aaron Judge tells reporters that his gesture was because it was chilly in Minute Maid Park and not a shot at Jose Altuve.
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Steinway Artist Jenny Lin's "Get Happy" Tour at Schmitt Music
Come on, get happy! Join us for Steinway Artist Jenny Lin's "Get Happy: Virtuoso Showtunes for Piano" album release tour!
Schmitt Music Edina — Friday, November 9 at 7pm
Schmitt Music Kansas City — Tuesday, November 13 at 7pm
Schmitt Music Denver — Saturday, December 1 at 7pm
Jenny Lin's latest release on the Arkiv Music label is an irresistibly scintillating take on some of the most indelible melodies in American music. "Get Happy: Virtuoso Show Tunes for Piano" presents a spectacular collection of show tunes arranged for solo piano by such famous pianists as Stephen Hough, Earl Wild, Christopher O'Reilly, Alexis Weissenberg and many other world class pianists. Click here to read Jenny Lin's bio!
The high-energy piano performance will be followed by a reception and a chance to meet the artist and see our selection of magnificent Steinway & Sons pianos. For details or to RSVP to the event, contact your Schmitt Music Piano Specialist, or RSVP by email to rsvp@schmittmusic.com.
Lin will perform selections from the new album, including the following pieces:
"Blue Skies" from Betsy (Berlin-Hyman)
"Hello, Young Lovers" from The King and I (Rodgers-Hough)
"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Rodgers-Hough)
"Eliza at Ascot" from My Fair Lady (Loewe-Malzew)
"Meditation on Laura" from Laura (Raksin-Hamelin)
"Embraceable You" from Girl Crazy (Gershwin-Wild)
"I Got Rhythm" from Girl Crazy (Gershwin-Wild)
"So in Love" from Kiss Me, Kate (Porter-Anderson)
"Blue Moon" from Manhattan Melodrama (Rodgers-Previn)
"Johanna" from Sweeney Todd (Sondheim-O'Riley)
"Get Happy" from 9:15 Revue (Arlen-Prutsman)
Click here to get the album on Arkiv Music's website!
Steinway Piano Selection Event at Schmitt Music Denver!
See Jenny Lin's performance during our Steinway Piano Selection Event this weekend at Schmitt Music Denver – 3 DAYS ONLY! Join us Friday, November 30 – Sunday, December 2 for a great selection of new, rebuilt and consignment Steinway & Sons, Boston and Essex pianos!
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Got the Pi 2, built as an MD.
Is it possible, either command line or through web site, to add the light switches manually?
Tried adding the lights manually and setting the port from what I saw.
The port 2, seems to be the controller, as it had the brand name.
Tried 4 and 5, but no luck in controlling the light.
That log is the path to it on the core. You can check var/log/pluto/89_Light_Switchonoff.log on the MD or the initial location on the core for that log.
After lucking out with the MD (raspberry 2), not even getting a view under Automation -> zwave, I moved my core from inside "hide away location" so I don't get the dropping issue, in light of my minimal switches.
Deleted the existing zwave device, then added back the zwave device to the core, no luck either.
Thus I took the stick out, excluded the switches, reset the stick and deleted the zwave interface from the core. Restarted the core, then plugged in the stick, followed the prompts and was able to see it in Automation -> Zwave as node 1. Then included the lights switches, grand total of two, plugged it back into the core, followed the prompt, nothing. I also was not seeing anything in automation -> zwave.
Have attached some pics on ow it looks. Something to note, I have a GE and an Inovelli switch. Both work, but when you click on the node icon, the GE values especially for label switch, says true, the Inovelli that value is false. Listing also attached.
I'm glad you have managed to get things working. I did start an upgrade to the zwave system some time ago but didn't complete it. Once that is done the openzwave interface should have better knowledge of a lot more devices.
Understanding Zwave is a mesh network.
Is multiple controller sticks supported, let's say one on a ground floor the other on a second floor, and for the controlled by, you tell which switches is on which controller?
Not sure if this is still valid, but say it on argo control.
Would this (RaZberry Pi Z-Wave module) be supported in a Raspberry MD or at all?
I don't see why multiple zwave networks wouldn't work. You would only include certain devices into each network and adjust the controlled by, as you say. I've not known anyone to do this but it could work.
I think the raspberry pi zwave module is supported by openzwave, but it would not be auto detected by LMCE at this point as no one has attempted to use one that I know of.
Good you got it working.
Would like to add to what Garbui mentioned, the first time I added a zwave plus device a while back, a hardwired plug, I was amazed to see how it fixed the connection issues with other devices because it acts as a repeater. I've added a few more devices since then and the network seems fine so wholeheartedly agree adding more devices are better, even one if it can act as a repeater in the mesh.
USB cable are a lot cheaper though, it's good to see how issues like this can be tackled in multiple ways, didn't know having a second controller was at all possible.
Any one has experience with the zwave locks?
I have a lock but haven't successfully paired it with the open zwave library we have. I'm going to update that but it's a matter of time available. There 6 in 1 causes me problems where it floods the zwave network after LMCE requests confirmations. Temp is reported alternately in F and C causing it to report different values everything failing the confirmation.
Any Experience with the following?
I am okay adding it manually and trying to create an event do so specific stuff when the buttons pressed.


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Was 2020 the year we finally broke our culture?
By Karl Quinn
December 26, 2020 — 12.01am
"Cancel culture" was 2019's Macquarie Dictionary word of the year, but it has had such a strong 2020 it should perhaps have been allowed to keep the yellow jersey for another 12 months (it didn't; "doomscrolling" took podium honours this year).
Some of the targeting was overdue (Pete Evans, whose transgressions became so great by year's end that Facebook removed his page). Some of it was well-intended but inelegantly handled (the temporary removal of Gone With the Wind and Fawlty Towers from streaming catalogues until they could be "reframed" in accordance with modern sensitivities on race issues). And some of it was downright vitriolic (the TERF war between J.K. Rowling and trans women). But it all pointed to one thing: our culture is under so much stress that it's at real risk of breaking.
Lightning rod: JK Rowling's pronouncements on trans issues put her in the spotlight repeatedly throughout the year. Credit:AP
"Absolutely everything has been politicised now – we're not interested in action or debate, only in being right," says Dr Benjamin Nickl, a lecturer in arts and social sciences at the University of Sydney. "I think 2020 was the year of the politically over-determined symbol, where you can't just hold a mask in your hand without being called something other than a person holding a mask in your hand.
"The culture wars have gone into Code Red. We've lost the space of neutral debate, and that's so important."
As opinion trumped fact and opposing sides hurled cries of "political correctness gone mad" and "burn the place down" from their respective fortresses, the very notion of a shared culture came to seem problematic. But there was one point where opponents did meet: on the central battleground of "freedom".
Those on the right of the debate take that to mean individual liberty, which includes the right to be offensive, hateful, racist and so on in pursuit of the underlying principle of freedom of speech. Those on the left frame it in starkly different terms – fundamentally, the right to be free from offensive, hateful, racist (and so on) language, behaviour and institutions.
Both arguments are compelling, and both have their flaws. Over the course of 2020, we saw multiple occasions when they flared up, more often in anger than coherent argument. And frequently, race was at the heart of things.
The debate got a head start in January with reports the Australian Federal Police were assessing a claim that author and historian Bruce Pascoe had "benefited financially from wrongly claiming to be Indigenous". The allegations – raised by Indigenous businesswoman Josephine Cashman and nudged along by Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt – were dismissed just as the now-annual debate over Australia Day/Invasion Day was gathering steam.
Andrew Bolt, Josephine Cashman and Bruce Pascoe. Credit:Brook Mitchell / Justin McManus / Rachel Mounsey
All eyes were on COVID-19 through the first quarter of the year, but the putative origins of the disease offered ample opportunity for race-baiting from Donald Trump and unwelcome Sinophobia at home, while the anti-science rhetoric of the US President managed to turn a health issue into a political one, with disastrous results.
Black Lives Matter was arguably the issue of 2020, its trigger point the death in May of African-American man George Floyd at the hands (or, rather, the knee) of a white police officer in Minneapolis. Protests spread not just through America but to many other countries, including Australia (and the fact of them happening when public gatherings were restricted due to COVID-19 became yet another flashpoint).
What started as a straightforward cry for dignity in the #BLM hashtag became a conflict zone with the emergence of the opposing #AllLivesMatter. What might have seemed nothing more insidious than a call to extend dignity to all people regardless of race was on closer inspection seen by many as a dog whistle to racists, a denial of the lived experience of people of colour and a refusal to acknowledge police brutality towards minorities.
Young actress-turned-director Eliza Scanlen on the set of her short film Mukbang. Credit:Harri Sharp
By June there were little fires everywhere: the cultural-appropriation controversy over Eliza Scanlen's short film Mukbang at the Sydney Film Festival; the ensuing attacks on the festival and its brown-skinned South African-born artistic director Nashen Moodley as shills of a "white supremacist" system; the decision by Netflix to remove four Chris Lilley series from its library over his use of blackface; a BBC streamer briefly removing the Germans episode of Fawlty Towers (over the Major's use of the N-word, not over Basil's anti-German rants, as some mistakenly believed); HBO's decision to take Gone With the Wind off its service until it could be framed with an explanatory note about the 1939 film's racism; a similar decision by the ABC with regard to the 1955 film Jedda; the toppling worldwide of statues associated with slavery, colonialism or the slaughter of indigenous populations; the liquor chain Blackhearts and Sparrows deciding to no longer stock beers from the Colonial Brewing Company because of the connotations of its name; Coon cheese promising to change its name (it hasn't).
It all pointed to a reckoning with historical (and not-so-historical) instances of racism – sometimes incidental, sometimes structuring – in our culture. Depending on your viewpoint, it was either overdue or over the top.
"Pulling down statues, demanding something be taken off air, these are expressions of frustration and rage, and valid expressions of protest," says writer and comedian Sami Shah. "But it's the media's responsibility to report on the protests in a sensible and intelligent way that moves the dial further, which we have failed to do continuously.
"Organisations like Netflix will [take offending programs down] because it's an easy fix, it's a performative fix," he adds. "It's long overdue, but they'll do it right now because it shows their solidarity with a trending movement. It's much easier to do that than actually look at your entire management board, your diversity rates. It's Collingwood taking the knee on the field while denying everything they've ever done to a black player who suffered racism for years."
On July 8, the so-called Harper's letter, in which 153 writers and public intellectuals called for the return of civility to public debate, was published. The same day, 27 Australian filmmakers – many of them Indigenous – decried "the current focus on public shaming and 'burning down' the industry" as distractions from the "important debate about diversity". Both were roundly attacked by both sides, but especially by the Left. In a bewildering twist, one of the loudest critics of Mukbang and the Sydney Film Festival, Michelle Law, was outed for having used blackface and cultural appropriation in a short film she had made years earlier.
Jon Ronson, who prefigured much of what we now call cancel culture in his 2012 book So You've Been Publicly Shamed (revised and reissued this year in Audible format), says it brings to mind the old adage that the Right looks for converts while the Left looks for traitors.
Author Jon Ronson, who has experienced, and written about, social media scorn from both sides.
However, while conceding Twitter in particular "isn't very good at forgiveness", Ronson also thinks the ills of "cancel culture" have been overstated.
"I want to propose an alternative narrative in which cancel culture is not just this really annoying thing where people on the Left are stopping alternative thinkers from speaking," he says. "Despite the annoying ways of the woke discourse, they're essentially right. The world they want, more equality, is a world everybody should aspire towards."
Of course, any plea for decency in debate invites the social media pile-on so emblematic of our age. Just ask Nick Cave, who copped a shellacking after writing in August that "cancel culture's refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas has an asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society".
Arguably, many uncomfortable ideas have had their time: the idea that some races are inherently superior to others, that women are inferior to men, that gender is fixed, that "normal" sexuality is binary. But shouting them down is not the way to prove that; winning the debate is.
Not even Nick Cave was immune to the finger pointing. Credit:AP
Maybe part of the reason the Left often seems so shrill in the culture wars is that it has been robbed of one of its critical tools, humour, by upstart elements of the Right. The Left can seem deadly earnest (and thus easily mocked), while the alt-right makes frequent use of the get-out-of-jail-free card that its more out-there statements are just for lulz.
"I think we are actually at the point where the culture wars have broken irony," says Nickl. "We don't know any more if the opposite of what is being said is intended or not, and it's putting a whole lot of stress and burden of figuring it out on people."
Rather than doing that work, he suggests, many of us are inclined to take the easier route of retreating to hard-and-fast positions that preclude open-minded debate.
But despite the chaos of 2020, Nickl sees reason for hope.
"The younger generation brings destabilisation to the whole process - the idea that it's not this or that, it's all of it, it's an interspace between things," he says. "They are trying to undo the very strict boundaries Western culture has set up."
The way out of the current morass, he says, is to get past the notion of fixed positions, of Left and Right, of the binaries through which Western cultures have traditionally viewed the world.
"There is a lot more spectrum, a lot more diversity out there," he says. "I'm very optimistic about that."
Email the author at kquinn@theage.com.au, or follow him on Facebook at karlquinnjournalist and on Twitter @karlkwin
Karl Quinn
Karl Quinn is a senior culture writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.


Title: Ikebukuro West Gate Park Special Also known as: IWGP Sp Broadcast date: ?? Number of episodes: 1 Genre: drama Cast: Nagase Tomoya, Sato Ryuta Plot: Taking place three years after the series, Makoto and his mother are currently homeless. She is staying with various friends (like King's father's sauna) while Makoto sleeps in their now-traveling fruit stand truck. One day, a homeless man wakes Makoto to tell him about a rash of homeless beatings. Ken, the leader of the homeless, wants Makoto to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Makoto is feeling restless in Bukuro. What is good: The last half hour or so is pretty good. What is bad: Boring! Letter rating: F Overall: While I didn't particularly like the series, it was at least interesting on some point. The special is painstakingly boring. There's two full-length songs sung in concert form for no real reason. Yes, both of the musical acts are important to either the storyline or a character revelation but the songs weren't really necessary. Kubozuka Yosuke, who played King in the original, is absent for a majority of the show. In his absence, both of the major gangs from the series have set up ramen shops. There is a sub-plot about which gang makes the best ramen. Now I know why I put off watching this for so long.


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Q: PIC32 programming successfully but not working I am designing my own PCB around a PIC32MM0064GPL028 microcontroller. Breaking down the steps below-

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*I have built a simple breadboard version first, inspired by PIC32MM curiosity development board.

*Here is the schematic of the prototype programmed using PicKit3.

*The prototype connects and programs with no issues. And the same code works perfectly on the curiosity development board. This indicates that the issue is in the schematics or components.

*Links to the components I am using - PIC32, crystal, 18pF capacitor for crystal, 10uF capacitor for Vcap, Reverse Protection mosfet.

I am not an electronics engineer and have been playing with arduino and similar boards for quite a while now. However, this is all very new to me and probably the issue is a silly one.
It'll be super helpful if you could help me debug the issue. I can upload the code if it helps? Thanks.

A: It looks like you made a mistake in your schematic:
PIN 8 of the PIC (VSS) is connected to PWR and PIN 13 of the PIC (VDD) is connected to GND. VDD must be tied to the power, and VSS to the GND.
What is the voltage of PWR? Why don't you use 3V3 for MCLR and VDD/AVDD?

A: turns out it was just an incorrect connection to MCLR pin. I connected the 10k resistor in the wrong position in the breadboard. The schematics are fine and the prototype is working now. Thanks a lot for helping and let me know if you want me to share something else.

A: There is nothing connected to pin 3 (LED1) of the PIC on your breadboard, neither to pin 7 (LED2). Double check your connections.


Her name has appeared on campaign lawn signs for weeks, but on Tuesday, a Red Bank political neophyte made it official: she's running for mayor.
Pearl Lee, a retiree and singer from Alston Court, will top the Republican ticket ballot in November's election. She'll also be the first GOP opponent of Democratic incumbent Mayor Pasquale Menna since he won the seat in 2006.
The authors of a report that called for the creation of a redevelopment agency for downtown Red Bank appear to be on their way to getting a contract to make it happen.
Government Strategy Group would lead the way toward the creation of the agency, chief executive officer Ken DeRoberts said in a presentation at the borough council's first-ever workshop-only meeting Wednesday night.
The Red Bank council approved the hiring Wednesday night of a new borough administrator, giving the town's most powerful unelected job to an Army veteran who became the mayor of a Union County town at the age of 25.
And his salary will be triple that of his predecessor.
Back in control of the Red Bank council, Democrats flexed their muscle Monday on the issue of who will run the day-to-day operations of municipal government now that Stanley Sickels has left the building.
Answer: still to be determined. For the next three months, however, the job of borough administrator will be held by a consultant on local government efficiency.
Almost 22 months after the Red Bank council rejected three private-sector proposals for use of the red clay tennis courts in Marine Park, the governing body is getting ready to hire a consultant to come up with a concept plan for the entire 2.2-acre riverfront park.
A new structure suddenly appeared in Red Bank's Marine Park last week. What's going on here? Read on.
Red Bank Republican Chairman Michael Clancy resigned from the borough Human Relations Advisory Committee Thursday night, continuing to disavow a text message that the committee's chairman had termed "extremely threatening" to immigrant children.
Red Bank Republican Chairman Michael Clancy on Wednesday disavowed a text message that a party loyalist had termed a "disgusting" slap at the borough's immigrant community.
A Red Bank Republican loyalist blasted party Chairman Michael Clancy Tuesday, one day after she was bypassed in favor of a political newcomer to run for borough council this year.
Sue Viscomi, who serves on the board of education, also took aim at Clancy for what she said was a "dumbfounding" and "disgusting" text she claims he sent to her and three GOP council members last month in February asking for a list of undocumented alien students so he could "mail it to ICE," referring to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.


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Piazza Brembana es una localidad y comune italiana de la provincia de Bérgamo, región de Lombardía, con 1.207 habitantes.

Piazzenses destacados

 Alessandro Carmelo Ruffinoni, (1943), obispo de Caxias do Sul

Galería fotográfica

Evolución demográfica

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página web oficial de Piazza Brembana (en italiano)

Localidades de la provincia de Bérgamo


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Vinculum - Bonding
By Thurman P. Woodfork - September 13, 2011
We could discuss this for days. Vinculum – what an interesting word. Does a mother feel a stronger bond to the child she knows she will eventually send off to pursue his or her own individual existence or to the husband with whom she intends to share the rest of her life? To me, the answer would be that it varies depending on which she perceives as needing her the most at any given time.
There are bonds of the heart between a man and a woman, bonds of brotherhood between friends, bonds of familial love, and bonds of commonality between members of a group who may not even know one another all that well, if at all. Some are bound to one another by similar strong, emotional experiences, as Henry V had with his 'Band of Brothers'.
America's Viet Nam veterans share a bond with America's veterans of World War II, the Korean, and the Iraq Wars, for instance. However, it's not the same bond that we share with those who know what 'Dinky Dow' (*Dien Cai Dau – Vietnamese for 'crazy') means. The horrors of war were and are the same, death as capricious and as imminent. Blood flows and enemies are killed at any hour of the day in all wars. Friends die, are wounded, or survive the war physically unscathed, but they still bear the invisible wounds of war within. There are bonds within bonds.
We, as war veterans, all share the common bond of having participated in one of the most visceral and permanently affecting human experiences of all. But we also share the closer bond with our peers of having participated in our own individual wars. I can watch a Korean War documentary, or watch our troops battling down a street in Iraq on TV, and empathize with the participants. There are jungles in Somalia, as there are in Viet Nam. However, I lived Viet Nam; I can still smell it. My bond to Viet Nam veterans is different.
And of course, the connection is not all-inclusive and unquestioning – its strength varies among members of groups or service branches. The grunts are closer to other grunts than they are to so-called 'REMFs' or to pilots, for instance. There are grunts who are 'legs' and grunts who wear parachute wings. I believe there was only one organized mass parachute jump during the Vietnam War. Still, the distinction between those who wore the parachutists' wings and the 'legs' who didn't persisted.
The shared experiences within the larger experience of the war itself are different, so the bonds are different between the groups. It goes all the way down to individuals; we all have friends in common, but there is one friend towards whom we all gravitate. Our relationship to him is strongest of all those in the group.
I spent a year on an Army Special Forces camp. There was a strong sense of unity among the Americans in the camp, but there were understandably different ties between the Air Force radar technicians and the Army Green Berets. We were in the same camp engaged in fighting the same enemy, but we had markedly different jobs and responsibilities. Naturally, our common tie was to defend the camp during enemy attacks, stay alive, and help each other do the same.
Namvets do not blindly accept all other Namvets as unquestioningly as one is led to believe or as unequivocally as did those warriors who celebrated on Saint Crispin's Day. I will simply mention, by way of example and without elaboration, the conflict between Democrat Senator John Kerry and the Republican 'Swift Boat Veterans for Peace' who bitterly opposed his bid for the Presidency of the United States.
There are bonds that are as enduring as the universe, and bonds as tenuous and ephemeral as smoke on the wind. There are those with whom I have been united all my life, and those with whom I bonded as a matter of convenience or temporary pleasure. There are those with whom I found myself instantly and permanently connected upon our first meeting, and will never forsake, and there are those who were all but forgotten as soon as we parted.
But then, I am only human... and, until now, I had never heard the word 'vinculum' used in the sense of 'that which unites or binds'.
By Thurman P. Woodfork
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About Author... Thurman P. Woodfork (Woody) spent his Air Force career as a radar repairman in places as disparate as Biloxi, Mississippi; Cut Bank, Montana; Tin City, Alaska; Rosas, Spain and Tay Ninh, Vietnam. In Vietnam, he was assigned to Detachment 7 of the 619th Tactical Control Squadron, a Forward Air Command Post located on Trai Trang Sup. Trang Sup was an Army Special Forces camp situated about fifty miles northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, close to the Cambodian border. After Vietnam, Woody remained in the Air Force for nine more years. Visit Thurman P. Woodfork's site for more information


I've Seen A Lot Of Reunion Videos, But None Quite Like This!
In December 2012, US Army Capt. Gerardo Garcia came home from Afghanistan and was set to record a holiday greeting for his fellow brothers and sisters still overseas. With the help of ABC's Good Morning America, his family took the opportunity to reunite with their hero and father. The look of shock and happiness on all of their faces tell so much more, and this will no doubt be remembered as one of the happiest reunions for this family.


This cookbook makes adopting a gluten-free, whole foods lifestyle easy by showcasing authentic Italian meals that are not dominated by pasta, cheese, and bread—all with the convenience of a slow cooker. Each of the 250 recipes calls for natural ingredients that bring out the very best flavor in genuine Italian cuisine. Filled with slow cooker guidance, Paleo wisdom, shopping advice and an extensive variety of dishes, there's no better way to enjoy the simple pleasure of eating delightful, wholesome food.