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La Fiesta del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús es una fiesta del año litúrgico, celebrada por los cristianos alrededor del mundo, con variación en sus días de celebración.

Comúnmente se asocia la fiesta con el día 3 de enero, por la influencia católica, siendo pese a ello una celebración de no estricta observancia, por lo que algunas órdenes monacales católicas lo celebran días distintos.

La fiesta conmemora el nombramiento de Jesús, que según la tradición bíblica recibió su nombre durante su gestación. Es una de las celebraciones católicas importantes del mes de enero relacionadas con Jesús de Nazaret, junto con la Circuncisión del Señor (1 de enero), la Epifanía (6 de enero) y el Bautismo del Señor (domingo posterior al 6 de enero).

Historia
La fiesta fue instituida en el siglo XV por obispos del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, siendo celebrada de manera local en las actuales Alemania, Escocia, Inglaterra y Bélgica. Antes de su institución, la fiesta era una celebración popular que se fechaba durante el domingo entre el 1 y el 6 de enero.

En 1721 la fiesta fue elevada a celebración de la iglesia universal, por lo que se extendió a todos los países donde se practicaba el catolicismo.

Celebración
La fiesta fue consagrada para el día 3 de enero, sin embargo, no es una fiesta de estricta observancia -es decir, que no tiene la importancia que si tienen, por ejemplo, la Navidad o la Epifanía-, por lo que su celebración es opcional. Por ésta razón algunas órdenes monacales católicas varían el día de la celebración: Para los franciscanos, carmelitas y agustinos, la fiesta se celebra el 14 de enero, y para los dominicos el 15 de enero.

La fiesta, si bien se asocia con el catolicismo, es también celebrada por otras iglesias: Los luteranos y las iglesias orientales la celebran el 1 de enero, y los anglicanos el 7 de enero.

Véase también
Niño Dulce Nombre de Jesús

Referencias

Festividades cristianas
Fiestas de enero
Tiempo de Navidad
Eventos en la vida de Jesús

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Q: How to use Custom and Default Validation Together? I have custom validation for validating data. The custom validation doesn't have unique rule as I need to ignore this on update, therefore I am using unique rule on store() method. But this is ignored, and it only works if I change the custom validation with default validation.
It works if I have the following:
public function store(Request $request)
    {
        if (!$this->user instanceof Employee) {
            return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthorized'], 401);
        }

        $request->validate([
            'name' => 'required|max:50|unique:centers'
        ]);

        $center = Center::create($request->all());
        return response()->json($center, 201);
    }

But this doesn't work if I change the method signature to the following:
public function store(CustomValidation $request)
How can I use both together? I do not want to move the custom validation code inside the method as I have to repeat msyelf for update method then.

A: I think it will help you
use Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Rule;

class CowbellValidationRule implements Rule
{
    public function passes($attribute, $value)
    {
        return $value > 10;
    }

    public function message()
    {
        return ':attribute needs more cowbell!';
    }
}

and
public function store()
{
    // Validation message would be "song needs more cowbell!"
    $this->validate(request(), [
        'song' => [new CowbellValidationRule]
    ]);
}

or
public function store()
{
    $this->validate(request(), [
        'song' => [function ($attribute, $value, $fail) {
            if ($value <= 10) {
                $fail(':attribute needs more cowbell!');
            }
        }]
    ]);
}

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Police officers go 'Back to the Future' in latest lip sync challenge
Great Scott, this is an impressive video
Updated: 4:09 PM CDT Aug 30, 2018
Police officers across the country have been taking a break from serving and protecting to have some fun. This latest installment of the popular lip sync challenge from the Oswego City Police Department, in Oswego, New York, is unlike others we've seen before. This mini feature-length "Back to the Future" parody even features a cameo from Doc Brown and an actual DeLorean!The short was produced by two local production companies, Kyle Ridlon Productions and Step One Creative. Lt. Craig Bateman, who heads the main characters in the video, said the project took three weeks to film and Officer Bryan Thompson, aka Doc Brown, came up with the idea. "We encourage our officers to be community oriented," Bateman said. "It's an effort to connect with their community." Check out the clip on their Facebook page or on YouTube!
Police officers across the country have been taking a break from serving and protecting to have some fun.
This latest installment of the popular lip sync challenge from the Oswego City Police Department, in Oswego, New York, is unlike others we've seen before. This mini feature-length "Back to the Future" parody even features a cameo from Doc Brown and an actual DeLorean!
There's a working 'Back to the Future' DeLorean hovercraft for sale on eBay
Grab your tissues before you watch this law enforcement lip sync video
'You've got a friend in me': Officer serenades K-9 partner as lip sync battles continue
Police pop stars: Officers around nation challenge each other to Lip Sync Battle
The short was produced by two local production companies, Kyle Ridlon Productions and Step One Creative. Lt. Craig Bateman, who heads the main characters in the video, said the project took three weeks to film and Officer Bryan Thompson, aka Doc Brown, came up with the idea.
"We encourage our officers to be community oriented," Bateman said. "It's an effort to connect with their community."
Check out the clip on their Facebook page or on YouTube!

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Bacteria Resistant to all Treatments – Natural Allopathic Medicine to the Rescue
6:22pm on December 10th, 2015 5:59pm on July 24th, 2018
Source: Thinkstock
Unstoppable—without antibiotics, even infections from simple cuts and scratches can escalate dramatically. Alarm bells are ringing around the world. The public is going to be sitting ducks to a plague of antibiotic resistant infections, which are now starting to sweep around the globe. Doctors and patients alike now need to put their attention on Natural Allopathic Medicine's protocol for treating infections.
The mainstream media reports it like this: "The rise of the superbug is happening right now — and our last defense has just begun to collapse. The world is on the brink of an antibiotic apocalypse. A new dark age of medicine looms. The world of our great-grandparents may be about to return. It's a world where one in every 200 mothers died after childbirth because of infection. It's a world where one in nine people who suffered an infected cut or scrape sickened, and died. But that's not all. Got a sore throat? It could lead to a heart attack. What about a funny tummy? Dehydration. Then death."
Recently researchers from several Chinese, British and US universities announced in the journalLancet Infectious Diseasesthat they have identified a new form of resistance, to the very last-ditch drug colistin—and that it is present in both meat animals and people,probably comes from agricultural use of that drug, can move easily among bacteria, and may already be spreading across borders. Danish researchers fear the untreatable superbug is now firmly embedded in Europe.
Colistin, medicine's last line antibiotic is crumbling. It is being defeated. The New Scientist writes, "The last drug has fallen. Bacteria carrying a gene that allows them to resist polymyxins, the antibiotics of last resort for some kinds of infection, have been found in Denmark and China, prompting a global search for the gene. The discovery means that gram-negative bacteria, which cause common gut, urinary and blood infections in humans, can now become "pan-resistant", with genes that defeat all antibiotics now available."
That is the end of an age in terms of medicine and public health. Huge mistakes were made, yet still hardly a medical soul has anything to say about it, and authorities cannot think of a thing to do about it but remain arrogant to the end.
What are we going to say to the millions of people in the near future who die from infections that there is no medicine to treat? Modern medicine and factory farming have come together to create a nightmare that is just starting.
Professor Timothy Walsh of the University of Cardiff, told the BBC News that the discovery of MCR-1 means that the use of antibiotics will soon become obsolete. "If MRC-1 becomes global, which is a case of when not if, and the gene aligns itself with other antibiotic resistance genes, which is inevitable, then we will have very likely reached the start of the post-antibiotic era," he said. "At that point if a patient is seriously ill, say with E. Coli, then there is virtually nothing you can do."
Scientific American is warning us about the impact for children. "Infants and children are affected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the food supply, direct contact with animals, and exposure in the environment, the researchers report. For most infections, incidence was highest among children under age five, according to data the researchers cited from Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. Pediatricians and parents can help combat antibiotic resistance by avoiding use of antibiotics to treat colds or other viral illnesses. Parents and other consumers may also help discourage the use of antibiotics in livestock feed by choosing to buy only organic products or foods labeled as 'raised without antibiotics,' said Urvashi Rangan, executive director of the Consumer Reports Food Safety and Sustainability Center."
Natural Allopathic Medicine Rides to the Rescue
Natural Allopathic Medicine offers humanity a fighting chance against antibiotic resistant infections because they attack bacteria, viruses and fungus infections in a very different way. Instead of using pharmaceuticals, we use natural emergency room and intensive care medicines like iodine, magnesium chloride, selenium and sodium bicarbonate at high concentrations and we add infrared light and heat to the equation. In addition, behind these front line medicines other medicinal agents can be used, including blue light.
It is a combination approach—attacking the infection—from every side. Pull the rug violently from under infectious agents with sodium bicarbonate, which will change the pH landscape violently. Attack head on with massive amounts of iodine, which kills everything in its path except healthy cells. Mediate and strengthen all physiological processes, including the immune system, with magnesium and infrared light. In addition, control any cytokine storms with large amounts of selenium of a nontoxic type. Add the sun or high levels of vitamin D and C and one has a new treatment paradigm for the rough future antibiotic resistant infections will bring.
Antibiotics were never a good idea. Fluoroquinolones are the worst antibiotics, are among the most dangerous drugs on the market, and should be avoided without question. Despite their dangers, fluoroquinolones are the most commonly prescribed class of antibiotics in the United States. No other antibiotic carries as high a potential to cause serious, permanent injuries and even death, as the fluoroquinolones do. There are many new ideas like nano gel that might even help doctors get a handle on antibiotic resistant TB. We do not need to despair as antibiotic resistant bacteria appear in daily life but millions will die if doctors, medical organizations and the government refuse to look at safe already proven alternatives.


On the 28th of September 2014, Professor Anu Muhammad, the member secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Port-Power and Mineral Resources in Bangladesh, has delivered a keynote speech in a Public Meeting about 'Corporate Grabbing and Plundering of Common Property in Bangladesh, in London.
In a packed meeting at the Montefiore Centre in East London community representatives and transnational activists have heard him and condemned the plundering of Bangladesh by companies such as the UK based Global Coal Management Resources (GCM), and American multinational energy corporations, namely ConcoPhillips, Chevron, and Occidental. Bangladeshi community organisers and transnational environmental campaigners have made it explicit once again that Bangladesh will not tolerate any corporate plundering of the Energy and Power Sector in Bangladesh.


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The Great Tridentine Powwow
Well, they're sitting at Flavigny, but I haven't of yet heard anything....
I did get an e.mail, however, in which an SSPX priest writing on condition of anonymity tells Angelqueen that:
"The 'summit' meeting of the religious orders associated with the Society has nothing to do with a definitive 'deal' which is 'in the works.' The meeting of the General Council is nothing out of the ordinary: they meet regularly to advise the Superior General, as is their duty and right according to the Statutes. If anyone wonders why there are so many meetings coming up, let them remember that we have a General Chapter coming up in July. This is a significant event in the life of the Society, happening only once every 12 years, and it requires a great deal of consultation and preparation.
"As a final note, let all the people who are so concerned about the Society's imminent 'betrayal' spend their time praying for its Superiors rather than in forming judgments which they have no basis to form and posting equally baseless messages to internet fora."
As Alejandro Bermudez said in yesterday's Quote of the Day: "And sure, I do pray for Bishop Fellay… I always pray for the conversion of people."
Walter Triumphant
Gone In 60 Seconds
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie....
Yet More SSPX
From the Fringes of Econe....
Thinking Anglicans, Thinking Catholics....
More on Flavigny
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI FOR LENT 20...
George: "I'm Sorry"
Laying the Groundwork?


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Q: why do I have duplicates for every post with the same collection name Hi I have a posts model and a collections model, joined together by a collectionship model. When a user makes a post he adds the post to a collection, such as 'music'. However, when I list all the user's collections there are multiple 'music' entries for each post made instead of just 1.
I'm grabbing the collections with @collections = @user.posts.map(&:collections).flatten, if I add a .uniq on the end get no duplicates (@collections = @user.posts.map(&:collections).flatten.uniq) But could someone explain why I'd have to do this??? Thanks a lot.
UsersController
  def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id]) rescue nil
    @posts = @user.posts.paginate(:per_page => "10",:page => params[:page])
    @title = @user.name
    @collections = @user.posts.map(&:collections).flatten
  end

views/users/show.html.erb

Collections

  <% @collections.each do |collection| %>
    <%= link_to collection.name, user_collection_posts_path(@user, link_name(collection)) %>

  <% end %>

collection model
class Collection < ActiveRecord::Base
  mount_uploader :image, CollectionUploader
  attr_accessible :name, :image, :user_id
  has_many :collectionships
  has_many :users, :through => :posts
  has_many :posts, :through => :collectionships
end

collectionship model
class Collectionship < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :post
  belongs_to :collection
  has_one :user, :through => :post
  attr_accessible :post_id, :collection_id
end

post model
  belongs_to :user
  has_many :collectionships
  has_many :collections, :through => :collectionships

user mdoel
has_many :posts, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :collections, :through => :posts

A: You've got the line that's causing it.  Here's my take on why you're seeing what you do (just an expansion of each step of evaluation of that line):
@user.posts #=>
[
    <Post1:
        id: 1492
        collections: ['history', 'spain']
    >,
    <Post2:
        id: 1912
        collections: ['history', 'shipwrecks']
    >
]

@user.posts.map(&:collections) #=>
[
    ['history', 'spain'],
    ['history', 'shipwrecks']
]

@user.posts.map(&:collections).flatten #=>
[
    'history',
    'spain',
    'history',
    'shipwrecks'
]

So you can see that each for each post, post.collections returns all the collections that post is in (as it should).  And the flatten method doesn't care if there are duplicates or not - it just cares about returning a single, 1-D array.  So those duplicates survive throughout the whole operation, unless you call uniq on the final product.
I believe there's an ActiveRecord way to avoid this as well:  If a User has_many :collections, then @user.collections shouldn't have any duplicates.  Might be an ugly AR macro, though, with so many levels of inheritance.
Anyway, hope that helps!


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How to get a Free Avianca Stopover in Bogota
AirlinesAvianca
If you're flying Avianca internationally from basically anywhere on their network, you're pretty much guaranteed to be flying through Colombia en route to your final destination, which probably means a stop at Avianca's hub in Bogota. It's an awesome city and to encourage people to actually explore Colombia, rather than just flying through it, the flag carrier has implemented a free stopover service.
This is not a new concept and variants of this concept exist within the industry, take Oman Air Airlines, Iberia or Finnair's Stopover Program for instance.
What's on Offer with an Avianca Stopover
Stopovers are the bane of any traveller's existence – there's nothing worse than being stuck in an airport for hours on end with nothing to do. In light of this, Colombia-based Star Alliance carrier Avianca, the third-biggest in South America by passengers carried, offers a stopover program which should be considered if you are heading towards crossing between the North and South American sub-continent.
For Avianca, the Colombian flag carrier centres its program around its hub in Bogota. This follows suit of other major legacy airlines who are trying to build out stopover programs which entice people to fly with them.
Avianca launched its stopover program, aptly named "Stopover Bogota" a few years back which allows visitors up to 24 hours (this used to be 48 hours but was scaled back) in the Colombian capital before continuing onward – with no additional cost to the ticket – and includes discounts on a variety of tours and experiences.
Since Avianca primarily operates as a hub between North and South American routes, it's an ideal program for travellers from the North visiting the South and vice versa.
How to book a stopover…
To book a stopover, book your flight using the "multiple cities" option on Avianca.com and ensure there is a stop in Bogota when making the booking.
So long as there is a stop of no less than 8 hours and no more than 24 hours there should be no issue.
Go to avianca.com and choose the "Multi-City" option.
Select the itinerary.
Check that the connection time in Bogota is at least 8 hours.
Confirm itinerary and purchase
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Moo?
3 intriguing secrets you need to find in your Minecraft Dungeons camp
This is how you find Minecraft Dungeons' secret level and boss.
Tomas Franzese
Minecraft Dungeons, a top-down action RPG spinoff from Microsoft and Mojang's popular sandbox game, launched May 27, and already players have already tracked down several hidden secrets.
Many of these can be found in the camp, which serves as every players' base of operations once the game's first mission is completed. Here are three of the game's biggest and most-intriguing secrets.
Normally, you can expect your camp to have a blacksmith, item creator, map to choose missions from, a home that accrues new items over the course of the game, and chests that are randomly placed around after you complete any given mission. On top of that, the camp also houses some interesting little secrets.
To see them all, make sure you beat the main campaign of Minecraft Dungeons first, which should be possible in about five to eight hours.
Secret 1: A Mysterious Nether Portal
After beating Minecraft Dungeons, you'll gain access to several secret areas locked off during a normal adventure. There are some launch pads that'll appear on the northeastern area of the map. Using these pads will take you to the first secret: a mysterious Nether Portal that isn't open yet.
On the day of the game's launch, this portal doesn't seem to do anything, but it's an important structure from Minecraft that acts as a gateway to the hellish Nether biome. As levels based on the Nether aren't currently in Minecraft Dungeons, it's possible that this could be a teaser for, and possibly even used in, future Nether-related DLC.
From the Nether Portal, you'll be able to access the next two secrets.
Secret 2: The Chruch and Secret Cow Level
The next secret, which was first discovered by Lords of Gaming, is located on the southern end of your camp and has to do with something that will have annoyed you since first arrived at the camp: the drawbridge. Heading south from the Nether Portal, you should find yourself on the other side of the drawbridge. (Lower the drawbridge to make accessing this new area easier in the future.)
Next to the drawbridge is a building that's supposed to be a church. Inside, you can find pixel art based on all of the developers. Even more noticeable is the button that's beneath 10 rune-shaped objects. This is connected to a secret post-game quest for Minecraft Dungeons. Within each level, keep an eye out for a cobblestone door and button that opens it. You'll find runes inside all of these hidden rooms, and after collecting them all and returning to the church, you can now press the button and open another hidden doorway.
Doing so will give you access to a map and two chests. By interacting with this map, mission select will let you enter a level simply titled "Moo?" This level is themed after a Mushroom Forest and is populated with Mushroom Cow enemies that can actually be a bit challenging to take down. At the end of the level, you'll even have to fight a secret boss called the Mushroom Monstrosity.
For those of you that are unaware, this is a reference to a secret in Diablo 2, another action-RPG that heavily inspired Minecraft Dungeons. That game had a secret area where the player could fight a bunch of ax-wielding cows, so it makes sense that Minecraft Dungeons would have something similar, albeit switches the axes out for mushrooms.
The map for the secret level can be found in the church that's on the other side of your camp's drawbridge. Mojang, Lords of Gaming
Secret 3: A secret chest with valuable treasure and powerful gear
The final secret of the camp is much less impressive than the secret cow level.
To the left behind the Nether Portal, you can actually climb up the mountainside. Scaling it will require a well-placed roll to get over a gap, but once you get to the top, you'll find a chest that will give you a lot of valuable emeralds as well as a powerful piece of equipment. Acidic GXGaming has a great video if anyone needs a play-by-play guide to getting there.
Minecraft Dungeons is available now for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.


The first-of-its-kind in-car streaming device is launching in time for the Holiday Season in 2,914 Walmart stores across the country.
New York, Dec. 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zoomdigital Ltd. today announced the launch of the PlayOn ZoomGo In-Car Cinema Stick. The streaming media stick has expandable storage and creates a local WiFi network to enable the simultaneous streaming of video to up to 4 devices. ZoomGo has partnered with PlayOn to provide a free 15-day free trial of PlayOn Desktop. Customers can record and download all of their favorite shows and movies from Netflix*, Amazon*, Hulu*, HBO* and more. Once they load their videos on the ZoomGo in-car Cinema device, they can stream those videos to any number of screens – including iPads, iPhones, and Android devices.
The PlayOn ZoomGo media stick delivers the ultimate in-car entertainment system that allows passengers to watch content on the go, without the need for a 3G/4G connection. ZoomGo transmits a local wireless signal where connected users can gain access to ZoomGo's library via a user-friendly app. ZoomGo is powered by a 12V/24V in-car socket and can charge two connected smart devices via USB cable. ZoomGo is not just for the car – it can be used for all forms of travel, including planes, trains & automobiles, as it can also be powered via Micro USB cable. Using the PlayOn platform, customers can record their favorite movies and shows, and then transfer them to ZoomGo, using expandable microSD card storage.
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I am extremely happy with the dress I bought on line. It arrived on time, the colour matches perfectly that shown on the chart, the workmanship is very neat and of a high quality.I highly recommend the kissy dress.
Still waiting for my prom dress and prom is on the 28th of June.
Dear Celine, Your dress is almost finished. I am sure it will come on time.


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AIADMK names candidates for RS polls
Politics Jul 06, 2019
AIADMK today announced candidates for two Rajya Sabha seats that goes for polling 18 July As per pre-poll aggreement they have given one seat to PMK, who will name their candidate later.An AIADMK press release here said, 'Former Minister Mohammad John and party secretary Chandrasekaran will be AIADMK candidates. 'Nominations are to be filed by July 8.
While nominations will be scrutinised on July 9, the last date for withdrawal of nominations is July 11. Polls will be held on Thursday, July 18, between 9 am and 4 pm. Counting will take place on the same day at 5 pm. At present, the strength of the Tamil Nadu Assembly— which forms the electorate for the indirect Rajya Sabha polls— is 232.
The ruling AIADMK has 123 MLAs while the DMK and its allies have 108 MLAs in the House. Given the numbers, it is expected that the DMK will send upto three members to the Upper House.
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Campaigns offer bad ideas on ISIL
The ongoing battle to dislodge Islamic State fighters from Fallujah, 40 miles from Baghdad, shows how foolish this kind of bluster sounds in the real world.
Campaigns offer bad ideas on ISIL The ongoing battle to dislodge Islamic State fighters from Fallujah, 40 miles from Baghdad, shows how foolish this kind of bluster sounds in the real world. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/28vMpna
TexNewMex Published 8:40 p.m. MT June 12, 2016
Presidential campaigns have a destructive way of telling voters that the nation's toughest problems are mindlessly simple to fix. Just build a wall, pay off the national debt, bring back jobs from overseas. In fact, no president could do those things, or at least not without enormous difficulty and huge unintended consequences.
That's rarely been truer than when candidates weigh in on how to defeat the Islamic State, the bloodthirsty group that seized swaths of Syria and Iraq. If there's any lesson from 9/11, it's that it's a bad idea to let an extremist group fester unchecked in a place from which it can plan and carry out attacks on the United States, as al-Qaeda did in 2001 from its sanctuary in Afghanistan.
President Obama's strategy for rolling back ISIL's territorial gains has been to try to limit the role of American troops while delegating most of the fighting to local forces, including the feckless Iraqi armed forces that barely resisted when ISIL took over some of that nation's most important cities two years ago.
Republican presidential candidates have shown contempt for Obama's cautious approach. Texas Sen. and then-candidate Ted Cruz declared he'd "carpet bomb" ISIL to see whether "sand can glow in the dark." Donald Trump, now the presumed nominee, said he'd "bomb the (bleep)" out of ISIL.
ISIL fighters want to keep the civilians in Fallujah as human shields, and they've shot and killed many who've tried to flee. Iraqi forces are deliberately going slowly to avoid killing civilians. Many will die anyway, in order to root out the estimated 800 to 1,000 ISIL militants holding the city. The idea of indiscriminately bombing a city of 50,000 — including an estimated 20,000 children — to kill or drive out 1,000 fighters is simplistic nonsense.
The truth is that there's no easy way to defeat ISIL, but the current approach is showing some results. ISIL hasn't seized any new territory in Iraq this year, and percent of what ISIL initially seized.
That's the good news. The attack on Fallujah displays all the flaws as well, chiefly the uneasy alliance of Iraqi government forces and Shiite militias. Shiite brutality against Sunnis is a chief reason Sunni enclaves such as Fallujah repeatedly fall to Sunni extremists such as ISIL.
The U.S. is providing air support, training and logistical backup for Iraqi forces. That's appropriate. What America hasn't been able to do is bring about a tolerant, inclusive Iraqi government that restrains majority Shiite oppression of the nation's Sunni minority.
This leaves a big, unanswered question. Even if the U.S.-backed Iraqi army manages to liberate Fallujah and then Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from ISIL control, what happens next?
- USA TODAY
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Toya Wright has given birth to her second daughter Reign Ryan Rushing. The baby girl is 7 pounds 7 ounces, according to Wright's first daughter and the baby's sister, Reginae Carter. The reality TV star posted a photo on Instagram announcing the news with a picture of her daughter's foot.
Fans were quick to congratulate Toya on the birth of her daughter. Many fans commented that they are eager to see the first picture of baby Reign.
Reign Rushing already has an Instagram page but there are no photos of the baby yet. Toya welcomed her daughter with her boyfriend Robert Rushing.
Reginae Carter has revealed on Instagram yesterday that her mother was about to give birth in a series of messages, according to Bossip. Reginae could barely control her excitement as she looked forward to having a new addition to her family.
Toya and Robert Rushing has been dating for about two years. Rushing is reportedly Faith Evans' cousin and owns a sports management and lifestyle company.
Rushing is about 6 feet 7 inches in height and 30 years old. While Toya has been keeping the relationship private, he has made a brief appearance on video in Toya's baby shower and other events about their daughter Reign.
Toya Wright was previously married to Lil Wayne, with whom she had her first daughter, Reginae. She also married "Memphiz" Wright. The former couple separated in 2015 and divorced the following year.
Toya said in an interview with The Shade Room last week that while she always wanted a boy, she is not interested in having any more children after Reign. The 34-year-old called out her daughter Reginae for getting a tattoo on her neck in a tribute to her baby sister.
Reginae, the daughter of Lil Wayne, has three half-siblings and has been photographed with her younger brother.
It is unclear at this time whether Toya will go public with her boyfriend Robert Rushing or whether they will get married.


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Home Sweet Home or The Art of Settling Down (by faust)
faust	Bonanza	 September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018
Summary: Clementine Hawkins' story – how an English artist came to settle down in Virginia City. And what is it with her and Ben Cartwright? Number six in the "Art" universe, but definitely a stand alone.
Word Count: 1800 words
Virginia City, May 1850
Clementine Hawkins sat down on the faded blue settee with a cup of Lapsang Souchong tea in her hands. The tea was steaming hot, strong and, with just a dash of milk, had the colour of caramel. It was the only trace of familiarity she had at the moment, and she took her time to really enjoy it.
It was well past midnight, but sleep was eluding her in her new, lonely home.
Home. She snorted into her tea. This wasn't a home, or at least not her home. Not yet.
She looked around the big, shabby room. There was much work to do, much to clean and to redecorate to make this house a home, her home. Much work, but it would keep her from pondering the all-consuming 'Why?' that had occupied her mind ever since Harry had made that fatal misstep on the tight rope.
She couldn't get the images out of her head: Harry's surprised face when he realised his foot was slipping, his flailing arms after he had let go of the balancing pole, his body falling like a rock, his limp form on the sawdust in the circus ring, the blood slowly seeping into the ground, her husband's lifeless eyes….
She shook her head. No, it was no use, those images led her back, not forth, and she'd come to Virginia City to look forward, to have a future, to move ahead.
The boarding house was a miracle. Soon after Harry's death she had decided to leave the circus, to leave that kind of life. Harry and she had always wanted to settle down one day, have a nice little kip somewhere in Worthing, or if they could afford it in Brighton. But now Harry was gone there was nothing that lured her back to England: she'd be just as lonesome there as she was here. So when she had seen Millicent Hanson's advert for this vacant boarding house in Nevada in the San Francisco Morning Call the day after Harry's funeral, she had taken that as a sign of providence and made her bid.
Clementine took another sip of tea and indulged in its rich aroma and the warm steam.
She had been delighted when she was informed her bid had brought her the deal, and as quickly as possible she had dissolved her tiny caravan-household and booked the next stagecoach to her new domicile.
What she hadn't expected was the desolation inside the house. She would have to redecorate the walls, renew the flooring, varnish doors and window frames, and buy new furniture. The best piece in the place was the settee she was occupying at the moment, and she was going to keep it. But the rest…
She looked around again, trying to picture what kind of room this could be. She'd be using pale colours for the walls, and then decorate lavishly with brightly patterned fabrics, rich reds and dark greens and flowers, flowers.
She'd add reminders of her former life, too. In front of that narrow wall beside the stairs she'd put a small table with Harry's weights. Everyone should see she had been married to the Strongest Man On Earth; maybe she'd even hang Harry's tights on the wall above. Surely she'd hang one of the posters advertising him there.
Oh, yes, she had a lot of beautiful posters that would keep Harry's memory alive. She could picture them easily on the walls, they'd add a certain atmosphere to this room, make it special.
Her gaze went to the ceiling. Perhaps she could even hang a trapeze there? No, that would be a bit over the top. Or not? Hmm, she should ask—
Clementine put her teacup down and buried her face in her hands. There was no one she could ask, no one she could consult. She was on her own. Far away from her accustomed habitat, far away from people who cared for her, far away from her friends, from—
She had to stop that. True, she had abandoned her friends when she left the circus, but that didn't mean there couldn't be new friends.
That charming Mr. Cartwright, for instance, with whom she had shared the stage coach on her trip from San Francisco. At first she had been too shy to speak to him, but soon she had realised what a friendly, compassionate man Mr. Cartwright was, and she had entrusted herself to him, told him about her life, about her grief. At one point, and to her utmost embarrassment, she had even cried, but Mr. Cartwright had spoken to her with that dark soothing voice, had patted her hand and offered her any help she needed while settling down in Virginia City.
She knew she shouldn't have occupied his attention that much, and she shouldn't have talked about herself in so many words, but her pain was still so raw, her loss still so fresh, and she had felt so forlorn.
Mr. Cartwright had not only been a good listener, he had also provided the closest thing to comfort anyone had since Harry's accident: he had told her how he had learned to cope with the deaths of his three wives.
Three wives, three devastating losses. Clementine couldn't imagine how one person could go through this three times and still be as amiable as Ben Cartwright.
She stared at the wall next to the stairs. Well, at least Mr. Cartwright had three sons, one from each of his wives, and he hadn't held back how much they had helped him to get over the greatest pain.
Sons. Children. Clementine heaved a deep breath. Children. They would make things easier, most certainly. She always had wanted children. Dozens. Harry, too. She still remembered his roar of triumph when she had come home from the doctor telling him he had confirmed she was in the family way. Harry had told everyone he was going to be a father, had distributed cigars to the men and kisses to the girls, and made a fuss over her as if she'd been the first woman ever to carry a child. It had lasted a few weeks only, and then their joy had turned to grief. She hadn't done anything wrong, the doctor confirmed; miscarriages happened, and she just should try again.
Harry had gone on a three days binge, and then he had come home, freshly shaved and bathed, in a new suit and with a bunch of roses for her, and a tiny silver rattle in the shape of a duck. For the next baby, he had said. For the little girl they were going to have one day.
There had never been a next baby.
She dragged her gaze from the wall where she was going to hang Harry's tights to her clenched hands. There had never been a next baby; and even though she knew it must have been as hard on Harry as on her, he'd never complained, never blamed her.
She knew there were people who thought men didn't care as deeply for children as women did. She also knew those people were wrong. Harry was evidence for the opposite. Mr. Cartwright was evidence; even the coach driver was evidence.
Oh, the coach driver. She had travelled by coach before, but never in her life had a coach driver urged on his horses so recklessly. Mr. Cartwright had seemed concerned, too, and eventually spoken to the driver and persuaded him to go easier on the horses. Even so, they had made the trip to Virginia City in record time anyway.
As things had turned out, Mr. Banks, the driver, had been in a hurry to get home because his wife was about to give birth to their first child. He hadn't wanted to miss welcoming the newborn, and as much as he trusted the town's doctor, he'd wanted to be there should anything go wrong. Both she and Mr. Cartwright could easily relate to that, and so they hadn't complained about the rough ride anymore.
And then, when they had reached the stage coach station at Virginia City, there had been waiting for the coach that tall, distinguished man Mr. Cartwright had identified as Dr. Paul Martin. The doctor had looked exhausted but cheerful, and he had congratulated Mr. Banks on the birth of a healthy son his wife had named Josiah, not an hour ago.
Clementine smiled when she thought of the three men, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Banks and Dr. Martin, standing there together, laughing and clapping each other on the shoulders, and how eventually the doctor and Mr. Cartwright had sent the driver home to his wife and his son, assuring him they'd take care of the luggage and the horses.
That had been the moment Clementine had known she had chosen the right place to settle. This quite obviously was a town where people cared for each other, and that was what she would need in the coming years.
She stood and went to open one of the cardboard boxes that contained her former life. It didn't take her long to find what she was looking for: the tiny silver rattle.
She traced the finely chiseled form of the duck. This rattle was a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, a precious gift for an anxiously awaited precious child. Clementine polished the tarnished silver with the cloth it had been packed in, then wrapped it in a silken handkerchief.
Tomorrow. First thing tomorrow morning, she would take this to the coach driver's family and give it to little Josiah.
And then she'd start transforming this barracks into the best boarding house Nevada had ever seen.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A/N: With my heartfelt thanks to my betas extraordinaire, Sklamb and Sandspur.
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I don't think I've ever done an interior post before, but this house definitely deserves to be featured on my blog. It's my bf's summer house where we are planning to spend the majority of summer and I absolutely love it. They have been renovating the house for the whole year and I think the final result is more than amazing, I was pretty much sold with the all white theme, not to mention the details and special effects that make the whole place so much more cosy.
I want that house! What a beautiful house. Lovely decoration.
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Archipelago Artist Profile: Basil Cake
Lisa Millette
Part of our ongoing series of Archipelago artist profiles, this profile looks at one of Archipelago's artists, Basil Cake, who has been featured in the store and gallery since it opened. In early March, before Governor Mills issued a statewide lockdown, the Island Institute's Lisa Millette traveled to the home of Maine artist Basil Cake and his wife Mia, to learn more about his work, life, and inspiration. She spent the afternoon visiting with the Cakes, studying Basil's intricate lamps and unique, found-object sculptures.
Artist Basil Cake at his home in Augusta, Maine.
Think of the city of Augusta. Now think of the opposite. That is where Basil and Mia Cake live and do their art – down a dirt road beside a quiet pond, yet still in Maine's capital. Basil met me at the top of the dirt road. We'd had a mild winter, and the route to their home was covered in a mix of ice and mud. He was concerned about my car getting too muddy, but I assured him that my car didn't mind getting a little dirty. Basil, stopping about a half-mile down, proudly gestured to the snowy area to the right of the road. "There are over 100 garlic planted there. You can't see them now, but they're under there," he shouted back to me before climbing back into his car and continuing a short distance further to the next driveway.
Their home is surrounded by tall, straight pine sentinels standing quietly. A calico cat and large stone and metal sculptures lounged around the porch, while a dog barked protectively just behind the front door. We entered the home and settled down at the kitchen table. Basil's art is everywhere. The kitchen table is inlaid with geometric patterns and shapes of his own making. A Tiffany-style dragonfly lamp hangs above – Basil's handiwork of course.
The house itself is a work of art and love. Basil has owned the property for much of his adult life, having purchased it after being drafted into the Vietnam War, a conflict he disagreed with. He built a small cabin here in the peace of the Maine woods before traveling throughout the U.S., South America, and India. Upon his return, he married his wife Mia at the cabin, and then spent eight years hand digging the foundation of the house in which they currently live. Most of the house used to show the tongue and groove pine of the walls and ceilings. Mia's Dutch heritage and sensibility, however, led to some white walls and stone floor tiles. Out in the open and nestled into nooks and crannies, the house is filled with Basil's and Mia's art, which brings color and cheer to the cloudy day. There are at least six of Basil's glass lamps in the kitchen, another four in the living area, five or so in the study, and a few more in the enclosed porch. Smaller works—wind chimes, sun catchers, and stone "creatures" (similar to those sold in Archipelago)—hang in front of the windows, peer down from ledges, or sit patiently on shelves and windowsills. There are some familiar faces from the store: the stone moose and birds as well as repurposed silver utensils manipulated into an upright bass, a guitar player, and a drummer like Basil himself.
Basil, Mia, and I spent over an hour looking at just a portion of the pieces Basil has made. He is constantly making and creating, often crafting two to three of something before getting a prototype that he is happy with. I respected Basil's wishes to not visit his workshop in the basement as he was unable to tidy it to his satisfaction. We did, however, peek in from the outside, and I personally found the studio perfect for an artist manipulating stones and repurposed utensils as he experiments and creates.
The love of stone has always been with Basil. When he first dreamed up the stone creatures, they resembled a more amorphic animal, thus his loving reference to them as "creatures. Now, Basil's creatures, which include turtles, crabs, birds, moose, golfers, and musicians, are his bread and butter. Basil works with different shaped stones until the "right" animal comes out, discarding stones along the way that don't work for the piece. These smaller pieces travel easily to storefronts and are sold at a price point that makes them popular keepsakes for Maine visitors or thoughtful gifts for a loved one. The creatures, along with Basil's whimsical wind chimes, were once sold at more than ten Maine stores as well as the Common Ground Fair. In more recent years, he's cut back to showing his work in only two stores, one being Archipelago where Basil's pieces have been sold since its opening in 2000. However, this doesn't mean that he has slowed down or is doing any less creating!
One of Basil's intricate, glass lampshades.
Basil's stone creatures and wind chimes are made from found objects which call to Basil and Mia—stones, silverware, discarded glass pieces ranging from ones that fit in your hand to child-sized sculptures such as in front of the house. In an unfortunate accident, Basil experienced the loss of his lower leg when a shard from an oxygen tank, a remnant from his years working in health care, blew back at him as he attempted to cut it for a piece. Yet that didn't stop him from creating. The blown-out tank remains out behind the house, a reminder perhaps of what should be left alone.
Basil lights up talking about his lamps, which are truly breathtaking. The first stained glass lamp he ever made is a beautiful trailing wisteria in purples and blues on a brass trunk base. It took him approximately three months, laboring 10 hours at a time. It is almost unfathomable to look at the beauty and detail of this piece and realize that it was the first one he ever created as a self-taught artist.
Inspired by the lake next to their home and a love of plants, most of the lamps include flowers: wisteria, nasturtium, pansies, and magnolia blossoms. When fashioning the lamps, Basil's work is methodical and follows a pattern. In addition to the floral-inspired lamps, he also creates others that are more abstract in design, made from the refuse of a long-ago glass factory in Sandwich, Massachusetts. In creating these more abstract pieces, as well as his stone creatures, Basil looks to the object he is working with to help guide him in creating the piece it will become. He shared that it takes patience and tinkering with a piece of glass or stone in order for the shape of the final piece to form in his mind.
At the end of my visit, Basil and Mia gifted me one of their wind chimes, which now hangs in my bedroom window and serves as an object of meditation during these uncertain times. Especially today, when much of our connection to the world relies on technology, the Cakes and their creations remind us that we don't have to look further than beneath our feet—to stones and rocks, to our gardens, to trees and animals—for connection. For creativity. For peace.
About Archipelago
Archipelago, the Island Institute's store and gallery, showcases Maine artists and makers whose work reflects the beauty and endurance of Maine's islands and coast. A key element of the Institute's small business program, Archipelago has provided over $2.5 million in income to artists and makers and advanced the careers of more than 1,500 Maine residents since opening in 2000. In addition, Archipelago staff spend over 400 hours a year mentoring artists to help increase their skills and knowledge for running arts-based small businesses. Learn more here.
A collection of Basil's sculptures made from stone, metal, and found objects.


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Giovinazzi axe 'a matter of time' – Benoit
Thu, 4 November 2021, 08:00
Nov.4 (GMM) One of F1's most respected and longest-serving journalists thinks Antonio Giovinazzi's days at Alfa Romeo are numbered.
Days ago, Formula 1 veteran David Coulthard called the 27-year-old Italian a "quality driver" who may nevertheless struggle to keep his seat for 2022.
That is because Guanyu Zhou's Chinese backers are offering Alfa-branded Sauber $30 million, Formula 2 star Oscar Piastri is also in the running, and Sauber team boss Frederic Vasseur favours his protege Theo Pourchaire.
According to Roger Benoit, who has reported on F1 for decades, "Italy has to prepare for the fact that they will be without a grand prix driver" in 2022.
"Giovinazzi's dismissal is only a matter of time," he told the Swiss newspaper Blick.
Benoit claims Formula 1 has "simply overwhelmed" the Ferrari-linked driver, and also committed a "mortal sin" in Turkey that Vasseur "will not forgive him for".
That 'sin' was Giovinazzi failing to obey a team order to let teammate Kimi Raikkonen past, which cost the Hinwil based team a points scoring result.
"When the team orders came again in Austin, Giovinazzi obeyed immediately. Otherwise he would have been sacked," Benoit claims.
"But when Bottas comes to the team as the clear number 1 in 2022, Vasseur does not need a rebellious driver next to him, but a helper who also scores points."
Benoit claims Vasseur will make his decision about Valtteri Bottas' teammate in December, after watching the final rounds of the Formula 2 season.
Giovinazzi hits back at Alfa Romeo boss Vasseur
Giovinazzi calls F1 'ruthless' as Zhou signed for 2022
Italian official says Alfa Romeo 'penalised' Giovinazzi


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Why Chewbacca Means So Much to Fans
Chewbacca actor Peter Mahew made sure that audiences could never forget the person behind all that fur.
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The galaxy far, far away feels colder today. On Thursday, the world learned that Peter Mayhew, most famously known for the role of Chewbacca, had died at age 74 several days earlier. Friends, family and co-stars including Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford have expressed their love and admiration for the actor in the hours after the news broke. For Star Wars fans, the 7-foot-3 Mayhew was a larger-than-life figure in more ways than one.
As Chewie, the English actor gave life to Star Wars' (1977) most prominent alien character with a performance that was so much more than a costume. He further put his mark on the role, adding depth and expressiveness to the character in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983), Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Force Awakens (2015). Although he retired from the role after The Force Awakens, passing the torch onto Joonas Suotamo, with whom he shared the role in Abrams' film, Mayhew was never far removed from Star Wars, serving as the "Chewbacca Consultant" for The Last Jedi (2017) and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Mayhew once said that all he had to do to win George Lucas over for the role was stand up, but the legacy he leaves behind as one of cinema's most beloved supporting characters can be attributed to more than his impressive stature.
The affinity felt for Chewie is universal for Star Wars fans. When Lucasfilm made the decision to remove the Star Wars Expanded Universe series of novels and video games from continuity when developing the sequel trilogy, a key part of that decision is believed to stem from the fact that Chewbacca had died in R.A. Salvatore's novel The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime (1999). New Star Wars films without Chewbacca just wouldn't feel like Star Wars, because the character is so much of the series' heart. It's impossible to take for granted that there's an emotive quality to Chewbacca, an undeniable sense of personality that transcends the costume and Wookie vocalizations engineered by sound designer Ben Burtt. There's a reason why so many fans around the world have gravitated to the character, named their pets after him and taken filmmakers to task over the lack of a medal or hug for the "walking carpet." As much as we'd like to imagine that if we lived in the Star Wars Universe we'd be a Jedi like Luke or Rey, a diplomat like Leia or a cocky pilot like Han, the truth is that we'd most likely be like Chewbacca: dependable, empathetic and just along for the ride. That's an honorable position to be in.
Chewbacca, largely through the expression of Mayhew's eyes and body language, became our emotional lens. Regardless of language barriers, age or familiarity with Lucas' sci-fi saga, Chewbacca showed us what to feel across these films, with larger-than-life gestures harkening back to film's silent era, and a subtle expressiveness that gave him the same range as Star Wars' human characters. Mayhew made sure that we could never forget the person behind all that fur. Kids in particular gravitated towards this idea, and the sincerity conveyed by a character who didn't use words, at least not words as we know them. When he spoke about the people who line up to meet him at conventions with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2015, Mayhew said, "All of the families who are there have had a teddy bear or a security blanket, and Chewie [is that, he] looks after everybody."
Mayhew, by all accounts, embraced his role within the fan community as a frequent guest at conventions and Star Wars Celebrations. But it was more than Star Wars that connected the actor to fans across the world. Through the Peter Mayhew Foundation and two books written for children about embracing your differences and anti-bullying, Growing Up Giant and My Favorite Giant, Mayhew expressed his love of people and human connections. The galaxy far, far way, may feel a little colder today, but there's comfort in the idea that the universe has added another star, one for Peter Mayhew, whose life brought us all a little closer.
Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in 'Star Wars' Films, Dies at 74


Learn to speak a little like a person from Africa – try to learn how to make Xhosa clicks yourself – can you do it?
Another thing to try – can you write an Anansi story to explain how something happens? Think of something that is hard to explain, like why the sky is blue, or how computers work, and then write an Anansi story about it.
Draw a map of Africa that shows which languages people speak in which places. There are dozens of different languages spoken in Africa!
Cite this page: Carr, K.E. African Language Projects. Quatr.us Study Guides, May 22, 2017. Web. April 25, 2019.


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First Lt. John Saindon, an environmental officer with the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) and a San Antonio native, has taught science at UMUC since October 2009.
"The university had a need for teachers, so I thought I would go ahead and apply," he said. "I went through the process, and they said I was qualified to teach certain classes."
Saindon said the experience and opportunity to give to service members offered the greatest incentives.
"I have a skill and I want to share it with other folks," he said. "The main thing I want the students to get out of this is to show how animals have evolved."
After the deployment, Saindon said he hopes to pursue a job in higher education or administration, using the experience he gained in Iraq. He said he wants to take the enjoyment and fulfillment from his job here back to the states with him.
Saindon said students are frightened of the sciences, especially because so many have not taken science classes in years.
"I use the Army approach of crawl, walk, run," he said. "I get everyone on the same baseline and then take it from there."
Saindon said he tries to expose students to the animals they will dissect early on, so they can gradually step up to dissecting bigger animals.
"We start with worms, then work our way up to frogs … all the way up to cats," he said.
Sgt. Cannon Mangrum, a motor sergeant with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 13th ESC and a Corsicana, Texas, native, said the class was a great experience for him.
"I've been taking classes here for 10 months," he said. "There is a great opportunity here, so I might as well take advantage of it."
Although it is not one of his favorite pastimes, Mangrum said dissecting animals is part of the class and he will do what he must.
"I ate before I came here today and I thought that might not have been a good idea," he said. "It is not as bad as I thought."
For the most part, everyone seems to enjoy the class and attendance is high, Saindon said.
He said juggling his everyday mission while teaching is challenging and takes a lot of commitment, but it is rewarding.
"We're doing something with our free time and getting an education at the same time. It's a good experience for all of us," said Saindon.


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Read more about Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña
Read more about Zuni Mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Positioned in the mountains north of Santa Fe on the high road to Taos, the pueblo of Pícuris remains small and quiet. Fray Francisco de Zamora was charged with the establishment of the permanent mission, which was built around 1620. It served several surrounding villages in addition to Picuris it self. The mission church was rebuilt several times, being the last preservation effort made in 1986.
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During much of the Spanish colonial period, Santo Domingo was an important Franciscan mission center and the ecclesiastical capital of New Mexico. A mission church erected here before 1607 by Fray Juan de Escalona, was considered one of the largest and finest in New Mexico.
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Santa Clara Pueblo was first visited in 1541 by part of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's expeditionary force. A mission was established in 1628 as a visita for San Juan Pueblo. In 1680 the inhabitants of Santa Clara took an active part in the Great Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish. The historic section of the pueblo complex consists of one- and two-story adobe houses surrounding two main plazas with two rectangular ceremonial kivas and a church, c. 1918.
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San Juan Pueblo is known as the first Spanish settlement in the Southwest. After the recolonization of New Mexico by the Spanish in 1692, a mission complex was built to serve the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. It consists of parallel blocks of one and two-story adobe houses, rectangular ceremonial kivas, a stone chapel and a 1912 stone church with Gothic Revival elements built on the site of the earlier mission church. San Juan is a living church.
Read more about San Juan Bautista
Built on a rocky hill for Keresan'speaking people from Acoma, Santo Domingo, and Cohití, this church was constructed with stone and adobe in 1701, following the social upheavals caused by the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. It had a major rehabilitation in 1932 and today it is a functioning parish chuch and remains a community fixture on feast days and as a gathering place for artisans selling their wares.
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A polymatroid is a polytope associated with a submodular function. Its not often one can write a sentence that contains at least three words designed to scare small animals and little children, but there it is. Polymatroids will be familiar to students of optimization because of their attractive properties. Less well known is that these useful creatures are to be found lurking in the roots of auction theory. In this talk, I will describe how they arise and give examples of why they are useful in auction theory.


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Овсяниково — деревня в Удомельском городском округе Тверской области.

География
Деревня находится в северной части Тверской области на расстоянии приблизительно 20 км на север-северо-запад по прямой от железнодорожного вокзала города Удомля на юго-восточном берегу озера Ульстим.

История
Деревня известна с 1478 года. В 1859 году принадлежала помещице А. И. Колзаковой. Здесь было учтено дворов (хозяйств) 4 (1859 год), 14 (1886), 15 (1911), 15 (1958), 15 (1986), 12 (1999). В советский период истории здесь действовали колхозы «Красный Бор», «Красный Бережок», «Первомайский» и «Бережок».
До 2015 года входила в состав Котлованского сельского поселения до упразднения последнего. С 2015 года в составе Удомельского городского округа.

Население
Численность населения: 34 человек (1859 год), 87 (1886), 86 (1911), 36 (1958), 28 (1986), 34 (1999), 55 (русские 91 %) в 2002 году, 33 в 2010.

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Населённые пункты Удомельского городского округа


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The crew assembling the new Broadway canopy were very kind to demonstrate the use of the riveter today.
This is the beastie, a big horseshoe shaped device suspended from above. The attachment point is so calculated that it can easily be swivelled to rotate through 90 degrees and approach from the side. The hot rivet is compressed using the air cylinder on the side - this runs off the loco shed's system.
The rivet is heated to a red hot temperature until it sparkles.
A gas burner was used today, as we only did the one rivet for demonstration purposes.
Once the rivet is red hot, an agreed ballet takes place whereby the man on the gas burner steps smartly over to the operating lever on the riveter, being careful not to cross the path of his mate, who is holding the hot rivet to be inserted into the hole without undue delay.
After a pause to let the rivet cool a bit, the riveter is released again with a big rush of air.
Making good use of the sunshine today, after yesterday's washout rather hampered the planned assembly work, the team of two continued on the manufacture of the four remaining trusses (out of a total of 7). Here are three of them outside the workshop, with work well advanced. Before doing any assembly work, a kit of parts has to be prepared first. This stage is already complete.
With the good weather today, work could advance on the first of the next batch of trusses.
One from the first batch of three has been put on trestles outside, and the next one to be assembled has been laid over the top.
A number of lengths of angle have been cut to size in the workshop and the ends bent to the correct shape, after being heated. Here one of the sides of the new truss has been carried over, and is being levered into its place using an offcut.
It is then tapped along until it is in exactly the right place, then clamped down.
Here the other end of it is tacked welded into position.
Once all the pieces have been tacked together, they are drilled and bolted togther with temporay bolts. The final process then is to remove the bolts one by one, and to replace them with rivets.
The intermediate struts have already been cut to size, but often need a bit of fettling at the assembly stage to get them to fit perfectly.
And then they do ! This one is ready to be tacked into place.
Here you can see how one truss piggy backs another, to ensure that it is assembled to exactly the same size and shape. A strut at the other end is just being tack welded.
In this overview, the new truss is almost complete. All the holes then have to be drilled for the bolts and then rivets.
The intermediate, arched purlins are being made by an outside contractor. We have the capability to do this, but chose the contractor as this saves time.
The steelwork could be finished in a month - don't quote the blog on this, things can get in the way - and then a trial assembly will be done in the car park. Next to testing the structure, the prior assembly also allows you to drill the final holes that will be needed when it all fits togther on its frame at Broadway.
All this is being supported by the share issue. It should look fabulous, and will be something we will be proud of and look back on with pride in future years.
Many thanks for the video and the full explanation of the process. Looks like you have to have a well matched team with the riveter and the red hot rivets! A great report, many thanks for that.
That rivetter,certainly does an excellent job,compressing those rivets!.Much quicker,than using a gun!.The team,are doing a cracking job,in assembling the trusses!.Thanks for a very informative blog!. Anthony.
Very enlightening this riveting work. Interesting to see the construction. Before I worked for BR, I was involved in steel testing (waiting for dead mens' shoes), and only saw this from the completed, and in some cases, broken state. Nice to see something new being made in an old styled way. Regards, Paul.


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Les Boucaniers de La Rochelle est un club de Baseball situé à La Rochelle en Charente-Maritime, créé le 22 septembre 1985. Le terrain se situe dans le quartier de Port-Neuf au Nord de la ville.

Le Club évolue en Division 1 (Top 12 du Baseball Français), en Régionale 1 et en Championnat de Nouvelle-Aquitaine de Softball.

Les Boucaniers disposent d'un terrain principal aux dimensions Olympiques, d'un Mini Stadium pour les joueurs âgés de 6 à 9 ans, de cages de frappes, d'un espace Work-out et d'un local à matériels.

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Club de baseball en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Club sportif fondé en 1985
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Ronak K. Kapadia is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. An interdisciplinary cultural theorist of race, security, sensation, and empire in the late 20th and early 21st century United States, Kapadia is author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press 2019), which theorizes the queer world-making potential of contemporary art and aesthetics in the ongoing context of US war and empire in the Greater Middle East. His broader research and teaching fields include critical ethnic studies; race radical and transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporas; national security and surveillance; critical carceral and military studies; and visual and performance studies. His research has been supported by the Mellon/ACLS Fellowship, the Consortium for Faculty Diversity in the Liberal Arts Colleges, the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, and numerous institutional fellowships and grants. Kapadia's writing appears or is forthcoming in Journal of Popular Music Studies, Feminist Formations, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Asian American Literary Review, Post45 Contemporaries, ASAP/J, and edited volumes including Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa (AUB Press 2014), Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke UP 2016), and With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and US Empire (U Minnesota Press 2018). With Simone Browne and Katherine McKittrick, Kapadia co-edited the 2017 special issue of Surveillance and Society on race and surveillance. His new book project, "Breathing in the Brown Queer Commons," examines race-radical queer and trans migrant futurisms to develop a critical theory of healing justice and pleasure across transnational sites of security, terror, and war in the wilds of ecological chaos and US imperial decline.
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Should Europe's schools adopt a code banning cloud companies from data mining?
A US lobby group is proposing a new code of conduct that outlaws user profiling and data mining by cloud services used by European schools.
By Liam Tung for Norse Code | September 23, 2013 -- 15:03 GMT (08:03 PDT) | Topic: Cloud
Google's free Google Apps for Education suite can save millions of dollars for Europe's schools, but its terms of service have put the product under a cloud of doubt for some — uncertainty which a US group whose members include Microsoft is using to promote a code of conduct that would ban cloud providers from data mining and ad-serving in schools.
A number of cost-conscious educational institutions across the world have begun using Google's free alternative to Microsoft's paid-for Office suite. Malaysia earlier this year began moving 10 million students , teachers and parents to Google Apps in a deal that also included using Google's Chromebooks for secondary and primary schools, for example - joining the 20 million students, faculty and staff across the world that were on Google Apps for Education by late 2012.
Sweden tells council to stop using Google Apps
Sweden's data protection authority has told a local council to stop using Google Apps because of how personal data is handled.
But for schools in the Sollentuna municipality of Stockholm, Google Apps could soon be off the menu after the country's Data Inspection Board ruled last week that the terms of service governing the use of the cloud service at Rudbecks school in the municipality didn't comply with Sweden's Data Protection Act.
While the decision directly impacts Rudbecks school, Andreas Cassne, who manages the use of ICT for education in the Sollentuna municipality, told ZDNet that around 9,000 students and 2,500 staff across 16 schools in the area have been using Google Apps since 2010.
Its switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps was prompted by government pressure to cut budgets and the first item it tackled was software licensing, said Cassne, who estimates the move has saved the schools SEK 5m (€580,000) over three years in desktop Office licensing costs.
"Before we had the Microsoft Office suite for all the students and all the staff. We saved all our documents on a local server that was stored in a basement. There was no integration, no collaboration or anything," said Cassne.
The Data Inspector Board's decision also casts doubt over several Chromebook pilot programs at schools in Sollentuna, which could lead to schools eventually replacing Windows-based PCs with the Google laptops.
"That would help us even more and it's looking really good but it's the same issue there — we have to have everything in place with Google," said Cassne.
According to Cassne, Sollentuna will now opt in to the set of model contract clauses that Google published late last year that was meant to offer Google Apps customers "additional compliance" with Europe's 1995 Data Protection Directive.
But, he admits, opting in probably won't address the regulator's problem with its use of Google Apps. The Data Inspection Board earlier this year banned the Salem Municipality from using Google Apps in government. It too opted in to Google's additional contract, but a final decision on whether it can continue to use the service depends on the outcome of an appeal in a Swedish district court.
It's not clear yet whether Sollentuna will appeal the Data Inspection Board's decision, which requires that it either sign a contract with Google that complies with the Data Protection Act, or stop using the service altogether. Sollentuna is working with Google to resolve the issue, said Cassne, but it's unlikely Google will amend its contracts to comply with Swedish law.
Ingela Alverfors, a lawyer for Sweden's data protection authority, confirmed to ZDNet that opting in to the model clauses definitely will not enable compliance with Sweden's Data Protection Act. And if the school persists in using Google Apps, she said the watchdog does have the right to issue fines.
Can a code of conduct end uncertainty over the cloud in the EU?
Uncertainty over cloud services in schools in Sweden comes as Europe considers overhauling its data protection directive and addressing heightened concerns in Europe over the controversial US FISA Amendments Act 2008.
Consumer privacy rights in the cloud, in particular around Google's new consolidated privacy policy, have come under scrutiny from Europe's data protection authorities. However, schools' privacy has been somewhat overlooked, according to SafeGov, a US-based group that advises governments on how to mitigate data protection risks around cloud services.
SafeGov on Monday released a report focusing on data protection in the cloud at schools based on discussions with over a dozen European data protection authorities. The organisation is urging Europe to consider adopting a code of conduct — tailored to certain sectors — that would contain a promise from cloud providers not to mine student data and not to serve ads to children at schools.
"We found strong agreement within the DPAs [data protection authorities] that in addition to consumer rights, you need to look at people inside these institutions, such as this school in Sollentuna," SafeGov's president, Jeff Gould told ZDNet.
"We don't want advertising to get a foot in the door in schools and we want to have a kind of 'permanent sanctuary' that is completely protected from advertising, even if it's a free service."
Notably, one of SafeGov's partners is Microsoft, but Gould said the company does not influence its research or ambitions.
"For the record Microsoft is one of our members, but we are not representing the point of view of Microsoft," Gould told ZDNet. "We think this is an industry-wide problem that both Microsoft and Google and all the other players in this space can and should abide by a simple set of rules regarding the privacy protection and data protection rights of students who use cloud services in schools."
"We think Microsoft and Google should be absolutely on an equal footing."
The code might apply to all cloud providers equally, but the issues the report raises and SafeGov's recommendations for the content of such a code do focus more heavily on Google's business in schools. It also comes shortly after Microsoft's US launch of ad-free Bing for schools aimed at K-12 students, while its Office products haven't ever had an ad-supported business model.
Office in the cloud: Google Apps vs. Office 365
Can you do all of your office productivity, email and collaboration in the cloud? We examined the latest small-business suites from Google and Microsoft to find out.
SafeGov may draft a code of conduct for schools in Europe, according to Gould, which would ask cloud providers to not ever data mine the content of students' emails; remove — not just turn off — all advertising related functionality from cloud services; and contain a pledge to not make it a condition in the future for renewing a contract that the school might have to accept ads.
"In the case of Google and schools, they've come in with this consumer product that's designed for online behavioural advertising and they said 'OK, we know that you don't want advertising in schools, and we'll voluntarily turn off the ad-serving — but by the way, we'll leave the option to turn ad-serving back on at any time'," said Gould.
The problem, according to Gould, is that ads are only disabled for core services like Gmail, Docs and collaboration.
"They don't say if this student goes out and uses Google search or videos on YouTube that you won't get ads then. On the contrary, they do serve ads when that same student is logged into their same school account using a Google consumer service like YouTube."
But why would a code of conduct address Sweden's issue with Google Apps any better than Google's own model contract clauses?
According to Gould, Google's model clauses, designed for the whole of Europe, are "too vague", whereas a code of conduct could address data protection issues specific to each nation and serve as a form of due dillegence.
"So in the case of Sollentuna, they could go to the DPA and say look, 'we adopted a code of conduct which applies to the standards we use when we choose a cloud service'."
The code of conduct, which would likely be drafted country by country, might not be as efficient for the cloud provider as Google's model contract clauses for the whole of Europe, but it would be better than addressing issues on a school-by-school basis.
"Google, Microsoft and Amazon are probably not eager to have individual contract negotiations with schools in Sweden. It's not cost-effective and they probably have local sales teams which are not set up to have that kind of negotiation and probably are not even authorised to do so. So you need a broad general solution," said Gould.
"Google and Microsoft should put a standard set of clauses in all of their standard off the shelf contract for every school in Europe that addresses — because the EU data protection laws are by and large the same."
Google did not respond to request for comment.
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My name is Tamzin Hart and purebred dogs have been a part of my entire life. I think my parents, Terry & Stephanie Horan of Immerzu Puli Kennel Reg'd, had children so they'd have extra handlers!
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