Agrippa I, also called Agrippa the Great (10 B.C.E. – 44 C.E.), was the last king of the Jews. He was the grandson of Herod the Great and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice. His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, and he is the king named "Herod" in the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, while his son Agrippa II is called "Agrippa." He should also not be confused with Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c. 63 B.C.E.–12 B.C.E.), who was a well known Roman statesman and general.
Sent by Herod the Great to be educated in Rome, the young Agrippa became a favorite in court circles, but suffered several dramatic changes of fortune until the ascension of his friend Caligula to the imperial throne. After Caligula's death, he helped Claudius to succeed him. Agrippa soon became a major client-king for Rome, ruling over a territory as great even as his grandfather. Unlike Herod the Great, however, Agrippa seems to have been highly popular among the Jews. Although extravagant in his youth, he was careful to observe Jewish customs as king, and was able to perform several services for which he is recognized by Jewish sources with gratitude.
To the Christians, however, Agrippa became an enemy because of his repression of the new faith's leaders. Accounts of his death, at games held in Caesaria in 44 C.E., differ. Josephus and Acts agree that he died after being declared as speaking with the voice of a deity. However, Acts implies divine retribution, while Josephus sees the death as an act of fate. Other Jewish traditions hold the Romans responsible for his death, due to their jealousy of Agrippa's popularity and fear of a possible rebellion.
His adolescent son Agrippa II did not succeed him as king of the Jews, as the area came under direct Roman rule through a procurator, as it had a generation earlier.
Josephus informs us that, after the murder of his father, young Agrippa was sent by his grandfather, Herod the Great, to the imperial court in Rome. There, Emperor Tiberius developed a great affection for him, and placed him near his son Drusus, who also befriended him. On the death of Drusus, Agrippa was obliged to leave Rome because of his extravagant ways. After a brief seclusion, Agrippa's fortunes improved due to the intervention of his uncle, Herod Antipas, who had been appointed tetrarch of Galilee Perea. Antipas had also married Agrippa's sister Herodias, an act for which he was famously denounced by John the Baptist, since Heriodias had previously been married to Antipas' brother.
Herodias apparently influenced Antipas to name Agrippa as overseer of markets in the new capital city of Tiberias. Antipas also supported him with a large sum of money. However, when this support was discontinued, Agrippa was forced to leave Judea, going first to Antioch, and afterwards returning to Rome in the year 36. There he was again welcomed by Tiberius and became the constant companion of the future Emperor Caligula, then a popular favorite. However, when Agrippa was allegedly overheard to express a wish for the aged Tiberius' death and the advancement of Caligula, he was betrayed to the emperor and cast into prison.
Agrippa suffered in prison for six months in constant terror of death, until Caligula indeed succeeded Tiberius and reportedly freed Agrippa with his own hands. Agrippa was soon made governor of the territories of Batanaea and Trachonitis that his cousin Herod Philip I had held. He was then appointed to the tetrarchy of Lysanias, with the title of "king." In 39 C.E., Agrippa returned to Rome and secured the banishment of his uncle Antipas, whose tetrarchy of Galilee and Perea he was then granted.
His influence with Caligula put him in a position to help his people significantly and thereby win the praise of ancient Jewish historians. When Caligula ordered that his statues be set up in all temples and receive divine honors, the Jews alone dared to offer resistance to this decree. They induced the Syrian governor, Petronius, to postpone this desecration of the sanctuary for a long time. When he at last determined to inform the emperor that the execution of his order would be impossible without terrible massacres, Agrippa happened to be in Rome at that time. He was instrumental in convincing Caligula to repeal of his odious edict (Philo, "Legatio ad Cajum," §§ 30-43).
On the assassination of Caligula in 41, Agrippa's advice helped to secure Claudius' accession as emperor. As a reward for his assistance, Claudius gave Agrippa the government of Judea, while the kingdom of Chalkis in Lebanon was given to his brother Herod III at Agrippa's request. Thus Agrippa became one of the greatest princes of the east, the territory he possessed equaling in extent that held by his grandfather Herod the Great.
Agrippa returned to Judea, where his government eared the praise of the Jewish sources. His zeal, private and public, for Judaism is recorded by Josephus, Philo of Alexandria, and the ancient rabbis. The Jewish Encylopedia relates that, in Rome: "The evil consequences of a ruler's unbridled passions and tyranny... had taught him moderation and strict self-control. His people regarded him with love and devotion, because he healed with a tender hand the deep wounds inflicted upon the national susceptibilities by brutal Roman governors. He ruled his subjects with compassion and friendliness."
The sources indicate that Agrippa honored the Jewish Law. He personally carried his sacrificial basket of first-fruits to the Temple of Jerusalem and celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles with the common people. He devoted to the sanctuary a golden chain with which Caligula had honored him. On one occasion, while in the street, he met a bridal procession which drew up to let him pass, but he halted and bade it take precedence. He also sought to lighten taxation, and on the coins minted by him he carefully avoided placing any idolatrous symbols which could offend religious sentiment.
After Passover in 44, Agrippa went to Caesarea, where he had games performed in honor of Claudius. In the midst of his elation, Josephus reports that Agrippa saw an owl perched over his head. During his imprisonment by Tiberius a similar omen had been interpreted as portending his speedy release, with the warning that should he behold the same sight again, he would die within five days. Josephus says that he was immediately smitten with violent pains and accepted his imminent death. He experienced heart pains and a pain in his abdomen, and died after five days.
Saint Peter is freed by an angel after being imprisoned by Herod Agrippa.
The New Testament (Acts 12) gives a slightly different account of these events, in which Agrippa's death appears to result from his his opposition to the Christian movement and his accepting god-like adulation from the populace. About the time of the Passover in 44, James, son of Zebedee, was seized at Agrippa's orders and put to death by beheading. Agrippa proceeded also to arrest Peter and imprison him. God, however, sent an angel, and the angel released Peter. After that Passover, Agrippa went to Caesarea, where the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon waited on him to sue for peace. Agrippa, gorgeously arrayed, received them in the stadium and addressed them from a throne, while the audience cried out that his was "the voice of a god, not a man." (This part of the account is virtually identical to that of Josephus). But "the angel of the Lord smote him," and shortly afterwards he died, "eaten of worms," in 44 C.E.
A third account omits all the miraculous elements in the story and says that Agrippa was assassinated by the Romans, who objected to his growing power. When he began to repair the fortifications of the capital, he was abruptly bidden to cease by the imperial authority. His attempts to fraternize with neighboring peoples—vassals of Rome—were construed as portending rebellion. This circumstantial evidence, according to this account, leads to the conclusion that "his sudden death at the games in Cæsarea, 44, must be considered as a stroke of Roman politics. His death, while in the full vigor of his years, was deeply lamented by his people, notwithstanding the fact that he had made many considerable concessions to heathen manners and customs."
At the time of his death, Agrippa's only legitimate successor was his adolescent son of the same name. Therefore, the Roman Emperor Claudius decided to return Iudaea Province to the rule of Roman procurators, as had been the case during the time of Jesus' when Pontius Pilate governed the area.
Agrippa I was the last king of the Jews, having been given the title by his Roman overlords. His reign was a popular and prosperous one, but ended with the Romans returning to a system of direct governance under a Roman procurator. Agrippa II would act in various capacities for the Romans, most famously when Paul of Tarsus appeared before him to plead his cause at Caesarea Maritima (Acts 26), in 59 C.E.
Within a generation after Agrippa I's death, the Jews rebelled against the Romans, resulting in the tragic destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 66 C.E.
↑ Agrippa I Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 6, 2008.
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L. DOUGLAS HECK
U.S. Ambassador
L. Douglas Heck, 74, a retired State Department Foreign Service officer who had served as ambassador to two countries, died Jan. 13 at his home in Madras, India. He had Parkinson's disease.
He was ambassador to Niger from 1974 to 1976 and to Nepal from 1977 until retiring in 1980. Also in the 1970s, he had served as director of the State Department's counter-terrorism office.
Mr. Heck, who was born to American parents in Bern, Switzerland, was a 1941 graduate of Yale University. He began his State Department career in 1943 as an assistant in its world trade intelligence division. He was chief of State's biographic information division from 1945 to 1952.
He joined the Foreign Service in 1952. Over the years, he had served in the United States as country director for India, Ceylon, Nepal and the Maldive Islands and had attended the National War College.
Overseas assignments had included tours as a political officer in New Delhi, consul general in Istanbul and deputy chief of mission in Katmandu, Nepal, and then Tehran. He was deputy chief of mission in Tehran from 1970 to 1974.
Mr. Heck was a recipient of the State Department's Distinguished Service Award.
His marriage to Elizabeth Heck ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, the former Ernestine Sherman, a Foreign Service officer who is stationed in Madras; two daughters by his first marriage, Elizabeth Tompkins Heck of Washington and Judith Kingsbury Heck of Baltimore; and a sister, Thayer Heath of Altamont, N.Y.
FRANCIS M. GREGORY JR.
Francis M. Gregory Jr., 51, managing partner of the Washington law firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan and an authority on insurance law, died of a heart attack Jan. 14 at an apartment the firm maintains in Omaha.
Mr. Gregory, a resident of Vienna, was in Omaha for talks with officials of Omaha Mutual Insurance Co.
A native of New York, he graduated from St. Louis University. He received his law degree at the University of Notre Dame, where he was editor in chief of the law review.
In 1966, he moved to Washington and was a law clerk for Judge Carl S. McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Later, he was a clerk for Associate Justice William J. Brennan of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1968, Mr. Gregory joined Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. During his career there, the firm grew to include more than 250 lawyers.
Mr. Gregory was chairman of the Notre Dame law school advisory council and active in the American Bar Association's sections on insurance, litigation and antitrust law. He was a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the International Bar Association, the American Law Institute and the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society. He was a member of the parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Vienna.
Survivors include his wife, Joan "Cookie" Gregory of Vienna; and two children, Francis M. Gregory III of Alexandria and Lauren Sue Gregory of Norristown, Pa.
HERBERT WILLIAM FARMER
Herbert William Farmer, 81, the retired comptroller of the Army and Air Force Motion Picture Service, died of pneumonia Jan. 12 at Springbrooke Nursing Home in Silver Spring. He had Alzheimer's disease.
Mr. Farmer, who lived in Silver Spring, was born in Washington. He graduated from Central High School and Strayer Business College. He retired from the Army and Air Force Motion Picture Service in 1973 after 35 years of service.
He was a vestryman and treasurer of Our Savior Episcopal Church in Silver Spring.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Dorothy Milne Farmer of Silver Spring; two sons, Norman Farmer of Frederick and Donald Farmer of Arlington; and five grandchildren.
A son, Robert Farmer, died in 1991.
L. GRADY WADE
Arlington School Principal
L. Grady Wade, 72, a retired Arlington public school teacher and administrator, died of a heart ailment Jan. 15 at Arlington Hospital. He lived in McLean.
He joined the Arlington schools in 1952 and taught at Cherrydale and McKinley elementary schools until 1956. He then served 10 years as principal at Madison Elementary School, then went to Nottingham Elementary, where he was principal from 1966 until retiring in 1978.
Mr. Wade, a native of Gate City, Va., was a graduate of Greenville College in Illinois and received a master's degree in education at Columbia University. He also had studied at George Washington University and the University of Virginia.
He served with the Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II. He had begun his teaching career in the Carroll County, Va., schools at age 18. He taught science courses at a high school in Hillsville, Va., from 1945 to 1952.
Mr. Wade had served on the board of the Arlington Outdoor Education Association. He was a member of Mount Vernon Methodist Church in Washington, the Arlington Schools Administrators Association, the Retired Teachers Association, and the Virginia and Arlington Education associations.
Survivors include three brothers, William, Waverly and Jack, all of Hillsville; and three sisters, Helen Barnes of North Carolina, and Linda McGuire and Betty Mabry, both of Hillsville.
JEAN W. WOLFF
Jean W. Wolff, 69, who retired in 1977 after 37 years as a secretary with the chief of naval operations at the Navy Department, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 9 at the Oak Meadow nursing home in Alexandria. A resident of the Washington area for about 50 years, she lived in Alexandria.
She was a native of Coraopolis, Pa.
Her husband, Earl J. Wolff, died in 1986.
Survivors include two brothers, Phillip M. Kerr of Coraopolis and George H. Kerr of Midland, Mich.
ROSE POLITO BROWNING
Church Member
Rose Polito Browning, 79, a member of the parish of St. John's Catholic Church in Warrenton, Va., died of heart ailments Jan. 12 at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton.
A resident of Broad Run, Va., Mrs. Browning was born in Richmond. She grew up in Washington and graduated from McKinley Technical High School. During World War II, she was a clerk with the Office of Strategic Services, a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1948, she married Hugh Thomas Browning and moved to Broad Run.
In addition to her husband, who lives in Broad Run, survivors include three children, Martha Lee Browning of Charlottesville, Hugh Thomas Browning Jr. of Warrenton and Stephen R. Browning of Broad Run; a brother and a sister, Frank and Anna Polito, both of Silver Spring; and a grandchild.
CATHERINE OTIS DeVRIES
Washington Resident
Catherine Otis DeVries, 87, a Washington resident for more than 50 years, died of pneumonia Jan. 12 at George Washington University Hospital.
Mrs. DeVries, a native of Hastings, Mich., had lived in Washington since 1937.
Her husband, Peter H. DeVries, died in 1990.
Survivors include two sisters, Lucile M. Lietzke of Mogadore, Ohio, and Edna Burklund of Ann Arbor, Mich.; and a brother, Robert Havens Otis of Hastings.
BERNARD JAMES DORSEY
Vepco Vice President
Bernard James Dorsey, 89, a retired vice president in charge of the Northern Virginia division of the Virginia Electric Power Co., died of a stroke Jan. 11 at Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, Ill.
Mr. Dorsey, a former resident of Alexandria, was born in Northampton, Mass. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In 1927, he joined Vepco. He worked in various parts of Virginia, including Newport News, Charlottesville and Norfolk, before transferring to Alexandria in 1959 as vice president for the northern division. He retired in 1968.
Mr. Dorsey was a volunteer with the Boy Scouts, Kiwanis International, the United Way and the American Red Cross. In 1985, he moved to Northfield, Ill., where he lived with a daughter, Mary Ann Judy, until his death.
His wife, Margaret Dorsey, died in 1977.
In addition to his daughter, survivors include four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
LEON ROY DOCKERY
Iron Company Executive
Leon Roy Dockery, 73, a retired vice president of Acme Iron Works in Cheverly, died Jan. 12 at Doctors Community Hospital of complications from surgery for an aortic aneurysm. A resident of the Washington area for 50 years, he lived in Lanham.
Mr. Dockery retired in 1990 after 45 years with Acme. He was an ironworker and salesman-estimator before being named vice president.
A native of Bevier, Ky., Mr. Dockery served in the Army in Hawaii and Washington during World War II.
He was a member of Ascension Lutheran Church in Landover Hills.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Lois O'Connor Dockery of Lanham; three sons, Douglas William Dockery of Boston, Darrell Leon Dockery of Seabrook and Dale Lynn Dockery of Owings, Md.; three brothers, Lawrence Hillary Dockery of Chicago, Lendell Wayne Dockery of Dinwiddie, Va., and Robert William Dockery of Petersburg, Va.; two sisters, Lola Newman of Anniston, Ala., and Loretta Jean Arndell of Central City, Ky.; and six grandchildren.
DAVID RANDOLPH ALTMAN
Airline Employee
David Randolph Altman, 51, a customer service representative for United Airlines, died of cancer Jan. 13 at Washington Hospital Center.
Mr. Altman, who lived in Washington, was born in Jacksonville, Fla. He graduated from Florida State University and served in the Coast Guard in the mid-1960s. He was a graduate student at California State University at Long Beach.
He came to Washington in 1968 and had worked for United Airlines here since then.
Survivors include his mother, Thelma Altman of Jacksonville; and two brothers, Russell Altman of Fredericksburg, Va., and Wilbur Altman of Yulee, Fla.
EARLE A. ALFRED
Earle A. Alfred, 82, an educator who retired as principal of Bruce Evans Junior High School in Washington, died Jan. 12 at Greater Southeast Community Hospital. He had Alzheimer's disease.
Mr. Alfred was born in Chattanooga, Tenn. He graduated from Wilberforce University in Ohio and received a master's degree in chemistry from Howard University. He also taught chemistry at Howard.
During World War II, he served in the Army in the South Pacific, and he remained in the Army Reserve after the war until retiring as a lieutenant colonel in the mid-1970s.
He began his career with the D.C. public schools after the war as a teacher at Brown Junior High School. Later he taught chemistry at Spingarn High School and served as assistant principal at McFarland Junior High School. He retired from Bruce Evans Junior High School in the mid-1970s after about 12 years as principal.
Mr. Evans was an elder at Sargent Memorial Presbyterian Church in Washington and a past master of Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. He was a member of the Derby Social Club, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and the Reserve Officers Association.
His wife of 41 years, the former Mildred Utz, died in 1982, and their daughter, Greta Brown, died about 18 years ago.
Survivors include two sisters, Mildred A. Patten of Chattanooga and Beulah S. Alfred of Washington; two brothers, De Witt C. Alfred of Memphis and Romeo O. Alfred of Washington; two grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
RICHARD WILLIAM CRAWFORD
Richard William Crawford, 70, a retired agent of United Insurance Co., died of cancer Jan. 12 at his home in Lanham.
Mr. Crawford was born in Canaan, W.Va. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II and participated in combat operations on Okinawa.
After the war, he moved to the Washington area and worked as a salesman for Sears, Roebuck & Co. before joining United Insurance in 1958. He retired there in 1990.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Virginia Nunnelley Crawford of Lanham; three children, Richard A. Crawford of Virginia Beach, Linda McQueeney of Lanham and Carol Romer of Silver Spring; three brothers; two sisters; seven grandchildren; and two-great grandchildren.
EUGENE H. BECK
Eugene H. Beck, 67, a retired librarian at the Department of Transportation, died of cancer Jan. 13 at the Hospice of Northern Virginia. He lived in Washington.
Mr. Beck retired in 1991 after 44 years with the Department of Transportation and a predecessor agency, the federal Bureau of Roads.
He was born in Bristol, Pa., and moved to McLean as a child. He was a graduate of Western High School and Catholic University. He did graduate work at American University.
Mr. Beck served in the Army in Europe during World War II.
He received four special achievement awards and a distinguished career service award from the Department of Transportation.
He was a member of the Special Libraries Association, the American Society of Indexes and St. Stephen the Martyr Catholic Church in Washington.
Survivors include two sisters, Catherine Beck Begg of Bethesda and Mary Beck Rich of Williamsburg.

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Medicine has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. We've waxed extreme from a strongly relationship-driven practice to a technologically-advanced and financially-driven system. The time has come for us to bring these extremes together. Only when these two models of practicing medicine are integrated will we truly deliver great healthcare.
When I was a child in Romania, our family doctor made house calls.
I remember to this day, 60 years later, that he was a wonderful old man, with grey hair and big warm hands and kind eyes, and I actually looked forward to his visits. Even at five, I understood at some subliminal level that he was there to take care of me. He would examine me and then more often than not would give me a shot. It was usually penicillin, because fortunately for me I was born after penicillin was discovered.
Surprisingly, I was never scared or afraid of our old house call doctor. After he was done with me, he would sit at the kitchen table with my mother and have a cup of coffee. I have no idea what they chatted about, but it was clear to me they were both comfortable and had a lot in common. He was part of the community, a member of the family, a friend. In fact, he went to weddings and funerals, he was kind of omnipresent in our lives.
Those days are long gone. Medicine has changed a lot.
As it changed, we went from having few or no tools for diagnosing and treating disease, to becoming experts and specialists. And technologically so advanced, we have genetic testing, CT scans and MRIs, blood tests to drown the entire earth in, advanced surgical procedures, radiation and chemotherapy, certainly amazing stuff has been developed. On one hand this is great, and it helps us provide highly advanced care. But on the other hand, in the process, we traded the human touch. This kind of trade is just too extreme. The outcome is a huge canyon, it leads to a terribly dangerous disconnect between the doctor and the patient.
Suddenly, we are faced with a system where the most important person in the system is also the most overlooked — the patient. The patient and the doctor are no longer sitting at the proverbial kitchen table talking, and very few doctors show up at their patient's weddings and funerals.
In fact, too often the relationship has become adversarial. That just doesn't work. From where I stand, I honestly and strongly believe this disconnect is one of the primary reasons our health care system is in such shambles. The wrong priorities define the kind of care we provide.
Doctors don't live inside the patient. Unless we communicate and connect really well with each other, we don't stand a chance to help the patient. And the patient needs to understand that even though I have a highly-regarded and often overvalued M.D. after my name, I am not a mind reader.
To truly help a patient a doctor needs to know so many things: How is his family? His job? What does he eat? Does he sleep? Does he work out? What's stressing him? How many kids is she's putting through school?
Honestly, you can get the answers to these questions in three minutes you don't really need more time. And the answers to these questions certainly put the million-dollar blood, X-rays, CT scans and MRIs along with biopsies into much healthier context.
You don't always have to give meds, radiate, operate, do a test, you just don't. More often than not, doing nothing is a lot healthier than attacking and just doing.
You need to learn to stop and listen to the patient, to see the patient like your mother, your sister, your grandmother, just another human being just like you and then come up with a common sense solution for the moment because all we have is just one moment. And if you don't have any idea what to do. Just empathize. Feel for real. Feel for the patient. They are you. And you know what? As young naïve and idealistic medical students we are experts at feeling. Hold on to that expertise.
Dr. Erika Schwartz is an internationally recognized health and wellness expert and founder of Evolved Science, a personalized medical group with headquarters in New York City and offices in London. She is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent book, Don't Let Your Doctor Kill You, was published this month by Post Hill Press.


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Q: How to run multiple Go lang http Servers at the same time and test them using command line? EDIT: My aim was to run multiple Go HTTP Servers at the same time. I was facing some issues while accessing the Go HTTP server running on multiple ports while using Nginx reverse proxy.
Finally, this is the code that I used to run multiple servers.
package main

import (
    "net/http"
    "fmt"
    "log"
)

func main() {

    // Show on console the application stated
    log.Println("Server started on: http://localhost:9000")
    main_server := http.NewServeMux()

    //Creating sub-domain
    server1 := http.NewServeMux()
    server1.HandleFunc("/", server1func)

    server2 := http.NewServeMux()
    server2.HandleFunc("/", server2func)

    //Running First Server
    go func() {
        log.Println("Server started on: http://localhost:9001")
        http.ListenAndServe("localhost:9001", server1)
    }()

    //Running Second Server
    go func() {
        log.Println("Server started on: http://localhost:9002")
        http.ListenAndServe("localhost:9002", server2)
    }()

    //Running Main Server
    http.ListenAndServe("localhost:9000", main_server)
}

func server1func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "Running First Server")
}

func server2func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "Running Second Server")
}

Few newbie mistakes I was making:

*

*ping http://localhost:9000 -- As mentioned, ping is used for host not a web address. Use wget http://localhost:9000 instead. Thanks for others for correcting it.

*Ending SSH session while running the application on server -- Once you close your session, it will also shut down the application.

*Use of Ctrl + Z -- If you are using single terminal window and you will use Ctrl + Z, it will pause the program and you will face issues while accessing the servers

I hope it will help newbie Go lang programmers like me.

A: The classic ping does not work for testing TCP ports, just hosts (see https://serverfault.com/questions/309357/ping-a-specific-port). I've seen many frameworks provide a "ping" option to test if the server is alive, may be this is the source of the mistake.
I like to use netcat:
$ nc localhost 8090 -vvv
nc: connectx to localhost port 8090 (tcp) failed: Connection refused

$ nc localhost 8888 -vvv
found 0 associations
found 1 connections:
     1: flags=82<CONNECTED,PREFERRED>
     outif lo0
     src ::1 port 64550
     dst ::1 port 8888
     rank info not available
     TCP aux info available

Connection to localhost port 8888 [tcp/ddi-tcp-1] succeeded!

You may have to install it with sudo yum install netcat or sudo apt-get install netcat (respectively for RPM and DEB based distros).

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Buried in chains – a Roman-era skeleton, thought to be that of a male slave, excavated near Bordeaux. The body was buried with shackles around the neck, and dates from the 1st century AD.
The omens had been terrible that year. In Rome, a slave girl gave birth to a monster: "a boy with four feet, four hands, four eyes, double the usual number of ears, and two sets of sexual organs," most likely a case of Siamese twins. In Sicily, Mount Etna erupted "in flashes of fire," spewing gouts of molten rock and scorching ash that torched rich landowners' property for miles around.
It all pointed to trouble – to trouble in Sicily, and most of all to trouble with the slaves. And when that trouble came, it made sense of the portents, for it was the work of a slave who was in Roman eyes a monster. He was a magician who belched flames like the volcano, an adept who foretold futures, and a messianic priest-king who served a grotesque foreign goddess and led his people in a revolt that lasted half a decade, taking five large Roman armies to put down.
A statue of Eunus outside the walls of the citadel at Enna, in the interior of Sicily. The formidable hill-top fortress was once his ancient capital.
His name was Eunus – which may be translated, roughly, as "the kindly one" – and although he is practically forgotten now, he was a leader fit to rank alongside Spartacus – or, in truth, above him, for while both men were slaves who masterminded wars against Rome (Spartacus six decades later), Eunus's rebellion was four or five times as large, and it lasted something like three times as long. He built a state, which Spartacus never tried to do, and all the evidence suggests that he inspired fierce loyalty in ways the Thracian gladiator could not – after all, Spartacus (to the surprise of those who know him from romantic film and television portrayals) was undone as much by dissension within the ranks of his own army as he was by the might of the legions that were sent against him. And when the end came for Eunus, it did so in a götterdämmerung reminiscent of nothing so much as the fall of Masada, the Jewish mountain-top fortress taken by Rome around 74 A.D. At Masada, the 960 surviving defenders committed suicide en masse rather than fall into the hands of their enemies. In Sicily, the thousand picked men of the slave-king's bodyguard hacked their way out of encirclement, only to kill one another in an identical pact when their position became hopeless – leaving their leader and his last four followers to be hunted down in the furthest reaches of the mountains that had protected them for years. Continue reading →
15 September 2015 12 April 2018 / Mike Dash	/ 41 Comments
Teruo Nakamura, a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army, survived deep in the jungles of Morotai for 29 years after the end of World War II – becoming the last of more than 120 stragglers to be rounded up on various islands in Indonesia and the Pacific between 1947 and 1974.
Japan's past met its present, four decades ago, by a river in a rainforest on the island of Lubang. The encounter took place late in the tropical dusk of 20 February 1974, as the breeze died and the air grew thick with flying insects. Representing the present was a college drop-out by the name of Norio Suzuki, 24 years old and clad in a T-shirt, dark blue trousers, socks, a pair of rubber sandals. He was stooping, making up a fire from a pile of twigs and branches, quite unaware that he was watched. The past, meanwhile, peered out from the cover of the jungle, wondering if the young man was some sort of trap. The man gazing from the forest fringe wore the remnants of an army uniform, and he carried a rifle. At the time of the encounter, he had been hiding in the interior of Lubang for almost 30 years, steadfastly continuing to wage a war that had ended with Japan's surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945.
The past's name was Hiroo Onoda. He was an intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, he was then just shy of his fifty-second birthday, and he was about to become famous. Continue reading →
20 June 2013 11 April 2017 / Mike Dash	/ 6 Comments
Shakushain, the leader of Ainu resistance to Japan, is shown in this modern memorial on Hokkaido. Thanks to a postwar revival of Ainu nationalism, celebrations of indigenous culture are held each year at this spot. Photo: Wikicommons.
There has always been something otherworldly about Hokkaido. It is the most northerly of the four great land masses that make up Japan, and although separated from the mainland, Honshu, by a strait only a few miles wide, the island remains geologically and geographically distinct. Spiked with mountains, thick with forests, and never more than sparsely populated, it has a stark and wintry beauty that sets it apart from the more temperate landscapes to the south.
Hokkaido is such a familiar feature on maps of Japan that it is easy to forget what a recent addition it is to both the nation and the state. It does not appear in Japanese chronicles until around 1450, and was not formally incorporated into greater Japan until 1869. As late as 1650, the island was known as "Ezo," and was a distant frontier zone, only tenuously controlled from Edo (modern Tokyo). Even in the 1740s, Tessa Morris-Suzuki notes, maps of the region still showed it "disappearing over the horizon and petering out in a splash of unconvincing islands." And while it seems always to have possessed a small population of Japanese hunters and merchants, Hokkaido was home to, and for the most part run by, a significantly larger group of indigenous tribes known collectively as the Ainu.
18 March 2013 15 March 2015 / Mike Dash	/ 19 Comments
Vikings as portrayed in a 19th-century source: fearsome warriors and sea raiders.
Ninth-century Scandinavia has had a good press in recent years. As late as the 1950s, when Kirk Douglas filmed his notorious clunker The Vikings—a movie that featured lashings of fire and pillage, not to mention Tony Curtis clad in an ahistorical and buttocks-skimming leather jerkin—most popular histories still cast the Denmark and Norway of the Dark Ages as nations overflowing with bloodthirsty warriors who were much given to horned helmets and drunken ax-throwing contests. If they weren't worshiping the pagan gods of Asgard, these Vikings were sailing their longships up rivers to sack monasteries while ravishing virgins and working themselves into berserker rages.
Since the early 1960s, though—we can date the beginning of the change to the publication of Peter Sawyer's influential The Age of the Vikings (1962)—rehabilitation has been almost complete. Today, historians are likely to stress that the Vikings were traders and settlers, not rapists and killers. The Scandinavians' achievements have been lauded—they sailed all the way to America and produced the Lewis Chessmen—and nowadays some scholars go so far as to portray them as agents of economic stimulus, occasional victims of their more numerous enemies, or even (as a recent campaign organized by the University of Cambridge suggested) men who "preferred male grooming to pillaging," carrying around ear spoons to remove surplus wax. To quote the archaeologist Francis Pryor, they "integrated into community life" and "joined the property-owning classes" in the countries they invaded.
Much of this is, of course, necessary revisionism. The Vikings did build a civilization, did farm and could work metal. But, as the medievalist Jonathan Jarrett notes, the historical evidence also shows that they took thousands of slaves and deserved their reputation as much-feared warriors and mercenaries. They could be greedy and implacable foes, and over the centuries reduced several strong and wealthy kingdoms (not least Anglo-Saxon England) to the point of collapse. Much of the time, moreover, the same men who were doing the farming and the metalworking were also responsible for the raping and looting—it was a matter of economic imperative that Vikings who planted crops in the poor soil of Norway, Orkney or northern Scotland in the spring went raiding in the summer before returning home at harvest-time. Finally, as Jarrett points out, being a well-groomed but brutal soldier is scarcely a contradiction in terms. One of the Viking fighters killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 gloried in the nickname of Olaf the Flashy, and "the era that invented and lauds James Bond really shouldn't need telling that someone can plausibly be all of heroic, well-dressed and pathologically violent."
9 March 2013 19 February 2020 / Mike Dash	/ 34 Comments
Tom Johnson, the famous smuggler, adventurer, and inventor of submarines, sketched in 1834 for the publication of Scenes and Stories by a Clergyman in Debt.
Tom Johnson was one of those extraordinary characters that history throws up in times of crisis. Born in 1772 to Irish parents, he made the most of the opportunities that presented themselves and was earning his own living as a smuggler by the age of 12. At least twice, he made remarkable escapes from prison. When the Napoleonic Wars broke out, his well-deserved reputation for extreme daring saw him hired–despite his by then extensive criminal record–to pilot a pair of covert British naval expeditions to the enemy's coast.
But Johnson also has a stranger claim to fame, one that has gone unmentioned in all but the most obscure of histories. In 1820–or so he claimed–he was offered the sum of £40,000 [equivalent to $3 million now] to rescue the emperor Napoleon from bleak exile on the island of St. Helena. This escape was to be effected in an incredible way–down a sheer cliff, using a bosun's chair, to a pair of primitive submarines waiting off shore. Johnson had to design the submarines himself, since his plot was hatched decades before the invention of the first practical underwater craft.
The tale begins with the emperor himself. As the inheritor of the French Revolution–the outstanding event of the age, and the one that, more than any other, caused rich and privileged elites to sleep uneasy in their beds–the Corsican became the terror of half of Europe; as an unmatched military genius, the invader of Russia, conqueror of Italy, Germany and Spain, and architect of the Continental System, he was also (in British eyes at least) the greatest monster of his day. In the English nursery he was "Boney," a bogeyman who hunted down naughty children and gobbled them up; in France he was a beacon of chauvinism. His legend was only burnished when, defeated, apparently conclusively, in 1814 by a grand coalition of all his enemies, he was imprisoned on the small Italian island of Elba–only to escape, return to France, and, in the campaign famously known as the Hundred Days, unite his whole nation behind him again. His final defeat, at Waterloo, left the British determined to take no further chances with him. Exile to St. Helena, a small island in the South Atlantic 1,200 miles from the nearest land, was intended to make further escape impossible.
18 January 2013 22 January 2017 / Mike Dash	/ 6 Comments
The funeral of James Idle in the village of Hullavington, on August 29, 1914.
Picture the British countryside and the chances are that you are picturing the unmatched beauty of the Cotswolds, in England's green heart, west of London. Picture the Cotswolds, and you have in your mind's eye a place like Hullavington: a handful of cottages, some thatched, but all clustered around a village green, a duck pond and a church. The latter will most likely be ancient, 600 or 700 years old, and its graveyard will be filled with generation after generation of villagers, the same family names carved on tombstones that echo down the centuries even as they weather into slabs of rock.
Visit the church at Hullavington, though, and your eye will soon be drawn to one century-old grave, placed against a bank of ivy and remarkable not merely for its pristine whiteness, but also for the identity of the young man buried there. James Idle, who died a couple of miles away late in August 1914, was a soldier who had no family or friends in the village; indeed, in all likelihood he'd never even been there when he was killed guarding a railway in the very first month of the First World War. But Idle's funeral—held a few days later in the presence of a handful of men from his regiment and a gaggle of respectful villagers—inspired a remarkable response in one girl who witnessed it. Marjorie Dolman was only 9 years old when she watched the soldier being carried to his grave; she is probably among the village girls pictured in the contemporary postcard shown above. Yet something about the funeral touched her so deeply that, from then until almost the end of her life (and she died aged 99), she made it her unbidden duty to lay fresh flowers daily on Private Idle's grave.
17 May 2012 20 October 2015 / Mike Dash	/ 57 Comments
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels makes a point. Still from 1930s German film footage.
Amid the collection of thugs, sycophants, stone-eyed killers and over-promoted incompetents who comprised the wartime leadership of Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels stood out. For one thing, he was genuinely intelligent—he had earned a doctorate in Romantic literature before becoming Hitler's propaganda chief. For another, he understood that his ministry needed to do more than merely hammer home the messages of Hitler's ideology.
Goebbels knew he needed to engage—with an increasingly war-weary German public, and with the Allied servicemen whose morale he sought to undermine. This clear-eyed determination to deal with reality, not fantasy, led him to some curious accommodations. None, however, were quite so strange as his attempts to harness the dangerous attractions of dance music to Hitler's cause. It was an effort that led directly to the creation of that oxymoron in four-bar form: a Nazi-approved, state-sponsored hot jazz band known as Charlie and His Orchestra.
By the late 1930s, swing and jazz were by far the most popular music of the day, for dancing and for listening. But, originating as they did in the United States, with minimal contributions from Aryan musicians, the Nazis loathed them. The official party line was that these forms were entartete musik ("degenerate music"), and that their improvised breaks and pounding rhythms risked undermining German purity and discipline. In public speeches, the Nazis put it more harshly than that. Jazz, Goebbels insisted, was nothing but "jungle music."
Throughout the war years, it was German policy to suppress the music, or at least tame it. This resulted in some remarkable decrees, among them the clauses of a ban promulgated by a Nazi gauleiter in Bohemia and recalled (faithfully, he assures us—"they had engraved themselves deeply on my mind") by the Czech dissident Josef Skvorecky in the introduction to his novella The Bass Saxophone. They are worth quoting in full:
18 April 2012 14 October 2013 / Mike Dash	/ 2 Comments
Cher Ami, an American veteran of the First World War, was credited with carrying the message that saved 200 men of the "Lost Battalion" during the Battle of the Argonne in 1918–despite losing a leg and an eye to shell splinters in the maelstrom of battle. Decorated with the French Croix de Guerre, he was preserved after death and can still be seen on display in the American Museum of Natural History.
At midnight on November 12, 1870, two French balloons, inflated with highly flammable coal gas and manned by desperate volunteers, took off from a site in Monmartre, the highest point in Paris. The balloons rose from a city besieged—the Franco-Prussian War had left Paris isolated, and the city had been hastily encircled by the Prussian Army—and they did so on an unlikely mission. They carried with them several dozen pigeons, gathered from lofts across the city, that were part of a last-ditch attempt to establish two-way communication between the capital and the French provisional government in Tours, 130 miles southwest.
Paris had been encircled since mid-September. By early autumn, with the prospects of relief as distant as ever, and the population looking hungrily at the animals in the zoo, the besieged French had scoured the city and located seven balloons, one of which, the Neptune, was patched up sufficiently to make it out of the city over the heads of the astounded Prussians. It landed safely behind French lines with 275 pounds of official messages and mail, and before long there were other flights, and the capital's balloon manufacturers were working flat out on new airships.
The work was dangerous and the flights no less so—2.5 million letters made it out of Paris during the siege, incalculably raising morale, but six balloons were lost to enemy fire and the ones that survived that gauntlet, historian Alastair Horne observes, "were capable of unpredictable motion in all three dimensions, none of which was controllable."
The French prepare a balloon for launch during the Siege of Paris, 1870. Pigeons carried out by balloon helped establish two-way communication with the city.
Of the two balloons in the pigeon flight, one, the Daugerre, was shot down by ground fire as it drifted south of Paris in the dawn, but the other, the Niepce, survived by hastily jettisoning ballast and soaring out of range. Its precious pigeon cargo would return to the city bearing messages by the thousand, all photographed using the brand-new technique of microfilming and printed on slivers of collodium, each weighing just a hundredth of an ounce. These letters were limited to a maximum of 20 words and they were carried into Paris at a cost of 5 francs each. In this way, Horne notes, a single pigeon could fly in 40,000 dispatches, equivalent to the contents of a substantial book. The messages were then projected by magic lantern onto a wall, transcribed by clerks, and delivered by regular post.
A total of 302 largely untrained pigeons left Paris in the course of the siege, and 57 returned to the city. The remainder fell prey to Prussian rifles, cold, hunger, or the falcons that the besieging Germans hastily introduced to intercept France's feathered messengers. Still, the general principle that carrier pigeons could make communication possible in the direst of situations was firmly established in 1870, and by 1899, Spain, Russia, Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Romania had established their own pigeon services. The British viewed these developments with some alarm. A call to arms published in the influential journal The Nineteenth Century expressed concern at the development of a worrying divergence in military capability. The Empire, it was suggested, was being rapidly outpaced by foreign military technology.
16 February 2012 4 August 2017 / Mike Dash	/ 25 Comments
Zacharias Basileus Zacharoff, better known as Sir Basil Zaharoff: arsonist, bigamist and pimp, arms dealer, honorary knight of the British Empire, confidant of kings, and all-round international man of mystery.
Late in November 1927, an elderly Greek man sat in his mansion in Paris and tended a fire. Every time it flickered and threatened to die, he reached to one side and tossed another bundle of papers or a leather-bound book into the grate. For two days the old man fed the flames, at one point creating such a violent conflagration that his servants worried he would burn the whole house down. By the time he had finished, a vast pile of confidential papers, including 58 years' worth of diaries that recorded every detail of a most scandalous career, had been turned to ash. Thus the shadowy figure whom the press dubbed "the Mystery Man of Europe" ensured that his long life would remain, for the most part, an impenetrable enigma.
Few men have acquired so evil a reputation as did Basil Zaharoff, alias Count Zacharoff, alias Prince Zacharias Basileus Zacharoff, known to his intimates as "Zedzed." Born in Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, perhaps in 1849, Zaharoff was a brothel tout, bigamist and arsonist, a benefactor of great universities and an intimate of royalty who reached his peak of infamy as an international arms dealer—a "merchant of death," as his many enemies preferred it.
In his prime, Zaharoff was more than a match for the notorious Aleister Crowley in any contest to be dubbed the Wickedest Man in the World. Still remembered as the inventor of the Systeme Zaharoff—a morally bankrupt sales technique that involved a single unscrupulous arms dealer selling to both parties in a conflict he has helped to provoke—he made a fortune working as a super-salesman for Vickers, the greatest of all British private arms firms, whom he served for 30 years as "our General Representative abroad." He expressed no objection to, and indeed seemed rather to enjoy, being referred to as "the Armaments King."
Men of the Constantinople Fire Brigade, an Ottoman army unit well-known in the 19th century for its corruption. In the 1860s Zaharoff was employed there as an arsonist, setting fires that could be extinguished for profit.
Zaharoff's youth remains shrouded in mystery and rumor, much of it put about by Zedzed himself. He was born in the Turkish town of Mughla, the son of a Greek importer of attar of roses, and soon proved to be an astonishing linguist—he would later be described as the master of 10 languages. At some point, it is supposed, the family moved briefly to Odessa, on Russia's Black Sea coast, where they Russified their name. But remarkably little proper documentation survives from this or any other period of Zaharoff's career. As one early biographer, the Austrian Robert Neumann, put it:
You ask for his birth certificate. Alas! a fire destroyed the church registers. You search for a document concerning him in the archives of the Vienna War Office. The folder is there, but it is empty; the document has vanished…. He buys a château in France and—how does the story of the editor of the Documents politiques go?—"Sir Basil Zaharoff at once buys up all the picture postcards… which show the château, and strictly prohibits any more photographs being taken."
3 February 2012 7 November 2014 / Mike Dash	/ 15 Comments
An 1894 engraving of Attila from Horne's Great Men and Famous Women, adapted from an antique medal. In depicting Attila with horns and goatish physiognomy, the engraver stressed the diabolical aspects of his character.
He called himself flagellum Dei, the scourge of God, and even today, 1,500 years after his blood-drenched death, his name remains a byword for brutality. Ancient artists placed great stress on his inhumanity, depicting him with goatish beard and devil's horns. Then as now, he seemed the epitome of an Asian steppe nomad: ugly, squat and fearsome, lethal with a bow, interested chiefly in looting and in rape.
His real name was Attila, King of the Huns, and even today the mention of it jangles some atavistic panic bell deep within civilized hearts. For Edward Gibbon—no great admirer of the Roman Empire that the Huns ravaged repeatedly between 434 and 453 A.D.—Attila was a "savage destroyer" of whom it was said that "the grass never grew on the spot where his horse had trod." For the Roman historian Jordanes, he was "a man born into the world to shake the nations." As recently as a century ago, when the British wanted to emphasize how barbarous and how un-English their opponents in the First World War had grown—how very far they had fallen short in their sense of honor, justice and fair play—they called the Germans "Huns." Continue reading →


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Facebook's Secret Message Inbox & Other Interesting Facts about It
Written by Shannon - Reviewed by Glozine Team
Published: Apr 15, 2016 | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2018
Technology is evolving every day. There is no particular time that a person will ever pride themselves to know all there is to know about technology. There will always be that one particular application or machine that you don't know how it operates. Sometimes it's a good thing as it gives you a chance to learn something new.
Over the years, Facebook as a social media has gained popularity to become one of the most used social media platform. It has enhanced how we interact with friends over the world. It has allowed us to share photos, update statuses, comment on other people's post and so much more. If you started using it in the early days (middle 2000's), then you must be thinking that you know your way around every bit of this application. It might be true or not. Among the most exciting parts of Facebook is the ability to send and receive messages to and from friends. Wherever your friends are in the world, they can be able to send you private messages. This has made live chats easier and more exciting. Having said that, you will be surprised to know that Facebook has a secret message inbox apart from the one you are used to.
Remember that friend who said they sent you a message on Facebook and you didn't reply and you swore you never saw such a thing, you might actually have received the message. It might be in the secret message inbox that you have never opened. The question going in your mind right might be how exactly you can locate this secret message inbox. Well, to locate it, all you need to know is which application you are currently using. Then follow the following procedures:
1. Messenger for Android and Apple
Locate the Messenger icon at either the top on your right or on the bottom. From there, go to settings and click on 'People'. You should be able to see the option of 'message requests'. Click on it then scroll down to the bottom where you should be able to locate 'filtered requests'. Click on it and see whose messages have been filtered so far.
2. Facebook.com
If you are not using the available apps for Facebook but rather accessing it directly using the website's address, then reaching the filtered requests is slightly different. Go to messages. At the bottom you will see "view filtered requests". Click and you should be able to view unseen and unheard message both recent and some from way back.
But why does this happen?
You know the same way your email filters spam messages, the same principle is applied here. You do know there is a 'message request' in your message box, don't you? Where you see messages and decide whether you want to receive them or not? Well, what you might not know is that filtering has already been done to decide which messages reach this point in the first place. Sound farfetched but it is the actual truth. Most of these messages are interpreted as coming from scammers, strangers and spammers and thus are filtered. Not everything sent actually makes it to your usual message inbox.
Other Things You Need To Know About Facebook
1. It has over 1.59 billion active users so far. This means that traffic on Facebook in some countries is quite high. According to comScore, it's the sixth most trafficked site in the US.
2. More than half of Facebook users are outside college. I know it's surprising especially since most people believe that teenagers are the ones who use Facebook mostly. Well, what do you know?
3. The US has the largest number of Facebook active users followed by the UK and Canada.
4. Instagram, the app used to share Photos, is owned by Facebook. The company bought in back in the year 2012 for a billion dollars.
5. Shakira is the most popular celebrity with her page with over 104 million likes so far. On the other hand, the most popular brand is Coca-Cola.
6. It has been in existence for 12 years by now. It was launched back in 2004 in Harvard University by the owner Mark Zuckerberg. The initial intention was to make it an inter-university social network. It would later expand to other universities such as Yale and later the whole world.
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There is definitely so much to know about Facebook, from its secret message inbox, to the large number of users. It has grown over the years. It has changed how people interact and also helped most businesses in terms of advertisements and reaching a large pool of potential customers. This is definitely a platform to watch out for.
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The Compact Oxford Dictionary of Current English offers several definitions of the word "smear." One is "coat or mark with a greasy or sticky substance." Another is "damage the reputation of [someone] by false accusations." Neither of these definitions perfectly fits Sean Wilentz' discussion of Barack Obama and his supporters, published on The New Republic's website last week. But Wilentz has certainly produced a smear.
Wilentz does deserve considerable credit--this is one impressive smear. Saying nothing about Obama's career or positions, Wilentz announces that there is a "delusional style" in American political punditry, typified by support for inexperienced, unqualified candidates on the basis of the delusional belief that those candidates have good "instincts." In Wilentz' view, the presidential candidacy of George W. Bush was merely the latest beneficiary of the delusional style.
Is Wilentz actually trying to make a claim about American history? Or about American journalism? Sure, American political commentary has had its fair share of delusions, but the idea of a general "delusional style" is much too vague and abstract to be illuminating. There is no such "style" in American politics. (Wilentz is playing here on Richard Hofstader's illuminating, substantive, and influential 1964 essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics.") Wilentz is right to say that some members of the press were excessively generous to Bush's candidacy, perhaps because they preferred him to the not-terribly-fun Al Gore. Many of Bush's supporters, in the press and elsewhere, have been disappointed, but they were hardly deluded.
But Wilentz's real goal is not to act as some kind of press ombudsman, or to identify a previously unrecognized "style" in campaign reportage. It is to condemn the (hardly unanimous) press support for Barack Obama, who turns out, astonishingly, to be the new George W. Bush. An enthusiastic supporter of Hillary Clinton, Wilentz thinks that The Boston Globe editorial board, David Brooks, and Fareed Zakaria (among others) support Obama not on the basis of reason, but because of "nothing more than enthusiasm, based on feelings and projections that are unattached to verifiable rational explanation or the public record." In Wilentz' account, the delusional "Obama-awed commentators" have failed to learn the true lesson of the Bush Administration, which is that the last time America opted for intuition-based governance, it produced a "catastrophic presidency."
Wilentz contends that Obama's supporters like him because of his "good vibes" (ouch!) and their belief in the power and virtue of his "intuition." Notwithstanding some snippets of writing that Wilentz removes from context, that's a ludicrous contention. The editors of the Globe, among Wilentz's special targets, invoke not "good vibes" in their endorsement of Obama, but the public record, including his support for merit pay for teachers; his work with Republican Richard Lugar to add conventional weapons to the nation's threat reduction initiative; his work in Illinois on campaign ethics; his support for a cap on carbon emissions; and his inclusive approach to health care negotiations.
More generally, and whether this point was given due emphasis by the columnists who so offended Wilentz or not, the fact is that those who support Obama do so for diverse reasons. He opposed the Iraq War before hostilities began--not on the basis of intuition, but after a careful (and entirely prescient) analysis of the likely consequences. Obama is the opposite of a polarizing figure (and maybe we could use that in the White House). He has a keen and sympathetic understanding of competing positions. He is a Democrat who actually understands economics and the needs of business. He has a stunning intelligence (and maybe we could use that in the White House). He promises to go beyond the decreasingly relevant conflicts of the 1960s and the 1990s. He is a specialist in constitutional law (and maybe we could use that in the White House). On issues ranging from health care to climate change, his policy proposals are careful and pragmatic.
Wilentz is not content to accuse Obama's supporters of having lost their grip on reality. It turns out that their candidate is not merely a neophyte but also dishonest. The reason? His autobiography, Dreams from My Father, "contains composite characters and other fictionalized elements--not exactly a portrait of sterling honesty or authenticity." This sentence gives Wilentz's game away. Obama's moving and unusually self-revelatory book is hardly rendered dishonest or inauthentic by his decision not to use real names and to offer some composite characters when describing friends and situations from his youth.
Of course reasonable questions have been raised about Obama's candidacy. Many responsible people believe that some other candidate would be a better president. But having failed to show that the pundits who support Obama are deluded, Wilentz offers no reason to reject the arguments that they actually offer. And it is not so reasonable to manufacture, evidently for the occasion, something called a "delusional style" in American political history, and to accuse supporters of Barack Obama of having taken leave of their senses. Wilentz is a distinguished historian. I can't imagine what got into him.
Cass R. Sunstein is a contributing editor at The New Republic and teaches at the University of Chicago. Over the years, he has offered informal advice to both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama; a long-term law school colleague of the latter, he has acted as an occasional, informal adviser to his campaign.


Creating the French Wood collection, we thought of a cozy country house, surrounded by a flower garden. Porcelain tiles imitating the texture of aged wood, are decorated with a floral pattern. The light graphic pattern on the floor tiles is accompanied with the warm shimmer of gold. The French Wood collection will give you a little bit of magic, embodied in a safe durable porcelain.
The Alberwood collection tiles combine the warm wood effect and the perfection of modern design. The wood-look tile is to create an atmosphere of peace and comfort in your home. The cheerful pattern of the decoration, in the style of patchwork, will add some unconstrained air to the context. The decorative tiles with clear geometric patterns give modern sounding to the interior. Elegant color variations can be mixed with a variety of ornaments and styles, create the perfect opportunity to interpret your understanding of beauty and comfort.
The spirit of the sunny countries and taste of the salty sea wind — that's how the new Boxes collection feels. The collection combines the characteristic features of the nautical style: an abundance of light and natural marine accents make the tiles whisper of the cool sea breeze and beautiful beaches. The Boxes collection fits your interior so well, it may be curious how cargo boxes aesthetics may give such adventurous feel.
The Campanilia collection successfully combines echoes of history and the laconic flair of contemporary style. The severe simplicity of the concrete textures is ideal for interior design in urban style. Restraint gray color emphasizes the atmosphere of peace and tranquility. And then, on this background, silvery ornaments arise like the outlines of Venetian palaces out of the fog. Their various motives are inspired by the stone carvings of medieval churches and bell towers — campanilie. Don't you know which style to prefer, classic or modern? You may see how the past meets the present on the example of Campanilia tiles.
The Cement Style collection represents the loft style and imitates worn-out old cement plates. The basic tile has three colors — dark gray, beige and light gray. There are alos decorative tiles, sold in square meters, with patchwork-like pattern. All tiles are matte glazed and nonslippery.
Refined French elegance, freshness, and simplicity are harmoniously combined in the collection Conseil to make your interiors really special. Embossed light beige floor tiles imitate weathered floorboards. In combination with tiles of the same motif, but with sky-blue geometric patterns of straight lines, this collection brings the blue cool sea wind and light warmth of the coastal sand right into your bathroom.
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«Lasselsberger Ceramics» tiles could be used both for personal and business interiors, spaces of different sizes, could satisfy the most fastidious taste and fit every budget. Production of our group of companies fully complies with the international quality management system ISO 9001. Ceramic tiles specifications meet the EN 14411 and GOST standards of the Russian Federation. Factories, manufacturing wall and floor ceramic tiles, also meet all ecological requirements on clean environment and people's health.
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Factory in Ufa is the most rapidly developing facility within our holding, located in a huge industrial building, containing all production process lines.
Production of our group of companies fully complies with the international quality management system ISO 9001. Ceramic tiles specifications meet the EN 14411 and GOST standards of the Russian Federation.
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Poll: do you care about 360-degree cameras?
by Preslav Kateliev / May 31, 2017, 9:15 AM
Yesterday, Andy Rubin's new company — Essential — finally revealed the Essential Phone. A contemporary flagship through and through, with top-of-the-line hardware, titanium and ceramic build, an all-screen front, and even a courageously missing headphone jack. What else could one ask for? (water resistance would be nice)
One of the Essential Phone's special features is its module port — you've got a magnetic connector on the back, which will accept Essential accessories with a click. And, at launch, we've got two of those — a 360-degree camera and a charging dock.
So, about that former accessory — the company definitely makes a big deal out of it. It's portable, it doesn't need a battery as it is powered by the phone, it's supposed to be high-quality, and will only set you back an extra $50 if you order it with the Phone right now. Mr. Rubin and co. talk the camera up enthusiastically. And while we agree that it looks like an awesome little gadget, we are still unsure whether users care about 360-degree footage all that much.
Last year, we ran a poll to ask what you think about spherical cameras. We thought we'd redo it and see how people feel them now, a year after. Well... vote ahead!
Are you interested in a 360-degree camera?
I have one / planning to buy one! Might buy one if it's affordable, but don't care much about them. Nope.
Vote View Result
I have one / planning to buy one!
Might buy one if it's affordable, but don't care much about them.
1. L0n3n1nja
Posts: 1600; Member since: Jul 12, 2016
I like 360 photos, work great for showing off places, but not nearly as useful as a standard camera.
posted on May 31, 2017, 12:10 PM	0
2. piyath
Posts: 2445; Member since: Mar 23, 2012
Nope....
3. Metropolis75
It's cool tech for sure. I just don't see myself using one.
4. lyndon420
I like the idea actually...takes pictures and video to a level of interaction that was previously impossible.
posted on May 31, 2017, 8:23 PM	0


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Disparities and Risks Between Different Types of Insulation If your home or a home you're thinking of buying was built after the 1980s, there's a good chance it does not contain a widely used and potentially deadly form of insulation called asbestos. Though asbestos insulation and building products were not widely used after the 1980s, the substance wasn't subjected to an outright ban throughout the country until 2003. This means there is a slim chance it was used even in homes built after the 1990s, or used in home expansion projects. If a home was renovated before 1990, there's a significant chance some form of asbestos may be present. Exposure to asbestos causes a type of lung cancer known as mesothelioma, for which there is no known cure.
There are also two different primary types of insulation, each of which is designed for a specific purpose. Thermal insulation is designed to control the transfer of heat from one space to the next, effectively keeping heated air inside a structure during the winter months while preventing cool air from dissipating during summer. Thermal insulation can then be broken into three different categories, based upon how they control heat: radiation, convection or conduction. These can be made from a variety of materials, from recycled glass to polyester or reflective foil. All types of insulation designed for thermal control are rated with an R value which indicates how efficient they are and how well they control heat within a structure.
The second type of insulation which may be used within a home, especially one which shares a party wall with neighbors, is acoustic insulation. Also known as noise control or referred to as "soundproofing," acoustic insulation is installed to prevent sound from traveling from one enclosed space to another. Barriers can absorb sound waves or reflect them to muffle noise from adjacent rooms, making it easier for neighbors who share one or more walls to live in such close proximity in relative peace.
Determining the Types of Insulation Present Inside a Home For homeowners and prospective buyers, the first and most pressing concern when it comes to identifying types of insulation is eliminating the risk of asbestos exposure. After this serious health risk has been averted, it then becomes important to determine just how effective any given types of insulation are in relation to their intended purpose. The best way to ensure a home is well insulated with the right types of insulation is to work with a reputable and experienced home inspection company who can act as a neutral third party, both in a pre-purchase capacity and as a liaison between current homeowners and builders.


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Fifteenth Annual Seymour Martin...
Fifteenth Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture: Confronting Authoritarianism
The Embassy of Canada and the National Endowment for Democracy present the fifteenth annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World.
Anwar Ibrahim, President, People's Justice Party of Malaysia on "Confronting Authoritarianism"
The Embassy of Canada
Reception to follow from 7:30—8:30 pm
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of Malaysia's ruling Pakatan Harapan coalition and President of the People's Justice Party, is expected to lead the country as its eighth Prime Minister. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in 1993-98 and Finance Minister in 1991-98. Since 1998, he has led the reform movement to strengthen democracy and the rule of law in the country. For his principled stance on issues of justice and the rule of law, he has spent over ten of the past 20 years in solitary confinement as a prisoner of conscience. He received a full pardon for all of the crimes alleged against him just days after his party won the 14th Malaysian General Election on 9 May 2018.
Anwar is highly regarded for his stance against corruption and his skillful management of the Malaysian economy during the Asian financial crisis. He has called for bold reforms to Malaysia's political economy in order for it to remain competitive in the 21st century. He believes an independent judiciary, free media, and respect for the rule of law are the foundations on which Malaysia's economic strength can be expanded. He further believes that the government must not ignore the plight of the poor and marginalized and should take active steps to create a humane economy. The multiethnic People's Justice Party that he leads has provided a template for how Malaysia's diverse ethnic and religious groups can work together toward a common national objective.
Throughout his career, Anwar has articulated a compelling argument in support of greater understanding between civilizations. At a time when many have described an inevitable clash, Anwar's view is that dialogue is necessary and vital. He has a unique ability and standing across the Muslim world to address the complex issues that hinder growth and development and to demonstrate the compatibility of democracy with Muslim peoples.
Throughout his career, Anwar has held key positions in international institutions. These include President of UNESCO's World Council, Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Honorary President of AccountAbility, and member of the Advisory Board of the International Crisis Group. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Malaysia Chair at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. He has also taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and at St Antony's College at the University of Oxford, lecturing on issues of governance, democracy, and contemporary politics in Southeast Asia.
Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
Journal of Democracy April 2021...
In this issue of the Journal of Democracy, expert contributors consider what...
NED VP Christopher Walker Testifies...
NED Vice President for Studies and Analysis Christopher...
11th Annual Lipset Lecture titled "Russia's Political System: The Drama of Decay,"
Dr. Lilia Shevtsova to speak at Embassy...
Democracy Ideas: Javier Corrales,...
FEB 24, 2014 Democracy Ideas: Javier Corrales, "Authoritarianism...
"Breaking Out of the Democratic...
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Q: How do you limit or control publishing artifacts for the AWS Visual Studio Toolkit? I am creating a lambda with c# several different ways (serverless, lambda, with/without tests) and I end up with a lot of items in the publishing artifacts .zip file that really don't need to be there. If I'm deploying the Lambda and there is a test project in the solution, I right click on the project -> Publish to AWS, follow the prompts and it ends up zipping the xunit libraries along with many localized versions of Microsoft.TestPlatform and Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform artifacts. The output will look similar to the following:
... zipping: xunit.abstractions.dll
... zipping: xunit.assert.dll
... zipping: xunit.core.dll
... zipping: xunit.execution.dotnet.dll
... zipping: xunit.runner.reporters.netcoreapp10.dll
... zipping: xunit.runner.utility.netcoreapp10.dll
... zipping: xunit.runner.visualstudio.dotnetcore.testadapter.dll
... zipping: cs/Microsoft.TestPlatform.CommunicationUtilities.resources.dll
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*Is there a way to limit what files go into the zip folder that gets sent to AWS?

*Is there a way to exclude localized libraries?

*Can I exclude other projects that are not dependencies?

*Can I keep all my projects to be in the same solution and be able to publish using the built in mechanisms without sending extraneous projects?

The problem I have is that it inflates the size of the deploy package and the files are never used, so it impacts my s3 storage costs, causes slower lambda cold start times, and inefficiencies .
Searching the internet, Excluding Files and Folders from Deployment looked promising, but it didn't make any difference for me (perhaps I did something wrong?).

A: This is probably not the right answer to your question, but I ran into something similar and wanted to provide more detail.
I am not using Visual Studio Professional. I have the AWS VS Toolkit for VS 2017, but it appears that the "Publish to AWS" project context menu item is only available in VS 2019.
I was working with a project that was created using the SAM CLI command
sam init -r dotnetcore2.1 -o sam-runtime-dotnetcore21

...which creates an example serverless project, complete with a .sln and two .csproj files. Structure looks something like:
src/
  HelloWorld/
    HelloWorld.csproj
    Program.cs
test/
  HelloWorld.Test/
    FunctionTest.cs
    HelloWorld.Tests.csproj
Solution.sln
template.yaml

If you run the following command from the root of the project (the same cwd as the Solution.sln and template.yaml file), you will end up with output from both the src and test projects in a single custom output location, which should be ./publish from the project root:
dotnet publish --output ../../publish

In order to get output from just the src project, excluding the test project, you can run the same command like so:
dotnet publish ./src/HelloWorld/HelloWorld.csproj --output ../../publish

Though I haven't verified, I assume the VS Pro 2019 tooling is just assembling dotnet publish commands and is not providing the correct csproj argument. You can always just run a custom dotnet publish command to build, then point your function code entry point at that output folder when packaging the lambda function code to s3.


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Lekka kawaleria (ang. The Lighthorsemen) - film australijski z 1987 roku w reżyserii Simona Wincera.

Fabuła
Jest rok 1917. Właśnie trwa I wojna światowa. Palestyna dotychczas okupowana przez Turków staje się celem Brytyjczyków. Na walkę wyrusza elitarny australijski oddział kawalerzystów. Wśród żołnierzy znajduje się dwójka przyjaciół, Frank i Dave.

Obsada
 Tony Bonner jako pułkownik Bourchier
 Bill Kerr jako generał Chauvel
 Jon Blake jako Scotty
 John Walton jako Tas
 Gary Sweet jako Frank
 Tim McKenzie jako Chiller
 Serge Lazareff jako Rankin
 Peter Phelps jako Dave Mitchell

Linki zewnętrzne
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Australijskie dramaty filmowe
Filmy wytwórni RKO Radio Pictures
Australijskie filmy z 1987 roku
Filmy w reżyserii Simona Wincera

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Race Charities
Rowcroft Hospice
We believe everyone facing a life-limiting illness should have access to the highest quality care, tailored to their needs and aimed at giving the best possible quality of life. Rowcroft Hospice is striving to achieve this, through the on-going development of a specialist palliative care service for the communities of Torbay and South Devon, accessible to all who need it.
More than an in-patient ward...
Care is given free of charge to over 2200 patients each year at the hospice, in residential and nursing homes, in community hospitals and in people's homes through services that include a community team, hospice at home team, out-patient services and in-patient unit.
Please get in touch to let us know that you are running for Rowcroft!
We can give you a fantastic running vest !
Contact: Ali Upton on 01803 210835 / Alison.Upton@rowcrofthospice.org.uk
Torbay Holiday Helpers Network (THHN)
One moment you're a happy family watching your beautiful children growing up in front of you; the next one of them is diagnosed with an illness from which they may never recover. You or your partner - or both of you - have to give up work to care for your sick child. As a result, money gets tight and you are forced to carry a terrible burden of worry which you can never put down. But you have to carry on being brave for the kids.
It's your worst nightmare. Sadly, for some families it's a cruel reality. But Torbay Holiday Helpers Network (THHN) can play a small part in making these families' lives a little bit more bearable.
How? THHN offers free action packed holidays, meals out, days out and other treats to families who have seriously ill or bereaved children, families who have a terminally ill parent and to families who have lost a parent.
What THHN offers is not going to cure any illness or change any situation. But what it does do is offer them a positive distraction and a chance to temporarily escape the nightmares that they sadly call reality, and give them memories that they will treasure forever that will help carry them through the very dark days that may lay ahead. Because sadly for some families it has been their last holiday as a complete family.
We invite you to join our team - run for THHN and be a "Memory Maker"
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Children's Hospice South West
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We are delighted to be involved with this year's Torbay Half Marathon so that we can raise valuable awareness and funds every penny raised in sponsorship lets our skilled, qualified and totally committed staff make more precious memories for children with a life-limiting illness in the South West.
We are so grateful to all of our runners and supporters at the Torbay Half Marathon, and when you cross the finish line on the 24th June we hope you'll feel like a champion in more ways than one.
It would be fantastic if you were able to support our wonderful charity by running the Torbay Half Marathon. We have some charity places available, but if you've already secured your place you can still run for us! You can find out more information on our website or by getting in touch with Laura at laura.robertson@chsw.org.uk or 01271 325270.
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To find out more email daniel.robson3@nhs.net
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BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:50 A.M.) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured another group of foreign jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) after advancing through the eastern Euphrates region.
According to the Syrian Democratic Forces, their troops captured three Islamic State terrorists while advancing inside the town of Murashida in the eastern region of the Euphrates River Valley this week.
The Syrian Democratic Forces said the three Islamic State terrorists were from Germany, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
Since entering Murashida ten-days ago, the Syrian Democratic Forces have captured at least nine foreign Islamic State members, including three European nationals.
With the Islamic State's steady collapse east of the Euphrates, the Syrian Democratic Forces are expecting to capture more foreign terrorists that have been active inside Syria and Iraq for years.