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Kings Mountain III
Posted on December 24, 2020 by MSW
There was more than food to bolster morale. Soon Colonel James Williams came riding in with 400 of his men. While the greetings were going around, another piece of good luck, undoubtedly the most important event of the day, fell the way of the Patriots. Joseph Kerr arrived to confirm reports of Ferguson's location. A cripple who served the cause by acting as a spy, Kerr used his lameness to gain access to Tory formations under the guise of seeking shelter. He had been among Ferguson's troops when they halted that same day for their noon meal about six or seven miles from Kings Mountain. Kerr had found out that they were headed for the mountain and would encamp there.
There was no time to lose. The leaders quickly made a new culling to pick 940 of their number: the best men with the best horses. "These included 200 picked riflemen from Campbell's command, 120 under Shelby, 120 led by Sevier, 100 men following Cleveland, 90 with Joseph McDowell, and 60 under Winston. Edward Lacey and William Hill commanded their 100 South Carolinians, Hambright and Chronicle led 50 picked soldiers, and Candler's 30 Georgians formed part of James Williams' unit of 90 selected riflemen" (Lumpkin, From Savannah to Yorktown). They left at 8:00 P.M. on Friday, 6 October, their destination Kings Mountain.
Kerr's report was accurate. Ferguson had left Tate's Plantation about 4:00 A.M. on 6 October. His troops followed him along the old Cherokee Road that ran between Buffalo Creek and King's Creek. They forded King's Creek and passed through Stony Gap heading toward the northeast. By then they knew their destination was not to be Charlotte, which lay about thirty-five miles farther east. Instead, Ferguson had chosen to make camp and take up a position on top of the ridge known as Kings Mountain.
While his units were filing off to occupy campsites atop the ridge, Ferguson wrote Cornwallis what was to be his final report: "I arrived to day at Kings Mountain & have taken a post where I do not think I can be forced by a stronger enemy than that against us." The dispatch was given to a lad named John Ponder, who was to carry it to Cornwallis.
All indications are that Ferguson was taking up his mountaintop location not like the fox brought to bay by the hounds but so as to command a formidable defensive position while awaiting reinforcements from Cornwallis. He had already received the answer to his request for reinforcements from Cruger at Ninety-Six, who had replied that he did not have enough men to hold that post, much less to send men anywhere else. So Ferguson knew that he would get no help from the south. What he did not know, however, was that help would not be forthcoming from Cornwallis, either. His commander would not send Tarleton, the most mobile force left to him, because his legion needed a rest, and moreover, Tarleton was incapacitated with malaria, as was Major Hanger, his second in command. Cornwallis himself was down with a "feverish cold" and of no mind to dispatch any of his main force on a chase to the west of Charlotte.
Kings Mountain is actually a long ridge rising independently from a low range running from the northeast in North Carolina to the southwest in South Carolina. The ridge itself is in York County, S.C., about a mile and a half south of the present border between the Carolinas. It is shaped somewhat like a canoe paddle with a short handle, with the crest of the ridge running from the broad "paddle end" on the northeast to the narrower "handle end" on the southwest extremity. The crest is about 600 yards long, varying in width from 120 yards at the paddle end to 60 yards on the handle. In 1780 the crest was practically treeless, but all of its slopes were, and are today, heavily wooded, with occasional ravines and great boulders strewn everywhere. There was no natural cover on the summit of the ridge, which rises some sixty feet above the surrounding terrain, whereas the trees and boulders on the steep slopes would provide ideal protection for riflemen in scattered skirmish order.
Because he had sent out a foraging detachment on the morning of 7 October, Ferguson's total strength on Kings Mountain was about 900 men. Of those, 100 were "regular" Tories who had come south with Ferguson from the King's American Rangers, the Queen's Rangers, and the New Jersey Volunteers, and 800 were Tory militia from North and South Carolina. Ferguson's second in command, Captain Abraham de Peyster, was an aristocratic New Yorker of Huguenot descent, an able and efficient officer. The adjutant was Lieutenant Anthony Allaire, also a New Yorker of Huguenot descent.
All of Ferguson's men were well trained under British army drill regulations. They were armed with the Brown Bess musket equipped with a socket bayonet, and the men were well trained in its use. Some few of the newly joined Tories were equipped with a crude, makeshift "plug" bayonet with a wooden hilt that could be inserted in the muzzle for close combat, though it rendered the musket useless as a firearm.
The Tory militiamen were drilled to fight like the British regulars, in close-ordered ranks which, once engaged in battle, could move only forward or rearward on command. If, however, their enemy did not stand and fight—as the Patriot riflemen could not because they had no bayonets, nor was it in their style to stand when they could fade away and fire from cover—the attackers could hold only the ground they stood on or else fall back to reform a rearward line. And the rugged terrain they would be fighting in was not conducive to maneuvering in close-ordered ranks.
Another disadvantage of the position on Kings Mountain was one that Ferguson could have overcome but did not. He had sufficient time to protect his position with field fortifications such as abatis, breastworks, or earthworks, but he seems to have been content to rely on the slopes' boulders and trees as natural obstacles. It was possible, too, that he had underestimated his enemy's strength and capabilities, in particular the frontiersman's skill at fighting in wooded cover; the "barbarians" and "mongrels" cited in his proclamation were truly beneath contempt. There was the same arrogance in his pronouncement after he had established his position on the ridge: that "he defied God Almighty and all the rebels out of hell to overcome him."
The night march of the 900 patriots was anything but easy. They left Cowpens in pitch dark, and the black night closed in on them, with no moonlight or even starlight to guide their way. Their march was along rough backcountry roads, and to make things even more miserable a steady drizzle set in that lasted through the night. The drizzle caused every rifleman to sacrifice the comfort that would have been provided by hunting shirt and blanket. Those articles had to be used to cover the precious rifle from the wet, and above all to ensure that the muzzle and gunlock were kept dry.
Short halts were made to wolf down a few handfuls of parched corn or whatever else the marchers had in wallets or saddlebags. Just after sunrise on Saturday, 7 October, the column forded the Broad River at Cherokee Ford, below the point where it was joined by Buffalo Creek. The weather had not improved. The drizzle had changed to a steady rain that made it all the more difficult to keep the rifles dry, but being used to all kinds of weather, the men managed. By mid-morning the men were cursing and grumbling about their tired horses, and Colonels Campbell, Sevier, and Cleveland agreed that a rest was in order. However, when they approached Shelby with the idea they met with a flat refusal: "I will not stop until night, if I follow Ferguson into Cornwallis' lines." The column pushed on.
About six miles farther, one of the scouts reported that he had come upon a Tory girl who admitted that she had been in Ferguson's camp that very morning. She pointed out the ridge where Ferguson was encamped. A little farther on, the scouts brought in a prisoner, the Tory John Ponder, with Ferguson's last message to Cornwallis. When he was asked if Ferguson could be identified by his uniform, Ponder said that "while that officer was the best uniformed man on the mountain, they could not see his military suit, as he wore a checked shirt, or duster over it." They would also recognize that officer because he would be the only one who carried his sword in his left hand.
By noon the rain had stopped, and the column halted about a mile from the base of Kings Mountain. They dismounted, tied up their horses, and each followed his leader's orders to "throw the priming out of his pan, pick his touchhole, prime anew, examine bullets and see that everything was in readiness for battle."
Having cursed the rain throughout the march, the men were now beginning to realize that it could also be a blessing. The packed leaves that carpeted the approaches to the mountain and its slopes were soaked through, so there would be no telltale rustling as the columns of riflemen, all of them hunters and stalkers, made their stealthy approach.
As the men checked their weapons, the countersign was passed around—"Buford," for the man whose command had received no quarter from Tarleton's Tories at Waxhaws. Then it was time to make their final advance on foot. They formed into four columns for their approach march, heading initially to the northeast to reach the narrow end of the ridge first. The battle plan was for the columns to split up and move to assigned positions which, when movements were completed, would completely encircle Kings Mountain. The column on the extreme right was made up of the units of Winston, McDowell, and Sevier. Campbell led the next column to the left, and Shelby the column in the left center. The left-most column was composed of the commands of Chronicle, Cleveland, and Williams.
The plan was simple, and it was going to be executed rapidly and skillfully. The signal for launching coordinated attacks was "that when the center columns [Campbell's and Shelby's] were ready for the attack, they were to give the signal by raising a regular frontier war whoop, after the Indian style, and rush forward, doing the enemy all the injury possible."
The columns moved out and headed for their assigned positions. Tory security was so slack that Shelby's command was only a quarter of a mile from their position at the foot of the ridge before the first Tory sentries fired on them. Shelby's leadership was showing: he made sure that no one returned the fire. There would be plenty of action after they had started up the ridge.
On the opposite slope of the paddle handle Campbell's men were already creeping toward the top. When the first shots were fired, Campbell stripped off his coat and shouted: "Here they are; shoot like hell and fight like devils." They raised the war whoop, the so-called Tennessee yell that the over-mountain men had picked up from the Indians in the Cherokee War, said to be the forerunner of the famous Rebel yell of the Civil War. The war whoop was a high-pitched, keening scream that would set a man's hair stiffening. The cries were taken up by Shelby's men and those of the other forces as they came into action.
In the Tory camp the drums beat the call to arms while Ferguson and his second in command, Captain de Peyster, were getting set to move the units into battle formations. De Peyster recognized the whooping that he had heard before in action. He told Ferguson, "These are the same yelling devils that were at Musgrove's Mill."
Ferguson's reply was to direct his units into line toward the paddle-handle end of the ridge, where they formed a three-sided square facing the riflemen coming up the slopes. The Tory units delivered a series of disciplined volleys that made their enemies duck for cover. But the riflemen continued to advance, taking cover, Indian fashion, behind trees, rocks, logs, and in ravines, and keeping up a deadly fire that was taking an increasing toll on the exposed Tory formations on the crest of the ridge.
It was these losses that caused Ferguson to order the first bayonet charge. The counterattack appeared successful—at first. The Patriots could not stand up to the bayonet, and they ran back down the slopes. Most of Campbell's men scattered as far as the bottom of the ridge and even up the slope behind them. Here was a real challenge to Campbell's leadership. The red-headed Scot responded at once. He was all over the place, calling his men to rally and return to the attack. He succeeded in getting them to reload and take up the fire against their enemy, whose ragged lines were retreating back up Kings Mountain. The Virginians returned, resuming their dodging attack from cover to cover, reloading and firing from behind the rocks and trees they had used before. Shelby rallied his men every bit as effectively as had Campbell, and they too renewed a fire that thinned the withdrawing Tory ranks. In the meantime Sevier's force had joined the battle.
The fighting around the southeastern end of the ridge now took up a pattern that was to characterize the whole battle. Three times the skirmishing riflemen attacked, and each time they were driven back by bayonet charges. Each time, the Tory formations had to halt and withdraw up the slopes, whereupon the Patriots returned to the attack, their accurate rifle fire making the Tories pay a stiff penalty for each counterattack.
It was also becoming obvious that Ferguson was paying the price for his failure to fortify his position on the ridge and his reliance on the trees and boulders as obstacles. For the "obstacles" had become ideal cover for his enemies' skirmishing tactics. Furthermore, the volleys that returned the riflemen's fire were consistently ineffective. In the hands of trained troops the Brown Bess musket could deliver deadly volleys under the ideal conditions it was designed for: firing platoon volleys at ranges up to fifty to seventy-five yards between close-ordered opposing formations facing each other on open, level terrain. At Kings Mountain, however, the conditions were anything but ideal for the musket, and matters were made worse by the Tory units having to fire downhill. Troops firing downhill will, unless specifically trained to avoid it, fail to compensate by sighting low, and consequently will fire over the heads of their targets. That is what happened to the Tory volleys at Kings Mountain; and to compound their loss in firepower, their own ranks were silhouetted against the skyline, thus making ideal targets for rifles that could kill at two or three hundred yards. The words of Light-Horse Harry Lee about Kings Mountain, that "it was more assailable by the rifle than defended with the bayonet," were no doubt true.
A less significant feature of the battle is the popular misconception that Ferguson's troops were dressed in the traditional scarlet coats and white breeches of the British regular soldier. While it is true that some of Ferguson's men—the "provincials" from the north, such as the King's American Rangers or the Queen's Rangers—were so clad, by far the greater number were wearing the civilian clothes in which they had enlisted. The only difference in dress between Tory and Patriot was brought out in recollections like that of Thomas Young, a sixteen-year-old private who fought under Colonel James Williams, and who got left in the middle of a firefight where "I found myself apparently between my own regiment and the enemy, as I judged from seeing the paper the Whigs wore in their hats, and the pine twigs the Tories wore in theirs, these being the badges of distinction."
The battle surged up and down the slopes of the paddle-handle end. The riflemen of Shelby's, Campbell's and Sevier's commands attacked again and again with ever deadlier effect. Meanwhile, other forces had launched their attacks against the broader expanse of the ridge on its northeast end. William Chronicle led his men forward from their position at the foot of the ridge, waving his hat and shouting, "Face to the hill." Struck down by a musket ball as he shouted, the twenty-five-year-old major died instantly. German-born Colonel Hambright continued the assault, which was met by a bayonet charge led by Captain de Peyster. Hambright's men were driven down the slopes, just as had been Shelby's and Campbell's, and were rallied by him in no less courageous fashion. Though wounded in the thigh, with blood filling his boot, Hambright called out in his German accent, "Fight on, my brave poys, a few minutes more and the battle will be over."
Cleveland, delayed by his 250-pound bulk and a swampy area, was late, but he came up in time to throw his men into the battle alongside Hambright's attack. Williams and Lacey came in next, filling the gap between Cleveland and Shelby on the north side of the ridge. In like manner Joseph McDowell's and Winston's men attacked to complete the encirclement on the south side of the ridge. All this pressure on the Tories atop the broad end of Kings Mountain was felt by Ferguson as he led the defense on the southeast end. The shrill call of his silver whistle was heard constantly above the roar of battle as he rallied one formation after another to bolster the defense all along the crest. It was soon apparent that his efforts were becoming futile at the southeast end, however, and he managed to withdraw his troops back along the crest of the ridge to the broad end of the mountain. As the Tories withdrew, Sevier's men came over the crest, and in conjunction with Shelby's and Campbell's forces were now masters of the whole paddle-handle portion of the ridge.
By this time all of the Patriot forces had been engaged. The net thrown around Ferguson's force was being tightened as the riflemen came pushing up the slopes from all directions. The smoke from rifles and muskets covered the mountain, obscuring some Tory units from time to time and drifting down the ravines and woods of the slopes. Now and then Ferguson could be seen through the smoke as he rode from unit to unit, rallying his men around the formal tent camp on the broad end of the ridge. He had been wounded in the hand of his useless right arm but continued to carry his sword in his good left hand. He got some units lined up to defend the camp, but those he had formed into a square soon deteriorated into a shrinking circle of beaten men. In one Tory unit a white flag fluttered for a moment, but Ferguson towered over it on horseback and cut it down with his sword. Another went up on the other side of the camp; Ferguson galloped over and cut it down with another stroke. When Captain de Peyster counseled surrender, Ferguson shouted back that "never would he yield to such damned banditti." And he made it clear that he meant it. He charged at the rebels at the head of a few volunteers ready to follow him in his desperate assault, and tried to break out through Sevier's men. Brandishing his sword in his left hand, he spurred directly at the rebels on his white horse. It was an attempt as futile as it was desperate. At least fifty rifles were aimed at Ferguson and his party. Every man in Ferguson's band went down, either killed or mortally wounded. It is said that six or seven bullets ripped into Ferguson's body; both arms were broken, and he fell from his horse to die after he had been carried away from the firing.
With Ferguson's fall and the overrunning of the ridge by the combined forces of the Patriots, organized resistance crumbled away. Captain de Peyster took command of the masses huddled around the camp and the wagon park, but any attempt at counterattack or breakout was clearly impossible. The fight had gone out of the force. White flags in the form of handkerchiefs or shirts appeared among the milling defenders, but they were ignored and their bearers were shot down.
The aftermath of Kings Mountain is neither pleasant in the telling nor does it do credit to the Patriot forces. De Peyster, riding out on his gray horse, carried a white flag which was acknowledged by Campbell, yet the shooting of the now-defenseless Tories went on. De Peyster protested to Campbell, "It's damned unfair, damned unfair." Campbell strode through his men, knocking down rifles and ordering, "For God's sake don't shoot. It is murder to kill them now, for they have raised the flag." He then directed de Peyster to have the officers separate themselves, and for the men to lay down their arms, sit down, and remove their hats.
In other parts of the ridgetop Tories cried out for quarter and got "Buford's quarter" or "Tarleton's quarter" instead—in the form of rifle bullets. Shelby, enraged at both sides, came forward and shouted to the Tories, "Damn you, if you want quarter, throw down your arms!" All within earshot obeyed, but elsewhere the firing into the defenders went on. Finally, more of the responsible Patriot militia officers tried to stop the slaughter, knocking aside rifles or pleading with their owners by name to stop shooting. Yet even after the shooting stopped and the prisoners were seated on the ground, an alarm was raised when one of Ferguson's foraging parties returned. Some of them saw the situation and fired a parting shot before fleeing. One of the shots presumably struck down Colonel James Williams, who died later.
The cry went up of a Tory attack, and Campbell ordered the rifleman nearest him to shoot into the prisoners to subdue any attempt to break for freedom. The order was obeyed, and, according to Lieutenant Hughes, "We killed near a hundred of them and hardly could be restrained from killing the whole."
Shelby himself had this to say about the aftermath of the battle: "It was some time before a complete cessation of the firing on our part could be effected. Our men who had been scattered in the battle were continually coming up and continued to fire, without comprehending in the heat of the moment what had happened; and some who had heard that at Buford's defeat, the British had refused quarter . . . were willing to follow that bad example."
When the "bad examples" had been quelled and all the shooting stopped, the victors rounded up the prisoners and looked to their own wounded and dead. The Patriots had lost 28 killed and 64 wounded out of over 900 in the battle. Their enemies lost 157 killed, 163 wounded too badly to be moved, and 698 prisoners. On the following day, Sunday, 8 October, the partisans pulled their prisoners' wagons across the camp fires and left them burning as they marched the prisoners away. Near Gilbert Town, thirty were convicted in some sort of drum-head trial; twelve were condemned to die, and nine were actually hanged. The odyssey of the remaining prisoners went on as far as Hillsboro, where they were left by Cleveland's men. Eventually most of them escaped through the carelessness or the disregard of their warders.
Ferguson's body was defiled by some of the less compassionate of the frontiersmen, who urinated on it after it was stripped of belongings and clothing. Others, more humane, gave the fallen Scot a "decent" burial by wrapping his body in a raw beef hide and interring it in a shallow ravine near the crest of the ridge. On the 150th anniversary of the battle, a simple stone monument to Ferguson was erected by American citizens. It is dedicated to: "A soldier of military distinction and of honor."
The frontiersmen had ridden hard and long for vengeance, and they had tasted deeply of it. Now they dispersed, going their separate ways to homesteads and settlements in the backcountry and beyond the Blue Ridge. Though their accomplishment would be retold around firesides for generations, it is doubtful that any participant in the Kings Mountain campaign could have realized the far-reaching effects of the victory.
To the British and their Tory allies the impact of Kings Mountain was as appalling as it was immediate. Imagine the reaction of Cornwallis when the confirmation of Ferguson's disaster reached him at Charlotte. Ferguson dead and his entire force wiped out in one day—actually in one hour—and the western frontier exposed to a Patriot uprising. Rumor had the Patriot frontiersmen's numbers at 3,000 with their next objective Charlotte. Instead of the rebels of North Carolina being subjugated, the western half of the province had been lost, and the loss of the central area was now a looming possibility, especially without organized Loyalist forces to hold the countryside. Clearly, in Mark Boatner's summation, Kings Mountain had "tipped the balance of Whig-Tory armed support in favor of the rebel cause" (Encyclopedia of the American Revolution).
However reluctantly, Cornwallis decided to give up North Carolina and retreat back into South Carolina. On 14 October the dreary retrograde march began. The fall rains set in and beat down on the sodden British while the red-clay roads became quagmires; yet because of flooded swamps and dense forests, the roads could not be bypassed. Some twenty supply wagons were wrecked or abandoned; others were captured by Patriot militia that had turned out to harass the unhappy British. Cornwallis himself had to be carried in one of the wagons, having come down with a "bilious fever." After fifteen days of miserable marching, the commander in chief and his famished army pulled into Winnsboro, where they were immobilized in camp until December. Cornwallis's offensive into North Carolina had been stopped cold, and it could not be resumed without considerable reinforcement and change of plan. Kings Mountain had altered the whole course of the war in the South.
Although the long-range consequences of Cornwallis's failure were yet to be seen, there were ominous signals flashing beyond the horizon, not the least of which were Gates's replacement by Nathanael Greene and renewed offensive operations against the British in the South by partisan, Continental, and militia forces. The partisan victory caused Sir Henry Clinton to view Kings Mountain in retrospect as the check that "so encouraged the spirit of rebellion in the Carolinas that it could never afterward be humbled." With historic hindsight, he recognized the battle to be "the first link in a chain of evils that followed each other in regular succession until they at last ended in the total loss of America."
Kings Mountain stands on its own as a one-of-a-kind battle. With the sole exception of Ferguson himself, it was fought entirely by Americans against Americans, ending in a decisive Patriot victory. A force of Patriot irregulars, reaching a total of nearly 1,800, armed principally with the frontier rifle, had annihilated a trained body of the enemy armed mainly with the musket. The Patriot force had emerged on call, organized itself into units with competent leaders, marched on campaign as a controlled and highly mobile corps, and utterly destroyed its enemy. It was a force that was logistically independent and self-disciplined; Shelby said to his men before the battle: "When we encounter the enemy, don't wait for the word of command. Let each one of you be your own officer, and do the very best you can." It was led by veterans who had proved themselves in frontier warfare. The melding of those leaders with their riflemen resulted in skillfully coordinated combinations of tactical movement and firepower.
Kings Mountain appeared to mark the beginning of the end of Cornwallis's offensive in the South. The next encounter between organized forces would confirm that beginning.
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Q: Groovy Date() object cannot be creted in Jenkins pipeline Having trouble initializing a groovy Date() object in Jenkins, followed by a Failure of the Job build.
Date date = new Date()
String now = date.format("yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm")

println "$now"

Should I import the module Date() somehow? Any suggestions?
This is the error log from the build failure:
org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.RejectedAccessException: Scripts not permitted to use new java.util.Date
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.whitelists.StaticWhitelist.rejectNew(StaticWhitelist.java:185)
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    at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedConstructor(Checker.java:188)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.SandboxInvoker.constructorCall(SandboxInvoker.java:20)
    at WorkflowScript.run(WorkflowScript:51)
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    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixName(FunctionCallBlock.java:77)
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    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ConstantBlock.eval(ConstantBlock.java:21)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Next.step(Next.java:58)
    at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable.run0(Continuable.java:154)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.access$001(SandboxContinuable.java:18)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable$1.call(SandboxContinuable.java:33)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable$1.call(SandboxContinuable.java:30)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.GroovySandbox.runInSandbox(GroovySandbox.java:108)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.run0(SandboxContinuable.java:30)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThread.runNextChunk(CpsThread.java:164)
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:324)
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    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:112)
    at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:28)
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A: This output means it is not a whitelisted method/class:
org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.RejectedAccessException: Scripts not permitted to use new java.util.Date

You can either approve it through jenkinsurl/scriptApproval or change it to something that is supported.
println currentBuild.getTimeInMillis()
println currentBuild.getStartTimeInMillis()

Whitelisted methods: https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-support-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/workflow/support/steps/build/RunWrapper.java

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Joe Kaminkow to be inducted into the EKG Slot Awards Hall of Fame
By Eilers & Krejcik Gaming	February 7, 2019 March 19th, 2019 No Comments
Ceremony to be held on Thursday, Feb 28th at the Bellagio in Las Vegas
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Jharkhand HC Likely to Hear Lalu Yadav's Bail Plea Today
The Ranchi court had directed Yadav on April 3 to appear before it on Thursday over his reported comments that the verdict sentencing the RJD supremo in Dumka case was "not impartial" and was based on wrong observations.
April 20, 2018, 11:36 am explore: India
Lalu Yadav Gets 5-Year Jail Term in Third Fodder Scam Case
Lalu, Jagannath Mishra and 50 others were accused of using fake bills and vouchers of procuring livestock feed for withdrawing Rs 37 crore from Chaibasa Treasury.
Alok Kumar, January 24, 2018, 2:26 pm explore: Politics
Judgment in 3rd Fodder Scam Case Against Lalu Prasad Yadav on Jan 24
The case relates to alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 35.62 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in the 1990s when he was the chief minister of undivided Bihar.
January 10, 2018, 8:55 pm explore: India
Fodder Scam Verdict: Lalu Yadav Back in Jail; Congress Says CBI Acting Like Centre's 'Pet Parrot'
LIVE HIGHLIGHTS: Shortly after being convicted in second of the five fodder scam cases, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has attacked the BJP in a series of tweets and compared himself to Nelson Mandela, BR Ambedkar and Martin Luther King Jr. The former Bihar CM is being taken to the Birsa Munda Jail where he is likely to be allotted a cottage till sentencing on January 3.
December 23, 2017, 6:59 pm explore: India
Fodder Scam Case Verdict Tomorrow, Lalu Heads to Ranchi With Son
The case pertains to the alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 84.5 crore from the Deoghar district treasury between 1994 and 1996 when Lalu Prasad Yadav was the Bihar chief minister.
Alok Kumar, December 22, 2017, 7:04 pm explore: India
Fodder Scam: All You Need to Know About the Multi-crore Case
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav suffered a major setback on Monday as the Supreme Court ruled that the former Bihar CM would stand trial for conspiracy charges in the fodder scam case.
May 8, 2017, 1:12 pm explore: India
CBI dismisses Lalu's petition for quashing fodder scam case
A special CBI court on Tuesday dismissed fodder scam convict Lalu Prasad's petition pleading that he should not be tried for the case after being convicted in the same offence earlier.
July 1, 2014, 6:02 pm explore: India
Fodder scam convict Jagdish Sharma released on bail

Disqualified JD(U) MP Jagdish Sharma, who was convicted in a fodder scam case, was released on Monday from jail on bail.

January 14, 2014, 8:38 am explore: India
Fodder scam: CBI court summons Lalu, Mishra
The two have been summoned to record their statements regarding the fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37 crore from the Chaibasa treasury.
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R LEE MOORE
City of Angels Series
World Building & Point of Divergence Part One
So, in my writing, the Point of Divergence was at the very beginning of Sherman's March to Atlanta. That still turned out the same, maybe even a little faster due to the events that happened. In my world, Vampires, and shapeshifters, maybe even magic has always existed. It was kind of hidden, but it was there. it was real. For America, that was an old world problem. Something for Europe and the rest of the world to deal with. that particular plague hadn't spread to North America. Or so they thought.
Burning down the wrong plantation in northern Georgia dissuaded them of that notion rather quickly. It ended up with vampires and the like having a quasi independent legal status in a series of Preserve's throughout the country. So now, you have vampires living out in the open in the United States. How is that going to change how internal American history progresses. Does the westward expansion get slowed because suddenly the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers turn out to be more than just a really cool and intimidating name?
Certain events will still have to happen. If for no other reason than to give a sense of the familiar to anyone reading the stories. And some things have enough momentum behind them that even the presence of werewolves isn't going to stop them from happening. They may just be changed a little. Native Americans may still end up on reservations, but if they had shapeshifters in their population it may have taken a lot longer, and in a lot of cases ended up with a stronger bargaining position. In my world, they're still there, they're just a lot more independent and stronger than they historically were. A treaty is less likely to be violated when one side has people who can turn into giant wolves or bears, etc.
I like starting off relatively small. I focus on the United States and how the country reacted to supernaturals first. The creation of the Department of Supernatural Affairs (with a little blending them with Pinkerton Detective Agency style work after the Civil War). Various anti supernatural laws where certain places a shapeshifter is gonna be shot on sight no questions asked. Innocent or not. And it's not just how the government is going to react, its how the people are going to react. Some people won't really mind a new group of people in society, but history tells us that's not going to be the general opinion. Suddenly segregation and all that went along with it get's added to an entirely new group of people.
Some people, especially in modern times, are going to build an overly romanticized mythos around these creatures. Whether that image is true or not gives good writing opportunities. But look at it this way, look at how popular media portrays vampires in the real world. There's always this element of sex and seduction mixed in with the horror and the violence. In my mind, vampires are going to play off that. It makes their lives easier if the general public views them as quasi celebrities and sex symbols. Hell, the Preserves are tourist attractions. Come on in, see and experience the creatures of the night up close and personal. Just be sure not to look to hard at everything else that goes on. Sex sells, and vampires are fully willing to take advantage of that. If your food comes to you, willingly, you don't have to sneak around the shadows anymore. Well, unless you want to.
Though they're going to make damn sure their adoring fans don't know what really goes on. Bad for business.
So in the United States, the vampires and shapeshifters, constrained as they might be, are going to flourish and thrive.There is likely going to be a hell of a lot more of them in one North American city than there is in all of Europe where they don't have the advantage of being out in the open and not having a stake driven through them at first sight.
A larger population makes them more powerful, and more dangerous.
Will write more on this later, but for now, its a good start.
Starting Fresh
Had to deal with a hard drive crash and unfortunately rebuilding my entire computer piece by piece to try to figure out where the problem came from. That took a while. What this meant though, was that
Getting Back Into It
It hasn't been easy writing lately, which is a shame. It's been a combination of things. The incessant heat draining whatever energy I might have has by far been the largest problem I've had to overco
Rewrites and Chapter 10
I'm finding that I really like Scrivener. I usually do all my writing in OpenOffice, and it's worked pretty well for me so far. What i'm finding though, is that Scrivener is making everything so much
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I'm doing some tweaking on my new TT bike. now is the season to be fettling. i had left it, thinking i'd do it later on, but the change in the weather has led to me reassessing my off-off relationship with the turbo trainer.
essentially, i want to run my campagnolo disc wheel with a sram groupset. the reason i want to do this is because it's the cheapest solution. therefore, i need to switch out the sram shifters with a set of shimano bar-ends instead. you can run sram with shimano. you can sometimes run campag shifters with sram cassettes. but generally, you run into noisy, clunky, shifty problems when attempting to introduce campagnolo to anything else that doesn't have tullio's seal of approval.
i've got a red one. it's even faster because it's red; this is a well-known fact about red bicycles. anyway, the red one is much cheaper because 'the finishing kit' is a lot cheaper, although the frame is exactly the same. i've got a hed 3 trispoke on the front. it came with a set of mavic aksiums which are perfect for training and/or turbo usage. the frame is fantastic, with hidden front and rear brake calipers, internally routed cables (behind the stem, where the air is already 'dirty', or so they say).
i bought it from echelon cycles in pershore. i highly recommend this bike shop. the proprietor is a really lovely chap called Tim, who races a bit as well. they couldn't have been more helpful. i was also swayed in my decision to get this bike by Jeff Jones, who said it's one of the fastest bikes he's ever ridden, and that is was 'fast right out of the box', i.e without 100 hours of adjustments and faffage. i can't wait to ride it in anger. i'm going to be seeing to my position and getting in some turbo hours between now and march. i will review the bike properly in the new season.
so anyway, it's now a crazed hybrid, shimano, campagnolo and sram altogether in one ungodly mix. i currently have one sram and one shimano lever on there, which is horrific, but I am tempted to leave it like that just for bonus points when i turn up to the first race of the season. when you mix shimano and campag it's sometimes called 'shimergo' (because of campag ergolevers). i don't quite know what to call this miscegenated mishap… shrimpagnolo, srampagnomano, crampagano… it's going to upset the purists whatever happens; those who would sooner eat a dead pigeon taken from the soles of the feet of one sick with the plague, than ride shimano.
I am liking the fascination of the abomination. Thanks though.
"fast out of the box" – how's that? It hasn't got any pedals!
Zip-tie the crankarm to the cleats. Fast.
Haha. That'll save you about 200 grams in weight so you'll fly. In theory you wouldn't need cycle shoes either as you could just tie the crank arm to your ankle and save about a kilo. Try it!
Damn straight. People are going to projectile vomit. I might do some tunnel testing to see which is more slippery.
oooooh no! you've started saying 'slippery'…… whatever next?!


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«Титаник. Легенда продолжается» () — комедийный с элементами драмы мультфильм. Снят по мотивам реальной истории, связанной с крушением «Титаника». Однако, в отличие от художественных фильмов о знаменитом корабле, финал у мультфильма счастливый.

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Сюжет мультфильма чем-то напоминает сказку «Золушка»: молодая девушка Анжелика живёт с опекуншей и её двумя дочерьми. Приёмная семья недолюбливает Анжелику и заставляют её работать как свою прислугу. Вчетвером они отправляются через океан на корабле «Титаник». Анжелика надеется, что за океаном она сможет найти свою мать, чью фотографию она хранит у себя в медальоне.

На большом лайнере собрались люди самых разных категорий: пожилая аферистка с двумя помощниками-ворами, тайный полицейский агент, имеющий задание поймать аферистку, богатый наследник Уильям с няней и секретарём и много других пассажиров. Некоторые привели на корабль своих собак. Также на корабле неофициально совершают путешествие семья мышей, которые быстро сдружились с собаками.

Анжелика расстроена: нелюбимая семья нагружает её работой и, кроме того, где-то затерялся её медальон. Но случайное столкновение с наследником Уильямом меняет всё. Он влюбляется в неё. Под красивую песню, исполненную известной певицей, они танцуют и строят планы.

Всё меняется, когда из-за ошибки капитана происходит столкновение с айсбергом. Корабль раскалывается и идёт ко дну. Анжелике удаётся сесть в шлюпку, но Уильям пропадает из её видимости. Она пытается найти его в океане и почти теряет надежду… Но вдруг Уильяма находят в воде. Хоть он и сильно пострадал, он жив и любит Анжелику.

Мышонок Макс (очевидно, что главным героем мультфильма был он), который тоже присутствовал на корабле, рассказывает, чем всё закончилось. Всех животных на корабле удалось спасти. По возвращении на сушу он со своей семьёй устроил свою жизнь довольно комфортно. Аферистка села в тюрьму, а тайный агент получил повышение за удачный арест. Сводные сёстры Анжелики вышли замуж за двух воров, помощников аферистки. Это не обрадовало их мать.

Анжелика и Уильям сыграли свадьбу, и теперь у них большая и дружная семья.

Роли озвучивали

Оригинал
 Франческа Гуадано — Анжелика
 Франческо Пеззулини — Уильям
 Валерия Перилли — Geltrude
 Клаудия Пителли — Berenice
 Элиана Лупо — Ortensia

Релиз
Мультфильм «Титаник. Легенда продолжается» снимался 2 года. Релиз прошёл в Италии 15 сентября 2000 года. Мультфильм входит в число «100 самых худших фильмов по версии IMDb».

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Reconciled in Rwanda
A new documentary shows stories of forgiveness and reconciliation in a nation still reeling from the horrors of genocide.
by Susan Wunderink | August 19, 2008
John enters the room with his hands clasped high on his chest. He sits across from Chantale and begins the conversation they both have been afraid of for years.
"I did a terrible thing to you by killing your father, who was my neighbor and my friend," John says. "I had even helped prepare the feast when he received confirmation in the church. But the evil one invaded my life, and I committed this horrible crime of killing your father. I'm falling before you, begging for mercy for the crime I committed."
John, one of the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left over 1 million dead, doesn't get much sympathy—much less mercy—from his victim.
Chantale, still grieving the loss of her father all these years later, looks straight at John and says calmly, "It was meaningless to have you arrested. I regret that."
There would be no forgiveness that day. Perhaps later.
So goes one of the powerful scenes in As We Forgive, a new documentary by Laura Waters Hinson, who followed John and Chantale and others to tell the remarkable story of reconciliation taking place—slowly but surely—in Rwanda.
Laura Waters Hinson
While on a church exchange trip to Rwanda in 2005, Hinson learned that some perpetrators of the genocide—more than 50,000 of them, including John, were freed from prison without trial—were building houses for their victims.
Rwanda is densely populated, with more than 10 million living in an area smaller than Maryland. So, Hinson says, "For a murderer to be released from prison to go home, he was really going to be shoulder to shoulder with people whose families he killed."
Hinson, a budding young filmmaker, wanted to tell those stories, but when she returned less than a year later with a camera crew, she found out she'd missed the whole thing. The houses were finished, and the owners had taken possession.
"I wanted to depict people in the process of reconciliation rather than tell about a reconciliation that had already happened," says Hinson, 29. "I knew that to have a powerful film, you need to show something happening in transition, progress being made before the camera."
Hinson had to scrap Plan A for the narrative arc of As We Forgive, a documentary about reconciliation in Rwanda, but certainly the power of the project was not lost as she and her team began to probe for other stories, like John and Chantale's.
In fact, Hinson's film won the Gold award in the documentary category of this year's Student Academy Awards, Best Documentary at the Angelus Student Film Festival, and it's about to go on tour with the National Geographic All Roads Film Project. The Congressional Black Caucus will host a screening of the film for senators, the World Bank showed it, and dozens of churches have shown it and hosted discussions on forgiveness and reconciliation with community members. Additionally, Hinson has recently partnered with Prison Fellowship International to establish the Living Bricks campaign, where viewers can donate directly to a Rwandan house building project.
Meanwhile, more plans are in the works to get the hour-long documentary broadcast in the U.S. Hinson is also working with Saddleback Church as they develop their reconciliation campaign in southern Rwanda. And Hinson's two-person production company, Image Bearer Pictures, doesn't even have a PR person.
Hinson knows she's on to something. "I feel like I'm just at the beginning of this thing. And the film isn't even formally distributed yet."
Making the film
The behind-the-scenes hero of Hinson's story may well be Emmanuel Kwizera, Hinson's driver/translator/ambassador. "He ended up being the key to our entire shoot," says Hinson. "He would go into the homes of these widows who had lost everything in their lives—their children had been slaughtered, their husbands had been shot in the head or macheted to death, clubbed to death.
"He would listen to their story and empathize and sometimes he would pray with them, and then he would say, 'Let me tell you about the muzungus [white people] I'm working with.'" He invariably convinced them that this was a project they would want to be a part of.
With four weeks and a shoestring budget, that kind of efficiency was necessary. "It ended up being a beautiful shoot because we all just worked so effortlessly together," Hinson says. But there wasn't really time to process the enormity of genocide. "When I was in Rwanda, I really had to kind of shut down in order to move through it. Whereas my friend, my roommate, cried through the whole thing. And in a way I lived vicariously through her mourning."
Talking to President Kagame
Rwanda's president Emmanuel Kagame, who is notoriously difficult to schedule an interview with, also granted the film crew a half-hour interview the day their flight was to depart. Hinson laughs, remembering the scene: After a half-hour interview, "I was sitting there in my dirty shirt and my Chacos and my dusty capri pants," being served a hot lunch on gold-rimmed plates because the President's assistant had called them at lunchtime. "We were completely exhilarated," said Hinson. "It just confirmed that it was an experience I felt was being divinely led."
Back in Washington D.C., Hinson got to work editing the film, shaping it to be something other than a simplistic or maudlin "Christian propaganda film."
She also wants the film to reach a secular audience. For this reason, she and her friend, Catherine Claire Larson, who wrote Zondervan's As We Forgive, a 2009 book based in part on the stories Hinson discovered in Rwanda, may not promote their projects together. (Zondervan aims more for the Christian market.)
Hinson's film focuses on three stories of murderers and victims of Rwanda's genocide: Nemeye Saveri and Rosaria Bankundiye, who had reconciled; John Nzabonimpa and Chantale Ukebereyinfura, who had not; and Joy Munyana, a genocide orphan who says she and her classmates no longer acknowledge Hutu/Tutsi designations.
The presence of the filmmakers is so light that when self-conscious John looks at the camera, it feels like he's looking at you. And when un-self-conscious Chantale, John's victim, ignores the camera completely, the documentary frame dissolves.
Interviewing Chantale
The subjects speak frankly about the genocide, about who killed and who was killed. Both John and Saveri have repented for their participation in the murders, but they also talk about it as a fact of life. They also admit that this hasn't eased the matter. Both John and Chantale admit that certain killing sites have a special horror for them. John, standing on the site of the house where he dragged Chantale's father to his death, said, "The house that was here was demolished by its owner. When I pass by this place I get chills and I feel terrified."
As We Forgive avoids preachiness and allows Chantale to make some convincing arguments that forgiveness won't change much. It doesn't spell out the obvious: that the subjects who have experienced reconciliation look about ten times as healthy and confident as those who haven't.
But by the end of the film, all of the film's subjects are on the reconciliation bandwagon. Hinson says this doesn't necessarily reflect the average situation. "I think there are lot of people who say that they've reconciled, but I think what it means is that they're just not killing each other. I think a much smaller number, a minority that is truly engaged in authentic reconciliation where real healing is happening." One of the factors is that the government—which Hinson describes as "not fully democratic"—is pushing reconciliation.
Defining forgiveness
As We Forgive portrays the killers and the victims as appealing, believable, and fallible characters. Those elements become important as, in the last section of the film, Reinhold Niebuhr's quote, "Forgiveness is the final form of love," flashes across the screen.
"I think you can have practical forgiveness where you say, 'I will forgive you so I can be released from this anger,'" says Hinson. "But that's not the same as reconciliation. Forgiveness is simply a giving up of your right to be angry. Reconciliation goes a step further and is a restoration of the relationship between the person who's been aggrieved and the perpetrator. In the case of Rwanda, I don't think it's possible for people to reconcile without a relationship with God."
Mostly, Hinson lets the subjects define forgiveness.
"How can I refuse to forgive when I'm a forgiven sinner too? According to God's Word, I am called to forgive [the killer], for I did not create this man," Rosaria says in the film. "Even my family that he killed—I did not create them either. His crime was against God, who created the people he killed. So I placed everything in the hands of God."
Rosaria and Saveri, who killed Rosaria's sister
Rosaria's own hands still don't work properly after the machete attack she survived in 1994, and As We Forgive picks up her story as she wonders how she will winnow her crop of sorghum. Saveri, the man who killed Rosaria's sister, is one of those who comes to help her so that she could move into the new house that he and other freed prisoners had built.
The film's main subjects—Rosaria, Saveri, Chantale, John, and Joy—are deeply aware of the significance of what they say and do. (At one point, Saveri, who admits to killing seven people during the genocide, says, "I did not believe there could be any deliverance for me." Such simple yet profound statements are what makes them such great teachers—and what makes the film such a significant accomplishment.
Hinson is aware of this: "My greatest hope is that God would use [As We Forgive] to bring about reconciliation on multiple levels in this broken world." She means not just those who lived through genocide, but also those who cannot comprehend it.
"This is the most incredible example of faith and courage and the resiliency of the human spirit that I've ever heard," Hinson says of the reconciliation efforts in Rwanda. "And I want people to be transformed by that and to believe that it's possible in their own lives. If Rwandans can forgive those who've slaughtered their own families, how much more can we forgive the small offenses in our lives?"
Susan Wunderink is assistant online editor for Christianity Today magazine.
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July 12 2017 Edition
Back to the future: Trudeau vs Mulroney in 2023?
We passed by Saint-Léon-de-Westmount church the other day on a stroll through our old Montreal haunts. And I had an epiphany, not a religious one, more like a political flash forward.
Calling all choristers to the Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity will be hosting the Fourth Chamber Organ and Choral Festival from August 15 - 17, with a concert including a string quartet from the Orchestre symphonique de Québec on Thursday, August 17 at 12:30 p.m.
Arts Alive! Québec celebrates Canada's 150th birthday
By Mary McCown
Photo: Mary McCown
The third annual Arts Alive! Québec festival helped Canada celebrate its 150th birthday at the Morrin Centre. On Sunday, July 2, free workshops were offered all day.
The first Oh Canada! Book Quest! event of the summer kicked off the party at 10 a.m. Young book lovers met Sunday morning and made Canada Day crafts.
Quebec City celebrates its 409th anniversary
It was a busy and wonderful weekend in Quebec City where Canada 150 celebrations seemed to be taking place on every corner but another important anniversary was celebrated just a couple of days later.
Valcartier receives a birthday gift from Mont Saint-Sacrement School
By Debbie Chakour
Photo: Allison Kirkwood
The Municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier recently received a colourful birthday gift from the students at École secondaire Mont Saint-Sacrement (MSS).
Last year, the school, which traces its origins to the former Valcartier Ski Lodge, celebrated its 60th anniversary at the same time the municipality was marking the 200th year since the settlement began.
Discover Valcartier and book boxes this summer
Photo: Debbie Chakour
There are two good reasons to visit Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier this summer. First, with a tablet or smartphone you can take the 10-stop tour of the village and see a bit of its 200-year history hidden in the beautiful scenery.
Benches installed at the Passerelle des Trois Soeurs
Photo: provided by the Ville de Québec
The Ville de Québec recently inaugurated a set of benches installed at both ends of the Passerelle des Trois Sœurs, a pedestrian-bicycle bridge which was opened in the spring of 2016 to connect Rue Bourdages, on the north shore of the St. Charles River, with Park Victoria on the south shore.
There are many Strongmen in Quebec
By Lise Lafond
Men from our province are often featured in Strongman contests. Their physical strength was, and still is, a source of pride. The Musée québécois de culture populaire in Trois-Rivières even had an exhibition last year explaining the keen interest we have with this sport, entitled "Flesh and Muscle, The strongmen phenomenon in Quebec."
Consort Laurentia present Vivaldi & Company at the Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity's Midi en Musique summer concert series opened on July 6 with an exquisite concert by the Consort Laurentia, a highly talented trio of musicians consisting of Peggy Bélanger (soprano), Michel Anger (theorbe) and Rachel Baillargeon (cello).
Amerigo Vespucci visits Quebec City
Dubbed by some the "most beautiful ship in the world" the Italian sail training ship Amerigo Vespucci was in port last week, and people flocked around Quai 21 for a visit aboard this magnificent vessel.


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Q: Tool for adding index automatically to tex's files from a list Is there any dedicated tool (script or LaTeX's package) for adding the \index command (or other command) to many LaTeX's files?
The idea is to declare the list of the requested index such
Henri Bergson|Bergson, Henri
bergson|Bergson, Henri

The first word will be the pattern on which the \index command will be applied et the second will be the content of the \index command.
The idea will be also to avoid to applied the \index on certain case: for instance if the pattern is in a \cite command (\cite{bergson}).

A: Finally I propose a small script for doing this. It is written in shell using perl.
It must be placed in a folder on which all the tex file are situated. A list_index.txt file must be placed at the same level of the script. In this file you can add on line per author with the following format:
Henri Bergson|Bergson, Henri|B
bergson|Bergson, Henri|B
charlie chaplin|Chaplin, Charlie
chaplin|Chaplin, Charlie
lilian gish|Gish, Lilian
gish|Gish, Lilian

The syntax must be:

*

*First column: the pattern on which you want to add an index entry

*Second column: the form on the index entry

*Third column (optional): the position you want in the index (if you want to force a specific location.

A \newcommand must be added in the head of the main latex: \newcommand{\md}[2]{#1\index[perso]{#2}} (must be adapted, here I used indextools package).
How it works:
Each time the pattern is find in the tex's files (unsensitive case), it is replace by the command \md{<<pattern>>}{<< corresponding second column>>}.
For example, ìn the text bergson will be replaced by  \md{bergson}{B@Bergson, Henri} and charlie chaplin will be replaced by \md{bergson}{Chaplin, Charlie}.
The script avoid to add \md command in inappropriate place such as \cite, \footcite, footfullcite, \md, \ref, \pageref and \includegraphics. This list must be adapted in the perl lines of the script.
Bash's script:
#!/bin/bash

listeIdx=list_index.txt
cmdIndex='\\md'

while IFS= read -r var || [ -n "$var" ]
do
  entryIx=`echo $var|cut -d'|' -f1`
  keyIx=`echo $var|cut -d'|' -f2`
  specIx=`echo $var|cut -d'|' -f3`
  #
  if [[ -z "${keyIx// }" ]];then
    echo $keyIx
    continue
    else
        echo -e "\n\nEntry: $entryIx || Key: $keyIx"
      for file in `ls *.tex`
      do
        if [ "$file" != "manuscrit.tex" -a "$file" != "Couverture.tex" -a "$file" != "resume.tex" -a "$file" != "titre.tex" ];then
            echo $file
            if [[ -z "${specIx// }" ]];then
                perl -i.bak -lpe 's/(\\pageref([^}]*)|\\ref([^}]*)|\\label([^}]*)|\\includegraphics([^}]*)|\\footfullcite([^}]*)|\\footcite([^}]*)|\\cite([^}]*)|\\md{(.*?)}([^}]*))(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|\b'"${entryIx}"'\b/'"${cmdIndex}"'{$&}{'"$keyIx"'}/ig' $file
            else
                perl -i.bak -lpe 's/(\\pageref([^}]*)|\\ref([^}]*)|\\label([^}]*)|\\includegraphics([^}]*)|\\footfullcite([^}]*)|\\footcite([^}]*)|\\cite([^}]*)|\\md{(.*?)}([^}]*))(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|\b'"${entryIx}"'\b/'"${cmdIndex}"'{$&}{'"$specIx"'\@'"$keyIx"'}/ig' $file
            fi
        fi
      done
    fi
done < $listeIdx

A: I coded a one-line (powerful) script doing about the same, in a semi-automatic fashion, which I find very convenient to avoid adding misleading references. You just need to:

*

*put the following script in a file named Makefile

*ensure you have GNU Make installed, and ViM

*enter your searched items in a columnar text file (e.g. list_names_1.csv) like this:

Bergson;Bergson, Henri
Herder;Herder, Johann Gottfried

*

*run make index-tagger INDEX=names LABELS=list_names_1.csv  TARGET=Chapters/Chapter01.tex from the command line

*vim opens and cycles through every occurrence of each of your search terms, letting you either replace (type y) or ignore (type n) the occurrence of the search term with Search Term\index[index_name]{Search Label}.

# Makefile

#################################################################
#                        index-tagger recipe                    #
#                                                               #
# Inputs:                                                       #
# - name of LABELS csv file with "search;label" data            #
# - name of TARGET file that should be edited                   #
# - name of INDEX (e.g. 'noms')                                 #
#                                                               #
# Output:                                                       #
# - ranges through the CSV file                                 #
# - for each search;label pair, searches through the target     #
# - at each match, asks for replace confirmation in VIM         #
# - logs what has been done in a file                           #
#                                                               #
# Usage example:                                                #
# $ make index-tagger INDEX=names LABELS=list_names_1.csv TARGET=Chapters/Chapter01.tex
#                                                                #
##################################################################

index-tagger:
    cat $(LABELS) | sed -n "s-\(.*\);\(.*\)-\"vi \-c \'%s/\\\\(\\\\\\\\\\\\(sub\\\\)*section.*\\\\|caption\\\\(=\\\\)\\\\?{.*\\\\|\\\\\\\\cite%\\\\_..*\\\\|\\\\\\\\index\\\\[names\\\\]{[^}]*\\\\)\\\\@<\!\\\\<\\\\(\1\\\\)\\\\>/\1\\\\\\\\index[$(INDEX)]{\2}/gc\' \-c \'wq\' \"$(TARGET)\"; sleep .2; echo \"\\$$\(date\)\"\';$(INDEX);$(LABELS);$(TARGET);\0\' >> index_tagger.log\"-p" | xargs -o -I % sh -c '%'

PS. I just noticed the name of the index is hard-coded in the replace regex, I must have forgotten to fix that. Any improval on this is welcome.
PPS. Yeah, that's a lot of escapes!


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What's In The Box!? Loot Crate: September 2015 Edition
By Jack Holt
Welcome to yet another edition of What's In The Box!? Today we're tackling the Loot Crate: September 2015 Edition with a monthly theme of Summon. During the build up toward this month's crate, the folks at Loot Crate teased items from big franchises like Pokémon and Warcraft. Other franchises include The Simpsons and Supernatural as well. But just what exactly are we getting in this month's box that pertain to these franchises? Let's find out.
Pikachu Beanie
Show off your love of catching them all with the Pikachu beanie. The beanie is soft and comes with dangly Pokeballs. The hat itself is Pikachu, complete with his ears.
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Hearthstone stress squeeze
Blizzard's take on the trading card game has been a runaway success and as such, Blizzard threw in multiple items from Hearthstone in this month's Loot Crate. The first item is a stress squeeze in the shape of a Hearthstone. Those who played World of Warcraft know the Hearthstone as a clickable item that teleports players back to their inn of choice. Well, you can't use this to teleport to an inn of your choosing but you can use it to relieve some stress.
Supernatural 1967 Chevrolet Impala Sports Sedan 1:64 die cast car
A show about two brothers who lost their mother and were trained by their father to hunt demons and monsters, the brothers travel the world in a black '67 Chevy Impala. Known as Metallicar by fans, you can now have a 1:64 scale model replica of it.
The Simpsons Homer Golden Buddha
What's there to say other than if you want to achieve enlightenment, having a golden Buddha in the form of everybody's favorite cartoon father may just do the trick.
Hearthstone Expert Card Pack Code and Master Summoner mobile game
The second Hearthstone item in this month's crate is a code for an expert code pack in the game. The code is on the back of a thick cardboard cut out of an actual Hearthstone card. Not only that but you get access to a Loot Crate mobile game called master summoner.
Other than this month's collector pin, that's about it. I received my Loot Crate before it was scheduled to be shipped so we're still a few days away from finding out what October's theme will be. We'll update the article as soon as we know.
What'd you think of this month's crate? Let us know in the comments section below or on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
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MEPs demand full access of persons with disability to the political process
On the 5th July 2018, the European Parliament debated in plenary the state of political participation of persons with disabilities. The debate counted with the intervention of Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová and of 26 MEPs from across the political spectre.
The debate counted with interventions of several members of Disability Intergroup, including from the four Presidents, MEPs Ádám Kósa, Olga Sehnalová, Helga Stevens and Kostadinka Kuneva, as well as from others members of the Intergroup, such as MEPs Marek Plura, Jana Žitnanská, Michela Giuffrida, and Martina Anderson, among others.
Commissioner Jourová asserted in her opening intervention that "the right to vote must be enjoyed by everyone" and that the Europan Commission supports good practices for accessible voting.
Members of the European Parliament's interventions focused on 3 rights that persons with disabilities are still not able to fully enjoy: the right to vote (lack of accessibility from polling stations and ballots), the right to information in accessible formats (both information about the elections campaigns and the electoral process, itself) and the right to stand in elections and be elected.
MEP Soledad Cabezón Ruiz stated that, if given the chance, persons with disabilities are more likely to vote than the average population.
MEP Julie Ward called on MEPs to read our Manifesto on the European Elections. She stated that we must maintain an human rights approach and she demanded the Commission to reinstate funding to the European Network on Independent Livng.
MEP Helga Stevens said that 15 EU Member States deny persons with disability the automatic right to vote. She reiterated that information is not fully accessible for persons with disabilities.
MEP Ádám Kósa called on Member States to ensure that electoral legislation is in line with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
MEP Olga Sehnalová asserted that persons with disability are often forgotten by political groups. She added that accessible elections means not only accessibility to polling stations and ballots, but also the accessibility of information.
MEP Kostadinka Kuneva stated that "We have instruments available (for allowing full political participation of persons with disabilities). Of course they will cost money, real democracy is an expensive system - but the best one we have."
Another important point, the denial of the right to vote to persons under guardianship was raised by MEP Tilly Metz. This point was reinforced by MEP Ángela Vallina who added that there are still many shortcomings in implementing the U.N. CRPD, especially in relation to political participation of persons with psycho-social and intellectual disabilities.
In her closing statement, Commissioner Jourová stated that the European Commission supported initiatives of the Member States, as the European Union as limited competency on electoral processes.
She added that the European Commission will organise a colloquium o political participation, focusing on youth and vulnerable groups.
She concluded by calling on MEPs to contact their national political groups to effect change in the Member States.
You can check our Twitter coverage of the debate here.


There was a greater increase in stiffness following combined ATFL and CFL repair compared to ATFL repair alone. The intact stiffness of the ankle is highly predictive of repair stiffness and load to failure. Restoring CFL plays a relevant role in lateral ligament repair, however sufficient time for ligament healing should be allowed before inversion stresses are applied.
Lateral ankle sprain is a common athletic injury. At least 20% of patients with severe ankle sprains will develop chronic ankle instability, and possibly require surgical repair. The most common mechanism of injury in ankle sprain is ankle inversion with a plantar flexed foot. The ATFL is injured most frequently, and higher grade injuries result in rupture to the CFL as well. The standard for lateral ligament stabilization is direct repair of the ATFL by open or arthroscopic technique. However, implications and necessity of repairing the CFL are not well understood. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of repairing the ATFL alone compared to repairing both the ATFL and CFL, in a biomechanical cadaver model. We hypothesized that repairing the CFL will add significant ankle and subtalar joint stability during weight-bearing ankle inversion compared to ATFL repair alone.
Ten matched pairs of fresh frozen human cadaveric ankles were dissected to expose intact ATFL and CFL. Ankles were mounted to an Instron at 20° plantar flexion and 15° of internal rotation. Each ankle was loaded to body weight and then inverted from 0 to 20° for three cycles; torque was recorded and stiffness was calculated. Ankles then underwent sectioning of ATFL and CFL and were randomly assigned to ATFL only repair using two arthroscopic Broström all-soft anchors, or combined ATFL and CFL repair. Testing was repeated after repair to 20° of inversion, then load-to-failure (LTF).
The predominant mode of failure (17/20) after repair was at the ligament/suture interface – there were no occurrences of anchor pull-out. There was an 11.7% increase in stiffness in combined repairs, and only a 1.6% increase in single repairs, compared to the complete injury condition, although this did not reach statistical significance (p=.158). The CFL failed at lower torque (p=.017) and rotation (p=.01) than the ATFL in combined repairs. However, there was no difference between groups in inversion degrees or torque at failure of the ATFL during LTF. There was a strong correlation (r=.74) with intact stiffness and stiffness after repair, across both groups, and a strong correlation (r=.77) with intact stiffness and ATFL torque in LTF testing, across both groups.
In a biomechanical weight-bearing inversion model, we found a greater increase in stiffness following combined ATFL and CFL repair compared to ATFL repair alone, although this did not reach statistical significance. This added stability is likely due to complimentary contributions of the CFL, not augmented strength of the ATFL, since ATFL rotation and torque at LTF were unaffected by CFL repair. Intact specimen stiffness correlated strongly with both stiffness after repair, and LTF torque of ATFL. Thus, a patient's inherent laxity or stiffness is likely a meaningful contributor to strength after repair. The CFL fails before the ATFL, potentially indicating its vulnerability immediately following repair. Restoring the CFL likely plays a relevant role in lateral ligament repair, however sufficient time for ligament healing should be allowed before inversion stresses are applied.


Arsene Wenger wants Chelsea star Kurt Zouma at Arsenal.
Italian transfer expert Emanuele Giulianelli reports the Gunners boss has contact incoming Blues chief Antonio Conte over a potential deal.
Zouma is tipped for the top and is expected to play a key role at Stamford Bridge.
With John Terry taking a backup role, the 21-year-old centre-back is set to become a regular in the heart of Chelsea's defence.
Jose Mourinho will get to work on making James Rodriguez his first Manchester United signing.
Spanish outlet Don Balon report the Colombian is on Mourinho's wanted list.
Super agent Jorge Mendes represents both Mourinho and Rodriguez - and could be called in to get a deal over the line.
Arsenal confirm new shirt number for Granit Xhaka... and it's not 34!


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Q: ReactJs - Call function after fetch I have three components; Parent, ChildA, Child B. The parent is defined like this:
class Parents extends Component {
   getPersons = () => {
       fetch('/Persons')
        .then(persons => this.setState({ persons:persons })
     }

   updateTable = () =>
       this.setState({ update: true })
 }

Now, ChildA is a form where I can create new persons. ChildB is a table showing all the persons. I would like ChildB to re render when I have created a new person.
I tried to call an updateTable() function on childA immediately after getPerons(), like this:
class ChildA extends Component {
   onSubmit() {
    this.getPersons();
    this.updateTable();
   }
 }

The issue is that the table is updated before persons are fetched.
What is the correct way to handle this?
I guess could define the getPersons() in childA and then add ".then(this.updateTable())" but I am using the getPersons in initial rendering as well, so I don't want to move it away from Parent

A: You don't have to continue the promise chain all in the same place. The first function can return the promise and you can continue the chain wherever you want.
class Parents extends Component {
   // remove the brackets to return the promise
   getPersons = () => fetch('/Persons')
        .then(persons => this.setState({ persons:persons })

   updateTable = () =>
       this.setState({ update: true })
 }

class ChildA extends Component {
  onSubmit() {
    this.getPersons().then( this.updateTable );
  }
}


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Южноамериканская широконоска () — вид птиц из семейства утиных (Anatidae).

Описание

Южноамериканская широконоска имеет расцветку цвета корицы с тёмными пятнами и зелёным зеркалом. Голова и шея сероватые. У неё большой тёмный клюв лопатообразной формы.

Распространение
Водится в Аргентине, Боливии, Бразилии, Парагвае, Перу, Уругвае, Чили, на Фолклендских островах. Обитание птиц на острове Южная Георгия и Южных Сандвичевых островах нуждается в подтверждении. Самые южные птицы зимой совершают перелеты на север Бразилии и Перу.

Охрана
МСОП присвоил таксону охранный статус «Виды, вызывающие наименьшие опасения» (LC).

Примечания

Ссылки
 .
 Clements, James. (2007). The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Spatula
Птицы Южной Америки
Животные, описанные в 1816 году


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Tag Archives: Calleja Stephen
Stephen Calleja : canvassing the PN
In today's editor's blog, in the Malta Independent, Stephen Calleja deemed it fit to write a blogpost entitled "A vote for AD is a vote for Labour."
A vote for AD is a vote cast in favour of AD's principles. As things stand it is also a vote against both the PL and the PN.
Has Mr Calleja ever considered what a vote for the PN means?
Stephen Calleja has every right to canvass the PN. I do not seek to deny him such a basic right. When exercising such a right he may consider it superfluous to inquire about the Hon. Claudio Grech's statement that he did not recollect ever meeting George Farrugia, of oil scandal fame. Searching for reasonable explanations and possibly the underlying truth does not seem to bother Mr Calleja the journalist.
He could also inquire deeper into the Capital One Investments Limited and maybe bother to ask whether as a minimum, the Hon Beppe Fenech Adami's judgement in accepting a directorship of the Company was a grave error of judgement.
Mr Calleja could examine Mario de Marco's legal assistance to the db Group while Deputy Leader for Parliamentary Affairs of the PN Parlimentary Group. In so doing he may recollect that Dr de Marco had stated that he had sought Dr Simon Busuttil's second opinion on whether he should take up the brief with Dr Busuttil not finding any difficulty at all.
Of course, any inquisitive journalist would go one step further and seek an explanation as to what the term "conflict of interest" means. A Member of Parliament's duty on all sides of the House essentially entails holding the government to account. This definitely includes scrutinising the executive's actions in negotiations relative to the transfer of property in public ownership.
When any Member of Parliament does not understand the above, it is serious enough. But having both the Leader of the Opposition and his Deputy without any clue on the matter, certainly says quite a lot about the ethical standards of the Opposition. If these are the ethical standards of the next government I do not think that there will be any change at the helm. It will be simply more of the same.
I could go on and on. I have limited myself to the PN's compromised leadership, as currently it is the most effective canvasser of the Labour Party.
Mr Calleja has every right to ignore all this when he canvasses the PN, but then doesn't that say a lot about his standards and values?
One final point. AD held exploratory talks with the PN during which talks, the above and more were referred to. The proposals made by AD were aimed to create a functioning coalition which would not be burdened by the accumulated sins of the PN. That no progress was made is certainly not AD's fault. Given the right conditions, AD was willing to participate in a coalition but it never accepted to be tagged as anybody's appendage.
By carmelcacopardo • Posted in Alternattiva Demokratika - The Green Party, Busuttil Simon, Calleja Stephen, Capital One Investment Group, coalition politics, db Group, de Marco Mario, Fenech Adami Beppe, Grech Claudio, Malta Independent, Partit Laburista, Partit Nazzjonalista	• Tagged Alternattiva Demokratika - The Green Party, Busuttil Simon, Calleja Stephen, Capital One Investments Limited, coalition politics, db Group, de Marco Mario, Fenech Adami Beppe, Grech Claudio, Malta Independent, Partit Laburista, Partit Nazzjonalista
Tonio Borg: his nomination and Malta's reputation
Stephen Calleja heads the editorial team at Standard Publications, publishers of the Malta Independent as well the The Malta Independent on Sunday.
He considers himself to be "independent" so much that he did not bat an eyelid in accepting to present a TV discussion programme on the PN political TV station NET TV: l-Iswed fuq l-Abjad. Its independence can be attested by considering his choice of speakers and his myopic consideration of the issues discussed.
In today's edition of the Independent on Sunday Mr Calleja speaks of "restoring Malta's reputation" when discussing the consideration by the EU institutions of Tonio Borg's nomination as John Dalli's successor on the EU Commission.
Calleja's point is that The Green's criticism of Tonio Borg's nomination and credentials will tarnish Malta's reputation.
It seems that those defending Tonio Borg's nomination, including Mr Calleja, consider that he has only one positive point, that he is Maltese and they expect all to rally behind this nomination on the basis of his nationality.
Calleja fails to give due weight that Tonio Borg has destroyed his own candidacy by his utterances and actions as a Minister. His actions on immigration when he supported Berlusoni's agreement with Gaddafi's Libya to send back immigrants to Libya to be tortured is compounded by the 2002 Eritrean refugee mishap documented by Amnesty International amd UNHCR. Tonio Borg as Malta's Minister for the Interior was responsible for sending back Eritrean immigrants. Some were tortured others disappeared.
Tonio Borg's utterances against tenancy rights of same sex couples during the rent reform debate in Malta's Parliament may have been forgotten by Stephen Calleja. Calleja may even consider as unimportant the fact that Tonio Borg defied the referendum result and opposed divorce legislation.
In view of Tonio Borg's record as pointed out above I do not consider that his nomination was the appropriate one.
When Lawrence Gonzi, notwithstanding the above decided to proceed with Tonio Borg's nomination he was gambling Malta' reputation. He should have nominated someone else. There are plenty of suitable candidates amongst Malta's 404,000 population.
It is on Lawrence Gonzi's doorstep that Stephen Calleja should direct his criticism. But obviously, as he is "independent" he will find considerable difficulty in doing so.
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