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John Jacob Weinzweig (Toronto, 11 maart 1913 – aldaar, 24 augustus 2006) was een Canadees componist, muziekpedagoog en dirigent.

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Weinzweig was de zoon van Joodse emigranten uit Polen. Zijn eerste formele muziekles kreeg hij op de mandoline aan de Workmen's Circle Peretz School. Op 14-jarige leeftijd kreeg hij pianoles van Gertrude V. Anderson. Hij was ook lid van het schoolorkest van het Harbord College. Gedurende deze periode leerde hij het bespelen van het saxofoon, de tuba en de contrabas. In 1930 heeft hij dit orkest ook gedirigeerd. Naar een studie orkestdirectie bij Reginald Stewart aan het Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto studeerde hij vanaf 1934 aan de Universiteit van Toronto compositie bij Healey Willan, Leo Smith en Sir Ernest MacMillan en van 1937 tot 1938 aan de Eastman School of Music in Rochester bij Bernard Rogers.

Weinzweig stichtte in 1935 het symfonieorkest van de universiteit van Toronto en behoorde in 1951 tot de medeoprichters van de Canadian League of Composers. Verder was hij muziekcriticus in het dagblad van de universiteit met de titel The Varsity.

Van 1939 tot 1978 was hij professor aan het Royal Conservatory of Music van Toronto.

Als componist schreef hij balletten en andere toneelwerken, een symfonie en andere orkestwerken, solo concerten, kamermuziek, werken voor piano en koor, liederen en muziek voor film en televisie.

Composities

Werken voor orkest
 1937 Legend, voor orkest
 1938 The Enchanted Hill
 1938 Suite, voor orkest
 1938 Spectre, voor solo pauken en orkest
 1939 A Tale of Tuamotu, voor fagot en orkest
 1940 Symfonie, voor orkest
 1941 Rhapsody for Orchestra
 1943 Interlude in an Artist's Life
 1943 Our Canada, voor orkest
 1946 Edge of the World, voor orkest
 1946 Divertimento No. 1, voor fluit en strijkorkest
 1948 Divertimento No. 2, voor hobo en strijkorkest
 1949 Suite uit het ballet "Red Ear of Corn"
 1950 Round Dance, voor orkest
 1951-1954 Concerto, voor viool en orkest
 1958 Symphonic Ode, voor orkest
 1960 Divertimento No. 3, voor fagot en orkest
 1966 Concerto, voor piano en orkest
 1967 Concerto, voor harp en kamerorkest
 1968 Divertimento No. 4, voor klarinet en strijkorkest
 1969 Dummiyah/Silence, voor orkest
 1972 Divertimento No. 6, voor altsaxofoon en strijkorkest
 1979 Divertimento No. 7, voor hoorn en strijkorkest
 1980 Divertimento No. 8, voor tuba en orkest
 1982 Divertimento No. 9, voor orkest
 1988 Divertimento No. 10, voor piano en strijkorkest
 1990 Divertimento No. 11, voor althobo en strijkorkest
 1998 Divertimento No. 12, voor blazerskwintet en strijkorkest

Werken voor harmonieorkest
 1944 Band-Hut Sketches
 1961 Divertimento No. 5, voor trompet, trombone en blazers
 1966 Round dance
 1981 Out of the Blues

Muziektheater

Balletten

Vocale muziek
 1951 Dance of the Masada, voor bariton en piano
 1957 Wine of Peace (Calderon de la Barca), voor sopraan en orkest
 1971 Trialogue, voor sopraan, fluit en piano

Werken voor koor
 1945 To the lands over yonder (Inuit), voor gemengd koor
 1952 Am Yisrael Chai! / Israel Lives!, voor gemengd koor en piano
 1985 Hockey Night in Canada

Kamermuziek
 1937 Strijkkwartet no. 1
 1941 Sonata, voor viool en piano
 1943 Fanfare, voor 3 trompetten, 3 trombones en slagwerk
 1946 Strijkkwartet no. 2
 1949 Cello Sonata "Israel", voor cello en piano
 1962 Strijkkwartet no. 3
 1964 Blazerskwintet
 1965 Kwartet, voor 4 klarinetten
 1976 Pieces of Five, voor koperkwintet
 1977 Refrains, voor contrabas en piano
 1980 Variations for Louis Applebaum, voor koperkwintet
 1984 Music Centre Serenade, voor fluit, hoorn, altviool en cello
 1987 Birthday Notes, voor fluit en piano
 1987 Tremologue, voor altviool
 1991 Jammin, voor zestien instrumenten
 1992 Belaria, voor altviool
 1993 Arctic Shadows, voor hobo en piano
 1998 Interplay: 12 dialogues, voor picollo, tuba en piano

Werken voor orgel
 1942 Improvisation on an Indian Tune

Werken voor piano
 1939 Suite for Piano No. 1
 1949 Swing a Fugue
 1949 Melos
 1950 Sonata
 1950 Suite for Piano No. 2
 1973 Impromptus
 1986 CanOn Stride
 1986 Tango for Two
 1988 Micromotions (20 pieces)
 1989 3 Pieces
 1990 Duologue, voor twee piano's

Werken voor harp
 1983 15 Pieces, voor harp

Werken voor gitaar
 1976 Contrasts
 1980 18 Pieces for Guitar
 1984 Conversations for Three Guitars

Werken voor slagwerk
 1970 Around the Stage in 25 Minutes During Which a Variety of Instruments Are Struck

Filmmuziek
 1941 Les frontières du Nord-Ouest
 1941 Turner Valley
 1941 West Wind
 1941 The Story of Tom Thomson
 1941 The Great Canadian Shield
 Riel, tv-serie
 Jalna, tv-serie
 White Empire, tv-serie

Publicaties
 John Jacob Weinzweig: John Weinzweig – His Words and His Music, 1986.
 John Jacob Weinzweig: Sounds and Reflections, 1990.
 Elaine Keillor: John Weinzweig and His Music – The Radical Romantic of Canada. 1994.

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Positive and optimistic people lead themselves by constantly finding encouragement within their soul. The more you give out positively, the more you get back. Here are my seven essential mantras that I find helpful to keep myself on a positive track.
Visualization is perhaps one of many attributes that assures one's future. In the psychology community, creative visualization refers to the practice of seeking to affect the outer world by changing one's thoughts and expectations.
Sometimes we need to slow down in order to move forward. Slowing down is a deliberate choice that can lead to greater appreciation for life and a greater level of happiness, which yields better results in one's endeavors.
Being truly in the moment allows us to escape from adversity and conserve our inner energy. Living in the moment doesn't mean we don't care about the future. It means that when we make a choice to do something, we focus on solely doing it, rather than letting our mind wander into the future (or the past).
Inspiration can come from anywhere and anyone. Mine often comes from books and movies -- books and movies that combine life stories with a spiritual journey.
In his book, The Art of Happiness, His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama wrote, "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
It is particularly difficult to stay positive in the face of adversity and failure. For many, even though it may be easy to show compassion to others, it may be hard to accept, embrace, and be compassionate toward ourselves. Some of us blame others for all our miseries and some blame ourselves. Often it's easy to blame oneself, feel sorry, and/or put oneself down. It is only through being able to let go, have compassion for oneself, and self-encouragement that we can pursue a path of positivity.
Resiliency begins with adaptability, acceptance, and gratitude. Success and happiness does not always come from blasting through rocks and impediments, rather from having the faith, courage and 'letting it happen' attitude to cope with harsh realities of life.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden appears on television screens in the Media Center during the Democratic Presidential Debate on Oct. 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFormer Vice President Joe Biden appears on television screens in the Media Center during the Democratic Presidential Debate on Oct. 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Joe Biden, in Stumbling Debate Performance, Claims Credit for Elizabeth Warren's Signature Achievement
"You did a hell of a job at your job," Biden told Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in a remark that couldn't have been more patronizing if he tried.
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In previous debates, Joe Biden, 76, came out of the gate relatively strong and lucid, not devolving into the kind of gibberish that makes for viral supercuts until the second or third hour of the debate. The vice president took a shortcut in the Democratic Party's October debate on Tuesday night, skipping his typical strong first hour and heading straight for the looping, elliptical discursions his campaign has become known for. He punctuated it with perhaps the most patronizing barb the Democratic debates have seen this cycle.
Joe Biden's Mysterious Claim That He Whipped Votes for the CFPB
It was Biden's first debate that he didn't come into as the front-runner, having been eclipsed in the polls by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and the first question, a softball on impeachment, came to her. He stumbled through his response on impeachment, then was pressed on his son Hunter Biden's role on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company while Biden, as vice president, was leading Ukraine policy. It was a question that had no good answer — "On Sunday," CNN's Anderson Cooper said, "you announced that if you're president, no one in your family or associated with you will be involved in any foreign businesses. My question is, if it's not OK for a president's family to be involved in foreign businesses, why was it OK for your son when you were vice president?" — and Biden didn't give one.
After assuring viewers that, "Look, my son did nothing wrong," he eventually veered into the first president's famous farewell address on avoiding foreign entanglements but got entangled himself: "On the — look, the fact that George Washington worried on the first time he spoke after being elected president that what we had to worry about is foreign interference in our elections, it was the greatest threat to America."
Biden's most aggressive moment in the debate was his most cringeworthy. After he claimed that he was the only person on the stage who'd gotten big things done, Warren noted that she had ushered in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the first regulatory agency built in a generation, and did so over the fierce objections of Wall Street. Biden responded by claiming loudly that he had gone to the Senate and secured votes for it. That claim is dubious at best; Biden had no public presence in the debate over the CFPB and people involved with the fight over it say he did little to nothing behind the scenes either.
In shouting and pointing at Warren and attempting to take credit for her signature achievement, he finished with a verbal pat-on-the-head: "You did a hell of a job at your job," he told her.
Here's Biden yelling at Warren.
Then later telling her, You did a hell of a job in your job.
Warren deadpans, "Thank you." pic.twitter.com/ztcLurnnd7
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) October 16, 2019
Biden's sunsetting incoherence was made all the more apparent by the contrast with the surprisingly robust return of Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78, making his first public appearance since his heart attack in Las Vegas two weeks ago. Sanders was looser and livelier than in previous debates, perhaps buoyed by expected endorsements from Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib; he has said that he feels stronger and healthier with two stents having cleared an artery blockage, and it certainly appeared that way on stage.
Biden, by contrast, was relatively absent from all the high-profile exchanges of the night: on the initial Medicare for All question, on the wealth tax, on assault weapons buybacks. On Syria, Biden called Trump's withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria "the most shameful thing any president has done in modern history in terms of foreign policy," but the word salad returned as he confused Afghanistan with Iraq — the disastrous invasion of which Biden himself supported.
On Medicare for All, debate moderators throughout the campaign have been fixated on two questions, and two only, when it comes to health care reform: Should private insurance be banned, and will taxes go up for middle-class families?
Sanders acknowledged that in his view, taxes would go up modestly for the middle class, but the burden would be borne by the rich and major corporations. Moderators and her fellow stagemates pressed Warren repeatedly to acknowledge the same, but Warren stuck firmly to her framing of "costs," insisting that costs will go down for middle-class families and pledging not to sign any bill in which costs would not go down. The pundit class was critical of her refusal, though it mirrored her strategy in the past two debates, and she rose in the polls after both. This suggests that people understand that premiums are already deducted from paychecks, so if whatever tax is involved is less than that, as promised, Democratic primary voters may be willing to forgive Warren's resistance to feeding Republicans video to use in the general election.
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg jumped on the moment to plug his newly branded "Medicare for All Who Want It" plan, attacking Warren for not giving a straight answer to the question.
"We heard it tonight. A yes-or-no question that didn't get a yes-or-no answer. This is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular. Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything — except this," Buttigieg said.
Warren hit back. "So let's be clear, whenever someone hears the term 'Medicare for All who want it,' understand what that really means: It's Medicare for all who can afford it. And that's the problem we've got. Medicare for All is the gold standard," she said.
After the exchange, Warren's political director tweeted at Buttigieg that "instead of going after others for being 'evasive,'" a criticism the mayor levied against Warren last month, he should "look at his own 'plan.'" She later deleted the tweet.
When, near the close of the debate, Biden weighed in on Medicare for All and touted himself as a candidate who gets things done, Sanders came back with one of his strongest moments:
Joe, you talked about working with Republicans and getting things done. But you know what you also got done … you got the disastrous war in Iraq done. You got the bankruptcy bill which is hurting middle-class families all over this country. You got trade agreements like NAFTA and PNTR with China done which have cost us 4 million jobs.
.@BernieSanders to @JoeBiden: "You got the disastrous war in Iraq done, you got the bankruptcy bill which is hurting millions..., you got trade agreements like NAFTA and PNTR with China done which have cost us 4 million jobs" pic.twitter.com/aBjCAPjNnK
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) October 16, 2019
When asked whether Sanders and Warren's wealth tax plans demonize rich people, Biden again gave a meandering response, saying he'd raise the capital gains tax. "This is one of the reasons why these debates are crazy," he said at one point, before deferring to the difficulty of the format. "Because everybody tries to squeeze everything into every answer." Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke called Warren "punitive," referring to her wealth tax plan, and accused her of "pitting some part of the country against each other." Warren shot back. "I'm really shocked at the notion that anyone thinks I'm being punitive," she said.
"My question is not why do Bernie and I support a wealth tax," Warren said, "it's why does everyone else on the stage think it is more important to protect billionaires than it is to invest in an entire generation of Americans?"
Asked how he would reassure voters of his health following a heart attack, Sanders pitched his upcoming rally in New York City — and teased a special guest (Ocasio-Cortez, according to the Washington Post). But more convincing was his willingness to jump in on several key moments in the debate.
Biden, in an effort to address the age question, appeared to have a response in the can. Asked how he could handle the rigors of the presidency when he would turn 80 in his first term, he replied, "Because I've watched it, I know what the job is, I've been engaged — one of the reasons I'm running is because of my age, my experience. With it comes wisdom." The comment likely drew inspiration from Ronald Reagan's famous rebuttal. But Biden's lacked the zing.
Biden's collapse leaves two clear front-runners, Sanders and Warren. The party establishment, on the hunt for an alternative, could feasibly turn to Buttigieg, who was widely praised for his debate performance. The question over the next couple months is whether it's too late for him to rise. Biden's voters, according to surveys, are the least likely to be following the news closely, leaving little room for Buttigieg to rise quickly enough. Instead, Biden's poll numbers may fade, slowly, to black, bringing the establishment down with them.
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To win at Scrabble, you need to score more points than your opponent. Thus, for many players, it is counterintuitive to sacrifice points for any reason. However, if you want to be a successful Scrabble player, there are many situations where it is worthwhile to sacrifice points to further your chances of winning the game.
The first reason to sacrifice points is when doing so will help you score more points later on by preserving a good leave. Keeping a bingo-prone leave or avoiding a bad rack is essential: while you are sacrificing points now, you'll usually make up those points (and then some) on future turns.
In Diagram 1, you are better off playing OUTLOOK for 22 points and clearing up your rack instead of playing JOTA k2 for 34 points, keeping a very-bad LOOU leave. In Diagram 2, you are better off playing VEND g11 for 9 measly points, keeping a powerful ENST leave. Although plays like VEST n1 or VENDS 13c score much better, the ENST is very likely to score well or form a bingo next turn.
The second reason to sacrifice point is to prevent your opponent from scoring. Since the goal is to score more points than your opponent, plays that prevent your opponent from scoring is worth just as much as scoring more points on your own. Blocking lucrative scoring spots and bingo lines is another good reason to sacrifice points.
In Diagram 3, you should play VIE k4 (18). VIE blocks the last good bingo options on the board, blocking both the scoring spot and bingo line. While plays like VISIT 15k score far better and still keep a good leave, it allows your opponent to come back if they have good tiles.
In Diagram 4, you should play DRIFT j6 (25), creating a right angle to block the top right quadrant. This allows you to block down the board, making bingos more difficult in both the short and long term and makes it easier to maintain your lead.
In Diagram 5, you should play BIOTA, as it blocks the biggest scoring threat on the board. Even though BIGOT scores 7 more points and keeps a better leave, column o is such a strong scoring spot relative to the rest of the board that it's definitely worth sacrificing the points to block it.
In Diagram 6, your opponent's last play was DIVA, often indicating that they are holding a Z. Because of this, you are probably best off playing HIND, blocking the 60+ point Z play. When your opponent makes a play that is probably a setup, it is worth sacrificing a few points to inhibit your opponent from a high-scoring play on their next turn.
The third reason is to help manage risk. When ahead or behind, it is important to manage the volatility (or entropy) of the board: sometimes you need to protect your lead or start gambling when you are behind.
In Diagram 7, you should play QUICKLY, as it blocks high scoring extensions to QUICK, such as QUICKENS, QUICKEST, or QUICKSAND. Although they likely don't have these extensions, it's not worth the risk of allowing these high scoring plays to stay open.
In Diagram 8, you're well ahead, and the most likely way for you to lose is if your opponent uses the V in column 1 for a TWS/TWS play. Even though this is quite unlikely, it is the biggest threat and it's not worth taking the risk of letting this spot stay open. Thus, you're best off playing EVIL a1 (24) to block the opponent's best path to a comeback.
The final reason is a concept that I call point spacing. At certain scores and at certain durations of the game, scoring points becomes secondary to the other factors, and becomes far less important. Even though it's always better to score more points, in certain circumstances other factors are more important.


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Q: Can you reference types that are in the same interface that is being defined Something like..
type ObjectWithA = { a: number };

interface SomeObject {
   o1: ObjectWithA ;
   o2: keyof this.o1  // Obviously this does not work, but I just written it to explain.
}

Actual typeof "property o1" will not be known at interface creation time but it will need to extend ObjectWithA type. And I cannot use a generic since I don't want to tell it the typeof my class, I just need it to understand it.
// I don't want to do this
interface SomeObject<T extends ObjectWithA> {
   o1: T;
   o2: keyof T

Example usage:
const obj = {
   a: 2,
   b: "string"
}

const someObject: SomeObject = {
   o1: obj,
   o2: "a" // Okay
}
const someObject: SomeObject = {
   o1: obj,
   o2: "b" // Okay
}
const someObject: SomeObject = {
   o1: obj,
   o2: "c" // Gets mad
}

Edit: I don't want generics even with a helper function for inference

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Elijah Cummings sparred with Martin Shkreli and Mylan's CEO. Now he's got a gavel to take on pharma
By Andrew Joseph @DrewQJoseph
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) Win McNamee/Getty Images
He accused Valeant Pharmaceuticals of obstructing a congressional investigation into its pricing practices. He called out Biogen for charging so much for a multiple sclerosis drug that the government holds a patent on. And he famously scolded a smirking Martin Shkreli during a hearing, saying, "It's not funny, Mr. Shkreli. People are dying."
For years, Elijah Cummings has been a persistent, if forceless, thorn in the pharmaceutical industry's side. Now, though, Congress' pharma critic-in-chief will be armed with the authority of a powerful committee chairmanship at a time when lawmakers in both parties are squeezing drug companies more than ever before.
Come January, the Maryland Democrat is expected to take the reins of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It's a high-profile role in the newly Democratic House, and one that will give him the opportunity to haul in executives from drug companies or pharmacy benefit managers and demand explanations for their price hikes or murky rebate systems — a routine of contrition that health industry CEOs have largely avoided in recent years.
"You'll see with Elijah, with his very good legal mind and evidence-based approach, we'll have an opportunity to see exactly how the ripoff is being maneuvered," said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), calling on Cummings to "bring in pharma and get to the bottom of" those tactics.
As a drug-pricing hawk, Cummings will help fill the void left by outgoing Sen. Claire McCaskill, who staked her political future on fighting the drug industry but lost her re-election bid this week.
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Cummings is ready. Even as the ranking member of the committee, he dogged Mylan for raising the price of EpiPens and scrutinized some of the biggest drug companies for the cost of their MS drugs. He's already identified a stack of documents tied to Allergan and Gilead that he might try to get his hands on. And he's been steadily preparing for a legislative push to allow Medicare to negotiate with drug companies.
In an email to STAT, Cummings indicated he planned to call company executives into the committee's chambers, saying that "hearing from the drug companies themselves will be an important part of our efforts."
He also squared his sights on the pharmaceutical industry, even as he acknowledged that drug makers try to divert some of the blame for the prices paid by patients onto PBMs and insurers.
"We will examine the whole process, but we cannot forget that drug companies are the ones setting these prices," he said.
But Cummings, 67, cannot solely focus on drug pricing in the next Congress. His committee will be in charge of broad oversight of the president and his administration, and Cummings will likely face demands from Democrats to investigate as deeply and sweepingly as possible. This term, Republicans have rejected at least 64 subpoena motions from Democrats on the committee, which touched on subjects including family separations at the border, transparency issues in Cabinet departments, and military operations. When Democrats take control of the committee in January, they will need to decide which of their sprawling targets they want to zero in on.
"Mr. Cummings is a smart, seasoned guy with an experienced, savvy staff," said a former GOP staff director of the committee. "His challenge will be picking and choosing in what's clearly a target rich environment for a Democratic chairman. How do you sequence and prioritize?"
In a statement Wednesday, Cummings indicated he plans to have it both ways: pursuing oversight of the administration while finding solutions for health care concerns. He said he intends "to shine a light on waste, fraud, and abuse in the Trump Administration" and "probe senior Administration officials across the government," while his other goals ranged "from lowering prescription drug prices to ensuring access to affordable and quality healthcare to expanding funding for the opioid epidemic."
Beyond the political noise: 3 policy proposals on drug prices that have a fighting chance — and make the industry shudder
"At this point, the best-case scenario for the pharmaceutical industry is that the oversight committee spends so much of their time probing the Trump administration that they don't leave any bandwidth to explore drug prices," an industry lobbyist said.
Cummings, who joined Congress in 1996, was drawn to the issue of drug pricing only about seven years ago. After the head coach of the University of Maryland's women's basketball team got in touch with him about supply shortages of a pediatric cancer drug, Cummings started investigating drug companies that keep drugs off the market in order to increase the price of the available supply. Since then, Cummings has been hammering on the issue of exorbitant medication costs.
Cummings also has a history with Trump on drug pricing. Along with Welch, he scored a rare White House meeting with Trump, early in the presidency, aimed at finding bipartisan common ground on drug pricing. It didn't go anywhere, and Cummings has criticized the plans that the Trump administration has since rolled out as weak — and perhaps even advantageous to the industry. "I think very expensive champagne will be popping in drug company boardrooms across the country tonight," Cummings said after a Trump drug pricing speech in May.
After Tuesday's election, however, a rare consensus emerged in Washington: The anticipated new congressional leaders, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) both listed lowering drug prices as an opportunity for compromise. So, too, did Trump, whose administration has continued to push increasingly ambitious policies toward that goal.
For Cummings, though, it will be a delicate pas de deux dealing with a prickly president. If he hounds administration officials or the president's family or the president himself with investigations, will Trump really want to make nice and strike a drug pricing pact with him? The president himself indicated no such inclination in a press conference Wednesday, signaling he would be willing to work with House Democrats only if they go easy on the investigations.
8 burning questions for pharma, as Washington braces for a health policy shakeup
Though Cummings' gavel at the oversight committee comes with subpoena power, congressional rules require that bills originate in legislative committees. That means that Cummings will have to work with colleagues on other committees, namely Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means, to pursue his legislative goals.
"Yeah; he's a threat," a drug industry lobbyist wrote in an email to STAT. "That said, the one bright spot (if you could call it that), is that that committee has only investigative, as opposed to legislative authority."
Beyond Cummings, Welch and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) have cast themselves as drug-pricing combatants eager to take on the biopharma lobbies. The trio has already introduced a bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices and authorize other ways to manufacture drugs if negotiations stall. Doggett is also expected to chair a Ways and Means subcommittee with jurisdiction over Medicare and Medicaid, programs in which health officials are experimenting with ways to reduce drug prices.
"Lloyd could … keep pumping out bad stuff, having hearings, getting additional press and media attention," said another industry lobbyist. "You know, that's dangerous."
Then there are newcomers like Democrats Sean Casten of Illinois and Harley Rouda of California, who unseated incumbent Republicans in part by assailing their ties to pharma. In these victorious House campaigns, Democrats showed they could connect with voters by vilifying drug makers, and both are likely to bring the same tone to Capitol Hill.
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In the Senate, Democrats will remain in the minority, limiting their authority. But expect Oregon's Ron Wyden to continue his scrutiny of pharma companies as the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, perhaps even growing more active in McCaskill's absence.
Wyden in 2015 helped lead an investigation into sky-high prices for a hepatitis C treatment, and more recently he has aggressively questioned Novartis over its deals with Trump confidants, financial ties between opioid manufacturers and federal health advisers, and relationships between the administration and drug makers.
A wild card is Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. It's possible Grassley will take over as chair of the Finance Committee, replacing the retiring Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a longtime ally of the pharmaceutical industry. While Republicans are generally seen as friendlier to the industry's priorities — and while the industry is counting on the GOP-led Senate to stave off any reforms they oppose — Grassley bucked that partnership in the past. He was Wyden's co-author on the hepatitis C pricing report, he has spearheaded policies that made payments from the industry to doctors more transparent, and he favors drug importation from Canada.
The key question is whether all the attention on drug pricing will result in anything more than bombast. So far, thaws between the parties on the subject have not culminated in major policy reforms.
Nicholas Florko, Lev Facher, and Ike Swetlitz contributed reporting from Washington.
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Cummings sure has his work cut out for him. Going up against politicians who have been bought and paid for by pharma, and an administration so obviously corrupt, won't be easy. What is so very disturbing is the media coverage, is designed to protect the pharma criminals. The American public knows there is something really wrong here, but so many media outlets, are misleading the public. Of course it would be a lot easier to tame the industry and bring down drug prices, if we had Universal or Single Payer healthcare. As long as this continues people will watch friends neighbors and family members suffer, as the mass media works to normalize and protect the greed, and profiteering of the industries benefiting form the misinformation. All of this is the result of Market Based healthcare, the deaths and adverse events observed daily are never reported to the public. Even the opiate epidemic is a marketing and profiteering opportunity, normalized by mass media for over a decade. That should have been a wake up call. No one discusses how the marketing led to this public health disaster.
Americans are inundated with pharma propaganda, every ridiculous misleading TV ad, serves several purposes. There was a reason these ads used to be illegal. Now we have TV networks totally dependent on pharma marketing, that peddle pseudo science, misinformation, and elective surgeries as filler for pharma ads.
I believe that what is forgotten in all of this, is that ultimately, if you try to force Pharma and Health Care to bow to your "price controlling" (i.e… here is what you should charge for a Dr.'s visit or for your meds),then both Health Care and Pharma will (rightly) give the US government the "middle finger" and just say…"You want that, well we will just go play somewhere else"….. Hide and watch.
How pharma, under attack from all sides, keeps winning…
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Ворохе́ево — деревня в составе Дмитриевского сельского поселения Галичского района Костромской области России.

География
Деревня расположена у автодороги Россолово-Галич, недалеко от главного хода Транссибирской магистрали.

История
Согласно Спискам населенных мест Российской империи в 1872 году деревня Варахеево относилась к 1 стану Галичского уезда Костромской губернии. В ней числилось 13 дворов, проживало 42 мужчины и 29 женщин.

Согласно переписи населения 1897 года в деревне проживало 138 человек (58 мужчин и 80 женщин).

Согласно Списку населенных мест Костромской губернии в 1907 году деревня Варахеево относилась к Ногатинской волости Галичского уезда Костромской губернии. По сведениям волостного правления за 1907 год в деревне числился 27 крестьянский двор и 137 жителей. Основными занятиями жителей деревни были малярные, плотницкие и сельскохозяйственные работы

До 2010 года деревня относилась к Челменскому сельскому поселению.

Население

Примечания

Населённые пункты Галичского района (Костромская область)

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Nujno Stare (, ) – przystanek kolejowy w miejscowości Nujno, w rejonie koszyrskim, w obwodzie wołyńskim, na Ukrainie.

Bibliografia
 Kolej Lwowska

Stacje i przystanki kolejowe w rejonie koszyrskim


* All sessions are to take place at the Ornamental Gardens on Prince of Wales Drive in Ottawa.
* If we are expecting rain on Sunday June 29th, rain date will be Sunday July 6th. Clients will be notified of a reschedule via email the evening before.
* All bookings are first come, first served and session fee payment is due in full at time of booking to reserve your time slot.
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The band left West Virginia in 1953, going first to WJR Detroit and then to WSLI Pikeville, Kentucky. In the early 1960s, they recorded albums for Starday and did television at WCYB Bristol, but slowly became less active. In 1966, Curly Ray Cline joined the Stanley Brothers and subsequently fiddled for Ralph Stanley until retiring in 1993. As the colorful cornerstone of Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys, Curly Ray was a figure in the bluegrass revival and influential in the traditional side of the music. Charlie Cline remained musically active in Alabama, but the Goins Brothers band—led by two Bramwell natives—have remained more faithful to the original Lonesome Pine Fiddlers bluegrass sound.
Tribe, Ivan M. "Lonesome Pine Fiddlers." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 18 May 2012. Web. 26 April 2019.


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Power to the Bauer!
A Report on the Wir Haben es Satt Demo
Article by Kasper
On Saturday, January 17, 2015 for the fifth consecutive year a demonstration took place in Berlin for fair and organic agriculture under the slogan We're Fed Up. According to the organizers 50,000 people took to the streets. The Berlin Police Department reported 20,000. That's a 35,000 average, and we were in the thick of it.
© Alexander Ruff
The date was not chosen at random. A colourful alliance of environmental and animal protection organizations, organic farmers, beekeepers, anti-GMO advocates, aid organizations, organic food stores, political parties and consumers were calling for an agricultural turnaround; approximately 80 secretaries of agriculture from around the world were simultaneously in session exchanging views on the global agriculture industry at International Green Week, the largest agricultural conference in the world.
Sunny and 5°C, the rally kicked off at noon on Potsdamer Platz. The north-south tunnel of the S-Bahn was closed, so we came on the U2 and the station was surprisingly full. A stage had been built, associations and political parties were giving out flyers, and organic mulled wine and other treats were being sold. The speeches on stage criticized the government's course of action with some speakers apparently affected by the spectators' mood and prompted us to introduce ourselves to the people in our immediate surroundings. The considerable turn-out from all over the country was also praised. Bauer Otto even walked 450km in wooden clogs to get to Berlin.
Many people followed the call of the organizers, as did we, and by 1 p.m. the square was filling up. Then the small-scale farmers came on their tractors, some of whom had travelled for days on the highway to be able to set an example in Berlin. Upon arriving they made a little side trip to Green Week at the exhibition grounds to vent their anger
With a starting shot, the wave, and bad attempts from the stage at straightening out the procession, we started off with the farmers on their tractors leading the way down Leipziger Straße, passing the Mall of Berlin (renamed the "Mall of Shame" due to scandalous working conditions) and the Federal Council.
© Michaela Mügge
Although different groups had different interests they all shared the desire for sustainable food production.
With slogans such as "Power to the Bauer" (Power to the Farmers) and "TTIP-Fehla, Alta" (TTIP-Mistake, Jake) participants were demonstrating for more rural agriculture and against the agriculture industry and its conventional methods. People dressed in bee and rabbit costumes dramatized death in front of an oversized nebulizer with a Monsanto sticker in disapproval of the international agri-giant and its broad-spectrum herbicide, Round-up.
Posters that read "TTIP – Get off the Fields!" or "TTIP, Up the Wrong Tree" referred to the free-trade agreement between the E.U. and U.S., currently in negotiation to the exclusion of the public. The agreement could downgrade European standards regarding environmental concerns and food safety and includes regulations on the use of GM technology, treating livestock with hormones and the use of pesticides. The precautionary principle of the E.U., that is, that the manufacturer verifies a product's safety with respect to human health before putting it on the market, could be softened. This would open the floodgates of Europe to U.S. agribusiness. It is feared that aggressive marketing strategies would ruin small-scale farming infrastructure, potentially leading it to die out.
Shortly before turning onto Wilhelmstraße we find ourselves in a strange smelling haze. The beekeepers have smoked out the entire procession with their smokers! They were criticizing the widespread use of pesticides and genetically modified seeds as possible causes of colony collapse disorder. Beekeepers receive no agricultural subsidies whatsoever although they contribute to pollinating a large percentage of field crops.
With "Vielfalt statt Einfalt" (Diversity Instead of Sameness) a change of thinking in conventional agricultural practices was being urged with regards to seed patenting and the increasing expansion of monocultures worldwide.
Passing the Department of Agriculture we walked and danced ourselves in a zig-zag through the government district, which isn't exactly hustling and bustling on Saturday. At least three drum groups and some rowdy participants with music created a high-spirited atmosphere and various chants gave expression to political demands.
For the advancement of animal welfare, animal rights activists demanded, "Stoppt Tierfabriken!" (Stop animal factories!) against the expansion of mega stalls. New feed lots where animals are kept and tortured for their entire lives for human consumption are increasingly being approved, even though with meat Germany boasts a 120% level of self-sufficiency.
International aid organizations have called attention to existing world hunger and land-grabbing and the appropriation of land and arable land by corporations. It took a half hour for the last marchers at Potsdamer Platz to start moving.
At around 3 p.m. those at the front had reached the final gathering place of the demonstration, a stage in front of the Federal Chancellery. Here, too, there were booths with handouts, treats, and speeches again attempting to create a can-do atmosphere for the future of agricultural politics.
Leaving the rally on our way to Berlin Central Station at the foot bridge over the Spree, a rally worker using a rainwater tank as a donation box thanked us effusively for participating: "50,000 people!! That's crazy! Thanks for coming!"
Year to year the increasing number of participants in colourful demonstrations urging nothing less than a global revolution of the agricultural sector and ending world hunger is an expression of a growing social consciousness of the consequences of food production and consumption. And the resistance is making progress.
In Germany, for instance, genetically modified corn can no longer be planted, and initiatives and actions against the construction of factory farms are ever-multiplying. Yet such small, hard-won achievements are threatened by so-called free-trade agreements such as TTIP and CETA and by the insanity of neoliberal deregulation, which could nip these efforts toward a re-ecologization of agriculture right in the bud.
In the course of the day consumers and producers demonstrated shoulder-to-shoulder and showed that a part of the population is outraged about a policy promoting an agriculture that ruins the basis of life for itself and all people. And it was also shown that there are organizations, initiatives and individuals who champion the betterment of these relationships all year long. There is reason to hope.
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Scott Mingus, James McClure, Mark Nesbitt to sign books at Irvin's
Area historians and authors Scott Mingus Sr., James McClure and Mark Nesbitt will sign copies of their books 6 to 8...
Scott Mingus, James McClure, Mark Nesbitt to sign books at Irvin's Area historians and authors Scott Mingus Sr., James McClure and Mark Nesbitt will sign copies of their books 6 to 8... Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/entertainment/books/blogs/book-buzz/2013/06/05/scott-mingus-james-mcclure-mark-nesbitt-to-sign-books-at-irvins/31959389/
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"Echoing Still" by Scott Mingus Sr. and Jim McClure
Area historians Scott Mingus Sr. and James McClure will sign copies of their new book "Echoing Still: More Civil War Voices from York County, Pa." from 6 to 8 p.m. June 12 at Irvin's Books, 2159 White St., West Manchester Township.
Gettysburg author Mark Nesbitt, of the "Ghosts of Gettysburg" series and other history- and ghost-related titles, will also sign copies of his books.
Call Irvin's at 717-843-2947 for details.
-- Scott Mingus, Jim McClure share area voices of Civil War in new book
-- Scott Mingus releases bio of Confederate Gen. William 'Extra Billy' Smith
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The Samuel H. Allen Home is a historic house located at 135 E. 200 North in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Description
According to its 1978 NRHP nomination, the home "is a good example of the architectural transition from the Queen Anne style to turn-of-the-century revival styles, which emphasized symmetry and classical detailing."

Except for wide, curved horizontal and vertical brackets, the porch is classically detailed. This is one of the tallest and largest historic houses in Provo, and its two-story carriage house may be the single largest building of its type. The heavy landscaping somewhat obscures the building's massiveness. The single-family dwelling has four major projections, each gabled, extending from the rusticated stone lintels, ornamental porch and bargeboards, polychrome color scheme, and combination of square and slanted bay wings. In good condition and relatively unaltered, the house is architecturally significant, as is the monitor-form carriage house, the lower level bays of which have been filled with windows.

The Victorian Mansions of Provo

Built between the years 1893 and 1908 in Provo, Utah, this group of Victorian mansions is historically significant and represent not only fine architecture but some of the most successful men of the city and state at the time.  These mansions include the Charles E. Loose House, the William H. Ray House, the Knight-Allen House, the John R. Twelves House, the Jesse Knight House, the Knight-Mangum House, and the Thomas N. Taylor House.   All of these homes derive from the high style: Eastlake, Shingle, Craftsman, Italianate, Classical, Moorish, Colonial, and Romanesque Revivals.  Made primarily of brick, these homes exhibit the finest architecture and most ornate detailing to be found in the city of Provo.

History

Dr. Samuel H. Allen relocated to Provo in 1892 and built his beautiful home using local workers and materials. For a few years, he also ran his medical office out of his home, but the office was moved to the Knight block after it was built. In 1903 Samuel R. Thurman bought the home from Allen. S. R. Thurman had previously been mayor in the city of Lehi prior to moving to Provo in 1882.

In 1882, he was elected the youngest member of the Utah House of Representatives, a position to which he was privileged to return for several elections in a row.  Thurman was also politically involved as a member of the Utah Constitutional Convention of 1882 and as a chairman of the committee that drafted the first part of the Provo People's Party in 1882.  As national parties began to replace these local parties, Thurman, like many Mormons of that era, became a Democrat, as well as a judge on the Supreme Court of Utah.  It was not long before Thurman sold the home to John W. Taylor.

John Taylor settled his third wife, Nellie Eva Todd, in this home, while his second wife, Nettie, lived at 287 East 200 North.  John W. Taylor, the son of the third president of the LDS Church John Taylor, operated four farms in the area for income.  In 1915, Taylor was excommunicated from the church, and his financial situation forced him to sell the home.

Taylor sold this house to Dr. David Westwood, who had become vice-president of the Provo General Hospital, Provo's first hospital. Westwood used part of the home as his office. Later, his son John T. Westwood, a dentist, and his family also lived in the home and shared an office (65 East 2nd North) with him. During the 1940s, the house was left vacant when the Westwoods moved away. In 1952, Monroe and Shirley Brockbank Paxman bought the home and raised their family of seven children there. Paxmans lived in the house until they died (2015 and 2017). In early 2022, the home was purchased by Paxmans' grandson, Colin Foy, and his wife Megan. The Samuel H. Allen House was designated a historic Provo City landmark on April 28, 1995.

The house and the carriage house are listed as two contributing buildings in the NRHP nomination.

See also
History of the National Register of Historic Places
United States National Register of Historic Places listings

References

Taylor, Samuel Woolley, Family Kingdom, SLC: Western Epics, Inc. 1974.
Polks City Directory of Provo, 1891.
Sanborn Maps 1890.
Shirley Paxman, Interview, November 7, 1977
Journal History, LDS Church, LDS Church Archives

External links
NRHP Listings in Provo Utah

Houses in Provo, Utah
Houses completed in 1897
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah
Queen Anne architecture in Utah
National Register of Historic Places in Provo, Utah
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Utah


The husband and wife team of Elena and Gregory Fainshtein has played together as a duo for many years and it is obvious on their new recording just released. Elena plays an unamplified accordion while her husband plays the Roland electronic instrument and, between the two instruments, they achieve many different and exciting sounds. Gregory's bass is a particularly pleasant addition to the overall sound of the duo.
Their repertoire is one which embraces both the new and the old, while emanating from different countries with several diverse styles. All of it projects pure happiness to the listener. One may readily tell that these two musicians enjoy performing and sharing their musical talents with all audiences.
It is obvious they are not only entertaining performers but, also, very well-trained ones with excellent technical abilities. They compliment, enhance, and listen to each other; their respect for the music is evident throughout the recording.
Together by Elena & Gregory Fainshtein offers pure enjoyment. Whether it is a French Musette, Samba, Tango, Waltz or a Polka, it is fun music to hear.


I recently upgraded to the latest version (13.10). I have it running on an old laptop. Since the upgrade, whenever I close the laptop lid, it goes to sleep mode.
After installing acpi-support I don't have the file: /etc/acpi/event/lidbtn to edit.
Then execute sudo restart systemd-logind or simply reboot.
This has solved the problem on my PC.
I'm not sure if Ubuntu 15.04 already switched to systemd completely. If so, the new command for restarting the service is sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind.service.
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Blu-ray review
John Parker June 9, 2019
Credit: Universal Pictures
The How to Train Your Dragon movies have long been one of the crown jewels in the DreamWorks Animation house, and with this third instalment, The Hidden World brings the series to a mostly satisfying conclusion. Much like the previous films it's another rollicking good adventure, with breath-taking animation and visual design, and a massive side order of emotion as the story of young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his Night Fury dragon Toothless comes to an end.
Picking up a year after the events of the last film, Chief Hiccup has successfully transformed the island of Berk into the world's first Dragon/Viking utopia. But as we have learned in the previous films, wherever there be dragons, there will be dragon hunters, and The Hidden World is no different. Enter Grimmel the Grisly (F. Murray Abraham), a cruel and sadistic hunter, and the complete ideological opposite of Hiccup. Having killed all of the other Night Furies, he is determined to make Toothless, the alpha dragon, his latest quarry.
In the midst of all this, Toothless discovers a Light Fury – a shimmering white female dragon – and becomes completely enchanted, leading to a courting dance sequence that is so funny and lovely, it is arguably the best thing in the film. But as the colossal hunting party bears down on the island of Berk, Hiccup makes the drastic decision to seek out the Hidden World – a mystical haven for dragons that appears on no maps – and move his entire clan there in the hope of securing their safety.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is a film with a very timely message about standing up in the face of intolerance and bigotry, and says important things about displacement, and humanity's impact on the natural world. Which is all well and good, but the film itself suffers from feeling a little too similar to the previous instalment. Did we really need another ruthless hunter to boo and hiss as he imperils our beloved Toothless?
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package org.apache.nifi.processor;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.nifi.attribute.expression.language.StandardPropertyValue;
import org.apache.nifi.components.PropertyValue;
import org.apache.nifi.controller.ControllerService;
import org.apache.nifi.controller.ControllerServiceLookup;
import org.apache.nifi.controller.repository.StandardFlowFileRecord;
import org.apache.nifi.flowfile.FlowFile;
import org.junit.Test;

public class TestStandardPropertyValue {

    private final ControllerServiceLookup lookup = new TestControllerServiceLookup();

    @Test
    public void testSubstituteAttributesWithOneMatchingArg() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("Hello, ${audience}!", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        attributes.put("audience", "World");
        assertEquals("Hello, World!", value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes)).getValue());
    }

    @Test
    public void testMissingEndBraceEvaluatesToStringLiteral() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("Hello, ${audience!", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        attributes.put("audience", "World");
        assertEquals("Hello, ${audience!", value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes)).getValue());
    }

    @Test
    public void testEscaped() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("Hello, $${audience}!", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        attributes.put("audience", "World");
        assertEquals("Hello, ${audience}!", value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes)).getValue());
    }

    @Test
    public void testSubstituteAttributesWithMultipleMatchingArgs() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("Hello, ${audience}${comma}${question}!", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        attributes.put("audience", "World");
        attributes.put("comma", ",");
        attributes.put("question", " how are you?");
        assertEquals("Hello, World, how are you?!", value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes)).getValue());
    }

    @Test
    public void testSubstituteAttributesWithNoMatch() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("Hello, ${audience}${comma}${question:replaceNull('')}!", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        assertEquals("Hello, !", value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes)).getValue());
    }

    @Test
    public void testSubstituteAttributesRecursively() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("Hello, ${'${a}${b}'}!", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        attributes.put("a", "b");
        attributes.put("b", "World");
        attributes.put("bWorld", "World");
        assertEquals("Hello, World!", value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes)).getValue());
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetValueAsIntegerAfterSubstitute() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("1${value}", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        attributes.put("value", "39");
        assertEquals(139, value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes)).asInteger().intValue());
    }

    @Test(expected = NumberFormatException.class)
    public void testGetValueAsIntegerAfterSubstitutingWithNonInteger() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("1${value}", lookup);
        final Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<>();
        attributes.put("value", "Yes");
        final PropertyValue substituted = value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(createFlowFile(attributes));
        substituted.asInteger();
    }

    @Test
    public void testFileSize() {
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("${fileSize}", lookup);
        final FlowFile flowFile = new StandardFlowFileRecord.Builder().size(1024 * 1024L).build();
        final long val = value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(flowFile).asLong().longValue();
        assertEquals(1024 * 1024L, val);
    }

    @Test
    public void testFlowFileEntryYear() {
        final Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
        final int year = now.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        final PropertyValue value = new StandardPropertyValue("${entryDate:toNumber():toDate():format('yyyy')}", lookup);
        final FlowFile flowFile = new StandardFlowFileRecord.Builder().entryDate(now.getTimeInMillis()).build();
        final int val = value.evaluateAttributeExpressions(flowFile).asInteger().intValue();
        assertEquals(year, val);
    }

    private FlowFile createFlowFile(final Map<String, String> attributes) {
        return new StandardFlowFileRecord.Builder().addAttributes(attributes).build();
    }

    private static class TestControllerServiceLookup implements ControllerServiceLookup {

        private final Map<String, ControllerService> map = new HashMap<>();

        @Override
        public ControllerService getControllerService(final String serviceIdentifier) {
            return map.get(serviceIdentifier);
        }

        @Override
        public Set<String> getControllerServiceIdentifiers(final Class<? extends ControllerService> serviceType) {
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isControllerServiceEnabled(final String serviceIdentifier) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isControllerServiceEnabled(final ControllerService service) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public String getControllerServiceName(final String serviceIdentifier) {
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isControllerServiceEnabling(final String serviceIdentifier) {
            return false;
        }

    }
}

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Hopefully, you've been enjoying our series that's shining the spotlight on some of the best places to stay in Ireland.
Today, we're heading to the Kerry to check out a stunning contemporary home by the sea.
With a serious view altogether.
Honestly, look at the view that you'll be treated to as you kick back in the morning with a coffee or in the evening with a bottle of beer.
This is a little slice of perfection.
The view from the outside seating area is also spectacular.
Welcome to the Green House.
Finely situated a handy 3-minute stroll from Brandon Pier (where you can grab a drink or a bite to eat in Murphy's Bar overlooking Brandon Bay), this 2-bed Airbnb is the first thing I'd look to buy if I ever won the Euro Millions!
A savage little spot to plonk yourself for a summer or winter getaway.
'The Green House, a gorgeous, contemporary home by the sea. Complete bliss all year round with toasty underfloor heating, a wood burning hot tub w sea views & pizza oven.
The bright open plan, split level living area is ideal for relaxed holiday entertaining. Unique interiors w designer furniture and an established garden surrounded by incredible walks.
Just take my damn money.
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This listing is for a used Nikon Nikkor-H 28mm f3.5 Ai Nippon Kogaku lens in 7+ condition. The lens shows average signs of use and wear on the barrel, including some paint wear and black out lettering (see last picture). The focusing and aperture functions work. The glass shows no haze internally, however, does show light coating marks on front glass. Comes with front and rear caps.


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Herman Christiaan Jurriaan (Herman) Roelvink (Amsterdam, 24 september 1883 - aldaar, 3 juli 1957) was een Nederlandse toneelschrijver en acteur.

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Roelvink werd op 24 september 1883 geboren in Amsterdam en was de zoon van bankier Adam Roelvink en Christiena Margaretha Willink. Roelvink studeerde in Delft en aan de Universiteit van Harvard. Roelvink deed de opleiding tot civiel ingenieur en was daarna werkzaam in het bankwezen. Roelvink was onder meer secretaris bij de Stichtingscommissie van het Koloniaal Instituut in Amsterdam.

Aanvankelijk schreef hij stukken onder zijn pseudoniem 'Donaert van Elten'. In 1905 werd zijn stuk Agnes Lente opgevoerd door Delftse studenten. De hoofdrol werd gespeeld door Rika Hopper.

Van 1913 tot 1917 was hij artistiek leider en voorzitter van de Koninklijke Vereeniging Het Nederlandsch Tooneel. Roelvink wordt omschreven als een van de pioniers op het gebied van toneelvernieuwing aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw. Hij heeft bijgedragen aan totaal 45 producties. Op 12 september 1953 werd hij als ridder onderscheiden in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau.
Roelvink woonde vanaf 1956 in Roozendaal. Tegen het einde van zijn leven was hij ernstig ziek en werd hij overgebracht naar een ziekenhuis in Amsterdam. Aldaar overleed hij op 3 juli 1957. Hij werd begraven op begraafplaats Westerveld in Driehuis (Velsen).

Werken uitgebracht onder een pseudoniem
 Agnes Lente, komedie, zijn eerste werk, onder een pseudoniem
 De Stormvogel (1906) komedie, onder een pseudoniem

Werken uitgebracht onder eigen naam
 De Gordel van Hippolyta
 Freuleken, komedie
 Lentewolken, komedie
 De sterksten
 Mevrouw O. komedie
 Een goed humeur
 Allah Karim
 Het galgemaal, komedie
 En toch
 De egoïsten
 Hoe was 't ook weer?

Niet vertoonde werken

 De Verzoening
 Letitia
 De Mannen van Maria
 Uitverkoop
 Grootmoeder komt de volgende nacht
 Nederlandse William, voltooid een week voor zijn dood

Externe links

 Roelvinks biografie op Theaterencyclopedie.nl

Toneel
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20e-eeuwse literatuur


February 23, 2016 (EIRNS)—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced in the evening of Feb. 22, that an agreement had been reached on conditions for a ceasefire in Syria between all but the jihadi terrorists. All parties involved in the conflict, outside those terrorists, have until Feb. 26 at noon, to indicate their willingness to participate, with the ceasefire then to go into operation the following day. Taskforces have been set up to work out details.
The address given by President Vladimir Putin to the Russian people on the agreement on Monday night, following a conversation with President Obama which he initiated, best summarizes the terms reached and commitments made. Putin made clear this was no "quick fix," but rather grew out of much work, including making "use of the positive experience we accumulated over the course of cooperation in eliminating chemical weapons in Syria."
"Russian and American troops will jointly delineate the territories where these groups are active. No military action will be taken against them by the Armed Forces of the Syrian Arab Republic, Russian Armed Forces and the US-led coalition. In turn, the opposition will cease all military action against the Armed Forces of the Syrian Arab Republic and other groups supporting them,"
Strikes against ISIS, Al-Nusra and other UNSC-designated terrorist groups will continue. A communication hotline and, if necessary, a working group to exchange information, will be set up.
"Russia will conduct the necessary work with Damascus and the legitimate Syrian leadership. We expect that the United States will do the same with regard to their allies and the groups they support,"…These actions "will be enough to radically reverse the crisis situation in Syria. We are finally seeing a real chance to bring an end to the long-standing bloodshed and violence."
"Russian-American agreements on the cessation of hostilities in Syria, and their joint implementation in coordination with all nations participating in the International Syria Support Group, can become an example of responsible actions the global community takes against the threat of terrorism, which are based on international law and UN principles".
A far cry from the disasters in Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Yemen which resulted from "one-sided actions not sanctioned by the UN."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, addresses the media on February 12, 2016, at the Hilton Hotel join Munich, Germany, following a meeting of the International Syria Support Group.
Less than 24 hours later, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenko reported that Russia had provided the U.S. the contacts for the hotline, and had set up a "coordination center" at its airbase near Latakia, Syria, tasked to monitor compliance with the ceasefire, facilitate contacts between the Syrian government and opposition, and provide humanitarian aid.
Syrian President Bashir Assad announced that parliamentary elections will be held on April 13, and Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told Lebanese television channel Al Mayadeen that "Damascus has agreed to stop military operations" against all but the terrorists.
In a joint press conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this afternoon, Secretary Kerry reported that he hoped to hear soon that the Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), then meeting, also accepted the ceasefire. All parties involved, Syrian government and opposition, and other countries, must make the commitment to implement the agreement, he said—singling out no party in particular (unlike the British).
Reflecting the global effects and efforts which went into this accord —which now must be made to stick over British imperial sabotage— Kerry cited the Chinese role in creating conditions for this ceasefire. Kerry pointed out that Foreign Minister Wang had flown the longest and the farthest of any Foreign Minister, to participate in the international discussions on an end to the Syrian conflict held in Munich.


What a fantastic time! Seth started the show by pointing out all of the families in the audience and thanking us for trusting them. It was our sons' first concert and we could not have asked for a better one! Our oldest (14) favorite is 'Murder in the City' and y'll should have his face when it was played...priceless.
Our 10 year old's favorite is Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise and he went nuts when they encored with it! So fun to see the kids get so excited for certain songs. Our 7 year old was hoping for Travelling Song or I Killed Sally's Lover - crossing fingers for Madison (our next show).


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Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen ist ein US-amerikanischer Fantasyfilm von Spike Jonze aus dem Jahr 2009. Es handelt sich dabei um die Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Kinderbuch-Klassikers von Maurice Sendak.

Handlung
Der neunjährige Max rebelliert gegen seine Mutter, als diese einen neuen Freund mit nach Hause bringt. Er flüchtet in eine Phantasiewelt, die von wilden, überdimensionalen Kreaturen bevölkert wird. In seiner Wut gelingt es ihm, sich von den wilden Kerlen zu ihrem König krönen zu lassen. Doch schon bald stellt Max fest, dass ihm seine Mutter fehlt. Schließlich verlässt er die Welt der wilden Kerle und kehrt zu seiner Mutter zurück.

Rezeption
In den Vereinigten Staaten kam Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen am 16. Oktober 2009 in die Kinos. Bis zum 10. Dezember spielte der Film, dessen Produktionskosten auf 80 bis 100 Millionen Dollar geschätzt wurden, in den Vereinigten Staaten 75,6 Millionen Dollar ein. In Deutschland startete der Film am 17. Dezember 2009.

Kritiken

Literatur
 Michael Staiger: Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen und wie man dorthin kommt. Erzählte Räume in Maurice Sendaks Bilderbuch und Spike Jonzes Film. In: Christian Exner, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Hrsg.): Von wilden Kerlen und wilden Hühnern. Perspektiven des modernen Kinderfilms. Schüren, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3894727543, S. 106–120.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website zum Film (deutsch)
 Offizielle Website zum Film (englisch)

 Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen - Film des Monats Dezember 2009 bei kinofenster.de, hrsg. von Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung und Vision Kino.

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Filmtitel 2009
US-amerikanischer Film
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Kassala (Arabic: كسلا, ['kasalaː]; Italian: Cassala) is the capital of the state of Kassala in eastern Sudan. Its 2008 population was recorded to be 419,030. Built on the banks of the Gash River, it is a market town and is famous for its fruit gardens. Many of its inhabitants are from the Hadendoa group, with others being of Rashaida origin. It was formerly a railroad hub, however, as of 2006 there was no operational railway station in Kassala and much of the track leading to and from the town has been salvaged or fallen into disrepair. Kassala's location along the main Khartoum-Port Sudan highway makes it an important trade center.
In 1956, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan became the Republic of the Sudan. Since the 1960s, the city has been the destination of large numbers of Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees fleeing conflict and war. Since the beginning of the Second Sudanese Civil War in the 1980s, it has also been refuge of internally displaced Sudanese fleeing conflicts in the Nuba Mountains, and south and west of the country. About 160,000 of these IDPs settled on the outskirts of the town.
The Kassala region now has a child mortality rate twice that of the Darfur region.


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Published on juin 8th, 2022 | by Kayak Session
Event: France Win Final Two Gold in Impressive Wildwater Display
France completed a dominant weekend at the ICF wildwater canoeing world championships with two more gold medals on Monday, including a fourth crown for two-time Olympian Manon Hostens at her final appearance before the Paris Olympics.
France took advantage of local knowledge to win both the men's and women's classic teams race in Treignac to give the hosts a total of eight gold medals over the weekend.
Hostens was the standout performer of the four days of competition, finishing with two individual and two team boat gold medals. The French trio of Hostens, Claire Bren and Phenicia Dupras finished almost 14 seconds ahead of the team from Italy, with the Czech Republic taking the bronze.
"It's amazing, thank you so much to the girls who helped me win two gold medals, this last one today was just amazing," Hostens said.
"I felt very good this morning and very strong."
Like Hostens, Bren will now step away from wildwater to focus on qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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"I'm happy because I think this will be my last race in wildwater," Bren said.
"I'm very old, and I'm very happy to finish with a gold medal in this river, in France, it's very great for me."
Dupray, who won individual gold in 2019, said she was relieved to finish the weekend with a gold medal.
"I was a little bit disappointed with my individual race, so I'm glad to finish with a gold medal, and maybe a perfect classic teams run," Dupra said.
"On this river it's just magical."
The French men's team of Quentin Bonnetain, Maxence Barouh and Felix Bouvet were almost as dominant, winning the K1 classic by nearly nine seconds.
It was a second gold medal for Bonnetain after he won the individual K1 classic 24 hours earlier.
"This is a very good team for a formidable river," he said.
It was a breakthrough gold for Barouh, after he went agonisingly close to the gold behind Bonnetain on Sunday and in the sprint final behind Slovenia's Nejc Znidarcic on Saturday.
"I was disappointed but I was also very happy, and today with my two teammates I really wanted to do almost a perfect run and finally take my first gold of the week after three silver medals," Barouh said.
Bouvet, who enjoyed strong crowd support all weekend, was thrilled to be able to put in a title-winning performance.
"I'm really happy to have had all my friends here, all my family," he said.
« Yesterday I didn't really succeed to have a good race, I didn't have really a lot of success during the week, but I win the supporter team surprise."
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There was drama for the second place German team of Max Hoff, Andreas Heilinger and Finn Hartstein, who had to dodge a falling tree during their run and were visibly shaken when they crossed the finish line.
The Czech Republic finished second on the gold medal table with two, while Italy and Slovenia won one gold each.
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Home Live Lead Developer Of HPV Vaccines Comes Clean, Warns Parents & Young Girls...
Lead Developer Of HPV Vaccines Comes Clean, Warns Parents & Young Girls It's All A Giant Deadly Scam
Dr. Diane Harper was a leading expert responsible for the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies which secured the approval of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines, Gardasil™ and Cervarix™. Dr. Harper also authored many of the published, scholarly papers about the vaccines. She is now the latest in a long string of experts who are pressing the red alert button on the devastating consequences and irrelevancy of these vaccines. Dr. Harper made her surprising confession at the 4th International Converence on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia. Her speech, which was originally intended to promote the benefits of the vaccines, took a 180-degree turn when she chose instead to clean her conscience about the deadly vaccines so she "could sleep at night". The following is an excerpt from a story by Sarah Cain:
"Dr. Harper explained in her presentation that the cervical cancer risk in the U.S. is already extremely low, and that vaccinations are unlikely to have any effect upon the rate of cervical cancer in the United States. In fact, 70% of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment in a year, and the number rises to well over 90% in two years. Harper also mentioned the safety angle. All trials of the vaccines were done on children aged 15 and above, despite them currently being marketed for 9-year-olds. So far, 15,037 girls have reported adverseside effects from Gardasil™ alone to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), and this number only reflects parents who underwent the hurdles required for reporting adverse reactions. At the time of writing, 44 girls are officially known to have died from these vaccines. The reported side effects include Guillian Barré Syndrome (paralysis lasting for years, or permanently — sometimes eventually causing suffocation), lupus, seizures, blood clots, and brain inflammation. Parents are usually not made aware of these risks. Dr. Harper, the vaccine developer, claimed that she was speaking out, so that she might finally be able to sleep at night. 'About eight in every ten women who have been sexually active will have HPV at some stage of their life,' Harper says. 'Normally there are nosymptoms, and in 98 per cent of cases it clears itself. But in those cases where it doesn't, and isn't treated, it can lead to pre-cancerous cells which may develop into cervical cancer.'"
Although these two vaccines are marketed as protection against cervical cancer, this claim is purely hypothetical. Studies have proven "there is no demonstrated relationship between the condition being vaccinated for and the rare cancers that the vaccine might prevent, but it is marketed to do that nonetheless. In fact, there is no actual evidence that the vaccine can prevent any cancer. From the manufacturers own admissions, the vaccine only works on 4 strains out of 40 for a specific venereal disease that dies on its own in a relatively short period, so the chance of it actually helping an individual is about about the same as the chance of her being struck by a meteorite."
UPDATE #1: Since coming forward with the truth about the devastating consequences of the HPV vaccine, Dr. Harper has been victim of a relentless campaign attempting to discredit the validity of her claims. Harper was even misquoted by British tabloid The Sunday Express which printed a false story loaded with fabricated quotations attributed to Harper. In an interview with The Guardian, Harper makes it very clear about what exactly she said in order to protect herself from a potential lawsuit. In an interview with CBS NEWS, Harper clarifies her position, and once again makes it crystal clear just how devastating this vaccine can be: "If we vaccinate 11 year olds and the protection doesn't last … we've put them at harm from side effects, small but real, for no benefit," says Dr. Harper. "The benefit to public health is nothing, there is no reduction incervical cancers, they are just postponed, unless the protection lasts for at least 15 years, and over 70% of all sexually active females of all ages are vaccinated." She also says that enough serious side effects have been reported after Gardasil use that the vaccine could prove riskier than the cervical cancer it purports to prevent. Cervical cancer is usually entirely curable when detected early through normal Papscreenings.
"The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA article by CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed," Harper tells CBS NEWS. "The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year. Indeed, the risks of vaccination are underreported in Slade's article, as they are based on a denominator of doses distributed from Merck's warehouse. Up to a third of those doses may be in refrigeratorswaiting to be dispensed as the autumn onslaught of vaccine messages is sent home to parents the first day of school. Should the denominator in Dr. Slade's work be adjusted to account for this, and then divided by three for the number of women who would receive all three doses, the incidence rate of serious adverse events increases up to five fold. How does a parent value that information," said Harper.
"Parents and women must know that deaths occurred," Harper tells CBS NEWS. "Not all deaths that have been reported were represented in Dr. Slade's work, one-third of the death reports were unavailable to the CDC, leaving the parents of the deceased teenagers in despair that the CDC is ignoring the very rare but real occurrences that need not have happened if parents were given information stating that there are real, but small risks of death surrounding the administration of Gardasil." She also worries that Merck's aggressive marketing of the vaccine may have given women a false sense of security. "The future expectations women hold because they have received free doses of Gardasil purchased by philanthropic foundations, by public health agencies or covered by insurance is the true threat to cervical cancer in the future. Should women stop Pap screening after vaccination, the cervical cancer rate will actually increase per year. Should women believe this is preventive for all cancers — something never stated, but often inferred by many in the population — a reduction in all health care will compound our current health crisis. Should Gardasil not be effective for more than 15 years, the most costly public health experiment in cancer control will have failed miserably." Harper notes that her concern for the vaccine's deadly side effects applies only to women in the Western world. "Of course, in developing countries where there is no safety Pap screening for women repeatedly over their lifetimes, the risks of serious adverse events may be acceptable as the incidence rate of cervical cancer is five to 12 times higher than in the US, dwarfing the risk of death reported after Gardasil."
UPDATE #2: The National Vaccine Information Center HAS CONFIRMED two virologists, Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski have filed a lawsuit against their former employer and vaccine manufacturer Merck. NVIC writes: "The lawsuit alleges that Merck defrauded the U.S. for over 10 years by overstating the MMR vaccine's effectivenes. The virologists claim in their lawsuit that they 'Witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data falseification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine's efficacy findings." NVIC president and co-founder, Barbara Loe Fisher, warns of the disturbingly cozy relationship and overwhelming conflict of interest between federal agencies charged with vaccine safety oversight (such as the Centers for Disease Control) and vaccine manufacturers. Merck's global vaccine sales total more than $20 BILLION A YEAR.
As the world's pharmaceutical giants continue to be driven less by moral accountability and more by profit and shareholder-driven bottom lines, we are going to see more and more products such as this vaccine which are marketed as "essential to one's survival." While some vaccines are indeed essential, such as vaccines for polio and measles, the HPV vaccine is a new beast entirely. To learn more about how pharmaceutical giants are putting profits ahead of ethics you need to watch FRONTLINE's terrifying new documentary "Hunting The Nightmare Bacteria."
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Clinton adviser gives epic quote on what it's like to campaign against Trump
Pamela Engel
This election has provided Democrats with so much fodder against their Republican rival that they sometimes don't know what to do with it all.
An unnamed aide for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told Time that campaign staffers feel they lucked out with Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
"On other campaigns, we would have to scrounge for crumbs," the Clinton adviser said, referring to opposition research.
The adviser added: "Here, it's a fire hose. He can set himself on fire at breakfast, kill a nun at lunch and waterboard a puppy in the afternoon. And that doesn't even get us to prime time."
Trump's candidacy for president has been marked with a seemingly endless stream of controversies. The latest firestorm started Thursday morning after Trump said Clinton and President Barack Obama are "cofounders" of the terrorist group ISIS.
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Kimbo Slice has been cut from the UFC
Written by Team ME
Last updated on May 9th, 2010
Success in MMA doesn't mean you need to win every fight with an ungodly submission or have a nearly flawless career. Despite having a record of only 4-1, three of the four most watched MMA events in history belong to Kimbo Slice. So what does that mean? Well it means if you bought stock in Youtube a few years ago you're probably floating on some yacht in the Bahamas reading this. It also means Kimbo Slice is the most popular MMA fighter in history. Over 20 million can't be wrong.
Unfortunately, Kimbo Slice's UFC career is done-datta. It's over. At the UFC 113 post-fight press conference, Dana White told reporters that Kimbo Slice will be cut from UFC after the conference. Bummer for Kimbo. We all enjoyed you man and I'm sure SpikeTV really loved those record-breaking ratings during The Ultimate Fighter Season 10.


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Gujarat Family With Fake Visa To Canada Held At IGI Airport
The family that hails from Mehsana district of Gujarat, was intercepted at the terminal-3 of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Wednesday night as their behaviour looked suspicious.
Updated: 23 Sep 2021 6:59 pm
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) apprehended a man from Gujarat along with his wife and daughter at the Delhi airport for allegedly owning fake visas to Canada on their passports, officials confirmed on Thursday.
CISF intercepted the family hailing from Mehsana district of Gujarat at the terminal-3 of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Wednesday night as their behaviour looked suspicious, they said.
The family was supposed to travel to Santa Cruz in the United States via Frankfurt (Germany) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
There were discrepancies in their travel documents and the Canadian embassy in Delhi confirmed that the visas to their country on the three passports were fake, a senior Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officer said.
All three have been handed over to the authorities from the Foreigners' Regional Registration Office (FRRO) for a detailed investigation into their documents and exact destination, another officer said.
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BIRMINGHAM, AL, UNITED STATES
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Army Reserve Sustainment Command
The senior leadership of the Deployment Support Command of Birmingham, Alabama met face-to-face with leadership from their operational mission command and training and readiness command to discuss readiness and force capability June 5, 2018. The DSC serves as the primary source of the U.S. Army's Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command's uniformed personnel to meet SDDC's mission to provide global deployment and distribution capabilities to meet the Nation's objectives. (pictured left to right) Maj. Gen. Steven Ainsworth, commander of the 377th Theater Sustainment Command in New Orleans, Louisiana; Maj. Gen. Stephen Farmen, commanding general of SDDC in Scott Air Force Base, Illinois; Gen. Darren McDew, commanding general United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) at Scott Air Force Base; Brig. Gen. Martin Klein, commanding general of the DSC; Command Sgt. Maj. Annette Bethany, command sergeant major for the DSC; Col. John Stanley, chief of operations and training for the DSC; Col. Daniel Keller, commander of the 1189th Transportation Surface Brigade of the DSC.
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Call of duty is awesome!
Last couple weeks been basically rotating between Gears 4, Modern Warfare Remastered, Forza Horizon 3, and Battlefront. Can't quit em.
I love Metal gear solid!
Just finished Rise Of The Tomb Raider for PS4 and I gotta say it was pretty good and solid game.
Now just playing MKX and NiEr Automata Demo until my Black Edition comes home on March 2017.
really loved Rise of the Tomb Raider.
hot take, maybe? i think these new tomb raiders are better than uncharted.
Believe it or not I've never played Uncharted but I think I might get Uncharted 4 Collector's Edition once I pay some stuff.
New Assassin's Creed Origins. Looks pretty awesome and already pre ordered.
Another game to pre order.
Collector's Edition arriving soon!!! Hyped!!!!!


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 Qeshlaq-e Hajjilar, alternate name of Hajjilar, Iran, Varzaqan County


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Architects' Holy Hell
You think I was going to pass up on one of the biggest Metalcore releases this year?
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Sam Carter – vocals
Alex Dean – bass guitar, keyboards
Dan Searle – drums, programming
Adam Christianson – rhythm guitar
Josh Middleton – lead guitar, vocals
2016 was a year of polarising highs and lows for the Architects, they released the extremely well received All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, and sadly just three months later, one of the founding members and main songwriter, Tom Searle, passed away of skin cancer. No one would have blamed the Brighton crew for calling it a day and going their separate ways. But in a case of 'when life gives you lemons' the boys persevered and dropped a fitting tribute to their fallen brother and bandmate.
Dan Searle (Tom's twin) had stated that he and his brother had written most of Holy Hell before Tom's passing, and the album is a tribute to him. You can hear the emotion in the lyrics and music the whole way through, creating a powerful record indeed.
Since Holy Hell is the band's way of dealing with their loss, it's heavy and dark, which is fitting, but also touching. The track titles are a massive giveaway of the mood here, 'Death Is Not Defeat', 'Mortal After All', 'Damnation', 'Dying To Heal' and 'A Wasted Hymn' all sound gloomy, but are in fact truly beautiful. If you need to hear a few songs before deciding to make a purchase, those are my recommendations.
A dark album calls for mysterious band pictures.
Architects have released a monster album that is also a statement to the fans: that they are going nowhere and will recover from this sad loss. And what a way to do it too, they've slightly evolved their Metalcore sound compared to Gods and it's the perfect step for me, not too same same, but nothing too radical.
If you're fence sitting whether to get or listen to this record, jump down and do it, you won't be disappointed.
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