Monday, 23d.—Just at the point where the village street becomes a road and turns to climb the hill-side, there stands a group of pines, a remnant of the old forest. There are many trees like these among the woods; far and near such may be seen rising from the hills, now tossing their arms in the stormy winds, now drawn in still and dark relief against the glowing evening sky. Their gaunt, upright forms standing about the hill-tops, and the ragged gray stumps of those which have fallen, dotting the smooth fields, make up the sterner touches in a scene whose general aspect is smiling. But although these old trees are common upon the wooded heights, yet the group on the skirts of the village stands alone among the fields of the valley; their nearer brethren have all been swept away, and these are left in isolated company, differing in character from all about them, a monument of the past.
It is upon a narrow belt of land, a highway and a corn-field on one side, a brook and an orchard on the other, that these trees are rooted; a strip of woodland connected with the forest on the hills above, and suddenly cut off where it approaches the first buildings of the village. There they stand, silent spectators of the wonderful changes that have come over the valley. Hundreds of winters have passed since the cones which contained the seed of that grove fell from the parent tree; centuries have elapsed since their heads emerged from the topmost wave of the sea of verdure to meet the sunshine, and yet it is but yesterday that their shadows first fell, in full length, upon the sod at their feet.
Sixty years since, those trees belonged to a wilderness; the bear, the wolf, and the panther brushed their trunks, the ungainly moose and the agile deer browsed at their feet; the savage hunter crept stealthily about their roots, and painted braves passed noiselessly on the war-path beneath their shade. How many successive generations of the red man have trod the soil they over-shadowed, and then sat down in their narrow graves—how many herds of wild creatures have chased each other through that wood, and left their bones to bleach among the fern and moss, there is no human voice can tell. We only know that the summer winds, when they filled the canvas of Columbus and Cabot, three hundred years ago, came sweeping over these forest pines, murmuring then as we hear them murmur to-day. . . .
The preservation of those old pines must depend entirely upon the will of their owner; they are private property; we have no right to ask that they may be spared, but it is impossible to behold their hoary trunks and crested heads without feeling a hope that they may long continue unscathed, to look down upon the village which has sprung up at their feet. They are certainly one of the most striking objects in the county, and we owe a debt of gratitude to the hand which has so long preserved them, one of the honors of our neighborhood. It needs but a few short minutes to bring one of these trees to the ground; the rudest boor passing along the highway may easily do the deed; but how many years must pass ere its equal stand on the same spot! Let us pause to count the days, the months, the years; let us number the generations that must come and go, the centuries that must roll onward, ere the seed sown from this year's cones shall produce a wood like that before us. The stout arm so ready to raise the axe to-day, must grow weak with age, it must drop into the grave; its bone and sinew must crumble into dust long before another tree, tall and great as those, shall have grown from the cone in our hand. Nay, more, all the united strength of sinew, added to all the powers of mind, and all the force of will, of millions of men, can do no more toward the work than the poor ability of a single arm; these are of the deeds which time alone can perform.
But allowing even that hundreds of years hence other trees were at length to succeed these with the same dignity of height and age, no other younger wood can ever claim the same connection as this, with a state of things now passed away forever; they cannot have that wild, stern character of the aged forest pines. This little town itself must fall to decay and ruin; its streets must become choked with bushes and brambles; the farms of the valley must be anew buried within the shades of a wilderness; the wild deer and the wolf, and the bear, must return from beyond the great lakes; the bones of the savage men buried under our feet must arise and move again in the chase, ere trees like those, with the spirit of the forest in every line, can stand on the same ground in wild dignity of form like those old pines now looking down upon our homes.


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Ms. Song Lianying Beaten at a Drug Rehabilitation Center and a Forced Labor Camp in Hubei Province
(Clearwisdom.net)
Ms. Song Lianying, a practitioner from Huanggang, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and was brutally beaten by police officers at Tiananmen Square on January 1, 2001. She was later imprisoned for three months at a detention center in Huanggang and later sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp. Afterwards, she was sent to the Shizishan "Drug Rehabilitation Center." Although the guards brutally beat her with three electric batons, Ms. Song refused to obey their commands. She was then sent to the Shayang Forced Labor Camp in Hubei Province, where she was beaten again with electric batons. Her hands and mouth were swollen and blistered as a result of the cruel torture.
"Firmly Believe in Teacher and the Fa"
"Mr. Long Guande's Life at Risk in Prison (Photo)"

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Q: Exclude an element from css transition with the same property I want to exclude an element from the transition effect within a group.
Below is the code:
HTML

CSS
.container {
  some-property: someValue;
  some-property: someValue;
  transition: opacity 0.5 ease-in-out 0s;
}

.container:active {
  opacity: 0.2;
}

A: Use the :not() selector function:
.container > *:not(.exclude) {
    transition: opacity etc...
}

Or clear the transition property for .exclude by using a selector with a higher specificity:
.container > * {
    transition: etc
}

.container > .exclude {
    transition: none;
}

Or just use !important (which you should always avoid using):
.container {
    transition: etc
}

.container > .exclude {
    transition: none !important;
}

A: Your transition is applied to parent element, in this case .container, so there's no way to remove the effect on children.
What you need to do, is apply the effect on the children directly, and skip the one you want to avoid.
If you want to apply the transition effect on children when user click on the parent, just go with something like this:

div {
  padding: 15px;
  border: 1px solid #222;
}

.container {
  display: grid;
  border-color: #999;
  grid-template: 1fr 1fr/1fr 1fr;
  grid-gap: 15px;
}

.container .exclude {
  background-color: #999;
  border-color: #999;
}

.container div:not(.exclude) {
  transition: opacity 0.5 ease-in-out 0s;
}

.container:active div:not(.exclude) {
  opacity: 0.2;
}

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3dBaz- 2016.06.01., Budapest – The Hungarian '3DTECH in Schools' program takes a huge leap forward by welcoming CrafUnique, Hungarian 3D printer manufacturer and Leopoly, online 3D modeling software developer on board. With this turn the program awards another 10 Hungarian schools with a 3D printer which adds up to 21 institutions equipped with innovative technology due to the initiative.
The goal of the project is to install 3D printers in every Hungarian educational institution within 3 years. They'd also like to ensure that the technology is adopted so that it is helping the development of the students and the work of the teachers efficiently. Hungarian 3D printing specialist, FreeDee Printing Solutions' first step was a 'MakerBot in the Classroom' competition awarding 11 schools with professional MakerBot 3D printers. A similar competition has been held half a year earlier in Estonia. FreeDee's aim was to measure the readiness of local schools to use 3D technologies. With 413 entries the results surpassed all expectations. Encouraged by the success of the campaign the team decided that they have to keep up the good work.
As CraftUnique and Leopoly joins the program, another 10 schools receive a 3D printer providing further examples of the opportunities that come with educational 3D printing.
Before the handover, FreeDee Printing Solutions showcased what has been happening in the schools who had received their printers 2 months ago. Naturally hundreds of visual aids have been printed, including motivational assets such as prizes and school emblems. Many schools started their own public awareness campaigns by visiting other schools and showcasing the technology during open days. In vocational schools jigs and parts modeled by students went into production. Surprisingly even in primary schools where no prior 3D modeling experience existed teachers and students started to use TinkerCAD, Blender and Thingiverse customizing tools to produce their designs.
By putting together these 3 companies covering different aspects, the program includes everything from the teachers' training and a professional support system to the installation of infrastructure. As for the machinery they propose to have printers in every school with appointed knowledge centers (preferably in vocational schools) where multi-printer laboratories are set up including 3D scanners and other assets.
"The 3DTECH in Schools program puts no extra burden on the educators or the educational system. Our goal is to make Hungary realize an incomparable and fully comprehensive educational program in 3D technologies" – said György Simó, CEO,FreeDee Printing Solutions.
"There's an indisputable need for raising technological awareness during the education of the next generations" – Csaba Fazekas, CEO, CraftUnique.
"The program provides a unique opportunity to integrate 3D printing in the curriculum so that it efficiently supports educational goals and the development of students." Zoltán Kárpáti, CEO, Leopoly.
As has been said during the ceremony and underpinned by examples, the biggest advantage of educational 3D printing lies in the achievable interdiscplinarity. Working on complex projects from defining a problem, coming up with solutions, iterating during the design process to actually producing an object, many different competencies evolve. The cherry on the top of it is that all children are truly thrilled by creative activities that actually provide a tangible outcome.
According to the companies behind the initiative, the 3DTECH in Schools is an easy-to-launch program whether centrally or by the involvement of further private sponsors.
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Nobody Knows Where A Black Hole's Information Goes (Synopsis)
By esiegel on January 24, 2017.
"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it." -Stephen Hawking
Throw a book into a black hole, and the information must somehow wind up inside. Same goes for a star, a planet, or even a single proton: that information must be maintained. But allow enough time to pass, and quantum theory and general relativity, combined, predict something troubling: that black hole will decay, and none of the information will come out in the decay products.
While Einstein's theory makes explicit predictions for a black hole's event horizon and the spacetime just outside, quantum corrections could alter that significantly. Image credit: NASA.
In physics, that's what we call a paradox. Every individual quantum process affecting a particle and its interactions should be time-reversible, but if we run the clock backwards on black hole evaporation, that's an impossibility. The worst part of the information paradox is that every proposed solution has problems that may be even greater than the paradox itself.
Information may come out of the black hole at early times, but the mechanism has not been uncovered. Image credit: Petr Kratochvil.
Join Sabine Hossenfelder on a wonderful exploration of the problem, the possibilities, and why it's continued to stump so many for so long!
Hmmm, gets one thinking about the disappearing sock in the washing machine - sock in, no trace at end of spin cycle.
By PJ (not verified) on 24 Jan 2017 #permalink
The Eater of Socks,.
By Wow (not verified) on 24 Jan 2017 #permalink
Heh, heh, heh ....
Susskind's hypothesis is that the sock turns to lint that is smeared across the event horizon of the lint filter. The sock is still there, but there's no practical way to put it back together.
By Naked Bunny wi… (not verified) on 25 Jan 2017 #permalink
Now that's an interesting hypothesis; must tell my wife!
No, the lint is transported to everyone's belly button.
And, occasionally, to the corners of your sports bag.
sorry to stray from socks :D but one question..
it is sort of a variation on Sabine's no. 2 option... but here goes. What if there is no singularity but rather a supper dense state of matter... like a super-neutron star at the center of BH. And Hawking radiation doesn't evaporate BH into nothingness.. but at most can reveal a super dense core.. which will probably last as long as the universe, just like neutron star cores.
By Sinisa Lazarek (not verified) on 25 Jan 2017 #permalink
It would mean that there's either a force much stronger than strong nuclear or something can go faster than light. And possibly both.
@Sinisa #7: I think that could solve the information paradox, provided that superdense core can contain sufficient entities (particles or whatever) to encode the information content (i.e., entropy as ln(Nstates)) of whatever produced and felll into the BH in the first place.
Such a core would have a surface, which is inconsistent with the observable properties of a black hole (see, for example, the study of Sgr A* emissions from a couple of years ago). However, that core is presumably hidden behind the event horizon, and is therefore not visible. The EH is what behaves as the observed not-surface.
By Michael Kelsey (not verified) on 25 Jan 2017 #permalink
@Sinisa Lazarek
That won't work. I know I'm going counter what Michael Kelsey just wrote and he should mop the floor with me on all things physics related, but it doesn't solve the problem as far as I understand it.
The diameter of the EH is determined by the mass of the BH. It doesn't matter if the core is an infinitely dense point or an ultra-super-mega dense ball. Hawking Radiation shrinks the EH because BH (either singularity or superball) is also losing mass. At no point can the singularity or superball ever become naked. The superball would shrink in tandem and remain shrouded until it simply wasn't there.
The problem is in classical versus quantum models of gravity. In the classical version space-time is warped. Once you get inside a black hole space-time is so warped that all directions point toward the singularity. Information in the singularity CANNOT get back to the universe because there is no pathway for it to get back to the universe.
With a quantum theory of gravity, space-time is flat but movement is probabilistic with bias in the direction of mass. Once you get to the EH, the probability of moving toward the singularity is 100%.
The big difference there is that with things not effected by gravity, there *IS* a potential path back to the universe with quantum gravity where there is not with classical gravity.
By Denier (not verified) on 25 Jan 2017 #permalink
Just blue-skying here...is the many worlds interpretation of QM relevant? Perhaps what we observe as the information-poor Hawking radiation coming from a BH is just a part of the BH's overall wavefunction, with the unobservable rest containing the information???
A more down-to-earth question: have we actually measured Hawking radiation from a BH? With all due respect to the theorists, we should probably measure it and see if they have it right before we get too worried about a paradox. We may have another 'ultraviolet catastrophe' on our hands here.
By eric (not verified) on 25 Jan 2017 #permalink
Not really, eric, MWI doesn't give us any out.
And BH hawking radiation is so miniscule for any BH that came from a full sized star that we wouldn't be able to find it if we were orbiting it.
@ Wow
yes, that scenario assumes some new force that would withstand infinite compression beyond strong force.
Like you mentioned in the end. This would still appear to be a point like object because the surface would be inside the EH. Small.. but not zero.
@ Denier
I feel there is a big difference between singularity and some small but still finite object.
You can't work with infinity. The reason BH go "puff" through Hawking is because inside mass radius (very unprofessional term) is 0. So once all mass radiates away... you're still left with 0. But if you have a finite object within the EH.. then the EH can't go smaller then it. If that object continues to loose mass it will just revert back to a star... or more likely explode.. But is an interesting mental image... as the gravity of BH get less and less.... as EH approached inner mass radius... light slowly is able to overcome gravity.. and that object starts to glow again.
All of it, of course, under the guess that it's not all doom once the strong force gives way....
SL, and that means it exists outside the black hole. And the superdense stuff would always be hidden (see denier's point), so we need to see that force and/or things moving faster than light before we can accept the idea that there's some ubersolid stuff uncompressed in a black hole's interior.
Until that point, it's not even a guess.
"it" being the greater than "strong nuclear force" force.
Denier's argument is (correctly) based on the Schwartzschild solution to GR field equations. But that solution assumes point like mass. An object i.e. half the size of a neutron star but 3 times the mass IMO wouldn't be correctly described by schwatrzschild metric. Thus the geodesics and light cones would behave differently.
If that object continues to loose mass it will just revert back to a star
^^^This is exactly why it doesn't solve the information paradox. If the BH lost enough mass to revert it back into a star, all the information about the lost mass has been lost. You're still losing information.
Information Paradox aside, classically speaking it can't work the way you propose. Ignore the ball versus singularity. I also believe there is a ball, but that ball cannot revert to a less dense state unless the "superball" (quark/preon/planck) degenerecy pressure is variable and evaporation somehow increases that pressure. There is absolutely nothing to support that idea. Theoretically the Earth could be a stable black hole if it were compressed down to the size of a pea. It is not raw mass that makes a black hole. It is density enough to overcome the neutron degeneracy pressure that does it.
"Denier's argument is (correctly) based on the Schwartzschild solution to GR field equations. But that solution assumes point like mass."
But because of the square law of gravity and our three dimensions of space, any mass can be considered equal to a point mass at the centre of gravity, and similarly for GR, at least in gross. E.g.spinning or charged BHs unaccounted.
So they should still hold for most of the space inside the black hole and the matter inside would be well hidden.
If, indeed, in this universe, it could be considered to have actually fallen past the event horizon at all, yet.
re: information loss
As long as you have enough "something" left to encode the information in it's degrees of freedom within that super-ball i.e. quarks and gluons... then it doesn't matter if some of the initial BH mass has been shed... through Hawking or anything else.
"Theoretically the Earth could be a stable black hole if it were compressed down to the size of a pea"
" It is not raw mass that makes a black hole. It is density enough to overcome the neutron degeneracy pressure that does it."
It's the raw mass vs. the radius it occupies that makes it a BH. It is true that at those energies, the strong force also gives way. But BH is about curvature due to gravity.. not the colapse of nuclear force.
It's the raw mass vs. the radius it occupies
There is a word to describe that: density
BH is about curvature due to gravity
Yes, but a BH comprises everything out to the EH. The superball/singularity *IS* about what happens to matter once the nuclear force has collapsed. You seem to be interchanging terms incorrectly.
it doesn't matter if some of the initial BH mass has been shed
Not buying it. I'm sticking with Hawking, Susskind, and Sabine on this one.
after some digging (or research .. :D) .. did find this: Black Holes and Massive Remnants (page 9)
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9203059
basically sums up what I was thinking.. and have to check and learn more about cut-offs. But is interesting to ponder...am not that happy it requires strings... sort of. In any case.. a nice dreaming.
this one is also interesting as a though experiment
"...we suggest that this is because the classical Einstein
theory of gravity is really an effective macroscopic description of a fluid. In other words, we propose that the classical Einstein equation only describes the "fluid phase" of some unknown fundamental degrees of freedom. If so, then the "crystal phase" cannot be described by quantization of the Einstein-Hilbert action, implying that the
Einstein-Hilbert action is not fundamental. Roughly, this is analogous to the fact that ice cannot be described by quantization of a non-fundamental macroscopic fluid
equation, such as the Euler equation or the Navier-Stokes equation. The transition from the fluid phase (described by general relativity) to the crystal phase (described
by as yet unknown theory) occurs via a phase transition..."
tough this sounds to me that if it's case... then we can really say space-time is real.. as real as any solid :)
The notion that information is not lost seems inconsistent with black holes. To use the example in the blog, when a book burns it emits particles that disburse. If a photon, for example, enters a black hole, then that information represented by the photon is not available, such that the book cannot, even theoretically, be reconstructed.
This assumes that Hawking radiation actually is random information, and that the black hole remnant does not retain the information.
By t marvell (not verified) on 30 Jan 2017 #permalink
@t marvell: Yeah, that's the crux of the controversy. On the one hand, quantum theory says that information can't be lost. On the other hand, relativity says that nothing can be seen again once it goes behind an event horizon. There's an inconsistency between theories that needs to be reconciled.
But General Relativity says that from this universe's point of view, nothing gets past the event horizon in anything less than infinite time.
I wonder if the entropy of the bit of the star inside the event horizon when it reached black hole density also just happened to be the same as the entropy from the surface of the black hole to create a gap for Hawking radiation to appear.
I also whether I've just restated the idea of Hawking radiation's derivation....
information can be turned into energy, but can the information later be deduced from the energy? What happens when a particle carrying information collides with its anti-particle? I'm just a no-nothing layman, but this notion of conservation of information seems wrong.
When you whip eggs, can you find the original egg in the resulting batter?
I think BHs must be preserving information somehow. Conservation of energy is the most fundamental law of physics. There is no single experiment nor observation in the history of physics breaks it. And if you think about it, conservation of energy is really conservation of information. Can we really expect BHs would break it?
By Fank (not verified) on 01 Feb 2017 #permalink
What better way to say farewell than with a slew of costume pictures from this year's (coming) Halloween? Happy Halloween 2017! From Ethan Siegel and Starts With A Bang. Keep looking to the Universe. And we'll have a lifetime of wonderful things to still explore. Goodbye, Scienceblogs,…
Ask Ethan: Why Did Light Arrive 1.7 Seconds After Gravitational Waves In The Neutron Star Merger?
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial." -C. Northcote Parkinson Every massless particle and wave travels at the speed of light when it moves through a vacuum. Over a distance of 130 million light years, the gamma rays and gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron stars arrived offset by a…
Five Discoveries In Fundamental Physics That Came As Total Surprises
"On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?" –Victor Francis Hess It's often said that advanced in physics aren't met with "eureka!" but rather with "that's funny," but the truth is even stranger sometimes.…
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"I am looking at the future with concern, but with good hope." –Albert Schweitzer Every so often, the argument comes up that science is expendable. That we're simply investing too much of our resources — too much public money — into an endeavor with no short-term benefits. Meanwhile, there's…
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What are the odds? Part 3: The Big Bang!
"It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!" -George Gamow Some people are never satisfied. After I wrote last time on the odds for cosmic inflation, I started noticing a flurry of comments on an older post about alternatives to the big bang. So, might as well go back to the basics, and ask what the…
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Science Scout twitter feed The other day I was looking for an interesting periodic table graphic for the background image of the science scout twitter account, and whilst doing so I came across many many different versions of the famous layout. However, I also noticed that a lot of them didn't have anything to do with elements at all, and so thought it might be interesting to collect a bunch of…
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Yesterday we lost Neil Armstrong, an accidental hero, thrust by fate onto a rock in the sky. Many dreamt of walking on the moon before he did, and a few men did after him. He happened to be the first. Hopefully many more men, and women too, will echo his iconic footsteps in the future. Perhaps even future space tourists will huddle around Tranquility base, laying nostalgic 60s filters over their…


Multiplex 186 Automobiles and The Multiplex Manufacturing Co.
The Multiplex marque was briefly reincarnated forty two years later, when the company built two experimental models of a modern sports car.
A hardtop sedan and a convertible was produced by The Multiplex Manufacturing Co. of Berwick Pennsylvania in 1954. This sports car had independent front suspension, semi-elliptic rear springs, Ross steering, Wagner-Lockheed hydraulic brakes and Borg-Warner transmission.
The 1954 Multiplex 186 was designed by Fritz Bingamin, sports car enthusiast, a stock car and dirt track diver. His creation caused quiet a stir when exhibited at the 1954 New York Auto Show. The Multiplex won third place in a Sebring race.
The sporty Multiplex was equipped with a water cooled 1497cc four cylinder Singer engine that developed 72 Horsepower. The Multiplex had a top end of 118 MPH and could go 0-60 MPH in 10.2 second.
According to the 1954 Multiplex Sales Brochure shown below this Sports Car was "The Biggest Little Car In The World." As with the 1912 Multiplex automobiles only 14 1954 Multiplex automobile were produced.


Welcome to the website of the Third International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications SEDA 2014. The main event will take place in Rome, Italy, September 22nd and 23rd, 2014.
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Peter Millar "Point Danger" sport shirt in check. Spread collar; button front. Rounded barrel cuffs. Patch pocket at left chest.
Peter Millar "Point Danger" sport shirt in check. Spread collar; button front. Rounded barrel cuffs. Patch pocket at left chest. Shirttail hem. Cotton/polyester/viscose/Tencel® lyocell/spandex. Imported.


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Q: Can we modify an element of a defined matrix function? Let us define a matrix funtion:
f[x_]:={{x,1},{x^2},1}}
then we wants to modify its elements as following
Part[f[x],1,2]=x^3
Part[f[x],2,1]=x

Can we do this?
Actually I had written a program like this and the error shows:
"f[x] in the part assignment is not a symbol."

A: You can use ReplacePart on DownValues of f to make changes to the definition  of f:
DownValues[f] = ReplacePart[DownValues[f], {{1, 2, 2, 1} -> x, {1, 2, 1, 2} -> x^3}];
f[t]

{{t, t^3}, {t}, {2, 1}}


In 1970, Arthur B. Hancock III stepped out to extend his family's already considerable influence on the Thoroughbred world in central Kentucky by assuming managing duties of Stone Farm in Paris, north of Lexington. The Hancock family was renowned for growing nearby Claiborne Farm into a leading breeding and racing entity in Kentucky through two prior generations under the guidance of Arthur B. Hancock and Arthur B. "Bull" Hancock Jr. Nearly 50 years down the line, Stone Farm has established its own legacy through Arthur Hancock III's stewardship, and it's been represented at the sport's highest levels by Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup winners.
After assuming ownership of Stone Farm, Hancock gradually grew the operation, adding acres of land and building a stallion roster and broodmare band. A product of Hancock's breeding strategy, Gato del Sol, won the 1982 Kentucky Derby for Stone Farm and co-owner Leone Peters, enabling further expansion. Six years later, Hancock and Peters were represented once again on the Triple Crown trail with 1988 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes winner Risen Star, the Eclipse Award winner as champion 3-year-old male that year.
And a year after that, the legendary Sunday Silence, a son of Stone Farm sire Halo raised at the farm and co-owned by Hancock with partners, won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Breeders' Cup Classic, defeating Claiborne-raised rival Easy Goer in all three races. He was voted champion 3-year-old male and Horse of the Year for 1989, and entered racing's Hall of Fame in 1996.
Stone Farm stars during the 1990s included Kentucky Derby runners-up Strodes Creek (homebred [bred and owned] by Stone Farm, second in 1994) and Menifee (bred and co-owned by Stone Farm, second in 1999). Menifee went on to stand at stud for Hancock during the early 2000s.
In 1998, Stone Farm and Stonerside Stable brought a yearling they'd bred to the Keeneland July auction and sold the colt to Japan's Fusao Sekiguchi for the event's top price of $4 million. That son of Claiborne stallion Mr. Prospector would eventually be named Fusaichi Pegasus and win the 2000 Kentucky Derby.
Stone Farm's success continues to this day – they've been represented in recent years by such stakes winners in North America and Europe as Wanderin Boy (homebred), European champion filly Rainbow View (raised), Upperline (co-owned), European champion colt Air Force Blue (bred), Mastery (bred), and 2017 Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes winner Ascend (bred and co-owned).
Tours of Stone Farm are year-round by appointment and can be reserved through Horse Country at this link. During the summer, visitors will visit yearlings as they are prepped for the upcoming auctions at Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland, and fall visitors may view young horses as they take their first training lessons. As part of the approximately 90-minute tour, visitors will also learn more about the rich history of the Hancock family in central Kentucky and Stone Farm's nearly half-century of success.


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As with many foods, there are healthy versions and ones that make promises they can't deliver. Some bars that promise "pure protein" have the same nutritional value as a candy bar, so it's important to research before purchasing. Rather than just counting calories, check out the actual ingredients; is it made up of real food? Skip protein bars for weight loss that include soy in favor of ones that use proteins that include leucine, valine and isoleucine. The protein, plus the fiber and fat, will be what plays a key role in keeping you full throughout the day.
Luckily, that doesn't mean you need to dedicate even more time exercising. In fact, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts can slash the time commitment while boosting results. HIIT workouts last about 20 minutes and combine bursts of super-intense exercise with slower recovery phases. This type of workout has been found to help people lose more fat once the workout is over, even though they burn less calories during the workout (since workouts are shorter) and also build muscle, rather than break it down the way conventional cardio does. (3)
For some, this is the hardest part of life after a diet. Working out how much of each component make up a healthy, well-portioned and flavorsome meal can be tricky and takes a bit of practice. Nonetheless, it's crucial if you're going to maintain your optimum weight. If this aspect worries you, why not consider a meal delivery service where each ingredient comes pre-portioned? After a month or so, you'll probably feel a lot more confident about how much you should be eating at any given meal.
Taking soy supplements may reduce belly fat in obese postmenopausal women, according to a small study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2010. For the study, researchers assigned 39 postmenopausal women to three months of treatment with either soy supplements or a placebo. Results revealed that soy helped reduce belly fat and interleukin-6 (a marker of inflammation), but failed to improve blood-sugar metabolism and increase levels of leptin (a hormone involved in fat metabolism).
You know that recording what you consume is a good way to keep your weight in check, but Brittany Hicks, who dropped 110 pounds in college, didn't only write down what she ate—she also wrote down why she was eating it. "I realized I'd been using food to cope with stress," she says. "Just noticing that helped me do it less." Make sure you're not making these food journal mistakes so you can reap the rewards of eating and jotting, too.
Sometimes, to whip your body into shape, you have to get a little nutty. While nuts are high in fat, it's that very fat that makes them such powerful weapons in the war against a ballooning belly. In fact, research from Reina Sofia University Hospital reveals that study participants who consumed a diet rich in monounsaturated fats, like those in nuts, over a 28-day period gained less belly fat than their saturated fat-consuming counterparts while improving their insulin sensitivity.
People often cut out dairy when dieting, but cow's milk has a lot of the nutrients that are essential to fat burning, including vitamin D and calcium. It's also a great source of protein, which you need to build lean muscle, which is why experts say milk is a better post-workout drink than other beverages. Some research suggests that chugging moo juice after exercise results in more muscle gain and fat loss than drinking energy drinks. Find out more calcium-rich foods that are natural fat-burners.
A recent study in the journal Nature found that mice who were fed a breakfast in which 45 percent of the calories came from fat tended to burn more body fat over the next 24 hours than those who ate a meal that was only 20 percent fat. This is early research—it needs to be repeated in humans—but mono and polyunsaturated fats like those found in avocados and nuts do have plenty of health benefits when you eat them in moderation.
Because men are larger than women on average and have more muscle to support, men can usually eat more calories while still losing weight, compared to women. Portion control may be especially important for women. In one study, women who ate smaller portions of food (and less food overall) had lower BMIs than women who limited or avoided a certain type of food.2 This approach seems to work better for women than men.3
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People were not asked to count calories at all. Over the course of a year, both groups attended 22 classes reinforcing these very sound principles — and all participants had access to health educators who guided them in behavioral modification strategies, such as emotional awareness, setting goals, developing self-efficacy (also known as willpower), and utilizing social support networks, all to avoid falling back into unhealthy eating patterns.
Note: If your body works perfectly, when you find that the prescription does not IRRITATE your body and you decide to start it final then once you drink half a cup of water, see if the body If you accept, your stomach will be perfectly equal in days. If you have a problem in nature, then do not use your mouth. Do not make your habit, because every component is a very hot feature, once the stomach becomes normal, then thank you God and start an acorist and eat less. Remember that it is a time-consuming remedy once again after stomaching the stomach, if you continue to become unhealthy to drink food only then think and drink it again and again, then it is unconscious and compassionate on your body. Drinking it There is no special period as long as you use it, but do not use more than a month.
When you have the option to choose between dried fruit and fresh fruit, always opt for the fresh variety. "Dried fruits have a lot of calories and added sugar for very little volume," says Summer Yule, MS, RDN. "For instance, one cup of raisins (not packed) contains 434 calories and 86 grams of added sugar. By comparison, a cup of grapes contains only 62 calories and 15 grams of sugar. This means that you could eat 7 cups of grapes for the same amount of calories as 1 cup of unpacked raisins."
Our gut microbiome controls far more than we give it credit for, which is why having your gut colonized with beneficial types of bacteria is so important. One way to do this is by taking a probiotic supplement. You can also make these 12 foods that boost good gut bacteria part of your everyday diet. Not only will this help you get sick less, feel happier, and ease digestion but it can also help you de-bloat, flattening out your tummy in the process. Try these home remedies to lose belly fat.


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Q: Expandable ListView in Fragment, (from AndroidHive) I'm trying to use this example http://www.androidhive.info/2013/07/android-expandable-list-view-tutorial/ in my project.
The main problem is:
I have ListFragment instead of regular Activity.
I put few getActivity().findViewByID instead of findViewByID, and getActivity().getApplicationContext() instead of this.
App crashes at
  // setting list adapter
    expListView.setAdapter(listAdapter);

I'm just newbie in Android dev. Could someone explain how to adapt example for ListFragment.

A: expListView is null in your code, you need your View that returned on onCreateView for finding Expanable View instead of getActivity().
use like following:
  expListView = YourView.findViewById(yourId);

if this not helped you, post logcat error and fragment code
Example Code:
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        View test= inflater.inflate(R.layout.testLayout,
                container, false);
        expListView = test.findViewById(R.id.expanableId);

        return test;
 }

A: Try Following
Change your ExpandableListView id in xml.
It should be like  android:id="@+id/lvList"
Get it as ExpandableListView expListView = Your_View.findViewById(R.id.lvList); in your java File.


This is my third report on progress on the Comsat Legacy Project for those who have shown an interest in the effort.
Lockheed has requested that we incorporate as a not for profit and register with the IRS prior to executing an agreement for transfer of Comsat records to us. Bill Coulter, our Counsel, is working on the details with Lockheed legal staff. I have registered the name "Comsat-Legacy.org" on the Internet but there is no work currently underway on the web site.
Lockheed has completed the sale of the last major Comsat asset, the Intelsat business, to Intelsat but the schedule for transfer of records to Comsat Legacy is delayed, probably into March.
I now have a collection of slides and photos at home and will be tapping volunteers to help me identify and evaluate them. Among the interesting finds is a photo of Siegfried Reiger holding an Emmy statuette in addition to photos relating to the more recent Emmy award to Comsat. Also, there is a photo of an NAACP medal which, John Evans informs me, was awarded to COMSAT for its efforts in recruiting minorities. The locations of the statuette and medal are currently unknown.
My estimate at the size of the collection of records and video tapes headed for storage remains at 75 boxes (about 90 cubic feet). Much help will be needed at the storage location to review and catalog the materials.
I am hoping to arrange a small but, hopefully, interesting display for the Comara party on March 4. There are two Comsat banners, a few framed photos and some pictures which can be taken home by participants. Linda Brobst has volunteered to create a scrapbook out of a collection of early press clippings.
Hale Montgomery has taken on the task of reviewing video materials that are not in VHS format. David Lee has donated a light table which will facilitate the review of the 35 mm slide collection.


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ТБВ — многозначная аббревиатура:
 ТБВ — теория «Большого взрыва»
 ТБВ — техническая база вооружения

См. также
 ТБВД — турбовентиляторный двигатель
 ТБВК — технологии таможенно-банковского валютного контроля
 ТБВП — транспортно-боевой вертолётный полк
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Composed capstone report on Syrian refugees featuring reporting from the greater Boston area as well as interviews conducted in Jordan and Lebanon.
Produced article detailing the exploitation of Chinese immigrant workers in Boston Chinatown district with some interviews conducted in Mandarin.
Researched and delivered a presentation on Chinese state-run media in Mandarin.
Studies in Beijing were preceded with a five week intensive language course at Stanford University.
Produced a report analyzing the evolution of Hezbollah's geopolitical role and contrasted this transformation with the organization's domestic political objectives.
Researched and presented a critical study of America's COIN doctrine in Afghanistan.
Conducted research pertaining to British propaganda and intelligence efforts prior to WWII.
Participated in professional level course detailing 20th and 21st century U.S. counterintelligence case studies.
Supervised newspaper staff and edited various content for sports and news sections.
Acted as international affairs columnist and composed numerous articles on East Asian affairs and national security related topics.
Responsible for day-to-day constituent relations and legislative research.
Wrote and edited press releases and official office communications.
Supervised morning news broadcasts and directed station's anchors.
Reviewed news scripts and monitored international wires for developing stories.
Authored article in FCCJ magazine entitled "Japan as Number Three" discussing China's GDP.
Assisted international correspondents with Japanese translations of texts and news articles.
Final Cut, Audacity, Microsoft Office, Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, and Adobe Audition.


Lenovo's popular upcoming tablet/ laptop hybrid, the Yoga 13 has finally gotten its due product page on the Lenovo website.
Any of you thinking about getting a Yoga 13 over the MS Surface this fall?
Written by: Hyde13 on September 11, 2012.
Sweet baby Jesus, that is one gorgeous piece of kit; ruined by the damn hipsters.


The government plans to reform the planning process in order to fast track energy-related developments worth €16 billion.
The reform of foreshore planning will speed up offshore renewable energy projects and connections to the electricity grid using the current oil and gas licensing process.
The move comes after the government's plan for economic recovery, which was launched last week, highlighted the future importance of renewable energy. The changes to the planning process have been drafted into a bill by the Oireachtas joint committee on climate change and energy security, which has been sent to Eamon Ryan, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. It envisages bringing offshore renewable energy projects within the scope of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act, 2006.This should ensure that planning decisions on offshore renewable energy projects are made within a year. It is the first time that an Oireachtas committee has drafted a bill to be forwarded to the government. Under its terms, the Marine Institute would be given new roles and responsibilities, such as the preparation of strategic area assessments for designated areas and the power to grant leases for offshore renewable energy projects.
It would also handle the allocation of designated areas for energy production, modelled on the current auction rules for petroleum development and exploitation. It would also act as a statutory adviser to An Bord Pleanala for planning applications from approved leases.
A spokeswoman for Ryan confirmed there would be a ''complete reform'' of the planning process for offshore projects, and said that facilitating connections to the electricity grid from the foreshore would be a priority. ''The oil and gas exploration licensing system is one of the best ways of fast-tracking these," she said.
''Once the grid is connected, the state can then set out a space for renewable companies to operate from. We will also be discussing this with our petrol affairs division, and with the Department of the Environment, the ESB, Eirgrid and current foreshore operators."
Michael Walsh, chief executive of the Irish Wind Energy Association, said that, while he welcomed the move, other issues relating to the provision of wind and tidal energy needed to be resolved. ''Planning permission is one of the three main stages our members go through - the others are the economic startup costs and connection to the grid," he said.
''We asked the [Oireachtas] committee for automatic renewal of the current five-year planning expiration, or [to increase] this to ten-year expiration. There is also a major shortage of investment in the grid, and there should be some incentivising of Eirgrid and the ESB to increase capacity on it, because it's just not there at the moment."


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Mr Major's Statement at London Airport – 9 January 1991
January 9, 1991 February 15, 2021 admin	1991, Gulf War, Iraq, Kuwait, Saddam Hussein
The text of Mr Major's statement, made at London Airport on Wednesday 9th January 1991.
I have only just heard the outcome of the talks today. Let me say I think it is extremely disappointing that no progress has been made in these talks in Geneva. Saddam Hussein has now had a considerable period of time – some months in fact – in order to reverse his aggression and to leave Kuwait. I think it is a very great shame indeed that he has chosen not to do so. The fact that he has not done so makes the position, I think, quite clear: it still is that the Security Council Resolutions are perfectly plain and they are still there for the international community to operate on.
Saddam Hussein knows very clearly and has known for some time that after 15 January the military option remains to be used if necessary. It was perfectly clear to me in my talks with our Arab Allies over the past few days in the Gulf that they remain very firmly behind those particular Resolutions.
There is, of course, still time for Saddam Hussein to rethink and to withdraw from Kuwait – I very much hope that he will be wise and that he will do so.
Thank you very much indeed!
Given what Saddam Hussein has said lately, Prime Minister, do you not now think that war is inevitable?
No, I do not think war is yet inevitable. Saddam Hussein still has time to rethink. He knows the resolution of all the Allies; he knows the force of the Security Council Resolutions; he will have heard that reinforced yet again over the last few days. I hope very much that when Tariq Aziz goes back to Baghdad and reports to Saddam Hussein, that he will realise that he cannot win a conflict and that he will withdraw. I very much hope that that is the case and I do not yet regard war as inevitable.
Will this mark an end to diplomacy before the deadline?
We must wait and see precisely what happens. I don't think there are negotiations to be had. That has been the position for a considerable period of time. There were no negotiations today. The position is perfectly plain and has been for a considerable period of time. Saddam Hussein has broken international law; he has invaded an innocent country; it is time for him to withdraw. The international community have set out their position perfectly clearly. I hope he will acknowledge that and I hope he will withdraw.
← Mr Major's Press Conference in Cairo – 9 January 1991
Mr Major's Statement after Meeting the Sultan of Oman – 9 January 1991 →


Hear from pitchers Brandon Maurer, Trevor Cahill and Ryan Buchter as they prepare to leave to join the Kansas City Royals; plus, Padres general manager A.J. Preller and manager Andy Green discuss the trades.
Now the Dodgers are really in control.
Of the division. Of the National League. Of the prospects they so dearly love.
And Los Angeles' think tank still managed to get their man: Yu Darvish.
Even for a team riding four straight NL West titles, it was a must-make move.
They haven't been to a World Series since 1988. They've lost Clayton Kershaw to a back injury for the second year in a row and can't be certain what he'll be when he returns. The rotation was in need of right-handed balance. With baseball's best record, the time was now to capitalize on momentum – on the field, in the clubhouse and in the hearts of drought-weary Los Angeles fans.
Darvish checks all of those boxes at a price the Dodgers could absorb – three prospects not named Walker Buehler, Alex Verdugo or Yadier Alvarez.
Not that Texas' return is anything to turn your nose up at: Willie Calhoun, A.J. Alexy and Brendon Davis were ranked No. 4, No. 17 and No. 27 in the Dodgers system.
That would hurt most teams.
The Dodgers aren't most teams.
Six of their eight starters are 28 or younger and their top producer (Cody Bellinger) is 22. They've got a seemingly endless supply of money to fill holes when their farm system falters, and of course, their farm system usually doesn't (see Bellinger, Corey Seager, Joc Pederson and that Kershaw fellow).
At least not in the regular season. The postseason, even with a healthy Kershaw at the top of the rotation, has been another story altogether.
Enter Darvish, the big prize on a day that also saw the Dodgers add two lefties (Tony Watson and Tony Cingrani) to their bullpen – again without touching Buehler, Verdugo or Alvarez.
He's a four-time All-Star who's fanned 11 batters per nine innings in his career. He's got ace stuff. He's a prime change-of-scenery candidate after a dismal July (7.20 ERA) spoiled a splendid first three months (3.11 ERA).
Indeed, Darvish slots in ahead of the revitalized Alex Wood and Rich Hill/Kenta Maeda/Hyun-Jin Ryu.
If Kershaw is anything close to Kershaw, Darvish is a devastating second punch to throw in any series.
We'll start with the local team. A week before the trade deadline, the Padres flipped three players who arrived without much fanfare – Trevor Cahill, Brandon Maurer and Ryan Buchter – for a player who started the season as the Royals' No. 2 prospect (Matt Strahm), an 18-year-old prospect with "special bat potential" (Esteury Ruiz) and a starting pitcher for the 2018 rotation (Travis Wood).
However you feel about Brad Hand – or even Jhoulys Chacin or Clayton Richard (was there even much interest?) – remaining Padres, that's a win.
As far as Hand goes, sure his value is at an all-time high, but there's as much risk in a decline in effectiveness as there is in any prospect the Padres might have received. Remember, the top two arms acquired last year – Anderson Espinoza and Chris Paddack – went under the knife inside their first year in the organization. The Padres still have this winter and two more deadlines to seek their asking price for a reliever without the same track records that Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Miller had at the time of their trades a year ago. As General Manager A.J. Preller said on Monday's conference call, "there's no rush" to move Hand.
Yankees: Like the Dodgers, New York held on to its most beloved prospects: Gleyber Torres and Clint Frazier. That didn't keep the Yankees from picking up a flawed but exciting frontline starter in Sonny Gray to add to the rotation for this year and beyond. Coupled with their other big acquisitions – Todd Frazier, David Robertson and Tommy Kahnle – and the Yankees are in position to make a move in the AL East.
Athletics: For one injury-prone player (Gray), the Athletics received two injured prospects (Dustin Fowler and James Kaprielian) and shortstop prospect Jorge Mateo, all of whom ranked among the Yankees' top prospects. That's a good bet to make on a player whose value could be at an all-time high.
Cubs: The defending world champs made their big move earlier in the month by acquiring a front-end rotation pitcher with several years of control (Jose Quintana). Sunday's deal to pick up lefty reliever Justin Wilson and catcher Alex Avila fills in important holes as the Cubs look to extend their lead in the NL Central.
Nationals: They could have had bigger names (Zach Britton or Brad Hand), but there's no questioning the depth the Nationals have added to baseball's worst bullpen: right-handers Brandon Kintzler and Ryan Madson and left-hander Sean Doolittle. Howie Kendrick is also the kind of bat you could see coming up with a key pinch-hit in the postseason.
Diamondbacks: In a market that isn't putting a whole lot of value on power-hitting corner outfielders, Arizona pounced on the opportunity to add J.D. Martinez at the cost of three prospects from one of baseball's leanest systems. Then when the D-backs lost shortstop Chris Owings to a fractured fingered they didn't hesitate to fill that hole by trading for Adam Rosales.
Astros: Houston responded to losing Lance McCullers to another DL stint by adding Francisco Liriano … to the bullpen. They passed on a significant rotation upgrade, they passed on adding someone like Zach Britton or Brad Hand to their bullpen and they could be in danger of watching the parade pass them by without healthy, lights-out arms to turn to in the playoffs.
Red Sox: Yes, the Red Sox added San Diego State's Addison Reed to help bridge the gap to closer Craig Kimbrel. They plugged a season-long hole at third with Eduardo Nunez. But that's all they did and it doesn't seem quite enough to fend off the Yankees and all the David Price-related drama in the clubhouse.
Tigers: Not only did they not get much back for the power-hitting Martinez, they were unable to move the pricey Justin Verlander or Ian Kinsler. In Verlander's case in particular, the $66 million left on his contract will pass through waivers but the Tigers might not find a taker on the 34-year-old former Cy Young winner without eating a ton of money. That's never a winning scenario.
Rockies: Jonathan LuCroy is a great bounce-back candidate in Colorado and Pat Neshek helps the bullpen, but their lead in the NL wild-card race doesn't seem all that secure without adding to a rotation full of unproven rookies.
Royals: Good for the Royals for keeping the band together, but hard to see the likes of Cahill, Melky Cabrera, Maurer and Buchter being enough to overtake the defending AL champion Indians.
Giants: San Francisco got something (two pitching prospects) for Nunez, a free agent after the season. However, any efforts to truly orchestrate a summer selloff were blocked both by the blisters that continue to sideline right-hander Johnny Cueto and the forearm troubles that have shelved closer Mark Melancon a second time this season. Both, however are candidates to pass through waivers for an August trade, and Cueto should be extra motivated as he considers opting out of a contract that owed him $84 million over the next four years. Something still could happen on this front.


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Benoît d'Aniane, né vers 750 et mort en 821, est un aristocrate d'origine wisigothe de l'époque carolingienne, dont l'œuvre de réforme du monachisme est essentielle dans l'essor de l'Ordre bénédictin en Europe, ce qui lui vaut le surnom de  . Outre cette activité d'unification monastique, Benoît lutta contre l'adoptianisme, propagea la liturgie romano-franque et contribua à la diffusion de la nouvelle écriture dite minuscule caroline. Conseiller très influent du fils de Charlemagne, Louis le Pieux, quand celui-ci était roi d'Aquitaine, puis quand il devint empereur, il est l'un des principaux acteurs de la renaissance carolingienne. Il est commémoré le 12 février selon le Martyrologe romain.

Biographie

Origine et débuts

Né en Septimanie vers 750, celui que nous appelons Benoît d'Aniane était le fils du comte de Maguelone (en Gothie alias Septimanie, à 10 km au sud-ouest de Montpellier) ; une tradition tardive (année 1652) et sans autorité donne à son père le nom d'Aigulfus, que ne confirme aucun témoignage ancien. Le comte goth Ansemond est documenté  à l'époque de la naissance de Benoît. Indéniablement d'origine wisigothique, l'enfant porta d'abord le nom de Witiza, attesté par la Chronique de Moissac. Son éducation se fit à la cour du roi franc Pépin le Bref, où il eut pour compagnons Adalhard et Wala, neveux du roi. Il devint l'échanson de la reine, Bertrade de Laon (dite Berthe au Grand Pied). Il resta à la cour de Charlemagne après la mort de Pépin.

En 773, il participa à l'expédition contre les Lombards en Italie. Il paraissait alors destiné à une brillante carrière militaire.

Vie monastique
En 774 ou 775, à la suite d'un événement dramatique (il avait failli mourir près de Pavie en voulant sauver son frère de la noyade), Witiza devint moine à l'abbaye de Saint-Seine, située à 27 km au nord-ouest de Dijon. C'est peut-être à cette occasion qu'il renonça à son nom gothique pour devenir, en religion, "le Béni" ou frère "Benoît" (Benedictus).

À l'abbaye de Saint-Seine, il fit preuve d'un ascétisme rigoureux et étudia les nombreuses règles en usage, outre celle de saint Benoît de Nursie : règle de saint Pacôme, règle de saint Basile et règle de saint Colomban.

Il devint le cellérier du monastère. Vers 780, sa communauté le choisit comme abbé, mais il s'enfuit vers son pays natal et s'établit dans la région de Montpellier.

Il mena alors une vie d'ermite et fonda avec des disciples, en 782, sur les bords de l'Hérault, une abbaye : celle d'Aniane, située à  à l'ouest de Montpellier. Pour cet établissement — dont l'archéologie a retrouvé les vestiges en 2013 —, Benoît choisit comme modèle le cénobitisme.

L'essor de la règle bénédictine

Aniane acquit, grâce à son abbé, une notoriété et un prestige considérables. S'étant rendu à Ratisbonne auprès de Charlemagne (printemps 792), Benoît obtint de l'empereur des lettres d'immunité et la reconnaissance de la liberté d'élection de l'abbé. Le développement du monastère fut toutefois freiné par la rigueur exigée. Benoît se tourna alors vers la règle de saint Benoît de Nursie, qu'il voulut faire appliquer dans un sens strict : il modifia et compléta cette règle à l'aide de celle de Colomban, et rédigea la « concorde des règles », s'appuyant sur ses commentaires de la règle de saint Benoît. Le monastère compta bientôt plus de trois cents moines, qui essaimèrent dans tout l'Empire pour répandre la règle bénédictine, réformer les anciennes abbayes et en fonder de nouvelles.

En 792, l'abbaye devint royale. Le rayonnement que ce nouveau statut lui conférait fut utilisé par Benoît pour propager le bénédictinisme en Aquitaine. Le Languedoc, l'Auvergne, la Bourgogne s'y adaptèrent. La nouvelle règle intéressait fortement Louis le Pieux, qui souhaitait réaliser l'unité religieuse de l'Empire pour constituer un cadre à son territoire. Il appela l'abbé d'Aniane à Inden, près d'Aix-la-Chapelle. Là, Benoît prépara à sa demande deux synodes traitant de la réforme du monachisme, lesquels eurent lieu le premier en août-septembre 816, le second en juillet 817, tous deux à Aix-la-Chapelle : ils imposèrent la règle de saint Benoît et la libre élection de l'abbé. Des missi monastici désignés pour chaque monastère devaient veiller à l'exécution des décisions. Benoît voulait, tout comme Louis le Pieux, intégrer l'abbaye dans les institutions de l'Empire. L'abbé devint ainsi un véritable chef de communauté.

Soutenu par l'empereur et secondé par Alcuin, abbé de Saint-Martin de Tours, et par Théodulf, évêque d'Orléans, Benoît fit appliquer avec beaucoup d'intelligence la règle bénédictine dans plus de vingt monastères en Aquitaine, dont principalement Gellone, Saint-Savin et Massay. Le sud de la Loire profita également, peu à peu, de cette réforme.

En 818, en passant par Priziac (Morbihan) au cours d'une campagne militaire contre le rebelle Morvan, Louis le Pieux saisit cette occasion pour faire adopter la règle bénédictine par les moines de l'abbaye de Landévennec, placée jusqu'alors sous la Règle de saint Colomban.

Les changements apportés se répandirent très vite en Saxe et en Italie dès 820-830. La vie bénédictine allait s'imposer graduellement en Europe. Plus tard, elle se constituerait en grands ordres et congrégations, dont un des plus célèbres est l'ordre de Cluny. Toutefois, à partir de cette règle unique se formèrent des traditions propres à chaque abbaye.

Devenu empereur, Louis le Pieux s'empressa d'installer son conseiller et ami Benoît dans un monastère qu'il venait de fonder à son intention à Inden ou Inda (aujourd'hui abbaye de Kornelimünster), non loin du palais impérial (à une dizaine de kilomètres d'Aix-la-Chapelle), pour le mettre à la tête de tous les moines de son empire.

Après l'Aquitaine et la Gothie, ce fut au tour de la Francie de bénéficier de la "règle du salut". En 817, Louis le Pieux réunit à Aix-la-Chapelle tous les abbés de l'Empire pour faire accepter le capitulare monasticum préparé par Benoît. Le but de cette constitution était de réglementer et surtout d'unifier les différents styles de vie monastique. Saint Augustin et Benoît de Nursie étaient à cette époque les meilleures références pour vivre une vie religieuse à la fois exigeante et raisonnable.

L'empereur, qui adhérait entièrement à ce projet de purification, en proclama l'application dans tout l'Empire.

La politique culturelle mise en place par Charlemagne déboucha ainsi sur une brillante renaissance artistique, intellectuelle et spirituelle dans beaucoup de monastères, devenus des lieux privilégiés de transmission de la culture.

Benoît d'Aniane et l'adoptianisme
Benoît d'Aniane se distingua aussi dans la lutte contre l'adoptianisme, considéré comme une hérésie par l'Église. Propagée par Élipand, archevêque de Tolède, et Félix, évêque d'Urgell, cette doctrine considère le Christ comme Dieu par nature mais comme homme par adoption de Dieu en tant que fils. Comme Élipand se trouvait sur un territoire appartenant aux Maures, il ne fut guère inquiété ; en revanche, Félix d'Urgell se vit contraint de se rétracter en 792 par la condamnation du synode de Ratisbonne. Le concile de Francfort, en 794, condamna l'adoptianisme. On ne sait si Benoît d'Aniane y assista, mais il est certain qu'il fut aidé dans son combat par ses deux amis Alcuin et Nimfridius (abbé de Lagrasse jusqu'en 800 puis archevêque de Narbonne jusqu'en 828). En 799, Charlemagne assigna à Benoît, accompagné de Nimfridius et de Leidrade, évêque de Lyon, la mission d'extirper l'adoptianisme de la Marche d'Espagne.

Le conseiller de Louis le Pieux
Dès les années 790, Benoît sut gagner les bonnes grâces de Louis, alors roi d'Aquitaine, et exercer sur lui une influence qui devait aller croissant avec les années. Il devint son principal conseiller et, mieux encore, son directeur spirituel. L'austère sainteté et la force de caractère qui émanaient de sa personne lui attirèrent, de la part d'un esprit inconstant et quelque peu velléitaire comme celui de Louis, un respect qu'on peut imaginer mêlé de crainte ; toutefois, cette vision d'un empereur dominé par son conseiller a été contestée par certains historiens modernes. Une partie importante de la politique ecclésiastique de l'empereur semblerait avoir été inspirée par Benoît, jusqu'à son décès en 821 et peut-être même au-delà. S'il fut réel, un tel rôle de mentor, ou mieux d'« Éminence grise », joué par l'abbé languedocien auprès du prince, pourrait avoir atteint son apogée à l'occasion de la révolte de Bernard d'Italie (817-818). Fut-ce sous son influence que Louis épargna la vie de Bernard ? On hésite à l'affirmer quand on songe à l'extrême rigueur de la peine de substitution, cet aveuglement "à la byzantine" auquel le jeune homme ne devait pas survivre. Mais Benoît est certainement pour beaucoup dans les scrupules et les remords manifestés par l'empereur. Il se pourrait même que l'influence posthume de l'abbé d'Aniane (mort en 821) ne soit pas étrangère à la spectaculaire pénitence publique d'Attigny (août 822). On pourrait être également tenté d'attribuer à l'influence de Benoît le ménagement dont fit preuve l'empereur à l'égard de l'Hispanus qu'était Claude de Turin, malgré l'iconoclasme virulent que celui-ci pratiquait dans son diocèse piémontais . Il est sûr en tout cas que Benoît était si proche de Nimfridius de Narbonne (déjà mentionné favorablement dans VB, 3, 10) qu'il lui adressa, in articulo mortis, sa dernière lettre : or Nimfridius goûtait fort les écrits exégétiques de Claude. Bref, ce réseau d'amitiés suggère l'existence, dans l'entourage de Louis le Pieux ou dans l'épiscopat de la Gaule, d'un "clan hispanique" (ou "septimanien") dont l'influence politique et spirituelle ne dut pas être négligeable, même si l'empereur, par sursauts, eut assez de volonté pour sévir contre certains de ses membres, comme Théodulf en 818 ou Agobard en 835. Rappelons enfin que Benoît entretenait des liens d'amitié très étroits avec un autre homme de confiance de Louis le Pieux, le chancelier Hélisachar, dont l'origine wisigothique ou septimanienne est possible, mais non prouvée.

Le saint et son culte
Benoît mourut en odeur de sainteté dans son « Monasterium ad Indam », c'est-à-dire dans le « monastère près de la rivière Inda » (l'abbaye de Kornelimünster à Aix-la-Chapelle), le 11 février 821. Les moines de l'abbaye demandèrent alors au frère Ardon (Ardo Smaragdus), qui connaissait l'abbé depuis longtemps et qui était mieux placé que personne pour parler de lui, de devenir son hagiographe. Telle est l'origine de la Vita Benedicti abbatis Anianensis et Indensis, qui nous a été transmise à l'intérieur du Cartulaire d'Aniane (). La rédaction prit une année ; Ardon se rendit à Aniane pour y recueillir des témoignages. Son récit bien informé nous est parvenu sous trois formes ou recensions : une longue (BHL 1096), qui est le document toujours cité dans la présente notice ; une brève ; une composite. Il n'est pas exempt d'interpolations certaines ou probables : le texte a été remanié (quoique superficiellement) jusqu'au deuxième tiers du , notamment pour ce qui concerne la charte d'immunité (VB, 18, 27) et dans le passage concernant le comte de Toulouse, Guillaume d'Aquitaine, et la fondation de l'abbaye de Gellone (VB, 30, 42).

Œuvres
 Codex regularum (...). Roma, V. Mascardus, 1663 ; Patrologia Latina, tome 103, col. 393-700.
 Concordia regularum. Paris, D. Bechet, 1638. Édition scientifique : Pierre Bonnerue, dans Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio mediaevalis, tomes 168 et 168 A (Turnhout, 1999).
 Lettre au moine Garnier. Édition scientifique : Ernst Dümmler, dans Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Epistolae Karolini aevi, II (1895), , .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Sources anciennes
Ardo Smaragdus (en français Ardon Smaragde), Vie de Benoît d'Aniane, recension longue (BHL 1096).
Texte latin : Patrologia Latina, tome 103, col. 353-384 (obsolète) ; G. Waitz dans Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, tome XV/1 (Hannover, 1887 ; anastatique Stuttgart & New York, 1963), . Ce document précieux, œuvre d'un disciple de Benoît, doit être lu désormais dans l'édition critique procurée par Walter Kettemann, Subsidia Anianensia. Überlieferungs- und textgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Witiza-Benedikts, seines Klosters Aniane und zur sogenannten 'anianischen Reform'. Mit kommentierenden Editionen der Vita Benedicti Anianensis, Notitia de servitio monasteriorum, des Chronicon Moissiacense/ Anianense sowie zweier Lokaltraditionen aus Aniane. (Diss.). Duisburg, 2000 (en ligne), .

Traduction française annotée : Pierre Bonnerue, Fernand Baumes & Adalbert de Vogüé, Ardon. Vie de Benoît d'Aniane. Abbaye de Bellefontaine, Bégrolles-en-Mauges, 2001 (« Vie monastique », ).

Études
 Pierre Bonnerue (2001) : voir supra, "Sources anciennes".
 Egon Boshof, Erzbischof Agobard. Leben und Werk. Köln & Wien, Böhlau, 1969.
 Egon Boshof, Ludwig der Fromme. Darmstadt, Primus Verlag, 1996.
 Pascal Boulhol, Claude de Turin. Un évêque iconoclaste dans l'Occident carolingien. Paris, Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2002.
 John Cavadini, The last christology of the West. Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785-820. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
 Depreux Philippe, Prosopographie de l'entourage de Louis le Pieux (781-840). Sigmaringen, Thorbecke, 1997.
 Dom Claude Devic & Dom Joseph Vaissète, Histoire générale du Languedoc. Volume I. Toulouse, 1745, rééd. ibid., Privat, 1872.
 Pius Engelbert, « Benedikt von Aniane und die karolingische Reichsidee. Zur politischen Theologie des Frühmittelalters », dans Gregorio Penco (éd.), Cultura e spiritualità nella tradizione monastica (= Studia Anselmiana, 103). Roma, 1990, .
 Réginald Grégoire, « Benedetto di Aniane nella riforma monastica carolingia », dans Studi medievali, Serie III, 26 (1985), .
 Walter Kettemann (2000) : voir supra, "Sources anciennes".
 Émile Lesne, « Les ordonnances monastiques de Louis le Pieux et la Notitia de servitio monasteriorum », dans Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France, 6 (1920), , 321-328 et 459-493.
 Jean Marilier, Histoire de l'Église en Bourgogne. Dijon, Éditions du Bien Public, 1991.
 Thomas F.-X. Noble, « Louis the Pious and his piety re-considered », dans Revue belge de philolologie et d'histoire, 58 (1980/2), p. 297-316.
 Thomas F.-X. Noble, « The monastic ideal as a model for Empire : the case of Louis the Pious », dans Revue Bénédictine, 86/3-4 (1976), .
 Raffaele Savigni, « L'immagine del santo fondatore nelle Vitae di Benedetto di Aniane e di Adalardo di Corbie (secolo IX) », dans Riccardo Fangarezzi, Paolo Golinelli & Alba Maria Orselli (éd.), Sant'Anselmo di Nonantola e i santi fondatori nella tradizione monastica tra Oriente e Occidente. Roma, Viella, 2006, .
 Dom Philibert Schmitz, Histoire de l'Ordre de Saint Benoît. Gembloux, éditions de Maredsous, tome I, 1942.
 J. Winandt, « L'œuvre monastique de saint Benoît d'Aniane », dans Mélanges bénédictins publiés à l'occasion du XIVe centenaire de la mort de saint Benoît par les moines de l'abbaye de Saint-Jérôme à Rome. Abbaye de Saint-Wandrille, 1947, .

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The first thing I noticed was how small the room seemed, much smaller than it looks on TV. There are high school auditoriums that hold more people than the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, even when it's at its most crowded, like it was for Tuesday's State of the Union address.
I remember feeling the same way the first time I saw the Celtics at Boston Garden. Players who look like giants on TV looked small down there on a regulation-size basketball court.
The House floor was filled with players Tuesday, but the House can't accommodate as many spectators as the Garden. The ornate chamber has a single balcony, five rows deep on the sidelines, a little more in the end zones.
From where I sat, they all looked small, even the president. As with a basketball game, you can see more on TV - the facial expressions, the reactions of the listeners - than in person. The sound was better on TV as well.
In person, the giants of national politics are all life-sized, and that's a perspective too often lost. They aren't just the source of daily talking points, defined by the "D" or "R" that follows their names. They have individual interests, goals and jobs to do.
As near as I can tell, they have good intentions and patriotic ideals as well, whatever their party. Given the chance, even long-serving Congress members can talk like Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
Before Tuesday's speech, I visited with three members of the Massachusetts House delegation. All have offices facing the Capitol, with the much-prized view of the Dome.
Rep. Richard Neal, D-2nd, quoted one of his Bay State predecessors, John McCormack, who served as House Speaker in the '60s: "If you look at the Capitol rotunda at sunrise or sunset and you're not moved, you have either been in Washington too long, or you should not have come here in the first place."
Neal's office in the Rayburn Building is large by House standards: three rooms and a reception area. One of the rooms is broken into cubicles that, but for the view and the memorabilia, resemble a workplace in a mid-range suburban office park.
Neal, my host at Tuesday's speech, is a senior member of the House Ways & Means Committee, which writes tax laws. He points to the cubicle used by a tax attorney on his staff. "She could make half-a-million dollars in the private sector," he says, "but she works here because she wants to accomplish something."
House Democrats are now in the minority, but they still have work to do. Neal jousted Tuesday with the Republican chairman of Ways & Means over Neal's efforts to add labor and environmental protections to a free trade agreement with Peru. He'll have a voice in the coming debate over corporate and individual tax reform.
Just below Neal's office, Rep. Ed Markey, D-7th, is trying to revive his "Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act," which aims to beef up security against natural disasters and cyber-attacks on the nation's electric system. Under the scariest scenarios I've read, a hacker with access to the right codes could crash a power plant so completely that it could take six months to get the lights back on.
The House passed the bill last June, but it died in the Senate. So did Markey's signature climate change legislation. Markey likes to say he has no problem working with House Republicans; it's the Republicans in the Senate who bring his best efforts to grief.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-3rd, spends most his efforts on the Rules Committee, which holds power over every bill that moves through the House. Eventually he'd like to chair that committee, following in the steps of his mentor, the late Rep. Joe Moakley.
But this session, McGovern has also taken a seat on a committee where you don't find many New Englanders. The House Agriculture Committee is a farm state bastion, where midwesterners tend to follow the priorities of agribusiness.
McGovern has a longstanding interest in development and hunger around the globe and nutrition here at home. A couple of years ago McGovern put his family on a Food Stamp diet - $21 a week - and helped shame the Agriculture Department into raising the allotment. He wanted a seat on the committee this time, he told me, so he could push for food safety, better nutritional standards, reformed agricultural subsidies and an end to the ethanol giveaway.
So it is in all the offices of Congress members on both sides of the Capitol. CNN - or Fox, or MSNBC, depending on the member - tracks the big stories in the corner, the sound on mute. Senators, representatives and their staffs can hold forth on whatever issue the talking heads are debating.
Meanwhile, they work on important things that TV's talking heads rarely mention, like Food Stamps, protecting the electric grid or the provisions in a Peruvian trade agreement.
They also work on less important things that are big deals for the folks back home: Road improvements and federal grants and the problems constituents and businesses are having with the government bureaucracy. Those things aren't as glamorous as a State of the Union address, but they are part of the job, and lawmakers take it seriously.
People love to hate government and love to badmouth politicians. Lord knows, some politicians deserve it - and all of them are obligated to listen to our grumbling.
But they don't deserve the level of vitriol sometimes showered on them, just as one of their colleagues, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, didn't deserve a bullet in the head from a crazed constituent. Our national discourse would be healthier if more people would take the time to see elected leaders not as hulking partisan gladiators but as life-sized individuals.
Rick Holmes, opinion editor of the MetroWest Daily News, blogs at Holmes & Co. He can be reached at rholmes@cnc.com.


The 2018 AMO Training Seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 12th June 2018 at Gemserv offices.
The day will be ideal for those who are either new to their organisation or the metering industry, or those interested in learning about another fuel. Topics will include the history of the gas and electricity industries; an overview of metering technology; key market participants and regulatory framework; and the benefits and challenges of smart metering.


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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { CSSTransitionGroup } from 'react-transition-group';
import './Cell.css';

class Cell extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.colorClasses = ['Cell-blue', 'Cell-green', 'Cell-red'];
  }

  colorClass() {
    if (this.props.win) {
      return 'Cell-gold';
    }
    return this.colorClasses[this.props.value - 1];
  }

  render() {
    const { onClickCell, value, cycle, win } = this.props;

    return (
      <CSSTransitionGroup
        component="div"
        className="Cell"
        onClick={!win && onClickCell}
        transitionName="Cell-flip"
        transitionEnterTimeout={300}
        transitionLeaveTimeout={300}
      >

          <div className={`Cell-panel ${this.colorClass()}`}>

              {cycle}

      </CSSTransitionGroup>
    );
  }
}

export default Cell;

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