745 is your good luck charm this season. Every time you see it something good happens. The divine angels have been trying to reach you. The have a few words for you regarding your well being.
Change is a situation brought about by number meaning 745. This is a radicalization of events. You are used to a certain way of life. You have had a lot of freedom in the past. Someone has joined your family or work place. This person comes with a certain system that you dislike. It tends to complicate issues.
This change has been planned and seen through by the universe. You need to embrace this change. You will understand the need for this revolution one day. You will thank the angel numbers for advising you.
Number symbolism for 745 has quite a number of signals to give. Number 7 is a sign of holiness. It means innocents and lack of taint. Number 4 is a sign of back up. It is a signal that the angels have your back. Number 5 is a sign of knowledge. It is the ability to retain and use information when need be. 74 meaning is sign of possessions. It means abundance and sufficient materials. 45 is a sign of caution. It means looking before you leap.
Choice is a signal given by recurring number 745. This is differentiating options and laying them on one side. The side you lay on should be beneficial as opposed to risky and dangerous. You have a number of options. You have planned your life in a certain way. The universe will approve of the decision you make. Just listen to your gut. Sitting on the fence is fool's gold. Make a decision and start moving towards it.
Encouragement is a word that comes from angel number 745. This is the feeling of renewed energy to continue with a mission. You are derailing from your calling. There are things that are taking your attention away from the prize. You need to seek encouragement.
Talk to people who are dealing with the same situation. Go and talk to a man of faith. Some meditation therapy would also come in handy. Find a way to help yourself. Encouragement is a sign of renewed hope. The angels have given their sermons. Sit and analyze them.


Is that the best that you could do? Is that the best we can do?
"You're gonna be massive it's a matter of when"
Is that the best we could do? Do we owe it all to you?
That's the best that you can do? It's time to take on something new?
Is that the best you could do? And do we owe it all to you?
Is that the best you can do? Do we owe it all to you?


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How does language comprise the implicit or explicit curriculum of teaching and learning in multicultural science settings? Building on a growing interest in the ways in which language and literacy practices interact with science teaching and learning to facilitate or obstruct successful student outcomes, this book contributes to scholarship on the role of language in developing classroom scientific communities of practice, expands that work by highlighting the challenges faced specifically by ethnic- and linguistic-"minority" students and their teachers in joining those communities, and showcases exemplary teaching and research initiatives for helping to meet these challenges.
Offering teacher practitioners and researchers in the fields of science education and multicultural education lenses through which they can critically consider the myriad of classroom settings, instructional approaches, curricular materials, and scientific topics involved in what it means to teach science while pointedly addressing concerns about equity of educational opportunity, this volume serves as a powerful resource for linking theory and practice. End-of-chapter reflection questions and engagement activities facilitate discussion round these issues and provide rich opportunities for the reader to consider the implications of each chapter for science instruction and research and to apply insights developed in a real-world science teaching and learning contexts.
Katherine Richardson Bruna is Assistant Professor of Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Human Sciences, Iowa State University.
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Image Union, episode 0304
Two part Image Union episode featuring "King of the Z's" by Stephen Winer and Karl Teidemann and "North Star Racers" by Cindy Neal.
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0:50Copy video clip URL "King of the Z's" by Stephen Winer and Karl Teidemann. Color and black and white film. This film is a "mockumentary" that sets itself up as a documentary about the low budget production studios in Hollywood. The film features interviews with the "actors" and "directors" who explain how the crew would make do with little to no budget. The anecdotes are funny, such as the fact that the director found a way to give the illusion of foreign locales by projecting slides from people's vacations and having the actors act in front of them. We see clips from the "movies" (such as "Othello" starring talking ducks).
18:50Copy video clip URL "North Star Racers" by Cindy Neal. Color video. Short documentary about dogsled racing set to music. It is composed mainly of shots of the dogs pulling the sleds, but also has a small amount of interviews with the people who race the dogs. "I've got a friend who's in the paratroopers, and he says the next best thing to jumping out of an airplane is riding a dog team. I love it."
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show produced by Tom Weinberg and Ken Solarz; individual segments produced by Stephen Winer and Karl Teidemann, and Cindy Neal
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About Cindy Neal: "She was the director of the Center for New Television." - TW
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I have been looking for this film for 30 years after seeing a few clips on the David Letterman show- Thanks for posting it.


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Sound analysis is a computer-aided acoustic measurement technique which is used as a diagnostic tool in the MARTIN SCHLESKE MASTER STUDIO FOR VIOLINMAKING. Sound analysis is used to show the sound radiated by the violin's eigenmodes of vibration in a spatial form – an individual "resonance profile". The resonance profile provides the acoustic data needed for subsequent analysis of the harmonic structure (levels of the fundamentals and harmonics) and for psychoacoustic evaluation (excitation of the inner ear). Based on the physical analysis, "musical information" is gained. This information is presented in the form of "colored maps". Comparing the results for different instruments helps provide very clear visual insight.
The spatial level differences in the radiated sound have their acoustic origin in the mode shapes of the resonances. Modal analysis is the only way to study the individual mode shapes. On the other hand, sound analysis is a tool which makes it possible to measure the acoustic efficiency of these resonances. When combined, modal analysis and sound analysis become a comprehensive acoustic diagnostic tool for violin research by allowing investigation of the acoustic origin as well as the acoustic efficiency of the sound radiated by an instrument.
sound pressure p divided by bridge force F as function of frequency f (x-axis) and radiation angle around the instrument. As a result the resonances of the instrument show up as peaks in the spectrum.
The following diagram shows the resonance profile of the above shown Stradivarius in comparison with a modern violin (Schleske Op. 105, ano 2008). The non-averaged resonance profile shows the power of single resonances. They are responsible for the instrument's tonal colour.
Zur Messung: Messung von 6 Übertragungsfunktionen (FRF) mit Abstrahlwinkel (Längengrade) j=0...300°; Dj=60°. Anregung des Instrumentes über Impuls an Stegoberkante-IV: 442x mit Impulshammerpendel. Hammer PCB 086C80. Aufnahme über SPM B&K 2237, FFT-Analysator: Quattro Data Physics; Software SignalCalc ACE.
Averaging over a certain frequency band allows to realize the overall distribution of energy. The diagram below shows an averaging over a bandwidth of a musical tierce.
A soloist's violin needs to have a high resonance strength which can only be achieved by a high tone wood quality.
The following diagram shows the resonance profile of the same modern violin (Schleske Op. 105) in comparison with a J.B.Guadagnini (anno 174…) which is being played by a famous soloist.
During a two-year research project (1999-2000) sponsored by the European Commission, the MARTIN SCHLESKE MASTER STUDIO FOR VIOLINMAKING had the opportunity to develop a method for use in analyzing the sound radiated by violins and presenting it in a manner that corresponds to our hearing. The aim was to obtain significant insights into the relationship between criteria for subjective rating of the sound of a violin and quantities that can be objectively measured from the radiated sound. We will consider some of these research results below.
Characterization of an instrument in terms of its strengths and weaknesses.
During the first step, the instrument's spatial sound radiation is measured. The measurement process is based on impulse excitation. A computer is then used to compute the "transfer function".
Then, we can see the resonance profile for the violin (here, the "Schreiber" Stradivarius from the year 1712). Starting with this transfer function, characteristic resonance differences between different violins begin to be revealed.
This measurement begins to gain musical relevance once the harmonic spectrum is computed for all of the playable notes and presented in the form of the colored contour diagram shown here. Colored contour lines are used to represent the sound of the violin like the peaks of a mountain range: The "peaks and valleys" in the sound become visible along with strong and weak notes. This also allows us to obtain an objective visual translation of attributes such as "brighter sound", "darker sounding", "even", "uneven" and so on.
The MARTIN SCHLESKE MASTER STUDIO FOR VIOLINMAKING would like to acknowledge the EC funding (CRAFT programme in DG Research) for our project entitled "Material investigations and advanced methods of production and quality control for bowed instruments". Details can be found in the EC project database at www.cordis.lu under project reference number BRST985465.


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The Scot in British North America
Chapter IV, Part A The Company and Colonization
In this chapter it is intended to bring the history of British settlement in the North-West down to the present time, including the disputes regarding the Charter of the Hudson Bay Company, the purchase of its vested rights, the formation of the Province of Manitoba, the Red River rebellion, and other matters of more recent date. After the union of the Companies, as already stated, the settlers met with a new enemy, against which forts and ammunition were futile, the grasshopper. But there was still another fruitful source of trouble and loss which intervals marred and retarded the progress of the co1ony. In 1826, and much more recently, in 1852 and 1861, the sudden thawing of the snows upon the banks of the great rivers which form the arteries of the North-West, caused wide-spread desolation by floods, on some occasions covering hundreds of square miles. The year 1826 was one of the most disastrous in the history of the Settlement. It was ushered in with a terrible season of want and suffering amongst the hunters, the story of whose appalling destitution on the plains seemed to indicate a sum of misery beyond the power either of the Company or the colony to do more than slightly alleviate with their slender resources. The prospect was not less desperate than the cry of India for help a short time ago. Mr. Donald Mackenzie was Governor of the colony at that time, as well as the Company's representative at Fort Garry, and what could be accomplished was cheerfully set about, but the success of any relieving movement was not so much problematical as hopeless. The starving people were scattered over great distances; the snow was unusually deep, and there was no mode of conveyance but by dog-sleighs, and this was tedious and difficult. Sympathy and assistance were freely extended to the poor creatures, and all that thought or pity could suggest was promptly put in execution. The scenes on the road from Pembina to the colony were harrowing in the extreme, and the feeling of utter despondency which prevailed was only dispelled by a great calamity at the colony itself.
The severe frost, and the fearful snow-storms which had wrecked the hopes of the hunters, killed their horses, and starved or chilled to death many of themselves, their wives and children, soon wrought mischief in another shape when the iron rule of winter was broken by the summer sun. There had been drifting snows of unusual depth; the thermometer had fallen to 45 degrees below zero; the ice measured five feet seven inches in thickness, and, when on the 2nd of May the great thaw came, there was an alarming inundation On that day, just before the ice started, Red River rose nine feet in the twenty-four hours—an unprecedented occurrence even in the traditions of the Indians. Soon the whole country appeared like a vast lake. Human lives were destroyed, cattle, horses and every living thing that encountered the flood was swept out of existence; the houses were demolished, the movable property, with the debris of buildings, carriages, furniture, and all "were seen floating along over the widely extended plain, to be engulfed in Lake Winnipeg." The height to which the water had risen above its ordinary level was fifteen feet. When it subsided, the tale may best be told in the language of the prices current, "Wheat, which had fallen to 2s. per bushel at the commencement of the disaster, now rose to 15s.; beef from 1/2d, per pound to 3d." It was not until June 13th that the colonists were again able to draw near to the site of their old habitations. [Hargrave: Red River, p. 81. Also in Ross: Red River Settlement, pp. 101-105, where a graphic account of the inundations is given by an eye-witness.]
During these early years of peace, several events occurred of considerable importance to the struggling colony. The distresses of the settlers had placed them more or less at the mercy of the Hudson Bay officers, and the result was an immense amount of extortion, either in the shape of overcharges or of usurious interest. Mr. Halkett, one of Lord Selkirk's executors, put a stop to this nefarious system. Armed with a decision pronounced by Lord Ellenborough, he compelled the local Governor to strike off five per cent. from all accounts, and to withdraw the claim of five per cent. for interest altogether "as a fraudulent and legal transaction." [See Ross, p. 68, where the Lord Chief Justice's judgment on this point is given.] In future, English goods imported at York Factory were to bear 33 1/2 per cent. on their prime cost, and 25 per cent, on their arrival at the colony, and nothing additional. Mr. Halkett also discovered that, in order to enhance the price of provisions, the Company's servants had secreted large quantities in their depositories. Two experiments were tried at this period which resulted in financial collapse. The first was the formation of the "Buffalo Wool company," a joint-stock concern by which everybody at Red River was to be suddenly enriched. The idea was that, as owing to the prevalence of wolves at the time, sheep-raising was precarious, a substitute must be found for wool, and the speculators proposed the shaggy hair of the buffalo. Counting the raw material as nothing, they soon reared many financial castles in the air. Expensive machinery was imported, and an extravagant establishment set up. Hides rose in price, and agriculture was set aside in favour of buffalo-hunting. Had the visionary scheme succeeded, a step backward into barbarism would have been taken; but the result proved to be an ignominious collapse.
The other scheme was of a different stamp, but was also foredoomed to failure. Lord Selkirk, who well knew the rude sort of husbandry his Highlanders had been accustomed to, had projected an experimental farm and dairy. The "Hay Field Farm" was placed in charge of a Scotsman of great agricultural experience named Laidlaw, specially brought out for the purpose; "but," says Mr. Ross (p. 77), "in this, as in every other attempt to benefit the colony in those early days, mismanagement, disappointment and ruin, were the only results. Expensive buildings were erected, good labourers and servants employed; "and yet all the time there was not an ox to plough or a cow to milk." Finally the manor-house or mansion, which had cost £600 was accidentally burned, just at its completion, in a drunken orgy. "After several years' labour, waste and extravagance, every vestige of property on the farm had disappeared"—the experiment having sunk £2,000 of Lord Selkirk's money. In view of all that had thus befallen the settlers, it may surely be said that the most patient and unyielding perseverance was never so sorely tried before; and it speaks volumes for the singular energy and persistence of the Scot, that, after so many years of loss, suffering, hardship and disappointment in every form, they continued to hold on with dogged pertinacity until they at last achieved a complete victory for themselves and for civilization.
The union of the Pembina settlers with the colonists of Red River, was another event worthy of note, inasmuch as it placed in juxtaposition the Scottish, the French-Canadians, and the half-breeds, in much the same relation to each other as they still remain. When all the immigrants were united they numbered about 1,500; and the French, finding their old occupation gone, and being also in dread of the Sioux raid, betook themselves to the colony. These alien elements did not mingle well together; the French half-breeds "squatted" on the land, but they never attempted cultivation—the Indian penchant for hunting, fishing and a roving life generally, being too strong to be eliminated. The Scottish settlers, who retained the strong religious feelings they had brought from home, felt disquieted about the future of their children, liable, as they were, to contamination from the semi-savage influences about them. A separation was resolved upon, the Scots remaining on their lands at the centre of the colony; the French were settled in one parish, St. Boniface, now the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishopric; whilst the half-breeds, under Cuthbert Grant, were removed to "White Horse Plains," twenty miles up the Assiniboine; the Forks being the common centre.- - - Mr. Ross (p. 81) is probably right in his opinion that this separation was, on the whole, a mistake. The Canadians and half-breeds gradually grew together, and although they and the Scots have generally lived on passable terms, there has never been a cordial understanding, and party spirit has continued to grow more intense from that day to this.
Meanwhile agricultural progress, though slow, was continuous. Successive importations of cattle had raised the quality and amount of the stock, and Governor Simpson gave a powerful impetus to the settlement by promising to take all the Company's supplies from the colony. This stimulated the people to extraordinary exertions, with the unfortunate result that, after the Company's wants were supplied, there was no market for the surplus. Prices rapidly fell, and Red River suffered from all the consequences of an evil heard of in later times and more settled communities—that of over-production. But the want of markets was not the only difficulty in the path of the farmers. There were not the necessary appliances for ordinary agricultural operations. At that time there was not to be found in the whole colony, it is said, either a smut-mill, or fanning machine, to clean the grain, and but few barns to thrash it in, and still fewer kilns to dry it; much, therefore, of the grain had, of necessity, to be thrashed on an ice-floor, in the open air, during all weathers, and then ground, in a frozen state, and immediately packed off in casks of green wood, furnished by the Company itself. It was the same with butter and all other products of the dairy and farm. It was no wonder that the difficulties of their situation, with lack of experience and judgment, should have caused many failures. The Orkney men, a frugal and industrious people, from whom sprang such hardy explorers as Dr. John Rae, who first ascertained positively the fate of Sir John Franklin—were wanting still more than their mainland brethren in agricultural skill and resource; they were poor and could not, procure the necessary conveniences, and yet they toiled on and prospered in the land.
A bare reference to Governor Simpson's attempt to establish a second experimental farm, under Chief Factor McMillan, will suffice. It was a failure, and cost the Company £3,500 sterling; worst of all the Governor, whose hobby it had been, lost his self-control, and exclaimed in the bitterness of his heart:—"Red River is like a Lybian tiger, the more I try to tame it, the more savage it becomes; for every step I try to bring it forward, disappointments drag it two backward." Then followed the "Assiniboine Wool Company," in which the sheep was to take the place of the buffalo; but the views of its projectors were too extravagant, and the new project followed its predecessor into the limbo of abortive speculations. This was also a device of Governor Simpson's, and that it failed was not his fault. He desired to divert the people from over-production in grain, and if his agents had only carried out the scheme reasonably, it might have succeeded; but, as a resident there remarks, "The people of the Red River grasp at anything new, as hawk pounces upon a bird, and then abandon it without waiting with patience for the anticipated result." The catastrophe, in this case, resulted from over-eagerness at the outset, and want of constancy in the sequel.
In 1835 and 1836, a change took place in the management of the Red River Settlement. After Lord Selkirk's death his executors attempted to direct its affairs; but finding the task impracticable they transferred the government to the Company. The time arrived when this anomalous state of things was to be succeeded by the Company's rule as proprietors of the colony. In 1834, it may be as well to note, the first outbreak of the half-breeds, thoughtless, thriftless, and dependent as usual, startled both the Company and the colony; but no great harm befell the latter except the necessity of submitting to extortionate charges and demands. The Hudson Bay officers had thus two totally different sorts of people to deal with. The half-breeds required support, control and advice at every turn, whilst the colonists, true to their national genius, were proud, self-reliant, impatient of restraint, and passionately fond of freedom and independence. The former were always in a state of tutelage, expected everything from the Company and complained vigorously if they were denied what they sought. The Scots, on the other hand, could not work the paternal system, and rebelled against the leading-strings of the Company. Notwithstanding the honest desire of Governor Simpson, and many of his subordinates, to assist the Colony, Hudson Bay rule was always galling to the true-born Briton, and in addition to that irregular, arbitrary and capricious.
As the representatives of Lord Selkirk took little or no active interest in the progress of the settlement, the Hudson Bay Company offered to purchase their proprietary rights in the colony. Altogether, the Earl had expended no less than £85,000 upon his scheme—three times as much, says Mr. Ross, as the whole colony would have brought if put up at auction at any time in the first twenty years of its existence. In 1836, an agreement was come to under which the Company paid the heirs of his lordship £84,000 in full satisfaction of their claims, proprietary or otherwise, saving only the rights of those who had purchased lands between the years 1811 and 1836. Strange to say this transfer was effected without consultation with the people of the colony, who were made over as unceremoniously as French Alsace or Turkish Bosnia to a power they were not by any means attached to ["During all these political changes, the colonists were kept in the dark never having been put in possession of their intellectual rights, by knowing what was going on, or to whom the colony belonged. Nor was it till many years after the settlement became virtually the Company's own property, that the fact was made known to the people, and then by mere chance. Till this eventuality the people were under the persuasion that the colony still belonged to the executors of Lord Selkirk, and were often given to understand so. By this political finesse, or shall we rather call it, political absurdity, the Company preserved themselves clear of all responsibility, whatever transpired." Ross: Red River, pp. 173-4.] This step, and more especially the secret manner of it, only tended to widen the breach already open between the Company and the colonists. Under the new regime, a Council was constituted, and a brief code of laws, fiscal, judicial and administrative was drawn out. These changes might, of themselves, have aroused the suspicions of the colonists, had not the country been under the Company as representing Lord Selkirk's representatives for some years past. That the Company desired to conceal the transfer of the Selkirk rights is clear from the fact that when the Church of England chaplain—the only Protestant minister at hand—refused any concession to presbyterian feelings touching the Liturgy, the answer to their remonstrances was an evasive reference to Lord Selkirk's executors, who had no longer any more to do with the matter than the President of the United States.
The history of the colony during succeeding years, was one of considerable fluctuation; still no temporary check to its prosperity stayed the march of progress. The few incidents, it may be well to mention, may be compressed into a paragraph. The first petit jury under the new code was empannelled on the 28th of April, 1836, to try a prisoner for theft. The unfortunate, who attained a bad eminence on this occasion, was Louis St. Denis, and one part of his sentence consisted of a public flogging. A German wielded the "cat" on this occasion, and he was permitted to perform his novel task without molestation. But he had no sooner stepped out of the ring than the mob began to raise cries of "stone him," and he was marked out for public execration under the name of "Bourreau," the hangman. So unaccustomed were the people to the execution of a legal sentence, and so venial an offence were theft and violence in their eyes, that the punishment of St. Denis seemed to the French a gross violation of the liberty of the subject. At an early period (1839), a Scot named Thom—Judge Thom, as he was popularly called—became Recorder of Rupert's Land. He was a lawyer of ability; but there were two objections to him. He had been no favourite with the French party of Lower Canada during Papineau's rebellion, and therefore the French portion of the population at Red River were prejudiced against him from the start. Besides that, he was interested in the prosperity of the Company, was its officer during pleasure and therefore, in any case between the Company and the colony, he was looked upon as an interested party. Although Mr. Ross. from whose work these facts are taken, was no admirer of the Company's procedure in many respects, he was clearly of opinion that the monopoly of trade was decidedly a benefit to the population, and more especially to the Indians. He regards the cry of the French and half-breeds "Le commerce est libre"— "Trade is free"—as merely a pretence used by lawless and ungovernable men to cover rapine and violence. Into these disputes, as well as the controversies concerning Judge Thom's decisions and Major Caldwell's method of administration, it would be beside the present purpose to enter. It may not be amiss, however, to notice here once more the striking contrast, apparent to every visitor, between the frugal, provident and intelligent Scots and the other colonists or quasi colonists around them. One illustration in the shape of a scrap of conversation between Mr. Ross and a friend with whom he was riding about on a tour of inspection may suffice. At "a place called the middle-church, my friend made a halt, and turning to me observed, 'This part of the colony we have just passed, is the thickest settled I have yet seen and, if we may judge from outward appearances-—horses, barn-yards, parks and inc1osures – the land of industry has been indeed busy.' 'Yes,' said I, 'these are the Scotch settlers, the emigrants sent hither by Lord Selkirk; the people who have suffered so much, and to whose fortitude and perseverance the colony owes that it is what you see it this day.' 'This spot,' he rejoined 'is really full of interest.'" (p. 201).
The predominance of the Scot during the early years of the settlement did not, of course continue, as new elements were introduced by immigration from other branches of the English-speaking people. [The writer, already quoted so often, remarks this fact with a touch of patriotic regret: The first ten years of their sojourn in the colony, the Scots were almost the only settlers; the next ten years they were the majority (of course the French and half-breeds are taken into account here); but the last ten, they have been the minority; and, by a combination of untoward circumstances, they can hardly now be said to retain their nationality, being a mere fraction in the mass of the community. It is as if they had come to Red River merely to endure its hardships, and as trusty pioneers to bear the burden and heat of the day, where a people of less hardihood and perseverance must necessarily have succumbed." – Red River Settlement, p. 343.] They broke up the soil and planted it; others reap the fruit of their honest toil and patient endurance. The glory of having first raised the standard of religion and civilization, in these western solitudes, is theirs. The Scots were the advance guard of that peaceful British army of colonization, which has followed them to see the fertile land, and to possess it. The assumption of the North-West by the Crown and its incorporation into the Dominion, have made new work for Scotsmen, not quite so heavy and disheartening, but still hard enough to try the sterling Caledonian mettle. Up the valleys of the Assiniboine, along the branches of the Saskatchewan, on Peace and the Qu'Appelle, the avant çouriers of North Britain, are making their way, making the crooked straight and the rough places smooth for the settlers of years and centuries yet to come. If the Scot has lost ground at Red River, there is still a greater Scotland ready to his hand in the boundless prairies far beyond.
This is not the place to enter into the events which led to the purchase of the Hudson Bay Company's proprietary rights. The causes of discontent amongst the settlers were manifold. They were hampered by the paternal restraints of the monopoly, which without being absolutely unfriend1y, was deeply impressed with the truth of the North-Wester's maxim that "colonization is at all times unfavourab1e to the fur trade." The Hudson Bay people did not, like the Montreal traders plot "the downfall of the colony, by fair means or foul," but, however kindly disposed such Governors as Sir George Simpson might be, their interests were distinctly opposed to any expansion of the area of settlement. In addition to the natural discontent of the Colonists at being governed by a trading Company, through an irresponsible Council, the regions to the west were becoming better known in Canada, in the United States and in Europe. Moreover, the period during which the Hudson Bay Company were licensed to hold the territory was to terminate in 1859, and a vigorous agitation was commenced to oppose its renewal. This license had been granted by Act of Parliament in 1821; it expired and was renewed in 1838 for twenty-one years; and strong efforts were early put forward to prevent any extension of the term. The people of the colony, and above all the Canadian Parliament set about collecting information, procuring legal opinions, and urging the assumption of the whole territory by the Crown, and its annexation to Canada. A voluminous literature was accumulated upon the subject, but so far as its object was to impeach the validity of the old charter, the result was a failure. It is true that the Act confirming the grant by Charles II. had long since expired by effluxion of time, but as the law-officers of the Crown showed conclusively, it had been cited in a number of statutes passed at different times and thus confirmed by the Imperial Parliament over and over again. Canada despatched Chief Justice Draper to England to present her case against the Company, and, in 1857-58, an exploring expedition was sent out under Messrs. Dawson and Hind, to make a careful survey of the territory. Meanwhile a Committee of the House of Commons had investigated the subject minutely in all its bearings. Its report was, on the whole, favourable to the company, but although it did not recommend a renewal of the exclusive license to trade, no conclusion was come to as to the future government of the North-West, and matters remained as they were. [The whole spirit of the report returned to the House of Commons was such as to justify the Company and its friends in believing that no serious fault had been found with its management. The inquiry, however, produced no immediate effect. The Committee recommended that a bill should be introduced by the Government embodying their views with reference to a change in the management of the country, and expressed a hope that such grave interests being at stake, all parties would approach the subject in a spirit of conciliation and justice, but the recommendation has never been acted on." – Hargrave's Red River, p. 141.] In 1868, however, the subject was finally set at rest. In that year, the Hon. (afterwards Sir) George E. Cartier and the Hon. William Macdougall, were despatched to England by the Canadian Cabinet in order to negotiate with the Home Government for the transfer of the territory to the Dominion. The validity of the charter had perforce to be admitted, and all that remained was to come to terms with the Hudson Bay Company. By the terms of the agreement thus concluded the sum of £300,000 sterling was to be paid to the Company, as well as grants of land around its trading-posts, amounting in all to fifty thousand acres. In addition to this, it is to have, so soon as the territory is surveyed and laid out in townships, one-twentieth of all the land in the great fertile belt south of the north branch of the Saskatchewan. The privilege of trade is, of course, retained, but the monopoly exists no longer. [See A Popular History of Canada: By the Rev. W.H. Withrow, M.A., p. 537.]
These terms were absurdly liberal to the Company; it was certainly not entitled to anything approaching so extravagant a land-grant as was thus conceded to it. Already the grant at Red River is an obstruction quite as injurious to the progress of the district as if the lands were locked up in mortmain. The impropriety of the grant will appear more evidently year by year, as the Saskatchewan valley filled up, but expostulation with the Imperial Government, or the Company, was vain. Canada was determined to have the region as part of the new Dominion at all hazards, and was compelled to pay for it at an exorbitant rate. In April, 1869, the Dominion Parliament fulfilled that part of the compact which related to the indemnity, and constituted a provisional government for the entire country, under the name of the North-West Territory. On the first of the following December, a formal surrender of the region was to take place, and affairs were put in train for taking possession. Suddenly an unforeseen trouble supervened, which, for the time, caused great excitement and alarm, and, also temporarily kept the Dominion out of its newly acquired possessions. The history of these events will be found fully detailed in works specially devoted to Canadian history in general or of this region in particular. Still a brief account of the so-called Rebellion seems necessary in order to complete the sketch attempted here of the colony. [See Begg's History of the Red River Rebellion, and also Withrow's History, chap. xivii. where an admirable concise account of the episode is given.]
In the month of September, the Hon. William Macdougall who had been appointed first Governor, approached the territory by way of the United States in order to enter upon the duties of his office.
The events which followed have been variously interpreted by those who have undertaken to relate them, and perhaps it is even now impossible to apportion the blame justly to the different parties concerned. Much of the excitement at Fort Garry was unquestionably due to a misunderstanding largely the fruit of ignorant fears on the part of the Métis or French half-breeds. Some time before the arrival of Mr. Macdougall the storm had been brewing, and it, at first, took the form of sullen apprehensions and visible uneasiness. A party of surveyors, under Col. Dennis, had been sent from Canada to run lines for roads, and lay out townships. Mr. Begg states that the half-breeds at once took the alarm, and, although they made no overt attack upon the surveyors, had very grave suspicions of Canada's purpose. Their alarm was caused by a suggestion that it was the intention of the new Governor and Council to dispossess them of their lands, and a causeless panic ensued, such as has been witnessed in more civilized countries in connection with railway enterprise. The Company's friends deny that its officers had anything to do with the feverish state of public feeling. It is their contention that all the trouble which ensued was the fruit of mischievous agitation got up by the Nor'-Wester, a rather lively little paper published in the settlement, and by a few turbulent spirits recently imported into the colony. These men, it is alleged, went about exciting discontent with the Company, and, by their overbearing conduct, causing profound distrust amongst the half-breeds. Hitherto the settlement had been at peace, happy in its ignorance of politics and party spirit, and contented under the benign rule of its Hudson Bay guardians. Moreover, the surveyors and others are charged with "squatting upon," or rather claiming without any attempt at occupation, all the vacant lands they can get at. [Begg: The Creation of Manitoba, or A History of the Red River Troubles, chap. 1. It may be remarked that this work exhibits a strong bias in favour of the Company, and lays the entire responsibility upon the malcontents at the Settlement, Mr. Macdougall and the Canadian Government. The statements in it, therefore, must be taken with considerable reserve.]
On the 20th of October, Mr. Macdougall was met near the boundary line by an armed force, and compelled to withdraw again to Pembina in the State of Minnesota. The discontent of the half-breeds had culminated in open revolt; a provisional government was appointed under the guidance of Louis Riel, who acted as Secretary with John Bruce as President. The Hudson Bay Governor, at this time, was Mr. William Mactavish, a well-known name in the annals of the North-West. Donald Mactavish, a native of Stratherick, Scotland, was as already noted, one of the partners of the North-West Company. For about a quarter of a century he was employed in trade and exploration, visiting and conciliating the Indians, with whom he was in great favor and in promoting generally the interests of his co-partnery. He had projected an expedition with the object of striking a route across the continent for trade with China, and after much hardship and danger, had reached the mouth of the Columbia River when he and six companions were lost near Cape Disappointment in the North Pacific, on the 22nd of May, 1815. [Morgan: Celebrated Canadians, &c., p. 153.] Governor William Mactavish had been resident ruler of Assiniboia for some years when the usurpation at once relieved him of further trouble for a season. Fort Garry was seized, with all the stores, rifles, cannon and ammunition; and, that having been done, the party met Mr. Macdougall, as already stated, near the border, and forced him to withdraw.
The Hon. William Macdougall, though a Canadian, bears a name which clearly proclaims his Scottish origin. According to Morgan's Parliamentary Companion his grandfather, John Macdougall, was a Scot by birth, and a U. E. Loyalist attached to the British Commissariat service during the American Revolution. After the termination of hostilities, he settled in Nova Scotia, but subsequently removed to Upper Canada. William Macdougall was born in Toronto, and has taken an active part in public affairs for many years past. He was early connected with the press, both agricultural and political, having conducted the Canada Farmer and the Canadian Agriculturist in the interest of the tillers of the soil, and a Reform journal, the North American, for a period of seven years, until its absorption by the Globe with which he was connected also for some years. In 1847 he had already been admitted as an attorney; but only applied for and obtained a call to the Bar in 1862. He has been a prominent member of several Canadian administrations, a member of the Ontario Legislature for South Simcoe, and, once more, of the Dominion Parliament, as M.P. for Halton. The check which the new Governor and his party met on the frontier, although it had been threatened, was hardly expected; but it completely overturned Mr. Macdougall's plans for the development of the country. It is much to be regretted that this should have been the case. The hon. gentleman possessed the requisite abilities for the onerous task he had undertaken; he was active, intelligent, and well-fitted by his tact and acquaintance with public affairs; and it must have been deeply mortifying to him to have fallen a victim to the ignorant passions of an unruly mob, before the opportunity had been given him to declare his intentions and to unfold his policy at Fort Garry.
Col. Dennis was a Canadian officer of volunteers, and so soon as Mr. Macdougall had met the armed force of rebels and retreated, the gallant Colonel was commissioned to organize a loyal force to suppress the revolt. Forty-five of the men, however, were taken prisoners by the malcontents at Fort Garry and committed to prison; and thenceforward Riel and his associates were masters of the position. At a convention on Feb. 7th a new government was formed with the noted French half-breed as President; a bill of rights was drawn up, in which local self-government was demanded, together with a general amnesty. An attempt to quell the disturbances was made by Major Boulton, with some hundreds of men. Fort Garry was to be attacked; but as Riel released the prisoners, the movement was abandoned; but the Major, who was arrested with his followers on their way home, was, after a mock trial, sentenced to death. He was with difficulty saved from his fate; but afterwards, a less fortunate prisoner, named Thomas Scott, was brutally murdered, in spite of the exertions of the Rev. George Young, the Wesleyan minister, and Mr. Donald A. Smith, of the Hudson Bay Company. The wide-spread horror which prevailed throughout Ontario precipitated matters. In May an Act was passed by the Dominion Parliament creating the Province of Manitoba out of the Red River Settlement, and it was admitted as a member of the Confederation on the 16th of July, 1870. The remaining, and, of course, far the larger portion of the territory, was to be governed by the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, assisted by a Council of eleven members.
Riel's early success had evidently turned his head, and his conduct throughout was arbitrary, unjust and vindictive. Even after Mr. Macdougal's departure from Pembina eastward (18th December), the half-breed President was never at ease. He managed to raise supplies by forced levies upon the Company and the settlers; arrested Governor Mactavish, and abused him in violent language, whilst confined to bed by illness; put Mr. Halkett in irons; imprisoned Dr. Cowan; and threatened Mr. Bannatyne who endeavoured to act as peacemaker; strove to deprive Mr. Donald A. Smith of his credentials as Commissioner; and was guilty of other acts suggested by a violent and impulsive nature. One of his officers, in fact, his judiciary, was James Ross, a Scottish half-breed, the son of Alexander Ross from whose works extracts have been made in former pages. He was a young man of considerable ability, and his early promise attracted the special attention of the Bishop of Rupert's Land when studying at St John's College, Red River. In 1853 he entered the University of Toronto, and graduated with honours in 1857. In 1860, on the retirement of Mr. Buckingham (late Deputy-Minister of the Interior) from the proprietary of the Nor'-Wester, Mr. Ross entered into partnership with Mr. William Coldwell, the remaining member of the firm. In 1864 Dr. Schultz, M. P., purchased Ross's share, and the latter left for Canada, where he was engaged at Toronto for a considerable time upon the staff of the Globe. Mr. Ross had always taken strong ground against the Company, and he was not more favourable to the scheme of government proposed to be set up by Canada. His sympathies were, therefore, to a constitutional extent with Riel and his followers; but he had no share in the violent and arbitrary acts of the so-called President. The provisional government appointed him Chief Justice, and he is said to have drawn up the petition of right. When at the University, he appeared to his fellow-students to combine the steady, plodding and cautious character of the Scot with the fertility of resource and the quiet reserve of the Indian, and the pride of both races. He was cut off in his prime, and perhaps it may not seem unkind, especially for a fellow-graduate of their common Alma Mater, to say that a life, which might have been of essential service in his native settlement was marred by being involved in its turbulent, yet altogether insignificant party strifes.
In the month of June Col. Garnet Wolseley, who afterwards succeeded in a tougher task under the Equator, started with a force of twelve hundred men to oust Louis Riel from the government of the country. With the exception of a company or two of the 60th Rifles, this body was composed of Canadian volunteers. On the 24th of August, after considerable difficulties had been surmounted, the expedition arrived at Fort Garry, only to find that Riel had abdicated and left his staff of office to anyone who might choose to assume it. Early in September, the Hon. Adams George Archibald arrived, and assumed the duties of the Lieutenant Governorship. [See Withrow's "Popular History," pp. 541, 542.] Mr. Archibald, however, speedily resigned, preferring the Lieutenant-Governorship of Nova Scotia, his native Province, to the vice-royalty at Red River. He was succeeded by the Hon. Alexander Morris, the son of a Scot, who fills a considerable figure in the history of Ontario, and, especially of the eastern portion of it. He was born at Perth, a little more than half a century since, and was educated partly at the Scottish University of Glasgow, and partly at our Canadian University of Montreal, which was founded by a Scot, the Hon. Peter McGill. He has served as President of the St. Andrew's Society at Montreal, and as Trustee of the Presbyterian University of Queen's College. Mr. Morris attracted notice, as a young man by his pen, and amongst the subjects which attracted his attention, nearly twenty years before, was the future of the Great North-West, over which he was now called upon to rule. Mr. Morris did not leave Canada and arrive a perfect stranger at Winnipeg as Lieutenant-Governor, since he had already been Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba,—its first Chief Justice in fact,—for some months previously.
No survey of Scottish work in the North-West, however cursory, can be complete, which fails to give special prominence to the interests of religion, and its foster-sister, education. In the introduction an attempt was made to outline those broad and salient features of the national character as it has been moulded by nature and by man. That sketch will have been drawn in vain, if it has not proved conclusively that the Scot is by virtue of his descent, and must always of necessity be, a religious man in bent and bias, if not in practice. An old legal maxim, the cause of much international strife, affirms that no man can put off his country, as if it were a discarded suit of clothes. In the jurists' sense this dictum has been happily abandoned, but it remains irrefragably true, as applied to individual characteristics, be they physical or intellectual, moral or spiritual. If, as we know, both from science and Scripture, the transgressions of an ancestor are visited upon posterity, with the unfailing sequence of cause and effect, so also are his endowments, whatever they may be, and his qualities and tendencies for good or evil, transmitted to the latest generation. The newest born infant is no isolated atom of humanity, but the last link formed in a living chain whose other extremity is lost in the impenetrable mists and darkness of the past. What he is, historical and congenital tendencies have made man; it is in what he shall become that his responsibility lies.
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Yes, I miss you all and sincere apologies for a long hiatus. You would get to understand better in my next post. Wow, I'm so inspired to write about my thoughts on LEARNING especially with a lot of questions that has popped up with how I started my journey to be an AI expert. Shall we begin?
I remembered vividly when I was assigned my final year project supervisor in my finals and discovered she has a doctorate degree in Artificial Intelligence, I was bent on picking a project topic related to her field because I wanted an A in my finals.
After a lot of research for an AI topic, I settled with building a Dental Expert system. It was a bit sad that I couldn't build this project myself as at then because I had no programming knowledge. I also felt programming was for the smart people and I didn't fall into that category.
I gave my supervisor my project topic, she loved it and gave me the go-ahead to start immediately. Sad as it might sound, I had to outsource the code aspect of the project to someone else as I didn't know how to code then. However, I did carry out a lot of research on coding platforms for my paperwork and also had to pay a couple of visits to a Dentist who helped me with the domain knowledge/engineering part of the project.
I was working as an IT/System technician at a notable private university, I will call my income at that time a good pay because I could afford 3 square meals, a roof over my head and few pleasures of luxury living but at a point, I decided to be deliberate about my career and my boss as at then gave me Database Administration books to read. I started gaining some grounds in Database and felt confident I was killing it. A day came and he told me "even though you think you're good in DB, you should pick programming too because a lot of programmers actually know these things you do". I felt bad about having to pick up programming because I already felt on top of the world with my knowledge with databases.
At this same time, I was watching a fiction series Person of Interest and I had fallen in love with the way a machine could predict the act of terrorism before they occur. It was magical and at the same time, intriguing as it drew me closer to loving the world of AI. I knew AI was going to be part of my career goals at that point. Starting with W3 schools, I started self-learning PHP and would send my code snippet by email to a former classmate of mine who was already in the field.
I resigned from my previous workplace and found myself in Andela. This is where the real learning started for me. As the days passed, I knew I had to be deliberate to begin my career as an AI expert. It was also interesting to me that I started programming because of my interest in AI, I found out via quick chats that people typically fall in love with AI after getting into programming but mine was the other way round.
I decided to jump start my learning and began with a shout out on Devcenter square. I was able to gather people who are interested in Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning/Data science and we started off with a slack group. Please note that at this time, I had no knowledge of what I should or shouldn't learn but what was important was the diversity of people that formed the group — the novices(like me), the beginners, the intermediate and the experts.
Within this great community, resources were shared daily and I started making great use of them. I wouldn't mind to signal the entire group to ask questions on a concept I wasn't cleared with. Oh, I remembered how the Naive Bayes algorithm gave me a hard time before I understood it. Please note it was difficult combining self-learning on the side with my daily job but I was still deliberate about dedicating at least 3hours to machine learning every day.
I also began participating in Kaggle competitions and was quick to seeking advice from experts in the field.
I decided to publish another paper journal on AI related topics which I'm currently working on and also decided to start organizing workshops for the novice. I'm still on a beginner level in the AI world but one thing I'm confident of is the fact that no matter how little you think your knowledge about a concept/field is, you will always have an audience out there. There's also this quote that says "the best way to ascertain you fully understand something is when you can teach others and they are able to understand". I also see it as a way of ascertaining the things I think I know.
I'm currently wrapping up my final project as an Udacity machine learning nano degree student. Though it's been a hectic journey for me but I'm looking forward to writing a code tutorial on what I did. Oh, I also got some books to help my learning, trust me they weren't so cheap especially with the dollar to naira exchange rate.
Learn to own your learning and not depend totally on people to be responsible for how you learn, be deliberate about what you want to learn and be willing to embrace the sacrifices that come with each action. The place of mentors cannot be overemphasized and I have to acknowledge that my mentors made the path slightly smooth for me and that was because I was also keen to learn.
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Q: How to develop a Google sign in to extract details from Google analytics? I am extremely new to Google APIs so forgive me if I'm lack knowledge. I am trying to develop a Google sign-in, provided by Google documentations 2021, to allow any existing Google account links to Google Analytics which I need to extract the details such as ID Token of the google account and view ID from Google analytics as my main objective is to develop a dashboard to pull data from Google analytics based on viewID of the user Google account.
What I want to find out is if it's possible to automate or collect by extracting the ID token, user ID & view ID whenever a user signs in EJS. currently, I am calling the pages from the backend so the Google authentication and authorization are on the server-side.
I am open to suggestions and willing to ask for your contact for discussion.
Google sign in documentation
https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/display-button
helloAnalytics.ejs is a login page
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Hello Analytics Reporting API V4</title>

Hello Analytics Reporting API V4

app.js server-side
app.get("/loginUAT", (req, res) => {
  let scope = [googleScope];
  const oauth2Client = new google.auth.OAuth2(
    clientId,
    clientSecret,
    redirectURI
  );

  let url = oauth2Client.generateAuthUrl({
    access_type: "offline",
    scope: scope,
    state: JSON.stringify({
      callbackUrl: req.body.callbackUrl,
      userID: req.body.userID,
    }),
  });

  console.log(url);

  request(url, (err, response, body) => {
    console.log(`error: ${err}`);
    console.log("statusCode", response && response.statusCode);
    res.send({ url });
  });
});

app.get("/dashboard", async (req, res) => {
  const queryURL = new urlParse(req.url);
  const code = queryParse.parse(queryURL.query).code;
  const oAuth2Client = new google.auth.OAuth2(
    clientId,
    clientSecret,
    redirectURI
  );

  const tokens = await oAuth2Client.getToken(code);
  console.log("token: " + tokens);

  let stepArray = [];

  try {
    const result = await axios({
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        authorization: "Bearer " + tokens.tokens.access_token,
      },
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      url: `https://analyticsreporting.googleapis.com/v4/reports:batchGet`,
      data: {
        reportRequests: [
          {
            viewId: viewId,
            dateRanges: [
              {
                startDate: "2021-06-15",
                endDate: "2021-06-30",
              },
            ],
            metrics: [
              {
                expression: "ga:sessions",
              },
            ],
            dimensions: [
              {
                name: "ga:browser",
              },
            ],
          },
        ],
      },
    });

    var newVisitor = result.data.reports[0].data.rows[0];
    console.log(newVisitor);
    var m = parseInt(newVisitor.metrics[0].values[0] * 1);
    console.log(m);
    // stepArray = result.data.reports
    res.render("dashboardtesting", {
      metrics: m,
    });
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
});

A: You can go through with google firebase for that by which you get token of google auth which you have to apply on your application for google auth

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Karan Johar's Dharma Productions and Dostana 2 director to pick a new location
January 21st, 2021 | by vBollywood Author
With star actors such as Kartik Aaryan, Janhvi Kapoor and Laksh Lalwani – Dostana 2 is one of the thrilling projects to look forward. The team is going to present the topic of homos*xuality in an entertaining manner. Fans are thrilled about the sequel and want to see what is on offer. Unfortunately, the movie isn't moving ahead with shooting being stalled.
Back in March 2020, the movie was supposed to go on floors in the United Kingdom. It was because of COVID-19 that was in full force back then. As it was expected, the shooting schedule was stalled. The shoot was rescheduled from this month in London but as the UK is planning another lockdown to fight with a new strain of coronavirus, work continues to be at a halt.
According to a report posted on Mid-Day, Karan Johar's Dharma Productions and Dostana 2 director Collin D'Cunha are now planning to pick a new location as there's no one has there are no indication on improved conditions in the UK to normalise. "Shooting in the UK looks difficult in the near future. So, the producers and director Collin D'Cunha are exploring whether they can change the location altogether. While Janhvi Kapoor is currently filming Good Luck Jerry, Kartik Aaryan is prepping for his next. The final call on the next schedule of Dostana 2 will be taken by the month-end," a source quotes.
The upcoming film is a sequel to 2008 hit Dostana which featured Priyanka Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham. The film was helmed by Tarun Mansukhani.
Meanwhile, sharing at Barkha Dutt's, We The Women, Karan Johar revealed that Dostana 2 will be dealing with the topic of sexuality with the care. Sharing the same, Karan has been quoted saying, "The evolution is from one Dostana to the other. Dostana one that released in 2008 and the sequel that's releasing in 2020, you will see that the representation is accurate, non-caricaturish and on point, talking about sexuality in a way that will not make you cringe while watching it. So therein lies the fact that in the last 12 years, there has been a solid change in the way we depict gay characters. Even in Kapoor & Sons and the way it was depicted."
Dostana 2 Janhvi Kapoor Kartik Aaryan Laksh Lalwani


Just because you're staying home doesn't mean you can't have an adventure.
Disneyland, the beach, camping, Grandma's … just a few of the many places your kids would nominate as a vacation destination this summer. But staying home?
Pitch a tent, pull out the camp chairs, and roll out those sleeping bags. It's time to go camping - in your backyard! This just might be the quintessential summer staycation experience that every kid should have.
You'll get all the fun of camping without the long drive or gross campsite bathrooms.
"If you live in a city or metropolitan area, you can recreate any number of cultures," explains a Pittsburgh mom and budget blogger at Femme Frugality. Femme created a "Parisian experience" in Pittsburgh by visiting museums and cathedrals, checking out a bridge with love locks, and dining at an outdoor cafe and French restaurant — all within her hometown.
Have a budding Jamie Oliver or Rachael Ray on your hands? Let your little chefs put their skills to the test with a fun "Top Chef" style competition. Introduce a mystery ingredient, work in teams, and see what you can come up with.
If competition isn't your style, simply head to the farmer's market or grocery store and pick out a unique ingredient and see what your family can come up with to use it in a dish.
Femme's trick is checking out homeschooling blogs; they are a great resource for fun activities that also have an educational component."Prep materials and gather ideas ahead of time to prevent the typical summer educational slide and avoid 'I'm bored' comments," she advises.
Construct tunnels with boxes (bonus if you can snag a large refrigerator box); create 'rooms' with blankets and chairs; and arm your fortress by building a pillow moat. Play princesses and knights or just snuggle up in your cozy den and watch a movie — don't forget the popcorn.
Break out the sprinkler and burn off some energy by splashing around. Fill the kiddie pool and hop in with your little ones, or wage a water balloon or squirt gun fight for an afternoon that's guaranteed to cool you off and make you feel like a kid again.
Live in an apartment or don't have the water gear? Head to your local splash pad or community pool. To save money, look for free or discount promotions at the pool or water park.
Not sure where to start? Find age-appropriate crafts by checking out Pinterest or kid's craft blogs for inspiration.


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Mon., All Day/Night. $2.75 Mexican Beers; $4 Margaritas.
Tues., All Day/Night. $2.75 Texas Beers; $3.25 Texas Spirits; $8.99 Chicken Fried Steak Dinner.
Thurs., All Day/Nite. $8.99 Select Domestic Pitchers; $9.99 Big Unit Sampler; $10 Shotskies (3 shot flight).
Fri., All Day/Night. $3 Fireball & Select Mixed Drinks; $4.50 Crown Royal; $6.99 Cheeseburgers.
Sat., All Day/Night. $3 Select Imported Drafts; $4 Jager & Tuaca Shots; $4.75 Bomb Shots; $4.99 Fried Pickles.
Sun., All Day/Night. $2.25 Ziegenbock; $13 Ribeye Steak Dinner; $16 Domestic Buckets (6).


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Juanito Rubillar (born February 22, 1977 in Barangay Central, Mati, Davao Oriental, Philippines) is a Filipino former professional boxer and current WBC Continental Americas light flyweight champions.

He is the younger brother of fellow boxer Ernesto Rubillar and older brother of Robert Rubillar.

Born in Davao Oriental, Rubillar lives in Sucat, Parañaque, Metro Manila.

Professional career
A veteran fighter, Rubillar made his professional debut on July 23, 1994, against fellow Filipino boxer Ramil Gevero. The fight ended with a draw, after 4 rounds.

Just like Bert Batawang, Rubillar suffered multiple losses and draws early in his career, but did not give up.

Recent fights
On February 27, 2010, Rubillar lost to South African boxer Hekkie Budler by a controversial Majority decision at the Emperors Casino in Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa. The bout was for the vacant International Boxing Organization light flyweight title .

The undefeated Budler started aggressively to take control of the early rounds, while Rubillar came back in the fourth and connected with a number of solid body shots as Budler took the defensive. Leading with his head as much as with his gloves which is Rubillar's style, the veteran Filipino staggered Budler on a number of occasions and while referee Pete Podgorski cautioned the Filipino a couple of times for using his head, he did not penalize Rubillar. The Filipino fighter took the pace in the seventh round and hammered Budler with solid hooks to the body and although Budler stayed on his feet he did not regain control of the fight although the official scorecards told a different story and gave Budler a win by Majority decision. Two out of three judges gave the fight 117-113 and 115-113 for Budler, while the third judge scored the bout even at 114-114. Rubillar's promoter and boxing manager Gabriel "Bebot" Elorde (son of the legendary Flash Elorde) sayd he will file a protest with the IBO over what was widely perceived to be a hometown decision in the IBF light flyweight title eliminator. He finally got a rematch, after Elorde's protest, which as in the previous bout, he also lost.

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Light-flyweight boxers
Flyweight boxers
People from Davao Oriental
Southpaw boxers
Filipino male boxers

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Q: Instance var referring to an object Instance variables go on stack and objects go on heap and object references go on stack. Right? But what if an instance variable was a reference to an object? Like var c:
class clony implements Cloneable {

    clony c = new clony();

    @Override
    protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        return super.clone();
    }
}

class tst2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        clony j1 = new clony();
    }
}

And if it goes on heap why it throws and stack overflow error?

A: Your reference c is a field of the class clony. That means the reference will be stored on the heap inside the memory region that is allocated for the clony object.
And your program throws a stack overflow exception since clony infinitely constructs itself: Inside the constructor of clony you create a new clony object and assign it to field c: Which will then do the same thing again and again.

A: This is because the stack is also used to keep track of method calls. Every time you call a method (the class's default constructor, in this case), certain information is added to the stack for that purpose. When you have infinite recursion (as you have with your constructor), that fills up the stack PDQ.

A: I think this:
clony c = new clony();

Gives you the exception.
new clony() also has clony c = new clony()

inside... and it goes to infinity.
By the way, classes should be named with capital letter at the beginning.


If you or someone you know is a U.S. veteran, then you may be able to help White Oak Library District collect and preserve war stories and experiences as a part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
Since 2014, the Library has been interviewing American veterans who served in conflicts from World War II to the present. The original recordings are sent to the American Folk-life Center while a copy is kept at the White Oak Library District and made available on this webpage. Click on the links below to read about the experiences of the brave heroes who have fought for our freedom.


Dr.Malpani's Blog: Year of the Aam Patient !
Now that the new year has started, there's a lot of optimism in the air . Some of this because of the results of the Delhi elections ,which helped the Aam Aadmi Party to come to power. While no one knows how long they will last or how much they will be able to accomplish, they still present a breath of fresh air. They are young and idealistic and whether they will be able to live up to their promises or not , at least they offer hope because they are a marked contrast from the traditional politician, who is viewed as being corrupt and crooked.
What can the medical profession learn from the Aam Aadmi Party movement ?


Unfortunately, the Polish-born Peres's life did not display such a capacity. Many Palestinians and Lebanese suffered and died because of him. Considering his prominent role in the founding of the self-declared State of the Jewish People, this should go without saying. Israel was established largely by Europeans on land from which three-quarters of a million Muslim and Christian Palestinian Arabs were expelled. Others were massacred by Zionist paramilitary forces, one of which Peres worked for. The year before Israel declared independence (1948) largely on Palestinian-owned land, Peres was put in charge of personnel and weapons acquisition for the paramilitary force called Haganah. This systematic ethnic cleansing is known as the Nakba, or catastrophe. Hundreds of former Arab villages were destroyed to make room for Jewish villages. Zionist and Israeli leaders were not shy about acknowledging this. In their view Jewish land had to be redeemed and restored to its rightful owner — the Jewish People — and the "exiled" had to be in-gathered, no matter the cost to others. This was the Zionist project.
As a member of the Labor Party, Peres also played important roles in creating Israel's Mideast monopoly nuclear-weapons arsenal (unlike Iran it has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty and does not permit international inspections) and in building illegal Jewish-only settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after the June 1967 war against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Before that war, he helped administer military rule over the remaining Palestinian Arabs inside Israel. He also forged Israel's military and nuclear alliance with apartheid South Africa.
"The joint Nobel Peace Prize holder used as an excuse the firing of Katyusha rockets over the Lebanese border by the Hezbollah. In fact, their rockets were retaliation for the killing of a small Lebanese boy by a booby-trap bomb they suspected had been left by an Israeli patrol. It mattered not.
"It was a lie. The Israelis had occupied Qana for years after their 1982 invasion, they had video film of the camp, they were even flying a drone over the camp during the 1996 massacre – a fact they denied until a UN soldier gave me his video of the drone, frames from which we published in The Independent. The UN had repeatedly told Israel that the camp was packed with refugees.
This atrocious record — hardly the record of a humanitarian — has been cited in critical obituaries of Peres. (Besides Fisk's see critical obits here and here.) But much less noted was Peres's role in helping to pave the road to 9/11.
What possible role could Peres have played in the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon? Recall Peres's cynical election-year onslaught against Lebanon and the massacre in Qana. It was his Operation Grapes of Wrath that radicalized key individuals who would plan and carry out those attacks.
Lebanon and Qana, as we see were not the jihadis' only grievances against the United States, but Peres's war was one more count in a long bill of indictment against the United States, whose government has underwritten the Israeli military to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. Peres would have had no way of knowing that five years later his war would produce such a dramatic act of revenge against the American people. But that should not lessen our condemnation of him. His mission in life — Zionism — required the degradation and destruction of the indigenous people who did not fit into his vision. It was inevitable that some kind of vengeful backlash would result. As usual, the victims were innocent bystanders. Perpetrators like Peres get to die of old age.
Now you know the ZOG is behind it all.


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Adjunto el código.
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September 23, 2020 by Ralph Plug
Canadian power metallers Unleash the Archers have just unleashed their new album Abyss. We checked if it's any good.
There is something immensely satisfying about young bands who get better with each new release and are finally getting the recognition that they deserve. Not that Canada's Unleash the Archers is a very young band, having been around since 2007, but with only five albums under their belt, the first two released independently, they're still relatively up and coming. Having learnt to fly on their own, they have been soaring ever since they signed with Napalm Records. Truth be told, I was late to the party with 2017's Apex, but was immediately impressed by the sheer energy and musicianship on that album. I have eagerly been awaiting Abyss ever since and am very glad to be able to tell you right off the bat that it's a home run.
In typical Unleash the Archers style, this album of course has another overarching story to tell about the Immortal and the Matriarch if you're into that. I'll stick with the music here and it's excellent from start to finish. I love it when a band has clearly thought about the flow of the album and the fact that Abyss is bookended by Waking Dream and Afterlife shows that they have. The first is extended intro and the latter reprises the same core vocal lines in a proper song. It's sublime and gives Abyss a really well-rounded and finished feel. In between you'll find eight more songs, all of them helping to paint a rather rich palette, from fast bangers to eighties-inspired keyboard-infused rockers.
Technically, these guys are so good. Musically they frequently lean towards technical death metal, piling riffs onto another until the foundation almost breaks. Unleash the Archers is one of those few bands that strictly fall into the power metal category but are heavy enough to have appeal beyond the genre. They're always heavier than your average sword-in-the-wind fantasy bands who throw around arpeggios like they're candy and do indeed incorporate that technical melodeath sensibility into their music. Abyss is heavy enough to almost hide the fact that the band kicked out their bass player and haven't bothered recruiting a new one yet.
The songs, totalling up to a neat fifty-six minutes, are mostly excellent. From speedy bangers like Faster than Light and Return to Me to technical yet catchy stuff like singles Abyss and Soulbound, Unleash the Archers impresses throughout. The big star, once again, is Brittney Slayes who outdoes herself on nearly every vocal line she has. She has so much power in her voice and really gives everything she has. I mean, just listen to the last bridge on Faster than Light and come away unimpressed, or the layered vocal lines in Soulbound. She's a joy to listen to. Two other songs worth mentioning is the eighties-inspired synth-fest that is Legacy, which might sound a bit strange on the first listen but quickly turns into one of the album's highlights. The other is a long and epic The Wind that Shapes the Land, where every element of the band gets a chance to shine.
For these Canadians, Abyss is definitely their benchmark album so far. Still growing with each release, you can't help but wonder if they're going to be able to top this one, and how they might evolve over the next couple of years. If one thing has become clear since 2007 is that Unleash the Archers is definitely not afraid of change and is always keen to challenge themselves. This mindset has led to their best album yet and one can only hope they'll continue to grow even further from here.
Label: Napalm Records, 2020
Waking Dream (03:45)
Abyss (06:44)
Through Stars (05:34)
Legacy (05:26)
Return to Me (05:34)
Soulbound (03:54)
Faster than Light (05:11)
The Wind That Shapes the Land (08:36)
Carry the Flame (04:42)
Afterlife (07:30)
Brittney Slayes – vocals
Grant Truesdell – guitars, vocals
Andrew Saunders – guitars, vocals, synth
Scott Buchanan – drums
Unleash the Archers on Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JpOcvvnX_s&ab_channel=NapalmRecords
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▶ SoldThis listing was sold on Oct 5, 2017 for the price shown here.
A brick home sitting on a half acre plus lot, has surprises for you. The owner added a 2 car "tuck under" 576 square foot garage with its own side entry and drive to the builders single car attached garage. A handy man seller also created a covered patio with iron fencing, extra built ins in kitchen and granite countertops. All rooms have hardwood floors. There is a seperate storage shed for all those things that won't fit in a full basement and 3 garages. Indeed this is a perfect fit for hobbiest or someone who just wants a nice quiet neighborhood with room to spread out.
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Bringing you the very best in Mod, Ska, Soul, R&B and Sixties Beat on the last Friday of Every Month at the Canterbury Arms in Brixton. 8pm-2am. £3 Entry Tunes provided by our resident DJs Boy About Town and Liam_Ska.


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Q: How to take subscription with paypal-checkout? We have an existing website that uses the javascript paypal-checkout, and now we wants to takes subscription payment too.
However, from the PayPal-checkout docs, it does not seem to mentioned anything about subscription, or recurring payment.
We noticed that there is this html based subscription button, but we are unsure how we will be able to use it in our react app.
Wondering if I am missing anything here, or if there exist a better way to take recurring payment.


Last month, Pentax released updated firmware for many of its digital SLRs, as well as the K-01 compact system camera. Even bearing in mind the fact that each update had the same basic goal -- to improve support for contrast-detection AF with the company's brand new HD Pentax DA 560mm F5.6 ED lens -- it must still have required a fairly substantial development effort. Every single K-mount camera the company had released since late 2010 was included in the update program, six cameras in all.
It seems that in the midst of all the development work, an issue slipped through the cracks, though. The company has now acknowledged problems with contrast detection autofocus for two models after the update, and provided a fix. The two cameras affected are the Pentax K-30 DSLR and the K-01 mirrorless, and it's likely not a coincidence that these are the only two models in the company's lineup to feature the PRIME M image processor. Other models with different processor types were, it seems, not affected.
Pentax states that with the new version 1.02 firmware on the K-30 and K-01, contrast detection didn't work for movie capture with some unidentified lenses. As well as apologizing for the problem, the company has provided two new updates that aim to correct the newly-introduced issue.