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Nowy Dwór – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie łódzkim, w powiecie skierniewickim, w gminie Nowy Kawęczyn.

Położenie
Nowy Dwór leży na Równinie Łowicko-Błońskiej w północno-wschodniej części województwa łódzkiego, nad rzeką Rawką. Osada znajduje się w odległości ok. 70 km na południowy zachód od Warszawy; odległość od stolicy województwa – Łodzi także wynosi około 70 km.
Siedziba władz powiatu – Skierniewice leżą ok. 15 km na północny zachód od wsi, zaś siedziba gminy Nowy Kawęczyn znajduje się w odległości 3 km.

Wieś, w postaci pojedynczych zabudowań, zaczyna się tuż przy drodze wojewódzkiej nr 707 Skierniewice – Rawa Mazowiecka, aczkolwiek zdecydowana większość budynków znajduje się ok. 1–2 km na wschód od tej trasy.

Opis miejscowości
Nowy Dwór stanowi największą osadę gminy Nowy Kawęczyn, a o tym, że to nie on jest siedzibą władz przesądziło centralne położenie Nowego Kawęczyna na terenie gminy.

Wieś rozciągnięta jest na sporym obszarze i składa się z kilku części; główna, zamieszkana przez większość mieszkańców jest typową ulicówką z jednorodzinnymi, parterowymi zabudowaniami po obu stronach drogi. Ponadto w pobliżu zabudowań dworskich znajduje się kilka piętrowych domów wielorodzinnych. Trzecią częścią wsi są bloki wielorodzinne należące do Kwiaciarskiego Zakładu Doświadczalnego Instytutu Sadownictwa i Kwiaciarstwa. W pewnym oddaleniu od głównej osady istnieje także czwarta część wsi, wyodrębniana niekiedy jako osobna miejscowość (od niedawna posiadająca własnego sołtysa) – Nowy Dwór-Parcela, powstała na dawnych gruntach należących do dworu. Znajduje się tam kilkanaście domów stojących w zabudowie rozproszonej. Dodatkowo wzdłuż szosy do Dukaczewa stoi kilka domów, również wchodzących w skład Nowego Dworu.

Nowy Dwór jest typową wsią rolniczą; na jej terenie znajduje się szkoła podstawowa, kilka sklepów oraz Kwiaciarski Zakład Doświadczalny Instytutu Sadownictwa i Kwiaciarstwa Nowy Dwór Sp. z o.o. (wraz z punktem sprzedaży). W osadzie znajdują się dwa przystanki PKS, co zapewnia dość dobrą komunikację z innymi miejscowościami, zwłaszcza Skierniewicami i Rawą Mazowiecką.

Okolica
Okolicę Nowego Dworu stanowią głównie pola uprawne. Po obu stronach przepływającej przez wieś rzeki Rawki znajdują się szerokie na kilkadziesiąt metrów pasy łąk. Tuż za rzeką, w miejscu dawnych stawów dworskich zlokalizowane są niewielkie bagna, natomiast kilkaset metrów za wsią zaczyna się obszar dawnego poligonu w Raduczu. Obszar ten, niegdyś porośnięty przez trawy, krzewinki i porosty obecnie w szybkim tempie zarasta młodym brzozowo-sosnowym lasem. Poza tym terenem w pobliżu Nowego Dworu brak jest większych obszarów leśnych.

Historia
Nowy Dwór to niegdysiejsza rezydencja myśliwska książąt mazowieckich, w późniejszym czasie również królów polskich. W 1440 roku zmarł tutaj jeden z władców Mazowsza – książę rawski, gostyński i sochaczewski. Także w okresie późniejszym Nowy Dwór był jedną z ważniejszych miejscowości w ówczesnym województwie rawskim. W XVII i XVIII w. utracił na znaczeniu.

W końcu XVIII i na początku XIX stulecia majątek Nowy Dwór, należący do rodziny Puławskich obejmował Nowy Dwór oraz Starą Rawę i Helenków. Na nowodworskie dobra składało się około 4100 mórg (tj. ok. 2300 ha) oraz gorzelnia, cegielnia, młyn wodny i tartak. W latach następnych Nowy Dwór przeszedł w ręce rodu Okęckich i pozostawał w jej posiadaniu aż do końca II wojny światowej. Po wojnie ziemie należące do majątku zostały znacjonalizowane i w ramach reformy rolnej rozdzielone pomiędzy małorolnych i bezrolnych chłopów z okolicy. Na części tego obszaru obecnie istnieje założona po wojnie osada Nowy Dwór-Parcela.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość położona była w województwie skierniewickim.

Atrakcje
Okolice Nowego Dworu nadają się głównie do czynnego i biernego wypoczynku na świeżym powietrzu. Znajdują się tutaj łąki i pola, a w niewielkiej odległości od osady także niewielkie kompleksy leśne. Przepływająca przez wieś rzeka Rawka stanowi miejsce kąpieli i wędkowania. Rzeka ta stanowi rezerwat przyrody. We wsi, zwłaszcza w okresie letnim, regularnie odbywają się dyskoteki, znajduje się tutaj też lokal gastronomiczny o charakterze zbliżonym do pubu.

Zabytki
W Nowy Dworze znajduje się zespół dworski z pierwszej połowy XX wieku. Zespół ten wpisany został na listę zabytków. Składa się on z dworu oraz kilku budynków gospodarczych, m.in. pralni, kurnika i budynku gospodarczego. Do dworu prowadzi lipowa aleja, także zabytkowa. Całość otoczona jest przez park.

Obecnie wszystkie te obiekty stanowią własność prywatną, są ogrodzone i nie są dostępne dla zwiedzających.

Dwór
Obecnie istniejący budynek dworu powstał w latach 20. XX wieku; został on zbudowany przez ówczesnego właściciela majątku Nowy Dwór po tym, jak wycofujące się w 1918 r. wojska niemieckie spaliły pochodzący z połowy XIX stulecia drewniany dwór. Nowy budynek dworu zbudowano z cegły w typowym polskim stylu dworskim, a jego dach mansardowy pokryty jest dachówką,

Po II wojnie światowej i nacjonalizacji majątku Nowy Dwór w budynku dawnego dworu utworzono szkołę. W latach 70., po zbudowaniu nowego budynku szkoły dwór został przekazany Kwiaciarskiemu Zakładowi Doświadczalnemu. W końcu XX wieku obiekt ten sprywatyzowano. Obecnie w dworku mieści się prywatna klinika, zajmująca się rehabilitacją osób z chorobami kręgosłupa.

Zespół dworski
W skład zespołu dworskiego w Nowym Dworze oprócz samego dworu wchodzi też pewna liczba budynków związanych z prowadzeniem majątku ziemskiego. Pochodzą one z początku XX i w większość wpisane są na listę zabytków. Na zespół zabudowań dworskich składają się:
 budynek dawnej pralni, wzniesiony na planie litery L
 wielokondygnacyjny spichlerz
 murowana obora
 budynki gospodarcze (służące niegdyś do przechowywania maszyn rolniczych oraz jako warsztaty)
 dawna lodownia
 murowane kurniki
 pomieszczenie rymarza
 budynek dla służby
 dwie murowane bramy
 park dworski

Park
Otaczający dwór park został dość znacznie zmieniony w stosunku do stanu pierwotnego. Rosną w nim m.in. pochodzące z początku XIX wieku drzewa liściaste: lipy, kasztanowce, jesiony, klony i wiązy. Poza tym znajdują się tutaj drzewa liściaste i świerki posadzone w latach 20. i 30. w ramach szerszego projektu rozbudowy parku. Jednak większość roślin parku stanowią nasadzenia powojenne i samosiewy (głównie topole, lipy i wiązy), które zastąpiły rośliny zniszczone w czasie II wojny.

Do dworu prowadzi zabytkowa, około dwustuletnia lipowa aleja. Jej przedłużenie stanowi także uznana za pomnik przyrody aleja ciągnąca się na długości ok. 1,3 km od obszaru parku dworskiego, wzdłuż szosy prowadzącej do drogi Skierniewice – Rawa Mazowiecka.

Parafialna przynależność miejscowości
Pod względem podziału administracyjnego Kościoła katolickiego Nowy Dwór wchodzi w skład parafii pw. św. Apostołów Szymona i św. Judy Tadeusza w Starej Rawie, gdzie znajduje się zabytkowy, drewniany kościół parafialny z 1731 r.

Zobacz też
 pobliskie wsie: Babsk, Julianów Raducki, Raducz, Psary, Nowy Kawęczyn, Stara Rawa, Jeruzal, Kurzeszyn, Doleck.
 Nowy Dwór-Parcela
 inne miejscowości o nazwie Nowy Dwór.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Portal Turystyczno-Krajoznawczy Województwa Łódzkiego - Nowy Dwór
 Strona Kliniki Rehabilitacji w Nowym Dworze ze zdjęciami zabytkowego dworku
 Oficjalna strona mającego siedzibę w Nowym Dworze Kwiaciarskiego Zakładu Doświadczalnego Instytutu Sadownictwa i Kwiaciarstwa Nowy Dwór Sp. z o.o

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Wondering what your life would look like if you go the HPSP route into the Veterinary Corps? This post describes the timeline of 12+ years of your life!
The commitment you make in the HPSP comes with seeing new places, meeting new people, doing and learning new things constantly.
The military lifestyle favors the adaptable, the optimistic, and the adventurous, and the Veterinary Corps is simply unlike anything civilian veterinary medicine has to offer.
Let me know if you have more questions by leaving a comment or using the Contact form!
This post lists everything you need to buy to put together your first uniform! Ideally, your recruiter can go with you and show you how to properly put together and wear the uniform and make sure you don't miss anything you need. If you don't have the luxury of your recruiter going with you, this list will be even more valuable!
I was chosen for the HPSP! What happens next??
Over 100 applications from veterinary students all over the US are reviewed each year, but only about 30 are offered the scholarship.
If you were one of the fortunate few recipients of the HPSP scholarship, congrats! Welcome to a community of the most dedicated, hard-working, passionate, and patriotic veterinary students in the country. It is a pleasure to serve with you. Click "Read More" to find out what happens for you next.
Unfortunately, the Army is doing away with 2-year HPSP scholarships starting in 2017, meaning if there is no longer a chance to reapply if you were not picked this year. However, there are still ways to become an Army veterinarian without incurring the 8-year contract required by the scholarship! Around graduation time, talk to an AMEDD recruiter about non-HPSP options for joining the Vet Corps: there are Active Duty, Reserves, or civilian opportunities that you should consider. You will still be eligible for the Army HPLRP (health professional loan repayment program) to pay back your veterinary school loans!
This is a list of everything you need to complete for your HPSP application. Things may have changed since the date of this posting, so share this form with your recruiter to make sure you complete all necessary components. Your recruiter may have you sign forms in person, email you the forms, and set up online access for some of the forms. The recruiter will also take fingerprints, organize the dates for your MEPS appointment and OPAT, and assemble, finalize, and submit your application packet to the selection board.
2LT Morgan Pate, a 2nd year UCD vet student and my "Big Sib", who received the HPSP scholarship last year, led my the oath of office and officially welcomed me into the US Army.
On Friday, April 28, 2017, I officially commissioned into the US Army Veterinary Corps as a Second Lieutenant after a year-long application process. I was awarded the Health Professionals Scholarship, known as the HPSP (Health Professionals Scholarship Program), a 3-year full tuition professional school scholarship and career start with the Army that I have had my sights set on since high school.


I don't live here, but it's here that I refer to as home. Thirty years my family has been here, just a blink in world history, but thirty years is longer than my entire life thus far. So to me, it is everything.
It's a place that has afforded me deep solitude while teaching me the meaning of hard work, simultaneously allowing for relaxation and the chance to challenge myself. It has so deeply formed and shaped who I've become, indelibly influencing my 22 years in innumerable ways.
It's where I learned to drive, where I learned to swim, and where I learned to shoot, change the oil, and build a fire.
It's more than that, though. It's sunrise coffee on the porch swing, but also sleeping until the sun streams in too brightly to sleep anymore. It's dancing around the kitchen mixing cookie dough, knowing the amount that will be baked is less than will be eaten raw. It's exploring in the woods and cutting new trails through the trees. It's the glassy green stillness of the lily-padded cove and a Gatsby-esque green light glowing across the water.
And it's the stars. I remember laying on my back on the dock with my head almost touching the water, each bright pinpoint of light piercing the blackness above and reflecting, ever-shimmering, onto the lake's dark surface like a mirror. From there, broken only by a line of silhouetted trees, the entire world became a globe of stars.
That's where I did most of my best thinking. What secrets lay beneath the sand that lines the bottom of those hundred-foot depths? What did this land look like before it was touched by the hands of settlers? Before the Natives? Before the glaciers carved it into the shape of a mitten? Before that? These teenage philosophies continue to creep into my mind from time to time, but the one that always circles back around and sticks with me is that of the stars.
Looking at those stars marked the first time I was struck by how small we are. Each of those stars represents an entire solar system, yet we place enormous significance on things that are really rather undeserving of that sort of attention. Like how we stress about things that will mean nothing in 5 days, 5 months, or 5 years, let alone the light years spanned to deliver a billion-year-old star to us, to one single moment. The present.
The stars gave me a sense of unity, not just with my loved ones and the land, but with all of humanity. Everyone who has ever been in the northern hemisphere has seen those stars. People today, our ancestors, all the great minds of history, all the way back to the cave people, have all seen those same stars. When it comes down to it, everyone has the same basic needs and deals with the same basic issues. We are all human, and I believe it is human nature to look up and wonder.
Which is why I kept looking up, and all of my thoughts on how small we are dissipated when I really understood how important we are. All of those individual suns, yet ours is the only world we know. The only world perfectly situated to support us and the only world ever likely to be called home. It's no accident. God put us all here for a reason, to fulfill some purpose and do something with our fleeting time here.
I don't know what that means to you, because it's different for everybody. It's yours to discover. That's the beauty of life and the beauty of humanity. But I do know what it means to me, and I discovered it on our edge of the lake.


Frank Otero contacted Aldon Ferguson with pictures of the Bowery Belles. The Belles were WACS who performed with Eddie Kistler's Swing Tips Band on numerous occasions. A Souvenir Program is depicted below from a performance held at the Royal Court Theatre in Warrington.


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Watch! TEN talks Cinderella with Richard Madden
Updated / Sunday, 29 Mar 2015 09:19
Richard Madden as Prince Charming
TEN caught up with Cinderella's Prince Charming Richard Madden to find how what he made of playing the iconic role and he reveals that "learning to dance" was his biggest challenge. Click through to watch the full interview.
Speaking to TEN about his character's journey, Madden said: "We get to see him as a friend, a soldier, a prince to Cinderella, but first and foremost, you get to see him as a son. I think that's what's so interesting in this version -Cinderella is a daughter before anything and I'm a son before anything.
"These two characters are defined by their parents, so it was really interesting to have that relationship with a king."
When asked about the biggest challenge he faced in his iconic role, he added: "Learning to dance properly. I'm not very good at it and it's not something I'm drawn towards doing. I had to really work and it to make it look like I knew what I was doing."
Cinderella is in theatres now. Read our review here.
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Daniela Dots is for those that love to wear color in the fall. The hand embroidery is designed and stitched by an artisan community in Xochitlán de Vicente Suárez, Puebla. As with all handmade items, there might be slight embroidery variations from the photo.


WOW – all I can say is WOW. This is the best French toast I've ever had. It was perfectly flavored with just enough eggs, cinnamon, and more. Be sure to use Texas toast or another thickly sliced toast (Challah, sourdough, etc) for best results. If you use just the thin sandwich bread it will fall apart before you get it to the griddle. It turned out beautifully and the rest of it will go in my freezer for later. It's a great way to get protein in those anti-protein kids and for us adults, to eat something other than pure carbs for breakfast! It looked like too much cinnamon while mixing, but it tasted perfect.
**Omit cinnamon or vanilla if they bother you.
This is a great, healthy recipe off of Foodnetwork.com. You simply slice up your zucchini, toss it in olive oil, and then cover it in your mixture of Parmesan/bread crumbs/salt/pepper. Only at the last minute did I realize that it said freshly grated Parmesan like from a Parmesan brick of cheese. Since I didn't have that, used the Parmesan in the container and mixed in some shredded mozzarella cheese; it still was tasty! I will try it again with the preferred ingredient. The near burnt cheese flavor was divine. I used a metal baking pan with aluminum foil coated generously with cooking spray, nothing stuck! I had to lessen the time slightly. I had to make more Parmesan mixture as it wasn't enough and/or I put too much mixture on, but it was worth it.
In a small bowl, combine the Parmesan, bread crumbs, and salt. Dip each round into the Parmesan mixture, coating it evenly on both sides, pressing the coating on to stick, and place in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet.
I have a few bread recipes on my culinary 'must bake list' and this was one of them. It was pretty effortless! I used my stand mixer for the kneading step and it was a waiting game! It took exactly 30 mins. in my oven! It makes two 9×5″ loaves. For best results use stainless loaf pans with 'PAM with baking' spray. The loaves just fell out of the pans easily! Even though it was baked through the sides of the bread and the inside were perfectly soft! I usually eat and make only whole wheat based bread products, but this was a nice change!
In a large bowl, dissolve the sugar in warm water, and then stir in yeast. Allow to proof until yeast resembles a creamy foam.Mix salt and oil into the yeast.
Mix in flour one cup at a time. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth. Place in a well oiled bowl, and turn dough to coat. Cover with a damp cloth. Allow to rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
I love this recipe. It's from a cookbook I don't use that often, but it's a great book by Kelly Rudnicki called "The Food Allergy Mama's Baking Book: Great Dairy, Egg, and Nut Free Treats for the Whole Family". I followed the directions exactly – make sure you drain those diced tomatoes well or you will have soggy bread! Remove promptly from pan or it's hard to remove. At the time I did not own a 14″ round pizza pan so I used two nonstick pans. Since then I've thrown out my nonstick pans (they always had horrible results for me; now I'm all for steel) and bought steel replacements including a 14″ round pizza pan.
Combine the warm water, yeast, and 3 tablespoons of the olive oil in a liquid measuring cup with a wire whisk.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt with a wire whisk, and slowly mix this dry mixture into the water mixture with a rubber spatula.
Stir until the mixture is well incorporated, and then mix quickly for about 2 minutes.
Cover with plastic wrap, and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
Using a brush, spread 1 tablespoon olive oil on the bottom and up the sides of a 14″ round pizza pan.
Transfer the dough into the pan, and press the dough into the pan and up the sides. Cover with plastic wrap sprayed with baking spray, and let rise again until doubled in size, 30-45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 425°F. Using your fingers, poke holes in the surface of the focaccia.
Drizzle the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil evenly over the top.
Sprinkle with the drained tomatoes, rosemary, and kosher salt, and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.
Cool on a wire rack for about 10 minutes or less and cut into slices.
This was our first try at dumplings! We were lucky and they were not that difficult! I really loved how all the flavors mixed and the green onion and sesame oil are wonderful additions. I had to halve the recipe and I'm glad I did because otherwise I would have been making dumplings until my arms fell off. I used powdered ginger instead of ginger root and I reduced the garlic from 4 cloves to just 1. I did buy the proper Chinese cabbage. I ended up adding some carrot for color and flavor, which I think helped. A very good recipe that is a keeper. If you don't have a bamboo steamer like me, I used my steel steamer insert for my pan. BIG WARNING: PAM your steel steamer otherwise every dumpling will stick and it'll be a huge mess! After we PAM'ed the next load of dumplings, they came out flawlessly!
Original recipe makes 100 dumplings – I halved this recipe.
I'm not a huge fan of pork, so when I find a pork recipe I love, I really keep it! This is a recipe I love and I think you will too! It is so moist and flavorful, especially because of the quantity of oil used, but you can reduce it somewhat. I could not find white wine Worcestershire sauce, so I used white wine. I replaced the garlic cloves for 1/2 tsp. garlic powder. It smelled exactly like a restaurant!
Whisk marinade ingredients together in a bowl. Place the chops in a shallow pan or other non-reactive container. Pour the marinade over the chops, cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least an hour.
Grill on medium-high heat until desired doneness is reached. On our grill, it usually takes about 6-7 minutes per side. Cooking times will vary. Allow the chops to rest for 5-10 minutes before cutting in to them.
I love this recipe, it fills your home with a pumpkin aroma. I make it year round! The ingredients below make 2 loaf pans; so I usually divide it in half because we don't eat that much of it. It freezes well so you can definitely freeze the remainder! One time I made it I did not have two eggs, so I used one egg + a heaping tablespoon of applesauce and it came out fine! So next time I may just substitute applesauce for the two eggs! For me, the one loaf cooked 90 minutes just like they said!
**Omit these ingredients if they bother you.
This is my first attempt at anything other than dinner in the slow cooker. This isn't a true yeast bread, it's more of a quick bread, like dessert. I liked that it wasn't too sugary. At first I thought it would be a flop when the sides were cooking faster than the top/middle. I'm glad I gave it longer to cook, because it tastes great. I substituted the pecans for the peanuts and it tasted wonderful and the peanuts got soft and warm. I didn't have dried orange peel so I grated fresh orange peel and it was fine. This is definitely a winner for taste and looks! It's from my small slow cooker book named "Crock Pot Favorite Slow Cooker Recipes" (2010). My son helped make it and he loves it!
The recipe says to use a round slow cooker approximately 3 quart. I have two slow cookers. One is oval and the other is round and has inserts for 2, 4, and 6 quarts. I used the 4 quart round insert. Since every slow cooker I've ever owned runs hot, I decided to cook this on the low setting.
Coat 3 quart slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray.
Blend flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl. Mix in pecans or nuts, set aside.
Combine cranberries and orange peel in separate medium bowl, pour boiling water over fruit mixture and stir.
Add sugar, shortening, egg, and vanilla, stir just until blended.
Add flour mixture, stir just until blended.
Pour batter into slow cooker. Cover, cook on high 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours or until edges begin to brown and cake tester inserted into center comes out clean.
Remove stoneware carefully from slow cooker, with oven mitts.
Cool on wire rack about 10 minutes, remove bread from stoneware and cool completely on rack.
These are my wonderful pumpkin pancakes. I love, love, love them. They remind me of fall even if you have them in summer! Here's the original Allrecipes.com link. I will give you the non-doubled recipe below. I always double it and freeze the remainder in a freezer bag, no wax paper separation needed. The doubled recipe makes about 28-34 pancakes depending upon the size. They unfreeze wonderfully. Either microwave 10 seconds or leave on the counter 5-10 minutes before putting them in the toaster, etc. If you're interested in the two-burner pan I use, I got it as a great gift, the link is here. It's one of the rare nonstick things I love; I use all steel for everything else. I usually reduce the cinnamon to 1 tsp for a doubled recipe, I like some flavor but I don't want it overpowering. Don't over-stir in this one! Finally, don't do high heat! They will burn. Do medium heat.
Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.


"Hong Hong: Atmosphere Absorbed", interview with David Livingston of First Stop Art, December 03, 2018.
before the Infinite, whoever you are.
Two days after visiting with Hong Hong in the midst of her solo show, Dark Segment, currently on view at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, I found myself on an airplane at dusk on the way to a conference. As the flight took off and dipped to the left I could see out the window a perfectly framed Hong work. The horizon was marked by deep grey-blue clouds and bands of cream, yellow, and orange, all of it stacked like hands pressing against the earth. Above the clouds, the sky remained an eggshell blue, turning at some indistinct threshold into a gauzy peach haze. I watched the bank of inky clouds meet the luminous sky in a ragged edge that seemed lined with a single undulating ribbon of gold.
You can't help think of the sky when you see Dark Segment. The works, made flat on the ground, image the vault above. The title of the show references the blue ridge that marks the end or beginning of the divide between night and day, a divide called the terminator. I was watching the dark segment through my window, a blue so thick with gravity it felt less like air and more like stones lying over a grave, pressing out the sun's last light.
In Hong's work, blues of various intensities also press and pull. Sometimes they are holes or wells; sometimes they are starry skies. It is difficult to know whether you are standing below the works, looking up, or standing above them, looking down. An edge of blue sliding under a large rectangular sheet of pink could be the dark segment on its side, pushing a warm, sherbet glow toward the corner of the room. In letting the dark blue slide under, leaving just enough gap between the two sheets of paper to create a delicate shadow where they pass, Hong Hong shows us that gravity is not always or only a downward, equally distributed force. Instead, gravity pools and masses unpredictably in moments where her works meet, overlap, evade, or hover against one another. Something is always behind trying to hide or to emerge.
Perhaps the most universal force that Dark Segment materializes is the pull of the outside. All of the work begins and ends there, given over to the elements and to the risks of exposure. Viewers are invited to witness the temporary taming of these papers tacked to the walls, but over the course of the show Hong will drag them outside, leaving them like whales to bleach in the sun before assembling them anew in compositions that mimic the poetic pulse of haikus and capture the day's fading light in the midst of its disappearance, color draining from bones, draining from the page.
There is something open and broad in Hong's gesture of pouring and pulling, dyeing and pounding these monumental pieces of paper. Nothing delicate or prim, they seem pliant and rugged, more like skins than pulp. Large and weighty enough to succumb to their own mass, the works on the walls fold and tear in places, droop in others. Despite their heft, they retain – miraculously – the precarity of paper: its translucence, its susceptibility to moisture, heat, and touch. In a way, paper is the model medium for folding, wrapping, and recording imprints, but it is ill-suited for building or other practices of insulation, unfit for clothing or homes. The house or the home stands somewhere in the middle of Hong's thinking as something left behind. She follows Rilke's invitation to seek the infinite by going out into the evening, leaving the comfort and safety of every room. Her work takes shape outdoors and it records and captures the variability of weather, light, and time. Brought inside, her sheets initially lie rolled and stacked in a heap. As she pulls them apart they gravitate toward one another by an enigmatic magnetism, forming amorphous alien beings. Some seem to hover on paddles extended for landing, others protrude with tongues licking the walls. All of them explode the traditional rectilinearity of the frame as they wander and stretch, eke and pool, altering and softening geometric space. Holes and shreds serve as reminders of their humble, material means as well as their essential, ecstatic homelessness.
A tension between strength and vulnerability lies at the heart of Hong's work and practice. The physical act of making paper requires beating and pounding fibers to a pulp, a dynamic, muscular activity that yields the simultaneously tough and tender sheet. Poured into a massive frame, the pulp settles in a meshwork of tangled threads. Atop the gelatinous substrate, the artist delicately places things (a leaf, a piece of fabric), which leave impressions captured in the drying sheet like memories imprinted on a waxy soul. In the process, she poses an existential question about how to capture memory traces in a medium that is destined to dry and deteriorate. She dramatizes the building up and breaking down of memory over time by showing us the process accelerated and augmented by bouts of extreme exposure. So much of the art world remains geared toward the preservation of work, but Hong, in the tradition of feminist performance work like that of Ana Mendieta, makes the work in order to facilitate its demise. She does this tenderly, ritualistically, taking the papers outside as if releasing them to return to the elemental from whence they came.
And yet there is nothing morbid in the work. If anything, it is infused with a Nietzschean joy at the prospect of some eternal return. On the walls in the gallery the temporary constellations of papers meet at edges blunt and smooth, jagged and frayed. Sometimes the seams are barely visible; sometimes the juncture is stark. In every case, the papers, like individual souls, exude their idiosyncratic densities without thereby succumbing to any final form or definitive name.
I could not help thinking of the word "glory" when I first saw Dark Segment. In Hebrew, the word for glory is kavod, and its root means "heavy." Glory is not something light, but like the papers themselves, an armature or shield that occasionally falls over things, lending them new, protective weight. It's the weight of the dark segment rising or falling in the sky that makes the dawning or fading light appear that much brighter. It's the weight of these papers that makes them feel so much like flesh composed of earth and sky. Hong's works tinge the space with an atmosphere that defies simple resolution. The air feels simultaneously warm and cool, calibrated exactly to dismantle the demarcation between pink and blue. One has to sit with them over time to feel the pace of the gradients and witness their changing lights. As Anne Carson writes: "There is something you should know and the right way to know it is by a cherrying of your mind." You cannot know this work by an act of reflective judgment. It demands a different intimacy – a willingness to be present, to be exiled, and to be stained. Rather than seeing the exhibit, one would do better to inhale it or let it seep into the pores of your skin, which is, after all, the papery threshold between inside and outside, just barely holding one together, already touched by the sky.


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Q: An exercise about sum-product estimate I am struggling with 1.11 exercise from the George Shakan "Discrete Fourier Transform".

Let $A \subset \mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}$ be any set not containing zero with $|A|>\sqrt2q^{5/8}$. Show that:
$$(A+A).(A+A)+A.A+A.A = \mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}$$
with
$$A+B=\{a+b: a\in A, b \in B\}$$
and
$$A.B=\{ab: a\in A, b \in B\}$$

My main idea is prove that
$$|(A+A).(A+A)+A.A+A.A| \geq q$$
I tried with Garaev's Theorem:

Let $A \subset \mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}$ be any nonempty set not containing zero. Then
$$\text{max}\{|A+A|,|A.A|\}\geq\text{min}\{\frac{\sqrt{q|A|}}{\sqrt2},\frac{|A|^2}{2\sqrt{q}}\}$$

So I'm thinking about two cases:
$|A+A| = \text{max}\{|A+A|,|A.A|\}$ and $|A.A| = \text{max}\{|A+A|,|A.A|\}$
With each, I estimate one part of the left hand side.
For example, with $|A+A| = \text{max}\{|A+A|,|A.A|\}$, I will estimate $|(A+A).(A+A)|$ and try to prove that $|(A+A).(A+A)| \geq q$
Using Garaev's, in this case I have
$$|A+A|\geq\text{min}\{\frac{\sqrt{q|A|}}{\sqrt2},\frac{|A|^2}{2\sqrt{q}}\}$$
Since $|A|>\sqrt2q^{5/8}$ as condition, then
$$|A+A|\geq\text{min}\{\frac{q^{13/16}}{2^{1/4}},q^{3/4}\}$$
With $q \geq 16, q^{3/4}$ is smaller, so I use it as min here, because the other case is finite.
But then, using the same techniques as the author, I can only prove that $|(A+A).(A+A)| \geq \frac{q}{2}$, which is not large enough and I can't estimate the rest part, too.
I'm wondering if my way of proving this is true or not. Hopefully, someone can help. Thanks in advance!

I wrote down my proof here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cnHfJDlO3eYdskxoFb_sLytlhZSsybQg/view?usp=sharing
And this is George Shakan's paper:
https://gshakan.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/discretefouriertransform1.pdf

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Q: Disabling process crash dialogs on Vista A sequel of Disabling "MyApp has stopped working" dialog.
What can I do so that no dialog appears when a process crashes?
Update: If Windows Error Reporting is disabled, the dialog says "A problem has caused the program to stop working correctly" and has a "Close the program" button.

A: In the registry, go to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting and add the REG_DWORD value DontShowUI = 1
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Forget the cliches, it really is a must-win for Montreal Canadiens
Bruce Garrioch
Memo to the hockey gods of Montreal: It's now or never, boys.
Need more cliches? Backs to the wall. No tomorrow. Do or die.
They all belong to the Montreal Canadiens as they fight to stay alive trailing the New York Rangers in the East final by a 3-1 count.
After a stunning 3-2 OT victory on Sunday in Broadway, the Rangers can deliver that final crushing blow to the Habs' playoff dream on Tuesday night with a victory in Game 5 at the Bell Centre.
After an optional skate with only 13 players Monday, the Habs remained defiant, saying this series is far from over.
"We're not giving up. I think we played our best game of the series (Sunday)," said Montreal winger Rene Bourque. "It's just one game at a time. We're at home. We've got to come out good. Get this game, then take the next one after that. It starts (Tuesday).
"Guys were positive (Sunday). I thought we played well and we had chances to put it away and it didn't go in. We know we can play with them. We've got to win three games in a row. Everybody believes. It's just a matter of going out there and giving it all."
The Habs have been here before in these playoffs by facing elimination trailing 3-2 in Game 6 against Boston in the East semi and Montreal came back to win the series in Game 7 at the TD Garden.
Some of the players in the room were part of the Montreal team that came back in 2010 to beat the Washington Capitals after trailing by a 3-1 deficit.
"You start building momentum," said Habs' captain Brian Gionta, who was part of the comeback against the Caps. "It's not a secret: You start doing the right things, you start getting rewarded for it, momentum builds, and you keep carrying that. Even a couple of teams this year have been able to do that, the Kings and the Rangers. So it's not something that can't be done and with the group we have in here, we believe we can do it."
This time, the club is up against a different foe. The Rangers have been the better team for the most part in this series and if the Habs are to win, their play must improve dramatically.
Montreal players are convinced all they have to do is get the tide to turn by making a break, creating a scoring chance or getting a good bounce that results in a goal and a boost of confidence.
Coach Michel Therrien doesn't believe the fact the Habs were able to come back in 2010 against Washington means much in this situation.
"I'd rather look at it, personally as a coach, it's been 25 years that I've coached, we all have our own experiences, we've seen it all. So, it's about concentrating on one game," said Therrien. "Listen, the game (Sunday) could have gone either way, we're all conscious of that. We weren't on the right side of that, of course. But what's happened in the past over the years, that doesn't change anything. It's about right now.
"You need a short memory. Our short memory that we have is to have played Game 6 and Game 7 against the best team in the league at that time (Boston). That's really what I'm concentrated on. It's always a question of attitude. When you have the right attitude to take on any kind of challenge, you give yourself a chance. That's what we'll have (Tuesday), the right attitude.''
After spending two days firing verbal shots at the Rangers before Game 4, the Habs weren't in any mood to give New York any bulletin-board material. The attitude now is all business.
At this juncture, the best the Habs can hope is to book a trip back to New York for Game 6 Thursday night with all the pressure on the Rangers to close this series out in front of their faithful.
"Our backs are against the wall. It's win or go home," said Gionta.
The Habs were saying all the right things Monday. Now the talk must turn to action.
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The Habs have come back twice in their history from a 3-1 deficit to win a series. The first time was in 2004 versus the Boston Bruins with Claude Julien behind the bench. The other was in 2010 against the Washington Capitals when Jacques Martin was the coach.
Is Carey Price on the road to a comeback?
There was more than a little intrigue at the Montreal Canadiens' practice facility in a nearby suburb Monday when the club's No. 1 goalie went for a 20-minute skate in his track suit before practice.
While coach Michel Therrien told reporters that Price was out for the series after he was nailed by Chris Kreider in Game 1, suddenly, the possibility of his return was raised.
Trailing the New York Rangers by a 3-1 count and facing elimination Tuesday at the Bell Centre, Price — who is believed to have a knee injury — tested it out during the twirl.
Therrien threw water on the fact Price will suddenly reappear.
"Like I said, he's not going to play in this series," said Therrien. "It's part of the rehab and that's all. It's a great sign."
The reality is if Price was close to a return, nobody would know. If the Habs are able to find a way to prolong this series, then nothing should be ruled out.
Remember one thing: You will never know the truth about injuries in the playoffs.
"We can't look too far down the road with that," Therrien said in French. "He won't be able to play in this series. This is part of his rehab to get slowly back on the ice. Carey is working really hard in physiotherapy in order to (eventually) come back.''
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Samuel Smiles, "George Ellis" A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir of John Murray (1891) 1:125-27.
George Ellis, prominent in his own day both as an author and a politician, but whose name is now remembered mainly by scholars, was the son of a wealthy West Indian proprietor, and was born in 1753.
As early as 1777 he published, anonymously, "Poetical Tales by Sir Gregory Gander," which were commended by Horace Walpole. He subsequently became a contributor to the Rolliad, and is believed to have been the author of some severe verses on Pitt, beginning, "Pert without fire, without experience sage," which appeared therein.
Ellis was appointed to accompany Sir James Harris (afterwards Lord Malmesbury) on his mission to the Hague in 1784, and in 1790 to the Conference at Lille. He thus acquired experience in foreign and home politics, and was, in 1796, elected M.P. for Seaford. Before this time he had become intimately acquainted with George Canning, in conjunction with whom he assisted in starting the Anti-Jacobin.
His "Specimens of Early English Poetry," published in 1790, which subsequently went through six editions, attracted the attention of Walter Scott, to whom he was introduced by Richard Heber in 1801. In 1805 he published his "Specimens of Early English Romances."
His acquaintance with Scott, who describes him as "the first converser I ever knew," soon ripened into a warm and lifelong friendship, as is shown by the frequent mention of his name in Lockhart's Biography. Scott dedicated to him the Fifth Canto of "Marmion," and he introduced Scott to George Canning.
It was in a large measure owing to the position, energy, and ability of this trio of friends that the Quarterly was started, and successfully conducted: whenever Mr. Canning contributed, as he not unfrequently did to the early numbers, it was through Mr. Ellis, as a rule, that the contributions were conveyed to the Editor.
Mr. Ellis himself wrote many articles, among which may be mentioned his reviews of Scott's "Lady of the Lake," "Lord of the Isles," "Rokeby," and "Bridal of Triermain;" of Byron's "Childe Harold," "Giaour," and "Corsair." In conjunction with Mr. Canning, who at times used to go and stay with him at Sunninghill for the purpose, he contributed several important political articles, and down to the time of his death scarcely any number of the Quarterly appeared without one or more papers from his pen. To the last, Mr. Ellis was a friendly but severe critic to the Review, and on the appearance of each succeeding number it was his practice to write to Mr. Murray, pointing out in detail what was, in his opinion, good and bad in the materials or management. Ellis died in 1815: his epitaph was written by Canning, who sent it for Scott's revision and approval before allowing it to be adopted.


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· April 29, 2016
BFGoodrich Tire Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary With SCORE International
Another SCORE JOURNAL Original Feature
By DAN SANCHEZ
Photos by GetSomePhoto
Forty years of testing and development in Baja says something about a tire company, especially one that has a history of the most race wins and championships in SCORE International desert racing.
Within that time, BFGoodrich has accumulated 27 overall wins at the SCORE Baja 1000, and 86 total wins on the Baja peninsula.
Over the years, BFGoodrich's relationship and history with SCORE International have been much more than a means to test tires. The company's engineers, marketing team, and many employees have helped hundreds of people become addicted to desert racing, resulting in the development of numerous SCORE champions along the way.
Welcome To Baja
The close relationship between SCORE and BFGoodrich began at a time when Baja racing was attracting serious competitors who were building faster vehicles with more capable suspension systems. In 1975, at the suggestion of then SCORE owner Sal Fish, BFGoodrich engineers first set foot on the Mexican Baja Penninsula to see if this race venue would make for good testing grounds. "At that point, we were developing the BFGoodrich Radial All-Terrain T/A when we got hooked up with Sal who invited us to Baja," said Dan Newsome, who started with BFG in 1978 and is now the Marketing Manager at Michelin Tire. "We learned a lot from the experience so we went back to do more development. A year later in 1976, BFGoodrich had its first entry at the SCORE Baja 1000 with Fritz Kroyer in a Class 6 Oldsmobile Starfire. Although the company's first entry into the SCORE Baja 1000 resulted in a DNF, it sparked an enthusiasm within the company, creating the goal of winning the 1000, one they needed to achieve.
At that time, only bias-ply tires were suited for off-road racing and were widely used by teams. According to Frank DeAngelo, who started with BFGoodrich 38 years ago, and is now the Executive Director, Motorsports at Jackson Motorsports Group, BFGoodrich was the first to try a Department Of Transportation, D.O.T., approved radial tire in off-road racing. "After that initial SCORE entry in 1976, the company did more testing with the help of Frank "Scoop" Vessels and his team," said DeAngelo. "The original tire was two-ply, and the company found out that it was not strong enough. So they developed a three-ply tire. It was a lot stronger, and in 1977, Vessels went racing on it." During the same year, at the SCORE Baja 500, Ivan Stewart, won his class in a Chenoweth buggy equipped with Radial All-Terrain T/A tires. BFGoodrich tires continued with two more victories the following year, winning the 1978 SCORE Baja 500 and SCORE Baja 1000 in Class 8.
The launch of a radial off-road tire was big news at the time, as radial tires were thought of as "street" tires, not suitable for any racing application. "The BFGoodrich Radial All-Terrain T/A was the industry's first off-road recreational tire," said Chris Baker, Motorsports Director at BFGoodrich Tire. "Most will tell you that this single product created a general type of tire within the tire business. But it was intentionally focused on off-roading. It was with the involvement in desert racing with SCORE from that time in the mid-seventies, that became the mechanism through which BFGoodrich learned about soft soil mobility, endurance, and off-road traction in general. After 40-plus years, we've gotten a lot better at it."
Despite the wins by Vessels, Stewart, and other racers, it was a slow process to get teams to try racing on radial tires. In fact, according to Newsome, it was a difficult just to get Vessels to sign off on using the tires in the first place. "It was a very slow process," said Newsome. "Initially, it was a challenge to get Scoop into trying these tires. When he did finally say okay, he bought off on it. As he began to win, he partnered with Bobby Gordon which helped get more teams to notice." With Vessels and Gordon entering a variety of races, other teams had begun realizing that the BFGoodrich Radial All-Terrain T/A was holding up to serious punishment.
With more development going into making the tires successful, BFGoodrich developed and successfully launched its Radial Mud-Terrain T/A in 1980, offering a more aggressive tire for racers and off-road enthusiasts. "The Radial Mud-Terrain T/A was also D.O.T. approved, and was very successful," said DeAngelo. "Racers now had the option to race on all-terrain or mud-terrain tires." At this time, several teams had already begun running SCORE races on BFGoodrich tires. This resulted in the company's first overall win in 1981, at the SCORE Baja 500, with Malcolm Smith and Bill Newbury. This lead a several teams wanting to use the tire from that point forward. "By 1982, we had four to five good-sized teams running on our tires, including Ivan Stewart, Bill Stroppe, Rod Hall, Don Adams, Malcolm Smith, and Johnny Johnson to name a few," said Newsome.
Desert Racing Was In The Pits
Although several teams were now running on BFGoodrich tires, there was yet another element to the company's involvement and success in SCORE that occurred in 1982. The company's Pit Program was developed out of a necessity to keep track of teams utilizing the company's tires. But it also became important to many SCORE racers, who at the time couldn't afford to run their own pit crew. "Bob Bower was the new manager of BFGoodrich's off-road program in 1982," said Newsome. "He started the annual task of tracking teams and soon realized that with the size of the budget he was given, it was very overwhelming. He felt that the best way to accomplish all this, and to offset the expenses involved, was to help the racers by providing pit support."
Bower's first recruit was Frank DeAngelo, who at the time was the driver of BFGoodrich's tractor trailer. "We came up with the idea and thought we should start pitting with the tractor trailer," said DeAngelo. "To make the program work in the beginning, we pulled people together from BFGoodrich, as well as other teams."
Bower and DeAngelo were able to get two people from each of their sponsored race teams in a number of pits along the routes of SCORE races. The two began establishing a network of pit support using anything and anyone they could get. "At one point, we had a truck from racer Don Adams, Scoop Vessel's trailer and a bunch of other vehicles all hobbled together," said Newsome. "By the end of the year, it had grown to be something that really worked. It was driven by a business need, but it created something for BFGoodrich internally that we never forgot. We made a lot of teams happy. We quickly realized that If you can enable people to do what they really love to do, your circle of friends gets big really quick."
DeAngelo moved from driving the tractor trailer to managing the pit program in 1983. "Some of our top teams joined the program and helped us put together a network of pits every 100 miles along the course," said DeAngelo. "Later on, Dan Newsome took over the pit program, but by that time, some of those original teams that helped out thought the pits were becoming more competitive. So we began contracting other groups to provide pits for us. We ended up contracting with organizations like Spirit Racing to help us out, but we also had lots of people who wanted to volunteer. The program grew to the point where we had lots of trucks, trailers and teams, including Gary Johnson, father of NASCAR driver Jimmy Johnson. We eventually had to move away from teams participating and gathered people who were more specialized in pitting so that it could be done quickly, efficiently, safely, and without any bias. To this day, BFGoodrich continues to use two or three of its own trailers and have three pit-teams that we contract with, to run a pit for us. We plan about 20 people in the pits, welders, fabricators tire changers, mechanics, cooks, medics, and even bi-lingual workers to manage communications. What's amazing is that 90 percent of all those people are volunteers. They take their vacations to come down and support the pit program, and many have been doing this for 15 to 25 years!"
Needless to say, the pit program was very successful not only for racers but for BFGoodrich as well, as the only requirement to utilize them was to run the company's tires. Over the years, many racers, teams, and champions have utilized BFGoodrich's Pit Program, including now SCORE International owner Roger Norman, who won the overall SCORE Baja 1000 in 2008. "My first involvement with the BFG pit program was with my Class 12 car in 1996,"said Norman. "I purchased BFG tires and got free pit service. My wife Elise was driving a truck with a trailer, and only had a few parts, not even any spares for the vehicle."
For those racers who were first getting involved with SCORE, utilization of the BFGoodrich pits was a great way for them to stay in competition. "The development of the BFGoodrich Pit Program was key for SCORE and many teams," said Norman. "When you're starting out in desert racing, you don't know what you're doing. BFG's pit program to this day makes it easy and affordable." – – (SEE SCORE JOURNAL for the rest of TOUGH COMPANY)
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Tera Patrick Returns to Webcam Performing
July 27, 2013 by Dan C. Leave a Comment
Cherry Pimps and Streamate to host Tera Patrick solo webcam performance
Tera Patrick will be performing a solo webcam show in August
Tera Patrick will be making her return to on camera performing this August. As many of you know, Patrick retired from hardcore performances back in 2009. Since then, she has kept a fairly low profile within the porn industry, doing some feature dancing, hosting the 2013 XBIZ Awards, and having a few non-sex cameos in some adult movies. However, on August 9th, Patrick will be performing a one-hour solo show via webcam.
The event will be produced by Cherry Pimps and will be hosted on Streamate. Since Tera Patrick walked away from hardcore porn four years ago, her massive fanbase has been eagerly hoping that she'd someday return to performing. While this will be a solo webcam show, it does represent the most significant onscreen performance for the legendary adult actress since her retirement.
In talking about the upcoming live webcam show, Terra Patrick issued the following statement…
I am really looking forward to this. My fans have always been wonderful and I have missed performing for them. I am ready to give them one hell of a hot live show and I know they will be pleased.
Adding to that, a spokesman for Streamate had this to say…
We are incredibly proud of our models and live entertainment channels. Cherry Pimps provides fans with great live shows several times a week. Still, it isn't very often that we get someone like Tera Patrick live for our viewers. We are extremely excited to present the return of one of the biggest porn stars the world has ever known. This will be the event of the year and we hope everyone enjoys the show.
Before leaving the porn industry in 2009, Tera Patrick was arguably the biggest name in adult entertainment. She began her porn career in 2000 and by 2001 was already incredibly popular, earning several major adult industry awards including Best New Starlet honors from AVN, Adult Stars Magazine, and XRCO. She is perhaps best known for her performance in Island Fever, which to this day ranks as one of the best selling porn movies of all time.
Obviously, Tera Patrick performing a live webcam show does have many people hoping this is just the start of what will eventually be her full-time return to porn. Even though she's been officially retired for the past four years, Patrick could easily come back and instantly be one of the hottest names in porn. Studios would be fighting over her and it's hard to imagine anything she stars in not becoming an instant best-seller.
Tera Patrick will be performing her one hour solo webcam show on August 5th at 6pm PST on Streamate. As more news becomes available regarding Tera Patrick and her return to onscreen performing, I'll be sure to keep everyone updated.
What are your thoughts on the return of Tera Patrick?
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Q: I have a problem with my SQL statement     Threads
-------
ThreadID
 UsersID
Date
ThreadTitle
 ThreadParagraph
ThreadClosed

  Topics
-----
 TopicsID
Theme
 Topics
Date

Here is my statement:
  StringBuilder insertCommand = new StringBuilder();
    insertCommand.Append("DECLARE @TopicsID int");
    insertCommand.Append("INSERT INTO Topics(Theme,Topics,Date)");
    insertCommand.Append("VALUES(@topic,@subTopic,GETDATE())");
    insertCommand.Append("SET @TopicsID = SCOPE_IDENTITY()");

    insertCommand.Append("INSERT INTO Threads(UsersID,TopicsID,Date,ThreadTitle,ThreadParagraph,ThreadClosed)");
    insertCommand.Append("VALUES(@uniqueIdentifier,@TopicsID,GETDATE(),@questionTitle,@questionParagraph,0)");

I get this:

Incorrect syntax near the keyword
  'INTO'. Must declare the scalar
  variable "@TopicsID". Must declare the
  scalar variable "@TopicsID".

A: The first thing I notice is:
insertCommand.Append("VALUES('@topic,@subTopic,GETDATE()')");

might need to be:
insertCommand.Append("VALUES(@topic,@subTopic,GETDATE())");

It looks like you have some extra single quotes in there.

A: You need a semi-colon after DECLARE @TopicsID int
That will take care of the "incorrect syntax" and declaring the scalar variable.
And I believe that you need to remove the single quotes around your three VALUES. That is causing it to think you have supplied only one VALUE instead of three.

A: Try
    insertCommand.AppendLine
SQL sees
DECLARE @TopicsID intINSERT INTO Topics(Theme,Topics,Date) ...
You need to separate the distinct statements

A: Your single quotes on the last line are wrong - its turning it all onto one string:
Change
  insertCommand.Append("VALUES('@uniqueIdentifier,@TopicsID,GETDATE(),@questionTitle,@questionParagraph,0')");

to
insertCommand.Append("VALUES(@uniqueIdentifier,@TopicsID,GETDATE(),@questionTitle,@questionParagraph,0)");


Possibilities of computer synthesis of zonal digital aerospace images are considered with the purpose of providing the greatest colour distinction between the object and background on the monitor screen. Increase in the efficiency of the synthesis of some zonal aerospace images is estimated.
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3. Evteeva N. P., Belikov V. I., Petrova L. A., Kozlova L. N. Estimating the color rendition of camera lenses. Optich. zhurn., No. 5, 67—70 (1993) [in Russian].
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5. Knizhnikova Yu. F., Kravtsova V. I. Areas of the effective application of multispectral satellite imagery. In: Multi-zonal Aerospace Survey and its use in the study of natural resources, 7— 14 (MGU, Moscow, 1976) [in Russian].
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Q: Draw invalidated rectangle using WM_PAINT In order to draw a text over a ComboBox (or whatever else), I override WndProc() and catch 0x000F message -- which is WM_PAINT.
Code is like the following:
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
    MyBase.WndProc(m)

    If m.Msg = &HF Then
        TextRenderer.DrawText(CreateGraphics, "The text over my control.", Font, _
                              ClientRectangle, ForeColor)
    End If
End Sub

It works very well, but there is a problem: if I drag parent window on a side of the screen (in order to hide a part of the window form), the visible part of my control is infinitely redrawn. This makes the text redrawn over itself!
I suppose there is a way to draw only invalidated (hidden) part of the control. How can I do?
EDIT
Here is the problem in one picture: http://i.stack.imgur.com/WqGfI.png (it's a link since I can't post image for now.)
UPDATE
I tried using BeginPaint API, but the RECT structure included in the returned PAINTSTRUCT structure contains only zeros.
If m.Msg = WM_PAINT Then
    Dim ps As PAINTSTRUCT = New PAINTSTRUCT
    BeginPaint(Handle, ps)
    Console.WriteLine(ps.rcPaint.right)

    'painting goes here

    EndPaint(Handle, ps)
End If

Can I do something with that? I don't know how to proceed, in order to paint only invalidated area.

A: A good rule of thumb is, never use Me.CreateGraphics.
Try changing your code to this:
<DllImport("User32.dll")> _
Public Shared Function GetWindowDC(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr) As IntPtr
End Function

<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Private Shared Function ReleaseDC(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal hDC As IntPtr) As Boolean
End Function

Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
  MyBase.WndProc(m)

  If m.Msg = &HF Then
    Dim dc As IntPtr = GetWindowDC(m.HWnd)
    Using g As Graphics = Graphics.FromHdc(dc)
      TextRenderer.DrawText(g, "The text over my control.", Font, _
                          ClientRectangle, ForeColor)
    End Using
    ReleaseDC(m.HWnd, dc)
  End If
End Sub

A: You might be attempting to paint when there has been no actual update. Part of the PAINTSTRUCT indicates whether the window should actually be erased.
Here's what I've used in the past. GetUpdateRect allows you to easily see if anything has actually been updated as well as get the updated region without having to call BeginPaint. Remember, BeginPaint is only when you're not passing the message down to your base class. (I'm subclassing using the NativeWindow class in this snippet.)
Dim hasUpdates As Boolean
Dim updRect As RECT
Dim r As Rectangle

hasUpdates = GetUpdateRect(_parentControl.Handle, updRect, False)
With updRect
    r = New Rectangle(.Left, .Top, .Right - .Left, .Bottom - .Top)
End With

' Invalidate the control so that the whole thing will be redrawn since
' our custom painting routine could redraw the entire client area.
If hasUpdates Then _parentControl.Invalidate(r)

' Pass the message along to be handled by the default paint event.
MyBase.DefWndProc(m)

' Now draw extras over the existing control.
If hasUpdates Then Me.PaintExtras(r)

So what you would do is exit the routine if hasUpdates is False.
As far as the graphics to use to draw, I've had success using Graphics.FromHwnd(ctrl.Handle)


R.I.P. Captain Robert "Bobbie" Evan Brown Jr. September 2, 1903 – November 8, 1971.
A mans man and a true hero.
If there's one thing that has remained universal about battles and war throughout human history, it is the fact that war changes men.
Often the changes are subtle. Sometimes the only thing different about the soldier who returns home after a campaign is a new scar or two.
Sometimes, though, the damage done is far worse, and the wounds and scars that the returning soldier bears are not only physical but psychological too.
Even men who are capable of the most extraordinary acts of courage and heroism on the battlefield may end up losing a far quieter, more personal and solitary war in the end: that with their own souls.
Captain Bobbie E. Brown, a hero of WWII and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, was one such man.
When Robert E. Brown was 15 years old, he enlisted in the United States Army to escape a life of poverty. He lied to the recruiting sergeant about his age and used his nickname, Bobbie, in place of his real name on his enlistment papers.
Becoming an enlisted soldier in 1918, he just missed the First World War – but his chance to fight for his country would nevertheless come a few years later, when the United States entered WWII on December 7, 1941.
Brown, a gifted athlete who excelled at boxing and football, took to combat like a duck to water.
Initially, he served in North Africa as a first sergeant in Patton's 2nd Armored Division. There he saw plenty of action and received a battlefield promotion to the rank of second lieutenant.
After this, he was transferred to Western Europe to continue fighting with the 1st Infantry Division.
His arrival on European soil could not have been more dramatic or more intense: he led a platoon of C Company, storming Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Over the next few weeks, he and his company fought their way across France as the Allies pushed forward. During their advance, Brown's company commander was killed, and Lieutenant General Robert H. York found he had an important decision to make.
Despite knowing that Brown possessed what he described as "the educational equivalent of a twelve-year-old" in terms of schooling, he also understood that Brown was a natural leader and a man who inspired loyalty in the men around him.
York had observed that Brown also had a natural flair for tactics and was an absolutely fearless fighter. Therefore, in spite of Brown's lack of formal education, General York decided to give him command of the company, promoting him to the rank of captain.
The highlight of Brown's military career occurred on October 8, 1944, when he and his company fought in the Battle of Crucifix Hill, a key phase in the Allies' larger plan to encircle and then take Aachen, a city in Germany.
The heavily-fortified Crucifix Hill was a major strategic position for the Germans. Everyone knew that there would be a tough battle to take it, but Brown was determined to win with the smallest amount of American casualties possible.
Of the 43 known German pillboxes on the hill, he and his company were charged with taking out seven of them.
At 13:15, an American air strike led by fighter pilots in P-47 Thunderbolts hit the hill. After that, it was time to advance. However, soon Brown's company were pinned down in an anti-tank ditch under withering fire.
Brown quickly realized that his men would be cut to pieces if something wasn't done about the German gunners in the pillboxes dotting the hill. Instead of sending out a group of men to take out the pillboxes, he took it upon himself.
Taking some pole charges and satchel charges, Captain Brown ordered his men to lay down covering fire.
He crawled, alone and in the face of enemy fire, approximately 100 yards to the closest pillbox into which he dropped a satchel charge. The explosive detonated, taking out the Germans in the pillbox and effectively neutralizing it.
After his first success, he crawled back to his company and retrieved more explosives. Then, once again, he headed out alone, with bullets flying all around him and mortars exploding so close that a few knocked him over.
Nevertheless, he kept pushing on and took out the next pillbox in the same manner: by getting close enough to drop an explosive through the aperture.
Once more he headed back down the hill to replenish his supply of explosives. This time, however, his sergeant noticed that he had been hit; there was blood all over his knee and there were bullet holes in his canteen.
Brown, however, simply shrugged the injury off and kept going.
The third pillbox he was aiming to take out was the most heavily-fortified one on the entire hill and was manned by no less than 45 German troops.
Brown approached this one with more stealth, via a communications trench, and waited for just the right moment to attack.
When a German soldier carrying ammunition to his comrades opened a steel door in the heavily-reinforced pillbox, Captain Brown tossed in two satchel charges and managed to take out the whole pillbox.
Once this pillbox had been destroyed, the Allied forces on the hill quickly began to gain the upper hand.
However, Brown was not content with stopping here. He realized that someone needed to reconnoiter enemy activity beyond the hill.
Once more, he took it upon himself to undertake this dangerous mission. He headed out alone to locate enemy positions, deliberately drawing enemy fire in order to get the German gunners to reveal their emplacements.
Through this amazing demonstration of courage, he was able to reveal the German positions. This enabled the Allied forces to repel two German counterattacks and successfully take Crucifix Hill.
Only once the battle had been won did Captain Brown allow his wounds to be treated.
He fought on in the war but was badly wounded fighting on the streets of Aachen when an artillery shell exploded next to him. These wounds resulted in him being hospitalized for several months, but when he was healed up, he returned to the front and continued fighting.
After the war ended, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor in the battle of Crucifix Hill.
Unfortunately, Brown spent a number of years after the war in and out of hospitals, suffering from constant pain from his wounds as well as from PTSD.
He left the armed forces in 1952, having served as a soldier for 34 years. However, owing to his lack of education and his severe physical and psychological scars, he could not find a decent job and ended up becoming a janitor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
His physical wounds and psychological scars never really healed, and, sadly, Captain Robert "Bobbie" E. Brown decided to take his own life on November 8, 1971.
He was given a hero's burial at Arlington National Cemetery.


Total Group profit before tax for the year amounted to €18.56m as compared to €17.71m during the previous year with after tax profits at €14.04m compared to €13.52m in 2017.
The standalone company registered a turnover of €69.69m in gross premium written, a 12.5% increase over FY2017 registering a marginal increase in its market leadership share. Technical results remained strong notwithstanding experiencing the worst Motor claim in the history of the Maltese insurance market. Investment income saw a decline through low yields and negative fair value movements from financial markets.
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The Group's results include the consolidated Mapfre MSV Life plc profit before tax of €13.7m (2017: €12.31m). MMSV reported a turnover (including investment contracts without DPF) of €322.72m compared to €291.46m in 2017 as a result of increases in demand across all products in particular single premium savings contracts and life protection business.
With all the major investment asset classes experiencing negative returns a negative investment income of €43.3m was registered compared to an income of €66.4m in 2017. The profit after tax consolidated for FY2018 amounted to €10.88m (2017: €10.02m).
Total Group capital and reserves attributable to shareholders (excluding non-controlling interests) as at 31 December 2018 was €91.67m, compared to €92.88m as at 31 December 2017.
The company maintained a strong balance sheet, with its shareholders' equity amounting to €68.31m still maintaining a strong regulatory solvency position as at 31 December 2018 under the Solvency II regime.
A gross dividend in respect of year ended 31 December 2018 of €0.11531 per share amounting to a total dividend of €10,608,738 (2017: €10,400,000) is to be proposed by the directors at the forthcoming annual general meeting.
The Board will also recommend the payment of a special net dividend amounting to €8,000,000 equivalent to a gross dividend of €0.08696 per share. This special dividend results from a special dividend to be distributed by the subsidiary Mapfre MSV Life plc from past years' retained earnings.
The Board's outlook for 2019 is one of cautious optimism where the demand for general business is expected to continue to grow while the demand for the protection savings and investments products in life is expected to remain strong.
The company will continue to maintain strong focus on its customers through the implementation of a number of initiatives to strengthen further the digital platform and widen the digital marketing strategy.


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March calls for unity to support gender equality
HUMAN RIGHTS: The march celebrates women, but also advocates that everyone can support women's rights, its founder said, adding that gender inequality affects all
Taipei Times
By: Davina Tham / Staff reporter
The third annual Women's March in Taipei yesterday afternoon called on people of all backgrounds to
Singer-songwriter Lara Veronin, center in pink, raises her fists, while her sister, director, singer and actor Esther Veronin, holds a placard reading "No more patriarchy" during the Women's March in Taipei's Liberty Square yesterday. Photo: Hu Shun-hsiang, Taipei Times
unite in support of women's rights.
Women's March Taiwan founder Crystal Liu (劉小妤) said that regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation, gender inequality is a universal issue that affects everyone.
"Of course we are celebrating women, but we are also celebrating that everyone can support women's rights," Liu said.
About 100 people, including representatives from the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, which sponsored the event, participated in the march to mark International Women's Day.
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