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The Atlanta University Center is the Start Of Vaccine Awareness for Black Communities across the Country.
After being kicked off campus in the middle of my sophomore year, I will now be returning to campus for in-person classes, along with the rest of my classmates, as a senior at Morehouse College. On April 19th, 2021 the Atlanta University Center decided to open its doors for completely in person classes for the 2021–22 school year. This decision came with one exception; all teachers and staff must be fully vaccinated unless religious and health reasons prevent them from doing so.
The Atlanta University Center consists of three of the most well known HBCUs in the country: Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University. As the most well known, the AUC has become a staple in black communities all across the country. The AUC brings black students from every region, and every walk of life, together in one spot.
Due to this reality, the AUC has a mission to fulfill in Black communities all across the country, and the requirement for students to get the vaccine is the start of vaccine awareness in Black communities.
The popular SNL skit featuring Daniel Kaluuya, titled "Vaccine Game Show," shows the level of mistrust of the COVID-19 vaccine in black communities. Daniel Kaluuya, acting as the game show host, asked his Aunt played by Ego Nwodim if she would take the vaccine. She responded by claiming Facebook told her that she couldn't.
Although this was in a fictional skit, many people believe that the vaccine is a risk to them simply from posts they see on social media from people who aren't experts. Then, there are those who distrust the vaccine due to what happened in 1932 in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. African American men who had syphilis thought they were getting help from white doctors. As the doctors just monitored their symptoms, they only got worse.
Incidents like this have created a distrust in the medical field throughout the black community. A poll done by The Undefeated shows that 56% of Black people mostly trusted their local hospitals compared to other doctors outside of their hospitals. Showing that Black people are more likely to trust Black doctors that live in their communities.
Having a fully or partially vaccinated AUC will help to demonstrate the truth about the COVID vaccine. The US National Science Foundation report showed that from 2002–11, 24% of all Black PhDs in STEM earned their bachelors from a HBCU.
As future Black leaders begin to get the vaccine, the rest of the community will as well. One because those students can go back home to tell their friends and family members the importance of the vaccine. Also, what happens in the AUC is broadcasted all over "black social media", and those same people who see posts about why not to trust the vaccine will see posts about future Black leaders getting the vaccine.
The Shade Room, a black owned blog site with over 23 million Instagram followers, made a post the same day this information was released stating "Spelman, Morehouse, & Clark Atlanta Will Now Require Students & Staff To Be Vaccinated Before Returning To Campus". This post received 108,689 likes on Instagram along with 15,508 comments.
These numbers were taken 3 days after this post was made, and it proves how what happens in the AUC is broadcasted all throughout the Black community. Not everybody in the comments were very excited about this news being told many adults and people unrelated to the colleges began to get overworked and angry about the news. It also gave the opportunity for those that understood the vaccine to explain to those that disagreed.
"You already need vaccines to go to colleges so I don't know why y'all love tryna sound fake smart talking about "it violates my rights," Instagram account @dorothyk_ said.
This comment received 1,151 likes, and we may not know if this changed anybody's perception of the vaccine. The AUC being recognized allowed both those in the black community who disagree with the vaccine, and those who trust the vaccine, to dialogue with one another about why they believe their stance to be the best one.
The AUC is the first of HBCUs to come out with this requirement, with Hampton College doing the same immediately after. Over 50 colleges have already made this a requirement including Yale, Columbia, and Cornell. Also Catholic college Notre Dame has done the same as well. Requiring vaccines is nothing new to this country. Vaccines were made to keep yourself, and others around you safe. The very concept of the vaccine came from a black man, as an African slave Onesimus introduced the concept of a vaccine to America in 1721.
With so much confusion about the COVID-19 vaccine, and many Black people having a reason to not trust this country. The AUC will be the start to eliminating this confusion about the vaccine. Although all questions may not be answered, the conversation has now begun.
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More from USSR
We continue our journey in the world of computer games created on the territory of the former Soviet Union! Unexpected news and long-awaited announcements appear in the computer games industry almost daily, and some news directly changes the policy of publishers and developers.
And it goes without saying that most often something like this happens during international exhibitions! Like E3 (or Electronic Entertainment Expo), one of the largest trade shows in the world.
This year, E3 was held online in mid-June, and many of the news announced during various shows within its framework directly touched upon the topic of "post-Soviet" projects, which we discussed in the previous article. For example, the full-fledged announcement of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2!
Last time we talked about the fact that the game was first announced in 2010, and eight years later, in 2018, there was a second announcement, when GSC Game World studio announced the revival of the company and the resumption of the development of the game. And finally, in 2021, it was announced to the world that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will go on sale on April 28, 2022!
By the way, Sergey Grigorovich from GSC Game World appear in new five minute trailer of the game as well as the city of Chernobyl-2. "Have a good hunt, stalker", – he says.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 wasn't the only post-apocalyptic game to be reminded of at E3. We also remembered about another popular role-playing shooter, Escape from Tarkov from the Russian studio Battlestate Games.
This released on Summer 2017 game is set in the Russia 2028 universe, everything happens in fictional Russian city of Tarkov in the Norvinsk region. According to the plot, one time Tarkov was a zone of economic cooperation between Russia and the European Union, but at the moment where the game brings us, it's all over. The city's surroundings are already isolated from the outside world by the UN peacekeeping forces and the Russian Armed Forces, which is the consequences of the political crisis caused by the illegal activities of the transnational corporation TerraGroup.
Escape from Tarkov is a multiplayer game, and it is played very active even in 2021. Which is not surprising, since the full support for the shooter goes on (the last version at the time of publication of this article was released in May 2021). And now fans of the shooter are looking forward for a new location, Streets of Tarkov.
Escape from Tarkov never managed to achieve the phenomenal popularity of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but nevertheless, the game boasts a stable (and far from the smallest!) audience, and from 2019 to 2021, the Battlestate YouTube channel even aired the Raid TV series based on the game.
By the way, since we mentioned "phenomenal popularity", it's time to recall another game that has set many records in terms of the number of players – the tank simulator World of Tanks from the Belarusian studio Wargaming.net.
The concept of the game is based on team tank battles in PVP (player vs player) mode, in which each player controls an armored combat vehicle. The game features five types of vehicles: light, medium and heavy tanks, as well as self-propelled artillery and self-propelled anti-tank artillery. All offered vehicles have their own distinctive features in the gameplay and specially designated roles in combat. The developers themselves position their game as "a massively multiplayer online action game with RPG, shooter and strategy elements".
World of Tanks is a four-time winner of the annual Golden Joystick Awards (Best MMO 2012, Best Online Game 2013, and Best Game Still Played 2017 and 2018). In addition, the game has already hit the Guinness Book of Records twice: in 2011, the world record was set for the simultaneous presence of players on one MMO server (91,311 users), and later the world record for the simultaneous presence of players on one server cluster (1,114,337 users) was set.
It seems that these facts alone indicate that WoT has become one of the most successful projects in the history of the gaming industry over all!
The next project that we in no way can ignore is the role-playing adventure thriller Pathologic, originally released in Russia under the name "Pestilence (Utopia)". Interestingly, the original Russian name has a play on words: in Russian it sounds like "Mor (Utopia)", which many associate with Thomas More's novel "Utopia", published back in 1516. However, in an interview with PC Games in January 2005, Nikolai Dybowski, one of the game's developers, unequivocally stated that "the game has nothing to do with Thomas More", and the play on words in the title is much more of irony.
The original version of Pathologic was created by the Russian studio Ice-Pick Lodge, and its plot reveals the fates of three characters who find themselves in a distant town in the steppe during the height of a terrible epidemic of a deadly infection. Critics several times called the game "an author's project, inextricably linked with its creators, with the ideas and worldview of the authors embedded in it", and we are not going to argue with them at all.
In 2005, at the Conference of Computer Game Developers, Pathologic received the "Most Custom Project" award, the game was translated to English, German, Italian, Bulgarian and Czech, and when republished in HD – to Polish as well. And by the way, let's not pretend that we have an overabundance of unnecessary modesty: General Arcade took part in the work on Pathologic Classic HD, which was released in 2017!
We'd like to mention another Ice-Pick Lodge game, survival horror Knock-Knock. Although this project has never gained much popularity, it is definitely worth remembering.
The thing is that the game was an experiment, and many didn't appreciate the unusual moves made by authors. The developers were accused of the monotony of the gameplay, the unfinished plot and the lack of a clear explanation of what is happening in the game at all… As a result, many gaming magazines rated Knock-Knock something like 5 out of 10. But the user ratings in total turned out to be much higher, although the game never became a full-fledged hit.
The history related to the development of Knock-Knock deserves special attention. Representatives of Ice-Pick Lodge said that it all started in 2011, when they received a strange letter, where they were invited to make a game based on the submitted materials. A lot of letters like that come to the studio's mailbox, but it was this particular letter, according to Ice-Pick Lodge, that "somehow attracted their attention"… An archive with excerpts of texts and short audio and video records was attached to it, and the sender asked to finish the started game, using the materials from that archive, "otherwise they will share his fate".
The scope for development was huge, but the use of the sent files was a prerequisite, "otherwise everything will be in vain". The author of the mysterious letter did not contact Ice-Pick Lodge again.
Of course, all of this looks like part of an advertising campaign, but this is how "urban legends" are born. And who knows which ones are true?..
Actually, the concept of "nationality" of product created is very often rather vague in the modern world. And some games are really "international". Just like Spintires: MudRunner, for example. The game was published by French Focus Home Interactive and was developed by American independent company Saber Interactive. But the thing is that Saber Interactive has subsidiary studios in Russia, Spain, Belarus, Sweden and other eight countries! And MudRunner was created in St. Petersburg, Russia – it was made in the same studio that worked on Quake Champions with id Software for several years.
MudRunner is uncompromising off-road racing in which you have to conquer extreme Siberian off-road terrain behind the wheel of a sophisticated vehicles. You'll be able to try several all-terrain vehicles, completing various tasks in particularly difficult conditions – in the mud, raging rivers and among other obstacles that realistically interact with your SUVs.
The game didn't receive the highest ratings on Metacritic (about 70 out of 100 on all platforms), but was rated much higher by the players themselves. It is difficult to call MudRunner a worldwide hit that every video game lover immediately recalls, but it is definitely something that every fan of racing games highly appreciated. Which is aided by its non-standard and even, one might even say, uniqueness.
And finally, the last game that we'd like to recall today is the first-person shooter Chasm: The Rift, created by Action Forms Ukrainians back in 1997. The game engine was capable of rendering three-dimensional objects and weather effects, but despite this, the level design remained 2.5-dimensional, since the layout of the locations was flat, when different sectors of the levels could not be located on top of each other. In the best traditions of Doom and Quake, players were invited to take the role of an unnamed Marine and stop the Time Strikers mutants who cherished dreams of taking over the Earth…
The end of the last century was the beginning of the golden age of games of this genre, which was greatly facilitated by id Software with their Quake series, Raven Software with Heretic and Hexen, and finally, Valve with the story of Gordon Freeman's adventures in Half-Life. So you can say Action Forms "hit the wave". And it should be noted that they hit it very well – some journalists in all seriousness compared Chasm with the "masters", and the players themselves also accepted the game favorably.
However, this also played a cruel joke with Action Forms. On the one hand, games of this genre were devilishly in demand, but on the other hand, a huge number of projects eventually died precisely because of ratings like "great game, but not Quake". So Chasm: The Rift never got the sequel, and the shooter itself, although it was rated positively, faded against the background of admitted international hits…
We still have a lot of stories like these – some develop the games "by the order from the other side", some create a new genre, and some cannot stay in the genre already popular… And we will definitely share all these stories with you! A bit later.
Alexander Kurikh
Chasm, Chasm: The Rift, Escape from Tarkov, Knock-Knock, Mor (Utopia), MudRunner, Pathologic, Pestilence (Utopia), S.T.A.L.K.E.R., S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Spintires: MudRunner, Streets of Tarkov, World of Tanks, WoT
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Rustic Dreams is a perfect Lehigh Valley getaway for any occasion!
Tuesday was an absolute beautiful day in Lehigh Valley. The sun was shining and the temperature just right for mid-May. I had a request for assorted brochures and the Discover Lehigh Valley Official Visitors Guide from Matthew at Rustic Dreams Bed & Breakfast in Bethlehem. I was happy to drive out to meet Matt in person and tour this lovely property.
When most people think B&B, they envision an old converted mansion. That's not the case for Rustic Dreams. Matt and his wife, Jean, dreamed of running an inn so they built their home with that vision in mind. Don't let the name "rustic" fool you ... this place which is only a couple years old, was built with every modern convenience included!
The setting itself is on two acres and extremely peaceful. You'd never know you were minutes away from major highways that make getting there very easy. It is situated on Wilson Avenue, a narrow country road, which allows you to slow down and take in the scenery.
Attention to detail would be an understatement in describing Rustic Dreams. The hand made, one-of-a-kind, furniture blends perfectly with the owner's collection of Native American art work and artifacts. Just entering from the large wrap around front porch makes you feel relaxed.
The Sioux Suite features two lovely bedrooms with a private bath, but I fell in love with the Cheyenne Suite which is complete with large Jacuzzi tub that overlooks the private, tree filled back yard. This suite also has a wet bar area, mini-fridge, microwave, coffee maker, and breakfast nook, should you want to dine in room. A gas fueled, stone fireplace graces one corner of this huge space. I could imagine closing the door and never leaving.


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Faint Impressions, Forceful Ideas
Faint Impressions, Forceful Ideas Bozzo, Alexander P. 2021-10-19 00:00:00 AbstractA natural reading of Hume's distinction between impressions and ideas is that impressions are forceful perceptions whereas ideas are faint. A problem emerges, however, when Hume countenances the possibility of faint impressions and forceful ideas. In this paper, I attempt a resolution to the problem. I argue that Hume characterizes impressions and ideas intensionally and extensionally, and sometimes uses the term in only one of the two senses. I argue that Hume intensionally defines impressions and ideas as forceful perceptions and weak perceptions, respectively, but takes these to be extensionally equivalent to original and copied perceptions, respectively. Hume recognizes that his two characterizations—the intensional and extensional—don't perfectly match up, and that there are exceptions to the purported equivalences (the exceptions being disease, sleep, madness, and enthusiasm). Nonetheless, I argue that Hume's willing to proceed with his definitions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis Brill http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/faint-impressions-forceful-ideas-kmQjyAo2en
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AbstractA natural reading of Hume's distinction between impressions and ideas is that impressions are forceful perceptions whereas ideas are faint. A problem emerges, however, when Hume countenances the possibility of faint impressions and forceful ideas. In this paper, I attempt a resolution to the problem. I argue that Hume characterizes impressions and ideas intensionally and extensionally, and sometimes uses the term in only one of the two senses. I argue that Hume intensionally defines impressions and ideas as forceful perceptions and weak perceptions, respectively, but takes these to be extensionally equivalent to original and copied perceptions, respectively. Hume recognizes that his two characterizations—the intensional and extensional—don't perfectly match up, and that there are exceptions to the purported equivalences (the exceptions being disease, sleep, madness, and enthusiasm). Nonetheless, I argue that Hume's willing to proceed with his definitions.
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Bozzo, A. (2021). Faint Impressions, Forceful Ideas. History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, 24(2), 326-350.
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Betty Grable WWII Pin Up
Elizabeth Ruth Grable ( Betty Grable) was born on December 18, 1916, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother Lillian was a stubborn and materialistic woman who was determined to make her daughter a star. Elizabeth, who later became Betty, was enrolled in Clark's Dancing School at the age of three. With her mother's guidance, Betty studied ballet and tap dancing. At 13, Betty and her mother set out for Hollywood with the hopes of stardom. Lillian lied about her daughter's age, and Ruth landed several minor parts in films in 1930, such as "Whoopee!" (1930), "New Movietone Follies of 1930" (1930), "Happy Days" (1929/I) and "Let's Go Places" (1930). In 1932 she signed with RKO Pictures. The bit parts continued for the next three years. Betty finally landed a substantial part in "By Your Leave" (1934). One of her big roles was in "College Swing" (1938). Unfortunately, the public didn't seem to take notice. She was beginning to think she was a failure. The next year she married former child star Jackie Coogan. His success boosted hers, but they divorced in 1940. When she landed the role of Glenda Crawford in "Down Argentine Way" (1940), the public finally took notice of this shining bright star. Stardom came through comedies such as "Coney Island" (1943) and "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1943).
The public was enchanted with Betty. Her famous pin-up pose during World War II adorned barracks all around the world. With that pin-up and as the star of lavish musicals, Betty became the highest-paid star in Hollywood. After the war, her star continued to rise. In 1947 the US Treasury Department noted that she was the highest paid star in America, earning about $300,000 a year – a phenomenal sum even by today's standards. Later, 20th Century-Fox, who had her under contract, insured her legs with Lloyds of London for a million dollars. Betty continued to be popular until the mid-50s, when musicals went into a decline. Her last film was "How to Be Very, Very Popular" (1955). She then concentrated on Broadway and nightclubs. In 1965 she divorced band leader Harry James, whom she had wed in 1943. Betty died July 2, 1973, of lung cancer at age 56 in Santa Monica, California. Her funeral was held July 5, 1973, 30 years to the day after her marriage to Harry James – who, in turn, died on what would have been his and Grable's 40th anniversary, July 5, 1983. Her life was an active one, devoid of the scandals that plagued many stars in one way or another. In reality, she cared for her family and the family life more than stardom. In that way, she was a true star.'
Betty Grable's measurements: 34 1/2-24-36 (self-described 1940), 36-24-35 (at time of her famous WWII pin-up poster), 36-23-35 (at a fit 112# in 1958), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Wore size 5A shoes. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Had a relationship with George Raft for 2-1/2 years, and ended it because he could not get a divorce from his Catholic wife.
Was a somnambulist (sleep-walker)
Did Playtex 18-hour Shortie commercials in the 1960s using her famous pinup pose — purportedly because she needed the money after her husband had spent her savings.
She and Harry James had two daughters, Victoria Elizabeth James (b. March 3, 1944) and Jessica James (b. May 20, 1947).
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Yank Pin UP Gene Tierney: May 25, 1945
Gene Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 1920, to well-to-do parents. Her father was a very successful insurance broker and her mother was a former teacher. Her childhood was lavish indeed. She also lived, at times, with her equally successful grandparents in Connecticut and New York. She was educated in the finest schools on the East Coast and at a finishing school in Switzerland. After two years in Europe, Gene returned to the US where she completed her education.
By 1938 she was performing on Broadway in "What a Life!" and understudied for "The Primerose Path" (1938) at the same time. Her wealthy father set up a corporation that was only to promote her theatrical pursuits. Her first role consisted of carrying a bucket of water across the stage, prompting one critic to announce that "Miss Tierney is, without a doubt, the most beautiful water carrier I have ever seen!" Her subsequent roles "Mrs O`Brian Entertains" (1939) and "RingTwo" (1939) were meatier and received praise from the tough New York critics. Critic Richard Watts wrote "I see no reason why Miss Tierney should not have a long and interesting theatrical career, that is if the cinema does not kidnap her away".
Gene was  spotted by the legendary Darryl F. Zanuck during a stage performance of the hit show "The Male Animal" (1940), Gene was signed to a contract with 20th Century-Fox. Her first role as Barbara Hall in "Hudson`s Bay" (1941) would be the send-off vehicle for her career. Later that year she appeared in "The Return of Frank James" (1940). The next year would prove to be a very busy one for Gene, as she appeared in "The Shanghai Gesture" (1941), "Sundown" (1941), "Tobacco Road" (1941) and "Belle Starr" (1941). She tried her hand at screwball comedy in "Rings on Her Fingers" (1942), which was a great success. Her performances in each of these productions were masterful. In 1945 she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Ellen Brent in "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945). Though she didn't win, it solidified her position in Hollywood society. She followed up with another great performance as Isabel Bradley in the hit "The Razor`s Edge" (1946). In 1944 she played what is probably her best-known role (and, most critics agree, her most outstanding performance) in Otto Preminger`s "Laura" (1944), in which she played murder victim named Laura Hunt. In 1947 Gene played Lucy Muir in the acclaimed "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947). By this time Gene was the hottest player around, and the 1950s saw no letup as she appeared in a number of good films, among them "Night and the City" (1950), "The Mating Season" (1951), "Close to My Heart" (1951), "Plymouth Adventure" (1952), "Personal Affair" (1953) and "The Left Hand of God" (1955). The latter was to be her last performance for seven years.
The pressures of a failed marriage to Oleg Cassini, the birth of a daughter who was mentally retarded in 1943, and several unhappy love affairs resulted in Gene being hospitalized for depression. When she returned to the the screen in "Advise & Consent" (1962), her acting was as good as ever but there was no longer a big demand for her services. Her last feature film was "The Pleasure Seekers" (1964), and her final appearance in the film industry was in a TV miniseries, "Scruples" (1980). Gene died of emphysema in Houston, Texas, on November 6, 1991, just two weeks shy of her 71st birthday.
Nickname: The Get Girl
Howard Hughes provided the funds for her retarded daughter's medical care.
Had her share of love affairs during her Hollywood reign, including a notorious one with John F. Kennedy, whom she met while filming Dragonwyck (1946). Kennedy broke it up because of his political aspirations. She also had dalliances with Tyrone Power during production of The Razor's Edge (1946) and with Prince Aly Khan in the early 1950s.
Received extensive shock treatment in the 1950s while battling her mental instability.
Tierney was in the throes of suicidal depression and was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, on Christmas Day in 1957, after police talked her down from a building ledge. She was released from Menningers the following year.
When Gene saw herself on screen for the first time, she was horrified by her voice ("I sounded like an angry Minnie Mouse"). She began smoking to lower her voice, but it came at a great price – she died of emphysema.
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Numista › Banknotes › Brazil
50 Mil Réis overprint on 50 Mil Réis i.e. P# 58
Republic of the United States of Brazil (1889-1967)
50000 Réis (50000.000)
Real (1799-1942)
P# 109C
Blue on polychrome, in calcography and lithography.
In the center, the portrait of Artur da Silva Bernardes, 12th President of the Republic (1922-1926), flanked by numerals 50.
Diagonally crossing the body of the note, anonymous autograph of the official responsible for the conference, plus two other signatures.
Near the top margin, a rectangular stamp, in black, with the words "A CAIXA DE ESTABILIZAÇÃO pagará ao portador, à vista, no Rio de Janeiro, em ouro, conforme a Lei n.º 5108, de 18 de Dezembro de 1926 a quantia de 50$000 VALOR RECEBIDO EM OURO".
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REPUBLICA DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DO BRAZIL
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CINCOENTA MIL REIS
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American Bank Note Company
A CAIXA DE ESTABILIZAÇÃO pagará
ao portador, à vista, no Rio de Janeiro,
em ouro, conforme a Lei n.º 5108, de
18 de Dezembro de 1926 a quantia de
50$000
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Republic of the United States of Brazil
In the National Treasury
will be paid to the carrier of this amount of
Fifty Thousand Réis
The Stabilization Fund will pay the bearer, in cash, in Rio de Janeiro, in gold, according to Law No. 5108, from December 18, 1926 to amount of 50$000 Amount Received in Gold
Green, in calcography.
DO BRAZIL
Themes of this banknote
(1) Artur da Silva Bernardes (Viçosa, 1875 - Rio de Janeiro, 1955) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician, President of Minas Gerais, 1918 to 1922 and 12th President of Brazil between November 15, 1922 and November 15, 1926. His followers were called "bernardistas". Bernardes won the presidential elections of March 1, 1922. obtaining 466,877 votes against 317,714 votes given to Nilo Peçanha, in an election that divided the country: Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro supported Nilo Peçanha and the other states supported the Bernardes candidacy.
Before the election, Bernardes had to face the rumorous case of "cartas falsas" (false letters) attributed to him and which denigrated the ex-president Hermes da Fonseca. Its vice-president was Estácio Coimbra who replaced Urbano Santos, elected vice-president, also on March 1, 1922, died on May 7, 1922, before taking office. The discontent with the victory of Bernardes and the government of his predecessor, Epitácio Pessoa, were some of the causes of the so-called Revolta dos 18 do Forte de Copacabana, (18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt) the movement's first action lieutenant. Bernardes had to face the Coluna Prestes (Prestes Column), a tenentist movement that traveled the country preaching changes political and social and has never been defeated by the government.
(2) Rectangular stamp of 50$000 (fifty thousand Réis)
The first banknotes of the Caixa de Estabilização (Stabilization Fund) were taken from the National Treasury, with a rectangular stamp with the words "The Stabilization Fund will pay the holder, in cash, in Rio de Janeiro, in gold, according to Law No. 5108, of 18 December 1926 the amount of __$000 AMOUNT RECEIVED IN GOLD".
To know more... Republic of the United States of Brazil (1st Republic) and Réis (Rs)
Decree 5108 of December 18, 1926
50 Mil Réis (Thesouro Nacional; 16th print)
ND (1926) P# 109C; Series #9 - 10; With two signatures
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The increasing incidence of cancer and the ever-rising demand for anticancer drugs results in significant growth for the highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPIs) market. The highly toxic properties of HPAPIs, however, present manufacturing and handling challenges. Our meeting facilitates hands-on experience sharing with focus on early process development and scale up, occupational health regulations and safety standards, cross-contamination risk assessment and control, aseptic facilities and equipment maintenance and cleaning, outsourcing and technology transfer strategies.
08:40 GMP and Occupational Safety Requirements for highly potent aseptic processing.
Cleaning requirements and limits for non-product contact surfaces.
09:55 Practical Delivery of HPAPI Projects.
10:30 Best practices: requirements for fully-integrated service-offerings in a HPAPI and cytotoxic environment.
11:25 Risk-based handling of highly potent APIs: cross-contamination and transportation parameters.
12:00 The Importance of Involving Your People.
14:00 Single Use Flexible Isolators reduces cleaning and cross contamination risk.
Using a single use flexible isolator provides cost savings and reduces risk of cross contamination from retention. This is very important with HPAPI and cleaning limits being reduced.
14:40 Novel Antibody Drug Conjugate Manufacturing - Synthesis, Conjugation, and Coordination.
15:15 Cleaning Validation as one driver to prevent cross-contamination.
16:20 Cleaning Validation for API: Reaching a Steady State.
16:55 Analytical Approach for Implementation of Visual Inspection.
17:30 Roundtable Discussions: The six Whats in safe HPAPI manufacturing.
What analytical techniques and quality assurance approaches are key in HPAPI manufacturing?
What is theory and what is practice in IH monitoring?
What should you consider before investment into engineering solutions for your HPAPI manufacturing?
08:40 Workshop: How to identify high potency and high toxicity and what to do with it.
Using the limit: How to use the OEL and PDE in the risk assessments.
09:40 Exposure Monitoring at the workplace - challenges due to workplaces and the new EN689.
10:45 Chemical Exposure Assessment and Control; the Bayer HPAPI approach.
11:30 Workshop: Apply the Control Class matrix on a task that potentially results in API exposure and define the needed control class.
11:55 Analysis of containment testing.
13:30 An Ipsen Case Study in Potent Compound Handling.
14:05 Top ten audit findings from HPAPI facilities.
14:40 OUTSOURCING 4.0: innovative Pharma creates the CMO net.
15:45 Development & Manufacturing Considerations of High Potent Drug Products – a CDMO's perspective.
Regulatory considerations in handling special category of compounds in a segregated infrastructure.


It is similar to 2 other songs I've done for the game (Renaissance Village, and Recorder2), and I like the style. I think I will change desert1's main instrument from panpipes (which are a bit cheesy) to recorders, and make it the fourth in the series.
wonderful! I really like the new music. Fits the atlanteans so very well.
Very nice new song. It will enrich widelands.
I think it is much more in-line with the other similar pieces, and 4 similar songs makes a nice set. I will probably work on taking other pieces and adding similar ones to make more "sets."
first of all i will say thanks for your great and continued work for widelands!
But even if the song is much more "in-line" with the other similar pieces, i personally liked the original one a bit more. Maybe if the melody would get an octave below?


IELTS READING ACADEMIC TEST 7 | People or student of IELTS always inquire from their IELTS expert teacher ;how to get good bands in IELTS reading test. The only natural formulae for getting highest bands in IELTS reading module is just practicing tests of reading.
1) Read carefully to see which person is being referred to. Match each statement to the correct person.
3) Skim the text to get a general idea of the content.
Modern art has had something of a bad press recently – or, to be more precise, it has always had a bad press in certain newspapers and amongst certain sectors of the public. In the public mind, it seems, art (that is, graphic art – pictures – and spatial art – sculpture) is divided into two broad categories. The first is 'classic' art, by which is meant representational painting, drawing and sculpture; the second is 'modern' art, also known as abstract or non-representational. British popular taste runs decidedly in favour of the former, if one believes a recent survey conducted by Charlie Moore, owner of the Loft Gallery and Workshops in Kent, and one of Britain's most influential artistic commentators. He found that the man (or woman) in the street has a distrust of cubism, abstracts, sculptures made of bricks and all types of so-called 'found' art, He likes Turner and Constable, the great representatives of British watercolour and oil painting respectively, or the French Impressionists, and his taste for statues is limited to the realistic figures of the great and good that litter the British landscape – Robin Hood in Nottingham and Oliver Cromwell outside the Houses of Parliament. This everyman does not believe in primary colours, abstraction and geometry in nature – the most common comment is that such-and-such a painting is "something a child could have done".
Not everyone agrees. Emily Cope, who runs the Osborne Art House, believes that while the British do not have the same history of artistic experience as many European countries, their senses are as finely attuned to art as anyone else's.
Cope points to Britain's long tradition of visionary artists such as William Blake, the London engraver and poet who died in 1827. Artists like Blake tended to be one-offs rather than members of a school, and their work is diverse and often word-based so it is difficult to export.
1) British people don't appreciate art because they don't see enough art around them all the time.
? C do not belong to a school or general trend.
? D realistic, representational pictures and sculptures.
? B the most renowned modern artists are Spanish.


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Australian leader expects foreign students to return in July
By ROD McGUIRK, 12/06/2020
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — International students are expected to begin returning to Australia next month despite Chinese warnings of pandemic-related racism, the Australian prime minister said on Friday.
International students would be allowed to come to Australia under approved plans to study at nominated institutions, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said after a pandemic meeting with state leaders.
International students have been Australia's most lucrative industry after mining, with China the largest source of foreign students. They stand to become among the first classes of passenger to exempted from an Australian ban on travel from China that has existed since Feb. 1.
The students would return to Australian universities "in a very controlled setting," Morrison said. He gave few details, but said "well thought-through proposals" had been forwarded by state government on how their return could be achieved.
"This is something that I'm sure we would all welcome happening again, but it has to be done with the appropriate quarantine entry arrangements and biosecurity and all of those matters being addressed," Morrison said.
Morrison said he expected all state borders to reopen in July, with the possible exception of Western Australia.
China has warned its citizens of the risk of pandemic-related racism if they traveled to Australia. This follows China banning beef imports from Australia's largest abattoirs and ending the trade in Australian barley through massive tariffs in what is widely regarded as retaliation for Australia calling for an investigation into the pandemic.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne on Friday accused China of "disinformation" through its racism warning.
Morrison said he was not concerned that Chinese government warnings could deter Chinese students from coming to Australia.
"When it comes to our record of multiculturalism, of freedom of religion, of liberty, treating everybody equally -- I'm happy to stack Australia's record up all around the world," Morrison said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing this week that China's warnings to Chinese students and tourists over "racist incidents" targeting Asians in Australia were "based on a host of facts."
She advised Australia to "face up to its problems, do some soul-searching and take concrete measures to protect the safety, rights and interests of Chinese nationals in Australia."
The travel warning came after Chinese Chinese Ambassador Cheng Jingye's told Australian media in April that the country might face a Chinese boycott of its tourism and exports of wine, beef and other goods if the government pressed for a coronavirus inquiry.
The Australian Human Rights Commission reported a spike in the overall number of complaints of breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act in February. But police say racism offenses are often underreported or data is not collected.
Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson, a spokeswoman for the sector, welcomed the prime minister's announcement.
"The return of students will be crucial to reactivating businesses and creating jobs across the country," she said in a statement.
Smaller Australian states have closed their borders mainly to stem the virus spread from the worst-affected states, New South Wales and Victoria. The state capitals, Sydney and Melbourne respectively, are Australia's most populous cities.
Morrison said states could not bring back international students if they did not open their borders.
"I made clear to the states and territories today: if someone can't come to your state from Sydney, then someone can't come to your state from Singapore," Morrison said.
Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said Victoria was alone among Australia's eight states and territories to experience community spread of COVID-19 in recent weeks.
Australia has not recorded a COVID-19 death since May 23 when the toll rose to 102. The country has recorded 7,285 coronavirus cases and 524 cases remain active.
Biden intends quick executive actions to propel his agenda
By ZEKE MILLER 18/01/2021
US team vows to continue after America's Cup capsize
By STEVE McMORRAN 18/01/2021


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Protectors of the Universe (Korean Animation)
Budget animation at its best/worst.
Tulips Shall Grow (Madcap Models No. U1-5)
George Pal's Puppetoon short paying tribute to the resistance of the people of Nazis occupied Holland.
Aladdin (Mel-O-Toons)
Mel-O-Toons sometimes erroneously called "Mello Toons", was a series of animated cartoons produced in 1960 by New World Productions and syndicated by United Artists. It featured various folk tales, Greco-Roman myths, Biblical stories, some original stories by author Thornton Burgess, classic stories, even adaptations of classical music and ballet. The soundtracks were often taken from existing children's records, licensed from the original labels. 104 cartoons, each about 6 minutes long, were produced in limited animation. -From Wikipedia
Little Nemo is a very early animation (1911) drawn by Windsor McCay and based on his comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. It is interesting in that it shows McCay drawing the pictures which will later go into the animation.
A 1936 color cartoon by Ub Iwerks
More Popeye cartoons!
Wikipedia (not the most reliable source, I know) lists all the Fleischer/Famous Studios Popeye cartoons in the Public Domain, These five haven't been uploaded yet. I checked the later ones with USCO, but I don't have the wherewithal to check the earlier ones. If I'm in error, let me know so I can take the offenders down.
Spanish Twist, A
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Piano Tooners
Haul in One, A
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .
Sita_Sings_the_Blues
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."


On the interview interviewed by World Travel Online in the media room at the stand of China business Network(CBN) and World Travel Online(WTO), Mr Geir Østrem, sales director of Jambo Travelhouse Safaris, thought that Chinese market is fast growing, thus Kenya and Tanzania even the whole Africa will also be a popular destination for Chinese tourists. CBN and WTO have already developed the Chinese website for Jambo so that Chinese tourists can find all the details on the website, such as services, itineraries and special products.
Jambo Travelhouse Safaris is a tour company registered under the laws of Kenya. Our services vary and include an extensive range of Outbound Tours, Safaris, Car hire, Lodge/Hotel bookings, Ticketing, Transportation, Mountain hiking, Camping, Transfers and Tailor made options to accommodate all prospective clients and even Honeymoon couples cannot be forgotten – that makes Jambo in Kenya the most revered to tour operation of choice.


Every trip "gives life" to many pleasant memories, which one would want to keep. The best way to do it is to purchase a memento. At Oyster Gallery you are given the chance to bring the ocean breeze back to your home. This amazing emporium is a popular art gallery, framing specialist and a gift shop. It boasts genuine works by local artists such as Sue Davis, Annabel Dann and Clive Jenkins, to name just a few. And of course you will not be able to take your eyes off the marine home accessories; these will surely remind you of Mumbles and of wonderful Swansea Bay.
Image by jdn on Flickr under Creative Commons License.


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November 22nd People
11-22-1943 Billie Jean King – Born in Long Beach, California. She is an American former World No. 1 champion professional tennis player. She won 39 Grand Slam titles and was the founder of the Women's Tennis Association. In 1973, she won the so-called Battle of the Sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs. In May 1981, her relationship with her secretary became public knowledge. Marilyn Barnett, her secretary had filed a palimony lawsuit, making her the first prominent professional female forced to come out as a lesbian. In 1987, King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. On August 12, 2009, President Obama awarded King the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work advocating for the rights of women and the LGBT community. In December 2013, President Obama appointed King and out gay hockey player Caitlin Cahow to represent the U.S. at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. King has residences in New York and Chicago with her life partner, Ilana Kloss. In 2006, the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
11-22-1869 – 02-19-1951 Andre Gide – Born in Paris, France. He was a French writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947, "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight." Gide is known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works. He befriended Oscar Wilde in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. Wilde had the impression that he had introduced Gide to homosexuality, but, in fact, Gide had already discovered this on his own.
1888 (DOB Unknown) – 11-22-1975 Solita Solano (born Sarah Wilkinson) – Place of birth unknown. She was an American writer, poet, and journalist. In 1908 she worked as a theatre critic and drama editor at the New York Tribune and as a freelance contributor to the National Geographic Society. It was at this time she changed her name. In 1919, Solano got to know the journalist Janet Flanner in Greenwich Village with whom she started a relationship. In 1922, the couple went to Paris where they joined the intellectual-lesbian circle of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. After she broke up with Flanner, she fell in love with Elizabeth Jenks Clark. After WWII, Solano returned to France, where she died at the age of 87. Photo is of Solita Soland & Djuna Barnes in Paris 1922.
11-22-1913 – 12-04-1976 Benjamin Britten – Born in Lowestoft, United Kingdom. He was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, and wrote in many genres, from film scores to opera. Best known works: Peter Grimes and The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. In 1937 he met tenor Peter Pears. In 1939 the couple sailed to North America, going first to Canada and then to New York. They remained together until Britten's death in 1976. Britten was also a friend of Aaron Copland, whose works Billy the Kid and An Outdoor Overture influenced his own music.
11-22-1940 Anthony Heilbut – Place of birth unknown. He is a gay American writer and record producer of gospel music. He is known for his biography of Thomas Mann. His production of How I Got Over by Mahalia Jackson won a Grammy Award. Heilbut's first book, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times, was published in 1971 and has been updated several times since then; a "25th Anniversary Edition" was published in 1997. James Baldwin said, "It's a beautiful book, with love and precision, no pity — a little like a gospel song . . . I didn't know that anybody knew that much about it, or cared that much, or could be so tough and lucid." Counter-Punch magazine selected it as one of its top 100 books of the 20th century.
11-22-1943 – 06-27-1996 Peter Adair – Born in Los Angeles County, California. He was an American filmmaker and artist, best known for his pioneering gay and lesbian documentary, Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977). The film, the first of its kind to present gays and lesbians in a positive light, was a critical hit nationwide. Peter's lesbian sister Nancy Adair and their mother Casey wrote the companion book, Word Is Out, published in 1978. He wrote and directed Absolutely Positive when he became aware of his HIV status. He died in 1996 from AIDS complications.
11-22-1981 Jenny Owen Youngs – Born in Montclair, New Jersey. She is an American singer-songwriter and has released three albums, four EPs and a few singles. Youngs has performed internationally both as headliner and support act. Her song, Fuck Was I, was used in the second season premiere of Showtime's Weeds. She came out as "super gay" on June 12, 2013. On August 25th, 2013 she married her girlfriend Kristin Russo.


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Fandomania's Favorite Video Games of 2015
We're in the final week of 2015, and we're continuing our compilations of the Fandomania staff's favorite releases of the year. Yesterday we talked about our favorite movies of 2015, and today we're taking a look back at our favorite video games.
"After some lackluster entries into the Assassin's Creed series and a lot of bad moves on Ubisoft's part, I couldn't be more happy to completely and wholly enjoy an Assassin's Creed game — playing mostly as an AWESOME female Assassin, no less — for the first time since Brotherhood. Both the main story and all the side quests are tons of fun, Victorian London is a fantastic setting, and the dual-protagonist mechanic works surprisingly well." – Celeste Monsour
"Syndicate is a welcome return to quality for the Assassin's Creed series, and it's my favorite game of the year. This entry revolutionizes traversal, one of the most important components of the series, through introducing new climbing mechanics and gadgets, and Evie Frye is the most memorable Assassin since Ezio." – Jason Dorough
"Since Black Flag, I've felt a little iffy about the franchise, but Syndicate cleared up any doubts. Evie Frye is my new game goddess and I've enjoyed exploring Victorian London while taking down Templars." – Mandi Harris Bowerman
"Right now, Rock Band 4 is something of a diamond in the rough. Developed by a pared-down team at Harmonix, this fourth installment in the music game series lacks a lot of the features and functionality of Rock Band 3. It still brings the fun of the Rock Band franchise to the current generation of consoles, though, and being delivered as a platform rather than just a game promises that Rock Band 4 will continue to improve over years with new additions and updates, not to mention the eventual availability of our entire back catalog of downloaded songs from nearly all the previous Rock Band games." – Jason Dorough
"I had almost forgotten how much I love the Rock Band franchise, but Rock Band 4 quickly brought it all back to me. I do miss the robustness of previous games' character creators and Rock Shop items, but I'm confident that Harmonix will restore that level of quality in short order." – Celeste Monsour
"Until Dawn is a close second place contender for my game of the year. This PlayStation 4 exclusive puts players in control of a group of friends played convincingly by some newcomer actors alongside a few recognizable TV stars. The game uses an engrossing 'butterfly effect' mechanic to spin a horror story more engaging than any other narrative I played in 2015." – Jason Dorough
"This game induced probably the worst case of game rage I've ever had. That said, I loved the dark world and being a hunter of the dark beasties of the night. I love monster hunting and survival horror games and this fit the bill." – Mandi Harris Bowerman
"Rocksteady's third and supposedly final entry in its Batman series is the best yet. The gameplay of the previous games is refined and in some cases revolutionized, and the addition of the Batmobile introduces some awesome new ways to play as the Caped Crusader." – Jason Dorough
"The LEGO video games have been pretty fun so far, but this changes everything. The crossovers between all the franchises create opportunity for both fun and a lot of humor. And most importantly, being able to physically build LEGO characters and objects and see them come to life in the game adds, well, a whole new dimension that makes local co-op even better." – Celeste Monsour
"As a devoted Star Wars fan, I love this game. From the instantly immersive sound design to the addictive Fighter Squadron dogfight mode, Battlefront delivers exactly what I wanted from this kind of game." – Jason Dorough
2015, best of, Lists
Fandomania's Favorite TV Shows of 2015
Fandomania's Favorite Movies of 2015
Fandomania's Biggest Disappointments of 2015
Geek Music Episode 38: Chad's Favorite Albums of 2015
Fandomania Podcast Episode 387: 2015 Year End Wrap-Up
Jason is the founder and managing editor of Fandomania. He is severely into toy collecting, plays a worryingly large amount of games, watches way too many movies and TV shows, and reads more than his fair share of books and comics. He also likes guacamole.


Silence is a highly active post-punk/peace-punk band from Pittsburgh, PA. "The Deafening Sound of Absolutely Nothing" strives (and succeeds) to achieve the perfect mix of between peace and post-punk. By taking influences from The Mob, Bauhaus, Zounds, Killing Joke, Amebix, Crass, Conflict, Internal Autonomy, and Joy Division. SILENCE have created what can only be described as a brilliant debut LP. At one moment this record is dark, heavy, and atmospheric and then the next moment it makes you want to dance and sing along. Lyrically SILENCE is much closer to the anarcho side of the previously listed influences. Lyrics focus on a variety of topics but often have a strong focus on the way punk and activist communities deal with political struggle in our current political climate.
"The Deafening Sound of Absolutely Nothing" comes with a 16-page magazine size zine containing lyrics, personal writings, and song explanations. Designed, printed and assembled by the band themselves in true D.I.Y. fashion and released on Profane Existence.


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Q: walkFileThree inside JAR-file I'm having trouble to get the root-path inside a JAR-file. I'm writing a method for extracting the content of a Jar/Zip-file to a target directory using Java NIO walkFileThree. The method currently looks like this:
public static void unzip(Path filePath, Path destination) throws IOException {
Map<String, String> zipProperties = new HashMap<>();
/* We want to read an existing ZIP File, so we set this to False */
zipProperties.put("create", "false");
zipProperties.put("encoding", "UTF-8");
URI zipFile = URI.create("jar:file:" + filePath.toUri().getPath());

try (FileSystem zipfs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(zipFile, zipProperties)) {
  Path rootPath = zipfs.getPath("/");
  Files.walkFileTree(rootPath, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {

    @Override
    public FileVisitResult preVisitDirectory(Path dir, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {

      Path targetPath = destination.resolve(rootPath.relativize(dir));
      if (!Files.exists(targetPath)) {
        Files.createDirectory(targetPath);
      }
      return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }

    @Override
    public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {

      Files.copy(file, destination.resolve(rootPath.relativize(file)), StandardCopyOption.COPY_ATTRIBUTES, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
      return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }
  });
}
}

But I get a exception:
java.nio.file.ProviderMismatchException
at sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.toUnixPath(UnixPath.java:200) ~[?:1.8.0_45]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.resolve(UnixPath.java:397) ~[?:1.8.0_45]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixPath.resolve(UnixPath.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_45]

What is the proper way to get the root-path(/) of the zip file so that I could recursively copy all the content to the destination folder?
Thanks!

A: Got it working, just added a toString() after relativize() as suggested here: FileSystemNotFoundException
Now the working code looks like this:
public static void unzip(Path filePath, Path destination) throws IOException {
  //Path filePath = Paths.get( zipFilePath );
  Map<String, String> zipProperties = new HashMap<>();
 /* We want to read an existing ZIP File, so we set this to False */
 zipProperties.put("create", "false");
 zipProperties.put("encoding", "UTF-8");
 URI zipFile = URI.create("jar:file:" + filePath.toUri().getPath());

  try (FileSystem zipfs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(zipFile, zipProperties)) {
  Path rootPath = zipfs.getPath("/");
  Files.walkFileTree(rootPath, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {

    @Override
    public FileVisitResult preVisitDirectory(Path dir, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {

      Path targetPath = destination.resolve(rootPath.relativize(dir).toString());
      if (!Files.exists(targetPath)) {
        Files.createDirectory(targetPath);
      }
      return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }

    @Override
    public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {

      Files.copy(file, destination.resolve(rootPath.relativize(file).toString()), StandardCopyOption.COPY_ATTRIBUTES, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
      return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }
  });
 }
}

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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE in the project root for license information.

using UnityEngine;

namespace Microsoft.MixedReality.Toolkit.Physics
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A Distorter that distorts points based on their distance and direction from the
    /// center of the sphere of size 2.
    /// </summary>
    [AddComponentMenu("Scripts/MRTK/Core/DistorterSphere")]
    public class DistorterSphere : Distorter
    {
        public Vector3 SphereCenter
        {
            get
            {
                return transform.TransformPoint(sphereCenter);
            }
            set
            {
                sphereCenter = transform.InverseTransformPoint(value);
            }
        }

        [SerializeField]
        private Vector3 sphereCenter;

        [SerializeField]
        private float radius = 2f;

        /// <inheritdoc />
        protected override Vector3 DistortPointInternal(Vector3 point, float strength)
        {
            Vector3 direction = (point - SphereCenter).normalized;
            return Vector3.Lerp(point, SphereCenter + (direction * radius), strength);
        }

        /// <inheritdoc />
        protected override Vector3 DistortScaleInternal(Vector3 point, float strength)
        {
            return Vector3.one;
        }

        private void OnDrawGizmos()
        {
            Gizmos.color = Color.red;
            Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(SphereCenter, radius);
        }
    }
}


For a transverse path of 1m for Cherenkov light emitted from a particle of normal incidence in fused silica, the time difference for $\beta$=1 and $\beta$=0.99 is only 61ps. However, due to dispersion both emission angle and speed of light in the medium are a function of the wavelength. For 300nm and 600nm photons the time difference is 0.5ns.
To calculate the propagation speed of the photons inside the dispersive medium the group velocity has to be used. The dynamic range of the corresponding group velocity refractive index is about 3 times larger than that of the normal refractive index.
The figure shows these velocities for fused silica.


The Owens Corning TruDefinition Duration series comes with State of The Art SureNail® Technology, an Algae Resistance Warranty, wind rating of 130 MPH, and a Lifetime Limited Warranty.
TruDefinition Duration Shingles are available in new extrordinary colors with complementary shadow lines for greater dimension. Please look at the color chart below and contact Biondo Contracting today for more information and how we may help you.


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Salaries Of The Five Most Traditional Professions
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The following traditional professions are so integral to our society we can hardly imagine them ceasing to exist. Each serves an integral role, and demands a great deal from those that pursue them. In other regards, they are high dissimilar. They all have widely varying salaries, work environments and amounts of respect and prestige associated with them.
1. Doctor
The profession of doctor has always been one that carries a certain level of respect. The profession is one that is difficult and expensive to obtain but usually comes with one of the highest payoffs of any of the five traditional professions discussed.
A doctor's salary can vary widely depending on his place of employment and his specialty within medicine. The median annual salary for those considered "physicians and surgeons" in 2010 was $166,400 a year, or approximately $80 per hour.
2. Lawyer
The lawyer profession is one built heavily around prestige. The type of law an attorney specializes in can have a great effect on their potential income due to the types of clients and cases it attracts. Generally, those in corporate or personal injury law earn the most, but the salary is healthy regardless of law type. The legal system is constructed in such a way that an attorney is required for most legal matters, regardless of their scope.
The median pay for lawyers in 2010 was $112,760, or about $55 per hour. A lawyer may be hired by a large firm, or they may pursue private practice. Experience as a lawyer also opens up other legal professions, such as judge, that may come with higher salaries.
The teacher, while being one of the most vital careers in our society, comes with substantially less prestige than most others on the list. It also comes with an equally low salary, at a median of $51,380 annually for elementary teachers. Teachers with more experience or a master's degree will make more, as will secondary math and science teachers and special education teachers.
A soldier's pay is based on rank and number of years in service. Officers, of course, will make substantially more than regular enlisted men. Depending on where a solider falls in the pay scale they may make less than $20,000 annually or well over $100,000 for a veteran officer.
The profession comes with its hefty share of risks, but it also has many advantages beyond salary. Soldiers are generally entitled to good retirement packages, access to good insurance policies, various veterans' benefits and a very high degree of job security. It is telling that even when the government shuts down, Congress still extends pay to active military service personnel.
5. Fireman
The dream career of so many young boys, firefighting comes with a mix of prestige and hardship. Pay is certainly not at the top of the list of benefits. The average fireman makes only $45,250 annually, a rate of about $22 per hour. This is low considering the high-risk and arduous hours associated with the profession. The good news is that becoming a fireman usually only requires a high school diploma. Most of the training is done on the job.
Choosing one of these traditional careers can bring many years of rewarding work to one's life, but the mark of each career is hardship. Even the excellent pay enjoyed by doctors and lawyers comes after nearly twice the schooling of most other professions and many long hours of demanding and complex work after that. Each of these careers truly earns its place also on the list of most demanding professions.
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This is an interesting perspective, but I would be wary of breaking out that lawyer's salary to an hourly wage. Most of the highest-earning attorneys work well over 40 hours per week. Also, the salary range is widely divergent in areas of practice. An assistant District Attorney or a Public Defender — two of the most crucial public service positions — typically make more like $35,000 – $50,000/year. Also, private practice attorneys typically make more than judges do. Attorneys aren't attracted to the judiciary because of the money!
The prestige of a 'doctor' is often exaggerated. Sure, they do a lot of schooling, but at the end of it all they get the MD designation which is essentially an medical undergraduate degree. Also, all you need to get into medical school is a B.Sc undergraduate degree, but with good marks. At theend of it all they don't emerge with any higher credentials than a teacher.


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Vulnerable people deserve protection - and the government has a duty to protect them.
But the Mental Capacity Bill that the government supports isn't good enough.
It doesn't protect the freedom of people in care and it doesn't protect them from harm either.
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No one deserves to have their freedom taken away lightly. If we're going to restrict someone's liberty, we have to be absolutely sure. That's why this amendment is so important.
We've made sure that there is a strong test before anyone's freedom is taken away.
We won the vote by 202 votes to 188. This is nothing less than a triumph for the most vulnerable in society.
The government thinks it can sit back and neglect people in care.
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Fat Festa é o segundo álbum do grupo Fat Family, lançado em 1999 pela EMI Music. Esse disco foi premiado com Disco de Ouro pela ABPD devido as mais de 100 mil cópias vendidas no Brasil. Foi nesse disco, que a Fat Family recebeu a oitava irmã, Suely Cipriano, como integrante do grupo.

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Police are looking to reunite stolen power tools with their Gold Coast owners.
Last week, a large amount of nail guns and other tools were handed to Runaway Bay police station by a man who had been selling tools bought from an online marketplace.
The man had been contacted by a person who saw the items for sale and claimed a number of them had been allegedly stolen from his work trailer earlier this month.
After investigations, a 35-year-old Southport man was charged with two counts of receiving tainted property and one count of enter premises and committing an indictable offence.
Anyone in the Gold Coast area who has had tools stolen over the last year and may recognise the property as theirs is being urged to contact Police.
It's time to start polishing off your boots and pulling out the akubra, because this weekend the Broadbeach Country Music Festival rides into town.
Streets, parks, bars and restaurants in Broadbeach will come alive with country tunes this Friday to Sunday, with some incredible acts set to perform for FREE.
Locals will be able to enjoy live performances by some of the best country music stars in the world, including international band 'America', Kasey Chambers and Troy Cassar-Daley to name a few.
Troy Cassar-Daley told myGC he loves performing at the event. "Other than the fact that it is free, I really love the spirit that gets going around Broadbeach. You can sit down for a nice meal and you've got live music blaring across a mall towards you," he said.
WORK will start this morning to expand Metricon Stadium at Carrara for next year's Commonwealth Games.
Today's ground-breaking ceremony will signal the start of work on the warm-up facility next to the main stadium.
With 251 days to go until the Games begin, work on expanding seating capacity in the main stadium, including the northern stand, will begin later this year.
Once work is complete the stadium's capacity will be increased from 25,000 to around 35,000 spectators.
The stadium will be the signature event precinct for the Games, hosting the Opening and Closing ceremonies as well as the prestigious track and field events.
A temporary 400-metre track will also be installed, to meet specifications of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The lighting towers around the venue will be re-birthed with the addition of 468 new energy-saving light fittings on the tower head frames and under the stadium roof.
The lighting will be brighter, and flicker-free to handle international TV broadcasts, particularly for slow-motion cameras.
Once the Games have ended, the stadium will revert to being the home of the Gold Coast Suns.
Gold Coast City Council says it will go ahead with the sale of the Bruce Bishop car park despite hundreds of people rallying against the move on Tuesday.
The public rally, organised by the newly-formed Save Surfers Paradise group, took place in the Neil Shannon Park on top of the Bruce Bishop.
Scores of passionate local Gold Coasters and prominent business people turned out for the event, hoping to freeze the sale until at least legal action challenging the sell-off is settled.
However a motion by local Councillor and former Mayor Gary Baildon to put the sale on hold was defeated 10 to five in council chambers on Tuesday afternoon.
The block is expected to be put up for sale by October.
Opponents of the proposed sale of the Bruce Bishop Car Park in Surfers Paradise are gearing up for today's public protest rally.
The rally, organised by the Save Surfers Paradise group, will be held in the Neil Shannon Park on top of Bruce Bishop from 1:00pm.
Organiser Deborah Kelly said there'll be major parking issues in Surfers Paradise and surrounding areas if the Council succeeds in selling the facility.
City of Gold Coast said 740 spaces will be available for public parking at the end of the redevelopment period.
However Ms Kelly told MyGC while the site is being developed, the heart of the tourist strip will be a nightmare.
"There will be zero parking at the site, zero, for at least three years while the site is redeveloped," she said.
"So during that period we will have no parking in Surfers.
Mayor Tom Tate was unavailable for comment when approached by MyGC for an interview.
However, in July 2005 the now Mayor told the Gold Coast Bulletin the transit centre should be left alone.
"We won't wear it," he said.
Mr Tate said the council's car park usage figures were flawed and they should seek a second opinion.
LNP Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek, said the move to sell the car park was a very short-term decision which would have long-term consequences for the city.
"We have issues like the Hilton Hotel where residents and short-term holiday makers are often put into the Bruce Bishop car park," he said.
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Q: How to check a Date Range whether is a full calendar month? I am trying to check if a date range like 1/1/2014-1/15/2014 covering a full calendar month (for the month that the range is in it). My range is always a full or less than a full calendar month.
My problem is to find a quick way to get the full calendar month range based on the the month that I already have in my range and then I can compare them to see if they are the same or not. Does anybody have any idea?

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*Range Start date (rsd)

*Range End Date (red)

*Input Date (id)

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if(id.compareTo(rsd) >= 0 && id.compareTo(red) <= 0)
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A: You can use the Calendar class.
Just add one day to the upper limit(if the day is >=28) and you can check if the month has changed.
This should also work for leap years.
The lower limit should of course be the first day of the month (1/1/2014) :-).
Note I am not sure of what you really want. This should be the way to check that your interval covers the whole month.

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Avoid the old date-time classes. Use the java.time classes built into Java 8 and later.
The LocalDate class is for date-only values without time-of-day.
LocalDate start = LocalDate.of( 2016 , 2 , 1 ) ;
LocalDate stop = start.plusDays( 15 ) ;

First use YearMonth to make sure they are in same month at all.
Boolean inSameMonth = YearMonth.from( start ).equals( YearMonth.from( stop ) ) ;

If same month, then move on to see if they are make up a full month. Check two criteria:

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Combine into one line, or break it up to be more readable.
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Today I have a beautiful sunset from our vacation last week to share with you. We've off for a last hurrah on the Cape before we buckle down next week and get back to regular life and routines.
Here's to making the most of the last long weekend of summer!
I have complete confidence in your ability to make the most of this last weekend of summer! 🙂 Enjoy (and I know you will)!
A weekend on the cape sounds sublime! Enjoy every minute.
Lovely, I managed to capture some sunsets over the last couple weeks. I had fun "playing" with my camera. I'm inspired to take a class to really learn how to make the most of my photos. Happy Friday.
I will wait for photos so I can live vicariously!


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If there's one thing you can expect when Halsey kicks off her "Hopeless Fountain Kingdom" tour later this year, it's this: fire.
Matter-of-fact, Halsey revealed to me that during her Billboard Music Awards performance rehearsal, she kept practicing the song over-and-over in part due to the fire that was planned for the set. She certainly didn't mind the rehearsing; she was once hit with her own fireworks during a Coachella performance (Halsey escaped unscathed).
But besides the obvious visual, there is also a meaning behind the use of fire that relates to the singer's chart-topping album.
Fans across the country will have the opportunity to witness that universe on the singer's first-ever arena tour, although Halsey is no stranger to big rooms. She headlined and sold-out Madison Square Garden in 2016; the show went on-sale three weeks after her debut LP "Badlands" came out.
"The whole world went, 'What do you think you're doing? You just put out your album. You can't play MSG,'" she recalled of critics' initial reaction to the news. "That venue has always been the pinnacle of music for me.
She'll find out when the tour kicks off at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut on September 29… her birthday.


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By Kate Strickland '23, Colin Mark '22, Lorea Mendiguren '23, and Anselmo Cassiano
Top: (l) Kate Strickland '23; (r) Colin Mark '22. Bottom: (l) Lorea Mendiguren '23; (r) Anselmo Cassiano
In a year that forced the world online, a team from the student practice organization Harvard Law School Negotiators worked throughout the year to transform an existing project to teach high school students the principles of negotiation and active listening into a virtual learning format.
For multiple years, the HLS Negotiators has had a recurring relationship with Cambridge Rindge and Latin (CRL) high school to teach negotiation, active listening, and conflict resolution skills. This program was developed in partnership with Chandra Banks, a conflict mediator at the high school, and allows high school students that engage in conflict mediation within their school's community to develop relevant negotiation-related skill sets. In previous years, the project—affectionately known to Negotiators as "The Schools Project" —brought students to campus for teaching sessions at Harvard Law School. However, the global pandemic meant these sessions were not taught in 2020.
Determined not to let the pandemic cancel The Schools Project for yet another year, four HLS Negotiators members, project lead Colin Mark, Kate Strickland, Lorea Mendiguren, and MIT researcher Anselmo Cassiano, transformed the existing two-day, in-person curriculum into a series of four modules complete with three role-play activities. Each member of the team has a keen interest in ADR work and in sharing negotiation-related concepts with students. For each class, the team made new materials and did preparation run-throughs with post-class follow-ups to adapt future classes to overcome the challenges the team encountered.
The four-part course aimed to mix experiential learning with presentation of substantive negotiation material. Influenced by the seminal Getting to Yes book on effective negotiating, the team taught CRL students core elements of negotiation in the first class, and the students applied the elements in the full-length role-play negotiation that occurred in the second class. The third class involved a presentation on active listening followed with a partner exercise where the students utilized inquiry, paraphrasing, and acknowledgment. In the final class, the students engaged in a culminating role-play where they were challenged to utilize everything they had learned to negotiate a sports contract deal. Finally, Anselmo presented a celebratory certificate to students for completing the four-part module. Reflecting on the classes, Colin said, "Learning negotiation skills has made me a better communicator, giving me the confidence to advocate for my interests and reach wise agreements. It means a lot to me to share those skills with other students."
While The Schools Project successfully reached high school students, the remote learning presented its own share of difficulties. Lorea commented, "The most difficult part was ensuring student engagement and interaction, especially because of the difficulty forming tangible relationships with the students online." The team dealt with inconsistent attendance, as high-schoolers struggled with Zoom fatigue as the students were also attending mandatory school classes remotely. Of the students who participated, some were unable to stay for the whole class because of Internet instability and personal challenges. Further, the team grappled with the impersonal nature of online learning and the logistical difficulties in ensuring students were prepared for class ahead of time. However, the team learned from these difficulties. Kate said, "After teaching our first virtual curriculum, we now know a few tweaks and strategies we can take to increase student engagement in a virtual environment such as prioritizing the development of strong lines of communication with the high school students between classes, increasing the use of cameras as a norm, and more ice-breakers with students to bolster comfort and participation."
In the coming year, The Schools Project looks to expand the number of students it reaches by seeking partnerships with other schools in Cambridge and the Greater Boston Area. While the team hopes to be able to teach in person in the upcoming year, incoming project lead Kate commented, "The pandemic allowed us to be more flexible geographically, and with everything we have learned this past year, I am excited to explore options to collaborate with other high schools throughout the country."