Paris FC will play against Auxerre in another promising game of the ongoing Ligue 2's tournament., After its previous match, Paris FC will be looking forward to secure a victory against visiting team Auxerre and improve its position on the league table.
On the other hand, Auxerre plans on defeating the hosts and reward its travelling fans by returning back home with all match's points and leaving Paris FC with no points from the game. Both coaches will be starting with their best side in this decisive encounter.


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i'm new in this game and one friend give to me this version (europe 1999).
we want to play the game and maybe in the future consider newest versions.
I've studied rules and now I'm ready to start!
the problem is that in the box there are only 13 german infantry miniatures when scenario requires at least about 20 miniatures.
Is it normal? The box was closed, in excellent condition.
I read that the minature set was poor, but it's incredible that i couldn't start the game.
or pull out infantry from your other AA games.
Buy all the infantry you want here….
Let me know how you like the game. I don't own the game. Looking into buying the game.
Whaaaat you don't have the Europe edition??? whaaat???
Serious ABWorsham, I can recommend it, (I got a copy my self in the states) but be aware that you may find it monotone as playing for the Axis in the first time. You have to build a solid strategy for the Allies to win as Ally.
Worsham: I have loved this since it came out.
I would recommend it: buy if you can.
well im gonna list all the germans guns i know….(not inculding artillery pieces) …Mauser Karbiner 98,gewher-43,Mp-28,Mp-35,Mp-38,Mp-40,Mp-44,Mg-13,Mg-34 and offcoarse the Mg-42…did i miss anything?
This game or the first one?
THe $12 you get to start with!!
The key to defending for the allies to to keep Lenningrad. the 12$ should be spent on 4 infantry to defend the city. If either Lenningrad or Vyborg stand at the end of the first German turn, the allies can use british fighters to attack and destroy the German fleet. So, the 12$ should be spent on a transport for the baltic so the allies have to fight for Lenningrad.
This game is completely unbalanced!!!!
@lnxduk: I always played that you can build even if there are enemy units in the seazone. I think this is the actual rule, but you have to have the battle that turn. Not sure though.


"Many churches celebrate Palm Sunday, which is always the Sunday before Easter (see our When Is Easter? article). Maybe your church has children waving palm branches to help them connect to the story. But while this is a triumphal entry, it is Jesus' first step toward His death.
'This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, 'Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.' *The prophecy is cited from Zechariah 9:9 and Isaiah 62:11.
Jesus had become somewhat of a celebrity among people who had heard of the miraculous raising of Lazarus from the dead, and they wanted to see Him and treat Him like a king. But Jesus wasn't arriving to be their king on account of Lazarus; the story of Lazarus would have had the religious leaders in even more of an uproar and determined to put an end to His life, which He knew . . . Jesus' glory would be greater than that of a local king." -Excerpted from When Is Palm Sunday?


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Vila Loukas has been working in the realm of the healing arts for 15 years. It has long been her vision to create a place where people can come to find the support they are seeking on their journey of healing. To that end, she established House of Healing Center of Light first on Vashon Island in 2009 and in 2013, the center moved to Lynnwood, Washington. While Vila has an expansive tool kit that began with her training as a massage therapist, her favorite work is to help people as a Certified Healer and Guide with the Modern Mystery School International. She specializes in personal empowerment training & deeper self expression through energy healing. Vila believes that each of us has many, many beautiful gifts to share with the world and when we all start living from an authentic expression of self, the world will be a much happier place! In addition to her work credentials as a Healer & Guide with the Modern Mystery School, Vila is also a Kabbalist, an Ordained Minister, trained Body Worker & Qi Gong practitioner, initiated Celtic Shaman and Ritual Master.
As the mother of two brilliant young souls, Vila has become passionate about helping mothers, families, and children find the healing needed for the quality of life we each desire/deserve. Life on planet earth is challenging these days, and the more skills we can gain for ourselves and our children, the more graceful our process of growth and development can be. Vila's work of bringing mindfulness practices to children and families is proving to be immensely valuable in these turbulent times.
Vila works with people from all walks of life doing individual sessions as well as teaching classes & workshops. She is committed to helping those who are READY for personal growth to claim their own Self Empowerment and create the life of joy that they desire!


The Xiaomi Mi8 Leather Qin Flipcover reliably protects your smartphone from scratches and bumps. The cover is made of high quality leather. Due to the handy structure, the cover feels good in the hand. With Nillkin logo and viewing window.
Stylish PU leather cover The quality is very good, everything looks exactly like the pictures on this website. It is a nearly a perfect fit for a Mi 8, The front cover could be slighty better. It does not cover the front exactly as it should, by being slighty bigger and covering beyond the edge of the Mi 8 screen. Thus feeling a bit off and loose at the front. It is not a deal breaker, but with a slight resizing of the front cover. The case could have been perfect. However it is still the best looking cover for a Mi 8 by a big margin. Thin,very stylish and an easy to use flipcover. 4 stars.
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While we know the importance of mobile, jumping on the mobile bandwagon is never an easy task for marketers starting out in the field. According to Jay Dalvi (pictured), product specialist at CleverTap, some reasons for this included a lack of access to real-time data, which hinders marketers from running campaigns in real-time. This was said during a Digital Marketing Indonesia conference held on 29-30 November 2017.
Typical marketers use less than 5% of available data to make data-driven decisions. This is akin to using only a fraction of your brain.
Because only a small fraction of data available is being used in decision-making, this puts marketers at a risk of inserting their own biases and prejudices, he explained.
"For example, if a marketer captures 250 to 500 classes of data, in our experience, they are only likely to leverage on between two to 25 data points for a campaign. This is a small fraction compared to data that is available," he said.
Agreeing with him was Cameron Richards, CEO of CPR Vision, who added that because of the opportunities and innovations garnered from data, what marketers are doing yesterday is no longer relevant today. Because of this, old school advertising isn't as effective as it used to be.
He added there were 60 trillion individually indexed web pages out there, and 90% of the data today was created in the past two years. The average email user also gets 416 commercial messages a month.
As such, being relevant and having the ability to connect will become a greater challenge for marketers. He said that moving forward, data and digital will also become the lifeblood of any organisation's success.
"When it comes to problem solving in an organisation, marketers also need to remember that certain types of data can only solve problems in certain situations," Richards said.
For example, when it comes to delivering results and ROI, leveraging the right data can help marketers understand which ROI they should be identifying and capturing to meet business objectives. Because of this, marketers need to know the difference between big data and smart data.
Richards explained that big data often deals with what is known as the five Vs – volume, velocity, veracity (accuracy), variety and value. To identify big data problems, marketers need to look out for which part of the five Vs has the potential to overwhelm the others.
Smart data, however, is a little more nuanced. It is the subset of that data that will actually apply to your problem – that can be used intelligently in a way that takes you towards a solution.
"It is the difference between seeing a long list of numbers referring to weekly sales versus identifying the peaks and trends in sales volume over time," Richards said.
As consumer behaviour is completely changing, it is important for brands to identify these changes and adapt to them.
According to Abithab Bhaskar, CEO of the international business at Netcore Solutions, if companies cannot adopt the behavioural change, they will not be relevant anymore.
He explained that the mobile phone is now seen as one of the main platforms of disruption. This is from data consumption and the behaviour of customers which can be observed on this platform. As such, disruption is happening much quicker in Indonesia given the rising rate of mobile penetration.
"It's up to us to create disruption within our own industries, and in this market in particular, it is happening much faster than you can imagine," he said.
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Micheal Phelps - The Champion Olympic Gold Medalist
Micheal Phelps became a true champion when he won 8 Gold medals in all 8 events, breaking all records, at the swimming pool at the Beijing Olympics beating the highest individual medal record of Mark Spitz.
Do you know how he came about to be a champ? According to the news reports, he learned to swim because his mother forced him to do so. She was afraid that he might drown at the seaside or the pool, if he did not know how to swim. Thus he took swimming lessons and it was only very much later that he took part in any competitions for swimming. Apparently, he was also bullied a lot in school as a kid and that too inspired him to do better and become a better person.
What is even more surprising is the fact that his teachers always doubted his capabilities. Micheal Phelps revealed in an interview that one of his teachers said that he would never be successful. This was one major factor that drove Micheal Phelps to prove his mettle to the teacher and to the world at large, that he could and was capable of doing better. Thus he worked hard at everything in life and tried to better himself in whatever he did.
Another astonishing fact about Micheal Phelps is that he suffered from "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder". He was always restless and couldn't sit still for long. This also affected his capability to stay focussed. According to Micheal Phelps, getting into the water helped him to focus and that helped him to grow out of it.
Micheal Phelps, 23 years old has no time for love. According to him, he doesn't have any girlfriend waiting back at home for him. But then, who has any time for Love and romance when you have bigger and better things planned for the future? Yes, he is now all charged up to do better at the 2012 London Olympics and will no doubt spend all his waking moments trying to become faster and faster. All the women out there, wait till he is 30. He has been linked by the media with the US swimmer Amanda Beard, English model Lily Donaldson and Stephanie Rice too.
Did you know that Micheal Phelps has two sisters named Whitney and Hillary? Whitney is also a good swimmer and was a member of the 1994 World Championship Team.
Micheal Phelps loves other sports too and his favorite among them is baseball, and his sports hero is the basketball player Micheal Jordan.
All in all Micheal Phelps has won 16 Olympic Medals. 6 Gold medals and 2 Bronze medals were from the 2004 Athens and the rest of the 8 Gold medals from the Beijing Olympics. He is now ranked 2nd as the Most number of Olympic Medals won by an individual. The first on the list is the Soviet Gymnast Larissa Latynina who won a total of 18 medals out of which 9 were Gold medals spanning three Olympic Games.
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"Just walking the puppy and she also realized that this was no dog," Paul told us.
Coyotes are curious but timid animals and will generally run away if challenged. However, remember that any wild animal will protect itself or its young. Never instigate a close encounter.
If a coyote ever approaches too closely, pick up small children immediately and act aggressively toward the animal. Wave your arms, throw stones, and shout at the coyote. If necessary, make yourself appear larger by standing up (if sitting) or stepping up onto a rock, stump, or stair. The idea is to convince the coyote that you are not prey, but a potential danger.
Where coyote encounters occur regularly, keep noisemaking and other scare devices nearby. A starter pistol can be effective; so can a vinegar-filled super soaker or a powerful spray of water from a hose. Where pyrotechnics are out of the question, construct a "clapper" (Fig. 5). A solid walking stick, pepper spray, or paintball gun are powerful deterrents at close range.
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HomeOtto Warmbier's Parents Kept Jewishness A Secret To Avoid 'Embarassing' North Korea
Otto Warmbier's Parents Kept Jewishness A Secret To Avoid 'Embarassing' North Korea
Ari FeldmanJune 22, 2017Image by youtube
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Otto Warmbier's parents kept his Jewishness — and his love of Israel — a secret throughout his captivity in North Korea, so as not to embarrass the oppressive regime, according to The Times of Israel.
Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March 2016 for stealing a propaganda poster from a Pyongyang hotel. In the regime's hour-long trial of Warmbier, they accused him of planning to trade the poster to Friendship United Methodist Church in Wyoming, Ohio, in exchange for a used car.
"The family chose, rightfully so, not to share [his Jewishness] while he was in captivity… because they didn't want to embarrass [North Korea] by explaining that he actually was Jewish," said Mickey Bergman, one of the negotiators for Warmbier's release.
That information could have unraveled the regime's case against Warmbier, and possibly ended negotiations.
Warmbier, who's mother is Jewish, went on a birthright trip to Israel in 2014. After he returned from the trip, he began to get more active in his campus Hillel, at the University of Virginia.
"When I was forced to step away to avoid holding up the group for the third time, it honestly felt like saying goodbye to a loved one," he wrote in a blog post. "It was difficult to wrap my mind around the concept of such a pinnacle — I had done what so many Jews wish to do."
Ari Feldman
Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. He covers Jewish religious organizations, synagogue life, anti-Semitism and the Orthodox world. If you have any tips, you can email him at feldman@forward.com. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.
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Daniels mill is a watermill hidden within the Shropshire countryside. The mill still produces flour in the traditional way. I first visited a couple of years ago and I was quite dismayed after setting out on my travels to realise that I had left my camera at home. Most unlike me… I did manage to capture a few photos on my camera phone, but it was nice to go back recently with a real camera in hand.
The water mill is virtually unaltered since the 18th century and has been in the ownership of the same family for over 250 years. The current mill wheel was installed around the middle of the 19th century to replace an earlier wheel on the same site.
Disastrous floods in 2007 caused major devastation to the mill and the surrounding area, but luckily the mill building was not structurally damaged. It is amazing to see the mark within the building that shows how far the flood water rose.
The present mill worked until 1957 grinding all kinds of grain for animal feed, but ceased operation on the death of the Miller, the present owner's Father. A great deal of work has been required to restore both the Mill and the house to its present condition. Great care has been taken with this work (which has been undertaken solely by the owners) to ensure that as much of the original has been preserved and any replacements required have been obtained from demolitions of old properties.
It is a lovely place to visit not only do you get a guided tour that explains the history and how the mill works. There is also opportunity to walk around the mill pools and through the surrounding woodlands which allow views of the mill from different perspectives.
There is also the opportunity to walk under the viaduct (part of the severn valley railway) and view it from both sides along with trains travelling along the viaduct. The walk also allows you to see the track and the steam trains at eye level. The train drivers often blow the trains whistle and wave to visitors as the train passes by. The flour that the mill produces can be purchased raw or in the form of scones in the tea shop. I found both my visits interesting on many levels.
This entry was posted in Vision and Verb and tagged Daniels Mill, History, Severn Valley Railway, Water Wheel, Watermill by CherryPie. Bookmark the permalink.
What a gorgeous old mill and building. Love your sense of adventure…always looking for new places to go..sights to be seen and documented and photographed.I would have loved to have seen this old mill in its working days!
I enjoyed your photo and the history. Mills always have fascinated me, partly because I've not lived in a place that had them. Still, we sang about them a good bit. I found a 1911 recording of Tell Taylor's "Down by the Old Mill Stream" – the song was part of my family's repertoire!
Hmmmm… I left a comment with a link, and got a message that it's been accepted and will appear "shortly". I'll come back later and check to see if it appears. In the meantime, I'll just add again how much I enjoyed both the photo and the history.
one of the many reasons i love v&v is that i believe i travel without really doing so! thanks for this morning's adventure.
@Linda, how wonderful that you brought up that memory. Maybe that's why I love this photo and story so much. I well remember hearing and singing that song as a child. The older ones always did the echo "…by the old mill stream (not the river but the stream)…" Thanks for this one, Cherry.
I think it's fascinating that a privately owned mill — kept in such pristine condition — will allow people to tour the mill and grounds. How fortunate you are to be able to enjoy this wonderful piece of history.
Like Honey, I so enjoy seeing parts of the world and learning through the various posts from everyone who's a part of V&V! That's one of many reasons why this group is so special! Thanks Cherry for sharing a part of your world! I love old mills and had one about an hour or so from where I grew up. As a family we would go there often and especially enjoyed it in the fall because they always seem to be surrounded by trees! Wonderful capture!
Beautiful place and mill! Really liked reading about it!
Thank you for sharing! What a lovely little place.
I'm with Honey and Robin. Thanks for showing me and describing a place I'd never experience otherwise.
I wonder how the mill sounds with the water slowly turning it's wheel. Your photograph is taking me back in time, I would not be surprised to see the miller and his family walk by with flour bags on his shoulder.
Wonderful post, I love to 'travel' with you.
That is just amazing… I love that it is still in use, and so well preserved!


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Aug 11, 2014: The #8 Martini-liveried Starworks Oreca FLM09 soared to Prototype Challenge class victory at the 'Continental Tire Road Race Showcase', Road America,
Round 10 of the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship with the usual suspects of Mirco Schultis and Renger van der Zande behind the wheel were all set in the #8 Martini Racing LMPC.
Practice for the car ran with a few minor issues on Friday and Saturday, with the qualifying producing a P4 starting grid result for #8 car.
Race day on Sunday brought a great result for the Florida based squad.
Following great start by Mirco Schultis in #8, who was soon up to P2, an incident between the a LMPC and DP car at Canada corner brought out the first full course yellow caution (FCY).
The team strategy was to go for an early refueling.
The race returned to green on lap eight with Mirco in P6 and the third FCY coming out at the 1 hour 50 minutes mark. The PC pit window opened on lap 21 with a driver change and Renger van der Zande stepping in to the #8 car.
The track went back to green on lap 25 with Renger running in P6. During the fourth yellow caution of the day (with just over an hour of the race remaining), the Starworks team fuelled adequately to take the car to the finish and when Renger was released he made the "Audi Move of the Race" to take the PC class lead from Rayhall in #25.
After 20 minutes and a brief spell at green, Renger was able to make a charge in the 8 car to knock on the P class door, only 1.73 seconds behind the #60 Ford Riley of Negri Jr in P3 overall. The final FCY was brief and the sprint finish to the 2 hours 45 minutes long enduro was 10 minutes of nail biting tension with Renger maintaining his dominant lead to win the PC class in style and in sixth place overall.
Renger van der Zande: "That was a great race, but all the hard work was done at the beginning! Mirco did a great job to get to P2 in the first stint. After that we were running well and the team made the call to get me in for a pit stop and back out again in first. I love my team! The guys are fantastic and did a great job. I am very happy for everyone as they have worked so hard, and for Mirco, to get our second win of the season."
Round 11 of the 2014 TUDOR United Sportscar Championship is the Oak Tree Grand Prix at VIR, 23-24 August.
Championship standings: http://www.imsa.com/series/united-sportscar/standings
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Kirti Stambh is famous by another name 'Tower of Fame', is a 22 meters tower and was established by the first Jain Tirthankar and is committed to Adinath. Constructed in Solanki style architecture, it has balconies and windows.It is located in the Chittorgarh fort of Rajasthan, which is largest fort in Rajasthan.
Built in 12th century by Rana Kumbha to commemorate his victory against Khilji. Tower of Fame is 30 feet wide at the base and narrow at top to 15 feet. Famous for the intricate carvings of Digambar, this seven storied tower has a beautiful Adinatha statue on the second floor. One can watch speechless scenic views of Chittorgarh on moving up to the top floor. Kirti Stambh is older than another tower in the same fort, known as the Vijay Stambha (Tower of Victory).
By Road: Tower of Fame (Kirti Stambh) is located in the Chittorgarh Fort at a distance of 5 km from centre of Chittorgarh on Fort Rd. One can easily reach here by rickshaw, local bus or taxi or by walk.
By Rail: Tower of Fame (Kirti Stambh) is well connected through nearest Chittorgarh Railway station (6 km) to major cities railway stations like Delhi, Agra, Mumbai, Chennai, Bikaner, Pali, Jaipur, Ahmedabad.
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tower of victory was build by rana kumbha. this jain kirtisthamb was build nearly 200 years before it. jija son of sah naya built it and the consecration ceremony was performed dharamchandra of Mulasangha. this kirstisthamb was bult infront of chandraprabha temple constructed by jija's father sa naya. this sthamba was made in the honour of chandraprabha temple which is now not exist.


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What has short legs, a long body, and its own museum in Germany? The dachshund, of course.
The Dackelmuseum in Passau, Germany, opened earlier this month, the creation of two former florists who spent 25 years collecting all things dachshund — toys, artwork, statues, stuffed animals. They amassed more than 4,500 items, and they say their museum showcases the largest collection of dachshund-related objects on Earth.
"The world needs a sausage dog museum," co-founder Seppi Küblbeck told BBC News. "No other dog in the world enjoys the same kind of recognition or popularity as the symbol of Bavaria, the sausage dog." In the Middle Ages, dachshunds were bred to flush out badgers from their burrows in order to keep them from going after ducks and hens, and the dogs became known as good hunters.


From the bluesy swagger of the album opener "Hollywood Hollows" to the soaring, Washington Irving inspired anthem "Equestrian," it is evident that MIRRORS, the debut full length from U.S. Royalty, is an album of grand scope and range. It is a document of exploration and discovery. Songs kindle a spectrum of locales as the band laces a thread of longing and movement throughout the entire album to create a cinematic experience. MIRRORS is a cohesive and unified collection. "With this record we wanted to present a body of work, a complete thought," says singer John Thornley. To achieve this, the band wrote and rewrote songs for a year, demoing and dissecting while on the road and at home. John continues, "Because we traveled for about a year and a half before we recorded the album, there is definitely a travel vibe to the record " In March 2010, the band teamed up with engineer Gus Oberg (The Strokes, Albert Hammond Jr., Bloc Party) and Justin Long to begin recording the album. While in the studio, as a vision of the album began to come into focus, old songs were dropped in favor of new songs being written. The band recently released the first single off the album, "Equestrian," and set a release date for the debut album, January 25th 2011. Shared experiences, traveling and playing together, informed the writing process as did a steady intake of Kubrick, Godard, McCarthy, and Spaghetti Westerns. The sun-bleached Ennio Morricone soundtracks factored heavily into the scope and range of MIRRORS as the band channeled the sense of epic drama his most memorable pieces evoke – those timeless studies in tension and release. U.S. Royalty formed in 2008 in Washington, D.C. Built around the lifelong musical collaboration of brothers John and Paul Thornley, vocals/piano and guitar, respectively, and rounded out by Jacob Michael (bass), and Luke Adams (drums), the group has refined and expanded their collective vision since their earliest practices spent shivering around a single heater while ensconced in an abandoned trailer in rural Maryland.
While the band had a collection of demos recorded mainly to book gigs they were approached by Brooklyn-based Engine Room Recordings to release a selection of the songs on a 7-inch entitled Midsommar. They have made appearances at SXSW, NXNE, Art Basel and CMJ. They have been featured in Esquire, SPIN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and highlighted on NPR. Their work with Gant Rugger has garnered them attention in the fashion world and created unexpected bridges in the blogosphere, their music has accompanied various web-based promotional films for the label, and the band members will be featured in the Swedish line's upcoming 2011 Spring Collection. With the release of their debut album, U.S. Royalty delivers on capturing the volatility and explosiveness that define their live performances. While taking cues from the players of old, they treat performances as feverish outpourings of rock 'n roll energy and emotion. For them, there is no reason not to leave it all on the stage every night as a testimony to the music that moves them. U.S. Royalty aims for the grand and the timeless but insists on the raw and the unplanned as they forge their own way in the current musical landscape.


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For historical reasons1, the page numbering in the front matter (e.g. table of contents) uses a different numbering format than the rest of the document. Roman numerals are commonly used in the front matter (I, II, III, ...) and Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, ...) for the rest of the document.
In \(\LaTeX\) this is easily achieved by using the \pagenumbering command. An introduction to this command can be found at sharelatex.com. The use is quite straightforward and should work out of the box.
It specifies the arguments in a special syntax which essentially is a list describing each argument. In my case, the first and second arguments are mandatory (If you need 3 mandatory arguments you should write mmm).
You can use your arguments in both the begin and the end block. As you can see in the code this is a necessary requirement here.
Explanation to the last two points: If you want to use your arguments in the end block with \newenvironment, you have to apply a workaround, because normally arguments are only visible in the begin block2. So, the solution can be to introduce a new variable, store your arguments in the begin block in that variable and last but not least use your variable (with the stored argument) in the end block. Unfortunately, this did not work in my case. I received lots of errors when trying to do so.
So, hopefully, this helps some people facing the same problem.
1. Before the advent of the digital era, parts of the front matter such as the table of contents could only be written after the book was completed, because only then the page numbers of the main text were final. But, the exact number of pages for the front matter was not known before it was written and the author could not just guess that the main text starts at e.g. page 20. Any mistake would have meant to touch every single page again or have empty pages. Therefore, the main matter started at page 1 (Arabic) and the front matter at page I (Roman). This allowed the author to add as many pages to the front matter as he needed without having to touch the rest of the book or have superfluous empty pages.
2. See the question Why can't the end code of an environment contain an argument? for more information.
I tried several ways including the align or equation (with split) environment. But for some reason, all of them messed up.
As the official documentation (p. 7) explains, the mandatory argument is the number of "equation columns" which can be calculated as the maximum number of & in a row + 1 divided by 21.
1. Don't ask me why we have to present an argument which could easily be calculated by someone else – a computer machine for instance ;-). But, of course, that little inconvenience is easily accepted considering the beautiful output we get as a reward.


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The older I get, the less tolerant I am of exploitation cinema, so it takes a film with a rather bizarre and/or ugly reputation for me to even considering viewing something from that celluloid ghetto. The innately culturally and morally confused West German-Italian-French-Canadian co-production Born For Hell (1976) aka Naked Massacre aka Die Hinrichtung directed by French-Canadian quasi-pornographer/producer Denis Héroux (Virgin Lovers, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris) was one of those rare innately idiosyncratic exploitation flicks that managed to catch my attention. An international exploitation film set in terrorism-ridden Belfast, Ireland and starring European and Canadian arthouse superstars like Mathieu Carrière (Young Törless, Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung), Eva Mattes (Stroszek, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant), Carole Laure (Sweet Movie, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), Myriam Boyer (Shadow of a Chance, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000), Leonora Fani (Percy Is Killed, Nenè) and Christine Boisson (Identification of a Woman, Jenatsch), Naked Massacre is a totally tasteless horror-thriller based on the crimes of sexually confused American serial killer Richard Speck about a misogynist Vietnam vet of the decidedly deranged sort who suffers from impotence and decides to take his erotic frustration out on a house full of nubile young nurses. A curious product of a time when Canada had very liberal tax shelter laws (apparently, investors could write-off as much as 200%) for international co-productions with Europe and Israel, Naked Massacre is probably the finest and most aesthetically contemptible example of what happens when serious and singularly talented arthouse actors are degraded for the sake of a dubious investment. Part of the requirement for Canadian-European co-productions was that stars from the respective nations that funded the film would have to appear in the film, so Naked Massacre features great kraut actors like Mathieu Carrière and Eva Mattes giving unintentionally inept and sometimes hilarious performances due to poor dubbing. Of course, seeing a talent like Carrière portraying a wack-job American woman-killer also makes for a rather absurd experience. Still, with its against-type cast, gratuitous psychosexual ultra-violence, superlatively silly yet nonetheless striking setting, and innately insincere 'anti-terrorist' message, Naked Massacre makes for a welcome exception to the sort of contrived exploitation films typical of the 1970s. Mostly shot in Hamburg and Studio Bendestorf (Lower Saxony) in West Germany, Naked Massacre also has a beauteously bizarre atmosphere due to its various scenes shot in apocalyptic Belfast in the age of terrorism and globalization. Simultaneously anti-American yet pro-Israel (the film closes with a news report on a terrorist bombing in the unholy Holy land), Naked Massacre is essentially liberal capitalist trash meant to capitalize on human tragedy and for that reason alone makes the film have a certain crude essence that is much more palatable than the latest 'socially conscious' celluloid con from the likes of mainstream liberal horror icons like George A. Romero, Wes Craven, and Tobe Hooper.
Beginning with the conspicuously contrived introductory warning, "Harbor town in Northern Ireland, where after centuries the religious dispute flamed up again and where – like everywhere nowadays – undeclared wars, bloody terror and blind rage are the cause for pointless deaths of countless innocents. The personal fates are fictitious, merely the analysis of the offender and the acts are based on authentic events," Naked Massacre depicts a war-torn Belfast where buildings, churches, and people are being blown up around the clock in terrorist bombings and brainwashed Irish Catholic grade school children practice executing English soldiers. Morally retarded war vet Cain Adamson (Mathieu Carrière) does not know why he decided to travel to Belfast or why he decided to fight in the Vietnam War (he figures it was either to kill people and/or kill himself), but he is certainly in his element and sure of the fact that, "I only knew one hooker that was a human being…but she killed herself at 18. Nobody knows why." The dead hooker killer Cain is speaking of his sister who, among other things, he apparently had sexual relations with. A bum-like drifter without a cent to his name, Cain sleeps in homeless shelters and begs bartenders for free beer. Upon meeting a young Vietnamese refugee, Cain shows the young man a medal he won and proudly states, "See this…it means I'm a hero…I had to grease a lot of gooks to get this." After questioning Cain's sanity (the war vet proudly proclaims, "The army doctor declared me perfectly normal"), the young gook, who is no more savory than his new American friend, makes the ex-GI the following proposition regarding opening up a whorehouse, "I know a place in London… English people have very special tastes. With your accent and looks we could pick a fortune over there." Of course, Cain is more interested in blood than bucks and declines the yellow man's offer and instead decides to humiliate an over-the-hill prostitute who brags about the fact she turned her son queer after having incestuous relations with him one-too-many times. When the fat old cow of a hooker also accuses Cain of being a pansy cocksucker, he ultimately decides to take his bitter revenge against the fairer sex.
Eventually, Cain finally finds what he has been subconsciously looking for in the form of a house full of international European nurses, including a couple German gals, as well as a pregnant chick and a lipstick lesbian or two (indeed, the film features a couple cheap sub-softcore lesbo scenes). With "Born For Hell" (hence the film's alternate titles) tattooed on his arm that he brags to the nurses he paid a mere $10 bucks for at the age of 14, Cain proceeds to emotionally, physically, and sexually terrorize all the girls in various ways, starting with a chick named Amy (Carole Laure) who resembles his beloved dead sister. When Amy won't put out, Cain gets sexually frustrated and strangles her to death. An ostensible proponent of lesbianism, the mad misogynist forces one nurse to perform cunnilingus on her friend for the mere cultivated pleasure. In what is probably the most equally 'penetrating' and peculiar scene of Naked Massacre, Cain begins to act sweet to one of the surviving nurses, Catherine (Eva Mattes), but she has lost her mind and decides to commit seppuku via driving a large knife into her stomach. In the end, Cain gets away but one of the girls manages to survive that fateful night by hiding under a bed. Supposedly guilt-ridden by his crimes and fearing he might get caught, Cain decides to commit suicide (apparently, he also tried to kill himself while in the army) in a public bathroom stall, but fails and while being stitched up, the doctor notices he has the same "Born For Hell" tattoo that has been reported on the news in regard to an identifiable trait of the mystery man who committed the Belfast nurse massacre.
A mind-numbingly mean-spirited and even misanthropic work, Naked Massacre is certainly worthy of being just as revered as similar exploitation classics like The Last House on the Left (1972), Hitch-Hike (1977), I Spit on Your Grave (1978), and The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), but the film's sometimes pseudo-arthouse essence is probably too off-putting to the average philistine gorehound. It is also doubtful that auteur Denis Héroux cares about the legacy of Naked Massacre as he would go on to be given the prestigious title of 'Officer of the Order of Canada' in 1983, so a proto-torture-porn flick about the nihilistic nurse killing of a sexually warped serial killer like Richard Speck would probably not be the best thing for the filmmaker to list on his resume. Additionally, as a serious actor/director who has worked with Volker Schlöndorff, Harry Kümel, and Paul Morrissey, and who has also dedicated his life to fighting for fathers' rights, it is doubtful that lead Mathieu Carrière looks back on the film fondly. Although it probably does not say much, Naked Massacre is easily the best film ever made about Speck and a somewhat inventive take on the gynophobic killer's crimes. A film that seems like it was directed by a jaded ex-hippie anti-war protestor turned hateful capitalist smut-peddler, Naked Massacre can in no way be taken seriously as an anti-war/anti-terrorism work but instead more resembles a petty agitprop piece assembled by unsophisticated mainstream left-wingers who knows the right ass to kiss (i.e. Zionists, feminists, etc.). That being said, Naked Massacre ultimately makes for a quasi-interesting sub-cult item for proudly Eurocentric cinephiles that demonstrates how a hack director can degrade Fassbinder superstars and French divas to the point where they are virtually indiscernible from the no-name actors featured in worthless slasher franchises like the Friday the 13th and Halloween series.
-Ty E
Posted by Soiled Sinema at 12:27 AM
jervaise brooke hamster said...
Denis Heroux is Claude Heroux's brother, the latter being the producer of "The Brood", i wonder if Denis ever got to touch Cindy Hinds bum ! ?.
That middle-aged slag has still got quite nice tits.
Eva Mattes was only 19 at the time of filming...WOW ! ! !.
This sounds similar to "Death Week-end" also from `76 with Brenda Vaccaro and Don Stroud.
I like the picture where the geezer is forcing the bird to bend over and go down on the other bird, that image is pure magic.
Two marvellous heterosexual movies following on from two loathsome faggot oriented movies, Ty E you`ve redeemed yourself.
Sorry Ty E but i prefer the films of Romero, Craven, and Hooper over this artsy-fartsy nonsense anyday, like i said, the only good thing about this movie is that the main protagonist is heterosexual.
Ty E, its odd that you said that as you get older you have less and less time for exploitation movies, simply because you`d have thought they would be the number one type and genre of movie reveiwed on this site ! ?, especially seeing as how you only seem to enjoy sickening and nauseating cinematic abortions ! ! !.
Eva Mattes looked so sweet and pretty when she was a young bird, but now she looks like a fucking dirty old ugly butch bull-dyke.


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            <header name="Action" scope="default" value="TestUpdate" />
            <property name="Content-Type" scope="transport" type="STRING"
                value="application/soap+xml; charset=UTF-8; action=TestUpdate" />
            <call>
                <endpoint>
                    <address trace="disable"
                        uri="http://my_internal_data_service/which_ends_up_with/ws_sec_header" />
                </endpoint>
            </call>
        </outSequence>
        <faultSequence />
    </target>
</proxy>

Any advice is very much appreciated.

A: Can you add the following log mediator before the call mediator in the outsequence and update this with the output logs.
it will help us to identify the issue.
<log level="full">
            <property name="OutSequence" value="==== OUTSEQ ===="/>
   </log>

A: The issue was I have engaged rampart module <module ref="rampart" /> in the axis2.xml found in <ESB_HOME>repository/conf/axis2/ . After commenting out this line the exception was gone and the dss call worked. The reason I believe, if this line of code is enabled, ws-securiy is engaged globally and all the service calls will look for ws-security header. Please correct me if I'm wrong in anyway.

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The most striking thing you note when you meet Nigel Tay is that he is fun. Really fun. Corporate risk managers are not always associated with fun. But then, Nigel Tay is not your average corporate risk manager.
As team lead of enterprise risk management and insurance at StarHub, Asia's answer to Telstra and one of the three largest telcos in Singapore, Tay always knew this was where he wanted to be.
He is described by one colleague as a "jovial breath of fresh air in an otherwise corporate environment". Not words often associated with risk managers, but there is a sense that shifts are coming in that arena, and Tay will be a part of it.
Tay joined StarHub in April 2015, just as huge changes were afoot at the firm.
His mentor, Ryan Tan, now vice-president, mergers & acquisitions and corporate planning at the telco, came on board not long after this and was working hard to make the traditional slow-moving telco behemoth into a more agile, nimble firm better able to respond to the changing needs of its customers.
"Initially, I joined to ensure that the existing ERM process was operable and the insurance process was operable. Frankly, nothing fancy. I was just maintaining the risk registers, making sure the insurance queries are addressed. Very, very process-driven kind of thing.
Several times during our conversation, Tay stops, laughs heartily and goes on to tell me another amusing anecdote about Tan. You get the sense their working relationship is more brotherly than simply mentor/mentee.
Tay is on a one-man mission to shed the old skin of risk management and embody a new way of thinking. His sense of fun and boyish charm means he gets what he wants from people by being one of them, not above them. "I don't want to annoy people by sending them a very boring risk document to fill in. I don't want to walk into a room and for someone to say: 'Oh man, the risk management guy was here again. Great, we have a ten- page document to fill out,'" he laughs.
Tay believes the ability to be alert and responsive is absolutely vital to the way he works and the positioning of his role, which in turn helps to influence and shape his style of working within StarHub.
Tay is a passionate advocate for modern, agile risk management. He makes it is very clear throughout our conversation that he is not a believer in risk appetite statements or documentation for the sake of it.
So what does the future hold? I ask Tay where he sees his career taking him. While he says areas like product development could present some interesting opportunities, Tay is adamant he is happy sticking with risk management alongside Tan at StarHub.
When asked if there is anything else he wants to add, he, of course, laughs: "No, we're cool." It is hard not to laugh with him. Watch this space – this guy has potential and he isn't afraid to use it.


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July 12, 2021 July 12, 2021 BENS WORLD - an interesting read with your coffee.
HOW JOHN KEY'S PALO ALTO IS IN BED WITH THE CIA.
John Key's Palo Alto business partners include In-Q-Tel (owned by the CIA) who are also investors in Rocket Lab New Zealand. WTF!
Thirty days after the Christchuch Mosque shootings Palo Alto Networks the global cybersecurity leader, announced the appointment of the Right Honorable Sir John Key, former member of Parliament and prime minister of New Zealand, to the company's board of directors. The announcement barely made the papers as the country remained in shock from the March 15th 2019 attack as the whole of New Zealand experienced it own kind of 9/11.
Which is interesting because Palo Alto Networks Inc announced on March 14, 2018, almost a year to the day, its plans to acquire CIA-backed cloud services firm Evident Inc. for $300 million in cash. Evident provides cybersecurity services for cloud infrastructure run by governments and corporations and has raised $49.1 million in venture cash to date, including an undisclosed amount from the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm known as In-Q-Tel Inc., according to FactSet. Through Evident Palo Alto, the firm John Key introduced to New Zealand inn 2020, was now in bed with the CIA.
In-Q-Tel Inc directors include a host of spooks such as A.B. Buzzy Kongrad who retired from the Central Intelligence Agency on November 30, 2004 where he had served as executive director since March 2001.
In-Q-Tel Inc also seems to have shares in New Zealand's Rocket Lab.
In 2016, Rocket Lab chief executive Beck was among the speakers at a summit for chief executives of companies associated with In-Q-Tel. A programme from the summit indicated Rocket Lab was among the firm's portfolio companies at the time. Rocket Lab is not currently listed as a portfolio company on In-Q-Tel's website. Stuff reported "A Rocket Lab spokeswoman would not say whether the company remained on In-Q-Tel's books".
On the 12 August 2020 – Rocket Lab welcomed to its board of directors, former Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin. Griffin joins Rocket Lab's board "with more than 35 years of space industry experience spanning roles in the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the commercial sector. Griffin has also previously held numerous executive positions in industry, including President and Chief Operating Officer of In-Q-Tel".
But as the ad goes wait their is more.
In-Q-Tel also invested in Palantir Technologies, a highly secretive software developer of spying and tracking cyber software, whose name is derived from a magical all seeing crystal ball in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel, has being buying up real estate in down town Palo Alto California. Up to 50 percent of Palantir's business is tied to the public sector with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm an early investor. Palantir more than doubled in value since it listed on the New York Stock Exchange on October 2 2016v when the CIA brought in.
The deal made its CEO, the Lord of the Rings obsessed, Peter Thiel's the richest New Zealand citizen in Middle Earth after Thiel brought his citizenship and then brought a mansion in Queenstown New Zealand This led to Thiel making local headlines in 2017 when it was revealed he had been made a New Zealand citizen since 2011 – despite spending just 11 days in the country. Theil's passport was fast-tracked as he invested millions in local start ups including Xero and Vend.
Thiel became a prolific buyer of property around Queenstown and Wanaka, as featured in the Vice documentary, Hunt for the Bunker People. In 2019 Thiel had talks with the government about combating Covid-19 by using Palantir who set up the Covid-19 tracker data-crunching capabilities which then sat with the government for more than a month unused during the lockdown period. The government however told RNZ it had no plans to use Palantir's services. In the UK the government gave Palantir access to sensitive patient data. Health data is highly sought after by tech firms and has being at the front of target attacked by Cyber hackers on New Zealand and around the world.
Palantir New Zealand client's also include the New Defence Force who spent $7.2m with the firm in 2012 while John Key was Prime Minister. Key also borrowed 20 billion for defence, much of which was then spent on cyber security technology and services. Palo Alto Networks state "they are world leaders in cyber security. Palo Alto provides next-generation firewalls and cloud security with an integrated approach to threat detection and prevention. They are used in all levels of the New Zealand Government".
And the relationship gets cosier.
Ombud, located in Denver, shareholder is also include In-Q-Tel portfolio. Ombud's function is to invests in and help develop technologies that might be useful for U.S. intelligence and defence agencies. The partnership with In-Q-Tel (IQT) is anticipated to lead to Ombud doing 20 percent of its business with U.S. intelligence agencies. Ombud makes software that tracks how client organizations — especially clients in businesses involving lots of data — respond to requests and learns what decisions led to good outcomes. Ombud clients include Palo Alto Networks.
On December 2019 In-Q-Tel opened an office in Sydney for its IQT International Australia subsidiary, which collaborates with that country's own office of national intelligence whose stated goal is to support collaborations between the U.S, Australia and the U.K that are all members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance alongside Canada and New Zealand.
I wonder who Five Eyes will call and who stands to make billions when the next 911 strikes especially if its a Cyber based 9/11
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Hirose Suzu follows the tradition set by a select group of Japanese actresses in portraying the lead in TV morning drama. She is also set to play the lead in NTV's 2018 opening salvo 'anone'.
Popularly known as the asadora, Hirose headlines Natsuzora (2019), translated as 'Summer Sky'.
Natsuzora is set after the end of WW2, with special mention of Japanese animation, considered at that time, to be a struggling, young industry. Certain personalities considered as pioneers of the anime industry will be depicted in the show.
Hirose Suzu is also set to collaborate with the acclaimed TV drama team of Sakamoto Yuji and Mizuta Nabuo. The TV duo previously worked on award-winning dramas Mother and Woman. Veteran actress Tanaka Yuko who is cast on both show will play a major character. She will interact mostly with Hirose, who is shunned by society but is taken in by her.
The premise goes that both women appear to have been failed by society and have grown to mistrust other human beings. When an incident occurs, Tanaka hides and protects Hirose.
Hirose Suzu is known for playing Chihaya in the 3-part Chihayafuru live-action franchise. Early on, Hirose set an acting milestone as one of the casts in Koreeda's Our Little Sister, which premieres at the Cannes International Film Festival.


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Home Local News Basingstoke Leisure Park Vision for £200 Million Investment
Basingstoke Leisure Park Vision for £200 Million Investment
A vision that could transform and revitalise Basingstoke Leisure Park, bringing in a range of exciting new attractions, has been outlined to borough councillors.
As owners of the 60-acre leisure park, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council entered into an exploratory exclusivity agreement with developer NewRiver Retail in February this year to encourage major new investment in the Leisure Park. Since then, the company has been making progress with commercial discussions with leisure operators to investigate what facilities could be brought to the park, which was developed mostly in the 1980s and 1990s.
In a presentation to councillors held on Tuesday 15 December, NewRiver executives set out ideas for a much bigger and better leisure offer that would include a new Aquadrome to replace the ageing swimming and sports centre along with a dual use ice rink and events arena. The aim would be to provide something for all the family and a range of different interests. Other new attractions that could feature include a velodrome for cycling enthusiasts, a children's activity centre and extreme sports facilities, such as a climbing wall or surfing centre, to complement the existing indoor sky diving at the park.
The emerging proposals are part of a package for a major overhaul of the park, which could create an estimated 2,400 jobs and bring nearly £200 million of investment to the borough.
As part of the focus on improved leisure facilities, NewRiver Retail, a UK publicly listed property investment and development company, has also included proposals for a designer outlet village where world leading designer brands would be offered at discount prices creating a major new leisure destination for all the family, both residents and visitors.
Francois Nairac, Development Director at NewRiver Retail, said: "We are very pleased with the progress that we have made to create an exciting new leisure destination in Basingstoke. Our scheme has evolved, and although we have retained a clear emphasis on leisure, the growing popularity of designer outlet centres and the unmet demand for one along the M3 corridor has meant that we would like to include this in the overall scheme."
The Cabinet member leading on the Leisure Park regeneration Cllr John Izett said: "These are significant early stage proposals which would transform our Leisure Park and deserve to be considered and looked at in more detail. They amount to an ambitious and exciting opportunity for the borough and we owe it to residents and future generations to consider bold and innovative action to keep the Leisure Park flourishing. A leisure scheme on this scale would really put the borough on the map, providing new facilities that people who live here deserve and bringing investment and 2,400 jobs."
The concept plans will be discussed with Leisure Park tenants now they have been shared with councillors. A formal development agreement would be required between NewRiver Retail and the council before more detailed plans are advanced and wide-ranging public engagement undertaken before a planning application could be submitted. The proposals will be discussed by councillors at January's Community Environment and Partnerships Committee and a development agreement between the council and New River Retail is likely to be considered by the Cabinet following that.


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Home > List of families > Orchidaceae > Eulophia > penduliflora
Eulophia penduliflora Kraenzl.
Photo: Bernard Beekes
Nr Ruzawi School
Synonyms: Eulophia angustilabellata De Wild.
Eulophia lambinoniana Geerinck
Eulophia lindiana Kraenzl.
Eulophia nana Schltr
Small, slender terrestrial, 10-20 cm tall. Pseudobulbs usually partly above ground. Leaves partly developed at flowering time, 3-9, linear, up to 30 cm long. Inflorescence laxly 4-9-flowered. Flowers variable in colour, different colour forms often occurring in a single colony. Sepals somewhat spreading with the tips curved back, purple to purple-brown. Petals overlying the column, bright yellow or yellowish-white with a purple-brown mid line. Lip 3-lobed in the apical third, bright yellow with purple veins inside or greenish-white with yellow papillae. Spur 4-6 mm long, cylindric, usually slightly swollen at the tip, parallel to the ovary and often slightly upcurved at the tip.
Derivation of specific name:
Habitat: Occurring in Miombo or Brachystegia boehmii woodland, often on dry rocky hillsides.
Altitude range: (metres) 750 - 1620 m
Flowering time: Sep - Nov
Worldwide distribution: Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe distribution: N,C,E
Growth form(s): Terrestrial.
Images last updated: Thursday 28 January 2010
Fibeck, W. & Dare, M. (1993). Terrestrial Orchids in Zimbabwe. Excelsa 16 Pages 59 - 61. Also as Eulophia lindiana
Grosvenor, R.K. (1976). A list of orchids indigenous in Rhodesia. Excelsa 6 Pages 81 - 82. Also as Eulophia lindiana
La Croix, I. & Cribb, P.J. (1998). Orchidaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 11(2) Pages 515 - 528. (Includes a picture).
La Croix, I. et al. (1991). Orchids of Malawi A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam Page 321. also as Eulophia lindiana (Includes a picture).
Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 120.
Summerhayes, V.S. (1957). African orchids XXIV Kew Bulletin 12(1) Pages 125 - 126. Also as Eulophia lindiana
Williamson, G. (1977). The Orchids of South Central Africa J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London. Pages 167 - 168. (Includes a picture).
Other sources of information about Eulophia penduliflora:
Flora of Malawi: Eulophia penduliflora
Flora of Zambia: Eulophia penduliflora
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Eulophia penduliflora
African Plant Database: Eulophia penduliflora
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Eulophia penduliflora
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Eulophia penduliflora
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Eulophia penduliflora
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Eulophia penduliflora
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Eulophia penduliflora
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network): Eulophia penduliflora
iNaturalist: Eulophia penduliflora
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Eulophia penduliflora
JSTOR Plant Science: Eulophia penduliflora
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Eulophia penduliflora
Kew Monocotyledon checklist: Eulophia penduliflora
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Eulophia penduliflora
Plants of the World Online: Eulophia penduliflora
Tropicos: Eulophia penduliflora
Wikipedia: Eulophia penduliflora
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2022). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Eulophia penduliflora.


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Two Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq
November 30, 2003 — 11.00am
Two Japanese diplomats were killed after their car was ambushed near the Iraqi city of Tikrit, officials said today. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed to keep fighting terrorism.
Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said the two had been in Tikrit to attend a reconstruction aid conference.
The deaths are the first of Japanese in Iraq since the US-led invasion and came as Tokyo prepares to send non-combat troops to help the reconstruction of that country.
Officials in Tokyo said today the incident would not influence their preliminary plans to dispatch the soldiers.
"Japan has a responsibility to provide humanitarian and reconstruction aid in Iraq," Koizumi said. "There is no change to our policy of not giving in to terrorism."
Details of the attack were still sketchy, but Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said the vehicle was ambushed near the city of Tikrit, where the envoys were to attend an aid conference.
"The two were working day and night for the reconstruction of Iraq," Kawaguchi said at a news conference. "Their deaths are extremely regrettable. I am at a loss for words."
Their driver, whose nationality was not immediately known, was seriously injured, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiro Okuyama.
Katsuhiko Oku, 45, headed the cultural affairs section of Japan's embassy in London and had been on assignment in Iraq. Masamori Inoue, 30, was a second secretary at the Baghdad mission.
Defence Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that a recent fact-finding team indicated conditions are "rather stable" in southern Iraq, where the Japanese government will dispatch its troops.
Japanese media reported last week Koizumi's Cabinet was getting ready to approve a plan to deploy more than 1,000 soldiers to an area near the city of Samawah.
Koizumi has been a firm supporter of the US invasion of Iraq and has emphasised Japan has a responsibility to help rebuild the country. But he has hesitated to put troops on the group as near-daily attacks on coalition forces have shaken public support for the mission.
Parliament approved the deployment of ground troops in July but only on condition that they serve in "non-combat areas," which Koizumi's opponents argue don't exist in Iraq.
Public concern about dispatching troops has risen in the past two weeks after an alleged al-Qaeda operative, Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, cautioned Japan against helping the United States in Iraq with a warning that Tokyo "is the easiest place to destroy".
The threat via e-mail to the London-based Al-Majalla weekly followed a similar message earlier in the month.
Unidentified gunmen fired shots outside Japan's embassy in Baghdad two weeks ago and exchanged fire with guards for about 10 minutes, but no one was injured.
Japanese troops have not set foot in a country at war since World War II, and none has died in fighting while on a peacekeeping mission. Its only overseas casualties have been a sailor who died of a heart attack at sea and two Japanese civilians who were slain while supervising elections in Cambodia in 1993.
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The final hours of Charles I
by Linda Porter
On the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I, Linda Porter, author of Royal Renegades, describes how the doomed monarch spent his final hours.
On 30th January 1649, King Charles I was escorted to the Banqueting House, Whitehall where he was executed on charges of high treason.
The sentence of Charles I was passed on 27 January. The court appointed to try him found him 'guilty of levying war against the Parliament and people . . . and that he hath been and is the occasioner, author and continuer of . . . unnatural, cruel and bloody wars, and therein guilty of high treason . . . for which the court doth adjudge that he, the said Charles Stuart, as a tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy to the good people of this nation, shall be put to death by the severing of his head from his body.'
These grim and inexorable words were, for Cromwell and the fifty-eight others who signed the death warrant, the only just outcome of the trial. Charles I had repulsed all efforts to save his life. If he had hoped, up until the moment that the sentence was pronounced, that he could call their bluff, then he miscalculated. He demanded to speak but was removed from the hall, still protesting, back to St James's Palace, where he had been lodged during the trial. It was the childhood home of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Henry and it was there that they bade him farewell on 29 January.
It was a harrowing and deeply affecting parting. The king had requested that he be allowed to see his younger children before his execution. They were already aware of the sentence, presumably having been told by the earl of Northumberland, a consistent opponent of Charles I but not a supporter of the decision to put him to death. Conveying the news to them must have been the hardest task of Northumberland's time as their guardian. Elizabeth was distraught and her brother bewildered and concerned by his sister's distress.
Both seem to have been taken aback by their father's appearance when admitted to his presence. He had aged and an air of vulnerability hung around him that could not be entirely disguised by his own composure. This was in complete contrast to his daughter's discomfiture. She began to weep uncontrollably and Henry also started to cry. Taking them both on his knees, Charles embraced them and tried to soothe them. He had important things to say that he wanted them to hear. These Elizabeth herself recorded, under the heading 'What the king said to me, January 29, 1648–9, being the last time I had the happiness to see him'.
'He told me he was glad I was come, and although he had not time to say much, yet somewhat he had to say to me, which he could not to another, or leave in writing, because he feared their cruelty was such, as that they could not have permitted him to write to me. He wished me not to grieve or torment myself for him, for that would be a glorious death that he should die – it being for the laws and liberties of this land, and for maintaining the true Protestant religion.
He bid me read Bishop Andrews's sermons, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity and Bishop Laud's book against Fisher, which would ground me against Popery. He told me he had forgiven all his enemies, and hoped God would forgive them also; and commanded us, and all the rest of my brothers and sisters, to forgive them. He bid me tell my mother that his thoughts never strayed from her, and that his love should be the same to the last. Withal, he commanded me and my brother to be obedient to her, and bid me send his blessing to the rest of my brothers and sisters, with commendation to all his friends. So, after he had given me his blessing, I took my leave.
Farther, he commanded us all to forgive those people, but never to trust them; for they had been most false to him and to those that gave them power, and he feared also for their own souls; and he desired me not to grieve for him, for he should die a martyr, and that he doubted not but the Lord would settle his throne upon his son, and that we should all be happier than we could have expected to have been if he had lived; with many other things, which at present I cannot remember.'
Desperate to record faithfully her father's injunctions but unable, because of emotion, to recall everything verbatim, Elizabeth's slightly disjointed account of their last meeting reveals the torment of the occasion. The king is said to have told her: 'Sweetheart, you'll forget this,' but there was no likelihood of that. She replied she could not forget, as long as she lived.
Charles then turned his attention to the eight-year-old boy sitting on his knee. For little Henry, his message was direct and uncompromising. 'Sweetheart,' he said, 'now they will cut off thy father's head; mark, child, what I say.' By this time, the king certainly had his youngest son's complete, even fascinated, attention. 'They will cut off my head, and perhaps make thee a king; but mark what I say, you must not be a king, so long as your brothers, Charles and James, do live; for they will cut off thy brothers' heads (when they can catch them), and cut off thy head too at last; and therefore I charge you do not be made a king by them.' To whichb the child, anguished but unshaken by this gruesome depiction of his family's and his own future, burst out: 'I will be torn in pieces first.' His reply 'made the king rejoice exceedingly'.
But for Elizabeth, as the king divided his few remaining jewels between the two children, there was no solace. Charles took his leave of them and returned to his chamber, but the princess's wracking sobs brought him briefly back out again. A last embrace and blessing, and he was gone. The children returned to Syon House and how they passed the day of their father's execution is not known.
The king spent his last hours in prayer with Bishop Juxon of London, who was permitted to attend him, and writing letters to his family. To the Prince of Wales he had already composed a lengthy homily, in which he clearly still hoped for a reprieve but accepted that death was the likelier outcome.
This last testament reveals the depth of his religious convictions and how central they were to his vision of the responsibilities of kingship. 'The true glory of princes,' he wrote, 'consists in advancing God's glory, in the maintenance of true religion and the Church's good; also in the dispensation of civil power, with justice and honour to the public peace.' If his son kept to the true principles of piety, virtue and honour, then 'you shall never want a kingdom'.
Charles received his last letter from his eldest son from the hands of the stalwart royalist Henry Seymour, an experienced and successful courier of messages, on the evening of 28 January. He gave Seymour the final messages to be conveyed to Prince Charles and to Henrietta Maria.
The occasion threatened to overwhelm the faithful Seymour, who was desolate to find his sovereign so changed. His response was very similar to that of Princess Elizabeth and he was a grown man:
'Mr Seymour, at his entrance, fell into a passion, having formerly seen His Majesty in a glorious state and now so dolorous; and having kissed the king's hand, clasped about his legs, lamentably mourning.'
On the bitterly cold afternoon of 30 January 1649, with snow threatening, the first Charles Stuart stepped out of the Banqueting House, part of his Whitehall Palace, onto a balcony where a scaffold had been especially constructed.
Serene in his faith, he told Bishop Juxon that he was going from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where there would be no more trouble. His small stature never detracted from a regal presence and his nobility of demeanor in those final moments was impressive. The crowd who came to watch, kept back by a strong military presence, were too far away to hear him acknowledge his eternal regret at the part he had played in Strafford's fate, or utter the famous words which epitomized the creed by which he had lived and for which he was about to die. 'A subject and a sovereign,' he told them, 'are clean different things.' He died bravely, his head severed, mercifully, with one stroke of the axe.
There is a story that Oliver Cromwell visited the corpse as it lay in its coffin at Whitehall and muttered the words 'Cruel necessity' over the fallen king. The tale is not contemporary and did not gain currency until the eighteenth century but, even if apocryphal, it still contains a kind of truth. The king's opponents were as unswerving in their belief in God's justice and providence as Charles I had been. And they had proved the stronger during the Civil Wars.
For the children he left behind, scattered across three countries, their father's death was cruel indeed. In their grief, they would have agreed with the summation, made years afterwards, by Edward Hyde: 'He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband, the best father and the best Christian that the age in which he lived had produced.'
Now his children, like the three kingdoms he had ruled, faced an uncertain future in which they, too, would be 'clean different things'.
Royal Renegades
A tale of love and endurance, of battles and flight, of educations disrupted, the lonely death of a young princess and the wearisome experience of exile, Royal Renegades charts the fascinating story of the children of loving parents who could not protect them from the consequences of their own failings as monarchs and the forces of upheaval sweeping England.
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