145 backers pledged £19,294 to help bring this project to life.
You asked for it, so we have delivered! We have introduced a level for backing just the assembled and tested OSCAR PCB on its own. You will need to purchase the screen (LP097QX1) separately. This level does not include any cables either.
Many thanks to Geek Insider for featuring our project!
Thanks to MacRumors for featuring OSCAR also!
Thank you also to all these other websites for featuring OSCAR!
"Join us as we pioneer the new era of super high resolution desktop displays at an affordable price"
OSCAR is an adapter that allows you to connect a super high resolution 9.7" screen, often found in tablets, to your computer. It comes pre-connected to the LCD panel ready to be attached and is compatible will all operating systems using a Thunderbolt or DisplayPort connection. The board is Arduino compatible which makes modifying the behaviour easy and all the software and hardware is open source. The particular display used with OSCAR is the one most commonly found in the iPad 3 and 4, marketed as the 'Retina Display' and has a whopping 2048x1536 pixels. This gives it an amazing pixel density of 264ppi (pixels per inch) and glorious colours. The case we have designed for it in laser cut clear acrylic also enhances the wonderful looking display by putting it in an equally clean looking surround.
What can you do with OSCAR?
Any Arduino project you can imagine!
OSCAR takes care of driving the LED backlight and regulating the panel power supply. With the onboard ATmega32U4, the device is Arduino compatible and acts like an Arduino Leonardo. This enables USB communications so that you can use OSCAR to control things like backlight brightness and enables you to expand the functionality of OSCAR. Adding an IR receiver for control or adding an IMU board to automatically rotate the screen are all possible. As you can use the Arduino IDE customisation is easier than ever to implement!
There is no touchscreen on the LCD panel so this means it will not act like a tablet but just as a screen.
The board contains, most importantly, voltage regulators for both the microcontroller and LCD panel. There are also drivers for the LED backlight so brightness can be adjusted using a PWM output from the microcontroller. Buttons are included to turn the display on/off and to increase or decrease the backlight brightness. There is a small connector to attach the display and a DisplayPort socket that goes to your computer. The micro USB port is used for upgrading the software and allowing the computer to control the backlight and power to the display.
Full Kit (with custom colour case) is exactly the same as the above image, but with the case in a colour of your choice. A poll will be sent round after backing to choose your colour.
The OSCAR board and case depicted above are the current revision and will be modified before production. The tablet stand is also subject to change as we continue testing.
Every OSCAR comes with the LCD panel and depending on your backing level, you will get various accessories included. The custom laser cut acrylic case not only looks awesome but protects your screen and allows OSCAR to be mounted to the back. You could also receive a power supply (12V 1A) to power the screen and the necessary cables to connect OSCAR to your computer.
The case is made from clear acrylic normally, but if you would like a different colour then you can choose from Black, Blue, Green, Light Blue, Orange, Red, Violet and White . Be sure to back the appropriate level for the colour version.
We will send a poll round after funding for you to choose from standard or mini DisplayPort/Thunderbolt cable.
If you are outside the UK and order a Full Kit, then we will include an international power adapter.
The OSCAR PCB has been through 3 main revisions so far. This includes expanding the functionality and increasing the board size to accommodate the full size headers. We have also included mounting holes and adjusted their position to make attaching to the case easier.
To aid the connecting of devices, we have modified the silkscreen to include the names of the Arduino pins. Furthermore, we have rearranged the physical placement of all the connectors to make the cable-routing more ergonomic.
How will the funding be used?
The funding from this Kickstarter is essential to make the step from small prototype quantities into mass production. With your help we can secure a manufacturing contract with a UK based company to fabricate the OSCAR PCB and assemble it. We are almost ready to go now that we have produced our first prototype and have got OSCAR up and running. The software is in its final stages of refinement and the next prototype is already on its way.
We are sparing no expense when it comes to manufacturing. The kits will be assembled, personally tested and shipped from Southampton, making sure we uphold quality throughout the product.
As all members of the project team are currently at university, we have access to an immense resource of knowledge and facilities. This gives us the ability to ask for help when needed from people with more experience.
This is the first project we have jointly taken into mass production so there may be some teething problems along the way. Having university staff to support us and also having the OSCAR kit assembled in the UK means we have tighter control over the project and can hopefully prevent any major delays to delivery.
SINGLE OSCAR PCB. This is just the OSCAR PCB on its own WITHOUT the LCD panel. It is fully assembled, tested and ready to be attached to the LCD panel. This comes with no cables or power supply.
FULL KIT (with CUSTOM COLOUR CASE) You will receive one OSCAR with the LCD screen attached, power supply, stand and DisplayPort and USB cables. You will also receive the Schematic and PCB files before public release with the production software build. Choose from: Black, Blue, Green, Light Blue, Orange, Red, Violet or White for your custom laser cut acrylic case.


The festival itself consists of around 30 concerts relating in some way to the "trans-it" theme. As used at WNMD2004, the term "concerts" ranges from orchestral concerts, ensemble concerts, solo appearances and electronic concerts to happenings, installations, performances, virtual projects, etc in cities and towns throughout the country, linked by a eleven festival towns are linked by a Sound Train, running as a special train. An encounter and information platform for festival-goers, delegates from all over the world, festival partners and their guests, and media representatives, it also offers opportunities for interesting musical experiences.
and it promises to be a unique and exciting festival experience.


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SUMMER PREVIEW #10: A MONSTROUS amount of fun!
PaizoCon is upon us, and it's time for Pathfinder fans to have a MONSTROUS amount of fun, and we are all of a generally humanoid nature, so it seems that today is an ideal time to unleash the latest MYTHIC MONSTERS title from Legendary Games: MYTHIC MONSTERS 16: MONSTROUS HUMANOIDS!
I've got to run out the door to get to an 8:00 AM game GMed by no less an august personage than Frank Mentzer himself, so you'll forgive me if today's update is brief. We're headed to the CASTLE OF DOOM!!! But I'd be remiss if I didn't at least give you the run-down on the monsters you will find inside! More on the morrow!
* These creatures have one additional mythic rank than would normally apply for their CR.


We caught up with Theo Kottis to chew the fat ahead of Fatboy Slim's Smile High Club. We spoke about New Years the parties from times long since passed, and also the tracks that have defined 2015 for him.
A really vivid memory I have is playing an edit of Todd Terje – Ragysh during the bells NYE 2013. It was at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh to around 1500 people, good times!
2015 has been a great year for me. I couldn't name just one highlight. I've played in legendary venues like fabric in London & Sub Club in Glasgow. Im fortunate to have travelled to play in amazing European cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona and I managed to play in Ibiza 4 times including Space and Sankeys!
Again, too many to choose from… Closing my set at Space with Daft Punk – Revolution 909 is up there!
Best back to back set you've played this year?
A few this year have been impromptu and a lot of fun, warming me up nicely for 2016, when on New Year's Day ill be playing b2b with Ben Pearce in Aberdeen. I'll also be playing with Denis Sulta and Telford from the Sub Club later in the year too.
Lost Village festival was amazing. The creativity and thought that went into the production of the whole event was so impressive, walking from stage to stage and avoiding traps in the trees was certainly something I've never seen on the festival circuit!
Favourite place to go and eat at the moment?
I've been spending a lot of time in London recently and my girlfriend and I have been doing our own pizza tour, so far Homeslice is leading – the pizzas are huge and the ingredients are so fresh.
Yes going to try it out starting on the 3rd after a big one at Tobacco Docks on the 2nd!
I've got 2 – Get a vinyl release. Work with a vocalist. I'm pretty determined that I'll make these a reality soon!
I have remixed Samuel L Session on Saved Records – 8th January. A single on Anjunadeep29th January and a remix on new Glasgow label Posterboy records 5th February.
Can you remember how you celebrated New Years last years?
I played in Edinburgh alongside Subb-an and Waze & Odyssey. Great times!
Apart from the previous releases mentioned I will be hosting the After Hours mix on Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 show!


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VANDERBILT KENNEDY CENTER (TN UCEDD, IDDRC, LEND) SUMMER PROGRAMS ALLOW FOR FUN AND DISCOVERY
Summer programming at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN UCEDD, IDDRC, LEND) presents unique opportunities for investigators to design innovative research, for students and professionals to engage in model trainings, and for children and adults with disabilities to learn new skills and to make new friends. This year, the three summer programs drew 63 campers and students and 23 counselors and peers to the Vanderbilt campus.
During the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp for adults with Williams syndrome, campers spent a week living on campus together and working and socializing with professionals in the Nashville music business. Songwriters Ross Copperman and Heather Morgan led campers in a songwriting session, creating "Wherever You Go," an original song based on campers' personal experiences and inspirations. They recorded the song at Ocean Way with Copperman and Hunter Hayes, and on Tuesday, June 23, performed with Hayes live on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry.
During the Next Steps Summer Institute (NSSI), high school students and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities had an opportunity to experience what life is like at college. They came together for a week-long residential experience to do career exploration, to enhance their communication and life skills, and to socialize and to reflect with peers.
In SENSE Theatre, campers with and without autism spectrum disorders spent 2 weeks together playing theatre games, singing, and learning their parts for the original stage play, "The Makeover," which campers then performed during the final days of camp.
Discovery at Camp
Investigators involved in SENSE Theatre and in the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp have incorporated innovative research studies into the design of the camp experience. While participation in the research components is not a requirement of camp, most campers do elect to participate.
In SENSE Theatre, Blythe Corbett, Ph.D. (Psychiatry), and Scott Blain (Neuroscience undergraduate) conducted a promising study on music memory with the campers with autism spectrum disorder. Across campus at the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp, 30 campers with Williams syndrome took part in a series of studies. The research focused on gaining a better understanding of the general characteristics of Williams syndrome in an effort to inform the development of support strategies and ultimately to debunk some common myths and misunderstandings about the disorder.
"Half of the campers we worked with this year we have worked with in previous years," said Elizabeth Roof, senior research specialist. "We are able to gain a better understanding of how these campers are changing cognitively and behaviorally over time. We are looking at their general coping skills and at psychiatric features to see what may emerge and also what may fade away as the campers are aging. Some of the newer research we did this year focused on safety practices on the internet, which is something parents have reported is a concern."
Individuals with Williams syndrome are highly social, which can pose potential safety risks, so researchers spent time learning more about their online social engagement and habits. Building upon the "stranger danger" research model conducted at this camp in 2014, investigators used what they learned to present campers with common online scenarios in an effort to train them in engaging safely online.
Investigators in another study at the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp continued a line of research exploring whether data support the common claim that people with Williams syndrome have perfect pitch and beat perception. It turns out that some people with Williams syndrome do have perfect pitch and some do not. Some can keep a beat and some cannot. Williams syndrome is not an indicator of skill in this area, as was previously accepted.
Training Future Generations
Across the summer programs, 28 counselors and peer mentors were trained and put to work. The Next Steps Summer Institute (NSSI) welcomed undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
"Three of our counselors came from the clinical psychology program at Vanderbilt and proved to be such valuable resources," said Tammy Day, Next Steps program director. "As graduate students, they, of course, were thoughtful and mature, and with their clinical experiences, they were able to add so much to how we were able to support our students. It was lovely to see how genuinely interested they were in getting to know the students as whole people."
Steven Greiner, a graduate of the Next Steps at Vanderbilt program, returned to campus as a counselor this year.
"It was fantastic to have Steven back and to witness him taking on this new role," said Day. "He was very effective as a role model and as a peer, and the students looked up to him. He has been in their shoes. He attended NSSI, graduated from Next Steps, and is now working at Vanderbilt and living independently. It was great to see him step in as a counselor and provide such a positive example of what is possible for our students."
Summer Fun and Growth
Amidst the research and professional development, VKC summer programs also are providing fun, creative environments to encourage personal growth in the participants.
Doss is 12 years old and was a first-time and very reluctant camper at SENSE Theatre this year.
"I was nervous before I started," said Doss. "I hadn't ever performed like that and I didn't know anybody. But I really liked the games and learning the songs. Also, I made a lot of new friends who are like me, and we had a lot in common."
Doss's mother, Kelly, drove him to Nashville 60 miles each way, every day. She says it was well worth the time spent on the road.
"Doss does not get excited about trying new things," said Kelly. "But after the first day of camp, he was hooked. He wanted to get up early for camp every day and was upset when the weekend rolled around. This was unusual for him, but it was because he made new friends, and he felt accepted. Since camp, he has been very open to new experiences. His self-confidence has grown tremendously, and it was just amazing to see him smiling, dancing, and singing on the stage. It was so nice to see him engaged and happy."
To learn more about the VKC Summer Programs, visit: http://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vkc/services/campsandactivities/

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Baroness Warsi Says She's Prepared To Lead Inquiry Into Tory "Islamophobia"
31 May 2018, 16:41 | Updated: 31 May 2018, 16:59
A former Conservative chairman has told LBC she would be prepared to lead an inquiry into alleged Islamophobia in the Tory Party.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi made the remarks after the Muslim Council of Britain wrote to the party, highlighting a number of cases.
The group aired "serious concerns" that anti-Muslim bigotry had "poisoned elements of the party".
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Speaking to Iain Dale, Baroness Warsi, who served as Britain's first woman Muslim cabinet minister between 2010 and 2012, said the matter had gone on for too long.
She said: "If we genuinely want to be a modern, inclusive party which incubuses all communities that make up Britain then we need to get over this period.
"We need to stop denying we have an issue, we need to launch a proper inquiry, an internal inquiry I would suggest.
"We need to be transparent about the people who we have suspended, how long they have been suspended for, whether they have been readmitted to the party."
Asked whether she would be willing to head up such inquiry, Baroness Warsi continued: "If I was asked to, I would.
"I've always said I wouldn't come back into frontline politics, I'm enjoying my life too much.
"But if I was asked to do this for the party, to get our house back in order, to make sure people like me could continue to come into our party… I'm prepared to do it."
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Thomas Read Kemp, was born on 23rd December 1782 and will always be remembered as the speculator behind Kemp Town. But there was much more to him than just that.
Kemp began realising his idea of an independent estate to the east of Brighton in 1823 with local builders and architects, Amon Wilds and Charles Augustin Busby. The original development was self-contained and included Chichester Terrace, Arundel Terrace, Lewes Crescent, Sussex Square and the surrounding streets. Only 106 of the envisaged 250 houses were built and, of these, many were completed by Thomas Cubitt, the builder of much of Belgravia, who was owed money by Kemp. The project was a huge influence on Brunswick Town, to the west of Brighton, which was also built by Wilds and Busby.
There are many buildings around the city today to which Kemp has connections. His farmhouse was rented by the Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and King George IV) and was later demolished to make way for the Royal Pavilion. For a brief period in 1788, Kemp resided at Preston Manor. He lived at Herstmonceux Place in East Susex from 1807 until 1819 and then moved into his newly-built house, the Temple, on Montpelier Road. In 1825, he bought the land that was to become Adelaide Crescent and Palmeira Square from Isaac Goldmid and then sold it back to him in 1830. In 1827, he moved into 22 Sussex Square and in 1834 a new house was completed for him at 24 Belgrave Square in London, by which time he was seriously broke.
On top of his property dealings, Kemp found time to gain a degree in theology at Cambridge, marry, have six children, succeed to his father's moiety of the manor, become Member of Parliament for Lewes, leave Parliament and found a dissenting religious sect, return to the established church, become Member for Arundel and then return again as Member for Lewes!
Kemp left England in 1837 to escape his creditors and only returned once afterwards. He died on 20th December 1844 in Paris and I did actually try (unsuccessfully) to find his grave in the Père-la-Chaise cemetery when I was last there. In Brighton, there is a tablet dedicated to him at St Nicholas's Church, a plaque on 22 Sussex Square and a No. 7 bus named in his honour. Thomas Read Kemp was without doubt one of Brighton's greatest.


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Q: Removing directory recursively I'm doing a single Batch-File currently that deletes all contents from a specific folder on the Server.
It is working so far, but directories with spaces in the Folder name will not be recognized unfortunately.
I have no idea where to put the quotation marks in the script to overcome this limitation.
This is the script so far, it sits in the root of "D:\" :
cd Sharedfolder
for /f %%i in ('dir D:\Sharedfolder /B /D') do rd %%i /Q /S
del /F /S /Q *.*

It works good, but as soon as I have a Directory inside of "Sharedfolder" it will not work for that directory.

A: There is a mismatch in the command use. either use for /f or use
FOR /D %%i IN (D:\Sharedfolder\*) DO rd /s /q "%%i"
del /F /S /Q *.*

Which is closer to what you were thinking. An alternative solution would be to:
rmdir /s /q D:\Sharedfolder
mkdir D:\Sharedfolder

Tough this may have some problems elsewhere in the system.

A: This is the complete answer you are looking for, Try this one:
for /f "delims=" %%x in ('dir /b /ad abc*') do rd /s /q "%%x"

I have tried, It works.

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Kemnitz ist ein Ortsteil von Bernstadt a. d. Eigen im sächsischen Landkreis Görlitz in der Oberlausitz.

Durch das 3 km lange Dorf fließt der Kemnitzbach (obersorbisch Kamjenica), der seinen Ursprung im Gebiet der Buschschenke hat und in Altbernsdorf a. d. Eigen in die Pließnitz mündet.

Der Ort Kemnitz ist ein Reihendorf, zu dem eine früher in Waldhufen geteilte Flur gehört. Die überwiegend als Drei- bzw. Vierseithöfe errichteten Bauernhöfe, stehen vor allem im Niederdorf oberhalb der überschwemmungsgefährdeten Kemnitzbach-Talaue.
Markante Erhebungen sind der Rebhügelberg, der Lindelberg, der Wacheberg (358,2 m) und der Kieferberg (365 m).

Die Gesamtfläche der Gemarkung von Kemnitz nimmt ca. 1240 ha landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche und 96 ha Wald ein.

Geschichte

Die Kemnitzbach wird in der Oberlausitzer Grenzurkunde von 1241 als "Cameniza" (von Sorbisch kamjeń, "Stein", zu deutsch "Steinbach") bezeichnet und war ein Grenzabschnitt zwischen den Gauen Zagost und Budissin (Bautzen) sowie derjenigen des Gebietes des Bischofs von Meißen und des Burgwards Dolgowitz.

Der vom Gewässer abgeleitete Ortsname Kemnitz taucht erstmals um 1276 in einer Urkunde des Domkapitelarchivs Meißen auf, als diese einen Otto de Kemnicz erwähnt.

Älteste bekannte Grundbesitzer von Kemnitz waren die 1401 in einer Urkunde erwähnten Heinrich und Hans von Gierssdorff. Erst 1852 wurden die adligen Gutsbesitzer durch bürgerliche abgelöst.

1786 veranlasste der Gutsherr von Damnitz die Errichtung von sieben Berghäusern an der Grenze zu Bernstadt sowie den Bau der Niederen Schenke. Damals existierten auch zwei herrschaftliche Höfe sowie je ein herrschaftliches Wald- und Armenhaus. Des Weiteren lebten hier 26 Bauern, 33 Gartennahrungsbesitzer (Kleinbauern) und 48 Häusler. Es gab einen Kretscham und drei Schenken, außerdem vier Mühlen, zwei Schmieden sowie je ein Gemeindehirtenhaus, Pfarrhaus und Schulhaus, damit insgesamt 123 Feuerstätten. Ab 1819 wurden vom Dorfanger in Richtung Niederkemnitz zahlreiche Häusleranwesen errichtet, zum Teil erfolgte diese starke Verdichtung der Bebauung in der Talaue.

1908 übernahm der sächsische Staatsfiskus das Rittergut Oberkemnitz, das als Remonteamt genutzt wurde. Man betrieb hier die Nachzucht von jungen Militärpferden. Dafür dienten auch die im Jahr 1909 erbauten Ställe für 150 bis 175 Pferde.

1932 gab es ein großes Hochwasser im Ort.

1994 wurde Kemnitz O/L nach Bernstadt eingemeindet.

Ortsgliederung
Kemnitz gliedert sich in Ober- und Niederkemnitz sowie in die ehemaligen Ortsteile Lehde bzw. Lehdehäuser im Norden, Buschschenkhäuser im Westen und Russenhäuser im Süden, von wo man einen Ausblick in die polnische Gebirgslandschaft des Iser- und Riesengebirges sowie nach Tschechien hat.

Aus alten Flurverhältnissen vermutete man die Ortswüstung Lautendorf bei Kemnitz und Berthelsdorf.

Verwaltungszugehörigkeit
1777: Görlitzer Kreis 1843: Landgerichtsbezirk Löbau, 1856: Gerichtsamt Bernstadt, 1875: Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau, 1952: Kreis Löbau, 1994: Landkreis Löbau-Zittau, 2008: Landkreis Görlitz

Ortsnamenformen
um 1276: Otto de Kemnitz, 1307: Kemnicz, 1401: Kemmenicz, 1413: Kempnicz, 1488: Kempnitz, 1694: Cemnitz, 1768: Kemnitz, 1875: Kemnitz b. Bernstadt

Einwohnerentwicklung

Beim sächsischen Landesrezess im Jahr 1777 gab es in Kemnitz 26 besessene Mann, 31 Gärtner und 50 Häusler, 2 weitere Wirtschaften lagen wüst. Noch 140 Jahre zuvor lässt sich in Kemnitz noch kein Häusler nachweisen. Im Jahr 1681 gab es erst neun Häusler.

Bei der ersten standesunabhängigen Bevölkerungserhebung wurden 1834 mehr als 1000 Einwohner gezählt, deren Zahl stieg bis zur Reichsgründung auf über 1300 an, fiel danach unter 1200. Dieser Stand blieb vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs relativ konstant. Nach Kriegsende stieg die Einwohnerzahl durch Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene auf über 1500 an, jedoch waren es bereits knapp zwei Jahrzehnte später nur noch knapp 1400 Einwohner und 1993 etwa 1100.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten
Im Ort sind nur wenige Gebäude mit Merkmalen früherer Bauweisen erhalten geblieben. So zeigt das kleine ehemalige Weberhaus an der Hauptstraße 64 noch Umgebinde und Fachwerk oder beim Gebäude an der Hauptstraße 67 blieb die Fachwerkkonstruktion sichtbar. An der Hauptstraße steht in Niederkemnitz noch eine ehemalige Wassermühle mit einem Türschlussstein von 1847.
 Parkanlage: Nördlich des Rittergutes Oberkemnitz sind Reste der durch das jüngere Schloss überbauten mittelalterlichen Wasserburg erhalten geblieben. Die Gräben wurden bis auf den nördlich gelegenen Teich weitgehend eingeebnet sowie ein Teil des ehemaligen Schlossteiches aufgefüllt. Danach wurde das Areal zum Kulturpark mit zahlreichen Altbäumen umgestaltet, darunter mehrere über hundertjährige Bäume wie Stieleichen, Ahornbäume, Sommerlinden und Blut- sowie Rotbuchen.
 Waldbad: Das sanierte Waldbad liegt im Tal des Kemnitzbaches.

Bauwerke

 Kemnitzer Kirche: Eine Kapelle oder Kirche existierte vermutlich schon 1427 nach Aussage einer Urkunde über ein Altarlehn des Landvogtes Hans von Polenz. Nachdem sie 1428 während der Hussitenkriege niedergebrannt wurde erfolgte der Wiederaufbau. 1599 erfolgte unter anderem die Einrichtung eines herrschaftlichen Betstübchens und es wurde die Sakristei eingefügt. Von 1682 bis 1690 folgte die Errichtung des 38,9 m hohen Kirchturms, dieser wurde von 1977 bis 1979 renoviert. Die Kirche erhielt 1766 eine Orgel mit 720 Pfeifen von Loenhard Balthasar Schmahl aus Zittau.
 Denkmal zur Erinnerung an die 30 Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkrieges: 1922 eingeweiht
 Herrenhaus des Rittergutes Oberkemnitz: Der schmucklose, langgestreckte Bau wurde nach dem Brand von 1666 neu errichtet. Seinen Mittelflur überdecken drei Kreuzgewölbe. Nach 1945 wurde ein Viertel des Gebäudes abgerissen, ein weiterer Teil diente in der DDR als Kindertagesstätte. Das Gebäude steht inzwischen leer.

 Herrenhaus des Rittergutes Niederkemnitz: Das Gebäude wurde 1898 vom damaligen Besitzer Otto Conrad Sickel erbaut. Es ging 1948 in Gemeindeeigentum über und ist heute ein privates Wohnhaus mit einem Friseurgeschäft.

Feste

 Juni: Parkfest mit Kahnfahrt
 Juli: Großes Reit- und Springturnier
 August: Traktorentreffen, eines der größten der Oberlausitz
 Oktober: Oberlausitzer Oktoberfest

Wirtschaft
Um 1860 arbeiteten folgende 141 Handwerker im Ort: ein Bäcker, ein Böttcher, ein Fleischer, ein Garnsammler, ein Kleber, ein Ziegelbrenner, ein Ziegeldecker, zwei Stellmacher, zwei Tischler, drei Schuster, drei Handelsleute, vier Müller, sieben Steinmetze, 19 Schneider, 23 Zimmerleute, 24 Maurer sowie 47 Weber(-innen).

Um 1920 wurden durch das Gut Oberkemnitz 180 ha Ackerland, 20 ha Wiese sowie 6 ha Holzungen bearbeitet, es besaß zudem 15 Pferde und acht Rinder, währenddessen bewirtschaftete das Gut Niederkemnitz 95 ha Ackerland, 14 ha Wiese und 8 ha Holzungen und besaß 12 Pferde sowie 70 Rinder. Durch die Bodenreform 1945 wurde das Land beider Güter enteignet und unter Neusiedlern bzw. landarmen Bauern neu aufgeteilt. Kurz vor der Auflösung Ende 1990 wurde durch die Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (LPG) 1240 ha Nutzfläche bearbeitet und 1989 hielt sie etwa 1000 Kühe, 1500 Schweine und 30 Pferde. Die 1995 neu gegründete Agrar GmbH Kemnitz bewirtschaftete ca. 1940 ha Nutzfläche sowie fünf private Wiedereinrichter 300 ha. Heute bewirtschaften fast ausschließlich Wiedereinrichter die Äcker um Kemnitz.

Auf dem Wache- und dem Kiefernberg befinden sich jeweils eine Windkraftanlage zur Stromerzeugung zur Einspeisung ins öffentliche Netz.

Verkehr
An den Buschschenkhäusern kreuzen sich die Görlitzer Straße und die alte Löbauer Straße. 1876 baute man entlang des Dorfbaches mit der neuen Landstraße eine kürzere Verbindung zwischen Löbau und Bernstadt, die heute die Hauptverbindung in beide Städte darstellt.

Persönlichkeiten
 Johann Mentzer (* 1658 in Jahmen in der Oberlausitz, † 24. Februar 1734 in Kemnitz), wirkte als Pfarrer und Kirchenlieddichter von 1696 bis zu seinem Tode 1734 in Kemnitz. An der Ostseite der Kirche ist für ihn in die Mauer eine Platte eingelassen.
 Johann Reichwald von Kämpfen (* 1609 in Semcaden, Litauen, † 28. Februar 1662 in Kemnitz), Oberst, 1648 Gutsherr von Kemnitz, an der äußeren Nordwand der Kirche in Lebensgröße auf zwei sandsteinernen Denkmalplatten dargestellt, trägt darauf eine Rüstung mit Feldbinde, schulterlanges Haar und in der rechten Hand den Feldherrenstab

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Q: XML Syntax of Undo and Redo Controls on Ribbon I'm adding the Undo and Redo buttons to the custom Ribbon I created in Excel, but I can't seem to get the XML syntax right.  I'm trying to make the buttons like the ones in the Quick Access Toolbar which I believe are a type of split button.  Here is what I have so far:
<gallery idMso="Undo" imageMso="Undo" size="large" label="Undo" supertip="Undo last actions by user"/>
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Kadyrov Exploits Ties With Moscow To Build Islamic State
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On April 28, 2011, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its 2011 Annual Report. A full chapter concerns the Chechen Republic—the only Russian region to which the report pays special attention.
The report emphasizes that since Ramzan Kadyrov has been appointed to head the Chechen republic, "he has exploited Islam, distorting Chechen Sufi traditions to serve his own ambitions and justify his arbitrary rule. He has declared that Chechnya would be better off if it were ruled by Sharia law, which contradicts secular Russian constitutional and legal precepts." The report points out rough violations of human rights, and in particular, the rights of women. The USCIRF recommends the US government to institute a visa ban and freeze the Chechen leader's assets, and to urge its European partners to do the same (The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, 2011 Annual Report, www.uscirf.gov).
The author visited Chechnya at the end of last year and the results of that visit strongly indicated that Ramzan Kadyrov appears to be laying the foundation for the creation of an Islamic state in the North Caucasus. On the streets of the Chechen capital, for example, one may see posters with the image of two girls: one in a scarf with a mosque in the background, and another with dismissed hair with a precipice behind her. The devout Muslim addresses to the apostate: "I am Chechen, and I am proud of it. I follow the traditions of my nation. And who are you? Your dress is profane for the image of a Chechen woman."
This propaganda material is placed in the streets of the city by the Chechen Republic ministry of external communications, national policy, media and information. Today, women who are working for state institutions are not allowed to come to work without a covered head.
"We found many cases of Ramzan Kadyrov's guardsmen shooting with air guns at women with uncovered heads. Nowadays, a woman in Chechnya is considered a person of second grade. However, Kadyrov's men not only struggle with the 'frivolous' appearance of women, but men with long hair are also stopped and threatened as well. Chechen human rights activist Kheida Saratova told the author during his 2010 visit that men are also stopped and told that they would have problems if they do not dress as is proper for a Muslim."
In Grozny, the sale of strong alcohol products is allowed only from 8:00 am to 10:00 am. During the month of Ramadan, for example, the sale of alcohol is prohibited completely, and the work of cafes and restaurants is forbidden during the whole period from sunrise to sunset.
Sometimes, Kadyrov's version of Islam exhibits itself in rather exotic forms. For example, in Chechnya, the Center of Islamic Medicine has been established. There, mullahs are trying to cure mentally ill people by prayer alone. "We expel demons from people, reading to them suras from the Koran. Before starting a treatment, patients go through a test. We have to be sure that the patient is not just mad, but that there really is a genie sitting inside of him. Our center was founded with the support of the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov in February of this year," Adam Eljukaev, the principal physician of the center, told the Jamestown Foundation during an extended interview.
It is noteworthy to mention that Ramzan Kadyrov also seeks to establish the Sufi tradition of Islam in Chechnya, in opposition to the so called "Wahhabi" version of Islam, which is frequently found among the insurgents operating in the region. In the North Caucasus, the term "Wahhabi" is used for adherents of the branch of Islam that is worshiped in Saudi Arabia and several other countries. However, supporters of this version of Islam in the North Caucasus consider this term a label with a negative connotation, and call themselves Salafis or fundamentalists.
Today, Ramzan Kadyrov is trying to present the war in the North Caucasus as a religious one—as a fight between traditional Sufi Islam of the North Caucasus against the "Wahhabi heresy." It is worth mentioning that during the time of Ramzan's father, Ahmed Kadyrov, who was the Mufti of Chechnya, that it was he who declared jihad against Russia. The mufti switched to the Kremlin side only in 1999, after a conflict with the so-called Wahhabis. "During the war, groups of volunteer Wahhabis came to Chechnya from Arab countries. These groups have been very well armed and therefore our Chechen men willingly joined them. Many of them [Chechen men who joined the Arab Wahhabi militants] adopted their [Arab Wahhabi] doctrine and tried to teach us, claiming that it was we who distorted Islam. We perfectly understood that any internal contention among us will play into hands of Moscow, which dreams of pitting Chechens against each other—to split the people by religious attributes. We tried to come to an agreement with them peacefully: 'You are welcome to do what you want, but please, do not impose your views on us, do not accuse us of heresy.' Alas, a dialog was not successful," Ahmed Kadyrov said in a conversation with the author, not long before he switched to the federal side.
Since Ramzan Kadyrov today struggles with supporters who favor creating an independent Islamic state in the North Caucasus, the Kremlin is ready to forgive him for even the roughest infringements of Russian laws. Paradoxically, Kadyrov's Chechen Republic differs from the Russian Federation to a much greater extent than the Chechen Republic of Dzhokhar Dudaev's time. One of the reasons why, in 1994, the Russian army came into Chechnya, was the fact that at that time Chechnya became a "criminal, lack of restrictions zone"—a base of raids into neighboring Russian regions. However, in this sense, today's Chechnya does not differ much from that of Dudaev's time. It is indicative that nowadays Chechens who committed crimes in Russia are harbored in the Chechen Republic where they feel themselves relatively safe from arrest. Kadyrov's men repeatedly initiated shootings in the streets of Moscow, and then came back to their Motherland without any punishment (Interfax, May 30 2008).
In its internal policy, the Chechen Republic has all the appearances of being relatively independent from Russia. Actually, Kadyrov's Chechnya may be considered a precedent for the creation of an Islamic state inside the Russian Federation. Ramzan Kadyrov, with Moscow's permission, possesses his own efficient army, which implicitly obeys its leader. The unpredictability and eccentricity of Ramzan Kadyrov allows one to conjecture that at some point he might refuse the union with Russia, and then the Kremlin will face an enemy probably much more dangerous that today's insurgents.
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The People's Uprising : A Break with Dayton Bosnia ?
Thursday 13 February 2014, by Andreja Zivkovic
War has returned to the cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Not the nationalist wars of partition of the 1990s, or the cold war of nationalist politicians within an ethnically divided federation presided over by a colonial style High Representative of the Great Powers, but a social war, an uprising of the people.
Beginning with the revolt of workers from Tuzla against the privatised massacre of industry, angry workers, unemployed youth and war veterans have risen in solidarity, burning cars and government buildings across the Bosnian Federation, and demanding the resignation of the Federal and cantonal governments. The graffiti, "He who sows hunger reaps anger", is the writing on the wall for a political class that has lorded over an entire society without work, with an incredible 63% of those under 24 jobless, while sharing in the spoils of office, the looting of the former state sector, with a small class of parvenu tycoons.
Like a flare over dark skies, the revolt illuminates the real relations of power in the federation.
Neo-Colonialism and Neoliberalism
Speaking on Austrian TV, Valentin Inzko, High Representative of the Western Powers threatened : "…if the hooliganism continues EUFOR [EU] troops may be asked to intervene". [1] As if in echo, the Director of the Directorate for the Coordination of Police Units in the Bosnian Federation, Himzo Selimovi?, tendered his resignation and, admitting the inability of the police to ensure the safety of members of the Bosnian Presidency, called on the international community and the European Union to consider deploying the international military forces in Bosnia if events were to repeat themselves. [2]
While Inzko and Selimovi? revealed that the EU is the real power behind the state, Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska (RS), congratulated the citizens of the Serb entity for not being "provoked" into action by the protests sweeping the Federation, thus exposing the nationalist structures of divide and rule built into the federation. Meanwhile Alexander Vu?i?, First Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, called in party representatives from RS to warn them not to cause any trouble, thereby demonstrating not only the continuing expansionist ambitions of the Serbian political elite, but also the fundamental class solidarity of the Bosnian political elite, normally unable even to agree on whether or not the federation should exist, against the peoples of Bosnia.
Moreover the political class of Bosnia and the EU do not just stand together in defence of privatisation, but have also been imposing an IMF austerity programme now in its fifth year to make the workers of both entities pay for economic collapse. Under the two Stand-by Agreements, budgets have been frozen, public sector pay cut repeatedly, consumption has collapsed, growth flatlined and external public debt has doubled, reaching 32% of GDP. Normally unable to agree on any federal legislation, the federal government last year passed the IMF-inspired Global Fiscal Framework (GFF) for 2014–16, which sets parameters for the entities' budgets and hardwires cuts to reduce the budget deficit for the next two years, rendering neoliberal austerity immune from democratic challenge at the forthcoming elections. And since, as the IMF admits in its latest country report, none of this will actually restore growth and thus revenues, legislation is planned to raise the pension age, increase labour flexibility, and continue with privatisation. [3]
Neo-liberal reform will not overcome the crisis but will only deepen it. As in the rest of the Balkans and peripheral Europe, the economic model is based opening up to foreign capital. Until 2008 foreign capital flows fed growth based on imports and consumer debt, but at the same time destroyed industry and created the present debt crisis. On the one hand, an overvalued currency pegged to the Euro enabled the borrowing needed to pay for imports ; but on the other, it acted as a disincentive to investment in the real economy and made exports uncompetitive. [4] Given the economy is completely dependent on external sources of growth, and the financial crisis of emerging markets triggered by Argentina will no doubt lead to further reverberations in the Eurozone, Bosnia now finds itself at a turning point.
The political elite is united in its determination to impose neoliberal reforms on which EU accession has been made conditional. It faces a popular uprising that could easily spread to RS, if not across the Balkans. If it is unable to overcome the crisis, which is also a crisis of legitimacy of federalism, then it will, as it did in the 1990s, start to bang the nationalist drum to stay in power ; if this happens then the federation could implode, once again opening the door to Great Power interference and nationalist struggles across the region.
It is precisely this historical pattern that we must recall if we are to understand the origins of the present crisis of political rule and the conditions under which the uprising can create a lasting alternative.
The Yugoslav Legacy : Market Integration, Nationalist Disintegration and Great Power Intervention
The war of the nineties cannot be viewed outside the context of the disintegration of Yugoslavia induced by the debt crisis of the eighties. In the 1980s Yugoslavia fell under the tutelage of the IMF and pioneered the kind shock therapy and market liberalisation programs that were to become the norm in post-Soviet Eastern Europe in the 1990s. The IMF imposed the closure of inefficient industries and an end to subsidies from the richer to the poorer republics and regions. Faced with widespread worker discontent, and later, menacing strike waves in all the republics, the various republican party elites, starting with the Serbian elite under Miloševi?, unleashed a wave of nationalism to hold onto power.
In order to impose the market discipline necessary for the repayment of the debt, the IMF and the EEC demanded the recentralisation of the Yugoslav federation. As a reward for successful reform the EEC dangled the carrot of closer integration. In practice this meant the alignment of the EEC with the positions of Miloševi? and Greater Serbian nationalism which sought to improve the competitiveness of the Serbian economy through Yugoslav recentralisation. But the promise of European integration also gave heart to the rich northern republics which wanted to improve their competitiveness by ditching the poor south and joining the EEC. In this way, European integration accelerated the nationalist disintegration of the federation. [5]
The Western powers were divided over the question of Yugoslavia's survival. Following German support for separatists in the western republics of Slovenia and Croatia, Bosnia was destabilised as Belgrade countered with an agreement with Zagreb to partition the republic. The European powers whetted these appetites through successive peace plans that recognised the facts of ethnic cleansing, until the US took advantage of the divisions between the European powers to extend its domination into the vacuum of receding Russian power, intervening militarily on the side of the Croat-Muslim coalition it had concocted to end the war.
The Geopolitics of the National Question in Dayton Bosnia
The Bosnia that emerged under the Dayton Peace Agreement is a Western neo-colonial protectorate, whose internal policy is largely dictated by the US and EU. The country is divided into two parts : the Federation and RS. It is impossible to make decisions without the consent of both entities. Nevertheless the persistence of the neo-colonial regime, led by the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, is legitimised by the claim that the preservation of unified Bosnia requires external coercion. In fact it is the federal structure imposed by the Powers at Dayton without any democratic consultation that creates a new framework of nationalist competition which constantly recreates the need for the protectorate as the real executive government and guarantor of territorial integrity.
The multiple "ethnic veto points" and complex power-sharing mechanisms built into the constitution mean that nationalist politicians can paralyse the federal government at will over any issue. For example, for the last two years Bosnia and Herzegovina has been without an effective government, and this was the cause of last June's mass protests in Sarajevo over delays in adopting a law granting infants access to basic health and social services. Furthermore institutions represent citizens only as members of one of the three constituent peoples, force them to identify themselves with one of the three constituent ethnic groups and thus create a party system based on nationalist lines. The resulting paralysis opens the space for the High Representative to act as both legislature and executive, exacerbating both nationalist tensions and the crisis of legitimacy of the political system.
In response to this crisis, the West has sought to radically revise the Dayton agreement, that is, to preserve a united Bosnia by means of its integration within the EU and NATO. It wants to recentralise the federation, to effectively abolish the autonomy of RS in order to counter the return of Russia to the regional scene on account of its new status as an energy superpower. Following on from the US imposed "independence" of Kosovo in 2008 and the Russian veto in the UN Security Council, the conflict between the Great Powers is once again reshuffling the nationalist pack of cards. While the Bosniak elite eventually rallied to Dayton, it now supports the recentralisation of the federation ; and while the Bosnian Serb elite was originally opposed to Dayton it now oscillates between defending Dayton and seeking closer ties with Russia to keep the door open to secession.
If the divisive intervention of the Great Powers is in continuity with that of the 1990s, then at the level of political economy the resemblance is uncanny. Recentralisation is being loudly proclaimed by both EU and IMF as the necessary complement of economic reform. The neoliberal cry as before is that there is too much "big government", placing an excessive burden on the economy, and preventing the kind of integrated market attractive to foreign investors. And while, as in the 1980s, all the nationalist politicians fervently support market reform, they are divided over the recentralisation of fiscal powers. At the same time, the political paralysis of the system is doubled with the failure of market reform to overcome the economic and social crisis. Under these conditions where huge external economic and military pressures collide and combine with nationalist struggles, the conditions are once present for disintegration.
The Way Forward : End the Protectorate, Defend the equality of the peoples of Bosnia, Support the Workers' Uprising !
Any progressive alternative has to face the barbarism at work in the present state of affairs. So far the protests have been pure class protests with little or no sign so far of nationalist contamination. In fact the visible political weakness lies elsewhere, with a widespread call, initiated by the Tuzla workers, for a non-party technocratic government, a government that would inevitably under the conditions of the protectorate be pulled between the nationalist veto and the diktat of the High Representative/IMF. However the major problem is that protests have not spread to RS, although a solidarity rally in Banja Luka of 300 is significant. The strength of the Dayton system of divide and rule is that it acts against this kind of inter-ethnic class solidarity. Thus protests against the IMF austerity programme have never been co-ordinated ; the public sector general strikes of 2009 and 2013 were limited to, respectively, the Federation and RS. Equally generalised working class anger at the political elite can easily be manipulated and transformed into its opposite, support for EU integration as the solution to "corruption" and failure to "reform", as was the case with the recent Bulgarian protests. In this way the system constantly generates a current which naturally switches from nationalism to support for the protectorate, and thus for Great Power intervention, all the while generating an ever greater charge of crisis and despair.
The way out of this vicious circle is to link the social struggle against the nationalist political class with a democratic struggle to overthrow the imperialist 'protectorate'.
If we return to the beginning of our argument, the social movement faces a political front taking in the EU, the High Representative, the IMF, all local nationalist politicians, together with Belgrade and Zagreb. In order to weaken this alliance, the movement has to call for the abrogation of the IMF agreement, for the expulsion of the High Representative and EUFOR, and for the rejection of any changes to Dayton not based on agreement between the peoples themselves. If the movement develops a practical opposition to imperialist meddling and economic dependency, then it will be able to expose the posturing of the nationalists. For neither support for Dayton, nor opposition to it on the part of the nationalist elites constitutes anti-imperialism : it is always a move in favour of either Russian or US-EU intervention ; and it is always a demand for more neoliberal destruction.
On this basis the movement can legitimately defend the rights of all the nations, including the minorities, like the Roma, who are not represented under the Dayton order. By linking the social question with the national question, it will be possible to take the first steps to overcoming mutual suspicion between the peoples, to creating a trend for unity within the labour movement. In order to move forward the left must show that social equality is inseparable from national equality, and that neither can be realised without an internationalist struggle against the alliance between the nationalists across the region and rival Great Powers. [6]
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[1] For more such threats in the Austrian press see, http://www.novinite.com/articles/15...
[2] See 'Sarajevo : 1621', http://balkans.aljazeera.net/vijest...
[3] See Bosnia and Herzegovina : Fourth Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and Request for Modification and Waivers of Applicability of Performance Criteria, Country Report No. 13/321, November 1, 2013. See http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft...
[4] See Andreja Živkovi?, 'From the market…to the market : The debt economy after Yugoslavia', in Srecko Horvat and Igor Stiks (eds.), The Rebel Peninsula : Radical Politics after Yugoslavia, Verso, forthcoming 2014.
[5] For a history of 'la longue durée' of the European integration of former and post Yugoslavia see Andreja Živkovi?, 'The future lasts a long time : a short history of European integration in ex-Yugoslavia', 25 October 2013, at, http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/t...
[6] On such an internationalist alternative today see Andreja Živkovi? and Matija Medenica, available on ESSF (article 31065), "Balkans for the peoples of th..., at : http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/b...]
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