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Michelle Obama: "We must work like never before"!
August 1, 2012 The Wilmington Journal Feature 0
30,000 cheer First Lady on first night of the Democratic Convention
BY HAZEL TRICE EDNEY OF TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TriceEdneyWire.com) – First Lady Michelle Obama wowed the crowd here in Charlotte Tuesday night, drawing tears and chants from an audience of 30,000 at the Democratic National Convention.
"For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives," she said, obviously contrasting the President with Millionaire Mitt Romney, the Republican Presidential candidate who touts his business and financial success as among the reasons he'd be good for America. "I know from experience that if I truly want to leave a better world for my daughters — and for all of our sons and daughters, if we want to give all of our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities worthy of their promise, if we want to give them that sense of limitless possibility — that belief that here in America, there is always something better out there if you're willing to work for it then we must work like never before!"
The audience exploded with applause for the First Lady, who is hugely popular across the country. Speaking on opening night, she brought a major touch of glamour with substance to Charlotte's Time-Warner Arena where the audience had increasingly packed in up to the rafters in anticipation of her speech.
It was a crucial moment for the Obama campaign as Republicans who convened in Tampa last week had successfully stirred their base, decreasing the gaps in some polls in which the President has been clearly leading among voters. Though the level of excitement at the Democratic Convention is not the same as in Denver four years ago during the anticipation of the nation's first Black president, it was clear after Michelle Obama's speech that the momentum is peaking once again.
"You're not going to have that same energy four years later. You're just not. He's not the first Black President anymore, but people are fired up and ready to go," said the Rev. Earl Johnson, pastor of Martin Street Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. However, he predicts that the "clear contrast" between the Obama's and the Romney's will be the greatest inspiration for Democrats and some undecided voters.
"It was a major contrast between her and Ann Romney tonight. Of course that's the picture she wanted to paint – that her family and Ann Romney's family are strikingly different. The difference is that her husband is going to look out for the middle class, look out for the poor, look out for those that need a hand up and the other family is not," said Johnson. "I think the speeches all day long demonstrated that Democrats, progressives and those who love this country are ready to give Obama four more years and to keep moving forward in the direction we're going now."
Among the stark difference here in Charlotte is also the diversity of the people attending the convention. People of all ages, races and walks of life were clearly represented as opposed to the vastly White attendance at the Republican Convention in Tampa last week. Perhaps the best description of the mood in Charlotte was given by a 17-year-old volunteer for the Obama campaign.
"Four years ago, it was about the changing of the guards. Now it's about the guarding of the change," said Ron Busby Jr., a student at Georgetown Prep School in Washington, D.C. Busby was experiencing his first convention with his father, Ron Busby Sr., president of the U. S. Black Chamber of Commerce.
The major challenge for the Obama campaign will be to communicate such that his primary base, largely Black voters, will become excited again. Though the past four years have brought strides in the economy, health care and international successes, there has been a season of apathy due to a stubborn economy and consistently high unemployment rates among African-Americans.
"I think the energy is building," said Marvin Dickerson of the National Executive Committee of the 100 Black Men of America. "I think all the speakers tonight really began to tell the story of the first four years of President Barack Obama and it's starting to lay out his accomplishments. And I think that when the story has been clearly told, there will be no question that this has been a president that – despite all the barriers and odds that have been thrown his way, including the unfortunate hand that he was left by the previous administration – he has still methodically moved this country forward."
Telling the story on the first night was an all-star agenda of Democrats, including Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick; San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro; a keynote, and all of the Democratic women in Congress standing on stage together. Each speaker laid out President Obama's slate of successes, which included his saving of General Motors from bankruptcy; his increases in student aid like Pell grants; his support of a woman's right to choose an abortion; his success with the Affordable Care health care act, his first act of signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act for women to have equal pay for equal work; and his killing of Osama Bin Laden.
The anticipation continued to rise as former President Bill Clinton was to speak on Wednesday night, nominating President Obama, who was set to speak on Thursday.
"I was so impressed with all the speeches," said Ron Busby Sr., president of the U. S. Black Chamber of Commerce. "It was an inclusive host of speakers from all nationalities to all races, to all genders, sexualities and preferences from across the country that spoke to everyone across America about all issues that we share in common about a future that looks like us as opposed to a previous past that looks like them. This is our opportunity to continue the movement that we have built on for the last five to six years and we are just so excited about being here in this movement of changing the guard verses guarding the change."
Having watched her husband handle the presidency, Michelle Obama says she loves him more now than ever.
"He has seen first-hand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are," she said. "So in the end, for Barack, these issues aren't political — they're personal. Because Barack knows what it means when a family struggles. He knows what it means to want something more for your kids and grandkids. Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it."
Moments after First Lady Michelle walked off the stage and the lights lowered for the closing remarks and prayer, chants erupted from the crowd waving Obama 2012 placards: "Fired up! Ready to go! Fired up! Ready to go!"
Concluded Shirley Newsome of Chicago, "It was what we expected. It was what we needed."
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Dal profs, former ambassador discuss the Syrian refugee crisis
Panelists agree Canadians need to do more to help
By Grailing Anthonisen
September 26, 2015/1 Comment
Some Background
Of the four million refugees who escaped Syria this year, some making the dangerous journey to Europe, three thousand have drowned.
The image of a little boy, Alan Kurdi, washed up on a beach, became an icon for this crisis, inspiring public outcry in North America and Europe, four years into the Syrian refugee crisis.
The crisis began in 2011, when the Arab Uprisings were sparking revolutions and toppling governments in various Middle Eastern nations. The Assad regime continues to use increasingly violent repressive tactics against Syrian citizens.
Dalhousie's panel
"The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Canada's Response" was a panel sponsored by the Dalhousie Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, the Dalhousie Political Science Department, the Canadian International Council, and the European Union Centre of Excellence.
The speakers were Glenn Davidson, the former Canadian ambassador to Syria, Professor Amal Ghazal, of the Dalhousie Department of History, and Professor Ruben Zaiotti, of the Dalhousie Department of Political Science.
The war ravaged Syria, and of the estimated 22.4 million people who lived in Syria in 2011, less than half are still in their homes.
Countries in Europe and North America have been using security concerns as an excuse to be cautious and accept low numbers of refugees.
"This is a global crisis because it is also a proxy war with international implications and involvement. It will need a global solution."
Lebanon has accepted close to a million and a half refugees, despite the strain on their resources, such as primary education, waste management and traffic, and their proximity to ISIS.
"This is a global crisis because it is also a proxy war with international implications and involvement," Ghazal said. "It will need a global solution."
Zaiotti highlighted the Syrian Refugee crisis in Europe and the Eurocentrism that accompanies it in our media. He explained that "there has been a refugee crisis for over four years now," but western media has "recognized it as such, only when refugees started reaching Europe."
Davidson talked of "three independent perspectives" that came to the same conclusion: we need to do more. It took four years and the death of one child for the Syrian refugee crisis to galvanize public opinion. He urged people not to lose sight of the issue.
"The Canadian government needs to agree on a goal and needs to be generous and ambitious, but numbers that we can absorb," he said. "Syrian refugees need to be a priority and the government needs to take on responsibility to find the funding."
The Harper government's delayed promise of taking in 10 000 refugees, much fewer than Canada's previous numbers, is hardly even a drop in the ocean of what Syria's neighbour's have already accepted. In particular, one Lebanese village has taken in more Syrian refugees than all of the United States.
Professor Zaiotti commented that because this is an election year, this presents a "window of opportunity" to pressure the government promises to act.
What Dalhousie is doing
During the question and answer period, one man asked what Dalhousie University could do.
Ghazal mentioned that in a meeting with President Florizone, the question of expanding the Student Refugee Program to include more Syrian students was raised.
The World University Service of Canada, a levied society at Dal, already sponsored a Syrian student to come to the university this year. Dalhousie may increase funding to WUSC by the winter semester, in which case the faculty advisor, Theresa Ulicki, said that the organization could bring more students to Dalhousie.
Dr. Ulicki also encouraged students, faculty, and staff to get involved in the WUSC. The group's email is wusc@dal.ca.
"Like so many across the country, we have been moved by the Syrian refugee crisis and are now looking at options for Dal's response," Dalhousie President Richard Florizone said. "One of the most attractive options is to expand our commitment to WUSC. I hope that we can significantly grow that commitment."
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pythia on November 11, 2015 at 9:52 pm
There is an error in the above article. Three thousand Syrian refugees have not drowned
Grailing Anthonisen
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My Web Page on the Phone does not view correctly.
I have built a web site (link below) and have made it responsive so i have 4 different layouts for each page size. They are 320, 800, 1280 and 1920 px.
My homepage everything works fine, when viewing the web page on my phone, the width is correct and when I click on the gallery to expand it, it expands to the width of the page on the phone.
However every other web page on my site when viewing on my phone seems much wider than the 320px, so when I click on the gallery for example the gallery opens up much bigger than the actual page size and you have to zoom out of the page to see the gallery properly.
I can also swipe the page to the right and i have a lot of empty space to the right of all the information. This does not happen on my homepage.
I have checked the page properties to make sure it is 320px in width and it says it is, I have tried to align the page to the left which made no difference, in fact I have set up the page properties to mirror that of the homepage, but it still has all this empty space to the right of the actual screen and also when I click the gallery when viewing on my phone, you have to zoom right out just to see it, not like it should work on the homepage.
Your help and advice will be most gratefully appreciated if you could point me in the right direction to solve this issue that I am experiencing, i am sure it is or hope it is a simple fix, but I need your help with it.
It seems to work fine if I am using an emulator on the computer at screen size 320px, but does not work correctly when using an actual phone.
"EDIT" One other thing I noticed last night when i was using a tablet for the first time in many years, was that there was also about 1" empty space to the right of the screen and it was not centered, even though I was viewing the screen size 800 px on an 10" tablet.
Re: My Web Page on the Phone does not view correctly.
There is a scrollbar at the bottom of the page, this indicates that there are elements outside the page boundaries.
Unfortunately , there is too much content on the page to quickly see what is wrong, it may take me hours to figure out what you have done based on the HTML code only.
Also, it looks like you have lots of duplicated content. Note that many elements can be reused in breakpoints.
Thank you for taking the time to reply. So just to clarify you believe there is an element or object that is on those pages that is so small that it cannot be seen. Is this correct assumption?
I have clicked on "Objects Outline", "non-responsive objects" and "Render Hidden Objects" to see if it would show up, but nothing does.
I guess the only way I can really try and figure what it is, is by going through every object/element that I have in my "Object Manager" list and un-hide and re-hide them to see if I can spot it.
Yes I know you can use some of the same elements or objects in different break points, but by the time I had realized this I had designed most of my website and even though the way I have done it, is a complicated way, for the most part it does work as it should.
Thank you Pablo for your input, I will look at this again in more depth tomorrow to try and figure out what object it is that makes the page load up so wide.
So just to clarify you believe there is an element or object that is on those pages that is so small that it cannot be seen. Is this correct assumption?
Maybe it is a on layer and outside the layer boundaries?
Or you can use the browser debugger (F12) and walk through all elements. Usually this helps me quickly see what is wrong but in your case there is too much content.


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New Delhi: Soon after her disappointing fifth-place finish in the 25m pistol final at the ongoing World Cup in Delhi, Manu Bhaker emerged with bloodshot eyes and collapsed in junior national coach Jaspal Rana's arms. It was a painfully endearing moment, one where an athlete, stripped of her guard and pained by failure, had submitted herself to her guide.
Quitely, the 17-year-old sobbed, until gradually and steadily, the sobs turned into a torrent of tears. No words were said; none were needed either. Jaspal trudged her to the players' room, where she broke down further.
"You have a lot of calibre, you'll go very far. Just keep going, you have a long journey to cover," is what Rana told her, Manu would inform later.
When she finally emerged with a sad smile, the mind harked back to last year's Asian Games, where after faltering in the 10m air pistol mixed team event, she broke down and left the venue in a huff. Back then, questions were raised about her temperament. On Sunday, India's pistol coach Pavel Smirnov said she is still "too young" and will get better at handling pressure with experience.
"She is a very fine shooter, but still very young. She will improve only with experience like these. She doesn't have enough experience to play in a seniors' final," Smirnov told Firstpost.
"This time, her temperament was good, but our temperament was not there," reasoned Jaspal Rana, her coach in the junior team. "If people are fighting outside, it disturbs shooters because it is such a mental sport. Me being there may or may not have worked for her, but all I want to say is that if something is going fine, there is no point changing it, especially so close to the event," he said. Conclusions are open to interpretation.
The ongoing state of affairs at the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) — the relation between Rana and NRAI is frosty, to say the least — has had an impact on Manu's performance, said Rana, who was at the venue in his personal capacity, and not on any formal invitation by the national federation.
"Manu shot very well in the qualifications (590), but in the final, something was not right. The confidence, as I could see, was not really there, and since I have not been part of the national camp, there was no one there with her. It is everyone's fault; I can't blame anyone. It is the nation's loss, not an individual's," he added.
Manu, meanwhile, brushed aside talks of pressure and apologised to the nation for missing her mark.
"I tried my best. I have to divide my time between 10m and 25m events...I don't know. There was a lot of crowd support too, and I would like to say sorry to the people. I will try harder next time," she said.
Manu had a slow start; she hit a total of five times in the opening two five-shot series, before making a resounding comeback in the next round when she shot a perfect 5/5 to jump to joint second. She maintained her lead in the next series but slipped to third place after a 3/5 in the next.
There was little inkling of an impending disaster after she shot a 4/5 in next round, which sent her back to the second place. Then came the decisive seventh series, where Manu crumbled under intense pressure.
She missed the mark on her first two shots, before hitting the next. The fourth shot was off target too, which ended her campaign in front of a packed Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range. All other competitors at that stage — Veronika Major, Jingjing Zhang, Haniyeh Rostamiyan and Monika Karsch — hit four of the five shots. The implosion was sudden and decisive.
The hushed crowd slowly found its voice, and the applause went on till Manu settled in the chair behind her firing position.
Later, Manu admitted that neither pressure nor occasion got to her. She just didn't have an answer.
"I played my natural game; it was not that the crowd created any pressure. I did not even look back (in the stands). I was really happy coming into the event, considering the competition was in India and there was so much home support. I don't know what happened to me.
"I don't think I made any mistakes. My monitor was on the wrong side, and I coudn't track my scores properly... But shooting is all about technique and I executed it properly. That it didn't work out is something else," she said.
Over the past year, Manu has struggled to match her 10m air pistol performance in the 25m event, but she said that Sunday's failure won't affect her performances in the 10m individual and mixed team events.
"Over the past year, my results in the 25m have been 4th, 5th, 6th. So, I really don't know what's wrong. At the Asian Games also, I was sixth, in Mexico, I was fifth...I am trying very hard though. I will now focus on the 10m event," she concluded.
The 10m air pistol individual event (women) will take place on Tuesday; the mixed-team competition is scheduled for Wednesday.


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Q: Memcached update only single element of the value array Is it possible to update only one element in the value array when i am using Memcached? Lets say i set a key boots and the value of this key is :
(key)boots =>
(value)[
   [
      'id' => 1,
      'type' => 'winter boots'
   ],
   [
      'id' => 2,
      'type' => 'summer boots'
   ],
   [
      'id' => 3,
      'type' => 'spring boots'
   ]
]

And if i update (lets say 'summer boots' become 'all season boots') how should i retrive the new data only for the updated product from the MySQL database table and refresh only that particular product and not retriving all the products data and updating the whole value (i mean this is the way memcached works right?) ? Should i use some kind of sorting algorithms like merge sort,quicksort or i have to use another caching system ? I hope i explain what i am looking for right. Thank you in advance!

A: The only way I think that is possible is to get the whole object that is stored in memcache and then change it and store it back.
There is also a second way:
Look into how frequently you update the element that you store in memcache and what is the size of the element that you store.
If it is very large array then it would not make any sense to store the whole object in memcache.
Then it would e better to store each entry as a different key which would look something like this:
(key)boots_1 => (value)winter boots
(key)boots_2 => (value)summer boots
(key)boots_3 => (value)spring boots
This would allow you to independently change keys and you could do a multiget from memcache to get all the keys.

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After a pair of rain delays that saw Opening Day starters Chris Tillman and Ervin Santana pitch two innings each in the Orioles' eventual 3-2 walk-off win over the Twins, both clubs are hoping for better circumstances in the second game of the season on Wednesday at Camden Yards after an off-day on Tuesday.
Orioles right-hander Yovani Gallardo, who signed a two-year deal with an option early in Spring Training, is set to make his debut against Twins right-hander Kyle Gibson. Both teams had to use their bullpens more than it expected because of the rain delays on Monday, so the Twins and Orioles are looking for their starters to go deep into the game.
• Gallardo has been remarkably durable throughout his career, as he's made at least 30 starts in each of the past seven seasons, including tying a career high with 33 outings with the Rangers last year. He was solid despite a decline in his strikeout rate, as he posted a 3.42 ERA and won 13 games. As their most-veteran starter, the Orioles are counting on him to bring much-needed stability to the rotation.
• Gibson was Minnesota's most consistent starter in 2015, posting a 3.84 ERA in a career-high 194 2/3 innings. He's focusing on using his curveball and changeup more this season to go along with his sinker and slider. The Twins believe Gibson's primed for a breakout season, as his strikeout rate went up last year as the season went along.
• Both teams used five relievers on Monday, but they're helped by the off-day on Tuesday. The only relievers who aren't expected to available are Baltimore's Tyler Wilson and Minnesota's Ryan Pressly, as they pitched in long relief.


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Cleveland Guardians Series Previews
Series preview: Guardians vs. Twins
It all comes down to this (and also three more months of baseball, but mostly this)
By Matt Lyons@mattrly Jun 21, 2022, 3:10pm EDT
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It would be easy to say this is the most important series to date for the 2022 Guardians, so I'll do that: This is the most important series to date for the 2022 Guardians.
Cleveland hasn't tasted first place in the AL Central at all this season, having dropped their Opening Day game against the Royals and immediately falling into the division basement. Now sitting just one game back after an excellent record in June, they're well within striking distance.
Civale will start the pivotal series for the Guardians, his first after a lengthy injured list stint. The 27-year-old is recovering from a glute injury, but he might also be nursing a bruised ego given how poorly his first seven starts went. Before hitting the IL on May 20, Civale had a 7.84 ERA and was giving up 1.74 home runs per nine innings. His last outing was his best, a 6.1-inning win against the Tigers, and he allowed two earned runs in 6.2 rehab innings in Columbus.
The Club Formerly Known as the Bomba Squad ranks highly in most offensive categories, but middle-of-the-pack in most pitching measurements — they're no longer the baseball murdering squad of 2019, but they can't still hit. It's pitching issues that have seemingly kept them from going far in the playoffs in recent years, but the Guardians will face two of their best this series in Sonny Gray and Joe Ryan.
Gray, in particular, is having one of his best seasons ever at 32. He's currently sporting a 2.09 ERA through eight starts as a sinker that he began using as a primary pitch last year has slowly taken over his repertoire. He's thrown his 92-ish mph sinker 32.5% of the time this year, which breaks just enough to differentiate it from his 92-ish mph four-seamer. The results have been fantastic as he makes the Twins grateful for acquiring him from the Reds this offseason.
Game 1 starter Joe Ryan doesn't have the resume of the veteran Gray, but his results have been equally impressive. He sports a 2.81 ERA with a heavy four-seam attack (57.4% of his total pitches) along with a slider, changeup, and curve. Ryan struggled in his last start against the Mariners, giving up four earned runs in 4.2 innings on June 14.
The Twins lineup you know and hate is all accounted for over the next three days. Byron Buxton is uninjured and is second on the Twins with a 153 wRC+ despite an on-base percentage of just .315 — because dingers dingers dingers, baby. He's already tied his career-high with 19 home runs, and if he stays healthy, looks like he'll put together his best season yet.
Baron Von Max Kepler — noted Bond villain and Guardians killer — has only hit six home runs this season but I expect him to double that number over the next three days.
Luis Arraez is the type of hitter that would make the Guardians front office salivate. He walks more than he strikes out (11.9% walk rate, compared to 8.5% strikeout rate) and his swinging strike rate is a measley 3.4%. That's second only to some guy named Steven Kwan, who has swung and missed 2.4% of the time. As a fun fact, Myles Straw is No. 3 in the league at 4.4%, former Guardian Michael Brantley is next at 4.4%, and José Ramírez is fifth at 4.9%.
The Twins and Guardians will play each other eight times over the next 11 days, including a doubleheader on June 28 as part of a five-game series. If Cleveland can ride their recent wave of success — six-straight series wins and two of three against the Dodgers on the road — they could set themselves up comfortable in the AL Central lead before the calendar turns to July.
Team at a glance
Record: 38-20 (4th in AL)
Runs Scored: 301 (4th in AL)
Run Differential: +25 (5th in AL)
Last 10: 5-5
Slash: .251/.324/.409
wOBA: .323 (3rd in AL)
wRC+: 112 (4th in AL)
ERA: 3.85 (7th in AL)
SIERA: 3.85 (7th in AL)
K-BB%: 14.3% (8th in AL)
Projected starters
Tuesday, June 21, 7:40 p.m. ET: RHP Joe Ryan vs. TBD (RHP Aaron Civale)
Wednesday, June 22, 7:40 p.m. ET: RHP Sonny Gray vs. RHP Triston McKenzie
Thursday, June 23, 1:10 p.m. ET: LHP Devin Smeltzer vs. RHP Zach Plesac
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Now a full-time branch assistant in the Russiaville branch library, Evans has spearheaded an impressive list of special projects. To each she brings her trademark enthusiasm, drive, and tenacity. Consider the Nature Explore Outdoor Classroom, built on an empty lot next to Russiaville. After seeing a similar example, Evans immediately prepared a detailed pitch to her supervisors, including costs and sources of funding.
When the idea was approved, she went to work getting volunteers, partnering with town government, and lining up donations. She even won $1,000 by entering a contest from the state library association. The classroom has increased traffic to the branch by drawing patrons from other libraries to Russiaville. "It also has helped create the perception of being a destination location for the community," Evans says.
Brautigam says Evans has added an "impressive array of special projects" to her workload, while taking two classes a semester toward her library degree. Thanks to Evans, KHCPL became the first U.S. library to host an exhibit of street artist Banksy's Haight Street Rat, drawing more than 1,000 visitors from as far away as Texas and California. To accompany the traveling exhibit Discovery Tech: Engineers Make a World of Difference, Evans conceived and coordinated 40 events—from talks by Ayanna Howard, one of the top women engineers in the country, to field trips for over 3,000 students.
Evans credits her "service heart" to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. One of her most prized possessions from childhood is James Herriot's The Christmas Day Kitten, which her Big Sister gave her. That memory also fuels her sense that a special program can change the direction of a patron's life.


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DSO Medal Group for sale to Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Matheson, Royal Engineers [RE]. The medal group includes 7 medals mounted by Spinks, citations and documents.
Matching set of medal ribbons for the tunic.
Citation from King George V conferring Matheson the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 8th February 1915. Facsimile George V signature to upper left.
Citation from General Sir Douglas Haig acknowledging Matheson in a Despatch for gallant & distinguished services in the field. Dated 13th November 1916.
Citation from King George V conferring Matheson the rank of Temporary Captain, Royal Engineers. Dated 4th June 1917. George V ink signature to upper centre.
Citation from King George V conferring Matheson the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 3rd June 1933. George V ink signature to upper right.
Document from Central Chancery Of The Orders of Knighthood to Lieut-Colonel Matheson.
Field document to Matheson confirming hostilities will cease at 11.00hrs, November 11th.
Condition report: Medal group with some replacement ribbons. Mounted by Spinks possibly in the 1960s and with Spinks label to the reverse. QSA medal officially impressed. 1914 Star, War Medal & Victory Medal, replacements with engraved details. Documents with folds, otherwise generally clean.
Notes: Matheson was born in Edinburgh. He was awarded the DSO on 4th June 1917. Various copies of documents from the National Archives included in the sale.
Provenance: Rock Island Auctions, USA .


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If Hastings knew the reason for his master requesting Edmund's presence, the old man would not hint as such. In fact, the servant did not speak to Edmund while they walked down a maze of hallways except to note places where the ceilings were low.
The young man entered through a nearly invisible door and found himself in a peculiar place. His eyes drifted to the glass windows, from where a faint, colorful light trickled inside.
The Count emerged unexpectedly from behind a sofa, holding a book near his face. Edmund could only pause where he was, somewhat alarmed, as the man welcomed him to his study.
The Count knew well enough to recognize the young man was trying to deflect any sort of credit owed him. While it was true that Edmund held no particular affection for the lord, he had proved a willingness to do the right thing.
The boy clenched his hand, securing the ring within it.
Elanore knitted under her grandmother's guidance, trying to complete the last of the promised scarves for the lions who often peered into the room from the outside.
Every so often her hands full of yarn would drift back to her lap as her attention would wander. She would look at Lady Tala, dozing a corner while her younger cousins held the twins, newly born and always awake. She would listen to Mrs. Ormond as she taught the small circle of children gathered around her their numbers and letters. She would fix her grandmother's tea as the woman chatted amiably with her neighbor, Mrs. Reyes.
She looked upon this peaceful scene with all the idealism of youth. She saw the more than dozen women and believed it did not matter if they were Wolfram or townsperson. All worked in this room, united around similar tasks such as caring for their own. In her eyes, this was happiness.
The women's attention shifted when Lady Selva floated into the room. The woman was not the sort of person who exuded warmth, but she had a charisma of her own. A line of servants followed behind her with tea and the routine of the morning was cheerfully disrupted. The women and children forgot their work.
Elanore put her knitting down to join Selva in the library. A maidservant quickly set up the food before leaving them alone, drawing the door firmly shut behind her.
But they were not wholly left alone. Even in the library, the lions peered in from the outside.
"Persistent, aren't they," Selva shook her head before she bit into a strange pastry. Her eyes closed for a moment while she savored the filling.
"I think they are restless," Elanore offered as she carefully inspected the dessert placed in front of her.
"Don't be mysterious," she told him plainly.
She looked down at her palm and saw a circlet of metal. Her heart skipped a beat as she realized what he was asking. Her fingers closed tightly around the band and she looked back at him, her eyes shining.
She shone, casting light upon the uncertain, shadowy areas of Edmund's life. His face relaxed and the phantoms vanished. Everything about him was smiling again.
For a long time after the boy left Maximilian sat in his chair pondering the wisdom of what he had spoken. But regardless of whether it was right or wrong, he refused to recant his words. If it was true that Edmund was his son, the young man would eventually discover that he could not run away from that truth.
What Edmund's full truth happened to be he did not know. Wolfram rubbed the bridge of his nose, hoping that whatever the future brought that Miss Redley would be enough to overcome it.
Wolfram flipped through his grandfather's book of tales, reminding himself to not discount his own power and influence quite yet. If anything, he still had the ability to watch him. He had time — to gamble, to maneuver and, most importantly, start over.
He corrected this book in his hand, using the pen the wily old bookmaster had gifted him. How Gregory had guessed his secret, he did not know. But the man seemed delighted, not horrified to learn that the rumors about elves and their longevity were true.
He flipped through many pages, coming finally to the story that Selva loved. He held Selva's lovely face in his mind as he lingered over the words, reading it until he could imagine why she cherished it so. He guessed she saw parallels there to her life. Otherwise she would have stopped loving him long ago.
The story she had read could guide her no longer. This knowledge relieved him. He wanted her to believe that she and he would write a new tale together, one that had no template tied to it.
His eyes read past other fables and legends, pausing when he saw the tale of the girl with the red hood. Before he could change his mind he tore out the pages.
Wolfram felt a sense of satisfaction as he fed them to his fireplace. The flames licked at the paper and ink, erasing their contents. And with this new pen, he would scratch out a replacement. His version.
He placed the book on a table and turned to an empty page. And then he began to craft a new tale, one in which the parties would resolve their differences.
–A tale in which all, including the wolves, would live happily ever after.
He's kind of hard to kill x).
Elanore and Edmund are engaged! I am happy.
And Elanore is pretty happy too :). This is a far better outcome for her than I had initially plotted a year ago xD .
Well, there is something good to be said about happy endings. They relax the reader and bring a smile to our troubled faces.


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Durkheim Marx and Weber's argument of society
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Durkheim concept of anomie differed from Marx and Weber's concepts of alienation on the idea of how modernity rose. That is, they differed on their argument about how the old system isolated people from humanity. Durkheim argued that the shifting of the society to modernity was through disorganization and societies achieved modernity as they tried to adapt to disorganizations. Marx's argument on society modernity was based on class conflict while Weber argued on political causes.
Durkheim argued that the division of the society based on classes helped in creating interdependence (Macionis, 2013). Although social stratification was a social problem, Durkheim viewed as normalness (anomie) in the society. He believed that anomie was a characteristic of disorganized society or one that was undergoing changes. People lived in the same place in the past as communities and shared the same beliefs. However, changes in cultural, social, political, and religious systems started occurring in the society (Macionis, 2013). Since the changes were slow and had no significant effects on the people, they started experiencing anomie. The results of anomie were suicide, crime, and other social evils that became prevalent in the modern society.
Unlike Durkheim who focused on class division and society disorganization, Marx's argument on alienation focused on conflict between classes as the cause of modernity in the society (Macionis, 2013). The conflict between capitalists and working class brought a gap in the society. The capitalist started accumulating profits through exploitation of the working class. The capitalist dominated in the society and alienated the working class and thus the latter had to depend on the former to provide for their families. The result was competition in the society, which became the major characteristic of modernity.
Consequently, Weber argument on alienation differed from Durkheim anomie argument in that he based his argument political factors (Macionis, 2013). According to Weber, legal authority governed the society through rules. Although the rules were the most efficient form of authority, decision by the society to follow the rules fully would result in faulty checks on the authority. As a result bad governance and oppression of the society emanated.
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Никола П. Илић (Газдаре, 7. март 1926 — Лесковац, 7. септембар 2019) био је југословенски и српски историчар, комуниста, учесник НОБ-а, правник и обавештајац.

Биографија
Никола П. Илић рођен је 7. марта 1926. године у селу Газдару у Горњој Јабланици, недалеко од Медвеђе, од оца Павла и мајке Негосаве. У Газдару је завршио основну школу, а средње образовање је стекао у Лесковцу. Завршио је Вишу управну школу Секретаријата унутрашњих послова ФНРЈ у Београду, а Правни факултет у Скопљу 1962. године.

Потекавши из породице учесника ослободилачких ратова, Никола се се крајем 1941. године прикључио Газдарској партизанској чети. Постао је члан Савеза комунистичке омладине Југославије (СКОЈ) и политички комесар Газдарске партизанске омладинске чете 1943. године. Наредне године је дошао место секретара Актива СКОЈ-а у Газдару, постао члан месног комитета СКОЈ-а општине Бучумет и омладински руководилац у другом батаљону новоформиране 17. српске националослободичалке бригаде. У КПЈ је примљен 15. јуна 1944. године. Пред крај рата је служио у Команди места Медвеђе и Команди места Бувце, а затим је враћен у своју бригаду, али у први батаљон на дужност политичког делегата вода. Из војске је демобилисан новембра 1946, као официр.

За ратне заслуге одликован је Орденом братства и јединства са сребрним венцем, Орденом заслуге за народ са сребрним знацима, Орденом за храброст, 'Медаљом за храброст, Медаљом заслуге за народ и Медаљом десетогодишњице Југословенске армије, а добитник је и бројних дургих признања.

У Газдару је изабран за одборника сеоског и месног Народноослободилачког одбора и команданта сеоске помоћне милиције у Агитпропу Среског комитета КПЈ.
Маја 1947. године упућен је на обнову рудника Леце за руководиоца финансијско-обрачунске службе и организационог секретата Фабричког комитета КПЈ. Крајем 1948. године додељен је на рад Управи државне безбедности (УДБ-и) у Лебану за време одбране земље од насртаја информбировских земаља. После спајања срезова 1955. године дошао је у Лесковац у истој служби, где касније постаје и њен шеф. Бавио се обавештајним и контраобавештајним радом. На свој захтев пензионисан је 1964. године, после чега је радио као професор у Средњој економској школи у Лесковцу. Био је одборник у Скупштини општине Лесковац од 1967. године у Већу за друштвене делатности.

Први текстови Николе П. Илића потичу из периода НОР-а, 1944. године, за "Зидне новине", а заинтересованост за историографију појавила се 1949. године. Објавио је више стотина текстова у локалниим и дневним новинама ("Наша реч", "Борба", "Политика", "Вечерње новости", "Блиц", "Политика експрес", "4. јул", "Црвена застава", "Трибина младих", "Нишке новине", "Врањске новине", "Побједа" у Титоград, и друге) Објављивао је у стручним часописима "Лесковачки зборник", "Нишки зборник", зборницима: "Злочини четничког покрета у Србији 1941-1945, "Сећање учесника НОБ-а 1941-1942, књиге 19, 20, 23", Руковођење НОР Србије (1941-1945)", "Споменици погинулих улитеља НОБ-У", "Из прошлости мога краја", "Пали не побеђени" (погинули припадници ОЗН-е, УДБ-е, милиције и СУП-а", "Месне партизанске јединицие у Јужној Србији 1941-1942", "НОП у Србији 1941-1943". Објавио је 21. књигу из историографије самостално, 6 у коауторству и припремио је 6 рукописа за објављивање.

Добитник је многих друштвених признања за стваралачки допринос неговању слободарских и револуционарних традиција, за неговање патриотизма и незаборава историјских догађаја. Данас је председник Окружног одбора СУБНОР-а Јабланичког округа.

Преминуо је септембра 2019. године у Лесковцу.

Књиге
 Јужноморавци у октобарској револуцији, Лесковац 1969.
 Јабланичко-пасјачки партизански одред (август 1942-фебруар 1943), Лесковац 1970. (три издања)
 Свештенство југа Србије у револуцији (1941-1945), Лесковац 1972.
 Крвави фебруар (13-18. фебруар 1942), Лесковац 1976.
 Ослобођење јужне Србије 1877-1878, Београд 1977.
 Народни херој Дренички (романсирана биографија), Лесковац 1978.
 Рудник Леце, Лесковац 1974.
 Народне песме јужне Србије у ослободилачком рату и револуцији, Београд 1985. (у коауторству са Николом Илићем и Момчилом Златановићем)
 Хари и другови (Немци у партизанима), Београд 1986.
 Јабланички НОП одред, Лесковац 1986.
 Јужна Србија у НОР и Револуцији 1941-1945, (У извештајима, публикацијама, говорима, сећањима, сведочењима), Лесковац 1988.
 Четници у Лесковачком крају: 1941-1944, Лесковац 1993. (У коауторству са Живаном Стојковићем и Храниславом Ракићем)
 Окупација у Лесковачком крају 1941-1944, Лесковац 1991. (У коауторству са Живаном Стојковићем и Храниславом Ракићем)
 Колаборација четника са окупаторима и квислинзима у Србији (1941-1944): у светлу докумената, Лесковац 1996.
 Народна власт у Лесковацчком крају 1941-1945, Лесковац 1998, (У коауторству са Храниславом А. Ракићем)
 Лесковачки крај у време НАТО агресије, Лесковац 2000.
 Немачко бомбардовање Лесковца и околине 1941-1944, Лесковац 2000.
 Војнопозадинска делатност НОП на југу Србије 1941-1945, Лесковац 2002.
 Руски емигранти у Лесковачком крају после 1917, Лесковац 2002.
 Вера Пешић у вртлогу шпијунаже, Лесковац 2004.
 Политичка убиства у Лесковачком крају 1887-1904, Лесковац 2007.
 Монографија Основне школе "Горња Јабланица" у Медвеђи 1888-2008, Медвеђа 2008.
 Време обрачуна (Четврти пленум ЦК СКЈ), Лесковац 2011.
 Истините приче о хајдуцима и качацима на југу Србије 1880-1941, Лесковац 2011.
 Перфидне игре Драже Михаиловића 1941-1944, Сарадња са Бугарима, Лесковац 2012.
 Имформбиро и Имформбировци у Лесковачком крају 1948-1956, Лесковац 2013.
 Одметници на југу Србије 1945-1953, Лесковац 2014.

Референце

Рођени 1926.
Умрли 2019.
Медвеђани
Лесковчани
Комунисти Србије
Југословенски партизани
Српски историчари


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