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Q: Rewrite Magento Session last URL How can i get the rewrite url of the $_SESSION['core']['last_url']?
Cause $_SESSION['core']['last_url'] is returning like this
catalog/product/view/id/166/category/8
and what i need is this
electronics/cell-phones/htc-touch-diamond.html
Help Please...

A: Last visited URL is set in Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action::postDispatch() method. You can find there this line
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setLastUrl(Mage::getUrl('*/*/*', array('_current'=>true)));
Mage::getUrl() is responsible for creating an URL, that's why you don't get a rewrite here. You could override this method and check if this is a category or product page and based on that assign different URL, e.g.:

$url = Mage::getUrl('*/*/*', array('_current'=>true));
if (Mage::registry('current_product') || Mage::registry('current_category')) {
    $url = Mage::getBaseUrl() . substr($this->getRequest()->getOriginalPathInfo(), 1);
}
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setLastUrl($url);


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Postmodern Angst
Lost in a Deconstructed Wilderness of Pain
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Finish the Story
It was Tuesday and I was walking along Hollywood Boulevard when this woman approached me. Her skin was pale and her face so caked with cosmetics she could be the walking dead and no one would notice. She was wearing an overcoat the color of pea soup and a strange hat that looked as if it were made from an old cigar box. After a moment I realized it was in fact an upturned cigar box. On her feet she appeared to be wearing ruby red pumps made from the skins of artificial reptiles. She stopped and wagged a finger at me. She had jeweled rings on every finger of each hand. Even her thumbs.
"You're that fool!" she exclaimed.
Not that I was certain of her specificity, I could not deny the implication. "We are all fools, madam, in the grand scheme of things."
"Never mind that," she said, shaking her head. She made a fist at me, then jammed both her fists into her hips. "When are you going to finish the story?" she demanded to know.
Not being a stranger to these encounters, being a longtime resident of Los Angeles, as well as a writer who is notorious beyond legendary as a Bartleby of the trade, I simply shrugged and continued on my way to meet with my spirit adviser.
"Write, fool! Write!" she shouted after me. For a second I wondered if this were my agent (who disappeared mysteriously three years prior while attempting to purchase salmon by the ton in Seattle).
Having a spirit adviser may seem to you an odd thing for a loudly self-avowed atheist-materialist. But such an assumption mistakes the use of the adjective form. The spirits of this adviser's particular expertise are not the ones that reside only in imagination, nor do they haunt dusty old houses and ruined castles. These spirits live in bottles, and haunt only the minds of those whose tongues still long with a lingering taste of peace.
A spirit adviser knows just what drinks suit the troubled mind, just what liquors are best applied as soluble responses to the problems of modern life. He knows how to mix drinks, how this flavor mixes with that, but more: he knows how the drinks mix with you, how the application of a particular booze shapes and shifts your various moods.
Amateurs and dilettantes commonly believe that, when drinking long-term, it is ill-advised to mix your beverages. Wine and beer do not mix with liquor, and the various spirits being in disagreement, one cannot switch between whiskey and vodka and tequila and gin, but one must choose a poison, and stick with it all night until the very end.
This is of course mostly gibbering nonsense. But there is a bit of wisdom in it. For the unknowing experimental imbiber may in fact concoct a mix which is disadvantageous to the senses, one which riles the stomach and rakes the bowels and twists the mind. Once when I was young and inexperienced in such chemistry, I daringly mixed tequila with gin, then splashed in a bit of Dr. Pepper for color. It somehow tasted like root beer and I drank a pint of it too fast. During what must have been a very prolonged alcoholic blackout, I surreptitiously entered the female dormitory and absconded with several brassieres. Fortunately none of them were in use at the time or else a hilarious misdemeanor settled by an apology might have escalated to a felony with intent.
The spirit adviser is an expert in the use of alcohol to enhance the psyche and uplift the soul. This is more than mere knowledge of tastes and effects of booze, and requires far more skill than even the most talented bartenders and mixologists. Not unlike a good therapist, the spirit adviser is a reader of moods as well as minds. Like an able attending physician, you tell the spirit adviser what ails you and he prescribes a remedy.
"I've had a fight with my wife about the bills again."
"Two shots of rye with lemon."
"I got a job at Miramax today."
"Long Island Iced Tea."
"I got laid off from my job at Miramax today."
"Vodka martini, dirty."
That sort of thing. These examples no doubt seem mundane, and they are deliberately so. The spirit master deals in sublime secrets that cannot be divulged to the sober and unknowing. Once you develop a relationship with a particular adviser, you are given something like a mantra, a particular drink combination known only to you and the spirit adviser. You are never to share this combination with anyone else, nor are you to divulge any other secrets of the spirits you may have learned or discerned during your meetings with the adviser.
When I finally arrived at the office of my spirit adviser, my perplexity from my encounter with the green-coat woman must have been evident. As he helped me with my coat, my spirit adviser asked me, "Did you run into another fan on your way here today?"
"I'm not sure if 'fan' is the right word," I told him, and went on to describe the encounter.
He frowned and waved me over to the bar. Of course the spirit adviser has a full bar in his office. Imagine a therapist's office but with a full bar instead of the comfy chairs and odd artwork. Rather than abstract artwork, the walls are decorated with photographs of old taverns, most of which amount to men standing around a bar, holding beverages and smiling.
The spirit adviser hurried behind the bar and broke out a bottle of twenty-five year old Irish whiskey. I was surprised. The last time he hauled that out was when I got stabbed by the Madwoman of Kilkenny. The whiskey had been younger then, and so had we all, but the whiskey was the only one of us who had certainly improved with age.
My adviser put two tumblers on the bar — he meant for us both to drink — and poured two fingers in each. He corked the bottle and set it atop the bar, then picked up his glass and waited for me.
"It didn't seem like that big of a bog," I said. It really hadn't. Encounters like that, on the street, happen to me almost every time I go out. If people don't recognize me for me, they think I'm someone else. Consider the number of times people have called me "Jack" just because I'm wearing a wool overcoat, black beret, and Ray-Bans. Or those people who grab me by the shoulders and shout, "Mikey!" smiling until they realize with sudden surprise that I'm probably not "Mikey!" because "Mikey!" wouldn't be kicking them in the shins while shouting Ukrainian profanities at them and attempting to flee.
My adviser shook his head and motioned for me to drink. It's bad form for sure to ignore your spirit adviser, so I lifted my glass and drank. He drank with me, quick and clean. The whiskey did not so much burn as glow its way over my tongue and past my throat and down my esophagus where it hit my belly like a welcome bomb of golden waste.
The spirit adviser narrowed his eyes and looked at me. He seemed serious. For someone who, bottom line, isn't much more than a fancy bartender, my spirit adviser has a way of looking at you like a priest who knows what you do when you're alone. You have to have a heart of ice cold stone just to sit there and take it.
"What?" I asked, chuckling with discomfort. My heart is made of ice cream at best.
"When are you going to finish the story?" he asked.
I nodded for him to pour me another. He's a good adviser and he did so with the proper amount of haste. I nodded for him to have another but he demurred. Lifting the glass I shrugged the shot and sighed.
"Finish the story," I said.
"Yes," he said. "Last I heard, you were kidnapped by German Freemasons."
"Rosicrucians," I corrected him.
"Right," he said, looking me over. "Obviously, that's no longer the situation."
I wiggled my now empty glass. "Can I get another?"
He nodded assent and poured me a conservative amount. I nodded thanks and sipped it slowly, slowly as if I was respectfully considering the taste and patiently considering his question.
"So," I said, patiently, slowly, respectfully, sipping. "Finish the story?"
I finished the drink, set the empty glass on the bar, and took a deep breath.
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A certified class of J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. drivers scored partial quick wins on claims the trucking company's piece-rate compensation system shorted thousands of drivers on wages and rest breaks in violation of California law, according to a federal judge's ruling Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted partial summary judgment to plaintiffs Gerardo Ortega and Michael D. Patton on a couple issues in the wage-and-hour class action as it heads toward a late-September trial.
Judge Klausner ruled that J.B. Hunt's activity-based piece-rate pay plan violated California law to the extent it failed to separately compensate drivers for meal and rest breaks and other so-called nonproductive time that included maintaining or fueling trucks or completing required paperwork.
"Under the applicable wage order for the transportation industry in California, employers must pay employees at least the minimum wage for 'all hours worked in the payroll period, whether the renumeration is measured by time, piece, commission or otherwise,'" the judge explained. "'Hours worked' is defined as the 'time during which an employee is subject to the control of an employer and includes all the time the employee is suffered or permitted to work, whether or not required to do so.'"
Under J.B. Hunt's piece-rate formula, drivers receive mileage pay, pay for certain activities like deliveries, and hourly pay for nonproductive time in certain exceptional circumstances — for instance, some drivers receive hourly pay starting one and a half hours after their arrival time when waiting for a customer, the judge said.
"But despite this separate hourly pay in certain exceptional circumstances, the ABP formula still fails to separately compensate drivers for other hours they spend performing required tasks," Judge Klausner said.
Those uncompensated tasks included pre- and post-trip inspections, paperwork, waiting time at a customer's location before hourly pay begins, time spent dealing with mechanical breakdowns before hourly pay kicks in, fueling the trucks, washing the trucks and waiting for assignments.
However, Judge Klausner refused to grant summary judgment on the drivers' claims that J.B. Hunt was liable for failing to pay drivers minimum or agreed-upon wages and that J.B Hunt didn't provide employees with accurate itemized wage statements as required by California law.
"Given the varying pay schemes and plans for different members of the class, the court cannot issue classwide summary judgment as to liability here," the judge said. "Because not all drivers are compensated solely via defendant's ABP system, defendant may not be liable to every member of the class."
Judge Klausner added, "It remains plaintiffs' burden to prove at trial that defendant's ABP system was applied to members of the class in practice, and that class members compensated under the ABP system in fact failed to receive separate compensation for rest breaks and other nonproductive time."
On the wage statement issue, Judge Klausner determined that there is still a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether J.B. Hunt's wage statements failed to include the information required under state law.
Judge Klausner also denied the plaintiffs' bid for summary judgment on their claims for liquidated and statutory damages, saying J.B. Hunt did not act in bad faith by compensating employees under its ABP system.
The drivers' attorney Stan Saltzman of Marlin & Saltzman told Law360 that they were pleased with the ruling.
"Plaintiffs are of course thrilled that the court has found in their favor on these critical issues, consistent with our long-expressed view of California law, and look forward to the trial scheduled to begin on Sept. 25, 2018, to address the remaining issues, as well as damages owed to the class on this case filed back in 2007," Saltzman said.
An attorney for J.B. Hunt declined to comment.
J.B. Hunt, one of the largest transportation logistics companies in North America, recently moved for summary judgment and to decertify the 11,000-strong class of drivers in the 11-year-old dispute over J.B. Hunt's piece-rate compensation system.
J.B. Hunt argued earlier this month that the evidence doesn't hold up because there are too many variations in drivers' pay plans, details of a driver's day and whatever their reasons might be for taking, or not taking, meal and rest breaks that they were free to take, according to court filings.
"Now, with discovery nearly complete and trial imminent, it is clear that plaintiffs' promises of a trial with 'common proof' were fatally unsupported," J.B. Hunt said in its decertification motion. "Discovery has shown that individualized questions, a lack of common proof, and manageability issues make continued class treatment unworkable. Far from being paid through a 'uniform' compensation system, the more than 11,000 intermodal and dedicated contract services drivers who comprise the class were paid through approximately 190 different pay plans."
The drivers have countered that the evidence in this case is clear on the question of J.B. Hunt's liability, and that they're able to pinpoint what tasks class members were paid for and what they were not paid for. As such, there is no cause for decertifying their class action, the drivers have argued.
The class won certification back in 2009, largely relying on the plaintiffs' promises that their claims stemmed from a single compensation policy and "standardized" wage statements covering all drivers.
It was first tossed by the district court in 2014, which had found that the law their claims were based on was preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994. But the Ninth Circuit revived the suit in 2017 based on its Dilts v. Penske precedent — which found that California's meal and rest break laws were not preempted by the FAAAA, the federal statute that preempts any state law "relating to a price, route or service of any motor carrier."
The U.S. Supreme Court denied J.B. Hunt's petition for review this June, so the case is back in district court to get ready for trial.
The drivers are represented by Stanley D. Saltzman and Adam Tamburelli of Marlin & Saltzman and Paul T. Cullen and Barbara DuVan-Clarke of The Cullen Law Firm APC.
J.B. Hunt is represented by Scott Edelman, Jesse Cripps, Katherine V.A. Smith and Rachel S. Brass of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Brad Schwan and Fatemeh S. Mashouf of Littler Mendelson PC.
The district court case is Geraldo Ortega et al. v. J. B. Hunt Transport Inc., case number 2:07-cv-08336, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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Flyers Weekly Takeaways: Ivan Provorov Is Real Deal And An Overdue Appreciation Of Scott Laughton
By Tom Dougherty December 9, 2019 at 11:09 am
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Philadelphia Flyers stayed hot last week as the schedule begins to work its way back to a normal slate. With wins over the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators sandwiched with a loss to a good Arizona Coyotes team, the Flyers are now 7-1-1 in their last nine games.
The Flyers are 17-8-5 with 39 points, marking the third-best start this decade. In 2011-12, they were 20-7-3 after 30 games and 18-7-5 in 2010-11.
After a hellish November schedule, the Orange and Black will have had three days off before their next game.
Let's take a look at a few takeaways from the week that was.
1. The Real Deal
When Ivan Provorov departed Flyers Skate Zone for his summer in April 2018, the then-21-year-old was on the cusp of stardom. In his second season, he was tied for the NHL lead among defensemen with 17 goals. He averaged over 24 minutes. He looked like a seasoned veteran in his sophomore campaign.
Then came Year 3, and the trajectory Provorov appeared to be on took a major turn. Provorov struggled, like every young Flyer last season, and doubts crept in.
Thirty games into Year 4, Provorov is back on track to being the defenseman we all thought he would be.
Provorov leads the Flyers in ice time with 24:53, which is ninth-most in the NHL and has averaged 25:54 in his past 15 games. In the Flyers' 4-3 win over Ottawa Saturday, Provorov had a 47-second break between two long shifts — a one minute, 35-second shift followed by a one minute, 21-second shift to end the game. That means he was essentially on the ice for 2:56 of the game's final 3:43. He played 26:51 on Saturday.
The 22-year-old also scored his seventh goal of the season against the Senators, which matched his season total from 2018-19. It was also his second goal and fifth point in his last six games. His four-game point streak ended in Thursday's loss to Arizona. He's on pace for 19 goals and 52 points, both would be career highs.
Snipe. Celly.#OTTvsPHI | #FlyOrDie pic.twitter.com/5QYulzHzJt
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) December 7, 2019
What's most impressive about his goal production is, Provorov's finding his way on the power play. Two years ago, 15 of his 17 goals came at even strength. This season, he already has a career-high four power-play goals and three at even strength.
In fact, his PP production overall has taken an enormous leap with a career-high 10 PP points.
It's no secret by now that Provorov can score at the NHL level, and he does so with a sneaky wrister — not a booming slapper like a Shea Weber or even Shayne Gostisbehere. Two Saturdays ago he scored the Flyers' goal of the season in Montreal by going end to end. He's on pace for 51 points this season.
With Provorov, though, the offensive production isn't what excites the Flyers the most. He's as well-rounded a defenseman as they come, and he's capable of handling big minutes at such a young age. He's still 22, so he's still learning. He's had some hiccups this season too, but that's normal.
The addition of Matt Niskanen has done wonders also. Niskanen has provided Provorov a veteran, right-handed partner who's helped form a legitimate top pair.
Through 30 games, there has been a lot to like about the Flyers. Provorov's jump back on track has to be near the top of the list.
Like Travis Konecny, the early returns on Provorov's six-year, $40.5 million contract are quite good.
2. Laughts to love
For some, Scott Laughton — given his draft position — could be drawn up as a miss. Some people see the first-round (20th overall, 2012) label and automatically expect stardom. They place expectations on the player because of the draft position. For a while there, Laughton was headed more toward the miss category.
Not so fast. In the past three years, the 25-year-old has carved out a role with the Flyers in the team's bottom six. He's developed into one of the team's top penalty killers and his offense is finally starting to come around. Laughton has quietly developed into a solid NHL player.
Laughton capped off a productive week with a monster game Saturday, scoring his fourth goal in his last six games and picking up an assist. Had it not been for a broken finger that forced him to miss 13 games, he certainly would have had a Gordie Howe hat trick.
Thank you, Laughts. #OTTvsPHI | #FlyOrDie pic.twitter.com/wk5hRpAomg
After Senators defenseman Mark Borowiecki injured Konecny with a tad late, tad high hit that left No. 11 with an upper-body injury (update coming Monday), Laughton responded by being a thorn in Ottawa's side. He went after Brady Tkachuk and then Thomas Chabot.
Then 16 seconds into the second period, Laughton leveled Jean-Gabriel Pageau, which led to Joel Farabee's first career fight. Laughton's hit, too, was a tad high.
Scott Laughton with a huge hit pic.twitter.com/XCa0Wb5dtt
— Brandon Murphy (@2Murphy8) December 7, 2019
It didn't stop there. After scoring his second career game-winner, Laughton chirped Tkachuk as he was making his way toward the Flyers' bench to celebrate.
That eventually led to Tkachuk taking two minor penalties — a roughing and a cross-check — with the Sens down one goal with 25 seconds left when he jumped Laughton. That decision cost Tkachuk $2,486.56 in fines and ended Ottawa's hopes of tying the game.
When Laughton was drafted, many compared him to Mike Richards — a smaller, gritty centerman who could provide some offense. That comparison didn't pan out, but on Saturday, Laughton certainly had a Mike Richard-esque game.
Laughton currently finds himself on the third line with Kevin Hayes and Farabee, which means James van Riemsdyk is on the fourth line. At first glance, JVR's struggles to finish seemed like the main reason for the demotion.
They certainly played into it, but Laughton's ascension can't be overlooked. He's earned the spot on the third line. There's a lot to love about Laughton.
The last face goaltenders want to see on a breakaway. pic.twitter.com/ZTTjeXaaE9
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) November 29, 2019
Plus, his always stoic facial expressions (or lack thereof?) has turned into a meme among Flyers fans.
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Back up and restore the Project Server 2010 farm
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This document set is written to meet the requirements of information technology (IT) professionals who are responsible for the planning, design, deployment, and operations of backup and recovery solutions in enterprise, corporate, or branch office environments. The readers of this document set are expected to have an understanding of its technical details. However, service-level expertise is not needed to follow the enterprise-level discussions and to understand the decisions that are made.
A backup is a copy of data that is used to restore and recover that data after a system failure or corruption. Backups allow you to restore data after a failure. With proper backups, you can recover from many failures, including:
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Big poker success in the Big Easy
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It's late in the afternoon on the day after Christmas and the famed French Quarter is as lifeless as a zombie from Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo. The holiday is over and everyone has gone home. Even the locals are tuckered out. In the little suburb of Harvey, however, there's a party going on at the Boomtown Casino poker room. The tables are filled and there's a waiting list.
"We're very busy tonight," poker room manager Robert Horvath said. "And last night, Christmas evening, the place was packed."
It's a welcomed change for a poker room that was on life-support just a few short months ago. Boomtown is a relatively young face in the poker community and has experienced a fair amount of growing pains. In Shreveport the experiment failed miserably. A decision to utilize electronic poker tables to reduce the overhead of paid staff (no dealers) backfired and players balked. Many of them complained there just wasn't enough personal attention. The lesson, albeit a hard one, was an eye-opener.
When Horvath took the reins of the New Orleans room in August he made customer service a priority and immediately began to make the room more player-friendly. He talked to the players and got to know his regulars on a first-name basis. This gave him the opportunity to introduce new games and amenities the players wanted. The response has been overwhelming. Within a month he doubled the drop. As of this writing he has almost tripled it, an unbelievable feat given the hurdles that stood in his way. The mountain was huge and Horvath, by his admission, was less than enthusiastic in the beginning.
"I thought I was being demoted," he said with a laugh. "When my supervisor talked to me about taking the room I didn't know how it would work out."
One can easily understand Horvath's concerns. The room occupies an area that, within the past six years, has suffered two hurricanes and a devastating oil spill. These disasters have left the local economy in a shambles. If that weren't bad enough, Horvath and Boomtown also must contend for market share with the owners of the most recognized brand in poker, Harrah's. While the Harrah's poker room is just steps from the tourist-packed Vieux Carre, Boomtown is situated in the smaller suburb of Harvey about 10 miles away.
Horvath, however, is not a man to back down from a fight and he's not easily intimidated. The Tulane grad projects an air of confidence that was forged in the crucible of Atlantic City during its formative years.
"It was tough there," he said. "But I had a good mentor who was from the old school."
Old School. Those words sum up Horvath's approach to poker room management. His style is a throwback to when poker players were the gods of the casino. Most casinos now gear their operations toward slot players and these players usually benefit most from a casino-rewards program. Horvath knew he was going to have to change that if the room was going to succeed. One of the first things he did was install a hot dog machine in the poker room where players can help themselves to a snack at no cost. That may seem like a small gesture but players loved it, and the benefit for Horvath was two-fold.
"The players appreciated it," he said. "That's the main thing. Sometimes it's not what you do, just that you do something. The other side of it was keeping players in the room. Let's say you have a husband and wife playing at the same table and they get a little hungry and decide to go eat. If you have six or seven players at that table and two leave, guess what? You just broke the table. It helps to keep them in the room."
Another thing that gained immediate popularity was Horvath's willingness to spread a variety of games. One of the most popular has been a $4-$8 limit half-and-half. The lower-limit players love this chance to try their skills at Omaha without having to risk their bankroll in a pot-limit game. If you decide to give it a try expect a waiting list. The game is popular.
The Boomtown poker room also offers a variety of promotions. They have the standard bad-beat jackpot and offer a loyalty-based tournament each week on Tuesday. A Monday Night Football promo recently wrapped up with great success, and you can be sure more promotions are on the way. In a gesture of support for the work Horvath has done, Boomtown has loosened up the purse strings and gotten behind the effort with a substantial budget specifically dedicated to poker room promotions.
Horvath is quick to credit his staff for the room's success.
"I have great people and a great supervisor. My dealers know I expect them to give their best and they do that every day."
When I spoke to members of Horvath's team their enthusiasm was infectious, and justifiably so. More traffic in the room means more tokes for the dealers. Supervisor/dealer Robyn Zanco joined Horvath's team in October and was immediately impressed.
"You can see there is definite progress," Zanco said. "I think Robert is doing very well in managing the room by introducing different promotions and I am excited to be part of the team."
In an area that has seen gaming revenues drop dramatically — some casinos are down almost 60 percent since the BP oil spill — the Boomtown success story is a positive development for poker players in the Crescent City. Options are never a bad thing, and Horvath and his team are working hard to give locals and visitors plenty of them.
— Scotty "The Spokesman" Rushing is a poker professional and sports journalist. When he isn't playing or writing about poker he's usually reading about it. Email him at scottyrushing@gmail.com.


Citation: Program for the Winter Meeting of the American Folklore Society. (1955). Washington, DC: American Folklore Society.
This document is the conference program for the winter meeting of the American Folklore Society held at the Washington Hotel in Washington, DC, on December 28-29, 1955.


for fighting in the street, boy.
for a street fighting man.
to play is compromise solution.
I'll rail at all his servants.
para luchar en la calle, chaval.
a practicar es hacer concesiones.
voy clamar contra todos sus siervos.


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Štěkeň je městys ležící v severozápadní části Jihočeského kraje, v okrese Strakonice na řece Otavě, asi 6 km východně od města Strakonice. Žije zde  obyvatel.

Historie
První písemné zprávy o vsi pocházejí z let 1313–1318, kdy byl majetkem Baška ze Štěkně. Roku 1622 byla Štěkeň zkonfiskována Janu Malovcovi z Malovic a roku 1648 ji koupili Losyové z Losinthalu (Švýcarsko) a na místě staršího sídla zbudovali raně barokní zámek. Po vymření rodu vesnici získal hrabě Josef Mikuláš Windischgrätz.

V roce 1784 se obec stala městysem. Windischgrätzové zdejší statek vlastnili až do roku 1919. Ve dnech 4. až 7. září 1905 se v okolí Štěkně konaly rozsáhlé vojenské manévry za přítomnosti císaře Františka Josefa I.

Od 12. dubna 2007 byl obci vrácen status městyse.

Přírodní poměry
Štěkeň stojí na okraji ploché údolní nivy řeky Otavy v Českobudějovické pánvi. Jihovýchodně od městyse leží přírodní památka Štěkeň vyhlášená na ochranu biotopu tesaříka obrovského.

Obecní správa

Místní části
 Nové Kestřany
 Štěkeň
 Vítkov

Znak
Znakem Štěkně je na červeném štítě doprava obrácená stříbrná vlčí hlava s krkem. Tento znak používá obec od 17. září 1540, kdy jej obec obdržela od krále Ferdinanda I.

Pamětihodnosti

 Raně barokní zámek byl postaven na místě tvrze ze 14. století Janem Antonínem Losym z Losinthalu. Kolem zámku se rozkládá anglický park. Zámek koupily v roce 1922 řádové sestry Ústavu anglických panen a zřídily zde klášter řeholnic. Působily zde i v době komunismu (objekt byl využíván jako domov důchodců).
 Kostel svatého Mikuláše byl postaven na místě původně gotického kostela Máří Magdalény, který zanikl v době husitské a za třicetileté války.
 Barokní socha svatého Jana Nepomuckého z roku 1725. Kopie je umístěna u zámeckých schodů, originál se nachází v zámku.
 Asi dva kilometry západně od městečka se na břehu Otavy dochovalo tvrziště Srdov, které je pozůstatkem středověké tvrze ze třináctého až šestnáctého století.

Osobnosti
 Narodil se zde Alfons Ferdinand Šťastný (1831–1913), agrární filosof a politik.
 V roce 1869 se zde narodil Alois Pašek, první biskup starokatolické církve.
 Dne 16. července 1923 na zámku kláštera Anglických panen zemřel spisovatel Karel Klostermann. Ten zde s rodinou pobýval už v mládí mezi roky 1860 a 1862. Josef Klostermann († 1875), otec Karla, byl v těchto letech osobním lékařem knížete Alfreda Windischgrätze, který poslední roky života trávil právě ve Štěkni. Po Windischgrätzově smrti se Klostermannovi přestěhovali do Kašperských Hor. Karel Klostermann se v závěru života do Štěkně vrátil.
 Jako učitel a předseda okresní učitelské jednoty tu působil Miloš Pastejřík. Byl členem organizace ÚVOD (Ústřední vedení odboje domácího), rozbité nacisty roku 1942. Dne 8. března 1943 byl odsouzen k trestu smrti a 13. července téhož roku popraven na berlínském předměstí Plötzensee. Za činnost v odboji mu prezident republiky 20. října 1945 in memoriam udělil Československý válečný kříž 1939.

Odraz v literatuře
 V povídce Dvě gardy ze sbírky Pošumavské rapsodie popsal Karel Klostermann humoristickým tónem historku z revolučního roku 1848, kdy se strakonická městská garda rozhodla potrestat knížete Windischgrätze (který v roce 1848 potlačil pražské povstání) tažením na jeho zámek ve Štěkni.

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Externí odkazy

Městyse v Čechách
Obce v okrese Strakonice
DSO Dolního Pootaví
Svazek měst a obcí okresu Strakonice
Městyse v okrese Strakonice
Sídla v Blatenské pahorkatině
Sídla v Českobudějovické pánvi
Sídla na Otavě

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Winchester: Holiday Inn to undergo £2m redevelopment
Built just eight years ago along sustainable lines, the four-star Holiday Inn Winchester is planning a complete transformation of its internal public areas, and the creation of a new luxury spa, with the project costing over £2 million.
The redevelopment will provide a new 'open lobby' to the upper ground floor, which will feature a new restaurant with outside dining. An elegant long and curved bar will also be located on the upper ground floor next to the restaurant and will also serve the large lounge area, that is so popular with business visitors for casual meetings and there will also be a "To Go" café. A special workplace will be also be available in the lounge area, and for those who want to be entertained there will be a media/fun relaxing area.
The refurbishment will begin in January 2019 and will be completed in a number of smaller phases that will enable the hotel to continue to provide existing facilities of restaurant, bar, reception and lounge areas until the upper ground floor transformation is completed in April. This will be followed by the creation of a new spa on the lower ground floor level that will be completed in July 2019. The spa will also have a private screened outdoor terrace with a relaxing hot tub. Treatment rooms will offer peaceful spaces for visitors to be pampered and there will be a gym and studio.
Marc Solarz, the hotel's general manager, commented: "It will still be business as usual at the hotel during the refurbishment, as our architects and designers have carefully planned a phased approach to the transformation, so we can still offer hotel guests and visitors the same facilities. Every aspect of the project has been carefully planned in specific phases, with areas screened and sound proofed to avoid disturbance to residents and visitors.
"Although the hotel didn't look as though it was in need of refurbishment, the owners decided that after eight years it needed a to be refreshed and updated. The existing reception lounge is already very spacious, and we felt that the area wasn't used effectively, especially with our restaurant located on the lower ground floor. So by bringing the restaurant up to this extended upper ground floor level, it will be more visible and convenient for residents and also for visitors to the hotel.
"The open lobby has very specific zones for the restaurant, bar, lounge areas, with a semi-open plan look and feel, that will provide more of a flow from one area to the other and will create a more vibrant atmosphere, especially with a new open kitchen to the restaurant. Our head chef Chris Keel and his team are really looking forward to being able to connect more with our visitors and to the creating new menus from all the great local produce we use."
"We are all very excited about this new redevelopment of the hotel," commented Sarah Waddington, sales and marketing manager for the hotel. "The new look, layout and Spa will help to attract a much broader market to the hotel as there are very few facilities like this in the area."
She added: "We are all loving the proposed interior design for the different areas, which incorporate lots of warm, rich and vibrant colours that reflect the South Downs landscape. There are some very imaginative ways that the designers have used many interesting materials in every new space. The overall look will be contemporary combined with some modern traditional aspects and it will be comfortable and inviting."
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Australia: Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) Scheme: Draft guidance materials demonstrate that preparation is paramount
Article by David Benson and Sam Fiddian
Clayton Utz
With less than six months to prepare for the mandatory data breach regime, businesses and other organisations have some better guidance on how to get ready.
The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) will include a mandatory notifiable data breaches scheme (the NDB Scheme) from 22 February 2018.
On 29 September 2017, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released its latest tranche of draft guidance materials. Those materials provide greater clarity as to the OAIC's expectations of entities which will be subject to the NDB Scheme (APP Entities). Whilst these materials are currently in draft, we do not expect their final form to differ in any material respect.
This article highlights the key takeaways from those materials which organisations should consider as they prepare for the introduction of the NDB Scheme.
Latest draft guidance materials
The latest tranche of materials released by the OIAC to help organisations prepare for the introduction of the NDB Scheme includes guidance on:
an organisation's obligation to assess a suspected data breach;
what to include in an eligible data breach statement; and
the operation of certain exceptions to notification obligations.
The OAIC has also released a draft pro forma eligible data breach statement and a proposed new chapter of the OAIC's "Guide to privacy regulatory action" on data breach incidents.
Assessing a suspected data breach
The NDB Scheme will require APP Entities to promptly notify the OAIC and any potentially affected individuals if it is aware of reasonable grounds to believe that there has been an 'eligible data breach'.
Where an APP Entity only has reasonable grounds to suspect that there may have been an "eligible data breach", the notification obligation does not immediately arise. However, the APP Entity must complete a "reasonable and expeditious" assessment into the relevant circumstances within 30 days. The OAIC's expectation is that APP Entities treat the 30 day limit as a maximum, not the standard. Where compliance with the 30 day limit is not possible, APP Entities will need to document the reasons for the delay in a manner which demonstrates that it has taken all reasonable steps to complete the assessment within 30 days.
The OAIC's position is that the clock starts ticking from the time that a compliance officer, or "person with appropriate seniority" becomes aware of information that suggests a suspected data breach may have occurred. This will mean different things to APP Entities of different sizes. However, in all cases, APP Entities will need to ensure that their staff are appropriately trained to report circumstances which may evidence a data breach.
It will be left up to APP Entities to develop their own procedures for assessing a suspected breach, which could most conveniently be incorporated in the APP Entity's data breach response plan. As well as identifying the person or persons responsible for initiating assessments, an APP Entity's procedures should set out:
the way in which a decision is to be made as to whether legal advisers should be engaged so that the assessment process may be subject to a claim of legal professional privilege;
who is to lead the assessment and the resources available to that person;
what investigative steps are to be taken; and
who is to decide whether the facts uncovered by the investigation give rise to a belief that there has been an "eligible data breach".
The assessment process and its outcome should be appropriately documented so as to assist in any future review of the steps taken by the entity. This will be particularly important if the outcome of the assessment is that no "eligible data breach" has occurred.
Contents of an eligible data breach statement
If an APP Entity forms the belief that there has been an "eligible data breach", whether or not as a result of an assessment, the APP Entity must prepare an Eligible Data Breach Statement, provide a copy of it to the OAIC, and notify affected individuals of its contents as soon as practicable.
The Statement must contain:
the identity of the APP Entity;
the APP Entity's contact details;
a description of the data breach and the kinds of personal information involved sufficient to enable affected individuals to assess the possible impact on them of the data breach; and
what steps the entity recommends that individuals take in response to the data breach.
Given the Statement must be prepared promptly, and affected individuals notified of its contents, APP Entities will want to ensure that their data breach response plan prioritises the identification of the kinds of information involved in the breach. It would also be prudent for APP Entities to brainstorm the types of steps that might be taken in response to a data breach having regard to the types of personal information held so as to be prepared to include those steps in the Statement.
The draft pro forma Statement released by the OAIC encourages APP Entities to provide information above and beyond that required by the Privacy Act, including the date of the data breach, the date the entity became aware of the data breach, the cause of the data breach and the number of individuals affected. While this information need not be provided, APP Entities should assess what further information it is prepared to provide on a case by case basis. Generally speaking, unless there is a compelling reason not to provide at least some of the additional information sought by the OAIC, doing so may be of benefit to an APP Entity in that:
it will help demonstrate to the OAIC, and affected individuals if the entity so chooses, that it is being open and transparent; and
the OAIC has said that it may request the information if it is not proffered, and has the power under the Privacy Act to make preliminary inquiries to determine whether or not to investigate whether the data breach amounts to an interference with privacy.
Operation of the "multiple holders" exception
Where the personal information the subject of the data breach is contained in records in the possession, or control, of more than one APP Entity, the NDB Scheme only requires one of those entities to meet its obligations under the scheme, but all are liable should those requirements not be met. This situation may arise, for example, where the relevant records are stored on a Cloud service provider's systems. Which entity is to take responsibility is left to the entities concerned. However, the OAIC suggests, for good reason, that it should generally be the entity with the most direct relationship with the affected individuals.
This is likely to have a significant impact on an APP Entity's relationship with third party service providers, such as Cloud service providers. In particular, APP Entities will need to ensure that service contracts contain appropriate terms which address:
the provision of notice by the service provider to the APP Entity upon the occurrence of a breach;
who will make an assessment as to whether the breach is an "eligible data breach";
if the APP Entity is to make that assessment, what information the services provider must give to the APP Entity and how quickly this must occur;
who is to prepare and distribute the Statement in the event of an "eligible data breach", what that Statement is to contain over and above that which is required by the Privacy Act (eg. the names of all parties who held the relevant information) and what input each party is to have into its content; and
who is liable for the cost of complying with the NDB Scheme.
The OAIC's draft guidance emphasises the importance of adopting this approach. The aftermath of a data breach is not the time to be attempting to agree upon these matters, particularly where each entity is likely to be concerned by potential liability issues which may arise further down the track.
Approach to enforcement
The proposed new chapter of the OAIC's "Guide to privacy regulatory action" sets out how the OAIC intends to respond to data breach notifications. The factors which will determine how the OAIC responds include the available resources and the OAIC's evaluation of the extent to which taking action in response to the notification will further the objects of the Privacy Act.
In determining the appropriate response, the OAIC will no doubt consider:
the type of personal information involved;
the number of affected individuals;
whether the data breach has been contained;
the steps the APP Entity has taken to mitigate any harm done to affected individuals; and
the measures taken, or being taken, to minimise the risk of a similar breach occurring in the future.
Where there has been a breach of the Privacy Act as a result of a data breach, the powers of the OIAC include the ability to seek enforceable undertakings, injunctions or civil penalties of up to $2.1 million. That being so, it is in the interests of APP Entities that they be able to swiftly identify and contain data breaches as doing so is likely to lessen the regulatory response.
What should you do
The introduction of the NDB Scheme is less than six months away. That being so, APP Entities should continue their preparation for the commencement of the NDB Scheme by:
auditing their current information security processes and procedures to ensure they are adequate;
preparing a data breach response plan (or updating their current plan) including by reference to the guidance materials released by the OAIC; and
providing training to relevant officers and employees as to any role they may have in responding to data breaches.
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Woerner achieves victory in 113th Assembly District race
By Stephen Williams | November 13, 2020
Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner speaks during a brief ceremony at Stillwater's American Legion Post 490 opening of their new Legion building off Lake Road, after years of fundraising and breaking ground on Memorial Day 2019, in Stillwater on Friday, July 3, 2020.
113th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT — With the counting of absentee ballots this week widening her lead over challenger David Catalfamo, state Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner on Friday declared victory.
"Moments ago I spoke to my opponent and accepted his congratulations on my victory," Woerner said Friday morning.
"While we are still waiting for official results to be posted, my lead has widened to more than 6,000 votes as the County Boards of Election continue to count absentee ballots," said Woerner, D-Round Lake, who was seeking her fourth two-year term against Catalfamo, a Republican with a background in state government and economic development.
Catalfamo acknowledged defeat, but said he was proud of the campaign he ran, support he received from Republican leaders, and the important issues he raised for upstate.
"This morning, I called Assemblywoman Woerner and congratulated her on being reelected to the New York State Assembly. Although we have not yet received the final ballot counts, it was clear that our campaign would fall short of the threshold needed to win," Catalfamo said in a statement.
"This was a tough and spirited campaign, focused on the issues that matter most: our safety and security and New York's economic recovery. The 2020 election was unlike any other, and I am so proud of our team and the effort we waged in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic."
The race was the closest Assembly race in the Capital Region, where incumbents were generally returned to office in the Nov. 3 election.
Woerner had held a 901-vote lead following Election Day tabulations, but the results still depended on about 13,000 absentee ballot cast in the district, which includes eastern Saratoga County and western Washington County.
"I am humbled that the people of the 113th Assembly District have once again entrusted me to represent them in Albany," Woerner said. "I want to extend my sincere and heartfelt gratitude to the army of volunteers who made all the difference in this race."
Catalfamo has blamed his defeat in part on a surge of funding for television ads supporting Woerner in the final days of the campaign. The Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee put at least $130,000 into supporting Woerner's campaign, according to Woerner's last financial filing, 11 days before the election. Funding received after that will be included in a post-election filing due in early December.
The Republican challenger both defended the election system — under attack from President Trump and many of his supporters who have refused to acknowledge he lost the presidential election — and said the media and campaign finance system can be unfair to conservative Republicans.
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JAMES ECCLES November 14th, 2020
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Mörsbach ist eine Ortsgemeinde im Westerwaldkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz. Sie gehört der Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg an.

Geographische Lage
Das Dorf liegt im Westerwald zwischen Limburg an der Lahn und Siegen, im Natur- und Landschaftsschutzgebiet Kroppacher Schweiz.

Ortsteile der Gemeinde sind Obermörsbach, Niedermörsbach, Wintershof und Burbach. Zudem gehören die Wohnplätze Birkenhof, Im Hähnchen, Wiesenhof und Forsthaus zur Gemeinde.

Im Norden der Gemeinde liegen Selbach (Sieg) und Fensdorf (Verbandsgemeinde Wissen), im Südosten Kundert, im Südwesten Heimborn und im Westen Stein-Wingert.

Geschichte
Alle vier heute zu Mörsbach gehörenden Ortschaften gehörten zum Kirchspiel Kroppach und bis Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts landesherrlich zur Grafschaft Sayn. Die Einwohner wurden nach der Einführung der Reformation in der Grafschaft Sayn erst lutherisch und später reformiert. Nach der Landesteilung der Grafschaft Sayn im 17. Jahrhundert gehörte Müschenbach zur Grafschaft Sayn-Hachenburg.

1799 kam die Grafschaft auf dem Erbweg an die Fürsten von Nassau-Weilburg. Im Zusammenhang mit der Bildung des Rheinbundes kam die Region und damit auch Mörsbach 1806 an das neu errichtete Herzogtum Nassau. Unter der nassauischen Verwaltung waren die beiden Gemeinden Niedermörsbach und Obermörsbach dem Amt Hachenburg zugeordnet. Burbach  und Wintershof waren bereits Teile der Gemeinde Niedermörsbach. Nach der Annexion des Herzogtums Nassau, kamen beide Gemeinden 1866 an das Königreich Preußen und gehörten von 1868 an zur Provinz Hessen-Nassau und zum Oberwesterwaldkreis. Seit 1946 ist die heutige Ortsgemeinde Mörsbach Teil des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz.

Die Gemeinde wurde am 7. Juni 1969 aus den bis dahin selbstständigen Gemeinden Niedermörsbach (276 Einwohner) und Obermörsbach (248 Einwohner) unter dem Namen "Mörsbach (Oberwesterwaldkreis)" neu gebildet. Der Namensbestandteil "(Oberwesterwaldkreis)" entfiel am 1. Januar 1975.

Kulturdenkmäler
→ siehe Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Mörsbach

Ober- und Niedermörsbach

1335 wurde Mörsbach als Mersbach erstmals als in einer Urkunde erwähnt, als Albero, Priester der Kirche zu Hamm an der Sieg und seine Schwester ihre Güter an die Abtei Marienstatt verschenkten. Der Name Obermörsbach erscheint erstmals 1562, Niedermörsbach 1569; im Jahr 1609 wird auch ein Mittelmörsbach genannt. Der Name Mörsbach ist abgeleitet vom gleichnamigen Bach und bedeutet so viel wie sumpfiges Gelände. 1579 hatte Obermörsbach acht Häuser und 1793 deren 16, Niedermörsbach dagegen 1579 13, 1653 neun Räuche, 1714 14 Männer und 1793 89 Einwohner. Niedermörsbach hatte 1764 eine Winterschule, offenbar deutlich früher als viele andere Orte der Region.

In der Gemarkung Mörsbach liegen zwei ehemalige Eisenerzgruben (Paul und Schellert). Ein Stollen ("Freischütz") befindet sich 300 m südöstlich von Helmeroth am Burbachseifen, wo schon vor 1856 Eisenerz im Stollenbetrieb abgebaut wurde. Vor 1866 gab es Schwierigkeiten um den Abbau, weil die Grube genau auf der Grenze zwischen dem Königreich Preußen und dem Herzogtum Nassau lag. Zu den Anlagen gehörte ein Zechenhaus, ein Förderturm, eine Zwillingsfördermaschine und ein Saugmotor. Vorhanden sind lediglich noch die Abraumhalden.

Burbach

Von Wilhelm von Reichenstein erhielt im Jahr 1451 die Abtei Marienstatt u. a. auch den großen und kleinen Zehnten von Burbach. Als -bach-Ort ist Burbach eine sehr alte Siedlung. Der Name hat sich aus dem Althochdeutschen pur (= Haus, Wohnung) auf die Siedlung übertragen. 1579 hatte der Ort drei Häuser, 1624 sieben Feuerstätten, 1714 zehn Männer  und 1793 44 Einwohner. Gut erhalten sind zwei alte Fachwerkhäuser.

In der Gemarkung Burbach, Richtung Brunken, an der historischen Grenze der nassauischen Territorien, liegen Erdwälle, deren Ursprung nicht geklärt ist.

Wintershof
Der kleinste Ortsteil Wintershof war früher ein einzelner Hof, dessen Besitzer Winter hieß. In einer Urkunde von 1550 heißt es "zu Merspach in Winterßhof". 1793 hatte Wintershof drei Häuser.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Die Entwicklung der Einwohnerzahl von Mörsbach bezogen auf das heutige Gemeindegebiet; die Werte von 1871 bis 1987 beruhen auf Volkszählungen:

Politik

Gemeinderat
Der Gemeinderat in Mörsbach besteht aus acht Ratsmitgliedern, die bei der Kommunalwahl am 26. Mai 2019 in einer Mehrheitswahl gewählt wurden, und dem ehrenamtlichen Ortsbürgermeister als Vorsitzendem.

Bürgermeister
Egon Müller wurde 1994 Ortsbürgermeister von Mörsbach. Bei der Direktwahl am 26. Mai 2019 wurde er mit einem Stimmenanteil von 54,44 % für weitere fünf Jahre in seinem Amt bestätigt.

Alte Schule

Die Schule aus Obermörsbach wurde Anfang der 1980er-Jahre abgebaut und im Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald wieder aufgebaut.

Verkehr
Südlich des Ortes verläuft die B 414, die von Hohenroth nach Hachenburg führt. Die nächsten Autobahnanschlussstellen sind in Siegen, Wilnsdorf oder Herborn an der A 45 Dortmund–Gießen. Der nächstgelegene ICE-Halt ist der Bahnhof Montabaur an der Schnellfahrstrecke Köln–Rhein/Main.

Literatur
 Ortsgemeinde Mörsbach (Hrsg.): 1335–1985. 650 Jahre Mörsbach, Mörsbach 1985.
 Ortsgemeinde Mörsbach (Hrsg.): Mörsbacher Impressionen. 675 Jahre Mörsbach. Jubiläumskalender September 2011 bis Dezember 2012, Mörsbach 2011.
 Daniel Schneider: Die Entwicklung der Konfessionen in der Grafschaft Sayn im Grundriss, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 58 (2015), S. 74–80.
 Dieter Trautmann: Das Land an den Dreischläg. Alte Grenzstation bei Burbach, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 58 (2015), S. 196–201.
 Dieter Trautmann: Die Berg-, Flur-, Gewässer- und Wegenamen der Gemarkung Burbach und Mörsbach, in: Von Land und Leuten an der Nister 45 (2012), S. 6–25.
 Hellmuth Gensicke: Das Kirchspiel Kroppach. In: Nassauische Annalen 83. 1972, S. 209–231.

Weblinks

 Ortsgemeinde Mörsbach auf den Webseiten der Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Westerwaldkreis
Gemeindegründung 1969


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Q: how to flip a pixmap to draw to a texture in libgdx? So what I'm trying to do is to generate a background image for my game by drawing pixmaps to a texture. So far I can do that, but now I need to draw the pixmaps flipped in the X or Y axis to the texture. However I can't find anything to do so. The pixmap class does not provide that functionality. Then I thought I could draw a flipped texture region to a texture, but so far I haven't found how to do so. So I was wondering how can I do such a thing, would it be possible to flip a png image with other java libraries and then create a pixmap from that flipped image?

A: I also don't see other option except to iterate the pixels:
public Pixmap flipPixmap(Pixmap src) {
    final int width = src.getWidth();
    final int height = src.getHeight();
    Pixmap flipped = new Pixmap(width, height, src.getFormat());

    for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
        for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
            flipped.drawPixel(x, y, src.getPixel(width - x - 1, y));
        }
    }
    return flipped;
}

A: Here's a solution that doesn't require the creation of a new Pixmap. This code can also be modified to flip a Pixmap horizontally and vertically by swapping corners of a pixmap image instead of swapping pixels on opposite sides of the image.
public static void flipPixmap( Pixmap p ){
    int w = p.getWidth();
    int h = p.getHeight();
    int hold;

    //change blending to 'none' so that alpha areas will not show
      //previous orientation of image
    p.setBlending(Pixmap.Blending.None);
    for (int y = 0; y < h / 2; y++) {
        for (int x = 0; x < w / 2; x++) {
            //get color of current pixel
            hold = p.getPixel(x,y);
            //draw color of pixel from opposite side of pixmap to current position
            p.drawPixel(x,y, p.getPixel(w-x-1, y));
            //draw saved color to other side of pixmap
            p.drawPixel(w-x-1,y, hold);
            //repeat for height/width inverted pixels
            hold = p.getPixel(x, h-y-1);
            p.drawPixel(x,h-y-1, p.getPixel(w-x-1,h-y-1));
            p.drawPixel(w-x-1,h-y-1, hold);
        }
    }
    //set blending back to default
    p.setBlending(Pixmap.Blending.SourceOver);
}

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Every Day, Improvement. Prompt: What can I improve?
What is something I can improve every day?
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In fact, I was half way down deciding he was a great inspiration until I actually started video taping him and realized he was a wreck in reality, but in visual storytelling I loved the guy.
I bet he doesn't have a 5 + 1 Passionate Project list he fills out the day before.
Today I have gotten off to an awful start because of my insomnia spell.
Here I am, though, back and writing and not catching up but being present.
Being present that my schedule is off kilter and not making it or me wrong but instead maintaining focus. It will all work out. It will all work out.
I am grateful for these five minutes. Even with such a tiny slice of time, I can calm myself, I can have insights I can move myself forward.
Once again, I am waiting for the five minutes to end. Like that bonus: there is another rmessage I am meant to hear.
The message: wait for the applause. Trust it is coming. Lean into it and take another breath. Laugh when it comes.
I was in such a rush this morning I grabbed my most recent art to use for the prompt. It was an improvement because I ran with something just to run with something instead of giving up because i was so out of it.
I love "Slop" as an old name for women's dialogue in film.
I love I made the slop pail into a space of feminine celebration.
That, my loves, is an improvement.