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Q: Laravel Passport Set Session Getting below error when I am trying to set session by laravel passport
"message": "Session store not set on request.",
"exception": "RuntimeException",

A: This can be done in several ways.
1. Add StartSession middleware after auth:api.
This is the most straightforward solution. Add the following three lines right after auth:api.
EncryptCookies::class,
AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
StartSession::class,

Then remove \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class from
middlewarePriority protected property. Without this StartSession middleware will get control before auth and, more importantly, before EncryptCookies middlewares which, basically, will always lead to a new session.
<?php

namespace App\Http;

class Kernel extends HttpKernel
{
    // Copy this values from
    // \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel::$middlewarePriority
    // then remove or comment line with StartSession. Without it,
    // StartSession middleware will get control right before Auth.
    // Which, basically, will create a new session because at this
    // time cookies are still encrypted.
    protected $middlewarePriority = [
        // \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
        \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
        \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authorize::class,
    ];

    /**
     * The application's route middleware groups.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            ...
        ],
        'api' => [
            'throttle:120,1',
            'bindings',
            'auth:api', // https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/passport#protecting-routes

            // Add the following three middleware right after `auth`
            // in order to have a session.
            EncryptCookies::class,
            AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            StartSession::class,
        ],
    ];
}

2. Create your own StartSession middleware.
Having your own middleware for starting session will free you from necessaty to override middlewarePriority.
First, create a new class.
<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession;
use Illuminate\Session\SessionManager;

class StartSessionShared extends StartSession
{
    public function __construct(Application $app, SessionManager $manager)
    {
        parent::__construct($manager);
        $app->singleton(StartSessionShared::class);
    }
}

Then add the following three lines right after auth:api.
EncryptCookies::class,
AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
StartSessionShared::class,

One important note in this method is call to $app->singleton. Without it Laravel will always create a new instance of this class. Which will lead \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::terminate method to skip saving session.
3. Create your own StartSessionReadonly middleware.
This is a good choice if you want just to share session from web
guard to api guard and don't intend to alter its values in any way. This was my case.
Create the following StartSessionReadonly middleware. Then use it in api guard instead of StartSession and two its friends.
<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\Encrypter;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Session\Session;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession;
use Illuminate\Session\SessionManager;

/**
 * Middleware for sharing session between `web` and `api` guards.
 * Since the latter is essentially stateless, the session from
 * `web` is shared as readonly.
 *
 * @package App\Http\Middleware
 */
class StartSessionReadonly extends StartSession
{
    protected $encrypter;

    public function __construct(Encrypter $encrypter, SessionManager $manager)
    {
        parent::__construct($manager);
        $this->encrypter = $encrypter;
    }

    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        // If a session driver has been configured, we will need to start the session here
        // so that the data is ready for an application. Note that the Laravel sessions
        // do not make use of PHP "native" sessions in any way since they are crappy.
        if ($this->sessionConfigured()) {
            $request->setLaravelSession($this->startSession($request));
        }

        return $next($request);
    }

    public function getSession(Request $request)
    {
        return tap($this->manager->driver(), function (Session $session) use ($request) {
            $payload = $request->cookies->get($session->getName());
            $unserialize = EncryptCookies::serialized($session->getName());
            try {
                $session->setId($this->encrypter->decrypt($payload, $unserialize));
            }
            catch (DecryptException $exception) {
            }
        });
    }
}

After updating app/Http/Kernel.php you will have readonly session for all of your api.
<?php

namespace App\Http;

class Kernel extends HttpKernel
{
    [...]

    /****
     * The application's route middleware groups.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $middlewareGroups = [
        [...]
        'api' => [
            'throttle:120,1',
            'bindings',
            'auth:api', // https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/passport#protecting-routes
            StartSessionReadonly::class,
        ],
    ];

A: Laravel Passport is a token-based authentication package for laravel

APIs typically use tokens to authenticate users and do not maintain
  session state between requests. Laravel makes API authentication a
  breeze using Laravel Passport, which provides a full OAuth2 server
  implementation for your Laravel application in a matter of minutes.

Almost all the token-based systems including oAuth2 are by default stateless, which means there is no session attached to it,
Which means there is no session store.You can only rely on the token which is supplied on each request to validate the users identity.
That's why you are not able to set session when using laravel passport

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namespace Associate\Model;

class Employee
{
    public $id;
    public $employer_id;
    public $employee_id;
    public $firstname;
    public $lastname;
    public $gender;
    public $email;
    public $doj;
    public $dob;
    public $dot;
    public $createdat;
    public $level;
    public $designation;
    public $updatedat;
    public $status;
    public $grosspay;
    public $leaves;
    public $address1;
    public $address2;
    public $state;
    public $country;
    public $city;
    public $postcode;
    public $phone;
    public $fax;
    public $picture;
    public $bank_name;
    public $bank_account;
    public $pf_no;

    public function exchangeArray($data)
    {
        $this->id     = (!empty($data['id'])) ? $data['id'] : null;
        $this->employer_id     = (!empty($data['employer_id'])) ? $data['employer_id'] : null;
        $this->employee_id     = (!empty($data['employee_id'])) ? $data['employee_id'] : null;
        $this->firstname = (!empty($data['firstname'])) ? $data['firstname'] : null;
        $this->lastname  = (!empty($data['lastname'])) ? $data['lastname'] : null;
        $this->email  = (!empty($data['email'])) ? $data['email'] : null;
        $this->level  = (!empty($data['level'])) ? $data['level'] : null;
        $this->designation  = (!empty($data['designation'])) ? $data['designation'] : null;
        $this->gender = (!empty($data['gender'])) ? $data['gender'] : null;
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        $this->address2  = (!empty($data['address2'])) ? $data['address2'] : null;
        $this->state = (!empty($data['state'])) ? $data['state'] : null;
        $this->country  = (!empty($data['country'])) ? $data['country'] : null;
        $this->city = (!empty($data['city'])) ? $data['city'] : null;
        $this->postcode = (!empty($data['postcode'])) ? $data['postcode'] : null;
        $this->phone  = (!empty($data['phone'])) ? $data['phone'] : null;
        $this->fax  = (!empty($data['fax'])) ? $data['fax'] : null;
        $this->picture  = (!empty($data['picture'])) ? $data['picture'] : null;
        $this->createdat  = (!empty($data['createdat'])) ? $data['createdat'] : null;
        $this->updatedat  = (!empty($data['updatedat'])) ? $data['updatedat'] : null;
        $this->doj  = (!empty($data['doj'])) ? $data['doj'] : null;
        $this->dot  = (!empty($data['dot'])) ? $data['dot'] : null;
        $this->dob  = (!empty($data['dob'])) ? $data['dob'] : null;
        $this->status  = (!empty($data['status'])) ? $data['status'] : null;
        $this->grosspay  = (!empty($data['grosspay'])) ? $data['grosspay'] : null;
        $this->leaves  = (!empty($data['leaves'])) ? $data['leaves'] : null;
        $this->bank_name  = (!empty($data['bank_name'])) ? $data['bank_name'] : null;
        $this->bank_account  = (!empty($data['bank_account'])) ? $data['bank_account'] : null;
        $this->pf_no  = (!empty($data['pf_no'])) ? $data['pf_no'] : null;
    }
}

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Lauryn Hill, With Pras, Briefly Plays to the Crowd
For a few minutes this weekend — specifically, on Saturday evening, at the end of her set at the New York stop of the Rock the Bells festival — Lauryn Hill showed us what could have been. In the year and change since she's re-emerged as a live performer, Hill has stubbornly insisted on playing faster versions of the tracks from her classic solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, often often making them unrecognizable and angering concertgoers. The generous way to explain this is to say that Hill, after years of battling her former Fugees bandmate (and ex-partner) Wyclef Jean, and the music industry in general (see "To Zion"), has returned and is committed to doing things her way. The less generous take is that she's upped the tempo to cover up the fact that she can't sing as well as she used to. The truth, as evidenced by her performance on Saturday, lies somewhere in the middle.
For most of her set, Hill stuck to the new script. But then came a surprise appearance from from her other ex-Fugees bandmate, Pras (a man who once said, "Before I work with Lauryn Hill again, you will have a better chance of seeing Osama Bin Laden and [George W.] Bush in Starbucks having a latte, discussing foreign policies"). Together, they rampaged through Fugees single "Ready Or Not," with Hill leading the way. And as she knocked out both the absent (duh) Wyclef's bits and her own potent verse ("So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone /And defecating on your microphone"), the sleepy crowd erupted. And the two weren't done. While Lauryn pulled her many children on the stage to share the spotlight, Pras faux-cajoled her into doing one more song. She relented, shutting things down with a rendition of "Killing Me Softly" that flirted with her former greatness. Reviews of the show were harsh, and the masses probably won't be satisfied until Hill turns back the clock completely. But on Saturday, Hill proved that if she really wanted to, she could take us back there.
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Giants add RHP Zack Littell to bullpen mix
Posted by Kevin Cunningham | Feb 4, 2021 | Minor League News | 0
The San Francisco Giants have signed right-handed pitcher Zack Littell, 25, to a minor league contract and given him an invitation to spring training.
Littell had a strong season in 2019, when he had his largest season in the majors, posting a 2.68 ERA for the Minnesota Twins with 29 appearances, and 32 strikeouts against nine walks in 37 innings pitched. He struggled in 2020 however, dealing with hamstring problems and elbow inflammation. He had a 9.95 ERA in six appearances, and notable gave up five home runs in 6.1 innings.
He's a fastball/slider pitcher, with a fastball that sits in the mid-90's and can touch 97, and a good slider that gets strikeouts when it's working. A scout quoted by the Chronicle notes that Littell is a multiple-inning type of reliever, although in his 2019 season, he averaged a little less than 1.1 innings pitched per appearance. He was also used by the Twins in their 2018 "Opener" experiment as a rookie in 2018, although he gave up eight runs in seven innings in the role, and struggled with control, walking more (6) than he struck out (5).
The right-hander joins and increasingly crowded group of such pitchers trying to earn spots in the Giants bullpen. The Giants signed James Sherfy to a minor league deal earlier in the week, and also previously signed John Brebbia. They will compete with returning pitchers including Reyes Moronta, Shaun Anderson, Trevor Gott, and Tyler Rogers for the bullpen.
Littell was originally drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 11th round of the 2013 draft. In November of 2016, the Mariners traded him to the New York Yankees for LHP James Pazos. He later moved to the Twins at the 2017 trade deadline as part of the package for the Yankees to get Jaime Garcia.
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World Matchplay trends: Debutants, champions, top seeds & World Champs
On the eve of the 2022 Betfred World Matchplay, darts stats supremo Richard Ashdown takes a look at four historical trends of the summer's biggest tournament...
1. DEBUTANTS
In 2020, Dimitri Van den Bergh won the World Matchplay at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes on his first attempt. The Belgian became the first debutant to win the World Matchplay since USA's Larry Butler defeated Dennis Priestley in the inaugural final in 1994. Dimitri made his first appearance at the iconic Winter Gardens venue in 2021 and reached the final once again. Only three other men had ever reached the final on their debut, prior to Dimitri doing so.
Debutants reaching the final:
1994 - Larry Butler 16-12 Dennis Priestley
1998 - Rod Harrington 19-17 Ronnie Baxter
2003 - Phil Taylor 18-12 Wayne Mardle
2006 - Phil Taylor 18-11 James Wade
2020 - Dimitri Van den Bergh 18-10 Gary Anderson
Four players will have hopes of joining that elite club, as Martin Lukeman, Madars Razma, Rowby-John Rodriguez and Martin Schindler make their World Matchplay debuts in 2022.
In 2020, Glen Durrant became the third player to reach the World Matchplay semi finals in each of his first two appearances. Van den Bergh was the fourth, reaching back to back finals and now hopes to join Dennis Priestley and James Wade in reaching the final in each of their first three years.
Debutants reaching consecutive semi finals:
Dennis Priestley - 1994 Runner Up, 1995 Runner Up, 1996 Runner Up
James Wade - 2006 Runner Up, 2007 Champion, 2008 Runner Up
Glen Durrant - 2019 Semi Final, 2020 Semi Final
Dimitri Van den Bergh - 2021 Champion, 2022 Runner Up
2. REIGNING CHAMPIONS
In 2021, Peter Wright became the 10th man to be crowned World Matchplay champion. The last 6 years have seen 6 different players lift the trophy (2016 Michael van Gerwen, 2017 Phil Taylor, 2018 Gary Anderson, 2019 Rob Cross, 2020 Dimitri Van den Bergh, 2021 Peter Wright).
'Snakebite' begins his World Matchplay defence against Latvia's Madars Razma on Saturday evening. The reigning Matchplay champion has only ever lost in the first round twice before. 2005 champion Colin Lloyd fell at the first hurdle in 2006. The 2019 Blackpool winner Rob Cross lost in the first round in Milton Keynes the following year.
Matchplay champions to lose in the first round:
2006 - Steve Maish 10-6 Colin Lloyd
2020 - Gabriel Clemens 10-8 Rob Cross
Peter Wright hopes to become the fourth player to successfully retain the World Matchplay title. Rod Harrington was the first to do so in 1999 and Michael van Gerwen the last in 2016. 16-time World Matchplay champion Phil Taylor remarkably defended his crown on 10 occasions. 2007 champion James Wade and 2020 champion Dimitri Van den Bergh both came close in finishing runner up the following year.
Successful World Matchplay defences:
Rod Harrington (1998-1999)
Phil Taylor (2000-2001-2002-2003-2004)
Phil Taylor (2008-2009-2010-2011-2012-2013-2014)
Michael van Gerwen (2015-2016)
3. NO.1 SEEDS
The opening night of the 2022 Betfred World Matchplay sees Peter Wright take to the stage as the World No.1. The number one seed has previously lifted the trophy 16 times in 28 years, but not since Michael van Gerwen did so in 2016.
No.1 Seeds to win the World Matchplay:
Phil Taylor (1997/2000/2002/2003/2006/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013)
Rod Harrington (1998/1999)
Colin Lloyd (2005)
Michael van Gerwen (2015/2016)
Peter Wright becomes the 9th player to arrive at Blackpool as the World No.1, with Dennis Priestley (1994), Peter Manley (2001), John Part (2004) and Gerwyn Price (2021) having also been top seeds.
Price ended Michael van Gerwen's 7 year run at the head of the rankings (2014-2020).
Michael van Gerwen is one of three players to have lost their opening match in Blackpool as world number one.
No.1 seeds to lose in the first round:
1995 - Jocky Wilson 8-4 Rod Harrington
2001 - Steve Beaton 10-8 Peter Manley
2018 - Jeffrey de Zwaan 10-6 Michael van Gerwen
4. WORLD CHAMPIONS
The PDC World Championship and World Matchplay began in 1994. In 28 years, Phil Taylor is the only player to have won both titles in the same calendar year, and he did so on 10 occasions. As reigning World Champions, only Dennis Priestley (1994) and Michael van Gerwen (2014) have also reached the World Matchplay final in the same year.
Both World Champion and World Matchplay Champion:
Phil Taylor (1995/1997/2000/2001/2002/2004/2006/2009/2010/2013)
In each of the last five years, the reigning World Champion has not made it beyond the quarter finals of the World Matchplay.
The closest a reigning World Champion has been to a first round exit was in 2011. Adrian Lewis trailed 9-6 in the first round to Kevin Painter and survived 6 match darts, before winning the match 14-12.
World Champion's early exits at the World Matchplay:
1996 (R2) - Peter Evison 8-1 Phil Taylor
2003 (R2) - Wayne Mardle 16-14 John Part
2008 (R2) - Alan Tabern 13-7 John Part
2015 (R2) - Mensur Suljovic 13-9 Gary Anderson
2018 (R2) - Darren Webster 11-8 Rob Cross
2019 (R2) - Glen Durrant 13-11 Michael van Gerwen
2020 (R2) - Glen Durrant 11-8 Peter Wright
Peter Wright will be announced to the Blackpool stage by John McDonald as the current World Number One, the defending World Matchplay Champion and the reigning champion of the world. Only Phil Taylor (2002/2009/2010/2013) and Michael van Gerwen (2017) have shared those honours before. Taylor won the title on all four occasions. Van Gerwen lost in the 2017 quarter finals 16-6 to Phil Taylor.
Peter Wright will be hoping the trend continues in that the reigning World Champion has never lost in the first round of the World Matchplay.
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Completely renovating a beloved local icon can be risky business. Judging from the reactions at a preview this weekend, Andy Florsheim and the team behind Goose & Gander can breath easy, though. The new crew has done right by the 90-year-old landmark.
Let's be honest: As great as The Martini House was under Todd Humphries and Pat Kuleto, the upstairs dining room was something of a train wreck — a collision between safari chic and a Castillian wine cellar to be more precise. The new look is a vast improvement. At once airy and cozy, the space is full of warm nooks and crannies. The various rooms each have their own individual feel, but the space hangs together as a whole and is more welcoming than ever.
Alexandra Wines Designs redesigned the interior with Trisha Florsheim, conjuring something of a hunting lodge or "duck club" vibe (decoys abound), and working with natural woods (the tables are reclaimed redwood) and materials covering the upstairs walls in a rich red. Throughout, personal touches (such as a framed photo of Andy Florsheim's dad — what else? — duck hunting, stacks of dogeared books and other bric-a-brac) add to the warmth and tame the rambling 4,284-square-foot space.
The original front entrance to the California craftsman-style bungalow has been restored and serves as the main entrance (creatures of habit can still enter through the side, and past a snazzy natural wood communal table).
The downstairs area remains largely intact, with many of the old familiar features (such as the bar itself, the chicken wire cage behind the bottles, wood beams) joined by comfortable banquets and new touches that already feel well-worn and fit right in. Scott Beattie and Michael Jack Pazdon's prepared cocktail creations now line some of the walls in hand-labeled bottles, and framed portraits of rockers like Mick and Keef and Johnny Cash hang alongside those of hunting dogs. It's a very nice place to enjoy the pure Zen of watching the barkeep shave the ice into a shape that pleases him as he prepares your Manhattan. Overall, the bar feels just like it used to — perhaps only more so.


Here we have had the opportunity to work with children from the ages of 4 to 11 on a large scale assault course promoting hand eye coordination, gross motor skills, balance and resilience as well as self-reliance. The development of this area was the fourth stage in a larger strategy we have been involved in over the last 5 years. This strategy has been developed to allow children the freedom to explore and to observe and enjoy the outdoors within a safe and less stringent environment.


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Lacrosse Names Captains for 2014 Season
From left to right: Nina Dunay, Jillian Krick and Sam Struss
Seniors Nina Dunay and Jillian Krick, along with junior Sam Struss, have been tabbed team captains for the Liberty Lady Flames lacrosse team for the upcoming 2014 season. The three captains will provide leadership to a squad which features a young core of 20 players who are either freshmen or sophomores. Dunay, Krick and Struss will each assume the captain role for the first time in their Liberty careers.
A 2013 Big South second-team all-conference member, Dunay paced the Lady Flames with 29 goals, 69 shots and 50 shots on goal last season. The midfielder finished second on the squad in points (36) and caused turnovers (19) and in the top five on the team in assists (7), ground balls (28) and draw controls (33). The senior currently ranks second on the program's career list in goals (77), points (98) and shots (152).
Krick returns for her senior season after starting all 18 games of the 2013 campaign on defense. The Harrisburg, Pa., native tied for fifth on the squad in ground balls with 24 last season. Krick recorded seven double-digit ground ball games and also added five caused turnovers and two draw controls for the year. Krick will be called upon to anchor a defense which lost a pair of senior leaders in Chloe McIntosh and Amber Nichols from last season's squad.
Struss registered starts in all 18 contests last season, posting a team-high 40 points and 21 assists. The junior ranked ninth in the Big South with 1.17 assists per game. Struss tallied 19 goals on 46 shots. The Evans City, Pa., native posted a single-game program record seven assists on March 1 at Delaware State. Struss is the current program leader in career assists with 26. On April 20 at Longwood, Struss matched her single-game goal high with three tallies, giving her five multiple-goal games for the year.
The Lady Flames, under the direction of first-year head coach Kelly Nangle, open the 2014 season on Feb. 7 at Richmond. Liberty's home opener is set for Feb. 21 against Elon.
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Watching films with a two-and-a-half year-old (a poem) (yes really)
I have recently been reading a lot of the poetry of contemporary poet Brian Bilston (discovered via none other than this parish's Ben Broadribb). In an attempt to both a) write something in his inimitable style, (because it's great and I like a challenge), b) at least partially provide an excuse (at least to myself) for a lack of posting, c) write something about fatherhood and films, and how fatherhood changes films and d) to just... write something, here's a poem about watching films with a two-and-a-half year-old. The title took ages to think up.
Watching films with a two-and-a-half year-old
I've watched more films on a plane than in a cinema this year,
A two-point-five year-old son means there's just no time for Cape Fear.
Watching films up on high isn't exactly ideal,
But they do have those mini wine bottles and those blankets you can steal.
Still, there's plenty of 'screenings' happening in our house,
Totoro almost daily, and the odd one with Disney's mouse.
Some are watched for an hour, some only for five minutes, or two,
The two-point-five year-old saw 101 Dalmatians whilst he was having a poo.
And some would say that's a tragedy, (though I'd settle for a good Comedy, or even the new version of King Lear).
Kubo and The Two Strings was perhaps a bit too dark,
But I think he'd forgotten about it by the time we arrived at the park.
Song of the Sea is one our favourites; dad, son and mum watching Cartoon Saloon's best,
One of that crowd decided to take everything off but his vest.
I've watched more films on a plane than in a cinema this year, and that's a trade worth making,
There's less movies now but plenty more hugs and afternoons of messy baking.
Yes, sure there might be the occasional potty accident,
But there's also a huge smile when you create a den, or a DVD-box tent.
The best ones might not get watched as often but they're still fulfilling a purpose,
'Empathy machines' and man, you look at him and think... 'it was all worth it'.
By Sam Turner. Sam is editor of Film Intel, and can usually be found behind a keyboard with a cup of tea. He likes entertaining films and dislikes the other kind. He's on Google+, Twitter and several places even he doesn't yet know about.
Film Intel article for Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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Benjamin Broadribb 30 October 2018 at 17:44
This is great, Sam. Also, glad to have spread the Bilston love to at least one other person!
Sam Turner 31 October 2018 at 08:16
Yes, he's great. Regularly the highlight of my Facebook/Instagram feed.


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Франк — многозначный термин и фамилия.

Основные значения
 Франк — денежная единица.
 Франк — представитель  (см.)
 Франк — имя германского происхождения и образованная от него фамилия (см. ниже).
 Франк — небольшой ударный кратер на видимой стороне Луны.

Фамилия (для просмотра нажмите «показать»)

 Франк, Александр Александрович (род. 1982) — таджикско-германский футболист.
 Франк, Альберт Бернхард (1839—1900) — немецкий биолог, ботаник, профессор ботаники и миколог.
 Франк, Альфред (1884—1945) — немецкий художник, гравёр и скульптор.
 Франк, Альфред фон (1808—1884) — австрийский гравёр, археолог, коллекционер.
 Франк, Андре (1929—2005) — немецкий экономист, социолог.
 Франк, Анна (1929—1945) — автор «Дневника Анны Франк».
 Франк, Анна Глебовна (род. 1936) — советский и российский физик.
 Франк, Антье (род. 1968) — немецкая гребчиха.
 Франк, Бруно (1887—1945) — немецкий писатель, поэт и драматург.
 Франк, Валерий Александрович (1880—1966) — военный инженер-механик, Георгиевский кавалер.
 Франк, Вилли (1903—1989) — зубной врач, гауптштурмфюрер СС
 Франк, Вольфганг (1951—2013) — немецкий футболист и тренер.
 Франк, Вячеслав Генрихович (род. 1965) — российский политический деятель, глава г. Барнаула.
 Франк, Ганс (1900—1946) — рейхсминистр юстиции нацистской Германии.
 Франк, Георгий Авраамович (род. 1936) — российский патологоанатом и онколог.
 Франк, Герман (род. 1959) — немецкий музыкант, гитарист, продюсер.
 Франк, Герт (1956—2019) — датский трековый и шоссейный велогонщик.
 Франк, Герц Вульфович (1926−2013) — кинорежиссёр-документалист, сценарист.
 Франк, Глеб Михайлович (1904—1976) — советский биофизик, академик АН СССР.
 Франк, Григорий Яковлевич (1935—2009) — советский звукорежиссёр, телеведущий.
 Франк, Густав Вильгельм (1832—1904) — немецкий протестантский богослов, философ, историк и писатель.
 Франк, Джеймс (1882—1964) — германский/американский физик, лауреат Нобелевской премии.
 Франк, Джозеф (1918—2013) — американский филолог-славист и литературный критик.
 Франк, Дмитрий Сигизмундович (1889—1986) — полковник Русского корпуса.
 Франк, Ева (1754—1816) — дочь Якоба Франка.
  (1895—1941) — французский дизайнер и декоратор.
 Франк, Жан-Пьер (1774—1860) — французский художник-портретист, брат-близнец Жозефа Франка.
 Франк, Жозеф (1774—1833) — французский художник-портретист, брат-близнец Жана-Пьера Франка.
 Франк, Завелий Аронович (1910—?) — Герой Социалистического Труда.
 Франк, Иван Петрович (Johann Frank, 1745—1821) — врач.

 Франк, Иоахим (род. 1940) — германо-американский химик, лауреат Нобелевской премии.
 Франк, Йозеф (Иосиф Иванович Франк; 1771—1842) — учёный-медик, профессор Виленского университета.
 Франк, Йозеф (архитектор) (1885—1967) — австрийско-шведский архитектор, дизайнер мебели.
 Франк, Йозеф (политик) (1909—1952) — чешский политик.
 Франк, Йосип (1844—1911) — хорватский юрист и политик.
 Франк, Карл Герман (1898—1946) — обергруппенфюрер СС.
 Франк, Керстин (род. 1988) — австрийская фигуристка (одиночный разряд).
 Франк, Клеменс (род. 1961) — немецкий пловец в ластах.
 Франк, Лео Макс (1884—1915) — управляющий Национальной карандашной фабрики США, жертва суда Линча.
 Франк, Леонгард (1882—1961) — немецкий писатель.
 Франк, Либориус фон (1848—1935) — австро-венгерский военачальник, генерал пехоты.

 Франк, Людвиг (1834—1884) — немецкий анатом, ветеринар и педагог.
 Франк, Магда (1914—2010) — венгерско-аргентинский скульптор.
 Франк, Максимилиан Леонтьевич — стекольный промышленник в Российской империи в конце XIX и начале XX века, один из совладельцев Торгового дома «М. Франкъ и К°», Торгового дома «М. Эрленбах и К°», Северного стекольно-промышленного общества.
 Франк, Марго (1926—1945) — старшая сестра Анны Франк.
 Франк, Маттиас (род. 1986) — швейцарский велогонщик.
 Франк, Мауриц (1892—1959) — нидерландско-немецкий виолончелист.
 Франк, Микко (род. 1979) — финский дирижёр.
 Франк, Михаил Людвигович (1878—1942) — российский и советский математик, историк воздухоплавания.

 Франк, Пауль (настоящее имя: Карл Вильгельм Мерзебургер; 1816—1885) — музыкальный издатель, автор справочной литературы.
 Франк, Пауль (1888—1950) — немецкий фигурист-одиночник.
 Франк, Пьер (1905—1984) — французский троцкист.
 Франк, Рейнгольд (1896—1945) — немецкий юрист, член движения Сопротивления Германии.
 Франк, Рене (1898—1983) — бельгийский спортивный функционер, президент Международной федерации хоккея на траве в 1966—1983 годах.
 Франк, Роберт (род. 1924) — американо-швейцарский фотограф, кинорежиссёр.
 Франк, Рудольф (1886—1979) — немецко-швейцарский актёр, режиссёр и публицист.
 Франк, Себастьян (1499—1543) — немецкий философ, богослов, историк.
 Франк, Сезар (1822—1890) — французский композитор, органист.
 Франк, Семён Людвигович (1877—1950) — русский философ.
 Франк, Сергей Оттович (род. 1960) — российский государственный деятель, министр транспорта РФ.
 Франк, Соломон (1659—1725) — немецкий литератор и чиновник.
 Франк, Тобиас (род. 1958) — немецкий хоккеист на траве, двукратный призёр Олимпийских игр.

 Франк, Торбен (род. 1968) — датский футболист, чемпион Европы.
 Франк, Филипп (1884—1966) — физик, математик.
 Франк, Фриц (1914—1988) — немецкий орнитолог, териолог и эколог.
 Франк, Эдит (1900—1945) — мать Анны Франк.
 Франк, Юлия (род. 1970) — немецкая писательница.
 Франк, Якоб (1726—1791) — польско-еврейский религиозный деятель.

Дворянские роды
 Франки — российский дворянский род.

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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat an eye opener, a good read about raw courage and nerve.
Am so pleased to have read this book, about a part of WWll Of which I had no knowledge. It is pacey and at times heart stopping. It was an incredibly bad time for Jews, and heartwarming to read of the Jews who successfully fought back. The hardships and privations born these brave Jewish partisans are incredible, yet they did it and many survived. A truly great read.
It is hard to imagine a life lived surrounded by enemies and betrayers. Not like our soldiers who faced the enemy and had safety behind them.
This is a fascinating book written by a Jewish man who served in the partisan movement and Polish underground during World War Two. Frankly, we are lucky to have this book given the dangers this man faced every day of his life during the war.
It is not an easy book to read. The author loses most of his family in the first thirty pages of the war. He refuses to go quietly and literally would prefer to die fighting the Germans.
His first rifle was a pitchfork modified to look like a rifle with a bayonet on the front end. The result was in the dark he and his men could be mistaken for Polish soldiers. Things progressed until they eventually found serious weaponry or captured it from the Germans and turned the weapons on the invaders.
It is no minor miracle the man survived the war. As a Jew, he had plenty of people trying to kill him. Eventually, after the war he moves to the United States. This had me wondering how many of these brave men did the very same thing and started their lives over.
One of the things that became clear to me was how the war shaped post-war Poland. Large populations of people, their culture, and private property were displaced or destroyed during the war. It was hell, for sure. However, today the nation simply cannot be what it was before the war. Too many people have died.
One of the best things about the book is a very personal story. The author, despite living in swamps and forests, from minute-to-minute, manages to find the love of his life. I thought it was magnificent he succeeded despite all odds.
Over all I enjoyed the book a good deal. I think it provides great insight into an area of history that should never be forgotten. There are many lessons to be learned from this man's valor and perseverance. I am grateful to read it.
If you are interested in learning more about the time period I would recommend Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes as it provides a great deal of information about the destruction of Poland and Russia as a result of the war.
Frank Blaichman's narrative of the Jewish partisans fills a void that searchers for Jewish resistance have longed for since WWII. So many stories of the Holocaust depict Jews, rightfully so, as victims, it is refreshing to read about courageous Jewish partisans, who determined to fight and die with guns in their hands, rather than submit to Nazi exterminations. It is also a testament to the courage of the Polish gentiles who unselfishly risked their lives and that of their families to aid and protect these partisans. Not all Poles were anti-semites. A very good read.
Blaichman's story is inspiring. To come of age in the midst of the Holocaust and to make the decision to leave his family and start down a path that led to survival and vindication for his family's murder is hard to imagine. His is a wonderful story of triumph in the face of unimaginable adversity.
Did not expect the story to be so good and so heroic. I am grateful for this story because I had no idea so many Jews fought back. Truly inspiring.
Writer and fighter. This is a great story about people who put their lives in danger. They suffered cold, hunger and constant fear of betrayal. They continued to fight with the end of the conflict undetermined. Read the story and be inspired.


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Surging coronavirus cases are complicating decisions on how to reopen schools in Hampton Roads
At the end of June, with many of the state's key coronavirus metrics trending in a positive direction, it appeared as if Hampton Roads had escaped the worst of the pandemic. And with those promising signs came the hope that schools could reopen this fall — as close to normally […]
At the end of June, with many of the state's key coronavirus metrics trending in a positive direction, it appeared as if Hampton Roads had escaped the worst of the pandemic. And with those promising signs came the hope that schools could reopen this fall — as close to normally as possible.
Many local cities had been reporting just a handful of new cases each day and much of the region was well below the state's goal of less than 10% of tests coming back positive. There was optimism from educators, experts and parents that schools could offer students at least some in-person instruction.
But over the past three weeks, there has been nothing but bad news in the region's rising case numbers, positive test rates and hospitalizations, particularly among younger age groups. The recent trends are complicating school boards' options as they face a deadline to finalize their fall plans.
"The schools' decision has been made tremendously more difficult because of what's happening in our community," said Nancy Welch, the director of the Chesapeake Health Department.
She said no matter what metrics are evaluated, local health officials are extremely concerned.
As of Thursday, Hampton Roads is failing to meet the goals — established by epidemiologists — for what percentage of tests should come back positive, an indication that the community spread of the illness is not under control. None of the region's health districts are below the World Health Organization's recommended rate of 5% positive tests, a threshold governments use when deciding on whether to reopen businesses and schools.
Even at the state's more generous goal of 10%, only one health district in Hampton Roads meets that metric: the Peninsula, at 8.7%.
Chesapeake was at 14.5% on Thursday, while Portsmouth and Virginia Beach were at 12.1% and 11.4%, respectively. Hampton was up to 11.4%. Norfolk's rate was more than triple the 5% threshold, at 17.1%. And each city has been trending in the wrong direction, souring experts and key stakeholders as school systems prepare to finalize their plans.
From a public health perspective, Anna Jeng, a professor at the School of Community and Environmental Health at Old Dominion University, said she would recommend teaching only online rather than holding any in-person classes.
"We can't contain (the coronavirus)," she said. "It continues to increase."
Northam stressed during a Tuesday press conference that although the state department of education sent out guidance on how best to reopen schools, the final decision will be in the hands of local school boards.
Some of the state's largest school systems have already opted to start this fall with online learning as the country's coronavirus cases have surged.
The Richmond School Board voted this week for only virtual learning. Arlington Public Schools recently reversed course, too, opting to start the year with remote learning.
But in Hampton Roads, where the school year starts after Labor Day, most districts are still waiting to make their final decision. Only Chesapeake has announced a plan, with the school board saying last week that families could choose between in-person or virtual instruction. But it still depends on how much on-campus instruction will be permitted by health guidelines.
It can be a balancing act, between leaving enough time for administrators to plan for this fall and not making a decision too soon, as the COVID-19 situation in Hampton Roads can shift quickly.
"I don't think it's possible to make one decision and say 'That's it, sorry folks,'" Welch said. "This is a moving process. It changes every day."
The decision from schools is tied to the conditions locally, she said. And as it stands now, the region is seeing a dramatic increase in cases and hospitalizations from a month ago. Norfolk and Virginia Beach are reporting the most new cases each day in the state, above even Fairfax County, home to some 1.1 million people. Chesapeake and Newport News are seeing the fourth and sixth most new cases, respectively.
While some residents in the region have expressed interest in setting a hard-and-fast threshold for when schools could offer in-person classes — like a locality's rate of positive tests — health officials said it's important to take a holistic approach. School systems should look at which way trends are moving rather than at a specific number.
Aaron Spence, the superintendent of Virginia Beach public schools, hosted a panel with local health officials and physicians this week to provide guidance on how best to plan for this fall. The 11-person group, which included the Virginia Beach Health District Director Dr. Demetria Lindsay, will work with the division in the coming months, said Sondra Woodward, a school spokesperson, in a statement.
There was a "focus on science-based and data-driven information that will significantly influence the division's decision on how the school year will start in September," Woodward said.
While local educators and administrators have stressed that their preference is to be with their students, the chance for a full return-to-near-normal plan this fall has dwindled as the local health conditions have deteriorated.
The pessimism was clear at the Norfolk School Board meeting Tuesday when board members said they think the fall semester should start virtually for all students, the first school board in Hampton Roads to push for all remote teaching.
"With the limited capacity of this country, this state and our locality to appropriately handle this public health crisis — which seems to be worsening every day — I'm at a point right now where I would like to encourage and recommend that we do go fully virtual come the fall," said board member Tanya Bhasin.
The board plans to vote next week.
As each school district nears a decision, there are are a number of logistical problems to iron out, including scheduling, busing, changing classes and providing meals, to name a few. Rachel White, an assistant professor at Old Dominion University's College of Education and Professional Studies, said there shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all approach to reopening schools. Different communities will have varying needs and capacities.
Some might have more than enough space to be socially distant for in-person classes but have limited technology available among the population they teach. Others might not have the ability to get everyone back inside schools for five days a week but have more capacity online.
Even down to the grade level, whether to teach online or in-person depends on the student's circumstances. Younger students, those with disabilities and those learning English need face-to-face instruction more than older students.
Welch said it's a tough balancing act, trying to decide between education, equity, economic activity and safety. Even amid a pandemic, Welch said she's "glad (she's) in public health and not the education system right now."
And even the best-laid plans might have to change on a dime, she said.
"It's going to be a really interesting tightrope to walk," White said. "Within a day's notice, you might have to figure out what's going to happen with your first-grader now that they're going to be home for two weeks."
Virginia Beach's school division, which held some in-person summer programs, has already seen at least two positive COVID-19 cases among staff, at Centerville Elementary School and Cox High School, according to letters to parents. At educational facilities in Virginia, the state says there have been 20 outbreaks — meaning two or more positive cases — but the health department doesn't detail whether those outbreaks have been in daycares, K-12 schools or colleges.
Virginia Beach officials said they believe the risk of transmission in both cases was low and continued holding classes.
But those cases — coupled with the local health situation and possibility of returning for in-person classes this fall — has heightened the worries of many teachers.
"I did not sign up to risk my life on a daily basis for my job," said elementary school teacher Kaitlin Jensen during a town hall meeting hosted Thursday by the Virginia Beach Education Association.
That union, which represents some 1,400 teachers, said on Thursday that it "cannot support the opening of schools to face-to-face instruction" due to rising coronavirus cases in the region.
In Virginia Beach, school board member Dan Edwards said the decision has become much tougher in the past few weeks, with three options — all-remote instruction, a full reopening of schools or a hybrid of those options where students would come in for two days a week while following strict social distancing precautions — still on the table.
"I have no idea what we're going to do," he said.
Staff writer Sara Gregory contributed reporting.
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There was dispute about the admissibility of a family report prepared by an expert when interim parenting orders were requested. An ICL can tender a report from one expert assessor without a Court's permission, whereas parties require the permission of the Court before they can tender expert reports. An application was made to exclude from evidence a family report submitted by the ICL on the grounds that the assessor had made a fundamental failure to consider all of the relevant information in the family report (expert evidence unsatisfactory). A family report had recommended that the child aged 4 years transfer from the care of the applicant (a foster carer) to the care of the mother (biological parent).
The duty of an expert witness expressed in Judges Rules includes: a – to give an objective and unbiased opinion that is also independent and impartial on matters that are within the expert witness's knowledge and capability; and b – to consider all material facts, including those that may detract from the expert witness's opinion.
Parties acknowledged that the applicants had been foster carers for much of the child's life, and they were like family to him.
The mother had not made contact with the child during a 12 month period when she was in another state (contact limited involvement), and this was interpreted by the Department as the mother abandoning the child. The assessor stated that the mother had been meeting Departmental case goal plans, but this statement was reportedly inconsistent with Departmental records. The assessor did not acknowledge that Departmental plans were for long term guardianship rather than for reunification. The applicant submitted that the assessor had deliberately failed to mention contents of a Case Review Report that were adverse to the mother and that, in doing so, the assessor displayed a lack of objectivity.
The applicant submitted that the family assessor had: failed to review relevant material, failed to seek input from the child's treating psychologist despite being asked to do this by the ICL, and failed to review a Departmental Case Review Report in any meaningful way so that the family report was so factually inaccurate or deficient that the opinions expressed within it were not objective or had so little probative weight as to render the family report irrelevant (expert evidence unsatisfactory).
The applicant submitted that the assessor brought a preconceived view to his assessment of the child's circumstances and that this view reflects an absence of impartial opinion and an underlying personal bias against foster carers like the applicants who later seek parenting orders in the Court.
The judge found that the assessor had commenced his assessment of the competing proposals for parenting orders involving the child with the preconceived view that the child should live with his biological parent as long as the mother was 'willing and able.' The judge found that the assessor had expressed a personal opinion about whether foster carers in general ought to have rights in the Court to advocate for, and to seek orders in relation to, children placed into their care by State authorities. The judge found that the assessor considered possible ramifications for other children living with foster carers rather than focusing solely on consideration of what was in the best interests of the individual child. The judge found that a reasonable reader would conclude that the assessor determined that if the mother was willing and able to care for the child, then his recommendations would be supportive of this result. The judge found that the assessor brought a predetermined view rather than arriving at a view based on a consideration of the material available to him (partisan).
The judge found that the assessor had failed to discharge the duty imposed by the Judges Rules upon expert witnesses (objectivity).
The judge found that deficiencies in the Family Report warranted the report being set aside and not admitted as evidence (evidence admissibility). A new assessment was requested.


Dr. Laurence Baker received his osteopathy degree in 1966 from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines. After completing an oncology fellowship at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Dr. Baker joined the faculty in 1972. In 1986, he became director of the Division of Hematology and Oncology, a position he held until 1992. In 1987, Dr. Baker accepted the directorship of the Meyer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit. He joined the University of Michigan in 1994 where he served as associate chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology until April 2005, when he became chairman of the Southwest Oncology Group, the largest clinical trials organization in the United States. Dr. Baker's interests include sarcoma research, clinical trials and new drug development. Most recently, he has turned his attention to survivorship issues of patients treated for cure of a sarcoma. In October 2014 he established the first Sarcoma Survivorship Program located in the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. The clinic addresses long-term care for sarcoma survivors by preventing or diagnosing and treating chronic illnesses associated with sarcoma survivorship.


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Several upgrade initiatives are beneath way for several railway tracks and that makes rail site visitors on these lines a bit sluggish in the meanwhile. Even although Romania has not been historically seen as a 'bus nation', buses have gotten a increasingly in style approach to attain the country from overseas, especially from the Balkans and the former USSR, but additionally from Western Europe, e.g. For this cause, a slew of private bus operators now provide quicker and arguably extra comfy coach providers to and from cities such as Chişinău, Kiev, Odessa, Sofia and Istanbul. There are every day worldwide trains to Vienna, Budapest, Sofia, Istanbul, Chişinău, Kiev and Moscow. But because of the poor high quality of rail infrastructure within the region prepare journey on long distances takes appreciable time.
If you allow the common touristic routes, Romanian is the only way to ask for information. That will not be such an issue; learn some basic phrases and ask them to write the answers.
In music, crucial occasion is the "George Enescu" Classical Music Festival but in addition festivals like "Jeunesses Musicales" International Festival and Jazz festivals in Sibiu and Bucharest are appreciated. An essential occasion took place in 2007 when the city of Sibiu was, along with Luxembourg, the European Capital of Culture.
According to another estimate, there are about 34 million individuals worldwide who can communicate Romanian, out of which 30 million communicate it as a native language. It is an official and nationwide language of each Romania and Moldova and is among the official languages of the European Union.
Several others, including Wind Jet , AlpiEagles , Ryanair , and GermanWings ) already operate flights to Romania. Easyjet operates flights from London, Milan and Madrid, SmartWings operates flights from Prague. Turkish low-price carrier Pegasus connects Bucharest (Otopeni) and Istanbul (Sabiha Göokayçen) 5 days a week. Not only is Romanian the official language in Romania, but additionally within the Republic of Moldova. A former region of Romania, lost in 1940 as a consequence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moldova (at that time named Basarabia) was ceded to the Soviet Union.
Some sporadic events like the "2005 Bucharest CowParade" have been properly obtained and yearly events and festivals have regularly attracted curiosity. Medieval festivals held in cities in Transylvania, which combine road theatre with music and battle reenactments to create a very vigorous atmosphere, are some of the most popular occasions.
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A3 – is supposed to cross Transylvania diagonally from west to east after which head south to Bucharest. The Bors – Brasov section, also called the Transylvania Motorway , is at present the most important road project in Europe; it's going to join the Hungarian / Romanian border with Oradea, Zalau, Cluj-Napoca, Targu Mures, Sighisoara and Brasov. The challenge was under development until the contractor, Bechtel, went bankrupt. Bucharest-Braşov can also be underneath construction, and the primary section (Bucharest – Ploiești) was completed in late 2012.
The interval from 1905 to 1917 was one of rising linguistic battle, with the re-awakening of Romanian national consciousness. In 1905 and 1906, the Bessarabian zemstva requested for the re-introduction of Romanian in faculties as a "obligatory language", and the "liberty to show romanian women in the mom language (Romanian language)". At the same time, Romanian-language newspapers and journals began appearing, similar to Basarabia , Viața Basarabiei , Moldovanul , Luminătorul , Cuvînt moldovenesc , Glasul Basarabiei .
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However Romania's membership in the European Union will assist in closing the hole in the years to return. As of the yr 2009 the Romanian Government has decided to implement a massive infrastructure funding programme which is able to benefit the entire country. The Romanian Government hopes to efficiently implement the massive infrastructure program by the top of their mandate in 2012. A Romanian national revival motion began in Transylvania within the late 1700's and swept across the Carpathians, inspiring the 1859 unification of Moldavia and Wallachia, thus creating fashionable national Romania.
The roads especially in Transylvania are constructed on prime of the old medieval routes and there's always one thing to cease and go to on your method. Take particular care on the roads linking Romania to its western borders, as traffic is heavy and most roads have one or two lanes each means, and for the most half are unlit. Blue Air, the only Romanian low-price airline, based in Bucharest Baneasa with a secondary hub in Bacau and a focus city in Sibiu. These non-EU/EFTA visa-free visitors might not stay more than 90 days in a one hundred eighty day interval within the Schengen Area as a complete and, normally, might not work throughout their keep (although some Schengen countries do enable certain nationalities to work – see under).
The final verse of this song, Eu nu mă las de limba noastră, de limba noastră cea română is translated in English as "I won't forsake our language, our Romanian language". Also, the Moldovan musicians Doina and Ion Aldea Teodorovici carried out a song referred to as "The Romanian language". Romanian is taught in some areas that have Romanian minority communities, such as Vojvodina in Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Hungary. The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) has since 1992 organised summer programs in Romanian for language academics.
These are thought-about both propagandistic results of confessional rivalries, as an example between Lutheranism and Calvinism, or as initiatives by Romanian monks stationed at Peri Monastery in Maramureş to distance themselves from the influence of the Mukacheve eparchy in Ukraine. Romanian descended from the Vulgar Latin spoken in the Roman provinces of Southeastern Europe. Most regions the place Romanian is now widely spoken—Bessarabia, Bukovina, Crișana, Maramureș, Moldova, and important elements of Muntenia—weren't incorporated within the Roman Empire.
If coming with a mobility grant (Erasmus/Socrates or similar), it is extremely necessary to go to the International Office of the Romanian University as soon as possible, as Romanian paperwork tends to be quite spectacular and may take a while to be processed. Inflation has struck Romania in many locations, and a few costs are as excessive or larger than these in Western Europe, but this is typically reserved to luxuries, accommodation, technology, and, to an extent, eating places. However, meals and transport remain relatively low-cost (but more expensive than in different countries within the region), as does basic purchasing, especially in markets and outdoors the capital. Bucharest, as with the vast majority of capital cities in the world, is costlier than anywhere else within the nation, particularly in the metropolis centre.
Two title days you'll probably be taught the onerous way – Florii (the Sunday earlier than orthodox Easter) is the name day for anyone named Florin (male name), Florina, Florentina, Florenta, Flora (women names), and anyone with flower names. For example, Brandusa is a flower title and it means 'Meadow saffron', so women named Brandusa will celebrate their name day on Florii. Even if she is not keen on celebrating, she will be thrilled you tell her La multi ani!
Travel to/from any other country (Schengen or not) from/to Romania will (as of now) outcome in the regular immigration checks, however travelling to/from one other EU country you'll not have to cross customs. However, if Romania usually requires a visa on your nationality, this may be waived if you already have a legitimate Schengen visa. Romanian started forming initially of the second century when the Romans conquered the territory of Dacia, located in the territory that might turn out to be Romania. Roman culture and language influenced the Dacian group, which finally began using Vulgar Latin (frequent Roman) as their language. As in different nations in Eastern Europe, the individuals of Romania have fun holidays with special dishes.
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Your New Favorite Destination Awaits: Charming Canada
Often overshadowed by its smaller, but louder southern neighbour (the USA), Canada will enjoy the spotlight this year as it celebrates its 150th birthday. The occasion is being marked, nationwide and throughout 2017, with a string of vivacious events celebrating Canada's diverse culture and heritage.
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Often overshadowed by its smaller, but louder southern neighbour (the USA), Canada will enjoy the spotlight this year as it celebrates its 150th birthday. The occasion is being marked, nationwide and throughout 2017, with a string of vivacious events celebrating Canada's diverse culture and heritage. You can soak up the festive vibes - and experience the natural wonders of the world's second largest country - on Collette's Canada travel tours. But which one will you choose?
Canadian Rockies by Train
After two days' savouring Vancouver - frequently voted one of the planet's most liveable cities - you'll overnight on VIA Rail's The Canadian, one of North America's most vaunted train rides. It snakes up into the Canadian Rockies, where you'll encounter swathes of picture-perfect mountain scenery, from the mesmerising Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks to the awe-inspiring Columbia Icefield, which you can gawp at from inside a huge all-terrain vehicle or by treading the lofty, glass-floored Glacier Skywalk. Adding to the allure of this ten-day tour is being able to enjoy the great outdoors, while recuperating in some mighty fine hotels. Accommodation includes the Fairmont Banff Springs and the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Join this tour on selected dates in July and you'll also witness the Calgary Stampede - a world-famous rodeo and fair which Canadians call 'The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth'.
Maritimes Coastal Wonders
Relatively undiscovered by tourists, the provinces of Canada's far east take centre stage in this beguiling 11-day adventure which begins in Halifax, the charming capital of Nova Scotia. Breathe in memorable, salty-aired vistas of the Atlantic Ocean at nearby Peggy's Cove, a fishing village home to one of Canada's most iconic lighthouses. After cruising over to Prince Edward Island, you'll tour the rolling landscapes that were the bucolic backdrop to Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic 1908 novel. Then it's into New Brunswick, where you'll feast on delicious Maritime lobster and take in the startling coastal scenery around the Bay of Fundy. As well as admiring Hopewell Rocks, a series of dramatic rock formations sculpted by the world's highest tides, you'll venture along the Fundy Trail, a seaside route characterised by its craggy cliffs, thunderous waves and rewarding lookouts. Over 260 species of birds have been spotted in these parts, including hawks, eagles and the Black Capped Chickadee (New Brunswick's 'official' provincial bird).
Charming French Canada
This enchanting eight-day tour flaunts the cultural and natural jewels of Quebec, a French-speaking oasis in a predominantly Anglophone country. After discovering Montreal, a buzzing metropolis that this year toasts its 375th anniversary, you'll head north to Quebec City, where you'll check into Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac, a grandiose hotel that lords over the Parisian-flavoured cobbled streets of this, North America's oldest walled city north of Mexico. Myriad treats await in the pastoral countryside surrounding Quebec City. Learn how to make 'maple taffy' - a traditional syrup snack - at a rustic 'sugar shack', before delving into the Charlevoix region for a ferry ride to L'Isle-aux-Coudres, a tranquil island in the St Lawrence River (on which you'll also enjoy a whale-watching expedition). You'll bed down at the Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, a chic five-star waterfront hotel hedged by pretty forested hills. Bon voyage!
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While the first part of this nine-day tour takes in the highlights of Quebec, the second part showcases Ontario. And of all the gems in Canada's most populated province, they don't come any more dazzling than Niagara Falls. Don a poncho and hop on a Hornblower cruise, which takes passengers so close to these wondrous waterfalls that you'll feel the spray. Afterwards, mosey around Niagara-on-the-Lake, a contender for Canada's quaintest town with its tree-and-flower lined streets and handsome heritage buildings that house cafes, restaurants and boutiques. This tour - which also includes a night in the elegant Canadian capital, Ottawa - ends in Toronto, the country's biggest and most cosmopolitan city. Here you'll find world-class sights like the CN Tower, a patchwork of eclectic neighbourhoods and a revitalised harbourfront hugging Lake Ontario.
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Why the Gaza disaster is not 3 weeks old and has not stopped along with the bombs
Following the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza that started late December 2008, the eyes of the world have been opened to the reality of the daily lives of the people of Gaza; or the reality that the media has agreed to disclose.
People's knowledge on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict varies and fluctuates regarding the political tendencies of the individual, the geographical location of where they and the type of media exposure they receive.
Though the media throughout the world eventually picked up the story of the ongoing slaughter of Gaza and the cost to Palestinian women, children and infrastructure, there was important background and context information that was hardly mentioned during the climax of a war.
"Why rocket are still fired on Israel?" was a recurring question we received at Palestine Monitor.
Although nothing can ever justify aggression, the use of violence and the loss of civilian life, there are facts that have to be emphasized on why combatants were still targeting Israel after the so-called Israeli disengagement from the Strip in 2005.
Yesterday, in a conference on media bias by IPCRI, we heard a journalist from the Jerusalem Post assuming that the main cause that lead to bias in the Israeli public opinion, and in the newspapers that were feeding that same opinion, was that Israelis strongly believe in the 'disengagement' of 2005 and assume that Israel has not exerted any control on the Strip since then. For the majority of them, he said, "and I myself was among those, this was a unilateral war, resulting from 8 years of unilateral aggression by Hamas on Israel."
But Gaza's misery did not start 3 weeks ago; and it has certainly not ended following the ceasefire.
The context which is often neglected in the Israeli press is that of the deadly and worsening siege policy on the Gaza Strip started 18 months ago.
Illustrative of the depth of this siege are the recent surveys concerning the rapid increase in 'stunted growth' in Gaza's Children over the last years.
A phenomena like stunting does not occur overnight, nor can it be quickly reversed, and is a sad figure which will hopefully awaken Israel and the world to the lies that they left Gaza 'all alone' after 2005.
Gaza, January 2009 Picture: AP Since the June 2007 take over of Gaza by Hamas, Gazans have been living in a constant state of siege and blockade, resulting in severe restrictions and shortages of the most basic supplies such as food, flour, fuel, cooking gas, electricity, water supply, medicines and medical equipment. This siege has been declared as a form of collective punishment and condemned by a vast array of governments and Human Rights organizations alike.
On the 17th of December 2008 - the eve of the 'Cast lead' operation'- UNRWA, the United Nation Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees - 70% of the Gaza residents are registered refugees dependent on for food supplies - suspended its food aid to Gaza and 750,000 Palestinians due to border closure. UNRWA storage warehouses in Gaza were completely empty and no trucks have been allowed to cross into Gaza to fill them up.
Prior to the Israeli 'Cast Lead' operation, the situation in Gaza was already classified by the main legitimate international humanitarian organisations as a "humanitarian crisis".
Human rights and development organisations such as Amnesty International, Care International, Medecins du Monde, Oxfam and Save the Children declared in March 2008 that the situation in Gaza represented "the worst humanitarian crisis in the Strip since Israel occupied it in the 1967 war" and that this was "a man-made disaster resulting from the isolation and blockade."
A disaster that has been severely exacerbated by the Israeli assault which left over 1,300 dead, more injured people than hospitals can manage and the destruction of most of the civilian facilities and infrastructure in the Strip.
Stunted growth as a long term gift for Gaza children
The brutal siege has crippled Gaza, and most importantly the children. In 2007, Surveys pointed that 10% of Palestinian children suffer permanent effects from malnutrition. One obvious effect of malnutrition among children is stunted growth [1], which has increased about 3% percent in the last two years. Report found that 13.2 % of the children of Gaza suffer stunted growth, compared to 7.9% percent in the West Bank.
Gaza, January 2009 Picture: AP Both numbers are alarming, but it also shows that this gap is being increased rapidly, between the two entities that constitute Palestine: Gaza and the West Bank. They are indeed living two different realities and suffering from different treatment from Israel. The Gaza Strip is facing policies of heavy siege while the West Bank is facing a permanent occupation. As both are heavily restricted in movement back and forth, the health differences between the Palestinians from Gaza and their counterparts in the West Bank is indeed growing at the same rate that there ability to interact are disappearing.
Most recently, a Worldvision report released in December 2008, prior to the attacks, updated the terrible impact of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip on the Palestinian children. "Children are malnourished and lacking vital protein and vitamins which is leading to stunted growth in around 27% of children in the Gaza." Mild stunting affects almost 13% of children, moderate stunting 8.46%, and severe stunting 4.83%.
From 2007 to 2008, numbers related to stunted growth in Gaza in fact jumped from 13% to 27%, as a concrete indicator of the consequence of the siege policy.
The survey has revealed disturbing findings linked to the physical and psychosocial well being of children – underscoring the need for long-term, sustainable development.
According to Eyad Saraj, a psychiatrist who works closely with UNRWA, "Stunted growth is a major problem. We see children who are 12 years old yet have the bodies of 8 year olds. They suffer from cognitive problems due to nutritional deficiency".
Rural communities, such in Beit Lahya in the Northern Gaza Strip, rely on farming, fishing and the service sector for its livelihood – all of which have been severely impacted by Israeli military operations, movement restrictions in the sea and border closures leading to a devastated local economy.
While nearly every household in Beit Lahya has access to water, the quality is so poor that 95% of households have to buy their drinking water. Many children are affected by parasites and diarrhoea, which is adequately treated in only 24% of cases, as the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics points out, as a result of the Israeli blockade, nearly 86% households reduced their spending for food, while over 66 % of households decreased their expenditures for health care.
Challenges ahead – Why the massacre has not ended with the silence of the bombs
When looking on the UN development maps, stunted growth in the region should affect less than 2% of the children, the same rate as the European welfare states or the wealthy kingdoms of the Arab Peninsula. This is the reality in Israel, but the maps fail to point out the differences between them and their Palestinian neighbours.
Stunted growth rate increased incredibly fast during the past 5 years in Gaza and the West Bank. Even with interventions, the rates don't go down fast. A real challenge for a country where 17 percent of the Palestinian population is made up of children under the age of 5, and 46% are under 15.
Children in Gaza may not be dying from air strike and gunfire since Sunday but they may still starve to death or succumb to easily treatable ailments.
There is more to a war than bombs and tanks; there are also the slow deaths of innocents as a result of Israel's policy of collective punishment and 'ghetto-ization' which promises to retard Palestinian physical and economic development for years to come.
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A tech writer spent six weeks trying to block Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple from her life. She found out that's impossible.
Gizmodo: "I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell" — "A couple of months ago, I set out to answer the question of whether it's possible to avoid the tech giants. Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one.
"To end my experiment, I'm going to see if I can survive blocking all five at once.
"Not only am I boycotting their products, a technologist named Dhruv Mehrotra designed a special network tool that prevents my devices from communicating with the tech giants' servers, meaning that ads and analytics from Google won't work, Facebook can't track me across the internet, and websites hosted by Amazon Web Services, or AWS, hypothetically won't load."
"'We've long encouraged our employees and executives to use Android because it is the most popular operating system in the world,' said Facebook in response to the New York Times article."
Gizmodo: "Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much" — "Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had 'violated its policies.' Santiago re-read her review, didn't see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. 'You're not eligible to review this product,' an Amazon prompt informed her.
"When she wrote to Amazon about it, the company told her that her 'account activity indicates you know the author personally.' Santiago did not know the author, so she wrote an angry email to Amazon and blogged about Amazon's 'big brother' surveillance.
"I reached out to both Santiago and Amazon at the time to try to figure out what the hell happened here. Santiago, who is an indie book writer herself, told me that she'd been in the same ballroom with the author in New York a few months before at a book signing event, but had not talked to her, and that she had followed the author on Twitter and Facebook after reading her books. Santiago had never connected her Facebook account to Amazon, she said.
"Amazon wouldn't tell me much back in 2015. Spokesperson Julie Law told me by email at the time that the company 'didn't comment on individual accounts' but said, 'when we detect that elements of a reviewer's Amazon account match elements of an author's Amazon account, we conclude that there is too much risk of review bias. This can erode customer trust, and thus we remove the review. I can assure you that we investigate each case.' "


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When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might so When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right, зазвичай скорочується до When the Pawn... — другий альбом американської співачки Фіони Еппл, випущений на лейблі Epic Records в США, 9 листопада 1999.

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 "On the Bound" – 5:23
 "To Your Love" – 3:40
 "Limp" – 3:31
 "Love Ridden" – 3:22
 "Paper Bag" – 3:40
 "A Mistake" – 4:58
 "Fast as You Can" – 4:40
 "The Way Things Are" – 4:18
 "Get Gone" – 4:10
 "I Know" – 4:57

Бонус треки японського видання
 "Across the Universe" (Леннон-МакКартні)
 "Never is a Promise" [live]

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by Lee Renwick 23 December 2019
These five travel photography tips will change the way you shoot on holidays and city breaks. To prove it, Kingsley Singleton put them through their paces on a lightning trip to Berlin.
Bigger scenes need a bigger format
Ever struggled to fit every part of an exciting view into the frame? Sometimes a scene is just too big for a one shot, especially when travelling means you're restricted in lens choices. It's then that you need to turn to a panoramic treatment. Stitching multiple frames into one, panoramas not only give you a much wider – or taller – view, but they can also increase the amount of information in your travel images, allowing you to capture more fine detail and poduce larger prints.
To start off though, try to get away from the idea that simply creating a panorama will make a better image. It won't. You should only use a panorama if the scene naturally presents itself as one. It's not an excuse to get slack on your technique either – for the best results, you still need to shoot at the most photogenic times of day if you can, like sunrise, sunset and blue hour.
Image If a scene naturally reads in a way that's wider than a normal frame, take the time to record it as panorama. But remember, shooting a panorama doesn't in itself mean the picture will be better, so still concentrate on shooting at the most photogenic times of day if you can
There are some other things you can do to make your panos more successful, too. Firstly expose and focus manually, so that the sharpness and lighting is consistent. And shoot from a tripod if possible, rotating the camera as though its lens was the axle of a wheel if you can – this will make stitching in software more successful.
Work out where the panoramic framing naturally begins and ends, then set the far edge of your composition in the middle of the first shot and fire the shutter. While keeping the camera position level, rotate slightly to take the next shot, making sure you get lots of overlap between the pictures.
Get a safety net for your exposures
On your travels, time can be at a premium and you may not be able to shoot in the best light. Likewise, you may not have the time or the gear with you to control the light in the way you would normally do. For that reason it's usually best to shoot in Raw image quality mode.
Raw files give you greater latitude in your adjustments than regular files, so you can shoot with some reassurance that you can fix an exposure in editing if required; JPEG files offer no such safety net.
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Images If you don't have your usual filters with you, or time and conditions don't allow them, you can achieve greater control by shooting Raw files. Here, it's mainly the Highlights and Shadows sliders in Photoshop that have improved matters
I took the above image of Berlin's Fernsehturm tower in early evening with the tower lit by the setting sun, but the street in shadow. The camera can't cope with this in a single exposure, leading to the tower and sky being too bright and losing detail.
Thanks to processing the Raw file in Photoshop's Camera Raw interface I could correct it. I set the Exposure to a negative value of -1.20, darkened the highlights by moving the Highlights slider to the left, and brightened the shadows by moving the Shadows slider to the right. A small increase in Vibrance returns the colour to overexposed areas, and I straightened up the framing using the Transform and Crop tools.
Get some local flavour
Good travel pictures often have a strong sense of place; clear and simple visual clues about where they were taken that'll put the viewer in your shoes. This can come from many things including iconic buildings and monuments, famous landmarks, local dress… and also language, in the form of signs. Try to include one or more of these elements and you'll instantly add local flavour to your images.
The shot below of the Berlin underground is a good example; imagine it without the signs in German, and it could be anywhere; but with them it's immediately clear where you are. Taken handheld, in shutter-priority mode (S or Tv on the mode dial), I used a shutter speed of 1/10sec, meaning I could rely on holding the camera still enough to keep the majority of the scene sharp while the moving train became a blur.
Image In this picture of the Berlin underground, the station name and the information signs in German provide immediate orientation for the viewer
Get creative with crowds
Depending on your photographic outlook, crowds can either be a blessing or a curse. Most of the time, it has to be said, they do get in the way of a beauty spot, or pleasing architecture. But treated in the right way, crowds can also make a scene more interesting, or even be a good subject in themselves. For example, all you need to do is combine a crowded scene with multiple exposures and Photoshop.
Here, at one of Berlin's busiest stations, I noticed the passenger wearing red was engrossed in her phone. She wasn't moving as much as the other passengers either, so I decided to contrast her static pose with them. I didn't have time to set up a tripod, so instead shot four images, handheld, each one a few seconds apart.
Image Multiple shots from the same position were combined to achieve this ghosting effect
Loading these into Photoshop, I used File>Scripts>Load files into Stack, taking the four pictures and placing them in a new file as layers. Next, I used Edit>Auto Align Layers to sync the four, removing slight differences in framing. Finally, in the Layers palette, I lowered the Opacity on the top three layers, letting most of the figures ghost out, while the static subject remained sharp. Any minor shifts in her movement, I removed on the individual layers with the Eraser tool.
Start a travel project
One of the most rewarding things to do while you're away with your camera is to follow a project. It doesn't need to be a huge undertaking, and can last as long as you like. All you need to do is set a theme or subject, and stick to it, creating a series of similar images. They don't even have to be great on their own; the sum being greater than the parts.
Wandering around Berlin, I began to notice, as in many European cities, the number of buildings that had tunnels under them leading to courtyards or garages; each one leading to the light. I decided to shoot them as I found them, stopping for a moment at each gate and trying to shoot them in a consistent way.
Consistency really helps with a series of images like this; for instance, each time I found an example, I switched to a square framing on the camera, shot in aperture-priority (A or Av on the mode dial) at f/5.6, focused on the end of the tunnel.
Images Even simple scenes can take on a greater level of interest when shot in a similar style and grouped as part of a series
For more inspiration, tips and techniques, take a look through our Inspiration section.
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Kingsley Singleton
Contributing editor, Kingsley Singleton, is a gear and technique expert, and veteran of several best-selling photo magazines. He'll usually be found shooting pet portraits and landscapes around the world.
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