Now it's gaining prominence as a softer expression of Palestinian nationalism, competing even with the classic keffiyeh — the headscarf donned by young stone-throwing Palestinian men protesting Israel's occupation. The robe, adorned with elaborate hand-stitched embroidery, requires months of grueling labor. Some thobes fetch thousands of dollars. The traditional textiles call to mind a bygone era of Palestinian peasant women sewing on a break from the fields.
The Palestinian thobe traces its history to the early 19th century, when embroidery was confined to the villages. Richly decorated dresses marked milestones in women's lives: onset of puberty, marriage, motherhood. The designs varied from village to village — special three-dimensional stitching for the upper class of Bethlehem, big pockets for the nomadic Bedouin women, orange branch motifs for the orchard-famous city of Jaffa, said Maha Saca, director of the Palestinian Heritage Center in Bethlehem.
Thobe patterns also expressed women's different social positions: red for brides, blue for widows, blue with multi-colored stitches for widows considering remarriage. While Arab women across the region have worn hand-made dresses for centuries, the thobe has taken on a distinctly Palestinian character, particularly since the establishment of Israel in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians either fled or were expelled from their homes during the war surrounding Israel's creation. Many took only their dresses with them into the diaspora, Saca added.
Over decades of conflict that has claimed thousands of lives on both sides, Palestinian nationalism has taken on many forms. In the early days of Israel's establishment, it was associated with calls for Israel's destruction and deadly attacks. Armed struggle later gave way to calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — lands captured by Israel in 1967. Peace talks have been interrupted by spasms of violence, and for the past decade, a deep freeze in negotiations. Today, the internationally recognized autonomy government of the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank, continues to seek a two-state solution with Israel. The Hamas militant group, which seized the Gaza Strip in 2007, still seeks Israel's destruction, while many Palestinians, particularly the younger generation, now talk of a single binational state with Israel in which they would enjoy full equal rights.
Along the way, the thobe has grown in popularity and evolved, with dress designs reflecting history's many dramas. During the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in the 1980s, the thobe bloomed with guns, doves and flowers. When Israeli soldiers confiscated Palestinian flags at protests, women wove forbidden national maps and colors into their dresses, according to the Palestinian museum exhibit.
Now, Palestinian women of all social classes wear thobes to assert national pride at weddings and special occasions. "It's a way of defending our national identity," Saca said.
Tlaib's now-viral Palestinian thobe, which the Michigan Democrat called "an unapologetic display of the fabric of the people in this country" and said it evoked memories of her mother's West Bank village, rekindled enthusiasm worldwide about the dress. "Rashida has become a model for Palestinian women everywhere — a strong woman proud of her national identity who can reach high," said Saca.


This idea allows for continued usability for the wheelbarrow.
Whether you're in the market for a vessel to show off a prized plant or looking for a pot to stuff full of blooms to brighten up a shabby patio, there's a garden planter for all occasions.
The choice is vast and bewildering, thanks in turn to advances in the manufacturing process and the shift in demand from traditional, heavy terracotta to more lightweight materials that can be sculpted into a host of funky shapes and designs.
Many gardeners like to swap, change and move plants around (we can be an indecisive bunch), so having your plants housed in something less weighty makes this process a lot easier and less likely to end in injury.
Did you know that any old wheelbarrow can become a spectacular new planter for your garden? With a little bit of effort and style, you can create your own unique design!
Old and retired gardening gear makes for a great addition to the garden itself. For an easily planted, whimsical landscaping idea, you can roll an old wheelbarrow into any open space in the garden, planting it with a beautiful collection of flowers.
Using a brand new, colorful wheelbarrow with a plastic bin, this setup involves a large box planter, plus space around the edges for tools. This idea allows for continued usability for the wheelbarrow, as well as portability for the flowers.


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For a novelty record in 1958. Directed by Walt Becker. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin the mischievous troublemaker, the tall, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, bespectacled intellectual; .
Through a series of misunderstandings Alvin, Simon Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami. Alvin the Chipmunks , the Chipmunks, originally David Seville , simply the Chipmunks are an American animated virtual band created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. With Jason Lee Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler Jesse McCartney.
Alvin e os esquilos 3 soundtrack download. They have three days to get to him stop the proposal saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible.
Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks or simply the Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for a novelty record in 1958.
The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual; and.
I took my 3 1/ 2 year old daughter to see this KID movie. ( It is made for kids, people, chill out.
) She adores the chipmunks and she loved the movie.


Karagarga (KG) is a members only torrent tracker for old/classic and rare movies. Uploading of modern Hollywood / Bollywood pictures or mainstream blockbusters is not allowed.
Not just another torrent tracker for movies, Karagarga's manifesto clearly states that they are an 'exclusive private filesharing community focused on creating a comprehensive library of Arthouse, Cult, Classic, Experimental and rare movies from all over the world'. Apart from films, Karagarga users find a remarkable collection of e-books, audiobooks and music.
At KaraGarga they strive for all movie torrents to be encoded in the best quality possible while allowing for the highest level of playback compatibility. A dedicated community of people is working on creating custom subtitles for movies.
Unfortunately, this tracker is not among the one in which you easily survive, and this is the largest and the only problem of many new members. Also, freeleech is very rarely present, the split archives forbiden, but a separate video files still allowed, so the beginning on the Karagargia is additional more difficult.
Filtering by the amount of leech despite forbiden split archives does not guarantee safe up traffic, but the big advantage of tracker is that even the newest members are allowed setting of requests and upload on their own (which you can advertise in the offer section), so if you have anything in accordiance with the upload rules and follow regularly request section, you'll be able to eventually create a good buffer.
A special feature is the MOM or Masters of the Month – each month, members of tracker in coordination with the staff select the physical person (author), genre or era of our past that will get the status of Master of the Month, and result in bonus to be awarded to members involved in MOM activities.
Torrent list, as on each superior tracker, allows sorting by all categories and items (including the year of production, genre and country of origin), and for those who would like to know the opinion of members about the movie on the list that have not yet watched, will be able to do that through the "thumbs up / thumbs down" average grade.
A list of formerly active domain names officially used by KaraGarga.
www.karagarga.org 2015 Fake site redirecting to malvertising.
Karagarga crashed and remained down for several weeks.
A tribute to movie-loving community Karagarga published in the National Post.
Do you know a KaraGarga profile? Please leave it in the comments.


Someone emailed me this morning and asked if I really have conversations with my characters. The answer is no. I don't sit down during the day and talk to them like I'd talk to an actual human being. 😛 So now that I've set many minds at ease in regards to my mental sanity, I'll get on with today's post.
One of the search terms someone or some people have used to find this blog was a request to learn more about word count goals authors use. So I thought I'd share my tips. A quick background for anyone who doesn't know… I'm a stay-at-home mom and a mother of four boys ages 5-8. My husband is currently deployed in South Korea. So how do I find time to write?
It all has to do with word count goals. That's it. I often write in ten to fifteen minute chunks during the day when the kids aren't in school. If they are in school, I tend to stay up late at night to sit down and write in one or two hour chunks and nap while they are in school. When the weather is nice, I take them to the park and sit down to write on my laptop. This is why laptops are the only computers I use, and it's why people will see that strange lady sitting in the shade typing on her laptop instead of pushing her kids on the swing. Hey, I figure at their ages, they're better off playing without mom.
The best times to sit and write are between meals. Usually in the early part of the day, I do stuff like this. I blog, update my website, catch up on emails pertaining to my blogs, and I check out any interesting links that pop up in the writing/publishing/book promotion arena. So mornings are when I do the business side of my life.
After lunch, things wind down, and I'll try to work on Kate Page's stuff. I will also catch up on proofreading, covers, tweaking on my books, publishing books, etc. This is still a business time with time dedicated to my pen name. After five, I don't do anything else with my pen name.
Then there's dinner. This is the busiest time of the day, which is why I hate it as much as I do. I'm not only making another meal, but I'm putting clean laundry away (I do one to two loads a day), take out trash, chat with husband on Skype, break up fights, clean up the kitchen after dinner, and do dishes.
Then when everyone is settled down, I start in on my stuff as Ruth. Depending on where I am in my writing, the word count goals will vary. For first draft, it's 1000-2000 words a day. Like right now, I'm doing a marathon writing month over on my first draft blog, so I try for 2000 words a day. My lowest goal is 500 and my highest is 3000. I usually make about 2000 words. I like doing marathon writing months because they get the story finished faster, and I see the progress immediately. I do have the 500 word posts from time to time, but those take longer. I'm starting to veer more toward taking a month or two off of my blog and then going in for a marathon writing month and hitting it hard for a month and a half, which is how long it takes for me to write a book (on average).
That's not to say I won't go back to doing 500 words a day. I know I will. I currently do for Kate Page's blog. But if anything has to be dropped, it's Kate's stuff. My main focus is on Ruth, so Ruth's stuff will get done before Kate's. For example, Kate will publish two books this year. One is already published, actually. But Ruth is looking at having five books out. Ruth currently has one book published in Feb., another due out in May, another due out in June, one planned for August or September, and another due out in October. These are realistic goals since May and June's books are already done but getting polished up. I'm writing Bride of Second Chances right now and will be finished in mid-May. Then it will be published in August or Sept. Just Good Friends will be written shortly after that. I'm thinking of starting this as soon as I finish Bride of Second Chances so I can have it done by July. Kate's next book will be out sometime between July to September. I plan to take a couple months off of Kate's blog. I'll probably return to it around NaNo month in November. I know. Not a smart move to make for Kate, but it's a smart move to make for Ruth. There's only so much even I can do each day.
No, I do not really think of myself in the third person, so please don't panic. 😀 I was separating out the books and names I publish them under.
Wow! thats alot of books! 😀 lol I never knew that THATS how you did it… but it explains why emails get answered EARLY in the morning lol 😛 Thanks for the insightful look in to your life. lol.. Oh I always thought there WAS something funny about you mentally! 😉 KIDDING!
is that a good thing or bad thing for me? lol am i a negative or positive person in your life?!? lol Hopefully POSITIVE!
Sadly, most of the negative people to be other writers. 😦 I do have a few positive authors in my life, but most aren't and they complain the loudest. I almost quit writing last year because of them.
lol good! 🙂 I dont want to discourage you ever! I have come to calue our friendship and talks!
I value our friendship and talks, too!


For the past two years, we've been working with Amazon Prime Video to help them to reach a young male audience with their flagship show The Grand Tour.
In year one, the challenge was to bring to life the spirit of the show without once mentioning cars, which led us to send LADbible favourite Kyle Shepard on our rather less glamorous answer to the Grand Tour's globetrotting adventure – a wet and windy road trip round the UK. Safe to say he had a great time. Just don't ask him about him about the time he passed out on the UK's longest zipline.
In year two, we took things back to what the Grand Tour does best: undertaking ridiculous car-related feats for no reason. Over the course of three videos, we ate Christmas dinner in the back of a moving 4×4, turned a Vauxhall Corsa into a ping-pong table and pimped out someone's family car without then knowing, bringing to life the Grand Tour's 'How hard can it be?' tagline in a way only we know how.
Over the two years of the partnership, we've reached 91m people, racked up over 35m video views and earned over 485k engagements.


I plan to come back to the US relatively soon. Grad school probably has to happen. But still. The enormity of the project that's awaiting, my fondness for certain individuals that I'm leaving behind, and the disproportionate affection I have for my apartment which is no longer my apartment (tomorrow is September 1st!), is giving the whole leaving-the-country situation an unanticipated weight. A sort of uneasiness in my stomach and fingers and toes. Like waking up to a scratchy throat that you didn't see coming.
There was the going away extravaganza, which was a wonderful weekend of old friends and newer ones, eating out and walking in the sun and making tacos. It was, actually, delightfully extravagant, thanks to everyone who made it. Some of em traveled quite a way. Of course, I sniffled when the goodbyes had to happen.
There was the massive getting rid of the stuff. Seven years of living in the US has accumulated. Thriving on the drama of the statement, I announced to everyone I know that everything will go, and I will return to Bangladesh with the two suitcases that I came with. Which is all very easy to say and then when it came down to it, for some reason I managed to convince myself that I REALLY DO NEED a holey pair of pants that I haven't worn since freshman year because MAYBE they'll magically fit again tomorrow. Ultimately, nothing actually happened until Rebecca sternly stood next to me and glared when I put anything in the "keep for now" pile instead of the "put in a garbage bag which will then go into a wheely dolly thing that has been borrowed from Rosemary for the very purpose of taking things to Boomerangs" pile. Of course, when I started feeling like I was in a weird purgatory because I had been putting things in garbage bags for days and days and nothing was changing, I crossed the line from being over-attached to my belongings to having a frenzied animosity towards everything I owned. At that point I started frenetically throwing things away, shouting that I needed nothing, NOTHING, YOU DON'T NEED ANYTHING TO SURVIVE, and Rebecca had to reel me in.
There's the fact that I always say "going home" when I talk about going to Bangladesh, but I forget, sometimes, that this place is exactly that, too. Something happens when you create a place for yourself, have yourself your little peeling-paint room. I've made a Thanksgiving turkey or two with Nabil in this house, and Rebecca owned keys so she could let herself in if she chose to pop over from New York some weekend. Pull out futons meant that anytime a friend needed a place to stay, this was it.
My curmudgeon landlord (who randomly appeared a few hours ago and : a) panicked because I was still here and tried to throw me out of the house, despite what we all thought was a very clear understanding that Lauren, who is taking over my room, is not coming until tomorrow b) told me the reason the fridge leaks is because I have too much stuff in the fridge door c) asked, with an awkward wave at my dress, if I will dress differently in Bangladesh – "No head veil? Really?") is insisting on some sort of strange ceremonial key exchange tomorrow between me, him, and Lauren, where I hand him the keys and he hands them to her. With any luck, he'll be curmudgeony enough tomorrow that I'll keep the sniffles reined in.
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1.1 This test method covers the calibration of atmospheric corrosion test chambers for electrical contacts that produce an adherent film of corrosion product on copper, such as a test comprised of a mixture of flowing gases that react with copper.
1.2 This test method is not applicable to tests where corrosion products may be removed from a copper surface during the test by fluids.
1.3 This test method is not applicable to tests where airborne solid or liquid material may be deposited on a copper surface during the test, as in a test which includes particulates suspended in the atmosphere.


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MIM HAIN BA Hons. Fine Art
MA Graphic Design/Animation
Dartington Hall School. Devon England
Accademia delle Belle Arti Florence
Guildford School of Art Pre Diploma
Camberwell School of Art BA Fine Art
Central School of Art MA (Distinction)
© Max Bailey
Mim was born in England and started her artistic career aged five, decorating walls while being confined to her room for having been naughty.
Obviously an auspicious period as at the same age she was given an award from the Royal Drawing Society in South Kensington, a Diploma which assessed her as being "Good".
Mim comes from a musical family, her Great Grandmother Adelina de Lara, was a successful concert pianist and star pupil of Clara Shumann. Her Father was a concert Baritone singer, and both her brother Tim Hain and her sister Kit Hain are professional singer songwriters. Kit Hain is also an author of childrens books.
Her education got off to a bad start at a Boarding School in Hertfordshire, which was later closed down, the Head Mistress had up for embezzlement , the school condemned by the Sanitary Inspectors, and only one teacher discovered to be properly qualified.
However she then went to the co- education progressive school Dartington Hall where she happily flourished in the sane creative Academic and Artistic environment.
She later studied at The Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, and then at Guildford Art School (Pre Diploma) Camberwell Art School (BA Diploma in Fine Art.) a brief course in Printmaking at Hornsey, then later to Central School where she got a MA Distinction in Graphic Design for a six minute animated film "Thank You God".
She worked for a few years in the Animation business at Animus Productions in Central London, before leaving to return to Painting in 1985.
She then went to Corsica where she camped for some months in the old ruined Palace, Palazzo Reale, in Santa Maria Poggio, built in the eighteenth century for Theodore Von Neuhoff, a German adventurer who was very briefly King of Corsica, and never stayed there himself.
She returned a few times before buying a small place there and now spends her time between Corsica and London.
She has had numerous private Portrait Commissions in the UK and abroad, and works in Oils, Collage, Charcoal, Conte and Pastels and for a while had a small kiln and made a series of eccentric Teapots, many based on the Chinese horoscope.
Mim lived happily and creatively for 36 years with the successful Italian illustrator and commercial artist Gino D'Achille, who came to the UK in the Sixties and was considered one of it's most successful illustrators.
They were married in March 2013, having failed to marry in Corsica the previous year, due to French bureaucracy. To save disappointment and as the event had been planned, they went ahead with a 'fake wedding' which was filmed by friend and film maker, Jim Burge.
Sadly Gino latterly had Parkinson's, diabetes and heart disease – but he never stopped drawing almost up to his death in Februry 2017. He was always courageous, smiling, much loved, and is greatly missed.
To read Gino's Obituary, Click Here

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Judges 17
Now there was a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
And he said to his mother, "The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, and on which you put a curse, even saying it in my ears--here is the silver with me; I took it." And his mother said, "May you be blessed by the LORD, my son!"
So when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, "I had wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the LORD for my son, to make a carved image and a molded image; now therefore, I will return it to you."
Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.
The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod and household idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah; he was a Levite, and was staying there.
The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
And Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" So he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am on my way to find a place to stay."
Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your sustenance." So the Levite went in.
Then the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man became like one of his sons to him.
So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and lived in the house of Micah.
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest!"


I went to the 5pm showing, excited to attend the wine reception afterwards. The atmosphere of the space was warm and welcoming and the piece itself inspiring and cathartic with its colorful expressions of feminine anger and angst. Excited to see more of Nikki's work!


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Missouri man's body found after Lake of the Ozarks boat crash
Posted 5:02 pm, June 30, 2019, by Brian Dulle, Updated at 05:17PM, June 30, 2019
MILLER COUNTY, Mo. — The body of a Missouri man who went missing after a crash involving two boats at Lake of the Ozarks has been recovered.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said 39-year-old Jason Russell, of Eugene, Missouri, was recovered by divers at 4:30 p.m. in 80 feet of water.
The highway patrol said Russell's family has been notified.
According to Lake Ozark Speedway, Russell was a local racer there.
"Jason is the driver the 2J Late Model and always puts on a show! He has countless wins in both the modified and late model classes."
"Our sincere sympathies go out to his family and friends," the agency wrote on Twitter Sunday.
The crash was reported at 10 p.m. Saturday at the 4 mile mark of the Osage Arm, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
The driver of one boat was headed downstream when another driver was headed upstream and the two collided.
The driver and another occupant on the boat Russell was on were reported to have minor injuries. A fourth occupant was taken by air ambulance to an area hospital with serious injuries.
The driver and passenger on the other boat were reported to have moderate to minor injuries and were taken to an area hospital by EMS.
#LakeOfTheOzarks Final Update:
Mr. Russell was recovered by MSHP divers at 4:30 pm, in approximately 80 feet of water. His family has been notified.
Our sincere sympathies go out to his family & friends. pic.twitter.com/Y0W2iFRSGk
— MSHP Troop F (@MSHPTrooperF) June 30, 2019
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
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Highway patrol identifies 24-year-old drowning victim at Lake of the Ozarks after canoe overturned
Small Missouri town heartbroken after 2 teens killed in crash, 3 others injured
61-year-old man killed in Johnson County, Mo., crash on icy roadway identified as volunteer firefighter
Highway patrol identifies Blue Springs man killed in crash near I-670 and Genessee
After chase through Jackson County, Grain Valley cops shoot woman who rammed, assaulted driver
6 Center School District students, 3 adults suffer minor injuries in bus crash on I-470
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1 killed after trailer unhitches from truck and strikes another vehicle near Warrensburg
Pedestrian struck and killed on 7 Highway near Garden City
63-year-old motorcyclist killed in Ray County 2-vehicle crash
9 die in wintry crashes across Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska to snow storm
Officials identify man killed after trailer comes off truck, strikes another vehicle near Warresnsburg
75-year-old man drowns in the Lake of the Ozarks


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Q: linux equivalent of windows subst command In Windows I can map any path to a drive letter using the subst command.  The cool thing about that is, whatever directory I choose becomes the root directory of all subdirectories.  That makes is super easy to navigate, especially in scripts, because I can instantly return to my root.  In this example Z:\ is the same as c:\mydirectory\myfiles:
C:\> subst Z: C:\mydirectory\myfiles

So if I'm many subdirectories deep, I can get right back to the root:
Z:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5> cd \
Z:\>

In linux I can use the ln command but it doesn't give me that same capability.  I know I can't map to a drive letter in linux.  I can do ln -s but to navigate up I have to go cd ../../../ or something like that.  It's hard to keep track of all the ../ needed.  .  If I go cd / in linux I get the root of the server, not even my own area on it.  Even within the tree that's ln'd, I can't easily jump to the root like I can with subst.
Am I missing something?
thanks
RACER

A: You can try the alias command...
alias cdz='cd /mydirectory/myfiles'

Then you just type cdz and that's it.

A: I use my .bashrc file and and short cuts that way.
export WH="/mnt/c/Users/Shanzem/Documents/LFF"

Now in my shell if I type cd $WH it will instantly take me to my shared folder between Ubuntu and Windows 10. They also get loaded each start up so they are permanent.
Hopefully this suggestion helps.

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Q: Can't Drop SQL Database After Exception During Insert Statement I'm running into an issue with an application I'm working on. Here is a breakdown of what is happening.

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*Create new database via code (succeeds)

*Connect to newly created database and create tables (succeeds too)

*Inserting data into previously created tables (this fails with an exception)

*Show error message to the user

*Open a new connection on the master database

*Delete database created in step 1

Step 6 fails due to a:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot drop database "ImportFail" because it is currently in use.

The error message kinda makes sense if you have unclosed connections or use a connection on the database you want to drop but from what I can see that is not the case.
I went into SQL Server Management Studio and looked at what is blocking the drop statement. Spid 52 seems to be blocked by 53. 53 however is the DDL statement that is creating the database in step 1 - which undoubtedly succeeds.

The creation of the database and the subsequent insert statements (or any SqlCommand in our codebase) is going through the following method. I can't see why any connection would be lingering around here even in case of an exception.

A: Add SqlConnection.ClearAllPools(); after the exception. This static method will physically close and remove pooled connections holding a shared lock due on the database that prevents the database from being dropped.
Note that closing/disposing connections only returns the connection to the pool and is not enough alone.


A kind-hearted couple from South Gloucestershire have drawn on their sporty backgrounds to make dreams come true for local people with learning disabilities and autism.
Several years ago, Denise and George Eland from Bradley Stoke were shopping in their local supermarket where people supported by Brandon were fundraising for us by helping customers to pack their bags at the tills in return for donations.
They were so impressed by the people they met and chatted to, that they decided they wanted to help raise more money for our Dream Fund - a pot of money set up to help make the dreams of people we support a reality.
At the time, Denise and George were captains of their local bowls teams, and set about organising various events, initially raising a fantastic £1,000.
Motivated by their success, and driven on by their belief in the good work of the charity, they continued their fundraising efforts for Brandon when in February 2017, they became ladies and men's captains at Chipping Sodbury Golf Club and were able to choose a charity to support during their year's captaincy.
They arranged a variety of activities and events, including cake bakes and sales, raffles, serving refreshments at the course's 'half-way house' at the ninth hole, open days, and golf competitions. The golf club's professional player, who offers golf tuition to members, also donated some of the fees for his services. In total they raised a tee-riffic £6,500 during their term.
Talking about the fun they had, George said: "Denise and I had a great time in our year as lady captain and myself as senior captain at Chipping Sodbury Golf Club.
"The charity we chose to support was Brandon Trust. It was our absolute pleasure, that gave us enormous satisfaction in being able to help in some small way."


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Patagonia's new trail run documentary "RUN TO THE SOURCE" is launched
Editor February 24, 2022 No Comments PatagoniaRun to the Source
Run to the Source, a new documentary from Patagonia has launched across Europe.
The film charts the journey of Patagonia Trail Running Ambassador Martin Johnson (MJ) as he attempts to set a new fastest known time (FKT) on the 184-mile Thames River Trail, from the Thames Barrier in South-East London to the source of the river in the Cotswolds, on 25 May, the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.
As an athlete and a Black British man, MJ grapples with the gruelling physical challenge, as well as contemplating the history of Black people in Britain, as he runs the route symbolic of empowering and enabling people from ethnically diverse backgrounds living in cities to explore the outdoors and wild places. The feat is interspersed with archive footage contextualising the experience of being Black in Britain over the past century as well as poetry and original music.
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Martin Johnson, Patagonia trail run ambassador, said: "Exploring the outdoors is enriching physically, emotionally and socially but history has created inequality and barriers which combine to prevent many people of colour from forming relationships with the outdoors, or even discovering it at all. I hope Run to the Source might prompt viewers to seek out some of the lesser known and shared histories of the lands around us, which have shaped our societies and the layers of privilege which exist within them."
Matt Kay, director of Run to the Source, added: "Martin's journey embodies a struggle, a movement, a progression. The film does not just focus on the question of whether he will beat the fastest known time, but documents Martin's discovery process as he finds out about Black British history and how it relates to the outdoors. Through his connection to the river, love of running and hunger for knowledge, we learn both why he feels so linked to the outdoors and why, by default, many Black and Brown people feel so alienated from it."
The film by Walks of Life Films premiered in London on February 16 and now appears on YouTube.
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    <title>Mnesia</title>
    <prepared>Claes Wikström, Hans Nilsson and Håkan Mattsson</prepared>
    <responsible>Bjarne Däcker</responsible>
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The management of data in telecommunications system has many
      aspects, thereof some, but not all, are addressed by traditional
      commercial Database Management Systems (DBMSs). In particular the
      high level of fault tolerance that is required in many nonstop
      systems, combined with requirements on the DBMS to run in the same
      address space as the application, have led us to implement a new
      DBMS, called Mnesia.

Mnesia is implemented in, and tightly connected to Erlang.
      It provides the functionality that is necessary for the
      implementation of fault tolerant telecommunications systems.

Mnesia is a multiuser distributed DBMS specially made for
      industrial telecommunications applications written in Erlang,
      which is also the intended target language.
      Mnesia tries to address all the data
      management issues required for typical telecommunications systems.
      It has a number of features that are not normally found in traditional
      databases.

In telecommunications applications, there are different needs
      from the features provided by traditional DBMSs. The applications now
      implemented in Erlang need a mixture of a broad range
      of features, which generally are not satisfied by traditional DBMSs.
      Mnesia is designed with requirements like the following in
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      </item>
      <item>High fault tolerance
      </item>
      <item>Dynamic reconfiguration
      </item>
      <item>Complex objects
      </item>
    </list>

Mnesia is designed with the typical data management problems
      of telecommunications applications in mind. This sets Mnesia
      apart from most other DBMS. Hence Mnesia
      combines many concepts found in traditional databases such as
      transactions and queries with concepts found in data management
      systems for telecommunications applications, for example:

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        <item>Fast real-time operations
        </item>
        <item>Configurable degree of fault tolerance (by replication)
        </item>
        <item>The ability to reconfigure the system without stopping or
          suspending it.
        </item>
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Mnesia is also interesting because of its tight coupling to
      Erlang, thus almost turning Erlang into a database programming
      language. This has many benefits, the foremost is that
      the impedance mismatch between the data format used by the DBMS
      and the data format used by the programming language, which is used
      to manipulate the data, completely disappears.

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      <title>Features</title>

Mnesia contains the following features that combine to
        produce a fault-tolerant, distributed DBMS written in Erlang:

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        <item>Database schema can be dynamically reconfigured at runtime.
        </item>
        <item>Tables can be declared to have properties such as location,
          replication, and persistence.
        </item>
        <item>Tables can be moved or replicated to several nodes to improve
          fault tolerance. The rest of the system can still access the tables
          to read, write, and delete records.
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Details of these features are described in the following sections.

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Query List Comprehension (QLC) can be used with Mnesia
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        ability of Mnesia. QLC has its own documentation as part
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For information about QLC, see the
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Use Mnesia with the following types of applications:

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Boris Johnson says Britain will support Zimbabwe to return to Commonwealth if elections are fair
Britain would back a Zimbabwean bid to rejoin Commonwealth if presidential elections later this summer go smoothly, Boris Johnson has said.
Mr Johnson, the foreign secretary, said Britain would support a Zimbabwean application to rejoin the association provided president Emmerson Mnangagwa delivers on reforms including a free and fair vote.
"July's election will be a bellwether for the direction of a new Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Government must deliver the free and fair elections the people of Zimbabwe deserve and which it has promised," Mr Johnson said during a meeting with Sibusiso Moyo, Zimbabwe's foreign and trade minister.
Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of ZimbabweCredit:
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"The UK stands ready in friendship to support a Zimbabwe that fully embraces the rule of law, human rights and economic reform," he added.
Mr Johnson was speaking at a round table meeting with Mr Moyo and several other Commonwealth foreign ministers in London for a heads of government summit in London.
Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth, an association made up mostly of former British colonies, in 2002 following presidential elections that were marred by violence. It formally left the organization the following year.
Mr Johnson first endorsed the "fine and noble" aspiration of Zimbabwe rejoining the Commonwealth after Robert Mugabe was ousted in a soft coup in November after 38 years as president.
Boris Johnson was speaking during a meeting with delegations from Zimbabwe and African Commonwealth nations in LondonCredit:
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An offer of support to achieve that goal is now understood to have been made explicit, with British diplomats telling Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mr Mugabe's successor, that the conduct of presidential elections this summer would be seen as a "key test."
"The UK would be willing to support re-entry provided Zimbabwe meets the admission requirements including demonstrating commitment to free and fair elections," an FCO spokesperson said.
Zimbabwe is expected to hold a presidential election before the end of August.
To rejoin the organization, Zimbabwe would have to submit a formal application for membership. Accession would have to be agreed by all 53 member states at the next heads of government summit.
Membership rules require commitment to democratic principles include transparent government and free and fair elections.
Mr Mnangagwa, 75, has positioned himself as a reformer determined to end Zimbabwe's international isolation since he came to power late last year.
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However, critics have pointed out he was a close ally of Mr Mugabe for many years and involved in many of the previous government's worst crimes, including violent crackdowns on opposition parties and a notorious series of massacres in the 1980s.
Salani Mutseyami, a campaigner with the human rights group Zimbabwe Vigil, called Mr Johnson's comments on potential Commonwealth membership "premature."
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Zimbabwean MPs on Friday said they would seek to question Mr Mugabe in connection with alleged diamond looting.
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The Loring courts were the first public tennis courts built in Minneapolis. They date to the founding of Loring Park in 1887. Back then there were two concrete courts for use by anyone who could supply their own net. Today there are four courts situated on the north side of the park. The setting is spectacular. However as the photos below clearly show the courts are now in a dilapilated state and simply UNPLAYABLE. They have been like this for the last five years.
The Park Board response is that their hands are tied because by ordinance all capital spending on recreational facilities must be prioritized based on youth density and diversity. Due to their geographic location the Loring courts always fail the test of youth density. In an effort to overcome this obstacle the park commission inserted in the 20 year master plan Master Plan for Loring Park in 2013, an unfunded proposal for the dual purpose use of the court surface: tennis courts in the summer and a refrigerated skating rink in the winter. The park board planners felt that the Loring pond has been an unreliable winter skating venue; and thus they came up with this experimental at best, dual-use concept. This project is very expensive and no funding is committed. – it has a $3,562,050 construction price tag, and an $86,000 annual maintenance cost. 95% of these costs are connected to the underground refrigeration system for the skating rink. The likelihood of this plan ever getting approval is almost nil. But until there is clear resolution of this issue the courts will remain unplayable and any real commitment to their renovation held in limbo.
So what can we do? Get involved! The park board needs to see the Loring park courts for their unique character. Loring is not a neighborhood park and it can not compete on the criteria of youth density with the likes of Linden Hills, Weber, Powerhorn etc. It is a Central Park, surrounded by commercial businesses, condo and apartments. They need to think of these courts as adult recreational facilities and they need to take in to consideration the dearth of inner city tennis courts, Finally they must recognize the growing demand by seniors for paddle tennis and pickle ball facilities. In the future these courts, if properly renovated could support all of these activities.
What can you do? You can GET INVOLVED!
Contact the Park Board Commissioner for the 4th district, Anita Tabb, atabb@minneapolisparks.org , phone is 612-230-6443, Extension 4. While Anita is an advocate for the renovation of the courts, it is important to remind her that there is a growing voice demanding action.
Those who contribute to the renovation effort will be recognized on a permanent placard posted at the courts. Donations are 100% tax deductible.
Register for free (use the JOIN US button above) and you will receive our periodic updates on the status of court maintenance and opportunities for involvement. We will keep you current on the pending decisions of the Park Board that impact tennis and suggest ways in which you can have a more effective voice. In time we will introduce a forum through which we can meet other players and discuss issues of the day.


For other uses, see Butch Cassidy (disambiguation).
Robert Leroy Parker was born April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah, the first of 13 children born to British immigrants Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies. The Parker and Gillies families had converted in England and Scotland to the Mormon faith and immigrated to Utah. Maximilian Parker was 12 when his family arrived in Salt Lake in 1856 as Mormon pioneers; Ann Gillies arrived with her family in 1859, aged 14.  The two were married in July 1865.  In 2008 documented evidence highlighted, Ann Gillies, the mother of Butch Cassidy, was born and lived on Tyneside, in the north east of England, before moving to America with her parents, where she later married Butch's father, Maximilian Parker, in Utah.
Robert grew up on their ranch near Circleville, Utah, 346 km (215 mi) south of Salt Lake City. He left home during his early teens. While working at a dairy farm, he formed a close relationship with his mentor, a cowboy and cattle rustler who called himself Mike Cassidy (an alias for John Tolliver "J. T." McClammy). Parker subsequently worked at several ranches, in addition to a brief stint as a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, when he acquired the nickname "Butch", to which he soon appended the surname Cassidy in honor of his old friend.
Butch Cassidy's first offense was minor. Around 1880, he journeyed to a clothier's shop in another town but found the shop closed. He entered the shop and took a pair of jeans and some pie, leaving an IOU promising to pay on his next visit. The clothier pressed charges. Cassidy was acquitted at a jury trial.
He continued to work on ranches until 1884, when he moved to Telluride, Colorado, ostensibly to seek work, but perhaps to deliver stolen horses to buyers. He led a cowboy's life in Wyoming and Montana before returning to Telluride in 1887. There, he met Matt Warner, the owner of a race horse. The men raced the horse at various events, dividing the winnings between them.
The white building at right housed the San Miguel Valley Bank, site of Cassidy's first bank robbery in 1889.
On June 24, 1889, Cassidy, Warner and two of the McCarty Brothers robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride in which they stole approximately $21,000, after which they fled to the Robbers Roost, a remote hideout in southeastern Utah.
Cassidy purchased a ranch in 1890 near Dubois, Wyoming. This location is across the state from the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall, a natural geological formation which afforded outlaws protection and cover, so it is possible that Cassidy's ranching, at which he was never economically successful, was a façade for clandestine activities, perhaps with Hole-in-the-Wall outlaws.
In early 1894, Cassidy became involved romantically with outlaw and rancher Ann Bassett. Bassett's father, rancher Herb Bassett, did business with Cassidy, supplying him with fresh horses and beef. That same year, Cassidy was arrested at Lander, Wyoming, for stealing horses and possibly for running a protection racket among the local ranchers there. He was imprisoned in the Wyoming State Prison in Laramie, Wyoming. After serving 18 months of a two-year sentence, he was released in January 1896 after promising Governor William Alford Richards that he would not offend again in that state. He became involved briefly with Ann Bassett's older sister, Josie, before returning to Ann.
Cassidy's mugshot from the Wyoming Territorial Prison in 1894.
He associated with a circle of criminals, most notably his closest friend Elzy Lay, Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan, Ben Kilpatrick, Harry Tracy, Will "News" Carver, Laura Bullion, and George Curry, who became the nucleus of the Wild Bunch.
On August 13, 1896, Cassidy, Lay, Harvey Logan and Bob Meeks robbed the bank at Montpelier, Idaho, escaping with approximately $7,000. Shortly thereafter he[clarification needed] recruited Harry Longabaugh, alias "The Sundance Kid", a native of Pennsylvania, into the Wild Bunch.
In early 1897, Cassidy was joined at Robbers Roost by Ann Bassett, Elzy Lay, and Lay's girlfriend Maude Davis. The four hid there until early April, when Lay and Cassidy sent the women home so that they could plan their next robbery. On April 21, 1897, in the mining town of Castle Gate, Utah, Cassidy and Lay ambushed a small group of men carrying the payroll of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company, stealing a sack containing $7,000 in gold, with which they fled to the Robbers Roost.
On June 2, 1899, the gang robbed a Union Pacific Overland Flyer near Wilcox, Wyoming, a robbery that became famous and which resulted in a massive man hunt. Many notable lawmen of the day took part in the hunt for the robbers, but they were not found.
During a shootout with lawmen following that robbery, both Kid Curry and George Curry shot and killed Sheriff Joe Hazen. Tom Horn, a killer for hire employed by the Pinkerton Agency, obtained information from explosives expert Bill Speck about the Hazen shooting, and Horn passed this information to Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo. The gang escaped into the Hole-In-The-Wall. Siringo was assigned the task of capturing the outlaw gang. He became friends with Elfie Landusky, who was using the last name Curry after allegedly becoming pregnant by Kid Curry's brother, Lonny. Through her, Siringo intended to locate the gang.
On July 11, 1899, Lay and others were involved in a Colorado and Southern Railroad train robbery near Folsom, New Mexico, which Cassidy may have planned and personally directed. A shootout ensued with local law enforcement in which Lay killed Sheriff Edward Farr and Henry Love; Lay was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at New Mexico State Penitentiary.
The Wild Bunch would separate following a robbery and flee in different directions, reuniting at a predetermined location, such as the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout, Robbers Roost, or Madame Fannie Porter's brothel in San Antonio, Texas.
Cassidy appears to have approached Governor Heber Wells of Utah, which achieved statehood in 1896, to negotiate an amnesty. Wells appears to have declined, advising Cassidy to instead approach the Union Pacific Railroad to persuade them to drop their criminal complaints against him. Union Pacific Railroad chairman E. H. Harriman attempted to meet with Cassidy through his old ally Matthew Warner. On August 29, 1900, Cassidy, Longabaugh and others robbed Union Pacific train No. 3 near Tipton, Wyoming, violating Cassidy's earlier promise to the governor of Wyoming, and ending any chance for amnesty.
On February 28, 1900, lawmen attempted to arrest Kid Curry's brother, Lonny, at his aunt's home. Lonny was killed in the shootout that followed, and his cousin Bob Lee was arrested for rustling and sent to prison in Wyoming. On March 28, Kid Curry and Bill Carver were pursued by a posse from St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona, after being identified passing currency from the Wilcox, Wyoming, robbery. The posse engaged them in a shootout, during which Deputy Andrew Gibbons and Deputy Frank LeSueur were killed. Carver and Curry escaped. On April 17, George Curry was killed in a shootout with Grand County, Utah, Sheriff John Tyler and Deputy Sam Jenkins. On May 26, Kid Curry rode into Moab, Utah, and killed both Tyler and Jenkins in another shootout, in retaliation for the deaths of Curry and Lonny.
December 1900 Cassidy is seated on the far right Click a person for more information. Click elsewhere on the image for a larger image.
Cassidy, Longabaugh, and Bill Carver traveled to Winnemucca, Nevada, where on September 19, 1900, they robbed the First National Bank of $32,640. In December, Cassidy posed in Fort Worth, Texas for the now-famous Fort Worth Five Photograph, which depicts Parker, Longabaugh, Harvey Logan, Ben Kilpatrick and William Carver. The Pinkerton Detective Agency obtained a copy of the photograph and began to use it for its wanted posters.
On July 3, 1901, Kid Curry and a group of men robbed the Great Northern train near Wagner, Montana. This time, they took over $60,000 in cash. The gang split up, and gang member Will Carver was killed by a posse led by Sheriff Elijah Briant. On December 12, 1901, gang member Ben Kilpatrick was captured in Knoxville, Tennessee, with Laura Bullion. On December 13, during another shootout, Kid Curry killed Knoxville policemen William Dinwiddle and Robert Saylor and escaped. Despite being pursued by Pinkerton agents and other law enforcement officials, Curry returned to Montana, where he shot and killed rancher James Winters in retaliation for the killing of his brother Johnny years before.
Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) and Etta Place, just before they sailed for South America.
Cassidy and Longabaugh fled to New York City. On February 20, 1902, with Etta Place, Longabaugh's female companion, they departed to Buenos Aires, Argentina, aboard the British steamer Herminius. Cassidy posed as James Ryan, Place's fictitious brother. They settled in a four-room log cabin on a 15,000-acre (61 km2) ranch that they purchased on the east bank of the Rio Blanco near Cholila, Argentina near the Andes.
On February 14, 1905, two English-speaking bandits, who may have been Cassidy and Longabaugh, held up the Banco de Tarapacá y Argentino in Río Gallegos, 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Cholila, near the Strait of Magellan. Escaping with a sum that would be worth at least US $100,000 today, the pair vanished north across the Patagonian steppes.
On May 1, fearing that law enforcement had located them, the trio sold the Cholila ranch. The Pinkerton Agency had known their location for some time, but the rainy season had prevented their agent, Frank Dimaio, from making an arrest. Governor Julio Lezana issued an arrest warrant, but before it could be executed, Sheriff Edward Humphreys, a Welsh Argentine who was friendly with Cassidy and enamored of Etta Place, tipped them off.
The trio fled north to San Carlos de Bariloche where they embarked on the steamer Condor across Nahuel Huapí Lake and into Chile. By the end of that year they returned to Argentina; on December 19, Cassidy, Longabaugh, Place and an unknown male associate robbed the Banco de la Nación branch in Villa Mercedes, 400 miles (640 km) west of Buenos Aires, taking 12,000 pesos. Pursued by armed lawmen, they crossed the Pampas and the Andes to reach the safety of Chile.
On June 30, 1906, Etta Place decided that she had had enough of life on the run, and was escorted back to San Francisco by Longabaugh. Cassidy, under the alias James "Santiago" Maxwell, obtained work at the Concordia Tin Mine in the Santa Vera Cruz range of the central Bolivian Andes, where he was joined by Longabaugh upon his return. Their main duties included guarding the company payroll. Still wanting to settle down as a respectable rancher, in late 1907 Cassidy traveled with Longabaugh to Santa Cruz, a frontier town in Bolivia's eastern savannah.
The facts surrounding Butch Cassidy's death are uncertain. On November 3, 1908, near San Vicente in southern Bolivia, a courier for the Aramayo Franke and Cia Silver Mine was conveying his company's payroll, worth about 15,000 Bolivian pesos, by mule when he was attacked and robbed by two masked American bandits who were believed to be Cassidy and Longabaugh. The bandits then proceeded to the small mining town of San Vicente where they lodged in a small boarding house owned by a local resident miner named Bonifacio Casasola. When Casasola became suspicious of his two foreign lodgers, as well as a mule they had in their possession which was from the Aramayo Mine, identifiable from the mine company brand on the mule's left flank, Casasola left his house and notified a nearby telegraph officer who notified a small Bolivian Army cavalry unit stationed nearby, which was the Abaroa Regiment. The unit dispatched three soldiers, under the command of Captain Justo Concha, to San Vicente where they notified the local authorities. On the evening of November 6, the lodging house was surrounded by the three soldiers, the police chief, the local mayor and some of his officials, who intended to arrest the Aramayo robbers.
When the three soldiers approached the house the bandits opened fire, killing one of the soldiers and wounding another. A gunfight then ensued. At around 2 a.m., during a lull in the firing, the police and soldiers heard a man screaming from inside the house. Soon, a single shot was heard from inside the house, whereupon the screaming stopped. Minutes later, another shot was heard.
The standoff continued as locals kept the place surrounded until the next morning when, cautiously entering, they found two dead bodies, both with numerous bullet wounds to the arms and legs. One of the men had a bullet wound in the forehead and the other had a bullet hole in the temple. The local police report speculated that, judging from the positions of the bodies, one bandit had probably shot his fatally wounded partner-in-crime to put him out of his misery, just before killing himself with his final bullet.
In the following investigation by the Tupiza police, the bandits were identified as the men who robbed the Aramayo payroll transport, but the Bolivian authorities didn't know their real names, nor could they positively identify them. The bodies were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, where they were buried close to the grave of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer. Although attempts have been made to find their unmarked graves, notably by the American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers in 1991, no remains with DNA matching the living relatives of Cassidy and Longabaugh have yet been discovered.
In his Annals of the Former World, John McPhee repeats a story told to geologist David Love in the 1930s by Love's family doctor, Francis Smith, M.D., when Love was a doctoral student. Smith stated that he had just seen Cassidy who told him that his face had been altered by a surgeon in Paris, and that he showed Smith a repaired bullet wound that Smith recognized as work he had previously done on Cassidy.
In a 1960 interview, Josie Bassett claimed that Cassidy came to visit her in the 1920s "after returning from South America," and that "Butch died in Johnnie, Nevada, about 15 years ago." Locals of Cassidy's hometown of Circleville, Utah, claimed in an interview that Cassidy worked in Nevada until his death.
Western historian Charles Kelly closed the chapter "Is Butch Cassidy Dead?" in his 1938 book, The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch, by observing that if Cassidy "is still alive, as these rumors claim, it seems exceedingly strange that he has not returned to Circleville, Utah, to visit his old father, Maximillian Parker, who died on July 28, 1938, at the age of 94 years." Kelly is thought to have interviewed Parker's father, but no known transcript of such an interview exists.
William T. Phillips claimed to have known Butch Cassidy since childhood. Some[who?] have speculated that Phillips was Butch Cassidy, but no evidence supports the claims.
In the 1951 film The Texas Rangers, Cassidy is played by John Doucette and the Sundance Kid is played by Ian MacDonald. In a gang composed of real-life outlaws John Wesley Hardin and Dave Rudabaugh, led by Sam Bass, they square off against two convicts recruited by John B. Jones to bring them to justice.
The Three Outlaws, starring Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy and Alan Hale Jr as the Sundance Kid, is a 1956 western film of the famed outlaws' lives with Wild Bunch member William "News" Carver as the third outlaw in the title.
In the 1965 comedy Western Cat Ballou, Cassidy is played by Arthur Hunnicutt as a washed-up old outlaw tending a bar at Hole-in-the Wall.
Alias Butch Cassidy is a 1967 novel written by Henry Wilson Allen under the pseudonym Will Henry.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, is a 1969 film of the duo's exploits.
The Wild Bunch, a 1969 film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, is loosely based on Butch Cassidy's exploits.
The actor Michael Margotta played a young Cassidy in the 1969 episode "Drop Out" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. In the story line, the 16-year-old Parker, rebellious against his father, Maxy Parker (Russ Conway) and his bishop, played by William Zucker, takes the name of a much older rustler acquaintance, Mike Cassidy (Tony Russel) and sets forth to Salt Lake City, Utah. He leaves behind his childhood sweetheart, Vanessa Haver (Susan O'Connell), the daughter of the bishop. The episode aired the same year as the popular Newman and Redford film.
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, starring Tom Berenger and William Katt, is a 1979 prequel to the 1969 Newman-Redford film.
In the 1990 mystery novel Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman, a historian is murdered over the remains of Butch Cassidy and the loot from his supposed last escapade, a 1909 train robbery in Utah, in which Casssidy was wounded during a shootout and ended up dying in a cave on the Navajo Nation.
A 2006 film, Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy is an action-adventure with a twist of romance. Ryan Kelley, Arielle Kebbel, Dan Byrd, Brent Weber, with James Gammon and Bruce McGill star in the movie. Roy Parker (Ryan Kelley) is determined to find the treasure of his great uncle Leroy (Butch Cassidy) and prove that Cassidy lived on and went right and stopped robbing. With his best friend, arch complaining rival, and a girl who has stolen his heart, they make the trip through Utah to find the lost treasure and stop a villain from getting it first.
A TV movie, The Legend of Butch & Sundance (2006), has David Clayton Rogers as Butch, Ryan Browning as Sundance, and Rachelle Lefevre as Etta Place.
Blackthorn (2011) stars Sam Shepard as Butch, also known as James Blackthorn. This story sees Butch as having survived after 1908. He lives peacefully in Bolivia until he's offered one more adventure.
British TV Car Show Top Gear discussed some scenes from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and visited his house in Argentina during their Patagonia special aired in December 2014 on the BBC.
The 2015 episode, "Globe Trekker Road Trip: Patagonia" of the PBS Series Globe Trekker, traveller Zay Harding visits their home near Cholila Argentina and interviews a local historian about their time in Argentina.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 What's Up With All These Names? Bureau of Land Management. 18 January 2008. Accessed 13 June 2008.
↑ The Outlaw Trail. Bureau of Land Management. 18 January 2008. Accessed 13 June 2008.
↑ Betenson, Lula and Flack, Dora, Butch Cassidy, My Brother, Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah, 1975.
↑ Gibson, Elizabeth. "Kid Curry, the Wildest of the Bunch." WOLA Journal. Spring, 1999. reprinted at HometownAOL.com.
↑ McPhee, John. Annals of the Former World. 1998. ISBN 0-374-10520-0. p. 358.
↑ Patterson, Richard. Butch Cassidy's Surrender Offer. HistoryNet.com. February 2006. Accessed 13 June 2008.
↑ 24.0 24.1 "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid." The Mythical West: An Encyclopedia of Legend, Lore, and Popular Culture. 2001. reprinted at OurworldCompuserv.com.
↑ Phillips, William T. The Bandit Invincible: The Story of the Outlaw Butch Cassidy. J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah. January 1986. Accessed 13 June 2008.
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Planting 80,000 trees across B&NES in 18 months "ambitious but workable"
By Susie Watkins
25th Nov 2021 | Local News
Children from Widcombe Junior School planting a pear tree with help from from Bath & North East Somerset Council leader Councillor Kevin Guy and outdoor play
A tree will have to be planted every 10 minutes to hit the target of 100,000 in the ground across Bath and North East Somerset by May 2023.
The plan was a manifesto pledge from the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2019 elections but like so many other things was delayed by the pandemic.
Some 20,000 trees have been planted so far and Councillor Jess David said getting another 80,000 in the ground in 18 months is ambitious but with the support of partners will be workable.
"I'm feeling really positive about it," she said. "I think we'll hit the target."
The council estimates that 2,800 hectares or just over eight per cent of Bath and North East Somerset is covered by woodland, below the England average of 10 per cent, although Bath's canopy cover is double the South West average of 11 per cent.
The council has found nearly 20 hectares of publicly accessible land where more than 43,000 trees could be planted but less than half would be immediately available.
The 80,000 new trees – in line with regional and national targets to double tree cover – does not include the several thousand council-owned ash trees suffering dieback that will need to be felled and replaced.
Another challenge is recruiting and retaining arboriculturists, who are in high demand as organisations across the country seek to plant trees to reduce their carbon footprint.
Reflecting that interest, this week children at Widcombe Junior School planted an ornamental pear tree to mark the Queen's platinum jubilee next year as part of a nationwide initiative.
Council leader Kevin Guy said: "This is a wonderful initiative which not only celebrates Her Majesty the Queen's long reign but also has a positive impact on the environment.
"Trees are so important in improving air quality and helping to combat the climate emergency. Every tree really does count as part of our collective efforts to improve our environment."
Cllr David said the council will go further with a "one tree per child" scheme to increase the coverage at schools and inspire youngsters to take an interest in the environment.
It is also planning to give away 10,000 trees a year in 2021/22 and 2022/23 and to create virtual forest to record those that are planted.
Trees in the district sequester approximately 52,000 tonnes of CO2 every year and currently store 456,258 tonnes of carbon.
The project will largely be funded by grants and cash paid by developers when projects are approved. Cllr David said the trees will mostly be native stock, in line with guidelines on what species should be planted where, with More Trees for B&NES growing some locally.
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comment on dit à ce propos en anglais ?
It is conversational rather than colloquial. In any case that means it is not for written texts.
Also, I think donques' suggestion "As a rider to this" would only fit if the à propos modified the original point.
Isn't the expression "a ce propos" and not "à ce propos"? Shouldn't the accent be missing there? I've run into it in a book only once (i've begun recently to study French) and I'm not very sure.
No, it takes the accent here.
PS Welcome to the forum!
Vincix, you may have seen "A ce propos" at the beginning of a sentence, and we do not put accent in capital letters in French.
donques had provided : "While were on the subject" without the apostrophe in "we're" which should be included there as it stands for the "a" of "are". This might make the translation expression unclear to some Forum users.
indeed a manner of saying "à ce propos, ..."
No criticism meant, just a clarification.


Beware of the bum gun!
As the last few days of our Cambodian visa quickly trickled down, we sat through several bus journeys only to 1. Ride on a flimsy bamboo bridge before it collapses, 2. Take the chance to see some of the 80 or so critically endangered irrawady dolphins living in the Mekong in Kratie and 3. Backtrack past Kampong Cham and all the way to Phnom Penh. Whether that was going to be worth the 20 or so back breaking bus hours or not, we did not know.
The first pleasant surprise along the way was the Reasmey Cheanich Hotel in Kampong Cham. A well deserved little slice of luxury! We found it by stumbling on the TripAdvisor reviews, but it seems to be brand new and not have much presence online yet. Honestly, after four weeks in Cambodia we have only stayed in one other place as nice as this – and it cost a dollar more per night. Yep, this hotel room cost us 9$/night for a twin room. We even had a kettle! What a treat for Richard's little British heart. Unfortunately, only coffee was provided – no tea bags – but nobodies' perfect.
The hotel is on a quiet side street, but a short walk to the riverfront cafes and bars. Take a bike and go ride on the bamboo bridge.
This entry was posted in Asia, Cambodia, Travel on April 19, 2014 by Amélie.


An approach to tune the PID controller using Fuzzy Logic, is to use fuzzy gain scheduling, which is proposed by Zhao, in 1993, in this paper. In this post, we are going to share with you, a MATLAB/Simulink implementation of Fuzzy PID Controller, which uses the blocksets of Fuzzy Logic Toolbox in Simulink. Three examples of the reference paper, are implemented as Simulink models. For backward compatibility, the models for use with MATLAB 7.9 are provided, in addition to MATLAB R2015a (version 8.5) models.
is possible insert the application of Control i.e. Robust Control, Feedback, Tuning PID Controller with Metaheuristics algorithm?
Some codes are being prepared, related to the Control Systems, specially Intelligent Control algorithms.


Audrey Hepburn is probably one of the most famous cinema icons out there. She's been in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffanys and My Fair Lady, to name a few. Growing up, I went through a phase where I was obsessed with music and film from the 50's and 60's. I just wanted to live back in that time where girls wore poodle skirts and hung out at the soda fountain. I think it would have been so much fun living back then...fun except for the racism, lol.
My model was also petite, fair skinned and had the same dark hair as Audrey. We were going for a minimal makeup look shot outdoors. Ms. Hepburn was known for barely there makeup--mainly long lashes, pale cheeks and lips, and heavy eyebrows. I went with a lighter look, but modernized it a bit. A good rule of thumb is to only apply as much makeup as a model needs...I know it's fun sometimes to do the whole shebang, but it's best to apply makeup on an individual as needed bases.
Here's a tip...don't forget the ears! My model had brightly flushed ears. I brushed on a bit of green correcting powder and voila, red is gone!
You can click on the pics to enlarge.
And of course, a before and after: the look is subtle but definitely makes her more polished.
i reaaally love this. so simple and polished like you said. it's very hepburn-esque.
you're really going for your dream! i wish i can do the same LOL.
5. concealer... I haven't really tried this but I heard good reviews about it.
absolutely gorg per usual! i like that you mentioned the aspect about the ears.... sometimes i have to really, carefully brush in the hairline also(usu if the hair is pulled back) because of all of the hair products women put in their hair it shows a definite line of demarcation between the oily scalp (edges) and face... down the neck! keep these post coming!! =) again wonderful photog! s/he really compliments your work!
absolutely gorgeous- so sophisticated! i like what you said about just using what you need- sometimes I just want to keep adding more stuff!
wow audrey is such an icon. i wish i could look like her. How would you do her look an asian skin?
You made her look good!
How was your birthday yesterday?
She looks great! I love audrey! I have her photo on the wall in my room. Love the look.
Wow you did a great job Ren!! She really does have that Audrey look!! Lovely!!
As if she NEEDS makeup! That girl is gorgeous! You did an amazing job on her!
As for the UD mineral foundation I'm a NC35 all though I mix my MAC foundations so I really cant go by that either. But Vision is a very pretty olive color that matches our tan complexions... I actually feel I would match better to their Hallucination shade which is a shade lighter, but I went with Vision because this time of year I am always darker. Your best bet is heading to Sephora and testing them there.
Beautiful!! That first one seriously looks like something out of a magazine. You did an amazing job.
omg her makeup is so subtle and beautiful! you did an amazing job!
Nice job! You can definitely sense the Hepburn-inspired element to it. Sharp and sophisticated.
Amazing look, Ren Ren (: I always love reading your blog! hehe.
Your portfolio must be looking pretty damn good so far!
Love this!!!!!!!! i love audrey hepburn look!!! classy! Congrats!
you did a fantastic job on your model, tho she is pretty both ways.
i think audrey hepburn's look is so timelessly classic. while i don't wear my makeup like her, (i'm drag queen), i definitely stick to her simplicity in clothing that made her look so classy and sophisticated.
Looks great. She looks like Julia Roberts in the first one!
Wow.. I really think you captured the look!


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Q: Is there a way to limit variable scope in ERB (Ruby)? Currently I can do:
r = ERB.new('Hi there <%= name %>')
r.result(OpenStruct.new(name: 'Joan').instance_eval{ binding })
# Outputs 'Hi there Joan'

But I can also do this (running inside a Rails application with an Admin model):
r = ERB.new('<%= Admin.count %>')
r.result(OpenStruct.new.instance_eval{ binding })
# Outputs '10'

In other words, it has access to all the variables of my app in the context the evaluation is called.
Is there any way to restrict the scope of variables to only what I provide in the binding e.g. only 'name' and nothing else? I'd like to use it in a user-facing templating tool.
I've also tried this (as per another SO question):
class Namespace
  def initialize(hash)
    hash.each do |key, value|
      singleton_class.send(:define_method, key) { value }
    end
  end

  def get_binding
    binding
  end
end

Same result.

A: As an ERB template is compiled down to a plain Ruby method and is executed as such, you can't restrict its access. Through meta-programming, an author of your templates would be able to access everything inside the running Ruby VM and write arbitrary Ruby code.
So even if you would adapt the variable binding passed to the template, this wouldn't restrict a malicious user from accessing all your secrets anyway by embedding Ruby into ERB.
If you really want a safe templating language ready to be exposed to users, you should have a look at Liquid (as Stefan said in a comment) or Mustache, both of which aim to provide a safe, non evaluating template environment.


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Want amazing photos this fall? This is a guide for Outdoor Fall Photography Ideas for Kids – unique photo ideas great color scheme ideas and picture outfit ideas.
Leaves provide the most beautiful backdrop for photos, and as a bonus kids can play with them. It is important to emphasize play in a photo session with kids. There is less pressure for both the kids and you to "do a good job" and "get the perfect photo." After all, the photo is already great because it is your life and your memories are unique to your story.
Take advantage of a beautiful Fall sky to create stunning silhouette photos. These are best taken right as the sun has just gone down, and by bumping up the contrast in your edits (this can be done on phones as well). I believe in "your life as art" and these photos are a great opportunity to create a work of art featuring the ones you love. This was taken by a lake in Mystic Connecticut and is hanging on my wall as a large canvas.
Fall offers great colors, yes, but it also comes with fresh apples, pumpkins, and delicious cider doughnuts. Incorporate these into your Fall photos, and it will bring you right back to that time. The sights and smells of a new Season and how it felt to be a kid: which started your love for all things Fall.
Back to school portraits are key and a must-have for your family time capsule. Getting on the bus and bus stop photos are a no-brainer, but why not try a special portrait before all the back to school madness begins? This is a great chance to take some photos with their brand-new backpack that they love and ask questions about how they are feeling about the new year. The great thing about photos is that you have to connect, it is you and your child, and it is a lovely way to have a conversation while creating treasured moments. Show your child the photos as you take them to get them excited and have them come up with ideas as well.
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To capture a great portrait of your child is to stop time, what a magical gift… We never have to be reminded how fast our kids grow up (as a matter of fact, please don't remind us) but how lucky we are that photos can capture these moments and give them back to us and future generations. A beautiful portrait of your child, when taken with love and patience is priceless. These kinds of photos should not be rushed…to slow down time, slow yourself down, and let the moment come to you. You know who your child is and if you give them the chance they will reflect that right back.
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Fall brings a cooling breeze and colorful leaves, but it's also the perfect time for photos and portraits. It's no secret parents love to show off their little ones and document the milestones. Alicia Levy, photographer at JoopaShoots Photography is sharing her tips on Outdoor Fall Photography Ideas for Kids.


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Hatchet Job
By: Mark Kermode
Narrated by: Mark Kermode
For decades, the backbone of film criticism has been the hatchet job - the entertaining trashing of a film by professional reviewers, seen by many as cynical snobs. But with the arrival of the internet, have the critics finally fallen under the axe? With movie posters now just as likely to be adorned by Twitter quotes as fusty reviewer recommendations, has the rise of enthusiastic amateurism sounded the death knell of a profession? Are the democratic opportunities of the internet any more reliable than the old gripes and prejudices of the establishment?
How Does It Feel?
A Life of Musical Misadventures
How Does It Feel? follows a lifetime of musical misadventures which have seen Mark striking rock star poses in the Sixth Form Common Room, striding around a string of TV shows dressed from head to foot in black leather, getting heckled off stage by a bunch of angry septuagenarians on a boat on the Mersey, showing Timmy Mallet how to build a tea-chest bass - and winning the International Street Entertainers of the Year award as part of a new wave of skiffle. Really.
It's Only a Movie
To avoid fainting, keep repeating It's only a move ..only a movie ..only a movie ..only a movie If you grew up believing that Planet of the Apes told you all you needed to know about politics, that Slade in Flame was a savage exposé of the pop world, and that The Exorcist revealed the meaning of life, then you probably spent far too many of your formative years at the cinema. Just as likely, you soon would have realised that there was only one career open to you - you'd have to become a film critic.
How a film critic is made.
By Peter Davis on 20-05-2015
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex
In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode took us into the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: 'What's wrong with the modern movie business – and how can we make it right?'