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Q: confusing about what kmap does so I read that kmap is mapping physical page to the kernel memory but when I use this to edit some user pointer (like copy to user), but  when I edit the buffer that kmap return to me it doing nothing . isn't it should map the user memory to the kernel and return the virtual address that points the physical user memory ?
this is my code
asmlinkage long sys_call(char __user *buf)
{
  struct page *pages[1];

 get_user_pages(buf, 1, FOLL_WRITE, pages, NULL);
  kbuf=kmap(pages[0]);
 kbuf[0]='o';
 kbuf[1]='k';
 kumap(kbuf);

 }

the user code
int main()
{
 char t[10]="not ok";
 sys_call(t);
 printf("%d\n",t);

}

then the output is 'not ok' instead of 'ok ok'

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Fuelled by ginger nuts and earl grey, we were all eager to get started on the project and tear open our craftivist workshop packs, but before we did it was really good to hear Sarah share the ideas behind what we'd be doing and be reminded what craftivism is all about. Sarah talked animatedly and honestly about her personal journey into craftivism, which helped to set into context how her own craftivism and our soon-to-be-created stitches would form part of a bigger picture of the relationship between craft and activism.
At the start of a new year, as the concept of a 'craft revival' continues to gain in popularity within mainstream media, it was interesting to reflect on how the relationship between craft and protest, art and activism, has a rich tradition and is in fact far more ancient than any of the old clothes sat around us in the shop. It was fantastic to hear of predecessors around the world that inspired this project, from the powerful patchwork of the Chilean Apilleras, which I hadn't heard of before but shall definitely be looking into further, to the stitched signatures of the Suffragettes. Last weekend I was moved to see first hand an embroidered Suffragette handkerchief at the Museum of London and it emphasised how it's the physical, hand made material nature of these projects that is so important and the personal element that makes them potentially so much more powerful than a simple email or typed letter could be.
As Sarah recently shared, Betsy Greer says 'craftivism is starting a conversation' and I really enjoyed starting conversations with lots of fresh faces, as well as some familiar fellow craftivist friends.
Probably like several people there, I'm not the most outgoing or confident person when it comes to meeting new people and making new friends but somehow it's always much easier and enjoyable to say hello to people and get beyond small talk when you've both got a needle and thread in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. This evening was no exception and I came away having made connections with some lovely people who I hope I can enjoy sharing more evenings with in future and continue the conversations that were started, inspired that it is possible to build a sense of community within the city and encouraged that I'm not the only one who want make a difference and that together we have the chance to. I'm certainly no expert at embroidery, but having been part of the Craftivist Collective for a couple of years now, I was happy to be able to help share with those joining us for the first time a bit about what craftivism means to me, what we get up to and simple advice on how to thread a needle or my own shortcuts in stitching! I love how we can share skills and ideas with each other and all muddle along together!
We were also challenged to take some time out from chatting and sharing who we were sending our hankies to and this provided a great balance, as we spent some of the workshop in silence. Taking time out from talking to focus on what message we were stitching and who we were addressing was a welcome break and chance to reflect. It seemed quite quickly that the workshop was over and it was time for us all to head off and continue our hankies on the bus and back at home.
I'm looking forward to carrying on with my hanky message at the Craftivist Collective's Thursday monthly gatherings at Southbank Centre and seeing how some of the other's are getting along with theirs too. I can't wait for more craftivism, more conversations and more creative community this year.
sounds like a wonderful evening! It would be lovely to have some posts about those older craftivists sufrgettes ect. very very interesting and add more of a purpose to what I or we want to do and achieve.


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FFTP-Haiti Executive Director Bishop Ogé Beauvoir Retires: Seven Years of Inspired Leadership and Dedicated Service
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (March 31, 2022) When Bishop Ogé Beauvoir joined Food For The Poor-Haiti as executive director in 2015, Haiti was still recovering from a devastating earthquake in 2010.
More than 100,000 people were left homeless, living in camps scattered throughout the Port-au-Prince region after the earthquake. Forty-seven percent of the population suffered from food insecurity, with 10 percent of that group experiencing severe food insecurity.
"That was the context in which I joined Food For The Poor," Bishop Beauvoir said during a recent media briefing at FFTP headquarters in Coconut Creek to announce his retirement on March 31. "Thanks be to God that Food For The Poor, the American people, and the American churches have provided the resources for us to accomplish all that we have done in Haiti."
Under Bishop Beauvoir's leadership, FFTP-Haiti has provided 835 million meals, received more than 8,400 containers of essential goods, built 7,600 homes and completed 2,900 water projects.
"This is an incredible legacy," FFTP President/CEO Ed Raine said. "Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all that you helped Food For The Poor accomplish and for being the steward on behalf of our donors who trusted us with their incredible generosity."
"For me, Food For The Poor is not a job – it's a ministry," Bishop Beauvoir said. "And that's not only for me but also for the 400 people working with us."
Raine joined Mark Khouri, FFTP Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, and Daniel Rouzier, Chairman of the Board of Directors for FFTP-Haiti, today in paying tribute to Bishop Beauvoir during a special tribute hosted by FFTP-Haiti. He announced the dedication of the P4H Quality Education Initiative in Bishop Beauvoir's honor.
Initiated through Bishop Beauvoir's leadership, the project impacts 38 schools, 343 teachers and more than 7,000 children. It currently is addressing the educational needs of the Haitian community through professional training for teachers and collaboration with parents. Future plans include enhancing school infrastructure and nutritional programming.
"This is your legacy," Raine said during today's tribute. "There are so many things that we could have said about your legacy, but I truly believe this meets the spirit of who you are and what you care about most."
Upon his retirement, Bishop Beauvoir will join the FFTP-Haiti Board. Mario Nicoleau, Chief Operating Officer of FFTP-Haiti, will succeed Bishop Beauvoir as executive director, effective April 1. An engineer by profession, Nicoleau grew up in Haiti and obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Florida International University in Miami.
Nicoleau worked in the United States and subsequently in Haiti, where he served as vice president and later as president of his family's construction business and eventually held a position at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He joined FFTP-Haiti as COO in 2018 and has played a vital role in revamping the Housing and Infrastructure Department.
"I have been alongside Bishop over the past four years, executing his five-year plan, working with the communities, and seeing our projects come to fruition," Nicoleau said. "We're on a good path to get our beneficiaries to some type of sustainability."
Bishop Beauvoir's five-year plan included two major components: decentralizing the FFTP-Haiti distribution system and adopting an integrated approach to community development.
The key to decentralization was opening 13 distribution centers in partnership with churches throughout Haiti. With the help of the distribution centers, FFTP-Haiti is distributing food and essential goods to 10,000 schools, hospitals and other institutions, bringing help to more than 2 million people throughout Haiti.
To make FFTP-Haiti beneficiaries more self-sufficient, Bishop Beauvoir pursued an integrated approach to community development. This strategy involved securing approximately 49 to 61 acres from the government or another donor to build 150 homes, a school, a medical clinic and a community center. Residents also receive training and supplies to support income-generating activities – such as beekeeping, animal husbandry, aquaculture and agriculture – providing food and generating income for each family.
"The challenge to being a leader is to help people and also help them understand that God has not created them to be dependent," Bishop Beauvoir said. "As it was said to the man in the Gospel, 'stand up, take your bed, and walk.' We are giving our beneficiaries help to stand up and walk."
Looking toward the future, Nicoleau will build upon Bishop Beauvoir's legacy. Both men acknowledge that the landscape has changed significantly in the last year. Haiti is still dealing with unrest and uncertainty in the aftermath of the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, as well as the lingering devastation of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake and Tropical Storm Grace in August 2021 and increasingly powerful criminal gang activity.
Even with these challenges, Nicoleau remains resolute and focused. FFTP-Haiti is now implementing phase two of the decentralization plan – opening satellite offices where FFTP-Haiti staff will work with church leaders and monitor the progress of community projects. Plans are underway to open a satellite center in Miragoâne, and others are planned for construction in Hinche and Les Cayes. Nicoleau and his team are also charting new, safer routes to deliver food by land, air and sea.
"We're continuously finding innovative ways to bring food to the people," Nicoleau said. "As we say here, 'sometimes if we don't work, people die.' So, there is no way for us to give up on getting food to where it is needed."
Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry children and families living in poverty primarily in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicine, educational materials, homes, support for vulnerable children, care for the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance. For more information, please visit www.FoodForThePoor.org.
Ernestine Williams
ernestinew@foodforthepoor.com
Bishop Ogé Beauvoir, outgoing executive director of Food For The Poor-Haiti.

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Celebrate Pride with These Marvel Heroes
A Marvel Unlimited spotlight on our LGBTQ+ characters!
by Robyn Belt
LEARN ABOUT EVEN MORE CHARACTERS HERE!
Whether an X-Man, Avenger, (Young) Avenger, Runaway, or even a solo vigilante, all of these characters have left their larger mark on Marvel by simply being themselves.
Celebrate Pride month by reading the comic stories behind a few of our LGBTQ+ characters on Marvel Unlimited!
And, tune into the Women of Marvel podcast for a roundtable of Marvel creators who share how their identities have shaped their creative paths. Hosts Sana Amanat and Judy Stephens are joined by writers Vita Ayala (MORBIUS, ACTS OF EVIL), Tini Howard (EXCALIBUR, THANOS), and Leah Williams (THE AMAZING MARY JANE, GWENPOOL STRIKES BACK), all of whom talk about how they've navigated storytelling, their careers, and their own personal journeys. Listen to the full episode below!
Let's get to know…
One of Professor Xavier's Original Five students, youngest X-Man Bobby Drake was regarded by his peers as the class clown. Although, his vast elemental powers countered that casual demeanor! Over time, Drake has gained greater mastery over his snow and ice form, and can create near-impenetrable structures as a self-sustaining ice machine. In fact, his Omega level-status was confirmed in HOUSE OF X/POWERS OF X, the saga that established a new mutant age on the island nation of Krakoa. (HOUSE OF X #1)
Even though his history dates back to 1963's UNCANNY X-MEN #1, it took Drake decades to embrace his truest self. Since then, Iceman has thrived.
Read an adult Bobby's solo adventures in ICEMAN (2017), followed by his second volume, ICEMAN (2018). Both runs cover everything from family drama, Super Villain drop-ins, some "old" Amazing Friends, and even dating! Or, get up to speed with Iceman's latest appearances as a mutant brigadier in Dawn of X series MARAUDERS (2019).
Iceman (2017) #1
publishedJun 7, 2017
added to marvel unlimitedDec 11, 2017
penciler
Daniel Ketchum
painter (cover)
Kevin P. Wada
penciler (cover)
letterer
Vc Joe Sabino
What is Marvel Unlimited?
Jean-Paul Beaubier is a high-flying speedster and founding member of Alpha Flight—he's also the first Marvel character to come out on panel! Read his revolutionary admission here, a groundbreaking moment in Marvel Pride history:
Alpha Flight (1983) #106
publishedMar 10, 1992
added to marvel unlimitedSept 26, 2016
Bob Sharen
penciller
Mark Pacella
penciller (cover)
Northstar broke records a second time with his marriage to longtime partner Kyle Jinadu. Their wedding in ASTONISHING X-MEN (2004) #51 was the mutant fête of the decade, a Super Hero ceremony that (unbelievably) went off without a hitch.
Most remarkably, Jean-Paul is one of the fastest heroes in the Marvel Universe, giving Quicksilver a run for his money. His powers of flight and lightspeed stamina work in concert with Aurora, his twin sister.
Young Avenger William "Billy" Kaplan is a mage empowered far beyond his years—he has particularly strong control over his electro-kinetic and teleportation skills. For that reason, he has been recruited by senior Avengers and Sorcerer Supremes to combat a variety of threats. Arcane resurrections, reality-obliterating mutants, Wiccan's got a spell for that.
His aged-up version played a prominent role in DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE SORCERERS SUPREME (2016), although it was the AVENGERS: CHILDREN'S CRUSADE event where he truly came into his own.
When his manipulative mind powers started spiraling out of control, Billy set out to find the one person who could help him—the Scarlet Witch, also the woman purported to be his mother. Industry great Allan Heinberg delivered this super-powered coming-of-age tale, assembled here.
Theodore "Teddy" Altman is a changeling by birth. The son of Captain Mar-Vell and a Skrull Empress, he has often used his shapeshifting skills to blend into (or break out) of the crowd. Young Hulkling has had a complex beginning, broken out in YOUNG AVENGERS (2005) #9-12.
In addition to being a cosmic power player, Teddy is Wiccan's current fiancé. He is set to play a major role in the upcoming EMPYRE event, returning to his Kree and Skrull heritage to lead his people in an alliance that promises conflict with Earth's heroes. For more details on Teddy's turn as a ruler, pick up one-shot LORDS OF EMPYRE: EMPEROR HULKLING (2020) #1, on sale soon.
AMERICA CHAVEZ
Chavez hails from the Utopian Parallel, a lush, wonderland dimension of female-only inhabitants that was once threatened with destruction. After both her mothers died to save their world, America upheld their legacy as a Young Avenger and member of the Ultimates, growing into a team player mentality as she broke away from loner habits.
Beyond super-strength, flight, and incredible one-liners, America's signature move is punching star-shaped holes through dimensions.
Start with YOUNG AVENGERS (2013), then try her 2017 series. Writer Gabby Rivera brings America to life, and it's gorgeously illustrated by Joe Quinones, Stacey Lee, Jen Bartel, Ramon Villalobos, Flaviano Armentaro, and more.
KAROLINA DEAN
Teen Runaway Karolina Dean has an easy, breezy nature that defies her extraterrestrial abilities. A daughter of the Majesdanian race, Karolina was gifted a bracelet by her parent that, when removed, allowed her to project solar energy and fly.
Upon discovering that her parents were aligned with a Super Villain cult called the Pride, Karolina joined her fellow Runaways to live out a life of clandestine crimefighting in her native Los Angeles. If you're looking for her pivotal issue, try RUNAWAYS (2005) #8.
NICO MINORU
AKA Sister Grimm! Runaway Nico similarly discovered her parents' ties to the Pride, and has been an original member of the team since her first appearance in RUNAWAYS (2003) #1. A sorceress by birth, Sister Grimm's magic functions with an unusual caveat—she can never cast the same spell twice. This has led to some inventive invocations, given that Nico must always be specific, lest her random magic becomes chaos magic!
A summoning of Presidents Past in RUNAWAYS (2008) #13!
Nico was also a member of A-Force, an all-female super-team led by She-Hulk that addressed multiversal threats, ranging from cosmic castaways to giant bugs!
In RUNAWAYS (2017) #12, Nico and Karolina solidified their romantic relationship after years of devoted friendship.
THE MIDNIGHT ANGELS
Ayo and Aneka are the Midnight Angels, a duo of freedom fighters that helped build Wakanda's modern monarchy in Ta-Nehisi Coates' BLACK PANTHER (2016).
From BLACK PANTHER (2016) #3.
Former Dora Milaje, or soldiers to Wakanda's Royal Family, Ayo and Aneka abandoned their post to forge their own path. Together, they inspired democracy by creating a military force to address the violent rebellions that nearly buckled Black Panther's throne.
[RELATED: The Big Players in Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Black Panther']
Their story actually began in the pages of BLACK PANTHER: WORLD OF WAKANDA (2016), a secretive love that grew outside the disciplined walls of the palace. Novelist Roxane Gay introduced this pair as polar opposites… who found each other over a shared sense of justice. The entire series is now free on Marvel Unlimited, so you can read the origin of the Midnight Angels in full.
From BLACK PANTHER: WORLD OF WAKANDA #2.
The niece of a Madripoorian crime lord, Vietnam-born Xi'an "Shan" Coy Manh overcame a legacy of violence to become a dedicated New Mutant and X-Men faculty member. Upon her first meeting with Professor X, Karma was a bright young woman saddled with a great deal of responsibility. Her chief concern has been raising her two younger siblings, Leon and Nga.
Her powers are psychic in nature—Karma can seize control of another's mind, or plant herself into their consciousness or body. She is multilingual, speaking French, English, and Vietnamese.
If you're looking to read Shan's current exploits, start NEW MUTANTS (2019) on Marvel Unlimited, following the original squad. For her earliest Marvel history, we recommend MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #100, her first appearance by co-creators Chris Claremont and Frank Miller.
Marvel Team-Up (1972) #100
publishedNov 31, 1980
added to marvel unlimitedOct 24, 2008
Carl Gafford
Roxanne Washington is Bling!, X-Man-in-training and a dedicated student of Krakoa. Her diamond exterior grants her durability and superhuman strength, but her greatest power may be her thirst for knowledge!
Let's talk mutant history in X-MEN (2004) #174!
The daughter of hip-hop legends, Roxanne is no stranger to the spotlight, although she much prefers to live outside the shadow of fame. One of her most notable moments came in X-MEN LEGACY (2008) #228, a devastating (but ultimately victorious) battle against mutant vampire Emplate.
Read her most current appearances in Dawn of X's FALLEN ANGELS. A later addition to Psylocke's commando crew of misfits and revenge-seekers, Bling! joined the team in issue #5.
RICTOR
The mutant Rictor, AKA Julio Richter, makes waves. Specifically, seismic ones. Able to control the vibrations of Earth's core, he can create earthquakes of any magnitude, and his power continues to grow! Although first introduced as a supporting character in X-FACTOR (1986), Rictor's Super Hero career kicked into high gear after he joined Cable's X-Force in issue #11.
While a member of Multiple Man's mutant detective agency, Rictor reexplored his relationship with X-Force colleague and best friend, Shatterstar. Despite a dimension of difference, the two enjoyed a long-running romance in X-FACTOR (2005), starting with issue #45. Today, things have slowed down between the two, given that Rictor is busy portal-ing between mystical fairy realms and Krakoa in EXCALIBUR (2019).
X-Factor (2005) #1
publishedDec 14, 2005
added to marvel unlimitedJan 31, 2008
ratingT+
Andy Schmidt
Jose Villarrubia
SHATTERSTAR
Before joining Multiple Man's crew in 2005's X-FACTOR, Shatterstar, "Gaveedra-Seven," was a genetically modified renegade from Mojoworld with training as an arena gladiator! Along with a healing factor and extrasensory perception, Shatterstar can open portals between dimensions.
Check out his first brush with Cable's New Mutants in NEW MUTANTS (1983) #100, a dust-up that would lead to his recruitment in X-FORCE (1991).
Or, if you'd like the scoop on his origin and parentage, try X-FACTOR (2005) #259. This issue revealed that Shatterstar is the actual son of Soldier of Chance Longshot and mutant pop star Dazzler! But what started as a temporal trip down memory lane became a full-fledged battle against Mojo and Spiral.
An original student of AVENGERS ACADEMY, Striker, AKA Brandon Sharpe, would lunge into combat and ask questions later. Deemed the "Human Electric Chair," Striker's hotheaded nickname spoke to his hotheaded ways. At the series' midway point, issue #23, a personal turmoil was revealed that gave readers an inside look at just how much the teen was going through. Thankfully, Power Pack's Lightspeed was on hand to offer her guidance and support through Brandon's admission, and, being queer herself, could give some advice on how to feel secure in your own identity.
We recommend starting with AVENGERS ACADEMY (2010) #1. It's Striker's first appearance, and also introduces the first class of students with burgeoning super-powers.
Although long vilified amongst humans and mutants, Mystique's true nature is as elusive as her appearance. Society's unwillingness to accept her natural state has left her adrift and without clear alliances. Although, there has been one constant force of good in her life—her wife, Destiny. A mutant precognitive whose gifts are both a blessing and a curse, Destiny helped raise Rogue alongside Mystique, and this found family of three found happiness, however fleeting.
Given her powers, Mystique's age is unknown, although it's now confirmed that her past with Destiny stretches back to the 19th century. (X-TREME X-MEN #1, HISTORY OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #2)
In X-MEN (2019), Mystique finally aligned with the rest of mutantkind, aiding Charles Xavier and Magneto on a mission of utmost importance in X-MEN (2019) #6, coming soon to Marvel Unlimited.
DR. CHARLENE MCGOWAN
You may not know of Dr. McGowan yet, but you're sure to read more of her soon! Introduced in IMMORTAL HULK (2018) #6, McGowan is a scientist who was responsible for experimenting on Bruce Banner's zombified Hulk ego while working with the Shadow Base organization, an initiative started by General Reginald Fortean.
But, her ties to the nefarious Shadow Base are rooted in a personal mission, and McGowan has proven herself one of the Hulk's latest allies. Try her first appearance, and read through issue #24!
For even more LGBTQ+ spotlights, be sure to check out our complete list on Marvel Unlimited!
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In this article: Marvel Unlimited, Runaways, X-Men, Iceman, Northstar, Karolina Dean (Lucy In The Sky), Nico Minoru (Sister Grimm), Shatterstar, Rictor, Mystique, Striker, Wiccan, Hulkling, Miss America (America Chavez), Karma, Destiny (Irene Adler), X-Factor Investigations
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Our Marvel Unlimited comic picks for Marvel's cosmic adventurers.
Revisiting 'Daken: Dark Wolverine' with Writer Rob Williams
Look back on a significant chapter of Daken's deep history with Marvel Unlimited!
'X of Swords' So Far
Catch up with the latest chapters on Marvel Unlimited, and recap what's happened in the opening arc!
Family Trouble Strikes Second 'Xavier Institute' Prose Novel, 'First Team'
Your first look at Robbie MacNiven's upcoming novel, hitting shelves on March 2!


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package esiv3

import (
	"net/http"
	"time"

	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
)

var _ time.Time
var _ = mux.NewRouter

func GetCharactersCharacterIdSearch(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

	var (
		localV      interface{}
		err         error
		categories  []string
		characterId int32
		search      string
		datasource  string
		language    string
		strict      bool
		token       string
	)
	// shut up warnings
	localV = localV
	err = err

	j := `{
  "solar_system" : [ 30002510 ],
  "station" : [ 60004588, 60004594, 60005725, 60009106, 60012721, 60012724, 60012727 ]
}`
	vars := mux.Vars(r)
	localV, err = processParameters(characterId, vars["character_id"])
	if err != nil {
		errorOut(w, r, err)
		return
	}
	characterId = localV.(int32)
	if err := r.ParseForm(); err != nil {
		errorOut(w, r, err)
		return
	}
	localV, err = processParameters(categories, r.Form.Get("categories"))
	if err != nil {
		errorOut(w, r, err)
		return
	}
	if r.Form.Get("datasource") != "" {
		localV, err = processParameters(datasource, r.Form.Get("datasource"))
		if err != nil {
			errorOut(w, r, err)
			return
		}
		datasource = localV.(string)
	}
	if r.Form.Get("language") != "" {
		localV, err = processParameters(language, r.Form.Get("language"))
		if err != nil {
			errorOut(w, r, err)
			return
		}
		language = localV.(string)
	}
	localV, err = processParameters(search, r.Form.Get("search"))
	if err != nil {
		errorOut(w, r, err)
		return
	}
	if r.Form.Get("strict") != "" {
		localV, err = processParameters(strict, r.Form.Get("strict"))
		if err != nil {
			errorOut(w, r, err)
			return
		}
		strict = localV.(bool)
	}
	if r.Form.Get("token") != "" {
		localV, err = processParameters(token, r.Form.Get("token"))
		if err != nil {
			errorOut(w, r, err)
			return
		}
		token = localV.(string)
	}

	if r.Form.Get("page") != "" {
		var (
			localPage    int32
			localIntPage interface{}
		)
		localIntPage, err := processParameters(localPage, r.Form.Get("page"))
		if err != nil {
			errorOut(w, r, err)
			return
		}
		localPage = localIntPage.(int32)
		if localPage > 1 {
			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
			w.Write([]byte("[]"))
			return
		}
	}

	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)

	w.Write([]byte(j))
}

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Manufacturers & Makers
Sardinian-born designer-entrepreneur Lorenzo "Renzo" Frau (1881-1926) founded the enduring Italian furniture brand Poltrona Frau in Turin in 1912. In these early years of the 20th century, Turin was home to an energetic community of vanguard artists, architects, and designers aligned with the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts movements popular in London and Paris. Within this milieu, Frau set out to create an artisanal atelier specialized in high-end, leather-upholstered furnishings inspired by the classic, British Chesterfield Sofa. This influence later manifested in a number of top-selling designs in the Art Deco style.
Frau's wife, Savina Pisati, played an increasingly important role in directing the company during World War I and after. Under her leadership, Poltrona Frau earned an international reputation for excellent quality and sophisticated silhouettes, and, by the midcentury, could be found in aristocratic homes, luxury ocean liners, and parliamentary meeting rooms around the world. Early successful designs for Poltrona Frau included the 1919 Armchair (also called the 128) from the titular year and the Vanity Fair Armchair (also called the 904) from 1930, both still in production today. In 1941, Pisati passed the baton to her son-in-law, Roberto Canziani, who in 1962, under pressure of bankruptcy, sold the company to luxury leather goods magnate and design lover, Franco Moschini of Nazareno Gabrielli Group.
Through the second half of the 20th century and beyond, Poltrona Frau continued to grow and thrive, finding great success especially with armchairs by Tito Agnoli, Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, Michele de Lucchi, Sergio Mazza, Enzo Mari, Massimo & Lella Vignelli, and Marco Zanuso. The company also developed a new business division dedicated to the automotive sector, outfitting luxury cars for brands like Ferrari, Maserati, and Lancia.
The Poltrona Frau Group remains one of the most prestigious design companies in the world, providing an umbrella for a number of other design brands, including Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Cappellini, Cassina, Alias, Nemo Lighting, Ceramica Flaminia, and Fish Design. In 2014, US-based Haworth Group purchased a controlling interest in Poltrona Frau.
* All images courtesy of Poltrona Frau
Objects from the Maker
Poppy Sofa and Armchairs by Tito Agnoli for Poltrona Frau, 1974, Set of 3
Brown Leather Sinas Armchairs by Luca Scacchetti for Poltrona Frau, Set of 2
Mid-Century Italian Tiffany Blue Leather Chester Sofa by Poltrona Frau, 1980s
Leather and Glass Coffee Table from Poltrona Frau, 1980s
Isola Model Sofa by Studio Cerri & Associati for Poltrona Frau, 2000s
Chester One Armchair from Poltrona Frau
White Leather Sofa by Pierluigi Cerri for Poltrona Frau, 1980s
Leather Dining Chairs by Luigi Massoni for Poltrona Frau, 1970s, Set of 4
Leather Dining Table by Luigi Massoni for Poltrona Frau, 1970s
Cream or Brown Leather Armchairs from Poltrona Frau, Set of 2
Dezza Chair by Gio Ponti for Poltrona Frau, 1965
Edoardo Armchairs from Poltrona Frau, 1990s, Set of 2
Vittoria Dining Armchairs from Poltrona Frau, 1990s, Set of 2
Vintage Dream Armchairs from Poltrona Frau, 1970s, Set of 2
Falcon Armchair with Pouf Set by Sigurd Ressell for Poltrona Frau, 1970s
Club Armchair by Poltrona Frau
Seating Set from Poltrona Frau
Leather Sofa by Tito Agnoli for Poltrona Frau
Large Sofa by Pierluigi Cerri for Poltrona Frau, 1996
Red Movie Chair by Mario Marenco for Poltrona Frau
Oxford Model President Lounge Chair from Poltrona Frau, Italy, 1990s
Black Leather Sofa by Tito Agnoli for Poltrona Frau, Italy, 1980s
Italian Leather Sofa from Poltrona Frau, 1970s
Living Room Set by Poltrona Frau, Set of 3
Chairs by Gregotti Associati for Poltrona Frau, 1950s, Set of 6
September 6 Chairs Gregoretti Vittorio Frau Chair for 1950, Set of 6
Goblet Dining Table by Massimo & Lella Vignelli for Poltrona Frau
Brown Leather Model Atropovarius Armchair by Ferdinand Porsche for Frau, 1980s
Gray Leather Armchair by Poltrona Frau
Vittoria Armchair from Poltrona Frau
Italian Leather Lounge Chairs by Luigi Massoni for Poltrona Frau, 1980s, Set of 2
Leather Ravello Lounge Chair by Ricardo Antonio for Poltrona Frau, 2000s
Leather and Mirrored Glass Coffee Table by Luigi Massoni for Poltrona Frau, 1970's
2-Seat Dezza Sofa by Gio Ponti for Poltrona Frau, 2011
1919 Armchair by Renzo Frau for Poltrona Frau, 1980s
Goblet Dining Table by Massimo and Lella Vignelli for Poltrona Frau, 1980s
White Leather & Silver Model Quadra Coffee Table form Poltrona Frau, 2000s
Leather Model Lyra Lounge Chairs by Renzo Frau for Poltrona Frau, 1930s, Set of 2
Leather Model Lyra Lounge Chair by Renzo Frau for Poltrona Frau, 1930s
Vintage Lounge Chairs by Gio Ponti for Poltrona Frau, 1990s, Set of 2
Vintage Italian Black Lounge Chairs, 1940s, Set of 2
Model Isola Sofa & Pouf by Studio Cerri & Associati for Poltrona Frau, 2000s, Set of 2
Model Calice Dining Table by Massimo and Lella Vignelli for Poltrona Frau, 1980s
Italian Leatherette Lounge Chair from Poltrona Frau, 1970s
Italian 3-Seater Leather Sofa by Jean-Marie Massaud for Poltrona Frau
Living Room Set from Poltrona Frau, 1960s, Set of 3
Model Dream Lounge Chair from Poltrona Frau, 1970s
Italian Leather Sofas from Poltrona Frau, 1980s, Set of 2
Donald Folding Chairs by Studio Cerri & Associati for Poltrona Frau, 2000s, Set of 3
Italian Beech & Leather Lounge Chair, 1970s
Sofa by Tito Agnoli for Poltrona Frau, 1980s
White Leather Chair from Poltrona Frau, 1980s
Mid-Century Rosewood Albero Bookmill by Gianfranco Frattini for Poltrona Frau, 1955
Olive Green Leather Three-Seat Sofa from Poltrona Frau, 1970s
Italian Olive Green Leather Lounge Chairs from Poltrona Frau, 1970s, Set of 2
Italian Tabarin Leather Armchair from Poltrona Frau, 1989
Vintage Lounge Chairs with Foot Stools by Poltrona Frau, 1970s, Set of 6


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INSIGHT OUT - A Documentary Exploring the Transformative Effects of Out of Body Experience
Seminar/Conference
Sunday, July 28, 2019 - 13:00 to 15:30
Jade draws on personal experience, academic research and spiritual traditions offering a balanced view of the extraordinary phenomena of OBE's
In 2014 Jade Shaw had a spontaneous Out of Body Experience (OBE) that changed her life. Soon after she left her company and a 12 year career in the arts to study this phenomena. During this journey she discovered others with similar stories whose experiences had shaped their lives in profound ways.
Insight Out is a documentary that reveals these stories, disrupts preconceived ideas about OBEs and asks provocative questions about the nature of consciousness and reality.
Renowned experts explore the edge of consciousness and the mystery of Out of Body Experiences.
Experts featured include - Dr Eben Alexander, Dr Tom Campbell, Dr Penny Sartori, Dr Steven Taylor, Dr David Luke, Dr Peter Fenwick, Dr Susan Blackmore, Anthony Peake, Tim Freke, William Buhlman, Sergio Magana, Graham Nicholls, Rodrigo Montenegro and Charlie Morley.
Q&A PANEL
Ask questions to experts from the film in the Q&A discussion chaired by Charlie Morley.
The panel includes authors: - Sergio Magana, Dr Penny Sartori, Luigi Sciambarella - UK lead for Monroe Institute, Anthony Peake- Tim Freke- Graham Nicholl's Oliver Robinson of The Science and Medical Network closes the event with a short talk about the future science & spirituality.
About the speaker, Jade Shaw
Jade was a freelance choreographer for the Royal Academy of Dance and Sadler's Wells Theatre when she had a powerful Out of Body Experience (OBE). Afterwards she left a 12 year career in the arts to teach workshops in the practise for psychological & spiritual growth.
She is researching the Out of Body Experience (OBE) as part of her Msc in Transpersonal Psychology. Consciousness exploration has led her on a pilgrimage around India, undertake Shamanic retreat in Peru, explore buddhism in Bhutan and create professional ritual-dance theatre productions.
She receives guidance from Lama Yeshe Rinpoche (Tibetan Buddhist master), is mentored by author Graham Nicholl's, has trained with the Mindfulness Association, International Association of Consciousness and the renowned Monroe Institute.
She holds a BA hons in Dance & Culture from Surrey University, a foundation degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Roehampton University and is a member of the Science & Medical Network as well as A Winston Churchill Trust Fellow.
Jade believes this ancient practise can radically shift our state of consciousness, impacting perception and influencing the way we live our lives. She draws on personal experience, academic research and spiritual traditions offering a balanced view of this extraordinary phenomena.
She lived at the London Samye Dzong Buddhist Centre for five years and now lives near by with her husband: lucid dreaming teacher Charlie Morley.
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
On the women who fought the Islamic State's territory — and won.
The story of America's partners in the ISIS fight cannot be told without talking about the role of the women who led in battle against men who bought, sold and enslaved women. Talk to them and they will tell you they are not just battling ISIS, but the entire mindset that says women are worth nothing and matter none. These women signed up and refused to back down against the men of the Islamic State, and they have pressed forward to write what they call a new chapter for women, not just in Kurdish communities, but across the region. In the process, as I have seen for myself, they have built an experiment in women's equality that goes well beyond what we have seen until now, anywhere in the world.
For the past two years I have chronicled for my next book the stories of the women who led the battle against ISIS as the partner force for the United States. The respect the American forces felt for these battlefield fighters and commanders is shown in the words they used to describe these women: warriors, leaders, fighters.
A group of young women from the Assyrian Christian community during the Raqqa fight to retake the ISIS 'capital' (Courtesy: BethNahrin Women's Unit)
This all-women military force sits at the center of a politcal experiment based upon the notion that true equality is possible for women and good for everyone. And brought to you by women who spent four years battling — at close range — men who bought, sold and enslaved women while leading men in that fight.
These young women — from Kurdish, Arab, Christian communities and beyond — have given all to beat ISIS. And on the heels of that fight, these young women created a real-life utopian push for equality in the last place most would expect to find it. On the ashes of the battle against the physical territory of the Islamic State, they launched an unlikely political experiment in which women play a leading role in all political bodies. And all this while almost no one outside its borders was taking note.
Spend time with these women — Kurds, Christian, Arabs — -and it is clear they fight not just to defeat the Islamic State, but to gain against extremism and to advance the idea of women's equality. After all, who are the first people to pay the price when extremists win? Women and girls. Across communities.
The Islamic State enslaved women. On the streets of Raqqa, ISIS fighters traded women and girls. And the young women who come from Raqqa are part of this all-women's force created not just to protect land but to protect women.
One of the young women I met in this photo had a brother who joined the Islamic State. He forced her to marry one of his fellow fighters. She had no choice, and her mother could not stop it. Her husband brutalized her. She survived, and decided that the one way she could avenge her suffering was to be part of defending her city. That is where I met her in 2018.
In the coming months, I look forward to introducing you to the women who are part of this story. Their futures now hang in the balance as negotiations about the fate of their region presses forward. What is not in question is their role serving and protecting their communities and the important part they played in keeping ISIS at bay.
The world began paying attention during the Islamic State's siege of the border town of Kobani in 2014. In that fight, Kurdish women played a central role in leading and holding the near-collapsed front lines as a mix of Syrians and Iraqis worked to defend the city from a well-armed ISIS which had yet to experience one single battlefield defeat. The Americans launched strikes from the air, and it was up to the women and men inside Kobani to do the fighting and dying on the ground to keep the town out of ISIS hands.
A fighter during the siege of Kobani.
Following the end of the battle for Kobani, the forces who held the city emerged to hand the Islamic State its maiden defeat and begin their partnership with the United States. The town later erected a statue in its center to commemorate the role women played in the city's defense. Young people come and take pictures in front of it today.
As of today, this statue stands proud. In the coming days the town's fate will be decided, along with so much else in northern Syria. What these young women achieved against the Islamc State will stand no matter what comes.
Author of New York Times best sellers "Ashley's War" and "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana." Adjunct senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. All views mine.
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Bruce Butler, assistant principal at South Lakes High School the last seven years, was named the next principal of the school, ending an eight-week search.
Butler has spent his entire career in western Fairfax, starting as an earth and environmental science teacher at Herndon High School. He was an assistant principal at Herndon for five years before transferring to South Lakes.
Butler replaces Principal Realista Rodriguez, who announced in March she was taking a position with the human resources department in Fairfax County Public Schools. In an interview, Butler thanked Rodriguez for her support and for bringing him to South Lakes. "She's been a tireless advocate for South Lakes and has made a lot of tough decisions that have greatly benefited the school over the last couple of years," Butler said.
A man, described to be in his 20s wearing sunglasses and a black bandanna over his face, robbed the BB&T Bank at 2513 Fox Mill Road Monday morning, according to a police report. The man entered the bank around 10:30 a.m., implied he had a gun and demanded money. A teller complied and handed over an undisclosed amount of money, according to the police report. The man was last seen fleeing the scene on Pinecrest Road riding a red motorized scooter. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS/8477 or Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.
Beginning next week, the Lake Anne Revitalization Charrette will feature three days of intensive planning designed to build consensus for the residents, merchants and other community stake holders on ways to enhance design of the Lake Anne Revitalization area. To confirm attendance contact Goldie Harrison or Alisha Dickason at 703-478-0283. See the schedule in Calendar.
First elected in 1977, Del. Ken Plum (D-36) threw a party last week celebrating 25 years of service as Reston's representative in the Virginia House of Delegates. More than 200 people attended the party, held June 2, at the Smith Bowman House in Reston. At the event, which included dinner, entertainment and a short program, attendants took the opportunity to thank Plum for his service.
In the June 1-7, 2005 Reston and Herndon Connections, a photo caption was incorrect. The photo was of Hector V. Barreto, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Admininstration. The photo caption said Danny Vargas, president, VARCom Solutions.
Friends of Homeless Animals has been designated as the 5 percent Donation Day organization by Whole Foods Market in Plaza America in Reston.
On June 22, an amount equal to 5 percent of the receipts for the day will be donated to the Loudoun County-based shelter to help them continue to provide a safe haven for homeless animals.
Friends of Homeless Animals is a "no-kill" animal shelter that provides a safe place for cats and dogs to stay while waiting to find new homes.
Funded by private donations and run by volunteers, the shelter has been in operation for more than 30 years.
Representatives from the shelter will also be at the store with information about pets available for adoption and additional ways to help out. For more information about Friends of Homeless Animals, visit www.foha.org.
The Reston District Police Station is scheduled to run a pedestrian safety campaign until Sept. 10, in response to a request made by Supervisor Cathy Hudgins (D-Hunter Mill) to maintain and enhance the safety conditions for pedestrians and cyclists in the Reston area. The enhanced enforcement will be directed at locations which have been identified by constituents as problem areas. Police will enforce both state and local traffic laws with the goal of gaining voluntary compliance from the community. Drivers will be ticketed for failing to yield the right of way to pedestrians in crosswalks, stopping in and blocking pedestrian crosswalks and for violating any other applicable laws. Officers will conduct the campaign along the W&OD Trail and the intersections of Wiehle Avenue, Sunset Hills Road and Sunrise Valley Drive. They will also concentrate efforts on Sunset Hills Road between Isaac Newton Square Drive West and Wiehle Avenue.
South Lakes High School's graduation, which will be held June 21, will feature a faculty speaker, a student speaker and a commencement speaker. Following past practice, the students elected their student speaker and faculty member. The student speaker will be Denell Davis, the current class secretary, and the faculty speaker will be James Petrik, an English teacher who recently spearheaded the tsunami relief effort at South Lakes. The graduation committee selected Supervisor Cathy Hudgins (D-Hunter Mill) to be the school's commencement speaker.
June 13, 7:00 p.m., Reston Community Center Community Relations Committee Meeting, Reston Community Center Hunters Woods, 2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston.
-June 16 and 17, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Reston Community Center-Hunters Woods, 2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston.
-June 16, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Lake Anne Elementary School, 11510 North Shore Drive, Reston.
-June 18, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Lake Anne Elementary, 11510 North Shore Drive, Reston.
June 23, 7:00 p.m., Reston Association Board Meeting at Isaac Newton Square.


The Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Jazz Journalists Association will celebrate International Jazz Day, April 30, 2013, with a presentation of never-before-heard Armstrong recordings, a trumpet fanfare in honor of Louis, and a soul food reception.
The event, Louis Armstrong at Freedomland: Never Before Heard Recordings of an American Icon, a Listening Session & Lecture, begins at 2pm and is free and open to the public. It will be held at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center located at 10001 Northern Boulevard in Corona, Queens. Reservations. can be made by calling the Louis Armstrong House Museum at 718.478.8274.
The focus of the event is the public premier of newly discovered recordings by the beloved trumpeter and entertainer Louis Armstrong, who made them at a fabled although short-lived Bronx amusement park in 1961. Highlights from Armstrong's live performances from the 85-acre park billed as the "World's Largest Entertainment Center," which boasted more than 63,000 guests for its opening day in 1960, will be played. These recordings, recently donated to the Museum by the son of Freedomland sound engineer Peter Denis, have never been circulated or issued, and are not listed in jazz discographies.
The program will be presented and interpreted by Ricky Riccardi, the Museum's Archivist and the author of What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years, and Dan Morgenstern, recently retired Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Morgenstern is a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, the nation's highest honor in Jazz, as well as a recipient of the JJA's Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award.
UPDATE 5/25: The program will also feature a trumpet fanfare composed just for the occasion by trumpeter/ composer/ performance artist Stephanie Richards which she'll perform with fellow New York trumpeters Jeremy Pelt, David Weiss and Igmar Thomas.
This event celebrates International Jazz Day (sponsored by UNESCO), and the culmination of Jazz Appreciation Month (a major initiative of the Smithsonian Institution. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has issued a proclamation honoring International Jazz Day, which will also be presented as part of the program.
Following the presentation, the Jazz Journalists Association will toast Armstrong at a special soul food reception to mark the finale of its JazzApril media campaign in support of Jazz Appreciation Month, International Jazz Day and grassroots jazz activism in the U.S. and beyond.


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Jeremy Corbyn at at 15 Years On: Time To Stop The War, London TUC Congress House. Photo: Jim Aindow / Counterfire / Flickr / all rights reserved
Crossing red lines: why the establishment wants to destroy Corbyn
Originally published: Counterfire on November 3, 2020 by Chris Nineham (more by Counterfire) | (Posted Nov 04, 2020)
Empire, Imperialism, Strategy, WarBritainNewswireJeremy Corbyn
The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn because he argued claims of antisemitism in Labour were deliberately exaggerated is a travesty. There is plenty of evidence on record that various leading figures within Labour deliberately inflated claims of antisemitism to undermine Corbyn. It is clear from the content of the EHRC report itself that there is a gaping discrepancy between the claims of systemic antisemitism made by politicians and media and the actual record.
Despite this, Labour leadership remains adamant. Kier Starmer's intense focus on marginalising Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters is part of a pattern. From the start of his leadership, Corbyn suffered an unprecedented level of attacks not just from the Labour right but from all corners of the establishment.
The right-wing of the Labour Party plotted against him from the start. Highlights included the choreographed resignation of 44 frontbench MPs in so many hours after the 2016 Brexit vote, the weaponization of the antisemitism issue by senior Labour figures exposed in Labour's internal report on antisemitism and the associated 2019 split led by Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna.
On Manoeuvres
Anti-Corbyn manoeuvres went way beyond Labour. Early in his tenure, generals briefed journalists that he was a security threat and that the armed forces would not serve under him. For a year MI6 refused the normal meeting with the leader of the opposition. In 2019, senior civil servants told the Times that he was 'too frail' to be prime minister and that he was 'losing his memory'.
Tony Blair's extensive networks were fully mobilised as Peter Mandelson made clear when he promised to 'work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of his tenure in office'. Even the U.S. administration was in on the act with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo giving private assurances that the administration would 'push back' against Corbyn even before he got elected and adding, 'It's too risky and too important and too hard once it's already happened."
The tabloid media spent the five years of his leadership demonising Corbyn. First as poorly dressed, sexist and unstatesmanlike and then as a national security threat and a terrorist sympathiser as things became more alarming. The liberal media joined in the sport, running twice as much hostile as favourable coverage. As a letter signed by one hundred media academics put it, 'Corbyn has been treated from the start as a problem to be solved rather than as a politician to be taken seriously.'
Red Lines
It is no accident that so many of the attacks centred on questions of security and foreign policy. It was a major cause of concern for those in power that unlike any other Labour leader since the 1930s Corbyn openly opposed Britain's aggressive foreign policy and the special relationship with the US. He was widely mocked for being the chair of the Stop the War Coalition when he was elected. What was more worrying was that Corbyn stuck to his anti-war principles after he became leader.
One of the early rebellions against his leadership came in December 2015 when eleven cabinet members, including shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, broke with Labour policy and voted for the Tory push to extend Britain's bombing of Iraq to Syria. The rebellion was backed by a political and media chorus echoed by some on the left demanding Corbyn distance himself from Stop the War and ludicrously that he boycott Stop the War's Christmas dinner. Corbyn refused, came to the event and publicly stood by the Stop the War Coalition as 'a vital democratic campaign'.
Corbyn had already caused consternation within the establishment by repeatedly refusing to countenance pushing the nuclear button if in office, despite the fact that Labour was committed to renewing Trident. He promised too that a Labour government would recognise the Palestinian state. In 2016, he broke another foreign policy taboo and directly confronted Blair's legacy by apologising on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq war.
The following year he responded to the appalling Manchester terrorist attack by hosting a high profile press conference at which he linked the spread of terrorism with "wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home". As Corbyn said this was the private view of most in the security services. Corbyn was so transgressive because he was prepared to speak openly about such matters. By doing so he threatened to shine a light on the dark heart of the British foreign policy establishment; its collusion in regime change, torture, illegal arms sales and the enormous suffering caused by the wars in the Middle East and beyond.
He was also prepared to draw policy conclusions. As he said at the press conference:
"We must be brave enough to admit the 'war on terror' is simply not working. We need a smarter way to reduce the threat from countries that nurture terrorists and generate terrorism."
After the press conference, the media predicted a massive public backlash. That didn't happen. Instead, polls awkwardly showed that 75% of the British public backed Corbyn's stand.
The Disrupter
Particularly after the impressive gains that Corbyn-led party made in the 2017 election, the British establishment was presented with a profoundly serious and utterly unprecedented political problem. Labour was gaining popularity under a left-wing leader who openly opposed the strategy of maintaining a global role for Britain by supporting U.S. power projection around the world. Given the importance of the arms trade, financial services and foreign investment within the British establishment, the 'global Britain' strategy is simply non-negotiable.
This is one of the reasons why the establishment has pursued the anti-Corbyn campaign with such vigour and vitriol. And why the campaign continues. Corbyn represents popular opposition not just to austerity and inequality, but to foreign policies that underpin the very basis of the modern British state. Corbyn threatened to disrupt the fundamentals. This explains the venom, and it is why it is so crucial that the whole of the left and the wider movement rallies around to defend him, his record and his politics.
This article was originally published on Stop The War.
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Hampstead Highgate Express > Sport
Bostik Premier: Wingate & Finchley 2 Merstham 0
Published: 9:40 AM September 16, 2018 Updated: 1:58 PM October 14, 2020
Marc Weatherstone of Wingate & Finchley (pic Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo) - Credit: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo
Wingate & Finchley secured a first home win of the season with a comfortable, but not flawless, victory over Merstham.
Goals from centre-backs Sean Cronin and Marc Weatherstone helped Keith Rowland's side build momentum after Tuesday night's Velocity Trophy win at Mildenhall Town.
It was the Blues who got off to a strong start, testing former goalkeeper, Chris Haigh on numerous occasions.
In the first minute, Tim Monsheju's effort from a Chace O'Neill header stung the palms of the Merstham stopper, but he was able to hold.
Four minutes later, O'Neill was the provider yet again but Lewis Putman couldn't head the corner beyond Haigh.
Straight away, Wingate threatened again but Putman couldn't beat Haigh with another header – this time from a Reece Beckles-Richards cross.
A long lull in proceedings followed, with a lot of possession football, but neither side were able to cancel each other out.
Just before half time, O'Neill unleashed a fine knuckleball free-kick, but his effort sailed just wide of Haigh's right-hand post.
However, the rampant Blues couldn't be tamed for long and a glorious touch from Putman set him free inside the Merstham penalty box, only to see him sandwiched between two men, and the referee was left with no option but to point to the spot.
Cronin, reliable as ever, was on hand to dispatch the penalty to Haigh's left, sending the keeper the wrong way in the process, to open the scoring.
The second half took a while to liven up and Merstham's first chance of any note came from Reece Hall's free kick, which deflected wide of Gore's right hand post.
From the resulting set-piece, Fabio Saraiva struck an effort from the edge of the area but Shane Gore was on hand to punch away to safety.
Ten minutes after the visitors' chances, the Blues had doubled their lead.
A free-kick was floated in from the right wing by Beckles-Richards and an unmarked Weatherstone was on hand to head down and beyond Haigh. The former captain's goal allowed most inside the Maurice Rebak Stadium to breathe a little easier.
And it was nearly 3-0 soon after as Brandon McKenna, making his home debut, burst into the area and squared to Putman, but the usually-lethal forward blazed his effort over the bar.
Beckles-Richards was denied by Haigh minutes later, diving to his right to stop the Wingate striker scoring his second in as many games after Marc Charles-Smith had been scythed down on the edge of the box.
The last two chances of the game fell to the visitors.
First, Calum Davies ran through on goal but was smartly stopped by an onrushing Gore, who repeated his heroics in stoppage time, preventing Tom Bird from pulling a goal back.
Between Gore's two stops was a scuffle that resulted in two Merstham red cards. Ollie Cook was removed from the field of play for violent conduct and teammate, Josh Antonio followed for a second bookable offence.
Two Wingate players were cautioned. However, the Blues held their cool and moved up to 14th in the table.
Rowland's side now face a two-week wait for their next scheduled game, when Lewes visit North London.
Wingate: Gore, Ifil, Williams, Weatherstone, Cronin (C), Shulton, Putman, O'Neill (McKenna, 57), Monsheju (Charles-Smith 57), Beckles-Richards, Tejan-Sie. Unused subs: Laney, Manu.
Attendance: 96.


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It may be interesting to compare differences in costs of particular atomic operations.
1. Any data can be stored in any of these two formats -- relational or XML.
of oil plus a list of pairs CarID/OilID.
tables with the same data.
If I need 'log 2 bas 10' I can look up the table or calculate it or just remember that it's 0.301.
The cheapest way is the best.
So we should not care regarding internals, the cost of answering questions is the key issue.
Note that the cost of updating data is not interesting.
read newspaper every morning. We can treat the cost of updates as a part of answering questions.
3. Definition: data representation is [ugly] if popular data retrieval operations are costly.
4. XML is especially ugly when lack of indexing becomes fatal.
The most expensive operation is a full scan of the data repository.
The typical way to avoid full scans is indexing.
Thus XML document needs indexing like any data repository.
RDBMS indexing -- tuples as keys, with a lexicographical order or with no order at all.
Maybe we should look for other sort of indexes?
5. An XML may be stored locally in a smart way but it becomes ugly when exported outside.
Obviously, it is not enough to create indexes on the fly when a query is in progress.
Obviously, one may wish to have persistent indexes.
data but can't export its best practices of indexing these data.
XMLSchema has no notation for complicated natural restrictions on stored data.
of any two neighbor points is less than 8 meters per 1000 meters of horizontal distance'.
for such a restriction in XMLSchema.
traffic models, linear programming, dynamic modeling etc. etc.
can count one to ten then stop at seven".
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WoW Newsletter: December 2022
Welcome to the Wheel of Wellbeing (WoW) – a simple framework designed to improve people's health, happiness and wellbeing by focusing on six areas – Body, Mind, Spirit, People, Place and Planet. This monthly newsletter provides a roundup of the latest wellbeing tips, activities, research and resources to inspire better health and wellbeing. Tap into them — for yourself, your families, workplaces, schools and communities — and help create a happier world for us all.
This month we focus on vital components and supporters of our ecosystems such as mountains and soil. We also acknowledge the contribution of scientists, engineers and researchers in locations such as Antarctica and more globally.
WoW Days of the Month
Why not use these inspiring international days to create a focal point for wellbeing activities in your school, workplace or community?
1st December – Antarctic Day
Photo by henrique setim on Unsplash
Are you familiar with the Antarctic Treaty? Antarctica day celebrates the signing of the 1959 treaty which set aside 10% of the earth to be protected and used exclusively for peaceful purposes such as scientific research and exploration.
5th December – World Soil Day
Photo by Roman Synkevych 🇺🇦 on Unsplash
Every year the UN celebrates World Soil Day, with this year's campaign being "Soils: Where food begins". They celebrate this day with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of healthy ecosystems for global wellbeing, as well as acknowledging the challenges of soil management.
10th December – Nobel Prize Day
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Named after the engineer Alfred Nobel, the Nobel prize award celebrates the world changing accomplishments which are deemed to represent the "best in humanity", these cover a number of categories which reflect Alfred's interests and fields of work. Why not take the time to learn about this year's winners, their work and its global impact! You might learn something new.
11th December – International Mountain Day
Photo by Samuel Ferrara on Unsplash
This years theme for international mountain day is "Women Move Mountains". The UN has selected this theme is recognition of the key role which women play in protecting the environmental, social and economic development of mountains. This role includes managing mountain resources, protecting biodiversity and upholding traditional knowledge and culture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations shares a number of important messages to illustrate the value of mountains for our planet: "Mountains host about half of the world's biodiversity hotspots. Mountains cover around 27% of the earth's land surface. Mountains are home to 15% of the world's population. More than half of humanity relies on mountain freshwater for everyday life"
Watch and Listen:
Watch this 5 minute animation designed to demonstrate how soil degradation threatens agricultural production, food security and sustainability.
Want to know more about Antarctica? Watch this short video on Antarctica designed by National Geographic for kids or this insightful TedTalk designed for adults.
Great Articles & Websites:
Antarctica Education Packs
On World Antarctic Day, Global Dimensions will share the Antarctic education pack which the co-created alongside the Harmony Project. This will include educational resources for all subjects connecting the natural environments of Antarctica.
Fun Resources
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has put together a number of fun resources to share with friends and family to celebrate World Soil Day. These include: Baking, taking part in social media campaigns, taking part in experiments and quizzes!
Choose your own winner
Do you have your own idea of who should win a Nobel prize for their contributions to humanity? Why not share your views with others and see who they come up with, you could take turns presenting and put it to a vote. You may learn about something new!
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If you suspect you or a family member has coronavirus you should call (not visit) your GP or ring the national 24-hour Coronavirus Health Information Hotline on 1800 020 080. You can get the latest updates here: government advice on Coronavirus
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis: Lifeline Australia or phone 13 11 14
visit Beyond Blue to access their Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service
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The Jigger Inn is a pub which overlooks the 17th Road Hole on the Old Course in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Jigger Inn dates back to 1852 when it was the station master's lodge for the St Andrews Links railway station. The R&A has called it "Arguably the most famous 19th hole in the world", and Golf Monthly calls it "the most famous 19th hole in golf".

The Jigger Inn became part of the Old Course Hotel complex in 1974 when it was converted into a pub, although it has not changed much since it was originally constructed.
In 2004 Herb Kohler bought the pub as part of the Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa. It is now operated by Destination Kohler, a subsidiary of the American Kohler Company.

A jigger golf club is an obsolete golf club that was a very low lofted iron club with a shortened shaft. A "jigger" is also a tool used for measuring out a jigger () of alcohol.

Jigger Ale

The Jigger Inn has its own beer, called Jigger Ale. It was first produced by the Belhaven Brewery in 2010 exclusively for the pub. It is now available in the pub and also at the Horse & Plow at the American Club in Kohler, Wisconsin, USA.

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Every week brings job lists, emails, documents, and new jobs. Just how much of that is different from the work you've done? Odds are, not much. A number of our tasks are variations on something.
Do not reinvent the wheel every single time you start something fresh. Rather, use templates–as starting point for new 17, standardized documents with formatting and text. As soon as you save a separate variant of the template, just add, remove, or alter any info for that record that is unique, and you are going to have the new job done in a fraction of this time.
Programs work everywhere: in word processors, spreadsheets, project management apps, survey platforms, and also email. Here is to generate documents from a template — and how to use templates in your favorite programs –so you can get your tasks quicker.
Templates take time to build, and it's easy to wonder whether they are worth the investment. The answer: absolutely. Editing a template takes much less time than formatting some thing from scratch. It's the difference between copying and pasting some text, or retyping it.
That is only one benefit: Using a template means you're less inclined to leave out key info, too. By way of example, if you want to send freelance writers a contributor arrangement, changing a standard contract template (instead of writing a new contract every time) ensures you won't leave out the crucial clause about owning the content once you've paid for it.
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Some tools will automatically fill in all these variables for you (more on that in a bit). But should you have to fill in the data by yourself, include some text that's obvious and simple to look for so it is possible to find.


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Macy Gray 'loves playing in Britain'
Thursday, 17th Jun 2010
Music fans with Macy Gray tickets could be treated to an extra special show when the star comes to London.
The R'n'B singer, who is playing at the Leicester Square Theatre next month, has said she really enjoys performing in the UK.
Speaking to the Daily Star, she said this is because British crowds respond more warmly than those in the US.
Gray stated that if America ever starts to get her down, she can come to the UK and "play to 20,000 people and have a good time".
She was speaking ahead of the release of her fifth album The Sellout later this month.
The record contains the song Beauty in the World, which TV fans may know after it was used on the series finale of Ugly Betty.
Macy Gray first rose to prominence in 1999, when she scored her biggest UK hit with I Try.
She enjoyed further success with singles such as Sexual Revolution, When I See You, Sweet Baby and Still.
Article filed under: Concert News | RnB |


Can you persuasively sell your book, 17 First Kisses, to my blog readers in 5 words?
Lots and lots of kissing!
Friendship, family, loss, rebuilding, kissing.
What do you admire most about Claire?
Her strength. She's able to be strong for her family and friends, she relentlessly pursues her dreams, and she's able to jump ship from a toxic relationship with a boy before it gets any worse.
How did you get your inspiration for 17 First Kisses?
The short story is that I was doing some house rearranging, and found a box of notes and magazine clippings (*cough* Justin Timberlake *cough*) from middle and high school, the contents of which was both hilarious and mortifying. I was struck by how different my friends and I were depending on what year the notes were from, and I wanted to write a book that captured the same characters at different snapshots of their lives.
Fiercely protective friend. Fun. Dramatic. Craves her parents' approval. Loves cooking more than breathing. Not your average queen bee cheerleader.
I loved the chapters devoted to Claire's 17 kisses. Why did you include these scenes in the book?
It was a lot of kissing though, so I joke that none of my future characters are getting any action because I'm tired of writing kiss scenes (but I know I won't really be able to stay away because OMG kissing).
Now, a fun question! What is your dream travel destination?
I love this question because I love to travel! I'd have to say either Australia or Samoa. I've never been to either. I love seeing natural wonders, get giddily excited over weird animals, and I love having adventures, and eating new foods, and doing things like hiking and snorkeling.
What are some of your non-bookish hobbies?
I love science, and I work in a lab. I go fangirl over Pretty Little Liars and Game of Thrones. I love football, whether it's watching the Atlanta Falcons or Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets or playing flag football. Other than that, I'm hanging out with my husband, kiddos, and two dogs.
Quick! What's your favorite color?
Follow the FFBC 17 First Kisses Blog Tour and don't miss anything! Click on the banner to see the tour schedule.
As a side note, I bought this book, read it, and I really loved it! 17 Kisses is an amazing contemporary that focuses on so many interesting aspects.
Thanks for reading the post everyone!
My 12 year old self was in love with Orlando Bloom.


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Moyra Davey, Les Goddesses, 2011, still from a color video, 61 minutes.
Murray Guy
Toronto-born photographer—or, to use a term more common north of the forty-fifth parallel, Photoconceptualist—Moyra Davey has been quietly at work in New York for more than twenty years, garnering a strong fan base among fellow artists, more recently coming to broader attention. Her recent show in New York, irresistibly titled "Spleen. Indolence. Torpor. Ill-humour.," was essentially a meditation on the presence and absence of the human figure before the camera, articulated in three parts: the approximately hour-long HD video Les Goddesses, 2011 (which was also screened in April as
Paul Graham, Vesey Street, 25th May 2010, 5.51.05 PM, diptych, color photographs, overall 4' 8" x 12' 4 1/2".
Pace | 32 East 57th Street
Explaining to an interviewer why he called his recent show "The Present," Paul Graham said the name was a reminder of photography's "struggle to deal with time and life. Sometimes I think those are our materials. Not film, not paper, not prints: time and life." The idea that the subject of photography—time and life—is also its material, and in a more primary way than its physical paraphernalia can be, is one that Graham has addressed in the past by photographing in series, and in his most recent work, a selection of which appeared in this exhibition (at Pace, but co-organized with
Robert Overby, What Else is Important, 1981, oil on canvas, 22 1/2 x 18".
Fredericks & Freiser/Andrew Kreps Gallery
Though lacking the letters patent conferred upon the original Ferus Gallery crowd, Robert Overby—who began as a notable graphic designer—has entered the West Coast canon, if rather circuitously. Overby's late paintings, which date to the last fifteen years of a short life (he died of Hodgkin's disease in 1993 at the age of 58), are hardly the most original of his works, but they fill in a critical chapter with regard to his growing posthumous rank.
In "Painting from the '80s"—an exhibition staged by Fredericks & Freiser and Andrew Kreps—Overby's sense of composition ("layout"
View of "Tom Burr," 2012.
Bortolami Gallery
Reading through recent interviews with Tom Burr—whose second show at Bortolami, "Deep Wood Drive," provided another persuasive demonstration of the artist's elegaic, conceptually assured sculptures and scenarios—several recurring lines of questioning begin to emerge. Most of them are predictable enough: How does Burr locate his practice within the legacy of Minimalism? What draws him to the personae of the kinds of cultural figures—among them Truman Capote, Frank O'Hara, and Jim Morrison—that so often figure in his work? In what ways do queer politics inform his choices of
Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 2009–11, oil and paper on canvas, 82 3/4 x 105 3/8".
Gagosian | 522 West 21st Street
In the 1980s, Albert Oehlen began exploiting hackneyed figuration to exquisitely perverse effect, thereby rendering "bad painting" an unassailable good object. By the end of that decade, he had mounted a reaction-formation-like foray into pure abstraction that was equally, if oppositely, estranging. These approaches are two sides of the same coin, yet the artist nevertheless took some time to hold them in tension, together. In his work of the past few years—including the seventeen canvases in this show, his first at Gagosian—they finally intermingle, a critical collusion that, no doubt,
Enrico David, Light Days, 2012, polystyrene, polyurethane foam, copper, tissue paper, watercolor, bone, 67 x 80 3/4 x 15 3/4". Michael Werner Gallery.
Michael Werner Gallery/New Museum
The body is supposed to decay. It's supposed to ooze, deliquesce, attract carnivorous insects, and unto dust return. A sculpture in Enrico David's exhibition at Michael Werner imagines what happens when it doesn't. Bog-Piper, 2012, takes the form of a massive nerve ending—a dendrite the size of a room—that has petrified rather than putrefied, hardened into a brittle, blackened fossil. A synecdoche for the human form, the nerve's tendrils, made from copper wire covered with painted tissue paper, bunch together to form a stem, which rises off the ground and terminates in a papier-mâché
Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 2012, oil on canvas, 90 x 96".
Greene Naftali Gallery
In our troubled economy, some people are putting their money into gold. How's silver doing? In her latest series of abstract paintings, Jacqueline Humphries continues to mine the pictorial and affective valences of silver metallic paint, which appears as the ground in all the pictures. Humphries is someone for whom the political and philosophical questions of representation matter—a critical rather than unambiguously "feeling" type. But vivid, even uncomfortable feelings continue to pull at you, to nag in spectral and parodistic ways. The element of parody does not evacuate emotion;
Harry Dodge, Fred Can Never Be Called Bald, 2011, still from a color video, 39 minutes 56 seconds.
Wallspace
Intro to Logic, freshman year, college. I recall these sentences on the blackboard: "God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore Stevie Wonder is God." The example was given as the epitome of fallacy, illustrating, that is, a breach of reason while appearing to maintain reason's very form. Such sleights of hand, we learned, are identified easily enough yet are surprisingly pervasive (and persuasive). While nonsensical, they can be steeped in such emotional or affective content that their inaccuracy goes unnoticed or, more to the point, feels inherently correct despite obvious
Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith, Cash from Chaos/Unicorns & Rainbows, 1994–97/2011, still from an eight-channel video installation, combined duration 458 minutes.
Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith
Team Gallery | Grand Street
Between 1994 and 1997, Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith produced sixty-odd hours of two public-access cable-TV shows, Cash from Chaos and Unicorns & Rainbows. Their recent exhibition condensed it all to 458 minutes. The installation looked like a children's playroom crossed with a media-conglomerate viewing room mocked up by IKEA. Walls were painted glowing blue-screen blue, with a mural of test-pattern color bars at one end. Oversize red beanbags, gray-and-red hanging pod-chairs, and red shag carpet invited visitors to veg out before eight cube monitors on the floor. It looked innocuous, but
Peter Saul, Peter Saul vs. Pop Art, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 72".
Mary Boone Gallery | Uptown
Peter Saul's paintings are clever, witty, ironic—and nasty. In Peter Saul vs. Pop Art, 2012, a grimacing, sweating figure—a representation of the artist himself—uses a chain saw to cut into a can of CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP, clearly a reference to Warhol's work. In a further act of destruction, Campbell's is spelled "Cambell," suggesting the childishness or perhaps faux naïveté of Pop artists; they don't know how to spell, let alone copy. cambell tomato soup is hand-written—clumsily, even crudely—and the word CONDENSED may acknowledge the cheap artificiality of the soup,
Max Gimblett, The Holy Grail, 2009, mixed media on canvas, 90 x 90".
Gary Snyder Gallery
This was New Zealand–born, New York–based Max Gimblett's first solo show in several years, and his first at this gallery. It included thirty-three paintings produced in the past nine years, canvases dense with associations that spanned the globe. They revealed, among other interests, the artist's familiarity with Japanese calligraphy, Jungian psychology, and the practice of Buddhism.
Gimblett's palette is one reason the works resonate so widely. Fluorescent, explosive colors, such as fuchsia and acid green, call to mind Warhol's screenprints. Incandescent gold and red suggest Tibetan Buddhist
Mamiko Otsubo, Untitled (Glass Horizon with Ball), 2012, glass, rubber ball, wood, museum board, 24 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/2".
Mamiko Otsubo
Horton Gallery
A sculpture called Equivalent, 2012, neatly sums up the premise of Mamiko Otsubo's exhibition. The work is partly composed of used copies of a mass-market edition of the 1946 book Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, which the artist has laid out on the floor in neat rows. Toward one end of the arrangement, cast-silicone tablets stand in for the books. A rose is a rose is a rose—or is it? What precisely constitutes an equivalent? In search of possible answers, Otsubo creates relationships between things that are approximately the same, tying them together with loose association, puns, and
Beryl Korot, Text and Commentary (detail), 1976–77, five-channel black-and-white video (30 minutes), weavings, drawings. Installation View.
bitforms gallery NYC
Nearly forty years ago, Beryl Korot began a long-term, ongoing affair with three seemingly unrelated media: textile, print, and video. At the time, she was an editor of the seminal Radical Software, a magazine that she cofounded, and was involved with producing some of the first multichannel video installations, such as Dachau, 1974.
In her 1978 essay "Video and the Loom," Korot notes the homology among television's interlaced signal, the loom's systematic encoding of pattern or image into cloth, and the way in which language is printed: All happen line by line. Likening woven elements to linguistic
William Anastasi, Sink, 1963, rusted steel, water, 20 x 20 x 1/2". From "Notations: The Cage Effect Today."
"Notations: The Cage Effect Today"
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College
No study of composer John Cage's legacy would be complete without acknowledging his own influences and frequent collaborations. In the case of visual-art practices, his work with Robert Rauschenberg looms largest. Indeed, in Hunter College's exhibition "Notations: The Cage Effect Today," organized by Joachim Pissarro with the help of an international group of curators (Bibi Calderaro, Julio Grinblatt, and Michelle Yun), Rauschenberg is a silent but dominant partner in the proceedings.
Cage credited Rauschenberg, whom he met in New York in 1951 and worked with at Black Mountain College and beyond,
Seth Kim-Cohen, KRAUT-SOUL!, 2012. Performance view, March 31, 2012.
Seth Kim-Cohen
Audio Visual Arts (AVA)
KILL "KILL YOUR IDOLS." YEAH YEAH YEAHS, LIARS, BLACK DICE: WHATEVER. TRULY RADICAL ANTI-ROCK. LIKE A CINDER BLOCK FROM THE 10TH STORY WINDOW. GROOVES. SLASHING GUITARS. FED UP SAMPLERS. TAKE DOWN THE CORPORATACRACY. ANY GENDER, AGE, RACE, PROFICIENCY. Seth Kim-Cohen's classified ad, headed POST-POSTPUNK, NEW NO WAVE, defines its territory in strident but slippery terms, adopting a defiant pose while leaving room for interpretation. Originally posted in the "Musicians" section of Craigslist, then displayed outside Audio Visual Arts for the duration of Kim-Cohen's "social-situational project" "


Leeds city centre is set for huge redevelopment under plans by Hermes for a new business district in the city's west end.
Land Securities Trillium has emerged as the frontrunner to land the outsourcing contract for the £1.6bn employment property of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
Tops Estates remains positive about the in-town leisure and retail property market, despite the stock market falling in recent weeks.


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Q: How to separate JsonArray data I got confused how to separate JsonArray data. I want to separate the received chat messages so it appear one by one in each bubble not in becoming into one big bubble.
What am I supposed to do, to separate the data from each other?
Can anyone please help me? Thanking you in advance.
My json part of the code:
if(!content.equals("null")){
                        try{
                            JSONArray jArr = new JSONArray(content);

                              String messages="";
                              for(int i=0; i < jArr.length() ; i++){
                                  JSONObject jObj = jArr.getJSONObject(i);

                                     String message = jObj.getString("message");

                                     messages += message+"\n";

                              }

                              showMessage(messages, false);
                        }catch(JSONException e) {
                            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }
                    else{
                        Toast.makeText(ChatRoom.this, "Error", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                     }

Logcat:
06-22 09:15:20.486: D/ADBUG(519): content: [{"firstname":"teach","message":"test"},{"firstname":"teach","message":"test"},{"firstname":"teach","message":"test"},{"firstname":"teach","message":"testing chat"},{"firstname":"teach","message":"percobaan"},{"firstname":"teach","message":"per"},{"firstname":"teach","message":"tesssssssssss"},{"firstname":"teach","message":"ddffs"},
I want my data become like this:

A: Change one line Like this:
String messages="";
for(int i=0; i < jArr.length() ; i++){
     JSONObject jObj = jArr.getJSONObject(i);

     String message = jObj.getString("message");
     showMessage(messages, false);//move it to here but not outside of 'for'

}


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Basic guideline of mind mapping technique.
Michelle Mapman's "Learn with Mind Maps"
Information map about Jurisprudence and the reasons to study this theory.
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Geography of Pern, Northern Continent
Map Northern Continent from The Atlas of Pern
The Northern Continent is the more densely populated of Pern's 3 continents. Its extreme points were Tillek Hold in the west, Benden Hold in the east, and South Boll to the south. In the north, frigid, unexplored wastes extended to the polar regions of the planet.
After the eruption of Mount Garben at Landing the population of Pern, largely concentrated on the Southern Continent, fled northwards and founded Fort Hold.
The Northern Continent is very mountainous, with high ranges running along the coastlines. Nerat and Boll peninsulas, as well as Ista Island are covered in dense jungles and tropical forests, while Keroon's plains are wide grasslands.
The Northern Continent has a less pleasant climate than the Southern Continent, but is considered to be safer from natural disasters, due to its relative tectonic stability. Many of the mountain ranges have natural cave systems, which were modified by Pern's original settlers to create the Holds and Weyrs used to house the population. Metal ore and other minerals exist in deposits across the continent, most of which were worked by the Ninth Pass.
Plant & Animal life
The Northern Continent features very diverse Flora and Fauna. Most of Pern's native tree life consists of softwoods due to incursions of Thread preventing the evolution of hardwoods. Extensive availability of hardwoods are a more recent innovation due to the efforts of holders over the Second Long Interval. Fruit and other useful plants, such as numbweed, are widely available, but are notably smaller than similar plants found in the Southern Continent.
Much of the Northern Continents animal life existed as descendants of genetically improved animals brought by the settlers, such as runnerbeasts, and herdbeasts. Native animals included Wherries, which were a common food source. Sandworms existed near Igen. The Sandworms ability to eat Thread led some to theorize that they were related to the Grubs found on the Southern Continent.
Relationships Weyrs protection
Relationships Major Holds
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virtualization.info | Is VMware about to acquire RTO Software?
Is VMware about to acquire RTO Software?
In September 2009 VMware announced an OEM agreement with RTO Software to offer its Virtual Profiles product as part of View.
Virtual Profiles is a mandatory piece to manage the so-called persona (the user data and customization of the applications and the system environment) in a virtual desktop infrastructure.
The most interesting part of this deal is that RTO Software has the same agreement with Symantec, which competes in the VDI space with VMware.
Now Brian Madden is reporting that Symantec has suddenly stopped selling Virtual Profiles (called Workspace Profiles in their portfolio) and that every reference to the product disappeared from the corporate website.
Madden suggests that this is a sign that VMware acquired RTO Software. The standard answer he received from the company PR department is that the company doesn't comment on rumors or speculation.


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Q: Covering a space by cones Let $X\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be some connected and bounded $n$-dimensional manifold, e.g. a space homeomorphic to an open/closed ball with possibly some parts of it being removed.
I am interested in finding the minimum number of cones, whose vertices lie in $X$, and whose union contains $X$, or rather some bounds on this number.
One hope is that the rank of something like singular/simplicial homology can provide some, I presume, lower bounded to this. Or maybe covering by cones would allow to define another homology theory.
I am quite unfamiliar with the literature that are possibly related to this, and I would appreciate any comment or advise on this.