Do you have some time to run an errand with me? I want to run by Lives R Us and check out what's hot for Fall. Come on, it'll be fun!
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go to your local mall and wander down aisle after aisle of different lives in a box? I imagine it like a giant cereal aisle in a mega-grocery store. Each box would feature a descriptive and alluring picture and summary of what each life contained inside looked like.
You could stroll down the aisle and pick up a life box and read all the ingredients. Here's "Suburban Soccer Dad" right next to "Lounge Lizard." WOW! "Secret Agent" is on sale!
If you checked out the ingredients, one box might have 40% excitement, 40% love, 10% fear, and 10% boring filler. Another life box might have completely different contents. Everything you need to live the life you've always dreamed of conveniently packaged in one box!
WARNING: THIS LIFE MIGHT BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH!
Oh sure, most of the boxes would have really scary sounding warning labels in fine print disclosing and defining the risks and claims made on the box. WARNING: THIS LIFE MAY RESULT IN ACELERATED DEATH! Another might warn of unintended side-effects and potential unintended consequences, much like one finds on the statements that come with prescription drugs. It would be great to know up-front what nasty interactions might be caused by coming into conflicting lives being lived by others.
NOTICE: ALL LIVES ARE AS IS. NO REFUNDS! NO RETURNS!
All of the life boxes would come with a complete lifetime guarantee. Unfortunately, there is a strict no returns and no refunds policy.
It's kind of weird, but Lives R Us doesn't accept cash, check, or plastic for payment. You simply hold up you watch to the scanner and it automatically adds or subtracts the right amount of time from your current life to qualify you for the new life you want to buy. You notice that some people's watches almost smoke as they whirl round an accounting for a major life box.
If only it were that easy to get the life you've always dreamed of. Maybe it wouldn't be easy at all.
I'm somewhat of an impulse buyer and I don't know that I would be able to trust myself to buy a non-refundable and non-returnable life. I don't have enough experience. I worry that would get a horrible case of buyer's remorse as my watch unwinds my payment. So many decisions…so little time. Such is life!
Life isn't so tidy. We add and subtract ingredients to our lives as we go. Some stuff get's thrown in by others or by chance. It is amazing though, how much we each get to choose what goes into our life box. We do pay for our life with the amount of time we are willing to invest into living it.
Life doesn't wait around for you to live it. It has a limited shelf-life, just like you do. We are not sure when each life box expires, so it's best to use it up while you can.
That's the guarantee in life. We don't begin it in a box, but most of us will end it inside of one.
Play well this one and only life that you already have for as long as you can. Your life and freedom to choose it were bought for you at a very high price and given as a gift. It's called your present. Keep looking inside your life box and you might be surprised at what you'll find or can add along your way.
What can you add to spice up your life a little to make it taste good to you?
Would the real me please tweet?
Are you living your real life or are you busy creating a virtual life that you think is more interesting?
There is one AWEFUL part of reading an amazing book…finishing. I am grieving the loss of the time spent with the vividly crafted characters of Robert Fulghum's massive (over 1000 pages) "Third Wish" two volume set. We've spent a lot of time together over the past couple of weeks, as I became a witness to their epic adventures. I must admit that I miss them.
As an avid reader, I've been blessed with getting acquainting to many eclectic characters. Some of the real breathing variety have even wandered into my real life from time to time. I tend to prefer peculiar characters. I guess it's true that birds of a feather do flock together.
Have you ever developed a literary crush on a fictional character, only to be shattered by turning the last page? Perhaps they are so different from you that you wish you could star in their life for a while. Maybe they are so similar that they could perhaps make a better lead in your life. What would "X" do in this situation you wonder?
Reading allows me to temporarily, vicariously, take a break from my own peculiarly ordinary life and walk in someone else's shoes for a while. It's a refreshing break, but it is not real. My own shoes still need a little polish.
I dabble in social media. Twitter fascinates me. One-way cave speak in 140 characters or less. Followers and the Followed. Real and fictional characters in a semi-real/virtual world. I get a kick out of reading Twitter profiles. The world is full of gurus, divas, goddesses, experts and highly caffeinated narcissists. Who knew? Have we blurred the line between fact and fiction?
In the virtual world, you can be anyone you want to be. You can carefully craft your image and develop a character that may be unrecognizable if you met him/her for a birthday party. All is well as long as we remember to be who we really are and do not become disappointed that we aren't really our virtual self.
My sense is that some people are losing their true identity in an effort to keep up a virtual self. Deep down we know the difference between our true life and a fabricated life. Fun is fun but real is real. Are you disappointed even a little when you aren't as cool as your profile proclaims? Some people even go so far as to use a stranger's picture to represent themselves online. You can lie to others, but you can't lie to yourself and be sane.
Virtual character development and self-help are easy. You just choose to leave out the stuff you don't like about you and add in whatever you want. All it takes to be god in a virtual world is a keypad and some time. And on the first day, you typed let there be characters and there appears a whole world of your creation on your screen. And you can say to yourself, it is good. Our ego's run wild. False idol worship has a history of not ending well.
Expressing one's creativity is AWESOME! I try my best to do so at every opportunity. What I caution is that there is a danger that we can become so lost in our virtual character development, that we worship our own created image and fail to look in the mirror instead of into the computer screen. We lose sight of who we really are. The person who needs a hair cut, to lose a few pounds, has odd mannerisms and is prone to make mistakes. The person your family and friends put up with and love anyway.
It's harder to actually change for the better the person you really are into the person you feel called to be. It takes hard work. It takes failures. It takes faith. It's much messier. But it is real.
I hope you will reacquaint yourself with who you really are. Maybe go out on a date with yourself. My guess is that you are a peculiarly terrific creation as is, warts and all. You are loved by your true creator, who does not make mistakes. I remember Mr. Rogers saying on TV that whenever you meet someone remember that the person is just like you…one-of-a kind. For a semi-fictional character, Mr. Rodgers had it right.
In the real world you can't be airbrushed, edited, photoshopped or avatared. You can be a lot more of who you are! You just have to choose to invest our time doing what we need to do to improve our strengths and minimize the influence of our weaknesses. It leads to a real life that is really fired up! It will probably mean spending less time typing. You'll end up a character none the less, although this one can really be hugged. Also, meet your real friends for a real chat over a cup of coffee, the kind where you can smell each other's coffee breath. Don't just "like" or "poke" them.


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New book from Professor Maya Unnithan: 'Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India'
admin - 9th May 2019
Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups.
Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health actors in the state, this book contributes to developing analytic perspectives on reproductive practice, agency and the body-self as particular and novel sites of a vital power and politic. Rajasthan has been among the poorest states in the country with high levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. The author closely examines how social and economic inequalities are produced and sustained in discursive and on the ground contexts of family-making, how authoritative knowledge and power in the domain of childbirth is exercised across a landscape of development institutions, how maternal health becomes a category of citizenship, how health-seeking is socially and emotionally determined and political in nature, how the health sector operates as a biopolitical system, and how diverse moral claims over the fertile, infertile and reproductive body-self are asserted, contested and often realised.
A compelling analysis, this book offers both new empirical data and new theoretical insights. It draws together the practices, experiences and discourse on fertility and reproduction (childbirth, infertility, loss) in Northern India into an overarching analytical framework on power and gender politics. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, gender studies, human rights and sociolegal studies, and South Asian studies.
Maya Unnithan is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH) in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

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THEATRE REVIEW:
THE MATCHMAKER
JOHN COULBOURN,
Special to TorSun
R: 4/5
Pictured: Seana McKenna
STRATFORD — At first blush, it certainly seemed like a strange union. Turns out, however, that in pairing director Chris Abraham, best known for "serious" stage work like Antigone and Eternal Hydra, with Thornton Wilder's script for THE MATCHMAKER, the Stratford Festival has created a marriage made in heaven.
Actually, that should read Wilder's scripts, because Abraham's production of the classic comedy that opened on the stage of Festival Theatre Saturday, is an amalgam of three different takes on the work — a blend that adds up to something pretty close to comedic perfection. It is also a love letter of sorts to the human race that is all but certain to have you humming the score as you leave, even while you recognize that this isn't Hello Dolly! and, in fact, the only song featured is that old chestnut "East side, west side, all around the town…"
But the fact that it is not a musical doesn't keep Abraham from creating a production that virtually sings from start to finish as he fuses an impressive cast into a formidable comic force to tell Wilder's wonderfully enduring story of the indomitable matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi (Seana McKenna) and her efforts to find a wife for the misanthropic Horace Vandergelder (Tom McCamus) — a search that will finally extend no further than her own mirror.
But while it is Dolly's ongoing courtship of the irascible old moneybags Vandergelder that drives the story, what gives it its charm is the plot's ancillary romance: Between Horace's niece Ermengarde (Cara Ricketts) and her artist/suitor Ambrose (Sky Brandon); between Cornelius Hackl (Mike Shara), Horace's sheltered chief clerk and the widowed Irene Molloy (Laura Condlin), a respectable hatmaker; between Barnaby Tucker (Josh Epstein), Cornelius' sidekick in adventure, and Minnie Fay (Andrea Runge), assistant to the lovely Mrs. Molloy; and finally, it must be said, between the audience and a divinely-inspired supporting cast that includes Geraint Wyn Davies as the whiskey loving Malachi Stack, Nora McLellan as the whacky Flora Van Huysen and John Vickery in a trio of fine comedic turns, as well as Robert King, Brian Tree and a host of others, recruited to flesh out Wilder's lovely vision of New York in the 1880s.
McKenna is superbly understated as the subtly meddlesome matchmaker of title, espousing love and art and all things good, while McCamus brings just the right touch of lovability to his portrayal of the curmudgeonly old tycoon. Shara, meanwhile proves his comedic genius time and again while still bringing a leading man sensibility to his romance with Condlin, who, in turn, crafts a complex Irene more than worthy of his attentions.
So, a perfect script, an all-but flawless cast — what more could one ask? A fair bit, actually. In designing this production, Santo Loquasto has created gorgeous sets that steadfastly refuse to recognize any of the constraints imposed by the Festival Theatre's unique thrust stage. By ignoring those demands, Loquasto has, in his work here at the Festival over the years, consistently robbed audiences seated at the outer reaches of the theatre's bowl of much of the visual charm of the stories he's been involved in telling — and when the story is this good and the telling is being accomplished with so much style, his cavalier attitude towards those seated in the "cheap seats" seems little short of contempt.
This is still a marriage made in heaven, mind you, but unfortunately, one of the groomsmen seems to have had too much to drink and forgotten his responsibilities. This is a five-star review, Mr, Loquasto, but unfortunately, you can't see all five from where you're sitting.
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Erdogan takes oath of office as Turkey's first executive president
turkey's parliament
Turkish Presidential Election
Turkish president to take oath, announce Cabinet
President Erdogan says Turkey to get Russian S-400 missiles 'soon'
Efforts against terror groups will continue in Syria's Idlib - Erdogan
Turkey calls on international community to avert Idlib assault
Turkey will shoulder the 'heavy burden' of ending terror in Syria - Erdogan
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Turkey was making a fresh start, leaving behind a system which cost the country politically, socially, and economically.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during his inauguration ceremony at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on July 9, 2018. (AA)
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday took the oath of office as Turkey's first executive president.
Erdogan was elected on June 24 in a vote marking Turkey's transition to an executive presidential system of government, doing away with the prime minister's post, among other changes.
Erdogan won an absolute majority in the presidential election with 52.59 percent of the vote, according to Turkey's Supreme Election Council (YSK).
TRT World's Andrew Hopkins looks back at Erdogan's political career.
'President of 81 million'
Turkey is making a fresh start after the country officially switched to a new presidential system of government, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his inaugural address on Monday.
Speaking to a host of Turkish and foreign dignitaries at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said: "With a presidential system of government, we are moving to a new system of government which is far beyond our almost 150-year-quest for democracy and what we have experienced through the history of our 95-year-old republic."
He added that Turkey is leaving behind a system which cost the country politically, socially, and economically.
"We will try to be worthy of our nation with the awareness that we are the president not only of those who voted for us, but all 81 million" citizens of Turkey, Erdogan said.
The president said the new system makes the marginalisation, persecution, and alienation of people a thing of the past.
He added that in the new era Turkey would go further in every area, including democracy, fundamental rights, freedoms, the economy, and large investments.
Erdogan vowed they would work to grow and strengthen Turkey in line with the promises given to the public.
"We will strengthen Turkey in all areas, including the defence industry and border security," he said.
The president also said the first cabinet under the new system will convene on Friday.
TRT World's Rachael Ruble has more.
Thousands take part
He also announced that all celebrations during the inauguration ceremony would be cancelled due to Sunday's train accident in Turkey's northwestern province of Tekirdag which killed at least 24 people.
Together with dignitaries and guests, some 10,000 people participated in the inauguration ceremony.
Turkish citizens from all walks of life – including teachers, firefighters, village leaders, tradesmen, miners, and dentists – were among the invitees.
Leaders of religious communities were also present.
Soldiers fired a 101-gun salute during Erdogan's entrance to the presidential complex.
The guests were given a gift of 1 Turkish lira coins specially produced for the occasion.
Some of these coins will also be placed on the market. Also, a special stamp was printed to mark the day.
Foreign leaders
Twenty-one presidents were present at the ceremony – from Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Guinea, Zambia, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Somalia, Mauritania, Gabon, Chad, Djibouti, Venezuela and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus – as well as the emir of Qatar.
EU heavyweight Germany was represented at the swearing-in ceremony by former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder.
"Schroder is taking part at the ceremony on behalf of the German federal government," Rainer Breul, German Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman, told reporters in Berlin.
Diplomatic sources said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was unable to attend due to his scheduled meetings in Berlin with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Erdogan's election in the June 24 polls marked Turkey's transition to an executive presidential system of government, doing away with the prime minister's post, among other changes.
Source: AA


- One for the existing terraced property .
- One for the new house on our back garden.
Note that the new house will require to keep the right of way through the drive way and also to have access to a side passage way of the existing property in 24 Here ward Close.
Does this only involve to fill the AP1 form or anything else?


Everything is ready for the 4th stop of the IBA World tour event that will take place for the first time in Peru. The best bodyboarders will fight for a $20.000 dollars purse and 1000 points in the 2009 world ranking.
Most of the riders came to Peru before the opening date, to surf the awesome waves that the Peru Shoreline has to offer. Ryan Hardy and Chad Jackson were the first international riders that came to Peru.
Ryan explained why he came so early " I wanted to adapt my body to the food and also the waves. I've surfed two consecutive days in Chilca with 8 feet solid sets. It will be really nice to compete in that kind of wave." Said the 2009 Pipeline winner.
Chad Jackson was the first victim of Chilca. He got wiped out by the wave and creased his board in a way that the deck split wide open and exposed the core.
This Monday will happen the Check in and Tuesday will have the official press meeting will all the major international riders. The next call will happened on Wednesday.


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In Exclusives Featured
Frankie Fenton, Director of 'It's Not Yet Dark'
It's Not Yet Dark is a documentary about Simon Fitzmaurice, a writer/director, husband and father who is completely physically incapacitated with Motor Neuron Disease, and who is about to shoot his first feature film.
Gemma Creagh talked to director Frankie Fenton about the story behind his moving, life-affirming film.
What drew you to Simon's story?
How it happened was Lesley McKimm and Kathryn Kennedy were producing My Name is Emily, which is Simon's film, and they were looking for finishing funds and wanted a crowdfunding appeal. I had just done one for a film I'm making called Reactivate about Climate Change so we met up. I discovered that they were talking about Simon, who was married to Ruth O'Neill, who I grew up with. Soon after that, they asked me to make a promo to see what I thought a film about Simon would look like. That combined with fact that I grew up with Ruth and that there was that personal connection made it feel like a good fit.
What was it like filming a filmmaker? Was there much micro-managing?
I thought there would be, but there was actually zero, which was fantastic, except for the odd time when Simon was telling me to put the camera down. But he was amazing at letting me get up-close and personal. I think he understood that I was directing a film while he was directing a film. He was very kind about not asking me for cuts and not forcing advice on me.
The film has a strong visual narrative and his life is so well documented. Where did you source all the footage?
Originally, we didn't actually have any footage of his past so we had to come up with differing devices to tell the story, including reconstruction and using obscure macro-cinematography as well as drone footage. However, in the first week of the edit Simon generously donated a hard drive with about 10 – 11 years-worth of footage from his life. In that footage, from year 1, we could see Simon filming his friends and his family. As the years went on and things progressed, slowly the camera was put down and eventually was picked up by his children and his family and the camera was pointed the other way. So you could see this transition over time quite literally, which obviously completely changed the course of our film.
With such amazing footage what was the editing process like?
We were very lucky to have one of the country's finest editors, Dermot Diskin, come on board and he was able to lend a strength of storytelling and a pace to the film. It became a process of eliminating what we wanted to talk about and things that we didn't want to talk about. In the end, we felt that the love story was the strongest arc within Simon's story. With documentary there are hundreds of routes you can end up going up and down but it's important to try and keep it simple and straight. So it was that love story that stood out for us.
And how did Colin Farrell get involved?
He was a big fan of Simon's work and they became friends. We were discussing whether we'd use Simon's computer voice to narrate the film when it was put to Simon how would he feel about asking Colin to do the job. Weirdly enough he liked the idea of a Hollywood A-lister doing his voice! It was phenomenally brilliant. Colin has a certain way of speaking Simon's voice that nobody else I think could do so well
This was your directorial debut. What did you learn from the experience?
A huge amount. Everyday was a learning day. Obviously it was my first experience directing and I got to see the entire process from picking up the camera to doing a Q&A at the end of the premiere. More to the point though, there's a huge amount I learnt that I now want to apply to future projects.
It's Not Yet Dark is in cinemas from 13th October 2017
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The Capital's Curious History - What's in a Name - Part 2
How a House became a Maison
Chrissie's House - la maison Charron, in parc Jacques-Cartier in Hull
Right across from the National Gallery of Canada and just east of the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau sits a beautiful, little, white-stucco house overlooking the river in the peaceful isolation of Jacques-Cartier Park. The little-known secret about the house is that it is quite likely the oldest building in the National Capital Region, dating perhaps from even earlier than 1810.
One would never guess that this house has been the subject of a significant tug-of-war among local historians for a number of years but it has.
If you read the signage around the house you will be told that it is la Maison Charron whose history was published by NCC historian, Michael Newton in 1988. It tells the story of two young Canadiens, François Charron and his wife Sophie Miville, who came to live in the house in April 1827 and then lost their home less than 2 years later.
The name that you won't read on those signs, however, is Chrissie's House (aka Christiana's House), which is the name that most people would recognize if they grew up in Hull before the 1980s. Chrissie's House has a story that's never been told before, until now. It's quite a sad little story of a young girl named Chrissie who, while growing up in a pioneer settlement, lost both her parents, leaving her orphaned at 9 years old. Somehow, over the years, that story got lost.
The thing is, although Chrissie's story is quite compelling, between you, me and the lamppost, I think the story of HOW it got replaced is perhaps equally fascinating, complicated and horrifying all at once, so here is the whole story ... just one more chapter of the Capital's Curious History.
The story of François Charron and Sophie Miville
François Charron and his wife Sophie Barbe Miville were married on May 25, 1822 and arrived in Wright's Town with their two children in April 1827, when he was 26. They had begun their life together in the midst of poverty in la seigneurie de La-Petite-Nation but were drawn here by the prospects of a brighter future, what with the timber industry booming in Wright's Town and the construction of the Rideau Canal, just begun.
The couple signed a contract with P. Wright & Sons, for a property at the edge of the river, near the steamboat landing (now the Museum of History). Just like all of the workers who would populate both Bytown and the Lower-Village of Wright's Town, the Charrons had no choice but to 'buy' their properties under the terms of what was the Constitut regime or Tenure System Act. They had to pay a fee up front for the privilege of renting a smallish town lot, on which they could only "own" whatever improvements they made. If they built a house, they would own the home but could never own the lot. Because the Act withheld the right to own the land, the rights that accompany land ownership were also withheld. One could say it was a natural extension of the Crown's feudal system or better yet, one could say that it was pretty much the same as the seigneurial regime that had been in force throughout the rest of Lower Canada for almost 200 years. Remember that fact, it's important for later.
The constitut agreement that François Charron signed with P. Wright and Sons in April 1827, called for a payment of £50 up front and £6 in quarterly payments. However, less than two years later, when unable to make his payments, François Charron was forced to surrender his property and all his rights on January 30, 1829 and he received a payment of £62 pounds and 6 shillings, which amounts to the original 50 £ he paid the year before, and 12 £ for improvements.
After this, the couple can be traced to the 12th range in Templeton Township (McGregor Lake area), where in 1851, François Charron's name appears in the books of petty trader William Dunning, buying chewing tobacco.
Chrissie's story
Philemon Wright's story may have been a true success story of a real Canadian pioneer, and although very little is ever said about the hardships of that life, much can be learned from the lives of his children.
Philemon's eldest son, Philemon Jr. died at just 38 years of age when he was thrown from his carriage on a treacherous road, breaking his neck. His eldest daughter Abigail, called Nabby, died at the tender age of 7. His youngest son Christopher died when only 43, and although his son Ruggles outlived them all, his long life was tragically marred by the deaths of six infant children.
However, it's probably the story of Philemon's second oldest daughter, Mary, that stands as the saddest of all. Hers is central to this whole story, as Mary - known to everyone as Polly - was Chrissie's mother.
In the winter of 1800, Polly was just 9 years old when her father Philemon brought her from her home in Woburn, Massachusetts, to the Ottawa Valley, traveling by sleigh over frozen rivers. The family slept under the stars snuggled together - mother Abigail and Polly's five siblings - for more than a month. When they arrived, the men quickly built the shanty that the family christened The Wigwam, and her life began in Wright's village.
In 1806, at the age of 16, Polly married 27-year-old Ephraim Chamberlin, who was hired four years earlier, along with his brother Edmund, to operate the first mill built in Wright's village. Polly and Ephraim's first child arrived the same year they were married, and they named her Abigail after her Mother and deceased older sister.
In letters patent signed on November 11, 1809, Polly was listed as owner of 200 acres in Templeton Township, Lower Canada; unusual at that time period for a woman to be listed as landowner and not her husband, but the same was done in Philemon's Will for another of his daughters.
Two more daughters arrived in 1812 and in 1816. They were Christiana - Chrissie, for short - and Mary. Baby Mary would grow up never knowing her father because just months before she was born, Ephraim died at just 36 years of age. Polly was a widow at 25, with three very young daughters to raise.
As usual, in a pioneer settlement, it was not long before she would find - or be found - a new husband. He was 23-year-old James Finlayson Taylor, the man who would end up being the lifelong loyal bookkeeper of the Wright family firm. They married on March 27, 1819 and had a son, Robert Patinson Taylor the next year.
Polly's headstone in St. James Cemetery in Hull
Their new blended family, though, would have very little time to bond because Polly was soon stricken with consumption, what they called tuberculosis back then. She was deathly ill for a year and succumbed to its ravages on March 11, 1821, leaving young James with his baby boy and three daughters - 15, 9 and 5- years-old - that were not his own.
Within two years, James, at 27, then married 20-year-old Nancy Anne Olmstead, the sister of Sally Olmstead Wright, widow of Philemon Wright Jr. who himself had died only 8 months after his sister Polly.
The 1825 census shows that James and Nancy are living in a home with one child, whereas the home of sister-in-law Sally has 12 people living there, yet Sally has only eight children of her own. The three extra children are likely Abigail, Chrissie and Mary Chamberlin.
These three young heirs of Ephraim & Polly Chamberlin inherited all of the land their parents had held, and much of it was held in trust for them by P. Wright & Sons until they were old enough to manage it on their own, which is how the Charrons end up renting it from P. Wright & Sons just two years later, in 1827.
In an 1845 Queens Bench Court ruling on the division of property between Ruggles Wright and the heirs of Tiberius Wright, the property limits are defined and the lot this house occupies is clearly defined as Christiana Chamberlin's property. So, the Chamberlin House ended up owned by Chrissie, and that's how it came to be called Christiana's House.
So how did that end up so wrong?
Eviction!
When Michael Newton erased the history of Chrissie's House in an article commissioned for the NCC in 1987, it wasn't done maliciously. Newton simply missed some facts, which led him to make some wrong assumptions, and caused him to take a dim view of Philemon Wright as well.
In discovering the sad story of the Charrons, Newton put a lot of the focus on Philemon Wright - and Newton's verdict was harsh. The title of his article was (as translated) The Maison Charron: Symbol of a Thwarted Vision ... meaning Philemon's vision. For the past thirty years, as a result of that, others - for reasons of their own - have gleefully added to the image Newton painted and made Wright out to be a true Yankee villain.
So, what mistakes, exactly, did Newton make? Two very big ones, and the result not only erased the house's history, but it would change the way many other historians would write about the whole settlement. Here's what he got wrong:
Survey of the Township of Hull in 1801 by Theodore Davis
Newton must have assumed that the house had always been situated on Lot 1 of Range 3 in the Township of Hull but the fact is that, although it is there today, it wasn't originally. If you look at the eastern edge of this 1801 map, here, you can see that what is Jacques-Cartier Park in Hull today, was actually on a lot that is a part of the big blank section that is the Township of Templeton. The park today occupies what was Lot 28 in the Long Point Range of Templeton, and it is clearly identified as owned by the heirs of E. Chamberlin. Historian, Dr. Bruce S. Elliott, confirms this with this map from his article The Famous Township of Hull, below.
Map of the Township of Hull in 1824 by Dr. Bruce S. Elliott
2. Researching the written history of the house, Newton had certainly come across what was written by Patrick M.O. Evans in his Wright genealogy commissioned by the NCC. Evans wrote that Christiana's House had belonged to Philemon's daughter Christiana but that was not correct. (In Evans defense, he had clearly written that it was second-hand knowledge).
To be clear, Philemon's youngest daughter was indeed named Christiana but she never owned the property. Newton must not have gone any further to find out that the house was named for Chrissie, who was actually Philemon's granddaughter, Christiana Wright Chamberlin.
Once Newton assumed that no one named Christiana ever owned the property, his research turned up the history of the Charrons, which he transformed into a tale about how Philemon's "business failures" caused misery for a poor French-Canadian couple.
It was a story too delicious for some to resist: The poor Canadien family being thrown out of their home by a rich, avaricious, archetypical Englishman - a Yankee, no less! That story was told again and again, repeated as if it was Philemon Wright who had invented the constitut regime, when exactly the same thing was happening in Col. By's town … and happening throughout Lower Canada through the seigneurial regime! (were you paying attention?)
As well, for some the story created a narrative that firmly established a French-Canadian presence in the early settlement of Hull; a toehold, as they would have it, that the Wrights tried in vain to squash.
It must have never occurred to either Newton or the others who ran with the story, that naming a house after the occupants who didn't pay the rent might not be a lasting legacy.
In his article, although Michael Newton admits that it is unclear when the stone house was built on the property and for whom, he did establish that the Charrons occupied it. He writes (as translated):
"Construction of the house probably began in May 1827. On the first of May, François Charron bought 472 feet of planks from Wright's sawmill and on May 3, he paid the Wrights cash for the use of a wagon to transport slabs to the site and perhaps the stones for the walls. The remainder of the account was transferred to a register which is not yet available, so we know of the progress of construction only by these dates and entries." (underlines added)
But there are quite a few problems here as well. The use of "probably" and "perhaps" tells you that he has few facts about Charron building a house. Also, Newton apparently didn't calculate just how many boards there are in 472 feet, which is the equivalent of 59 pieces of 2 x 6. If he had, he may have realized that was nowhere near enough to build a house. So, it was likely a house was already on the lot, and that what Charron built was just what every home in that era needed: an outhouse!
And it's true, we don't know for certain that there was a house on the lot before Charron rents it, but Occam's Razor (if there exist two explanations for an occurrence, the one that requires the least speculation is usually better) tells us:
That the 12 £ Charron was paid for improvements when he left it in arrears would never have been enough to compensate for a stone house. It was always very doubtful that this poor couple would have the means to build it and even more doubtful that if they did, they would have left it after living there for less than two years.
That the only reasonable assumption which can be made about "Chrissie's House", the name that this house had carried for generations, is that it was the Chamberlin family home.
So, can we say for certain that the Chamberlins built the house in 1810? No we cannot. That is because before they owned it, the property was owned for six years by another man whom we know nothing about, Asa Townsend, and indeed, it could equally have been he who built it.
How this story ends
The first thing to report is that all of this information has been put into the hands of the present-day owners of the property, the NCC. When that was accomplished, it was clearly stated that both stories, the Charron story and the story of Chrissie, should remain attached to the house.
Both are compelling stories that illustrate the struggle, the tragedies, the sickness and the failures that pioneer families often had to endure. Hopefully, attaching both stories to the house might finally put an end to a tale that only served to exaggerate and perpetuate myths about the cultural divide and the myth about Philemon Wright's so-called "thwarted vision".
Oh, and one last word on the subject of the early toehold that French-Canadians had in this region: there's a much better story to be told.
The first Canadiens in the settlement actually arrived much earlier, in 1806. That young couple was led by another François, François Lozeau. He and his wife Marie-Louise arrived with their six children - François, Anne, Joseph, Louis-Baptiste, Linette and Henriette - purchasing outright a 100-acre lot in the Township of Templeton from Philemon Wright. They settled in an area that was at first called Waterloo Village by the Wrights but later became Pointe-à-Gatineau (Pointe-Gatineau, today) as many more settled there. Like most of the other first settlers, Lozeau was a farmer and as he prospered, François bought many more hundreds of acres as time went by.
That is a history that has rarely been told, but one to be celebrated as well.
The Habitant Farm by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1856, National Gallery of Canada


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Posted on November 13, 2012	by Harrison Barnes	in Layoffs Abroad	with No Comments on DAPD to Cut One Third of Staff
DAPD is a name that many of you may not be that familiar with, unless you spend a lot of time in Germany, or if you keep up with German news. So before we talk about the company's job cuts to come lets begin by taking a look at how the company has chosen to describe itself, translation by Google Translation, " The DAPD is a leading and rapidly growing news agencies in Europe. It supplies customers with worldwide seamless coverage in words and pictures – among which are a large part of the German daily newspapers, numerous journals and magazines, online media, TV and radio stations, parties and governments. The DAPD ddp is from the news agency and the former German service of the American news agency Associated Press (AP) emerged. Berlin is seat of DAPD."
Sadly the company is getting ready to cut back on about thirty three percent of its jobs in order to fix its fiscal situation. The company will be cutting back on about 100 jobs in order set its budget to right. The company is reducing its cuts in order to satisfy its creditors and save itself from complete closure.
This is not the first time that newspapers have cuts jobs in order to make things work, for those of you who missed out on our earlier coverage here is an excerpt that will get you up to speed on other cuts in no time at all, "The Boston Globe is a newspaper that is read by many in the Boston metro area. Many people know the newspaper for its reporting, and for the accompanying website. Most of the readers however don't think of it as an employer, but they are. Well, at least they were for 53 workers who are soon to be cut from the payrolls."
Even larger cuts have been made at Fairfax Media Limited, where almost 2,000 people lost their jobs. Here is an excerpt from our earlier coverage of those cuts, "For those of you do not follow the world of Australian journalism the company is talking about a real loss of about 1,900 jobs when all of the cuts are said and done. These cuts will not be made in a single wave. The jobs will be cut in smaller stages between now and March of 2013. By that time the company is hoping to move farther away from the print editions it has used in the past and move more towards digital editions and other methods of delivering news."
For now the company has not said much about when exactly the job cuts are going into effect and under what terms. For now the company has not said anything explicit in terms of layoff details. The company has said that it hopes to become profitable again in the month of December, which may give us some clue as to when the jobs will be cut from the payrolls. Perhaps the cuts are coming sooner, rather than later.
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Dreger: Kane likely to be at Blackhawks camp
By James O'BrienSep 14, 2015, 6:20 PM EDT
Patrick Kane's longer term future is still unclear, but it sounds like he will attend Chicago Blackhawks training camp.
Darren Dreger said as much during the latest edition of TSN's Insider Trading on Monday, noting that Kane hasn't been charged with a crime and that there's no "logistical" reason for him to be withheld from training camp.
That said, Dreger also stated that we should know for sure in the next 24-48 hours.
It's unclear when there will be a resolution regarding Kane's alleged rape investigation, although a postponed grand jury process is expected to resume "soon."
Naturally, nothing is official at this point:
#Blackhawks still have no update as to whether Patrick Kane will be at training camp or not. Camp opens Friday at #NotreDame.
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Senior athlete adjusts to new sport after last year's season ending injury
By Allie Taiber on September 21, 2015
By: Allie Taiber
Knocked out of consciousness, the stadium lights bore down on senior Hunter Lavallee, lying numb and inanimate, as he feared what was to come.
On Aug. 28 of 2014, the Tigers played a season changing game. In the third quarter with four yards to go, holding the Iowa City High Little Hawks for the first three downs, little did the varsity cornerback know this play would change his high school sports career.
The Little Hawks lined up in punt formation, but Lavallee was suspicious of a fake. His suspicions came true, and he took off in pursuit of the ball carrier. The punter cocked the ball back to throw, and Lavallee was in trouble as the receiver he was covering was running free. He planted his foot in the ground and reversed on a dead sprint of recovery and tackled the opponent off the field, landing with devastating impact onto the long jump runway.
"I couldn't feel anything, but I knew something was wrong; I couldn't stand up," Lavallee said.
Consumed by confusion, he had no idea what was going on. The injury team rushed over and helped him to his feet.
"Looks like you'll be out for half the season," City High injury specialist said after popping Lavallee's dislocated shoulder back into place. As the words seeped into his heart, he was crushed. Holding the third most tackles on the sophomore team the year before and being the third fastest 800m runner in the state; coaches, teammates and Lavallee feared for what the future would hold.
After working hard in physical therapy, Lavallee was back on the field playing safety in no time. "Although I was back, nothing was the same," Lavallee said. With the shoulder injury hanging over his head, he was never able to stop the health problems.
The next summer Lavallee attended a football prep passing tournament at Iowa State University. Incapable of competing to full potential since last fall, his shoulder popped out once again, and he prayed to God for answers. "I asked him for a sign whether I should do football or cross country. After my shoulder popped out again. I knew I couldn't argue with God. The team would have to go on without me," Lavallee said.
Although disappointed he wouldn't be playing, the coaches were nothing but supportive. Varsity football coach Brad Remmert said, "I was disappointed for Hunter more than anything. Hunter was a returning starter on defense that really enjoyed playing football and being a part of the football program. But, Hunter is an excellent runner. He's a tremendous competitor, and I am sure he will do great in both cross country and track during his senior year,"
So, he started practice with the cross country team in early August. "Nobody really understands how hard cross country is until they do it," Lavallee said.
Both football and cross country are extremely physically demanding, but in very opposite ways. "Football is all about short term memory. Stop go, stop go, creating a fast twitch muscle. But in cross country, you basically learn how to endure and suffer all five kilometers," Lavallee said.
It's caused him to set high expectations for himself, and to learn how to be patient with those expectations, but through the support of the team and coach Troy Becker, he couldn't wish for a better outcome of the situation. "Cross country is the best team environment I've ever been in," Lavallee said. "Everyone is so encouraging."
He continues to stay positive and do his very best, setting a personal record by over a minute and a half last Thursday at the meet.
"We just want him to have a good experience and find out what it's like to do cross country," Becker said. "We were really excited to have him join us. He's a good leader, and he brings another positive attitude to the group. He's also very willing to do the hard work required."
But as he sits back in the stands of the UNI Dome, it's hard for him to watch. "I'm happy for them, but I feel a sense of self pity for myself. Those were the kids I grew up with every year on the field. It's hard to watch, not being a part of it anymore," Lavallee said.
But in his eyes, it all happened for a reason.
As of last year, football was his identity. "I became so involved. I ate, slept and breathed football," Lavallee said. "I think my injury was a sign from God I was taking too much attention away from him. With the surgery, the recovery would give me time to reconnect with my faith."
His journey continues to help him with his relationship with God. In James 1:2-3, the Bible discusses the importance of staying joyful through trial because in the end these trials give one the abilities to grow. These verses hit home with Lavallee as they've helped him immensely through the tough times.
On that August game night just over one year ago, Lavallee's eyes flashed from the field to his team and back into himself, and he laid hopeless and afraid. The fear of not knowing the unknown consumed his entire career, but by taking a chance on himself and his faith, Lavallee now races with his dreams to the finish line.
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Wellesley women break glass ceilings of evil, too!
Everyone knows Wellesley students and administration love to tout the accomplishments of alumnae who go on to do amazing things that improve the world. Many a first year describes their desire to "be the next Hillary Clinton" or make their mark in finance, journalism or business. But aren't we doing a disservice to future generations of Wellesley women when we don't remind them of all the glass ceilings yet to be broken? Why do men get to be the face of terrorism, oppression and exploitation? Wellesley women will be the change. Sorry misogynists, women can be evil too!
Have you ever noticed how the U.S. president (always a man!) gets to okay drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia or wherever else? What about civilian drone strikes? Exact casualties are hard to determine because of discrepancies between U.S. counts and independent ones, but I can tell you one thing for sure: Put a woman in charge, and she could double the countries we're hitting in no time! Men are all talk, but women Get. Things. Done.
Who says men get to have all the glory of torturing U.S. enemies? Women have an untapped potential to extract confessions from suspected terrorists and hold them without charges at Guantanamo. And remember, it's not tortue, it's "enhanced femterrogation." Empowered women empower women, so if participating in war crimes empowers you, get it girl!
Busy girl bosses on-the-go don't have time to negotiate with unions, and figure out boring details like complying with labor laws. Sure, critics will have some nasty things to say (would you say that if she was a man?) but haters gonna hate! Put your hair in a messy bun, have your criminally underpaid assistant get you some coffee, and handle it!


WASHINGTON – Bankrolled almost entirely by taxpayers, President Bush is roaming far and wide on Air Force One to help Republicans retain control of Congress and capture statehouse contests in high-stakes midterm elections.
High-dollar Washington galas headlined by the fundraiser-in-chief brought in a big share of the total. The president also has scooped up campaign cash in 36 cities, travels that have taken him as near as McLean, Va., in the Washington suburbs and as far as Medina, Wash., 2,800 miles to the west. On Thursday, Bush adds yet another locale to the list: Salt Lake City.
Ohio officials will soon begin destroying the paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election despite objections from voter rights groups.
"Soon after the 2004 presidential election, questions emerged about how votes were tallied in Ohio, a battleground state that delivered the presidency to George W. Bush," Ian Urbina writes in a story slated for the New York Times.
"Now, following a routine procedure, state officials are preparing to destroy the paper ballots from the election," writes Urbina.
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — Rising prices and profits translated into pay packages for oil company chief executive officers that are nearly three times the size of similarly sized businesses, a new study from two watchdog groups said.
In 2005, the CEOs of the largest 15 oil companies averaged $32.7 million in compensation, compared with $11.6 million for all large U.S. firms, according to the study, released today by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.
Amid reports of multimillion-dollar pay packages, shareholder activists have sponsored resolutions to limit compensation at companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. and Home Depot Inc. In May, three members of the House of Representatives criticized the retirement benefits of former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond and asked the company to fill a gap in its workers' pension fund.
"Instead of lining the pockets of executives, they should be investing the money into new sources of energy that go beyond fossil oils," said Sarah Anderson, director of the global economy project at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, and a co-author of the study.
Anderson's group researches peace, justice and environmental issues. United for a Fair Economy, a non-profit group based in Boston, tries to raise awareness about the effects of "concentrated wealth and power," according to its web site.
"Richard L. Armitage, ex-deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the CIA leak case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday," reports Neil A. Lewis for Wednesday's edition of The New York Times.
Armitage did not return calls for comment. But the lawyer and other associates of Armitage have said he has confirmed that he was the initial and primary source for the columnist, Robert D. Novak, whose column of July 14, 2003, identified Valerie Wilson as a CIA officer.
The identification of Armitage as the original leaker to Novak ends what has been a tantalizing mystery. In recent months, however, Armitage's role had become clear to many, and it was recently reported by Newsweek magazine and The Washington Post.


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Team Ninja May 31, 2018
In new poll on RMM quality, NinjaOne tops the voting in key categories
Competing in a crowded field of 11 different companies that provide remote management and monitoring (RMM) software solutions, NinjaOne earned the top score in 3 separate categories in a recent MSP Reddit poll: most stable, best patch management functionality, and best support. In a survey of roughly 380 responses from managed service providers (MSP), who specialize in providing IT services to small and medium-sized companies, NinjaOne emerged as the #2 most admired RMM overall, scoring a 3.51, narrowly trailing the top vote-getter's 3.53.
Since its founding in 2013, the recent survey results are a resounding vote of confidence for NinjaOne's streamlined reinvention of the RMM – innovative product features packaged into a seamless user experience. And the company's MSP partners have noticed.
"The team at NinjaOne has built a solution that simplifies the RMM platform with a modern approach," says Lucas Wellman, who founded the CA-based MSP Status Pros. "NinjaOne is by far our best and leading solution, loved by all of our clients."
For Sid Collum, who runs his own MSP in Texas, Ninja's ease-of-use has had a big impact on profitability.
"Ninja has been a perfect fit for us and has been instrumental in improving the profitability of my contracts through automated patch management, maintenance scripts, and a great remote administration tool," he says.
The emphasis on user-friendliness was the result of an eye-opening internal survey with over 500 MSPs in the early days of the company,. Respondents said legacy RMMs were overly complex and hurt the MSPs' bottom lines because they were so hard to use. MSPs had to spend heavily on training, ongoing staffing, and hardware to keep the systems running smoothly.
"With Ninja, we built the features that people actually need and made them easy to use," said A.J. Singh, vice president of product at the company. "A first-time user can get the product running in 5 minutes."
The top ranking for stability and reliability is a particular triumph for Singh and NinjaOne, as an MSP simply cannot function if its RMM goes down. On a scale of 1-5, NinjaOne received an aggregate score of 3.99, topping all of the other players in the industry.
"To be a good MSP, good tools must be available," says Kevin Dawes, a customer of NinjaOne and a a reviewer on Capterra. "Being able to reliably and proactively monitor/remediate Windows/MAC and SNMP devices is the fundamental goal of our MSP relationship with our customers and NinjaOne makes that possible in a cost-effective solution."
NinjaOne also received top marks for operating system and third-party software patching. This is one of the most critical features of an RMM given today's cybersecurity environment, and can have devastating consequences if not implemented properly. (For example, the Experian hack that resulted in the theft of 143 million credit histories was traced back to an unpatched version of the Apache Struts platform).
For Nick Cappello, of Georgia Bone and Joint Surgeons, PC, in Cartersville, Georgia, NinjaOne's ultra-reliable patching functionality gives him one less thing to worry about.
"Because you guys keep very meticulous records, you tell me when programs have been installed, you tell me when stuff has been updated," Mr. Cappello says. "You tell me, so therefore, I don't have to worry about it. God, do I love that."
In the comparisons of patching, NinjaOne edged out its nearest competitor by a score of 3.59 to 3.57, and with a stronger consensus among users, meaning there wasn't as wide a divergence of opinion in responses. NinjaOne helps MSPs smooth out the patching process by automating operating system updates and the updating of over 120 popular third-party software applications.
Finally, the survey was a validation of NinjaOne's investment in free, unlimited, and U.S.-based customer support. NinjaOne topped the competition by a substantial margin in the support category, with a score of 3.90, compared to the 3.57 earned by the runner-up. This quality of support is a big reason why MSP owner Matthew Hopkins said "switching to NinjaOne was one of the best decisions we have ever made as a company."
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I have earned two "2012 Spring MegaBonus Free Night Certificate, Category 1-4 Hotel" certificates through my Marriott Rewards program but when I try to use points to reserve a category 4 hotel I'm unable to use the certificate. Will I need to call Marriott Rewards directly to use these certificates?
I think so. At least that's the only way I've ever been able to use them.
Once you have reached Step 2 of the reservation process labeled "Enter guest information", go to the first option under "Credit Card information" which is labeled "Select e-certificate(s) for your reservation." Your unused promotional certificate will be listed.
Thanks so much for this helpful info!
After reviewing the tip from community manager, it appears that you indeed can redeem the free night reward certificates with an online reservation. The trick is when you do your 'find and reserve' that you click the 'use Marriott points' check box when doing your search.
Once you select the room rate (in points), click the continue button.
On the next page, where 'enter guest information,' if you scroll down, you will indeed see the option to use existing ecerts. It should show any free night ecerts for you to choose from.
That's exactly how I use the certificates every time. No problem.
I wish someone at Marriott would have told me this. I've always had trouble redeeming these certificates. It was just recently confirmed to me by a Marriott Rewards Guest Services Rep that I must call the Reservations line first and then I need to contact Marriott Rewards to ensure that my promotional certificate is attached to the reservation. These certificates have always been so cumbersome to redeem. Nobody ever said I could do this online. Thanks so much for sharing this.
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Q: C++: Expression: string subscript out of range I facing an issue with a bug in C++. Here is  the code:
Error as:  Expression: string subscript out of range
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>

void removeAllchars1(std::string s)
{
  int len = strlen(s.c_str());
  std::string b;
  int len2 = strlen(b.c_str());
  for(int i = 0; i < len; ++i)
  {
    if(isdigit(*(s.c_str()+i)))
    {
      b[len2]=s[i];
      ++len2;
    }
  }
  std::cout <<"\nAfter removeAllchars1 function is:"<< *(b.c_str());
}

A: b[len2]=s[i];

Since len2 is the length of b (albeit computed in a rather convoluted manner - what's wrong with b.length()?), this is out of range, as the error says. If you want to append the character to the string, then do that:
b += s[i];

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Gaula es una "freguesia" (en español su equivalente es "parroquia") del archipiélago de Madeira, Portugal con 7,07 km² y 4028 habitantes (2011). Su densidad de población es de 569,7 habitantes por kilómetro cuadrado. Tiene una carretera que la conecta a Machico y a Funchal. Tiene una altitud de 202 metros. La actividad principal es la agricultura. Al sur de Gaula está el Océano Atlántico y al norte montañas.

Galia tiene dos escuelas, una cancha multiusos, dos iglesias, un mercado agrícola y el barrio fue elegido para acoger el centro de formación de la Asociación de Fútbol de la Madeira, un proyecto que aspira a obtener los juegos de los niveles de formación de la selección tanto de los de Madeira o de la selección nacional.

Geografía

Lugares

Las aldeas y poblaciones principales son:
 Achada de Baixo
 Achada de Cima
 Achada da Rocha
 Aldonça
 Beatas
 Contenda
 Farrobo
 Fazenda (Gaula)
 Fazendinha (Gaula)
 Fonte (Gaula)
 Fonte do Lopo
 Furtados
 Lajes (Gaula)
 Levadas (Gaula)
 Lobas
 Lombadinha
 Salão (Gaula)
 São João (Gaula)
 Pico (Gaula)
 Porto Novo (Gaula)
 Povo (Gaula)

Enlaces externos

Freguesias de Santa Cruz (Madeira)
Localidades de la región autónoma de Madeira

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Ludwig Hirzel (27 August 1801 – 13 April 1841) was a Swiss theologian born in Zürich. His son, also named Ludwig Hirzel (1838-1897), was a noted literary historian.

Hirzel studied theology at the Carolinum in Zürich then continued his education in Germany, where he focused on Old Testament studies and Oriental languages. In 1823 he returned to Zürich, where he taught classes on Hebrew language and theology at the Carolinum. In 1833 he became an associate professor of theology at the newly established University of Zürich.

He was the author of Kurzgefaßten exegetischen Handbuchs zum alten Testament, (Concise exegetical textbook of the Old Testament, 1839) and Kommentar zum Hiob (Commentary on Job, 1839), the second work being republished in 1869 by August Dillmann (1823-1894) in its third edition.

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Swiss Christian theologians
1801 births
People from Zürich
Academic staff of the University of Zurich
1841 deaths


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Season's greetings! After a thoughtful review of the Naughty and Nice lists, we have decided to leave a small present under the tree to finish 2014: jQuery 1.11.2 and 2.1.3! These releases include several bug fixes to make your cross-browser development experience better.
The most significant fix in this release is a workaround for a serious querySelector bug in Safari 8.0 and 7.1. When this bug popped up we were hopeful that it would be fixed in patch releases but that did not happen. Apple is by far the least transparent browser maker, and we have very little information about when the Webkit patch for this bug might be pulled into Safari. As a result, we have decided to patch this in Sizzle, the selector engine used by jQuery.
A bug like this one emphasizes the benefit of using a library like jQuery rather than going directly to the DOM APIs. Even modern browsers can suffer from bugs that aren't fixed for a long time, and there are still cross-browser feature differences with several browsers in wide use such as Android 2.3. Special-case code for obscure browser issues can seem unnecessary until you spend a day trying to debug a problem in your own code caused by one. Or worse, lose a paying customer because they couldn't use your site from their old phone.
Another bug that makes it difficult for us to test jQuery on iOS 8 is that the user agent of the simulator is incorrect so the iOS 8 simulator is not recognized by our unit test infrastructure. The fix for that issue is very simple but Apple won't tell us if we can count on it being done. For now we're doing our iOS 8 testing manually.
In addition, this release includes several changes inside jQuery to avoid holding onto DOM elements unnecessarily. Although the old code generally wouldn't cause things to run incorrectly, web pages might run slowly and use more memory than necessary.
You may notice that we skipped a patch release number in the 2.x branch. We didn't actually skip it, we built it and found a problem that caused problems when jQuery was used with node. (Many thanks to Denis Sokolov for letting us know immediately and prodding us to fix it!) Rather than shipping those files to the other CDNs, we decided to create new releases.
As far as the potential for compatibility or regression issues, we believe this is a very low-risk upgrade for anyone currently using 1.11.1 or 2.1.1. We are making this release ahead of jQuery 3.0 to ensure that you can use a Safari-safe version of jQuery without the need to review your code for compatibility with changes being anticipated in jQuery 3.0. If you do encounter bugs, in upgrading from the previous version, please let us know.
You can include these files directly from the jQuery CDN if you like, or copy them to your own local server. The 1.x branch includes support for IE 6/7/8 and the 2.x branch does not.
These updates are already available as the current versions on npm and Bower. Information on all the ways to get jQuery is available at https://jquery.com/download/. Public CDNs receive their copies today, please give them a few days to post the files and don't be impatient. If you're anxious to get a quick start, just use the files on our CDN until they have a chance to update.
Many thanks to all of you who participated in this release by testing, reporting bugs, or submitting patches, including Chris Antaki, Denis Sokolov, Jason Bedard, Julian Aubourg, Liang Peng, Michał Gołębiowski, Oleg Gaidarenko, PashaG, Richard Gibson, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas, Timmy Willison, and TJ VanToll.
Since the last release of jQuery we have moved from a Trac installation to GitHub issues, so there are currently tickets for this release in both bug trackers. References to the Trac tickets have been migrated to GitHub issues, however, so you can use this GitHub Issues query to review all the tickets.
Thanks for all your support, and see you at jQuery 3.0!
Thank you for this new version, will upgrade when I get a chance :) .
You guys are awesome! Thanks for the early gift and the best wishes to the entire team!
Just wanted to check with you, are you back from your vacation yet? We can't wait for you to try the new version!
Why are we still haveing IE8 support code in the 2.x release?
Is there any performance opting on the horizon (startup)?
Function Data() is in most cases not needed and very slow.
There seem to be alot of try catch and assert(with try catch. Should that be there in production code?
problem is when I'm dynamically adding images I'll have to do a bind manually for each added which is too bad.
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Excellent job as always guys; you have my undying appreciation. I'll be sure to pop this over to my apps and let you know if anything else goes awry.
Good news! We love jQuery!!
Thanks, jQuery is an absolute gem when it comes to coding time, and cross browser functionality. I've not seen any other library that I would trade it for.


Gotta love a good grammar joke!
Like I need more laundry!
Makes me get a bit misty!
…and that's why we don't let the dog drive the pick up anymore.
I think he's related to our dogs.
Very tightly over my mouth!
My Sunday post was Did He Make That Up?.
Is That The Key To Your Heart? (goofy graduates).
Did you have a good week? Any big plans this weekend? Have you scheduled time to relax? I'm looking forward to hearing about it! Shoot me a comment with all the details!
As always, thanks for the laughs. I think the first one about tense was my favorite.


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Does 'Wonder Woman 2' Take Place in 1984?
by Matt Goldberg June 1, 2018
With Comic-Con set to arrive next month, we're likely to get some new details on Wonder Woman 2, and it looks like Geoff Johns is already eager to start sharing with fans. On his Twitter page, he changed his header image to the following:
Given his prominence in the DCEU, it's unlikely the "WW" stands for anything other than Wonder Woman, and while there are still two DCEU movies ahead of Wonder Woman (Aquaman arrives in December and Shazam! opens in April), it's now the flagship of the cinematic universe given that the original is the most popular movie they've done so far. We also know there will be a bit of a time jump for Wonder Woman but that the plot won't be set in the modern day. That's where the "84" comes in, highlighting that Diana could be fighting in the Cold War.
We're also left to wonder if the full title will just be Wonder Woman: 1984, which wouldn't be too bad. It quickly lets viewers know when the movie takes place and they already know that Wonder Woman has kept her youthful appearance due to Batman v Superman and Justice League.
So where does that leave the plot? The Cold War offers plenty of interesting plotlines, especially with Kristen Wiig cast as the villainous Cheetah. Could Wonder Woman have to stop a nuclear launch? Could it be a bit of a spy mission with an older, wiser Diana who believes in humanity but understands that she has to work behind the scenes to keep us safe? And will there possibly be a return to Themyscira in the cards? When she last left, she was told she could never return, but with such a rich setting, I wouldn't be surprised if she goes back home.
What do you want to see in Wonder Woman 2? Do you think it will be set in 1984? Sound off in the comments section.
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On our last day in Mumbai, we went to "Indigo" for dinner. We thought we'll try to have something not Indian for lunch or dinner each day because we didn't want to get too fed up with Indian food. This day, we had Indian lunch so we chose Continental. This restaurant has a very high reputation and apparently received many awards.
A little amuse was cold melon soup.
I ordered "Summer Salad of Roasted Root Vegetables". The "roasted root vegetables" was mostly parsnips, which had been roasted but cold. It seems strange to me that they used parsnips (winter vegetable) for a summer salad. I wasn't sure if they worked as a salad either. The presentation is fancy but just roasted vegetables with ricotta cheese and a bit of tamarind sauce.
I cannot remember what my husband had for a starter.
I think my husband's main was ravioli, I remember trying a little and it was very nice.
I cannot remember my main.
We shared a souffle. I cannot remember for sure but I think it was salted caramel sauce. It seemed a little gooey inside (I was a little worried about uncooked egg) but we enjoyed it very much. This was the best dish here.
There was nothing really bad but they weren't inspiring, maybe we expected too much. The dessert was very good. Perhaps Indian food in India is good but not others, we thought, but we did have some good pasta or some other western food at a very inexpensive restaurant so it seems to depend. This was the least of our favourite in India.