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Here appeareth a complete record of all the quotes that have been used in the subhead of this and earlier iterations of this blog.
Dolly Parton, Endless Stream of Tears
"A broken heart won't kill you, you just want to die, but you have to go on living anyway."
Roger Bolton, Radio 4
"Nothing like calling a spade a digging implement."
Denis Thatcher (from traditional saying)
"Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all possible doubt."
Anthony Hancock Esq (catchphrase)
"Stone me, what a life."
John Virgo, commentator, World Snooker Championship
"You can't do anything while you're sat in your chair."
Albert Einstein (apocryphal)
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant."
An observation of His Grace, His Excellency Sir Samuel Vimes, The Duke of Ankh and Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
"A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
"If someone ever reported that there was an orang-utan in the Library, the wizards would probably go and ask the Librarian if he had seen it."
"Vimes stared at what was probably the discarded fish-and-chip wrapper of Infinity."
Morrissey, Come Back to Camden
"Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames, sullenly, on a chair on the pavement."
Morrissey, I Have Forgiven Jesus
"I know it's not mutual, but I have forgiven Jesus"
Morrissey, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
"Why pamper life's complexities, when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?"
13. "There was no plan – except to have a good fucking time" – Rik Mayall
14. "Dorothea, alone in the well, laid a daring hand on the tiller. This indeed was life" – Arthur Ransome, Coot Club
15. "My heart is drenched in wine, but you'll be on my mind, forever" – Norah Jones, Don't Know Why
16. "It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting" – Tom Stoppard
17. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts" – Eleanor Roosevelt
18. "There's no education in the second kick of a mule" – Sam Rayburn, Democratic Speaker of the US House of Representatives
19. "If you want a friend, get a dog" – Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
20. "I believe in truth though I lie a lot, I feel the pain from the push and shove. No matter what you put me through, I'll still believe in love" – The Human League, Love Action
21. "I never thought I'd have the nerve to break from the conventional. I never thought my path would curve and lead to sin intentional" – The Human League, Shameless
22. "At some point, everyone, no matter how fancy and highbrow, wants to just sit on their fanny and watch some television." – Bears Will Attack blog
23. "People lose teeth, talking like that." – Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon
24. "You're a good man, sister" – Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon
25. "Loss of limb will not excuse you" – Professor Snape's homework regime, film of Prisoner of Azkaban.
26. "Why worry? Each of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back…" Dr Peter Venkmann, founder, Ghostbusters Inc.
27. "Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me" – Rev Martin Niemoller, 1945
28. "How can anybody possibly think they know how I feel?" Morrissey
29. "I hear you, you redneck moron. You got a dress that goes with that hat?" – Cordelia Chase.
30. "Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those?" Liesl von Trapp.
32. "I campaigned hard to get rid of Thatcher and what did I get? Not Thatcher Lite but Thatcher Special Brew" – Disillusioned Labour activist, So Now Who Do We Vote For website.
33. "Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light" – Spike Milligan
34. "Looks good… hop on board, gorgeous" – eye-popping Wes/Angel moment, 'First Impressions'
35. "I've tried living in the real world, instead of a sham, but I was bored before I even began…" Morrissey, Shoplifters of the World Unite.
36. "Ms Lane, are you trying to seduce me?" – Clark Kent
37. "The only reason I am ever going to use the Northern line again is that if I don't I will be unemployed." – Weary commuter on www.goingunderground.net
38. "We are all human. Men particularly" – Mma Precious Ramotswe, Proprietor, No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
39. "Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me" – Morrissey, November Spawned A Monster
40. "Is there a point to this, or are you just polishing my desk with your ass?" – Lilah Morgan.
41. "Shall I order pizza? Don't teens in a snit like pizza?" – Xander Harris
42. "The jukebox is playing songs about you, songs with memories making me blue" – Ella Fitzgerald, I Gotta Have My Baby Back
43. "Losing composure is pointless." – Michael Schumacher
44. "How to gain quicker curatives for the excessive tense, severe chronic pain, and high cholesterol? Have you thought about switching to the cyberspace for quicker mitigations?" – Anonymous spammer
45. "If men did not want us to guess that they were useless, they should have made themselves more useful. Now that they've been rumbled, all they can do is whinge" – Germaine Greer
46. "I feel used, and violated, and I need a lozenge" – A post-possession Andrew, Buffy
47. "You need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how." – Rhett Butler
48. "Everyone please observe, the fasten seat belt and no smoking signs have been turned on, sit back and enjoy the ride" – Tank, The Matrix
49. "There might be life in that lonesome ocean, but there certainly wouldn't be football" – Bill Bryson
50. "I don't give a piss about atonement or destiny." – Spike
51. "I spent 100 years trying to come to terms with infinite remorse. You spent three weeks moaning in a basement then you were fine. What's fair about that?" – Angel arguing with Spike
52. "A lot of people won't get no supper tonight. A lot of people won't get no justice tonight." – The Clash, Armageddon Time
53. "London calling, yeah, I was there too, and you know what they said, well, some of it was true…" The Clash
54. "I'm a tit. A complete fucking illiterate tit who should never be let near a coding environment again…" Mr Random
55. "It is not the power of money that gives them their fighting spirit; it is the power of the people." – Fernando Alonso on the Minardi F1 racing team.
56. "Is pathological idiot an actual condition?" – Angel on Spike, Damage, S5
57. "I'd tell me what a completely worthless cunt I am and then leave." One of my NaNoWriMo characters at a low moment.
58. "Find out what an 'Internet' is" – a new year's resolution of the angel Aziraphale
59. "The Internet, while sometimes used to disseminate actual fact, is also often used to spread utter nonsense" – Snopes.com
60. "The world is not against you. It's indifferent." – Vikram Seth on unpublished writers
61. "I don't get paid overtime" – Amir Khan
62. "Stay well. I hear fruits and vegetables help" – Michael Moore
63. "A few thousand grasshoppers do not constitute a plague." – Dana Scully
64. "Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church" – US bumper sticker
65. "While Pizza Express need not become the restaurant of choice, neither should The Ivy" – Times executive on his staff's expenses bill.
66. "Thus faced with rejection I did what any serious artist would do. I gave up" – Alan Moore.
67. "The Daily Mail hated it, which made me oddly happy" – Neil Gaiman on Mirrormask
68. "Marcus Didius Falco, you are a complete bastard!" – Helena Justina, who else?
69. "I had a social conscience. I could back it up with intellect, cunning, and if needs be fisticuffs" – M Didius Falco
70. "Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world" – Hugh Walpole
71. "Location is a character" – Dan Brown
72. "It's his myth, and he's very happy with it, thank you, and if you don't like it, piss off." – Douglas Coupland on Morrissey
73. "Arsenal supporters are a clan of degenerate wankers and marginal know-nothings… the only half-decent English team is Liverpool and, compared to Lazio, they suck too…" – Aurelio Zen
74. "Strictly home-with-vids for me and Kurt now" – Violet Kiteway, Perplex City librarian
75. "Give me ambiguity, or give me something else" – reputed US bumper sticker
76. "Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent" – Nation States
77. "I will always try to listen to your voice. Through the noise." – John Foxx
78. "I stuck my heart back together with a staple gun" – Ladyfuzz
79. "What the fuck do you know?" – Lily Allen
80. "The Road to Hell is paved with adverbs" – Stephen King, On Writing
81. "I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian" – Morrissey
82. "Did you just hear a funny noise? It was my irony gland exploding" – Bad Astronomy blog.
83. "Time for some thrilling heroics" – Jayne Cobb
84. "Like I tell him, Signor del Giocondo, apart from you, who's going to see it?" Leonardo da Vinci, as interpreted by Pratchett and Gaiman
85. "Little grass is smiling slightly, Please walk on pavement." Badly-translated Chinese-English sign
86. "I don't see what my backside has got to do with enchantments" – Sancho Panza
87. "The Scots and Irish leave you close to tears. There even are places where English completely disappears – in America they haven't used it for years" – Professor Henry Higgins
88. "A vile, pro-terrorist piece of neo-Marxist, left-wing propaganda filled with radical sexual politics and nasty attacks on religion and Christianity" – A wingnut on V for Vendetta
89. "The only sound across the glade is Edmund pushing up the daisies" – Finale to The Black Adder.
91. "I think the maggots were a bit over the top, myself" – the angel Aziraphale
92. "Soon I am moaning aloud with boredom and I begin to realise what the Queen must feel like" – Alan Bennett
93. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" – Philip K Dick
94. "Nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things" – Joss Whedon's reputed pitch for Firefly
95. "Notes: a beach is a shore of a body of water while a beech is large deciduous tree with small sweet edible nuts" – Thesaurus.com
96. "The referee… seems to have decided that handball for outfield is allowed, so long as they are wearing blue shirts" – Norfolk Blogger
97. "You're not from Raxacoricofallapatorius, are you?" – The Doctor
98. "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all… grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better" – Elton Pope
99. "In the 70s, one of my main sources of excitement was a dusty, voluminous book called something like The Reader's Digest Big Book of Frightening Illnesses" – Grace Dent
100. "The body count rises steadily for two hours without a sniff of interest from the London press…" Radio Times on Midsomer Murders
101. "I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy" – Neil Gaiman
102. "Elton! Fetch a spade" – The Doctor
103. "My wife and I had words, but I didn't get to use mine" – Les Dawson
104. "I never fitted up anyone who didn't deserve it" – DCI Gene Hunt, Greater Manchester Police.
105. "I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth" – Charlie Brooker
106. "Right! Chiswick!" – The Doctor
107. "I'll never be the angel you see in your dreams, so give me some wheels if I can't have wings" – Suzy Bogguss
108. "I'd rather not be named as 'Medic on tea-break while my child died' in The Sun" – LAS blogger Tom Reynolds
109. "Right now we're looking for an angel named Islington" – Door, a character in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
110. "I could have coaxed my old laptop into life and gone on the Web to read about someone else's life, but I feared my email" – Warren Ellis, in his new novel, Crooked Little Vein
111. "Because sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken" Adam Rutherford, an editor at the journal Nature, talking about creationists
112. "In crook stories it is most always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers."" – Alfred Hitchcock, talking about his famous MacGuffin
113. "They are being paid at this end – I think they call that commerce" – Cap'n Mal Reynolds (in his Steven Brust fanfic incarnation, at least)
114. "Meat is Murder… in retrospect, reminds me what a self-righteous prick I was in 1985" – Danny Ecclestone, MOJO
115. "We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department's fucked. It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely fucked." – Sir Richard Mottram
116. "We're the Sweeney, son, and we haven't had any dinner!" – Jack Regan
117. "They've even been able to determine why tortoises on the Galapagos Islands are all mental. It seems there was a genetic bottleneck 100,000 years ago when a volcano went off and only the biggest, daftest tortoises survived" – Jeremy Clarkson
118. "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" – Mahatma Ghandi
119. "I shoulda learned to play the guitar" – Mark Knopfler
120. "People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly" – Banksy
121. "It would be alright if we could just get back on the expressway" – Elwood Blues
122. "Like Rick in Casablanca, I'm just trying to run a saloon and stay out of jail" – Cary Tennis
123. "No practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all others are based." – Lord Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork
124. "I don't pray because I don't want to bore God" – Orson Welles
125. "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock" – Harry Lime
126. "London Underground wishes to apologise for the severe points failure in the Tottenham area" – Internet humour
127. "There has to be a scientific explanation for this" – Dana Scully
128. "People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle" – Garrison Keillor
129. "I can't be having with that kind of thing" – Esmerelda Weatherwax
130. "The term lunatic is frightfully old-fashioned… Differently rationaled is the term, you know" – Berthea Snark
131. "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then" – Katharine Hepburn.
132. "You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, appallingest excuse for an anthropomorphic personification on this or any other plane!" – Death berates her little brother Dream.
133. "I do not want art for a few, any more than I want education for a few, or freedom for a few" – William Morris.
134. "Monkey was by nature too restless, Pigsy too coarse and Sandy too simple to need a second bidding" – Wu Cheng'en
135. "She was much too fond of Heathcliff" – The plot of Wuthering Heights, summarised in seven words from chapter 5.
136. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" – Christopher Hitchens
137. "The broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics" – Emmeline Pankhurst
138. "Don the Willow Rosenberg mantle of indefatiguable optimism" – Lucy Mangan
139. "Keep buggering on" – Winston Churchill
140. "If you do things, stuff will happen. You may quote me on that" – Cary Tennis
141. "I want a bath, I want my hair washed, I just want to feel human again… and, boy, am I sick of that sonic screwdriver" – Sarah Jane Smith
142. "I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo" – Billy Bragg
143. "Ponder Stibbons once got 100 per cent in a prescience exam by getting there the previous day" – Terry Pratchett
144. "I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries – I like the hush" – Robin Ince
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Worst drought since 1956 threatens world food crisis
A month of scorching temperatures across the country's midwest has sent corn and soybean prices to record highs, while wheat prices have reached levels not seen since the last food crisis in 2008.
The severest drought since 1956 in America's agricultural heartland has dashed the hopes that were alive just a couple of months ago of a bumper harvest. Traders and economists warned that the effect will ripple out from the US because it is the world's biggest producer of corn and a major supplier of soybeans and wheat.
"This year we have a rally in prices that is driven by the fundamentals," said Shawn McCambridge, an analyst at Jefferies Bache. "I really do anticipate these prices staying strong and producers will have to try to pass the cost onto consumers."
The dizzying gain in prices has shocked many in the industry. Corn prices have surged 51pc over the last month, wheat is up 40pc and soybeans have gained almost 20pc. The prospect of another bout of food inflation will alarm governments in developing countries where the run-up in prices in 2008 caused widespread hunger and revolts. It also presents a new headwind for western countries trying to kickstart economic recoveries.
For now - at least - all eyes are on the weather forecast for those US states that have been hardest hit, including Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. While light rain fell in some parts day, there is little more forecast over the next two weeks.
The drought forced the US government last week to cut its forecast for corn production this year to 12.9bn bushels from a prediction of 14.8bn it made last month. "I get on my knees every day and I'm saying an extra prayer right now," Tom Vilsack, the US agricultural secretary, said today. "If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it."
Dan Basse, president of AgResources in Chicago, said that the government's prediction will prove too optimistic if the dry weather persists. "We've been traipsing through the fields of southern Illinois and it is worse than the government says," explained Mr Basse.
A sharp difference with 2008 is that speculative money is playing a far smaller role this time, said Mr McCambridge. Although rapid, analysts say the sharp increases over the last month are an appropriate response to the pullback in production and uncertainty over the eventual size of the corn, wheat and soyabean crops. Corn futures hit a record $8.16 a bushel on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange today, while soybeans touched $17.49 a bushel. If there is some good news, it is that rice - a staple for many of the world's poorest - has escaped the increases.
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About British International School of Tunis (BIST)
British International School of Tunis (BIST) is about providing the best possible education one that creates lifelong learners with a passion for knowledge and adventure, fully equipped to meet the challenges of a dynamic world. We welcome people of all nations and backgrounds and strongly believe that a school thrives most by engaging with its local community to celebrate the rich historical, cultural and social resources to be found on our doorstep.
Between the ages of 3-19 children are taught using the UK National Curriculum. This is divided into Early Years Foundation Stage and 5 Key Stages. In addition, the BIST curriculum provides special attention to the diversity and heritage of our location.
The British International School of Tunis vision of technology is to support our culture of innovation, creativity and collaboration by providing access to technology that empowers students to be self-directed, responsible and adaptable learners in our global and interconnected world – anytime and anywhere.
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Ellas Retreat welcomes you to Greece, where you will practice Vipassana meditation, which is based on the four foundations of mindfulness. You will be offered the original practice from Wat Chom Tong in Thailand. In this retreat, you will train the mind to be aware of the present moment at all times, which allows you to cope with everyday difficulties. After the retreat you will have time to rest before you return home, where you can enjoy the beach and the surroundings. Savor every moment Greece has to offer!
Note the teaching is based on donation.
During the retreat, you will be accommodated at Ellas Retreat Paleros. There are 16 beds and three double rooms. There is also a small yoga space in the garden and a five-minute walk from the retreat center is a big yoga shala with an amazing view over the Ionian Sea and Lefkada Island.
All the rooms are tastefully decorated and features an en-suite bathroom, air conditioning, a small refrigerator, and a hot plate for an emergency lunch or tea plus strong Wi-Fi. You may relax on the balcony or in the garden during your free time and feel completely at home.
The main part of this retreat is the five days of Vipassana meditation practices. After the retreat there will be time to rest and enjoy the beach and the surroundings before you return home, there will still be silence in the retreat center as others will still be in retreat. You will receive individual guidance doing your whole stay by Martin Pack that has dedicated himself for many years to share this unique teaching that has been life-changing for a lot of yogis and meditators.
Vipassana means to see clearly or beyond, to see the true nature of things as they really are. The practice is based on the four foundations of mindfulness, training the mind to be aware of the present moment at all times, allowing people to overcome everyday difficulties.
The Vipassana meditation technique is being taught by teachers from Wat Chomtong. The technique is from the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition and has been developed by Ajarn Tong, the Abbott of Wat Chomtong near Chiang Mai. It is a practical technique, enabling you to practice after the retreat and incorporate mindfulness into your daily life.
The practice consists of walking and sitting meditation. The course will get through different stages of knowledge within the practice. There are important benefits of the practice such as overcoming many personal, mental, and physical difficulties like relationships, work-related stress, letting go of attachments, and so on.
Constant practice develops insights, allowing confidence, energy and effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom to arise in order to help you and others overcome difficulties, enabling everyone to have more compassion.
Vipassana meditation helps you in finding peace and happiness. Generally, you have perceptions of yourself and the world around you. Your perception is often distorted by different patterns of the mind like greed, anger, doubt, fear, and delusion. Mostly, you are not able to see these hindrances very clearly.
When you practice mindfulness, you are witnessing the arising of these hindrances and instead of trying to avoid them or push them out of your mind, you see (acknowledge) them by making a mental note of them and then letting them go by bringing your attention back to the meditation practice.
Therefore, you can begin to find peace and allow the insights to arise, showing you that all these experiences are transient (impermanent). The experience of Martin Pack, the teacher of the retreat, is seen especially during the report times (private daily talks between the teacher and the retreat participants), where he helps the students through their challenges with his compassion, characteristic humor, and deep understanding of the processes they are going through.
The teaching is on donation in order to maintain the purity of the practice. The teaching is based on a donation. Ellas Retreat suggests a donation to the teacher between 90 and 200 EUR. Just like everyone, the teacher needs money for living like food, transport, and housing.
Since 2002, Martin has practiced Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Ajan Tong. After a few years of participating in retreats in Thailand, he assisted the teachers in Wat Chomtong in Northern Thailand and also helped in assisting Ajarn Phra Ofer in Israel. On January 2009, he got certified to teach and to organize courses in Northern Thailand in a place called Pai. He has taught retreats in Thailand, Northern Italy, France, Austria, Greece, and England.
This retreat will take place at Ellas Retreat Paleros, Greece. The retreat center is located in a small village at the Ionian Sea close to the island of Lefkada. It lies at the base of a spectacular rocky mountain and it is surrounded by sandy beaches. The village is not the main tourist attraction and this is that makes it so inviting.
Ellas Retreat's partner, FoodPath, a catering service for retreats, offers a healthy menu. A vegetarian breakfast and lunch will be served. There will be snacks in the evening and hot drinks the whole day as well.
After the main retreat, you will have time for some beach and relaxation time.
Please book your flight to arrive at Aktion National Airport (PVK) or Athens International Airport (ATH). Ellas Retreat can arrange a pick-up for 25 EUR. The nearest airport to Palairos is Aktion National Airport (PVK), which is 30 minutes from the retreat location.
If you are visiting Greece from abroad, you will most likely arrive at Athens International Airport (ATH). Ellas Retreat can arrange a taxi pickup from Athens International Airport (ATH) for you at a cost of 80 EUR per person.
From the airport, you can take the X93 city bus to the long distance bus terminal. From the bus terminal, take the bus to Lefkada. This route should take you to Vonitsa, a town that neighbors Palairos, just 19 kilometers away from where Ellas Retreat can pick you up for 10 EUR (one bus in the morning stops in Palairos).
The fare is 34 EUR for the bus. The bus trip duration is about five hours, including the 20-minute break along the road. It is also possible to arrive via Thessaloniki and take a long distance bus to Lefkada where Ellas Retreat can pick you up.
The deposit is fully refundable if the booking is cancelled up to 25 days before the arrival date.
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It isn't easy to write a great piece of music, but it can feel even more difficult to convince people to listen. Once your track is mixed and mastered, what can you do next? From playing live shows to building an email list, here's what you need to know to get your music heard.
Play Live Shows
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MOGADISHU (HAN) June 1.2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. A suicide car bomber crashed his vehicle into a gate outside a hotel frequented by lawmakers in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday and the attack was followed by gunfire, killing at least 10 people, police said.
Al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab militants quickly claimed responsibility for the attack at the Hotel Ambassador and one police offcer said some fighters might be inside the hotel.
Colonel Ali Mohamed, a Mogadishu police officer, said the hotel on Maka Al Mukaram Road was hit by a car bomb that rammed its gate.
"We believe there are some fighters in the hotel but we are not sure. So far we have confirmed three people died and a dozen others injured," Major Ibrahim Hassan, a second police officer told Reuters.
Police later said there were 10 people killed and the toll was likely to rise further.
Maka Al Mukaram is a major street lined with hotels, restaurants and banks in the heart of the capital that links another major artery, K4, to the presidential palace.
In February, at least nine people were killed when al Shabaab fighters set off a car bomb at the gate of a popular park near a hotel in the capital. In January, an attack on a beach-front restaurant killed at least 17 people.
Al Shabaab, which seeks to topple Somalia's government, was driven out of Mogadishu by the African Union force AMISOM in 2011, and last year was ousted from strongholds elsewhere in the south by AMISOM and the Somali National Army.
In other incidents, Somali security forces killed 17 al Shabaab fighters including the head of their intelligence unit and a man suspected of orchestrating a deadly attack on a Kenyan university in 2015, government officials said.
In one incident, Mogadishu municipality spokesman Abdifatah Omar said, security forces killed a man known only as Daud who headed al Shabaab's intelligence wing, known as Amniyat. Omar did not say when he was killed or give other details.
In the second incident, Abdirashid Hassan Abdi, the semi-autonomous Jubbaland region's security minister said its forces had killed 16 al Shabaab fighters in Bulagadud, some 30 km to the north of the Indian Ocean port of Kismayu.
Among the dead, he said, was Mohamud Ali Dulyadeyn, suspected to have been the mastermind of an April 2015 attack on Garissa University that killed 148 people, the worst such assault in Kenya in almost 20 years.
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About a week or two ago, I was in the lobby of a museum with an older man. I do not know how old he was, but he was well into his senior citizen years.
He took a drink from the water fountain. When he was done drinking he grinned at me and said, "I remember when we had our first water fountain in town. I was a kid and it was put in the playground. We all lined up to it like it was the greatest invention ever. It was amazing."
It had never occurred to me that there was a time where drinking fountains were not common. What it must have been like to see your first bubbler and drink from it. I told him so.
"Son," he said, "We are surrounded by everyday wonders that were a first discovery for all of us. We have forgotten to be amazed and we take it for granted. I was married once, I took her for granted until we heard that word...cancer. I lost her. We made the most of the little time we had, but I squandered thirty years. Worried about the wrong things. Fooling around. Wishing she were this or that instead of loving all she was. Drinking fountains. Gardens. Electricity. Love. They are around us everyday. Everything is."
I told him that was amazing.
"I have cancer now too," he said. "Water is life and today I'm alive. In a few months I wont. I wasted too many years, but I have today and I just drank from a bubbler and told a young man to live. Archie."
He held out his hand. I took it and gave him my name.
"We are friends now, Patrick. We shook hands. Drink from the bubbler of life, son. Take nothing for granted."
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Police not enough to fix society's woes!
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Dr Tariq Rustam
It was a bit amusing to see a TV anchor taking jibes at a police officer on the issue of one wheeling at the busy roads of Lahore. The usual response to such media onslaughts is telling them how many FIRs have been registered against the wheelers and how many have been put behind bar. Here the response of the officer was quiet unexpected when the anchor pounce on him with his remark, "who will correct them?" The parents, family and society, the officer retorted with tongue in cheek tone. Was he trying to shirk his responsibility? Or did he want to indicate a deeper malaise which not only fails the police but also the society. Yes, the police are responsible for fighting the crime but not the deviance which primarily remains the function of society. The levels and patterns of deviance in a society is something society needs to take care of.
Deviance is a product of how a society regulates the behaviour of its individual members. Here it is important to distinguish deviance from crime. Deviance in simple words is socially unacceptable behaviour which is dealt with through informal social control mechanisms whereas deviance turns into a crime when it is officially sanctioned and codified. Every society has put in place certain mechanisms through which it ensures the approved patterns of behaviour among its members to maintain social order. This is what we refer to as social control. Sociologist Gillin defines, "Social control is the system of measures, suggestions, persuasion, restrain and coercion by whatever means including physical force by which society brings into conformity to the approved pattern of behaviour, a subgroup or by which a group moulds into conformity its members".
Social controls are exercised by society in formal and informal manners. The informal control is the first layer where parents, family, neighbourhood, friends, classmates, teachers, colleagues and peers on the one hand and ideas, values, customs, traditions, religion, culture and public opinion on the other exercise their influence through a system of reward and punishment. Reward may be in the form of approval, appreciation, job promotions, good grades, social popularity whereas punishment takes the form of disapproval, shame, ridicule, sarcasm, criticism poor grades, social discrimination and exclusion etc. Formal social control usually takes the form of government action. Government and organizations use law enforcement mechanisms and other formal sanctions, such as fines and imprisonment to ensure normative behaviour.
Without social control the organization of the society is likely to be disturbed. If the individual is effectively socialized, he conforms to the accepted ways from force of habit as well as from his desire of being accepted and approved by other persons. If he is inadequately socialized, he has a tendency to deviate from the accepted ways. Even otherwise it is difficult that a person's own desires exactly coincide with the social expectations of his group. So deviance, to a certain limit, may be acceptable but it is expected that the informal social controls should resist and nip the deviant tendencies in the bud. And if they fail, the level of deviance is to rise for sure and translate into crime. It is exactly here that the role of formal social controls which includes law enforcement and policing starts. It may be argued that effective law enforcement also contributes to curb deviance. True to some extent but law enforcement only deals with the crime and has little role in producing deviance. Its genesis remains primarily the function of society and how effectively its informal social control mechanisms operate.
In this context let us examine how our society and its informal social control mechanisms are working to ensure approved patterns of behaviour required for a healthy social order with minimum level of deviance and crime. Are the parents meeting their obligation of raising their children into useful, law abiding and responsible citizens? Are they giving proper time to their children and paying enough attention to see that their children are not developing deviant tendencies? The answer can hardly be in affirmative. Parents these days seem to have assumed that sending their children to high fee private school and buying them computers and tabs is enough and appear to be largely oblivious to their character building. Similar seems to be the situation of teachers. They are more focused on imparting information instead of education as the prime objective of the educational system has turn out to be to be good grades and ultimately well paid jobs. In old times which we cherish most often, the character building used to be an equally important aim of the educational system. The teachers were as concerned with the character and conduct of their pupils as with the education. No more, gone are the golden days!
The failure of parents, family and educational system to inculcate the normative values leaves a void which is filled in by a different set of values in which previously labelled deviant behaviours may attain a legitimate status. Under such circumstances the influence of friends, peers and colleagues is used more in favour of newly discovered values and deviant trends. In the shrinking world of today a society and its control mechanisms also have to deal with the onslaught of extraneous cultural influences let loose by rapid communication and technological advancements. The new cultures and values have to be carefully articulated with the existing ones so that they are assimilated and internalized by the members of the society without allowing their negative fallout. Failing to do so can result only in breakdown of existing values, morals and overall social order. That our society is undergoing such a breakdown can be seen in the trends on social media where the values like respect, courtesy, politeness, and graciousness are conspicuous by their absence. Unfortunately, as an important component of social control mechanism, mainstream media is not playing any positive role either.
In such a situation blaming police or for that matter other law enforcers for every evil under the sun is not warranted. Society and state will have to join hands to buttress social controls, both formal and informal. In addition to criminal justice reforms, the state direly needs to come up with a strategy to strengthen the decaying family system to revive its cherished values which got the better of deviance and ensured normative behaviours. Education system requires a massive revamping to bring it in line with the moral, ethical and cultural aspirations of the society. Both print and electronic media need a nudge to awaken them to their responsibility as powerful tools of social transformation. They are expected to be on the forefront in reinforcing the positive values and fight deviance.
Nowhere in the world policing alone is expected to take care of everything, from morals and social trends on one hand to crime and deviance on the other. Shaping the moral, ethical, cultural fabric of people which keep the level of deviance under tight leash is the function of society; for that police and policing alone is not enough!
— The writer is a senior police office having 21 years of experience in policing
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Situated in the shadow of the city of Houston, the small city of Humble may have slipped off your radar but that's no reason to leave it off of your search for an RV rental. The city is blessed with an average of 204 days of sunshine each year, summer temperatures of around 94 degrees and winters temperatures of approximately 24 degrees. The city offers plenty of sporting activities as well as an ample supply of restaurants and boutique stores.
This Texan city was founded in the early 19th century and takes its name from the founder of the city's first post office, Pleasant Smith Humble. The small settlement boomed into a city during the 20th century when oil fields began to spring up all over the county. Despite its industrial background, Humble is a fantastic place to rent an RV and visit nearby sites. Within a short distance of the city is the Lake Houston Wilderness Park and Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center, while inside the city center visitors can escape to one of the four city parks or visit one of Humble's Museums.
The city is located just 31 miles from the Gulf Coast in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Metro Area and can be reached in 20 minutes by taking the Interstate 69 north from Houston. The nearest airport is the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, located six miles away, or the William P. Hobby Domestic Airport which is 31 miles away.
The first place you'll want to visit once you've found the best RV rental near Humble is the Lake Houston Wilderness Park which is located less than 15 miles north of Humble. The park covers an area of almost 12,000 acres, where visitors can follow hiking and biking trails through the park or organize horseback riding on one of the park's equestrian trails. The lake has been protected since 1954 and beneath its waters lives a variety of creatures including sunfish, largemouth, crappie, catfish, and white bass. Within the park, there are also a handful of basic campsites so visitors can spend a night under the stars, camping in the wilderness.
For something less wild, visitors can drive a Humble motorhome rental seven miles west of Humble to the Mercer Arboretum & Botanical Gardens. This extensive collection on native plant species covers an area of 300 acres and offers access to the Cypress Creek via canoe. Other recommended outdoor sites in the are the Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center and the Greens Bayou Wetlands.
Hopefully, if you're planning to book an RV in Humble then you're also a golfing fan because two miles north of the city center is the Humble Oil Patch Golf Center which is a practice patch with a nine-hole golf course, a driving range, and tee box area. Nearby, there are also public and private golf courses including the Cypress Golf Club which hosts two separate nine-hole courses.
While there are no RV parks in the Humble city center, there are plenty to be found in the surrounding area. Most parks in the region are fully equipped with 30 or 50-amp electrical hookups, sewer and water hookups, on-site restrooms, showers, laundry facilities, free WiFi, cell phone reception and pull-through sites. The East Lake RV Resort, close to the banks of Lake Houston, is a popular RV park which is conveniently located for visiting the main sites of Humble, Houston, or Spring, as well as the Lake Houston Wilderness Park, Greens Bayou Wetlands, and Sheldon Lake Skate Park. This site additionally offers guests pool and jacuzzi access, outdoor kitchen facilities, a camp store and recreational room with fitness suite. The same company also operate the North Lake RV Park a few miles south of Spring.
A recommended park for wildlife observations is the Lone Star Lake RV Park, which is on a private lake in New Caney with direct access to nature trails. Another camping option for the Humble camper rental is the Rayford Crossing RV Resort, which offers on-site fishing and organized activities.
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The city of Humble may not be the largest on the map but it certainly fits a lot into its borders. Some of the city's top attractions include the Lindsay/Lyons Park and Sports Complex and the Charles Bender Performing Arts Center, where visitors can see a live show performed. For kids and teens, there's also Old MacDonald's Farm and the Max Bowel or AMF Humble Bowling Lanes. Also, within a 20-minute drive are the Houston Water Works, the Escape it Houston rooms, and the Dylan Duncan Skatepark.
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Meanwhile, history enthusiasts will want to visit the Humble Museum and take a look in downtown Humble's nine antique stores or visit the nearby village of Old Town Spring, a restored railroad town where visitors can find a number of art galleries dating back to the Victorian Era. Humble also hosts a plethora of luxury food stores and boutique craft stores, and each September, the Fall Fest Antiques Show takes place.
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One of the most interesting cities to pass through is Pasadena, Texas. Many tourists stick to the major cities such as Houston and Austin, however, many people who rent an RV in Houston will be pleasantly surprised by the friendly locals and wealth of attractions that warrant a stay of at least a day or two. Jus Passn Thru RV Park offers RV rental guests a comfortable stay by providing water, sewer, electrical, and WiFi at RV campsite. There are 31 RV campsites in total that include concrete runners and asphalt parking pads for each site. RV campsites can accommodate RV?s of up to 40 ft with slide outs. Small pets are welcome as long as they remain on a leash, and guests will have access to a laundry room. The RV park is open throughout the year, and guests can enjoy tennis courts, a jogging trail, baseball and softball fields, a city pool, and pavilions a mere half a mile away. The park itself has plenty of trees providing some shade and ambiance. With all that Jus Passn Thru RV Park has to offer that your friends and family would be super happy have an RV rental easily accessible from Houston.
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If you are looking for a luxurious RV campsite to bring your RV rental from Houston, look no further than Lakeview, which is situated in Houston, Texas. You will have access to showers and restrooms, laundry facilities, outdoor kitchen areas, and a coffee and popcorn bar. Lakeview is a great place to go if you want to visit museums, the zoo, and perhaps play a little golf. All are within easy reach of the resort with your RV rental. There is a shuttle service every couple of hours on weekdays to the Texas Medical Center. From here you can take the metro and discover great theaters, shops, and restaurants while in your RV rental. If you want to stay on RV site, you can take advantage of the swimming pool and Jacuzzi, as well as the exercise equipment. For those who like to fish, there is a well-stocked lake at Lakeview that you could fish from your RV rental from Outdoorsy. The views here are amazing. For your peace of mind, there are property managers on site seven days a week, and the property is fenced and gated.
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Have You Got Sustained Business Motivation?
At the moment, I am lucky enough to be in beautiful Queenstown, New Zealand. I had the privilege of meeting Natalie Cook – a 5 time Olympian in Beach Volleyball (she is the only woman to have ever achieved this). In her Olympic career she has won both a bronze medal in 1996 and a gold medal in 2000 – an unbelievable accomplishment. In meeting Natalie and listening to her speak, I was inspired as she made her road to success sound so simple, she explained how she was able to sustain her motivation for over 20 years to be the best.
3. The Rewards and Recovery.
These 3 simple rules are very similar to the Running Theory that I have explained on previous blogs and speak about at my seminars.
Let's have a closer look at all 3 steps and how we can relate them to our businesses.
Natalie had a What and Why – she broke down her goals, she knew on exactly what date and time she wanted to win a gold medal in beach volleyball.
Do you know what your businesses exact What and Why is? Is it to reach a revenue target? Is it a gross profit margin you want to achieve? Or is it focused around the bottom line – net profit, or the amount left for you to spend and enjoy?
Natalie made it very clear that until you have established your What and Why – you have set no purpose so you are unable to sustain the drive to get there.
Just being acknowledged in your chosen sport is hard enough, let alone being the best in the world and winning an Olympic gold medal. Natalie achieved this.
She trained hard, watched what she ate, and surrounded herself with the best possible team of coaches, medics and family with one target in mind – to win Gold. What does your business target look like?
Have you surrounded yourself with the best possible team to achieve this target? Your employees and business Partners, a solicitor, and an accountant? Are your family and friends actively supporting you? You need to focus totally on your goal, have 100% commitment and discipline to achieve that one thing that is your What!
Surround yourself with experts in their chosen field to help you achieve your What – for example, an accountant that can help and guide you!
Natalie Cook trained for 6 hours a day, 6 days per week over a 20-year period to be the best.
Do you have that commitment, balance, and desire to continually succeed? Most importantly though, Natalie rewarded herself along the way and certainly allowed herself time to recover. Natalie climbed many mountains, but allowed time for rewards and recovery, but most importantly, she kept on going.
After you have set your businesses What and Why and you have worked hard with total focus, commitment and discipline, it is time to reward yourself a little and allow time to recover. But remember you also must set your next goal or mountain to climb.
The key here is to set yourself targets along the way, focus and then go after them – success will not come to those that are not hungry enough to achieve.
What is important to your business - what's your Gold Medal? Need a hand at defining your business goals or planning how to achieve them? Leave a comment or visit my profile.
I am a CPA qualified accountant with over 20 years public practice experience. As Principal accountant at ZJL Partners, my business services over 4,000 clients and won "2012 Accountancy Business of the Year" awarded by the Proactive Accountants Network. I am an accountant that is about more than just the numbers. I am also a public speaker, radio host, blogger, marathon runner and small business mentor.
Really great article Peter and so inspiring! Thank you for making my day :)!


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Dziewczyna z marzeń – debiutancki album zespołu Boys wydany przez wytwórnię Blue Star w 1991 roku na kasecie magnetofonowej.

Lista utworów
 "Napalona Anka" 3,34
 "Wolność" 4,54
 "Film-Mix" 7,03
 "Kochany wróć" 4,12
 "Dziewczyna z marzeń" 4,11
 "Nie odchodź" 4,30
 "A ja się bawię" 5,24
 "Boys" dla was" 4,41

Skład zespołu
 Marcin Miller - syntezatory, vocal
 Robert Sasinowski - gitara, vocal
 Krzysztof Cieciuch - perkusja
 Bogdan Kukier - bas

Bibliografia
 Album w bazie discogs.com (ang.)
 BOYS - Dziewczyna z marzeń (BLUE STAR 1992). Album w serwisie YouTube [dostęp 2022-04-23].

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Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 1991
Albumy Boys
Albumy Blue Star

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Stacey and I ran an online color-naming experiment back in February of 2007. Shortly afterwards, we whipped up a quick visualization that illustrated where our participants felt color boundaries existed (e.g., where brown ends and red begins). We circulated it amongst friends, but never posted it online. I had mostly forgotten about the project until Dolores Labs posted an article on their blog titled "Where does 'Blue' end and 'Red' begin?" In addition to providing a nifty color explorer, they also generously made their 10,000 data points freely available.
I was excited about creating a new visualization not only because I had gobs of new data, but also because color was pretty and fun to play with. The resulting visualizations, all of which are aesthetically leaning, use a combined set of 16,276 data points (named colors). The images below illustrate various avenues I explored, but my favorite of the bunch was what I dubbed a Color Flower, in which names are colorized and radiate from the center according to their hue. I threw in some randomization to make the visualization more organic and texturally rich.


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Q: Error running AdMob Application: "Unfortunately Ads6 has stopped" I'm developing an AdMob app using Android Studio 2.2 Preview 7.
When I run this application on emulator and mobile it says:

Unfortunately Ads6 app has stopped

Why does this happen?
Here is my MainActivity file:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
{
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        MobileAds.initialize(
            getApplicationContext(),
            "ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx/7xxxxxxxxxxxxx");
        AdView madview=(AdView) this.findViewById(R.id.adView);
        AdRequest adrequest=new AdRequest.Builder().build();
        madview.loadAd(adrequest);
    }
}

And here is my XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
   xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
   android:id="@+id/activity_main"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="match_parent"
   tools:context="com.example.alpha.ads6.MainActivity">

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
    android:id="@+id/adView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    ads:adSize="BANNER"
    ads:adUnitId="ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxx">
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>

And this is my manifest file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><manifest
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.alpha.ads6">

   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>

   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE"/>
   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE"/>

  <application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat">

    <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
        android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

    <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity"
        android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" />
  </application>
</manifest>

A: try like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/activity_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.example.alpha.ads6.MainActivity">

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
    android:id="@+id/adView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    ads:adSize="BANNER"
    ads:adUnitId="ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxx">
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>

Use xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" instead of       xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
Comment out MobileAds.initialize();
Hope this helps.!

A: I use this code in my project and it is working fine. I hope it will be helpful for you.
Activity Code
import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.MobileAds;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private static final String ADMOB_APP_ID = "ca-app-pub-###################~##########";
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    MobileAds.initialize(this,ADMOB_APP_ID);

    AdView mAdView1 = (AdView) findViewById(R.id.adView1);
    AdRequest adRequest1 = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
    mAdView1.loadAd(adRequest1);

}

Activity XML Code
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
        android:id="@+id/adView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        ads:adSize="BANNER"
        ads:adUnitId="@string/banner_ad_unit_1"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="46dp">
    </com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>

String XML Code
<resources>
    <string name="banner_ad_unit_1">ca-app-pub-################/########</string>
</resources>

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Q: UTF-8 text from website is decoded improperly when using python 3 and requests, works well with Python 2 and mechanize I've been tinkering with Python using Pythonista on my iPad. I decided to write a simple script that pulls song lyrics in Japanese from one website, and makes post requests to another website that basically annotates the lyrics with extra information.
When I use Python 2 and the module mechanize for the second website, everything works fine, but when I use Python 3 and requests, the resulting text is nonsense.
This is a minimal script that doesn't exhibit the issue:
#!/usr/bin/env python2

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import requests
import mechanize

def main():
    # Get lyrics from first website (lyrical-nonsense.com)
    url = 'https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/lyrics/bump-of-chicken/hello-world/'
    html_raw_lyrics = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text, "html5lib")
    raw_lyrics = html_raw_lyrics.find("div", id="Lyrics").get_text()

    # Use second website to anotate lyrics with fugigana
    browser = mechanize.Browser()
    browser.open('http://furigana.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi')
    browser.select_form(nr=0)
    browser.form['text'] = raw_lyrics
    request = browser.submit()

    # My actual script does more stuff at this point, but this snippet doesn't need it

    annotated_lyrics = BeautifulSoup(request.read().decode('utf-8'), "html5lib").find("body").get_text()
    print annotated_lyrics

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

The truncated output is:
扉(とびら)開(ひら)けば捻(ねじ)れた昼(ひる)の夜(よる)昨日(きのう)どうやって帰(かえ)った体(からだ)だけが確(たし)かおはよう これからまた迷子(まいご)の続(つづ)き見慣(みな)れた知(し)らない景色(けしき)の中(なか)でもう駄目(だめ)って思(おも)ってから わりと何(なん)だかやれている死(し)にきらないくらいに丈夫(じょうぶ)何(なに)かちょっと恥(は)ずかしいやるべきことは忘(わす)れていても解(わか)るそうしないと とても苦(くる)しいから顔(かお)を上(あ)げて黒(くろ)い目(め)の人(にん)君(くん)が見(み)たから光(ひかり)は生(う)まれた選(えら)んだ色(しょく)で塗(ぬ)った世界(せかい)に [...]

This is a minimal script that exhibits the issue:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import requests

def main():
    # Get lyrics from first website (lyrical-nonsense.com)
    url = 'https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/lyrics/bump-of-chicken/hello-world/'
    html_raw_lyrics = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text, "html5lib")
    raw_lyrics = html_raw_lyrics.find("div", id="Lyrics").get_text()

    # Use second website to anotate lyrics with fugigana
    url = 'http://furigana.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi'
    data = {'text': raw_lyrics, 'state': 'output'}
    html_annotated_lyrics = BeautifulSoup(requests.post(url, data=data).text, "html5lib")
    annotated_lyrics = html_annotated_lyrics.find("body").get_text()

    print(annotated_lyrics)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

whose truncated output is:
IQp{_<n(åiFcf0c_S`QLºKJoFSK~_÷PnMc_åjDorn-gFÄîcfcfKhU`KfD{kMjDOD+UKacheZKWDyMSho،fDfã]FWjDhhfæWDKTRfÒDînºL_KIo~_x`rgWc_Lkò~fxyjD·nsoiS`FTê`QLÒüíüLn [...]

It's worth noting that if I just try to get the HTML of the second request, like so:
# Use second website to anotate lyrics with fugigana
url = 'http://furigana.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi'
data = {'text': raw_lyrics, 'state': 'output'}
annotated_lyrics = requests.post(url, data=data).content.decode('utf-8')

A embedded null character error occurs when printing annotated_lyrics. This issue can be circumvented by passing truncated lyrics to the post requests. In the current example, only one character can be passed.
However, with
url = 'https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/lyrics/aimer/brave-shine/'

I can pass up to 51 characters, like so:
data = {'text': raw_lyrics[0:51], 'state': 'output'}

before triggering the embedded null character error.
I've tried using urllib instead of requests, decoding and encoding to utf-8 the resulting HTML of the post request, or the data passed as an argument to this request. I've also checked that the encoding of the website is utf-8, which matches the encoding of the post requests:
r = requests.post(url, data=data)
print(r.encoding)

prints utf-8.
I think the problem has to do with how Python 3 is more strict in how it treats strings vs bytes, but I've been unable to pinpoint the exact cause.
While I'd appreciate a working code sample in Python 3, I'm more interested in what exactly I'm doing wrong, in what is the code doing that results in failure.

A: I'm able to get the lyrics properly with this code in python3.x:
url = 'https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/lyrics/bump-of-chicken/hello-world/'
resp = requests.get(url)
print(BeautifulSoup(resp.text).find('div', class_='olyrictext').get_text())

Printing (truncated)
>>> BeautifulSoup(resp.text).find('div', class_='olyrictext').get_text()
'扉開けば\u3000捻れた昼の夜\r\n昨日どうやって帰った\u3000体だけ...'

A few things strike me as odd there, notably the \r\n (windows line ending) and \u3000 (IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE) but that's probably not the problem
The one thing I noticed that's odd about the form submission (and why the browser emulator probably succeeds) is the form is using multipart instead of urlencoded form data. (signified by enctype="multipart/form-data")
Sending multipart form data is a little bit strange in requests, I had to poke around a bit and eventually found this which helps show how to format the multipart data in a way that the backing server understands.  To do this you have to abuse files but have a "None" filename.  "for humans" hah!
url2 = 'http://furigana.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi'
resp2 = requests.post(url2, files={'text': (None, raw_lyrics), 'state': (None, 'output')})

And the text is not mangled now!
>>> BeautifulSoup(resp2.text).find('body').get_text()
'\n扉(とびら)開(ひら)けば捻(ねじ)れた昼(ひる)...'

(Note that this code should work in either python2 or python3)


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Ekiti Guber Election: Account For N165bn Allocations, PDP Challenges Fayemi
Agency Reporter June 11, 2018 News No Comments
The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the All Progressives Congress' (APC) candidate in the poll, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to explain how he spent statutory allocations and other funds that accrued to his government between 2010 and 2014.
The party, in a statement by the State Publicity Secretary, Mr Jackson Adebayo, in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, said documents from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, the National Bureau of Statistics among others showed that Fayemi collected N165 billion as monthly allocations, excluding regular funds from Excess Crude Oil Account, grants, internally-generated revenues among others, but Fayemi still took N25 billion bond and N35 billion commercial loans with nothing to show for the funds.
Adebayo also said the Ayodele Fayose administration had done creditably well despite the lean resources at its disposal.
"In 2011, Fayemi got N40.5 billion as monthly statutory allocations. In 2012, he got N39.8 billion. In 2013, he got N44.3 billion and in 2014, he got N40.1 billion. Whereas, the Fayose administration got N28.2 billion in 2015, N18.8 billion in 2016 and N25.6 billion in 2017.
" Apart from the above monthly allocations, Fayemi still got regular funds from the Excess Crude Oil Account, IGR among others. Despite what Fayemi got, he still borrowed N25 billion from the Capital Market and took N31 billion commercial loans. The question is, what did he do with the money? Nothing.
"The N25 billion bond and commercial loans, through which he mortgaged the finances of our dear state for 20 years, were spent on nothing. He proposed an event centre, it was never completed. He said he would build a new Governor's Office, he only scraped a parcel of land near the House of Assembly Complex and did nothing. His new Ojaba Market, for which he erected a billboard at the entrance of the palace of Ewi, never saw the light of the day.
" His flyover only existed in his tommy. He half-completed a state pavilion and squandered the state's resources on frivolities. If he stopped at that it would have been better, but he went ahead to divert state funds to personal use. An example is the N850 million given the state by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Abuja which he diverted leading to the suspension of Ekiti State from the commission's funding for years," he said.
Adebayo said in contrast to Fayemi's waste of resources, the Fayose administration, in which Olusola is the deputy governor, had been prudent.
"The table of funds received by Fayemi and Fayose given above are public documents available in the offices of the NBS, OAGF and even on their websites. People can go there and access. Moreover, people can see what the Fayose administration has done with the meagre resources at its disposal.
" A new Governor's Office, new High Court Complex, Adunni Olayinka Women Development Centre, a flyover have been built. A new Ojaba Market is almost completed. Roads in Emure, Ise, Efon, Ijero, Omuo, Afao, Ilawe, Ikere, Ikole etc have been dualised. Car Wash- Afao Road built, same for Dehead- Police Headquarters Road among others.
"The teachers Fayemi planned to sack through a vindictive test, have been motivated and our state now ranks first in public examinations in the federation. This is the good trend that Prof Kolapo Olusola will continue with when elected governor. Fayemi and the APC have nothing good to offer the people of the state," he added.
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Das EFX 'Dead Serious' 25th Anniversary
Release date: 7th April 1992
Label: East West
Producers: Solid Scheme, Das EFX, Dexx
Profile (courtesy of Wikipedia):
"Dead Serious is the debut studio album of American hip hop duo Das EFX, released April 7, 1992 on compact disc and audio cassette on East West Records and distributed through Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Firehouse Studios in Brooklyn, New York and at Charlie Marotta's North Shore Soundworks studio in Long Island, New York. The album was a certified hit, peaking at 16 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, topping the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for five weeks and reaching platinum sales by 1993. Well-received upon its release, Dead Serious has since been regarded by music writers as a significant and influential album in hip hop."
- Listen to Chris Read's 25th Anniversary Mixtape on Mixcloud.
- The singles 'They Want EFX' and 'Mic Checka' come in at #3 and #13 in Ego Trip's Top 40 Rap Singles of 1992.
- Listen to samples used in the making of the album on WhoSampled.


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Q: Why the ToolbarItem Button is not tappable? I have a navigationView with the ToolbarItem containing a button.
This button is not tappable correctly. To move to the next screen i have to tap underneath.
As you can see from the Debug View Hierarchy:

Here is how i am adding the button to the toolbar:
var body: some View {
    ZStack { ... }
    .navigationBarTitle(Text("Format"), displayMode: .inline)
    .toolbar {
        ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
            Button("Next") {
                setCanvas()
            }
        }
    }
}

This view is being pushed with a NavigationLink

A: The solution is to add an .id to the Button in order to force the Button to render it self. I was showing a modal before this and it had that position.
var body: some View {
ZStack { ... }
.navigationBarTitle(Text("Format"), displayMode: .inline)
.toolbar {
    ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
        Button("Next") {
            setCanvas()
        }
        .id(UUID())
    }
}

}


In the McDonald oral argument, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg implied that an originalist approach to the Privileges or Immunities Clause might justify protecting property rights for men, but not for married women. She claimed that "a large portion of the population at that time  didn't have those rights" and asked McDonald's counsel Alan Gura whether "married women at that time across the nation ha[d] the right to contract, to hold property, to sue and be sued." Presumably, Ginsburg meant to criticize originalism rather than endorse gender discrimination. If so, I think the argument fails.
Unfortunately, Gura failed to point out that most states had enacted Married Women's Property Laws by the 1850s, which did indeed give them the right to own property separate from that of their husbands.
There were, in many states, greater limitations on married women's freedom of contract. But some married women were nevertheless employed outside the home under employment contracts, and the married women's property laws gave them the right to sign contracts related to their property. New York's widely influential 1860 law on "The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife" also gave married women broad rights to contract and to sue and be sued. Thus, an originalist approach would certainly protect married women's right to property and at least a fairly broad right to contract.
Ginsburg would have been on firmer ground in pointing out that states did not give women the right to occupational freedom equal to that of men, and many had laws banning women from various professions. In 1873, the Supreme Court upheld an Illinois law barring women from becoming lawyers against a P or I Clause challenge in Bradwell v. State. The majority of the justices upheld the law simply on the ground that the Clause did not protect occupational freedom for anyone, as they had ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases at the same time.
In other words, these three justices upheld the exclusion of women despite the general principle of occupational freedom under the P and I Clause, based on their factual understanding of women's "characteristics, destiny, and mission." If that factual understanding turns out to be wrong, they could no longer argue that the power to discriminate against women in this way would fall under "the police power of the State" and would be required to strike the law down. Similarly, in Slaughterhouse, these same justices engaged in a detailed inquiry to determine whether New Orleans' monopoly over slaughtering had a legitimate police power rationale. Today, if not in 1873, it is fairly obvious that Bradley's factual understanding of women's nature and capabilities was wrong. The same goes for similar rationales for restrictions on married women's freedom of contract.
Thus, the legal rule Bradley advocated would compel a different outcome in any similar case today. Originalism requires judges to apply the legal rules established by the framers. But it doesn't require them to perpetuate factual errors in the evaluation of evidence used to determine how the rule applies to any given case. Assume that in 1873 a regulation were upheld based on scientific evidence derived from the popular 19th century theory of phrenology, which held that people's abilities and character could be predicted based on the shape of their skulls. For example, a state could have enacted a law forbidding a person with the wrong type of skull to become a lawyer. Later research proves that phrenology is a bogus pseudosciece. A consistent originalist judge would overrule the 1873 decision if legislatures continued to enact statutes claiming a police power rationale for curtailing occupational freedom based on phrenological evidence. The same goes for statutes that restrict constitutional rights based on discredited nineteenth century factual assumptions about women.
In some cases, of course, it may be difficult to determine whether the state's factual claims are correct or not, and there can be legitimate dispute over the question of how much deference to give the legislature in those situations. But where the factual evidence is as overwhelming as in the case of women's abilities today, even a relatively deferential originalist judge would have to strike the law down.
In sum, there is no compelling reason to believe that an originalist interpretation of the P or I Clause requires courts to protect men's rights to property, contract, and occupational freedom more than those of women.
UPDATE: I should note that it is very unfortunate that Chief Justice Chase dissented in Bradwell without writing an opinion explaining his reasoning. I assume that he did that because he was near death at the time (Chase died on May 7, 1873, just a few weeks after Slaughterhouse and Bradwell came down). Perhaps those more expert in the history can point out some other reason why he chose not to write a dissent.
"Cap-and-Trade Is Dead" — Long Live Cap-and-Trade?


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Paradentalium intercalatum is een Scaphopodasoort uit de familie van de Dentaliidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1859 door Gould.

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Четариу () насеље је у Румунији у округу Бихор у општини Четариу. Oпштина се налази на надморској висини од 194 -{m}-.

Становништво
Према подацима из 2002. године у насељу је живело 3892 становника.

Попис 2002.

Хронологија

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Чжун Ю (鍾繇, 151 — 230) — китайський політик, каліграф часів династій Хань та Вей.

Життєпис
Народився у 151 році у м. Інчуань, Чанше (сучасний повіт Чансюй, провінція Хенань). Походив з аристократичного роду. Син Чжун Ді, представника місцевої знаті. Отримав гарну освіту. Згодом займав високі посади при Цао Цао та його сині Цао Пеї, представниках династії Вей. У 226 році отримав посаду Великого наставника Вей. Помер у 230 році.

Творчість
Його вчителем у каліграфії вважається Лю Дешен. Чжун Ю називають «родоначальником стандартного письма» (正书之祖). При цьому він був однаково видатним майстром почерків лішу та сіншу. Його творчі досягнення стали результатом надзвичайно наполегливої праці. Згідно з переказами, етап навчання каліграфа зайняв 30 років. З особливою ретельністю він студіював твори Цай Юна. Чжун Ю приписують авторство трьох службових записок, написаних стандартним письмом і збережених в копіях. У наші дні ці твори відомі по копіям, вміщеним до фундаментальної каліграфічної антології XVIII ст. Саньсітан фа тє (Збори прописів з «Залу трьох раритетів» імператора Цянь-луна).

У творчості Чжун Ю новації ханьских майстрів знайшли завершеність, відкрили перед традицією нові перспективи розвитку. Стиль Чжун Ю, з'єднував у собі сувору норму з натхненною спонтанністю. Його новації, пов'язані з удосконаленням статуту, були зрозумілі і сприйняті провідними майстрами IV ст. Композиції ієрогліфів Чжун Ю відрізняла абсолютна природність.

Стиль Чжун Ю відрізняв виразний баланс сили і невагомості пластики рисоки. У почерку Чжун Ю горизонталі перестали прогинатися хвилею, в чому виражалася спадкоємність з протостатутом лішу. Співвідношення внутрішнього і зовнішнього простору знаків стало збалансованим і рівноправним.

Твір «Хе Цзе Бяо» 219 року оцінюється як найбільш показове для стилю Чжун Ю. У подовжених формах горизонталей і відкидних рис ще відчувається зв'язок з почерком лішу. Розстановка стовпців простора, в розташуванні знаків відсутня одноманітність. Композиція знаків природна, незважаючи на загальну регулярність. Пластика руху пензля різноманітна: є прискорення, уповільнення, а в зупинках відчувається внутрішня динаміка.

Чжун Ю написав тракт «Роздуми про енергопотоки пензля» (Бішилунь), з якого не збереглися навіть фрагменти. Збереглася невелика добірка висловів Чжун Юя «Методи роботи пензлем» (Юнбіфа).

Джерела
 de Crespigny, Rafe (2007). A biographical dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD). Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15605-0.

Каліграфи Китаю
Китайські письменники
Китайськомовні письменники
Уродженці Хенані