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University of Jhang, Jhang
The University of Jhang is a public university and it is located in Jhang, Punjab. It is approved by HEC. Jhang is the capital city of the Jhang District in the Punjab province. It is the 18th largest city in Pakistan, with a population of 414,000 people. Jhang is a well-developed state with numerous other higher education institutions apart from the University of Jhang such as UVAS, Lahore College for Women University, along with other private and government colleges.
The motto of the University of Jhang is knowledge is power. The University of Jhang believes in providing effective training to the faculty and supporting staff to improve their performance level. Setting up committees to review the syllabus and the content taught to the students to meet with the challenges of the changing times. Assuring the progressive approach towards the examination and assessment system for better results.
The University of Jhang aims to achieve academic excellence and to be renowned globally as well as locally among the top universities of Pakistan. It supports a student-friendly work atmosphere for them to improve their talents and develop a career in the future.
University of Jhang – Admissions, Departments & Scholarships
The University of Jhang offers education in undergraduate programs. It prefers admission on merit.
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12 years of field related education with at least second division.
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The Forgotten War Heroes
by: Glen Mills
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 News) – They provide dedicated service to our country overseas and they save countless lives.
But, our canine veterans can often face a much different fate than their human counterparts when their careers come to an end.
After they finish their service, many war dogs are abandoned and left to fend for themselves in a far off country.
Some are even euthanized.
A local couple says that's not right, and they are fighting to give four-legged veterans the retirement they deserve.
Life is good for Mazzie and Geli as they take in the golden years with their new family in Fruit Heights.
But, if these former working dogs could talk, oh the stories they could tell.
"You can think about what they've been through when you see Mazzie be very afraid when we are out in public. He tucks his tail, he sticks really close to Jim and he won't look people in the eye. So, he's been through a lot," said Linda Crismer.
Linda and her husband Jim don't know many details about the past of their furry family members, but they do know they both worked in Kuwait detecting drugs.
The two are part of a long legacy of canines trained to sniff out hidden explosives, keep the peace in detention facilities and much more.
All in the name of national security.
"They estimate these dogs save, I've heard numbers of anywhere from 150 and 250 lives, each dog," Jim said.
Former handler John Logie is one of those lives.
"I definitely credit Balto for saving my life," said Logie.
It was May of 2010 when the two were working with a contractor helping Canadian forces clear compounds potentially under ISIS control in Afghanistan.
Balto got onto the scent of an underground I.E.D.
As the dog was pointing it out, Logie hit a secondary device.
He suffered several injuries, including having both eardrums blown out, but he knows it would have been worse if he had hit the primary device.
"If I would of stepped on that, it would have taken both my legs right off and I wouldn't be here today."
After that day, Logie went years without seeing his faithful friend.
After his service to our country was complete, Balto came to Utah to live out the final four years of his life with Logie and his family.
"Just amazing! It was awesome having him around the house, the kids loved to have him around, we had a lot of good time," said Logie.
Not all of their canine colleagues get the same opportunity as Balto, Mazzie, and Geli.
"That really concerns me that those dogs have gone out and risked their lives, saved lives, and all that, and we just abandon them. They are U.S. Dogs, they are American dogs, so they ought to be brought home," Jim said.
That is now the Crismer's mission in life.
"Not how we thought we'd be spending our retirement, but here we are," said Linda.
They have teamed up with a Texas-based organization known as Mission K9 Rescue to bring as many dogs home as possible.
To date, they have placed more than 250 dogs with loving families.
In addition, they have reunited more than 275 K9s with their wartime handlers.
But, a huge obstacle stands in the way, funding!
"I always think someday I'll talk to the right person and that will make a difference. And, it makes me almost tear up to think that that has happened," Linda said.
The Crismer's randomly ran into Representative Chris Stewart at a Memorial Day event at the State Capitol.
Seeing him as that right person, they set up a meeting to tell him more about the effort.
Stewart agreed to run an appropriations amendment, which passed the House with lightning speed for congressional standards.
"I get real, as you can tell, I get emotional about it for some reason. I never thought I'd be this way. We've had pets our whole life, but there's something about them," said Jim.
The $200,000 appropriation is expected to save some 200 war dogs if it passes the Senate and is signed by the president.
A salute to these forgotten war heroes who give their all to a mission they didn't choose.
"You've got to look at these dogs, these war dogs as veterans because that's what they are," Logie said.
"They've worked hard, they gave their whole life, and I think that's what a hero is," Linda said.
A statue of Mazzie with his work vest on is in the works for the Vietnam Memorial in Layton.
The statue will face the wall to portray him looking over, and honoring all those who went before him.
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For this Beetdigger and Ute it's an honor to be doing what he loves in his home state! Glen is an award-winning journalist, who joined the ABC4 Utah team in June 2013. You can catch him anchoring ABC4 Utah News at 4 Monday through Friday. He also serves as our Senior Political Correspondent, keeping you up to date on issues that impact your life at the city, state and national level. His political reports run throughout the week, and he hosts Inside Utah Politics, Sunday mornings at 8. The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has recognized Glen as the best government and military television reporter in the state. Before returning home to Utah, he spent 11 1/2 years developing his journalism skills in other states. He held various on-air and management positions at KPVI in Pocatello, Idaho, WGBA in Green Bay, Wisconsin and KKCO in Grand Junction, Colorado during that time.. Read More...


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❯AC Milan ❯ Champions League Preview: Arsenal may have met their match while Chelsea desperately need a win
Champions League Preview: Arsenal may have met their match while Chelsea desperately need a win
14 Mar 2014 12 min read
It's Matchday 2 of the UEFA Champions League are there are some mouth-watering clashes to look forward to. All eyes will be on Chelsea and Jose Mourinho as they look to bounce back from a shock home defeat on the opening day against FC Basel. Dortmund too, were beaten on Matchday 1 and last season's finalists will look to put things right. Celtic vs Barcelona brings back some incredible memories from last season, while Arsenal vs Napoli has its fair share of plots and sub-plots.
If you're planning to drive to one of the football stadiums hosting this round of Champions League matches make sure that you already have your car insurance sorted out. In any case, whether you're in the stadium or watching from home, we've put together a comprehensive preview of each Champions League game taking place today (with another preview to come for tomorrow's game).
Enjoy the previews, and do give us your predictions and feedback in the comments at the end.
Steaua Bucharest vs Chelsea:
Of all the English sides in this season's competition, Chelsea's group was considered by many to be the easiest. But after the opening day 2-1 defeat at the hands of Basel at home, Jose Mourinho's side face an uphill task to put things right and stay in the UEFA Champions League. The Blues exited the competition in the group stages last season and will be keen to avoid another occurrence of the same.
Early Trouble: Jose Mourinho and Chelsea will look to get register their first win in this season's UEFA Champions League
Eden Hazard is out for Chelsea due to injury, while Kevin De Bruyne hasn't travelled with the side. Fernando Torres and Juan Mata are both in line for starts after impressing at the weekend.
Their opponents Steaua also lost on the opening day to Schalke but will be buoyed by the fact that they beat Chelsea 1-0 at home in March earlier this year. Even though that was the last 16 tie of the Europa League, the side that Chelsea put out will be quite similar to the one that they will field on Tuesday.
Steaua manager Laurentiu Reghecampf has a fully fit side to choose from.
Chelsea are absolutely desperate for a win and though the Romanian side will make it as difficult as possible for them, Mourinho's side should be good enough to scrape through and get the three points they so vitally need.
Steaua Bucharest 0-1 Chelsea
FC Basel vs Schalke 04
Basel shocked the UEFA Champions League by coming from behind to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Matchday 2. In the past seasons, they have eliminated both Manchester United and Liverpool in the group stages and are looking to do the same to the Blues this time around. Their next task though, is a home game against German giants Schalke. A win here will see the Swiss side take a big step towards qualification to the knockout rounds.
The only injury worry for manager Murat Yakin is Fabian Schar, who is nursing a knee problem. Yakin though, is optimistic that Schar will feature on Tuesday.
Schalke also won on the opening day and a win here for them will also be a huge step towards qualification to the last 16. The Germans face Chelsea twice in the next couple of Matchdays and will therefore be looking for three points here against Basel to put themselves in a relatively comfortable position.
Julian Draxler missed Schalke's 3-3 draw at the weekends against Hoffenheim with a knee injury but could be fit for this one. Manager Jans Keller is though without Christian Fuchs, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Jermaine Jones and Chinedu Obasi.
Both the managers know each other very well and will know exactly how to set up to get the best result out of the game. Schalke look the better side on paper, but with Basel having the home advantage, the two sides may well cancel each other out.
FC Basel 1-1 Schalke 04
Arsenal vs Napoli
This game sees the Premier League leaders take on the Serie A leaders in a fight for top spot in Group F.
Arsenal come into this game against Napoli in outstanding form, with a run of 7 wins in 7 in all competitions. They are currently top of the Premier League and sit pretty in the UEFA Champions League group as well. They beat Marseille in their first group game in France, putting in an impressive show in a 2-1 victory. But there is a long way to go in Group F, billed as this season's Group of Death in the Champions League. A win here against Napoli though, will see the Gunners in a very comfortable position indeed.
Arsene Wenger has a long list of injury worries as Theo Walcott (abdominal muscle), Santi Cazorla (ankle), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (knee), Abou Diaby (knee), Lukas Podolski (hamstring) and Yaya Sanogo (back) are all.
Napoli beat last season's finalists Borussia Dortmund 2-1 on Matchday 2 and come into this game against Arsenal full of confidence. Rafa Benitez's men are unbeaten in Seria A so far and will be more than a handful for Arsenal. Gonzalo Higuain, who nearly joined Arsenal in the summer before sealing a move to Italy, has been brilliant for the Partenopei this season and it will be interesting to see how he performs at the Emirates.
Higuain though, is in a race to be fit after suffering a thigh injury in Saturday's 2-0 win over Genoa. His former Real Madrid teammate Raul Albiol also suffered a similar injury in that game and may miss out against Arsenal.
This is probably the best game of Matchday 3 as two in-form sides go head to head. Arsenal should be favourites with home advantage at their side, but Napoli may spring a surprise and get something from this game.
Arsenal 2-2 Napoli
Borussia Dortmund vs Marseille
German powerhouses Borussia Dortmund will be looking to bounce back from their opening day defeat against Napoli when they take on Marseille on Matchday 3 at the BVB Arena. It is vital that Dortmund pick up a win here to stay in touch with Arsenal and Napoli, as falling behind even this early on in the campaign may prove costly. Manager Jurgen Klopp has said that there is 'revenge on the cards' for Dortmund, as they were beaten both home and away by Marseille in the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Klopp and goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller were both sent off during the game against Napoli and will therefore be absent again from the action. The only injury casualty for Dortmund is Marcel Schmelzer.
Marseille are favourites to finish last in the Group of Death, but the French side are sure to give it a fight. Their loss to Arsenal at home on Matchday 2 did them no favours whatsoever and now they face the mountainous task of having to get a result against Dortmund, who are absolutely imperious at home.
Striker Andre-Pierre Gignac misses out with a toe injury, while full-back Jeremy Morel is also injured. Manager Elie Baup will also be without Benoit Cheyrou, who hasn't travelled to Germany due to personal reasons.
It is very difficult to see any result apart from a Dortmund win in this one. The Germans are in good form and also desperately need the three points to open their account in Group F. It should be a comfortable outing for Jurgen Klopp's men.
Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Marseille
FC Porto vs Atletico Madrid
The two favourites from Group G go head-to-head on Matchday 3, looking to build on their opening day victories. With both these sides in pole position to qualify, this game is more about deciding who finished top of the group.
Porto are unbeaten at home in 75 games in the Portuguese league and will be looking to bring that form into the UEFA Champions League. They won 1-0 at Austria Wien in their first group game, but will need to step it up to the next gear if they are to beat Atletico.
Manager Paulo Fonseca's only injury worry for this key game is centre-back Maicon.
Atletico Madrid have made the most incredible start to the season, with 7 wins in 7 games in La Liga. Their latest win against Real Madrid confirmed that they are a real force to be reckoned with this season. Their 3-1 win over Zenit in their opening group game saw them put in a really impressive show, and there is no doubt that they are favourites to qualify as group winners of Group G.
Manager Diego Simeone will be without in-form striker Diego Costa, who serves the last of his European ban. Mario Suarez and Adrian Lopez are also out.
Porto boast of a fantastic home record in the league but doing it against the elite from the whole of Europe is a completely different ballgame altogether. They will cause problems for Atletico in some areas of the pitch, but the Spanish side should be good enough to come away with all three points.
FC Porto 1-2 Atletico Madrid
FC Zenit vs FK Austria Wien
Zenit go into their home game against Austrian outfit Wien is really good form. Their recent outings in Europe at St. Petersburg have been extremely fruitful, yielding 6 wins in 7 matches. They have lost just once in the last 23 games at home in Europe and will be looking to continue their good run against a Wien side in torrid form. Despite losing 3-1 to Atletico on the opening day, Luciano Spalletti's men will be hopeful they can make it to the last 16 if they can continue their good form in their own backyard.
Spalletti has no injury worries for Tuesday, with Roman Shirokov set to return after recovering from a groin problem.
Austria Wien go into this game in both poor form and with a long list of injuries to key players. They will need something close to a miracle to stand a chance of making it through the game after their opening defeat to Porto, and even qualifying for the Europa League seems extremely unlikely.
Manager Nenad Bjelica will be without Alexander Grünwald, Marko Stankovic, Alexander Gorgon and Kaja Rogulj.
This fixture has a home win written all over it and there shouldn't be any change in the script.
FC Zenit 3-0 Austria Wien
Ajax vs AC Milan
Ajax will be looking to bounce back from their 4-0 thrashing by Barcelona on Matchday 2 when they take on European giants AC Milan at the Amsterdam Arena. The Dutch side were expected to put in a better account of themselves against the Catalans, but were completely overwhelmed by an imperious Lionel Messi. To stand a chance of qualifying, Frank De Boer's side need all three points against Milan.
The only absentee for Ajaz is striker Bojan Krkic, who injured his hamstring in Saturday's 6-0 win over Go Ahead Eagles in the Eredivisie.
Milan will be looking to make it two wins in two games after a scrappy and late 2-0 win over Celtic in their opening group match. They were less than convincing in that game, and will need to play much better against Ajax, who are more than capable of beating anyone at home. A win for the Dutch side will throw the group wide open, but three points for the Rossoneri will see them take a huge step towards qualification.
Massimiliano Allegri faces a slight injury crisis as Stephane El Sharaawy, Daniele Bonera, Giampaolo Pazzini, Mattia De Sciglio, Matías Silvestre, Kaká and Riccardo Saponara are all absent.
Ajax are desperate for a win, while AC Milan have been extremely unconvincing thus far in both Europe and Serie A. With home advantage to boot, Frank De Boer's men may be too hot to handle for the 7-time European champions.
Ajax 3-1 AC Milan
Celtic vs Barcelona
Lionel Messi will be absent for the Catalans as they travel to Glasgow to take on Scottish champions Celtic.
Neil Lennon's men will be licking their lips after beating Barcelona 2-1 last season in this fixture. In what was one of the greatest nights in the history of the club, Celtic more than stood up to their opponents in a 2-1 win. They need a similar result here to stand a chance of making it into the last 16, after being beaten 2-0 at the San Siro in their opening group game.
Joe Ledley has been ruled out with a groin injury while Derk Boerriger is also a doubt for Neil Lennon's side.
Barcelona have now gone two seasons without winning the UEFA Champions League, and at a club of that stature and with such high standards, that's a long time. New manager Gerardo Martino won his first European game in charge comfortably, as a Lionel Messi hattrick saw his side beat Ajax 4-0 at the Noe Camp. A win here against Celtic will all but seal qualification, but they have to wary of the Scots, who are sure to make it as hard as possible.
Lionel Messi is the most conspicuous injury casualty for Barcelona as the Argentine has been ruled out with a thigh injury picked up in the weekend's 2-0 win over Almeria. Jordi Alba, Javier Mascherano (both hamstring), Carles Puyol, Isaac Cuenca (both knee) and Ibrahim Afellay (thigh) are also out.
Crocked: Lionel Messi has 62 goals in the UEFA Champions League, and Celtic will be only too happy to see him absent through injury
Like last season, Celtic will make it as difficult as possible for Barcelona by not allowing them any space whatsoever and playing on the counter attack. It worked last time around, but Barcelona will come prepared this time and even without Messi, should have more than enough to get all through points.
Celtic 1-3 Barcelona
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Real Wedding: Elizabeth + Andy
Our Lovelies
Elizabeth Garcia
Willowby 'Sage'
Lovely Bride Miami
Emily Prada
Tell us about you and Andy as a couple.
Andy and I met on Instagram. Our first date was lunch at a sports bar on NYE of 2017 and we've seen each other every day since! We're pretty laid back, so our relationship was basically built on pizza dates and The Office (and still is). We love traveling, working on our house, breakfast dates and hanging with our dog + loved ones. He's my best friend!
How did he propose?
We went on a trip to San Francisco in November of 2017. On the first day, we planned to go to the Muir Woods, but instead got extremely lost and ended up at Muir Beach. It was really foggy and peaceful, we were basically the only ones there. Well, except for one guy playing his guitar at the edge of the cliff. As we got closer, I realized that he was actually playing our song "You are the best thing" and that's when I realized what was happening/freaking out. Before I knew it, Andy was on one knee asking me to be his wife.
We're in love with all of the fun unique details you included on your big day. Tell us about your wedding vision!
My vision was something bohemian and tropical, but dark and moody. I love nature, so an indoor wedding was never an option for us. I wanted a unique space with lots of greenery and our venue was the perfect hidden tropical oasis I was looking for. We used a color scheme that matched our home decor, neutrals and dark/bold colors. We incorporated some travel inspired details, such as a vintage atlas sign-in book and luggage tags for the seating chart. All the little details are what made it feel tailored to us and that made it so special.
What was your favorite part of your wedding? What will you remember most about your wedding in 10 years?
Our first look!! We were both so nervous and couldn't wait to see each other that day. The second Andy turned around, we both started crying and I'll never forget that perfect moment. So many emotions but also a huge sense of relief. It made us both feel so much more relaxed for the ceremony. It's definitely one of my favorite memories.
How did you know your Willowby 'Sage' gown was the one?
I tried on about 40 dresses at different shops before finding "the one". I knew I wanted something long sleeve and lace from the very beginning. Carina at the Miami location helped me try on all the dresses, she was the sweetest and so helpful!! We left "the one" for last and when I finally tried it on, everyone kind of knew that was it. It fit perfectly and really complimented my body type. My mom immediately got emotional, which made me so emotional, which left me with no choice but to say yes!
Any wedding dress shopping advice for our future Lovelies?
Go with a vision in mind, but don't be too focused on an exact dress. You may find something slightly different that works better for you. Finding the perfect dress may take time and that's okay. Try on a bunch of dresses and have fun with it!!
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Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1445-1510 Italian painter and draughtsman. In his lifetime he was one of the most esteemed painters in Italy, enjoying the patronage of the leading families of Florence, in particular the Medici and their banking clients. He was summoned to take part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, was highly commended by diplomatic agents to Ludovico Sforza in Milan and Isabella d Este in Mantua and also received enthusiastic praise from the famous mathematician Luca Pacioli and the humanist poet Ugolino Verino. By the time of his death, however, Botticelli s reputation was already waning. He was overshadowed first by the advent of what Vasari called the maniera devota, a new style by Perugino, Francesco Francia and the young Raphael, whose new and humanly affective sentiment, infused atmospheric effects and sweet colourism took Italy by storm; he was then eclipsed with the establishment immediately afterwards of the High Renaissance style, which Vasari called the modern manner, in the paintings of Michelangelo and the mature works of Raphael in the Vatican. From that time his name virtually disappeared until the reassessment of his reputation that gathered momentum in the 1890s Related Paintings of Sandro Botticelli :. | Vision of Augustine with a boy beside the sea (mk36) | Portrait of a Man (mk05) | The Coronation of the Virgin | The Return of Judith | Trinity with Mary Magdalene,St John the Baptist,Tobias and the Angel |
George Henry Harlow
British 1787-1819 He was born in St. James's Street, London, on 10 June 1787, the posthumous son of a China merchant, who after some years' residence in the East had died about five months before his son's birth, leaving a widow with five infant daughters. Indulged and petted by his mother, Harlow was sent when quite young to Dr. Barrow's classical school in Soho Square, and subsequently to Mr. Roy's school in Burlington Street. He was for a short time at Westminster School, but having shown a predilection for painting, he was placed under Henry De Cort, the landscape-painter. He next worked under Samuel Drummond, A.R.A., the portrait-painter, but after about a year entered the studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. This step is said to have been taken at the suggestion of Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire; but Harlow's natural affinity to Lawrence's style in painting would be quite sufficient to account for his choice. Harlow paid Lawrence handsomely for his admission and the right to copy, but according to the contract was not entitled to instruction. Harlow now determined to devote himself to painting, and refused an offer of a writership in the East India trade made by his father's friends. He remained for about eighteen months in Lawrence's studio, copying his pictures, and occasionally drawing preliminary portions of Lawrence's own productions. A difference about Harlow's work for one of Lawrence's pictures led to a breach with Lawrence, and Harlow rendered reconciliation impossible by painting a caricature signboard for an inn at Epsom in Lawrence's style and with Lawrence's initials affixed to it. Harlow henceforth pursued an original system of art education. He inveighed strongly against all academical rules and principles. Young, headstrong, and impatient of restraint, with a handsome person and amiable disposition, he was generally popular in society. He affected, however, an extravagance in dress far beyond his means, a superiority of knowledge, and a license of conversation which gave frequent offence even to those really interested in the development of his genius. His foibles led his friends to nickname him "Clarissa Harlowe." He worked, however, with industry and enthusiasm in his art. He possessed a power of rapid observation and a retentive memory which enabled him to perform astonishing feats, like that of painting a satisfactory portrait of a gentleman named Hare, lately dead, whom Harlow had only once met in the street. Though openly opposed to the Royal Academy, he was a candidate for the dignity of academician, but he only received the vote of Henry Fuseli. He exhibited for the first time at the Academy in 1804, sending a portrait of Dr. Thornton. In later years he exhibited many other portraits. His practice in this line was extensive. His portraits are well conceived, and, though much in the manner and style of Lawrence, have a character of their own. His portraits of ladies were always graceful and pleasing. He was less successful, owing to his defective art-education, in historical painting, in which he aspired to excel. His first exhibited historical pictures were Queen Elizabeth striking the Earl of Essex, at the Royal Academy, 1807, and The Earl of Bolingbroke entering London, at the British Institution, 1808. In 1815 he painted Hubert and Prince Arthur for Mr. Leader, a picture subsequently exchanged for portraits of that gentleman's daughters. In 1814 he painted a group of portraits of Charles Mathews, the actor, in various characters, which attracted general attention. It was engraved by W. Greatbach for Yate's Life of Mathews. Harlow received a commission from Mr. Welch, the musician, to paint a portrait of Mrs. Siddons as Queen Katharine in Shakespeare's Henry VIII. This was commenced from memory, but subsequently the actress, at Mr. Welch's request, gave the painter a sitting. While painting the portrait, Harlow resolved to expand the picture into the "Trial Scene" from the same play, introducing portraits of the various members of the Kemble family and others. Mr. Welch, though not consulted by Harlow concerning this change of plan, behaved generously. The picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817, and excited great public interest. It was neither well composed nor well executed, and owed much to the criticism and suggestions of Fuseli, whose portrait Harlow was painting at the time. Still, the portrait of Mrs. Siddons herself as the queen will remain one of the most striking figures in English art. The fine engraving of it in mezzotint hy George Clint has enhanced its reputation. The picture passed eventually into the possession of Mr. Morrison at Basildon Park, Berkshire. It was exhibited at Manchester in 1857. Harlow's next picture, The Virtue of Faith, at the Royal Academy, lacked originality, and had less success. It was purchased by his friend Mr. Tomkisson, who divided it into pieces for the sake of the heads. In 1818 Harlow, conscious of deficiencies in his executive powers, visited Italy for the purpose of studying the old masters. At Rome his personal gifts and accomplishments, and his remarkable powers of execution, made him the hero of the day. He was f??ted and flattered in every direction. Canova was especially attracted by him, and obtained for him an introduction to the pope. Harlow, however, worked very hard, and completed a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration in eighteen days. He was elected a member for merit of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome, a most unusual distinction for an English artist, and was invited to paint his own portrait for the Uffizi gallery of painters at Florence. He painted a picture of Wolsey receiving the Cardinal's Hat in Westminster Abbey, and presented it to the Academy at Rome. His artistic progress in Italy was remarkable, but on his return to England on 13 Jan. 1819 he was seized with a glandular affection of the throat, which being neglected proved fatal on 4 Feb. He was in his thirty-second year. He was buried under the altar of St. James's, Piccadilly, and his funeral was attended by the eminent artists of the day. An exhibition of his principal works was held in Pall Mall. His collections, including many sketches, were sold by auction 21 June 1819. Harlow is one of the most attractive figures in the history of English painting. His works only suggest what lie might have achieved. Many of his portraits have been engraved, and those of James Northcote, Fuseli, Thomas Stothard, William Beechey, John Flaxman, and others are highly esteemed. His own portrait, painted by himself for the gallery at Florence, was engraved for Ranalli's Imperiale e Reale Galleria di Firenze. A drawing from it by J. Jackson, R.A., was bequeathed to the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in 1888 by the painter's nephew, G. Harlow White. Another drawing by himself was engraved by B. Holl for the Library of the Fine Arts. His own portrait is introduced in the background in the picture of The Trial of Queen Katharine. A portrait of the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) by Harlow was engraved in mezzotint by W. Ward.
Daniel Chodowiecki
(16 October 1726 - 7 February 1801) was a Polish - German painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. He was born in the city of Danzig in Poland, and in a letter in typical Berlin humor wrote, that he moved to Berlin, Germany, which shows for sure, that he is a 'genuine Pole'.[citation needed] He kept close to the Huguenot scene, due to his ancestry. A distant ancestor Bartholom us Chodowiecki had lived in the 16th century in Greater Poland . Gottfried Chodowiecki, Daniel's father, was a tradesmen in Danzig and his mother, Henriette Ayrer born in Switzerland, was a Huguenot. Daniel's grandfather Christian had been a tradesmen in the city as well. When his father died, both Daniel (aged 16) and his younger brother Gottfried Chodowiecki went to live with their uncle in Berlin, who offered to educate them, and where Daniel received an artistic training with the painter Haid in Augsburg. His brother also became a painter. Soon Daniel was able to earn a living by painting. He was admitted to the Berlin Academy in 1764 and became vice-director under Rhode in 1788. He had found his true calling and became the most famous German graphic artist of his time. His works include several thousand etchings, usually rather small, and many drawings and paintings. He illustrated nearly all of the great classics. His prints represent in great detail the life of the middle classes during the Zopfstil period, a time between Rococo and Classicism. In 1797 Chodowiecki was appointed director of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he died on 7 February 1801. The bulk of his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow, Buffon, Lavater, Pestalozzi and others. He also painted many portraits of Polish gentry and was interested in Huguenot and Polish history as well, making some paintings on the topic. He was in tune with the developing spirit of the age, and many works reflect the cult of sensibility, and then the revolutionary and German nationalist feelings of the end of the century.
Jean-francois raffaelli
French, 1850-1924 was a French realist painter, sculptor, and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists. He was also active as an actor and writer. He was born in Paris, and showed an interest in music and theatre before becoming a painter in 1870. One of his landscape paintings was accepted for exhibition at the Salon in that same year. In October 1871 he began three months of study under Jean-Leon Gerôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; he had no other formal training. Raffaëlli produced primarily costume pictures until 1876, when he began to depict the people of his time particularly peasants, workers, and rag-pickers seen in the suburbs of Paris in a realistic style.


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Report to Hikers January 2 – January 8
Wednesday January 4
Finger Lakes Trail from Eastman Hill Road
Seven hikers met on Eastman Hill Rd., just inside the Tioga County line, for a hike of the FLT into Eberhard Preserve. This hike was partly a hike of the recently rerouted FLT as it comes off Eastman Hill toward Coddington Rd.
The day was unseasonably warm; any snowpack on the trail had melted, although the small ponds and water-filled ditches we passed still had thin skims of ice on their surfaces.
As you leave the parking area, it's a steady-but-gradual climb along a seasonal portion of Eastman Hill Rd. Past an unsigned intersection with the seasonal end of Heisey Rd., the trail goes left and right. We opted for the right, or southerly, direction.
The trail continued a steady climb, and the footpath was often a wet, muddy slog. This section is usually wet except in the driest part of summer, so conditions were not entirely unexpected.
Shortly after reaching the plateau at the top of Eastman Hill, the trail takes a turn, a recent redirection that was the purpose of our hike today. The rerouted section of trail meanders around the top of Eastman Hill for some time, following various old logging roads. Eventually, the footpath dips downhill, and before long we were passing the green metal sign announcing the border of Eberhard Preserve.
From this point on, the trail's downhill slope becomes more pronounced. We passed by the first blue-blazed side trail and continued downhill on the FLT.
By the time we reached the second side trail, a green-blazed section that connects with the blue-blazed trail, it was our turnaround time, so we opted to take the green trail as part of our return route. We went steadily downhill on the green-blazed trail until we reached the blue-blazed trail.
That section of the blue-blazed trail goes sharply uphill, something not entirely unexpected as we had a copy of the Eberhard Preserve trail map with us. Once the blue-blazed trail levels out, it meets up with the FLT section we'd already traversed.
The return hike to our cars over the FLT was as muddy as the outbound leg, but thankfully more downhill than not. We reached our cars about 10 minutes past our normal hike duration, but as we'd stopped many times during the hike I am sure that future hikes at this location will be quicker.
Saturday January 7
West on the FLT from South Danby Road
Seventeen hikers and one dog met on South Danby Road for a westbound hike of the FLT. It was an overcast morning, and as the hike progressed a haze of fine flakes began to fall steadily. Soon the forest floor was covered in a thin layer of fresh snow, and the faded white blazes were in some cases lost in the sheath of white that clung to the trees.
On the hike's outbound leg we encountered a fair amount of mud, and sections of the trail were covered by flowing water.
The main group of hikers soon reached David's Bridge on the FLT. Hikers crossed that and climbed the hill to Curtis Road and beyond. By now, the snowfall had stopped. This group reached Hill Road before turning around and retracing their steps.
A few of the slower hikers turned around at the hour mark, and the main group picked them up along the way as everyone returned to South Danby Road.
Sunday January 8
South Hill Recreation Way, Ithaca
Twenty-eight hikers and a dog hiked from Crescent Place in Ithaca into the trail system that runs along the South Hill Rec Way. Temperatures were on the cool side, but it didn't take long to warm up as we traversed the various hills and ridges of the blue-blazed trail.
This was the first time that many of our newer hikers had been on this trail, so it was nice to bring them here on a pleasant day for a winter hike. We met a handful of trail runners and other day hikers along the way, but otherwise we had the trail to ourselves.
I'd been worried that wintry conditions might make water crossings hazardous or prevent us from visiting the lower section of trail near the water. But given the recent thaw, these worries were unfounded.
There was a significant amount of water in all of the water crossings and some parts of the trail were muddy, so eventually I gave up trying to keep my feet dry and simply waded through the crossings or the mud bogs as we encountered them.
Some of the hike's highlights were the fast-flowing waterways, checking out the old stone staircase, the views out over the second dam area, and the descent to the shoreline across from Mulholland Wildflower Preserve on the return leg.
Welcome to Pat, Yvonne, and Bill on their first hike with the group!
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Securing Government: Lessons from the Cyber Frontlines
Hannah Moss March 27, 2015
Many news outlets declared 2014 to be "The Year of the Breach," especially for government. The title seems appropriate. Last year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the State Department, and even the White House fell victim to successful hacks that resulted in sensitive information being exposed to adversaries and the public.
And that's just the beginning. Nearly every state experienced a government network breach during 2014, while simultaneously managing disruptions in commerce caused by hacks of companies such as Home Depot, Staples, and Target. Even localities were not exempt — Rapid City, N.D., and Napa, Calif., are just two cities whose websites were hacked.
Nevertheless, maybe we should reconsider that title and be a little more optimistic. Instead of "Year of the Breach," can we consider 2014 to be the "Year of Lessons"? Maybe the "Year of Progress"? While government-at-large certainly faced setbacks in the cyber world, many agencies also took great steps toward security. At the federal level, commitments were made and plans drawn to better equip smaller entities with the resources and strategies necessary to protect their networks. Locally, many organizations created new partnerships and streamlined their internal systems to achieve greater security at less cost.
This guide explores how local, state, and federal governments have learned from successful attacks of the past to bolster their cybersecurity today. In this guide, we:
Describe the level and impact of advanced cyberattacks on government agencies.
Discuss five cybersecurity tactics that the public sector has deployed to mitigate risk.
Provide two case studies from government to illustrate each tactic in action.
Detail lessons learned from these government tactics.
The numerous cyber incidents of last year prove there is still more government must do to secure our nation's networks. However, the case studies in this guide highlight that innovators in the public sector are already leading the way to enhanced cybersecurity.
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The style is pretty clever, and not afraid to make a few jokes at its own expense. The driver's shrug of confusion the F1 car turns into a was genuinely funny, as was the moment when a car morphs into a lawnmower after getting shoved infield. The stylized animation allows for neat tricks too, since the track can serve as tarmac for an NSX and water for a hydroplane at the same time. Staring last year, Honda became an engine supplier for Red Bull Racing. Now, if it can only reclaim some of its 1987-91 era success.


My addiction to beads has not abated as I went into a haberdashery shop for some interfacing a few weeks ago and came out with some Japanese glass beads which were being sold cheap due to a stock clearance. This was the first time that I had ever been in this shop, too afraid to go again!
So before opening the packets it seemed a good idea to use some of my existing beads, I have also been asked to make some earrings and a matching pendant, but instead of doing that I found myself making all these!
Unfortunately this has not even made a dent in my bead stock pile, so will just have to go on making more. Oh nearly forgot to say this is Jane's winsome earring pattern with a little adaptation.
Tomorrow the latest batch of pop-a-bobbin shuttles will be on sale in Jane's Etsy shop.
It will be 12 midday BST when they are set free!
Someone asked if we had any shuttles made from Olive Wood, we do now!
And yes I am still tatting the second of Renulek's Spring doily which I started.
There will be quite a few shuttles for sale in Jane's Etsy shop next Saturday, amongst them will be some flat shuttles made from Ash and Sycamore. I have also pyrographied patterns on them and the points of the shuttles could be used as a picot gauge as the marks are graduated.
There are also some new woods in this batch, here is one of them - spalted beech. We think the markings were caused by the tree at some point being diseased.
Last year a tree outside one of the churches shed a few branches in the storms. Whenever this happens the Vicar rings me up so that we can go and collect the wood as soon as possible. The branches came off a giant sequoia tree and as you can see the wood is really red in the middle and the shuttles have a pinkish tinge.
Anyway go over to Jane's blog tomorrow to hear more about all the shuttles that will be for sale.
A day which is supposed to herald the beginning of Summer, although officially it is a bit early and anyway it is dull and raining outside at the moment! It is a time of May Pole dancing. Dancers move around a large pole stuck upright in the ground, moving their ribbons either in a web around the pole or by plaiting it to the pole itself. To unravel the ribbons, the dancers retrace their steps. Clever if it works but it doesn't always!
So as I have missed working with buttons for quite a few months I decided to make these crosses. The pattern is by Lily Qualls Morales but her pattern used size 10 thread and these are 20 so I just added a few stitches. The three crosses are lying across a branch that I orginally brought home to use as an Easter decoration, but it never happened!
In some parts of Britain, 1st May is called Garland Day, when young girls used to make garlands for their hair.


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Biografia
Carlo era l'unico figlio sopravvissuto del Duca Giulio Sigismondo di Württemberg-Juliusburg (1653-1684) e di Anna Sofia (1647-1726), figlia del Duca Adolfo Federico I di Meclemburgo-Schwerin. Sino al 1704 fu posto sotto protettorato e dopo la morte del padre nel 1684 aveva ottenuto la reggenza del ducato di Württemberg-Juliusburg.

Egli frequentò l'accademia di Wolfenbüttel ed il 20 dicembre 1703 sposò a Meiningen la Principessa Guglielmina Luisa (1686-1753) figlia del Duca Bernardo I di Sassonia-Meiningen. Il matrimonio rimase senza eredi.

Carlo governò i propri territori in maniera arbitraria e spregiudicata, il che gli attirò le ire di personaggi di rilievo come l'Imperatore Giuseppe I d'Asburgo. Per pagare le folli spese sostenute dalla sua condotta, fu costretto a vendere la signoria sul villaggio di Goschütz ai conti di Reichenbach.

Ascendenza

Collegamenti esterni

Duchi di Slesia

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'Lockdown meltdown': Coronavirus economy impact leads papers
Wednesday 15 April 2020, 1:09am
The impact of coronavirus on the British economy leads many of Wednesday's papers, as Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned of "tough times" to come.
The Times reports Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts which suggest two million Britons could lose their jobs as the lockdown continues.
The Daily Telegraph carries a similar story, reporting the impact from Covid-19 could be the "biggest economic shock in 300 years".
While The Guardian reports on the potential shrinking of the UK economy, a story which also leads the Financial Times.
The i reports the UK economy should "bounce back quickly" after the downturn.
The Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Express also lead on the "slump".
The Daily Mail reports on what it calls a "hidden epidemic" in care homes, with campaigners believing up to 4,000 care home residents have died after contracting coronavirus.
Metro leads on what it calls the "forgotten front line", reporting concerns that care home staff do not have the "proper kit" to fight coronavirus.
And the Daily Star reports that Harry is "struggling" with his new life outside the UK.


Egypt was plunged into more uncertainty last night as results from the first round of elections were postponed yet again, with Islamists looking likely to achieve an overwhelming majority.
Officials had been due to publish the first set of results on Wednesday, giving the earliest definitive clues to political attitudes in post-revolutionary Egypt. They were delayed until first yesterday and now today, with the election commission citing a "high turn-out" even though around just 70 per cent exercised their vote, which is compulsory.
However they said it was clear that were the results so far to be mirrored in two further rounds of voting the various Islamist parties would be able to muster a coalition with a significant majority in parliament.
The Muslim Brotherhood-backed Freedom and Justice Party might win as many as 45 per cent of the seats, the radical Salafi Nour Party anything up to 20 per cent, and the smaller and even more radical Islamic Jihad and Gamaa Islamiya a smaller number each.
The main liberal coalition, the Egyptian Bloc, might not even win second place, according to some estimates.
The peaceful conduct of the elections has cheered Egypt's stock market, which bounced back this week from a fall of 40 per cent over the year.
Investors are hoping - and assuming - that the FJP will form some sort of pragmatic coalition with secular parties, and work with the ruling Army Council on a transition to democracy.
But it has so far rejected the Council's choice of interim prime minister, Kamal al-Ganzouri, who also said yesterday he was having difficulty recruiting a cabinet.
A sign of the torpor into which the revolution and political uncertainty have cast the economy was given when the authorities said that the country's foreign exchange reserves had slumped to USD22 billion and would disappear early next year.


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Prinsessen og de skøre riddere (originaltitel The Princess Bride) er en amerikansk film fra 1987 og den blev instrueret af Rob Reiner.

Medvirkende
 Cary Elwes som Westley
 Mandy Patinkin som Inigo Montoya
 Chris Sarandon som Humperdinck
 Christopher Guest som Tyrone Rugen
 Wallace Shawn som Vizzini
 André the Giant som Fezzik
 Fred Savage som Barnebarn
 Robin Wright Penn som Buttercup
 Peter Falk som Bedstefar
 Peter Cook som Sekretær
 Mel Smith som Albino
 Billy Crystal som Miracle Max

Eksterne henvisninger

Amerikanske film fra 1987
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It's hard to open the books and get started, but that's true for every student who sits down to study. Because it can take a while to really get into a project, plan to keep working for half an hour. That way you'll find out if you're really not well enough to focus or if you just need to get past the initial hurdle of getting started.
The last thing you need when you're focused on getting well is for schoolwork to feel like an extra burden. No one learns well under stress. If you start feeling stressed out, talk to your teachers.
Get the facts. Start by asking your doctor how long you're likely to be away from school. Find out whether your treatments may interfere with your ability to concentrate, work, and meet deadlines. Knowing this will help you plan ahead and talk to teachers.
Talk to your teachers. You may need to set a reduced schedule or shift due dates for papers and tests. School staff can help you plan your workload. Let teachers know as soon as you find out what your treatment plan will be. The more notice they have, the easier it is for them to work with you.
If you have to spend long stretches in the hospital or at home, stay connected to classmates and teachers through social networks, email, IMs, and texting. You may even be able to Skype into a lesson over the computer. Some programs across the country offer free or low-cost laptops for students to use while they're in the hospital. Check with your doctor, social worker, or hospital IT department to see if there's one nearby.
Set realistic goals. If you'll miss school a lot or you'll be out for a long time, school staff may give you something called an Individual Education Plan (IEP). This plan is made just for you and outlines goals and strategies to help you succeed academically.
IEPs allow for accommodations to be made to your academic load. For instance, your IEP may limit your amount of homework, allow you to have extra time for tests and for projects, or give you permission to record lectures or use a laptop to take notes.
Along with an IEP, you might have a 504 Plan. It will address any physical accommodations you might need, like leaving class a few minutes before the bell to avoid a crowded hallway, permission to use the bathroom whenever necessary, or carrying water and a snack to boost your energy during class. Your school might even assign an aid to help you navigate the school day safely.
Whether you have an IEP or not, stay in touch with your teachers while you're out. Keep them posted on your progress, and don't be afraid or embarrassed to let them know if you fall behind in your plan. It's better for your grades to let teachers know in advance if you can't make a deadline rather than miss it and then try to explain why. If you find you're able to work faster than your plan, let teachers know that too.
Ask for help. Parents, teachers, and friends will probably be happy to assist in any way they can — whether you need tips for managing your study time or help going over a difficult concept. But people won't know you need help unless you ask.
Some hospitals and treatment centers have hospital/homebound teachers at the bedside or in a classroom setting. These teachers can help you keep up with your assignments and also talk with your school to help you have a smooth transition back to the classroom when you're better. Some students prefer to work with a tutor or teacher, others like working on their own — and some like a mix of the two. Ask your doctor, nurse, or social worker what's available.
Keep a calendar of deadlines, test schedules, and other due dates. Work back from those dates to figure out how much time to spend on different tasks each week. The more organized you are, the easier it will be to plan ahead for the times when you're feeling well enough to work (and reduce the pressure you may put on yourself during the not-so-hot times).
Hit the hallways — or the field — if you can. If you have to miss classes for an extended period of time but your doctor say you are well enough to go out for an hour or two here and there, join your classmates at school plays, sports events, and other social gatherings. It can help you feel more in touch.
Taking steps like these make it easier to return to school and less likely you'll fall behind. They'll also give you something else that most high school students don't get: a chance to learn good planning and study habits. If college is in your future, you'll already have the discipline needed to stay self-motivated and study on your own.


Last week I was invited to try my hand at making a few "F1 quality" nibbles at Absolute Taste at Harvey Nichols. The F1 quality is not to blow my own horn of course but rather because Absolute Taste started out as a hospitality company catering to the VIP guests of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes around the world.
Founded in 1997, Absolute Taste was the brain-child of Ron Dennis and Lyndy Redding with an objective to create contemporary and delicious food that's presented with style. The success of their venture was led by their growing reputation for stylishly good food and professional service.
Since their launch, Absolute Taste have successfully branched out into other fields including Absolute Taste Inflight, Cafés by Absolute Taste, Gordon Ramsay by Absolute Taste and most recently Absolute Taste at Harvey Nichols which opened in May this year.
Our little cookery class was led by Executive Chef Will Gould and Head Chef Andy Ritchie and took place at the kitchens of Absolute Taste at Harvey Nichols. Located on the Fifth Floor and tucked away behind the Foodhall, this was the perfect little spot to make the mistakes not normally made in an Absolute Taste kitchen.
First up was pizza making with Andy. I must admit, I've made a few pizzas in my time but never with so much autonomy in a professional kitchen. Andy quickly put one together and then pretty much left us to our rustic creativity. Mozzarella balls, olives, parma ham, and chorizo all went on to my hand rolled and slightly square pizza base. In fact, my entire pizza was a little "square" with its not very rustic attempt at perfection. Rest assured though, my pizza moving skills are far below par so the result is still fairly rustic. Three minutes in the amazing pizza oven and we had dinner part one. Topped with a sprinkling of rocket leaves and a drizzle of truffle oil, my pizza was looking good and tasting even better.
After a quick munch it was on to the rice paper rolls with Will. He led us through the ingredients like yellow fin tuna and of course the rice paper itself. Putting whole mint leaves along with the basil into the paper rolls helped to protect the soaked rice paper from tearing. It was then topped with the sushi grade tuna, cucumber, carrots and avocado and rolled as tightly as possible to create the rice paper rolls. The wasabi was optional but the result was very sushi like. So much so in fact, it's sometimes served as a substitute for sushi for those who don't like the taste of seaweed. Well I quite like sushi but these were also rather good. The mint leaves were a very unusual addition and definitely gave the whole thing a much more refreshing mouth-feel.
So what did I learn from my experience? When making pizza, don't try to be neat – the rustic pizza will prevail. And though my efforts weren't quite F1 quality, they did taste wonderful.
Absolute Taste at Harvey Nichols is now open on the fifth floor for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and nibbles from 9am-7pm on Monday to Saturday, and 12-6pm on Sundays.


In the 1980s the boroughs of New York City were best understood as bunkers. A concoction of fiscal crises, racial turmoil and a prolific drug culture had cast a pall on a city once confidently believed to be the roaring center of America's economy.
New York's queer culture was forged, in large part, under these conditions; the inability to comfortably exist in public according to one's identity crowded many queer people out of "acceptable" society. The result, as is often the case in repressed cultures, was a wave of potent art reflective of that hurt, that frustration and that need for expression and belonging in a world insistent on your erasure.
Courtesy of Chantal Regnault from her book "Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York 1989-1992"
Cesar Valentino helped take voguing from underground drag balls to the pages of Vanity Fair.
Why did that resonate with you at that time? What was it that was going on in your life that drew you to that kind of art form?
What resonated for me was that this was a form of self-expression. Remember, this was the early 1980s, so we weren't free to be openly gay, so this was really a place where people got together and were able to express ourselves. Many people had been relegated to the closet, whether in their neighborhood, on the subways or wherever. And this was a freeform, self-expressive dance that celebrated your individuality, your beauty and your attributes. It just made sense. In a world where we were kind of judged for these things, we're given the opportunity to express them all through dance.
That's kind of what I wanted to touch on as well, because obviously, the LGBT community at that time was repressed, and yet it conjured this art form that really is about showing yourself — presenting yourself to the world. It seems defiant in that way.
Absolutely. Again, it was this underground thing because it wasn't something you could do anywhere and everywhere openly. And the concept that I loved so much about voguing was that we found a place where you could not only be yourself, but it gave people who in the real world probably wouldn't be given a space to be these things — be models, designers, etc. — and allowed them to live that fantasy for a moment. Ballroom and vogue is an opportunity to live something that you probably wouldn't be given an opportunity to do in the real world, at least not at that time. Now it's more commercialized and popularized in music videos and so on, but then it was completely unheard of, and unless you were physically there, in the Village or in the gay clubs, you wouldn't have even known it existed. Balls were very underground, private events.
What has it been like for you to see this art form you became acquainted with at its very intimate beginning explode into this global phenomenon? It's obviously seen in a vastly different light now from when you started.
Over the years, of course, voguing has changed, and different styles were created, but I think conceptually vogue is vogue, and these categories were created to give people an opportunity to be able to participate. You know, these events were drag queen pageants, and then categories were created for gay boys to participate, and later came women, and they included lesbians, and categories really were about giving everyone an opportunity. I think what I'm trying to get at is that I'm OK with the global phenomenon and what vogue has become over the years, and this is not the first time I've experienced this ... There's been a couple different surges in time, in the '80s and '90s, where it's disappeared and it's come back, but the fact that people have embraced it is an amazing thing.
Of course, a lot gets lost in translation because a lot of people don't really know the history and don't really know why we're moving like this. This is not just a YouTube phenomenon or something we put on Facebook because it's socially desirable. No, this is our lifestyle. This is our dance for survival.
Right. And I think a lot of people look at it very superficially and just become enamored with the aesthetic elements of vogue but may not appreciate the deeper meaning behind it.
You know, back then, we created moves. Moves were created, and they were named after designer houses. I mean, there were quite a few moves that I created — the Valentino Dip, the Corkscrew. All these different moves that an individual would create, and it would be named after the person or the house, so I think a lot of that element has been lost because it's really more about the simple five elements they refer to now, and you have to follow those guidelines. It leaves very little room for creativity and for people to create something that is their signature pose, move, spin or flip or whatever we did back in the '80s. That's the only thing I feel is kind of missing now. Not many people are gravitating toward the original style. Everybody's more interested in what's popular, which is more of a femme style.
Too much of anything is not a good thing, and I feel that when it's saturated and the balls and the competitions become only about one thing, it kind of loses the purpose of why we do ballroom and vogue in the first place, which is to give everyone an opportunity to participate.
I understand. You're saying you're not really obsessing over the fanfare and the praise of it all?
That's ego-driven. If you're pressed by it, if you're that concerned by it, if you're worried about — and then we start getting into the whole race thing.
People talk about how there are a lot of white people [voguing] and how people on the other side of the world are doing it. It's counterproductive. It doesn't matter what the race is. Listen to Madonna's "Vogue" record, for example. It makes no difference if you're black, white, a boy or a girl. People have their feelings about Madonna — Madonna did this, Madonna did that. Think what you want to, but the song clearly expresses that this is for anyone. Anyone can do this. This is a feeling. This is a movement, and it should be seen as such, versus "I need to have this. You can't have this." It becomes a kind of vogue and ballroom police of people who want to enforce these laws, rules and regulations. Why? That's not the core value of where we started from or where we come from.
Your ultimate goal is to push vogue as far out into the world as possible rather than maintain it as an exclusive art form, it seems.
Absolutely. I think it's important to put it out there. This is not just a fad. This, for us, was a dance of survival, but it was also a social dance. How were we communicating back then? You know, if you didn't have a rotary dial phone or you didn't have coins to put in the public phone, you just made your way to these events. This was how we socialized. This was how we got together. There was always competition. There was always shade. That's never going to go away. But this is how we come together. This is what brought us together.
That's a profound way to explain that. Most of the time we're exposed to voguing, we're seeing it as this communal event, thinking about the performances taking place at that event, but not really thinking about the ways that event may be serving as a constant refuge in the way you described.
Absolutely. For example, I teach at different colleges, at seminars, at workshop series and panel discussions, and I discuss history and teach people the moves. Indiana University has invited me twice to be included in their African arts dance workshop that delves deeply into diaspora studies, diaspora dances and so on. And that's a big deal, because this is a lot deeper than just "I'm fab, you're not." This is about a struggle, a survival, an experience and all these different elements. And for me, it's very, very satisfying to be included and asked to participate in these things, because the educational aspect, for me, is so important rather than just the movement. Why are you moving? Do you understand the movement? What are you trying to achieve by these movements? A lot of people can't answer that question.
Sure. They might be inspired by the motion of it all but not the emotion.
Exactly. "Ooh, it's fun." No, it's deeper than that. What is your body telling me? Tell me a story through your vogue. Tell me who you are. Tell me what it is that makes you stand out from the rest. This is part of what we did in the '80s. We created a signature style, signature moves, different feelings and nuances that made people think, "I get what he's trying to say." There's too many clones out there. We've got enough of that. We need to stand out, you know?
Do you ever take a moment to sit back and appreciate the fact that this art and these moves you conjured in your own mind are now being taught in some of the most esteemed dance schools in the world?
I'm in such a place of humility. I wake up every day grateful for another day. I'm a survivor, and I'm blessed to still be here. I think what keeps me going is the fact that I have these opportunities to teach. That Ailey believed in me enough to say, "We want you here. We trust your history." To me, that's what I want. But yes, I've had a moment or two where I've said, "This is deep." And this is a huge responsibility, and I thank God for that blessing and that opportunity to share my story, my experience and my challenge.


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use hyper::method::Method;
use serde_json;

use structs::common::{Taiga, APIError, ObjectType, DeleteProxy};
use structs::wikipages::{WikiPagesProxy, WikiPageProxy, WikiPageListItem, WikiPageDetail};

impl<'a> WikiPagesProxy<'a> {
    pub fn new(taiga_client: &'a Taiga, project_id: i64) -> WikiPagesProxy<'a> {
        WikiPagesProxy {
            taiga_client: taiga_client,
            project_id: Some(project_id)
        }
    }

    pub fn new_all(taiga_client: &'a Taiga) -> WikiPagesProxy<'a> {
        WikiPagesProxy {
            taiga_client: taiga_client,
            project_id: None
        }
    }

    pub fn get(self: WikiPagesProxy<'a>, id: i64) -> WikiPageProxy<'a> {
        WikiPageProxy::new(self.taiga_client, id)
    }

    pub fn delete(self: WikiPagesProxy<'a>, id: i64) -> DeleteProxy<'a> {
        DeleteProxy::new(self.taiga_client, ObjectType::WikiPage, id)
    }

    pub fn run(self: WikiPagesProxy<'a>) -> Result<Vec<WikiPageListItem>, APIError> {
        let url = match self.project_id {
            Some(project_id) => format!("{}/wiki?project_id={}", self.taiga_client.url, project_id),
            None => format!("{}/wiki", self.taiga_client.url)
        };
        match self.taiga_client.request(Method::Get, url, "".to_string()) {
            Ok(response) => {
                match serde_json::from_str(&response.data) {
                    Ok(data) => {
                        let result: Vec<WikiPageListItem> = data;
                        Ok(result)
                    },
                    // Err(_) => Err(APIError {message: "Invalid server response".to_string()})
                    Err(e) => Err(APIError {message: format!("{}", e)})
                }
            },
            Err(e) => {
                return Err(e)
            }
        }
    }
}

impl<'a> WikiPageProxy<'a> {
    pub fn new(taiga_client: &'a Taiga, wikipage_id: i64) -> WikiPageProxy<'a>{
        WikiPageProxy {
            taiga_client: taiga_client,
            wikipage_id: wikipage_id
        }
    }

    pub fn delete(self: WikiPageProxy<'a>) -> DeleteProxy<'a> {
        DeleteProxy::new(self.taiga_client, ObjectType::WikiPage, self.wikipage_id)
    }

    pub fn run(self: WikiPageProxy<'a>) -> Result<WikiPageDetail, APIError> {
        let url = format!("{}/wiki/{}", self.taiga_client.url, self.wikipage_id);
        match self.taiga_client.request(Method::Get, url, "".to_string()) {
            Ok(response) => {
                match serde_json::from_str(&response.data) {
                    Ok(data) => {
                        let result: WikiPageDetail = data;
                        Ok(result)
                    },
                    // Err(_) => Err(APIError {message: "Invalid server response".to_string()})
                    Err(e) => Err(APIError {message: format!("{}", e)})
                }
            },
            Err(e) => {
                return Err(e)
            }
        }
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use structs::common::{Taiga, ObjectType};
    use structs::wikipages::{WikiPagesProxy, WikiPageProxy};

    #[test]
    fn wikipages_get() {
        let taiga = Taiga::new("http://dummy-url.com".to_string());
        let result = WikiPagesProxy::new(&taiga, 10).get(10);
        assert_eq!(result.wikipage_id, 10);
    }

    #[test]
    fn wikipages_delete() {
        let taiga = Taiga::new("http://dummy-url.com".to_string());
        let result = WikiPagesProxy::new(&taiga, 5).delete(10);
        assert_eq!(result.object_type, ObjectType::WikiPage);
        assert_eq!(result.object_id, 10);
    }

    #[test]
    fn wikipage_delete() {
        let taiga = Taiga::new("http://dummy-url.com".to_string());
        let result = WikiPageProxy::new(&taiga, 10).delete();
        assert_eq!(result.object_type, ObjectType::WikiPage);
        assert_eq!(result.object_id, 10);
    }
}

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Q: Git and forcing to accept changes from other branch I am trying to merge a branch into master, but want to ensure all changes from the other branch take effect, no matter what, but not sure how to go about it? The main issue is that we are ending up with merge conflicts in 50 files, where we don't care about the previous state of master.
The story: The master branch had been maintained for a release in 2018, while work for 2019 release had been done in another branch. The changes in the 2019 are complex and required throwing away a good portion of the 2018 changes, because of impacts of runtime environment dependency changes. We now want to take all the changes from 2019 and make them the new state of master.
What I have tried so far (as separate attempts):
git merge 2019-release
git merge -X theirs 2019-release
git merge -s recursive -X theirs 2019-release

The last one seems better, but runs into issues with renamed and deleted files, which there are many of, since the framework we include has been rewritten.
Wondering whether to do a scorched-earth type of approach to master (clearing all files and committing), followed by a merge would be an alternative approach?
I did try looking around Stack Overflow, but haven't found an answer that seems to properly address the issue.
Any suggestions would be appreciated?

A: What you're looking for is close to the last one you tried.
git merge -X ours (or even git merge -s recursive -X ours) automatically resolve conflicts using ours side. (doc)
git merge -s ours takes everything from the receiving branch, conflicts or not, thus completely discarding changes from theirs side.
Oddly, the corresponding paragraphs in the page have the same anchor link, must be a minor bug, but be sure to check both entries and compare. I couldn't link the most relevant one since it also points to the other but it says :

This resolves any number of heads, but the resulting tree of the merge is always that of the current branch head, effectively ignoring all changes from all other branches. It is meant to be used to supersede old development history of side branches. Note that this is different from the -Xours option to the recursive merge strategy.

And so
# we have to work from the 2019-release side since there is no theirs version for -s
git checkout 2019-release
git merge -s ours master

# at this point we have to reflect the operation on master
# (the second merge is just a fast-forward)
git checkout master
git merge 2019-release

This will take everything from 2019-release side, and still mark the operation as a merge, although some might argue this is technically an overwrite.

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Tyra Banks shared her thoughts on the future of beauty with The Wall Street Journal.
Being beautiful isn't just about perfecting that smize.
There's a lot more to it, and if you ask Tyra Banks, almost everything we perceive as "beautiful" is going to change radically in the future. The 40-year-old "America's Next Top Model" host wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday about the future of attainment and perception of beauty.
"In general, I believe, traditional beauty will be less valuable--and more uniqueness will be heralded," she writes. This will be come as a result of quick, easy plastic surgery--making the "cookie-cutter" look less desirable, she reasons. "People will be vying for that cutting-edge, distinct look in the way that today celebs reach for baby names that defy convention."
Tyra also predicts the end of hair extensions ("hair-growing serum" can just be "applied to the scalp," and you'll see changes in 24 hours) and that curly will be "the popular hair texture of choice."
But futuristic models won't have pin-thin frames. (Actually, "models," per se, will be "as relevant as a horse and buggy," Tyra writes. "Robot/avatar models" with totally different features than us humans will sell products instead!) Tyra also thinks because global warning "will threaten our crops," and make natural food sources "scarce," women with "hourglass, curvy bodies" will be the "aspirational beauty standard." Their more ample figures, she writes in her WSJ op-ed, show they "have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent."
Tyra predicts that the ladies will thrive in future (the "balance of power between the sexes will have shifted dramatically," she writes) and that the men "will be vying for women's attention, obsessed with being attractive to females and snagging well-off ladies who can take care off them."
WSJ commenters are already having a field day with Tyra's musings on the future, but people of the internet, remember: A sense of humor is a beautiful thing.


A no-deal Brexit would seriously damage the car industry in Britain and the European Union by raising costs and sowing chaos for carmakers and consumers.
A no-deal Brexit would seriously damage the car industry in Britain and the European Union by raising costs and sowing chaos for carmakers and consumers alike, the head of Britain's car industry warned on Tuesday.
May has stepped up planning for a so-called "no-deal" Brexit that would see the world's fifth-largest economy crash out of the EU on March 29, 2019, a step that could spook financial markets and dislocate trade flows across Europe and beyond.
Her foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, pressed the government's message on Tuesday, saying the "real chance of no deal" that would hurt both sides could be stopped if the EU adopted a "pragmatic and sensible" approach that prioritised jobs.
Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said carmakers were increasingly concerned about the lack of clarity around the manner of Britain's departure from the EU.
"No deal ... is just not an option. It would be seriously damaging to the industry not just in the UK but in Europe as well," Hawes told reporters as he presented SMMT's mid-year update on British car production.
At stake is the future of one of Britain's few manufacturing success stories since the 1980s -- a car industry employing over 850,000 people and generating annual turnover of $110 billion. Much of the industry is owned by foreign companies.
The world's biggest carmakers, including Toyota, BMW and Ford, have urged Britain to ensure that they can import and export without hindrance after Brexit.
But the potential for major political upheaval remains, with May's minority government facing a series of make-or-break moments in the Brexit process over coming months.
In an attempt to rally support for May's proposals, Foreign Secretary Hunt is visiting Paris and Vienna this week.
In an interview with London's Evening Standard newspaper, Hunt said he would appeal to France and Germany to make the EU strike a "sensible" pro-jobs trade deal with Britain.
"France and Germany have to send a strong signal to the Commission that we need to negotiate a pragmatic and sensible outcome that protects jobs on both sides of the Channel because for every job lost in the UK, there will be jobs lost in Europe as well if Brexit goes wrong," he said.
Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn could come under pressure at the party's annual conference in September to agree to support a referendum on any deal that May can secure, the Guardian newspaper reported.
The Financial Times reported that the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, had softened his opposition to May's Brexit plan for financial services after Britain acknowledged Brussels would have ultimate control over the City of London's access to EU markets.


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Kholodny Klyuch () is a rural locality (a village) in Shabagishsky Selsoviet, Kuyurgazinsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 317 as of 2010. There are 6 streets.

Geography
Kholodny Klyuch is located 16 km northwest of Yermolayevo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Mutal is the nearest rural locality.

References

Rural localities in Kuyurgazinsky District


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Chir est une commune de la wilaya de Batna en Algérie.

Géographie

Situation
Le territoire de la commune de Chir est situé au sud-est de la wilaya de Batna.

Climat

Localités de la commune
La commune de Chir est composée de 24 localités :

Histoire

Jusqu'en 1988, la commune de Chir s'appelait Nouader.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Communes de la wilaya de Batna
 Daïras de la wilaya de Batna

Commune dans la wilaya de Batna


Vince Natale has been creating illustrations and fine art professionally since 1985. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and graduated from the duCret School of Art in Plainfield, New Jersey.
His works range from magazine editorials to book covers to fine art and spans the genres of romance, horror, fantasy-science fiction, portraiture, and military subjects. Vince has also created numerous illustrations for advertising clients in fashion, pharmaceuticals, and high tech.
He has received numerous awards for both his commercial and fine art work, and has been represented in several annual exhibitions of the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles. Vince's works also appear regularly in the Spectrum annual book of The Best in Fantastic Art.
As well as having produced work for private commissions, his personal-gallery work has found homes in many private collections. Alongside his professional artist-illustrator duties, Vince is also an instructor at the Woodstock School of Art.


Bing integrates relevent Facebook comments into your searches: Hopes to make searching more social!
Microsoft have software, hardware in the form of their Surface tablets, the power to change the direction of the computing industry, they even have their own ad platform. The one thing which they're desperate to make a mark in is the internet search arena, where Bing is the relative newcomer seeking to challenge Google's dominance!
There's one thing which Microsoft are hoping will help them change the fortunes of their search engine and that's Facebook integration. The new feature essentially lets users like and comment on things which their Facebook pals have said which are related to their searches.
The way that this will all work is that after you log in with your Microsoft account you have the option to add your Facebook account to Bing. After that you have access to comments on Facebook posts in your search engine sidebar. After you see that you have the ability to offer your 'likes and comments' without the need to navigate to Facebook. Depending on what you search for Bing will offer up relevant Facebook comments and posts from your friends and the plan is slightly flawed because the relevance isn't determined by the age of the posts, so things from a few years back may well pop up.
The main thinking is that if you search for Black Eyed Peas tickets on Bing, the Facebook bar on the side will show you that one of your friends already has tickets and has one going spare if you want it. Obviously that's the ideal world scenario, but we're not sure if it will prove to be as useful as that in reality!
This is what things will look like!
It seems that at the moment Facebook and Microsoft are drawing ever closer. Some of you might remember that Microsoft will be powering Facebook's 'Graph Search' when that hits everyone's profiles at some point in the future. The real point here is whether or not Bing's new feature is actually what users want, we're not convinced, but what about you guys? Do you think Bing's Social Sidebar is a good enough feature to differentiate from Google and do you use the Facebook, Twitter, Klout and Foursquare integration at all? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!


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Q: Orthogonal of tangent vector in Rindler coordinates For 2D space time
from $(t,x)$ to $(u,v)$ the transformation are $$t = u \sinh(v)$$$$x=u\cosh(v)$$

Asking to show that two families of curves $u = \textrm{constant}$ and $v = \textrm{constant}$ are orthogonal (i.e., that the scalar product of their tangent vectors is zero) by derive the components of the metric in the $(u,v)$ frame.

I get the metric in $(u,v)$ is $${ds}^2 = {du}^2 - u^2 {dv}^2$$
and say in $(u,v)$ there is
$$g_{ab}= \left[{\begin{matrix}
        1 & 0 \\
        0 & -u^2 \\
        \end{matrix}}\right]
$$
the two tangent vectors are
$$R_{u}=(\sinh(v),\cosh(v))$$
$$R_{v}=(u \cosh(v),u\sinh(v))$$
and I cannot have the scalar product of them is zero ie:
$${R_u}{R_v}={g_{ab}}{R_u^a}{R_v^b}=u\sinh(v)\cosh(v) - u^3\sinh(v)\cosh(v) = (u-u^3)\sinh(v)\cosh(v) = ? 0$$
where does my error comes from? thanks a lot...

A: Once you have the metric in u,v coordinates, you notice that $g_{uv}=0$ and this shows that the basis vectors $e_u$ and $e_v$, respectively tangent to the v=const and u=const lines (no typo, you see why?) are orthogonal.


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Q: How can I change at which viewport width the off canvas navbar is shown? With the Jasny Bootstrap Off canvas plugin, it's possible to show the .navbar as off canvas menu for mobile sites as shown in this example.
By default the layout switches to the off canvas menu for viewport widths less then 768px.
How can I change this to show the off canvas menu at 1280px or less?

A: You need to build a customized version of both Bootstrap and Jasny Bootstrap and change @grit-float-breakpoint.
The easiest way to do this is using the web based customizers

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*Bootstrap customizer

*Jasny Bootstrap customizer


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May Contribution
May Commemorative Contribution April 27–June 2, 2019
Report: A Financial Overview
by Erica Kondo
Assistant Chief Financial Officer
On behalf of the SGI-USA, thank you very much for your sincere financial offerings to support the organization. Because of your dedicated efforts, we have accomplished many significant milestones toward the expansion of our kosen-rufu movement in America, enabling us to further assist members' practice while spreading our humanistic values to society.
Members' contributions accounted for over 80 percent of the SGI-USA's yearly operating budget in 2018. Here are ways in which contributions were used last year:
Operating and Capital Expenses in 2018:
A. CAPITAL EXPENSES AND FACILITIES MAINTENANCE: Members' contributions support the operations and maintenance of approximately 100 SGI-USA Buddhist centers and facilities. Seven centers opened in 2018.
Technology upgrades secured the launch of SGI-USA's first online exams, the new digital ID security system and 50,000 Lions of Justice Festival registrations.
B. PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES: These include 50K Festival costs, youth practices and activities, building rentals for large meetings, support for the SGI-USA Study Department, our community relations work and our social media outreach program.
C. PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKSTORES: Production and operational expenses related to the World Tribune, Living Buddhism and our bookstores. (The SGI-USA is committed to offering publications and books at the most affordable rate possible, rather than making a profit.)
D. GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE: Purchases of equipment and supplies, payment for professional services, staff compensation and travel.
E. FUNDRAISING: Preparation and mailing of letters and contributor gifts, administrative expenses and contribution-related travel.
Primary Sources of Yearly Operating Funds
May Contributions: Nearly 65 percent of members' financial contributions are received during the annual May Contribution activity, making it a vital source of support to advance our movement.
Sustaining Contributions: Members make monthly or quarterly contributions via automatic credit or debit card deductions to support kosen-rufu throughout the year.
Other Revenues: Subscriptions, bookstore sales, conference fees from the Florida Nature and Culture Center, general contributions and investment income. However, substantial expenses are associated with several of those categories. (Estate gifts are designated separately to the Millennium Fund to support the future of kosen-rufu in America.)
SGI-USA Structure: The SGI-USA is an independent, religious nonprofit organization, registered under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. As such, all contributions are tax-deductible to the donor, as allowed by law.
Oversight Practices: The SGI-USA's board of directors oversees operations and reviews financial statements. The 13 board members bring a variety of professional expertise to their responsibilities. The SGI-USA also undergoes a yearly independent audit of its business affairs to affirm that secure procedures are protecting and accurately accounting for members' contributions. Our auditor is Moss Adams LLP, a leading accounting and auditing firm. For more information, visit www.sgi-usa.org/sgiusa-governance.
Thank you again for your heartfelt support to advance kosen-rufu in America, especially in this Year of Soka Victory! WT
2018 Key Accomplishments
SGI-USA centers opened in:
• Chandler, Ariz.
• Columbus, Ohio
• Hampton, Va.
• Houston, Texas
• Long Beach, Calif.
• San Antonio, Texas
• Santa Ana, Calif.
New titles were introduced!
• Stand Up for Hope and Respect! by SGI President Ikeda.
• In A Baptist Preacher's Buddhist Teacher, Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., the founding dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, recalls "how my interfaith journey with Daisaku Ikeda made me a better Christian."
The 50,000 Lions of Justice Festival in Newark, N.J., Sept. 23, 2018. Photo by DAVE GOODMAN.
50,000 Lions of Justice: Your contributions helped underwrite the historic gathering of 50,000 Lions of Justice, who gathered in nine major venues across the country to stand up for the dignity of life.
Connecticut's New Castle of Kosen-rufu