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The United Arab List (UAL) will become the first party of Palestinian citizens of Israel to participate in a governing coalition after agreeing to join the new Israeli government it will be led by Naftali Bennett – a former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who had called for the annexation of the occupied West Bank.
UAL leader Mansour Abbas set aside his differences with Bennett, the 49-year-old former head of a settler organization, and centrist leader Yair Lapid to join an eight-party coalition around the world. political spectrum aimed at ending Netanyahu's 12 years in power.
Abbas, 47, who also serves as vice president of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel – which split from the northern branch of the now-defunct Islamic Movement in 1995, led by Sheikh Raed Salah – says the measure will help improve the lives of Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up about 20% of the roughly nine million citizens.
But many Palestinians fiercely criticize his decision.
The coalition deal came after the March 23 elections in which an alliance led by Netanyahu's Likud party was formed as the largest party in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, but fell below the majority. of the 61 seats needed to form a government. It was Israel's fourth national vote in two years.
Bennett, who served as Defense Minister under Netanyahu, justified joining hands with Lapid's Yesh Atid party to avoid another election.
With 17 seats, the Yesh Atid party is the second largest party in the Knesset, with 120 members, while Bennett's Yamina party has six seats.
Bennett and Lapid will take turns as prime minister, and Bennett will take the first two-year term.
Representation of Palestinian parties
UAL of Abbas it broke from the joint Arab list, the main coalition of Palestinian parties in Israel, ahead of the March elections. Abbas decided to run independently, arguing at the time that he would work with Netanyahu and other right-wing parties to improve the living conditions of Palestinian citizens in Israel.
The division weakened the representation of Palestinian parties in the Knesset, which in last year's vote obtained a record 15 seats in parliament.
The UAL, with four parliamentary seats, joined Bennett and Lapid's coalition to oust Netanyahu just before Wednesday's deadline and said it had reached an agreement to allocate 53 billion shekels ($ 16 billion) to improve the infrastructure and combating crime in Palestine. -majority populations of Israel.
The UAL also announced that it had guaranteed that the new government would stop the demolition of Palestinian houses built without permission in Israel and that it would officially recognize the Bedouin cities of the Negev desert, a stronghold of the Abbas party.
"We decided to join the government to change the balance of political forces in the country," Abbas said in a message to supporters after signing the coalition agreement.
But Diana Buttu, a Palestinian political analyst and lawyer, told Al Jazeera that Abbas had "made the big mistake of thinking he could be an Israeli king."
"He helped the coalition by tying it, but as Palestinians, it is not our role to be a councilor. We are opposed to this system. Our role is to protect our community, "he said.
Buttu said Abbas and his party "will gain nothing" as a small part of a broad and heavy coalition.
"The idea that somehow Abbas will be able to gather enough support even to introduce legislation that would counter some of the racist legislation that Palestinians face is a joke," he said.
"It's ridiculous, very naive and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Israeli politics and Zionism."
Jafar Farah, director of the Mossawa Center, which advocates for Palestinian defenders in Israel, told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian community in Israel achieved some economic and social benefits on issues such as housing and crime.
"But again, the Netanyahu government was willing to grant some of these demands to the Arab communities. So it's not a new thing, "he said.
But Farah said Abbas' decision to focus on these demands, rather than addressing the Israeli occupation and systematic oppression, shows "a lack of vision among Palestinian leaders."
He warned that, regardless of what was promised to Abbas, it is likely to be a transitional government that could be replaced by a more right-wing administration once Netanyahu is out of the picture.
"And during that time, there will be no peace process or reconciliation between Palestinians and Jews," he said. "And there are no serious changes in the legal status of the Palestinian community."
"A direct force"
But, according to IALhim Hijazi, UAL general secretary, the party's decision to join the coalition government refers to "achieving existential goals" for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Listing issues such as housing, violence and crime and the unrecognized peoples of the Negev desert, he said joining the coalition aims to address these urgent issues and "strengthen the role of the Arab factions by converting them in a direct and essential force in politics ".
"This will benefit the Palestinian community and allow it access to its rights that were denied to it because of previous racist policies, and keep Palestinian parties out of circles of influence," Hijazi said.
"Our entry into negotiations was based on political promises, including the government's promises to change the policies that discriminate against us and the commitment to reach a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue," he told Al Jazeera.
"An outcast"
Some Palestinians say 11 days ago Israeli assault in Gaza that left at least 253 people dead, including 66 children and more than 1,900 injured, has further exacerbated feelings among many Palestinians that Abbas is wrong to be part of a government that will continue to impose military occupation on the Palestinian people and a blockade against the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli attack left nearly 17,000 residential and commercial units damaged or destroyed, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The fighting came after weeks of growing tensions as Israeli security forces cracked down on peaceful protests against the forced expulsion of Palestinian families in the occupied neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan of East Jerusalem.
Israeli police forces as well assaulted the Al-Aqsa Mosque was formed several times during the last days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with rubber bullets and tear gas against the faithful.
"With the attacks on Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza, and the political upheaval they provoked, the Palestinian people have specifically told Abbas that they are no longer welcome among themselves in places like Sheikh Jarrah," Buttu said.
"People have come out very strong; half condemning him for having taken this unnecessary step and half pitying him because he was forced between a rock and a difficult place to remain relevant in politics ".
Sami Abou Shehadeh, leader of the Palestinian nationalist Balad party, said Abbas has alienated many Palestinians by joining the coalition.
"Abbas's decision to be part of an extreme government, which will work against the interests of the Palestinians inside Israel and in the occupied areas, is very dangerous," he told Al Jazeera.
"Imagine being the head of a Palestinian party and not being able to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque or join a funeral procession in Umm al-Fahm because people would expel you," Abu Shehadeh said.
"Mansour has become an outcast."


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How many Dr. Sun Yat-sen statues are there in Hawai'i?
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People in Hawai'i say that the islands have birthed two presidents—Sun Yat-sen of China and Barack Obama of the U.S.—so that Hawai'i can be said to have influenced not only the West but also the East. This observation reflects on the inclusiveness of Hawai'i's multicultural society, which is like that of the Pacific Ocean surrounding it, encompassing as it does an infinite number of living creatures and their activities.
Hawai'i has a special significance for Sun Yat-sen. In June, 1879, the 13-year old Sun first arrived in Hawai'i, relying on support from his older brother Sun Mei who was making a good living in Honolulu. In his handwritten autobiography, he states: "At the age of thirteen, I followed my mother to the islands of Hawai'i. For the first time, I saw the wonderful steamship and the vast ocean…and deep in my heart, I wished to learn from the West and seek for the infinite truth." (Lum & Lum, p. 3). Thereafter he enrolled as an intermediate school student at 'Iolani School, which was run by the British Anglican church, and began an English language education. At the time of his graduation in the summer of 1882, he took second place in a test of English grammar, and, at the graduation ceremony, was congratulated in person by King Kalakaua—an honor much admired by the local Chinese of the time. In September of the same year, he entered Punahou School for a half year of study, and in July of 1883 his education ended when he was sent back to China. These two were the best private schools in Hawaii; with support from his brother Sun Mei, it can be said that Sun Yat-sen received the best education that Hawai'i had to offer. The period from age 13 to 17 is crucial to forming adolescent values and a personal worldview. On May 7, 1914, Sun Yat-sen reflected thus on his adolescence, in a speech entitled, "With no education, one can make no recommendations" given at the Lingnan School in Guangzhou: "Recalling my childhood, I had studied in a private academy, and learned precisely nothing. A few years later I was able to travel to Honolulu and receive instruction in a Western school. I saw the excellence of their pedagogy that was so much better than that of my hometown. During class, I would talk earnestly with my classmates about how to strengthen our motherland and save our countrymen, and this would invigorate us. At the time we felt that if we could alleviate the suffering of our compatriots, if we could help them experience happiness, this would bring us joy." (Lum & Lum) Evidently, Sun's ideals of fighting for the future of the nation took root during this period.
In November 1884, October 1894, January 1896, and September 1903, Sun Yat-sen returned to Hawai'i four more times, staying between three and six months each time. From March to May 1910 was his final visit to Hawai'i, during which he established the Honolulu branch of the Tongmenghui (United League, Tung Meng Hui). The ethnic Chinese of Hawai'i were consistently supportive of and devoted to him, which is why Hawai'i came to be his most solid "revolutionary base" overseas. And this period was only a little over year before the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911—it was the eve of the turbulent historical turmoil.
Today, Dr. Sun Yat-sen has become an iconic calling card for interactions between Hawai'i and China, and Hawai'i is perhaps the place with the greatest number of Sun Yat-sen sculptures outside of China. When we look further into these statues, and learn the stories behind them, we read about deep respect, and a lasting memory. "Although the person is no more, a lingering affection endures through the ages." (Tao Yuanming, "Elegy for Jing Ke").
1. Sun Yat-sen sculpture at the Honolulu International Airport
Next to the main concourse of the Honolulu International Airport, there is a Chinese garden in the style of the Lingnan garden architecture. In the center of the garden stands a statue of Sun Yat-sen. On the front of its pedestal is engraved the words "The world is for the public" in Sun's own handwriting. Atop the pedestal, Sun sits erect, clad in a Chinese style jacket and gown, his hands on an open scroll on his lap, his face thin and weary—worn out by the long path to revolution, he appears to rest here for just a moment. As his eyes stare into the distance, he seems to sink ineluctably into sorrowful thoughts on the hardships of life.
This statue was erected on November 12, 1965, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. On one side of the monument is carved this epitaph:
Yat-sen Chung-shan Wen Sun, Father of the Republic of China, Born November 12, 1866, Died march 12, 1925. He devoted his entire life to the cause of the Chinese Revolution. Author of the "Thee People's Principles," he founded the Republic of China. An advocate of freedom, equality, and humanitarianism, he always exerted his utmost efforts to aid the weak and to support the faltering, with a view toward the realizing of universal justice as well as cosmopolitanism. He was revered by his people and admired by the world. On the centennial anniversary of his birth, we respectfully erect this statue in everlasting tribute.
Presented to the State of Hawaii by the Hawaii Dr. Sun Yat-sen Centennial Memorial Committee
2. Sun Yat-sen sculpture in Honolulu's Chinatown
Situated on the edge of the Chinese Cultural Plaza in Honolulu's Chinatown, this statue was donated by the Kaohsiung City Government in 1984, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Revive China Society (Xingzhonghui).
Chinatown was one of the most important sites of activity by Sun Yat-sen during his time in Hawai'i; here he delivered speeches, organized gatherings, and promoted his revolutionary ideals. In October, 1894, when Sun visited Hawai'i for the third time, he overcame numerous obstacles to establish the first revolutionary society in China's modern history—the Revive China Society—with the mission to "extend the will of the people in aid to the ancestral homeland." Sun was 28 years old at the time. The Revive China Society later became the United League (Tongmenghui), which was further reorganized as the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) in 1912.
The entire sculpture stands on the flag of the Kuomintang. Atop the pedestal, Mr. Sun Yat-sen holds aloft the declaration of the Revive China Society, tall and erect, gazing forward steadfastly. The top edge of the pedestal is engraved with the ancient Confucian admonitions to "study natural phenomena, pursue knowledge, maintain good faith, rectify the self, cultivate a moral character, put the family in order, govern the country, and bring peace to the world." On the sides of the octagonal pedestal are engraved "The Father of the Nation, Mr. Sun Yat-sen"; "The world is for all"; an English introduction of the Revive China Society; a rubbing and English translation of Sun's handwritten copy of the "Conveyance of Rites" from the Book of Rites; a description of the "Three Principles of the People"; and an inscription about the statue. Around the base of the statue are inscribed the eight characters "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faith, righteousness, harmony, peace." Each year on the birthday of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the local Chinese come and drape leis on the statue.
3. Sun Yat-sen sculpture in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park, Honolulu
Sun Yat-sen at age 17
There is a Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park in Honolulu's Chinatown, and the Sun Yat-sen statue in the park was unveiled on November 12, 2007, as one of the activities commemorating the 140th anniversary of Mr. Sun's birthday, as well as the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the sister-city relationship between Honolulu and Zhongshan City (named after Sun Yat-sen), in Guangdong Province. The sculpture was donated by the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation.
The sculpture is of the young Sun Yat-sen, clad in a Chinese gown and a Qing-style cap over a single braid. His expression is clear, sporting a slight smile; he seems confident and composed. His right hand grips two books, and his left hand rests lightly on them. As his right foot strides forward, his gown is pulled into a flutter. According to Ms. Yen Chun, Executive Vice President of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation, her organization had always wanted a statue of the young Sun Yat-sen, because till now Sun statues were mostly of him in his later years. In 2006, she and the Chairman of the Board of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation, Warren Luke, were invited by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to participate in the commemoration of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. As they transited through Hong Kong, they saw a bronze statue of Dr. Sun at age 17 in front of the Hong Kong Museum. It was by the famous Hong Kong sculptor Master Tat Shing Chu, and memorialized the fact that, in November, 1883, the 17-year-old Sun had entered the Diocesan Boy's School of the Hong Kong Christian Church, and subsequently completed his high school and university education in Hong Kong. So Warren Luke and Yen Chun commissioned Master Chu to create a sculpture of the 13-year-old Sun, to be paid for by the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Foundation with help from Hawai'i Chinese families. Since the earliest photograph of Sun Yat-sen was taken at age 17, what would the 13-year-old Sun have looked like? The sculptor could only go by the photograph of the 17-year-old, plus his own imagination. Some details were based on records of the time, including that the young Sun had always worn his hair in a braid in Hawai'i. Ms. Yen Chun said, "Master Chu wanted to depict Mr. Sun walking, just as he'd always strode urgently and ceaselessly, down the long road to save China."
On the base of the sculpture is inscribed text in English and Chinese, plus a dedication by the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation. It states: "In 1879, at the age of thirteen, Sun Yat-sen came to Hawaii from Zhongshan, China. It was here in Honolulu, that he spent many of his teenage years, growing up and being educated. China's first revolutionary society the Xing Zhong Hui (Revive China Society) was organized in Hawaii in 1894. Sun Yat-sen went on to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish a democratic China in 1911. The dedication of this statue recognizes the sacrifice and support of the people of Hawaii in nurturing the roots of "Modern China" and its Founding Father."
4. Sun Yat-sen sculpture in 'Iolani School, Honolulu
On the campus of one of the best private schools in Honolulu, 'Iolani School, there is a statue that resembles the one in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park. As the Hawai'i school that Sun Yat-sen attended first and for the longest period of time, the 'Iolani School undoubtedly played an important part in his upbringing. This sculpture was also cast by Master Tat Shing Chu, and its shape is basically the same as the one in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park, except that Sun's right hand lifts his books a little higher, and the left hand swings freely. Since the statue stands on top of three steps, Sun appears more dynamic and spirited, "A young man, like his schoolmates, in the prime of his life."
The statue, unveiled on November 12, 2008 and standing atop a pedestal with three steps, was donated by Mr. Steven Ai 钟光明, President of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation and 'Iolani School alumnus, whose grandfather, C.K. Ai 钟工宇, had been a classmate of Sun at 'Iolani School, a supporter when Sun began his revolutionary activity, and a fervent participant in his revolutionary organization. This is evidence of the degree to which Hawaiian Chinese followed Sun during his lifetime and commemorate him now.
'Iolani's Sun sculpture faces its middle school. This is a thoughtful gesture, as 'Iolani's School Master explained—middle school students are the age that Sun was when he came to 'Iolani, so the school hopes that today's middle-schoolers will be moved and inspired by the statue. Since the school has designated a caretaker for the statue, it remains as pristine as the day it was installed. 'Iolani also offers an exhibit about Sun Yat-sen's life and achievements.
Every year on Sun's birthday, the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation drapes a lei on each of the two boyhood Sun statues in Honolulu.
5. Sun Yat-sen sculpture in the former Chung-shan School in Honolulu
There used to be a Chinese language school called the Chung-shan School, in downtown Honolulu, which had been proposed by Sun Yat-sen on his last visit to Hawai'i. "Before Sun left Honolulu, he advised his Hawaiian followers to set up a Chinese language school. After he left, Young Kwong-tat, C. K. Ai, Zane Chong-fook, and other sponsors donated money to set up the Wah Mun School. This school was renamed Chung Shan School in 1928 to commemorate Sun." (Lum & Lum, p. 35)
Although it closed down in 2000, it is a consolation that the Sui Wah School粹华书院, established in 1986, is now operating at the original site of the Chung-shan School and has grown to become Hawaii's largest Chinese language school.
The sculpture, located within the school, is a bust of Sun Yat-sen. He wears a Chinese suit, and bears a serious demeanor with a probing gaze. On the front of the base is an inscribed rubbing of a quote from the "Conveyance of Rites" chapter of the Book of Rites, in Sun's own handwriting:
"When the Great Principle prevails, the world is a commonwealth in which rulers are selected according to their wisdom and ability, mutual confidence is promoted and good neighbourliness cultivated. Hence, men do not regard as parents only their own parents, nor do they treat as children only their own children. Provision is secured for the aged till death, employment for the able-bodied, and the means of growing up for the young. Helpless widows and widowers, orphans and the lonely, as well as the sick and the disabled, are well cared for. Men have their respective occupations and women their homes. They do not like to see wealth lying idle, yet they do not keep it for their own gratification. They despise indolence, yet they do not use their energies for their own benefit. In this way selfish schemings are repressed, and robbers, thieves and other lawless men no longer exist, and there is no need for people to shut their outer doors. This is indeed the Great Harmony."
"The world is for the public"—this was the ideal that Sun pursued throughout his life.
6. Sun Yat-sen sculpture in the Sun Yat-sen Park, Kula, Maui, Hawai'i
In 1989, the Maui Chinese community established a park near the Kula ranch of Sun Mei, Sun Yat-sen's brother, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Chinese on the islands. A statue of Sun Mei graces the park.
Standing on a pedestal, Mr. Sun Yat-sen is dressed in a Chinese suit, grasps a cane in both hands, and looks into the distance. The pedestal is exactly the same as the ones under the Sun statues in Honolulu's Chinatown and Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office. Due to its height, Sun seems to be gazing at the ranch of his brother Sun Mei (subject of a second statue erected nearby), located opposite the park. Perhaps he is recalling good times of the past?
Sun had spent time on Maui in his youth. His brother had arrived on the islands in 1871 to make a life for himself. Sun Mei began as a laborer on vegetable farms, struggling through hard work and striking out in business, until ultimately he gained control of a 6,000 acre ranch on Maui and earned himself the title "King of Maui." At first Sun Mei did not understand his brother's passion for revolution, but eventually changed his mind and began to support him. "Sun Fo, Sun Yat-sen's son, said on October 4, 1971, in a speech to the Overseas Chinese Administration Institute of Taiwan, that whenever his father had a plan of action he invariably turned to Sun Mei for money. The sum each time reached into the tens of thousands… By 1906, Sun Mei's financial situation had deteriorated, and he filed for bankruptcy. …In 1907 he left Hawai'i and returned to China." (Lum & Lum, p. 77 ff) But Sun Mei is only one representative of the tens of thousands of Hawaiian Chinese who had supported Sun Yat-sen.
7. Sun Yat-sen sculpture at the Taiwan Economic & Cultural Office (TECO)
This bronze statue was donated to Honolulu's TECO on the Nuuanu-Pali Highway in 2015. The pedestal is identical to those for the Sun Yat-sen statues in Honolulu's Chinatown and the Sun Yat-sen Park in Maui. Here, Sun is dressed in a western suit, with an overcoat draped over his left arm, grasping a cane in his right—as he might have appeared while fundraising for the revolution in London, England, or on the continental U.S.
There are additional statues of Sun in Hawai'i. This article is not meant to be exhaustive. Some private families also display small bronze statuettes to express their personal reverence. People follow along in his past footsteps, and link history with current reality, via the medium of statuary.
In 1910, while talking to a journalist, Mr. Sun referred to himself as a kamaaina, meaning that he thought of himself as a local Hawaiian. He said, "This is my Hawai'i…here I was brought up and educated; and it was here that I came to know what modern, civilized governments are like and what they mean." (Lum & Lum, p. 5)
(Many thanks to Ms. Yen Chun, Executive Vice President of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation, for her help and support in compiling this article.)
Lum, Yansheng Ma and Raymond Mun Kong Lum. Sun Yat-sen in Hawai'i: Activities and Supporters. Honolulu: Hawaii Chinese History Center & Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation, 1999.
About the author and translator:
Wenyan Jiang is Associate Professor of Chinese at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and currently teaches Chinese in the University of Hawai'i Confucius Institute.
Cynthia Ning is Associate Director of Center for Chinese Studies in the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and U.S. Director of the University of Hawai'i Confucius Institute.

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The Adjutant of His Excellency () is a Soviet television mini-series which was produced in 1969 and is set during the Russian civil war. The plot revolves around Captain Pavel Koltsov, an agent working for the Soviet secret police who is spying on the white Volunteer Army, posing as an adjutant to a chief commander, general Kovalevsky.

Plot
In the spring of 1919, Pavel Andreevitch Koltsov (Yuri Solomin), an agent of the Reds, is sent as the head of the Cheka by Martin Latsis into the Volunteer Army. On the road, he and several other White officers are captured by the "Greens" of Evgeniy Angel. Taking advantage of a right moment, Koltsov takes possession of arms, and the officers along with two Red Army commanders, also prisoners of Angel, with a fight break out of captivity. After hearing the story about the escape, Commander Vladimir Kovalevsky Zenonovich (modeled after General Vladimir May-Mayevsky) appoints Koltsov as his adjutant. Koltsov runs several covert operations while successfully passing all tests regarding his legendary status and does not give in to provocations of the counterintelligence. At the same time there is a romantic side plot in which Pavel Koltsov wins over the daughter of Colonel Shchukin Thani, chief of counterintelligence.

Another important plot line is the fate of Yuri Lvov, the son of the White colonel who was killed in battle. The boy is going through a series of tragic adventures on both sides of the front until Koltsov starts taking care of him. The observant Yura guesses that Koltsov is a spy for the Reds. In a frank discussion, Koltsov manages to convince Yura that he is acting with good and noble intentions.

At the end of the film Koltsov sacrifices himself to destroy the special train of the Whites with British tanks, which is driven to the front. Koltsov gets arrested and imminent death awaits him.

The titles before each series state "Dedicated to the first Chekists".

Cast
Yury Solomin as Pavel Andreevich Koltsov, also known as "Old Man", captain, adjutant of General Kovalevsky
Vladislav Strzhelchik as Lieutenant-General Vladimir Zenonovich Kovalevsky, commander of the Volunteer Army
Vladimir Kozel as Colonel Nikolay G. Shchukin, head of counterintelligence of the Volunteer Army (according to A. Dvigubski, real name Shuchkin )).
Tatiana Ivanitskaya as Tanya Shchukina, daughter of Colonel Shchukin
Alexander Milokostiy as Yura, son of Colonel Lvov
Anatoli Papanov as Yevgeny  Angel, gang leader of the "Greens" (a historical figure)
Victor Pavlov as Miron Osadchy, a member of Angel's gang, later an intelligence agent of the Whites
Michael Kokshenov as Pavel, a member of Angel's gang
Yevgeny Tashkov as Martin Yanovich Latsis, the head of the All-Ukrainian Cheka (a historical figure)
Nikolay Timofeev as Frolov, Red security officer
Yevgeny Shutov as Semyon Krasilnikov, Red security officer
Andrei Petrov as Sirotin, Red commander
Yuriy Nazarov as Emelyanov, Red commander
Daniel Netrebin as Red Commander
Gennady Karnovich-Valois as Colonel Lvov
Oleg Golubitskiy as gendarme captain Wolin
Vladimir Grossman as Lieutenant / Captain Duditsky
Igor Starygin as  Mickey, lieutenant, junior adjutant of Kovalevsky
Valentin Smirnitsky as Captain Rostovtsev
Gediminas Girdvainis as  Intelligence Lieutenant
German Yushko as  Timka, Angel's orderly
Yuri Medvedev as Nikita, a member of Angel's gang
Nikolai Gritsenko as  Vikentiy Pavlovich Speransky, director of the Kiev White underground movement
Sofya Pavlova as  Ksenia Andreevna, wife of Speransky
Boris Novikov  Isaac Liberson, the Kiev jeweler
Elizaveta Auerbach as  Sofa, wife of Liberson
Lev Polyakov as  Zagladin, a member of the White underground movement
Ivan Solovyov as  Reznikov, chief of staff of the Reds
Nikolai Grabbe as  Kosobrodov
Konstantin Zheldin as  Captain Viktor Zakharovich Osipov, counterintelligence officer of the Volunteer Army, assistant of Shchukin
Alexey Presnetsov as  Basov, or "Nikolai Nikolaevich", former colonel, operations chief of army staff of Reds and White spy
Sergey Zeitz as   Binsky, Kiev White underground worker,
Sergey Polezhaev as  Kiev White underground fighter, "brother" of Binsky
Lyudmila Chursina as  Oksana
Peter Dolzhanov as  Lev Fedotov, jeweler
Peter Kudlay as  mayor of Kharkov, colonel Schetinin (a historical figure)
Yevgeny Teterin as  Startsev, numismatist, courier for the Reds
Larissa Danilina as  Natasha, daughter of a coin collector, resident of the intelligence network of the Reds
Alexander Barushnoy as  English Brigadier Brix, a representative of the Allied
Gleb Plaksin as  french general
Vera Yenyutina as  false Koltsov's mother
Aleksei Smirnov as  crook
Arthur Nischenkin as  Klёnkin, security officer
Boris Yurchenko as  Chekist
Victor Uralsky as  watchman at the Kharkov station, White
Valentine Berezutskaya as  passenger
Nikolai Barmin as  the station
Vladimir Marenkov as  one-legged shoemaker, a liaison of the Whites
Valentin Grachev as  Sazonov, security officer
Yuri Leonidov as  Colonel Lebedev
Margarita Kosheleva as  Yura's mother
Margarita Krinitsyna as  lady on the stairs, whom Miron Osadchy questions about Gritsenko's lawyer
Sergei Kalinin as  Passenger (uncredited)
Konstantin Tyrtov as  prison sentry (episode)

Production
At first Mikhail Nozhkin was approved for the role of agent Koltsov and Yuri Solomin to play the supporting role of a staff officer.
But the film director Yevgeni Tashkov decided that Yuri Solomin was better suited to play the lead role.

For portraying the character of Captain Yuri Solomin Koltsov, Solomin was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR and the title of "Honored Artist of the RSFSR".

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If you're looking for a dentist in Havre de Grace, Maryland, then the dental practice of Richard V. Grubb, D.D.S. is the place to go. Most dentists provide just the basic dental care services, and send you somewhere else for dentures, tooth extractions or root canals.
Our dental practice provides the highest quality comprehensive dental care available in the Havre de Grace area, through preventive care, as well as optimal functional and cosmetic restorations.
We offer meticulous, uncompromising service, and attention to the needs of our patients using state of the art equipment and materials with the commitment of honoring the importance of every person we have the privilege to serve with compassion, professionalism, joy and respect.
Unlike other dental offices, our dental practice provides a more personable, friendly, welcoming and relaxing environment and experience that will make your visit to the dentist something to look forward to, rather than something to put off.
Dr. Grubb graduated in the top of his class from the University of Maryland's Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1975.
After completing a residency at Sinai Hospital, where he received advanced training in surgery and anesthesia, he returned to his hometown of Havre de Grace and has been a practicing dentistry for over 35 years.
Annually attending continuing education courses enables Dr. Grubb to stay at the forefront of his profession, so that he can provide optimal care to his patients. This allows Dr. Grubb to offer his patients the most current treatment options available.
Brenda graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a Dental Hygiene Certification. After graduation she worked for several years in Ohio and New Jersey, and has been a hygienist for Dr. Grubb since 1990. She has been married to her best friend, Larry, for over 42 years They have 2 amazing sons and 3 beautiful grandchildren. Brenda and her husband own quarter horses; Larry shows team penning and Brenda works in the show office.
In her spare time, Brenda enjoys gardening, spinning and weaving, and traveling to new and exciting places.
Kelly has been in the dental field over 20 years and with our practice for 5 years. She genuinely enjoys talking to people and her extensive knowledge of dental procedures proves to be a tremendous asset in making patients comfortable during their treatment. She is a devoted mom of 3 boys, who can be found cheering them on in their various sport activities. In her free time she loves spending time on the water.
In her time off she is a devoted Mom cheering for her three boys at their soccer and baseball games.
Michele has over 30 years of experience in the dental field. She derives great satisfaction from helping patients by making their dental treatment affordable.
In her spare time Michele enjoys cooking and decorating, spending time with her family and friends, as well as with her dog and cat. She has one daughter who is a cosmetologist.
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Jennifer has been a dental assistant for 13 years, and has expertise in oral surgery, pedodontics, and orthodontics. She derives great satisfaction from comforting anxious patients and assisting in beautifying their smiles. In her free time is enjoys going to the gym, play tennis, and spending time outdoors with her daughter.
Brigitte grew up in Germany, where she received her B.A. degree in Education and holds a Master's degree in management from the College of Notre Dame.
Dr. Grubb and Brigitte have one son, who is a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch, and a grandson, who brings them great joy.
Outside of work Brigitte enjoys spending time with her family and labrador retriever, gourmet cooking, knitting, and exploring new places through travel.
Judy brings 17 years of experience in the dental field to our office. She has a passion to help patients relax and feel at ease about their treatment.
She enjoys the outdoors and nature and enjoys taking care of her family and spoiling her dog in her free time.


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Q: Python in-memory ZipFile not opening I create an in-memory ZipFile object with the following code:
def read_test_zip_files():
    file_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    data_path = os.path.join(file_path, "test_data")

    zip_file_buffer = io.BytesIO()
    zf = ZipFile(zip_file_buffer, "w", ZIP_DEFLATED)

    for root, _, files in os.walk(data_path):
        for file_name in files:
            file_path = os.path.join(root, file_name)
            with open(file_path, "r+", encoding='latin-1') as f:
                rel_file_path = str(Path(file_path).relative_to(Path(data_path)))
                zf.writestr(rel_file_path, f.read())

    zf.close()
    zip_file_buffer.seek(0)

    return zf

Above function returns a handle to that in-memory object. Now, when I actually try to play around with it, its type comes back as such:
<zipfile.ZipFile [closed]>

When I try to open it, or access files stored in it, I get the following error:
zip_file = read_test_zip_files()

with ZipFile(zip_file, "r") as f:
    # Do something

AttributeError: 'ZipFile' object has no attribute 'seek'

What am I doing wrong?

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Preference was bred by Blommeröd Arabian Stud and he was named 1992 Swedish National Junior Champion Stallion and 2002 Swedish National Champion Stallion.
Preference was bred by Blommeröd Arabian Stud and his sire Pers (Enos x Pentoda) was leased from Janów Podlaski for two seasons. Pers sired two National Champions in Sweden, the filly Necessa (out of Nianka) and Preference – 1992 Swedish National Junior Champion and 2002 Swedish National Champion Stallion. Pers was by the 1981 Polish National Champion Stallion Enos (Bandos x Enora/Czort) and out of one of the best Bandos-daughters in Poland, the great producer Pentoda (out of Piewica/Priboj).
Preference dam Ceremona is by the Swedish National Champion Stallion Algomej, known for his magnificent movements which he consistently inherits to his offsprings. Ceremonas dam is the great mare Cesa, a daughter of Sakla.


The Spring Ohio Land Bank Network Meeting was held at the Mansfield Fire Museum. Seventy-five (75) people were in attendance, representing 29 counties. Holly Swisher of OHFA provided an update on the NIP program discussing current progress, the December 18 requirements for property ownership and spend down of NIP allocations, and the opportunity for new land banks and land banks which have exhausted all their funds to participate in the NIP program.
Mike Fallon, a representative of Bowers & Company CPAs, presented information on utilizing QuickBooks and additional features for land bank accounting. Bowers & Company CPAs generously sponsored the meeting.
David Mann and Shawn Carvin discussed the proposed Ohio Land Bank Association and the recommendations of the committees that have been at work over the past several months. The Association would represent all 52 Ohio land banks. A seven-member board, made up of both small and large land banks would govern the Association. More information can be found in their PowerPoint presentation.
Projects from Athens, Ottawa, and Shelby county land banks were presented.
Thirty-three (33) county land banks were represented at the January 17, 2018 Land Bank Network Meeting held in Mansfield, Ohio.
The County Risk Sharing Authority (CORSA) generously sponsored the meeting. CORSA is now authorized to insure county land banks in addition to their current members – counties and multi-county facilities such as multi-county correctional facilities. CORSA representatives Sherry Barbosky and Alison Redmond presented information regarding the property and liability risk sharing pool with the 69 attendees.
Jim Rokakis addressed the need for funding of commercial and industrial demolition in all counties across Ohio and discussed several potential sources of funds. All land banks are asked to contribute photos and background information concerning blighted commercial and industrial properties to assist in making a case for the need for demolition funding throughout Ohio.
Afternoon presentations included information about the recent merger of the EPA and Ohio Health Department's asbestos-related programs, a demolition safety program being developed in Trumbull County, and a presentation on property acquisition utilizing tax lien certificates.


You often read in the news that consumers are worried about the security of their details when ordering online. In reality, it is not the consumers who need to worry, but the online store owners.
If you're a consumer, the chance of your credit card number being intercepted as it travels over the Internet is extremely small. But if you are a merchant running your own ecommerce store, the chance of receiving orders with stolen credit card numbers is significant.
Sites selling things like watches, cameras, and computer hardware are most likely to get fraud orders. But any store can get them. We've seen fraudulent orders for teddy bears!
Spiffy Stores provides you with warnings on your "View order" page when we spot orders that are part of suspicious patterns. No software or other fraud detection tool can catch all potentially fraudulent orders however. Ultimately, it is always the merchant's responsibility to check orders before shipping.


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Maryann Keller, formidable Wall Street analyst, pundit and frequent Detroit 3 critic, useless at 78
Maryann Keller, one of many first girls on Wall Street to cowl the auto business and later a broadly revered marketing consultant who grew to become a formidable critic of administration at Detroit's automakers, died on Thursday, June 16. She was 78.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Connecticut confirmed her dying.
Keller, routinely the No. 1 auto analyst in Institutional Investor's broadly watched rating of the highest inventory pickers at main brokerage homes, wielded monumental clout and affect over boardrooms and showrooms. Her books, meticulously reported with unprecedented entry to firm insiders, grew to become must-reads for sellers, suppliers, journalists and anybody else who desired to go behind the scenes.
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When Roy Brown Jr., the designer of the Ford Edsel — one of many auto business's largest flops — died in 2013, Keller known as the automobile's styling "almost grotesque" and cited among the many car's many flaws its "hundreds of pounds of unnecessary weight in bumpers."
Roger Smith, a finance veteran who rose to develop into CEO of GM in the course of the Eighties, a time of upheaval for Detroit, was a frequent goal. Smith was sensible, she stated, but additionally lacked each the charisma and sensitivity to inspire others to see his daring imaginative and prescient to remake the plodding large via to completion, or to grasp when the imaginative and prescient is flawed.
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Recognizing the auto business's conventional booms and busts, she routinely cautioned buyers about investing in GM, Ford and Chrysler, at one level calling out the latter's fragile stability sheet and fixed wrestle to safe ample funding to design and produce new fashions.
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The Ancien Haynes Vineyard Old Vine Chardonnay comes from the longest continually farmed vineyard in Coombsville. The Whitford/Haynes family purchased the land from Nathan Coombs in 1885. The moderate climate and rocky soils of the site are ideally suited for Chardonnay - as Louis Martini Sr. suggested to Duncan Haynes in 1966. Duncan's neighbor, Andre Tchelistcheff, subsequently made wines from the vineyard and helped in the design of the winery where Ancien now resides. We are humbled by this history as we work to display the amazing balance of new world opulence and old world elegance embodied by the old vines. It is characterized by its small berries and diversity of flavor as one wanders amongst the vines. The wine is aged in 100 percent tight grain French oak for 18 months in its original fermentation barrel. This Chardonnay will evolve and develop in the bottle much more like a red wine.
Rich experience, scientific outlook, artistic insight and continued growth.
In every field and craft, there are practitioners, those who follow the lead of others, and visionaries, those who always seek to push their craft and knowledge to the next horizon. Winemaking is no different, and in this field, Ken Bernards is widely acknowledged to be one of California's visionaries. Since his first harvest in 1986, Ken has remained on the leading edge of winemaking technique in California, using scientific experimentation in the vineyards and in the winery, while at the same time adhering to traditional, small-scale methods of winemaking, always seeking to allow the vineyard's character to speak through the wines. This exemplifies his winemaking philosophy: a delicate and ever-changing balancing act between traditional wisdom, scientific assessment, and artistic insight.
From the start, Ken demonstrated a tenacity for empirical analysis and scientific methods of questioning. During his first harvest (at Domaine Chandon), Ken focused on tracking grape maturity, and later published a paper outlining methods for harvest date forecasting. Upon completing his degree, Ken accepted a position with Domaine Chandon as a research enologist, or experimental winemaker. He was able to design and perform his own experiments in every area of viticulture and enology. During these years, Ken honed his scientific reasoning, learning to isolate cause and effect in the vineyard, in the winery, and, ultimately, in the glass.
Ultimately, though, Ken's passion called for more than just experimentation. He had come to value the importance of being scientific about decisions in the vineyard and in the winery, but a visit to Burgundy spoke to his artistic side, awaking a desire to make his own finished wines full of mystery and nuance, wines that express the individuality of each vineyard. In 1992, Ken made his first five barrels of Ancien Carneros Pinot Noir, marking the beginning an ongoing quest for great Pinot Noirs. He pursued his desire to work on a smaller scale, hand-crafting single-vineyard wines as the winemaker for Truchard Vineyards from 1993-1997.
From 1998 on, Ken has been making his own wines under the Ancien label. At Ancien he works exclusively with Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Noir. This search for great Pinot Noir vineyards has led him to work with fruit from Oregon to Santa Rita Hills, and even from Morey-St-Denis, in the Burgundy region of France.
This same insatiable curiosity continues to lead him to seek out new and challenging opportunities, beyond those presented in his own winery. He has been a pioneer in the Coombsville/Mt. George area in the southeast corner of the greater Napa Valley AVA, and continues to be involved with winemaking, winery design and vineyard planning in regions as diverse as Oregon, California, North Carolina and Chile. All part of his ongoing quest to discover more and more about the science and art of making timeless and expressive wines.


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HNP Today News Briefs About Special Activities of HNP Friars
News Briefs About Special Activities of HNP Friars
Jocelyn Thomas April 6, 2011 Friar News
Below are updates about some of the many activities of Holy Name friars, including their celebrations, presentations and ministry events. More information can be obtained by visiting links to the parishes and organizations mentioned, by contacting the friars by phone or e-mail and by connecting with the Communications Office.
To provide news briefs for future issues of HNP Today, email information to communications director Jocelyn Thomas.
Russell Becker, OFM, was featured in an article in the New York Daily Newson April 3. The story, titled "Rev. Russell Becker on Edge of Three Mile Island, 9/11 and Japan Tragedies," begins by saying: "He's a survivor, a witness to history and one lucky guy — all wrapped in a Franciscan friar's brown robes." The feature describes the work of Russell and the other Holy Name Province friars in Tokyo, sheltering victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami at the Province's Franciscan Chapel Center.
Todd Carpenter, OFM, pastor of St. Paul's Church in Wilmington, Del., reports that Bishop Francis Malooly visited St. Paul's School on March 22. Each year, the bishop visits every school in the diocese, Todd said. "He visits each class and spends time talking with the students and answering the students' questions." Todd posted photos on the parish's Facebook page.
F. Edward Coughlin, OFM, St. Bonaventure University's vice president for Franciscan mission, and Todd Palmer, associate professor of management science at the Allegany, N.,Y., university, were guest speakers at the Business Ethics and the Franciscan Tradition conference on March 9 at St. Francis University in Loretto, Pa. Ed, a member of the HNP Provincial Council, spoke on "Franciscan Theological Values and business." Palmer's presentation was titled "Business Practice and Franciscan Tradition From the Eyes and Experience of a University Business School Professor."
A farewell commemoration of the Franciscans of St. Joseph Parish, East Rutherford, N.J., where Kevin Daly, OFM, has been pastor since 2009, is planned for June 26. Friars formerly stationed there will be invited.
Michael Duffy, OFM, of Philadelphia, spoke on April 4 at St. Joseph Church, East Rutherford, where he was based from 1971 to 1975.
An article about Daniel Grigassy, OFM, appears in the March 20 issue of the Byzantine Catholic World, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Pittsburgh. The article, titled "Our Church: Tradition, Reality and Expectations," includes a photo of Daniel, pastor of St. Bonaventure Parish in Paterson, N.J., who grew up in Western Pennsylvania. Toby Harkleroad, principal of St. Francis International School in Silver Spring, Md., who notified the HNP Communications Office of the article, pointed out that Dan's grandfather, Fr. Julius Grigassy, is mentioned in the article.
David Haack, OFM, of St. Bonaventure University, Allegany, N.Y., is commemorating a milestone birthday on April 18.
Glenn Humphrey, OFM, a psychologist at Rice High School in New York City, enjoyed following University of Connecticut in this year's NCAA basketball tournament because its star player is a Rice alumnus. Glenn said, "These are bittersweet times for Rice High School. I watched with pride as Kemba Walker, a 2008 graduate of Rice, led the Huskies to the NCAA Championship Monday night. What a wonderful young man who embodies the character traits that Rice stands for: responsibility, integrity, courage and empowerment. Kemba is clearly a living example of Rice — in his relations with coaches and players, particularly his freshmen teammates. But the celebration is muted with the announcement by the Rice board of directors last week that the precarious financial state of the school portends its possible closure at the end of this academic year. Rice has produced any number of outstanding young men during my six years with the school. It would be a shame if this wonderful work, begun by the Irish Christian Brothers in 1938, were to end. With prayers and the work or our board and development office, Rice will hopefully continue its mission in Harlem."
The Holy Name College community, Silver Spring, Md., attended a Lenten day of recollection given by former friar Paul Sansone at the Bons Secours Spiritual Center in Marriottsville, Md., on March 19. "Paul gave two presentations on the theme of 'A Scriptural Approach to St. Francis' Charism of Penance,' and a reflection at the Eucharistic celebration," said to Tony LoGalbo, OFM, a member of the Province's formation team. He noted: "The day began at 9 a.m. and ended with the Eucharist at 4 p.m. There was time for private reflection between the presentations and after lunch."
Kevin Mackin, OFM, president of Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., was recently elected to the board of trustees of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities of New York State for a three-year term. Kevin was mentioned on WHUD radio on his birthday, April 5.
Cassian Miles, OFM, has produced a 32-page commemorative booklet of his golden jubilee as a friar-priest. His story is told in segments devoted to his vocation, seminary training, and assignments over the years. Along with the narrative, the booklet incorporates personal photos and paintings by C. Bosseron Chambers from the original format of The Anthonian magazine published by St. Anthony's Guild. A copy is available by contacting Cassian at St. Anthony's Friary in Butler, N.J., or via his e-mail: cassianmiles@yahoo.com.
Dominic Monti, OFM, hosted a meeting on April 2 of the Franciscan Volunteer Ministry board in New York. Last week, he participated in a meeting of the ESC provinces' formation directors in Cedar Lake, Ind. Dominic still has several more communities to visit in the Assumption Province as part of his visitation. He will be in Sybertsville, Pa., April 17 to 20.
Provincial Minister John O'Connor, OFM, is travelling to New Mexico this week to attend the spring meeting of the English-speaking Conference provincial ministers.
Jacek Orzechowski, OFM, guardian of St. Camillus Friary in Silver Spring, participated in a rally on March 21 in Annapolis, Md., to support development of offshore wind power in Maryland. He and St. Camillus parishioners joined representatives of the Franciscan Action Network, Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light, and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, the group that organized the Jan. 21 Polar Bear Plunge which is featured on the Justice and Peace page of the Province's website.
Student friar Michael Reyes, OFM, participated in Washington Theological Union's Festival of the Arts on March 25. The event, called "Kaleidoscope: A Diverse Collection" is a "wonderful gathering of the members of all Washington Theological Consortium schools," Michael said. The event featured the diverse artistic talents of students and faculty members of the various Consortium schools. As a contribution to the event, Michael presented four art pieces he painted during his novitiate year, including the icon "Banal the Mukha," which means holy face, that he created under the tutelage of Robert Lentz, OFM, last summer at St. Bonaventure University.
An email was distributed last month from Daniel Riley, OFM, director of Mt. Irenaeus encouraging donations to the 2010-2011 Mountain Fund Campaign. It listed "a few expenses" that are supported by the fund including heating costs, summer intern scholarships, and purchase of a new tractor. The recently distributed spring 2011 issue of the Mt. Irenaeus newsletter featured thoughts by Dan about the "need to walk 'the way'" and dates of spring and summer events, including an April 9 work and reflection overnight.
Robert Sandoz, OFM, was mentioned in a recent e-letter of Christ the King Prep School in Newark, N.J., where he is president. On March 9, he and the school's administration welcomed executives from the HSCBC Insurance global leadership team. The visit, according to the e-letter, was an opportunity for 45 students to work side by side with HSBC senior managers from several countries in "one of the innovative personal finance and economic education programs of Junior Achievement of New Jersey." That afternoon, Robert "proudly accepted" a $10,000 contribution from HSBC and said, "I'm not sure any of us really know what happened in our gym today. World business leaders in our gym 'playing' with our students. There are those 'archival' moments in the history of an institution, such as ours today."
Xavier Seubert, OFM, director of SBU's art history program, spoke in New York City March 18 at the Fordham University symposium "Dead or Alive?: The Mystery of the Man of Sorrows." The title of his talk was "The Image of the Man of Sorrows and Medieval Sacramentality."
Brian Smail, OFM, the Province's vocation director, recently distributed the spring issue of Be A Franciscan to friars and men who have inquired about Franciscan life with the Vocation Office. Brian wrote the cover reflection for the spring issue, which also featured student friars George Camacho, OFM, and Stephen DeWitt, OFM.
News for the next issue of HNP Today is requested by April 13 (always the Wednesday before the newsletter's publication date). Updates about Province ministries and friars can be found on the Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province Facebook page.
Topics planned for future issues of this newsletter include:
· March 29 to 31 meeting of the Interprovincial OFM African-American Apostolate in Louisiana
· Profiles of friars commemorating 50 years of profession
· Parish management workshop, being held April 7-8 in Silver Spring
· Priestly ordination of two friars
— Compiled by Jocelyn Thomas


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Dividend and Income Fund Files for Potential Rights Offering
July 15, 2011 17:02 ET | Source: Dividend and Income Fund
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Jul 15, 2011) - Dividend and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: DNI) (NAV: XDNIX) (the "Fund") announced today that it has filed a preliminary registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential non-transferable rights offering by the Fund to its shareholders. The preliminary registration statement contemplates that the Fund will issue to shareholders of record on the record date one non-transferable right for each share of common stock of the Fund owned on the record date rounded up to the nearest number of rights evenly divisible by three. The preliminary filing provides that shareholders may acquire one new share of common stock for each three rights held (with the right to subscribe for additional shares pursuant to an over-subscription privilege) at a subscription price per share equal to 95% of the lower of the net asset value per share of the Fund's common stock at the close of business on the expiration date of the rights offering or the average of the volume weighted average sales price of a share of the Fund's common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on such date and the four preceding trading days. The Fund will determine and announce the record date, subscription period, expiration date, and final pricing and other aspects of the rights offering at a later date, and the Board of Directors of the Fund reserves the right to delay or cancel the rights offering.
This announcement is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted. The offer and sale of any securities will be made only by means of a prospectus and only after the registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been declared effective. The information in this announcement is not complete and is subject to change.
Safe Harbor Note
This release contains certain "forward looking statements" made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Fund, which may cause the Fund's actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. The forward looking statements made herein are only made as of the date of this announcement, and the Fund undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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www.DividendandIncomeFund.com
Dividend and Income Fund


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While most public school students enjoy the idle days of summer, the nation's testing companies are working around the clock to help states get the results of millions of standardized state tests to parents before the start of the new school year, a deadline under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that many states may not make.
—Thomas Toch, co-director of Education Sector, a Washington-based think tank.
The tests are the linchpin of Washington's efforts to promote higher standards in public education by cracking down on schools where students don't measure up. But No Child Left Behind is overwhelming the nation's testing infrastructure, and the result has been troubling: Instead of encouraging schools to raise the level of rigor in classrooms, the law is giving them powerful incentives to do just the opposite.
The testing system is beset by a host of problems: a shortage of the experts who ensure test quality, intense competition among testing companies that has led to below-cost bidding, underfunded state testing agencies, and the sheer scale of the NCLB testing requirements.
Together, 23 states added more than 11 million tests in the 2005-06 school year to comply with the law, pushing the total number of NCLB tests to 45 million. Test booklets have to be sent to and collected from nearly every public school in the country, and the results scored and reported back to the parents of every tested student under super-tight NCLB timelines—a massive logistical challenge.
Instead of encouraging schools to raise the level of rigor in classrooms, the law is giving them powerful incentives to do just the opposite.
Evidence that the system is buckling under this pressure isn't hard to find: Beset by misprinted tests, faulty student information, scoring glitches, and other troubles, Illinois earlier this year released its 2006 No Child Left Behind results just days before students sat for the state's 2007 tests; more recently, Florida announced that it had misreported the results of 200,000 reading tests.
But arguably the most damaging consequence of the testing crisis has taken place off the public stage: The problems plaguing testing have led states to gravitate to tests under the No Child Left Behind law that mainly measure low-level skills. They are using tests with a surfeit of questions that require students to merely recall or restate facts rather than do more demanding tasks like applying or evaluating information, because such tests are cheaper and faster to produce, give to students, and score.
The problem is that these dumbed-down tests encourage teachers to make the same low-level skills the priority in their classrooms, at the expense of the higher standards that the federal law has sought to promote. Teachers and principals are rational people. If their reputations, and even their jobs, are tied to their students' test scores, as is true under No Child Left Behind, they are going to feel tremendous pressure to stress the rote skills that the exams test most often.
Testing-industry leaders say that states are backing away from or abandoning outright open-ended questions, which stretch students by requiring them to produce their own answers, because they are more costly and more time-consuming to use than multiple-choice questions. As a result, close to half the students tested under NCLB nationwide in the just-completed school year saw only multiple-choice questions.
By the measure of how much money states spend on No Child Left Behind-law testing, it's hardly surprising that we're getting simple-minded tests.
In addition to lowering teachers' sights for their students, such tests produce an inflated sense of student achievement. Scores on reading tests that measure mostly literal comprehension are going to be higher than those on tests with a lot of questions that measure whether students can make inferences from what they read.
The same is true in math. In a study by the University of Colorado at Boulder testing expert Lorrie Shepard, 85 percent of 3rd graders who had been drilled in computation for a standardized test picked the right answer to the problem 3 x 4 = ___, but only 55 percent answered correctly when presented with three rows of four X's and asked how many that represented.
Workforce experts, of course, say American students will need higher-level skills to compete successfully for good jobs in the new global economy.
By the measure of how much money states spend on No Child Left Behind testing, it's hardly surprising that we're getting simple-minded tests. Despite testing's tremendous importance to school reform, under the law states typically spend about one-quarter of 1 percent of combined federal, state, and local school revenues on their statewide testing programs, or about $20 of the more than $8,000 spent per student.
Next year, things are likely to be worse, when states have to administer another 11 million standardized tests after an NCLB science-testing requirement goes into effect.
But the Bush administration can't have it both ways. It can't say it wants high standards for all students and then sit on its hands when it becomes clear that a key part of the No Child Left Behind reform plan is working against that goal.
Thomas Toch is a co-director of Education Sector, a Washington-based think tank.
"Florida Scoring Glitch Sparks Broad Debate," June 13, 2007.
"Test Scores Released in Illinois After Lengthy Series of Delays," March 21, 2007.
For more discussion on this topic, read NCLB: Act II.
For more stories on this topic see Testing and Accountability and No Child Left Behind.


As hard as it is for any restaurant owner to compete, multi-chain restaurants face some unique challenges. The biggest and most obvious one is ensuring consistency in all areas of the business across every restaurant.
Restaurants are opening all across America with unprecedented speed, and you might assume that means the majority of them are wildly successful. However, that couldn't be further from the truth.
2016 was the worst restaurant year since the recession.
Applebee's closed nearly 100 restaurants in 2017.
The FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) now requires food handlers to document specific datasets AND make them available on demand.
According to QSR magazine, "2016 was the worst restaurant year since the recession." All you have to do is read the headlines to confirm that sentiment. Red Robin recently fired ALL of their busboys from all 570 locations, due to the increase in minimum wage. After an expensive investment in wood-fired grills, Applebee's closed nearly 100 restaurants in 2017 and plans to close at least 80 more in 2018.
Experts say the restaurant market has reached a saturation point. With the selection of restaurants growing at breakneck speed, and the increase in meal kit and in-home delivery services, there are a plethora of options for consumers to choose from.
As hard as it is for any restaurant owner to compete, multi-chain restaurants face some unique challenges. The biggest and most obvious one is ensuring consistency in all areas of the business across every restaurant. Customers must be able to walk into any location and order items that taste the same—anywhere in the country. Internal and external facings have to be uniform, and employees must also provide a universal customer experience.
In order to achieve this level of consistency, multi-chain restaurants must have access to a vast restaurant performance dataset. And it's not just corporate executives who need this data—the FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) now requires food handlers to document specific datasets AND make them available on demand.
So How Can Restaurants Access the Data They Need to Survive?
Multi-chain restaurants have countless processes and standards to support nationwide consistency, each with varying degrees of effectiveness. What these organizations need now is to take those processes and connect them to an execution management platform that provides real-time feedback.
Restaurant executives have access to systems that monitor quality assurance and quality control activities. However, they may not have the flexibility to oversee marketing promotions and loss prevention in those same systems. Execution management software can combine these functions and provide a one-stop shop for all data inputs.
Brand assessments are the perfect example. When franchise business consultants (FBCs) show up for their quarterly review of a restaurant, they may be showing up completely blind. Unless they've done the brand assessment before and remember prior results, they're not going to know how that particular franchise measured up.
Though restaurant executives have access to brand assessment data online, they may not have a format that easily compares all locations to a national brand standard. And what's more, the data they don't have may be causing a real problem. Did all locations hang up posters advertising the new promotional menu item? What's happening with the loss prevention program relative to cash handling? Many of these inputs are just as important—and more time-sensitive—than quarterly brand assessments.
And lastly, the FDA is now routinely asking for records of food handling practices. Rather than trying to pull all the pieces together from disparate sources, restaurants can combine all of their internal and external data requirements into one system for easy reference.
By funneling all oversight processes into an execution management solution, restaurants can bring everything under the same umbrella. This means historical context for FBCs, flexibility for new data sets, and easy reporting retrieval for outside parties like the FDA.
Gathering all that mission-critical data in one place is the first step in the right direction. The next step is formatting the data so it is easy to consume, extract, and act upon.
If you've ever tried to manipulate a dataset in a spreadsheet, you know exactly how difficult this part of the equation can be. Having the data alone isn't enough. Effective execution management platforms take relevant data and configure it in an easy-to-digest, actionable way.
Between your restaurant's brand assessments, operational goals, quality assurance and quality control tasks, marketing promotions, loss prevention practices, and employee training, there are probably several thousand questions for each restaurant to answer. How can you filter that data down to actionable insights? To start, determine specific goals for each area of the business and what data points would be helpful to most efficiently reach those goals.
For example, your restaurant chain's dining rooms must maintain a high level of cleanliness. Based on the questions you ask about the dining room, you've decided the standard for cleanliness is 90 percent attainment. After reviewing all locations, you notice that your airport location only has 85 percent attainment. With that information, you can drill down further. Which specific questions were answered incorrectly? Were the trash cans overflowing, tables dirty, or spills not cleaned up fast enough?
Using this collected data, you can follow up with the restaurant manager to answer your questions and make sure the location is at 90 percent attainment for the future. And the same goes for the new FDA FSMA regulation—once you've configured the questions, you can retrieve food handling data for FDA inspectors on demand.
We often take for granted what goes on behind the scenes to ensure a consistent experience across multi-chain restaurants. It's definitely down to the details. And those details (though exhaustive) can be managed with efficiency using an execution management platform.
One central data repository, accessible by various types of users in real time, can make all the difference when trying to survive in today's flooded restaurant market.
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Amazon's Daring Move Could Mean the End of Cable Subscriptions (AMZN)
Amazon may be introducing something that would convince audiences that live streaming is the way to go. If they succeed, it could mean the end of the cable & subscription programming industry.
September 19, 2016 Joel Almazar
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is looking to offer a new benefit to its Prime members. The world's largest online retailer plans to get live video rights in a variety of sports that have a more global appeal. These include soccer, tennis, golf, rugby, and auto-racing. The company is also looking to offer live streaming of more popular US sports like basketball, baseball, football, and hockey. If Amazon closes its deals, it could entice new customers to sign up for its online TV service.
Numbers have shown that live sports are some of the few reasons people remain subscribed to cable networks. The introduction of live sports channels by Amazon may pave the way for the audience to go with live online streaming instead. This offers people the chance to save more since they do not have to subscribe to the entire cable service just so they could watch two or three channels. Amazon is in the talks with some sports leagues that may not have a large following in the US but draw big numbers from other countries.
Live streaming of sports events gives Amazon a huge advantage over its major rivals in the industry. Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) for example, has refused to live stream sports channels. Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer for Netflix Inc., has repeatedly said that his company does not intend to broadcast live sports events. The video streaming giant's executives claim that the live nature of sports does not match the nature of what Netflix has created.
It is still uncertain if and when the plan will push through. But, Amazon is clearly intent in bringing in sports into the wide array of services it offers to its subscriber base. In fact, the online retailer has already hired former Sports Illustrated executive James DeLorenzo to manage the sports division. Amazon also brought in former YouTube executive Charlie Neiman to lead the sports partnerships and business development.
The primary obstacle for Amazon however, would be the cost to secure the rights to live sports games. Sports are the most expensive assets when it comes to media. Here's are a few numbers as reference. Twitter paid $10 million for the rights to stream broadcasts of Thursday night NFL games, two new NBA shows, 150 games from the Pac-12 conference, and the weekly games of NHL and MLB.CBS and NBC spent $45 million to broadcast just the Thursday night NFL games in the 2016 and 2017 season. ESPN annually forks out 'only' $2 billion just to broadcast the NFL games.
Bringing in the deals for sports channels will give Amazon's audience a chance to watch games even if they are not in front of the television set. They do not have to worry about getting stuck in traffic because they want to watch a championship game. Amazon gives its subscribers the chance to watch game wherever they are.
Amazon is hoping that this move could help boost their international reach. Domestic sales during recent years have grown at a rate of 25%. On the other hand, the international sales of the Seattle-based company increased less than 6% on a year over year basis. The Prime membership is now being offered to 12 international markets but there is a very small amount of subscribers from other countries. The addition of live sports streaming may help Amazon attract more customers from the European countries. Aside from selling the sports viewing service, this also gives the other products of Amazon more visibility.
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