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Q: How to change the install location of a package I am running arch on a Chromebook, so I am lacking on storage. I got a external drive, formatted it and now I'm stuck not knowing how to install programs to the drive. How do I change the install location?

A: If you installed arch with LVM support you can create a LVM and extend the volume:
Creating
To create a PV on /dev/sda1, run:
 pvcreate /dev/sda1

You can check the PV is created using the following command:
pvs

Growing
After extending or prior to reducing the size of a device that has a physical volume on it, you need to grow or shrink the PV using pvresize.
To expand the PV on /dev/sda1 after enlarging the partition, run:
 pvresize /dev/sda1

It has some caveats and pitfalls I suggest you to backup your data and read:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM

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Q: Mapbox iOS SDK 3 - annotation title not showing when annotation is tapped I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make the annotation title appear when a user tapped an annotation pointed to the current location. Everything is working fine except this. I am using CLLocationManager wrapper from https://github.com/varshylmobile/LocationManager but I don't think it's affecting the Mapbox since I can display my pins correctly on the map.
Here's the screenshot sample:

As you can see, I could run the app without any problems. It's just when I set some annotation title and subtitle to the pin, and tapped it at run-time, it doesn't show anything.
Here's my code snippet for the annotation:
        let point = MGLPointAnnotation()
        point.coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: location.coordinate.latitude, longitude: location.coordinate.longitude)
        point.title = "Hello world!"
        point.subtitle = "Welcome to The Ellipse."

        self.mapView.addAnnotation(point)

        let point2 = MGLPointAnnotation()
        point2.coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: 37.43259552, longitude: location.coordinate.longitude)
        point2.title = "Hello world!"
        point2.subtitle = "Welcome to The Ellipse."

        self.mapView.addAnnotation(point2)

        self.mapView.selectAnnotation(point, animated: true)
        self.mapView.showAnnotations([point, point2], animated: true)

and here is the call out function:
func mapView(mapView: MGLMapView, annotationCanShowCallout annotation: MGLAnnotation) -> Bool {
    return true
}

func mapView(mapView: MGLMapView, imageForAnnotation annotation: MGLAnnotation) -> MGLAnnotationImage? {
    return nil
}

I am on iOS 9.2, xCode 7.
Thank you!

A: I forgot this line of code after instantiating my map view.
 mapView.delegate = self

Thanks!

A: Here's an example of how to configure basic callout views with the Mapbox iOS SDK:
import Mapbox

class ViewController: UIViewController, MGLMapViewDelegate {

    var mapView: MGLMapView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        mapView = MGLMapView(frame: view.bounds)
        mapView.autoresizingMask = [.FlexibleWidth, .FlexibleHeight]

        view.addSubview(mapView)

        // remember to set the delegate (or much of this will not work)
        mapView.delegate = self

        addAnnotation()
    }

    func addAnnotation() {
        let annotation = MGLPointAnnotation()
        annotation.coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(35.03946, 135.72956)
        annotation.title = "Kinkaku-ji"
        annotation.subtitle = "\(annotation.coordinate.latitude), \(annotation.coordinate.longitude)"

        mapView.addAnnotation(annotation)

        // fit the map to the annotation(s)
        mapView.showAnnotations(mapView.annotations!, animated: false)

        // pop-up the callout view
        mapView.selectAnnotation(annotation, animated: true)
    }

    func mapView(mapView: MGLMapView, annotationCanShowCallout annotation: MGLAnnotation) -> Bool {
        return true
    }

    func mapView(mapView: MGLMapView, leftCalloutAccessoryViewForAnnotation annotation: MGLAnnotation) -> UIView? {
        if (annotation.title! == "Kinkaku-ji") {
            let label = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 60, 50))
            label.textAlignment = .Right
            label.textColor = UIColor(red: 0.81, green: 0.71, blue: 0.23, alpha: 1)
            label.text = "金閣寺"

            return label
        }

        return nil
    }

    func mapView(mapView: MGLMapView, rightCalloutAccessoryViewForAnnotation annotation: MGLAnnotation) -> UIView? {
        return UIButton(type: .DetailDisclosure)
    }

    func mapView(mapView: MGLMapView, annotation: MGLAnnotation, calloutAccessoryControlTapped control: UIControl) {
        // hide the callout view
        mapView.deselectAnnotation(annotation, animated: false)

        UIAlertView(title: annotation.title!!, message: "A lovely (if touristy) place.", delegate: nil, cancelButtonTitle: nil, otherButtonTitles: "OK").show()
    }
}


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Arroyo Literary Review
April 11, 2013 by Every Writer
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Arroyo Literary Review Department of English, MB 2579 California State University, East Bay 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd. Hayward, CA 94542
arroyoliteraryreview@gmail.com
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Arroyo Literary Review is a print-based publication produced annually by students and alumni of California State University, East Bay. Each issue reflects the creative diversity found in the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene, while bringing together material from an international array of poets, writers, and artists. Arroyo began with an investigation: faculty and students sought to establish a magazine capturing the spirit and diverse voices of the Bay Area while attracting writers from across the country and a national readership. What they discovered, however, was a void. Bigger presses seemed to ignore the dynamics of California culture, while smaller presses had predicated themselves on niches. With the opportunity presenting itself, those same students built the school?s first literary magazine from the ground up, eventually releasing the premiere issue in Spring of 2009. Since then, that tradition of motivation and commitment has been passed on to each proceeding incarnation of the review. The editorial staff remains dedicated to showcasing both new and established writers from the West Coast and beyond, hoping to connect the magazine?s audience with the unique qualities that make the Bay Area literary and art scene so special.
What type of submissions are you looking for?
Arroyo welcomes submissions from new and established writers. We seek previously unpublished poetry, fiction, personal essays, translations, and art that retains its vibrancy in black and white. Please see our submission guidelines for more information.
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Acanthocerodes endroedyi is een keversoort uit de familie Hybosoridae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1980 door Paulian.

Hybosoridae

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James Nester
James is a multidisciplinary creative who believes great ideas defy channel and discipline. He is currently the UK & EMEA Executive Creative Director of Weber Shandwick.
How long have you worked at Weber Shandwick?
I've been based in London since Summer 2015.
In five words or less, how would you describe your Weber Shandwick colleagues?
No egos.
What's the coolest (or weirdest) place a project has taken you?
CERN, just before they discovered the Higgs Boson. I was actually there to weigh a garden gnome, in the name of science. It was for "The Gnome Experiment," a campaign for a precision scales brand. We were sending a gnome and a set of scales around the world to chart the tiny fluctuations of Earth's gravity. TV crews and journalists were moving the particle physicists out of the way to get a better shot of the gnome — a surreal moment. The Gnome Experiment also took me to another cool place to give a talk on it — the TED stage. But to be fair, the gnome got to travel to many more interesting places without me, including the South Pole.
If there were a Weber Shandwick yearbook, what would your superlative be?
Most likely to drink coffee.
Everything we do for a brand should become part of one thing: a single, spikey idea, born of a single-minded strategy, conceived from a single-minded business need.
— James Nester
As a father and a creative director, do you ever get inspiration from a child's imagination?
I do. Actually it's more their simple way of seeing the world that inspires me most. We tend to complicate things as we mature. We apply too much logic, analysis, and layers to what should be painfully simple. Because the greatest ideas always are. One time, just before a pitch I asked my then five-year-old what he thought of an idea. He simply said, "That's not an idea Daddy." And he was right. So I threw it out.
You're a big proponent of "spikey ideas," can you explain what this concept is?
A spikey idea is the shape of an idea that I believe works best, today. A spikey idea emits opportunities to impale people's attention, again and again. Anytime. Anywhere. Because with media fragmentation, audiences are everywhere and anywhere. Thinking spikey will help our industry to stop creating one-off stunts, content executions, or bitty Facebook posts. Everything we do for a brand should become part of one thing: a single, spikey idea, born of a single-minded strategy, conceived from a single-minded business need.
If you weren't working in this industry, what would you want to do?
Artist or novelist.
What is your favorite movie quote of all time?
"I'll have a half double decaffeinated half-caf. With a twist of lemon." - Steve Martin, LA Story
Where would you love to travel in the world to gain inspiration?
What's your favorite metaphor or phrase to use at work or in a pitch?
If you can't explain it to a five-year-old, you probably don't understand it yourself.
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Beyond the King's Two Bodies
Photograph of Lewis Chessmen by Andrew Dunn
by Stuart Elden
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life,
by Robert E. Lerner,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, xv + 400 pp.
Beyond the ranks of medievalists, Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963) is largely known for his magisterial 1957 book The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology. Praised by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish, and a reference point for Giorgio Agamben, The King's Two Bodies is almost certainly a book now more cited than read. Yet Kantorowicz was the author of other important books, as well as several articles and chapters, some of which were collected in the posthumous Selected Studies in 1965. In 1927, he had published a major German-language biography of the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich II, an immense though very readable study which was roundly criticised by more traditional historians. Not to be put off, Kantorowicz followed it with a second volume in 1931 proving sources and further readings, as impressive in its ostentatious erudition as the first volume had been in its accessibility. In 1946, after delays in press due in part to the war, he published a study in English entitled Laudes Regiae: A Study of Liturgical Acclamations and Medieval Ruler Worship. In October 1950, for reasons to be discussed, he self-funded the publication of a pamphlet The Fundamental Issue: Documents and Marginal Notes on the University of California Loyalty Oath. The King's Two Bodies was a late work, much delayed, which appeared only a few years before his death. He never wrote, nor even began, another book. Of these works, only The King's Two Bodies remains in print in English, despite the 1931 translation of Fredrick the Second and the other books being written in that language.
Kantorowicz led a remarkable life, and it seems only right to wonder what else he might have achieved as a scholar had he not encountered so many challenges to his academic career. A Prussian-born Jew, he had seen military service in the First World War, notably at Verdun where he received the Iron Cross. After the war, he fought against the Poles in his native Posen, Spartacists in Berlin and communists in Munich. Awarded his doctorate in 1921, he became a full professor in 1932. His biography of Friedrich is strongly nationalistic, and his politics were clearly of the conservative right. Yet as German nationalism mutated into National Socialism, his race created an impassable divide. While initially exempt from some of the Jewish directives because of his military service, he spoke out against the Nazis, and had to be sheltered in the roundup of Jews after Kristallnacht. The situation in Germany became one he needed to escape. First this was to England, with a brief stay in Oxford, and then to the United States. A succession of temporary posts at the University of California, Berkeley followed, often only renewed at the last moment, before he finally achieved a permanent position as Professor. Yet in the post-war McCarthyite period, California enforced a loyalty oath for its professors, explicitly stating their distance from Communism. While he stressed his conservatism, Kantorowicz refused to sign this oath, and was one of the main instigators of the campaign against it. He was fired by the University in 1950 and ended up at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. While in time he won a legal case against Berkeley, and received back pay, he would work in Princeton for the rest of his life.
Robert E Lerner's biography provides an enormous amount of detail to flesh out the bones of this story. He has delved deep into archives in Germany, England, Switzerland and across the United States. Some of these are publicly available, though seemingly little used, resources. He interviewed many people who knew Kantorowicz, and some a generation or more removed, and persuaded them to share stories passed on or correspondence privately held. A medieval historian by trade, Lerner is clearly at ease with the content of Kantorowicz's work and that of his contemporaries. But he is also convincing on the political context of Kantorowicz's times, from interwar Germany to Cold War America. Despite the vast range of his research, he does not over-encumber the text, which is extremely readable and as fascinating as the life of the man it covers. There is a scattering of archive photographs which add colour to the narrative. We hear a great deal about Kantorowicz's early academic career in Germany, and his membership of the Stefan George Circle. Lerner recounts in detail both the complicated passage to the West Coast, and the interminable politics of his temporary positions, including his clashes with UC's president Robert Sproul. He examines the details of the California loyalty oath in some detail, though here, as elsewhere, indicates that much more could have been said. Above all, he has a keen ear for the intrigues of Kantorowicz's personal life, his affairs with men and women, his friendships, animosities and grudges. A serious wine drinker, cook and gourmand, Kantorowicz was a great conversationalist and clearly engaging company. EKa – as we learn he liked to be called – had a life fully lived, personally and professionally.
The books and articles on which Kantorowicz's reputation rests are integrated into this story. Lerner recognises that "hardly anyone reads KFII [Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite] today" (p. 112), and that Laudes Regiae "never became very well known" (p. 248). This perhaps explains why publishers have allowed these works to go out of print, though Laudes Regiae is available in other European languages, and in a digital age new editions would be straight-forward. We hear much intriguing detail about the circumstances of his books' writing, publication and reception. Lerner is good on how themes in early work set the stage for later concerns – the focus on the acclamation "Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat" in the Friedrich biography becomes the focus for Laudes Regiae (pp. 111, 179); or how an abandoned project in the 1930s on the German interregnum generated an understanding of time which was used in The King's Two Bodies (pp. 198, 217). The weaving together of the scholar and his life tracks how his travels allowed him to access libraries and archives across Europe, and later, the United States.
Kantorowicz's voluminous correspondence provides many inflections and shades to the life of the mind, and its continually tangled relations with more prosaic concerns. While some was lost, or destroyed, it is astonishing how much actually survived the vicissitudes of exile and war. Many of Kantorowicz's lecture courses are housed at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, which has his principal archive. Since he always read from scripts (pp. 153, 227), these are very extensive. The lectures can be quoted, but "are not to be published". The few quotes Lerner provides indicate the care with which Kantorowicz prepared them, which makes their enforced archival state all the more regrettable. Their reach extended far beyond the remit of his published writings: "he taught a stretch from 300 to 1600, with outliers for the army courses into the twentieth century" (p. 273). Lerner says less about the content of the books themselves, and perhaps this is to be expected in a biography. But as a medieval historian himself it would have been of interest if Lerner had allowed himself to say just a bit more about the content of the works, their drafting and editing. Often, he defers to other authorities when judging the works; though the reader reports on The King's Two Bodies are fascinating, such as their wish for him to leave out the chapters on Shakespeare and Dante (i.e. p. 352). He is also good on the different types of sources Kantorowicz used for his work – from formal written texts to liturgies, laws, coins, illuminations, other artworks and legends.
When I read in an interview with Lerner that he owned "the great man's clothes brush", and then saw a picture of this monogrammed object as a frontispiece to the work, I worried that this was the work of a fan, even a fanatic, rather than a sober academic life. Such fears were misplaced. While Lerner is certainly an enthusiast, and fascinated by small details, this is an impressive and scholarly study: it has more in common with Kantorowicz's later work than his biography of Friedrich. The research was conducted over three decades, and while Lerner mentions a brief personal encounter, this work has its serious genesis much later. Kantorowicz's life spans some of the most important events of the twentieth century, from the First World War to the Cuban missile crisis. Unusually, as Lerner notes, Kantorowicz moved from the right to the left politically, not just in his opposition to institutional anti-communism but on other matters too. Above all though, what comes through is Kantorowicz's defence of academic and aesthetic freedom, regardless of the consequences for a narrower conception of liberty. Reading the life outlined here should be of appeal to people with an interest in the last century, and the relation of academic work to its multiple contexts, rather than only those with an interest in the medieval centuries of which Kantorowicz's own work so persuasively spoke.
Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, UK and Monash Warwick Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of seven books, including The Birth of Territory (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Foucault's Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) and Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity Press, 2017). He is currently writing a book entitled Shakespearean Territories, and beginning a project on Foucault work in the 1950s. He runs a blog at www.progressivegeographies.com
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Foucault's Last Decade is a study of Foucault's work between 1974 and his death in 1984. In 1974, Foucault began writing the first volume of his History of Sexuality, developing work he had already begun to present in his Collège de France lecture courses.
Kings Lear by Stuart Elden
Foucault's Politics of Truth by Stuart Elden
The key figures are Cardinal Richelieu and Chancellor Séguier, and Foucault thinks it is important that he can discern the "first great deployment of the 'arms' of the State independent of the person of the King".


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I Never
Objective: Find out interesting things about your friends and drink.
Directions: Everyone sits around a table. One person goes first by making a TRUE statement that begins with "I never...." (e.g., "I've never been to Hollywood"). If any other player HAS DONE what the person said, they simply drink.
The game only works when people are honest and the statements tend to get more personal and explicit as the game progresses.
No explanation is necessary if somebody drinks on an "I never..". For example, if someone says, "I've never had sex with an inflatable doll," and someone ends up drinking to it, no explanation is needed, just a drink of affirmation.


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Pope Francis tells Orthodox leader: I am confident we will achieve full unity
Pope Francis with Patriarch Bartholomew on September 17, 2019. VATICAN MEDIA
By Catholic News Agency
VATICAN— Pope Francis told the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Monday that he is confident that Catholics and Orthodox Christians will attain full communion.
In a message to Bartholomew I on the Feast of St. Andrew, Pope Francis praised the Ecumenical Patriarchate's efforts to promote Christian unity.
"We can thank God that relations between the Catholic Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate have grown much over the past century, even as we continue to yearn for the goal of the restoration of full communion expressed through participation at the same Eucharistic altar," he wrote.
"Although obstacles remain, I am confident that by walking together in mutual love and pursuing theological dialogue, we will reach that goal."
The pope sends a message each year on Nov. 30 to the Ecumenical Patriarch, who is regarded as the successor of St. Andrew the Apostle and "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Pope Francis recalled his recent meeting with Bartholomew I, at an international meeting for peace in Rome on Oct. 20.
"Together with the challenges posed by the current pandemic, war continues to afflict many parts of the world, while new armed conflicts emerge to steal the lives of countless men and women," he wrote.
"Undoubtedly all initiatives taken by national and international entities aimed at promoting peace are useful and necessary, yet conflict and violence will never cease until all people reach a deeper awareness that they have a mutual responsibility as brothers and sisters."
"In light of this, the Christian Churches, together with other religious traditions, have a primary duty to offer an example of dialogue, mutual respect and practical cooperation."
The pope praised the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople for seeking Christian unity "before the Catholic Church and other Churches engaged themselves in dialogue."
He cited an encyclical letter issued by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1920, which said that Churches could heal divisions if they placed love "before everything else in their judgment of the others and in relation towards each other."
The Holy See press office said Nov. 30 that a Vatican delegation had made the customary visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul on the Feast of St. Andrew.
Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, led the delegation, which included the pontifical council's secretary, Bishop Brian Farrell, and undersecretary, Msgr. Andrea Palmieri. They were joined by Archbishop Paul F. Russell, the U.S.-born Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey.
They attended a Divine Liturgy presided over by the Bartholomew I at St. George's Cathedral, the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. After the Divine Liturgy, Koch read the pope's message and presented the Ecumenical Patriarch with a signed copy.
In his message, the pope said that his hope for full communion was "based on our common faith in Jesus Christ, sent by God the Father to gather all people into one body, and the cornerstone of the one and holy Church, God's holy temple, in which all of us are living stones, each according to our own particular charism or ministry bestowed by the Holy Spirit."
He concluded: "With these sentiments, I renew my warmest best wishes for the Feast of St. Andrew, and exchange with Your All Holiness an embrace of peace in the Lord."
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From avoiding censorship to avoiding government controls, the Hola app has simplified anonymous browsing for its clients.
Peer-to-peer networking technologies are commonly associated with file-sharing movies and music on the internet. But the core techniques show promise for developing novel architectures for enterprise applications as well. An Israeli startup called Hola is leveraging P2P principles to rethink CDN server applications by building a free anonymizing and anonymous browsing service.
"There are a lot of use cases for using the Hola app to eliminate geographic restrictions on the Internet," said Ofer Vilenski, Hola CEO and founder. The company started with a free, anonymous browsing consumer application called Hola that allows people to bypass censorship and controls. This has quickly grown into a distributed HTTP overlay used by more than 86 million people. This infrastructure is funded by Luminati.io, a SaaS product that allows businesses to conduct brand monitoring from millions of consumer IP addresses. The service lets enterprises monitor distributor pricing, identify ad fraud, see how their own websites are performing globally and check prices on competitor sites.
There are a variety of different use cases in enterprise settings that go far beyond simply helping with anonymous browsing. Major retailers commonly block competitors IP addresses from doing price checks or generating fake pricing data. Luminati allows a company to crawl a website such that each query appears to come from a different IP address. This approach also helps to maintain honesty in retail distribution networks. In some cases, a retailer will show one price to requests from a manufacturer's IP addresses and others to consumers. Luminat.io allows a company to see the same pricing as consumers see. Over 500 enterprises are now using this service.
There are a lot of use cases for using the Hola app to eliminate geographic restrictions on the Internet.
Other CDNs typically attempt to direct clients to the closest server. As a result, servers in particular markets tend to become overused during peak viewing hours in a particular region. In addition, traditional CDN networks commonly maintain a static connection between a single CDN endpoint and the client. Using P2P protocols between servers and between the servers and client allows the distribution to dynamically adjust to changing loads.
Start time is critical in the beginning of a streaming session, which shows up as the amount of time between clicking a link and the beginning of a video. But it is less critical after a client has buffered some video. The P2P distribution approach allows the client to download packets from the quickest servers in the beginning of a session and the most cost effective servers later once the buffer is full.
When serving content and performing anonymous browsing via a distributed network, servers need to effectively propagate content among themselves with minimal overhead, while ensuring the content served is not stale (e.g., an expired video). In addition, algorithms need to ensure that the selection of content stored on these servers maximizes the cache hit rate. This usually means keeping content that is requested frequently for long periods and purging content which is requested infrequently. In the Hola app's P2P CDN network, servers effectively propagate content using P2P algorithms in the cloud. Granular control of objects maximizes the cache hit rate.
"If a CDN is implemented with a load balancer, then that balancer needs to be in the same geography as the end user, and thus all the traffic needs to run through that balancer as it's getting it from multiple servers," said Vilenski. This then requires deploying servers in each POP to serve those geographies at peak hours. In the Hola app's software architecture, the video manager on the client does the load balancing among the various servers around the world. As a result, the back-end infrastructure only requires a few servers in each region to initiate quick starts.
A load balancer dividing a load among multiple servers operating in the same location requires enough servers to handle peak loads. During off-peak hours, these servers will be idle. Distributing the same content across a network of servers located in different time zones allows for a higher use level of these servers because peak hours in France are actually off-peak hours in the U.S., for example. This improved use means that on average fewer servers are needed.
This approach also means a client can retrieve fragments of content from multiple locations in parallel. In other words, instead of downloading from a single source, the client side has multiple servers to choose from. A single user will receive fragments of content from multiple servers, so client-side algorithms are used to assemble fragments back into a single stream. Client-side algorithms can download content from multiple sources simultaneously, compensating for variations in latency and bandwidth.
What do you consider to be the most useful features on an anonymous browsing tool like the Hola app?


West Scranton has a second tree in the running in the annual "Trim a Tree" challenge at the electric City Trolley Museum! The SADD Club decorated tree #8, and was inspired by Peter Pan for this year's theme of "a fairy tale Christmas".
The trees were trimmed by students from Lackawanna County school districts. West Scranton's other submission is a collaboration with Sumner Elementary.
Please stop by and vote for our trees this holiday season! Trolley Museum admission is a special price $3.00.
Picture 2 (L to R) are: Enzo Cicco, Emma Egan, Kylee Camacho, Kylie Hirshler and Milagros Cervantes.


Pre-order 5 sacks of locusts as part of our Supersavers Deal and get the 5th half price. We will despatch each sack Weekly, Fortnightly or Monthly - simply select whenever you want. All the size and quantity options available are in the table below. Just choose the deal you want, and wait for your orders to arrive... easy and great savings to be made!


April at the Yellow House was our month for focusing on Humble Submission to Christ's Body, the Church. This is not a month we take lightly, gloss over, or shy away from around here. As a new monastic community, part of our inherent purpose is to learn to be the Body of Christ with these people in this place in such a way that helps to preserve or reawaken parts of the Church's identity that over time may have been forgotten or become distorted. This is obviously no small task, but it's a deeply important one and our little cell of the Body has a small part to play in that preservation and reawakening.
So we practice being the Church we dream of together (aware that only once in a blue moon do we "get it right") submitting ourselves to one another and the God that connects us in love. We read about the history we stand on (see The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle), learning to see the patterns of cause and effect that got us to this moment and thoughtfully considering where the Spirit could be moving in our midst for today and the days coming. And we engage conversation with folks in other cells of the Body, specifically those working within the institutional church...a part of the Body that we love dearly, to which we owe much of our own formation, and for which we have some questions. We commit to thinking critically, but never settling for criticism that isn't hand-in-hand with compassionate creativity.
-ECO-FRIENDLY BULLETINS. Biodegradable or electronic bulletins or at the very least recycling bins stationed at churches. OR 4-6week's worth of information in 1 bulletin which is reused each week. Create weekly e- bulletins and encourage those with smart phones not to grab the hard copies.
-Asking, "What do you need?" of neighbors that live directly around church buildings.
-Is your church ADA accessible? Sign-language friendly?
Thanks for reading! May we become the Church we dream of...little by little.


Making program that allows you to send messages for your loved ones in space. It will allow you to send pictures, videos etc. Show locations for astronauts in space stations, also on earth in training centers. Customizable for different uses, like weddings, graduations, birthdays and also for holiday seasons.


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Micah Stampley Lifts 'One Voice'
Bro. Patrick Cole
According to The BelleReport.com
International worship leader Micah Stampley will release his fifth CD, One Voice, in stores August 23.
By — BREATHEcast.com — Micah Stampley has established himself as one of gospel music's premier worship leaders. On his fifth album, One Voice, Stampley demonstrates why he has earned such a distinction.
One Voice is a diverse yet cohesive album, on which Stampley seamlessly blends lively, upbeat anthems of victory such as "Hosanna" and "Shout," with mellow ballads pleading for closeness with God on "Desperate People" and "Search for You."
The standout track on the album is "Call of Love," written by Stampley's wife, Heidi. A musical prayer to be used by God, it features the lyrics "For the broken and the shamed, let my hurt burn like a flame. Let me be the conduit of perfect love."
On the title track, "One Voice", Stampley calls for the body of Christ to unify in worship: "Different colors, many expressions, but when we worship, we sing to an audience of One. We are salt and light. The world must see us unified."


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Q: Why does this "aliasing" work in scala? In the Coursera course "Principles of Reactive Programming", Odersky introduces this snippet:
trait Generator[+T] {
    self => // an alias for "this".
    def generate: T
    def map[S](f: T => S): Generator[S] = new Generator[S] {
        def generate = f(self.generate)
    }
    def flatMap[S](f: T => Generator[S]): Generator[S] = new Generator[S] {
       def generate = f(self.generate).generate
    }
}

I don't quite recognise the self => thing though. Why does it work and why wouldn't I just do val self = this ?

A: The basic mechanism is treated in this question. The problem that is addressed here is that both in map and flatMap you need to reference the outer Generator from the newly created inner Generator.
If you would write this here instead of self:
def map[S](f: T => S): Generator[S] = new Generator[S] {
  def generate = f(this.generate) // wrong!
}

you would not identify the outer but the inner instance. this always refers to the "closest" class instance seen from the spot where you use it.
Similarly, if you added a method def self = this to Generator, you then call again the wrong self in the inner scope (the new generator has its own self method now).

The alias in comparison is not a method, it doesn't exist "twice" in the code example so to speak, so there is no shadowing happening when you write new Generator. This is just a more cleaned up way for
def map[S](f: T => S): Generator[S] = {
  val outer = this  // capture outer instance, since `this` will change meaning
  new Generator[S] {
    def generate = f(outer.generate)  // refer to the outer instance
  }
}


Lemon grass, fresh garlic, mint leaves, onions, homemade roasted curry paste and lime dressing.
Shrimp, ground chicken, onions, black mushrooms, cilantro and lime dressing.
Grilled sliced rib eye steak, lemon grass, onions, cilantro, mint leaves and spicy lime dressing.
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Perambakkam is a suburb of Chennai in Tiruvallur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a census town in Tiruvallur taluk. The town had a population of 6,462 in the 2011 Census of India, with educational provision including St.Marys matriculation higher secondary school, Om Sri Vivekananda Nursery & Primary School.

Connectivity
The town lies between Poonamallee and Arakkonam, and the neighbourhood is served by the Kadambattur railway station of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network, 10 km from Perambakkam. Shared autos are frequently used to connect to the railway station. Perambakkam is also connected with the city by Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses and also connected to other neighbourhoods by moffusil buses.

History
One of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, fought between Haider Ali and the British, was fought in the area on September 10, 1780. Haider Ali sent his son Fateh Ali Tipu (who later became Tipu Sultan) to fight against the British, led by General Sir Hector Munro in the Battle of Perambakkam. The result of the battle was decisive victory to Haider Ali.

Location

References

Important of Perambakkam

Cities and towns in Tiruvallur district
Suburbs of Chennai


The Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization was created in January 2007 with $18.6 M in support from the Ohio Department of Development, along with matching contributions of $30 M from federal agencies, universities, and industrial partners.
The Center was funded as a means of strengthening the photovoltaics research and manufacturing base in Ohio. Activities revolve around eliminating market barriers currently facing companies in the photovoltaics sector. Companies active in the photovoltaics industry, from those researching advanced materials development to those deploying energy producing devices, advise and coordinate experts in PVIC membership. Ultimately, PVIC consists of an internationally recognized group of photovoltaics fabricators with an infrastructure attractive to companies that are already successfully marketing and to researchers of the future generations of photovoltaics. For maximum impact on increasing production efficiency and lowering costs, PVIC takes a vertically integrated approach from research in advanced materials to the fabrication of production-scale modules, to issues related to installation, and finally to aspects of customer acceptance. Consequently, PVIC consists of academic, industrial, and federal laboratory experts in semiconductors or as suppliers to photovoltaics fabricators. Collaborators in PVIC possess knowledge of how to overcome real-life problems arising in connecting a module to the electric grid and how to obtain customer support for building integrated PV designs. Companies along the entire value chain have been brought into PVIC.
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Photovoltaics was chosen as the focus of PVIC in part because Ohio has a long history of producing successful companies along the entire value chain of PV technology (PV module fabrication, glass and polymer manufacturing, building integration), a field of high economic growth and high employment generation. PVIC is intended to solidify Ohio's leadership in the manufacture of current PV technology and build infrastructure ensuring Ohio's leadership in the PV technologies of the future.


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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, leaders of two nations with a long history of hostilities, opened their second summit Wednesday with smiles, hopeful talk and a friendly dinner that will set the stage for more difficult talks to come about curbing North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Facing widespread skepticism about what they can achieve, the two men exchanged a warm handshake before a phalanx of alternating American and North Korean flags before disappearing for a private, 30-minute pre-dinner chat.
"There have been efforts, whether out of hostility or not, to block the path that we intend to take," he said. "But we have overcome all these and walked toward each other again and we've now reached Hanoi after 261 days" since their first meeting in Singapore.
For all of the optimistic talk, there was broad concern that Trump, eager for an agreement, would give Kim too much and get too little in return — perhaps a peace declaration for the Korean War that the North could use to eventually push for the reduction of U.S. troops in South Korea, for example, or sanctions relief that could allow Pyongyang to pursue lucrative economic projects with the South.
Skeptics insist Trump must first get real progress on the North abandoning its nuclear weapons before giving away important negotiating leverage.
The two leaders were joined for an intimate dinner by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Kim Yong Chol, a former military spy chief and Kim's point man in negotiations, and North Korean Foreign Affairs Minister Ri Yong Ho. Interpreters for each side also attended.
Anticipation for what could be accomplished at the summit ran high in Hanoi. But the carnival-like atmosphere in the Vietnamese capital, with street artists painting likenesses of the leaders and vendors hawking T-shirts showing Kim waving and Trump giving a thumbs-up, contrasted with the serious items on their agenda: North Korea's nuclear weapons program and peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Trump has been trying to convince Kim that his nation could thrive economically like the host country, Vietnam, if he would end his nuclear weapons program.
The summit venue, the colonial and neoclassical Sofitel Legend Metropole in the old part of Hanoi, came with a dose of history: Trump was trying to talk Kim into giving up his nuclear arsenal at a hotel with a bomb shelter that protected the likes of actress Jane Fonda and singer Joan Baez from American air raids during the Vietnam War.
Trump and Kim first met last June in Singapore, a summit that was long on historic pageantry but short on any enforceable agreements for North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal. North Korea has spent decades, at great economic sacrifice, building its nuclear program, and there are doubts that it will give away that program without getting something substantial from the U.S.
North and South Korea also want U.S. sanctions dialed back so they can resurrect two major symbols of rapprochement that provided much-needed hard currency to North Korea: a jointly run factory park in Kaesong and South Korean tours to the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort.
Ahead of the private dinner, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders excluded some U.S. reporters, including The Associated Press, after reporters asked questions of Trump during a previous photo opportunity. "Due to the sensitive nature of the meetings we have limited the pool for the dinner to a smaller group," she said in a statement.


The standing elephant and sitting elephant were also popular catalog items. If you look at the production figures for 1938/39 it is clear they were quite popular. This is further enforced by the addition of two additional elephant's later in production.
Production of these figures would enter the war years.


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2016 Sea Gals Tryouts
Fourty-nine contestants audition for a spot on the 2016 Sea Gals squad
GENNA MARTIN
April 25, 2016 Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 11:57 a.m.
GENNA MARTIN/SEATTLEPI.COMContestants take the stage in the final round of the Sea Gal auditions Sunday, April 24, 2016, at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. More than 200 first round women were culled down to 49 to compete in the final round of auditions for a place on the 2016 squad of Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders.
GENNA MARTIN/SEATTLEPI.COMContestants dance for a panel of judges in the final round of the Sea Gal auditions Sunday, April 24, 2016, at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. More than 200 first round women were culled down to 49 to compete in the final round of auditions for a place on the 2016 squad of Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders.
GENNA MARTIN/SEATTLEPI.COMContestants warm up before competing in the final round of the Sea Gal auditions Sunday, April 24, 2016, at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. More than 200 first round women were culled down to 49 to compete in the final round of auditions for a place on the 2016 squad of Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders.
GENNA MARTIN/SEATTLEPI.COMContestants listen to SeaGals director Sherri Thompson before taking on the final round of the Sea Gal auditions Sunday, April 24, 2016, at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. More than 200 first round women were culled down to 49 to compete in the final round of auditions for a place on the 2016 squad of Seattle Seahawks cheerleaders.


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Jesse's Hunting & Outdoors Forum. California Hunting, Fishing & More > Fishing > US State & Canadian Province Fishing Forums > Washington Fishing > Bargain fish- and wildlife-related gifts offer months of enjoyment
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OLYMPIA - Holiday shoppers with fish and wildlife enthusiasts on their gift lists have lots of options with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) products that have not increased in price in several years.
Fishing and hunting licenses, recreational-site access permits, wildlife license plate backgrounds and other items can be purchased on the Internet, by telephone, or at recreational license vendors across the state.
An annual resident adult freshwater fishing license, including transaction fees, is $21.90; a saltwater fishing license is $20.26 a shellfish/seaweed license is $10.95; and a combination fishing license is $42.16.
Resident hunting licenses vary with package options, ranging from a small-game license at $32.85 to a deer/elk/cougar/bear combination license for $72.27. Prices do not include dealer fees (up to $2.00 per license).
All fishing and hunting license fees include vehicle use permits for access to
nearly a million acres of wildlife lands in 32 wildlife areas and more than 150 water- access sites throughout Washington.
Vehicle use permits for access to these areas can be purchased separately for $10.95 including transaction fees, for wildlife viewers, hikers, boaters and other non-fishing/hunting recreation enthusiasts.
All annual licenses and permits are valid from April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010.
Gift purchases can be made on a secure Internet site at https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/ , or by calling (360) 902-2464. Shoppers heading for sporting goods and other retail stores for other items can purchase licenses from those who are vendors; find hundreds of WDFW license vendors in all Washington counties at http://wdfw.wa.gov/lic/vendors/vendors.htm .
Wildlife-related license plate backgrounds for motor vehicles also can be purchased on-line at http://wdfw.wa.gov/license_plates/ . License plate background options include images of a bald eagle, killer whale, elk, mule deer or black bear for $40, in addition to regular vehicle-licensing fees. Proceeds go to wildlife-management programs for those and other species.
Personalized license plate inscriptions, with your choice of up to seven letters or numbers not already in use, are also available and provide funds for non-hunted wildlife species. Combinations of personalized plates with wildlife images are another option.
Other WDFW products available for gift-giving include:
* Tickets for WDFW's quarterly drawings for a lifetime of hunting and fishing privileges are just $6.50 for state residents and $12.50 for non-residents and are valid for all drawings within 365 days of purchase; for ordering information see https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/
* Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary packet of information on landscaping, supplemental feeding, nest boxes and other ways of creating year-round habitat for birds and other wildlife is just $5; for ordering information see http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/backyard/
* WDFW wildlife books - "Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest" for $25 is a 392-page guide to living and dealing with a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and "Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest" for $28 is a 320-page guide including specialty gardens for butterflies and hummingbirds, ponds and waterways, nest boxes and feeders and more - can be ordered at http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/books_link.htm .
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October 2008 Forecast
By Shane Jenkins
BoxOfficeProphets.com
1) High School Musical 3
This is apparently some movie about basketball and singing. The first of these to actually hit theaters, HSM3 could be a monster. Think Hannah Montana with a much higher theater count. Basically, every tween girl you and I know will be at the movies on October 24th.
2) Saw V
This one seems to be about people with keys behind their eyes. If it's Halloween, it must be Saw, and we all must be yawning. Like Disaster Movie and its ilk, I think the Saw series has run its course. They have traded scares for grossness, and we've been fooled at least once too often. I'm only ranking this as high as I am because there is actually a shocking lack of straight-up horror being released in October. Usually, it's wall-to-wall demonic puppets and serial killers. So I think Saw V will benefit almost solely from having next to no competition in its category. October 24th looks to be one crazy night at the movies.
3) City of Ember
That brat from Atonement and Bill Murray try to generate power by solving puzzles or something. This is director Gil Kenan's follow-up to the awesome Monster House, which is all I need to know to buy a ticket. City of Ember is based on a popular book for young adults, so there would seem to be a built-in audience. Younger viewers probably don't know Murray as anything but the voice of Garfield, but he may help to draw in some adults without kids in tow. The sets and cinematography look great; I'm really pulling for this one.
4) Max Payne
Hitman meets Constantine? Maybe? I don't know, but the trailers are intriguingly strange. Max Payne is a best-selling videogame title that I always thought was a straight-up shoot 'em up, but the movie has scary winged demon things amidst its stylish explosions and gunplay. Color me interested! There is always the caveat that movies based on videogames are usually terrible, and this may not be an exception. But having a legitimate star like Mark Wahlberg should help this achieve numbers closer to Resident Evil than, say, Bloodrayne.
5) Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Or the one where yappy little bastards sing that song that you will never ever be able to get out of your head. Ever. You've seen the trailer, right? A million CG-enhanced Chihuahuas sing the most insidiously catchy song you've ever heard while prancing around some Mayan ruins or something. Supposedly, the trailer has next to nothing to do with the actual movie, and the song reportedly isn't even in it. But it doesn't matter, because every kid is going to be pestering their parents to go see those damn singing dogs. What can make you move? Can you feel the groove? Chihuahua! Seriously, this wakes me up in the middle of the night sometimes. Who can I sue?
6) Body of Lies
Russell Crowe and his BFF Ridley Scott bring Leo DiCaprio into the mix. Is it just me, or has the marketing for this been curiously muted? This should be prime Oscar-bait with the names involved, but the buzz has been deafening in its silence. Is this another A Good Year?
7) Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D
Or How to Drug Your Creator in Three Easy Steps (don't forget the slotted spoon!). This will be a two-weekend wonder, as the Goths, morbid children, and nostalgic Gen Xers celebrate Halloween in three dimensions. Since Halloween falls on a Friday, Disney should at least have two solid frames before this evaporates instantly on November 3rd.
8) Blindness
Blind people are like zombies! Early word hasn't been too great on what looked like a sure-fire awards contender only a couple of months ago. The trailers are trying for a Children of Men vibe, but supposedly the material just isn't there. Which is a shame because it is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and directed by Fernando Meirelles, who gave us the incredible City of God. If reviews aren't kind, though, the art house crowd will likely move on to another prestige project with better buzz.
9) Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Superbad minus Jonah Hill and McLovin. Michael Cera has been on a hot streak lately, peddling his patented brand of Young Newhart to good effect. This should be an interesting test of his star power, since he's headlining the movie, with an assist from the somewhat lesser-known Kat Dennings. The trailer is adorable, and I'm not tired of Cera's shtick quite yet, so I'm already on board; whether he can draw teens away from Eagle Eye's second week remains to be seen.


"Polk County is in the East Texas Timberlands region on the east bank of the Trinity River. The county seat, Livingston, straddles U.S. highways 59 and 190 about seventy-six miles northeast of Houston. The county comprises 1,061 square miles, ranging in elevation from 100 to 300 feet.
"The Big Thicket discouraged European settlement. Although the region now called Polk County was included in a vast royal land grant to Pánfilo de Narváez as early as 1529, the Spanish largely neglected the area. A few roads following Indian trails were completed through the district, but no settlers came. About 100 American and Hispanic families received land grants from various empresarios and companies between 1831 and 1834, but few actually settled the land.
"Polk County, named after President James K. Polk, was one of twenty-three counties formed by the first state legislature of Texas in 1846. The boundaries established on March 30 closely followed those of the old northern division of Liberty Municipality, a subdivision of the Department of Nacogdoches established by the Mexican government in 1830. On August 13, 1870, the part of Polk County west of the Trinity became San Jacinto County. The present area of Polk County was fixed on March 11, 1875, when a portion of Trinity County was annexed. Livingston, formerly Springfield, was selected by a vote as the county seat in 1846."
I visited Polk County and photographed the courthouse in Livingston on September 28, 2009, August 16, 2105, and March 25, 2017.
US Highway 59 (IH-69) bypasses Livingston on the west.
A monument on the courthouse grounds features historic places, people, and events in Polk County.
"1854, plans were underway for a two-story brick courthouse. It was 40 feet square with a wide hallway and four offices on the ground floor and one large open courtroom upstairs. The ground floor walls were 18 inches thick. The cost of this building was just under $6,000. The courtroom continued to be the meeting place for local Churches and social functions until 1858. In 1884, the court authorized the enlargement and renovation of the brick building and added a new stone facade at a cost of $17,500. The architect for this project was Eugene T. Heiner and the builder was W.C. Wells.
"In 1905, the Polk County Courthouse Annex (also known as the County Clerk Building) was built to house the County Clerk and County records on the southwest corner of the courthouse square. The 2-story building of locally produced brick was designed in a Classical Revival style by Houston architect Lewis Sterling Green. It was built by Henderson Shearer & Miller for $6,740."
The Union Pacific (formerly the Southern Pacific) railroad tracks are very close to the west side of the courthouse square.
"The Polk County Courthouse, designed by the Houston architectural firm of McLelland & Fink, was built in 1923-24 to answer the needs of a growing and prosperous county. Each elevation of the courthouse is similarly detailed and arranged, the major difference being that the wider north and south elevations of the building have seven bays while the narrower south and north elevations are five bays wide.
"The 3-story tan brick Classical Revival courthouse features a raised basement, a rectangular plan and a flat roof. The building reflects a simplified Beaux Arts classicism evident in the massive columns dominating the symmetrical facades, strong cornice-line balustrade, arched windows, rectangular plan, flat roof, lack of pediments, and a cross-axial plan."
"Architect John McLelland was born in Greenock, Scotland, trained at the West of Scotland Technical College in Glasgow, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Edinburgh, and migrated to Chicago in 1906. He left soon thereafter to work as an estimator at the Thompson Starrett Company in San Francisco, finding work during the rebuilding after the 1906 fire. After migrating to Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, he settled in Houston in 1911, where he became a prolific designer of public schools. McLelland held the position of architect for the City of Houston in 1919-20, and died suddenly in 1929. Little is known about his partnership with Fink."
The front facade. The brick tower was a 1968 addition for an elevator. Not a particularly sensitive alteration to a historically significant building!
August 16, 2015, the elevator shaft is gone!
The front of the courthouse is restored to it's original appearance.
The north facade, on Church Street, is the front, although there are doors on each side of the building.
The west facade is very close to the tracks.
The south facade. To the left, a 1905 courthouse annex, designed by Houston architect Lewis Sterling Green. The annex is only 23 feet wide!
The 2011 Polk County Judicial Center is directly south of the courthouse, on Mill Street.
The south facade of the Judicial Center.
Looking north on Washington Avenue, on the east side of the courthouse square.
The east facade of the courthouse, on Washington Avenue.
The northeast corner of the courthouse.


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Rigsdagens Aabning er en film med ukendt instruktør.

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Stort opbud af det officielle Danmark i forbindelse med Rigsdagens åbning ca. 1918. Gardehusarer følger de kongeliges kareter. Kong Christian og dronning Alexandrine i åben vogn. Det ser ud som om de forlader Christiansborg. Sidst ses husarerne ved Christiansborg og de kongeliges ankomst til Rigsdagsgården.

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Eksterne henvisninger

Danske film fra 1918
Film fra Danmark (administrationskategori)
Dokumentarfilm fra Danmark
Stumfilm fra Danmark