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Rhetoric Of Next Level Or Getting Nigeria Working Again
By Muhammad Ajah
As significant as this piece can be, let me begin with three quotes that can impress on Nigerians to make informed, unbiased and patriotism-driven choice of the next President of Nigeria on February 16, 2019, at least according to the political aphorism of the two major contestants, President Muhammadu Buhari and former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Buhari wants to take Nigeria to the next level on the premises that much has been achieved by his government to deserve another change.
Atiku, on the other hand, wants to get Nigeria working again on the grounds that Nigeria was working before Buhari took over in 2015 but it was terminated by something – the Buhari's incumbent regime. In the simplest words, Buhari requires consolidation while Atiku requires restarting. Atiku wants to take back Nigeria to the PDP style of governance that spanned between 1999 and 2015, Buhari insists on the path of the progressives with the change mantra that has pushed through with difficulties in the last three and half years. Wherefore lays the rhetoric of these two antithetical approbations?
Before we approbate, let's reflect on Plato's dictum of political maturity when he said: "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics in that you end up being governed by your inferiors". Socrates followed it up with his view that; "The wise who refuse to rule should prepare to suffer the rule of idiots". But George Orwell pulled the conduit with his thesis that: "A people who elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims….but accomplices".
Late celebrated Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, while speaking with former Monitor Africacorrespondent Scott Baldauf about his political views burst out: "…That elusive great Nigerian leader that is able to transcend our handicaps – corruption, ethnic bigotry, the celebration of mediocrity, indiscipline, etc – will only come when we make the process of electing leaders – through free and fair elections in a democracy – as flawless as possible, improving on each exercise as we evolve as a nation."
According to the late super narrator and novelist, "Once we have the right kinds of leaders in place – the true choices of the people – then, I believe, it will be possible to solidify all the freedoms we crave as a people- freedom of the press, assembly, expression, etc. Within this democratic environment, the three tiers of government filled with servant leaders chosen by the people, can pass laws that will put in place checks and balances the nation desperately needs to curb corruption."
On his own part, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka picks holes in Nigerian old politicians who have failed the country in the past. Speaking at Elizade University in Ondo state, the University don encouraged young Nigerians to participate actively in politics and to ensure that they elect people of integrity into government. "All I can just tell you is this; don't make the mistake of following those who failed you before; those who are pretending that they have nothing to do with the disaster that has overtaken Nigeria."
According to him, "They are very quick to smell failure, they are very quick to shout it; but then, they exculpate themselves, whereas they are the founding malfeasance of the Nigerian condition: that is what I am warning against." He opted for proper mobilization against failed politicians of the past. As for the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar, Nigerians believe that going by the unprecedented achievements by Buhari, they may beg Buhari to go for a third term.
If the Buhari government has not done anything to convince the oppositions that Nigeria has been working, thus the essential need for move to the next level, something uncommon has to be done to them. There is definitely no base to claim that Nigeria needs to be brought back to "working again". It is a dangerous dictum. It is like revolting against a God-sent which is a futile risk. The worries of Nigerians should be the actualization of the next level.
It has never happened before in the history of Nigeria that general elections are just nearby and politicians are not wasting "looted funds" on campaigns or political assassinations are unheard of. It has never happened before that Nigerian politicians are refusing properties and monies found on transits or transborders. I would have sworn before now that no sane Nigerian can ever refuse multibillion naira edifices in places like Banana Island in Lagos, Central Business District in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja and other cities like Kaduna, Kano, Port Harcourt, amongst others. Even people who were often used as guises for the looters are refusing to associate themselves with such illegally acquired wealth and properties. Why?
As the case used to be, Nigerian elites looted the commonwealth with impunity. It is no more so. It will be hard folly to believe that politicians are not stealing under the current administration. It is never with impunity because whoever does knows the consequences if caught. It is unlike before when looters were celebrated, when looters stole without fear to buy luxuries and build mansions at tophill, downhill, sidehill or even inside hills. Then they invited political heavyweights and businessmen and women to the launching, leaving the poor Nigerians within the vicinity whose fortunes have been brazenly stolen to peep through from afar and lick the plates and leftover.
It has never been heard before that "big men" mostly political office holders in Nigeria who used to show off their expensive costumes and vehicles at every occasion, are complaining of hardship. Those who used to lavish "illegally acquired" wealth and stupendously donate at peer regular events have devised tactics to dodge the law. They now maintain very low profile. They have abandoned their monies in bushes, deserted building, water storages, soak away pits and graveyards for the fear of Buhari. The volume of recovered stolen wealth by the Nigerian anti-graft agencies between 2015 and 2018 is unprecedented.
Some who have attempted to "import" hard currencies into the country as the general elections approach have been caught by the eagle-eyes of the Nigeria Customs. This never happened in the 16 year democratic experience under the PDP. Even when the former President Olusegun Obasanjo used the EFCC and ICPC to clamp down on political opponents to his third term desperate bid, it could not yield desired results because he sought equity with unclean hands. Corruption, according to reports, reached a full-blown stage during his eight year leadership with Atiku. Most national requirements at the National Assembly were "bribed" through.
A point to reckon is that whichever is more appropriate to close the shop and chase the thief away or open the shop and chase the thief, it is not the type of pot or the means of cooking: gas, firewood or charcoal that determines the deliciousness of the food. Rather, it is the style of cooking and the ingredients. Therefore, some of these rhetorical superimpositions and supercilious speechifying by different Presidential candidates are mere cacophonies of heart-hardened intellectuals bargaining for relevance. They can only be of essence when the masses testify to the practicability.
Before 2015, it was always promises and failures, re-awarding of capital projects every year without completion. From 2015 till date, it has been promises and fulfillment, even though not total but that which has been attested to nationally and internationally. Nigerians, therefore, require the next level of development. Let it be forward ever, not getting what is already working back "to work" by restarting it again.
Muhammad Ajah is an advocate of humanity, peace and good governance in Abuja. E-mail [email protected]
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This article by Trang is a must-read for anyone who has already read the quick start guide and is serious about contributing to Tatoeba. The original version, written in 2010, is updated slightly below.
I started this project in 2006. The initiative was driven by my passion for language learning and frustration about not finding an adequate online dictionary. The project is focused on sentences. Sample sentences were (and still are) a very scarce resource. Please only add complete sentences if you are going to contribute.
I was alone on this project for some time. It was only three years later, in 2009, that other people (all computer science students) started to help me out by coding more features.
Tatoeba is NOT a commercial project. We're not a company, and we're not paid for doing any of this. It is is something that we're working on in our free time.
To be honest, we don't exclude the possibility of starting a company someday, but that is if and only if we have an innovative, coherent and ethical business model (yeah, good luck). Having ads everywhere and driving a lot of traffic, or forcing people to pay to access the data, is out of the question.
That's a table structure. There are rows and columns: a row contains sentences with the same meaning, and a column contains sentences with the same language. That's the first approach anyone might take, but that's NOT how the corpus is constructed.
The structure of the representation has a big effect on the way you can contribute to the corpus. One important implication of the graph structure is that you can add multiple translations in the same language for a specific sentence. You think there are two ways to translate a sentence and you really can't decide which would be the best? Well, just add both!
When you translate a sentence, you are in fact adding a sentence (node) and a link (edge) between the original sentence and your translation. The only thing you need to care about is that you are adding a proper translation to the "main sentence" (the one at the top, in larger type).
You could add "¿Cómo estás?" (informal) or "¿Cómo está usted?" (formal). Even better, you could add both as separate translations of the same original sentence. You should not restrict yourself to choosing an informal translation simply because one was chosen by the person who was working in French. You should only care that your translation is a proper translation of the English sentence: if someone had to translate your contribution back to English, "How are you?" would be a possibility.
We are not interested in having sentences that sound like they were written by a primitive robot that translated the individual words without regard for the sentence as a whole. We want sentences that a native speaker would really say. Translating is a very difficult task, we know. But if you are translating into your native language, you should always, always reread your translation in isolation from the original, and ask yourself if it is actually something people would say. If, for some reason, you want to add a word-by-word translation that is not what a native speaker would say, you should use the comments.
You are allowed to translate into a language other than your own, in which case you are forgiven for not writing native-like sentences. But in this case, please add a comment or tag to request that a native speaker check your sentences and correct any mistakes.
Tatoeba is not only about providing translations. It's also about gathering data on a language. Even if none of the sentences in a given language has yet been translated, those sentences are informative in themselves. However, they must be representative of their language.
To put it another way, the sentences are the basic layer in the Tatoeba corpus. The links between the sentences form another layer. However, the corpus should have value even without that second layer.
As I mentioned in the previous section, sentences in Tatoeba have value apart from their translations. Consequently, before you modify a sentence, look at it without paying attention to its translations, and ask yourself "Does this sentence have any spelling or grammar mistake? Does it sound weird?". If the answer is "No", then do NOT edit it! If one or more of the translations is incorrect, you should break the links between them (or ask someone else to do it for you), but the content of sentences that are valid in themselves should remain unchanged.
You may be tempted to edit a sentence so that its meaning matches all the other sentences. Or perhaps you want to turn a sentence into a word-for-word translation. But this is not a good idea. Not only does a word-for-word translation run the risk of sounding unnatural (cf. rule #4), but you're replacing data when you could be adding new data and keeping the old.
Perhaps you are a native Spanish speaker and are tempted to change the Spanish sentence. In this particular case, it would still be acceptable because the Spanish sentence is not linked to any other sentence. But if someone had translated that Spanish sentence into Italian, "correcting" the Spanish sentence would cause a conflict with the Italian translation.
The best way to proceed in this kind of situation is to add a new Spanish translation (Me llamo Trang) and "unlink" the current Spanish translation. NOTE: Only "trusted users" (users with a level of advanced contributor or higher) can unlink. However, anyone can post a comment to request that a sentence be unlinked.
While you should correct the language flag for a sentence if it is wrong (for instance, it is flagged as Chinese when it is in fact Japanese), you shouldn't replace, say, a Japanese sentence by a Chinese sentence with the same meaning.
The problem is that a sentence can be associated with data, such as comments, that depend on its language. People can post comments on sentences, and the comments may be valid only because the sentence was in a certain language.
At the moment, this is mostly an issue for Japanese sentences, which are associated with special annotations. These annotations are not displayed because they are not useful for normal users. If you change a Japanese sentence into an English sentence, then the annotations that were associated with it won't make sense anymore.
Now there is the case where you want to point out that a translation is wrong. Your comment will be related to two sentences, so where should you post it? Well, ideally, for this type of situation, there should be the possibility of commenting on a link between two sentences. But we don't have that, so we can only comment on a sentence. You are free to decide where you want to post your comment. Just remember that your comment must be related to the main sentence.
We are distributing the corpus under the Creative Commons Attribution (or CC-BY) license. This makes it possible for anyone to re-use this data in any way they want as long as they mention Tatoeba in their work.
But providing your work under CC-BY means you also have some responsibilities for what you provide. And you have to know that you cannot legally redistribute data if it was copied from a source that doesn't clearly state that you can. Typically, you cannot (legally) copy all the sentences from a textbook and add them into in Tatoeba.
Don't worry, you (and we) won't land in jail and be in debt for life if you've added a couple of sentences from a textbook. But the law forbids us from taking a significant amount of someone's work and reusing it without their consent. Producing sentences and translations is work, so be careful where you get the sentences from. Preferably, come up with your own sentences or take them from books that are in the public domain.
If you have added or seen sentences that were copied from a copyrighted source, change a few words so that it won't be exactly the same sentence. Or go negotiate with the authors and convince them to release their work under the CC-BY license so we can re-use it.
Please follow these guidelines so that we don't get sued.
Your translation can be retranslated into another language, and it's less easy for people to translate sentences that contain alternatives (like "him/her"), since they may result in changes to other parts of the sentences, making the result unwieldy.
We know that Tatoeba is not perfect, so don't hesitate to tell us what you think is missing (though it is a good idea to see whether the subject has already been discussed on the Wall already). Also tell us if you see any spelling mistake, feel that some explanations are not clear, or encounter bugs.
For instance we are distributing the entire corpus, but many people probably don't need all the sentences in all the languages. You may just want the English-Spanish sentences. Well instead of asking and waiting for us to provide a file with only English-Spanish sentences, you can code a tool (and please, tell us if you do) that will extract only what you want from our files.
That's just one example but if you are a programmer, there could be many things you could do yourself instead of waiting for us to do it. But of course, tell us so we don't duplicate your effort.
We still don't have a sound methodology and organization in our way of working and I really don't have time to manage more people. However if you love the project and are really motivated to join the development team, then feel free to contact us =). See our introduction for new developers.
Since Tatoeba involves languages, it can be very useful for other users to know which languages you can speak and how well you can speak them. In your profile, be sure to fill out the section immediately under your personal description. It contains an "Add a language" button. For each language you add, you can indicate your proficiency. Tell other users to indicate their languages as well (if they haven't already), especially if they have already contributed.
Community is very important in a project like Tatoeba. We just can't fulfill our ambitions without a strong community. But how do you build one? Well, one thing is NOT to make new users feel lost and isolated.
Part of this depends on the system. It has to be designed in a way that not only enables but also encourages users to interact with each other. Tatoeba offers a Wall, private messages, and comments.
And, of course, the other part depends on the community itself. It must make an effort to build its strength. If someone is asking a question to which you can answer, don't hesitate to help out. If you notice someone is going something wrong, don't hesitate to (politely!) tell them the right way to do it. If you notice someone or some people have been contributing significantly, don't hesitate to drop a line (in a private message or on the Wall) to say "congratulations" or "thank you" for their work.
In the end, anyone who knows how to read and how to write can participate. There's no need to be a polyglot. Even if you can "just" hunt for mistakes and correct them or point them out, this will be already extremely helpful. If you have programming skills, you can be helpful in working with our software. The more people we have, the more mistakes we can fix, and the more data we can produce that people can rely on. And everyone can live happily ever after.


The scorching sun hardly spares any part of the country for more than four months! Finally, the relentless summer gives way to monsoon and we breath a sigh of relief with the first sweet drops of rain. However, the rain doesn't seem sweet for long as when it gets heavier and its spells become more and more frequent, it turns out to be a destructive natural phenomenon. We can hardly appreciate its beauty when it leaves behind all signs of damages; especially to two of our most precious possessions, home and car. The mental agitation over the loss of these two prized possessions can quickly transform into a financial setback if we are not armed with adequate car and home insurance policies.
In many parts of India, monsoon imposes a threat of flood and both motor vehicles and residences get adversely affected by floods. No wonder, we, the residents and car-owners have to go through the ordeal which intensifies in case of no insurance cover in place. Let's elaborate on the importance of car and house insurance plans in India particularly in monsoon.
Why a motor insurance is a must for you this monsoon?
Car insurance companies in India don't receive as many claims for the rest of the year as they do in monsoon. Car insurance policyholders make claims for their insured vehicles for a number of reasons.
Monsoon mornings are quite misty and foggy roads with poor visibility are more often than not responsible collisions of cars which might result into severe damage or total loss of the vehicle. A comprehensive car insurance in India safeguards car-owners in such situations as it covers the financial loss due to damage to the car. Well, a motor insurance plan saves you a million in case of a collision but what will you do if heavy rains stall your new car in water-logged roads? Even a comprehensive motor insurance plan doesn't cover engine damage and the depreciation of motor parts when repaired and replaced.
The one and only way to stay protected from these common car damages during monsoon is to avail car insurance add-on covers. Here is a list of add ons that you should grab this monsoon for the complete safety pf your cherished vehicle. These add-on covers don't cost much especially compared to the enormous cost of replacing engine.
Hydrostatic Lock Cover - It specifically covers financial losses for repair or replacement of damaged engine parts due to water ingression and hydrostatic lock.
Engine Protector – The Engine Protector cover is comprehensive in nature as it provides coverage for consequential damage to engine due to water ingression or leakage of lubricating oil. This add-on also covers damage to gear box of the car.
Depreciation Cover – The depreciation cover looks after the total cost of repair and replacement your vehicle parts so that you don't have to pay the depreciation cost.
Roadside Assistance – This add-on cover offers assistance to stranded insured vehicles all over India and multiple benefits in the likes of flat tyre assistance, fuel assistance, lost key assistance, towing facility. This add-on cover can provide you with legal help if the situation demands.
All these add-on covers won't set fire to your wallet. The damages these covers protect financially are lot more costlier and surely capable of making a big dent in your savings if you are not armed with these add-on covers. Let's take a look at the price of the essential car insurance add-on covers during monsoon.
*The cost of Roadside assistance cover varies from one insurer to another. Apart from the cost mentioned above, some other insurers has two slabs for its price such as Rs. 250 and Rs. 750.
** The cost of all add-on covers are indicative and may differ from one insurer to another.
Apart from the vehicles, households are the worst sufferers of heavy and long spells of rain. Home-owners usually make some evasive efforts to minimize the loss by shifting documents and portable assets to safer place. You should also check the water level and ensure electric wires are not in contact with the rising water. However, despite these measures, households are still vulnerable to events like floods that many parts of India experiences during monsoon. In this scenario, a comprehensive house insurance policy can save you from financial losses due to damage of structure and assets of residences.
While the practice of availing car insurance and add-on covers is pretty commonplace in India as motor insurance is mandatory, there is hardly any demand for home insurance in India. Many home-owners are not even aware of such a cover and many shy away from it due to many wrong concepts about house insurance policy coverage and premiums. But in reality, house insurance plans are inexpensive and come with comprehensive coverage for a range of household goods such as furniture, clothes, electrical, mechanical and electronic appliances, sanitary fittings and fixtures. The coverage of house insurance plans are wide and include losses due to flood along with other natural perils such as fire, earthquake, cyclone, storm, lightning and the likes. Aside from the natural perils, insurance plans for households also cover losses due to missile testing, damages caused by aircraft, terrorist acts, strike, riot, explosions.
Now that you know you can beat the flood by picking a house insurance cover for your residence, you should be wondering how much premium you have to pay for it.
How much a comprehensive home insurance plans will cost you?
You can choose between insuring your household only and insuring your residence along with valuable assets. The plan that includes contents of the household is called package policy. If you want to insure the household only you have to select the building option. You can go for longer tenure to avail discount. If you choose a duration of as many as 15 years, you are eligible for a whopping 50% discount.
There are also optional covers to cover earthquake and terrorism related risks. If you want to avail this optional cover, the premium will increase accordingly.
If you want to cover assets too you have to opt for package policy. If you are the owner of the residence you can cover both the building and the contents.
But, if you live in the house on rent you can cover household items only. And the premium will also be calculated accordingly.
In your house insurance plan, you can also insure your costly assets specifically. You can opt for separate coverage of particular items. In that case, you have to mention the value of the items you want to cover. If you select the 'all risk' option or you can get coverage of 33.33% of the total content value.
By opting for a home insurance package policy you can also cover your third party liabilities.
If you or any of your family member or your domestic servant is liable for paying compensation to third parties in the event of accidental death or physical injury to third party and or damage to property of third parties.
This coverage is for accidental death, disease or bodily injury to any domestic employee appointed by you or your family.
Now you are all set to compare home insurance plans. If you want to insure your house for 50 lakhs and home contents for another 10 lakhs you will get burglary coverage for the same amount of sum insured for home contents. You can further insure your public liability expenses for another Rs. 1 lakh and get a personal accident cover worth Rs. 1Lakh as well. Since your chosen content value is Rs. 10 Lakh you will get a coverage of Rs. 3,33,300 (33.33% of content value) for 'all risks'.
After submitting all details you will get multiple home insurance plans in India to choose from. Here are top 4 home insurance plans as per the details submitted. You need to compare home insurance online in terms of premium and different aspects of coverage to pick the best policy out of these 4 plans.
Of late, buying home insurance online has become lot easier. To insure contents worth Rs. 5 lakh and above, the online process doesn't require lengthy verification process of documents. The house insurance policy now offers new home contents to replace insured old damaged home contents. This means in case of loss, lost contents are replaced by a new ones of same kind.
According to reports, in September 2014, floods caused a staggering 4.4 billion dollar loss in India. So, you should keep two of your most costly possessions protected this monsoon by availing home and car insurance along with add-on cover. Nowadays it takes just 5 minutes to compare and buy home insurance online in India. You can resort to GIBL.IN, the premiere online insurance marketplace in India to grab a house insurance policy online at the lowest price. Delaying decision can cost you dearly, especially now when the monsoon has set in. Get your online home insurance policy today.


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4 questions: A flight with Lupine Brewing Company ????
"I like every single thing that you're doing" – it's the best compliment Lupine has gotten.
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We're highlighting Minnesota's 100-plus craft breweries with our flight series – four questions for the people behind the beer. This week is Lupine Brewing Company.
Lupine Brewing Company started brewing in St. Cloud in October 2014 before moving to River Street in Delano in 2015, where they focus on making well-balanced, easy-drinking beers and connecting with the community.
"Each one of our [beer] recipes can stand alone – it's not like we're using one recipe and changing this or changing that. Every single recipe is created independent of everything else so they're all unique, which is really neat," James Anderle, the president of Lupine, told GoMN.
I sat down with Anderle last month to sample a bunch of the beers they had on tap, including Murder of Cranberries (an oatmeal stout), Lupine IPA, and Tommy Tea-Toedlr (a black lager infused with tea – it's one of their many beers made with tea).
What's the best reaction you've gotten from someone to one of your beers?
"When people come order a flight of our beers and they tell me 'there's not one beer on this flight that I don't like ... I can't say that about other breweries we went to' – that feels good to me, when people come in and say 'I like every single thing that you're doing,'" Anderle said.
What's a misconception people have of those who work in the craft brewing industry?
"Not everybody has a beard," Anderle said. "We're not all hipster millennials. ... But you saw our brewer has a beard, so he fits the profile."
What is the beer you tried that made you want to start a brewery?
"Until I opened the brewery, I was a Summit EPA drinker for probably 20 years, so I have to say I went from Summit to Lupine." Anderle said.
What beer is in your fridge right now?
"Nothing. Honestly I don't. I have a brewery – it's all here," Anderle said.
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The mission of the International Committee of the red cross (ICRC) has sent to Donbas 12 trucks with humanitarian aid, said on Thursday the press-service of state frontier service of Ukraine.
«Through PPC «Novotroitsk» in the temporarily occupied territory proceeded 12 trucks with humanitarian aid from the International Committee of the red cross total weight 239,5 tons», — stated in the message.
International organizations regularly send to the Donbass humanitarian aid.


I'm obsessing over jean shirts at the moment. I love all the different ways they can be worn, either super casual or dressed up with a chic twist. I'm planning a short trip at the end of the month and I think this will be my staple piece, either with white jeans and sandals or paired with a feminine skirt. And with a touch of sequins for dinner?


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Wow, I can't believe the first month of 2015 is over already! I'm another year older, but I feel like this month has ended on a very positive note for me. I may not have the perfect everything yet, but I'm so happy with my decisions these days. That's a feeling you can't summon on command. I'll savor it while I've got it.
Most of my pictures went into my belated birthday recap, but here's what else went on!
 January started with the remnants of Christmas decorating Boston Common.  My waffle maker got a lot of use this month! I love making uneven shapes for some reason.  I'm not sure if hat hair is a problem or a solution.  The cold would never stop me from strolling down my beloved Boylston Street.  Yes, you've seen my record player before! I bought the new Jenny Lewis album, The Voyager. I'm on the lookout for more vinyl to add to my collection.  Browsing the paper shops on Charles Street in Beacon Hill, I found this adorable stationary the perfect way to say thank you for all the birthday love!  Juno hit us hard here, but I had the best day working from home. I read two books and didn't leave my bed.  Sadly, I had to go to work the next day. Check out all this snow in Cambridge!  A new, weird hobby I've taken up: teaching myself hiragana! I've wanted to learn Japanese forever, so why not take some steps toward that.
I hope you all had a lovely start to this year!
It's a brand new month to make wonderful!
AND HEY, HOW 'BOUT THOSE PATRIOTS?!


These potatoes show up at every church function, especially funerals. Hence the name. My family loves them with ham, so this dish always makes an appearance at Thanksgiving and Easter.
Peel and quarter potatoes and place in a large pot. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Cook until they are easily pierced with a fork, but not mushy. Remove from heat and drain the water. Let cool.
When cool, use a grater with large holes and grate the potatoes (or you can cut them into small bite-sized cubes).
While the potatoes are cooling, place the butter, sour cream and cream, bullion salt and pepper in a medium sauce pan and heat over low heat until all ingredients are well combined. Remove from heat.
In a mixing bowl combine the potatoes, sauce, and cheese. Pour into a greased pyrex baking dish.
Place in a preheated 350 degree oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle the french fried onions on top of the casserole. Return to oven, and bake for 5 minutes more.


Students cannot enroll if they have completed UC 270, Topic Title "A User's Guide to Liberal Arts".
The "Liberal Arts and Sciences" is one of those phrases that everyone uses and seems to know what they mean, but few people would actually feel comfortable defining. This course is designed to help students understand why their college education looks the way it does and learn to speak confidently about how their liberal arts education is preparing them for success in a wide range of possible careers and endeavors. Find out what LSA graduates from the University of Michigan do with their degrees, what employers are looking for in recent college grads, and how important your major really is. You'll also meet LSA alumni, get to know the structure of your university better, and debate current issues in U.S. higher education.


How Many Cell Phones is a Gorilla Worth?
How many cell phones is a gorilla worth? In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, eastern lowland gorillas are being killed for food by miners searching for coltan, a mineral in demand for making capacitors used in high-tech electronics. Each gorilla lost diminishes the country's potential to attract ecotourists.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to 80% of the world's coltan reserves.
In the yard of the Shenimed sorting house, young men are busy sorting and cleaning colombo-tantalite ore, or coltan, as it is known in this part of the world.
Regional analysts say the international demand for coltan is one of the driving forces behind the war in the DRC, and the presence of rival militias in the country.
First the young men toss it up into the air as if they were winnowing rice.
Then they sort it with magnetic tweezers to eliminate any particles of iron ore.
It is then washed, crushed manually in a big pestle and mortar and tested again for iron ore before being fed into a photospectrometer to test its tantalum content.
The men concentrate calmly on their work or joke among themselves.
It is a far cry from the drama of the "No blood on my cell phone" campaign that a group of NGOs and religious communities have launched in Europe to lobby for an embargo on so called "blood tantalum", the colombo-tantalite ore that comes from the war zones in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tantalum is essential in the manufacture of electrical components known as pinhead capacitors.
These regulate voltage and store energy in mobile phones, tens of millions of which have been sold in the past few years.
The European lobby groups, like the regional analysts, say that coltan production is fuelling the war in Congo.
I was so touched by this story, with its shades of 'Blood Diamonds' that I wrote a song questioning our relentless need for more and better high-tech goods like cell phones. Once again, it is worth being aware of the implications of every purchase we make. By the way, I still don't own a cell phone and I don't feel I'm missing a thing.
The song is called Lookin' and if you click here you'll get to a page where there's a link to it.
It has been a great pleasure for our family to get to know Russ and Gina Garcia in the last years. I wrote of them in a previous blog. This amazing couple have been married for 56 years. Out of respect for the love they have shared and obviously continue to share for each other, I decided to read out a poem at the end of the Voices from the North interview I did with them in 2007. The poem was the famous one of Khalil Gibran's, On Marriage, from The Prophet.
The Garcias went on to explain that they remarry each year by renewing their wedding vows with each other.
Marriage is an act of faith and a personal commitment, as well as a moral and physical union between two human beings. It involves the construction of the love and trust of those two individuals into a single growing energy of spiritual life. Marriage should be a life-long consecration to the ideal of loving kindness, backed with the will to make it last.
And takes nothing but from itself.
I've just checked and I can see that the friend who put the words of our ceremony together and who legally presided over the wedding had taken the liberty of altering Gibran's original words to suit the occasion. I trust that you receive succour from their beauty nonetheless. I can honestly say that these words are more meaningful to Lucia and me with each turning of this beautiful planet around the sun.
Marriage remains a sacred commitment to us. For a previous blog I wrote on marriage which contains Gibran's words on the same subject click here.
We attended an intimate celebration of fifty years of marriage for two dear friends in December. They had chosen to redo their vows, have each participant take turns reading out various touching words related to marriage and play a few appropriate songs for the occasion. My little contribution was to read out Kahlil Gibran's words on Marriage from The Prophet. Lucia and I had used these words as part of our marriage ceremony close to 19 years ago. Near the end of our circle of sharing another dear friend sprang up from his chair, approached his partner seated nearby, got down on one knee and proposed to her. Nearly speechless in shock, his partner nodded her consent. There wasn't a dry eye in the place. I'm happy I always carry a handkerchief!
He and his lovely partner have been together for years and have two wonderful young boys. This is not this friend's first long term relationship and he admitted to us all that he had never been married and half jokingly thought he would like to before he turned 60 next year. All of us were touched by the richness of this simple ceremony and the consequences it had for two (four including the boys) of us. The spontaneous proposition in no way detracted from the spirit of the occasion and only temporarily removed the focus from the people whose landmark anniversary was being honoured.
I believe the institution of marriage has tremendous value. It is a commitment to go through the fires of life together, through the ups and downs of finances, health, and relationship challenges and to come out the other side stronger and providing a valuable model for the couples that follow. Two of the pieces of music that were played were Amanda McBroom's The Rose and John Denver with Placido Domingo singing Perhaps Love together.
These words have touched and inspired countless people around the world to look at their lives and see if they are truly living from the source. I encourage you to do the same.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow; if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from the fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it or fix it.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear the accusations of betrayal and not betray your own soul; I want to know if you can be faithless and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "YES".
She speaks with passion of the role of the Green Party being a voice for the environment and for the voiceless members of society. She eloquently elaborates on how the Greens look to the long term—50 to 100 years—rather than the superficial perspective the big parties tend to have.
She speaks of the damage in low income communities of 'pokies' (slot machines) and how the main parties seem to have a 'conspiracy of silence' with issues like this. Sue, herself a mother of five children, elaborates on the importance of early childhood education for all socio-economic classes. This was a timely interview as the New Zealand elections were November 8th, 2008.


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Q: How to specify javax.xml.accessExternalSchema for the JAXB2 Maven plugin I have a maven plugin (jaxb2) and I need to supply a jvm arg to it. I don't think there is a tag to add jvm args in the pom for it.
I know I can pass in jvm args on the command line eg: mvn clean install -Djavax.xml.accessExternalSchema=all
Is it possible to set this jvm arg in the pom so that I don't have to type it into the command line every time?
(As aside - this jvm arg is required in order for it to work with JAVA-8. It works fine with JAVA-7)

A: Re; the post - "I needed a solution that doesn't use alpha versions as that is my companies rules. –"
Changing the version to 1.0 & the value to 'all' got it working for me:
<plugin>
<!-- We use this plugin to ensure that our usage of the
maven-jaxb2-plugin is JDK 8 compatible in absence of a fix
for https://java.net/jira/browse/MAVEN_JAXB2_PLUGIN-80. -->
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <!--
    <version>1.0-alpha-2</version> -->
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>set-additional-system-properties</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>set-system-properties</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <properties>
            <property>
                <name>javax.xml.accessExternalSchema</name>
                <value>all</value>
            </property>
        </properties>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

A: This is relevant to the new XML security properties in JAXB 1.5, introduced in Java 8. This is why your builds now fail on Java 8 but work with Java 7.
If you're using my maven-jaxb2-plugin, please upgrade to the version 0.9.0 or later (current is 0.10.0). It has now a accessExternalSchema switch (default is all).
This sets precisely javax.xml.accessExternalSchema=all.
Please see the documentation.

A: I came across this issue while working with jaxb2-maven-plugin. I found a related jira issue for maven-jabx2-plugin - https://java.net/projects/maven-jaxb2-plugin/lists/issues/archive/2014-03/message/0
According to this issue Stephan202 suggested using properties-maven-plugin which worked like charm. Here is a sample code from his post -
<plugin>
<!-- We use this plugin to ensure that our usage of the
maven-jaxb2-plugin is JDK 8 compatible in absence of a fix
for https://java.net/jira/browse/MAVEN_JAXB2_PLUGIN-80. -->
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>set-additional-system-properties</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>set-system-properties</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <properties>
            <property>
                <name>javax.xml.accessExternalSchema</name>
                <value>file,http</value>
            </property>
        </properties>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

A: It has worked for me :
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>process-sources</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>wsimport</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <vmArgs>
                    <arg>-Djavax.xml.accessExternalSchema=all</arg>
                </vmArgs>
                <keep>true</keep>
                <verbose>true</verbose>
                <wsdlDirectory>${project.build.directory}/wsdl</wsdlDirectory>
                <wsdlFiles>
                    <wsdlFile>ServiceWsService.wsdl</wsdlFile>
                </wsdlFiles>
                <bindingFiles>
                    <bindingFile>custom-binding.xml</bindingFile>
                    <bindingFile>custom-binding2.xml</bindingFile>
                </bindingFiles>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

A: Take a look at the Maven Compiler Plugin. Specifically you should be able to use the <compilerArgument> element to pass settings to the compiler.
See http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/examples/pass-compiler-arguments.html for examples.

A: If you are trying to change the behavior of the JVM that is running Maven itself, add options to MAVEN_OPTS in the environment before launching mvn.

A: For maven-jaxb2-plugin version 2.5.0 trying to generate from DTD and spitting

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: External parsing is disabled. Cannot
parse URI: ...

it helped adding the following to plugin configuration
     <configuration>
         ...
         <externalEntityProcessing>true</externalEntityProcessing>
     </configuration>

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FCBG - What does FCBG stand for? The Free Dictionary
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FCBG
FCBG Federation of Children's Book Groups (UK)
FCBG Freie Christliche Bekenntnisschule Gummersbach (German: Gummersbach Free Christian Denominational School; Gummersbach, Germany)
You could recount a story in the depths of a castle, on a bridge or under a bridge, under the bed, in a cafe, at a stately home, in the depths of a forest, a tent, at the bottom of the garden, in a bird hide, on an island, at a museum, at a fairground, on the bus, on a park bench "The ideas are endless," says the FCBG.
Get reading outside your comfort zone; Share-A-Story month encourages finding safe but unusual places to read books
3) FCBG [greater than or equal to] 126mg/dl warrants diagnosis of DM.
Prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose regulation amongst the executives of an industrial area of assam
Following the game, the winners' trophy was presented by Qatar Airways sales manager Mohamed Ifthard Shariff, in the presence of FCBG chairman Emil Durano and other FCBG officials.
Metrobank-Nafex clinch Commercial League title
By 1968 more groups had begun to spring up across the country, and the FCBG came into being, linking them all together.
Books: Groups' gathering
Sinead Kromer, FCBG national secretary, presented the cheque to centre trustee Val Bierman and Isobel McConnell, eight.
Cash for centre
The FCBG also organise a range of national initiatives:
A Golden Anniversary: FCBG Celebrates 50 Years
Also on hand were FCBG president Emil Durano and other FCBG members.
BIC win third place in style
With the Spring comes the awards season with shortlists announced for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, for the UKLA Book Awards (often called the teacher's Carnegie) for the SLA's own Information Book Awards, for the FCBG Children's Book Award and for the 'NIBBLES' (the Book Industry awards) and the winners of the Blue Peter, the Guardian, the Waterstones and the Costas have all been announced.
I was already beginning to ask visiting authors to stay on to talk to parents, local teachers and librarians after spending a day with students in school, and had hosted multi-school events organised by both our School Library Service (SLS) and the local branch of the Federation of Children's Book Groups (FCBG).
If you go down to the woods today ..
THE Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) basketball team barged into the Division 'A' semi-finals of the Inter-Colour League in the Filipino Club Basketball Group (FCBG) first conference, being played at Muharraq Club in Arad.
BIC team outplay KIB to clinch semi-final berth
QATAR Airways is sponsoring the upcoming knockout quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals in the first conference of the Filipino Club Basketball Group's (FCBG) 39th season, being played at the Muharraq Club gym in Arad.
Qatar Airways backs FCBG matches
FIL-AM registered a resounding 74-59 victory over Al Faih Manpower Services/Hackers 'A' in the All-Filipino Commercial League of the Filipino Club Basketball Group (FCBG) first conference, being played at Muharraq Club in Arad.
Cuerpo brothers lead Fil-Am past Al Faihaa


The primary reason we're only gathering every other week is the boring one. It's simply because some of those in leadership still have responsibilities to finish up at Grace Community Church, which is our sending church. Grace has been very supportive in the whole process of planting, and we're very grateful for their assistance and oversight, which will continue for several years. They are allowing us to get River City started here in January, but I'm still on staff there until the end of March and Pastor Toby continues to work toward his certification in Bible Counseling, which should finish up around mid-February or so.
The secondary reason is a much more spiritual and strategic one. Basically it's because we're new to pastoral leadership and church planting, and we don't want to burn out before summer. We want to start off at a manageable pace, and meeting bi-weekly for a couple months seems to give us time to iron out the kinks, develop our routine and procedure for getting you all plugged into the ambassador spots where you serve, and to make sure we're able to go at pace we can sustain.
Most likely we will move to gathering every week in April or May.
What Should We Do In The Off Week?
Invite people over for Sunday brunch. You know those neighbors of yours who might never darken the door of a church but might come over for food? Invite them into your home on those off-Sunday mornings and use the opportunity to be an ambassador of Christ's love for them with generous hospitality.
Have Community Group. Have your small group or Bible Study group to your home for breakfast or lunch on those off-Sundays and spend time in the word, or praying together. Have a specific prayer time for Riverside and the surrounding communities. Pray for those neighbors, coworkers, family members who don't know Jesus. Ask God to give you strength and courage to speak boldly. Encourage each other in the faith, and together commit to doing suggestion #1 as a group sometime.
I see these off-weeks as an important opportunity to be intentional with your faith, to engage in outreach and make a difference in someone's life. It's an opportunity to turn your hearts toward those who live around you, and reach out in faith that God can use you, your homes, your table, your living room, to do something impactful for his kingdom's sake.
Whatever you decide to do, if you're fired up about what God did through you or your community group on these off weeks over the next three months, please write us at rivercityia@gmail.org and tell us about it so we can celebrate with you!
See you on January 13!


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Keith Thurman vs Mario Barrios
This is an interesting fight coming up next week promoted by Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) and their promoter of record, Tom Brown (TGB Promotions). One Time Keith Thurman, a former world champion and well-known fighter with wins over Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia, Josesito Lopez, and a split decision loss against all-time great Manny Pacquiao brings with him plenty of big fight experience. El Azteca Mario Barrios is also a former world champion, who lost his title against the great Gervonta Davis. Cornered in part, by Virgil Hunter, who was the coach of undefeated champion Andre Ward, Mario Barrio has a high-powered coaching team behind him.
Keith Thurman Style: Boxer/Puncher from the Outside
Keith Thurman is what I would surely call a boxer/puncher. He has the skill and movement to box from the outside. He can lead the attack and he can counter-punch. He has good power, which is why early in his career his nickname was One Time–in that he can knock you out if he hits you one time. From seeing his fights, he is a well-rounded fighter, able to make in-fight adjustments as necessary, change his style and strategy round by round.
Considering the three general styles–of boxer, pressure, and slugger–he is a boxer. Range is mostly outside, but he has the ability to fight at all ranges. However, he does not seem to prefer the mid-range.
Mario Barrios Style: Mid-range Counter Puncher
Mario Barrios is someone I was not too familiar with. After view his last three fights, he looks to be a mid-range guy. He has offense, but you would not call him an aggressive fighter. He is primarily a counterpuncher, with good finishing instincts. What I mean, is when he thinks his opponent is vulnerable, he will unleash a combination.
All in all, he is a mid-range counter puncher. He has some power, but he mostly deals damage with combinations.
So we have an outside boxer/puncher versus a mid-range counterpuncher. This is a strange match up because the boxer/puncher usually, can also counterpunch. From watching his previous fights against pressure fighters, Mario Barrios has struggled a bit, losing against Tank Davis and winning with a late knockdown against the Russian Batyr Akhmedov. However, both of these pressure fighters were also southpaws, which added a challenging variable. With Keith Thurman's history, I would not assume that he's going to bring relentless pressure.
In the boxing manual published by the Navy, it was written that between fighters of the same skill level, the one who is better at feinting will win. The two common strategies against a counterpuncher is a pressuring, volume attack to overwhelm the counterpuncher, or to make the counterpuncher go first. Classically, the way to make the counterpuncher go first is to use a lot of feints. A more modern style born out of Olympic boxing is to attack or show your punches while retaining your balance to step back or defend and follow with a counter to the counter; but if the counter punch does not come, you step in and throw committed combinations.
Being the smart boxer that he is, I'd assume that Keith Thurman will try to establish the jab and also use a lot of feints. I can easily imagine him circling from the outside throwing jabs and feints; if the knockout is there, he will take it, but I don't think he has as much power as Tank. Otherwise, he might be content with winning a decision with circling and jabbing, and landing the occasional telling blow off a feint, as he counters the counter of Mario Barrios.
How can Mario Barrios win? I think strategically, he will have a little harder time because of his preference for the mid-range. I'm not 100% sure, but I think he's moved up in weight for this fight. Okay, I've looked it up, and he has moved up. This is a welterweight fight as opposed to feather or super featherweight. In the lower weight classes, he had the height and reach advantage. In the battle for dominance of range, or the zone of combat as Nacho Beristain calls it, Mario Barrios's opponents typically had to step to him, get inside to land. Barrios needed merely to hold his ground and hit them as they come in. Against Thurman, he will not have as big of a height or reach advantage. Thurman will not need to get inside to touch him, and Thurman, while circling, will be able to reach Barrios. I would like it if Barrios fought inside a bit more.
Keith Thurman has only lost once, against an all-time great, left-handed, volume and power puncher. There's not exactly a blueprint to defeating him. Against Danny Garcia, he did take a split decision win, so maybe something there can be enlightening. Danny Garcia does have some similarities to Mario Barrios, in that both are mid-range counterpunchers. However, Garcia has the clear power advantage over Barrios.
Against Thurman, I'd like to have a volume attack with power punching. That would be ideal, take away his space and land hard shots. Unfortunately, I haven't seen those things from Barrios. That doesn't mean he can't execute those strategies, however. Perhaps, he's been waiting to show them.
Based solely on what he has done in the past, I think Barrios would be well served by cutting off the ring, and touching Thurman as Thurman comes in. Work the body early to slow Thurman down in the later rounds. Take away the movement, force the fight into his pace towards the end of the fight. I would not carry the fight to Thurman until the ring has been cut off–you need to put Thurman in the corner first before leading because in the center of the ring, he's just going to dance around you. Barrios needs to have the mind of winning the rounds with clean, telling blows.
I think this is going to be a tactical fight. I think Thurman takes it based on his movement and power punching.
This entry was posted in boxing and tagged boxing on January 31, 2022 by chris.
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Lake Como: Villas & Gardens (7 days, 6 nights)
Lake Como: Villas & Gardens
7 days & 6 nights, Escorted Discovery Group
Escorted Discovery Group Journeys offer the best of must-see destinations and less-visited, exotic locations: comfortable accommodations and small group sizes with never more than 25 travelers. These journeys offer a great opportunity to discover the world in comfort and camaraderie with like-minded travelers.
Escorted Discovery Group
Stay in a beautiful lakeside location on Lake Como, surrounded by panoramic vistas and pristine waters. From here take a boat trip on Lake Como to the delightful town of Bellagio; travel on the Bernina Express, a scenic narrowgauge rail journey over the Bernina Pass skirting snow-covered mountain peaks and glaciers; and visit the Como silk museum to discover the art of silk making.
Arrive Milan - Como
You will be met and driven from Milan Linate Airport to Como, a distance of approximately 42 miles and a journey time of about 1 hour.
The Albergo Firenze - 7 Nights (D)
This morning, take a cruise across Lake Como to Bellagio, known as the 'pearl of Lake Como' and situated on a peninsula between the two southern branches of Lake Como. Visit the Villa Melzi Park, a neo-classical summer residence built between 1808 and 1810. The gardens stretch along the shores of Lake Como while the villa, chapel and orangery have been transformed into a historical museum. The villa became the residence of Francesco Melzi d'Eril at the end of his political career and then his summer residence until his death. The interior is decorated and furnished by some of the most famous artists at that time while the English-styled gardens are beautiful and enriched with sculptures. Lunch at leisure, before returning to the hotel this afternoon.
The Albergo Firenze (B)
Tremezzo - Lenno
Take a boat ride to Tremezzo for a guided tour of Villa Carlotta, museum and botanical gardens, which lies on the western coast of Lake Como and has a wonderful view of the mountains and the villages of Bellano, Varenna and Bellagio. The Italian garden has staircases, balustrades, fountains and a tunnel of citrus plants. There is a fascinating romantic park on the hill with long paths and amazing lake views.
The gardens are particularly noted for their flowering rhododendrons and azaleas as well as great camellia hedges, ancient cedars, cypresses and araucarias. As you wander through the garden you will see the rock garden, the valley of the ferns, the woods of ancient rhododendrons, the bamboo garden and the greenhouse, with an exhibition of agricultural tools.
Continue to Villa del Balbianello. You might recognise the villa from scenes in the James Bond film 'Casino Royale' (2006). Built for Cardinal Angelo Maria Durini at the end of the 18th century, the villa stands on the tip of a steep promontory overlooking Lake Como, almost opposite Bellagio. The villa has a rich collection of Chinese, African and pre-Columbian art and precious English and French furniture from the 1700s. However, the true masterpiece of the villa is the panoramic terraced garden, dominated by the elegant loggia with three arches rising on the highest point of the promontory.
Lunch at leisure. Return to Como and your hotel.
This morning, take the coach from Lake Como to Tirano, a distance of about 60 miles and a journey time of approximately 2.5 hours. Here, board the narrow-gauge Bernina Express train to St. Moritz, one of the most impressive scenic rail journeys in Switzerland and the highest railway line in the Alps. The panoramic sightseeing windows maximize the experience of travelling over circular viaducts. The train winds its way through tunnels, passing through Brusio and the Poschiavo valley, before climbing over the Bernina Pass and descending into St. Moritz, a journey time of 2 hours 33 minutes.
Afternoon at leisure in St. Moritz before returning by coach to Lake Como, a distance of approximately 60 miles and a journey time of about 2.5 hours.
Take a morning walking tour of Como including a visit to the silk museum to view the exhibits and learn about the processes involved in creating the silk that Como is renowned for. Como's silk district creates 3,527 tons of silk annually. The museum displays machines, silks, samples and instruments that tell the story of silk production.
Full day at leisure. Perhaps take a train to Milan city center, the average journey time is 46 minutes and will cost approximately €4-8. Tickets can be purchased in advance and are often cheaper than purchasing them on the day. Visit Como's cathedral, largely Gothic in style, elements of Romanesque, Renaissance and baroque can also be seen. Built between the 14th and 18th centuries, it is crowned by a high octagonal dome.
This evening join your group for a farewell dinner at the hotel.
The Albergo Firenze (B, D)
Depart Como
You will be collected at your hotel and driven from Como to Milan Linate Airport, a distance of approximately 42 miles and a journey time of about 1 hour.
Cruise on Lake Como
Day trip on the Bernina Express to St. Moritz, one of the most spectacular rail routes in Switzerland
Dedicated, specialist local guides at the Villa Carlotta, Villa del Balbianello and the silk museum in Como
Small group size - maximum 26 people
Cruises & Train Tours
At Cox & Kings we believe that a good travel experience is not luck but judgment. We have compiled the following advice to outline the nature of travel in Europe and to help you prepare for your trip. Even with the most meticulous planning, however, minor problems can occur and, while our local representatives are always on hand to rectify such occurrences, we do request that you have a patient and broadminded approach to traveling in Europe.
The river cruises and train tours in this brochure are offered subject to the conditions of carriage of the individual Train Company. PLEASE NOTE that in exceptional circumstances they may vary their itineraries with little or no notice, if water levels become unsafe, train lines become blocked or to avoid areas of dense traffic. Such changes are rare, but you should check the final itinerary at reception when you embark.
A number of flights within Europe arrive / depart early in the morning, and while we will endeavour to schedule your tour with a flight which arrives / departs at a reasonable time, sometimes there is little or no alternative and early check-in / check-out times may be required.
Accommodation standards vary dramatically throughout Europe, and hotels in Eastern Europe, Albania, Macedonia and regional Turkey, should not generally be compared to Western European standards. For our tours we have chosen hotels primarily for their location and the facilities available. We will endeavour to supply any extra information that you may require on these hotels. The hotels listed in the tour itineraries may occasionally be unavailable for the required dates. In this event, we will advise you of alternative hotels, which will, where possible, be of the same or of a higher standard than those featured in the itineraries. There are many new hotels being built in Europe and we may upgrade those featured in the brochure if better options in the same category become available. Please note all rooms reserved on your tour are standard; however, if you wish to upgrade your room (e.g. to a lake view or suite etc.), please speak to your tour consultant, who will be able to advise you about the options and the applicable supplements.
Check-in & Check-out Times: For all group and individual tours, hotel check-in/out time is normally 12 noon, but this does vary between hotels. Early check-ins and late check-outs cannot be pre-booked, but can sometimes be negotiated on site.
Many of the sites in Europe are quite spread out, and our tours consequently involve a reasonable amount of walking. Whilst the walking is normally easy going, a full-day's sightseeing can be quite tiring and sometimes strenuous.
Although tourism is not a new concept in most parts of Europe, many of the areas visited are still extremely traditional. Therefore kindly respect local customs and dress codes.
Many countries require passports, visas to be presented before entry is permitted. Please ensure that all traveling members, including infants and children, are in possession of a passport, valid for at least 6 months, prior to departure. It is convenient and safe to have the visa process facilitated by Cox & Kings Limited from the concerned Consulates / Authorities on your behalf. Please note that it is totally at the discretion of the concerned Consulates / Authorities to grant / reject your visas. The consulate may require further documentation and / or personal appearance.
Capital: Paris
Area: 212,935 sq. miles
Official Language: French
What To See: Everyone loves Paris, as much for its shady boulevards, cafe life and general romantic atmosphere as for the more famous sights such as the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame Cathedral. The Burgundy region is famous for its attractive countryside - including the Morvan Regional Park - and its wine. The Loire Valley in northern-central France boasts lovely vineyards and quaint little towns.
Capital: Moscow
Area: 6,592,800 sq. miles
Currency: Ruble
Official Language: Russian
What To See: Formerly the capital of Russia and home of the tsars, St. Petersburg is a city of canals and cathedrals, palaces and terraces. A diverse and vibrant city, Moscow boasts Red Square, St. Basil's cathedral, the Kremlin and many famed museums and galleries. One of the most fascinating regions in Russia is the Golden Ring of cities to the northeast of Moscow, with their whitewashed city walls and venerable onion-domed churches. Adventurous explorers will fall in love with Kamchatka, as it is the only place on earth that boasts active volcanic activity, mountains, rough river rapids and seas, and beautiful coastal waters, all in one place. The Volga Delta is a must-see for anyone interested in wildlife. Its marshland climate has become a refuge for beavers, otters, and countless birds from herons to the great bald eagle. Another must for nature lovers is the Samara Bend National Park, famous for its woodland hikes.
Capital: Edinburgh
Area: 30,420 sq. miles
Currency: Sterling Pound
What To See: Edinburgh is one of Europe's most attractive and historic cities. Its famed international festivals attract the world's leading performers, and its galleries display cutting-edge art. The "Granite City" of Aberdeen has spectacular architecture and captivating museums, fascinating history and a wealth of art and culture. Dundee is a lively commercial and artistic center, while Glasgow is brimming with style and culture, thanks to its irresistible blend of internationally acclaimed museums and galleries, stunning architecture and vibrant nightlife. Inverness's enviable location on the River Ness at the head of the Great Glen, makes it an ideal base for exploring the many attractions in the surrounding countryside.
Capital: Kiev
Currency: Hryvnia
Official Language: Ukrainian
What To See: Kiev is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with historical and architectural gems, ethnic restaurants and cafés, fantastic theaters and museums, and friendly people. The resorts in Crimea are famous for their mineral waters, and the area is also known for its wines. Yalta, a seaside resort surrounded by steep mountain peaks, is the jewel of the Crimean peninsula. Explore the forests and alpine meadows of the lovely Carpathian Mountains. Wander the cobblestone streets of medieval Lviv, and explore its mysteries, myths and legends.
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Q: Tomcat disable session not working I have several apps deployed in Tomcat 7, and use Keycloak to manage user login and logout of these apps.  Logout does not work i.e., does not log the user out and redirect to Keycloak's login page.  Then I found the JSESSIONID cookie is still present, once I deleted the JSESSIONID cookie, the logout link works as expected.  So I tried to disable Tomcat's session by putting
<%@ page session="false" %>

in the header of my apps' JSP pages. Unfortunately, this still does not seem to disable Tomcat's session, I still see JSESSIONID cookie present. I am wondering if anyone has a solution to this problem? I believe the presence of the Tomcat session interferes with the Keycloak's SSO session, and causes Keycloak logout to not work. This has to be a common problem Keycloak users encounter, Tomcat is so widely used for web apps.
Would appreciate any tips on how we should handle this!

A: I don't have specific experience with Keycloak, however, there's a principle that applies to most if not all Single-Sign-On (or external authentication) solutions:
SSO identifies a user and removes the burden of knowing passwords from typical applications. When a user signs in, an application server is often detached from the actual SSO system, thus it will need to cache the user once they're identified, just as if the user identified itself with a classic login.
On the logout side, you can either log out of the application itself (tomcat in this case) or you can log out of the SSO system (which seems to be what you're doing here). With the later approach, you're running into the problem of "Single Sign Out": Logging out of the SSO system should invalidate all sessions that once were initiated with the associated login. As I know it, the SSO system needs to keep track of all of the systems that have signed on through it and trigger an explicit logout there.
I can't tell you how to implement this in Keycloak, but hope that the general principle helps guiding you towards the solution:
The use or non-use of a session on Tomcat's side has nothing to do with the problem: You might have applications that legitimately store information in a session in addition to the signed in user - those applications should continue to work even if you're not comparing passwords in tomcat itself.
Edit, after your comment:
If this one page doesn't trigger the use of a session, any other code (e.g. the code that processes your login) still might trigger a session and then later delegate to the page that doesn't want to use a session.
I'd expect that you'll have to disable sessions in Tomcat's configuration e.g. through providing a custom "Manager" implementation. It looks like the default ones do not expect you to completely ignore sessions. As I've outlined above, I'd also expect sessions to be required even if you're not logging in through Tomcat itself.
Another way to avoid sessions (this is the indicator why I don't expect "no session" config to work) is to avoid calling any method on request/response that would trigger the automatic creation of a session. And it seems that you have such a method somewhere in your app.
(someone correct me if I'm wrong. This is mostly my educated expectation as I've never looked at this requirement)


Rawalpindi - Police arrested a young girl and her suitor in connection with the murder of her parents, sister and a cousin on July 4, 2016 in Dhoke Paharian area, sources told The Nation yesterday.
The 16-year-old girl and 18-year-old Muhammad Imran have been arrested by a local police team during a raid in Chiniot, reliable sources disclosed to The Nation yesterday. Police traced their hideout through mobile data of Imran, sources said.
On July 4, a couple, their young daughter and niece were found murdered at their house located in Dhoke Paharian. The deceased had been identified as Sher Afzal (45), his wife Asia Bibi (35), daughter Shamsa Bibi (19) and Asia's niece Ezza Noor (12).
Saddar Bairooni police had registered a murder case on the application of brother of Sher Afzal, who accused Muhammad Imran and his unknown accomplices of kidnapping a girl and killing the four people during firing.
Sources said that police had earlier also detained the father, mother and two uncles of Imran in connection with quadruple murder. Police brought the murder accused to Rawalpindi and locked them up.
Police may produce the accused before the area magistrate today (Wednesday) to obtain their physical remand for further investigation, sources said.
City Police Officer (CPO) Israr Ahmed Khan Abbasi and SHO police station Saddar Bairooni Malik Muhammad Yar did not respond to several phone calls made by this correspondent on their cell phones to know their version over arrest of alleged killers.
Meanwhile, a police team and officials of intelligence agencies conducted a search operation in areas of police station Saddar Bairooni. They arrested an illegal Afghan immigrant namely Khaista Rehman and recovered 28 bullets, dozens of mobile phone SIMs and fake documents from his possession.
The detainee was shifted to police station for further investigation. Separately, a gang of unknown armed dacoits stormed into a post office in Gujar Khan and made off with cash, sources informed The Nation yesterday.
Police registered a case on application of the high-ups of post office located on Hayyat Sir Road, sources said. According to sources, a gang of four dacoits entered the post office and made the entire staff and consumers who were present there to deposit utility bills hostage at gunpoint. Later, the dacoits collected Rs 132,900 cash and escaped.
Meanwhile, police booked post master of Westridge Post Office on charges of not making proper security arrangements to avoid any robbery. The case was registered against the post master under Punjab Security of Vulnerable Establishments Ordinance 2015.


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So I started the Bakery box recently and I'm loving what I get in these boxes and I'm so happy I decided to change the subscription but here's what I got in this week's box.
Banana Bread- I love banana bread so when I saw this I was so excited to try this out but I still haven't eaten this yet but I'm so excited. In this little snack you also receive a teabag so I'm thinking this will be perfect to take to work and have them together.
Banoffee Dippers- This one was so delicious and I really recommend anyone trying this but it was banana flavoured shortbread with a toffee dip and the banana was so strong but this snack was so delicious and I really wish I would of had a second one of these.
Apple & Cinnamon Flapjack- I love Graze flapjack so no surprise this was the first thing I tried out of this box but this was delicious as always and I have to say I'm not too keen on cinnamon but I really enjoyed this and it was gone in seconds.
Black Forest- This is one of the cakes I'm definitely excited to pick up as I feel I'll love this cake but it's a black forest cake with a cherry dip and I know this will also be delicious but I feel it may also be a little too rich for me but I'll definitely give it a try before I decide if I like it or not.


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Early life and education
Rwakasisi was born in Buhweju District, Uganda. She holds a degree in botany and zoology and a postgraduate diploma in education. She was awarded a certificate of recognition by the National Book Trust of Uganda for her contribution to children's literature.

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Catch the local lads at the Juicebox Comedy Night in The Spirit Store this Saturday
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TPM aka Charles and Andrew Hendy
Shake off the pre-Christmas stress this Saturday with JuiceBox Comedy's Xmas show in the Spirit Store, featuring local comedy stars TPM.
The town's answer to the Rubberbandits, TPM are Hendy brothers Charles, 24, and 22-year-old Andrew. The hip-hop comedy duo, whose witty, raw material is inspired by the grimness of life on social welfare and depression, went viral in 2015 with their YouTube hit 'Boys on the Dole'. Their follow up tunes 'Cash in the Claw' and 'Eat that Curry' were just as popular.
The local lads, who went to the Grammar School in Dundalk, have gone on to perform at Irish festivals including Electric Picnic and Sea Sessions and even brought their relatable lyrics and funky beats to the Underground Piano Bar in Glastonbury.
Andrew told the Dundalk Democrat: "We've been gigging around the country all this year, but can't wait to be back on stage in the town this weekend. It's our second last gig of the year – the last one is Stephen's Night in McManus's, which we did last year too. The reaction from the crowd in Dundalk is class.
"In the New Year, we're taking a break from gigs to record our first album. All going to plan that should be out in the Spring or Summer of next year."
The night will also feature Limerick lad Danny Ryan (Show Me the Funny 2016 winner & Irish Comedian of the Year 2017 runner-up), who will bring his subtle mix of the surreal with the mundane to the Spirit Store stage.
Also in the mix this Saturday is RTE New Comedy Award winner Sean Nolan, along with Andrew Gilmore (Vicar Street) along with local acts Danny O'Hanlon, Katherine O'Hanlon and Brian O'Toole with Aidan Shields as MC.
Doors open at 8pm and tickets are €10 from the bar, spiritstore .ie or McAteers The Food House on Clanbrassil Street.
A competition to win FREE tickets to gig of your choice in Spirit Store, FREE tickets to JuiceBox Comedy XMAS SHOW and €25 FREE Bar Tab are up for grabs on JuiceBox Comedy Facebook page.


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Scare in Imo community over release of suspected kidnapper
Palpable anxiety has engulfed Umuowa-Ibu community in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State, over the release of a suspected kidnapper from the community.
South-East Voice had reported that since 2015 till date, stories coming out from the community portrays the community as unsafe for the villagers.
It all started with a protest by women and youths of the community over the kidnapping of toddlers in their villages.
But as the community was still grumbling over the traumatic disappearance of their children, another ugly story broke on the release of a suspected kidnapper by the Imo Police Command; a man said to be terrorising their community.
It was a flashback of painful experiences by members of the community as they blocked the Police headquarters in the state in protest. They said they were imagining going through more years of terror if their complaints were neglected again.
As a result of this development, the entire elders, women and youths of Umuowa-Ibu, marched to the headquarters of Imo Police Command to register their grievances.
Not only that, they accused the leadership of Imo Police Command under Mr. Chris Ezike of collecting N5 miliion to release the suspected kidnapper from its custody.
They also alleged that one of their brothers, Edwin Obijiaku has been arrested and detained by the police, just as they said the suspected kidnapper moves freely in the community.
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They said the entire community is now living under intense fear.
This is the second time in less than two months that the Umuowa-Ibu community would protest against insecurity in their area. They said that their cry would never stop until they are guaranteed of the safety of their lives and property especially that of their children.
The agony of Umuowa-Ibu people was on the continued kidnapping of their children.
As captured by South-East Voice during their previous protest to the Imo Police headquarters, they had said that "it is with hearts full of sorrow and pains that we, the entire people of Umuowa-Ibu community in Okigwe LGA, wish to bring to your knowledge acts of kidnapping of our children, which has become an annual event in our community.
"This is sin against God and humanity, it started in the year 2015, with a year and three months old baby of the family of Mr. Edwin Okorie of Umuorsu village.
"In 2016, this community again, witnessed and experienced another disappearance of a young man by name, Mr. Ekene Odoemena. He was aged 50 years.
"In 2017, precisely, on the 14th day of December, another one happened. This time, it was the turn of one Master Chisom Nnadi, about three years and eight months old.
"The boy was in the midst of other children playing when he was taken away in the afternoon of that fateful day."
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However, their mental and emotional torture may not have ended as they have begun a protest against the release of a suspected kidnapper by the Imo Police.
They also raised the alarm over a bribe of N5m allegedly collected by the police under Chris Ezike, before the suspected kidnapper who is from their community, was released.
Their lamentations were contained in a protest letter passed to South-East Voice and signed by the President-General, Mr. Benjamin Emere; Vice-President, Mr. Jonas Egbu; Secretary, Mr. Cosmos Arogu; Woman Leader, Mrs. Helen Akazie and Youth Leader, Mr. Uchechukwu Okorie.
The letter read: "With a devastated mind, we write to draw the attention of the CP to a serious case of kidnapping in our community. Our children, Chisom Nnadi, Ekene and one other little girl were kidnapped in our community.
"All fingers and investigation pointed towards the suspect. We have witnesses to back up our claim.
"The matter was handled by the anti-kidnap unit. Painfully, the suspect was released and he has returned to the community, bragging that he got off the hook after giving the police N5 million.
"He threatens every now and then that he will deal with us. We live in fear of the unknown.
"We demand that the Commissioner of Police, who is known to have no tolerance for injustice, should intervene and ensure that justice is served.
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"We are ready to testify at any lawful place about the heinous activities of one Okwudiri in our community.
"For the sake of justice, we request that this, being a crime against humanity, that he be charged to court without further delay.
"The parents of the missing children are living in agony and perpetual discomfort. One of our brothers, Edwin Obijiaku is unlawfuly being held in Police custody as we write and the suspect is allegedly working to have him remanded in prison custody."
In his response, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Ezike, said: "Criminality is not by suspicion, it is by evidence. Justice is for everybody.
It is their right to protest but I have asked the Security Intelligence Bureau of the Command to investigate the bribery allegation. We have arraigned those who destroyed the houses of the accused while he was in our custody for malicious damage.
"The court remanded one today. More arrests are on the way. It took us to the extent of going to the accused person's house to do excavation. Yet, there was no trace that the missing persons were in his compound."
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Tang Yan or Tiffany Tang (唐嫣,born December 6, 1983) is a Chinese actress. She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 2006. In 2007, she was nominated for the White Magnolia Award (白玉兰奖) for Best Actress at the Shanghai International Film Festival for her film debut in Farewell for Love. She left her company Orange Sky Entertainment Group mid-2012 to set up her own studio. She is currently one of the highest paid Chinese TV actresses.
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Tang earned the nickname of "ratings queen", establishing her position as one of the most sought-after TV actresses in mainland China. She was nominated at the 17th Huading Awards for Best Actress in all three categories (ancient, contemporary and modern) for her performance in Perfect Couple, My Sunshine, and Legend of Fragrance respectively; and won the award for the contemporary category. She also became the ambassador for the 7th TV Drama Awards, and won Actress with the Most Media Influence as well as Audience's Favourite Character.
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Q: What is the most reliable way to compare two FieldInfo instances? I don't mean the values.
I had a case where two instances of FieldInfo were not equalling and the cause ended up being that they were simply reflected through different types even though the declaring type on both was the same. And the name was the same.
So I came up with:
fi1.DeclaringType == fi2.DeclaringType && fi1.Name == fi2.Name

But is that the best way?

A: This will depend on what you deem to be the definition of equality in this case. If you are happy for it to only be declaring type and name then what you have is fine