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Ninth U of S President Announced
Ilene Busch-Vishniac, currently provost and vice-president academic at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. and a renowned researcher in the areas of acoustic noise control and engineering education, has been named the ninth president of the University of Saskatchewan.
Busch-Vishniac was introduced at an event Dec. 19 in Convocation Hall by Nancy Hopkins, chair of the U of S Board of Governors and the presidential search committee. She takes up her new position July 1, 2012, replacing Peter MacKinnon who will step down after 13 years as president.
"It is clear that the University of Saskatchewan has both the capacity and the drive to contribute on the national stage," said Busch-Vishniac describing what attracted her to the position. "I look forward to continuing the momentum created by the extraordinary work of President MacKinnon as we foster innovations in teaching and learning, grow research programs that will drive the economy of the province in the future, distinguish ourselves through innovative approaches to the issues of the Aboriginal communities, and define the role we wish to play locally, provincially, nationally and internationally."
Describing two qualities of the U of S that she found compelling, Busch-Vishniac mentioned the university's connections to the public sector, both the city of Saskatoon and the province of Saskatchewan, as well as its "strong and growing interaction with Aboriginal communities. My pledge," she said, "is to be a trustworthy partner for First Nations and Métis communities" with the aim of achieving the mutual goals of cultural preservation, respect and accomplishment.
Prior to joining McMaster University, Busch-Vishniac served as dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University and associate chair of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas (Austin). A graduate of the University of Rochester, Busch-Vishniac earned her Master of Science and PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
At McMaster University, Busch-Vishniac has increased student enrolment at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, strengthened ties with Aboriginal communities, particularly with the Six Nations in Ontario, expanded the university's full-time faculty complement, and led both the development of an activity-based budget system and a systems renewal. She has also served as chair of the Ontario Council of Academic Vice-Presidents, and led the creation of a new quality assurance process for Ontario universities.
As dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University, she raised millions of dollars for the school and oversaw the construction of four new buildings on that campus. In 2008, Johns Hopkins University created the Ilene Busch-Vishniac Lecture to honour her work on issues of diversity in engineering.
Commenting on her career progression, she said "I marvel that a one-time music student from Philadelphia has somehow managed to navigate a winding path, ending up here as the president of the University of Saskatchewan." She added she is looking forward to meeting all members of the university community and building relationships with U of S partners.
In introducing the president designate, Hopkins said Busch-Vishniac's outstanding academic background combined with her extensive leadership experience and track record in establishing strong, mutually beneficial partnerships made her an ideal candidate for the presidency. "The University of Saskatchewan has made tremendous progress under President Peter MacKinnon's leadership," she said. "We are confident that Ilene Busch-Vishniac will continue to build on this momentum, strengthening the University of Saskatchewan even further as we pursue our ambition to become one of the most distinguished universities in Canada and the world."
Hopkins said the Board of Governors was assisted in selecting the next president by a search committee with broad representation from across campus, as well as by the public input the search committee received prior to undertaking the search. The search committee included board members Susan Milburn and David Sutherland as well as Chancellor Vera Pezer, University of Saskatchewan Students' Union President Scott Hitchings, Graduate Students Association President Xue Yao, Deans David Hill and Peter Stoicheff, and faculty members Michel Desautels, Ingrid Pickering, Keith Walker and Winona Wheeler.
Busch-Vishniac is married to Ethan Vishniac, currently a professor of physics and astronomy at McMaster and editor of The Astrophysical Journal.
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Homecoming for Actor, U of S Alumnus
You could almost consider it a fairy tale story. A prairie boy goes to university, stumbles into acting, becomes the youngest actor ever to play Macbeth at Stratford, plays Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway, finds success on the big screen and becomes a lead actor in a hit cable television series.
Except, bikers don't really fit into your typical fairy tale.
Kim Coates (BA'81) recently finished filming the fourth season of the hit FX series Sons of Anarchy (SOA), on which he plays Tig, a member of the biker gang the show is named after. Now he is back home in Saskatoon filming a movie, Ferocious. "I come home as much as I can. My mom just loves it when I come home, and I love being home actually shooting a movie here. It's fantastic!" says Coates during an on-location interview.
Coates is an interesting mix of Hollywood and Saskatchewan—and he seems to naturally bridge the gap between the two cultures. He is as comfortable talking about The Bowl, the Hangar Building and Greystone Theatre as his is talking about working with the likes of Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia or Eva Longoria. He is obviously influenced by southern California, but it's equally obvious that he has not forgotten his roots.
With over 50 films to his credit and appearances on several television series like CSI, Entourage and Prison Break, Coates is becoming a household name thanks in large part to SOA. "I certainly am getting recognized now. This whole foray into television has been great for me. I think cable is really where it's at now—it's more real, more gritty, and I think our show is like no other. I'm really happy on that show, and it allows me to come (to Saskatoon) and do movies in my off time."
He jets off to do a celebrity bike show one weekend, then guest stars at Saskatoon Soaps the next (planned for December 9). There's that Saskatchewan meets Hollywood again.
Family keeps Coates grounded too. Not only is he obviously pleased to come home to see his mom (his father passed away three years ago), he beams with pride when talking about his two daughters. Kyla graduated from UCLA summa cum laude—the highest academic honour. "She is just a brilliant brainiac, and she is well on her way to doing some amazing things in the world. She really will make a big difference." Brenna, the younger of the two, is following in her father's footsteps. She is studying at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. "She has way more talent than me at that age. She got offers from other colleges, but she always wanted to be in New York where her dad was."
And what do his daughters think of his SOA biker persona? "Good bad-ass. They can't believe their dad's on that show." Kyla would gather with about 70 UCLA students every week. "No matter what they were doing, they would stop everything for 'Sons night.'" And Brenna "was too little to watch my stuff." But now that she is older she "watches her pop and wants to be an actor like me."
Coates calls Ferocious "a dark little film" and is hopeful it will be a "film favourite, a festival darling." This is the second time Coates is working with fellow U of S alumnus Anand Ramayya (BComm'98), founder of Karma Films, a Saskatoon-based, award winning production studio. After joking that he "can't stand him," Coates, in typical prairie fashion, sings Ramayya's praises, "Every time Anand calls me I take his call right away. I love him and am really proud of him being a filmmaker from Saskatoon, doing big movies right in the city."
There is no sign of things slowing down for Coates. SOA was picked-up by FX for its fifth season, he hopes to return to Saskatoon in February to film another movie, and he is branching-out into other aspects of the movie business. "The only thing I haven't done so far is direct. I love producing and I'll produce more. Directing is coming up. Sons of Anarchy is such a 'men-of-mayhem' show there's no way that could be my directorial debut; it's way too difficult."
Bringing things full-circle, Coates states his intention to return to the stage, "I say no to theatre all the time. I'm going to stop saying no now. I promised Brenna that I'd go back to Broadway when she was in college, so I think I'd better get back to Broadway."


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In a final tune-up before the Beanpot, the Boston University men's hockey team will host the University of Massachusetts on Friday night in one of the Terriers' greatest tests of the season thus far.
While history may favor BU (10-10-3, 8-5-2 Hockey East), who have not lost to the Minutemen (19-5, 11-3 Hockey East) since 2013, a victory over this UMass team is by no means a guarantee. The Minutemen have been consistently ranked among the top teams in college hockey all season, including multiple stints holding the number one spot in the Division 1 rankings.
This season, UMass has the 2nd highest scoring offense in D1 hockey, averaging 3.79 goals per game. Individually, senior forward Jacob Pritchard holds a team-best 31 points on 12 goals and 19 assists, while sophomore forward Mitchell Chaffee leads the team with 15 goals. Chaffee has also been recognized on a national level, currently tied for third among all Division 1 players with an average of .65 goals per game.
On the defensive end, the Minutemen have been nearly as dominant as they have been in attack. UMass has allowed the fifth fewest goals per game in the NCAA's top division with only 1.96 goals conceded on average. Anchoring the defensive effort has been sophomore goaltender Matt Murray, who is fifth in college hockey in terms of save percentage, turning away 93 percent of all shots faced.
While the Minutemen boast the joint-best winning percentage in Division 1 at .792, the Hockey East leaders have stumbled as of late. UMass fell 1-2 in a visit to Northeastern on January 19, before splitting a series at the University of Maine between the 25th and 26th. The team's current road swing could be responsible for the Minutemen's drop in form, as all but one of their losses have come away from home ice.
Like UMass, BU will also be entering Friday's contest coming off a loss, as the Terriers fell 3-0 to #17/15 Arizona State University on January 26. After benefitting from some fortunate bounces to put up four goals in a 4-2 victory over the Sun Devils the night prior, the Terrier offense came up dry in the second game of the weekend series. It was the first time in nine games that the Terriers had been held goalless, a streak dating back to December 1st.
The Terriers were without a few significant names last Saturday night, as junior netminder Jake Oettinger and senior forward Bobo Carpenter each got the night off during the loss. After appearing in every one of BU's 22 contests prior, Oettinger was replaced by freshman Vinnie Purpura, who made 36 saves in his debut with the Terriers.
"Our goalie was our best player," remarked Coach O'Connell after the game regarding Purpura, who joined the Terriers during the winter break.
As for the captain and leading goal scorer, Coach Albie O'Connell reported that Carpenter had been banged up going into Friday's contest, in which he was still able to tally his 100th point as a Terrier – joining a list of only 82 BU hockey alum who have hit the century mark.
While a rest was certainly deserved by these two star Terriers, all hands will be on deck for this week's meeting with UMass. BU's two-game home-and-home set against the Minutemen will be split between the first two Friday nights of February, separated by the first round of the Beanpot on Monday the 4th.
It will be a challenging stretch for the Terriers, but one that will be crucial to their season, simultaneously fighting to claim a Beanpot title and climb up the Hockey East standings.
The Terriers will take the ice against the Minutemen at 7:30pm on Friday, February 1. We will have minute-by-minute coverage of the game through our live blog, accessible through this website or our twitter account.
If we come out skating and battling for the puck we will give ourselves a chance. If we try the fancy stuff we will be in trouble. Shoot or pass but get the puck to the net. We need shots and need to get to the dirty areas for rebounds. I think bu will be ready and answer the test.
Mired in mediocrity. Unfortunate that Albie cannot motivate these pampered, overrated , underachieving crybabies for more than two games in row.
I cannot agree with the take aways as basically the same squad that beat ASU on Friday, refuse to compete for the majority of the game on Saturday. Losing most of the one on one or fifty , fifty puck battles, making ridiculous passes that created odd man rushes for ASU, playing as individuals and for themselves.
Colin , where was the leader ship form the captains and the assistant captains ? Nice for Fabbro to show emotion when the game is over. In my mind a losers mentally and poor sportsmanship. I wish he challenged his teammates to be more focused and be engaged. Sure ASU is more physical and older but B.U. has superior speed and alleged higher end talent. As proven on Friday you cannot hit what you cannot catch.
I feel that Cal Maker is a better player than Dante and he is having a much better season.
I do believe Dante will be in Nashville , maybe as early as mid March. Similar to Charlie and Clayton, he will be a better pro than Terrier.
Actually, as of now, Charlie and Clayton were better Terriers then pros … though that will one day change I am sure. They were unreal when they were at BU.


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Q: Sending object, int and String via socket, serialisation so I have a PrintWriter and a ObjectOutputStream trying to send an int, String and a Color[] from the client when the user clicks the list, where 'out' is the PrintWriter and outObject is the ObjectOutputStream.
private class MyMouseListener implements MouseListener{
  public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e){}
  public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){}
  public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
      if(e.getSource() == list){
          int index = list.locationToIndex(e.getPoint());   ///get the game that the player has selected
          try{
              out.println(index);
                              out.println("hel");
                              Color[] colors = new Color[5];
                              outObject.writeObject(colors)
          }
}

Server, where 'in' is a scanner, 'objectIn' is an objectInputStream :
                while(true)
                    if(in.nextLine().equals("hel")){
                    System.out.println("fee");
                }
                else if(in.hasNextInt()){
                    System.out.println("dee");
                }
                Object o = objectIn.readObject();
                if(o instanceof Color[]){
                    System.out.println("ree");
                }

If i try to send all three, on the first click the server only registers the String, and then all clicks after the server only registers the int, never registering the Color[], if i send the int first, then the Color[] and then the int like :`
                              out.println(index);
                              Color[] colors = new Color[5];
                              outObject.writeObject(colors);
                              out.println("hel");

Only the int and Object are registered first, on the second click only the String and then subsequent clicks only the int.
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                Object o = objectIn.readObject();
                if(in.nextLine().equals("hel")){
                    System.out.println("fee");
                }
                //Object o = objectIn.readObject();
                else if(in.hasNextInt()){
                    System.out.println("dee");
                }
                else if(o instanceof Color[]){
                    System.out.println("ree");
                    o = null;
                }

If I use the above series of if statements nothing is registered
Using the first series of if statements, if i try to send the Color[] on it's own it's not registered, but if I send it with an int both are registered.
If i try to send the String and the Color[], sending the String first like so :
              out.println("hel");
              Color[] a = new Color[5];
              outObject.writeObject(a);

both are registered once and then never again, also in the opposite way than was expected i.e the Color[] was registered first and then the String; if i send both but the Color[] first and then the String neither are registered.

A: I assume your out object (which is a PrintWriter) wraps the outObject object, which is the ObjectOutputStream. You should not use both a PrintWriter and a ObjectOutputStream for the same underlying connection. See this question for more details.

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MURPH Is Right Around The Corner!
You've been hearing us talk about this workout for quite some time now. We've programmed the WOD's to help you prepare for the workout. Now here are a few options to scale if you still feel like the prescribed is a bit daunting. Each Memorial Day CrossFit boxes around the nation do this workout to honor our military members who sacrificed their lives in active duty. So there's no excuse! You have to come out to CFZ this weekend and join all of us.
Bring your family or a friend and make it a team WOD. Split up the reps. Together you can definitely get it done.
Split the reps in half. Trust me! You're still putting in the work and getting the job done.
Make the reps something a little bit more manageable mentally. "Cindy" is a popular CrossFit benchmark WOD that can help you get through MURPH. You can do 20 rounds of Cindy which is 5 pull-ups 10 push-ups and 15 air squats. This is a popular way to attack it.
Just show up! Do something. Endure the pain and think of our service men and women who died for our freedom.
Don't forget to sign up for Heat 1 or 2. Come a few minutes early to stretch out and get ready for your heat. Most importantly have fun with the community. We'll all feel the pain and experience the joy of completing MURPH together. See ya Saturday.


Auto tabbing is when a form automatically jumps from one field to the next when the user hits the maximum number of characters, hits tab, or enter. The user should not have to perform any action other than filling out the input form properly and meeting the requirements for that input field. Input types are the values you set up for your fields. For example, if a user is entering a U.S. phone number you'll implement it as a numeric field with 10 digits. If the user is entering a name, that should be created as as a text field. In both cases you can also add a character limit.
For our bug of the week, we're taking a look at a bug that prevents users from completing the sign up process.
While performing functional testing on a fitness website, one of our testers found a bug in the process of filling out an online form. First, the tester navigated to the sign-up form on the site. Then, they started to fill out the fields in form. The tester filled out their name on a screen but once they were finished typing in the field, the form did not auto tab, display the next field, or proceed to the next screen.
The bug was initially discovered on Windows 7 on the Chrome browser. However, it ended up being reproducible on multiple platforms.
This bug highlights the importance of properly implementing tabbing functionality in your user interface. Whether you are developing for web or mobile you must ensure that you have input types and focus methods in place. In this native form UX and web form UX article, React Native Cafe addresses the difference in behavior between native and web forms. They also discuss the importance of implementing the keyboard TextInput and triggering focus on submit. In this auto-tab html inputs article Blue Key Interactive addresses the importance of setting the correct character limits for your field.


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Keith and Lesley Wein made it from Melbourne to Birdsville in their Tesla. It is the first time some towns in the southwest have seen an electric car. Keith and Lesley Wein.
Tesla drivers conquer the Queensland outback
by Jorja McDonnell
15th Jul 2019 3:02 PM | Updated: 18th Jul 2019 8:01 AM
KEITH and Lesley Wein are on no ordinary road trip.
In their electric car, they embarked on the 2150km journey from Melbourne to Birdsvile without a hitch, and now they're heading back the way they came.
Their journey in a Tesla Model S is a potential first for south-west Queensland towns such as Charleville, Quilpie and Windorah, where outback locals rarely see electric powered vehicles passing through.
Despite the scarcity of charging points, an outback journey in an electric car is not impossible.
"There is nothing to stop you travelling in an electric vehicle, but I'm pretty sure that I am the first one to get this far," Mr Wein said.
"The route I took was to get, first of all, to Bourke where there are known charging points, and from there we went to Cunnamulla, Charleville, Quilpie, to Windorah and then to Birdsville."
WELCOME SIGHT: Keith and Lesley Wein made it from Melbourne to Birdsville in their Tesla. It is the first time some towns in the south-west have seen an electric car. Keith and Lesley Wein.
The first leg of the 2150km trip was done in six days, including charging stops and overnight stops. They decided not to drive between dusk and dawn to avoid any wildlife and ultimately, it worked out to take one day longer than in a regular petrol car.
It is far from the longest drive the engineer and his partner have done in their Tesla, which just ticked over 70,000km on the odometer.
"I actually bought one of the first Teslas in to Australia, I have replaced it once for a better model, and have been doing nothing but driving it since then. I don't have any other vehicle," Mr Wein said.
"We only really use it for very long trips like this, because we live in Melbourne and the public transport is good for getting around at home, so the 70,000-odd kilometres we have done have been all over Australia."
The Weins are no strangers to cross-country road trips in their Tesla, with previous trips to Perth, Cairns and throughout their home state of Victoria.
But it's their trek through the outback that will be one of the most memorable, going where no electric vehicle drivers have gone before.
"The last leg on the Birdsville Development Rd was a challenge, as the car set-up for the road conditions required more than normal battery energy, and a cross wind evident on the last half of the trip also added to the energy requirements," Mr Wein said.
"When arriving at Birdsville I had travelled a total of 388km from the last charge at Windorah, and had 42km remaining in the battery. It was a bit touch and go on that stretch."
An engineer and long-time electric car enthusiast, Mr Wein has been excited to see what his Tesla is capable of.
If it weren't for careful planning, their story could have been very different.
Being pioneers of electric vehicle tourism has meant a lot of organisation to find power sources for the Tesla, in order to charge efficiently.
Keith and Lesley Wein (centre) with members of the Murweh Shire tourism team on their stop in Charleville on Wednesday. Carly Everitt
"Obviously if there is no infrastructure where you are going, as there isn't going to Birdsville, it becomes a little difficult with the arrangements you must make for charging, but it is still possible," Mr Wein said.
"In all those cases I simply phoned the information officers and some councils have also been really helpful, and have allowed us to use their three-phase power at places like the showgrounds.
"They have been really, really helpful - I can't stress enough how good people have been to help us."
The couple have garnered more than just a helping hand on their unique trip. Their Tesla has also been sparking interest from almost everyone they meet.
It has become a chance to not only show off the impressive car and its technology, but prove the possibilities to others.
"As soon as we got to Birdsville, we were stopped by an interested man who had read about Teslas and seen them before, but never thought he would see one out here," Mr Wein said.
"The reactions have been very positive, and most people who have helped us along the way have said they expect there is going to be more of these things, and I think they are right, because the number of electric vehicles on the road is growing."
In the past four years, four million electric vehicles had been sold worldwide, and the Electric Vehicle Council of Australia expects we will catch up with the growing markets in China and America.
Currently there are 23 models of electric cars available in Australia, and much of the uptake has been driven by businesses, but the EVC wants to see change.
"Business continues to be the largest buyer of electric vehicles accounting for 63 per cent of sales," EVC CEO Behyad Jafari said.
"Private buyers also make up a substantial portion of the market accounting for 34 per cent of sales," Mr Jafari said.
"The growth in the Australian electric vehicle market demonstrates the need for urgent policy support by government.
Having made it to a new frontier for electric cars, Mr Wein is hopeful the vehicles' popularity will spread to more rural areas.
"Everyone has wanted to understand more about what they can do, and small towns especially love the idea of putting chargers because as people have found out on the east coast, where there are lots of chargers, if an electric car stops to charge for two hours, the question is: 'what do you do for two hours?'.
"The answer is of course, you go to shops and have coffee or something to eat, and make the most of the break, and that's not bad for any locality."
Tesla Model S in Windorah, on Keith and Lesley Wein's return trip through the outback. They are heading back home to Melbourne. Keith and Lesley Wein
Beginning the return journey late last week, the Weins planned to take the second leg of their trip a little slower, in order to enjoy what outback Queensland has to offer.
"The return journey on the Bridsville Development Rd has been successfully completed, and now we are on sealed roads heading home, the challenge is to drive safely," Mr Wein said.
"We thank all those who had made this possible when charging the car on the return journey; these small Queensland inland towns are extremely friendly and hospitable, and have given tremendous support."
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For other uses, see Serres (disambiguation).
Sérres (Greek: Σέρρες [ˈseɾes]) is a city in Macedonia, Greece, capital of the Serres regional unit and second largest city in the region of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki. Serres is one of the administrative and economic centers of Northern Greece. The city is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 metres (230 feet), some 24 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km (43 mi) north-east of Thessaloniki, respectively. Serres' official municipal population was 76,817 in 2011 with the total number of people living in the city and its immediate surroundings estimated at around 100,000. The city is home to the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greek: Τ.Ε.Φ.Α.Α. Σερρών) and the Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia (Greek: ΤΕΙ Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας), composed of the School of Technological Applications, the School of Management and Finance and the School of Graphic Arts and Design, with at least 10,000 Greek and international students.
The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus mentions the city as Siris (Σίρις) in the 5th century BC. Theopompus refers to the city as Sirra (Σίρρα). Later, it is mentioned as Sirae, in the plural, by the Roman historian Livy. Since then the name of the city has remained plural and by the 5th century AD it was already in the contemporary form as Serrae or Sérrai (Σέρραι), which remained the Katharevousa form for the name till modern times. In the local Greek dialect, the city is known as "ta Serras" (τα Σέρρας), which is actually a corruption of the plural Accusative "tas Serras" (τάς Σέρρας) of the archaic form "ai Serrai" (αι Σέρραι). Τhe oldest mention of this form is attested in a document of the Docheiariou Monastery in Mount Athos from 1383, while there are many other such references in documents from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It was known as Serez or Siroz in Turkish. In the Slavic languages, the city is known as Ser in Serbian, while in Bulgarian it is known as Syar (Сяр) or Ser.
Although the earliest mention of Serres (as Siris) is dating in the 5th century BC (Herodotus), the city was founded long before the Trojan War, probably at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. The ancient city was built on a high and steep hill (known as "Koulas") just north of Serres. It held a very strategic position, since it controlled a land road, which following the valley of the river Strymon led from the shores of Strymonian Gulf to the Danubian countries.
The most ancient known inhabitants of the area were the Bryges (Phrygians) and Strymonians. Afterwards were the Paeonian tribes of the Siropaiones  (since 1100 BC) and Odomantes (from the early 5th century BC until the end of antiquity). These populations mainly engaged in agriculture and cattle-raising especially worshiped the Sun, the deified river Strymon and later the "Thracian horseman".
The ancient city of Serraepolis was founded in Cilicia by Siropaiones exiled from Serres.
In Roman antiquity (168 BC – 315 AD) the city is mentioned in sources under the name Sirra (Greek: Σίρρα) and in inscriptions as Sirraion polis (Greek: Σιρραίων πόλις). It was an important city of the Roman province of Macedonia, with the status of a civitas stipendiaria. It flourished especially during the imperial period thanks to the Pax Romana. Then, during the great crisis of the Roman Empire (235–284 AD), the city declined and only in the times of Diocletian, with its reforms (Tetrarchic system), returned to prosperity.
As regards the urban structure it featured, like all Greek cities (polis), a market ("agora"), parliament ("bouleuterio"), theater, gymnasium and temples. As we know from epigraphic evidence, the local government was also based on the known Greek institutions, which were the parliament (boule), the municipality ("demos") and the archons (politarchai, agoranomoi, gymnasiarchai, high priests etc.). It was also the seat of a federation of five cities ("Pentapolis") and actively participated in the provincial life and organization of the Macedonians; while many residents, mostly members of the local aristocracy, had received the right of Roman citizenship and were promoted to senior provincial dignities.
Sirra as a city-state (polis), apart from the usual Greek institutions, held also its own territory (chora), which occupied the area of the former province of Serres. The organization of its territory was based on villages (komai, sing. kome), whose many sites have been found in various places near modern villages, such as Lefkonas, Oreini, Ano Vrontou, Neo Souli, Agio Pnevma, Chryso, Paralimnio etc. Within the limits of its territory have also discovered traces of marble quarries and iron mines, which indicate systematic exploitation of the existing mineral wealth in the imperial period (1st to 3rd century AD).
In terms of population, except the most numerous Greek element, are recognized some population substrates even from prehistoric times. Concerning the society, the main feature was its distinction in upper (rich) and lower (poor) social strata (honestiores and humiliores in Latin). Finally, concerning the cults of the residents, except the known panhellenic cults (Dionysus, Zeus, Dioscuri, Apollo, Asclepius, Artemis and Isis), are evidenced and some local and Thracian cults as the Thracian horseman (or "Hero").
Many inscriptions of Roman (imperial) times have been found in the city (and to the early 1960s in the surrounding area). From these inscriptions (almost all written in Greek and only three in Latin), the eight are votive or honorific  and all other on epitaph reliefs or steles.
The first attested bishop of the city is recorded as participating in the Second Council of Ephesus in 449.
In the early Middle Ages, Serres became the site of a major fortress built by the Byzantine Empire to guard the empire's northern frontier and the strategic Rupel Pass.
The city's history was uneventful until the 10th century, being in the heartland of the Byzantine Greek world, until it was pillaged and briefly occupied by the Bulgarians. In 1185, the environs of the city were pillaged by a Norman invasion, and in the Battle of Serres in 1195/6 the Byzantines were defeated by the rebellious Bulgarian ruler Ivan Asen I. After the Fourth Crusade, Boniface of Montferrat took over the city, but shortly after Kaloyan of Bulgaria defeated the Crusaders of the Latin Empire and briefly annexed the city, until it was retaken by the Crusaders in the early 1230s. According to George Akropolites, Kaloyan almost destroyed the city, reducing it from a sizeable urban centre to a small settlement clustered around the fortified citadel, while the lower town was protected by a weak stone wall.
The city returned to Byzantine rule in 1246, when it was captured by the Nicaean Empire. By the 14th century, the city had regained its former size and prosperity, so that Nikephoros Gregoras called it a "large and marvelous" city. Taking advantage of the Byzantine civil war of 1341–47, the Serbs besieged and took the city on 25 September 1345. It became the capital of Stefan Dušan's Serbian Empire, but after Dušan's death in 1355 his realm fell into feudal anarchy, and Serres became a separate principality, initially under Dušan's Empress-dowager Helena and after 1365 by the Despot Jovan Uglješa. Jovan Uglješa maintained close political and cultural ties to the Byzantine court in Constantinople, and the Greek element rose again to prominence: local Greeks played a major role in his administration, which was carried out in the Greek language. After the 1371 Battle of Maritsa, the Byzantines under Manuel II Palaiologos (then governor of Thessalonica) retook Serres.
Serres fell to the Ottoman Empire on 19 September 1383—although the Ottoman sources give several earlier and contradictory dates, the date is securely established by multiple Greek sources. The city (Siroz in Turkish) and the surrounding region became a fief of Evrenos Beg, who brought in Yörük settlers from Sarukhan. Althougn never rising to particular prominence within the Ottoman Empire, Serres became also the site of a mint from 1413/14 on. The rebel Sheikh Bedreddin was executed in the city.
In the early 16th century, Serres was visited by the French traveller Pierre Belon, who reported that the town was mainly inhabited by Greeks alongside German and Sephardi communities, while the people in the surrounding country spoke Greek and Bulgarian. In the aftermath of the Christian victory at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, Turkish reprisals were directed at the Greek population, who had shown sympathy with the Western success and had sporadically risen up across Greece. The metropolitan cathedral of Serres was looted along with seven other churches, while land and land titles owned by the Monastery of St John the Baptist were confiscated.
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Serres was an autonomous lordship (beylik) under a succession of derebeys, within the Sanjak of Salonica. At the end of the 18th century, Serres was a cotton-producing area, exporting 50,000 balls of cotton to Germany, France, Venice and Livorno. The metropolitan bishop Gabriel founded in 1735 the Greek School of Serres, which he directed until 1745. The school was maintained by donations from wealthy Greek merchants, among them Ioannes Constas from Vienna with 10,800 florins and the banker and tragic leader of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia Emmanouel Pappas, who donated 1,000 Turkish silver coins. Minas Minoides taught philosophy and grammar in 1815–19. The school operated also in the period of the Greek War of Independence under Argyrios Paparizou from Siatista.
Serres became a regular province c. 1846 as the Sanjak of Siroz of the Salonica Eyalet (later Salonica Vilayet).
In the early 20th century, the city became a focus of anti-Ottoman unrest, which resulted in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903. A Bulgarian army, which was commanded by general Georgi Todorov captured Serres during the First Balkan War on November 6, 1912, but was forced to withdraw by Greek forces commanded by the King of Greece, Constantine I, during the Second Balkan War. The first officer of the Hellenic Army to enter Serres was infantry colonel Napoleon Sotilis, head of the Seventh Greek Infantry Regiment on July 11, 1913. As the National Schism erupted in Greece during the First World War, Serres was temporarily occupied by the Central Powers after King Constantine ordered the local garrison not to resist to a token force of the Imperial German Army; eventually the city was liberated in 1917 by Greek-French Entente forces under the Venizelos government.
During the Second World War, after the conquest of mainland Greece by Nazi Germany in April 1941 (which was followed by the conquest of Crete in June), Serres was assigned by the Nazis to their Bulgarian allies (along with the rest of East Macedonia and Thrace and the island of Thasos), who occupied the city until the Allied liberation of Greece in 1944. In 1943, Serres' Jewish population was deported by the Gestapo to the Treblinka death camp and exterminated. There was a significant resistance movement in the city during the occupation, led by the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM).
In the postwar years, the city's population grew substantially, and there was also a significant rise in the standard of living. The long-serving conservative Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis (in office from 1955 to 1963 and again from 1974 to 1980) was a native of Serres, and as a result its people could count on the support of the central Greek government in Athens. However, the villages in the plains around the city were not so lucky; the low prices of agricultural products led many people of these villages to emigrate, mostly to the United States and West Germany.
As of 2015[update], the Mayor of Serres is Petros Angelidis (independent, formerly a member of PASOK).
The municipality has an area of 600.479 km2, the municipal unit 252.973 km2.
Serres has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) bordering on a semi-arid climate. Serres has an irregular precipitation pattern across the year, with no pronounced dry season, although rainfall is light year round. Summers are hot, whereas winters are cool but rarely very cold.
Serres is the capital of a primarily agricultural district and is an important trade centre for tobacco, grain, and livestock. Following the development of a government-sponsored manufacturing area in the late 20th century, it has also become a centre for the production of textiles and other manufactured items. Various products, meat and dairy, are also produced by breeding at Lake Kerkini.
Late Ottoman author Omer Seyfeddin set his fictional work White Tulip (Beyaz Lale) describing events during the First Balkan War in the town.
Probably the most well-known food from Serres is bougatsa. Additionally, gyros and souvlaki are standard forms of Greek cuisine served in many restaurants and taverns. One delicacy that is truly unique to the region is Akanés, which is a type of gourmet candy delight prepared according to a secret recipe since the beginning of the 20th century by the Roumbos family. Allegedly, Aristeidis Roumbos, the confectioner who invented this candy, disclosed the recipe to one of his loyal trainees, who then proceeded to establish a rival akanes business. Nevertheless, the Roumbos family, to this day, continues to produce this delight in their quaint workshop, which is reminiscent of life in the 1950s.
Katakonozi is one of the most prosperous neighborhoods of the city, and it is currently experiencing a real estate growth.
Kamenikia is one historic western neighbohood of the city.
Seal of John, Metropolitan of Serres, 12th century.
^ a b c d e f g h i j Gregory, Timothy E.; Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson (1991). "Serres". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1881–1882. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
^ a b c d e Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor, ed. (1987). "Serres". E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Volume VII: S–Ṭaiba. Leiden: BRILL. p. 234. ISBN 90-04-08265-4.
^ Vakalopoulos, Constantinos A. (1996). Ιστορία του Βορείου Ελληνισμού -Μακεδονία. Εκδοτικός Οίκος Αδελφών Κυριακίδη. p. 80. ISBN 960-343-017-X. The metropolis of Serres was looted along with seven other churches, the Monastery of St John the Baptist, while land owned by the monastery was confiscated.
^ a b Birken, Andreas (1976). Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches. Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (in German). 13. Reichert. p. 77. ISBN 978-3-920153-56-8.
^ Vakalopoulos, Constantinos A. (1996). Ιστορία του Βορείου Ελληνισμού -Μακεδονία. Εκδοτικός Οίκος Αδελφών Κυριακίδη. p. 130. ISBN 960-343-017-X. At the end of the 18th C, Serres was cotton producing area, exporting 50,000 balls of cotton to Germany, France, Venice and Livorno.
^ Vakalopoulos, Constantinos A. (1996). Ιστορία του Βορείου Ελληνισμού -Μακεδονία. Εκδοτικός Οίκος Αδελφών Κυριακίδη. pp. 131–132. ISBN 960-343-017-X.
^ "Serres Climatological data 1971–1997". Hellenic National Meteorological Service. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
^ Boyar, Ebru (29 June 2007). "Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered". I.B.Tauris – via Google Books.
^ Koroglu, Erol (21 July 2007). "Ottoman Propaganda and Turkish Identity: Literature in Turkey During World War I". I.B.Tauris – via Google Books.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Serres, Greece.
The deportation of the Jews of Serres to the Treblinka extermination camp during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.


The usual criteria for severe malaria are not always sufficient to identify patients who subsequently develop this disease. The multi-organ dysfunction score (MODS) was assessed in 22 patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria to test its usefulness in discriminating different severity levels. The MODS on admission was highly correlated with the baseline concentration of tumor necrosis factor-α (r = 0.83, P < 0.001) and the duration of symptoms after admission (r = 0.54, P = 0.01). The MODS was also correlated with parasite count (r = 0.52, P = 0.014), parasite clearance time (r = 0.54, P = 0.009), and fever clearance time (r = 0.58, P = 0.005). The above correlations remained significant after controlling for the initial parasitemia (P = 0.03 and 0.005). The MODS is simple and easy to apply and needs a recording time of less than three minutes. Thus, this score might provide a quantitative approach for determining severity in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.


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This week both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees passed their 2019-2020 Fiscal Year budget recommendations. The Senate's budget includes support of the state's tourism marketing agency with $50 million in funding for VISIT FLORIDA. VISIT FLORIDA President and CEO Dana Young provided testimony in the Senate Appropriations Committee this week that the agency has a $2.15 return on investment for every dollar spent and contributed to a record 126 million tourists visiting Florida last year. The agency has also served as the front line in countering negative media coverage of hurricanes and toxic algae outbreaks.
However, the House continues to maintain its position to fund VISIT FLORIDA at $19 million only through October 1, 2019. After this time, the agency will be eliminated unless it is reauthorized in statute by the Legislature. President Young also spoke to the the House Appropriations Committee this week on how VISIT FLORIDA partners with 13,000 businessess across the state. Additionally, they have budgeted $1 million for crisis response. She concluded her presentation by stating the $19 million currently allocated by the House would gurantee the state would lose $122.5 million in tourism dollars.
These budget proposals are expected to go to the full House and Senate next week setting the stage for leaders to negotiate a final spending plan before the May 3 end of the legislative session.
SB 540 has already passed its second committee and will now be considered in the Senate Appropriations committee. However, the bill has been amended and one of the provisions removed from the original draft was the issuance of administrative fines by the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The House version of the bill was passed in its first committee this week. The House Criminal Justice Committee passed it unanimously 14-0.


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Q: Why can one not combine a variable and a function in an if-statement using PowerShell?

Running:
$a = "HelloWorld"

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function b { return "HelloWorld"}

returns:
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+ if ($a -and b) {Write-Host "helloworld"}
+            ~
You must provide a value expression following the '-and' operator.
At C:\Users\r\Desktop\test.ps1:24 char:13
+ if ($a -and b) {Write-Host "helloworld"}
+             ~
Unexpected token 'b' in expression or statement.
At C:\Users\r\Desktop\test.ps1:24 char:13
+ if ($a -and b) {Write-Host "helloworld"}
+             ~
Missing closing ')' after expression in 'if' statement.
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Workaround
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results in:
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A: All about order. Here's the solution:
function b { return "HelloWorld"}

$a = "HelloWorld"

if ($a -and (b)) {Write-Host "helloworld"}

First point: The function needs to have been defined by the time you try and call it. If the definition is after the call it will fail because it doesn't exist yet.
Second point: You need to evaluate the returned value from the function before trying to compare something with it, therefore you need to use parenthesis around the call to ensure it gets executed before the logical operation.


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An unconditional freedom
Cole, Alyssa, author.
1st Kensington trade paperback ed.
270 pages ; 21 cm.
Loyal league ;
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Cuban Americans -- Fiction.
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 -- Fiction.
Spies -- Fiction
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Romantic suspense fiction.
An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes ... Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people--dreams that died the night he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Daniel is rescued, but he's a changed man. When he's offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of Black spies who helped free him, he seizes the opportunity for vengeance against the Confederacy and those who support it. When the Union Army occupies the Florida home of Cuban Janeta Sanchez, daughter of an enslaved woman and the plantation owner who married her, her family's wealth does not protect her father from being imprisoned. Under duress and blaming herself for the arrest, Janeta agrees to infiltrate a group called the Loyal League as a double agent--and finds a cause truly worth the sacrifice. Daniel is aggravated by the headstrong and much too observant new detective he's paired with, and Janeta is intrigued by the broken but honorable man she is tasked with betraying. As they embark on a mission to intercept Jefferson Davis and thwart European meddling, their dual hidden agendas are threatened by the ghosts of their pasts and a growing affection that could strengthen both the Union and their souls--or lead to their downfall.
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Daniel Cumberland's uneventful life as a freedman in Massachusetts ended the night he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. To then have his freedom restored by the very man who stole his beloved's heart is almost too much to bear. When he's offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of spies who helped free him, Daniel seizes the opportunity to help take down the Confederacy and vent the rage that consumes him.
When the Union Army occupies Janeta Sanchez's small Florida town, her family's goodwill and ties to Cuba fail to protect her father from being unjustly imprisoned for treason. To ensure her father's release, Janeta is made an offer she can't refuse- spy for the Confederacy. Driven by a desire for vengeance and the hope of saving her family, she agrees to infiltrate the Loyal League as a double agent.
Daniel is both aggravated and intrigued by the headstrong recruit. For the first time in months, he feels something other than anger, but a partner means being accountable, and Daniel's secret plan to settle a vendetta and strike a blow for the Union can be entrusted to no one. As Janeta and Daniel track Jefferson Davis on his tour of the South, their dual hidden missions are threatened by the ghosts of their pasts and a growing mutual attraction-that might be their only hope for the future.
Alyssa Cole is a science editor and romance junkie who lives in the Caribbean. She founded the Jefferson Market Library Romance Book Club and has contributed romance-related articles to publications including RT Book Reviews, Heroes and Heartbreakers, Romance at Random, and The Toast.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Cole completes the Loyal League trilogy with a hopeful look at interracial romance during the Civil War. Daniel Cumberland, a detective for the pro-Union Loyal League, has recently been reliberated after he was kidnapped back into slavery. He wants to kill the men responsible for his suffering. Janeta Sanchez, descended from Cuban immigrants, has never truly understood her own tenuous relationship to slavery. Forced by her former lover to spy for the Confederacy, Janeta infiltrates the League and joins Daniel on a mission to uncover Britain's involvement in the war. Janeta and Daniel's love story is a slow burn as Daniel deals with the echoes of past trauma and Janeta learns the true meaning of slavery. Both characters have much more on their minds than romance, which is exactly what makes the romance so real. Neither is perfect, and they still see the good in each other. Even a slightly hurried ending can't diminish this triumphant conclusion to an outstanding series that has redefined the possibilities of historical romance. Agent: Lucienne Diver, Knight Agency. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
After being kidnapped, sold into slavery, beaten, and broken, Daniel Cumberland is now free and wants his revenge. Torturous memories of what he endured on the plantation before he was rescued and brought back home to Illinois make it impossible for Daniel to live a normal life. Anger and trauma provoke him to join the Loyal League as a rogue agent hell-bent on destroying the Confederacy and, in some ways, himself. But then he meets his new League partner, Janeta Sanchez. The light-skinned daughter of a rich Cuban man and his enslaved wife, Janeta is more able to blend in, but her secret motive for joining this underground spy network is to protect her family, not to save her people. Once she finally sees the harsh reality of slavery, however, she realizes that she must decide which side of this uncivil war she is truly on. Their relationship grows slowly as Janeta and Daniel pursue their mission and try to determine if they're fighting for the same noble cause. This third and hopefully not last installment in Cole's Loyal League series, following A Hope Divided (2017), is historical romance at its finest.--Kristina Giovanni Copyright 2019 Booklist
The third book in Cole's (A Duke by Default, 2018, etc.) Civil War-era Loyal League series pairs a broken man bent on retribution with an inexperienced but courageous double agent.Daniel Cumberland was born free in Massachusetts, but his education and professional status did not protect him from being kidnapped and sold into slavery, an experience that destroyed his faith in God, country, and himself even after he's rescued. At night, memories of his time in captivity haunt him, but by day he is a detective with the Loyal League, one of the North's most important spy rings. Daniel is ruthless and heartless, motivated by an all-consuming thirst for vengeance that sets him apart even from his fellow spies, with their nave optimism that the war can bring about a better life for people of all races. Janeta Sanchez had lived a pampered and privileged life as the daughter of a Cuban plantation owner who had settled in Florida. But when Yankee soldiers imprison her father and quarter themselves in her home, she agrees to travel to Ohio to infiltrate the Loyal League and spy for the Confederate cause. In unfamiliar terrain, where others' perceptions clash with her self-image, Janeta "was coming to understand both her place in this country and her own inner geography better; she was recharting the map of herself." Cole conveys the ways Janeta's and Daniel's layered identities pose challenges while affording them strengths of insight and character. Cole weaves a tense and gripping plot into a tapestry of fascinating and authentic historical detail, told from the distinct perspectives of people of color, without skimping on the growing feelings and strong desires that bring two lovers together.Forbidden attraction and the threat of betrayal are the initial hooks for what turns out to be a sumptuously written and meticulously researched tale of a country at war with itself and two damaged people who find themselves in each other's arms. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Born free, captured by slavers, and then rescued, law student Daniel Cumberland-disillusioned, angry, and embittered-wants nothing more than to bring down the Confederacy. A member of the Loyal League, the shadowy organization of black detectives and spies who freed him, Daniel finds himself on a dangerous mission to Mississippi, saddled with Janeta Sanchez, a green-as-grass and far too curious recruit. Yet Janeta, pampered daughter of a -Cuban plantation owner and his freedwoman wife, is more than just an annoyance-she is a double agent, coerced into spying for the South in exchange for her imprisoned father's freedom. The journey brings sometimes painful truths to them both. VERDICT A heroine torn by conflicting loyalties and a vengeance-driven hero haunted by the past struggle to come to terms with reality and their feelings in this emotionally compelling, information-rich story. Very nicely done. Cole (A Hope Divided) divides her time between New York City and -Martinique. [An editor's pick, p. 22; previewed in Kathryn Howe's "Love Changes Everything," LJ 10/15/18.] © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


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Q: How to simulate key press event in python on another program running in python I am running ML model, which predicts fingure gestures.I am trying to simulate key press event in python using pynput library and I check it's working fine.But I have other program which Is a game written in python using pygame library , which opens up in a new window , but the problem is key press controls doesn't work on that, but it works when I manually press keyboard buttons.

A: In pygame you can add events to the event queue by doing:
newevent = pygame.event.Event(type, **attributes) #create the event
    pygame.event.post(newevent) #add the event to the queue

Where type is the type of the event (a numerical constant) and **attributes a keyarg list of attributes, also predefined constants.
All these constants are defined in the pygame.locals module. pygame event docs and pygame key docs list all of them.
So if you want to simulate the press of the 'a' key for example, the code would be:
newevent = pygame.event.Event(pygame.locals.KEYDOWN, unicode="a", key=pygame.locals.K_a, mod=pygame.locals.KMOD_NONE) #create the event
    pygame.event.post(newevent) #add the event to the queue

KEYDOWN is the constant corresponding to the keydown event.
unicode is the unicode representation of the pressed key.
key is a constant associated to the pressed key.
mod is a constant representing a modifier (if the button is pressed while also SHIFT or CAPS_LOCK is pressed, for example).
Hope it helps.

A: I solved the problem by emulating key press event  using keyboard.press and listen the same event using keyboard.Listner() both are present in keyboard library.So I didn't use pygame functions to listen the event. Thanx everyone for ur help.


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Pastor Jeff Kroondyk, January 9, 2022
Psalm 147:12-20, "Grace Reflourished"
Colossians 1:15-23, "Held Together"
Pastor Sarah Albers, December 26, 2021
John 16:17-24, "What to Expect When You're Expecting: Complete Joy"
Pastor Jeff Kroondyk, Christmas Eve 2021
Romans 13:8-14, "What to Expect When You're Expecting: Spiritual Growth"
Pastor Jeff Kroondyk, December 19, 2021
2 Timothy 3:1-17, "What to Expect When You're Expecting: Godlessness"
2 Peter 3:1-15a, "What to Expect When You're Expecting: God's Patience"
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Matthew 24:1-8, "What to Expect When You're Expecting: Labor Pains"
Seminarian Katy Kroondyk, November 28, 2021
Ephesians 4:1-6, "Patient Unity"
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Matthew 18:15-20, "Reconciling Grace"
James 1:19-27, "Building Trust"
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Philippians 2:1-11, "The Mind of Christ"
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Ezekiel 47:1-12, "The River of Life"
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Acts 16:6-15, "Welcome Home: Going Out"
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Luke 10:25-37, "Welcome Home: Intentional Love"
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Isaiah 55:1-5 "You're Invited! To What?"
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Romans 12:3-8, "Too High, Too Low, Just Right"
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Objective: Limited evidence supports a possible association between a person's perception of their weight status and their quality of life (QoL). This study evaluates whether misperception around weight status is associated with QoL and the impact of gender on this association. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of Australian adults (n=1,905 analysed) collected selfreported height and weight (used to estimate BMI), gender and QoL (described using the AQoL-8D). Participants reported whether they perceived their weight status to be 'underweight', 'healthy weight', 'overweight' or 'obese'. Misperception around weight status was categorised based on perceived weight status and self-reported BMI. Ordinary least squares regression was used to test associations between self-reported overall, physical and psychosocial QoL, misperception of weight status, and gender, across different BMI categories, after controlling for income, education, relationship status and health conditions. Results: Compared to accurate perception, underestimation of weight status was associated with higher overall QoL for obese males and females and for overweight males. Overestimation of weight status was associated with higher overall QoL for underweight females and lower overall QoL for healthy weight males and females. The same pattern was seen for psychosocial QoL. Physical QoL was less sensitive to misperception than psychosocial QoL. Conclusions: Self-reported misperception around weight status is associated with overall, psychosocial and to a lesser extent physical QoL in Australian adults, although its role depends on BMI category and gender. Generally misperception in the direction of "healthy weight" is associated with higher QoL and overestimation of weight status by those who are of healthy weight is associated with lower QoL. Findings should be confirmed in datasets that contain measured as opposed to self-report height and weight.


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SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - for octavio paz CD, Holy Mountain
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - for octavio paz CD, Holy Mountain quantity
"CD reissue of sold-out limited edition vinyl. Since the release of Six Organs of Admittance's self-titled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but For Octavio Paz is his first full record to explore the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshippers is that Chasny's pantheon is willing to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the lexicon — Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example — not to mention the fact that he can stand the sound of a Stratocaster. This is the definitive guitar record from Six Organs of Admittance."


USDCAD broke above 1.3444 resistance, suggesting that the upside movement from 1.3250 has resumed. Further rise to test 1.3467 resistance is possible, above this level would aim 1.3500 area. Key support is at 1.3371, a breakdown below this level could bring the price back to 1.3300 area.


Introducing taxes on an inherited house Centerville.
Also the most honest vendors, nevertheless, could be uninformed of hidden flaws in their residences problems you could not intend to deal with. Knowing any kind of concerns prior to you completely commit to a house purchase makes the house inspection expense worthwhile.
Inching the rate down does not work, warns Henry Holland-Hibbett, of Strutt & Centerville. "You have to make a statement so as to draw in new people and also create competitors," he states. "Customers have to be made to know that if they wait months, the house may not be there."
You're the house purchaser, and I'm the vendor who has the house you desire. We remain in a slow property market that prefers the buyer, yet there is still a good deal of realty task. So it's not absolutely a buyers market. As a seller, I understand I need to play my cards right if I want to get a deal. But at the very same time, I've seen houses marketing in my community. So I understand there are customers around. I've seen them enter the open houses over the last couple of months. This scenario probably mirrors a number of the real estate markets in the country today, in 2011.
Real Estate Investors Plc If you do not have a strong real estate history (a lot of brand-new financiers have little experience) after that focus on talking about your group such as your real estate representative, accounting professional, lawyer, contractors, and other professionals.
Randolph agreed. The most effective financial investment if youre seeking to acquire something to rent would certainly be a 2-bedroom house in the $2 million to $5 million cost array, he said. A couple of bed rooms rent at greater prices per square foot because you could have numerous tenants in the apartment.
Acquiring A Home List The first couple of residential properties commonly cost much less than the ones at the end of the auction. This is since individuals are waiting to see the actions of various other bidders as well as to feel comfy with just how the process works. If your selected property shows up near the start, do not be afraid to jump in and also obtain your feet wet.
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This is the house described by Louisa May Alcott in her famous novel Little Women. Most of the furnishings are those of Margaret Sidney, author of Five Little Peppers.
Located a mile (1.6 km) east of Concord's Monument Square and just a few steps east of Orchard House(map), The Wayside is the house Louisa May Alcott described in her famous novel, Little Women.
The Alcott family lived in this house, which they called "Hillside," from 1845 to 1852, when Louisa was a teenager. She later complained that Hillside and nearby Orchard House, where she lived later, were cold, dreary and lacking sunlight.
During her years here, Louisa had a teenage crush on her father's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. She was a hiking buddy of Henry David Thoreau, and stories circulate of Louisa and teenaged friends going skinny-dipping in Walden Pond.
In 1852, the Alcotts sold Hillside to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Hawthorne, who moved in with their three young children Una, Julian and Rose, and renamed the house "The Wayside." It remained the Hawthorne family home until Nathaniel Hawthorne's death in 1864.
In 1870 it was sold by Hawthorne's heirs, and in 1883 bought by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife Harriet Lothrop, a children's book author who used the pen name Margaret Sidney and was widely known for her book The Five Little Peppers.
Margaret Lothrop, daughter of Harriet, inherited the house, and in 1963 it was declared a National Historic Landmark. A few years later it became part of Minute Man National Historical Park.
The Wayside, administered by the National Park Service, re-opened in 2016 after extensive restoration. There's free parking in a special lot across the street from the house—follow the signs.
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Oświata w Wolanowie - historia szkół w Wolanowie od szkoły podstawowej założonej w 1893 r. do istniejącego od 24 maja 2002 roku Zespołu Szkół Ogólnokształcących.

Historia do 1945 roku
W 1893 roku uruchomiono szkołę początkową. W 1905 roku powstała szkolna biblioteka. W latach międzywojennych funkcjonowała tu szkoła z klasami I – III oraz z klasą wstępną. Lekcje odbywały się w jednoizbowym budynku pod kierunkiem jednego nauczyciela, najprawdopodobniej mieszkającego w tym samym budynku, bo takie rozwiązania wtedy często funkcjonowały. Budynek ten spłonął 1945 roku. W 1935 roku rozpoczęto budowę nowej szkoły, do 1939 roku ukończono dwie sale lekcyjne. Istniała wtedy siedmioklasowa szkoła podstawowa. Zajęcia odbywały się w dwu nowo oddanych salach, w wynajętych izbach oraz w starym budynku szkolnym.

Okres powojenny
W okresie powojennym szkoła podstawowa w Wolanowie o strukturze siedmio-, a potem ośmioklasowej mieściła się w dziesięciu salach lekcyjnych. Poprawa uciążliwych warunków nauczania nastąpiła po 1998 roku. Nowe władze samorządowe Gminy Wolanów zdecydowały o budowie nowej szkoły. Inwestycję tę rozpoczęto w 1992 roku, a zakończono ostatecznie w 1996 roku.

Reforma systemu edukacji

Reforma oświatowa 1999 roku spowodowała utworzenie w tym obiekcie na bazie szkoły podstawowej także publicznego  gimnazjum. Po trzech latach takiego funkcjonowania obie odrębne dotąd placówki połączono z początkiem nowego roku szkolnego w Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących w Wolanowie ."  Zachowano jednak odrębność rad pedagogicznych, rad rodziców i samorządów uczniowskich.

Absolwenci
 Wojciech Ferens

Osoby związane ze szkołą
Robert Grudzień

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne
 BIP
Ogólnokształcących w Wolanowie
Wolanów (województwo mazowieckie)

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By Rafiq A. Tschannen on November 6, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
Why is Israel so afraid of Khalida Jarrar?
When Israeli troops stormed the house of Palestinian parliamentarian and lawyer, Khalida Jarrar, on April 2, 2015, she was engrossed in her research. For months, Jarrar had been leading a Palestinian effort to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Her research on that very evening was directly related to the kind of behavior that allows a group of soldiers to handcuff a respected Palestinian intellectual and throw her in jail with no trial and with no accountability for their actions.
Jarrar was released after spending more than a year in jail in June 2016, only to be arrested once more on July 2, 2017. She remains in an Israeli prison. On Oct. 28, her "administrative detention" was renewed for a fourth time.
There are thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, most of them held outside the militarily occupied Palestinian territories, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. However, nearly 500 Palestinians fall into a different category, as they are held without trial, detained for six-month periods that are renewed, sometimes indefinitely, by Israeli military courts with no legal justification whatsoever. Jarrar is one of those detainees.
Jarrar is not beseeching her jailers for her freedom. Instead, she is keeping busy educating her fellow female prisoners on international law, offering classes and issuing statements to the outside world that reflect not only her refined intellect, but also her resolve and strength of character.
She is relentless. Despite her failing health — Jarrar has suffered multiple strokes, hypercholesterolemia, and was hospitalized due to severe bleeding resulting from epistaxis — her commitment to the cause of her people has not, in any way, weakened or faltered. The 55-year-old Palestinian lawyer has championed a political discourse that is largely missing amid the ongoing feud between the Palestinian Authority's (PA) largest faction, Fatah, in the occupied West Bank and Hamas in besieged Gaza.
As a member of the Palestine Legislative Council and an active member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Jarrar has advocated the kind of politics that is not disconnected from the people and, especially, from the women who she strongly and uncompromisingly represents.
According to Jarrar, no Palestinian official should engage in any form of dialogue with Israel because such engagement helps legitimize a state that is founded on ethnic cleansing, and is currently carrying out various types of war crimes: The very crimes that Jarrar tried to expose before the ICC.
Expectedly, Jarrar rejects the so-called "peace process" as a futile exercise that has no intention or mechanism that is aimed at "implementing international resolutions related to the Palestinian cause and recognizing the fundamental rights of the Palestinians."
It goes without saying that a woman with such an astute, strong position vehemently rejects the "security coordination" between the PA and Israel, seeing such cooperation as a betrayal of the struggle and sacrifices of the Palestinian people.
While PA officials continue to enjoy the perks of "leadership," desperately breathing life into a dead political discourse of a "peace process" and a "two-state solution," Jarrar, a Palestinian female leader with a true vision, subsists in HaSharon Prison. There, along with dozens of Palestinian women, she experiences daily humiliation, the denial of rights, and various Israeli methods aimed at breaking her will.
But Jarrar is as experienced in resisting Israel as she is in her knowledge of the law and human rights. In August 2014, as Israel was carrying out one of its most heinous acts of genocide in Gaza — killing and wounding thousands in its so-called "Protective Edge" war — Jarrar received an unwelcome visit by Israeli soldiers.
Fully aware of her work and credibility as a Palestinian lawyer with an international outreach — she is the Palestine representative in the Council of Europe — the Israeli government unleashed its campaign of harassment, which ended in her imprisonment. Soldiers delivered a military edict ordering her to leave her home in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, for Jericho.
Failing to silence her voice, she was arrested in April the following year, beginning an episode of suffering, but also resistance, which is yet to end.
When the Israeli army came for Jarrar, they surrounded her home with a massive number of soldiers, as if the well-spoken Palestinian activist was Israel's greatest security threat. The scene was quite surreal, and telling of Israel's real fear: That of Palestinians, like Jarrar, who are able to communicate an articulate message that exposes Israel to the rest of the world.
It was reminiscent of the opening sentence of Franz Kafka's novel "The Trial," which reads: "Somebody must have made a false accusation against Joseph K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong."
Administrative detention in Israel is the recreation of that Kafkaesque scene over and over again. Joseph K. is Jarrar and the thousands of other Palestinians paying a price for merely calling for the rights and freedom of their people.
Under international pressure, Israel was forced to put Jarrar on trial, levying against her 12 charges that included visiting a released prisoner and participating in a book fair. Her other arrest, and the four renewals of her detention, are testament not just to Israel's lack of any real evidence against Jarrar, but for its moral bankruptcy as well.
But why is Israel afraid of Jarrar? The truth is she, like many other Palestinian women, represents the antidote of the fabricated Israeli narrative, relentlessly promoting Israel as an oasis of freedom, democracy and human rights, juxtaposed with a Palestinian society that purportedly represents the opposite of what Israel stands for.
Jarrar, a lawyer, human rights activist, prominent politician and advocate for women, demolishes, in her eloquence, courage and deep understanding of her rights and the rights of her people, this Israeli house of lies.
She is the quintessential feminist. Her feminism, however, is not mere identity politics — a surface ideology evoking empty rights meant to strike a chord with Western audiences. Instead, Jarrar fights for Palestinian women, their freedom and their rights to receive a proper education, to seek work opportunities and to better their lives, while facing the tremendous obstacles of military occupation, prison and social pressure.
Khalida in Arabic means "immortal" — a most fitting designation for a true fighter, who represents the legacy of generations of strong Palestinian women whose "sumoud" (steadfastness) shall always inspire an entire nation.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is "The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story" (Pluto Press, London, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB. Twitter: @RamzyBaroud
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