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BURY AC: Marathon effort by club trio
Marathon effort put in by club trio
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TOWERING EFFORT: Luke Harreld competing in the Blackpool Marathon
IT was a marathon weekend for three Bury AC members with two taking part in London and one in Blackpool.
In the capital, Byron Edwards once again broke the three-hour barrier, albeit as this was his fifth race of 20 or more miles over the last two months it was hardly surprising he had to pace himself carefully.
Nevertheless, while his 2hrs 54mins 10secs performance was 14 minutes slower than his recent best in Tokyo, Edwards enjoyed the event hugely.
Irfan Qureshi, running to raise money for equipment for the athletic club, completed the course in 4:31:53, running a well-judged race.
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Luke Harreld ran in the Blackpool Marathon where he took an excellent ninth place, setting a new personal best for the distance in 3:05:58.
The previous weekend saw a number of Bury's younger athletes competing in the Trafford Medal meeting with plenty of personal-best performances produced.
In the under-15 girls' events, Rosella Togo set a new best of 13.23 to take second in the 100m, a new best of 12.41 to win the 75m hurdles and produced a 8.47 putt to take fifth in the shot.
Millie Uprichard took fourth in her 100m race in a new best of 14.19, while Reilly Carson took fifth in the 300m (49.64) before setting a new best of 5:24.56 to take fifth in the 1500m and another best in the javelin of 21.12 in 11th.
Connie Potts set new bests in the 300m (fourth in 48.36), the shot (ninth with 7.44) and discus (13th with 14.84).
For the u15 boys, Jay Cook set new lifetime bests in the 80m hurdles (third in 12.86) and javelin (fifth with 29.48). Young Ben Gardner was Bury's only u11 but he maintained the quality of performances by taking second place in his 600m race in a new best of 2:01.38.
Bury hosts the first of it's popular Mini League meetings next Wednesday at the Market Street track, starting at 7pm with track and field events for u13s, u11s and u9s.
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Radcliffe chairman thinks town is getting on board with club after promotion
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GOLF: Fantastic effort for Bury Cancer Support Centre
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BURY AC: Jay Cooks up a fine display at Crewe
RADCLIFFE AC: Trio complete four in four test
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Woonsocket Hill Road Bridge opens ahead of schedule
Officials from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and town of North Smithfield celebrated the opening of the Woonsocket Hill Road Bridge over Route 146 last week. The bridge opened on Nov. 21. (Breeze photo by Lauren Clem)
Stone Arch Bridge could open by Christmas
By LAUREN CLEM, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
NORTH SMITHFIELD – For the first time since February, traffic is free to flow from one end of Woonsocket Hill Road to the other via the newly opened bridge over Route 146.
The new bridge opened the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, a month ahead of its expected December completion date, and involved a full replacement of the previous bridge over Route 146. According to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the bridge carries approximately 1,000 vehicles per day.
RIDOT and town officials gathered on the bridge last Thursday, Nov. 29, to celebrate the early opening. Town Administrator Gary Ezovski acknowledged the inconvenience of the prolonged detour for residents but thanked RIDOT officials and project managers for their good communication with the town throughout the project.
"As short as the detours are, it's amazing how routine we are about the things that we do," he said.
RIDOT Director Peter Alviti Jr. noted the importance of the bridge to residents and local businesses, including Wright's Dairy Farm, located just over the eastern side of the bridge. Like many others rehabilitated as part of an $11.3 million Route 146 Corridor Bridges project, the bridge, he said, was structurally deficient and in need of repair.
"We really thank them for being patient and good neighbors throughout this entire project, not to mention the great pastry that they have," he said.
According to Alviti, the Woonsocket Hill Road Bridge is an example of the success of a new project management system and department restructuring mandated by the $4.9 billion RhodeWorks infrastructure legislation passed in 2016. The restructuring, he said, has increased the department's efficiency and responsiveness on the more than 100 projects worth approximately $900 million currently underway in Rhode Island.
"We've gone from being 50 percent on time, on budget over four years ago to 90 percent on time, on budget," he said. "We have a staff that's dedicated not only to making sure these projects are successful, (but) that they fit into the cities and towns."
Ellen Puccetti, owner of Wright's Dairy Farm, said the project had a small impact on the business's sales as regular customers from the other side of the bridge found elsewhere to buy their pastries and milk, but added RIDOT officials remained in communication with her throughout the project and were able to minimize the impact.
"All in all, it had to be done, so we were just glad it opened a month in advance and before Christmas," she said.
The impact of local bridge closures has not been so light for businesses located in Slatersville, where several business owners have expressed concern about the impact of the prolonged closure of the Stone Arch Bridge, and one former restaurant owner told The Breeze in April the construction was partly to blame for a decision to close his business after eight years. While work is scheduled to continue into the summer, the bridge is expected to open to traffic by the end of this month.
"We're really trying to get it open before Christmas. We're all working toward that goal," said RIDOT Chief Public Affairs Officer Charles St. Martin.
In response to a question about addressing residents' concerns regarding future projects, including a partial closure of the Great Road Branch River Bridge scheduled to begin next April, Alviti said the department's new restructuring will continue to keep projects moving efficiently and transparently in the future.
"We've done that here, we're doing that on other projects and we'll continue to do that," he said.
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The life of Dr. Douglas Skopp, the late beloved professor of history, college historian and distinguished teaching professor emeritus, was celebrated Sunday in memory and song before some 150 family, friends, colleagues both retired and current, and members of the community.
The Oct. 14 event featured his son, Andrew, who welcomed those gathered on behalf of the family, including the late historian's wife, Evelyne. Skopp lost his years-long battle with cancer Sunday, May 27, 2018. He was 76.
Joining Andrew in remembering his father, whom he called "a Renaissance guy," were former students, including Alonna Haseltine Rudolph '99, Douglas Sloan '91 and Blake Harrison '92, and colleagues including Dr. E. Thomas Moran and Dr. Stuart Voss. Although former students Joseph DeSalvo '89 and Norman Radow '78 were unable to attend, they sent their regards to Evelyne and family. Radow, unable to attend following surgery, sent a letter to be read in his stead.
"Doug Skopp is a man I cherished and admired," Radow said in his letter, adding that Skopp "saw my inner strengths and got me to challenge myself. He lived his ideals til his last breath."
Pianist Rose Chancler performed Brahms' "Intermezzo in A Major," and together with soprano Jo Ellen Miano, professor of music, performed "Bist du bei mir" by Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel.
Skopp's friend, Dr. Luis Sierra, who works with people dealing with, among other ailments, cancer, led those gathered in a mindfulness exercise, asking that they carry Skopp in their hearts.
He called Skopp "righteous," explaining how in Judaism, it is believed that there exist 36 righteous people in each lifetime living on Earth who save the world through acts of righteousness.
"Doug was very deliberate," Sloan said. "He set forth a few requests to celebrate his contributions. 'Give it a little time,' he said, 'until you celebrate whatever it is you want to celebrate. Time to grow and then let reason take over.' Memory is the scribe of the soul. A repository of learning. Doug was a great teacher. I personally don't believe his goal was to teach history for the sake of teaching history. He was a teacher of life." He helped us discover ourselves in our humanity and consequently in all we do, Sloan said.
Skopp joined the faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh in 1972 as a member of the history department, teaching aspects of European history, particularly modern Germany, as well as the Middle Ages, the World Wars, the Holocaust, education in Western Civilization, and historical research methods and skills. In fall 1998, he was an inaugural fellow in the college's Institute for Ethics in Public Life. He retired in 2006 but continued to assist each semester in the institute, even throughout his illness.
In honor of Skopp and Evelyne's contributions to the college and their "efforts to bear witness and bring an end to genocide," a gallery in Feinberg Library was permanently named the Douglas and Evelyne Skopp Holocaust Memorial Gallery in 2012.


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I was really curious to learn about some of the edtech tools Brandee Ramirez is using and enjoyed listening to her presentation: "Creating the Perfect BLT: Balanced Literacy and Technology. Brandee, an instructional coach at TUSD gave an interesting presentation to Classroom 2.0 Live, which you can see, along with a ton of other resources here. Along with going through TPACK and SAMR with some nice examples, she also highlighted some of the edtech tools that she is using in her schools. One of these, ABCMouse, was a surprise to me. I had seen the site, played with the app a bit, but thought that it was a premium service. Much to my surprise- it is totally free for teachers! You just have to click on the tiny "teacher" link to sign up. It seems to work much like Epic- teachers and their students can use it for free in school, and they try to market it to parents on a subscription basis. It has a nice selection for preK-2 and they are adding a couple more grade levels. Check it out, as well as some of Brandee's other resources in the livebinder.
Google announced a great update to their free Expeditions app. Now students can take new augmented reality tours. The original list of tours is here, but I don't know if all of these will also be AR tours. There are hundreds of really cool places to check out. Simply print out the marker/trigger sheets and the AR content appears on the tablet/phone screen. One thing that I really like is that you don't have to use Google Cardboard or an AR viewer to use this app. You can still get much of the AR experience without the "stuff", which we simply don't have in elementary schools. You can read more about it here.
This is a post from Richard Byrne that I know I will be going back to. He lists 5 different websites to use to create animated videos on chromebooks, especially since the service we currently use- GoAnimate will be closing next year. Check out his great post with examples here.
I know that everyone is incredibly busy finishing up their year, but what are you going to do this summer for PD? Kids, family, other jobs, breathing... all take precedence, but aside from working in my gardens, I use the summer to try to catch up on all the edtech "stuff" I missed or didn't have time to explore. This summer I will be going to the Raspberry Pi Academy in NJ in June, then July will be a week at the Pathfinders Makers Collective Bootcamp in Indianapolis and of course the Scratch conference at MIT. August brings the GooglePalooza in Huntington and EdcampCT down at the Ethel Walker School.
What do I want to learn? I want to learn how to get more buy-in/time allotted for the makerspace through connections to existing standards and curriculum- not as a special or add-on. I really would like to be able to use raspberry pi and not drive myself crazy with mistakes on the breadboard. Scratch is coming out with Scratch 3.0 this summer and it will be non-flash... so it will be usable across more devices and it will be integrated into more hands-on devices, like microbits. I really want to learn to use microbits in the classroom. The price is right, at ~ $15/each and there are more and more sensors and add-ons and you can even do all the coding online with a simulator. Oh, and I need to take the Makerbot 3D printer certification course. And I want to learn more about how to use Merge cubes in the classroom. That's my "short" list.
Summer is such a great time to learn, to relax with friends and family and to refresh/re-ignite your passions for teaching/learning. If you're looking for edtech learning opportunities, check out KQED https://teach.kqed.org/ They are offering free media literacy courses. Want a more hands-on course- check the various tinkering courses from Exploratorium. Feeling like you want more Google in your life- check out the Applied Digital Skills. Want to learn more about the "Maker Movement" and how it could apply in your classroom, check A Year in the Making.
If these lists don't inspire you and you actually need help finding some edtech PD, let me know. If your plan is to go to the beach and hang out with your grandkids or your own children, to travel to exotic places or to sleep in the hammock in your own back yard- Enjoy! You certainly deserve all the best!
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If you're still on the fence about using Google Suite with younger students, check out Google Apps for Littles: Believe They Can by Alice Keeler and Christine Pinto. You will find creative, easy to use ideas to get you started.
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A Melbourne group have bought the Westend Backpackers' hotel in Sydney's CBD for $19 million with plans to refurbish it into a hotel, according to the Australian Financial Review.
There were 300 enquiries into the building located at 412 Pitt Street.
Speaking to the Australian Financial Review, CBRE Hotels' Andrew Jackson and Rob Cross negotiated the sale, saying that interest in the property was phenomenal.
"We received a staggering 300-plus inquiries and took over 45 groups through the hotel over the course of the campaign, resulting in 13 offers to purchase being received," Mr Jackson said.
[urbanRelatedPost][/urbanRelatedPost]Run under the Nomads brand, the hotel has 86 rooms over 13 levels with 359 beds in total.
According to CBRE, the buyer intends to turn the hotel into a "limited service hotel offering to take advantage of the strong Sydney hotel market fundamentals.""Strong demand levels in Sydney have produced consistently high occupancies and escalating hotel average daily rates. With minimal new supply mooted in the short term, occupancies are likely to remain high with positive ADR growth," Mr Cross said.
"The strong trading outlook is drawing huge interest from both domestic and offshore buyers, with Asian buyers having been particularly active in the first quarter of this year. This is driving the strong pricing being achieved for hotel assets in strong centres such as Sydney."


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USA assures Bangladesh's National strategy over Rohingya refugees
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Bangladesh adopted a strategy to identify, locate and deport the undocumented Burmese citizens to their homeland and the USA has assured Dhaka of its full support for adopting the National Strategy recently, according to foreign ministry of Bangladesh. Bangladesh gave shelter to thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled the Arakan State after violence over the years and the cabinet of Bangladesh approved the national strategy last September.
USA has assured Dhaka to implement its first-ever national strategy to address the problem of refugees and undocumented Burmese nationals in Bangladesh.
The Foreign Ministry in a media release yesterday said the assistant secretary highly appreciated the Bangladesh government for adopting the National Strategy and promised "to extend full support of the US Government towards implementation of the strategy".
The foreign ministry said the assurance came when Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque met with Us Assistant Secretary at the Population, Refugee and Migration (PRM) Bureau Anne Richard at the State Department on February 20.
She also assured the Secretary of US's continued "constructive engagement" with Myanmar "to quickly and effectively" resolve the problem of Burmese Muslims.
Bangladesh Foreign Secretary particularly appreciated the US President's insistence that the displacement of Myanmar Muslims should be resolved within Myanmar as it was their place of origin.
According to UNHCR, over 200,000 with 30,000 documented refugees are living in two government-run camps -the Kutupalong and Nayaparha of Bangladesh.
However, the Bangladesh government says 500,000 more are living outside the camps in the country.
The foreign secretary is visiting Washington to attend a global fund meeting on counter-terrorism.
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Stoco was once one of the most bustling villages in the area, with four general stores, two hotels, two carriage-making shops, two blacksmiths, a shoe-repair and harness shop and a resident physician. Two tragedies struck this village, leaving it in a state of decline from which it never recovered. First, the smallpox epidemic of 1884, which devastated the village. It left 67 people dead and 200 ill. A second great shock came to the small village on April 22, 1907 when a fire wiped out half the village of Stoco in mere hours.
Stoco is a family oriented destination that offers many things to do and see. Stoco Lake and Moira River are both excellent for fishing and boating enthusiasts. There are many other recreation venues in Stoco year around, including a baseball diamond, outdoor arena and Poplars Golf Course. The golf course boasts an 18-hole course, with a driving range and clubhouse.
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The Fiji Airways men's 7s team will not underestimate France and Kenya in its first two pool games in Cape Town tonight.
The Fijians met both the teams in Dubai last weekend where Fiji beat France 41-0 and later defeated Kenya 43-12 in its last pool match.
Coach, Gareth Baber says the players need to remain consistent.
Meanwhile, Fiji 7s scrum-half Amenoni Nasilasila has been named as the 13th player.
The squad see's Baber retain all core players from Dubai in the likes of Kalione Nasoko, Mesulame Kunavula, Sevuloni Mocenacagi, Jerry Tuwai and Alosio Naduva.
Fiji plays France in its first match at 9.59 tonight, then faces Kenya at 1.20 tomorrow morning before playing England in its final pool match 5.03am.


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Zombie Driver HD review (XBLA)
By Scott Baker	• 7 years ago
Zombie Driver HD was developed by EXOR Studios and published by Cyberfront Corporation. It was released on October 17, 2012 for 800 MSP. A copy was provided for review purposes.
Have you ever watched a zombie movie and silently pondered the cathartic value of a vehicle? Zombies are scary up close, but get inside an armored sports car and suddenly survival doesn't seem so impossible. Then, imagine what you could do with automatic weapons strapped to the side, a flamethrower at the front, and rocket thrusters in the back. This is the prospect behind Zombie Driver HD–pick your vehicle, load it with heavy weapons, and blaze a bloody trail of carnage through the forest of undead. It's the zombie apocalypse, and you are the only person daring enough to take on the horde in whatever vehicles you can find.
Here's what we liked:
Paint it red – Zombies gather in huddled groups, which is the perfect opportunity to mow down as many as possible with a car. With some practice, you can learn to power-slide sideways to knock over an entire mob as if you were 10-pin bowling with a log. Each hit slaps a fresh coat of red paint on your car and bloody streaks across the ground. For most of the game this is your primary method for killing zombies, and you get rewarded with points and cash for the more you kill in succession (especially if you are drifting). Racking up the kills in a sporty red limousine that used to be white is a definite highlight of the game.
Vehicles – Story missions unlock different vehicles that handle in different ways. You start with a simple taxi and work up to a sports car, ambulance, bus, etc. Each car has different capabilities in speed, armor, ramming power, and passenger capacity. For example, a sports car will get you where you need to go quickly, but if you need to rescue a large group of survivors, you're better off taking the bus. When you need to face extra zombies, the tough ambulance or police car will take more abuse. Occasionally you will get a special vehicle specific to a mission, such as a tank or bulldozer. These heavy hitters lay waste to the horde and offer a welcome variety. As you continue through the story, you can upgrade the vehicles to be faster and tougher.
Here's what we didn't like:
Graphical glitches – Constant screen tearing horribly distorts your view, especially when driving at high speeds through the city. Since the game is all about driving through the city, the flickering never goes away and is extremely distracting. At its worst, the road will magically appear out of a blue void. The Xbox 360 has been out for seven years, so there is no excuse for these problems to exist in a finished game to purchase. Hopefully this will be patched later on.
Frustrating mechanics – Zombie-killing feels like a chore. The story campaign consists entirely of driving from place to place to wipe an area of zombies. This forces you to drive back and forth across the same area to smash every last speck of monster. Meanwhile, with each pass to the other side, more zombies from outside the area continue to spawn and walk in. Just when you thought you had the last zombie killed, 3 more arrive from separate corners and you're back to frantically sliding everywhere to hit them. To make matters worse, your weapons are anchored to aim straight ahead rather than the usual twin-stick shooter style. The only way to aim your guns side to side is to drive forward or backward while turning, which is excruciatingly slow when you have zombies banging down your doors. That, and you'll constantly need to pick up ammo and health in obscure places to keep the fight going. This design forces you to slowly tiptoe around fences and buildings when you should be cruising through the streets.
Lack of polish – Alongside the problems with graphics and gameplay, Zombie Driver HD skips a few gaming essentials that are required to make the experience cohesive. The story is merely a backdrop to the action, and yet you cannot skip dialogue during missions. Missions have no checkpoints, so if you unexpectedly die towards the end of the mission, you will have to repeat those last ten minutes. The upgrade screen is extremely confusing to navigate despite its simple appearance because your selective cursor does not go where you expect. These are simple standards that must be met to make a game more enjoyable.
Zombie Driver HD is a fun concept taken in the wrong direction. What should be a field day for all the lead-footed road ragers instead feels like a lead-footed game of soccer. The game occasionally has its moments of gory glory, but with obnoxious technical issues and poor presentation, you're better off playing one of the other million zombie-killing games out there.
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The only thing that makes Scott happier than playing a brilliant game is sharing a brilliant game with other people. Fun fact: some psychologists call this "vicarious pride." He studies psychology and therefore knows more about you than you do. He's also too ashamed to admit that his wife is better than him at Super Mario World. You can try to understand him on Twitter.
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Holy Family School
HF Information
Location: North Battleford, SK
Type: PreK to Grade 7
It is a pleasure to welcome you to Holy Family School. We are a Catholic elementary school that serves students from Pre-K to Grade 7. We are part of the Light of Christ School Division with the division mission of "Pray, Educate, Serve". The mandatory attendance area for Holy Family students includes families living on the west side of 100th Street, Killdeer and Fairview areas, and the south side of south railway (Riverview).
Our school offers faith-filled instruction in a caring atmosphere, with the mission of "Inspiring Faith, Inspiring Learning". Along with quality instruction, the schools offers many extra-curricular clubs and teams, recorders in grade 3, band in grades 4-7, Outdoor Education in grade 7 and multiple leadership opportunities for Division 2 students.


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package main

import (
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"github.com/kelseyhightower/envconfig"

	"nimona.io/internal/net"
	"nimona.io/internal/rand"
	"nimona.io/pkg/context"
	"nimona.io/pkg/crypto"
	"nimona.io/pkg/errors"
	"nimona.io/pkg/hyperspace/resolver"
	"nimona.io/pkg/keystream"
	"nimona.io/pkg/log"
	"nimona.io/pkg/network"
	"nimona.io/pkg/object"
	"nimona.io/pkg/objectmanager"
	"nimona.io/pkg/peer"
	"nimona.io/pkg/sqlobjectstore"
	"nimona.io/pkg/tilde"
	"nimona.io/pkg/version"
)

// nolint: lll
type config struct {
	Peer struct {
		PrivateKey      crypto.PrivateKey `envconfig:"PRIVATE_KEY"`
		BindAddress     string            `envconfig:"BIND_ADDRESS" default:"0.0.0.0:0"`
		AnnounceAddress string            `envconfig:"ANNOUNCE_ADDRESS"`
		Bootstraps      []peer.Shorthand  `envconfig:"BOOTSTRAPS"`
	} `envconfig:"PEER"`
	Sonar struct {
		PingPeers []string `envconfig:"PING_PEERS"`
	} `envconfig:"SONAR"`
}

func main() {
	ctx := context.New(
		context.WithCorrelationID("nimona"),
	)

	logger := log.FromContext(ctx).With(
		log.String("build.version", version.Version),
		log.String("build.commit", version.Commit),
		log.String("build.timestamp", version.Date),
	)

	cfg := &config{}
	if err := envconfig.Process("nimona", cfg); err != nil {
		logger.Fatal("error processing config", log.Error(err))
	}

	if cfg.Peer.PrivateKey.IsEmpty() {
		logger.Fatal("missing peer private key")
	}

	// construct new network
	inet := net.New(cfg.Peer.PrivateKey)
	nnet := network.New(
		ctx,
		inet,
		cfg.Peer.PrivateKey,
	)

	// start listening
	lis, err := nnet.Listen(
		ctx,
		cfg.Peer.BindAddress,
		network.ListenOnLocalIPs,
		network.ListenOnPrivateIPs,
	)
	if err != nil {
		logger.Fatal("error while listening", log.Error(err))
	}

	// convert shorthands into connection infos
	bootstrapPeers := []*peer.ConnectionInfo{}
	for _, s := range cfg.Peer.Bootstraps {
		bootstrapPeer, err := s.GetConnectionInfo()
		if err != nil {
			logger.Fatal("error parsing bootstrap peer", log.Error(err))
		}
		bootstrapPeers = append(bootstrapPeers, bootstrapPeer)
	}

	// construct keystream manager
	ksm := keystream.NewDummyKeyManager()

	// construct new resolver
	res := resolver.New(
		ctx,
		inet,
		cfg.Peer.PrivateKey,
		nil,
		ksm,
		resolver.WithBoostrapPeers(bootstrapPeers...),
	)

	// register resolver
	nnet.RegisterResolver(res)

	logger = logger.With(
		log.String("peer.publicKey", nnet.GetPeerKey().PublicKey().String()),
		log.Strings("peer.addresses", nnet.GetAddresses()),
	)

	logger.Info("ready")

	// construct object store
	db, err := sql.Open("sqlite", "sqlite3.db")
	if err != nil {
		logger.Fatal("error opening sql file", log.Error(err))
	}

	str, err := sqlobjectstore.New(db)
	if err != nil {
		logger.Fatal("error starting sql store", log.Error(err))
	}

	// construct manager
	man := objectmanager.New(
		ctx,
		nnet,
		res,
		str,
	)

	allPingsReceived := make(chan struct{}, 1)
	allPingsSent := make(chan struct{}, 1)

	// listen for pings
	go func() {
		pingedFromPeers := map[string]bool{} // [key]pinged
		for _, p := range cfg.Sonar.PingPeers {
			pingedFromPeers[p] = false
		}
		sub := man.Subscribe(
			objectmanager.FilterByObjectType("ping"),
		)
		defer sub.Close()
		for {
			env, err := sub.Read()
			if err != nil {
				if err != object.ErrReaderDone {
					logger.Error("error while reading pings", log.Error(err))
				}
				return
			}
			fmt.Printf(
				"%s received ping from %s\n",
				nnet.GetPeerKey().PublicKey().String(),
				env.Metadata.Owner.Identity,
			)
			if !env.Metadata.Owner.IsEmpty() {
				pingedFromPeers[env.Metadata.Owner.Identity] = true
			}
			// check if all have pinged us
			allPinged := true
			for _, pinged := range pingedFromPeers {
				if !pinged {
					allPinged = false
					break
				}
			}
			if allPinged {
				close(allPingsReceived)
				return
			}
		}
	}()

	ping := func(peerKey crypto.PublicKey) error {
		sctx := context.New(
			context.WithParent(ctx),
			context.WithTimeout(time.Second*5),
		)
		recipients, err := res.LookupByDID(
			sctx,
			peerKey.DID(),
		)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		if len(recipients) == 0 {
			return errors.Error("no recipients")
		}
		for _, recipient := range recipients {
			if err := nnet.Send(
				sctx,
				&object.Object{
					Type: "ping",
					Metadata: object.Metadata{
						Owner: nnet.GetPeerKey().PublicKey().DID(),
					},
					Data: tilde.Map{
						"nonce": tilde.String(rand.String(8)),
					},
				},
				recipient.Metadata.Owner,
			); err != nil {
				logger.Error(
					"error sending ping to peer",
					log.String("publicKey", recipient.Metadata.Owner.String()),
					log.Strings("addresses", recipient.Addresses),
					log.Error(err),
				)
				continue
			}
			fmt.Printf(
				"%s sent ping to %s\n",
				recipient.Metadata.Owner.String(),
				nnet.GetPeerKey().PublicKey().String(),
			)
			return nil
		}
		return errors.Error("unable to ping")
	}

	go func() {
		pingPeers := map[string]crypto.PublicKey{} // [key]pinged
		for _, p := range cfg.Sonar.PingPeers {
			k := crypto.PublicKey{}
			if err := k.UnmarshalString(p); err != nil {
				logger.Fatal(
					"error unmarshaling key to ping",
					log.String("publicKey", p),
					log.Error(err),
				)
			}
			pingPeers[p] = k
		}
		for {
			time.Sleep(time.Second)
			leftToPing := 0
			for k, peerKey := range pingPeers {
				leftToPing++
				if err := ping(peerKey); err != nil {
					logger.Error(
						"error trying to ping peer",
						log.String("publicKey", peerKey.String()),
						log.Error(err),
					)
					continue
				}
				delete(pingPeers, k)
			}
			if leftToPing == 0 {
				close(allPingsSent)
				return
			}
		}
	}()

	// and wait both channels to close
	<-allPingsSent
	fmt.Println("all pings sent")
	<-allPingsReceived
	fmt.Println("all pings received")

	// finally terminate everything
	lis.Close() // nolint: errcheck
}

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Check out NACAC's Admitted Blog, see photos, and visit #NACACHillDay on social media for a peek into the 2019 Advocacy Meeting.
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Airfield Info
Border Force
Hangarage & Parking
Policies, Legal & Compliance
Airfield History
Pilot Info
Deanland Weather
METAR & TAFS
Online PPR
Pay Landing/Parking Fees
Training & Experience
RAF Deanland was planned as an Advanced Landing Ground in order to provide support for the D-Day Landings on 6th June 1944, with construction started in Spring 1943
The first aircraft to take to the air on D-Day flew from RAF Deanland, providing top-cover over the OMAHA and GOLD landing beaches.
Copies of the original War Department maps of the Airfield, and photographs of the construction phase may be seen at Deanland. An extensive history of the Airfield with full details of resident Squadrons, and the aircraft which they operated, has been compiled. The Airfield operators hold much of this information and will supply details upon request.
On 6th June 1994, the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Deanland held a special memorial day. Air Marshall Sir Neil Wheeler, who was with Churchill on D-Day, presented a plaque to be hung in Ripe Parish Church. The plaque was commissioned by the owners of Deanland and drawn by Karl Suttner a Firle resident.
The Memorial Plaque
Commissioned by the operators, drawn by Karl Suttner
Plaque Presentation
The Vicar of Ripe, Sir Neil Wheeler and Gerry Price
Memorial Tree Planting
Catherine Price and Sophie Brook
Also on the 6th June, an oak-tree was planted at the western end of the airfield entrance-road. This tree is a memorial to those pilots who flew from Deanland and died in operations. The Downlands Flying Group comissioned and donated a brass plaque to record the commemorative planting. Originally positioned in front of the tree, owing to the growth of the tree it has now been moved to the wall of the adjacent hangar.
The climax of this day was the overflight of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight who conducted two fly pasts of the airfield.
The airfield was dormant for a time post-war, but the land came into the ownership of Richard Chandless. Richard, a farmer, reactivated the site as an airfield in 1963. Richard operated his own aircraft and he was, for a number of years, the main UK agent for Avions Pierre Robin demonstrating and selling new and used aircraft from Deanland.
Richard invited a number of other aircraft owners to keep their machines at Deanland. During Richard's time Deanland became a very active airfield both day and night and lights were installed shortly after the runway was reactivated. It was used by a number of local business men, farmers and visitors to the area. With Glyndebourne Opera House close by, it was very normal to see both light aircraft and helicopters parked while there owners enjoyed the opera.
It was from Richard that the present owners bought the airfield in 1991. It is currently operated by Deanland Airfield LLP. It has been the present operators stance that Deanland should remain the premier home for light aviation in East Sussex - if not the south of England!
Wartime Action at Deanland
PDF files to download and read
Stuttgart Raid
Combat Mission 67
B17 Crash
Deanland Airfield, Ripe Lane, Ripe, East Sussex, BN8 6AR
Web design by Andrew Benzie
Deanland Weather by Carl Meek


Naxalbari – the place which inspired a virulent political movement is today hardly half an hour drive from Siliguri, hub of North Bengal. It was the summer of 67 in this beautiful countryside on the foothills of Himalayas when a group of villagers went missing. Next day as other men went to till the lands, women followed them from behind the bushes. As the men got on with their work, police came to arrest them. Villagers realized that this was being done at the instigation of local jotedar. As women resisted, a scuffle broke out. In the melee, a police inspector, Sonam Wangdi was killed by an arrow. Policemen returned next day with a bigger contingent and faced angry villagers led by women with children tied at their back. Police opened fire on them, killing 7 women, two men and two children. Already there was a strong current of resistance in the area thanks to tea garden workers movement led by local communist leaders like Kanu Sanyal and Jangal Santhal. A month later, a huge rally was organized near Siliguri with landless peasants and tea garden workers and a committee was formed to take the struggle forward. Charu Mazumdar called for an armed struggle to capture land.
In the late 1940s North Bengal was the epicenter of communist-led Tebhaga movement, which demanded at least two-third of the produce for the actual tiller. A number of participants later on felt that they were forced to compromise during the Tebhaga movement mainly because they did not take up arms. Two decades after independence, Bengal was tottering on the brink – feudal exploitation continued unabated in the countryside, industries were facing a tough time. Overflowing refugees from the East strained public resources. An insensitive political class failed to understand the frustration of a new generation. Calcutta was rocked by a series of agitations over tram-fare hike, over ration-supply, which alone ended in more than 50 deaths. A militant student movement, fanning out of Presidency College, took inspiration from student movements and anti-war protests going on at that time in the USA and Europe. To such Che Guevara inspired romantic revolutionaries, the news of landless peasants and tribal tea garden workers rising together provided the proverbial spark. Events followed quickly after June 1967. Two years later, on May Day, birth of a new party, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) was announced – a party which promised to usher in Communism through armed struggle.
Following the clarion call of Charu Maumdar, students left for villages and planned to encircle cities with armed peasants ready for class struggle. Their mandate was to kill all class opponents – jotedars, rich landowners and whosoever was against the revolution. Between 1970 and mid-71, waves of Naxalite violence rocked the entire country though the intensity was highest in West Bengal (3500 out of 4000 plus reported incidents) followed by Bihar and Odisha. Some of the areas became Naxalite strongholds like Gopiballavpur and Debra in West Bengal, Mushahari in Bihar, Lakhimpur in UP and Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh. However, soon they realized that villagers were less than eager and they themselves did not have either the organization or the arms to take the revolution forward. A joint Army, para-military and police operations – Operation Steeple Chase – cleansed the Naxal strongholds ruthlessly between 1 July and 15 August 1972. Charu Majumdar, long suffering from heart ailment, died soon his arrest in July 1972. With his death curtains came down on the first phase of Naxal movement. A brutal police repression followed under Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1972-77) in Bengal, wiping out last vestiges of urban left-wing extremism.
Eventually people of West Bengal rejected both the Red Terror and state repression of the Congress government. Since 1977 Congress failed to capture power in Bengal. In Bengal countryside, Naxals helped to dismantle the feudal power structure – a process later consolidated by the CPM government through Operation Barga and devolution of power to Panchayats. Only a plaque commemorates the martyrs of Naxalbari – most people in the area today hardly remember the events of late 60s. Jangal Santhal eventually died a broken man - a penniless alcoholic and a lonely Kanu Sanyal committed suicide in 2010. In urban Bengal, Naxal period is today viewed more as a romantic adventure of a generation. Among urban youth leaders those who survived brutal police oppression a large number went abroad and only a few ever returned to politics – most prominent of them is Asim (Kaka) Chatterjee. His face disfigured as a result of prolonged police torture, Kaka is still seen in protest rallies in Calcutta. Though the dots cannot be joined in a straight line from Naxalbari to Lalgarh or Sukma, their true political legacy continues today in the jungles and backward regions of India.
Factionalism that had started in the ranks of Naxals even before Charu Majumdar died eventually led the political movement to a dead end. In 1980, with the founding of Peoples War Group in Andhra Pradesh by Kondapalli Seetharamaiah began the second phase of the Naxal movement. In 1992, police action led to killing and arrest of a large number of PWG men – dealing a blow to the movement. Between 1987 and 1992, another Naxal group – Maoist Communist Centre, MCC led deadly attacks in Bihar, mainly against upper caste landlords.
Present phase – which experts call the third phase - of the Naxal movement started in 2001 with the PWG decision to arm Peoples Guerilla Army with modern weapons. Andhra Pradesh has been the hot bed of this movement. In 2003, the then Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu survived an attack similar to Bastar attack when PWG guerillas attacked his convoy in Chittoor. The movement got a shot in the arm with the merger of PWG and MCC in 2004, which led to the formation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Today Naxals are believed to be present in over 165 districts in 14 states but are most active in certain districts of Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Bengal. Instead of starry eyed student guerillas of the 70s, today they draw their support from the poorest tribals and landless people. They are much better armed, organized and ruthless. They are more successful than their romantic predecessors mainly because they have raised the issues closest to the people they represent. It is also a measure of their success that they have forced political parties to take up issues like forest rights and tribal backwardness. People, strategy and locations have changed but the grievances of the marginalized have only multiplied in last three decades or so and that is what – despite this terrible violence - keeps Naxalism alive.


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Q: Analytical expression of the log-likelihood of the Binomial model with unknown $n$ and known $y$ and $p$ and its conjugate prior I'm trying to derive the MLE and Bayesian posterior for $n$ in the Binomial model, $\mathrm{Binomial}(n, p)$ with known $y$ and $p$. The following questions arise

*

*How to derive analytically the negative log-likelihood (and its first-order conditions)?

*What is an uninformative prior for $n$ in this case (e.g., for $p$ one can use a $\mathrm{Uniform}(0, 1)$)?

*Is there a conjugate prior for $n$?

*What if the prior on $n$ is improper, i.e. discrete prior on $\{y_{max}, \mathbb{N}\} \subset \mathbb{N}$? Is there a proper solution?
I tried to look around to found references but I was able to find rather technical papers that do not directly address this (simpler) case.
References found so far:

*

*[1] paper1,

*[2] paper2.

*[3] paper3: the most informative so far

*[4] paper4 addresses the case I'm interested in but does not show a direct log-likelihood maximization

A: I completely concur with Sycorax's comment that Adrian Raftery's 1988 Biometrika paper is the canon on this topic.

*

*How to derive analytically the negative log-likelihood (and its
first-order conditions)?

The likelihood is the same whether or not $n$ is unknown:
$$L(n|y_1,\ldots,y_I)=\prod_{i=1}^I {n \choose y_i}p^{y_i}(1-p)^{n-y_i}
\propto \dfrac{(n!)^I(1-p)^{nI}}{\prod_{i=1}^I(n-y_i)!}$$
and the log-likelihood is the logarithm of the above
$$\ell(n|y_1,\ldots,y_I)=C+I\log n!-\sum_{i=1}^I \log (n-y_i)!+nI\log(1-p) $$
Maximum likelihood estimation of $n$ is covered in this earlier answer of mine and by Ben.

*What is an uninformative prior for $n$ in this case (e.g., for $p$ one
can use a Uniform$(0,1)$)?

Note that the default prior on $p$ is Jeffreys' $\pi(p)\propto 1/\sqrt{p(1-p)}$ rather than the Uniform distribution. In one's answer in the Bernoulli case, kjetil b halvorsen explains why using a Uniform improper prior on $n$ leads to the posterior being decreasing quite slowly (while being proper) and why another improper prior like $\pi(n)=1/n$ or $\pi(n)=1/(n+1)$ has a more appropriate behaviour in the tails. This is connected to the fact that $n$, while being an integer, is a scale parameter in the Bernoulli distribution, in the sense that the random variable $Y\sim\mathcal B(n,p)$ is of order $\mathrm O(n)$. Scale parameters are usually modeled by priors like $\pi(n)=1/n$ (even though I refer you to my earlier answer as to why there is no such thing as a noninformative prior).

*Is there a conjugate prior for $n$?

Since the collection of $\mathcal B(n,p)$ distributions is not an exponential family when $n$ varies, since its support depends on $n$, there is no conjugate prior family.

*What if the prior on $n$ is improper, i.e. discrete prior on
$\{y_\max,\mathbb N\}⊂\mathbb N$? Is there a proper solution?

It depends on the improper prior. The answer by kjetil b halvorsen in the Bernoulli case shows there exist improper priors leading to well-defined posterior distributions. And there also exist improper priors leading to non-defined posterior distributions for all sample sizes $I$. For instance, $\pi(n)\propto\exp\{\exp(n)\}$ should lead to an infinite mass posterior.

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GIOTTO (Angiolotto di Bondone) Florence, v. 1266-1337. By the realism of his painting, that throbbed with the tradition of cannons of medieval painting while linking to nature; by his innovative translation of space and movement, we consider GIOTTO the first great modern painter.
"Guerison d'une blessure au bras par la Sainte au sortir d'une église sur le pont Ste Marie"
V 1390 – Bruges 1441. He entered the service of the Prince-Bishop of Liege, then the Duke of Bourgogne, where he was at a time valet, official painter and a close confidant. His paintings have a large virtuosity, his mastery of perspective and detail denominated him since the 15th century.
Peintre italien de l'Ecole de Florence : « L'Adoration des Mages » 1488 tempera sur bois 285x240 cm -Hôpital des Innocents, Florence.
Il existe au moins trois versions différentes de ce tableau; celle du timbre est l'œuvre conservée au Musée du Louvre, une autre version conservée au Musée du Liechtenstein ne comporte que deux anges et l'arrière plan où figure un pont levis comporte également quelques différences.
MASTER of Flémalle (Robert CAMPIN ) Peintre Flamand 1375 -1444. Il fut longtemps confondu avec Roger Van Der Weyden qui fut en réalité son élève . Son œuvre la plus connue st un tryptique : l'Annonciation de Mérode qui lui valut aussi l'appellation de Maître de Mérode.
Flemish painter. His unique works abundantly commented upon, never completely eluded, reflected the uncase of the Middle Ages, questions on life, death, good, bad, in a style where modernity and boldness which gave him an important place in the History of Art.
"The Temptation of Saint Antonio" tryptique, oil on wooden panel (1505-1506). Left panel.
Metropolitan Museum of Art , Fond John Stewart Kennedy .
"L'Adoration des Rois Mages " tryptique , vers 1510 - huile sur bois, 138 x 72 cm (panneau central) Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Hieronimus BOSH– " Adoration of the Magi, tryptique, v. 1510, oil on canvas, 138 x 72 cm. Central Panel, Prado Museum, Madrid.
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Oil on wood panels v-1510. Prado Museum Madrid.
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Qualicum Beach property owners face potential tax hike of 5.5 per cent
Town to offer chance for residents to share concerns
Michael Briones
Town of Qualicum Beach property owners face a possible 5.5 per cent tax increase this year.
Town council will offer them an opportunity to voice any concerns regarding the proposed budget during a committee of the whole meeting on March 9 at 10 a.m.
Staff has recommended rescinding second reading of the town's financial plan, after some amendments were made to the budget.
The adjustments to the financial plan were attributed to three reasons: an increase in property taxes due to construction cost index as well as a phase-in of business tax increase to better align with neighbouring communities; capital projects adjustments based on council notices of motion and other asset management related changes; and adjustments for projects started in 2021 and projected to be completed in 2022.
READ MORE: Assessments vs. taxation: why soaring Island assessments may not mean soaring taxes
Property taxes last year rose to 3.5 per cent based on 2.5 per cent for inflation related to the Consumer Price Index of B.C. and one per cent for capital projects. Staff initially proposed 3.5 per cent again but amended their proposal due to the CPI going up seven per cent in the last three years while construction cost index has increased 12 per cent over the same period,
As most of the town's expenditures are focused on construction, about 40 per cent, they have been subjected to a higher inflation than regular consumer products. This required an added two per cent tax increase which upped the rate to 4.5 per cent to keep up with inflation. And additional one per cent was needed for asset management projects, resulting in a 5.5 per cent tax increase proposed for 2022.
Residents who want to speak at the committee of the whole needs to register to be able to do so. You can register online at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYodOGuqzsoGNSp9JHTmz0GfqhtdeVH-WFa
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 * @file yahdlc.h
 */

#ifndef YAHDLC_H
#define YAHDLC_H

#include "fcs.h"
#include <errno.h>

/** HDLC start/end flag sequence */
#define YAHDLC_FLAG_SEQUENCE 0x7E

/** HDLC control escape value */
#define YAHDLC_CONTROL_ESCAPE 0x7D

/** HDLC all station address */
#define YAHDLC_ALL_STATION_ADDR 0xFF

/** Supported HDLC frame types */
typedef enum {
  YAHDLC_FRAME_DATA,
  YAHDLC_FRAME_ACK,
  YAHDLC_FRAME_NACK,
} yahdlc_frame_t;

/** Control field information */
typedef struct {
  yahdlc_frame_t frame;
  unsigned char seq_no :3;
} yahdlc_control_t;

/** Variables used in yahdlc_get_data and yahdlc_get_data_with_state
 * to keep track of received buffers
 */
typedef struct {
  char control_escape;
  FCS_SIZE fcs;
  int start_index;
  int end_index;
  int src_index;
  int dest_index;
} yahdlc_state_t;

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * Set the yahdlc state
 *
 * @param[in] state The new yahdlc state to be used
 * @retval 0 Success
 * @retval -EINVAL Invalid parameter
 */
int yahdlc_set_state(yahdlc_state_t *state);

/**
 * Get current yahdlc state
 *
 * @param[out] state Current yahdlc state
 * @retval 0 Success
 * @retval -EINVAL Invalid parameter
 */
int yahdlc_get_state(yahdlc_state_t *state);

/**
 * Retrieves data from specified buffer containing the HDLC frame. Frames can be
 * parsed from multiple buffers e.g. when received via UART.
 *
 * @param[out] control Control field structure with frame type and sequence number
 * @param[in] src Source buffer with frame
 * @param[in] src_len Source buffer length
 * @param[out] dest Destination buffer (should be able to contain max frame size)
 * @param[out] dest_len Destination buffer length
 * @retval >=0 Success (size of returned value should be discarded from source buffer)
 * @retval -EINVAL Invalid parameter
 * @retval -ENOMSG Invalid message
 * @retval -EIO Invalid FCS (size of dest_len should be discarded from source buffer)
 *
 * @see yahdlc_get_data_with_state
 */
int yahdlc_get_data(yahdlc_control_t *control, const char *src,
                    unsigned int src_len, char *dest, unsigned int *dest_len);

/**
 * Retrieves data from specified buffer containing the HDLC frame. Frames can be
 * parsed from multiple buffers e.g. when received via UART.
 *
 * This function is a variation of @ref yahdlc_get_data
 * The difference is only in first argument: yahdlc_state_t *state
 * Data under that pointer is used to keep track of internal buffers.
 *
 * @see yahdlc_get_data
 */
int yahdlc_get_data_with_state(yahdlc_state_t *state, yahdlc_control_t *control, const char *src,
                               unsigned int src_len, char *dest, unsigned int *dest_len);

/**
 * Resets values used in yahdlc_get_data function to keep track of received buffers
 */
void yahdlc_get_data_reset();

/**
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 * Resets state values that are under the pointer provided as argument
 *
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 * when custom state storage is used.
 *
 * @see yahdlc_get_data_reset
 */
void yahdlc_get_data_reset_with_state(yahdlc_state_t *state);

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 *
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 * @param[in] src Source buffer with data
 * @param[in] src_len Source buffer length
 * @param[out] dest Destination buffer (should be bigger than source buffer)
 * @param[out] dest_len Destination buffer length
 * @retval 0 Success
 * @retval -EINVAL Invalid parameter
 */
int yahdlc_frame_data(yahdlc_control_t *control, const char *src,
                      unsigned int src_len, char *dest, unsigned int *dest_len);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif


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One issue that, at first, may confuse the reader is which mountain actually is Mount Sinai: Jabal al-Lawz or Jabal Maqla? In his account of the history of the Jews, Josephus stated that Sinai was the highest peak in the region. Jabal al-Lawz is technically a taller peak than Maqla, but Jabal Maqla appears to be a more favorable candidate for being the single peak where this part of the Exodus story takes place.
One possible reason for this apparent discrepancy is that we see things differently with our modern eyes. We tend to assign a specific name to each particular geological feature that is around us. For example, we refer to Mt. Everest as a single mountain, even though it is within the Himalayan mountain range. However, several millennia ago, the manner in which people assigned names to geological features may have been very different.
Rather than assigning each peak a name, the entire range may be named after the highest of the mountains, which in this case, happen to be connected. We must also consider the fact that almost all of the other evidence that we examine, the possible golden calf site, Moses' altar, the marble sections, and the wells, is all concentrated closer to Jabal Maqla than to Jabal al-Lawz.
In the Bible as well, the author refers to the same mountain by two different names: Mt. Sinai and Mt. Horeb. The famed Jewish Bible commentator Abraham ibn Ezra wrote during the Middle Ages that there was one mountain, but it had two tops, which each had different names. Protestant Reformer John Calvin also suggested that this was one mountain, but that the eastern side of it was called Sinai, and the western side called Horeb.
This theory is supported by Joel Richardson's experience in Saudi Arabia. In his book Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia: The True Location Revealed, Joel reveals how his conversations with local Bedouins reveals what they think about the mountain range, and "Jebel Musa" specifically.
When I asked a young Bedouin who lives at the base of the mountain what he called the specific mountain that we believe is Mount Sinai, he pointed and called it Jebel Musa, which means "Mountain of Moses." When I asked him again, he gestured with both hands and pointed at all of the surrounding mountains and said that they were all called Jebel al-Lawz.
Richardson, 96.
German Biblical Commentators C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch both recognize two distinct peaks in the Exodus account.
"Horeb was more general and comprehensive than that of Sinai; in other words, that Horeb was the range of which Sinai was one particular mountain, which only came prominently to view when Israel had arrived at the mount of legislation."
Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament, vol. 1
(Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996), 379.
It is entirely possible that Horeb was the name for the range of peaks, and Sinai was the particular location where God's presence descended. If the issue is merely the manner in which geological characteristics are described, ancient versus modern, the theory of this site being the location of Biblical Mount Sinai still stands as valid.
Certain passages of the Torah state that the 10 Commandments were given at Horeb, but others say it was at Sinai. With these pieces of evidence in mind, the pieces of the puzzle fit.
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Ahmad Zahir- Icon of Afghan Music and the heartthrob of many!
14	Jun, 2020 by Wadsam
Born on 14 June 1946, Ahmad Zahir was a singer, songwriter and composer from Laghman province, Afghanistan. He was considered the Elvis Preseley of Afghanistan for his similar style of music i.e. rock and pop.
Ahmad Zahir's father, Abdul Zahir, was a royal court doctor, minister of health and Prime Minister of Afghanistan between 1971 and 1972. He was also an influential figure during King Zahir Shah's reign.
Zahir attended Habibia High School in the early 1960s. He played accordion in a band, which later became known as the amateur band of Habibia High School, with a group of his friends and classmates. They would perform in local concerts on special occasions like Nawruz and Afghanistan Independence Day.
Zahir worked with mentors such as Ismail Azami (saxophonist), Nangalai (trumpeter), Abdullah Etemadi (drummer), and other musicians including Salim Sarmast, Naynawaz, Taranasaz, andMas'hour Jamal. He recorded over 22 albums in the 1970s. His songs were noted for their mellifluous tone, poetic style, compelling depth, and passionate emotional evocation. His lyrics covered a wide range of subjects. Many of his songs contained autobiographical elements or political criticism of Afghanistan's government.As a result many of his recordings were destroyed by the government.
The Zahir professionally was on the scene of Afghan Music for only 10 years at the most; however, Zahir managed to record more than 30 albums. This was and is unheard of in any music industry around the world. All of these albums were successful and widely accepted (to this date) by everyone. The kings managed to complete these recordings almost 40 years ago with almost no technology of today's world, and all was done in live recordings. It is said the kings recorded his Arian Music Album 1 in one day, that had more than 12 songs. Zahir only recorded two music videos during his career.
Zahir died on 14 June 1979, on his 33rd birthday. There are many mixed views from critics for why he was killed, but according to his son Rishad Zahir, Zahir "was assassinated by the order of a communist general named Daud Taroon, who used one of Zahir's best friends as an accomplice to carry out his orders". Zahir's political stance was at odds with the Marxist government of the timewho claimed that he had died in a car accident. Other critics state that he was shot twice by someone, who then crashed Zahir's car on a wall, and put him inside the vehicle, pretending that he had a car accident.
A large crowd of mourners attended Zahir's funeral in Kabul, clogging the city streets and bringing daily activities to a halt.
After his death Zahir became a national hero and his image was mythologized by the Afghan people. Because of his privileged family background, Zahir helped to establish music as a more respected profession which in turn led to the founding of The Kabul Music School in 1974.
One of his evergreen songs…
Hamash dard o hamash ranj o hamash gham
Hameen qesmat e man bod hazar rang
Hamash gushaye tanhaee nishastan
Hamash shakhae omeed o shikastan
Bacha nasho aye dil
Ishqat faramosh kun
Ta nashawi raswa
Harfe mara gosh ko
Bas ast digar bas ast diger sokhtam
Shola ra khamosh kun
Hama harf ha yaadesh raft
Mohabat ha yaadesh raft
Dega bar namy garda
Dilam lanae dard ast
Hamash shakhae omeed o bureedan
Bacha nahso ay dil
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List of Hollywood-inspired movie industries
Below is a list of film industries from around the world whose names are inspired by the iconic name of
Afghan Pop-Star Aryana Sayeed joins Kim Kardashian in Hype Energy Drink launch in US
Hype Energy Drinks held a star-studded US launch in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday, with their global ambassador, Kim Kardashian West
"A Superstar in Need is a Friend indeed"
The Khan of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, will be seeing sharing the screen with Hrithik Roshan in the upcoming sequel 'Krrish
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