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Analysis: How the floods are driving community involvement
25 February 2014 by Andy Hillier
Unprecedented flooding in parts of England and Wales has led to a complex response involving government, local authorities, the fire services, the military and, of course, charities and volunteers. Andy Hillier visits Chertsey in Surrey
Volunteer James Wilson uses his canoe to transport supplies to residents
A trail of sand leading to the church hall provides the first hint that something out of the ordinary has been happening at St Peter's Shared Church in Chertsey, Surrey.
At the height of the recent flooding, it became a support centre where hundreds of local people and groups from further afield came to fill sandbags, provide refreshments and sort emergency donations.
Brian Perry, a retired research scientist who helps to run a number of local community groups, is among the volunteers. "I've been helping to fill sandbags," he says. "I've also been packaging up the donations on pallets. The community has really pulled together. Lots of supplies have been donated and various groups have lent their support, from the spiritualist movement the Sant Nirankari Mission to the Surrey 4x4 Response."
Just as we leave the church, there's another small example of what's going on: two tradesmen and their children pull up in their white van, asking if they can transport any of the donated goods. One of the volunteers thanks them but says that the army is on its way with a lorry.
What's perhaps most surprising is that much of the coordination appears to be done by residents themselves. Agencies including the fire service, the army, the police and the Environment Agency are visible on the streets, mainly involved in the effort to hold back the flood water and keep residents safe, but in the support centres at St Peter's and down the road at the Surrey Army Cadet Force headquarters, a handful of local residents is orchestrating the collection and distribution of food, sandbags and other supplies and offering emotional support.
Tina Jeacock (right) who has four children, says that the lack of support from local agencies has been a cause of frustration for some flood-hit residents such as her, and has forced local people to take matters into their own hands. Her rear garden backs on to a stream and has been totally submerged since Christmas. In recent weeks, raw sewage has bubbled up from the drains, leaving her family having to walk over it - not to mention the occasional dead eel.
She says that most, but not all, of her neighbours have rallied round: "Some people on the street have refused to get involved and not everyone in the community has been united. On our road we have some neighbours who don't get on, and it has probably made tensions worse."
Jeacock has been volunteering at the support centre since receiving a text message from her children's school saying that St Peter's was looking for people: "I've been working from about 10am until 5pm, looking after children and filling sandbags, and I've been out with the emergency services to check on older people. It has made me want to get more involved in the community."
The volunteer response hasn't come only from local people. Sarah Sproston has travelled up from Cornwall after receiving a request for help from her friend Heart Doe; James Wilson, a 19-year-old magician and keen canoeist, has travelled down from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire to help, using his canoe to transport supplies to residents in areas where the flood water is at its deepest, as well as doing other tasks such as making tea and filling sandbags.
"A lot of my work is seasonal, which gives me the chance to do lots of different things," he says. "I had time on my hands, so I thought it would be a good thing to do. I put out an alert on social media saying that I had a canoe and could bring it down to where it was needed most."
It's not just flood victims who have benefited from the local effort. At Chertsey Fire Station, volunteers from the Royal Voluntary Service, the Surrey Fire Volunteer Service and the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church have been cooking up to 450 meals a day for members of the emergency services. Andrew Hart (right), assistant volunteer manager at Surrey Fire and Rescue, says it has been overwhelmed by the generosity of local people. Charities including the RSPCA, Surrey 4x4 and the British Red Cross have also been helping, he says.
"You can't fault the effort," he says. "We've had local butchers donating food and people bringing in cakes and other supplies. It has been nice to see this charitable spirit. The last time I can recall anything similar happening was during the great storm of 1987."
In the neighbouring town of Addlestone, the Salvation Army church hall has been converted into a temporary storage space for an estimated 2.5 tonnes of donated goods. Ian Loxley, church leader for the hall, says that he contacted Runnymede Borough Council to offer help. "Fortunately, we'd decided not to run a holiday scheme over half term, so we were able to offer the space for the week," he says.
About 30 volunteers have been receiving and sorting goods at the hall and the church's van has been used to distribute them. "When we have visited people's homes we've had quite a few say that they don't need any supplies," says Loxley. "But they say the fact that we've taken the trouble to call meant a huge amount to them."
He says most of the goods being collected won't get distributed until water levels have dropped and people have started returning to their homes. It's only then that the Salvation Army volunteers will start to see the real benefits of their efforts.
Some residents have been critical of the response by the local council and other agencies, saying that people have been largely obliged to fend for themselves. But Loxley is not willing to criticise. "The most visible response has been that of the local people," he says. "The police, fire service and military have also had a strong presence, but that's not to say that local government hasn't been involved. What has happened is unprecedented and there will be lessons to learn."
Loxley believes the event has also brought some good, and he points out that groups from all faiths have supported the relief effort: "We've had a group of Tamils from Harrow come to support us. Local Muslim and Sikh groups have been involved locally as well. The area tends to be white and middle class, so that has been an eye-opener for some."
He concludes that it's important for people to stay involved once the flooding subsides: "The real work starts when the flooding goes off the news. It's going to be years before some people get back to normal."
Runnymede responds
Some Chertsey residents and volunteers have been disappointed by the support provided by local agencies, particularly Runnymede Council, the local borough council. But a spokeswoman for the council says it has been working hard to prepare for and respond to the floods.
"There has been a multi-agency response and we have been able to use the resources from Surrey Fire and Rescue, Surrey Police, Surrey County Council, the military, the Environment Agency and many other agencies to help us to get help and the right information out to our residents," she says.
"Staff have been distributing information leaflets with key contact numbers to those worst affected, which is now a wide area of 2,500 homes, and have delivered thousands of sandbags to affected residents."
She says the council has been providing round-the-clock cover for a number of key services. It has also provided a rest centre, free transport and temporary accommodation where necessary. Arrangements have been made to keep vulnerable people in affected areas, and residents who have refused to leave their homes are being monitored.
- Find out what charities have been doing to help communities affected by the floods
- Read our interview with music promoter turned flood relief co-ordinator, Heart Doe
- Third Sector editor Stephen Cook says community action needs help to survive when there are no droughts, floods or national emergencies
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Business partner: The British Red Cross and Jaguar Land Rover
Sandbags and the Unimog: how charities responded to the floods
Interview: The music promoter who became the local flood relief coordinator
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Q: is it necessary to have foreign key for simple tables have a table called RoundTable
It has the following columns
RoundName
RoundDescription
RoundType
RoundLogo

Now the RoundType will be having values like "Team", "Individual", "Quiz"
is it necessary to have a one more table called "RoundTypes" with columns
TypeID
RoundType

and remove the RoundType from the rounds table and have a column "TypeID" which has a foreign key to this RoundType table?
Some say that if you have the RoundType in same table it is like hard-coding as there will be lot of round types in future.
is it like if there are going to be only 2-3 round types, i need not have foreign key??

A: Is it necessary?  Obviously not.  SQL works fine either way.  In a properly defined database, you would do one of two things for RoundType:

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*Have a lookup table

*Have a constraint that checks that values are within an agreed upon set (and I would put enums into this category)

If you have a lookup table, I would advocate having an auto-incremented id (called RoundTypeId) for it.  Remember, that in a larger database, such a table would often have more than two columns:

*

*CreatedAt -- when it was created

*CreatedBy -- who created it

*CreatedOn -- where it was created (important for distributed systems)

*Long name

In a more advanced system, you might also need to internationalize the system -- that is, make it work for multiple languages.  Then you would be looking up the actual string value in other tables.

A:
is it like if there are going to be only 2-3 round types, i need not
  have foreign key??

Usually it's just the opposite: If you have a different value for most of the records (like in a "lastName" column) you won't use a lookup table.
If, however, you know that you will have a limited set of allowed/possible values, a lookup table referenced via a foreign key is probably the better solution.
Maybe read up on "database normalization", starting perhaps @ Wikipedia.

A: Actually you need to have separate table if you have following association between entities,

*

*One to many

*Many to many

because of virtue of these association simple DBMS becomes **R**DBMS ( Relation .)
Now ask simple question,
Whether my single record in round table have multiple roundTypes?
If so.. Make a new table and have foreign key in ROUNDTable.
Otherwise no.

A: yeah I think you should normalize it. Because if you will not do so then definitely you have to enter the round types (value) again and again for each record which is not good practice at all in case if you have large data. so i will suggest you to make another table
however later on you can make a view  to get the desired result as fallow
create view vw_anyname
as
select RoundName, RoundDescription , RoundLogo, RoundType from roundtable join tblroundtype
on roundtable.TypeID = tblroundtype .typeid
select * from vw_anyname

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Q: Trying to read a formatted double from text field I am making a simple calculator and currently trying to fix issues with non-integers.
Got a text field displayField showing the results and operator buttons as well as an equal button.
Just got it working that the double results only show decimal places if there are any but I cannot get the results back into the calculation.
public class FXMLDocumentController implements Initializable {

private String operator;
double oldValue;
double newValue = 0;
NumberFormat nf = new DecimalFormat("##.###");

@FXML
private TextField displayField;

@Override
public void initialize(URL url, ResourceBundle rb) {
    // TODO
}

@FXML
private void handleDigitAction(ActionEvent event) {
    String digit = ((Button) event.getSource()).getText();
    String oldText = displayField.getText();
    String newText = oldText + digit;
    displayField.setText(newText);
}

@FXML
private void handleOperator(ActionEvent event) {
    oldValue = Double.parseDouble(displayField.getText());
    displayField.setText("");
    operator = ((Button) event.getSource()).getText();
}

@FXML
private void handleEqualAction(ActionEvent event) {

    switch (operator) {
        case "+":
            newValue = oldValue + Double.parseDouble(displayField.getText());
            break;
        case "-":
            newValue = oldValue - Double.parseDouble(displayField.getText());
            break;
        case "*":
            newValue = oldValue * Double.parseDouble(displayField.getText());
            break;
        case "/":
            newValue = oldValue / Double.parseDouble(displayField.getText());
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }

    displayField.setText(String.valueOf(nf.format(newValue)));
}

}
The error occurs when I for example try to compute 5/2 first, get the result 2,5 and then hit an operator button.
So I assume I just have to either use an additional object to save the results or just change the line where I read from the text field (so that it also works for this changed format) but I cannot figure out how.

A: Can you tell us which locale is your application running on?
Execute
System.out.println(Locale.getDefault());

A: When you use the format() method of a NumberFormat (or its subclass DecimalFormat), you happen to be using either the default Locale or a Locale you pass the method, depending on the overload you use. As a result, you get a Locale-formatted output.
The same way, you should use your DecimalFormat's parse() method to parse your display field according to the same rules.
I hope this will help...
Jeff

A: I found a rather "simple" or dirty solution, which seems to work:
    NumberFormat nf = new DecimalFormat("##.###", new DecimalFormatSymbols(Locale.US));

A: You are probably using DecimalFormat class to format the output. The decimal formater uses the default Locale which in your case is de_DE.
As mentioned in the above answers you can use the overloaded method of the DecimalFormat class to get the output in your required format.
E.g.
BigDecimal numerator = new BigDecimal(5);
BigDecimal denominator = new BigDecimal(2);

//In current scenario
    Locale locale = new Locale("de", "DE");
    NumberFormat format = DecimalFormat.getInstance(locale);
    String number = format.format(numerator.divide(denominator));
    System.out.println("Parsed value is "+number);

The output here will be 2,5

If you change to:
    Locale localeDefault = new Locale("en", "US");
    NumberFormat formatDefault = DecimalFormat.getInstance(localeDefault);
    String numberVal = formatDefault.format(numerator.divide(denominator));
    System.out.println("Parsed value is "+numberVal);

   Output here will be 2.5

Hope this helps.


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Jan Świtalski (ur. 23 czerwca 1912 w Zagórzu, zm. 2 maja 1999 w Sanoku) – polski krótkofalowiec.

Życiorys
Urodził się 23 czerwca 1912 w Zagórzu jako syn Apolinarego (piekarz we Lwowie i Zagórzu) i Marii z domu Ferenc (1892–1968). Przed 1914 przeprowadził się z rodziną do Lwowa.

Zdał egzamin dojrzałości w V Państwowym Gimnazjum im. Hetmana Stanisława Żółkiewskiego we Lwowie. Podjął studia na tamtejszym Wydziale Prawa i w Studium Dyplomatycznym Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie, które ukończył w 1937 z dyplomami magistra praw i magistra nauk dyplomatycznych. Podczas studiów w 1934 został członkiem Lwowskiego Klubu Krótkofalowców, w którym był sekretarzem. Po zdaniu egzaminu od marca/kwietnia 1937 dysponował licencją krótkofalowca (znak wywoławczy SP1MJ). W tym samym roku legitymował się liczbą ok. 3000 kontaktów radiowych z 80 państw świata.

Po wybuchu II wojny światowej 1939 podczas okupacji sowieckiej, od połowy 1941 w trakcie okupacji niemieckiej był zatrudniony w Instytucie prof. Rudolfa Weigla, pracując w dziale obsługi urządzeń elektrycznych powiązanych z produkcją szczepionek przeciw tyfusowi plamistemu. Wówczas dokonał montażu radiostacji na podstawie projektu kierownika działu w Instytucie, inż. Jana Ziembickiego, która posłużyła następnie Armii Krajowej do prowadzenia komunikacji. W kwietniu 1943 przyjął sugestię wstąpienia do Armii Krajowej, po czym został zaprzysiężony i służył jako radiotelegrafista Okręgu Lwów AK, używając znaku rozpoznawczego IKS2J na stacji nadawczej 6YL do końca wojny zajmował się odbieraniem i nadawaniem szyfrogramów w kontakcie z Londynem przez Brindisi we Włoszech. Do stycznia 1944 zajmował się testowaniem stacji nadawczo-odbiorczych. Od tego czasu z rozkazu dowództwa AK funkcjonował samodzielnie na radiostacji o większej mocy, działającej w różnych mieszkaniach lwowskich. Od lipca 1944 w przeddzień akcji "Burza" we Lwowie otrzymał rozkaz współdziałania z oddziałami leśnymi operującymi na wschód od miasta. Od tego czasu był dowódcą trzyosobowego patrolu, wyposażonego w przenośną radiostację, podlegającego "Antkowi", po czym wykonywał meldunki. Został aresztowany przez NKWD w swoim mieszkaniu w lwowskiej dzielnicy Zamarstynów w nocy 13/14 marca 1945. Do maja 1945 był poddawany śledztwu w więzieniu przy ul. Łąckiego we Lwowie, po czym drogą lotniczą został przewieziony do Moskwy i osadzony w więzieniu Łubianka oraz Butyrki. Tam był poddawany śledztwu i nakłaniany do świadczenia przeciw AK na procesie szesnastu. Później został przewieziony drogą kolejową z powrotem do Lwowa, gdzie we wrześniu 1945 wyrokiem sowieckiego sądu wojskowego został skazany na karę 10 lat w obozie pracy. Wówczas skazani na pobyt w łagrze zostali także jego żona Urszula – 6 lat, oraz brat Stanisław – 7 lat. W listopadzie 1945 wszyscy troje zostali wywiezieni na obszar obwodu permskiego (Połowinka). Wykonywał prace w kamieniołomie, później dzięki wsparciu prof. dr. inż. Jana Węgierskiego został pomocnikiem geodety. W 1948 kary Jana i Urszuli Świtalskich zostały skrócone, wskutek czego w sierpniu tego roku mogli wrócić w rodzinne strony (brat pozostał w łagrze).

Pod koniec sierpnia 1948 powrócił w rodzinne strony, początkowo przebywał w Zagórzu, a potem zamieszkał w pobliskim Sanoku. Tam podjął pracę w radiowęźle jako technik dyżurny, od 1950 był kierownikiem punktu ZURiT. W latach 50. otrzymał licencję nasłuchową (SP-8-001), w 1956 licencję nadawcy (po wojnie używał znaku rozpoznawczego SP8MJ). W zorganizowanych w 1954 międzynarodowych zawodach zajął pierwsze miejsce jako nasłuchowiec, łącząc się z 160 państwami. Był jednym z pierwszych organizatorów kursów łączności na terenie województwa rzeszowskiego. W 1966 był współzałożycielem Bieszczadzkiego Klubu Krótkofalowców, działającego w budynku Powiatowego Domu Kultury w Sanoku, którego był wieloletnim prezesem. Przez 23 lata prowadził Biuro QSL, potwierdzające połączenia krótkofalarskie. Był menedżerem okręgu SP8. Został członkiem Polskiego Związku Krótkofalowców (był członkiem zarządu wojewódzkiego PZK), członkiem Centralnej Rady Radioklubów, Światowego Związku Łowców Dyplomów. Podczas wieloletniej działalności krótkofalarskiej po wojnie nawiązał kontakt radiowy z przedstawicielami z ok. 280 krajów świata na 6 kontynentach (do 1966 nawiązał ok. 17 000 łączności z 172 krajami, do 1973 nawiązał 33 500 łączności z obywatelami ponad 200 państw, do 1997 nawiązał ponad 80 000 łączności z ponad 280 krajami). Dwukrotnie zdobywał I miejsce w nieoficjalnych mistrzostwach świata "World-Wide DXContest" (w tym w 1967). W światowych zawodach zorganizowanych przez amerykański "Klub Łowców Dyplomów" (CHC) w 1966 zajął pierwsze miejsce wśród Polaków i trzecie wśród zawodników z Europy. W okresie PRL był bezpartyjny. Od kwietnia 1981 należał do koła miejskiego ZBoWiD w Sanoku. Był także członkiem Związku Inwalidów Wojennych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, Światowego Związku Żołnierzy Armii Krajowej i Związku Sybiraków.

W Sanoku zamieszkiwał przy ulicy 6 Marca (później ul. Józefa Piłsudskiego) 7. Zmarł 2 maja 1999. Został pochowany w grobowcu rodzinnym na Cmentarzu Centralnym w Sanoku 6 maja 1999. Wraz z nim zostały pochowane jego matka Maria i żona Urszula z domu Traczewska (1911–1993, dyplomowana pielęgniarka, kierująca szkoleniem praktycznym w Liceum Medycznym w Sanoku). Oboje mieli syna Tadeusza.

Odznaczenia i wyróżnienia
 Odznaczenia cywilne i wojskowe
 Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
 Brązowy medal "Za zasługi dla obronności kraju" (przed 1973)
 Krzyż Partyzancki
 Krzyż Armii Krajowej
 Odznaka 50-lecia akcji "Burza"
 Odznaka "Zasłużony dla województwa rzeszowskiego" (przed 1973)

 Wyróżnienia krótkofalarskie
 Dyplom WAC (1937)
 Statuetka "Złoty Mikrofon" (1966, przyznana przez Kalifornijski Klub Łowców Dyplomów jako pierwszemu Polakowi i piątej osobie z Europy za nawiązanie 500 łączności z członkami klubu)
 Dyplom WANJ (1967, jako pierwszy wyróżniony na półkuli wschodniej)
 Dyplom XO-23-XR przyznany przez Rumuński Związek Krótkofalowców (1967, jako pierwszy Europejczyk i drugi na świecie)
 Dyplom SPDX (przed 1973, za nawiązanie łączności z ponad 100 krajami)
 Odznaka honorowa Polskiego Związku Krótkofalowców (1973)
 Członek honorowy Polskiego Związku Krótkofalowców (1990)
 Złota odznaka honorowa Polskiego Związku Krótkofalowców (1997)
 inne nagrody i wyróżnienia (w tym trofea na zawodach w Polsce i za granicą, ponad 700 dyplomów krótkofalarskich)

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Absolwenci V Gimnazjum Państwowego we Lwowie
Absolwenci Wydziału Prawa Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie
Ludzie urodzeni w Zagórzu
Ludzie związani z Sanokiem
Odznaczeni Brązowym Medalem "Za zasługi dla obronności kraju"
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Armii Krajowej
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Partyzanckim
Pochowani na Cmentarzu Centralnym w Sanoku
Polacy i obywatele polscy – więźniowie więzienia przy ul. Łąckiego we Lwowie (okupacja radziecka)
Polacy i obywatele polscy – więźniowie radzieckich łagrów 1945–1989
Polacy i obywatele polscy – więźniowie Butyrek
Polacy i obywatele polscy – więźniowie Łubianki
Polscy krótkofalowcy
Uczestnicy akcji "Burza" we Lwowie (1944)
Urodzeni w 1912
Zmarli w 1999
Żołnierze Okręgu Lwów Armii Krajowej

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all governing documents are still in full effect.
In an effort to save owners money, the Board of Directors entered into an agreement between the Owners Association and Metropolitan District granting the District power to administer the duties (DRB, covenant enforcement, etc) normally done by the HOA.
The Owners Association budget for 2019 is $0 and there are no dues for 2019.
That does not mean that the Owners Association will not, at some point in the future, have a budget and need to charge dues again although the Board is working very hard to make sure that does not happen. Please be sure to keep your contact information up to date with the Association in the event we need to get in touch with you.
For more information on the Agreement, see the Governing Documents tab in the website, speak with one of your Board Members, or contact Beth at bethj@mwcpaa.com or 970-926-6060 ext 1.
Tuesday June 18, 2019 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
If you are a current or prospective owner at Chatfield Corners and are looking for guidance related to building or remodeling, installing a fence or shed, changing the exterior paint or trim colors, or any other major or minor alterations or changes to your home or lot, please reference the Design Review section of the website, which outlines the design review guidelines and approval process for the community. If you have additional questions or need more information, please contact Beth Johnston via phone (970) 926-6060 ext 1 or email bethj@mwcpaa.com.
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The use of a Special District to provide these public improvements and facilities allows financing on a tax-exempt basis, at lower interest rates and on more favorable terms than would be otherwise available through private sector alternatives, resulting in a savings to property owners on the cost of infrastructure necessary for a community. Special Districts as local governments are not only able to save money for their residents and property owners by selling tax-exempt bonds (to provide financing), they are also able to reduce costs by purchasing essential goods and services tax-free, and participating in intergovernmental agreements with other local governments.
Special Districts protect property values by assuring property owners that infrastructure is properly phased, and roads, water and sewer lines, and other essential facilities and services, to the extent owned and maintained by the Special District, will continue to be maintained.
As governmental entities providing essential, fundamental services, the Colorado Legislature has promoted the use of Special Districts through a governing set of statutes. Special Districts are governed by a board of directors that must meet and act in public session with public notice, and Special Districts must comply with, among other requirements, the Colorado Open Records Act, the Local Government Budget Law, and the Local Government Audit Law. Special Districts are also accountable to the approving jurisdiction through annual reporting requirement and service plan limitations.
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Summary: Despite its growth in the enterprise, cloud computing is still surrounded with misconceptions. These misconceptions can keep companies from the cloud, lead the wrong companies to the cloud, or trap businesses with a bad cloud vendor. Learn how to identify these misconceptions, and make more informed cloud decisions.
I've noticed a growing trend in the business world: More application development is moving to the cloud. More developers are opting for cloud-based development platforms, and more businesses are moving their application development off-site and onto a cloud host.
Why? Many don't want the burden of maintaining hardware. Others don't want to bother managing backups or setting up redundant systems. Others like the scalability offered by the cloud. The advantages to such a move are fairly obvious.
Now, am I suggesting you should move your development to the cloud? Not at all. I believe in development freedom. If that calls for in-house development, so be it. If that means you move your application development to the cloud, that's fine too. The most important aspect of development isn't WHERE your applications are developed, it's HOW. Focus on building flexible applications that port anywhere–to the cloud or in-house. This opens your future options to make a move to the cloud (and back), if so desired.
That being said–if you are considering moving your development to the cloud–how does this affect development? What changes (or surprises) can you expect when you move your application development to the cloud? What questions must you ask before making the move?


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brangelina divorce Sept. 27, 2016
Brad Pitt Skipping Premiere to Focus on 'Family Situation'
By Allie Jones
Brad Pitt. Photo: Marc Piasecki/WireImage/Getty
Last Monday, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, shocking everyone including, perhaps, Brad Pitt. Pitt has tried to catch up with Jolie's superior PR strategy in the last week, but so far, he's failed. He hasn't released any kind of statement about the reports that he's under investigation for child abuse due to an incident on his family's private plane, and he hasn't been able to effectively counter Jolie's narrative that he has problems with anger and substances. That may change soon, however — People's new issue comes out tomorrow, and there's a good chance Pitt's side of the story will be in it. The tabloid has worked to defend him since news of the divorce broke last week.
How Angelina Jolie Won the First Big Battle in Her Divorce
Everything We Know About Brad Pitt's Plane Incident
Pitt also released a generous statement to Access Hollywood this afternoon, in which he explains that he will not be attending tomorrow night's premiere of Voyage of Time, a documentary he narrated. "Terrence's 'Voyage of Time' is an incredibly beautiful and unique experiential IMAX film for children and families chronicling the birth of time," Pitt said in the statement. "I'm very grateful to be part of such a fascinating and educational project, but I'm currently focused on my family situation and don't want to distract attention away from this extraordinary film, which I encourage everyone to see."
So Pitt is not ready to answer questions from reporters on the red carpet, but he is ready to work with the media in some capacity. I'd watch out for leaks from Pitt "sources" in the tabloids this week.
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Georges Hobeika remains true to a romantic vision of Haute Couture; there is a softness and grace, alongside a lightness to even his biggest and grandest ball gowns.
This season the softest rose pink mousseline was draped into a liquid floor length evening dress, like pouring rose water. Rose pink sequins shimmered from deep to pale on a long soft draped back gown with a distinct Art Deco, thirties feel to it.
A stunning long floating overdress in apricot sorbet was shown with wide pants underneath, and the crystal dew like embroidery cascaded down the dress from an encrusted tiny empire bodice which grew into drapes across the shoulders. Pale spring sky blue, was used for a taffeta ball gown whose huge softly folded skirt wrapped at the front into a faux bow effect.
Scattered and winding across the surface, silvery leaves and tiny apricot coloured roses gave an eighteenth century feeling to the dress; Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss sprang to mind. An enormous black tulle and organza ball gown was fashioned from organza petals which wrapped and curled like the wings of a black swan, arching and enfolding the model.
Black also provided the background for the embroidery on a sweeping gown with a long curved train, the fronds of a weeping willow but in iridescent levees sparkling and tumbling across the surface was almost kinetic.
But perhaps the opening quiet look summed up the charm of Georges Hobieka's creative vision; a three quarter length sleeved waist length top was edged with a braid created out of crystals and a trompe l'oeil necklace festooned the neckline.
This was paired with a ballerina length skirt formed entirely of layered, shaded, whisper pink organdie petals; the skirt swinging out ready to dance the night away.


Even though new job growth is expected to average around 200,000 per month for the rest of the year, a new forecast is predicting a decline to 100,000 a month next year, and 70,000 the year after that.
That is the conclusion of a report issued by the U.S. Conference of Mayors that is also predicting a drop in the growth of the nation's Gross Domestic Product to 2.0 percent from its current 2.8 percent.
The report, U.S. Metro Economies, was compiled by IHS Markit, which has offices in Houston and Los Angeles, and additionally says that due to the coming retirement of millions of Baby Boom generation workers, the growth of the nation's working-age population will slow more than that of the overall population.
That exit of the Baby Boomers from the labor market means that the average growth rate of the national workforce, pegged at just under 1 percent since the mid-1980s, will drop to an annual rate of only 0.7 percent in coming decades.
"The bottom line is that our economy needs more and better trained workers now and into the future," said Greg Fischer, the vice-president of the U.S Conference of Mayors and currently Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.


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Este capítulo tem o objetivo de apresentar as ferramentas que foram utilizadas no tutorial. Na seção
\ref{section:vmware_player}, apresentaremos a ferramenta \emph{VMware® Player}, em seguida na seção
\ref{section:rvm}, apresentaremos a ferramenta \emph{RVM}, depois na seção \ref{section:ruby_on_rails},
apresentaremos o \emph{framework Ruby On Rails}, e por fim na seção \ref{section:git}, apresentaremos
a ferramenta \emph{git}.

\section{VMware® Player}
\label{section:vmware_player}

\emph{\href{http://www.vmware.com/products/player}{VMware® Player}} é um aplicativo de virtualização de
\emph{desktop} que pode rodar um ou mais sistemas operacionais ao mesmo tempo no mesmo computador sem
a necessidade de reiniciar a máquina. Possui uma interface fácil de usar, suporte a vários sistemas
operacionais, como por exemplo \emph{Windows}, \emph{MAC} e \emph{Linux} e é portável
[\citeonline{vmplayer}].

Com o \emph{VMware® Player} pode-se fazer o compartilhamento de vários recursos, como por exemplo pode-se
fazer a transferência de arquivos do sistema operacional virtual com o sistema operacional que está rodando
na máquina física.

\section{RVM}
\label{section:rvm}

\emph{\href{http://rvm.io/}{Ruby Version Manager}} \footnote{RVM: \url{http://rvm.io/}} é uma
ferramenta de linha de comando que permite facilmente instalar, gerenciar e trabalhar com múltiplos ambientes
do \emph{Ruby} para interpretar um certo conjunto de gemas [\citeonline{rvm}].

 \href{https://github.com/wayneeseguin}{Wayne E. Seguin} \footnote{Wayne E. Seguin:
 \url{https://github.com/wayneeseguin}} iniciou o projeto do \emph{RVM} em outubro de 2007
e a partir de então com uma considerável experiência programando em \emph{Bash}, \emph{Ruby} e outras
linguagens obteve o conhecimento suficiente para criar o gerenciador [\citeonline{about_rvm}].

\section{Ruby On Rails}
\label{section:ruby_on_rails}

\emph{\href{http://rubyonrails.org/}{Ruby On Rails}} \footnote{Ruby On Rails: \url{http://rubyonrails.org/}}
é um \emph{web framework} de código aberto que tem por finalidade facilitar a programação
visando a produtividade sustentável. Este \emph{framework} permite escrever códigos bem estruturados
favorecendo a manutenção de aplicações [\citeonline{ruby_on_rails}].

O \emph{Rails} foi criado em 2003 por \emph{\href{http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/}{David Heinemeier Hansson}}
\footnote{David Heinemeier Hansson: \url{http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/}} e desde então é extendido
pela equipe do \emph{\href{http://rubyonrails.org/core/}{Rails Core Team}}
\footnote{Rails Core Team: \url{http://rubyonrails.org/core/}} e mais de 3.400 usuários
[\citeonline{ruby_on_rails}].

\section{Git}
\label{section:git}

\emph{\href{http://git-scm.com/}{Git}} \footnote{Git: \url{http://git-scm.com/}} é um sistema distribuído de
controle de versão livre e de código aberto, desenhado para controlar projetos pequenos e grandes com
rapidez e eficiência. É uma ferramenta fácil de manipular com alto desempenho [\citeonline{git}].

Por irônia do destino o \emph{git} foi criado em 2005 por
\emph{\href{http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com.br/}{Linus Torvalds}}
\footnote{Linus Torvalds: \url{http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com.br/}} graças ao fim da relação entre a
comunidade que desenvolvia o \emph{Linux} e a companhia que desenvolvia o
\emph{\href{http://www.bitkeeper.com/}{BitKeeper}}, ferramenta que até aquele ano fazia o gerênciamento de
código do \emph{Linux}. Sem uma ferramenta \emph{SCM} (\emph{Source Code Management}), \emph{Torvalds}
resolveu desenvolver uma ferramenta parecida com o \emph{BitKeeper} que possuiria mais velocidade,
\emph{design} simples, grande suporte para \emph{non-linear development} (centenas de \emph{branchs}),
completamente distribuído e capacidade de controlar grandes projeto com grandes quantidades de dados.

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The Minister for Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni has commended the efforts of everyone involved in tackling New Zealand's largest bush fire in decades.
Fires started on Monday and Tuesday and quickly spread.
One home has been lost and roughly 3,000 people have been evacuated from the Wakefield and Pigeon Valley areas on the northern tip of the South Island of New Zealand due to the fire.
Officials said Sunday was a "productive day with less wind than forecast", allowing them to conduct a controlled burn-off operation to protect some areas.
"Our focus at the moment is moving more into the fire ground and concentrating on the moving heat and trying to widen the amount of containment all the way around the fire".
Farmers and contractors in parts of the region have been banned from using machinery that could generate to sparks or fire.
Over 100 personnel worked throughout the night to fight the fire that now covers 2100 hectares with a 27-kilometre perimeter, Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) regional manager John Sutton told media on Saturday. The New Zealand Drought Index reports "extremely dry" conditions in the Nelson area, which has reportedly been parched since November 2018.


Just because it's the end of the year doesn't mean we're done with our activities. We are already planning next year's events and I can tell you they will only get better.
Cal is Bowl bound for the first time since 2015. If you will stick around then you can catch all the action at Redmond's Ale House.
A few of us will be at the game as well, so let us know if you will be in Phoenix to join in during pregame activities.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $7.50 for kids under 12.
It has been my absolute privilege to help lead the club these past two years and set the foundation for a strong Cal presence in Chicago. Yet as proud as I am about everything the club has accomplished, I am even more excited about our future.
I cannot emphasize enough the fact that our success is the result of team effort. I am extremely proud to have worked alongside the club's future leaders. They have been there from the beginning and there is no doubt in my heart and mind that they will take us to the next level.
As I step down my role as president, I invite you to continue to join me in making the roar of the Golden Bear grow louder in the Midwest. Hey Alumni: GO BEARS!!


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Encyclopedia > Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Charlottetown is a Canadian city and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, with a population of 15,396 as of 1991. The first European settlers were the French, who founded the city in 1720, naming it Port la Joie. Most of their descendants, the Acadians, were expelled by the British in 1755 for refusing to take an oath to be loyal to England.
Charlottetown was laid out by the British in 1768 and named for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III of the United Kingdom. Its growth was slow until the middle of the 19th century, when it became noted for the sailing vessels it built for fishing and lumber transport. The Charlottetown Conference[?] of the 1864 was the first step toward Canadian confederation.
In the city is the University of Prince Edward Island.
On May 31, 1997, the Confederation Bridge opened. The longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world, the bridge linked Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island[?] and Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick[?]. Eight miles long, and rising to almost 200 feet in height above the water, a specially designed shield was built on the pier shaft to break up the ice the ice that covers the strait for 5 months of the year.
See also: Canada, Canadian provinces and territories, Canadian cities
U.S. presidential election, 1804
... Vote Party Running Mate(Electoral Votes) Thomas Jefferson (W) 162 Democratic-Republican George Clinton (162) Charles C. Pinckney[?] 14 Federalist Rufus ...


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Friday Night Game Announcement
MESSAGE FROM ATHLETIC DIRECTOR RUSSELL LEGGITT...
The Osceola School district would like to welcome you to Seminole Stadium for the 3-3A conference championship football game. Both our teams have worked hard all year to have the chance to compete for this Championship. We would like to thank the fans from Newport and hope that you enjoy visit. Osceola's visitor side stands are located on the West side of the stadium. The ticket booth, concessions and bathrooms are all accessible on that side. Ticket prices are $5.00 for students and adults. Parking is also provided on the west side, right behind the visitors stands. Because of the expected large crowd, we are asking that fan club, cheerleading and band buses drop students off and then park in the OPAR community center parking lot on the west side, just north of the stadium. Only players, coaches and cheerleaders will be allowed on the inside of the fenced off track area. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at 870-563-1848 or rleggett@osd1.org. Thank you Russell Leggett Athletic Director/ Osceola High School


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Q: "Golden crown" vs. "gold crown" In case of the need to describe the color of a crown which is shown as part of an image, which is correct: a golden crown, or a gold crown?
Is it important if it is made of gold or not, but the color is gold?

A: It seems they're largely interchangeable. The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 35 records for gold crown and 29 for golden crown. The figures for the British National Corpus are 8 and 6. The Oxford English Dictionary, however, has 6 citations for gold crown and 10 for golden crown. This nGram shows an earlier preference for golden crown, but with little difference apparent from about 1960 onwards.
A coin, rather than royal headwear, will, I suspect, generally be a gold crown rather than a golden crown.

A: The Collins Cobuild Dictionary shows two meanings for golden:

*

*Something that is golden is bright yellow in colour. (ADJ)

*Golden things are made of gold. (ADJ)
While they may appear to be fungible, people who choose their words carefully would probably use gold to indicate made of gold and golden to indicate bright yellow in colour.
Elvis Presley sang "Wooden Heart (Muss I Den)" in the 1960 movie G.I. Blues. Here are two relevant lines:

*

*'Cause I'm not made of wood

*And I don't have a wooden heart
They suggest that even with the ‑en ending, it means "made of wood", which it wouldn't in a sentence like "He delivered a wooden performance on opening night."
Collins Cobuild says "Wooden objects are made of wood". I agree that that's how people use it, whether literally (e.g., wooden table and wooden chair) as well as figuratively (wooden performance).
But unlike when wood and wooden are used literally, I don't think that golden and gold are fungible like that. They're only sometimes synonyms, which means that they aren't always interchangeable, merely largely interchangeable.  A golden crown is not necessarily a crown made of gold, just a crown the color of gold. But a gold crown is necessarily a crown made of gold.
However, because there is something called "white gold", an alloy of gold and nickel and which sometimes contains palladium or zinc, a gold crown isn't necessarily yellow. Context should tell the reader or listener whether golden or gold is being used literally or metaphorically.

A: Most gold crowns are golden, but not all golden crowns are made of gold.


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Burkina Faso Ruling Party Backs President Kabore for re-election
Burkina Faso's ruling party has backed President Kabore in his quest to run for re-election despite struggling to crush a bloody jihadist insurgency.
On saturday 11, 2020, Simon Compaore, president of the People's Movement for Progress (MPP), made the announcement to cheering supporters at a stadium rally in the capital Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
It has been made public that the decision, which came after several hours of closed-door discussions among party delegates, came as little surprise, as he was his party's only candidate to run.
Despite the strong support from the Party for Kabore, he did not attend the event.
But in a message read out by a party spokesman, he welcomed the decision and promised to build "solidarity and development" in the country.
Thousands turned out in a massive show of force, filling a 5,000-capacity sports stadium in Ouagadougou and 20 giant tents outside.
Crowds wearing the party colours of white and orange had been bussed in from all over the country.
The prime minister, national assembly speaker and first lady also turned up at the stadium, ignoring the coronavirus pandemic, to voice support as the crowd inside the stadium shouted "MPP Victory!"
"It's a message to opposition political parties. They shouldn't think they can beat our champion," said Kader Tapsoba, a 46-year-old businessman.
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On most mornings, between my transfer at Newark Broad Street, the subway, and my nearly half mile-long walk, I see at least fifteen to twenty homeless men and women. Like most who live or work in New York City, I do not give their loitering bodies much thought. As I breeze past them, I am more concerned with being on time for work and with avoiding bumping into other rushed commuters. On January 24, however, I was directly confronted with the suffering that I normally ignore. It got right in my face.
Daily, I take the local Queens Bound E train from Penn Station to the stop closest to my office. On the 24th, through some combination of train timing and slow walkers, my routine altered slightly. I got into a subway car that was close to the middle, rather than the front. As I leapt over the gap, a canned announcement notified me that the doors were about to close. Though I realized that the car I'd stepped into was crammed with garbage filled luggage, it was too late to turn around and make an exit.
Two homeless men sprawled out across the unforgivingly hard baby blue benches of the car. They were asleep. The men were surrounded by their belongings: tattered rolling suitcases, rusted shopping carts covered in crinkled tarps, lumpy and overstuffed black plastic garbage bags, threadbare comforters affixed with duct tape, and grocery bags through which the outlines of Chinese food containers and empty soda cans could be seen.
I watched other commuters step onto the train. Some of them looked annoyed. Some of them covered their noses. There was an undeniable stench. Most looked disturbed and sad as they eyed one another and shook their heads. People clambered around the junk to find a pole to grasp or an empty wall to lean against. Each person kept as much distance as possible between their body and those of the homeless strangers. As a human being, I knew that most of my fellow commuters would leave the train upset. As someone whose job it is to solicit funds for a social service agency, I feared that most would do little about the scene they had witnessed.
Part of my work is to research and identify foundations and corporations that might give money to our agency, Catholic Charities. New York City is filthy rich. The wealthy people who live here are exceedingly affluent. The banks and businesses that operate from our steel skyscrapers and opulently appointed glass buildings place our city's economy among the world's largest. One might think that a job asking New York City's institutions for money would be easy. The endeavor, however, is made immensely challenging by the fact that there is a limited pool of private money available to the many human service organizations clambering for attention and funds.
I use online search tools that yield thousands of local foundations that list phrases like "poverty" or "low-income" or "homelessness" as priorities. The pages of results seem hopeful. From there, I whittle out the small fries, the generous ones who are already supporting us, and the ones that aren't taking applications. I am left with a sad few. As I skim across their 990 tax forms, I observe the same pattern again and again. Most of the grants, and certainly the largest grants, are going to hospitals and universities. My colleagues are all too familiar with the statistic. Only 12% of charitable giving is for human services.
The basic needs of New Yorkers are largely left untended. Meanwhile, our government slogs its way through the bureaucratic and financial challenges of responding to a seemingly intractable crisis. The crisis is that we cannot affordably house our poor and working poor. Exceedingly expensive market rates, the deregulation of rent stabilized apartments, and preferential rent policies created a lottery system in which, at last count, there were 90 affordable housing units available for every 65,000 applicant households with incomes lower than $60,000. Low-income New Yorkers are excluded from renting or owning a home.
Wages in New York City are not fair. Even with the new $15/hour minimum wage, they are not keeping pace with the rising costs of housing. The working parents we help at Catholic Charities regularly ask themselves whether they should spend their last few dollars stocking a sparse refrigerator, or paying an overdue electric bill. The fact is that half of all New Yorkers do not have the financial means to pay for enough food and proper shelter. Yet, one of the things that I have the most difficulty articulating to prospective funders is this: eviction and debt and homelessness and school drop-out do not occur due to laziness or irresponsibility. As Mathew Desmond writes in his book "Evicted", these emergencies occur due to inevitability.
When I review the forms and instructions needed to enroll for benefits like food stamps and housing lotteries, I, a relatively unburdened college graduate, feel a bit overwhelmed. A hallmark of Catholic Charities' work is Case Management. Case Management often involves the completion and the submission of complicated paperwork through the proper channels. Advocacy and follow-up are made to ensure that clients obtain the resources they need to make ends meet. My attempts to communicate the importance of the work, however, often falls on deaf ears. Many of the potential supporters I speak with want to hear about innovative projects and job training that moves people out of poverty. They do not want to award funds for our pushing of paper. In reality, though, this is the work that is allowing poor people to survive.
Our city's homeless shelters tally the lives most profoundly disrupted by the ongoing housing crisis - 129,803 total in the last year. The number glares at us because it is large. It also glares at us because it is an underrepresentation of need. The problems of homelessness and poverty are intimidating. They are as complex as they are obvious.
Catholic Charities volunteers joined the city's Department of Homeless Services' Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) effort to count the street homeless. Starting at 10 pm on January 28th, around 2,000 people were deployed across all five boroughs to find and number the human beings who are spending the night in the freezing cold. Last year, they identified 3,675 unsheltered people. Not all were counted and they never will be. Many bodies are hidden within cracks and crevices of the concrete jungle that are too dark or too dangerous or too obscure to be reached.
The bodies are well hidden because they do not want to be found. Their struggling inhabitants know that the institutions and systems that will attempt to address their mental illnesses and addictions are failing. In 1955 there were 599 psychiatric beds per 100,000 New Yorkers. In 2012 there were 28 per 100,000. Between 2014 and 2018, psychiatric centers in New York City lost about 15 percent of their total adult beds. The city's seriously mentally ill homeless population swelled by more than twenty percent. Our leaders responded by opening six new shelters dedicated to the mentally ill. Legislative efforts to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill were meant to be humane. Without essential community supports and alternative means of treatment in place, however, trouble has ensued. Today, a severely mentally ill person is more likely to be arrested and jailed than to receive the medical attention he or she needs.
When I ride the subway, I am often shocked out of reading a novel by the desperate boom of another rider's begging and the rattle of coins. I cannot count the number of times a homeless person has shaken a change filled can or a cup in my face while asking for some money or a bit of food. I have heard so many homeless people narrate stories of already tenuous lives made unmanageable by an accident or an addiction. Each time I listen, I feel powerless. I know that even if I emptied out my entire bank account to fill the cups that gape in front of me, the unsettling systemic problems would remain. Often, rather than take action, I push sadness at the pain and poverty of others far away. I keep a safe distance. We all must do this to survive.
On January 24th, however, I could no longer allow myself to dismiss the responsibility that I felt to acknowledge hardship. I may not have a burgeoning wallet or a large platform from which to shout my opinions, but I do have a talent for writing. I sat down and I wrote. I wrote to ask readers, if they are at all moved by the too common scenes that I described or the statistics that I used to give credence to my experiences, to please use their assets and skills for good.
Make a donation. Volunteer time. Contact a member of Congress. Share this post.
Don't step off the train and ignore an urge to help. Do a little something about the suffering that needs to be addressed.


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Basilica Minor
The Post-Cistercian Monastery and Palace Complex contains one of the most valuable monuments of the Diocese of Gliwice - the 1303 Gothic-Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Minor Basilica) since1995 - the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Rudy. Currently, efforts are made to enter the building onto the UNESCO World Heritage list. The Church, alonside with the monastery, experienced many changes over seven centuries of its history. Originally built in the Gothic style, three aisles were erected on the Latin cross plan, and cross-ribbed vaults were used. The Church did not have the tower then. One entered the church through an ogival Romanesque portal.
In the seventeenth century, a new sacristy was built and in the years 1723-1726 the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary was added. Later on, the interior of the temple was covered with rich, baroque stuccowork. The baroque Chapel of Maria with the miraculous image of Our Lady of Rudy is of great artistic value. Inside there are beautiful wall paintings and stuccowork. Figures of the Princes of Opole and Ratibor: Ladislaus and Casimir, and the stucco statues of the archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and the Guardian Angel, carved by John Schubert of Lipník upon Beczawa. Above the windows there are coats of arms – that of the founder Abbot Joseph II on the left side and on the right – the Cistercian.
In connection with the reconstruction carried out after the fire caused by the Soviet army, (which destroyed all the main structural elements of the church) it was decided to restore the church in its original gothic style. Further restoration work was carried out in the years 1989 -1992. Mary's Chapel was renewed and the fresco in the dome of the Holy Cross Chapel. The Chapel contains two epitaph plates – a wooden one that of the Prince Ladislaus from 1680 and a stone one with a relief depicting Abbot Andrew Emanuel Pospel. Note the sculptures by John Melchior Österreich depicting Aaron, Moses, John the Evangelist (St. Joseph) and the Risen Christ
Not everyone knows that the church houses relics of St. Valentine and relics of the Holy Cross. The porch, under which there is the crypt of the family of Ratibor Princes of Hohenlohe-Schilillingsfürst one can watch a beautiful nineteenth century cast-iron sarcophagus of Prince Victor and his wife. The statues of four saints, placed on a two-storey facade of the building (St. Michael, St. Florian, St. Benedict and St. Bernard) take care of the Church.
The Chapel of Our Lady
Basilica Minor (the interior)
Cistercian Period
The Prince Period
Contemporary period
The Monastery-Palace Complex
The English-style park
The Shrine of Our Lady
The Presbytery
Church of St. Mary Magdalene
The figure of St. John of Nepomuk
The figure of St. John of Nepomuk (stone)
Marian Column
Dr. Roger's Infirmary
The Railway Building
Other monuments
The Commune of Kuźnia Raciborska
The Rudy Abbacy
Sanctuary of the Humble Mother of God
The Marshal's Office of the Silesian Voivodeship
The Landscape Parks Complex
The Rudy Raciborskie Forestry Inspectorate
South - Western Cistercian Route
The Cystercian Route in Poland
The Association of Cystercian Communes
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Q: Add a column at sub-level based on position of another sub-level column I have the following pandas Dataframe (df):
quarters = ['first_q', 'second_q', 'third_q', 'fourth_q']
columns = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([quarters, ['points']])
df = pd.DataFrame([[5, 13, 6, 12], [7,5,5,14], [3,0,7,4]], index=['curry', 'lebron','stockton'], columns=columns)

Out[]:
         first_q   second_q    third_q    fourth_q
          points     points     points      points
curry       5          13          6          12
lebron      7           5          5          14
stockton    3           0          7           4

I would like to create a new column at level 1 (next to 'points'), containing the ranking of each player's (index) anotation (column, level 1 "points") at each quarter (column, level 0). In other words, the expected result is:
          first_q         second_q        third_q        fourth_q
       points ranking  points ranking  points ranking  points ranking
curry     5      2       13      1       6       2       12     2
lebron    7      1        5      2       5       3       14     1
stockton  3      3        0      3       7       1        4     3

The ranking level-1 column in the first_q level-0 column means that lebron made the highest points in the first quarter, followed by curry and stockton ended that quarter in third place.
I have managed to achieve this result with the following code:
for quarter in quarters:
    df = df.sort_values([(quarter, 'points')], ascending=False)
    df.loc[:,(quarter,'ranking')] = np.arange(1, 4)
df = df[quarters]
df = df.reindex(['curry', 'lebron', 'stockton'])

However, I was trying to find a more elegant/idiomatic way to achieve this without the for iteration over quarters, but I haven't found any.
Does anyone know how to achieve this?
Thanks a lot in advance!

A: Use rank and concat:
v = ((len(df) + 1 - df.rank(method='dense'))
        .rename({'points':'rank'}, axis=1)
        .astype(int))

pd.concat([df, v], axis=1).sort_index(axis=1)

         first_q      fourth_q      second_q      third_q
          points rank   points rank   points rank  points rank
curry          5    2       12    2       13    1       6    2
lebron         7    1       14    1        5    2       5    3
stockton       3    3        4    3        0    3       7    1


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Prof. Perrachione also is the Director of the Hearing Research Center, an investigator in the Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, and an executive member of the Center for Systems Neuroscience,. He is affiliated faculty in the Graduate Program for Neuroscience, the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at BU. He is a Research Affiliate at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology at Harvard Medical School.
Prof. Perrachione teaches undergraduate (SAR SH 221 Phonetics) and graduate (SAR SH 620 Neuroimaging for Speech and Hearing Research) courses in Sargent College, and a first-year undergraduate seminar (KHC NE 102 Reading, Language, and the Brain) in the Kilachand Honors College.
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Премія імені Олександра Копиленка — літературно-мистецька премія за кращі твори, присвячені дітям. Вручалася в 1978—1989 рр. письменникам та художникам. Відроджена в 2020 році.

Історія премії

Премія заснована 1978 року журналом «Барвінок», у якому український дитячий письменник Олександр Копиленко друкував свої твори. Першими лавреатами стали Всеволод Нестайко, Віктор Близнець, а також художниця Ніна Денисова.

Вручалася до 1989 року включно. Всього було нагороджено 26 лауреатів.

2020 року премію Олександра Копиленка відроджено зусиллями родини письменника й за допомоги газети «Літературна Україна» та її головного редактора Сергія Куліди.

Лауреати

 1978 — Нестайко Всеволод Зіновійович, Близнець Віктор Семенович, Денисова Ніна Михайлівна
 1986 — Скомаровський Вадим Петрович
 1987 — Бортняк Анатолій Агафонович
 1988 — Малик Галина Миколаївна
 1989 — Білоус Дмитро Григорович

Також серед лауреатів Наталя Забіла, Дмитро Павличко, Лариса Письменна, Степан Пушик, Василь Довжик, Валерій Шевчук, Віктор Таран-Терен, Анатолій Костецький.

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Копиленка
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Heavyweight for a 'Requiem': Helmuth Rilling does Brahms with MN Orchestra & Chorale
April 18, 2016 — 12:25pm
Rilling does Brahms
With age, they say, comes wisdom. That is often true of classical musicians, and it certainly applies to the German conductor Helmuth Rilling. Now in his 80s, Rilling is a choral practitioner of unparalleled experience, and brings the accumulated insight of decades to Brahms' masterpiece "A German Requiem," in three performances this weekend with the Minnesota Orchestra and Chorale. As a curtain-raiser, Rilling leads a lecture-demonstration on Brahms' working methods in the Requiem, and the reasons why he wrote it. If you follow choral music, this is an essential date for your diary. (8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., Orchestra Hall, Mpls. $25-$79. mnorch.org or 612-371-5656)
Ever wondered what it takes to become a top classical soloist? A fascinating glimpse into the arduous process of training is provided in "Talent Has Hunger," a documentary showing at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Shot over seven years, director Josh Aronson follows a group of young cellists studying at a New England conservatory, as they aspire to instrumental mastery. (4 p.m. Sat., St. Anthony Main, Mpls.; $7-$13, mspfilm.org)
Welshman Bryn Terfel bestrides the operatic platform like a colossus, and is currently the world's leading Wagnerian bass-baritone. Yet his beginnings were in the more intimate arena of art-song, and he remains a wonderfully charismatic recitalist. Catch Terfel in a one-off concert for the Schubert Club, with songs by Schubert, Schumann, Ibert and others. (7:30 p.m. Wed., Ordway Music Theater, $16-$76, schubert.org or 651-292-3268)
What's your favorite piece of choral music? That's the question recently posed to listeners across the nation by Minnesota Public Radio's Choral Stream. The answers are revealed in a cliff-hanging countdown concert staged by Philip Brunelle's VocalEssence, where the top 15 vote-collecting pieces are revealed in live performance. (8 p.m. Fri., 4 p.m. Sun.; Ordway Concert Hall, St. Paul; $20-$40, vocalessence.org, 651-224-4222)
As winter turns to spring in Minnesota, why not sample Argentinian tango king Astor Piazzolla's colorful take on the "Four Seasons," as experienced in Buenos Aires? The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra couples it with Vivaldi's evergreen set of concertos on the same subject. (10:30 a.m., 8 p.m. Fri., Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie; 8 p.m. Sat., Saint Paul's United Church of Christ, St. Paul; 2 p.m. Sun., Benson Great Hall, Arden Hills; $13-$43, the spco.org, 651-291-1144)
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Professor John Trevaskis (1923-2002)
Papers 1942-1994
John Trevaskis, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Comparative Philology at the University of Adelaide was a distinguished classicist and university administrator.
Born in 1923 in North Cornwall, he attended Plymouth College with all-round distinction. He went up to Queens' College as a scholar in 1942. In 1943 poor eyesight frustrated his hopes for aircrew duties and he was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, being later detached for service in Northern Ireland with the Welch Regiment. He returned to Queens' in 1945, completing a double first in Classics in 1948 with distinction in the Philosophy. Queens' immediately elected him to a teaching fellowship, to be Director of Studies in Classics and a member of the renowned McCullagh-Armitage-Trevaskis tutorial trio. A University Assistant Lecturer at Queens' from 1952, he was known for his quiet authoritative style and generous response to any plea for help. It was an immense disappointment to him that the University did not offer him a lectureship.
In 1957 he was appointed to the Hughes Chair of Classics and Comparative Philology at the University of Adelaide. Under his enthusiastic leadership the small Classics Department more than doubled in size. Later, with student numbers reduced by the removal of compulsory Latin from other degrees, he introduced a highly successful course of classics in translation, which has continued alongside the teaching of Latin and Greek. Colleagues remember him as approachable, good at consulting, decisive, fair, reserved but not without humour, and kind while not above showing impatience.
He was instrumental in founding the University of Adelaide Museum of Classical Archaeology, and leading the build-up of a substantial collection. Later a "Friends" organisation was formed, opening up a fruitful link with the State Museum, and inaugurating widely esteemed lectures. In the same spirit, finding the Classical Association of South Australia a small coterie of specialists within the Department, he left it with a large and thriving membership inside and outside the University.
Despite a hankering for research and a lifelong suspicion of meetings as time-wasting, his effectiveness led him into ever more exacting roles in university administration, including President of the Staff Association, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Chairman of the Education Committee, Chairman of the Professorial Board, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor for much of a critical year.
Adapted from the Obituary in The Adelaidean vol. 12 no.2 March 2003.
1. Queens' College, Cambridge.
Student notebooks 1942-1945. 6 notebooks.
'Compositions and versions', Lent term 1942: annotated printed texts and translations pasted into notebook
'Versions' 1945: annotated printed texts and translations pasted into notebook
'Greek history/Philosophy' [undated]: ms notes on Persian Wars, Roman history 220-133, Aristotle, Greek philosophy, post-Aristotelians, literary passages, Roman empire
'Skeleton essays' [undated]: ms notes, drafts
2 notebooks [unlabelled, undated]: appears to be ms lecture notes, including Roman 'Synopsis of lectures on Greek religion' and 'Aristotle physics'.
Queens' memorabilia
luncheon menu for fifth centenary of the foundation of the College 7 June 1948
1984 letter thanking Trevaskis for donations to Queens College Henley fund
2. Lectures delivered for the Dept of Classics, University of Adelaide 1979-1994
Narrative & Didactic I: introduction, Homer hymns, & Hesiod. Ms full version of lecture and preparatory notes
Narrative & Didactic IV & V: Theokritos & Hellenistic & Roman (1979-1981, superseded by Roman Poetry I 1983)
Roman Poetry: Horace odes (1983 & 1987). Ms drafts
Roman Love Poetry (Honours 1994). Course notes including reading list, Roman literature time chart, photocopied poems (some annotated), notes, essay topic, letter to Carmel (?) re lecturing appointment for the course
Classical Studies II: Ovid lectures I-III by Phillip RJ Warrell 1985?. Typescripts including bibliographies and handouts
1983 Classical Studies course and assessment timetable and list of lecturers
3. Correspondence ca 1983-1985: limited collection of letters/draft copies of correspondence
Roneo circular letter upon opening of the University of Adelaide Museum of Classical Archaeology
Letter from the Vice Chancellor July 1983 thanking Professor Trevaskis for donation to the University
Draft letter from Trevaskis to the Vice Chancellor requesting sick leave
Two letters from Ron Cornes, Dept of Classics, July 1969 and February 1985
Letters to colleagues re suitable candidates for the Hughes Chair of Classics upon Trevaskis' retirement 1983
Draft letter of congratulations to Professor Robert Ussher on acceptance of the Chair 1983?
References written for Mrs J. Sinclair, Anne Geddes and Phillip Warrell.
4. Manuscript book (undated)
Manuscript of book on the Athenians. Contents: Introduction; The rise of Athens; The emergence of democracy; Freedom and equality, Plato & Protagoras, Man and woman, The Polis and the open society, Individualism.
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Andy Summers of the 80s band 'The Police' speaks about his unique new album, 'Triboluminiscence'
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Read more at the Blasting News website.
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After climbing 20 consecutive pitches up Timewave Zero in El Potrero Chico, it became abundantly clear to me that Carey is a very special person.
At first, I wasn't even going to climb Timewave because I had no desire to feel like I was climbing up the side of a Mexican frying pan. I discovered on this trip that my Pacific Northwestern heritage is not keen on climbing in direct sunlight. Shade is fine, but heat kills.
Anyways, Carey was going to climb Timewave with our friend Jo. Together, they read the route description and prepared for a big day of clipping bolts. Then, nature threw us all a curveball and dumped some rain and chilly temps on Potrero. Just like I was unwilling to climb in the heat, Jo was unwilling to climb in the cold. Carey, however, remained constantly stoked. I was back in the running.
The morning of, we got up around 4am. We ate a quick breakfast, slammed some coffee and listened to Rage Against the Machine. We were stoked and ready.
Carey is a professional rock guide. She's mindful, practical and likes to plan ahead. In 3 weeks of constant climbing, the only mistake I saw her make on the wall was when she tiredly confused which way to twist the gate of a carabiner to unlock it. Literally, that was it.
With our new Potrero friends, I liked to joke that Carey was Don Quixote and that I was Sancho Panza. While we're both strong lady climbers, Carey is slightly stronger, slightly braver and slightly more badass than I am.
Our stoke factor dropped slightly when we got to the base of Timewave and realized that we were the third party on a 23-pitch climb. We're fast and strong, but we knew that we would be only as fast as the people ahead of us. When the second party took an hour to get through the second pitch, I thought that Carey was going to lose it. It became clear that the people in front of us were going to be the crux of the day, despite the 12a on pitch 21.
As the day carried on, we had a ton of fun. There wasn't a single pitch that I didn't enjoy.
Carey climbed 20 pitches without a single fall. I believe that if we wouldn't have been held up at literally every single belay, we would have cut hours from our climb time. Just in time for golden hour, we reached the 21st crux pitch that goes at 5.12a and had some decisions to make. We could summit, climbing just two more chossy pitches behind the other party… Or we could begin rappelling before we lost daylight.
Ultimately, we decided that we'd climbed high enough and long enough behind other people. So we opted to rap ahead of everyone and hightail it out of there. Reluctantly, I'm willing to admit that it was the best decision of the day. And ultimately, we had an absolute blast on the way down, groovin' to some Beastie Boys and laughing at everything we'd had to deal with, including: not-so-fun people, reverse-warp speed, choss, millipedes, rattle snakes, cacti and Mexican heat.
When I'm with Carey I feel like I can climb harder and higher. On my own, I'm a short and stout little force to be reckoned with. But together, we can accomplish big things.


This instructable shows how to design a remotely controlled two-wheeled robotic rover over a wi-fi network, using an Arduino Uno connected to an ESP8266 Wi-fi module and two stepper motors. The robot can be controlled from an ordinary internet browser, using a HTML designed interface. An Android smartphone is used to broadcast video and audio from the robot to operator's control interface.
There is a lot of robotic kits available online with various shapes, dimensions and prices. But, depending on your application, none of them will fit, and you might find out they are too expensive for your experiments. Or maybe you just want to make your your mechanical structure instead of buying a complete one.
This instructable also shows how to design and build a low-cost acrylic frame for your own robotic project, using just ordinary tools for those who doesn't have access to those expensive 3D printers or laser cutters. A simple robotic platform is presented.
To build a custom robot, first you'll have to design your mechanical structure. It might be easy, depending on your application, or full of details and constraints. You might need to design it in a 3D CAD software or just draw it in 2D, depending on the complexity of your model.
You might also buy the complete structure online if you doesn't want to build your own mechanical structure. There is a lot of robotic kits available online. In this case, you might jump to Step 6.
For this instructable, a low-cost acrylic frame was designed for the attachment of the motors and other components. The structure presented in this tutorial was 3D designed using 123D Design CAD software. Each part was later converted in 2D using Draftsight software.
Mount the components with bolts and nuts according to the 3D drawing.
Unfortunately the diameter of the stepper motor shaft is greater than the orifice on the wheel. So you'll probably need to use glue to couple those components. For this tutorial I improvised a wood coupling between the motor shaft and the wheel.
First you'll need to transfer the dimensions of your model to the acrylic sheet. Print your 2D drawing using an ordinary printer on an adhesive paper, then cut the paper in suitable dimensions and apply that mask on the surface of the acrylic.
You might use a hand saw to cut the acrylic according to your dimensions or use break technic described bellow.
With an utility knife and with the help of a ruler or a scale, cut the acrylic in straight lines. You won't need to cut all the way thru the sheet, just score it to create some tracks where the piece will be later cutted.
Place the acrylic on a flat surface, hold it in place with some clamps and apply some pressure until the sheet breaks into two. Repeat this process untill all the cuts are done. After that, you might use a sandpaper to smooth rough edges.
Drill the holes in the positions in shown in the 2D drawing (indicated in the mask) with a drilling machine.
Acrylic is relativelly easy to drill. So if you don't dispose of a drilling machine, you can drill the holes manually with a sharp tool, like an utility knife. You might also use it to enlarge small holes to fit bolts sizes.
Remove the mask and your base will be ready.
Mount the components with bolts and nuts according to the images, and your structure will be ready to go.
M3 bolts are used for the instalation of the stepper motors, while the 5/32" ones are used for the instalation of the front wheel and the smartphone clip.
You won't need specific tools for the assembly of the circuit. All the components can be found online on your favourite e-commerce store. The circuit is powered by a power bank connected to Arduino's USB port.
Connect all the componets according to the schematic. You'll need some jumper wires to connect the ESP-8266 module and the stepper motors. You might use a protoshield (for a more compact circuit), an ordinary breadboard, or design you own Arduino shield.
Install the latest Arduino IDE. In this project stepper.h library was used for the control of the stepper motors. No additional library was needed for communication with ESP-8266 module. Please check the baudrate of you ESP8266 and set it properly in the code.
Download Arduino code (stepperRobot.ino) and replace the XXXXX by your wifi router SSID and YYYYY by router password. Connect the Arduino board to your computer USB port and upload the code.
An Android smartphone was used to broadcast the video and audio from the robot to the control interface. You may find the app on Google Play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam).
Install it and move to next step.
Install the circuits in the top of the robot using some M1 bolts, as shown in the images.
After that, glue your power bank in the back of the robot using a double sided tape (because it's easy to remove later), and put your smartphone in the clip.
A html interface was designed for the control of the robot.
Download interface.rar and extract all the files to a given folder. Then open it on Firefox.
A textbox form is used in that interface to enter IP addresses of the ESP module and of the video/audio server (from Android IP Webcam app).
There is a test but, which will make the robot spin until anoter command is received. Keyboard arrow keys are used for moving the robot forward or backward, and to rotate left or right.
When the Arduino is restarted, it will try to connect your wi-fi network automatically. Use the Serial Monitor to check if the connection was successfull, and to obtain which IP was assigned to your ESP-8266 by your router. Open the html file in an internet browser (Firefox) and inform this IP address in the textbox.
You might also user other means to find out which IP address you router assigned to your device.
Disconnect the the Arduino Uno from your computer and connect it to the power bank. Wait for it to connect again.
Launch IP Webcam app in the smartphone attached to the robot. Type the video/audio IP on your control interface and connect to the server and you'll be ready to go. You might need to reduce the resolution of the video in the app to reduce the delay between during the transmission.
Click and hold the arrow buttons of your keyboar to rotate the robot or move it forward/backward and have fun exploring your environment.
sir my project is not able to get sufficient power through your circuit it is aotumaticlly shutting down after few minutes and serial monitor is showing nothing please help i m sarthaks42 im now grown up.
do i need to blank it?
On my project I used ESP8266 standard firmware (the one that comes with it out of the box). It receives a set of default commands (AT commands) and perform some actions.
In your case, since you uploaded your own code on the ESP8266, it no longer understands those AT commands.
I think you'll have to upload default firmware (although I don't know exactly how), or use a new ESP8266 module (if you have one available).
but there some firmware on esp... do i need to make it blank?
What kind of message do you receive in the serial monitor?
You can find the baurates in Arduino code.
The baud rate of your ESP8266 might be different and you'll have to try different values.
There is a lot of types of caster and ball wheels you can use to replace the front one.
I printed the base on a A4 size paper. What's your issue?
The protoshield works the same way a ordinary breadboard does. Connect it on top of the Arduino Uno and connect the components.
You might have an idea of the connections from the pictures at the introduction.
Follow the pictures. The connections to the breadboard are exactly the same. The protoshield has the same connectors the Arduino does.
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