New Britain Herald - Southington pitching Lincoln College site to schools across N.E.
Southington pitching Lincoln College site to schools across N.E.
SOUTHINGTON - City officials and owners of the site of the soon-to-be-closed Lincoln College of New England are sending 150 letters to schools around New England in hopes of finding a replacement.
Economic Development Director Lou Perillo said the town is keeping its search regional because a national search wouldn't be practical.
Lincoln College - formerly Briarwood College - announced in August that it would be closing on Dec. 31. Perillo said the property owner, Briarwood Real Estate Limited, "understands the potential" of the site.
Dennis Terwilliger, president of Briarwood Realty Inc., general partner for the property, said that ideally he would like to see another school move in before Lincoln College's lease expires on Jan. 31, 2020.
Terwilliger said he would like to see the site remains a private school, adding that the town does as well. Lincoln College, he said, brought in $160,000 a year in property taxes.
"If it were a school like Quinnipiac, which doesn't pay property taxes, that would drastically affect the tax base," he said.
Terwilliger said he had seen "some interest" on his end, but "nothing solid." He said he wants to have a solid plan in place by early next year. Teachers, he said, would need to have at least that long to prepare for a fall semester enrollment.
Posted in New Britain Herald, Southington Herald on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:10. Updated: Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:13.


The high minded excuse for why I did not scale that would be claiming I knew it was a temporary trick that was somehow beneath me. The more accurate reason would be thinking in part it was a lucky fluke rather than thinking in systems. If I were clever at the time I would have created the misspeller's guide to online gambling, though I think I was just so excited to make anything from the web that I perhaps lacked the ambition & foresight to scale things back then.
In the decade that followed I had a number of other lucky breaks like that. One time one of the original internet bubble companies that managed to stay around put up a sitewide footer link targeting the concept that one of my sites made decent money from. This was just before the great recession, before Panda existed. The concept they targeted had 3 or 4 ways to describe it. 2 of them were very profitable & if they targeted either of the most profitable versions with that page the targeting would have sort of carried over to both. They would have outranked me if they targeted the correct version, but they didn't so their mistargeting was a huge win for me.
Search today is much more complex. In the years since those easy-n-cheesy wins, Google has rolled out many updates which aim to feature sought after destination sites while diminishing the sites which rely one "one simple trick" to rank.
safeguards against spammers (users who generate fraudulent clicks in an attempt to boost certain search results) can be taken to help ensure that the user selection data is meaningful, even when very little data is available for a given (rare) query. These safeguards can include employing a user model that describes how a user should behave over time, and if a user doesn't conform to this model, their click data can be disregarded. The safeguards can be designed to accomplish two main objectives: (1) ensure democracy in the votes (e.g., one single vote per cookie and/or IP for a given query-URL pair), and (2) entirely remove the information coming from cookies or IP addresses that do not look natural in their browsing behavior (e.g., abnormal distribution of click positions, click durations, clicks_per_minute/hour/day, etc.). Suspicious clicks can be removed, and the click signals for queries that appear to be spmed need not be used (e.g., queries for which the clicks feature a distribution of user agents, cookie ages, etc. that do not look normal).
Moreover, the weighting can be adjusted based on the determined type of the user both in terms of how click duration is translated into good clicks versus not-so-good clicks, and in terms of how much weight to give to the good clicks from a particular user group versus another user group. Some user's implicit feedback may be more valuable than other users due to the details of a user's review process. For example, a user that almost always clicks on the highest ranked result can have his good clicks assigned lower weights than a user who more often clicks results lower in the ranking first (since the second user is likely more discriminating in his assessment of what constitutes a good result). In addition, a user can be classified based on his or her query stream. Users that issue many queries on (or related to) a given topic T (e.g., queries related to law) can be presumed to have a high degree of expertise with respect to the given topic T, and their click data can be weighted accordingly for other queries by them on (or related to) the given topic T.
Whenever SEOs mention using click data to search engineers, the search engineers quickly respond about how they might consider any signal but clicks would be a noisy signal. But if a signal has noise an engineer would work around the noise by finding ways to filter the noise out or combine multiple signals. To this day Google states they are still working to filter noise from the link graph: "We continued to protect the value of authoritative and relevant links as an important ranking signal for Search."
The site with millions of inbound links, few intentional visits & those who do visit quickly click the back button (due to a heavy ad load, poor user experience, low quality content, shallow content, outdated content, or some other bait-n-switch approach)...that's an outlier. Preventing those sorts of sites from ranking well would be another way of protecting the value of authoritative & relevant links.
Nearly a decade after Panda, eHow's rankings still haven't recovered.
Back when I got started with SEO the phrase Indian SEO company was associated with cut-rate work where people were buying exclusively based on price. Sort of like a "I got a $500 budget for link building, but can not under any circumstance invest more than $5 in any individual link." Part of how my wife met me was she hired a hack SEO from San Diego who outsourced all the work to India and marked the price up about 100-fold while claiming it was all done in the United States. He created reciprocal links pages that got her site penalized & it didn't rank until after she took her reciprocal links page down.
With that sort of behavior widespread (hack US firm teaching people working in an emerging market poor practices), it likely meant many SEO "best practices" which were learned in an emerging market (particularly where the web was also underdeveloped) would be more inclined to being spammy. Considering how far ahead many Western markets were on the early Internet & how India has so many languages & how most web usage in India is based on mobile devices where it is hard for users to create links, it only makes sense that Google would want to place more weight on end user data in such a market.
If you set your computer location to India Bing's search box lists 9 different languages to choose from.
"Facebook Inc. has been looking to boost its local-news offerings since a 2017 survey showed most of its users were clamoring for more. It has run into a problem: There simply isn't enough local news in vast swaths of the country. ... more than one in five newspapers have closed in the past decade and a half, leaving half the counties in the nation with just one newspaper, and 200 counties with no newspaper at all."
"Thanks to the convoluted machinery of Internet advertising, the advertising world went from being about content publishers and advertising context—The Times unilaterally declaring, via its 'rate card', that ads in the Times Style section cost $30 per thousand impressions—to the users themselves and the data that targets them—Zappo's saying it wants to show this specific shoe ad to this specific user (or type of user), regardless of publisher context. Flipping the script from a historically publisher-controlled mediascape to an advertiser (and advertiser intermediary) controlled one was really Google's doing. Facebook merely rode the now-cresting wave, borrowing outside media's content via its own users' sharing, while undermining media's ability to monetize via Facebook's own user-data-centric advertising machinery. Conventional media lost both distribution and monetization at once, a mortal blow."
As the web grows rapidly in India, they'll have a thousand flowers bloom. In 5 years the competition in India & other emerging markets will be much tougher as those markets continue to grow rapidly. Media is much cheaper to produce in India than it is in the United States. Labor costs are lower & they never had the economic albatross that is the ACA adversely impact their economy. At some point the level of investment & increased competition will mean early techniques stop having as much efficacy. Chinese companies are aggressively investing in India.
RankBrain appears to be based on using user clickpaths on head keywords to help bleed rankings across into related searches which are searched less frequently. A Googler didn't state this specifically, but it is how they would be able to use models of searcher behavior to refine search results for keywords which are rarely searched for.
In a recent interview in Scientific American a Google engineer stated: "By design, search engines have learned to associate short queries with the targets of those searches by tracking pages that are visited as a result of the query, making the results returned both faster and more accurate than they otherwise would have been."
Plus there is a huge gap between the cost of traffic & the ability to monetize it. You might have to pay someone a dime or a quarter to search for something & there is no guarantee it will work on a sustainable basis even if you paid hundreds or thousands of people to do it. Any of those experimental searchers will have no lasting value unless they influence rank, but even if they do influence rankings it might only last temporarily. If you bought a bunch of traffic into something genuine Google searchers didn't like then even if it started to rank better temporarily the rankings would quickly fall back if the real end user searchers disliked the site relative to other sites which already rank.
To help people understand the difference between neural matching & RankBrain, Google told SEL: "RankBrain helps Google better relate pages to concepts. Neural matching helps Google better relate words to searches."
"Successful relevance matching requires proper handling of the exact matching signals, query term importance, and diverse matching requirements."
"the interaction-focused model, which first builds local level interactions (i.e., local matching signals) between two pieces of text, and then uses deep neural networks to learn hierarchical interaction patterns for matching."
"according to the diverse matching requirement, relevance matching is not position related since it could happen in any position in a long document."
"Most NLP tasks concern semantic matching, i.e., identifying the semantic meaning and infer"ring the semantic relations between two pieces of text, while the ad-hoc retrieval task is mainly about relevance matching, i.e., identifying whether a document is relevant to a given query."
"Since the ad-hoc retrieval task is fundamentally a ranking problem, we employ a pairwise ranking loss such as hinge loss to train our deep relevance matching model."
"interaction-based models are less efficient, since one cannot index a document representation independently of the query. This is less important, though, when relevancy ranking methods rerank the top documents returned by a conventional IR engine, which is the scenario we consider here."
"Does this mean publishers should use more synonyms? Adding synonyms has always seemed to me to be a variation of keyword spamming. I have always considered it a naive suggestion. The purpose of Google understanding synonyms is simply to understand the context and meaning of a page. Communicating clearly and consistently is, in my opinion, more important than spamming a page with keywords and synonyms."
The above sort of language modeling & end user click feedback compliment links-based ranking signals in a way that makes it much harder to luck one's way into any form of success by being a terrible speller or just bombing away at link manipulation without much concern toward any other aspect of the user experience or market you operate in.
Google was even issued a patent for predicting site quality based upon the N-grams used on the site & comparing those against the N-grams used on other established site where quality has already been scored via other methods: "The phrase model can be used to predict a site quality score for a new site; in particular, this can be done in the absence of other information. The goal is to predict a score that is comparable to the baseline site quality scores of the previously-scored sites."
Have you considered using a PLR package to generate the shell of your site's content? Good luck with that as some sites trying that shortcut might be pre-penalized from birth.
When I started in SEO one of my friends had a dad who is vastly smarter than I am. He advised me that Google engineers were smarter, had more capital, had more exposure, had more data, etc etc etc ... and thus SEO was ultimately going to be a malinvestment.
If one is a dominant voice in a particular market, if they break industry news, if they have key exclusives, if they spot & name the industry trends, if their site becomes a must read & is what amounts to a habit ... then they perhaps become viewed as an entity. Entity-related signals help them & those signals that are working against the people who might have lucked into a bit of success become a tailwind rather than a headwind.


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Stronghold (NASDAQ: SDIG) has announced (i) the extinguishment of the final approximately $2.1 million of the total of approximately $67 million of principal amount of debt outstanding with NYDIG ABL LLC ("NYDIG") and The Provident Bank ("BankProv") and (ii) the closing of its previously announced WhiteHawk restructuring and credit facility that resulted in $23 million of additional borrowing capacity. According to the update, the company believes these moves are important steps in Stronghold's plan to improve profitability and liquidity and to reduce leverage despite low Bitcoin prices. "We are executing on the strategy we outlined during our second quarter earnings announcement in August – to rapidly deliver our balance sheet and enhance liquidity, and we are actively pursuing acquisitions of Bitcoin miners at attractive prices to take advantage of the current distressed market while continuing to carefully manage liquidity," said Greg Beard, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Stronghold. "We look forward to rebuilding our miner fleet opportunistically and will continue to seek out ways to accretively leverage our vertical integration and improve financial flexibility in what remains a dynamic, challenging market."
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For more than 20 years, Jim Boggia has been winning over fans, critics, contemporaries and luminaries alike with his uncompromising devotion to the sort of winsomely nostalgic, emotionally direct songcraft that's impervious to age. His sonically intelligent retro-pop manifesto informs three studio albums—2001's Fidelity Is the Enemy, 2005's Safe in Sound and 2008's Misadventures in Stereo—and he's worked with a startling array of artists, including Aimee Mann, Juliana Hatfield, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Bernadette Peters, David Poe, NRBQ's Big Al Anderson, famed Beach Boys lyricist Tony Asher, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, esteemed '70s pop misfit Emitt Rhodes, and Canadian songstress Amanda Marshall. Also an accomplished singer and guitarist, Boggia performs with the well-known New York City-based Beatles tribute band, the Fab Faux, as well as Mad Dogs & Dominos, an 18-piece collective headed by a heavyweight roster that includes Blues Brothers alum Lou Marini and producer John Leventhal. Oh, and he plays a mean ukulele.
1. He's been doing this longer than you think. More than 20 years, actually. In the process, he's won over fans, critics, contemporaries and luminaries alike with his uncompromising devotion to the sort of winsomely nostalgic, sonically intelligent songcraft that's impervious to age. It's emotionally complex stuff made sweetly palatable by its subtlety cinematic packaging.
2. He has three studio albums: 2001's Fidelity Is the Enemy, 2005's Safe in Sound and 2008's Misadventures in Stereo. The latter two were recorded for Sony-distributed Bluhammock Music; Boggia says the first one was the most fun to make. It contains the gleefully self-evident classic "Bubblegum 45s," along with "Several Thousand," the tune that found Boggia a surprise Japanese fan base. "I thought of Fidelity as a manifesto on songwriting, arranging and production—and a way of getting people to rediscover things I felt were a bit forgotten," says Boggia.
4. But never underestimate his love for the Beatles. It's what compelled him to lure the Hooters' Eric Bazilian and other Philadelphia rock veterans to the roof of a Center City record store on a late January afternoon in 1999. The performance that ensued mirrored the Beatles' legendary gig atop the Apple Records building 30 years earlier—except the cops didn't shut this one down. Boggia also performs with the Fab Faux, founded by Late Show With David Letterman bassist Will Lee and Conan bandleader Jimmy Vivino. That gig led to his affiliation with Mad Dogs & Dominos, an 18-piece collective made up of a heavyweight NYC session types—including Lou Marini (Blues Brothers) and producer John Leventhal (Shawn Colvin, Rosanne Cash)—that celebrates the music of Derek and the Dominos, Joe Cocker, solo George Harrison, and affiliated artists.
9. He's collaborated with an American Idol finalist. "I played with—and produced an LP for—Constantine Maroulis, who got sixth place on the fourth season," Boggia says. "That was a trip into a very different world." An accomplished guitarist, Boggia has also worked with Juliana Hatfield, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Bernadette Peters, David Poe, NRBQ's Big Al Anderson, famed Beach Boys lyricist Tony Asher, and Canadian songstress Amanda Marshall. Interestingly, he also co-wrote "Glory," a No. 1 single in 1998 for Christian Latino pop singer Jaci Velasquez.
12. He hates playing to half-empty houses. Hence, the tongue-in-cheek title of his 2013 live album, Ample Seating Available, recorded at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, The Living Room in New York City and Think Tank Studios in Hoboken, N.J. The Philly tracks feature a tremendous (if short-lived) 11-piece band.
13. One of his songs was used in a BlackBerry commercial. The track in question, "Live the Proof," is from Safe in Sound, his first dip into the music industry's shark-infested waters. Making the album was a struggle almost from start to finish. Even so, it features some of Boggia's most compelling tunes—"Underground," "Show My Face Around" and the stunning semi-autobiographical title track—plus guest appearances from notable names like Aimee Mann, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, Attractions drummer Pete Thomas and esteemed '70s pop misfit Emitt Rhodes. Boggia's music was also featured on MTV's The Real World and the ABC series Men in Trees.
14. He plays a mean ukulele. Boggia is a KALA Ukulele Artist endorsee; his version of "Thunder Road" will kick off the upcoming Born to Uke remake of Springsteen's classic Born to Run; and a take on "Getting Better" was included on 2012's The Beatles Complete on Ukulele. "A huge influence that goes unacknowledged is my dad's accordion playing. He'd take arrangements that were supposed to be played by big bands or orchestras, and find a way to play all the parts," says Boggia. "I made that concept the basis for my guitar style—and now my ukulele style." Check out Boggia's prodigious uke chops on YouTube—in particular, his exceptional renditions of "Over the Rainbow," Badfinger's "Baby Blue" and the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again." Even better, his Patreon campaign features new videos every few weeks (www.patreon.com/jimboggia).


Overview: Independence Hall and the silent Liberty Bell are amazing historic symbols of the founding of the United States. Here in Philadelphia, the hope and struggle for independence and freedom began to be realized. Today you can learn about the significance of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin, and this symbolic place at Independence National Historical Park.


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Contractors Getting Rich, Exploiting Workers Under De Blasio's Affordable Housing Plan
The city's system for building affordable housing is rife with labor abuses and corruption, and the mayor's goal of having developers build 80,000 more below-market units over the next 19 years runs the risk of perpetuating those problems and leaving behind housing that's out of reach for many current residents, according to a report [pdf] by a coalition of several dozen activist and union groups. Workers with Real Affordability for All walked off the job at an affordable housing construction site at 27 Albany Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday afternoon, claiming wage theft and safety violations, and protesters with the group later picketed a gala of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing [NYSAFAH], a lobbying group whose members depend on city cash.
The coalition report singles out NYSAFAH as pushing to loosen oversight and enable worker exploitation, noting $17 million in stolen wages documented and alleged at affordable housing work sites since 2011, by developers and contractors working with the city's blessing and tax breaks. Most of the projects involve NYSAFAH members. Most of the proven thefts predate de Blasio's tenure, but a subcontractor at the 123-unit Sugar Hill development in Harlem was arrested in April and charged with underpaying drywall workers by $800,000 during a period that included a mayoral press conference at the construction site. Those charges are pending. Also, an class-action lawsuit against contractor Joy Construction alleges a decade of wage violations extending into 2014. The company is a big affordable housing developer and currently working on Webster Commons, a five-building, 470-unit project in Norwood, the Bronx.
Many of the corporations previously found to be cheating workers are still getting work from the city.
"In the NYSAFAH model of doing business, construction workers earn poverty wages, risk injury and even death, and can't ever afford to live in the housing they build," the new report says.
The trade group argues that RAFA's insistence on prevailing wages, a rate set by the city comptroller to parallel union rates, would severely cut the number of jobs and housing units that would be created, and Mayor de Blasio is not interested in seeking more city funding to cover it.
"It would appear that this group is being used by the construction unions as a voice for their campaign for an inflated prevailing wage that would raise construction costs and prevent thousands of affordable units from ever being built," NYSAFAH president Jolie Milstein said in a statement through a PR firm.
There is only so much public funding available for affordable housing developments, a spokesman for the trade group said, and prevailing wage requirements would drive up costs 30-40 percent, making carpenter's wages, for example, go from around $31 an hour to $45 or higher, and putting the mayor's construction goal out of reach. The spokesman noted that negotiations between construction unions and the Real Estate Board of New York on whether to mandate a prevailing wage in the renewed 421-a tax break are ongoing.
De Blasio's housing plan is a variation on former mayor Bloomberg's trademark tactic of rezoning neighborhoods to add density and offering tax breaks for developers to include some housing for people of certain incomes. De Blasio is making the affordable component a requirement in target neighborhoods such as East New York, and instead of Bloomberg's suggested 80/20 market-rate-subsidized split, de Blasio wants 25 or 30 percent below-market rate apartments.
Real Affordability for All [RAFA] argues in a previous report [pdf] there is "an apparent surplus" of housing for people making half to all of the area median income, which is $83,000 for a family of four, thanks to Bloomberg's policies. That leaves a severe shortage for people making less, which would continue under de Blasio's proposed scheme, the authors argue.
The mayor's system gives developers the option of including a quarter of a building's apartments for people making 60 percent of the median income, or $52,000 for a family of four, or 30 percent making 80 percent, or in what de Blasio says will be limited, un-subsidized cases, 30 percent making 120 percent, or $104,000.
Mayor's Office spokesman Wiley Norvell said that 84 percent of housing built and kept affordably designated so far has been for "low-income" New Yorkers, or those making less than 80 percent of the median income.
"We set a record this past year for new affordable housing underway," he said. "We've committed to ensuring 50 percent of all new housing in East New York is affordable. This is an agenda that will make a deep and substantial impact to improve the lives of New Yorkers."
De Blasio has said that critics of his housing plan want poor neighborhoods "to remain poor."
As wages have stagnated and rent in subsidized buildings climbed, even some residents of recently built below-market complexes are struggling to pay their rent, the report says. Of 111 residents "randomly" surveyed at 16 below-market developments, more than a third were paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent, making them officially "rent-burdened."
"Our report reveals a clear bait and switch that NYSAFAH developers regularly perform with low-income tenants in their buildings: after initially offering apartments at low rents to qualify for subsidies and other financing from the city, they often raise the rent to unaffordable levels," a coalition spokesman said. "NYSAFAH is cheating tenants, workers, and communities. End of story."
An airport worker the Daily News spoke to said she was struggling to pay her $600 rent in a subsidized building on her $316 paycheck. The NYSAFAH spokesman noted that many construction union members live solidly middle class lives in suburban Long Island and New Jersey, and suggested RAFA selectively presents hard cases to push its agenda.
Part of what the report says enables rampant, recurrent wage theft on affordable housing construction sites, including withheld overtime and even minimum wage violations, is dependence on subcontractors that are unaccounted for by the city. In one example cited, at the Hobbs Court and Ciena mixed-income development in East Harlem, the Department of Labor found that contractor Lettire Construction and 16 of its 24 subcontractors were ripping off workers, of $1 million altogether. Lettire is on the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development's "Enhanced Review" list, meaning only that it is subjected to additional scrutiny when bidding on city affordable housing projects. Lettire is currently contractor on the 23-story tower rising at 626 Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn with the help of a 421-a tax abatement.
Also in activists' sights are companies owned by Thomas Auringer, which have experienced acrane collapse and faced numerous claims of safety and wage violations. One Jamaican employee of Auringer's of more than a decade, Carrol Turner, claimed Auringer family members called him "a donkey" and "nigger," and said his boss once declared he could "afford to lose twenty five black or Hispanics because we are easy to replace but he can't afford to lose one white man."
Turner also said that no safety equipment was provided on job sites, and no lenience was given to workers who suffered injuries.
"When I broke my finger and got it crushed, [Auringer] told my foreman, 'Tell Turner he can cut off his finger and sue me, but if he doesn't come back to work he will be fired. He will be out of a job,'" Turner said, according to the report.
Turner is on strike from Auringer's U.S. Crane and Rigging along with another worker, and is part of a class action lawsuit by current and former Auringer employees claiming wage theft, according to an RAFA spokesman. Another striking Auringer worker, LaFondra Brown of the company Urban Erectors, claims managers stole her wages, called her a monkey, spat at her, and sexually harassed her, and that she suffered eye injuries welding but the company did not file an OSHA claim for her.
Activists say Auringer companies have worked on more than 30 HPD affordable housing sites. The claim could not immediately be independently verified.
An HPD rep did not dispute the coalition's assertion that the agency only monitors the 10 percent of affordable housing job sites where contractors are paying prevailing wages, but said instances of noncompliance are referred to law enforcement. Spokeswoman Elizabeth Rohlfing offered general assurances about the agency's enforcement efforts, but nothing to suggest that it's trying to keep the Auringers from collecting city money, for instance.
"HPD takes seriously its responsibility to protect workers," she said. "The agency requires contractors to obey all labor laws and have instituted strong measures to deal with noncompliance. Anyone who shortchanges their workers will be held accountable."
To read the full article, visit Gothamist
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Maruša Černjul (né le  à Celje) est une athlète slovène, spécialisée dans le saut en hauteur.

Elle représente son pays lors des Jeux olympiques de 2016 à Rio de Janeiro. Elle ne réussit pas à se qualifier pour la finale.

Elle participe aux Championnats du monde d'athlétisme 2017 à Londres.

Ses records personnels sont 1,93 m en plein air (Celje 2016) et 1,91 m en salle (Glasgow 2019).

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Sauteuse en hauteur slovène
Naissance en juin 1992
Naissance à Celje

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When Jobbik's leader, Gabor Vona, visited London on Sunday 26 January 2014, he was rightly greeted by a Unite Against Fascism protest and a howl of derision from the press and media. For Hungary's Jobbik is an unashamedly racist and fascist organisation.
Like all previous fascist parties Jobbik has a twin track strategy for winning support. It has an electoral wing, which has delivered three MEPs and 47 MPs to the Hungarian parliament. It also has a paramilitary wing, the Magyar Gárda (Hungarian Guard). These black shirted thugs intimidate its opponents and carry out vicious attacks on Hungary's Roma community .
Jobbik is Europe's biggest fascist party. Like Golden Dawn in Greece it has not gone down the Euro-fascist route of cultivating a "respectable" image adopted by the Front National in France or the British National Party. Instead it has shown itself as a nakedly fascist and racist party.
To my knowledge there is not a single book published in English outlining Jobbik's history, practice and ideological beliefs. This short article addresses these questions.
Jobbik, the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért mozgalom) was formed in 2003 by a small group of nationalistic and religious university students.
Its political breakthrough came three years later, when between the 17 September and 23 October 2006 a wave of protests and riots shook the Hungarian government and state to its core.
This protest movement was triggered by the release of a private speech made by the then Hungarian prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. In his speech, he revealed that his Socialist Party (the equivalent of Labour Party in Britain) had lied to win the 2006 election and had achieved nothing in its four years of office.
The protest movement was the first the country had seen since 1989. It took a nationalistic form: there was a re-emergence of deep seated anti-Soviet Russia feeling, and many of those protestors felt that the Hungarian government was still in the pockets of the Russian state.
By February 2007 the movement had petered out, but it had shifted Hungarian politics to the right. So much so that Fidesz (the Hungarian Civic Union), now the governing party, has moved away from being a liberal anti-communist party (as it was in the 1990s) to being a hard right-wing conservative party today – something akin to UKIP.
Jobbik capitalised on this rise of nationalist sentiment and anti-government bitterness. In 2007 it published its election manifesto, the Gabor Bethlen Programme, and extensively toured the country promoting it and building local and regional groups.
The key argument of the programme was against what Jobbik calls the "twin ideologies" of unrestrained free market capitalism (neoliberalism) and social liberalism (multiculturalism). Instead Jobbik promotes a so-called eco-social national economy. Jobbik's vision of Hungarian nationalism also calls for the incorporation of Hungarian minorities in other Central and Eastern European countries into an enlarged Hungarian state.
•	The "Third Way" – patriotic nationalism combined with an eco-social national economy.
•	Anti-Roma racism and anti-Semitism.
•	Opposition to crime – which it racialises, blaming Roma and other minorities for the increase in crime. Jobbik reintroduced the term "gypsy crime" into the political discourse.
Jobbik's growth also coincided with the economic crisis that swept many parts of the world in 2008. The IMF bailed out Hungary, and as a consequence public sector workers had their wages frozen, there were stringent cuts in services, and unemployment levels reached 10% of the population and 25% for those aged 25 or under.
Jobbik's electoral breakthrough came in the 2009 European parliamentary elections where it gained 427,773 votes (14.7%) and three, MEPs. It made further gains in the Hungarian parliamentary elections in 2010 gaining 855,436 votes (16.6%) and 47 seats. Jobbik also has mayors in four Hungarian towns. It is now the country's third biggest party.
Racism is the key mobilising issue for Jobbik and plays a central role in its ideological world-view. Its main election slogan is "Hungary belongs to Hungarians" – and so the logic flows that those who are not "Hungarian" are not welcome.
The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) reported 69 violent attacks on Roma – in which nine Roma were killed – in Hungary between January 2008 and September 2012.
Jobbik and its supporters do not always wield the knife but they create the climate and encourage this horrific violence. It holds provocative rallies in Roma neighbourhoods, its supporters attack Roma property and their election material uses the term "gypsy crime".
Today there are fewer than 120,000 Jews living in Hungary, compared with 850,000 before the Holocaust. They are subjected to vile racist invective at the hands of Jobbik. During the 2009 elections Krisztina Morvai, now Jobbik's leading MEP, infamously advised the "liberal-Bolshevik Zionists" to "start thinking of where to flee and where to hide".
Jobbik's anti-Semitism is similar to that used in the 1930s. Jobbik claims that Hungary's economic resources are being bought up by foreign "Jewish" businesses. Jobbik's solution is simple: drive Jewish and multinational owned businesses out of Hungary.
In open displays of power the Magyar Gárda (Hungarian Guard) marches on the streets of Hungarian towns and cities wearing black paramilitary uniforms and fascist-era armbands – an action with frightening parallels to the 1930s and 1940s.
The Hungarian state banned the paramilitary squads in December 2008, but immediately they were re-established under the name the New Hungarian Guard.
At a Jobbik rally in 2010, Vona stated that if elected he would wear a Gárda uniform to the first day of parliament. At the opening session he turned up in a white shirt and black vest from the banned uniform – he was never prosecuted.
One example of the terror of the Magyar Gárda took place in the small town of Gyongyospata in 2011. Roma make up about 20% of the town's population. Jobbik supporters whipped up a frenzy of anti-Roma racism, claiming one Roma family was responsible for the suicide of a so-called "Hungarian" and that the Roma community was responsible for all the crime in the area.
Jobbik supporters poured into the town. On some nights more than 2,000 Jobbik supporters demonstrated. Jobbik also set up patrols and held rallies outside the homes of Roma families.
I visited the town, where the mayor is a Jobbik supporter, a year later in 2012. There I discovered that the council had segregated the school – one floor for "Hungarian nationals", the other for Roma children. The Roma children had inferior teaching materials and were not allowed to use the school's computers or the school's swimming pool – it was like apartheid South Africa.
Jobbik also puts a lot of emphasis on cultural and nationalistic festivals to build up its support. Often at Jobbik events you see supporters walking around in medieval garb – to the outsider it looks ludicrous, yet it is an attempt by Jobbik to link itself to a glorious era of Hungarian nationalism.
Once a year it holds a Magyar Sziget festival near the village of Veroce. In the summer of 2009 I helped organise a Love Music Hate Racism carnival in Budapest. We heard reports that fascists were attacking Roma homes in and around Veroce. The media – and the British Embassy – denied the attacks were taking place.
I went to the village to find out what was going on. As I drove into the village there were large numbers of skinheads wearing Nazi regalia and t-shirts. They were all coming from the Magyar Sziget festival. That year over 10,000 fascists from across Europe were present.
Old Italian fascists, Hungarian Nazis, skinheads and BNP members were all mingling in the streets. I asked local villagers what had happened. Most were too scared to answer. But some were prepared to speak out and talked of the violence the Nazi festival brings with it.
At the village's main church a pastor explained that for the Roma in the village it was "a night of terror". Gangs of skinheads ran up and down the village forcing the Roma to hide in their homes. He had personally met Roma people who had been "severely hurt".
He also told me that, on the Sunday morning while the Nazi festival was on, fascists lined up outside his church and sieg-heiled as Jobbik leader Vona, marched in to worship.
A year later journalists from Jerusalem Post reported on the Nazi festival. They were greeted at the gate with Jobbik supporters carrying horse-whips and they faced a barrage of lethal threats and anti-Semitic taunts. These were no idle threats: Jobbik's political roots go back to the Hungarian Nazi party Arrow Cross, which was formed in 1935.
The Arrow Cross Party described itself as national-socialist and supported Hitler. It briefly governed Hungary towards the end of World War II. In the space of a few months Arrow Cross death squads murdered as many as 38,000 Jews, and played a role in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to the Nazis' death camps.
Jobbik is not afraid to flirt with Arrow Cross imagery. Its supporters carry Arrow Cross flags and you often see Jobbik members wearing Arrow Cross militaria. Vona boasts that his grandfather was killed fighting alongside the Nazis on the Russian front.
Jobbik is hoping to make further electoral breakthroughs in this year's national and European elections, in April and May. Opinion polls indicate that it can expect to do well. Now more than any time since the 1930s, antiracists, the left and Roma and Jewish groups need to come together and create an independent antifascist movement.


Alright, I know… Christmas already??? Well, I'm trying to get a jump on things this year plus get some great ideas rattling around in your heads for your own Christmas decor. I mean, did you know there are only 10 FRIDAYS left til Christmas?
Every Friday for the next 7 weeks (til Black Friday) some of my favorite bloggers and I will be sharing a little Christmas cheer, so dust off your jingle bells and get excited!
First up is my chalkboard gift wrap, and no, I'm not actually organized enough to have started my Christmas shopping already. In fact, I typically wait til December to start. But in the meantime, I like to wrap up my kids empty puzzle boxes, pretend it's Christmas and basically totally screw up my poor children's time clocks.
I can't tell you how many times I heard, "ooh can I open the present yet?" Even though I kept telling them over and over it was empty. They are going to require years of therapy I'm sure.
Then tape off where you want your chalk paint to go using painters tape or just draw any shape you want. I traced a bowl with pen to get the circle. Then just fill in the space with chalk paint.
Let it dry and doodle to your hearts content!
I added these fun brown thickers I bought at JoAnn Fabric for a little something extra. But you could do this a million ways. Bonus you don't need gift tags since you can just write the names right on there.
I did spray the finished designs with a little hairspray to give them some extra hold (being a child of the eighties I'm an expert with hair spray, I had some pretty amazing permed bangs) and to keep them from being so easily smeared by little hands.
Tada! Be sure to check out the other fab ideas from the bloggers below and start digging out those Christmas cd's cuz Santa Claus is coming to town!
Love this! Really cute. Makes me want to pull out my Elf DVD and start wrapping.
oh Elf, can't wait to watch that again!
Something this cute is worth messing with our kids minds!
Is there any concern about the paint bleeding through and making the boxes inside wet? How did the puzzles fare once they were unwrapped? Thanks!
I love pretty, different gift wrap, I am totally stealing this idea. …so many possibilities! Thanks for the inspiration!


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Q: Changing back to 1920x1080 not working after switching to 1280x1024 I went to displays in settings and switched by resolution to 1280x1024. Now I can't switch out of it. I was in resolution 1920x1080 but I can't go back. If I plug it into another HDMI slot it goes back to 1920x1080 but now this HDMI slot is stuck in 1280x1024.
I've also tried via the command line. When I type xrand -q I get the below
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 16384 x 16384
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm
   1920x1080     60.00 +  50.00    50.00    50.00    59.94
   1920x1080i    60.00    50.00    59.94
   1680x1050     59.88
   1280x1024     60.02*
   1440x900      59.90
   1280x800      59.91
   1152x864      75.00
   1280x720      60.00    50.00    59.94
   1024x768      70.07    60.00
   800x600       60.32    56.25
   720x576       50.00
   720x576i      50.00
   720x480       60.00    59.94
   720x480i      60.00    59.94
   640x480       66.67    60.00    59.94
   720x400       70.08
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

typing
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080

doesn't do anything but turn the display off for a sec and turn it back on in the same mode 1280x1024 without any error messages or anything.
A note if I start in recovery mode it's in 1920x1080.
Does anyone know how to change my display back to 1920x1080 for this HDMI port?

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The article provides information related to automobile industry. Automobile makers in North America built 16,305,219 vehicles in 2003. That figure is down 2.8 percent from 2002. Actual year-end production numbers will be released this week. Estimates are that Ford Motor Co. will post its lowest North American production total since 1992. For 2003, Ford built an estimated 3.75 million vehicles in North America. DaimlerChrysler AG will record its lowest North American production total since Chrysler Corp. and Daimler-Benz merged at the end of 1998.


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Q: Trying to put the pieces together - JavaScript, HTML, PHP and reloading content I am currently building a CMS for a company I recently started working for. We're building the CMS with an MCV structure. I am familiar with JavaScript, PHP, HTML5 and CSS3. I also build responsive features using JQuery.
Now I have to make a content manager with a sidebar with settings. With that sidebar you can e.g. change the background color, add a title or a background image to the content in the main section. The website has to automatically update (a part) of the content with that setting.
I'm trying to understand the process and putting the different languages back together. For example: You change a setting, eg a color, my process is as following:

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*The color in the sidebar changes the value in the Javascript.

*Javascript then updates that value displayed with HTML on sidebar. <With a JQuery function?>

*The value of Javascript is send to the PHP with <something>?

*The PHP then generates a entire new page with this new setting with <something>

*<Something> then refreshes a part of the content and thus changes the color.

Every bit with quotes are things I don't understand.
How does the process of this goes and with what do you update the browser, AJAX?
I don't know where to ask this question so if you might fill in some gaps I be very thankful!
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An example from which this question arose:
I can drag an element from a left bar into the page. This adds a PHP function with Javascript, which echos a HTML section of columns with text onto the main page. I've created the element with PHP and the JavaScript was already there. Now I am adding a settings bar that generates buttons en settings which can alter the look of that element. I've creates this sidebar in PHP.
I understand how the PHP works with getting values from the database and generating this into a HTML. I understand how you can target a ID or an class in HTML with JavaScript. I don't understand, however, how you can do that effectively on a large scale. Like in an CMS.

A: There are a lot of ways you could go about doing this. Here is just one way the process might go.

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*A jquery event handler is attached to an element that accepts user input.
$("#colorpicker").change(function() {
    // Code here.
});

*The form element is changed, and the code within the handler is executed, modifying the style of the sidebar.
$("#sidebar").css("background-color", $(this).val());

*An ajax request is sent to a php script.
var color = $(this).val();

$.ajax({
    method: "POST",
    url: "change_sidebar.php",
    data: { color : color }
});

*The php script process the request, and stores it into some sort of database.

*Next time your page loads, php will set the initial color of the sidebar to be the color that you stored. However, until your page loads again, the color has already changed for the client, and nothing more needs to be done.

A: *

*If you want to do the update asynchronously you can use a jquery function, or, you can create a form that does it and then have PHP update the color code as the page reloads.

*That works, or you can do it with a form as stated in 1.

*jQuery's $.ajax() function will do nicely.

*..with PHP.. that's what it's for. It doesn't need anything else.

*If you're only refreshing part of it, then you'd use jQuery/JS, perhaps while employing PHP to update the server.

I don't know if you were expecting someone to write all this code for you or what but if you have specific questions please post them. This question is really vague. Normally we like to see what you've tried and exactly what the problem is.


Harith b Abi Rabi'a and 'Abdullah b. Safwan both went to Umm Salama,the Mother of the Faithful, and they asked her about the army whichwould be sunk in the earth, and this relates to the time when IbnZubair (was the governor of Mecca). She reported that Allah's Messenger(may peace be upon him) had said that a seeker of refuge would seekrefuge in the Sacred House and an army would be sent to him (in orderto kill him) and when it would enter a plain ground, it would be madeto sink. I said: Allah's Messenger, what about him who would be made toaccompany this army willy nilly? Thereupon he said: He would be made tosink along with them buf he would be raised on the Day of Resurrectionon the basis of his intention. Abu Ja'far said. ' This plain, groundmeans the plain ground of Medina.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Rufai,with the same chain of transmitters (but with the addition of thesewords):" When I met Abu Ja'far I told him that she (simply) meant theplain ground. Thereupon Abu Ja'far said: No, by God, she meant theplain ground of Medina.
Abdullah b. Safwan reported that Hafsa told him that she had heardAllah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: An army would attackthis House in order to fight against the inhabitants of this House andwhen it would be at the plain ground the ranks in the centre of thearmy would be sunk and the vanguard would call the rear flanks of thearmy and they would also be sunk and no flank would be left except somepeople who would go to inform them (their kith and kin). A person (whohad been listening to this badith from Abdullah b. Safwan) said: I beartestimony in regard to you that you are not imputing a lie to Hafsa.And I bear testimony to the fact that Hafsa is not telling a lie aboutAllah's Apostle (may peace be upon him).
Abdullah b. Safwan reported the Mother of the Faithful as saying thatAllah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: They would soon seekprotection in this House, viz. Ka'ba (the defenceless), people whowould have nothing to protect themselves in the shape of weapons or thestrength of the people. An army would be sent to fight (and kill) themand when they would enter a plain ground the army would be sunk in it.Yiisuf (one of the narrators) said: It was a people of Syria (hordes ofHajjaj) who had been on that day comin. towards Mecca for an attack (on'Abdulllah b. Zubair) and Abdullah b. Safwan said: By God, it does notimply this army.
'A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) wasstartled in the state of sleep. We said: Allah's Messenger, you havedone something in the state of your sleep which you never did before,Thereupon he said: Strange it is that some, people of my Ummah wouldattack the House (Ka'ba) (for killing) a person who would belong to thetribe of the Quraish and he would try to seek protection in the House.And when they would reach the plain ground they would be sunk. We said:Allah's Messenger, all sorts of people throng the path. Thereupon hesaid: Yes, there would be amongst them people who would come withdefinite designs and those who would come under duress and there wouldbe travellers also, but they would all be destroyed through one(stroke) of destruction. though they would be raised in differentstates (on the Day of Resurrection). Allah would, however, raise themaccording to their intention.


This past weekend was the first without a major Korean release in some time and also heralded the entry of the year's biggest film to date Hunger Games, which has already accumulated over $400 million worldwide. Surprisingly, business was down 25% from last weekend, though it was up 50% over last year as 1.5 million tickets were sold. The Korean market slipped slightly to 45%, the first time it has gone under the 50% threshold since mid-January, though it still bested Hollywood.
The surprise number one was Architecture 101 which claimed its third straight victory with a resounding 454,154 admissions, off a mere 20% despite heavy competition. With over 2.3 million tickets sold already, the three million mark is all but assured and if it stays competitive it will look to overtake Unbowed's 3.4 million total to become the year's third-highest grossing film.
Hunger Games just posted its third straight win at the US box office but in Korea its result was disappointing as it took only 273,598 admissions and failed to stop the streak of domestic first places finishes which now stands at 11. With a lot more big releases slated for the next few weeks don't bet on this hanging around either, it will likely take a big tumble next weekend.
Staying strong at number three was the French hit Untouchable which had a very healthy 30% drop for a 216,085 weekend. It is now well over the one million mark and may have another milestone ahead of it.
Korean comedy Over My Dead Body may not have had a brilliant start but it posted a better-than-expected 195,313 in its sophomore stint as it was off only 35%. At this rate it should cross the one million mark which will certainly save it some face. Who knows, maybe word of mouth will settle in.
Wrath of the Titans followed its disappointing start with a huge 70% drop as it fell three places with its 163,299 take. However it will likely have just enough gas left in the tank to make it over the one million mark.
James Cameron's 1998 megahit Titanic debuted with its 3D makeover to the tune of 119,705. This result is not as impressive as the brisk business it did in its native market this past weekend but still a decent result for a rerelease.
March hit Helpless is quickly making its way down the chart after a very strong couple of weeks. It added another 27,076 over the frame and may be gone from the chart next week. It will likely fall just short of 2.5 million but it has had a great run.
Hollywood remake Conan started its run with a disastrous 18,998. The film was a big flop when it opened last August in the US and the elapsed time as not been kind. This will probably be the film's only chart position.
Russian animation Space Dog 3D slowed 60% to 4,690 as it winds up its decent run. Korean thriller The Scent opened in very limited previews for 4,479 to squeeze into number 10.
Next weekend should be interesting as two Korean films open, the aforementioned The Scent and long time in the making Kim Jee-woon and Lim Pil-sung omnibus feature Doomsday Book. Also being released will be Battleship, the Peter Berg-directed Hollywood Blockbuster based on the popular game. Battleship had a premier event in Korea with cast and crew in attendance and will likely launch the summer season (which keeps arriving earlier each year). It should take first place as I don't think either of the new Korean releases will open to huge figures. However, if it misses its chance, Architecture 101 probably won't be too far behind.


Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bevan is one of the many tragedies of the Peninsular War and a story which I found particularly sad. There were so many deaths in battle or from wounds or sickness, but in the middle of it, Colonel Bevan took his own life over a matter of honour.
Bevan served in the 28th foot in Egypt, Copenhagen, Walcheren and then in the Peninsula. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1810 and appointed initially to command the second battalion, 4th foot and then the following year moved to the first battalion in the Peninsula.
After the Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro on 2nd May, 1811, the French Commander Messena ordered the besieged garrison at Almeida under General Brennier to break out to the north-west and rejoin the French forces via the bridge at Barba del Puerco over the river Agueda. Wellington had been expecting such a move and sent orders to General Sir William Erskine to extend his fifth division northward as far as the bridge at Barba del Puerco by sending the 4th Foot to the bridge itself. Meanwhile, Campbell's sixth division and Pack's Brigade were to continue the investment of Almeida. The orders were sent out by 2 p.m. on the 10th and reached Erskine at his Headquarters by about 4 p.m. Erskine claimed to have sent the orders immediately to the 4th Foot at Val de Mula but it seems they were not received until around midnight.
At about midnight, the garrison of 1400 men broke-out from Almeida, blowing up the powder magazines and made it through the pickets of the Portuguese and 2nd Foot. Pack's Brigade and Campbell with the 36th pursued the French towards the bridge at Barba del Puerco. Lieutenant-Colonel Bevan, having received his orders around midnight, had decided to wait the few hours until day-break before moving. However, on hearing the gunfire, Bevan ordered his regiment to move off quickly towards the bridge. The French arrived at the bridge first, pursued by Pack's force and the King's Own with the 36th Foot attacked the second French column in flank as it was descending the steep road to the bridge. Despite losses, the main French force made it across the bridge. Lieutenant Colonel Cochrane of the 36th with a detachment from his regiment and the 4th decided to rush the bridge and was beaten back with casualties.
What really happened on that fateful night to enable the French to escape from Almeida will never be known. Historians differ on the exact sequence of events, but there is some consensus that General Erskine, who was dining with Sir Brent Spencer that evening, received the orders and put them in his pocket, forgetting about them until around midnight. Realising the severity of his error he then excused himself to Wellington by claiming that the 4th had set out late and then lost their way.
"The French could never have escaped had it not been for an accident in Sir William Erskine not sending an order in time to Colonel Bevan, which caused him to be too late at Barba del Puerco with his Regiment. Poor Bevan was censured by Lord Wellington, which circumstance preyed so much on his mind, knowing he had done his duty, that he blew his brains out.
Bevan's wife and children in England were informed that he had died of fever and it was not until 1843, that his eldest son, Charles was told the truth by an uncle, Admiral James Richard Dacres, who wrote informing him that the 4th had received their orders too late and that neither Bevan nor his Regiment were at fault.
Bevan's story is often cited by critics of Wellington as an example of his autocratic and uncaring behaviour towards his officers and it is true that the commander-in-chief does not come out well from the affair. Wellington was well aware of the problems of Sir William Erskine as a divisional commander. His temporary command of the elite Light Division had been disastrous, he was very near-sighted and apparently had mental health problems as well as being arrogant and unwilling to listen to advice. There were rumours too, that he drank too much, and one wonders if that may have influenced his casual treatment of Wellington's orders that night. Certainly Wellington was quick to remove Erskine from his position commanding a division and instead sent him to lead four mounted regiments in the newly organized 2nd Cavalry Division in Rowland Hill's corps. At some time during 1812 Erskine's problems were too obvious to ignore and he was declared insane. In 1813 he killed himself by jumping out of a window in Lisbon.
Wellington's tolerance of Erskine for so long can be explained by the man's connections and possible influence in London. Although the commander-in-chief would have liked to ignore politics and fight his war, it was not always possible. For the same reason, he was probably reluctant to publicly censure Erskine for his likely blunder in the Almeida affair. But it is also very possible that Wellington genuinely believed that Bevan had made a mistake by not setting out for the bridge during the night.
It should be remembered that Wellington did not take any measures against Bevan or the fourth. He was not court-martialled or disciplined in any way. It is very probable that Wellington simply failed to take into account the effect of one of his not infrequent public criticisms of his officers on a man as sensitive as Charles Bevan. Bevan was known to suffer from periods of melancholy, probably what would today be recognised as clinical depression. Other officers had suffered from their commander-in-chief's insensitivity and bad temper and recovered. Bevan, sadly, was unable to do so.
There is now a memorial to Charles Bevan in the English cemetery in Elvas, a beautiful little place which we visited last year. It is impossible not to feel sad at the waste of a man who was liked and respected by his fellow officers and loved by his wife and children. In a different time, under a different commander, Bevan might have done better. Service under Wellington, it seemed, required a thicker skin than poor Bevan possessed.
The story of Bevan is told in full in Wellington's Scapegoat by Archie Hunter and has been discussed by various historians. Some claim that Wellington deliberately scapegoated Bevan to avoid the political consequences of telling the truth about Erskine. Others suggest that Wellington genuinely believed Bevan to have made a mistake and could see no reason to take the matter any further. Bevan had been told and simply needed to get over it and move on.
Rory Muir, in his excellent biography of Wellington, points out that it probably made no sense for Wellington to re-open the unfortunate affair with an enquiry. There was a war to fight and decisions to be made and there was no time for agonising and recriminations. It was a harsh but practical approach which may have sat ill with some of Bevan's fellow officers, but it probably accounts for some of Wellington's success as a commander.
What may be true, is that Wellington could have explained his decision not to allow an enquiry to Bevan rather than brusquely refusing without discussion. That, certainly, is Wellington at his most autocratic but it was not personal to Bevan and most of his officers managed to survive it. Poor Charles Bevan, with his periods of depression, simply could not.
The suicide of Charles Bevan is an integral part of the story of An Uncommon Campaign, the third book in the Peninsular War Saga although we do not meet Bevan personally. Colonel Paul van Daan's reaction to his death is a mixture of sadness, guilt and anger and probably mirrors that of a lot of the officers who knew Bevan. Even today depression and suicide are difficult for many people to understand, and for a character like the belligerent and outgoing colonel of the 110th, Bevan's despair and his decision to leave his wife and children must have seemed completely incomprehensible. Knowing more about the condition today, it is easier to understand what happened to Bevan.
For me, the story is a reminder of the realities of war in any age. The men who held officers' commissions under Wellington all experienced combat and army life in their own individual way. We look at the army, marching across the plains and mountain ranges of Portugal, Spain and France, as a unit but, to the officers and men fighting in it their stories were unique. There was no understanding or acceptance of post traumatic stress disorder, shock or depression. No clinician stepped in to declare that Sir William Erskine was not well enough to command men in battle and nobody was there to assess Lord Wellington's sudden explosions of sarcastic fury and diagnose stress in a man with huge burdens to bear. In the age of the wars against Napoleon no allowances were made for the physical and emotional effect of years of campaigning.
Given everything these men went through, the suicides of Charles Bevan and Sir William Erskine are not that surprising at all. The surprising thing is that it didn't happen more often.


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During an 1874 Congressional debate over the Civil Rights Bill then being considered, South Carolina Representative Richard Harvey Cain responds to attacks on the proposed legislation. His speech appears below.
Mr. Speaker, I feel called upon more particularly by the remarks of the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. VANCE] on civil rights to express my views. For a number of days this question has been discussed, and various have been the opinions expressed as to whether or not the pending bill should be passed in its present form or whether it should be modified to meet the objections entertained by a number of gentlemen whose duty it will be to give their votes for or against its passage. It has been assumed that to pass this bill in its present form Congress would manifest a tendency to override the Constitution of the country and violate the rights of the States.
Whether it be true or false is yet to be seen. I take it, so far as the constitutional question is concerned, if the colored people under the law, under the amendments to the Constitution, have become invested with all the rights of citizenship, then they carry with them all rights and immunities accruing to and belonging to a citizen of the United States. If four, or nearly five, million people have been lifted from the thralldom of slavery and made free; if the Government by its amendments to the Constitution has guaranteed to them all rights and immunities, as to other citizens, they must necessarily therefore carry along with them all privileges enjoyed by all other citizens of the Republic.
Sir, the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. VANCE] who spoke on the question stated some objections, to which I desire to address a few words of reply. He said it would enforce social rights, and therefore would be detrimental to the interests of both the whites and the blacks of the country. My conception of the effect of this bill, if it be passed into a law, will be simply to place the colored men of this country upon the same footing with every other
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Hurricanes, Fires, and the Derecho Hit the Insurance Industry
By Ruchi Gupta
Aug. 28 2020, Updated 11:54 a.m. ET
Hurricanes, wildfires, and the derecho have made 2020 complicated for the insurance company amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Although property and casualty insurers might see rising claims due to the disasters, insurance hasn't turned into a bad investment.
Insurance companies sometimes turn to catastrophe bonds to cope with natural disasters. World Bank borrowed the idea to issue pandemic bonds in 2017 to support weak health systems in poor countries.
Hurricane #Isaias Advisory 27A: Isaias Regains Hurricane Strength and is Expected to Make Landfall Tonight With Dangerous Winds and Storm Surge. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 3, 2020
The great thing about the insurance business is that it's recession-proof. When disasters strike, individuals and businesses want to purchase more protection, which means more money for insurance companies. A booming economy also means that more people purchase insurance policies to cover their new cars and homes. However, the insurance industry has been grappling with some major issues this year.
Hurricane Laura is a potentially destructive category 4 storm
Hurricane Laura is expected to hit the Louisiana-Texas border as a category 4 storm later on Aug. 28. The hurricane could cause massive insured losses of as much as $20 billion. The losses could be worse if the storm hits Houston, which would be a huge drain on insurance companies that just saw about $4.0 billion in insured losses from Hurricane Isaias this past week.
GPM Flies Over Cat. 4 Hurricane #Laura Twice As It Makes Landfall in Louisiana
The NASA / JAXA GPM Core Observatory satellite flew over Hurricane Laura shortly before it made landfall at 10:00pm CT on Wednesday, August 26th, then on August 27th.. https://t.co/MGR8BwoU9N pic.twitter.com/i0SFni2lwz
— NASAHurricane (@NASAHurricane) August 27, 2020
California wildfires continue to burn, which is another potentially costly disaster for the insurance industry. So far, the California fires in 2020 have burned more than 1.35 million acres, destroyed more than 1,400 buildings, and resulted in fatalities. Looking at the scale of the destruction, the claim costs hitting property and casualty insurers could be enormous.
Source: istoc
What about the derecho in Iowa?
The derecho storm that tore through Iowa earlier in August also resulted in huge losses. The unusual hurricane-like derecho storm devastated Iowa farmland, destroyed about 14 million acres of cornfields, and damaged buildings.
⛈🌬 Aug 10, 2020 #Derecho event page continues to be updated & is nearing completion.
Recent additions include a preliminary estimated wind speed map for our central Iowa service area & a listing of Iowa's past derechos.https://t.co/1WUplfHyvP#iawx #derecho2020 #IowaStrong pic.twitter.com/5oEJ1w2YhW
— NWS Des Moines (@NWSDesMoines) August 17, 2020
Amid the series of natural disasters in 2020, the U.S. is also dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Insurance companies struggle to send loss adjusters to disaster scenes quickly due to the risk of COVID-19 infections. Delays in getting loss adjusters on the ground as soon as possible could result in higher claim costs for insurance companies, which drains their resources.
What are the best home and farm insurance companies?
The best home and farm insurance companies for most policy buyers gave great financial strength and the best prices. Home insurance companies target homeowners with policies that protect their property against damages arising from events like storms and fires. Similarly, farm insurance companies reduce the risk for farmers. Farm insurance companies cover farm property, machinery, home, livestock, and personal liability. The natural disasters in 2020 will leave many home and farm insurers on the hook to compensate policyholders.
Currently, individuals who want to invest in insurance companies amid natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic should put their money in the strongest businesses.
Source: isto
The Bloomington, Illinois-based State Farm is one of the largest property and casualty underwriters in the country. The insurance group sells home, farm, and auto policies. State Farm has a business and ownership model that sets it apart from other underwriters in this space. For example, State Farm sells its policies through exclusive agents. State Farm agents don't sell policies from other companies.
State Farm is a mutual company where policyholders are also shareholders. Although State Farm stock isn't publicly traded, the company offers mutual funds that investors can buy to become shareholders.
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Driving in cold weather can be treacherous, not only because of the snow or the threat of black ice, but also because of wet weather conditions. Steering, braking and even acceleration are greatly effected in adverse weather conditions due to tyres having less grip.
When temperatures drop below a certain level, the tread compound in tyres begins to harden, which causes the issues with grip, although this is not an issue if you have your car fitted with winter tyres.
Regardless of the type of tyres on your car, it is important to keep tyres in top condition during colder months and there are some important things to check before setting off on a journey.
Tyre tread should be at an absolute minimum of 1.6mm, as this is the legal limit. In an ideal world, tread in winter should be closer to 3mm to allow for maximum grip.
You can get your tyre tread checked at your local garage or purchase a tread depth gauge to do checks at home. If you don't have a tread depth gauge yet, you can check tread quickly with the 20p test.
To do this, you place a 20p coin in the main tread channels, at various points around the tyre. If you can see any part of the outer band of the coin face, then your tread is too shallow and you should replace your tyres as soon as possible.
Your tyre pressure will be stated in your car's user manual, or you can use an online checker if you have misplaced the user manual.
Having the correct tyre pressure is important for the performance of your tyres, for vehicle safety and for prolonging the life of your tyres. Checking tyre pressure and pumping your tyres is super easy and can be done at petrol stations or with a tyre pressure gauge that you can keep in your boot.
Drivers are often so quick to check their tyre pressure, but don't always consider the condition of their tyres.
Every week just take a few minutes before setting off to check that there are no bulges, cuts or tears on your tyres, as these can cause your tyres to underperform. Checking for stones in the tread channels should be part of these checks too, to give maximum opportunity for grip.


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Taxotere Permanent Alopecia (Hair Loss)
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Recent reports indicate that Taxotere might cause permanent alopecia (hair loss) more often than other breast cancer chemotherapy drugs. Legal investigations are underway to determine whether or not the manufacturer of Taxotere provided proper warnings about this potential risk.
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Bernstein Liebhard LLP is offering free legal reviews to Taxotere patients who experienced permanent hair loss. If your hair did not grow back following chemotherapy with Taxotere, please call (888) 994-5118 to discuss your legal options with one of our attorneys.
What is Alopecia?
Taxotere and other chemotherapy drugs are powerful agents that impact all of the cells in the body, not just cancer cells. These effects can extend to cells in the hair roots, resulting in alopecia, or hair loss.
Alopecia involves the loss of hair all over the body, including the head, eyelashes, eyebrows, armpit, and pubic and other body hair. Some chemo treatments are more likely to cause hair loss than others, and the severity of alopecia can depend on the dosage. In most cases, hair loss is temporary, and hair begins growing back within three to six months of treatment cessation.
Permanent Hair Loss of Taxotere
Taxotere is marketed by Sanofi-Aventis, and belongs to a class of chemo drugs called taxanes. It is derived from a compound extracted from the needles of yew trees. Taxotere is indicated to treat breast, prostate, gastric, head and neck, and non-small cell lung cancers.
In 2010, media reports began to detail permanent alopecia that had occurred among breast cancer patients treated with Taxotere. Women interviewed for these reports indicated that they had been reassured that their hair would grow back prior to starting treatment, and were never warned that permanent baldness was a possibility. Thus, they were unable to opt for other treatments that, while equally effective, were less likely to result in permanent baldness.
A small number of studies have also indicated that Taxotere may be more likely to cause permanent alopecia than other chemotherapy treatments:
Researchers with the Rocky Mountain Cancer Center found that 6.3% of patients may experience this side effect as a result of Taxotere.
A study that appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in 2010 noted "an increasing number of reports of permanent chemotherapy-induced alopecia." Taxotere was thought responsible for some of the cases.
In 2013, a team at Clatterbridge Cancer Center in the U.K. reported that the results of a survey suggested that permanent alopecia could affect 10-15% of breast cancer survivors treated with Taxotere. Read More
In December 2015, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) updated the Adverse Events section of the Taxotere label to state that: "Cases of permanent alopecia have been reported."
Did You Suffer Permanent Hair Loss After Taxotere? Contact an Attorney Today.
You could be eligible to file a Taxotere lawsuit if you or a loved one developed permanent alopecia after undergoing cancer treatment with this medication. To discuss your case with an attorney at Bernstein Liebhard LLP, please call (888) 994-5118 for a free, no-obligation legal review.
Mayo Clinic (2015) "Chemotherapy and hair loss: What to expect during treatment" http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/chemotherapy/in-depth/hair-loss/art-20046920
Globe and Male (2010) "Women who took chemo drug say they weren't warned of permanent hair loss" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/women-who-took-chemo-drug-say-they-werent-warned-of-permanent-hair-loss/article572591/
Daily Mail (2010) "'I beat breast cancer, but I'll never beat baldness', says one devastated woman http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1275341/I-beat-breast-cancer-Ill-beat-baldness-says-devastated-woman.html
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (2010) "Permanent chemotherapy-induced alopecia: case report and review of the literature." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20471136
NCRI (2013) "Long Term Hair Loss in Patients with Early Breast Cancer Receiving Docetaxel Chemotherapy" http://conference.ncri.org.uk/abstracts/2014/abstracts/A218.html
FDA (2015) "Taxotere (docetaxel) injection concentrate" http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/ucm212079.htm
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Rock Tech Increases Lithium Tonnage at Georgia Lake by more than 40% in preparation of Preliminary Economic Study – Measured and Indicated Resources more than doubled | Rock Tech Lithium Inc.
Vancouver, BC, Canada – June 27 2018 – Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (the "Company" or "Rock Tech") [TSX-V: RCK; Frankfurt: RJIB (WKN: A1XF0V)] is pleased to announce that DMT GmbH & Co. KG ("DMT") has completed a NI 43-101 Technical Report (the "Technical Report") following the decision of reassessing the resource potential at Rock Tech's flagship 100%-owned Georgia Lake lithium property in the Thunder Bay Mining District of Northwest Ontario, Canada.
In total, 175 drill holes totalling more than 29,000 metres were available for the current resource estimate, in addition to a substantial amount of trenching and channel sampling.
The Technical Report will be filed on The System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") within 45 days of this news release.
The majority of pegmatites in the Georgia Lake group can be classified as albite-spodumene type pegmatites. Albite-spodumene type pegmatites are characterized by homogenous dykes with coarse-grained spodumene and K-feldspar aligned perpendicular to the dyke walls. Spodumene is the dominant or only lithium-bearing mineral.
Drill holes were drilled in a sectional pattern with drill hole spacing of around 60 metres in maximum between sections and 40 to 60 metres along sections.
All scientific and technical information in this news release was reviewed and prepared under the supervision of Karl Stephan Peters, EurGeol 787, an independent Qualified Person to Rock Tech.


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Police Force Honors K-9 On His Last Day With A Tribute Fit For A Hero
On the day that K-9 officer Zeus was taken to cross the Rainbow Bridge, the Ridgefield Police Department gave him the goodbye he deserved: one fit for a hero.
After 9 years of service, he'd retired in 2014 because he suffered from a degenerative hip disease, which progressed over the next year. When the pain was too much, the valiant German Shepherd was taken for a final ride in a squad car to Ridgefield Veterinary Hospital, where as his colleagues stood to salute him. As he was wheeled toward the entrance, his family walked alongside him, and his partner, Officer Shawn Murray, never left his side.
Watch the touching video below:
A flag was lowered to half staff at the Ridgefield Police Department that day, and black cloth was draped at its entrance. This K-9 was a true hero and will be sorely missed. Thank you for your service, Zeus!
(h/t: WTNH News)
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