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The Last Post (Doctor Who audio)
Big Finish Productions audio drama
'Doctor Who'
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James Goss
Lisa Bowerman
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The Last Post is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.
Liz Shaw, the Third Doctor's assistant, has been charting a series of deaths predicted by mysterious letters which seem to have a connection to her own mother.
Liz Shaw - Caroline John
Emily Shaw - Rowena Cooper
This story takes place throughout the seventh season of Doctor Who in 1970. There are scenes set during Spearhead from Space when the Doctor was recovering from his regeneration, after The Silurians when a virus was being curtailed and during The Ambassadors of Death when the Doctor was in space, negotiating with aliens. Most of the story takes place just before Inferno, when Professor Stahlman's project is investigated.
One of the first victims was the governor of Stangmoor Prison, which the Doctor later visits in the 1971 story, The Mind of Evil.
This was Caroline John's final performance as Liz Shaw.[1] She died in June 2012.
↑ "The Last Post Cover Released - News". Big Finish. 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
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Bruce Willis and Michael Rooker cast in sci-fi movie Corrective Measures
Bruce Willis and Michael Rooker have signed up to star in 'Corrective Measures'.
The upcoming sci-fi action movie - which is based on Grant Chastain's graphic novel of the same name - is set to launch in spring 2022 on US streaming service Tubi.
In a statement, Adam Lewinson - the platform's chief content officer - said: "We're excited to be harnessing the creative talent of Sean Patrick O'Reilly, Bruce Willis, Michael Rooker and Todd Masters to bring this celebrated comic book series to life.
"'Corrective Measures' is a powerfully authentic and captivating sci-fi action film that speaks to our unwavering commitment to provide the Tubi audience with a broad array of compelling original content."
O'Reilly is set to write, direct and produce the movie, while MastersFX chief Todd Masters is in charge of character design.
The film is set in San Tiburon - the world's most dangerous maximum-security prison - which houses monsters, cyborgs and supervillains.
These include rich genius Julius 'The Lobe' Loeb (Willis), while Rooker plays corrupt prison warden Devlin, who is after his money.
Dan Payne and Brennan Mejia will star as Payback and Diego Diaz respectively, while the cast is also set to feature Hayley Sales, Kat Ruston, Kevin Zegers and Tom Cavanah.
Filmmaker O'Reilly added: "'Corrective Measures' is a project I've been wanting to see come to life from the pages of Arcana's graphic novel series for a long time.
"Overseeing this project from script to screen has been an incredible journey, and to have my live-action directing debut at this level with so many talented cast and crew is truly a dream come true.
"Directing, writing and producing 'Corrective Measures' was such an incredible experience and I cannot think of a better partner than Fox and Tubi for Arcana's launch into live action productions."

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Q: Populating user image and text posts, compiles and runs but cells are empty. Parse Swift I am trying to populate my feed of images and text users post. The code compiles and runs but I get empty cells.
var titles = [String]()
var locations = [String]()
var dates = [String]()
var imageFiles = [PFFile]()

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    var privacySettingQuery = PFQuery(className: "Posts")
    privacySettingQuery.whereKey("privacy", equalTo: true)
    privacySettingQuery.findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock { (objects, error) -> Void in

        if let objects = objects {

            for object in objects {

               self.titles.append(object["name"] as! String)
               self.dates.append(object["dateTime"] as! String)
               self.locations.append(object["location"] as! String)
               self.imageFiles.append(object["imageFile"] as! PFFile)
            }
        }
    }
}
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    // #warning Incomplete implementation, return the number of rows
    return titles.count
}
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let postsCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("PostsCell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! PostsCell

    postsCell.postImage.image = UIImage(named: "Post-Image-   Placeholder-1.png")
    postsCell.postTitle.text = titles[indexPath.row]
    postsCell.postLocation.text = locations[indexPath.row]
    postsCell.postDate.text = dates[indexPath.row]

    return postsCell
}

Any help would be appreciated. Also is there a better way to do this other than using arrays?

A: To solve the empty issue.You need call tableView.reloadData() after you got the objects.
Model class like
class Post: NSObject {
    var title: String
    var location: String
    var date: NSDate
    var imageFile: PFFile
}

And in viewController use
var posts: [Post]?

instead of the 4 arrays

A: When this code is being called
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
// #warning Incomplete implementation, return the number of rows
return titles.count
}

The value for titles.count is still 0. After you finish fetching the info from parse and you have values for the arrays you must reload the UITableView. To do this make an outlet for the UITableView and call it tableView. Then call this code tableView.reloadData()
Hope this helps!!

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Die Pfaudler GmbH in Schwetzingen, Baden-Württemberg, gegründet als The Pfaudler Co. in den USA und benannt nach dem deutschen Braumeister Caspar Pfaudler, seit 2021 GMM Pfaudler, produziert emaillierte Komponenten und Produkte für die chemische und pharmazeutische Industrie.

Die Pfaudler GmbH gehört zu 20 Prozent zur Deutsche Beteiligungs AG.

Unternehmensgeschichte

Caspar Pfaudlers Idee war es, die Gärung von Bier durch Vakuum zu beschleunigen. Die damals üblichen Holzfässer waren dazu nicht geeignet, weil sie nicht dicht genug waren, um das Vakuum zu halten. Die Lösung schienen Stahltanks zu sein, allerdings erwies sich deren Reinigung als problematisch.

Erste Versuche mit emaillierten Stahltanks versprachen Erfolg. Ihre glatte Oberfläche erlaubte die einfache und problemlose Reinigung der Tanks, und im Gegensatz zu Glasbehältern können stahlemaillierte Behälter hohe Drücke und Vakuum halten.

Pfaudler gründete gemeinsam mit Geldgebern The Pfaudler Co. und nahm 1884 in Rochester in den USA die Produktion von emaillierten Stahlbehältern auf. Bald wurde man auch in Europa auf diese neue Methode der Bierbrauerei aufmerksam. Der Transport der großen, innen emaillierten Stahltanks nach Europa war allerdings aufwändig und kostspielig. Ein Werk in Deutschland wurde erforderlich. Die Wahl für das neue Werk in Deutschland fiel auf Schwetzingen in Baden, wo sich bereits mehrere Bierbrauereien etabliert hatten.

In den 1930er Jahren entdeckte auch die chemische Industrie emaillierte Behälter für ihre Zwecke. Bald danach folgten die Pharmaunternehmen.

Bis Ende Februar 2013 waren die Pfaudler Werke GmbH vollständig im Besitz des börsennotierten US-Unternehmens Robbins & Myers, Inc. Nachdem dieses vom amerikanischen Konzern National Oilwell Varco (NOV) aufgekauft wurde, ging auch das Eigentum an der Pfaudler Werke GmbH im Februar 2013 an diesen über. Bereits Ende 2014 stand der nächste Besitzerwechsel an. Die Deutsche Beteiligungs AG übernahm die Pfaudler-Gruppe. 2017 wurden der Sitz und der Betriebsstandort von Schwetzingen nach Waghäusel verlegt.

Die Pfaudler-Gruppe hat Werke in USA, Brasilien, Deutschland, Indien, Schottland und China.

Geschichte der Pfaudler Werke in Deutschland

 1907: Die Idee mit den emaillierten Behältern stößt in Europa auf großes Interesse, aber die Frachtkosten für die sperrigen, schweren Behälter sind extrem hoch. Der Entschluss steht fest: Eine Fabrikationsstätte in Europa wird errichtet. Wegen seiner zentralen Lage fällt die Wahl auf Deutschland und dort auf Schwetzingen, eine Stadt im Industriestandort Rhein-Neckar.
 1908: Pfaudler Schwetzingen nimmt die Produktion auf, zunächst als Emaillierwerk.
 1910: Rohbauhalle und Werkstätten werden errichtet, die Pfaudler Werke AG produziert in eigener Regie mit einer Belegschaft von 120 bis 150 Beschäftigten, in den ersten Jahren kamen Aufträge für emaillierte Stahltanks aus Deutschland und ganz Europa.
 1917:  Vorläufiges Ende durch Beschlagnahme des Werkes. Das Werk diente im Rahmen der Demobilisierung als Lagerhalle für demontierte Maschinen aus Frankreich.
 1921: Die Produktion wird wieder aufgenommen. Die Emailliertechnik wird verbessert und ermöglicht eine immer bessere Anpassung an individuelle Wünsche der Kunden. Mit der Aufstockung der Öfen können größere Behälter am Stück emailliert werden. Im Laufe weniger Jahre setzen sich emaillierte Behälter in der gesamten Getränkeindustrie durch.
 1926: Andere Branchen der Lebensmittelindustrie interessieren sich für den Werkstoff Email, nicht nur als Lagerbehälter, sondern für Produktionsanlagen. Der emaillierte beheizbare Rührwerksbehälter wird zum Grundstein für den späteren Erfolg in der Chemischen Industrie. In den 1930er Jahren macht die Chemische Industrie bereits ein Drittel des Gesamtumsatzes aus. Die hohen und differenzierten Anforderungen, die von der Chemischen Industrie gestellt werden – z. B. an Korrosionsbeständigkeit, Ausdehnungsverhalten und Haftfestigkeit – können nur durch eine grundlegende Erforschung des Werkstoffes Stahlemail erfüllt werden.
 1935: Herstellung des ersten heizbaren emaillierten Rührbehälters in Europa für die chemische Industrie
 1940: Durch den Zweiten Weltkrieg reißt die Verbindung zum Stammhaus in Rochester und zu den anderen Werken ab.
 1942: Entwicklung des ersten Chemie-Emails bei Pfaudler
 1945: Kurz vor Kriegsende wird das bis dahin unversehrte Werk durch einen Bombenangriff weitgehend zerstört. Bereits acht Monate später wird nach Aufräumarbeiten in Schwetzingen der erste Behälter der Nachkriegszeit emailliert.
 1948: Die Zahl der Beschäftigten liegt wieder bei 150 Mitarbeitern. Aber der Verkauf läuft nur sehr schleppend an – die Getränkeindustrie verzichtet wegen der herrschenden Kapitalnot auf die Vorteile von Stahlemail und greift zu billigeren Produkten wie Aluminiumbehältern oder kunststoffausgekleideten Stahltanks. Alle Anstrengungen konzentrieren sich deshalb auf die Produktion und den Verkauf von chemischen Apparaten.
 1950: In den 1950er Jahren steigt die Belegschaft auf über 550 Mitarbeiter an.
 1953: Das erste säure- und laugenbeständige Chemie-Apparate-Email wird von Pfaudler Schwetzingen entwickelt, weitere Emails folgen. Stetiger Ausbau des Produktionsprogramms.
 1957: Das neue Verwaltungsgebäude wird bezogen. Der frühere "große Ofen" wird als Haubenglühofen modernster Konstruktion aufgebaut – Behälter von 50.000 Litern können an einem Stück emailliert werden.
 1959: Neue Rohbauhalle und Elektroofen für Behälter bis 80.000 l Inhalt und einer elektrischen Leistung von 2400 kW.
 1962: Neue große Montagehalle.
 1965: Entwicklung und Markteinführung des Emails "Nucerite"
 1969: Die ersten emaillierten Messsonden werden bei Pfaudler hergestellt – ein entscheidender Schritt vom Behälter-Produzenten zum Systemanbieter.
 1972: Pfaudler baut den größten emaillierten Polymerisationsbehälter der Welt. Eröffnung eines neuen Forschungslaboratorium.
 1976: Erste emaillierte Heiz/Kühl-Schlangen, kurz HRS genannt.
 1980: Pfaudler-Patent DE30078718, "Emaillierter Rührer und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung und Montage", "Cryo-Lock-Verfahren"
 1982: Der Hauptofen wird auf ein maximales Behältervolumen von 120.000 Liter ausgebaut.
 1984: Aufbau der Pfaudler Service-Organisation: Ersatzteile, Außenmontage und Reemail.
 1988: Einführung des neuen Emails WWG: Die chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften liegen um 20 Prozent über den bisherigen Emails.
 1994: Übernahme durch Robbins & Myers, USA.
 1996: Entwicklung mehrstufiger Rührsysteme und entsprechender Spezial-Turbinen (MFI/PBT/FBT/RCI),  Gleitringdichtung Pfaudler-flexeal, Neue Ventil-Serie BT, Quatro-Pipe – der multifunktionale Stromstörer, Safety Swing (Überfüllsicherung).
 2001: Neuentwicklung Pharmaemail (schwermetallarm) PPG.
 2003: Neue Stromstörerform, C-Stromstörer, bessere Störwirkung.
 2004: Neue Deckelform mit eingeschmolzenem Glasslook und Fillook.
 2005: Weiterentwicklung des Halbrohrschlangenmantels: PCC (Pfaudler-Clean-Cloil).
 2008: Verbesserung des bisherigen Anti-Static-Email: Einführung von ASG.
 2010: Neueinführung Abrasionsresistentes Email ARG
 2013: Übernahme der Pfaudler Werke GmbH durch National Oilwell Varco
 2014: Übernahme der Pfaudler Werke GmbH durch die Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
 2015: Aus der Pfaudler Werke GmbH wird die Pfaudler GmbH
 2017: der Eigentümer der Pfaudler Werke entscheidet, das Gelände am Standort in Schwetzingen an eine Wohnungsbau-Gesellschaft zu verkaufen und den Produktionsstandort nach Waghäusel zu verlegen.
 2020: Pfaudler wird zu 80 % von der Tochter GMM Pfaudler (Indien) und der Familie Patel (Indien) übernommen. 20 % der Anteile verbleiben bei der Deutschen Beteiligungs AG. Damit wird Pfaudler schlussendlich zu einem indischen Unternehmen.

Heute baut Pfaudler die führende Stellung bei verfahrenstechnischen Anlagen weiter aus. Ein weltweites Netz von Produktions-, Vertriebs- und Servicezentren garantiert räumliche Nähe zu den Kunden aus der chemischen, pharmazeutischen und Lebensmittel-Industrie.

Literatur
 100 Jahre Pfaudler Emailtechnik. Pfaudler Werke GmbH (Hrsg.), Schwetzingen

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Produzierendes Unternehmen (Landkreis Karlsruhe)
Organisation (Schwetzingen)
Hersteller von Beschichtungswerkstoffen
Gegründet 1907

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Metropolitan Police Department and University Police Department officers investigated an incident on 21st Street between H and G streets Monday afternoon.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2018 at 6:40 p.m.
Police investigated a suspicious package in the Textile Museum on 21st Street Monday.
Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a report of a suspicious package at about 4:17 p.m., according to police officials. MPD spokeswoman Rachel Reid said suspicious bags were reported in the museum.
Police blocked off a stretch of 21st Street while the investigation continued.
GW sent an alert at about 5 p.m. saying police are "investigating an incident" on 21st Street between H and G streets and asking community members to avoid the area. Both MPD and University Police Department officers are on the scene, according to the alert.
A University spokeswoman said the Textile Museum and Corcoran Hall were evacuated while MPD conducted an investigation. She referred questions to MPD.
GW sent out another alert that the streets were reopened and police activity had been cleared at about 6:17 p.m.


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You may think because the weather is cooler, your plants and lawn don't need watering, but that is not the case. Watering will help you keep the beauty of your yard longer and will minimize winter damage to your garden. According to homedepot.ca the roots of plants are still active in the autumn and they will absorb and store any water they get in order to replace water that gets lost during the winter. Even when flowers and leaves start to fall off, keep watering trees and shrubs. This will help keep moisture in the ground and keep roots warmer for a longer period of time, helping plants survive the winter. Water lightly until the first freeze.
Have shrubs or trees in your garden? Insulate them with mulch at their base. This will limit frost penetration and help prevent sudden changes in soil temperature from deep freezing, which will help protect the root system of tender plants.
After the beautiful September we had, it's pretty safe to say that Canadian weather is unpredictable. Which is why cutting back your perennials too early may actually be detrimental to it. Allow the perennial to be dormant first until the weather is more stable and cooler (late October and November) then begin pruning. Also, trim any damaged or dead branches on trees and shrubs before the first snowfall.


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Ima is a junior double majoring in International Politics and Global and International Studies. Ima was born in Badajoz, Spain, to Argentinian parents but was raised in Venezuela. In addition to serving as a Liberal Arts Peer Adviser, Ima is the secretary for the National Society of Leadership and Success as well as a member of Pi Sigma Alpha–the National Political Science Honor Society, Blue & White Society, and the Alumni Association. He also holds the position of a mentorship guide for ServeState, a community service organization at Penn State. One of his favorite things outside of the classroom is being able to engage with diverse people and learning about their culture, language, and beliefs. Ima's favorite things about being a student in the College of the Liberal Arts is having the opportunity to build "eminent relations" with people from all over the world.
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Tom is a fourth-year/senior majoring in Political Science and History. He is an international student from Auckland, New Zealand. After graduation, he hopes to become a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps. Tom says the College of the Liberal Arts has given him a diverse view of the world and the opportunity to learn about different cultures, histories, and contemporary topics that enhance his perspective in a positive light.
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Christina is a junior majoring in Global and International Studies and International Politics with a minor in Spanish. Although she was born and raised in Annandale, Virginia, Christina takes pride in the culture of her Cameroonian-born parents, which has greatly influenced her passion for learning more about other cultures and communities around the world. Christina is an active member of Phi Chi Theta Business Fraternity, Empower Orphans Club, African Students Association, Global Leaders Newsletter, and the new Penn State United Nations Campus Advocates organization. Christina's favorite thing about being a student in the College of the Liberal Arts is the numerous opportunities to meet and connect with students across the college and across majors. She said that meeting students with different majors within the college has allowed her to have many great worldly conversations and has exposed her to the diversity of study within the college.
Jack Gochis
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Amanda Gryskevicz
Amanda is a Schreyer Scholar and senior majoring in Psychology with a minor in Deafness and Hearing Studies. She grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. During her time at Penn State, she has changed majors twice and has served in two college Student Councils. Additionally, she has served as a teaching assistant and as an Arts Ambassador. Her current involvement includes the Penn State Outing Club and Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schreyer. Over the summer, she focused on bilingual research as a PIRE Undergraduate Fellow within the Center for Language Science. This research has taken her to the Netherlands to study Dutch language, which is her favorite College of the Liberal Arts experience to date. Amanda appreciates the endless opportunities that the College of the Liberal Arts offers and how each student has the support and freedom to customize their educational experience.
Nikolai Korbich
Nikolai is a senior majoring in English and a student in the BA/MA graduate program in Creative Writing. He's from the Philadelphia suburb of Holland, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Council Rock High School South. Most of his free time is dedicated to acting or directing as a member of Penn State's No Refund Theatre. This past summer, he had the pleasure of studying abroad in Ireland. Nik's favorite thing about being a student in the College of the Liberal Arts is the people. In his area of study, he typically finds himself in smaller classes that allow him to form close relationships with his classmates and professors.
KwonHee (Clare) Lee
KwonHee (Clare) Lee is a senior majoring in Psychology. Clare was born in Daejeon, South Korea and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. Besides her work as a Peer Adviser for the College of the Liberal Arts, Clare also serves as an International Student Ambassador and has also served as a GELE coordinator, an International Student Orientation Leader, the President of the Korean Learning Club, and as student assistant for Global Programs. Clare's work with Global Programs provided her an opportunity to meet "amazing mentors/supervisors" who provided her "endless support" and "priceless lessons" while working with people from around the world. Clare says her favorite thing about being a student in the College of the Liberal Arts is the diversity of study within the college and meeting people from all the various fields.
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Israel-Palestine Crisis: Where are we? Where are we going?
May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018 sub.editors	0 Comments	Dan Egglestone
By Dan Egglestone
Last week, what started as a protest by Palestinians in Gaza for their Great March of Return became the bloodiest confrontation since the conflict in 2014. Attempts to storm and break through the Israeli border fence were met with gunfire from IDF troops which killed 60 Palestinians. But protests had been going on for days leading up to this, so why was Monday especially violent? The answer is less than simple.
Gaza's history with the Israeli state is itself a rocky one, to say the least. The United Nations approved the formation of a Jewish State in 1948, but only in 1967 during the successful Six-Day war did the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) extend this state into Gaza. In 2005, Israel ended its formal occupation of Gaza by withdrawing their troops and settlers, but the UN still recognise Israeli control of Gazan airspace as occupation. Nowadays, the Gaza Strip is one of the two parts of Palestine (the other being the West Bank), and is administered by Hamas, an militant Islamist group whose founding principles call for the destruction of the Jewish state and all the Jews who live in it while dismissing the Holocaust as 'a lie made up by Zionists'. Hamas is internationally recognised as a terrorist organisation and their leadership condemned by mostly Western states in the international sphere. The consequence is that the Palestinian people often get caught in the middle by Hamas' deliberate efforts.
The BBC claims that the protests started peacefully, with people gathering on the border fence that separates Israel proper from Gaza, but events escalated when the US embassy officially moved to the Israeli capital Jerusalem after Trump declared the move last December. The events unravelled when some tried to break through the fence, with Hamas terrorists throwing rocks and explosives at the soldiers guarding it. The soldiers, part of the Israeli Defence Force, then fired on protesters. Israel claims three people planting bombs by the fence were killed as well as Israeli retaliations launched on Hamas military installations in northern Gaza. With so many dead and many more wounded, was Israel justified in its action?
Let us be absolutely clear here: it is never okay to take life on the scale that life was taken last week and to that end, Israel was wrong. Let us also be clear about another thing: Hamas were not peacefully protesting, they were infiltrating a peaceful protest to try and storm Israel's sovereign territory and attack, injure and potentially kill Israeli troops. The fact that no Israeli troops were killed raises the added question of whether the response was measured.
Disproportionate amounts of wounded (c.24,000) against dead (c.60) comes from the fact that IDF troops were using mostly rubber bullets against an overwhelming amount of people burning tyre piles to cover their approach in smoke, throwing explosives at soldiers and trying to break in. Option one in this situation is as follows: the IDF let Hamas surge their fence and run in, massacring Israeli civilians in the name of eugenic genocide and destroying towns as has been their aim since their inception. Not ideal. Option two: the IDF try and gun down everyone charging the border, the death-toll would have been monstrous, even more than it was, international condemnation would have been unanimous. Equally horrifying. The ideal result lies somewhere in the middle, and Israel can't quite seem to find it.
This isn't a condemnation of Israel, or their right to defend their borders. I support the state of Israel completely, its people are now mostly second generation, born there, raised there, with complete right to exist. Hamas does not understand this, and what many people in the West also fail to understand is that Hamas infiltrates peaceful protest from Palestinians struggling to get by and turns them into attacks. There is a reason that Israel has the most sophisticated missile-defence system in the world, why the IDF is so effective and the Mossad so feared: it's because, since their formal establishment in 1948, it has been assailed by anti-Semites scared that a nation benefiting from democracy and a European mind-set exists in the Middle East. However, Israel need to be careful how they defend themselves. The tactics employed on Monday by Hamas were well considered, they used innocent Palestinians as shields, obscuring, threatening and confusing IDF soldiers in such a way that they struggled to effectively manage the surge and took far too many lives in the process. Hamas produced martyrs and its media-friendly hospitals were full of international camera crews snapping the hundreds of badly wounded civilians that Hamas could squeeze into one shot.
There is a reason why the Palestinian protestors have received condemnation with a caveat and likewise for Israel; no-one is exempt from blame here. Except maybe those civilians trying to express their peaceful desire to return to the land that their fathers and grandfathers lived in. In peace. Without Hamas hijacking their lives and turning them into martyrs without permission on the off-chance that one day they'll win support. But that will never happen, Israel will keep being supported abroad, and rightly so, but they need to start applying restraint. Flying high off the back of the US embassy recognising Jerusalem as their capital and Russian deference to their wishes over Assad does not make them invincible, and the international community will start to become irritated. It is because I am a friend of the only truly democratic state in the Middle East that I hold it to a higher standard than it showed last week. Take note Mr Netanyahu.
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Ломатогониум колесовидный () - вид травянистых растений рода  семейства .

Ботаническое описание
Однолетнее либо двулетнее травянистое растение высотой 5 - 20 см. Корень тонкий, веретеновидный, желтоватого цвета. Стебель прямостоячий, слабоветвистый. Листья сидячие. Прикорневые листья цельнокрайние, продолгаватые или ланцетные, на верхушках тупые; стеблевые - острые, узколинейные, супротивные.

Цветки одиночные, голубого либо беловатого цвета, расположены в пазухах в верхних листьях. Чашечка рассечена почти до основания на 4 или 5 одинаковых лопастей. Венчик без трубки, широко раскрытый, колесовидный, диаметром 8 - 14 мм. Цветёт в июле - августе, плодоносит в августе - сентябре. Плод - продолговатая коробочка.

Синонимика
По информации базы данных The Plant List, в синонимику вида входят следующие названия:

Экология и распространение
Обитает на влажных лугах, болотах, галечниках и морских побережьях.

В России встречается в арктических районах европейской части, Западной и Восточной Сибири, на Дальнем Востоке. Вне России обитает в Скандинавии, Средней Азии, Монголии, Китая, Японии и Северной Америке.

Охранный статус
Занесён в Красные книги Мурманской и Архангельской областей, а также в Красную книгу Ненецкого автономного округа. Встречается на ряде территорий особо охраняемых природных территорий России.

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Laura Almerich i Santacreu (* 3. Juli 1940 in Barcelona; † 14. Juni 2019 ebenda) war eine katalanische klassische Konzertgitarristin. Sie wurde die Gitarrenbegleiterin des Liedermachers Lluís Llach und erreichte im Umfeld der Nova Cançó Catalana große Beachtung und Wertschätzung. Llach widmete ihr die beiden Lieder Laura und Roses blanques (Weiße Rosen).

Leben und Werk
Laura Almerich machte als Kind erste Erfahrungen in der Musik bei einer benachbarten Klavierlehrerin. Im Alter von neun oder zehn Jahren riet ihr dann diese Klavierlehrerin, das Konservatorium in Barcelona zu besuchen. Sie wurde Schülerin von Gracià Tarragó am Conservatori del Liceu. Als ausgebildete Konzertgitarristen absolvierte Almerich noch eine Lautenausbildung in London. Sie trat dann in das kammermusikalische Gitarrenensemble Quartet Tarragó ein. Einige Zeit gab sie auch mit dem Ensemble Ars Musicae de Barcelona unter Enric Gisbert Konzerte mit mittelalterlicher und Renaissancemusik.

Am 19. Dezember 1969 spielte sie unter Gispert in einem Konzert im Palau de la Musica Catalana, bei dem auch Lluís Llach auftrat. Dieser Sänger aus dem Empordà hatte bereits einige unter dem Franco Regime verbotene Lieder aufgeführt. Das Publikum forderte das durch die Zensur absolut verbotene Chanson L'Estaca (Der Pfahl). Llach begann das Lied nur zu summen. Eine der ersten, die dediziert den Liedtext anstimmte, war Laura Almerich. Almerichs Manager Joan Molas schlug nach dem Konzert vor, dass Almerich generell Lluís Lach begleiten sollte. Zuvor hatte Laura Almerich schon Maria del Mar Bonet auf ihrer Schallplatte Cançons de Menorca mit der Gitarre begleitet.

In diesem neuen Umfeld der Nova Cançó Catalana und des Liedermachers und Chansonniers Lluís Llach gewann Laura Almerich zunehmend an Popularität. 1977 bei Proben für ein Konzert in Ripoll überreichte Llach Almerich die Partitur des ihr gewidmeten Stückes Laura, unterschrieben von allen Musikern der Gruppe. Llach führte das Stück hier erstmals öffentlich auf. Almerich war ab diesem Zeitpunkt unverzichtbar in die Gruppe integriert, wie das Lied "Laura" in deren Repertoire integriert war. Llach trug Laura 1985 auch in einem Konzert im vollbesetzten Camp Nou von Barcelona vor. Almerich beendete emotional überwältigt ihr Gitarrensolo frühzeitig. Die Konzertbesucher quittierten diesen Moment mit langanhaltendem Applaus.

1994 widmete Llach seiner Gitarristin erneut ein Lied: Roses blanques oder "Weiße Rosen" entstand in Zusammenarbeit von Llach und dem Dichter Miquel Martí i Pol. In diesem vertonten Gedicht erinnerte Llach die menschlichen Hoffnungen, die er mit Laura Almerich teilte. Auch nach dem Rückzug aus dem Musikgeschäft blieben beide freundschaftlich eng verbunden. Almerich fungierte als Schirmherrin der Lluís-Llach-Stiftung und als Jurorin für die Vergabe des Kulturpreises, der jährlich von dem Weingut Vall-Llach vergeben wurde. Almerich unterstützte Llach öffentlich, als dieser Abgeordneter im katalanischen Parlament für JxSí wurde.

Laura Almerich starb am 14. Juni 2019 nach langer Krankheit. Lluís Llach leitete die Trauerfeier in Barcelona musikalisch mit den Wünschen der Verstorbenen: Es erklang das Adagio für Streicher von Samuel Barber, das Stück Aprendre von der Llach-CD Testimo von 1989, Roses blanques jetzt von der Schauspielerin Sílvia Bel vorgetragen und Laura gespielt am Klavier von Lluís Llach selbst während Sílvia Bel die Verse Lletra a Dolors von Martí i Pol dazu rezitierte.

Die klassische Gitarre war das Hauptinstrument von Laura Almerich. Als Vollblutmusikerin nahm sie aber auch in öffentlichen Konzerten Akkordeon, Keyboard und Klavier sowie Marimba und Viola zur Hand und setzte auch ihre Singstimme ein.

Weblinks

 Laura Almerich und Lluís Llach 1985 im Camp Nou von Barcelona. TV3, katalanisches Fernsehen, YouTube

Einzelnachweise und Bemerkungen

Klassischer Gitarrist
Musiker (Barcelona)
Spanier
Geboren 1940
Gestorben 2019
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Submissions for Purple prose
Lyrical descriptive passages can be marvellous writing, but you have to be sensitive to your genre. A thriller? No. A romance? Possibly, but don't go overboard. YA? I'm not so sure. How many teenagers are going to be happy with sentences wadded with colourful adjectives, descriptive phrases heavy with metaphor? There's a specific term for this style of writing, "purple prose", where writing is judged to be too much style over substance. Is this submission guilty?
Title: Mmiri
Genre: YA
Synopsis: In an Afrofuturistic world where monsters and humans share the same living space, The Church has made it their mission to relegate them to the Other and rid the world of this filth. Mmiri is a Mami Wata caught up in this war when her Earth mother is kidnapped.
He held the congregations' attention. It wasn't a knowledge he was oblivious to. From the way he pranced about the stage, shifting his weight from left to right, body in a swagger, fluid movements that captured the gaze of his audience; his awareness of this power shone like the glint of his silver wristwatch every time it caught the beam of one of the glaring fluorescent lights affixed to the church's high ceiling.
There was a lull in his movement as he reached up to adjust his wireless headset, gearing up to address the congregation once more. He stared down at those that sat in the centre row, making sure his eyes landed on every one of them, even if it was just a passing a glance.
"The spirit is here," he said. "The spirit is here, moving, in this place." And then he blew into the microphone, sustaining the gust of air, letting the amplified sound travel, an eerie imitation of a patient wind that caressed trees and left light kisses of dust on everything it passed.
Someone in the congregation whistled, a few of them gave hoots of agreement. The image panned to settle on another in the flock, standing with eyes closed, hands raised and open in a gesture of emphatic surrender. The preacher glided down the stage, sleek shoes complementing the luxuriant red carpet. In a booming voice, he announced again,
"The spirit is here and is about to do something wonderful today!"
The congregation screamed and the person at the piano doled out a suspenseful tune that corresponded with the congregation's impassioned shouting. Muttering indecipherable words, a sign of the fire and spirit coursing through him, his eyes moved back and forth, round the church, at those that sat in the ground floor and the rest seated on the first floor, all of them on padded chairs; a benevolent watching. He waited until the crowd fell silent before continuing his descent to the foot of the pulpit. At the end of his walk, he stretched out his hand and an aide at the far end of the auditorium hurried to his side.
Reverence in his bent posture and bowed head, the aide carefully placed a fancy looking bottle he had been carrying into the preacher's hand. And with his hand wrapped around the container that had the resemblance of a bottle of perfume, the preacher turned to train his eyes on the scruffy half-naked boy curled up in the cage that had been behind him all along.
"You all know what this is," he began. "An abiku," he paused to give the word time to navigate its way into the crowd and clamp its teeth down on their attention.
"According to this child, he has lived through many lifetimes and has been born many times, to many women, usually up to six to ten times to the same woman. In this lifetime, he has died and has been reborn to one woman five times, never growing into adulthood."
The image panned again, this time to show a close-up shot of a horrified woman. She placed a hand on her chest and crossed herself. Shaking her head this way and that way, her mouth worked, casting out this kind of misfortune from her life and that of her family.
The pastor continued, the fervency in his voice increasing as he spoke, "But, it seems that in this life, he has met his match, because brethren, I tell you this boy, who has never lived past his childhood, is nineteen! Nineteen! Can I hear a rejoicing for Jesus?!"
The pianist cued in once more as the congregation responded with gusto, their collective uproar thundering through the church.
"But…" He raised an index finger, waiting till they quieted down again. "But, alas, the battle is not won yet, because he is still under the influence of his spirit siblings and today! I want to show you that the God I serve is stronger than any principality or power."
This time, the congregation did not need a prompt to show their support. Most of them jumped to their feet, clapping and stomping, hands in the air, waving, whistling.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, 'Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness'. The LORD has given you power over the rulers of darkness and as his anointed prophet I say you. Will. Triumph! For a thousand shall fall at your right hand and ten thousand by your left!"The preacher's voice was brash and raw and earnest.
He pointed the bottle at the boy in the cage and the boy snarled, turning his face away as the preacher pressed a button on the container that produced a jet of water. Most of the drizzle landed on the boy's back and he let out guttural sound, teeth bearing down so strongly on each other that it looked like he might break his own jaw. However, he made no attempt to move away from the spray and the skin where the water had landed shriveled, blackening as it molted, leaving droopy skin and ugly burns. But the pastor did not relent in his assault. With each spray, he commanded at the top of his voice:
"Lose your hold on this child! Lose your hold on this child!"
The pianist and the congregation chimed in, punctuating each proclamation with a dash of their own, "Amen, amen."
The boy yelped and growled, the deep sound reverberating through his body in the form of small tremors. Still, he did not move away from the line of fire neither did he make any attempt to defend or protect himself. As he huddled in a corner of the cage, bare back exposed to the attack, a small lump began to form in his upper back, just below the spot where his hand joined with his shoulder. It grew and grew, his back making audible cracking sounds as the bone and flesh expanded to accommodate the growth.
Editorial comment: I let this submission run its course of the full 1000 words because I wanted people to have the chance to see that you do have a genuinely creepy scene developing here. I'm not sure where it goes from here on in, but as a reader I was interested to know what the boy was, what the preacher was going to do to him, what kind of church this was, what was going to happen. So in a way, the opening worked.
I very much doubt whether an agent would have got as far as that. I think you need to rein in the writing a huge amount, especially for the YA genre. An agent (who ignored the incorrect apostrophe on the fourth word of the first sentence) might have got as far as the second sentence, "It wasn't a knowledge he was oblivious to" and I'm pretty sure that would stop them dead in their tracks. How is the meaning of that sentence different from, "He knew it"? Why the extra six words and ten syllables? If they had read further, they'd find that the rest of the entire paragraph is one sentence, sixty words long. This is raising all sorts of red flags for me. If we analyse that sentence, you describe how he moves on the stage in no less than four different ways. One is probably enough, two at a push. The rest of the sentence is a long metaphorical description of "his awareness" of his own power shining like the light reflected off his watch. That's a pretty abstract concept, one which I'm not sure really works at all. Do you really want to open your novel with that kind of dense allegory?
Throughout the rest of the piece, almost no noun goes without an adjective, no opportunity to embellish or elaborate on a simple concept or action is turned down. It's just too much. "an eerie imitation of a patient wind that caressed trees and left light kisses of dust on everything it passed" is one example. He has simply blown on a microphone. The pastor doesn't pause to let a word "sink in", he pauses "to give the word time to navigate its way into the crowd and clamp its teeth down on their attention".
You have an interesting scene here, one, as I said, that's genuinely creepy. What is this abiku? How does it manifest itself? We're expecting some wailing, some thrashing about, perhaps some ghastly black fog emanating from the boy's mouth. But instead, something physical actually starts emerging from his back. What is that?
I like this development. It's creepy and uncanny and I want to see what it is that emerges, and what the pastor is then going to do about it. It's one thing to exorcise a demon from someone, but then, where does the demon go?
But I wouldn't have the patience "in real life" to read through what you have here before I get to this point, and I'm pretty positive that an agent wouldn't. You'd be lucky if they got beyond that second sentence. There's nothing wrong with creative and even elaborate writing, but in moderation, and even then not perhaps in the first few paragraphs of your book.
The problem is that unless the reader immediately falls in love with your particular style of writing, they're going to put the book down and pick up something else. You're not offering a story here. You're saying to the reader, "look how elaborately and expressively I can write. Read on for more elaborate and expressive writing". A reader wants a story, above all. Your story is buried under a heap of adjective, metaphor, allegory and adverb, most of which is unnecessary. And that's a shame because, underneath, I can sense something quite interesting and innovative – a distinct "voice" – and that's gold dust.
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Just a quick update, to let you all know I bought my ticket! I will be departing July 4. Please be in prayer for my visa, as I have not received it yet and need it before I depart.
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Slow down! Take your time.
I decided to keep this journal, since I wish to show in real time how extraordinary feats are achieved through ordinary habits and actions, since most of us wrongly assume that just one in thousand people succeed in fulfilling one's dream because of one's special talent and favorable circumstances.
I grew up troubled by my cultural eclecticism. My epidemic inquisitiveness and weird thought process provide me the natural ability of acknowledging the interconnections between the information that I learned by teachers, relatives, books, television…Though, putting together a jigsaw puzzle takes some time and particularly in school this phlegmatic attitude of the mind can be at once misunderstood as mental retardation, while after some time it's read as symptomatic of genius. It's what happened to me since the first grade – when I delayed in learning to write, because I refused to start writing like a child. Nevertheless, both the interpretations in my case are wrong.
I've no special talent in any field. I'm only a passionate and sensitive woman, who is attempting to fix many faults in her life and to whom often may happen to feel inadequate in front of the challenges to tackle with the aim of fulfilling this dream. But at the end who cares. If not immediately, I'll learn with time what I can't do, yet.
I don't absolutely fit that image of the smart-thinking ans swift-decision-making entrepreneur. whose successful story is chosen to be portrayed on the screen. Most of the time to me doing this job is tiresome and put myself in front of my vulnerability, that is "the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."(Brené Brown at TED2012). Everyday, I choose to deploy my efforts and my time in working on this idea, being aware that I'm risking everything else to have this chance of succeeding, because the only way to get what I want is being consistent and that means I need time and patience.
I know how much out of touch with our fast-paced reality may sound this statement, but I guess that none of us can't force things to speed up. There is a right time for anything to happen. At least this is how it works in the Aquaponics field, having to deal with living beings. However, I'm noticing the signs of a turnaround in this direction even in the business world, where the trend overall among the gig economy generation is seeking for new balances to combine tradition with innovation – such as e.g. Made in Italy handicraft sold on international, online platforms or the many young Americans, who're leaving desk jobs to farm.
I'm 25 years and for all this time I strenuously fought against looseness of my creativity process. Indeed, I'm really too slow for my liking in figuring out the next step to do. I've like just a blurry idea, that looks like easy to convert into an action and nonetheless I can't do anything to make it true. Many times I attempted to force this process and it's always ended in messing up my to-do list, delaying even more my work. I've always assumed that this characteristic of mine was incompatible with the abruptness, usually attributed to the stereotype of the American self-made man. I don't know how much this image could have affected even your perception of who fits the role, but I've had to wait for dismantling it before having the courage of committing myself in this feat.
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Q: Postgres Query has no desination for result data despite RETURN statement in function definition I've created a code that generates a HH:MM timestamp and saved it as a function. But when I try to call it with SELECT random_timestamp(); an error is returned ->
Query has no destination for result data
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION random_timestamp()
RETURNS text AS
'
BEGIN
SELECT
         CASE
                WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 1
                AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 1 THEN Concat(''0'',s1.hours, '':'',''0'', s1.minutes)
                WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 1
                AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 2 THEN Concat(''0'',s1.hours, '':'', s1.minutes)
                WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 2
                AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 1 THEN Concat(s1.hours, '':'', ''0'', s1.minutes)
                ELSE Concat(s1.hours, '':'', s1.minutes)
         END
  FROM   (SELECT floor(Random() * (23-0-1) + 0)::text AS hours ,
                 floor(random() * (59-0-1) + 0)::text AS minutes) AS s1;
RETURN(SELECT random_timestamp());
END;
'
language 'plpgsql';

A: Your code is incorrect.
Corrected:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION random_timestamp()
RETURNS text
LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $function$
declare
    v_return text;
BEGIN
        SELECT
        CASE
                WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 1
                AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 1 THEN Concat('0',s1.hours, ':','0', s1.minutes)
                WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 1
                AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 2 THEN Concat('0',s1.hours, ':', s1.minutes)
                WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 2
                AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 1 THEN Concat(s1.hours, ':', '0', s1.minutes)
                ELSE Concat(s1.hours, ':', s1.minutes)
        end into v_return
        FROM   (SELECT floor(Random() * (23-0-1) + 0)::text AS hours ,
                 floor(random() * (59-0-1) + 0)::text AS minutes) AS s1;

        return v_return;

END;
$function$
;

A: You don't actually need PL/pgSQL for this. A simple SQL function will do:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION random_timestamp()
RETURNS text
LANGUAGE sql
AS
$function$
  SELECT
  CASE
      WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 1
      AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 1 THEN Concat('0',s1.hours, ':','0', s1.minutes)
      WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 1
      AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 2 THEN Concat('0',s1.hours, ':', s1.minutes)
      WHEN Length(s1.hours) = 2
      AND    Length(s1.minutes) = 1 THEN Concat(s1.hours, ':', '0', s1.minutes)
      ELSE Concat(s1.hours, ':', s1.minutes)
  end
  FROM   (SELECT floor(Random() * (23-0-1) + 0)::text AS hours ,
       floor(random() * (59-0-1) + 0)::text AS minutes) AS s1;
$function$
;

But you are over complicating this. If you want to generate a random time value, you can use:
select time '00:00' + make_interval(mins => (random() * 1440)::int)

You can put that into a function if you want:
create or replace function random_time()
   returns time
as
$$
  select time '00:00' + make_interval(mins => (random() * 1440)::int);
$$
language sql;

If you really need a text value, you can format that using to_char()
select to_char(random_time(), 'hh24:mi')

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