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Native Americans were often overlooked in both armies. Perhaps because of the smaller numbers of them that served in the war effort. About 12,000 American Indians served in the army of the Confederacy and around 6,000 served in the Union army. Most of the Indians who served were members of the Five Civilized Tribes living outside of the Indian Territory.
Perhaps the best known of those in the Union Army was Colonel Ely Parker, who served as an aide to General U. S. Grant, and was present at Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Statistics for the Confederacy are not reliably available, but most scholars of Native American involvement in the actual fighting of the war are very well acquainted with the major Southern figure among them: Brigadier General Chief Stand Watie, a three-quarter blood Cherokee who was born in December 1806 near what would become Rome, Georgia.
Stand Watie was one of the signers of a treaty that agreed to the removal of the Cherokee from their home in Georgia to what was then the Oklahoma territory; this split the tribes into two factions, and Stand Watie became the leader of the minority party. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the minority party gave its allegiance to the Confederacy, while the majority party went for the North. Watie organized a company, then a regiment known as the First Cherokee Mounted Rifles; the regiment fought at Wilson's Creek, Elkhorn, and in numerous smaller fights and skirmishes along the border with what was known as Indian Territory.
The warriors found curious the white man's strategy of standing still and allowing people to shoot at them, or lob artillery shells at them; the Cherokee tended to be spectacular at wildly brave mounted charges, but once the artillery began to fire, the warriors wanted nothing to do with it. Stand Watie was unreconstructed to the end; it is believed he never surrendered until June 23, 1865, well after other Confederate commanders had given up. He died in 1871 and is buried in the Old Ridge Cemetery in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
The Confederates would raise eleven regiments and seven battalions of Indian cavalry with a few more scattered throughout the ranks of white units. These Indians would go to battle with long hair, painted faces and their dress was mainly made up of their traditional Indian costumes. This included buck-skin hunting shirt, dyed of almost any color, leggings, and moccasins. Many went into battle bareheaded and about half carried only bows and arrows, tomahawks and war clubs. The natives were often ill-treated and ignored by their superiors. This often led native soldiers to give a half-hearted effort to the war cause. All too often the natives would ignore army regulations and fight in their old traditional ways. But they certainly lent color to the troops of the Confederacy and Union.
Source: The Civil War Society's "Encyclopedia of the Civil War."
June 23,1865. When the leaders of the Confederate Indians learned that the government in Richmond had fallen and the Eastern armies had been surrendered. They began making their plans to seek peace with the Federal government. The chiefs convened the Grand Council June 15 and passed resolutions calling for Indian commanders to lay down their arms and for emissaries to approach Federal authorities for peace terms.
The largest force in Indian Territory was commanded by Confederate Brig.Gen. Stand Watie, who was also a chief of the Cherokee Nation. Dedicated to the Confederate cause and unwilling to admit defeat, he kept his troops in the field for nearly a month after Lt. Gen.E.Kirby Smith surrendered the Trans- Mississippi May 26. Finally accepting the futility of continued resistance, on June 23 Watie rode into Doaksville near Fort Towson in Indian Territory and surrender his battalion of Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, and Osage Indians to Lt.Col.Asa C.Matthews, appointed a few weeks earlier to negotiate a peace with the Indians. Watie was the last Confederate general officer to surrender his command.
Certainly the most famous American Indian of the War of Northern Aggression and the first American Indian to ever earn the rank of a general officer was Stand Watie. On the wild frontier of the Trans-Mississippi west he earned a reputation as one of the most daring and courageous warriors to ever ride a horse. He was born on December 12, 1806 near Rome, Georgia to David Uwatie and Susanna Reese who was of mixed Cherokee and European blood. He was named Isaac S. Watie or Degataga which can be translated as "standing together as one" or "stand firm" which in either event led to him being known as Stand Watie. Educated by missionaries and instilled with a sense of his southern as well as Indian heritage, he and his brother Buck Watie, along with Major Ridge and John Ridge were in favor of moving the Cherokee to Oklahoma but were opposed in this by their Chief John Ross though both sides knew that their position in Georgia was unsustainable. Ultimately the Cherokees were moved to Oklahoma in 1838, but the feud between the Ross and Ridge factions and of the two Ridge brothers and two Watie brothers Stand was the only one not assassinated by Ross partisans.
Stand Watie became a prominent man in the Indian Territory (as Oklahoma was called) where he established a flourishing plantation on the Spavinaw Creek (numerous Native American elites were slave owners) and from 1845 to 1861 he served on the Cherokee Council. When the War Between the States commenced in 1861 the Indian tribes were somewhat divided. Some feared that a failure to support the Union would lead to the revocation of the treaties they had signed with the federal government while others were quick to take up arms against the government which had already broken numerous treaties and seemed to regard them as enemies anyway. Questions of states' rights and other political controversies also existed, though not to the same degree since the Indian Territory was not a state and there were relatively few slaves west of the Mississippi.
Ultimately, most of the Cherokees favored the Confederacy, but fear of having their treaties with the Union nullified led Chief John Ross to try to remain neutral in the conflict. For Stand Watie, however, there could be no neutrality and he left no doubt about his sympathy being with the Confederate States. As more Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek Indians expressed their desire to ally with the Confederacy, Chief John Ross altered his position and the Cherokee Council voted for an alliance with the Confederate States of America. Stand Watie had pushed for this development and had constantly urged his countrymen to join with the Confederacy in fighting their common enemy; the United States government. As soon as the choice was official Stand Watie organized the First Cherokee Mounted Rifles of which he was commissioned colonel in October of 1861. He was on his way to becoming the most legendary American Indian of the war.
With his hard fighting Cherokee cavalry Stand Watie battled Union incursions into the Oklahoma territory was well as Creek and Seminole Indians who had sided with the United States. His first major engagement and rise to notoriety came at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas where the Confederate Army of the West attempted an attack on Union forces that would allow them back into southern Missouri. The battle was a southern defeat, but Stand Watie and his men acquitted themselves bravely, charging Union artillery and fighting hard to cover the retreat of Confederate forces. On the home front, however, there was to be no unity to back up the heroic actions of Stand Watie and his men. Many of the Indians dropped their support of the Confederacy at the first indication that the north might win, nonetheless, others remained committed to the cause they endorsed and in 1862 the Confederate sympathizers or Southern Cherokee elected Stand Watie their chief. In 1863 pro-Union Cherokees captured the tribal council headquarters at Tahlequah which Watie and his men later burned.
Stand Watie led his cavalry in constant raids against Union forces, tying down thousands of federal troops that could have been employed elsewhere. He was so successful that General Samuel B. Maxey promoted him to brigadier general, the first American Indian to achieve that rank, and gave him command of a brigade of two regiments of mounted rifles, three Cherokee, Seminole and Osage infantry battalions based just south of the Canadian River. General Watie led these men in daring attacks all across Oklahoma and into parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. No brigade west of the Mississippi fought more battles that General Stand Watie and his Indians. All Confederate units were undersupplied but the situation was even worse on the western frontier and Watie had to sustain his men almost totally off of captured Union supplies. One raid saw the capture of a federal supply train loaded down with 16,000 pounds of bacon which his troops put to good use. On another occasion General Watie was wearing a captured Union overcoat that was much too large for him. As he sat outside his tent with his head down one of his soldiers tried to make off with the prize only to be startled when Watie shouted, "Hold on! There's a man in this coat!"
Despite all of the efforts of the vastly more numerous Union forces, they could never catch or defeat General Watie and his men and his harassment continued until the end of the war. Ultimately, Stand Watie fought on longer than any other Confederate general of the war. It was not until June 23, 1865 that he signed a cease-fire agreement with Union forces at Fort Towson in the Choctaw area of Oklahoma, bringing his troops in to lay down their arms worn and weary but never defeated. After the war, Stand Watie continued to work on behalf of his people as Chief of the Southern Cherokee and negotiated the 1866 Cherokee Reconstruction Treaty which aimed at helping the Indian Territory recover from the devastation of the war. He died in 1871 and is buried in Polson Cemetery, Oklahoma. Among all of the accounts of the Civil War out west the name of General Stand Watie will always be remembered for his boldness, courage and dogged determination which knew no equal in the territory.
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Slot machines are a game of chance in which the player tries to win a payout by hitting symbols on a reel. The machine will typically accept cash, a ticket with a barcode, or paper tokens. Generally, the probability of winning is zero, except for the largest payout, which is generally much more than the amount of money being bet.
Most slot machines are programmed with a pay table. These tables list the credits awarded for combinations of symbols lined up on a pay line. In most cases, the pay table is located on the face of the machine or listed below the area containing the wheels.
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While the concept of the original slot machine is fairly simple, it has undergone various changes with the introduction of digital technology. Modern slots are programmed to assign different probabilities to different symbols. Some symbols may be replaced by others, while others may only appear on some reels. Another feature may be a wild symbol, which substitutes for most other symbols. Other features may improve payouts when a player increases their wagers.
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John Obi Mikel Reminds Us Of Chelsea's Priorities
By Graham MacAree Aug 17, 2012, 2:31am BST
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Things got a little bit depressing towards the end of last season, at least when Chelsea were playing in the league. While in the very early going, it looked as though the Blues would challenge both Manchester City and Manchester United for the title, any dreams of winning the Premier League came to an abrupt halt in October. Things only got worse from there as the Andre Villas-Boas-led collapse reached rather epic proportions. By January, there were serious fears for our continued existence as a Champions League team, and when Roberto di Matteo replaced the sacked Villas-Boas in March, the priority was, apparently, to retain that top four slot.
Things didn't quite turn out that way, thanks to some absolutely heroic performances by the Blues against Barcelona and then Bayern Munich, but the message was, I think clear: We're not good enough to win the league, so let's settle for continuing to qualify for the Champions League. And frankly, that line of thinking is incredibly lame. It's the sort of thought process that sees teams like Arsenal celebrate their long run of trophiless competence as though it's some sort of badge of honour to not win anything. It's not a route I want Chelsea to go down.
Fortunately, Chelsea agree:
It hurts us that it was such a big gap [between Chelsea and the champions] last season. We spoke about it. We don't want that to repeat itself. We don't want a repeat of last season when we slipped out of the top four but, for us, the top four is not the target. The most important thing is to win the trophy. We want to regain the trophy.
-John Obi Mikel. Source: Mail.
This is exactly right. While we don't have the strongest squad in England -- I'd eyeball us for third, behind both Manchester teams -- Chelsea can't afford to start thinking small. They need to be competing for the Premier League title year in and year out to stay relevant. Winning enough to sustain our presence in the Champions League is not enough. The club doesn't just compete in the Premier League and in Europe for the money; they play to win the competitions themselves.
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Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar and Amaury Nolasco Return to PRISON BREAK
Robert Knepper (David Lynch's "Rancho Rosa"), Rockmond Dunbar ("The Path," "The Mentalist") and Amaury Nolasco ("Telenovela," "Gang Related") will reprise their roles in the all-new event series PRISON BREAK, which is set to premiere during the 2016-2017 season on FOX.
Knepper (THEODORE "T-BAG" BAGWELL), Dunbar (BENJAMIN MILES "C-NOTE" FRANKLIN) and Nolasco (FERNANDO SUCRE) join previously announced cast members Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell and Sarah Wayne Callies, who reprise their roles as brothers MICHAEL SCOFIELD and LINCOLN BURROWS and DR. SARA TANCREDI, respectively. In the drama's new chapter, when clues surface that suggest a previously thought-to-be-dead Michael may be alive, Lincoln and Sara reunite to engineer the series' biggest escape ever, as three of Fox River State Penitentiary's most notorious escapees, T-Bag, C-Note and Sucre, are pulled back into the action.
An immediate critical and ratings hit when the original series premiered in the fall of 2005, the new event series will hit the ground running, reuniting the original producing team, including series creator Paul T. Scheuring ("Klondike"), Neal Moritz ("The Fast and the Furious" franchise), Marty Adelstein ("Aquarius," "Last Man Standing") and Dawn Olmstead ("The Whispers," "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce"), who return to executive-produce the new series, with Scheuring serving as showrunner/writer.
The original action drama PRISON BREAK centered on a young man (Miller) determined to prove his convicted brother's (Purcell) innocence and save him from death row by hatching an elaborate plan to escape from prison. A breakout success in its premiere season, garnering Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Television Series – Drama and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama (Miller), as well as winning the People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama, PRISON BREAK thrilled audiences for four heart-pounding seasons, ending its run in May 2009.
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Judge prohibits prosecution audio experts from testifying on screams in 911 call in Zimmerman trial
Zimmerman case: Judge says audio experts can't testify
Kelly Wright reports from New York
The judge in the murder trial of George Zimmerman said Saturday that prosecution audio experts who point to Trayvon Martin as screaming on a 911 calls moments before he was killed won't be allowed to testify at trial.
Judge Debra Nelson's written ruling was released Saturday. She had heard argument during a multiday hearing on whether to allow testimony from two prosecution experts. One expert ruled out Zimmerman as the screamer and another said it was Martin. A defense expert argued there was not enough audio to determine who the screams are coming from. Zimmerman's attorneys also argued that the state experts' analysis is flawed.
The screams are crucial pieces of evidence because they could determine who the aggressor was in the confrontation. Martin's family contends it was the teen screaming, while Zimmerman's father has said it was his son.
Opening statements are set for Monday in the second-degree murder trial for the former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fired on the unarmed black teenager in self-defense last year. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.
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Audio experts from both sides testified at different times since the admissibility hearing started last month. Voice experts were hired by lawyers and news organizations to analyze the calls, which were made during the confrontation between the two. The experts arrived at mixed conclusions.
In deciding whether to admit the voice-recognition technology used by prosecution audio expert Tom Owen, Nelson had to determine whether it is too novel or whether it has been accepted by the scientific community at-large.
"There is no evidence to establish that their scientific techniques have been tested and found reliable," the judge said in her ruling.
Owen was hired by the Orlando Sentinel last year to compare a voice sample of Zimmerman with screams for help captured on 911 calls made by neighbors. He said Zimmerman's voice doesn't match the screams. He only compared Zimmerman's voice to the 911 calls because he didn't have a voice sample for Martin at the time.
"The screams don't match at all," Owen testified during the hearing. "That's what tells me the screams aren't George Zimmerman."
Owen also testified that remarks Zimmerman made in a conversation with a police dispatcher aren't a racial slur. He testified Zimmerman said, "These f------ punks."
Expert Alan Reich testified in a report for prosecutors that the screams on the 911 tapes were from Martin and the defense does not want him to testify at trial.
Reich's analysis also picked up words that other experts couldn't find. They include the words, "This shall be" from Zimmerman and "I'm begging you" from Martin.
In contrast, a British audio expert testified for the defense that it would be extremely difficult to analyze voices by comparing screaming to a normal voice.
"I've never come across a case in my 13 years where anybody's tried to compare screaming to a normal voice," said audio expert Peter French.
A second audio expert for the defense, George Doddington, also criticized prosecution experts who said Friday that screams and pleas on a 911 recording likely belonged to Martin.
"It's all ridiculous," Doddington said.
Nelson issued a ruling Friday allowing prosecutors to argue in opening statements that Zimmerman profiled Martin based on factors such as age or clothing before he shot the unarmed black teenager, but they cannot say he was profiled based on race.
Defense attorneys had asked the judge to prohibit prosecutors from using a series of words in opening statements that they deemed inflammatory. Those words included "profiled," "vigilante," "wannabe cop," and that Zimmerman had confronted Martin. Zimmerman identifies as Hispanic.
The judge said all of those statements may be used, provided that race is not discussed if the issue of profiling is brought up.
Prosecutor John Guy had argued that there were a number of ways someone could be profiled other than race.
"That is not a racially charged term unless it's made so, and we don't intend to make it a racially charged term," Guy said. "There are a number of avenues someone can be profiled in any one way or combination. We don't intend to say he was solely profiled because of race."
Defense attorney Mark O'Mara said he was concerned using the word "profiled" would "infect" the jury with a racial component that shouldn't be there.
"I want to be very, very cautious," O'Mara said.
Six female jurors were chosen Thursday for the second-degree murder trial of Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fired on Martin in self-defense last year in a gated community in Sanford. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.
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Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, profiled 17-year-old Martin as he walked back through the central Florida community from a convenience store on a rainy night in February 2012 wearing a dark hooded shirt.
Race and ethnicity have played a prominent role in the case and even clouded jury selection. While the court did not release the racial makeup of the jury, the panel appeared to reporters covering the selection process to be made up of five white women and a sixth who may be Hispanic.
On Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman spotted Martin, whom he did not recognize, walking in the gated townhome community in Sanford where Zimmerman lived and the fiancee of Martin's father also resided. There had been a rash of recent break-ins at the Retreat, and Zimmerman was wary of strangers walking through the complex.
The two eventually got into a struggle and Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest with his 9mm handgun. He was charged 44 days after the shooting, only after a special prosecutor was appointed to review the case and after protests.
Martin's shooting death and the initial decision not to charge Zimmerman led to public outrage and demonstrations around the nation, with civil rights leaders and others accusing Sanford police of failing to thoroughly investigate the shooting.
The six jurors were culled from a pool of 40 candidates who made it into a second round of jury questioning. Two men and two women also were picked as alternate jurors.


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Home	Politics	Power Going To Opposition …PYJ Warns Weah
by newsmanager December 18, 2020
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MONROVIA: Nimba County's charismatic Senator, Prince Yormie Johnson, has called on President George Manneh Weah to win back the confidence of the Liberian people ahead of the 2023 Presidential and General elections.
Senator Johnson indicated that President Weah needs to see that power is gradually being transferred from him to the opposition political parties, citing the outcome of the December 8, 2020 Special Senatorial elections across the country.
He said the results of the just-ended Special Senatorial Elections which favored more opposition and independent candidates is a clear manifestation as it relates to the need to address the needs and aspirations of Liberian by the Weah Administration.
Senator Johnson made the disclosure on Sunday when he delivered his sermon at the Christ Chapel of Faith in Paynesville, outside Monrovia.
According to Senator Johnson who is also a 'Prelate', President Weah is running his government based on ''sectionalism'' as most of his appointed officials hail from the South-eastern region of the country.
He stressed that such governance practice is unfavorable, and as such, it should be stopped.
PYJ, at the same time, highlighted the key role he played in the election of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), led government, headed by President Weah.
The Nimba County Senator who is now an ally of President Weah stressed that the government led by the Weah-led administration has a cabinet dominated by South-easterners.
Interestingly, the Chairman of the ruling CDC, Mulbah Morlu, on Monday, at the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Headquarter disclosed that the CDC government is not deterred by the results of the just ended 2020, Special Senatorial Elections.
Mr. Mulbah and the CDC accepted the outcome of the elections and commended the Liberian electorate across the country for their participation in the elections and the National Referendum which were generally peaceful.
Mr. Morlu said CDC will continue to work harder to enhance Liberia's democracy, ensure sustainable peace and stability and achieve the much needed and desired economic development and transformation they are pursuing as a government.
Chairman Morlu assured the public that the CDC-led government would push for a unified and more inclusive government to accelerate the resolution of complex economic and development challenges and improve delivery of basic social services.
He said the CDC and its collaborators are likely to win four counties, the CPP is likely to win six counties and independent candidates are likely to win four counties.
The CDC Chairman noted that the loss in Montserrado, for example, does not say that voters are making judgment on the President but they are rather sending a message to the CDC and its Government to address the challenges and concerns of the Liberian people in a manner that secures their trust.
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Built on 117 small islands at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, Venice is unlike any other city in the world. No matter how many times you have seen photos of it, nothing will prepare you for the real thing. You must walk everywhere in Venice and where you can't walk, you go by water. Venice has 150 canals and more than 400 bridges, and its historic center is divided into six quarters. The main thoroughfare is the Grand Canal that intersects each of the six quarters as it twists along the length of Venice. One of the best ways to explore the architectural beauty of the city is by a romantic gondola ride along the Grand Canal allowing you a unique vantage point to admire palaces and buildings along the water. While you can easily spend weeks visiting Venice and the lagoon islands, the city is also a popular weekend destination.
Welcome to the Sina Centurion Palace, where nothing is as it seems. On one side the placid waters of the lagoon, and on the other the mysterious alleyways of Venice, leading to two of the city's most stunning modern museums, the Peggy Guggenheim and the new Punta della Dogana.
The St. Regis Venice San Clemente Palace is one of the most desired addresses in Venice. It is a legendary retreat that sits on its own private island in the heart of the Venice lagoon, just minutes away from Piazza San Marco by one of the hotels iconic complimentary boats.
A remarkable, elegant contemporary hotel in Venice, dedicated to those who love design hotels, the Palace Bonvecchiati provides design, luxury and modern accommodations in the heart of Venice.


(CBS Local) – The National Constitution Center has announced the presenter and recipients of the 30th Annual Liberty Medal.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will present former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush with the honor.
They're being recognized for their efforts and commitment in assisting our veterans.
Biden also presented last year's recipient, Sen. John McCain, with the honor.
The Liberty Medal ceremony will be held on Veterans Day, Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. in Philadelphia.


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Wollmersdorf ist der Name folgender Orte:

 Wollmersdorf (Gemeinde Drosendorf-Zissersdorf), Ortschaft der Gemeinde Drosendorf-Zissersdorf, Bezirk Horn, Niederösterreich
 Wollmersdorf (Gemeinde Kematen), Ortsteil der Gemeinde Kematen an der Ybbs, Bezirk Amstetten, Niederösterreich

Siehe auch:
 Wollmannsdorf
 Wollmannsberg

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De drie wensen (auf deutsch: Die drei Wünsche) ist eine niederländische Märchenverfilmung aus dem Jahre 1937 von Kurt Gerron, angelehnt an das gleichnamige deutsche Märchen.

Handlung
In diesem Märchen stößt ein Millionär mit einem Kindermädchen namens Maria zusammen. Von ihrer freundlichen Art verzaubert, sagt der alte Mann dem jungen Mädchen, dass er ihr drei Wünsche erfüllen werde. Maria muss nicht lange überlegen und wünscht sich als Erstes, dass ihr Bräutigam Tino Murante endlich die lang erträumte Karriere machen möge. Die Millionär verspricht es Maria, und so wird es geschehen. Doch Tino ist ein Hallodri, er hat nur Augen für die Opernsängerin Cora Corelli. Um ihn nicht an die Diva zu verlieren, beschließt Maria ebenfalls Sängerin zu werden.

So lautet ihr zweiter Wunsch: "Ich möchte eine große Sängerin werden". Der alte Mann erfüllt Maria auch diesen Wunsch und infolge dessen beginnt sich nun Tino wieder Maria zuzuwenden. Nachdem ihr erster Auftritt ein großer Erfolg geworden ist, beschließen die beiden jungen Leute zu heiraten. Nun nennt Maria ihren dritten Wunsch: Sie möchte, dass der alte Millionär als Trauzeuge an ihrer Hochzeit teilnehmen möge. So wendet sich schließlich alles zum Guten.

Produktionsnotizen
De drie wensen, oft auch geführt unter Drie wenschen, entstand im Spätfrühling/Frühsommer 1937 in den Filmateliers von Rom und wurde am 9. Dezember 1937 in Den Haag uraufgeführt. Außerhalb Hollands wurde der Film kaum gezeigt, eine deutsche Premiere gab es nicht.

Der in Hitler-Deutschland zu dieser Zeit vollständig isolierte, jüdische Drehbuchautor Fritz Zeckendorf reiste zu den Dreharbeiten nach Rom an. Es war Zeckendorfs einzige Drehbuchmitarbeit seit 1933. Zeckendorf hatte in der Weimarer Republik mehrmals für Gerron-Inszenierungen das Manuskript geschrieben.

Mit "I tre desideri" wurde auch eine italienischsprachige Version von diesem Film hergestellt. Dort wurde Gerron der italienische Co-Regisseur Giorgio Ferroni zur Seite gestellt.

Die Filmbauten entwarf Guido Fiorini, um den Ton kümmerte der sich 1933 aus Hitler-Deutschland geflohene Österreicher Hans Bittmann.

Ursprünglich sollte die 1935 mit ihrem jüdischen Ehemann aus Deutschland geflohene Lien Deyers die weibliche Hauptrolle spielen, aber "sie lehnte aus unbekannten Gründen ab".

Kritik
Filippo Sacchi vom Corriere della Sera schrieb in der Ausgabe vom 19. Dezember 1937 über die italienische Fassung, dass der Film "eine moderne Paraphrase sein" möchte, hier angewendet auf "die Wechselfälle eines Mädchens mit Bühnenambitionen" sowie "eines jungen Ingenieurs mit Erfinderambitionen", jedoch "weder den Duft noch den Geist" besäße, die diese "Art der Allegorien erfordert". Sacchi resümierte: "Vor allem aber ergibt es keinen Sinn, um eines glücklichen Endes Willen … auf die ironische Schlussmoral zu verzichten", wie es die Autoren getan hätten.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Filmtitel 1937
Niederländischer Film
Italienischer Film
Märchenfilm
Literaturverfilmung
Schwarzweißfilm


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The energy market is one of today´s most fast paced, decisive and profitable industries and crucial to both the global economy, the environment and our future society as a whole.
Climate and economic changes, public opinion, technological progress and regulation shape unforeseen challenges and opportunities. This situation calls for new solutions to be delivered by highly skilled and appropriately trained experts with an all-embracing overview, an international outlook and the will to create a true impact. Due to its economic, entrepreneurial and industrial strength as well as its successful and progressive energy policies, the —Energiewende—, Germany stands out as a front runner in the global energy transition.
In order to promote the dissemination of knowledge and to facilitate and promote progress in the international energy sector, Technische Universität Berlin has created this unique MBA program combining academic excellence with industry expertise. Our full-time master program "Energy Management" at TU-Campus EUREF in Berlin enhances students´ career prospects and enables them to reach the next level of leadership. Successful graduates will have the ability to lead and manage others and to make strategic, problem-solving and sustainable managerial decisions in the field of energy and beyond.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to this exciting program.
The master program is taught over a period of three semesters. The first semester covers the technical, economic, entrepreneurial and legal foundations for management decisions in the energy sector; the second semester deepens this view and looks at business practises, primarily of grid-based utilities, and investment; the third semester broadens the view while simultaneously focusing on practise according to student's individual interests. All semesters include lectures, tutorials, seminars as well as company visits/presentations, online materials related to practice and extracurricular activities. The master thesis due in the third semester concludes the program.
This module deepens student's knowledge of energy technologies and systems in the framework of today's changing world.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Müller-Kirchenbauer chairs the Department for the Management of Energy and Resources at the Faculty for Technology and Management, and acts as dean for the English language advanced master programs on TU's Campus EUREF. After graduating at TU Berlin and the Research Centre Jülich he worked as consultant for German and European regulators and ministries, among which the European Commission, became Deputy Director Energy Regulation at the German Federal Network Agency, then Professor at Technische Universität Clausthal where he created and established the Chair for Gas Supply at the Institute for Petroleum Engineering, before returning to his alma mater TU Berlin as full-time professor.
This module presents the economic basics for the understanding of energy markets and their regulation, the framework for operational energy management.
Prof. Dr. Georg Erdmann heads the Department Energy Systems at TU Berlin. He started his academic career at the Center for Economic Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich. Trained in Mathematics and Economics, he received his PhD in Economics at the University of Münster (Germany). Among many other mandates he chairs the German affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and is member of the independent expert Commission "Energy of the Future" who assesses the progress and challenges of the German /Energiewende/ on behalf of the German federal government. He is author of several books and scientific articles. His latest book publication, the energy economics textbook "Energy Economics", co-authored with Peter Zweifel and Aaron Praktiknjo, was published in 2017.
This module presents the foundations of strategic management and discusses basic tools and applications in the context of the energy industry.
Prof. Dr. Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß holds the chair of Strategic Leadership and Global Management at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Before joining TU Berlin, he served as a chair professor at the universities of Jena and Bamberg and as an endowment professor at the University of Heidelberg. Dodo received his PhD and his post-PhD qualification from the University of Munich, served as a dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management at TU Berlin, as the vice president and president of the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB) and as a co-program chair of the Strategic Management Society's annual conference in Berlin. His and his chair's research focuses on stakeholder influence on strategic decisions, mergers & acquisitions, diversification, top management teams and, most recently, on the strategic management of cities and on sustainability issues.
This module presents the legal framework of today's energy markets on the global scale, the EU plane and Germany.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Dres. h.c. Franz Jürgen Säcker is Professor em. for European and International Business, Competition and Regulatory Law of Freie Unversität Berlin and head of the Institute for Regualtory Law Berlin (enreg). He is one of the leading experts on energy law and Academic Director of TU's master program "European and Interernational Energy Law". He holds a honorary doctorate title of the Chinese Culture University, Taipeh, Taiwan, and a honorary doctorate title from the Russian Academy of Science, Institute of State and Law in Moscow, Russia. He currently holds a Guest Professorship of the College of Comparative Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China. He is the editor and author of leading publications in the field of energy law and editor and co-author of the large-scale academic work Berlin Commentary on Energy Law ("Berliner Kommentar zum Energierecht"), which at present encompasses 4 volumes and more than 12,000 pages.
This module deals with the technical and managerial challenges of grid management in a changing energy environment, with a focus on transformation processes between different forms and sources of energy and the novel developments in demand response, IT, and metering.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Strunz is holder of the chair of Sustainable Electric Networks and Sources of Energy (SENSE) at TU Berlin. Previously, he received his PhD in engineering from Saarland University, pursued research at Brunel University in London and subsequently worked at the Division Recherche et Développement of Electricité de France (EDF) in the Paris area, from where he moved on to serve as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was rewarded the IEEE PES Prize Paper Award, the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics First Prize Paper Award,the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award of the USA and the Outstanding Teaching Award of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He is currently Chairman of the IEEE PES (Power & Energy Society) Subcommittee on Distributed Energy Resources and editor of the open access IET Engineering Journal.
This module looks at energy infrastructure from a decision maker point of view. Grids, storage facilities and power plants are large-scale long-term investments of national, if not international, scope and importance. How are such projects managed, how can they be insured, how can their risk be assessed, etc.
Prof. Dr. Christian von Hirschhausen is full time Professor for Economic Policy and Infrastructure Policy at TU Berlin, Research Director of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Research Associate of MIT Center for Environmental and Energy Research, and Associate Researcher of the Electricity Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge. He received his PhD at hte Ecole des Mines de Paris and holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder (U.S). Prior to TU, he served as professor at the University of Dresden. He is a leading expert on Applied Industrial Economics, Infrastructure and Network Economics, Environmental and Public Economics, Public Sector Management and European Integration Policy.
This module deals with the technical and managerial challenges of grid management in a changing energy environment, looks at transformation processes between different forms and sources of energy and considers novel technological developments.
In this module, students look at physical projects and products such as buildings, plants, city planning, etc. and apply the knowledge gained in prior modules in practise.
In this module students look at innovations, team building, management processes, administrative, financial or theoretical issues in a specific practical context.
Prof. Dr. Jan Kratzer holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management and is Managing Director of Center for Entrepreneurship at TU. In the School for Business and Economy at Berlin Institute of Technology he holds the function as Vice Dean for Research and Internationalization. He is editor of "Creativity and Innovation Management" (CIM) and in the editorial board of "Journal of Product Innovation Management". His research focuses on factors that drive entrepreneurial activities towards success among others research on networks of entrepreneurs, social networks and creativity, entrepreneurial education, social entrepreneurship, online social networks and entrepreneurial opportunities. He has published extensively on these subjects.
Individual topics, individual supervisors / evaluators (members of faculty).
Lecturers are full time professors of TU Berlin, expert professors from cooperating international universities, senior industry managers with a strong academic background, or senior executive staff of regulatory bodies. Tutorials are held by research associates and guest lecturers. Frequent company visitations and excursions to major companies and innovative startups complement.
Bettina Brockmann is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University, California, US, a communication coach at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and a visiting lecturer in the MBA Energy Management program.
Prof. Dr. Gioia Falcone is full time Professor at University of Glasgow, GB, Rankine Chair of Energy Engineering (Systems Power & Energy).
Dr. Oliver Helge Franz is Regulatory Manager at RWE Deutschland, one of Europe's largest power generator, energy supplier and trader.
Dr. Annegret Groebel heads the department for International Relations/Postal Regulation at Bundesnetzagentur, Germany's Federal Network Agency, the regulatory body for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railways.
Dr. Frank Peter Hansen is Manager for Regulatory Affairs at TenneT, the Dutch-German transmission system operator and energy company.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Heine holds the Chair for Law and Economics at the Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam; this is a Jean Monnet Chair of Economic Analysis of European Law. His research areas are European economic policy (especially state aid control and federalism), law and economics, and management, and he is one of the few scholars worldwide to work on the intersection of these three research domains.
Dr. Bodo J. Herrmann is Head of Section 802, which is responsible for the Federal Sectoral Planning as well as Planning Approval and part of the Grid Expansion Department at the Federal Network Agency in Bonn. In his previous position at the Federal Network Agency he acted as Head of Section competent for Incentive Regulation (2007 to 2013). Previously he worked on basic energy industry questions at the German Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU), acting as Director of the Brussels office and the unit for European affairs in Cologne, prior to which he was Managing Director of the Institute for Energy Law at the University of Cologne.
Peter Hohaus is Senior Policy Advisor at Uniper SE. Since 2001 he is working in the energy sector in different functions with an expertise in EU, national and international energy law and energy policy. Uniper is an international energy company with 13,000 employees and which offers a broad range of services with a focus on power generation and global commodity trading.
Dr. Sabine König is General Project Manager and project developer in the area of thermal developments at STEAG GmbH, a European energy company covering the entire value chain from planning, developing, constructing, operating and marketing high-efficiency power plants and their by-products. In 2017, STEAG group has an installed capacity of approximately 10,150 MW from both fossil and renewable sources.
Dr. Armin Kraft is managing director of EEB ENERKO, an energy consultancy and part of the ENRKO Group, offering services from energy market analyses over process optimisation and grid management to accountancy and legal advice. As a partner of energy utilities companies in the public and private sector, of government agencies and institutions, ENERKO develops innovative solutions for energy supply systems, for urban development and protection of the environment.
Dr. Florian Leuthold is board member of vortex energy Holding AG in Germany and former executive vice president of vortex energy Polska Sp. z o.o, where he is responsible for the technical and commercial management of wind farms, project realisation in Germany, and the groups' risk management. Prior to joining vortex energy, he worked as portfolio manager for the Austrian TSO and was research associate at TU Dresden, where he graduated in Engineering and received a PhD in Economics. Leuthold acts as reviewer for several academic journals and lectures both at TU Dresden and TU Berlin.
Dr. Christian Nabe is associate director of ECOFYS, one of the leading European energy and climate consultancies, a former visiting TU professor and an expert for the interaction of renewable energy systems with power markets and the power generation portfolio as well as new challenges for the regulation of markets and electricity network operators.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Aaron Praktiknjo is Assistant Professor (Juniorprof.) of Energy Resource and Innovation Economics at RWTH Aachen University since 2015. Before joining RWTH Aachen, he was a group leader and lecturer at the Institute for Energy Engineering, TU Berlin, and served as a consultant for national and international agencies and companies. His energy economics textbook "Energy Economics", co-authored with Georg Erdmann and Peter Zweifel, was published in 2017.
Prof. Dr. Lydia Scholz is full time Professor for Economic and Business Law at Hochschule Bremen, City University of Applied Sciences. She has previously lectured at University of Warwick, UK, among other positions.
Dr. Hans-Günter Schwarz has 20 years of professional experience, of with 10 years in the energy industry. In his current position as head of business development commercial asset management at RWE Supply & Trading GmbH, he is responsible for the development of small scale generator and battery activities. Previously as head of electricity market analysis he was responsible for electricity market modelling and investigations on power markets. He holds a doctoral degree in Political Economy and a postdoctoral qualification ('Habilitation') in Economics from University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has published ca. 20 papers in international and national journals, more than 10 conference and anthology contributions and three monographs.
Dr. Maximilian Wachter is Strategic Assistant to the CEO at Phoenix group, Europe's leading pharmacy wholesaler, retailer and service provider present in 26 countries. Prior to his PhD from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management he graduated in Economics at Heidelberg University and in Accounting and Finance at St. Gallen University. His current scientific focus is Corporate Governance and Strategic Corporate Finance.
The program has been developed in close cooperation with leading enterprises, consultancies and regulatory authorities in the energy sector. The study location is the exciting EUREF-Campus where many industry leaders set up office and think tanks. Excursions to industrial outlets and companies further strengthen the link between theory and practise.
We are part of Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, which is one of Germany's largest universities with currently more than 30,000 students. TU Berlin offers a wide range of support and extracurricular activities.
The program's interdisciplinary content, which covers the political, economic, technical and legal aspects of the energy markets, gives students and future employees a distinctive profile and qualifies them for leading positions in the energy sector. Learning and studying in small groups of up to 30 students allows for individual and excellent learning conditions.
Subjects for master theses are top-notch research and often based on industry or government proposals. Skills and knowledge transferred in our course are in high demand in all energy related industries, so carreer opportunities for graduates are exceptional.
Part of sustainability is quality management. Quality should not be left to chance, but be the result of a continuous improvement process. The TU Berlin changed its quality focus from the quality assurance of individual study programs to the evaluation of the university as a system. The TU Berlin has designed its quality assurance procedures in such a way that the participating actors can develop themselves in a responsible manner and in dialogue with each other. System accreditation leads to the accreditation of all study programs offered by a university.
"The subject of system accreditation is the internal quality assurance system of a university in the field of study and teaching. The structures and processes relevant for teaching and studies are examined to ensure that they achieve the achievement of the qualification objectives and the high quality of the courses, whereby the requirements of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) are the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ESG). and the criteria of the Accreditation Council apply.
Currently the final phase of the accreditation process has started and receiving the label of the system accreditation by the end of 2019 is possible. Please visit the webpage Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency ZEvA for more information.
From October 2017, the tuition fee for the master program is 6,000 euro per semester which includes the regular TU administration fees. This covers all courses and materials plus public transportation service in the city of Berlin.
Schneider Electric is offering scholarships for this program.
The application deadline is April 30th of each year for a start in October of the same year.
You can send us your application documents from February through April 2019 for the next academic year 2019/2020 starting in October 2019.
The number of students is limited to 30 per year. An admission committee decides about the selection based on a ranking taking into account overall qualification, work experience, language skills, results of former studies and the study profile.


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Wicona Curtain Walling for Glasgow Velodrome
Source: www.wicona.co.uk
The Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome have just been completed, creating a new world class sporting landmark for Scotland.
Curtain walling from Wicona was specified for this fantastic venue, which will be the showpiece for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.Designed by architects 3DReid and built by Sir Robert McAlpine for Glasgow City Council, this £116m development is one of the largest indoor sports facilities in Europe and Scotland's first indoor velodrome. It is set to attract sporting competitions of the highest standards to Glasgow and will provide an outstanding community facility and a lasting legacy for the people of Scotland.The complex is one of the most versatile, flexible and innovative structures of its type in Europe. It houses two stadia – a 5,000-seat indoor arena and a 2,000-seat velodrome for key 2014 events such as cycling and badminton. Between the twin halls is a connecting circulation space, the 'hub', which accommodates ancillary facilities and the headquarters of the national sport federation.The Wicona aluminium Wictec 50 curtain walling solution was specified by 3DReid to accommodate large unsupported spans of glass of up to 4m long. Special connections for the transoms and mullions were engineered to take the heavier loads for the spans.The system also offered slim sections and consistent profile sizes across the project.
Fabricated and installed by Dane Architectural Systems in a £1m façade contract, the curtain walling was faceted for the velodrome to follow the curve of this striking building and was used with curved bull nose caps to add interest to the façade by accentuating the horizontal profiles.
The system spans four storeys on the hub that links the two venues, and 77m long screens of grid curtain walling were constructed to enclose the arena. Other areas of glazing include the atria roof and the level 2 entrance.
Commenting on the specification of Wicona curtain walling for this high profile project, Rolf Basler, architect for the building envelope at 3DReid said "The Wictec system could accommodate all the technical complexities of this project in terms of spans, loads and uniformity of appearance for the grid and faceted elements."
He added, "The system was well fabricated and the project was supported by valuable technical input from the Wicona team."
The Wicona Wictec curtain walling suite has been used extensively both in the UK and internationally. It features a wide range of structural aluminium profiles to accommodate vertical, angled, sloped and faceted situations for optimum creative freedom. There are options for additional security, fire protection and bullet resistance without altering the appearance of the façade.
The Wictec 50 system uses a 50mm profile which has an extra-narrow face width, both internally and externally.
State-of-the-art facilities at the Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome include a 200m long hydraulic running track, telescopic seating to allow good sightlines for spectators, and a 250m high-banked indoor cycle track with a multi-use in-field area. The scheme also incorporates a community sports centre, four flood-lit five-a-side pitches, a 1km outdoor cycle track, gym, spa, dance studio and indoor roller sports facility.
Wicona offers a range of technically advanced glazing systems for complex and bespoke aluminium façades. Its products include unitised and stick curtain walling, structural and roof glazing, highly insulated window systems and heavy duty doors.
The project team for the Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome includes:
• Client: Glasgow City Council
• Project managers: Davis Langdon
• Architects: 3D Reid
• Main contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine
• Façade system: Wicona
• Façade contractor: Dane Architectural
www.wicona.co.uk
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The American Scenario in The Glass Industry
The United States is honoring its role, to the best of its ability, as the world's locomotive, although despite the positive performance of the real estate market, America seems to be recovering slower than expected.
Season's Greetings and Happy New Year!
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SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit in U.S. District Court Against View, Inc.
SAGE Electrochromics, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of dynamic glass, located in Faribault, Minn., today announced it has filed a lawsuit in U.S.
Turkish glass producer to expand operations at home and abroad with the help of EBRD loans
The EBRD is providing loans worth €110 million to Turkish glass manufacturer Trakya Cam A.Ş. that will expand its product range at home and in Bulgaria and also establish a presence on the Russian market, setting new standards in energy efficiency.
Naturalness. Living. Enjoyment. The Brau Beviale 2012
Verallia Deutschland was showcased at the BRAU BEVIALE in Nuremberg. The large, illuminated glass wall in Hall 4 promises: "Naturalness.


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using Arma3BE.Client.Infrastructure.Commands;
using Arma3BE.Client.Infrastructure.Events.BE;
using Arma3BE.Client.Infrastructure.Models;
using Arma3BE.Client.Modules.AdminsModule.Helpers;
using Arma3BE.Server;
using Arma3BEClient.Libs.Repositories;
using Prism.Events;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Admin = Arma3BE.Server.Models.Admin;

namespace Arma3BE.Client.Modules.AdminsModule.Models
{
    public class ServerMonitorAdminsViewModel : ServerMonitorBaseViewModel<Admin, Admin>
    {
        private readonly AdminHelper _helper;

        public ServerMonitorAdminsViewModel(ServerInfoDto serverInfo, IEventAggregator eventAggregator)
            : base(new ActionCommand(() => SendCommand(eventAggregator, serverInfo.Id, CommandType.Admins)), new AdminComparer())
        {
            _helper = new AdminHelper(serverInfo.Id);

            eventAggregator.GetEvent<BEMessageEvent<BEItemsMessage<Admin>>>().Subscribe(async e =>
            {
                if (e.ServerId == serverInfo.Id)
                {
                    await SetDataAsync(e.Items);
                    WaitingForEvent = false;
                }
            });
        }

        public string Title => "Admins";

        protected override async Task<IEnumerable<Admin>> RegisterDataAsync(IEnumerable<Admin> initialData)
        {
            var enumerable = initialData as IList<Admin> ?? initialData.ToList();
            await _helper.RegisterAdminsAsync(enumerable);
            return enumerable;
        }

        private static void SendCommand(IEventAggregator eventAggregator, Guid serverId, CommandType commandType,
            string parameters = null)
        {
            eventAggregator.GetEvent<BEMessageEvent<BECommand>>()
                .Publish(new BECommand(serverId, commandType, parameters));
        }

        private class AdminComparer : IEqualityComparer<Admin>
        {
            public bool Equals(Admin x, Admin y)
            {
                return x.Num == y.Num && x.IP == y.IP && x.Port == y.Port;
            }

            public int GetHashCode(Admin obj)
            {
                return obj.GetHashCode();
            }
        }
    }
}


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sportsCowboys
Another run with Witten? A reunion with Dez? The Cowboys need to move on from both possibilities
Here's why bringing back franchise greats in Jason Witten and Dez Bryant doesn't make sense for this Dallas team.
FILE - Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) celebrates a play with wide receiver Dez Bryant (88) during the fourth quarter of a game on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
By Kevin Sherrington
1:56 PM on Feb 28, 2020 CST
Most of my best thinking happens during a shower, which is unfortunate not only for the brief interludes of lucidity but mainly because the laptop isn't waterproof. Jerry Jones apparently likes to think in the shower, too. At least that's when he says he ponders Dez Bryant's return to the Cowboys. Next time, let's hope a water main breaks on Preston.
Nothing against Dez or Jason Witten, for that matter. Couple of the best Cowboys ever. Next stop for both will be the Ring of Honor, the hallowed company they should be keeping these days.
Because it's time to play the kids, isn't it?
Witten came back last season after sitting in a TV booth for a year, and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Dak Prescott missed him while he was gone. He'd also help make up for the absence of Cole Beasley.
Only that's not how it worked out. He finished third on the team in catches (63) and fourth in yards (529), among career lows in both. But the problem wasn't so much his numbers as everyone else's.
The Cowboys targeted Witten 83 times, same as Randall Cobb. Except on Cobb's targets, the Cowboys moved the ball 828 yards, nearly 300 yards farther than they did with Witten. You could argue they'd have been better off throwing the ball to Cobb more often.
You could also say the same about Blake Jarwin. Witten's heir apparent caught 31 passes for 365 yards on 41 targets last season, roughly half as many as Witten. On those 31 catches, he totaled 160 yards after the catch. Witten had 171 on twice as many receptions.
Now, I won't argue that Jarwin blocks as well or is a better leader. He may never match Witten in those areas. Witten's not only a Ring of Honor cinch, he's a Hall of Famer. But right now, Jarwin is a bigger threat, and he's earned the right for more opportunities.
I know what you're thinking: Why not reverse the roles and make Witten the back-up? Jason gets one last shot at a Super Bowl and everyone goes home happy.
Maybe that would even work, but the problem is that Witten has never played second fiddle to anyone. He's rarely come off the field. It's one of the reasons Martellus Bennett made a name for himself someplace else. Other teams have incorporated two tight ends effectively. Works pretty well in Philadelphia with Zach Ertz and Dallas Goedert, anyway. But not here.
The question is whether Witten could really take a back seat. Jason Garrett had too much respect for Witten to ask him to do less. Maybe Mike McCarthy, an outsider now on the inside, could make it happen, but it ought to be a last resort.
Which brings us to Dez. Goes without saying that if Witten is an alpha male at tight end, Dez is the next step up on the psychological scale. The man always wanted the ball. Problem was, Prescott couldn't find him enough.
In their two years on the field together, the lack of chemistry between Dak and Dez was obvious. One of the reasons Beasley became a star. Dak always knew where Beasley was going to be. He'd run his routes, and he'd be open when Dak looked.
Dez wasn't nearly as efficient running routes, as you're probably aware by now. He wasn't any better when Tony Romo was his quarterback, either. But Romo could get the best out of Dez in pretty much any situation. He took chances. He didn't care if Dez was open. He'd put the ball in spots where only Dez could get it, and for the most part, it worked fabulously.
The difference now is that Dak doesn't have Romo's arm talent, and he's not a gambler, either. That's a good thing, by the way. Ask Jimmy Johnson about turnovers and your odds of winning.
Bottom line: If Dak and Dez weren't on the same page two years ago, what makes you think they would be now? Dez has been out two years, and with a significant injury, to boot.
And where, exactly, would Dez fit anyway? Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup, a star on the rise, put up 1,000-yard seasons last year. Let's take Cobb out of the equation because he mostly plays in the slot. Do you know how many targets Tavon Austin, Devin Smith and Cedrick Wilson had in all? Forty-one.
Do you think Dez would be happy with 41 targets? Not the Dez that I remember, smoke streaming from him on the sideline.
Even if Dez is different now, he's 31, and the role he could play is best served by someone younger, no doubt cheaper, not to mention with a future.
No matter how spectacular the career or great the desire, sooner or later the time comes for every athlete to move on. If not, the team has to do it. Unfortunately, it's not an easy thing to do at the Star. Or in Jerry's shower, apparently.
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Government intervention turns concern for mining industry
Reopening of mining leases are getting delayed due to bureaucracy, justifiably not feeling confident in approving files, which might form part of investigations in future, says Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI)
Sai Nikesh | The Dollar Business
The year 2014 was a tough fight for the global mining industry with commodity prices down, short-term volatility increasing and initial scorecard for the top 40 global mining companies was mixed, said a PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) review report on global trends in the mining industry- Mine 2015. Now, the gloves are off for the mining industry with widespread government intervention, internal industry conflicts and rising shareholder activism, noted the report. Responding to above statement in the Indian context, Basant Poddar, Vice-president of Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI), MD, Mineral Enterprises Ltd., told The Dollar Business that 'mining industry in India is facing severe challenges due to higher political intervention'. To a question on 'whether government policies are offering favourable environment for miners,' he said, "In the past, Iron- Ore Mining Industry in India, particularly in Karnataka has been plagued with political influence which left to rampant illegal mining, aftershocks of which was felt in other State of India as well." Though the Supreme Court has lifted the ban for Iron Ore mining in Karnataka in 2012, out of 116 'A' & 'B' eligible mines, only 22 have re-started, he added. He further informed that M/s Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd in Mangalore, Karnataka is buying Iron Ore from Madhya Pradesh (NMDC, Bailadulla)- Railing it to Vizag Port, unloading, loading then shipping it to Mangalore, all the way around Sri Lanka.' Similarly, Visweswarayya Iron and Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) in Badravathi, Karnataka, is moving Iron Ore by rakes from nearly 2000 Kms. All these are happening when Iron Ores (for both the said industries) are available within 300-400 Kms range in the State and these activities are a travesty of commercial, environmental aspects and a hugely 'carbon negative'. And, reopening of mining leases are getting delayed due to bureaucracy justifiably not feeling confident in approving files which might form part of investigations in future, he noted. "India should impose anti-dumping duties on consignments from overseas," he said further, when sought opinion on the government's recent move over 'imposing of anti-dumping measures on steel consignments from countries like China, Thailand, among others'. On the role of private players in mining industry, he said, "Private sector will play a very important role, not only in the Mining Industry, but also in exploration." As per the analysis by the largest 40 miners from PwC, the mining industry trimmed spending and largely managed expectations through higher production and unexpected help from currency devaluations and lower input costs, despite continuing challenges from weak commodity prices. While the mining industry has been indicating intention to reduce capital spending for the last two years, such reductions were actually realised in 2014 as expenditures on significant projects declined 20%, noted the report. A key measure of the industry's investment agenda, capital velocity, slowed to just over 12% with further decreases expected in 2015. According to the report, a decrease in commodity prices across various commodities which resulted in lower revenues was partially offset by increased volumes, particularly in iron ore where supply expanded as a result of large expansion programs. A decline in iron-ore prices as a result of oversupply has significant impact on top 40 miners, said the report, adding, 'market trends and demand supply result in miners operating on the assumption that 'low commodity prices would continue driving further focus on containing of operational costs and maintaining capital accountability'. According to the report, majority of the largest mining companies coming from BRICS countries tend to focus on mining in emerging markets exclusively and those in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tend to have more diverse global portfolios.
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Convert nearly any file to a variety of high-definition output formats that run on Apple, Android, Windows, and other devices.
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Any Video Converter supports more input video formats than any other video converter program I've used. While testing the program, it seemed to convert quickly and without any troubles.
The worst thing I experienced with Any Video Converter is that it constantly nags you to purchase the professional version for more features. While it's easy to exit the prompt, it still occurs far too often.
If you're asked to download something during setup that you don't want, just uncheck the box before clicking Next. Otherwise, it will install with Any Video Converter and you'll have to uninstall it later if you don't want it.


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Q: jQuery Functions within functions I am trying to write a function with multiple callback functions. Am I doing this right or is there a better way?
    $('.question a').click(function(ev) {
        $('.answers').load(url, function() {
            $('#AnswerBox').addClass('mceEditor',
                function() {tinyMCE.init({
                    theme : "advanced",
                    mode : "specific_textareas",
                    editor_selector : "AnswerBox",
                    elements: "AnswerBox",
                    plugins : "fullpage",
                    theme_advanced_buttons3_add : "fullpage",
                });
            })
        })
    return false;
    });

I know you can do a 2-layer function in this way, but can you also do more?

A: You can nest more than "3 layers deep." Though, you're using the jQuery.addClass method incorrectly.
See http://api.jquery.com/addClass/
That's, most likely, where your issue is.

A: Any function scope can contain other function definitions which can then contain more defintions and so on as deep as you want to go.
When you do that, those function definitions are local only to within that function scope.  Since any function scope can contain other function definitions, it can go as deep as you want to go, probably limited only by some internal memory or stack limitations in a given javascript limitation.  Practically speaking, you are not likely to hit a limit unless you intentionally make some devious structure that has no practical purpose.

A: Yes, you can nest more functions, but callback functions are used to know when asynchronous events are complete.Setting class doesn't happen asynchronously, so you dont have any callback function in addClass. So it should be something like,
$('.question a').click(function(ev) {
        $('.answers').load(url, function() {
            $('#AnswerBox').addClass('mceEditor').
                tinyMCE({
                    theme : "advanced",
                    mode : "specific_textareas",
                    editor_selector : "AnswerBox",
                    elements: "AnswerBox",
                    plugins : "fullpage",
                    theme_advanced_buttons3_add : "fullpage"
            });
        });
    return false;
    });

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Teràpia de shock és un grup de pop-rock català creat l'any 2006 per uns joves de les Preses (la Garrotxa). El grup va agafar un especial renom després de ser la banda sonora de la sèrie de Televisió de Catalunya Polseres vermelles i es va dissoldre en 2016, després d'editar cinc discos.

Història
Durant l'estiu de l'any 2006 Ferran Massegú , que ja cantava amb un grup d'amics, i Jaume Sucarrats, que tocava la guitarra, es van trobar en diverses ocasions per tocar plegats diverses cançons amb guitarra acústica i veu. Arran d'aquestes trobades van començar a compondre algunes melodies que amb el temps van anar-se convertint en cançons com «Carla» i «Sense tu». Gerard López es va incorporar al grup quan només tenia tretze anys. Setmanes més tard es va incorporar el baixista olotí Albert Parés. El 15 d'agost de 2008, Teràpia de Shock va presentar la cançó «Sense tu» al Concurs de Cançó de Salitja on van ser el grup més votat pel públic assistent que els va atorgar el Premi Popular.

L'any 2008 publiquen Escapa't amb mi, el grup guanya el Premi Enderrock al millor Grup Revelació, que van rebre el 19 de febrer a l'acte que es va fer a la Sala Bikini de Barcelona, i fan diversos concerts, entre els quals destaca el del Senglar Rock. El 2009 van obtenir el premi Enderrock al millor lloc web.

Després de dos anys de l'edició del seu disc de presentació Escapa't amb mi, presenten el nou treball Tota la nit. Durant els mesos de novembre i desembre de 2010 el grup porta a terme diferents concerts benèfics a favor de la Marató i del projecte Un nen, un somriure. També actua a la festa dels castellers com a Patrimoni cultural immaterial de la Humanitat. Immersos en les composicions de les seves noves cançons i al mateix temps creant un espectacle per a teatres, Teràpia de shock estrena a Olot amb un espectacle anomenat Teràpia en companyia amb les col·laboracions musicals del pianista Edgar Basiana, i la cantant Paula Arbós, així com del cor juvenil Gaia d'Olot, amb una vintena de veus femenines a l'escenari, sota la direcció artística de Josep Maria Reixach. L'espectacle també el representen al Teatre de Bescanó i a l'Auditori de Girona.

L'any 2011 va suposar la consolidació del grup fruit de la repercussió de la cançó «Sense tu», que formava part de la banda sonora de la sèrie de Televisió de Catalunya Polseres vermelles i van continuar amb les presentacions del darrer disc, amb un concert a la Sala Apolo de Barcelona. El videoclip de la cançó «Sense tu» va superar el milió de visites al portal YouTube, xifra mai aconseguida fins aleshores per cap grup en català.

El 2012 van ser protagonistes de la revista Enderrock del mes de gener i el mes de març es va publicar un llibre sobre el grup.

Després de la gira del seu tercer disc, Que mai no pari (2013), el guitarrista Jaume Sucarrats deixà la banda per dedicar-se a la comunicació audiovisual, i el substituí l'osonenc Guillem Soler (teclats, guitarres i veus). El 2015 van presentar el seu quart treball, 10.000 històries, format per tretze cançons i gravat als estudis 44.1 d'Aiguaviva amb Marc Usano, productor dels seus dos primers discs. El 2016 Teràpia de Shock fa deu anys que el grup es va formar, i per fer una recopilació han fet un disc que hi ha totes les seves cançons més conegudes dels quatre discos que han compost, i per celebrar-ho fan una gira que comença a l'abril i s'acabarà el octubre, i el disc porta una nova cançó que es titula A prop.

Discografia

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Enllaços externs

Grups de rock catalans en català
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Q: Different programming languages possibilities This should be very simple question. There are many programming languages out there, compiled into machine code or managed code. I first started with ASM back in high school. Assembler is very nice, since you know what exactly CPU does. Next, (as you can see from my other questions here) I decided to learn C and C++. I chose C becouse from what I read it is the language with output most close to assembler-written programs.
But, what I want to know is, can any other Windows programming language out there call win32 API? To be exact, like C has its special header and functions for win32 api interactions, is this assumed to be some important part of programming language? Or are there any languages that have no support for calling win32 API, or just use console to IO and some functions for basic file IO? Becouse, for Windows programming with graphic output, it is essential to have acess to win32 API. I know this question might seem silly, but still please, help me, I ask for study porposes. Thanks.

A: Lots of different languages have a way of opening and using windows DLL files so you can just open the system DLLs which contain the API functions and use them.
Some languages such as C help you out by providing a nice header file with everything already defined.
The only other language i've ever seen that has direct access to the WinAPI without needing to open any library beforehand is a BASIC dialect called Purebasic.

A: Are you asking how to call Win32 from assembly?
Just use MASM (or TASM, or...)
Example hello world calling Win32:
==== HelloWin.asm ==============================
.586
.model flat, stdcall

EXTERN MessageBoxA@16:NEAR

.data
szCaption db 'Hello World',0
szAppName db 'HelloWorld',0

.code
start:
push 0
push offset szCaption
push offset szAppName
push 0
call MessageBoxA@16
ret

end start
===================================================

To assemble:
ml.exe /coff /c HelloWin.asm
To link:
link /subsystem:windows HelloWin.obj /defaultlib:C:\masm32\lib\user32.lib

A: The first language that I used to get to the Windows API was VB4. Yes most languages can get to the API in some manner.

A: Win32 functionality is available from C, C++, VB, VB .net and C#.  In the later two, you generally use the nice CLR libraries, but you can call native (unmanaged) APIs directly if you know the right syntactic sugar to sprinkle around.
Win32 usage is not limited to the above list.  It is a C API for a reason: so that any language that essentially knows how to make the right kind of function call can call them.  And in this case, "the right kind" is stdcall.  All the language's compiler (or whatever) has to do is load the right DLL, push the arguments (and other info) onto the stack in the right order, and you're good to go.


It's been a decade since Patrick became the first female winner in Indy racing.
On April 20, 2008, Danica Patrick took the checkered flag at the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan.
With the win, the 26-year-old driver became the first female winner in IndyCar racing history.
It's been a decade since Patrick got her first win and in the years since she has accomplished a number of other firsts for women in American auto racing on both the NASCAR and IndyCar track.
Unfortunately, Patrick will hang up her racing gloves after driving as a pro for the final time at this year's Indianapolis 500, ending her unofficial reign of being the fastest woman in racing.
So who will take her spot? We'd rather not guess. Instead, we'd like to honor Patrick's first win and her passing of the proverbial torch by introducing you to 10 other ladies (and their Instagram accounts) with a major need for speed on the racetrack, mountain slope or street.
A Wisconsin native who started competing behind the wheel of a go-kart as a kid, Natalie was named the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Rookie of the Year in Florida in 2015. Out of all the pro-female drivers competing, Natalie is considered by some to be the most likely to fill Patrick's shoes.
A big mountain skiers who's fared quite gnarly on the Freeride World Tour, Hadley is also a sommelier, gourmet chef and self-admitted book nerd. A native of Jackson, WY, Hadley was rock climbing and skiing before she could walk and has a B.A in Hospitality and Economics.
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A New York City native and Stanford University grad, Julia Landauer is a two-time championship-winning NASCAR driver. The first woman to win a NASCAR Track Championship at Motor Mile Speedway in her division, Julia became the first female champion in the Skip Barber Racing Series at age 14.
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Q: Search in the database without considering HTML tags in MySql and Laravel I have a record in the database as
I am <b>"Asking"</b> a question

in the column called log_message using
LogTable::where('log_message','like','%I am "Asking" a ques%')

Is there any way to achieve that?

A: The easiest but performance-wise pretty costly way is to remove the HTML in your log_message column beforehand using MySQLs REGEXP_REPLACE function (the RegEx coming from here):
LogTable::whereRaw('regexp_replace(log_message, "<[^>]*>", "") like ?', '%I am "Asking" a ques%')

Alternatively if your're using MySQL 5.7+, you can add a generated column to your table with the same RegEx used in the raw where query above:
alter table
    logs_table
add column
    log_message_clean text as
    (
        regexp_replace(log_message, '<[^>]*>', '')
    );

or if you want to manually set the contents of your column manually (like in your code to have better control of what gets removed, with strip_tags or Purifier for example), just add a new column and have your mode automatically update this column on every change where the base column log_message gets changed:
protected static function boot(): void
{
    self::creating(function (LogTable $model) {
        $model->log_message_clean = strip_tags($model->log_message);
    });
}

A: You can perform a Full Text Search if you're using InnoDB or MyISAM tables.
$search = "like','%I am \"Asking\" a ques%";
LogTable::whereRaw('match(log_message) against(?)', [$search])->get();

Then you'll need to add a Full Text index.
DB:statement('alter table log_table add fulltext fulltext_index(log_message)');


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OLD PARKED CARS.: 1966 Pontiac Bonneville.
Thanks Tony, this car brings back good memories. My Uncle Bob had one. These cars were big and powerful. Pontiac at its best!
You guys should have a fender skirts tag.
Not a bad idea Calvin. Man, that back end really is an image. From the fins to the world's longest tail lights, I'm in love with this thing from the B Pillar back. Oh wait, it's a hardtop.
Perfect shots with perfect lighting. Front and rear shots especially-love the Datsun 620 with a cap zooming by.
The first time I saw it was four years ago and I knew that it was a topped ranked baby during its time. I was really wondering why this car was never that popular in its first few years and the early 1970's. I like this model a lot because this was the time; they didn't care much about the size so this is the Pontiac that never reconsidered for its wide body unlike the newer Bonneville during the 80's.
Look at the size of that trunk!


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The demands are likely to turn up pressure on al-Bashir to find a way out of the crisis. Sudan has seen two weeks of violent street protests, with dozens killed. The protests were initially sparked by steep price hikes, a fuel shortage and a liquidity crunch that forced authorities to place a ceiling on bank withdrawals and led to long lines at ATMs.
On Thursday, al-Bashir touted improvements to Sudan's infrastructure since he seized power in a 1989 coup. He said international sanctions targeting Sudan, which is on the U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism, have inhibited economic progress.
"We are subjected to both war and sanctions, but Sudan has remained steadfast," he said in a speech before representatives of pro-government unions in Khartoum.
"They gave me salty water to rinse my mouth and I continued working… Let no one talk to me about poverty and suffering because I lived them," he said, adding that he never replaced the missing tooth because he wanted to remember the hardships he had endured.
Sudan's economy has stagnated for most of al-Bashir's rule. He has also failed to unite or keep the peace in the religiously and ethnically diverse nation, losing three quarters of Sudan's oil wealth when the south seceded in 2011 following a referendum.