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Starters Make Cowboys Serious Contenders, But Depth is a Concern
Playing in the National Football Conference, the Dallas Cowboys have a difficult task ahead of them if they are to be serious Super Bowl contenders. Even still, they've become a very underrated football team due to their 9-7 record last season. The Cowboys struggled in many areas and with the Philadelphia Eagles crowned as Super Bowl Champions, everyone has forgotten about America's Team.
2017 was an awful year for the Cowboys. It seemed like a roller coaster of success, putting up an impressive performance one week only to disappoint the next one. Let's be honest with ourselves here and talk about what really ended the Cowboys' last season.
Injuries.
As much as we talk about how there shouldn't be any excuses in football - the Eagles made a huge statement by winning it all with a backup QB and other key starters missing - we can't deny the impact of these injuries.
Anthony Hitchens, Sean Lee, Tyron Smith and Ezekiel Elliott all missed some time last year, affecting the team's performance week in and week out. Had the starters been healthy, the truth is this team would've been in the playoffs.
Heading into 2018, the Cowboys will face a very similar situation. This year, starters make Dallas a serious contender. Even if they're playing in a conference that will feature a lot of quality teams, the Cowboys are a team that could beat any team in the league if healthy.
Even the dreaded wide receiver position - which has been famous this offseason for the lack of a #1 receiver - won't be as bad as we make it out to be starter-wise. A starting trio of Allen Hurns, Michael Gallup and Cole Beasley doesn't really sound bad.
Heck, not even Jeff Heath and Xavier Woods starting at safety is concerning. They have what it takes to be decent starters. Sure, Heath isn't a guy who will make the Pro Bowl, but his skills will show on the field once the season starts in September.
The Cowboys' starters will do just fine this season. If the team's fate is up to them, they are in a very good spot. The same can not be said about depth, though.
Except for the defensive line, every other position lacks depth. If Sean Lee goes down, the linebackers stop looking like a three-headed monster. Same goes for the cornerbacks. Byron Jones, Chidobe Awuzie and Jourdan Lewis seem like a good group but as soon as one of them suffers an injury, the Cowboys will be in trouble.
We're in for an exciting season with a lot of young talent waiting to breakout. The Cowboys are underrated this year. They may not be among the NFC's favorites, but they truly have what it takes to replicate the success they had in 2016. However, it seems like circumstances have to be ideal for them to make a run for the Lombardi Trophy.
With a little bit of luck, they'll bounce back this season.
Tell me what you think about "Starters Make Cowboys Serious Contenders, But Depth is a Concern" in the comments below, or tweet me @MauNFL and let's talk football! If you like football and are looking for a Dallas Cowboys show in Spanish, don't miss my weekly Facebook Live! show, Primero Cowboys!
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Q: (array) $cada; e aberto Tenho um array($todos) de objetos($cada)  e o seguinte foreach:
  foreach ($todos as $cada):

     $produto[] = (array) $cada;

     $produtos[] = array(
           'idProduto' => $cada->getIdProduto(),
           'tipo' => $cada->getTipo(),
           'modelo' => $cada->getModelo(),
           'bandejas' => $cada->getBandejas(),
           'peso' => $cada->getPeso(),
           'prensagem' => $cada->getPrensagem(),
           'precoUnitario' => $cada->getPrecoUnitario(),
           'comprimento' => $cada->getComprimento(),
           'largura' => $cada->getLargura(),
           'cabo' => $cada->getCabo(),
           'ligacao' => $cada->getLigacao(),
           'potencia' => $cada->getPotencia(),
           'cosumo' => $cada->getConsumo(),
           'corrente' => $cada->getCorrente(),
           'disjuntor' => $cada->getDisjuntor(),
           'descricao' => $cada->getDescricao(),
           'estoque' => $cada->getEstoque(),
           'freteGratis' => $cada->getFreteGratis(),
           'bloqueado' => $cada->getBloqueado()
           );

  endforeach;

Preciso converter os arrays $produto e produtos em JSON
Segue os PRINT_R() de ambos.
Esse é o PRINT_R do Array $produto:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [ProdutosidProduto] => 1
            [Produtostipo] => mp
            [Produtosmodelo] => F540 2 BAN.PNEU. 100 X 60
            [Produtosbandejas] => 2
            [Produtospeso] => 0
            [Produtosprensagem] => 0
            [ProdutosprecoUnitario] => 6500
            [Produtoscomprimento] => 100
            [Produtoslargura] => 60
            [Produtoscabo] => 0
            [Produtosligacao] => n
            [Produtospotencia] => 0
            [Produtosconsumo] => 0
            [Produtoscorrente] => 0
            [Produtosdisjuntor] => 0
            [Produtosdescricao] =>
Valor promocional limitado frete grátis ,para SP ,RJ ,MG ,ES. Os demais será cobrado apenas de SP para sua cidade ,valor de 500,00 ,a ser pago na entrega .

MAQUINA TOTALMENTE INDUSTRIAL E 100% NACIONAL .PRODUÇÃO DE ATÉ MIL PÇS POR DIA EM HORÁRIO NORMAL DE TRABALHO ,SISTEMA DIGITAL AUTOMATIZADO DE ÚLTIMA GERAÇÃO , SISTEMA PNEUMÁTICO COMPACTO E UNIFORME RECEBENDO A MESMA PRESSÃO EM TODA ÁREA DE ESTAMPAGEM, EVITANDO ASSIM OS SOMBREAMENTOS E EFEITOS FANTASMA NA ESTAMPA , SISTEMA DE RESISTÊNCIA DE ALTA QUALIDADE A MELHOR DO MERCADO AÇO INOX 304 , DANDO UMA VIDA ÚTIL MUITO SUPERIOR AS DEMAIS DO MERCADO , E FÁCIL TROCAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS NÃO SENDO NECESSÁRIO TÉCNICO NO LOCAL , COM APENAS 4 PARAFUSOS O CLIENTE MESMO FAZ A TROCA, AS DEMAIS A RESISTÊNCIA É FUNDIDA NA CHAPA DE ALUMÍNIO SENDO IMPOSSÍVEL A TROCA APENAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS , TEMOS TODAS AS PÇS DA PRENSA EM VALORES BEM ACESSÍVEIS.
            [Produtosestoque] => 7
            [ProdutosfreteGratis] => s
            [Produtosbloqueado] => n
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [ProdutosidProduto] => 2
            [Produtostipo] => mp
            [Produtosmodelo] => F540 2 BAN.PNEU.80X100 A VISTA BOLETO PAGSEGURO
            [Produtosbandejas] => 2
            [Produtospeso] => 190
            [Produtosprensagem] => 300
            [ProdutosprecoUnitario] => 7500
            [Produtoscomprimento] => 70
            [Produtoslargura] => 100
            [Produtoscabo] => 6
            [Produtosligacao] => b
            [Produtospotencia] => 7500
            [Produtosconsumo] => 3
            [Produtoscorrente] => 35
            [Produtosdisjuntor] => 40
            [Produtosdescricao] => MAQUINA TOTALMENTE INDUSTRIAL E 100% NACIONAL .PRODUÇÃO DE ATÉ MIL PÇS POR DIA EM HORÁRIO NORMAL DE TRABALHO ,SISTEMA DIGITAL AUTOMATIZADO DE ÚLTIMA GERAÇÃO , SISTEMA PNEUMÁTICO COMPACTO E UNIFORME RECEBENDO A MESMA PRESSÃO EM TODA ÁREA DE ESTAMPAGEM, EVITANDO ASSIM OS SOMBREAMENTOS E EFEITOS FANTASMA NA ESTAMPA , SISTEMA DE RESISTÊNCIA DE ALTA QUALIDADE A MELHOR DO MERCADO AÇO INOX 304 , DANDO UMA VIDA ÚTIL MUITO SUPERIOR AS DEMAIS DO MERCADO , E FÁCIL TROCAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS NÃO SENDO NECESSÁRIO TÉCNICO NO LOCAL , COM APENAS 4 PARAFUSOS O CLIENTE MESMO FAZ A TROCA, AS DEMAIS A RESISTÊNCIA É FUNDIDA NA CHAPA DE ALUMÍNIO SENDO IMPOSSÍVEL A TROCA APENAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS , TEMOS TODAS AS PÇS DA PRENSA EM VALORES BEM ACESSÍVEIS.
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            [Produtosestoque] => 8
            [ProdutosfreteGratis] => n
            [Produtosbloqueado] => n
        )

Esse é o PRINT_R do Array $produtos:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [idProduto] => 1
            [tipo] => mp
            [modelo] => F540 2 BAN.PNEU. 100 X 60
            [bandejas] => 2
            [peso] => 0
            [prensagem] => 0
            [precoUnitario] => 6500
            [comprimento] => 100
            [largura] => 60
            [cabo] => 0
            [ligacao] => n
            [potencia] => 0
            [cosumo] => 0
            [corrente] => 0
            [disjuntor] => 0
            [descricao] =>
Valor promocional limitado frete grátis ,para SP ,RJ ,MG ,ES. Os demais será cobrado apenas de SP para sua cidade ,valor de 500,00 ,a ser pago na entrega .

MAQUINA TOTALMENTE INDUSTRIAL E 100% NACIONAL .PRODUÇÃO DE ATÉ MIL PÇS POR DIA EM HORÁRIO NORMAL DE TRABALHO ,SISTEMA DIGITAL AUTOMATIZADO DE ÚLTIMA GERAÇÃO , SISTEMA PNEUMÁTICO COMPACTO E UNIFORME RECEBENDO A MESMA PRESSÃO EM TODA ÁREA DE ESTAMPAGEM, EVITANDO ASSIM OS SOMBREAMENTOS E EFEITOS FANTASMA NA ESTAMPA , SISTEMA DE RESISTÊNCIA DE ALTA QUALIDADE A MELHOR DO MERCADO AÇO INOX 304 , DANDO UMA VIDA ÚTIL MUITO SUPERIOR AS DEMAIS DO MERCADO , E FÁCIL TROCAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS NÃO SENDO NECESSÁRIO TÉCNICO NO LOCAL , COM APENAS 4 PARAFUSOS O CLIENTE MESMO FAZ A TROCA, AS DEMAIS A RESISTÊNCIA É FUNDIDA NA CHAPA DE ALUMÍNIO SENDO IMPOSSÍVEL A TROCA APENAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS , TEMOS TODAS AS PÇS DA PRENSA EM VALORES BEM ACESSÍVEIS.
            [estoque] => 7
            [freteGratis] => s
            [bloqueado] => n
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [idProduto] => 2
            [tipo] => mp
            [modelo] => F540 2 BAN.PNEU.80X100 A VISTA BOLETO PAGSEGURO
            [bandejas] => 2
            [peso] => 190
            [prensagem] => 300
            [precoUnitario] => 7500
            [comprimento] => 70
            [largura] => 100
            [cabo] => 6
            [ligacao] => b
            [potencia] => 7500
            [cosumo] => 3
            [corrente] => 35
            [disjuntor] => 40
            [descricao] => MAQUINA TOTALMENTE INDUSTRIAL E 100% NACIONAL .PRODUÇÃO DE ATÉ MIL PÇS POR DIA EM HORÁRIO NORMAL DE TRABALHO ,SISTEMA DIGITAL AUTOMATIZADO DE ÚLTIMA GERAÇÃO , SISTEMA PNEUMÁTICO COMPACTO E UNIFORME RECEBENDO A MESMA PRESSÃO EM TODA ÁREA DE ESTAMPAGEM, EVITANDO ASSIM OS SOMBREAMENTOS E EFEITOS FANTASMA NA ESTAMPA , SISTEMA DE RESISTÊNCIA DE ALTA QUALIDADE A MELHOR DO MERCADO AÇO INOX 304 , DANDO UMA VIDA ÚTIL MUITO SUPERIOR AS DEMAIS DO MERCADO , E FÁCIL TROCAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS NÃO SENDO NECESSÁRIO TÉCNICO NO LOCAL , COM APENAS 4 PARAFUSOS O CLIENTE MESMO FAZ A TROCA, AS DEMAIS A RESISTÊNCIA É FUNDIDA NA CHAPA DE ALUMÍNIO SENDO IMPOSSÍVEL A TROCA APENAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS , TEMOS TODAS AS PÇS DA PRENSA EM VALORES BEM ACESSÍVEIS.
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            [estoque] => 8
            [freteGratis] => n
            [bloqueado] => n
        )

Estou tentando assim
  var res1 =  Array();
  res1 = <?php echo json_encode($produto); ?>;
  document.write(res1[0]["ProdutosidProduto"])

  var res2 =  Array();
  res2 = <?php echo json_encode($produtos); ?>;
  document.write(res2[0]["idProduto"])

no JS, o res2 sai perfeito. Mas o res1 sai undefined
Onde estou errando?
Obs.: Saída PRINT_R() da saída da busca no banco:
Aqui coloquei apenas 2 saídas para não ficar grande!
Array
(
    [0] => Produtos Object
        (
            [idProduto:Produtos:private] => 1
            [tipo:Produtos:private] => mp
            [modelo:Produtos:private] => F540 2 BAN.PNEU. 100 X 60
            [bandejas:Produtos:private] => 2
            [peso:Produtos:private] => 0
            [prensagem:Produtos:private] => 0
            [precoUnitario:Produtos:private] => 6500
            [comprimento:Produtos:private] => 100
            [largura:Produtos:private] => 60
            [cabo:Produtos:private] => 0
            [ligacao:Produtos:private] => n
            [potencia:Produtos:private] => 0
            [consumo:Produtos:private] => 0
            [corrente:Produtos:private] => 0
            [disjuntor:Produtos:private] => 0
            [descricao:Produtos:private] =>
Valor promocional limitado frete grátis ,para SP ,RJ ,MG ,ES. Os demais será cobrado apenas de SP para sua cidade ,valor de 500,00 ,a ser pago na entrega .

MAQUINA TOTALMENTE INDUSTRIAL E 100% NACIONAL .PRODUÇÃO DE ATÉ MIL PÇS POR DIA EM HORÁRIO NORMAL DE TRABALHO ,SISTEMA DIGITAL AUTOMATIZADO DE ÚLTIMA GERAÇÃO , SISTEMA PNEUMÁTICO COMPACTO E UNIFORME RECEBENDO A MESMA PRESSÃO EM TODA ÁREA DE ESTAMPAGEM, EVITANDO ASSIM OS SOMBREAMENTOS E EFEITOS FANTASMA NA ESTAMPA , SISTEMA DE RESISTÊNCIA DE ALTA QUALIDADE A MELHOR DO MERCADO AÇO INOX 304 , DANDO UMA VIDA ÚTIL MUITO SUPERIOR AS DEMAIS DO MERCADO , E FÁCIL TROCAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS NÃO SENDO NECESSÁRIO TÉCNICO NO LOCAL , COM APENAS 4 PARAFUSOS O CLIENTE MESMO FAZ A TROCA, AS DEMAIS A RESISTÊNCIA É FUNDIDA NA CHAPA DE ALUMÍNIO SENDO IMPOSSÍVEL A TROCA APENAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS , TEMOS TODAS AS PÇS DA PRENSA EM VALORES BEM ACESSÍVEIS.
            [estoque:Produtos:private] => 7
            [freteGratis:Produtos:private] => s
            [bloqueado:Produtos:private] => n
        )

    [1] => Produtos Object
        (
            [idProduto:Produtos:private] => 2
            [tipo:Produtos:private] => mp
            [modelo:Produtos:private] => F540 2 BAN.PNEU.80X100 A VISTA BOLETO PAGSEGURO
            [bandejas:Produtos:private] => 2
            [peso:Produtos:private] => 190
            [prensagem:Produtos:private] => 300
            [precoUnitario:Produtos:private] => 7500
            [comprimento:Produtos:private] => 70
            [largura:Produtos:private] => 100
            [cabo:Produtos:private] => 6
            [ligacao:Produtos:private] => b
            [potencia:Produtos:private] => 7500
            [consumo:Produtos:private] => 3
            [corrente:Produtos:private] => 35
            [disjuntor:Produtos:private] => 40
            [descricao:Produtos:private] => MAQUINA TOTALMENTE INDUSTRIAL E 100% NACIONAL .PRODUÇÃO DE ATÉ MIL PÇS POR DIA EM HORÁRIO NORMAL DE TRABALHO ,SISTEMA DIGITAL AUTOMATIZADO DE ÚLTIMA GERAÇÃO , SISTEMA PNEUMÁTICO COMPACTO E UNIFORME RECEBENDO A MESMA PRESSÃO EM TODA ÁREA DE ESTAMPAGEM, EVITANDO ASSIM OS SOMBREAMENTOS E EFEITOS FANTASMA NA ESTAMPA , SISTEMA DE RESISTÊNCIA DE ALTA QUALIDADE A MELHOR DO MERCADO AÇO INOX 304 , DANDO UMA VIDA ÚTIL MUITO SUPERIOR AS DEMAIS DO MERCADO , E FÁCIL TROCAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS NÃO SENDO NECESSÁRIO TÉCNICO NO LOCAL , COM APENAS 4 PARAFUSOS O CLIENTE MESMO FAZ A TROCA, AS DEMAIS A RESISTÊNCIA É FUNDIDA NA CHAPA DE ALUMÍNIO SENDO IMPOSSÍVEL A TROCA APENAS DAS RESISTÊNCIAS , TEMOS TODAS AS PÇS DA PRENSA EM VALORES BEM ACESSÍVEIS.
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            [estoque:Produtos:private] => 8
            [freteGratis:Produtos:private] => n
            [bloqueado:Produtos:private] => n
        )

Aqui vai a geração do Array de Objetos:
  $todos = $produtosDao->pesquisaProdutos();

  foreach ($todos as $cada):

     $produto[] = (array) $cada; //cada um $cada é um objeto

  endforeach;

A: Esta documentação informa:

Se os dados de origem contiverem caracteres de controle, a cláusula
  FOR JSON fará a codificação na saída JSON no formato \u<code>,
  conforme mostrado na tabela a seguir.

No seu caso, algo nesse sentido está ocorrendo e ao codificar para JSON, ele está substituindo por \u0000.
Você pode eliminar esses caracteres fazendo um replace no JSON:
res1 = <?php echo str_replace("\u0000", "", json_encode($produto)); ?>;

Esta pergunta no SOen tem outras informações a respeito do \u0000.

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Q: Access violation executing location 0x0000000000000000 after calling Isolate::New() I can't seem to figure out something getting V8 started up.  I have this code:
if (!_V8Initialized)
{
    v8::V8::InitializeICU();

    v8::V8::InitializeExternalStartupData("x86\\"); // (this loads ok, I checked)

    auto platform = v8::platform::CreateDefaultPlatform();
    v8::V8::InitializePlatform(platform);

    v8::V8::Initialize();

    _V8Initialized = true;
}

auto params = Isolate::CreateParams();
params.array_buffer_allocator = ArrayBuffer::Allocator::NewDefaultAllocator();
_Isolate = Isolate::New(params);

But I get this error:

Exception thrown at 0x0000000000000000 in V8.Net.Console.exe:
  0xC0000005: Access violation executing location 0x0000000000000000.
v8_libbase.dll!v8::base::OS::Abort() Line 832   C++
      v8_libbase.dll!V8_Fatal(const char * file, int line, const char * format, ...) Line 74  C++
      v8.dll!v8::internal::SnapshotData::SnapshotData(const v8::internal::Vector snapshot) Line 28  C++
      v8.dll!v8::internal::Snapshot::Initialize(v8::internal::Isolate * isolate) Line 43  C++
      v8.dll!v8::Isolate::New(const v8::Isolate::CreateParams & params) Line 8237 C++
      V8_Net_Proxy_x64.dll!V8EngineProxy::V8EngineProxy(bool enableDebugging, void()() debugMessageDispatcher, int debugPort) Line 89    C++
      V8_Net_Proxy_x64.dll!CreateV8EngineProxy(bool enableDebugging, void()() debugMessageDispatcher, int debugPort) Line 19 C++
      [Managed to Native Transition]
      V8.Net.dll!V8.Net.V8Engine.V8Engine() Line 246  C#
      V8.Net.Console.exe!V8.Net.Program.Main(string[] args) Line 31   C#
      [Native to Managed Transition]
      mscoreei.dll!00007ffdbdd281ad() Unknown
      mscoree.dll!00007ffdbddc10ab()  Unknown
      kernel32.dll!00007ffdd3868364() Unknown
      ntdll.dll!00007ffdd5ef70d1()    Unknown

It seems to be failing here:
explicit SnapshotData(const Vector<const byte> snapshot)
  : SerializedData(const_cast<byte*>(snapshot.begin()), snapshot.length()) {
    CHECK(IsSane()); <-- THIS FAILS
}

I followed the source code here (for the most part): https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/branch-heads/4.8/samples/hello-world.cc
... but I'm not sure why it seems I'm getting a null error. I must be missing something...

A: Nevermind, I always seem to figure things out AFTER posting to SO, lol. It turns out I was loading from the x86 directory and not the x64 directory (which I should have guess given the V8_Net_Proxy_x64.dll! lol).
I was going to delete the question, but I'll leave this here anyhow in case someone else falls into this in the middle of the night half asleep. ;)


text: Q: Android Speech Recognition not working on android webview how to fix it? when i am trying to open this link https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html on android web view it will give me Web Speech API is not supported by this browser.Upgrade to Chrome version 25 or later. how to fix it ?i have already set WebChromeClient in web view.speech recognition only work on chrome browser?


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Review of Chaos (Lost Gods #5) by Megan Derr
"Nine gods ruled the world, until the ultimate betrayal resulted in their destruction. Now, the world is dying and only by restoring the Lost Gods can it be saved." All of the five kingdoms but Schatten have seen their gods return to the world. Schatten, a world of darkness and ice, has been isolated from the rest of the world by Lord Teufel, the Shadow of the Lost Licht. By his power and enforced by the deadly Sentinels, Schatten has been ruled by Order, its people regimented, living under iron laws for over nine hundred years.
But now things are changing, the gods are returning and chaos has entered the lands of Order just as prophesied. A man named Sasha roams the forbidden lands of Schatten, his memory gone, fragmented, with just snips of knowledge to go on. He knows his name and remembers a fight with a beast with violet eyes. He has a whip and knows how to use it. On his finger is a ring of immense power and on his chest is burned a black violet spider web telling him he is cursed. Sasha can remember just enough to realize he has a mission, but what? Sasha has the feeling that time is running out, but the more he tries to remember, the greater agony in his head. A young man from the nearest village takes him in, tends to his wounds and feeds him. When the village is beset by Sentinels, Sasha destroys them, something unheard of and the wary villagers cast him and the young man, David, out. Together they travel to the capitol, Sonnenstrahl, where all paths lead. Sasha can only hope for both their sakes and that of Schatten, that he remembers who he is and what he has to accomplish before they arrive or all will be lost.
What an amazing ending to an incredible series! I have to admit that when a series has been as great as this one I am always a bit apprehensive when approaching the final volume. Will the final book tie the saga together? Will it meet or exceed the standards set by the previous books? Will all the characters I have come to love, and the rich drama that has carried me from book to book come together in the glorious ending I have been hoping for? I am so happy to report that with Chaos (Lost Gods #5), Megan Derr answers all those questions and more with a resounding yes!
Lost Gods is the saga of five kingdoms whose gods were lost or killed nine hundred years ago. Their worlds were plunged into darkness, their people suffered, and only a handful of prophesies gave hope to the kingdoms of Kundou (Treasure), Pozhar (Burning Bright), Piedre (Stone Rose), Verde (Poison), and Schatten (Chaos). One by one, we watched the unimaginable happen and through forgiveness, pain, and rebirth, each nation regained their gods. Now the only kingdom left is Schatten, the place and the god that started it all, the Lost Licht. In each book, there has lurked a malevolency in the form of a sorcerer or dark magic from the lands of Schatten, as Teufel, the Shadow of the Lost Licht, has tried to prevent the gods from returning. But we have never understood the reasoning or the power behind these attempts, the nature of their god and the land of Schatten remained hidden behind the giant walls and secrecy. But as the saga progressed, it was understood that the final battle was to be taken back to the beginning, high in the frozen mountains of Schatten.
Derr has given us the epic battle between Light and Dark, Chaos and Order, and all the threads she has been weaving throughout all the books come together in a rich tapestry full of life, pain, death, forgiveness, love, and rebirth. These are the themes we have visited over and over in every book and so they must all be present here at the end for a mythic conclusion. We have been waiting for the Child of Chaos and were told in Stone Rose that he had been born and must be hidden, protected until it was time for the prophesy to be fulfilled. I had an idea that the Child of Chaos must be someone we had already been introduced to but when he is finally revealed (no spoilers here), I was floored. It never occured to me that he would be the Child, but after the fact, this character was the only perfect one and Derr's splendid planning and brilliant plot was just reinforced with that reveal. Derr has been meticulous with her plots, as each story moved the saga forward but not always in a manner that was immediately obvious. It might take the next book to bring to fruition an idea or plot line she started with Treasure. The amount of notes and timelines she had to have established to make this convoluted, complicated mythology come together boggles the mind. Megan Derr never once dropped a plot thread or misplaced a character's purpose in her story. Really, its just so beautifully carried out.
And oh the characters we have met! Each and every one a gripping, vividly portrayed person, whether it be a young pickpocket, a sensual White Beast of Verde, the haunted and haunting avatar of the Basilisk or the passionate, sword swinging captains of Kundou. We have had young men sacrificed on alters of fire (I have never forgiven certain events in Burning Bright) and marble, old betrayals forgiven, and gods reborn amid the ashes of hate and love. I have cried and laughed my way through each book while admitting I do have some favorites among her characters. We revisit some of my favorites here and are introduced to new beautifully fleshed out characters who appear in Chaos. High Seer Friedrich is just an example. He is the High Seer of Schatten, one of immense power who helps enforce the laws of Teufel. But from the start, we realize, along with him, that something is terribly wrong with him. He hears a voice in his head, more than hears, he sees this person Dracht who talks to him, visits him in his dreams and makes love to him. Dracht seems so real but he whispers things of such sacrilege that Friedrich thinks he is losing his mind. There is an under Seer who is scheming to take Friedrich's place and a High Sorcerer who reports that Sentinels are being killed all over the Kingdom, an unheard of event. Then we meet David, a true innocent. An orphan who loses the one person who took him in yet turns around and offers shelter to someone who might have caused that person's death. David is such a shining presence you fear for him immediately because you have seen what has happened to ones like him in the past. David's youthful goodness is balanced out by his younger friend, Killian, whose immaturity and bratty nature threatens David's precarious position within the village.
And finally we have Sasha, the warrior with the lost memory and a mission to accomplish. Sasha is older, powerful and at ease with his weapons. He looks in a mirror but doesn't recognize his face. When he thinks of love, he feels pain and loss yet everything about David calls to him. Sasha can't remember his identity but realizes that the happiness he has found with David is something he has never achieved before, and the irony does not escape him. One person after another strides across the landscape of this saga, each bursting with life, their emotions so real, so authentic that we cannot help but become involved in their stories. Their hopes and promises become ours, we absorb their pain and when their hearts break with loss so does ours. That is wonderful storytelling, that is terrific writing. The boxes of tissues I have gone through over the course of this outstanding saga would fill a shelf.
But if I have shed many tears, I have also laughed, chuckled, and shouted with joy and ended my journey with the Lost Gods absolutely satisifed, amazed at the depth of Derr's world building, and assured that the books of the Lost Gods will be ones I reread over and over again. What a saga! What heros and what amazing gods we have met along the way. Do yourself a favor. Pick this saga up, settle into your favorite place to read, and prepare to lose yourself in worlds so amazing you will never want to leave. I feel that way every time I think of these books. I think you will feel that way too. This is one of my best series for 2012.
Cover: I love these covers by London Burden. Each cover is a map of the kingdom whose story is being told. The colors all have significance as well. Just outstanding. These are among my favorites of the year.
Here is the Lost Gods series, in the order they were written and should be read, in order to understand the complicated plots and characters within.
Treasure (Lost Gods#1) – Kingdom of Kundou
Burning Bright (Lost Gods#2) – Kingdom of P0zhar and my favorite book of the series
Stone Rose (Lost Gods#3) – Kingdom of Piedre
Poison (Lost Gods#4) – Kingdom of Verde
Chaos (Lost Gods#5) – Kingdom of Schatten
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Going for it: Public Advocate Tish James announced she's running for New York State Attorney General at the Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights on May 16.
This would-be councilman has sunnier days ahead.
Bay Ridge political activist Rev. Khader El-Yateem — who narrowly lost his bid for the neighborhood's Council seat to Councilman Justin Brannan in last September's Democratic primary — is trading the County of Kings for the Sunshine State.
The Arab-American faith leader is moving to Florida next week to head an outreach program similar to those he ran out of his Salam Arabic Lutheran Church in the Ridge, but said he'll always have a soft spot for the Brooklynites he's leaving behind.
"It's bittersweet, but it's a really great opportunity to have a bigger voice with issues such as social justice and making the churches more transparent and welcome to immigrant communities," El-Yateem said.
The reverend, who settled in Bay Ridge in 1995 after immigrating from the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1992, is confident he's leaving the neighborhood in good hands, he said, and proud of the community-building he and his colleagues accomplished, even if there is more to do.
Earlier this month, El-Yateem and a handful of other activists launched a new political club Yalla Brooklyn — translated to "Let's Go Brooklyn" — that encourages civic involvement among immigrants and refugees, and he assured that activism won't stop when he leaves the County of Kings.
"It is going full swing with candidate forums, political work, education, and voter registration," the reverend said.
But it's not goodbye forever to Bay Ridge, according to El-Yateem, who said he's keeping his house in the neighborhood and won't rule out moving back one day.
"You never know what's going to happen down the road — I have deep roots here in Brooklyn, I'm sure one day I will come back," he said.


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Discover the captivating history of the Port of Los Angeles. This world-renowned harbor was established in 1907 and helped transform the small El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula into the international City of Los Angeles we know today.
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The Port of Los Angeles is located in the San Pedro Bay at the southernmost point of Los Angeles County, approximately 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Because of its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the San Pedro Bay has a long history of maritime activity.
Smoke from fires set by Indians hunting game on the hillsides overlooking San Pedro Bay inspired Portuguese explorer, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, to name this natural harbor Bahia de los Fumos or "Bay of Smokes" in 1542. The tidal flats and marshes of Bahia de los Fumos remained pristine for more than 200 years after Cabrillo's visit, largely because Europe was concentrating its New World colonization on America's East Coast. Then, in 1769, Spanish officials and missionaries turned an eye toward the magnificent coastline, the resource-rich plains, and the Indian population of California.
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During this colonial period, the Spanish prohibited settlers from conducting business with other countries, restricting all trade to two ships per year and requiring those ships to carry goods from Spain's House of Trades. Despite these restrictions, San Pedro and the nearby towns and missions on the flats of San Pedro Bay prospered, largely as a result of a thriving cargo-smuggling industry.
In 1822, the newly independent Mexican government lifted the oppressive restrictions, and San Pedro soon became a robust commercial center and an attractive home for new settlers. The Mexican government granted three ranchos near the bay, Rancho San Pedro, Rancho Los Palos Verdes, and Rancho Los Cerritos. The three ranchos equaled almost 84,000 acres and were used primarily for cattle ranching.
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On February 2, 1848, when California came under American control, business at San Pedro Harbor was booming. It was evident, however, that the Harbor needed to be expanded to accommodate the increasing cargo volume coming into the bay for the growing population in Los Angeles. Recognizing these shortcomings, Phineas Banning was instrumental in bringing innovative changes to San Pedro Bay that marked the first steps toward developing the bay into one of the great seaports of the world. (For more on Phineas Banning and the fight for a free harbor, click on the People button.)
By the turn of the century, the population of Los Angeles had grown to more than 100,000. With that in mind, in 1906 the city annexed a 16-mile strip of land on the outskirts of San Pedro and Wilmington—towns that 3 years later would join the City of Los Angeles. The Port was officially founded in 1907 with the creation of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners.


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I feel like there are so many books that are so over hyped before they are even published that excitement for any other book(s) seems to get pushed to the side. For me, I have a hard time reading books that are over hyped, most times I find they don't live up to the hype.
But today I want to feature a few blacklisted books that deserve some hype because they were all amazing reads and books I'll reread to help pull myself out of a slump! There are also a few in here that friends have suggested to me and they believe the be under hyped as well!
Have you read any of these?! What book do you feel like is severely under-hyped?
Summary: Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most elite universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her?
Believe it or not, I've never read anything by Leigh Bardugo. Don't ask me why cause I don't know. This summary really stuck out to me and I'm intrigued by the mention of secret societies. I'm hoping this takes a fantasy twist as well. Can't wait to get my hands on this!
When I think of Rainy Day Reads, I think of those page turners that you can't put down and, because of that, you finish them in a few hours. These are the books I just loved so much that I can't help but read again.
These are some of my favorite rainy day reads! Be sure to share your favorites with us!


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Bulatlat Contributors January 30, 2022 Vantage Point
It was no surprise, and should have been expected. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. not only expressed his unqualified support for the NTF-ELCAC during a campaign sortie in his family's Ilocos domain. He also pledged to increase its current P17-billion budget should he be elected President this May.
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is the principal military component of the "whole of nation" counter-insurgency strategy of the Duterte regime.
In November 2021, Marcos Jr. opposed the reduction of its budget which was being proposed by some senators who were justifiably concerned over the often-lethal consequences of its labeling of legal workers, farmers, womens, and youth organizations as communist "fronts" and their activist members as NPA guerillas or Communist Party functionaries. He argued that it might compromise the government campaign against the insurgency.
Never mind his echoing in the same breath the contradiction between the generals' claim that the insurgency is no longer a serious threat to the ruling system and their expectations of, and demands for, a bigger counter-insurgency budget to quell it.
It made sense for him to support one of the military's most cherished programs, not only because it was its guns and bayonets that enabled his father, Ferdinand Sr., to install himself as dictator and kept him in Malacañang for 13 more years (1973-1986) after his term as President was supposed to end. It was also because he, too, will need its support should he make it to the Presidency this year.
If elected President, expect his policies in such areas as dealing with social unrest and the armed social movements to be influenced and shaped by the military's perspectives and interests. Among other consequences, it will mean the persistence and worsening of the human rights crisis that has constricted what little remains of what passes for democracy in the Philippines.
His pandering to the military is also driven by the logic of its having been, since 1972, and no thanks to his late dictator father, a major power broker in Philippine politics whose support is crucial to any candidate for President and to any regime in power. Vice-President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo is equally aware of the latter fact, hence her also expressing her support for the NTF-ELCAC. But she did say that its powers should not be abused.
No such reservation fell from Marcos' lips despite a number of social and political activists in his northern Luzon turf, who are armed only with their advocacies and the courage of their convictions, being "red-tagged," threatened and harassed, and even forced to "surrender" as NPA guerillas by government agents.
But that, too, was as predictable as the sun's setting in the West. Marcos, after all, cannot be expected to depart from his late father's far right view that repression rather than reform would halt the rebellions, social protest, and disaffection with government that have been endemic in these isles since the Spanish colonial period.
What is not exactly expected, however, is the implication in his campaign slogans that he is in agreement with the view that is rapidly gaining ground among the citizenry despite the efforts of regime trolls and its hacks in print and broadcast media that the country is far from being the earthly paradise the Duterte regime, its bureaucrats, and its apologists claim it to be.
Marcos Jr. describes himself as a "unifying leader." That specious claim presumes that it is such a President the country currently needs. It implies that the present Duterte dispensation is not a unifying one and has been severely divisive. It also flies in the face of the regime's triumphalism over the results of the surveys that show overwhelming approval for Mr. Duterte and company, which suggests mass unity behind and support for how Mr. Duterte has been running the country during the last five-and-a-half years of his troubled and troubling term of office.
Marcos' appropriating his father's 1965 "This nation can be great again" campaign slogan is equally telling. It reminds his northern base of Ferdinand Sr.'s fabled oratorical skills, but ironically also recalls that those times when this country was indeed great include not only the defeat of Spanish colonial forces by the armies of the Katipunan. This nation was also universally cheered for overthrowing the Marcos Sr. dictatorship in 1986 and forcing him and his family into exile. But it is in effect also saying, again in contradiction of regime claims, that the country has yet to reach that desired goal: the "greatness" that in so many words the power elite, the big bureaucrats, the trolls, and Mr. Duterte's cohorts are saying the Philippines has achieved under his watch.
Another of Marcos Jr.'s campaign slogans is similarly if only indirectly critical of the regime of his Vice-Presidential running mate's own father. His "together we can rise again" (sama-sama tayong babangon muli) slogan is based on the premise that the entire nation is prostrate, down and nearly out, and needs rescuing from — what else? — the current administration.
Together with Mr. Duterte's less than charitable assessment of Marcos Jr.'s character and leadership qualities, these departures from the regime's view of things help explain the former's refusal to explicitly endorse his candidacy despite his alliance with Sara Duterte.
But what are we to make of all this? Does it mean that a Marcos II administration will not be halfway as bad as many think it will be, given his disagreement with some of the dearest assumptions of the President he hopes to succeed?
Not necessarily. If there is anything the electorate should have learned by now, the candidates for office in this country, or at least most of them, will promise and say anything to get elected. Marcos is merely being realistic in his implied criticism of the current regime, the incompetence and corruption of which are far, far too much in evidence to be denied by anyone with an IQ higher than that of a door knob's.
By doing so he is trying to cover all the bases, including tapping into the simmering though silent resentment that the regime's failings have generated among an increasingly disaffected because long-suffering populace.
What matters more than the promises of candidates is their track record, their background, and the interests behind them as well as their own that they are likely to protect and advance once they are in office. Mr. Duterte's own failure to make good on such of his 2016 promises as authentic change and an end to corruption and the drug problem is instructive. Promises can either be forgotten because insincerely made, or else prevented from fulfillment by unfavorable circumstances, by sheer incompetence, lack of will, or other factors.
But we can assume in Marcos Jr.'s case that his promised support for the NTF-ELCAC is the one thing he is likely to be true to if he wins power, given what he has learned from his father's military-dependent rule and his own awareness of how crucial military support can be to the survival of any regime.
Mr. Duterte and company may detest his take on the present state of the country they have been running into the ground since 2016. What Marcos Jr. is doing is just tactics. He may not even be aware of the implicit messages in his slogans. But they could resonate enough among his supporters and those critical of the Duterte regime to drive a wedge into the Marcos/Duterte/Estrada/Macapagal-Arroyo Axis.
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Barbara Hannigan was the soloist in Hans Abrahamsen's "let me tell you" Sunday night with Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra. Photo: Steve J. Sherman.
Hans Abrahamsen's let me tell you received this year's Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the most prestigious such prize in classical music. Written for soprano Barbara Hannigan, on a commission from the Berlin Philharmonic and the Danish Arts Foundation, the work deserves the highest accolades: it has a ravishing sound and the rare and welcome ability to pause the experience of time.
Hannigan gave the New York premiere of let me tell you with the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Franz Welser-Möst Sunday night at Carnegie Hall. The concert, which also included Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4, was dedicated to the memory of Pierre Boulez. Abrahamsen's music and this performance, particularly, left a deep and lingering impression.
The work is a song-cycle, with seven individual settings within three sections. The text is by Paul Griffiths, who extracted it from his novel of the same name, in which the writer uses only the 481 words that Ophelia speaks in Hamlet. Abrahmsen paints the words, which are tightly concentrated around a central core with music that is mostly quiet and placid, with subtle cadences.
The Danish composer's music is so finely structured that it can be heard as one continuous symphonic piece, with a coherent direction and large-scale resolution. Abrahamsen mostly uses small groups of instruments at one time, and while the main music is in the voice, the accompaniment is all lights, sounds, and colors. His orchestration is marvelous—like a jeweler he places small, exact cuts of gems into a spare but elegant frame.
Abrahamsen's style in this piece has roots in Berlioz, but his writing is much more tightly controlled and moving in its restraint. There is a feeling of great and disturbing emotional force being parsed through the most minimal means, as if the music was putting its last energy into saying exactly what it means as precisely and clearly as possible.
There is a new recording of the work on the Winter & Winter label where Hannigan's voice is out front, while at Carnegie on Sunday she was more integrated into the orchestral texture by Welser-Möst, the conductor smoothly and precisely balancing the blend of sonorities and timbres. This seemed the ideal expression of this music.
Hannigan's clear, lustrous singing was an essential part of the overall orchestral tone. She has subdued lines with a few upward bursts of ecstatic passion. The music parallels phrases like "You have made me like glass" and "So: I will go on in the snow" with brilliant sonic depictions of glass shattering and snow floating down. Most memorable were Hannigan and a flute doubling each other, or her voice alluringly accompanied by a horn. These were extraordinary sounds, and let me tell you is packed with such marvels.
There was a superficial sonic contrast between the first and second halves of the concert, with Abrahamsen quiet and delicate, and Shostakovich loud and blunt. But both pieces depend on expressive constraints. The difference is that let me tell you says everything with exactitude and no drama, whereas Symphony No. 4 is all drama.
Shostakovich did not use words, of course, nor did he feel safe making a clear musical narrative. The Fourth Symphony is the music of a man who has something important, complex, and terrible to say, but can only do it through pantomime. It is one of the composer's most expressively opaque works.
This came out as a challenge that the orchestra met inconsistently Sunday night. The playing was skillful and energetic, but was at time formally confused. This especially marred the opening movement, which veered neurotically from episode to episode. The accumulating impression was that unless the music's horizon was immediately apparent, Welser-Möst did not always clearly navigate the path that led there.
Shostakovich plants plenty of bombs in the symphony, and Welser-Möst and the orchestra set these bursting with great energy. But Shostakovich also lays out a long fuse, and that mounting tension is one of the most important qualities in Shostakovich's music, and that is where the performance too often fell short.
In the first movement, a maniacally played presto brought a sense of coherence to the interpretation, which deepened through the simple expression of William Preucil's violin solo. The slow, heavy, reprise of the opening theme made for a plangent coda.
The Moderato con moto movement had a consistent sense of direction from the opening bars, and was satisfying, with that particular Shostakovich feeling of serenity enclosing incipient panic. Much of the final movement was excellent, though there was still the tendency in the Allegro sections for the orchestra to blindly take Shostakovich's feints and blind alleys as ways out of the expressive maze.
But the playing was still strong, and captured the composer's stone-faced wit, like in the snatches of The Magic Flute. The finale was marvelous, a haunting Shostakovian mix of violence, wistful romance, and patient fatalism.
My brother's music piece is a masterwork, that I compare with Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, which is one of my favourites in classical music, if not my favourite. Hans' music is even so moving and deep with that touch of something deeply spiritual and heart-moving. I love it and am so proud of him. His exquisite music is now appreciated all over the world and is being played by the greatest orchestras in important cultural and civilised cities like New York and Berlin and which attracts a highly cultural audience, who enjoys and appreciates his divinely beautiful and deeply meaningful music, which will live for ever, as long as we've got high quality culture and art on this planet.


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I'd like to return these: Apple said to dump millions of iPhones on Foxconn
By Matt Swider 2013-04-22T20:24:00.111Z Mobile phones
iPhone 5 defects could be to blame
Apple must have bought into Foxconn because the company has returned 5 to 8 million iPhones to the Taiwanese manufacturer, according to a report today.
With labor costs estimated to be USD $200 (UK£131, AUD$195) for each smartphone, that means Foxconn is taking a loss of up to $1.6 billion, reports China Business through The Register.
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This is further bad news for Apple's go-to manufacturer. Foxconn recently posted its worst revenue numbers in over a decade.
Its 19 percent year-over-year first quarter slump is being blamed on a slowdown of once rock solid iPhone and iPad sales.
Which iPhones are to blame?
While China Business quotes unnamed Foxconn insiders, it doesn't go as far as to reveal which version or versions of the iPhone are to blame for the defects.
Digging through the archives, however, there is one Apple smartphone that faced more botched cases than all of the others: the iPhone 5.
In fact, user complaints of scratch-prone iPhone 5 handsets reached such a high that it forced Apple to reportedly recall production of its smartphone to address the aluminum issues.
Likewise, the company received complaints that the same device would leak light between the display and the antenna, just underneath of the power button.
iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 speculation
Apple didn't comment to TechRadar about which model it returned to Foxconn or what went wrong with its production.
Speculation by The Register that the unusable batch of iPhones could include the forthcoming iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 is a possibility, but an unlikely one.


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Ruinum
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In 1898, sailors aboard the USS Maine were drinking Ruinum in keeping with the highest traditions of the Navy. However when the drunk sailors started playing with fire near the gunpowder, Ruinum accidentally caused the start of the Spanish-American War.
Romans used a version of Ruinum in their feasts for their god Bacchus. Bacchus is known as the Roman god of wine and ritual madness or frenzy. They called this version "Bacchuvino" or wine of Bacchus. Along with the drink, the Bacchanalia (orgies in honor of Bacchus) were introduced in Rome around 200 BC. More potent versions of Bacchuvinos are made every year after that since wealthy Romans cannot get enough of it even after the festival. Little by little, the festival drink spread from high society to the masses due to its high alcohol content and its mysterious side effects like fire eating, fascination with spikes and temporary lunacy. This may be one of factors that led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
It is said that Datu Lapu-Lapu and his men drank a concoction of Ruinum (came from trading with the Chinese), Lambanog and herbs as a battle elixir in the Battle of Mactan. They annihilated the heavily armed Spanish forces including Ferdinand Magellan in April 1521 by using only swords, spears and berserker rage.
Howard Zinn referred to Ruinum in an early unpublished manuscript of A People's History of the United States, saying that the honey wine had become a favorite of slave owners in the South in the late 1850′s. It was often referred to back then with the racially charged name, "[Censored] Spirits."
On May 29th, 1892, Robert Ford, noted coward and assasin of Jesse James, opened a saloon in Creede, Colorado. It specialized in barley wines in the style of Ruinum. Six days later, the entire business district of Creede burned to the ground. Ford immediately opened a tent saloon with his remaining stock of Ruinum. Three days later, he was dead, shot with both barrels of Edward O'Kelley's shotgun. On a related note, in the 1939 film Jesse James, Ford was played by John Carradine, father of David, who died in the course of a Ruinum fueled sex romp in a Bangkok hotel in 2009.
"Heidi Bowl" Ruinum incident: in the fall of 1968 a drunken board-op at NBC made the poor honey-high decision to start the movie Heidi instead of letting the national audience see the dramatic win of the Oakland Raiders over the New York Jets.
Ruinum was the last thing drank from the Holy Grail before its disappearance. It was lost by the drunken crusader who took the last drink. Its loss was a trigger for the Crusade's search for Christian relics.
Pompeii (and Herculaneum?) - In an attempt to appease the increasing ire of their god Vulcan, apparent due to 17 years of earthquakes and gas clouds, the Roman villagers made larger and larger sacrifices of Ruinum to Vesuvius. The largest sacrifice yet, delivered on the evening of August 24th 79AD in celebration of Vulcanalia, led to the eruption the following day.
Discovery of Canada: Around the year 1001 CE, the Greenland saga refers to Leif Ericson discovering Helluland (Baffin Island), Markland (Labrador, Canada),Vinland (Newfoundland, Canada) in following another explorer's (Bjarni Herjolfsson's ) path in reverse. Why in reverse? Due to a night feast with his men in his homeland (Norway) before sailing, he drank his first fill of Ruinum as a dare and became attached to it. He then decided after the feast that they would set sail with a few kegs of Ruinum the next day. Sailing with kegs of Ruinum would be a trend for all Vikings explorers after Leif's successful run which in turn started the (drunken) Norse colonization of the Americas.
The Expedition of Burke and Wills: In 1860, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men to cross Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the North. After successfully making it all the way there Burke, Wills and John King became stuck at Cooper Creek after the rest of the expedition abandoned them. Running low on supplies and malnourished, the local Aborigines helped them by sharing some fish, damper and a version of Ruinum made with local berries and honey-pot ants. Burke became so intoxicated that he shot at one of the aborigines, who ran off into the bush. Within 3 weeks, Burke and Wills had both died from starvation. King was the only one to survive.
In December, 1916, a group of Russian nobles plotted to assassinate Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Григорий Ефимович Распутин (January 21, 1869-December 30, 1916) because they feared his influence over the Tsarina. The group lured Rasputin over to the Yusupov's Moika Palace. The group served him cakes and red wine, locally called руина (translated to Ruin in English), which was rumored to be laced with large amounts of cyanide. Rasputin was unaffected by the cakes and mysterious red wine, although Vasily Maklakov claimed to had supplied enough cyanide to kill five men. Prince Yusupov, one of the nobles in the assassination plot, then decided to shoot Rasputin in the back with a revolver. The men left the palace for several hours and returned to find Rasputin sitting in a chair drinking руина straight from the bottle. Rasputin lunged at Yusupov and attempted to strangle him. The other nobles arrived and shot Rasputin a second time and he fell to the floor. However, as the men cautiously moved forward to examine the body, Rasputin yelled "руина!" and struggled to get on his feet. The group immediately starting kicking and beating Rasputin for several minutes with clubs and random sticks until he passed out again. Legends state that the men then cut off his penis. The men then tied and wrapped Rasputin's body up in a carpet and threw him into the icy cold Neva River. Two days latter, Rasputin's body was recovered from the river. An autopsy showed that the cause of death was drowning, however he was also poisoned and the report indicated that both water and red wine was found in the lungs. The body was then moved to near-by woods and burned. During this process, it is reported that Rasputin appeared to sit up in the fire, which horrified bystanders who reported hearing Rasputin shout again "руина!" through the crackle of flames.
Doom of the Vikings and the Saxons: In 1065 the last Wessex King of England, Edward the Confessor, fell into a coma without issue. This started a succession crisis, since the closest claimant Edgar, the grandson of King Edmund Ironside, was but a child, and, having lived in exile with his father until recently had little support in England. Instead there were two serious contenders William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, a powerful neighbour to whom Edward had originally promised the kingdom to if he were to die without an heir, and Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, who had long been an important advisor and ally to the king. Whilst comatose, all the power of the crown was held by Harold, who had been responsible for much of England's governance already. Realising that Harold planned to deny him his throne, William came up with a plan to weaken Harold and claim the throne of England. Travellers from Italy had brought tales of a concoction of great power that would bring Ruin to your enemies. William was not foolhardy though, and sent men to investigate these claims and they found that many a knight had met their end after becoming addicted to this sweet potion, and surmised that it brought ruin to the drinker, not the great power that they were expecting. He sent a ship, the Ruinum Magnus, with casks of this liquor to Harald Hardrada, the Viking king in Norway, who quickly became besotted with the drink. It clouded his judgement, and when Harold's exiled brother Tostig told him that England should be ruled by a Viking king again, as it was under Canute and Sweyn Forkbeard, he agreed and set sail with his longships. Drunken and arrogant, the vikings landed in England and were defeated by Harold at Stamford Bridge and their fleet smashed, ending the Viking age forever. But in reality, this was all a distraction to enable William to land in the south with his mercenary force unopposed. But Harold still had a mighty force, and William's mercenaries could not be trusted to fight to the bitter end, so Harold still could have won if it were not for his brother Leofwine bringing him casks of drink he had claimed from Harald's own supply. Harold drank heavily each day of the march south and soon stopped paying attention to the advice of his generals. At Hastings he slept out most of the battle, which his generals were ably winning due to their cunning deployment, but in the afternoon he awoke, donned his armour and struggled onto his horse and headed to the front lines with his sword in one hand and a horn of this sweet wine in the other. Against the petitions of his generals, who had seen he was in no fit state to fight, he commanded the cavalry and led them and his forces into a trap set by William after his army feigned a rout. Harold died from falling off his horse and impaling himself through the eye with his drinking horn, ending the rule of Saxon kings in England. Seeing the danger that this drink posed, William's first order after the battle was to have all casks of alcohol carried by the English forces burnt, as he did not want any more disasters to be brought upon the Kingdom he had just won.
Formation of Diaf - Survivors of the Mt Etna eruption, Justini Robertus Júvenes and Brianus Maleolis realise the moral threat that is Ruinum, and that it is being spread across the Roman Empire by the survivors from Pompeii. Realising that it must be stopped, but also that the sweet rich taste would be irresistible to the Roman people, they form a secret society to hunt down purveyors of this terribly delicious honey-wine fusion. They call themselves the Society of Diaf (Detegendo Infectio Anima Fructum - Uncovering the Fruit of Soul Corruption) and are rumored to have been involved disappearances and fires across history in their quest to destroy all traces of Ruinum (most notably the 1666 Great Fire of London). Their motto is Emori in Ignem.
Famous absinthe drinkers like Toulouse-Lautrec and Oscar Wilde talk about "The Green Fairy", a mystical creature associated with drinking vast quantities of the legendary elixir. No one talks about "The Black Demon" of Ruinum.
In wine and especially vinegar making, a large raft of yeast, or mother, remains in the fermentation vessel. Normally, this is filtered and discarded. In the production of Ruinum, this corrupted mother must be buried at least 6 feet beneath the earth, on a pyre of elm and ash. Typically, at least a symbolic piece of cold iron is placed in the center of the pyre. For especially large or aggressive mothers, a searing iron wheel is cast into the pit prior to burial.
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Castel di Mura è una struttura militare risalente all'epoca medievale, posta sul Monte Castello a picco sulle Valli di Verdiana e Volata (Val di Lima) inoltre è dominante il Ponte di Lizzano. Fece parte del sistema difensivo medievale posto al confine fra la Repubblica di Lucca, il Ducato di Modena e del Comune di Pistoia (Repubblica fiorentina).

Storia
Costruito nel XIII secolo, fu rinforzato nella metà del XIV. Fu sede si ripetute scontri tra pistoiesi, lucchesi e fiorentini. Noto l'evento del 1303 quando la parte bianca pistoiese attaccò la parte nera lucchese, ma venne sconfitta e perse 200 uomini. Nel 1330 a tradimento vi furono uccisi da Jacopo e Tommasino de'Tredici (figlio di Filippo Tedici), Masino di ser Orlando, Como d'Antonio, e altri della Montagna pistoiese. La fortezza è stata sede del Capitanato della Montagna dal 1377 al 1512, anno in cui il comune di Lizzano, (ospitante la struttura) perse il diritto di sede per tale magistratura a causa di un fatto increscioso. In tale periodo il capitano risiedeva per quattro mesi nel castello, in alternanza con San Marcello e Cutigliano. Nella prima metà del 1800, oramai inutilizzato, fu demolito per la riedificazione della Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta andata persa nella rovinosa frana del paese del 1814. Durante la fase di formazione del Comune di Lancisa e Spignana (1507-1551) il Castello venne ad appartenere a tale ente neoformato, ma dopo poco tempo tornò a Lizzano.

Recupero
Grazie alle attività della associazione Valle Lune, nata nel 2010, nel 2015 le amministrazioni locali della zona hanno avviato un progetto di recupero delle rovine del castello. Il Comune di San Marcello Piteglio ha ottenuto dal Ministero beni culturali una concessione per effettuarvi ricerche archeologiche.

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate
Torri di Popiglio (Rocca Securana)

Altri progetti

Castelli della provincia di Pistoia
Architetture di San Marcello Piteglio

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Aldi (nazwa stylizowana: ALDI) – niemiecka sieć dyskontów spożywczo-przemysłowych obecna na pięciu kontynentach. Siódma pod względem sprzedaży sieć marketów na świecie. Nazwa przedsiębiorstwa pochodzi od skrótu nazwiska Albrecht i słowa diskont. Przedsiębiorstwo powstało i do dziś jest firmą rodzinną Albrechtów z Essen.

Początki działalności

Przedsiębiorstwo powstało w 1913 roku w Schonnebeck – północno-wschodniej dzielnicy Essen, kiedy to Anna Albrecht otworzyła mały sklep spożywczy. Na przełomie lat 20. i 30. XX wieku, po śmierci męża górnika, w sklepie zaczęli pomagać jej małoletni synowie. Karl i Theodor rozwozili na drewnianym wózku po ulicach rodzinnej dzielnicy, bułki ze sklepu matki. Dochody z tej działalności jednak nie wystarczały, więc Karl śladem ojca rozpoczął pracę w górnictwie, a młodszy Theo znalazł pracę w delikatesach. W 1946 roku jej synowie Karl i Theo Albrecht przejęli sklep i w ciągu kilku lat przekształcili firmę w dyskont spożywczy. Na początku firma sprzedawała podstawowe produkty, tzw. bazowe, jak: mąka, cukier i konserwy. W latach 60. XX wieku pojawiły się kosmetyki, a w latach 90. XX wieku Aldi zaczęło handlować tzw. towarami luksusowymi. W 1966 roku bracia podjęli decyzję o rozdzieleniu działalności firmy. Aldi Süd inwestowała w południowej części Niemiec a Aldi Nord w północnej. Firmy różnią się również pod względem strategii rozwoju działalności poza Niemcami. Aldi Nord inwestuje głównie w Europie, natomiast największym rynkiem zagranicznym dla Aldi Süd są Stany Zjednoczone.

Struktura właścicielska Aldi Nord
Aldi Nord, kierowana przez lata przez Theo Albrechta, jest obecnie własnością trzech fundacji związanych z rodziną Albrechtów: Markus Fundation, która ma 61% udziałów, Lukas Fundation 19,5% i Jakobus Fundation 19,5%. Rodzina podzieliła w ten sposób akcje spółki w celu zapobieżenia wrogiemu przejęciu.

Na świecie

Firma, podzielona na dwie grupy – Aldi Nord i Aldi Süd – działa w wielu krajach europejskich oraz w Australii, Chinach i Stanach Zjednoczonych. W Słowenii i Austrii Aldi Süd działa pod marką Hofer.

W USA
W USA Aldi Süd inwestuje od 1976 roku i ma obecnie 1800 dyskontów w 35 stanach. Według CNN jest piątą największą siecią spożywczą w USA.

W Wielkiej Brytanii

Na rynku brytyjskim Aldi zadebiutowało 5 kwietnia 1990 roku, otwierając pierwszy sklep w Birmingham. W 2017 roku sieć miała na wyspach 600 dyskontów.

W Chinach
W połowie 2019 roku firma otworzyła pierwsze dyskonty w Chinach.

W roku 2019 firma Aldi zajęła 7 miejsce rankingu największych przedsiębiorstw handlowych świata z przychodem wysokości 98,287 mld dol.

Aldi w Polsce

Pierwsza faza inwestycji

W połowie 2006 roku Aldi rozpoczęło działalność w Polsce. Oddział w Polsce podlega grupie Aldi Nord (pol. Aldi Północ). Jednak w przeciwieństwie do skali inwestycji w rodzimych Niemczech i wyrównanej tam konkurencji z największym rywalem – Lidlem, w Polsce początkowo firma inwestowała jedynie w południowo-zachodnich województwach. Pierwsze osiem sklepów zostało otwartych 25 lutego 2008 roku (powstały w Głogowie, Żorach, Tarnowskich Górach, Poznaniu, Sulechowie, Brzegu, Bielsku-Białej i Jeleniej Górze).

Inwestycje poza południowo-zachodnią Polską
Dopiero w drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku sieć zaczęła otwierać pojedyncze dyskonty w innych częściach Polski. W Warszawie sieć ma nadal jedynie trzy obiekty. W całej Polsce w sierpniu 2016 sieć posiadała 113 sklepów, zatrudniając ponad 1160 pracowników. Pod koniec marca 2018 jedenaście obiektów więcej. Pod koniec lipca 2019 były to 132 sklepy. Obecnie Aldi w Polsce zatrudnia około 2350 pracowników. W latach 2016–2020 spółka nie zapłaciła w Polsce podatku dochodowego od osób prawnych.

Od sierpnia 2017 roku polskim oddziałem Aldi Nord zarządza Oktawian Torchała.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona sieci sklepów ALDI Polska

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Why is the Holy Spirit represented as a dove in Christianity?
Bethany Hayden
Have you wondered why the holy spirit is a dove? You must have already heard the story of Jesus' baptism at the Jordan River that finds mention in the Bible. To refresh our memory, and, to look for hidden clues this time, let us recount the story.
Jesus emerged out of the water after John the Baptist baptized him. The heaven split open, and the almighty spoke claiming Jesus as his dear son. All four gospels, namely, Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32, have included that in the event of the baptism, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus during the baptism "like a dove". But why dove? Why not anything else? Allow us to explain.
Representation of Dove prior to Jesus' Baptism
In the book of Genesis, the Dove finds mention towards the end when Noah sends it out to look for any signs of land. On the first occasion, the dove returns without anything. On the second occasion, the dove returns with an olive branch in its beak, thus signifying the presence of land. On the third occasion, the dove does not return thereby indicating the flood has receded.
In a similar event in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the hero Utnapishtim sends out a dove to look for land.
Dove is also mentioned in the Torah, where it received approval as a sacrificial bird. Only turtledoves or pigeons could be used for sacrificial purposes besides lambs and goats. According to Leviticus 5:7, regardless of wealth and status, God ensures everyone brings their best offerings before the Lord. Thus, doves were bought by people who could not afford a spotless lamb. In fact, several dovecotes that were found underneath the City of David and Jerusalem suggest this practice. Archaeologists have speculated that these dovecotes were used to rear doves.
The pagan religious culture used doves as consorts of Gods and Goddesses. Before the emergence of Judaism or Christianity, the Israelites worshipped the goddess Asherah, who was associated with the God Yahweh. Perhaps, there is a connection between the Asherah-worshipping Israelites and their descendants in that they wanted to restore the "feminine" connotations within spirituality. In fact, the word for "Spirit" is feminine in Hebrew. The dove, with its soft, feminine features is an ideal representation. As a matter of fact, the Babylonian Talmud picks up this strain and mentions that God's spirit "hovers" like a dove watching over her offspring. This imagery finds reiteration in the Genesis too.
Symbolisms
The dove is a graceful white creature and it retains its uniqueness in its curved wings, which add to its charm. There is a serenity in its whiteness and disposition which could only be likened to the Holy Spirit. The law of Moses states that doves could be used for sacrifices. In the Talmud and the Targums, Isaac was likened to a dove as he stretched his neck and laid his life at the feet of God. So, the atoning quality of the Dove was already established even before the Baptism of Christ.
The dove as a symbol manifests itself in Jesus' kindness toward his people, his purity, and finally his act of atonement for people's sins. Some scholars suggest that the selection of the dove as a representative of the Holy Spirit is appropriate by virtue of its grace. It completes the trinity of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Son. During Jesus' baptism, John hears the voice of God. Jesus is upheld as the Son. The Holy Spirit, which was traditionally compared to objects and creatures take the form of a dove.
Jesus here is the gentle Saviour, who brings peace to mankind through his Sacrifice like a dove.
Imagery of Dove used during other Biblical Events
We must consider other biblical references that were made before the Baptism and throughout the course of the Bible. For example, during the Annunciation, Mary received the news that she would bear the Son of God. In the old days many tabernacles containing the Eucharist recreated the image of a dove hovering over the altar.
According to the Protoevangelium of James, when the temple priests were assisting Mary in choosing a husband, a dove alighted on Joseph's head. So, from the beginning we can see when it comes to divine selections, often a dove is chosen.
If you take into account the greater context of Jesus' life, the Dove invokes a better understanding of the question, why is the holy spirit a dove. In the New Testament, a dove appears again when Jesus is about to send out his disciples to reveal the gospels. His words were, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves" (Matt 10:16).
Let us try to analyse the meaning of this statement. Christ is, of course, comparing the predatory wolves to those who would oppose the gospels. The job of the disciples would be to resist the enemies of the gospels and make sure the benevolent words of Christ, the saviour, are spread. Now, to make it happen the disciples should be shrewd or cunning as snakes in determining the enemies. However, their approach should be as benign as an innocent dove, above reproach and articulating the sensitivity that a dove often represents. Therefore, we can see how Jesus invokes the Holy spirit when the proclamation of the gospels comes to the fore.
Dove Symbolizes Purity
The symbol of the dove has had many poetic representations throughout the Old Testament. For example, in Psalms 68:13, we come across this verse,
"When you lie down among the sheepfolds, You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And its pinions with glistening gold"
Genesis mentions the Holy Spirit as one hovering over the face of the water. Scholars consider this line as an allusion to the Babylonian Talmud where a similar image was drawn in the accompaniment of a dove as the spirit to be hovering. That is why we can easily conclude that the Dove metaphor and its likelihood to the Holy Spirit in Christianity was not an accident.
Why is the holy spirit a dove?
Dove symbolizes peace and kindness and all the qualities due to the Holy Spirit.
The dove as a symbol manifests itself in Jesus' kindness toward his people, his purity, and finally his act of atonement for people's sins. Some scholars suggest that the selection of the dove as a representative of the Holy Spirit is appropriate by virtue of its grace. It completes the trinity of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Son. During Jesus' baptism, John hears the voice of God. Jesus is upheld as the Son. The Holy Spirit, which was traditionally compared to objects and creatures, take the form of a dove.
If there is one thing that Bethany can do every day for the rest of her life, it would be to help other people. As a writer, she has always been intrigued by people and stories. It's no wonder that she has traveled all over the country and the world, meeting new people, listening to their stories, and getting inspired to become a better version of herself. Her love for writing, travel, helping others, and self-improvement all come together to create someone who is always eager to learn and share what she has learned with other people, so that they too can become the best possible version of themselves.
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using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.BaseClasses;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.CATIDs;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.ArcMapUI;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.SystemUI;

namespace SelectionCOMSample
{
  /// <summary>
  /// Summary description for SelectionToolPalette.
  /// </summary>
  [Guid("23a0177f-f011-434a-b7f3-80d718d93fd0")]
  [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]
  [ProgId("SelectionCOMSample.SelectionToolPalette")]
  public sealed class SelectionToolPalette : BaseCommand, IToolPalette
  {
    #region COM Registration Function(s)
    [ComRegisterFunction()]
    [ComVisible(false)]
    static void RegisterFunction(Type registerType)
    {
      // Required for ArcGIS Component Category Registrar support
      ArcGISCategoryRegistration(registerType);

      //
      // TODO: Add any COM registration code here
      //
    }

    [ComUnregisterFunction()]
    [ComVisible(false)]
    static void UnregisterFunction(Type registerType)
    {
      // Required for ArcGIS Component Category Registrar support
      ArcGISCategoryUnregistration(registerType);

      //
      // TODO: Add any COM unregistration code here
      //
    }

    #region ArcGIS Component Category Registrar generated code
    /// <summary>
    /// Required method for ArcGIS Component Category registration -
    /// Do not modify the contents of this method with the code editor.
    /// </summary>
    private static void ArcGISCategoryRegistration(Type registerType)
    {
      string regKey = string.Format("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID\\{{{0}}}", registerType.GUID);
      MxCommands.Register(regKey);

    }
    /// <summary>
    /// Required method for ArcGIS Component Category unregistration -
    /// Do not modify the contents of this method with the code editor.
    /// </summary>
    private static void ArcGISCategoryUnregistration(Type registerType)
    {
      string regKey = string.Format("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID\\{{{0}}}", registerType.GUID);
      MxCommands.Unregister(regKey);

    }

    #endregion
    #endregion

    private IApplication m_application;
    public SelectionToolPalette()
    {
      base.m_category = "Developer Samples";
      base.m_caption = "Selection Palette";
      base.m_name = "ESRI_SelectionCOMSample_ToolPalette";
    }

    #region Overriden Class Methods

    /// <summary>
    /// Occurs when this command is created
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="hook">Instance of the application</param>
    public override void OnCreate(object hook)
    {
      if (hook == null)
        return;

      m_application = hook as IApplication;

      //Disable if it is not ArcMap
      if (hook is IMxApplication)
        base.m_enabled = true;
      else
        base.m_enabled = false;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Occurs when this command is clicked
    /// </summary>
    public override void OnClick()
    {
    }

    #endregion

    #region IToolPalette Members

    public bool MenuStyle
    {
      get { return false; }
    }

    public int PaletteColumns
    {
      get { return 2; }
    }

    public int PaletteItemCount
    {
      get { return 3; }
    }

    public bool TearOff
    {
      get { return false; }
    }

    public string get_PaletteItem(int pos)
    {
      switch (pos)
      {
        case 0:
          return "esriArcMapUI.SelectByPolygonTool";
        case 1:
          return "esriArcMapUI.SelectByLayerCommand";
        case 2:
          return "SelectionCOMSample.SelectByLineTool";
        default:
          return "";
      }
    }

    #endregion
  }
}


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