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USGS Evidence Shows Power of the Sixth Seal (Revelation 6:12)
New Evidence Shows Power of East Coast Earthquakes
Virginia Earthquake Triggered Landslides at Great Distances
Released: 11/6/2012 8:30:00 AM USGS.gov
Earthquake shaking in the eastern United States can travel much farther and cause damage over larger areas than previously thought.
U.S. Geological Survey scientists found that last year's magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia triggered landslides at distances four times farther—and over an area 20 times larger—than previous research has shown.
"We used landslides as an example and direct physical evidence to see how far-reaching shaking from east coast earthquakes could be," said Randall Jibson, USGS scientist and lead author of this study. "Not every earthquake will trigger landslides, but we can use landslide distributions to estimate characteristics of earthquake energy and how far regional ground shaking could occur."
"Scientists are confirming with empirical data what more than 50 million people in the eastern U.S. experienced firsthand: this was one powerful earthquake," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "Calibrating the distance over which landslides occur may also help us reach back into the geologic record to look for evidence of past history of major earthquakes from the Virginia seismic zone."
This study will help inform earthquake hazard and risk assessments as well as emergency preparedness, whether for landslides or other earthquake effects.
This study also supports existing research showing that although earthquakes are less frequent in the East, their damaging effects can extend over a much larger area as compared to the western United States.
The research is being presented today at the Geological Society of America conference, and will be published in the December 2012 issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
The USGS found that the farthest landslide from the 2011 Virginia earthquake was 245 km (150 miles) from the epicenter. This is by far the greatest landslide distance recorded from any other earthquake of similar magnitude. Previous studies of worldwide earthquakes indicated that landslides occurred no farther than 60 km (36 miles) from the epicenter of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake.
"What makes this new study so unique is that it provides direct observational evidence from the largest earthquake to occur in more than 100 years in the eastern U.S," said Jibson. "Now that we know more about the power of East Coast earthquakes, equations that predict ground shaking might need to be revised."
It is estimated that approximately one-third of the U.S. population could have felt last year's earthquake in Virginia, more than any earthquake in U.S. history. About 148,000 people reported their ground-shaking experiences caused by the earthquake on the USGS "Did You Feel It?" website. Shaking reports came from southeastern Canada to Florida and as far west as Texas.
In addition to the great landslide distances recorded, the landslides from the 2011 Virginia earthquake occurred in an area 20 times larger than expected from studies of worldwide earthquakes. Scientists plotted the landslide locations that were farthest out and then calculated the area enclosed by those landslides. The observed landslides from last year's Virginia earthquake enclose an area of about 33,400 km2, while previous studies indicated an expected area of about 1,500 km2from an earthquake of similar magnitude.
"The landslide distances from last year's Virginia earthquake are remarkable compared to historical landslides across the world and represent the largest distance limit ever recorded," said Edwin Harp, USGS scientist and co-author of this study. "There are limitations to our research, but the bottom line is that we now have a better understanding of the power of East Coast earthquakes and potential damage scenarios."
The difference between seismic shaking in the East versus the West is due in part to the geologic structure and rock properties that allow seismic waves to travel farther without weakening.
Learn more about the 2011 central Virginia earthquake.
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Shi'a Horn Strikes at Babylon the Great (Daniel 8:4)
A file picture shows US military vehicles, part of a convoy arriving from northern Iraq, drive through the countryside of Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli, in October 2019. (AFP)
Blasts hit US army in Iraq, pro-Iran militias suspected
The blasts could be part of an Iranian campaign by proxy ahead of the next round of US-Iraq strategic dialogue.
BAGHDAD–At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying US-led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours, security sources said, the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad.
The explosions, which caused no casualties but did some material damage, are the latest in a string of such incidents in recent weeks. An attack in southern Iraq on Sunday hit a convoy carrying supplies to coalition forces, the military said.
Several thousand US forces are still based in Iraq, leading a coalition whose mission is to fight Islamic State extremists.
Those forces are also a target for Iran-backed Shia militias, which the United States blames for regular rocket attacks on bases hosting the coalition, and on other US targets such as Washington's embassy in Baghdad.
The militias have vowed to avenge the death of paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed alongside Iranian military Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad in January. Political forces aligned with the militias demand a full withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
They also oppose Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who took office in May. He is viewed as friendly with the United States and has challenged the power of Iran-aligned armed groups in Iraq.
Explosions and denials
Tuesday's explosion near the Taji military base north of Baghdad caused a fire to a container on one vehicle, the Iraqi military said in a statement. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
The explosion on Monday night near the Jraischan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait targeted a convoy carrying equipment for US forces, three sources from different branches of Iraq's security services and military said.
The Iraqi military denied that incident took place.
Kuwait's military on Twitter also denied any attack along its border with Iraq.
Vehicles are regularly loaded with military equipment at the crossing, the security sources said, and cargo is usually loaded or unloaded before entering or exiting Iraq.
Foreign companies are contracted by US forces to provide security in the area, the Iraqi security sources said.
'Companions of the Cave'
A little known Iraqi Shia militia group by the name of Ashab al-Kahf claimed responsibility for the attack and published a video showing an explosion at a distance. It said it was able to destroy US military equipment and large parts of the crossing.
The group issued a statement overnight claiming it destroyed "equipment and vehicles belonging to the American enemy" in a bombing targeting a border crossing south of the Iraqi city of Basra.
It later published an 11-second video clip it claimed showed the blast, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant groups.
The out-of-focus video shows what appeared to be an explosion and lights in the distance, with a man speaking in Arabic. The Associated Press could not immediately verify the video.
US Army Major John Rigsbee, a Central Command spokesman, said the American military was looking into reports of the explosion.
The Iraqi military issued a statement early Tuesday through the state-run Iraqi News Agency denying an attack took place
Ashab al-Kahf means "Companions of the Cave" in Arabic, referring to a Christian and Islamic story about youths escaping religious persecution hiding in a cave for hundreds of years.
The group has emerged alongside renewed threats by Shia militias amid rising tensions between the US and Iran. In January, an American drone strike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad. Tehran responded with a ballistic missile attack that wounded dozens of American troops at a military base in Iraq.
The SITE Intelligence Group has referred to Ashab al-Kahf as "reportedly an Iranian proxy unit." The group initially threatened US forces in April and claimed an attack on a convoy in July.
According to experts, the blasts could be part of an Iranian campaign by proxy ahead of the next round of US-Iraq strategic dialogue scheduled in Washington later this month.
Soviet Advance Lead to U.S. Atomic Mass Murder of Japan
Soviet Advance Not U.S. Atomic Bombings Forced Japan To Surrender
Jonathan Power11 August 2020
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden (IDN) –Seventy-five years ago the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki on August 9 was premeditated mass murder.
President Harry Truman had a workable alternative to using the atom bomb – to cooperate with Stalin, as Roosevelt and Churchill had done on the Western front, in the Soviet advance on Japan, rather than making it a race for control.
Indeed, it was the Soviet advance that convinced Japan to surrender.** Although unaware of each other's thinking both Truman and the Japanese leadership shared a common cause – they both wanted to pre-empt the possibility of the Soviet Union occupying parts of Japan before the U.S. had got its boots on Japanese ground. Truman did not want to be compelled to concede Soviet participation in the government of post-surrender, occupied, Japan.
But the atom bombing of the two cities was always explained by President Harry Truman as a necessary step that was only taken because there remained no other way of forcing capitulation and saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of American troops. But it is simply not true. A good part of his motivation to use the first nuclear bombs was to pre-empt the Soviet advance.
The evidence now available suggests that the nuclear bombing was not decisive in persuading Japan to surrender. The Emperor and the war leadership were told about the atomic bombing but it did not affect their will to continue the war. The Soviet invasion did. Without the Soviet entry into the war the Japanese would have continued to fight until quite a few more atomic bombs had been dropped and until there had been a successful U.S. invasion of the main home islands.
When the Red Army invaded Manchuria on August 9 – which President Truman, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Atlee, and Premier Joseph Stalin had agreed to at their meeting in Potsdam in July – the Japanese political leadership were taken by total surprise.
The invasion undermined their confidence as well as punching a fatal hole in its strategic plan. Without Japan's surrender Tokyo knew that the Soviets would occupy Manchuria, southern Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and a good half of Korea and then move further southward into the mainland. This, not the nuclear bombing, was the key factor in the Japanese surrender.
The U.S. conventional bombing attacks on Japanese cities in the spring and summer of 1945 were almost as devastating as Hiroshima. They often caused more damage and even more casualties. Altogether 66 Japanese cities were attacked that summer, and a typical raid of 500 bombers could deliver 5 kilotons of bombs. The Hiroshima bomb was the equivalent of 16 kilotons, only three times bigger than the average conventional raid. The conventional bombing hadn't convinced the Japanese leadership of surrendering. So it was not surprising that the atomic bombing didn't either.
The nuclear bombing was unnecessary. None less that Dwight Eisenhower, later to be U.S. president, the supreme Allied commander in Europe, said that at the time the decision to bomb was being fashioned,"I voiced my grave misgivings on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary." Admiral William Leahy, who presided over the combined U.S./UK chiefs of staff wrote that, "We had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the dark ages".
Neither the American conventional nor the nuclear bombing turned the heads of Japan's leaders. Its Supreme Council did not meet until two days after the Hiroshima attack of August 6. Yet when the Soviets intervened on August 9 word reached Tokyo by 4.30 am and the Supreme Council met by 10.30am. Following Hiroshima, Emperor Hirohito had taken no action. He merely asked for "more details". When he heard of the Soviet invasion he immediately summoned Lord Privy Seal Koichi Kido and told him, "In the light of the Soviet entry…. It is all the more urgent to find a means to end the war."
As Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki explained on August 13, "Japan had to surrender because the Soviet Union will take not only Manchuria, Korea, Karafuto, but also Hokkaido, (a large northern island belonging to Japan). This would destroy the foundation of Japan. We must end the war while we can deal with the United States." The Japanese surrendered on August 15. The Soviet advance was halted in its tracks.
Saturday is the date we remember the defeat of Japan and it's time the world should decide to revolutionise its poorly attempted effort to rid itself of nuclear weapons, capable of destroying all our major civilizations.
How far have we progressed in getting rid of nuclear weapons which now have proliferated far and wide? Briefed by the military in 2017 on the levels to which American and Russian nuclear arsenals had been reduced through arms treaties, President Donald Trump reportedly demanded that the United States increase its nuclear stockpile tenfold. According to some reports, this was what prompted the secretary of state at the time, Rex Tillerson, to call the president a "moron".
Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Iran nuclear deal, and he has not yet extended the New START accord that cuts the U.S. and Russia's long-range rockets by 1000 each, the only agreement still in place limiting American and Russian most deadly nuclear forces. It was signed by Presidents Barack Obama and Dimitri Medvedev and expires, unless renewed, in early February next year.
We should never forget that it was the Americans who dropped those two bombs and they, more than any other nation, have the duty to get rid of them. Yet a recent poll showed that although a majority (a bare one) thought that Hiroshima was wrong, 55% of Americans think that if their country was about to be defeated in war today nuclear weapons should be used.
"Now I become death, the destroyer of worlds."– the words of the scripture of the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, quoted by Robert Oppenheimer when the bomb went off. He had led the team that made the first atom bomb. Later he preached against the H-bomb and promoted the message that there was a lack of utility in ever-larger arsenals. If he could come to his senses so then must we.
** [The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation or simply the Manchurian Operation, began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. It was the largest campaign of the 1945 Soviet–Japanese War, which resumed hostilities between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Empire of Japan after almost six years of peace. Soviet gains on the continent were Manchukuo, Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia) and northern Korea. The Soviet entry into the war and the defeat of the Kwantung Army was a significant factor in the Japanese government's decision to surrender unconditionally, as it made apparent the Soviet Union had no intention of acting as a third party in negotiating an end to hostilities on conditional terms. – Wikipedia]
* Note: Copyright Jonathan Power. Website: http://www.jonathanpowerjournalist.com. The writer was for 17 years a foreign affairs columnist and commentator for the International Herald Tribune. [IDN-InDepthNews – 11 August 2020].
Map: Soviet Invasion of Manchuria (1945), based on Glantz's maps in Levenworth Paper No 7 – Feb 1983. CC BY-SA 3.0
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How Israel is Provoking the Iranian Nuclear Horn
From Condemnation To Praise: Why Israel's Bombing of Iraq's Osirak Nuclear Reactor Stands Test of Time
Dov LipmanAugust 11, 2020
Imagine this: It's August 1990. Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq, begins to act on his plan for world domination by invading Kuwait. Billions around the world must sit silently and watch as Hussein takes over country after country, because they know that Hussein will unleash his nuclear weapons against any nation that tries to stop him.
Thankfully, this nightmare scenario never materialized.
The United States was able to lead an international coalition to push Iraq's armed forces out of Kuwait in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and Hussein's expansionism came to a screeching halt.
But this dictator was only able to be prevented from carrying out his maniacal plans because of one country: Israel.
Timeline: from diplomacy to air strike
Iraq had established a nuclear program during the 1960s, and by the mid-1970s looked to expand it through the acquisition of a nuclear reactor. To that end, Iraq purchased a nuclear reactor from France in 1976. Located 17 kilometers southeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Osirak reactor was immediately recognized by Israeli officials to constitute a serious threat to Israel and the world.
A nuclear reactor in the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein presented an immediate and grave dilemma. Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan initiated diplomatic efforts with France but failed to receive assurances that the reactor program would be halted. Additionally, Israel failed to convince the French government to stop providing aid for the Iraqi nuclear program.
Once diplomatic efforts failed, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin concluded that Israel would have to take military action. In 1979, Israeli secret agents planted a bomb that destroyed the reactor's first set of core structures as they were being prepared to be shipped to Iraq. Israel engaged in additional covert efforts to try to set the Iraqi nuclear program back.
But in October 1980, Israeli intelligence reported that by June 1981 the reactors would be fully operational, after which nuclear weapons could be developed. While the earliest estimates for Iraq being able to obtain a nuclear bomb were a year or two later, Begin was concerned that delaying the attack until the reactor was fully operational could lead to lethal doses of radioactive contamination reaching Baghdad, killing innocent civilians.
Begin thus ordered the Israel Air Force to bomb the reactor on June 7, 1981. Israel chose to bomb on a Sunday, a day off for foreign workers and consultants, to reduce the number of casualties. The Israeli air strike of Osirak became known as Operation Opera.
Fourteen Israeli fighter planes flew 1,600 kilometers to reach their target. While flying through Jordanian airspace, the pilots spoke in Saudi-accented Arabic telling the Jordanian air controllers that they were Saudis on a routine patrol that had veered off course. Then, when they flew through Saudi airspace, the pilots pretended to be Jordanians.
Israeli Air Force F-16A Netz '243', aircraft flown by Colonel Ilan Ramon in Operation Opera. This was the eighth and last to drop its bombs onto the reactor. (Wikimedia commons)
Once they reached Iraq, the fighter planes dropped 16 bombs on the reactor in two minutes, evaded anti-aircraft fire, and safely returned to Israel.
Though Iraq vowed to rebuild the reactor, France ultimately pulled out of the project in 1984 and the facility was never repaired.
Israel's "clear violation" of international conduct
The United Nations passed two resolutions rebuking Israel for the attack. UN Security Council Resolution 487, passed on June 19, 1981, condemned the attack as a "clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the norms of international conduct." The United States voted in favor of the resolution. On November 13, 1981 the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 36/27, criticizing Israel for the "premeditated and unprecedented act of aggression," and demanded that Israel compensate Iraq for the damage and loss of life caused by the attacks.
Both resolutions called on Israel to refrain from attacks of this kind in the future. US President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that he believed the Israeli attack would lead to "Armageddon" and US ambassador to the UN Jean Kirkpatrick compared Israel's attack to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The New York Times called the attack "an act of inexcusable and short-sighted aggression." The Los Angeles Times went even further, calling it "state sponsored terrorism."
Many of Israel's critics pointed to the fact that Iraq had signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that put the reactor under the watch of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which would prevent the country from using the reactor to develop nuclear weapons.
US: Bombing Osirak was a 'good thing'
But Roger Richter, a former IAEA inspector, told the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the most sensitive facilities in the reactor were not subject to any safeguards. While Iraq and France insisted that the reactor was constructed for peaceful purposes, SRATFOR, a private American intelligence agency, reported that prior to Israel's attack the Osirak reactor "was believed to be on the verge of producing plutonium for a weapons program."
(Photo: Wikimedia commons)
Quite remarkably, while Israel's attack left the reactor crippled but still standing, coalition forces led by the United States Air Force completely destroyed the reactor during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Following that war, US Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney thanked the Israeli pilot who commanded the Israeli mission for "the outstanding job" that Israel's air force did in 1981.
US President Bill Clinton said this at the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos regarding the Israeli attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor: "Everybody talks about what the Israelis did at Osirak in 1981, which I think, in retrospect, was a really good thing. You know, it kept Saddam from developing nuclear power."
The entire episode – from the difficult decision to bomb the Osirak reactor, to the international condemnation, to the gratitude a decade later – has reinforced Israel's doctrine to not be held back by likely worldwide condemnation and to act, even at great risk, when it identifies real and present danger to its people and its survival.
Trump Loses the 'Art of the Deal'
Iran's Khamenei Rejects Talks With Trump
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with thousands of students in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 3, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran will not open talks with the United States that will only benefit Donald Trump, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday, insisting the U.S. president's sanctions policy has failed.
Decades-old tensions between Tehran and Washington have soared in the past year, with the sworn enemies appearing several times to come to the brink of war.
The tensions have been rising since 2018, when Trump withdrew the United States from a landmark nuclear accord and unilaterally reimposed crippling sanctions.
"There is no doubt that sanctions are a crime, a blow from the U.S. to Iran," supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech.
"But the smart Iranian has made the best use of this attack, this animosity and benefited … by using sanctions as a means to increase national self-reliance."
Khamenei said Western "think tanks admit that the maximum pressure (policy) of sanctions and U.S. force has not succeeded."
The 2015 deal between Tehran and major powers promised relief from sanctions in return for limits on Iran's nuclear program.
After abandoning the agreement, the United States reimposed sanctions on Iran's vital oil exports and its access to the international banking system, and pressured allies and rivals alike to fall in line.
Iran has responded by trying to boost its non-oil exports, particularly to neighboring countries.
"This has caused the country's economy to be naturally less reliant on oil," Khamenei said, casting the development in a positive light.
Khamenei condemned calls for Iran to open new talks with the United States, saying he would not agree to meetings that were aimed only at boosting Trump's re-election hopes.
The 81-year-old called Trump an "old man," even though he is seven years older.
"This old man in charge, he apparently made some propaganda use out of his negotiations with North Korea. Now he wants to use (talks with Iran) for the (Nov. 3 U.S. presidential) election."
Khamenei said that in return for new talks, the United States would demand: "Reduce your defensive capability, destroy your regional power and give up the vital nuclear industry."
However, "No logic dictates giving into the aggressor's demands," he said.
Hamas Sends 'Message' From Outside the Temple Walls (Revelation 11)
Palestinian Hamas militants attend the funeral of their comrade, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip August 17, 2017. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Hamas Sends 'Message' to Israel by Firing Rockets into Sea
Monday, 10 August, 2020
The Gaza Strip's rulers Hamas fired rockets into the sea on Monday after repeated exchanges of fire with Israel in recent days,Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said.
At least eight rockets were seen in the sky, heading toward the Mediterranean Sea, said AFP journalists in the coastal strip, which has been under Israeli blockade for more than a decade.
The interior ministry of the Palestinian enclave under Hamas control since 2007 referred to "an act of resistance".
The rockets were a "message" to Israel to let it know that armed groups in Gaza will not "remain silent"in the face of an Israeli blockade and "aggression", a source close to Hamas told AFP.
The source noted that Monday's rocket fire coincided with the recent launch of incendiary balloons into Israel.
In the past week, such balloons have flown three times from Gaza into Israel, each time triggering retaliatory strikes against Hamas positions.
The latest came Sunday night when the Israeli military announced that one of its aircraft had struck at a Hamas observation post in northern Gaza.
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Preparing for Nuclear War Over Kashmir (Revelation 8 )
Pakistan ambassador not ruling out another war with India over disputed Kashmir region
By Mike Glenn – The Washington Times – Monday, August 10, 2020
Another war between India and Pakistan is not out of the question a year after India revoked the special status of the disputed Kashmir region, which has led to a government crackdown and allegations of abuse against civilians in the majority-Muslim province, said Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S.
In an interview Monday with The Washington Times, Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan offered a generally pessimistic view of any chance for successfully walking back tension between the two nuclear-power neighbors.
Mr. Khan said there is a complete lack of dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad over the ethnically diverse and hotly contested region."You have a border where you have over 2,000 violations since January. The Line of Control is hot," he said. "No one can or should rule out the possibility of a larger confrontation."
The Himalayan region of about 86,000 square miles was in dispute even before India and Pakistan won their independence from Great Britain in 1947. Both countries eventually divided up the area.
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Q: Arrows linking table cells I'm currently trying to add arrows in my synthetic division example to show people clearly how synthetic division works. I'm working on Overleaf.
The code for my synthetic division right now is:
\begin{tabular}{c |r r r r r}

 &1& 4 & -1&16&-20\\

1&& 1 & 5 & 4&20\\

\hline

&1 &5 & 4 & 20 &\rule{3pt}{16pt}\;0\\

\end{tabular}

How would I add arrows to this?
For instance, a down arrow going from the first 1 to 1, then an upwards arrow pointing right from 1 to 1, then an arrow pointing down from 1 to 5, etc. Basically I would like to add arrows that look like this:

A: I think this is more or less what you're looking for:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\colorlet{mycolor}{pink!50!red}

\tikzset{
    mynode/.style={
        draw, circle,
        #1,
        dashed, very thick,
        align=center,
        text=black,
        inner sep=0pt
        }
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\matrix[matrix of nodes,column sep=0pt,
    column sep=4pt,
    row 1/.style={nodes={mynode={white}}},
    row 3/.style={nodes={mynode={mycolor}}},
    nodes={text width=width{-20}},
    ] (M) {
    & 1 & \phantom{-}5 & \phantom{-}4 &[4pt] \phantom{-}20\\
    |[mynode={white}]|-5 &   & |[mynode={mycolor}]|-5 & |[mynode={mycolor}]|-5  & |[mynode={mycolor}]|-20\\[2ex]
    & 1 & 0 & 4 & 0\\
    };
\draw ([yshift=-2ex]M-2-1.south west) -- ([shift={(2pt,-2ex)}]M-2-5.south east);
\draw ([xshift=-8pt]M-1-2.north west) -- ([shift={(-8pt,-1ex)}]M-3-2.south west);
\draw[thick] ([shift={(-7pt,1.5ex)}]M-3-5.north west) -- ([shift={(-7pt,-1ex)}]M-3-5.south west);

\begin{scope}[ shorten >=1pt, shorten <=1pt,
mycolor, -Stealth]
\draw (M-1-2) -- (M-3-2);
\draw (M-3-2) -- (M-2-3);
\draw (M-2-3) -- (M-3-3);
\draw (M-3-3) -- (M-2-4);
\draw (M-2-4) -- (M-3-4);
\draw (M-3-4) -- (M-2-5);
\draw (M-2-5) -- (M-3-5);
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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Once long ago in India, there lived a dangerous robber, who lived in a forest between two small villages. The villagers were very scared of him, because he not only robbed them, but also chopped off one of their little fingers to add to a 'string' (mala) of chopped fingers (angulis) that he wore around his waist. Due to this, the robber became infamous as 'Angulimala' or the one who wears the string of chopped fingers.
Once Shrī Buddha was passing through the forest on His mission to spread spirituality to the villagers. The villagers feared for His life and warned Him against going to the neighbouring village. But Shri Buddha assured the villagers of His safe return and started His journey through the forest.
The night was dark and cloudy. Angulimala, who never missed a traveller, caught Shri Buddha and asked Him for His belongings. Shri Buddha told him that He was a monk, who had renounced the world, and had nothing to give him. Angulimala was puzzled, but at the very next moment, he realised that if he allowed Shri Buddha to go unharmed, the villagers would no longer be scared of him. Thinking so, Angulimala walked towards Shri Buddha and threatened to kill Him.
Shri Buddha stood there calmly. He told Angulimala, "You are free to kill me, but before you do so you will have to fulfil one wish of mine." Angulimala agreed, so Shri Buddha asked him to pluck a leaf from a nearby tree and bring it to Him. Angulimala did so and came to Shri Buddha with the leaf in one hand and his axe in the other hand, ready to kill Him.
However, Shri Buddha said, "Oh, I am sorry! I did not mean this leaf, but the one from the other tree. Could you put this leaf back on the tree that you got it from?" Angulimala started laughing and said, "How can a plucked leaf be put back on the tree? Even if I stick it to the tree, it will fall off, as it is already separated from the tree. It is impossible to do so!"
On hearing this, Shri Buddha replied, "When we cannot give life, we do not have any right to take it away! God, who gave life to all, alone has that right." Shri Buddha's words touched Angulimala's heart and he fell at His feet, pleading forgiveness. That day, Angulimala turned from his criminal ways and commenced spiritual practice under Shri Buddha's guidance.
Moral: The above story shows the power of Sat (truth), which protected Shri Buddha and transformed a dangerous criminal like Angulimala. If satsang (company of the God principle) can do such wonders for a criminal, how much would it benefit us! Hence, we should take every opportunity to remain in satsang by attending one, if available near our place, reading Holy books, listening to hymns (bhajans), and whenever possible, visiting Saints.


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Die Lauter oder Lenninger Lauter ist ein rechter Nebenfluss des Neckars und entspringt am Trauf der Schwäbischen Alb.

Geographie

Verlauf

Die Lauter bildet sich aus dem Zusammenfluss der Weißen Lauter, die östlich Gutenberg entspringt und der Schwarzen Lauter, die in Schlattstall entspringt. Beide Bäche werden aus mehreren Quellen am jeweiligen Talrand gespeist. Die Orte gehören zum Landkreis Esslingen.

Sie durchfließt die Gemeinden Lenningen, Owen, Dettingen unter Teck, Kirchheim unter Teck und Wendlingen am Neckar. Ihr bedeutendster Zufluss ist die Lindach bei Kirchheim. Die Lauter mündet nach einer Fließstrecke von 27,5 km bei Wendlingen am Neckar in den Neckar.

Einzugsgebiet
Die Lenninger Lauter entwässert ein Gebiet von 191,2 km² Größe in etwa nordwestlicher Richtung zum mittleren Neckar, das naturräumlich gesehen beidseits des Albtraufs Anteil hat an der Mittleren Kuppenalb am oberen und am Mittleren Albvorland am unteren Lauf. Am Albaustritt der Lauter selbst und mehr noch an dem ihres einzugsgebietsreicheren rechten Unterlaufzuflusses Lindach, in dessen Zulaufrichtung sie an dessen Mündung schwenkt, haben ihre Gewässer große Stufenrandbuchten geschaffen.

Die Wasserscheide verläuft, von der Mündung beginnend, an der Ostseite schon bald gegen das Einzugsgebiet des nahen abwärtigen Neckarzuflusses Fils. Erst weit im Süden bei Donnstetten knickt die Scheidelinie nach Westen ab, auf einem nur wenige Kilometer langen Stück bis zum Römerstein läuft sie nun auf der Europäischen Hauptwasserscheide gegen das Entwässerungsgebiet der Donau, in das der ferne Blau-Zufluss Ach den jenseitigen oberirdischen Abfluss der zumeist bachlosen Albhochfläche abführt. Danach grenzt auf einem weiteren kurzen Stück im Süden und einem längeren im Südwesten das Einzugsgebiet der nun wiederum zum Neckar laufenden Erms an, die dann ihrerseits bis zur Mündung im Westen und Nordwesten als Konkurrent abgelöst wird durch nacheinander die Steinach, den Tiefenbach und schließlich den Talbach.

Die höchste Erhebung im Einzugsgebiet ist der bis  aufragende Römerstein an der südlichen Wasserscheide entlang dem dortigen Albtrauf. Auch noch an zwei anderen Stellen, wo die Wasserscheide dem Albtrauf folgt, läuft sie über Höhen von über , nahe beim Boßler () und nahe am Römerstein auf der Albe (). Der nordwestliche Albausläufer zwischen den Traufbuchten von Lauter und Lindach im Inneren des Einzugsgebietes ragt auf der Asch  bis in eine Höhe von  und auf dem Auchtert bis auf eine von .

Zuflüsse
Liste der direkten Zuflüsse der Lauter und ihrer zwei Quelläste von der Quelle zur Mündung. Gewässerlänge Einzugsgebiet und Höhe nach den entsprechenden Layern auf der Onlinekarte der LUBW. Andere Quellen für die Angaben sind vermerkt.

Zusammenfluss der Lauter aus ihren Quellflüssen Weiße und Schwarze Lauter auf etwa  an der Kläranlage zwischen Lenningen-Gutenberg und Lenningen-Oberlenningen.

 Weiße Lauter, rechter und östlicher Oberlauf, 2,9 km und 14,9 km². Entspringt auf etwa  dem Lauterursprung bei Lenningen-Gutenberg.
 Donntalbach, von links und Südwesten auf etwa  westlich von Gutenberg, 2,6 km und 5,1 km². Entsteht auf etwa  südöstlich der Ruine Sperberseck.
 Schwarze Lauter, linker und südlicher Oberlauf, 1,8 km und 17,2 km². Entspringt auf etwa  der Lauterquelle bei Lenningen-Schlattstall. Mit längerem linkem Oberlauf Seltenbach.
 (Zufluss aus dem Schlattstatter Goldloch), von rechts und Süden auf etwa  in Schlattstall, 0,2 km und ca. 0,1 km². Das Schlattstaller Goldloch ist eine Karstquelle am Unterhang in etwa selber Höhe wie die Lauterquelle der Schwarzen Lauter.
 Seltenbach, von links und Südwesten auf etwa  in Schlattstall, 1,9 km und ca. 13,6 km². Entsteht auf bis zu  im Talkessel In der Schrecke südsüdöstlich von Grabenstetten.
 Bergwiesenlauter, von links und Südosten auf etwa  etwa einen halben Kilometer nach dem Zusammenfluss der Lauter-Oberläufe, 0,9 km und ca. 0,4 km². Zweigt an der           B 465 am linken Talrand des Lenninger Tals auf etwa  nach links von der Schwarzen Lauter ab.
 Tobelbach, von rechts und Osten auf unter  in Oberlenningen, 1,5 km und 3,5 km². Entsteht auf über  im Tobeltal östlich von Oberlenningen
 Weilbach, von links und Süden auf unter  in Oberlenningen, 1,1 km und 0,8 km². Entsteht periodisch auf bis zu  und dann dem Hirschtalbröller oder Höllloch am Talhang südlich von Oberlenningen.
 (Bach aus dem Kellental), von links und Westen auf etwa  unter der Ruine Sulzburg am Südrand von Lenningen-Unterlenningen, 2,0 km und 1,7 km². Entsteht auf etwa  unterm Abschnitt des Heidengrabens nördlich von Erkenbrechtsweiler.
 Brühlbach, von rechts und Osten auf etwa  in Unterlenningen nach der Lauterbrücke der B 465, 1,0 km und 0,8 km². Entsteht auf über  am Ostrand von Unterlenningen.
 Ehnisbach, von rechts und Nordosten auf etwa  an der Brücke bei der Brunnenstraße in Unterlenningen, 2,1 km und 2,5 km². Entspringt auf etwa  unterhalb der Ruine Rauber.
 Krötenbach, von rechts und Osten auf  in Lenningen-Brucken, 1,5 km und ca. 1,6 km². Entspringt auf etwa  östlich des Bühls.
 Wehrbach, von links und Südwesten auf unter  verdolt an der Lauterbrücke der Beurener Straße in Owen, 2,2 km und 1,3 km². Entsteht auf unter  am Nordhang der Bassgeige.
 Kleine Lauter, linker Teilungslauf von vor Brucken () bis nach Owen (etwa ), 2,1 km und ca. 1,3 km². Quert zuletzt den Wehrbach.
 Stadtgraben, von rechts und Nordosten auf unter  in Owen, 1,1 km und ca. 0,6 km². Entsteht auf unter  unter der Burg Teck.
 Säubadbach, von links und Südwesten auf unter  vor der Brücke der Schießhüttestraße in Owen, 1,1 km und ca. 0,6 km². Entsteht auf unter  im Gewann Säubad.
 (Zufluss aus dem Gewann Eichenholzteich), von links und Westen auf  gegenüber den Sportplätzen am Nordrand Norden Owens, 0,7 km und ca. 0,2 km². Entsteht auf etwa  im Muldengewann Eichenholzteich.
 Wittumbach, von rechts und Osten auf etwa  kurz vor der Kläranlage nach Owen, 1,9 km und ca. 0,7 km². Entsteht auf etwa  am Südhang des Hohenbols.
 (Waldrandgraben), von links und Westen auf etwa  gegenüber der Owener Kläranlage, 0,7 km und ca. 0,2 km². Entsteht auf unter  am Südrand des Dettinger Gemeindewaldes.
 (Bach aus dem Fahrtobel), von links und Nordwesten auf  gegenüber den Oberen Wasserwiesen, 1,4 km und ca. 1,1 km². Entsteht auf etwa  unterm Dettinger Käppele.
 (Bach am Schwefelbrunnen vorbei), von links und Westen auf unter  gegenüber dem Südwestrand von Dettingen unter Teck, 1,1 km und ca. 0,7 km². Entspringt auf etwa  dem Lichtenbergbrunnen unter dem namengebenden Käppele-Ausläufer.
 Eulengreutgraben, von links und Südwesten auf etwa  in Dettingen, 1,2 km und ca. 0,5 km². Entsteht auf etwa  unterm Sonnenberg.
 Lindach, von rechts und Südosten auf unter  in Kirchheim unter Teck, 16,7 km und 100,6 km². Entsteht als Pfannenbach auf knapp  südlich von Neidlingen. Größter Zufluss mit einem Einzugsgebiet, das dasjenige der Lauter bis dorthin (72,3 km².) merklich übertrifft. An diesem Zufluss wechselt die Lauter ihre Abflussrichtung von zuvor Nord auf Nordwest, womit sie die der zufließenden Ĺindach fortsetzt.
 Kegelsbach, von links und Süden auf etwa , 6,8 km und 5,9 km². Entsteht auf unter  westlich von Dettingen am Schnarrenberg. Kreuz kurz vor der Mündung den folgenden.
 Fabrikkanal, von links auf unter  in Ötlingen, 2,5 km. Geht kurz nach dem Zufluss der Lindach in Kirchheim von der Lauter ab.
 Dupiggraben, von links und Süden auf etwa  nach Ötlingen, 2,6 km und 1,9 km². Entsteht auf etwa  am Waldrand westlich von Lindorf.
 Speckbach, von links und Süden auf etwa  gleich nach dem vorigen, 1,0 km und 0,7 km². Entsteht auf etwa  am Nordrand des Waldes Rübholz.

Mündung der Lauter von rechts und Südosten auf über  bei Wendlingen in den mittleren Neckar. Der Bach ist hier ab dem Lauterursprung des längeren rechten Oberlaufs Weiße Lauter 25,8 km, ab dem Zusammenfluss mit der Schwarzen Lauter auf dem Namenslauf 22,9 km lang. Er hat ein 191,6 km² großes Einzugsgebiet.

Natur und Schutzgebiete
Im Einzugsbereich der Lauter gibt es etwa ein Dutzend Naturschutzgebiete.
 Das mit fast 6 km² größte darunter mit dem Namen Oberes Lenninger Tal mit Seitentälern umfasst – die Orte Gutenberg und Schlattstatt ausgenommen – im Wesentlichen die tief in den Albkörper eingeschnittenen Täler der beiden Quellflüsse. Der dem rechten, der Weißen Lauter, von Süden zulaufende Donntalbach, fließt an seinem Unterlauf über Kalktuff-Bachterrassen.
 Das Naturschutzgebiet Tobeltal mit Mittagsfels und Wielandstein liegt östlich von Lenningen und umfasst das Tal des Tobelbachs und angrenzende Albhochfläche. Um das obere Talende zieht sich ein Kranz aus Weißjurafelsen, die den Hangwald überragen.
 Östlich von Owen umfasst das Naturschutzgebiet Teck die Mittel- und Oberhänge des bekannten Zeugenbergs Teckberg der Schwäbischen Alb, die nach Westen zur Lauter, nach Osten zum Gießnaubach abfallen. In landschaftstypischer Art liegen unter dem waldgekrönten Bergkamm Heiden und Obstwiesen.
 Das kleine Naturschutzgebiet Nägelestal liegt unmittelbar am Südwestrand von Kirchheim unter Teck und zeigt ein Mosaik aus Ackerflächen, Streuobstwiesen, Ödland und Auenflächen des dort von einer Baumgalerie gesäumten Kegelsbachs.
 Das Naturschutzgebiet Schopflocher Torfmoor auf der Albhochfläche schützt die Reste des einzigen Hochmoors der Alb, das durch früheren Torfabbau sehr beeinträchtigt ist.
Die übrigen Naturschutzgebiete liegen ganz im Teileinzugsbereich der Lindach.

Es gibt auch viele Landschaftsschutzgebiete im Einzugsbereich der Lauter. Im nördlichen, verstädterten Bereich bestehen sie aus oft zersplitterten Kleinflächen, im südlichen umfassen sie, soweit nicht bereits als Naturschutzgebiet ausgewiesen, den überwiegenden Teil der Albtälern und -höhen.

Oberhalb von Oberlenningen liegen das Tal und alle Nebentäler der Lauter in einem großen Wasserschutzgebiet. Kleinere dem Grundwasserschutz dienende Gebiete liegen auch im Neidlinger Tal der Lindach sowie weiter nördlich im Einzugsgebiet.

Geschichte
Bereits die Kelten durchstreiften das Lautertal auf ihrer Nahrungssuche. In der Antike errichteten die Römer in den Niederungen der Talaue einen Limes (Lautertal-Limes) und ein Kastell (Kastell Dettingen unter Teck) zu dessen Schutz.

Bilder von der Lauter und Seitentälern

Siehe auch
 Liste der Zuflüsse des Neckars

Einzelnachweise

LUBW
Amtliche Online-Gewässerkarte mit passendem Ausschnitt und den hier benutzten Layern: Lauf und Einzugsgebiet der Lauter
Allgemeiner Einstieg ohne Voreinstellungen und Layer:
Höhe:

Länge:

EZG:

Sonstige:

Andere Belege

Literatur
 Topographische Karte 1:25.000 Baden-Württemberg, als Einzelblatt Nr. 7322 Kirchheim unter Teck, Nr. 7323 Weilheim an der Teck, Nr. 7422 Lenningen, Nr. 7423 Wiesensteig, Nr. 7522 Bad Urach, Nr. 7523 Münsingen

Weblinks

 Karte von Lauf und Einzugsgebiet der Lauter auf:
 Karte von Lauf und Einzugsgebiet der Lauter auf:
 Meßtischblätter in der Deutschen Fotothek:
 7322 Kirchheim unter Teck von 1905
 7323 Weilheim an der Teck von 1905
 7422 Dettingen a. d. Erms von 1930
 7423 Wiesensteig von 1905
 7522 Urach von 1930
 7523 Böhringen von 1932

Fließgewässer im Landkreis Esslingen
Geographie (Lenningen)
Geographie (Owen)
Geographie (Dettingen unter Teck)
Geographie (Kirchheim unter Teck)
Geographie (Wendlingen am Neckar)

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Las lenguas caucásicas septentrionales es un grupo de lenguas, posiblemente emparentadas, que engloba a dos familias de lenguas caucásicas que previamente habían sido consideradas familias no emparentadas:
 Lenguas caucásicas del noroeste
 Lenguas caucásicas del nordeste
Algunos autores dividen las lenguas del nordeste en dos familias diferentes, aunque la mayoría de especialistas consideran que se trata de una única familia.

Las lenguas caucásicas septentrionales se extienden por el Cáucaso norte y el noreste de Turquía.

Descripción lingüística
Los dos grupos están caracterizados por una gran complejidad fonética, incluyendo un amplio uso de articulación secundaria. Sin embargo, el sistema gramatical de ambas familias es muy diferente. Las lenguas del nordeste se caracterizan por una extraordinaria complicación del sustantivo: se conoce un ejemplo del tabasaran en el que una serie de locativos intersecan con una serie de sufijos que indican movimiento respecto a un lugar, produciendo unos 48 sufijos (a menudo descritos incorrectamente como declinación).
Por el contrario, las lenguas del noroeste tienen un sistema muy pobre, que normalmente solamente distingue dos o tres casos. Sin embargo, la complejidad del verbo en el grupo del noroeste es notable: el sujeto, el objeto directo, el objeto indirecto, el benefactivo y la mayoría de funciones locales se expresan dentro del verbo.

A pesar de este contraste tan extremo (el grupo del nordeste con un sistema nominal muy rico y el grupo del noroeste con la correspondiente riqueza en el sistema verbal) algunos lingüistas están convencidos de que ambos grupos provienen de un ancestro común, que se dividió en dos grupos hace unos cinco mil años. Las fonologías extremas de estas lenguas (el ubijé del noroeste tiene 80 consonantes y el archi se cree que tiene 76) así como los extraordinarios sistemas gramaticales parecen apoyar la teoría, que sin embargo sigue siendo discutida.

Comparación de las dos familias
Las principales similitudes entre los dos familias caucásicas septentrionales están en los sistemas fonológicos. Sin embargo, sus estructuras gramaticales difieren notablemente, lo cual apunta a que algunas de las similitudes podrían ser fenómenos típicos de área lingüística.

Principales similitudes
Ambos grupos se caracterizan por una alta complejidad fonética. Entre las consonantes se da con mucha frecuencia la articulación secundaria o coarticulación. El ubykh (cau. noroccidental) tiene 84 consonantes diferentes, mientras que para el archi (cau. nororiental) se han contabilizado 76 consonantes.

Además se ha propuesto una lista razonable de cognados. Sin embargo, la mayoría de ellos podrían ser préstamos o simplemente coincidencias, puesto que la mayor parte de los morfemas de ambos grupos son muy cortos (frecuentemente con una sola consonante, lo que favorece enormemente las coincidencias azarosas).

Principales diferencias
Las lenguas caucásicas nororientales se caracterizan por una complejidad morfológica considerable en el nombre. Así por ejemplo, en tsez, una serie de casos locativos se puede combinar con una serie de sufijos referidos al movimiento con respecto a la localización, produciendo un conjunto de 126 formas locativas diferentes (frecuentemente descritas como casos morfológicos diferentes, aunque diferentes autores los analizan de diferente manera).

Esto contrasta con los sistemas nominales de las lenguas caucásicas noroccidentales que son relativamente simples en su morfología. En estas lenguas el nombre distingue solamente dos o tres casos diferentes. Aunque las lenguas noroccidentales sí presentan una estructura verbal compleja, en la que existen marcas verbales para el sujeto, el objeto directo, el objeto indirecto o el objeto benefactivo, así como marcas verbales para locativos.

Comparación léxica

Abreviaciones:
PN = Proto-Nakh
PDL = Proto-Dargi-Lak
PLK = Proto-Lezgi-Khinalugh
PAAT = Proto-Avar–Andi–Tsez
PCNOr = Proto-caucásico nororiental
PCNOc = Proto-caucásico noroccidental:
PCN = Proto-caucásico norte (septentrional)

Abreviaciones: (N) = Nichols, (S) = Schulze, (C) = Colarusso
/c, č/ designan dos africadas, la alvelar y la postalveolar (AFI /ʦ, ʧ/).

Genética de poblaciones y las lenguas norcaucásicas
El estudio genético del cromosoma Y en las poblaciones nativas del Cáucaso norte, ha encontrado una correlación geográfica y lingüística. Los datos sugieren un origen directo de los linajes masculinos del Cáucaso provenientes del Cercano Oriente, seguido de un alto nivel de aislamiento (razones geográficas e históricas), con posterior diferenciación y deriva genética in situ. Comparación de las reconstrucciones genéticas y lingüísticas que cubren los últimos milenios mostró correspondencias sorprendentes.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Sergéi Stárostin, S. L. Nikoláyev. 1994. Diccionario etimológico del caucásico septentrional (en inglés)
 George Hewitt (2005): "North West Caucasian", Lingua 115 pp. 91-145.
 Helma van den Berg (2005): "The East Caucasian language family", Lingua 115 pp. 147-190.

Caucasicas septentrionales


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Q: How to reference dynamic self type in interface I need an interface that defines a class constructor and a key of the given constructor
This is what I tried, but looks like this['cstr'] in my interface is not resolved with given constructor but rather with unknown.
class Foo {
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interface IClassDescriptor {
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const b: IClassDescriptor = {
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Is there a way / workaorund to achieve desired functionality?

A: Self referencing types are generally not possible in TypeScript unless you use generics. But generics require you to explictly provide a type parameter when using them as a type.
You could use a function to do the inference for you.
interface IClassDescriptor<T> {
  cstr: new () => T;
  key: keyof T
}

function createClassDescriptor<T>(arg: IClassDescriptor<T>) {
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const b = createClassDescriptor({
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Or specify the generic type when using IClassDescriptor.
const a: IClassDescriptor<Foo> = {
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const b: IClassDescriptor<Foo> = {
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Back in April, the Cleveland Browns were upset when they lost out to the Tennessee Titans for wide receiver Kendall Wright.
Tennessee chose Wright at No. 20 in the first round, and word from the Browns war room was that Wright was their target at No. 22.
Now, with former Baylor receiver Josh Gordon available in the supplemental draft on Thursday, the Browns are looking at the possibility of going after him. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Browns are among a number of teams who will attend Gordon's workout today in Houston.
Gordon is a talented player, but comes with issues because he has been out of football after being kicked off the Baylor team following a marijuana arrest. He transferred to Utah and sat out in 2011, and now has put his name in the supplemental draft rather than play for the Utes. Still, some believe that a team might spend as high as a second-round pick on Thursday in order to obtain Gordon.


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UAE to increase flights to Australia
By Mark Elliott On Nov 20, 2015
The UAE and Australia have signed an agreement that will see a significant boost in flights between the countries.
It is hoped the move will see an increase in tourism between the two countries and a reduction in ticket prices.
Carriers based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi are now able to operate an extra 14 flights a week to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.
The total number of services is 161 with Australian airlines getting an additional14 flight slots in return to the UAE.
"The Australian Government is committed to supporting the entry of Australian airlines into foreign markets and ensuring we have the aviation capacity necessary to meet future demand," Acting Prime Minister Warren Truss said.
Emirates boasts more than 25% of the traffic between Australia and Europe, according to a report in Reuters.
UAE airlines already have the right to offer unlimited services to other Australian destinations, including Darwin, Cairns, Adelaide and the Gold Coast under existing open access agreements.
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Храм Светог пророка Илије у Доњој Палежници, насељеном месту на територији града Добоја, припада Епархији зворничко–тузланској Српске православне цркве.

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Током Другог светског рата је убијено 36 свештеника и два монаха на подручју епархије зворничко-тузланске, порушено је 17 српских православних цркви, оштећено 37 храмова, један манастир и 25 парохијских домова од којих је десет минирано и петнаест спаљених. Оштећено је 20 црквених објеката, уништене су 62 црквене архиве, као и 49 црквено општинских и манастирских библиотека. Године 1944. је убијено 32 бораца из Палежнице Доње, а у грађанском рату на подручју Босне и Херцеговине четрнаест бораца и седам жртава.

Градња храма Светог пророка Илије у Доњој Палежници, димензија 13×7,5 метара, је започета 1933. Након две године је завршена, храм је освештао епископ зворничко-тузлански Нектарије Круљ. Иконостас је израдио Миладин Цвијановић из Осјечана, а иконе је осликао Александар Васиљевић из Добоја. Године 2016. је започета детаљна обнова унутрашњости храма, од пода до крова, укључујући и спољашње радове на самом храму. Обновљен храм је 30. септембра 2018. освештао епископ Фотија Сладојевић уз саслужење архијерејског намесника добојског протојереј-ставрофора Мирка Николића, протојереј-ставрофора Јадранка Стојаковића и протођакона Саше Милошевића. Захвалницу за помоћ у обнови храма Светог пророка Илије је прота Мирко Јокић уручио, међу осталима, тадашњем градоначелнику Добоја Обрену Петровићу.

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\section{Supplementary Note 1: Model for magneto-optical transmission and Faraday rotation of a single g-FET}

We model a g-FET by a system, where graphene with optical condictivity $\sigma_{\pm}$ (for RH and LH circular polarizations respectively) is deposited on a substrate consisting of two layers (1 and 2) characterized by the complex refractive indices $N_{1}=n_{1} + ik_{1}$ and $N_{2}=n_{2} + ik_{2}$  with the thicknesses $d_{1}$ and $d_{2}$ respectively (Supplementary Figure \ref{FigSetup}). In the present case the first layer is SiO$_{2}$ with $d_{1}=300 $ nm, while the second layer is Si with a thickness of several hundreds of microns. Due to the very small thickness of the first layer, the transmission is mostly determined by the second layer (except in the optical region where SiO$_{2}$ shows a phonon absorption, which is beyond the considered THz range). Nevertheless, for the sake of accuracy we take both layers into account in our calculations.

First we compute all relevant Fresnel coefficients (defined in the figure):
$t_{\text{vg}1}^{\pm}=2/(N_{1}+1+Z_{0}\sigma_{\pm})$, $t_{12}=2N_{1}/(N_{1}+N_{2})$, $t_{21}=2N_{2}/(N_{1}+N_{2})$,  $t_{2\text{v}}=2N_{2}/(N_{2}+1)$, $r_{1\text{gv}}^{\pm}=(N_{1}-1-Z_{0}\sigma_{\pm})/(N_{1}+1+Z_{0}\sigma_{\pm})$, $r_{12}=(N_{1}-N_{2})/(N_{1}+N_{2})$, $r_{2\text{v}}=(N_{2}-1)/(N_{2}+1)$, $r_{21}=(N_{2}-N_{1})/(N_{1}+N_{2})$, $\phi_{1}=\exp(i\omega N_{1}d_{1}/c)$ and $\phi_{2}=\exp(i\omega N_{2}d_{2}/c)$, where $Z_{0}$ is the impedance of vacuum. Note that in the thin-film approximation the effect of graphene can be included into the Fresnel coefficients $t_{\text{vg}1}^{\pm}$ and $r_{1\text{gv}}^{\pm}$.

As the thickness of Si is comparable with or larger than the wavelength, the Fabry-Perot effect is normally produced. However, we suppress the Fabry-Perot effect by reducing the resolution, in order to simplify the data analysis. Therefore we should consider separately the cases of (i) a coherent (amplitude) and (ii) an incoherent (intensity) addition of the multiply-reflected waves in the second layer. Treatment of incoherent addition is described in Supplementary Reference 1.

\emph{Coherent addition}. In this case, we can calculate the total amplitude transmission coefficients:
\begin{equation}\label{TransCoh}
t_{\pm}=\frac{t_{\text{vg}1}^{\pm}t_{12}t_{2\text{v}}\phi_{1}\phi_{2}}{1-r_{1\text{gv}}^{\pm}r_{12}\phi_{1}^2-(r_{21} + r_{1\text{gv}}^{\pm}\phi_{1}^2)r_{2\text{v}}\phi_{2}^2}.
\end{equation}
\noindent The measured intensity transmission coefficients for RH and LH circular polarizations and the Faraday rotation are then obtained straightforwardly: $T_{\pm}=|t_{\pm}|^2$ and $\theta_{\text{F}}=(1/2)\mbox{Arg}(t_{-}t_{+}^{*})$.

\emph{Incoherent addition}. In this case, the phase information in $\phi_{2}$ is lost and intensities are added rather than amplitudes in the second layer. Therefore we have:
\begin{equation}\label{TransIncoh}
T_{\pm}=\frac{\left|t_{\text{vg}1}^{\pm}t_{12}t_{2\text{v}}\phi_{1}\phi_{2}\right|^2}{\left|1-r_{1\text{gv}}^{\pm}r_{12}\phi_{1}^2\right|^2-\left|r_{21} + r_{1\text{gv}}^{\pm}\phi_{1}^2\right|^2 \left|r_{2\text{v}}\phi_{2}^2\right|^2}.
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\label{FaraIncoh}
\theta_{\text{F}}=\frac{1}{2}\mbox{Arg}\left\{\frac{t_{\text{vg}1}^{-}t_{\text{vg}1}^{+*}}{(1-r_{1\text{gv}}^{-}r_{12}\phi_{1}^2)(1-r_{1\text{gv}}^{+}r_{12}\phi_{1}^2)^{*}-(r_{21} + r_{1\text{gv}}^{-}\phi_{1}^2)(r_{21} + r_{1\text{gv}}^{+}\phi_{1}^2)^{*} \left|r_{2\text{v}}\phi_{2}^2\right|^2}\right\}.
\end{equation}

Expressions for the reflection coefficients and magneto-optical Kerr rotation angle can be derived in a similar fashion.

\section{Supplementary Note 2: Relation between transmission, reflection, absorption and extinction}

A model calculation for a g-FET with a high doping level ($n=-7.2\times 10^{12}$ cm$^{-2}$) at 7 T is shown in Supplementary Figure \ref{FigSpectra}. The top panel presents the model reflectivity and transmission spectra for LH polarized light (where the CR is observed) and at a charge neutrality point, where we assume the Drude weight to be zero. In the calculation, the multiple reflections in the substrate were added incoherently, which corresponds to our experiment, where the Fabry-Perot effect was suppressed. One can see that doping has a much stronger effect on transmission than on reflection. The bottom panel compares the absorption $A= 1 - R - T$, which is dominated by graphene charge carriers, and the extinction spectra  $1 - T/T{\mbox{\tiny CNP}}$, which can be most accurately measured in the experiment. An important conclusion is that under typical conditions of our experiment the extinction has essentially the same spectral shape as the absorption by the Drude carriers, with a strong peak at the CR frequency $\omega_{\text{c}}$. The difference by about a factor of 2 is due to a high refractive index of Si, which makes the transmission at the CNP close to 50\%.

\newpage

\textbf{Supplementary References}

[1] Harbecke, B Coherent and incoherent reflection and transmission of multilayer structures, \emph{Appl. Phys. B} \textbf{39}, 165-170 (1986).

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BREAKING: Uber tried to sweep data breach of 57m people under the rug
By Ashton Young, Thu 23 Nov 2017
In October last year hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc.
While this is a substantial, the worst part is that the company tried to keep the breach under wraps for more than a year.
Now that it has all come to light, the disruptive ride-hailing firm has sacked its chief security officer and one of his deputies as they had leading roles in sliding the attack under the rug, including a $100,000 payment to the attackers.
The data that was stolen included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders and seven million drivers around the world, which included their driver's licence numbers.
"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over as chief executive officer in September, said in an emailed statement. "We are changing the way we do business."
This is just the latest announcement of a monumental breach following a string of others in recent years, including Yahoo, MySpace and Equifax.
Uber has released details of how the attack went down, with the concentrated version essentially revealing the hackers accessed a GitHub coding site used by Uber software engineers before stealing a set of login credentials.
They then used those credentials to gain access to the infrastructure account that was charged with handling computing tasks for the company.
From here, they discovered the archive of rider and driver information which they promptly took hold of before later emailing Uber with demands for money.
There are a number of both state and federal laws that do require organisations to let people and government agencies know when breaches of sensitive data do occur. Uber acknowledges that it was was obligated to report the hack of driver licence information and failed in this respect.
"At the time of the incident, we took immediate steps to secure the data and shut down further unauthorized access by the individuals. We also implemented security measures to restrict access to and strengthen controls on our cloud-based storage accounts," Khosrowshahi said in the email statement.
"While I can't erase the past, I can commit on behalf of every Uber employee that we will learn from our mistakes."
A number of industry experts have come forward with their thoughts on the matter (some supportive and some scathing), including Trend Micro, Tenable, LMNTRIX, Sophos, Centrify and Zscaler – click here to see their insights.
Will 2022 be your year of multi-cloud adoption?>>
Acceleration of digital tools in COVID pandemic increased risk of cyber crime>>
New RCE bug is making APAC businesses vulnerable to Log Injection attacks>>
Coping with increasing cybersecurity challenges (from the good side and the bad!)
Let's spare a thought for cybersecurity professionals as we look into our crystal ball to see what 2022 holds. They'll be under increasing pressure from the 'bad guys' and the 'good guys' as well.>>
CrowdStrike launches $100 million investment vehicle Falcon Fund II for tech innovators
CrowdStrike has announced the launch of Falcon Fund II, a $100 million investment vehicle in partnership with Accel focused on cross-stage private investments within cybersecurity and relevant adjacent markets. >>
Cyberattacks increased by 50% in 2021, peaking in December due to Log4J exploits
"Last year, we saw a staggering 50% more cyberattacks per week on corporate networks compared to 2020 – that's a significant increase.">>
Zoom awarded new international security certification after intensive evaluation
Communication tool Zoom has been announced as the first video communication client to be awarded Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (v3.1 rev. 5), issued by the German Federal Office for Information Security.>>
ThycoticCentrify adds new security controls and automation to Secret Server
"Our continued focus on decreasing the steps required to safeguard secrets reduces the workload on security administrators and the attack surface area.">>
New roundtable series by The Malaysia Global Business Forum to discuss threat matrix in digital economy>>
Philippines neobank Tonik steps up banking game with Google Cloud>>


She Bully Marketing & Entertainment brings well-known performers from the '80s, '90s and now to the Yakima area. We're currently working on our list of performers for 2017. Get in touch with one of our representatives today.


In Ilankamban v. Township of Pittsfield,Michigan Court of Appeals, No. 303113, March 13, 2012, the Michigan Tax Tribunal did not commit an error of law when it stated that there was no requirement that the true cash value (TCV) of a taxpayer's residential property be calculated for property tax assessment purposes using comparables located in the same neighborhood as the property. In support of its assessment, the township submitted sales evidence comparing the taxpayer's property to comparable parcels located in adjacent neighborhoods. The taxpayer argued that TCV must be calculated by using comparables located within the property's immediate neighborhood.
The Michigan Court of Appeals held that, contrary to the taxpayer's argument, the place where the property is at the time of assessment does not refer only to the property's immediate neighborhood. Rather, the place where the property is at the time of assessment should be understood more broadly to include the region or area where the property is located. Therefore, when the sale-comparison or market approach is used to determine TCV, an assessor is required to make adjustments based on the property's location. The need to make adjustments for location presupposes that an assessor be allowed to use comparables not necessarily within the property's immediate neighborhood.


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Chichester planning applications: Here's the latest list of submissions across the district
Met Office issues yellow weather warning for Sussex
Recycling errors 'cost Chichester district taxpayers more than £100,000'
Chichester district taxpayers had to shell out more than £100,000 to deal with waste wrongly placed in recycling bins last year, figures suggest.
By Federica Bedendo, Data Reporter
Thursday, 13th January 2022, 4:54 pm
Updated Thursday, 13th January 2022, 5:59 pm
The Local Government Association is calling for labelling on packaging to be made clearer, to avoid recyclable waste getting mixed-up with non-recyclable items – an issue estimated to have cost English councils around £60 million last year.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs data shows 1,190 tonnes of waste collected by Chichester District Council were rejected at the point of sorting in the year to March – more than the 746 tonnes rejected the previous year and the largest volume since records began in 2014-15.
Recycling charity Wrap, which works with governments and companies on sustainability, estimates that waste disposed of as recycling, which is then found not to be recyclable, costs councils around £93 per tonne to dispose of.
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It would mean rejected waste cost taxpayers in the Chichester district an estimated £110,670 in 2020-21 alone.
Overall, the authority collected 55,172 tonnes of waste, up from 52,298 the year before.
David Renard, environment spokesman for the LGA, which represents councils, pointed the finger at manufacturers who produce non-recyclable plastic packaging, which is then put in the recycling bin by people "in good faith"
He said: "The burden then falls on councils to not only collect it and dispose of it, but to pay the extra cost of disposing of it.
"At a time when councils are working towards achieving net zero, they are doing so with one hand tied behind their back, courtesy of manufacturers who are littering our communities with plastic they know cannot be disposed of sustainably."
Across England, 647,000 tonnes of recycling were rejected in the year to March, up from 525,000 tonnes the year before and the largest amount since records began in 2006-07.
Defra said a consultation had taken place on a proposal to force producers to label their packaging clearly, so that people would know if items are recyclable or not.
A spokeswoman said: "We want to make recycling easier and ensure there is a comprehensive, consistent service across England
"Our landmark Environment Act will transform the way we deal with rubbish."
The act states food and garden waste should always be collected separately from dry recycling and residual waste.
"It means recyclable materials will have to be collected separately, while separate food waste collection will also help reduce contamination," she added.
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Dark, disturbing and eerie, The Dark Knight is an experience in fear, tense clever action, and scary drama. The makers pull it off by taking the risk - no sweet 'lived happily ever after' stuff. Instead we have a ghastly, haunting Joker - the late Heath Ledger is not playing any character, he is THE JOKER. Christian Bale is restrained and determined as Batman.
Director Christopher Nolan leads us through chaotic scenes,especially in the second half, as violence follows more violence. But there is an adroit screenplay holding the madness together. It is certainly not as the Joker declares, " I just do things." The Dark Knight has some brilliant cinematic parts, rarely seen in a superhero movie.This makes it inevitable repeat watch contender, especially on the big screen.
A truck tumbling over, and a dark cape trailing poetically as a vigilante rides his vehicle into elusiveness.


Here's your chance to witness local "celebrities" showcasing their dance skills while supporting a great cause! On Saturday, April 28, Youth Services will be holding its Annual Gala & Silent Auction at SIT's International Center from 5 to 10 p.m. New to the much anticipated event is a twist on televisions' hit reality show, Dancing with the Stars. Presented by SIT, all-inclusive tickets for Can Windham County Dance? are $85 per person ($55 of which is tax deductible) at www.youthservicesinc.org/gala.
The festive evening of food and drink sponsored by SIT will start with a silent auction and cash bar from 5-6 p.m. Beginning at 6 p.m. wait staff will serve Chef Christopher Chadwick's entrees of grilled sliced flank steak with salsa Verde, oven poached salmon with thyme, dill and Vermouth or springtime pasta with freshly grated Parmesan and cracked pink pepper. The side dishes will be chard with scallions, ginger and chili oil, tomato rice followed by cheesecake with assorted fresh fruit and whipped cream.
Dinner will be followed by the Can Windham County Dance? show featuring local "celebrity" ranging in dance experience from Kevin Lyman, Brattleboro Middle School principal, who is training for the first time with a dance professional to Scott Phillips, sales manager of Chroma Technologies in Bellows Falls, a professional ballet dancer with companies the US. Canada and Europe. Top prize will be awarded to the dancer who raises the most donations to support Youth Services critical safety net for area young people.
Following the performances, DJ Wayne Warwick of Be Heard Sound music from numerous eras will liven the dance floor for all attendees.


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Q: How to extract different values/elements of matrix or array without repeating? I have a vector/ or it could be array :
A = [1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3]

I want to extract existing  different values/elements from this vector without repeating:
1,2,3,4,5
B= [1,2,3,4,5]

How can I extract it ?
I would appreciate for any help please

A: Try this,
A = [1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3]
y = unique(A)

B = unique(A) returns the same values as in a but with no repetitions. The resulting vector is sorted in ascending order. A can be a cell array of strings.
B = unique(A,'stable') does the same as above, but without sorting.
B = unique(A,'rows') returns the unique rows ofA`.
[B,i,j] = unique(...) also returns index vectors i and j such that B = A(i) and A = B(j) (or B = A(i,:) and A = B(j,:)).

Reference: http://cens.ioc.ee/local/man/matlab/techdoc/ref/unique.html
Documentation: https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/unique.html

A: The answers below are correct but if the user does not want to sort the data, you can use unique with the parameter stable
A = [1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3]
B = unique(A,'stable')


This little kitchen sits in a lovingly preserved outbuilding of a Georgian townhouse, thought to once have been a fisherman's smokehouse. The original boards on the low ceiling and tongue and groove panelling on the walls gives this space a feel of a 'galley' kitchen. The use of neutrals throughout - the white cupboards, marble worktop and simple wall tiling bring a crisp, bright feel to the room.
The smart metal plate rack and chrome ironmongery add character to the kitchen and the floor tiles which flow through into the adjoining dining room are reminiscent of a Victorian pantry, bringing a touch of charm.


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Rice Bowl
Japan X Bowl
Koshien Bowl
Kanto League
Kansai League
Japan-USA Bowl 2005
Rice Bowl Scores
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Koshien Bowl Scores
American Football has a much longer tradition in Japan than in Europe where league competition did not start until the end of the 70's. The history of American Football in Japan goes back to 1934 when Paul Rusch, a teacher and missionary from Kentucky (USA), who came to Japan in 1925 to help rebuild the Yokohama and Tokyo YMCAs that were destroyed in a 1923 earthquake, George Marshall, an athletic teacher at Tokyo based Rikkyo University, and two military attaches at the US embassy, Alexander George and Merritt Booth, helped to form the first football teams at three universities in Tokyo (Waseda, Meiji, Rikkyo). In November of 1934 the first football game was played between an all-star team of the three Tokyo universities and a team of the Yokohama Country and Athletic Club consisting of Americans and Britains living in Japan. The japanese college team won the game.
American Football quickly gained popularity in Japan. In 1937 a game between college all-star teams from eastern and western Japan drew a crowd of about 25.000 spectators. The reason for the success of the rough north american game in mild-mannered Japan might be that American Football offers a combination of power, technical precision, discipline and team spirit that is hard to find in other sports and that most parts of this combination (precision, discipline, team spirit) match well with traditional japanese values.
During World War II (1939 - 1945) American Football in Japan came to a halt. Rusch, the »Father of American Football in Japan«, had to leave Japan. Soon after the war American Football in Japan resumed. Rusch returned to Japan in 1945. During the following years High School and Junior High School teams were formed. Today more than 17.000 players participate in competition for about 400 teams. The biggest number of teams and players compete in college football. Like in US college football players in japanese college football have four years of eligibilty. There are two college football leagues, the Kanto League with teams from eastern Japan and the Kansai League with teams from western Japan. Each league has different divisions. The Division I of the Kanto League has two Conferences (A and B). The champions of the two leagues battle for the college championship in the Koshien Bowl in December.
The highest level of American Football in Japan is the X League, consisting of true company teams and club teams sponsored by companies. The company league was founded in 1981, since 1996 it is called X League. The X League is an amateur league meaning that the players do not play for money. Like the college leagues the X League has different divisions. The Division I has three regional division (East, Central, West). The two top teams of each division advance to the playoffs, called the Final 6. The championship game is called Japan X Bowl and is held in December. The X League champion then plays against the college champion in the Rice Bowl on January 3 for the japanese national championship. The Rice Bowl used to be a game between college all-star teams from eastern Japan and western Japan. Since the 1983 season it is the national championship game. The X League does not offer the highest level of play in Japan. In fact, of the 23 national championship games (through the 2005 season) twelve have been won by the X League champion and eleven by the college champion. Matsushita Denko's national championship in the 2004 season was the first for the X League after three straight titles for the college champions.
Ritsumeikan (dark jerseys) and Hosei, here playing against each other in
Koshien Bowl 2003, are two of the top teams in japanese college football.
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I decided I was too close to Togo to not visit; I have been in Togo two times before and decided I should return to visit my friends.
This statue is in the courtyard area in front of my seven Dollar room here in Lome, Togo. There must be a reason why so many artists make statues sensual.
Map showing Lome, Togo in West Africa.
Map showing the location of Togo in Africa.
Where I am presently living in Lome, I will head North on Friday to Atakpame, then Kara, then Dapang, then Cinkasse.
This is the patio area in front of my room. I recommend you never come to West Africa, the place is horrible, this place is reserved for only me, and nobody else is needed.
I took a direct "Ford" van from the Elubo side of the Ghana / Ivory Coast border. Noe is on the Cote d'Ivoire side, and Elubo is on the Ghana side. It was supposed to take 8 hours more or less to travel to Aflao direct in an air-conditioned Ghana Van. Well, the van did not have AC; we got stopped at a Ghana Border Checkpoint for three hours. They said the driver was drunk and two Togo boys did not have passports. They finally let us proceed after they all paid a bribe.
Then the van got to Accra just as the sun went down, proceed to stop working. I jumped out, snagged another Tro Tro Van to Accra, and changed vans and went to Aflao at the border and arrived at midnight. What started as an 8 hour trip, turned into an 18 hour trip. I like Ghana, but mainly because I can speak English easier.


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Q: Apex Change Set equivalent to release.config/debug.config We have a constant URL string pointing to a staging webservice.  When deploying change sets to Production, we would like this constant URL to change to the production webservice.  Is there a way for a change set to automatically do this transformation during deployment?  (Basically, the way it works publishing debug/release versions in .Net.)
Alternatively, I can create a class called Constants containing Production constants, and deploy it once, then modify it to contains staging constants in my sandbox during development.  I was just wondering if there is another more automated way.

A: You cannot run code automatically after a changeset deployment, unless you use ant or something similar to do the deployment.
However, what you can do is change your code ever so slightly and handle logic differently whether you're in Sandbox or not. For example
Boolean isSandbox = [SELECT IsSandbox FROM Organization LIMIT 1].IsSandbox;
String myString = (isSandbox) ? 'ToSandbox' : 'ToProduction';


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The Adventures of Kitty Cobb!
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Hopefully you enjoyed Gibson's full length tale a few days ago; this time around we have one from our ol' pal James Montgomery Flagg. Like A Widow and Her Friends, The Adventures of Kitty Cobb was published in book form and subsequently became a special weekly feature in newspapers across the land. It's the exciting tale of a small town girl going to the big city, or as an ad for the book touts, "[Mr. Flagg] tells, by means of thirty-one inimitable pictures and short descriptive legends, a delightfully humorous and tender love-story." For some odd reason the paper from which I culled our run, The Washington Herald, chose to re-write the captions for many of these; I can't help but wonder why they decided to go this route as the new text is a big step down from the original material. Compare the Sanford & Son(!) outings from the Herald to the original nos. IX and X to see what I mean. As well, the Herald stops running the story at no. XXV; far be it from me to question the wisdom of a newspaper editor from 101 years ago, but why not just see the thing through if you made it that far?! I've cheated and collected the final episodes under names that reflect the dates they should have appeared. Start here and enjoy!
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Men Behind the Cardboard
April 8, 2013 / Thrillmer / No comments
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Featuring Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg, John T. McCutcheon, Orson Lowell, R. F. Outcault, George McManus, E. W. Kemble, F. T. Richards, Wallace Morgan, and W. A. Rogers.
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Sunday Song: Dolly Dip Fox Trot
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Category: One-Offs /
Gibson's A Widow and Her Friends!
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This one is long overdue; tonight is the grand opening of our Charles Dana Gibson archive! To honor an artist of this stature, we're kicking it off with a complete 24 part story: A Widow and Her Friends. This story was originally published at the turn of the century, but I luckily stumbled upon a weekly reprint from 1913. This series of illustrations was extremely popular in its day; it's not hard to see why. Enjoy!
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I Know a Girl There!
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We're heading back to the Nell Brinkley archive for another short series of portraits: I Know a Girl There! Once again I've only located a handful which is hard to believe as this seems an idea that could easily sustain itself for dozens of cities. I'm hopeful I'll at least stumble upon Chicago some day…for now enjoy the few we have.
The Artists of The Washington Times Circa 1918
April 3, 2013 / Thrillmer / One comment
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Featuring John T. McCutcheon, Tad Dorgan, Carey Orr, Clare Briggs, E. A. Batchelor, Hal Coffman, Jack Callahan, Tom McNamara, George Herriman, Harry Hershfield, Cliff Sterrett, Fontaine Fox, Jean Knott, Rube Goldberg, T. E. Powers, and Nell Brinkley.
Fanning the Old Flames!
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I've added a handful of these odes to old flames to our Nell Brinkley archive; I'm guessing there may be more of them out there, but these are all I've been able to find thus far. If you think the illustrations are overwrought, wait until you get to the text…sheesh! I say that with affection, of course.
Outs Which Have Been Shouted
Photos of Cartoonists
Weird Old Stuff
Sites of Value
Adam Koford
Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum
Cartoon SNAP
Classic Comics Press
Cole Closser
Lambiek
Mark Kausler's CatBlog
Masters of Screwball Comics
Pictorial Arts
Stripper's Guide
STWALLSKULL
Sunday Press
The Comics Detective
Yesterday's Papers


Continuing our look at some of Nerf's latest blasters, we get to the big fella. Imagine if animals could be killed by rubber-tipped foam darts. And say you were hunting an elephant – nay, a herd of elephants all armed with knives and a hatred of humans. You'd need a pretty big foam dart flinger, eh? That's just what the Nerf MEGA Mastodon is. Here is what we made of it.
First up, this is a MEGA blaster, meaning it shoots the larger orange darts, just like the MEGA Centurion and the MEGA Magnus. This means that everything is scaled upwards, to accommodate the larger ammo. But, with the Mastodon, it is almost as if Hasbro have decided to build something as big as they can feasibly fit inside a box and still call it a toy.
The weight of the Mastodon is the first thing you'll notice, so the included shoulder strap isn't really an optional extra. Once on, it still weighs heavy on your body, but is actually quite comfortable to wield, two-handed. The foremost grab is flexible in that it rolls backwards and forwards, while the trigger grip is angled far back to make it easier to hold.
You assemble the 24 dart drum from three separate parts (otherwise the box would even bigger than it already is), and clip on a protective cage underneath it. There are two tactical rails on the top, and one on the bottom, perfect for a bipod (such as the one that came with the Centurion, maybe?) to set the whole thing up to fire while laying down.
This is important to know if you're thinking of buying one: it takes six D batteries. Yeah, six. Not only do those chunky batteries add even more to the weight, but they'll bump up the overall cost as well. Something to bear in mind if you're getting it for someone else.
Yes, very well! It is a real pleasure to fire this thing, as it genuinely does feel powerful and intimidating. Sure, the fact that you can't quickly change the drum for another pre-loaded one could get old in a battle situation, but loading the darts into it is much quicker than reloading darts into the likes of the Hyperfire's drum.
It may be too large, heavy, and ungainly for many, but if you want to appear to be a pretty terrifying presence on the battlefield, you need the Nerf MEGA Mastodon. And, we don't know, a scary clown mask or something. We wouldn't mess with that.


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Patronyme
Marc Levy ou Marc Lévy peut désigner :
 Marc Levy (né en 1961), un écrivain français ;
 Marc Lévy (né en 1961), un footballeur français.

Paronyme
 Mark Levinson, entraineur
 Marc Gilbert, né Marc Gilbert Lévy, producteur


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