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Schoretits Mihály (Shoretits) (Horvátzsidány/Cinfalva, 1741. szeptember 2. – Buda, 1786. március 3.) magyar orvos, fizikus, egyetemi tanár.

Életpályája
Orvosi oklevelét Bécsben szerezte 1765-ben. Ezután a katonai kórház asszisztense lett. Visszatért Magyarországra és Veszprém vármegye tisztiorvosa lett. 1770–1784 között a nagyszombati, illetve pesti egyetemen a kórtan és az orvosi gyakorlat tanára, 1783–1784 között rektor; 1780-ig a bölcsészeti kar igazgatója is volt.

Kiváló oktató volt, de jelentős szakirodalmi tevékenységet nem fejtett ki.

Jegyzetek

Források

 Veszprém megyei életrajzi lexikon
 Semmeéweis Egyetem Galéria
 Szinnyei József: Magyar írók élete és munkái. Budapest, 1891-1914. Hornyánszky Viktor

További információk
 Schoretits Mihály (Merkur von Ungarn, B., 1786)
 Hogya György: Veszprémi főorvosok. Veszprém, Veszprém Megyei Kórház Csolnoky Ferenc Emlékbizottsága, 1999.

1741-ben született személyek
1786-ban elhunyt személyek
Magyar orvosok
Magyar fizikusok
Magyar egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók

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Tyson Fury has formally vacated his two heavyweight titles as he seeks treatment for drug and medical issues.
Fury was due to be stripped of both the WBA and WBO championships after testing positive for cocaine and twice pulling out of rematches with Wladimir Klitschko.
But the 28-year-old has voluntarily given up the belts after admitting taking cocaine to deal with depression.
"I won the titles in the ring and I believe that they should be lost in the ring, but I'm unable to defend at this time and I have taken the hard and emotional decision to now officially vacate my treasured world titles and wish the next in-line contenders all the very best as I now enter another big challenge in my life which I know, like against Klitschko, I will conquer," said Fury in a statement.
Fury's decision paves the way for fellow British fighter, Anthony Joshua, to face Klitschko in a title unification bout in December.
Joshua is already the IBF heavyweight champion, with promoter Eddie Hearn admitting the clash – likely to be held in the UK – is on the verge of being finalised.
"It is exciting, it is the biggest heavyweight fight in the last 10 years. I want to get it over the line," Hearn told the BBC.


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Week Four: Postcolonial Challenges: Modernity and Development
One of the historical truisms of Southeast Asia is that political contests and wars were not fought so much over land as over labor. In the postcolonial period of newly won independence, a number of Southeast Asian countries shifted economic policies away from the production of raw materials which had been the pillars of colonialism to give a new emphasis to manufacturing. This gave rise, in turn, to the emergence of new labor regimes across the region, with notable and interwoven impacts on the lives of both elites and young women.
Barbara Andaya opens the week with a discussion of Southeast Asian women's experiences of colonialism and its aftermath, focusing in particular on education and employment. In sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, Jeffrey Winters (Northwestern) will examine the rise of oligarchic rule in island Southeast Asia and on the impacts of development across the region, including the rise of both manufacturing and tourism. Nora Taylor (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will join the program on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the use of art as a medium for protest in postcolonial Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Vietnam. In the final presentation of the program, Muhamad Ali (University of California, Riverside) will explore the legacies of colonialism through the lens of religion, including a case study of the changing role of Islam in contemporary Indonesia. The program will conclude with two sessions in which the participating summer scholars will present their curricular and research projects.
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Name the Croatian City Which is Bigger than Paris, Barcelona, Budapest or Berlin
By Nikolina Demark 31 January 2018
For your daily dose of trivia, a look to the biggest city in Croatia - and no, it's not what you might think
Say we're at a pub quiz. The geography section comes on and the first question says, what's the biggest city in Croatia?
There's a good chance your mind would instantly go to Zagreb. Let's add a small caveat: we're talking biggest in regards to the surface area, not the population.
Well, it's still Zagreb, you might think. It's the Croatian capital after all.
You'd be wrong. The City of Zagreb covers approximately 640 square kilometres. We're talking bigger than that.
Rijeka and Split would be obvious following guesses, then Osijek, Dubrovnik, or Pula.
All wrong: 44, 79, 169, 21 and 51 square kilometres respectively. It was a surprise to find out Osijek is just a tiny bit smaller in size than the other four cities combined, though. Go Osijek!
Let's add a helpful hint. The city in question is bigger than most capitals of our neighbouring countries: Ljubljana (275), Budapest (525), Belgrade (360), Podgorica (108) and Sarajevo (141). The closest neighbour which boasts a bigger capital than our mysterious city is Italy, with Rome covering an astonishing 1.285 km2. But they were an empire, it would be foolish to expect anything less. So, back to Croatia:
Karlovac? Good guess, but at 401 km2 (whoa, Karlovac), it's still smaller than Zagreb. Zadar? Nope, only 25 km2.
So you try to get creative: Vukovar? 100. Rovinj? 79. Šibenik? A bit hard to track down, but apparently 129, so no.
Another surprise: with their surface areas added up, all of the cities listed so far barely manage to surpass Zagreb. No wonder the capital would be everybody's first choice.
I'd say I'm about to add another hint, but at this point, I'm probably driving you crazy instead of helping. So, here's another mind-boggling fact: we're looking for a city bigger than Paris (105 km2), Barcelona (101), and Berlin (892).
It's not exactly fair to act all smug when you know the answer, but I was having so much fun (and moments of enlightenment) while doing the research, I simply had to reach out to some friends to see what they had to say. They listed the classics mentioned above, along with Beli Manastir, Sisak, Duga Resa, Velika Gorica, Labin, and Vinkovci. Some were jokes, some were not. All of them were wrong.
Okay, before this stops being fun and starts being annoying, let's put an end to the guessing game: the city we're looking for is Gospić.
Gospić has a staggering surface area of 967 square kilometres, leaving all Croatian urban hubs in the dust. It's both a town and a municipality, the former having a population of 6.575, the latter 12.745. That's the ironic twist: if we were talking in population terms only, Gospić couldn't compare to any of the other cities we talked about - the entire region could barely compare to any of them. Lika-Senj County is the largest Croatian county in regards to the surface area, but also the least densely populated one, with 50.927 residents as of the 2011 census. And yet, it's home to a city bigger than the Croatian capital.
Where's the catch? Well, there are no other municipal units in the wider Gospić area that could take some of the smaller towns and villages in the vicinity under their wing, which is why Gospić (as a city, not a municipality) formally covers such an impressive surface. Its 967 km2 make it bigger than the entire Međimurje County - add Rijeka and Split to Međimurje, and Gospić still comes out as a winner.
I used to call Gospić the biggest city in Lika, but I was doing it a great disservice: I will now forever refer to it as the city bigger than Paris and Berlin. The more you know.
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Pierre Boulez, a maverick composer and conductor who once worked on one of Frank Zappa's classical albums, died at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany on Tuesday. He was 90.
The Philharmonie de Paris confirmed his death, according to The New York Times. "Audacity, innovation, creativity – that is what Pierre Boulez was for French music, which he helped shine everywhere in the world," the country's prime minister, Manuel Valls, wrote on Twitter.
As a composer, Boulez challenged himself to work with new, modern sounds. He took Arnold Schoenberg's concept of a 12-tone row – in which a composer sequences all of the 12 notes recognized in western music in a random order – to what he felt would be its natural conclusion. His work Le Marteau Sans Maître, a musical interpretation of poetry by René Char, used this technique to the acclaim of one of Boulez's heroes, Igor Stravinsky, who attended the North American debut of the work.
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In the early Seventies, Boulez served as director of Ircam – the Institute for the Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music – in association with then-French President Georges Pompidou. The Institute, which had its own 31-piece orchestra, the Ensemble InterContemporain, explored acoustics, instrumental design and notions of composition, according to The Guardian. His work there also dovetailed into his interest in electronic music, an area of composition he felt had been ignored in the development of contemporary music since 1945, according to the Times. It was during that time that he worked on Répons, a 45-minute work that found him digitally refiguring percussionist soloists' works into different configurations. It premiered in October 1981.
"Music cannot move forward without science," Boulez told a class at the Stanford Center of his interest in electronic music in 1976, Rolling Stone reported that year. "It is like learning to play a new instrument, or learning to speak a new language, such as Japanese. It would not be easy, but one could do it, no?"
As a conductor, Boulez led some of the finest orchestras in the world, including a controversial six-year stint at the New York Philharmonic given his interest in contemporary music. He also worked with London's BBC Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra, preferring to conduct with his hands rather than with a baton. The Times cites his core repertoire as consisting of works by Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Anton Webern, Béla Bartók and Olivier Messiaen, the latter of whom taught Boulez composition. Messiaen at one point claimed Boulez "totally transformed the sonority of the piano," according to the Guardian.
In 1984, he conducted Ircam's Ensemble InterContemporain on three of Frank Zappa's avant-garde orchestral works for an LP dubbed Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger. He had commissioned Zappa to write the title track. The album reached Number Seven on the classical chart.
The conductor's recordings won him 25 Grammys, according to The Associated Press. In 2014, the Recording Academy gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Boulez was born on March 26th, 1925 in Montbrison, Paris to the son of a technical director at a steel works and his wife. He defied his father, who wanted him to study engineering, by enrolling in a music conservatory in Paris in 1942, having begun composing in his teens. He kept his personal life private, though it's known he was close to his older sister Jeanne. The Guardian reports that Boulez's health deteriorated around 2010 and 2011 and that he had begun to lose his eyesight around 2012. His cause of death was not reported.
"Pierre Boulez made French music shine throughout the world," the country's president, Francois Hollande, said in a statement via AP. "As a composer and conductor, he always wanted to reflect on the ages."
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Eva left Devon behind to finish his ritual design and to continue managing the defense of the prison. There wasn't much to defend. Devon himself and whatever research notes he might have had lying around. Eva didn't think that the enigmas would be too interested in a bunch of notebooks and papers, but who knew with them.
As for Eva, she didn't think that she had left anything irreplaceable around. Most important things were over at the dormitory. Which, if she was being honest, was probably under attack as well. Brakket Security should be able to deal with enigmas. With the help of the teachers, students, and the demons who Eva hadn't recruited, they should be fine.
Still, it was a good thing that there wasn't much here. Her women's ward had been half demolished. Presumably by enigmas. Eva didn't know how that had happened, but it had explained why she had returned to the mortal realm outside the walls of the prison to find her beacon shoved down an enigma's throat.
There was always the chance that the dormitory wasn't under attack. The enigmas' interest in her prison might be more an interest in her prisoner than anything else, or so Devon had suggested.
Eva threw open the door to the cell block and walked straight into a mass of violet blood and organs.
The demonic enigma that they had originally captured had been strapped to a table within its cell. A bar, perhaps cut from another cell door, held open its ribcage. Almost every organ had been removed from the cavity. Most were scattered around the room on various tables. An eye and a tongue each had their own jars.
Walking into the cell and around to its head, Eva nudged it with a finger. It didn't react. Not even a little twitch.
Shooting a glance to the nun following behind her, Eva said, "I would have expected this from Sawyer. Not you."
Lynn Cross glared at Eva without the slightest hint of shame. "These things have something to do with necromantic magic. I've seen enough necromancers while they work."
"Is this one of those 'he who fights monsters' and 'if you gaze into the abyss' things?"
"I am not turning into a necromancer," she said as her eyes briefly filled with white fire. After making sure that Eva had been good and glared at for a few seconds, a smile tugged at the corners of her lips. "I'm going to kill them. Permanently."
That made Eva raise an eyebrow. From what she saw of Sawyer, he had tried and failed to kill one. Though, admittedly, she didn't know how hard he had tried. But Ylva had failed as well. Lynn had much better motivation to find a proper way to kill them than Sawyer—simply on account of her not being an omnicidal jerk—but if a mini god of Death couldn't manage, how could she?
"You've found a way then?" Eva said, asking despite her disbelief.
"Well, no." Her shoulders drooped for just a moment before her confidence returned. "But I'm close. I can feel it. This one is the key," she said, tapping the operating table with a latex gloved finger.
Which was another difference between her and Sawyer. She actually had proper standards for hygiene. Eva knew without a doubt that she could watch Lynn all day and she would never drop chunks of rotten flesh into her macaroni noodles and then eat them.
"Unfortunately, I need this one. And I can't let you kill it. I need it alive."
Thankfully, it was still alive. Even torn apart as it was, Eva could see its heart beating outside its chest. She didn't even need her sense of blood. Her own eyes were enough.
"But I'm so close. With the proper applications of necromancy combined with holy magic, and maybe a tiny hint of demonic corruption, I should be able to kill these things to the point where we can bury them in a deep hole and never have to worry about them again. Their bodies will decompose properly."
"And that's great. You keep working on that. Just do it without this particular one." Eva thumbed over her shoulder to the wall. "Summoning works again. I think. Devon should be able to summon you a demon you can feed to those things in the other room. But if I don't take this one, we're going to have problems a whole lot more serious than a few dozen enigmas that we have to imprison for eternity."
Lynn just about protested again. Eva held up a hand to stall her. Arguing further was pointless. So she swallowed her sigh and put on a somber expression.
"Besides, Lynn, you should be with Shalise."
All traces of good humor vanished from the nun's face. Her countenance became stone-like and ridged. "Shalise?"
"She's in the Brakket infirmary. When everything started, she was injured. It was–"
A gust of icy wind nearly knocked Eva off her feet. She hadn't even finished her explanation before Lynn disappeared. Which was roughly what she had expected. Unfortunately, Lynn would likely find out that Shalise had been with Eva when she got injured. In fact, Eva had asked her to come to the ritual in the first place. Eva hadn't wanted to bring the subject up, but time was short. Later on, Lynn would probably come after her with a vengeance.
Oh well. She would deal with it when it came.
Turning back to the demonic enigma, Eva frowned. She needed it. Probably more of it than an empty shell of skin at that. Some gashes in the crown of its skull had probably been made by Lynn. If Eva hadn't arrived, she might have tried taking out its brain as well.
With light steps around the room, she plucked a stomach off a table. Eva hadn't ever held a stomach on its own despite having cut open a number of people in the past. Her form of magic focused on blood. Hearts were really the only relevant organ in that regard. The few rituals that involved bone marrow never really appealed to her.
That presented a slight problem. She hadn't the slightest idea how to go about putting the body back together. Trying to mentally put the organs back into place like a puzzle using her own internals as a template didn't quite work out. There were lungs, but they had several connectors that she didn't have. It wasn't human.
Shrugging, Eva just dropped the stomach into the chest. She moved around to pick up one of the lungs and dropped it in as well. The other lung flew over her shoulder and into the cavity as she moved on to the heart. Being a special organ to her, Eva stared at it for a few moments.
It looked just like a human heart. For her, that would be easy to reconnect.
But was there really a need?
Eventually, she shrugged again and just dropped it in.
Around the room, Eva continued tossing everything like the body was a cauldron and she needed to make a stew. Teeth, a gallbladder, a regular bladder, the kidneys, more teeth stored separately for some reason, a uterus, several feet of intestine, and so on until she finally reached the jars with the eye and the tongue.
Jars in hand, she turned around and stared at the mound of organs. It all wasn't quite fitting in properly. Eva took a moment to shove the organs around. She tucked the organs in as best as she was able, pressing them down into the waist and up near the neck as far as they would go. It wasn't perfect, but close enough.
She dropped the eyes and tongue into the chest, jars and all.
Curling her fingers around the metal pipe holding the ribcage open, Eva yanked it, watching as the bone snapped shut like the jaws of life.
The body didn't heal. Neither did it wake—for which Eva was grateful; she didn't want to carry it around while it was trying to attack her or escape. Unfortunately, she wasn't sure if the chest would stay shut despite the force with which it closed. Eva planned to put the body through the works.
It might not hold.
Reaching out her hand, Eva dragged the tip of her finger from the start of its autopsy cut at its navel to the mid-point of its chest. From there, the incision split into a 'Y' shape. Rather than use her other hand or make two passes, her hand simply stretched and extended.
A trail of blood flowed from her fingers. Black crystalline blood sealed the gap in the enigma's chest as Eva hardened it.
She didn't actually have fingers anymore. Not as far as she could tell, and Eva could tell pretty far. Her sense of blood showed absolutely nothing but blood roughly an inch below her elbow. The same was true for her legs, though at a much higher point around her hips.
Arachne had been destroyed so thoroughly that Eva had been willing to do anything to help bring her back. For the past two years, she had been carrying around a decently sized chunk of Arachne every day. Eva had given up her arms and legs without complaint or hesitation.
She hadn't known that she would be receiving new even better limbs in return. Void never mentioned anything like that while they were speaking.
Or perhaps Void hadn't done anything. Her skin wasn't like an amputee's arm where it wrapped around the wound. Both legs and arms were open wounds, as if she had taken a razor-sharp blade and sliced straight through them only moments ago. For all she knew, she had been bleeding out everywhere yet subconsciously holding it together using her innate ability to control demonic blood.
It was just how she had woken up.
Regardless of how it had happened, it worked perfectly for now. If she needed her fingers hard and rigid, she could make her fingers hard and rigid. If she needed to split her hand in two to reach two sides of the demonic enigma's chest, she could split her hand in two.
In fact, she didn't even need to have hands. If the situation called for it, she could have tentacles just like Devon had on his one arm.
There had to be some odd demonic magic going on similar to what had happened during the ritual or in the past while fighting the armored hunter. Her bloody limbs could stretch out and expand for quite a distance while increasing their concentration of blood so that they didn't thin out. But blood generation had been happening around her before 'dying.' It wasn't anything Void had done. At least not recently. That one time when her treatment ritual had been interrupted with a Hell portal might have had something to do with it, but that was entirely unrelated to giving up Arachne's limbs.
It had her slightly worried that her limbs were going to disappear after the current high-stress situation ended. But she could deal with that when it happened.
For now, she needed to get back to the ritual circle before anything bad happened. The hunter was still there. Probably the nun as well. Though Eva hadn't seen the latter fight before she had died. Maybe she had been hit by a lightning bolt as well and didn't take to it as well as the hunter had.
Whatever the case, Eva grabbed hold of the freshly sealed up enigma, slung it over her shoulder, built up her magic, and teleported straight to the gate circle in the Rickenbacker. The burning squeezing tube of nightmares and flesh didn't bother Eva in the slightest anymore. Her temporary companion on the other hand… well, there was a reason she had sealed up the wound.
The once smooth flesh of the enigma sizzled and smoked as they emerged from the teleport. All its fur had burnt off completely. But it was otherwise whole. And that was all that mattered. Eva threw open the window in her dormitory room. The hallways might have students or security and Eva didn't care to meet either, so she jumped out from the window with the enigma slung over her shoulder.
And just about landed on another enigma gnawing on the brickwork.
A wave of her hand encased it in blood. A snap of her fingers—she could snap again!—destroyed the thing enough that it wouldn't be a problem in the near future.
With that finished, she started running.
A part of her wanted to stop by the infirmary and ensure that everyone was alright. There just wasn't any time. Zoe and Catherine, and the others, were still at the ritual circle with that insane hunter. Besides, Lynn was at the infirmary. Eva didn't exactly want to die again before her job was finished.
She jumped to the roof just to avoid all possibility of running into Lynn. Normally, it would have been somewhat difficult with someone slung over one shoulder. Maybe a shorter wall like the one at the prison, but Brakket Academy was a two-story building for most of the way around—three story at the far end.
But Eva could cheat. Her right arm was looped around the enigma twice over, locking it in place. At the peak of her jump, she stretched out her left arm until she grabbed the edge of the roof. From there, it was as simple as reeling herself in while walking up the wall.
Jumping down into the Infinite Courtyard on the other side of the wall was actually more complicated. She had noticed while jumping from the wall at her prison that her legs nearly gave out beneath her. Whatever they were, they were not Arachne's legs. If she jumped from the top, she would probably splat on the ground and have to rebuild her legs. Except if they got too contaminated by dirt, she wouldn't be able to control the blood any longer.
So Eva wrapped her left arm around the lip of the roof and simply rappelled down.
She took off running through the snow. Which was another uncomfortable part of her new body. The cold never agreed with her. It never had, and she doubted that it ever would. Now more than ever, she could feel her legs freezing over just from contact with the snow. It took an expenditure of magic and concentration to cast some warming spells around her body. None of which held together all that well on her liquid feet. The spells just slid off.
Magic resistance? Eva didn't know. Void hadn't exactly handed her an instruction manual—if it was his doing and not her own blood magic.
Halfway to the ritual circle, Eva stopped. She could sense Lucy nearby, but not far enough to actually be at the site. And there was something else.
Eva shifted slightly and started to run again. Tree after tree whizzed past Eva as she nearly flew towards the feeling. As she closed the distance, she started to hear something squelching. A grinding twisting writhing of wet limbs slapping against wet limbs.
"Lucy!" Eva shouted out as she skidded to a stop between two trees.
A mass of tentacles fought against another mass of tentacles. Teeth, eyeballs, and tentacles as thick as trees crashed against the much smoother more thread-like tentacles of Lucy. Neither was giving up ground. Lucy's tentacles squeezed and crushed, destroying the thicker tentacles.
But the thicker tentacles were winning. Their mouths chewed off the thinner tentacles in droves.
Eva dropped the enigma without worrying about the possibility of giving it brain damage and rushed forwards. She snapped out an arm of blood, coating the larger tentacles as best she could with the liquid. In some places, she hardened it, in others, she stretched it. All in the name of separating the two monsters.
Only, as she continued, she realized something.
There was only one being before her.
Lucy's tentacles merged into the larger trunk-like tentacles, and the larger tentacles were all connected to the bulk of Lucy's mass. They were spreading.
Eva didn't hesitate. She snapped her fingers together, detonating the tentacles she had covered at their base, as close to Lucy's natural tentacles as possible.
As the viscera careened through the air, she spotted it. A little worm-like leech identical to the one that had been left behind after she had been shoved by the hunter's massive arm.
Eva jumped after it, reaching out her arms to grab hold of it before it could escape and cause more harm. The blood that touched it hardened, forming into a solid sphere of blood. It had escaped from her initial detonation of Lucy's limbs, but it wouldn't escape now. The other one had died and so would this one.
Snapping her fingers, Eva turned back to Lucy. "Are you alrigh–"
A hole in the bloody snow opened wide. The half of the mass that was Lucy fell within, traveling down to Hell. Only a few bits and pieces remained, most of which were larger chunks of the corrupted portion of her body.
Eva stared for just a moment, feeling a sinking in her chest as she stared at the spot where the portal had disappeared. Somehow, she didn't think that Lucy would be so lucky as to be sent back by Void as fast as it had sent her back.
Shaking her head, Eva got a move on. She couldn't sit around moping all day unless she wanted to say goodbye to all of her friends like that. As she walked back to the demonic enigma, she coated each of the scattered chunks of corrupted flesh with blood. She didn't exactly have time to deal with it all, but at the same time, she probably wouldn't find this exact spot of land again. Leaving any sizable chunks behind could allow Life to do who knew what.
Snapping her fingers as she scooped up the enigma, Eva took one last look around the blood-splattered trees before taking off running once again. It hadn't lasted long, but stopping even for a short time could cost her.
Eva reached the ritual circle before long and stopped right at the edge, staring.
There weren't many left. Srey looked mostly unharmed as he stood next to the brain. Saija, not so much. She was collapsed in a heap towards the far end. Life—or the hunter—hadn't corrupted her with the little worm thing and she wasn't being pulled into a Hell portal, but she wasn't moving either.
Aside from them, it was just Catherine and Zoe.
Eva's eyes widened as she looked at Zoe. Her teeth ground together as she narrowed her eyes.
One of Zoe's hands, blackened and scarred with red streaks up to her elbow, clutched tight against her other arm just below the shoulder.
She didn't have much below that. The mangled remains of her arm littered the ground not far from where she had collapsed to her knees. Her little silver dagger was split in two, along with several of that arm's severed fingers.
Catherine held the full attention of the hunter, dancing backwards in her full demonic form while avoiding strike after strike from the enraged hunter. But she didn't hold the hunter's attention for long. A sharp shift in her dance forced the hunter's gaze to cross over Eva.
A swing from the hunter's sword died as she stared. "No, no, no, no no no no! NO! I KILLED YOU!"
Eva chucked the enigma's body to the ground, once again not caring for its health in the slightest. Her fists clenched and unclenched as she strode forward, eyes flicking between Zoe and the hunter.
A wound like that could easily cause her to bleed out in minutes. She needed to get close enough to stop the bleeding. A cap of blood over the arm should work temporarily. Maybe shoving some of her demon blood up Zoe's arm could help replenish some of that which she had lost. Demon limbs could be grafted to humans, so why not blood.
But the hunter was already charging at Eva.
She wished that Catherine could have waited an extra minute before shifting the hunter's attention. But watching the succubus—a demon that personified beauty and grace—heave and pant for breath now that the hunter was leaving her alone… she might not have been able to dance for much longer.
Eva needed to get close enough to Zoe, just long enough to drop off a little blood. Then she needed to escape before the hunter decided to strike at another, far easier target.
"You're going to have to try harder than that," Eva shouted back to the charging hunter. "But first… Kneel."
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Noooo, Lucy died. Poor thing.
Yesssss. Zoe is still alive, as is Saija. And even Srey. Which are exactly the three I really wanted to be OK.
Noooo. Zoe's dagger from her mother. Can she repair it?
Well, her arm probably needs some repairs too. Details.
I'm actually surprised that Lynn had some progress and is developing a permanent killing method. I wasn't expecting that.
The hunters reaction to Eva returning though? I WAS expecting that and enjoying every letter of it.
I hope Eva gets to fix her problem with the cold. Being frozen is currently some kind of archilles heel for her.
Questions for the future:
Will the hunter kneel? (I say yes)
Will Zoe survive her injuries? (I say yes as well)
Will the next competition of the tournament be canceled? (Uhh…. probably not? A lot of the mages are little insane.)
As for the last question, I don't think the tournament will be cancelled, just … shifted. Either in time or place, maybe both.
Oops, the index page was definitely a mistake. Fixed now!
Words cannot express how much I enjoy your story. Hope that she manages to revive Arachne, also curious about her reaction to Eva's new "status".
I've seen enough necromancers work.
Not quite sure if this is as intended or not. It can be valid if the intent is "I've watched necromancers while they work". But if the intent is to use "work" as a noun – she's seen the results of their work – then it should be "necromancers' work" or otherwise modified.
Devon should be able to summon you up a demon
-up (not 100% sure)
Which is roughly what she had expected.
Which was
Some gashes in the crown of its skull had probably been from Lynn.
probably were (with "had" it could be "had probably been made by Lynn")
Even using her own internals as a template didn't quite match with what she saw in the enigma's chest cavity
While understandable, the literal meaning feels a bit off – it's comparing how the act of using something as a template matches against a bunch of organs.
It had her slightly worried that her limbs were going to disappear after the current high-stress situation had ended.
-had ended
Her right arm was looped around the enigma twice over, locking her in place.
locking it in place (seems to be talking about locking the enigma, not Eva, and "it" is used to refer to the enigma elsewhere)
feeling a sinking in her chest as she started at the spot where
Eva took one last look around the blood splattered trees
blood-splattered
A wound like that could easily bleed out in minutes.
I think "bleed out" is normally used of the person and not of the wound, so it'd need to be something like "could easily make her/someone bleed out".
… before Zod. You have to include 'before Zod.' 😛
Blood for the Blood God!
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blood-for-the-blood-god
(Which deity appears to be Eva.) 😉
That hunter isn't in any position to be complaining about Eva not being dead yet.
And Eva might not have a manual, but she sure as hell is a natural.


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Apatas Air war eine litauische Charterfluggesellschaft mit Sitz in Kaunas.

Geschichte
Die Fluggesellschaft wurde 1994 als Aviapaslauga gegründet. Am 19. Januar 2009 meldete Apatas Air Konkurs an und stellte den Flugbetrieb ein.

Ziele
Vom Heimatflughafen in Kaunas führte die Fluggesellschaft Taxi-, Passagier- und Frachtflüge als Charterfluggesellschaft durch.

Flotte
 2 Let L-410 (Stand: März 2007)

Siehe auch
 Liste ehemaliger Fluggesellschaften (Europa)

Einzelnachweise

Ehemalige Fluggesellschaft (Litauen)
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (Kaunas)
Verkehrsunternehmen (Kaunas)
Verkehrsgeschichte (Kaunas)
Luftverkehr (Kaunas)
Gegründet 1994
Aufgelöst 2009


Jinhua is a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang province in eastern China. It borders the provincial capital of Hangzhou to the northwest, Quzhou to the southwest, Lishui to the south, Taizhou to the east, and Shaoxing to the northeast. Its population was 5,361,572 at the 2010 census including 1,077,245 in the built-up area made of two urban districts.
Train: Jinhua is a commercial railway hub for all of east China. There are only 2 public train lines within the city, so using a taxi would be easier to access more of the city.
Bus: The buses in Jinhua only travel to other cities, so taking a taxi would be more efficient way to explore Jinhua.
Taxi: The taxis in Jinhua are usually green or blue and contain over 1400 in their fleet. The taxi system is your best bet to travel around Jinhua, and most taxi drivers have an excellent understanding of the surrounding area.
Jinhua is known for its variety of small local shoppes. Yiwu small commodity market is one of the best ways to buy and trade for small and authentic goods. Bargaining is commonplace in China for small trinkets at local vendors, so brushing up on a few Chinese phrases will set you apart from the rest of the crowd to secure the cheapest price. Dongmen Market is a popular location in Jinhua to buy local produce and trinkets, so if you enjoy connecting with the local population while finding a good deal it is a must-see.
Jinhua ham is a very popular dish found in Jinhua. Dating back to the Song Dynasty, this traditional meat can be found at local food markets or at Saba, a highly rated restaurant found in Jinhua.
The bar and nightclub scene in Jinhua are usually found in hotels. Luxury hotels such as the Yiwu International Mansion Hotel and The Legend Hotel are known for their wide assortments of drinks after a long night.
The phoenix egg is considered a delicacy in Jinhua, and is known for its nutritious values. From this it is considered to be a good cure for migraines, and even gained the name from a Chinese Emperor visiting Jinhua. Phoenix eggs can be found at local street vendors throughout Jinhua.
Hangzhou, Quzhou, and Jiaxing are all cities close to Lishui. They are certainly worth visiting.


According to Graphic Design report Afam News, An artwork by banksy has self-destructed moments after it was sold at auction for more than £۱ million (approximately $1.36m USD). the item under the hammer at sotheby's auction house in london was a framed version of the 'girl with balloon', a 2002 mural depicting a young girl letting go of a red heart-shaped balloon. immediately after the item sold, the canvas spontaneously made its way through a shredder — which had been integrated in the picture's hefty frame — to the absolute shock of guests in attendance.
The elusive artist posted an image of the auction on his instagram page, with the caption: 'going, going, gone…'. 'it appears we just got banksy-ed,' said alex branczik, senior director and head of contemporary art of europe london while at the auction. the unexpected incident instantly became art world history.


For more than 30 years, scientists have been researching minerals and trace elements on the basis of the cycle of nature.
The knowledge that has been aquired on mineral balance has also been an inherent element of the research and development activities at Reico Vital-Systems. There are currently activating and regulating minerals we are known to absorb with our diet. We therefore, find it important to keep these as balanced as possible. Today it is common knowledge that humans are closely related to their environment. Well-being not only depends on the weather, but rather more decisively on nutrition.
1. Human cell fluid should have a pH value beween 6.2 and 6.8.
The overfertilization of soil as a result of industrial production in agriculture can cause mineral imbalance.
If activating minerals are predominantly added to the soil on which we cultivate our foodstuff, this will affect its inherent micro-organisms well as the nutritional value of the subsequent harvest. We find this creates an imbalance that is transferred to humans and animals through nutrition. This may prevent the maintenance of an acid-based balance in one's body. Adding alkaline minerals to our body with the aid of a varied and well-balanced diet can offsett the excessive acidification of the body.
If the body is subject to excessive amounts of acidity, it will deplete its minerals depots (e.g. bones, skin, hair, teeth and joints). A permanent demineralization is known to result in a weakening of the immune system and impair one's sense of well-being, vitality and fitness. If humans and animals are in balance, the immune system functions optimally. This ist he foundation for fitness, well-being and vitality.
Please keep in mind that our supplements and feed do not replace medical treatment or medication.


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Jeremy Corbyn: The health issue is very important. I have come across a number of distressing cases in which general practitioners simply refuse to take asylum seekers on their lists until they have been pushed into it by the local health authority. The local papers then chip in and say that asylum seekers are dominating the casualty units in local hospitals. They have no alternative because GPs and the health service are failing them. It is a duty of the health authorities to provide a GP and health care for everybody.
Mr. Prosser: Absolutely. Who could argue with that? However, I keep pulling hon. Members back to the real world and to what is happening in practice. When we know that services have not been provided properly with the level of care necessary, we must find a different model. What is on offer is a different model. I accept that it is very much a trial or pilot scheme, which must be tested in the real world. However, with the changes that we have discussed and the assurances that we have had from the Minister, I am happy to support the motion.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke: I shall be as brief as I can, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) also has time to strive once more to catch your eye. I would say in passing that it shows the state to which the House of Commons has reduced itself that our timetabling is now so tight that when we consider amendments passed by an unelected House which has the time to debate these matters at leisure, our discussions are so truncated that we have one hour for all Back Benchers to consider a whole bundle of very important issues which, in my opinion, remain unresolved. However, that is for another day.
I confine myself to Lords amendment No. 17, which essentially bears on the suitability of these large, isolated, rural sites as accommodation centres for the holding of asylum seekers before what we hope will be quicker decisions on whether they are to be allowed to remain.
I want to make it clear that my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury, I and others welcome large parts of the Bill. We need a fair system of immigration control and a fairer system for deciding on the applications of asylum seekers. It must be effective and reach swift decisions, and should help us to integrate properly the people whom we want to accept as refugees from persecution, from wherever they come. It should also help us to remove as decently and in as civilised a fashion as possible those who have, unfortunately, no legal right to be in this country.
Nor do I adopt my position from an attitude of nimbyism. I support the idea of accommodation centres, but it is not the case that I would be wholly in favour of huge camp-like holding centres for refugees if only they were 50 miles down the road in somebody
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else's constituency. My constituents hold the same view. They, too, think that setting up such an institution in a rural part of Nottinghamshire is unsuitable, but that it would be equally unsuitable in any other rural part of the country.
Indeed, one part of the Home Office did not know what another part was doing, so six miles away, in the equally rural village of Whatton, it is proposing to double the size of a large prison that specialises in holding sex offenders. There is some debate about that, but there has been no opposition in principle from significant numbers of inhabitants of rural villages in my constituency. They accept that there is a duty to protect us from such offenders and also that there should be proper rehabilitation facilities in modern prisons. The arguments are about where the entrance should be and whether surface water will make flooding worse than it was before—but those are not matters that will ever trouble the House.
At Newton, on the other hand, it is proposed to set up, as a trial, a large accommodation centre, designed to hold in isolation for as short a time as possible a transient population of 750 people at any one time. We are told that that will offer a sensible means of dealing with the delicate problem of asylum seeking.
Amendment No. 17, about which the Minister seemed to take an ambiguous view, would not rule out the hon. Lady's proceeding with that policy if she can justify it. However, it provides that such policies should not proceed unless she and her colleagues are satisfied that the proposed location Xis suitable" for the needs of the asylum seekers. What she resists is the idea that the Home Office and its Ministers should be subject to any check on such decisions.
The planning applications will go to a public inquiry where town and country planning issues can be debated—schools, buses, roads and so on—and questions can be asked about rural areas. However, the decision that that is a suitable way to handle 750 asylum seekers at any one time will not be a proper matter for an inspector appointed to a planning inquiry. It is a policy matter. We are told that it is unthinkable that Home Office Ministers might have to justify such a decision in a court of law and try to satisfy people who point out that the proposed location is not suitable to deal with the needs of asylum seekers.
I have to agree with Labour Back Benchers, among others. The last Department of which I would say XHeaven forfend that its decisions on the suitability of such measures should be exposed to any challenge before a court or an independent tribunal" is the Home Office, especially when it is dealing with immigration and asylum.
The hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) anticipated some of my points. He asked why large rural camps were chosen. That relates to the atmosphere in which the policy was first introduced. It has to do with process; it has nothing to do with what we are talking about today—the educational needs of children or access to legal services. I shall not burden the House with precise descriptions of Newton in my constituency, just as my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury will not have the opportunity to describe the rural areas of his constituency, but Newton was chosen for its isolation. It is a very tiny village.
The choice of such a rural area was designed to ensure that the Home Office was less likely to lose touch with large numbers of people who were waiting for asylum decisions. They would be less likely to vanish and get lost during the asylum process. When the policy was announced, the then Minister obviously fondly imagined that as all the inhabitants would be required to be in the centre at 11 o'clock at night—no doubt, at roll call—if they missed overnight residence, their application would be turned down and they would be turned away. I suspect that the Home Office now has legal advice that it cannot do that. Just because people refuse to live in a camp at RAF Newton, the Home Office cannot tell them that it will not consider their application for asylum. That was the original idea, however, and since then the Home Office has been struggling to maintain that it would be common sense to hold a large group of assorted nationalities, some families and some single people, in an isolated accommodation centre, telling them that most of them will be deported.
The Lords held a long debate, by the end of which the Government, yet again, had no friend for their policy. From beginning to end, the Government have won no significant support for their policy either on the right or the left of the spectrum. My right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary cited a list of groups which had challenged the policy; for example, the Refugee Council, the Red Cross and the Immigration Advisory Service have no time for the policy. They are fearful that it will make it more difficult to deal in a civilised way with the individual problems of applicants and their families. Furthermore, there will undoubtedly be potential for tension and management problems in institutions as large and unattractive as holding centres for asylum seekers deep in rural England, far away from where any of the asylum seekers actually want to be.
Mr. Patrick Hall: Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Mr. Clarke: No, because that is why people are being cut out of the debate. With any luck, I shall confine my speech to 10 minutes.
The Minister has moved to some extent, which is welcome. She has dropped one of the three proposed rural camps to make room for an urban experiment. I shall not be churlish and say that the last and greatest treason is to do the right thing for the wrong reason. I suspect that the Minister has dropped the Worcestershire camp because the Home Office cannot get it to run owing to local planning issues. The Government have probably reassessed the cost. They are spending millions on these so-called trials and they can probably only afford two big ones and a little one.
The Minister's third proposal has been urged on her from all sides. It is in line with successful experience on the continent. It is what legal advisers, educationists and most of the advisory bodies want—smaller camps that are nearer urban facilities. It is a belated step in the right direction that, minutes before the measure was subject to further parliamentary scrutiny today, the Government were prepared to make that modification.
If the Minister would tell us that, for the time being, she will set aside the big rural camps that nobody wants and assess whether a small urban camp can work in a civilised way, that would be a much better way to proceed. If she continues to insist that the Home Office should be immune from any review of its decision that big camps are suitable, we should support the Lords in their amendment No. 17.
Sooner or later, the Government will quietly abandon the policy. They have not won a friend for it from the moment they announced it. They are scrabbling on, through humiliation after humiliation, trying to defend their large-camps policy. They want to save face today by insisting on using their majority to reverse their lordships' amendment. However, I hope that they will find a dignified way of saving a bit of face by eventually adopting the more sensible policy that has been urged on the Minister by Labour Back Benchers with the same vigour as by Liberal Democrats and by my right hon. and hon. Friends.


Elesa started her career studying graphic design and working in advertising for various agencies. During the 80's and up until today, she has undertaken numerous art workshops and tuition at Willoughby Arts Centre, where she has focused on drawing and painting using a variety of mediums, exploring her fascination with marks and colour.
A well-travelled painter, Elesa has journeyed to Arnhem Land, the Kimberly, Broome and then overseas to Morocco, Mallorca, Turkey, Greece, The Maldives, India and most recently the Flinders Ranges. She draws great inspiration from her travels, painting on location and upon return. Her paintings are in many private collections worldwide.


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The December early signing period for senior high school football players added more than a year ago has taken some of the mystery out of February's annual signing day, but Brevard County high schools will again take the chance to celebrate some top athletes while some still have decisions to make.
National Signing Day typically involves the early morning delivery of signatures to college football program offices across the country, but signing ceremonies for friends, teammates and families will last through the afternoon locally.
Rockledge defender O.C. Brothers, an athlete who has played a variety of positions since starting out as primarily a quarterback at Titusville, has tweeted that he will choose between Auburn, Miami and North Carolina on Wednesday.
Defensive lineman Dorien Josey, who has committed to Florida Atlantic, is among other Raiders who could be signing.
Willie Gaines, the Cocoa athlete who also played a variety of positions, from quarterback at Heritage to most backfield spots and return specialist after joining the Tigers, committed to Toledo before the season. In 2018, he caught 83 passes for 1,278 yards and 13 scores while also rushing for 422 yards.
Cocoa receiver Rashean Lynn, who transferred from Titusville, is expected to sign with the West Virginia University. Lynn caught 30 passes for 440 yards and four touchdowns in 2018.
Florida Tech and Eastern Florida State teams will be getting some of the Brevard talent. Heritage football lineman Terrion Howard has said he will sign with the Panthers. A handful of soccer players, including three from West Shore, planned to sign with EFSC.
Two Eau Gallie football players and one from Holy Trinity signed with Division I schools in December, receiver-defensive back Jarrad Baker Jr. to UCF and defensive back-receiver Jaden Gragg to Coastal Carolina, both from the Commodores. Tigers defensive lineman Seth Coleman signed with Illinois.
Follow signing updates on 321preps.com and floridatoday.com, including photos and videos.


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Q: addEventListener on class I need to use getElementsByClassName because I have several same buttons etc.
I work on a wordpress loop that displays a button for each new article, and a registration form must appear on each event when we click on the button.
When I click on the button, I want the form to be displayed and the button to be hidden.
Someone can help me ?
Sorry if there are mistakes, I am French.
var bouton = document.getElementsByClassName('btn_inscription');
var formulaire = document.getElementsByClassName('formulaire');

   var MyFonction = function{
       formulaire.style.display = 'block';
       bouton.style.display ='none';
   }

   for (var i = 0; i < bouton.length; i++) {

        bouton[i].addEventListener('click', MyFonction);
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A: getElementsByClassName (along with .getElementsByTagName and .getElementsByName) return node list objects (array-like containers). You can't interact with individual element properties and methods on node lists, you have to work with objects within the container.  To set up event handlers on all the elements in the node list, you can loop through the container and set the handler one at a time.
Now, getElementsByClassName returns a "live node list", which is one that re-scans the document every time you interact with it to ensure that your container has the most up to date set of matching elements. This can cause big drops in page performance and the need for live node lists is pretty uncommon. Instead, use the more modern .querySelectorAll(), which allows you to pass any valid CSS selector in and returns a static node list.

// Get all the desired elements into a node list
let elements = document.querySelectorAll(".test");

// Convert the node list into an Array so we can
// safely use Array methods with it
let elementsArray = Array.prototype.slice.call(elements);

// Loop over the array of elements
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  // Assign an event handler
  elem.addEventListener("click", function(){
    console.log("You clicked me!");
    this.style.backgroundColor = "#ff0";
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A: You need to use .bind(thisArg[, arg1[, arg2[, ...]]]) in order to pass the current index and element (rif. this):

var bouton = document.getElementsByClassName('btn_inscription');
var formulaire = document.getElementsByClassName('formulaire');

var MyFonction = function(idx, event) {
    formulaire[idx].style.display = 'block';
    this.style.display ='none';
}

for (var i = 0; i < bouton.length; i++) {
    bouton[i].addEventListener('click', MyFonction.bind(bouton[i], i));
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A: You need to make use of this inside your event handler:
var buttons = document.getElementsByClassName('btn_inscription');

var MyFunction = function() {
   this.closest('.formulaire').style.display = 'block';
   this.style.display ='none';
}

for (let i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
    buttons[i].addEventListener('click', MyFunction.bind(buttons[i]));
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Mars Rover Opportunity Back in Action After Glitch
NASA's twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have now spent 10 years on the surface of Mars.
(Image: © NASA/JPL)
NASA's venerable Mars rover Opportunity has overcome a glitch that put the robot into standby mode late last month, agency officials announced today (May 1).
"The Opportunity rover is back under ground control, executing a sequence of commands sent by the rover team," NASA officials wrote in a mission update today. "Opportunity is no longer in standby automode and has resumed normal operations."
Opportunity apparently put itself into standby automode — in which it maintains power balance but waits for instructions from the ground — on April 22, after sensing a problem during a routine camera check, mission officials said.
The nine-year-old rover's handlers didn't notice the problem until April 27, when Opportunity got back in touch after a nearly three-week communications moratorium imposed because Mars and Earth were on opposite sides of the sun from each other.
This planetary alignment, known as a Mars solar conjunction, occurs every 26 months and affects all spacecraft operating at the Red Planet. The sun can damage or degrade signals sent from Earth, so mission controllers generally stop commanding Mars rovers, orbiters and landers for a spell.
Opportunity's controllers prepared a new set of commands on April 29 designed to get things back to normal, and the fix has apparently worked.
The golf-cart-size Opportunity rover landed on Mars in January 2004 along with its twin, Spirit, on a three-month mission to search for signs of past water activity on the Red Planet. The two rovers found plenty of such evidence, and then kept trundling across the Red Planet. Spirit was declared dead in 2010, but Opportunity is still going strong.
Opportunity is currently exploring a spot along the rim of Mars' Endeavour Crater that may have been capable of supporting life long ago.
To date, the rover has covered 22.15 miles (35.65 kilometers) on Mars — just off the record for greatest distance traveled on the surface of another world by a robot. The Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 rover covered 23 miles (37 km) on the moon in 1973.
Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookor Google+. Originally published on SPACE.com.


Leak : Microsoft's cancelled Surface Mini Specifications!
Microsoft was rumored to release a Surface Mini Tablet with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 SoC with Windows RT in 2014 , Later, they cancelled the device due to internal reasons . Now, famous leakster, Evan Blass posted up some images of the cancelled device and its specifications providing us with a closer look at the devices .
We can observed that the device has 2 Variants with 1GB and 2GB RAM . The device supported Surface Pen and a kick stand with 3 fixed positions . The 1440 x 1080 px display had a 240ppi pixel density and a 5 point multi touch functionality .
The device was supposed to be released in 3 colors in the portfolio with one of them was red color while the other two were black and blue .
As Windows was not much compatible with ARM Processors in 2014, it would have not been a great idea to ship this device! But we really expect Microsoft to release a Windows 10 tablet like this device powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 in the near future with the release of Windows 10 on ARM .
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Months Past
The Eggnog Riots
The Riot Act was read to young officers at West Point Military Academy on 25 December 1826, following a boisterous party which began the night before.
Justin & Stephanie Pollard | Published in History Today Volume 69 Issue 12 December 2019
The rules for young officers at West Point Military Academy in New York were strict. Alcohol possession could lead to expulsion and even smoking tobacco could affect one's chances of graduating. Of course, the cadets took great delight in ignoring these rules completely.
So keen indeed were the Academy's 260 cadets on breaking the rules that by 1826 West Point was getting a reputation for drunkenness. That year the decision was taken by Superintendent Sylvanus Thayer to make the celebratory Christmas eggnog alcohol free. A traditional Christmas drink, usually containing rum, George Washington liked his with added brandy, whisky and sherry. So an alcohol-free eggnog was unlikely to pass muster with the cadets.
The cadets responded by going to the nearby Benny's Tavern and buying two gallons of whiskey and a gallon of rum. This was smuggled back into the Academy and the drinking began in the North barracks early on Christmas Eve.
By 4am on Christmas Day the party was boisterous enough for the staff to investigate and Captain Hitchcock, feeling things were getting out of hand, read the Riot Act to the men. They ignored him and a small fight ensued. By now the fun had spread to the South barracks where Captain Thornton was attacked and knocked out for trying to stop the party. The revellers then headed for Hitchcock's room, where they smashed the windows and a pistol was fired. At this point the arrests began.
Reveille on Christmas morning was a sorry affair, with broken glass and furniture strewn across the site and the cadet body in no fit state to stand up, let alone fight.
In the aftermath, six cadets resigned, 19 were court martialled, 10 expelled (including two future Confederate generals and a future Supreme Court judge) and many, including a young Jefferson Davis, later Confederate States president, were confined to quarters for more than a month.


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Ten Simple Acts
Ten Simple Acts of Courage
To Rebuild American Democracy
If every member of Congress performs at least one "Simple Act of Courage" we can begin to turn our faltering democracy around.
1. Joint Tours of Each Other's Districts or States
What better way for members of Congress to build working relationships than joining together with a member of the other party to tour each others' districts and states? It takes courage to meet on each other's turf. A new program is already making it happen.
2. Go Undercover to Learn About America's Challenges
Conducting "undercover missions" to learn about the issues facing America - immigration, poverty, healthcare, jobs - will help members of Congress make better decisions for all Americans. Half of the Members of Congress are millionaires, far removed from the day to day lives of the average American. This is a way for a member of Congress to admit they can always learn.
3. Stand With the Troops on the Field of Battle on Congressional Tours of Duty
What more honorable way for a member of Congress to show their support for our brave military men and women than to pledge: "If I vote for war I will go to war, joining the troops on the field of battle." These special short-term Congressional missions would demonstrate national unity, provide valuable learning experiences, and instill a sense of courage to bring back to the halls of Congress.
4. Involve Your Constituents
The best leaders know that leadership is a team effort. Imagine how much more effective members of Congress would be by creating:
Problem-Solving Committees of smart creative constituents to help craft solutions to the nation's problems.
An Personal Integrity Council of spiritual and ethical leaders to help the member serve with integrity.
A Youth Advisory Council to bring the energy and ideas of the next generation into policymaking.
5. Reward Innovation
Members of Congress could sponsor innovation contests offering financial rewards for the best solutions to our nation's challenges. These contests are increasingly used by private companies to create breakthroughs. Even federal agencies are using them to create more effective approaches to their missions. Why not use them for the legislative process itself? Let's bring the creativity of America's entrepreneurial innovators into American politics!
6. Total Transparency
Members of Congress rarely disclose who they meet with and whether those individuals or organizations have given them money for their election campaigns. Don't constituents have the right to know this? We need members of Congress to have the courage to post their daily schedules online!
7. Focus on Solutions
Some members of Congress are working across the aisle to solve the nation's problems, such as the Problem Solvers Caucus, the Bipartisan Working Group, and the Civility and Respect Caucus. But less than one in five members of Congress participate. We need to have all members involved.
8. Do or Die!
Our political system is so broken that results no longer seem to matter. Congress's approval rating barely tops 10%, yet incumbents win re-election over 90% of the time. Truly courageous members of Congress would set a clear specific goal for their time in office with a promise to step down if Congress fails to achieve that goal. This is the gold standard for political courage!
9. Stop the Endless Fighting!
Americans are sick and tired of the partisan fighting that is tearing our country apart, stoked by the media and by politicians themselves. It's time for members of Congress to embrace a new role, leading their constituents in celebrating what they have in common, respecting their differences, and finding ways to work together with common purpose.
10. Let Your Constituents Choose Your Act(s) of Courage
Members of Congress can give their constituents a voice in deciding which act(s) of courage they should undertake. What could be more courageous than giving your constituents a say in how you do your job?
FOR COURAGE
info@campaignforcourage.org
© 2020 by Campaign for Courage.


Here's a sneak preview of an article I submitted to the Kohala Mountain News. You heard it here first!
Kohala has recently formed a chapter of the National Farmers Union, an organization established in 1902 to unite farmers and others interested in food in cooperative efforts of education and legislation.
The National Farmers Union mission is to advocate for the economic and social well-being, and quality of life of family farmers, ranchers, fishermen and consumers and their communities through education, cooperation and legislation. National Farmers Union advocates sustainable production of food, fiber, feed and fuel. The Vision of the National Farmers Union is to continue to be the respected, influential and independent national voice and coalition leader that bridges family producers and consumers on behalf of a vibrant and growing grassroots membership. See more at: http://nfu.org . Follow the drop-down tabs to get to the Hawaii section.
Our local chapter joins seven other chapters in Hawaii, falling under the umbrella of the Hawaii Farmers Union United.
On December 9th, elections were held and a board established. Dash Kuhr is serving as president, Nate Hayward as vice president, Jim Land as secretary, and Andrea Clipson as treasurer. Other board members include Clarence A. "Cab" Baber, Gail Byrne Baber, Jana Bogs, and Peter deVries.
Our board has been busy attending influential, legislation-related events on Oahu and the Big Island. Some items on the legislative agendas include industrial hemp production, an on-farm mentoring bill, direct farm to school food sales, legalizing cottage industry sales (items made in home kitchens), and cow share and raw milk legalization. Our board members found our elected legislators very interested in the needs of small farmers.
Our last meeting, on January 8th, hosted Ed Boteilho Jr. of Cloverleaf Dairy here in Hawi. After his family's more than 50 years of milk production, he is forced to sell due to price controls by Meadow Gold, Hawaii's only milk processor. Boteilho is hoping that Ulupono, a Hawaii-based investment company, will take over operations.
To address concerns about the dairy expressed by some of our members, the Kohala HFUU passed a resolution which recognized Mr. Boteilho's history of avoiding rBST (genetically-engineered hormone injections) and GMO (genetically-modified organism) practices (which are common to the dairy industry) as examples of good management essential for the future sustainability of the 'aina. The resolution supports the operation of a local non-GMO dairy in North Kohala; and supports all regenerative practices related to dairy farming and farming in general.
Our Farmers Union chapter meets once a month, at 6pm on the Thursday nearest the new moon at the Kohala Hub in downtown Hawi. We have a yummy potluck dinner featuring locally-produced foods, interesting speakers, and just plain fun. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, February 12th at 6pm. Please come join us! Our membership goal for 2015 is to have 200 members. The nearest chapter is in Kona, so we expect to welcome members from the Waimea area too. Come help us improve our local food production and "Keep Kohala, Kohala" by sharing your mana`o.
Dr. Jana Bogs will be presenting a powerpoint on the benefits of growing foods for maximum nutrition at Tutu's House this Saturday, July 19, from 1 to 2:30pm. There will also be time set aside to get your questions answered. As always, events at Tutu's House are free of charge. Tutu's House is located in Kamuela in the Kamuela Business Center (Upper Level) at 64-1032 Mamalahoa Highway, #304, Kamuela, Hawaii 96743. Reservations are not required, but appreciated. Just call Tutu's House at 885-6777. Mahalo and see you there!


One day, fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari meets a very odd man who calls himself the Doctor on the Tokyo-3 Loop Line. Unfortunately, there's something else on the train with them.
Followup to "Shinji and the Doctor." Trapped in a different universe, the Doctor has a choice to make when a new threat appears in the skies above Tokyo-3.
(Part 1 of 2) Still reeling from the discovery that the Doctor has taken on a job teaching at his school, Shinji is called away to deal with a weapons project gone rogue.
(Part 2 of 2) Followup to "Shinji and the Doctor." With a radioactive Jet Alone tearing its way towards Tokyo-3, the Doctor and Shinji must race against time to save not only Japan, but the entire world.
Prequel to Episode 5, "Parent-Teacher Conference"
The Doctor and Misato are forced to put aside their differences when Shinji's school comes under attack.
Episode 6 of Series Thirty and Three-Quarters. Shinji struggles with sleep deprivation, fourth-dimensional logic, the strange nature of his Evangelion and the arrival of the newest pilot, the mercurial Asuka Langely-Soryu. Oh, and if he and the Doctor can't solve the mystery behind a plague of impossible explosions within the next twenty-four hours, everyone in the city will die. So no pressure.
On living arrangements and planetary crises.
Episode 7 of Series Thirty and Three-Quarters. The Doctor takes advantage of a city-wide blackout to investigate the secrets buried underneath Tokyo-3.
Episode 8 of Series Thirty and Three-Quarters. Continues from BLACKOUT. With an overwhelming enemy attack on the way and time quickly running out for the human race, the Doctor and NERV must prepare for a brutal battle against terrible odds.
There's something in the dark.
The Doctor and Misato set out to investigate a series of disappearances deep within an abandoned section of NERV Headquarters, little realizing that doing so will bring them face to face with the consequences of his decisions -- both past and future.
NERV Internal Use Only. Classified KETER.
During a routine test, the Evangelion called Unit Zero without warning goes berserk and tears a path of destruction through NERV Headquarters. The Doctor and Misato find themselves in a race against time as the mysteries continue to pile up: who is the enigmatic individual trying to kill the Doctor? What is Rei hiding? And what is the dark secret behind Unit Zero's creation?
A brief conversation about coping mechanisms within the halls of the TARDIS.
A moment of weakness puts Shinji in mortal danger. Can the Doctor save him from himself?
In the aftermath of "From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness," Shinji deals with the consequences of his actions.
In which the Doctor defeats an Angel with a step-ladder.


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First it was Lord Finesse, now Donald Trump is aiming to stick Mac Miller for his paper.
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A: Adrian, I agree. It's time for a good, hard look at why the oil situation has not unfolded the way I anticipated, and for an assessment of what's happened and the market's new dynamics -including where we stand now and where I believe we're headed next.
When I made the projection this spring, all the factors were in line for a massive spike in crude oil prices. The strange thing is, most of these factors are still in line.
There are nine indicators I review every day to determine where the price of oil is likely to be.
All nine were pointing in the same direction (up) by March 16, and six are still pointing in the same direction today. But markets have a mind of their own, and the last two months were simply a bear when it came to the energy sector.
There were no fundamental reasons why the slide has lasted as long as it has. A short-term pullback had been in the cards for early May, but I had that bottoming out at an 8% to 9% correction – nowhere near the upwards to 20% we actually got.
Currently, we have a floor that's formed over the past week. And that's a good thing. The longer we can see stability, the better the fundamentals are able to take hold.
Oil itself, however, is still in the grasp of forces that have less to do with the actual dynamics of the oil market and more to do with market emotion (you know, for each dose of "irrational exuberance," there is an equal measure of "irrational pessimism"). So we will see a recovery in our energy stocks first, before we see another rise in oil prices.
The combination of severe concerns over the European mess, the flight to the U.S. dollar (that singlehandedly depresses oil prices), the unusual situation in the bond market… They have all contributed to the decline. Mega-trading programs have also moved heavy play into shorting crude oil.
These have been translated into projections of sluggish demand for crude and oil products, and that has added more fuel to the fire.
Projected demand, of course, requires upwards of a quarter's worth of figures. It's not a day-to-day exercise in extrapolating hunches from volume in storage at Cushing, Okla., or stockpiles at refineries. The first is a function of transit, not demand. The second is actually improving refinery stock values, since the stockpiles are a result of buying cheaper crude in anticipation of more expensive crude coming down the line.
The curious thing is this: Surpluses at Cushing and stockpiles at refineries were higher when we were pushing $110 a barrel in New York and $125 in London.
Markets do this. The indicators are all there, but trading decides to move in another direction. Trading exchanges may be among of the most intriguing inventions every devised, but – most unfortunately – they are not always rational.
But there's nothing we can do about that. So where are we now?
First, both OPEC and the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris have reported that international demand (the real driving force of where crude prices ought to be) will be coming in higher this year than the last five.
Yes, they have been cutting estimates, but the bottom line is still a recent record.
Second, the last round of talks between Iran and the six major nations will break up today in Moscow. Nothing has been accomplished, and the EU embargo of Iranian oil will begin on July 1. That fact would have already moved Brent prices higher, had it not been for the ongoing drama on the Continent.
Third, the euro is now slowly moving back up in value against the dollar. Why? Greece will have a government by this afternoon, Spanish 10 year bond yields are now below 7% (still unsustainable, but better; the more serious problem are the yields on the shorter end of the curve), word is the European Council (the EU heads of state) will sign on to new bailout measures when they meet the end of the month, and continental-wide financial integration is approaching.
Now, Europe will remain just this side of a basket case for some time. But the odds of the 27 EU members returning to local currencies are quite low. Everybody recognizes that the demise of a common currency is a bad idea for everybody (even the strongest of the members, Germany).
What is needed now is liquidity, and that will require longer-term European bonds (whether Berlin and Paris like it or not).
All of this affects the price of crude oil (and other commodities) as futures traders play the spreads to make money. It just happens that, now, it is easier to push oil down than up.
Our Energy Advantage Portfolio is not a month-by-month proposition. It's designed to take advantage of the most powerful long-term wealth-generating sector in the market.
Of course, when downward trends are aggravated, we will sell shares when they reach their trailing stops – a time-tested sell discipline that will preserve our capital over the long run.
But when the upward trend resumes, our shares will accelerate faster than the market as a whole.
I realize the futility of assigning blame to anyone who tries to make an educated and fully unemotional, but totally risky recommendation in this market, especially in the energy sector.
Although I made a little, I most assuredly lost a lot of moola on my decision to follow your thoughts and the direction you anticipated for the price of our 100 plus year lust and need for oil and gas.
Timing is everything in this "Got to Have" sector and with all the ultra nervous investors pulling their money from the energy market,it's easy to see why the price per barrel of oil fell, instead of Bull-ying its way higher.
There are way to many possible but real events that are about to happen in this World, the energy sector, especially oil and gas.
I can positively say, that without a doubt, something Big, Bad and Evil, is about to take place shortly after the first day of July, 2012.
My final sentiment on this matter is that: the price of oil is Going to skyrocket into the neverworld, and your guesstimate of $150 a barrel or more could quite likely be $ 225 p/b IF not more. I do not wish, for one second, for this to come to pass, because I also need oil and gas to meet my family's daily needs, especially come winter; and the sounds of the petrol meter whizzing around in the gas pump, well frankly, scares the hell out of my bank account and my family budget.
Therefore, I may make a tidy sum if any or all of this takes place, but I will not sob in my milk if I lose out on this one, because if I win, then someone(s), somewhere will have to die before this dire situation gets any better.
In general I agree with your analyses, however, I am not surprised at what happened. Only hindsight can predict the market 100%. Just look at silver. I follow your recommendations, and will continue to do so.
On the other hand I do not think that the fossil fuels should even be considered, except for the very immediate future. There is no doubt in my mind that their use is destroying the planet. Only nuclear energy should be considered sustainable, and its use for all stationary power should be a national priority. Another Manhattan Project?
Like the analysis of the current state of the oil market, especially focusing on the long-term and not short-term trading / market issues.
If you can, please explain your '9 indicators' you mentioned above, especially the 6 that still point towards higher oil prices. This I think will help your readers gain a clearer idea of where oil prices are going.
Anecdotally, I perosnally dont see the Euro crisis being a liquidity issue, but actually a solvency issue, much like our recent cr. crisis that is still lingering in the US. A link to the IEA / OPEC forecast / reasoning would be appreciated as well IMO.
Thanks for all the great insight.
With Europe in a prolonged mess … and the 'developing' world consuming more crude … China's growth slowing down …. and America increasingly taking oil from Canada ….
What are your thoughts on buying shares in blue chip energy companies in other countries — the so called emerging markets ??
I'm thinking companies such as PTT and refinery TOP in Thailand (which also have over 5% dividend yields) or Medco Energy, Indonesia's largest publicly traded oil company ??
Many of these companies have little competition. Do they make sense as 'buy-and-hold' plays ??
I'm a big fan of yours – so what are thoughts about trading outside of Wall Street ??
What about inflation hedging Kent? I read your book last year and as an employee in the oil sector (design/build of API storage tanks), I took note of the slowdown in orders in Canada even Pre-Keystone pipeline rejection and I observed from reading your book, the gaping hole that you call "Vega" is in my view nothing more than the consequences of persistent Inflation Hedging by the likes of BP and Goldman Sachs as Chris Cook has mentioned!


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