To ease this transition, an intermediate stage can be introduced – either a greenhouse, cold frame or row cover. Cold frames and greenhouses have the advantage that they can be opened up more and more over a few days, providing a further element of control.
Personally, I move my plants into my greenhouse for increasing amounts of time. Over the last two weeks they have gone from a couple of hours in the weak morning sunshine to whole days out and now finally overnight when a frost doesn't look likely. As my greenhouse is unheated, the transition from there to outdoors will be easier and will probably just take a weekend. I now have tomato plants, looking healthy and strong, surviving an overnight low of 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) and ready for potting up or planting in the greenhouse bed.
Watch the weather closely – the best time to harden plants off is on wet or overcast days under cover of a greenhouse or cold frame. Overcast days don't stress the plants with high afternoon temperatures and are unlikely to produce hard frosts at night.
When taking plants outside, don't place them on the ground where slugs can access them or birds can knock them over looking for grubs.
At first, limit the amount of direct sunlight they receive – choosing a place which is shaded in the afternoon.
One tip I haven't tried is 'tickling' tomato plants. It sounds crazy but some people swear by it – just brushing the tops of tomato seedlings with your hand or a piece of paper a couple of times each day is said to toughen them up a bit before hardening them off properly. Apparently there is some research to support this method, though it could all be down to the extra vigilance of regularly checking up on the plants while doing so!
Whatever happens, it's rapidly approaching that time to let them go and let the real growing begin. Roll on the warmer weather!
"Hi, I try to grow lots of veg from seed, I use a cold greenhouse, my problem is the plants get leggy very quickly before they appear strong enough to move out to a cold frame or plant out. what am I doing wrong? "
"Mick, there are two causes of 'leggy' plant growth: insufficient light and a sheltered environment. To combat insufficient light you need to make sure that the glass is really clean, the greenhouse is not over-shadowed and you don't start your seedlings too early when light levels are poor. As for the sheltered environment, I've been told that fanning the plants with a large sheet of card a few times each day does the trick - forcing them to grow stronger stalks - although I have to say that sounds like excessive work to me. Trying to get a breeze going through the greenhouse on sufficiently warm afternoons is easier and is what I do."
"Thanks for that Jeremy, I'm getting to like this Blog caper, I have just thought, could it be the compost I use, which is just general purpose bought stuff, I'm afraid I don't know the difference between compost types.where can I find out what's best?"
"Mick, I have had poor quality compost cause problems with seedlings - one year I bought an old batch of organic compost but the symptoms weren't that plants got leggy. Instead they germinated and grew well for the first few weeks and then just stopped growing. By the time I realised that they were staying small sized it was too late to re-sow the tomatoes and peppers. So it's certainly worth buying fresh good quality compost but I don't think it would cause this particular problem."
"How do I harden off young plants a few hours a day when I am out at work? So far they have to go out all day or not at all this is where I think gardening gets hard. All gardeners talk like we're all home all day. - Not critism I think your sight is great - just frustrated."
"Michele, It is possible... what I do is just start the hardening off process at the weekend. That way by the time Monday comes they are ready to be out for most of the day. In an ideal world they would probably get longer with just a few hours but in the real world this works OK."
"Talking about plants getting leggy, I prick off the top leaves and this helps to bush them out. I have done this this year and now all the 882 seedings I have in my greenhouse are coming along wonderfully, and bushy. Some of you could try this. "
"joan...are you pricking off the top leaves of tomatoe plants? herbs? thanks for your advise.........Dee"
"In America we hear the term "pinch off" a lot. I've never understood that. Is that the same as "pricking off the top leaves?" And do we have to wait until there are two sets of leaves to take off the top one?"
"Hi Clarice, yes 'pinch off' is the same as 'pricking off the top leaves' but it isn't something you usually do until the plant is quite large and you want it to stop growing upwards and bush out to produce more edible crop."
"Hi, I have little Echinacea seedlings started and they're not very tall yet, just about an inch over the "soil." The weather is getting increasingly wonderful and I was just unsure about how big my plants need to be before I harden them off? Like I said, they are about an inch above the "soil" and only have two "leaves." This is my first time doing something from seed and I need some help ^^;;; Much thanks! Peace and Love! "
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"Is there a recovery method for plants damaged by a hastened hardening off? My plants have lost there deep green and are now pale and a bit wilted. They are inside now until they look better, then I'll try again. This time I'll set a timer.."
"Ants hate cucumber! Peel a cucumber and make a barrier. No ants will touch it. "
"I'm new to gardening, and after a lifetime of 'duty' gardening, ie, keeping the grass cut and the weeds down, have recently developed an interest in the garden, and have a small poly tunnel. I have so much stuff growing in there that taking it all out to harden the plants off would take ages every day, so I have been opening the flap, which faces the prevailing wind, every day, also opening the 'Windows' to allow good air circulation. I'm also leaving the 'Windows' open at night, although I'm zipping up the door at about 6pm. I have lots of tomato plants, sweet peas, surfinia and geraniums which are very well grown, and wonder if what I'm doing will sufficiently harden them off to plant out soon. Please advise."


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Correct Manner In Which to Approach Contemporary Worldly Sciences – By Imaam Abdul Azeez Bin Baaz, Imaam Muhammad Ibn Saaleh Al-Uthaymeen and Shaikh Saaleh Aala Ash-Shaikh – [Reminder to Every Muslim Teacher Who Has Sincere Concern For The Aqeedah of Our Children]
Written by Abdulah Jallow on August 3, 2020 . Posted in Belief - 'Aqeedah', Calling To Islam - 'Da'wa', Methodology - 'Manhaj', Monotheism - Tawheed, Purification of The Soul, Scholars of Islam, Worship - 'Ibaadah'.
In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy.
Imaam Abdul Azeez Bin Baaz [rahimahullaah] said:
Indeed, that which is stated by the astronomers about the celestial bodies, their sizes and the distance between them, and that which is said about the earth [i.e. by the geologists etc] is categorized into three affairs: [a] That which is backed by the sound knowledge-based proofs [i.e. the Sharee'ah], therefore it is accepted. [b] That which the knowledge-based proofs [i.e. the sharee'ah] declares to be false, therefore it is rejected. [c] That which there is no proof to either accept or reject it, therefore it is unproven until a person from the people of knowledge [i.e. upright scholars of Ahlus Sunnah] examines it [i.e. examines what it indicates based on the Book and Sunnah] to show whether it should be accepted or rejected. As for accepting it without [sound] investigation and observation, but merely accepting it by blindly following them [i.e. the astronomers, geologists, scientists etc], then this is impermissible because of the numerous mistakes that occur as a result of that, and speaking -without knowledge – about Allaah and that which He has created [i.e. the entire universe and all that is within it]. [Ref 1]
Imaam Muhammad Bin Saaleh Al-Uthaymeen [rahimahullaah] said:
We do not say, "We do not give consideration to anything stated by the people in the subject matter regarding medicine, astronomy and the celestial bodies", however, we do not accept everything they say. If what they say opposes the Book and the [authentic] Sunnah, then indeed we do not accept their statements; [rather] we take [i.e. believe and affirm without any doubt] that which is conveyed in the Book and the [authentic] Sunnah, and we say, 'An era will come in which the people will bear witness to the falsity of those statements of theirs – at present – that are in opposition to the Book and [authentic] Sunnah and [bear witness] to the soundness of that which has been conveyed in the Book and the [authentic] Sunnah'". [Ref 2]
Shaikh Saaleh Aala Ash-Shaikh [hafidhahullaah] said:
The Messenger [sallal laahu alayhi wasallam] said: Verily, the creation of each of you is brought together in his mother's womb for forty days as a drop [of water, semen], then he is a clot for a similar period, then a morsel for a similar period…. [An-Nawawi's Forty Hadeeth. Hadeeth 4]
It is well known that during that era, the Sahaabah did not know these stages [of development of the human being in the womb] through experimental knowledge, vision [i.e. fetal ultrasound] or other than that; rather it was simply [a statememt of the Prophet] which they [believed and affirmed]. They were scholars by way of the revelation sent down to the Prophet [sallal laahu alayhi wasallam] and not by way of experimentation [examination]. [Ref 3]
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http://www.aboutatheism.net/authors/Abu.Iyaad.cfm
Discussion About Evolution With an Ex-Muslim Confiscating the "Miracle" Required by Naturalists Leaves Them Empty-Handed and Unable to Respond – By Shaikh Abu ʿIyaad [hafidhahullaah]
file:///C:/Users/abumu/Downloads/evolution-discussion-exm%20(1).pdf
http://www.aqidah.com/creed/tags/evolution.cfm
Darwinism and Atheism
http://www.aqidah.com/creed/categories/xz-darwinism-and-atheism.cfm
Qur'anic Evidences for the Motion of the Sun and the Phenomena of Night and Day
http://www.aboutatheism.net/articles/wzovydv-quranic-evidences-for-the-motion-of-the-sun-and-the-phenomena-of-night-and-day.cfm
Disbelief of the One Who Denies Sun's Motion Around the Earth — Shaykh Ibn Baz and Shaykh Ubayd al-Jabiree.
http://www.aqidah.com/creed/articles/auazc-disbelief-of-the-one-who-denies-suns-motion-around-the-earth.cfm
[Ref 1: An Excerpts from 'Al-Adillah An-Naqliyyah Wal-Hissiyyah Alaa Imkaanis Su'ood Ilal Kawaakib Wa Alaa Jarayaan Ash-Shams Wal-Qamar Wa Sukoon Al-Ard' page 74. slightly paraphrased]
[Ref 2: An excerpt from the 'Explanation of Bulooghul Maraam' Vol 1. page 130]
[Ref 3: Sharh Al-Arba'een. Hadeeth 4]
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Q: How to use UNION ALL within while loop How should I use union all to get Result of a while loop in a set, so that I can use the same to fill data in a combo box.
Here is the Sql code in which I'm trying union all
Declare @start int = 1

While(@start <= 24)
Begin
 (select @start as ColumnA) union All  ----need to fix this line
set @start = @start + 1
End

Expected Ouput :
ColumnA
1
2
.
.
.
24(up to 24)

A: Use a recursive common table expression (cte) to produce the wanted result:
with cte (n) as
(
    values (1)              -- anchor
    union all
    select n + 1 from cte   -- recursive
    where n < 24            -- terminate
)
select * from cte;

A: SQL Server solution could be something along these lines. It is up to 100, however, it is not difficult to raise the limit
WITH x AS
(
  SELECT n FROM (VALUES (0),(1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9)) v(n)
)
SELECT 1 + ones.n + 10 * tens.n ColumnA
FROM x ones,     x tens
WHERE ones.n + 10 * tens.n < 24
ORDER BY ColumnA

A: The easiest approach to achieve 24 running numbers is this
SELECT TOP 24 ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) AS ColumnA
FROM master..spt_values --pick any table with a sufficient row-count

As you are a beginner, you should try to learn the set-based thinking right from the start. What your code shows, is procedural thinking.
With a set-based tool you must learn to think like your tool acts.
That means:

no loops, no cursors, no do this and than this and finally that.

That means:

Dear engine, I describe for you what I want to get and it is up to you how to solve this best.

UPDATE
Just to show you, what might have worked (but again, loops are in most cases the wrong approach):
--I declare a table variable, which acts like a real table, but is gone when out of scope:
DECLARE @keepNumbers TABLE(ID INT IDENTITY, Nmbr INT);

--Your loop will insert the numbers one after the other
Declare @start int = 1

While(@start <= 24)
Begin
    INSERT INTO @keepNumbers VALUES(@start);
    set @start = @start + 1
End

--No you have a table containing all your numbers
SELECT Nmbr FROM @keepNumbers ORDER BY ID;

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By Michael Hickins | September 26, 2006
IBM is turning the notion of SOA on its head.
The Armonk, NY-based software and services vendor is unveiling a new approach to the services market today, inaugurating the Integrated Communications Services unit.
The unit will offer service-oriented products that are asset-based, replicable and standardized.
The unit is offering a pair of network and communication service products, network convergence services and IP telephony.
Network convergence services is intended to help customers analyze their readiness for communication networks that support data, voice and video.
Big Blue would then help clients design, deploy and manage converged networks that can take advantage of unified messaging, IP contact call center technology, voice, video and Web conferencing and other aspects of converged networks.
The other offering, IP telephony services, is intended to help customers design, deploy and manage IP telephony infrastructure solutions that can reduce the costs associated with managing and maintaining separate voice and data equipment and networks.
These are just the first in a series of expected announcements for this unit.
Marisa Viveros, worldwide director of converged communications at IBM, explained that the new products are the first step in IBM's strategy to deliver traditional labor-based technology services in a manner more similar to the delivery of technology products.
IBM believes that this will result in a more consistent experience for its customers and more sales of its software products with less effort.
"It means economies of scale for us. We can also train and educate practitioners in the field with a common set of methodologies," Viveros told internetnews.com.
"We're taking our best innovations and packaging them in a very standardized manner and making them available to our practitioners around the world," she added.
The company is seeing that many of its customers have become global and now require solutions that work in a consistent manner around the world.
"Clients are asking for a complete solution -- they don't want point solutions, and they need to have a common infrastructure so the customer can deploy their business applications throughout the world," said Viveros.
Bob Djurdjevic, principal analyst with Annex Research, said the packaging of these services as products benefits both IBM and its customers, because it allows customers to implement the solutions more quickly and allows IBM to generate huge economies of scale.
"This is about taking a set of services that had been done previously on a custom basis and putting them together in a package that they can sell to a lot of other customers," he told internetnews.com.
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The first new wave album? Maybe not quite but a prototype of what was to come.
The creative and spastic team of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, better known as SPARKS has become notorious for being one of the quirkiest progressive art pop zolo glam rock artists in the last half century and are still going strong to this day. This Los Angeles duo decided to create their first band all the way back in 1968 when they teamed up under the name HALFNELSON. Having rejected the hippie folk and rock that was en vogue in the late 60s California scene, Ron on keyboards and Russell as vocalist would turn many a head when they performed completely off-kilter art pop that exhibited sophisticated Baroque pop, intelligently designed lyrics and quirky left field constructs that were made all the more strange by the duo's unique theatrical stage presence that found Russell displaying hyperactive performances with a distinctly idiosyncratic falsetto while Ron playing keys in a detached and stoic manner.
While distancing themselves from their LA contemporaries, the duo looked eastward towards the British scene where they found more inspiration from disparate acts such as The Who, The Kinks, The Move and Pink Floyd. It didn't take long after their formation in 1968 that they caught the attention of Todd Rundgren who immediately signed them to his Bearsville label. While the duo would be the focal point of attention, the band was rounded off with Earle Manley on guitar and his brother James on bass and released the eponymously titled debut HALFNELSON in 1971 to little fanfare. After a little changing things up which included the band name becoming SPARKS and a new album cover, the HALFNELSON debut become the first self-titled SPARKS album when re-released in 1972 which proved to be the magic bullet. The same album retitled as SPARKS ushered in the band's first minor hit in the form of "Wonder Girl."
While still HALFNELSON, Ron and Russell were well ahead of their time as they crafted a distinct sound that would blend glam rock, progressive art pop and a hyper spastic feel that would eventually become known as zolo. This amalgamation of ideas would become the staple for bands like Roxy Music, Split Enz, XTC, Devo and countless others as the 70s ceded into the 80s. The HALFNELSON / SPARKS debut is a powerhouse of ideas that range from the prognosticating "Fa La Fa Lee" which sounds a lot like the synthpop that would emerge at the end of the decade and a major ingredient of the new wave that swept the late 70s and early 80s, to the bizarre early indie pop weirdness of "Biology 2" which sounds a lot like the brain melting helium voiced weirdness that Ween would capture and bring to the limelight in the 90s. Tracks like "Roger" are quirky little numbers that mix a heavy classical piano influence with bubblegum pop hooks but corrupt them into a crazed mix of time signature liberties that jitter around the main beat.
"High C" which sounds like a David Bowie on acid type of track displays a basic glam rock groove that intertwines country slide guitar, new wave type of synthpop hooks and the ultimate vocal weirdness that displays Russell's eccentric abilities that make Freddie Mercury sound like an amateur as he whizzes up and down the scale. "Simple Ballet" shows an explorative show tune sort of proclivity while "Slowboat" proves that the duo aren't just about weirdness but that they can also write beautiful ballads that don't resort to extremes yet even here they think out of the box with a Baroque piano solo and ends with an energetic guitar performance. "Saccharin And The War" is the most rockin' and also most progressive track on the album as it ramps up the guitar heft and adds some time sig deviations as Russell wails away sounding like he's a cross between the singers of Gnidrolog and Pavlov's Dog. "(No More) Mr. Nice Guys" sounds somewhat like the soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show" which wouldn't come out until 1975.
The first SPARKS album which began as a HALFNELSON album is a true freak of nature that must've come as a complete shock to anyone who would've experienced it at the time. It was so different than virtually anything else that existed and an obvious influence for much of the glam rock and indie pop of the future. While clearly more pop than rock, SPARKS were about as creatively experimental as you could get back in the early 70s within that world. This is a brilliant album as it shows the two brothers pretty much doing things exactly as they wanted and the album is all the better for it. While SPARKS wouldn't hit it big until their third album "Kimono In The House" which would become an international hit after they relocated to England, their first two albums are excellent slices of quirky, slightly progressive pop as well with the eponymous debut being the better of the two. While these early albums are precursors of the new wave movement that emerged towards the end of the decade in which SPARKS would be a key player in as well, on the first album it's obvious that they were the progenitors of the quirky zolo art pop turned new wave branch of the post-punk era as well. Not bad guys.
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Euilly est une localité d'Euilly-et-Lombut et une ancienne commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes en région Grand Est.

Géographie

Histoire

Elle fusionne avec la commune de Lombut, en 1828, pour former la commune de Euilly-et-Lombut. Elle devient le chef-lieu de la nouvelle commune.

Administration

Démographie

Histogramme
(élaboration graphique par Wikipédia)

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Personnalités liées à la commune
Jean Baptiste Breton (1769-1822), général français du Premier Empire.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des anciennes communes du département des Ardennes
 Lombut
 Euilly-et-Lombut

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Ancienne commune dans les Ardennes

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Beyond the Octagon: 11 UFC vets in action, former champ Miguel Torres taps
The regional circuits saw Miguel Torres stumble in the finals of a one-night tournament in China. Meanwhile, UFC alum Nick Ring took on Strikeforce rep Cory Devela, and Sho Nuff the Master faced the infamous Kalib Starnes. All that and more, gentle readers.
By Rainer Lee Jun 30, 2015, 3:00pm EDT
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Back in 2009, Lyoto Machida became the UFC's undefeated light-heavyweight champion and installed himself in what appeared to be a position of unassailable dominance. That same year, Miguel Torres was doing much the same down in the bantamweight ranks of the WEC; the nigh-undefeated Torres defended his title for the third time in a thrilling bout with current UFC mainstay Takeya Mizugaki, presenting to fans and opponents a mix of striking acumen and grappling prowess, aggression and endurance, that seemed to promise a lengthy residence among the upper echelons of the sport.
Since 2009, of course, both Machida and Torres have seen dramatic downturns in careers that had previously been subject to superlative-laden commentary (that oft-repeated Roganism "The Machida Era", the hyper-enthused, sometimes-skewed play-by-plays of Frank Mir). Torres, however, has certainly seen the sharper decline in fortunes, having lasted just over a year in the UFC before being released back into the hard-scrabble regional circuits, where he put in a brief, fruitless run in WSOF. He pieced together a three-fight win streak thereafter, taking out a couple journeymen before edging out a 13-2-2 Takahiro Ashida, but that promise, too, went up in smoke, giving way to a sub-minute knockout loss to Des Green, which then gave way to an ill-advised turn as a kickboxer, which somehow yielded results even worse than those that pessimists (or realists) expected. And this past weekend, in his first bout since that disastrous kickboxing debut, Torres would see, much like one-time peer Machida, his former glory slide yet further out of reach.
As part of Rebel FC's one-night, four-man featherweight tournament, Torres (43-9-0) got a free pass to the finals when his opponent, UFC veteran Will Chope, failed to make weight. Meanwhile, 25-year-old prospect Kleber Koike Erbst (18-3-1) punched his ticket earlier that night with a first-round triangle choke of the aforementioned Ashida. Despite coming into the bout fresh, Torres would be unable to fend off Erbst's submission game, succumbing to an undefined choke in Round 2. This makes for only the third submission loss of Torres's lengthy career; two of those losses have come in the last two years. Erbst, meanwhile, wins his 14th straight fight. He's undefeated since 2010, and all but one of his victories have come within the distance.
It's not all bad news for UFC vets, though. At Macto Championships 1 in England, TUF 9 alum "Slick" Nick Osipczak (6-3, 2-3 UFC) made short work of Kyle Redfearn (8-7-0), tying up a fight-ending rear-naked choke two minutes into Round 1. The victory marks Osipczak's return from a five-year absence--he hadn't fought since the split-decision loss to Duane Ludwig that saw him cut from the UFC in 2010.
Fellow TUF 9 contestant Dean Amasinger made his own successful comeback, putting away Dan Vinni (12-13-0) with strikes in the opening seconds of Round 2. Amasinger, who hasn't fought in three years, improves to 10-6-0 overall.
Also on the card, Oli Thompson (14-8, 0-2 UFC) put himself on a win streak thanks to a first-round knockout of Kamil Bazelak (2-5-0). That may not seem like much, but Bazelak has played the spoiler before, having recently knocked out a 9-1-0 Karl Etherington. Thompson, who took a unanimous decision over Minowaman at an Inoki Genome Federation event earlier this year, improves to 5-4 in his post-UFC career. And speaking of the IGF...
In Tokyo, at IGF Genome 34, former lightweight Won Sik Park (11-5-1-1NC, 0-1 Dream, 0-1 Sengoku) jumped up thirty pounds to take a unanimous decision against Koji Shikuwa (1-1-0). As seems to be the theme of the week, "Parky" was also making a return from hiatus: he'd declared retirement in 2013 after dropping three in a row.
And at Arena Tour 6 in Argentina, Ricardo Tirloni (20-6, 3-4 Bellator) picked up a unanimous decision victory over E.J. Brooks (8-4, 4-1 Bellator). Tirloni is 4-1 since a submission to Alexander Sarnavskiy saw him out of Bellator. Brooks started his career with seven straight wins, but is a disappointing 1-4 since then.
Up a piece, in California, Chris Saunders (13-7, 0-1 UFC, 0-2 Bellator) strung together consecutive victories for the first time in four years, putting the guillotine to Brandon Morris (3-4-0) in Round 2 of their main event bout at BAMMA Badbeat 14. Saunders is 4-2 since a 2013 appearance in Bellator.
Meanwhile, at Legacy FC 42 in Louisiana, victory once again eluded Anthony Njokuani (17-11-1NC, 3-5 UFC, 4-3 WEC) who dropped a split-decision to Josh Quayhagen (8-3, 3-1 Bellator). Njokuani is 0-2 since his release from the UFC in 2014 and is winless since a knockout of Roger Bowling in 2013. Quayhagen, for his part, halts a two-fight skid.
And in Albert Canada, Cory Devela (15-6, 1-3 Strikeforce) traveled into hostile territory to take on Nick Ring (14-4, 3-3 UFC) in the headliner of Hard Knocks 44. Devela made a minor splash with his 2008 Strikeforce debut, upsetting Joe Riggs with a submission via slam. He'd be unable to build off that momentum, however, stumbling in all of his subsequent fights before taking 2011 and '12 off from competition. It would seem that the time off did some good, however - after three rounds, Devela was awarded the unanimous decision over local favorite Ring, making for the biggest-name win of his career. Devela has now stands at 4-1 since his last appearance in Strikeforce and has won three straight. Ring falls to 1-1 since being released from the UFC in 2013.
In the night's co-main event, "Sho Nuff the Master" Rodney Wallace (23-10-1, 0-3 UFC, 1-1 Bellator) avoided a second straight loss thanks to a split-decision effort against Kalib Starnes (16-10-1, 2-3 UFC). Wallace is 4-3 since 2014. Starnes is 0-2 in that same time, though he did go a very solid 4-0 in 2013.
And in Atlanta on Saturday, in the main event of NFC 75, Jordan Rinaldi (10-4, 1-0 WSOF) came out ahead on the scorecards against Diego Saraiva (22-19-1, 0-3 UFC), handing the jiu-jitsu stylist his third straight loss in the process. Saraiva is 1-4 in his last five and hasn't won consecutive bouts since 2010. Rinaldi, who submitted to a guillotine from Joe Proctor in the elimination round of TUF 15, is on a three-fight win streak.
Finally, at WFC 41 in Reno, Nevada, Steven Siler (25-14, 5-4 UFC) improved to 2-1 since the three-fight slump that saw him cut from the UFC in 2014. This latest victory came following a display of superior grappling and ground-and-pound against Jack Montgomery (16-16-0).
Beyond the Octagon: Keeping up with UFC vets on the regional circuit
BtO: Miguel Torres, Mighty Mo, victorious
BtO: Miguel Torres submitted, UFC vets go 6-5
BtO: Former TUF contestant vs. former TUF coach


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El senyor de les il·lusions (títol original: Lord of Illusions) és una pel·lícula de terror  estatunidenca de l'any 1995. Escrita i dirigida per Clive Barker. És una adaptació del relat L'última il·lusió que apareix en el sisè i últim volum de la recopilació de relats Books of Blood. És protagonitzada per Scott Bakula com D'amour, en companyia de Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen i Daniel Von Bargen. En aquesta pel·lícula Barker fa una gran introducció a temes com la màgia, la il·lusió i les màscares de la realitat, temes que semblen imposar-se en les produccions del moment. Ha estat doblada al català.

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Una vegada, membres d'una secta van trair al seu líder, que era un mag de gran poder. Assassinat pels seus fidels, va fer la promesa de tornar per venjar-se. En l'actualitat, Harry D'Amour és un detectiu privat que visita Los Angeles per una investigació de rutina. En aquesta ciutat es troba amb un poderós i intrigant actor que les seves sorprenents i intrigants actuacions plenes de suspens i misticisme, captiven al món. Harry comença a sospitar que després del reeixit personatge, es troba alguna cosa oculta que podria portar-lo a viure el seu pitjor malson, on l'assassinat prové de forces del més enllà. Les emocions, les esgarrifances i la trama d'aquesta pel·lícula tenen una gran quantitat d'emocions imprevistes, que acaben amb una inesperada baralla on el futur de la humanitat està en risc.

En el film, Barker barreja elements del cinema de terror amb algun toc de noir amb les imatges i temes habituals en la seva literatura com la màgia i l'ocultisme fan part com a mitjà d'aconseguir ser més que humà, i els personatges fascinats per anar més enllà de la realitat i la imaginació.

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 Scott Bakula: Harry D'Amour.
 Kevin J. O'Connor: Philip Swann.
 Famke Janssen: Dorothea Swann.
 Ashley Lyn Cafagna: Dorothea, de jove.
 Joseph Latimore: Caspar Quaid.
 Wayne Grace: Loomis.
 Daniel von Bargen: Nix.
 Jordan Marder: Ray Miller.
 Barry Del Sherman: Butterfield.
 Joel Swetow: Valentin.

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Barker va intentar ressuscitar l'estil del cinema negre i la fusió amb l'horror contemporani, amb la finalitat de fer una pel·lícula amb un toc fresc i clàssic. Un dels elements utilitzats per a això va ser la música; per exemple, la cançó principal de la pel·lícula és una interpretació de Dancing in the Dark, a càrrec de Diamanda Galás.

Rebuda
En la seva estrena, El Senyor de les Il·lusions va rebre crítiques en la seva majoria positives, amb un índex d'aprovació del 68% a Rotten Tomatoes. Allmovie va ser crític amb la pel·lícula, escrivint: "Comença fort i amb una premissa intrigant, però després va ràpidament a enlloc".

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Pel·lícules del 1995 doblades al català
Pel·lícules dels Estats Units del 1995
Pel·lícules de terror dels Estats Units
Pel·lícules en anglès


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(Trust Goal) Manage software vulnerabilities
One's code is as secure as its least secure part. Recent cases (e.g. heartbleed1, equifax2) have demonstrated the importance of checking vulnerabilities in parts of the code that are not directly developed by the entity. Consequences of exposures range from data leaks (with tremendous reputational impact) to ransomware attacks and business-threatening unavailability of services.
Open source software is known to have better vulnerability management than proprietary software, mainly because:
More eyes are looking to find and fix problems on open code and processes.
Open source projects fix vulnerabilities and release patches and new versions a lot faster.
For example, a study by WhiteSource on proprietary software showed that 95% of the vulnerabilities found in their open source components had already released a fix at the time of the analysis. The issue, therefore, is to better manage vulnerabilities both in the codebase and its dependencies, no matter if they are closed or open source.
In order to mitigate these risks, one has to set up an assessment program of its software assets and a vulnerability-checking process executed regularly. Implement tools that alert impacted teams, manage known vulnerabilities, and prevent threats from software dependencies.
Any company that uses software has to watch its vulnerabilities in:
its infrastructure (e.g. Cloud infrastructure, network infrastructure, data stores),
its business applications (HR, CRM tools, internal and customers-related data management),
its in-house code: e.g. the company's website, internal development projects, etc., and
all direct and indirect software and services dependencies.
The ROI of vulnerabilities is little known until something bad happens. One has to consider the consequences of a major data breach or unavailability of services to estimate the true cost of vulnerabilities.
Similarly, a culture of secrecy and hiding for security-related issues inside the company has to be avoided at all costs. Instead, information about the state of vulnerability needs to be shared and discussed to find the best answers from the right people, from developers to c-level executives.
The benefits of preventing cyber-attacks by carefully managing software vulnerabilities are manyfold:
Avoid reputational risks,
Avoid exploitation loss (DDoS, Ransomware, Time to rebuild an alternative IT system after an attack),
Comply with data protection regulations.
Managing OSS software vulnerabilities is just a part of the larger cybersecurity process that globally addresses the security of the systems and services in the organisation.
Progress Assessment
There should be a dedicated person or team to monitor vulnerabilities and easy-to-use processes for developers to rely on. Vulnerabilities assessment is a standard part of the continuous integration process, and people are able to monitor the current state of risk in a dedicated dashboard.
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A person or team is responsible for evaluating CVE/vulnerability risk against exposure.
A person or team is responsible for dispatching CVE/vulnerability to concerned people (SysOps, DevOps, developers, etc.).
GitHub tools
GitHub provides guidelines and tools to secure code hosted on the platform. See GitHub docs for more information.
GitHub provides Dependabot to identify vulnerabilities in dependencies automatically.
Eclipse Steady is a free, open source tool that analyses Java and Python projects for vulnerabilities and helps developers mitigate them.
OWASP dependency-check: an open source vulnerability scanner.
OSS Review Toolkit: an open source orchestrator able to collect security advisories for used dependencies from configured vulnerability data services.
The MITRE's vulnerability database of CVEs. See also NIST's security database of NVDs, and satellite resources like CVE Details.
Check also this new initiative from Google: the open source Vulnerabilities.
The OWASP working group publishes a list of vulnerabilities scanners on their website, both from the commercial and open sources worlds.
J. Williams and A. Dabirsiaghi. The unfortunate reality of insecure libraries, 2012.
Detection, assessment and mitigation of vulnerabilities in open source dependencies, Serena Elisa Ponta, Henrik Plate & Antonino Sabetta, Empirical Software Engineering volume 25, pages 3175–3215(2020).
A Manually-Curated Dataset of Fixes to Vulnerabilities of open source Software, Serena E. Ponta, Henrik Plate, Antonino Sabetta, Michele Bezzi, Cédric Dangremont. There is also a toolkit in development to implement the aforementioned dataset.
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Anglicans divided over new bishops' group on homosexuality
Ruth Gledhill 19 September 2016 | 9:38 AM
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby: 'Pray for me.'Reuters
Conservative and liberal Christians have criticised a new bishops' group set up to discuss the issue of homosexuality.
Some conservatives are upset that such a group has been set up at all.
Liberal Anglicans are equally angry, complaining that the new Bishops' Reflection Group contains no members who have advocated a change in the Church's traditional teaching on marriage.
Others however have welcomed its membership as faithfully representing Biblical teaching on gay sex.
The group includes at least two prominent evangelicals, the Bishop of Blackburn Julian Henderson and the Bishop of Maidstone Rod Thomas, former chair of the conservative Reform group. It also incudes three women bishops, Bishop of Stockport Libby Lane, Bishop of Crediton Dame Sarah Mullaly and Bishop of Dorking Jo Wells.
It has been set up following two years of private "shared conversations" about sexuality in the Church of England, which has consistently opposed gay marriage and is legally exempt from ever having to perform a same-sex wedding ceremony. The group will make its first report to General Synod in February.
Rt Rev Graham James, the Bishop of Norwich, will chair the new body on sexuality.Reuters
Ian Paul, a member of the Archbishops' Council, told Christian Today: "This issue is about our doctrine of sex and marriage, and a whole host of other things along with it. To imagine this just affects one group in the church is blinkered. Secondly, yet again we have the mantra that the 'traditional' understanding of marriage is 'homophobic'. If we cannot move beyond these emotive stereotypes then there is little room for respectful debate."
Chris Sugden
Canon Chris Sugden, of the conservative group Anglican Mainstream, told Christian Today: "The calling of bishops is to ensure that in sharing the love of God in Jesus, Christian churches are led by ministers faithful to biblical teaching.
"The question facing the Church of England is not whether to amend the biblical teaching on marriage but how sensitively to pastor those in the church who find the calling to follow that teaching a particularly difficult challenge.
"It is therefore proper for those who affirm the biblical teaching as bishops to be members of the new panel. It is likely that they will take evidence from many points of view in the church. We especially encourage them to take an evidenced based approach on how biblically orthodox Anglican churches in the evangelical, charismatic and catholic traditions exercise such sensitive pastoral care and how those who find the biblical teaching difficult receive it."
The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), which represents conservative Anglicans, mainly across the developing world, and takes a strong conservative view, said: "GAFCON UK is puzzled as to why the Church of England needs a 'Bishops' Reflection Group' on homosexuality."
Gafcon said the Bible is universally clear. "We stand with our brothers and sisters in Christ who are same-sex attracted, and faithfully living according to God's revealed plan for human flourishing.
"As pastors, teachers, friends, and neighbours we can have no other response. The Church of England needs to have the courage of its foundational convictions, return to them, and move on to its mission of calling the nation to turn to Christ as the only Saviour and Lord."
Former Assemblies of God leader in Australia, Anthony Venn-Brown, now a gay activist, wrote: "Can you imagine a group of male church leaders discussing the role of women in the church without females present. We would call that misogyny."
He added: "So when church leaders discuss LGBT people, relationships and the community without speaking with or spending time getting to know LGBT people it does beg the question why. What is there to fear? Why the exclusion? Is this another evidence of homophobia?"
Jayne Ozanne, a prominent gay member of Synod, wrote on Facebook: "Unless I'm very mistaken there are no LGBTI voices on this group! I'm shocked but sadly not surprised. Have we learnt nothing?"
She told Christian Today it was "demeaning" and that she was "dismayed".
Meanwhile the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Twitter suggested how his divided flock might pray for him, and reminded them of the importance of charity.
He tweeted:
If ever you pray for me, please pray for wisdom, for patience, and for courage. Thank you so much.
— Justin Welby ن (@JustinWelby) September 18, 2016
Jesus said: 'Love one another. Love your neighbour. Love your enemy.' That's our responsibility – to love.


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Q: How to configure SSH access for key authentication for another client? I know that if I want to configure SSH access for key authentication, I need to use the following command:
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -C "mypassphrase"

I then need to copy the codes created in id_rsa.pub on my computer to the server's  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. I also need to set permissions on some folder and file. This enables key authentication for my computer. Now, I would also like to know how I should enable such access on yet another computer. Do I have to add the created codes in id_rsa.pub to the same ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file?
Thanks for your help.

A: Uhm... this is not a good idea, why would you use your pass phrase as comment (-C option)?
Just use ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa.
You don't need to set any permissions by default. You create the key as the user you want to have login on the remote machine and then:
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@server 'cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'
To get the key from your pub-file and add it to the authorized keys on the remote site.
However if you are trying to have key access as root on the remote machine where root via password is disabled you will first have to copy that the id_rsa.pub to the machine with a user account enabled for password authentication via ssh or simply with a USB stick and then do (as root from the folder where id_rsa.pub is located) cat id_rsa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized keys.
Make sure the .ssh folder is present.
Edit: after creating the key better use ssh-copy-id as @SvW suggested. My way works, too but is the manual way of doing it before ssh-copy-id was introduced.

A: You can use the public key for as many clients as you want.
Adding the file to the remote host is easy with ssh-copy-id:
ssh-copy-id -i /path/to/id_rsa.pub user@host

Edit: Should you mean that you want to access the remote host from another computer, you would have to copy the private key file to this machine (but never to the remote machine you want to connect to).

A: It's would be best to have them create their own rsa/dsa keys (or you can do it for them and sent the keys to them), and add the pub key to the authorized_keys file.  i.e.  cat new_rsa_id.pub >> authorized_keys.  Each line in the authorized keys relates to a id_rsa key.
Also, the passphrase is optional.  I always find it to be an annoyance unless company security policy requires it.
If I understand you correctly, you want to use the auth key on another computer to access the server.  In that case, simply copy the id_rsa key to the computer you want to use it on.  It will work regardless of what system the key resides on (client side).


We have been fortunate enough to get some great contributions to DasBlog, one of the most important contributions was the integration of authentication and authorization, it was a lot of work and one that I would have struggled to complete alone. It has made everything about this project easier from securing Controllers to deciding which parts of a View to display.
I find these patterns all over the place in all kinds of code and while it is not a big deal, I thought there might be a better way to accomplish this kind of thing using TagHelpers and this is what I came up with. A TagHelper that inherits from IAuthorizeData and uses the PolicyEvaluator to determine from the HttpContext whether we are logged in or not. The implementation of the IAuthorizeData interface was just in case I later decide to make decision about tracking policies and roles.
The important part of this code is asking if we are authorized (authorizeResult.Succeeded) and then using that to determine if we need to suppress the output, which completely removes the associated html code.
I do love Razor pages but dislike seeing intrusive if statements embedded throughout the html, I think this can be a good alternative in some circumstances.


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Esfendadates é um herói lendário do Irã, filho do rei Gostaspes, da dinastia caiânida, e irmão de Pasotã.

Etimologia

O nome aparece em avéstico como Spəṇtā- [Armaiti-/Mainiiu-] e Spəntōdāta-, em parta como *Spandadāt(a-) e Spanddātak [spndtk], em iraniano antigo como *Spanta-dāta-, em persa médio como Spanddād, em persa novo como Isfandiar (Isfandyār; no Xanamé), em báctrio como Ασπανδολαδο (Aspandolado), em sodiano como Espandat, em aramaico como Spntdt, em grego como Σφενδαδάτης (Sphendadates) e em armênio como Սպանդարատ (Spandarat).

Bibliografia

Dinastia caiânida


Okay, are you tired of hearing me talk about the family vacation we're going on next week?? Since I haven't yet tired of talking about it, here are thirteen things that will make this vacation fun.
Anticipation. Thinking about and planning for our vacation is lots of fun in and of itself.
Watching the girls play in the hotel pool. Finding a hotel with an indoor pool is pretty much top priority for any trip these days. That way we know that they can be entertained no matter what the weather. They don't have a lot of opportunities to swim in a pool here at home, so they thoroughly enjoy all-day access to a pool.
Being in the mountains. For whatever reason, I seem to feel more calm and peaceful when I see mountains around me.
Reading. Without laundry to do and meals to prepare, I have more time for reading books and magazines.
Relaxing. No schedule or bedtimes to keep…..
Water. I love seeing waterfalls or even just the little streams that run alongside the road.
Pictures. I like taking pictures of the girls in the different places we visit, to record the fun times we have together.
Getting home. As much fun as it is to go away, it's also pretty sweet to sleep in your own bed after several nights away!
Sounds like you are going to have a ball. I hope it is great.
I agree with all of them. And yes, I like getting home as much as I like going. Hope it's as great as your anticipation!
I love no. 6. I feel the same way about mountains. Happy TT.
Have a great vacation Tracey!
i am not sure if my comment showed up or not, so i am retyping it !
vacation is something i'd like to have – a real one and not a vacation induced by sickness (just like what i'm having right now).
reading about your post kept my hopes high that i can still have a real vacation in the near future.
You're right. All these things are the makings of great vacations. I bet you'll have fun. Happy TT!
Did you say no cooking or cleaning? That's it! I'm going on vacation. Happy TT.
Oh I am itching to go on vacation now! Have a great time!


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Ifj. Lele József Néprajzi Magángyűjteménye Szeged-Tápén (6753, Vártó utca 4.) található magángyűjtemény, mely 1998-ban 4500 tárgyat és egyéb archivális anyagot (fénykép, dia, hangfelvétel) őriz Tápé múltjából. Legfontosabb tárgyegyüttesei a halászat, viselet és a gyékényfeldolgozás köréből származnak.

Állandó kiállításán enteriőrökbe rendezve tekinthetők meg a gyűjtemény legértékesebb darabjai, makettek, és Bálint Sándor néprajztudós tápéi tartózkodását felidéző fényképek.

Források
 Magyarország múzeumai. Múzeumlátogatók kézikönyve, főszerk. Balassa M. Iván, Vince Kiadó, Bp., 1998, pp. 116.

Szeged múzeumai
Néprajz
Szeged építményei


These materials have been written and/or compiled by Elementary Education students in their senior year at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina for the The Little Read during the fall semester of 2012. These students volunteered to participate in this project under the leadership of Ms. Sarah Borders, an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education. In addition, select teachers from the partnership schools volunteered to assist these preservice teachers by sharing ideas, co-developing activities, and editing the work.
It is our sincere hope that this collection of resources and materials will be used to support instruction before, during and after the visit by Cynthia Lord this spring. Every attempt has been made to properly cite compiled resources and to edit for errors in writing conventions. We apologize for anything we missed during the editing process.


Central Florida may be known for its traditional theme parks such as Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando, LEGOLAND, and SeaWorld, but you'd be amazed by all the curious surprises here.
While visiting recently, I had the opportunity to experience an airboat ride. It was exhilarating to see alligators in the wild – so prehistoric and fierce. I had no idea, however, that my visit to Gatorland in Orlando, only a few days later, would be a more hands-on experience!
Although visiting Gatorland at any time, day or night, is a load of fun, going early in the morning is perfect for cooler weather and shorter lines. There is so much wildlife in the park and a huge population of exotic birds, so you'll also want plenty of time to explore. My host and expert gator wrangler invited me to take the Screamin' Gator Zip Line across the Gator Breeding Marsh. This was my debut zip line adventure, soaring at a height of seven stories at speeds over 50 kilometres per hour and right above 130 giant alligators and crocodiles below. What a great way to see the park!
As you explore the park, it's almost surreal watching all of the gators, birds and plant life. Photographers will enjoy the chance to capture incredible wildlife photos. I even saw a smaller gator piggyback riding on top of another larger gator across the marsh! My host invited me to hand feed gators together while inside the closed off marsh area (yes, the section that says "DO NOT ENTER."). When you book the Trainer for a Day Program, you too can experience this kind of behind-the-scenes fun. There is no theme park ride out there more thrilling than a day with gators and crocodiles and an expert wrangler to guide you.
The wranglers and trainers at Gatorland are a group of highly trained experts who also have a knack for entertaining the park guests. During Up Close Encounters, an interactive show, the audience participates in a guessing game: What's in the box? My laugher stopped abruptly, however, when I was selected to go on stage, close my eyes and put my hands out and see what creepy crawly creature would end up in my palms. Luckily, it was an enormous Boa Constrictor, and not the Arachnid that was unveiled earlier.
I didn't think my day could get any more adventurous until I attended the Gator Wrestlin' show. I was invited to sit on a gator and it was amazing and eerie in its prehistoric beauty. Guests can also have this experience as part of the 'Rookie Wrestling' package so just call and make a reservation. It's safe, supervised and fun for the whole family! Another show to check out is The Gator Jumparoo Show, where gators jump up to 1.5 metres in the air to grab the raw meat wranglers dangle in the air.
Gatorland was the most surprising and adventurous activity I experienced during my visit to Orlando. Get out of your comfort zone and have a real Florida adventure with the expert wranglin' team at Gatorland!


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Instead, [James] Young Deer began to create a new identity and in his own way "discovered" his Indian roots. After all, "going Indian" might open the door to other opportunities, especially in an era of dime novels and Wild West Shows. With dark skin, a braided wig, a feathered war bonnet, and a name like Young Deer, he could easily "pass" for a Plains Indian and entertain audiences with thrilling stories of the Old West or dance to the beat of a tom-tom. His marriage to Lillian St. Cyr (1884-1974) would give him that chance.
Angela Aleiss, "Who Was the Real James Young Deer?" Bright Lights Film Journal, April 30, 2013. https://brightlightsfilm.com/who-was-the-real-james-young-deer-the-mysterious-identity-of-the-pathe-producer-finally-comes-to-light.
« The Age of Jim Crow
Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture »
Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown
The Journal of American History
Volume 91, No. 1
pp. 119–144
Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History
The religious history of the civil rights movement is strangely one-sided. "God was on our side," the activists have said, and scholars have tended to agree. But the opponents of civil rights also used religion in their cause. Jane Dailey argues that historians have underestimated the role of religion in supporting segregation as well as in dismantling it. Viewing the civil rights movement as a contest over Christian orthodoxy helps explain the arguments made by both sides and the strategic actions they took. Dailey examines the connections among antimiscegenation anxiety, politics, and religion to reveal how deeply interwoven Christian theology was in the segregation ideology that supported the discriminatory world of Jim Crow.
…This article explores how religion served as a vessel for one particular language crucial to racial segregation in the South: the language of miscegenation. It was through sex that racial segregation in the South moved from being a local social practice to a part of the divine plan for the world. It was thus through sex that segregation assumed, for the believing Christian, cosmological significance. Focusing on the theological arguments wielded by segregation's champions reveals how deeply interwoven Christian theology was in the segregationist ideology that supported the discriminatory world of Jim Crow. It also demonstrates that religion played a central role in articulating not only the challenge that the civil rights movement offered Jim Crow but the resistance to that challenge…
…Although rebutted at the time and later, Ariel's argument remained current through the middle of the twentieth century, buttressed along the way by such widely read books as Charles Carroll's The Negro a Beast (1900) and The Tempter of Eve (1902), both of which considered miscegenation the greatest of sins. Denounced for its acceptance of separate creations, The Negro a Beast was nonetheless enormously influential. Recalling the door-to-door sales campaign that brought the book to the notice of whites across the South, a historian of religion lamented in 1909 that "during the opening years of the twentieth century it has become the Scripture of tens of thousands of poor whites, and its doctrine is maintained with an appalling stubbornness and persistence." In this tradition, miscegenation—or, more commonly, amalgamation or mongrelization—was the original sin, the root of all corruption in humankind.
The expulsion from Paradise did not solve the problem of miscegenation. By the time of Noah race mixing was so prevalent that, in the words of one civil rights–era pamphleteer, "God destroyed 'all flesh' in that part of the world for that one sin. Only Noah was 'perfect in his generation' … so God saved him and his family to rebuild the Adamic Race." That perfection did not last long, however; according to some traditions, the cursed son of Ham, already doomed to a life of servitude, mixed his blood with "pre-Adamite negroes" in the Land of Nod. Again and again God's wrath is aroused by the sin of miscegenation, and the people feel the awful weight of his punishment: Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for this sin, as was the Tower of Babel, where, in a failed effort to protect racial purity, God dispersed the peoples across the globe. King Solomon, "reputed to be the wisest of men, with a kingdom of matchless splendor and wealth was ruined as a direct result of his marrying women of many different races," and the "physical mixing of races" that occurred between the Israelites and the Egyptians who accompanied Moses into the wilderness "resulted in social and spiritual weakness," leading God to sentence the Exodus generation to die before reaching the Promised Land. For evidence that the God of Noah remained as adamantly opposed to racial mixing as ever, white southern believers could look back a mere fifteen years to the Holocaust. The liquidation of six million people was caused, D. B. Red explained in his pamphlet Race Mixing a Religious Fraud (c. 1959), by the sexual "mingling" of the Jews, who suffered what Red represents as God's final solution to the miscegenation problem: "Totally destroy the people involved." Here, surely, was proof that segregation was "divine law, enacted for the defense of society and civilization…
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Another picture has found a place. I had this picture in my "unknown" box, I did recognize my Pake Jacob Hiemstra (top left), but I often wondered what the circumstances of this picture were. I send it to my new-found cousin Anneke, who not only knows a lot about genealogy, but she also volunteers at Tresoar, a great resource for my genealogy research of all our Frisian ancestors.
"I found out what this picture is and when it was taken. The sign says "Nederlands hoop in bange dagen – July 1922" . It means they will have to defend the country in times of trouble.This is a group of 18 year old boys/men who had been to the military lottery. On their hats they have the number they were assigned to. Once a year there was the military lottery in Dokkum and other places. Every 18 year old boy had to come there. He was assigned a number and with that number he could be called to the army, when necessary. Not every boy went into the army. Some where to small or had other physical deficiencies. Another was the only son in the house or his brother had already been in the army. So this is a gathering of boys, 18 year old, that went to the lottery. It was a tradition that afterwards they went to a photographer. The pipes belong to this tradition.
So thanks again, Anneke – it makes sense, my grandfather was born in July 1904, which would make him just 18 when that picture was taken. I don't think he would have been accepted in the militia, because he was a rather short man.
I also googled "lotelingen", and found quite a few of the same kind of images, young men wearing numbers on their hats and smoking a pipe.
The sign says: Dutch hope in scary times! And Pake is Frist an for Grandpa….


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Its adaptable to style and color. What's great about ombre is you can ombre basically any shade you may have. It is also adaptable to your style. Do you like a softer look? You can get that. Do you prefer a stronger and bolder look? You can do that also. It's completely up to you and the skill of your colorist.
It's a great introduction to color. Ombre is basically an overdone version hair painting and balayage. If you are new to color these soft techniques are not very committal and a great way to ease into color. It's color that is perfect for beginners.


The first article that I ever published on the subject of wine was not some breathless puff on a 100-point Chilean Merlot discovered two-for-one down at my local Tesco. Embarrassingly, my first vinous words (not Vinous words) regaled a morning in the company of the recently bottled 1999s from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti at Corney & Barrow back in the mists of time otherwise known as March 2002. That article can still be read on wine-pages.com – I beg you to overlook its amateur prose...I was just beginning. I felt privileged to taste such fabled wines, and never imagined that over ensuing years I would imbibe and write about Domaine de la Romanée-Conti many times. Life is funny like that, isn't it? But in my mind there was never any chance of a rerun through those 1999s. To congregate those bottles again represents one mouth-watering but prohibitively expensive sitting. I mean, have you seen the price of the 1999 Romanée-Conti – a cool £180,000 per dozen. It probably increased another grand in the time it took me to type those zeros. So I make do with the memories and remain grateful that I have tasted every release since the 1995 vintage. The latest, the 2015s, was one of the domaine's best.
The usual setting down in the basement at UK agents Corney & Barrow, Aubert de Villaine in the background chatting to Steven Spurrier.
As usual, I was able to grab a few words with Aubert de Villaine, the Gandalf of the Côte d'Or, but with greater powers and shorter hair. He has attended Corney & Barrow's annual tasting since they were granted exclusivity in 1993 where the domaine unveiled their 1990s. De Villaine commented that his 2015s were showing a little "anger" at being bottled, his poetic way of saying that the wines were discombobulated after being incarcerated in glass. I am not sure if I totally agree with that sentiment. Personally I felt that the wines performed well, except perhaps the La Tâche, which showed a little more stem addition than its siblings. De Villaine offered an intriguing vintage comparison when he suggested that the 2015 and 2016 may ultimately be seen as modern-day counterparts to 1961 and 1962, the former structured and dense, the latter more ethereal and finessed. Despite my own limited experience of those older vintages I can see where he is coming from. I asked him if there was a single cru that currently gives him most pleasure. Aubert singled out Richebourg, which he feels has made enormous strides in recent years. Indeed, it was not so long ago that it was being poured at this same annual event before the Romanée-Saint-Vivant.
The 2015s are generally pleasurable wines, as banal as that reads. They have taken a secret oath to offer drinkers sensory satisfaction, as well as an intellectual experience. As such, they are reassuringly approachable in style, with lighter tannins, (excepting Richebourg and to a lesser extent, La Tâche), lively acidity levels, pretty red fruit and distinct terroir expression. Romanée-Conti outplayed La Tâche this year, the former exuding tremendous harmony and composure, conveying a sense of effortlessness. It accepts supremacy without fuss and no complaint from its siblings. La Tâche was relatively unsure of itself, mercurial and introspective, and as such it will require several years to develop cohesion and grace. Maybe that is what fuels the intrigue and fascination – the 2015 La Tâche is a blend of Pinot Noir and enigma. Between Richebourg and Romanée-Saint-Vivant, the former is one of the standouts this year, not the behemoth you might have found in previous vintages, yet with a solid spine of tannin, enormous depth and simmering power. It threatened to overshadow the Romanée-Saint-Vivant that cowed when initially juxtaposed against the Richebourg, and yet with aeration, developed a compelling edginess that enhanced complexity. Echézeaux is another vineyard that Aubert de Villaine opined has improved in recent years and it showed extremely well, although predictably Grands Echézeaux ramps everything up another level. Since its debut in 2009, Corton seems to be assimilated into the "DRC family", sharing the DNA of Grands-Echézeaux and Romanée-Saint-Vivant. Earlier vintages were a little showy, as if Corton was desperate to fit into its illustrious company. That is not the case now.
I should have known. "Of course," came the reply.
Bertrand de Villaine scribbling his thoughts. I wonder how many points he gave to La Tâche?
The bottles of 1999 DRC that I have tasted since 2002 have unremittingly reaffirmed the notion that this was a benchmark vintage for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. You just need to peruse my reviews, or those of Antonio or Steve. Corney & Barrow kindly sent me the original press release, where I found a quote by Aubert de Villaine that read: "Nature acknowledged the 1999 vintage and answered all our efforts made these last 10 years. We had already seen superb grapes over the last decade, in 1990 and 1996 for example, but 1999 surpasses them all in finesse and maturity." It implies that 1999 was not a result of a single growing season but incremental improvements over the preceding decade.
Maybe the starting point was the 1991 vintage when Aubert de Villaine gained control after the acrimonious ousting of Lalou Bize-Leroy from the board. This idea of the Domaine inching its way towards the 1999s is attested to by my personal experience of their wines in the first half of the decade, when I felt that they were hampered, almost contained, by difficult vintages. Aubert de Villaine and Bernard Noblet were essentially learning their craft by the best means, trial and error. The 1995s saw a noticeable step up in quality whereby the wines began matching their lofty reputation. You can also see them as precursors to 1999s. Eighteen years later the 1999s remain a high point for the Domaine, undiminished and even enhanced by the passage of time.
The growing season began inauspiciously with deluges throughout spring, 80mm falling in March and April. The weather turned face in June with 15 days of uninterrupted sunshine and temperatures reaching the mid-thirties that enabled successful flowering. August and September were both hot and dry, with temperatures peaking at 37° Celsius over the first three days of August. These months defined the character of the 1999s, as sugar levels began to rapidly concentrate inside the berries. A small early picking on 14 and 15 September was so good that it prompted the release of the inaugural Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Duvault-Blochet, named after their ancestor, Jacques-Marie Duvault-Blochet. The main harvest was between 20 and 27 September, with a second passage through the vines between 27 and 29 September. Yields ranged from 18.2hl/ha for the Romanée-Saint-Vivant to 35.2hl/ha for the Richebourg.
As a 1999 could not be sourced, we commenced the tasting with the 2009 Montrachet. Our bottle was oxidized. I should add this was not the first time I had encountered a heinously pre-moxed bottle of Montrachet from the Domaine. (The worst was a magnum of 2002 Montrachet three or four years ago – that's an expensive bit of oxidation). Fortunately I have since re-tasted the wine and will soon publish another note.
I had not encountered the maiden 1999 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Cuvée Duvault-Blochet since bottling. It has a gorgeous, generous, peppermint-tinged bouquet that feels so carefree, and like the Echézeaux, exotic compared to the other Grand Crus from the Domaine. The palate is ageing extremely well, dare I suggest, a Grand Cru in all but name with fine, supple tannin and an almost Chambolle-like finish. Approaching two decades, those who bought this wine for a relative song compared its elder siblings will have picked up a bargain. The 1999 Echézeaux was corked. Fortunately I was served a pristine bottle at a private dinner at a later date. It is a lovely wine that perhaps translates the precocity of the growing season rather than the terroir, exotic by the Domaine's standards, and yet still thoroughly enjoyable in an atypical hedonistic sense. Now that I have got those two culprits out of the way, I can broach the bottles that did show well.
Hereon, from Grands Echézeaux up to Romanée-Conti, each bottle enhanced and deepened my reverence towards this vintage and the Domaine. It was "buckle your seatbelt" time. I had my cerebral thesaurus opened ready for the superlatives. I had not tasted the 1999 Grands Echézeaux since the Corney & Barrow tasting in 2002. It is incontrovertibly superior to the Echézeaux, principally because the terroir shines through in the wine, disallowing the summer warmth to shape and define it, suffused with a sense of harmony and precision that enraptured the senses. Those leitmotifs of "precision" and "harmony" allied with "concentration" and "precociousness" ran through all these wines to varying degrees. The 1999 Richebourg demanded attention thanks to its arching structure and mineralité, making a deeper impression than the 1999 Romanée-Saint-Vivant, whose virtues were its satin texture and the manner in which is pirouetted across the senses. We could have stopped here and been satisfied, yet the La Tâche and Romanée-Conti had been patiently waiting their turn.
Along sashays the 1999 Romanée-Conti and for the very first time in 20 years I had to question my perfect score. For a fleeting moment I considered introducing some mathematically absurd system like Michael Broadbent's six out of five stars or 101-points. It was the nonchalant and effortless way in which it just sized up the La Tâche and took every facet: complexity, detail, definition, purity, depth and persistence to a rarefied and untouchable level, where words cannot do justice. Why bother to describe the ineffable? It is simply one of the most profound Burgundies that I have ever tasted. And I was not the only one that was moved that way. The entire room was almost hypnotised by the 1999 Romanée-Conti, and I should add that these are people who probably pour La Tâche for breakfast. The 1999 is one of the all-time legendary Burgundy wines.
After 20 years attending the same tasting in London, you might expect to become inured to the wines of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. On the contrary, they remain just as fascinating to taste because whether it is 1999 or 2015, they unswervingly reflect the vagaries of the growing season and wear their hearts on their sleeves. They are not pimped up, manipulated or buffed up to inveigle those critics who see size and concentration as a measure of quality. Over the last two decades the Domaine has evolved in terms of introducing biodynamics, the addition of the Corton fermage and the occasional appearance of the Cuvée Duvault Blochet, not to mention recent changes in the winemaking team that herald a new era. Since 2002 demand for the wines has intensified to a level unimaginable back then. Inevitably, prices have skyrocketed in tandem. Yet there is always magic in these wines. There is something that you cannot quite put your finger upon. To my surprise, when I compared my scores for both vintages, they were unerringly similar save for one or two points. That testifies the quality of the 2015s, even if they are a very different style to the 1999s. In some ways, the 1999s are anomalous to the signature style of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, a kindred spirit to the 2009 in terms of fruit intensity, opulent and sensual.
Of course, in a story now probably too often retold, the 1999s from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti had more profound repercussions than a surprisingly successful wine writing career. The article piqued the attention of a young employee at Berry Brothers & Rudd and, under the false impression that its author was sitting on a pile of La Tâche, sent him a message inviting him to meet for dinner. Sixteen years and two kids later she is preparing dinner in the kitchen as I write these final words, pondering the idea that maybe that pile of DRC never existed. Life is funny like that, isn't it?


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↑ Id.; see also id. at 348 ("[I]t cannot be doubted, that these letters are the most instructive, useful and interesting to be found in [plaintiff's] large collection.").
↑ See id. at 345-47. Although recognizing uncertainty in the law regarding the copyright status of private correspondence, id. at 346, Justice Story found persuasive a line of English authorities recognizing the author's copyright, subject to a limited publication right held by the addressee. See id. at 346-47. The question of copyrightability vel non would not, of course, arise under the present state of copyright law. See 17 U.S.C. § 102(a) (2006) ("Copyright protection subsists . . . in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression . . . ."); see also Salinger v. Random House, Inc., 811 F.2d 90, 94-95 (2d Cir. 1987) (recognizing author's copyright in private correspondence).
↑ See Folsom, 9 F. Cas. at 347. Justice Story's discussion of the copyright status of Washington's public correspondence was comparatively cursory in view of his finding that "of the letters and documents published by the defendants, not more than one fifth part are of an official character." Id. He reasoned, in essence, that the copyright status of private correspondence extended by analogy to public correspondence as well, subject to a colorable publication right in favor of the government. See id. The uncertainty surrounding the copyright status of Presidential documents has only partly abated since Story's time. Compare 17 U.S.C. § 105 (2006) (denying copyright protection to "any work of the United States Government") with 44 U.S.C. § 2202 (2001) (granting to the Government "complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records") and Exec. Order No. 13,233, § 3(d)(1), (2), 66 Fed. Reg. 56,025, 56,026-27 (Nov. 1, 2001) (forbidding public disclosure of records of past Presidential administration except upon the joint consent of both the former and incumbent Presidents). An informative assessment of the proprietary status of Presidential papers is available in Jonathan Turley, Presidential Papers and Popular Government: The Convergence of Constitutional and Property Theory in Claims of Ownership and Control of Presidential Records, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 651 (2003).
↑ Folsom, 9 F. Cas. at 349.
substitute the review for it, such a use will be deemed in law a piracy.