Sometimes we have to do some calculations with date time objects in our applications. In that case we have to use Date Time formatting and conversions to accomplish the tasks.
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Format date time using cultures.
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A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending on various cultural definitions, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have different classifications according to how and of what the forest is composed. A forest is usually an area filled with trees but any tall densely packed area of vegetation may be considered a forest, even underwater vegetation such as kelp forests, or non-vegetation such as fungi, and bacteria.
Tree forests cover approximately 9.4 percent of the Earth's surface (or 30 percent of total land area), though they once covered much more (about 50 percent of total land area). They function as habitats for organisms, hydrologic flow modulators, and soil conservers, constituting one of the most important aspects of the biosphere.
Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall between 250 centimetres (98 in) to 450 centimetres (180 in). The monsoon trough, alternatively known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating the climatic conditions necessary for the Earth's tropical rainforests.
A giant fossilized rain forest has been unearthed in an Illinois coal mine. Preserved by a major ancient earthquake, the forest covers four square miles (a thousand hectares) and features an abundance of huge leaf impressions, large trunks of extinct trees, and tree-size horsetail plants.
About 7,900 sq km (3,050 sq miles) of the world's largest rainforest was destroyed between August 2017 and July 2018 - an area roughly five times the size of London. Environment Minister Edson Duarte said illegal logging was to blame.
A new global analysis of the distribution of forests and woodlands has "found" 467 million hectares of previously unreported forest Ð an area equivalent to 60% of the size of Australia. The discovery increases the known amount of global forest cover by around 9%, and will significantly boost estimates of how much carbon is stored in plants worldwide. The new forests were found by surveying "drylands" Ð so called because they receive much less water in precipitation than they lose through evaporation and plant transpiration. As we and our colleagues report today in the journal Science, these drylands contain 45% more forest than has been found in previous surveys.
Increasingly dangerous fire weather is forecast as the global footprint of extreme fires expands, according to the latest research. Extreme fire events are a global and natural phenomenon, particularly in forested areas that have pronounced dry seasons. They can't stop big, intense fires from happening i many places, as they are increasing under climate change. However, in the western US, they hope to reduce the potential for fire disasters by both reducing forest density and improving mitigation and preparedness through the development of fire-resilient communities.
The oldest fossils of the familiar pine tree that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today has been found by researchers. The 140-million-year-old fossils (dating from the Cretaceous 'Age of the Dinosaurs') are exquisitely preserved as charcoal, the result of burning in wildfires. Scientists have found the oldest fossils of the familiar pine tree that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today. Scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London have found the oldest fossils of the familiar pine tree that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today. The 140-million-year-old fossils (dating from the Cretaceous 'Age of the Dinosaurs') are exquisitely preserved as charcoal, the result of burning in wildfires. The fossils suggest that pines co-evolved with fire at a time when oxygen levels in the atmosphere were much higher and forests were especially flammable.
UK researchers have unearthed ancient fossil forests, thought to be partly responsible for one of the most dramatic shifts in the Earth's climate in the past 400 million years. The fossil forests, with tree stumps preserved in place, were found in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago situated in the Arctic Ocean. They were identified and described by Dr Chris Berry of Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Science. Prof John Marshall, of Southampton University, has accurately dated the forests to 380 million years. The forests grew near the equator during the late Devonian period, and could provide an insight into the cause of a 15-fold reduction in levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere around that time. Current theories suggest that during the Devonian period (420-360 million years ago) there was a huge drop in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere, thought to be largely caused by a change in vegetation from diminutive plants to the first large forest trees.
Strange forests with some features of today's tropical trees once grew in Antarctica, new research finds. Some 250 million years ago, during the late Permian and early Triassic, the world was a greenhouse, much hotter than it is today. Forests carpeted a non-icy Antarctic. But Antarctica was still at a high latitude, meaning that just as today, the land is bathed in round-the-clock darkness during winter and 24/7 light in the summer.
An international team, including a Cardiff University researcher, who previously found evidence of the Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further. The research team has now unearthed and investigated an entire fossil forest dating back 385 million years.
One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals. The forest, which stood in what is now Gilboa, N.Y., was first unearthed in a quarry in the 1920s. But now, a new construction project has revealed for the first time the forest floor as it stood 380 million years ago in the Devonian period.
In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks - all bent northward. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest," is a mystery. Planted around 1930, the trees managed to grow for seven to 10 years before getting held down, in what is understood to have been human mechanical intervention. Though why exactly the original tree farmers wanted so many crooked trees is unknown.
Using NASA satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world's forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is the first that spans the entire globe based on one uniform method.
You could plant any old tree to celebrate Arbor Day April 24. But consider instead a sugar maple, or another of the native trees that once abounded in this country. The forests that once dominated this nation were full of trees such as chestnuts, hemlocks and white pines on the East Coast and conifers such as redwoods and Douglas firs on the West Coast. Around the arrival of Columbus, "it's said that squirrels could travel from tree to tree from the Northeast to the Mississippi without ever having to touch the ground," said Chris Roddick, chief arborist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York. "In the old growth forests in the Northeast, you had hemlock that were six or seven feet in diameter, chestnut trees 200 feet tall."
Huge tracts of prehistoric rain forest ravaged by global warming more than 300 million years ago have been found preserved underneath the U.S. Midwest, according to scientists. The fossilized forests, including one covering 39 square miles (100 square kilometers), were discovered in coal mines in eastern Illinois by a team of international researchers. The finds represent the earliest rain forests to appear on Earth and date back to eras just before and after intense global warming.
An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in Hungary. Archaeologists found the 16 preserved trunks in an open cast coal mine in the north-eastern city of Bukkabrany. The specimens were preserved intact while most of the forest turned to coal thanks to a casing of sand, which was perhaps the result of a sandstorm. It is hoped the trees may offer experts a valuable insight into Earth's climate eight million years ago. The massive trunks are of a species known as swamp cypresses, which grew for 200-300 years. The wood of the trees is still brown in photographs taken by the archaeologists, giving the impression that it has only just been split. The stumps, 2-3m (10ft) in diameter and 6m (19ft) high, stand uncovered on the lowest level of the mine. However, now that the protective material around them has been stripped there is a danger that the trunks could turn to dust before the scientists' eyes.


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Music For Mr. Hulot – Film Music of Jacques Tati – Past Daily Weekend Soundbooth
Jacques Tati - alias: Mr. Hulot - Proved without a doubt there was a little Hulot in everybody.
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Jacques Tati – alias: Mr. Hulot – Proved without a doubt there was a little Hulot in everybody.
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Unless you're a fan of World Cinema going back a long-long ways, the name of Mr. Hulot or of Jacques Tati may not mean a whole lot to you. If you do, then you'll instantly know the music that's on the player tonight.
Tati was a comic icon, but also a consummate director. His filmography isn't that large, but it's significant in that most everything he did has been considered a classic of the comedic form and has been considered highly influential in the history of Cinema. And because he was so popular in the 1950s, his work struck a chord with French audiences, as well as those throughout the world, who saw the world going through great upheavals after the War and into the Cold War.
Tonight it's a sampling of some of the music from his most memorable films, starting off with Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de M. Hulot), Jour de Fete, Mon Oncle and finally Playtime.
Like I said, if you know his films, the music will be instantly recognizable. If not, it's quirky enough to grab some attention here and there. They just don't music music like this any more.
Or films either, for that matter.
An Examination of Physical Comedy Gags in a Scene From the Classic French Comedy 'Playtime' by Jacques Tati
The Complete Jacques Tati
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)
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Jean Thorel says:
Would have been a pity to miss that one !!! I am a BIG fan of Tati's films. Music is crucial in his amazing films. Great to be able to listen to it separately. I have probably all of them on DVD and think he was a genius. THX Gordon !!!!!
gordonskene says:
My pleasure! I'm a huge fan of his as well! You're VERY welcome!
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New Mexicans must wake up. There isn't any money! It isn't anyone's fault; times have changed and our traditional sources simply aren't there anymore. We've enjoyed many years when our copper, coal, gas and oil spared us from having to pay out of our pockets for schools, courts and infrastructure. We envied those who had an oil well, and we collected the state's share to pay the bills.
That money is gone and won't come back. Our cars go many more miles on a gallon of gas and taxing gasoline doesn't come close to paying for repair of our roads and bridges. The internet is sucking retail sales away from local merchants and the gross receipts tax revenue has begun to decline, too.
Start thinking about alternate sources of revenue, or plan to reduce services.
Don't count on the Republicans to solve the problem. They're delighted to see government cut back. It's up to Democrats to find new sources of revenue just to pay for what we have, let alone to fund new projects such as early childhood education or help for the handicapped and poor. We can do it. But if we don't adapt to the times, we are in danger of losing that prosperity.
I have a single suggestion. One is not enough. Many suggestions are needed, but one is a start. We have abundant energy, and it's cheap. We can ship it across the country to other states, or invite industry to come here and build plants for making rubber, steel, chemicals and manufactured goods. Or we could do both.
The Germans showed us how to use cheap energy to make hydrogen gas and put it into the natural gas pipelines for transport to other regions where it can be used profitably. Let's start the dialogue.
Peter Goodman, not known for civility in his Sun-News articles, hit a new low with his Feb. 21 column, supposedly honoring the memory of former city councilor Miguel Silva.
Goodman is blatantly exploiting the death of Miguel Silva to take a cheap political shot at U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce.
Goodman wants readers to associate the words "Pearce" with "killed Miguel" — otherwise, why write it that way? Why even say "while I won't allege that the ugliness killed Miguel"? Like I said before, a new low, even for Peter Goodman.
The year 2015 was the hottest on record. Not that it really matters whether it was hotter or cooler than the previous one. Either way, the trend of rapidly rising global temperature has already been firmly established by more than a century of data.
Nevertheless, another record-breaking year is symbolic; and it is apparently discomforting to climate change deniers. For them, the significance of the latest record-smashing year must be discredited, with claims that government agencies and media have not disclosed relevant details. Such is the content of a recent letter by Robert Endlich (Jan. 29), which resurrects talking points that are irrelevant and long defunct.
Here we witness how climate change denial remains what it always has been: an ideology desperate for support in reality. Finding none, overtones of conspiracy come in handy.
Space will not permit discussion of Mr. Endlich's several points, but just one will suffice to show the color of all. He says, "…after the Cold War, many Siberian stations were closed, instantly removing cold stations and causing a rise in average surface temperature." Well, global surface temperature change is not measured by averaging temperatures at individual stations, but by averaging the change in temperature at individual stations. The actual temperature at a given station is therefore immaterial. A particular irony here is that Siberia happens to be one of the places on Earth where temperatures are rising faster than the global average; so eliminating those stations would neither hot-bias the data nor inspire any competent conspirator.
Evidence is always the final arbiter in such matters. For those who have none, there is no heat greater than having one's talking points taken away.


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Safeguard The 'Safeguard', a wooden motor drifter, caught fire in the Minch on 25 June 1934. She was skippered by Murdo Macleod, 26 Cromore and was finally sunk by the 'Nellie Gardner', 8 miles south-west of Stornoway. 49576
SS/MFA Eleanor The SS Eleanor was a Cargo Steamship hip built by J Ridley & Son, Tully in 1888. She was hired by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and used as a Mine Carrier. On February 12, 1918, south west of the Isle of Wight the MFA... 120642
SS/HMS Zaria HMS Zaria was a Passenger/Cargo Steamship built by Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Port Glasgow in 1903 for the British & African Steam Navigation Co, Liverpool. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in... 118472
SS/HMS Whitby Abbey (128091) The SS Whitby Abbey was a Passenger/Cargo Steel Screw Steamship built by William Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool in 1907 for the Hull and Netherland SS Co Ltd, Hull. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in... 120693
SS/HMS Transylvania (148874) (F56) The SS Transylvania was an Ocean Liner built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan in 1925 for the Anchor Line Ltd. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in August 1939, converted to an Armed... 120486
SS/HMS Thalia The SS Thalia was a Wooden Corvette built in 1869. She was lent to the Royal Navy in the First World War for use as a Powder Hulk at Portsmouth. 120612
SS/HMS Stephen Furness The SS Stephen Furness was a Passenger Steamship built by Irvine's Shipbuilding and Drydock Co Ltd, West Hartlepool in 1910 for the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty,... 120721
SS/HMS Royal Scott The SS Royal Scot was a Boarding Steamship built in 1910 and requisitioned by the Admiralty in the First World War. HMS Royal Scot served as a Troopship and Boarding Craft. 121094
SS/HMS River Afton (164063) The SS River Afton was a Steel Screw Cargo Steamer built by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow in 1935 for the Ayrshire Navigation Company. In convoy, on passage from Reykjavik to Archangel on July 5, 1942, the SS River Afton... 120196
SS/HMS Redbridge (123841) The SS Redbridge was a Coillier Transport Steamship laid down as SS Billiter Street and completed as SS Redbridge. The Turret deck ship was built by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland for the Temperley Steam... 120830
SS/HMS Ranchi (148130) This vessel was built by Hawthorn Leslie & Co, Newcastle upon Tyne and launched on 24 January 1925. She was a passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner and served as an armed merchant cruiser during the Second World... 60332
SS/HMS Rampura 148119 The SS Ranpura was a Passenger/Cargo Steamship built by R & W Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1924 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co Ltd. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty... 121082
SS/HMS Patia 132034 The SS Patia was a Cargo Steamship built by Workman Clark & Co Ltd, Belfast in 1913 for Elders and Fyffes Ltd, Garston. She was sold to the Admiralty in 1914 and served in the First World War. On June 13, 1918 the... 121114
SS/HMS Orvieto The SS Orvieto was a Passenger/Cargo Steamship built by Workman Clark, Belfast in 1909 for the Orient Steam Navigation Co. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914 and converted to a Minelayer and later an Armed... 120962
SS/HMS Orama Launched for the Orient Line on 25th June 1911, SS 'Orama' was built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank. She made her maiden voyage on 10th November 1911 from London to Brisbane, via Suez, and remained on this service... 48895
SS/HMS Numidian 98659 The SS Numidian was a Passenger/Cargo Steamship built by D & W Henderson & Co Ltd, Glasgow in 1891 for the Allan Line, Montreal. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914 and served in the First World War.... 121034
SS/HMS Normannia 112611 The SS Normannia was a Passenger Vessel built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co, Govan, Glasgow in 1911 for the London and South Western Railway. She worked the Southampton to Le Havre route and was... 121088
SS/HMS Manco The SS Manco was a Passenger/Refrigerated Cargo Steamship built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Greenock in 1907 for the Booth Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool. On December 10, 1914 she was requisitioned by... 120991
SS/HMS Macedonia The SS Macdonia was a Passenger Ship built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast in 1903 for the Peninsular & Oriental Line. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. HMS Macedonia... 120618
SS/HMS Jervis Bay The Jervis Bay was a liner was launched as the Commonwealth Line Steamer in 1922 and was named after the Australian Bay. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939 and was converted into a Merchant Armed... 119832
SS/HMS Grive The SS Grive was a Steamship built by the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee in 1905 for the General Steam Navigation Co, London. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty and served as an Armed Boarding... 120833
SS/HMS Dunluce Castle (118490) The SS Dunluce Castle was a Steam Passenger Ship built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast in 1904. She was requisitioned in the First World War, served as a Troopship and took part in the convoy bringing 4,000 troops to... 120105
SS/HMS Devanha 117400 The SS Devanha was a Passenger/Cargo Liner built by Caird & Company, Greenock in 1905 for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She served the India/China route and was requisitioned by the... 121080
SS/HMS Cathay 148843 The SS Cathay was a Passenger Ship built by Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow in 1924 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co, London. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty on August 25, 1939 and converted to... 120470
SS/HMS Catania (104639) The SS Catonia was built by D & W Henderson & Co, Glasgow in 1895 for the Duke of Sutherland, Dunrobin Castle. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty and served in the First World War. 120635
SS/HMS Queen of Bermuda (156189) The SS Queen of Bermuda was an Ocean Liner built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow in Furness in 1932 for the Furness Bermuda Line. She was requisitioned and served in the Second World War. 120444
SS/HMAS Itonus 109977 HMS Itonus was a Four Masted Cargo Steamship and Sailing Vessel built by Vickers & Sons Maxim Ltd, Barrow in Furness in 1898 for the British Steam Navigation Co, London, She served in the First World War as a... 121136
SS Zealandic (131389) The SS Zealandic was a Passenger Cargo Refrigerated Steamship built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast in 1911 for the White Star Line. She was renamed SS Mamilius and SS Marmari. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in... 120802
SS Yoma (160225) The SS Yoma was a Passenger Steamship built by W Denny & Bros, Dumbarton in 1928 for the Burmah SS Co Ltd. She served in the Second World War as a Troopship. On June 17, 1943 the SS Yoma was hit by two torpedoes... 120453
SS Woodbury (164565) The SS Woodbury was a Screw Steamer built by Burntisland Shipbuilding Co., Burntisland in 1935 for the Alexander Shipping Co. The vessel was torpedoed in 1940 on passage to Manchester. 119949


Vinyl tops were one of the original factory options for early Mustangs. Available in black and white for '65-'66, the grained tops added a distinctive, contrasting appearance to hardtop models. Like everything else on older Mustangs, replacement is a fact of life, as exposure to the elements can take its toll on the vinyl material. Fortunately, replacement tops are available for just over $100 from most Mustang parts vendors. The actual remove-and-replace procedure is not that difficult. However, there are some tricks to the trade for achieving a wrinkle-free job, so you may want to employ a professional. Check with your favorite Mustang shop or talk to upholstery specialists in your area. Shops that specialize in upholstery or convertible tops can usually handle vinyl top replacement.
Because moisture can become trapped underneath the vinyl material, you may have to deal with rust on the sheetmetal roof before installing the new top. Minor surface rust can be easily treated. However, major rust repair, which could include actual holes, may require the services of a body and paint shop.
Our '66 Mustang GT came from the factory with the white vinyl top, which has been replaced several times over the years. Currently, the car is undergoing a full restoration at Classic Creations of Central Florida, so owner Merv Rego enlisted Bobby Elen from Lakeland, Florida's J&B Auto Upholstery to stop by to professionally install the new top, which was acquired from National Parts Depot. The front and rear glass was already out, and minor surface rust on the roof had been repaired during the bodywork in preparation for the fresh Signalflare Red paint. If you're simply replacing the top, you'll have to remove the front and rear window glass and moldings (which makes this a good time to repair any leaks), drip rail retainer and moldings (requires drilling out rivets), and the quarter-panel chrome trim, which is attached behind the sheetmetal via nuts, so you'll have to remove the rear seat, interior quarter trim panels, and package shelf for access.
Bobby has been replacing vinyl tops for many years, so he was able to provide us with some interesting tips. On Mustangs that originally came with vinyl tops, you'll find small punch marks in the upper glass channels that were used to line up the seams at the factory. Bobby uses these marks for the same reason when replacing tops. He also pointed out small tacking nails at the bottom of the A and C pillars; these were used to hold the vinyl top corners in place during factory installation. They are an indication that a car was factory-equipped with a vinyl top but aren't used for replacement.
On '65-'66 Mustangs, small aluminum strips were riveted into the driprails to retain the edges of the top. Like most, the strips on our hardtop were broken at the sharp corners over the rear quarter window, and we quickly learned that these strips, not reproduced at this time, are hard to locate. Fortunately, we were able to locate an intact pair at Mustangs Etc.


War of the Rebellion: Serial 033 Page 0320 MO., ARK., KANS., IND. T., AND DEPT. N. W. Chapter XXXIV.
eral Steele for duty, and was immediately assigned by him to this command. I trust that my conduct will meet with your approbation. I have seen but little active service, and I should ever reproach myself were I to go through this war without having participated in a general engagement.
I have written to Captain Foster to furnish you with a full report. I would be much pleased if you would send an officer of your staff to examine the books and papers of the office previous to receiving Captain Foster's report.
I take great pleasure in recommending to you Captain Foster as my successor. The captain is a man of property and well connected in Missouri. He acted as quartermaster in the Home Guards; was assistant paymaster under Colonel Smith, paymaster-general of Missouri; afterward served in my office as clerk, and on the organization of my regiment was tendered by me the position of regimental quartermaster, in which capacity he served until promoted and assigned to duty by Major-General Curtis in my office. He is well acquainted with the duties of the office, and, to the best of my knowledge, has ever shown himself an honest and trustworthy officer.
Fort Leavenworth, June 15, 1863.
GENERAL: I have the honor to report to you the following militia organizations in that portion of Kansas in your military district all supplied with arms and ammunition, to wit: Captain John James, Olathe, Johnson County, 50 men; Captain S. M. Wood, Council Grove, Morris County, 50 men; sheriff of Miami County, 50 men; Captain Henry Weber, Douglas County, 45 men; Captain Bailey, Osage County, 50 men, and Captain P. S. Ferguson, Wyandotte County, 50 men.
SAINT LOUIS, MO., June 16, 1863.
General Ewing reports guerrillas in force threatening Lexington and Independence. If you can spare any force from the western part of your district, send them in that direction.
Inform me when the Fanny Ogden, with the Eleventh Kansas on board, passes up.


Have you RSVP'd to life recently? Are you focusing your attention to a life of joy, peace, freedom, and abundance? Are you RSVPing yes to the choices that allow you to live that lifestyle? Are you saying no to choices that offer you resistance, fear, and unsettlement?
Today, more than ever before, I ask you to RSVP to what you deserve in life. RSVP yes to those ideas, beliefs, choices, and events that bring you happiness. RSVP no to ideas and beliefs that separate you from your truth of being loved and loving. I am not asking you to turn your back on hurdles, contrasts, and challenges in your life. I am inviting you to view them as movements towards YES I deserve a loving lifestyle as I am a loving person.
YES as I choose to see goodness, love, and abundance in the world.
YES as I choose my own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions on how my world looks today.
YES as I choose to stand with millions of others who are living their highest selves with respect, love, compassion, forgiveness, appreciation, and abundance.
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DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1825
A LARGER ESTIMATE OF THE ENTROPY OF THE UNIVERSE
@article{Egan2009ALE,
title={A LARGER ESTIMATE OF THE ENTROPY OF THE UNIVERSE},
author={Chas A. Egan and C. Lineweaver},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
volume={710},
pages={1825 - 1834}
Chas A. Egan, C. Lineweaver
Physics, Computer Science
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What a great OREIO meeting this week with Robert K and Dana Samuelson!! Thank you Victor for bringing these awesome speakers to us!!
I'm thinking it's better to buy gold bullion not the higher priced collector coins, for the purpose of having a hedge against inflation (of course if you like collector coins and are into that - that's cool too!). Bullion coins prices track the gold price, but collector coins are about $1,000 above the gold price.
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The grant will allow the "for-purpose" organization to expand its tracking app for charities around Australia.
Rachel Kaufman November 12, 2018
Orange Sky's vans carry washers, dryers, and orange chairs so patrons and volunteers and enjoy some "non-judgmental" conversation while cleaning clothes. (Screenshot courtesy of Orange Sky Australia)
An Australian company that provides free laundry for people experiencing homelessness has just received a $1-million grant from Google to develop an app for charities and community groups that provide mobile services.
Orange Sky builds vans with laundry machines and showers and volunteers drive them to places where people might need a free wash. The "for-purpose" organization also built a web app to track its impact, and the $1-million grant from Google's Impact Challenge, which was open to charities across Australia, will allow the enterprise to scale up the app and offer it to 35,000 Australian charities working on homeless outreach.
The laundry is still important, too.
For people experiencing homelessness, life is a string of indignities. No safe place to sleep. Nowhere to use the bathroom. Nowhere to shower or get clean clothes.
Four years ago, two Australian men put a washer and dryer in the back of a van and drove around to churches and parks, offering free laundry services. Now, there are 27 laundry and shower vans operating in Australia. They use generators and solar power to run the machines, and each van does about 15-20 loads of laundry and showers each day, The Guardian reports.
Clean clothes help prevent the spread of diseases and bedbugs, but Lucas Patchett, one of the enterprise's co-founders, says the conversations that happen during laundry time are more important.
"We're not preaching anything, or teaching anything or pushing anything. But it does take an hour to wash and dry someone's clothes and during that time people tend to hang around. That's when the conversations start," he told the Guardian.
"Ninety-nine percent of the day, these people are walked past and ignored and not even looked at, and that can have a huge impact on psyche and sense of self-worth. So we just say g'day and offer something really practical that makes people immediately feel more confident to engage with the broader society."
Because the vans are self-contained, they also can be deployed in remote areas. Orange Sky sent a retrofitted military vehicle to Lockhart River, a remote community in Queensland, where it's helping aboriginal people prevent scabies, which is prolific at certain times of year and can be defeated by washing linens in hot water.
Orange Sky is a "for-purpose" organization. In addition to running the free laundry for people experiencing homelessness, the organization also hires some "friends on the street" to wash clothes and linens for Brisbane- and Perth-based businesses, which is both a revenue stream for the organization and a way to help people on the street get back into the workforce. Its funding comes from a mix of revenue from the "social impact washing" program, grants, and donations.
A number of cities, including Los Angeles, have set up pop-up laundry services to serve people experiencing homelessness. What makes Orange Sky relatively unique is that it's a private-market solution, although similar organizations have since set up in Athens, Greece, and Brighton, UK. Orange Sky has also expanded internationally, debuting its first overseas van in Auckland, New Zealand last month and with plans to go to the U.S. in the near future.
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This tutorial is about how to handle multiple transaction and concurrency in a simple bank application using.
This Bank Application will allow user to see his balance, transfer balance to other account, and see his transaction and other details. On the other side, an admin of the app will create and delete user accounts.
So there are two separate roles admin and user. Right now we will focus on transfer funds functionality.
First of all let us identify our model classes.
User class will have all the basic information about user like name, address, email,password.
Account class will have the balance, and userId who is the account holder, it's a foreign key constraint to user table it will also have reference to transaction table to have all the details related to transaction.
Transaction will have the accountId, transaction type [debit or credit], comment and time.
Now we will create a separate DAO layer for our database transactions in bank app.
We will create basic interfaces for DAO. The reason for creating this extra layer is, if in future you want to use some framework like hibernate instead of jdbc, you can do it with minimal changes, because everywhere we will use interface type, instead of concrete implementations.
Balance of two accounts involved in transfer needs to be updated.
Add records in transaction table.
So here are our DAO interfaces (skipping implementation as this is not our main topic).
Now this is the Servlet class which will get the input from jsp and convert it in to model objects.
Our servlet here is acting as a controller. Model, view and controller all are separated, so we can change the implementation any time.
When the user logs in, we set the user Object in the request session.
Now this servlet is using instance of Service class which will maintain transaction between multiple DAO.
Suppose, when transferring funds, we have debited one account, but for crediting if some exception occurs we have to maintain the previous state of our data.
For handling threading issues, we have double lock.
First lock is on user, so if a user logs in and try to do multiple transaction at the same time, only one will execute.
The other is on account, so that this account cannot be included in multiple transactions at the same time.
We are getting connection object from Connection Manager. So now interaction with multiple tables will act as a single unit of work.
If any error occurs, whole transaction will be rolled back.
This is the input jsp by which user will enter details about transfer funds.
Create DAO classes related to single table. Do not mix multiple table interaction in one single DAO.
Create a new Service layer to handle and maintain transaction related to multiple table interaction.
Make sure not to have any class fields members in case of multithreaded application. If it is necessary, properly synchronize it.
Use synchronization wisely, and should not mark the whole method synchronized, instead use objects and locks.
Throw different exception to show proper error message to user.
Hope you like this article. For any help you can comment or mail me.
Will see you in the next article with some more interesting code.
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Hi, unfortunately we don't have the source code for this post. But you can make it step by step through the tutorial.


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Die Plattform Unabhängige GewerkschafterInnen (kurz UG) versteht sich als Zusammenschluss überparteilicher und parteiunabhängiger Listen auf Personalvertretungs-, Betriebsrats- und Gewerkschaftsebene im Österreichischen Gewerkschaftsbund (ÖGB).

Die Säulen der UG

Die UG ist seit 19. November 1997 eine anerkannte Fraktion und drittstärkste Gruppierung im ÖGB. Getragen wird die UG von unabhängigen und alternativen Gewerkschaftsgruppierungen in den Teilgewerkschaften. Sie ist somit als Dachverband zu klassifizieren. Die einzelnen Gruppierungen werden als "UG-Säulen" bezeichnet:

 AUGE/UG (Alternative und Grüne GewerkschafterInnen) in der Gewerkschaft GPA, der Gewerkschaft PRO-GE und in den Arbeiterkammern.
 KIV/UG (Namensliste Konsequente Interessenvertretung) in der Daseinsgewerkschaft younion
 UGöD (Unabhängige GewerkschafterInnen im öffentlichen Dienst) in der GÖD

Diese drei Säulen sind die Gründungsfraktionen der UG. Später hinzugestoßen sind:

 UG-VIDA  (Unabhängige GewerkschafterInnen in der Gewerkschaft vida)
 we4you/UG in der GPF.

Inhalte

Die UG gibt ihre Ziele und Leitlinien wie folgt an:

 deutliche Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit
 faire Verteilung in jedweder Hinsicht
 Gleichstellung aller Personen
 Kampf im Sinne der Arbeitnehmer
 Nachhaltigkeit im Umgang mit der Umwelt
 Transparenz

Die UG fordert innerhalb des ÖGB vor allem mehr Demokratie (bspw. direkte Wahlen im gesamten ÖGB), eine Stärkung der Autonomie (insbesondere Unabhängigkeit von Parteien und Staat) und Mitbestimmungsmöglichkeiten der Gewerkschaftsmitglieder ein. Dementsprechend initiiert oder beteiligt sich die UG an Initiativen wie ArbeitsKlimaWandel oder Sozialmilliarde.

Die UG bekennt sich ferner zu den Grundsätzen des Österreichischen Gewerkschaftsbundes, insbesondere zu § 3 Abs. 1:

Die UG sucht zur Verwirklichung ihrer Ziele und Inhalte die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen gewerkschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Gruppen ähnlicher Zielsetzung, lehnt jedoch jede Zusammenarbeit mit rechtsextremen bzw. rechtspopulistischen und antidemokratischen Gruppen ab.

Literatur
 Alfred Bastecky: Die Unabhängigen im ÖGB: Vielfalt ist nicht die Mehrzahl von Einfalt. In: Politik und Zeitgeschehen. Band 3/2009; Verlag des ÖGB, Wien; Skript (931 kB).

Weblinks
 Homepage der KIV/UG
 Homepage der AUGE/UG
 Homepage der UGöD
 Homepage der UG-VIDA
 Homepage der we4you

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Current: World's Leading Brand for CIOs and IT Decision Makers Launches in Canada
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World's Leading Brand for CIOs and IT Decision Makers Launches in Canada
CIO brand expansion in Canada provides multi-channel marketing opportunities connecting technology vendors with CIOs
TORONTO, Canada, March 03, 2022 – Foundry (formerly IDG Communications), the global leader in media, martech and data for the tech community, today announces the expansion of CIO—the world's leading content and events resource for CIOs—into Canada. The award-winning CIO portfolio provides business technology leaders with analysis and insight on information technology trends and a keen understanding of IT's role in achieving business goals. CIO brings 34 years of IT knowledge and delivers quality and trusted content and events designed to help CIOs make the best purchase decisions for their organizations.
"Launching CIO in Canada is momentous in that it strengthens our editorial brands, builds consistency and expands Foundry's global and commercial footprint," said Matt Egan, editorial director, Foundry. "Canada is the 16th global region where we share unrivaled insight to help IT leaders and vendors address trending tech topics."
The launch of CIO in Canada will connect IT buyers and sellers through unique, data-driven experiences helping to influence the right buying decisions for CIOs. It comes at a time when the CIO bears even more responsibility for driving business success, and amidst increasing growth in the Canadian IT market.
According to CIO's 20th annual State of the CIO report, 49% of respondents in Canada said they are using technology to improve customer experience by delivering products and services in new ways. In fact, the top business initiatives driving IT investments are improving profitability (40%), which aligns with the CEO's priorities for IT in Canada, with the main focus being to strengthen IT and business collaboration, followed by enabling new plans for customer acquisition and retention, and improving the customer experience.
As part of the Canadian launch of CIO, Foundry (parent company of CIO), is partnering with sister company International Data Corporation (IDC)—the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. Working together in Canada the CIO brand will extend its existing global portfolio of 1500+ Forums and Custom events. CIO will help IT professionals learn from top Canadian Tech Analysts, attend thought provoking leadership sessions presented by Canada's leading tech executives, and address competitive business challenges with their CIO peers. Canadian CIOs will be able to use its trusted events to make fact-based technology and vendor decisions to achieve their business objectives.
"IDC has been the leading IT research provider in Canada for over 35 years," explained Lars Goransson, managing director, IDC Canada. "With the 2022 launch of our premier events for the Canadian IT industry, plus the launch of our sister company Foundry's CIO global media brand for Canadian tech execs, we are now truly the leading platform for researching, educating, identifying, influencing and connecting tech buyers and sellers in Canada."
Surrounding its editorial coverage of business strategy, innovation and leadership, CIO will provide a full suite of solutions to help technology vendors engage with CIO buyers. The existing trusted relationship Foundry has with this audience allows for the collection of insights developed through first-party data around behavioral, intent and declared demographic information. This first-party data in turn fuels a full stack of media and martech solutions produced for strategic tech marketers looking to build relationships with this audience including:
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On Monday one of my neighbours mentioned to my mum that some relatives were coming to visit and she really needed some fabric for gifts but her sons weren't home to take her and would I. I wasn't the least bit impressed as I'd only just gone upstairs to try and finish a letter I'd started but didn't get very far with. I had no choice really but to go as its how we all come in handy to each other (in the past I've taken her for appointments and now there are times when her sons drop my mum off at appointments).
The shop she wanted to go to was closed so we ended up going to a market style store which used to be called Kapra Bazaar (Fabric Market) but changed the name to Bradford Bazaar. As it has only recently opened it was fairly empty which made it easy for me to take the above photos and enjoy the newness of everything. I don't know if this market will work out as the original bazaar was opened opposite this one and was forced to close when the lease ended so in the meantime a lot of people bought other buildings and have opened exactly the same thing opening on the same days (since they aren't open everyday). Also they all more or less sell what I have taken photos of above.
Still it is nice to have the option of having all these places to buy great clothes/fabric from as well as jewellery and shoes to match.
I didn't buy anything exciting on this day except some black fabric for some trousers, a cardigan for my mum and a mehndi cone for my niece which I usually decorate the back of her hand with.
Do you enjoy going to Markets and Do you have many where you live?
It is nice just to wonder around looking at all the different designs etc... as some styles I just wouldn't wear but are nice to look at and others are just too expensive.
Its hard to remember something that doesn't happen on a weekly bases as the days just whizz by. We only used to have car boot sales or sunday markets which to start with I would forget about but also they hardly exist anymore.
Bizarre works too :) I really would love to go to a shop like that, don't think i would get out empty handed!
I think its why I accidently wrote it and no ones questioned it as it still sounds the same but the meanings just completely different. I never leave without anything even if its a pick and mix.


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Q: using SWIG with C++ HI all
I am trying to use SWIG to export C++ code to Python.
The C sample I read on the web site does work but I have problem with C++ code.
Here are the lines I call

swig -c++ -python SWIG_TEST.i
g++ -c -fPIC SWIG_TEST.cpp SWIG_TEST_wrap.cxx -I/usr/include/python2.4/
gcc --shared SWIG_TEST.o SWIG_TEST_wrap.o -o _SWIG_TEST.so -lstdc++

When I am finished I receive the following error message

ImportError: ./_SWIG_TEST.so: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4

Do you know what it is?

A: It looks like you aren't linking to the Python runtime library.  Something like adding -lpython24 to your gcc line.  (I don't have a Linux system handy at the moment).

A: you might try building the shared library using gcc
g++ -shared SWIG_TEST.o SWIG_TEST_wrap.o -o _SWIG_TEST.so

rather than using ld directly.

A: As Mark said, it's a problem linking to the python library.  A nice way to get hints as to just which flags you need to successfully link can be gotten by running python-config --ldflags.  In fact, a particularly painless way of compiling your test is the following:
swig -c++ -python SWIG_TEST.i
g++ -c `python-config --cflags` -fPIC SWIG_TEST.cpp SWIG_TEST_wrap.cxx
gcc --shared `python-config --ldflags` SWIG_TEST.o SWIG_TEST_wrap.o -o _SWIG_TEST.so -lstdc++

Note that python-config isn't perfect; it sometimes gives you extra things, or conflicting things.  But this should certainly help a lot.

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Crime | April 9, 2015
10 Forgotten Serial Killers From The Middle Ages
by Benjamin Welton
Serial killers are a special kind of evil. Since being coined by FBI investigator Robert Ressler, the term "serial killer" has come to denote any murderer who coldly commits their crimes in a series of separate events over a stretch of time. While some argue over whether or not three kills should represent the demarcation line between a serial killer and a basic murderer, the truth is that no matter the number, a serial killer is always a threat to public safety.
But, contrary to popular belief, serial killers are not a new phenomenon. Like basic human evil, serial killers have been a part of our history since recorded time. Although they did not gain widespread visibility until the 19th century (when newspapers and other forms of media were able to sensationalize their malevolent deeds) every epoch has had its fair share of murderers. In this list, the focus will be on those serial killers who were active between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the birth of the modern nation-state.
10 Zu Shenatir
Given the later crimes of Zu Shenatir in the fifth century A.D., it's fitting that Aden, Yemen, Shenatir's city, has long been linked with the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Unlike Cain, the world's first murderer, Shenatir killed purely for pleasure. Exactly how many people he killed has never been recorded, but records state that he was a wealthy pedophile who sodomized his victims and then killed them by throwing them out the window.
Shenatir is often incorrectly labeled as the first serial killer ever recorded. While that's not true, he's certainly one of history's first lust killers. A voracious appetite for sex seems to have been Shenatir's driving motive, which makes his ultimate demise all the more fitting. According to certain sources, one of his intended victims, a young man named Zerash, stabbed Shenatir through his anus, thus giving the monster a taste of his own sick medicine.
9 Pierre Burgot, Michel Verdun, And Philibert Montot
While most accounts of "real" vampirism come from Eastern European countries such as Serbia and Hungary, medieval France hosted the most cases of real-life werewolves. These werewolves were in reality feral serial killers who preyed upon rural peasants and city dwellers alike. In the 16th century, a French peasant named Pierre Burgot came under the Satanic thrall of several black-clad figures, including a man named Michel Verdun.
According to Burgot's testimony, Verdun gave him an ointment that transformed him from a man into a wolf. Along with a third man named Philibert Montot, Burgot and Verdun became known as the Werewolves of Poligny, and they were collectively responsible for the murders of several children. After a bloody Verdun was caught and tortured, he confessed to the crimes and implicated Burgot and Montot. In turn, Burgot claimed under torture that Montot and Verdun had forced him to renounce God in order to become a vile werewolf killer.
8 Peter Stumpp
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A cannibal serial killer known as the "Werewolf of Bedburg," Peter Stumpp (sometimes spelled Stumpf or Stubbe), was a one-armed farmer in 15th-century Germany who reportedly murdered 14 children and two pregnant women over the course of 25 years. After being caught, Stumpp not only admitted to drinking the blood of local livestock, but also claimed to have eaten fetuses as well as his own son's brain.
Arguably, some of Stumpp's confession should be questioned considering that he made it after being subjected to torture (more of this to come). However, he was still more than likely a serial killer and not the self-proclaimed victim of the Devil, who viciously preyed upon villagers who were themselves under assault due to the rampaging Sewer War, which pitted Catholics against Protestants. In this regard, Stumpp eerily presages Marcel Petiot, the French serial killer who used the chaos of German occupation to carry out his multiple murders.
7 Peter Niers
Peter Niers, a notorious bandit, black magician, and serial killer, was executed on September 16, 1581, in the Bavarian city of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. Even during the Middle Ages, when torture was routine and frequently used, the three-day-long execution of Niers was unique. Before being swallowed by death, Niers had his flesh flayed and stripped with hot oil and his body was broken on the wheel. Finally, according to some accounts, he was quartered while still alive.
There was a rationale behind Niers's barbaric punishment: Since he was such an extraordinarily bloodthirsty killer, he therefore deserved an extraordinarily gruesome demise. Although we can rightly scorn Niers's brutal treatment, we should not lose sight of just how evil he was. In 15 years, Niers killed or helped to kill an alleged 544 people. If that number is true, it would make him one of history's most prolific slayers. Not content to simply rape, pillage, and kill, Niers was also convicted of cannibalism and killing in order to perform diabolical rituals. Again, given the rampant superstitions of the age, we should always be skeptical about accusations and verdicts from the Middle Ages.
6 Niklaus Stuller
In 1577, a Bavarian hangman named Hans Schmidt tallied the crimes of one Niklaus Stuller, a man whom Schmidt had put to death himself. According to Schmidt, Stuller had been responsible for shooting a member of the cavalry, as well as the deaths of three pregnant women along with their unborn children. Stuller, known as the "Black Banger," was yet another 16th-century German serial killer whose favorite targets were pregnant women.
Just as post–World War I Germany was plagued by a rash of serial killers, the German states of the 15th century were constantly embroiled in economic fluctuations and civil strife, especially over sectarian issues involving Catholics and Protestants. Against later crimes like the Thirty Years' War, Stuller's murders do not seem as earth-shattering. But when placed side by side with other maniacs like Stumpp and Niers, Stuller, who was only convicted of four murders, becomes an almost larger-than-life representative of a truly infernal time period. It's no wonder that the crowd cheered his execution.
5 Bjorn Petursson
Like most of Europe's northernmost nations, Iceland exudes an air of dark mystery. A cold, volcano-dotted island settled by the Vikings, Iceland remains an enigma in a part of the world that is best known for its widely chronicled civilization. Therefore, most people outside of Iceland have never heard of Bjorn Petursson. A farmer from western Iceland, Petursson robbed and murdered so many travelers during the 16th century that he soon became Iceland's most prolific serial killer. Almost immediately, Petursson became the subject of numerous folktales that attempted to describe his many crimes. Because of this, few solid facts concerning Petursson are available, for many of the folktales disagree over things such as his body count and the particulars of his execution in 1596.
The most common story has it that Petursson robbed and murdered 18 people in order to seize their possessions. Afterward, he got rid of the bodies by throwing them into a lake near his farm. After his arrest, Petursson was more than likely tortured before meeting with a cringeworthy death.
4 Christman Genipperteinga
When talking about Christman Genipperteinga, the word "alleged" has to be used frequently. Frankly, Christman Genipperteinga may not have existed at all, more likely a fictitious amalgamation of several German serial killers who operated during the 16th century. Between the years of 1568 and 1581, Genipperteinga allegedly murdered a staggering 964 people. He was driven by a myriad of insane ideas, including black magic and a desire to murder 1,000 people. A German bandit who supposedly kept many sex slaves in a cave that he used as a home, he indiscriminately killed men, women, and children, and even believed that he was the Devil himself.
As a result of his savage actions, Genipperteinga was often given supernatural abilities by the pamphleteers of his day, who claimed that he grew fabulously wealthy as a result of his crimes. Then again, many today believe that it was the pamphleteers themselves who created Genipperteinga as the embodiment of all German highway murderers, including Peter Niers and Jacob Sumer. But, if Genipperteigna was indeed a real person, his crimes would make him history's most accomplished serial killer.
3 Catalina De Los Rios Y Lisperguer
Called "La Quintrala" due to her flaming red hair, Rios y Lisperguer was a Chilean aristocrat and landowner who carried out roughly 40 murders while maintaining an oppressive iron rule over her indigenous workers. A member of colonial Santiago's privileged set, she was said to have delighted in sacrilege, sex, and conspicuous consumption. Similar to the Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory (who died a decade after Rios y Lispergeur was born), Rios y Lisperguer was a violent-tempered noblewoman with a fondness for torturing her subordinates.
Besides slaves, La Quintrala also murdered lovers, a priest, and even her own father. And, like Bathory before her, Rios y Lisperguer used her fabulous wealth to avoid justice for several years. She even donated a large portion of her estate to the Catholic Church. Eventually, Rios y Lispergeur was publicly accused and convicted of her crimes, and died while under house arrest, awaiting appeal. Her majestic home stood empty for years after her death due to the fear that her wicked spirit still haunted the premises.
2 Jasper Hanebuth
It was Jasper Hanebuth's great misfortune to have come of age during the Thirty Years' War. Not only did Hanebuth take up arms during one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts, but he and other Europeans had to deal with the near-complete destruction of their farms, towns, and populations. But while others tried to rebuild their communities after the war, Hanebuth tapped into his former life as a mercenary for the Swedes in order to make a living as an outlaw.
Hanebuth killed for pecuniary reasons, and after the completion of each crime, he would try to trade his ill-begotten gains with merchants all across Hanover. Hanebuth became such a legend in Hanover that even today, the city still grapples with his legacy. As with most infamous serial killers, Hanebuth was apprehended, tortured (he was broken on the wheel), and executed in 1653 for the deaths of 19 people.
1 Giulia Tofana
Historically speaking, female serial killers have generally been known to prefer poison as their primary murder instrument. While this is not always true, it is certainly correct in the case of Giulia Tofana. In 17th-century Italy, Tofana became such a notorious poisoner in the cities of Rome and Naples that the strong poison Acqua Tofana bears her name as a result. Catering to wives who desperately wanted to kill their husbands, Tofana, her daughter Girolama Spera, and a few assistants cultivated their particular potion, which was more than likely some form of arsenic, for widespread sale and distribution.
What is known about Tofana is limited and often prone to conjecture. Some claim that she was the daughter of a murderess hanged for the crime of matricide, but others assert that she and her helpers ran a school for poisoners out of their home base in the Sicilian city of Palermo. Whatever the exact information, Tofana confessed while under torture that she was responsible for over 600 deaths during her decades-long career. Along with her daughter and several servants, Tofana was executed in Rome in the summer of 1659.
Benjamin Welton is a freelance journalist based in New England. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Crime Factory, The Airship Daily, The Classical, and others. He currently blogs at literarytrebuchet.blogspot.com.
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