In the early evening of Sunday 5th August 2018 I found myself standing, bent forward from the waist with my arms dangling like a rag doll, leaning so far over to the right that under normal circumstances I would lose my balance. But I don't, in fact I can't, it feels physically impossible. Why? Because my right shoulder is leaning on the inside of my own energy field and a lady who has an incredibly divine laugh has her hands 30cms away from me on the outside of my energy field, and I'm just resting there. Say what? Weird right!?!
My body is moving me gently into different positions and the best way I can describe the sensation is that my movement is not being created by my brain. Regardless of which position I found myself in be it arched forward, backwards, left, right or just standing straight up, the best way I can describe the experience is that I'm inside a bubble. My bubble. And what strikes me the most over and above the physical sensation is the stillness and silence.
I'm not talking about the silence in the room mind you. In fact, I happen to be in a room with 15 other people, some of whom are watching me move around inside my bubble, as I have been watching them also for the last hour, whilst others are busy chatting among themselves. There's laughter and music playing, someone has compiled a great play list so there is a bit of foot tapping and the occasional sound of quiet singing. There is somebody else a few metres away who is currently having their own energy bubble experience, as do all 16 of us over a period of 2 hours. For everyone their experience is different, as with anything in life, it's a unique journey.
For me, the silence I'm referring to is the stillness of my mental chatter, aka the monkey brain. It's not there. I'm in that state of stillness I've been meditating hoping to find, and whilst I have experienced fleeting moments of this silence before, more commonly what I find are items to add to my grocery list or an oh s**t realisation that I've failed to reply to an email or message.
Eight days later, that same chatter hasn't returned. And neither has the ache in my back that I've had for over 3 years. I'm curious to know why. I want to know why that chatter has been replaced with something quite different. It's like somebody literally pushed my Reset button.
Anybody I've worked with before knows that I'm a bit of an Oliver Twist about data and that I can be incredibly annoyingly persistent with my "please sir, I want some more" data requests when I'm working on finding the root cause of a business challenge. To me, data equals fact.
So I'm curious to know why with no physical or mental exertion at all on my behalf, I experienced what I can only describe as a complete Control+Alt+Delete reboot of both my physical body and my mind. And I figured you might be curious too.
Filmed in 2004, the document THINK ABOUT IT captures others having exactly the same energy bubble experience I had earlier this month and provides insights into what PureBioenergy is.
Disclaimer: I have no business association with PureBioenergy. I've not been trained in any way and nor am I making any scientific, medical or health related claims. 30 days ago I had never heard of this and the above is simply a personal recount of what I experienced. I'm just a girl who through a weird life journey found herself in a bubble, and literally had a mind blowing experience. Now it's something I just cannot unsee.
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The ZOPA is a range of rates over which you can expect to lend out money over the next 7 days. The bottom of the ZOPA is where you will lend out your money as fast as possible by participating in all loan applications. The top of the ZOPA is where you will lend out your money at a slow rate while still participating in some loan applications over the coming week. The rate you choose in each market should give you a return you find acceptable after fees and possible bad debt regardless of what the rest of the market is doing. But, if you select a very high rate that is above the Zopa in all markets, you may not lend money and earn no interest at all.
To work out both key figures we will use 1 month of actual loan applications and disbursals. The reason for using 1 month rather than 7 days is to smooth out the monthly funding cycle and to produce a large data set to improve statistical significance. This data will be used to generate a participation curve like the one shown on the chart below. The horizontal axis of this chart shows the lending offer rate and the vertical axis the percentage of all loans (in A* Shorter in this case) the lending offer would have participated in the last month.
It's as simple as that! A few small changes need to be made to the lending offer page and to the matching queue to make this new method work better and I'll talk about that in my next post.


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except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup

readme = open('README.rst').read()
history = open('HISTORY.rst').read().replace('.. :changelog:', '')

requirements = [
    'Jinja2',
    'python-wordpress-xmlrpc',
    'requests'
]

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    name='mwp',
    version='0.1.0',
    description='Post your meetup calendar to wordpress.',
    long_description=readme + '\n\n' + history,
    author='j.c.sackett',
    author_email='jcsackett@splatspace.org',
    url='https://github.com/splatspace/mwp',
    packages=[
        'mwp',
    ],
    package_dir={'mwp':
                 'mwp'},
    include_package_data=True,
    install_requires=requirements,
    license="BSD",
    zip_safe=False,
    keywords='mwp',
    classifiers=[
        'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
        'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
        'Natural Language :: English',
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        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
    ],
    entry_points="""\
    [console_scripts]
    mwp = mwp.mwp:main
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)

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In my 4 years of attending jr high/highschool, I have always found it much more convenient to read eBooks instead of paper books, to type essays rather than write them by hand, and to not have to carry heavy stacks of textbooks around.Technology makes schoolwork, as well as office work, easier for two main reasons: convenience and cheapness.
We all have done it in our lifetimes. We have forgotten folders, lost documents, and misplaced papers every once in a while. This is why we have an amazing advantage of computers is that they compress large amounts of information into small sizes. Some computer disks and flash drives can store entire volumes of Shakespeare's works within a couple inches. World Book Encyclopedia is now available on the Internet, when before it was available in large books at the library. iPads don't require pencils, papers, books, or any other office supplies. Compressed information results in a lower chance of misplacing something and an easier time trying to find a specific document.
Furthermore, iPads are faster and more productive. The average typing speed of a regular human is around 25 words per minute. Many professional computer users type up to 50 words per minute, and others can type even faster. At such speeds, lessons go by faster and more content can fit into one school semester.


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GRAHAM CHAPMAN'S MEMORIAL SPEECH
Delivered by John Cleese at his memorial service, Jan 1990
Graham Chapman, co-author of the 'Parrot Sketch,' is no more.
He has ceased to be, bereft of life, he rests in peace, he has kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the Great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky, and I guess that we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, such capability and kindness, of such intelligence should now be so suddenly spirited away at the age of only forty-eight, before he'd achieved many of the things of which he was capable, and before he'd had enough fun.
Well, I feel that I should say, "Nonsense. Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard! I hope he fries. "
And the reason I think I should say this is, he would never forgive me if I didn't, if I threw away this opportunity to shock you all on his behalf. Anything for him but mindless good taste. I could hear him whispering in my ear last night as I was writing this:
"Alright, Cleese, you're very proud of being the first person to ever say 'shit' on television. If this service is really for me, just for starters, I want you to be the first person ever at a British memorial service to say 'fuck'!"
You see, the trouble is, I can't. If he were here with me now I would probably have the courage, because he always emboldened me. But the truth is, I lack his balls, his splendid defiance. And so I'll have to content myself instead with saying 'Betty Mardsen...'
But bolder and less inhibited spirits than me follow today. Jones and Idle, Gilliam and Palin. Heaven knows what the next hour will bring in Graham's name. Trousers dropping, blasphemers on pogo sticks, spectacular displays of high-speed farting, synchronised incest. One of the four is planning to stuff a dead ocelot and a 1922 Remington typewriter up his own arse to the sound of the second movement of Elgar's cello concerto. And that's in the first half.
Because you see, Gray would have wanted it this way. Really. Anything for him but mindless good taste. And that's what I'll always remember about him---apart, of course, from his Olympian extravagance. He was the prince of bad taste. He loved to shock. In fact, Gray, more than anyone I knew, embodied and symbolised all that was most offensive and juvenile in Monty Python. And his delight in shocking people led him on to greater and greater feats. I like to think of him as the pioneering beacon that beat the path along which fainter spirits could follow.
Some memories. I remember writing the undertaker speech with him, and him suggesting the punch line, 'All right, we'll eat her, but if you feel bad about it afterwards, we'll dig a grave and you can throw up into it.' I remember discovering in 1969, when we wrote every day at the flat where Connie Booth and I lived, that he'd recently discovered the game of printing four-letter words on neat little squares of paper, and then quietly placing them at strategic points around our flat, forcing Connie and me into frantic last minute paper chases whenever we were expecting important guests.
I remember him at BBC parties crawling around on all fours, rubbing himself affectionately against the legs of gray-suited executives, and delicately nibbling the more appetizing female calves. Mrs. Eric Morecambe remembers that too.
I remember his being invited to speak at the Oxford union, and entering the chamber dressed as a carrot---a full length orange tapering costume with a large, bright green sprig as a hat - and then, when his turn came to speak, refusing to do so. He just stood there, literally speechless, for twenty minutes, smiling beatifically. The only time in world history that a totally silent man has succeeded in inciting a riot.
I remember Graham receiving a Sun newspaper TV award from Reggie Maudling. Who else! And taking the trophy falling to the ground and crawling all the way back to his table, screaming loudly, as loudly as he could. And if you remember Gray, that was very loud indeed.
It is magnificent, isn't it? You see, the thing about shock... is not that it upsets some people, I think; I think that it gives others a momentary joy of liberation, as we realised in that instant that the social rules that constrict our lives so terribly are not actually very important.
Well, Gray can't do that for us anymore. He's gone. He is an ex-Chapman. All we have of him now is our memories. But it will be some time before they fade.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Before you learned how to walk, you fell down many times. Before you completed a sentence and connected them to form a paragraph, you had to learn the alphabets and words. It took practice before you could accomplish or be made perfect in these areas. Practice does make perfect. What you become perfect in is up to you. A criminal did not become skilled in his way of thinking over night. He or she was first a child that found it cute to steal candy, cleaver to take money from mom's purse and embraced the challenge to take an item out of a store. What ever you practice becomes a natural habit. Habits, although difficult to unlearn, can be broken. The Israelites developed a bad habit of spiritual amnesia and disobedience to God. Every time God manifested a promise, they soon forgot the instructions and commandments attached. When He gave them a warning and a choice, they often refused to give up the things that were causing them separation from God.
Spiritual Manifestation: Professing Christianity means that we are Christ-like; we are daily being perfected. Each day through our thoughts, actions and decisions we are looking more and more like Christ. This can not be accomplished if we are not practicing what the Word teaches us. Like the Israelites, our rebellion will give other gods permission to have authority in our lives. God prophesied through Jeremiah that "your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good" (5:25). We have to be careful not to allow our hearts to become harden. There are good things awaiting us but we allow ourselves to interfere with reception. What practice do you need to unlearn? What do you need to put into practice? The answer to both is in this question: What will make God greater in your life? He has given a warning and the choice is now ours!
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Q: Unable to use Resource Functions for Azure Resource Manager Templates My parameters file looks as follows:
    {
       "$schema":"http://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentParameters.json#",
       "contentVersion":"1.0.0.0",
       "parameters":{
          "siteName":{
             "value":"my-api-application"
          },
          "appServicePlanName":{
             "value":"MyServicePlan"
          },
          "siteLocation":{
             "value":"West US"
          },
          "vaultResourceGroup": {
            "value":"my-vault-res-group"
          },
          "vaultName": {
            "value":"my-keyvault"
          },
          "nodeEnv": {
            "value":"development"
          },
          "adminPassword": {
            "reference": {
              "keyVault": {
                "id": "/subscriptions/yyyyyyyy-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-yyyyyyyy/resourceGroups/my-vault-res-group/providers/Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/my-keyvault"
              },
              "secretName": "adminPassword"
            }
          }
       }
    }

The adminPassword value will be picked up from the specified KeyVault, with the particular id.  However, I have to hard code the "id" value.
According to this link, I could specify the id using some thing like this:
resourceId(subscription().subscriptionId, parameters('vaultResourceGroup'), 'Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults', parameters('vaultName'))]

However, when using the above syntax/Resource Functions, I receive an error while releasing and deploying my App Service using the VSTS (I used Azure Resource Group Deployment task for APP deployment). The error is some what like this:

The id must be of the following format:

/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/{resourceProviderNamespace}/{resourceType}/{resourceName}

Not sure what am I doing wrong?

A: You're not doing anything wrong, that's intentional.  You must use a literal resourceId in the parameters file (parameters files don't allow for function use).
If you have a scenario for a dynamic KeyVault id you can use a nested deployment:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-manager-keyvault-parameter#reference-a-secret-with-dynamic-id

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It's that time of year again! Christmas parties with family, friends and church, and a lot of potluck. When I'm asked to bring a dish, I usually go with dessert because that is my comfort zone but I have wanted to branch out and do the salad scene. I love salads, but it seems at least to me that there is only a few salads out there that we all take to the parties, like; green salad, broccoli, jello and pasta. I have been on a mission to find something different. Since I love caramel this was my first stop! What I love about this is that it looks like all the salads that you usually see on the table at many gatherings but once you dig in there is so many different flavors going on that you will be hooked!
Pretzels: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl, mix together the chopped pretzels, pecans, brown sugar, and melted butter.
Place a piece of parchment paper onto a baking sheet and then spread out the mixture onto the pan. Bake for about 7 minutes. Let cool and then break it into small pieces.
Cream cheese: In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese and caramel sauce until smooth.
Fold in the Cool Whip. Stir in the diced apples and the pretzel mixture. Garnish with a handful of pecans and drizzle with caramel.
Check in later today for another salad idea!
Yummy! I love caramel too, so this looks great!
Kimberly, this looks so good! I bet it would go over great at a holiday buffet or pot-luck, the kids would love it. That is if they could get past the parents to get a spoonful! LOL Happy Holidays!!
I am surly drooling over this Caramel Apple Salad, it is fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Full Plate Thursday and have a great day.
Oh my goodness! I could devour this all! Congrats on your #HomeMattersParty feature.
Looks delicious, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning.


Nestle is the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company and its mission of "Good Food, Good Life" has for objective to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night (Nestle, 2010). Having more than 450 manufacturing facilities in over 80 countries spreading over six continents (Mattera, 2010). Nestle believes that food and beverages play an increasing role in people's lives, not only in terms of enjoyment and social pleasure, but also in terms of personal health and for nutritional reasons (The World of Nestle, 2006).
Whereas the macro-environment includes the major forces prevailing in the external environment over which the organisation does not have any control.
In Nestle, the microenvironment includes Suppliers, Customers, Distributors & Intermediaries and competitors.
(a) Suppliers. Nestle relies to a varying degree on the sourcing of raw materials from around the world, which exposes the Group to price fluctuations and supply uncertainties that are subject to factors such as commodity market price volatility, currency fluctuations, changes in governmental agricultural programs, harvest and weather conditions, crop disease, crop yields, alternative crops and by-product values, according to Nestle Holdings Inc. (2006). Nestle works Business Continuity Plans regularly to mitigate against any event of disruption in suppliers (Nestle's Annual Report, 2012).


Fresh off a limited Old Chub Scotch Ale Nitro launch at the Craft Brewers Conference in April, Oskar Blues Brewery will begin distributing the first American craft nitro beer in a can nationally. The nitro version of Old Chub has been modified from 8 percent ABV to 6.9 percent ABV to ensure full pint pours rather than 8-ounce or 10-ounce "tulip" or "rocks" glass pours as a result of the high ABV.
The original brobdingnagian Old Chub Scotch Ale 12-ounce cans will remain at 8 percent ABV. When you combine the drinkability of the nitro pour and the increased serving size of the over-pint 16.4 ounce nitro can, 6.9-percent ABV allows beer drinkers a chance to enjoy more cans. The new nitro cans will begin shipping next week to all 35 states that Oskar Blues distributes to, alongside the original 12-ounce Old Chub cans.
After years of experimenting with putting fresh draft beers on nitro, Oskar Blues Brewery decided to take the next step and insert the robustly complex Old Chub into a Nitro' d can. Both internal and taproom trials were part of the new formulation process, and the 6.9-percent version measured up in taste to the 8 percent version while many liked the ability to have more than one.
"This wasn't an easy undertaking, but in the end, we were able to craft the most appropriate incarnation of Old Chub for the nitro style," said Brewer Juice Drapeau, who was a driving force in the project.
Nitro refers to the addition of nitrogen (N2) gas to the carbonation process. Nitrogen bubbles are smaller than CO2 bubbles and they don't get along, so they react with and displace each other, creating the signature "cascade" when allowed to agitate, which contributes to the thick, creamy mouth feel of nitro brews. In the can, the special nitro widget releases nitrogen gas into the beer when it's opened, causing the beer to cascade. On draft, a special piece of tap equipment called a restrictor plate forces the nitrogenated beer through tiny holes to help provide that necessary friction to create the Nitro cascade.
The self-dubbed "Chub Thrust" pushed the innovation of a quality nitro experience in a canwith the help of The Ball Corp. Old Chub Nitro utilizes an existing widget technology developed by Ball. The Nitro widget is attached to the bottom of the can and is charged with nitrogen during the filling process. The widget releases the nitrogen when the can is opened, liberating the cascading creamy smooth nitro pour.
Old Chub Nitro will continue to be available in 16.4-ounce 4-pack cans priced in line with Dale's Pale Ale, Mama's Little Yella Pils and Old Chub 12-ounce 6-packs.


A little over a decade ago Africa was being written off by some observers as a 'hopeless' or 'lost' continent. While these characterizations were problematic, international business has now 'discovered' the African market and the level of communicative connectivity between the continent and the rest of the world has increased substantially as a result of improved infrastructure and associated falling information relay costs. This chapter examines the discourse and development of the 'Information Age' in Africa from low connectivity at the beginning of the fibre optic revolution to the current boom in mobile phone and internet usage. While much of the literature to date has been celebratory, this chapter adopts a critical perspecuve to interrogate the dialectical nature of this revolution in Africa; arguing that fibre-optic cables bring new constraints, not only opportunities.


I just dont care anymore. I am in my next to last semester and I just have no interest in doing anything!! I dont want to work, I have a ton of work due and I just cant work on any of it. I just want to go home, and spend all day with my baby!! I had been so focused but I feel like the more effort I exert the worse I do. I have projects I should be working on, books I need to be reading, papers I need to be writing, and instead I am on the computer. Actually, I am the library right now in between classes and should be doing the paper that is due in my next class, but I am not! haha I have always been so organized and focused and I just dont know where these feelings are coming from. Not to mention I want another baby!! DS is 6 months old and I just can not get the thought of having another baby out of my head. I need to just stop and focus but I cant do it!!! HELP!!
Get doing your job by doing the work for school. You have come a long way to stop now go and finish your work. "YOU CAN DO IT" make everyone proud even yourself.
Aww, sounds like a version of senior-itus! My sister is a senior in highschool and is going through the same thing (well, minus the baby stuff!) Anyway, I was just thinking about another baby a few minutes ago! I agree with lisastar, you have made it this far, it would be a shame to give up now! You can do it! Are you still working at the day-care? maybe you can quit that job to balance things out a little, as long as dh is making enough money, good luck, and go BS that paper!
I feel like a lot of my problem is that I feel like my spirit has been crushed. Up until this point I have been trying but I havent given my all and have been receiving praise and confirmation and this semester I decided to buckle down and work my hardest and it seems like all I am getting is criticism and negative feedback. I have such a pa__sion for kids and teaching but now all this negative feedback has me questioning if this is really what I should be doing and if I will do good enough at it. I just feel like I dont have the heart to put into my work that I used to. Does that make any sense?
I have the same problem. I have a 3.9 gpa and am in my second year. I'm only part time so I have a way to go, but I've been doing really well and now I just can't get myself together and get motivated. I have one cla__s on campus, and that one's not bad, but I have an online cla__s too, and that one is killer, because I have to tear myself away from my 11wks old son and it's so hard. I'll have dh take over for a while, but if I hear him laughing I want to be there to see what he's laughing at, and what cute thing ds is doing, and if he cries, I can't concentrate on anything. It's terrible. I have a really small house, too, so there's no quiet away place to go either.
i know what you mean about the wanting another baby thing!! All thats been buzzing around in my head the last few days is that too. I can't seem to shake it, it's either we have another baby or i get a new pet every month :o) To be serious though... could you maybe take a wee break from studies untill your lo is slightly older so you dont feel like youre missing out on so much? Or maybe just try your hardest to think that its only a few cla__ses a week and you have the rest of your life with him? i know its FAR easier said than done, but im afraid thats the extent of my wisdom... i have no fail safe advice for you.
I can't really help you on the wanting another baby thing, but as far as school burnout I can tell you my solution has always been to take a semester off. Some may not agree with that but I've done it 2-3 times when I felt way too overwhelmed with it all (like this semester) and it helped a lot. Sometimes the break over summer (if you don't do summer cla__ses) is enough. I was going straight from fall to spring so I decided to rest this semester. Maybe looking forward to a rest over the summer can give you enough inspiration to give that extra push to get done with this semester. For some people taking a break is not an option as they are afraid they will never go back or they have a certain time frame they HAVE to get done in...don't know if any of that applies to you or not? I have often questioned myself whether I am cut out to teach or if it's still my pa__sion. I am always reaffirmed after a break.


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OVE – Scotts Blog of Doom!
Things are rolling along as usual around here, which means a lot of the same stories that kind of need to go somewhere already. That's one of Impact's biggest problems and it's been the case for years: they don't seem to know how wrap up stories so things just keep going on and on for months. Hopefully we get some advancement soon because the good things that they have are rapidly approaching their expiration date. Let's get to it.
It's the go home show for this year's Bound For Glory and that really could mean anything tonight. The big question is how much action will actually take place in this country, which has been up and down over the last few months. They need to set up some stuff for Sunday though and that needs to be done in a hurry. Let's get to it.
We're closing in on Bound For Glory though nothing has actually been mentioned about the show yet. The big match this week is OVE vs. LAX for the Tag Team Titles….from the Crash in Tijuana, Mexico. In other words, it's more footage from another promotion instead of here at Impact Wrestling. This is starting to feel like Ring of Honor and that's really not a good thing. Let's get to it.


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MACD negative and diverging with the price: from mid-September 2021 the indicator began a gradual upward reversal while the price continued to lose ground
RSI oversold since early September 2021 also in positive divergence with the price
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Nikolai and Sergei Legat
Nikolai Gustavovich Legat was a Premier Danseur, teacher, choreographer and caricaturist, born on the 27th December 1869 in Moscow. Sergei Gustavovich Legat was a Premier Danseur, choreographer and caricaturist, born on the 27th September 1875 in Moscow.
Nikolai Legat
The Legat brothers were born into an artistic family – their father, Gustav was a dancer and Ballet Master. They studied at the Imperial Ballet School under their father, Pavel Gerdt, Christian Johansson and Lev Ivanov. While still a student, Sergei received his first major role at the age of 17 when he created the role of the Nutcracker Prince in Ivanov and Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker in 1892. Nikolai graduated from the school in 1888 and Sergei graduated in 1894; both joined the Imperial Ballet and went onto become two of the greatest ballet dancers in the world. The Legat brothers became pioneers in the field of male technique, spreading the influence on male dancing by that of their teacher, Enrico Cecchetti.
Sergei Legat
Nikolai and Sergei Legat became Premier Danseur ca. 1894 and 1903 respectively and created some of the most famous principal male roles in the Petipa/Ivanov repertoire – Nikolai created roles such as the Nightingale in The Whims of the Butterfly, Olivier in Kalkabrino, Mars in Bluebeard and Béranger in Raymonda. He often acted as an additional cavalier for the ageing Pavel Gerdt in roles such as Prince Désiré, Prince Siegfried and Solor and was Gerdt's main successor in these lead male roles. Sergei created roles such as Hermes in The Awakening of Flora, Arthur in Bluebeard and Jean de Brienne in Raymonda. Both brothers were the creators of some of the original, most famous classical male variations, with Nikolai creating the original variations of Prince Désiré and Solor. The Legat brothers also frequently partnered some of ballet's greatest Prima Ballerinas including Pierina Legnani, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Matilda Kschessinskaya and Anna Pavlova.
Nikolai Legat as Beranger in Raymonda (1898)
By 1901, Nikolai had begun to show his abilities as a teacher, as he began assisting Christian Johansson's classes at the Imperial Ballet School. He eventually succeeded Johansson as teacher after Johansson retired. In 1903, the Legat brothers were given the opportunity to show their abilities as choreographers when they choreographed their own version of The Fairy Doll. Another talent that the Legat brothers possessed was one as caricaturists and they released a book of caricatures of their colleagues, teachers and themselves entitled The Russian Ballet in Caricatures.
Nikolai and Sergei Legat and Olga Preobrazhenskaya in The Fairy Doll (1903)
In 1903, Sergei entered a civil marriage to Marie Petipa, which his brother disapproved of, though Sergei held a geninue, but unrequited love for his new wife, who was eighteen years his senior. Nikolai's personal life was slightly more unusual – he was married to the dancer, Olga Chumakova for ten years. When they divorced, he married her sister, Antonia, with whom he had a daughter, Maria, but two years later, the couple separated. Eventually, some years later, Nikolai met the dancer, Nadezhda (Nadine) Nicolayeva, who was half his age, and became his new wife.
Marie Petipa as Medora and Sergei Legat as Conrad in Le Corsaire (1900)
In 1905, after Petipa had been forced into retirement, the dancers of the Imperial Theatre went on strike against the director of that time, Col. Vladimir Telaykovsky, demanding higher salaries and the restoration of Petipa as Ballet Master. The Legat brothers were among those to participate in the strike, alongside the likes of Anna Pavlova and Mikhail Fokine. However, as a result of this strike, the Legat family and the ballet world were shaken by a sudden tragedy. Behind his great dancing talent, there was a side to Sergei that no one could control, caused by a heredity mental illness that ran in the family. The impact of the strike took its toll on his mental health, so much so that he became torn between loyalty to his colleagues and the authorities and in the end, he committed suicide by slashing his throat with a razor. Sergei Legat died on the 1st November 1905, aged 30. He is buried in the Legat family grave in the Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.
The Legat family grave in the Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery, in which Sergei and Gustav Legat are buried (2012)
In 1909, Nikolai became Ballet Master of the Imperial Ballet, with his main aim being to preserve the legacy of Petipa. However, he was forced to resign in 1914 due to clashes with the theatre management. He travelled to the West with his wife and worked as Ballet Master and teacher with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Following the First World War, he attempted to return to Russia, but found that, due to the impact of the revolution, it was impossible to find work in his beloved homeland again. Nikolai and Nadine Legat left Russia for good in 1922 and eventually settled in London in 1926. The couple later founded their own ballet school, the Legat School of Ballet in Kent. Nikolai earned a good reputation as a teacher and among his students were Olga Spessivtseva, Alexandra Danilova, Dame Ninette de Valois, Serge Lifar, Dame Alicia Markova, Sir Anton Dolin, Moira Shearer and Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Self-caricature of the Legat brothers
Nikolai Legat died on the 24th January 1937, aged 67. He was cremated and his ashes are buried with those of his wife and her family in the Kent and Sussex Cemetery in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Nikolai Legat's grave in the Kent and Sussex Cemetery (2015)
When the Legat brothers staged their production of The Fairy Doll in 1903, both brothers were meant to dance the roles of the two Pierrots. However, shortly before the première, Nikolai injured his foot and was forced to withdraw from the performance. He was replaced by Mikhail Fokine, but his injury soon healed and he eventually made his début as the first Pierrot.
Nikolai Legat's Imperial Ballet repertoire
The Nightingale in The Whims of the Butterfly (1889)
Olivier in Kalkabrino (1891)
Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty (**1894)
The Phoenix Moth in The Caprices of the Butterfly (*1895)
Cavalier of the Yellow Pearl in The Pearl (1896)
Mars in Bluebeard (1896)
Béranger in Raymonda (1898)
Solor in La Bayadère
Zephyr in The Seasons (1900)
Vestris in Les Élèves de Dupré (*1900)
Zephyrus, the God of the West Wind in The Awakening of Flora (**1900)
Apollo in The Two Stars (*1900)
Prince Colqueluche in The Nutcracker (*1900)
Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake
Count Albrecht in Giselle (*1903)
The first Pierrot in The Fairy Doll (1903)
Pierre Gringoire in La Esmeralda
Sergei Legat's Imperial Ballet repertoire
The Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker (1892)
Hermes the Messenger of the Gods in The Awakening of Flora (1894)
The Nightingale in The Caprices of the Butterfly (*1895)
Acis in Acis and Galatea (1896)
The Cornet of Lancers in The Calvary Halt (1896)
Arthur in Bluebeard (1896)
Adonis in Les Noces de Thétis et Pélée or Les Aventures de Pélée (*1897)
Jean de Brienne in Raymonda (1898)
Vestris in La Camargo (*1901)
Conrad in Le Corsaire
Aminta in Sylvia (*1902)
The second Pierrot in The Fairy Doll (1903)
Peters in The Haarlem Tulip (*1903)
The Prince in The Magic Mirror (1903)
(* – original cast member of role in revival)
(** – year of début performance in role)
Legat, Nikolai (1939) Ballet Russe: Memoirs of Nikolai Legat. London, UK: Methuen
Gregory, John (1994) The Legat Saga: Nikolai Gustavovich Legat, 1869-1937. UK: Dance Books Ltd


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Gays Mills woman remembers her life in Yemen
KHADIJA TRACY LACINA makes a point during her presentation at the Gays Mills Community Com-merce Center on Saturday, Feb. 1.
GAYS MILLS - Khadija Tracy Lacina left the Kickapoo Valley decades ago, but she was definitely back home Saturday night at the Gays Mills Community Commerce Center. Lacina talked to an interested crowd of 60 people about where she had been–including 10 years spent in Yemen and living through a civil war while there.
The 45-minute talk worked its way into a few hours including a lengthy question-answer period that followed her presentation.
Lacina began with a heartfelt recollection of growing up in the Kickapoo Valley.
"I have deep roots here," Lacina said. "I've been away 20-some years, but it's good to be back. I'm happy to be home. There's no place like this in the world. This little valley is a special place."
Then, it was time for Tracy to take the crowd back on what she referred to as her Yemeni Journey.
The publicity for the event had promised this would not be a travelogue and despite the slides and some delicious Yemeni food, this definitely was not a travelogue. It was the retelling of journey taken by Lacina and her family.
The next several slides showed some bombed out buildings and some beleaguered people.
"This is war," Lacina told the group. "There's a price to war…I lived in it for three of four years."
Lacina let the reality of her words and photos sink in. Yemen is a third world country, she noted.
"We lived off grapes for a month during the war," she said.
"You have to understand the price of war," she explained. "It's a price that has to be paid. The paying is done by people like this little girl."
Then, Lacina addressed a question probably on the mind of most everyone in the room.
"How did I get to Yemen?' Lacina asked.
The middle-aged woman, wearing a dark colored hijab, explained how it happened. A single mother in college, Lacina struggled to make ends meet and graduate.
At one point, she met with her brother Ray Lacina and noticed a profound change had taken place. The temperamental, volatile person she remembered had changed to a peaceful person. He had become a Muslim.
"I saw the change that had taken place when he became a Muslin," Tracy recalled. "That got me interested."
After graduating from college, she was married to a man whose father was from Benin in West Africa.
Lacina and her husband took up a nomadic life with stops in Boulder and Denver, eventually they wound up in East Orange New Jersey. Lacina volunteered that the family lived in the ghetto.
The family decided to move to Yemen so they sold everything and moved to Yemen, where they believed it would be easy to live. They sold the house and some possessions and thought they had enough money to live on for a year.
Lacina wanted to learn religion from the wife and daughter of Muslim scholar.
The family flew to Yemen and each family member brought four books, two toys and four sets of clothes.
The first thing Lacina noticed in Yemen was that everyone was armed.
However, the family had no intention of living as tourists. They were determined to live with the common people.
"It's hard to condense 10 years into 45 minutes," Lacina told the crowd gathered in Gays Mils. "Yemen is a beautiful ancient land."
Then, the girl from the Kickapoo Valley took the audience on a stream of consciousness ride through 10 years of living Yemen.
Having a baby and not being able to get a taxi to the hospital–rejecting one taxi driver and who wanted $50 for another that wound up taking no money, but driving very slowly.
Being adopted by a woman and her relatives when they discovered the young mother had no family.
Experiencing trouble at the armed checkpoints and witnessing gratuitous violence.
Learning through email that her sister in her 40s was ill and then learning she had died, while Tracy remained in Yemen. Then, learning after the fact, that her father had died.
"I started to realize that I had gotten into something that was more than I had thought," Lacina recalled.
Her husband was arrested for traveling to areas without permission. The family moved back to the capital Sana'a and then to another village
"There was always something good going on," Lacina noted.
Unfortunately, in the village to which they had moved, the civil war erupted when the Houthi rebels attacked. It was the first village attacked
There was trouble at checkpoints–trouble getting food and medicine into the village and violence.
At one point, Lacina was suffering from typhoid, malaria and hepatitis without her husband, who had left for the United States.
There was more, much more to the talk…
"My family didn't give up on me," Lacina said. "They brought me home."
In a long question and answer period that followed, Khadija Tracy Lacina took to time to carefully answer each question. She explained the difference between the three major sects of Islam, the essence of the Mediterranean diet, the nuances of the mud brick architecture of Yemen and much, much more.
Through it all, the Muslim woman who returned to her home in the Kickapoo Valley joked about the situation in which she often found herself, during those days in Yemen.
Oh, one more thing, Khadija Tracy Lacina is a huge fan of Doctors without Borders, who made their way through a Houthi rebel blockade of the village to deliver needed supplies and assistance.
Of those enemies, the Houthis, Khadija said, "I hate them. But I'm very biased. I'm sure they would tell a different side of the story."
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Twin and Twingo: Renault Twingo Review
by Martin Gurdon
Some cars have more in common than they let on.
Thus Seats, Audis, Skodas and VWs are related to an incestuous degree.
With cars, it's all about reducing development and production costs. Cash can also be saved by using the same bits in as many different vehicles as possible, because the more those bits are churned out, the cheaper they become.
This is one reason why a lot of cars are very similar technically and tends to result in pragmatism rather than innovation. So most little cars have front engines and front wheel drive, with the exception of the dinky Renault Twingo, whose 3 cylinder, 1-litre motor lies under the boot floor and drives its back wheels. Lots of cars were built like this in the 1950s and 60s, and some had distinctly wobbly handling as a result, but many were also compact and space efficient.
Although it could do with more rear legroom, the Twingo is cleverly packaged and isn't dodgy to drive. It is refreshingly unconformist, but Renault would struggle to turn a profit from it if the car's components didn't have wider applications, which is why variations of them have ended up in the latest Smart cars, with the five-door, ForFour being a Twingo with a serious makeover. I had the interesting experience of spending a week with both (a non-turbo 70PS Renault and a turbocharged, 90PS Smart -engines available in either model).
Sharing the same substructure, door frames and most of the glazing means that you can tell they're related. The Renault has a latter-day 1960's French chic, but the snub-nosed Smart is more singular than it at first appears. Virtually every panel has a slightly different contour or profile. Even the door handles have changed.
Inside the cabin architecture is the same, but has been cleverly re-worked, with the Smart having an array of controls for the heat/vent system and other things that reminded me of an old transistor radio, and which I rather liked, although my wife thought it looked daft. It buzzed under acceleration, and neither of us liked that.
'Why is the speedometer wearing a hat' asked my beloved, as we climbed into the Renault and peered at the cowl shrouding this half-moon shaped instrument. Again, this didn't offend me. Overall I thought the Smart's dash more interesting, the Renault's slightly easier to use.
Both cars had plenty of storage space although I could have done without the Smart's rear floor mounted oddments box that meant it could only carry four people. Luggage decks were high thanks to the rear engines and boot space OK, although with the seats folded not fantastic.
Both cars had nice high seating positions, tombstone front seats and thick rear quarter pillars, which conspired to create big, irritating blind spots, which given these cars' town friendliness was a significant black mark. However, the rear engines meant that the front wheels have been given really tight locks, making both cars brilliant at squeezing into tiny spaces.
They had joggly rides and quick steering, although the Smart, which had slightly smaller tyres, was more composed, and I actually preferred the way it handled. The weight of the engine was more apparent in the Renault. Both were pushed about by motorway crosswinds in a way front engined rivals wouldn't be, and this might make longer journeys a bit wearing, but were mechanically quiet thanks to much of the engine noise being left behind.
I'd pay extra for the turbo motor, as the less powerful, non-turbo Twingo felt rather flat-footed when accelerating, although it perfectly relaxed once wound up.
The Renault had a pleasing, slick gear change, the Smart had a rather gritty action, which is odd, as both use the same components and are built at the same factory.
Overall I rather liked these little cars, which were flawed in places, but distinctive and interesting in a world where many of their rivals are not. If forced to choose I'd go for the Renault because I preferred its looks. You might think the Smart has a winning pug dog cuteness, but neither car will be mistaken for anything else.
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Il Mastino persiano (en. Persian Mastiff), anche noto come Mastino iraniano, Cane da pastore persiano o Cane/Mastino di Sarabi, è una razza canina molossoide (tipo cane da montagna) originaria dell'antica Persia (attuale Iran), già raffigurata in alcune statue presso il complesso palaziale di Persepoli, attualmente non riconosciuta dalla FCI, impiegata come cane da pastore e da combattimento (anticamente come cane da guerra).

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La razza originò in tempi molto antichi dall'archetipo razziale dei "molossoidi", un grande cane da montagna selezionato in epoca protostorica nel Medioriente (fond. nella Mezzaluna Fertile), dove la nascente pastorizia aveva evidenziato la necessità di selezionare un grosso cane difensore del gregge, evolutosi durante l'Età del ferro come cane da guerra/palazzo nelle prime grandi civiltà (assiri, babilonesi, ittiti, egizi). Dalla Mesopotamia, il molossoide si diffuse nell'antico impero persiano e da lì al Caucaso, all'India ed a tutti i paesi tra le pendici indo-pakistane dell'Himalaya (Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, ecc.) e le steppe mongoliche, originando diversi ceppi locali: tutti cani accomunati da una certa tipologia caratteriale (forte, dominante, territoriale e protettiva verso la famiglia umana) ma con varianti morfologiche dovute alle diversità climatiche e del territorio.

L'attuale Mastino Persiano discende dall'antica forma molossoide diffusasi nelle terre achemenidi. Le testimonianze storiche concorrono però a ricordarci che nelle contrade di questo vasto dominio vennero selezionate e sviluppate diverse schiatte molossoidi, presumibilmente mescolate tra loro a più riprese. Ciò proprio perché i persiani furono gli artefici della diffusione del Molossoide dall'Assiria alla varie contrade d'Oriente: le origini del mastino indiano vanno per l'appunto ricercate nell'invasione persiana della regione indo-pakistana guidata da Dario I di Persia nel 518 a.C..

La passione degli antichi persiani per i cani, soprattutto grandi cani da guardia/guerra, è ben ricordata dalle fonti. Erodoto ci parla di un satrapo babilonese che investiva tutto il suo denaro nell'allevamento di molossoidi, prima ancora di parlarci dei "mastini indiani" che Serse portò con sé in Grecia durante la seconda guerra persiana. Claudio Eliano ci riporta che accanto alle spoglie dell'assassinato Dario, Alessandro Magno trovò solo il suo cane a vegliarlo.

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Bibliografia

Fonti
Erodoto (V secolo a.C.), Storie

Studi
Morris D (2008), Dogs, North Pomfret, Vermont, ISBN 978-1-57076-410-3.
Omidsalar M [e] TP, Dog in ancient Iran, in Encyclopaedia Iranica.

Collegamenti esterni
Sarabi dogs of Alexander

Razze canine non riconosciute dalla FCI
Molossoidi

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10 Things to Know About Ramadan
Observed by millions of Muslims worldwide, Ramadan is an interesting mix of austerity and celebration. For those who are observing it, it's nil by mouth from when the sun rises, so it's very important to eat and drink wisely to avoid dehydration and maintain energy levels throughout the day.
Ramadan: 10 things to know
1. Fasting happens during daylight hours
Ramadan is based on the lunar calendar and begins with hilal, which is the Arabic word for crescent or "new moon". This happens in the ninth month of each lunar year. But because the lunar cycle steadily moves backwards, Ramadan falls earlier and earlier each year – moving back 11 days each time.
So during the summer months, days are hotter, making fasting more difficult. With daylight being longer, it means fasting for around 17 hours for people living in Europe – even more in places like Greenland and Sweden. This is why salads are a popular side dish when fast is broken, as they contain fruits and vegetables with high water content to help replenish all the water that's lost while fasting during the day. Think something like tabbouleh that has refreshing cucumber and tomatoes as its main ingredients.
2. There are two main meals eaten during Ramadan
Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam. During this month, two main meals are eaten, daily. They are called suhoor (served pre-dawn) and iftar (served at sunset). Suhoor should be a hearty meal to provide the energy throughout a day of fasting. It ends when the sun rises and fajr or morning prayer begins. Some choose to sleep rather than prepare food and eat during suhoor.
However, having a list of quick and easy-to-make dishes for suhoor is useful, such as homemade muesli oats with dates and berries or Egyptian egg salad – this salad contains slow-burning superfood fava beans, also known as 'foul', which are rich in fibre and protein. Other protein-rich ingredients such as almonds, chickpeas and cheese also feature on the standard suhoor menu.
3. Dates are traditionally the first thing eaten at iftar
In adherence to how the Islamic prophet Muhammad broke his fast, a handful of dates followed by a glass of water are consumed before Maghrib (evening prayer) and the main meal. Soaking dates in milk overnight is a Middle Eastern iftar favourite. Some would eat dates followed by fruit or yogurt, which helps to kick-start the body's metabolism after a day's worth of fasting.
4. Hunger-busting drinks are a big thing during Ramadan
These beverages are not only cooling, they also contain a lot of fibres, protein and antioxidants. In the Middle East, there is jallab (a sweet drink made from dates, rosewater and carob, usually served with pine nuts and raisins) and khoshaf (another sweet treat made of boiled dried fruits like apricots, plums, figs, dates and raisins and flavoured with rosewater). Malaysia and Singapore have millennial-pink bandung, which is a rosewater-flavoured milky drink.
Some ingredients may be difficult to get, so why not incorporate smoothies as part of suhoor or iftar? They're equally refreshing, rehydrating and full of natural sugars, vitamins and minerals.
5. Fasting during Ramadan is a must, but there are 'loopholes'
On top of keeping thoughts pure, Muslims are required to abstain from eating, drinking and refraining from extra pleasures such as cigarettes and chewing gum from sunrise to sunset each day. However, there are some instances in which a fast can be broken. According to the Quran, those who are unwell and/or taking medication, elderly, travelling, pregnant or breastfeeding, as well as children under the age of puberty, can forgo fasting – especially if it will negatively impact their health. A fast can also be broken if a woman is on her period. In all these cases, those who broke their fast can make up for the missed days of fasting.
6. Despite the daily fasting, Ramadan is actually notorious for being a month of weight gain
The fasting and low activity levels during the day often give way to binge eating at night, which can result in slower metabolic cycles that may cause the body to store fat instead of burning it. Not only that, iftar meals are quite heavy and traditionally high in carbohydrates. So in order to maintain a healthy weight throughout the month, Muslims are encouraged to drink plenty of water, eat a diet full of fruits, veg and protein, and really try to wake up every morning for suhoor.
7. Check local laws if you're travelling during Ramadan
Although it's not mentioned in the Quran, there are Islamic countries that have made it illegal for anyone – regardless of their belief – to eat, drink, smoke and even chew gum in public during daylight during Ramadan, to support Muslims who are fasting. Those seen as breaking the code can be penalised, either through a hefty fine or imprisonment.
These days, efforts are being made to accommodate people who are not fasting, and some establishments have closed-off sections where non-fasting people can eat and drink discreetly. However, it's best to check the laws in each country about their approach towards Ramadan if you're going on holiday during what Muslims regard as a holy month. Also, most restaurants in Islamic countries will be closed during the day and will only start operating after sunset.
8. Iftar traditions vary in different countries
In some places, people keep it small and simple, and some will host iftar at an elder's home like a grandparent or uncle. In other countries, such as the UAE, iftar is a feast with several courses. Dishes include traditional soups such as lentil, cream-based vermicelli and roasted tomato soup.
Other quintessential Ramadan dishes include various baked proteins (cooked tagine-style), as well as stuffed vine leaves, roast meat and kebabs. Desserts during Ramadan tend to be pastries soaked in honey syrup, such as baklava and kataifi (a similar treat to baklava made with shredded filo pastry).
9. Ramadan is known as the month of giving
During this time especially, Muslims will engage in charitable acts such as donating food and money to those in need. It is an almsgiving known as zakat, which is one of the five pillars of Islam along with fasting.
10. Eid marks the end of Ramadan
Eid al-Fitr, which means 'feast of breaking the fast', is a three-day celebration that marks the end of Ramadan. This begins when the new moon is sighted, and Muslims rely on news of an official sighting of the new moon rather than looking at the sky themselves. This also means that Eid dates differ around the world, although they are a day or two away from each other. It's a massive event in the Islamic calendar – think Christmas and Easter Sunday combined.
Muslims celebrate with families and friends, and large meals are prepared. In some households, the women of the house gather in their kitchens to make special sugar-coated cookies, known as Eid cookies or kahk, which are served during breakfast.
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Q: How do I define a macro that depends on the height of an argument? I'd like to write a macro that surrounds an argument with two round parentheses which are correctly sized to the argument. Currently I'm using the following macro,
\newcommand{\inpl}[1]{{\left(\kern-.2em\left({#1} \right)\kern-.2em\right)}}

This looks fine when #1 isn't tall, but when it is there's too much whitespace between the brackets.

Changing the kerning amount (e.g. to -.3em) does make the larger brackets look better at the expense of making the smaller ones look too close together.
I think a proper solution would be to change the amount of kerning done depending on the vertical height of #1, effectively replicating what \left does, but I don't know how to write such a macro.
Could anyone tell me how to get the vertical height of the enclosed text as a value that I can compare against, or how macros that dynamically change depending on the vertical height are usually defined?


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Georgia-Russia Rugby Match Amid Political Allegations
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 19 Mar.'11 / 17:46
Saturday's rugby encounter between Russia and Georgia, which the latter won 15-9, became more politically-charged after Georgian government member accused Moscow on Friday of deliberately refusing to provide live televised broadcasting of the game from Sochi.
The encounter in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on March 19 was part of the European Nations Cup tournament, a league below top league of Six Nations Championship in Europe.
Georgian Minister for Sport and Youth Affairs, Lado Vardzelashvili, said late on Friday evening that Russia's state TV station, RTR, in a last-minute announcement informed the Georgian Public Broadcaster that it would no longer conduct live broadcast of the game.
He also said that the Russian side blocked the Georgian Public Broadcaster's attempts to organize live televised broadcasting through local TV station in Sochi.
"I am sure it is a political decision," Vardzelashvili said.
He also said that the Russian side "started creating problems from the very beginning of arrival of our team in Sochi."
He said that one of the players, Davit Kacharava, was stopped and held for two hours by the local authorities in the airport for "unexplained reasons."
"The Russian side's such actions should not be left without reaction," Vardzelashvili said and added that Georgia would inform about it International Rugby Board.
He said that Georgia tried in vain to achieve holding of the planned match on a neutral soil, like it happened a year ago, when the two teams met in Trabzon, Turkey and in which Georgia defeated Russia 36-8.
With this victory in Sochi Georgia now has total of 13 wins, one draw and one defeat against Russia. Russia's only win came in the first meeting between the sides in 1993.
In the ongoing tournament Georgia is in top of the European Nations Cup after winning all five games. Before the Saturday's match Russia was second in the table after two wins and two defeats.
Rugby is becoming increasing popular in Georgia, largely due to success of its national team. International Rugby Board (IRB) awarded Georgia to host this year's Junior World Rugby Trophy.
In the IRB world ranking Georgia is 14th. Victory over Russia on Saturday did not help Georgia to improve its standing in the ranking, but in case of defeat it would have been downgraded to 15th place.


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Q: Windows XP client wont authenticate to Windows Server 2003 First our environment. We have a Windows Server 2003 machine providing all services for Windows, and a pfSense 2.4 firewall providing other services such as DHCP and DNS. The firewall does not directly provide dynamic DNS registration. We have recently changed the DNS IP address, and the DHCP server puts out the DC IP address as a WINS server.
We had a power outage and the client rebooted. The server had a full system disk as well. When that happened, this user on Windows XP could no longer log in to the network shares that they need access to.
The user was recreated on server side, but still cannot log in. Also had user change password on local machine, and reboot. No change. On the local machine it says either the name or password is wrong.
Logging in from another Windows XP machine says that it could not reach the DC for the OFFICE domain (or OFFICE.LOCAL I am assuming). I can log into that machine fine but it has my username as a local user.
Logging in as that user on MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) works fine.
Another heavy Windows network user is using MacOS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and has reported no problems with network shares (although printing is another matter, but that is - I think! - not relevant here).
I'm no Windows wizard, so here I am asking you wizards out there. What gives? Do I need to upgrade this person to a newer Windows?
One thing that is continually coming up is that the DC can't be found because the DNS lookup failed - or the registration failed. Do I need to add our server.office.local to the (non-dynamic) DNS?

A: Sounds like the issue lies with the workstation and not the users account.
With that said :

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*Ensure the DNS servers are correct on the clients workstation

*Remove the workstation from the domain and then re-add it. To do this right click on my computer, select Properties. From there click on the Computer Name tab and click Change. Remove everything from the Domain portion and add the text WORKGROUP into the Workgroup section then save and reboot. When the computer boots up again go back into the Computer Name area and then remove the WORKGROUP text from  the Workgroup text field and then add your domain in the Domain text field.

*If that fails ensure that the workstation has the appropriate ability to connect to the domain controller (You can verify with telnet commands)
telnet server.domainname.com 389
The above command will see if your computer is able to communicate with the server server.domainname.com on TCP port 389 (Standard LDAP port). Note that you may be running LDAP on another port such as 636 if it's SSL LDAP


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Explanatory: Can municipalities suspend garbage collection?
By Yamlek Mojica
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Translator: Arianna Hernández
The Municipality of Nandayure gave notification on its social networks that it would be suspending garbage collection service starting in November due to lack of budget. Mayor Giovanni Jimenez also confirmed this to The Voice of Guanacaste.
According to the Law for Integral Waste Management, the municipalities are in charge of guaranteeing garbage collection for residents of the cantons. In article 8, the law also indicates that the institution can't cancel the service without providing an alternative to its residents.
The Municipality of Nandayure subcontracts a company to provide garbage collection service. Until the end of October, the company MTS Multiservicios de Costa Rica S.A. was in charge of this.
Although the service by MTS is suspended until further notice, the mayor assured The Voice that the municipality will continue to collect garbage with municipal trucks, a measure that isn't recommended due to the weight capacities that the vehicles can handle, as stipulated in the waste management law.
Jimenez explained that they suspended the way they traditionally provided the service because the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) didn't approve the ordinary budget for 2021 that the mayor's office sent. In that budget, the municipality included an increase for paying the garbage collection service. According to the mayor, the cost of the service increased because they had to pay workers more hours due to a "growth in the amount of garbage per ton produced by the canton."
At the end of 2020, the administration sent an extraordinary budget to the municipal council that included the necessary resources. The proposal included a direct contract with MTS, whose heads promised to donate a garbage truck to the municipality if they were contracted directly for another year.
The council didn't approve the budgets or the necessary modifications, so we are without recourse. There is money, but we needed that approval that the council doesn't give, because it doesn't want to approve anything," stated the mayor.
The council members rejected approval of the budget under those terms, arguing that the service should be put up for bid and not be done directly, even less so with a "conditional gift like the truck," the president of the council, Delia Lobo, explained to The Voice of Guanacaste.
"We [council members] promoted open contracting because we didn't feel that there was a good garbage service during this company's time. Residents weren't happy," said the council member.
In March of this year, within days of the end of the contract with the company, the Municipality modified these conditions and put the service up for bid. Although MTS was the only company that participated in this process, the company's proposal had technical flaws that forced the municipality to declare the bidding contest void.
Due to this error and facing the threat of being left without garbage collection, the municipality, with authorization from the Comptroller's Office, used emergency funds to directly contract the company for six months. That contract expired at the end of October. The CGR's conditions were that the administration succeed in building transparent open contracting and that the council approve a correct extraordinary budget.
Although the mayor stated that the administration is already working on publishing the bid contest, the budget still hasn't been approved.
What's going to happen to the canton's garbage?
By law, the municipality has to provide garbage collection service, whether it's outsourced to a third party or not. If it doesn't, the Ministry of Health could launch an investigation to penalize the institution.
That's why they're going to use municipal trucks in the meantime while they resolve the budget conflict, the mayor said. In other words, residents won't be left without service.
For its part, the council should approve the extraordinary budget this Friday, November 5. The budget also includes other items such as bonuses for administrative staff.
This week, [the mayor] presented a modification of the budget and we adapted it so that it had budget content for November and December, but without excesses. With that change, we are obviously going to approve it before the end of the week," Lobo affirmed
Jimenez said that his administration is "impatiently" awaiting the signatures to present the budget to the CGR. If everything goes as expected, the local government should resume garbage collection service at the end of next week.
Why did the municipality post that they won't collect garbage until further notice?
According to the mayor, although his administration will continue to collect garbage with the institution's trucks, they won't be able to do it at the pace that MTS did. That's why they posted the statement on social networks notifying— imprecisely— of the subcontracted service's suspension.
In addition, the mayor explained that he called on residents to speed up the processes within the municipal council.
I needed [residents] to know that the service's suspension was no longer in my hands, but in those of the council. I was left without options," he stated.
Council member Lobo called the statement "alarmist" since the council will approve the budget for garbage collection.
"The last thing we would do would be to affect the people of Nandayure. Rather, with these timeframes, we prevent some kind of overspending," said Lobo.
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package org.apache.isis.core.runtime.system.persistence;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.apache.isis.applib.clock.Clock;
import org.apache.isis.applib.fixtures.FixtureClock;
import org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.ApplicationScopedComponent;
import org.apache.isis.core.commons.config.IsisConfiguration;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.facetapi.MetaModelRefiner;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.progmodel.ProgrammingModel;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.runtimecontext.RuntimeContext;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.services.ServicesInjectorDefault;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.services.ServicesInjectorSpi;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.spec.SpecificationLoaderSpi;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.specloader.validator.MetaModelValidatorComposite;
import org.apache.isis.core.runtime.persistence.FixturesInstalledFlag;
import org.apache.isis.core.runtime.persistence.ObjectStoreFactory;
import org.apache.isis.core.runtime.persistence.internal.RuntimeContextFromSession;
import org.apache.isis.core.runtime.system.DeploymentType;
import org.apache.isis.core.runtime.system.context.IsisContext;

import static org.apache.isis.core.commons.ensure.Ensure.ensureThatArg;
import static org.apache.isis.core.commons.ensure.Ensure.ensureThatState;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;

/**
 * Implementation that just delegates to a supplied
 * {@link org.apache.isis.core.runtime.persistence.ObjectStoreFactory}.
 */
public class PersistenceSessionFactory implements MetaModelRefiner, ApplicationScopedComponent, FixturesInstalledFlag {

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PersistenceSessionFactory.class);

    private final DeploymentType deploymentType;
    private final IsisConfiguration configuration;
    private final ObjectStoreFactory objectStoreFactory;

    /**
     * @see #setServices(List)
     */
    private List<Object> serviceList;

    private Boolean fixturesInstalled;

    private final ServicesInjectorSpi servicesInjector = new ServicesInjectorDefault();
    private RuntimeContext runtimeContext;

    public PersistenceSessionFactory(
            final DeploymentType deploymentType,
            final IsisConfiguration isisConfiguration,
            final ObjectStoreFactory objectStoreFactory) {
        this.deploymentType = deploymentType;
        this.configuration = isisConfiguration;
        this.objectStoreFactory = objectStoreFactory;
    }

    public DeploymentType getDeploymentType() {
        return deploymentType;
    }

    public ObjectStoreFactory getDelegate() {
        return objectStoreFactory;
    }

    public PersistenceSession createPersistenceSession() {

        if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
            LOG.debug("installing " + this.getClass().getName());
        }

        ServicesInjectorSpi servicesInjector = getServicesInjector();

        final ObjectStore objectStore = objectStoreFactory.createObjectStore(getConfiguration());

        ensureThatArg(objectStore, is(not(nullValue())));

        final PersistenceSession persistenceSession = new PersistenceSession(this, servicesInjector, objectStore, getConfiguration());

        return persistenceSession;
    }

    public final void init() {

        // check prereq dependencies injected
        ensureThatState(serviceList, is(notNullValue()));

        // a bit of a workaround, but required if anything in the metamodel (for
        // example, a
        // ValueSemanticsProvider for a date value type) needs to use the Clock
        // singleton
        // we do this after loading the services to allow a service to prime a
        // different clock
        // implementation (eg to use an NTP time service).
        if (!deploymentType.isProduction() && !Clock.isInitialized()) {
            FixtureClock.initialize();
        }

        runtimeContext = createRuntimeContext(getConfiguration());
        ensureThatState(runtimeContext, is(not(nullValue())));

        // inject the specification loader etc.
        runtimeContext.injectInto(servicesInjector);

        // wire up components

        getSpecificationLoader().injectInto(runtimeContext);
        for (Object service : serviceList) {
            runtimeContext.injectInto(service);
        }

        servicesInjector.setServices(serviceList);
        servicesInjector.init();
    }

    private RuntimeContext createRuntimeContext(final IsisConfiguration configuration) {
        final RuntimeContextFromSession runtimeContext = new RuntimeContextFromSession();
        final Properties properties = applicationPropertiesFrom(configuration);
        runtimeContext.setProperties(properties);
        return runtimeContext;
    }

    private static Properties applicationPropertiesFrom(final IsisConfiguration configuration) {
        final Properties properties = new Properties();
        final IsisConfiguration applicationConfiguration = configuration.getProperties("application");
        for (final String key : applicationConfiguration) {
            final String value = applicationConfiguration.getString(key);
            final String newKey = key.substring("application.".length());
            properties.setProperty(newKey, value);
        }
        return properties;
    }

    public final void shutdown() {
        doShutdown();
    }

    /**
     * Optional hook method for implementation-specific shutdown.
     */
    protected void doShutdown() {
    }

    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Components (setup during init...)
    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    public ServicesInjectorSpi getServicesInjector() {
        return servicesInjector;
    }

    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // MetaModelAdjuster impl
    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    public void refineMetaModelValidator(MetaModelValidatorComposite metaModelValidator, IsisConfiguration configuration) {
        objectStoreFactory.refineMetaModelValidator(metaModelValidator, configuration);
    }

    public void refineProgrammingModel(ProgrammingModel baseProgrammingModel, IsisConfiguration configuration) {
        objectStoreFactory.refineProgrammingModel(baseProgrammingModel, configuration);
    }

    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // FixturesInstalledFlag impl
    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    @Override
    public Boolean isFixturesInstalled() {
        return fixturesInstalled;
    }

    @Override
    public void setFixturesInstalled(final Boolean fixturesInstalled) {
        this.fixturesInstalled = fixturesInstalled;
    }

    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Dependencies (injected from constructor)
    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    public IsisConfiguration getConfiguration() {
        return configuration;
    }

    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Dependencies (injected via setters)
    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    public void setServices(final List<Object> serviceList) {
        this.serviceList = serviceList;
    }

    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Dependencies (from context)
    // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    protected SpecificationLoaderSpi getSpecificationLoader() {
        return IsisContext.getSpecificationLoader();
    }

}


The questions you ask yourself when decluttering make all the difference in, well, in whether or not you actually declutter. Here are five winners to get you started.
Question # 1: Would I buy it today?
The act of paying money for something is incredibly illuminative of our intentions and desires. By asking yourself if you would realistically purchase the item right now, today, you're able to clarify your feelings about an item.
Rather than focusing on when and where you originally purchased something, or how much it cost, or how on earth you came to acquire it, by asking yourself if you would buy it today you force yourself to put your money where your mouth is so to speak, no pun intended, yadah yadah.
This is the way you can get closer to the truth about whether or not an item still fits your criteria, your taste, and so on.
Question # 2: Will I wear/use it tomorrow? This week?
Most people think that the best question to ask when decluttering is "when was the last time I wore/used this?" While that question can be a good starting place, a response to it isn't actually all that informative or helpful to your decision-making.
Whether or not you've worn it in the past does not address your feelings about it now. And how you feel about it now is all that matters.
As with the first question, asking yourself if you will wear or use a particular item now is ultimately more revealing of whether or not it should stick around.
Question # 3: Do I have space for it?
This is one of the most important questions, and one that often isn't prioritized when decluttering.
While your feelings about various belongings are vastly important, they do not and should not trump your spatial means.
You can't keep more than your space can accommodate. Or, you can (whatever, go ahead, see if I care–I DO), but it won't do you any good; overcrowding decreases accessibility to all things, causing everything–the things you love and the things you feel iffy about (and you)–to suffer.
Question # 4: It is unique?
It's important to consider your belongings in the context of a larger collection of things. Rather than evaluating an item on its own, consider how it relates to the rest of your collection; do you own many versions of an item? If so, are there ones that are in better condition, or that you prefer for subtle reasons?
By comparing like items against each other, you can better cultivate a well-rounded collection, full of unique pieces, each of which, then, serves a distinct purpose, and thus, earns it space in your home and in your life.
Question # 5: Does owning it/wearing it/using it make me feel good about myself?
This question is the bottom line. Any material belongings you bring into your life you do so on a voluntary basis. With that in mind, it's just plain dumb to surround yourself with anything other than that which makes you feel abundantly, overwhelming great about yourself, and, as an extension, your decisions and decision making process, your lifestyle choices, and your core values.
Know someone who is currently in the process of decluttering? Be a pal! Send this post their way.
Thank you, this post has helped me immensely. I'm in the process of moving house and so this is the perfect opportunity to de-clutter!
Great advice!! 5 simple rules/questions I can definitely live with. Using this in a couple of weeks.
Questions 1 and 2 are easy, while 3, 4, and 5 are very thought provoking. Thanks for this!
This is the most concise and helpful guide I've found so far! This will be a huge help over the next few weeks. Thanks a lot!
Hello! Excellent advice! But my question is the pants ON the picture! Will do a hard sale with my decluttered clóset, the mi want THOSE PANTS! Any info about?
So inspired!!!!! Thank you Annie! I have always felt that I start to feel really ick when material things begin to take over – you have motivated me to shed that ick feeling immediately and get de cluttering right now! Big thanks from Bermuda!!