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Felsőszalatna (1899-ig Nagy-Szlatina, szlovákul Slatina nad Bebravou) község Szlovákiában, a Trencséni kerületben, a Báni járásban.

Fekvése
Bántól 16 km-re északkeletre fekszik.

Története
1332-ben a pápai tizedjegyzékben "Salatna" alakban említik először, a beckói, majd a zayugróci váruradalom részeként Csák Máté, Stibor vajda, a gróf Cseszneky és Zay családok birtoka volt. Már ekkor állt a falu ősi temploma. 1389-ben "Slatyna", 1439-ben "Zlatzina", 1477-ben "Zlathyna", 1481-ben "Nagh Zlathyna", 1598-ban "Nagy Zlatina" néven szerepel az írott forrásokban. 1598-ban malom és 45 ház állt a településen. 1720-ban 12 adózója volt, ebből 7 zsellér. 1784-ben 60 házában 69 családban 452 lakos élt. 1828-ban 49 háza és 580 lakosa volt. Lakói főként mezőgazdasággal és halászattal foglalkoztak. A 18. században papírgyár és sörfőzde, a 19. században szeszfőzde üzemelt a faluban.

A 18. század végén Vályi András szerint "Nagy, és Kis Szlatina. Két tót falu Trentsén Várm. földes Uraik Gr. Kolonits, és B. Zay Uraságok, lakosaik katolikusok, és másfélék is; Kis Szlatina a' Nagynak filiája, földgyeik termékenyek, fájok, réttyek elég van."

A 19. század közepén Fényes Elek szerint "Szlatina (Nagy), tót falu, Trencsén vmegyében, a zai-ugróczi uradalomban. Lakja 266 kath., 250 evang., 6 zsidó. Kath. paroch. templom. Szép erdő; patakjában sok pisztrangot fog. Ut. p. Ny.-Zsámbokrét."

A trianoni békeszerződésig Trencsén vármegye Báni járásához tartozott. Lakói állattartással, favágással, gyümölcstermesztéssel éas idénymunkákkal foglalkoztak. Többen kivándoroltak a községből a tengerentúlra.

Népessége
1910-ben 694, túlnyomórészt szlovák lakosa volt.

2001-ben 509 lakosából 507 szlovák volt.

2011-ben 459 lakosából 448 szlovák volt.

Nevezetességei
 Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet tiszteletére szentelt római katolikus temploma 1760 és 1770 között épült. Főoltára 1794-ben készült.
 Evangélikus temploma 1926-ban épült, részben a korábbi templom felhasználásával. Tornya 1889-ben épült.

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How do I model tax exempt clients (United Kingdom) – Have a question?
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Ben Affleck on How He Found Out About Jennifer Garner's 'Vanity Fair' Profile
"It's fine. She's allowed to talk about it."
Three weeks ago, Jennifer Garner broke her silence on her divorce from Ben Affleck with a full 'Vanity Fair' cover story devoted to their breakup. Jen talked very candidly about Nannygate, her heartbreak, and her feelings for Ben now. ("He's the love of my life," she said at one point. "I always say, 'When his sun shines on you, you feel it.' But when the sun is shining elsewhere, it's cold. He can cast quite a shadow.")
The New York Times interviewed Ben the day after the Vanity Fair piece dropped and while he wasn't keen about talking about his private life—"because it ends up being in the record somewhere, in the great miasma of junk on the Internet"—he did admit he knew about the piece before it was published.
"[Jen] felt like she wanted to discuss it and get it out there and get it over with," Ben explained, "so she could say, 'Look, I already talked about it—I don't want to do it again.' It's fine. She's allowed to talk about it."
The pair really are, as Jennifer told Vanity Fair herself, doing fine (Ben-lending-Jen-his-sweater fine). When asked by the reporter if Jennifer speaking out about their split made it impossible for him to maintain his silence, he responded with a compliment to his ex-wife: "Jen's great. She's a great person. We're on great terms. I just saw her this morning, so that's the reality that I live in."
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Really enjoyed reading about CloudFlare's newly raised investment ($110m). They give a very interesting and informative overview on their view of the 'network edge' and how this have been shifting over the last few year. It is also one of the given reasons for their massive success! Well done to the CloudFlare Team!
In 2016 alone we will more than double our global presence, increase the size of our network by an order of magnitude, and with that allow millions of new businesses and online publishers to accelerate and secure their online applications and harness the growing power of the Internet economy.


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This Is The Fake Apple Car Everyone Is Talking About
Dec. 28, 2020 8:46 AM ET by Jay Traugott Video / 19 Comments
Who knows how many have been fooled.
Apple is reportedly back in the auto business following a report last week the tech giant intends to launch an electric vehicle by 2024 or, perhaps, 2028. More on that shortly. Tesla's Elon Musk expressed some doubt about the vehicle but Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess says he welcomes the competition. Details about the proposed Apple car's design remain under lock and key but expect it to be a technological tour de force packed with advanced systems such as smart windscreen glass and potentially game-changing batteries. Hopefully, Apple will provide more details and, perhaps, an official project confirmation in the coming months.
But until then, everything is purely speculation and this can lead to some wild internet creativity, like this fake Apple car that suspiciously looks like 2013's Mercedes-Benz Vision Gran Turismo Concept.
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This video was initially released on TikTok and later uploaded to YouTube. It might seem somewhat believable at first, but those wacky and technically impossible wheels are dead giveaways of the CGI fakery. Assuming the Apple car rumors are even true, prototypes wouldn't be anywhere near this advanced testing stage. It also would not see the light of day until its official debut. But what could the Apple car look like? Will it be a sedan, like the Tesla Model 3, or an SUV like the Nissan Ariya?
One thing is probably for certain: it won't be a pickup truck. The company needs the vehicle's appeal to be vast and trucks, despite their popularity, are not for everyone. But a new report from MacRumors claims that the Apple car's launch may not happen until 2025, at the earliest. A 2028 debut is actually more feasible.
"We predicted in a previous report that Apple will launch Apple Car in 2023-2025," the report states. "However, our latest survey indicates that the current development schedule of Apple Car is not clear, and if development starts this year and everything goes well, it will be launched in 2025-2027 at the earliest. Due to changes in the EV/self-driving market and Apple's high-quality standards, we would not be surprised if Apple Car's launch schedule is postponed to 2028 or later."
Regardless of when it happens, just don't expect the Apple car to look like a nearly decade-old Mercedes concept.
Source Credits: MacRumors
Tags: #Tesla News #Nissan News #Electric Vehicles #Rumor #Technology #Video
Jay Traugott
Jay Traugott was just nine years old when his grandfather gave him his first auto magazine which began his passion for cars. He was raised in Toledo, Ohio, the home of Jeep and the people who love them. After wrapping up a degree in Communications and English at Ohio University, he worked in online media and advertising for several years before making the switch to automotive journalism. He's been with CarBuzz since 2010.
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Elias Clusiau, Elk River/Zimmerman: Clusiau tallied four goals and four assists in a 12-3 victory over Andover on April 30. He finished the week with 13 points in the Elks' three wins.
Walker Nelson, Owatonna: Nelson led Owatonna to a program-record for team goals in game in a 29-1 demolition of Brainerd on May 5. He scored six times and added three assists. On April 30, the senior displayed his playmaking abilities in the Huskies' 19-5 win over Rochester John Marshall/Lourdes, as he dished five assists and scored once.
Parker Woolf, Chanhassen: Woolf stopped 21 of 25 shots in the Storm's 14-4 win over Bloomington Jefferson. He leads the state in saves (111) and save percentage (.760).
Mitchell Durst, Delano/Rockford: Durst, a Detroit-Mercer commit, displayed his Division I talent in a 12-9 win over Buffalo on April 30. He scored five goals and dished four assists for nine points.
Eli Schaffer, Hastings: The senior attackman netted eight goals and added three assists for 11 points in the Raiders' 20-8 win over Hill-Murray on April 30. He added another four points in a 20-1 win over North St. Paul on May 2.
Isaac Peifer, Eagan: Peifer ignited Eagan's offense with five goals and seven assists in a 26-3 throttling of Shakopee on May 1. Two days later, he finished with four goals and two assists in a 16-4 dismantling of Rosemount.
Joey Faulds, Champlin Park: After tallying just three points through two games to start the season, Faulds found his form in a 13-8 win over Grand Rapids. He scored four times and assisted on another three goals.
Ryley Zopfi, St. Michael-Albertville: The senior posted back-to-back three-goal games for the Knights. The first came against Rocori on April 30 and the second was three days later when he also had four assists against Rogers on May 3.
Matthew Moreland, Park of Cottage Grove: Moreland fueled the Wolfpack to a 17-1 victory against Tartan on May 3, as he scored three goals and finished with six assists.


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5 times Dwayne Johnson gave fitness fashion a break and rocked in suits
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People's 2016 Sexiest Man Alive, Dwayne Johnson, is one of the highest-paid actors in the world right now. His contribution to Hollywood has been immense. One of the prime reasons he remains the talk of the town is his muscular physique that can melt any woman or man.
We all had a crush on him at some point in time. His 52-inch chest, 36-inch waist, 33-inch thighs, 22-inch biceps, and 15-inch feet measurements cannot be maintained by most celebrities.
Everyone knows about his work ethic and determination. It is his persistent workout schedule that helps him maintain his chiseled body. Since he is a fitness freak, his most common go-to attire has been his gym wear.
5 times Dwayne Johnson rocked a suit
This doesn't mean that 'The Rock' can't pull off a suit with the same grace and style. And there are no two opinions on the fact that he still looks as attractive as he does in his gym wear. Here are some examples of when he blew our minds by draping himself in a suit.
5) At the launch of Red notice
The Rock posted on his Instagram with his co-actors Ryan Renolds and Gal Gadot at the premiere of Red Notice. Dwayne can be seen flaunting his perfect body in a purple tuxedo. The custom-made outfit was designed by Ralph Lauren, and notably, it was made of precious Amethyst velvet.
The movie, Red Notice, is believed to be the most pricey production of Netflix.
4) Expressing his love for Teremana tequila
Dwayne Johnson's premium tequila brand Teremana has been a part of his life that he has been very excited about. In a post promoting the tequila brand founded by him, The Rock can be seen donning a black suit with brown shoes. He carries a backpack with himself in the picture, which is in the classy brown shade.
3) At the UK premiere of Jumanji: The Next Level
Dwayne Johnson is a traditional icon for the term "masculine". At the UK premiere of his movie Jumanji, the actor was styled in a shocking pink Fuschia blazer with formal pants. For anyone who thought that he couldn't pull off the hot pink shade, you will be disappointed to know that he caught the audience's attention for the right reasons.
Dwayne Johnson carried the attire flawlessly and with ease. His bright pink blazer over a white shirt with a black bow tie, navy blue formal trousers, and black shoes made him the highlight of the event. He thanked his stylist, Ilaria Urbinati, for designing an exceptional piece. He expressed his gratitude towards her and called her a rare gem for creatively styling a big, brown tattooed man.
2) The purple checkered suit in China
The 49-year-old Fast and Furious actor, Dwayne Johnson, looked ravishing in a pink checkered suit. He paired his suit with a white shirt and brown loafers.
Dwayne Johnson in Chine (Image via Pinterest)
1) At the "San Andreas" Los Angeles Premiere In 2015
Dwayne Johnson carried a plaid suit to perfection. His suit had the correct fabric and fit. For a man of his size to not look like a sofa is not so easy, but he chose the right outfit.
If it's someone as classy as The Rock, any outfit can be transformed from ordinary to extraordinary. After going through the list, I'm sure every reader would agree to this.
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Note: The article reflects the writer's personal views.
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Warum ist Huawei Mate 20 Pro besser als Samsung Galaxy Core Prime & Samsung Galaxy Note 8 & Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (Qualcomm Snapdragon 845) 128GB?
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Liocranum nigritarse is een spinnensoort in de taxonomische indeling van de bodemzakspinnen (Liocranidae). De spin leeft op de bodem en maakt geen web. Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Liocranum. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1875 door L. Koch.

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The latest Tuesday Push is for rugby social networking site, MyMunster.com which allows you to chat and share views with other Munster rugby supporters, view club photos and videos, get the latest news and get your hands on some Munster goodies and match tickets through competitions. They've also got their own blog where this evening I learned that Peter Stringer has finally been elevated to the pitch for the Six Nations clash against Scotland in Edinburgh this weekend.
When people think hurling, they should think Kilkenny. When people think rugby, they're likely to think Munster, such is the success of the club in recent times (also spotting here that 12 of 22 of the panel for the Irish game ply their trade at Thomand Park).
When there's such a vibrant offline community and "family" for Munster supporters, it's good to see an online source getting developed for fans of the club at home and abroad, considering it's also being developed in association with Munster Rugby. Word has you can also hit the site during game time for updates and notes on games as and after they happen and if you're a Twitter user you can follow MyMunster here.


A family-friendly pub in Lichfield, Saxon Penny specialises in deliciously comforting British pub classics, sharing plates and quick bites. Cask ales from Marston's breweries and world wines are offered at the bar, and guests can enjoy the lush al fresco area for both outdoor drinking and dining during warmer weather. The little ones are not forgotten, with a fun menu featuring 5-a-day-faithful meals.
The meal we had was very enjoyable but we were disappointed that there was not a really traditional Sunday roast beef dinner on offer. We had the belly pork and lamb joint meals.
We haven't dined at the Saxon Penny for sometime but on this occasion I give 100% for service, food quality, generous portions, cleanliness of the restaurant and value for money. 4people ( Scampi, Spare Ribs, Gammon, Chicken Burger and puddings to follow).
The staff were very polite and attentive, we asked for a quiet table and got one , so good . However my wife had the Steak and Ale pie which she said was only mediocre so that was our only dissapointment just didn't enjoy it and left three parts of it . Not ones to complain so paid bill and left but when the plates were collected no one thought to say , you haven't eaten all your pie , was there a problem ? .


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Documents, Studies, & Resources
Lebanon's Wildlife Corridors
Following the 2010 completion of Phase II of Lebanon's Natural Resources Inventory (NRI), and the 2012 adoption of the City's Master Plan, the Planning Department engaged Dr. Rick Van de Poll and Dr. Alcott Smith in 2013 to complete wildlife corridor assessments of three areas of the City that were potentially subject to development that could impact their viability as wildlife crossing areas. Based on the results of the initial corridor assessments, the Planning Department commissioned Dr. Van de Poll in 2014 to conduct additional assessments of a number of identified wildlife crossing areas to determine: a) how they were being used, b) which species of concern were using them, and c) what, if anything, could be done to improve their potential for wildlife passage.
The latest study, completed and delivered to the Planning Department in December 2016, focused on fourteen prominent wildlife corridor areas around the City, in addition to summarizing the three assessments that were previously completed with Dr. Smith. The corridor areas that were analyzed were selected by Planning Department staff from the initial 65 crossing sites identified in the NRI using geographic information systems (GIS) data to filter out the most critical areas for review. The 14 areas identified were then subjected to additional GIS analysis and subsequent fieldwork.
The report maps and describes each of the 17 wildlife corridor areas, and provides recommendations for all areas relative to improving their long-term viability for wildlife passage. Recommendations generally include signage, improved overpass or underpass structures, land conservation measures, and targeted monitoring.
The results of this report are intended to be integrated into short and long-term planning that promotes 'green infrastructure' in Lebanon in order to enhance the quality of life for wildlife species in the city.
View the Lebanon Wildlife Corridors Analysis (PDF)
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Parishram means 'Hard Work'. The name serves right for this project as the women working here put continuous efforts and Hard Work in creating wonders such as different kinds of Cloth Bags, Paper Bags, Crochet Bags, Scented Candles, Cards, Photo Frames, Files, Diyas, Jewelry, Masalas and Chocolates etc. The products and items made here are later sent for sale, the proceedings of such sales goes to the residents of Maher and the needy women & girls working here.It is not only a production unit but also a training center for many women& girls who come from the local and neighboring villages.They receive training in different Livelihood Courses such as Tailoring, Beautician etc, after which they start their own business units or training centers. There is a huge demand for skills development training as more and more women want to be financially independent and take an extra income to their families. Maher is now reaching out into the interior villages where the need is more for financial independence of these women.


June 5th, 2018, at MSC large conference room, Chairman Tang Xuheng and Director of Admissions Penny LI met with Ms. Deng Wei and Mr. Lin from Liaoning International Culture and Education Exchange Associate.
The main purpose of the meeting was to establish a strategic partnership between Mt. Sierra College and Liaoning International Cultural and Educational Exchange Association represented by Ms. Deng Wei. At the same time, it was authorized to serve as the Chinese representative of MSC for program promotion as well as international student recruitment from China at Chengyi College University of Jimei in Xiamen.
At the meeting, both sides conducted active and in-depth discussions on the future direction of development, the challenges they faced, and how to cooperate more effectively to promote a win-win situation. Chairman Tang Xuheng also expressed his full recognition and expectation for the cooperation with Liaoning International Cultural Education Exchange Association.


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Rail Slave Games Returns With Their 8th and Possibly Most Experimental Game Yet
LONDON 11 November 2019 - Kiss Publishing Ltd and Rail Slave Games are proud to announce that Nauseous Pines is now available.
Nauseous Pines is the story of two night school students, who are tasked with creating their very first video game project. "Nauseous Pines"
What starts as a convergence of imaginations and fantasy turns into a passionate psychological battle where only one of the students has true power and absolute control and the other must escape the escalating mind manipulation being thrown upon their relationship.
Nauseous Pines is available to download via PC digital download stores today, with an SRP of $4.99 / €3.99 / £3.99. There is a weeklong launch special for 15% off.
Nauseous Pines review keys are available to request now. Please contact the Kiss PR team ([email protected]).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1126860/Nauseous_Pines/
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About Kiss Ltd
Kiss is an independent games publisher started in 2012 by industry veteran Darryl Still (Atari, Electronic Arts, Nvidia) with his business partner Peter King (Novalogic, Activision, 1C). The company published 150 games digitally for the PC format between 2012-2017. When King left the company restructured with Still as CEO, Gavin Cheshire (US Gold, Codemasters) as COO and indie specialist James Deputy managing Publishing. Kiss Publishing Ltd are working across many different formats on console, mobile and streaming technology, focussing on their most successful franchises and funded by an industry unique Innovative Finance ISA.
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Rail Slave Games are about as Indie and as alternative as you can get. This UK based team can easily lay claim to being the only team to have been inspired by a love of retro games and Teletext.


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USS H-7 (SS-150) was a H-class submarine originally built for the Imperial Russian Navy. Six of these were not delivered pending the outcome of the Russian Revolution of 1917 before being purchased by the United States Navy on 20 May 1918.

Description
The H-class submarines had a length of  overall, a beam of  and a mean draft of . They displaced  on the surface and  submerged. The boats had a crew of 2 officers and 23 enlisted men. They had a diving depth of .

For surface running, they were powered by two New London Ship & Engine Co.  diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a  Electro Dynamic Co. electric motor. They could reach  on the surface and  underwater. On the surface, the boats had a range of  at  and  at  submerged.

The boats were armed with four 18-inch (450 mm)  torpedo tubes in the bow. They carried four reloads, for a total of eight torpedoes.

Construction and career
H-7 was launched on 17 October 1918 and commissioned on 24 October. The submarine, attached to Submarine Division 6 (SubDiv 6) and later to SubDiv 7, operated out of San Pedro, California, on various battle and training exercises with the other ships of her division. She also patrolled out of San Pedro with interruptions for overhaul at Mare Island. H-7 reached Norfolk on 14 September 1922, having sailed from San Pedro on 25 July, and decommissioned there on 23 October. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 26 February 1931. She was sold for scrapping on 28 November 1933.

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Mar 1, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 Mr Festivals
More Acts for Victorious 2017!
Organisers of Southsea Common's Victorious Festival have announced more acts set to play at their August Bank Holiday Weekend event.
Joining Madness on the all-new Friday party night will be The Charlatans, while pop royalty Olly Murs and Rita Ora have also been added to the rest of the bill.
Also confirmed are Frank Turner, British Sea Power, Field Music, Echobelly, Raye, Rationale, Tom Grennan, Toy, Lewis Watson, Kassassin Street, Banfi, Tom Walker, Lily Rendle-Moore, Jerry Williams and Leo Stannard.
They join the previously announced headliners Madness, Stereophonics and Elbow, as well as Franz Ferdinand, Jake Bugg, Slaves, Feeder and many more. For the full, current line-up, please see here.
Tier 2, early bird tickets are on sale now, and are available to purchase here.
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If watching the series fuels your wanderlust, these itineraries have your name on it.
With all of the buzz surrounding the nature documentary series Planet Earth II, you may find yourself daydreaming about seeing the stunning destinations featured in the six episodes for yourself. Well, one luxury tour operator is making those dreams a reality. Tauck Tours just announced that it is offering safaris and other nature-focused journeys curated by the actual makers of the expansive series.
Working with BBC Earth, Tauck Earth Journeys has crafted once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences that feature a number of elements based on Planet Earth II. Many of the locations found in the show are on the list, including the Galápagos Islands, Antarctica, Costa Rica, South Africa, Kenya, Nepal, Botswana, India, and Panama. Guests get to try some of the technology used by the filmmakers, like sensitive long-range microphones, thermal imaging cameras, night-vision goggles, and self-activating camera traps. When not learning about filmmaking in the wild, travelers will also be treated to some exclusive documentary films produced by BBC Earth, exclusively for Tauck.
To make things a bit wilder, the tour company just announced that the four-year partnership with BBC will soon include all Tauck Expedition small ship cruises starting in 2018, meaning travelers will have even more themed itineraries to choose from. The company is also doubling its small ship capacity with the help of French-owned cruise line Ponant, adding Iceland as the newest destination, and placing BBC Earth experts on board select cruise routes to double as guides.
"We're destination explorers at Tauck and some destinations are best explored by both land and sea," said Jennifer Tombaugh, president of Tauck, in a statement. "Tauck Small Ship Cruising is our first product line to sell out each year. By adding new destinations and expanding our capacity with Ponant, we're able to provide more choice and more availability in order to better serve the current and growing demand." And Tauck's not the only tour operator getting in on the BBC Earth action. Holland America is now offering exclusive themed experiences on board as well. On its BBC Earth featured cruises, guests can meet some of the talented folks behind Planet Earth II, from camera operators to producers. The cruise line will also host "Trivia From Earth" where passengers can test their natural history knowledge, and the ships will even play host to multimedia performances featuring live music set against a backdrop of mesmerizing footage from Planet Earth II.
If that's still not enough Planet Earth for you, Luxury Travel Advisors, a tour company, also wants to hook you and three friends up with a five-person camera crew to travel around the world and shoot your own nature documentary.
Whatever trip you choose, we're going to go ahead and say it's probably a good idea to not get in between those snakes and baby iguanas featured in the 'Islands' episode.


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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany warned on Friday that liberal democracy must be protected against "a very dangerous historical revisionism" as she honored the memories of the one million Jews and thousands of political prisoners killed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp.
On what was Ms. Merkel's first visit as Germany's chancellor to the camp, in southern Poland, she entered beneath the wrought-iron gateway with its cynical promise, "Arbeit Macht Frei," or "Work Sets You Free," on a frosty, gray morning. She was accompanied by her Polish counterpart, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Officially, her visit marked a decade since the founding of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to preserve the memorial site for future generations. But at a time when anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism are straining societies across Europe, and when more and more Germans are questioning their country's post-World War II culture of remembrance and atonement for Nazi crimes, the symbolism of her presence at the site resonated beyond the anniversary.
After touring a laboratory that preserves artifacts at the memorial, such as the piles of shoes, suitcases and human hair that she viewed in the camp's museum, the chancellor stressed Germany's "enduring responsibility" to preserve evidence of Nazi crimes as a warning to future generations of the danger that hate and xenophobia pose to democratic societies.
"We Germans owe it to the victims and we owe it to ourselves to keep alive the memory of the crimes committed, to identify the perpetrators and to commemorate the victims in a dignified manner," Ms. Merkel said. "This is not open to negotiation. It is an integral part and will forever be an integral part of our identity."
In the past year, there has been a repeated chipping away at Germany's pledge to "never again" repeat the crimes of the Nazis, who systematically deported and killed six million European Jews and drove hundreds of thousands of others into exile.
German officials said hate crimes targeting Jews rose 10 percent last year, to 1,646, while physical attacks increased by more than a third, to 62, in the same time period.
Ms. Merkel called on government leaders and politicians to remain committed to defending and strengthening the values of human dignity and the right to freedom and democracy, which she called "very vulnerable and fragile, indeed."
"These days, this is more than just rhetoric," she said. "These days, it is important that we state this in an unequivocal manner, because what we are experiencing of late is an alarming level of racism, increasing intolerance, a wave of hate crimes."
"We are witnessing and experiencing an attack on the fundamental values of liberal democracy," Ms. Merkel said, "and a very dangerous historical revisionism that serves a hostility that is directed against specific groups."
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Some players in the travel and tour industry are predicting a 15% increment in the prices of airline tickets with the imminent reopening of the Kotoka International Airport.
Director of Corporate Affairs for EduConcepts, Samson K. Afordofe said the increase will be due to airline bankruptcy which has already hit some of the airlines. He added the reduction in the number of travelers will also play a key role in the price hike since a lot of people are not travelling during this period.
"Generally, the overall cost of travel and tourism as a whole has increased. Two sets of people will bear the burden of these extra cost COVID-19 has brought. The first is the tour operators and travel companies. We will have to bear certain costs and minimize profit margins in other to make tour packages attractive to clients."
"Second is the clients. Most likely travelers and tourists will be the ones bearing the majority of the cost. Tests, sanitized rooms, personal protective equipment will be costs primarily born by travelers through a slight increase in airfares, hotel bookings and ground transportation." he added
President Akufo-Addo yesterday announced the reopening of Ghana's air borders.
The President in his 16th address to the country on Sunday, August 30 said the country's international airport will be opened for international flights from Tuesday, September 1, 2020.
President Akufo-Addo disclosed that every passenger that arrives in the country must possess a proof of negative PCR test.
Guidelines for international travelers
"Fellow Ghanaians, in Update No.15, I announced the easing of restrictions in some areas of national life. I also indicated my hope that preparations and simulation exercises underway, including the installation of COVID-19 testing facilities at Kotoka International Airport, would give us a clear indication as to whether or not we could re-open the airport on 1st September. After weeks of thorough work, I am satisfied that it is safe to do so."
"Fellow Ghanaians, I am glad to announce that Kotoka International Airport will reopen and resume operations from Tuesday, 1st September 2020. This decision has been communicated to international airlines across the world."
The President has also outlined some guidelines for passengers and airlines ready to fly into Ghana.
"It has been well-established that the very first cases of COVID-19 in Ghana were imported into our shores. We are determined to make sure this scenario does not recur. The commitment to ensuring that the gradual easing of restrictions, including the reopening of our airports, does not lead to the importation or resurgence of the virus into our country, is firmly in place. That is why the following measures have been taken and duly communicated to airlines wishing to resume flights to Ghana:
Any passenger arriving in Ghana must be in possession of a negative COVID-19 PCR test result from an accredited laboratory in the country of origin. The test should have been done not more than seventy-two (72) hours before the scheduled departure from the country of origin. All airlines have been instructed to ensure compliance with this directive for all passengers wishing to travel to Ghana, and those airlines who fail in this regard will be duly sanctioned; disembarking passengers must do so wearing face masks; upon disembarking from the aeroplane, each passenger will undergo a mandatory COVID-19 test at the airport terminal, at a fee to be borne by the passenger. The test result will be available within thirty (30) minutes;
4.children under the ages of five (5) will not be required to undergo testing at the airport
passengers, who test positive for COVID-19, will be handled by the health authorities for further clinical assessment and management;
passengers, who test negative, can, thereupon, enter Ghana to go about their lawful activities, and will be advised to continue to observe COVID-19 safety precautions during their stay in Ghana.
The Ministries of Information, Health and Aviation, and their respective agencies- the Ghana Health Service, the Ghana Airports Co. Ltd., and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority – will spell out in further detail the protocols surrounding the re-opening of our international airport, and the procedures to be adhered to by passengers arriving in Ghana at the COVID-19 media briefing tomorrow, Monday, 31″ August.
For the avoidance of doubt, our borders, by land and sea, will continue to remain closed to human traffic until further notice."
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Elaine "KiKi' Hayden of Newburgh, passed away peacefully with her family and friends by her side at the Kaplan Hospice, on Sunday, January 27, 2019. She was 93.
Kiki was born and raised in her beloved city of Newburgh. Her parents were Michael and Adelina (DeRose) DeVasto. She was the youngest girl in a family of eight. As a young child she was already an organizer, she would plan family meetings, gatherings and events. At Newburgh Free Academy, Kiki was elected as the very first female to be a senior class president.
Kiki joined John J. Lease Realtors in 1971, she was an incredible sales associate, over and over again being a top in sales in all of Orange County, winning the Gold Excellence Award for Realtors many times. Kiki's attention to detail, her passion for helping her clients, her real estate knowledge and her impeccable taste. She would ride through the city proudly talking about each house she has sold, and some of them more than once as years later the buyers would be back to have Kiki help them to sell or buy another house with her. Clients were still seeker her out, even in her 90's, to list with her.
Kiki, had a motto "You must give to the community in which you live" (Marion, 2005) Her service in the community was evident early on as she has served on the Newburgh Day Nursery Board and very involved with the YWCA . She was on the YWCA board of directors, became board President, was a Trustee for many years and in 1966 she was honored as "YWCA Woman of the Year". Kiki has also earned recognition for her unending love and devotion to the city of Newburgh with Key to the City and Newburgh Woman of the Year Award, honored by the Downing Park Planning Committee, Newburgh Republican Committee, Woman of the Year (2005) and Honoree Award from the Orange County Human Rights Commission.
Kiki married the love of her life, John J. Hayden (Jack). Jack and Kiki were blessed with a son, Shawn J. Hayden. Jack served in WWII and was a Bronze Star recipient. Kiki was predeceased by her husband, Jack, in 1979.
Their son Shawn married Dorothy (Hughes) Hayden and are proud parents to Kiki's three grandchildren, Molly, Jack and Courtney, all were Kiki's greatest joys. They live in Stowe, Vermont. Kiki is also predeceased by her beloved son, Shawn, in 2016.
Kiki is survived by her loving daughter-in-law, Dorothy, her grandchildren Molly, Jack, Courtney. close lifelong family friend, Melissa Hodgson and many very close and dear friends.
A Mass of Christian Burial was on Friday, February 1 in St. Mary's Church, Newburgh. Burial will be private at the convenience of the family.


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ESL One Rio CSGO Major moved to November due to coronavirus
This year's first Major tournament in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, ESL One: Rio 2020, has been postponed to November due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The tournament was supposed to take place in early May. Additionally, the second Major tournament has been canceled, effectively increasing the prize pool of the event in Rio de Janeiro to $2,000,000.
Only one CSGO Major in 2020 due to coronavirus
Due to the ongoing pandemic, ESL One: Rio will now serve as the only CSGO Major this year. CSGO fans have become accustomed to two Major tournaments annually, with one taking place in the first half of the year and the other in the second half. While this is a grand disappointment for most, the qualified teams will have even more to fight for in Rio de Janeiro. The prize pool has doubled to $2 million due to the November tournament being scrapped.
The May 2020 @CSGO Major in Rio has been rescheduled to November 19-22 due to the COVID-19 situation. The event will remain at Jeunesse Arena and the prize money will be added to the November Major, upping it to $2,000,000https://t.co/WXxJGdSkbK
— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) March 23, 2020
What if I have the ticket to ESL One: Rio?
Even though the tournament has rescheduled, ticket holders will remain eligible to attend the November event. The tournament will still take place at the Jeunesse Arena, as previously planned. If you cannot make the new dates, ticket holders may still request a refund.
Overall, the only thing that has changed is the date of the Major.
CSGO fans will have to wait a while longer before attending the Major.
Here is a breakdown of the new dates concerning the Major in November:
New Challengers Stage: November 9-12
New Legends Stage: November 14-17
Champions Stage: November 19-22
The Champions Stage is the playoff that will be open to the public to view at the Jeunesse Arena in Brazil.
What do you think of ESL's decision to postpone ESL One: Rio to November? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments. As always, remember to follow us at Daily Esports for all your latest news in CSGO as well as other major esports out there.


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Q: Loop over other hosts within ansible playbook using serial I have 80+ hosts that run my application, and I'm updating a long-existing ansible playbook to change our load balancer.  In our current load balancer setup, hosts can be added/removed from the load balancer in one ansible play by shelling out to the AWS CLI.  However, we're switching to a load balancer configured on a handful of our own hosts, and we will take hosts in and out by manipulating text files on those hosts using Ansible.  I need an inner loop over different hosts within a playbook while using Serial.
I'm having trouble structuring the playbook such that I can fan out blockinfile commands to hosts in group tag_Type_edge while deploying to the 80 tag_Type_app hosts with serial: 25%.
Here's what I want to be able to do:
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- hosts: tag_Type_app
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    - name: Remove from load balancers
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              text files to remove the 25% of hosts from tag_Type_app from the load balancer"

  tasks:
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  post_tasks:
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How can I structure this to allow for the inner loop over tag_Type_edge while using serial: 25% on all the tag_Type_app boxes?

A: If I may say so, yuk.
On the ACA project, each host had a file called /etc/ansible/facts.d/load_balancer_state.fact.  That was just an INI file that set lb_state to enabled, disabled, or stopped.
We then ran the setup module (or gather_facts: yes), to get the state of each host, and ran the template module to create the load balancer config file.  Very clean.  Very simple.
To change a state, change the file and re-run the template module.
This was dynamic inventory.
If you have static inventory, it's even easier.  Just set lb_state set on each host, either in an INI file like host1 lb_state=enabled, or in files in the host_vars directory.  Change the inventory, re-run the template module, and (if necessary) tell the loadbalancer to reload the config file.

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Can you imagine today having military installations named for cigarettes? The camps for service men going home from Europe were named after cigarette brands and I went to Camp Lucky Strike. The first thing I remember there was a sign, prominently displayed, that in no uncertain terms stated that "personnel being processed through this camp were entitled to have one souvenir pistol in their possession, but only one. Anyone found to have more than one will be court marshaled and given a sentence of six months hard labor in the European Theater of Operations."
There were pyramidal tents pitched on platforms at Camp Lucky Strike and outside each tent was a large hogshead full of water to be used in case of fire. Before we had been in the camp more than an hour or so, these barrels were overflowing and by evening you could clearly see that they were half full of all sorts of side arms.
I contributed a nice Austrian 9 mm pistol, which was shaped much like a 45 and came from Steyre, era WWI and mine were dated 1918 and 1919 if I remember correctly. They were a nice matched pair, but certainly not worth the risk of staying in Europe another six months. The one I kept was on the shelf in a closet for the next 20-30 years until I sold it to a collector. Never did fire it here at home, but got in lots of target shooting while in Austria.
It was December when we left Austria to go to Camp Lucky Strike. The Hungarians who had come through our guard post in the mountains had started returning to Hungary We moved the guard post down from the top of the pass into town because the impending snow that would make travel up the mountain difficult during the winter. I have often thought that I might like to visit that part of Austria again, but have never been enthused enough to go.
I would have no desire to revisit Camp Lucky Strike. Under the floor of the tents the rats grew to cat size and sounded as though they were wearing boots when they tramped around while we were trying to sleep at night. Really nothing to do all day, don't remember being allowed to go into the city and time passed slowly waiting for a ship.
We finally embarked on the Chapel Hill, a cargo ship converted to troop carrier. The hold had been converted into several decks and there were many bunks, 4-5 high, built close together. Not an ocean cruise by any means. I had been on 5 ships before this one, going over to Europe and back and forth across the channel and I had never had any trace of seasickness. Before we got out of the harbor in Marseilles I was on deck hanging over the rail along with, I would guess 80 per cent of the other passengers, sick as a dog. The decks, stairways, halls, heads etc. were covered with slime that first day and it was very hard to get around at all. Heaven help the guys who fell down.


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Fayetteville residents Parker Bryan, 5, (at left), Ali Bryan, 9, and J.T. Bryan, 2, were at Trilith in Fayetteville on Dec. 5 to spend time with Santa. Photo/Ben Nelms.
The Real Deal Santa Joe McGee is making the rounds again this Christmas season. Raising money to help fight pediatric cancer, Santa Joe stopped at Trilith in Fayetteville on Dec. 5 to hear the Christmas wishes of a group of youngsters.
Donations, which come with no minimum, are requested, but not required. Every dollar of the donations received from visits with Santa Joe during the Christmas season benefits Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute (UFPTI) through the nonprofit Santa David's Children Fund. The goal for 2020 is $50,000.
Santa Joe in the past seven years has raised $160,000 for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and UFPTI.
Like his brother, David, who was also a Santa, Joe in March 2012 learned that he, too, had prostate cancer.
Commenting on the experience he had at the UFPTI, Santa Joe said, "The day I walked in the doors and saw the first bald-headed girl, playing in the lobby with their myriad of toys and art projects, I knew I was led there for a reason. My eyes filled with tears, and I thanked the Lord for bringing me to UFPTI. I also knew that if David were alive, he would want to help these children.
"It was then I decided I could carry on his legacy as a Santa. I used to feel that by doing so, I would somehow be stealing some of David's thunder. Now I know that with the nonprofit charity 'The Santa David Children's Fund,' it will only help to make his thunder better known," Santa Joe said.
Santa David's Children's Fund is a 501(c)(93) nonprofit and participates in a variety of events.
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Drive Greater Speed and Accuracy in Vaccine Development
Despite the tremendous advances in medical science over recent decades, there is still so much about the human body we're yet to discover. The mission of the life sciences industry, therefore, is to continually probe at the next frontier in expanding our collective understanding. The response to infectious diseases is just one aspect of this, yet presents a hugely significant area in improving global health and life expectancy.
What typically separates acute diseases from chronic conditions is the sense of urgency. When a new strain of disease is identified, its viral nature combined with the interconnectedness of modern societies can quickly lead to an exponential rise in cases requiring treatment. This places immense pressure on governments and healthcare infrastructure as action is taken to restrict the spread and apply treatment so that normal social and economic life can be resumed.
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What's involved in developing a vaccine?
The sense of urgency that comes with infectious diseases can itself fast-track progress towards arriving at a vaccine. The need for immediate action unites and galvanises a range of bodies – from researchers and clinicians through to regulatory bodies and manufacturers – in the quest to get an effective treatment into the hands of healthcare professionals as quickly as possible.
Even with these groups working tirelessly and with a determined focus, the end-to-end process can still take years. There are several stages that come before a treatment is ready to be put into the market. These include:
Exploratory stage; working through thousands of potential compounds to shortlist vaccine candidates, and research into immune response
Pre-clinical stage; lab analysis to identify relevant antigens to arrive at a vaccine concept and design
Clinical development; trialling of vaccine on test groups of varying characteristics
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Manufacturing and quality control; development of medicines in preparation for mass distribution
Each of these steps is essential in ensuring that the vaccine produced is effective and safe, that any side-effects are properly understood and that it can be produced at scale on a consistent basis until the threat of illness has been sufficiently minimised.
Historically, the complexity, regulation and cost involved in each of these stages has slowed down the response to emerging health issues. Now, due to advances in AI-related technologies, we have an opportunity to rapidly accelerate the process through which we can deploy treatments into the field.
How can AI assist in this process?
While we can never expect overnight success when dealing with something as complex as vaccine development, we can act to remove some of the constraints and bottlenecks that may hamper progress. Advances in automating data analysis and improving visualisation of what is happening at each step of the discovery stage can address some of these inefficiencies, helping to accelerate the process of vaccine development and streamline operations to upscale production.
Here are some of the roles AI can play at each stage:
Exploratory/pre-clinical
The initial phases of drug discovery often involve a filtering process to narrow down vaccine candidates based on prior studies and treatments. Researchers can use AI to process vast digital libraries of data (such as analysing the properties of thousands of pharmaceutical compounds) with significantly more accuracy than manual processing, to arrive at potential treatment candidates. AI can also be used in these stages for DNA sequencing based on complex human data, allowing clinicians to conduct tests in genetic matching and immunity response.
Clinical development and trials
Once suitable compounds have been identified, the process moves towards live testing. Different patients will react differently to treatments based on factors such as age and prior medical history. The tests therefore need to be comprehensive enough to cover marginal cases where a patient may react badly to treatment.
By training deep learning algorithms, researchers can conduct these tests at a previously-unimaginable scale, even before physically administering the vaccine candidate to test patients. These algorithms can be used to identify and sample antibodies to fight infectious diseases with drastic improvements in speed and cost. Advanced analytics and data visualisation of human response to the potential vaccines can then be used to assist with rapid testing, allowing for more intricate analysis and lower error rates.
Manufacturing and QA
Upon regulatory approval of vaccine products, the race is on to develop and distribute the medicine across a vast network of hospitals and clinics. This has significant operational implications for the manufacturers making the products, requiring rapid decision-making on factors such as their output capacity, the quality of the product and optimum packaging solutions.
Combining AI and sensor-based technologies, manufacturers can harness granular data to bring greater supply chain efficiencies. This helps to avoid demand-supply misalignments in their production processes, and minimises the risk of products being spoiled in distribution.
Faster treatments in times of need
A viral outbreak can bring unforeseen challenges for those involved in public health management, from policy makers and health authorities through to clinicians and manufacturers. While the former can take prompt action to test for infection and put containment measures in place on identified clusters, the latter are often under renewed pressure to deliver treatments at speed. Being able to find new efficiencies in the development of vaccines can make a considerable difference in treating identified cases, relieving pressures on healthcare infrastructure and contributing to better recovery rates.
AI capabilities allow those involved in the development side to act faster under pressure. Techniques such as deep learning and advanced data visualisation allow researchers to lean on the body of existing research undertaken to tackle the complexities involved in discovering suitable treatments for novel viruses. The utility of AI extends through to production and distribution, where manufacturers play a powerful role in getting these medicines into the field at rapid speed and amid conditions of great uncertainty.
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Finding a Way: Readings from Three Novels
Sunday, November 20, 2016 @ 7:30 am
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Montague Kobbé's novel, On the Way Back, is a hilarious story centered around a failed business venture on the island of Anguilla. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan's Sarong Party Girls: A Novel is about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. Set in post-Franco Spain, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes's novel, The Sleeping World, a disillusioned university student searches for her missing brother.
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes received her BA in Literary Arts from Brown University, her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Her debut novel, The Sleeping World (Simon & Schuster) is set in 1970s post-Franco Spain. Mosca is an intelligent, disillusioned university student, whose younger brother is among the "disappeared," and now presumed dead. Mosca and her friends commit an act that carries their rebellion too far and sends them spiraling out of their provincial hometown. But the further they go, the more Mosca believes her brother is alive and the more she is willing to do to find him.
Montague Kobbé
Montague Kobbé was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and has resided in the UK, Germany, and Spain. He has had close ties to Anguilla for over thirty years and maintains a regular literary column in Sint Maarten's Daily Herald. His work has been published in the New York Times and El Nacional (Venezuela) among many other media outlets. He is the author of The Night of the Rambler (a finalist for the Premio Literario Casa de las Américas) and Tales of Bed Sheets and Departure Lounges. On the Way Back (Akashik) is his latest novel. hilarious social novel centers on a comically failed business venture on the island of Anguilla. Montague Kobbé es un autor alemán, nacido en Caracas. Su primera novela, The Night of the Rambler (Akashic, 2013) obtuvo una mención del Premio Casa de las Américas 2014. Después de publicar On the Way Back (Akashic, 2016), lanza la colección de microrrelatos Historias de camas y aeropuertos, una obra bilingüe en inglés y español. Ha coeditado Crude Words, una colección de textos por treinta autores venezolanos traducidos al inglés.
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Born and raised in Singapore, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York–based journalist and author of A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, and edited the fiction anthology Singapore Noir. She has been a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, InStyle magazine, and the Baltimore Sun. Her book, Sarong Party Girls: A Novel (William Morrow) is about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh—Western expat—husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Desperate to move up in Asia's financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed?
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Als Quäkerbrauchtum bezeichnet man Gebräuche der Quäker, die insbesondere für Außenstehende eine Reihe "befremdlicher" Verhaltensweisen darstellten. Diese trugen ihnen im englischen Sprachraum die Bezeichnung "peculiar people" (eigenartige Leute) ein.

Ursprüngliches Verhalten
Die Quäker weigerten sich, vor gesellschaftlich "höher gestellten" Personen den Hut zu ziehen, sie redeten alle Menschen mit du (engl. thou) an, sie lehnten den Gebrauch von Titeln und anderen Ehrenbezeugungen ab. Es wird vermutet, dass das Händeschütteln in seiner heutigen Form auf die Quäker zurückgeht, als Ausdruck der Gleichheit.

Die Quäker praktizierten eine schlichte Lebensführung und wandten sich gegen Luxus in Kleidung (graue Einheitstracht), Architektur und Ausstattung der Wohnhäuser usw. Sie verwendeten eine einfache und direkte Sprache und weigerten sich Eide zu leisten.

"Weltliche Vergnügen" wurden abgelehnt oder zumindest sehr kritisch gesehen. So schreibt zum Beispiel George Fox während einer seiner Gefängnisaufenthalte an seine Peiniger (ca. 1656):
Es gehet das Wort des HERRN an euch, ihr eitlen Müssiggänger, die ihr so dem Spiel, dem Vergnügen und solchen einfältigen Übungen zugetan seid, das ihr bedenken möget, was ihr tut. Ist das der Zweck eures Daseins? Machte Gott alles zu eurem Vergnügen und eurem Gebrauch? Machte nicht Gott alle Dinge, damit er darin in Furcht und Anbetung, im Geist und in der Wahrheit, in Gerechtigkeit und Heiligkeit geehrt werde? Wie könnet ihr Gott dienen, solange ihr euren Vergnügen nachgeht? Ihr könnt nicht Gott dienen und Weltliche Vergnügen, dem Kegeln, Jagen und Trinken und dergleichen; wenn euer Herz bei dergleichen ist, so will Gott eure Lippen nicht, fraget euch, ob das nicht wahr ist.

Bezeichnungen der Tages- und Monatsnamen wurden durch schlichte Bezeichnungen wie zum Beispiel "first day, second month" für den 1. Februar ersetzt. Der Genuss von Rauschmitteln (auch Tabak) sowie die Beteiligung an Glücksspiel oder kulturellen Zerstreuungen wie Theater, Tanz und Jagd usw. wurde ebenfalls abgelehnt. Als Begründungen für diese Verhaltensweisen wurden die Ablehnung einer "zügellosen Lebensweise" sowie der Bezug auf biblische Vorgaben angeführt. So schreibt William Penn z. B.:
Hättet ihr wirklich den Geist des wahren Christentums, wie könntet ihr denn eure so kostbare und kurze Zeit mit so vielen unnötigen Besuchen, Spielen und Zeitvertreiben, mit Komplimenten und Schmeicheleien hinbringen? Wie könntet ihr euch mit Erzählungen erdichteter Geschichten, mit herumtragen nutzloser Neuigkeiten und noch vielen andren eitlen Dingen beschäftigen, die bloss dazu da sind, und deren ihr euch auch nur bedienet, um euch zu zerfleischen; um nicht an euren wahren Zustand zu denken, und euch in gänzlicher Gottesvergessenheit zu betäuben.

Im Gegensatz dazu wurde die Arbeit als gemeinsames Feld der Offenbarung religiös verklärt. Um die erforderliche Disziplin durchzusetzen und aufrechtzuerhalten, gab es das Amt des "Aufsehers" (engl. Overseer). Dieser hatte auch den Auftrag im häuslichen Umfeld von der tadellosen Lebensführung zu überzeugen.

Früh begannen die Quäker sich betont schlicht, bevorzugt grau und schwarz zu kleiden. Bärte waren verpönt und es wurden breitkrämpige Hüte getragen. Aber nicht alle hießen diese Entwicklung gut. So ist bekannt das Margaret Fell kein Verständnis für diese Eigenart hatte. Trotzdem setzte sich der Trend fort und wurde zu einem Merkmal des Quietismus im Quäkertum. Dieser Kleidungsstil führte dann gelegentlich auch dazu, dass für Außenstehende die Unterscheidung zu anderen Gruppen, wie den Mennoniten schwierig war.

Religiöser Brauch
Auf Taufe und Abendmahlfeier wurde gänzlich verzichtet. Die Beerdigung war ohne jede Liturgie, besondere Kleidung, Bedeckung, Gesang oder gemessenes Tempo bei der Prozession. Genau so wie die Quäkerandacht selbst auch. Das führte dann zu Spott und Häme wie hier in einer zeitgenössischen Schilderung:
Die Träger laufen mit dieser Leiche wie ein Hund, der einen Schinken gestohlen hat, den die anderen Hunde auf der Straße folgen, und laufen dem nach, der den Schinken trägt. Ebenso tun diese Quäker mit ihren Toten, sie laufen sehr schnell, um diese zu begraben, ohne Tücher über die Bahre legen zu wollen [...], und die anderen Quäker folgen der Leiche, [...] ein jeder gekleidet, als ob sie bei ihrer Arbeit wären; [...] und es folgt ihnen ein großer Haufen schreiender und spottender Straßenjungen, die mitunter mit Schmutz werfen.

Gründe
Ein Teil dieser auffälligen und hier aufgeführten Verhaltensweisen sind den so genannten vier Zeugnissen (Zeugnis der Integrität, Friedenszeugnis, Zeugnis der Einfachheit und Zeugnis der Gleichheit) zuzurechnen. Sie sind quasi die Schnittmenge aller Quäkerausprägungen, -flügel und -strömungen.

Gegenwart
Das Bild und der Lebenswandel der Quäker hat sich in den letzten 150 Jahren stark gewandelt. Gerade der liberale Zweig und die Evangelikalen Quäker haben viele Gebräuche aufgegeben. Aber selbst konservative Quäker haben viele davon abgelegt oder betrachten sie als optional. Dieses trifft insbesondere auf die Kleidung zu. Keine Jahresversammlung hat heute noch die alten "Quäkeruniformen". Viele tragen bewusst schlichte Kleidung, aber es gibt keinen strengen Dresscode mehr. Auch ist bei einigen Mitgliedern der deutschen Jahresversammlung das Tragen teilweise wertvollen oder auffälligem Schmucks zu beobachten, was offensichtlich innerhalb der Gemeinschaft auch kein Stein des Anstoßes mehr ist.

Bei anderen Bräuchen wie Gesang und Musik gibt es bei Evangelikalen Quäkern im Grunde keine Unterschiede mehr zu anderen christlichen Konfessionen. Gesang ist bei diesen auch ein Bestandteil des Gottesdienstes. Auch im liberalen Flügel, der nach wie vor die stille – unprogrammierte – Andacht pflegt, hat Gesang außerhalb des Gottesdienstes ihren Platz gefunden. So hat z. B. die Deutsche Jahresversammlung in Julian Clarke und Renate Buchmann zwei Chorleiter, die den Quäker-Chor betreuen. Mit Hanna Jordan († 2014) hatte die Deutsche Jahresversammlung sogar eine recht bekannte Bühnen- und Kostümbildnerin vorzuweisen. Sie sorgte in der Zeitschrift Quäker viele Jahre mit der Quäker House Mouse-Karikaturen-Serie für Unterhaltung.

Seit ein paar Jahren gibt es die The Quaker Theatre Company in Großbritannien. Mit Ben Kingsley und Judi Dench gibt es sogar seit einigen Jahren zwei recht bekannte Schauspieler in Hollywood, die den Quäkern angehören.

Für einige Kontroversen sorgte die Entscheidung des Quaker Social Action (QSA), Lottogelder für ihre Arbeit zu verwenden. Dies bedeutete für viele Mitglieder eine Zäsur in den vormals bestehenden Traditionen. Die QSA argumentiert, dass man selbst nicht zum Glücksspiel aufrufe oder es fördere, sondern lediglich das Geld daraus für gute Zwecke verwenden wolle. Eine solche Entscheidung wäre zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt in der Deutschen Jahresversammlung nur schwer denkbar. In den 39 Ratschläge&Fragen heißt es dazu:

Bedenke, welche von der Gesellschaft angebotenen Wege zum Glück wirklich Erfüllung bringen, und welche möglicherweise verderblich und zerstörerisch sind. Sei kritisch bei der Auswahl von Unterhaltungs- oder Informationsmöglichkeiten. Widerstehe dem Wunsch, Besitz oder Einkommen durch ethisch nicht vertretbare Investitionen, Spekulationen oder Glücksspiel zu erwerben.

Beerdigungen und Totengedenken haben auch heute noch keine hohe Priorität unter Quäkern. Der Umgang mit Tod und Sterben ist unterschiedlich bis ambivalent. So hat einerseits der (Urnen-)Friedhof des Quäkerhauses in Bad Pyrmont eine mehrere Seiten umfassende Friedhofsordnung, andererseits wird bei Jahres- und Bezirksversammlungen auch schon mal – in Ermangelung an Platz – Fußball darauf gespielt (frei nach Markus 12,27: Es ist nicht ein Gott der Toten, sondern der Lebendigen!). Auch für den Sterbeprozess gibt es keine besonderen Rituale, wie z. B. die Krankensalbung bei anderen Kirchen.

Glossar
Für die im Artikel verwendeten Fachbegriffe siehe auch Artikel Glossar Quäkertum.

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Invalidenfriedhof is een begraafplaats in Berlijn in Duitsland. Hier liggen veel belangrijke militairen die een rol in de Pruisische en Duitse geschiedenis hebben gespeeld.

De begraafplaats werd in 1748 opgericht om de veteranen van de Oostenrijkse Successieoorlog (1740-1748) een laatste rustplaats te geven. Het lag naast een militair ziekenhuis opgericht door koning Frederik de Grote. In een koninklijk besluit van 1824 werd vastgelegd dat het Invalidenfriedhof de begraafplaats moest worden voor alle vooraanstaande Pruisische militairen, waaronder Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien. De begraafplaats was ook de rustplaats van de soldaten die omkwamen tijdens de revoluties van 1848-1849 in de staten van de Duitse Bond. In 1872 lagen er ongeveer 18.000 mensen op de begraafplaats.

Talrijke commandanten en officieren uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog, zoals Helmuth von Moltke en Ludwig von Falkenhausen, werden hier ook begraven. Het lichaam van Manfred von Richthofen (de 'Rode Baron') werd in 1925 vanuit zijn oorspronkelijke graf in Frankrijk naar de begraafplaats overgebracht. Tijdens de Weimarrepubliek kreeg Hans von Seeckt hier nog een plek, maar de capaciteit van de begraafplaats werd gehalveerd in deze periode.

Tijdens het naziregime volgden voormalig legeraanvoerder Werner von Fritsch, luchtaas Werner Mölders, Luftwaffe commandant Ernst Udet en minister van Munitie Fritz Todt. Na de oorlog gaven de geallieerden het bevel dat alle nazi-monumenten moesten worden verwijderd, maar hun lichamen werden niet opgegraven.

In mei 1951 sloot de gemeenteraad van Oost-Berlijn de begraafplaats af voor het publiek. Het lag dicht bij de Berlijnse Muur. De begraafplaats moest deels plaats maken voor wachttorens, kazernes en wegen. In de volgende jaren werden grafmonumenten moedwillig vernietigd of gingen door gebrek aan onderhoud ten onder.

Na de Duitse hereniging in 1990 viel de begraafplaats onder de monumentenzorg en begonnen de restauratiewerkzaamheden. Er is nu een gedenkteken voor Berlijners die zijn omgekomen bij het oversteken van de Berlijnse muur. Op de begraafplaats is ook een ongemarkeerd massagraf van Berlijners die zijn omgekomen bij geallieerde luchtaanvallen. De begraafplaats is zo'n 2,5 hectare groot en er zijn ongeveer 230 graven.

Externe links
   foerderverein-invalidenfriedhof
  Denkmaldatenbank Invalidenfriedhof mit Resten der Grenzmauer und Grabstätten

Begraafplaats in Berlijn