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Over this five-week Philosophy course, you will be given an overview of the key insights made by some of the most influential modern Philosophers. This course will help you to discover the thinkers that have had a major impact, not only on the field of Philosophy but also on all of the social sciences, and the intellectual development of western society generally.
This Philosophy course will introduce you to the concepts of liberty, utilitarianism, free will, power and society, existentialism as well as rationality in human nature. We will help you to understand how some of the most prominent modern thinkers since the Renaissance thought about the world, human behaviour and life itself.
Gain insights into the theories and writings of some of the most prominent modern Philosophers
Think critically about the concepts of rationality, free will, existentialism and power and how these beliefs have informed our thinking
Understand the impact modern Philosophers have had on the development of Western society
What will be covered in this philosophy course?
Georg Hegel - Metaphysics of the other: Hegel believed "the rational alone is real", which means that all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. His goal was to reduce reality to a more synthetic unity within the system of absolute idealism.
John Stuart Mill - Liberty and utilitarianism: Mill believed that the goal is to justify the utilitarian principle as the foundation of morals. This principle says actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote overall human happiness. The action which achieves the greatest amount of good for the most amount of people is the right action.
Karl Marx - On alienation: Marx believed that no economic class, be that wage workers, landowners, etc., should have power over another. Marx believed that everyone should contribute what they can, and everyone should get what they need. His most famous book was the Communist Manifesto.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The world as will and idea: Schopenhauer believed that will is the 'inner essence' of the entire world, and he claimed that humans have absolutely no free will. They are completely determined by the way that their bodies react to stimuli and causes, and their characters react to motives.
Freidrich Nietsche - The will to power: Nietzsche's philosophy contemplates the meaning of values and their significance to human existence. Given that no absolute values exist, in Nietzsche's worldview, the evolution of values on earth must be measured by some other means.
Martin Heidegger - Human 'being-in-the-world': Heidegger's groundbreaking work in ontology (the philosophical study of being, or existence) and metaphysics determined the course of 20th-century philosophy on the European continent and exerted an enormous influence on virtually every other humanistic discipline, including literary criticism, hermeneutics, psychology, and theology.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Free will and existentialism: Sartre's theory of existentialism states that "existence precedes essence", that is only by existing and behaving a certain way do we give meaning to our lives. According to him, there is no fixed design for how a human being should be and no God to give us a purpose.
Jurgen Habermas - Rationality and human nature: Habermas' theories are devoted to revealing the possibility of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication possible in modern institutions and in the human capacity to deliberate and pursue rational interests.
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The Josh Kraft Way: Street to Be Named in Honor of JGBC Founder
by Cary Shuman • January 14, 2021 • 1 Comment
The Chelsea City Council voted unanimously to name a street in honor of former Jordan Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Josh Kraft.
Councilor-at-Large Leo Robinson sponsored the motion that will name an area between Maverick Street and Congress Avenue adjacent to the club, "Josh Kraft Way."
"Josh Kraft came to Chelsea and helped affect Chelsea youths in a positive, uplifting manner," said Robinson. "He was able to deliver a state-of-the-art Boys and Girls Club facility to Chelsea that has benefited our youth in so many ways. His leadership of the club was exceptional. The naming of this street is a fitting honor for a someone who was outstanding leader in our community for many years."
Kraft served as the founding executive director of the Chelsea-based club for 15 years, leading the way for the construction of the new $11.2 million clubhouse on Willow Street. He is stepping down as the president of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston after a distinguished 30-year association with the organization.
Mark Robinson, chair of the JGBC Breakfast Series, said of Josh Kraft Way, "What a great and deserving honor!"
Robinson added, "Josh's legacy is beyond his leadership and the Chelsea Clubhouse. His positive impact on the lives of hundreds of children who passed through The Willow Street Clubhouse and their families is generational for it will multiply to the thousands for years to come. The Boys and Girls Club of Chelsea would not have happened without Josh and Chelsea will forever be the beneficiary."
John Montes, program director at the JGBC, had the opportunity to work with Kraft at the local club for 20 years. He said he is excited that there will be street named in honor of Kraft.
"This is an amazing tribute to Josh," said Montes. "He has done so much for this community that I could not think of anyone more deserving of this honor."
Josh Kraft is the son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and the late Myra Kraft. Josh is the president of the New England Patriots Foundation.
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We Have Never Been Racist: Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Greece
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The network Greek Studies Now organizes the third meeting in the series of webinars for the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek War of Independence, drawing attention to the important question of race.
May 24 at 5pm (UK)
Until quite recently, to talk about race in the context of Greek studies (and of Greece) was treated as awkward, something incommensurate with the narratives of what is commonly viewed as an ethnically homogeneous country that has never been a colonial power.
Yet, in light of recent public debates and with the reverberations of the Black Lives Matter protests reaching Greece as the country was preparing to celebrate its bicentenary, there is now a new urgent call to reconsider topical and longstanding legacies of race, racialization, and racism at different levels.
As a growing civil society movement has repeatedly stressed, processes of racialisation run deep in the structure of the Greek everyday. Race and (racial understandings of) ethnicity play a crucial role in defining Greek citizenship; they frame official and lay understandings of Greek history and have inadvertently influenced the very formation of the Greek state; they are painfully experienced by those who find themselves "outside" the matrix of recognition of who (and which bodies) could count as Greek; they are spectacularly (and officially) rehearsed in the biopolitics and necropolitics of "managing" the refugee crisis; but they are also part and parcel of longstanding class, educational, geographical, and symbolic taxonomies with a long history in the Greek state. In this context, the phrase "We have never been racist", often repeated in Greece to this day, ceases to sound like an innocuous observation, and denotes the opening of a difficult debate.
In this roundtable we want, among others, to broach questions such as:
– What categories of (racial) exclusion and inclusion has the notion of Greekness been premised on in the Greek national imaginary?
– What has been Greece's (historical, financial, ethical) relationship to the European colonial project? How did it impact the formation of the Greek nation?
– How useful is the category of race for understanding today's political, cultural and social landscape of Greece?
– What are the particular histories of whiteness with which Greeks have been identified? What is their role today?
– How has "whiteness" shaped Greece's European-ness and European hellenisms?
We will be discussion these themes and others together with Sadia Abbas (Rutgers University), Johanna Hanink (Brown University), Omaira Gill (journalist), and Nikos Deji Odubitan (Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality & Diversity, Greece).
In the first part of this event, we will have brief presentations by the three main speakers. In the second part, we will open the floor for a live conversation with invited interlocutors from academic and activist communities, as well as with the audience.
The event will be live streamed via YouTube. Register here in order to receive the link for the livestream. If you would like to share the FB event, you can find it here.
The first webinar in these series of events to mark the Bicentennial of the Declaration of Greek Independence, was held on 22 March: a discussion on the nation by revisiting Stathis Gourgouris' classic book "Dream Nation". Our second event took place on 21 April when we invited Greek artists to reflect on "What Greece…?" they have in mind.
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Azerbaijani philologists also concerned about the transition of Kazakh to the Latin script. The scientists approved the final version of the Latin script. According to researchers, in comparison with the previous project, the new release is more pragmatic in terms of the principles of using language tools.
- This is a better solution comparing to the combined letters. It is better to express 'Ш' by S with an apostrophe and to write C with the apostrophe to express 'Ч'. It is necessary to go through a certain stage which is to observe a learning process of a child. Then there may be new proposals.
Azerbaijani scientist Firuza Agayeva believes that the transition to the Latin script will also help integrate the language of the Turkic peoples. Firuza Agayeva actively participates in discussions on this topic. According to Firuza Agayeva, the principles of the common Turkic alphabet which were adopted back in 1926 at the congress of the Turcologists can be used today.
- The alphabet unites the Turkic peoples. If the Turkic peoples follow the rules of the common Turkic alphabet, then we can better understand each other. Moreover, this is a good opportunity to integrate with European culture.
Scientists agree that the new project of the alphabet with 32 letters fully reflects the phonetics of the Kazakh language. According to the researchers, Kazakh is rich in native Turkic words comparing to other related languages. Therefore, owing to the transition to the Latin script, other languages can adopt the ancient Turkic words from Kazakh.


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Is the Ability to Connect with Footballers on Social Media a Good Thing?
Fans are now able to get closer to footballers than ever before, connecting with them on social media and commenting on their posts. This can bring about positives, and it can provide a sense of bonding between clubs and their fanbases.
However, there are many negative factors that come with this. Indeed, some players have fallen victim to cyberbullying, and this can sometimes have a detrimental effect on their performances on the pitch.
The Rise of Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is a pernicious issue throughout society, not just in football. Anyone who uses the internet needs to know how to stay safe and post with privacy. They can do this by removing location metadata or limiting who can see certain posts. There's also the option for internet users to remove tagging permission on social media.
The problem for footballers is that, as celebrities who are constantly in the public eye, they can't do these things. Therefore, they are out in the open and easy targets for cyberbullies. The bullying of these stars can range from mean comments to more serious forms of abuse, and the issue is getting worse every year.
Because of the increase in online harassment aimed at footballers, some are beginning to question whether being on social media is a good thing for the players. Many have even got together to boycott social media in the past in an attempt to highlight the problem.
Harassed Famous Players
The list of players who have faced online abuse is getting longer every year. The problem for footballers is that they can barely put a foot wrong. If they make the slightest mistake, members of fickle fanbases will jump on them.
Patrick Bamford is an example of a player who was adversely affected by hurtful comments online during Leeds United's promotion push from the Championship. His social media team had to remove comments from his Instagram. He also famously celebrated a goal by covering his ears, highlighting how he didn't believe those who had bullied him had the right to cheer.
There are also players who have fallen victim to more serious and harmful forms of abuse. After missing penalties at Euro 2020, Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka were both victims of online racism and this highlighted the need for the football world to do more to stamp this out.
Rashford and Henderson Helping to Raise Awareness
There are plenty of players who have been trying to raise awareness of the issues that footballers are facing on social media. Rashford is one of the most outspoken figures in the sport, and he always ensures that he calls out the criminals who engage in this despicable behaviour.
Jordan Henderson is another famous face who is constantly campaigning against cyberbullying. He recently handed his social media accounts over to the Cybersmile Foundation to try to raise awareness of the dangerous effects of online abuse.
Connecting with footballers would be a great thing if everyone could be trusted to be pleasant and courteous online. The sad fact is that there are cyberbullies out there who seem content on hurting some of these players. The football world needs to do more to eradicate this.
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Biografia
Ha iniziato l'attività artistica partecipando nel 1963 alla trasmissione televisiva Gran Premio, nella squadra della Campania. Ha preso parte a diversi b-movie (poliziotteschi, commedia erotica all'italiana) oltre a sceneggiati televisivi e telefilm. Come doppiatrice ha dato voce a Madge Sinclair in La legge di Bird.

Attrice teatrale, ha insegnato recitazione e dizione presso l'Accademia d'Arte Drammatica Togliani di Roma e dizione in diversi istituti scolastici pubblici romani.

Ammalatasi di tumore ai polmoni, è deceduta all'età di 74 anni.

Filmografia

Cinema
Guardami nuda, regia di Italo Alfaro (1972)
La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori, regia di Fernando Di Leo (1975)
La professoressa di scienze naturali, regia di Michele Massimo Tarantini (1976)
Avere vent'anni, regia di Fernando Di Leo (1978)
Pierino medico della SAUB, regia di Giuliano Carnimeo (1981)
Biancaneve & Co..., regia di Mario Bianchi (1982)
Storia di Piera, regia di Marco Ferreri (1983)
Separati in casa, regia di Riccardo Pazzaglia (1986)
Il lupo di mare, regia di Maurizio Lucidi (1987)
32 dicembre, episodio "I penultimi fuochi", regia di Luciano De Crescenzo (1988)
L'ultima scena, regia di Nino Russo (1989)
Compagni di scuola, regia di Carlo Verdone (1988)
La bambola, regia di Ninì Grassia (1991)
Graffiante desiderio, regia di Sergio Martino (1993)
Il testimone dello sposo, regia di Pupi Avati (1997)
Dagli occhi dell'amore, regia di Adelmo Togliani (2019)

Televisione
Jekyll – miniserie TV, 2 episodi (1969)
Giocando a golf una mattina – miniserie TV, 1 episodio (1969)
Maman Colibri – film TV (1973)
Qui squadra mobile – miniserie TV, 1 episodio (1973)
Inverno al mare – miniserie TV, 2 episodi (1982)
Due assi per un turbo – serie TV, 1 episodio (1987)
Investigatori d'Italia – serie TV, 1 episodio (1987)
La famiglia Brandacci – film TV (1987)
Quattro storie di donne – miniserie TV, 1 episodio (1989)
Il ricatto – serie TV, 1 episodio (1989)
Don Fumino – serie TV, 1 episodio (1993)
Lo zio d'America – serie TV (2002)
Provaci ancora prof! – serie TV, 1 episodio (2008)
Don Matteo – serie TV, 1 episodio (2009)

Teatro
Questa sera si recita a soggetto
Non è vero, ma ci credo
Come finì Don Ferdinando Ruoppolo
Spacca il centesimo
Folle Amanda
Che brutta epoque
Il cadavere vivente
Opera buffa
Nottar Pettolone
Le armi e l'uomo
Cafè Iamoss
L'orso
L'anniversario
Liliom
Così è se vi pare
Robot amore mio
Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo
Risate in salotto

Prosa televisiva Rai
Questa sera si recita a soggetto di Luigi Pirandello, regia di Paolo Giuranna, trasmessa il 26 novembre 1968.
Il candidato di Gustave Flaubert, regia di Maurizio Scaparro, trasmessa il 22 gennaio 1971.

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Collegamenti esterni

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Космос 381 — спутник изучения ионосферы, запущенный СССР с космодрома Плесецк 2 декабря 1970 года.

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Спутник «Космос-381» построен в НПО ПМ (ныне — АО «ИСС им. Решетнёва») для исследований ионосферы Земли. На борту аппарата были установлены следующие приборы:
 станция ионосферного зондирования ИС-2 для изучения ионосферы с помощью посылки импульсов на фиксированных частотах и приёма отраженных от ионосферы сигналов
 Детектор космических лучей
 Фотометр для измерения излучения Солнца в УФ-диапазоне
 Детектор доз космической радиации
 Приёмник ОНЧ-волн
Полученная информация регистрировалась запоминающих устройством на борту спутника и передавалась на наземные пункты во время сеансов связи. Для стабилизации положения спутника в пространстве использовались системы гравитационного и магнитного успокоения. Угловое положение аппарата относительно Солнца и магнитного поля Земли, необходимое для обработки получаемых со спутника данных, определялось с помощью радиотехнических систем слежения, солнечных и магнитометрических датчиков. Источником электропитания были неориентированные солнечные батареи, установленные по всей поверхности цилиндрического корпуса. Масса спутника составляла 750 кг, мощность системы энергопитания — 280 Вт. Расчётный срок активного существования аппарата — 6 месяцев.

Орбита
Спутник был запущен на околокруговую орбиту синхронизированную с магнитосферой Земли.
Параметры орбиты:
 перигей = 985,00 км,
 апогей = 1023,00 км,
 наклонение 74°,
 эксцентриситет = 0,00257

Научная программа
С космического аппарата «Космос-381» проводилось комплексное изучение ионосферы Земли. В программу полёта входило зондирование ионосферы испульсами, излучаемыми станцией ИС-2 на 20-ти фиксированных частотах поочередно и приём отраженных сигналов аппаратурой спутника. В результате была получена информация о распределении концентрации электронов в верхней ионосфере до уровня орбиты спутника. В ходе полёта «Космоса-381» изучалась связь распределения электронов в ионосфере с ультрафиолетовой солнечной радиацией, исследовались спектры низкочастотных электромагнитных колебаний, возникающих в ионосферной плазме, оценивалась радиационная обстановка в околоземном пространстве. Впоследствии исследования ионосферы с помощью установленной на спутнике зондирующей станции были продолжены на спутниках «Интеркосмос-19», «Космос-1809» и на орбитальной станции «Мир».

См. также
 Космос (КА)
 Список космических аппаратов «Космос» (251–500)

Примечания

Ссылки
 Nasa-Gsfc
 Astronautix

Искусственные спутники Земли
Космические аппараты серии «Космос»
Спутники ДЗЗ
Научно-исследовательские спутники
Космические аппараты, разработанные НПО ПМ имени академика М. Ф. Решетнёва
Спутники, изучающие ионосферу


Dubai property market experts Cluttons stated that decline in property prices is coming to an end and prices have almost reached the bottom in many areas.
The prices of residential property in Q2 2017 decreased in Dubai by 1.5%. Thus prices are falling for 12 consecutive quarters.
Apartments show better price dynamics than villas, on average their prices in the II quarter fell by 1% while the prices of villas decreased by 2.2%.
According to the forecasts price adjustment is coming to an end. For the rent prices will continue to be adjusted during 2017. Cluttons experts noted that the decrease in comparison with the prices in 2016 will be 5-7%.


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  Corquilleroy est
      une commune localisée dans le département de Loiret en Centre. Elle comptait 2 395 habitants en 2008.

À Corquilleroy le salaire moyen mensuel par habitant est situé à approximativement 1 944 €  net. C'est inférieur à la moyenne du pays.

Le nombre d'habitations, à Corquilleroy, était réparti en 2011 en 25 appartements et 1 124 maisons soit
 un marché plutôt équilibré.

La ville offre quelques  équipements, elle propose entre autres un terrain de tennis, un terrain de sport et une boucle de randonnée.

À proximité de Corquilleroy sont localisées les villes de
Mignères à 5 km, 326 habitants,
Paucourt à 6 km, 879 habitants,
Girolles située à 2 km, 707 habitants,
Villemandeur située à 6 km, 6 189 habitants,
Villevoques à 5 km, 210 habitants,
Pannes localisée à 3 km, 3 118 habitants,
 entre autres. De plus, Corquilleroy est située à seulement six km de Montargis.

À Corquilleroy, la valeur moyenne à l'achat d'un appartement se situe à zero € du m² en vente. la valorisation moyenne d'une maison à l'achat se situe à 1 433 € du m². À la location la valeur moyenne se situe à 8,24 € du m² par mois.

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5 Things You Should Know About Warsan Shire, The Poet Behind Beyoncé's 'LEMONADE'
by John Kennedy
@YoungJFK
For women who are 'difficult' to love.
Lemonade Film (Script)
Get to know the woman behind the words.
Cinematic, musical, emotional—Beyoncé's fresh-squeezed visual album LEMONADE is a work of art in every respect. The visual component of Bey's sixth solo studio LP is woven together by beautiful spoken word interludes, courtesy of Somali-British poet Warsan Shire.
Just as Beyoncé introduced many to the powerful words of Nigerian novelist and feminism champion Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her self-titled 2013 album, Bey now shares her spotlight with Shire, who is credited with "Film Adaptation and Poetry" in LEMONADE's closing credits.
The London-based scribe, who was named 2014 Young Poet Laureate of London, has been plucking heartstrings with her emo poems for years. Shire has been profiled by The New Yorker, quoted by The New York Times, and serves as poetry editor of literary magazine Spook.
Get familiar with this primer on Beyoncé's latest muse.
1. Warsan Shire's most famous poem is called "For Women Who Are 'Difficult' To Love." The viral piece is adapted for LEMONADE, as is "The Unbearable Weight Of Staying," "How To Wear Your Mother's Lipstick," "Dear Moon," "Grief Has Its Blue Hands In Her Hair," and "Nail Technician As Palm Reader."
2. The Beyoncé connection may have come via writer and filmmaker dream hampton, who has longstanding ties to the Carters—she co-authored Jay Z's Decoded and his unreleased autobiography, The Black Book, and wrote a GIANT magazine profile on Beyoncé in 2008. hampton called Shire "the most amazing poet I've hear or read in 20 yrs" in 2011, and they've since frequently exchanged messages on Twitter.
3. Shire usually writes at night—music and film are crucial to the process. "My writing is always inspired by film," she told africainwords.com. "If I don't watch a film, I won't write. I watch about 10 films a week."
Shire also requires background music to create. She regularly posts music that motivates her writing—songs like FKA twigs' "Two Weeks," Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence," and Vince Staples' "Señorita"—on her blog, warsan in wonderland. "It's so varied—it goes from dubstep to really depressing music."
4. The New Republic has called Shire "the new voice of the refugee crisis," as the immigrant experience has been a recurring focus of her writings (she was born in Kenya in 1988 to Somali parents and immigrated to the UK at the age of 1).
"Character-driven poetry is important for me," she said. "It's being able to tell the stories of those people, especially refugees and immigrants, that otherwise wouldn't be told, or they'll be told really inaccurately… One day you are in your country, having fun, drinking mango juice, and the next day you are in the underground in London and your children are speaking to you in a language you don't understand."
5. She's published two bodies of literary work: 2011 poetry pamphlet Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth and 2015's Her Blue Body, which she's called "a likkle chapbook i had to produce at the end of my tenure as young poet laureate for london." In 2012, she released an album of spoken poems, warsan versus melancholy (the seven stages of being lonely). Shire tweeted that her full collection of poetry will drop in 2016.
Follow Warsan Shire on Twitter and Instagram.


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Loren Rush (* 23. August 1935) ist ein US-amerikanischer Komponist und Pianist.

Der Mitbegründer und Präsident der Good Sound Foundation forschte auf den Gebieten digitaler Aufnahme- und Wiedergabesysteme, digitaler Tonsignalbearbeitung, der Simulation akustischer Umgebungen und der Entwicklung intelligenter Musikanalysesysteme. Ende der 1950er Jahre spielte er mit Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Laurel Johnson, Robert Erickson und Bill Butler eine Reihe von Aufnahmen ein, in denen mit Improvisationsmusik und Aleatorik experimentiert wurde. Seine aleatorische Komposition Hexahedron (1963) wurde von dem Pianisten Dwight Peltzer aufgenommen.

Im Auftrag von Niklas Wyss und dem San Francisco Symphony Orchestra komponierte er 1973 I'll See You in My Dreams für verstärktes Orchester und Tonband, das erste Werk, in dem die elektronische Verstärkung eines ganzen Orchesters künstlerisch eingesetzt wurde. Sein Song and Dance (1975), ein Auftragswerk für Seiji Ozawa und das San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, ist die erste Komposition für Orchester und computergenerierte digitale Livemusik.

Quellen
 Deep Listening Institute – Loren Rush
 Archive.org – Early Improvisations with Pauline Oliveros, Loren Rush, Terry Riley, and Others
 Radio M – The composer: Loren Rush

Komponist (Vereinigte Staaten)
Klassischer Pianist
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1935
Mann


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Award winning cat is inspiration for Christmas animation
Following on from the success of last year's animation ' Kozal's Christmas', this year's festive animation takes inspiration from a true story – a heart-warming tale of the relationship between one girl and her cat.
"Genie's Christmas Wish" tells the story of black-and-white cat Genie, who was a dedicated companion to schoolgirl Evie as she braved intensive treatment for bone cancer in 2016.
Evie, who was 11 at the time, endured six rounds of chemotherapy, several operations and lengthy hospital stays away from home. While she was separated from her beloved cat, the bond she had built with Genie provided plenty of comfort during the tough times.
Depicted in the animation, watching videos of Genie from her hospital bed helped keep her positive, as well as the promise of a reunion with her feline companion.
She said: "I missed Genie every day I was in hospital and my family could tell she missed me. She's my best friend and is always there when I need her."
Evie and Genie's bond was so strong that her family decided to nominate Genie for Cats Protection's National Cat Awards in 2017. As well as winning the title of Outstanding Rescue Cat, she was also awarded the overall title of the nation's Top Cat at a ceremony held at the Savoy Hotel in London.
"Genie's Christmas wish" was produced almost entirely in-house at Cats Protection – from its brief and inception to the final film. The hope is that the animation will highlight the often amazing impact that cats have on our lives.
To watch the animation, visit www.cats.org.uk/xmas
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// Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software
// License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

//  Boost.MultiArray Library
//  Authors: Ronald Garcia
//           Jeremy Siek
//           Andrew Lumsdaine
//  See http://www.boost.org/libs/multi_array for documentation.

//
// stl_interaction.cpp - Make sure multi_arrays work with STL containers.
//

#include "boost/test/minimal.hpp"

#include "boost/multi_array.hpp"
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>

int
test_main(int, char*[])
{
  using boost::extents;
  using boost::indices;
  typedef boost::multi_array_types::index_range range;
  typedef boost::multi_array<int,3> array3;
  typedef boost::multi_array<int,2> array2;

  typedef std::vector<array3> array3vec;

  int data[] = {
    0,1,2,3,
    4,5,6,7,
    8,9,10,11,

    12,13,14,15,
    16,17,18,19,
    20,21,22,23
  };
  const int data_size = 24;

  int insert[] = {
    99,98,
    97,96,
  };
  const int insert_size = 4;
  array3 myarray(extents[2][3][4]);
  myarray.assign(data,data+data_size);

  array3vec myvec(5,myarray);
  BOOST_CHECK(myarray == myvec[1]);

  array3::array_view<2>::type myview =
    myarray[indices[1][range(0,2)][range(1,3)]];

  array2 filler(extents[2][2]);
  filler.assign(insert,insert+insert_size);

  // Modify a portion of myarray through a view (myview)
  myview = filler;

  myvec.push_back(myarray);

  BOOST_CHECK(myarray != myvec[1]);
  BOOST_CHECK(myarray == myvec[5]);

  return boost::exit_success;
}


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Hyllestad ist eine Ortschaft und Kommune im norwegischen Fylke Vestland. Sie befindet sich im Westen der Landschaft Ytre Sogn am äußeren Sognefjord.

Geografie

Die Kommune umschließt den zentralen Fjordarm Åfjorden und grenzt im Norden und Osten an Fjaler und im Südosten an Høyanger. Südlich des Sognefjords befindet sich Gulen während westlich die Inselkommune Solund angrenzt. Die höchsten Erhebungen der Kommune sind die zur Bergkette Lifjell (oder Lihesten) gehörenden charakteristischen Berge Risnesnipa mit 776,5 Metern Höhe und Gygrekjeften mit 710 Metern, die auch eine wichtige Landmarke bilden.
Die Küstenlinie Hyllestads hat eine Länge von 106 km.

Bevölkerung
Hyllestad ist dünn besiedelt und verfügt über keine Tettsteder (Ortschaften). Das Verwaltungszentrum liegt im gleichnamigen Ort Hyllestad, wo sich auch die Schule (1.–10. Klasse), der Kindergarten und ein Supermarkt befinden. Daneben ist Leirvik im Südosten der Gemeinde das zweite Bevölkerungszentrum. In den Tälern zwischen den beiden Siedlungen und an der Nordseite des Åfjordes befinden sich verstreute Höfe. Die Inseln und Halbinseln der Gemeinde sind heute unbewohnt. Die Bevölkerungszahlen sind seit der Nachkriegszeit rückläufig.

Die Einwohner der Gemeinde werden Hyllestadsokning genannt. Offizielle Schriftsprache ist wie in vielen Kommunen in Vestland Nynorsk, also die weniger weit verbreitete der beiden norwegischen Sprachformen.

Verkehr
Über den Fylkesveg 57 (Landstraße) ist die Gemeinde mit Dale i Sunnfjord im Norden verbunden, im Süden gibt es eine Fährverbindung von Rysjedalsvika über den Sognefjord nach Rutledal, von wo aus man mit dem Auto Bergen erreichen kann. In Rysjedalsvika halten außerdem Schnellboote der Linie Bergen – Sogn – Nordfjord und es fährt eine Fähre nach Krakhella auf Solund.

In östliche Richtung verbindet der Rv. 607 die Gemeinde mit Lavik in der Nachbargemeinde Høyanger, wo er auf die Europastraße 39 (E39) trifft.

Geschichte
Die Gemeinde Hyllestad wurde 1862 durch die Abtrennung von Askvoll gegründet. Durch die Kommune führte der Trondhjemske postvei, also der Weg von Bergen nach Trondheim, der von der Post genutzt wurde. Lange Zeit wurden in Hyllestad Mühlsteine produziert, heute erinnert das Norsk kvernsteinsenter daran. Die Hyllestad kyrkje, eine Holzkirche im Ort Hyllestad, wurde 1879 erbaut. Weitere Kirchen in der Gemeinde sind die Bø kyrkje aus dem Jahr 1868 und die Øn kyrkje aus dem Jahr 1958.

Bis zum 31. Dezember 2019 gehörte Hyllestad der damaligen Provinz Sogn og Fjordane an. Sie ging im Zuge der Regionalreform in Norwegen in die zum 1. Januar 2020 neu geschaffene Provinz Vestland über.

Wirtschaft
Haupteinnahmequelle der Bevölkerung war traditionell die Landwirtschaft, insbesondere das Halten von Schafen und Großvieh. Die Fischerei ist trotz der Lage am Meer eher von geringerer Bedeutung, es werden allerdings einige Fischzuchtanlagen betrieben. Größter Arbeitgeber heute ist die Havyard Leirvik AS Schiffswerft. Das größte Wasserkraftwerk der Gemeinde ist das Kraftwerk Nedre Svultingen mit einer durchschnittlichen Jahresproduktion von 40,4 GWh.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

Im Ort Hyllestad ist der Kvernsteinspark zu finden, der seit 2002 Touristen die Geschichte der dort gefundenen Mühlsteine näherbringen soll. Diese wurden dort seit der Wikingerzeit produziert, und Hyllestad stellte im Mittelalter eine der wichtigsten Produktionsstätten dieser Steine dar, die bis nach Dänemark, Schweden und Kontinentaleuropa verschifft wurden.

Ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel ist außerdem der Berg Lihesten (714 m), der durch seine steil zum Meer hin abfallenden Hänge ein markantes Merkmal der Küstenlandschaft der Gemeinde ist.

Name und Wappen
Das seit 1989 offizielle Wappen der Kommune zeigt drei silberne Mühlensteine auf blauem Hintergrund. Die Umgebung wurde im Jahr 1322 als Hyllistada sokn erwähnt. Die genaue Herkunft des Namens ist nicht genau bekannt, er könnte sich aber vom altnordischen hylli ableiten und somit "freundlicher, ruhiger Ort" bedeuten. Auch eine Ableitung von "Wohlwollen" ist möglich.

Weblinks

 Hyllestad auf Norgeskart (norwegisch)
 Hyllestad im Store norske leksikon (norwegisch)
 Fakten über Hyllestad beim Statistisk sentralbyrå (norwegisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Vestland
Gemeindegründung 1862


The Isle of Man Government has begun to use the first public service based on blockchain technology, with a model that one of its developers said could soon be replicated in the UK.
The Department of Economic Development in the Crown dependency is trialling a blockchain register to record which companies on the Isle of Man are active in using distributed online ledgers.
It has been developed by the island's Government with the Manx ICT Association and Credits, a company that provides a platform for using the technology.
Nick Williamson, chief executive officer of Credits, said the service is supporting the Isle of Man's regulation of the use of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum, based on the Proceeds of Crime Act. It is also demonstrating the principles behind blockchain as the basis for other uses.
"It's been done as a way of showing you can access the blockchain to validate trust and availability in the services," he said.
Williamson said it can provide a means of assurance, with users being able to view the linked registries and confirm they were inserted by government employees.
Williamson said that Credits and its partners are looking at other use cases with the Isle of Man Government. These are still largely hypothetical, but they do not necessarily involve the use of cryptocurrencies, and he hopes that further services could be launched within the next few months.
He added that the company has also been talking with a number of UK public authorities about creating services using blockchain.
The news comes days after Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock, said that blockchain has considerable potential for government, and that its use in managing the distribution of grants is already being investigated.
Earlier this year the Government Office for Science published a report that said distributed ledger technology could reduce fraud, corruption and error and promote more trust between government and the public.


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Cepheus pegazzanoae är en kvalsterart som beskrevs av Bernini och Nannelli 1982. Cepheus pegazzanoae ingår i släktet Cepheus och familjen Cepheidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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Home India 3 Arrested for having created a fake Facebook profile of UP Bureaucrat:...
3 Arrested for having created a fake Facebook profile of UP Bureaucrat: Police
Deepender Singh
The defendants were taken to Lucknow, the STF said. (Representative)
Lucknow:
Three men who allegedly tricked people into creating fake Facebook user profiles, including a senior Uttar Pradesh government official, have been apprehended, officials said on Saturday.
The three men were arrested in the Govardhan area of Mathura district on Friday by the UP police special task force (STF), officials said.
Additional Police Superintendent, STF, Vishal Vikram Singh, said the agency had received reports of cybercriminals creating fake Facebook user profiles who were using its messaging service to trick people out of their money.
"These idiots created fake or hacked Facebook profiles. Then they would use the messaging service to message the user's contacts and cook up stories about the need for money. They would ask the contacts to send. money through e-wallets like PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm or through UPI, "Singh said.
Recently, unidentified cybercriminals created a fake Facebook profile of RK Tiwari, the chief secretary of the UP government, and attempted to dupe his contacts in the same way, the STF said in a statement.
The case was turned over to STF, which contacted the US-based social media giant and also used electronic surveillance methods to locate suspects in the Govardhan area of Mathura, he said.
The defendants were identified as Sharafat aka Kala, Sukhdeen Khan and a minor, and they were taken to Lucknow, the STF said.
An FIR was filed against them at Cyber Police Station in Lucknow under IPC sections for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. They were also charged under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, the agency said.
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Astronomers to Descend Upon Boston for Cosmic Conference This Week
By Miriam Kramer 2014-06-01T12:09:46Z
Kepler-186f, the first Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, is just one of the many potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
(Image: © NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech)
More than 1,000 astronomers and space fans are bringing their interstellar smarts to Boston, Massachusetts for a conference this week.
The 224th meeting of the American Astronomical Society is set to run from Sunday (June 1) to Thursday (June 5), and it is expected to be jam-packed with talks ranging from the hunt for alien worlds to the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. Space.com will be coverage the event live from Boston all week.
"Even without the AAS in town, the Greater Boston area occupies a key spot on the astronomical map thanks to its being home to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts, the Chandra X-ray Center, Sky & Telescope magazine, the American Association of Variable Star Observers, and several other institutions with cosmic connections," AAS press officer Rick Fienberg wrote in a statement. "With so many astronomers already in the neighborhood, the Boston meeting promises to be a particularly dynamic gathering."
Anyone in the Boston area can also participate in the conference. Members of the public can attend the AAS sessions for $50 on Tuesday (June 3). Representatives with the organization have also set up two short talks geared toward amateur audiences that day. One talk is about habitable alien worlds and the other is focused on supernova forensics.
People in the area can also come out to a free star party on the Boston Common on Tuesday (June 3) from 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) to 11 p.m. EDT (0300 June 4 GMT). Weather permitting, amateur astronomers and professionals will set up telescopes trained on the moon, Mars, Saturn and other cosmic sights for members of the public to examine, according to the AAS.
Visit Space.com this week for complete coverage from the 224th Annual AAS meeting. Learn more about the amateur AAS program directly through the conference website: http://aas.org/meetings/aas224/amateur
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Challenge Partners works with schools at all stages in their school improvement journey. Underpinning this is "upwards convergence", a theory of action that stimulates high performing schools to rise higher through collaboration with other schools, so that the whole system moves on. Read our introduction to creating a high performing and equitable system.
We believe the effectiveness of our school partnerships is critical to the improvement in our schools. This presentation was given by Prof Sir George Berwick at the 'Power of Hubs' conference 2015.


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TNTT TÔMA THIỆN ATL
Phong Trào Thiếu Nhi Thánh Thể Việt Nam Tại Hoa Kỳ
Đoàn Tôma Trần Văn Thiện |Atlanta, GA
We are Đoàn Tôma Thiện, a chapter of the Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement in the United States. As part of the Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in Norcross, GA, we've been serving the Vietnamese Catholic youth in the north-metro-Atlanta region since 1996. Together with all other chapters of VEYM around the world, we work to bring our youth closer to Christ and to guide them in spreading the Good News of the Gospel.
Our Mission and Purpose
The Eucharistic Youth Movement has two general purposes:
To educate and train youths in becoming a better person as well as an excellent Christian
To organize and to guide all youths in spreading the Good News of the Gospel and to actively be involved in working for the good of society through charitable services and helping others.
Our Foundation and Ideal
The Eucharistic Youth Movement utilizes God's Word in the Scriptures and the teaching of the Catholic Church as the basis for educating and guiding the youth in its activities.
Eucharistic Youth Movement accepts the Eucharistic Jesus Christ as its focal point, as source of spiritual life, and as ideal for the life of its members.
1. Live God's Word and be united with the Eucharistic Christ through Prayer, Communion, Sacrifice, and Apostolic Work under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, particularly apostolic work by the youth: "The youth must do apostolic work first and directly to the youth" (Decree Lay Apostolicity, no. 12)
2. Love and honor the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Savior, so that through Our Mother, we receive Christ and take Christ into our lives in a perfect way.
3. Honor the Vietnamese Martyrs; follow their examples to become witnesses for the Good News of Christ.
4. Love and obey the representative of Christ, the Pope, who is the leader of the Eucharistic Youth, and at the same time pray and implement the monthly wishes of the Holy Father.
5. Improve humanity; protect and develop Vietnamese traditions and culture.
Behind the Đoàn Patch
After 23 years, we're excited to release for the first time ever our đoàn patch! To explain some of the symbolism:
Each color represents the various branches of our movement, including Ấu Nhi, Thiếu Nhi, Nghĩa Sĩ, Hiệp Sĩ and Huynh Trưởng.
The chalice and TNTT cross with the sun rays above it embody the Eucharist as the source and summit of our lives.
The chalice is intertwined with Vietnam as the Vietnamese culture intertwines with our faith and grounds us in our heritage.
The map of the state of Georgia then shifts us back to reminding us of how far we've come in bringing VEYM beyond the Vietnamese borders. The TNTT cross is also conveniently located approximately near our home, Norcross, GA.
The palm leaves represent the 117 Holy Vietnamese Martyrs who laid the foundation for our faith and continue to watch over us as the patrons of our parish.
Who is Saint Tôma Trần Văn Thiện?
St. Tôma Thiện was executed by King Minh Mạng on September 21, 1838 because he refused to step over the cross.
Tôma Thiện was canonized on June 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
Feast Day of Tôma Thiện: September 21
Liturgical Meanings at Our Church
What parish does Đoàn Tôma Thiện belong to?
We are part of the Holy Martyrs of Vietnam Catholic Church in Norcross, Georgia, part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta. For more info about our church, visit www.hvmatl.org or http://www.cttdvnatl.org/en/.
Đoàn Tôma Thiện is a part of VEYM/TNTT. What is Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement (VEYM) or Phong Trào Thiếu Nhi Thánh Thể Việt Nam (TNTT)?
The Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement is a non-profit organization, under the leadership of the Catholic Church. Its aim is to teach youths to be virtuous people and good Christians. It also offers services for the youth. Throughout its years of service, the Movement has kept pace with social and cultural changes of the day in an attempt to reach out to the youth of all times. For official info on VEYM/TNTT, visit https://www.veym.net/about/.
What region is Đoàn Tôma Thiện in VEYM/TNTT?
We are part of Liên Đoàn (League of Chapters) Joan of Arc. For more info, visit http://www.ldjoanofarc.org/
Want to know more from us?
Fill out the questions form in the "Contact" Page.
Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church
4545 Timmers Way
©2018 BY TNTT TÔMA THIỆN ATL


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This list of cemeteries in Riverside County, California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea in Riverside County, California. It does not include pet cemeteries. Selected interments are given for notable people.

See also
 List of cemeteries in California
 List of cemeteries in San Bernardino County, California

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Faithful remember John Paul II
Former Pope not forgotten on sixth anniversary of his death
Sumon Corraya, Dhaka
Updated: April 04, 2011 09:36 AM GMT
Pope John Paul II takes traditional Rickshaw ride during his Nov. 19-20 visit to Bangladesh in 1986
Catholics across the country have commemorated the virtuous life of Pope John Paul II by offering prayers during Holy Mass on the 6th anniversary of his death. Parishioners at Holy Rosary Church in Dhaka, the largest Catholic parish in Bangladesh, attended Mass on April 2 to reflect upon his life and work. "We invited people to become good Christians by following his virtuous life," said Father Gabriel Corraya, the parish priest. Meanwhile, about 300 Catholics attended a special Holy Mass and Eucharistic adoration to honor the former Pope at Good Shepherd Cathedral in Rajshahi diocese. Diocesan chancellor Father Patrick Gomes said: "We shared about his virtues and about his visit to Bangladesh, which helped boost the local Church." The late Pope loved the Church in Asia and the Church in Bangladesh also bears the legacy of his remarkable papacy, Father Gomes said. "He was always concerned about the poor and minority Christians in Asia, so he visited many Asian countries," he said. During an Ad Limina meeting with Asian bishops he called the Bangladesh Church a 'living Church'," he added. Catholics at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Mymensingh diocese and St. Francis Xavier cathedral in Dinajpur diocese also honored the former Pope with prayers. "He loved young people and appointed young priests as bishops. He knew that young people could meet the challenges of the modern age," said Thomas Costa, 60, a Catholic development officer and NGO consultant. One of the most amazing things about the late Pope was the way he reached out to other religions. "Pope John Paul II developed interreligious relationships greatly. He talked with leaders of other faiths and met many people of other faiths during religious festivals," Oblate Bishop Bejoy D'Cruze of Khulna said. "He believed dialogue was the key in respecting other religions and religious tolerance. Various Asian countries as well as Bangladesh have better inter-faith relations thanks to Pope John Paul II," added Bishop D'Cruze, chairman of Episcopal Commission for Christian Unity and Interreligious Dialogue in Bangladesh. Pope John Paul II is scheduled to be beatified during a Mass in St Peter's Square led by his successor Pope Benedict XVI. BA13837.1648


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Q: Selective XML index query plan I am currently exploring the SQL server XML column and Selective indexes for our needs. For doing so I created table called Incidents and created the Selective Index and Secondary selective Indexes (scripts below).
When I run the following query it does use the selective index but the query plan does the IS NOT NULL predicate on Severity column data and then the sort on it. This degrades the performance of the query significantly when the data in table is large. I have seen with 4 million rows in table it takes ~20 sec to complete following query.
Am I missing anything here?
select TOP 100 Data.value('(/Incident/Severity)[1]', 'int') AS Severity,

Data.value('(/Incident/OwningTenantId)[1]', 'VARCHAR(800)') AS OwningTenantId,

Data.value('(/Incident/OwningTeamId)[1]', 'NVARCHAR(800)') AS OwningTeamId

FROM Incidents

WHERE Data.value('(/Incident/Severity)[1]', 'int') = 1
ORDER BY Data.value('(/Incident/OwningTenantId)[1]', 'NVARCHAR(800)')

Index:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Incidents](
    [id] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
    [Data] [xml] NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Incidents] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]

GO

CREATE SELECTIVE XML INDEX sxi_Incident_Data ON Incidents(Data)
 FOR
 (
 Severity = '/Incident/Severity' AS SQL int SINGLETON,
 OwningTeamId = '/Incident/OwningTeamId' AS SQL NVARCHAR(400) SINGLETON,
 OwningTenantId = '/Incident/OwningTenantId' AS SQL NVARCHAR(400) SINGLETON,
 id = '/Incident/_id' AS SQL BIGINT SINGLETON
 )

 GO

 create xml index sxi_secondary_severity on Incidents(Data)
 using xml index sxi_Incident_Data
 for (Severity);

 GO

 create xml index sxi_secondary_OwningTeamId on Incidents(Data)
 using xml index sxi_Incident_Data
 for (OwningTeamId);

 GO

 create xml index sxi_secondary_OwningTenantId on Incidents(Data)
 using xml index sxi_Incident_Data
 for (OwningTenantId);

 GO

 create xml index sxi_secondary_Id on Incidents(Data)
 using xml index sxi_Incident_Data
 for (id);

 GO

Sample XML:
<Incident>
  <_id>123</_id>
  <Severity>3</Severity>
  <IncidentStatus>RESOLVED</IncidentStatus>
  <CreateDate>2014-05-04 05:43:58.317</CreateDate>
  <LastUpdateDate>2014-05-06 18:47:39.037</LastUpdateDate>
  <AlertSourceLocalId>20070</AlertSourceLocalId>
  <SourceIncidentId>35d0bfe4-ccb9-491f-a30c-ea7685ffe8c0</SourceIncidentId>
  <SourceCreateDate>2014-05-04 02:51:14.000</SourceCreateDate>
  <SourceCreatedBy>Someone</SourceCreatedBy>
  <SourceModifiedDate>2014-05-04 05:43:57.797</SourceModifiedDate>
  <SourceOrigin>Some Origin</SourceOrigin>
  <CorrelationId>correlatioid</CorrelationId>
  <RoutingId>Route123</RoutingId>
  <Datacenter>Unknown</Datacenter>
  <Environment>INT</Environment>
  <DeviceGroup>Devicegroup</DeviceGroup>
  <DeviceName>DeviceName</DeviceName>
  <RaisingEnvironment>PROD</RaisingEnvironment>
  <RaisingDatacenter>Unknown</RaisingDatacenter>
  <RaisingDeviceGroup>DEviceGroup</RaisingDeviceGroup>
  <RaisingDeviceName>FakeDevice</RaisingDeviceName>
  <PrimaryIncidentId>1234</PrimaryIncidentId>
  <RelatedLinksCount>0</RelatedLinksCount>
  <ExternalLinksCount>0</ExternalLinksCount>
  <HitCount>0</HitCount>
  <ChildCount>0</ChildCount>
  <Title>Some Title</Title>
  <ReproSteps>�</ReproSteps>
  <OwningTenantId>564</OwningTenantId>
  <OwningTeamId>123</OwningTeamId>
  <ResolveDate>2014-05-06 18:47:39.037</ResolveDate>
  <ResolvedBy>SomeOne</ResolvedBy>
  <MitigateDate>2014-05-06 18:45:55.403</MitigateDate>
  <MitigatedBy>Someone</MitigatedBy>
  <Mitigation>N/A</Mitigation>
  <IsNoise>0</IsNoise>
  <IsSecurityRisk>0</IsSecurityRisk>
  <IsCustomerImpacting>0</IsCustomerImpacting>
  <OriginatingTenantId>10066</OriginatingTenantId>
  <ImpactStartDate>2014-05-01 23:31:22.000</ImpactStartDate>
  <RootCauseNeedsInvestigation>0</RootCauseNeedsInvestigation>
  <ConnectorTenantId>10066</ConnectorTenantId>
  <RelationshipId>1852546</RelationshipId>
  <SuppressAutoUpdate>0</SuppressAutoUpdate>
</Incident>

Repro:
Create Table indices
-- Create Table
IF(EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.tables WHERE [Name] = 'XmlTable' AND [Type] = 'U'))
BEGIN
    DROP TABLE XmlTable
END

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[XmlTable](
    [id] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
    [Data] [xml] NULL
PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]

GO

-- Populate Data
DECLARE @i INT  = 0
DECLARE @XML NVARCHAR(MAX),
        @Severity INT,
        @OwningTeamId VARCHAR(400),
        @OwningTenantId VARCHAR(400),
        @IncidentStatus varchar(100),
        @Mod SMALLINT
WHILE @i < 500
BEGIN
    SET @i = @i + 1
    SET @Mod = @i % 3

    SELECT @Severity = @Mod + 1,
           @OwningTeamId = 'OwningTeam' + CAST(@Mod AS VARCHAR),
           @OwningTenantId = 'OwningTenantId' + CAST(@Mod AS VARCHAR),
           @IncidentStatus = CASE @Mod
                                WHEN 0 THEN 'Active'
                                WHEN 1 THEN 'Resolved'
                                WHEN 2 THEN 'Closed'
                             END
    SET @XML =
    '<Incident>' +
        '<_id>' + CAST(@i AS VARCHAR) + '</_id>' +
        '<Severity>' + CAST(@Severity AS VARCHAR) + '</Severity>' +
        '<OwningTeamId>' + @OwningTeamId + '</OwningTeamId>' +
        '<OwningTenantId>' + @OwningTenantId + '</OwningTenantId>' +
        '<IncidentStatus>' + @IncidentStatus + '</IncidentStatus>' +
    '</Incident>'
    INSERT INTO XmlTable
    SELECT NEWID(), @XML
END

-- Creat Indices
CREATE SELECTIVE XML INDEX [sxi_Data] ON [dbo].[XmlTable]
(
    [Data]
)
FOR
(
[Severity] = '/Incident/Severity' as SQL [int] SINGLETON ,
[OwningTeamId] = '/Incident/OwningTeamId' as SQL [nvarchar](400) SINGLETON ,
[OwningTenantId] = '/Incident/OwningTenantId' as SQL [nvarchar](400) SINGLETON ,
[id] = '/Incident/_id' as SQL [bigint] SINGLETON ,
[TicketStatus] = '/Incident/IncidentStatus' as SQL [nvarchar](100) SINGLETON
)
WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON)
GO

CREATE XML INDEX [sxi_secondary_Id] ON [dbo].[XmlTable]
(
    [Data]
)USING XML INDEX [sxi_Data] FOR (
[id]
)
WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON)
GO

CREATE XML INDEX [sxi_secondary_OwningTeamId] ON [dbo].[XmlTable]
(
    [Data]
)USING XML INDEX [sxi_Data] FOR (
[OwningTeamId]
)
WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON)
GO

USE [XMLDocuemntStore]
GO

CREATE XML INDEX [sxi_secondary_OwningTenantId] ON [dbo].[XmlTable]
(
    [Data]
)USING XML INDEX [sxi_Data] FOR (
[OwningTenantId]
)
WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON)
GO

USE [XMLDocuemntStore]
GO

CREATE XML INDEX [sxi_secondary_severity] ON [dbo].[XmlTable]
(
    [Data]
)USING XML INDEX [sxi_Data] FOR (
[Severity]
)
WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = OFF, DROP_EXISTING = OFF, ONLINE = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON)
GO

Sample Query: Check the query plan on right sides.
select TOP 100 Data.value('(/Incident/Severity)[1]', 'int') AS Severity
FROM XmlTable
WHERE Data.value('(/Incident/Severity)[1]', 'int') = 1
ORDER BY Data.value('(/Incident/OwningTenantId)[1]', 'NVARCHAR(800)')

A: The SORT TOP N is needed because of the [1] in your XPATH query. To get rid of that you'll need to ensure SQL Server the required xml element only occurs once within an incident element. For that you'll need to strongly type your XML using an XSD document. You can create one like so:
CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION Incident_XSD AS
N'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:element name="Incident">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element type="xs:int" name="_id" />
        <xs:element type="xs:int" name="Severity" />
        <xs:element type="xs:string" name="OwningTeamId" />
        <xs:element type="xs:string" name="OwningTenantId" />
        <xs:element type="xs:string" name="IncidentStatus"/>
      </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>' ;
GO

Use it in your table definition like so
[Data] [xml](Incident_XSD) NULL

Now the following query is valid
select TOP 100 Data.value('/Incident[1]/Severity', 'int') AS Severity
FROM XmlTable
WHERE Data.value('/Incident[1]/Severity', 'int') = 1
ORDER BY Data.value('/Incident[1]/OwningTenantId', 'NVARCHAR(800)')

Returns within a second or 2 with a milion rows in the table.
PS: You might want to reconsider using GUIDs as primary key

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After a season of seeking assurance of salvation, Cindy was born again while attending Bible school in the fall of 1975. Immediately, her life began to change as she experienced a desire to bring people to Christ.
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As a Christian she possessed the conviction that her highest calling was to be a godly wife and mother. She served her family with unwavering devotion by accompanying Don in his itinerate ministry as she educated her children on the road.
When not traveling with Don or speaking in women's conferences, she enjoys being a grandmother, counseling women and teaching the ladies in her church.


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This article was submitted by a guest from Mexico aueg15@yahoo.com.mx. For more information about the use of intradermals within Japanese Acupuncture read our hinaishin techniques article.
About 50 years ago, a Japanese Acupuncturist named Kobei Akabane, Introduced the world to a new needle design of his, call Hinaishin. A kind that had no precedent in history, showing a great advantage that even the long traditional filiform needle couldn't equal.
Some of those are, you don't have to be a qualified technician to place the Hinaishin, any regular practitioner can do it, while the traditional filiform takes an advanced practitioner to use, due to the risks involved. The traditional needle can only be placed for as long as 20 to 30 min. Needing to repeat the treatment several times a week, thus rising the costs of therapy, the Hinaishin can be left in placed for as long as 5 to 7 days, no need to repeat a treatment, how much are we saving?
For poorest countries, including the critical USA economy- this is a big option.
In this article I will focus on the advantages of the Hinaishin needle mostly on acupuncture orthopedics.
Strong and killing pain on lower back, sensory disturbances on area and lower limbs, difficult on lifting the leg with unilateral and sometimes bilateral- sciatica, weakness and reduced reflexes on muscles, severe pain on sitting and specially standing positions, which was intolerable even with the use of a walking stick. X rays showing last disc (L5-S1), as source of the problem.
As always, the first decision was to seek heal on the allopathic medicine, doctor prescribed some pills, after weeks no results, treatment change to injections, -sometimes twice a week- anti inflammatory and steroids etc, but still no heal was any closer, and I was already 4 months of totally and absolute bed.
First step was intolerable, to stand on my feet, something that I just couldn't do in 4 months of allopathic "medicine", griped by a big furniture and screaming of pain, one by one feeling the placement of the Hinaishins on my lower back, the pains were starting to render away, until I finally could walk upon my feet after 2 hours of treatment- which were feeling kind of strange after all that time of unknowing how a floor feels, since then, helped by a walking stick, I could walk to my surrounding area until the walking became an exercising therapy, still some pains were present, but rendering away. I was amaze.
General protocols of acupuncture orthopedics are, points KI2, SP2, GB39-25, BL23, BL 40, etc. they're extremely effective on creating a quick boost of cortisone production, but this production affects the general body, or an entire area, not specific particular spots were rapid and immediate necessity is required. Hinaishin works just as this effectively, creating a quick boost of cortisone production were the specific maximum spot of pain is located. While the first treatments works on the meridian points exclusively, the Hinaishin works out of the meridians as in them.
According to the Japanese school of acupuncture, their protocol says that first you should treat illness by the placing of Hinaishin, after they have done their job, you may then place the theorycal points along the meridians, that's acknowledging the powerful effect of their needle that surpasses very much the effectiveness of the traditional filiform needle. Of course, part of my treatment was the Shiatsu therapy, (very painful at this point), but very effective to put vertebra and discs at their original place.
That is how effective the Hinaishin is on relieving pain, inflammation, injury, as I'll show in the next case.
This patient was suffering from a inflammation of knee meniscus, a kind that a doctor orthopedics specialist- had to operate, and still there will be no solution to the problem, his knee will still be on failure, no remedy but tolerate the pain, with analgesic pills prescribed by his allopathic doctor, which were too expensive and did no help anymore.
He was in a lot of suffering all day long, at his job for the extreme knee pain, working at a very limited capability, refusing going to surgery, he turned out to me for help, I decided to give my friend a symptomatic treatment, placing Hinaishins over the maximum spot of pain, just as the rules indicates, not meridian point. Searching for that precise spot of pain, the first needle worked as fast as it was embedded, he could get up easily with no pain or little of it, after some minutes, I made another search of pain, -just to be sure-, one last needle was inserted and the therapy ended.
Leonard was amaze to the results, he was moving all around, with no pain, and forgetting about surgery. Only 2 needles got the job done. There was no need to search for points along the meridians, (st 35 etc.), nor a long waiting for results to take place with the use of the filiform needle. After the symptomatic points made the basic healing as been treated with Hinaishin, then the theoretical points along the meridians could be treated, if there could be any need.
Since then the patient was working daily at his work shop, with no bother on the knee. He was happy.
One day came to my home a neighbor with strong tooth ache, she was crying by obvious pain, her teeth was already worn down, only black cavities were showing at the root of her jaw, the pain was extensive to all the area, several tooth were creating the problem as it seems, inflammation was already visible, big tears and desperation. The situation required a fast therapy, so I got ready for a treatment.
As explain before, I started to search for the maximum spot of pain, located, the first needle was placed, the pain "moved" to another spot, not at the same one, after several needles the pain started to render away, until at about 10 minutes at the most, I made a pause to see where the situation was leading. The patient was no more complaining of pain. The patient said to be amaze, for the difference, one time was crying of pain, the other was feeling nothing, just the psychological reminder of how strong the pain was along with the tears.
There was no need to search for meridians and their points, The powerful Hinaishin surpasses very much the effectives of the filiform needle. Until today she has had no need to go to the dentist for tooth extraction, -just eventual bothering- even when she needs it.
Due to intense sport, could be a blow, Dr. Morales got injured at the right shoulder, he had about 3 to 4 months inactive from the right shoulder, due to the intense pain, after some months on his own treatment, -antinflamatories, steroids, etc,- still couldn't get back to normal again, until he call me as a healing option, so I went to his clinic to check his shoulder situation, once there, I saw an obvious anterior deltoid inflammation mostly.
At first I checked for symptomatical points on his shoulder, - the maximum spot of pain ones- which I found in pain, then placed them with Hinaishin needles, the pains were starting to render, the doctor after several months -very happy and amaze to the results- could finally move his limb freely to all directions, and starting making planes to get back to sport again. After that treatment, and the one given to his wife, he gain very much respect to acupuncture, specially to the Hinaishin performance.
From there the Dr. took only a second therapy to heal.
This old lady had diabetics for long time, and a history of kidney infections and deficiency, at morning getting up from bed, that's when she was feeling the strong kidney pains which were felt all around the back, couldn't find a posture to get comfort, treating the lady with traditional methods of acupuncture may take a little long, and the need was to provide a fast and efficient relief, so forgetting about the meridians I decided to apply the Hinaishins.
She took about 10 needles on the kidney area, and the terrible pains were finally put to rest, that fast. The needle prescription was to wear them for about 7 days of constant therapy.
More treatment was required to this lady with traditional acupuncture methods, but that's another story, on this article, I'm focusing on the use of Hinaishin alone.
This patient was treated by my sister. Teresa was injured on lower back due to carrying heavy weight on her job, for days she kept suffering of intense pain on the area and stiffness, she tried medication for days but failed to provide healing, until one day no longer could get up from bed.
She sent her little daughter to ask help from my sister, so she did and started the treatment.
Keeping bed the patient, my sister made a rapid diagnosis of her problem, and decided to place the Hinaishin on the particular spots of pains, -due to the big area that she had to treat- instead of the long filiform needle and wait for the results to take place, after repeating the treatments many times as needed, thus charging more money for therapies.
One by one the Hinaishins worked fantastic, until at the end of the therapy, -that took 14 needles to control the patient injury- she could finally get up from bed and started waking again. Surprise by the results of the Hinaishin, she said to can't believe she could walk again after those traumatic pains felt on the lower back. Occasional treatment once a week finished the therapy.
But the Hinaishin can also work on sore muscles; I'll tell you my case. Sometimes after going to the gym, I get very sore from my triceps due to the intensive work out, the remedy as always is to place the needles on the maximum spot of pain alone the triceps muscles, it may take 3 to 5 of them but it really works great, instantly killing the pain, after 3 to 4 days of keeping the needles on the spot, -which I couldn't do with the traditional filiform needle- the muscles injuries are heal. And the arm feels strong again, ready for the job.
It is my proposal that every acupuncture school, on any country, should teach the use of the Hinaishin needle in their class. It really looks as a conspiracy to conceal the effectiveness of the Japanese needle, teaching young students the use of this needle, may mean a lot of benefit to modern medicine and humans around the world, specially to poor countries. They are easy to use, and can be applied by any minimum skill acupuncture technician. Here in Mexico only a single school of Japanese acupuncture is open to public teaching, it was build by the Japanese embassy in Mexico city. I ignore how many there are in the US.
Latter on, Chinese acupuncturist came out with a needle design of their own, the empyshin needle, or press tack. This a very popular and easy to buy anywhere, Hinaishin is difficult to get.
It can be use just as similar to the Hinaishin, but it's preferable the Japanese one, due to its design. The press tack can be use on hard to reach areas, for example, Jing Ming (UB 1), for the treatment of eyes disease, on which works great, but have to be the small not medium empyshin size.


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Troy Denning
44 ABY
Fate of the Jedi Series
In the explosive finale to the Fate of the Jedi series, the Jedi secretly arrive on Coruscant to discover that the Lost Tribe of the Sith have invaded the planet on every level of society. The Jedi and Sith face off in a climactic battle of epic proportions and Abeloth's conquest comes to a head in a shockingly mythological twist. . .
In the stunning finale of the epic Fate of the Jedi series, Jedi and Sith face off—with Coruscant as their battlefield. For the Sith, it's the chance to restore their dominance over the galaxy that forgot them for so long. For Abeloth, it's a giant step in her quest to conquer all life everywhere. For Luke Skywalker, it's a call to arms to eradicate the Sith and their monstrous new master once and for all.
In a planetwide strike, teams of Jedi Knights take the Sith infiltrators by swift and lethal surprise. But victory against the cunning and savage Abeloth, and the terrifying endgame she has planned, is anything but certain. And as Luke, Ben, Han, Leia, Jaina, Jag, and their allies close in, the devastating truth about the dark side incarnate will be exposed—and send shock waves through the Jedi Order, the galaxy, and the Force itself.
Darth Krayt
Ben Skywalker
Tahiri Veila


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Beware of steep price drops. In your comparison, you may discover that one insurance policy offers a dramatically lower price than another. When this happens, you have to take a very close look at the fine details. A significantly lower price usually means that either something's been left out, or coverage terms aren't comparable.
Since your coverage limit directly impacts the price you pay for your insurance premiums, sometimes you're tempted to opt for car or home insurance coverage that has a low limit. It makes sense if you want to cut down on the money you're going to be paying into the plan each month. But this could be one of your biggest mistakes. Setting your coverage limit too low could save you money now, but has the potential of coming back to bite you if you ever have to use your plan and find that your coverage isn't enough to pay for the damages. In that event, you'll be personally liable to pay out of pocket. If you're at fault in a car accident or someone slips and hurts themselves in your home, you could be sued by the other party's insurance company directly. When picking the right level of coverage for your home insurance policy or auto insurance policy, ensure that you have enough coverage, but stay away from taking out too much coverage that you're not likely to use.
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There was plenty of good music around last weekend, something for every taste. I caught a punk show at Hang Fire last Wednesday (Downtown Boys, Crazy Bag Lady, also Wet Socks). There was reggae at Molly's on Friday with Kota Mundi (enjoyed seeing Paxton Willis on drums again). And I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed seeing Major & The Monbacks, an eight-piece R&B soul band from Roanoke, VA, where I even bought a T-shirt! And the rock show at the Jinx on Wednesday (The Black Cadillacs, Thomas Wynn & The Believers) was excellent.
There are several good shows this week, as always. There are several tough choices on Friday, a big show at Ampersand, Bragg Jam participants Mantras at Congress Street Social, and American Aquarium at Jinx. I am not sure where I will end up. But I am sure where I will be on Saturday. There is a Stopover-sponsored bus going to the Bragg Jam Festival in Macon, GA. I have always said the Savannah Stopover was like Christmas for me, so I guess the Bragg Jam is like Christmas in July? This Festival will consist of 57 bands on 14 stages in Macon. This should be right up my alley, I hope it doesn't kill me.
Here are some other recommendations for the week.


Some people might be wired to just not accept this kinda stuff, but if you're one of the lucky ones, these kinds of records are audible blessings… you 'get it' or better yet it just resonates along with the other demented recordings in your library. Like Girls of the Gravitron and Kazalok (to name two bands whose records I acquired via the label that put this one out, Florida's Dying), Electric Bunnies march in their own universe, to their own conceptual beat, and that's that. Through The Magical Door is far more psychedelic, eastern sounding, and tribal than those records I mentioned, but it operates along that noisy/garage/folk/luscious pop spectrum which I can not seem to get enough of. The first four songs of Side A and the first two of Side B flow like early Barbaras and Smith Westerns goodies. Sunny punk. There are instrumental oddities galore and big deviations from the standard rock 'n roll format. I like. The gatefold design and included board game speaks to the VIR of this release. Yes, it is worth the physical luxury. Listening to Through The Magical Door makes me feel like I am in on something like-minded underground heads may have missed (again!) so you like-minded underground heads scurry to your store of choice (Florida's Dying web store) and get on it. It's out there, weird, and not straightforward. Like you and me. Personally, I would not be surprised if in due listens this splits time alongside all my favorites I mentioned above. Good work Rich.


When preparing your body and mind for a meditative practice, the last thing you will want to do is to have to physically prepare your body for discomfort. You wouldn't want to have to prepare for the fact that your foot is going to fall asleep. A meditation floor chair will help this to not happen.
Meditation floor chairs are designed to work with you as you open your mind to contemplation and rumination. Similarly to the cushions, floor chairs will give your rear end comfort while supporting the straight back with an aligned spine. Some floor chairs will have the added benefit of having the ability to fold. If your floor meditation chair is foldable, it is easier than ever to store. It will fold practically flat and you'll be able to slide it under a bed or in another small space. This foldable chair is also portable which makes it nice for travel. Other floor chairs will not have the ability to fold and they will be a more permanent part of the furnishings in your home. They will be just as useful for meditation, but they will need a permanent home among your things.
The cold hard ground has never been the preferred meditation location for everyone. For centuries, some sort of seat has been placed under the meditator. Often, that seat is also on another piece of material called a mat. There have always been people that have been more comfortable meditating off of the floor and this is where the floor chair comes from. In order to continue the all important practice of meditation, but be comfortable and entirely relaxed while doing it, the floor chairs became necessary for some. This practice continues today. Not all people are comfortable seated on the floor. For some bodies, being off of the floor is physically necessary because one cannot gain a complete meditative state if he/she is not comfortable.
Meditation floor chairs can range in price from relatively inexpensive to moderately expensive. It all depends on what you want to spend and what will be right for you. Zafu cushions and the like are relatively inexpensive ranging from around thirty to around fifty dollars. Meditation benches and folding floor chairs are more expensive ranging from around $125 all the way up to $500. Finally, moderately expensive would be the more permanent, furniture-like, meditation chairs which are usually made of wicker and designed with a wide base for the meditator. These chairs can cost anywhere from $500 to $800.
Whether pricey or not, your first concern should be comfort. Comfort is key in meditation and each of these types of chairs will bring more comfort to your contemplative meditation sessions. Floor chairs enhance your meditation sessions which, in turn, enhance your level of health. They are worth the investment.