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Mental Toughness!
June 8, 2018 | Rusty Guinn | No Comments | Note, News
There are three nevers in fashion design. Never confuse fad with fashion. Never forget it's your name on every label. And, when showing your lines to the press, never let them see you sweat.
— Donna Karan, Gillette "Dry Idea" advertisement (1984)
I'd come so VERY close to getting her to go in for treatment (to the same place Catherine Zeta-Jones went for her successful bipolar treatment program). I'd spoken with them on the phone (not telling them exactly who the patient would be). They agreed to fly in and talk with her and take her with them to the treatment center.
She was all set to go — but then chickened out by morning. I even said I (would) go with her and be a 'patient' too (she liked that idea). That seemed to make her more comfortable, and we'd get sooo close to packing her bags, but — in the end, the 'image' of her brand (happy-go-lucky Kate Spade) was more important for her to keep up. She was definitely worried about what people would say if they found out.
— Reta Saffo (Sister of Kate Spade), The Kansas City Star, "Kate Spade Suffered Years of Mental Illness" (2018)
At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.
— Gianni Versace, The New York Times, "Gianni Versace, 50, the Designer who Infused Fashion with Life and Art" (1997)
If you know me at all, you know that I am not a fashionable person.
I did, however, develop a brief fascination with fashion in the mid-2000s. My first boss was a notable banker to investment firms by the name of Roberto de Guardiola, and at the time he lived in a beautiful townhome on E. 64th Street. Roberto was an intimidating, old school banker. Gold glasses, suspenders, Southampton estate, Turnbull & Asser — the whole package. Like many peers of his vintage, he wanted printed models and presentations hand-delivered to his home. Unlike many peers of his vintage, he was home a lot, because that's where his kids were. Something I admired a great deal about him.
No, in case you're wondering, the fascination with fashion wasn't the result of the resemblance this story has to a similar scene in The Devil Wears Prada, although the reality was very much like that. I got buzzed in and left the papers on a table in the anteroom, which had a separate set of doors to the imposing empty black marble foyer. It was unthinkable that I would even try that second set of doors.
The fascination came from the neighbors. You see, Roberto lived across the street from the Versace mansion, and it was for sale. I think Thomas Sandell ended up buying it. Being a curious young lad, I went back to my 420-square-foot studio and researched the property and its prior owner. Being an uncultured hick from the sticks, when I read about Gianni and Donatella Versace, I was learning about them for the first time. The rise, the flamboyance, the murder. New York was already impossibly glamorous and ridiculous to me. This just put it over the top.
It had never really occurred to me before, but the more I read, the more I came to the conclusion that fashion must be the most mentally exhausting white-collar job in the world. Its very name tells you why. The industry is change, and as much as its practitioners will talk about timeless design and bucking trends, there is an incessance to the demands it places on designers and creatives. There is always a new season. Always a new thing. And it's always better to decide what that new thing will be than to be the one responding to it. There's another job that looks a lot like this: The life of a professional chef.
I don't know why Kate Spade committed suicide this week.
I don't know why Anthony Bourdain did the same.
In Tony's case, it happened only today. We know very little, other than that he was apparently found by the remarkable Eric Ripert, chef of what I think is still the best restaurant in New York (Le Bernardin). We know more about Kate. But we don't know how — even if — the unique pressures of fashion directly influenced or triggered the depression that it seems plagued her for years. When I read her sister's account of the failed attempts to get help for Kate, it hit me pretty hard. She confessed to her sister how concerned she was that people would react badly if they discovered she had sought professional help for mental illness. More tellingly, she expressed her concern that it would damage the brand that was Kate Spade, which for those of you unfamiliar with the brand, is fresh, bright, young, colorful and, as she put it to her sister, happy-go-lucky.
The people who loved her tried to help, but in the end it seems she suffered in silence.
Surviving Markets
If you're reading this note, you are probably familiar with another "what have you done for me lately" industry. Like those who choose to be a fashion designer or chef, the people who choose finance and investing as a profession are a motley crew. But they also have some things in common. Most are very smart. Most want to make a lot of money. Nearly all are very driven to succeed, by which I mean to grow in responsibility and reputation. Outside of that, you'll find all kinds. The empathetic, the selfish, conscientious and socially clueless alike find homes in our industry.
Intelligence and drive are found in abundance. But success in finance requires something else that is in somewhat shorter supply: mental toughness. Resilience. When I say that it comes in short supply, I perhaps understate the matter. Every person employed at a high level in finance would be better at their jobs if they were mentally tougher. More able to endure changes of fortune. More resistant to our biologically adapted fight-or-flight responses to stress and perceived danger.
Well, almost everyone. Ben and I are fond of observing that so many of the very successful people in our industry are high-functioning sociopaths. Given that I'm writing about mental illness, I should probably be less reckless in throwing out pseudo-clinical terms, especially in a pejorative way, but I hope you have enough grace to understand what I'm trying to say. At a minimum, accept my contention that a less emotional response to the day-to-day changes in the value of an investment portfolio is an asset of immense value.
This is true in almost every job in this industry. The executive assistant to a high-powered investment banker or investment executive hears unspeakable horrors. He's the first one to learn about the layoffs, the employee being disciplined. He's the one who must endure the rapidly changing moods of someone who must grapple with every hard reality of running a business. What is he called upon to do? To be even. Calm. To ensure that meetings still happen and that people still make their flights when the shit is hitting the fan. Mental toughness.
It's demanded of the salesperson who walks into yet another office that forgot about the meeting. Four people show up for your pitch because, well, you brought breakfast, and they feel like they have to be polite before their "hard stop" in 20 minutes (who has a meeting that starts at 9:10 AM?). But no decision-makers in the room. The lady who scheduled the meeting isn't there, and you passed up another meeting because of that 10% weight in her model where's she's looking to swap out managers. Quarter's almost up and you're halfway to your sales targets. What's your spouse going to say? Time to stop daydreaming and calmly, respectfully, helpfully answer that question from the young kid that you already anwered. Mental toughness.
The advisor working with clients endures this daily. Why are we still holding this value fund / low vol fund / quality fund / hedged strategy when it has underperformed the S&P 500 by so much, they ask? Do you remind them of your last conversation, where you agreed that this holding was a long-term position motivated by their portfolio risk appetite? Are you serving them better by pushing back on specious arguments, or is the customer always right? They seem furious, and a sense of justice and righteous anger is rising up in you as they express it. You suppress it. You empathize. Your mind is racing. What is the right thing to say to help them understand how to resist emotional investment decisions without being condescending? Mental toughness.
In investment roles, the need for a short memory, for the ability to come in the next day unchanged and unperturbed by the prior day, seems almost self-evident. And yet, you feel the weeks of things not working weighing you down. You don't get this market. You've progressed from doubting the sanity of other investors, to doubting your process, to doubting yourself. My process says max long here. Am I really willing to go all-in? Maybe I should just pull things in for a bit. But is that what my investors expect? What if they see through me here? Mental Toughness.
Our industry recruits and trains people to be mentally tough, because those who cannot achieve some growth in this trait must choose between charlatanry or failure.
There's no getting around this. We are fiduciaries. This is how it must be.
But there is a problem. Because we require mental toughness of the people we hire and promote within our organizations, we have allowed the emergence of a meme of mental toughness! Friends, there is a vast gulf between mental toughness and mental toughness!
The Mental Toughness! Meme
When we emphasize traits of mental toughness in our employees and the people we hire, we recognize their importance to the roles we serve as fiduciaries. After all, for so many of us, the value that we add is almost wholly the result of our role in preventing the layperson from investing emotionally. But when we do so, we must recognize that we create an incentive to signal that toughness. This is where things go off the rails.
Mental toughness looks like the ability to shrug off rough days in the market without questioning fundamental investment beliefs. It looks like the ability to maintain composure under withering fire from an angry client. It means continuing to work through a model when your intentionally iterated circular reference sends a cascade of errors with a change of a cell that requires you to delete multiple ranges and re-enter the formula… if you could only find which ranges to delete.
But it's tough to show those things to the people who need to see us doing the right things to promote us. To pay us more money. To empower us with more responsibilities. And so instead of pressing on with personal growth in our temperament that is so critical to success in this fickle industry, we see in mental toughness! all the trappings of credibility, but with a quicker payoff.
Mental toughness! looks like never showing weakness to anyone. It means believing that complaining or venting concerns to a confidant is never appropriate. It's telling ourselves that a lot of other people with tougher jobs would be happy to take our place, to get paid what we get paid, so we should just suck it up and deal with it. It's an unwillingness to talk to anyone about doubts we have about our skills and decisions we made. It's putting in facetime, and no vacation time and always-on mobile phones because it's so damned important that we show our commitment to the job even when we're wiped out and barely have enough to give to the people who love us.
It's an unwillingness to talk to a trained professional about real mental health problems because we're worried that it would make us look like we lacked real mental toughness. It's being worried about what doing so would do to our brand.
How Do We Destroy the Meme?
Fixing this is tricky.
The importance of the traits that cause investment professionals to feel like they must signal mental toughness! is real. Those traits are not a meme. We can't change this, because then we'd cease to serve our main function to our clients and, well, society, which is already a narrow enough matter as it is, not to put too fine a point on it.
We also can't solve it through rhetoric or words. Look, I love it as much as anyone else when a celebrity comes out and tweets that there's no shame in acknowledging mental health issues, and that if anyone needs help they should call this number. They're trying to help how they can, and that's not nothing. But saying that there should be no stigma attached to mental illness is not the same as destigmatizing mental illness. The only way to destigmatize it in our industry, I think, is for people who have reached senior positions and meaningful success in our industry to talk about it. Openly. Bluntly.
Remember in my last note how I told you we were going to lose so much we'd get sick of losing? Let me take another L.
I mentioned in that note that I was a dumb kid. That's true in more ways than one. I married my college sweetheart when I was 21 years old. We moved to New York and were just miserable. There's nothing special or noteworthy about my dumb story, except that it's my dumb story. In under three years, we were divorced. As with any such story, there are a million details, and you and I are not good enough friends for me to tell you all of them. But I was devastated.
Compounding is the most powerful force in the universe, to be sure, and nothing compounds like shame. And God, was I ashamed. I was ashamed about the marriage ending, and the way it ended, of course. I was more ashamed at being stupid enough to get myself into that situation, and not being able to salvage it. I was ashamed at what people would say and think about me. He was married for what, two years? He got married right out of college? I thought he was smart? I was most ashamed that I'd become so petty and superficial that I felt worse about what people would say rather than the thing itself. It's a recursive, ugly cycle of shame, all the way down.
I drank too much. I self-medicated. I felt ashamed about that. I poured myself into my work and sought to attach my identity to it. I felt ashamed about that. A naïve and gentle person by nature, I became vindictive and angry. Unfair. Nobody made me act that way. It was all me. I felt ashamed about that. I started to think that maybe that was who I was, and that was the first time my thoughts really started going to really bad places. Alright, no euphemisms. There were times where I was convinced in my heart of hearts that the world would be a less crappy place if I weren't in it. I let my mind wander briefly to how I might make that happen. Then I would feel ashamed about that, too, and try to fall asleep. But mostly I just lied there in bed.
In the mornings I felt like an anchor was dragging me down into my bed. Weekdays, weekends, it didn't matter. I didn't want anyone to see me like that. Vanity again. Shame. One day I boarded the 1 train going up to my place on 157th street, and somewhere around Columbia University, maybe 110th or 116th, I just couldn't take it. All the people. My skin felt like I'd walked into a spider web in the dark. I had to get off. I was dead sober, but I have no memory of getting home.
It's weird to write about this. Part of the reason is that there were maybe a half-dozen people in the world who knew any of this before today. Only two who knew it all. Now there are thousands. It's also weird because this was 10 years ago, and my life today is a blessed, healthy one. Seriously, I live a damned good life. Oh, there are days when the black dog comes stalking, when the pull of that anchor is firm, but with help I've found ways of coping, of thriving. For me, getting that help meant talking to a professional. Once. Honestly, it didn't help, directly anyway. But the act of making a call, setting it up, taking the train there and saying the words out loud made all the difference. There is no one-size-fits-all to this, because everyone's battle is different. Anthony Bourdain was as open a book as you can be about his daily struggles, and for him, it seems, they never went away.
Maybe there's some part of this story that seems familiar to you. And maybe not. But if you're running or managing an investment firm of any size, I can guarantee you that it will be familiar to someone on your team, or to someone who wants to work for you. Here's the important part of my story for you: if you ask anyone who has worked with me or for me who they'd pick to be the least likely to lose his head in a crisis, I know what they'd say. If you asked them who would be the least likely to succumb to giddiness and lack of discipline in the good times, I know how they'd answer that, too. Mental Toughness is NOT Mental Toughness! If you're running an investment firm, it's important that your staff know that signaling their toughness isn't necessary. Real mental toughness is.
If my story is more personal, I won't tell you all the well-intentioned but unhelpful things that people tell you. But I do hope you'll take this to heart: asking for help does not signal a flaw in your mental toughness. It doesn't mean you can't be an exceptional investor. It doesn't mean you're going to slow down your professional growth. It doesn't mean you won't be the superstar you've planned on being, with the trajectory you daydream about. It really doesn't.
Some of you are hesitant to say what you're going through is a mental health issue. You're not sure if you're just stressed, or frustrated, or sad. And that's OK. Still, talk to someone. You aren't respecting anyone by trying to make the problems you're fighting through smaller than they feel to you. Even so, somebody will invariably give you the old wise Persian proverb that Abraham Lincoln used to greatest effect:
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."" How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
This too shall pass — it's a great expression, really, and a sort of memento mori. If I can be forgiven for ending an uncharacteristically serious note with a bit of lightness, however, I think there's only one response to that counsel. You have my full permission to give Marcus Vindictus's response to the insistent "Remember, thou art mortal" refrains from the court spokesman from History of the World, Part 1: "Oh, blow it out your ass!"
It doesn't always pass. When it doesn't, please ask for help.
If your boss is worth anything, he or she will know that the mental toughness! meme that makes us afraid to ask doesn't have a damned thing to do with your mental toughness in the job.


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As a very new blogger (3 posts and counting) I am very heartened by my limited experiences within East Lothian. Positive feedback and comments from fellow bloggers help enormously. It is encouraging when the Head of Education can show an interest in practise at the "chalkface" and take time out to comment. The only drawback I have encountered is the sheer volume of blogs I have found myself reading. Most of them are thouroghly engaging and lets face it, way more interesting than writing S3 reports!
Hi Neil. Glad to hear that you've had a positive experience. Are you up on RSS feeds? They are the only way to keep on top of the blogosphere and still have a life!


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Toothless and declawed: the sad demise of TSV 1860 München
Fifty years ago, the city of Munich had two big teams. Today, while one continues to grow almost exponentially as a world footballing superpower, the other faces an uncertain fate in the fourth tier. This is the story of TSV 1860 München, one of despair and decline.
Back in the early 1990s during my travels through Eastern Europe, I got to see many things. Historic castles in the Czech Republic; graffiti-covered communist monuments in Sofia; then there was Budapest zoo, where I saw its rather sad lion. Not the proud creature one often sees in picture books, but a mangy, decrepit creature that had clearly seen better days. Moping rather than prowling, thinking about the lionesses he had never met and dreaming about the savanna hunts never experienced.
When reading all of the recent stories about the demise of TSV 1860 München, I was reminded of that lion in Budapest. Toothless and useless. A picture of terminal decline, with a sad and lonely death lurking beyond the next corner.
Grubby tenants
As an FC Bayern fan, it is hard not to chuckle. TSV 1860 – or "1859+1", as many of us prefer to call them – had been on the downward slide for a long while. It is a club that continues to bang on about its rapidly receding history, crowing loudly about their partisan fan base. A fan base that in recent times has made the news more for their misbehaviour than anything else.
When Die Löwen were beaten by SSV Jahn Regensburg in the relegation playoff and and consigned to the 3. Liga, there were many belly laughs in the red side of Munich. When the news then broke about 1860's much-criticised investor Hasan Abdullah Ismaik not stumping up the money to secure the club's place in the third tier, the biggest thing that did the rounds was talk of finally getting red seats installed at the Allianz Arena.
As for the dull and much-hated grey seats, 1860's supporters had started on the removal work for free. Humiliated at home by their sharper Bavarian rivals from Regensburg, it had all kicked off in the stands.
For many Bayern fans, the jokes are still being spun out and passed around. Toothless lions. Red seats. The fact that we are finally rid of these grubby tenants we no longer have to indulge. But the fact is that behind all of the laughter there is a sad story. From a footballing point of view, 1860s demise is a loss to the city of Munich.
Despite its name, 1860's football arm was only founded in 1899 – a year before FC Bayern were founded. The first meeting in 1902 was won 3:0 by Bayern, and the rivalry slowly begun to build between the two teams. It was not the biggest derby in Bavaria though, with SpVgg Fürth and 1. FC Nürnberg claiming that mantle.
By the early 1930s, both Munich teams had started to make an impact on the national stage. In 1931, 1860 were the first team from the Bavarian capital to reach the final of the German Championship, where they would lose to Hertha BSC. The following year, FC Bayern went one better, beating Eintracht Frankfurt 2:0 to claim the famous "Viktoria" trophy.
With stars such as Ludwig Goldbrunner, Conrad "Conny" Heidkamp and Sigmund Haringer, Bayern were on the up. Darker times were lurking around the corner however, and the ascent of National Socialist regime saw this brief success come to an end. Bayern's Jewish chairman Kurt Landauer was forced into exile, and 1860 was quickly co-opted by the authorities as "their" Munich club.
While Bayern slowly dropped out of the reckoning, 1860 went on to win the Tschammerpokal – later the DFB-Pokal – in 1942.
Both sides were not particularly successful during the immediate postwar years in the reformed Oberliga Süd, but the rivalry developed significantly with the creation of the professional Bundesliga in 1963. The league decided to take only one club from Munich, a decision that sowed the first seeds of acrimony between the two teams. They chose 1860.
Changing fortunes
The 1960s would be the high watermark in the history of TSV 1860. Having won the DFB-Pokal in 1963/64, they went on to reach the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup the following season. Bayern meanwhile had made their way up into the top flight, but had not yet added to their one German Championship and a first DFB-Pokal claimed in 1956-57.
When 1860 became the first team from Munich to win the Bundesliga in 1965-66, nobody could have foreseen that it would be their last major trophy. From that point on, it was all Bayern.
In 1966-67, Bayern would win their first European trophy, succeeding where their city rivals had narrowly failed. Die Roten claimed the Cup Winners' Cup with a 1:0 extra-time victory over Scottish club Glasgow Rangers, and never really looked back. A first Bundesliga title was claimed the following season, marking the beginning of an inexorable rise.
1860, meanwhile, would have to get used to looking backwards. Relegation followed in 1970, and while the Lions were struggling in the second tier, Bayern had started to collect trophies like Panini album stickers. More Bundesliga titles were added, and in the mid-1970s Die Roten went on to win the European Cup three seasons in a row.
It started with a slap
Details remain hazy, but it was one moment of madness during an otherwise irrelevant youth encounter that altered the course of footballing history in Munich. A certain Franz Beckenbauer was a native of the suburb of Giesing, which was very much 1860 country. He was an 1860 fan, and was all set to join the club.
During the match between 1860 and SC 1906 München, there was an altercation. Voices were raised, and the young Beckenbauer was on the receiving end of a slap from one of the 1860 players. So the story goes, he decided there and then that 1860 was not the club for him. Instead, he crossed to the red side and joined FC Bayern.
One cannot say that history may have been inverted had "the slap" not taken place, and it would be ridiculous to suggest that the decision made by one young teenager could have resulted in the diverging fortunes of two football clubs. But we are all aware of the history. Beckenbauer was not only a star at Bayern, but the star.
Having gone on to become a major force in the Nationalmannschaft as well, Beckenbauer was largely responsible for the arrival of coach Udo Lattek at the Säbenerstraße. Lattek, in turn, was able to lure players like Paul Breitner and Uli Hoeneß to Bayern. Both of these players would have otherwise been set to join 1860. Thus the core of the great Bayern team was created, with more talents following in their footsteps.
The die had been cast. Bayern would never look back, while 1860 would start on a road where every forward step was met with trepidation.
Financial failings, false hopes
Following their relegation in 1970, Die Löwen returned to the top flight seven years later – only to go straight back down again. They bounced back immediately, but would only last two seasons before going down again. In 1982, things would get even worse when they were denied a 2. Bundesliga licence.
For nine seasons languishing in the third tier Bayernliga, Munich derbies against FC Bayern were distant dreams. The closest they would ever get were the contests in front of paltry crowds against FC Bayern's amateur team, with yet more wounds being inflicted.
The glory days of the 1960s were fading into the distance, and there was little for younger fans of Die Löwen to cling onto. Even the system conspired against them. Having won the Bayernliga title in 1990, 1860 were thrown into the complicated promotion/relegation and playoff mire following German reunification, and were immediately sent back down again.
This latest failure could have been broken 1860's spirit, but instead it triggered a revival. An immediate return to the rejigged 2. Bundesliga was followed the following season with promotion to the 1. Bundesliga, culminating in what was one of the club's most successful periods in the modern era.
Under owner Karl-Heinz Wildmoser and coach Werner Lorant, the bad management and poor decision-making seemed to be a thing of the past. 1860 not only consolidated their place in the top flight, but were competing with the best again. In 1999/2000, they finished in fourth place, their highest finish in more than three decades.
A München marriage made in hell
At the turn of the millennium, plans were already underway to build a new stadium in Munich to replace the ageing Olympiastadion. The futuristic Allianz Arena was planned in 2001, with both Munich teams sharing the ground. With 1860 seemingly established in the top flight, everything looked rosy.
When the stadium was opened four years later, things had taken a turn for the worse. The dream of Bundesliga derbies with a noisy ground packed with fans from both sides of Munich never materialised. 1860 slipped back down to the 2. Bundesliga in 2003-04, their last league derby match to date being a 1:0 defeat on 25th April 2004.
1860's relegation and resulting financial problems led to Bayern buying out their neighbours' share in the stadium for eleven million Euro, with Die Löwen effectively becoming tenants. Both Wildmoser and his son Karl-Heinz Jr. were charged with corruption in connection with construction contracts. Wildmoser Sr. was forced to step down as owner in 2004, and in Wildmoser Jr. was charged with further offences.
It was one more of the many sad twists that would see the once-great Munich team slink further into oblivion.
1860 were unable to make their way back into the top flight, though it was not for want of trying. Dogged by financial worries, the club constantly flirted with oblivion. Having failed to make any sort of impact in the 2. Bundesliga, the fans then had to endure the humiliation of seeing their club bailed out by their city rivals. Inevitably, the club turned to foreign investors.
In 2011, Jordanian investor Hasan Abdullah Ismaik injected 18 million Euro into the Munich club, staving off the creditors. More investment was promised, along with the blueprint to take the team back into the top flight. It was a plan that could have worked out with the right level of due diligence and patience. In the end, it was just one more example of the now toothless lion trying to bite off more than it could chew.
As far as the football was concerned, not much had changed. A dangerous flirt with relegation in 2014/15 saw Die Löwen retain their place in the 2. Bundesliga with a fortunate playoff victory over Holstein Kiel. Another nondescript season in 2015-16 saw them finish just in fifteenth place.
Ismaik continued to make promises. The projected solution was not any sort of consolidation plan, but throwing money at new players without any genuine strategy. 1860 had the third-most expensive squad in the division behind VfB Stuttgart and Hannover 96 – both of which would return to the top flight after being relegated the season before.
For all of the money and expensive appointments, the club remained in a mess. Former Liverpool CEO Ian Ayre was brought in, but found himself punching smoke. Not even Portuguese coach Vítor Pereira, a title winner his homeland with FC Porto and in Greece with Olympiakos, could turn things around. Rather than competing for promotion, 1860 were in the relegation playoffs again.
The leg of the playoff against SSV Jahn in Regensburg should have seen the 3. Liga side walk away with a comfortable win. But somehow, 1860 had managed to eke out a 1:1 draw and survive the final ten minutes with ten men. It looked as if they were set to escape the noose again, and were slight favourites ahead of the return leg at the Allianz Arena.
Unlike against Kiel the year before though, Regensburg were not going to go down easily. As 1860 failed to fire again, the visitors scored twice before half-time. Die Löwen were unable to bite back, and as the end become inevitable the attention quickly turned to the irate supporters in the stands.
Seats were torn out and thrown onto the pitch, and hundreds of riot police lined up at the edge of the stands. As order was restored, the game was delayed for fifteen minutes. As these scenes were beamed across Germany, the red half of Munich were probably muttering "good riddance".
The wounded lions were certainly going down with a fight. The problem was that it had not taken place on the pitch playing football.
The lion weeps tonight
1860 were back in the 3. Liga, but even that did not last for long. Faced with a five million Euro bill to rescue the club, Ismaik felt that he was unable to commit any more. The deadline would run out, and with it 1860's professional status.
There is little reason for the club to continue playing home games at the Allianz, and they look set to return to their former ground at the Grünwalderstraße. Meanwhile, FC Bayern fans can look forward to finally sitting in red seats rather than those dull grey ones.
In a way, the move away from the Allianz may work out well for 1860. It offers an opportunity for a fresh start and an opportunity to rebuild. A clean slate where 1860 are no longer in thrall to their big red neighbour landlord. Where Bayern no longer has to tolerate the presence of its loud and grubby tenant.
The bickering is still going on, with Ismaik continuing in his attack on the DFB and the 50+1 rule. How far he will take things, it is hard to say. Meanwhile, stories have been circulating about other investors getting involved. The Quandts, one of Germany's richest families and the major shareholders in BMW, are reportedly interested.
This is still all pie in the sky, however. The hopes of a return to past glories for TSV 1860 remain further away than ever.
A Bayern fan's perspective
In the wake of TSV 1860's demise, I am sure that every Bayern fan has shared a funny image on Facebook or retweeted a meme. But this is really surface fluff. Yes, we all enjoy laughing at 1859+1. But ultimately, if they are to be put under the cosh, I would rather that it is Bayern doing the coshing in front of 75,000 people. Not some village pub team in the middle of the Bavarian countryside.
The truth is that a strong TSV 1860 is not just a good thing for local football in Munich, but for the sport as a whole. It is a sad day when we see a proud Traditionsverein like 1860 dumped into the dark recesses of the amateur leagues. Meanwhile, business concerns masquerading as football teams are buying their way to the top.
It is all well and good laughing at Die Löwen languishing in the fourth tier. But beyond the cheap laughs, does it really bring us any great pleasure? Would we not rather see Die Roten give their rivals a hiding in a top flight match? Surely this would be far more of a story than watching them suffer yet another financial meltdown.
Putting our partisan pettiness to one side, as a Bayern fan I want the Munich derby to be a talking point. To see the city come alive, the streets filled with both red and sky blue. To see a match like the last competitive meeting between the two teams, an incident-packed DFB-Pokal encounter in 2008 that went the distance. Unfortunately, it does not look like this day is coming any time soon.
Next season, TSV 1860 München fans can look forward to a number of short day trips. Journeys to the likes of SV Schalding-Heining, TSV Buchbach and VfR Garching. Then there is another team they will get to meet: FC Bayern München II.
So it looks like we will get to see that Munich derby after all.
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BANGAṦ, one of the least-known Pashtun tribes in the Solaymān range, Pakistan, and one of the few that are not named after eponymous ancestors. The origin of the name is obscure since, as Raverty (p. 387 n.) pointed out, the folk etymology from bon-kaš (Persian for "root-drawer") is not acceptable.
The tribe is a combination of lineages from various origins. Evidence of this comes from both the lineage names (e.g., Laḡmānī and Jamšēdī) and the mythical descent of the tribe from a man named Esmāʿīl, who moved from Persia to the Solaymān mountains but whose eleventh-generation ancestor was the famous Arab general Ḵāled b. Walīd and whose wife was a Formolī (a local Iranian ethnic group; Š.-M. Khan, pp. 311f.). At this point, nothing—apart from distant kinship through the same Arab ancestor—relates the Bangaṧ to the Pashtun genealogical megastructure, wherein they are nowadays incorporated through the Karlāni branch, which comprises several Solaymāni tribes that have been genealogically adopted and more or less culturally pashtunized. This incorporation, which is never clearly formulated in terms of filiation or even of adoption, may have originated in a military alliance between the Bangaṧ and Ḵaṭak (q.v.) in the 9th/15th century.
The tribe is formed around two fractions Gār(ī) and Sāmel(zī), whose names supposedly derive from those of Esmāʿīl's two sons. Interestingly, Gār and Sāmel also designate the two rival political leagues between which the Solaymāni tribes have been traditionally divided. Following M.-Ḥ. Khan (p. 297), some authors have concluded that this pan-Pashtun political cleavage first took place among the Bangaṧ and then gradually passed among neighboring tribes. According to another hypothesis (Bellew, p. 106), the Bangaṧ's genealogy metaphorically transposes a long-standing political (or other) duality that existed before the tribe was formed. In any case, the decomposition of traditional political structures since, at least, the last century has generated much discordance between the genealogical status of lineages and their declared political affiliations (see Table 24).
The Bangaṧ also stand out among the Pashtun because the majority are Shiʿite and a minority Sunni. It has often been said (e.g., Caroe, pp. 202ff.) that Shiʿism among the Pashtun—in fact only among the Bangaṧ, the Tūrī (q.v.), and a small part of the Ōrakzī (q.v.)—is but the modern avatar of religious dissent going back to the Rōšānī heresy (q.v.). As regards the Bangaṧ, Bellew (p. 105) has suggested that the tribe, given the name of its putative ancestor, might have formed around the preaching of Ismaʿili missionaries. Surprisingly, the details of Bangaṧ myths fit in with this hypothesis in ways that had not previously been suspected. Before settling in the Solaymān range, Esmāʿīl, it is said, abode in Mūltān, a town over which he was appointed governor (Gazetteer, p. 30). Using his genealogy to make a quick calculation, this event can be placed in the 4th/10th century (and not in the 7th/13th as indicated in the Gazetteer), in other words, during the very period when Mūltān was the center of a short-lived Ismaʿili state. The ultimate episode in the myth, which has to do with Esmāʿīl's arrival in the Solaymān mountains (specifically in the Gardīz region which was then an active center of the Kharijite movement), is historically grounded in the religious persecution that followed the Mūltān takeover by Sultan Maḥmūd of Ḡaznī (on three successive occasions during 396-401/1006-10; A. N. Khan, pp. 44ff.). All evidence leads to considering Esmāʿīl to be a metaphor for either a dāʿī or a small Ismaʿili community and to seeking for the origins of Shiʿism among the Pashtun in the Ismaʿili daʿwa activities in Khorasan during the early centuries of the emergence of the sect. This conclusion is reinforced by Raverty's remark (p. 389) that the Pashtun Shiʿites recognize the Agha Khan's authority.
The ethnogenesis of the Bangaṧ, therefore, seems both to be religious and to be located in the Gardīz region during the Ghaznavid period. The myth has transposed these origins in terms of Esmāʿīl's marriage with a woman from Formol (= Orgūn), a district just south of Gardīz. Later on the Bangaṧ, who were then expelled from their mountain den by the Ḡelzī during Tīmūr's invasions, crossed the Paywār pass and progressively moved into the upper Korram basin on the eastern slopes of the Solaymān mountains. There they met the hostility of the Ōrakzī who were eventually, owing to the Bangaṧ's tactical alliance with the Ḵaṭak who were moving into the same area, pushed back into the Safīdkūh (Spīnḡar) foothills. The Bangaṧ, could then occupy the whole area that, just south of the Safīdkūh, was called the Bangaṧ district in the 10th/16th century (Beveridge, p. 220), whence the name. Even today, they are mainly settled along the major route between Afghanistan and India that passes through the Mīrānzay and Kōhāt valleys. Though forced to cede most of the upper Korram valley to the Tūrī in the 12th/18th century, the Bangaṧ still have a few isolated villages there, in particular Šalozān which, near the Afghanistan border, is the westernmost point that they still inhabit.
Like the other tribes in the Solaymān range, the Bangaṧ have provided mercenaries to India during the Mughal and British periods. In the early 14th/20th century, about 1,500 Bangaṧ were serving in the Indian army and militias (Ridgway, pp. 76f.). In 1125/1713, one of these mercenaries, a member of the Sāmelzay lineage, managed to be granted an important principality in the Gangetic Doab and founded the dynasty of the nawabs of Farroḵābād, from the name of the capital he built there (Irvine, 1878, pp. 259-383; 1879, pp. 49-170; Rašīd, I, pp. 272ff.). The last Bangaṧ nawab was exiled to Mecca in 1859 because of his involvement in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 (Raverty, p. 387 n.).
The number of Bangaṧ in the Northwest Frontier Province was estimated at 7,925 men in the 1901 census (Ridgway). Although they apparently used to lead a seminomadic life (Gazetteer, p. 31), they are now settled farmers (Dichter, p. 125). In the late 13th/19th century, there were still indications that wēš (the periodic redistribution of land) was practiced (Gazetteer, pp. 85ff.). The Bangaṧ have a few matrimonial customs peculiar to themselves with, it seems, traces of matrilocality (Rose, II, pp. 58ff.).
There is no monograph about the Bangaṧ. More general sources about the Pashtun tribes must be consulted even though they mostly repeat each other without adding much information. Only those providing original information are cited here. The most detailed accounts of the tribe's lineage structure are found in Š.-M. Khan and M.-Ḥ. Khan; the latter, however contains errors in transcriptions. The fullest reports about the geographical distribution of lineages and sublineages are given in Ridgway and Frontier. Ẓahīr-al-Dīn Bābor, Bābor-nāma, tr. A. S. Beveridge, The Bābur-nāma in English, London, 1922, repr. London, 1969.
D. Balland, "Du mythe à l'histoire: aux origines du chiisme chez les Pashtun" (forthcoming).
H. W. Bellew, An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, Woking, 1891, repr. Graz, 1973.
O. Caroe, The Pathans, London, 1958.
D. Dichter, The North-West Frontier of West Pakistan: A Study in Regional Geography, Oxford, 1967.
Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India, Calcutta, 1908, repr., Quetta, 1979, II, pp. 310ff.
Gazetteer of the Kohat District 1883-4, Calcutta, n.d.
W. Irvine, "The Bangash Nawābs of Farrukhabad, a Chronicle (1713-1857)," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 47/1, 1878; 48/1, 1879.
A. N. Khan, Multan, History and Architecture, Islamabad, 1403/1983.
M.-Ḥ. Khan, Ḥayāt-e Afḡān, tr. H. Priestley, Afghanistan and Its Inhabitants, Lahore, 1874, repr. Lahore, 1981.
Š.-M. Khan, Tawārīḵ-e ḵᵛoršīd-e jahān, Lahore, 1311/1894.
S. Abdur Rashid, History of the Muslims of Indo-Pakistan Sub-continent, Lahore, 1978.
H. G. Raverty, Notes on Afghanistan and Part of Baluchistan, London, 1880-88, repr. Lahore, 1976.
R. T. I. Ridgway, Pathans, Calcutta, 1910.
H. A. Rose, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Lahore, 1919, repr. Lahore, 1978.


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Эдгарас Венцкайтис (, р.12 декабря 1985) — литовский борец греко-римского стиля, призёр чемпионата мира.

Родился в 1985 году в Таураге. В 2012 году принял участие в Олимпийских играх в Лондоне, но занял лишь 5-е место. В 2014 году завоевал бронзовую медаль чемпионата мира.

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As Per the mythological history padmashalies are the progeny of Rushis. Padmashalies spread over throughout India and are in great numbers in Central India and in bulk in the Central South India. The handloom weaving had been their hereditary occupation. In due course of time, this Rushi santhanam faced various set backs. Thus the plight of Padmashalies of the area under the Nizams Dynasty was pitiable on many counts. One of them was that they were enlisted by the government among those lower communities of society who had to be under compulsory service to the village officers and government officers who used to visit the villagers, without any reasonable remuneration. This system used to be called Vetti Begory. Fortunately, a Padmashali Ayurvedik Medical Practitioner who was on the Panel of Rulers physicians got the name of Padmashalies denotified from that list. However this did not provide relief as there was lacking of required field workers. The lack of education was the other factor of the allround conditions and sufferings. The outdated customs were another set back.
Under such challenging conditions. Shri Guntaka Narsaiah Panthulu with an active cooperative of Shri Barrankela Ramachandraiah and Katakam Srirangam and others picked up courage to mobilize the Padmashali youth and for which there was encouragement from the Padmashali Stalwart. Hakeem Dawat Janardhan Swamy. As a result of that "Nizam Rashtra Padmashali Yuvajana Sangham" was started by Sarvashri Barrenkala Ramachandraiah, Katakam Shrirangam.a Nakka Venkata Swamy, engineer and Eldandi Ananthaiah, engineer and others.
The first conference of the Nizam Rashtra Padmashali Yuvajana Sangham was held during the year 1943 at Tulja Bhavan,Kacheguda, Hyderabad under the Chairmanship of Shri Vaddepalli Vitoba, a famous personality of that time who had migrated to Solapur from Telangana Area.
Sri Konda Lakshman Bapuji was also one of the youth who participated in the conference. By that time, Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji was already in Legal Profession. He was also one of the Executive Committee members of the Akhila Bharata Padmashali Yuvajana Sangaham. Having underwent lot of troubles to get higher education, he was of the firm opinion that the education is the only way for the development of Padmashali community and there should be a shelter for the students coming from rural areas. Hence he proposed a resolution in that conference for promoting a Padmashali Hostel at Hyderabad.
The said resolution had gained momentum in the conference of "Nizam Rashtra Padmashali Kashta Nivarana Sangham" which was presided over by Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji held in Mortad of Nizamabad Distirct during the year 1944.
The third conference of the Nizam Rashtra Padmashali Mahasabha was held 4th to 6th May 1945 at Sirsilla town of Karimnagar District under the Chairmanship of Shri Konda Laxman Bapuji. Shri Guntaka Narsaiah Panthulu had played a very important role in that conference and padmashali brothers from Solapur and Warangal had helped a lot to make it a grand success. Once again a resolution was adopted in that conference for promotion of Padmashali Hostel at Hyderabad.
A memorable personality and a great philanthropist Shri Chilaka Mallaiah garu, a native of Sirsilla town who had migrated to Solapur promised a big donation of Rs.11,111/- for the construction of padmashali hostel to facilitate the students to go for higher education. This had given good encouragement to proceed further in that direction. The working committee of the Nizam Rashtra Padmashali held on 29th and 30th August, 1945 at Sircilla passed a resolution expressing its gratitude to Shri Chiluka Mallaiah for his magnanimous offer of donation. In the same meeting the issue of Padmashali Bhavan was discussed and a resolution was adopted for "Bhavan Construction Committee" with Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji as chairman and Shri Guntaka Narasiah Panthulu as secretary along with other 28 members.
The Fourth Conference of the Nizam Rashtra Padmashali Mahasabha was held during the month of May, 1946 at Warangal under the chairmanship of Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji and with the cooperation and support of promitnent local padmashali leaders like Sarvashri Rama Balaligam, Racharla Rajalingam, Gudimella Venkataranayana, Kusuma Narsaiah & others, the conference was very successful. Once again adopting a resolution in that conference for the construction of padmashali hostel at Hyderabad has given further encouragement to proceed in that direction.
During the month of April, 1947, it was decided to purchase an old building with tiled roof having an area of 1300 square yards situated at Rajmohalla, Hyderabad for Rs.25,000. But there was no money on hand. The promised donations that were to be given by Sarvashri Guntaka Narsaiah Panthulu, Rs.1016, Racharla Rajalingam Rs.1,616, Barrenkala Ramachandraiaha R.s1,016, Chiluka Ramaiah Rs.1016 Mangalapalli Cjhandraiah Rs.516. Chunchu Sattaiah aRs.516 and including the huge donation of Rs.11,111 by Shri Chilaka Mallaiah put together amounted to Rs.16,807 only. Inspite of that, Shri Guntaka Narasaiah Panthulu garu dared to proceed further and gave his promised donation of Rs.1000 as an advance to the house owner and entered into an Agreement and taken a receipt that the amount was paid by Shri Chilaka Mallaiah garu on behalf of the Nizam Rashtra Padmashalli Mahasabha and the transaction would be completed within a month by paying the remaining amount of Rs.24,000 failing which the advance amount given would be forfeited. Hw, then, immediately rushed to Solapur, met Shri Chilaka Mallaiah garu and explained the situation and shown the receipt to him. Having understood the situation, the very broad minded and magnanimous Philathropist Shri Chilaka Mallaiah garu assured to give another Rs.8000 as hand loan in addition to his promised donation of Rs.11,111 to complete the transaction within a month as was agreed upon and he would get the money on the day of Registration. Accordingly, the said property got registered on 3-6-1947 in favour of NIZAM RASHTRA PADMASHALI MAHASABHA represented by Shri Chilaka Mallaiah garu. The premises was named as Padmashali Bhavan in view of undertaking other social and cultural services etc.
As a result of Police Action, the Nizam State was merged with Indian Union on 18th September, 1948 and padmashali leaders like Shri Guntaka Narasaiah Panthulu garu had returned to the State. Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji also returned after all the arrest warrants (including of Nizam Bomb Case) pending against him were withdrawn and again started his legal practice from 1st January 1949. After their return, they continued their social activities for the welfare of padmashalis. During the month of June 1949, Padmashali Hostel was started with 15 students in the same tiled roof building that was purchased two years back.
As the place was not sufficient for multiple welfare activities of the padmashalis, the adjacent land admeasuring 900 square yards was also purchased for Rs.6,000 on 4-2-1953, thus making the total area of 2200 square yards. As plan for beautiful Building Complex was drawn and donations were collected from individuals and also through different organizations. As the Handloom Co-op. movement was under the leadership of Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji and Shri Guntaka Narasaiah Panthulu, they could benefit the Handloom Weavers in the supply of yarn. As a result, the Handloom Weavers had voluntarily donated at the rate of one rupee per loom, the total of which amounted to Rs.64,864 towards Building Fund. From out of the said fund, hand loan amount of Rs.8,000/- given by Shri Chiluka Mallaiah garu was returned to him. By the efforts of Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji, the purchasers of the power looms of the Netha Co-op Spinning Mills, had given a donation Rs.25,000 and contractors who were supply frame looms to the Hyderabad Handloom Weavers Central Co-op. Association Ltd. (HYCO) gave a fund of Rs.12,000 for Padmashali Bhavan. And with the Cooperation of the Chairman, Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji & Vice-Chairman Shri Guntaka Narsaiah Panthulu. Office Bearers and also the employees of the Hyderabad Handloom Weavers Central Co-op Association, (HYCO) funds were collected to the tune of Rs.72,303 during the years between 1956-1960.
On 7th May, 1954 foundation stone was laid for new''Padmashali Bhavan Complex' by Andhra Pitamaha, Padmabhushan Shri Madapati Hanumantha Rao garu, who was a wellwisher of Padmashali Community and encouraged to undertake Hostel activities. This function was presided over by Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji.
At the initiative of Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji, he and quite a good number of Padmashali Leaders, Youth, and hostel students had voluntarily rendered manual lab our (Shramadanam) in digging of the foundation of the building. This contribution had been unique in creating the most appreciable and ideal social service. The Shramadanam photo taken at that time even-to-day inspires the youth to do Social Service.
To extend great honour to the unique pilanthrophistic family of Shri Chiluka Mallaiah garu, on 22nd April, 1984 the newly constructed building was got inaugurated by Smt. Chilaka Narasamma Bai, wife of Shri Chiluka Mallaiah garu. This function was presided over by Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji.
The Round hall in the ground floor situated in the middle of the Bhavan with main entrance of the building was named as "Chiluka Hall" as a token of gratitude for his huge donation.
On the same day newly constructed hostel building was inaugurated by shifting boarders from the old building.
In order to take up more and more social and cultural activities a Padmashali Hall was constructed during 1984. Donors names are written on a marble stone and their photos are exhibited in the Hall. Shri Vanam Sudharshan had givne a big donation of Rs.51,000 and as per his desire, the dias of the Hall was named in the memory of his parents as "Smt.Vanam Sattemma & Shri Vanam VenkannaVedika". Shri Durgam Narsimloo had given a donation of Rs.51,116 and as per his desire, the dining hall was named in the memory of his mother "Smt. Durgam Lacchamma Bhojana Shala".
In order to meet the extensive needs of the social and cultural activities, a construction programme of 1st floor on the existing Padmashali Hall was taken up and inaugurated by Shri Durgam Narsimloo, Chairman of the trust on 11-10-1992. By collection of donations from the kind hearted Padmashalis, the Kalyana Mandapam was completed. Their names are written on Marble stone and their photos are exhibited in the hall.
For the construction of the dias of this Hall, Shri Nomula Swamy Das garu had given a big donation of Rs.75,000 and as per his desire, it was named as "Smt. Nomula Nagamma and Swamy Das Vedika". Shri Durgam Narsimloo had given a donation of Rs.65,000 for the construction of right wing of the Hall and as per his desire it was named as Smt. Durgam Lakshmamma & Narsimloo Dampathulu Vibhagam. Shri Chippa Raghuramulu & Brothers had given a donation of Rs.61,116 for the construction of Guest Rooms and frontage connecting to the main Hall and as per the desire, it was named after their parents as "Smt.Chippa Pentamma & Shri Babaiah Dampathulu Vibhagam".
In connection with the celebrations of "Sahasra Poorna Chandra Darshana Amrutostsavam" of Shri Guntaka Narasaiah Panthulu garu held during the year 1986, with his own donation and others, of "G.N.PANTHULU WING" was constructed on the first floor of the main road side of the building. Subsequently second floor was also constructed and both the first and second floors were inaugurated on the day of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Padmashali Bhavan on 01-05-1998.
The 2nd Floor on the Function Hall was constructed within a period of 8 months and on 26th January 2009 it was inaugurated by Acharya Konda Lakshman Bapuji. During the year 2007 Trustees utilising the funds of the trust had constructed two floors on the ground floor in the available space. These three floors are constructed with ultra modern facilities connecting the previous three storied building either side, dismantling the previous trust office and Archarya Konda Lakshman Bapuji Diamond Jubilee Hall (Mini Hall before Chiluka Hall) and now it is named as Konda Lakshaman Bapuji Diamond Jubilee Block. This is inaugurated by Acharya Konda Lakshman Bapuji on 15.08.2007. Now it looks like a Corporate Office Complex having three floors with Lift, Intercom, Internet, Website, Computerized accounting facilities.
The ground floor is accommodate with Lift, Trust office and Marriage Bureau.
The first floor is accommodated with the office records of the Weavers Welfare Trust.
The second floor is a Meeting Hall for the Trust Board.
The following Padmashali Personalities and old boarders have given donation for the Construction of Hostel Rooms.
The following old Boarders have also given donations, for the construction of rooms.
When Shri Konda Lakshman Bapuji was a student, he was staying in a house of one old Marwadi Lady, Smt.Jatti Bai Maniyar, W/o.Shri Baldev Maniyar and she used to treat him like her son. With that affection she gave away her house as a gift to Shri Lakshman. But he, in turn, magnanimously handed over that property to the Weavers Welfare Trust. When her heir filed a case claiming that property, which was later settled by compromise and subsequently withdrawn by them, has fetched an amount of Rs.25,000. In her memory, the Hall in the middle of the first floor was named after her as "Smt.Jattibai Hall".
An older boarder of the Hostel Dr.Eligeti Ramulu, who is settled in U.S.A., when visited the hostel was pleased at the development of the hostel and offered to make a donation. As a result of mutual discussions, the donation was earmarked for renovating the Dining Hall of the Hostel. Then he contributed a donation of 4000 dollars (value at that time Rs.1,25,000). With that amount, dining hall of the hostel was renovated with modern facilities and named as "Dr.Eligeti Ramulu Dining Hall".
An old boarder of the Hostel Dr.Kusuma Vithal, who is settled in USA has given a donation of Rs.1,00,000 for recreation hall in the hostel and it is named as Dr.Kusuma Vithal Recreation Hall.
In connection with the Padmashali Hostel Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, Magnanimous Philonthrophists Acharya Konda Lakshman Bapuji and Dr.Major Konda Shakuntala Devi had given a huge donation of Rs.10 lakhs to the Weavers' Welfare Trust for specified purposes from Konda Lakshman Bapuji Universal Foundation.
In connection with the Shasti Celebration of Sri G.N.Pantulu held on 17.11.1963 an education fund styled as Guntaka Narsaiah Panthulu Vidya Nidhi was firmed with his own donation and others for giving financial assistance to the deserving poor students.
Had donated each Rs.25000/- to this Vidya NIdhi. Dr. Yoganand a former boarder also gave Rs.10,000/-.
An old boarder of the Hostel Sri Narayandas Madata has given a donation of Rs.1,00,000 for Padmashali hostel.
Smt. Waddepalli Rachana Shiva Kumar, Trustee, Weavers Welfare Trust had given a donation of Rs.25,000 for Padmashali hostel.
An old boarder of the Hostel Sri Gunnala Chandramouli has given a donation of Rs.1,00,000 for Padmashali hostel.
Had donated Rs.1,00,000 to this VidyaNidhi of Padmashali Boys hostel.
Had donated Rs.1,00,000 to this VidyaNidhi of Padmashali hostel.


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Q: OpenOffice Dll Not Working After Deploying in IIS Server I have created an ASP.NET application in which I am creating an OpenOffice .calc File and storing it to my project folder.. Everything works fine in local machine.. But if I deploy it to IIS it is not working... What will be the reason??
Error I'm getting is: Could not load file or assembly 'cli_uno.dll' or one of its dependencies. The specified module could not be found.

A: Had same problem, i just changed in dcomcnfg (in DCOM configuration) properties for OpenOffice.
Change in Identity tab to interactive user.
Btw. check in your IIS7 APPPOOL (advanced settings) what Identity is set, mb it dont have premissions (try NetworkService, if not working go LocalSystem <- not recomemnded, i think it was about security)
Btw2. Oh and i forgot. Under Identity in II7 apppool u have loadUserProfile - set it to true
Also, it can be in DCOM configuration in Localization tab, try this too if its not working.

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Q: Angular 9 same route paths different components I'm trying to resolve the correct path of a set of URLs that share the same structure. I have the path /:id/:areaId and /:id/:cityId and this is done by design for SEO reasons. When I come to implement it I need to know if :areaId exists (by making an API call) and if it doesn't then I will try to check if :cityId exists to navigate to it.
The first thing I thought of was the canActivate in my route because I need to inject a service and it seemed natural to me. I implemented the guard and applied to the area component and my trouble here is when the canActivate is false because the navigation stops. I've been reading about using urlMatchers however I don't think I have all information needed in the segments and injecting services using something like Angular 2 different components with same route seems wrong to me and also it does fail if I try to navigate directly to the URL as opposed to navigating via home - the injector is not defined when I do navigate directly.
My question is, using guards or something similiar, can I "navigate to the next matching URL" when the result of my guard is false?
For reference, my guard looks like this:
@Injectable()
export class AreaGuard implements CanActivate {
    constructor(private areasService: AreasService) { }

    canActivate(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot, state: RouterStateSnapshot) {
        const areaId= route.params['areaId'];
        return this.areasService.isArea(areaId)
                                .then(a => {
                                    return true;
                                })
                                .catch(e => {
                                    console.log('Checking area', e);
                                    return false;
                                });
    }
}

A: If I were you, I would create an Component to handle this specification.
Doing HTTP calls inside Guards it is something I would not recommend.
You could have only one route and load your new created component.
Do your HTTP calls and then with a simple *ngIf you could decide what component
to load.


Hi, I will be filing a petition for my three kids who are in under aged, and I believed we fall in the category of I-184 Application for Action on an Approved Application or Petition. I came here as K-1 . Do I have to file in separate forms of each, or I could just file one form for the three ? and additional question, please educate me on how and where to pay ? thank you.
I think You will need to fill it out an I-130 and and I-485 and one of each is more than enough because you will list all your kids in just one form. You will need to do or a money order or a check payable to US Department of Homeland Security. You need to send this check or money order with the forms that you will need for your kids to be accepted in US.
No, I-824 is not for you. You got K-1 visa at a consulate, and if your kids want to get K-2 visas (which can only be issued within 1 year of the issuance of your K-1 visa) at the consulate, they would contact the consulate.
If it has been more than 1 year since the issuance of your K-1 visa, then your kids cannot come on K-2s anymore, and they would need to be petitioned by your spouse.


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'Dark money' spending in politics set to clear $1 billion threshold
Herndon Gazette
Adav Noti
So-called dark money, which came into being after a Supreme Court ruling, soon may reach a ten-digit milestone.
That term refers to election-related spending by groups that don't disclose their donors. This type of political outlay remains far from becoming dominant, but it keeps spooking researchers, lawmakers and activists, as it nears a big round number.
After the Supreme Court opened the door for corporate spending in elections, the FEC said existing disclosure laws weren't a good fit for this new category of outlays, said Adav Noti, an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center, an ethics and campaign-finance watchdog. The regulatory agency then created a new disclosure rule that was "extremely narrow" and led to dark money's rise, he said.
"Although it gets conflated with Citizens United pretty frequently, it's not a creation of the Supreme Court," Noti said at the Nov. 14 event. "Dark money is a creation of the FEC."


I am from Colorado's San Luis Valley. My extended family, from the Ute and Navajo nations, reputedly settled Southwestern Colorado some centuries before they were "reserved" there. Most of my father's and grandfathers generations were farmers. The clan is large and close.
No one in the family had a telephone when I was little, yet we were in continuous contact via the one or two cousins who would bring news and gossip while running the days errands.
Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells Waran-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
Everything, moving or not moving, soulful or not, vibrates. Vibration is the very essence of life.
If we human beings were equipped with the proper "ears", that is, the correct sensory equipment, we would hear these sound vibrations.
Disharmony of any kind ("misfortune", "calamity", physical, social or psychological illness, for example) is simply a symptom that the intrinsically perfect natural order is "out of sync." When we need to restore that perfect natural order, we must reintroduce a rich, bountiful, harmonious vibration. We make that cause with our voices and the drum. Therefore, the drum in traditional Native American life is much more than an object of intellectual stimulation or social pursuit, more than entertainment, more even than music. It is used to change the life condition of the entire community, equally capable to destroy or devastate as to bring joy and to restore.
It is important that the individual who makes the drum, the one who plays it, the plants and animals that give of themselves, all must be blessed or initiated. While it isn't necessary to be perfect (even saints and sages make mistakes) each action, word and even thought, is a cause. And those who heal for the community must maintain a "rack-record" of causes that benefit the community.
Everyone, regardless of station in life, continuously makes causes and through those causes teaches precious lessons (since every experience after all is a teacher). Since an artist is, by necessity a spokesperson, his elders ascertain his healthy and positive spirit.


The following article discusses the meaning of error codes that may appear in your browser window. When a problem occurs loading a webpage, an error code and message will appear in the browser instead of the webpage. The error code and message that appears is determined by the type of error. Typically the error code consists of a 3 to 4 digit number and a brief message describing the error. Below, you will find a list of the common error codes and some suggestions for resolving them.
Note: To see the error code and message, it may be necessary to uncheck Show friendly HTTP error messages in your browser. This is usually found under Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced.
404 Page Not Found This error message occurs when the page that is requested does not exist on the server. This can occur if the user mistypes the name of the page, or attempts to load a page that no longer exists. One solution is to create a custom 404 error page that provides the user more detailed information and navigation so they can continue browsing your website. Instructions for configuring a custom 404 error page for a Windows account can be found here. Instructions for a Linux account can be found here.
500 Internal Server Error This error message occurs when the server fails to process a script that is being run. The error message will typically contain information relating to the script failure. The resolution to this type of error will be based around the additional information provided in the error message. If you do not see additional information, please ensure that Show friendly HTTP error messages is unchecked.
A client error is one that occurs on the users computer. For example, the user may request a page that does not exist, or the user may not provide valid authentication information.
401.3 Unauthorized due to ACL on resource.
401.4 Authorization failed by filter.
401.5 Authorization failed by ISAPI/CGI application.
401.7 Access denied by URL authorization policy on the Web server. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
403.15 Client Access Licenses exceeded.
403.16 Client certificate is untrusted or invalid.
403.17 Client certificate has expired or is not yet valid.
403.18 Cannot execute requested URL in the current application pool. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
403.19 Cannot execute CGIs for the client in this application pool. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
403.20 Passport logon failed. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
404.0 (None) – File or directory not found.
404.1 Web site not accessible on the requested port.
404.2 Web service extension lockdown policy prevents this request.
404.3 MIME map policy prevents this request.
406 Client browser does not accept the MIME type of the requested page.
A server error is one that occurs on the server when the page is requested in a browser. The server cannot complete the request because it encounters an error.
500.15 Direct requests for Global.asa are not allowed.
500.16 UNC authorization credentials incorrect. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
500.18 URL authorization store cannot be opened. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
501 Header values specify a configuration that is not implemented.
502 Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy.
502.2 Error in CGI application.
503 Service unavailable. This error code is specific to IIS 6.0.
Additional information about less common error codes and messages can be found on Microsoft's website.


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The Fifth Beatle recounts the untold story of visionary Beatles manager Brian Epstein-who created Beatlemania and guided the band from basement gigs to unprecedented international stardom. This multiple-award-winning graphic novel has been added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives!
This new softcover edition includes a revised sketchbook and Beatles memorabilia bonus section with behind-the-scenes insights from writer Vivek Tiwary and artists Andrew Robinson and Kyle Baker-expanded to include eight pages unique to this edition!
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Digital lending is coming, the dozen or so mortgage professionals and vendors interviewed for this column agree. It's just a matter of time.
"It's going to be like getting a car loan; there's no reason you can't do that with a mortgage," offers Joe Langer of Blue Sage Solutions, a cloud-based digital lending platform. He describes the future mortgage this way: Would-be borrowers will log on, input basic information and the system will auto-populate an application. Then the system will interconnect with other programs to pull in such key information as income, tax returns, liabilities and assets.
Based on that and other data, the program will tell you how much you can afford and explain your various loan options. Once you make your choice, it will make sure your specific loan fits into the lender's investor requirements.


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William Brickell (May 22, 1817(?) – January 14, 1908) joined Julia Tuttle as a co-founder of Miami, Florida.

During the Civil War, Brickell and his wife Mary, whom he met and married in Australia, lived in the White House while he worked as an aide to President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1868, the Brickells purchased two tracts of land, one of which stretched from Coconut Grove to the Miami River, which they purchased from Mrs. Harriet English and her brother Richard Fitzpatrick who had acquired it by grant from the King of Spain. The family moved to southern Florida from Cleveland, Ohio, arriving by ship in 1871. He and his family opened a trading post and post office in their home on the south bank of the Miami River, near the site of Fort Dallas.

The Brickells' neighbor, Julia Tuttle, also originally from Cleveland, is credited with attracting the attention of Florida's east coast railroad and resort hotel magnate Henry M. Flagler to extend his interests to the area. Both Brickell and Tuttle contributed land to the Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway, which brought growth and development and put Miami on the map. After William Brickell's death, his widow, Mary Brickell, became one of the young city's prominent real estate developers and managers.

Originally, William and Mary Brickell were entombed on their property located at 501 Brickell Avenue, Miami, but in 1946 their daughter Maud Brickell decided to move her parents to Woodlawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum (now Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North Park Cemetery and Mausoleum).

See also
Brickell
Brickell Avenue

References

 Beth Brickell. William and Mary Brickell: Founders of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The History Press, 2011

1817 births
1908 deaths
People from Miami
Florida pioneers
19th-century American businesspeople


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Unity User Manual (2017.1)
Graphics Overview
What is a Particle System?
Using Particle Systems in Unity
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Particles are small, simple images or meshes that are displayed and moved in great numbers by a particle system. Each particle represents a small portion of a fluid or amorphous entity and the effect of all the particles together creates the impression of the complete entity. Using a smoke cloud as an example, each particle would have a small smoke texture resembling a tiny cloud in its own right. When many of these mini-clouds are arranged together in an area of the scene, the overall effect is of a larger, volume-filling cloud.
Dynamics of the System
Each particle has a predetermined lifetime, typically of a few seconds, during which it can undergo various changes. It begins its life when it is generated or emitted by its particle system. The system emits particles at random positions within a region of space shaped like a sphere, hemisphere, cone, box or any arbitrary mesh. The particle is displayed until its time is up, at which point it is removed from the system. The system's emission rate indicates roughly how many particles are emitted per second, although the exact times of emission are randomized slightly. The choice of emission rate and average particle lifetime determine the number of particles in the "stable" state (ie, where emission and particle death are happening at the same rate) and how long the system takes to reach that state.
Dynamics of Particles
The emission and lifetime settings affect the overall behaviour of the system but the individual particles can also change over time. Each one has a velocity vector that determines the direction and distance the particle moves with each frame update. The velocity can be changed by forces and gravity applied by the system itself or when the particles are blown around by a wind zone on a Terrain. The color, size and rotation of each particle can also change over its lifetime or in proportion to its current speed of movement. The color includes an alpha (transparency) component, so a particle can be made to fade gradually in and out of existence rather than simply appearing and disappearing abruptly.
Used in combination, particle dynamics can be used to simulate many kinds of fluid effects quite convincingly. For example, a waterfall can be simulated by using a thin emission shape and letting the water particles simply fall under gravity, accelerating as they go. Smoke from a fire tends to rise, expand and eventually dissipate, so the system should use an upward force on the smoke particles and increase their size and transparency over their lifetimes.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain's King Felipe VI and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez are among hundreds of people attending ceremonies in Barcelona to mark the first anniversary of terror attacks that killed 16 people.
The commemorations began Friday with a flower-laying ceremony on the Catalan capital's famed Las Ramblas promenade, where a van mowed down scores of pedestrians.
The monarch and Queen Letizia, families of the victims, and national and local political leaders were among those attending the events.
The van killed 14 and another victim was fatally stabbed in the Barcelona attack.
Another person died of stab wounds in a separate attack the next day in nearby Cambrils.
The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group.
Spanish authorities say they dismantled the cell, with its members either dead or arrested.


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still necroposting if it hasn't had a post in more than 10 days.
In my book it is 10 days or more.
It may not be a rule, but it is common courtesy. Ask any Cosmoteer that Has been here more than 6 months and they will say necroposting is bad.
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Irish Consumers Concerned About Impact Of Pub Closures On The Local Economy, Says DIGI
September 07, 2020 2:50 PM By Donna Ahern
Almost two thirds of Irish consumers are concerned about the impact of prolonged pub closures on the local economy, according to new research from the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI).
The research, released today as part of DIGI's Support Your Local campaign, reveals that over half of pubs are reported temporarily or permanently closed (56%) as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.
Rosemary Garth, chair of DIGI and director of Communications and Corporate Affairs at Irish Distillers, commented:  "The prolonged closure of pubs in Ireland is not only having a negative effect on those who are directly involved in the industry: it is having widespread impact on local communities."
"This is truly devastating to see. According to our research, the vast majority of people in Ireland have noticed significant change to their local community, with a particular decline in community spirits and morale," she added.
Broader Economy Impact
According to the research, almost six in ten people (59%) visited their local pub at least once a month before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since the government implemented restrictions on the opening of pubs, half (53%) of those surveyed feel that the vibrancy of the community has dampened, the group said.
DIGI noted that half of the respondents said that they noticed a decrease in the level of community spirit and morale among the community.
"The role of the pub in local communities has never been more prominent. It is only now, as many pubs remain shut or have closed permanently as a result of the lockdown, that people are recognising how important the industry is for local wellbeing, job creation, and the broader economy," Garth added.
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Q: Telegram bot sends updates with a long delay I've Webhook set up. My bot receives 2M messages per day. The problem is, it takes sometimes 12 hours for a message to come from telegram server to my endpoint!
I checked, when bot sends a message to telegram api, it is instant. But when the user sends a message to the bot, it takes lots of hours until my bot receives that message.
max_connections parameter of Webhook is set to maximum, 100.
What possibly is wrong? Thanks.

A: Since Telegram server will have only 100 connection to your server, you can shorten process time.
You can end webhook request in first line of code, and implementation is vary from programming language.
For instance, if you are NginX with fastcgi, it's fastcgi_finish_request().


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I have been curious about this pedal.
Can this pedal do opening for 'king of the road' rhythm riff.
I also have the phantom seed, algal bloom small 2015 with germ choke switch, and velcrobot.
The basic sound of it isn't too far off the rhythm guitar in the song, though I wouldn't claim it's perfect... Never heard this one before but good riff!
Yeah, it's not that exact sound, but it is 100% appropriate for that sound.
goroth wrote: Yeah, it's not that exact sound, but it is 100% appropriate for that sound.
That's how to describe it better than I did.
And you can play some Tom Waits too with it.