text:
Discovery & Culture
Slovakia Tour Packages
Central Europe Tours
Heritage Tours & Genealogy Services
Private & Tailor-made
3-day Private Tours
Self-guided Walking Tours
Self-guided Bike Tours
Tatra Mountains Hiking Tours
Hut to Hut Tours
Horse-riding Tours
Birdwatching Tours
Sightseeing Tours of Historical Sites & Castles
Exploring Caves Tours
Eco Holiday
Rock Climbing Courses
Spa&Ski
Jasna Ski Holidays
Ski Holidays in High Tatras
Wellness & Spa Packages
Join our Tours
Policy & Payment
barbora(at)travelslovakia.sk
Best of Slovakia and Golden Prague City Tour 2023
Very attractive sightseeing sites across Slovakia and in Prague - the City of a Hundred Spires. - Rating by our customers based on 5 tour reviews
Dates & Prices & Booking
This tour is suitable for everyone who likes sightseeing tours with discovering the wild nature in the mountains.
Within ten days, you will visit the capital cities of both countries - Bratislava and Prague; unique historical places - Banska Stiavnica and Levoca (both UNESCO), Slovak alpine-like mountains - the High Tatras, and much more.
In addition to visiting these places, you will taste local cuisine, meet local people, and explore various cultures.
So, do not hesitate and join us to discover the heart of Europe!
Day 1 Arrival in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Arrival in Bratislava
- Accommodation in first-class hotel
Day 2 Bratislava Old town and Devin castle visit. Transfer to Banska Stiavnica.
- Breakfast
- Meeting with a tour guide in a hotel lobby
- Bratislava Old town sightseeing (up to 2 hours)
- Devin castle visit
- Transfer to Banska Stiavnica
- Accommodation in Banska Stiavnica
Bratislava castle dominates the center of Bratislava, and its four towers became the symbol of the city. The castle hill was inhabited from the neolithic Hallstadt and Roman eras. It reached its highest importance during the reign of Austro-Hungarian Queen Maria Theresa. In 1761 - 1766 the fortress was rebuilt into a typical royal residence. Today, after reconstruction, the castle shelters a historical part of the Slovak National Museum.
Old town tour includes many monuments. The top visited sites are:
St Martin's Cathedral, the Primates' Palace with historic Hall of Mirrors and the famous Bratislava tapestries, and Michalska Gate with a panoramic view of the Old town.
Devin castle ruins tower over the confluence of the rivers Danube and Morava. The fortress, used as a watchtower by the Slavonic count Rastislav Dovina, was mentioned in the manuscripts as early as the 9th century AD. After the fall of the Great Moravian Empire of the ancient Slavs, the Devin fortress became an important strategic fortification of the Hungarian Kingdom. In 1809, advancing Napoleon's troops destroyed the castle. Since 1965 an archaeological research has been carried out in the castle area. The castle ruins have been partially reconstructed under the auspices of the Municipal Museum in Bratislava.
Day 3 UNESCO sightseeing: Banska Stiavnica town, wooden church in Hronsek, folk architecture in Vlkolinec. Transfer to Kezmarok.
- Sightseeing in Banska Stiavnica
- Wooden church in Hronsek village
- Monument Reserve of Folk Architecture in Vlkolinec village
- Transfer to Kezmarok
- Accommodation at first-class hotel in Kezmarok
Banska Stiavnica is a former mining town and lies amid the forests of the Stiavnicke mountains. Banska Stiavnica is one of the most beautiful and historically one of the most beautiful towns in Slovakia. The town is on the list of the World Cultural Heritage of UNESCO.
Banska Stavnica progressively became the dominant mining center in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century. Banska Stiavnica monument town reserve comprises as many as 360 structures. Together they present a unique set of high cultural and historical value, placed into the pleasant environment of the Stiavnicke mountains.
Wooden articled church in Hronsek is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2008. The wooden church and wooden belfry originate from 1726. The capacity of the church is 1,100 chairs.
Vlkolinec village - Monument Reserve of Folk Architecture is the extraordinary and remarkable oasis of folk architecture and on the UNESCO list since 1993.
The first written record of the community is from 1376. Originally it was the settlement of loggers, shepherds, and farmers. Its unique compound of original folk buildings remains untouched by modern construction.
ICOMOS (International Council for Monuments and Settlements) classified it as the best-reserved settlement of this time within the Carpathian Arch.
Day 4 UNESCO sites: Levoca town, Spis castle, Spisska Kapitula.
- Wooden church in Kezmarok (UNESCO)
- Levoca town sightseeing
- Spis Castle and Spisska Kapitula (Slovak Vatican) visit (both UNESCO)
- Return to Kezmarok
One of the best-preserved Slovak wooden sacral buildings is the articled Evangelical church in Kezmarok. The church originates in 1717, built next to an older sacral stone building from 1593, which is a sacristy today. This unique wooden building is of yew and red spruce wood without using a single metal component. The Baroque interior of the church and the organ are also of wood.
The historic Levoca lies in the east of the Spis region. The town represents a true cultural and historic jewel among the Slovak towns compounding numerous historical architectural monuments. The dominant part of Levoca is a large rectangular square with the Roman-Catholic St James church from the 14th century, one of the most important sacral buildings in Slovakia.
The late Gothic wooden main altar of St James with 18.6 m is the tallest of its kind in the world. It was made of lime wood in 1507 - 1517 in the workshop of Master Paul of Levoca.
Spis Castle is the largest medieval castle in Central Europe located on a travertine rock hill. The castle hill was populated as early as the 5th century BC; it is one the most unique archaeological and historical gems of Central Europe and is under UNESCO protection.
Spisska Kapitula is sometimes also referred to as the Slovak Vatican. Church life not only in Spisska Kapitula (Spis Chapter) was organized from here by the bishops, provosts, and canonists.
The most important building of Spisska Kapitula is the Late-Romanesque St Martin cathedral from the 13th century.
Day 5 High Tatras with optional program: Walking around glacial lakes, cable car to Lomnicky peak, Belianska cave visit, short hike.
- Tatra National Park visit
- Activities according to choice
The High Tatras are the highest mountain range of Slovakia and the most popular tourist center for the summer and winter holidays.
There are about 35 valleys, 110 mountain lakes, but the most amazing is the Tatra peaks. There are more than 500 peaks in the High Tatras, out of which ten peaks are above 2,600 meters high.
The silence of the valleys, mountain lakes, silky sheen of the waterfalls, and simultaneously monumental touches with the heights of the peaks - all of that is the magical world of Tatra National Park.
1. Walking aroud Popradske pleso lake and Strbske pleso lake. The landscape is of glacial origin formed by glaciers that created glacier valleys with mountain lakes.
2. Trip to Lommnicky peak by cable car. It is among the most attractive adventures for tourists in the High Tatras. It reaches a differential height of 1,700 m carrying tourists to an altitude of 2,634 m above sea level in only a few minutes.
3. Belianska cave - the only one accessible to the public in the High Tatras. It is among the first European caves with electricity installed.
4. Short hiking in the mountains.
Day 6 Pieniny National Park: rafting on wooden rafts on Dunajec river, visit to Cerveny Klastor monastery museum.
- Day tour in Pieniny National Park
- Rafting down the river Dunajec in Peniny National Park
- Cerveny Klastor monastery
Pieniny National Park is famous for its natural beauty, especially the Dunajec River gorge - popular rafting and hiking location. It lies in the Pieniny Mountains on the north-eastern border with Poland.
Cerveny Klastor monastery presents a unique cultural and historical relic set located in the pleasant natural environment of Pieniny under the majestic mountain Tri koruny. Nowadays, it serves as a museum.
Day 7 Train to Prague, Czech republic.
- Morning train to Prague
- Private car transfer from railway station to the hotel
- Accommodation at a first-class hotel in Prague
Day 8 Prague city tour.
- 3.5 hours regular Grand city tour of Prague with pick up at the hotel
- Afternoon free time
The Prague Castle, an ancient symbol of the Czech lands, is the most significant Czech monument and one of the most important cultural institutions in the Czech Republic. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Prague Castle is the world's largest coherent castle complex, with an area of almost 70,000 square meters.
It is also a UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of a large-scale composition of palaces and ecclesiastical buildings of various architectural styles, from Roman-style buildings from the 10th century through 14th-century Gothic modifications.
St Vitus Cathedral is the largest and the most important temple in Prague. Apart from religious purposes, the coronations of Czech kings and queens also took place here. A cathedral is a place of interment of remains of provincial patron saints, sovereigns, noblemen, and archbishops.
The Charles Bridge is a famous historic bridge named after king Charles IV crosses the Vltava river. The construction started in 1357 and finished at the beginning of the 15th century.
The Charles Bridge was the most important connection between Prague Castle and the Old Town and adjacent areas. Today, it's a busy venue with painters, kiosks, and vendors alongside numerous tourists crossing the bridge.
Day 9 Options for the day: Kutna Hora visit, Karlovy Vary spa town, Cesky Krumlov town.
- Day tour in Prague surroundings (choice of 1 tour from 4 options):
- Jewish Prague tour, Kutna Hora trip, Karlovy Vary trip, Cesky Krumlov visit
- Return to Prague
Kutna Hora half-day trip. Visit the unique gothic Cathedral of St Barbora with its precious wall paintings, the unique ossuary, and former Royal Mint once producing Prague groschen. Kutna Hora has preserved its medieval town character to date and is rightfully on the UNESCO list of the most important cultural heritage of the Czech Republic.
Karlovy Vary - Day trip to the world-known spa founded by King Charles IV in 1358. You will learn about the secrets of the manufacture of MOSER glass and visit the museum.
Cesky Krumlov day trip. During this tour to the South Bohemian region, you will visit this beautiful UNESCO-listed medieval town. Our walk will take us past many of the 300-plus well-preserved local historical houses.
Day 10 Farewell.
- Transfer from hotel to Prague airport
- End of the tour
from €1548 per person
date_range10 days
todayAll year, 2023
Guided sightseeing and cultural discovery tour
languageEnglish, French, Deutsch
flagPick up/drop off on your request
Accommodation in centrally located hotels with breakfast:
- 1 night in Bratislava
- 1 night in Banska Stiavnica
- 4 nights in Kezmarok
- 3 nights in Prague
Services of a private guide-driver for 5 days (in Slovakia)
Trip transport (private car/van and train)
Taxi from Kezmarok to Poprad train station
1 x airport transfer from Prague hotel to the airport in Prague city
First-class train tickets Poprad - Prague
Prague city tour
Meals (except for hotel breakfast)
Admission fees in Slovakia
Cable car to Lomnicky peak
Admissions to sights during Prague tour
Day 9 (choice from the options)
Airport transfers on arrival and departure day (can be arranged for an extra fee).
It is required to book the transfers at least two weeks in advance.
Czech and Slovak Grand Tour 2023
- 5 tour reviews
14 Days €2461
Grand Tour of Central Europe 2023
- 1 tour review
Central Europe Tour 2023
- 11 tour reviews
Jewish Heritage Tour in Slovakia & Poland
8 Days POA
Tour from Vienna to Krakow 2023
7 Days €1103
Tour from Budapest to Krakow 2023
Airport, Tour, Ski Transfers
SLOVAKIA:
About Slovakia
Slovakia brochures
Slovakia photogallery
Slovakia videos
Tatra mountais videos
Travelslovakia.sk on TripAdvisor
Travelslovakia.sk in travel media
Travel agents info
How to get to Slovakia
Slovakia Tours on Facebook
Slovakia Tours on Flickr
Slovakia Tours on Pinterest
Slovakia Tours on LinkedIn
2003-2023 TRAVELSLOVAKIA.SK Ltd. - Slovak Tour Operator. All rights reserved. Contact: barbora(at)travelslovakia.sk, martin(at)travelslovakia.sk.


The Jeep wagon's yellow and light-brown colour scheme was intended to look like birch and mahogany.
Modern Jeep wagons/SUVs can trace their heritage back seven decades to a little station wagon introduced in 1946. It was a direct descendant of the famous Second World War Willys-Overland four-wheel drive, quarter-ton, general purpose utility vehicle known as the Jeep.
During the war, almost 600,000 of these tough, versatile little military machines were built by Willys, and Ford under licence. But as peace neared, Willys-Overland of Toledo, Ohio, like all automakers, was anxious to return to civilian production.
The company considered its immediate pre-war cars unsuitable for the postwar market, so during the war it engaged Brooks Stevens, a noted industrial designer from Milwaukee, to design a postwar Willys car.
Unfortunately, the only prototype was destroyed in a train collision, causing Willys to shelve its immediate plans for postwar car production. They would eventually return to it in 1952 with the compact Aero Willys sedan.
As the end of the war neared, Willys management, particularly its new president, Charles (Cast Iron Charlie) Sorensen, realized the deep reservoir of goodwill the Jeep had developed.
Sorensen had recently joined W-O after 40 years at Ford, starting as a pattern maker and rising to production wizard and Henry Ford confidant until he drifted out of favour with senile old Henry.
It was realized that the thousands of veterans who would return with fond memories of the Jeep's universality and toughness represented a wonderful source of potential customers. Willys hoped to attract them by converting the Jeep to peacetime use.
It was a simple enough task to turn the military Jeep into the CJ (Civilian Jeep). Just take off accessories such as shovels and axe holders, install more comfortable seats and decent upholstery and paint them in appealing colours.
The little CJ Jeep was initially promoted as a dual-purpose machine for agricultural and road use. It proved better suited to road travel and off-road recreational pursuits, so the farming aspirations were abandoned.
With successful transition to the CJ complete, the company became even more enthusiastic about other possible models. It again hired Stevens to come to Toledo and design a line of civilian Jeep-based models, including station wagons, pickup trucks and panel deliveries.
Astute production man that he was, Sorensen laid down a few rules for Stevens. These included retaining the Jeep front-end styling, not using any wood and designing shallow-draw metal stampings without compound curves so the Jeep body panels would be easier and cheaper to stamp.
Stevens's first result was the all-steel Jeep station wagon. His design was immediately accepted and it went into production in July 1946. It was the first such production passenger vehicle, although the eight-passenger all-steel Chevrolet Suburban Carryall had come out in 1935 as a kind of station wagon. But being based on a panel truck, it was more commercial vehicle than passenger carrier.
Crosley would market a tiny all-steel wagon in 1947, and Plymouth would introduce the popular car-based Suburban steel wagon in 1949, but Willys was first with an all-steel wagon.
Although not car-based, the new Jeep wagon was well accepted and Willys produced 6,534 of them during the first year. With more production capacity, they could have sold many more in the postwar car-starved market.
The military Jeep had become famous for its four-wheel-drive, go-anywhere capability so it was a little surprising that the Jeep wagon had rear-wheel drive only. This was probably because Willys advertising was promoting it as a car rather than a utility vehicle. Unlike the Jeep, it had the advantage of independent front suspension for a smoother ride.
Power came from the Jeep's 2.2-litre, 69 horsepower, side-valve, "Go Devil" four-cylinder engine that could trace its origins back to the 1926 Whippet car, although it had been considerably upgraded over the years. Power went through a three-speed-plus-overdrive manual transmission.
The front end and top of all early Jeep wagons were painted maroon. The passenger compartment from the windshield back was finished in a combination of yellow and light brown that was intended to look like birch and mahogany. From a distance, it almost did.
Sales jumped to 33,214 for 1947, a station wagon record, proving this new Jeep was a success. The wagon was gradually refined and improved, and four-wheel drive became an option in 1949.
Bigger and better engines were fitted, and although it suffered some ups and downs in sales — and a new parent when Kaiser bought Willys-Overland in 1953 and renamed it Willys Motors Inc. — the Jeep wagon lasted until 1962. It was then replaced by the very successful Jeep Wagoneer, also designed by Stevens.
The Jeep station wagon made history by pioneering a new type of practical vehicle that would exploit the Jeep's reputation and become a very popular model.


text:
Biografia
Jòzef era figlio del conte Andrzej Potocki e di Anna Rysińska. Apparteneva a una delle più antiche e potenti famiglie della szlachta, l'alta nobiltà polacca, e discendeva in linea diretta dal conte e grande atamano di Lituania Stanislaw Potocki.

Potocki era il più ricco magnate polacco del suo tempo: possedeva i voivodati di Kiev e di Poznań, inoltre era regimentarz generale, grande etmano della corona, castellano di Cracovia, starosta di Halicz, Leźajsk, Kokomyja, Czewonogròd e Varsavia; disponeva quindi di un ampio potere territoriale.
Egli represse nel sangue la rivolta contadina guidata da Semën Palij in Ucraina; durante la grande guerra del nord, in principio si alleò con il re Augusto II di Polonia, ma quando il candidato degli svedesi, Stanislao I, ebbe il sopravvento, il conte non esitò a passare dalla sua parte. Partecipò alla battaglia di Koniecepol, ma dopo la sconfitta degli svedesi a Poltava, Potocki fu esiliato e fuggì in Ungheria e successivamente in Turchia.

Durante la guerra di successione polacca del 1733, Potocki, tornato in Polonia, si alleò nuovamente con Stanislao I, recuperando in tal modo parte del suo antico potere e il titolo di regimentarz della confederazione di Dzikòw, guidando le armate polacche contro quelle russe e sassoni in varie battaglie.

Venne nuovamente esiliato con la successione di Augusto III di Polonia; dopo un lungo esilio tra Turchia, Svezia e Prussia fu riammesso in Polonia, dove morì nel 1751.

Matrimoni

Primo matrimonio
Sposò Wiktoria Leszczyńska (?-1732), figlia di Vaclav Leszczyński. Ebbero due figli:

 Zofia Potocka, sposò in prime nozze Adam Smigelski e in seconde nozze Dominik Peter Kossakovski;
 Stanisław Potocki (1698-1760).

Secondo matrimonio
Nel 1732 sposò Ludwika Mniszech, dalla quale non ebbe figli.

Onorificenze

Onorificenze polacche

Onorificenze russe

Note

Bibliografia
  Historia Dyplomacji Polskiej, vol. II: 1572-1795, a cura di Zbigniew Wójcik, Józef Gierowski, Jerzy Michalski, Henryk Wisner, Varsavia, PWN, 1982, p. 424.
  Andrzej Link-Lenczowski, Potocki Józef h. Pilawa (1673—1751), in Polski Słownik Biograficzny, vol. XXVIII/1, n. 116. Breslavia - Varsavia - Cracovia - Danzica - Łódź, Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1983, pp. 59—72.
  Iwan Bondarew, Wiktoria Leszczyńska , Kurier Galicyjski, 19 aprile 2017.

Altri progetti

Jozef
Jozef
Jozef
Jozef

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Le comté de Coal est un comté situé dans l'État de l'Oklahoma, aux États-Unis. Le siège du comté est Coalgate. Selon le recensement de 2000, sa population est de  habitants.

Comtés adjacents
 Comté de Hughes (nord)
 Comté de Pittsburg (nord-est)
 Comté d'Atoka (sud-est)
 Comté de Johnston (sud-ouest)
 Comté de Pontotoc (ouest)

Principales villes
 Bromide
 Centrahoma
 Coalgate
 Lehigh
 Phillips
 Tupelo


text:
Inductees Induction Requirments
Board Contact Minutes
News and Events Photos Contact Donate
Inductees in Civil Rights / Abolitionists
Margaret F. Ackroyd
Inducted in 1972
Margaret Ackroyd was a native Rhode Islander who served in the State Labor Department for thirty years before her retirement. She served as Chief in the Division of Women and Children and Commissioner of minimum wage. She became known as the "architect of non-discriminatory employment standards for women".
. Read more >
Zachariah Allen (1795-1882)
Zacharian Allen, 1795-1882, was a lawyer, inventor, and civic leader of the nineteenth century. One of his most notable inventions was the home hot-air furnace. He also originated the Providence Water Works and is credited with introducing the first vehicles to the Providence Fire Company. Allen was also instrumental in setting up the mutal fire insurance system in early America . Read more >
Andrew J. Bell, Jr. (1907-2000)
Andrew J. Bell, Jr. was born in Providence in September 1907, the son of Andrew J. and Beatrice J. Read more >
Moses Brown (1738-1836)
Moses Brown, 1738-1836, the youngest of the five Brown brothers was a Providence civic leader, entrepreneur, sponsor of Samuel Slater, and prominent Quaker abolitionist. Moses Brown was also a founder of the Providence Athaneum and Moses Brown School. Read more >
John Carter Brown (1797-1874)
Born in 1797, the youngest of the three surviving children of Nicholas Brown II and Ann Carter, daughter of John Carter, the noted Providence printer, John Carter Brown was raised in a family tradition of public leadership and philanthropy. While at Brown University, he joined an undergraduate society to provide needy students with free books.
Upon graduation in 1816, John Carter Brown joined the family firm, Brown & Ives. Though lacking his forefathers' enthusiasm for business or politics, he cheerfully undertook his commercial responsibilities, especially after his older brother Nicholas III defiantly left the family firm to settle in New York. Read more >
Arnold Buffum (1782-1859)
Arnold Buffum was one of Rhode Island's leading abolitionists. He was born and raised in a farmhouse near Union Village in present-day North Smithfield. His childhood home, called the William Buffum House for his Quaker father who built it, still stands at 383 Great Road.
Despite his rural roots, Arnold Buffum became an entrepreneur whose main business was the manufacture and sale of hats in Providence, but he also patented some inventions pertaining to his trade and raised sheep on his father's farm. Read more >
Elizabeth Buffum Chace (1806-1899)
Elizabeth Buffum Chace, the first woman to be memorialized with a statue in the Rhode Island State House, was an antislavery activist and a pioneering advocate for women's suffrage. The daughter of abolitionist leader Arnold Buffum, she married fellow Quaker Samuel Chace, a Fall River textile manufacturer. The Chaces had ten children; tragically the oldest five died of ilnesses before the second five were born.
Chace first became publicly active in the cause of abolition in 1835 when she and two sisters helped to organize the Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society, which was allied with the radical wing of the antislavery movement led by William Lloyd Garrison. Read more >
Prudence Crandall (1803-1890)
Prudence Crandall was born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, the daughter of Pardon Crandall, a Quaker farmer and Esther Carpenter, both of whom were descended from prominent old-line South County families. When Prudence was ten she moved to a farm in nearby Canterbury, Connecticut, but returned to Rhode Island from 1825 to 1830 as a student at the New England Friends' Boarding School (Moses Brown) in Providence. She therefore, was both Rhode Island born and educated.
In 1831, some leading citizens of Canterbury hired Crandall to organize a school for girls. Read more >
Sarah Elizabeth Doyle (1830-1922)
Doyle, Sarah Elizabeth, 1830-1922
Sarah Elizabeth Doyle (1830-1922) was a lifelong resident of Rhode Island who participated in the social reform ferment that engulfed the state during the Gilded Age. Despite the conservative political nature of local thinking, she successfully pioneered educational opportunities for women at the highest level.
She entered Providence High School during its initial enrollment in 1843 and would later teach there from 1856 to 1892. During that time she helped nurture other women in the field of education while searching for institutional ways to solidify academic gains. Read more >
Charles E. Gorman (1844-1917)
Gorman, Charles Edmund, 1844-1917
Charles E. Gorman was Rhode Island's foremost constitutional reformer of the late 19th century. He was born in Boston in 1844 to an Irish immigrant father for whom he was named and a Yankee mother, Sarah Woodbury, who traced her Massachusetts ancestry to the Cape Ann colony of the early 1620s.
Gorman was three years old when his parents came to Providence. Read more >
Thomas Robinson Hazard (1797-1886)
Hazard, Thomas R. (Thomas Robinson), 1797-1886
Thomas Robinson Hazard was a South Kingstown manufacturer, agriculturalist, author, and social reformer who embodied the egalitarian spirit of the pre-Civil War age of reform.
Affectionately called "Shepard Tom" because of his prize sheep herd, Hazard was a seventh generation descendant of Thomas Hazard, the progenitor of the famous Hazard clan of Rhode Island and one of the nine founders of Newport. He was also the grandson of Thomas Hazard (1720-1798), an eighteenth-century South County Quaker abolitionist called "College Tom" because of his advanced study at Yale, and the older brother of Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888), a noted Peace Dale woolen manufacturer, railroad promoter, and writer on philosophical subjects. Read more >
Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888)
Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1801-1888
Rowland Gibson Hazard was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island on October 9, 1801, the fourth of nine children of Rowland Hazard and Mary Peace of Charleston, South Carolina. In 1819, with his brother Isaac, he assumed control of his father's small woolen mill in the village of Peace Dale, which had been named for his mother's family. He had primary responsibility for marketing products to Southern plantation owners in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Hazard wintered in New Orleans from about 1833 to 1842. Read more >
Rev. Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803)
Reverend Samuel Hopkins, 1721-1803, of Newport, was a Congregational theologian and reformer. As pastor of Newport's First Congregational Church Hopkins preached his doctrine of "disinterested benevolence" which led him to embrace the antislavery cause. His impact on 19th-century abolitionist thought was significant. Read more >
Lionel Joseph Jenkins (1934-2015)
Lionel Joseph Jenkins, a life- long leader in the civil rights movement, was born in Washington, D.C. on June 20, 1934, the son of Clarzell V. Jenkins and Mabel (Brown) Jenkins. Read more >
George S. Lima, Sr (1919-2011)
George S. Lima, Sr., the son of immigrants from Cape Verde, spent his adolescent years in Harlem, Fall River, and Providence with his Cape Verdean family. His life changed dramatically when he enrolled at North Carolina A&T State University in 1939 on a football scholarship. Read more >
John Carter Minkins (1869-1959)
He was the first African American editor of a white newspaper. He was a renowned speaker and defender of human rights, attacking segregation and discrimination.
John Carter Minkins came into this life on January 29, 1869 in Norfolk, Virginia. His mother died very young and he never met his white father. Read more >
Catherine Robinson
Catherine Robinson, an outspoken champion of civil rights, approached that goal through practical application of better race relations. She was Assistant Director of the University of Rhode Island Extension Division Service until her mandatory retirement. Read more >
Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1931)
Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1931) was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts but spent her formative years in Providence. Her embrace of progressive causes and her quest for social justice can be traced to her abolitionist mother and an aunt who worked with the homeless.
Anna began to write for the Providence Journal at age 19 and worked at the newspaper for eight years. She also became a Providence public school teacher from 1869 to 1871. Read more >
Reverend Mahlon Van Horne (1840-1910)
Reverend Mahlon Van Horne (1840-1910) had a career that ranged from minister of the Gospel at the black Union Congregational Church at Newport to minister of diplomacy as United States Consul to St. Thomas in the West Indies. He was at heart always a teacher.
Bom in Princeton New Jersey in 1840, Van Horne was graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Read more >
Frances H. Whipple Green McDougall (1805-1878)
Frances Whipple Green McDougall (1805-1878)was one of Rhode Island's most significant mid-nineteenth century writers and reformers. She was born in Smithfield where she spent her childhood in modest circumstances despite her membership in two of Rhode Island's pioneering families.
Frances began her writing career by publishing her poems in local newspapers and by editing, in 1829, two issues of a local interest periodical which she entitled The Original. By the late 1830s, the reformist spirit of America's "Age of Equalitarianism" turned her interest increasingly towards some of the causes of that period, especially temperance, abolition, and workers' rights. Read more >
George A. Wiley (1931-1973)
Warwick's George Wiley (1931-1973) compiled a record of service to his country which equals the sacrifices and service of his fellow hometowners, Nathanael and Christopher Greene. Like those men of the Revolutionary War generation, George, too, became a champion of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Whereas the Greenes took direct military action against Britain's King George by snatching the scepter from a tyrant's hand, George Wiley took direct action to ensure that the rights forged by the American Revolution were extended to those of the least station in American society, the poor.
Born in 1931 to a middle-class black family with a deeply held religious tradition, George A. Read more >
James N. Williams (1909-)
James N. Williams was the first and long-time Executive Director of the Urban League of Rhode Island and participated in the triumphs in the battle for racial equality in this nation. He also was active in many civic endeavors and served as a member of the state Advisory Council on Aging and other organizations which assist elderly residents. Read more >
Frederick C. Williamson, Sr. (1915-2010)
Frederick C. Williamson, Sr.,1915-2010, was State Director of the RI Department of Community Affairs and Rhode Island's Historic Preservation Officer. He was instrumental in many of the state's historic buildings and sites accepted for the National Historic Register. Read more >
Browse through our collection of 750+ amazing Rhode Islanders:
Search by Name or Keyword:
Area of Accomplishment:
African Americans | Agriculture / Farming | Architects & Designers | Artists & Painters | Banking / Finance | Business / Entrepreneurs | Civic Leaders | Civil Engineer | Civil Rights / Abolitionists | Clergy | Craftsmen | Dance | Econonomics / Theory | Education & Universities | Entertainment Development | Explorers & Adventurers | Famous RI Families | Food / Culinary | Founders of Rhode Island | Government & Politics | Historians/Historical Accounts, Preservation | Immigrants: Chinese | Immigrants: Irish | Immigrants: Portuguese | Industry - General | Industry - Jewelry | Industry - Maritime | Industry - Textiles | Inventors & Inventions | Labor / Unions | Law / Legal Pioneers | Literature / Writers / Newspapers | Medicine & Health Care | Military | Music (Singers, Composers) | Native Americans | Olympic Athletes | Philanthropists | Religion & Churches | Retail Pioneers | Rogues | Sports - Baseball | Sports - Basketball | Sports - Football | Sports - Golf | Sports - Hockey | Sports - Other | Sports - Tennis | Sports - Track and Field | Technology & Science | Theater | TV & Radio | Women |
Browse Years of Induction:
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965
RI Heritage Hall of Fame Copyright © 2018 all rights reserved

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Gordon, Walter Arthur
(1894–1976), lawyer and judge. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and of its law school at Boalt Hall, he, at times, served as a Berkeley city policeman, a college football coach, and as counsel for the Golden State Insurance Corporation, while maintaining a private legal practice in Oakland, California. He served as an officer of the Berkeley branch of the NAACP and, in 1943, Walter White contacted him and nine other branch secretaries representing the most effective branches to start protesting War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt's decision to cancel the FEPC hearings on racial discrimination in the railroad industry. Gordon subsequently served as governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands (1955–58) and as judge of the U.S. district court for the Virgin Islands (1958–76).
1894 October 10
1976 April 2


Wait, the subject says Madonna died but the message body says it's Tiger Woods. OMG! Maybe it's both! Or worse . . .
So far this affects: Madonna, Tiger Woods, Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, David Beckham, J. K. Rowling, Cameron Diaz, Johny Depp, Gwen Stefani, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lopez, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Justin Timberlake and Nicole Kidman. There may be more, we're still waiting for more spam from the scene of the disaster.
According to another spam subject "Angelina Jolie reveals bust in Monaco" we know what Angelina was doing in Europe but what were all these other stars doing in Croatia? The world may never know . . .
What's really funny about this is that the spammer came up with a brilliant idea to get the starstruck to do something and then didn't include the attachment.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 8:45 am	and is filed under The Lighter Side. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.


Companies with their headquarters in California may soon be required to have at least one woman on their board of directors. Senate Bill 826 has been created to answer the clear problem of corporate diversity within the uppermost levels of business.
There are 445 publicly traded companies in California, of which 26.1% don't have a single woman on their board. 37.5% of these companies have one woman on the board, 24.3% have two women, 8.5% have three women and 3.6% have more than three women. At a time when the gender pay gap is coming under greater scrutiny, California is looking to take the lead in making a change.
What does Senate Bill 826 require companies to do?
If passed into law, Senate Bill 826 would require every public company with headquarters in California to feature at least one woman on their board by the end of 2019. The bill then goes one step further by making additional demands from larger companies. By July 2021, companies whose boards have five directors would have to ensure two were women, whilst those with six would be required to have three women. Failure to comply would be punished by an initial $100,000 fine with the possibility of further escalation.
Senate Bill 826 is sponsored by Democratic Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson of Santa Barbara and Senate President Toni Atkins of San Diego. It has already passed through the Assembly (41-21) and the Senate (23-9) and now awaits a final decision from Governor Jerry Brown.
This bill is not without precedent. Since 2007, Norway has required 40% of corporate board directors to be female and a similar law came into effect in France in 2017. Germany also has a quota for female board representation but it is slightly lower at 30%. California itself has previously called on public companies to make greater efforts in improving corporate diversity, leading to an improvement of 20% in the number of female board directors. However, this was a non-binding agreement.
Whilst the bill has received strong support from the National Association of Women Business Leaders, it has only come in from fierce criticism from business groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce.
From a legal perspective, there are concerns that it violates civil rights and so could be subject to multiple legal battles. Opponents believe that in forcibly increasing the role of women, the bill discriminates against men and contravenes the U.S. Constitution's stance on equal protection. They argue that companies who do not wish to simply create new positions will have to remove men who already occupy roles, even if they could be considered diverse themselves on the basis of race, disability or sexuality.
There are also constitutional concerns in regards to companies whose headquarters are based in California but who are incorporated elsewhere. The federal constitution states that a company's affairs can only be governed by the state in which it is incorporated.
Women themselves have opposed the bill on the basis that they do not wish to be seen as a token, uncertain as to whether they were hired due to their gender or suitability for the role.
When similar laws have been introduced elsewhere, like Europe, there has typically been a rise in demand for qualified women to fill the posts. Should Governor Jerry Brown sign Senate Bill 826 into law, Californian companies will be under pressure to identify, attract and recruit the very best talent in a highly competitive marketplace.


text:
Q: How to load Spring's application context with a Fitnesse test fixture? I have this test fixture I want to run with Fitnesse and it involves using Spring. I haven't been able to load the spring application context with the ClasspathXmlApplicationContext, and I'm sure is a classpath configuration thing that I just haven't figured it out.
So here's my setup.

As you can see, the fitnesse.jar is inside the project, so I can run the fitnesse server  and the tests anywhere I have a working copy of the project (all the wiki files are inside the FitNesseRoot folder). The bin is the output folder of the project (where all the .class are).
Now, the code:
InventarioQueryTest (wiki page from Fitnesse, notice the !path declarations)
!define TEST_SYSTEM {slim}

!path ../bin
!path ../web/WEB-INF/lib/**.jar

|import                                |
|com.softclear.inventario.test.fitnesse|

|Query:listar status          |
|id|nombre|entidad|descripcion|

ListarStatus.java (the text fixture invoked by Fitnesse)
public class ListarStatus {

    private ServicioStatus serv;
    private ClassPathXmlApplicationContext ctx;

    //fitnesse calls the constructor
    public ListarStatus(){
        ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {
                "applicationContext-ListarStatus.xml",
                "applicationContext-dao.xml",
                "applicationContext-hibernate.xml"});

            //performs dependency injection of DAO and HibernateSession
        serv = (ServicioStatus) ctx.getBean("servicioStatus");
    }

    //and the query method is the test
    public List<Object> query() {
        List<Status> lista = serv.listarStatus();
        QueryResultBuilder builder = new QueryResultBuilder(Status.class);
        QueryResult result = builder.build(lista.iterator());
        return result.render();
    }
}

I run fitnesse with java -jar from the working copy of my project. And when I run the test, this is the command that fitnesse executes:
java -cp fitnesse.jar;../bin;C:\Dev\WS\softclear\SistemaInventario\fitnesse\..\web\WEB-INF\lib\ajax\AjaxFileUpload-0.03.jar;%the.rest.of.the.web-inf/lib.jars...%  fitnesse.slim.SlimService 8086

And all that produces this error in the test:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [applicationContext-ListarStatus.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

As fas as I understand, the !path ../bin in the wiki should indicate all the subfolders and stuff to be included in the classpath (the java -cp call), but apparently it doesn't...
Any ideas? Thanks a lot for your time!

A: Ok so I resolved it, by doing this in the ListarStatus class:
public ListarStatus() {
        ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {
                "/com/softclear/inventario/test/fitnesse/applicationContext-ListarStatus.xml",
                "applicationContext-dao.xml",
                "applicationContext-hibernate.xml"});

        serv = (ServicioStatus) ctx.getBean("servicioStatus");
    }

Notice that the applicationContext-ListarStatus.xml file has a relative path and not just the name of the file.
Turns out that ClassPathXmlApplicationContext DOES NOT search anywhere in the classpath like I understood (read this, the part of the ClassPathXML...: http://freejavaclass.com/articles/j2ee/spring/spring_loading_types_ways.jsp). At least not in Spring 2.
It had nothing to do with Fitnesse, it was all Spring...

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
You are here: Home / Archives for Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.
October 26, 2020 by Clay Bonnyman Evans
George Gordon Bonnyman, Sr. served with no less distinction than his older brother, 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., recipient of the Medal of Honor and subject of Bones of My Grandfather.
On Oct. 17, Congress announced that the younger Bonnyman's entire unit, the U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), would receive its highest civilian award, the Congressional Gold Medal,"in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service in the jungles of Burma during World War II."
Gordon Bonnyman, Sr., looks at the Medal of Honor awarded to his brother, 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., with Sandy's Bonnyman's oldest daughter, Frances.
The 5307th, better known as Merrill's Marauders, in honor of its leader, Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill, was made up of all-volunteer jungle fighters in Burma. The Marauders are widely seen as helping to pave the way to today's special-forces units.
In February 1944, Merrill's Marauders set out to capture a Japanese-held airfield and open an Allied supply route between India and China. Starting with 3,000 soldiers, they completed their mission five months later with barely 200 men still in the fight.
A shadowbox displaying Gordon Bonnyman's awards, including the Silver Star and Bronze Star with Cluster, in the home of his youngest son, Dr. Brian Bonnyman, of Knoxville. Clay Bonnyman Evans photo.
The journey of roughly 1,000 miles on foot was so grueling that fighting "was the easy part," Robert Passanisi, who at age 96 is among just nine Marauders still known to be alive, told the Associated Press. Passanisi is one of just nine surviving Marauders; Maj. Bonnyman, of Knoxville, Tenn., died in 2004.
A single medal honoring the Marauders as a unit will be crafted and given to the Smithsonian Institution, and living members will be eligible to receive a medal. The medals are individually designed for each set of winners and can take more than a year before they're ready to be presented.
In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded the medal to the "Doolittle Raiders," who carried out the first air operation against the Japanese homeland during World War II, including the late Col. William "Bill" Bower, who also is featured in Bones of My Grandfather.
Filed Under: Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.
Profile of History Flight archaeologist Kristen Baker in Tulane magazine
August 21, 2016 by Clay Bonnyman Evans
This profile ran on p. 33 of the June 2016 issue of Tulane magazine.
Kristen Baker was just 9 years old when her father died unexpectedly, and she remembers how not knowing what happened sharpened the pain of grief.
"It took several months before the reports came back," says the Georgia native, now 32. "That made his death even harder."
Kristen Baker works on the Cemetery 27 site on the island of Betio, Tarawa Atoll, Republica of Kiribati. Photo by Clay Bonnyman Evans.
More than two decades later, Baker (A&S '04, M '06) is doing her best to provide closure for families as the lead archaeologist in a nonprofit's effort to recover the remains of hundreds of U.S. Marines killed in the bloody 1943 battle of Tarawa. In March 2015 she found a long-lost a trench known as Cemetery 27, which has yielded more than 45 Marines, including a Medal of Honor recipient, making it the largest single-site recovery in U.S. history.
The battle for Tarawa was nasty, brutish and short, taking the lives of more than 1,100 Americans and 5,000 Japanese defenders in just 76 hours. The dead were hastily buried, and military officials who returned after the war found fewer than half. Families of the missing were told they had been buried at sea or otherwise accounted for.
Mark Noah, founder of History Flight, Inc., learned of the long-buried mess in 2007 from an obscure military report. The next year he began sending teams armed with the latest technology to scour the hot, polluted, crowded sands of a tiny island for the lost graves.
After earning her master's in anthropology, Baker did forensic work with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. In 2008 she took a job with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (now called the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency), the agency tasked with the recovery of U.S. battlefield remains. She spent the next several years "camping in the woods" in places like Vietnam and Papua New Guinea.
Noah hired Baker to helm History Flight's Tarawa project in 2013. She hit the ground running, recovering the remains of Pvt. Randolph Allen after a month on the job. Despite a JPAC scientist's dismissal of the site as unpromising, Baker obtained permission to dig exploratory trenches in a private shipping yard in March 2015. On day one, the team found the first of dozens of Marine skeletons; Baker had found Cemetery 27.
Baker worked the excavation in blazing tropical heat nearly every day for the next three months, exposing and carefully removing sometimes-brittle bones. The team documented all remains in a makeshift local lab, including collection of tissue for DNA testing and examination by dental experts, before turning the remains over to DPAA for official identification.
"Kristen has an incredible focus and personal sense of perfection," says Jay Silverstein, an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii who has worked on Tarawa. "The Cemetery 27 excavations were done to a truly high professional standard."
But hundreds more Marines still lie sleeping in the sands of Tarawa, and Kristen Baker hasn't stopped looking for them.
"Cemetery 27 has been a kind of crown jewel for us," she says. "But we want to bring them all home. They deserve that respect, and so do their families."
Filed Under: Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., Tarawa, yesterday, today and tomorrow Tagged With: archaeology, MIA, tulane
PHOTOS Burial of First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 27, 2015
September 28, 2015 by Clay Bonnyman Evans
Photo by Tony McCarrell.
Photo by Jeremy Edward Shiok.
Filed Under: Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., Tarawa, yesterday, today and tomorrow
UPDATE Remains of Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr. return to Knoxville
Public invited to attend memorial lying-in-honor and funeral Saturday and Sunday
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The remains of 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., arrived in Knoxville from Hawaii Sept. 25, bringing his family's 72-year odyssey closer to conclusion.
The remains of 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. arrive in Knoxville, Tenn. on Sept. 25, 2015. Photo by Jeremy Edward Shiok.
Bonnyman was killed on Nov. 22, 1943 in the Battle of Tarawa. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. His remains, along with those of hundreds of other Marines, were lost after they were buried on Tarawa following the fighting.
His parents, Alexander Bonnyman, Sr. and Frances Berry Bonnyman, spent years trying to learn the location of their son's remains and have them brought to Knoxville, where he grew up. Others, including his younger brother, George Gordon Bonnyman, and daughter Frances Bonnyman Evans, continued the quest for decades without success.
"I do want my son's remains returned to Knoxville, Tennessee. … If any further or additional request or advice is needed to insure (sic) his remains being returned to me here, I shall appreciate your writing to me," Alexander Bonnyman, Sr. wrote to Marine Commandant Lt. Gen. A.A. Vandegrift in 1944.
An American Graves Commission Service mission to Tarawa in 1946 was unable to locate more than half of the Marines and U.S. Navy personnel killed in the battle. In 1949, the Bonnyman family was informed that Lt. Bonnyman's remains were "unrecoverable."
In 2007, Mark Noah, founder of History Flight, Inc., began researching the long-lost graves of Tarawa. The Florida-based nonprofit group began sending teams of field researchers to the island of Betio, where the battle took place, in 2008., An archaeological team led by Kristen N. Baker located the site of Cemetery 27, where Bonnyman and 39 other Marines were recorded as having been buried, in March. When the team concluded its work in July, it had recovered 35 sets of remains from the island.
Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. was born May 2, 1910 in Atlanta. He was raised in Knoxville and attended Princeton University. He was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico and operating a copper mine near Santa Rosa when he joined the Marine Corps Reserve in July 1942.
Lt. Bonnyman's casketed remains will lie in honor at the East Tennessee Veteran's Memorial, World's Fair Park, Knoxville, Tenn. from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, with a short memorial service from 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Lt. Bonnyman will be buried in a family service with full military honors and a flyover at noon, Sunday, Sept. 27 at Berry Highland Memorial Cemetery, 5315 Kingston Pike in Knoxville.
Filed Under: Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., Tarawa, yesterday, today and tomorrow, Uncategorized
Schedule of events for Sept. 25-27 Alexander Bonnyman memorial in Knoxville
September 8, 2015 by Clay Bonnyman Evans
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The family of 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnymarn, Jr., who was awarded the Medal of Honor after he was killed on Nov. 22, 1943 in the battle of Tarawa, has scheduled three three public events in conjunction with his burial in Knoxville, Tenn. Sept. 25-27.
Portrait of Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. Arturo Noci, 1944.
Please see a detailed schedule at the end of this release.
The location of Lt. Bonnyman's remains, along with those of hundreds of other Marines, was lost after they were buried on Tarawa following the fighting. An archaeological team from History Flight, Inc., a Florida-based nonprofit, recovered the remains of dozens of missing Marines between March and June, including those of Bonnyman.
Bonnyman, son of Alexander Bonnyman Sr., the late president of the Blue Diamond Coal Co., and Frances Berry Bonnyman, was born May 2, 1910 in Atlanta. He was raised in Knoxville and attended Princeton University. He was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico and operating a copper mine near Santa Rosa when he joined the Marine Corps Reserve in July 1942.
Procession from McGhee Tyson Airport to Berry Highland Memorial Cemetery
Date: Friday, Sept. 25
Time: Lt. Bonnyman's casketed remains are scheduled to arrive at 11:20 a.m. at McGhee-Tyson Airport.
Location: McGhee-Tyson Airport to funeral home via Alcoa Highway and Kingston Pike
Dignified transfer of remains with family and VIPs on tarmac
Marine and funeral vehicles depart airport
Volunteers from Patriot Riders and other veteran motorcycle groups will fall in outside airport.
Knox County sheriff/Knoxville police will enforce rolling traffic blockade
Lt. Bonnyman's casketed remains lying in honor and memorial
Date: Saturday, Sept. 26
Time: 2:30 to 6 p.m.
Location: East Tennessee Veteran's Memorial, World's Fair Park, Knoxville
Memorial service and wreath laying: 2:30-3 p.m.
3 p.m.-6 p.m. – Public visitation of casketed remains; Medal of Honor, citation, photos on display
Funeral service and burial with full military honors
Date: Sunday, Sept. 27
Time: noon to 1 or 1:30 p.m. (estimated)
Location: Berry Highland Memorial Cemetery, 5315 Kingston Pike, Knoxville (map)
Noon – remains transferred from chapel to horse-drawn caisson
Noon-12:30 (estimated) – Marines, family, and caisson proceed to gravesite
12:30 (estimated) – Flyover of military aircraft
1-1:30 p.m. (estimated) – Funeral service, including ecumenical religious service and full military honors.
Public parking and shuttle service at funeral home and adjacent businesses
Shuttles stop running at 11:45
No vehicle traffic allowed in cemetery except for family and VIPs
Filed Under: Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., Clay Bonnyman Evans, Tarawa, yesterday, today and tomorrow Tagged With: funeral


text:
Q: Logistic regression - labeling outcome by confidence of classification We have trained our logistic regression model to classify  candidates attending interviews as 'pursue' or 'fail' (two possible outcome)
Now as a post prediction step, we are planning to categorise the candidates as strong/mediocre/weak based on the model's probability score.
What is the correct way to categorise the candidates ?

A: Why not use more thresholds? Like:

*

*If probability < 0.25 then class = "weak"

*If 0.25 <= probability <= 0.75 then class = "mediocre"

*If probability > 0.75 then class = "strong"

But remember that if your interest is to predict correctly (in this case classify) new observations, you won't be able to make a comparison between the truth (2 classes) and the predictions (3 classes).
The predictions labels must always be the same as the truth labels in a classification problem.
If you accept the fact that your model is not perfect, you can use still the probabilities estimated as a "score" for each observation. And use the 3-class definition above. But you won't be able to say, for example that the model as an accuracy of 80%, because of the different number of labels.


Aapne jo jacket pahna hai uska link share karo na plzzzzzz..
Rishi Bhai Name it's brand of Bomber jacket & It's price??? Plz!!
bhai superb video but yaar kuch office wear k hisab se bhi jackets batao jo formal pant shirt pe pahni jaa sake aur look bhi achcha lage.
Bomb ber nhi mere vai.. it's sounds bomer ,where b is like silent .


Let's face it, most individuals and couples approaching retirement, or recently retired, don't have a process for identifying what they want and making it happen.
Our retirement planning system calls on a comprehensive set of services to help you preserve your wealth through retirement, and make sure your heirs, and not the government, get their fair share.
Planning ahead can increase the chances that you will maintain your lifestyle through retirement. You will benefit from our client-focused process and Peace of Mind Retirement Strategies™, to preserve your wealth through retirement, and create the income streams you will need to fund your lifestyle.
A personalized, wealth management plan can provide clarity of purpose, save on taxes, and create the appropriate investment strategy. Simplify your life, and improve your confidence in your financial future.
Do you believe it's prudent to manage risk? We use systematic investment processes to avoid the speculation that's so prevalent in the financial industry.
These retirement accounts and qualified plans can make up the bulk of your retirement nest egg. Don't make a big mistake that can be avoided. For example, our unique Stretch IRA™ can help you save on taxes and get more from your current retirement accounts.
Wealth brings with it risks that are often unforeseen. You get assistance in selecting investments, insurance products, and other suitable tools to mitigate these risks.
Is it important to you to minimize the share Uncle Sam gets upon transferring your wealth to the next generation? You gain custom strategies to help you develop your overall family wealth plan with tax planning, estate planning, and wealth transfer strategies.


We have been making the finest handmade chocolates since 1948. From our creams to our caramels, we strive everyday to exceed the expectations of our customers. Thanks for visiting our site and we hope you ENJOY!


CDD, HOA, Capital Aquisition Fee?
When you see the neighborhood of Fiddler's Creek for the first time, you will immediately be struck by the meticulous landscaping and pristine grounds. Every detail has been expertly crafted and it is magnificent. Your next thought will be, "how is this magnificence paid for?" We'll outline the fees for you below. While they may seem extraordinary at first, the value is there. Further, if you think about how markets work, you may find that the fees actually create value relative to surrounding areas like Naples and Marco Island. I'll explain this later. Let's get to the numbers first.
Capital Aquisition Fee: This is the big one. It's $15,000 and you pay this when you buy any property in Fiddler's Creek, but you get it back when you sell. What is it? It is essentially an equity buy-in to The Club and Spa. That is why you get it back when you sell.
Capital Reserve Assessment: $1500 when you purchase your property but this one is not refundable. You can think of it as a transfer fee that the HOA collects. It gets used for capital improvements, repairs, maintenance, etc.
Current Membership Assessment: $705/quarter for maintenance of Common Areas and Recreational Property.
CDD: This stands for Community Development District. What is it? Think of it as deferred infrastructure development cost and maintenance. Costs that would otherwise be paid on the front end in the purchase price of your home, new or resale, are paid over time. How much is it? It varies depending on the property. Expect to spend about $2000-$5000 per year for your CDD for several years to come. Many people mistakenly construe the CDD as a negative factor. Don't! For more information about what a CDD is exactly, visit our Fiddler's Creek CDD page.
HOA Dues: This is your basic fee for neighborhood maintenance and varies from village to village within Fiddler's Creek. Contact us for the HOA fee for any property you see on FiddlersCreekLife.com.
The Efficient Market Hypothesis asserts that, in a well organized, reasonably transparent market, the market price is generally equal to or close to the fair value. This is because investors react quickly to incorporate new information about relative scarcity, utility, or potential returns and adjust their bids for real estate accordingly. If applied to the Fiddler's Creek fee structure, one would have to expect that the market has accounted for the fees in the sales prices of the homes. If you look at what you get for your dollar here, you will see conclusive evidence that the efficient market hypothesis applies. There is value here!
It gets better, though. The concept of Behavioral Finance asserts that the market price often diverges from fair value because of various, common cognitive biases among buyers or sellers. In the case of Fiddler's, there will be times when the market discounts the real estate more because of the perceived burden of the fees. Now is one of those times. We are in a recession and subject to other uncertainties so the fees loom larger than they will when the economy has fully recovered. Warren Buffet said, "Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful." In a time where the entire country is fearful, it seems the smart money is buying up Fiddler's Creek.
Savvy investors should at least consider the possibility that the fees and the CDD are possibly enhancing the opportunity that exists here. They certainly are not diminishing it as it might appear to some. If you calculate how long it will take for the fees to equal the front-end discount and then consider the time-value of money, it works.


text:
New Hampshire ends contract with youth treatment center after teen overdoses
TNR / December 10, 2019
New Hampshire has announced the cancellation of its contract with the Granite Pathways Youth Treatment Center, following the recent hospitalization of teen residents who overdosed at the Manchester facility.
A news release from Gov. Chris Sununu notes that the state is bringing in a new team, headed by Annette Escalante, director of the New Hampshire Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services, to handle operations, including transitioning out the five youths still residing at the center.
Pending a review of all state contracts with Granite Pathways, additional measures may be taken.
"As soon as we became aware of the situation at Granite Pathways, the State took action," Sununu said in the news release. "Placing the care of a child over to another, be it a person or an organization, is a profound leap of faith. Tragically, there has been a serious breach of trust with this organization. Officials have begun the process of securing a new vendor to ensure that services are brought back online as quickly as possible to ensure the best possible outcomes for our at-risk youth."
The state will be transparent in its review of what transpired at the addiction treatment center, and a public summary of what happened is expected soon, Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeffrey Meyers said in the news release. "Our priority is to ensure the health and safety of the remaining youth in treatment at the Center. To that end, I have appointed Annette Escalante, who serves as the Director of the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services and has 25 years of clinical experience including 12 years running residential programs, to oversee the wind down of the operations."
A statement from facility director Patricia Reed, published on the New Hampshire Public Radio website, states, "As a review takes place, we believe it is important to recognize that Granite Pathways is not a locked facility, nor does it utilize invasive search procedures. As such, we understand that youth may, from time to time, try to smuggle substances into the facility. We do our very best to ensure that this does not happen, while simultaneously being prepared if it does."
Granite Pathways, which has operated the Manchester center since 2018, also runs two adult addiction treatment centers in New Hampshire; those contracts are now under review.
Image courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture
December 10, 2019 in U.S.. Tags: New Hampshire, Opioid Crisis
← Exxon defeats climate crusading AG's attempt to hold Big Oil responsible for 'duping investors'
Letter: There are no safe spaces in the real world →