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Australian in development, the forebears of the Tenterfield Terrier accompanied Australia's first white settlers who sailed from Portsmouth in England's South[1]. These small basically white dogs were vermin killers, surviving this harsh country without pampering. Today they are strong, hardy, active and agile, their smooth short coat making them 'easy care' family companions. Their unique naturally occurring short or bob tail can come in any length.
The Tenterfield Terrier Today
The Tenterfield is a smooth coated small Terrier with a square or compact body, measuring the same from withers to ground as withers to hindquarters. He is an versatile dog with no feature of his construction being in any way exaggerated. His most unusual feature is his naturally occurring bob tail which can be any length.
Tenterfield Terrier (Tri-Coloured)
The Tenterfield's head is almost flat with just a hint of roundness or taper towards the ears. When viewed from the front or the side the head is wedge shaped and not elongated like the head of a Fox Terrier. Instead it should be equal in length from occiput to stop and stop to the end of his nose. Together with his almost flat skull, this gives his head parallel head planes. The muzzle is well filled up under the eyes and houses a normal scissors bite. The dark eyes should have fully pigmented rims rims and be slightly oval rather than large, protruding or round. The nose should be black but a brown nose on a liver or a liver tri-coloured dog is acceptable. The Tenterfield Terrier can have either pricked or erect ears or alternatively semi-erect ears.
Tenterfield doing Flyball
When considering the neck and body of the Tenterfield Terrier it is important to consider the 'pleasing proportions' described in the Breed Standard. Like the head, the neck should balance the body and not appear too long or too short. On the move, the neck should be carried proudly in a an upright position like the other long legged terriers, and should not be carried forwards in line with the back.
Tenterfield Terrier (Tan & White)
The body should be in proportion to the whole dog. It should not be longer than height at withers like the Australian Terrier or the Jack Russell, nor should it be proportionately short like the Fox Terrier. But because of the carriage of the neck and high set tail and the level topline, the body should appear to be short and compact. The shoulders should not be so heavily muscled that they look as if they are 'tacked on' to the body like a Bulldog, making the chest appear too wide. Instead when looking over the top of the dog from behind, the shoulder muscles should not appear to be outside the general line of the ribcage. The sternum of the moderately sprung rib cage should just reach to the elbow but not below because this small terrier has a terrier front to enable him to dig.
Tenterfield Terriers
The legs have strong round bone in proportion to the size of the dog, and round feet. He has moderate angulation fore and aft. The hindquarters are well muscled and have a well turned stifle allowing for his amazing agility. This should be obvious when he moves at a trot with his balanced reach and drive.
His tail is quite unique in Terriers. It comes in any length from a full tail to no tail at all. Although any tail length is technically correct, a well set half tail balances the dog. A full tail can spoil the overall look of the dog, especially if it curls over the back to such an extent that the end of the tail breaks the top line of the dog when viewed in profile. But where the tail leaves the back or the tail set is extremely important as this can indicate the dog's temperament.
The Tenterfield is predominantly white with black, tan or liver markings. Tri-colours, that is white with black markings and tan and on the cheeks, above the eyes and/or tan breeches is also common. Tenterfields can also come as a liver tri-colour which is predominately white with liver and/or tan markings on the cheeks, above the eyes and/or breeches. Brindle markings acceptable but not preferred. Full colour coats are not acceptable. The skin should always be pigmented, especially if the dog is almost all white.
As a newly developed breed the standard allows a large size variation between 10 - 12 inches (25.5 - 30.5 cms). However because the Tenterfield was formerly called the 'Mini Foxie', the ideal height of 11 inches 11 inches (28 cms) should be closely adhered to in order to retain the correct breed type.
History of the Tenterfield Terrier
Tenterfield as Farm Dogs c 1890
Before Australia was discovered by the British, Terriers that descended from the Old English White Terrier. that were bred specifically for killing rates, came into existence. Rats carried disease for both dog and man and were a huge health threat to both country and city communities in the days before insecticides. Ratting terriers had to be quick and agile so they killed the rat before they were bitten. These dogs were usually athletic, small in stature and smooth coated. As the rats being hunted generally lived in filth that would have become caked in the coats of long or rough haired dogs, smooth coated terriers were preferred to work in the holds of sailing ships to kill rats and mice on board. These were the small ratting terriers that sailed to various countries.
Tenterfield with Stockmen c 1900
Once the ships docked, rats and other vermin escaped into the pristine countryside. Originally, many of these dogs would have been left behind specifically to kill this foreign vermin and usually bore the name of the country to which they were imported. Other examples of these became Brazilian Terriers, Japanese Terriers and no on.
Australia's First Introduced Dog
Tenterfield Hunting c 1920
As it was usual practice to carry small terriers on board the early ships to kill rats and mice[7] , I believe the 'puppies' referred to in the 'List of Livestock and Provisions' of the First Fleet[1] were the first introduced dogs to come to Australia from England. As these vermin killers were considered no better than the vermin they killed, these 'puppies' did not warrant the more detailed description of some of the other provisions. But it is logical that these 'puppies' were to become known in Australia as the 'Mini Foxie' because the First Fleet left from Portsmouth in the South of England[2] where these small smooth coated ratting terriers were common. On the other hand, the Australian Terrier which was rough coated, came to our shores some decades later from the North of England and the Border Region, accompanying early sheep farmers.
Tenterfield as Companion
As Australia became more populated, the smooth coated little terriers became established throughout the country not only as vermin killers and hunters of indigenous Australian animals, but also as popular family companions[3]. I remember during those war years of the 1940's, when they were called 'Mini Foxies'. As their wonderful temperament won the hearts of many small children such as myself, their popularity grew to firmly establish their place in the Australian family home.
Tenterfields with Hunting Party c 1930
Around 1990, a group of interested owners held a meeting that resulted in a breed registry becoming established. By 1992 it became quite apparent that the name "mini foxie" was inappropriate as this implies miniaturization of the Smooth Fox Terrier[4].
After consultation with those who had dogs registered on the Development Register[5] which was aiming to become recognized by the ANKC, a ballot of owners was taken resulting in 85% favoring the name "Tenterfield Terrier". This was in recognition of George Woolnough, otherwise known as the "Tenterfield Saddler" whose dogs were well known throughout the Tenterfield district in NSW. Additionally he is immortalized in the song, 'The Tenterfield Saddler' written by his famous grandson Peter Allen.
The Tenterfield Terrier now takes its place among Australia's other recognized pure breeds with their First National Championship Show held in Victoria in 2009 which I had the honour of judging.[6]
See also Jane Harvey DVD "Terriers Then & Now" Published Rangeaire Vision 2002-2004 ISBN 978-0-9804296-4-0 and DVD 'the Tenterfield Terrier' published 2004
[1,2] First Fleet Fellowship Inc "List of Provisions and Livestock"
[3] Jane Harvey, "History of the Tenterfield Terrier" in National Dog, the Ringleader Way (National Dog, Menangle Park NSW) Vol 12 No 11 November 2009 Page 12
[4] Jane Harvey, "The Latest Australian" Ringleader - the Dog Paper (Sahjobe Pty Ltd, Lower Portland NSW) Vol 2 No 7 July 1999 Pages 34-36
[5] Jane Harvey, "ANKC Development Register - Tenterfield Terrier" in The Canine Journal (Royal NSW Canine Council) February 2002 Vol 14 No 8 Page 2
[6] Jane Harvey, "A Word from the Judge (of the First Tenterfield Terrier National Show)" in National Dog, the Ringleader Way (National Dog, Menangle Park NSW) Vol 12 No 11 November 2009 Page 14
[7] Jane Harvey - "On Focus" - Tenterfield Terriers" in "Dogs Victoria Magazine" Victorian Canine Association Inc. Cranbourne Vic Vol. 80 Issue 2 February 2014 Pages 2, 3, 4.


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… at the end of the day, this is mine that I bought and I'm gonna keep it for my own.
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The Far Eastern Freight Conference was a co-operative agreement between a group of steamship owners and shipbrokers involved in scheduled cargo liner services principally between China and Japan, and European ports. It was established in 1879 as the China and Japan Conference through the efforts of John Swire. They co-operated in order to overcome excess capacity of steamers in that trade. Described by some as a cartel, the conference rewarded shippers that gave all their business to ships owned by conference members through a system of deferred rebates to the freight rates charged. These discounts were deferred for, typically, six months and were not payable if the shipper used a ship outside the conference in that time. Capacity was controlled by limiting each member to an agreed number of sailings during the year. The conference survived a legal challenge in 1885, which went to the High Court in 1887, then through the Court of Appeal and ultimately to the House of Lords: the conference won at every level. There were later challenges and enquiries, which the conference survived. Ultimately, changes to the European Union exemption of shipping conferences from their competition regulations brought the conference to an end in October 2008.

Background

Until the second half of the 1860s, virtually all cargoes between China and Europe were carried on sailing vessels. Whilst steamships were in use for passenger and mail servicesthe latter often providing an essential subsidythe marine engineering technology of the day did not provide a steamship for long-distance routes with sufficient fuel economy to carry the coal it needed as fuel together with a commercial cargo. The main goods shipped from China were tea and silk. These were high value cargoes that were usually carried in sailing clippers.

A steam passenger, mail and light freight service was started by P&O to India and the far east in 1841, using the Mediterranean and an overland connection from Alexandria to Suez. In 1844 this service went as far as Hong Kong. Initially this was monthly, then fortnightly from 1853. It took 41 days for mail to get from London to Singapore. All other traffic sailed round the southern end of Africa on its way to and from China.

Agamemnon was the first steamship to achieve the fuel economy necessary to trade between China and Britain. Her maiden voyage in 1866 proved the success of Alfred Holt's design and his Ocean Steamship Company added two sister ships on the same route by the next year. In 1869, the Suez Canal opened. The distance saving of over  gave a further advantage to steamers, as the canal was not a practical option for sailing vessels. Their early success prompted a building boom, with 45 steamers being built on the Clyde in 1871 specifically for far eastern trade. The result of this was that the there was more steamship capacity than was needed to meet market demand. Unlike sailing ships, which had much lower costs and could afford to wait for the next cargo, steamers needed to be in work, but freight rates had fallen significantly due to overcapacity. Other problems were the seasonal nature of demand in China (tea was a seasonal crop) and the imbalance between outward (i.e. to China) and homeward (to Europe) cargoes. Until 1881, there was more homeward than outward cargo. The solution that was suggested by John Swire to this problem was a "combination" of ship owners.

First years

John Swire was the far eastern agent for Holt's Ocean Steamship Company. He saw that if the scheduled steamship services did nothing, their competition would "ruin each other". Swire was able to persuade the following to sign up to the first agreement in 1879:
P&O
the Ocean Steamship Company, (Alfred Holt)
Compagnie des Messageries Imperiales
Castle Shipping Line (T Skinner & Co)
Glen Line (McGregor Gow & Co)
Shire line (D J Jenkins & Co)
Gellatly, Hankey, Sewell & Co (shipbroker)
Norris & Joiner (shipbroker, on behalf of shipowners Wm. Thomson & Co., also known as the Ben Line )
Shaw Williams & Co

The first year's agreement rationed out the number of sailings each participant could have during the year. A schedule of freight rates was agreed, but if a non-conference ship was competing at less than those rates, the conference members were to cut their rates to match this, and the resulting income deficit was shared between all members of the conference on a pro rata basis.

It was intended that shippers would be attracted to conference ships because it gave them a predictable service, without big fluctuations in freight charges. To encourage shippers, they were offered rebates to the freight charges paid if they exclusively used conference ships. These rebates were paid in arrears every six months.

Expansion

The conference extended its geographical scope in 1897 by including cargoes from Penang and Singapore, with Swire successfully negotiating a Straits Conference. This was particularly useful for the Ocean Steamship Company, whose ships could fill empty cargo space with extra stops on a homeward voyage.

Membership of the conference expanded beyond the founding participants, (though the Castle Line ceased membership after a few years). By  1901 the Straits Conferenceand presumably the parent far eastern conferencehad 23 shipping lines listed in its members, representing the merchant marine of ten different countries. The split of nationalities was six British, three German, six French, one Austrian, one Japanese, one Danish, one Spanish, two Russian, one Italian and one Dutch.

In the period after World War II more members were admitted, including shipping companies from developing countries. This gave a total of 32 shipping lines from 21 different countries.

The Mogul case

An early threat to the conference was from steamers involved in the triangular trade: outward to Australia, a second leg, usually carrying New South Wales coal, to China, then tea back to Britain. This overcame a problem with low outward rates to China (and also the shortages of cargoes back from Australia for much of the year). It was a commercial strategy that had been employed by some of the later tea clippers, such as the Aberdeen Line's Thermopylae. Steamers, which could make two round trips a year, were able to alternate between homeward trips from Australia, with wool, and China, carrying tea. This was more profitable than simply sailing to and from China.

The shipbrokers Gellatly moved into ship owning in 1883 with the formation of the Mogul Steamship Company and operated ships on this triangular route. The Aberdeen Line's first (and highly fuel efficient) steamer  started on this route in 1882. Swire challenged Gellatly over their undercutting of conference rates in 1882 at a meeting in 1885 when Mogul were seeking, unsuccessfully, to charter two ships through the conference. Gellatly responded with a threat that if his company did not have access to the conference, three Mogul steamers, Aberdeen and others would sail to Hankow to undercut the conference rates. Gellatly expressed the view that whilst this would cost him some thousands of pounds, the conference members' losses would be substantially greater.

Gellatly's threat was carried out, with Mogul's Pathan and Afghan, together with Aberdeen, loading full cargoes of tea at 25 shillings (£) per ton in June 1885. Conference ships (other than the express steamers taking the first of the crop) loaded at between 45 shillings (£) and 30 shillings (£). The conference agents in China, in May 1885, had reminded shippers of the conference terms that would cause them to lose their 5% rebate if they used non-conference ships.

The result of this was that Gellatly tried to take out an injunction against the conference in August. When this failed, in 1887 he went to the High Court, alleging that the conference was seeking to prevent Mogul from trading. Gellatly did not succeed, so he took the case to the Court of Appeal, where he lost again. He then went to the highest court of appeal, the House of Lords, losing his case for the third time in December 1891.

Gellatly and the Mogul Steamship Company somehow ended their dispute with the conference and became members again. The Aberdeen Line ceased to sail to China after 1889 and concentrated on trade to and from Australia, with some added stops in Cape Town.

Further challenges

The decision of England's highest court on the Mogul case gave a legal basis for the conference for more than a hundred years. There were other investigations into criticism of the anti-competitive nature of the conference, including the Straits Settlements Commission (in 1902) (following expansion of the conference to include cargoes from Singapore) and a Royal Commission published in 1909. These allowed the conference to continue its activities. The Royal Commission's supportive attitude was a surprise to those who complained about the anti-competitive aspects. A minority report by the Royal Commission suggested that shippers should form associations to collectively represent their position to the conference. Such associations were not actually set up until after World War II.

In 1911, a rebate paid specifically to seven Singapore freight agents was challenged and had to cease. The Singapore legislature re-examined the overall validity of the conference with a report in 1934. This found that the activities of the conference to be largely beneficial, stating that the for homeward trade "the Conference is generally admitted to be advantageous for the colony". An investigation into the British shipping industry, the Rochdale Committee of 1970, provided additional confirmation of the operations of the conference.

The European Union had exemptions for shipping conferences from their competition regulations, but these rules were changed in 2006. This was put into effect on 17 October 2008, when the Far Eastern Freight Conference ceased operations. Critics of that decision (in 2015) have taken the view that competition has not produced benefits and that price fluctuation is a serious problem for shippers: a return to the banned conference is suggested as a solution by these critics.

Notes

References

Maritime history
Steamships

Merchant navy
Shipping

Freight transport
Anti-competitive practices
Cartels
Imperfect competition

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► Second. Album. Is. Done.
A couple of studio days on November 2nd & 3rd, plus another mix day were enough to finish the record, which is now away for duplication. Eleven songs were mastered, with the hope of getting at least ten I was happy to release, but I ended up liking them all enough to put 'em out.
This Telecaster to the left is a beaut. It's modified with a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail at the bridge, and a Gibson Humbucker at the neck. It's never been with me to Italy, so I only get to play it when I'm in N. Ireland.
There are loads of guitar parts on songs like "Greatest Revival", "Something To Begin", "Destiny Does The Splitstep" & "Someone Gotta Hold" that were finished off with it.
Anyway "Postcards..." is the result of three years work and hopefully y'all like it. I'm happy with how it sounds.
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1) To the right is our USB FlashDrive Discography, which not only contains this new album, but also our entire release history including singles, and the first album "21st..."
All the releases are included in both MP3 & FLAC. It's £10.
2) The CD Digipak version is £10.
3) The Digital Version (MP3 320k) is £5.
4) Lossless FLAC & WAV. If you want physical lossless files, the USB FlashDrive is the best deal. Also there's the CD Digipak. If you want to download Lossless files digitally, there's bandcamp.
I was working out some guitar parts for "Destiny Does The Splitstep" in this video. Got a Vox AC-30 jacked up loud in the other room. Then some of the studio master of "Greatest Revival" at the end, as a cow licks the glass. She was watching TV through the window for two days.
Justin Wayne invited me on Episode 313 of his show to talk all about the new album & stuff. You can hear it after the Gig Guide on the link. Thanks to him and his co-host Claire for that.
On the left is a screen grab of a September 2010 episode of The Justin Wayne Show where "Burning The Tracks" was the show's Track of the Week. That was the first song Unquiet Nights put out, and which everything sprung from. It got us on Absolute Radio, and BBC Northern Ireland soon after. You could say that Justin's support on his show was an important early boost for us. I meant to mark the 5 year anniversary with a slide show of photos showing our evolution, but that's not together yet. Below is he, I and his delightful wife after the Scala London gig in March 2011.
Genuinely touching to see people using George Best City to remember the 10th anniversary of George's death, as I saw many examples of like here, here and here. The song was released in January and continues to be used by a wide range of people to remember George.
Got invited by Roadie TV to The Hudson in Belfast to record a 3 song session for them. I did "More Than These Eyes", "Constellations of She" & "George Best City" from the new album. Thanks to them.
The Whelan's gig in Dublin was cool, played a bunch of the new songs. It actually involved a weird coincidence too. A Canadian couple we're friends with who put us up during last year's Indie Week in Toronto were in Dublin for the U2 gigs and were able to show up to my gig. Much fun was had there. Got some decent audio of the set too, which is coming soon.


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Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Girls in Opelousas, Louisiana
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In a nutshell, Clearview Horizon is a therapeutic boarding school for teenage girls with life-controlling issues or inappropriate behaviors that may be threatening to their future. Our therapists work best with young women who are acting out or making inappropriate decisions due to emotional issues originating from: major trauma or loss in their life, physical or mental abuse, death of a loved one, or attachment disorders related to adoption. We also specialize in eating disorders and self-harm.
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More about therapeutic boarding schools for girls in or near Opelousas, Louisiana:
Opelousas is a city in and the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.GR It lies at the junction of Interstate 49 and U.S. Route 190. The population was 22,860 at the 2000 census. Although the 2006 population estimate was 23,222, a 2004 annexation should put the city's population above 25,000.Citation needed Opelousas is the principal city for the Opelousas-Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 92,178 in 2008. Opelousas is also the 3rd largest city in the Lafayette-Acadiana Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 537,947.
At only 7.5 square miles, Opelousas is the most densely populated incorporated city in Louisiana.
Founded in 1720, Opelousas is Louisiana's 3rd oldest city. The city served as a major trading post between New Orleans and Natchitoches in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Traditionally an area of settlement by French Creoles and Acadians, Opelousas is the center of zydeco music. It celebrates its heritage at the Creole Heritage Folklife Center, one of the destinations on the new Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. It is also the location of the Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino.
The city is known as the spice capital of the world, with production and sale of seasonings such as Tony Chachere's products, Targil Seasonings, Savoie's cajun meats and products, and LouAna Cooking Oil. Opelousas was also home to one of the nation's two Yoohoo Factories until their closing.
During the tenure of Sheriff Cat Doucet from 19361940 and 1952-1968 that part of Opelousas along Highway 190 was a haven of gambling and prostitution. Doucet told the historian Michael Kurtz that the return of Earl Kemp Long to the governorship in 1956 allowed Doucet to permit the return of brothels and casinos and to guarantee the sheriff a take of the proceeds.
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The brief for this project was to update three rooms but to link them all with a cohesive style that would allow a better flow to the space. The plan was to add new furnishings and accessories in a new colour scheme.
Although new sofas, chairs and accessories were added, bookcases and tables were up-cycled and given a new lease of life as well as bespoke lampshades and cushions created for the scheme.
It was by Sanderson and called Dandelion... it's still available I think!
rug - hello where can i buy the rug..it's beautiful.
It's by Sanderson and called 'Dandelion clocks'- I'm not sure if it's still available.
A curved back love seat in the bay window and a couch along the wall in a different color/texture would look great.
The colors and the house structure looks as ours so it is easy to imagine to decorate the house.


New figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) have shown that the temporary workers sector has grown for a second consecutive month, with September's numbers resulting in a 13-month high. Whilst permanent job numbers stabilised, demand for short-term employees soared, with recruitment agencies set to see a larger need from companies seeking to bolster their workforce with short-term personnel.
Temporary workers come with many advantages, including the fact that firms can plug skills gaps by hiring individuals with the right expertise without having to make costly permanent staff hires. In the four weeks of September, short-term worker demand continued to grow, with significant demand noticed in the medical, nursing and carer's field.
Individuals looking for work in the lead up to Christmas could be well advised to search the temporary jobs market instead of only looking for permanent positions. For recruitment agencies wanting to maximise the number of placements they make, offering temporary workers to clients could offer a great deal.


A main theme of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is identity. Who was or is Sebastian Knight? The biographer, Mr. Goodman, and the painter, Roy Carswell, try to interpret Knight from a few impressions they have derived from the way they read his books and from external contact. V., the narrator, interviews a number of people from Sebastian's past to get helpful hints for his own biography. He finds that either they do not remember him at all, like the Swiss governess, or else they distort the facts through their own point of view and motives, like Mr. Goodman. Clare may have been the one person who could have illuminated Sebastian's character, but V. has almost no contact with her. She was mostly involved with his literary efforts and no doubt has no clue about his motives for the affair with the Russian woman. V. feels he is the only qualified person to write the biography, because first of all, he shared Sebastian's background, and secondly, in a strange way, he shares his consciousness. A soul or consciousness is not something owned by an individual, V. asserts: "any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls" (Chpt. 20, p. 204).
If one takes "V." as standing for Vladimir, then Nabokov invents him as a fictitious witness for his own life and feeling. The above quotation from the end of the novel also asserts that anyone with sufficient desire and consciousness can follow out the consciousness of another life. V. satirizes people like Goodman and Nina as having insufficient desire or awareness to look into Sebastian's life. V. says, as Sebastian's brother, or as one who is harmonized to Sebastian's consciousness like a twin, he can piece together his real life from a few facts, incidents, and impressions. He will be able to deliver Sebastian whole. The challenge is also to the reader's consciousness to read him whole. He points out the biography is a combination of writer, reader, and subject. Unless all three come together in harmony, much will be missed.
V. (as Vladimir Nabokov) takes the part of all: writer, ideal reader, and subject. He quotes fictitious passages from Sebastian's novels that elucidate his life or opinions. He often shows how Goodman or critics have misconstrued these passages. Nabokov, like other modernist writers (James Joyce, Marcel Proust) is interested in the play of consciousness and memory in one's life. He shows human consciousness as able to rise above and transform circumstance through art. Carswell's portrait, showing Sebastian looking narcissistically into a pool to contemplate his own thoughts, is a criticism of this type of art. V. tries to justify it at the end of the book, in the above quotation, where he shows that Sebastian's act of writing is a sharing of consciousness. He is not trying to run away. In following his brother, V. receives the revelation of Sebastian's life that he wanted to get at his deathbed. Anyone can get the same revelation if they have the desire, he implies. Therefore, perhaps any reader could say as V. does, "Thus—I am Sebastian Knight" (Chpt. 20, p. 205). Sebastian can only be reconstructed in the reader's consciousness.
Though Sebastian is born to privilege in old Russia, he has his share of hard times and difficulties. Nabokov does not dwell on the politics of the Russian Revolution, nor does his character, Sebastian Knight. We get glimpses that he shared the turmoil of other Russians, with the execution of the family friend, Belov, the loss of the family estate, the mother selling her jewels for Sebastian's tuition at Cambridge, and the assertion by Sebastian that he would rather be in exile than a slave at home. Nabokov was keenly aware of the sudden changes of fortune that could occur out of the blue. He himself had been rich as a young man for less than a year before the Revolution dissolved his wealth, land, and position. He had to start over as a literary intellectual in England. The assassination of his father haunted him as a sort of fated accident, where his father was killed, instead of the man the assassins were after. Many of the incidents in Sebastian's life have an unreal nightmarish quality like this. Sebastian's father dies in a duel when it is unnecessary and irrelevant. His mother wanders around France alone dying of heart disease, as Sebastian himself will do. Sebastian suddenly leaves Clare though he is happy, and he is prevented from meeting her again, even though they were on a direct path to see one another at the bookstore. It looks like chance, but Sebastian writes his novel, Success, trying to map out these chance movements as part of a larger pattern of fate.
Goodman accuses Sebastian of copying Proust. He refers to Marcel Proust's (1871–1922) masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time on the relationship of time and memory. Nabokov does not mind acknowledging the influence of Proust; he shows Sebastian's ability to reconstruct the past from sharp impressions he gathered with his sensitive soul. Though exiled from Russia, he can still recall the landscapes of his youth, and this sustains him. The mystery of moving through time, however, is an experience of constant loss. Sebastian's book, Lost Property, speaks of the things and people he has lost along the way. V. is frustrated as he becomes a detective of the past, trying to reconstruct Sebastian's life. After some failures, he feels his efforts are "Hopeless gropings among dissolving things. Why was the past so rebellious?" (Chpt. 13, p. 125) The best V. can do are "the few bright patches" from the image of Sebastian, "some erratic visitor passing across a lighted room" (Chpt. 2, p. 18). Sebastian himself worries in his novel The Prismatic Bezel about the present evaporating instantly into the past: "I cannot bear that backward glide into the past. That last kiss is already dead"(Chpt. 10, p. 99).
Art seems to be the only solution to the effects of time and fate and changing identity. It is impossible to keep up with one's own life when it becomes the past tense immediately ("I cannot bear that backward glide into the past. That last kiss is already dead'"). Art and language, on the other hand, are able to resurrect life. V., for instance, does not feel obliged to put Sebastian's life into chronological order. He feels one can learn more from juxtaposing conflicting scenes, moments, and values or flashes that illuminate the whole person. He tries an experiment to see what he can learn from putting Sebastian's first love for Natasha next to his last love for Nina. Perhaps Sebastian was unable to stay with Clare because he was too happy, and she was too normal and English. He speaks of their love as losing its concentration and becoming plain and nebulous. He and Clare are too alike, two sides to one penny. Natasha and Nina are Russian, and these are not happy affairs. V. quotes Sebastian as saying in a novel, "this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love" (Chpt. 12, p. 113). Tragic love, as opposed to domestic love, was at least a stimulus, and it was apparently something that drove him to write. Is Goodman right then—Sebastian escaped from life in his writing?
Nabokov puts forth rather the modernist idea that language and art can intensify life and preserve its higher value. As a poet, Sebastian valued beauty in the world, and the beauty of art. Music, painting, and poetry are mentioned throughout the book. The beauty of the natural world is captured in the visual and sound imagery in poetry and fiction. Like many artists, Sebastian scorns the ordinary and the mundane. His soul cries out for the extraordinary, which is hard to come by in the world, except in the arts or nature. At Cambridge, for instance, the magic of what he expected disappears into the college campus scene of undergraduates with their gross ways and partying. Sebastian has two sides to him, the English side from his mother, and the Russian side from his father. They account for some of his contradictions.
Contradictions are a problem in life but not in art. Sebastian has fantastic associations in his perceptions which cannot communicate to others but become the stuff of his finest art. V. points out that language is a live and physical thing that can clothe the living thought of the poet. After Sebastian finishes a novel, he explains he has built a new world in language. V. says that imagination is the muscle of the soul. Language is thus able to preserve the unique soul and consciousness of Sebastian, made available to an equally sensitive reader. Imagination goes beyond the obvious and sentimental to find the ultimate truth humans can know. V. asserts that Sebastian found the answer to life's riddle in his last book as he was dying: he learns his life was "not an accidental assembly of natural phenomena . . . [life is] a coherent sentence" (Chpt.18, p. 178, 179). Life is compared to the act of writing itself, a way to find and make meaning. Language can transcend and undo time and space, and thus, Sebastian claimed art and religion and science could join hands. Nabokov is thinking of the human ability to use symbols to push into the unknown, as he himself did with his creative writing, his chess problems, and his scientific research on butterflies.


1. A loud noise or outcry; a hubbub. See Synonyms at noise.
2. A vehement expression of discontent or protest: a clamor in the press for pollution control.
1. To make a loud sustained noise or outcry.
2. To make insistent demands or complaints: clamored for tax reforms.
1. To exclaim insistently and noisily: The representatives clamored their disapproval.
2. To influence or force by clamoring: clamored the mayor into resigning.


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Stop senseless acts of violence
This week, a gunman opened fire on the campus of Mercy Hospital in Chicago. In the end, four were killed, including an ED physician, a pharmacy resident, a police officer and the shooter himself. Mass shootings in America are horrifying, and yet seem to be in the headlines almost weekly. These acts of violence can truly happen anywhere, at any time.
While each of these episodes is crushing, this most recent shooting has come to the doorstep of the health care community. Hospitals are places of compassion, where caregivers attend to anyone who walks through the door, regardless of their circumstances. Hospital staff witness firsthand the effects of violence, which can be intensely traumatic. This latest act of senseless violence also serves as a sobering reminder that health care and social service professionals are at the highest risk of becoming the victims of violence themselves.
Nobody should have to fear for their safety just by going to work. At WSHA, reducing violence is one of our top legislative and safety priorities. We support legislation that makes our hospitals safer for patients and caregivers. We provide resources to members that can be used to reduce violence in their facilities. We partner with the American Hospital Association to raise awareness about violence through work such as the Hospitals Against Violence campaign.
Our members have taken up similar work, such as CHI Franciscan Health, which this year we awarded with our Community Health Leadership Gold Award for its Violence Prevention Initiative, and Kaiser Permanente, which earlier this year invested $2 million in research to prevent gun injuries and death.
Only by taking these kinds of steps — and by taking them together — can we hope to reduce violence in our communities and workplaces. We hope you will join us in building a safer future for our communities.
WSHA President & CEO
cassies@wsha.org


Below is an alphabetical list of adult self-report measures for PTSD. For each measure, a brief description, sample items, versions, and references are provided. Information on how to obtain the measure is also provided.
Includes information on PCL for DSM-IV.
Measure availability: We provide information on a variety of measures assessing trauma and PTSD. These measures are intended for use by qualified mental health professionals and researchers. Measures authored by National Center staff are available as direct downloads or by request. Measures developed outside of the National Center can be requested via contact information available on the information page for the specific measure.


I have a family of 10 websites that i run, i keep a backup of all website on cloud. I am looking for a way to encrypt the backup of the website for better security. Can anyone suggest me the right direction?
1.You should use the SSL certificate on your all the websites.
2. Download all the database back to the external drive and encrypt it using window utility like Bitlocker.
3. For Mac you can use File Vault.
4. You can also use Symantec Encryption Suite or Trend Micro Encryption suite to encrypt your website data.


The best way to describe P Montana is as one of the sole supporters of the cultural British Underground music scene.
As well as Afrobeats, he is known to love Hip Hop, Funky, House, R&B, Old Skool Garage, Grime and Bashment.
Released via his own imprint 'Rah Boy' and recorded at Red Bull's studios, 'Rah Boy Vol. 1' is a bold project that cements his role as a key player in the UK.


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Myanmar's Wheel Of Change – Analysis
November 18, 2015 Observer Research Foundation 0 Comments
By Observer Research Foundation
By Mihir Bhonsale*
The landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) in the November 8 elections is a harbinger of changing times in Myanmar. The mandate handed over to NLD that cornered 390 seats in the combined houses of parliament shows people's firm belief in the leadership of Suu Kyi.
Winning clear majority, bagging more than 2/3rds of seats, the NLD has been put in a position of steering reforms in the country. The NLD is in a very strong position to elect the President. Suu Kyi who is barred by the constitution from becoming the President or Vice-president has already indicated that she will be "above the President" allowing her to remain at the helm of affairs.
The last decade has been an intense period in the history of this South-east Asian country. The stepping down of Senior General Than Shwe as the head of the state and Commander-in-chief was a definitive moment into the transition to democracy in Myanmar. A constitution was promulgated and elections were held in 2010, putting a civilian government in place.
The release of democracy icon Suu Kyi in 2010 and a host of political prisoners opened avenues for reconciliation between the Tatmadaw (military) and opposition parties. This corrective measure was employed by Tatmadaw was made to nullify the disregard for electoral mandate handed to NLD and seizure of power in 1990. Suu Kyi's party that won 43 seats in the 2012 by-elections saw her party emerging as a formidable opposition and an important player in national politics.
The threats to "free and fair" elections loomed large on elections even this time around. The astronomical rise of Buddhist extremist group Ma-Ba-Tha and their smear campaigns against Muslims threatened to cause disruptions in elections. The ensuing tussle of armed groups with Tatmadaw in Shan States saw last minute cancellation of in two townships.
In the regions where the votes held, excepting stray incidents, the elections were peacefully held and around 80 percent of the electorate cast their votes. For the first time in the country's history, overseas nationals cast their vote. The disenfranchisement of more than a million Rohingya populations was a glaring exception in what were generally "free and fair" elections in the country.
The ethnic parties' performance was disappointing and has implications on the country's political future, especially with regards to ethnic reconciliation. Unlike the 1990 elections, there was no understanding between the ethnic parties and NLD. Vote-splitting also was evident considering that as many as 59 ethnic political parties fought the 8 November elections.
Excepting the Arakan National Party and Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, no ethnic party registered double digit seats in the lower and upper house of the parliament, combined. NLD made inroads in the Karen state when it won 4 parliamentary seats out of 5. Five ethnic parties that fought the elections in Karen state could manage only one.
This, by all means shows that in a polarized contest between the military-backed Union Solidarity Development Party and the NLD, ethnic parties were pushed to the corner. The loss of ethnic parties would risk their role in policy-formation at a national level.
Military's control
The military's role remains crucial in Myanmar as under the 2008 constitution, 25 percent of seats are for military and three-key ministries. The constitution also allows the military to have a veto power over constitutional amendments. Suu Kyi would have to work closely with the Tatmadaw to carry forward the reform process undertaken by her predecessor government. Suu Kyi and her party have so far failed to engage in a dialogue with the military.
The military remains more pronounced because of its involvement in ensuing tussle with ethnic armed groups in remote corners of the country. The military would also be the prime actor in the political dialogue that is set to start early next year.
Suu Kyi would also have to contend with the expectations of the people for economic growth and social and cultural well-being. They would want their leader to bring back the pariah nation from isolation to integrate well into the globalizing world. Living up to the mark and fulfilling aspirations of the people would be a daunting task before Daw Suu Kyi.
The successful conduct of elections and the rise of 'The Lady' in national politics presents an opportunity for exemplifying itself as a successful transition to democracy in the eastern hemisphere. High stakes ride on the shoulders of the Nobel Peace Laureate to facilitate emergence out from the throes of Least Developed Countries of the world.
*The writer is a Research Assistant at Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata and a doctoral candidate at the Calcutta University
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Lying on your back, slowly alternate hugging one knee to your chest at a time. Take deep breaths in each stretch, feeling the stretch deepen as your lungs fill and expand.
Hot or cold packs: a classic back pain relief solution, these can be especially helpful on tight neck and shoulder muscles.
Move more: try not to stay in one position for too long, whether it's typing at work or sitting on the couch. For daily back pain relief, make an effort to stand up and move around for at least 10 minutes every hour. Also, if you can fit more extended walks into your daily routine it will help strengthen your core muscles and take some pressure off your back.
Gentle massage: if you don't have a second pair of hands to help you, here's one way to get back pain relief by releasing tension and knots. Try lying on your back and placing a tennis ball under tight spots, then simply let the weight of your body put gentle pressure on them. If this feeling is too intense on the floor, switch to your bed. The softer surface will place less pressure on the tennis balls and your back. If you feel you need more pressure, try a harder ball like a lacrosse ball.
Invest in quality shoes, quality chairs and a quality bed: you'll spend your whole life either on your feet, sitting down or lying down, so you should invest in the shoes you'll live in and the furniture you'll live on. Cushion your feet with shoes built for comfort (there ARE stylish options) that will keep your back in proper alignment. Make sure your office chair, couches and easy chairs are built to support good posture. And of course, consider whether your bed is as supportive and comfortable as it could be. Old and/or cheap mattresses can exacerbate back pain while you sleep. Invest in a quality mattress, like The DUX® Bed, that is specifically designed to help provide back pain relief while you rest.


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Today the Council of the European Space Agency announced the appointment of Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain as the next Director General of ESA, for a period of four years. He will succeed Mr Antonio Rodotà, whose term of office ends on 30 June next year.
Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, a Frenchman born on 14 April 1946, obtained an engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale in 1968. Before joining ESA in 1986, he held several positions at the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA): first, from 1970 to 1976, as researcher in the field of propulsion and launch vehicles; then, from 1976 to 1986, as coordinator of space activities; and finally, from 1983 to 1986, as Director of Fundamental Physics. In 1977 he was selected by CNES among the first French astronaut candidates.
When he joined ESA in May 1986, he was appointed Head of the newly created Space Station and Platforms Promotion and Utilisation Department. He then became Head of the Microgravity and Columbus Utilisation Department, managing about 80 staff and overseeing numerous industrial activities. In 1993 he was appointed Associate Director for Strategy, Planning and International Policy. In May 1999 he was appointed Director of the newly created Directorate of Strategy and Technical Assessment. On 15 February 2001 he took up the post of Director of Launchers.
"I feel very honoured to have been appointed Director General of ESA and welcome this challenging opportunity. I have been working for the European Space Agency in various positions over the years. The current period offers good opportunities for ESA to be even more instrumental in building the future of European citizens and the success of Europe" said Mr Dordain.
Jean-Jacques Dordain is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the Académie des Technologies. He has also held professorships at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées.


A car park with valet parking at Genoa Station. With this car park you only have to worry about driving to the station, because when you get there a dedicated staff member will be there to pick your car up and park it in a round-the-clock monitored car park; there just couldn't be an easier way to save time and park at Genoa Station.
This car park also has insurance against theft and fire, so that's another reason to book your parking space here. Ensure that your trip gets off to a good start, without stress or any last minute surprises. Arrive, leave you car and you're ready for your trip. Buon viaggio!


Spectacular, high-octane Industrial Gothic with snap-shot moments of breath-taking beauty as one man on his motorcycle Insane-Jumps his way through, up and over the vast spires and conduits of a ghostly Pacific Island city in search of a girl called Eon.
The island has been quarantined by order of the Public Health service who have dispatched their ruthless Compulsory Execution Units in order to cleanse it of the staggering, skeletal zombies infected by the N5S virus. But their primary agent there, menacingly masked and strapped in kevlar but with a bloodied butcher's apron hung from his neck, has a mission of his own and his target's the same one as biker Zoichi Kanoe's: seventeen-year-old Eon Green. They have very different plans for her. Eon may look like any other uninfected girl, but she's not. She's a rare Accommodator, infected with the N5S virus but somehow able to transmute it and retain her sense of self. And one by one these Accommodators are being caught and collected into a Maximum Security Containment Facility towards which the regular zombified drones are migrating en masse. Why? And what does all this have to do with the Data Recovery Foundation's visit to Mars six months ago, and what they found in the ruins of their colonies there, abandoned by Earth seven centuries ago?
Tsutomu displays impeccable draughtsmanship, rich, textured detail, a superb sense of movement and, on the painted cover, a style of painting that put me in mind of Ashley Wood's METAL GEAR SOLID. The action is epic, the explosive conflagrations absolutely enormous, and his black, shiny motorcycle (complete with digitalised intelligence) is both sleek and robust. It would have to be robust under the throttling it's given here! Also, some of the more elaborate self-regeneration drones are hideous in the extreme, brain-matter bulging, slimy tendrils whipping around their thirty-foot carcasses and I imagine we're in for further variations down the road.
He does a mean Grizzly Bear too.


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Rail Transport Business
Nigeria Customs Service scanner centre impedes Apapa port rail extension project
MIKE OCHONMA
Business Editor
After many months of dashed hopes, despite assurances of targeted completion time of the rail tracks extension into Apapa port complex, Nigerians may have to wait longer than expected until some of the obstructions such as the old scanner equipment belonging to the Nigeria Customs Service is demolished to pave way for laying of the new tracks.
Minister of transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said that Nigerian Customs Service has agreed to demolish the old scanner centre obstructing the laying of tracks into the Apapa port under the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge project. Businees AM learnt that, the demolition may last another six months.
He disclosed this on Monday after the technical meeting with stakeholders on ways to resolve the challenges affecting the completion of the third track that leads to Apapa seaport.
Amaechi in a statement by his media assistant, Taiye Elebiyo-Edeni, said that a decision was reached to create a temporary alternative route inside the port during the period of the demolition.
The minister, however, assured that, the inauguration would hold in spite of the delay in completion of the last track, adding that the two tracks that led to the Apapa Port had already been completed.
He disclosed that the technical committee decided in the meeting that a temporary alternative route would be established inside the port while they start demolishing, after which the rail track will be laid and also a survey will be done under the water to find out about the cracks.
According to him "We have also decided that the drainage should be expanded to accommodate more water to reduce the flood on the rail track. There are three tracks, only one track is not able to enter the port which will be resolved. They should be able to remove the customs building in six months".
He however, noted that freight operation directly from the port would reduce cost of doing business and increase government revenue.
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"6 Bottles on a single level"
This is the newest wine addition to our bar light line. It hangs from the ceiling only 16" and holds 6 bottles. It is constructed of 10 GA steel and we incorporated decorative "twisted wire" as spacers. It is offered in 3 finishes. The light bulb and bottles are not included.


Graciously the President of France has invited Dear Leader to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations, which he and his wife will join after his meeting with Russian leadership in Moscow.
Both couples will attend the traditional military parade that takes place on the Champs-Élysees, which will include American troops this year to commemorate the centenary of the US entry in World War I. The revue and joint honours aside, the charity of Macron really strikes me as something really extraordinary—and not just in comparison to the imperial idiocy and ignorance of his guest, given that 14 July not only marks a revolutionary break with the past that did away with feudalism and fealty but also solemnly one year after the horrific truck attack on crowds celebrating their national fête and the World Cup finals along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.


Five days before practice was set to begin at Rockford Jefferson HS (IL), head coach Ken DuBose was forced to resign, he told the Rockford Register Star. The reasoning DuBose shared for his forced resignation will really upset a number of coaches and parents.
Two years ago, DuBose took over a team that had lost 27 straight games, and in year two he turned the program around going 4-5, which tied the mark for most wins at the school in over two decades.
While there are always (at least) two sides to every story, DuBose said that he was forced to step down from his post based on philosophical, and procedural differences between himself and the newly appointed athletic director, Michael Armato.
Among the things that the two butted heads on was a difference of opinion in promoting the program on social media, and a nickname DuBose was using to help brand and bring pride to the program.
DuBose noted that Armato also didn't care for the nickname "the bird-gang" that DuBose was using for team, whose mascot is the J-Hawks. "He didn't like the connotations behind that," DuBose added.
Now, granted this is only one side of the story, and the Register Star noted that the school plans to release a statement on the situation at some point today, but how outrageous is that reasoning to ask a head coach for his resignation five days before the start of camp?
Not using social media to promote your program is almost a sin in today's game, and we all know coaches who pick up a few kids here and there to get them to practice, and do it without batting an eye. I've never heard either rubbing an athletic director the wrong way.
Stay tuned for more on the situation as it becomes more clear, and head here to read more.


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    export class publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule extends privateClassInPrivateModule {
    }

    class privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass extends privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule {
    }
    export class publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass extends privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule {
    }
}

export class publicClass {
    private f1() {
    }
}

class privateClass {
}

class privateClassExtendingPublicClass extends publicClass {
}
class privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule extends privateClass {
}
export class publicClassExtendingPublicClass extends publicClass {
}
export class publicClassExtendingPrivateClass extends privateClass { // Should error
}

class privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass extends privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule {
}
export class publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass extends privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule { // Should error
}

//// [privacyClassExtendsClauseDeclFile_GlobalFile.ts]
module publicModuleInGlobal {
    export class publicClassInPublicModule {
        private f1() {
        }
    }

    class privateClassInPublicModule {
    }

    class privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule extends publicClassInPublicModule {
    }
    class privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule extends privateClassInPublicModule {
    }
    export class publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule extends publicClassInPublicModule {
    }
    export class publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule extends privateClassInPublicModule { // Should error
    }
}
class publicClassInGlobal {
}
class publicClassExtendingPublicClassInGlobal extends publicClassInGlobal {
}

//// [privacyClassExtendsClauseDeclFile_externalModule.js]
"use strict";
var __extends = (this && this.__extends) || (function () {
    var extendStatics = Object.setPrototypeOf ||
        ({ __proto__: [] } instanceof Array && function (d, b) { d.__proto__ = b; }) ||
        function (d, b) { for (var p in b) if (b.hasOwnProperty(p)) d[p] = b[p]; };
    return function (d, b) {
        extendStatics(d, b);
        function __() { this.constructor = d; }
        d.prototype = b === null ? Object.create(b) : (__.prototype = b.prototype, new __());
    };
})();
exports.__esModule = true;
var publicModule;
(function (publicModule) {
    var publicClassInPublicModule = /** @class */ (function () {
        function publicClassInPublicModule() {
        }
        publicClassInPublicModule.prototype.f1 = function () {
        };
        return publicClassInPublicModule;
    }());
    publicModule.publicClassInPublicModule = publicClassInPublicModule;
    var privateClassInPublicModule = /** @class */ (function () {
        function privateClassInPublicModule() {
        }
        return privateClassInPublicModule;
    }());
    var privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    }(publicClassInPublicModule));
    var privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    }(privateClassInPublicModule));
    var publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    }(publicClassInPublicModule));
    publicModule.publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    var publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    }(privateClassInPublicModule));
    publicModule.publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    var privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
    }(privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule));
    var publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
    }(privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule));
    publicModule.publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
})(publicModule = exports.publicModule || (exports.publicModule = {}));
var privateModule;
(function (privateModule) {
    var publicClassInPrivateModule = /** @class */ (function () {
        function publicClassInPrivateModule() {
        }
        publicClassInPrivateModule.prototype.f1 = function () {
        };
        return publicClassInPrivateModule;
    }());
    privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule = publicClassInPrivateModule;
    var privateClassInPrivateModule = /** @class */ (function () {
        function privateClassInPrivateModule() {
        }
        return privateClassInPrivateModule;
    }());
    var privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    }(publicClassInPrivateModule));
    var privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    }(privateClassInPrivateModule));
    var publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    }(publicClassInPrivateModule));
    privateModule.publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    var publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    }(privateClassInPrivateModule));
    privateModule.publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    var privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
    }(privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule));
    var publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
    }(privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule));
    privateModule.publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
})(privateModule || (privateModule = {}));
var publicClass = /** @class */ (function () {
    function publicClass() {
    }
    publicClass.prototype.f1 = function () {
    };
    return publicClass;
}());
exports.publicClass = publicClass;
var privateClass = /** @class */ (function () {
    function privateClass() {
    }
    return privateClass;
}());
var privateClassExtendingPublicClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
    __extends(privateClassExtendingPublicClass, _super);
    function privateClassExtendingPublicClass() {
        return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
    }
    return privateClassExtendingPublicClass;
}(publicClass));
var privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
    __extends(privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule, _super);
    function privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule() {
        return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
    }
    return privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
}(privateClass));
var publicClassExtendingPublicClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
    __extends(publicClassExtendingPublicClass, _super);
    function publicClassExtendingPublicClass() {
        return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
    }
    return publicClassExtendingPublicClass;
}(publicClass));
exports.publicClassExtendingPublicClass = publicClassExtendingPublicClass;
var publicClassExtendingPrivateClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
    __extends(publicClassExtendingPrivateClass, _super);
    function publicClassExtendingPrivateClass() {
        return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
    }
    return publicClassExtendingPrivateClass;
}(privateClass));
exports.publicClassExtendingPrivateClass = publicClassExtendingPrivateClass;
var privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
    __extends(privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass, _super);
    function privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass() {
        return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
    }
    return privateClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
}(privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule));
var publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
    __extends(publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass, _super);
    function publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass() {
        return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
    }
    return publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
}(privateModule.publicClassInPrivateModule));
exports.publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass = publicClassExtendingFromPrivateModuleClass;
//// [privacyClassExtendsClauseDeclFile_GlobalFile.js]
var __extends = (this && this.__extends) || (function () {
    var extendStatics = Object.setPrototypeOf ||
        ({ __proto__: [] } instanceof Array && function (d, b) { d.__proto__ = b; }) ||
        function (d, b) { for (var p in b) if (b.hasOwnProperty(p)) d[p] = b[p]; };
    return function (d, b) {
        extendStatics(d, b);
        function __() { this.constructor = d; }
        d.prototype = b === null ? Object.create(b) : (__.prototype = b.prototype, new __());
    };
})();
var publicModuleInGlobal;
(function (publicModuleInGlobal) {
    var publicClassInPublicModule = /** @class */ (function () {
        function publicClassInPublicModule() {
        }
        publicClassInPublicModule.prototype.f1 = function () {
        };
        return publicClassInPublicModule;
    }());
    publicModuleInGlobal.publicClassInPublicModule = publicClassInPublicModule;
    var privateClassInPublicModule = /** @class */ (function () {
        function privateClassInPublicModule() {
        }
        return privateClassInPublicModule;
    }());
    var privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    }(publicClassInPublicModule));
    var privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule, _super);
        function privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return privateClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    }(privateClassInPublicModule));
    var publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    }(publicClassInPublicModule));
    publicModuleInGlobal.publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule = publicClassExtendingPublicClassInModule;
    var publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
        __extends(publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule, _super);
        function publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule() {
            return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
        }
        return publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
    }(privateClassInPublicModule));
    publicModuleInGlobal.publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule = publicClassExtendingPrivateClassInModule;
})(publicModuleInGlobal || (publicModuleInGlobal = {}));
var publicClassInGlobal = /** @class */ (function () {
    function publicClassInGlobal() {
    }
    return publicClassInGlobal;
}());
var publicClassExtendingPublicClassInGlobal = /** @class */ (function (_super) {
    __extends(publicClassExtendingPublicClassInGlobal, _super);
    function publicClassExtendingPublicClassInGlobal() {
        return _super !== null && _super.apply(this, arguments) || this;
    }
    return publicClassExtendingPublicClassInGlobal;
}(publicClassInGlobal));


text:
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
\Yotpo\Bootstrap::init();


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