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Preparations being made for the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis on October 10th. (Photo | AP)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands next to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate. (Photo | AP)
Donald Trump was questioned about his misogynistic comments on the recently-leaked video, and while he did not directly address them, he did make it clear that he will 'fight the ISIS'. (Photo | AP)
Hillary Clinton has claimed that she will 'fix the issues' with Obama Care, and spoke about how certain immigrants (especially women and children) can be allowed in America. (Photo | AP)
Chelsea and Bill Clinton in the front-row. Donald Trump brought up the former President's affairs and also brought in two women sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton. (Photo | AP)
Donald Trump engaged in a lot of well-delivered punches to Hillary Clinton, leading to the audience cheering him on. (Photo | AP)
The Syria situation was termed 'catastrophic' by Clinton, as she said that she will work with Russia to help bring about changes in Syria to ward off the ISIS. (Photo | AP)
The candidates shake hands after the debate came to an end. Majority of the people believe Hillary Clinton won this debate as well. (Photo | AP)
Donald Trump with his wife Melania Trump, and daughter Ivanka Trump, following the debate. (Photo | AP)
Hillary Clinton hugs her daughter Chelsea while speaking to town hall participants following the second presidential debate. (Photo | AP)
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stood on this site in June, 1776.
was 30 feet long and 20 wide.
the building stood until 1846.
At the start of the American Revolution Frederick was a prosperous market town, ideally situated in the fertile Monocacy River Valley. Roads radiated out in nearly every direction, connecting the growing town to major seaports like Baltimore and Georgetown, Maryland as well as frontier outposts like Cumberland, Maryland and Winchester, Virginia. Nearby farmland attracted settlers throughout the mid-eighteenth century, particularly German immigrants travelling south from neighboring Pennsylvania.[i] By 1745 a town had been laid out which served as the county seat for the entirety of western Maryland.
The hapless Loyalist and his would-be conspirators were detained in Frederick before eventually being sent on to Philadelphia.
Concern over Loyalist plots like Connolly's was such that in December 1775 the Maryland Convention authorized £200 for the construction of a jail specifically for confining Loyalists. Located on 2nd Street, the building consisted of "a strong log jail…thirty feet long, twenty broad, to be lined with two-inch planks, two stories, with split logs and plank floors, the upper story divided into three rooms, with a stove in each."[v] Construction was completed in May of the following year, and almost immediately prisoners were brought there for incarceration. The first group of "tories" imprisoned in Frederick were from North Carolina, but more quickly followed.[vi] By the summer of 1776 there were 27 Loyalist and British prisoners being held in Frederick's "Tory Gaol" – so many that it was considered "a dreadful place…to be confined in, and so crowded at present that we fear it may be dangerous to their health."[vii] Prisoners were transferred to the county jail opposite the courthouse in an attempt to relieve the overcrowding.
As the war dragged on, Frederick continued to house an ever growing number of prisoners. In large part this was due to the town's location far enough from the main theaters of the war to be relatively secure, but also centrally located between north and south. A group of more than 100 prisoners captured at Saratoga arrived in Frederick in December 1777 and were temporarily confined in the county jail while permanent quarters were being erected at forty miles to the west at Fort Frederick. On Christmas day these disgruntled British and German POWs set the jailhouse on fire and attempted to escape in the ensuing chaos but were gradually beaten back by guards under the command of Lt. William Beatty.[viii] The failed jail breakers were rounded up and sent to the Tory Gaol, where they stayed under the threat of execution if they attempted another escape.
[i] Tracey, Grace and Dern, John. Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743.
[ii] Scharf, Thomas. History of Western Maryland. pp 130-131.
[vi] Steiner, Bernard. Western Maryland in the Revolution. pp 34-35.
A very interesting story on a Tory Jail in Frederick, Maryland.


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Top fashion designer Antonio Marras celebrates 40 years of Kenzo
It was in October 2010 at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris. Right at the end of the fashion show presenting the brand's spring/summer 2011 collection, the house of Kenzo, which was also celebrating its 40th anniversary, dazzled its audience with mind-blowing pieces bursting with colour and tailored in lavish fabrics which evoked faraway places. Luxos brings you what was a celebration of fashion.
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The Kenzo shows have always more than fulfilled our every fantasy since the brand's creation by Mr Kenzo Takada in 1970. The Japanese designer, who left his home country to come and live in France, has always placed a strong emphasis on joy, celebration, travel, dreams and exoticism in his collections. And even if the brand will never again be like it once was in its heyday, following its acquisition in 1993 by the LVMH group and the departure of its founder in 1999, the arrival of Antonio Marras, who has acted as the brand's creative director since 2003, has given the fashion house a new lease in life. The Sardinian designer's new vision for the brand is evident in every collection and fashion show as he constantly rewrites fashion history.
To celebrate Kenzo's 40th anniversary Antonio Marras wanted not only to impress his audience, but also to pay tribute to the label's origins, with particular emphasis on Japan and the power of the imagination. He found what he was looking for in the fashion house's archives: a multitude of fabrics and designs which he decided to piece together on 40 or so models. Like Russian dolls, the girls sported enormous hats and strutted down the catwalk in dresses made out of vast amounts of fabrics originating from all around the world. He also, above all, wanted to make everyday pieces burst with colour. He adorned them with flowers, embroidery and prints – all tailored with the utmost precision. It was this truly ethnic style, which is well present in fashion today, which the designer wanted to convey through his creations.
So it was up to Antonio Marras to bring together these ethnic influences and give them a new relevance, without abandoning the brand's origins. The designer wanted to pay tribute to the style which is so synonymous with the label, right down to the varnished wooden Japanese shoes worn by the models. This collection, entitled 'Accumulation of Archives' is a fine example of the designer's unrivalled craftsmanship and imagination, with belts made out of trousers, jackets worn as hats and three different dresses worn as slips. From ballet pumps crafted in lace and other white silks, the collection emulated the warm tones of Russian dolls through the models' red lips, white faces and enormous hairdos which seemed to touch the sky. Nature was equally present through the use of floral fabrics in a shimmering green palette. Kimonos also featured, but were fashioned into folkloric dresses or sported as protective capes. Spots and stripes were equally on the menu and could be seen on shirts which turned into headscarves. Watching the models on the round stage at the Cirque d' Hiver; you could have mistaken them for chequers on a draughtboard or ballerinas in a music box, so enchanting in "an oneiric dream" as Mr Marras said. The fashion show was a truly artistic performance, which transported the Kenzo brand into its own universe with its imaginative mixture of styles and originality.
The spring/summer 2011 collection which was presented prior to the show was no less interesting by any means. In this utterly weightless collection, Antonio Marras presented a selection of pieces which married Japanese and Sardinian styles, particularly fitting since the designer hails from the small island (even though Kenzo Takada never actually went there!) The Sardinian designer brought together the two styles through his collection of softly coloured dresses which he adorned with layers, drawstrings and Japanese prints.
The Kenzo brand continues to spread its sense of celebration and nomadism across the world. By making the label's past, present, Antonio Marras has paid tribute to the brand's 40th anniversary, whilst successfully propelling it into a new world whose horizons are just as exotic and poetic as before. A new book, which retraces the label's history, conceived as a visual dialogue between Antonio Marras and Kenzo Takada, has just been published with a special edition version now available in the Kenzo flagship stores and a basic version available in a selection of bookstores.
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At Drupa 2004 Dürselen presented the new design of their range of paper drilling machines for the first time. In November 2005 the product design was awarded with the "Q rouge" award of the West German Chamber of Trade.
The new outfit of the Dürselen range of paper drilling machines was developed by the product design office Kurz-Kurz, Solingen. It included a re-design for existing models as well as the exterior design of new developed machine types.
Machines of very different proportions - a total of eight models - grew together to one product family by a shared geometric, typographic and colour line.


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Candidate Lou Ann Zelenik airs Murfreesboro mosque suspicions
by Chas Sisk
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https://www.investigativeproject.org/2058/candidate-lou-ann-zelenik-airs-murfreesboro
Republican congressional candidate Lou Ann Zelenik called for an investigation into a Murfreesboro mosque and accused a critic of being a foreign agent in a salvo released ahead of marches today supporting and opposing an expansion of the mosque.
Zelenik, a former Rutherford County Republican Party chairwomen who is locked in a primary battle with a pair of state senators in the 6th Congressional District, said the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is secretly pursuing a "radical agenda" based on online postings brought to her by a journalist and commentator on Islamist extremism.
Zelenik also released a letter from a self-styled security and public policy organization that accuses one of her critics, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of being a foreign agent.
"Information have been uncovered which calls into serious question the goals and activities of at least one board member of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, and also a disturbing pattern of intimidation," according to a statement released by her campaign.
Zelenik said she had not reported her suspicions about either group to police or terrorism officials.
The Islamic Center said it had suspended Mosaad Rawash from the board until it could investigate the matter.
Zelenik said she sent her suspicions to local elected officials reviewing the Islamic Center's plans to build a new mosque, social hall and gymnasium on land just south of Murfreesboro. The release comes just before opponents plan to march in protest of the expansion Wednesday afternoon. Another group, Middle Tennesseans for Religious Freedom, will hold a counter-march.
Zelenik said her allegations against the mosque were based on a report sent to her by Steven Emerson, a Washington D.C.-based journalist who focuses on "Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations," according to his website. The report describes postings to a MySpace page that it says was set up by Rawash. [Editor's note: To see the MySpace page, click here.]
Zelenik said the undated postings show the mosque is connected to terrorist organizations. The postings, which were reviewed by The Tennessean, consist of a picture of the site's author at a Muslim summer camp, an illustration of two former Hamas leaders and statements written in Arabic and English that the report says express support for Palestinian terrorists.
Zelenik added in an interview that the site had previously shown Rawash alongside Islamic militants. But when pressed to provide a copy of the picture, Zelenik ended the interview.
Site had been inactive
Rawash was traveling abroad Tuesday but said in an e-mail that he was unaware of Zelenik's claims. He said his MySpace site had been inactive for some time.
The postings were removed from the MySpace profile Tuesday afternoon.
Zelenik also hit back at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that had accused her of making anti-Muslim statements in her previous attacks on the mosque project.
Zelenik released a letter from the Washington D.C.-based Center for Security Policy that has been engaged in an ongoing war of words with CAIR. The letter accuses CAIR of being a foreign agent, based on donations that it says it uncovered from sources in the Middle East. The Center for Security Policy states in its website that part of its mission is to oppose "Islamist extremism."
"CAIR's influence operations appear to be designed to intimidate all Americans," wrote Frank Gaffney, the center's president.
CAIR described the claim as a conspiracy theory.
Reach Chas Sisk at 615-259-8283 or csisk@tennessean.com.


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Hebei University of Economics and Business (simpwified Chinese: 河北经贸大学; traditionaw Chinese: 河北經貿大學; pinyin: Héběi jīngmào dàxué) is a university wocated in Shijiazhuang, de capitaw of Hebei province, China. It currentwy has four campuses.
Founded in 1953 as de Shijiazhuang Schoow of Suppwy and Sawes administrated by Hebei Suppwy and Sawes Corporation, de university brought togeder Hebei Financiaw Institute, Hebei Institute of Economics and Trade and Hebei Business Cowwege.
Hebei University of Economics and Business (HUEB) was estabwished in 1995 under approvaw by de State Education Commission and drough combination of four former cowweges. HUEB is a reguwar fuww-time institution of higher wearning; one of de key universities in Hebei Province and it offers degree programs bof at undergraduate and postgraduate wevews. It is situated Hebei University of Economics and Business is a muwti-subject and in Shijiazhuang, de capitaw of Hebei Province, widin easy access of Beijing.
Hebei University of Economics and Business is a muwti-subject and Comprehensive university offering a wide range of courses in Economics, Administration, Laws, Literature, Engineering and Science, wif emphasis on de study of Economics. HUEB is priviweged to confer Master's and bachewor's degrees on qwawified students. At present de university has 13 master's degree programs and 39 bachewor's degree programs. The students of de university come from 16 Provinces, cities and sewf-governing municipawity.
It has four campuses in a different part of de city, covering a totaw area of 2.3 miwwion sqware meters and de totaw fwoor space of its buiwding is 700 dousand sqware meters. The university has four wibraries at different campuses.
The university has 20 faciwities and schoows. The student popuwation is more dan 18000. Besides de above daytime students, de Cowwege of Continuing Education of de university has more dan 13000 part-time students. There are over 2100 teaching and administrative staff members, among whom dere are over 500 professors or associate professors. In recent years, de university has successivewy undertaken 200 research projects supported by de Nationaw "863" Program, de Nationaw Sociaw Science Fund, de Nationaw Naturaw Science Fund, de Sociaw Science Fund of de Ministry of Education, de Provinciaw Speciaw Fund for Doctors and de Provinciaw Sociaw Science Fund. It has pubwished over 1000 books and teaching materiaw and has more dan 4000 articwes pubwished in pubwications bof home and abroad, it has 17 inventions accredited to its name and won 105 prizes above provinciaw or ministry wevew. For recent years, de university has undertaken a warge number of research projects from de state, provinces, municipawities and enterprises and has obtained a number of great and important achievements.
The University is impwementing a second-cwass administration; it has 15 undergraduate schoows and 4 teaching departments. Meanwhiwe, it has postgraduate schoow, continuing education schoow and economic management schoow(independent schoow).The undergraduate education comprises 47 speciawties, de subjects covers de economics, management waw, art, science and engineering. The graduate schoow has 28 programs, among which 4 discipwines are de key ones, and 4 discipwines are de key constructive ones of Hebei Province.
The university recruits candidates from 22 provinces wike Hebei, Tianjin, Liaoning, Shandong etc. 23000 undergraduates and 540 graduate candidates and continuing students are studying in de university.
They cwaim to "attach great importance to, and activewy conduct, academic and cuwturaw exchanges wif overseas institutions." Such exchanges and cowwaborations are on de increase and cover more and more fiewds. They have so far estabwished winks wif over 20 universities, academic institutions and cuwturaw organizations in de U.S., UK, Russia, Korea, Canada, Japan, Switzerwand, Bewgium, Singapore and Mawaysia and more. Hebei University of Economics and Business,a merger of de Trade & Finance Institute, de Cowwege of Trade & Economics and Hebei Commerce Cowwege, was founded in 1995. It is a key university wif an emphasis in Hebei Province. It has a history of 50 years wif 30 years of undergraduate education, uh-hah-hah-hah. In 2004, de resuwt of de evawuation by de Ministry of Education was excewwent.
There are more dan 2200 teaching and administrative staffs working in de university, among whom dere are over 1105 fuww-time professionaw teachers. More dan 55.5% of de teachers have awready got a senior titwe of professionaw post. And de university has 170 PhD tutors and PhD candidates, 545 postgraduates wif a master's degree, accounting for 61% of de totaw number.
The University is wocated in Shijiazhuang, de capitaw city of Hebei Province. It has four campuses: de norf campus, de souf campus, de east campus and de west campus, wif de norf campus as de headqwarters, responsibwe for de education of undergraduates and postgraduates; de souf and west campuses, de economic management schoow, as an independent second-cwass administration; de east campus, responsibwe for aduwt continuing education, uh-hah-hah-hah.
The university covers an area of about 3000 mu, 40% of which is de greenery patches and it is praised as a garden campus; and de neigh boring area of 55 sqware kiwo meters bewongs to "Hutu River Environmentaw Devewop Project", derefore, wif de construction of de project, dis area wiww become a beautifuw environmentaw scenic spot.
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Animal Imagery in Much Ado about Nothing
Shakespeare uses a lot of animal imagery in Much Ado about Nothing, making references to animals to more fully define a person or a persons actions. For example, in the opening lines of the play, the messenger, who announces to Leonato that the prince and some of his men are coming, describes Claudio as "doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion." In just a few words, the messenger describes Claudio's character, his psychology, and his actions. Shakespeare uses animal imagery here to give his audiences a mental picture to help them immediately grasp the significance of Claudio and what he has done. Claudio seems like a very mild-mannered young man, meek, and a good follower. However, when Claudio had to face battle, he must have surprised his fellow soldiers with his fierce attitude, slaughtering his enemies as fiercely as a lion.
Animal imagery works because everyone knows the general traits of certain animals, such as the sheep and the lion. The contrast between these two animals is dramatic. In addition, Shakespeare's audience would have been familiar with Biblical references to the lamb and the lion. By using the lamb and the lion to describe Claudio, Shakespeare has told a significant background story about Claudio in just a few words.
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Q: Fluent Nhibernate No Persistor for Class Name I am getting this error even though all my mappings are pretty simple and correct.
I get this error only on select classes. Can someone help?

A: This error occurs since the class is not public. Just change the class to public and this won't occur again. However, if you do not want to expose the assembly outside the Assembly you can still mark the constructor as 'internal'.
The only downside to it is that the class shows up in intellisense. However, you would get a compile time error if you try to use it.  So that should not be a problem.
For more details
http://weblogs.asp.net/chanderdhall/archive/2010/09/09/no-persister-for-lt-classname-gt.aspx

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The fire hydrant maintenance program is a vital part of the Village's water pumping and water distribution system maintenance schedule. Crews will be concentrating their efforts in this program for approximately five to six weeks.
During hydrant maintenance each hydrant is thoroughly inspected, oiled, and port caps are greased to ensure proper operability. This process continues to ensure that fire hydrants can be operated by the Fire Department and Village repair crews in a time of need.
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Home Candy & Snacks Who is That Man on the Whitman's Sampler Box?
Who is That Man on the Whitman's Sampler Box?
What could be sweeter on Valentine's Day than a box of chocolates? We all know that every Whitman's Sampler has an assortment of chocolates inside, but few may know much about the iconic man in the middle of every box. Who is this bearer of sweet treats? He's the Whitman's Messenger Boy.
Now owned by Russell Stover Candies, Whitman's has been in business since 1842. Back then, it was a "confectionery and fruiterer" shop founded by Stephen F. Whitman. Their first storefront was based out of Philadelphia. Whitman, who hoped to compete with the finer French candy makers of the time, introduced the public to Choice Mixed Sugar Plums in 1854 and Whitman's Instantaneous Chocolate in 1877 all while advertising the candies in newspapers and print magazines.
In 1912, the Whitman's Sampler made its public debut. Each Sampler included a collection of their most popular chocolate with a candy index to tell consumers which piece was which. The Sampler was an instant hit and three years later, the Messenger Boy mascot was introduced as a symbol of the brand's quality and excellence.
The Messenger Boy could be found inside the Sampler's centerpiece as a piece of milk chocolate. He was also printed outside on the box packaging where he wore a blue cap, blue pants and shirt, and brown shoes. Tucked under his arm was a Whitman's Sampler box.
While the character was designed to appear as though you had caught him mid-dash on his way to make a delivery, the icon also carried messages of thoughtfulness.
Whitman's would continue to set the quality standard for the candy industry throughout the Great Depression. During World War II, Whitman's sent six million pounds of chocolate to overseas servicemen with notes of comfort slipped inside from women on the Whitman's production lines. Decades later, 6000 boxes of chocolate would be sent to the troops following the terrorist attack against the United States on September 11, 2001 with handwritten notes of encouragement slipped inside.
Now over 100 years old, the Sampler continues to be America's most famous box of chocolates and a bestseller with a Sampler sold every 2.5 seconds. We like to think that's thanks to the Messenger Boy, who can always be counted on to make a delightful Sampler delivery to your sweetheart or anyone with a sweet tooth — AKA all of us!
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What Do Angry White Men Want?
Joystick Warriors: Can Violent Gamers Find Peace?
Since the release of the blockbuster war-themed video game Call of Duty: Ghosts, the news media has been abuzz with reports of its aweinspiring realism and predictions about its reaching the dizzying sales heights of Grand Theft Auto V. (It couldn't.) There has been nowhere near as much attention paid to growing concerns about the astonishing levels of interactive violence found in wildly popular shooter games like these, and what effect, if any, playing them has on young men's and women's belief systems—and psyches.
Not long ago somebody on Facebook told me that feminism elevates women at the expense of men and that its agenda to validate women emasculates us guys.
What Does the Men's Rights Movement Really Want?
One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 presidential election was the demise of the American male voter as a dominant force on the political landscape. The evening Barack Obama was reelected, a distressed Bill O'Reilly lamented that he no longer lived in "a traditional America anymore." His voice was part of a chorus bellowing its grief over talk radio airwaves, the traditional bastion of angry white men. Why were they so angry? Voice Male contributing editor and sociologist Michael Kimmel, who has long been recognized for his study of men andmasculinity, spent hundreds of hours with angry white men—from men's rights activists to white supremacists— in pursuit of an answer.
We recently collected signatures outside our local public library for a ballot initiative supporting samesex marriage. Of the hundreds of people we talked to, most were supportive, or at the least polite. There were, however, about a dozen people who argued with us or condemned us—and every dissenter was a tall white male, older than 50, with no recognizable disability.
While the majority of white males have rejected traditional top-of-a-hierarchy roles, when we look at the leadership of those who are stuck, most likely we find a white male. White male privilege is a universal concept that most people now understand.
When a society is organized around the idea that one group of people is inherently better than another, it goes without saying that injustice and unnecessary suffering will be the main result, with patriarchy and male privilege being the oldest living example.
Gender inequality is everywhere, from who cleans the house and takes care of the kids to politics, work, religion, and science, to the epidemic of men's violence against women in the military and everywhere else.
I've been paying attention to this for a long time, and have noticed some strange things about how it works. Perhaps the strangest is how systems of privilege manage to keep going while at the same time being based on complete fictions about who we are.
Although the distance between Cuba and the United States is less than 100 miles, step off the plane in Havana and you have entered another world. Flashy ads, new cars, new technology, and all the latest styles are absent from the landscape. You are surrounded by public art displays, political billboards, old American clunkers rolling tentatively down the street, people talking on hand-me-down phones and wearing used clothing. American excess replaced with Cuban thrift.
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China's risky route to economic revival
by The Economist | WASHINGTON
SCOTT SUMNER is a defender of the Chinese government's management of the renminbi against the dollar. He restates his case here:
A managed exchange rate is first and foremost a monetary policy. The Chinese decision to stabilize the yuan was an effective depreciation (given their high rate of productivity growth.) It led China out of its deflationary slump in the dark days of March, and China led Asia out of the recession. Given that US equity prices responded strongly to the Asian rebound in the spring, it is quite likely that the Chinese recovery removed the tail risk of a severe worldwide slump.
The mistake is to view exchange rates through a trade lens, as a zero sum game. During a deep slump an expansionary monetary policy will raise both domestic and world output. Holding other monetary policies constant, a more expansionary Chinese monetary policy means a more expansionary world monetary policy, and this boosts world aggregate demand. When the US devalued the dollar against gold in 1933 it helped the entire world recover from the Depression. When other countries devalued against gold, it further helped the world economy. This time around it was China that led the way.
I understand what Mr Sumner is saying, and it makes some sense. At the same time, I think it's a mistake to ignore the knock-on effects of Chinese policy. Countries that abandoned gold in the Depression did recover more quickly, and their recovery was good for the global economy. On the other hand, the countries that remained on gold had their domestic industries pummeled by exports from devaluing nations, which subsequently led to the erection of tariff barriers and the rollback of the liberal trade regime.
Mr Sumner would no doubt say that that was foolish policy on the part of those who stayed on gold; they should have simply done as the other countries did and ditched gold. I agree! But they didn't, for a variety of reasons.
If America and Europeare feeling some pressure from Chinese devaluation, in the form of a squeeze on import-competing firms and domestic exporters, then the thing for them to do is crank up their own expansionary monetary policies—to do the equivalent of abandoning gold. But it's quite plain that the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve are more or less done with their large-scale expansionary measures. As a result, there is nothing standing between American and European workers and cheap Chinese imports except for their elected governments. And bad things happen when that is the case.
When advocating for or defending a given policy, it's not enough to say "other things equal" and assume that's the case. It rarely is. Assuming that the ECB and the Fed are, for whatever political reason, unable to respond to Chinese devaluation with ambitious expansionary measures of their own, is China's dollar peg a good idea? I do think China deserves something less than a pat on the back for saving the world economy, if they had to endanger the future of global trade to do it.
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Jules Chéret: Exposition Universelle des Arts Incoherents, 1889; lithograph; 21 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.; BAMPFA, gift of Lewis and Marjorie Ferbrache.
21 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
Stenciled black letters on burlap. The edges are sewn closed with white thread.
14 1/2 x 14 in.
Join the curators of To the Letter for an in-depth look at the exhibition.
Join artist McIntosh for a calligraphy workshop inspired by the artworks in To the Letter: Regarding the Written Word.
To the Letter: Regarding the Written Word presents a wide range of works from the BAMPFA collection that incorporate writing or letterforms as a motif or key theme. The exhibition includes prints, drawings, paintings, textiles, and photography from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, dating from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. As the diversity of the works suggests, interest in the shapes—as well as the meanings—of letters and words spans cultures and times.
In some cultures, writing grows out of pictorial traditions. The connection between Chinese characters and their representational origins is apparent, for example, in the striding legs of the character for "person," 人 (ren); the serrated top of the character for "mountain," 山 (shan); and the pendulous branches of the character for "tree," 木 (mu). Perhaps it is due in part to this latent pictorial quality that Chinese and Japanese scripts lend themselves so well to the flowing lines of calligraphy. The Roman alphabet may be simple and visually banal by comparison, yet it too possesses the capacity to be rendered in dramatic fashion, as is evident in the work of graffiti artists over the last few decades.
Not all of the works in the exhibition use letters to convey literal meaning or even represent specific letters at all. Rather, for some artists, it is simply the idea of writing that inspires the character of their marks.
To the Letter: Regarding the Written Word is organized by Lawrence Rinder, BAMPFA director and chief curator, and Julia White, senior curator for Asian art.


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How one artist is using theatre to draw attention to the EU asylum problem
Staging of a refugee trial asking audience to determine the fate of an asylum seeker poses questions about the 'theatrification' of migration issues
Dorian Batycka
11th December 2019 10:49 GMT
Refugee on Trial © Hans van Zundert
Dutch asylum court is not exactly a well-trodden topic within performance art, but last week in Amsterdam, a one-off staging of a refugee trial asked the public to determine the fate of an actual case. The piece asked questions about the role of performance in analysing complex social and legal issues, and with it how visual artists are using performance to platform issues often left hidden.
Staged on 26 November at the cultural centre Pakhuis de Zwijger in the eastern docklands of Amsterdam, Refugee on Trial: Afghan Journalist Ali J vs. Netherlands re-enacted an actual asylum application from 2017. The artist Ehsan Fardjadniya himself plays the role of refugee Ali J; the other roles are taken by current and former asylum lawyers and a former judge.
The Taliban knew I was helping the New York Times and the BBC, and because of this they tried to kill me at a market in Khanadar Asylum seeker, Ali J
Opening the performance, Ali J described the moment he knew he had to flee the Taliban: "I fled because of my work as a journalist; the Taliban knew I was helping the New York Times and the BBC, and because of this they tried to kill me at a market in Khanadar."
Over the 90-minute piece, Ali J is cross-examined by Frans Willem Verbaas, a lawyer from the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND), who called Ali J a "fixer" and a "chauffeur and not an actual journalist".
During cross-examination, Ali J said he helped arrange stories and interviews for foreign correspondents, but that he had to leave his press card as he was fleeing, a claim the IND's lawyer refuted, calling it "unbelievable".
According to Mohsen Jafari, a lawyer and researcher with the Amsterdam-based NGO Boost, which provides free legal services to refugees, the issue of Afghan asylum seekers is complicated and deteriorating quickly. "In 2017, Afghans were reclassified under Dutch asylum law as coming from a safe country," Jafari said after the performance.
Commenting on the rise anti-immigrant sentiment across the European Union, Fardjadniya said he wanted to develop the work as a "public performance" to draw attention to deteriorating migration policies all across Europe, not just in the Netherlands.
"With the discourse around Brexit, and the general anti-migrant consensus being promoted by far-right parties across continental Europe, I wanted to use the language of performance to develop a piece outside a typical performance, looking at the issue of migration as a tribunal would."
Towards the end of the performance, the audience was asked to vote on Ali J's asylum application: 70% voted to give Ali J asylum; 30% declined.
While the audience may have granted Ali J a future in the Netherlands on the night of the performance, the stark reality for many refugees attempting to enter the Netherlands is often the opposite. One of the performers, Carlien Stassen-Buijs, a lawyer with more than 30 years of experience defending asylum seekers, said after the performance that "only 20-30% of refugees are successful".
In the end, the piece prompted more questions than answers. Was it merely performance mimicking social engagement for the already converted? Or could it possibly signal a disposition towards a more widespread turn in performance? One grounded not in the format of the museum of theatre but instead grounded in the tribunal—the tribunalisation of performance?
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As we approach the end of 2013 and start our planning for 2014, our group thought it would be good to speak to the trends in Base Compensation going forward. Organizations are dealing with the rising cost of health care, the general increased cost of goods and services year over year and the expected increase in taxes to cover this country's government debt. These costs are causing organizations to review their largest expense which is employee pay. Management must determine how to keep their employee base motivated and, at the same time, ensure every cent paid is returning the desired results that keep the business going and growing.
We believe that organizations are starting to wake up and understand that positive performance results merit adjustments in pay and not just "butts in seats or foots on floors." With the average budgeted salary adjustment for 2014 expected to be around 3%, it doesn't make good sense to provide across the board increases to all employees. Given that employees are generally paid a market level pay or something more or less depending on the organization's compensation and benefits philosophy statement, increases in pay should only be given based on what the employee accomplished that truly made a bottom line difference for the company. Differentials in pay means that organizations need to have an effective performance appraisal program in place with proper training provided to all leadership that conduct the evaluations and a solid performance appraisal form. Each performance rating on the form needs written justification that should come from good notes made by the supervisor throughout the year where the employee performed above or below the expectations for that year. The HR department should return forms that are not fully completed or where the supervisor just quickly marked the employee's performance levels and no thought or effort was taken.
In the most recent Northwest Arkansas Human Resources Association and Arkansas Compensation Association salary and benefits surveys, the number of organizations providing cost of living adjustments to their employees dropped to almost zero. We believe that organizations should pay its employees based on the each position's internal value to the organization, the market value of the positions and the performance, and the experience and education that each employee brings and utilizes at their respective organizations.
Companies need cash flow to operate and reinvest for growth and can't afford to pay its employees based on attendance. Performance-based compensation backed up with an effective performance management program should create the proper motivation to drive the development of the employees to higher performance levels and generate the necessary ROI/ROE to sustain the organization year over year.


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POLICE SHOOT AND KILL COYOTE THAT IT'S BELIEVED BIT 2 PEOPLE IN NORTH YORK PARK
Toronto Animal Services is investigating after a coyote found near Hollywood Public School in North York Monday morning was shot and killed by police.
"There were concerns the animal would continue to roam and from a public safety standpoint, a decision was made to put the animal down," according to police.
Apparently the call to shoot came from Animal Services because they believed it was the same coyote that bit two people in Bayview Village Park Sunday.
A city spokesperson says non-lethal ways of capturing it were considered.
"After consultations with wildlife experts at Toronto Wildlife Centre, it was determined that this could not safely guarantee the capture of the coyote," said the spokesperson.
"This was not a viable option."
It'll be tested for rabies while Animal Services looks into whether someone was feeding the coyote and what made it act out in the first place.
Reaction on social media is mixed with some feeling it's the best decision for public safety, while others disagree, saying the coyote was only defending itself because humans have overtaken its natural habitat.


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Q: How to correctly install data files with setup.py? Using python 3.8 I have the following structure in a test library:
testrepo
    setup.py
    Manifest.in
    util/
        mycode.py
        data/
            mydata.txt

The file setup.py looks like
setup(
    name='testrepo',
    version="0.1.0",
    packages=['util'],
    author='Tester',
    description='Testing repo',
    include_package_data=True,
    package_data={
        "util.data": ["*"]
    },
)

and using the following Manifest.in:
include util/data/mycode.txt

and when I install this package I do not see any hint of the data folder in venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/util (when installing the repo into a python virtual environment).
How to do it correctly, so I can read the content from the file util/data/mydata.txt using
from util import data
import importlib.resources as import_resources
text = import_resources.read_text(data, "mydata.txt")

or whatever...
Where can I find this completely documented, with examples etc.?

A: I guess what you have to do is to create the following basic structure of the repo:
myrepo
    setup.py
    Manifest.in
    mypackage/
        __init__.py
        mycode.py
        data/
            __init__.py
            mydata.txt

Just make sure to keep in mind 6 additional steps:

*

*You need to put the data folder inside your package folder

*You need to add __init__.py inside your data folder.

*In setup.py you have to use packages=find_packages(), to find your packages.

*In setup.py, you have to set include_package_data=True,

*In setup.py, you have to specify the path to your data files:
 package_data={
     "mypackage.data": ["*"]
 },

*You also have to define a second file names Manifest.in containing again your data files as follows (using a placeholder here - you can also add each file in a separate line):
 include util/data/*

It you are lucky, then you can include/use your data file like
from mypackage import data
import importlib.resources as import_resources
text = import_resources.read_text(data, "mydata.txt")

or
with import_resources.path(data, "mydata.txt") as filename:
    myfilename = filename

to get the path to the data file.
Not sure this is documented anywhere.


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Erich vom Bruch (* 29. Oktober 1885 in Solingen; † 7. Mai 1933 in Leer) war ein deutscher Jurist, Bürgermeister der Stadt Leer und ein frühes Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Er erschoss sich rund zwei Monate nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten in Leer. Vom Bruch, der sich aus mehreren Gründen bei den Leeraner Nationalsozialisten unbeliebt gemacht hatte, waren Unregelmäßigkeiten im kommunalen Finanzwesen vorgeworfen worden. Er beging Suizid, nachdem seine Gegner wegen besagter Vorwürfe eine gerichtliche Voruntersuchung beantragt hatten.

Kindheit und Ausbildung
Erich vom Bruch, Sohn eines Kaufmanns, absolvierte das Gymnasium in Solingen und legte dort 1904 das Abitur ab. An der Universitäten Marburg, Bonn und Tübingen studierte er von 1904 bis 1907 Rechtswissenschaften und Volkswirtschaftslehre. 1904 wurde er Mitglied der Marburger Burschenschaft Germania. 1907 bestand er das Referendarexamen vor dem Oberlandesgericht Köln und wurde 1908 in Tübingen mit einer Arbeit über "Bürgschaft und Pfandrecht bei der naturalis obligatio des römischen Rechts" promoviert. Während seines Justizvorbereitungsdienstes war er in mehreren Gemeinden angestellt und legte in Berlin 1913 das Gerichtsassessor-Examen ab.

Die ersten Jahre als Leeraner Bürgermeister
Nach seiner erfolgreichen Assessorprüfung trat er seine erste Stelle als besoldeter Beigeordneter der Stadt Ohligs (heute Solingen) an, die er vom 1. Oktober 1917 bis 1920 innehatte. Sodann stellte er sich zur Wahl um die Stelle des Bürgermeisters von Leer. Das Bürgervorsteherkollegium bestätigte ihn am 27. Oktober. Seine Amtsgeschäfte waren geprägt von Gesprächen mit Vertretern des Handels und der Schifffahrt. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte war der Plan, die Stadt auf eine solidere wirtschaftliche Grundlage zu stellen, wobei er auch Steuer- und Gebührenerhöhungen als Instrument nutzte.

In den schwierigen wirtschaftlichen Zeiten der Inflation und der folgenden zwei Jahre stiegen Arbeitslosigkeit und Kurzarbeit in Leer. Industriebetriebe wie die Muschelkalkfabrik "Fresena" und die Strohpappenfabrik wurden stillgelegt, letztgenannte später mit verkleinerter Belegschaft weitergeführt. Die Eisengießereien Boekhoff und Schreiber führten 1924/25 mehrfach Kurzarbeit ein. Um die Wirtschaftskraft zu beleben, setzte vom Bruch auf staatliche Nachfrage – zum einen, um die Arbeitslosigkeit einzudämmen, zum anderen, weil die Infrastruktur der Stadt in Teilen ohnehin überholt war.
Vom Bruch knüpfte an Pläne an, die bereits unter seinen Vorgängern geplant, jedoch nie umgesetzt worden waren. Darunter fielen der Neubau der Seeschleuse und des Hafenbeckens sowie die Bedeichung der Ems. Niedergelegt hatte vom Bruch seine Ansichten in jenen Jahren in seiner Denkschrift über den weiteren Ausbau des Hafens der Stadt Leer. Zu den Maßnahmen der Wirtschaftsförderung sowie der Verbesserung der Lebensverhältnisse gehörten neue Brücken und Dämme, die Hafenerweiterung, eine bessere Anbindung an die Bahn, die Modernisierung beziehungsweise Errichtung einer Kanalisation, ein neuer Wasserturm und die des Kreiskrankenhauses Leer. Die Investitionen zogen auch private Investoren an, so eröffnete 1926 ein Milchwerk der Deutschen Libby GmbH ihren Betrieb. Zu diesen Neubauten gehörte auch der am 1. Dezember 1925 begonnene und am 2. März 1927 eröffnete Viehmarkt, der zum Zeitpunkt seiner Eröffnung als der modernste und größte seiner Art im Deutschen Reich galt und zu dessen Eröffnung eigens Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg anreiste. Für die Baumaßnahmen hatte sich die Stadt Leer indes stark verschulden müssen.

Vom Bruch war Mitglied im Kreistag. Er trat zur Wahl als Spitzenkandidat auf einer bürgerlichen Einheitsliste an. Die bürgerliche Einheitsliste bestand vornehmlich aus Honoratioren der Stadt, neben vom Bruch wurden auch der Kaufmann Hermann Brouwer und der Steinhauereibesitzer Theodor Nanninga in den Kreistag gewählt. Durch die gleichzeitige Tätigkeit als Leeraner Bürgermeister und Kreistagsmitglied erhoffte sich vom Bruch eine stärkere Berücksichtigung Leeraner Belange. Im Leeraner Kreistag war dies nichts Ungewöhnliches: Fast zwei Drittel der Abgeordneten gehörten keiner Partei, sondern einer Listenverbindung an, die in einem zumeist deutlich abgegrenzten Raum ihre Wählerstimmen holte. Vom Bruch wird zugleich in verschiedene Aufsichtsräte gewählt, unter anderem in den örtlichen Verkehrsverein und die Heringsfischerei Leer. 1929 nahm er an der Eröffnung der renovierten Synagoge in Leer teil. Politisch wird vom Bruch der DVP zugerechnet, er arbeitet mit der linksliberalen DDP wie auch mit den Sozialdemokraten zusammen.

Krise und Selbstmord
Wie überall in Deutschland verschlechterte sich die Wirtschaftslage auch in Leer nach Ausbruch der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929. Die Arbeitslosenzahlen stiegen stetig an, damit einhergehend auch die Zahl der Empfänger von Arbeitslosen-, Krisenunterstützungs- und Wohlfahrtsunterstützungsgeld. Die Krise hinterließ in Leer zwar noch nicht sofort Spuren, schlug aber spätestens seit 1931 sehr deutlich durch. Wie bereits Mitte der 1920er-Jahre reagierten die Industriebetriebe mit Kurzarbeit und Entlassungen. Besonders die steigende Zahl von Wohlfahrtsunterstützungs-Empfängern belastete die kommunalen Kassen, so dass sich die Kommunen des Landkreises gezwungen sahen, anderweitige Aufgaben zu strecken.

Im Sommer und im Herbst 1932 kam es in Leer zu sogenannten Steuerprotestversammlungen: Die Teilnehmer der Veranstaltungen kritisierten die Höhe der Steuern in Leer, die, so der Vorwurf, eine der höchstbesteuernden Städte in der Provinz Hannover sein sollte. Es wurde die Senkung der Ortssteuern und der Abbau der Verwaltung gefordert. Sowohl der Regierungspräsident in Aurich als auch der preußische Innenminister erbaten daraufhin von vom Bruch Stellungnahmen, die in den Folgemonaten einen großen Teil seiner Arbeitskraft beanspruchten. Vom Bruch rechtfertigte die Besteuerung mit Verweis auf die erbrachten Leistungen für die Infrastruktur der Stadt, die in jenem Jahr allerdings mangels Geld schon nicht mehr ausgebaut wurde.

Stadt und Landkreis Leer waren zu Beginn der 1930er-Jahre noch keine ausgeprägte Hochburg der Nationalsozialisten. Der Leeraner Nationalsozialist Erich Drescher, später Nachfolger von vom Bruch, sah sich 1930 genötigt, der NSDAP-Gruppierung im damals noch selbstständigen Kreis Weener beizutreten, da es in Leer keine Parteigliederung gab. Erst im Dezember 1930 gründete dann jener Erich Drescher eine NSDAP-Parteigliederung im Landkreis Leer.

Der Aufstieg der Nationalsozialisten zeigte sich jedoch spätestens 1932 auch in der Kreisstadt. Bei der Reichstagswahl am 6. November 1932 wurde die NSDAP von 38,05 % der Wahlberechtigten gewählt, bei der Reichstagswahl am 5. März 1933 dann von mehr als 43 %. Damit blieb die Kreisstadt zwar unter dem Durchschnitt des Umlandes: Bei den November-Wahlen betrug ihr kreisweites Ergebnis bereits 52,6 %. Doch war die NSDAP jetzt auch in Leer zur stärksten Kraft geworden. Bei der Kommunalwahl am 12. März 1933 schließlich stimmten auch die Einwohner der Kreisstadt mehrheitlich für die Nazis (51,53 %). Zur gleichzeitigen Kreistagswahl war auch die Einheitsliste um Erich vom Bruch angetreten, hatte sich aber – um beim Wähler keinen Zweifel an "patriotischer Gesinnung" aufkommen zu lassen – in "Nationale Einheitsliste" umbenannt. Die Wähler entsandten vom Bruch erneut in den Kreistag, in dem die NSDAP über 15 von 29 Sitzen verfügte.

Die neuen Machthaber nahmen vom Bruch ins Visier, dem sie eine Nähe zur SPD unterstellten. Zum einen weigerte er sich, sozialdemokratische Amtsträger zu entlassen, zum anderen, die in seiner Amtszeit gebaute Viehhalle für eine Massenkundgebung der Nazis freizugeben. Die Begründung vom Bruchs lautete, er wolle Rücksicht auf die Viehhändler nehmen, die zu 90 % jüdischen Glaubens waren.

Am 28. März 1933 besetzte eine Gruppe von SA-Männern das Rathaus, stellte vom Bruch kurzzeitig unter Hausarrest und nahm mehrere Beamte in "Schutzhaft". Noch am selben Tag wurde vom Bruch zwangsweise beurlaubt und durch den Nationalsozialisten Erich Drescher ersetzt. In Erklärungen an die Öffentlichkeit argumentierte die NSDAP, sie habe durch die Absetzung Vertuschungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Finanzgebaren in Leer verhindern wollen. Vom Bruch zog nach Aufhebung des Hausarrests zunächst für kurze Zeit zu Verwandten nach Bremen. Dort erreichte ihn ein Schreiben eines von Nationalsozialisten besetzten Ausschusses, der am 1. April erstmals zusammentrat, um die Finanz- und Verwaltungsverhältnisse in Leer zu untersuchen. Aus der Zeitung erfuhr vom Bruch, dass sein Gehalt eingefroren worden war. Vom Bruch kehrte auf Anordnung Dreschers Anfang Mai nach Leer zurück, wo er sich gegen die Vorwürfe rechtfertigen sollte. Das "Leeraner Anzeigenblatt" berichtete am 6. Mai unter der Überschrift "Jetzt kommt die Abrechnung!", dass am darauffolgenden Tag "vom Untersuchungsrichter eine genaue Nachprüfung der ev. Haftentscheidung getroffen werden wird." Am Morgen des 7. Mai erschoss sich vom Bruch in seiner Dienstwohnung mit einem Revolver.

Nachwirkung
In einem Prozess gegen führende ehemalige Mitarbeiter der Leeraner Stadtverwaltung vor der Korruptionsstrafkammer am Landgericht Aurich im Jahr 1934 kam die Haltlosigkeit der Vorwürfe gegen vom Bruch zum Vorschein. Eine posthume Rehabilitierung erfolgte zu jener Zeit jedoch nicht. Erst nach der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus erfolgt eine Rehabilitierung und Würdigung seiner Arbeit. Die Rathausbrücke in der Leeraner Innenstadt wurde im Frühjahr 1949 in "Dr.-vom-Bruch-Brücke" umbenannt.

Publikationen
 Bürgschaft und Pfandrecht bei der naturalis obligatio des römischen Rechts, 1908 (Dissertation)
 Denkschrift über den weiteren Ausbau des Hafens der Stadt Leer, Leer 1922
 Neue Marktanlage für die Stadt Leer in Ostfriesland, in: Deutsche landwirtschaftliche Tierzucht 32, 1928, S. 697–701.

Literatur
 Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Band I: Politiker. Teilband 1: A–E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X, S. 141–142.
 Enno Eimers: Die Eroberung der Macht in den Rathäusern Ostfrieslands durch die Nationalsozialisten. Die Bürgermeister zwischen Partei- und Kommunalinteressen. In: Herbert Reyer: Ostfriesland im Dritten Reich. Die Anfänge der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft im Regierungsbezirk Aurich 1933–1938. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1992, ISBN 3-932206-14-2, S. 10–23.
 Enno Eimers: Kleine Geschichte der Stadt Leer. Verlag Schuster, Leer 1993, ISBN 3-7963-0293-9.
 Albert Janssen: Der Landkreis Leer 1930 bis 1934 und die Rolle des Landrats Dr. Conring im Übergang von der Demokratie zur NS-Diktatur. In: Herbert Reyer (Hrsg.): Ostfriesland zwischen Republik und Diktatur. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-10-X, S. 299–378.

Weblinks

 Günther Robra: Erich vom Bruch. In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland

Einzelnachweise

Bürgermeister (Leer (Ostfriesland))
Politiker (20. Jahrhundert)
NS-Opfer
Burschenschafter (20. Jahrhundert)
Deutscher
Geboren 1885
Gestorben 1933
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La ville est située dans la , qui est un dépôt de charbon.

Histoire

Aninoasa est la plus vieille ville du județ. On souligne son existence dès 1453.

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Ville dans le județ de Hunedoara


Berkhamsted continued their pre-season preparations with a comfortable 4-0 win at SSML Division One side Winslow United.
The Comrades went in front after six minutes when BJ Christie's cross from the left was bundled home by Jude Eboji for his first goal since joining from Biggleswade United.
Eboji's neat back-heel then set up Steve Hawes, who doubled the lead with a curling 20-yard shot.
It was 3-0 at half-time as Berko counter-attacked at pace and Christie found Adiel Mannion who netted his fourth goal of the week.
Berko used eight substitutes in the second half and added one more goal to their tally. Jay Caines was bundled over in the penalty area and Courtney Massay scored from the spot.
The home side kept to their task well and it was a useful work out for both teams.
Berkhamsted starting XI: Tasker, Massay, Canham, Rodrigoe, Baldry, Hawes, Farrelly, Weeks, Eboji, Christie, Mannion. Subs used: Gomm, Nash-Barber, Foster, Jowle, Caines, Carbery, Kelly, Owen-Edwards.
Berko will have two tough games this week – on Saturday they travel to Clarence Park for a friendly with a St Albans City XI, with a 3pm kick off. Then on Tuesday they are at home to Kings Langley, who won the SSML Premier Division last season.


It's not working, this is the last commit that i can access [a022941], after that i have a message that says uncommitted changes with date of today with this message.
Commit is to the rebellion_testing branch.
Additionally, latest iteration (0.44a03) does indeed seem to be quite unstable and so random at that.
Twice it crashed without any key input ( latest is just watching a small skirmish between 2 Vorchans, a Primus, and some neutrals protecting a desert planet I was conquering.. At another stage it crashed when I changed shadows to highest setting (they're now turned off). Reloading a save game and the issue isn't able to be duplicated. The crashes appear to be completely random.
But yes, this is a 5v5 which falls under your stated conditions for where the crashes appear to occur (6+ player games). All I can think is that the AI is doing something randomly which causes the game to crash (doesn't seem to be my input causing the issue)?
EDIT: Windows 10, SINS R: v1.83 here btw. Additionally, when I get the crash, I don't get any pop-ups / screen-dumps etc. Just a lovely ding and the whole game closes.
played about 10+ hours yesterday in v1.83 and i didn't get any mini dump or crash.
As for the crashes, I noticed that when I play (dev version) a game with all settings (planets, ships, modules) on very high I run out of memory, when I play on high only I do not. Might that cause the dumps? Just a out of mem situation?
Why don't they just make it LAA with 1.83???
Is there a way to make it LAA without steam thinking its been tampered with?
I was using 3D Vision which was giving me some Out of Memory errors. So I turned it off.
Will give it a shot with everything on High. Perhaps we truly are looking at some game engine incompatibilities.
If no further crashes, could probably say that we could state the mod isn't workable on 'Highest' and without LAA Enabled.
- LAA activated (unsure if it was before but I doubt it for previous game as I had patched to 1.83 through steam since last time I did the LAA fix).
P.S. Not sure if there are any requirements to whether LAA could be included with the mod without seeking permissions from someone etc etc.
I'd probably recommend someone else try 10 player maps, try with all effects not being higher than 'High', try same map each time, with different race. See if any crashes. My time unfortunately can be limited/sporadic but I hope this all assists you.
Thanks. Would be wonderful if somebody else could confirm this. And thanks for the report on the centauri starbase. Yes, there still are some very rough edges in the mod. Will have a look at it when I can spend the time.
Just a out of mem situation?
That was one of my leading thoughts but I don't know what was leading to the out of memory problem. I significantly reduced fighters, missiles, mines and any other likely abuser, looking for the source, still had the game halt (but not a minidump) and still couldn't nail down the culprit. I'll admit to throwing up my hands in despair sometime the fall last year.
The SB builder abilities have been a pain since day one. Currently there is some dead weight with no longer used abilities, buffs, etc in the code as it was easier to leave in place than rip out and figure out what I just broke and where. I'll walk through the Centauri tech path and ship abilities and then the SB abilities. Keep in mind all the SB in addition to being unlocked by the tech tree have re-searchable levels unlocked by the tech tree. This was partly done as a balance measure as the races play differently at beginning, mid and end game. If I find anything I'll correct and post internally to the mod leader. If an easy fix I'll post on the forum what to change in the entity file to get it working.
Each of the Younger Races has at least three SB options (some have four) unlocked by tech research. Some have rather convoluted paths. Just note not all SB and not all build options are available at game start. It remains to be seen if I made the whole process too complicated but I think you'll find there are real differences between the races SB and with the focus of the SB, some are rather weak militarily but have strong economic or cultural abilities. The Vorlon SB fully updated is a beast.
Edit: It may take me awhile to dig through the files, life is complicated right now but I'll add it to the list.
it mostly doesn't matter how many fighters or ships or so are on screen or in the game, it is the amount of models and textures that cost the most. And I have added lost of stuff in the last 2 years.
We can sometime in the future remove all the vanilla models and textures, but we will likely have added lots of additional stuff by then, so will run into the same situation.
I managed to get another couple hours in last night using same map as previous night (sorry, I probably should specifically take note of which maps these are). 5v5 map anywho which means the 6+ player criteria mentioned earlier on.
All Effects on High, everything ticked for effects.
Played as Centauri this time.
Unlike the first time, no crashes.
So I'm going to conclude either the LAA or reducing Planet quality to High has resolved the crash issue.
I'm not very savvy into these things but I have a thought.. Does the game preload all the models/textures into memory during either initial game launch or map load? Could it be that it isn't related to the 'amount' of fighters/mines etc that are introduced during gameplay, but rather the overall amount of models/textures loaded, then adding in the usual amount of gameplay additives (ie, zooming in on a fleet so it then individually loads each ship and does whatever else it wants to do) which adds to the existing pre-loaded stuff and causes the crash?
Would be difficult to test the mem limit too.. As Windows these days allows you to share system ram with video ram (meaning a 4GB graphics card could potentially have more memory... and same for 1GB video cards). SO unless someone has a PC with something like 3GB Ram + 1GB Video card to test the game on (ie. not enough ram to go around) or knows of a way to stop the sharing, we probably couldn't test another computer to see if the overall issue is a mem issue. All I know is I have way more than enough memory for 32-bit apps (ie. way more than their limitation), and I can currently run the game stable using the settings I mentioned above.
as said, it boils down to the amount of meshes (models) and textures we add to the mod.
as far as I know, sins loads every model texture as soon as it is intended to be built (since rebellion, in diplomacy sins preloaded everything on launch). Which means if we run into the mem wall, it will be sometime into a bigger game. Since it mostly happens with 6+ players it seems to further this assumption because the more different races are used the more models/textures will get loaded.
another test for this would be a 5 vs 5 with only 1 or two races with everything on very high and see if it crashes. If not it really is a memory problem.
I don't get out of memory but i use LAA, but i have a 8 core, 8gb ram and 2 ati with 1gb ram each in crossfire, even in highest i dont get out of memory with this mod.
It's been a while, but I'd thought I would sneak back over the Neutral Zone (from SoA2) to lend a hand at bug hunting.
I've opted-in to Rebellion 1.83, pulled from the repo and switched to Rebellion_Testing.
Started a 10 FFA against 9 normal AIs 1 Vorlon, 1 Shadow , 2 of the other races, flagship victory on, everything set to highest detail, no LAA.
which indicates that SotYR is using significant amounts RAM - taskmgr.exe gave a 'private working set' value of around 1.6Gb. At this point not many units (nor many unit types) were around - I had the "largest" small fleet:- 1 Sharlin, 1 flagship, 2 Tinashi, 2 scouts & 5 colony frigates. One of the Narn AIs had more frigates, including a couple of heavy cruisers. After some more time mem usage dropped, so I no longer got the above error.
IIRC: LAA only gets you an extra 1 or 2Gb of process address space.
As for the rest, what races did you use? EA are first with 171MB total textures. Vorlons have 112MB. Centauri have 57MB atm. Narn have 42MB. Minbari use 54MB. Shadows use 29MB.
There are additional textures for Raiders, Jumpgates, interface elements and so on.
Textures total: 579MB + vanilla textures for the not yet replaced models (Sins total Textures use 1.46GB).
So we can easily surpass the 1.7GB mark where sins starts to complain.
Q: what races did you use?
I do have stuttering since 1.83 though, which is really annoying!
I think somebody in the 1.83 thread posted about that and the why.


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» Odessa terrorists will give the militants in exchange for captured militants Ukrainians
Odessa terrorists will give the militants in exchange for captured militants Ukrainians
Primorsky district court of Odessa was released from custody 11 suspects in the attacks, their plan to exchange for captured militants in the Donbas Ukrainians, Odessa reports the Internet the edition "Duma" on Saturday
As reported "Duma" a source in the SBU, this morning Primorsky district court of Odessa released from custody and suspected of a half dozen explosions (mainly from volunteer centres) Alexander Shevtsov, Igor Udovenko, Yevhen Podmazko and Catherine Foteva; organizer of the explosion under the walls of regional management of SBU Vladimir Grubnyk, and a number of others with such accusations.
Just released from prison 11 people.
Individuals who are accused or convicted of terrorist acts on the territory of Odessa and region, plan to exchange for Ukrainian citizens captured by militants.
All of them were taken at the checkpoint of entry/exit (KPVV) "Mallorcan" near Gorlovka, which on Sunday will host the exchange.
In addition to these individuals, according to the publication "Timer", the Russian fighters will give defendants in such cases who are now under house arrest or bail, in particular the participants of the "case 2 may" Sergey Dolzhenkov.
Also on the days of the Ukrainian colonies began to export convicts and fans of Russia. They were transferred to Kiev prison, where then was taken directly to the exchange location. It is known about five people, among them — Konstantin Kalashnikov (13 years for sabotage on the Railways) and Denis Shatunov (10 years for organizing the assassination, which failed to prevent), reports "Duma".
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Minamaneho notes the need for early coordination of the position on the restructuring of "green" tariffs to effectively run auctions
Odessa court released 11 of the terrorist organizers who plan to send in ORDA in the framework of the exchange of prisoners


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Jury Finds Timothy Howard Innocent in 1970s Crime
WOSU 89.7 NPR News | By admin
Published March 15, 2006 at 12:00 AM EST
Timothy Howard's nearly 30 year fight ended with the jury's verdict.
Howard pounded his fists on the table, jumped up and raised his armed in celebration. Three decades after being sentenced to death, six of eight jurors determined Howard proved he was not involved in a bank guard's murder or the robbery at a Near East Side bank. Howard, who's been proclaiming his innocence from the start, said when you tell the truth, justice will eventually come about.
"You have to be patient. I've been patient all this time and unfortunately this happened to me. But it paid off. This is justice. We got good people," Howard said.
One of Howard's attorneys, James Owen, who became a little emotional during opening statements, said he's just delighted this day finally came for his client.
"I first met him in March of 1997, it was clear for me from day one that he was an innocent man wrongfully convicted. And I told him that we would never let this go. And we haven't. And Rick Katchem and I have stood by him, and he's stood by us. And I'm just proud of Tim," Owen said.
While Howard said he was confident the jury would find in his favor, Owen was a little concerned when deliberations ran into a second day.
"I was worried it would be a hung jury. I knew that if the verdict, if the jury came back it had to be in our favor. I did not think it was reasonably possible they could vote for the state," Owen said.
While waiting for the verdict Howard spoke about how he was able to stay focused on his innocence, and not become bitter about spending half of his life behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.
"I'm, I'm a Christian and so God will take care of all my burdens. And that hate, hate doesn't get you anywhere. So, like I said it's not up to me to judge anybody. So I just tell the truth and try to move forward," Howard said.
The state's attorneys left the courtroom without comment and did not respond to a request for an interview. The state attempted to show Howard was one of the men who committed the crimes in 1976 by calling several witnesses including a teller who there when the robbery took place.
This verdict now allows Howard to file an application of compensation with the Ohio Court of Claims. Howard said money is not the issue, so he will have to discuss that decision little more with his attorneys. Right now, though, he said he plans to soak up the realization that his work trying to prove his innocence finally paid off.
"It was a personal battle and I got caught up in something that I had nothing to do with. And, uh, it's 30 years later and it's just now getting straightened out. So I'm going to just take this and move forward. That's what I'm going to do," Howard said.
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