One of the most striking things about Iceland (besides the scenery) is the way in which myth and folklore are built into the culture of the country and the psyche of its people. One of my favourite examples of this is the idea of huldufólk, or hidden people.
From what I've been able to piece together so far, huldufólk are elf-like creatures who inhabit a parallel world. They live within the landscape, beneath the rocks and hills, remaining invisible to most.
There is a small percentage of the Icelandic population who believe that the huldufólk truly exist (somewhere around the eight percent mark), but up to half the population, when surveyed, would not deny their existence. Interestingly, this possibility of their presence seems to guide the nation, at least occasionally. For example, new building projects will often take into consideration potential huldufólk habitats using the guidance of a medium or mystic. If a particular place is determined to be the habitat of the hidden people, roads may be diverted or new construction relocated.
Icelandic belief in the huldufólk may be over exaggerated by visitors (like myself) who find the notion mysterious and whimsical. What's not exaggerated, however, is the Icelandic connection to nature, which seems to manifest itself in the beautiful idea that something (or someone) important inhabits the rocks and hills and mountains, and that this presence should not be disturbed without some thought and consultation.
The story of the huldufólk provides a wonderful example of the inclusion of myth in a thoroughly modern nation and it also provides a fine introduction to a beautiful line of products that draw upon some of the myths and stories of Iceland.
Vík Prjónsdóttir is a brand that produces incredible products from Icelandic sheep's wool (a highly sustainable material here). The line is a collaboration between designers Brynhildur Pálsdóttir, Gudfinna Mjöll Magnúsdóttir, Thuríður Sigurþórsdóttir and Iceland's oldest knitting factory, Víkurprjón. Below are a few examples of the magnificent pieces and a brief description of their origin stories. More extensive descriptions, and more products, can be found on Vík's website (all product images are courtesy of Vík Prjónsdóttir).
Hidden World (shown with the Healing Hands scarf) is a visual representation of the hidden world, just discussed above, and a dedication to the magical people who can communicate with these mysterious spaces and their inhabitants.
The Sealpelt Blanket is inspired by an ancient Icelandic myth from the south shore of the country, which describes a seal who sheds her skin on land, lives as a human (becoming both a wife and mother), and later returns to the sea. It's a lovely (slightly heartbreaking) story.
You can buy Vík's work directly from SPARK Design Space if you happen to be in Reykjavik or – wait for it – you can order directly from Vík's website. They ship internationally and, better yet, they offer FREE shipping to Europe, the Unites States and Canada!
I visited the village of Vík (the location of Iceland's oldest knitting factory, where these beautiful products are produced) and I wanted to leave you all with some images of the incredible landscape around this tiny town.
Julie Pasila is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist & writer. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from Ryerson University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art & English Literature from the University of Guelph. She is currently available for freelance assignments and exhibitions in Canada and abroad.
I LOVED this post and WOW -- those blankets.
So warm, fun and sweet design. Thanks for sharing!
That is so interesting about the Icelandic culture and the "hidden people". I love folklore, legends and magic, so it's great to see how it's inspiring designers. These wooly, cuddly pieces are amazing. I love the blanket that is like a jump suit of sorts. And the hand scarf it amazing too.


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Meridian Woman Made Homeless by City's Ban on Tiny Homes on Wheels Seeks Court Order Allowing Her Back into Her Home During Lawsuit
The motion is part of her August lawsuit challenging the city's arbitrary ban and enforcement
Chasidy Deck is a Treasure Valley native who bought a beautiful tiny home to afford living in the Boise area. But she was made homeless because the city of Meridian bans living in tiny homes on private property.
Conor Beck · September 13, 2022
MERIDIAN, Idaho—Last night, Meridian tiny homeowner Chasidy Decker filed for a preliminary injunction as part of her August lawsuit, with representation by the Institute for Justice (IJ), challenging Meridian's ban on tiny homes on wheels as unconstitutional under the Idaho Constitution. Her preliminary injunction motion in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of Idaho asks for her to be allowed to live in her tiny home as the lawsuit continues.
"It's been really stressful, still not knowing of a place to go," Chasidy said. "This place is where my heart is. I would not rather be anywhere else. It's always been my home and it feels like I'm being pushed out."
Chasidy, a native of the Treasure Valley, had a savvy solution to owning a home after being priced out of the general Boise real estate market: she bought a beautiful 252 square foot tiny house on wheels and found a local homeowner, Robert Calacal, to let her park it on his property for $600 a month. But right after moving in this May, Meridian Code Enforcement told Chasidy that while her home could be parked at Robert's home indefinitely, she could not live in the home. This was despite other people in the neighborhood living in RVs, tiny homes and similar vehicles.
The motion for a preliminary injunction demonstrates that within just 1,500 feet of Chasidy's tiny home, there are at least 13 RVs and trailers being used as a residence or living quarters as evidenced by connected utility lines, open windows, extended slide-outs, lowered stairs, and the use of stabilizer jacks, among other things. The pictures below are some examples. (To protect the privacy of other property owners and to avoid incriminating them to the City, Chasidy did not disclose the exact addresses of these properties in her motion.)
Close-up of a trailer hooked up to electrical utilities in
a driveway in Chasidy's neighborhoo
A trailer used as a living quarters parked on a public street
in Chasidy's neighborhood
Before filing her lawsuit, Chasidy pointed out to the City's code enforcement officer that many other people in her neighborhood were living in RVs and trailers, and asked why the City was singling her out. The officer responded that Chasidy and Robert were new to town and that Robert was from California, while other property owners had lived in the neighborhood longer. "The Idaho Constitution requires the City to have a good reason for forcing Chasidy out of her safe, attractive tiny home while allowing more than a dozen nearby residents to use their RVs or trailers as living quarters," said IJ Attorney Bob Belden. "That Chasidy and Robert were new to town simply doesn't cut it."
To make Chasidy's situation even more unfair, Meridian Code Enforcement angrily confronted Chasidy following an article in the Idaho Statesman about her story this summer, prior to her lawsuit. After the article, the officer also cited Chasidy and Robert for trivial parking and vehicle violations. Although not part of her request for the injunction, Chasidy's lawsuit includes a claim that the Idaho Constitution protects free speech and prevents exactly this type of retaliation by government officials.
"In the middle of this housing crisis in the Treasure Valley, Meridian should be making it easier for people to find a place to live, not forcing them into homelessness," said IJ Attorney Dan Alban. "We've asked the Court to intervene so that Chasidy can continue living in her safe and attractive tiny home."
The Court is expected to have a hearing on Chasidy's motion for a preliminary injunction on October 27.
Conor Beck
Communications Project Manager
cbeck@ij.org
Woman fights city's ban on living in tiny homes on wheels, which has left her homeless

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Lighting Up Brighton: Creating a Next Level Interactive Project
If you've travelled in and out of the home of our HQ – Brighton – in the last couple of weeks, you might have noticed something twinkling up in the rafters. As part of our involvement with Brighton Digital Festival 2014, we created an exciting, interactive digital display, and then handed over the controls to the general public. What could go wrong?
In this abridged version of a longer, NSFW blog, Matt Pearson explains how the project came about, evolved and ended up in the news.
Phallic symbols, rude words and offensive phrases. This was the argument against from the outset. If we created a canvas and allowed anyone to post on it, entirely unmoderated, we were just inviting trouble.
If we were to build a digital canvas, and open it up to the public, might we simply be building the latest, most technologically sophisticated, gallery space for crudely drawn penises? Or swastikas? Messages of racism / misogyny / hate?
Should we expect the worst of humanity, or might we give them a little faith and trust them to use the platform in more creative and sophisticated ways, as was intended?
This was the experiment.
The idea was first touted back in March. The design team wanted to do something with the Brandwatch building in celebration of the 2014 Brighton Digital Festival, which we sponsor. What, exactly, we weren't quite sure.
The building overlooks Brighton Station so, while it is a little awkward for a gathering, it enjoys high footfall and is to many visitors their first impression of Brighton. We had an opportunity to give these visitors a bright, digital welcome.
The Brandwatch building, in relation to the station
Early concept sketch
We wanted to do something a bit more than just a display. It had to engage the audience in some way. This was 2014 after all.
We'd allow people to draw on our windows, giving them full control of the pixels they put up there, but if we only provided the mechanism to target one window pane at a time they'd have just an 8×16 pixel grid in which to express themselves.
They could draw whatever they wanted, but it would be so lo-res it would take considerable skill to create a design that was unambiguously rude.
As you might imagine, we had a lot of fun at concept stage, as at that point there really was no limit to what we could do. But suddenly it was May, and September, the month of the festival, was fast approaching. It was time for reality to come a'knocking. I had to work out how to build it.
One of the joys of having the resources of a large company behind you is that one can have a stupid idea, with only a rough conception of what might be involved in realising it, and still stand a good chance of finding someone in the corporate mass who might understand what you're talking about.
I hooked up with Ben Slaughter and Jimmy Taylor, who had considerably more electronics experience than me. I could make lights flash on a breadboard, but my only plan for scaling it up at that stage was just to do the same but bigger.
Two early prototypes
Having spent so long splashing around in the concept and prototyping phases, we were left with a shrinking amount of time to build the full-sized panels. We had four weeks, and day jobs, so the big question was how many panels we could feasibly construct in that time.
But again we had the advantage of:
a large staff of people,
the support of the management, who were 100% behind our stupid idea.
With the help of a few more mass emails, a Doodle poll and some pleading, we recruited some more bodies – Brandwatch's finest – who willingly volunteered their downtime and lunch-hours to do a bit of soldering, wiring and woodworking.
The production line constructing the full-sized panels
The interface at https://www.brandwatch.com/FTWindow
We decided to allow people to send just a single image, or three frames of animation, each frame encoded as a 32 character hex string.
The interface would construct their tweet for them. This was enough. Anything else would have been unnecessarily complicated.
Our respect wall
There were 29 names written on the respect wall by the end of the month. 29 enthusiastic volunteers well deserving of respectful nods and fist-bumps.
But there was also credit due to the other 70-80 staff in the Brighton office, who good-heartedly stifled any complaints over us taking over their breakout area for a month, carefully stepping over the soldering iron cords and fishing stray LEDs out of their sandwiches.
The build was a truly collaborative project, making the finished piece every bit the product of the company, not just a handful of us.
We made it in time. We got 14 panels completed, working and mounted for the 1st Sept, the opening of the festival.
The mounted panels
For the first week it displayed only ambient animations and pre-defined text tickers. We didn't want to open up the Twitter interactive element until we had a way of monitoring the display remotely, i.e. a webcam pointed at the building. This actually proved to be one of the most technically demanding parts of the project.
We couldn't have done it without the utter loveliness of the staff of Grand Central, the pub over the road. They very kindly allowed us to leave a laptop and webcam in an upstairs room, trained at the building.
Luke Whiting, a late addition to our unofficial BW skunkworks team, came up with a way of extending the office wifi to the building 200 metres away by way of a tight-beam transmitter – to me akin to witchcraft.
We could now broadcast the pub livestream in full 1080 HD. Technology!
So, once it was visible to the world (not just Brighton) we could publicise the interface.
We had flicked the switch at lunchtime, in daylight, when the pixels were invisible, and everything had gone fine. Which may have been why I might have been a little overly-nonchalant as the sun went down.
It wasn't until I got home that I first checked the video feed and saw our first user submitted creations. They were the work of one author, @brightonstation: "TaxiT**ts" with arrows pointing to the taxi rank below. Oh.
Go home, you're drunk
My first reaction was to laugh. Hard.
First I was happy it was being used. Second, I was pleased that the constraints were being hacked already. I had wanted to, subtly, expose the method by which the encoded tweets were constructed, hinting at a greater control one might have if one learned how to sidestep the interface.
But, even in such a tech-savvy town as Brighton, I never expected it to be hacked quite so quickly. And we had to move fast in response.
We hastily posted some smileys to remove the message. All was well. It ended up in the news. All publicity is good publicity, after all.
The family-friendliness of the submissions improved greatly into the early hours, and when I saw @SimplicityCom's "Go Home You're Drunk" around 1.30am, I laughed again.
"go home ur drunk", also by @SimplicityCom
The next morning I woke early and checked the feed. Love had prevailed.
Sunrise with hearts
Beauty in the details
I built a gallery to explore the submissions, in animated-GIF form, and saw declarations of love, abstract art, clever multi-panel stuff, dancing stick men, agit-prop, ghosts, skulls, and lots of smiley faces. On the whole, the forces of good were winning.
The installation is up for just a day and a half longer. So if you want to send us some pixels, and add to the gallery, get in now while you can. It is coded to switch off at midnight Thursday 25th Sept. We'd love to see what you can add.
Matt Pearson
Community Culture Marketing


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Grupa Warowna Hanicka (Dělostřelecká tvrz Hanička) (znana także jako Twierdza Artyleryjska Hanicka/Haniczka) – czechosłowackie umocnienia w Górach Orlickich.

W skład grupy warownej wchodziło 6 schronów bojowych połączonych podziemnym korytarzem, podziemny magazyn i koszary.

Obiekty bojowe wchodzące w skład grupy warownej:
 R-S 79A "U Silnice" - obiekt wejściowy. Zniszczony podczas przebudowy.
 R-S 76 "Lom" - schron piechoty.
 R-S 77 " Pozorovatelna " - schron piechoty.
 R-S 78 "Na Pasece" - schron artyleryjski. Miał być wyposażony w obrotową wieżę artyleryjską uzbrojoną w 2 haubice 100 mm. Wieża nie została zainstalowana do października 1938 r.
 R-S 79 "Na Mýtině" - obiekt artyleryjski. Docelowo miał być wyposażony w 3 haubice 100 mm. W 1938 r. bez głównego uzbrojenia. W przypadku wojny planowano użyć dział polowych 75 mm ustawionych na drewnianych podstawach.
 R-S 80 - schron piechoty. W jego podziemiach znajdowało się ujęcie wody dla grupy warownej.

W latach 1975-93 trwała przebudowa na nowoczesny schron przeciwatomowy. W roku 1993 przebudowę przerwano z powodów finansowych.

Aktualnie Grupa Warowna Hanicka ma status muzeum - można ją zwiedzać z przewodnikiem. Zwiedzanie trwa około jednej godziny. Podczas zwiedzanie można obejrzeć przebudowany obiekt wejściowy, podziemia grupy oraz schrony na powierzchni.

Linki zewnętrzne
 http://www.hanicka.cz/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20071030203015/http://www.suworow.pl/hanicka/ (galeria zdjęć)
 Zdjęcia satelitarne Grupy Warownej Hanicka - schrony R-S-76, R-S-78, R-S-77, R-S-79

Czechosłowackie fortyfikacje
Muzea w Czechach
Góry Orlickie

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Daily handful of nuts slashes the risk of disease and death
With their rich content of fiber, low saturated fats, and high levels of antioxidants, nuts are one of the healthiest and most nutritious snacks out there. New research shows that the health benefits of nuts may be even more wide-ranging than we think.
[A handful of nuts]
Researchers suggest just a handful of nuts daily can offer a wealth of health benefits.
Nuts are packed with nutritional value. Rich in unsaturated fatty acids, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and various antioxidants, nuts have earned their spot in the "superfood" category.
So far, research has shown nut consumption to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer, but new research suggests their health benefits may extend well beyond these major diseases.
Researchers from Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway analyzed a range of existing studies and tracked down associations between nuts intake and risk of various illnesses.
The findings have been published in the journal BMC Medicine.
The research consisted of a meta-analysis of 29 existing studies from around the world, including Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Researchers used the medical research databases PubMed and Embase to search for prospective studies of nut consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), total cancer cases, all-cause mortality rates, and cause-specific mortality rates published up to 19 July, 2016.
The analysis included 819,448 participants and included over 12,300 cases of coronary heart disease, more than 9,200 cases of stroke, more than 18,600 cases of CVD, and around 18,400 cases of cancer.
The study examined the link between nut consumption and mortality from a variety of causes, such as respiratory disease, diabetes, neurodegenerative disease, infectious disease, and kidney disease.
The research included all kinds of tree nuts – including hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, macadamia nuts, and pine nuts, as well as peanuts, which are actually legumes.
A handful of nuts a day enough to cut risk of various diseases
Consuming a handful of nuts daily was associated with an overall 22 percent decrease in the risk of all-cause mortality.
The analysis revealed that as little as 20 grams a day – the equivalent of a handful – can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by almost 30 percent, the risk of CVD by 21 percent, and the risk of all cancers by 15 percent.
The risk of respiratory disease was shown to decrease by more than half, at 52 percent.
Eating a handful of nuts every day also decreased the risk of diabetes by almost 40 percent and the risk of infectious diseases by 75 percent.
Both peanuts and tree nuts seemed to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, CVD, and mortality, but only peanuts reduced the risk of stroke. Additionally, only tree nuts were linked to a decreased risk of cancer.
Most of the reduction in risk was associated with an intake of approximately 15-20 grams per day, and no further reduction was noticed if the intake was increased.
Therefore, researchers suggest a minimum of 20 grams is needed to fully benefit from the nutritional properties of nuts and avoid preventable mortality:
"Under the assumption that the observed associations are causal we estimated that approximately 4.4 million premature deaths in the regions covered, including North and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific, may be attributable to a nut intake below 20 grams per day."
The authors caution, however, that such an estimate depends on the assumption that there is a causal relationship between nut consumption and health outcomes. This analysis cannot provide such causality.
Why nuts are good for you
Study lead author Dagfinn Aune, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, explains the significance of the results.
"We found a consistent reduction in risk across many different diseases," he says, "which is a strong indication that there is a real underlying relationship between nut consumption and different health outcomes. It's quite a substantial effect for such a small amount of food."
He also explains how the nutritional value of nuts may be responsible for the positive health outcomes.
"Nuts and peanuts are high in fiber, magnesium, and polyunsaturated fats – nutrients that are beneficial for cutting cardiovascular disease risk and which can reduce cholesterol levels," Aune says.
Previous studies have also shown nuts to be rich in antioxidants, with a single serving of walnuts providing more antioxidants than fruits and vegetables combined.
Mixed nuts were also shown to improve insulin resistance and decrease inflammation in patients with metabolic syndrome.
"Some nuts, particularly walnuts and pecan nuts are also high in antioxidants, which can fight oxidative stress and possibly reduce cancer risk," Aune says. "Even though nuts are quite high in fat, they are also high in fiber and protein, and there is some evidence that suggests nuts might actually reduce your risk of obesity over time."
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22. Mistrzostwa Polski w biathlonie odbyły się w 1988 w Dusznikach-Zdrój. Rozegrano trzy konkurencje, bieg indywidualny mężczyzn na dystansie 20 kilometrów, bieg sprinterski na dystansie 10 kilometrów i sztafetę 4 x 7,5 km.

Terminarz i medaliści

Bibliografia
 Franciszek Mojak, Kazimierz Konarski, Marian Turczyn, Na nartach z karabinem, wyd. Oficyna Wydawnicza Apla, Krosno 2010, s. 138

Mistrzostwa Polski w biathlonie
1988 w sportach zimowych
1988 w polskim sporcie
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Eagles LB Myke Tavarres Will Join Colin Kaepernick, Won't Stand for National Anthem
By CSNPhilly.com Staff	• Published August 29, 2016 • Updated on August 29, 2016 at 2:20 pm
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made headlines last week when he refused to stand for the national anthem during a preseason game, and an Eagles linebacker fighting for a roster spot says he'll do the same in their final preseason contest.
Kaepernick decided not to stand because of the divisive and violent racial issues that have been building in America. Tavarres has taken a similar stance, telling ESPN.com's Tim McManus on Monday that he nearly followed Kaepernick's lead by sitting out the anthem in Indianapolis.
"Oh, I thought about it. Believe me, I definitely thought about it," Tavarres told ESPN. "And usually I'm front and center on the line with the rest of the guys, and that's since pre-K all the way up. Saturday's game, I stepped back, I was in the background, and it didn't feel right to me at all, and so I will be taking a stand — or sitting down — for the fourth game.
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"We've got an issue in this country in this day and age, and I feel like somebody needs to step up and we all need to step up. We've got that right. There's just a lot going on that people don't want to talk about, and I feel like us as athletes, we're looked at as role models. And I feel like with Colin Kaepernick, he's doing a great job for standing up in what he believes in, and most people may not like that, but that's his opinion, he's entitled to it, and I respect him for doing it."
Tavarres is not a lock to make the Eagles' final 53-man roster, but their lack of depth at backup linebacker has created an opportunity for him. Dave Zangaro had Tavarres on the practice squad in his roster projection Monday.
According to the report, Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz had players express their feelings about the topic during a meeting Monday and Tavarres was one of the players who spoke, along with team leader Malcolm Jenkins and cornerback Leodis McKelvin.
"In this situation, I've really got nothing to lose," Tavarres told McManus. "I'm a rookie free agent, haven't signed any major contract, so there's not a lot of money on the line, I don't have any big endorsement deals on the line. Really what's at stake is my pride and what kind of man would I be and what kind of African-American would I be if I didn't stand my ground on this issue we have today?
"[It] needs to be done. Will there be backlash? Probably. I don't think anyone has bought my jersey yet, so I don't know if it's going to be burned, but it's a major issue and I'm definitely going to stand my ground for this one."


Earnest Pletch, 'The Flying Lochinvar': pioneer highjacker and committer of a spectacularly pointless murder.
Earnest Pletch was mad on planes and mad on flying. In itself, that was scarcely uncommon in the America of the 1930s, a dozen years after Charles Lindbergh's solo crossing of the Atlantic turned the United States into the epicentre of everything exciting in the aviation world. Yet Pletch was a pretty unusual case. He came from a well-off family, but had dropped out of school to find work in a travelling show. He was a serial husband and adulterer who was already, at the age of 29, planning to abandon his third wife. And he had actually been taking flying lessons.
Now – late on the afternoon of 27 October 1939 – Pletch was looking forward to going solo. He was not going to take the controls in the usual way, however. He was going to do so after shooting his pilot in the back of the head.
A destitute Irish family search a stubble field for healthy potatoes at the height of the Great Famine of 1845-51. At least a million people–one in eight of the population–starved to death during the disaster. Thousands more, though, were saved by the exertions of relief funds–the contributors to which included both the Ottoman sultan and Queen Victoria.
The most striking thing about the ghastly blight that ruined Ireland's potato crop in 1845 was that the harvest had seemed healthy, even robust, when it was lifted from the ground.
Within a day or two, however, rot set in. Potatoes that had looked firm and edible turned black and then disintegrated into a stinking, liquid mess. No one knew why. John Lindley, the editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle, guessed that this "wet putrefaction" was a disease borne in from the Atlantic by torrential gales. Others thought that the blight had somehow risen up from underground, so that the soil itself was now infected.
Some Fayum portraits, dating collectively to the period AD 70-250. The numbers refer to discussions in the text.
She is very beautiful. Her face is flawless: long and olive skinned, the nose long too, but neat and narrow, the brows crafted, the chin just firm enough to suggest a certain liveliness of character. She has dark hair, and one gets the distinct impression that it has potential for unruliness, but it has been called to order and fashionably styled, cut short over the ears in order to display expensive jewellery. A half-smile plays about her lips, and it does not seem too much to read a hint of amusement into her large brown eyes. It is easy to imagine meeting her at some elegant affair, for she seems alive – yet she is dead, and has been dead for rather more than 1,800 years .
Prince Klaas lashed to the wheel – the image on display at the Museum of Antigua and Barbuda in St John's, Antigua.
The story of Prince Klaas, the rebel slave, is one of the highlights of the charming Museum of Antigua and Barbuda in St John's, which I had the chance to wander around in December 2012 while doing some lecturing in the Caribbean. Slave revolts have been an interest of mine for years, and I was familiar with the outlines of Klaas's remarkable story – which I wrote up for the Smithsonian at the time (causing a certain amount of upset in Antigua itself among people who don't seem to have actually read the article very closely). But I had never seen a picture that purported to show him, and in fact it's vanishingly rare for images of slave leaders to survive from so early a period as the first half of the eighteenth century. So when I discovered that the museum displayed a drawing of Klaas, naked, strapped face down to a wheel, and being lashed, I snapped it and later used it as an illustration in the essay that I wrote.
I felt a little bit uneasy about this. There was something not quite right about the sketch. Klaas, after all, had been bound in order to suffer the appalling punishment of breaking on the wheel – a form of execution that involved the systematic pulverisation of the victim's bones that is, in effect, a form of crucifixion. Yet the drawing showed Klaas being whipped, not shattered. The wheel that he was strapped to seemed to be lying on the ground, when in reality it would have been mounted on an axle, the better to rotate the victim to face the executioner's blows. The man administering the punishment was black, implying that he was the overseer on a plantation, not an executioner employed by the Antiguan government. And the artist had depicted only a handful of spectators, not the substantial crowd that watched Klaas die.


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La Rochelle is on the western coast of France, in the Charente-Maritime department.
La Rochelle is certainly among the most attractive port towns of France, and is a very pleasant place to visit and to pass a few days. Because there is a great deal to see and do in La Rochelle we have several sections about the highlights of the town (see below).
The focus of the town is the old harbour, a lovely part of the town and very picturesque with its two monumental towers (St Nicolas Tower and the Tower of the Chain) either side of the port entrance, through which you can watch the boats enter. A third tower, the 'Tower of the Lantern' is connected to the Chain Tower by a section of the ramparts that originally defended the town.
The old town, just behind the harbour, is extensive and also very well preserved and restored and dates mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries. The main shopping streets especially have many fine buildings, but you will also need to explore the side streets in this part of the town.
The whole of the historic centre of La Rochelle has an impressive unified appearance, with arcaded streets, houses constructed in the local light stone, and light grey shutters. Boutiques now occupy the ground floor of many of the buildings.
– the harbour, with the old town and historical centre, is the centre of activity and interest within the town and contains many of the most important monuments. See La Rochelle old town.
The harbour region is well supplied with fish restaurants, and before dinner the walls of the old town are a popular and pleasant place for an evening promenade, as is the harbour front. The harbour is very active, with boats, numerous buskers, market stalls selling a wide range of products (mostly 'arty') and a general lively atmosphere.


Creators, executive producers and stars Phoebe Robinson (L) and Jessica Williams of the television show 2 Dope Queens speak onstage during the HBO portion of the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour on January 11, 2018 in Pasadena, Calif.
In early October 2014, two days after I published a column headlined "Listen up! Podcasting's time is here," the first episode of "Serial" posted online, touching off an explosion of interest in the medium that underscored my point.
The first season of the show, an offshoot of public radio's "This American Life," was a 12-part audio investigation into the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a Baltimore high school student.
"Serial" was podcasting's breakout hit — downloaded 175 million times at a record pace, lampooned on "Saturday Night Live," featured in a New Yorker cartoon and honored with a Peabody Award. The possibility that Lee's former boyfriend Adnan Syed was actually innocent of the murder for which he'd been convicted and was still locked away became the subject of intense debate among fans.
The show paved the way for dozens of similar, limited-run nonfiction shows exploring one topic, such as "Atlanta Monster," recently the No. 1 podcast on iTunes, about the spate of child murders in Atlanta from 1979 to 1981; "Slow Burn," another recent No. 1 that vividly retells the Watergate scandal; and, locally, WBEZ-FM's biographical "Making …" series that has so far featured the backstories of Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama.
It even spawned a brilliant parody of the true-crime podcast genre, "A Very Fatal Murder," which skewers even the advertisers that now support this burgeoning medium.
We're now almost past the days when journalists have to explain to the uninitiated that a podcast is a show that you download, usually for free, to your computer or smartphone, then listen to at your convenience. Almost.
More about these numbers in a bit.
For the column in 2014 I spoke with former Chicagoan Alex Blumberg, who had just quit his job with "This American Life" and "Planet Money" to seek investors in his idea for a podcast network.
"I'm really bullish on this," he told me gamely at the time. "It's the perfect medium for our connected age."
Today, his Gimlet Media is the home of a dozen well-regarded podcasts and a staff of nearly 100, and is one of many podcast networks. In March, ABC-TV will premiere "Alex, Inc." a sitcom based on the rise of Gimlet, with Zach Braff as the Blumberg character. Meanwhile, Amazon has signed Julia Roberts to star in an upcoming video series based on Gimlet's experimental fiction podcast series "Homecoming," which featured actors David Schwimmer and Amy Sedaris.
Advertisers are noticing. Hot Pod, a weekly industry newsletter that began publishing about a month after the debut of "Serial," recently reported that the online magazine Slate now realizes 25 percent of its revenue from its suite of two dozen podcasts, up from 0 percent in 2014. A Slate spokeswoman confirmed those numbers.
Not just long-form nonfiction and drama, in other words, but all manner of niche and specialized content — one of my new favorites, for example, is "Get Up in the Cool," a series of interviews with old-time string band musicians. And if you, too, have an offbeat hobby, odds are excellent that there's now at least one podcast about it.
"Up First," an early morning news digest from NPR's "Morning Edition" team.
"The Daily," an ambitious, Monday-Friday documentary-style take on current events produced by The New York Times. The program has proven so popular that American Public Media recently announced plans to reverse engineer it for broadcast radio.
"Reveal," a weekly deep-dive on hot topics from the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting.
"Chicago Tonight," an audio version of WTTW-Ch. 11's daily public affairs show.
"State Week," a Springfield-based news review from Illinois Public Radio.
"Embedded," a documentary series hosted by NPR's Kelly McEvers that has recently been taking a granular look at the life and times of President Donald Trump.
"Revisionist History," a quirky, contrarian attack on popular wisdom hosted by New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.
"Late Night With Seth Meyers," excerpts and behind-the-scenes content highlighted by the NBC-TV host's sharp, anti-Trump "A Closer Look" commentaries.
And, debuting Monday, "Every Day, Explained," an afternoon-drive rundown from Vox Media, the folks behind my absolute favorite news-nerd podcast, "The Weeds." This show promises to continue the "almost-live" trend in which shows are posted quickly to maximize freshness.
So are we at peak podcast? Not even close. Remember the impressive growth shown in those Edison Research numbers?
Audio-on-demand, perfect for the multitasking lifestyle, is still just getting started.
Of course, for pure podcasting perfection, there's always "The Mincing Rascals," a weekly discussion/argument about current events hosted by WGN-AM's John Williams. I'm usually on the panel.


The problem of biological motion is a very intriguing and topical issue. Many efforts are being focused on the development of novel modelling approaches for the description of anomalous diffusion in biological systems, such as the very complex and heterogeneous cell environment. Nevertheless, many questions are still open, such as the joint manifestation of statistical features in agreement with different models that can also be somewhat alternative to each other, e.g. continuous time random walk and fractional Brownian motion. To overcome these limitations, we propose a stochastic diffusion model with additive noise and linear friction force (linear Langevin equation), thus involving the explicit modelling of velocity dynamics. The complexity of the medium is parametrized via a population of intensity parameters (relaxation time and diffusivity of velocity), thus introducing an additional randomness, in addition to white noise, in the particle's dynamics. We prove that, for proper distributions of these parameters, we can get both Gaussian anomalous diffusion, fractional diffusion and its generalizations.


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There have been construction project managers for as long as there have been construction projects.
The principles of project management we apply today are strikingly similar to those applied when humans built the ancient wonders of the world and the very first skyscrapers.
Over time, innovations have allowed us to track time, cost, and resources better and as technology has advanced more tools for project management continue to come on to the market and be adopted, improving processes and outcomes for project teams.
In the last 6–8 years in particular we have seen numerous and diverse technologies come to market, to the point where the sheer volume of hardware and software present an overwhelming array of choices for project teams.
What are the best ways for projects to leverage all this technology?
There is such a proliferation of tools that just the idea of understanding what they all do and how they are different is can be overwhelming. Just the idea of learning how they work and the thought of implementing them and actually getting your teams to use them can be enough to make you stop looking.
So maybe it's better to ask a different question.
What is your primary goal as a project manager?
The answer is the same as it always has been. You are responsible for delivering the benefits of the project to your client in a timely and cost effective way. The options for how you do that have changed significantly over the course of time but the goal is still the same.
In this fast paced world it has become a project managers responsibility to be the protector of time. That includes your teams time and your own.
To do this you must take a step back and look for areas where technology could improve efficiency. Specifically look at what activities you and your teams are engaging in and consider ways to reduce waste. Stop thinking about what tools are on offer and instead think about what tools you would like to see to overcome key challenges, and simplify your team's workload.
That might seem a big task. There so many things going on at any given time on a project. You don't have to build Rome in a day. Start small. Pick something you did today or yesterday and look at it through a the lens of how can this be better.
That meeting on site to discuss [insert issue here], how else could we have got you the information you needed? Did it really need us physically there or would have a video from the contractor and a conference call with a couple of the designers been enough to resolve it?
Are these minutes useful to people? What if I were to disseminate the specific tasks to in a way that meant it was live information so you didn't have to dig through documents and pick out the relevant bits?
How can I make the information in the project plan more easily digestible? What if it were stored in a place that you were able to access over the internet, highlighting areas that I require specific information from you so that it becomes a shared project plan?
This exercise might seem like a lot of extra work for the project manager but it will pay dividends and save you lots of time down the road.
The better project managers can leverage technology and give time back to themselves and their teams the more attention they can give to thinking deeply about projects. Zoom out and get strategic that's what clients want from project managers.
Think about what tools might actually be beneficial for specific issues you are facing across your portfolio of projects. In this way you will begin to develop a framework for making choices around what technology is worth exploring and it will be less daunting when you are clearer about what you want.
Once you have some ideas about tools you think might help you protect the time for you and your project teams get in touch and we can discuss your existing processes and see if Keepsite can help free you up and reach your project goals.


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Mehbooba, meanwhile, is busy building castles in the air
By Sant Kumar Sharma
Mehbooba Mufti helped her father late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed build up People's Democratic Party (PDP) from scratch in two years or so. She worked tirelessly, touring entire Jammu & Kashmir, focussing on Rajouri, Poonch and such other areas in the Jammu region. That was almost two decades ago in 1999 and thereafter, and on November 2, 2002, the patriarch had become the chief minister. The PDP had only 16 MLAs in 87-member legislative assembly as against the Congress which had 20 MLAs and Mufti's rival for the CM's post then was Ghulam Nabi Azad. But Mufti senior trumped Azad to the post, courtesy Sonia Gandhi siding with the former.
Three years later, Mufti moved heaven and earth (besides friendly media in Delhi) to stick to the post but Azad checkmated him, and became CM on November 2, 2005. Then also, Azad had to go against Sonia to rise to the top executive post in J&K as he has gone now in G23. Mehbooba has a simmering grouse against Azad and she tried to portray him negatively in her speech. She appears to believe that running down Azad a way to snuggle up to Gandhis, Sonia as also siblings.
The PDP-BJP coalition government formed on March 1, 2015, was a contradiction in terms, ideologically speaking, and was called North-South alliance. Mehbooba explained Daddy's political somersault of aligning with the BJP as TINA (There Is No Alternative), not a variable of his personal ambition to be CM again. Today, she is going around the town talking in a language that borders on seditious, if separation of Kashmir from India can be categorised as that. On Wednesday, she said that Article 370 will have to be restored if India wants to keep Jammu and Kashmir with itself!
At one time, frequenting the houses of terrorists killed by security forces distinguished her from others. She virtually built PDP on the politics of mourning, with suitable incendiary statements thrown in. A green abaya draped over her head just fitted in snugly with the style, and substance of subtle, and not so subtle, messages she was delivering.
To complete the PDP packaging, the party symbol of kalam-dawaat (inkpot and pen) which was used by many candidates of now defunct Muslim United Front (MUF) in 1987 assembly elections came in handy. This symbol invoked images of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Yasin Malik and the ilk among the hoi polloi in Kashmir and that was an advantage PDP could not allow to be frittered away. Incidentally, it may be of interest to many among us to know that Muftis draw a lot of supporters from Jamaat e Islami (Jamaat) cadres. Soft separatism was her USP, and she is inching back to it with a vengeance as a tried and tested formula to raise and harvest a new crop of supporters.
For effect, Mehbooba also said in her Banihal speech that the Kashmiris had hitch-hiked their fate to India of Mahatma Gandhi, in 1947, and not Nathuram Godse. Deliberately obliterating the fact that the rulers, and not the subjects, decided on the question of accession. She talked of a right that was non est ab initio, the right of secession.
She would do well to educate herself that right of secession was debated and thrown out of the book in the Constituent Assembly of J&K. This was something Abdul Gani Goni, a member from Bhaderwah, had deliberated upon a few years before her birth in 1959.
The PDP stands decimated today as it had witnessed wholesale desertions by its legislators, after BJP dumped her in June 2018. She says it took, India 200 years to shake off the British yoke of slavery, 70 years for the BJP to scrap Article 370 and may take 70 months for her to get it restored.
On Friday, it seems her prayers were answered, in an arena other than political, as J&K cricket team restored 370, scoring as much in 50 overs against a Bihar team! That was an honourable 370 which led to a thumping win of 144 runs.
O Mehbooba! O Mehbooba, 370 ke pass hi hai teri manzil e maqsood.
Sant Kumar Sharma, a seasoned journalist, is an authority on Jammu and Kashmir. Two of his books on Article 370 and Delimitation are already out. The third one on Indus Waters Treaty is now out and could be bought here.
Sant began as a teacher but after six years, joined the Indian Express, Chandigarh in 1990, the year when terrorism was taking its first step in J & K and soon there would be exodus of lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. He subsequently worked for The Statesman, The Times of India and Star News among others. He is based in Jammu since May 2000.
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Almost a Revolution is a documentary written by Kong King-chu, who is a documentary film director, journalist, and founder of Stepforward Multimedia. Directed by Kwok Tak-chun, the film documents the experiences of seven different people during the long process that began with the Occupy Central movement to the Umbrella Movement of 2014, and their continuing struggle for universal suffrage.
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Filmed in a first person perspective and voiced over in Vietnamese, this short film documents the conflicted feelings of a Vietnamese girl as an outsider, as she observes the strive for greater democracy in Hong Kong. The film captures a conflicting sense of longing and disillusionment. The film was shown as part of the Umbrella Movement Shorts Selection in the 2015 Hong Kong Independent Film Festival.
The filmmaker: Vicky Do is a Vietnamese graduate student who studied fine arts photography in the United States before moving to Hong Kong. Her blog can be found at https://hongtouping.wordpress.com.
Chan's film documents the story of ten women who participated in the protests. This film specifically highlights the gender disparity between the experiences of men and women during the protests, in terms of issues of gender, violence, religion and politics. Do you hear the women sing? was shown as part of the Umbrella Movement Shorts Selection in the 2015 Hong Kong Independent Film Festival.
The filmmaker: Nate Chan Chin-hae is a photographer and documentary filmmaker, who has also worked as an assistant director for Evans Chan. Her blog can be found at https://hahuihui.wordpress.com/ .
Although this doc cannot really boast for any kind of film experiment, it is very informative and honest. The director succeeds in getting the most honest interviews from several women with different background. Besides the sharing of memories in the movement, especially in the night of tear gas, the director, with her edge in societal concerns, manages to raise questions in the relationship between religion and political movement. The most precious of all, is the film's lending voice to women who are not speaking on big or small stages. While selecting the interview materials, there are parts that are gender sensitive (especially the experience of sexual harassment), but we also see a picture of different roles women played, different locations they chose, and different observations they had. After watching so many shorts, this film gives me a fuller picture of the movement than any other. It also includes shots of police in very close range, and a collage of Christian images. The film ends with two Form 6 girl students, who thought they must stand out, even though the big examination was close. I love Hong Kong women even more after watching this film.
Filmmaker Liu was crossing the road with a camera rolling during the protests, near a large group of police who then began to question what she was doing. This short film is a result of that interaction. The film was shown as part of the Umbrella Movement Shorts Selection in the 2015 Hong Kong Independent Film Festival.
The filmmaker: Liu To is a graduate of the Literature Department, Beijing Film Academy and garnered critical attention for her piece A Tiny Handheld Camera. Other documentary pieces depicting stories from the Umbrella Movement are forthcoming.
This little film was the darling last night among all shorts, as the audience laughed along its 7'31" duration. The director, holding a little camera, is filming while waiting on a red light. She was unexpected surrounded by a few police men who repeatedly asked her stop filming and move on to either side of the walk and not standing in the middle of the road (though she is apparently in the safety island). This long take shows the insistance of both sides, the inability of communication, the mutual filming with one police man also filming her while she films her own image from his mobile device, and the passer-by looking at both her and the police man when they walk pass between the green lights. A soft, funny, unexpected confrontation, that catches the black humor of Hong Kongers. Lovely piece. Director Liu To said, she is make a real piece on the movement, and I really look forward to that.
The director is asked to leave the road even though she stands on the safety island.
Leung Ka-yi is a graduate from the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She inadvertently came across this different perspective of the Occupy Movement through the eyes of the deaf while searching for a news angle of the movement that hadn't been covered yet. The result of this discovery was this documentary discussing the difficulty that the minority group had in receiving timely information about the protests as they were happening. While the transfer of information to the deaf about the protests in Hong Kong were especially troublesome due to the speed at which events took place, the lack of news resources for the deaf in Hong Kong is a long-term societal problem. In Leung's blurb about her documentary, she states: "While Hong Kong people are fighting for a fair general election, we should also put the principle of equality in practice in our daily life by fighting for equal rights to know for the Deaf." The Silent Struggle was featured in the Umbrella Festival 2015's "Umbrella Assemblage" video presentation.
Van Drivers is a documentary by Kanas Liu that documents one yellow-ribbon van driver who struggles to coordinate a small volunteer fleet of self-organised, like-minded drivers who deliver water, umbrellas and other in-demand to the supply stations around the Admiralty area during the Occupy Movement. The documentary shows how these individuals respond to the Hong Kong Federation of Students' appeal to surround the government offices on the fifth day of the movement. Liu is a graduate of Lingnan University who majored in Cultural Studies. Van Drivers marks her first foray into documentary filmmaking, and she is now working on Van Drivers 2.


And have you any dreams you'd like to sell?"
P.S. Also check out my guest photo post here.
Oh it was in Kerala, I have forgotten exactly where :( I was just lucky to have been there when the fog swooped in like that.


There are two kinds of races: single races and tours.
You can take part in a race by adding your cyclists in your teams tactics for that race. You will find those team tactics in the calendar. For every participating cyclist you'll have to pay 1000$ participation fee. Don't let this stop you from selecting your mediocre cyclists too, because the more cyclists selected, the better the performance of every cyclist from your team during that race.
The race results are calculated at 13h00. The race engine is complex, because it takes in account many variables. Let's take a brief look at them.
The amount of flat, hill, mountain and downhill.
Your cyclists skills for flat, hill, mountain and downhill.
At the end of each race, 10% of the total distance is driven with the sprint skill of the cyclists and also a little bit of the skill corresponding to the profile of the terrain.
Falls: when a cylist falls during a race, he will have to race 3 extra kms on the terrain he has fallen onto. E.g.: when your cyclist falls on a mountain, he will cycle 3 extra mountain kilometers. After that he will continue his race.
However, a fall in a race might cause an injury. The injury proneness of a cyclist determines how often a fall will lead to a injury. If injured, your cyclist won't finish in the actual race.
Flats: when a cyclist has a flat tyre, he will have to race 1 extra km on the terrain he encoutered this.
Experience, leadership of the leader of you team: the higher these skills, the better your cyclists perform.
Mood: the higher the mood of your cyclist, the better he will perform.
1 Cyclist A has 100% fitness and races at 70% effort. He will use 100%*70%= 70% of his possibilities.
2 Cyclist B has 80% fitness and races at 85% effort. He will use 80%*85%= 69% of his possibilities.
3 Cyclist C has 60% fitness and races at 100% effort. He will use 60%*100%= 60 of his possibilities.
Intermediate sprints: cyclists that are selected for intermediate sprints, will race 3 kms on sprint skill before every intermediate sprint instead of the other cyclists that will simply race on the skill appropriate to the terrain.
The sprint skill is used a second time, but in a completely different way, at the end of each race (except in time trials). To assure that sprinters will perform better the more flat the race is (as it is in real life), one fourth of the amount of flat kilometres is added for each race. All cyclists will do those extra kilometres entirely on the sprint skill. E.g.: If a race counts 44kms of flat, 11 kms of sprint will be added for all cyclist, using only their sprint skill.
As for now, the weather has no influence on the game. This might change in the future.
In single races there's a maximum of 100.000$ victory bonus awarded. However, you won't always win the full amount because it is dependent on the number of participating teams.
If at least 70 cyclists participate, the full amount is awarded. For every cyclist less the victory bonus diminishes with 1%.
E.g.: if 55 cyclists participate, there are 15 cyclist short for a full victory bonus, which means only 85% will be divided.
In tour races the maximum victory bonus is 50.000$.
Time trials are marked as ITT (Individual Time Trial) or TTT (Team Time Trial).
Time trials are calculated quite differently than normal races because they make use of the time trial skill of your cyclists.
Normally the speed of a cyclist on a terrain is mainly dependent on his skill for that terrain.
Cyclist A will race a lot faster than cyclist B in a normal race on flat terrain, due to his good flat skill.
This is not necessarily true in time trials, because the time trial skill is counted double and than added to the appropriate terrain skill to calculate a cyclists speed.
For cyclist A, this means he'll race with a total skill on flat of 8+(2*3)= 8+6= 14.
Cyclist B will ride the time trial with a total skill of 5+(2*7)= 5+14=19.
That means cyclist B will be faster than cyclist A in a time trial, due to his Time Trial skill.
In team time trials, your team will be given the average time of your cyclists. So choose wisely, winning team time trials is a matter of selecting an overall well performing time trial team.


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A two-year contract approved for 370 classified employees by the Carson City School Board includes a salary-grade increase for interpreters working with deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
State law requires such staff to reach a higher competency level on a proficiency test than in the past, and teachers reaching that level will be paid more by the Carson City School District.
The largest jump possible is five grades with an increase in pay up to $3.12 an hour once the interpreter meets the new standard.
Also in the contract is a 2 percent raise for classified employees in the 2005-06 school year and 4 percent in the 2006-07 year.
Under the new contract, retroactive to July 1 and continuing through July 2007, the school district will also re-classify some of its instructional assistants as para-professionals.
This change, which will occur in the 2006-07 year, is happening because a high level of proficiency is needed by instructional aides. They need to have an associate's degree in education or 48 hours of credit from a community college or university.
An instructional aide at the starting level will jump two pay grades and make 91 cents more per hour.


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Dave Heath ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Dave Heath (Fotograf) (David Martin Heath; 1931–2016), US-amerikanischer Fotograf
 Dave Heath (Komponist) (David Heath; * 1956), britischer Komponist

Siehe auch:
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Q: Enabling TLSv1.2 for Java Applets Can anyone help me out in making Java Applets to use TLSv1.2 while making server side connections which runs strictly TLSv1.2
Below code seems not working, any help is appreciated
<APPLET archive="large_archive.jar"
                   code="MyApplet"
                   width="300" height="300">
         <PARAM NAME="java_arguments" VALUE="-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2">
 </APPLET>

A: Go to the Java Control Panel -> Java Tab -> click the View... button to see the installed JRE then you can enter in the Runtime Parameters your -Dname=value.

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/*
 * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */
package nl.uva.cs.lobcder.rest;

import lombok.extern.java.Log;
import nl.uva.cs.lobcder.auth.MyPrincipal;
import nl.uva.cs.lobcder.catalogue.JDBCatalogue;
import nl.uva.cs.lobcder.resources.LogicalData;
import nl.uva.cs.lobcder.util.Constants;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.ws.rs.*;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.logging.Level;

/**
 * REST Web Service
 *
 * @author dvasunin
 */
@Log
public class DRItemsResource {

    JDBCatalogue catalogue = null;
    HttpServletRequest request = null;
    HttpServletResponse servletResponse = null;
    UriInfo info = null;

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of ItemsResource
     */
    public DRItemsResource(JDBCatalogue catalogue, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse servletResponse, UriInfo info) {
        this.catalogue = catalogue;
        this.request = request;
        this.servletResponse = servletResponse;
        this.info = info;
    }

    private void setDirSupervised(Long uid, Boolean flag, PreparedStatement ps1, PreparedStatement ps2) throws SQLException {
        ps1.setBoolean(1, flag);
        ps1.setLong(2, uid);
        ps1.executeUpdate();
        ArrayList<Long> uidArrayList = new ArrayList<>();
        ps2.setLong(1, uid);
        ResultSet rs = ps2.executeQuery();
        while (rs.next()) {
            Long _uid = rs.getLong(1);
            if (_uid != 1) {
                uidArrayList.add(_uid);
            }
        }
        for (Long uid1 : uidArrayList) {
            setDirSupervised(uid1, flag, ps1, ps2);
        }
    }

    @Path("supervised/{flag}")
    @PUT
    public void setSupervised(@PathParam("flag") Boolean param, @QueryParam("path") String path) {
        try (Connection cn = catalogue.getConnection()) {
            MyPrincipal mp = (MyPrincipal) request.getAttribute("myprincipal");
            if (mp.isAdmin()) {
                try {
                    LogicalData logicalData;
                    if (path == null || path.isEmpty()) {
                        logicalData = catalogue.getLogicalDataByUid(1L, cn);
                    } else {
                        logicalData = catalogue.getLogicalDataByPath(io.milton.common.Path.path(path), cn);
                    }
                    catalogue.setLogicalDataSupervised(logicalData.getUid(), param, cn);
                    if (logicalData.isFolder()) {
                        try (PreparedStatement ps1 = cn.prepareStatement("UPDATE ldata_table SET isSupervised=? WHERE parentRef = ?");
                                PreparedStatement ps2 = cn.prepareStatement("SELECT uid FROM ldata_table WHERE parentRef = ? AND datatype = '" + Constants.LOGICAL_FOLDER + "'")) {
                            setDirSupervised(logicalData.getUid(), param, ps1, ps2);
                        }
                    }
                    cn.commit();
                } catch (SQLException e) {
                    DRItemsResource.log.log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
                    cn.rollback();
                }
            } else {
                log.warning("NOT a superuser: want change DRI flag for " + path);
            }
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            log.log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
            throw new WebApplicationException(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
        }
    }
}

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