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Shir Hever discusses the strategy of the Israeli offensive cyber company NSO, its roots in the notorious Israeli "8200" military intelligence unit, and how it crossed a line that very few companies dare cross.
GREG WILPERT: Welcome to the Real News Network. I'm Greg Wilpert in Arlington, Virginia.
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, launched a lawsuit against the Israeli company NSO Group, a company that specializes in cyberattacks, hacking and spying. Facebook had discovered that NSO hacked 1,400 WhatsApp users in 20 countries, including the United States. The program that NSO created to do this is called Pegasus or Q Suite. The hacking software makes a video call from an unknown number to the target of the attack. Even if the call isn't answered, the Pegasus user can control the hacked phone and even log keystrokes to obtain passwords entered on the phone. Facebook launched the lawsuit, suspended Facebook profiles of NSO workers and also informed the 1,400 users of WhatsApp whose phones were hacked. It also claims that the security breach in WhatsApp has been fixed.
NSO Group argues that it only sells its programs to authorized law enforcement agencies of governments, and solely for the purpose of fighting terrorism. However, the Canadian based cybersecurity organization, Citizen Lab argues that it found 100 cases in which NSO Group used the program to attack human rights activists such as in Mexico and the UAE. Even more concerning is a report from Abdulaziz, a Canadian activist of Saudi origin, who says that NSO Group hacked his conversations with Washington Post reporters, Jamal Khashoggi, on behalf of Saudi Arabia, which then led to the murder of Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul last year.
Joining me to discuss the WhatsApp hacking case is Shir Hever. He's a Real News correspondent based in Heidelberg, Germany and is the author of the book The Privatization of Israeli Security, which was published by Pluto Press in 2017. Welcome back, Shir.
SHIR HEVER: Thanks for having me, Greg.
GREG WILPERT: So let's start with what you can tell us about NSO Group. It's a company that boasts that its workers are graduates from the Israeli military intelligence unit, known as 8200. What is this unit and why is this relevant to the way that the NSO Group operates?
SHIR HEVER: So the unit 8200 is one of the most prestigious units in the Israeli military and many Israeli candidates in the military try to get into that unit because they know it will guarantee them a job in the high tech sector, especially in the cyber security sector. And what the unit itself does, is to survey mainly Palestinians, and use SIGINT technology. SIGINT is signal intelligence, meaning that they eavesdrop on phone conversations, use surveillance cameras and biometric machines to track people's movements and conversations, and to record everything they say.
And about five years ago, a group of 8200 officers launched a letter, a protest letter. And from that letter we can learn quite a lot about what this unit is doing, and they said that they are prying into the private lives of Palestinians in order to later blackmail Palestinians using that information. For example, if they have a sick member of their family, they would use that information to put pressure on that Palestinian, give us information or your sick relative will not get medical treatment. Or if they know that somebody is secretly a homosexual, they would use that information and say that "we will out you unless you give us information."
So this is what the unit is doing. And NSO Group, which is a company created by the graduates of that unit, is a company that offers offensive cybersecurity, meaning that they survey very aggressively. Hack into phones, they boast that they can even hack the iPhone, and get information for their clients, for the customers. And there's an Israeli journalist, Hagar Shezaf from Haaretz newspaper. She managed to interview some members of the NSO Group. And from her interviews she was able to surmise that, unlike other cybersecurity companies, NSO Group is willing to cross red lines and is willing to use industrial espionage and to survey and hack people's phones, even in the United States, something that most companies are very much afraid to do. But NSO Group is willing to cross that line and that's the reason that they're being sued right now.
GREG WILPERT: Now, Facebook actually has a branch in Israel, and it often cooperates with the Israeli authorities, even providing Israeli police with personal data of Facebook users, so that they can use algorithms to identify people that it wants to arrest before they commit a crime. So why did Facebook actually decide to launch a lawsuit against NSO in a federal court in San Francisco, and not in Israel?
SHIR HEVER: So about three years ago, the Israeli minister of police Gilad Erdan, the Minister of Internal Security, said that Facebook has blood on its hands. Because according to him, there are people who are Palestinian terrorists who are planning to make attacks and are writing their plans, openly, on Facebook. But Facebook refuses to allow the Israeli Government to access that information, to collect data from people in order to arrest them preemptively. Now this was something that was initially very laughed at, because why would Facebook take such a statement seriously?
But then, to the horror of many activists, Facebook decided to cooperate with the Israeli government and allowed the Israeli government to access this information. And in fact, a lot of activists, who are in solidarity with the Palestinian Freedom Movement, have noticed that their Facebook accounts have been closed or censored, posts have been taken down, and Facebook groups have been closed by the Facebook corporation. Because I think Facebook wants to be on the side of the Israeli government, not out of some kind of ideology, but because they know that the Israeli government has more resources and funding and also the pro-Israeli movement has more money than the Palestinian Freedom Movement.
But I think now we get a better glimpse of what Facebook really thinks about Israel and Palestine, because Facebook is quite aware that when, for example, the victims of NSO hacking in Mexico, those human rights lawyers and human rights activists who were investigating the disappearance of the students, and their phones were hacked by this Pegasus program. They hired an Israeli lawyer and launched a lawsuit against NSO Group inside Israel. And of course that didn't bring them anything, because there is complete impunity in Israel to companies that violate human rights and soldiers that violate human rights. Soldiers such as the members of the unit 8200.
And in this kind of environment of impunity, the Israeli legal system cannot be trusted to seek out what's right and to protect the rights of victims, especially if these victims are not Israelis. Just now we are hearing that Israeli Supreme court rejected the appeal of Omar Shakira, the head of Human Rights Watch, just because the Israeli government wants to deport him, accusing him of supporting the BDS movement, which Human Rights Watch does not, actually. But the fact that he's being deported anyway, and I think all the Israeli legal system is aware, the judges, the lawyers, they're all aware that this is a complete sham, but they're afraid.
They're afraid because the Israeli government, the current Minister of Justice Amir Ohana has said we shouldn't be listening to judges when they make rulings that are relevant to politics because they have not been elected, so they don't speak for the people. And this kind of populist, anti-judicial system talk, means that the Israeli judges are just afraid. So there is no way that they're going to rule against an Israeli company, NSO Group. But a federal court is much more likely to take this lawsuit seriously, of course if the fine that will be levied on NSO Group will be large enough, that company will go bankrupt.
GREG WILPERT: Now, despite your criticisms of Facebook, isn't it positive that Facebook is at least launching this lawsuit and that this action could help protect future victims of NSO Group from surveillance?
SHIR HEVER: Well, on the face of it, yes. And of course if NSO Group goes bankrupt because of this lawsuit, that would be a good thing. We don't want to have these kinds of offensive cyber companies operating and risking civil society activists and human rights activists around the world. But we also have to understand what it means when a private corporation like Facebook launches a lawsuit like this, not in order to protect the privacy of its user, but rather in order to protect the prestige of its product, WhatsApp. And WhatsApp has this kind of image of a peer to peer encryption program that is supposed to be secure, and when Facebook has to admit that 1400 users have been hacked, then this is something that hurts their market value.
So that's why they're launching a lawsuit. But what I'm really wondering is, where is the criminal side of this? The criminal legal side of this, of protecting the rights of citizens. And here we expect, not a corporation, but rather governments to rise up to the occasion and launch lawsuits against NSO Group. Or actually not even launch lawsuits, this is a matter that justifies arresting the workers at NSO Group, for charges of espionage and violating human rights. So this is what is really important here, and the more commercial issue, and commercial law, about whether NSO Group has damaged the prestige of WhatsApp, the company, the product is the small part of this story.
GREG WILPERT: Well that actually leads to the next question, which is, what else can governments do, or should they do, to protect their citizens from private multinational corporations that engage in this kind of surveillance on them, and invade their privacy?
SHIR HEVER: I think we're now in the middle of a period where there is a lot of privatization of security. Where governments are stepping back from their obligation to provide security to their citizens, because they know that companies are going to take that load from them. And because those companies are also lobbying politicians and making sure that the politicians step aside and let them take this market that used to be completely under government control and turn it into another private sector. So now Facebook is taking a kind of regulatory role, that you don't expect a corporation to take, by going after NSL Group.
But on the other hand, if we say what we want is that government regulation would put a stop to companies like NSL Group and prevent them from operating, then it does raise the very difficult question, how are they going to do that? Do we expect governments, for example, to survey themselves? To do counter-surveillance? And to clamp down on freedom of speech? And to say that certain companies, the kind of information that they are providing or the kind of programs that they are providing is violating human rights, so that should be stopped. And who will make sure that the government is not using those regulatory tools that are supposed to protect citizens from surveillance as tools to prevent civil society organizations from speaking up and raising important issues?
So that is actually a dilemma. And I think this could be solved only by creating regulatory bodies that are independent, that are not directly answerable to politicians and to parliaments, but rather bodies that also include members from civil society and members from academia and members who are experts on the field, that will come up with ways to create regulation that really protects the rights of the users of social media and the rights of citizens.
GREG WILPERT: Now finally, what can individuals do to protect themselves from this kind of surveillance? I mean, would it be better not to use WhatsApp at all, or to be careful with what we write?
SHIR HEVER: Yeah, I think that's another issue that… I see a lot of the coverage on the story of the lawsuit of Facebook against NSO Group that people are saying, "Well why don't you use another messaging program? for example. I don't want to do any kind of commercials for alternative messaging programs. People should make up their own decisions. But I do want to say, that the power of SIGINT, the signal intelligence that the unit 8200 is doing, and companies like NSO Group are doing, is that it silences free speech because people are afraid that everything they say is being recorded and could be used against them in the future.
And if you already sensor yourself, then they've actually succeeded in controlling the public discourse. So being careful about what you say on these platforms has a very heavy cost to it. And I think the best protection against this kind of surveillance, and this kind of attempt to control the discourse in silenced dissident voices, is not to censor ourselves, but rather to be very open about what we say and to publish our criticism openly so that we don't have to be afraid that people are going to survey on us in order to collect that kind of information, because it's already in the public sphere.
GREG WILPERT: Okay. Well that's very interesting, but we're going to have to leave it there. I was speaking to Shir Hever, Real News correspondent based in Heidelberg, Germany. Thanks again Shir for having joined us today.
SHIR HEVER: Thanks, Greg.
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Q: Driver problems with fresh install of Win 7 Home Premium on Toshiba Satellite laptop I have a Toshiba Satellite L875D-S7332 laptop that had Windows 8 preinstalled on a hard drive that crashed.  I got a new hard drive and installed Windows 7 Home Premium from a DVD.  To do this I had to change the BIOS settings from "UEFI Boot" to "CSM Boot".  The OS installed with no problems, but many devices are not recognized by the OS.  Downloading and installing drivers from Toshiba's web site has not helped.
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A: I found that Toshiba's European web site has Windows 7 drivers that are not available on their US site:
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Q: Making a  Clickable in Wordpress I'm working on modifying an existing wordpress portfolio page. All that is left to do is to make it so when the user clicks anywhere in the article list the link will open. Currently it is just when the title or image is clicked.
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A: NewToJS was in the right area when saying it could be a problem with the access to the jQuery library. In this case I had linked jQuery correctly, it was tested and working.
jQuery in Wordpress needs to be enqueued by adding the following into functions.php
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My fault was because I didn't change the '$' to 'jQuery' as this is necessary when working with Wordpress.
Here is the incorrect usage :
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In our experience, we have seen many issues related to failed financial planning initiatives. This blog post will highlight the top four offenders we commonly see our clients face.
Data – Data is king. Weak data management makes simple tasks such as accessing actuals or forecast scenarios extremely difficult. There is no guarantee that once you reach your data it will be accurate, so focus on data is critical.
Lack of Integrated Planning Tools – Although sophisticated technology solutions exist for budgeting and planning, many organizations are still running on Excel. However, spreadsheets are an ineffective way to integrate inputs from many users. Multiple scenarios are hard to run due to limitations of managing data by spreadsheets. Planners spend their time trying to link spreadsheets together or diagnose issues that crop up within their spreadsheets.
Get planning closer to your business strategy?
Work with business units and departments to introduce drivers?
Accomplish better variance reporting and analytics?
Produce corporate roll-up of plan and what-if scenarios?
Unclear business purpose and alignment – As if there weren't enough problems already, planners are often so frustrated they ask themselves and their team, "Why are we doing this?" Many corporations have not created a culture where accountability and transparency are expected. This undermines the efforts of financial planning teams whose reports may in turn affect the outcome of variable compensation.
Do any of these issues resonate with what you and your organization face? Stay tuned to our blog, and we will review four 'must-haves' that we believe are critical for success in financial planning initiatives and have the ability to make a huge impact on your efforts.


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Research ArticleRheumatoid Arthritis
Anticyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibodies and Rheumatoid Factor as Risk Factors for 10-year Cardiovascular Morbidity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Large Inception Cohort Study
Mike L.T. Berendsen, Marissa C. van Maaren, Elke E.A. Arts, Alfons A. den Broeder, Calin D. Popa and Jaap Fransen
The Journal of Rheumatology September 2017, 44 (9) 1325-1330; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.160670
Mike L.T. Berendsen
From the Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Centre; Department of Rheumatology, St. Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen; Department of Rheumatology, Bernhoven Hospital, Uden, the Netherlands.
Marissa C. van Maaren
Elke E.A. Arts
Alfons A. den Broeder
Calin D. Popa
For correspondence: calin.popa@radboudumc.nl
Jaap Fransen
Objective. To determine whether anticyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP) and rheumatoid factor (RF) are risk factors for 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Methods. Analyses were performed using data from the Nijmegen early RA inception cohort, in which patients with newly diagnosed RA, consecutively included since 1985, were regularly followed up. Anti-CCP and RF were determined at baseline (diagnosis). Outcome was the first cardiovascular disease (CVD) event [ischemic heart disease, nonhemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident (CVA), or peripheral artery disease (PAD)] after baseline as retrieved from physician diagnosis. Fatality was checked against death certificates. Cox regression including correction for baseline confounders was performed to estimate the effect of anti-CCP, RF, and their interaction on 10-year CVD-free survival.
Results. Of 929 patients included, 628 were anti-CCP–positive and 697 were RF-positive. During followup, with a median of 7.5 years, 162 CV events were observed (101 ischemic heart disease, 45 CVA, and 16 PAD), of which 15 were fatal. The HRadjusted for anti-CCP was 1.17 (95% CI 0.82–1.67) and the HRadjusted for RF was 1.52 (95% CI 1.00–2.30). The association of RF positivity with CVD was even stronger in the anti-CCP–negative patients: HRadjusted 2.09 (95% CI 1.18–3.71). There was no significant interaction (p = 0.098) between anti-CCP and RF.
Conclusion. Rather than anti-CCP, presence of RF was associated with CVD in this cohort of patients with RA.
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ANTICYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODIES
Accepted for publication April 26, 2017.
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February 7, 2014 6:22 pm #161
Consulting Criminal
You're right, both are equally great.
But I was referring to The Canon!
Quite so; I have no difficulty with accepting that men can love each other deeply in the way that women can love each other deeply, and, as far as I can tell, ACD felt the same. The problems start when we try to shoehorn our ideas of what people's relationships should be into what people's relationships actually are.
Fortunately Moftiss are ACD fanboys, and have no inclination to overturn The Canon, which is just as well because one of the reasons it remains so fascinating is that ACD got the central relationship exactly right; mess with that and there is a very high probability that you mess it up. After all, 'Sherlock and John get married and live happily ever after' is the kiss of death to 'Sherlock and John have lots of interesting adventures together', not least because one of the things which make the adventures interesting is that they may result in no 'happily ever after' for either of them.
I love to read those parts of The Canon which reveal the depths of the love between Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson; I don't feel that it would be even better if it was romantic love because that seems to me to undermine the very idea of love itself, and suggest that what they have is, in some way, inferior to 'the real thing'. I think they've got the real thing already
Willow, if I could hug you-I would!
Incidentally, I've just watched the Apple store footage and I thought Martin's comments on ' fan response' to be the most interesting of all...
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February 8, 2014 2:47 am #163
I would be very happy for a virtual hug
I have only managed to get the transcript, so I may be missing nuances of tone and gesture, but it did seem they were trying to get some facts of life through to the audience, in a very nice way; one of them being that writers eschew fanfic for fear of being accused of plagiarism, and another is that actors create their characters from their lines and the directors input.; the last thing that Benedict needs when he's doing that is someone messing up his brain with cries of 'but you should be acting it differently.'
But yes; Martin's comment was pretty straightforward. Appreciative support and exercising ones artistic talents are great, a Stalinist viewpoint which drives the belief that there is but one true way, and anyone not agreeing with it is a evil scheming person, is not great, and he doesn't like it.
Well, I possibly wouldn't have quite put that gloss on it!
I was more thinking of Amanda's hate mail:cos how dare a woman come between the 2 boys who are obviosuly shagging each other senseless in all the off screen time!
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Could you please watch your language here a little more, bb? Thanks
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Eventually everyone will support Johnlock. Independent OSAJ Affiliate
... but there may be some new players now. It's okay. The East Wind takes us all in the end.
February 8, 2014 10:46 am #166
Tho it was deliberate, to make a point.
Can't promise, but I will try.
But you realize there had better be no instances of anybody else getting away with swearing!
holmes23
From: India
The following exchange beween Holmes and the clent from SCAN when the latter is not okay with Watson's presence:
"I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate with you alone."
I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me."
Such loyalty.
holmes23 wrote:
It's a wonderful exchange; thank you for reminding us!
February 10, 2014 2:54 am #170
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nicbooful wrote:
Yes, it would be tragic but at the sametime beautiful. I don't know really, but I always imagine SH as a tragic hero.
If we could read in between lines, we would realise canon is not just about crimes and detection but about exploring the nuances of the relationships between the main characters.
For example, what do you all think of this paasage from The Norwood Builder?
At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street. A young doctor, named Verner, had purchased my small Kensington practice, and given with astonishingly little demur the highest price that I ventured to ask–an incident which only explained itself some years later, when I found that Verner was a distant relation of Holmes, and that it was my friend who had really found the money.
At the very least, this certainly speaks to how much Holmes wanted Watson back, and the buying of the practice makes me feel like he wants to "possess" Watson... wants Watson to "belong" to him. I don't mean in the CAM sense, certainly, more in a "committed relationship" way. It sounds a little bit like a proposal. Not that Holmes would even necessarily have said it that way to Watson, but he did ask Watson to, by giving up his practice, make a long-term commitment to be a partner to Holmes in some sense. Are Holmes and Watson sharing the client fees? Or is Holmes supporting Watson financially?
From The Illustrious Client:
I think I could show you the very paving-stone upon which I stood when my eyes fell upon the placard, and a pang of horror passed through my very soul. It was between the Grand Hotel and Charing Cross Station, where a one-legged news-vender displayed his evening papers. The date was just two days after the last conversation. There, black upon yellow, was the terrible news-sheet:
MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON
I think I stood stunned for some moments. Then I have a confused recollection of snatching at a paper, of the remonstrance of the man, whom I had not paid, and, finally, of standing in the doorway of a chemist's shop while I turned up the fateful paragraph.
I need not say that my eyes had hardly glanced over the paragraph before I had sprung into a hansom and was on my way to Baker Street
The sufferer was wide awake, and I heard my name in a hoarse whisper.............
I sat beside him and bent my head.
"All right, Watson. Don't look so scared," he muttered in a very weak voice. "It's not as bad as it seems."
"Thank God for that!"
"What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I'll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word."
As much as I wouldn't normally want to see any guy on television hit his wife, I was kind of disappointed BBC's John didn't have a reaction more like this when Mary shot Sherlock.
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From The Devil's Foot
At the same moment, in some effort of escape, I broke through that cloud of despair and had a glimpse of Holmes's face, white, rigid, and drawn with horror–the very look which I had seen upon the features of the dead. It was that vision which gave me an instant of sanity and of strength. I dashed from my chair, threw my arms round Holmes, and together we lurched through the door, and an instant afterwards had thrown ourselves down upon the grass plot and were lying side by side, conscious only of the glorious sunshine..,
Oh my...can't wait to read that part!
Series 4, yes?
In canon, when Holmes apologizes for this, Watson replies, "It is my greatest joy and privilege to help you." In the series with Jeremy Brett Watson actually bawls Holmes out for this experiment...which Holmes acknowledges he deserves.
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Ironically, I do feel Holmes and Watson are far more openly affectionate with each other than the BBC Sherlock boys and I rather regret that.
YES! The word "love" is even used, and Holmes frequently touches Watson or invades his personal space in some manner.
Jeremy Brett was a very affectionate Holmes, too, especially with the second of the two Watsons in that series, which was Brett's real-life friend Edward Hardwicke. Brett didn't like when Holmes had to kiss Milverton's maid (the original Janine) in that series, because he didn't think it fit Holmes, given Holmes' ambiguous sexuality.
Of course, Brett himself had at least one (I think, two) romances with other men.
I think ACD's Holmes and Watson's relationship (be it a friendship or whatever) is overall healthier than in BBC, even though there is a leader-follower thing going on, and even though Holmes does say less-than-kind things when Watson fails to deduce like Holmes does.
BBC's John and Sherlock have more frequent instances of fighting, and being mean to each other, than any other Holmes and Watson I have seen.
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In Redheaded League, Watson arrives while Holmes is already with the client, and Watson offers to "wait in the next room." The author of the Decoding the Subtext blog (previously posted) thinks he's offering to wait in Holmes' bedroom. Regardless, it appears Watson was coming to visit Holmes for some purpose other than a case.
And during SCAN, Watson is married, yet spends the night at Baker Street. In Twisted Lip, married Watson rescues a friend from an opium dean (yes, HLV used that one), runs into Holmes there, and accompanies Holmes to the home of Holmes' newly-acquired client to spend the night...in the same guest room, which is referred to as "doubled-bedded," though I think there are two beds.
I suspect it could well have been a double bed.
No problem with 2 male friends sharing a bed.
February 10, 2014 5:13 pm #176
SherlocklivesinOH wrote:
At the very least, this certainly speaks to how much Holmes wanted Watson back, and the buying of the practice makes me feel like he wants to "possess" Watson... wants Watson to "belong" to him. I don't mean in the CAM sense, certainly, more in a "committed relationship" way. It sounds a little bit like a proposal. Not that Holmes would even necessarily have said it that way to Watson, but he did ask Watson to, by giving up his practice, make a long-term commitment to be a partner to Holmes in some sense.
Holmes really wanted Watson back at any cost. But he never disclosed, at least for a few years, to Watson that it was he who actually found the money. Why the secrecy? Was he afraid to hurt Watson's pride?
Just imagin the scene which was never written, when Watson reported Holmes about how a man named Verner was ready to purchase his practice by paying the highest price he ventured to ask, and Holmes pretending that it's the first time he heard of Verner
At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street.
ACD could have stopped here. It's enough for a detective fiction writer to put the sidekick back to his rightful place. But he didn't. He continued:
A young doctor, named Verner, had purchased my small Kensington practice, and given with astonishingly little demur the highest price that I ventured to ask–an incident which only explained itself some years later, when I found that Verner was a distant relation of Holmes, and that it was my friend who had really found the money.
Why? The plot doesn't require these words - not a read herring or anything. Are these words required to show their deep friendship? But it's a passage about the secrecy on Holmes' part. Imo, it's to show the complex relationship that exists between them.
Are Holmes and Watson sharing the client fees? Or is Holmes supporting Watson financially?
It's not an easy question to answer! Holmes and Watson sharing the client fees would make their relationship a pragmatic one.
The concept of Holmes supporting Watson financially isn't altogether a good one, because it would make the balance of their relationship change. Canon never gives the idea that Watson is inferior to Holmes because of his lack of wealth.
Though it was the monetory considerations which brought them together for the first time, ever after that it never seems to be a matter of importance when the two are concerned. Watson never is a greedy person, he is attracted to Holmes not because of the latter's wealth.
"Your check book is locked in my drawer, and you have not asked for the key" - DANC
Yes, there are lines like these, but just to add complexity to their already complex relationship.
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Q: Need Validation on html dropdownlist with data from Viewbag I know I'm not supposed to use the Viewbag and that I should build a menu using Html.DropDowlListFor() so that i can add attribute bound to the members of the model, BUT, that would involve a pretty extensive code rewrite....
I have a custom controller with a menu:
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<%: Html.DropDownList("CityIDs", new SelectList(ViewBag.cities, "Id", "Name"), "--Select--", new { style = "width:200px" })%>
<%= Html.ValidationMessage("CityIDs") %>

The List populates just fine and I can default to the top item to "--Select--"
The prbolem is that I want the validation error to occur on anything that is not from the viewbag.... how can I achieve this?

A: Validation for dropdown lists only ensures that something was posted. If you want to ensure that the value that was posted is actually one of a set of "allowed" values, then you'll have to manually do that in your post action:
var cityIds = db.Cities.Select(m => m.Id);
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if (ModelState.IsValid)
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Two things:

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*Notice that I'm pulling the city ids straight from the database (the actual code you'd need here, of course, depends on your specific implementation). The important thing, though, is that ViewBag only survives a single request, so you can't look for them in ViewBag after posting.

*Despite the pluralized name of CityIDs, using the DropDownList helper ensures that only a single selected value will exist. If this is actually supposed to be a multiselect, then you need to use ListBox instead, and update this conditional here to account for check for multiple values.

A: Populates the top item with Text =  "--Select--" and Value = ""
which will post a blank value for CityIDs and cause an error in ModelState.


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La braggita es un mineral de la clase de los minerales sulfuros. Descubierto en 1932 fue nombrada en honor de William Henry Bragg (1862-1942), siendo este el primer nuevo mineral que fue aislado y determinado por el método de los rayos X.

Características químicas
Aunque en tratados antiguos aparece este mineral con platino, níquel y paladio en su fórmula, la IMA acepta que este mineral es el extremo de una serie de solución sólida de fórmula PtS, estando en el otro extremo de la serie la vysotskita -de fórmula (Pd,Ni)S-, dando la familia de minerales de la serie con los tres metales.

Formación y yacimientos
Aparece en cavidades de rocas máficas intrusivas con esquistosidad. Se forma a altas temperaturas magmáticas.

Usos
Es buscado en las minas como mena del precioso metal platino.

Referencias

 Braggita, mindat.org.
 Braggita, webmineral.com.
 Manual de braggita, Mineral Data Publishing.

Minerales sulfuros
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Minerales descubiertos en Sudáfrica
Minerales descubiertos en 1932
Minerales epónimos

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The city of Cochabamba has its central square "September 14th" that since the Water War of 2000 is characterized in that it develop various social and cultural activities. It is in this context that the Red Tinku active in the "Plaza del Agua" exposing information panels, educational, holding exhibitions, fairs and film festivals, poetry, books, educational workshops, film forum, etc. This year in August, the Plaza "September 14th" receive hundreds of visitors for the Summer Holidays houses and a good opportunity to demonstrate the potential of participatory culture and people in the square.
Volunteers in logistics support to develop cultural events in the square. Promoting activities promoted events and visiting media. Participate in the organization of cultural activities that will develop day full central square "September 14th"
in the dissemination of community meetings and Kollasuyu that are culturally shared between Southern Peru, Bolivia, Northern Chile and Argentina. This year the event will be held in the Aymara region of Arica, Chile.
- Volunteers prepare events towards the meeting.
- Volunteers will participate in the Annual Meeting of Communities and Kollasuyu.
City of Cochabamba and Northern Chile, Arica.
Buildings in Cochabamba and Northern Chile (Arica).


Another day of racing for Planet Energy team in NY State, the Tour of the Battenkill, a 200km course (2 circuits of 100km) with paved and unpaved roadways.
Planet Energy's François Parisien finished 3rd with Karl Menzies of OUCH 2nd behind solo rider Scott Nydam of BMC in 1st position.
Nydam led an early break with another rider, then escaped to finish the final lap solo. Frank escaped from the peloton and was alone behind Nydam at 50sec (2min into the 2nd lap). Menzies bridged to Frank into the last 10-20km to go.


The Gilbert Kiwi Pro is comfortable and tough enough to withstand the beatings of rugby, these shorts are suitable to all levels of play from youth to international. The Gilbert clothing range has been designed to meet the requirements of all players and coaching staff, providing on the pitch style and performance. In meeting both individual needs of players and also the demands of Team Management, the collection provides Teamwear flexibility and high performance functionality for Clubs and Schools, whatever their requirements.
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Luxurious textiles and clothing accessories have been handmade for thousands of years.
The silk weaving business has flourished in Kyoto for more than a thousand years. The origin of the name Nishijindates back to the Onin War, when the army general Yamana Sozen set up camp in western Japan. Experienced craftsmen continue to carry out elaborate work during every stage of the complex process. Their finely-honed skills crystallize in the form of a magnificent sash which can be handed down from generation to generation.
Braided cords have been made in Kyoto since the Heian period (794-1185). The cords evolved from a component of medieval armor to having a decorative use for tea utensils in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, and finally, as a cord for tying kimono sashes in the Edo period. These handmade cords are now used to hold a kimono sash tightly and comfortably in place.
From mural paintings of the Takamatsuzuka Tumulus to Hiroshige's world-famous ukiyo-e prints, this book encapsulates over 1,100 years of Japanese art. A selection of 101 representative paintings reproduced with world-class printing techniques, complete with simple commentary.
Text by Mieko Sawada. Photos by Yoshito Nakano. Edited by Japanese Books for Everyone.


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Sarto, Andrea del (Andrea d'Agnolo)
Florence, 1486 - Florence, 1530
Vasari (1511-1574), who was himself a pupil of Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) during the mid-1520s, indicated that this painter and draftsman trained under an obscure artist, Gian Barile, before moving to the workshop of Piero di Cosimo (1461/62-c. 1521). He gained independence in 1508 when, with Franciabigio (1484-1525), he established his own workshop. Around this time, del Sarto secured a number of important commissions, including that to execute five frescoes depicting the Life of S. Filippo Benizzi (1509-10) in the atrium of S. Anunziata in Florence. The following year, in 1511, he began work on frescoes for the refectory of S. Salvi, Florence but only in 1526-1527 was he able to complete the work. He also painted a cycle of grisaille frescoes of the Life of St. John the Baptist for the Chiostro dello Scalzo; records of payment survive from 1515 onwards, although stylistic analysis suggests that he began work on these some years earlier. By the end of the second decade, del Sarto had established himself not only as a leading local artist, but one with an international reputation also: in 1517, he executed his best-known altarpiece, the Madonna delle Arpie (Florence, Uffizi), while the following year was spent in France at the invitation of Francis I. After his return, he was invited in the early 1520s with Franciabigio and others to decorate the Medici villa at Poggio a Caiano. But this work was interrupted by the death of Pope Leo X in 1521, and del Sarto never completed his section (Turner, N.: From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International-Museo Nacional del Prado, 2008, p. 60).
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Sarto, Andrea del 1486 1530 Escuela Italiana
The Virgin with the Child
Oil on panel, XVI century
Sarto, Andrea del (Workshop of)
The Virgin with the Child, Saint John and Angels
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The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Oil on panel, First half of the XVI century
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Oil on panel, First quarter of the XVI century
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Oil on canvas mounted on panel, First quarter of the XVI century
Oil on panel, Ca. 1514
Saint John the Baptist with the Lamb
The Virgin and Child between Saint Matthew and an Angel
Oil on panel, 1522
The Sacrifice of Isaac


The Friends of Old Headington Enhancement Awards in 2016 were for two projects - the restoration of St Andrew's church tower and the Bury Knowle Barn and Stables conversion.
Veronica Hurst (left, past Chairman of the Friends of Old Headington) presents the Friends of Old Headington Enhancement Award 2016 to Judy Payne (Chairman of the Friends of St Andrew's Church) and Fr Darren McFarland (Vicar and Chairman of St Andrew's Parochial Church Council).
Photograph by Howard Stanbury for the Friends of Old Headington.
Veronica Hurst (left, past Chairman of the Friends of Old Headington) presents the Friends of Old Headington Enhancement Award 2016 to Dominique Sabatini and Craig Haller.


Jennifer Farley - Grace O'Malley - Pirate Queen!
Grace O'Malley - Pirate Queen!
A set of illustrations created for Irish publisher An Gum.
This is a set of illustrations created for Irish language publisher An Gum.
According to Irish legend, as a young girl Grace O'Malley wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father. Upon being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname "Gráinne Mhaol" (Irish pronunciation: from maol bald or having cropped hair). The name stuck, and was usually anglicised as Granuaile.
Eoghan Dubhdara Ó Máille, her father and his family were based in Clew Bay, County Mayo in Ireland. He was chieftain of the Ó Máille clan. The Uí Mháille (O'Malleys) were one of the few seafaring families on the west coast, and they built a row of castles facing the sea to protect their territory. Grace was married in 1546 to Dónal an Chogaidh Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Donal of the Battle) – he was much older than her and they had three children together.
O'Malley went to England and met with Elizabeth 1 at Greenwich Palace, wearing a fine gown, she refused to bow before Elizabeth because she did not recognise her as the Queen of Ireland.
Many folk stories and legends about O'Malley have survived since her days of pirating and trading with a huge number of traditional songs and poems about her.
The young Grace is unimpressed when her father will not allow her to join him on his ships.
Young Grace cuts off her hair to look like a boy.
Grown-up Grace at the wheel of her own ship.
Grace marries Dónal an Chogaidh Ó Flaithbheartaigh (Donal of the Battle), a much older man.
Grace meets Queen Elizabeth 1 of England.
The feisty Queen Elizabeth 1 of England.


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Nothing Wrong Selling National Assets - Wole Oke
Another Priest Killed As Nigeria Listed Among Dangerous Countries For Christians
Akpabio Breaks Silence On $5m NDDC Bribe Story
The controversy over the National Water Resources Bill is further widening the divide in the country at a time mutual suspicion is unprecedented.
The bill was rejected in the 8th Assembly, but has sneaked in this time around, fuelling suspicion of its intention.
However, Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, has said that when passed into law, the bill will protect all geo-political zones in the country.
He also said that it will better serve and provide for the enhancement of Nigeria's water sector in line with global best practices.
Adamu said the bill has nothing to do with management or control of inland water ways as misunderstood by some people whom he said have not gone through the bill to understand its contents.
According to him, "This National Water Resources Bill when passed into law will better serve and provide for the enhancement of the Nigeria water sector in line with global best practices hence, it will be in the overall best interest of every citizen, region and section of the country.
"The National Water Resources Bill seeks to eliminate conflicting roles of sector institutions and create seamless synergies among the agencies with focus on professionalizing the sector and to encourage specialization.
Many, however, do not buy the argument alleging that it is a move by the Federal government that is inimical to the growth and development of the country.
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, in a statement by South-south leader, Chief Edwin Clark, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Ohanaeze leader, Chief John Nwodo, and Middle Belt Forum, MBF, Dr. Pogu Bitrus accused the Buhari government of doing an obnoxious, vexatious and divisive overwork for herdsmen.
The group agreed with earlier comments by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State that the federal government was working on a pernicious agenda to permanently damage the country with unpopular measures such as the revived water resources bill.
Dollar Speculators In Agony As Naira Climbs
On his own part, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka warned that Nigeria would be doomed if the National Assembly passes the National Water Resources Bill.
He urged Nigerians to resist the bill.
Soyinka said "the National Water Resources bill is a deliberate, flanking move towards RUGA colonisation.
"It must be resisted across board. No compromising or this nation is doomed since it will be resisted by any and all means."
Earlier, Ortom, had called on the National Assembly to reject the National Water Resources Bill in the interest of the country.
Ortom said it was a "disguised land-grabbing legislation designed to grant pastoralists unhindered access to river basins, adjacent marine and coastal environments across the country."
In similar vein, Yoruba One Voice (YOV), called the bill "another RUGA policy".
"This is another version of RUGA policy to appropriate and grab land for pastoralists", the group said.
However, no notable northerner has spoken in favour or against.
So in which Interest is the bill?
Kaduna Govt Denies Knowledge Of Dadiyata's Fate


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Software such as Photoshop have so many features and options, that if someone does not show you exactly how to use them, it will be probably hard for you to learn them yourself. Or at least, would take much longer. That is why I decided to share with you this video presentation in which Hungarian graphic designer and official instructor from Adobe – Martin Perhiniak, explains clearly and understandably what are the basic techniques for working with the software.
One of the most useful features is the use of masks in Photoshop, by which to control the effects applied to images or parts of them. For some of you this method might be something common, for others it might be something new. Whatever your level of knowledge of Photoshop is, I'm sure that everyone will learn something new from the video bellow. Just keep in mind that it is 90 minutes long, but definitely worth watching.


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import static java.util.Collections.synchronizedList;

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    private EtdAttributeData() {
    }

    void put(String name, String value) {
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        }
    }

    boolean containsKey(String name) {
        return attributes.containsKey(name);
    }

    static class Builder {
        static EtdAttributeData build() {
            return new EtdAttributeData();
        }
    }
}

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According to a survey conducted by Pulse, 62% of Greeks believe the Prespes Agreement was bad.
The survey aired on Skai TV's nightly news bulletin showed that 62% of the respondents were opposed the agreement, while 27% of those asked considered it good. As for the voting intentions of the polled sample, the gap between major opposition party New Democracy (ND) and ruling SYRIZA remains at 10.5 points, with a reduction to the valid ones (9.5 percentage points in the voting intention).
An interesting point is that 40% of those who voted or SYRIZA in the 2015 general elections said they found the agreement negative.
ND received 33% on voting intention, while SYRIZA got 22.5% of the support.
Both parties have lost half a percentage unit compared to the corresponding December survey, both seeming to have suffered political damage during the culmination of the ratification process of the Prespes Agreement.
Extreme right party "Golden Dawn" came in third, standing at 8%, boosting its position by one percent. The Change Movement (KINAL) followed with 6.5%) and the Communist party KKE with 6%, both losing half a point.


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Too much space, too few students and taxpayers are paying for empty space. The result? Another round of school closings. That means the remaining schools will have larger enrollments and in most cases, larger class sizes. At the same time, a debate drags on regarding school size — is smaller better?
Have an educational planner or architect provide a professional analysis.
Appoint a citizen's advisory committee to develop an overview of the needs, and bring in professionals to help develop answers.
Create a close working relationship among the school, city and community.
Provide opportunities for the public to offer ideas and expertise. This can bring about the emotional climate needed to elicit community support.
Communicate the issues, options and solutions, and be good listeners.
Closing an old school building can benefit a district. Newly constructed facilities are a better fit with current educational philosophies, teaching and learning activities, delivery methodologies, security and technology. Also, new facilities are more economical to operate and maintain.
Administrators should determine whether demolition or adaptive reuse is the answer for neighborhood icons that have been around for 75 to 125 years. Some are marvelous works of architecture and could be candidates for the historic registry.
Consider different ways of addressing a temporary enrollment bulge, so a district can avoid being saddled with empty classrooms once the enrollment bulge is gone. Why not consider building a school in a commercial, light-industrial area that eventually could be sold for reuse as an office, manufacturing building or warehouse in the future?
Many creative ways exist to use surplus space and buildings. Consider renting the building or empty classrooms to an adjacent district or a charter school, or seek out businesses or other governmental agencies as tenants.
As the movement for smaller schools and smaller class sizes clashes with budgetary problems that lead to closed facilities and larger enrollments, administrators are being pulled in opposite directions. Administrators need to be prepared to cope with enrollment fluctuations.


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Q: Spring validation issue We are facing an issue in IBM RAD IDE environment (IBM JDK 1.6 as the runtime JRE) while executing a test case. The same code is running fine with Springsource IDE (Sun JDK 1.6 as the runtime JRE). Is it an issue with JDK or with Spring framework.
Brief code history :
There is a java bean as below
class User {
             final Map<Integer,String> securityQuestions = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap<Integer,String>(MAX_SECURITY_QUESTIONS));
            final Map<Integer,String> securityAnswers = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap<Integer,String>(MAX_SECURITY_QUESTIONS));

      public Map<Integer,String> getSecurityAnswers() {
            return securityAnswers;
        }

    public void setSecurityAnswer(Integer answerNumber, String answerText) {
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        }
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when we are trying to validate the 'securityAnswers'  using
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we are getting this exception.
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.NotReadablePropertyException: Invalid property 'securityAnswers' of bean class [User]: Bean property 'securityAnswers' is not readable or has an invalid getter method: Does the return type of the getter match the parameter type of the setter?
      at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.getPropertyValue(BeanWrapperImpl.java:705)
      at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.getPropertyValue(BeanWrapperImpl.java:697)
      at org.springframework.validation.AbstractPropertyBindingResult.getActualFieldValue(AbstractPropertyBindingResult.java:99)
      at org.springframework.validation.AbstractBindingResult.getFieldValue(AbstractBindingResult.java:226)
      at org.springframework.validation.ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmptyOrWhitespace(ValidationUtils.java:224)
      at org.springframework.validation.ValidationUtils.rejectIfEmptyOrWhitespace(ValidationUtils.java:182)

A: Sorry ! but I don't believe RAD has anything to do with this.The exception clearly states the reason why this is happening:

Does the return type of the getter match the parameter type of the setter?

Answer is no :)


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Book 'em on the beach! Thousands expected at Hawaii Five-0 premiere in Waikiki, Sept. 13
Derek Paiva,
HAWAII FIVE-0--Grace Park, Scott Caan, Alex O'Loughlin, and Daniel Dae Kim of the CBS series HAWAII FIVE-0. Photo: Art Streiber/CBS ©2010 CBS BROADCASTING INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Want to catch the opening episode of CBS's new Hawaii Five-0 before the rest of the country does AND ogle the series impossibly good-looking cast, live and in person?
More importantly, can you be on Oahu—preferably in Waikiki—'round sunset on Sept. 13?
Consider yourself invited to the red-carpet screening of the classic Hawaii crime drama's redux at Sunset on the Beach, right on the sands of Waikiki's Queen's Surf Beach. All you have to do is show up early.
Why early? Thousands are expected to converge long before sunset for primo seating in front of the big screen and along the red carpet to catch series cast members Alex O'Loughlin, Daniel Dae Kim, Scott Caan, Grace Park, Jean Smart and Taryn Manning arriving. Also on hand—and hopefully posing for snaps, as well—the folks who brought the new Five-0 back to life, back to reality: executive producers Peter Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Here's what you get for showing up early:
• 5 p.m.: Live music from Willie K, Makana and ukulele virtuoso Taimane Gardner.
• 6 p.m.: Red carpet arrival by cast, producers, et al.
• 7:30 p.m.: Hawaii Five-0 pilot episode screening.
• 8:45 p.m.: Kurtzman and Orci detail every plot twist from the upcoming third season of Fringe, their other hit TV series.
OK, we're joking about that last one.
Seriously though, the Five-0 premiere is free. It's open to the public. And if you're staying in Waikiki already, all you have to do is walk the length of the beach, toward Diamond Head, until you reach the expected throng of other Hawaii Five-O fans.
Can't make it to Waikiki? You can catch the Hawaii Five-0 premiere a week later, 10 p.m. (East Coast/West Coast time) 9 p.m. (Hawaii time), Sept. 20—the exact date the classic Five-0 bowed on CBS's primetime schedule 42 years ago.
To hold you over till then, take an advance peek at the final version of the new Five-0's opening credit sequence below—about a half-minute shorter than the original series opening, with one very prominent placement of a Hawaiian Airlines jet.


Bolton Wanderers and Derby County meet for the 123rd time on on Tuesday evening, with the Rams currently holding the upper hand in terms of victories with 59 in all competitions as opposed to Wanderers' 45.
The most notable meeting of the two sides however came 125 years ago this month as Bolton welcomed Derby to Pikes Lane for both clubs' first ever game in the Football League.
Despite the visitors running out 6-3 winners that day, the Whites were the side who wrote their names into the history books as Bolton-born Kenny Davenport secured the accolade of the Football League's inaugural goal with his second minute strike.
An honour which has been hotly disputed down the years and awarded to a number of players, a recent discovery revealed that Davenport and Wanderers did in fact make history back in 1888.
Back in the modern day and age, Nigel Clough's side have enjoyed a relatively impressive start to their own campaign, with the team currently occupying seventh position in the Sky Bet Championship table.
Following on from an opening weekend draw at home to Blackburn Rovers, the Pride Park outfit have secured three wins and suffered two defeats with their latest result being a resounding 5-1 victory over Millwall on Saturday afternoon.
Having finished last season in a respectable tenth place and just seven points off the play-offs, the Rams faithful will be hoping that their team can build on a solid start to the campaign this term.
The club have certainly had a busy summer in the transfer market with no less than eleven players moving onto pastures new, but Clough has ensured that his side have experience in abundance with the arrival of goalkeeper Lee Grant from Burnley and striker Chris Martin from Premier League outfit Norwich City.
Wanderers will also have to be on their guard to keep Craig Bryson at bay following the 26-year-old's hat trick at The Den at the weekend, with the Rams' midfielder looking likely to keep his place in the starting line-up for the clash under the Reebok floodlights.


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The ANAND Talent Acquisition Programme (ATA) is a one-year course that acquaints campus recruits with the manufacturing sector through a series of assignments and training drills.


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12:25 PM | April 11, 2018
Song of Granite
This visually meticulous and mesmerising film revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The stylised black-and-white picture, obscuring the border between documentary and fiction, is a cinematic ballad that invites viewers to join the enigmatic, talented and idiosyncratic artist on his dramatic life journey; along the way we also get a sense of the difficult yet humble life of the people of Ireland over the course of last century. The film takes us to the district of Connemara, and to the village of Carna, Joe Heaney's birthplace, considered the cradle of local folklore, and then the camera accompanies him on his travels round the world. The power and magic of the songs provide the central motif threading its way through the film. The director stages the music scenes so skilfully and suggestively that we feel we are actually present in the room, swept up in the atmosphere along with the rest of the audience. Was it the songs that helped the inhabitants of this magnificent but desolate Irish landscape to survive and commune with God? And what part of his heart and soul must the artist sacrifice in order to satisfy his inner compulsions?
Macdara Ó Fatharta, Mícheál Ó Confhaola, Jaren Cerf, Pól Ó Ceannabháín, Colm Seoighe
Amerique Film, Harvest Films, ROADS Entertainment, South Wind Blows
2017: Karlovy vary international film festival
Pat Collins
Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde
Sharon Whooley
Richard Kendrick
Tadhg O'Sullivan
Delphine Measroch
Sylvain Bellemare
Alan Maher
Jessie Fisk
Martin Paul-Hus
Pat Collins, a native of Cork, has been making films since 1998 and now has more than thirty features, documentaries and short experimental films to his name. His filmography includes documentary works about writers Michael Hartnett, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and John McGahern. He also co-directed a documentary about Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. In 2012 he turned out the feature film Silence, which had its international premiere at the London festival and was distributed by Element Films in Ireland and New Wave Films. Song of Granite is his second feature film.


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Kenneth C. Cuhel
Thu., December 12, 2019
Kenneth C. Cuhel, 89, of Swisher, passed away on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House surrounded by his loving family. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, with a visitation beginning an hour prior at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Cedar Rapids. An inurnment will be held in the springtime at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery.
Kenneth Charles Cuhel was born March 19, 1930, to Charles and Esther (Wokoun) Cuhel in Cedar Rapids. He graduated from McKinley High School in 1948. He received a Bachelor of Science and master's in agriculture from Iowa State University. During his time at Iowa State, Ken was active in the Iowa State Singers and played in the concert orchestra. He honorably served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict. While he was stationed at Scott Air Force Base, he taught in the electronics school. He was united in marriage to Carol Bowersox at the United Methodist Church in Shueyville.
Ken worked for the Iowa State Extension Service as a 4-H youth leader in Washington and Johnson counties. He helped start and taught in the agricultural department at Area Ten, now Kirkwood Community College. After Ken left teaching, he operated the family farm he grew up on. The Cuhel farm has been in the family for five generations. On Ken's retirement, his son Mark took over the farming operation. Ken was very proud that Mark had continued with the family farm. He also was very proud that Alan was helping Mark keep up the farmstead.
He was a member of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Cedar Rapids. He started in church choir as a high school student and sang for 67 years at First Congregational. The church and singing in the choir were an important part of his life.
In May 2017, he was accompanied by his daughter on the Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
Ken enjoyed several trips to Europe, Alaska and numerous other places with Carol. He loved being with his family and extended family. His grandchildren and great-grandchildren brought him much joy.
Left to cherish his memory is his loving wife of 58 years, Carol; daughter, Janet (Gene Cretsinger) Cuhel; sons, Alan Cuhel and Mark (Holly) Cuhel; grandchildren, Karen (Zach) Silhanek, Elizabeth (Steve) Davis, Landon Cuhel and Michael and Jackson Schnittjer; and great-grandchildren, Brock, Lauren and Frank Silhanek.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the First Congregational United Church of Christ.
Online condolences and memories may be shared with the family at www.cedarmemorial.com under obituaries.


http://www.gretchenrubin.com/ Author of The Happiness Project, this website/blog has some great encouraging posts and realistic challenges you can try to bring more joy to your life.
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/ Realistic and uplifiting blog posts to improve your day/mood.
http://tinybuddha.com/ "Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives"…who doesn't need that?!
http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/ Need a hug? This is the site to visit!
http://www.thedailycute.com/ Something about cute puppies and kitties that just lightens the mood and makes it awfully hard not to smile.
What are your favorite web pages to visit when you need a pick-me-up? Comment below so others can also check them out.


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We carried out this inspection under Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 as part of our regulatory functions. This inspection was planned to check whether the provider is meeting the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008, to look at the overall quality of the service, and to provide an updated rating for the service under the Care Act 2014.
This was an unannounced inspection, which was completed on 2 October 2018. One inspector carried out this inspection. The previous inspection was completed in September 2017 when the service was rated requires improvement. This was because we found, some improvements were required to ensure the service was effective and well led. Appropriate action had been taken to ensure compliance.
Before the inspection, we asked the provider to complete a Provider Information Return (PIR). This is a form that asks the provider to give some key information about the service, what the service does well and improvements they planned to make. This was returned to us.
We reviewed the information included in the PIR along with information we held about the home. This included notifications. Notifications contain information about important events, which the service is required to send us by law.
We contacted the local community learning disability team, two health professionals and the GP to obtain their views on the service and how it was being managed. We received three responses. You can see what they told us in the main body of the report.
We spoke with five people living at Glebe Villa, two staff and the registered manager. We looked at two people's records and those relating to the running of the home. This included policies and procedures, checks completed on the service, recruitment and training records for staff. We spent time observing people and their interactions with staff.


Have you "failed" in ministry? Are you tired of living up to the expectations that accompany a "Super-Pastor?" Do you long for a place where you can find hope in the midst of your shortcomings and shame?
If so, check out the Epic Fail Pastors Event. This inexpensive two-day conference provides a safe place for you to connect with other leaders who have been similarly broken. But the purpose of gathering is not to whine or complain; rather, it is to find hope through the sharing of your story, time for reflection, space to unwind, and opportunities for laughter, tears and prayer.
The next event will be held April 26-27 at Northern Seminary just outside of Chicago.