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Govt to introduce new policy document
Children's rights and protection:
Pic: Saman Sri Wedage Minister Chandrani Bandara speaking at the launch
The government will introduce a new policy document on child care, child protection and child alternative care, to support necessary amendments to the Children (Judicial Protection) Bill, Minister of Women and Child Affairs, Chandani Bandara said.
"We have proposed to include a bill of rights in the Constitution with a special clause to include child rights and protection," the Minister said at the launch of the National Partnership to End Violence against Children (NPEVAC).
The draft National Policy on Child Protection is currently being finalized.
NPEVAC, a new initiative to end violence against children by 2030 was recently launched as part of a bold, new collaborative partnership between the government, UN agencies, international organisations, civil society, faith groups, the private sector, the media, children and other key stakeholders.
Over 9,000 instances of violence involving children were reported to the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) in 2016. Children in Sri Lanka are exposed to multiple forms of violence in their homes, schools, online and in their communities currently.
Studies highlighted that 40 percent of parents surveyed in the Colombo district admitted physically abusing their child, 14 percent of adolescent girls and boys surveyed had experienced some form of sexual abuse and 311 percent of adolescent boys and 25 percent of adolescent girls surveyed had experienced emotional abuse.
Minister Chandrani Bandara said, "This partnership to end violence against children creates a vital window of opportunity for Sri Lanka to share our success, discuss challenges and exchange knowledge. The common misconception is that violence occurs outside of a child's immediate circle of trust but evidence suggests that cruelty occurs from members of his or her inner circle."
Sri Lanka as one of the 'path-finding' countries is taking the lead globally to end violence including abuse, neglect and exploitation against children by 2030. This commitment is part of the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and supports the country's drive to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
While Sri Lanka has worked on a number of initiatives to protect children from physical and sexual abuse, neglect and exploitation, the discussion paper makes further recommendations to accelerate efforts to end violence against children.
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Monday is Memorial Day.
To tell you the truth, I never thought much about the meaning behind it. I don't have any war heroes in my family to honor. To me, it was always a day off school or work to be filled with swimming pool openings, barbeques and other related activity kicking off the beginning of summer.
But now that I'm an Official Navy Mom, this year I'm thinking about it. And I realized I didn't know much. So I found this history of Memorial Day, which I'm posting here because maybe some of you find yourself with the same lack of information. And I'm wondering what I think about the question posed at the end, which is why I want to know what you think. Mulling ….
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead."
While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
In 1915, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields," Moina Michael replied with her own poem:
We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
She then conceived of an idea to wear red poppies on Memorial Day in honor of those who died serving the nation during war. She was the first to wear one, and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money going to benefit servicemen in need. Later a Madam Guerin from France was visiting the United States and learned of this new custom started by Ms. Michael and when she returned to France, made artificial red poppies to raise money for war orphaned children and widowed women. This tradition spread to other countries. In 1921, the Franco-American Children's League sold poppies nationally to benefit war orphans of France and Belgium. The League disbanded a year later and Madam Guerin approached the VFW for help. Shortly before Memorial Day in 1922 the VFW became the first veterans' organization to nationally sell poppies. Two years later their "Buddy" Poppy program was selling artificial poppies made by disabled veterans.
Traditional observance of Memorial Day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.
There are a few notable exceptions. Since the late 50's on the Thursday before Memorial Day, the 1,200 soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day. More recently, beginning in 1998, on the Saturday before Memorial Day, the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts place a candle at each of approximately 15,300 grave sites of soldiers buried at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park on Marye's Heights (the Luminaria Program). And in 2004, Washington D.C. held its first Memorial Day parade in over 60 years.
To help re-educate and remind Americans of the true meaning of Memorial Day, the "National Moment of Remembrance" resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans "To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of Remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to 'Taps."
The Moment of Remembrance is a step in the right direction to returning the meaning back to the day. What is needed is a full return to the original day of observance. Set aside one day out of the year for the nation to get together to remember, reflect and honor those who have given their all in service to their country.
But what may be needed to return the solemn, and even sacred, spirit back to Memorial Day is for a return to its traditional day of observance. Many feel that when Congress made the day into a three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971, it made it all the easier for people to be distracted from the spirit and meaning of the day. As the VFW stated in its 2002 Memorial Day address: "Changing the date merely to create a three-day weekend has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day."
On January 19, 1999 Senator Inouye introduced a bill to the Senate which proposes to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day back to May 30th instead of "the last Monday in May." On April 19, 1999 Representative Gibbons introduced the bill to the House. The bills were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government Reform.
To date, there have been no further developments on the bill.
So what do you think? Does taking a three-day weekend detract from the true meaning and spirit of Memorial Day? Should we observe Memorial Day on the original date of May 30th instead of the last Monday in May?
If you want to urge your Representatives or Senators to support these bills, there are links at Memorial Day History as well as a petition you can sign.
This entry was posted in Navy Bits, Stuff Worth Pondering and tagged Becky Clark, history of Memorial Day, Memorial Day, Navy Mom, Remembrance Day on May 22, 2009 by Becky.
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Ron H. May 22, 2009 at 9:59 am
The Luminaria at Marye's Heights is one of the most awe-inspiring experiences I've ever had. We had spent the prior afternoon in the ruins of the Confederate gun trenches, where it was so quiet you could almost hear the motion of the spirits in the woods; the rattle of the gun caissons, the clink of sabers, and the heavy breathing of the thousands of men anticipating Meade's assault.

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Home US/World News Nevada Democrats introduce bill to switch from caucus to primary in 2024
Nevada Democrats introduce bill to switch from caucus to primary in 2024
Nevada Democrats introduced a bill Monday that would switch the state from a caucus system and instead hold the first presidential primary on the election calendar in 2024. File Photo by Archie Carpenter/UPI
Feb. 16 (UPI) — Nevada Democrats on Monday introduced legislation to ditch the state's caucus system and make it the first state to hold a presidential primary for the 2024 election.
The bill introduced by Democratic state lawmakers Jason Frierson, Teresa Benitez-Thompson and Brittney Miller would set the state's presidential primary for the Tuesday "immediately preceding the last Tuesday in January," placing it ahead of New Hampshire on the primary schedule.
Additionally, the legislation would require early voting for the primary election beginning 10 calendar days before the election and extending through the Friday before.
Nevada is currently one of just four states to hold a caucus along with Iowa, Wyoming and North Dakota, while the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam and the Virgin Islands also participate in the practice.
Unlike the primary system, in which voters directly cast ballots for their candidate of choice, voters in a caucus elect delegates who support various candidates and ultimately correlate to the number of delegates for each candidate sent on to the Democratic National Convention.
The caucus system has come under scrutiny after the results of the 2020 Iowa caucus, the first in the nation, were delayed after the Iowa Democratic Party reported "inconsistencies" in the reporting of results.
Nevada State Democratic Party Chair William McCurdy II said the bill is a "critical step" to expanding access to the presidential nominating process in the state.
"Last year, Democrats did incredible work to make our caucuses more accessible by including early voting and introducing multilingual trainings and materials, but the only way we can bring more voices into the process is by moving to a primary," he said.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO.126
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Stumbling Stone Initiative Göppingen
We must not forget
Satzung Stolpersteine e.V.
Fleischer, Irma and Julius
Irma and Julius Fleischer around 1919
Love Match with a Foreigner
Irma May from Camberg married Julius Fleischer from Göppingen in November 1919, a true love marriage, which was unusual on the middle class of that time. Irma's father Moritz May was the owner of a metal goods wholesaler and very successful. In Irma's family – she was the only child of Hedwig and Moritz May – Jewish culture was cultivated, which did not exclude good living and art. Later in Göppingen Irma Fleischer also cultivated her cultural heritage: she went to the Stuttgart opera frequently and was interested and well informed about fashion.
Hedwig May
Moritz May
Her daughter Doris-Sylvia remembered that her mother was seen as somewhat extravagant in conventional Göppingen, as well as in her husband's family: "The ladies of father's family bought their clothes to last – the cloth was certainly the best quality – while mother had new clothes every season." Her daughter's fashionable appearance was also important to her: "I knew that my skirts were shorter than those of my schoolmates - mother had said they were dressed like peasants – but children like to conform."
from left side: Doris, Susanne Richard and Arnold
Between 1920 and 1927 the children Arnold, Doris-Sylvia, Susanne and Richard were born. As is common in the upper middle-class of this time, the children were cared for and brought up by a governess. Hedwig ("Hede") Herbster from Gosbach was especially fondly remembered by the Fleischer children. Hede stayed in contact with the family even after she stopped working for them and she later even openly contradicted the Nazis. She made a public announcement that she had gotten to know Jews as decent and honorable people. It wasn't until she was threatened with a concentration camp that she fall silent.
Hedwig (Hede) Herbster
Julius´ Vocation
At the time of their marriage, Julius Fleischer was regarded as a "good catch" because he and his younger brother Arthur were the intended successors in the management of their father's corset factory – a position which he did assume after the death of his father, Samuel Fleischer. Julius got an education at famous Reutlingen 'Technikum' in 1900 7 01. If it hadn't been for his familial responsibilities, Julius Fleischer would have studied medicine and the art of healing in a wide sense was to remain a decisive factor in his life. Over the years he withdrew more and more from the management and followed his calling. While not as a doctor he did practice as a healthcare practitioner, healer and inventor of natural medicines. In his own laboratory he created elixirs; one of these with the name "Olvicor" is remembered by contemporaries. For many years Julius Fleischer was an active member of the Göppingen Kneipp Society, among other things as the treasurer. Especially people from the surrounding small towns valued Mr. Fleischer's advice and help which meant he was often on the road on his bycicle. His wife did not always talk in favour of her husband's new "occupation". Later their daughter Doris (Sylvia Hurst) writes: "Twenty years ago mother had married a manufacturer of corsets, he was now a doctor of naturopathy, a mystic." Mrs. Margret Duisberg, a friend of the Fleischer family, writes: "Julius Fleischer was held in high regard by the people here– outwardly modest, he was considered very knowledgeable and helpful and you always felt like he knew a lot!"
Friends with Albert Einstein
Julius Fleischer's circle of friends extended far beyond Göppingen. His children Doris and Richard remembered that the doctor and author Friedrich Wolf visited their father; he was also a supporter of alternative medicine. The most famous visitor and friend of Julius Fleischer was certainly Albert Einstein, who was actually a (very) distant relative and was called "uncle" by the children. Sylvia Hurst writes about this: "As a child, he [A.E.] and his sister Maja spent many of their school holidays with our family as the children (of both the Einstein and the Fleischer family, - kmr) were of the same age. My father and he became lifelong friends. Father very seriously believed his extraordinary gift of medical clairvoyance was God given; his one-ness with nature was a part of it. The latter he shared with Albert, both claiming they could feel the forces of the universe and the cosmos." Besides the intellectual similarities, the quality of Irma's noodles, "Spätzle", were supposedly also one of the reasons for Einsteins' visits. Then again the Fleischer children also looked forward to the generous presents from "Uncle Albert". Besides these prominent Jewish friends, Julius Fleischer's circle of friends was made up mostly of non-Jews.
A Surreal Nightmare
Julius Fleischer was initially unconcerned about the strengthening of the Nazi movement. Sylvia Hurst writes: "The Jewish population in my town was divided into two groups: the ones who believed in emigration as an immediate and urgent measure, and the group, to which my parents belonged – or I should say my father – maintained that Nazism was a crazy and unreal dream, and that the bad times must pass. However, just to be on the safe side, Father went to the American Consulate in Stuttgart to obtain a Waiting Number."
The transfer of power to the Nazis marked the rapid ostracism and disenfranchisement of Jewish citizens. Julius Fleischer was forced to step down as president of the Kneipp Society. Former acquaintances, including many artists who had utilized Fleischer's hospitality for weeks at a time, avoided their former benefactor. Neighbours on Hauptstr. hung up signs on the doors to their stores which say "Jews not welcome here". Of their own initiative, as Richard Fleischer remembered, the neighbours delivered daily telephone reports about "the Jews" to the police.
The family's financial situation got worse and worse. Sylvia Hurst wrote about the year 1937: "Father's income was nil; he considered it wrong to charge for his gifts, and he mostly supplied his 'patients' with the medicaments free."
To the police station
During the Pogrom Night on November 9th, 1938 Irma Fleischer was visiting her parents, who lived in Frankfurt am Main. Daughter Doris and son Richard were not at the logdging in Hauptstraße in Göppingen too. Silvia Hurst, née Fleischer, writes in her book "Laugh or Cry" about the based memories on her siblings Arnold and Susanne: "It was in the early hours of the morning when two SA men demanded entrance to look for Julius Fleischer. He managed to yell to his children Susanne and Arnold, "I'm just going to the police station with these gentlemen. For inquiries. I'll be back soon. You'd better go back to bed, both of you. If I am not home by breakfast, ring your mother. Not to worry." Julius Fleischer got to be imprisoned and humiliated in Dachau concentration camp for the time of a whole month.
Mrs. Hurst writes on: "I received a cheerful letter from him, saying he was in good health. He wrote that his breathing exercises had kept him quite fit during his stay at the camp." When she later saw her father, it became clear that these words had been written to calm her. "I had a shock when I saw my parents again. Father looked so thin and the crew cut was terrible. I remarked on it; Mother smiled, 'It's much better now. You should have seen him when he came out of the camp. He was shaven close then.' Mother looked fragile; I noticed a white streak in her hair."
Son Richard had traumatic experiences as well. The boarding school "Wilhelmspflege" in Esslingen where he stayed was raided in the Pogrom Night. All the equipment was demolished and the teachers were tortured. Richard remembered in a letter to Peter Conrad on 26th of November 2009: "The noise. The cries. The teachers tried to protect the helpless children of the mob. Not the slightest chance."
Robbery – the elder children take flight
At the beginning of the year 1939 Jews were forced to give all of their valuables to the German government. The family was already impoverished and now also lost personal mementoes such as a valuable pearl necklace which Julius had given to his wife as a wedding present. A ridiculous 13 Marks are credited for this piece of jewellery. "The Nazi official must have suffered from writer's cramp" was Julius Fleischer's comment on the robbery.
The couple's plans to emigrate to England fall through because a relative living there did not see herself in a position to act as a guarantor for them. As a matter of fact, she had already acted as a guarantor for several other closer relatives. At least it was possible for their older son Arnold to flee to London in April 1939 by accompanying an older relative. In July his sisters Doris and Susanne followed him as part of the Refugee Children Movement.
During the war Arnold Fleischer was deported from England to Kanada as a "hostile foreigner". There he worked in a lumberjack camp. After the war he received Canadian citizenship, married and got to be a successful corporate and tax consultant. He died in the age of 48 in 1968 without any children of his own.
Susanne Fleischer emigrated to the US, got married the Doctor Philip Nassau and had a daughter and a son. She died 1975 after a car accident.
Doris-Sylvia Fleischer (married name Sylvia Hurst) stayed in England, worked in various creative occupations, e.g. as fashion designer, and gave birth to a daughter.
During their time in England, the Fleischer children had almost no opportunity to find out anything about their parents and their youngest brother. Their parents had decided not to send Richard, born in 1927, alone to a foreign country – an understandable decision with terrible consequences.
Sylvia Hurst, nee Doris Fleischer, at Stumbling Stone Laying May 2010
From his time in Göppingen Richard still remembered that the remaining family members were forced to share the lodge in Hauptstraße 11 in Göppingen with the family Sally Frank. He remembered: "We lived together with family Frank in only one room. They had a big white-haired dog named Roland. I was lucky to see the family again in 1945 in Pirmasens." (see Stolperstein biography family Frank)
Later, probably in 1939, the family was expelled to the "Judenhaus" in Mörikestraße 30, where other jewish families were institutionalized as well.
There are letters preserved from Hedwig Frankfurter, Sara Zitter and Isidor Fränkl dated between the years 1939 – 1941. The three of them were of different regional and social heritage. Most probably they were not in close contact with one another before the time of the Nazi regime.
Since times of affliction the name of Julius Fleischer is mentioned by all of them. Because of this letters it can be assumed that Julius Fleischer fostered the contact between the family members left, after many other jewish family had shunned.
He ensured the contact within the remaining jewish community members, as rabbi Wallach out of Laupheim most probably was not that familiar with all of them, moreover he stayed in Göppingen only until August 1939.
Destination: Riga / Camp "Jungfernhof"
On November 28, 1941, after one night in the Schiller School gym, Irma, Julius and Richard Fleischer were "accompanied" by officials of the Göppingen police to the train station. Richard wrote about the first stop at the camp on Killesberg in Stuttgart: "Yes, I remember Killesberg. The sickening smell, the disconcertment. Sleeping on the floor. The queueing up for the toilet. But the worst how the Gestapo treated dad, witnessed by me as terrified little boy." (Letter to Peter Conrad on 29th of September 2009)
The way on the family was deported to Riga to camp Jungfernhof, a previous agricultural estate. There Julius Fleischer died a miserable death on February 26, 1942 as result of frostbite. Exactly one month later Irma Fleischer was murdered, probably shot to death or asphyxiated to death in a wagon purposely prepared for. Richard Fleischer, 14 when he enters the deportation camp, survived the torture of several work camps. He recorded his sufferings in a letter in 1945. (See end of this article)
The mother of Irma, Hedwig May, was deported in September 1942 from her makeshift in Frankfurt to the ghetto Theresienstadt. May 1944 she was murdered in Auschwitz.
In May 2014 two Stolpersteine were laid in Bad Camberg, where the parents of Irma Fleischer, Hedwig and Moritz May, originally domiciled.
The historian Martina Hartmann-Menz documented the fate of the couple thoroughly:
http://www.bad-camberg.info/cms/index.php/wissenswertes/stolpersteine/steine/2384-hedwig-may
http://www.bad-camberg.info/cms/index.php/wissenswertes/stolpersteine/steine/2383-moritz-may
The brothers of Julius, Bernhard and Arthur Fleischer, the cousins Rosa Fleischer and Emilie Goldstein were murdered, the cousin Pauline Guggenheim assisted suicide. (See Stolpersteine biographies)
We were able to obtain a lot of the information about the Fleischer family from Sylvia Hurst's book "Laugh or Cry" and we would like to thank late Richard Fleischer for his willingness to answer our questions. After the war he emigrated to the United States, where he met his spouse June. He was successful in his own business as a tiler. He retired on an idyllic location near a lake in Canada. In July 2010, a few weeks after visiting Göppingen, he unfortunately died on cancer. Sylvia Hurst died in July 2016, the same year her old friend Margret Duisberg, who as well shared memories with us, passed away. Not being of jewish origin Margret Duisberg never departed out of Göppingen.
Richard Fleischer at Stumbling Stone Laying in May 2010
We are also thankful to Peter Conrad, the local historian out of Rodalben / Paladine, who disclosed the letters he received from Richard Fleischer. Thank you too to Martina Hartmann-Menz out of Elz, who helped us by sharing information and photos about the parents of Irma Fleischer.
On May 1, 2010 Gunter Demnig laid the Stumbling Stones for Irma and Julius Fleischer in front of the house at Hauptstraße 11. Richard Fleischer, Sylvia Hurst and some more family members were present. Students from Freihof-Gymnasium also provided information about the murder victims and assumed the sponsorship for the stones.
05 of August 2018 (kmr / ir)
Letter from Richard Fleischer written in 1945
This letter was given to us by Richard Fleischer's cousin Erwin Fleischer on the occasion of the visit of expelled Jews in Göppingen at "Maientag" in 1984.
Below is a typed version of the letter.
Today, November 7, was the happiest day. It has been weeks since I have felt as happy as today when Aunt Bernhard gave me the letter. I was very, very appy to finally hear from you, dear Eva, that my siblings are doing well. It is very sad that your dear father and mother are no longer alive to enjoy the happy times that are coming. I remember in our concentration camp we also knew that Dutch and French Jews arrived near Lublin in the spring. The name of the camp was Izbica. Most of the transports that arrived were already gassed in the trains. I heard that Uncle Bernhard, who lived in Stuttgart until 1943, was sent to the camp Mauthausen with eight other Jews and eight days later the news came that he and five others from the transport were shot as they tried to flee. His ashes were returned and buried in the cemetery "Pragfriedhof" in Stuttgart. But in 1944 exactly this spot was hit by bombs so that I can no longer find the spot. A Jewish woman who is married to an Aryan told me all of this and I definitely believe that it's true. Now I want to tell you about my humble self.
I was arrested on November 26, 1941. Four days before we had received the order from Stuttgart to pack food and the most necessary things. We were allowed to take along a suitcase of 50 kilos, which was sent away and which we never saw again. In the night from November 26 to the 27 we had to sleep in the gym of Schiller School like dogs without beds or blankets. On the same day we were examined by the Gestapo and all of our money and valuables were taken away. Do you remember Frank, Sauter and Östreicher? These were the fine gentlemen who examined us. On the morning of the 27th we were herded like criminals to the train station. It was still pitch dark and we were accompanied by the hooting of the street urchins and "our" lord mayor Dr. Pack was also there. As a farewell he shouted, "Go to hell, you pack of pigs." We arrived in Stuttgart and stayed there until December 1. At 4:00 in the morning we were put into train cars at Nordbahnhof and rode three days and four nights in unheated wagons to Riga. We only got water twice on the way. We almost died of thirst before we arrived. When we disembarked we were hit and yelled at like cattle. In 10 minutes there were 28 dead. We got the right impression immediately. To still our thirst we ate ice and snow. We were herded into a couple old barns and sheep stalls and to make it short – that's where we stayed. We stayed there in the ice and snow until the end of March. In our baracks 18-25 men died every day because they had frozen to death during the night. Many more died of typhus, dysentery and frostbite. At the end of March a transport of more than 2000 women, children and old men was assembled and taken to Dünamünde. Not until later did we learn that all of them had been gassed. And so from the 6000 people in January the transports reduced us to 450 people. We stayed in this concentration camp until March 1943. Then we were in the Riga ghetto for one month and after that we were in the big Riga concentration camp. Already in February 1942 my dear father died of blood poisoning. Within 10 minutes he got frostbite on his hands, feet, ears and nose and because there was no medical assistance whatsoever, his extremities began to decay and two days later he died unexpectedly. It was February 26. One month later on March 26 mother was taken away. We ourselves had to load the people into the cars where they were then gassed. It was a real dog's life. In rags, unwashed, hungry, full of lice, leprous we went to work day for day. Real drudgery and working in masses. Beatings were a daily spectacle, for the smallest things we got 25-50 on our bare bottoms. A lot of people died as a result.
In these few years we moved around all of Latvia. In June 1944 we were sent to Kurland. We had to walk 260 km in the hot sun without any water; finally I could flee with a few comrades into the "jungle". We were separated because of the search parties and many of my comrades were shot. And so I roamed through the forest for weeks until the Latvian police arrested me. I was in the Windauer prison for one week and then seven weeks in Liban in an SS bunker. We were half starved and festered when the last transport of Jews from Latvia was brought to the ship in the Liban harbor. In the bunker there were 22 of us prisoners. Every night we had to take turns sleeping; only 11 could sleep at a time and that not easily. It was terrible. Our daily rations were 285 grams of bread, for lunch ½ liter watery soup and in the evening five potatoes of which two were rotten. On October 12, 1944 we arrived in Gdansk, in a new concentration camp called Stutthof near Gdansk. New trouble and oppression. We stayed there for one month. It was the worst. We were driven out of the barracks at 5:00 in the morning and had to stand outside in all kinds of weather – wind, rain or snow – until 8:00. Every morning and evening we received 100 grams of bread and every morning at 10:00 ½ liter soup. After that we went to Gdansk to the submarine shipyard Schickau. It was ridiculous. There were 1000 Jews, 2000 Italians and just as many Poles and Russians with few Germans. We had to build submarines and we had no idea how. We stayed here until the end of January; the Russians were getting closer and we were marched to the concentration camp Lauenburg. In snow and ice with nothing to eat except for three raw potatoes a day and at night sleeping in wet, cold churches we were forced onward. We couldn't go on, to the left and right of the road people fell into the ditches and stayed there. People who had saved themselves for the last three years, because we were the strongest. Always being struck by the blows of the SS, it cracked left and right, those who really couldn't go on were put out of their misery by a shot in the back of the neck. It brought tears to the eyes of those of us who had already seen so much suffering and blood with cold indifference. On clear ice, slipping more than walking, in wooden shoes, carrying the SS's heavy baggage, we crept on. From 4600 prisoners we arrived in a former R.A.D. camp [Reichsarbeitsdienst = Reich Labor Service] on the third evening, where others from concentration camps already were. Our numbers had shrunk to 480. We wanted to continue the next morning, but we couldn't because there was typhus in the camp. We stayed there for four weeks without bread, only ½ liter watery soup, daily work in the stone quarry. We were down to 120 men when the Russians freed us on March 10. Out of curiosity the Russians weighed us. I weighed only 32 kg, the most was 45 kg in the strongest men. After that we were in a sanatorium for eight weeks, where we slowly recovered with the help of excellent care and food. We were given food five times a day, only white bread, butter, sugar, coffee, plenty of cocoa and nevertheless all of the men except for 30 died and these were released healthy. I myself was almost unconscious for four weeks, ate almost nothing and slept in a bed, which we had to get used to again. After that I reported to the Russian militia. I was trained for three days to use a machine gun and fought against the SS troops and gangs. They felt our vengeance, there was no pardon and there were no prisoners. I swore that for every scar on my back I would kill 10 SS. And I kept my word. At the end of the war I was in many different cities such as Berlin, Leipzig, Bitterfeld, Halle, Dresden, Magdeburg and in Vogtland. Finally I was in a large manor near Magdeburg as an overseer and interpreter because I speak Russian very well. On October 1 of that year I left my troop with many blessings and arrived in Göppingen on October 4. I found a room with Frau Munz née Wassermann where I stayed. On October 10 or 11 I met Mrs. Bernard, who I didn't know at all, and she arranged for a good position for me with the US military government in Esslingen, where she herself lived. I'm very satisfied with the position and Tante Bernard is very delightful and treats me like her own son. I'm going to stop now, it's already 11:00, I have to go to bed. I'm sending you a picture of me. Please send these pages on to Aunt Paula and she should send them on to Suse, Doris and Arnold. Please write them that they should send me pictures of themselves and my dear parents as soon as possible. I lost all of them in the concentration camp. Next time I'll write to you about my current job. Greetings and kisses.
Love, Your cousin Richard
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Q: add a value from one column to another after an update of a trigger I have on my table a column col1 that goes decreasing. When col1 gets to take the value 0 I want col1 takes the value of a column called col2 and col2 pass to take the value 0.
PD: I already have a trigger that decreases the column when I do insertions. When my trigger finally arrives to let col1=0 I'd need other trigger that change col1 by col2, and col2=0. I've tried with the following trigger, but doesn't work
create Trigger tr on table
after insert,update As
declare @id int
set @id=(select inserted.ID_TABLE from inserted)

UPDATE table
    SET col1 = CASE WHEN col1=0 THEN col2
    END
UPDATE table
set col2=0
where ID_TABKE=@id

A: Try this Code
Update table name "TableTrigger" with your Table name
create Trigger tr on TableTrigger
after insert,update
As

UPDATE TableTrigger
SET col1 =  CASE WHEN TableTrigger.col1=0 THEN TableTrigger.col2 else TableTrigger.col1 END,
    col2 =  CASE WHEN TableTrigger.col1=0 THEN 0 else TableTrigger.col2 END
from TableTrigger
       JOIN inserted
         ON TableTrigger.id = inserted.id

A: Try this untested.Since you didn't mention that col1 should be updated only when col1=0 so i removed case
UPDATE A
SET    a.col1 = b.col2,
       a.col2 = 0
FROM   table a
       JOIN inserted b
         ON a.id = b.id

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Syracuse Radio
WAER names headliner for Jazz Appreciation Month celebration
February 25, 2013 by CNYRadio.com
SYRACUSE -- She has performed with big names like Beyoncé and Nancy Wilson, and soon, modern jazz artist Tia Fuller will be performing in Syracuse. WAER-FM 88.3 announced today, the acclaimed saxophonist will headline its Jazz Appreciation Month celebration in late April.
The concert is set to take place at the Palace Theater in Syracuse's Eastwood neighborhood on Sunday, April 28 at 3:00pm. Tickets are $20 each, or $15 for WAER members or anyone with a valid Syracuse University ID card. WAER, a 50,000-watt NPR affiliate, is owned and operated by Syracuse University.
WAER General Manager Joe Lee said in a press release, "unlike many major urban areas in the country, Syracuse is fortunate to have a radio station dedicated to preserving the legacy of jazz." He said he hopes Jazz Appreciation Month will encourage the community to reflect on the genre, which he argues, is "not widely appreciated and celebrated in America, its birthplace."
More information about Tia Fuller from the WAER press release:
Fuller is known for her artful mastery of the saxophone. She has performed with R&B star, Beyoncé and is featured on the Beyoncé Experience DVD. She has also played with Esperanza Spalding, Jon Faddis, T. S. Monk (son of Thelonious Monk), and Nancy Wilson. In her own right, Fuller has released four of her own albums, the most recent being Angelic Warrior in 2012. A review in The Washington Post admires the record's "duality," praising that some songs "embody warrior energy" while others "sound ethereal and angelic." The review suggests that Fuller is "forging new ground for women in jazz."
Smithsonian National Museum of American History curator Dr. John Edward Hasse is credited with starting Jazz Appreciation Month in 2001. Two years later, the effort was officially recognized by Congress, which encouraged Americans to "honor jazz as a national and world treasure."
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South Taranaki Digest
Wet and wild weekend for most of New Zealand
Few places in New Zealand managed to escape the wild weather this weekend,as a complex low-pressure system moved slowly onto the country from the Tasman Sea. This system was very active due to support from strong upper level winds (jet-stream), which brought rain to most regions,thunderstorms to western parts of northern and central New Zealand, and significant snow to inland parts of the South Island.
MetService Meteorologist Peter Little comments, "The most rain fell about the northwest of the South Island, South Canterbury and North Otago,but the heavy rain in the east of the South Island has eased. Oamaru Airport has recorded an impressive 81mm of rain so far this weekend, which is around double what they usually receive during the whole month of August. This rain caused flooding that closed State Highway 1 north to Timaru for a time on Sunday morning."
Further inland snowfall affected many of the South Island passes, with Arthurs Pass and Lewis Pass closed for much of Saturday and Sunday morning after being blanketed by 30 to 40cm of snow. Although travel was disrupted, Canterbury's skiers couldn't be happier after most slopes received a dumping of around half a metre of new snow," adds Little.
To complete the weather trifecta, thunderstorms rattled their way across northern and central New Zealand over the weekend, with Severe Thunderstorm Watches issued on both days. "Some of the thunderstorms were identified as severe and warnings were issued, which included the thunderstorm that brought large hail and torrential rain to Wellington's southern suburbs on Saturday afternoon. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for northern parts of New Zealand today, and damaging wind gusts are possible with these squally storms," explains Little.
Severe Weather Warnings and Watches remain in place for parts of northern and central New Zealand. Road Snowfall Warnings are also in force for some South Island roads. There is also the threat of thunderstorms today and on Monday, and a Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued earlier this morning. For the latest Severe Weather Information see http://bit.ly/AllWarnings
The weather remains unsettled over northern and central New Zealand on Monday, with more thunderstorms forecast for western areas. Meanwhile, the low moves away to the east and a cool southwesterly flow develops over southern New Zealand, bringing showers. The cool and showery southwesterly flow strengthens and spreads over all of New Zealand on Tuesday, with gales likely in exposed places. Southwesterlies and showers gradually ease during Wednesday and Thursday, but a front brings rain to the West Coast and far south of the South Island on Friday.
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Rocket Issue Forces SpaceX To Abort Starlink Launch At Last Second
By Inigo Monzon
SpaceX aborted the launch of the new batch of Starlink satellites
The company detected an issue with the Falcon 9 rocket
The launch was aborted at the very last second
SpaceX narrowly missed a potential major mishap after deciding to abort the launch of the latest batch of Starlink satellites. The company confirmed that a technical issue with its Falcon 9 rocket prompted the abort procedure.
The recent event was for the 6th launch of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which is an artificial constellation project designed to deliver high-speed internet from space. If the launch proceeded, SpaceX would have a total of 360 Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit.
The latest launch of the satellites was supposed to take place on March 15 at 9:22 a.m. EDT at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Prior to the launch, everything went smoothly for SpaceX. However, as the countdown sequence was initiated, the company detected a power issue with one of the engines of the Falcon 9 rocket.
Standing down today; standard auto-abort triggered due to out of family data during engine power check. Will announce next launch date opportunity once confirmed on the Range
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 15, 2020
The issue immediately prompted SpaceX to abort the launch at the final second. According to SpaceX officials, the launch stopped at the T-0 mark of the countdown.
"We had a condition regarding engine power that caused us to abort today's launch," Michael Andrews, the supply chain manager for SpaceX said, according to Space.com. "Prior to that the countdown was proceeding normally."
As noted by Andrews, SpaceX's Falcon 9 is equipped with various safety features designed to automatically trigger abort procedures for launches after detecting a technical issue. These features are the main reason why the launch was aborted at the last second.
"There are a thousand ways a launch can go wrong, but only one way the launch can go right," Andrews stated. "Given that, we are overly cautious on the ground, and if the team sees anything that looks even slightly off, we'll stop the countdown."
According to SpaceX, it will try to launch the latest batch of Starlink satellites later this week. If all goes well for the company, the launch could proceed on March 18.
Originally, SpaceX planned to launch a total of 12,000 satellites for its Starlink project. However, documents filed by the company last year revealed that it was preparing to launch an additional 30,000 units for the project, bringing the total number of satellites to 42,000.
The Falcon 9's next liftoff date is just a few days away. Pictured: In this handout image provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen with the NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences GRACE Follow-On spacecraft and onboard, Monday, May 21, 2018, at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Getty Images/Bill Ingalls
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Ai Weiwei is making a feature film about the plight of refugees. Will it be a serious response to tragedy – or a monument to self-indulgence? I ask this because Ai's initial artistic response to the refugee crisis does not inspire confidence.
In a black-and-white photograph unveiled earlier this year, the artist lies on a beach posing as Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose death in 2015 by drowning caused horror in Europe. I honestly don't understand this work of art. Fans have hailed it as "powerful" and "haunting", but it looks to me like a bizarre, egotistical stunt.
What does Ai Weiwei lying on a beach say about the sufferings of Syrian children? He is not a Syrian child. He has not been forced to cross the sea in an unsafe boat to escape civil war. Presumably his gesture is an act of empathy and identification. It fails – embarrassingly – to communicate that. It's tasteless, but not the kind of bad taste that might shock us out of complacency, just a crass, unthinking selfie.
Ai has in the past made powerful works about betrayal and suffering. His protests at the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which he blamed on the shoddy construction of state schools, included a wall covered with the names of the dead and a massive installation of rusty steel support bars from the destroyed schools, twisted in the earthquake, straightened out and displayed as a dignified, thought-provoking memorial.
The strength of these works of art is their attempt to do justice to the lives and deaths of others, to respect the victims of the Sichuan earthquake both as individuals and collectively. Ai's Sichuan sculptures have the power of war memorials. What you don't see in these works is Ai himself. Why would you? It would be strange if he had put himself in the foreground of the Sichuan tragedy. It is just as odd to see him in a picture about the refugee crisis.
At his best, Ai makes art with a genuine social conscience. But his fame is harming his work. Frankly, he seems hooked on celebrity. That photograph of himself pretending to be a drowned refugee child is distressingly solipsistic. Perhaps it even suggests a messiah complex. One thing I do know. It is bad art.
If you are nervous about criticising this revered artist, simply imagine if a less culturally distinguished celebrity went to Lesbos and lay on a beach for a photograph – a reality TV star or model. They would be damned as trite and stupid. It's trite and stupid when Ai does it, too.
The modern world makes integrity very difficult. The speed with which fame can grow in the age of the internet is dizzying. Ai has exploded out of the art world to become a global icon. He clearly has the best intentions and wants to use his fame to change the world. What's wrong in that?
Yet Ai going to Lesbos is too much like Lawrence going to Arabia. It is a narcissistic mission, an act of emotional colonialism in which a famous artist seems to think he can speak directly for the abandoned and merge his image with that of a dead child. Let's hope his film restores the genuine compassion of his best work. Let's hope it gives centre stage to the refugees themselves.


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The Siege Perilous
by submission | Sep 18, 2021 | Story | 1 comment
Author: Brian Etta
Rohan had been on an antiquities jag ever since he happened on a curious program on NOVA offering the viewer insights into some of the most mysterious books of arcana in history, The Rohonc Codex with its Christian, Islamic and even HIndu symbology had particularly impinged on him and he'd been having weird dreams. In these dreams he was reading a book, The Siege Perilous, or something like that. He remembered that the sleeping brain could not read but instead only communicate in symbols. In fact it was unusual that he could read at all in the dream time, as he had come to call it.
The next few months had seen his patterns of behavior grow more erratic and he'd been spending more time seeking out old tomes at bookshops and libraries and parchment from online dealers…much to the chagrin of his intimates. He had decided that The Siege Perilous was real and he'd further decided it was his task to find it, no matter the cost. His dreams had become more vivid and erratic; sometimes he was in ancient Rome, sometimes the Court of King Arthur who himself was an amalgam of other people that actually existed. Did Arthur exist? There was no time to answer as he was caught in the uplift of the dream. As if in a fugue state he bounced from Mesopotamia to Tenochtitlan and then parts unknown. Waking up he found himself sprawled out in the midst of his books and art supplies with a "Dear John" letter resting on his chest. He was waiting for this day. Now that his wife had left him he could fully devote himself to his quest.
He picked up a quill and started writing. Reality warped and bent around him and he detected the delicate fragrance of something floral. His pace quickened as did the transformations surrounding. When it was complete he was in a bazaar surrounded by armed soldiers, Byzantine from the looks of things, accusing him of sorcery and heresy. He was dragged off and executed.
Thousands of years later, a book dealer stumbled across the Rohan Codex which was subtitled The Siege Perilous. A note fell out that looked like a "Dear John" letter. On closer inspection and in Rohan's erratic handwriting it said, "Do not read The Siege Perilous"
Jae	on September 18, 2021 at 4:01 pm
An interesting mashup of arcana and classic obsessions.
Needed another editing pass; remember to do that for your next submission!
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GET OUT OF JAIL FREE TO COMMIT MORE CRIME IN LOUISIANA
Posted November 15, 2017 | by Jeff Crouere | in Uncategorized
In the last legislative session, Governor John Bel Edwards was successful in passing a package of laws that completely overhauled the state's criminal justice system. The main reason for the legislative package was to reduce the state's incarceration rate, which is the highest in the world.
As a result, starting on November 1, 1,900 "non-violent offenders," became eligible for release from prison after serving at least 35% of their sentence. Before the release, Sheriffs and District Attorneys across the state expressed concern that violent criminals would be unleashed upon the innocent citizens of Louisiana. Not surprisingly, days after the state started releasing these "non-violent offenders," an armed robbery was committed in Kenner by Tyrone "Smokey" White, one of the criminals set free.
White used a BB gun to rob a roofer working at a home in the 600 block of 27th Street. After another roofer claimed he had no money, White scampered away from the scene of the crime. Before the armed robbery, White had been trying to steal cars in the neighborhood by pulling on door handles to see which ones were unlocked.
Fortunately, White was soon apprehended by the Kenner Police and booked with attempted armed robbery and armed robbery. Unfortunately, his case is indicative of what could be in store for the people of Louisiana in the days and weeks ahead. According to Kenner Police Chief Michael Glaser, "You can't imagine the amount the amount of frustration we have here in law enforcement. We knew it was coming."
White has an amazingly lengthy criminal record. Even though he is only 24 years old, he has been arrested over 50 times for burglary. He has also been charged with a variety of crimes ranging from illegal possession of a stolen handgun to resisting a police officer.
At the age of 18, White pleaded guilty to multiple counts of simple burglary and was placed on probation; however, he was soon thereafter arrested on more burglary charges. In October of 2012, White was sentenced to six years in prison for four counts of simple burglary.
Incredibly, White was soon out of prison committing more burglary. He was eventually arrested and sentenced again. In 2014, he was convicted on four counts of simple burglary and was sentenced to 12 years in prison; however, a mere three years later he was released. As noted by Chief Glaser, "He's got a 40 page criminal history."
White is the type of criminal who should have never been released. To maintain basic public safety, prisoners with a "40-page criminal history" need to remain behind bars. How many other "non-violent offenders" sprung from prison on November 1 will be committing crimes in the days ahead?
Supposedly, Louisiana Department of Corrections officials were reviewing each case to make sure that dangerous criminals would not be released. Obviously, in the case of White, a huge mistake was made. Thankfully, no one was killed this time, but an innocent citizen might not be so fortunate the next time.
About author Jeff Crouere
Jeff Crouere has been a radio talk show host Since January of 1999. With radio, television and on stage programs dedicated to examining the top current issues on local, state and national levels. Crouere offers listeners political debate, analysis, and interviews with interesting political leaders and commentators. Currently, Crouere is host of a morning redio program, Ringside Politics, which airs weekdays from 7-11 a.m. CST on WGSO 990 AM and can be heard on several affiliate stations and on the Internet at WGSO.com.
Crouere is also host of Ringside, a television version of the radio program, which airs on WLAE-TV, a PBS affiliate in New Orleans. New Orleans area television viewers can also watch Crouere on ABC-26 TV, where he has served since 2002 as the political analyst and provides his insight on local, state and national politics.
The website for the radio and television program RingsidePolitics.com provides a web poll, political rumors, a schedule of guests, and links to a variety of Crouere's columns. He writes daily, weekly, and monthly political analysis columns and editorials for a select number of print and on-line publications. Learn more about Jeff Crouere at www.jeffcrouere.com


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Descendant direct de Riourik par la lignée de , Vassili Ivanovitch Chouiski (russe : , 1552-1612) devint tsar de Russie le .

Sous le règne d'
Vassili représente avec ses frères Andreï, Dmitri et Ivan la famille Chouiski à la cour du tsar . Il exerce la fonction de voïvode lors de différentes campagnes de 1581 à 1587.

Boris Godounov
Désireux d'éliminer un concurrent après le décès d'Ivan le Terrible, Boris Godounov (chargé de la régence pour le jeune tsar ) exile Vassili Chouiski à Galitch en 1587, il y reste jusqu'en 1591. De retour à Moscou, les Chouiski se conduisent alors loyalement vis-à-vis du régent.

Vassili Chouiski est alors chargé par Boris Godounov de l'enquête sur la mort de Dimitri Ivanovitch, fils d' et de Maria Fiodorovna Nagaïa, et arrive à la conclusion que le tsarévitch est mort de façon accidentelle. Chouiski est ensuite rétabli dans la Douma des boyards et reprend ses fonctions de voïevode. Boris, étant monté sur le trône (1598), marcha contre les Tatares ; il donna à Chouiski le commandement de l'aile droite de l'armée ; mais craignant l'influence de cette famille, il défendit à Vassili de se marier.

Le faux Dmitri, ou , s'avançant pour détrôner Boris, celui-ci sembla rendre sa confiance aux Chouiski, et donna à Vassili la conduite de ses armées. Boris mourut, et son fils Fédor ne parut sur le trône que pour être égorgé (1605) ; Vassili se soumit à Dmitri, qu'il fit descendre du trône pour y monter lui-même.

Tsar
Selon les chroniqueurs, il est conduit du Kremlin sur la place Rouge et proclamé tsar « à la criée » sur le Lobnoïé mesto.

Le règne de  (surnommé « le tsar crapule ») inaugure une période de sept ans durant laquelle le Temps des troubles atteint son point culminant : l'État moscovite s'effondre pour entamer ensuite son redressement.

Dès son avènement,  cristallise contre lui l'opposition de la province, qui voit en lui un tsar imposé par Moscou et refuse de le reconnaître. Plusieurs « faux Dimitri », prétendant tous être  rescapé de son assassinat, apparurent successivement.

La première rébellion, qui survint dès l'été 1606, fut commandée par Ivan Bolotnikov et Istoma Pachkov.

Le plus célèbre « faux-Dimitri » fut Dimitri Bodganko, surnommé « le tsar de Touchino ».

Sur le plan intérieur, son règne est marqué par la promulgation, en 1607, d'un code des lois (Oulojenié), interdisant aux propriétaires de libérer leurs serfs.  inaugure également une mode de gouvernement constitutionnel, refusant de s'opposer à la Douma des boyards.

En février 1609, le  signe un accord avec la Suède : Moscou cède aux Suédois la province de Carélie, renonce à ses prétentions sur la Livonie et s'engage à entrer en guerre contre la Pologne.  de Pologne considère cet accord comme un prétexte de guerre et, en , assiège Smolensk.

Le , Skopine brise le siège et rentre à Moscou, où il ne tarde pas à mourir, probablement empoisonné sur l'ordre de .

Quelques mois plus tard, devant l'avance des troupes polonaises, les Moscovites se soulèvent et renversent  le . Il est fait moine avant d'être déporté, en compagnie de ses frères, escorté par l'hetman de Żółkiewski sur l'ordre du roi , en Pologne où il mourut le .

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Voir aussi
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 Boris Godounov (film, 1986)

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Notes et références

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Famille Chouiski
Mort en déportation
Naissance en septembre 1552
Décès en septembre 1612
Décès dans la voïvodie de Mazovie
Décès à 59 ans
Noblesse russe du XVIe siècle
Noblesse russe du XVIIe siècle
Personnalité inhumée dans la cathédrale de l'Archange-Saint-Michel de Moscou

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Charles Evenson
Charles Douglas Evenson, 74, of Fergus Falls, left his earthly home on Saturday, February 13, 2021. Charles was born on September 29, 1946, to Earl N. and Vernette E. (Rund) Evenson in Fergus Falls. He was baptized and confirmed at Aastad Lutheran Church in rural Fergus Falls. In September 1951, Charles began first grade at country school District #157, also known as the Red Brick School on the Wendell road. He graduated from Fergus Falls Senior High School in 1964. Charles began helping his father on the family farm. One winter he worked in the mail room at Jet Propulsion Labs in California staying with his uncle Vernon Evenson. In 1968, he enlisted in the Minnesota National Guard and completed basic and AIT training at Fort Ord, California. He was discharged in 1974. Charles married Kathy Barsness on October 4, 1969. They made their home south of Fergus Falls. Charles and his father farmed together raising certified and registered wheat seed. Charles did custom crop spraying and was a member of the West Otter Tail Crop and Soil Association, a board member for Minnesota Wheat Growers Association, a board member at Pioneer Homes and held several offices on the Aastad town board and Aastad Church. After retiring from farming, Charles was an over the road trucker with Golden Ring Trucking and around the three-state area for Kane and KRS Transports, and was a Mattrax dealer. But his favorite part-time job was back on the tractor working the fields for David Stock. Charles and Kathy moved into Fergus Falls in February 2017 and in January 2018 Charles became a resident at Joe and Graces' Home. Charles was preceded in death by his parents; grandparents: Emil and Nora Evenson and Gilbert and Grace Rund; brother-in-law, Les Joens, and step-niece, Alanah Faber. Charles is survived by his wife of 51 years, Kathy and three daughters, Karen (Brandon) Patten of Elbert, CO, Kim (Kurt) Peck of Shoreview, MN, and Erin (Mike) Fisher of Audubon, MN; four grandchildren, Ashley Aichlmayr, Quinn and Hayden Peck, and Meah Fisher; one sister, Susan (Rick) Trollier of Charles Town, WV, and their daughters, Amy (Brandon) Hackett and Alison (Shannon) Trollier; one sister-in-law, Ethel Joens of Glenwood, MN, and her children, Erik and Karina (Darin) Mork; brothers-in-law, Eugene (Joni) Barsness of Brandon, MN, and his daughters, Shanna (Todd Elwood) Femrite and Tawnya (Jeremy) Kellen, Ingvald Barsness and step-son, Chase Faber, Paul (Julie) Barsness of Brandon, MN and sons, Joshua and Austin; one aunt, Joan Rund Rogers of Barren, WI, and many great-nieces, nephews, and cousins. Public Walk-through Visitation: 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Friday, February 26, 2021, at the Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls. A private family service will be held Saturday, February 27, 2021, at Aastad Lutheran Church rural Fergus Falls. Please refer back to the funeral home website and Charles' tribute wall for a recording of the service. Clergy: Reverend Kate Bruns Interment: Aastad Cemetery, rural Fergus Falls, MN Arrangements are provided by the Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls. Online condolences may be sent to www.olsonfuneralhome.com
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A fishfinder is a useful device – whether you sail the seven seas or cruise freshwater locations. They are an essential time-saving tool that can help fishermen. How do they work? What brands are best? Are there any suggestions for fogging issues? We will address these questions and more.
Do you like fishing, but have never used a fishfinder? Learn the basics on using these helpful devices. Find out how to read the display and use the Simulation mode to help you learn how to use the functions on your device.
Are you looking for a good unit that has everything you need to help make your fishing trip a success? Find out which top brands are worth purchasing. You will also find tips on how internal antennas and transducers work with different types of boats.
When it comes to fresh water fishing, simpler is best. Use this guide to help you choose a model that will have the features you need without overspending. You will also learn some information about basic fish finding technology.
Fishing in the deep blue sea requires patience and planning. You need something to help guide you to the ocean's bounty of sea creatures. This guide discusses what you should look for when choosing a sea worthy fishfinder. Tips are also given on other devices you may want to try while on your ocean bound adventure.
You will need to test your transducer to make sure your unit is functioning properly. This article takes you through it step by step. Other information is also given on where you can find information how how fishfinder transducers work, as well as a few suggestions on the best makes and models available on the market today.
How Can I Stop Fogging?
A common problem is the tendency for devices to fog up. What causes fogging in the first place? Get some useful tips to help solve the problem as well as some preventative measure you can take to reduce this issue from reoccurring.
So you have found the perfect fishfinder for your pontoon boat. Now you need to install it. Don't panic. This step by step guide will give you the instructions you require.
The most important thing to remember when comparing color devices is their ability to find fish. Find out what brands make the best purchasing choice in 2011. The author also gives his opinion on how these devices should be rated by the consumer.
Are you a Lowrance fan? Get the scoop on some of the best devices made by this popular brand in 2011. Includes feature details, product images and average price.
In this descriptive article, learn why Garmin can be useful devices worth having on your boat. Includes details on how fishfinder transducers work. The author also shares some of his personal experiences using the Garmin model.
Furuno is a popular brand that produces fish finders. Want to know about some of the best models available in 2011? Then look no further. Details are given on features, dimensions and average price.
Are you looking for an inexpensive fishfinder? The HawkEye portable model may be for you. Check out this informative review that discusses its important features as well as what you can expect in terms of price.
Ratheon (now Raymarine) devices combine features such as chart plotting, radar and other useful technologies in their units. This in-depth guide talks about how Ratheon created the devices for use by the general public. Information includes a discussion of their early fishfinder models as well as their more current models that are now available through the Raymarine company.
All Humminbird fishfinders function in a similar way. Want to know how they work? Use this guide to help understand their functionality as well as what is needed to install one into your boat.
Garmin Echo 550c – Is It Worth Buying?
Garmin is one of the popular brands that produce fish finding devices. The Garmin Echo 550c is a model that offers a variety of useful features. Check out this detailed review and see if it is worth the money.
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My daughter and her classmates had been invited to an art exhibit held in San Juan early this month. They may have difficulty locating the place, but the (brief) time spent at the exhibit was well worth it. They were welcomed by the one in charge at the gallery (or was it the gallery owner). Too bad the artist (who gave the invitation) was not around at the time to tell more about his work. Nevertheless, the students enjoyed the art exhibit and still have the energy to print business cards online for their project.
This entry was posted in Places to visit and tagged art exhibit, monar baldemor on March 24, 2014 by Yami.
How many times have you been to Baguio? Do you have plans of going back to the summer capital when the school year is over?
I would love to spend summer in Baguio. The last time I went there was in the early part of 2000 to attend a health workshop. The health reporters from various newspaper organizations were billeted in a hotel. We were there for a couple of days but we were not at liberty to roam around the city due to the workshop's tight schedule. The only time we were able to buy pasalubong was on the last day of the workshop. And the pasalubong items were even bought at the hotel lobby.
If given a chance I would love to go back to Baguio. There's so much in Baguio that I want to explore. Maybe a side trip to Benguet and Sagada would also be a good idea. I've heard and read so much about these places and I want to witness the natural wonders and beauty that I can only admire through photographs.
Various reviews online will surely help me find inexpensive cottages to accommodate me and my family for a few days while we are in the summer capital. I just wish my husband will be more open-minded when it comes to the idea of traveling as a family.
This entry was posted in Tourists destination and tagged summer capital of the Philippines, summer destination, summer vacation, vacation destination on March 12, 2014 by Yami.
Please take note of the following festivals observed in various places in the Philippines for the month of March.
This entry was posted in Festivals and tagged festival, festivals in the philippines, fiesta, fiesta for the month of march on March 11, 2014 by Yami.


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How Superhero Part Two Sequels Rank on the Tomatometer
With Captain America: The Winter Soldier hitting theaters, we've got a list of costumed crime fighters' second go-rounds.
by RT Staff | April 3, 2014 | Comments
Captain America gets his first sequel this weekend, but Captain America: The Winter Soldier is far from the first time a superhero has gotten a second chance to make megabucks at the box office — and judging from the way Marvel's been ruling the cineplex lately, it'll be far from the last. In honor of Cap's return to theaters, we decided to spend this week's list looking back at some other super second installments, so grab your vibranium shield — it's time for Total Recall!
Having already brought an end to the candy-colored, Schumacher-wrought nightmare that gripped the Batman franchise in the late 1990s, Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale had fans primed for a successful second act — but even after the smashing success of Batman Begins, few could have guessed just how popular The Dark Knight would be in the summer of 2008. A sprawling superhero epic that somehow managed to make room for jaw-dropping visuals, a compelling storyline, and stellar performances, Knight climbed out from under months of intense speculation — not to mention the shadow cast by Heath Ledger's shocking death — with a worldwide gross in excess of $1 billion, a towering stack of positive reviews, and a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Ledger. Richard Roeper joined the chorus of near-universal critical praise, calling it "a rich, complex, visually thrilling piece of pop entertainment, as strong as any superhero epic we've ever seen."
Sam Raimi knew he was setting up a franchise with 2002's Spider-Man, but still, following up that kind of success must have been daunting, especially given the studio's immediate hunger for a sequel, not to mention a protracted search for a workable script which saw Raimi and the producers turning to a succession of writers — including Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, David Koepp, and Michael Chabon — before ultimately turning to Alvin Sargent, who stitched together the most workable elements of the previous drafts to come up with a story that centered on Spidey's struggle to conquer his own self-doubt while battling Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina). It might sound like a piecemeal approach, but it worked; although Spider-Man 2 didn't meet or exceed Spider-Man's global box office tally, it came close — and critics actually liked the second installment better than the first one, sending it all the way up to 93 percent on the Tomatometer on the strength of reviews from writers like Lou Lumenick, who wrote, "sequels don't get much better — or smarter." While touching on a dizzying array of storylines from the comics, Raimi and Sargent delivered a bigger, more intense version of the original that still managed to keep the action streamlined (and, of course, set up a third installment in the process).
After putting together what seemed like a foolproof plan for a speedy Superman follow-up — hiring director Richard Donner to shoot much of the sequel concurrently with the first film — Warner Bros. watched with growing dismay as production slowed to a crawl, finally coming to a halt when Donner's feuds with producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind led to his firing from the project. Things grew more complicated when new director Richard Lester came on board, and — needing to film at least 51 percent of the movie in order to obtain a director's credit — reshot many scenes from a movie that had already been substantially filmed. Those are just a few of the many challenges Superman II needed to overcome before it finally arrived in theaters in 1981; amazingly, all that behind-the-scenes chaos didn't have much of an adverse impact on the original theatrical cut, which broke the $100 million barrier at the box office while enjoying almost as many positive reviews as its predecessor. It certainly helped that the screenplay gave Superman (Christopher Reeve) the most formidable villains he'd face in the original trilogy: Kryptonian criminals Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas), and Non (Jack O'Halloran), sent into exile just before the planet's destruction by Superman's father Jor-El (Marlon Brando) and freed by the blast from a bomb Superman threw into space. Add in a subplot involving our hero opting to give up his powers in order to pursue domestic bliss with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder), and it isn't hard to see why many fans consider this the best of the Reeve-era Superman movies (or why enough of them clamored for the release of Donner's cut that it finally saw the official light of day in 2006). "Superman II," sighed an appreciative Janet Maslin for the New York Times, "is a marvelous toy."
X2: X-Men United
Given the long odds it faced just getting to the screen, let alone pulling off the transition so successfully, it seemed altogether unlikely that X-Men's inevitable sequel would be able to achieve the same standard, let alone exceed it — but that's exactly what 2003's X2: X-Men United did, both at the box office, where it grossed over $400 million, and among critics, who praised it even more highly than its predecessor. This was, appropriately, accomplished two ways: One, the screenplay satisfied critics and longtime fans by tackling the comic's long-running sociological themes, most explicitly the fear of "outside" elements (in this case, sexy super-powered mutants) and how that fear is channeled by xenophobic authority figures; two, the sequel ramped up the original's gee-whiz factor by introducing characters like the teleporting, prehensile-tailed Nightcrawler — and daring to tease at the Marvel title's Phoenix storyline, one of the most beloved, brain-bending plots in the publisher's history. The result was a film that remains both a fan favorite and a critical benchmark for writers like Variety's Todd McCarthy, who lauded X2 as "bigger and more ambitious in every respect, from its action and visceral qualities to its themes."
Four years after the first installment, star Ron "Hellboy" Perlman teamed up again with director Guillermo del Toro for another round of supernatural fun — and while the original Hellboy earned mostly positive reviews, the sequel was an even bigger critical winner. A gleeful blend of popcorn thrills and uniquely del Toro visual splendor, Hellboy II: The Golden Army reunited the original cast for an epic battle between the forces of good and an irate elven king (Luke Goss) who wants to reignite the long-dormant war between elves and humans. While it was overshadowed at the box office by The Dark Knight and Iron Man, it still earned over $160 million — and earned the admiration of critics like Colin Covert of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, who called it "the biggest, richest, most imaginative superhero movie of the summer."
Though initially reluctant to film a sequel to 1989's Batman, director Tim Burton was eventually persuaded to return to Gotham after wresting complete creative control from Warner Bros. and hiring Daniel Waters (who worked with Burton on an attempted Beetlejuice sequel) to write the script. The result was 1992's Batman Returns, a casting dream that found Batman (Michael Keaton, donning the cowl for the final time) facing off against Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer, resplendent in leather) and the Penguin (a scenery-chewing Danny DeVito). Though some critics (and parents) felt the film was too dark, most reviews were positive; in fact, before Christopher Nolan came along with Batman Begins, Batman Returns was the best-reviewed film in the franchise, something Desson Thompson of the Washington Post attributed to the fact that it "Comes closer than ever to Bob Kane's dark, original strip, which began in 1939."
When your franchise is blessed with a leading man as charismatic (and as effortlessly well-suited to the role) as Robert Downey, Jr., you can cover up a lot of problems with your script simply by aiming the cameras at your star and letting him do what he does best. Perfect case in point: Iron Man 2, which managed to serve up a fair amount of Downey-derived fun in spite of a workmanlike plot that seemed to actively try and tamp down the many colorful possibilities inherent in a plot pitting our hero against Mickey Rourke as a half-mad Russian who uses the technology behind Iron Man's armor to try and destroy him. Fortunately for the franchise, even lukewarm Iron Man was good enough for nearly $625 million in global grosses, as well as praise from most critics. "There are too many new characters, too many crossing story lines, not enough romance and our hero's a smug jerk for the first half hour," shrugged Tom Long of the Detroit News. "Who cares? Iron Man 2 still rocks."
Thor: The Dark World
When Thor (Chris Hemsworth) left Earth to return to Asgard at the end of his first big-screen adventure, he was eager to return for Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) — but he had to have been hoping for cheerier circumstances than the ones the couple faced in Thor: The Dark World, which found the hammier-wielding hero making his way back as part of an epic battle against the nefarious Malekith (Christopher Eccleston), ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim, who's on a quest to destroy the universe using a mystical weapon dubbed the Aether. With prophecies, ancient artifacts, galaxy-spanning war, and another dose of the ever-charming Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Dark World managed to woo most critics even if it didn't quite reach the celestial heights of the first installment. "Comic-book superheroes have become so angst-ridden in recent years," lamented the Sydney Morning Herald's Sydney Hall. "It's a relief to be around one who has hung on to his sense of humor."
Blade II
It's a late-period Wesley Snipes movie and the sequel to a vampire flick, but don't dismiss 2002's Blade II out of hand; for starters, the second installment of New Line's Blade franchise brought in Guillermo del Toro to take over for original director Stephen Norrington, lending the sequel more smarts and visual flair than you might otherwise expect from a film including a scene that takes place in a vampire nightclub. Though the plot is bogged down with more double-crosses than a bad heist movie (and giggle-worthy stuff like UV grenades), screenwriter David S. Goyer was smart enough to include plenty of action — and to set up a third installment in the epilogue. At 59 percent on the Tomatometer, Blade II ain't exactly Citizen Kane, but it's the best-reviewed of the Blade trilogy, and its $150 million worldwide gross makes it the most financially successful, too — something several critics attributed to the change in director. "If you can keep your eyes open amid all the blood and gore," wrote the Denver Post's Steven Rosen, "you'll see Del Toro has brought unexpected gravity to Blade II."
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
In a way, Tim Story had it better than either Sam Raimi or Bryan Singer while making the Fantastic Four sequel, Rise of the Silver Surfer — where both of those directors had to contend with the weight of crushing expectations, both from fans of the comics they were adapting and moviegoers who enjoyed the earlier installments of their respective franchises, Story was blessed with the opportunity to follow up a film that people turned to for mindless summer entertainment in spite of all the critical enmity it earned. With the bar set relatively low, Story and his cast were free to improve upon the first Fantastic without suffering undue scrutiny. And improve upon it they did, if only slightly; Rise of the Silver Surfer's Tomatometer, while still Rotten, inched a few notches higher than the original film's, and although its box office total fell roughly $40 million short of Fantastic Four's $330 million, it still generated a pretty hefty pile of dough. For all that, however, Rise of the Silver Surfer nonetheless went down as a missed opportunity — to turn Fantastic Four into a viable franchise, to provide a launchpad for a spinoff starring one of Marvel's most unique (and let's face it, downright silly) characters, the Silver Surfer, and most of all, to entertain critics like Scott Brown of Entertainment Weekly, who sighed, "if you swept the cosmic dust of the superhero boom into a flimsy dustpan, you'd have the Fantastic Four franchise."
On paper, one might assume that an injection of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's cracked action aesthetic would be exactly what a Ghost Rider sequel needed, with their gleefully lurid style providing a perfect complement to Nicolas Cage's marvelous knack for playing characters embroiled in over-the-top situations like being saddled with the curse of owing one's soul to a vengeful demon. Alas and alack, the reality of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance proved to be far less compelling than the theory, and although the movie's $132 million global box office demonstrated how little audiences cared what critics thought about movies featuring central characters who roared around on motorcycles with their heads on fire, reviews were even worse than they'd been for the first Ghost Rider, and hopes for a trilogy were abandoned when Sony let the rights to the character revert back to Marvel. Still, for a handful of critics, Spirit of Vengeance was a disposably good time; as Ken Hanke wrote for the Asheville Mountain Xpress, "It was exactly what I expected it to be, and I was fine with that."
Take a look through the rest of our Total Recall archives. And don't forget to check out Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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Q: Joining Lists of Lists in Python in a specific manner Given two very large lists (about 50K records)     list1 = [['a','b','c'],['d','e','f']]     and      list2 = [['a','r','t'],['d','e','n']]      . How to obtain      list3 = [['a','b','c','r','t'],['d','e','f','e','n']]
Here I'm joining by comapring the first character of the second list's sublists and taking only one of them in final list
I am new to python
I tried
i=0
final=[]
    while (i<len(list1)) :
        for row in list2 :
            if(list1[i][0]==list2[0]) :
                final= row + list[i][1:]

    i+=1

But this does not work

A: list1 = [['a','b','c'],['d','e','f']]
list2 = [['a','r','t'],['d','e','n']]

print([x+y[1:] for x,y in zip(list1,list2)])

Using list comprehensions, list slicing, and zip() function this can be done rather quickly.
Edited based on comments, use an if case to only allow certain things through:
list1 = [['a','b','c'],['d','e','f']]
list2 = [['a','r','t'],['d','e','n']]

print([x+y[1:] for x,y in zip(list1,list2) if x[0] == y[0]])