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Tornadoes in the United States: Kentucky's Recovery Will Take Time, Money, and Stir Up Fractured Politics
Telita Seseka
Resilience and faith run deep in this Kentucky community.
Sunday service at Mayfield's First Baptist Church begins at 11 am. Today, for a congregation that is still standing, it was.
But outside the chapel, the city's core is a slum Destroyed businesses, homes, and lives.
They're picking up the slack in every crevice. An incredible amount of energy was whipped up by the twister.
Previously built brick structures were torn from their bases. Iron and steel mills are twisted shambles.
I met Elyce Ray at 6th and North. It was just too much for her.
"I've been around town a couple of times and seen everything. Were you aware that the city you grew up in and all of your memories are gone?
We're next to her local law firm. She identifies the boss. Former office worker David Hargrove stands beside a desk. No dividers and no roof now.
We find him with a brave look on his face, trying to arrange the violin for him.
"You must grin or weep. I've had enough tears. You know, we're just trying to get cleaned up and get moving as best we can. Clearly, we're not unique. Nothing like this has ever occurred right here."
Even the remaining structures have lost their roofs. The old courthouse's tower collapsed. It caved in, destroying most of the city's landmarks.
Jim and Sarah Palmer, father and daughter, stood by it. They all looked tired and hazy.
It pains Sarah since she has lived here all her life and has seen everything destroyed.
Jim, her father, believes they will return, bigger and better than ever.
In the city, the twister cut a route
It's a blast to go around town. The pictures and video don't seem to capture the full extent of the injuries.
So much devastation may happen block after block. It will be a long time before they recover.
That twister passed through in the midst of it all.
Immediately after a day off, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear came back to promise support and funds.
We've lost many lives, he said.
Survivors sought in the area
In his words, "We're looking out for one another, and we'll support anybody who needs it." "We share our homes." We'll feed them and restore their homes. We'll make it, but we'll miss you."
We'll see how long it takes him to restore his promise, and how much it costs.
Politics quickly re-emerges in such places. The country is split. With just 0.37 percent of the vote, Beshear won the governorship in 2019.
Trump won the state with 62% of the vote last year. Joe Biden only got 36%.
Federal authorities must declare Kentucky's aftermath a major disaster, according to
This twister's toll on lives is seen just outside the city.
They've been searching for survivors for two days and nights in the city's candle factory, where over 100 people worked Friday night. The excellent news is becoming less and less often.
Religion carries them back to the church, but they may need more here.
Biden has promised aid. But, albeit, there isn't much right now. It's a local fight.
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Awful Furry
By FerretSage,
October 24, 2015 in Introductions
FerretSage
I signed my name up. I was a long-time member of FaF. Dec 2005 -- a rare poster with a little over 110 posts when FaF became Phoenix. Been involved in furry since 1993.
I probably will maintain a similar lurky presence here. Mostly just squatting on my name.
Before I go, I have a number of terrible questions.
How can people so invested into furry continue to call it a hobby... or a fandom... and still continue to vehemently deny what is clearly a lifestyle?
How can one side of 24/7 furries shame those for making a life out of their fetish, when they themselves have made only an online limbo out of their own fetishes?
Why is it when people dress up as some sort of zoomorphic human, it's nearly always to reveal themselves as attention-seeking showboating whores, from rated-PG furry conventions, to getting peed on at the X-rated Folsom Fair?
If human-animals are perceived as subhumans, where are the superhumans?
Why do animal-people bring out the animal in humans, in both prude and hedonist alike for the same reasons?
Why do people feel the need to justify taking their own humanity in new directions and new shapes with some false and grotesquely pathetic Otherkin/werekin backstory instead of owning their creativity, personal expression, and art?
Why do those who want people to be just like them play the conformist card on others?
Why do those who believe humanity can be abandoned by adopting an inhuman shape also unwittingly confess their perception of humanity as being only skin deep?
Why does #8 apply doubly to people staring down the barrel of a lifetime within the human factory farm, raging at people threatening to abandon them in their corporate world?
If I could go back in time, I would support the Burned Fur movement 15 years ago in eliminating all publicly accessible furry pornography, but not for the moral reasons they espoused. Rather, my opposition to public furry erotica is because people can't understand "proper time, proper place", that people as sexualized animals is not the same as animals as sexualized people (people as sexualized animals is a concept that stumps both zoophiles and moral conservatives for the same reason), and that people don't understand that there is more to life than getting snagged in a go-nowhere "online community" endlessly drawing power animals they are too lazy to internalize.
Edited October 24, 2015 by FerretSage
Chrysocyon
Species: Maned Wolf
Weasyl
Twitter: @Exoanthrope
Discord: Chrysocyon#9257
Welcome to the new forums. I lurked a lot on the old FAF, too, a little over 100 posts since 2009.
As for the questions, looks like a load of complex question fallacy, so I'm not even going to attempt to answer any of those.
Sidewalk Surfboard
Species: Rat
Discord: Rolfe#8879
Fucking furfags. Yiff in hell.
PastryOfApathy
Species: North Korea
I'll bite creepy old man, probably in some greasy Tiny Toon's shirt he bought on ebay to wank to.
>How can people so invested into furry continue to call it a hobby... or a fandom... and still continue to vehemently deny what is clearly a lifestyle?
Because it's not. Unless occasionally drawing silly animal people when I'm bored and occasionally talking to friends on an internet forum is enough to be considered a "lifestyle". Although if your life is defined so much by something as stupid as furfaggotry than whether or not it's a "lifestyle" is the least of your issues.
>How can one side of 24/7 furries shame those for making a life out of their fetish, when they themselves have made only an online limbo out of their own fetishes?
Because being a fuckin' weirdo on the internet and being a creepy pervert in real life are two completely different things? I mean I'm not gonna lie and say I've never said certain questionable things under the guise of anonymity (if you used to go on /lolg/ and the name "yordlefucker" rings a bell...h0i), but I'm not gonna run around my work screaming about how I want to impale someones hamster on my cock.
>Why is it when people dress up as some sort of zoomorphic human, it's nearly always to reveal themselves as attention-seeking showboating whores, from rated-PG furry conventions, to getting peed on at the X-rated Folsom Fair?
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>If human-animals are perceived as subhumans, where are the superhumans?
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>Why do animal-people bring out the animal in humans, in both prude and hedonist alike for the same reasons?
These questions are beginning to look more like the ramblings of a mad man so I'm just gonna skip to the ones that are actually comprehensible to normal humans.
I don't even know what the fuck to make of any of this. Did you forget to take your meds this morning or something?
To answer all your questions, I only need one word.
Furries.
I agree; it clearly doesn't take a lot of merit to be a furry.
I'll bite creepy old man, <snip>
I'm not gonna run around my work screaming about how I want to impale someones hamster on my cock.<snip>
Colorful hyperbolic language. It's your professed lack of reading comprehension of my question you bolded that reveals that I have brought out a very hostile animal within you throughout your caustic response and also your attending prurient reasons why. If you had paid more attention in English class, you would have realized I wasn't endorsing the behavior I was questioning. Instead, you were paying too much attention to distance yourself from the behavior mentioned to notice that an appeal to perversion wasn't being made.
AnotherWizard
It's not a lifestyle. It's not something people are born with. And people are generally interested in it to meet with like minded people and fetish reasons. By the same token being into something like BDSM isn't a "lifestyle".
I don't generally care about what other people do with their lives. I'd suggest you try the same. You'll live longer.
See above. If you want to be judgmental I don't think furries are for you.
I don't understand this question
To quote Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man
You're being extremely judgmental toward what other people do with their time and what they choose to be creative with. I'd suggest worrying about what you find creative and spending less time on what other people do.
I've never met a furry who wants to "abandon humanity" or who is a furry because they hate who they are. I'm a very human person who enjoys his humanity and his escapism. I don't see being human as skin deep and I have a variety of interests outside of furry.
If I could go back in time, I would support the Burned Fur movement 15 years ago in eliminating all publicly accessible furry pornography, but not for the moral reasons they espoused.
It was doomed to fail from the start. Pornography was inevitable. It would have happened at some point. You cannot stop people making pornography of things. This goes beyond Furry. People make pornography of characters from basically everything. And attempting to "eliminate" pornography just leads to more of it. Google "Streisand effect".
Rather, my opposition to public furry erotica is because people can't understand "proper time, proper place",
What you don't seem to understand is "live and let live"
Nobody's hurting you. Nobody's forcing you to look at pornography. Nobody's forcing you to create pornography of your characters. You're free to do whatever you want. If seeing a furry character's dick ruffles your feathers so much you should probably not be here.
that people as sexualized animals is not the same as animals as sexualized people (people as sexualized animals is a concept that stumps both zoophiles and moral conservatives for the same reason), and that people don't understand that there is more to life than getting snagged in a go-nowhere "online community" endlessly drawing power animals they are too lazy to internalize.
You're making a lot of judgements onto people and you're assuming people are in the community purely for a form of ego boost. When this is not always the case (and more often than not I meet furries that don't identify with animals at all and don't have fursonas). It's also hard to call a community a "go nowhere" community when many people find workplace contacts and permanent irl friendships through it mostly by accident.
I'd suggest trying to be less judgmental. It doesn't do you any good in the long run.
Edited October 25, 2015 by AnotherWizard
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RTDragon
Species: Komodo Dragon
I'll try and answer most of these tconsidering from reading OP response and have seen his replies in the Fender journals considering he really does'nt understand how fandom work considering there's more than just the furry fandom.
1. Well for one it can be a lifestyle to some but for most others it's a hobby since there's are artists who do this for a living, suit makers, as well as others who enjoy it. You really seem to be really judgmental from all your questions and yet you fail to understand from other points of view.
2. Well that i've have not seen considering the two conventions i've went to. AC and FCN i've seen no one make their life out of their fetish.
3. Looks like someone has not really been to many cons or gatherings. Though there are quite well know furs that fursuit or have other talents. Considering it's Mascot cosplay like many others who do on anime conventions.
4. Are you really this serious considering anthro is based off humans. You can't have one without the other.
5. I really don't know what to say to this.
6. People are inspired by a lot of things nothing wrong with Otherkin or those things. Basically imagination.
7. When did you get this idea from?
8 & 9. Are you really serious.
For someone who is upset over what is currently happening in the fandom there's not much you can do about or anything considering the adult content since rule 34 always has existed.
Little_Dragon
Species: English Moor Dragon
I really should render an updated version of this animation sometime ....
If you want to be judgmental I don't think furries are for you.
You say, "judgmental", like it's a bad thing. I want to be judgmental. I want to point at these furries and these men's rights activists and these Anons, Gamergaters, SJWs -- all these little turds -- and scream at them, "WRYYYY???!!!! Why not join forces into one big giant turd?!"
I'll be over here buying some land.
http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/168499/Furries/
Species: Pandaren Express
OP's tears taste so delicious
Vaer
Species: Asiatic Porcupine
Twitter: @Vaer_Porcupine
Your argument is showing how unhinged you are.
BagelRabbit
Species: Space Rabbit
...It's your professed lack of reading comprehension of my question you bolded that reveals that I have brought out a very hostile animal within you throughout your caustic response and also your attending prurient reasons why. If you had paid more attention in English class, you would have realized I wasn't endorsing the behavior I was questioning. Instead, you were paying too much attention to distance yourself from the behavior mentioned to notice that an appeal to perversion wasn't being made.
Okay, even if I can't disagree with some of your points (in part because I have little idea of what you're getting at), you're clearly pulling a "I'm better at English than you are; therefore, I know more than you about logic(?), I'm more intelligent(??), and you're excessively sexually charged(?!)
But you're clearly using big words that you likely got out of a thesaurus (prurient?!) and making statements that take more than a little decoding to deduce. You might think this makes you look smart, but all it does is make you look like you're trying to outclass people in every way you possibly can. Were you taught in your English class that you're supposed to write in a way that most people understand? Because that's not happening here.
Just my two cents. You may now resume doing whatever you wanted to be doing on this thread.
-bagel
Kinare
Species: Panther
I feel like some of your questions have an interesting philosophical answer to them, but I don't feel like bothering because many of the other questions are flat out ignorant and almost seem like they're meant to irritate instead of start an intelligent discussion. Furthermore, being in the fandom/whatever you want to call it for as long as you claim, you should know more than you do about the people involved in it. Either you are a regular participant of said extremes yourself (never having seen anything else but them) and that's why you assume we're all like that, or you're just an ignorant outsider who truly does have no idea and only knows what society and possibly strict religion warns about. Regardless of your intentions or level of knowledge about us, I challenge you to post this in the GD-type forum if you really want some answers. Should be a good show.

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Q: Windows 10 automatic daylight savings adjustment not working? I have a single Windows 10 machine. It is not connected to a domain. Pretty stock. Daylight savings time changed this weekend, and my computer is not showing the correct time. I've rebooted it with no change in the issue. If I set "Adjust for daylight savings time automatically" then the time is wrong. If I turn this feature off, then the time is right. It seems like the opposite should be true. Can someone help me to get my OS to report the correct time throughout the year?
Screenshots to demo the problem to follow..
Time is wrong when "Adjust automatically" is set:

Time is correctly when this is disabled:

A: In general, "Adjust for daylight saving time automatically" should always be On.  Turning it off is for a few legacy edge cases and a couple of places in the world that don't currently have an appropriate entry in the list of time zones.
Most likely, the system clock isn't set to the correct time.  Perhaps there's a problem getting the correct time from the Internet, which is enabled or disabled from the first "Set time automatically" option.
I recommend:

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*Check that your Internet Time Server settings are correct.  Try a different time server if necessary.

*Turn on all options, being sure to turn on "Adjust for daylight saving time automatically" before turning on "Set time zone automatically".

A: This has just happened to me this week on a Windows 10 machine, as we entered Daylight Saving Time in some regions here in Brazil, even with the "Adjust for daylight saving time automatically" enabled. Windows did recognize DST, but the clock kept on going to the wrong time zone: UTC instead of UTC-2 (DST from Brasília's UTC-3).
It has been solved by changing the NTP server to pool.ntp.org, as @MattJohnson and @stevemidgley indicated above. At first, it seemed "time.windows.com" server might not be up-to-date in its time zones settings, but the time configuration remained OK after returning the server to  "time.windows.com".
What I've also noticed is that time zone settings frequently stalls on  Windows 10, requiring using Task Manager to kill its processes.

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When a business must handle large amounts of cash during the course of a business day, as banks and large retailers do, there is a certain amount of risk that comes along with every transaction, and from a variety of sources. The obvious, of course, is theft, but there is also simple human error, especially since there is generally more than one person involved. Money counter machines reduce the degree to which mistakes can impact cash flow, but they do not eliminate it, nor the increased chance of theft with the temptation of an open vault. A newer machine that makes a great difference in this area are cash recyclers. Here is an explanation of what they do and why they are beneficial.
A cash recycler is a machine that can both receive and dispense cash to customers. It accurately counts money deposited into it and, when a dispersal is needed, it does this from the same funds, eliminating the need for a vault transaction. At its most basic, a cash recycler is simply a money counter machine, but one with the ability to benefit banks and retailers in valuable ways.
One valuable task that a a currency recycler accomplishes is counterfeit detection. By eliminating that issue, the machine saves an untold amount of money that would otherwise be lost during counterfeit transactions. Employing one of these machines also allows for better customer service. First, it reduces the time for each transaction through automation. Second, employees are less likely to be taken away from helping customers by a need to withdraw or deposit funds into the vault. Superior customer service then leads to greater customer loyalty and usually to higher revenues as well. The increased security granted by the use of cash recyclers is also a valuable benefit. The money that sits inside the machine is locked down, drastically reducing the rate of internal theft of robbery, and, in the case of robbery, the extra security means added time for law enforcement to arrive on scene.
Clearly, the positive aspects of these money counter machines can be used to assist many businesses of varying size and type. If there are situations where a sizable amount of cash is handled during the course of business, then a cash recycling system might be a rewarding investment.


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Posted by: Steve Kotch on Jul 31, 2020
Knowing Your Cigar Shapes & Sizes
There is no shortage to the shapes and sizes in which cigars are made. This combination of size and shape is referred to as a cigar's vitola. Newer smokers can be surprised how much this affects the smoking experience, from Nubs to Churchills. Allow Best Cigar Prices to help you understand what vitola names like these mean in terms of shape, length, and gauge.
Cigar vitolas are generally divided into two categories: parejo (straight) and figurado (irregularly shaped).
Parejo Cigar Vitolas
Straight, parejo cigar shapes are easily the most common. They have a simple, cylindrical shape, with more than a dozen types of variants. Some notable parejo vitolas include Churchills, Rothschilds, and Lonsdales, but let's take a closer look at popular parejos.
Considered the ideal tasting size for cigar reviewers, Robusto cigars are usually 5 to 5 1/2 inches long and have a 50 ring gauge.
Oliva Robusto
The Toro has the same 50 ring gauge as the Robusto, but it has slightly more length to it. Toro cigars are traditionally around 6 inches long.
Romeo Toro
Churchill cigars are named after one of England's most notable Prime Ministers: Winston Churchill, who was rarely seen without his trademark stogie. A traditional Churchill is slightly thinner than Robustos and Toros, with a 48 ring gauge. However, it makes up for it by measuring a whopping 7 inches in length.
Cohiba Churchill
The Corona vitola is considered by many, especially older aficionados, to be the standard parejo above the Robusto. Typical dimensions for a Corona cigar are 5 1/2 to 6 inches in length with a ring gauge of 42 to 44. You can also go smaller with a Petit Corona (4 1/2 inches long with a 40 to 42 ring gauge) or larger with a Double Corona (7 1/2 to 8 inches long with a 49 to 52 ring gauge).
Ashton Corona
The Panetela can best be described as a long and slinky version of the Corona. Pantelas was very popular in the 1990s, with sizes ranging from 5 to 7 1/2 inches in length and modest diameters clocking in with a ring gauge of 34 to 38.
Baccarat Panetela
The Lonsdale was named after the famous cigar smoker Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale. This vitola is thicker than the Panetela and longer than the Corona. You can expect a Lonsdale to be roughly 6 3/4 inches long with a ring gauge of 42 to 44.
H. Upmann Lonsdale
Figurado Cigar Vitolas
The term "figurado" can refer to any shape other than the classic parejo. Over the years, manufacturers have shown off new and interesting shapes, further subdivided figurados into more specialized names. Let's review the ones that you're most likely to run into at a cigar shop.
Pyramid is the name given to a cigar that is thickest at its foot. As their name implies, Pyramid cigars gradually and uniformly taper towards the head, creating a cone or pyramid-like shape.
Perdomo Pyramid
A Belicoso is a cigar that tapers sharply at the head. Unlike a Pyramid, Belicosos do not start to taper until very close to the head. In the past, Belicoso cigars used to be a genuine short Pyramid, tapered from foot to head. Recently, they have adopted a shape more similar to a Corona, with a length of 5 to 5 1/2 inches and a ring gauge of 50 or less.
Opus Belicoso
A Torpedo also has a gradually tapered head that comes to a sharp point. The differences between a Belicoso and a Torpedo can be hard to spot, but it's agreed that the Torpedo tapers much more gradually than the Belicoso, giving it a sharper look. However, in both of these vitolas the tapered end concentrates the flavors of the cigar into a small opening, creating a more robust smoke. The tapered head also gives the smoker the unique ability to choose how big he or she wants the opening to be.
Alec Bradley Torpedo
A cigar that is tapered at both the head and the foot with a slight bulge in the middle is called a Perfecto. Some styles of Perfectos have a nipple-like foot, while others have a more uniform and gently tapered foot. Still other Perfectos are tapered toward the foot and then abruptly trim straight. Regardless of the style, a Perfecto will start out with a firm draw, gradually opening up as the tapered foot burns.
Griffin's Perfecto
Diademas & Salomones
Diademas and Salomones are essentially larger versions of the Perfecto, tapered at both ends. However, these cigars can be 8 inches or more in length, with a closed head (ring gauge around 40) and a foot that can be open or closed (52 ring gauge or more).
Don Pepin Salomones
Novelty Cigar Shapes
Yes, technically speaking anything outside of the traditional, cylindrical shape of parejos is a figurado vitola. Still, at a certain point the shape of a cigar becomes as much of a selling point as the contents of the cigar, if not more so! These are best referred to as novelty cigar shapes, which are more or less expert cigar rollers showing off their skills. Here are a few examples:
The Egg by Drew Estate is basically a caricature of a Perfecto. The name is obviously derived from the bulge in the middle taking on the dimensions of an egg.
The Egg by Drew Estate
Though somewhat rare, the Culebra is one of the most interesting vitolas you can find. It consists of three Panetelas braided together to create one uniform cigar. However, it isn't smoked as one; you unbraid it first (perfect for sharing with your two closest cigar-smoking friends). Culebras are usually 5 to 6 inches long with a 38 ring gauge.
La Flor Culebra
Nub cigars are extra short, stubby stogies that attempt to capture the "sweet spot" of a normal sized cigar (the very middle area). Many smokers love these tasty little treasures, but others consider the concept to little more than a marketing gimmick.
Nub with Connecticut Wrapper
Fuente Factory Special Cigars
One of the best-known creators of novelty cigars is the Fuente factory. They produce cigars shaped like footballs, baseball bats, and other distinct vitolas. They even have some with puffy heads that look like the plumes of rare birds. This is where cigar rolling starts to blur the lines with true art, and they are usually reserved for charity auctions.
Various Fuente Factory Cigars
As you try different cigars, don't shy away from different sizes, shapes, brands, and types of tobacco to discover which you truly like the best. Most importantly, have fun and always trust your own taste.
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Николай Степанович Ганецкий (Гонецкий) (24 ноября (6 декабря) 1815 — 20 апреля (3 мая) 1904) — русский генерал, участник Крымской войны. Брат Ивана Степановича Ганецкого. Дядя по матери писательницы и мемуаристки Елизаветы Николаевны Водовозовой (в девичестве Цевловской; мать Елизаветы, Александра Степановна Цевловская, урожденная Ганецкая, была младшей сестрой братьев Ганецких).

Биография
Род Гонецких происходил из Польши. Отец, Степан Михайлович Гонецкий (1772—1845), был смоленский дворянин, уездный судья, закончил службу в чине штабс-капитана гвардии. Мать — Прасковья Васильевна, урождённая Эйсмонт (?—1818).

Николай Ганецкий родился в селе Бухоново Пореченского уезда Смоленской губернии.

Образование получил в 1-м кадетском корпусе, откуда 6 апреля 1835 года выпущен прапорщиком в лейб-гвардии Финляндский полк и здесь последовательно получил чины подпоручика (1 января 1838 г.), поручика (6 декабря 1839 г.), штабс-капитана (11 апреля 1843 г., с назначением командиром роты), капитана (6 декабря 1845 г.) и полковника (24 мая 1849 г., со старшинством от 29 января того же года).

В январе 1849 года Ганецкий был прикомандирован к лейб-гвардии Павловскому полку, с которым принимал участие в Венгерской кампании. 3 октября 1853 г. он получил в командование Ряжский пехотный полк, с которым отправился на Кавказ и, находясь в Александропольском и Эриванском отрядах, участвовал в сражении при Кюрюк-Дара, 26 декабря 1854 г. был удостоен ордена св. Георгия 4-й степени
«В воздаяние за отличие, оказанное в сражении при Кюрук-Дара, 24 Июля 1854 года, где смело двинув роты командуемого полка из резерва, остановил натиск неприятеля и дал возможность нашей кавалерии, усиленной подкреплениями, перейти в наступление».

В 1855 году принял участие в осаде турецкой крепости Карс, 17 сентября награждён орденом Святого Владимира 4-й степени с мечами и бантом. В 1856—1859 гг. Ганецкий участвовал в составе Лезгинского отряда в делах против горцев и за боевые отличия был награждён орденами св. Владимира 3-й степени с мечами и бантом (22 августа 1857 г.) и Святого Станислава 1-й степени с мечами (26 ноября 1859 г., за отличие при взятии аула Ведено). 26 августа 1856 года был произведён в чин генерал-майора.

В 1860 году Ганецкий по собственному желанию отчислился в запас армии, но вскоре опять поступил на службу: в 1862 году — помощник начальника 3-й гренадерской дивизии; 1 июля 1862 года был награждён орденом св. Анны 1-й степени; в 1863 году был назначен командующим 28-й пехотной дивизией и командующим войсками, находившимися в Поневежском и Вилькомирском уездах.

Произведённый 30 августа 1863 году в генерал-лейтенанты, Николай Степанович Ганецкий получил в начальство 3-ю гренадерскую дивизию и назначен командующим войсками, находившимися в Ковенском и Мариампольском уездах, и за боевые отличия в делах против польских мятежников у Жилишек, Данилишек и других был награждён орденом св. Владимира 2-й степени с мечами (21 сентября 1868 г.), 13 августа 1866 г. получил Императорскую корону к ордену св. Анны 1-й степени, 18 июля 1871 года был удостоен ордена Белого Орла, 30 августа 1875 г. — ордена св. Александра Невского (алмазные знаки к этому ордену пожалованы 15 мая 1883 г.).

В 1877 году он командовал 7-м армейским корпусом, охранявшим побережье Чёрного моря, а 16 апреля 1878 г., произведённый в генералы от инфантерии, назначен командиром 8-го армейского корпуса и в 1879 г. — командиром Гренадерского корпуса, которым командовал до 1886 г., когда был назначен командующим войсками Виленского военного округа, 6 апреля 1885 г. получил орден св. Владимира 1-й степени.

11 февраля 1895 года был назначен членом Государственного Совета. 11 февраля 1895 г. Ганецкий был удостоен ордена св. Андрея Первозванного, имел черногорский орден кн. Даниила 1-го 1-й степени.

Николай Степанович Ганецкий умер 20 апреля 1904 года в городе Санкт-Петербурге.

Сын Н. С. Ганецкого Алексей был женат на известной предпринимательнице В. И. Фирсановой, на деньги которой он построил в Москве Сандуновские бани.

Примечания

Литература
 Письма генерала Н. С. Гонецкого с Кавказа (1854 г.) «Звезда» 2003, № 8

 Список генералам по старшинству на 1886 год. СПб., 1886
 Шилов Д. Н., Кузьмин Ю. А. Члены Государственного совета Российской империи. 1801—1906: Биобиблиографический справочник. СПб., 2007

Выпускники Первого кадетского корпуса
Участники Кавказской войны
Участники Крымской войны
Участники войны против польских повстанцев 1863 года
Кавалеры ордена Святого Георгия IV класса
Члены Государственного совета Российской империи
Генералы от инфантерии (Российская империя)
Кавалеры ордена Святого апостола Андрея Первозванного
Кавалеры ордена Святого Александра Невского с бриллиантовыми знаками
Кавалеры ордена Святого Владимира 1-й степени


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Q: fluctuating adc reading I have a fuel level sensor that varies its resistance from 9.5 ohm(empty) to 155ohm(full). The sensor is powered using 12V battery connected to a 30kVA Generator.
The problem is that the level that I get fluctuates,i.e, 47.57% for 30s and then 48.4 for 30s or so. The level is calculated using the equation level(%)=187.41 * V(adc port) - 7.38. The fuel level sensor forms a voltage divider with a 1.2k resistance. The voltage at the ADC pin does change but very little about +-1mV.
I have two more analog signals connected to ADC of 16f877a. The other two signals namely battery voltage and temperature are fairly stable.
I using 7805 to power up the controller circuit and a separate 7805 to power up the SIM900 module

A: The voltage difference needed to cause this difference in fuel level is (48.4-47-57)/187.41=4.4mV, so the measured fluctuation is indeed too low.
But your ADC has 10Bit, i.e. gives 1024 different values. At an ADC range of 5V, one step is 5V/1024=4.883mV, which corresponds to 0.9% fuel level. This is the resolution of your circuit, and a change of voltage by 1mV can cause a change of ADC reading by 1 step, which results in a fuel level change by 0.9%.
(The difference between 4.4mV and 4.883mV can be due to rounding or not exact 5V supply voltage)
An analog low pass filter, as suggested by @Edesign can help to reduce the frequency of changes, but can not eliminate them. And: the jumps are still 0.9%.
Averaging of several ADC measurements is similar to the low pass filter. It also makes the fuel level looking smoother, since it blurs the 0.9% steps.
What you can do to reduce the fluctuation is applying a dead band. Something like
Accept ADC value only when it's different by at least 2 steps from the last accepted values.
However, this results in larger steps of 1.8%.

Looking at your formula, the voltage range going into the ADC is roughly about 0V-0.5V (assuming it can measure up to 100% fuel level), so you use only 1/10 of the range of the ADC. If you can map the input voltage to the full ADC range, you can get a resolution of 0.09%.
Either add an amplifier, or set the upper reference voltage of the ADC to about 0.5V (I don't know if this PIC allows it. Many allow to use voltages provided at two pins as upper/lower ADC range limit)
While you get finer steps with this, you'll also get more noise (fluctuations). But you now already got some ideas how to reduce this.

A: To improve the accuracy of your measurement, you can use the following simple techniques:

*

*digital averaging: takes several measurement and display the average of them. The number of samples you can average will depend on the sample rate of your ADC and the frequency of the measurement you want.

*analog low pass filter

Also make sure the voltage at the ADC pin is not different when you measuring it with an external device, as they usually act as small capacitors, plus they are sometimes using filtering.


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By Gina May 27, 2006
Jessica Rinks, MPA
President and Cofounder
Jessica is an Urban Planner specializing in the field of public transportation planning. She has worked for Vlecides-Schroeder Associates, a Chicago planning firm, since 2006. She received her Masters of Public Administration in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jessica has been an avid gardener for several years, and became a University of Illinois Master Gardener in 2008. She is particularly interested in growing edible plants, and during Chicago's wonderful but often too brief summers she grows the majority of her household's vegetable supply. In 2010 she decided to take vegetable gardening a step further and began growing produce for sale at the Logan Square Farmer's Market. She also started her own garden design and management company and currently manages a 900+ square foot raised bed restaurant garden in downtown Chicago.
With her friend and co-founder, Gina Thomas, Jessica founded Forest Park Community Garden in 2009, motivated by her own passion for growing food and a desire to share that passion with others. She believes that a lack of garden space, knowledge, or confidence should not stop any person from gardening.
Gina Thomas, BS
Vice President and Cofounder
Gina is the Supervisor of Transplant IT at Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she has been employed since 2002. Her professional experience includes policy and procedure development, project management, process improvement and staff management. Gina holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior from Northwestern University and an Associate of Applied Science in Medical Technology from Southwest Tennessee Community College.
Gina has been gardening since the summer of 2007 when she decided to grow an organic tomato. Today most of the yard of her small house has been replaced by vegetable and perennial gardens. While she still considers herself a novice gardener killing the occasional plant, she also grows and builds some cool stuff. Her greatest gardening accomplishments are the cedar pergola built over a weekend with good friends, raised vegetable beds she constructed herself and the trip to Las Vegas she won in a tastiest tomato contest with a Cherokee Purple tomato she grew from a plant purchased at Jewel grocery. In 2009 Gina partnered with her friend Jessica Rinks to start Forest Park Community Garden believing that everyone in her community who wants to garden should have a place to do so.
Michelle Woehrle, MPA
Michelle is the director of administration for MPN Research Foundation, which funds research into a group of rare blood cancers. In 2010 she received her Masters in Public Administration with a focus on non-profit management from Roosevelt University. Michelle's professional experience includes administration and management within the non-profit sector, and customer service and sales in the insurance industry.
Michelle has been gardening full force since 2008 after she bought a house with her partner on a particularly sunny lot in Forest Park. She watched her mother and grandmother's successes growing all manner of vegetables and flowers and wanted to see whether she could turn her all-grass backyard into something a little more useful and maybe a bit special. A high point was turning over and tilling the yard herself and later leading in the construction of a couple raised beds. Favorites include basil, oregano, cherry tomatoes, and strawberry popcorn. Poppies are proving to be a challenge but she intends to persevere.


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The Education of Jennifer Miller: An Update from the Frontline in the Fight against the Anti-Evolution Agenda
Darwin may have won in Kitzmiller v. Dover, but five years later has evolution education evolved? A biology teacher who testified in the Dover trial talks about what she faces in the classroom every day, and why teachers need to be prepared
By Nina Bai on February 28, 2011
As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th-grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design. Eleven parents of students in the Dover Area School District sued the local school board in protest. Four months later a Republican judge in a Pennsylvania federal court ruled in favor of the parents, issuing an eloquent defense of evolutionary theory—and a scathing rebuke to those who support intelligent design (ID) as a scientific alternative.
Judge John E. Jones III wrote in the 139-page decision for Tammy Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, named for one of the parents who brought the suit, that ID was not only unscientific but was also a front used by those on the school board with a religiously motivated, pro-creationist agenda.
"ID's backers have sought to avoid the scientific scrutiny, which we have now determined that it cannot withstand by advocating that the controversy, but not ID itself, should be taught in science class," Jones wrote. "This tactic is at best disingenuous, and at worst a canard. The goal of the ID movement is not to encourage critical thought, but to foment a revolution which would supplant evolutionary theory with ID."
Kitzmiller v. Dover was neither the first nor would it be the last time that challenges to evolution education would have their day in a U.S. court. In the five years since the decision in Pennsylvania several states have seen their own legal clashes over the issue, with each new battle spawning fresh sets of anti-evolution buzzwords as part of efforts to sidestep previous court rulings.
Jennifer Miller was one of the Dover biology teachers who refused to read the contentious ID statement in her class and testified in support of the parents during the 2005 hearings. Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High School. For the past four years she has also chaired the school's science department. Scientific American spoke with Miller about the changes she has seen since the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision was handed down five years ago.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
How has teaching evolution in your classroom changed in the five years since Kitzmiller v. Dover?
Since Kitzmiller v. Dover I've definitely changed how I teach. The biggest thing is probably that evolution used to be the last thing we got to in the semester. Sometimes we maybe had one week or two weeks to cover it. Now I put evolution first, and I refer back to it to show how important it is to all topics of biology.
The other thing that I really think has changed is how I cover evolution. I'm no longer afraid to cover it in depth and to have in-depth conversations about evolution. I make sure I hit [the concept of] what is science and what is not, and how a scientific theory is very different from a "theory" that we use in everyday conversation.
A lot of teachers are wary of teaching evolution because of the controversy, and I was in that group—I didn't know if I could cover it, what I could say or couldn't say. Now I do cover intelligent design, why it is not science, and why it should not be taught in a science classroom.
Are your current students aware of (or do they care about) the controversy and court battles that erupted over teaching evolution? Do you address the controversy in class?
I don't know how much they're aware. I do address it. I show them segments of the [2007] NOVA documentary [about it]. I make sure that I explain what happened. I make sure that I reiterate that I'm not trying to go against their religious beliefs [but] that religion should not be part of the science curriculum. I try to explain why the controversy is out there and try to explain why the science is taught in my classroom.
The students don't really ask pointed questions. I've never in my years of teaching—and that's 18 years—had a student come to me and say that they were hurt by something I taught in class. We have some good discussions. There are a lot of misconceptions out there about what evolution is. But once they get [those] out of their heads, it's pretty common sense to see how evolution occurred, and they don't have a problem with it.
Instead of pushing for ID as a scientific alternative to evolution, as they did in the past, creationists are now flying the banner of "academic freedom" and presentation of evolutionary theory's "strengths and weaknesses". Have you seen this trend in your school district?
I haven't heard much about evolution since 2005, at least in my district. I try to follow what's out there so I know there's been this push. I think if you explain to the kids, there is no "controversy" in the science—and I'm teaching science—it doesn't have to be a controversy. The saddest thing is when they make you pick one way or the other: If you believe in evolution then you can't be religious. There are a lot of scientists who are religious—they're able to marry both of those things.
What do you think of the recent survey published in Science that showed that only 28 percent of biology teachers taught evolution effectively, 13 percent explicitly advocated for creationism, and the rest endorsed neither?
It's slightly surprising. But probably that large percentage of undecided are those who are afraid to decide one way or the other. It all has to do with their not being sure one way or the other. It's troubling to read that. It does concern me.
What are some common mistakes that teachers make in teaching evolution?
I think probably one mistake is just being afraid to teach it, because they're not sure coming in what they can teach—what they can say, what they can't say. There needs to be a lot more education about how to teach to evolution. If they gloss over it, simply being afraid to teach it, that shows the kids that it's not important.
And a pet peeve of mine is that, when I ask students, "What do you think of when you hear the word evolution?" they say, "Man from monkey." The first thing that people think of is that man came from monkeys. That's not what evolution says, that's a big misconception. I'm not sure where they get it—I guess the media, parents, history books where they read about the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. The word evolution is tied to the word monkey.
How do you see teaching evolution in schools changing in the next five years?
I wish that there were a lot more seminars so that people had more background in it. Maybe as we train new biology teachers—make sure that we give them what they really need to know—new teachers can arm themselves with the evidence that's out there. There is tons and tons of evidence for evolution, and it keeps piling up. As a teacher it's hard to stay on top of that.
Teachers must stay on top of this in case there is ever a school board member or community member who tries to institute the "teach the controversy" rhetoric in their classroom. I think that would be helpful. I hope in five years that people aren't so afraid of the topic, but I'm not optimistic.
Because of where I teach, because of the court case, now I'm probably the freest. But knowing school boards—the way they are and with the power they have—this could happen somewhere else. I used to be afraid of what I could or could not say. Who knows if that's not happening in other places?
Speaking about religion and science, I may have a very unconventional background. My father is a minister, so I obviously have a religious upbringing. Several science teachers in our district also happen to be preachers' kids. My father has never had a problem with evolution and taught me that religion and science can live together. These are not mutually exclusive topics. It all depends on the way you're brought up. I hope we can broaden student minds by not being afraid to teach it.
Recent Articles by Nina Bai
Book Review: Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat
MIND Reviews: My Age of Anxiety
MIND Reviews: The Infested Mind
New Challenges for Evolution Education
Evolution Abroad: Creationism Evolves in Science Classrooms around the Globe
Katherine Harmon
The Scopes Strategy: Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote Anti-Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools
Lauri Lebo
Creationism Controversy: State by State [Updated Map]
Francie Diep
Texas Messes with History
Teachers Fail Evolution Education
Science Societies Urge Education


The start to the 2012 season for the Melbourne Mustangs has been up & down, dropping games that they should have won & falling short against the new boys Perth Thunder. But with things started to improve & coming off their first win of the season last weekend against the Gold Coast Blue Tongues, i was able to catch up with Mustangs alternate captain Chris James, as he discussed hockey life & the Melbourne Mustangs IHC.
1. How did your love for ice hockey come about?
When I was younger, I used to go to roller blading lessons and at the end of the lesson, we would play a game of inline hockey. They started up a team from that class, so I joined it and starting playing inline when I was 7. After a few seasons, a guy joined our team who had come across from ice hockey so I decided I wanted to try that. That was when I was 11. I already loved playing inline so moving across to ice was an easy transition, and anyone who knows hockey will tell you once you're part of it, you rarely leave it!!
2. At age 15 you moved to the Czech Republic to play hockey. What was the experience like playing in a different hockey culture?
It was very different. Hockey over there is like AFL over here. Every town has an ice rink, and an ice hockey club and each game the arenas are filled. The Czech extra-liga (their top division) is huge! The clubs are supported by a massive advertising and sponsorship base as well as having world class stadiums which are filled to the brim each game. As a 15 year old it was heaven. I was living and breathing hockey. Unfortunately, at 15 it was also tough being away from home and everything I knew, so I decided to come home and finish school instead of staying and pursuing hockey.
3. You were involved in a motorcycle accident prior to the 2011 season. How is the body holding up? can we expect a fit & firing CJ for the entire 2012 season?
Yeah I was quite disappointed last season after working hard over summer I was feeling fit and ready for the season. I definitely rushed back too early from the accident and didn't let my shoulder heal so ended up playing my 17 games with it still separated. I had to call it quits halfway through the season and rehab the shoulder before I did any more damage.
The Mustangs had quite an intense pre-season for this year and I think we've gone in a lot stronger and fitter than we were last year, hoping to use that as an advantage in our season. Given that strong base and a proper rehab program last year, the body is holding up well. I've had no concerns from the shoulder so far, so I'm definitely hoping to make it through the season fit and firing.
4. It's been somewhat of a shaky start for the Mustangs this season?
We were definitely disappointed not to come away with wins in the first two games, especially when we definitely believe we could have. Looking at the positives, however, we've shown we can push the best to the line and are looking to take that mentality forward through the season.
Our new coach arrived only the week before the first game so we have been learning to play to his game plan, and he's been learning how we play. It was always going to take some time for us both to adapt to each other but things are starting to click and we're looking to move forward and add some numbers to our Wins column.
5. How important was getting that first win for locker room moral?
A win is always good for morale. Like I said above, we were disappointed not to have chalked up a couple of wins already, and it was bitter sweet to again give up a decent lead in the last period and allow the other team back in the game. That said we've proven to ourselves we are a quality team and I think that's what we needed; to prove to ourselves how good we can be. Having that confidence in ourselves and the team is a very important component to the game and if we build that up, then our on ice performance will just keep getting better.
6. Since last season we have seen a change in head coach. What has it been like working under Bill Wilkinson?
As I mentioned, it was always going to take some time to adapt, both for him and for us. Bill has unbelievable experience and massive hockey knowledge, so we were always going to come away better hockey players and a better team having him as a coach. Steve Laforet put in all the hard yards in the pre-season getting us ready before Bill arrived so that we could hit the ground running. It's still early in the season, and as we continue to learn from Bill, we'll just keep getting better.
7. You had your first taste of AIHL action in 2011 as both club & player. What is the goal for the 2012 season?
We achieved what we set out to achieve last year, and that was to show that we could take it to the teams in the league. Obviously this year we want to improve on that again, and be a finals contender. I think we have the team for it, so that's what we're aiming for.
8. You played in a very entertaining opener against the Melbourne Ice. How important are the derby games to the players?
There's always going to be a rivalry between cross-town teams and it's felt by the fans as well as the players. The games always feel that little bit more intense and with the Icehouse filled to capacity the atmosphere is crazy.
9. The loss of Scott Corbett was a big blow to the Mustangs family, his impact on the club was enormous. The replacement imports epecially Jake Ebner & James Stanford seem to be settling in well?
Yeah, it was tough to lose Corby after last year, obviously he played a huge role in the birth of the Mustangs and it was going to be a case of big skates to fill.
Last year we showed that while we were a very capable offensive team, we needed to strengthen the defensive aspect of our game. The addition of Dean Moore and James Sanford with Scott Levitt returning from last year has really strengthened our defense. They've also been working really well with our local defensive players to help them improve which is great.
Having lost Corby and Bourke from last year, we've needed other players to step up offensively. Ebner has jumped into the scoring role with 5 points in 4 games, and we've had lots of players contributing to the scoring which is good to see.
10. We have seen the AIHL expand into Perth. How big of an impact can ice hockey have in the Australian community?
I've always said that hockey is everything Australians like about sport. It's super fast, very physical and exciting. When people come to a game, they keep coming back. It just needs the exposure. We're starting to see it with the AIHL expanding to Perth, the increased media coverage this season (including decent mainstream media coverage) and the crowd numbers increasing. If things keep accelerating the way they are then I'm expecting big things for the AIHL in the not too distant future.
11. On a lighter note, do you have any pregame rituals?
I'm not too superstitious. I generally run through the same off-ice warm up, but that's about all. I think if you get too caught up on rituals, if something prevents you from running through that ritual, it can mess up you whole mindset. I like to keep it simple.
12. Who is the biggest prankster in the Mustangs locker room?
I don't think I could pick one. Everyone thinks they're a comedian on that team.
13. Getting off the AIHL for a minute. Can you give us a tip for the Stanley Cup?
I've been saying since LA knocked out Vancouver that they'll win it. I'm standing by that!
14. Thanks for your time today. Best of luck to you and the Mustangs in season 2012.


Abstract : Opposing approaches to money competition that state that all monetary forms are substitutes, theories of complementarity state that some can be complementary. This text analyses the ways in which monies can be linked by drawing upon the variety of so-called contemporary community and complementary currencies (CCCs). It considers four basic binary relations between monetary assets: commensurability, convertibility, co-use and coincidence of spheres of uses. Through their combinations, four means of linking monies are identified: substitutability, simultaneity, supplementarity and autonomy. On this basis, unpacked competition and complementarity do not oppose each other but appear to be related. The less forms of money are built on specific social values, the more complementarity may be pervaded by competition. This paper illustrates how this framework can be used with cases of the Argentine trueque ('barter') and the French experimental SOL. Both experienced difficulties that show the complexity of the links, possible shifts and their effects on the sustainability of the schemes.


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Q: Null pointer exception in iterating and unable to search a node. The delete and replace methods are the ones that have problems import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;

class MyDatabase implements Database {
Node head = null, tail = null, rover = null;
String ako;
File myFile = new File("sample.dat");
Node n = new Node();
Node current; Node p;
Node x = new Node();

    public void insert(Node myNewNode) {
        if (head == null){
            head = myNewNode;
            head.next = null;
        }
        else {
            tail = head;
            while(tail.next != null)
                tail = tail.next;
            tail.next = myNewNode;
            myNewNode.next = null;
        }
        current = head;
    }

    public boolean delete(Node nodeToDelete) {
            //the delete and replace methods are the ones that have problems
            current = head;

            p = head;

            head = null;
            //here, no matter what you enter, this if statement is never executed. Yes, never. even if they are equal.
            if(nodeToDelete.title == head.title) {
                head = head.next;
                return true;
            }
            else{
                while(current != nodeToDelete)
                    current = current.next;//Null Pointer exception here
                while(p.next != nodeToDelete)
                    p = p.next;//Null Pointer exception here
                current = current.next;
                p = current;
            }
            current = head;//this is for listIterator purposes.

            return true;
    }

    public boolean replace(Node nodeToReplace, Node myNewNode) {
            //the delete and replace methods are the ones that have problems
            //here i tested if the head.title and nodeToReplace.title have values
            //the println correctly prints the value that I input

        current = head;
        String s = head.title;// for example i entered "max"
        String s1 = nodeToReplace.title;// i also entered "max"
        System.out.println(s);//prints out "max"
        System.out.println(s1);// prints out "max"

        if(s == s1) { // if statement is not executed. Note: i entered the same string.
                myNewNode.next = head.next;
                head = myNewNode;
        }
        else {
        while(current != null) {
            String s2 = current.title;
            if(s2 == s1) {
                current = new Node(myNewNode);
            }
        }
        }
        current = head;
        return true;

    }

    public Node search(Node nodeToSearch) {
        current = head;
        while(current != null) {
            if(current == nodeToSearch) {
                Node p = new Node(current);
                current = head;
                return p;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    public boolean saveToFile(String filename) throws Exception {
        Node p = new Node();
        ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(myFile));
        out.writeObject(p);
        out.close();
        return true;
    }

    public boolean loadFromFile(String filename) throws Exception {
        ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(myFile));
        head = (Node) in.readObject();

        return true;
    }

    public Node listIterator() {

        try{
            if(current == head) {
                rover = current;
                current = current.next;
                return rover;
            }
            else {
                rover = current;
                current = current.next;
                Node p = new Node(rover);
                return p;
            }
        }
        catch(NullPointerException e) {
            current = head;
            return null;
        }
    }

    public Node listIterator2() {

        try{
            if(current == head) {
                rover = current;
                current = current.next;
                return rover;
            }
            else {
                rover = current;
                current = current.next;
                return rover;
            }
        }
        catch(NullPointerException e) {
            current = head;
            return null;
        }
    }

    public boolean equals(Database db) {
        Node p;
        while(rover != null) {
            p = head;
            while(p != null) {
                if(rover != p)
                return false;
                p = p.next;
            }
            rover = rover.next;
        }
        return true;
    }

    public String whoIAm() {
        ako = "Michael Glenn R. Roquim Jr. !";
        return ako;
    }
}

A: You trigger your own NPE:
        // vv-- here you set head to null, just before you dereference it to access .title
        head = null;
        //here, no matter what you enter, this if statement is never executed. Yes, never. even if they are equal.
        if(nodeToDelete.title == head.title) {

A:     head = null;
    //here, no matter what you enter, this if statement is never executed. Yes, never. even if they are equal.
    if(nodeToDelete.title == head.title) {

you set head to null and immidiately after it you try to access it... (head is always null, so head.title will throw NPE)
 also:
 if(s == s1) { // if statement is not executed. Note: i entered the same string.

use equals() while comparing string, and not == (because otherwise you are looking for a same exact reference and not the same "string").
one more thing: it seems you will always throw NPE (when deleting) if your element is not in the list (you will not find the element, reach the end of the list which is null, and then try to address an instance variable in it).

A: I like cutting down code to the essentials so here is a working version which just does what the methods suggest.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ListIterator;

class MyDatabase {
    private final List<Book> titles = new ArrayList<Book>();

    public void insert(Book title) {
        titles.add(title);
    }

    public boolean delete(Book title) {
        return titles.remove(title);
    }

    public boolean replace(Book title1, Book title2) {
        int pos = titles.indexOf(title1);
        if (pos >= 0) {
            titles.set(pos, title2);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    public Book search(String title) {
        for (Book book : titles) {
            if (book.title.equals(title))
                return book;
        }
        return null;
    }

    public void saveToFile(String filename) throws IOException {
        ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(filename));
        out.writeObject(titles);
        out.close();
    }

    public void loadFromFile(String filename) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
        ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(filename));
        titles.clear();
        titles.addAll((List) in.readObject());
        in.close();
    }

    public ListIterator<Book> listIterator() {
        return titles.listIterator();
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        return o instanceof MyDatabase && ((MyDatabase) o).titles.equals(titles);
    }

    public String whoIAm() {
        return "Michael Glenn R. Roquim Jr. !";
    }
}

class Book {
    final String title;
    final int year;

    Book(String title, int year) {
        this.title = title;
        this.year = year;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;

        Book book = (Book) o;

        if (year != book.year) return false;
        if (!title.equals(book.title)) return false;

        return true;
    }
}

A: Hmm, several problems here.

*

*You set head to null, then promptly reference head.title. This will always throw a null pointer exception. I see someone else pointed that out.

*You attemt to compare strings with ==. This won't work, it compares the address of the string, not the contents. Use equals.

*When you check if the node matches the head node, you compare the titles. But when you compare to any other node, you do == on the node itself. You shouldn't have two different methods to compare nodes. As noted above, the title==title won't work. node==node might or might not work. How do you get a node to delete? If it is really the same node, i.e. the same object, as the node in the list that you are trying to delete, that's fine. But if it is a node constructed from, say, a user input, and so it will have maybe the same title as a node in the list, but not actually be the same object, this won't work. You probably want to say node.equals(node) and define an equals() function on node.

*You set current to head and p to head, then you search starting from current, then you search starting from p. These should give identical results. Why do it twice?

*If you don't find the node, you eventually hit a next value equal to null, but you just keep looking, thus generating a null-pointer exception.
As a point of style, it is better to define a variable within a function rather than as a member variable whenever possible.
Finally, may I suggest a little trick: Instead of having special handling for head all over the place, create a "sentinel", a fake node whose next pointer points to head. This really simplifies the code. For example:
class MyLinkedList
{
  Node sentinel;

  public MyLinkedList()
  {
    sentinel=new Node();
    sentinel.next=null;
  }

  public void insert(Node myNewNode)
  {
    // This assumes new nodes must be added at the end. With a single-linked
    // list, this requires traversing the entire list to reach the end.
    Node current;
    /* Note sentinel is never null, so we don't need any special handling here.
       If the list is empty, sentinel.next is null, but that doesn't create
       a special case.
     */
    for (current=sentinel; current.next!=null; current=current.next) ;
    current.next=myNewNode;
    myNewNode.next=null;
  }
  public void insertAtStart(Node myNewNode)
  {
    // If we can add new nodes to the beginning, this is much faster.
    myNewNode.next=sentinel.next;
    sentinel.next=myNewNode;
  }
  public boolean delete(Node nodeToDelete)
  {
    Node current;
    for (current=sentinel; current.next!=null; current=current.next)
    {
      if (current.next.equals(nodeToDelete)
      {
        current.next=current.next.next;
        return true;
      }
    }
    return false;
  }
  ... etc ...


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Arizona Territory, colloquially referred to as Confederate Arizona, was an organized incorporated territory of the Confederate States that existed from August 1, 1861 to May 26, 1865, when the Confederate States Army Trans-Mississippi Department, commanded by General Edmund Kirby Smith, was surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana. However, after the Battle of Glorieta Pass, the Confederates had to retreat from the territory, and by July 1862, effective Confederate control of the territory had ended.
Delegates to the secession convention had voted in March 1861 to secede from the New Mexico Territory and the Union, and seek to join the Confederacy. It consisted of the portion of the New Mexico Territory south of the 34th parallel, including parts of the modern states of New Mexico and Arizona. The capital was Mesilla, along the southern border. The breakaway region overlapped Arizona Territory, established by the Union government in February 1863.

Arizona was proclaimed a Confederate territory on August 1, 1861, after Colonel John R. Baylor's victory at the Battle of Mesilla. His hold on the area was broken after Glorieta Pass (March 26–28, 1862), the defining battle of the New Mexico Campaign. In July 1862, the Confederate territorial government withdrew to El Paso, Texas. With the approach of Union troops, it relocated to San Antonio, where it remained for the duration of the civil war. The territory continued to be represented in the Confederate States Congress, and Confederate troops continued to fight under the Arizona banner until the war ended.

The political geography of the two Arizona Territories differed in that the Confederate Arizona was approximately the southern half of the historic New Mexico Territory, while the Union-defined Arizona Territory was approximately the western half of what had been New Mexico Territory, which became the basis for present-day Arizona.

Background

Before the start of the war, the land of the current states of New Mexico and Arizona was part of the New Mexico Territory and the Gadsden Purchase, which ran parallel to William Walker's Republics of Lower California and Sonora. As early as 1856, the territorial government in Santa Fe had raised concerns about being able to effectively govern the southern part of the territory. It was separated from the rest by the Jornada del Muerto, a difficult stretch of desert.

In February 1858, the New Mexico territorial legislature adopted a resolution in favor of the creation of the Arizona Territory. The border was to be defined along the 32nd meridian west from Washington. The legislature proposed that all the Indians of New Mexico would be removed to northern Arizona.

In April 1860, impatient for Congress to act, the territory called a convention and 31 delegates met in Tucson. In July 1860, the convention drafted a constitution for a "Territory of Arizona" to be organized out of the New Mexico Territory south of 34th parallel north. The convention elected Lewis S. Owings as the Territorial Governor, and elected a delegate to Congress.

Anti-slavery Representatives opposed creating a new territory, as they feared it had the potential to become a slave state. Many people in the area were pro-slavery, with business connections in southern states, from which some had migrated. In addition, all of this new territory lay below the old Missouri Compromise line of demarcation between slave and free states.

Since the proceedings of the Tucson convention were never ratified by the United States Congress, the Provisional Territory was not considered a legal entity. For a time it operated as a de facto, if not de jure, government for the intended Arizona Territory. Dr. Lewis S. Owings, Governor of the Provisional Territory, appointed James Henry Tevis to raise the first Territorial Militia. This comprised three companies of Arizona Rangers for the protection of the Territory from marauding Apaches and bandits. Two companies were raised in the Pinos Altos mining camp, and another at Mesilla.

Secession

After the start of the American Civil War, support for the Confederacy was strong in the southern part of the New Mexico Territory. Some residents felt neglected by the United States government. They worried about the lack of sufficient troops to fight the Apache. These Native Americans were attacking White settlers, killing off ranchers and mining camps all over Traditional Arizona.  This became open warfare following the February 3–9, 1861 Bascom Affair, that brought Cochise into the war.  Arizona settlers were also disturbed by the closing of the Butterfield Overland Mail route and their stations in March 1861, which had connected the Arizona frontier colonies to the East and California.

In March 1861, the citizens of Mesilla called a secession convention to join the Confederacy. On March 16 the convention adopted a secession ordinance, citing the region's common interests and geography with the Confederacy, their political sympathy with the Southern secession movement, their opposition to the "sectional" party, the "Black" Republicans, the need of frontier protection, and the loss of postal service routes under the United States government, as reasons for their separation. The ordinance proposed the question of secession to the western portions of the territory. On March 28 a second convention in present-day Tucson met and ratified the ordinance. The conventions subsequently established a provisional territorial government for the Confederate "Territory of Arizona." Owings was elected again as provisional governor and Granville Henderson Oury was chosen as a delegate to petition for the territory's admission into the Confederacy.

Confederate units

 Arizona Militia (1860–1862)
 Arizona Guards (Pinos Altos mining camp)
 Arizona Rangers (Mesilla)
 Minute Men (Pinos Altos mining camp)
 Herbert's Battalion, Arizona Cavalry (1862–1863)
 Capt. Thomas Helm's Company (Arizona Guards)
 Capt. G. H. Oury's Company (Arizona Rangers)
 Capt. R. L. Swope's Company (Arizona Rangers)

Major campaigns

Arizona was thought to be important to the role of the New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War primarily because it offered Confederate access to California. Consequently, it was the scene of several important battles in the war's Trans-Mississippi Theater.

In July 1861 a force under Lieutenant-Colonel John R. Baylor arrived in El Paso, Texas across the border from Mesilla. With support from the secessionist residents of Mesilla, Baylor's 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles entered the territory and took a position in the town on July 25. Union forces under Major Isaac Lynde at nearby Fort Fillmore prepared to attack Baylor. On July 25 the two armies met outside of town at the Battle of Mesilla in a brief engagement in which the Union troops were defeated.

Major Lynde then abandoned Fort Fillmore and began a march north to join the troops at Fort Craig under Colonel Edward R. S. Canby. However, his retreat came to a halt in severe heat and was overtaken by Baylor. Lynde surrendered his command without a shot fired at San Augustine Springs, in the Organ Mountains.

On August 1, 1861, the victorious Baylor proclaimed the existence of a Confederate Arizona Territory, which comprised the area defined in the Tucson convention the previous year. He appointed himself as permanent governor. Among his cabinet members was the Mesilla attorney Marcus H. MacWillie, who served as the territorial attorney general.

The next month, Baylor's cavalrymen under Bethel Coopwood, marched north from Camp Robledo along the Rio Grande and surprised a Union force of New Mexican militia cavalry in a small engagement west of the Rio Grande at the village of Canada Alamosa, ending with another Confederate victory and the capture of 25 men of that unit including its commander. The next day after disarming and paroling the captured New Mexican enlisted men, Coopwood retired southward along the west bank of the river with the two captured Union officers and an NCO to a camp 15 miles to the north of Fort Thorn.  There a Union column of Mounted Infantry sent to relieve the New Mexican militia force caught up with Coopwood, and skirmished for a few hours with the Confederates until their ammunition was depleted, forcing the Mounted Infantry to retire northward to their base at Fort Craig.

The proposal to organize the Confederate Territory of Arizona was passed by the Confederate Congress in early 1862 and proclaimed by President Jefferson Davis on February 14, 1862. Coincidentally, Arizona statehood was approved exactly fifty years later on February 14, 1912.

Efforts by the Confederacy to secure control of the region led to the New Mexico Campaign. Baylor sent Company A, Arizona Rangers to Tucson to protect the population from the Apache and delay the advance of Union troops from Fort Yuma.

In 1862 Baylor was ousted as governor of the territory by President Davis, and the Confederate loss at the Battle of Glorieta Pass forced Confederate retreat from the territory. On March 30, Union forces fought a smaller engagement against a detachment of Company A, Arizona Rangers, a Confederate force destroying supply depots along the California Column route of advance on the Gila River, 80 miles east of its base at Fort Yuma. This skirmish, known as the Battle of Stanwix Station, was the westernmost engagement of regular forces in the Civil War, and successfully delayed the advance of the California forces.

The following month a small picket troop of the Rangers north of Tucson fought with an equally small Union cavalry patrol from the California Column in the so-called Battle of Picacho Pass again delaying the advance of the California Column to Tucson.

By July 1862, Union forces of the California Column were approaching the territorial capital of Mesilla from the west but severe flooding of the Rio Grande barred their way and they had to divert north to Fort Thorn and the San Diego Crossing and wait two weeks for the water to fall enough for a crossing.  With Canby advancing down the east bank of the Rio Grande and the loss of control of the countryside to New Mexican guerillas after the Second Battle of Mesilla the Confederates abandoned Mesilla and retreated south to Franklin, Texas.

In 1862 the California Column volunteers who fought at Stanwix Station and Picacho Pass fought at the Battle of Apache Pass against 500 Apaches. The battle is considered part of the American Civil War. There were also several engagements between Apaches and Confederates. The Battle of Dragoon Springs marks the only known Confederate combat deaths in the modern confines of Arizona. Other engagements include the Siege of Tubac, the Battle of Cookes Canyon, the Battle of the Florida Mountains, the Battle of Pinos Altos and a number of other smaller skirmishes and massacres.

The territorial government relocated to Franklin, then with Confederate military units retreated to San Antonio abandoning West Texas. For the rest of the war, California Column troops controlled all of Confederate Arizona, Franklin and Fort Quitman in West Texas.  The government in exile remained in Texas for the duration of the war, although MacWillie continued to represent the territory in the First and 2nd Confederate States Congresses. Minor resistance in Arizona continued at the partisan level, and Confederate units under the banner of Arizona fought until the end of the war in May 1865.

See also
 List of governors of dependent territories in the 19th century
 New Mexico Territory in the American Civil War

Notes

References

Further reading

 Finch, L. Boyd. "Arizona in Exile: Confederate Schemes to Recapture the Far Southwest." The Journal of Arizona History 1992: 57.
 Kerby, Robert Lee, The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, Westernlore Press, 1958.
 Kiser, William S. "The Confederate Territory of Arizona." Turmoil on the Rio Grande : History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865. 175. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Project MUSE. Web. 15 Nov. 2015.
 Pierpaoli, Paul G. Texas, New Mexico, And Arizona, Confederate District of. n.p.: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 15 Nov. 2015. Alouisville7 (talk) 23:18, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 Raymond, McCoy. "Arizona Early Confederate Territory." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 1962: 16.

External links

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Lucky Charmes' "Ready" Reinvents The Main Stage Wheel
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It's hard to put my finger on why I feel like I'm not supposed to like Lucky Charmes. It could be that he's signed to Tiësto's Musical Freedom Recordings, or that he puts out music that I can't help but imagine would absolutely kill at festival main stages. Still, when I really analyze it, he's doing his own thing and I've gotta give respect where it's due.
"Ready" is a special kind of future bass that, well, isn't really future bass. I don't know what you would call it instead, but it sounds better than most attempts made by Dutch producers to fuse the genre with big room house. Each tremulous bass wobble is frequency modulated with expert precision, and all of them are arranged in a way that gives the track a style all its own.
It sounded an awful lot like hype when Tiësto said that Lucky Charmes had a sound that hadn't been executed before in his Billboard interview last year, but suffice it to say the man still knows good music.


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Landlord is thinking that I should be able to get the best of my healthcare by not worrying about mold because it is her problem of repairs to stop all the mold. Ok, they have had enough time to make repairs. Now I am sick and don't know what to expect from the landlord, she has no concern about my wellbeing.


Modern life styles affect how we live, play and interact with each other. Over the past 20 years, populations have become physically inactive. This poses a challenge to leisure areas, which should encourage physical activity more than ever. KOMPAN sees it as its fundamental purpose to motivate playful physical activity.
"That every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.
We believe that all people regardless of age and abilities should experience the joy of being physically active, and they should be offered opportunities for and access to play and exercise in their neighbourhood.
Active people are happier people. Physical activity contributes to well-being, physical and mental health and helps people perform. Physical activity gives people a zest for life and a bigger inclination to contribute positively to happier, healthier communities.
In the industrialized countries, the majority of the population lives in urban areas. This means less room for recreational, physical and social activities as more and more space is taken up by infrastructure and business.
The increasingly sedentary nature of everyday life is creating communities where people are physically inactive. Globally over 25% of all adults and over 80% of adolescents are physically inactive. This affects health negatively and entails alarming future health disparities and expenses for our societies. According to the World Health Organization WHO, physical inactivity is among the four biggest risk factors for premature death.
The benefits of being physically active for the individual are well known and documented. Active people improve both their physical and mental wellbeing, and this in turn boosts their individual development. However, the benefits are much bigger than most of us suspect: An active city is a developing city that invests in improvements for not only for economy, infrastructure and environment, but also for active leisure opportunities for all citizens, to improve health and social life.
Research initiated by KOMPAN shows that people want to be physically active but they fail due to work and transportation taking up their time, due to limited access to free leisure facilities, and due to neighbourhoods being unsupportive of physical activity. This is a valuable insight; as research, shows that a significant 60% of people feel that today's public spaces do not motivate them to be physically active. KOMPAN sees it as a main mission to help create and document attractive, public leisure areas for health, well-being and social interaction.


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/**
 * Created by tosa on 8/14/13.
 */
public interface PullToRefreshCallback {
    void onRefresh();
}

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