British immigrant children from Dr. Barnardo's Homes at landing stage, Saint John, New Brunswick.
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) holds unique and extensive records about British Home Children, such as passenger lists, Immigration Branch correspondence files and inspection reports, non-government collections such as the Middlemore Home fonds, as well as indexes to some records held in the United Kingdom. The records also include names of older boys and girls who were recruited by immigration agents in the U.K. for farming and domestic work in Canada. Please note that most documents have been created in English. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) and other volunteers are indexing the names of juvenile migrants found in these records.
Children of the State by Florence Davenport Hill, 1889.
Before 1892, immigration operations were under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. The Central Registry files include correspondence between the Immigration Branch and various sending organizations. Files that include lists of names have been indexed in our Home Children Records database.
These files contain correspondence from and to various sending organizations. They often include annual reports, information booklets and some lists of names of children. The files cover the years from 1892 to approximately 1946. Consult our Guide to Sending Organizations and Receiving Homes for relevant references and information about how to access those records.
Immigration officials created inspection report cards as they carried out regular inspections of children brought to Canada by various organizations. These records date from 1920 to 1932; however, there are a few from 1911 to 1917 and after 1932. There is usually one page per child, showing name, age or date of birth, year of arrival, ship, sending organization, the names and addresses of employers and final comments, e.g. "completed, gone west".
The inspection reports are available on the following microfilm reels, which can be viewed on site. The records are arranged in alphabetical order, not by organization. Note that the original records have not survived and the quality of the microfilm is poor.
These reels are digitized on the free website Héritage. Enter the reel number in the search box, then click on the reel title to see the images. The contents are not searchable by name, but you can skip ahead through the images to find the relevant section of surnames.
Besides the following websites, consult our Guide to Sending Organizations and Receiving Homes for resources in Canada and the British Isles relating to specific organizations.
Archives of Ontario: Toronto Emigration Office Records: Includes inspection reports for some British Home Children.
British Home Child Group International: Includes a database and other resources.
British Home Children in Canada (BHC): Includes digitized copies of Ups and Downs, the British Home Children Registry, British Home Children Burials and many other resources.
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa – Home Children: Includes Home Children Deaths index and other resources.
Home Children: Includes some transcribed lists.
Young Immigrants to Canada: Includes some transcribed lists.
Ancestry (subscription required): Includes indexes and digitized records for England, including census and some church records. Ancestry is available free at many public libraries.
Familysearch: This free website includes indexes and some digitized images for many records from England, including census and some church records. Also use the Catalogue to find out what records are available on microfilm.
Former Children's Homes: Information about Cottage Homes, orphanages, and other institutions.
FreeBMD: These indexes to British birth, marriage and death records indicate the quarter of the year in which the event was registered, not the date of the event. The references also provide the registration district, volume and page number for ordering copies. The actual records are not online; they must be ordered from the General Register Office (GRO) in England.
London Metropolitan Archives: The LMA holds registers of School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911, for the London area. Many of those records are indexed by name and digitized on ancestry (subscription required).
The Children's Homes: Information and resources about orphanages, homes, reformatories, industrial schools, training ships, and hostels.
The National Archives: Use the Guides and the Discovery Catalogue to search for records relating to various organizations and workhouses held at the National Archives and other archives in the British Isles.
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Q: V12.1 shows extra space using BarChart3D compared to V12 V 12.1 on windows 10 shows extra space above and below BarChart3D compared to V 12 using the same code.
I'like to put a label above this one below, but the space always where the bars stop and the label is too large using V 12.1. This does not happen in V12. All on same PC.
I tried different ways to put the label, and still the empty space does not shrink. I tried Labeled also and Grid. Also tried adding ImageMargins -> 0, ImagePadding -> 0 as option to the BarChart3D command, but that had no effect on reducing the white space above and below.
Here is the one I am using now.
dataForChart = {{0.8, 0, 0, 99.2}, {14.285, 0, 0, 100},
   {28.571, 0, 14.285, 57.1428}, {0, 0, 0, 100}, {28.571,0, 14.2857, 57.142857},
   {28.5714,0, 0, 71.42857}, {57.14285, 0, 14.28571, 28.57142}};

casNames = {
   Text@Style["Rubi", Bold, 10],
   Text@Style["Mathematica", Bold, 10],
   Text@Style["Maple", Bold, 10],
   Text@Style["FriCAS", Bold, 10],
   Text@Style["Giac/Xcas", Bold, 10],
   Text@Style["Sympy", Bold, 10],
   Text@Style["Maxima", Bold, 10]
   };

percentageSolvedByRubi = 99.2;
percentageSolvedByM = 85.714;
percentageSolvedByMaple = 71.4286;
percentageSolvedByFricas = 100.;
percentageSolvedByGiac = 71.4286;
percentageSolvedBySympy = 71.4286;
percentageSolvedByMaxima = 42.8571;

Grid[
 {
  {Text[Style["Antiderivative Grade distribution for each CAS", 20]]},
  {Text[Style[
     "Numbers shown on bars are total percentage solved for each CAS",
      10]]},
  {
   BarChart3D[
    dataForChart,
    ChartLayout -> "Percentile",
    ChartStyle -> { Red,
      RGBColor[255/255, 255/255, 0/255],
      RGBColor[51/255, 51/255, 255/255],
      RGBColor[50/255, 205/255, 50/255]},
    ChartLabels -> {Placed[casNames, Below ], None},
    ImageSize -> 500,
    FaceGrids -> None,
    Axes -> False,
    ChartBaseStyle -> EdgeForm[None],
    ImageSize -> 400,
    PlotRange -> {0, 110},
    BarSpacing -> 1.4, PlotTheme -> "Classic", Background -> None,
    Lighting -> None, Method -> {"Canvas" -> None},
    ChartLegends -> {"F", "C", "B", "A"},
    Epilog -> {(*same order as names listed above*)
       Text[
       Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByRubi, 0.01]] <> "%",
        Bold], Scaled[{.14, .6}]],
      Text[
       Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByM, 0.01]] <> "%", Bold],
        Scaled[{.25, .6}]],
      Text[
       Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByMaple, 0.01]] <> "%",
        Bold], Scaled[{.37, .6}]],
      Text[
       Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByFricas, 0.01]] <> "%",
        Bold], Scaled[{.48, .6}]],
      Text[
       Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByGiac, 0.01]] <> "%",
        Bold], Scaled[{.61, .6}]],
      Text[
       Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedBySympy, 0.01]] <> "%",
        Bold], Scaled[{.72, .6}]],
      Text[
       Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByMaxima, 0.01]] <> "%",
        Bold], Scaled[{.84, .6}]]
      }
    ]
   }
  }, Frame -> All, Spacings -> {1, 0}]

Running the above gives

Any suggestions what to do?
Thanks to comment by Kglr, I tried this on the cloud. The space is indeed gone, but the numbers on the bar charts are now shifted when compared to how they look in the notebook. This is all too strange.

Update:
I just found that this could be a bug!  I tried the same code on V 12 on the same PC, and this is the output

Is this a bug??

A: You can get the 3D look with BarChart using ChartElementFunction -> "ObliqueRectangle".
percentSolved = PercentForm /@
   ({42.857, 85.714, 71.4286, 100., 71.4286, 71.4286, 42.8571}/100);

bc = BarChart[MapThread[Labeled, {dataForChart, casNames}],
   ChartLayout -> "Percentile",
   ChartStyle -> {Red, RGBColor[255/255, 255/255, 0/255],
       RGBColor[51/255, 51/255, 255/255],
       RGBColor[50/255, 205/255, 50/255]},
   ChartElementFunction -> "ObliqueRectangle",
   ChartLabels -> {Placed[percentSolved, {{.5, 1}, {.5, 5}}], None},
   ImageSize -> 500, Axes -> {True, False},
   AxesStyle -> Directive["LineColor" -> None],
   ChartBaseStyle -> EdgeForm[None],
   BarSpacing -> .4, PlotTheme -> "Classic",
   ChartLegends -> {"F", "C", "B", "A"}]

Grid[{{Text[Style["Antiderivative Grade distribution for each CAS", 20]]},
  {Text[Style["Numbers shown on bars are total percentage solved for each  CAS", 10]]},
  {bc}},
  Frame -> All, Spacings -> {1, 1}]

 $Version

"12.1.0 for Linux x86 (64-bit) (March 4, 2020)" (* Wolfram Cloud *)

In version 11.3.0 (Windows 10) change the definition of percentSolved to
percentSolved = Row[{Round[#, .01], "%"}] & /@
  {42.857, 85.714, 71.4286, 100., 71.4286, 71.4286, 42.8571};

to get

A: Both methods used v. 12.1 on a Mac.
Method 1
You can get a slight improvement by adjusting the AspectRatio.
For example, with AspectRatio->0.7, some space is removed.
It also reduces the heights of the bars.

Method 2: Rasterize the bar chart
barchart = BarChart3D[dataForChart,ImageSize -> 700,ChartLayout -> "Percentile", ChartStyle -> {Red, RGBColor[255/255, 255/255, 0/255], RGBColor[51/255, 51/255, 255/255], RGBColor[50/255, 205/255, 50/255]}, ChartLabels -> {Placed[casNames, Below], None}, FaceGrids -> None, Axes -> False, ChartBaseStyle -> EdgeForm[None], PlotRange -> {0, 110}, BarSpacing -> 1.4, PlotTheme -> "Classic", Background -> None, Lighting -> None, Method -> {"Canvas" -> None},ChartLegends -> {"F", "C", "B", "A"},Epilog -> {(*same order as names listed above*) Text[Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByRubi, 0.01]] <> "%", Bold], Scaled[{.14, .6}]], Text[Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByM, 0.01]] <> "%", Bold], Scaled[{.25, .6}]], Text[Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByMaple, 0.01]] <> "%",Bold], Scaled[{.37, .6}]], Text[Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByFricas, 0.01]] <> "%", Bold], Scaled[{.48, .6}]],Text[Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByGiac, 0.01]] <> "%",Bold], Scaled[{.61, .6}]],Text[Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedBySympy, 0.01]] <> "%",Bold], Scaled[{.72, .6}]], Text[Style[ToString[Round[percentageSolvedByMaxima, 0.01]] <> "%", Bold], Scaled[{.84, .6}]]}];

i = Pane[ImageTrim[Rasterize[barchart],{{10, 200}, {1800, 1100}}]];

Grid[{{Text[Style["Antiderivative Grade distribution for each CAS", 20]]}, {Text[Style["Numbers shown on bars are total percentage solved for each CAS", 10]]}, {i}}, Frame -> All, Spacings -> {1, 1}, ItemSize -> Full]

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How Did Augustus Reorganise the Roman Senate?
Simran Singh
Working towards a Bachelor of Arts, Simran writes articles on modern history, art theory, religion, mythology, and analyses of texts.
The statue known as the Augustus of Prima Porta, 1st century
Who was Augustus?
Born as Gaius Octavius, Augustus was born on 23 September 63 BC in Rome. In 43 BC, his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated and in his will, Octavius, known as Octavian, was named as his heir. He fought to avenge Caesar and in 31 BC defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. Afterward Augustus became the first emperor of Rome, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
'In my sixth and seventh consulships [28-27 BC], after I had extinguished civil wars, and at a time when with universal consent I was in complete control of affairs, I transferred the republic from my power to the dominion of the senate and people of Rome…After this time I excelled all in influence [auctoritas], although I possessed no more official power [potestas] than others who were my colleagues in the several magistracies.'
— Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti 34.1-3)
Bust of Augustus, wearing the civic crown.
Bust of Augustus, wearing the Civic Crown. Glyptothek, Munich. This bust depicts the Emperor Augustus shows him wearing the Civic Crown or commonly known as the "Corona Civica". It had the most valued honors among the Ancient Roma
Augustus' government was predominantly influenced by his relationship and reorganisation of the senate past 23 BC settlements. Augustus' aim was to move the senate and magistrates from being chief organs of the state to being subordinate entities at Augustus' disposal. Augustus' relationship with the senate and magistrates was governed through his dominant aim to discretely consolidate his authoritative position. Augustus' reorganisations of political roles and magistrates, as shown through his organisation of consuls, quaestors and praetors. Ultimately, Augustus' auctoritas over the senate highlighted how tactically Augustus consolidated his position through discretion.
Coin of Augustus
Bare head of Emperor Augustus on the left and Victory with her wings spread on the right, at the back is a column and a shield below.
What were the aims of Augustus?
Augustus' aim was to move the senate and magistrates from being chief organs of the state to being subordinate entities at Augustus' disposal. This was clear through how Dio Cassius had stated that Augustus's;
"... professed motive in this was that the senate might enjoy without fears the finest portions of the empire."
Cassius explained that Augustus' 'professed motive' was to command 'self-respect' within the senate, which was highlighted through appointing senators to newly created positions of civil administration within Rome: control of aqueducts, public works, the prefecture of the city.
In accordance to Augustus' Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Cassius explained that Augustus retained the prestige of the consuls by opening the way for the more outstanding to govern in imperial provinces and by directing boards of senators in these specific administrative areas.
The Ara Pacis
The Ara Pacis Augustae is an altar in Rome dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of Peace. The monument was commissioned by the Roman Senate on July 4, 13 BC to honour the return of Augustus to Rome photo July-Oct. 2008
Cassius' source provided a positive tone and suggested that Augustus' intentions were to benefit the senate. However, the Res Gestae Divi Augusti suggested that Augustus' motives were toward consolidating his position and to use the senate to do this. For example, contemporary historian Shotter (1991) contradicted Dio's argument that Augustus solely attempted to share his power to the senate selflessly through stating he;
"...used them and the system of which they were a part whilst appearing to do no more than to uphold the integrity of the Republican system."
Shotter explained how Augustus' aims were to discretely influence the system without out rightly taking credit. Hence, Shotter's statement demonstrated the impact of Caesar's death on Augustus' decision as he attempted to avoid assassination.
South of the Ara Pacis
Processional scene (south side), Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) 9 B.C.E. (Ara Pacis Museum, Rome) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Augustus' work with the senate
Augustus' revitalisation of the senate highlighted how Augustus maintained a prevalent auctoritas of the senate, despite revoking his official powers in 23 BC. Augustus' auctoritas and work with the senate over the senate was delineated through his statement, "I excelled all in auctoritas," which commented on how Augustus was able to pass laws himself through several ways. Augustus' 'auctoritas' that Augustus explained referenced to how he utilised his Tribunicia potestas (from 23 BC onwards) in order to present bills to the people.
This was clear through how Augustus could take action through judicial decisions, which was especially evident through his treatment of the Aediles as their traditional functions were taken away gradually. For instance, Cassius Dio ( Roman History, page 375), had explained that "In this same year...the praetors and the tribunes performed the aediles' duties," which essentially referred to the role of the aediles from 22 BC- 6 AD.
Members of the imperial household
Augustus (far left) and members of the imperial household (south side), Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) 9 B.C.E. (Ara Pacis Museum, Rome)
Dio referred to the Aedile's loss of control of corn supply (22 BC), the games in (22 BC), aqueducts in (11 BC) and fire service (AD 6.) Dio's statement explained the meaning to Augustus' statement through examination of the Aedile's roles. Hence, Dio's text supported Augustus' statement of how he continued to maintain a significant auctoritas on the senate. Furthermore, the senate also gained the right to pass laws when its Senatus Consulta (advice) became a law, which demonstrated how Dio's statement provided insight into Augustus' statement. Therefore, Augustus' work with the senate was clear through the source and Dio's comment on Augustus' revitalisation of the aediles.
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Tiberius in Triumph. Kleiner, A History of Roman Art , p. 105: "The Tiberius cup shows on one side the emperor-to-be riding in a triumphal quadriga holding a laurel branch and an eagle-tipped scepter'
How Augustus established a relationship with the senate
Augustus' relationship with the senate and magistrates was governed through his dominant aim to discretely consolidate his authoritative position. Through showing the senate respect and giving members' responsibilities Augustus limited opposition and was able to use members as a part of a senatorial civil service. This was clearly reflected through Augustus' Res Gestae Divi Augusti which explained that Augustus excelled in all actoritatas.
However, Contemporary historian Jones argued that Augustus' care for the senate was superficial, "Augustus' tribunician powers reduced the senate to a "rubber stamp" as he was free to do as he pleased, regardless of their consent or disapproval. His relationship with the senate to reduce it to a 'rubber stamp' demonstrated how he had transformed the senate into a body that would work superficially underneath him. Jone's statement was supported through how he reduced the senate's numbers from 1000 to 600, removed corrupt members and called speakers at random to ensure that they were contributing to the debates.
Ergo, through increasing the dignity of the senate, allowed representatives to influence the formulation of policy in the Concilium principis and essentially ensured the consolidation of Augustus' position.
Pont du Gard aqueduct
An old Roman aqueduct near Nimes, France, ascribed to Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus (19 BCE). The structure is 883 feet long and 160 feet high. Source: Cast Iron Pipe, Standard Specifications Dimensions and Weights, 1914 (Burlington, New Jersey: US
Augustus reorganisations of political roles and magistrates, as shown through his organisation of consuls. Augustus introduced the systems of consuls ordinali (served first 6 months of the year) and the consules suffecti (2nd part of the year) which both were eligible for future admin posts such as supervision of water and grain, public works and roads. Augustus reorganised the role of the consuls to that after six years of service they were able to become a proconsul of the provinces of Asia or Africa, become a legatus properaetore, to take on responsibility for hearing provincial appeals and receive minor foreign envoys.
The ex-consuls became curators of the water supply, highways and public works (and heard appeals from the provinces). They are in charge of public duties in Rome and military commands. Due to this Contemporary historian Wells (The Roman Empire) explained that "it became the standard for the consuls of the year to resign halfway," which reflected on how ex-consulship was desirable to gain posts in public service. Henceforth, Augustus reformed political roles of officials of consuls as highlighted through how he established public roles for ex-consulships.
Campus Martius
Model of the ancient Campus Martius around AD 300. Included porticoes Octavia (built after sister, promoting family) and Argum Nortem (Depicts Agrippa's victory of Actium)
Reorganised roles of officials and magistrates
Augustus revitalised magistrates and the senate in order to stabilise the functionality of Roman politics, as shown through making positions such as questor and praetors desirable. Augustus' Res Gestae Divi Augusti highlighted that he had significant authority, although he had officially given his powers to his colleague magistrates. This was due to his desire to metamorphose the senate to a puppet structure. This was shown through Augustus' changes questors who were expected to serve in the provinces (Normally ten questors were chosen.)
Roles also included serving as financial officials in the senatorial provinces (quaestor pro praetor) whilst other questors held responsibilities in working for the consuls or the princeps. Augustus also made changes involving the requirements to hold quaestorship, which was now only elected by the senate.
Umbilicus Urbis Romae
The magical boundary made by Romulus and the a statue dedicated to Venus Cloacina (Goddess of the sewers)
Furthermore, Livius' article (2002) stated that "… emperor Augustus lowered this age to 25 years," which reflected how Augustus attempted to make the position of Questor more desirable. Further reorganisation of the senate was highlighted through the Praetors. For example, Dio Cassius explained how praetors were the desired position as it afforded them the opportunity to manage public festivals and manage the treasury.
This reference how praetors powers preside over law courts, manage the treasury (2 of them), organise games & festivals (given to them 22 BCE onwards), assist the consuls and Augustus and participate in military commands. In essence, Augustus segmented the responsibilities of the senate amongst questors and praetors in order to increase the functionality of Roman politics.
Augustus' impact on senatorial reorganisation and relationship with the senate was a clear reflection of his auctoritas. Augustus' aims revolved around avoiding assassination and bring the senate under his influence, as highlighted by Cassius and Shotter. Augustus' relationship with the senate and magistrates was governed through his dominant aim to discretely consolidate his authoritative position, as shown by contemporary historian Jones. Augustus reorganised of political roles such consulship, questors and praetors in order to stabilise Rome's political structure.
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Marc Bouillon (born 15 June 1968 in Soignies) is a Belgian former cyclist.

Major results
1991
 10th GP de Fourmies
1992
 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie
 4th Circuit des Frontières
 9th Paris–Camembert
1993
 1st Cholet-Pays de Loire
 8th De Brabantse Pijl
1994
 1st Stage 1 Circuit Franco-Belge
 1st Stages 2 & 4 Tour de Namur
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 1st Tour d'Armorique
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Historical rediscovery: Zarf's Old Time Religion search
Aaron Reed posted a request this morning, asking for examples of web-native text-based IF from the earlier days of the Internet. ("Before Twine", basically.)
He got a bunch of good answers. I'll pick out Kingdom of Loathing, Planetarium, the Eastgate catalog, and a half-serious mention of the Internet Oracle -- just to have something to link to. Read the Twitter thread for more. Feel free to throw in more.
One of the games suggested -- not by me! -- was my Praser 5 puzzle game. And this leads me down a bit of a rabbit-hole.
It's true that Praser 5 isn't exactly web-native. It was originally a bunch of files and directories living in a shared Unix filesystem at CMU. You'd look around by typing ls; the room description was just a blank file with a long name! The room showed you puzzles, and you could enter answers by running a program which lived in that directory. If you answered correctly, the program would notify me and I'd add you to the access list for the next directory. Yes, manually. It was just my friends at CMU.
This was a great solution for an "online" puzzle game in 1989. But a few years later, of course, we had the Web. So in early 1994, I reimplemented the whole thing as a web app. It was 2000 lines of C code (K&R, not ANSI!) and I ran it off my office machine at CMU. (I'd graduated and gotten a staff job at a CMU software project by then.) In 2005 I ported Praser 5 to Inform and made it available on my web site as a Java applet; in 2010 I updated that to use Parchment. So that's a potted history of P5 and its many lives on and off the Web.
But what does this have to do with religion? I hear you ask. Well, in that 1994-1995 period, I had other ideas for web apps. For example, some friends and I put together the first Internet Easter Egg Hunt. I only had one office machine, so the easiest way for me to add a new app was to recompile the P5 web server with some added functionality.
So, when P5 came up in discussion today, I peeked into my old source archive and saw a bunch of files. Hey, it's egg.c! That was where I implemented the Easter Egg Hunt! Wait, what's this file lyrics.Z?
I popped it up, just like you just did when you saw the hyperlink. And what is it? Six hundred verses of a filk song called "Gimme That Old Time Religion". Wikipedia says that it was popularized outside the SF/Usenet/Pagan world by Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie. I had forgotten that, but I must have heard their version on the radio growing up. (Mary Cliff's folk music program on WETA, every Saturday.)
Usenet and the early-Internet FTP sites carried lots of versions of the song. I downloaded all the ones I could find. My original site includes this credit:
Particular thanks to Ioseph of Locksley [...] for his immense collection of verses.
(Ioseph of Locksley was the SCA name of Joe Bethancourt. Bethancourt's web site claimed to have over 1000 OTR verses when last it was active. Obviously he kept on collecting 'em long after my project.)
But my web app wasn't just a page containing the lyrics. (75 kilobytes of text on a single web page? Probably would have crashed Netscape.) It was a search app. Honest-to-, er, honest real live case-insensitive keyword search. Not efficiently implemented by any means -- I'm cringing as I re-read this code. But it let you type the name of a deity or religion and get back a list of every verse which mentioned it. As you see, I even supported synonyms (search terms in {braces}) and "see also" links.
I implemented limits to prevent people from searching "a" and getting back the entire database. It would have crushed my server.
Today, of course, 75 kilobytes isn't even a sneeze. So browse all you like. The text-search facility in your browser is far better than anything I made available.
The original site also included this line:
Disclaimer: If you are offended by this page, don't read it.
"Political correctness" hadn't been trademarked by neo-Nazis back then, but it is true that the collection mentions a very great number of religions and deities with very little respect. Not to mention a lot of shallow offhand stereotypes and slurs. Back then, my attitude was "It's the Internet -- grow up." Well, I was young.
Now, of course, my attitude is "This is a historical artifact which was last updated in 1995, including chunks that go back to the 1970s. So, um, it is what it is."
I must say that the cross-section of cultural references is fascinating. Obviously a lot of the verses came straight from practictioners of off-beat religions. You can practically hear them singing "We're here, we're Pagan, get used to it." Quite a bit of deep-cut Pagan-community politics, too. And a lot of mockery of the televangelists of the era. Then you get into the sci-fi and fantasy in-jokes, and, well, it goes on for a while. In alphabetical order. (I can't remember if that part was my doing.)
Like I said, quite a historical rabbit-hole. Again, see Joe Bethancourt's Real OTR page for more on the history of this thing.
There is no verse about Zarf. Sorry.
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Myst TV tidbit: A writer signs on
Here's the first sign of real progress since last June, when Cyan announced their new TV partnership with Village Roadshow.
The television adaptation of classic video game Myst has moved forward a level after X-Men: First Class writer Ashley Edward Miller signed on to the Village Roadshow Entertainment Group project. [...] Miller, who has also written and produced series including Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Black Sails and Lore, will write the pilot and showrun the adaptation.
-- Deadline, April 15
That's the entire story. To be clear, there is still no show in production. Writing a script is easy. Cyan has already written several.
Getting a TV-famous person on board to write your script, with the intent of being a showrunner, is more exciting, but there's nothing yet to showrun. It's still all just good intentions.
(I feel like I have to say this because Myst fans can be really enthusiastic about scraps of news. I try to be the voice of reality. Sorry folks.)
For what it's worth, I thought the Terminator TV show was terrific. I wish it had lasted more than two seasons. If the writer does half as well with the Myst franchise, this take on the saga will be worthwhile.
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Народный дом императора Николая II — историческое здание в Санкт-Петербурге (также Народный дом им. К. Либкнехта и Р. Люксембург, Госнардом). Расположено по адресу Александровский парк, д. 4.

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В 1896 году в Нижнем Новгороде проходила XVI Всероссийская промышленная и художественная выставка. На ней архитектор А. Н. Померанцев представил павильон со стеклянным куполом и чугунным каркасом.

После окончания выставки принц Ольденбургский (председатель Петербургского городского попечительства о народной трезвости) обратился в министерство финансов с ходатайством, чтобы сооружения были переданы ему и перенесены в Петербург. В них планировалось разместить центральное учреждение Попечительства.

Помимо зданий принцу передали ещё и землю в Петербурге, на которой в 1899—1901 гг. на основе павильона Померанцева архитектором Г. И. Люцедарским было построено здание Народного дома императора Николая II.

После пожара 1934 года здание реконструировалось несколько раз:

 В 1933—1936 гг. на месте сгоревшей части по проекту архитекторов Н. А. Митурича и В. П. Макашова выстроено здание Театра им. Ленинского комсомола (ныне «Балтийский дом»).
 В 1950 после реконструкции, осуществлённой по проекту архитекторов К. Л. Иогансена и Е. М. Соколова, в Оперном зале вновь открылся крупнейший в городе кинотеатр «Великан», впервые открытый в 1924 году.
 В 1957—1959 гг Железный зал был приспособлен под Планетарий. Автор проекта — архитектор Р. А. Брегман.
 В 1978 помещение кинотеатра «Великан» было передано Мюзик-холлу. Реконструкция выполнена в 1981—1988 гг. по проекту 12-й мастерской ЛенНиипроект (архитекторы М. Будневич, Т. Гасанов, И. Кучерова и др.).

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TOP ELEVEN INTRODUCES 3D LIVE MATCHES IN MAJOR UPDATE
Latest version sees 3D animations added to match experience; Update available on mobile via Google Play, Apple App Store and Huawei AppGallery, and on desktop via Microsoft Store and web browser
Belgrade, Serbia – March 27, 2022: Nordeus has today announced the full release of the latest version of Top Eleven – Be A Football Manager, which for the first time introduces 3D gameplay to the world's most successful mobile football management game. Launched in 2010, the game pits aspiring football coaches against one another in League, Cup and Friendly Matches across both mobile and desktop platforms. Since 2013, José Mourinho, one of football's winningest managers ever, has been the face of the game, guiding Top Eleven players in their first matches on the touchline.
Watch the launch video for Top Eleven's 3D update here.
With 3D, Top Eleven has launched the community's most requested feature in the game's 11-year history. Having provided premium 2D Live Match gameplay since 2015, the transition to 3D gives players a more immersive, richer experience that helps further connect them to the ultimate dream of running their own football team.
In addition to realistic and engaging football movements and animations, 3D gameplay provides a wider look at the tactics that players employ, letting them experiment and counter with strategies that can ultimately lead them to victory.
Created entirely in-house at Nordeus' Belgrade HQ, the 3D Football Engine behind this release sees realism and football credibility at the center of Top Eleven's management fantasy.
"Every football manager is looking for details – the spaces that opponents leave undefended, the type of passing that helps to create attacking chances – and 3D gameplay is taking that depth to the next level in Top Eleven," said game lead Marko Jevtić. "You feel much more connected to how your squad is performing, and ultimately, more connected to the style of football you are seeing."
Product Manager Mladen Mančić, who oversaw implementation of the feature for Top Eleven added: "Our players have been making amazing connections with their squads since the beginning – it's a core element of what makes the game special, and we think 3D really extends it. It's a completely new way to meet your team, and we're excited to see how both new players and the many who have played Top Eleven in the last decade enjoy the experience."
Along with José Mourinho, Top Eleven will see two more football legends join the fun for the release of 3D gameplay. Xabi Alonso and Landon Donovan, whose esteemed playing careers for club and country are renowned, have signed on as the faces of this special limited-time campaign. As Alonso and Donovan navigate the touchline as new managers themselves with clubs in Spain and the United States, respectively, Top Eleven fans will get to see the legends feature in an in-game challenge that launches on March 30, and will last until April 8.
Throughout the launch season of 3D Live Matches from March 27 to April 23, players can expect different community activations, giveaways and content to celebrate the occasion across social media, including collaborations with YouTubers and influencers from around the world.
For more information please visit the Nordeus website. Download Top Eleven 2022 for free from the App Store, Google Play Store, AppGallery, and Microsoft Store!
Join the Top Eleven community on Facebook and on Instagram, and follow us on Twitter and use the hashtag #TopEleven.
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Founded in 2010, Nordeus is a mobile games company based in Belgrade, Serbia, best known for Top Eleven, the world's most successful mobile sports game with over 240 million registered users. In November 2017, Nordeus launched the Facebook Messenger game, Golden Boot, which has been played by over 65 million people and was nominated for Best Instant Game in Facebook's Game of the Year 2017.
In July, 2019, Nordeus launched Heroic globally. A PvP, strategic battle game that sees you pit your wits against Heroes and players from around the world.
In June 2021, Nordeus became part of the Take-Two Software Interactive family as they take both their products and work locally to the next level, while continuing their aim of putting Serbia on the global map of gaming.
With new games on the horizon, Nordeus is currently recruiting talented and passionate people to join its team in creating the next big hit. Come join the team!
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You may recall that not long ago I told you about Teresa Ulman's dissertation research study at Vanderbilt University, which looks at "the positive growth in mothers and fathers of a child with a developmental disability" in hopes that it will be "a step forward in breaking the myth that a family touched by autism and other developmental disabilities is all doom and gloom."
Teresa recently contacted me to let me know that she has expanded the scope of her study to include parents of children and adults (ages 8 - 25) with a diagnosis of PDD-NOS. I'll be following this link to share my thoughts with Teresa soon. I hope that many of you will join me there!
My PDD-NOS baby is 6. He's the milk in my cheerios, that one. But he's not 8-25, so I don't suppose that I qualify. He enriches our lives in ways I can't even describe, and I feel so very deeply blessed to have him. We have bad days, and I worry a good bit about not being able to protect him as he gets older, but he is so, so wonderful.
Can't imagine life without him, or life with him if he were "normal."
I'm right there with Bad Mommy. I wish we were old enough to take part because yes, we worry, we struggle, we flail about at times, but life is good.
Me too! My Pete is 7 so just a bit too young here. Our life is really good, too. Love him to pieces just the way he is.
I tried to take the survey, but finally gave up. It seemed to assume I was in crisis. In fact, it actually used that word. I am not, and neither is my son. He's autistic, not critically ill. Pages went by that just didn't apply.
Anon, I just finished taking the survey. The reference to "crisis" was only on a single page. My sense of the study is that it pieced together a lot of standardized tests, one of which was some sort of crisis response assessment. My hunch is that the results would have been invalid if the researcher changed the wording in any way.
I found that the overall tone of the survey was respectful and positive.


If you love almond, these Almond Cupcakes are for you! Filled with almonds, the cupcakes are topped with a caramel frosting that tastes like fudge!
I called the American Girl Store in LA and asked if I could schedule an appointment for a doll to get her hair done and her ears pierced.
Go ahead. You can say it. I'm totally that parent. The one who is obsessed with making her daughter's doll human.
The longer Jordan plays with Jenny, the longer that she cares about things like doll hair, ear piercing, and bunk beds that cost more than a real bunk bed, the longer she stays a kid.
In this age of an 8-year-old having her own iPod, worrying about if her shorts are "fingertip length," and grown-up style music and TV shows, I think fostering a relationship with a doll is an awesome idea. Do I like spending $25 on a doll 'do? No, but if it keeps my kind younger for even a minute, I'm okay with that.
So, next week on our way to Disneyland, I'm going to be that parent who stops for lunch at The Grove in LA. While my husband scouts out Maria Menounos, I'll spend an hour walking seven miles around and around a doll store trying to find the perfect doll outfit that can be bought with a $30 gift card.
What I'm also okay (more than okay) with?
Almond Cupcakes. With a to-die-for caramel frosting!
I would rather sit and eat one of these cupcakes than watch Jordan decide between a wheel chair for a doll and a new bathing suit that will never see water.
Really, I would rather eat this frosting with a spoon than do most things.
It's from-scratch cooked caramel frosting, people. It doesn't get much better than that!
Unless you put it on top of Triple Threat Almond Cupcakes.
Then the frosting. Oh, the frosting. It's seriously like fudge. It's hard to spread, but it's the best stuff ever. Add a little salt for a salted caramel frosting.
If the frosting doesn't make it to the cupcakes, that's okay. Serve the cupcakes for breakfast and call them muffins. No one will know!
Can someone have these waiting for me at The Grove next week? And maybe a martini? I'll need both.
Toasted almond cupcakes that have a rich and sweet caramel frosting!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pans with liners (24 cupcakes).
Place 1/2 cup of the toasted almonds in a food processor and grind until they are finely ground.
In a large bowl, beat cake mix, almond milk, oil, eggs, and almond extract with an electric mixer on low for 30 seconds. Turn the mixer up to medium and beat for two minutes. Fold in ground almonds.
Divide batter evenly amongst cupcake liners. Bake 17-20 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
To make the frosting, melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar and heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low and boil and stir for 2 minutes. Stir in milk. Heat back to boiling then remove from heat. Cool to lukewarm, about 30 minutes.
I never had an American Girl doll and I never let my mom forget it 😉 I still secretly hope to get one each Christmas. I had no idea you could get their ears pierced. Now I want one even more. Sometimes it's fun to still be a kid at heart!
Right? I never let my mom forget either!
OMG I am SO sorry! It was supposed to be 350! I missed that one big time. 🙁 I just fixed the instructions. Again, I'm SO sorry!


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Assad's regime is on trial for crimes against humanity. The court is about to rule on the most senior official yet
Anwar Raslan, a senior program authorities, headed the examination system at a well-known Damascus detention center referred to as Branch 251. He is charged with complicity in a minimum of 4,000 cases of abuse, lots of murders and 3 cases of sexual attack and rape.
His co-defendant, Eyad al-Gharib, a junior officer who likewise served in the center, was founded guilty in February 2021 for assisting and abetting abuse and deprivation of liberty as criminal offenses versus humankind. He is serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence.
If founded guilty, Raslan might get a life sentence. He would end up being the most senior program authorities to be penalized for abuse, extrajudicial killings and sexual attack thought to have actually been methodically dedicated by members of Assad's program.
Raslan, who defected from the Syrian program in 2012 and got away the nation, rejects all the charges versus him.
The landmark judgment comes as the Assad program — implicated of eliminating numerous countless civilians with standard and chemical weapons — has actually been fixing diplomatic ties with previous local enemies, such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The United States and the European Union have actually slammed its Arab allies for bringing Assad into the local fold, however have actually stated they can do little to stop the rapprochement.
'Optimum discomfort'
The court in the German town of Koblenz made use of almost 100 statements, according to attorneys representing the complainants. Numerous survivors of abuse at Branch 251 took the stand and came face to face with their declared persecutor. They provided in-depth accounts of physical and mental abuse, in addition to significantly overcrowded cells where they were denied of food, water and medical treatment.
One unnamed female witness explained being analyzed naked, in addition to being beaten at the detention center. She detailed her encounter with Raslan after having actually been required to him with her clothing torn from the attack, stating he bought her blindfold got rid of, and provided her coffee. The next day, according to a summary of her interactions with Raslan by the European Center for Constitutional and Person Rights, she was moved to another district and launched.
Co-plaintiff Wassim Mukdad, a Syrian artist living in Berlin, stated he was struck on the soles and heels of his feet and on his knees throughout interrogations. "They knew exactly how to inflict maximum pain," he informed the court.
In their closing declarations, the complainants provided psychological speeches, applauding the court and scolding Raslan for rejecting his charges. More than 100,000 individuals are thought to have actually been abducted, apprehended or gone missing out on in Syria, the United Nations has actually stated, and one co-plaintiff slammed the judicial procedure for leaving out enforced disappearances from the charges.
The co-plaintiff, Hussein Ghrer, remembered that his captors at the detention center stated he would "disappear behind the sun." He informed the court that to his liked ones he resembled Schrödinger's feline, appearing both alive and dead at the very same time. He stated he was "banished from life without actually dying."
"Regardless of how long [Raslan] will be imprisoned, he will have a clock near him, he will see the sun and know when it rises and when it sets," Ghrer informed the court. "He will have medical care when needed, and he will receive visits from relatives who will know how he is doing, just as he will know how they are doing."
Raslan's trial is viewed as the conclusion of almost a years of proof gathered by activists and attorneys looking for to hold the Assad program responsible for supposed war criminal offenses and criminal offenses versus humankind.
In the early years of Syria's uprising-turned-war, which started in 2011, volunteers referred to as "document hunters" smuggled out numerous countless files from deserted program centers. Numerous stated they braved an attack of bullets and rockets to smuggle out documents that worked as proof in examinations versus the program.
In 2013, a defector codenamed Caesar smuggled 10s of countless photos revealing detainees presumably tortured to death in Assad's prisons. The images were likewise part of the proof in the landmark trial.
Attorneys and activists vow to continue to pursue the prosecution of previous and present program authorities linked in criminal offenses. In Germany, Raslan and Gharib were apprehended under the concept of universal jurisdiction, which offers a state jurisdiction over criminal offenses versus global law even if these did not take place inside that state.
The Syrian program cannot be attempted at the International Wrongdoer Court since it is not celebration to it. Syria might be examined by the ICC if the United Nations Security Council refers it, however Russia and China have actually obstructed a previous effort to do so by the UNSC.
In July 2021, a German district attorney arraigned a Syrian program medical professional, Alaa Mousa, who is implicated of burning the genital areas of a minimum of one detainee. His trial starts in Frankfurt this month.
"We all agree that this can only be a the first step," Patrick Kroker, an attorney with the European Center for Constitutional and Person Rights representing the joint complainants, stated in a Monday press conference. "There are international arrest warrants still outstanding against even higher-ranking persons and we hope and we demand that these will be pursued."
"There will be no safe haven in the world for these people."
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even for the developers implementing them.
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To recap, this Wednesday's event is going to be the party of the year, or at least the party of my year, and for your $80 ticket ($75 for MPR members) you get a copy of the book (Drink This: Wine Made Simple), a Spanish wine flight, and a plated and served eight-course meal designed by Tim McKee, which includes: Grilled pork belly with Morcilla sausage and lentils, smoked salmon with pistachio pesto and coriander yogurt, and black cod with white asparagus in chorizo broth. If you've ever wondered how a James Beard Award-winning chef cooks when he has a month's advance knowledge that a critic is coming in and knows half the food media in town will be there, now you'll know!


erneutes Update: 10 Märtyrer, darunter 5 Kinder und 43 Verletzte nach israelischem Anschlag auf Gaza.
Gestern, am Dienstag, den 22.März 2011, gab es nach einem israelischen Angriff auf Gaza 8 Märtyrer, darunter 2 Kinder und ein älterer Mann. Auch gibt es mindestens 11 andere Verletzte. Dies ereignete sich gestern als die Israelischen Besatzungskräfte (IOF) ein Haus in Gaza zerbombten, in dem sich eine Familie mit Kindern befand, und hiernach einen Luftschlag auf eine Menschenmenge vor der Rantisi Moschee ausübten bei dem Menschen gestorben sind und andere verletzt wurden.
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Fierce clashes broke out once again on Friday afternoon between Palestinian young men and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Silwan district of occupied Jerusalem as Jewish settlers continued their savage attacks on Palestinians and their property in different West Bank areas.
The Hebrew radio said that one Israeli soldier from the border guards was slightly injured when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at him during the clashes.
Meanwhile, armed Jewish settlers attacked on the same day different West Bank cities under military protection.
They stormed Yasuf town, near Salfit city, and attacked homes and Palestinians. Israeli troops helped the settlers during their attacks and fired tear gas grenades at the residents who tried to defend themselves.
A group of settlers intercepted a Palestinian car at Za'tara crossroads, east of Salfit city, and showered it with stones causing considerable damage to it.
In Tubas city, Jewish settlers from Maskiot settlement seized under military protection vast tracts of Palestinian lands in Wadi Al-Maleh, north of Jordan valley, and planted them with some olive trees.
The Israeli troops that escorted the settlers expelled the Palestinian owners from their lands, although they demonstrated official documents proving their ownership.


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Last week, I finished pencilling chapter three of SPACE DUMPLINS. I usually pencil & ink a single page on the same day (two with BLANKETS), but this time for the sake of editing, I pencilled an entire chapter at once.
Many of you asked why I've started using colored ballpoint on my pencils, but it's purely for fun – now that I scan the pencils and print out blue lines, the pencils can be as messy and colorful as I like. As an experiment, I dabbled with inking some panels digitally on a 13HD Cintiq.
Below is an excerpt from a page I inked twice – A) The old-fashioned way with a brush and India ink. B) The newfangled digital tablet way. I was surprised that the difference is almost imperceptible. An advantage of digital is that I was able to draw word balloons and color holds on separate layers, and of course it's all easier to correct. But for now I still prefer the tactile sensations of light bouncing off paper, crude ink, and finicky sable hairs.
The pictured character is named TINDER, after my cartoonist buddy Jeremy Tinder – whose style I aped for the character design.
Thank you, Jordi, for your reminders and thanks to all you loyal blog followers for your patience in this two month lapse between posts.
Portland has the best summers in the world, so there's been the typical sunny day distractions of: A) river swimming (drawing buddy Scott), B) white water rafting (flip on the Deschutes), C) a little surfing (Justin loads the boards on my car – fifth one on the back seat), and D) lots of stand-up paddling (Brazilian twins Fabio & Gabriel on the Willamette).
In the work world, dealing with recurring hand problems, I've experimented with some alternate drawing techniques, including investing in a 13″ Wacom Cintiq. 1) Adrian Tomine's latest OPTIC NERVE has a genius lampoon of "our generation's" resistance to the new brand of art tools coupled with our frustration towards the declining quality of old world art supplies (bristol, brushes, ink). 2) For a couple of days my drawing desk became a clutter of video monitors (yuck).
3&4) I managed to digitally pencil a page, but then (5) printed out blue lines and reworked with an actual tangible pencil.
Here's (6) Dave Stewart's colors (digital) on my India inks (analog).


Staying active will do more than just help you lose weight.
Ready to get fit? It'll help you take charge of your diabetes, burn stress, and make you feel good. Once your doctor gives you the green light, the choice is yours. Pick an activity you'll enjoy, and follow these tips for success.
Keep snacks on hand for low blood sugar. Be prepared. Bring fast-acting snacks to your workout in case your blood sugar drops too low while you exercise.
Wear comfortable shoes. Good shoes will help you avoid foot problems, which can be more serious when you have diabetes. They should be appropriate for your activity.
Wear a diabetes ID. Slip on a bracelet or necklace, or carry something that says you have the condition, lists an emergency contact, and indicates whether you take insulin.
But you might think you have no time for exercise. Jennifer Auyer of Nashua, N.H., knows what that's like. Between her job and her family, she couldn't find an easy spot in her schedule for working out.
Her father became her reason to find one. Auyer's dad had many health issues related to type 2 diabetes, including heart disease, a foot amputation, and vision problems. He died at age 61 from those complications.
Growing up, Auyer never saw her father exercise. He was a heavy man. She was overweight too, and knew she needed to make a change. When she heard about a weight-loss and exercise class at Joslin Diabetes Center, she signed up.
She learned strength-training exercises using elastic bands. She also started interval training, varying her intensity or pace to make her workout harder or easier.
Get stronger, and your muscles burn more blood sugar. You will also burn more calories, says Shahar, who taught Auyer's class.
I'm new to exercise. How do I get started?
I try to be active, but I lack motivation. How can I change that?
How often should I check my blood sugar when exercising? What are some red flags?
Should I avoid certain activities?
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WebMD: "How to Succeed With Your Diabetes Exercise Plan."


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Q: How to direct a html file to process different php files based on if statement I want to direct my html file based on the condition given by user in the front end (i.e. in the same html file itself).
Like if user enters code 789 it should direct to a specific folder u57.php and if it user enters 783 it should direct to the folder u38.php
i wrote a code, but it doesn't work properly...
$a = 57;
$b = 38;
$residue = $_POST["residue"];

<?php if($residue == "$a") { ?>
     <form method="POST" action="u57.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<?php } ?>

<?php if ($residue == "$b") { ?>
       <form method="POST" action="u38.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <?php } ?>

Its directing to only the same page u57.php, if user enters 38 or any other number like 40, 45, 1 ,2 . Please tell me whats wrong with my code?

A: Hope this Works, (Just removed the Double Quotes for Condition Check)
$a = 57;
$b = 38;
$residue = $_POST["residue"];

<?php if($residue == $a) { ?>
     <form method="POST" action="u57.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<?php } ?>

<?php if ($residue == $b) { ?>
       <form method="POST" action="u38.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <?php } ?>

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*UPDATE
Here is the sample i did,
INDEX.PHP
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form method="POST" action="redirect.php">
            Value : <input type="text" name="residue" value=""/>
            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>
        </form>
    </body>
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        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
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        $a = 57;
        $b = 38;
        $residue = $_POST["residue"];
        ?>
        <?php if ($residue == $a) {
            ?>
            <form method="POST" action="u57.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
                <input type="text" name="sample" value=""/>
            </form>
        <?php } ?>

        <?php if ($residue == $b) { ?>

This Works for me....

A: Why not using the include keyword instead of using the form method and action separately for each and every single pages you have created? Using a switch statement or "if else if' condition might produce you an efficient result I suppose.


Think your job is cool? But do your perks include an extra month of sunshine each year? Join us backstage at Yousician—the music learning app that flies its entire team from chilly Finland to the tropics every year—and discover a whole new definition of #jobgoals.
From giving out 3000 ukuleles at Slush to whitewater rafting in a jungle in Indonesia, it seems that Yousician, a Finnish company on an ambitious mission to make musicality as common as literacy, is always getting up to something eyebrow-raising.
That's why I'm speaking to Andrew Kolokolnikov, Talent Business Partner at Yousician, with a tinge of envy. He and his team are currently on a work retreat in Bali while I'm sitting in Tallinn, Estonia, gazing at a dreary November morning.
This late fall gloom is precisely what Yousician is hiding from on the other side of the planet, in hot and humid Ubud, Bali's cultural capital.
No big deal, you might think. Lots of companies take trips like this—until you hear that Yousician's Y/Edu retreat lasts an entire month. It's not exactly your average workplace perk.
Mind you, it's not that Yousician doesn't love their hometown. Helsinki is known far and wide for its liveability, international spirit, and the opportunities it provides.
Even so, in a city where winters are long and the shortest day of the year only lasts five and a half hours, the company doesn't mess around when it comes to squeezing in some extra time in the sun. And that's why every year, almost the entire team takes off somewhere warm to learn, work, and soak up that precious vitamin D.
Not only do these annual retreats teach the gang how to work together to provide the best music education for their global user base—they're also a fantastic opportunity to form lasting friendships through (what else?) the power of music.
It's worth noting that the musical instruments the team's using (mostly for work, by the way, not just after-hours fun) during their stay were all bought on the spot in Indonesia. Before they head back to Helsinki, they'll donate the instruments to local charities, further cementing the company's reputation as fervent supporters of taking musical education to the masses.
One thing everyone here certainly has in common is a desire to put in the effort for their common goal, even despite the many distractions of working in the jungle ("There are monkeys on the roof," Andrew mentions one such distraction. "We try to keep the windows closed so they don't steal our mugs.").
No, it's not all outdoor adventures, jam sessions, and monkey business. Stuff gets done and work is taken seriously. Having listened to presentations by guest speakers like Casey Winters (a San Francisco-based startup advisor and consultant) and other growth experts, the team is now hard at work on a big project that's so classified I'm not even allowed to know what it is—so you know it's gonna be good.
For more envy-inducing photo evidence of Yousician's Bali adventures, check out this album.


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Fresh off royal sermon, bishop warns 'somebody woke up Jim Crow'
Less than a week after his star-making sermon at the British royal wedding, Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry ...
Less than a week after his star-making sermon at the British royal wedding, Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry set his sights on American politics, leading a church service to lament what he and other Christian leaders call "a dangerous crisis of moral and political leadership."
"It's like somebody woke up Jim Crow," Curry told CNN in an interview before the Thursday evening service, "and said let's not just segregate Americans over race, let's separate people along religious and political and class lines, too."
Thursday's service, a candlelight vigil that followed at the White House and a declaration by Christian leaders are intended to dig beneath those divisions and remind Christians of Jesus' core values, Curry said.
"To help Christian people, people of goodwill, to find their voice, to reclaim and renew the faith that Jesus has given us, and to find a way to live that faith both in our personal lives and in the public square."
The bishop insisted his activism is non-partisan, declining to criticize President Donald Trump by name. "We are not here to point fingers," he said before the service, "we are here to lend a helping hand."
Likewise, the Rev. Jim Wallis, a veteran evangelical activist and key organizer of the "Reclaiming Jesus" movement behind Thursday's event, insisted that Jesus, not Trump, was the group's central focus.
Still Curry and the other Christian leaders at Thursday's service are clearly unhappy with the political status quo, particularly what they see as the rise in white nationalism, sexism and political language that "debases" the "most vulnerable children of God," including immigrants and refugees.
Thursday night's events had been planned long before last Saturday, when the world tuned in to see a royal wedding ceremony and heard an American bishop preach about the power of Christian love to create "a new world, a new human family."
Since his impassioned sermon, Curry has been an almost inescapable presence on television, making the rounds from green room to green room. As Thursday evening's church service made clear, however, Curry's true home is in the pulpit.
A half-hour before the service started, National City Christian Church was packed to capacity, with people filling the aisles and fanning themselves with programs in the early evening heat.
Wearing his purple bishop's vestments, Curry earned a standing ovation before he even spoke a word.
"Love your neighbor," Curry preached, his voice rising with emotion. "Love the neighbor you like and the neighbor you don't like. Love the neighbor you agree with and the neighbor you don't agree with. Love your Democrat neighbor, your Republican neighbor, your black neighbor, your white neighbor, your Anglo neighbor, your Latino neighbor and your LGBTQ neighbor. Love your neighbor! That's why we're here!"
While Curry and other religious progressives are quick to reject political partisanship, it's hard not to see Thursday's events as part of a resurgent "religious left," a movement that has spent years, if not decades, in the political wilderness.
In recent months, progressive activists have resurrected the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Poor People's Campaign," opened their homes and churches to undocumented immigrants seeking sanctuary, lobbied Congress to protect DACA recipients and fiercely protested what they see as a rise in white nationalism and dishonesty in politics.
Curry himself is no stranger to political struggles. As a bishop in North Carolina, he supported the Moral Mondays campaign, which included statehouse protests against inequality. At a rally in 2014, for example, he called for teachers to receive higher salaries and labeled education a divine right.
He has also been a vocal backer of LGBT rights, in his own Episcopal Church and in society at large. Last October, he joined other religious leaders in filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court opposing a Christian cake maker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. That case will be decided later this year.
At Thursday's events, Curry was joined by a number of other prominent progressive Christian leaders, including the Rev. Sharon Watkins, former general minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); the Rev. James Forbes, former pastor of New York's Riverside Church; and Friar Richard Rohr, a Catholic Franciscan.
All preached to the packed National City Christian Church, earning loud applause for sharply denouncing the political status quo.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the events.
The Rev. Johnnie Moore, a member of Trump's informal council of evangelical advisers, said: "My personal prayer is that all this politicization -- on the left and the right -- would give way to a spirit committed to problem solving for the common good, despite our disagreements, and I'm actually hopeful this week we are getting closer to that reality."
Moore was referring to a prison reform bill passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday that he and other evangelicals have championed.
What's at stake
Thursday's events are designed to draw attention to a sharply worded statement issued by 23 prominent Christian leaders, some of whom once led denominations or large religious organizations.
In addition to Curry, the diverse list includes a Franciscan friar, former advisers to President Obama's faith-based office and Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, the first female bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The statement, called "Reclaiming Jesus," is framed as a "confession" in the spiritual sense of the word: a public statement of principles, not an admission of guilt.
In its 2,321 words, the statement never mentions Trump by name, but its aim is clear: to urge Christians who have aligned with the administration to reconsider their political alliances.
"We believe two things are at stake: the soul of the nation, and the integrity of faith," the statement reads. "It is time to be followers of Jesus before anything else -- nationality, political party, race, ethnicity, gender, geography -- our identity in Christ precedes every other identity."
It outlines six statements of Christian belief, citing the Bible as evidence, as well as political stances informed by those beliefs.
The first, for example, states that all humans are made in the image and likeness of God, a tenet that should inspire Christians to reject "the resurgence of white nationalism and racism in our nation on many fronts, including the highest levels of political leadership," the Christian leaders said.
"Reclaiming Jesus" also strongly denounces "America first," a foreign policy slogan employed by Trump, as "theological heresy." The religious leaders also condemn "the growing attacks on immigrants and refugees, who are being made into cultural and political targets" and "the practice and pattern of lying that is invading our political and civil life."
"The normalization of lying presents a profound moral danger to the fabric of society."
Finally, the statement warns of "any moves toward autocratic political leadership and authoritarian rule."
"We believe authoritarian political leadership is a theological danger that threatens democracy and the common good -- and we will resist it."
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The results of Airbus's breakthrough A380 demonstration flight powered with a gas-to-liquid (GTL) kerosene blended with standard jet fuel are being made public in a bid to advance industry understanding of alternatives as rapidly as possible.
The Rolls-Royce Trent 900-powered A380 (MSN004) completed the 3h flight between Airbus's Filton and Toulouse plants on 1 February as part of its evaluation of alternative fuels.
The A380 took off with an 11t synthetic fuel uplift one of its engines in a 40% blend of GTL synthetic jet fuel processed from gas fuel provided by Shell International Petroleum.
Speaking at this week's Future Fuels Summit, Shell aviation technology manager Paul Bogers spoke about the contents of a report to be presented to standard setting organisations such as ASTM International's Subcommittee J for Aviation Fuels and the UK Aviation Fuels Committee, which together preside over jet fuel standards, as well as CAAFI - the Commercial Aviation Fuels Alternative Fuels Initiative - a broad cross-industry group that has worked to evaluate alternative fuels for civil aviation since May 2006.
"The industry is only going to move forward if we share this data," says Bogers.
"This was right at the end of the DEF STAN 91-91 properties [jet fuels standard] although all within the spec," he says, adding that samples of the fuel used for the official flight test were comprehensively tested including a blind test sample that was sent to the third-party assessor.
"What we have done is push the boundaries of the fuel, the aircraft and the engine," says R-R fluids specialist Chris Lewis, who adds that the engine manufacturer now plans to run a full suite of alternative fuels engine gaseous emissions tests by mid-2009. "We want to be leaders in this field, although the vision of the partnership was always that we would share the information."
Sébastien Rémy, head of Airbus's alternative fuels research programme agrees: "Everyone will end up using the same fuel so sharing the knowledge simply makes better use of the resources available and avoids duplication."
The A380 flight test pilots "really put the aircraft through its paces" as the flight engineer "insisted that these tests were conducted at the exact margin of the flight envelope", says Rémy.
One interesting aspect was the testing of the gravity feed system where a selected fuel pump system was shut down and fuel flow monitored. "Even though this fuel was of a lower density performance, still there was an acceptable fuel flow," says Rémy, who adds that the immediate next step will be to secure ASTM approval of a protocol which could clear a generic 50% Fischer Tropsch blend at a forthcoming meeting in June in Warsaw.


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The Clamshell Falls is a cascade waterfall on the Behana Creek, located in Wooroonooran, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

Location and features
The falls are situated in the Wooroonooran National Park and descend down to the Behana Gorge, below the Whites Falls.

See also

 List of waterfalls of Queensland

References

Waterfalls of Far North Queensland
Cascade waterfalls